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cient special funds to justify them in so doing, 

 through the American Board of Commissioners 

 for Foreign Missions. Objection was made to 

 the plan of cooperating with the American 

 Board on the ground that that board had be- 

 come denominational, and connection with it 

 might lead to inconvenient complications. A 

 resolution prevailed to instruct the Board of 

 Missions "to ascertain, if possible, the best 

 method of entering upon the work of foreign 

 missions, proceed to raise funds for the pur- 

 pose, and report to the next General As- 

 sembly." Two presbyteries of colored Pres- 

 byterians were organized into a separate syn- 

 od, which will be known as the First Synod of 

 the Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 

 The Board of Missions have heretofore con- 

 fined their operations to the home-mission 

 work. The total of their receipts was reported 

 as $16,400.10|-. They have stations at several 

 points in the States, among the Choctaw and 

 Chickasaw Indians, and in Colorado Territory. 



VII. ASSOCIATE REFORMED SYNOD or THE 

 SOUTH. This synod met at Long Cane Church, 

 Abbeville County, S. C., September 14th. The 

 following report was adopted as the expres- 

 sion of the synod on the question of union 

 with the Southern Presbyterian Church : 



1. "We cordially reciprocate the fraternal regards 

 and the Christian courtesy manifested by the Gen- 

 eral Assembly toward us, and heartily join with 

 them in their prayers for the day when all hurtful 

 divisions in the body of the Church shall be healed. 



2. This subject of union is no new thing with us. 

 It has in former years been frequently agitated and 

 extensively discussed, with few good results. It has 

 been pur experience and observation that past efforts 

 at union between these two bodies have resulted in 

 marring the peace and harmony, and retarding the 

 growth and prosperity of our Church, and we have 

 no good reason to hope that the present overture 

 will result more favorably to the smaller body in 

 these negotiations, especially if it be entertained and 

 discussed at any length. Therefore, be it 



Resolved, That we decline any further negotiations 

 upon this subject. 



The Committee on Psalmody were instructed 

 to examine the new Book of Psalms issued by 

 the United Presbyterian Church, and to rec- 

 ommend it, if they judge it suitable for their 

 use. 



VIII. SYNOD OF MISSOURI. The Synod of 

 Missouri, called the "Declaration and Testi- 

 mony Synod," which still maintains an inde- 

 pendent position, at its last session, held at 

 Cape Girardean, Mo., October 10th, sent down 

 to the presbyteries the following overture: 

 "Shall an organic union be formed between 

 this body and the Presbyterian Church in the 

 United States, whose General Assembly held 

 its sessions in Huntsville, Ala., in May, 1871 ? " 



The presbyteries were directed to take ac- 

 tion upon the overture at their next regular 

 meetings, and to report at the next regular 

 meeting of the Synod. This action leaves the 

 question of union in the control of the Synod. 



IX. CANADA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The 

 number of presbyteries is 18; stations sup- 



plied, 646; ministers, 296; families, 28,540; 

 communicants, 47,886; additions by certifi- 

 cate, 2,335; by examination, 2,586; Sunday- 

 school teachers, 3,614; sittings in churches, 

 119,239; missionary associations, 128. Con- 

 tributions: for congregational purposes, $398,- 

 891.39^; for the schemes of the Church, $45,- 

 572.18|. Of the latter class of contributions, 

 $12,470.96 were for the college fund, $5,124 

 were for foreign missions, $8,944.26 were for 

 Roman Catholic missions in Canada, and $12,- 

 025.61 were for home missions. 



The second General Assembly met at Que- 

 bec on the 7th of June. The union question 

 elicited a long and earnest discussion, and the 

 matter was remanded to the committee, with 

 instructions to confer with the other commit- 

 tees, and report at a future special session of 

 the General Assembly. 



X. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The Committee 

 on Statistics of the Established Church of 

 Scotland reported at the last General As- 

 sembly 436,147 communicants, and more than 

 a million adherents to the Church; 147,402 

 Sunday-school children under thirteen; 158 

 teachers, with 20,000 scholars, in the adult 

 classes. The Endowment Committee reported 

 that 180 churches have been built since the 

 disruption. 



XI. FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. The in- 

 come of the Mission Board of the Free Church 

 of Scotland for 1870 was 18,122 16*. lOd; 

 the expenditures were, 17,255 8s. %d. The 

 society has missions in India and South Africa. 

 The number of stations is 77; of ordained 

 European missionaries, 77; ordained native 

 missionaries, 9; total number of Christian 

 agents (male and female European teachers, 

 native teachers, evangelists, catechists, etc.), 

 223; communicants in native churches, 1,906; 

 admitted on profession since the commence- 

 ment of the missions, 3,494 ; institutions and 

 schools, 143 ; scholars, 9,752. 



XII. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN SCOT- 

 LAND. Number of members in full commun- 

 ion, 170,652; increase from previous year, 

 1,229 ; attendants on public worship, 205,009. 

 Missionaries, Bible -women, and catechists, 

 paid by the congregations, 195 ; congregational 

 contributions, 215,866; missionary contribu- 

 tions, 284,611; other donations, 18,531. 

 This Church has seven foreign mission-fields 

 in Jamaica, Trinidad, Old Calabar, Kanraria, 

 India, China, and Spain. 



XIII. REFORMED PRESBYTERIANS (SCOTLAND). 

 The membership of this Church is reported 

 at 6,736, being an increase of 127 from 1870. 

 The amount raised for all purposes was $47,226. 

 The mission in the New Hebrides was re- 

 ported in a prosperous state. 



XIV. IRISH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The 

 General Assembly of the Irish Presbyterian 

 Church represents 680 ordained ministers and 

 licentiates, 554 home congregations, and up- 

 ward of half a million of adherents, or nearly 

 half the Protestants of Ireland. The synod 



