Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-05-20
ASSEMBLY.

The proceedings of the Presbyterian General
Assembly, in session in New Orleans, have not
come to hand in 8 shape to enable US to make out
a connected statement. The subject most interest
ing to our readers-the contemplated union with
the Associate Reformed Church-was introduced
by the representative Of t at church, from our
State, Rev. J. W. YouNa. A despatch says:
'In ON eloquent and feeling manner he present
ed the greeting and congratulations of the synod
and its present condition. The moderator OF the
assembly answered the representative OF the syn
cd, and welcomed him to o seat in.the body.
."The report of the committee appointed by o
previous assembly to conduct q correspondence on
the subject of union between the General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian Church and the Synod of
the Associate Reformed Church Of the South was
read. This correspondent suggested two import
ant difficulties in the way of union, the difference
of the two bodies on the subject Of psalmody and
INSTRUMENTATION. A motion was made to con-
tinue the Committee of Correspondence, which
was afterwards amended by one discharglng the
committee from further consideration Of the sub.
ject, and the REIMBURSEMENT of measures for union
on account of inherent difficulties in the way.
CDR. Breckenridge made an eloquent address on
tn1S SUBJECT aIhluSl " auh0hf Ma
acterizing the demands Of the Associate Reformed
Church as inadmissible, not presenting that spirit
Of broad Christian liberality which favored further
discussion, and celebrating the proposition that
what the assembly wanted in its constituent ele.
ments was homogeneousness,, which would not ex-
ist if the two bodies should be incorporated. DR..
Hoge forcibly presented the same views with adj
ditional arguments for the cessation of measures
tending to secure union. Several members follow
ed on the other side of the question.
"Pending the discussion the hour for adjourn
ment having arrived, the whole question was or
deredt to be placed upon the business docket, which
is equivalent to laying it on the table subject to
CALL" @
A spirited debate occurred upon a resolution de.
claring that the American Bible Society had no
right, by the terms of its constitution, to alter in
any way "the common and accepted standard En-
glish Scriptures" and expressing the conviction
that the support of the Presbyterian church would
depend on a strict adherence to the old revision
The Board of Education reported the number Of
new candidates received the past year l09, making
the total number since 1919, 1880. The roll of
the Board the past year contains 1856; in their
theological course, 1872; collegiate, 17s; academi-
cal, SO. The aggregate number this year is two
greater than the last, while the number of new
candidates is eleven more than were received the
last year; $47, lob. 70 have been received by the
Candidates Fund, making o sum total Of receipts
of $40, 473. SO, of which S43, 432.3 IS have been ex
pended. The total receipts of all kinds by the
Board of Ministerial Education were $50, 1872. 06 |;
total expenditures, $40, $50, 55. The number of
p~arochial schools is 100. The number Of Presby-
terrain academies is 60, besides the Ashman Insti-
tute, which educates young men for Africa. The
number of Presbyterian colleges is "a.
d, The Assembly, which was still in session at the
last accounts had agreed on Indianapolis, Indiana,
as the place of next meeting, on the third Thurs
day of May, 1859. A correspondent of an ex-
change writes of DR.. HOWE, thus:
II listened last night with great pleasure to an
address delivered before the General Assembly,
by Professor Howe, of Columbia College. As y
representative of South Carolina, he. gave a histo-
~ of the Church in that State, which necessarily
carried him back to the early history Of the HUI
guenots. l was much interested in o statement be
made in this connection, that the first settlement
Of Huguenots in Carolina dates forty-fye years
prior to the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia.-
This differs from the statement / have heard pub
licly made, that the alter was the first settlement
made in the Union.