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of the civilization of our land. Believed that the ministry was and alwas would be a self sacrificing body of men-would not have it otherwise. It was better for the Church and better for the land that those who engage in this work should give up something of the riches and comforts of this life. Young men who are willing to enter upon the ministry should be carried through their studies so as not to be saddled with a debt when peradventure they enter upon the work of preaching to a feeble Church and to be able to do that, the Theological Seminaries must be strengthened.

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power a man could exert over a young man in turning his course in life. God had honored him in turning many a young man to Christ and the ministry, and at so little trouble that he had been perfectly astonished. Whenever we had a right motive and a right desire to work for Christ, Christ worked with us and met us half way. If the two hundred and thirteen. elders and ministers would only solemnly promise God that they, when they go home, would endeavor to turn some young man to Christ and the ministry, he thought they would have in a few months two hundred and thirteen young men ready to enter into the ministry, and if they continued their prayers and efforts, they could have two hundred and thirteen more over and over again.

Mr. Watterbury asked that there might be a division of the subjects embraced in the report, that the resolution in regard to East Tennessee might be considered by itself.

Mr. Tindall moved that the vote upon the adoption of the report be preceded by prayer. Carried.

Dr. Mills offered prayer, after which the report was adopted, except the East Tennessee resolution.

Dr. Curtis then read the resolution in regard to East Tennessee.

Mr. Edwards adverted to the fact that there were many churches from which there were never any contributions received. The reason was because the pastors neglected to bring the matter before them; cited his own Church,which had had a pastor for seven years who never asked them for a contribution towards any object whatever, alleging as a reason that the Church was too feeble to do more than support itself. The result was that the pastor's salary, about two years out of three, came out short, and the trustees had to make up the balance. At last he was induced to make the attempt, and the first year presented two objects of benevolence to the attention of the Church. He came in one morning, and without any previous announcement presented the subject of foreign missions, and collected $91, and a few months after that presented the cause of home missions, in the same way, and collected about $50. At the end of that year the minister's salary was paid in full and the Church fairly reorganized. For the last year the minister was paid $1200 for his services, which was supplemented with a cash donation of $300, and contributions taken for four of the boards, averaging from $40 to $75. He thought the brother who got but $600 a year had never presented these objects of Christian benevolence to the Church to which he ministered, and imagined that that was the reason he was so poorly paid himself. His Church had found that the more they did for these great objects the more they were able to do for them-church, there had been no sympathy with rebelselves, and he believed that would be found true always and everywhere. One-third of the ministers were afraid to touch upon these subjects, for fear that it would touch on their own salaries, but the fact was that was the best way to raise their own salaries.

Dr. Mattoon was in favor of adopting this report. Desired to go back a little further in this matter, lest when they left this Assembly, where they had been sitting together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, they forget the vital points. Money would not buy the men, if there were no additions of converted young men to the churches. He called upon the ministers and elders of the churches to go about among the families and prayerfully and earnestly seek out young men and bring them into the Church and ministry. In his opinion this was the beginning of the education cause; that there would be no need of money when the men are ready.

Mr. Tindall believed in all that had been said, but did not believe that any man ought to be in the ministry who couldn't get a living by preaching. The ministry was a heroic calling, was captivating by reason of the influence it exerted; he regarded that it was infinitely higher than any other in the world.

Dr. Paul stated that he had had considerable experience with young men, and knew the

Rev. Mr. Brown, of East Tennessee, addressed the Assembly at length in regard to the situation and prospects of his State, educationally and religiously; stating that before the war there were forty-three or forty-four ministers in the Synod of Tennessee, and at one time all the ministers were educated at Marysville College. During the war that institution had been broken up. The loyalty of East Tennessee was owing, in no small degree, to the influence of that institution. The ministers educated at that institution had generally been loyal men, and had exerted an influence for good during this rebellion. He had ministered to two churches since 1828, alternately, and with the exception of perhaps one individual in each

lion. [Applause.] They had been loyal men and loyal women, while other congregations in the vicinity, under the influence and pastoral care of disloyal men, had been almost to a man disloyal. He remarked that the negroes were all anxious to obtain an education, not only for themselves, but for the children, and commented upon the conscientious piety of the negro

race.

