PRESBYTERIANS. 





joint committee, ID r. port to the Assembly of 

 :' the Standing Committee 

 .iil.lication Mate" tint the publication 

 ome a fixed fact, ami a BUi 



I'M.- Permanent Committee on Babbath-Bohooli 

 iiiict execntive body to carry 



:'hh:ith-sehool work. 

 HI. L-IA.N Ciii'i:< 11. In 



. tin- following statistics were re- 

 port 



Total number of presbyteries in 1867, 54; 

 miionary presbyteries, 3; congregations, 736; 

 foreign mi-Monaries and teachers, 26; homo 



narios, l'jr> ; baptisms, 4,111; contribu- 

 tions to i-hurch funds, $108,205 ; total contri- 



ns, $634,888; average per member, $10. 

 The (leiieral Assembly, which was held in 



:ve< ived t'avorable reports from the for- 



i Missions. The Board of Education re- 

 ported that forty young men had been assisted 

 during tin- year, eighteen of them engaged in 

 literary arul twenty-two in a theological course 



iy. An appropriation was voted to carry 

 "ii the missions to the freedmen, and the Board 

 were instructed to inquire into the feasibility 

 of forming a connection with the American 

 Union Freedmen's Commission. The most ex- 

 citing subject which came before the Assembly 

 was "the "McCune case." Mr. McCune was 

 condemned for holding views favorable to open 

 communion and on the requisites of church 

 membership, which were regarded as at vari- 



Iance with the standards of the Church. 

 IV. Sorim.nx PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The 

 following are tho statistics of the Southern 

 yierian Church for the year ending Octo- 

 ber, 1867: 



Synods in connection with tho General Assembly 



1'r, --liyttTlcS 



Ministers and licentiates 



CliurrlifS 



Candidates for ministry (reported) 



Mniibi-rs addi-d mi i-xaini nation 



'i> addnl <m C'Ttilicute 



Total nnmbiT of communicants 



Adults bnptizrd 



Infants ba]>i i/<-d 



Children in Sabbath -schools and Bible-classes... 



Amount rout ritm ted to siisti-ntatioii 



Annum conii ilnitrd to foiviini missions 



Amount coiitril.ulrd to publication 



Atnoiint (iniributert to education 



Amoiini rontrib'itcd for oongronttonal purpose*, 

 Aiii'iiuit roniribiiU'd for miscellaneous |, 

 Anintin' <-<>iiiiiluil<-d lor probyterial purposes.. 

 i mi MI MI contributed 



10 



47 



850 



LBOI 



OS 



M>7> 



i.r.77 

 8,449 

 89,478 



9,612 

 11,403 

 10,828 

 462,468 



41. -'.>'. 



6,212 



Comparing them with the statistics of the pre- 

 vious \\-ar. wo find an increase of our |>iv>by- 

 tory and of about 14,000 members. The latter 

 number is not actual increase, but chidly tho 



result of more complete returns, the return* 

 of tin- year lii-lon- baying licen vi-ry inromplete. 



.il.ly of tliis Clnircli 



in Na-hsill.-. '1'i-nii., <m tlio 21st of Novcmlnr. 

 nt from tin- Sy n.ida of 



Alaliania. Arkai^-a-, (icortria. Mt-mpbi-. MiHBtB- 

 sippi, Nasbvillo, North Carolina, South < 

 lina, Texas, and Virginia. The committee who 

 had boon appointed to confer with a commit U-< 

 of the Cumberland 1'rosbyterian Church, on the 

 subject of union, reported that they found nil 

 thing-; favorable to union except that the Cum- 

 berland l'iv.-byti-riaiis a-ked for mollifications 

 of doctrinos, some of which were only verbal 

 in their character, but others so fundamental 

 as to require the deliberations of the General 

 'ly. A committee from the 'Declara- 

 tion and Testimony " Synod of Kentucky pre- 

 sented the case of that body, which was ad- 

 mitted to the General Assembly. The Rev. 

 I>r. Pressly, of the Associate Reformed Pres- 

 byterian Church of the South, addressed the 

 Assembly to the effect that the body he repre- 

 1 declined the terms of union tendered 

 by the previous General Assembly. The re- 

 port of the Church Sustentation Fund shdws 

 that 104 ministers, representing perhaps 250 

 churches, have received aid from it. The for- 

 eign mission contributions of the churches 

 were reported at $13,000. Eighty-six thou- 

 sand books and 335,000 copies of the Children s 

 Friend have been published during the year. 

 The Book of Church Order was reported re- 

 jected by a majority of the Presbyteries. 



V. CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

 This Church had, in 1860, 927 ministers, 1,188 

 churches, and 84,249 communicants. The 

 number of presbyteries was 96. In 1867, ac- 

 cording to the papers of the Church, the num- 

 ber of ministers exceeded 1,000, and that of 

 communicants 100,000. There are official 

 Boards on publications, missions, and other 

 objects. Number of educational publications, 

 24; weekly papers were published, in 1867, at 

 Waynesburg, Pa., Alton, 111., and Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



The General Assembly of this Church met 

 at Memphis on the 16th of May. The most 

 vexed question which engaged attention was 

 tho deliverance of last year concerning slavery 

 and tho war, which was regarded by some 

 members as reversing the deliverance of pre- 

 ccding years, and as signs of undue conversion 

 to pro-slavery tendencies. The matter was 

 ,-eUled by the adoption of a resolution that this 

 deliverance did not repeal the decisions of for- 

 mer Assemblies and that neither this decision 

 nor those of the former Assemblies could be 

 set up as te-ts of membership unless they were 

 referred to the presbyteries and approved by 

 them. The Assembly adopted a resolution re- 

 forring the subject of the moral and religions 

 treatment of the black men to the Standing 

 Committees on Education and Missions. In 

 consequence of the action of the General As- 

 sembly on deliverances of former Assemblies, 



