The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-25
PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY (o.s.)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY (O.S.)
SEVENTH DAY.
DR.. Jacobs, from the Judicial Committee, made
a report directing that the appeal from Little
Falls n. Y, agains. the Synod of Albany, be dis
missed. The report adopted.
DR.. Hodge presented communication from the
Board of Trustees of the Assembly, recommend
ing that some persons be appointed in the place
of Messrs. A. Miller and Carnochan. Other points
were also contained in the communication, which
was docketed.
The order of the day then called. 1t was
the report of the committee the annual report
of the Board of Foreign Missions.
The first section approves OF the action of the
Board of Missions. The second section refers to
the death of six missionaries. Section third refers
to satisfactory results OF the years work, notwth-
standing the decrease in India.
Section fourth speaks of the diminished receipts,
but does not advise retrenchment until the church
sees how it is to be accomplished. Section fifth
recommends that the present missionaries be con
tinued another year, even II the meaus cannot De
increased. Section sixth cOmmends the cause to
pastors and churches. Section seventh says the
minutes were found to be rect. Section eighth
gives nominations for members.
The Secretary of the Board of Missions, Rev. Dr.
LOyrie then took the floor, and in speech of
some length showed the operations of the Board,
the vast fields it has traverse, the able and he
role men sent out to the perishing heather, and
the financial difficulties with which the Board has
had to contend.
Mr.. HOPKINS offered resolution directing the
attention of all persons from other boards, in their
contributions for their support to the relief OF
the embarrassments of the Board Of Foreign Mis-
siOns.
In advocating his resolution, Mr.. II. argued that
we had better let the other boards want little so
that we could meet the necessities of the Board oil
| Missions. He further remarked that unless the
| brethren who control the other boards were able
to clear up everything as Father Lowrie had done,
the people of the West cannot sustain them as they
| ought to be sustained if everything was right
| Mr. Horace Holden, of New York, took the floor.
! lie began by saving that the church did not reach
! the masses and no other church except the Roman
| Catholic Church did. He went on to show how
| this was: after which he alluded, with some bitter.
| ness, to the reckless way in which charges were
banded about in the Assembly in regard to men,
bers of the boards. He said that if such charges
were made against him, he would ask committee
| of inquiry, or resign. Even it was, his heart
| had been pained and he had retired from the AS
semby to weep at the exhibition of personalities he
had seen here.
The Rev. w. A. =. Martin, foreign missionary
said that there was wealth enough in this country
to carry forward all great religious enterprises
| He did not wish pebble cast in the way of any
cause. He wished all our noble boards to be sus
| tanned and carried abreast. Let make NJ
| more retrenchment in foreign missions in am
event, for it can least be made there
The resolution of Mr.. Hopkins was withdrawn.
The report was then adopted by sections, an(
| finally adopted as whole.