Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1877, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1877— N PAGES. PRESBYTERIANS, proceedings of the Fifth pay's Session of the Gen~ eral Assembly. gommittee of 8ynods on Benev- olent Church Work---Is It Constitutional? gishorato and Exhaustivo Report of tho Commitice on Iome Missions. Qpening of the Discussion by the Rev. Dr. Kendall, d Secretary. Objections to the Paragraph Relative to Presby- teries Using the Funds. The Matter Finally Settled by Modifying the Distasteful Language. . Roports of Misstonarles from Utah, New Mexico, Ete.~--The Schiool Work, 1y Sonthern General Assembly Sends Word that It Occupies Its 01d Position. guretary Cyrus Dickson on Home Mls- sionse-=The Report Finally * Disposed OF PRELIMINARY BUSINESS. RELIOIOUA BXENCISES. The Oeneral Assembly wus called to order at §o'ock yesterday morning by the Moderator, the Rev, Jamca Eells, and, in accordance with {he new progamme, half an hour was acvoted to religlous services. The attendance {u the gillery was largzer than oo any previous day. The minutes of tho procceding session were radand approved. HIBTORIOAL SERSIONS. The Rev. Dr. Robinson called attentlon to the peslution passed Monday requesting ministers {oforward copics of thelr historical sermons to {he rarfous scminaries, Mo sald few people, in- duding even thoso who voted for tho resolution, wemed to have any Idea of thelmmense amount of labor this fuvolved. - The Moderator sald that had passed the Assembly, Dr Robingon kuew that, and desired to call it wplor the purpose of alterwards moving for o reonslderatlon, + Toe Moderator announced that the first order ol the day was tho report of the Standing Com- wittee on ITomo Mi{ssions. The Rev. Mr. Marquis stated that the Com- mittee was In scssion, and moved to take up un- faithed busluess. THE COURT OF APPRALS. The Rev. Mr. Greene asked it it wonld not b well o hear from Prol. Patton on the subject of a Appellate Court, - Tho Moderator sald the only action of the Auembly hod been to recommit the majority nportof the Comimittee on that subjfect, with the expectation of getting another revort. Tho Rev. Mr, Colfott moved to tako up the g:lr:g report, which recommended no action. Dr. Ely raised the polnt of order that it was Improper to take up tho minority report when emsjority report was recommitted, and the wajority. had Instructions to report. 1o sup- z::d the majority would report fn a short Toe Moderator enld that any actlon on tha aizorlty report would be miquestionably out of cnler, “But the rubfect wight bs consldered &fln. he thought, without its Leiug out of Ur. Van Dyke moved, as an amendment, that ke Asscinbly take up tho minority report and nommit it to the Cominittes on”Chuirch Pol- iy, that 1t might follow, us wus manifestly fust, the eourso of tho mojority report. The Rev, Mr, McKibbon asked I the As- sembly hadn't bad just passed a resolutlon to ke ug the minority report. The Moderator sald 1t Lud, but it could now fllfimc'n( it r. Van Dyke's motlon was then put and car- tel, and the' minority report was recommnitted, BENEVOLENT CHURCII-' .« WORIK, QNTITUTIONALITY OF TIIH COMMITTER OF THH sYNODY, | The sfoderator called for tho report of the Hecal Committee appoluted by tho lust Gen- ol Aembly to cousider tho constitutionality o the Cammlttes of Byunods on the Benevolent Wark of tho Church, . Edwards, of tho BSpectal Committce, Lough ot the Chialrman, read the uinority res Bt the manuseript having been sent to Lt Y Dr. Broduead, Teport was as follows: lethe Gencral Aesembly of 1870 tho fol R o0sral Aoty of 1870 o llowing & Wuruxas, Thers aro lu the minds of many of u‘:;'Aml.ennlu\eJ\-nmut:\y;:mm doubls ay 10 natitutlonality of the appointment of the lew known ms Vfihe ‘Commiltce of tho on the Henevolent Work of the Church.® 36 o ot vembly. M‘“{lhrmlly with the above resolutlon {he fllawgs TS 4PpIDted Ly the Asscmbly reports as . That the Ausombly tiae powo: to direct a lower ntg'S, Apuint o commitico whose functions el be determined Ly tho Awaembly Ie not Yo ned In such o csag, however, the Vg o0 would be that * the Commilica Kjopy,s 0t the Commitico of the Awsembly, ey L8 Judicotory frow which It members wers dulicyend B3t Jt would report primorlly to beabiy s 304 tLroush it 1f eed be, 1o (o Wer o 3UDIY this principle (o tho Committee Wby peldcration, we subit thut sinco the As- Suentlyjp 54 Bt Bppofat {hat Committee, conse- um’(-m" haveno control overit; and reports few of ypes UAIEe ubon 1atters rolated 10 the bua- WAL Asscubly can properly come befors ST only by way of overturo. wila the SoImlitec of Ly Bynodu oatenaibly ropre- 'unvle- Intercsta of tho people fu tue matter of Moty ;tfiwurk aud chucch expenscs, aud therr Wepeomyi lwaya bo {mmediatoly intliiontial with Lauf e e .“X D% apainst any zecommendar oy, ® General Awscruuly or any spoeal of the the ' original order of the titution of this committes of I lon for the @ reunjon neceseatily unseiticd several comiah s connulidations sud clianges, Hut Uaiaeico uf the Commitice becomes mora g Hul::k:‘.“fiy year. fo mnnuflu‘ |mmux5u& . W court,~an advisury 7 dinate in part at t with the CGencrsl .\{v LT hropurtlnnately the Genoral Avacuibly cdly ccare to be representutive of v o sud the Board of Unlon smoug sll ter 1] he beat consldoration which 1t can glve ubject, the Cowmltteo appolnted 10 report o § 1}3 yurub‘l'\: S0 purceive Ly \}:o o u tho Bppolulment of the .,&“L!:Iw of th Syuoda on ths Wenavolens. work a o el conllicts with any express_opinion “i‘l;l\:_lnuuu ot the Cburch, must record its it the sald Commitico of the Synuis, 4,84 W iwplicdly docs upon tho yeueras ny 2nd woral power of our Buprews ‘ouce pacovstitutlonal and unwlise, TUE MINOBITY REPOLT, ards pext read the wluority report, as ! Jei eave to dlasent from the ropost of th Wi 49 10 Uiy ** prespuy tion Ihu{’lhot‘ : .x,).‘,‘“ul«l not Lo the L'mrmuwnnx lhn?&':l- ¢ Asacinbly reall Inte ‘g:.;fisynw.m y-clc:’u:‘l,%'n: ot mean KUnt, e Avsowbly, ~Tho Asscubly de ¢ sLall be formed , bow report, eie i 18 to report 1o the Assembly, who can adapt of r Ject their recommendations. Tho Astembly s [yint Diceclors of the Seminary, and empower lien to ALl thelr own vacancies, 8nd also appoint the Tloarda of the Chnrch, who report o the As- nmuv‘] and the cases seom to me fo be analagons. The ohject of the Committeo Ia ta promote the Uiberality of the Church, which cannot he antago- nistic to tho Asembly, and, indeed, it thelr recommendations aro not adopted by’ the Qunembly they really have o power. - Nelther cin Lasscnt fo the supnonition that the order of tha Asbembly, constituting the Commitice on Benevo- Jence, wa an expedient conceasion for the time, ecauve of the ausettled conditlon oceasioned hy the reunton, as the ‘reuniun waa consummated fn 1870, while'the sppolntment of the Cominitteo was four yearn later, Witrian B, CanrieLn, On motlon of Mr, C, W. Btewart both reporta were recelved and placed on the iocket. r. Webber, from the Committee on Church Polity, salit the Committes was not prepared Lo return the nszmrl ona Court of Avpeals, nc- cording Lo lustructions, and therefore asked for on_extension of time, Mr, W. I3, Keeling moved that tho Committee granted until this morning. Agreed to. IIOME MISSIONS. HEPOIT OF THE 8TANDING COMMITTEN, The order of the day—~the report of the Stand- Ing Committec on Homo Misstons—was then taken up, and the Rev. Dr. Belyille read the re- port, which was as follows: The Standing Committea nf Miralona, baving havint earefully examined and considered the an- nual report of tha loard with the eeversi over- tures from tho Prestyteriesof Baltimore, Colorado, and Liah referrod (o thein by tho General Assem- Uly, respectfuily submit the following report: 'he* year whoso operations the report of the Board covers fe the Inst of ke first week of years aince the happy reunlonof the once dissevered branches of our Church. 