The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-23
THE TABERNACLE COUNCIL.
TIE PREsBYTBRI<N GENERAL As
sHMBLY's WORK.

| hury-The ray OF CierGymcn discussed.
Nearly all the delegates TO the General
Assembly Of the Presbyterian Church were in
their places Yesterday whom the Rev DR.. Van
Dyke took the MODERATOR chair In the Brook
| lyn Tabernacle. The nrst half hour was devoted
to religious exercises, and an appeal Of the Rev.
Bsyley Smith from the decision Of the Presby-
terry OF westcbester county was referred to the
| judiciary Committee.
The Rev. DR.. Prime offered q resolution TO the
effect that the Assembly set apart an hour at
some session toward the end o. his week for
| praise and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for
his goodness to this country during the nrst
| hundred years OF Its national existence, and
that the Christian people OF Brooklyn be invited
to unite with the Assembly In the Tabernacle
| and take part In the thanksgiving. The resolu-
| tion was adopted, and a Committee of three
was appointed to make arrangements.
Dr. Prime moved that tho word "Pan." a.
applied to the Presbyterian Assembly, should
be stricken out Of the minutes. There was no
no such thing as q Pan" Presbyterian Church,
and he hoped there never would be. 1t was
simply the Presbyterian Assembly, and the
beathen term Pan" bad no relation to 1t. The
Objectionable word was stricken GU.
A report from the Committee on the Board OF
Education was read, from which II appeared
that though there was no lack OF zeal on the
part Of he members OF the hoard. and the funds
10 hand we're larger than last year. the contribu-
lions Of individual churches had fallen on.
The Secretary of tue Board OF Education spoke
at some length on the importance OF careful
| training 81 students for the ministry. The Ger
IN ms. he SAID. were class IN which the board
feIt n peculiar interest. In the annual report
instance was mentioned OF a young tailor from
Holland who, though possessing only slight
mental In procuring the preparation Of a large
number Of students to preach the gospel In the
wholly out Of debt, and there were as oandi-
dates for the ministry lat year.
DASH AT THEOLOGICAL sTUDENTs-
Mr.. Evans, a lay delegate from Dayton. Ohio,
were far IN adv nee OF the Presb, teIians In
advance of the Presbyterans in successfully
training young men Tor the high ONCE Of tho
ministry. Candidates for ministerial sppoint-
ments in the latter church we're not always dill
gent workers. and many OF them spent much
| OF their time "lUs6ns at street corners and
| sauandeine the money that had been appro-
priated for their support and education"
Prof Aiken OF Princeton College thought that
| theological scholarrhips should oe founded, and
| the poor students left to rely upon these rather
than upon the Board OF Education, which often
kept them la DOUBT uD to the last month Of the
year whether they would receive even the re-
duced sum promised them.
he Rev. DR.. Spears wanted TO know tho
name OF the delegst . VINO had asserted that
students To ptepara,ion for me presoytsti.n
ana loading ut street CO. ners. Being told that It
was der Evans Of Dayton, ohio. he g I'd be
| thought the statement uiost eItr ordinary
| one, rejecting mu n more upon the presbytery
| from whicn the delegate came, AMI, posslols,
| Board OF Educ ton. Tor " the candid sies
| he spoke of Uelonsed to his Presoyterv To MS
cburcn they should have been expelled long
| agn. tApplause.l
Elder Kingsley said he hoped II the report of
| the Committee on the Board OF Education was
adoOted the delegates would not go home felici-
tating themselves on the ct OF the board being
| In nourishina financial condition. 1t was
simply out OF debt. Aud VINO h I'D paid the
deotf Not the churches, certainly, for It mad
be shown that they had contributed less than
LIST We r. The money had come out OF tn. peck
cts oil tue Door students. who. tnat cad
Ing tne $50, which had been promised them,
nsntly ssssrued thet ,aS trs.tmspt % 'S.I-
students argued that they were more like Jews
than Christians, aud another DELEGATE. going a
step further, sa,d they were a great deal worse
than Jews, for they, tue Hebrews, would never
have been guilty OF such meanness. tLaughtsr.l
The report Of the committee was adopted.
