Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-06-02
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RELIGIOUS TNrELL1GENoE.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
(OLD sCunoI.)

(oLD scunoLA)
EicseHth Day IHedneslGy.
The Assembly convened at O'Clock, tliiS
morning.
Rev. Dr. Rice read thu final report. of the
committee on bills and oTc;tures.
Overture No. IL was from the trustees ofthe
Westminster Presbyterian church, asking the
trustees of the General Assembly to make over
to them by deed, whatever legal title the Assem-
bly, may have il the property of sail church.
The committee recommend the granting the
petition, aGd this course was adopted.
Rev. Mr. Cater calledup overture No ., from
the synod of South Carolina, rs to closer u
MON with the Associate Reformed church.
The Committee recommended
| !. To open flaternal correspondence with
the Associate Reformed Church of the South, on
the same terms US with other Evangelical denom-
nations.
.. That the Assembly appoint n committee TO
confer with similar committee to be appointed
by that body, with reference to closer union
between the two bodies.
The recommendations of the committee were
adopted
The committee recommended the following
resolutions
j. That the right to vote for ruling elders, he
longs exclusively to the communicating mem
bers of the church.
q That as the pastor snstains the relation OF
a teacher to all those who attend upon his min
istry, there is no ilnpropriety in conceding the
privilege of voting for him, to all the supporters
of his ministry, provided that no communicating
members, whether contributors or not, be de-
barred from voting.
That those who are members of the Church,
by virtue of baptism in infancy, but who have
never made profession of their faith in Christ,
sustain relation to it analogous to that of mi
nOrS to the State, and cIn more on the ground
of their menbersl p claim right to vote for its
officers than minO.' eIn claim the right to vote
for civil rulers
Judge Fine wished that the Assembly would
pass these resolutions and thus decide this mat
ter, which had been more or less before the As
sembly for twenty-one years. He hoped it
would not be postponed.
Rev. Mr.. Cater wished that as there was not
time now to examine the subject fully at this
latsPeriod the session, its should
be postponed
Rev. DR.. Juntin thought that if the report
was amended it would meet with unanimous APP
prevail He was opposed to poStponing, in or
der that it might be amended and passed now.
On motion, the whole subject was laid upon
the table.
The judicial committee reported that case No.
2 had come up in n new form, and was in order
as acompiaint of the Rev. Mr.. Cross against the
action of the synod of Baltimore, in themattcr OF
the settlement of Rev. \. G. Burt The case
embraces three points.
! The committee recommend that the first p int
be dismissed The other two are ready for atlju-
dication. The report was accepted and the case
put upon the docket.
The report on systematic benevolence was ta-
ken up and read. After stating that the duty of
giving systematically has begun to find favor
with the churches, it recommends the following
resolutions:
l. That all pastors and stated supplies be
earnestly requested to give opportunityto all the
the churches to contribute to the Boards of the
Church, and keep the duty of systematic libe-
Iality before them.
! 2. That Presbyteries be charged to sec that
the same opportunity be given to all vacant
Echnrchcs.
8. That the action of Presbyterics be report
cd to the next General Assembly.
The report was adopted.
EVENING SESSION.
The report of the Synod Of Arkansas, for the
past three years, was read and approved, with
the exception Of the proceedings in 1855, which
I! were declared void.
| The Judicial committee reported in favor Of
iismiSsing the complaint of the Rev. j. Cross
against the Synod of Baltimore. The report
vas adopted.
The committee on Foreign Correspondence
reported in favor Of appointing a delegate to
visit the churches in France, Belgium, among
tue Waldenses, &c, &c, to commune with them
and participate in their anniversaries The re-
sort was adopted, and Rev. DR.. o. W. Alexander,
and the Rev. DIR. Kreb as alternate.
The report the Synod of Ohio was received
and adopted.
No other business befag before the Assem-
1lY, the minutes of the meeting were read and
/ The Assembly then adjourned to meet at
lexington, KY, next year. Alter singing the
list hymn, the Assembly was dismissed with
nc benedictiOn.
GExERAL CoxgERExcE or THE METHODIST Rris-
corAI CHuRca At INDIASAPoLIs.--Itt tuesday, Nay
4 ;s-At half.past ., the regular order, (the ala.
5ery report was resumed, and John A. Collins
.lok tho platform.
4 he referred fiPst to tho laws Of the Jews on
I thtssulis1l but said they were not applicable
u, because of the difference of the govern
nlcnts. The Jews were uudcr ThoOcTncy-