The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-04-15

Professor S. H Thomas has resigned the
/ chair Of Mathematics aud Mechanlch fDhoS'
| Opby in Hanover College.
The Foreign BOard.-The Presbyterian says;
The b ard Of Foreign Missions is likely to
end the wear OF its work, which closes on the
lsr Of May. with large debt encumberlng It.
Episcopal Church.-In an article which APP
peared in the Protestant ChUrchmGn, signed
Pr,sJyter the following significant words occur
in connection with some structures on the Tying
case:
lone effect of these late proceedings will
| be diminished missionary receipts by our Do
nestle Committee. The supplies will be fur
ther diminished, and many poor missionary
made 10 suffer because few well fed rectorS,
| in our Eastern cities, wished to punish some
body. The process of diminution has already
commenced
Another writer in the same issue speaks
very deplOringly of the present condition OF
The Episcopal Church. He says:
Why Is it that our Church, of all Chris
ian Churches, is the smallest? Why is II
that what age has done for other Churches. II
has not done for ours? Their borders have
been widely extended, while ours have been
| cut narrowly. The number of communicates
# one of our sister denominations is ten TO
our one. l. it not because God has been Smil
| ing upon them while He has been frowning
upon us? | think SO.
American Bible society-At the monthly
meeting Oh the u, grants were made to the
| Virginia Bible Society, and the South Yves
tern Society at New Orleans.
The Rev. Heman DYER, d. D., of n. York
aud the Rev. Z. Ii Fowler, ID. D., of Utica
were elected delegates 10 represent this So
ciety at the approaching annual meeting Of
the British aud Foreign BlOle Society.
The Presbytery of Philadelphia met on the
/ 9th inst. The proposed union between the
Arch street aud Second Presbyterian church
e., Philadelphia, was di>approved by Pre>by-
terry. Rev. DR.. BJardman. who was cOu6ned
20 his house by illness for some weeks during
the winter, was present In PreSbytery, and Was
able TO take part in Its deliberations.
Lafayette College john A. Brown, E.q Of
| Philadelphia. has subscribed the very hberat
| ,um of SO 900 t. the endowment OF Lafayette
College, at EaStOn, Pennsylvania.
Park Street Church, Boston, is still without
pastor IL l. commanding IN position, but II
l. in the condition of the man who assigned a.
4 reason for not being married that the person
ne wanted he cOUldnt get, aud the person he
could get he didn't want The society has
great company of young people, who hold to
gether with wonderful tenaclty waiting for
the right man to turn up. Mr.. Kirk breaches
nut once a day. He has the aid of the Rev.
DR.. Stowe, who gives a Biblical exposturl
lecture each Sunday afternoon,
Rev. Or. Lindsey died at Greenwich, Conn
on the bud ult. aged about eighty. He Was
At one time pastor of the South church ia
Hartford, and after ward of the Park street
church in Boston. Thence he went TO Ohio,
becoming President of Marietta College.
Prof VIM. smythe of Bowdoin College, died
suddenly at Brunswick, Maine, on the 4th
instant.
Rev. DR.. Nelson of the First Presbyterian
church, y. 5 preached his farewell sermon
at ST. Louis on the evening OF March the 29th.
lie goes to Cincinnati, "a Professor in Lane
Seminary. Dr. Curtis has been to Sc. Louis
aud it Is reported that he will succeed to the
now vacant paStorate of the First Church.
Churches in Rochester, N. Two Old School
churches in Rochester, New York. are about
70 erect new church buildings, the First Pres
byterian, aud ST, Peters, which recently lost
Its church edi6ee by fire.
A Sympathizer.-The Missouri Presbyterian
contains an extract from letter which, it
says, was addressed by one of 1.-The ablesl
men" in the New School branch, to signer
of the Declaration and Testimony He refers
80 tlo Oi2 School Assem- blies Of 90 ADD o.:
The Assembly of 60 was passionate; OF
81 apologize. The one got jntoa Scrape; the
other tried hard to get ont OF it. The one lost
its temper; the other tried to save its honor.
Your ground Is the only true and safe one
You did well calmly to maintain it, Any other
order would gender into the groSSeSt tyranny.
No doubt you have suffered by that miserable
Je>uitical invention, the ipSo fIct0, but youi
poSition Is one with which all true liberty low
ing PresbyterianS will Sympathize. All the
New School men with whom have spoken on
the subject, declare that if union is to be eff
fected between the Churches it must be di-
tinctly understood that the assumptions Of &c
and 81 must be forever abandoned, and that
the Assembly shall rot in the future usurp such
Il lordship over Gods heritage.