The daily gazette., 1879-10-22
FIFTH EDITION
SYNOD OF BALTIMORE.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON EVAN
GILiCAL AND FOREIGN MISSION
WORK. |
The Synod met at o'clock tins morn
ing, pursuant TO adjournment.
Tie attendance of members was
somewhat larger than last night, mum"
Der having arrived this morning. The
humber Of spectators was not large.
TIE first half-hour Of the session was
devoted to devotional exercises, con-
Quoted by Rev. j. A. Nourse, ID. d., Of
Washington Prcsbytery.
The Presbytery was called to order
at 0.30 o'clock by Rev. DIR. Bittinger,
| the Moderator. After the minutes had
been read and approved, the roll call
was anne nded with the addition ofnames
| OF members present who hal not been
in attendance on the preceding light,
and excuses were heard. During the
session this was m queDtly repeated and
II vas shown that the attendance was
about eighteen In addition TO that of
the opening meeting.
| DR.. j. A. Noorse and Rev. w. W.
Ileberton were appointed committee
to draw up memorial In reference to
the death Of Rev. Lorenzo Westcott, OF
Washington Presbytery.
Rev. J. e. Thompson and Rev. Dr.
Darlan, of the Philadelphia Synod were
invited to seats on the floor as CORES
ponding member.
| Quite a number of communications
anc other documents were received from
various parties and referred to the proper
committees for their consider alton.
| nm nIcKsoN's AuDRFss
Rev. DR.. Dickson, q Secretary OF the
Board of Home Missions, now delivered
lis address on "Home Mission Works."
In commencing, he said he felt much at
home in the New Castle Presbytery, and
hac come to the Synod from a short visit
to the scenes of the first struggles oi the
Presbyterian church on the Eas ern shore.
The first suggestion Of establishing Home
Missions as made by the Philadelphia
Pre- ,byiery, and the suggestion of apply
ing to England for aid to build churches
came from New Castle. He next dwelt
at some length upon the rise and pro. ress
Of the Boards work. In 1916 II had so
grown that 1t was too great thing TO be
conducted by committee under
the control of which II had been
for some time and Board was ap-
pointed. Since then 1t grew rapidly. Al
present there are at least 1,2j0 peop' e
bearing commissions in the work. Mer
were also working without commission.
and exact figures could not be given
There were many, of course, who die
not work properly and they did not re
main in il long. One Of the creates
difficulties was the want of means, bu
in spite Of that the work was going oil
rapidly. The field to- day extended from
the capes OF New England TO the Aleu-
tian Islands and from the Rio Grande u
the Red river of the North.
Another difficulty is :he want of tn
ri hit men for the right people. TIL r
has of late been much lawlessness IN tn
9, undeveloped field Of the West on &C
count Of emigration and a lack Of relie
ious training. To train tn, III is grea
feature.
A great field is afforded by the Amer
u can Indian. The doctor held that the lr
ii,n was much abused, and If tr- at,
right and their intellects opened to III
light Of edu"ation and religion, the
would be law abiding people. Ba
men, who were impo>in upon them wei
constantly making them worse; missio
work was bound to remove this, and WI
doing a great work already.
There were many other outlayir
=. fields. One Of the most pronounced
y these was that of Utah, in the hot-bed
monism. The speaker drew q vivi
picture of life there and illustrated, e
tectively, the aggregation that existt
here. The Board of Home Mission
had Introduced a new era there, ar
many sci ools had been opened. The
were doing great and good work.
Another great field was in New MeS
co. Here was TO be found peculi
people, composed of Spanish, Mexici
L. and American people. Life was will
and the people, as a general thing, irr
ligious. Here the ladies had aided d
Board very much.
1he speaker next dwelt on Alask
and the Alentian Islands as a Fruit
field for mission work, where the peOI
were ignorant and in need of educate
as well as christianity. These were d,
tined to be great commercial field, a
before such thing could come about,
mi was necessary for the people to becoI
intelligent and educated. Let them Ina
] the benefit OF learning and religion a
they would soon advance. In the ST.
of Texas the Mission Board was doini
good work, and found much OF il to
There was a general gOOdf r-nothiI
ness in this State, that was natural fr,
the nature OF the country and It's RAJ
growth and was hard TO extermina
The mission work was doing it, he
ever.
The doctor now turned his attent
to the country covered by the Philad
phia and New Castle Presbyteries, g
wi h amusing levity and an occasiO
bright flash of wit described its condit
century ago, when bad elements
Scotch and Irish Society exeIted
influence over the country. The Pr
byterian Church undertook thework
in the course of time entirely chan
the complexion Of things. Now the "a
elements were coming into the East
towns and they would have to
overcome again. In these old
the lite of a Presbyterian preac
in Chester and Lancaster count
and in Delaware here was far differ
from what il is now. The speaker
he remembered one old minister
used to preach under the trees with
rifle beside him. ready to be used in
Tense against the Indian.
AT that ca ly period preacher tho,
nothing of preaching two and d
times day, AID they "rOde the circ
regul lary. 1t is SO different now,
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