The time for adjournment being near at hand, it was voted that the report of the Committee on the State of the Country be received at four o'clock this afternoon.

After prayer the Assembly adjourned until afternoon.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Three o'clock, P. M.

Opened with prayer by Moderator.
Minutes read and approved.

Mr. L. I. Root addressed the Assembly upon the present state of East Tennessee, the subject under consideration being the supplementary resolutions proposed by the Committee on Education. He spoke at length of the desolation of the country, owing to the war, of the injury done to the institutions of learning, of the fact that several seminaries, whose former owners had been rebels, were about to be sold under the

hammer, and urged the propriety of their being secured to the interests of the Presbyterian Church. The institutions to which he particularly referred are situated at Jonesborough, Marysville and Greenville.

Rev. Mr. Waterbury stated that the utter desolation of East Tennessee could not be described. When the rebels got the mastery in East Tenbessee they swept away everything into their treasury-the college fund, the educational fund were utterly gone forever, annihilated-libraries were used to kindle fires with, and the leather covers of the books for making shoes. The church denomination which laid the broadest foundations for educational institutions in East Tennessee would be predominant there.

Dr. Clark moved that this part of the report be recommitted, with a view of having the committee recommend some permanent committee or special committee, whose business it should be to supervise this matter.

Mr. Waterbury objected.

Mr. Griffis didn't see the advantage of such a motion.

After some further discussion Dr. Clark withdrew his motion,

Rev. Mr. Griffis, of East Tennessee, added a few words on the subject of his native State; said there were from 50 to 60 in his own congregation who desired to avail themselves of educational advantages, most of them with the purpose of entering the ministry.

The resolution was adopted.

Mr. Griffis moved a resolution to the effect that the Assembly recommend Rev. L. I. Root as agent to raise funds for this object, according to the resolution. Carried.

The Committee on Church Erection submitted a resolution to the effect that $35,000 being needed for the aid of feeble churches during the coming year, the third Sabbath of December next be fixed as the day for raising said sum. Adopted.

The Committee was discharged.

Rev. Mr. Miller addressed the Assembly upon the condition of the freedmen in North Carolina, soliciting aid in the establishment of a manual labor college for freedmen.

A committee was appointed, of which Dr. Clark was chairman, to confer with Mr. Miller in reference to his project.

Rev. Dr. Smith read the report of the Committee on the state of the Country, as follows: The Committee on the State of the Country propose to the Assembly the following Declarations:

This assembly records its devout gratitude to Almighty God, that he has delivered us from the calamities and norrors of civil war, and restored peace throughout our borders.

That He has so far quelled the spirit of secession that the supreme and rightful authority of our beneficent National Government is now restored in all our States and Territories, and we remain, as we were intended to be, one Nation, with one Constitution and one destiny.

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That He has so overruled the progress and results of this unparalleled conflict as to make it manifest our republican institutions are as weli fitted 10 bear the stress and shock of war as to give prosperity and increase in times of peace.

That, by his wise and constraining Providence, guiding us in ways we knew not He has caused the passions and wrath of man tɔ enure to the wel1are of humanity, so that a whole race has been emancipated from an unjust and cruel system of bondage and adanced to the rights and dignity of feemen; so that now involuntary servitude, except for crime, is illegal and unconstitutional wherever our Naționa autnority extends.

That He gave to our people such a spoeousntan,

impassioned, and unbought loyalty-a loyalty that can neither be forced nor feigned-such resolute and abiding faith, and such a supreme consciousness of our National unity, that we were able in the darkest hours to bear with cheerful patriotism our heavy burdens and our costly sacrifices, so that our very sacrifices have knit us more closely together and made us love our country more.

That He has purged and enlightened our National conscience in respect to our National sins, especially the sin of slavery; and has also made us recognize more fully than before the reality of Divine Providence, the sureness and justice of retribution for National guilt, and the grand fact that a nation can be exalted and safe only as it yields obedience to His righteous laws.

That He bestowed such grace upon our churches and ministry, that with singular unanimity and zeal they upheld our rightful Government by their unwavering testimony and effectual supplications, identifying the success of the nation with the wel fare of the Church.

