PRESBYTERIANS. 



School General Assemblies (see the points of 

 the board of reunion above, under Old School 

 Presbyterian Church). No serious opposition 

 was offered except to the 10th article, against 

 which a protest was presented, signed by thir- 

 ty-six members. Except this, the plan was 

 adopted without an opposing vote, four mem- 

 bers only declining to vote on the first article, 

 and two or three on the second. The plan 

 to establish a mission-house at Newark, N. J., 

 for the education of Germans for the work of 

 the ministry among their own people, was ap- 

 proved. 



III. PEESBYTEEIAK CHUBCH (in the Southern 

 States). This branch of American Presbyte- 

 rianism comprises the large majority of both 

 the Old School and the New School Presbyte- 

 rians in the late slave States. 



The minutes of the General Assembly pre- 

 sent the following "general view of the Pres- 

 byterian Church, during the six months end- 

 ing April 1, 1868 : " 



Synods 10 



Presbyteries 48 



Ministers 786 



Licentiates 51 



Candidates 92 



Churches 1,298 



Licensures 13 



Ordinations 6 



Installations 21 



Pastoral relations dissolved 16 



Churches organized 10 



Churches dissolved 6 



Members added on examination 2,857 



Members added on certificate 1,411 



Total number of communicants 76,949 



Adults baptized 765 



Children baptized 1,695 



Children in S. S. and Bible classes 33,714 



Amount contributed to sustentation $23,087 



Amount contributed to foreign missions . . 5,494 



Amount contributed to publications 12,260 



Amount contributed to education 8,277 



The General Assembly met in Baltimore, 

 May 21st. It was unusually well attended, all 

 the Presbyteries being fully represented. The 

 trustees of the General Assembly reported 

 their organization under an act of incorpora- 

 tion of the Legislature of North Carolina. 



IV. UNITED PEESBYTEEIAN CHUECH. The 

 statistics of this Church, as reported at 

 the General Assembly of 1868, were as fol- 

 lows : 



The number of settled pastors was 401 ; of 

 ministers without charge, 140; of licentiates, 

 53; of students, 40 ; of families, 28,162 ; infant 

 baptisms, 4,122 ; adult baptisms, 493 ; Sunday- 



school scholars, 32,737; contributions, $729,639 

 (for home missions, $29,031 ; foreign missions, 

 $48,902 ; freedmen's mission, $12,361 ; educa- 

 tion, $2,055 ; publication, $2,258 ; church exten- 

 sion, $12,944); average contribution for every 

 member, $11.12. 



The General Assembly of the United Pres- 

 byterian Church met at Argyle, N. Y., May 

 27th. The subject of union came up on the 

 presentation of the report on the basis of union 

 which was offered by the Presbyterian Con- 

 vention which met in Philadelphia, in Novem- 

 ber, 1867. The report expressed interest in 

 union, recommended free interchange of senti- 

 ment on points of difference, expressed grati- 

 fication at some things in the basis, but declared 

 that, as a whole, it would not answer as a basis 

 of union, and recommended the appointment 

 of " delegates to meet with delegates from the 

 other bodies, to endeavor to obtain such terms 

 of union as will not relinquish principle, and 

 especially our unqualified assent to the West- 

 minster Confession and Catechisms." It was 

 adopted unanimously. The Assembly pledged 

 cooperation with the movement to procure 

 the formal acknowledgment of God in the 

 National Constitution. The Directory of Wor- 

 ship was adopted. The article prohibiting in- 

 strumental music in worship in the churches 

 was retained. The proposal of the General 

 Synod of the Eeformed Presbyterian Church, 

 to appoint committees to confer together with 

 a view to effect a union between the two 

 Churches, was accepted, and a committee ap- 

 pointed. 



The following is the basis of the union be- 

 tween the Eeformed and the United Presbyte- 

 rian Churches, agreed upon at a meeting of 

 the two Committees : 



Resolved^ 1. That these Churches agree to form an 

 organic union on the basis of the principles embraced 

 in their respective testimonies, and the other subor- 

 dinate standards which they hold in common. 



2. That these Churches, when united, shall be 

 called the United Presbyterian Church, consisting 

 of the Eeformed Presbyterian Church, and the United 

 Presbyterian Church; and that the supreme judici- 

 ary of the United Church shall be called the General 

 Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of 

 North America. 



3. That the testimony of the United Presbyterian 

 Church shall be acknowledged as the testimony of 

 the United Church. 



4. That, for the present, the substantial agreement 

 of the testimonies of these respective Churches being^ 

 recognized, congregations in the United Church shall 

 be at liberty to use either, as may be most conducive 

 to their edification. 



5. That the different boards and institutions of the 

 respective Churches shall not be affected by this 

 union, but shall have the control of their funds, and 

 retain all their corporate or other rights and privi- 

 leges, until the interests of the Church shall require 

 a change. 



V. ASSOCIATE PEESBYTEBIANS and ASSOCIATE 

 EEFOEMED PEESBYTEEIANS. The United Pres- 

 byterian Church arose ten years ago out of a 

 union of the Associate Presbyterian and Asso- 

 ciate Eeformed Presbyterian Churches. Small 

 portions of either of these two connections de- 



