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PRESBYIERIASlSH, NORTH And SOUIH.
SECTIONAL QUESTION DISCUSSED
HARD TIMES IN ENGLAND.
CRIMES And CASUALTIES
,RLMES AND CASUALTIES.
PRESBYTERIANISM.
NORTH AND " south, in the Church


NRw YORK, May PAT the opening of
yesterday afternoons session OF the Presley
terrain General Assembly in Brooklyn, Dr.
Musgrave, the former secretary of the Home
Missionary Board, took the floor to speak on
this topic; He touched briefly upon the sep
aration Of
THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PREsBY-
TERRAIN CHURCH.
and protested against calling this assembly
the northern assembly. 1t is not sectional.
IL is national, as their fathers designed that
II should become. They might speak of the
southern" assembly, for that body is purely
sectional. We, he said, have done what we
could 10 bring about union, and now we
should wall until the southern church shall
come TO us seeking for union. But until that
must
GO AT ONCE INTO THE SOUTHERN r1rIn
and plant churches all over the land. Give
me, said the Doctor, 500 900 and men enoug IN
and will plant synod in every state In the
part Of our mission, and our relation TO the
southern church and the people demands
that we do this. And we must do il also, TO
sin, the SON of perdition. This, too, is the
best way 10 bring about the fraternsl union
which we all long for, and which may the
good Lord hasten in his time.
A WASHINGTON OPINION.
Drs. Hendy, OF KY; Wills, of Washington,
ID. C.; Hendrick, OF KY; Knox. of the Che
mung Presbytery; Rev: Mr.. Murkland, OF
South Carolina, and others, spoke on this
question, most OF them taxing position
against this assembly sending its mission
aries INFO the southern country. DIR. Hem
drick said there are twenty counties In Ken
lucky where there is neither Presbyterian
church nor q minister OF the church, and
that within his own presbytery from six 10
ten men could be Immediately employed.
perceived that the Home mission board had
already established its
MISSIONS IN SOUTHERN STATES,
and he could not see why the other states
IN
brother from Kentucky had just invited
them to go into that state, and that is Just
what this assembly proposes TO do and TO do
at once. DIR. Fowler could not see by wnat
right or authority the southern church
claimed exclusive jurisdiction over that ter
ritory. The moderator, DR.. Vandyke, made
sioners right on this point, and TO call their
attention to the devotion OF this day TO the
consideration OF the whole mission field, and
not to this one phase Of it. First, the mod
tional nor national. 1t is church
OF the Lord Jesus Christ, whose
field is the world, and il has right
ity shall call its ministers. They enter this
southern field as they would enter any
other field to cultivate IL for Christ and for
spirit OF rivalry or usurpation, but as OF
their right TO go anywhere for Christ; and
he disclatmed for DR.. Musgrave and for
every other member OF the assembly, any
desire to interfere with the work of their
southern brethren, but merely to 60 where
they are invited and where there is room
for them.
THIS DISCUSSION
arose upon q recommendation in the report
that the board of home mission shall make
no sectional distinction In its appropria
tions to mission fields. Application came
from eastern Florida, which led the com
mittee to make this recommendation. Six
thousand four hundred and ninety. souls
have oeen added TO the church during the
last year through these missions, nearly 900
more than the previous year; 2l0 new Sun
day schools were organized; 10 church build
iDgs erected; ITO more helped into being; 63
churches have become self-sustaining dur
ing the year, and all this much done at a
cost OF Sli3. 1ll.