That above all these things, He has, according to His gracious promise, watched over his Church and kept it safe during these troublous times; so that not only has our American Christianity been vindicated, our faith and order maintained intact, and our Christian benevolence enhanced, but our purpose and plans for the future have been also enlarged in some proportion to the needs and growth of our country; while, to crown all these favors with his special benediction, He has also, in these latter days, rained down spiritual blessings in abundant measure upon so many churches all over the land.

This Assembly, while humbly recognizing these judgments and mercies in the past and the present, also bears testimony in respect to our urgent needs and duties as a nation in view of the new era upon which we are now entering, as follows, viz:

1. Our most solemn National trust concerns that patient race, so long held in unrighteous bondage. Only as we are just to them can we live in peace and safety. Freed by the National army they must be protected in all their civil rights by the National power. And, as promoting this end, which far transcends any mere political or party object, we rejoice that the active functions of the Freedmen's Bureau are still continued, and especially that the Civil Rights' rill has become the law of the land. In respect to the concession of the right of suffrage to the colored race, this Assembly adheres to the resolution passed by our Assembly of 1865 (Minutes, p 42): ""That the colored man should in this country enjoy the right of suffrage, in connection with all other men, is but a simple dictate of justice. The Assembly cannot perceive any good reason why he should be deprived of this Even right on the ground of his color or his race." if suffrage may not be universal, let it at least be impartial.

2. In case such impartial suffrage is not conceded, that we may still reap the legitimate fruits of our National victory over secession and lavery, and that treason and rebellion may not enure to the direct political advantage of the guilty, we judge it to be a simple act of justice, that the constitutional basis of representation in Congress should be so far altered as to meet the exigencies growing out of the abolition of slavery; and we likewise hold it to be the solemn duty of our National Executive and Congress to adopt only such methods of reconstruction as sball effectually protect all loyal persons in the States lately in revolt.

3. As loyalty is the highest civic virtue, and treason the highest civil crime, so it is necessary for the due vindication and satisfaction of National justice, that the chief fomenters and representatives of the rebellion should, by due course and process of law, be visited with condign punishment.

4. The Christian religion being the underlying source of all our power, prosperity, freedom and National unity, we earnestly exhort all our ministers and churches to constant and earnest prayer for the President of the United States and his constitutional counsellors; for the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled; for the Judges in our National Courts; for those that bear rule in our army and navy, and for all persons en,

trusted with authority; that they may be endowed with heavenly wisdom, and rule in the fear of the Lord, and so administer their high trusts, without self-seeking or partiality, that this great Republic, being delivered from its enemies, may renew its youth, and put forth all its strength in the ways of truth and righteousness, for the good of our own land and the welfare of mankind.

5 And we further exhort and admonish the members of our churches to diligent and personal efforts for the safety and prosperity of the Nation, to set aside all partisan and sectional aims and low ambitions, and to do their full duty as Christian freemen; to the end that our Christian and Protestant civilization may maintain its legitimate ascendancy, and that we become not the prey of any form of intidelity, or subject to any foreign priestly demination; that the sacred interests of civil and religious freedom, of human rights and justice to all, of National loyalty and National unity, may be enlarged and perpetuated, making our Christian Commonwealth a praise among the nations of the earth, exemplifying and speeding the progress of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. N. S. S. BENAN,

HENRY B. SMITH, WILLIAM HOGARTH,

THOMAS BROWN,

HENRY FOWLER,

JOSEPH ALLISON,

F: V. CHAMBERLAIN,

J. A. FOOTE,

R. SCARRETT.

Rev. Mr. Fowler moved that the consideration of that report be made the special order for Monday evening. Lost

Rev. Mr. Gibson, of Illinois, moved that the article that condemned the leaders of the rebellion to punishment be stricken out, because it was not becoming for the Assembly to say a single word about it.

Mr. Gibson's amendment was lost and the re port adopted without a dissenting vote.

Voted that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the President of the United States, through the Secretary of State, and to the President of the Senate and Chairman of the House. Rev. Dr. Knox read report of Committee on Home Missions.

Dr. Kendall called the attention of the Assembly to the fact that more money was needed; that they were bankrupt in six months unless more money was provided than had been coming in in the last six months. There had been $15,000 more money spent the last year than had been collected. There was need of about $10,000 a month. Would have to borrow $30,000 before the middle of September.

