Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1877, Page 9

JHLE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY MAY 30, 1877—TEN PAGES. K:) I 8 limited dogree,in tha wor! earried on o mong the Indlana, The Tlome Board ix the only one that does of Is likely to do anything in either . of the Territories mentloned. The worlk ia peca- liar, arising from the niter absence of anything JRESBY liko'a true Ghrlatian popaiation among which the Eleventh Day's Session of the b T e o T RN bottom, and it fa found practically neceasary in Ceneral Assembly. order 19 mctes to have sebpls nndor difect cone tral of the misslonaries, Buch achoals are not for recular Instruction alone, but for religions in- to make no el In Ita minates after submitting thiem to General Assembly. Htetoireq®Thnt our Forelyn Tosrd bo eleeted, #n required hy its constitution, viz.: by a Nom- Inating Committee and ballot 'of General Assem- 1y, ’molml. ‘That the officers of onr Forelgn Hoarl be elected, and tholr aslarics be fized in ihe snme a Nominating Committee and aliot cmbly. Resolred, "That nn’rFaral'grln Toard be Instracted of that Arsembly, aud | desire to say that the | fta face downward, #o that §f it does como to report, as well s the resolutions which were ( 1ife §t will scratch deeper; bLurying it out of reported there by Dr, Thomas, wers considered | sight, and handing over the key of the sepulchra very radlcal and” extreme, aud when they wero | to'tho Bsddncees, who say there is no resur- up for discusston Dr. (urley, qui scro calum | rection, [Applause.] I do not think we are macendit, called my attentlon to the fact, and | ready for that yet. asked If the atrong langaage of the report inizht 1 am not golng back on my old friends. If not be modifiel. Dr. Gurley, Dr. Nicholls, of | they count me their cnnm{ becnuse I stand up 8t. Louls, and myself had o private meeting, | for what I have alwaya believed to be the truth, and puflmfld an smendment, which prevalled | § must bear [t. 1 have not oue wordmuru oo, enter into ai latlon with anyhodly, as I sald before, upon an nssumerd ro\m-{ that they aro all right and_you are all wrong, and hold that afMiliation. [Applau The true way, Mr. Moderator, when we have the spirit of love and conclliation in vur hearts, is, as I have aiready sald, Lo just Lury the past, and agreo for the fi- ture upon s ground of reciprocity and equnlity, {Anpluunc.l The last Asscmbly declared that hey were ready to recelvo upoun these grounids man had an excellent memory; he never forgot = anvtling. I bod reat of A botior : meémory than that. [t was the mem- i urg of old Archbllhur Cranmer, of % whom §t was sald, “He never forgot anything but injuries.” [Applause.] Oh, what a memory that must be,~to cherish all that is sweet and cndearing, and to forget tho rest. God In His mercy give us all such memorlcs. ' 10 Increare the autonomy of the missions by nevee | under thn style and name of the Gurley amend- | to whio fa not ready for this fratcrnal relat] [dreat applause.] : f i i T tho | e e D e rensiiay, | Ling 8 grantal monoy Secptat Lhe Fisist of | ment. Wt wna In relation to the civil deliver- | but 14 not bellcye both parties are renly Upon | sitlag ot Sow Daeg st e from the Assombiy e i ated Discussion of the [ frdtothomewho cannol otherwlr b R | f oy o e Miime™ aatly "ia_ sect | Ances of the Old-School Preshyterlan Church, | the principle I have ennunciated, WILY 18 NOT TUAT DELEGATE DERRY BRIEF SPEECIOES. \ Tettor from the Church no cantro] I# 0 nataral and. propor as that of tha | yosr tho . ewimated Wcomo of tho year be | Fhich Were repealed by this United Assembly | Ttold the Chalrmsa of the Committee on | There ia avenerable fatuer belonging to that DR. BAPPORD R Iivider intor threo pactes n 1873 and 1873. "Ilad I heen fn thot | Corrcapondence before he brought in this re. the teachers necded, The teachers shonld be ree- ommended by the PresbyteMen in which they are, and should b commisslaned by the Board, he Report of the Commite | 1o also read the following: Board which suatains the mtrsi . 2 Part first, to cover rian. 3 moved to lay the amendment to the sl South, 1o woald then Facomman thAt tre Tosrd bo al. | a1l fised saiaric at homo and abrond, with home Ammblyt T never would iava yoted for that | pord sl 1 winh to tell him now o the fate of Uiy bl S WEBLITE A fegtes Dt ] lowed {0 austain sach rchéols by the jndgmentof | incidentala; part sccond to he & reserve fund, | repesl. Afinlnusc.] Nuw, we come to this | this Assembly) teen reported through this city—I was confront- Dr. Van Dyke—May I add a word, sirt Dr. Ely—1 ohject. ‘The amendment and substitute wers rend. Mcrfllu!'nlcn lnqlo\:'l“n':’l &‘;L"}"’#?&o" Ilgfln“:n readl 0F parl ] ned 13 o Sait Pheanton. according £ tho wants ani efliclency of the fotion o be further divided by a fasjority vote of ho lene that is sald to have occurred in the pns- | MY OBIECTION TO THS REPORT OF TOB COM- oral letter preparcd, 1 belleve, by Dr. 8tanton, MITTER. the Moderator of the Assembiy of 1864, You | In the first place, {t assumes, n accordance will sen the Importance of my friend Dr. Mar- | with tho utterances of the newspapers, and of ed with It at adinner-tableonly three days ago— that an old man came herc as a delegata from the Bouthern Asseinbly and we would not recelve iTercnt missions, each mission’s 3 " ] Dr. Bafford's motlon to ) o the (eo'De(catetl by a De- In vigw of thess and also of the farthor ‘whld miselon jtrelf to the differcnt pacie of its quis' showing whera this phrase nccurs, and how | private correspondence, and publidutierances }‘el?".hel.\l::c':nl{;l‘;%;r'&‘t'?m:i’th:{ {lltxlxlle 5533: then put and l‘o::? gt L By l;’ftc‘u;mg-lm;ml;g 0 | miscelianeons work. lrtc ;lg;rsllm 1t ll nmunot ram':gl«en. th plfio on %vng ;J! ';uruflogbre{.:lhbffllmn flmgs@‘; avle Dr, Plummer~tod bless Lis white head TNE RAV, MR, WATKINS ee (o re| Ired, That he echi I A, erees nu tenets or ductrines, exce| o e Arsembly at the No 88 done from o] 2 * cisive Vote. the noxt denoral Assemly, s Comliins would plekateed, That an tho change of our Foreltn | that braad dodaration thut thay corsiderc th | Lo the prosens Ume s {nsticere and therefore in | \oipause]—if b had come La s, with papets of | hoped the Asscmbly would bear with Him, for recammend that the Boards bo autnorlzed to ute the aurplus funds contributed for sustentation In such manner as may best promote It without steict withuut papers, and sald, * Drethren, I amn au- thorized to represent the Boutlern Asscrbly in this body,” we would have received him ina very pattial and Inadeqaate represontation of our whole Cliurch in this Sostd, therefore esch Trosbytery bo Instructed ta elect annally and, as fustitutfon of slavery was to be cunterved hy | sufllcient. the Presbyterion Chiureh as one of its corner- Now, slr, in 1830, In a paper drawn up by m: stones, " Now, eir, I had bhoped this | own Band (and, therefore, I know what [t Lo had spent nearly all hislife In the South, where the evil of non-fraternal relations was . | rexardto the conditions heretofore requircd. faran practicable, In rotation onominister and eider with open afms (volcea—** That’s 807) and with | known and realized. Thera was not The Assombly T8 Not Yot Pro He sald thoso conaltions bad sccnmuloted a | (6 represent it lln"l!lllullnnn].nlnd that avery srch l“:'mnbuxg‘d ohinicry” ot s ln&a ?Ilf::ml'n e M 'fx'“".