1t han beena year of trinl and at the sametime a year of blcesing, Not- withaanding tho depresslos of Lusiness and many other causcs which have tended to diminlsh tho Jecuntary purra af the Charel, and tu divert her unds into other channels, there have been paid into tha treasury of the Hoard tho sum of §274, 052, be- ing Tess Lian - 814,000 ehort of the receipts of the last year, Daoring tho year 1,019 chnrches have reccived ald from the funds of the Board In its two dopartments of miselons and sustentation. ‘Phe roport Informe us that during the yearan 44 upusual number of these churches hava been blessed by the prescnce of tho Lioly Spinit, souln havo been converted in great numbers, Nota few charcfies have donbled their membership, *+Thero have been added to these churchen 11,- 020 perrona, 7,646 professionn of falth; 200 fab- batheschools have been organized, and the whola number of children fn the mission churches under Sabbath-rehool Instruction haa been 1,81, 1 ‘Theee facta are full of ¢ncouragement In the compsrison with furmer years, ‘The repott, how. efer, presenta us with a wider view than merely that of tho past year. In the meven yeara of the reu- nited lifc of the Presbytecian Chureh thero han been n constant repetition of bicsainzs whoso memory It was appropriate In the Iosrd st this time o renew. Un thc territory of Presbytery of Texae. contalning = In 1870 three” Presbylerlan ministers, there are mow tronty. T Frenbytery of _ Colarado, then containing scven mintsters, has becomo 8 'Synod of thisty-nine ministers, wlth dourlshing churchea at tho Capitals of Utah, Montans, New Mexico, and all other prominent points, 1In’the same period tho one syrnod on the Pacific elope has become Lo, and has doabled the number of ila churches and members; and, with two or three exceptlons, all these chutrches have In tholr inciplency recetved ald from the funda of thiv Boarl. Theso and other reviews of tho paat In which the report abounds oro not only full of encourage- ment_and rich in tie cloments of gladnese, but they remind us of a debt we 0we and shanld t-day moit cheorfully scknowledge (o the self-denying minslonatle the agency of whoso tolls an sacrifices (| succesuca “bave heen achieved; the people of tuelr reapcctive charges who, mot ‘merel for thewsclves, but or \l whole _Church, — have ~ lald io In now and diMeult felds the foundatio f tho fature Church: to (ho churchea that have sustain- ed them with their prayers and thelr means; to tho membern of the Yoard who have voluntaril given (helr time and cara to the oversight of thifs work: to tho Secretarles and other ofiicern of tho Loari, the idelity of whoss administration ia so clearly manifest’in ita resulta; and, abovo all, to the Great. llesd of the Church for the grace to which every right cffort Lns been due, and {rom Which every element of success has flowed, It muat not be forzolten that with this history of financlal and eplritual muccess there has mingled anotlier element whicn the Charch should lay to heart, and from which lessonn should be learncd for the future. Tho closiug of the year withons debt has been accomplished at the cxpense of our Leloved misslonarics. lu view of the strugency of tho times, and the manifest tendeney to reduc- tlon in tho amount of contributions, thy Board has folt compelled to reduce the upcrupnnumu to mission_churches recommmended by the Fresby- teries, and thus the misnionarics, by encrifices from mcans already very amall,-have provided tha funds by which now ficlds bave durini the year been ocenpled, This has been by no fanit of the Board, They could distribate nmong the churches only the funds necured from tho church. The ap. pru!xn:flnnl demanded by the Tresbyterice for thefr minsion churclies wero largely In excess of the amaunt - furnished by the cliurches. in view of thia the Dloard had no alternative but to redace the appropriativas. While we do not claim for them, uor they for thumsclyes, that In 1o caco they mny fiave erred, we commend ‘the wisdom of tlia principle they Rave adopled and tho falthfu) rezard or the intarests of the whole Church with which they liavo carriod it out, 1t 1s doubtlens true that tho recommendations of exch Presbriery should, as far as practicable, ho hanored, especially when sufiicient funda ary fur- nished by that Freabytery; but, on tho other hand, 1t in the duty of very Preduytcry to remcuber thy great work In which the Hourl 1n engag. ol outsldo of thelr bounds thal that work ls ina’very Important sensy thelr ownsthst for Hs waintenance they and thelr churches share tha ro- sponsibllity; that tho success of the mivslonaries, withn their bounds, depeuds largly on the fdol- ity with which theyald in careylng forward the work of the Church at large; and, etill farther, that tho Board is required, by the Gencral Assent- bly aa well na by neceantifes of Lha case, 10 have reiand o thie dowanda of any particular Presby- tery oply In connection with the demands of all. “Ihess utatcments make manifeat tho crrorof a method of wmecting the difilculty cow auggerted In nuuy quartors. viz s by i r Hynods taking Into tholr own hande tho tion of tuelr own funds, 1t 1s f: institation which the Church the maintenance of which ca Byvod alike ba pledyed. I uted, anil to Presbytery and It defeats tho cnds of the el 1 ostablinhing the Board, and deetroyn tha unity of the Cliurch (u her work, It usrrows the il of .tho peaple of Qod, and tends 1o withdraw their sympath thelr influcnce and oxertion, thelr very pray well up their contributions fron) tho work ut Inrs and to a¢ promoto thal very setfislneds which tr Christlun " bensvolence shonld destroy, Tho As scrubly cannot too strongly reprobate such action, Tu the judgment of your Cominitice, and {o ac- cordance wlth the sugyestions of thu 'Toport, the evil complained of 18 (0 be met, aud progress of o work assured: 1, By carefulness on tho part of Presbyterlos in recommending nupr»)xrmluut. and sccuting their gradus! reduction ar as practicablo witnont di- minfshing the support of the misslonary. 2, Uiy duo corefalness on the part of the Noard agalnl tho uxtension of thelr work into new fluldy at the oxpense of those already under Ihelr care, In this connection the Commitiee would suggest the importance of a faithful representation by cach Prenbytery, ihrouih Ha Commitice of Misslons, of the clisracier and condition of tho churches rece ommended to the Board, and, vn the other band, wonid commend the method recently adopted by 1ho ltoard of systematic report to tho Preshyterial Committces of the action of the Board with refer- ence to their appiications, 3, ‘I'ia endn iroposed are aleo to ba sceured by a Judicious grouping of churches under ono Mis<ion. arys . eaniry which is not only the right but ofien the duty of Presbylories to adopt In the case of churches contiguous to ono anuviher, two or Ewwdn' which dewand ald from the funds of the oard, 4. Iy the Increascd provalence and permancnce of the pastoral relation In 1he miselon churches, 1t 1 & fact in which the Assembly should rejolcs that, according to the report of the Loard, ‘ones third of all the mivslonurica under their cargarg pietors, It ia nevertheless frue that vie great se. crot of thoalow progress of many of our misslon churches s the frequuncy with which they chaugs thelr minkstors. A pastor Is pmcllull{ onlya stated supply by another uame, §f hiv relation be 10 hit uo wore sacred sl permnansnt and the dise solutlon be effected with the samo pase. Misnivn- d infselon churches should strive towether this permanence, and Presbyterics should by evely wenus In thelr power magnify the sacrednesy of thls relation and prevent fta neediess dinolue tion, ~Espuclally should they rebuke the hablt, ine crearingl Frunl«lll, of leaviag flelds of lsbar withious dret obtalning Presbyterial leave. B, By greater watchfulness on the part of charches agalust the incurring of debt. The maxim sy a8 yuu go" lsong of tho grost provhlentialles: sons uf these tm Nowliers 1 1t more Important thatthis lessun should belearned than in the Cliurch, and eapecially ju the caurches under the care of the Luard of Misalous, Every debt in wuch churcties ls 8 burden on the Duard, uot ouly be- caude of s lntercat, which practically must be ald out of thelr fuuds, but becauva of ulber luderunces Lo progr which it uccesearlly In- volves, and which necessitate large and long-con- tiuued grants of aln. 0. Bot thera e astill more offective method of securing those In the carrying-out of which cvery Preabytory, every church, ‘and every fndl- vidual In thu Church has 8 part, vis., by Increascd contributions to the fuuds of the Doard., It Is s huwilistlog = fact to .every —meme ber of oor great Church {o-day” that an additlonal peuny per week from each comuwiuni- cant woul to this cause during the past ycar. Repeclall 1his fact bumbling to the 1. charches that bave made po coutribution. Presbylerios should seo 10 it that tho session of every church uoder thelr care is fatthful not only In presenting the claing of this cause (0 overy member of the church, bul in sccurlng ae far a4 possible contributions propoz- tioncd to thelr respective abilily, The Teat sliould bo encouragea to give thelr little, rich 10 contribute more, ‘The aceslon of cach church should adopt sys- tematlc plane for preseniing tbo clalms of the Board not only fo every cummuvicant in the church, but tw every chilldin thy Sabbath-schuols. Uur misslonsrics should labor Lo educate their people in the sty aud practice of giving (o this oud tostltue Hostds of the Chueck, They wro furming tbo chiaracters of & large proportion of our churchs, and 1t Ly as true lu church Lfo as In 1n- bave slmost doubled the amount FI\E]: dividual life ¢ Juatae the twig 1a bent the tree's Inclined. ) % ero Wo may Appropristely refer to what i called_fn the report c’; the Doand ** \Voman's work.”