New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-04
PRESB YTERLAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LAST MEASURES BEFORE ADJOURNMENT.
BROOKLYN CHOSEN AS TIE MKT PLACE or MEET
ING-THE BENEVOLENT BUDGET ABANDONED
FUTILE ATTEMPT TO ALTER THE APOSTLES
CREED.
fFRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRI3UNEl
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 1.-The Presbyterian
Assembly adjourned at O'Clock to-day. after session OF
ii working days There were 21O OF fS6 members pres
ent at the rolcall at adjournment Tho place OF the
next meeting occupied earnest attention for cOnsidera
bio time. 1t has opinion throughout the Church
that as Philadelphia is the native and capital city Oh
American Presby eriansm. the General Assembly should
not go anywhere else hold its meeting during the cen
tennia year and has been generally Ph
delpha would be the place selected by the Committee on
that subject AS tho session has proceeded, however.
private conversations have developed the fact that Pres
byterians In Philadelphia not so unlike any other
Phladephans but that they expect to have their
houses otherwise filed early as May of next
year. when few days ago nominations for the pacs
were announced TO be in order one was surprised AZ
the unusual retcence OF the Philadelphia members No
other town seeming cOyetous 10 have tho huge Pre'bg
terrain body brought within It's walls, the subject vas
laid by in committee To-day that unhappy committee
YEARLY announced that while inv atoms had been re-
ceved from the Rev. I. Dewitt Tamage d. d., OF Brook
yn, and from the Bethany Church or Philadel-
phia they would recommend that the invitation from
the Central Church of Philadelphia be accepted and The
latter named as the place OF the next meeting State
mcnts wero Immediately made that ts was contrary 10
the wishes of the Philadelphia Presbyterian and sel era
OF the delegates from that city eorobOrated the state
nent One OF the latter bold enough To say that
Pbadelphians feel that their good clty WIZ become
sort of Vanity Fair in 1876 and they VIII nave more thah
they can do lighting satan; whereas, IL Is wen kno%h
That the remark was received with dersVo chet does
prove which side OF the great trial the members OF
Assembly would support After these speeches there was
nothing TO do but to give up PhhadelpLa. lne ueel
Assembly will accordingly hold its eighty annual
session. in May, 1876, in DIR. Tamages Tabernacle
Church, in Brooklyn. .o.,,,o, - ,r,O mar. ~, ,,i,
closing session. and closed with the sending out OF gen
eral suggestions the churches, without the budget
mitteo of 1870 began work The last Assembly gayo
the greater part OF its time and strength To the thorough
modes of giving proportion, due the different boards,
&c, and finished part by ordering the establishments
of a new SORT of Oyerselr5 OF tie Wo.k, VIZ, COM
mittee composed Of one member from each OF NE %
synods of the Church. That committee, composed when
the Assembly met or only nine ten members, bit 10
enforced by the addition OF member appointed ny e
represen OF Synods mere IOr uheI y '
| Hickman D. d., Of Hanover College: The report vas
referred TO this Assemby's Standing Committee on Be
nevolence, the Rev. NJ H. Grier d. d. editor of Ie res
! byterttn newspaper, Philadelphia chairman botA 10
portionate amounts which should DO raised Tor the eey
! eral boards by the churches. rms Dulsct lag
had five years trial, and does not 10 have lie!
to any increase OF the beneyocnce ot the churches but
anything rather the aud SO has become rather
obnox ious many persons. IL was most uiimo4lsy
stricken out OF the report finally adopted, leaving the
churches to give according to their own ABILITY ana jug
during the current year. without any other Ds oi
reckoning than such rs each OF the boards VIII give Ot
itself The Standing Committee further reeonn' hd'i
ths abolition OF the new synods COMMITTEE mSntohva
above "a dangerously powerful institution sitting ~
the intervals between assemblies, ana permanently easy
ing, and having eIy ldchhea P9@ s syno sI
and 40 no material change Saut the REJECTION o puu
get has been brought about this st5s.oL r. N
| mendatlOns on beneyOenCe winch were '"'s'~N
| the ordinary character.
A remarkable effort made to revise document
older even than tho Presby eran Board OF Publication
almost anything else tha 1t publishes than Tue Hse
men in question. The Board sent up IN overture 10
the Assembly, which reported day or two ago ny
the proper committee and to-day to omit the
words He descended into HE'LL" from the Apostles
Creed III the publication thereof by the PisUy ieIn
Church The question got before the Assembly only ~
the last minute anu after advocate vi ue PROPOSE
ton. the Rev. A. Rankin OF Baltimore had Ncn heaid
| the subject was laid upon the table.
last faint effort was made by one man at inc nencns
the Southern Church. When DR.. Nlccono's report VIZ
adopted the other day. declaring the confidence OF ths
Assembly in the present Christian character OF tho
| Southern Church. effort made by MessfS SNIP
Ety. Wright and Others TO have the word present
omitted, but In vain and the dissatisfied ones nave IN
sisted that this refusal fresh ground Tor Or'e ~
| the South To-day member endeayOrei 10 nave tce
gram read which hal been sent by the Rev star h0o
insOn, d. D., To member OF this Assembly Inc us
patch said that II the Assembly would strike ont INC
word present." the Southern Assembly would SEND dre
gates here. The dispatch was not gwen place IN tns
| Assembly because. stated 10 had already ocen
submitted III the regular To The Bills aud OVertlIss
Committee and deemed out Of order, as the whole uy
Ject OF Southern relations having been nialy dlSlvs
than two days ago could not be legally recon-
| and consequently finally beyond the power oi 'ns
The Paupre~byteian Council 10 be held in London IN
July this year considered and tho Moderaors o w..
| last three assemblies appointed as delegates VIZ, 'n
Rev. Howard Crosby, d. d., Ill. d., OF New YORK -
Wilson, d. d.. LII. d. OF Allegheny City and l. u MOTIFS
d. d. OF cincinnati; with the Stated Clerk, r. r rh.
ended about o'clock and alter Pastor HsyaS
and Moderator Morris had expressed their grau.unS
the members of the Assembly Tor their resolutions
thanks tho General Assembly OF 1879 dissolved