After remarks by Messrs. Scarrit and Van

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Nest, the further consideration of the report was deferred.

On motion,

Resolved, That the General Assembly pledges the Church to furnish the Home Missionary Society $120,000 for the ensuing year, and instructs the committee to go forward on that basis.

The following appointments for Saturday evening and Sunday were then read:

First Presbyterian Church, corner Fourteer th street and Lucas Place-Rev. W. Hogarth, D D., 10% A. M. Service for children by Rev. Joseph Chester, 4 P. M.

North Presbyterian Church, corner Eleventh and Chambers streets-Rev. W. S. Karr. 10% A. M.; Rev. D. L. Kiehle, 7% P. M.

Union Methodist Church,. corner of Eleventh and Locust streets-Rev. J. T. Kindan, 10% A. M.; Rev. Isaac Clark, 7% P. M.

Second Union Methodist Episcopal Church, Sixth street, between Franklin avenue and Wash streetRev. G. P. Tindall, 10 A. M.: Rev. John Monteith, Jr., 7% P. M.

Simpson Chapel, corner Terth and North Market streets-Rev. H. L. Stanley, 10% A. M.

Pratt Avenue Mision, Pratt avenue, between Clark avenue and Gamble avenue-Rev. Stephen Bush, 10 A. M.; Rev. Geo. O. Phelps, 7 P. M.

First Congregational Church, corner Tenth and Locust streets-Rev. Walter Clarke, D. D.. 71⁄21⁄21⁄2 P.M. Fourth Baptist Church, corner Benton and Twelfth streets-Rev. W. A. Niles. 10% A. M.

Colored Church, at Freedmen's Orphan Asylum, Twelith street, near Cass avenue-Rev. L. P. Crawford, 10% A. M.; Rev. F. H Adams, 3 P. M.

City Hospital, corner St. Ange and Lafayette avenues-Rev. J. A. Griffes.

City Jail, corner Sixth and Chesnut streets-Rev. J. A. Ranney, 2% P. M.

Rock Hill-Rev. B. B. Parsons, D. D.

Bunker Hill-Rev. Thos. Harries.
Monticello-Rev. J. L. Morton.
Rolla-Rev. L. B. Wilson.

Alton-Rev. E. F. Hatfield, D. D.
Warsaw-Rev. G. D. A. Hebard.
Jerseyville, Ill.-Rev. Isaac G. Ogden.
Upper Alton-Rev. W. E. Knox, D. D.
Baptist Church, Alton-Rev. H, Fowler.

A meeting for children and young persons at four o'clock P. M., in the First Presbyterian Church. Addresses by Rev. Dr. J. Parker, Rev. A. L. Brookse, and Messrs. E. S. Wells and D. H. Inger · soll.

Notice was also given of a meeting of the Elders of the two Assemblies, to be held in the Second Presbyterian Church, on Saturday evening.

After prayer the Assembly adjourned until half after 8 o'clock-the business session to commence at 9 o'clock.

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EIGHTH DAY-SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1866.

MORNING SESSION.

Met at 8 1-2 o'clock. First half hour spent in devotional exercises. Rev. Dr. Campbell, Secretary of the American Christian Union, addressed the Assembly at length upon the interests and condition of the Union. Stated that it had a fund of at least $30,000 or $40,000, secured from the Old and New School Presbyterian Churches, and from these two branches and the Congregationalists it had received about $40,000, and but little from any other denomination. There were a great many things connected with the work which it was not proper to publish, or even speak of, before this Assembly. There were many things which gave a great deal of trouble. Two years ago, at an anniversary in Italy, there were some Catholic priests present, who, eight weeks afterwards, published a pamphlet whichcame back to us bearing bad reports in regard to the missionary work, throwing prejudice upon that work until it was ascertained from whom the pamphlet emanated. A great work has been done in Italy during the past five years; had sent thoroughgoing Americans and Yankees to that field, who understood the value of money and our mode of doing things. About ten years ago there was no such thing as tolération in Italy; the priests had it all their own way. We now had our American Chapel there, the Scotch Church, and Waldenses have a seminary there, and during the past year, with the agency of the American Bible Society, we have been able to print and circulate 10,000 copies of the New Testament. There were three colporteurs there and several bible readers who were laboring for the distribution of the word of God. Altogether there were forty-seven laborers in italy. Among other things the government had declared marriage a civil contract, so that the Protestant ministers could marry members of the Protestant Churches and the Waldenses, without the intervention of the priests. During the past year there had been 70,000 who professed Romanism come to the missionaries and left che faith. That was the work in Italy. They were a noble band of missionaries, who had been able to convert even some of the priests. Gave an account of Mr. Constantine, of Italy, who came to this country for an education and was now laboring in Italy. Described the work that had been accomplished in South America, at Valparaiso, by Mr. Trumbull, who first went there seventeen years ago, in the service of the American Seamen's Aid Society, and had been fighting the battles for toleration; was first obliged to labor on shipboard, where he could be protected by the American flag. Also gave a brief history of the labors and success of Mrs. Rankin, who from Brownsville had penetrated to Monterey, in Mexico, and was now in this country in order to procure the sum of $15,000, with which to build a seminary at Monterey.