‘}“" to sucan), | unanimous "“g"“”""" And Lis face, a8 ho | moxas, whera hie wes sul‘hmed hnl.cwh-osoml.dnn‘l: parcd to Express Sorrow surpius {n the treasury, and_tha object of thia | reprosentative duly elected. andsiso every foralgn | yuo Urc [ i e 4 | thaugh e PALeTas offered Ly & vencra: | sat ere upan this platform, would hisve been to | werg” fally reprosented hy' the Committea report was to give tho Doard the liberty to use | mismionary wha shall have lahored twenty years | §07 By 88 | 8ol Hheh voted Beny | - thy urch whom "X love and | uy like the facoof an angel, shining a3 the face | *™upq ™ Jeport: Te trusted . that both and Contrition. that fund forsustentation without belng subject | OF maro In the foreign feld, and {s still connceted | for that pastoral letter, that tho octrine that | honor of Muscs shone when he came down from com- by substitute - and amendment would be voted down, and the If it were true that the words ““heresy ' had been used, It was thelr duty to vota for cxpunging them. Tha Methodist with aae Church, be, and_hereby ls, authorlzed to sitend any and every meeting of onr Foreign Bioard, snd aid with volce and vote In all business coming befors it. Mr., Ely moved that the resolutions, together to onerous conditions. If the Assembly should E:l‘l llIu;l |tlxll!, he lesd]nnnumr propsq:)ug&;l tlo ll;'!r B 3 ) Which would leave somo $30, n tho Mil hands of the Board which they could nob touct. 011 Of .the Uommxttee on Lo This proposition was as !ollo\{n the Church shall be organized to conserve tho Dr. Marqals—Will you polnt out any assump- institution of slavery was a hiercay and a blas- | tion of that kind in the report 1 . hemy, and I never will agree to take It back, Dr. Van Dyke—If what wns passed was not Applause.] fnsuflicient, “why pass anything more! The TIE REV. MR, LEWI3 Asscmbly of 180 dculurm{ munion with God in the boly mount. [Ap- Inuse.] And now, sir, 1 pledge myself, if Dr. lummer will come forward and say be is au- thorized to take his sest ns a correspond- Ing ' delegate from the Southern =~ As- that the former ] B with the entire subjoct tmatter, bo Jald uvon the | sald, as be understood it, the Committes of | deliverances of the Astcinblles of which that ; 2 Church North and South had united, the sol- : nge-—.ohmefla Evnngehzu ‘e{";:;‘I'!‘"‘I";,";J;J‘;‘;’:‘g’,-e::e:‘h:q"‘hglrf!:"‘b ect of ana- | table. Lost. ; . Conference which wet the Southern Committes | was the lincal deccndant, of which tha Boutliern :53?35-!.M[Afimml',‘i"’iné‘ffi.‘m22 w:“"m:’g 3"’{{ ‘5‘:‘3 lgugnl. on o p;(muoh-lvlu on bloody i tion Talked Over. {onation i heen efreet g 8, el sommiice | | Me: Moblday moved that they bo retoreed to | ot Ballimuro aplt on tindvery rok ey | brothren complatne. wecfo and are & null a8 | Gpon st sl of pusfeet equmity amd. reck autiefedatint. sot haken bands Bccoas the ' bloody chasm, but had filled that ¢hasm up, and it _cxisted no longer, Why should the Presbvierian Church he so far in the rear of other religlous (the Northern Cominitlee) were required by | vold [ think 1 kuow what “null and vold * them to say the word which would tuke back | means; and I think I know that when that As- oll thoss cxpresslons snd place them in the | sembly soid that, it meant §t. And I carried vory dust, on_their knces, before the Southern | that message—being Lonored with the office of Cnhmmluee. recommend no present action. lAF' —e A PSR nay. uR, sTEWART The Court of Appeals Businesa | sald the original deslgn of the schomo of sus- A Comnnlssiuner muved a8 an amendment thnt they be referred to a specinl comnmittee. Dr. Wilder~And not a member of any Board procity, lnl(lUnfilth:l the reciprocity must not be, like the bhandle of & juz, ail un one side [taughter], and {nasmuch as we have declared our confldence In thelr Christian character and P shall be upon it. [Applause.] Iwouldbeglad | Chirch, making acknoweldgment of pust eln | peacemalier—to the Assembly at Louls- budies and of the mcn who fought in the War) Receives Its Quiotus-+-8us= | chumion Tias o mhomd fihore i or urTc;mwum;mm:!W”'_g 2. I oo eis i they: ittt ey | S, € Thought” 1 waa ' * bocining | Sorscaponoiog delegatsto w1 think wo-had | Eeoromny of en aad soney wenld o efeciad & cted by . Jacobis, e smendment was agreed to, ol tity, And from that hour | olive el of Rreen lcaves, 5 . . tentation Matters, T e g oo wems | The order of tho day—the repnrt of tha Com | o this, T8 The. Asterdittes witon had “fole | the. ona- swhich the Juve brought back | oster let that stand just whero It stands? andy | ““Tho Ktey. Nir. McKniicht ross to make s con 1 it take ten years or twenty years, or {0 m! knowledge of the full establishinent of fraternal relations botween tliese two bocles must Le de- layed until I hear it by some swift incssenger mittes on Theslogical Beminarica—was then taken up, the motlon pending belug to adopt. D MALIN lowed it, the Boutliern Church had thrust this | 1o Noan in the Ark. But when I eatne back thing at them ns o sine qua nong had demand- | the Ieaves of that olive braneh were all ed thnt they should make this unqualified ud- | stripped off§ it was a rod, tho blows of which [ rection. The word uscd was * soundness,” not “formulas.” TIIB REV, MR, DARNES " would not allude to the past, for he didn't So lung os the achemowas worked in accord- suce with these deslyus it worked we Besoluttons Advising the Bonrd of | Under lts first vmrklugfi pastors' sal ries were inc irit | rose to a privileged motion. He moved, as the | mission, but ‘refusing tv make it themeelves, | feit on my back. My judgment then was that Forolgn DMisslons ns to Ties wero focreased, and a “new spinit | Tone lo privlleged tatlon Lo o el o e | i b fesge, the. past. it st | Euls Aeeoinbiy Gazht Josh Lo sind dpon thar | Syming up from fhe couris of e Lurd Jesus | know enumgh sbout it 1o do so. In bis conp- | Its Duth churchies, Now, If this present proposition did | et lomeln time to celebrata the nnniversury of | of reaching out the band to themn whenever | declaration, and asy nothing more, If 1t took | fot it be 0.’ [Applause.] 1t will come some try thoy’ sald, “Let tho dead past bury ite E ueies: Dot Inforfere with tho ywork of Hlome Misslons Ametican indeperlence, tint u.hmmmv - | they stood with thels back Lo the past{ but lo | ten or tweuty sears to vinditate the soundness | (o surely. e wiil bo s grcat many good feadsb TITA Soles FWhem| f8”your- cous ourn ou or beforo the first day of ¥, uglh- . was not ~willing that the Northern Clurch | of that priuciple. I do notbellevein theapplica- shonld alone turn 1ts back to tho past and for- | tion which hus been inadu by somo one of the petthe men who fell In defense of glorlous | poet’sllues that truths, aud thus dishouor thelr graves. [Ap- 4 Never ean true reconcilement grow he had Do objection to It, but at the same tima hie did not want it to Injurc the causa of sus- tentation. 1o hoped ‘tho matter would go Tis MeCane-Wost Caso-—~Spacches, On | ririy before a committee, oa it was left by thio things doue after yon and Iure dead. [Ap- plause and laughter.] ” Mit, MACAULEY offercd the following amendinent to the sul- answer was veturned, and tho_speakes F went on to plead for a reconciliation. Busincss , or. . . ‘Lhie Moderator—The- tnotion will bo recelved an soclalrelations had been re-established, and 2a matter of information. [Renewed lauglter,) e e V' hy should the churches be behindband! He Behalf of the Partiesin Asscmbly in 1874, TUROLOUICAL BEMINARIFS, plause.] Where wonnds of deadly haty stitute: w 5 e Mr. - The Committee announced the following MH. BTEIWART, Have pierced so deep, ™ o was stationed In Knoxvllle, Tenn., where thers Interest. lc.rrcl:lutlrfiz\ bl:lng d:l:r:cll!gdt‘hl? '"&'fl'{fflgfldxfl?u amendinent to tho report, wiich hoa heretofora | of Olilo, was opposed to ¢he adoption of the re- | But I do believe, retbren, that we do not Wurneas, The General Arsemblicn of 2470 and | were three churchies (white), one (lis own) be- 1473 have aolemnly decreea that all the dviiver. ances of the Uencral Assemblles during the War, ro far as they Impeach the Christlan chi ter and doctrinal soundness of the body known as lhedSlml‘?em Presbyterian Church, are null and void; an WiENEAS, Outlast