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tationfund were $2,561.41 ; the expenditures for 

 sustentation were $570.53. The endowment 

 fund of the theological seminary was reported 

 to be $30,409.89 ; income of the seminary dur- 

 ing the year, $2,622.40; payments. $1,625.20. 

 Seven presbyteries were represented in the 

 General Synod. Its next meeting will be held 

 at Pittsburg, Pa. 



VI. REFORMED PRESBYTERIANS (Old Side). 

 The statistical reports show that there are con- 

 nected with this Church : 1 synod, 9 presbyte- 

 ries, 221 deacons, 3,285 families, 8, 782 communi- 

 cants, 516 Sabbath-school teachers, and 4,581 

 Sunday-school scholars. The total contribu- 

 tions of the Church were $201,534.11; making 

 nearly $23 for each communicant. 



The Reformed Presbyterian Synod (Old 

 Side) met at York, Livingston County, N. Y., 

 May 29th. One hundred and eighteen delegates 

 attended. Nearly all the congregations of the 

 Church had formally ratified the covenant 

 which had been subscribed by the synod at its 

 meeting the previous year in Pittsburg. The 

 synod decided to erect the building for its 

 theological seminary at Wilkinsburg, Pa. A 

 foreign mission is sustained by this Church 

 in Syria. The reports show that there are 

 connected with it : 9 missionaries and assist- 

 ants, u 15 or 20 " native helpers, 32 baptized 

 converts, 4 theological students, and 200 chil- 

 dren under instruction. 



VII. ASSOCIATE REFORMED SYNOD OF THE 

 SOUTH. This body has nine presbyteries, and 

 sixty -five ministers, as follows: 



Presbyteries. Ministers. 



First 16 



Second 13 



Georgia 3 



Tennessee 5 



Alabama 4 



Kentucky 2 



Memphis 10 



Virginia 3 



Arkansas 6 



Ohio 3 



The synod met at Pisgah, Gaston County, 

 K C., on the 12th of September. The con- 

 gregations were, by vote, allowed to use 

 Rouse's Version of the Psalms, as heretofore, 

 or the revision of that version made by the 

 United Presbyterians, as they should choose. 

 The action of the last synod concerning the 

 property in Kentucky, which had been lost to 

 the synod, through a number of churches in 

 that State joining the Southern Presbyterian 

 Synod, was reaffirmed, and the Presbytery of 

 Kentucky were advised "to prosecute their 

 claims, in a peaceful way, until all reasonable 

 efforts to secure an amicable adjustment of the 

 matter have been exhausted," with the under- 

 standing that, " then, if a civil suit should be 

 necessary to secure the property, the synod 

 will sustain the presbytery in the prosecution 

 of the same." 



The Theological Seminary and Erskine Col- 

 lege, at Due West, S. C., give instruction to a 

 moderate number of students. The effort to 

 raise an endowment of $100,000 for the lat- 



ter institution has met with only partial suc- 

 cess. 



VIII. CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

 The^ following is a summary of the latest 

 statistics of this Church : Synods. 24 ; presby- 

 teries, 103 ; of these, 29 have made no report. 

 The remaining 74 presbyteries report : JSlinis- 

 isters, 842; licentiates, 183; candidates, 1G1 ; 

 pastors, 91 ; supplies, 514; ministers without 

 charge, 223 ; congregations, 1,509 ; communi- 

 cants, 68,996 ; Sunday-school teachers and 

 scholars,' 37,682 ; contributions to home mis- 

 sions, $17,397; to foreign missions, $1,520; to 

 education, $17,579 ; to publication, $6,791 ; to 

 church-building and repairing, $195,031 ; to 

 presbyterial purposes, $4,723 ; to ministers' 

 salaries, $160,508; to miscellaneous objects, 

 $10,681 ; to charity, $4,188. Adding estimates 

 for the non- reporting presbyteries, there would 

 be in the whole Church, about : ministers, 

 1,085 ; congregations, 1,948 ; communicants, 

 89,092 ; persons in Sunday-schools, 48,'657 ; 

 total contributions, $561,300. 



The General Assembly met at Evansville, 

 Ind., May 16th. The Rev. C. II. Bell, D.D., 

 of Mississippi, was elected moderator. A cor- 

 respondence was submitted which had taken 

 place between the permanent clerk of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly and prominent members of the 

 Evangelical Union of Scotland. The coi 

 spondence included an address from the com- 

 mittee of the Evangelical Union to the Genen" 

 Assembly, in which occurred the remark th( 

 " the two bodies are agreed on the great doc 

 trines of fatality and the atonement, and coulc 

 not differ materially on minor points." Pi 

 visions were made for communicating, official- 

 ly, a response on behalf of the General Assem- 

 bly to this address. 



The receipts of the Board of Missions w 

 $14,060.10 ; the further sum of $10,-942.01 hi 

 been expended in missionary work not con- 

 nected with the Board of Missions, making a 

 total of $24,002.11 spent for missionary pur- 

 poses. An indebtedness of $1,500, which ex- 

 isted at the beginning of the year, had been 

 nearly all provided for. The home work of 

 missions had been prosecuted with energy in 

 the central States of the Mississippi Valley, in 

 Colorado, and among the Indians. The estab- 

 lishment of missions among the colored peopl 

 was recommended. Favorable reports wer 

 received from the Cumberland University, 

 McGee College, and Trinity University, 

 proposition was offered for the establishment 

 of a separate theological seminary ; but it was 

 not acted upon. In order the better to secure 

 property held for the Church, weak congrega- 

 tions, about to become extinct, were advised 

 to convey the title to their property through 

 their presbyteries to the General Assembly. 

 No full and accurate report of the statistics 

 of this Church has yet been prepared. 



IX. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN THE BRITISH 

 PROVINCES. The synod of the Presbyterian 

 Church of Canada in connection with the 



