The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-06-03
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRES
BYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE U. S.
THIRD DAY.

The Assembly was called to order by
the Moderator and opened with prayer
by Rev. DIR. Mckinney.
j. A. Inglis, ruling elder from the Pres
bytery of Harmony, appeared and was
enrolled as member of the Assembly.
Rev. j. R. Wilson, D. D., read the re-
ports of the Board of Directors and of
the Faculty of Columbia Theological
Seminary.
These reports were referred to the
Committee on Theological Seminaries.
1t was made the order of the day for
Tuesday, at II A. NJ, to hear the Rev.
DR.. W. ]. R. Taylor, one of the Secreta-
ries of the American Bible Society.
The Committee on the Records of the
Synod of Alabama, reported, recommend
ing their approval with one exception,
which report was received and adopted
The Committee on the Minutes of the
Synod of Nashville, and South Carolina,
reported that the records were not pre-
sent.
Prof.-C W.hane presented an over
ture from Eufaula church, Alabama, ask
inc that that church be set off from the
Synod of Alabama, to the Presbytery of
Macon, Synod of Georgia. Referred to
Committee of Bills and Overtures.
Prof. G. w. Lane introduced a series
of resolutions concerning a central agen-
CIV for communication between vacant
churches and ministers without charge
and proposing that the Committee of
Sustentation be such central agency
Referred to Committee on Sustentation.
The Committee on Finance recon-
mended that the Assembly adopt the
schedule of last year for the Presbyterial
contributions to the contingent fund.
D. Humphries ruling elder of Winches
ter Presbytery, presented resolution Of
Winchester Presbytery, calling the atten-
ton of the General Assembly to the re-
port of the Treasurer of the Committee
of Publication. Referred to Committee
on Publication.
The report of the Board of Trustees
of the General Assembly was read.
The Committee on Evangelistic labor
read their report which was received and
adopted and is as follows:
EvANGELIsTIC LABOR.
The committee appointed to review
the reports of the Presbyteries on this
subject, presented the following, which
was adopted:
1. That only eleven Presbyteries, viz ::
Bethel, Memphis, West Hanover, Lex
ington, Knoxville, Nashville, South Car
olina, 0uachita, Harmony, Rappahan-
mock, and Greenbrier, have reported at
all.
,. That of these eleven Presbyteries
only four have appointed evangelists, viz
Memphis, Knoxville, South Carolina and
Greenbrier.
3. That in all these Presbyteries evan
gelistic labors have been performed by
the pastors of the churches under the
direction of the Committees of Domestic
Missions.
These reports exhibit mournful state
of poverty, and of inability in conse-
quence, to sustain the preached word
among a large number of the churches.
But at the same time they manifest the
lovely Gospel rule of the strong helping
the weak, by surrendering a portion of
the time of their pastors to supply the
lack of service in these destitute and i'm
poverished churches. 1t is apparent too,
from these reports, that the Assembly s
Committee of Sustentation is doing a
noble work in this wide field of poverty
and of destitutiOn, dispensing the ben
efactions of the Church, and of many
of Gods people not IN connexlon with
us, among those who would otherwise
have been left to all the wasting extremi-
ties of utter poverty.
1t is to be lamented that the Presbyte-
ries have failed so generally to report to
the Assembly the evangelistic labOrs
within their respective bounds, inasmuch
as it is believed (if we take the reports
which have been rendered as a sample
of the whole a mass of information would
have been presented before the eye of the