™ Wa would decidedly di-conrage the form- inz of distinct arganizations in urg chuarch far the qumn-n of rairing fanda for this Noard, a8 this would tend Lo the nnduc maltiplication of sach organizations in the ame ficld, and 80 ta Interfer- enca with sessions in the carryingoutof Avstemntic plans of benevolence to conflict with one another, and consequent indering of the work. ~Iut we would arge that In_every church, In ail 1ta organ- 17atlons for benevolent work, regard ba had to the necesaitica of the whole world, st home no lens than abroad; and that oll sim to carry forward tha various departments of ihis work, not nlnr onlsts or even rivals, bnt as part of one sod the Aame _great work for Chrlst ana souls, In this connection your = Commities would -emphasizo the importance of every organization for beneyolent work {n every church being tribota. ry to and in harmony wilh tha work of tlic aesslon of the Church, and m""f its connecilon with tho in some outmdo auxiliary, hut in thosa Beriptural and suficlent limits which fuhere In the system of our Chuzch,—the Sersfon, the Presby- I3 |lm5’|lmlLund eneral Ansembly. The work of the Board of Home Miselons i and hasalways heen two-fold; firat, the estentslon of the Chiurch into new flclas; and secondly, tho fos- tering of existing new or feeble churches by con« tributing to pastoral suppart; fnother words, mis- #lon work and sustentation work, In the dret ot these departments the Voard, In its report, calls £pecial sitention to the people of Utah, and New Mexico, and Arlzona, to the multitnde within our territory, many of them speaking other languages than our own, inade sccessible in recent yeare by the raslroad system of our country, and amon wham our people are more and more mingling, an: to the imperative necesnity of immediate eflort for the avangelization of thene people. 1In the iudg~ ment of your Commitice the Importance of thin work eafiniot be undaly emphasized, In connection with It the report of the Board, and al«o the nver tares from the Presbyteries of Utah and Colorado, present for the consideration of the Assembly s aubject which, a0 far ae the work of this Hoard ia concerned, isentirely new, viz, ;the establishment of achoola as distinct from, and In advance of, the ca- tablishment of churches, and, contequently, tha emplognient and_commissioning of teachérs am dislinct from miniaters of the L. The report and the overitires ug that anch wschools Aro alrcady in uperation through the use of funds epecinlly contributed for the unr‘m-e. and the Amsembly in seked to *'mathorizo or sdvire, or at least lryrfl'(l. this newdepartment of lsbor.'' The simple fact that this Is o new departnre on the part of thls oard, nnd engaging In work not hitherto assignied ta it by the Church, suggesis the importance of very care- fal conalderation on the part not anly of this Gen- eral Asrembly bnt of the Charch wo represent. A little delay in order to sccure wiso and prudent ac- tion will be much mure safe, ond fta rerults mora salutory than the retrogression rometimes mado necersary by Lasty movement in advance of a knowledge “of the mind of the Charch. Besides, this mensnro presents so many points not only of constant but of delicate interlacing, i1 not interference, with the work already recor- nized a belonging to the other Hoards, that in the Judgnent of your Commiitee )t wonld scares fall ‘Within thelr pruvince to recommend actlon in the direction indicated. Wa thereforo .Imlfl{ commend the enblect to the rayerful conslderution of tho Asrembly and the “hurch, that thereby tho beatnode may ho reachied af accomplisning our object, In refarence to which all minds and hearts In ths Church are one, tho cvangelization "of America for ita own eake, for tho world's sake, and for the sake of the Kingdom and glory of oor Lord. In the prosccutlon of the extensidn of \tho Chnrch Into new folds, as well as the maintalning of it in the older portiona of our country, It I8 race ognized on all hands that it 1s tu bo accomplished not only by the conversion of souls through tho agency “of's preached Gospel, by fnlht'rlnk of them foto organized churches, an in order to their moet successfal development, the eceuring to them at the ecarliest possible perlvd, and the maintaining in them, of the Scriptaral and Invaluable bleasiug of & permancnt pastorate. This mission-work in moat portions of our land Lecomes In its very Inciplency austentation work, Al the reunion, the Ganers] Ansembly, with moat laudable desire to promoto the permancnce of the !nulornl otlice, the Increase of pnatos ntrusted l|1lrr|.lm'l of thls war! Board ~ which ~shoull an the coudlttons, fest, a sottled pos torate; secondly, of a certaln . contribution per member to tho support of the pastor; and tuirdly, of a gradual progress toward self-support, and which on these coliditions shonuld supplement the splary of the pastor to the amount of $1,000, ‘The report of tho sald Board informs us that, dur. ing lhe}!cflm‘l In which they have had the manage- ment of this departinent, the dobt upon it has been Ilnld. that there wan at the time of the last mect- ng of the Uenoral lmemblgn large balanco in tho Treasary to the credit of this department, which haa becil nteadily increased, and yet that during tho paat yeur there bave been but twenty-two lac ‘borers ut any time under its care; that though durs ing the peelod of thelr administratlon of this de- 18 ,unds. partment ‘*they have plven twenty-iwo commiselons ‘to” pastors. - they have ' now but thirteen on the lst of ° ansientation, ** and this notwlthetanding freqnent efforte, by pub.- lic notlco in 1hd Lecord. and personal presentation uf the sobject in Prestyteries and Synods, and by private correepondence, to engage the sttention of the churchea to this work, These facls come with tbelr lessone to this Assonblly, They revenl first of all that the dificuity (n the way of tho Doard’s carrying out thla work In the method pored has beon fonnd in the conditions which t plon involved, and by which alone it s distingnls ed from the work of “sustentation ns always col ducted by the Doard of Miasions, ‘The Uoard of Snrtentation was firet unablo to falall she condition of supplementing all enlarics to lic amount of 81,000, bon the churches woru nnable to fnlfll the conditions which, In the hopo of bettering (the condition of thelr pastars, they had nsened, Henco, bocause of (heso two dinfenltics, moat of the churchics have roturncd to the care of the mirslon department of the Loard, (Stil, it I4 monifest that the Church regards with {ntereat and hope the ]ulnnlrlu and the gencral fan of sustontation, and feols that there is tiat in it which It Is inportant to conserve, What they do- sire, howerer, is not the sccuring of the speclic s At of $1,000 to_each pastor, which cu very sbundantand uften very meagre; nor azaln the iiv- iug of §7.10 by each fiember's’ church, whick often a very liberal and as often o very nigardly average nor yet the annual reduction ‘of exactly 850 In. 8 church's demands of the Bonal. Theso aronot the pointa fn which the Church fe inters ented, but I securlng the permanence, and come fort, and efliciency of tho pastorate, the progress of tho chiurches, and thelr speedy atiaintent to welf-aupport by making la proporiion as theae condition 1n accordsnce with these views, ti would recommend the abandonment by she loard of condltfons which have heen found by oxperlence embarrassing to the work of aurtens tation: that tho misslon and sustentatin work be carrled forward horealter as one, and that tho wat. ter of o scparate collectinng for eack by Joft to the dincretion of the churches, but tuat, In tho actlon of the Presbyterles and the Hoard, the principle by retatned ‘of recommending and’ granting larece appropristions whers tho pastorate is securcd, where the churches glve for pport of thelr pastor In proportion to thelr ki 1 abllity, sud whero thore ls a falr promiso of speedy scif- support, The Committes have aleo considered the over- tures frow the Preshytery of laltlmore, anking that the Ucnerul Amscinbly direct o apecinl appros tlation from the Board of 1lomo Misslons tu the 'resbyterlan Charch of Annapolis, This church s |n"the vicinlty of the Uuited States Naval Academy, where inany young men of Presbyterian pirentags ara gathiercd Trom ull parts of oar land, t is 8 matter of great hmportauce to the whole chiurch that thess young iuen whould have the priviloge of worsuip in the church of thielr “futhers, As ofilcers In onr nuvy Lhoy Lecome, In B certaln scuse, repreacntatives of Amoerlcan Christlanity througliout the world. 