New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-23

which IN Is evident lulS Ot'S'
CHURCHES This year less than 40 per cent on III ~
have contributed during the year 70 '.e S 90 con-
trfe ANYTHING We find That an average OF lIU
each tie Doncontribuilng cLuF.nes . 49,, x"r a.,o
m il ora living that the debt has been Wlptu guy,
bat the appropriations made 10 ,o ,e noint'
We sometnrs hear It said that who has enollh IN
HIM will make hs way IN the ministry WiIhont ,io ~
There are very many dangers, hcwcVer III thIt
~ nTocedure How many young men who are tnrO" n
ont into the world 10 earn means 10 'JiIy ,i W h
lie mnisf,l Wliv should they be kept b"ckf IL seems
t. me that If who represent tie various nIespS
the Church should go back to our various In'so'
and make the effort that is In our power 70 iaGv,
and call the attention Of our several bodies 10 thoe
are drpendrnt ON Them Il might not he the case cN
wear that xty out OF every hundred OF our churches m
to contribute to it. THIS iuncture Il OF he ntioso i
tary WHO has devoted the last many years ,h to
the service now rcilres. ~ Is Gi tT in
ming this vacancy find, II possible, she wisest strongest
best that De put mo TINS p'Cc' 10 a. ia
Board and lit 1t up aud carry it on to do the wOfk 'n Is
Dr. Spcer""I wish to say with regard to statement
of MIR Evans about the students, tha' u Is one WHEN
do not understand and thins That u reflects upon VIZ
PresDytery which allows II, ana the cheh lT"h
IL must belong TO the speakers special locality. why
did he not Inform the BOari OF sch acs, a az
such men expelled from the number oi lis Calculates
lApplause
Dr. Jonathan Edwards assembled the platform and
spoke ~ follows:
ia necessary that we take heed TO the signs oi the
"a the present policy the church must
go, zinc 10 time receive notifications from crcum
st0 and ,,,e Educational policy of the Presbyterian
Church. apprehcnd is IN such tranStOhal hlite as
tbe dGicIty of any executive officer thereof. The truth
is that might be wise 10 trace back our ucleS ~
hist"rro f,ct that our Beard Of Education tIaDs
tiona so 10 speak, from Congregational Enclosures mo
ours, aud particularly that IL had congregational leIes
which nave never been heartily bomooga,ed WIN our
lev Ar present we feel that these Congregational
features have bee largely outgrOwn by our system ana
nr Church For instance u the Congregational body
" in the pale OF auu
every is his brothers Keeper ana every eiuneht hS
lis Mace under system al personal Inspection esnOh-
ace Our Board has, alter Congregational fashion, be-
come ecclesiastical power ara our students nave Deci
dcC in numerical fashion, much prudence 50 much
pcty so much amabty 80 per cent or oiO or 40 an
So on Every college officer las rebellcd against mat
sort OF training against being made an agent OF our
Boald OF rducatiUn for this inspecting OF young meii
under their care have myself as an executive I'D cor
cge felt tlis cUnstant In Of wat was due 70 thc
manhood of the students Of my tAuIch. That Is one oil
the things that has helped To rInDa iasSs young tu %
prevented their looking forward TO the ministry.
Inspection aud colleges where young men arr
trained will not correspond IN good talth WIN
the Hoard OF Education viii report In full ana II
they did report, Judgment aud standard oil tac
being different from the Otncr ID laiteu.f
j. limos ,ibc satisfactory result reached 10y
the Oard The Presbyterian church Is me chiei sdc
tona church OF the Ec.oinIloi' anu sh".it 49,
especial 81 Lcr own Her dosuids nave u'eiTi
faith than any oLer creed, aud hcr ministry oIna
take higher hOnors aud Keep more ABREAST o 'e '.iS
than any others. IL becomes Us 10 pace OuIs,Nts III
close connection with educational lhsttuioh,' i. - U'
that only nave Board 10 l"oh alel ana e'i w 'I
dents bat that Board should be an agency o coitsloH
between Us Pud our thtOOsc STIMULATES "hh N''
institutions, and We womb tnua go li,oh 20 ~
aitnfuncss OF these Institutions 10 Tue formulas anu
faith Oi the Church
accent what the Secretary has said in regard 10 c!t
cal remarks made upon our stu tents. cannot Ge,Ss
4 at tine venerable iutucr from th" Dayton Pr'soyteiy
las any lust Tor the REMARKS Wnch t mas ho
1 cannot believe that ia. students OF TIE lI.uisuJ
i'm the Presbyterian CLurcn aie men that hit
found in lolcrsn style OF Language ana MANNERS ~ our
stIuets ami places OF amusement. IL Is not ny
txpcgIrucc and observation. All that nave learned
from surulng with them Is that thcy EAYc heIt utntI
tluu a iien standard uf language, manhood, md pcly
Education ought Ia be enlarged Hld nudlhcu Inc
Board ought % inquire into tr subject hru u' III some
Satisfactory relation the institutions OF Tie laHd
The Row Drs. l.. VI. Kingsley, W. {. Cattell, III. ID
stewart W o. tombstone J. G.. Monfort, aud others also
took part in the discussion. The preliminary pant OF the
report was then adopted and also the resolutions but
not without discussion The report whole was re-
fcrrcI back 10 the Committee, with power TO make
nomination, FOR the additional members OF the Board
Dr. Edwards then offered the FOL owing rysouoas"hlch
were referred o. the same Committee:
EcS3red That in The Judgment Of this General Assem-
by thc lime has the CuI fglucul oi the dhc-
of In. Board Of luciUu lbs tuc establishment thiouEd
that Board OF formal AMI close relations between tn'
GENERAL A~,uJly ana our various Institutions Of learn
ing. whether classical or thculusic.
HcSored, IIat 10 be rrirurd To special committee.
suc enlarged policy OF the Board, to report 10 the next
General Assembly.
Il was announced that an invitation had been received
that the Assembly should meet next year In Chicago
The report OF the Committee Homo Missions an sus
tentatiun was then taken up The Rev. Dr. James j.
BrDwuson was invited 10 address the Assembly, and
made speech Of considerable length the subject Of
sustentaton.