The New York herald., 1870-05-24
THE PRESBYTERlANS.
The General Assembly mt Philndelphia-The
New synod al Long Isand-BOundarics of
SynOds.

The General Assembly mt PhilndeIphia--The
New synod 0f Long Island-BOundarics of
SynOds.
PHILADELPHIA, May %, 1870.
In the Presbyterian General AS embiy this morn
ing the report OF the Joint Committee was taken up
and considered item by item as the special order.
The ques t0n OF boundaries OF synods was
first considered. The Iirst and second items,
on the boundaries OF the New York aud Long
Island synods, were discussed ut great engtn
and fnally passed as reported by the committee.
The Synod of Long Island Will now comprise the
counties OF Kings Queens, Suffolk and Richmond.
many, who preferred that the CHURCHES comprised in
1t should form part OF the New York Synod The
Synod of New YORK will now comprise the counties
OF New York. Westchester Putnam, Du chess, Rock
land, Orange Ulster and Sullivan with the ministers
aad cn lrche, in Connecticut.
The third item was discussed. 1t provides that the
Syn 4 OF Albany shall include ali north OF the New
York Synod and east OF the counties or Delaware,
scoharle, Montgomery, Fulton, HamiI on and Frank
lin, with New England north and east OF C0nnecti-
cut. An amendment was offered making the line
east or Greene county In place OF Delaware.
Pelding the question motion to adjourn was en-
tertasned that the commissioners from the several
districts might confer together and determine what
would he best Tor their own loca lies, and thus ex-
ped.te the business OF the Assembly. great differ
ence OF opinion Was manifested by many of the COM
missoners as 10 the most suitable boundaries for
In the afternoon session of the Presbyterian As
sembly, after some unimpOrtant changes in the
ana Genesee, they were ratlied. An the Pennsyi-
vaDia synOd5 were somewhat changed, and, as fOr-
maily adopted are constit lted as sfollowsThe SYNOD
OF Philadelphia to comprise The counties OF Pnlade
phia, Bucks, Northampton, Montgomery, Delaware,
Chester, Lancaster YORK, Lebanon, Berks, Bradford,
Susqaehanna, Wayne, Pike Monroe, Lehigh, Carbon,
Scnu slkill, Luzerne, wyoming ana Sullivan, ana
the Pre:bytery of Western AFRICA; the Synod of Iiar
an Toga and the remand If the st o. Penn.
sylvaala east OF the east line or Ell county, and
east Of west line of Cleariicid Blair and Bedford
countless the Synod OF Pittsburg to comprise the
counties of Cambria Somerset. W ,stmoreland Green.
Fa, ette, Washington, so much of Indiana county as
lies south or Black Lick creek; also so much OF AL
ieghany county les east OF the Allegheny river
ana south Of the ONO; the Synod OF Erie 10 COM
prise a the rest OF the State of PENNSYLVANIA The
Synods OF New Jersey and Baitimore were agreed to
publi he'd, and Thursday evening set apart for the
reception OF delegates from foreign churches.
Rev. J. b. Shaw. of Rochester, N. T., from the
Committee on Correspondence. reported the pres
ence Of DR.. David Cole as delegate from thl Re-
formed Church, and his name was ordered to be
placed on the roll
After o leng ,hy discussion OF the synodical boun.
daries in the Western States, the Assembly ad-
journed.
Ths report Of the Committee on Home Missions,
pres :Lted by Dr. Kendall, shows that there have
been sent West OF the Mississippi some 15O mission
ar since the last report, and that contributions
amounting to Sl72,0OO have been received.
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Church.
CINCINNATI, May % 1870.
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to-day. recess Of an hour was taken In the
forenoon to enable the Boards OF Home
and Foreign Missions to meet and finish
their reports. An effort was made TO get o
consideration OF the vote on the report OF the Com
mite on The Sgns OF the Times, in order to secure
modification oil the clause touching the action Of n
sister church on the marriage question. 1t was
agreed by some tnat this would be construed as q
reflection upon the action OF the United Presbyterian
Church. The motion TO reconsider was lost.
DR.. MCMastcr called up the report OF the Commit
| tee on the Union with the United Presbyterian
| Church. The remainder OF the afternoon was con
| sumed IN a discussion OF the preliminary ques-
| tion so that tie main question not reached.
| The committee will open tine debate tomorrow
morning No limit is placed upon speakers, SO tnat
much time will probably be consumed.
Nothing has yet transprcd to indicate the result,
although the opponents OF the union are very sau-
gulne and say the friends or the measure cannot
marshal moi than twelve votes Philadelphia was
selected as the place for holding the next meeting
the Fourth church, and the third Wednesday in May
1871. as ths time.