The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-11-23
General Assembly.

sembly of the Presbyterian Church,
South, now in session at Memphis
The Canons of Discipline were
taken up and read by Rev. Or. Adger,
Chairman of the Committee on the
same, but was stopped by Rev. Dr.
Miller. It is due here to state that
these canons have been under consi-
deration and advisemcnt by special
committee for the last nine years,
and are as able and theological as
anything of the kind that is extant
DR.. Miller wished to ask whether
these rules recognized baptized chill
dren as subject to the rules of the
church, and to be governed by them?
DR.. Miller then entered into q lcpgthy
argument, which was abio and deci-
sive, that children baptized by Chris
tian parents were as much members
of the church as those who are adults
Spoke of the covenant made with
God and His children, accepting their
children into the covenant He then
drew very striking parallel between
the Old Testament Church and the
New, and from that concluded that
the child was subject to e1communi-
cation for disbelief as much as the
parent.
DIR. Adger thought, with all dne
Difference to the brothers opinions,
that he had some wild notions Did
not thiuk the brother had any au-
thority for his views. Said the chill
dren were not accountable; conse-
quently, the VOWS of parents were
not obligatory on them only so far as
the duties Of child to parent. That
the Church could not ''haul them
up" try them for unbehef, and turn
them out.
The order Of the day for reports of
executive committees having arrived,
Rev. DR.. Wilson, Chairman Of the
Executive Committee on Foreign
Missions, read the report, which was
appropriately referred.
DR.. E. II. Baird then read the re-
port of the Committee on Publica-
tions, with one from the treasurer of
tile committee, which were also re
ferred.
The discussion of the relation Of
baptized children to discipline in the
church was concluded the next day,
and the canon, as reported by the
| commissioners, was adopted. An i'm
portant report on beneficiary educa
tion was presented by the chairman
of the committee appointed by the
| last General Assembly. Carson S dis
| cipline, las far as chapter 8, was adotp-
| ed, with slight notifications.
STOLEN. Or. Adger, of South
Carolina, in letter to DR.. Backus, of
Baltimore, lately published, makes
the following statement, and vouches
for the fact
"When General Sherman's army
passed through Winnsboro, S. c., q
Captain Fuller and six others of that
| army, robbed one Of the ruling elders
of the Zion Presbyterian Church
there of an elegant silver communion
set, the gift of a dying female mem
Der Of the same, costing $3.50 in New
York, and having the Church's name
and the donors name engraved upon
each article
DIR. Adger makes the following ad-
ditional statement, which, for the
honor of humanity as we'll as Chris
tianity, We hope cannot be true:
GA certain congregation of your
body now has that silver communion
set, which Captain Fuller presented
to them, and are now using it for
their communion purposes, with those
names of Zion Church and its dying
sister staring them continually in the
face, as they eat the bread and drink
the wine which set forth the body and
blood of our common Master
The idea that a Christian church
can celebrate the holy ordinance of
the Lords Supper in the use of YES
sells thus obtained, is too monstrous
HoMIcIDE.-We learn that Mr. Geo.
Meyer, recently appointed Assistant
United States Assessor Of Internal
Revenue, at Blackville, S. c., was
shot and mortally wounded, on Mon
day last, near that place, by two
young men of this city, named George
and Henry Sanders, brothers. Meyer
fingered until Wednesday morning,
when he expired. The brothers, San
ders, surrendered themselves, and
were brought to this city, last even
| ino. by Sheriff Williamson. of Barn