630 



PRESBYTERIANS. 



the Synod of Philadelphia suspended connec- 

 tion with the General Assembly. 



VI. OTHER PRESBYTERIAN BODIES IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. The Reformed, Presbyterian 

 Church, Old /Side, or General Synod of the Re- 

 formed, Presbyterian Ohurch, is composed of 

 8 presbyteries, 66 ministers, and 91 congrega- 

 tions, with a membership of 8,324. During 

 the year, 530 members had been received on 

 profession of their faith, and in all ways, 877, 

 the net gain being 406. The congregations 

 raised, for foreign missions, $9,107.35 ; for home 

 missions, $2,478.02 ; for the freedmen, $5,116.79 ; 

 for seminary endowment, $2,548.74; for church 

 erection, $23,193.02 ; for pastors' salaries, $47,- 

 163.49 ; for miscellaneous purposes, $33,336.42 ; 

 making a total of $123,097.'34, or an average 

 of between fifteen and sixteen' dollars per 

 member. It has a theological seminary with 

 16 students and an endowment fund of $23,- 

 443.05. The Reformed Presbyterian Church, 

 New Side, or the Synod of the Reformed Pres- 

 byterian Church, has about 60 ministers and 

 6,000 communicants. The Associate Reformed 

 Presbyterian Church, which has about 70 min- 

 isters, has dropped the negotiations for a union 

 with the Southern Presbyterian Ohurch which 

 had been going on for several years. It has 

 revived its paper, formerly the Due West Tele- 

 scope, under the name of the Associate Reformed 

 Presbyterian. The Associate Reformed Synod 

 of New York has 16 ministers and 1,631 com- 

 municants, and the Associate Synod of North 

 America 11 ministers and 778 communicants. 



VII. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN GREAT 

 BRITAIN. The Church of Scotland has 16 

 Synods, 84 presbyteries, and 1,243 congrega- 

 tions. The contributions at the last session of 

 the General Assembly, from 838 congregations, 

 the others not having reported, were : 



For Home Missions 69,665 5 6 



Educational purposes 23,85016 



Endowments 27,00000 



Foreign purposes 17,00017 3 



Total 136,51618 9 



The Free Church of Scotland has 16 Synods, 

 71 presbyteries, 861 churches, 3 theological 

 schools, with 226 students. 



The United Presbyterian Church has 31 

 presbyteries in England and Scotland, 584 min- 

 isters, 596 churches, 174,930 communicants, 

 being a gain of 11,376. Average Sabbath at- 

 tendance, 204,265. Daring the year there were 

 11,327 baptisms. In the Sabbath-schools and 

 Bible- classes there are 92,196 scholars. The 

 annual income of the congregations was 203,- 

 408 for ordinary, and 57,132 for missionary 

 and benevolent purposes; 47,556 of debt 

 was paid off, and 14,565 was raised from 

 other sources, for benevolent purposes. There 

 are 132 students in preparation for the minis- 

 try, and 623 ministers, and 4,595 elders. 



The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scot- 

 land consists of 1 Synod (organized 1811), 4 

 presbyteries, 43 congregations, and 6,609 mem- 

 bers. During the last Synodical year there 



was raised for foreign missions 901 (of which 

 3 was from Xenia, Ohio), 170 for theological 

 seminary, 78 for home missions, 306 for 

 ministerial support fund ; a total of 1,466, 

 besides 4,988 raised for stipend. 



The Presbyterian Seceders have 4 presbyte- 

 ries, and 25 congregations. 



The Presbyterian Church in England num- 

 bers 7 presbyteries, 105 churches, 1 theological 

 college, with 3 professors. There are also 15 

 Presbyterian churches in England formed into 

 3 presbyteries, in connection with the Ohurch 

 of Scotland. 



The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has 50 

 ministers and 60 churches. 



The General Assembly of the Free Ohurch 

 of Scotland, at its last session, in 1867, adopted 

 a resolution directing the Committee on Union 

 to continue their inquiries whether the ques- 

 tions of worship, government, and discipline 

 were a sufficient bar to union between the un- 

 endowed churches. The general sentiment of 

 the Assembly evidently was that they were not, 

 and the vote taken was in favor of union. At 

 the United Presbyterian Synod a motion offered 

 by Dr. Oairns, on union, Declaring satisfaction 

 at the amount of harmony subsisting between 

 the negotiating churches, expressing the opin- 

 ion that there is no insuperable bar to union in 

 their distinctive principles, and, in that belief, 

 reappointing the committee to prosecute the ne- 

 gotiations, was adopted by a vote of 389 to 39. 



VIII. UNION MOVEMENTS AMONG PRESBYTE- 

 RIANS. For several years a movement for a fu- 

 sion of different Presbyterians has been going on, 

 both in the United States and in the British Do- 

 minions. The following is a list of unions which 

 already have been effected: 1. The union of the 

 Synod of Ulster with the Irish Seceder Synod, 

 making the Irish Presbyterian Assembly. 2. 

 The union of the Secession and Relief Churches, 

 forming the Ul P. Church in Great Britain. 3. 

 The union of the Original Seceders with the Free 

 Church of Scotland. 4. The union of the As- 

 sociate and Associate Reformed Churches of 

 North America, making the U. P. Church, in 

 1859. 5. The union of the Churches in Vic- 

 toria (Australia), in 1859. 6. The Nova Scotia 

 Union, in 1860. 7. The Canadian Union, in 

 1861. 8. The New Zealand Union, in 1862. 



9. The Queensland (Australia) Union, in 1863. 



10. The South Australia Union, in 1865. 11. 

 The New South Wales Union, in 1865. 12. 

 The union of the Presbyterian Assembly with 

 the Free Synod in Victoria, in 1867. 



The most important union meeting which 

 was held in 1867 was the National Presbyte- 

 rian Union Convention, which met at Philadel- 

 phia on November 6th. The first impulse to 

 this assembly proceeded from the General 

 Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 

 which, at its .late meeting in Philadelphia, 

 passed a resolution to invite the several Pres- 

 byterian bodies to take part in such a meeting, 

 and appointed a committee to effect arrange- 

 ments for the calling of the convention. The 



