The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-18
PITTSBURGH LETTER.
PRESBYTEKIAN GENERAL AS.
SEMBLY.
Yesterdays Doing Greet
ings-PersonaI Sketch OF the
EeW Moderator, DR..
Patton,
Correspondence OF the Register.

| Correspondence OF the Register.
PITTSBURGH, May IL
The first business transacted was the
appointment of standing committees.
DR.. Kempshsll of New Jersey, offered
q resolution calling upon Presbyteries to
contribute their full proportion to the
Commissioners fund The Doctor said
that Presbyteries near his home had de-
clared that il the representation to the As
Sembly was not reduced, they would use
their discretion IN paying the expenses
of their own commissioners.
rending the vote on the resolution,
the reports of committees on Ststistics
Reports of Presbyteries were received
from Revs. Peyson, New York; Wood,
Chicago; Remington, New York, and
Beatty, Pittsburgh.
The report OF the Board of Foreign
Missions was handed in and referred to
the appropriate committee. Monday
next was fixed upon as the time for con-
sidering the report of the Board Of Pub
licstion. The report of the Committee
on the Relations OF Home Missions Sus-
tentation was deferred until Thursday
morninging next Also, the report of
the Board of Education.
FRATERNAL GREETING.
A motion was made 10 send fraternal
regards to the Southern Presbyterian
Assembly, now in session in Knoxville,
Tennessee, was adopted.
A committee of three was appointed to
consider proper place for the next
meeting of the Assembly.
On motion of DR.. Allison, the half
hour for devotion was taken Off the first
half hour of the session, instead of the
last half hour.
The first business Of the afternoon ses-
sion, was the unveiling of the marble
tablet described yesterday. Rev. Leon
ard Bacon, pastor Of the Third Church,
unveiled the tablet with appropriate re-
marks, the audience hsYlng gathering
outside the building and in the vestibute
at the time. Upon reassembling inside,
DR.. Riddle responded in a feeling sd-
dress, and was followed by DR.. Breed,
moderator pro tenn, and DR.. Bacon, the
latter, being especially felicitous in his
remarks.
After singing the doxology, the order
of the day was resumed. The Committee
on Credentials, reported the arrival of
additional delegates.
DR.. Knox reported from the Committee
on German Work, which was appointed
by the last assembly. The paper was
very exhaustive and treated OF the rela-
tions of Presbyterisns with the Germans
in this country. The report was adopted.
THE NEW MODERATOR.
The most prominent of all the dele
gates by reason of his elevation to the
ton, of Chicago. He was born January
%, 1912, of English parents, in the Is
land OF Bermuda, under British dOmln-
ion. His home was in Hamilton. He
was early sent TO Toronto, Canada, TO
prepare for the ministry, and afterwards
took a course of theological training in
the Princeton Theological Seminary in
1861. Graduating in 1864, he was called
to the pastoral ofthe Eighty.fourth street
Presbyterian Church, New York, and
was soon after ordained. Shortly after
this he became pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Nysck, on the Hudson. In
October, 1865, DR.. Patton was married to
Miss Rosa Antolnettee Stevenson, dsugh-
ter of DR.. j. Nj. Stevenson, Secretary Of
the American Tract Society. After this
he had charge of South Church, Brook
lyn, and left It to accept the chair OF
Didactic and Polemic Theology in the
Seminary of the Northwest, Chicago.
In 1873 he was installed as profess
sor IN that institution. Then he was
selected so care for Jefferson Park
Church, Chicago, besides his other duties.
When he became Professor, the college
at Hanover, Ind conferred upon him
the degree of D. D.
When Prof Swing was tried for heresy,
DR.. Patton appeared as prosecutor. This
gave Col. "Bob" Ingersoll an opportuni-
ty for spreading himself on the Doctor,
and the following paragraph is a sample
of the spread
"If Calvin was alive to-day, snd If
permitted 10 bind Servetus TO the Etake
and light the fires intended to consume
the hereto, the tesrs of Prof. Swing
would certainly quench the flames. But
il Dr. Patton and his followers were al
lowed to be the only spectators to this
awful scene, instead of protesting they
would have turned their backs to the
martyrs burning pyre, parted their re-
spectlve coat-tails and proceeded to warm
themselves"
Personally, DR.. Patton is very attract
i've. Blonde hair, and blue eyea, and NUT
ton-chop whlskers, he is perfect type of
an Englishman. His wife is with him at
the Monongehela House, and they are
Overvhplmpd with cODprstrle tiO0z