Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22
PRESBYTERIANS.
Proceedings Of the Northern Assembly at Sara
!togA and the Southern Assembly at
Asheville. N. C.

NORTHERN PREsBYTERIANs.


SARATOGA, n. Y, May 17.-At the
morning session of the Presbyterian as
ssmbly, after devotional exercises and
reading of the report of the committee
on bills and overtures, Rev. J. Smith
reported for the committee on
revision of the text of confession
of faith and cateohism, that they
had completed their work on confession =,
and asked to be continued for that on
catechism, which was done.
The board of relief for disabled minis
ters and widows aud orphans of de-
ceased ministers presented its
thirty-fifth annual report. The num-
Der of benfoiaries on the roll is
4 PA ministers, $50 widows and
twenty-tour orphans. Eighteen families
uncared for, making total of 642 fam
lilies, tweuty-seven more than last year.
Forty different persons on rolls have died +,
and seventy-seven families have
been added to it. A large
number OF legaoles, aggregatiug
$50, 024, have added so much to the
funds of the board that no special appeal
to churches was needed. The oldest
minister aided is in his ninety-fourth
year, the average is seventy and
the average time in service is forty
eight years. Twenty-six veterans received
$3.50 just three-fourths the amount given
each of the justices of the supreme court
when retired at the age of seventy. In
come of board from all sources was
Sl59 $40 for the year, and expenditures
SLAB. 9S2 for the same period, leaving q
balance OF SIS, 263.
A resolution was adopted urging the
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and ruling elders were exhorted to see
this was done.
Remarks were made by Rev. W. c.
Kattel. He emphasized the fact that
there were $500 nom contributing
churches, and still larger number that
contribute only two mites.
In taking up the report of the commit
tee on the method of making changes in
confession and constitution it was voted
that after the speeches of Drs. Crosby
and Patterson, speeches be limited
to ten minutes. Mr.. Crosby then
proceeded with a long speech and was
followed by DR.. Patterson, in which he
took the ground that the assembly had o
legal, but not a Presbyterian right to
make the change proposed by the report
of the committee.
To-DAY's SESSION.
Special to the Gazette.
AsHEvILLE, N. O.. May 1.-THE COM
munion services of the Southern Presby-
terry last night surpassed in its sublime
simplicity the magnificent display
of the previous evening. The Rev.
D. A. Penick, closely related to Texas,
and the Rev. NJ. c. Hutton of George
town presided. The home mission re-
port was thrilling. 1t says neither we
nor our fathers have seen a state of
affairs like that which exists to-day.
For twelve or fifteen years this portion
of our country lay among the ruins of
a destructive war. Sources of untold
wealth have been develc ped, towns and
cities are rapidly covering the lands.
millions of capital and numbers
of people have already come among
US. The white, the red and the black
man are all here. Mexico, New Mexico,
and Arizona are on our borders. The
need of the hour is concentration of per-
son aud purse. Special appropriations
was asked for the Alabama Indians in
Polk county, Texas.
AsHEvILLE N. c., May l6.-The gen.
eral assembly of the Presbyterian church
met again this morning. After prayer
Moderator Park announced the standing
committees. The following resolution
was adopted:
Resolved, that this assembly again re-
organize the American Bible society &C
cordiug to the constitution upon which It
is organized and principles upon which it
is at present conducted as an aid of our
church in the distribution of the Scrip
lures, and as such commendS it to the
confidence and support of all our people.
That we recommend our churches to
place the Bible case among objects OF
benefcence, and to make an annual con-
tribution for it to be turned to auxiliary
societies in their neighborhood or directly
to the parent society in New York.
Rev. NJ. Houston, secretary of foreign
missions of Nashville, Tenn. submitted
q report on foreign missions, showing
that during the past year fourteen MIS-
sionaries had been sent to mission fields,
the largest number ever sent out by the
church in one year. An important mis-
sion of great interest has been UNDER
taken to the Congo Free State OF Africa.
Receipts of the treasury from all sources
for the year amounts to Sl07, 627-SI1,-
572 more than for any previous year.