The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-10-23
FROM READING.
The Presbyterian N. y. SynOd-ThIri
Day-COnclusiOn.


From oar O,On Correspondent.
READING, Oct 22.-After the recess at noon
to- day, the Synod proceeded to business. Tne
which we referred IN our telegraphic report
yesterday, was adopted. AS 1t Is an able and
eqo we e give IL In full hoping
The Standing Committee, to whom was re-
ferred the report OF the permanent Com mittee
The need of greatly increased benevoence on
behalf of the cause of home missions is imme-
dlately and absolutely Imperative. Wholly to
disregard this plea is impossible for Christian
man or q Christian church. To be Indifferent
to IT ought TO be just as impossible. The facts.
as they appear In the statistical record of the
churches In the Synod of Pennsylvania, betray
a lamentable want OF appreciation Of the de.
are startling, and as shameful as they
are startling; ~, They speak to our con. on.
question that we are Withholding more than is
meet. We are exposing ourselves to spiritual
poverty. We are in danger OF being smltten of
not give, 1t will not be given TO us. The Synod
of Pennsylvania Is one of the largest in our
wealth than most others II includes Within its
field the second city Of the Union. II has 81
vet has contributed for the past yea less thsn
en- Thousand dollars TO the cause of Home Mis-
sions, and nearly the half Of that has been re-
general committee to fee lie churches within
It's bounds. Five thousand dollars for the evan
Synod whose sources of benevolence represent
and embrace agricultural. manufacturing, and
mining interests among the richest in the
world. Five Thousand dollars out of wealth
counted by millions! Five Thousand dollars
from ninety four churches and seventeen thou
sand church members, and probably three
times seventeen thousand church attendants;
and This with the Committee on Home Missions
$50 600 in debt; with great wide, urgent destis
tuition staring the Church OF God in the face and
pressing its claims upon her conscience and sub
stance; with whole continent to be possessed
for Christ; with vast resources to be rescued
from the clutch OF Satan and used for God
with O waving harvest ripe for Gods reaper,
vet which 1s being moved down by the DsviI
In great swaths. The sad and reproachful truth
Is, that our churches are not In their ltberality
RENE membering and exhibiting the grace OF the
Lord Jesus, who was rich with all the riches OF
God, and yet became poor that we through that
poverty might be rich. Are they not farlng
sumptuously every day, while causes OF bene.
violence lie at their gate begging, like Lazarus,
for the merest crumbs? Is there that generous
largen ess In their gifts to Christ which makes
IL true of them that they deny themselves
and take up cross In this matter OF Christian
benevolence? Some OF these have not even
doled out the beggarly pittances for the cause
of the country's evangeliz ization-neither lifting
a 1pger, nor stirring foot. nor giving O cent
Some of them have contributed one cent aud q
half to ten cents q member, as their sense OF
what 10 needed for one whole year TO meet the
pressing exigencies OF the times and with this
great country win 10 its goddess millions TO
Christ! Some OF them have, indeed, risen far
above this in the scale of Christian ltberalitv.
But no one " them Gil has reached It's circultoi