The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-19


: as usual tomorrow, at LOB o'clock, A
: NJ, and at 72 p NJ Sabbath Schoo,
). meets at 8 o'clock.
: Strangers visiting this Church will
q be cordially welcomed
J. ~ EXPECTED RE-UNIeN.
The General Assemblies of the Old
and New School Churches, meet in
st. Louis on Thursday. TITS believed
, and hoped by many that measures will
be taken to re-unite the two branches
f of the Church; There is but little
now, as we take it. to prevent re-
union. The greatest cause of diyis-
ion, African slavery, has been removed,
and the other questions of division
we believe can be readily settled
/ A great change has taken place in
the sentiment of the Old School
Church since the rebellion, and at the
North they are now more radical, per-
haps, than the New School. yl97autf !
The most exciting question that
will arise in this General Assembly
will probably be on the abrogation or
modification of certain resolutions
adopted at the last meeting of that
body, requiring every minister apply
ing for admission to any Presbytery,
first to be examined as to his having
aided or ceuntenanced the rebellion;.
and if he has been guilty, he shall
confess and forsake his sin before he
can be received; and secondly, as. to
his belief concerning slavery; and if
he believes it to be Divine iinstitu--,.
ton, which, the Southern Church
ought especially tooconserve, he shall
not be received until he shall have re-
nounced and forsaken his error. = ii3 p
z The Southern Churches, it is ex-a
pected, will be. strongly represented,
and will most likely make theirsrrong-
est possible effort to have these resolu
tions reseinded or modified Whether
or not they will succeed remains yet
to be seen. Ti
NoGeneral Assemblyof that Church
has ever met that has elected SO much |
solicitude il advance. Its proceed
ings will be watched with intense in
,terest, not only by Presbyterians, but
by the Christian world eyerywhere.
THE OLD SCHOOL PRESBYTERIAN GEN
s.ai 81 iERAL ASSEMBLY asalt
A meeting was held on Tuesday
night last, i'm the Church of Rev. DIR.
NiccollsS St Louis, for prayer and
conference as preliminary to the meet
ing of the Presbyterian General As
sembly (Old SCHOOL, on Thursday.
There was full attendance Of dele
gates to the Assembly, and members
of the various Churches Of. the city
present The devotional exercises
were continued for some time, after
which BUSINESS convention was held
in accordance with call issued by
Rev. DR.. Breckenridge.
This meeting was of a private ma
ture.
Another meeting, for prayer and
was held in the same
Church on Wednesday evening. The !
following is the call issued by Rev.
DIR. Breckenridge, under which the s
business meeting was held.
To The Monsters and Railing Elders Of The
Presbyte710n Church in the Ho6. "A. 10 s4aa9|i
beseech yop. brethren, to w om haveol4
9een 50 long subjeet:in the Lord, to inipute ~
o my great love for that Church which is Fl
he comnAon mother of us all. She is about i q
CONSTITUTES, the vrComnissi Onersl II from i s
amongst yourselves, who will soon com :
'titute her next General Assembly That 4 G
great tribunal is. for us, the supreme orr
sanized and Visible assembly of our por- g
ion of 1.-THE Holy Catholic Church: - yesilsa
however others may. scoff at itAof that :
N God the Father in Jesus Christ his Son.
N the Holy Ghost, in the communion OF a
saints In the resurrection of the body and
"A a me ne everiastlng, we have every one /
This tribunal, of last earthly resort for us
n things spiritual, we know as certain a
y as we can know anything of the
ort beforehand, may not-probably will v
lot-be free from attempts hostile tosome | u
Z even all OF the precious testimonials the
'hurch has borne for the truth of Cod. and n
he duty of his children, during the fright
al years Of sinful insurrection, through
which we have been1ed. And we need only
asst our eyes over the controversies raging
ven now in the Church to understand how s
and how diversified are the
vii influences which threaten her and s.
low fatal are the principles upon which q a
ounter revolution in her state and action u
5 demanded, and how eager and fierce is II
he spirit of reaction against her solemn
deliberate and reiterated testinonials' V
which she cannot weaken, much less re-, | n
Tolxe, without apostacy "
w hat have to suggest, therefore. is. that | u
ne same means of seeking Divine guild u
mutual enlightenment and sup-d {
'ften put in practice with the manifest b
blessing of God. and were especially efsac- u