The New York herald., 1869-05-29

Balance IN treasury May $500
Total funds expended during the under direction ~
OF comnttee.. 1SN9
The largest amount raised by the cOlored people for
church and school purposes TO May /, 1862 was at
Macon. with 132 communicates, l65 pupils in tn
Sabbath school ana twenty eight in the day school,
VIZ, S3,035; the smallest ut Statesvle. in the
Catawba Presbytery, with ninety y-slX communicates,
100 pupils in the Sabbath school and thirty-sx IN
The day school, viz. sS 10. There number OF
buted.
toned in the foregoing table Is counted as appears
from the treasurer's report the sum OF $3.50 re-
ceived from the Freedmen's Bureau on account OF
rent and the following paragraph clipped from the
report, also refers to aid Of this nature =
The allowed to The nsd ro all
renting and furnishing school rooms ''s'
Rev. J. c. LOGAN, OF Pittsburg, secretary of the
Committee on Freedmen. was awarded the floor,
pending motion for the adoption Of the report.
He said that after the action Of the;Assembles on
the subject OF union the cause OF missions among
ing. lie gave extended verbal explanations OF the
statements and recommendations OF the report.
The peculiarly OF this mission he declared to be
that IL is for the elevation Of two races instead Of
one-0f the white as well as the black. And he made
some rather severe invectives against some Of the
Presbyterian ministers who appear to be ashamed to
take hold personally Of the OF Christ among the
colored people. But while the ministers are ashamed
the people are not. He proceeded to explain the
manner Of keeping the accounts with the cOlored
churches in the South, and also the nature OF the
tables the appendix to the report. 1t was laugh
ter provoking and excited merrlment as the rev.
erend speaker mentioned from the table some OF
the contributions from rich churches In the North,
giving two, three and four dollars. but promising
multitude OF prayers. One church gave one dollar,
and sent It enclosed with the prayers Of the congre
prayers, but wished them to be q little better
stamped. In speaking Of the characteristics OF
they have the same Impulses as the white. .
only that ON account OF their Ignorance their
preGdies,s are stronger, and M he he added add quite
Old School men and the intensest New School men
that are met with anywhere this side Of the
audience pricked their ears and looked up In aston
ishment. fearing, perhaps the usual lrreverent
word TO follow; but the speaker paused, looked
around the house. and, lowering his voice, contin-
uedl-thIs side of-Chicago (Laughter.) To sup
port the work or the Church among these people OF
the south during next year they must have at least
s70O0o and TO make anything like progress ut least
ss0,0)0 viii be necessary. To raise this money the
subject should be mentioned in the churches every
sabbath day. Some think that II the members be
often asked TO give the Church would suffer- but he
would say 70 them that Gods Church Will never die
giving II any one could tell him that a church has
died giving he'll search out where it is buried, put
die In the Lord"
The following communication from the New School
Assembly at the conclusion OF Rev. Mr.. L0gan's
remarks, delivered to the Moderator by the gentle
men named therein and read by the Temporary
Clerk, Rev. MIR. Rogers:-
To MODERATOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
M.rTIse At TMr BsISk cnyrca, NEw YoRk:~
RKv. AND DEAR BRorHER-N gives pleasure TO In
form a. instructed BY the General Assembly meeting
The Joint commee twenty on Reunion wal. a, The
Of the sessions OF the assembly this afternoon unanmousy
ADAMS D. w.re appointed e sommunc.,e this seoa 70
cnr,ou ., ,ur dpMiS p HATFIELD, M Stated Clerk.
Mr.. Ws. STRONG was then introduced. who was
received with applause After giving verbal notice
ceeded say that they had all yearned for years to
consurninafe the union which IA now In fair way Of
accomplishment union Of faith. OF sentiment, Of
doctrine ana practice. And In order TO secure these
blessings they will follow the recommendations OF
the committee OF conference, and study the things
Rev. DIR. ADAMS stepped forward and paid high
euogy TO Rev. Dr. Musgrave and said that II the
| Old School had any more such cannon throwing nf-
teen inch shells they need no addition TO their nun.
bers. lie was especially moved on meeting Dr. Mus
grave. whose memory ne had associated with former
strles and controversies, but whom he had known
faithful adherant to his own convictions, one OF
| the principal leaders In the movement for re-
service Is left to finish what had been earnestly
and 40 successfully begun for the good Of the king
Rev. Dr. JAcoBus feengly replied to the addresses
| OF the two last speakers they being, as already
| stated, special commissioners Of the New School
| Mr. MORRIS PATTERSON, from the Committee on
Mileage, made report, from which Il appeared that
| for the mileage account the sum Of slOss ss had
been received, that 35, Ose miles were travelled b,
commissioners 10 the Assembly for which they are
entitled to the sum OF fi,o52, which was ordered tt
The Assembly engaged In the transaction Of som,
| minor routine business, among which was that thu
| ~
| second order OF the day for this forenoon.
Rev. WIN. u. JoHSsroSE, OF Philadelphia, desired
TO pitch into the secretaries of the several boards
for assuming to act individually In the name OF h
board; buI the subject being considered extraneou
ne was called to order and ne continued TO address
/ the house on the Freedmens Committee report. II,
| was perfectly convinced that the complaint wa
true that ministers are ashamed to take charge o
| black churches, and Northern congregation
| do not give ~ literally as they should to
| wards the cause. Even his own congregation, loys
10 the core is slow and backward; and though they
give 1t s not with that liberal hand and cordial vii
"a for other objects. The Southern assemblies can
| not as yet see their way clear to cooperate witt
| them; SO much the more, therefore. rests the dut
| upon them to put all their force and power into tn
| work.
Rev. DIR. REAsER, OF Kansas, gave his own expe
rience. He had seventeen colOred persons In hi
own congregation. They increased and wanted =
form church OF their own. lie wrote u
Princeton, to Chicago, visited himself at Allegheny
but from neither OF these theological seminaries