The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-01
Pan.Presbyterian oounciI


Philadelphia, Pa, Sept. 30.--Before tho
adjournment of the Pan-Presbytery council
last night, DR.. Witherspoon read paper
from Prof. Gildershire. of the John Hop
kins university, shielding him from rosponsi
bility for criticism upon Canon Farrar.
Rev. Professor Watts, Of Belfast, presided
at this mornings session of the Psn.Presby-
teran council and conducted the devotional
exercises.
by the recommendation of the business
conimitte the committee on creeds and con-
fcssions was enlarged by the addition Of two
elders, and a. I. Nevin, Of Edinburg, and H.
Day, Of New York, were appointed such
members.
The committee on creeds and confessions
received q communication from the Reformed
presbyterians of Philadelphia, Pa, making ap-
pication for representation in the council, DO.
chring It's creed 10 DO In conformity with
tho rolormed confessions, and agreeing to
accept tho constitution Of tho alliance.
! On motion Of lbe chairman OF the COM
mittce,. representatives Of prosbytery we're
admitted.
DR.. Brawnson submitted resolution
providing for the fppointment OF com
mlttee to prepare some expressions that
would show to the world as the utterance Of
the council on the subject Of Sabbath obser-
vance. Referred to the business Committee.
Rev. DR.. j. Murray, Of Edinburg, read the
report of the committee on foreign mission.
ary work. The report was discussed In vi
It's bearings, including the best
means Of raising funds, the modes
Of conducting missionary enterprises and
the relations of fmirsions to the home church.
The report suggested tho establishment OF a
great training college at Pekin and urged a
more energetic pro. scutlon Of mission work
ia heathen and pagan countries. The re-
port stated that two million pagans have
been rescued from darkness during the past
seventy years by the protestant missionaries,
and referred 10 the great facilities and ad-
vantsges that may be now employed by
mission workers.
Rev. Paxton, of New York, submitted
from the committee portion OF the report
Of the committee on written his
tory Of mission enterprises, con.
nected with the following Presbyterian
churches in Canada and the United
States: The church of the United
States, Reformed Dutch church, Reformed
Presbyterian church, the General Synod As
sociation Reformed church, Presbyterian
churches north and Presbyterian churches
south.
A summary OF tho statistics submitted In
the repor, may be thus stated ALI mission
aries in tho deld, 1856; native missionaries, 35;
licentiates and preachers; 49, medical mis-
sioDaries aud teachers, 1l8; American women
connected with missions, 266; native teachers
and bible readers, 844; com.
municsnts, 1881; scholars in boarding
schools, 1851; scholars in day schools,
12,gs7.
DR.. Paxton supplemented the written
report with an address in which he remarked
that the success Of the mission work should
overwhelm those who had cried "wait," and
should encourage those who had kept their
hearts and hands In the work.
Rev. j. Leighton Wilson, II Baltimore,
addressed the council In favor of the forma-
tion OF an ecclesiastical association by which
source practical work in the misgiou field
could be accomplished, and DR.. j. @. Low
erie, ofNew York City, followed of' the same
subject. DR.. Wilson proposed that mission
aries 90 forward rs evangelsts, establishing
cnulcnes, oroaining ministers d organizing
presbyteries.
DR.. Lowerie admitted the utility of the
proposition, and remarked thst II he enter
tanned belief In such powers as that OF RI In
dividual presbytery sustaining ministers. he
would 90 into the Episcopal church, where
such ordinations are governed by carefully
drawn rules and q canon, instead Of being
lefi TO the discretion Of an individual pres
byiey.
Rev. DR.. Hutton, of Paisley, presented
resolution setting forth that the council
would consider Il timely snd proper for the
various churches represented In the alliance
70 take such sction as may seem best to the
various churches. looking 10 . closer union
Of their respective missionary organizations
for greater co-opsrAtion In practical work In
the mission field.
The resolution was referred 70 the business |
COMMITTEES. Adjourned till 2 o'clock p. m.