Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-11-10
For the Yorkville Enquirer.

SPRINGS will read an Essay, and EDWARD MOORE,
ESQ.,, make the address.
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
MEETING OF THE SYNOD OF SOUTH
CAROLINA.
This body, pursuant to adjournment, convened
in Columbia, October 26, at o'clock, P. NJ
Rev. I. L. McBryde, D. D., the Moderator,
preached the opening sermon, after which the
Synod was duly constituted-Rev. D. Mcqueen
of Sumter being elected Moderator, and Rev. e.
C. Gregg, of Sumter District, temporary Clerk
There were enrolled, about one hundred and forty
Delegates-the lay and clerical being nearly e.
quail in number.
The usual routine Of business was dispatched
with expedition, harmony and satisfaction, whilst
a few other items claimed the attention and were
acted upon by the Body.
The narratives from the four Presbyteries, i'll
dicated that the cause of religion is progressive.
Many Churches have enjoyed unusual outpour-
ings Of the Holy Spirit; Prayer meetings have
been extensively organized and largely attended ;
increased attention given to the instruction of
the black population; candidates for the ministry
crowding upon us; the Elders of the Churches
awakipg to higher conceptions of official duty,
and cooperating more earnestly and efficiently
with the Pastors, in bearing the ark Of the Lord;
the cause of Domestic Missions engaging large
share of Presbyterial effort and energy; whilst
benevolent contributions are in general, gradual
ly rising to an ascendancy never before reached
by US. .
From the report of Foreign Missions, it was as
certained that about sic thousand dollars were
paid to the cause during the last year by our sew
eral churches, being an average of nearly fifty
dollars to each Church. The several other OBJ
jects to which our benefactions are devoted, al
though not quite commensurate with the average
to either Foreign or Domestic Missions, are still
evidently taking more effective hold upon the
heart and purses of the Churches.
In connection with the report alluded to above
presented by DR.. Smythe-the Synod WAS address
sed by Rev. C. II. Wilson, Missionary from or
bounds to the Chickasaw Indians. He detailed
many items of interest connected with missions
among the red men.
The Synod passed q resolution urging the
Churches to increase their contributions at least
tpenty fve per cent, so as to enable the Board OF
Missions of the Old School Presbyterian Church
to increase the support of the Missionaries among
the Indians, who have been recently cut off by
the American Board Of Missions, because their
views of slavery and conduct touching it, are
such that they refused to accede to the resolu
tons of the American Board of Foreign Missions,
so full of abolitionism. This Board-American
Board of Foreign Missions-is composed chiefly
of elements from the Congregational and New
School bodies, and has no connection with, and
receive no support from, the Churches of the
old School Body, to which the Synod of South
Carolina belongs.)
Our Synod has another Foreign Missionary
Rev, John A. Danforth- -laboring, or rather just
arrived in China
In lieu of J. NJ. Caldwell, Esq, of Charleston,
the Synod elected H. C. Brennan, Esq, of Co.
lumbia, Treasurer of Foreign Missions, whose
duty it is, simply to receive and forward funds to
the "presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions"
located in New York.
The Report from Oglethorpe College, in Geor-
gia partly under the care of our Synod, indicated
that it is in prosperous condition; and from re-
marks made by Professor Lane (who was present)
we learn that since 1912, the College has sent
forth two hundred graduates-ffty- -four of whom
have entered the ministry, and forty-eight have
been educated at the Theological Seminary in Co.
lumbia.
The Seminary had prominent position among
the Synodical deliberations. 1t has ffty-three
students now in it, and the way is now paving for
its more complete professional equipment. The
muni6cent donation of thirty thousand dollars,
by Judge Perkins, of Mississippi, to found chair
STYLED the Natural Sciences in their connection
with revealed Truth" was accepted by the Synod,
who named it the "Perkius Professorship," and
decreed that this chair may be filled by lay
member (the others being accessible only to Min
isters) of the presbyterian Church" and the in-
structions in it to be given exclusively by Lee
lures, and examinations on them. When the
Synods of Georgia and Alabama shall have con-
Cured in this action of our Synod, the Synod Of
Georgia is authorized to elect the Professor to fill
the Chair.
The Society for the relief of "Superannated Min
listers, and their INDECENT Widows and Orphans" "
was addressed by Rev. DR.. Smythe. This socie-
" has accumulated fund of about fifteen hun
dred dolars-the annual proceeds of which are
to be appropriated to specific objects, when they
were made known.
Each day Except sabbath) during the session
of Synod, it was our privilege to spend an hour
with the Union Prayer Meeting, which was held
in the Presbyterian Church. Such meetings we
had never before attended. To see five hundred
people assembled at MONDAY to prsy-to see
Presbyterians and Baptists and Methodist and
Episcopalians and Lutherans, all coming "togeth-
er of one accord and in one place"-to hear the
several requests made by writing, through the
presiding oficer-the earnest and fervent suppli-
cations to the Trone of Grace in behalf Of these
persons thus brought before the meeting-.and
then the short and pointed addresses made by
different persons, and to see the flowing tears
all compelled me to say, it"was good to be there. "
The Holy Spirit was evidently present in these
meetings, and in answer to theprayers there pres