The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-05-26
THE PRESBYTERIANS.
An Uneventful Session Of the
General Assembly.
CHURCH BOARD OF EDUCATION
Makes It's Annual Report--The Com.
mittce ON Freedmen Makes an 1n-
tcresting showing---The Seal Dis
cussed..The Session AdjouEns Early.

DETROIT, May 25.-At the Presby-
terian General Assembly this morning,
after devotional exercises, the discussion
on the seal was taken up. DR.. Baker
and Elder Junkin, of Philadelphia, spoke
in favor Of the seal, The matter was
continued until afternoon. The stand
ing committee on the freedmen reported
through DR.. Erskine, Of Carlisle.
Rev. Dr.. Allen, Secretary otthe Board,
said the present generation Of negroes
will largely decide the character of the
swarming generations to come after,and
the only solution is a Christian educa.
ton. You will see tonight several
young colored nen who look well and
can preach as well as many OF you. Two
churches have become seif-sustaining.
There is encouraging progress at Blddle
University, Charlotte, N. c.; Concord;
Burkeyille, Va; Chester; Charleston;
Bedford, s. G.; Pine Bluff, Ark, and
other places. We have received in the
past twenty-six years, a total of 5, $685.
200, and for the last year $176,326.9O.
This does not include what the freedmen
have given in support.
Total number OF missionaries, white,
IA; eolored, 120; churches organized in
the year, 4; churches under our board.
269; missions, II; communicates added
during the year, 1893; total commune
cants, l5. .4S8 total Sabbath schools, 259;
total pupils in schools, 1922; total
schools, 84; total pupils, II ,029; total
teachers, 1877; number churches con-
tributing, 1891; Sunday schools con-
tributing, 234; women's missionaries
and bands contributing, 1,121.
The freedmen are here to stay, and
must be educated in the south. There
has been much increase in their wealth,
but not much improvement in their
moral condition.
The report of the committee on cor:
respondence between churches and
ministers was fixed for the first order
Tuesday morning.
The postponed discussion of the Seal
was taken up, the serpent symbol being
advocated by DR.. W. A. Bartlett, OF
Washington, D. G., who thought that
the conclusions reached in the learned
and exhaustive investigation OF the
committee should be given great weight.
After considerable confused debate, in
volving many intricate points Of order,
it was voted to recommh the whole sub
iect to the committee to be reported to
this assembly.
.!sInhn Eaton. D. D. LID, President OF
Marietta College, Ohio, formerly United
States Commissioner of Education, read
the report OF the Board Of Education,
Of which the following is an abstract:
The officers remain the same as last
wear. The number OF applicants for aid
In preparing for the ministry has con-
siderably increased; 955 were recon-
mended by Presbyterians, but owing to
scarcity Of funds SO were declined.
We begin the year. with debt OF
$500, and closed the year with the
debt increased $500, although since
closing the accounts, s., 900 has come in.
The question is, shall we take up fewer
candidates or give less to each?
There are tifteen'more vacant churches
than last year, and it is every year hard
er to get suitable men for these. Besides
this, the need OF educated colored
ministers and of men qualified to work
among our emigrant population is sure
to be urgent. Last year only twelve
more men graduated than during the
previous year. The inevitable deficit
must be supplied from partially trained
men, or men from other denominations.
We have $3.50 candidates; of these 103
are colored. Some ofthe candidates are
distributed as follows: Allegheny,
Pennsylvania, 35; Cincinnati, 10; Bid
del and Charlotte; N. G., 0. Total re-
ceipts for the year, S106, ,599.74, $4,000
being loan from o bank.
The report was accepted and its re-
concentrations adopted. The report Of
the proof.text committee was made the
first order for Friday morning. Ad-
journed.
Field and Justices Gray and Brown dis
sented in an. opinion in which Justice
Field maintained that the mere will of
the President was not sufficient to re-
move Judge Of a court created by the
United States, and that the constitution
did not contemplate that judges should
be responsible to any man for his con-
tinuance In Office.
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