698 



PREsr-YlT.KIANa 



Assembly that the in.-..'- chun-h forlho 



past year had been 673.883, an increase over the 

 preceding rear of 23,550, and tho largest su 

 In- histon 



.:MC Committee 



did nut take cognisance in their accounts, would 

 income for Church pur|Kses up to 

 798,000. It was represented in presenting tl 



; Church purposes of tho 

 Lhn gr. i- 1'; i-Mcrfn 1 lie of & otland dur- 

 ie past year had been ui." million and 



a hn;f ..ch Church reooraJ 



gradual increase. 



MM- of the Bostentation fund had 



:. pared \Mth the 



Uftycar. The fund was not regarded as . 



:..wth of the Church. 

 Jew s ret urncd about 800 

 Idren in tho school. 



nil Colic., ith ft 



< 'n- hundred and ninetx- 

 ar ami 01 honorary students were re- 

 turned. 



The year's receipts for tin* bome-misskH) ami 

 bemei ha-i .-I-H). I>ur- 



..itions had 



received grants. The membership f tin- Church 

 ncreased II- t- r cent, during that period, and 



pulation 11-6 per cent. 



Toe collections of the your for foreign missions 

 amounted toi::: 



\ssembly met in Kdinburgh, May 

 ^p. The Id v. Hugh MacMillan. I). I >.. was chosen 

 moderator, and made an address reviewing the 

 progress of the past in, in which were in- 



rions" fin the influence of the 

 method on morals, theological study, and 

 us U'lief and thought. It was regard. 

 having been, on the wh<>. , and manifest 



advantage. The promised joint hymn hook, hav- 

 ing In-en approved by the United Presbyterian 

 Church and the Irish" Pr.-!, \terian Church, was 

 authorized to !* published. The report on n-li- 

 gion and morals described the ni"ial standard 

 among the people as high. A motion respecting 

 Church union WH- adopted providing for the ap- 



(>ointmont of a joint committee of tin- Free and 

 'nit Han Churches, whose functions 



d be to consider from time to time the- 

 ing arrangements for supplying ordinances through- 

 out tin- country ; to a tiding the erection of 

 new preaching stations, an d to take advance; < f 

 opportunities for uniting weak charges in districts 

 where one congregation \vould be sufficient; to 



he practical qu 



on inr-onx-rating union, reserving in any solution 

 reached, liberty for members of the united Church 



: the supjK.rt of the j.r-.lest of 1843. 



The position of the Church a's favoring disestab- 

 lishment was reiterat. I in a resolution which 

 adopted by a large majority. The replies of the 

 presbyteries to the quest i nt by the Com- 



on Temperance \*. . a- giving 



reast.:. re that the cause was pr 



eusU.m of providing drink at fun. -raK anl 

 baptisms was dying out. and grocers' licenses were 

 rigorously condemned. A deliverance was adopt - 

 ted cl- agree to any option of public man- 



agement as a method for controlling the Honor 

 traffic. T on Sabbath onset-van <. n pr. 



sented that the position of affairs was on the whole 

 unchanged. 



\l. I nit.. I Pr. >MtTi;.n Church of Scot- 

 land. The total memU-rxhip ..f this Church was 

 returned to the Synod in May a- 1 

 an increase during the y.ar h H::.fiiO 



young people under religious instruction, i 



.-ational - 



ented as showing a note\\nrthy increase dur- 

 :al inciimt 1 tin- 



whole amount of in. The misM 



and I amounting t. 



The 

 total inc. from all SOUrOM \\a- 



' ing of the S\n'd. in Klinburgh. M 

 was attended with unusual interest, on a "iint of 

 ..irking the jubilee of tin- formation ,,t the 

 Church ly the union of t 

 lief churclies, which t"<>k pla< 



in his ..priii 



address, and spi.ko of tin- prosp.rity which li., 

 t< li'led all the ' that 



time. The Ki-v. .lohn llutchi- .n. I>. !>.. 

 in..d.-rator. Tin- report of the Cmnmittee on tin- 

 Joint Hymnal, after relating the steps that had 

 lakrn by t he S\ nod ami by I 

 ;\- of the Five Church in IX'.HJ. men' 

 "with' deep regret " the withdrawal of the I 

 lished Church from -ion in the n 



The alterations prop..-, d by the I'i 

 Church in Ireland had b- .d liy t lie joint 



committee. The report of the < ommittc. 

 with the Free Church had little in the way of ad- 

 vance to record. I.' i.ssed thai the 



Church had not gone so far in t he desired di- 

 rection as had been hoped. The \\ork of the joint 

 committee of both churches had lain more in tin- 

 way of considerat ion and t he acquiring of informa- 



tion regarding the most etiicient modes of 00-01 



tio n in regard to the supply of ordinances and \- 

 tensi,,n arranL'eiiieni-. Pnncipa] K'ainy. the 

 veiier of i i i rch Committee, had ind; 



the belief of his committee that their rejM.rt t. the 

 forthcomi: iy wdiild be framed in su- -h a 



manner as to lead to the reappointmenl "f a joint 



committee ol the two churches with power to enter 



into conf< ' - bcai'ing on ll 



pornt ing union. In n-|..,n-e t<> o\ertur. 

 ing marriage with a deceased wll :. 1 he 



S\n-nl decided to remit the matter to the p: 

 teries for their opinion. In the interim, till the 

 ne\t meeting of the Synoil. Beasioni should ha\e 

 di-cr. ant church membership to p. 



who have contracted such mat .ution 



in favor of (liscstal)lishment and disendown. 

 on which subjects one of the speakers declared the 

 Church Wai a!is.,lntely unanimous was j . 

 XII. rn-Onterian i hurch in Ireland. 



-1 t the (ieiM-ral Assembly of this 

 Cnurch in June showed that it included <>.">"> minis- 

 . "! retired mini-t.i 

 us. and HMi.OOO communi- 



The total income of the ( 'hurch am.-unted to 4 

 216, showing an increase of I'Jl.OOO over the 

 ous y- 'iiis sum 1'11.<KK were contributed 



for bonding and renovation. The income of the 

 utation fund. t::;7,:{42, exceeded that of the 

 ious year by s 

 The General Assembly met in Belfast. June 7. 



Th- retiring moderator, the K'.-\. he. \\illi.-r 



deliv iddress review. 



work f the Church for the year. Tl 

 Leitch was appointed moderator and delivered an 

 address on university education in Ireland. II-- 

 . that the establishment of a Roman Catholic 

 university for Ireland should be opposed by !': 

 t.-rians; "if t he Government granted it their 



1 should be a united Protestant university in 

 Dublin; and if the Episcopalians should ref 

 unite in tl. ,-hment of a IV 



terian university should be demanded of the < 

 ernm 



Besides Ulster, where this Church has its gr> 