1t ¥ proper, therefure, that the Goneral Assom- through the agency of s Board of Nonie lons, should afford special uld to the mainte- nance of Presbyterian worship in that locality. fne asmuch as thy lnllrl(flll,l intervats of the Presbyte- tian studunty of the Naval Acadewy wake this an enterprise of national lnportance, ~ Your Comuite tev, however, Judge that the amount of tho ap. un_10 o made (o that church Is o matter hoold Lo lcfl others are, whotly to the cfl, a udzinent of the l'rubfnu.ry of Baltimere, and tha oard having reyard io the clrcunistances which are hereln clted and which, In the judgmont of this Asscinbly, mark the case asoue of pecullar hinportance 1o the wholw Church, i During the year cuvered by the repart, the misslonartes whose namics follow have clused theie thly intors aud bave cutered upon thelr oterual e It W, O, Bronsen, M. C. Brou- J. M. Swue, D, D,y sud J, term of servica of the following members ot tha Lourd expires with this Assembly, vis.: lin- {atera~Tho itev, Willism C, ltoburts, D. D., the Itev. Thomas 8, Uustings, 1. D.3 laymen—danes F. Joy, Jacob D, Veruliye, sud Edward A, Lawme bert (resigned), ‘Yl Comuwiltee recommend tha re the Hev, W Raberts, D, D, ¢ Hastings, D. D.; Jamnea . Joy, snd Ja wilye, and that Prof D, Q. Esion be appoluted 1n- stead of Edward A. Lambert, Dr. Bellyille said thers was a sontence ln rof- crence to o deceased missionary which bad been omitted In the roport, and which, with the «‘:onu-m of the Assewbly, the Cummitteo would L5t Such leave was grsuted, and on motion the report was received. Lue Moderator then asked it the Chairman of }!Ilo Committee desired to address the Assem- bly. Dr. Bellyitlo sald he was 50 weary, and his throut was 80 sure with coutinted work in the Committee, that be shvuld beg to be excused for tha preseut, The Moderator sald the Assembly would Lear the Beerctarica of tho Commliitee, and mentioned the name of the Rev. Dr, Kendell, ‘The Rev, Mr. 8mith moved that the Assembly first adopt the report: A PAHAGHRAPIT OBJECTED TO. Mr, W. A, Halliday sald there was a para- graph {n the report which he would like to aco stricken out. Thero were 8 number of men who did uot consider the relatlous between the Presbyteries and the as eutirely defiued. There wers a wmall number of wen who be- lieved the Presbyteries bad & constitutioual right to look after the work o their own budics, aud tuey believed that thess Preabyteries could do, In maby cuses, better than the Bosnd. Hu wus uot disposed to press bbls question, but there was & paragreph lu the repors which, in speakiog of this view beld by some of the enbyteries, condemned it In language far too strong. [le thought that tho brethren who held these vlews but who did not press for the agitn. tion of the matter should bo branded thos. He therefore moved to strike out tho paragruph froni the report The Rev. Mr. Erdman geconded the motfon and cited, as an instance of valuable mirelonary work on the part of a Preshytery, whathaa been done in the Preshytery of Morris, N. J, ‘Tha Rev. Mr. v’ asked for o furtber read- Inq_o' the paragraph. ha Rav. C,” W, Btewart roes toa point of order. Would it not be_courtesy tothe Scere- tarles to hear them and then discuss the re- portal ‘The Moderator sald it was a question of courtesy rather than of order whetlier the As- acinbly” would hear the Becretarles before dise cussing the report. ‘The Rev. Mr. Van Dyke said it was customary to take up reports 1ko this paragraph by pari- graph, fixe Rev, Mr. Briges moved 1o hear the Bee- retaries before discussing the report. Carrled. ‘The Rev. Mr. Beliville, hu(m‘ obtained leave to say s word of explanation lest s false im- pressfon might be inade by that pnragraph, taid that ‘the fntent of the Comiittee was_ sinply to aspeak of the actlon ol Preshylericr, because thelr recommenda- tlona were not thoronghly honored by the Board, withdrawing from the support of the Board, aud taking the nianagement of thelr uwn mis- #fous Into their own hands. When that portion of the report was rend, there was a general oxpression In the Committee that the Chalrman had not pat it quite as _ strongly as it should be put. I copyving nmllf this siugle ecntence, to which objection had been made, was added without zlving the Committeo an wupportunity for the general expression of Hs judgment thercon, He therefore asked leave, rceing that the sentetice was Hable to misinterpretation, to witldraw it from the report. [Applduse]. DR. HUENRY KENDALL, MRVIEW OF THE REPORT. The Rev. Dr. Henry Kendall, of New York, one of the Becretarles of the Buard of Iome Missions, then addressed the Assembly ne fol- lows: 1t {5 forty scars ago and a litle more when Lord Macauley was fa Indfa. Ifc placed very 1itlle value on the work of stch misslonarles ns Poor, and Winslow, and Lowrlo, and Reed, and spoke disparagingly of thie work of missions and the nominal converts to the Cnristian faith, The English Government, he sald, was estab- Ushing schools for the native population, and when tho children Jearned English he Inttmated that {dolatry would go to tho winds, aud the rising gencration would adopt the fafth of the English Church. Alast great statesman dnd historian, brilitant orator and cssaylst, as Ma- caulay was, he bad not comprehended the dopths of Luman depravity or the hardness of the human beart. Tens of thousands of the youth of India speak and write the English lan- guage with ns much correctucas and facllity na tho English themselves. They are famillarwith the literature of England, with her philosophy, history, and theology, with the works of the most. eminent of Ler receut sclentists and scholars, But Macaulay lived long cuough to sce that when the fron hand of England was a 1lttlo re- laxed in Indis, in the Crunean war, one of the bloodlest tragedics that was ever enacted be- neath the sun wus pcrpcmtcd by these same re- fined and educated’ Hindoos, and the * Indlan Mutiny * is o aynonym of all that Is ‘most hor- rid {u tréachery and bloodshed,~and the scenea at Delbi, Cawnpore, Allababad, and Lucknow sent a thrillof horror througlbout the earth, and they arc words that canuot be spokieu now but the'blood almost curdics in tho veins, Charles Kingsley said, * Ihiave never Jooked el so close fu the face as I have of late,” and Macau- Tay could scarcely eat or slecp, and wss quite unabls to work, while the terrible suspense last- ed. This Is the record history bas made as to the success of cducation of saving men without the Gospcl. It s ns {f God would pour contcmpt on tho natfons of the carth who would bo wiser than what Is written as to the fall of man nnd the way of solvation. 