PRESBYTERIANS. 



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The following statement exhibits the general 

 condition of the Church during the year 1875, 

 in regard to other items embraced in the sta- 

 tistical reports : 



Synods .................................. 



Presbyteries ............................. 



Candidates ............................... 



Licentiates .............................. 



Ministers ................................ 



Licensures ........................ . ..... 



Ordinations .............................. 



Installations ............................. 



Pastoral dissolutions ____ ................ 



Ministers received from other bodies ...... 



" dismissed to other bodies ....... 



" deceased ....................... 



Churches ................................ 



" organized ....................... 



dissolved ....................... 



" received from other bodies ....... 



" dismissed to other bodies ........ 



Added certificate 20,386 



Communicants 506,0=34 



Baptisms adults 10,646 



" infants 17,694 



Sunday-school members 520,452 



CONTRIBUTIONS. 



Home missions $501,603 



Foreign missions 412,716 



Education 881,424 



Publication 51,464 



Church erection 277,091 



Eelief-fund 75,642 



Freedmen 44,582 



Sustentation 41,406 



General Assembly 89,654 



Ministers 1 salaries 



Congregational 6,903,526 



Miscellaneous 897,481 



Total $9,626,594 



The following is a summary of the foreign 

 missions of this Church : 



The reports showed also 76 native licentiates 

 (9 in Mexico, 3 in South America, 3 in Africa, 

 3 in Siam, 16 in China, and 42 in Persia). Of 

 the "lay teachers and others," 167 were Amer- 

 ican, and 391 native. 



The General Assembly of the Presbyterian 

 Church in the United States of America met 

 at Cleveland, Ohio, May 20th. The Rev. E. 

 D. Morris, D. D., of Lane Seminary, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio, was chosen moderator. The com- 

 mittee who had been appointed to confer with 

 a committee of the Presbyterian Church in the 

 United States (Southern), with respect to es- 

 tablishing fraternal relations between the two 

 bodies, made a report of the proceedings and 

 results of the conferences that had been held 

 at Baltimore, beginning January 7th. They 

 had not been able to reach any agreement. 

 The conference, said the committee's report, was 

 continued through a period of several days 

 with a spirit of calmness, and deliberation, and 

 Christian courtesy, from both sides. The report 

 continued : 



"We are happy to state that the conclusions of our 

 committee, representing as it did all tbe different 

 opinions prevailing among us, with reference to the 

 so-called war deliverances of former Assemblies, were 

 in all cases unanimous. In our actions we endeavored 

 to carry out faithfully, and to the farthest extreme, 

 the instructions given us by the Assembly from 

 which we received our appointments, as well as the 

 spirit prompting and controlling the action of the 

 last Assembly. 



YOL. XT. 41 A 



The report then gave a brief summary of the 

 correspondence which passed between the two 

 committees, after which it added : 



Your committee report that they were disappoint- 

 ed in their own personal desire, as well as that of 

 the whole Church which they represent, to establish 

 fraternal relations with the Assembly South on terms 

 of mutual confidence, respect, Christian honor, and 

 love; hut, while the result grieves us, we have the 

 assurance that we did all that we were authorized to 

 dp by the venerable body that appointed us. Nor 

 did we keep back anything that we could say con-, 

 sistent with truth and fidelity to principle and charity,, 

 in order to secure the result we so much desire. 



The report was adopted. The Assembly also 

 adopted the following resolution on the sub- 

 ject of the report : 



Resolved, That this Assembly deeply regrets that 

 the negotiations in reference to fraternal correspond- 

 ence between the Presbyeterian Church in the United 

 States (popularly known as the Presbyterian Church, 

 South) have failed ; that the Assembly deems it in- 

 expedient to press the question of fraternal relations 

 at present by further negotiations, through the ap- 

 pointment of another committee ; at the same time 

 the Assembly avails itself of this opportunity to 

 affirm unequivocally its confidence in the integrity 

 and Christian character of our brethren of the South- 

 ern Church, and to declare that all the acts and de- 

 liverances of the Northern Assemblies of which they 

 complain are wholly null and void, and of no bind- 

 ing efficacy as judgments of the Church we repre- 

 sent, or as rules of procedure for its Presbyteries 

 and Church sessions, and that in so far as they, or 

 any of them, can be supposed to import any inju^ 

 rious imputations upon the present character and . 