Oeneral Arsembly, reltorat- tog the action of former Asscinblies, declared onr confllence 1n the Christian character and doctrinal soundnvss of the Southern Fresbyterian Church, and onr desfre to enter into fratemal correnpond- ence with them, upon terms of peefect equality and reciprocity, and cordially Invited the Southern “Asnembly to send a correspunding delegate to this Assemblys therefore, pesolred, 1. That, while we are sincerely desr- oua tobe reantted In closer relatlons with tho Drethren from whom we have becn scparated, we donot deem It expedicnt at prescnt to take ny further activn npon the subject, except Lo repent the declaration of the last Assembly, that we are ready cordislly to receive a represuntative from the Southern Church, and to ssnd & delegato to thelr Assembly whenever they may Intimate & wille {:gneu to onter into fratornal relations upon such s, longing to the Northern Church, two to the Bouttiern. Only o few weeksa azo the pastors of thess three churches met 8t the communion-tahle. [Applause.] They were thorouahl, { unlted, without walting for the ; utterances of the Arsembly. Dut the differ . cnca was scen in_small towns of 500 people, where the two Charches Interfered with each. other, Naturally hostility wes developed in theso cascs, Dr. Brigys felt no sorrow fer tho past. They bad a glorfous and uot a sorrowful past, an nelther tho Asseinbly nor its constituency wero willing to own anytling sorrowf{ul It Tho 3 cause of Christ would not be servEd by any . humiliation of the Northern Church. hrosg THE REV, MR MORTON . opposed the substitute, belicving that the time had come for fnal action. The Assembly must say somcthing onc way or another, and, having . E 8ald It, must adbere to it. Let them remember- that they were mnkln¥ bflwry. and making {t rapldly, “The Committce, In using the words “gorrowful Ml\;’ did not refer solely to the Nortbern Church, 88 some brothren scemed: to suppose. Wns mnot the wholo sdb- jeet of dissension and discord - amon, : the churchies o couse © for sorrow ‘The Committee did not propose to take back one word, but wanted to unito with their South- : crn brethren in saying, * We will forget the %nt F and unite.” They took higher ground than had f Leen imputedto them, and he belioved their vlews would meet those of the great heart of A the Presbyterlan Church. It had “been sald that ‘any person who had been on i the floor of "the Southern _Assembly would bave felt that tho re-cstablishment of fraternal relations was an Impossibllity. What s would o Southerner think of the proccedings ! it this bodyl He would think from what had : bcel; done that the Church was llable to be torn £ to places— The Moderator called tho speaker . to onder, \ Nosuch remnrk should have been made, ‘The Itev. Mr. Adams spoke briefly in favor of the subatitute. TI# REY, MR, PORNELL believed this to be the most important question brought bolore the Assembly, Hothought that bodz might, without pride or valuglory, claim that it bad acted for.the best fnterests of tho Church and the glory of the Bavior, Instancing . the case of King Solomon and the two woncn who claimed a child, heargued in favor of giving up to the Southernbretbren, and not dividing the bo-l‘flox Chirist. Born In the Bouth in a elave- holding community, ho was loyal to the Unlon . and the Chureh, ad In the name of the suffer- ing freedmen he nppealed to the Assembly to Jock arms with their Soutbern bruthers, " Ho trusted that both subatitute and amendment ; would be voted down or withdrawn, i IR URV. MIL DASIIEL, another Southern man and a Unlon soldier dar- : -ingr the War, spoke next. Ho should feel falsa ¢ to all that he had sceo in the War and the loyal seutiment of the men who fought In it if the As- been published: The Kev. D, W. Poor, D, D., has reslyned his Professorahip, and tho IFofcssorelips In tho fnatl- tution being recoustrocted, tha ey, Dr, Jumes Eells haa been electod Professor of Sncred Thet. orle, Apologetic and Pastoral Theology. ‘The Rev. Mr. Stewart asked that the Rey, Dr. @regory, o Professor in Lincoln Usiversity, bo beard for ten minutes. ‘The motlun was Just, 'The report was then adopted. The Rev, Mr, McLaln moved that all specchies be lmited to five minutes, and that no delegate should speak wiore thuy once ou any subject. ‘e motlon provailed, and the report of tho Committes in regard to Theolvgical Seminaries was adopted. CIIINESE EVANGELIZATION, TIIR BECOND ONiDER OF TIE DAY, thio reception of th report of the Spoctal Com:, mittecon Chinese Evangelization, was then taken up. Dr. Humphroy, Chairinan of the Commit- toe, prescuted the report. Dr. Hlumphrey declining to make a speech, Dr. Eclls Invited him to the chair and took the platlorm llmself, DR, EELLS satd 1t was his objcet to maka his only specch to tho Assembly on this subject; but ha would not mnako ft. Yet, by way of simming up what he had intended to say, he'would propose two amend- monta to two of tho resolutions, Tl first wns respeeting tho third recommendation. Ho woull suggest, with & view of {ts great Im- portunce, that In some way the ute most efllciency of the churches on tho Pacilc Const be sccured In the prosccution of this work. Instead, therefory, of the Buard of Allrsiona belnr instructed to merely “en- cottrage,’ he would subatitute this: * thasthey co-operate with theso churchics in their efforts.’ In the fourth recommendation, e would movs to amend so that it should read as follows: As soon as possible a Professorship shall bo estahllshed fu tlie 8an Fraucisco Theologieal Seminary for the education of o uative minis- try,? From his experlence on the const, and his personal observation, he realized tho importanco of thess changes, In his own church thers wero 160 Chinamen lu lifs BaLbathi-school. There was o larzo Bible- ‘clusa, fourteen of whose members were mom- bers of the Clutreh, aud four out of which num- ber were abundautly quallfied to be trained for nlsslonaries, Theralore, the signlticunce of the first wnendment—thut the BDourd co-operaty with these churches, Again, they needed some man there acquafuted with the Chincee 1an- 5ungc—n man* whh could supervise the work one by the Church, e hoped, o8 for 88 pos- sible, that tho Buard would co-operate with the churehes. It was frequently the case thut younss nien, often graduates, went to Chino fora while to leurn the lungunge and Lecome acquainted which ind bound and strangled it. 1Cau fntel- I‘I%.vnl comtnittee conld tako hold of it, this .THE PRESBYTERIL ANS. Ifu'll:m would not qulctly pass out of sight. one'f: it would go luto the hauds of such a —— committee, PRELIMINARY BUSINESS, " THE REV. ML, WKINDEN NELIGIOUS RXRRCISXS. :lll‘d lh'nf. Dr. Jucu!l;u‘s dledl wll.llx t‘:m (]olell;:g lthnz The General Assembly was called to orer | ghiihon™ 5", cinice belng appojuted to a:lfir:"flnl:l“g;?!g :\‘: ?l:ccllm‘:‘ "igu 2:?1‘::‘5!'3;‘;‘;: flu to the dolng_away of the presmflm Commits {eRev. Mr. Btuart to lead the devotlonal exer- ¢ses, which were opened with hymn105, tec on Bustentation, “He belloved there was a rrlnr)plu ot stake In the quostion of susleuta- The Rov, Mr. Stuart prayed, and tho Assom- Yy jolned fn slnging hymn 413, fon, They ought tokeep this money, give tho woak churches the best possiblo chance, and not Theleader read from 8t. Johu, fourteenth gspters Jesus salth unto him, Iam the way, the turn 1t over to tho Board of Home Misslons. Io moved, thercfore, that the substiiute bo | iraib, and the Jife. No man cometh unto tho Tatber but by Me. Incorporated [u the report in order to keep this The Rev. Mr. Miller lcad fn prayer, md com- money for tho nurposes for which 1t was de- signed—sustentation. * oeots upon the lesson were ado by several &legates. . THB JUBY. OYRUS DICKINSON, of tho Board of Ilome Missions, sald ho real- ized that some people thought