1ie put this bloody stamp on all'this folly. Greater numbers—Lundreds of thousands " In India—are familiar with En- glish literature. But it ia the testimony of the wiscst - observers of the prescnt time _that §f England were to relax fts hold on India for a singlo day, revolt and revolution would break forth agaln,— that not only every missionary of ¢very naine in India, ond every Englishinan, with their wiyes aad littlo oncs,‘would bo slaughtcred in cold blood, but provines would war with proy- ince, Personal bate and private ambition would lead to greater atrocitics than were ever known befare,and anarchy and ruin would be univerval. Learniog ond’ eulture alone do not suibriue tho cvil passtons, aud all they have known of the literaturs of England, or scen of lier people, hus not converted - single soul, Hut_for the misslonaries English-speakinige indooa would by sunk us deep In sluas the most besotted devotee of idol-worahip In tho hieart of Africa or In the fslands of the seal Forty years ago, ond o 1ittle moge, s0me of the faliers here present will remembor, thy cry was t THE JESUITS were taking posscssion of the West. They were strong (n 8L, Louis, they were obtainfug a foothold in Cindonutl, und establishing them- sclves ju nll the strategle polnts in the great Valley of the Muwstssippf. The East took the ‘wlarm. The danger was the burden of mapy o prayer ot the monthly coneert, and it pofnted many an appeal froi the ‘mlpu for men amd means to evangalze the West, The Bible Boelety, the Tract Boclety, the Hom Missionary organization—sll sounicd the alarw. Nor wus it any false alarm. The danger was real and immiuent. What did they dol Did they estabtish schools nicr better fnstructed, they Knew thut the Gony and tho Gospol alone—was the wisdom _of God und the puwer of God unto salvation. They sent furth Lhe Hiving preachier, and wany of tha nisslonacies of that day cams futo the Weat In response to thut uppeals A fow of them remain to this present, but 8 great sumber hiave gone to thelr rewarda, But was Jesultlsm the ouly dangerl Thirty years uzo a distingulshed prescher of° New Ev- pland gave to the publica Home Missionary discourse, In which b depleted * Barbariom as the Hrst danwer,” and that too was renl and fmmincut. He ‘malntafned that the looscu- fug of old ties, the releuss from cus tomnary wholesome restraluts, the Joss of early religlous assoclations, aud tho absence of schoals, chucctes, bouks, aud leisuro for reading and study, coustituted tho Kreatest possible ul‘; r, and that the forming coluuunities of the West wonld lupes futo lgno- runce, religious ludiference, and absolute bar- barfsm, in -t.uu of all the East could doj and he clulined that the early settlers of this country, the plonecrs frow Europe, were only suved from #uch a fate because they kept thelr jutellects keenuud the bearts warm wrestling with and reat ud sublime doctrines th. ud he was right. Wnen our missionaries o fnto auy community,~aud there wers many such,—uud beard the so<alled preachers of thu day scolling at college education and branding as Yunkee school-teschers m‘-‘y hat would establish s goud school, who calivd g order aid soutd nurality Puritanlsm, and boldly tuught the pe that Presbyterians beld that “ hell was baved with the skulls of Infants not o spaulong,” there barbarisin wasalready beguu,— 1t had wuken possession and Intrenchied itse Aud whew the wissiouarics came futo the W and found horse-racing and shuoting-uete on thy Sabbuth, gambllog und profauity, and men were young wid thought aud the blood liot, and whisky, aud the rile, and the kolfe did thelr deadly work, burbarism was In force. But they gave them the Law of God, the tospel of His dear Son, suwething hetter to thluk of, ‘They rouscd thelr consclen thuy arrested their atteution, they stirred their intellects, mind waruied thelr bearts with the great aud sub- e doctriues of Lur faith, AND WUAT [LAS HEKN TUE RESULT! Eternity alone can discloss it! Entldels sud Universallsts, the protiizate aod the profane, Babbath-breakers und drinkards, wero convict* e of their sius aud led to Chnst, Thero was Joy fv Heaven und joy on the carth, when thess hougbtivas uiea sent back word to the prayluy neely the ol Edstern howcs that theyh subinitted to Christ, That luu{ “ruu bas been one lobg scene of bleised revival work all over the Weat, Ohlo, thut was well settled then, and bad 27,668 communleants, has added -wluuu weanwhile, Indiana bas lucpeased el fold, Michigan sixfuld, aud this fmperial stat fnwhich we staml bus focreased wore thau twentyfold, and this clty, thot then Lad oune feeble church, marked {u the wliutes of thuse years, *vacant,” without report of wembers oraught else, boaste,~I will not say bousts, fur you know that will Ul-betit Chicago,—~quis 1y reconly its seventeen chiurches, with as many wore on the suburbe,—a golden fringe,—into which Lave beon revelved “the last year very wany sowls. “Thus they eucountered and overcame the in- clplent barbarism that was coming In like a fluod and beat it back, Out of whole Stutes, ncarly out of the whola couutry, it has been d the churches, und the schoul, sud ire, aud the cducated mbnstry have found their proper place, But this ls uot all, Forty years sgo. neither in \isconsly, nor Mlupesuts, nor fews, uwor Nebrasks, Dor Kausas, bor anywhere to the broad Pacific was these auything Ukes Pres- byterian church, and In Missouri, In whose orincipal city Jesuitism was so flrm‘y ntrenche cd, ani in the whole commonwealth,there wers tut 1,647 Preshvteriane, while now there are 17,930—morethantenfold. AndinalltheseStates where forty years ago there were only 37,234 metnbers, ‘there are now 222,634, or ‘sixfold. Verlly, the danger I8 measurably past. Nelther Jesuitism nor barbarlsm has ‘control of the Valley of the Missiesippl. DUT WE MAY OBTAIN STILL, CLEARKR VIEWS of the work of Home Minsions by taking into Yiew n ahorter term of years. At the reunlon in 1570 we hrad but three members of the Pres- bytery of Texas; now we have twenty, The Preahytery of Colorado was formed that year with seven ministers; now we bave the Bynod of Colorado, with {hirty-nine ministers, and flourishing _ churches at the capital eities of Utah, Montana, New Mexico, and Ari- gona, and at all other prominent points, At thattime the Pacific slope was organized Iuto one Syne, with seventy-four mintsters and gixty-one churches. 1t now has become two Bynuds, and It Las more than doubled its num- ber of churches and ita memberahip during that time. But In all that great expanse of country, with two_or three exceptions 1n the great ciiy of San_ Francisco, only ang church has been found that 1 can recall fhat did not recelve ald from the Board, without which perbaps not one of them would have been formed. Or, If we @oback twenty-five years, a very brief perfod in the Jife of a nation, and & point which many can distinctly recall, the chianges have been correspondingly great. There was then no 8ynod fn Jowa, ‘or Minnesota, or Wis- consin, where we now have 515 churches, and more than 31,000 members. Aund the entire ter- titory now embraced In the bounds of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Californla, the Columbla Bynods, now numberloy twenty-one Preshy- terica and 20,000 members, was represcoted by two fechle churches in Nebraska of six mem- bers cach. Kansas Liad not a single church twenty-five years azo. Colorado had none, the record of which had rpeached the Eas twenty-five years ago, and that great {nterme- diate “Rocky Mountain country~the great mln(nzwr;iun of the country, {f not of the world, where now great citfes are Hourishing, the happy home of thousands—waa a wild waste ond wilderness, which. no man thought to traverso but at the peril of losing his life Ly savazes or wild beasts, by rlarvation and thirst on the parchied, trecleas, and rainless plalns, But now the eavages are subducd, the wild Leasts have disappearcd, the mountain streams have been utilized to {rrigats the dry and sandy plains, the valleys wave with golden’graln, hun- dreds of thousands of cattle and sheep pasture cefully on the great mountain ranges, and Lio ininers In the valley and on the mountaln- side are adding millions to the wealth of tho warld year by year. A rallway spans the brond expanse, the “loag, tedious, aud dangerous Journey becomes a pastine and pleasure-excur- alon compressed [oto the days of a single week. Kind frieude sometimes beg of thelr young ministerial friends bot to throw themsacives away,—not to go to tho West where thelr talents wilt be wasted, and they thomselses never Lo Licard of agaln. This Is nu timetodisparage men who, like Paul, have had a holy ambition not to bulld on another man's foundations, but who, like men, have souzht out the places whero wickedness was most vlolent and prevalent, and amidat hnrdsl.\l?