The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-26
SUMMARY OF GENERAL CHURCH NEWS.
PRESBYTERIAN


The following despatch was sent over the
Atlantic cable after the votes in the General
Assemblies in New York, on the question of re-
uniOn-
'NEw YORK, May 20, 1s69-Thomas Nelson Edn-
burg Both Assemblies, five hundred to eight, de-
termine reunion November NEXT Presbyteries con-
Sundrsa tSirysnra % Psalm Read Joan xvii e ehap H
ter, 21st verse; GEORGE II. STUART.
DIR. Robert Davidson, delegate from our
Assembly to the Free Church of Scotland read
this despatch in the Free Assembly, in the
midst of great applause. The Rev. Drs. Begg
and Rainy expressed their qualification at the
result, in speeches which seem to have been
warmly welcomed by all parties in the Assem-
We learn from the New York Obseroer that
the General Assembly of the Cumberland Pres
byterian Church, met at Murfreesboro, Tenn,
May 20. This Church is, next to the Old and
the New School, the largest body of Presbyte-
rians in the country-and was the only branch
that was not divided geographically by the war.
In 1910 their first Presbytery of three ministers
was organized in Middle Tennessee. They num-
ber 90 ordained ministers, and over 100,0 600
members, % Synods and about 80 Presbyteries.
The Assembly expressed the conviction, that it
would not be for the best interest of the Church
| Tor the ministers OF two races to meet in the
I same ludicatories, and recommended the forma-
i tion of Presbyteries of colored ministers, and
the establishment of a theological seminary for
cOlOred students.
The pastoral relation of DIR. Eels with the
! First Presbyterian Church of San Francisco was
dissolved by Presbytery on the LIST instant his
people having reluctantly consented to the same
at o very full meeting of the church and con-
gregation on the evening previous. The Pres
byterian Church at Oakland, California, and the
Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, which
Dr. Eells served with much acceptance in years
gone, were applicants for his services. Deciding
in favor of the latter, he was duly dismissed ac-
+ cordingly, to take effect July l.
n The United Presbyterians' report this year
ashows membership of 65, ,624, which one autho-
rft rAaalya af n Ia klnr
#represents it small gain. There are 565
&3ministers. of whom 40l are in service, 726 con-
gregations "A churches organized or received
and IA or dismissed or dissolved, 567
( Sabbath schools, with 49, 874 teachers and scho-
lars. For home missions the appropriations for
& next year are $3l, 400, for freedmen's missions
$12,20 for foreign missions $4,000 There
are "a students in theological seminaries The
total salaries of pastors and stated supplies were
4 ,S388 278; congregational expenses $241 ,9S3;
= amount contributed to church funds, $114, $685.
general contributions, $73, ,725; total contrbu-
tions, $685. S641; average per member $11'3S
4 egacies received by the boards, $3943; average
salary of pastors, 1928.
i -fhe Scotch Presbyterian Assemblies re-
eently closed their annual meetings. A cores
pondent of the New York ObSerUer writes thus
r 'Tke Free Church still stands at the head of
these denominations in respect to liberty
Though its membes are by no means rich, they
have raised for religious. purposes the large sum
<pf 942O, 600. Next to it, in this connection, is
he United Presbyterian Church. whose income
his year is e3i8, 900; while, last of all, comes
. he Established Church, whose voluntary con-
tributions amount to only e153000 1t is some
+ hing to say of a small and poor country like
Scotland that it gives well on to a million a
year for the cause of Christ; but it is a significant
circumstance that the church in it which gives
east for missions, ETC., is the church whose
minister's are supported by the State. There is
Hearty such thing as an education in the
labit OF giving well as in every other good
hing, and 1t is evident under the shadow of an
establishment that the habit does not find free
Acope for exercise" The meetings were har-
nonious and there were indications that seem
% promise an ultimate union of the various
ranches of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland
The Rev. George II. Smyth, of the Sixth
phurch, of Washington, ID. c., accepts the una
lmOus call of the West Church of Wilmington,
orth Carolina.
The Rev. James A. Little, of the Third Pres
ytery of New York, has accepted a unanimous
all from the schur0h In Hokendauqua, Pa
The Rev. Q. A. Diekey formerly of the
ourth United Presbyterian Church, Allegheny
as received and accepted a call to the FRS
Presbyterian Church (New SCHOOL, at St. Louis
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