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PRESBYTERIANS. 



The total number of ministers is 591 ; num- 

 ber of licentiates, 63; number of students, 

 441 ; number of " unorganized stations," 85. 

 The number of Sunday-schools is returned at 

 651; average of months open, 9.6; number of 

 officers and teachers, 5,972 ; contributions of 

 Sunday-schools, $21,959. The contributions 

 of tin- clinrclies were as follows: For foreign 

 missions, $88,648 ; for church extension, $19,- 

 803; fur education, (J12,599; for publication, 

 $2,946; for the aged ministers' fund, $1,789; 

 for the Assembly's fund, $1,400; general con- 

 tributions, $70,859; for salaries by congrega- 

 tions, $431,119; for congregational expenses, 

 $267,825 ; total amount of contributions, $872,- 

 918 ; average per member, $11.48. 



The fifteenth General Assembly met at 

 Philadelphia, May 28th. The Rev. J. Y.Scoul- 

 K-r. of Ohio, was chosen moderator. The re- 

 ceipts of the Board of Home Missions for the 

 preceding year were reported to have been 

 aside from legacies and bequests $32,742.80, 

 and it* expenditures $28,688.89. One hun- 

 dred and sixty -five stations had been helped. 

 The number of church-members in the 66 sta- 

 tions which reported wholly or partially was 

 8,941, and the average attendance upon reli- 

 gions services was, 16,549. These stations had 

 contributed $5,068 to the board of the church, 

 and $47,201 for the support of pastors or mis- 

 sionaries. The services of ninety-five mi ic .n- 

 aries had been asked for, but the board had 

 hsd at it* disposal only eighty-seven men. The 

 receipts of the Hoard of Foreign Missions from 

 all sources had been $50,646.60. Of this sum, 

 $3,132. 85 were from bequests and leg.- 

 and $2,283.99 from Sunday-schools. There 

 was also at the disposal of the board a balance 

 from the previous year of $10,711.29. The 

 expenditures of the l>oard had been $55,104.- 

 89. The- missions of this Church nre in Syria. 

 India, Egypt, and China. There were reported. 

 a connected with them, 21 stations nn<l other 

 stations, 15 licensed and ordained minister*. 

 !2 American women missionaries, oneprii 

 two physicians, 97 native ordained ministers 

 and teachers, 18 churches, 668 communicants, 

 21 schools, and 2,822 scholars. The native 

 churches in Egypt had contributed $4,680.24. 

 Books, tracts, etc.. had lx>en issued from the 

 press in Egypt amounting to 298,000 pages. 

 IM mission property in this country was 

 to bo worth about $100,000. The 



secular interests of the mission had become so 

 large that a man specially charged with the 

 care of thum would soon have to : appointed. 

 An estate had been bought at Burdara, on 

 Mount Lebanon, to be made a *miimer resort 

 Tor the missionaries in Syria and Egypt. It 

 was resolved to undertake to send nut MI ad- 

 ditional missionaries during the ensuing year, 

 The amount of $73,840 currency was appro- 

 priated for the year's work. Tlie receipts of 

 the board of church extension had been $25,- 

 864.62, or $6,485.47 more than those of tlio 

 previous year. Thirty applications, asking 

 $40,908.50, had been considered, and $87,- 

 503.84 had been appropriated. The asset* of 

 the Board of Publication were $89,084.16, or 

 $10,910 more than a year ago. The schools 

 under the care of the Hoard of Frcedmen's 

 Missions were closed on the 10th of June, 

 1872, and the teachers had returned to their 

 homes. The receipts of the Hoard of Educa- 

 tion had been $7,886.10, and its expenditures 

 $7,186.25. The number of scholars in the 

 Sunday-schools was expected to be "probably 

 about 60,000." 



The receipts of the General Assembly fund 

 had been $1,927.47, and those of the super- 

 annuated ministers' fund $1,727.27. 



The presbyteries were directed hereafter, in 

 the organization of new churches, to require 

 that the charters of such churches shall contain 

 acertain formula, as a definition of their cceU*i- 

 astical relations to the United Presbyterian 

 Church of North America, It also recom- 

 mended that existing charters be changed to 

 conform to this formula. The presbyt. 

 and congregations were also instructed, in ac- 

 cordance with the decision of the Supremo 

 Court of the United States, in the case of 

 Watson TI. Jenncr, that "the control and pos- 

 ii of church property belongs only to 

 members holding to the principles of the 

 I'niteil Presbyterian Church, and that it will 

 iv'piire the unanimous vote of the session and 

 congregation to sell, dispose of, or alie 

 said church pn>p< rty ; it being understood 

 that this action does not prevent congregations 

 from disposing of church propi rty lor the pur- 

 pose of rebuilding, or the erection of a new 

 building in a new location.'' In reply to a re- 

 quest from the Rev. 8. J. Sehmnckor. I). I)., 

 that the General Assembly would consider his 

 scheme for a confederation of churches, and 

 appoint delegates to the World's Confer, 

 of the Evangelical Alliance, it replied by reso- 

 lution : 



That while cheriohine kind and Christian regards 

 '.v follower of Christ, ami tor all evantfelii-iil 

 cliuivhi-*, mid while holding iUolf ready t< 

 in any good work with tin- hcrvsnti of Christ of 



.line, yet thi* Anni-nibly does not feel tl 

 would be for edification for uit to net aside in prin- 

 ciple or practice any of it* diitinctive feature* a a 

 portion of the vi-ililu church, or even seem to affect 

 Bunion which did not really c-xiat; nnd, thnt while 

 the Divine direction and bleating are devoutly naked 

 for the Evangelical Alliance, in contMOtioD with 

 every movement that bus for Iti end the promotion 



