The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-31
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80 From the Pittsburg Dispatch ~-1I {
TENTH DAY-MONDAY

| the usual devotional exercises We're held.
Rev DIR. Waller moved the recoEsid-
GRAFTON of the action of the Assembly on
the fourth resolution of the report of the
Board of Domestic Missions, faf the pur-
pose of offering the following addition I:
lHIhe Board shall deem those ministers
loyal who are certified by their PT,sby-
teries as approving the deliverauces of
the Assembly en- the subject of the rebel
lion" q He thought snchs an additimiim-
lpertant, as the resolution as it now steod,
gave . discretionary power tothe Board
of Missions not in accordance with the
minds of this Assembly or the principles
and practices of the church After some
discussion heAssembly refused to recon
slider the vote
Rev DR. Woods, fom the Committee on
Bills and Overturess presented asreport
on overture No 6, from Richlahd Presby
tery and members ofMadisen Presbytery,
which. he thought, contained the gist of
both papers previously before the Assem-
bly,. The report was embraced in the
following resolutions: t....
Resolued, That this Assembly egards
the civil rebellion for the perpetration of
negro slavery as great crime, both
against onr National Government and
against God, and the secession of those
Presbyteries and Synods from the Pres
byterian Church under such circupl-
stances and for such reasons, as being un-
warTantable and schismatical. = -
2. That in recognizing the schism as
being de fact0 accomplished, and in drop
ping the pames of those Presbyteries and
Synods from the rolls of the General AS
sembly, as it is hereby resolved to do,
the Assembly do not intend to abandon
the territory in. which the sehism has
occurred, or to compromise the rights of
any of the church courts, or ministers,
ruling elders and private members be-
longing to them, who are loyal to the
government of the United States and to
the Presbyterian Church. On the con-
trary, this Assembly will recognize such
loyal persons as constituting the church
es, Presbyteries and Synods, in all the
bounds of the schism, and will use earn
est endeavors to restore and revive all
such churches and church courts.
3. The Assembly hereby declares that
it will recognize as the church, the mem
bers of any church within the bounds of
the schism, who are loyal to the Govern
ment of the United States of America,
and whose views are in harmony with
the several testimonies of the Presby te-
rian Church on the subject Of domes tic
slavery And where any three ministers
who entertain the views above mention
ed belong to the same Presbytery, such
are hereby authorized and di-
rected to continue their organization as
a Presbytery, or any two such ministers
are authorized to receive any ministers
of the same views regularly dismissed to
them, and thus continue their organizai
ton with the churches above described
in the same bounds in connection with
this Assembly. But if o sufficient num-
ministers and churches G4"bue VI unOro
adjacent Presbyteries retaining the name {
If one or both such united Presbyteries
as shall be deemed expedient.. A similar
course is also authorized with regard TO
Synods And tits further ordered that
due care be taken where this is practlca-
hle, TO secure the houses of worship and
other church property belonging to Pres.
byterians in those States to the use OF
loyal churches.
4 Tn cases where there is not suffi.
c;ent number of loyal ministers and
churches, within a convenient district TO
form a Presbytery, such ministers are
to supply those churches and
other places around them as God may
omen the way with the preaching OF the
oosnel. and such churches are exhorted
70 use all diligence to secure the stated
means of grace, and both ministers and
churches are directed to report to the
next General Assembly what has been
done in these respects, that further order
NAV be taken by the Assembly IN the
nramises as the interests of Christ is cause
may require.
The General Assembly furthermore
gives counsel to the Presbyteries ana
Churches, which may be revived and re-
stored under the provisions OF the above
action. to treat with kindness ministers |
and churches, or parts of churches, who
are disloval, or who are not in sympathy
with the former deliverances of the Gen.
sral Assembly on the subject OF slavery,
and to inform such persons of their readl.
ness to receive them into eccleslastlcal
fellowship when they properly acknowl-
edge and repudiate their errors. 80
z The Board of Domestic Missions are
hereby authorized and requested to glye
snecial attention to the Southern held
in providing missionaries, and approprl-
atinp pecuniary aid in order to carry into
effect the measures contemplated in this
minute. And the Board is also author
ized to employ any loyal minister whose
residence NAV be in the South as mis-
s;onary, provided he shall furnish salts
factory evidence of his fitness for the
work though circumstances may render
it timpracticable for him to obtain a Pres
byterial recommendation.
Rev. Mr.. Cross, of Baltimore, opposed
the report, and ofereda substitute which
ON motion was laid on the table.
Rev. Mr.. Dorland spoke briefly in favor
of the resolutions. He was followed by
" l.. Breckenridge. he opposed the
resolutions at some length, as endeayor-
inc TO settle at this time, and thus has.
tiIy. new principles of Christian and
ministerial communion. He believed
that our great duty at this time toward
the Southern Synods and .Presbyterles,
| was to let them alone, and allow them
To act in their own business according 10
the light they possessed.
Rev. DR. Woods following in support
of the resolutions, and was sueceeded by
/ Raw. DIR. Elliott He claimed that the
church courts have just as much right
toreject an applicant, for the crime OF
rebellion and unpenitence thereof as for
1 any other crime inconsistent with the
/ oboroctar of Christians, and that such