The order of the day was taken up, the first thing in order being the adoption of the report of the standing Committee on Home Missions, which was read to the Assembly yesterday by Dr. Knox, and was as follows:

HOME MISSIONS.

The Standing Committee on Home Missions in making their report would suggest that there are three things in which the Assembly is agreed, viz.: That the work before us is great beyond conception and competition, that the Church is the proper agency for doing it, and now the favoring time, admitting no postponement.

Love of adventure, lust of gain, the march of enterprise, the great tidal movement westward of the nations, and, finally, but not less providentially, sedition and war have been busy clearing and widening the home field or the Church's occupancy. Within the months just past the Holy Spirit has anew and most earnestly invited to the cultivation of the ground, and in many instances to the gathering of already rich harvests. The Church could not be heedless of these signs without ignoring her manifest mission and destiny in this land. She has heeded them, and hence the marvels that have accompanied her way, as in the ancient journeying from Goshen to Canaan. "God has been in the midst of her; he has helped her, and that right early." Is her mission therefore fulfilled? Do we not know,on the contrary that the land to be possessed is more than the territory already subdued?

From Maine to Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific wave, from the great lakes to the Southern Gulf, how wide the field stretches out; its needs even in the older States, East, Middle and South how numerous; in the States and Territories West and Northwest how immense and stupendous.

The question of opportunity and duty being setfled by Divine Providence, that of the way and means of fulfilling both press heavily on our hearts, We can hope, on this point, to do little more than emphasize the suggestions of the report already submitted.

We need, of course, to this end, a great increase of the Caristian ministry. We say increase, because its actually effective portion is already employed up to the full measure of its capability. It the West has not an adequate supply of ministers, it is because the East cannot spare them. Those whom she can spare as well as not, are such as the West do not want, and those she knows not how to spare have already been drawn upon beyond her means. The weakening of an Eastern church by withdrawing an efficient pastor is simply at the cost of the Western by cutting off the supplies of men and money necessary to its sustenance, and it is allowable only under the plea of some peculiar and dominant necessity. We can, therefore, meet the demand for ministers only by an increase of candidates for the ministry. And to accomplish this, the piety of the Church must be deepened, and its channels opened and widened in this direction. The attention of our youth must be summoned to this claim on their talents, as a reason why they should anew, or for the first time, consecrate them to Christ. Parents must be made to feel the duty of training and yielding their children to a work so inviting and remunerating.

Ministers and elders must take this matter into their special charge; seeking to gam our young men, not by worldly considerations, whether of a literary or pecuniary sort, but by pointing them to the grand opportunities here offered of usefulness to God and their country through the same earnest consecration and cheerful self-denial so conspicuously illustrated in the examples of Christ and his apostles.

Next to the provision of preachers is that of preaching places. By this is not meant congregations which already exist in greater numbers than we can supply, but houses of worship for these congregations. We have come to understand that there can be no progressive and permanent church edification without a church edifice. It is as much

needed for ministers and people as houses to live in are needed for them. The attention of the Assembly has been so thoroughly called to this subject the present session that we need not enlarge upon it.