tho Hoard of The business scsslon commenced ot 9:80, The minutes wera read and approved. TID OVERTURE PROM UTAM, Home Missious was not trying to honestly cai out the work to which they were nppointed, Dr. 7. M. Bartlett, for the Commiiteo, aub- witted the following rcport: but o was prc}mred to answer to God that tho Board had carefully endeavored to carry out the worlk that this Asgembly, the Church, and the world had required théem to do, 1f any man knew otherwiso, the Board would bu wlad to hear him, True, this moncy had nmumulnwd‘ Tpon tha overture from the Preabytery of Utah, i the Asrembly instruct the Board of Church Erection to wako exception in canes from Utah wod ew Sicxico In the application of their rules, your Tonmittee offer tha followipg report: Iuasmnch wihe Doard by ita chinrter in restralned from mak- and what the Board asked was that it be lef where It was untll a committee could examine Iz¢sppropriations In auch cascs, and as compliance o reat of ths avoriute, would neccanitata port of the Committee, but was In favor of the | look cnough at the human nature of this thing substitute, The questlon hLad been bhe- ) when we ruppose that wounds ke those lufifete fore the Assembly for the last flve | ed duriug the War can by healed In one decade. years in some form or other, and [ Wearo too bnpaticnt. We had better let it iiever, during all thoss {cnrs, lind tho Presby- | alone. | terlan Chureh In the Sorth presumed to die- 8t the Assembly of 1873, In _Baltfmore, re- tate to their brethren fu the South p|?‘ terms | {térated the saue declaration. Nay wore; add- by which might be cstublished this fraternal | ed to it the readoption of vur old standard, It relatlon so inuch deslred, othier the those upen | reemed to me o strange thing, Under that the broad Lasis of Christian love and forgive- | declaration 1 was appoluted pne of a committee Ness, llw[)- bad alwoys extenzled fo them the | mnd labored seven days in the Conference at haud of feflowalilp, and hie did not believe the | Baltlotore, In that Conference, by the Assembly had ever nsked them to runounce | suthority of the Asseinbly, we declared to the anything sald by thom or their predecessors | Southern Church, first, that all the ncts of the during the wann heat of national or political | Church they complalned of were “null and excitement, On the contrary, the Bouthiern | vold™j second, that weihad entire confidence ln Chureh lhiad not_only refused“every atiempt | thelr éhrlmnn character and soundness tn the of the Church North at reconciliation, but | falths and, third, that we were wiliing to enter hiud been constantly and tenaclously deanding | Into fraternal relations with them on terma of to dictate tho terius upon which the reconcllln- | perfect equality and traternity, not saying tion could be cifected, 1lu did not consider it | nuything about the offcuses we belleved we'had within the province of this Asseinbly to pass up- | agafust them. Bt that Committee demanded on the acts of, or to make any concessions or | atill further that this Assembly should mot only any peknowledgments’ whatever for, any words | nulllfy and make vold this former action, but or expressions that might have been uttered by | that we shoulld declare ourselves | tho Aescmblics of the past. “Ile stoud Ly thie SORRY PO HAVINO TAKEN IT, record of the past. [Applause.] ‘Ilis~ mntter Now, Mr. Moerator, it would not b: very dif- had cost him tnuct, 08 he had led bis men day | fienlt for meto eay **1am sorry.” I wasall the after day and uight after night azainst the enc- [ while. I protested and voted ‘against them. my which caused all this controversy. When | But I have observed this In my fntkroourse with tho brethren of the South were ready to lay | wmen: It fa o very casy thing “to Lo sorry for pside all schlsme, all_prejudice. and were ready | other people's.sins—a very casy thing to be to forget the past and meet them on the broad | Mberal with other people’s money. 1suall not basis of Clirlstian fellowship and love, and ¢x- | enter into the question now whetber it fa com- tend the and of fellowahiy, he was ready to | petent for this Aseenbly to repent for what forgive them and acvopt them. They owed this | some other Asseinbly dids but I” eay that the to thelr constituents, to the coming Assemblles | clatm that, In additfon to “what we and ule]mt Assctublics, nud to the greut bead | huve already sald, thero must bo an ‘of the Church. [Applause.] apology, by this Assembly is not con- DR, EDSON aistent with the digolty of this Court of Jesus said it did not scem to him that any longthy de- | Christ [appluuse); nor conslstent swith the bate was needed on this question. He wos | cquities Involyed in this case; beeause, fu the heartlly In fuvor of adopting the substituto | second placs, the report of this Committce ns- {applaitac]; but there were many on the floor | suincs, In accordunce with what has been o who were ignorant upun the matter, in | smned by our brethren on the other sido of tho 80 far ot least that they bad . had | Jine,—nt’least by a large portion of them—that no participation In the times before the reunion | tho apology s w1l on our alde,—that leem is in theso acts which were every year complained | notblug to'be sorry for on the atlier slde, of by tho brothren in the South, Butthey were 1 am not gofng {0 make a war speech,—if 1 fortunate in having present o gegtleman who | did, it would nut be agreenble to this Assombly, was in most fricnd ?' relatfons “with _thuse | nor, probably, to the uther slde,—uot golng to Southiern brethren, before the War and during | eay aword about what was dong in the War, the War, who was most Tamiliar with this wholo | not going ‘1o stie up bitter things acainst o matter, aud who believed (and he had no donbt | wario-liearted people, or open dcelwr any that the Assembly would concludo) they had | wounds that were piade In that traternal strife} gone- far enough. [.\pplmtw.‘{ The Commis- [ but | want to say, after the War sioncra would bumost respected by others when | waa over, and the provocation was removed, i0 they rospectea themselves. [l;\pplmnc. 1f | there was to be any apology for harsh and un- there were things In the past to be reeatled, for- | gencrous words, tha apolegy was not due from wivey, forgotten, thoy did uot Jle wholly upon | usafter such words were bonestly taken nwn{.‘ one wde-of this great controversy, [Aps [ The Bouthern nerul Assembly put in thls plause.] Those of them who had heard | record—and they stund thers bo this day un- or reml the specch of Dr. Nicholls at | repeated,unreurétied, unapologized for—harsher the Clevelona ~ Assembly would need no | words than any Notthern Asssinbly over uttered intormation to ald them to make it clear thnt | fn «reward to them, |Applausw]” It paius mo HIIIL'()'. in times of excltement, hud gons too | to say this, but itis Qod's trutl, and it ought far, thoy had not been alone; and that the only | to be snown; and Iwant it tobe knowa from DR. PLUMMER. . A WORD FROM BOUTI CAHOLINA. The Rev. It L. Bachman moved that the Rev, Dr. Plummer, of South Carolins, be invited to speak. The motion was carried with hardly n dis- scoting volce, and Dr. Plunnner, an old geatle- man whose venersble bearing inade him an ob- Ject of peculiar fnterest, walked slowly up tho alsle amidst perfect silence in tho house. 