770 



PRESBYTERIANS. 



The Assembly farther declared that, by the 

 genius of Presbyterianism, they are bound to 

 maintain a supervisory jurisdiction over the 

 theological seminaries within the pale of this 

 Church, as far as they affect the practice or 

 doctrine of the Assembly's constituencies, and 

 especially the office-bearers of the Church ; 

 that this jurisdiction must, in every case, en- 

 a,ble the Assembly, through the proper chan- 

 nels of authority, to keep all such institutions 

 free from anything inconsistent with the spirit 

 of onr system, and, of course, free from all 

 teaching inconsistent with the Word of God, 

 as expressed in our standards. On the strength 

 of this deliverance the Assembly, by a vote of 

 65 to 25, adopted the following : 



' Resolved, 'That, whereas the General As- 

 sembly is convinced that the Rev. James 

 Woodrow, D. D., one of the professors in Co- 

 lumbia Theological Seminary, holds views re- 

 pugnant to the Word of God and our Confes- 

 sion of Faith, as appears both by his address 

 published in the "Southern Presbyterian Re- 

 view 1 ' for July, 1884, and other publications, 

 and by his statements made upon the floor of 

 this Assembly : Therefore, this General Assem- 

 bly does hereby, in accordance with its action 

 yeterday in regard to the oversight of theo- 

 logical seminaries, earnestly recommend the 

 Synods of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, 

 and South Georgia and Florida, which direct 

 and control the said seminary, to dismiss the 

 said Rev. James Woodrow. D. D., as professor 

 in the said seminary, and to appoint another 

 in his place, and to speedily take such other 

 steps as in their judgment will be best adapted 

 to restore this seminary to the confidence of 

 the Church." 



The clause concerning marriage with a de- 

 ceased wife's sister was struck out of the Con- 

 fession of Faith. 



HI. United Presbyterian Chureh of North Amerira. 

 The following is the summary of the statis- 

 tics of this Church as they were reported to 

 the General Assembly in May, 1886 : 



Presbyteries 



Ministers 



Licentiates 



Congregations 



Elders 



Communicants , 



Baptisms of infants 



Baptisms of adults , 



Additions by profession 



Sunday-schools. ... 



Officers and teachers 



Sunday-school pupils 



AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. 



Foreign missions 



Home missions 



Freedrnen's missions 



Church extension 



Education 



Publication 



Assembly's fund 



Ministerial relief 



General contributions 



Salaries 



Congregational purposes.. . 

 For the quarter-centennial. 



488.926 



276,406 

 14,614 



Total contributions $977,424 



The Board of Church Extension reported to 

 the General Assembly that its receipts for the 

 year had been $30,546, and its expenditures 

 $35,446. It had made appropriations to 38 

 churches. The assets of the Board of Publica- 

 tion were returned at $112,196. Its receipts 

 for the year had been $70,614. The Board of 

 Education returned $21,585 of invested and 

 other funds on hand. Its receipts for the year 

 had been $6,662. It had assisted 23 students. 

 The receipts of the Board of Ministerial Relief 

 were $5,263. It had aided 30 beneficiaries. 

 The amount of the Chinese Mission fund was 

 returned at $12,500. The Board of Freed- 

 men's Missions had received $33,643, and had 

 expended $33,108. It returned an indebted- 

 ness for money borrowed of $15,255. It re- 

 ported four ordained ministers and 25 teach- 

 ers as laboring at four principal stations and 

 three out-stations, the latter being connected 

 with the college at Knoxville, Tenn. One 

 hundred and thirty -one former and present 

 pupils of the schools of the board had been 

 teaching in public schools in the Southern 

 States, with an aggregate enrollment of 7,100 

 pupils. The receipts of the Board of Home 

 Missions had been $42,910, and its expendi- 

 tures $47,582. It had granted aid to 231 sta- 

 tions having a reported average attendance on 

 worship of 18,231 persons. 



The receipts of the Board of Foreign Mis- 

 sions were reported as having been $86,352, 

 of which a balance of $400 remained in the 

 treasury at the end of the year. The board 

 was hampered, however, by a considerable in- 

 debtedness. The missions return : In Egypt, 

 70 stations, 26 foreign missionaries, 8 native 

 ministers, 180 other native workers, 23 

 churches, with 1,843 communicants, 65 schools, 

 with 5,414 pupils, 62 Sunday-schools, with 

 2,649 pupils, and $4,993 of contributions from 

 native churches ; in India, 61 stations, 20 for- 

 eign missionaries, 3 native ministers, and 95 

 other native workers, 8 churches, with 2,176 

 communicants, 72 schools with 3,260 pupils. 

 32 Sunday-schools with 1,461 pupils and $499 

 of contributions. The baptisms during the 

 year numbered 240 in Egypt and 768 in India. 



The General Assembly met in Hamilton, 

 Ohio, in May. The Rev. J. T. Brownlee was 

 chosen moderator. Numerous appeals were 

 presented, many of which bore upon the ques- 

 9 ^3Q tion of permitting the use of instrumental 

 81^595 music in worship, concerning which the Church 

 has been much divided since the General As- 

 sembly in 1882 repealed the prohibitions of 

 the old law, and made the use of instruments 

 in the congregation permissible. A convention 

 of anti-organ men, which was held in Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., in the fall of 1885, was represented 

 in the Assembly by its chairman, who was al- 

 lowed to present the memorial that had been 

 adopted by it. The memorial complained of 

 what its authors regarded as a divisive course 

 on the part of some in the Church disregarding 

 the action of the last and former assemblies, 



736 



51 



881 



3,454 



91,086 



3,950 



1,516 



6,247 



$57,269 



38,060 



20,405 



17,082 



8.022 



403 



2,133 



4.792 



