The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-05-25

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part OF the Assembly. Your committee
would recommend none. except to cN-
press our pleasure 81 what We have seen
and heard of The Covcnanters during the
sitting Of the Assembly in This ci'y.
4 communication from Prof J. Lewis
! Howe touching the appointment Toy thiS
/ Assembly of Trustee t0 reuf sent err
church in The United Society oi CHRISTIAN
! Endcav0r. Was referred 90 your come
mittec. and after careful consideration.
we recommend that tho Assembly dr-
! cline 10 make such 900 apuo ntmcnt
II is further recommended THAT the
| oldership snd mcml r-aip OF .hc churches
! arc urgently requested 200 take careful
/ interest in Sunday school work ard
| Young Peoples Societies and give -
| them ii possible. more active co-cperA-
lion and oversight.
A SPIRITED DEBATE.
TN connection with the adoption nj ibis
! report-a lengthy and spirited drpIte took
| place which was pr,c.pi,atcd hy the last
! recommendation which was proposed hy
! NJ q. q. Fox. of D1uyilie Ky. amended
/ hy Mr.. John T. Edmonds1n. of Memphis
| Tenn The elders were especially pto'1I-
ncnt in The contention Mcssis. Eos. Ed-
/ mondson. Barron Barley Bow'es and
! others Ono became so much cnihused
and be heard.
Reports have been received from che
! f0llowinc scmirarics. Columbia Louis
VILE and the Southwestern Presbyterian
| University. SO report has been received
| from Union. bat there has been iniorma-
| ton concerning it privately.
Attcndauco.-Th number of tho stl-
! dents during the year are as follows:
| Union. So. Louisville. 81. Southwcs crn
! Presbyterian University. %. Columbia.
1 a. total l-1.
During the year Union mas been Pee
/ moved from iIampGcn Sidney 10 Rich
mond. Va. where much better buildings
| and equipment have been provided. with
several valuable additions .n sight The
! Southwestern prasi yterian University
! has received addlrnal endowment Co
| 'umhia aims at thu endowment of "a chair
! Of the English Bible. and Louisville is
! pushing her plan Of temporary endow-
/ ment.
Several reports mention missionary
| courses and missionary libraries. Snec.al
! mention is also made of Union and Coo
| Umbia of the exemption from sickness ON
| the part of the Professors and students
Along with the pleasing features in tho
| reports mention is made with sorrow ~
| The loss sustained boy Louisville In tho
! translation ~ that eminent and cod'y
| man. Rev IT, ID. NitherspO0n. ID. d..
ILL., y.
| THE eominarits are manned with able
and efficient professors and attended by
'iv. earnest and s'"dious pupils.
The reports from Committee on Sy-
nodical Records Were approved.
Rev. John Fox. ID. D.. the corresponding
secretary of the American Bible Society
was introduced to ihe Assembly and it
was made an order to hear him at u VI
To-Day ln ihe interest off MS W'' j.
colonel W. H. Lyman. or Now Orleans.
submitted The report of the Auditing
committee which was adopted.
II was AN routine except the increase
of the salary of the stated clerk to- 500
per annum.
in. io'Io".ns report of the Commit zee
on ioreIsn Correspondence" was adopted:
ONNElL a MONJMENT
Your Committee ON Foreign Corrcspon-
de1ce respectfully rcnort That there has
come tO us au invitation from Rev. A. ~.
Brown. chairman of ID committee OF the
Synod OF Now jersey. asking Won 20 au-
point delegates 10 reprr-lut vou af fho
unwilling CO., "a PRESBYTERIAN historical
monument ln fha old Scots Burial
Ground iu Monmouth county " j..
whore ass mhcI tl. FIRST General Pres
hrfcy of which auy official record ok
rts. The monument is to lo unveiled I'm
the third week or October 1892
I.e comm. fc. consists of Rev T. D.
Kerr j.. j. Rcr. Joseph s. Vance Row
I1tke D. Flouraoy. ID d.. and Ruling
Elders -. D.. Graham. Esq. AMI William
Nift Henry. Esf.
FOREIGN MISSIONS
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