1le took bifs stand near oneof the press tables, and, to the fuvitation of the Moderator to go npon the platforn, replied that he could say all he withed to eay, and bo very well hoard, from where ho stood. What he proceeded to say was s followa: [ I wish to say, first of- all, why I am {u Chi- cago. Inm hero entirely on soclal sccounts, and would have been here i this Assembly had met In San Franclsco. I am not bere to do any- thing touching this business or auy other busi- ness exeept to preach Christ's Gospel and to sce tome of my old friends before I o bence. Tho second remark [ wish to make Is, sir, that I ful- 1y and cordlally estimate TUB UMBABKASSING CONDITION 1N WIICI I AM the question and report to the noxt Assembly. . ELDER MOREUEAD #afd he bad heard Dr.Jacobus make his last pub- lic speecn, and lis argument was upon tho great injustico that was doug the cause of sus- tentation. llllfitho speaker) feared this child of the Church fallen Juto unfriendly hands, He boped the muY\:y wottld not Bo translerred to the Board of Homo Missione, but would bo uscd under tho scheme: If tho Board of Homo Missfons were so employed: in other schemes, tet another ono be organized for tho purpuse of administering the funds.* Dr. Bellville offered to 'withdraw the frst pmuosulun. . Objectlon was mado. TItH REV, M1t BHILAND remarked that the reason why tho bretbren had not applied for all was becausc they belleved they could not'got it. Ile had always bLeen in favor of the Board, und believed it could be re- suacitated and placcd upon its feot, and a'sult- abla man ufl. at the head ot it, to f;lvfi his whola attention to it; and then it would go on with enery as well as life, If the pasters woulil bring the matter before tho churches, and only give the peoplo an opportunity to contribute, there would bo an overflowlng troasury. . Dr, McMasters urged .that tho moncy was contributed for a speciflo purpose under cortain terms, and should not bo used for anv other purpose, How could they expoct to hold the confidence of the churches unless they kept foith with them? . DIt DELLVILLY asked the Asscuibly to tuke n vote on the a violation of ita roles, the Comunittes recom- zead that the Assembly decline to fusteact the Baurd ta make tho excepilon, Following la the overtur Wixnsas, In our misslons among tho Mormons, Mexican, and Indians, o point has Leen reache tepond which we, cannot proceed withont the erec- Loz of missfonary premises, Wizeas, Tlhese people cannot comply with the sent conditions of ald from our Board'of Churchh rtetlon, which scqnire pravious church organiza- tooand the payment of {wo-thirds of entlfo cost Bevery canos tho Presbytery of Utah, in session #0gden, Feb, 8, 1877, dues respectfully ovortare teliencral Asscmbly to instruct the Doard of thureh Ercetion to make excuption In cases from l}:,lhlm\ Now Mexico In the application of thelr th THE REV, MR MMILLAN audIn Ut sh and New Mexico there was a largo ppalstion without the Gospel, and they could Dot be reached without places of mecting. The pople were a0 poor that they could do nothing, Ifthere wns an organfzation ho wonld not ask forhelp; but there could beno organization un- 1ll some arrangement was made. 11¢ hoped tho Auembly would let thom have the Gospel. 3ir. Bartlott remarked. that it would bo a vio- Istlon of tho chartey of theBoard tospply money PLACED, 111 wny anything, I say it solely for mysalf, on my own atcount. I am not deputed hcre by anybody, by letter or otherwise, And thirdly, I wish o say that fin my heart 1 do glory in tho truth conveyed to me in his last letter” by one of my ol teachers now n heaven, It was'this: w1 would not give one hour af brotherlwlove fora whole eternity of contention.”” That Is my sentiment. Qod, in Nis mercy, gram that we may all reach that conclusion, bna hour of brotherly Jove is wortha whole cteruity ot with tho - people. Why couldn't they pur- | way for'them to du us Clirlstian wen with warm | Chlcagzo to Nuw Orleaus, and from New York strife and bickering. nfiumu appluuse.) )t v ‘whete the tion did not pay us much a8 thelr cducation in San Franclsco, where | hearta but clcar lieads, was to turn frum the | tu Ban Franclsco. I read from Now, sir, God lu Hls Providence—n Provi | scmbly pusscd tho resolutlons. 1o ministere twlhln;.m HptREy g "::.?mmo“ whlch Joft tho suotay Just whety It ?fl&- conld learn the Chineso luu;.l:m;;u’ Toie past to tho future, nnd to ask lnr;;l.vuuus TUE ACTION OF THE BOUTHEZN ASBEMHLY IN | dence ‘no man on earth claims to undor- | 10 the Une flundredth Pennsylvanis, * tho Ttoundheads,” every man of whom carried & copy of David’s Paalins in his pocket, and ho thought the Assembly would be falsh to the dy- | ing niterauces of these men 1 they passod tho i resolutions, He favored the first substitute. THE BEV. MR M'KINBEN belleved the Assombly bod gone far enough In its utteranees. The reason they wero lundlmi i there wos use they were unwilling to say it \ in such a way as their Southern brethren could understand {t. The Committec did not impugn. the action of former bodies, but expressed thele sorrow for the dilfsreuces fn the without+ blaming any one. Some sald the SBoutherrs brethren had unot done all thoy might; he was not there to defend themn— i But he would not consent to mcasure his mag- nanimity by that of the man opposed to him. Let the Southern Church understand that thefr Nortbern brothren were willlog—nay, snxious— for reconcdllation, M, Purking moved the previous question, but nelther on the ane slde nor the ' other, taking LOUISVILLE Duck not a single word that - aeconled with tha | {n 1870, in response— Judgment of the Chiristinn_patrlotism in those “‘The ltev, Mr, Ely~TIs that a copy of the pro- times of trial. |Aprlmuc.‘] Ko far ns Lo him- | cecdings of the General Assembiyi ecit waa concerued, hie shonld be glad to voto ut Dir. Van Dyke—No: but It is a correct copy, ones upon tha question, when they b hicard o Mr, Ely—{ would like tb know what It [s. word from Dl’.'k'il-ll Dyke. [Applouse] Dr, Vun Dyke—Lrend it as an oillclal docu- THE HEY. A, BHILAND ment—trom” a pamphlet put forth by my- was heartily in fuvor of the substitute, “Faith, | sclf—[laughterj—contuining * all thoss doc- ope, and Charity, but tho greatest of thess s | wments. "1 Wwant to put the faces of Charity.! They fud had some fajth, rome hope, | the cuse befora you s they lle In my and, hie thoughi, o great deal of charity, in this | mind, aud to justify not only In {uurmlnun but watter. As far bickns 1670 they had been | {0 the minds of thoss ou the other side of ths golng to these Bouthern brethren on their | border, wiat they xmfi think to bo perhaps u Kknces, u8 It were, to sccure fraternal rclutions | strunge course. “Wo nlways think a man bas slip. What bod St amounted to 1 14 was high | gotten very wrong when ‘he 18 constralned by timo for them to- assert their self-respect, and | fils conscicnee to take thu opposite slde from he was opposed 1o going oy further, 1he had | us. Thus the Louisville Assuitly of 1870 numle{wr from a brothed, o memberof tha | #ald, in answer to an overture which Hrooklyn Assembly, who was present in the | the Qeneral Assembly In Philadetphia sent to Bouthern Assembly when the resolutions came | them by the hauds of Dr. ockus, Mr, Dodge, up, und he stated fn the lerter that, If this | and myselts stand—has rafsed up Presbyterian Churches North and Bouth. The Boutlicrn Church covers n yvast area of un-uor‘y, and has great nterests of finmnortal souls, 1f has 4,000,000 of peoply who are not dying out, 1t was sald the colored race would dio out. It Is not dying out. The last census showa an Increase for the decade, in- cluding the War, of 10 per ceut. It {6 goliz to lve. We have preat interests there. Weneed help. The Southern Church, throuh its Assembly, has invited ail the world to come and work {n” this field and do zood, Can't we do somethiniz that shall profit this peo- led Can't wel Blr, of getting ob my knees, It lyinig on this floor and allowlng men to trainplo on my body would be the means of saving the soul of one, poor binck man or black woman, wlicts any other course pursued might Jeopa the interuats of the soul, I would llo down on the floor, ‘A}JP]NIIE.] 1 ask, brethren, that you think of this matter, and sce if you can’t do Iolllcllll&k’.' You have done something. God Ingsmuch, howovar, as the whole sabject of sua- tontatlon s beon referred toa spoclal connnit- tee to renort £3 the noxt Genwral Assembly, yonr Committeo would rocummend no preacut action, This, o sald,'was the wish of the Board of Migsions. ‘They did not want to use the money, but the Camnmittes thought 1t was not worih while to loave so largo o sum lying idlc, and that therefora it was better to rolax tho conditions o little; but, under the existing clreumstunces, ho oped tho second proposition would be sdopled, Ir. McKibben sald Dr, Dickson spoke as if reflections had been cast upon the Board of, Hume Missions. e dld not wish his remarls to bo 80 understood, Hu thouuht it was ut- terly impossible for o man to be ou fire on two Aitferent subjocts, It was better on account of tho character of the . schemes that each ono should have a separato uumm{‘ and should bo given over to thoso who loved ¢ especially. 