PRESBYTERIANS. 



have responded in favor of the union, and the 

 act was unanimously adopted. On the next day, 

 Oct. 31, the two bodies met in their separate 

 halls and marched thence to the Royal Institu- 

 tion, whence they went in a single procession, in- 

 cluding 3,000 ministers, to Waverley Market, 

 where the first meeting of the United Free Church 

 of Scotland was held. The uniting act was 

 adopted by a rising vote of the whole Assembly, 

 and both moderators clasped hands in token of 

 the consummation of the union. The Rev. Dr. 

 Robert Rainy, principal of New College, Edin- 

 burgh, of the Free Church, was unanimously 

 chosen moderator of the body, and made an ad- 

 dress appropriate to the occasion. The members 

 of the Free Church Assembly who opposed the 

 final adoption of the uniting act held a separate 

 meeting, at which they asserted a claim to be the 

 rightful representatives of the Free Church. 



XI. Reformed Presbyterian Church. At 

 the annual meeting of the Synod, held in Glasgow 

 in May, the Rev. John McKee was chosen mod- 

 erator. The reports on the schemes of the Church 

 showed balances of 564 in favor of foreign mis- 

 sions, 40 of ministerial aid, 66 of the Synod 

 fund, 157 of the Aged Ministers' fund, 105 of 

 home missions, and 407 of the general fund. A 

 balance was also returned in favor of the pub- 

 lication enterprise. 



XII. Original Secession Church. The an- 

 nual Synod of this body was held in Glasgow, 

 Scotland, in June. Prof. James Spence was chosen 

 moderator. The financial secretary reported that 

 the total sum of 5,353 lay to the credit of the 

 various funds. A member of the Synod took ex- 

 ception to the policy of keeping so large a sum in 

 hand, and advocated a generous and judicious ex- 

 penditure on Christian work. The moderator, re- 

 ferring in his address to the subject of union, said 

 that the century could not have been more grandly 

 closed than by the union of two churches which 

 had so much in common as the Free and United 

 Presbyterian Churches, and regretted that all the 

 Presbyterian churches had not been included in 

 the scheme of union. 



XIII. United Original Secession Church. 

 The Synod was petitioned to make some relaxa- 

 tion in the formula of questions used at the ex- 

 amination of ruling elders, in which an indorse- 

 ment of the action of the fathers, and especially 

 an acceptance of the descending obligation of the 

 covenants taken during the history of the Church, 

 are required. It refused to grant the petition. 



XIV. Presbyterian Church in Ireland. The 

 General Assembly of this Church met in Dublin, 

 June 4. The Rev. J. M. Hamilton, of Dromore, 

 was chosen moderator. The financial reports 

 showed as to the advance made by the Church 

 during the past ten years, that the number of 

 families had increased by 393, of communicants 

 by 3,746, of pupils in Sabbath schools by 3,088, 

 and the amount of collections for Sabbath school, 

 missionary, and religious and charitable purposes 

 by 12,219. There were now returned 754 min- 

 isters, 51 of whom were retired, and 166,630 com- 

 municants. The total income for ministerial sup- 

 port, 109,187, gave an average salary of 160 

 per minister. 



XV. Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church. 

 The statistics of this Church, presented to the 

 General Assembly in June, give the following total 

 numbers in the several items: Of churches, 1,345; 

 of chapels and preaching stations, 1,557; of Sun- 

 day-school buildings, 880; of manses, 170; of min- 

 isters, 820; of deacons, 2,346; of communicants, 

 156,058; of children, 69,573: total in the churches, 

 including 2,336 probationers, 228,147; with the 



