Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-01
MORNING SESSION.

Application for Representations Sabbath
Observance-The Work Of Converting
the Heathen.
PHILADELPHIA, September 30.-Prof
Watts, OF Belfast, presided at the morn
ing session o: the Pan-Presbyterian
Council.
The Committee on Creeds and Comics.
sions read a communication from the
Reformed Presbytery OF Philadelphia,
making application for representation in
the Council, declaring its creed to be in
conformity with that OF the reformed
confessions, and agreeing to accept the
constitution OF the Alliance. The repre-.
sentatives OF the Presbytery were ad-
mitted.
Sabbath Observance.
DR.. Brownson submitted resolution
providing for the appointment of com.
mittee to prepare some expression that
would go forth to the world as the utter.
ancs of the Ceunc,l on the subject OF
Sabbath observance. Referred to the
Business Committee.
Foreign Missionary Work.
Rev. DR.. j. Murray Mitchell, OF Edin-
burg. read the report OF the Committee
on Foreign Missionary Work. The re-
port discussed the subject in all its bear
ings, including the best means Of rails.
ing funds, the modes of conducting the
missionary enterprises, the relations of
missions to the home churches, etc.
The report suggested the establishment
OF a great training college at Pekin,
China, and urged more energetic pros
ecution of the mission work in the Keatin
and Pagan countries. The report stated
that 100000 Pagans had been rescued
from darkness during the past seventy
years by Protestant missionaries, and re-
ferred to the great facilities and advant-
ages that may be now enjoyed by mis-
sion work.
What the Church in America Has Done.
Rev. DR.. Paxton, ID. d., of New York,
submitted from the American portion
OF the committee history Of the mis-.
sion enterprises connected with the fol-
lowing churches: Presbyterian Chuch
OF Canada, United Presbyterian Church
in the United States, Reformed Dutch
Church, Reformed Presbyterian Church,
General Synod, Associate Reformed
Church, Presbyterian Church OF the
North and Presbyterian Church OF the
South. A summary OF statistics was
submitted in the report and may be
thus stated: Missionaries in the field,
1876; native missionaries, 1876; native Ii
centiates and preachers, 1876; medical
can women connected with missions,
2G6; native teachers and bible readers,
S9i; communicants, 1851; scholars in
boarding schools, l,69l; scholars in day
schools, l2,sSI.
Individual Presbyters.
DR.. Wilson proposed that missiona.
ries should 90 forward as evangelists,
Establishing churches, ordaining minis.
srs and organizing Presbyteries.
IDr. Lowrie, while admitting the utili.
of the proposition, remarked that il |
entertained a belief in such powers
tat OF an individual presbyter or
ISng ministers he would 20 into the
!Aopal Church, where such ordina-
u1are governed by carefully drawn
.."And canons There was no need Of
w left to the dissection OF an indi
'mpSresbyter.
heHutton presented resolution
, setllprth that the Council would
consljt timely and proper for the
, ,; rariou urches represented in the Al
nance ke such action as may seem
pesl 70 Various churches, looking to .
closer Of their respective mission
aIy olsations for greater co-opera-
son ih 'it tactical work of the mission
, me Ieon was referred to the
, nu''"e nittee.