Year: 1875


CLEVELAND, O., HAY Zj-In the Pres
| byterian General Assembly this morning
| an unsuccessful effort was made to have
the action Of the Assembly on the report
Of the Conference Commission with the
Presbyterian Church South reconsidered.
/ A resolution was adopted recommending
ministers generally TO prayer and lead
| their churches to pray for the aveTtiOn Of
the impending grasshopper plague in the
| West. The remainder of the morning ses-
/ sion was occupied with the consideration
Of the report Of the Standing Committee
on Home Missions.


The Committee on Bills and Overtures
this evening reported on the whole qUes-
tiOn Of fraternal correspondence with the
Presbyterian Church South. The recon-
mendatiOns are embodied in the following
resolution, which was adopted with only
a few dissenting votes:


Resolved, that this Assembly deeply re-
grets that the negotiations in reference to
fraternal correspondence have failed; that
the Assembly deems it inexpedient to agi-
tate the question Of fraternal relations at
present, by further negotiations
through the appointment Of another COM
mittee. At the same time the Assembly
avails itself Of this opportunity to affirm
unequivOcally its confidence in the integ-
Tity and christian character Of our brethren
Of the Southern church, and so declare that
all acts and deliverance Of the Northern
assemblies Of which they complain are
wholly null and void and Of no binding
efficacy as judgments of the church We rep
resent, or as rules of proceedings
for the Presbyteries and church sessions,
and that in so far as they or any Of them
can be supposed TO impart any injurious
lmputatiOns upon the present character and
standing of the churches and members Of
the Southern Assembly as Christians and
Presbytsrians, such an application Of them
would be unjust TO them and
wonld be disapproyed and regretted
b7 us; and, further, to reafirm explicitly,
in harmony with the repeated and emphatic
deliverances Of former assemblies, our
hearty willingness and our earnest and sin
cere desire for the Te-eStablishment Of fra
ternal relations between the two bodies on
terms and conditions which shall be
mutually honorable, and in the spirit Of
Christian charity, fOrbearance and brother
" love, and that We await in charity and
hope the early coming of the day when we
shall again mingle with our brethren Of the
Southern Church in Christian fellowship
and cooperation.


The Southern Church.


ST. LOUIs, May 25.-ln the Presbyterian
General Assembly this morning the special
commit ee to whom was referred the mat
ter of friendly relations between the
Northern and Southern Churches reported
that, while they greatly regretted the con
ference at Baltimore last January was IN
successful in bringing the two great bodies
together in friendly and cordial relations,
they heartily endorsed the course Of their
committee as the only one they could have
taken under the Circumstances,


Host Of the time Of the Assembly was
taken up to-day in listening 10 the reading
of the records in the Wilson case. This
was finally finished, and tomorrow Rev.
Stuart Robinson viii make an argument
for the Louisville PTcsbyteTy, and Rev. j.
j. Cooke for the complainant.