The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1861-12-28

report Of the whole work, and of their re-
ceipts and expenditures, together with their
books of minutes for examination.
?. That for the present the committee
shall be located IN Columbia, S. @.
8. That the whole business in relation to
a charter be referred to the committee on
charters appointed by the Assembly.
The committee also offered the following
report:
In regard to the report and minutes of
the Provisional committee referred to them
the committee offer as their report the fol-
lowing resolutions, viz:
l. Resoired, That - copies of this re-
port be printed under the direction OF the
Executive committee of Foreign Missions,
and we earnestly recommend that it be
read to all our congregations on some suit
able occasion, that all our people may learn
directly its important facts and the work to
which the Master calls them, and that the
minutes be committed to the Executive
committee to be appointed and entered on
their book of records as an introduction to
their own minutes.
2. That the Assembly accepts with joy
fu gratitude to God, the care of these mis-
si,ns to our Southwestern Indian tribes, the
Choetaws, Chickasaws, Greeks, SeminOles
and Cherokees, thus thrown upon them by
His NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., whose whole his
tory has been signalized by a degree Of
success attending few other modern missions
Ito people comprising near 40 600 souls,
to whom We are bound by obligations Of
special tenderness and siren eth, and whose
spiritual interests must ever be dear to the
Christians of this land a people destined
ere long to share with US the full enjoy
ment Of the s'eial and political blessings
fer which we are now struggling; aud as
sues those people and the beloved mission
aries, that have so long and successfully
labored among them, Of our fixed Pu pose
under God to sustain and carry forward the
blessed work whose foundations have been
so nobly and deeply laid. We, therefore,
decidedly approve Of the recommendation
Of this report, that six new missionaries be
sent to that field speedily, ore of them to
commence new mission among the Cicero
KEGS, and that few small boarding schools
be established for the purpose of raising
up native agency.
8. That in the striking fact, that the
same upheaving and Overturning that have
called us into existence as distinct Organi-
cation, and shut Us out from present access
to the distant nations, has also laid upon
our hearts and hands these interesting mis-
sions with their fifteen stations, their twelve
ordained minister's and fifteen hundred
communicates, so tina at the very moment
Of commencing our existence, we find them
forming, in fact, an organic part Of our
body, and also in the gratifying prompti-
tude with which our churches have adyanc-
ed to their support the Assembly recog-
nizes most gratefully the clear forshadOwing
of the Divine purpose to make our beloved
church, heart stirring call upon al the
people t. engage in the blessed work with
new zeal and selt-denial.
4, The Assembly further rejoices to know
there are q few of the sons Of our Southern
Zion, who are la5oriDg in distant lands /;
and approves heartily Of the action Of the
committee in forwarding funds for the sup
port Of the missions in which they are en-
gagged and takes occasion hence to direct
the longing eyes of the whole church to
those broad fields where Satan reigns al
most undisturbed in India, Siam, China ia
pan, and especially to Africa and South
America, which have peculiar claims upou
as, as fields where we are soon to be called
to win glorious victories for our King if we
are faithful; and solemuly charges that
now, while in the commissions that are sbsk-
ing the earth, we hear the tread of his
coming footsteps to take the Kingdom
bought with MS blood. We would further
remind them, that the $4,000 required in
this report for the Indian Missions, is by
no means al that the exigencies Of the case
demand.
5. The General Assembly desires dis
tinctly and deliberately to inscrihe on our
church's banner as she now first unfurls
upon it to the world in immediate connection
with the headship Of the Lord, his last com
mand go We into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature" regarding
this as the great end Of her organization,
and obedience to 1t, as the indispensable
condition If her LorJ's promised presence;
and as that one great comprehensive object,
a proTe conception Of whose vast magni-
tude and grandeur is the only thing which,
in conn. ction with the love Of Christ, can
ever sufficiently arouse her energies and de-
yelope her resources so as to cause her to
carry on with the ygor aud efficiency that
true fealty to her Lord demands, those
other agencies necessary to her internal
grOwth and home prosperity. The claims
If this cause ought therefore to be kept
constantly before the minds of our people
and pressed upon their cOnsciences, and
every minister owes it to his people aud to
a peIishing world to give such instruction
on the subject as he is able; aud to this
end the monthly concert ought to be de-
voutly observed by every church on the
first Sabbath Of each month. when it can
not be on the first Monday, for the pur
poses Of missionary Instruction and prayer,
and it would be we'll to accompany their
prayers with their offerings. To the same
end the Assembly earnestly enjOins upon
all our ministers and deacOns and Sabbath
school teachers, and especially upon parents,
particular attention TO our precious youth,
in training them to feel deep interest in
this work, and not only to form habits Of
systematic beueyolence, but to feel and re-
sDOpd To the claims Of Jesus uo}n their