NEW ORDER or BUSINESS.
The Clerk announced that the Moderator had
rec ived Information that q delegats with a
small head found himself, accidentally In pos
session OF a large hat, which he desired 60 ex-
change for his own property.
A delegate with a massive head rose and said
he had carried away small hat, and would be
glad to restore It to Its owner. and recover his
own. IL was also announced that u delegate
mad lett cigar upon tue platform, and could
have Il on application TO the Clerk.
Immediately after recess the Rev. Dr. s. Ire
mttee appointed TO 20 to Philadel phia to confer
with the q ntenni I Commissioners with refer
encs TO the closing OF the Exhibition Sun
days, that ARRANGEMENTS had been made to
meet the Commits, Ion at o'clock on Wednes-
day afternoon, making IL necessary leave
New York on "Wednesday morning. There was
some objection TO thus arrangement, Wednes-
day morning having been set apart for the con
siderHtiOn Of the IMPORTANT question OF foreign
missions, but Dr. PINE said that, Of course,
the .sembly mad appointed on the committee
such delegates as could best be spared from It's
deliosration,. lLiushter.l
While the Rev. DIR. Brownson was addressing
the assembly with reference IL the sustentation
fund aud ieli-i OF ministers, some one sent a
magnificent bouquet, OF colossal proportions
ana rare flowers, In a clouded Hiiss vase, Ia he
ak A "a.
ger boy carried the precious burden no the
steps successfully enough. and with sudden
turn OF his wrist de posted the bouquet III the
waste paper basket, and placyd the empty vase
upon the taole VI the erat,ned clerk. I he BOYS
sion. consisted In q 1tnsrlng up the crushed and
scattered blnssums, and rrarrsngine them with
an Unborn Moral Ingenuity That resulted In all
the fuchsi ~ clustering uDon one side, and every
lily IN the vase gractng the other.
THE QUESTION or SALARIES.
Speaking on the report OF the sustentation
JOse, California. thought 1t unfair that the mini
mum salary 81 a pastor, say In New Jersey,
should he $1,000 ayeor, while those attached to
the Home Mission, and iaboring, perhaps, In
tue mountains OF California; with the cost OF
living higher than in the east. received a min-
In um salary OF 500.
DR.. Samuel {. Logan Of Philadelphia thought
II did not become Tue church To discuss what
It's ministers could live upou thousands Of miles
away, or calculate exactly how much they were
worth. lhe Assembly ought TO ~ the SAL
sres Of home missionaries under the advice of
tbs Presbyteries under which they worked, and
see that the saaneS were paid without refer
ence To the particular place OF the missionary's
laoors. He spoke OF the difficulty obtaining
salaries suticieDt 10. pastors To live upon Ia the
West. In lh5s the standard salary for a mission
AIRY was $40 wear. and any church able To pay
this SUN could get aid from the Home
Board. Yet, out OF fourteen posters, there was
only one who received SO much. he remem-
beTed a minister whose CONGREGATION celebrated
tue twenty-hrst anniversary Of his pastoral con-
Dection with them, One Of them arose and pro-
posed to Increase mis- diary To 500 a wear. DR..
Logan spoke TO them, and Induced Them to
make IL up TO 81 900; and they were as easily
able to pay $l.0OJ AS 500.
Several other DELEGATES spoke to the question,
and the Rev DIR. william Il. Knox OF the synod
OF Geneva, N. Y, 9 Id he thought that such
showers of oratory had never before been poured
upon PRESBYTERIAN meeting a. had heen IN
hIcted upon the General Assembly. On his mo-
ton, It was resolved that all speeches hereafter
should be limited to ten minutes, exceptions
being made IN vor of DIR. Jacobus, a former
Secretary OF the Cou mittee on the Sustentation
Fund.- woo, though not a delegate, had been ia
vlted To address the Assembly. He Thought the
salaries Of the home missionaries were alto
gethsr too small, and their repeated demands
for enough tn live uDOn rsspeotaDly reflected no
discreuit upon them, but very great uiScredit
upon the church That omitted to provide them
with adequate means Of lpport. There was a
desire on the part Of the delegates to prolOng
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