Rev. Hoge spoke to the General Assembly of 1897, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Westminster Assembly. The Assembly convened in Charlotte, N. C. where eleven special commemorative addresses were made to large audiences. Rev. Moses Hoge's speech was one such address.

Probably no event has occurred within the memory of anyone in this audience so calculated to awaken the attention of our Presbyterian people to the value of the Westminster Standards in giving direction and development to the social, national, and ecclesiastical life of the world as the commemoration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of their formation.