Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-09-30
PAN PRESBYTEisfaN COUNCIL.
Correcting VlrNa apprehcuSi0ns

PH,IApEIPHIA. Sept. 3o.-Before the adjourn.
nent Of The Pan n-Presbyteran council last night
apprehensIons. and relieving Prof. Gildersleeye,
Or Johns Hopkins University. from responsi-
bll'y for criticisms upon Canon Farrar.
Te-day's Session.
PRILApklPBIA, Sept. So.-Rcv Prof. Watts OF
Belfast, preside at this mornings session OF
the devotional exercises. BY Recommendation
OF the busintSs committee the committee on
cfteds aid oohfeSSiohs was enlarged by the
OF EdiDburg, and berry Day. OF New York. were
appointed such me mbefS. The committee on
cretdS and confessions read a communication
frem the Reformed Presbytery OF Philadelphia
making application for approximation In the
coGIcli. declaring It's creed TO be IA conformity
VII b the concensus OF the reformed confessions.
anc agreeing TO accept the constitution OF The
aRalte. On motion or the chairman OF the
committee the representatives or The Preshy-
terry were admitted. Dr. Brownson submitted
resolution providing Tor the appointment
or a colnmittee to prepare some cxpie,Sion rhar
would go forth TO the world as the utterance OF
The CouLctl on the subject OF Sabbath obsery-
ance: referred 10 the business committee Rev.
ur. d. murray Mitchell, OF Edinburgh, read the
report on lhe committee on foreign missionary
NUlE. The leport discussed the subject ia all
lis bearings, including the best means or
fals1lg fubdS. MODES CT conducting missionary
pIEeS, the relaIi tons OF missions 10 home
cIUrCLes, dc. The report suggested the esrab
~ inert oI great training college at P,kin.
tLlEa, and urged 4 more energetic prosecution
Or nlSslOn work Ia heathpn and pagan COIN
tlitS. Tie rtpoFr stated that t,ro ml,lien-n1
&anS had been IescUed from darkness duriGc
lAe EtsJ seventy years by Prot gSiant mission
ans, and referred IL the greater facilities ana
aoNahlsgeS That na! be how enjUyed 10y ms.
SlCl Workers.
Rev. DR., Paxton, D. D., Of New York. submit
geo, li' L! The American portion of the commit
tt', Written history OF line mission tnrprprtsps
q Injected with the following churches. The
F1tSt3itllaG church OF Canada. Ulftel Prpsby-
itl,an church IN the United States Reformed
Butch church, Reformed Pfenbs terrain Church
l6tntfai SyEO0:) Associate Reformed church
ffesty terian cnufch nolJh ana PRESBYTERIAN
cfEfch south. \ summary OF the statistics
submitted Ia the report may be thus stated.
missionaries in the Held l95: native mission
ai1's. l.;S; native lIcentateS End preachers 1875.
Htultai missionaries and Teachers lis; Amari-
can "cmtn connected with tie bii,SonS, 26S:
ha'lNe teachers and bible readers. S94: coinmu-
hlcohtS, ls,Sll; scholars Ia boarding schools
l,t9l; scholars IN Gay schools, II gS-
Df. IaAton supplemented the written report
With ar address. ia which he remarked that the
Success CT tEe mission ok should ovtrwbeIn
tioSe " bo had cIied 15tlure. and should encour-
as tLcse Nto Lad kept heart aad hands Ia the
NcIb.
Rev. Dr.. ]. Leighton Wilson. Of galttmore al
oitssed the council ia favor OF the formation OF
GH tct leStaStfcal union, 10y which TO secure CO.
oitlatlcn III the mission field, and Rev Dr. John
Z. '.dWlle, or New York city, followed on the
same subject, and communication was read
fIom TIE L. 7. church OF Scotland. Dr. Wilson
proposed that missionaries should go forward
as eHaDGellsts establishing churches ordainIng
ministers and organizing Presbyteries DE
Ltwrie, while admitting tie utility OF the pro-
lCsillon remarked, that If he entertained a
eellef 1G such powers as that OF an individual
P1est!ter ordaining ministers, he would 20
INTO the Episcopal church where such ordna-
uors ale governed by carefully drawn rules
and canons instead OF being left to
tie discretion of the Individual PresbY-
ter. Rev. Or. Hutton, OF Paisley, pre-
sented resolution setting forth that the
council would consider it timely and nroner for
the various churches represented In the alli-
ance to Ia Ike such action as may seem best to
various churches looking TO a closer union OF
greater cooperation Ia the practical work or
tie mission field The resolution was referred
TO the business committee. Adjourned until
ESQ O'Clock pm.