4 Mit, CAMPLELL movod the reforence of the matter to § apeclal Mr, McM{ltan wanted to know where the rem- edywas, Wero thuy, whon they mot these peo- eat the Judgment Day, lo eny, Wo would not give you the Goapul bocauso you wero not Christiana '} Mz, Ogden contonded that the Board could ot doanything whatever, sinco one-third wust becontributed and secured. * Mr. McMiltan wanted “'a Jittle help ” (In no cawe exceeding §500) previous to church organg- nton, They could bo boundto the two-thirds; tbey would mncct that. o report was then adopted, MILEAGE COMMITTER, * Elder Chapin, of tho Committee, submitted o followlng 2 ;g:h);nmzo Commlitteo would respectfully re- Huca Lho Inst meeting of the Assombly, throo vrosceuting the labors of n mlaslunnrlv and where Illcf' vould guln facilities for soclal Inter- courso with the Chiucsal Then, wheu they were ready Lo go to Canton, they would be bete ter prepured for thelr great work amnong the natives, |Arplwnu.1 Dr. Humplhrey sald the smondment met with tho views of the Committee, The report, thus amended, was adopted. I'HE CIIURCIT BOUTII. . AN ANIMATED DIACUBSION, The Rev, Dr. Murquis moved to suspend tho orderof the day and take up the report of the Cotnmitteo on Correspondence, The Moderator remarked, sfter conforring with tho Clerk, that this wus tho third order of the day, and would now be takeh up. DR. MARQUIS, * The Rev: Dr. Marquis—There'fs no necossity Bew Freabyterien have Loen organized, vix. t Balo- itee with a view to such modilc et Auserbly lind witncssea the seeno o witicesed {2 Both the winga of the now united Assembly, | be pralsed for what you hiave duns, witudrew it In_orier to oo that the volo be j mr:’:é:f’ :{,‘:,,‘{,‘:,3"1’;:,,‘“2.,‘:.‘:&’.':,,’:"}:;‘,’;.:‘,:','.’,‘5.‘;;5 ?fil«"éfl.fih"m'.‘ R ‘llk‘h‘ glx‘;”l:nfi‘l‘“wn:“?fi:n‘:rl‘lg for tarther dlscusslon of this question, Tho re- | §ere, not o mun would be in favor of golug any | during theie sepnrato exintonce befors the rusion, BUE CAN'T YOU DO MulE] i 'A‘.".?&‘Ei}"“"r'u‘:f'fi?af;&'b? m‘&“flb&‘figfl:‘} ; hflen aud ulx of freedmen are oxempt from mile-" ;‘l‘“‘l'“ ';‘r"‘"‘l m"}“'“’-" ‘ll"’ “'""k':x‘" “‘l the \;url. :l "“’fi‘":{;’:tlw\»" l{:‘ lnr«:lllm l:.:l‘:;‘lmlyl' Tugtheronivgubijsct. | |Batut appliuse: g!.‘“?é.".' lll’ltcl‘n!':l’:é:cl.fl‘:l‘lt:?::‘t');tl:l:'u':chll‘l;::'l.:‘;llc,: afie,:)?wfifrzfll‘,ul:fln :,‘z;t{rfi:’ ,}."“m"c“fil:‘:{fi order, the time of adjournment bavivg boen . i ument. 8ix Commisio from four | Buanl. 1f the motlon pending was mlopted the | You have all res . You bave stu 3 S——— " ¥ " 3 eslren ch | iached, The Assembly then sdjourned uoil : of ¥reeamen hyesptcrles conteihuted “"fi:"fl]‘i‘i‘,‘t .'f“m‘f.?'.’r'fllfi'“z‘:‘, J‘l"u.m\ll“w yoar, | Lbellove overy man hero ls compotent to ox- DR, VAN DYKE., . feard and which in oue judknjout wore & suilbo- | liave urgod—ono st altmore, ouy ut Pull- | 50T T2 0 ynyniy by the Rov. Dr, Hat- ¢ adelphls, aud ono in New York—that ou should treat them: the way you reated the Givo them funds. Give them m and ask them to employ these means in bulldiug up the cause of Chrlst, and for wvery dollar you expend thero will bo good results,—blessed results, \We honor your migsfonarics and servauts there, Wa love them. Dr. Mattoon was the compan- fon of my own nephew, who_bares m{ own name, ou s mission lu Slam, He wasmy Iriend. ‘Tho books that I have written are class-books in that Institution. Cun't you helpus in this thinz] Buppose, brethren,” by the o of God ?’ou were cunbled to say what will at once forever silence all contest ana bitterness. Cun't you say it{ I would give anything if you could. Am}dp you must {udfu for yourselves We have borders” there, We hiave o'gontlcman here from ‘Tennessee who kuows how all thess things work. Hefson the Committes that re- rted the resolutiona on correspondence, | Ha 1 bow it works, 1 sce a brother hers that lives thirty-slx mlles from e in South Caroll- .na. He knows how it works. CAN'T BOMETHING bE DONE! One bruther says the time is not yet. Mod- erator, did you cver know an old wousd or sn old sore to get well by letting [t alonel It lsn’t done. [ know not what tho voto of this house deld. : AN INTERLUDE, COMMITTERS, 'he afternoon scsslon was opencd with prayet | by the Rev. Dr. Eaton. The Moderator announced the following com- | mittees: Committee of Nine, called for by the report on work among tho Germans: The Rey, Charles E. Kuox, D, D.{ the Rev, Robert R. Buoth, D. .3 the Rev, Samuel C. Logan, D, D.; thoRev, / Arthur Mitchell, D. D.; the Rav, Jacob Conzett; Elders Lewls E. Jackson, New York; Jobn H, Alwood, Phlladelphia; Darwin G, Jones, Brook- lyni M. 1. Beach, Dubuque. Comumittee of Five, called forbyreport of work smong Germans on Printiug, otcs The Ray, Chuiles A, Smith, D, D.; tho Rev. D. W, Poar, D. D.i the Rev. G. C, Belbert, Phe D, the " Rev, O. A, Lriggs, D, D.j the Hev. Joun rrity. ;. Com’mmen on Bustentatlon, callod for bg the report of the Btandimg Conimittes on Church Yaliy, torey the next (eneral Assembly were sppolul The Rev, H, J. Van Dyke, D, press his opinton on it now by & vote without any fartherdiscussfon [applausc], without ar- gument, and all that this Committee asks is that you shall ‘come squarely to the question and vote now upon these propositions, We be- llove In saylng Just whot wo wcan, and In meaning Just what we soy, and wo bellovo that this General Assombly wil come up to this questlon ke men, and say what you think, and think only what you n{. 1 have no wish to discuas the ucstion. Idon't wunt to go fnto tho past. [ ou't wnm.whrluf ft ur belore thia body, and, allow e to eay, I wonld deprecate that any one beforu this” body should o back and rake up the history of the past, Wo havo come to you with shinply what we fotend 83 un vxpres- slon of your opiiion and feclings in this mnat- ter, 4fthis is your opiniun, if this is your fecl- jugz Iu this matter today, then voto to adopt this report, and fraternal relations are at unce restored, 3f that is not your opluion, if that 13 nat your fecliug, thon ~say it out openly and squarely ke mon, and fraternat relutlons aro butied,” 1 have nothing more to say unless tliera should bo discussion. Ar. Harnes colled for Y reading of tho reso- WIIY 1LE OPPOMES TIB REPORT, Lord and 1lead, Wa ballove it to be rolely lucum- 5 bent wpon the Nortbora Prosbyleriau Church, wot The Rev, Dr. Vau Dyku thou uddressed tho [ Wk o0 e NI ™ it AIGEe "t Chlatiin Asscibly as follows: world, and before oar Divine Master aud King, 1o Mn, Mopeuaton: I would gladly bo ex- | wureitself of this error, snd’by publie procldins- ject; and §f 1 thought it wero conslstont o z.