‘! aod difllculties that, but for the grace of Uod might appal tho stoutest heart, have laid everlasting tonndationa for the Church of Clirist. Turn over the pages of 10,000 centenninl discourses, and the very men that have been made most consplcuous and honored mott have heen those that bave faid Uroad snd deep the foundations for order and cducation, and the Church of Chriat. TUEZSE ARN TOE MEN TilAT NAVE DREX IOME MISSIONARIES in thelr day, the men that have encountered summer's fercest Licat and the winter's fiercest sturins to carry the Guspel to the frontler set- tlements, fording strcams, slecpinz on the ground under the open sky, who have preached the Gospel in the forest, intho log cabin, in Larns,—opywhere that the people might hear ond be sayed. These, too, were the men whose names will live longest in connection with our coliezes, Western Reserve, aud Jeflerson, and Washington, nnd Marlctta, and Hanover, and ‘Wabash have been originated by the fafth of hotne misslonuries forccastin the future and providing that the churches that wers, aud were o be, should be provided with an cducated mlnmn'. 1t was " llcnnl]eu lome 1isslonarics” usually that knelt down some- tines In the snow aud conscerated the lands to God on which thoee institutions stand, 1t was rcnnllc.s home missionarics that subscribed for Lo caterprise first often the largest suma, and ulways paid thelr subscrintions. Homomisslons aries collected tho money piven at tho Eas they filled the Professors’ chalrs, and f was the tenaclous falth of the home missionarics that gave confldence to other men, and men of means, to come Lo the rescue of these lustitutions fn these terriblo straits they all encountered, in which otherwise they would have been engulfed. The sawe fs true of female seminarics. 5 Aud when sinovement was to bomade against inteinperance, or drunkenucss, or Sabbath- profunntion; when laws were to have thelr right- ful supremnacy, or order was 1o he cnforeed,— und all these evlls had banded and organized forcea {n thelr favor,—whenever any battle was 1o be fought for the right or the true, tho hone misslouaries were always fa the van, the bravest of the brave. e Am I saylng too muchi Do I give these men too uch pralsel I ask you, fathers from West- crn New York and Westorn Pennsylvanta, from Olilo, Indiana, Michigau, and Illinols, it this is not true, and more, 11 1 have magulficd beyond whiat the truth will bear tho schievements of ttiesc men of God who led the Church into the wilderuces aud tho desert, and planted [t there to the glory of God for all time to come! I tell tell you, ¥ brethren, in the light of history,the founttation-bullders staud na high s thosu who plant the gilded spire over the topmoat stune. But somo one will say, 1O NOT TI1B HOMB A1BSIONAIIZS DIX? Yea, they o dle. Five have dled o the year, aml fivein o thousand Is less than the avérage in the whole Church. 8o far asthe figurcs rova anything, the Home-Misslovary wurk (s e wealthieat service in the ministry,” What if Welch uud his™ beautiful — aud _sccom- B\Mm! wifo «ame on o the Jast SAsseme ly as {fona brilal tour, and have nince both een snatchied up to gloryl Whatif e sowed the sceds of his disease, mnd, with the founda- tlons of his dendl{ slckness, s he told us, walklng through thestreets of New York, in December, cold and wet, bepging for money to build a chureh in Bolt Lake City, and went to his cold room In the hotel, and had no fre nlzht after night that he might eave cxpensel He hoa done_ his work, The church ediflee fs buiit at Sult Lako City, andtho First Preshyterian Church in the great S8alt Lake Basin ls duv o Lis exertions. What if Webler, who went first of all mls- slonarius Into the licart of Nevada, and preach- ed tho Gospel, ond bl wife tausrht and did bey own housework, and cared for her little ones, and played the melodeon on the Subbath and at the prayer-mecting—what §f sho died, and lier babe divd, and ber hushand died! What If the fArst misslonary wifu that went out to Kansas with that noble band of ten young men that wont Into Kapsas [n 1868, slecps with her now-born babe on her breast, i the first i:mvu made ou the profrio by tue town where ior husbaud _went to preach Christ to his fel. Jow-men? They have not lived in yaln; they have not died in valn, Did Harnet Newell livo ardicin valy, thuugh It was her privilege never tospeak a word to one of the millions of lin- doo women it was in her heart to aeyed Noj the fragrunce of lcr name, ber herolsm, her consceration, wero walted across thecontinent, over the seas, and hundreds wero ready to take up tho work she had lald down. Tiiess men and women have not lived {u vain; they have not lost thelr reward, Jsaok around you and see what they have done; luok over the newer Btates, extend rur rauge of vision, take in the l'ui{lr: alde, and tho loug liue of the Paclis coast. Bome one has sald that Providences are neyer so atrikiug as when they are concurreat, when they couverge to asingls point. TUEKE ARE THHER OL YOUR PACTS that consplre to make the present an ausplelous thme for bome-missjonary work. 1. The access- Jullity of all vur country. ‘Vho Pacifile Rallroad seemed to unlock all the uucxplored ree of ourcouutry, The Ilufl% Mountain systen that embraces over 515, quare 1niles,—all catne within our reach, all that was most dis- tant and had seemed Inaceessible was brought neur, True, it was uot wholly unknown before, viulgeants bad passed across the wida expause, Moruions were scitled fn Utah, aud mfuers ba found gold sud founded towus and citics In Moutans, Colorado, Wyomlug, and Nevada, But no sooncr was the railroad completed than the loug jourteys Ly cmigraut or mincrs' traing were at an end, Tle railruad became the base ol vperations for tho army, the miucrs, the ranchauen, the scttlers, tho United States sur- weyly, partics, ‘fhe whole region brought near, the valleys are occupled, the mines are developdd, the Judisns are pacified, the buffulocs are displaced and any inan an go alin0st where ha will, F'wenty years ago we read of Salt Lake City, much us wo bave Iamly of the travels of Live Iugatone iu Central Alrica, and to establish a <hurch by the shores of Salt Lake would bave seced more llke & dream thay to plant vue noy ot the shores of Lake UJjI, In Central Africal 2, The awakeulog of religlous thought and sensibility througbout wus eutire population, It i su fudicstion of the thnes that the sccular ress, which 18 & sure fudex of the ular will, i aven wore aud ure to the pubiliation of serwous, - At fint it was contlued malnly Lo ro- ports of Sunday’s scrinons on Monaay morn- inzs. Batever since Mr, Moody's return to thin country the secular press has been glad to give hia sermons to the rulvlld:‘nml the leadini dallfes in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, an Boaton have scattered his scrmons broadeast, Whoever read the leading pspers, wherever they went,—and they go everywhere,—the poo- ple’have the Gospel "preached to them by tha press, The sabject of reliz’on fs a subject of dally thought ‘amdl discusslon, and without stopping to determine which Is the caus¢ and which §s the e(ect, there is an smount of seri- ousness In the public mind that s something unusual and moat che Last year the re- port of additio 1 our _churches made in the aggregate inore thsn 60,000,~more than 10,000 to our Hlome MIisslonary Church ~=while this year I know not how many have been added to the churches, but 11,000 have been added to the Home Misslun Churches (an unparallcied number}, while the misslonaries report the orzanization of about ninety church- ea. o nuinber far surpassis last year or any previous year. _ Many of the Home Misslonary Churches have doubled their memberahip, while larger Sunday-achonls and congregations indl- vate an Incrensed religious interest. The truth is we are living In the inldst of a wide-spread revival of relicion. Souls’ are hungering and thirsting for rignteousness. 