New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-07
PRESBYTERIAN UNION.
A CONFERENCE TO BRING TOGETHER THE NORTHERN
AND SOUTHERN CHURCHES-AN ORGANIC UNION

A CONFERENCE TO BRING TOGETHER THE NORTHERN
AND SOUTHERN CHURCHES-AN ORGANIC UNION
NOT ExPECTED-NAMEs OF TIE COMMITTEES.
The Committees of the Northern and South
ern Presby terIau Churches will hold conference at
Baltimore, jan T. closer fraterna relations" The
Southern Presbyterian Church was organized az the
beginning Of the Rebellion, and has had no intercourse
with the Northern body un negotiations were opened
in 1870 by the latter. The that the Southern
General Assembly made to this from the North
resulted in the sudden ending OF the correspondence
The question however, again opened by the N'rth-
ern General Assembly at its session in Baltimore in
1873 when resolutions adopted declaring QsU null
and void all previous action (politicaD touching the
brethren OF the Southern Church, expressing (2II
fdeucs ia tho soundness Of their doctrines and their
Christian character; and appointing committee TO
confer with similar from the Southern Church on
closer fraterual relations Last May the Southern Gen
eral Assembly appointed committee Of five In response
10 this action nsructng them TO inter- fully into con-
ference concerning the removal OF those causes which
have heretofore prevented faterna relations between
the churches" Tue following declarations accom-
panied this appontpt emit: . c-,...
Assembly Of 1870 made ground OF roo. objection By the othr
parry a ISL tb,nS, vb,r..,s one nav edy .noberS
yield. the T'he. Of h. Northern Assembly in to, p.,tcu aud
results the conference 'ha berepoea TO oar next General
O. order preepi whether on The part OfOur
SsO. or ,S. a. the ..u As sssD the Assembly s
itself and e.ndo state eIpLe ha. an organic union with
that the agitation Of that subject would tend
understand the before
Bat the other hand the Assembly explicitly declares the rea
desire Of church ooIh Of our adatOr IN their oA
capacity their social Christian 10
M and equal fellowship with ourselves The pheEe. Of the
the Redesmers all
those who hodns the same sre. php Of dosnn and
us entering Communion.
The Committee appointed consisted Of the Rev. Drs.
WIN. Brown OF Richmond Va, Robert p Farrs OF 81.
Louis, b. NJ Palmer OF NewOrleans, and the Hon j. A
Ings Of Baltimore. and the Hon. b. NJ. Estes Of Menu
Northern
posed OF 10 members, follows: The Rev Messrs.
5amuel J. Nichols, Henry Darling. Edwin f. HATFIELD
Thomas H. Skinner. Henry J. Vandyke. Ebenezer
Erskinc and Messrs. Benjamin hItelsey, j. X Moor
head, J. W. Edwards, and B. NJ. BreckinridRe.
The Southern Church IL composed OF the Southern
wing OF the New School party which formed separate
organization in 1887 on account Of bitter controversy
on the question, under the name OF the United
Synod OF the Presbyterian Church In the Southern
sate ana the Southern wing Of the Old School party.
which formed separate church at the beginning Of
late war called Tue General Assembly OF the Presby
terrain Church In the Confederate States OF America"
These bodies consolidated during tho war. aud
us close assumed the tile Of The General Assembly
OF the Presby terrain Church In the United Sate The
Church has now about 10000 members.