}u{;u.l lnc:lemzll flf hw‘wch lmulsnu&mran with honor, sud truth, and fidelity to this | Lrcsbyterian Churel, which hes Siesiy sofere tho fnde Assembly and to God I would kecp silent. But ::‘n:‘l:“"r: TR O TR g :,',',wn;fifl 1 hope God will keep me (rom saying anything | earth, fe stalned to bear public testimony alu " ~ | ugainat thie defection of our late asroclates in the of which I shall bo ashamed at the judgment- | JELME S8 CURIECER G RTR S0 curreepondenca svat of Christ when Imect both thls Assembly | cven, consentto biant the edis of thisoar tostie and the other Assembly concerning which wo | mony concerning the very nature and mission of aro deliberating. the Church, ss w purely spintual body amonyg ‘ I'have heard of acertain old lady, who was U e uniun uow consummated between tho doubtless a descondant of tho Wiss woman of | Oldand New Awsubtics North wss accomplishs Vhich, A 5 e Tokon, o said that thero wera oo thivga | 53 Hepote ek, 5ot Judenenl,latehd fn thls world that groatly surprised hor, :”l the Fhumh for ‘lhu f:;udlmcu)fiul d?:‘ The first is, Why the foolish men will go to war | triues "' grace At u . fimyl when 0 truth snd h th and kil eath othier Whon, 8 they would only | HSO, °'rl U S0 ASScehuly iands ot oces: stay at home, they would dfo soon enough. The | sity upon an slluwed latitude of juterprotation of sccond ls, Why tho foollsh boys will knock down | $he slandards, snd must come at length 1o embraca ly all shages of doctrinal bellef, 0! thoso fall- green upples when, 32 they would ouly let thew | a0, b o fhor” wauid, 1ol Thcumsctvea? and the o vt 1 Trom v B an b o 1 : thio' thind 1s, Why thio foollsh sounse' men witl | Fouerations atter au, - It would bo a serlous coiae o BT, 50, and .Bouth Uregon Areossod 8 15,45, have no Commissioners, and have not pala Lhels nents, Al tho other 150 Preabyterios eir savensinenta fn full. The result 1y nore injurlous to the cause than a diversion of the funds. £f loft as they were, they would be uprraprlnml to every upplication that cumo within the terms. Very likuly next ycar thero wonld he nu balance. Mr. Hotchkin moved to lay tho substituto on tho table. Agreed to, ‘The sccond substitute of the Committce was sgreed to, and tho report thus smonded was joptod. HEIXCTED OVERTULNS. Dr, Hatfleld submitted the following raports Tho overturs on reduced ropresentation sent down by the General Awscinbly of 1870, No, 11 (Minutes, p, 60), hos bem; answered as follows: (Thwa foilowa a complets 1lat of the Prosbyierlca vutiug In the allrmative and negative.) Thero ars 41 in tno afirmativa snd 101 fu the negativej no action, B3 noO report, 8, ¥ Tlie overtura on roduced representation sent Lo Qenygal Assembly for 1870, No. 3 P. 7), has been suswered as (ollowe flrmative, 14; nezatlve, U1; noaction, 0, * Tho report was ordercd to be recorded. TIIE FORBIGN BOARD, LIMITING 1T8 POWERS. The Rev, Mr. Wilder, of Indls, offered tho b u Tola amonnt et Tatal ,, TA CommiTefonens, «vs sos $amped etiocks and stationery. Leaving o balance of, We huvo hud 503 Comi ners present, mi le the avorayo draft $41.58 per mewber, and 031 mors than In 1871, ‘(Ifll Wworthy of special commondation that tho cv" Tinbert8, McCarthy, of tho Presbertery of San o rancisco, who woss Commimoner at the b Asscnbly, and:drew 8106 for his return ex- peases, nfter docidlng nat o retarn, refundod the They o our Troasurer, of '!,l;"l r_le;byury of Chicago pald thoir asscesment 15 viéw of the large ex ponses jucurred by the eit- :’,"“ of Chicayo T caring foF 156 Auoglbly. wo ;‘:m followling resolutiona: tolzed, That the Mlleaf be an- Wharlzed 10 pay 8301, 76 to ‘:.tha.:z:mim-‘:’ of tho Committes of rr&ngemnu o, B - ¢ Katotead, That tho Mileage Committes bo anil run so eagerly after the girls when, If thoy pnmmnoll ;hh wacred trust to enter into public By ate’ tuisciy Seans Committen oY | * eolent, That our Forolgn Deard be fnstructed 1atiun tn ctio ruport; dnd oy, Werb scait by, Dr.. | would only stay at bome nod mind thelr own | und otieis! fellowsiilp with those repudiatiug thosa | ehull be, but onw thing s certatn: Jesus Chrlst | 55 D000 50 mag M, Crowell, D, D, + the Rev. % i arquls, o ¢ 2 ¢ ¢ eatly he 4 or 2 h v v By e e raialag o Thotr | b0/ ettt ety oF ooeh SEce aistmety o ans | % g v, sep, pawTiATE business, Wi Girle would como aticr them, | Ltkiugulcesaud o o, wie cxpresty, upun e | wil thie day bo crently benoted, o (hOnted | gadonelvi, D D.; Eilars W W, Weeks Lauglter.] Idonot indorso all these Ernposl- ground, a8 yy his Lody must ju hether vonl | Beforo st * it i teruus of reunlon between the Ly this Lody, awd this body st Judgs wheth its action is fo ‘honor or diskonor the Savior; Villiais, y 100 ; : ad Tleory W, liined, That horesticr Proabyterioe baving | Su1d Hospd o o o suamabreport of 19 | moved to nmend the roport so 0 to mako I | tious, especially tho Inbers which [ bl sud Heory We ¥ o or muoans, oard, two Lrauchew of the Fresbyterian Church at thu be very ungaliant on the part of the wen, But | 3o not I, o N . from seneomposed of Indlan members be exewpl Jtcaoleed, That our Foroign Board bo instructed ‘Slncece ragrel ibak INGI4 svoEwere licaniatapein S aors il principle Of this wise woman, | Noril, now bappily cousumuited, preecut an | POl loper gung I wish to say, aud Afr. Hotchikin offered the following: e e aasetsant for Mlleago Mand | Siany enbiocs: they shod ropars dineety to e | Which In L Shtnc b auy Gonerel Astisuty of | tiapd e o DrootP " | oS aa Cosovporadence profe e tiat o Abis cbody ! will | WhekEA Tho BUS SSOR M e creparas found s corrospundence proft ‘WELL NOT TO GRASP H:IXNLQ! DEFOnN TUEY ARE | |y upou this fdca would bo to ludorse thut Ve Thotooghly disapprove. Aud 1 honestly believe, after seven yoara®' ex- Now, Mr. Moderator, hero the very dilemina perience on this eubject of fratcrual’relations, | lea o my mind. 1 it 18 truo in 1870 that the that this1s just what this Assembly has been | Northorn Presbyterian Church “bas taken the dolug; sud, lodn{, ufter louldn;i back overa | crown from the Lead of Jesus Christ aud re- great deal of publlc and private Tabor in refor- | pudisted all our doctrinal staudards and united ence to tuls matter, the seuthnent and the | with tho New Hchool upun the allowed opiufon of my head and Leart are just this: The | adinlssion of all doctrinal urrors, then these time of figs £3 nut yet. brethiren ow it to themacives wod to God not Now, 'l , there 13 noman fo this Assembly, | to heve any correspondeucs with us. I for Assembly has by resolutlon tequested the prepara tion of a roll of sll the Elders of churches con- nected with our Assembly, and bas reguested tho Btated Clerk of each Fresbytery to forward tho names lu s Preabytory to E.°Q. Woodw: 1 Trensurer of our Hoard of Education, 8 183t . Chestnut street, l’hll.ldel?hl:i who hes voluateored to uudertake the labor of ing such roll; Jicaolsed, That thls Alumb)! cordially § d ciion, apd requcsts the Btated Clerks of tha sbyterice and the Clerks of the Bessione of tha_. Churchee to asslet the eforts by sending the need. ed juformation ss soun as convealcat. that wil cundidly, [ have uo doubt, vole ns l{ has dous bitherta,~candidly voto what it wiskes to say. 1t will be nu\lcui&od, It will be understood. It will be settled. 