1t I8 eu{ to preach beeause men are glad to hear, - People that had been Indiffcrent or hostite to to the Gospel wel- come it as It is, in fact, good news of God and s salvation. od Lias given upusual access to the youn men {n our theolugical seminaries, I need nof spcak of members of the lower classes who go out for summer work, of which there is a large number, but of those who go out for permancnt work for the Board Auburu wives us six, Princeton, six; New York, seven; Lane, six; and of Allegheny and Chicago Seminarics weo do not know; and while theec are not Lalf as many as we waut, they are of so bigh an order and arc so ready to go tu the most distunt parts, that we are greatly encouraged., e cannot speak with absolulo” certainty yet, but we hiave appointed three for Montana, three for Colorado, three or four for Utah, two for Ne- vada, and six for the 8ynod of Columbla, while seven are destined for Kansas, and four for Minnesots, where not half of the demand js mcr.' while Wisconsin, Towa, Nebraska, and Missour aro atill pleading for a8 many more that wemust try to furnish from other sources. Al thieae wo call not an accldental or for- tultous but 8 providential conjunction’ of cle- cumstances that point forward and beckon us on to greater successes. They show that the whole country Is within our reach, and that tho Learts of the people ore open to th Gud ‘s in the midst of sul s favoring Zlon with Illa presen and wheo the favoring gales come it time to spread our snfls to the breeze! When God begius to give the victory Is the time to ress our advantage, As uml{ as there lsa {de in the affairs of men, so I8 there in Hfs Church, and when e stands ready toelp Is our opportunity. 0 conclusion be spoke of TILE NESOUNCES, Tw had In hand o working balanco of 227,000, which had been sccumalated fn spite of the pressing need of many churches, Dr. Ken- dall Inststed on the Importance of prayer amon, God's people, that the wark of the Board, of the Home Mlssionary, and the entire work el evaneelization in this country, might goon. It the year Just past had been & vear of desolation and barrenncas, many churches would have died outright and absolutcly. But God had come to thelr relief in anawer to prayer. Without the rift of .the Holy Bpirit this year would be (rult- leas; but, with God’s Bolrit, 1t would be a fruit- ful, lmuexti and successful year all over this e truth. brand land. With all thesc Intimations of God's leading, could the Church do aught else than press forward sand pray that God would give it more lande, which skiould be speedily cunsecrated to Christ and. to the evangelization of the whole cartit [Applause.) TIIAT PARAGRAPIL IT 1S DISPOSED OF. The Rey. Dr. Dickson, the otlier Sccretary of the Committee, asked to be excused until after- noon. Tho excuso was given, The Itey. Dr. Bellville asked leave to with- draw the sentence {n the report to which objecs tlon had been made. Ho sald he had dlscov- cred, immediately upon tue reading of the re- port, that he had used fo somec haste a word which ho bad ot intendud to use. The Hev. Mr. Erdman sald {t wasn't s word, Dut n paragraph, and asked for the reading of the paragraph. The objectionable paragraph was read, o8 fol- Tows: : These atatementa make manifest the error of a method of meeting the difiiculty complalned of sugzested in many quartcre, viz, : by Presbytorles or Synods taking Into thelr ovn " hands the dlatri- Vutfon of thelrown fands, It fa fuitblessness to an inotitation which the Church tias created, and 10 the malntenance of which each Prosbytery and Synod is allke pledged, It defeats the ends of tho Church in estabhshing the Noard, and destroys tho unity of the Chareh in her work, It narrows tlie mind of the people of God and tends to with- draw thelr eympathics, thelr influence and exer. tion, thelr very prayors, as well aa thelr contribn- tionk, from the work at large, and s0 (o proniote that very seldnness which “true Christian benevo- 1ence abould destroy, Mr. Ogden thought there was a great deal in the passage that should be retalned. ITe was opposed to having It stricken oat entlrely, but ‘would be glad to seo it modified. Dr. Bellville supposed the objectionable sen- tenee was, % The Assembly cannot too strongly reprobate such action.”’ A Commissioner moved that the whole para- graph be stricken out, Dr, Bellville asked leavo to ‘withdraw the sen- tence. Mr. Ozilen fnquired if the motion to strike out had been pazsed on, ‘The' Moderator replled that it had not, and ‘was not befors the house. * ‘The question was called for by several Com- missloners. Mr. C. W, Btewart moved that the whole par- agruph be atricken out, Tho Moderator eald that, as a matter of courtesy, the request of the Chalrnan of the Comumnttee (Dr.” Bellville) should bo heeded. Then the motion to strike out would come up in order, He, however, was not tenaclous. DR. BRDMAN moved that the report he recommitted. e thought there was no difference of opinfon as to the general drift of the passazo. All approved of it. No Preshytery ought to keep its home misslonary funds within its own jurisdictivn, But as the passaze carricd with it "the impres. siun that any Freahytery which took part (n fta own homae inlaslonary work wss to be repro- bated, ko nmufln. by & recommittal, the Ianjruage could be modifled so a5 to meet the yiews of tho Anemhl{. ‘Thu Rev, Thomas S{cCauley approved offthe motion to rccommit, for tlio reason that the lonzuage waes rather strong. Br, Urler, of Peorla, wantod the question put on granting leave to withdraw the sentence, The Moderator said lcave would be granted by recommitting. The Committeg could then ango the language to sult themselves, Mr, Grior did' not waut the remaluder recom- mitted, sinca ho belleved every word of 1t, wos just what the Church wanted, If the Bynods and Presbyterics wers permitted, as they chooae, to useihelr funds, the Board would be broken up. Alr, C. W. Stewart asked It the motion to recommit would carry the whole report. ‘Ihe Moderator did not 0 understand It The paragraph only was covered by the motlon. Ir. ¥, Tracvy, of Run Francisco, thought the paragraph had’ alrcady been recommitted, and that the Committes lad reported recommend- ing the striking out of certain words. Actlon ought to be taken on the report before it Was recommlitted again, MH. C, W. STEWART Ald not wish to bo understond a3 saying any- thing that would conflict with the Intereat tho Assembly bad in the Board. He claimed to bo loyal to ihe fnterests of the Board, and always lad becu, flemade the motion to strike vut the paragraph because he thought it would have o deletesious intluenco upon the Church and upon the Presbyterfes, The Board, baving charge of the Home Missions throughout she whole coun- try, would naturally not ‘kuow s much about purticular fichly, aud its Intluence would not e felt 80 wuch thoro as 1t ought to be, The fleld that he represcnted (Eastern Pennsylvania) bad changed very tnuch in the last fcw years, The centres of population had been altcred by tha rallroads, 'Mauy of the old churches bad be- come weak through . emlgration of members, and It was important to tuke care of them. Was it not uatural for the Presbyterics to feel ap nteraat In thoss old churches tbat had done so mnuch In doys pasti Waos it not nutural, when they recomtuended them to tho Boand for ald—thelr attention belox drawa away to more lmportant flclds, aud losiug sight of the neeessity of aidiug these charcl hat the Synods eud Presbyteries should tuks sowe decided weussures fu regard to themi Aud when lh:{ did, was fu richs for the Committes representing that Board to vome Into the As- sembly and say that they wero fsithless to this sreat “workl Thore were two sides to this question, ead ho hoped the Comimit- tec would bring lu & reoort whkh would reticct upon the Christian fdelity of those churches that were, with pray. ers aud ctlorts, teylng 1o hold up'the hauds ot the Board and cuuble it to curry on the great work in which It was cogaged. DI ELLVILLE took it that no wewber of the Asscmbly, if ho understood clearly the Intent of the Committes at least of the Chalrman) in requesting leave to withdraw tho last sentence [** Tha Assembl; cannot too strongly reprobate such actlon” would hesitate a ‘moment in grantiog leave. Common courtesy would dictate it to_every ona wlio appreciated the clrcumstances of the case. He alone was rcngunlllll: for that single live. ‘The eentlment of the paragraph was the unani« mous sentiment of the Committee. A Commissioner moved that the Docter bave leave to withdraw the sentence. Dr. Erdman remarked that the Chalrman of the Cominitice evidently misconstraed the m - tion to recommit ea refusing a courtesy, moving those words would not change the char- acter of the paragraph. It wns not thst sepe tence, but the whole drift of the wngnrh. that seemed to reprobate what many of the Presbyteries were engaged in dolng. Ho thought, if the Committce got the report, the could modify the paragraph so as Lo accompl thefr end aud not reflect upon mflbodv. The Rey. Mr. Bellville sald he teok it for granted that he had leave to withdraw the ob- Jectionahle line. The Moderator sald this would be done, With comman consent, the question then would be on the motion of the