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PRESBYTERIANS. 



plan is given under its appropriate head in direct with regard to the propriety of propos- 



another part of this article.] The Assembly ing or acceding to the appointment of a com- 



" heartily adopted " the plan entire, except as mittee by the Assembly to confer with a simi- 



to the number of delegates contemplated in it, lar committee appointed by the synod on the 



"as the basis of an ' intimate cooperative al- whole subject of cooperation or organic union." 

 liance,' such as is therein set forth ; of a union The proposition for calling a council of Pres- 



not (for the present at least) organic, but never- byterian Churches was heartily approved of. 



theless a union, real and practical; one which A committee were appointed to confer with the 



it is believed will, under the Divine blessing, committees who may be appointed by other 



prove to be ' comfortable and useful ' to the Presbyterian bodies on the subject, but under 



two bodies." Corresponding members were directions that, while doing all they can to se- 



appointed to meet the General Synod of the cure the particular objects for which the coun- 



Reformed Church at its ensuing session in June, cil is to be called, they should do nothing to 



should that body also adopt the plan of co- compromise the peculiar principles and prac- 



operation. tices for the maintenance of which the United 



III. UNITED PBESBYTEEIAN CHUEOH OF NOBTH Presbyterian Church believed itself called 



AMERICA. The following is a summary of the upon " in Providence and by the head of the 



statistics of this Church, as they were reported Church " to maintain a separate ecclesiastical 



to the General Assembly for 1874 : organization. 



Synods 8 IV. CuMBEELAXD PPESBYTEEIAK CnUECH. 



Total presbyteries 56 The statistics of the Cumberland Presbyterian 



Ministers 595 , , 



Congregations 776 Church are very incomplete, a large number 



Sabbath-schools 625 of the presbyteries having failed to report. The 



contributions $853,293 following estimates give an approximate rep- 



^ u , resentation of the condition of the Church : 



$ 8 {Sffi^SlJS2t:: 11 Number of communicants (including estimates 



Appropriations for i874-'75 $40,775 from presbyteries from which no reports were 



FOREIGN MISSIONS. received), 99,832; number of ministers, 1,219; 



Miwtoi "totllm" 23 amount of contributions for all purposes, $482,- 



Missionaries in active serVice'. '.'.".'.'.'.!'.!'.!'..".'. 37. 490; average salary of pastors, $143.71. An- 



Churches 21 other statement gives the following details: 



mSSols::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 22 Number of ordained ministers, 1,173? ofii- 



Pupils in schools 2,358 centiates, 265 ; of candidates for the ministry, 



feiaaa^;;:::;:::;::::::;::: 8 ' 216; of congregations 2,116; O f eiders, e,iw ; 



Native licentiates 1 of deacons, 1,648 ; of baptisms (adult and in- 

 Preparing for the ministry 12 f an t) 5 718 ; of additions by profession, 7,565 ; 



Appropriation for the year $73,440 f jj-1- V i ,, none *r* 3 



Expenses for past year. fs^ow of additions by letter, 2,295. Funds and con- 



INSTITUTIONS. tributions : Income, $95,123; income of Sun-' 

 Theological seminaries 5 day-schools, $44,684; money for home mis- 

 Students in attendance 86 sions, $12,462; for foreign missions, $1,798; 



TolteudVnYsin-auendance:::::::::::::::::: 62 ? for education, $17,587; for publication, $67i ; 



PROPERTY church building and repairing, $148,903 ; 



Seminaries .' $225.000 for presbyterial purposes, $5,528 ; for pastors' 



Colleges 250,000 salaries and support, $168,578; for miscella- 



Churches (estimated). 5,000,000 Ti^nnq rmrnrxapa <fc99 0*71 for Minrit-v &3 *711 



Parsonages 200,000 eo s P ur P oses $^,U<1 , lor cnarity, SJ>d,701. 



The forty-fourth General Assembly of the 



Total $5,675.000 Cumberland Presbyterian Church met at 



The sixteenth General Assembly of the United Springfield, Mo., May 21st. The Rev. J. C. 



Presbyterian Church of North America met at Blake, D. D., of Nashville, Tenn., was chosen 



Monmouth, 111., May 27th. The Rev. J. G. moderator. The clerk announced that two 



Brown, D. D., of Pittsburg, Pa., was chosen presbyteries had been organized during the 



moderator. A favorable report was made re- year. The Committee on Organic Union with 



garding the prospects for a closer association the Presbyterian Church in the United States 



with the Associate Reformed Synod of the of America presented a report of their action. 



South. The Rev. E. E. Boyce, corresponding It embodied the record of the proceedings of 



delegate from that body, spoke of the desire of the joint meeting of the committees of the Cum- 



the synod to join the United Presbyterians in berland Presbyterian Church and of the Pres- 



their foreign mission work, and their general byterian Church (Northern), which was held at 



sympathy with them in faith. The Assembly, Nashville, Tenn., February 25th, and a plea for 



by resolution, expressed its desire and hope that the continuance of the negotiations and for the 



the two bodies should be brought into organic careful consideration of the subject of union, 



union " as soon as the providence of God shall The Assembly acted adversely on the subject, 



indicate that the time has come for it." Dele- and passed, by a large majority, the following 



gates were appointed to attend the next meet- resolution : 



ing of the Associate Reformed Synod, and were Resolved, That the report of the committee on the 



instructed "to act as Divine Providence shall subject of union with the Presbyterian Church of 



