Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-05-23
CITY AND STATE AFFAIRS.
United Synod of the Presbyterian Church.
THIRD DAYS PROCEEDINGS-SATUR DAY,
MAY 81.
MORNING SESSION.

The roll was Called and the Minutes of the pre-
az ,dng day wore read and approved.
Arthur flu on, Ruling Elder,arpe,red as Com.
miss ,ncr from the pres',ytery of New River, and
his name was entered IN the roll.
On motion Of DIR. Newton. 1t was resolved that
the Terms of Union" adopted by the Synod at
Knoxville and proposed to the o ). General As
sembly in New Orleans be printed in the Appcn-
dix along with the Declaration of Principles.
The order Of the day for ten O'clock was then
taken up, viz:
The annual report of the Domestic and Foreign
Missionary B arl Of the United SYNOD. This re-
mort presents first, n view Of operations in the
Domestic Department, and secondly, similar
view of operations in tho Foreign Department ALSO
the TreaSnrcrs account. 1t appeared the asgrc-
gate re .cI1s rar Domestic Mi ons during the
year, amnuntrd To S33Gl a. The Report urged
an iucrea sell zeal and Interest in the ii pmc Mis-
sionary work. and the raising and forwarding ct
funds to the Executive Committee Mt Richmond.
In relation to Foreign Missions. the report gave
nm account of the exertons OF kev. VI j.. kalo-
po.hakes, missionary in Greece, particularly III
connection with the establishment ot n Printing
Office and the publication uf paper i'll Athens.
called the "Sar OF the East and devoted t" the
diffusion of Evangelical Truth among the Greeks.
The sums received for this Department were ST.,
800 o. Balance on hand S4S.O6.
On motion, this Report was referred 10 the Com
mittce on Church Extension.
Rev. Dr. Boyu, chairman W me NofnHhitlec on
the establishment OF II Theological Seminary re-
ported in part as follows:
The Committee appointed to take into consider
ntion the establishment of n Theological School,
to he under the control Of the United Synod, re-
commend the adoption of the following minute: VIZ:
Tie United Synod being deeply impressed with
the Importance of a Theological Seminary TO the
ncrmancut interests of our denomination do
solve.
|. Thata Theological School to be under the
supervision and control Of the United Synod be
forthwith established under the name of The IHeo-
logical Semina,yofhe United SynodofM he Hrs1y-
terian Church IN tie United States Of -Amer'ea.
.. Thattl Seminary shall be located III tie Vi
entity Of the University ofNirginia.
The Hon. Horace Maynard said; There can
pos>ibly be no difference Of opinion to the first
proposition OF the Report, that is the Importance
md necessity of such an Institution as Is contem-
plated Our body must become in all respects
selfsusaining. providing our own school, OF eve
nv grade, and furnishing means for the education
of ministers to supply our churches and extend
the cause uf Christ. Such an Institution we have
not, and all will confess the need Of its establish
ment.
But as to the second proposition viz: the looa-
ton of the proposed Institution, there might pos
siby be grounds for s)u.e difference of o,non.-
The thing was t. his own mind until yesterday,
entirely new but so far as he had Obtained light
on the subject, he was disposed to think inv"rnhly
of it, He liked the name Theological S:'ooi rs
being preferable to that which is usually applied
to an Institution of this character
A Theological School, to be efficient, must have
LARGE means 1t needs buildings, funds for the
support of professors, and Library, embracing
both Theological books and others giving intor-
nation on subjects not strictly religious. Ii is
important that the minister should be not a mere
Thcolagician, but also general student man IT
varied TN ex,cns We general information. For,
th,,
er, the more man:" or. az Bacon has expressed it,
knowledge is power" power to the preacher,
the LAWYER the statesman, to men in every profess
sion and pursuit. To establish School Of this
description will obviously require n large amount
of money.
But another far more important matter is, that
YOU should have the right sort of n MANA man
who poescsses those elements of character that
will s,amn on the students under him the impress
IF the noLlcst style of character, the impress OF
Christian gentleman.
1t is question, he said whether the proposed
School, located at the point specified, will afford
all the advantages mentioned. lie then reviewed
the various arguments advanced yesterday hy DrS
Boyd and Mitchell, and Mr. Grattan, in favor of
the plan concurring with them in high estimate
of the University Of Virginia, as the first Literary
Institution in the United States, and the Literary
emporium of the South. and concluded by saying:
so Jar as the arguments 60, am decidedly IN
IL,
against it,
SYNOD then took recess till after public worship,
a sermon Icing delivered hy Rev DIR Newton.
After the sermon, Synod resumed business.
The Moderator, President Robinson. of Mary
VILE College, having called Rev Rob't McLan to
the Chair, addressed the body in earnest eloquent
language on the proposed Institution. lie said,
| have long felt that the Theological and Literary
Departments at Maryville ought to be separated
BY permission, he said, will give running his
tory of that Institution:
MANY wears AFRO, in all the region OF country
now embraced in the limits of Tennessee, there
were very few Presbyterian ministers. In lI92
there we're only six or seven. Rev Isaac Ander-
son. DID. who, in 1902 or 1903 entered the minis
try SAW and lamented these desitutlons. The
inquiry arose in his mind, what shall be done to
supply this wide field with ministers of the Word?
lie first looked to the North, but found it impo>s-
BILE to obtain the needed supply from that part Of
the country In 1919 he attended tho General
Assembly in Philadelphia, and visited the Theo-
logical Seminary at Princeton, but was unable to
induce any of the Students to come to tins destl-
tutc field. Returning home, he fell in with the
late Rev James Gallaher, and in consultation the
two concluded that if adequate ministerial
force were to be obtained. measures must be taken
TO raise it up on the ground. The consequence
was that DR. Anderson established q Literary and
Theological School at Maryville. from which more
than Il hundred ministers have been sent forth to
preach the Gospel III Tennessee, Kentucky, slr-
gina, Mississippi. Missouri and various other
States of the Union and had it not been for those
Efforts, there would have been no Synod of Ten
nessee to day
All that did well for that day. But now there
il necessity for divorcing the Theological from
the Literary Department. Let us have aid, ard
build up College proper at Maryville. But for
this new Theological Seminary proposed to be To-
Gated at n different point go heart and hand.
lie said he spoke only as an individual, pledg-
ing neither Maryville College nor the Synod of