The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-23

| 81. .OO9 az each. The balance unappro
priated on hand, April !, 1864, was S33,
Io5l 26 : The receipts from all sources
during the year, were s33, 3,796 %. oi
which sum S2l ,925 20 were from seven
hundred aud ffty-one churches The
available means, therefore, of the year,
were s7l .343 pa The expenditures OF
the wear were $40, ,326 AZ Balance in
hand April I, 1865, s5lr52l % There
were, however, unpaid at that time liza
bilties amounting to =. ,H3 IL, leaving
as the unpledged balance s24,U4S o. ten
wears of church extension work through
this Board. In that time its receipts
have been S252 ,36S 50 aud formal appro-
priations amounting 10 sl042l6 q have
been made to 566 different churches, be-
ing an average of 1909 - to each. For
nearly eleven years prior 10 the organl-
cation of the present Board, the General
Assembly conducted the work of church
extension through committee of the
Board of Domestic Missions, and i'll that
time made appropriations to three hun
dred, aud seighty-two. churches, and re-
ceived donations a,Hou nting to SbS,3il
O6 Since lei4 the church has aided in
:he erection of nine hundred and forty
eight different churches, and has raised
S320, $40 93 for that purpose.
The report of the Board oil which the
above report of the committee Was based,
was then presented, after which DIR,
Richefelder delivered an able addres, on
the subject of Church Extension, appeal
ing to the representatives Of the church
in behalf Of the work. He was followed
on the same subject by II. J Cole, Secre-
tary of the Board of Church Extension.
Rev. DR.. Perkins, Rev. Mr. Muchmore.
Elder Charles Crosby, Of Chicago, Rev
Mr.. Jackson, of Minnesota, Rev. Mr.
Buell., of California, and Others
Rev. j. NJ. Platt. from Committee on
Correspondence, submitted report to
the effect that there is desirr for the
establishment Of friendly intercourse be
tween the General Synod of the Reform
ed Presbyterian Church, now in session
At New Castle, Pennsylvania, and this
General Assembly The Committee there
fore recommended that steps hr taken to-
wards the openingof correspondence be-
tween that body, and the following cor
responding delegates be appointed to
visit the Reformed General Synod at ITS
present session; Rev. j F. McClaren, ID.
b. and the ruling elder Francis G Bailey.
principals, and Rev A Williams, ID. ID.
and ruling elder Alexander Cameron al,
ternates The report was accepted and
the recommendations adopted Rev Dr
Craven, of the Judicial Committee, pre-
sented a report in relation to cases pend
ing before the Assembly, which was
adopted The Moderatorannounced that
Rev. Theodore Monod, present from the
Evangelical ministry of France, wished
to address the Assembly on the subject of
the progress of the gospel work in that
country On motion, Monday forenoon
was fixed as the time for hearing the
address. The Assembly then proceeded
to select the place for holding the next
meeting of the General Assembly Chi
cago, St. Louis, Albany. and Dayton.
were placed in nomination, and, after the
advantages possessed by each locality
had been discussed at length. the roll
was called for vote, the result being as
follows: st. Louis, ll5 Chicago, SO, Al
bany. 63. A majority of the entire vote
being necessary, it was moved that the
next meeting of the Assembly he held at
st. Louis, which was carried with but
few dissenting voices The Assembly
then adjourned till Monday morning, and
was dismissed with prayer, by the Mod
orator