The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-10-01


PHILADELPHIA, September 30.-Rey. Pro-
fessor Watts. Of Belfast, presided at this
mornings session Of the Pan-Presbyteran
Council aud conducted the devotional exer-
cises. by recommendation OF the Business
Committee the Committee on Creeds and
Confessions was enlarged by the addition Of
two elders, and Messrs. A. i. Nevin, OF
Edinburgh, and Henry Day, OF New York,
were appointed such members. The Com
mitiec on Creeds and Confessions read a
communication from the Reformed Presby-
terry OF Philadelphia, making application for
representa- IN in the Council, declaring its
creed 20 be in conformity with the concen-
sus OF the Reformed confessions, and
agreeing to accept the constitution OF
the Alliance. On motion OF the chair
man OF the committee the representa-
tives OF the Presbytery were admit
ted. DR.. Brownson submitted re-
solution providing for the appointment
OF committee TO prepare some expression
that would 90 forth 10 the world as the ut
| terance OF the Council on the subject OF
| Sabbath observance; referred to the BUSH
ness committee. Rev. DR.. j. Murray
Mitchell, OF Edinburgh, read the report OF
the Committee on Foreign Missionary
work The report discussed the subject In
all its bearings, including the best means OF
raising funds, modes Of conducting mis-
| sionary enterprises, the relations OF missions
to home churches, &c. The report sug.
gested the establishment OF great training
college at Pekn. China, and urged more
energetic prosecution OF mission work in
heatben and pagan countries. The report
stated that two million pagans had been
rescued from darkness during the past
seventy years by Protestant missionaries,
aud referred to the greater facilities and ad-
yantages that may be now enjoyed by mis-
sion workers.
Rev. DR.. P9XtOn, ID. d., OF New York,
submitted from the American portion OF
the committee written history OF the mis-
sion enterprises connected with the follow
ing churches The Presbyterian Church OF
Canada, United Presbyterian Church in the
United States, Reformed Dutch Church,
Reformed Presbyterian Church General
synod, Associate Reformed Church, Pres
byterian Church North, and Presbyterian
| Church South. A summary OF the statis-
ties submitted in the report may be thus
stated Missionaries in the field, 1876; ma
tive missionaries, 1876; native licentiates
and preachers, 1873; medical missionaries
and teachers, us; American women con-
nected with the missions, 266 native teach
ers and Bible-readerS, 804; COMMITMENTS,
| 1891; scholars in neutrality-suspicious., 1,691
scholars in day-schools, 1887.
DR.. Paxton supplemented the written re-
port with an address, in which be remarked
that the success OF the mission work should
overwhelm those who had cried failure, and
should encourage those who had kept heart
and hand in the work.
Rev. DR.. J. Leighton Wilson, OF Balti-
oHH = 20 4 N nf a
formation OF an ecclesiastical union, by
which to secure cooperation in the mission
field, and Rev. DR.. John e. LOwrie, OF New
York city, followed on the same subject,
and a communication was read from the
United Presbyterian Church Of Scotland.
DR.. Wilson proposed that missionaries
should 90 forward as evangelists, establish
ing churches, ordaining ministers, and or
ganiZiug Presbyteries. DR.. Lowre, while
admitting the utility OF the proposition,
remarked that il he entertained a
belief IN such powers as that OF an individ-
ual presbyter ordainiDg ministers he would
90 into the Episcopal Church, where such
ordinations are governed by carefully-drawn
rules and canons instead OF being left 10 the
discretion Of the individual presbyter. Rev.
Dr. Hutton. Of Paisley. presented rescIu-
ton setting forth that the Council would
consider it timely and proper for the various
churches represented in the Alliance to take
such action as may seem best to various
churches looking to closer union OF their
respective missionary organization for
greater cooperation in the practical work OF
the mission field. The resolution was re-
ferred to the Business Committee. AID.
journed until 2:30 O'Clock p. NJ.
PHILADELPHIA, September 3O.--Before
In y
Council last night, DIR. WItherspoon read
paper correcting misapprehensons, and re-
leving Professor Gildersleevc, OF the
Johns Hopkins University, from the re-
sponsibility for criticisms upon Canon Far
rar,