New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-19
TIE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

MEETING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT MADISON,
WIS. oN MAY 2O-sUDJECrS WHICH WILL COME
UP FOR CONSIDERATION.
typou An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT or TIE TRIBUNE
MADISON, WIS, May 15.-On Thursday, May
90 tho General Assembly OF tbc Presbyterian Church oil
Tins country the ruling body OF that great denomination
Of Protestant Chrlsns. Will convene III the First Pres
bycrinn Church city. The assembly viii BE- com
rocd OF nearly 800 Delegates ministers ana elders from
Tho thiry.rght synUds this country, which Include
l70 Presbytcries
the strength OF the denomination may be kn lwn BY
few figures In $50 there 5,ll5 churches, 493S
minister's, 67IIs6 Communicates and Gli11I
Sunlny.scroo members. To support these churches
1868 was contributed by their cOngrtgaltOns whe
TO Homo Missions S30O.GS3 given. and to Foreign
Missions $3Gl 800. Fof oil purposes the amount OF
money raised aggregated $S26OOl3 In the care ot tho
denomination thirteen theological senin"rlrS WIN
b3I students for the year. and lG1 graduated Toe
confederation OF al these interests como wlthih tno
scope OF the General Assembly.
The MEETING Of thus body last year WAS held In the
First Presbyterian Church IN Saratoga II was presided
over by tho Rev. DR.. Henry H. Jrssup. the wcllknown
Syrian missionary. 1t Is customary for tho retiring
Moderator to open tho the assembly with
"A sermon As Dr. Jessup Is not now IN the couil-
try this duty Will deyOlve upon o substitute.
Tho Rev. DR.. Edwin f. Hatfield Of New
York IA the Stated Clerk, aud Will probably fill the
pulpit for DIR. Jessup. DR.. Hatfield has held inc
position OF Stated Clerk In the General Assembly suco
The Old aud Now Schools united In 1870 md previously
held tho samo Office in tho New School branch Tor
| twcnty-fOur years.
Tho first regular business Of the Assembly after the
roll OF delegates from the Prosbyerles Is called and
they are constituted commissioners OF tho body IL the
s,ection of Moderator Tho OF the Rev. Dr. Will
INN NJ Paxton pastor Of tho First Presbyterian Church,
| on Ffth.nyc York has been favOrnbly mentioned
for tho olce DIR. Paxton was formerly pastor In Pitts
| burg and is we'll known TO tho body OF the
| church. which 10 wost Of the Alleghanles
| The ministerial delegates from tho New-fork
Presbytery are the Rev. Drs. Paxton Howard Crosby
| W. W. Attcrbury, Dixon and Marling, and from Brook
| lvn the Rev. Drs. Spear and Rockwell.
Ono OF tho most important subjects to be considered
nv the General Assembly, outside OF the routine Dust
rcas Will doubtless he the report Of the committee ap
nouted in 1878 to revise the Form or Government and
| Rock OF Discipline The Rev. DR.. f. r. Craven, OF
Newark, n j. Is chairman OF the committed He re
portcd last year that the work not In readiness O
final report The Book Of Discipline, as II now stands
! bns crown by aCcrolion, and many additions nave
| are conflicting After careful revision, eXcislont
| aud digcsIing IL will prove Tar more usr
mi and valuable than 1t Is III fact to oven trained
Ills Thought probable that the General Assembly vii
be asked 10 consider memorial or petition presented
by delegates outside OF tue Brooklyn tey W
| SYNOD of Long Island In references 10 tho sthte
nis In the brooklyn Preshytery, growing out OF th
trial Of the Roy. T. Dewitt Talmage, OF the Brookyi
Tabernacle upon charges OF iAlsohOOu ana ueoe, az.
the differences IN that body growing out OF ms acqit
tai As tho Synod OF Long Island refused 70 Teopen
matter when brought before IT, the case VIII uot co
The body Will remain in session for about two weehs
II is thought possible that IL may adjourn 10 ecn
whom the wear before their unOn both the Ola sonOO
and the New School Assemblies held their meetings there