Rev. Mr. Erdman, to RECOMMIT TUR WIIOLE PARAGRAPIL, The Rev. Mr. Bellville had & word to say on this matter. ' Ile had nodesire to alter in the Icast the sentiment {ntended to be expressed b{ that paragraph. He was one of thosa who, &l the beglnning of theso dificulties to which the rnrlurnpn relerred,~difliculties occasioned by he necesslty Lo which the Board Lolt ftsclf re- duced,—felt, perh:{m as utronz‘lz inclined as any brother in the Asseinbly to the pursuing ol the course suggested by Ur, Stewart, B8everal af the churches were serlously embarrassed Ly tho nnceull, of reducing the nppmprlnum. In the speaker’s country they didn’t bury their old iuon e before the*}dled. Neither did they bury Lelr churchics, ‘Under the Influence of ile strong aflection they bad for these chiurches,— out of the lofus of whose Christisu love several milssion churchies on the frontier hod sprung,— tley determined to sustain them, and the Eres- Lytery was almost ready to say It would take the mission work into te own hands. This was the idea to which referenco was made fn that paragraph. Dr. Beliville sald e had scarcel started out on this new track, full of zeal ani energy, when he discovered that the privciples involved were the YH’ principles announced In that paragraph. fie would maintain that it was faltblessncss to the trust reposed in Presbyte- ries of the Church, which had established, for the very purposc of carrying on_thie missfonary wark, the Board of Miselons. What did o Pres- bytery do when it sald Lo {ts minlsters, *Beod b in your funds to us, and we will distribute them"? By what n%-ht dld any Presbytery sake osscssion of those funds which were raised in ho churches, not ln the name of tho Pres- bytery, but in the name of the Board of Mssions, which the General Assembly—repro- gentiog the Presbyterics—had suthorized to carry on that work! Had any Presbytery the right to take those funds and” distribute {hem neeording to ita pleasure,~tho funds rajxed for 2 Board to which the Presbyterics In the Asscm- bly had committed this work of missions! Na. AN AMENDMENT SUGORSTED, The Rev, Mr. Erdman here arose to say that it Dr. Beliville would allow him a word he thought they could save time. If Dr. Bellville, a8 Chafrmau of the Committee, on his owa re- sponsibllity, would put In a nn&‘le word at'the, beginning of the paragraph, he thought It would save the necessity of forther debate. llewould sugpest that the paragraph merely condemn . the idea of o Presbytery entirely withholding their contributions “from the Board. As tho paragraph stood, It carricd with it the impres- slon that {f they withheld any part of the condri- butiona they were fafthicas. Dr. Bellville sald this [dea was the very {dea Ihed‘CummllMu had fn view in the languaze use The Ttev. Dr, Hickock wanted to know if Dr. Bellvlllo meant all tho_moncy ralsed for homoa missionary purposes. If o, ho was utterly amazed ot the ldea. s Dr. Bellvillc said he Intended to Incindo ell tha money ratecd for the funds of the Board of Misstons by _tho churches. There was no objec- tion to any Presbytery rulslnfi any moncy to uso in its own way, but for the Presbytery to with- draw the fund ralsed for the }xcncrnl purposes of home misslons was to be falthlcss to an In- stitution which the Church had ercated, and to the malntenance of which cach Presbytery and 8ynod alike was pledged. g TOC KEV. Mit. VAN DYRN gald the Asserbly was in danger of losing sight of the grand feutitres of the report.—n most ad- mirable one,—~losing sight of the mass of In- formation so clearly presented by Dr. Kendall, and loslug sight of the grand Home-Misslonar; work, fu this dlscusaion on the mere rhetorical and philologlcal structure of o certain para- geaph of thereport. He thought the Assetnbl would subserve the ends of the whole report {f it would lay on the table, or withdraw, the mo- tion to commlt tiat-parsgraply, 0 {hen pur- suc tho usual course In such cases, taking tho report up b pun!znphs. and, ing the objectionable = paragraph when it was reached.” There wero two ways of laying out o serinon. Bomo men began in” the middle and worked to both cnds (laughter] § but others began st tho beginuing and ended at the cod. A volce—“That's the ”'fh" WIJ'."] This graad, road discussion should not degencrate into n mero talk over o simple queation of language. Let the Assembly Lrondeu the thing, and when 1t bad at last thie grand ouslino—this cartoon— of this Home-Missionary work, then it could afford to fill up the pleture. [Applause.] The Rev. Mr., McLean Lhuuph if the word “ reprobate ’ was taken out of the nurnxraujh, the word * falthlessness *' should bo treated in | the same manner. Dr. Van Dyke moved to lay the motlon to re- commit on the table, with a view to taking up the report paragraph by varagrapb. . VARLIANENTARY PRACTICH, ‘The Rev, Dr. Laldlaw wantod to know if tho motlon ta table would not eo ix & that it could not bo taken ther¢from when tho body came to the paracraph objected to. ‘The Moderator thought not. made to lay on the tablo absolutely, even then it could be taken from the table by a vota of two-thirds, The motlon to table was carried. UTAII AND NEW MEXICO. THE REV, MR M'MILLAN, Dr. Van Dyke theo moved ths adoption of the first paragraph of the report. * By request, the Chalrman of tho Committee resd through that paragraph. ‘The Rev. 3r. McMillan took the platform to speak to this porticn of the report, directing lis remarks to a review of tho missionary work {n Utal, New Mcxico, and Arizona. Ho spoke particularly of the Mormons. Thetr only god, Lo sald, was Adam, who was worshiped be- cause be kept the celestial Iaw of polygamy,—s god of lust, whoso very character was to bo secn in every srtfcle of thelr faith, and Inall thele publle utterances. They taught that Curlst was nothing more than a mere man. The -Euker found a valley 150 miles south of alt Lake "City, which bad becn inhabited for ncarly thirty years, and into which no Chilstian miolster bad” so far eutered. The people wers tired of thefronrulo of Brigham Young, and were glad to have him (the speaker) settle down there. ‘They offered him a bulld- {og for 81,000, and although he had nous cent In his {mknl, was 100 miles uway from the ncarest Jam vsalng Clrlstiun, and owed for a weok’s hoard, ho bought the bulldiug and gave two uotes for tho debt,’ IHis first servico was ,beld fu this unseated buildiug, the congregaticn standing on the bare floor, The boys run. out siter the teruination of thuservices, exclaimiog tlm?l ,l.lmy Whad been to Lell sud scen the deyil, ‘The same night the speaker recelved a very lite Invitation from the Blshop to preach iu mecting-house, This Bishop had never heard a Christiay sermon before, und had never heand & Morwon sermon until he was 37 years ofage. An aged patriarch among the peopla advised that thu speaker should be turned out as if he were a wolt in the sheep-fold. HBut tho epesker went un, and In _lces than two months had established a school with 200 upils, Then Brigham Young camo down with rlm ‘Twelve Apostles and Leld & mass-m setiog, at which 2,000 people were present, andat which Youung, Delegate Ueorge (.Cannoun, and others, made speeches of the wost obscens and pros faue churaeter, describlng the * Presbyted devil ¥ usn “scalawag, 8 woll shie clothing,” and the like. Christian minls woere slléged to by labitually guilty of awful aud uumentionable crimes, o ‘Thu speaker was warnod that e must leave & the place, but by did not do so. The Board of Home Mlssions gavo him & commission, which be had wuot “at flrét, and tho money was ralsed 1o the ' notes as they cume dues, - Mo gut ' together a nuwberof the chiliren, aud fnally formed & Babbutb-achoul, comuencing by teiling the children storles. His flrst asslstaut was & wowaun of Moermon E‘uenun who kuew uoth- {ng whatever of the Bible, and whbom he had to Ingtruct weekly us to the uext Sabbath lcesou. Bha wua tuw & trus Christigy, aud when the speaker left bis teld of labor she stood up, i Aflu fuce ol au angry and ecuting priest- houd, and taught the bered about 150, Wowmen w cheaper tuan men would, aud were uore willing tu excrcse the necevsury sell-devlul thau wen are. The ductrins ol blood-atoneweut, cuttlng » man's throut lu erdee Lo mave bis goul, ha the elfvct of Keeplug » goeat wsny lu e Morwmon Churcli, for they uJaicd Lot dowve K. E Dr. Van Dyke snfd “that If the motlon was * e e, 3 s At e e S S e e e e A A N i e AT e i e U b ARSI