PRESBYTERIANS. 



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connection with the United Svnod of the Presbjte- 

 rian Church. 



'fed, 1. That the connection of this Presbytery 

 with said Synod be, and the same is now hereby dis- 

 solved. 



Resolved, 2. That this Presbytery, at the kind so- 

 licitation and request of that General Assembly of 

 the Presbyterian Church from which it withdrew in 

 presented through Kev. J. W. Elliott, does now 

 return to the body. 



The Cumberland Presbyterian General As- 

 sembly met on May 19th, at Lebanon, Ohio, 

 and Lad, like the Old School General Assem- 

 bly, an animated discussion on the questions 

 of loyalty and slavery . A committee of nine, 

 to which some overtures respecting slavery had 

 been referred, reported the following two res- 

 olutions. 



Resolved, 1. That we regard the holding of human 

 beings in involuntary slavery, as practised in some 

 of the States of the American Union, as contrary to 

 the precepts of our holy religion, and as being the 

 fruitful source of many evils and vices in the social 

 system. 



Resolved, 2. That it be recommended to the Cum- 

 berland Presbyterians, both North and South, to give 

 countenance and support to all constitutional efforts 

 of our Government to rid the country of that enor- 

 mous evil. 



The Assembly appeared at first to hesitate 

 respecting the adoption of these resolutions, 

 and, on motion of Mr. Bird, of Kentucky a 

 man of great influence in the Church it was 

 resolved by thirty against twenty-eight votes, 

 to refer the resolutions to the presbyteries. 

 On the next day, however, two members from 

 Missouri and two from Tennessee wished to 

 change their votes. Some members of the ma- 

 jority, when they saw that the resolutions of 

 the preceding day would be reversed, left the 

 meeting, and finally the anti-slavery resolutions 

 originally reported by the committee were al- 

 most unanimously adopted. 



The Cumberland Presbyterians of the seceded 

 States appear to be the only one, among the 

 larger religious denominations of the South, 

 which has not succeeded in organizing an inde- 

 pendent Southern Church. Conventions for 

 that purpose have been in turn called at Chat- 

 tanooga, at Selma, and at Dalton, Georgia, but 

 they have either not met at all, or have been 

 unable to achieve any thing. It is stated, on 

 what appears to be good authority, that a large 

 number of the Southern Cumberland Presby- 

 terians have remained loyal to then: former 

 church connection. 



The sixth annual meeting of the United Pres- 

 byterian General Assembly assembled at Phila- 

 delphia, on May 25th, and elected the Eev. D. 

 A. Wallace, D.D., of Monmouth, Illinois, Mod- 

 erator. Strong loyal and anti-slavery resolu- 

 tions were unanimously adopted ; also reports in 

 behalf of the missions among the freedmen. 



The United Presbyterian Church of Xorth 

 America is composed of V synods, 46 presby- 

 teries, 371 settled pastors. 142 ministers with- 

 out charges, making 513 ministers, 47 licentiates, 

 and 54 students of theology, making a total of 

 ministers and those in preparation for the mSn- 



:>f G14. There are 23,410 families, 57,091 

 members, with an increase during the year, by 

 examination and profession, of 2.G10, and by 

 certificate of 2,541, and a decrease by death of 

 1,128, and by removal of 3,206. The Presby- 

 tery of Sealkote during the year received 13 

 new members not included in the above. There 

 were baptized during the year 3,098 infants and 

 2G7 adults. Contributions to home missions, 

 815,495; foreign missions, $28,011 ; education, 

 s; publication, $1,564; church extension, 

 7; Assembly's fund, $595; Synod's funds, 

 $3,018 ; salaries of pastors paid by congrega- 

 tions, $207,859, and by the Assembly, $12,404; 

 money paid for general purposes, $143,031 ; 

 making a total of $398,075, being an average 

 of Atj.91 for each member of the Church. 



They have three theological seminaries locat- 

 ed respectively at Alleghany City, Pa. ; Xenia, 

 Ohio; and Monmouth, HI. Foreign mission 

 stations at Savanna Grande, Trinidad, "West 

 Indies ; Damascus, Syria ; Cairo and Alexandria, 

 Egypt; Canton, China; Sienna, Italy. There 

 are six boards for carrying on the operations of 

 the Church foreign missions, located at Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. ; home missions, the executive com- 

 mittee at Xenia, Ohio; publication, at Pitts- 

 burg, Pa. ; church extension, at Alleghany City, 

 Pa. ; education, at Monmouth, 111. ; and freed 

 men's mission at Alleghany City, Pa. 



The General Assembly of the Presbyterian 

 Church of the Confederate States, which em- 

 braces the seceders from the Old School Pres- 

 byterian Church of the United States, met on 

 May 5th at Charlotte, North Carolina, and 

 elected Rev. John S. Wilson, D. D., of Georgia, 

 Moderator. One of the most important topics 

 discussed by this body was that of a union be- 

 tween the dhTerent Presbyterian bodies of the 

 South. The last year it seemed as if all these 

 bodies were anxious to consummate the union 

 as soon as possible; but the proceedings of the 

 General Assembly showed that there was by no 

 means a unanimity with regard to this subject, 

 and, in particular, the union with the Southern 

 New School Presbyterians (the United Synod) 

 was very strongly objected to by several pro 

 byteries of the Old School brethren. A majoniy 

 declared themselves, however, in favor of re- 

 union, which was accordingly consummated in 

 the course of the year. The United Synod 

 met for the last time at Lynchburg, the only 

 business transacted being the consummation of 

 the plan of union. 



The Presbytery of New Orleans, at the be- 

 ginning of 1864, held a meeting, at which it 

 was resolved that the Presbytery separate 

 from the General Assembly of the Confederate 

 States, and declare itself an independent body. 

 The union between the Old and Xew School 

 Presbyterians of the United States, made con- 

 siderable progress in the course of the year. 

 During the session of the Old School Presbyte- 

 rian General Assembly at Xewark, a meeting 

 of ministerial and lay delegates of that body 

 was held, at which the following mea^j-es as 