1 would love to sce the bine drunce removed lo my tine, but there will bo s great mauy good things after my head [iwn duwn to the grave, and if Gud denfes mo that FH flege, bu ft so. Cau't you do It} There f deal w‘}m be'ive cents per capita. Ari,'“‘u“ moved to adopt the report, « Jaat o iulssioner moved to striky out in_ the Jesolution the words * under the care of ¢ Forelgn Board." Carried. :1‘0 report thus amended was adopted, P lhmsu THE NARNATIVE OF RELIGION. - ¢ Rev. Dr, Rockwell offered the following, lmI("' adoupted: 0lced, That the pastors of charches be Founiended to rend 10 (ol c';:zmnn»n? tho ‘whaah l\jl‘: fir&u{?l [0} “?'1‘"“3"{' ohnuld‘:lnfln 0 bavo juy 8 o terms schlvw, Hereay, and blsaphomy. | = 0t i SUBATITUTA, ‘The Rev. Dr, Robluson offered the following substituto for the entire report s Ioasuiuch a4 the lotter from the General Assem- bly ho Presbyterisn Church, rocently holdiog u 8 1o thy City of New Orleans, presonts 1o suzgestlon uot couilderod by provious General Avacmblioa of mlfiud{. and makes no advanco to- ward (he attaluwgl of fraterual relations between eral Assoubly, and not publish the sald report in connection with tuelr aupusl report, or send it abroad {0 tha forelyn missloustics before 1t le sub- witted to Ueneral lllfll\l{. Jiesoleed, ''hat minutes of tho 404), nawely: Around the Worla'] Involved mo expenditure to tho current Income of thu Hoard,™ i s mistake, which wo regret, aud we onjoin it upon our For- clgn Board to guard agalnstsuch wmistukes §o fur ture.. Jesoloed, That it 1s not competeut for our For vl n’|t & lan lu the Southern couutry that docsn't re FRATERNAL RELATIONS ON TERM3 KQUAL AND i e e aImlive of the 8'ate of rellgich as woon B it is wo bodits. and indicatus no disposition tu for- | of auywhire on the faco of this coutinent, | ono do not want thew to come together, Ibe- HONOUALLYE. fuceived In the printed miutcs. Kien Hosed W Summi it pewer, Uapardal P o] pass it over, Upon conditions | that 1 ore auxlous, nob tasrely for | Nove they are sound, and do ot want them to | [Applause.] There lsu't a man tn the Soutbern n "'c';’;'g‘,fi;, ON BENEVOLNNCE. Em——— Sevolved. SEias 1t e aot competont tof ous For. | Jwpracticable for the Asseubly : thurefore, the outward show tratcroal relution, | bu contatninated with such u body. [Laugh- | country that wislies this body to bumble ftselt, | The Ry, Mr, Findley, Chalrman of the Coms BUSTENTATION, elgn Board {o comumit fuportant business, with esolved, Thot o furtber action of this Assem- | but for the ftself, than 1 ]ter] But i It ia not truo that tho | to abase itsclf before snybody. But this 13 | 1is00 on Beuevolence, submitted tho following THE AMBNDED UBFOKT, | power, to any membcre uf thelr body less than |-DIY I8 catled for ju thls matter. aw, But when frater Tatious come In thelr | Assembly to which [ belung, to which I was | true: if Inave sald, Modcrutor, that you 8§ ronspy, i 3 The Rev, D i thelr constitutional legal quorum., © b Rev, Dr. Malin moved to lay Dr. Robli | outward aud formal establiahment, If vou want | loyal durtug all the deeadful doys of the War, | not & geotlewan, It is due to me—lt by mors dug | "o B ) itteq on Benevolenco begs lears to Home Mt v. Bellville, of tue Committeo on | * Zesolied, ‘That it was not compotentfor our ¥or- | sou's substitute b tha table. thew to bo & reality aud not @ sbuin, they must | even when I was hissed froin the platform of | to mo than it s fo you—that I should sap, L | 2y POCRIGY 000, & 4 6 Misslons, anpounced that he was ready | elin to sppoint & third Secretary, or any ad- |- . MacMastor soconded the substitute. o based upon the’ principlo of perféct equality | the Assciubly fn 1560, if 1t be not true that tha | ought oy to have used those words.” IA Tho work of your Commitics has been seriously 3 0 wake the lust part of the report ou Home ulu-;n:} xnmlglriu, without frst s leave of ‘The motion to lsy on the tablo wus lost, und reciproclty. (‘\l’,fl“"“'] You cannof unite | Asscwbly ¢ bas taken the crown from the bead | pluuse.] We ask no regrets i tho scusa of ro- | embarrassed by the uncertainty of the futare ace P ous, 50 adopted as fo mect the require- “fi'fam.:'."’?’u(im nol competent for oar Far- | 106 Hev. r. McKnight Inquired of Dr. Mar- | fu the conjugud relation, or in any form of ec- | of Jesus. Cbrist, and repudluted ail the doc- | peutauce. Nobody asks it. Theio dsu’t 8 wau | o of tun Asuimbly tuching the continuance of i quls who had dsed the words ‘‘scolsm, heresy, aud blasphcwy.” Dr. Marquis—I have pover beon accust omed to reading up tho history of coutruversics, All ulin Board to scnd 8 deputstion to our Fore l‘llz'nlam ithoutTeave dral ooalaed of Constl sembly. Itualuysl. That it 1a not proper for our Porelgn' f.5uta of the actlon taken the other day on the tpurt of the report. < g Dr. Marquts sald bo made tho motion to dl- clesiastical murflnfi- lwnfintlw, oue uf which | trines of gruce,” then, I say, wben these sssuwes to be all 1:] , while the uther 18 beld | brethren coine bere demsoding of us that we to be all-wicked, and “haye s harmonfous uulou. | stull apologixs to thew for all these hard words n the Boutl that would esteein -nK man Imorg 1t o wery to humniliate bimself, That fs not it. But, sir, i Dr. Dickson bad eald of the 3od- erator somethiog uphiandsome, I might truly the Commitice of the Synods un Bensyolence. 16 14 fwpossibly to wake apy Tecommendation as to the ways and weaus of carrying on the benavolent work of the Chusch, unlees that recommendstion It caunot be dove. agalust thew, It would becows them b 5 &v ‘:h: :llher day, and alt but the sustentation k‘“;’“‘“ flman ulllrlu ulblit; oMcors withous | I knowdh m:{un: wuh :I in 'i:"", hli‘dlhzfin:m i Thy g:nu‘i’ul Assembly of last year, in Brook. A 'rlo uu]m' SOME LITILS APOLOUT TO US. Hy 'i;’k dg ‘lfi;lk:ul;. ““ Enfl""t J‘u‘:y dm‘rk "’K.".{'.':':‘..'fif.‘%."’"" plan sdopied and sustaised by ; bu rat consulting Uenoral Asseibly. :| respondence that such and such thin cen | lyu, uttcre pplause. 7. Dicksou, you 18 out 1 ea adopted. Zasolved, That the amount psid by our Forelyn| puld, and by the Committes of mlgr'Auombl x’ul' PRINCIVLE WHICH I HAVM CONTENDED YOR NEw. s8lr, for the last reason, for I must not * Thucomuiinge 1 the Sytols nes. Sliconissed i l“br. Bellyille said ho would only read the por- u::d.l to sustontation with such amendments, 5 lh‘l&:: A:udu.' &h ten read fhe following: 0as of Homu-Mlusls = eacy bas aclech calllng for & Shatsy of seiion on Moderator.” "I rvfrut it. 1don't sepeut ol it. Cun’t you say that! Ona thing i3 elears 1f thy reevlutions reported by your Comuities are nee Jucted, it will be understood overywhere, North uud South, aud ft will by & tuallty ou this whale from further actlon, bec: they koow nub \I&lel&lrt:l‘f! ¥hall conl::ua o existcuce to reader effective Lo weasurya Lhey may propose, Your Committee lhut\'iu’n xc,cgwm:nfl thst the Asscmbly take up sud decide upon tho evport of he Special Cowmiites 00 the subject kmmedialely. Board ta each mlsslonary not in sctive duty ju bis! mlsslon field bo clearly” stated 1o covnection with! tho uame In each annyaloport. f Jtesgived, 'That ourilorelgu Board, not being an ecclealastical bo-l{‘ bo fnatrucked Lo Fucall nw wls- Gr fu tha®dame corrcspondeiice was acknowledge aud §s thero to be found in the records of past Geueral Asacmblies, I think, They are to bo found {n's pustorul ‘letier adopted by th Old Behool Generul Assernbly fu 1608, from the l.«cglnnlui,—lhai when this fraternal | dotaln this Aesembly, Icannot lo my heart sp- relation 1a estublislicd it wust by as between | prove of the spheit in which this demand for the two fadependent bodics recogulziog the Churcli, | expression uf regret. tuntaimount to un avoloyry stato and Christlan dmrukuu:l sad doctrines and | Ly iuade upon this Asscubly. 1 do not think i % taudards of each other, and buryiug the past | s the true principle upon which any recouclllas | subjuet. ¢ = % 2801 thy Hoatd (1 the paculiac aate of somsty, | Saosbssion of bis Veoens ey, T out the ey y i y 3 e ; card lon day bet Mr. Fiualoy said the repart of the Comutteo ' L i ey, ¥ ME. N'KNIONT. upplause] {0 @ grave so devp that cven the bits | tlon can bo elfected. It smacks of honor, but not Now, sir, I b & conversstion day before Fiualoy 1 Te of the Cow ‘K- Territories of Utal Now Mezlco, lmd Resolved, That ur Eq:mflxwd bu instructoed Mr, McKuight—1 happenod 0 boa mewber l«:?«:;t WeWory cauney mcu"u'. burying Lt with | the honor un: cowmell from sboye. You caluot )‘cucxdu about Wwemories, Boino one sald that | on Bynods was about ready, aud ss svun a3 LUis