New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-22
THE ANNIVERSARIES.
PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY-OLD
SCHOOL. EuIU DAY.

StHOOL...-tH1H DA1.
The Assembly met and opened their session as usual
The Rev. DR.. ROGERS, of the Committee on the
Fund for Disabled and the Families of Deceased Min
isters presented report advocating an adequate pro-
vision Tor them, the ground of justice minister
generally expended 50 600 in his educatiOn-and this
amounted among the 20 200 ministers of the denomin4-
tion To "a 400 900. This sum if invested IN the oril
nary business OF life, would make all independent;
and the life and emoluments of the minister did not
allow him TO lay by anything for the benefit OF his
family, il but just that the Church should make
| some provision for him. The report closes with
series of resolutions calling for funds and appointing
Committee TO correspond with the Phlafelpna Cor
poration for the relief of families of ministers, with
view 10 induce them 20 TO modify their plan OF opera
tjons as to make their fund the nucleus of suitable
| fund for the relief Of such persons.
The report made the second order OF the day tor
to-day, ard
The Rev. B. G. NoRTHRrP of the General Associa-
tion of Massachusetts addressed the assembly, pre-.
senting Christian Sanitation. They had an army OF
O43 undergraduates of their colleges, and had been
favored with revvals of religion, wlfhln the last year
especially in their colleges and their academles lie
noticed the movement of Mr.. Huntington Pumner,
Professor in Harvard College, who acknowledged, he
said the Eternal Sonship of God in his Review, and
ayowed his disike of the Unitarian. he cause
of Temperance received their attention. and the Maine
Law was executed in the towns aud villages On the
subject Of Slavery, while they did not agree WIN
those who made mock.humaIlty their only rehgion,
they felt strongly interested that slavery SHOULD De eA
tended no further and that ii should be ultimately re-
moved. go
The MoDrRAToR replied briefly, but without men,
The Rev. M. M,LrBr, delegate from the Maine
General Conference after the ususl salutaons, read
a statement of the condition OF Presbyteranlsm IN
Maine. They had II 600 members and 235 chutche',
with Il 600 Sabbath-scbool scholars Ihey had nope
for Temperance, though the revusion had now co1le
on mistake had been made in biterlng their votes
tor pledges. They now beginning to ask at tue
polls not for the candidates pledges but for the can
ddates character AT the rate OF Their beneyolence
bia Agaa mbly Inlr
ceiye 100000 for that purpose Az TO Slavery, they,
in Maine, had one deep ana abiding convection Ihey
body when they said that. referring not to families,
but 10 the system whole, they felt that the calm
est wisdom Of the ministry should be directed against
it. Ii seemed to them q responsible and yet very
difficult work giving rise TO practical questions OF the
very grayest character; they deprecated the un-
soeIny demonstrations of heat to which it sometimes
gave rse and regretted the Affections to which they
h8o been subjected on that account.
The MoDTRAToR, who is fom Virginia. replied. Ia
regard TO Slavery he said: We find no fault with you
f"i being Anti-Slavery; that il what We expect. AL
that we ask i fotbearabce. We know the evils of
better than you DO and grapple with it better
than you do Here would like to say that never
heard woman, through all the Southern States,
speak of Slavery but that they acknowledged to be
an evil until the Abolition excitement, end 1t was
matter great astonishment to us there as to you
here to hear say that il was the perfection of
Christian salvation.
TIE order Of the day up, and the Secretary of
gave q sketch of the report: New books published,
6 tracts 90 total publications pew and old, 5e625o
copies There a general feeling OF dissatisfaction
with the religious publications Of former years They
wanted histories Of the Church. biographies of eminent
and of the Saints reproduced in popular way
I'd to elucdste the operations of the doctrines
/ Ight by the Church. More than one manuscript
from female pen wac To be published, and he called
Pr,sby terian ladies to be in this way beneactos to
their race. He regretted that only one copy Of The
Home and Fcr'igH Record was taken by every. thir
teen cOmmunicants. Twenty eight hundred copies of
this journal issued gratis to ministers, and the
journal was carried on at loss of 500 year. The
Sabbath School TtsitOr had circulation Of $1,000
an increase of 1000 over last year. The number of
culpor. urs had been $50. The tracts Of the Board
Were now carried into Oregon, California, Minnesota,
kGn-as ard Nebraska. The number OF volumes sold
bv colpOrteus was $4,000: - 600 were given away.
They had distributed l05l O06 pag-s OF tracts. Tne
colpoteurs had increased in efficiency as well as in
numbers. They hoped that more theological students
would become colpOiteur-. An affecting appeal for
funds followed. The Board Tepudates the contract
system Of getting their books printed. The resources
# the treasury have been increased during the year
past without The employment of PAID agenie. There
have been sold within the eleven months preceding
March l, ls56, 291 900 volumes; given away, 1900.
TIE receipts for the prIiod sos i96 and the
balance in the treasury IL Sl5 J3i. Balance against
the CUlpOrtage Fund, s2 $50.
Tie Kew s,NUEL j. BAIRD followed with few
nmaiks on the transitional state of affair IN the
void and the iTnmOyab.e conservatism of the Presby
tean church. III. stated that il had larger prOpJr
ton Oi centat, and graduates than any other church
IL Il United States. He alluded 10 the Woldenses,
and gave description OF his meeting with an assem-
bege OF them.
The Rev. Mr.. PHrLPs introduced a resolution IL
ctibg the Board OF Publication to publish the Con-
i,s.0h Of Faith in Ge and English. lie presented
tie Board with German translation of the Confession
OF Faith, executed on the western bank Of tue Ms
sissIpi. He coutendC that II would not cost much
and would BE- productive Of much good among the
German population in Wisconsin aud Iowa well
az elsewhere.
Committee on Arrangements that they had made ar
ben Of the Assembly and their friends, to limited
ext, II. for rip to the institutions the islands and
down the Bay. a. far time would allow. The
steamer would leave the foot Of Tenth street At
on Saturday anu would take Fix hundred OF the
bers of tins Assembly and their friends. This
IaI cement would include temperate collation.
board the vessel. Thc New School Assembly woald
be Of the party.
After recess Of half en- ko1r the Committee on
Synrdical Rt cors mace their report, and tie records
Of TIE several SynOds were succ. s-ivey adop5e,i.
Several exceptions were taken by the Committee to
the rccoIts of the Synod of Baltimore on technical
points Of ecclesiastical order, but they ken
cat by the Assembly after -hcIt debates. The records
OF tt' SYNOD Of Pittsburgh we're approved, with the
exception that they were not brought ia last year.
lhose OF Nsw-Jersey and Philadelphia we're post.
p'hed untu the decision of cass-s now pending. To
mat Of So,fbtrn In,lana the same execution was
tsk.L a. to the records Ptt.burhg and as that from
ibe TecCris that SyIcd allowed 10 Il. with them AZ