The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-28
PRESBYTERIAN q GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Various Report. Received and Acted Upon
The Committee ON Forcign Mis-.
sions @5O, 900 In Debt.

CtNctNNArf, May 9I.-At the meeting OF
the Presbyterian General Assembly this
morning the Moderator appointed Rev. John
Gillespie, OF Il 'zabeth, n. j., as Vice Moder-
ator.
The application for admission TO the Pres.
byteriAn Church by the Reformed Presby-
terry OF Philadelphia was referred to a special
committee, which reported In favor OF grant.
ing the application, and the Assembly by q
rising and unanimous vote adopted the re
port.
The report on the Board OF Home Missions
was discussed. The committee recommended
that each commissioner represent this inter.
es. 80 their Presbyteries. A special collec-
tion was proposed - an amendment to the
report. This was lost and the report was
adopted.
Rev. DR.. Williamson, delegate from the
Reformed Church OF America, and Rev. DR..
Lertsch, from the Free Evangelical Church
Of France, were introduced.
The Committee on Foreign Missions,
through DR.. Bartlett, OF Washington, ID. @ !,
presented their report. The receipts for the
YEAR were 5000 9S3; expenditures. including
a debt of Sl0,0O0 were S757 ,635, leaving a
de bt Of $57.75l. Since the Treasurer's report
wae made -, 600 have been raised. The cost
OF the administration of the board, including
the printing of the reports, the Home aud
Foreign Record and the Foreign Missionary,
is . fraction over per cent. of the receipts
DR.. Mitchell, tbs new Secretary OF the
board, spoke OF its great work aud of the
necessity or increased efforts to carry it for
ward.
AT the sftsrnoon session OF the Presbvte
risn Assembly, the report OF the Foreign
D.. \ IL
portance OF raising the debt OF $50 900 was
emphasized. At the conclusion OF the dis.
cussion, the following. accommodation was
adopted:
Resolved, That In view of the statement (refer.
ring TO the CebO, our committee urges upon the
churches the earliest liquidation by such efforts
trustees.
Mr. Rankin, Treasurer Of the board, said: :
I'VE have never reached such crisis save
in the year when we met at Baltimore. The
credit of the board is good, but the church
should pay the debt without applying tor
accommodation"
The report of the board on publications
was next rendered, from which it appears
tbst the catalogue OF the board contains
2 500 works; the aggregate number Of pub
licstions, including tracts and periodicals
of 13 2S5 coo. The Losses OF 1000 in three
years was less than onetenth Of l per cent
The work of the missionasry department
was also highly commended. 1t employs
107 colportuers who nave visited $50 coo
families, held AZ 600 religions meetings and
organized 270 Sabbath.schools. Over S75, 900
wss spent in this work last year au1
$4,000 is asked for the coming year. The
beard was recommended TO publish cheaper
editions Of its books especially those for use
IN the Sabbaih-schools.
An important foreign missionary meeting
was held this evening at the Odeon. DR.. w.
2. Breed, of Philadelphia, presided, and sd-
dresses were made by Dr.. A. P. Happer, for
forty years a missionary in Canton, China !;
Rev. Gerald F. Dale, of Zahlek, Syria: W.
G. Alexander, D. D., of the Theological Sem
mary Of San Francisco, and ]. 81. Barrows,
d. d., of Chicago.