, 1874-06-02
Tho Assembly, However, Does Not
Sympathize with Swing.
Foreign Missionary Work OF the
Presbyterian Church.
No Prospect Of Trouble Over
tho Woman and Temper
anco Questions.
Tbs Reformed Synod Condemns the
Changers and ALI Sasret
Societies.
THE PREsBYTEHIANs.

TIE PREsBYTEHIAN9.
gntciat D,spateh 10 ~. CHICAGO tribune,
ST LOUIS 'nhe l'-Iho attenaaneo 1t mo AS.
eemby III not AZ great as during somo days OF
last woek, although tho interest secms unabAtcd.
Tho Assembly ahowod its dosire to oxnelsto
b,s,noau 1,r onno;nt,pr n comm;t,oo viii Dr.
T.oo,.. - H. III ~ aI....ff -.
~ 10 n'A.' ~ .uo uuo.aooo
ns to finish nud adjourn on Wednesday, cvontng.
Final action on Lis report las not yet boon
tahen.
Tho ouestion of roroto, .f,sa;ona cnro7e, Tim
o+ton.;an -" 49, oa,.,, a.a. ~, tsoa.. W.
"s'oa''on OF tno Assembly curing TUG 1oienoot'
session. Ills Board, as at present constituted,
Is rs follows: Drs. Lourio, Irving, and Ellin-
snrar, ira pa1ton adnma ,t,rrav
noo.,, rn,,,r;. v,sms ' - ' 1W;an '"''
Dvo.''s 4ni"t'o, "eAs, uno mt,aon nhJn'al.
". Il. Dodge, ". a. Booth, Nobert Carter. E.
II. Kingsley, II. lido, ". Vormilye. and Judge
VanYoret. Tho nav Of tho secretarics nor a1,-
nrn, oa wall M t,nt ~ ,1,o nro..,,~ar H. st oon
' a.' Vs. 10 ,.as ~ -. A.oaau' 10 saoo
ea.u, n al."oneo .nos outy e'o" a"t1'e las' 5ear
414 600 iu all. Tho Board consists of eighteen
men, throo Of whom aro e1ootea oach yoar By
Tho Assembly. TINS
r..,,,,,,,e, ,e,.,z,,-o,,,,
issoH1so UNIFORMITY OF ACTION
ana continuance OF the samo policy. During
last year $623. .G27.S7 were disburscd, and tho
Standing Committee, DR.. Darling, Chnirnlan,
recommended eG0D, 900 ag tho APPROXIMATION for
next year. Tho six Women missionary So
cieties raised sS731G during the last year, which
ts 420, 600 more than waa ralBed tho year before,
md tho childron Of tho Church raised e27,9o1,
being an increaEo OF 81, 400 over the year before.
About 400 now members wore received into tho
various Foreign 11is1on Churches during tho
past year. The Board havo been able 10
PRESENT CLEAN SLATE
ana no debt, on account Of cutting down tho
e1ponsea about as por cont. It has boen to tho
serioua delrlmont Of tho missions in Mo1ico,
Brazil, and Chilli as we'll ns in tho United States
Of Coloinbia, Tho Board would not be abio to
mako 30 gond showing only for tho energy aud
onrncstnees Of the women aud tho logaceH OF
tho good men that hnro died during tito last
yca,. THO Board feol under great obliea-
York aud Liverpool, which carried tho Board
during the panic last full. During tho
forty-ono years OF tho cxistouco Of the hoard,
&6,250, 900 have been disbursed, aud $500, ,0b0 by
tha present Treasurer, william, Rankin.
United States amounts to about $40, ono. which
ia situated ih Naw York, and tho property Of tho
Board IN foreign countries amounts to nearly
$780, 600.
During tho second year Of this Board as a
united loarl the dabt amounted to sal 600, anu
during tho third ycar to Sl29. .009, which has
now been entirely paid.
THE Qu1s7roN or RITUAL.
definitely, although under the serious protest Of
many nlclnbera WHO desired, not only tlat thcro
should bo ono uniform ritual for receiving men,
Lors, but a!so for baptism aud burial rites.
tho report on theological aelninaries. Dr.. AT
water brought in th0 majority report, which ro-
viewed the history Of tho sesninaries during tho
last year, and stated that certain gantlomen had
been nominated for profehsorahips. After Or.
Atwater, tho Nor. William T., Greop, OF Peoria,
made minority report, in order that Dr.. Robert
w. Patterson, who look aome part in
THE sw1sa NATTER, SHOULD liz VENTILATED.
Green barred his brenst to tho storm, and said
That 10 would most emphaticaliy protest ayainss
the appointments OF Or. Patterson to professor
ship. Tho Rev. Mr.. C2rsutherB, Of tho salno
city supported Green, but tlAoro WIS decided
disposition to Let tho patteraon- Swing lnastcr
ont Of the window, although DR.. Eittredge, Of
your city, aud DR.. II. A. Nelson euphatically in-
tlorsed Dr. Patterson. The liey. Slr. Carruthers
insisted that, II lie WAS confirmed Ga profesHor,
thon Prof. Pntton would be badly treated
10 luis great fight aganst horesy; but the
Araombly would not liBton to anything on that
subject, and Patterson re,naina cunlrncd aud
~iil not be disturbed at this session OF tho AS
Iembly, unless tho cautious elelnont aro caught
IN Bomo point OF order, and tho mattar then
sprung, whicl in not ut nil likoly to hapreu.
Tho leaders are Gil for those things that mnke
fur peaco. They are wooiug the Southern Az
kombiy Of Ircsbytesians, and they don't want
tlto match BROKEN off By any. eido tiShta,
tho prosont Assembly arc
IN FAVOR OF PATTON AND AoAISsT aW1Na
Ill uootrlhe'
Iha Co1nmlttee On Concentrating Busineas
dont PROPOSE to make my great fuss ovor teh,-
EetaHcet Or tho wouafl Question, as Dr. Crosby
call" IT. since only fifteen minutos aro aotted to
o.sh Of these questions.
Iho Ley. Dr. Young, Of the United presby-
lnr!nn Cnurch ths lley: DR.: Rhodes, Of the
3;usAefan and tue 4!ov Or. Woodsido, Of tho
reformed prohbyteriauf or Covauantora, weso
received THIS afternoon. Tho speeches Woro
rather fel!c!tone, and the important point made
ny Wooaslae ~aa That, il tho Coyepanterh were to
c9't.e into tho Grent Council or tho preabytosian
thnrcn, 70 10 holu III l97o, they would
oaly come II 70 vote W unit as q State Gid IN
tile Fedora! Union. 1ie said that they did not
propose 10 10 overwhelmed BY numbora.
THE IoAnn or runL1oAT1oS.
Dr.. Murray. Of Now York, reported for tho
Standing Committee on the Board of Publication,
that the contributions TO the benevolent or mis-
s:onary wor! Of tue Board havo bos,a during tha
lant year, 947 i9a; the expenditures for tho samo
purpose, $54, ,3i4 aud thu total yalno Of books
disposed Of during tho year, Sl72, 524. by tile