Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-10-02
FIRST EDITION.
80 II. Nj.
TELEGRAPHIC.
THE GREAT COUNCIL.


Prof. Watts, of Belfast, presided at
this mornings session OF the Pan
Presbyterian council and conducted
the devotional exercises. By recon-
mendation of the business committee,
the committee of creeds and confes-
sions was enlarged by the addition of
two elders, and A. T. Nevis, of Edin-
burg, and Henry Dab, of New York,
were appointed such members. The
committee on creeds and confessions
read a communication from the re-
formed presbytery of Philadelphia,
making application for representa-
tioa in the council, declaring its
sreed to be in conformity with the
corcensus of the reformed comics
cions, and agreeing to accept the con =
stitution of alliance.
On motion of the chairman Of the
committee, representatives OF the
presbytery were admitted DIR.
Brownson submitted resolution
providing for the appointment OF a
committee to prepare some express
sion that would go forth to the world
as the utterance of the cocncl on
the subject of sabbath observance.
Referred to the business committee.
Rev. DIR. 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 o. conducting missionary en-
terprises, relations Of missions to
home churches, etc.
The report suggested the estab-
ishment of great training college
al Pekin, China, and urged more en-
ergetic prosecution of the mission
work in heather and pagan countries.
The report stated that two million
pagars had been rescued from dark
ness during the past seventy years
by protestant missionaries, and re-
ferred to greater facilities and ad-
vantages that may be now employed
by mission workers.
The Rev. DIR. Paxton, D. D., OF
New York, submitted from the Amer
ican portion of the committee writ
ten history of the mission enterprise
es connected with the following
churches: Presbyterian church, of
Canada, United Presbyterian church
in United States, Reformed Dutch
church, general Synod,) Associate
Reformed church, Presbyterian
church, north and Presbyterian
church, south. A summanary of the
statistics submitted in the report
may be thus stated:
Missionaries in the field, 195; na
tive missionaries, 1876; native icen
tiates and preachers, 168; medica
missionaries and teachers, 118
American women connected will
missions, 266; native teachers an(
bible readers, 894; communicates
1891; scholars in boarding schools
l,G9l; scholars in day schools, u,
987. DR.. Paxton supplemented tn
written report with an address, il
which he remarked that the success
of the mission work should over
whelm those who had cried failure
and should encourage those who ha
kept heart and hands in the work.
Rev. DR.. j. Leighton Wilson, o
Baltimore addressed the council il
favor of the formation of an ecclesias
tlcal union by which to secure co-oE
Grafton in the mission field, and Rev
Dr.. John G. Lowrie, of New Yor
city, followed on the same subject
DIR. Wilson proposed that missiona-
rles go forward as evangelists, es
tablishing churches, ordaining min
listers and organizing presbyteries
DIR. Lowrie, while admitting the util
lty of the proposition, remarke
that if he entertained the belief i
such powers as that of individua
plesbyter ordaining, he would g
into the Episcopal church where sue
ordinations are governed by CAREFUL
drawn rules and cannons, instead {
bning left to the discretion of the il
dividual presbyter. Rev. DR.. Hutton
of Paisley, presented resolutio
setting forth that the council woul
consider it timely and proper for til
various churches represented in tt
alliance to take such action as ma
seem best to the various churche
looking to a closer union of their T
spectlVe missionary organizations fc
a greater cooperation in the work
the mission field. The resolutio
was referred to the business commi
lee. Adjourned until 2:3O o'clock !