What we have most required is a settled policy, that should not be constantly discussed and revised, but that should be put into instant and persistent operation. It is to be boped, from action just taken by the Assembly, that we have now reached that point. We know better than heretofore what we have need to do and what we are able to do; that which remains is to do it, The chief discouraging hindrance of a debated plan being removed, let us arise and build. Let the gift fund be swelled as the Joan fund never was. The wants of the Great West have become measurably appreciated by this convocation on the right bank of the Mississippi, and let us return to our congregations to report what our eyes have seen and our ears beard, and thus prepare our people for new and more liberal benefactions to this object, at some not remote day to be agreed upon for a united effort. In this way we shall best silence the voice of complaint issuing from so many promising missionary centers, and telling how the work of God is stayed for lack of houses of worship. The next report at our General Assembly will be that of gratitude for the unhindered upbuilding of Zion's waste places.

The money question, however, does not pertain to the Church erection und only, but to all departments of the missionary work. That it demands new discussion is evident from the treasurers statistics. One of these discloses the average con ribubution on the part of our membership of barely 63 cts., which is 5 3-5 cents per month, or a cent and a quarter per week. It we have made advances in the latter over former years, it is clear there is still wide room for improvement. It needs but a glance at the greatness of our work to reveal the inadequacy of our efforts, It n 'eds but another glance at the vastness of our resources to expose an exceeding parsimony in their disposal.

One important suggestion the committee would offer in this connection. It relates to christian giving as a du y to be enforced on every church not only, but on every individual. It is not enough that contributions should be taken in the Sabbath congregation; but in addition to this, or instead of it, by collectors yassing through the congregation, and calling upon each family and person. A general observance of this plan would, it is believed, Immediately increase our total receipts 75 or 100 per cent. The committee recommend that an effort be made to realize an average contribution of at least one dollar per member the present year. This would insure a total collection of $120,000, and would require a marked advance in our wealthy as well as feeble churches.

Meanwhile the home missionary work enlarges upon our hands, and calls for an immediate increase of faith, labor and prayer. There is no real source of discouragement but in the narrowness of our own hearts. There is no department of effort into which we have entered with any vigor upon which God has not shed his approving and inspiring favor. Witness to this the blessing attending our special effort in behalf of East Tennessee, in a discouraged and distracted church reinspirited, dispersed congregations regathered, in pastors settled over long vacant parishes, and the revival of religion experienced in unprecedented power. Witness the story told by delegates from all parts of the land of the descending and quickening Spirit. Even the labors employed on behalf of our foreign population, usually regarded as far from hopeful access, have not been without significant results. The Presbytery of Newark, after a sixteen years experiment among the Germans, have now as i's fruits, six churches organized on a Presbyterian basis; all but one provided with houses of worshp, with settled pastors, good congregations, a vigorous, prospective growth and an healthful, positive influence going out upon the surrounding population in behalf of Sabbath observance, temperance, social order and every moral and spiritual interest. The example thus set us by Newark Presbytery, and already emulated by Philadelphia and Cincinnati, should rebuke the prevailing skepticism on this subject. There is a grave responsibility laid upon us here, and we may not

shirk it. Let us remember that while the Irish im migration is fed by a home supply of six and a half millions, the German springs from a fountain head of forty millions. Not to care for this industrious, enterprising and accessible people is to take very poor care of our own interests.

Our labors for the native freedman, so far as we have prosecuted them, have been reasonably successful. Here again it is our straightened fach that produced our limited efficiency. If the millions of China and Caffraria are to be evangelized, bow much more those multitudes at our own doors. While slavery has depressed the adult negro popu lation too low for even Christianity easily to elevate them, it is to be noted that 1,150,000 of this race are between the ages of five and fifteen, and thus as impressible as any class of our white population by educating and evangelizing influences. This, with the almost equally needed work to be done for the poorer whites of the South is a labor sufficient of itself to tax our utmost energies.

Truly God has everywhere set before us an open door throughout this broad and free land, and that which we need is the strength of Christian faith, love and patience to pass in and accept the goodly heritage.

The following persons are recommended for reelection in the place of those members of the pres ent committee, whese term of service expires with this Assembly, viz: Jonathan F. Stearns, D. D., Rev. Charles S. Robinson, Howard Crosby, D. D., A. C. Post. M. D., and George Lockwood, Esq. All of which is respectfully submitted.

W. Ë. KNOX, Chairman.

Dr. Campbell. Thought that the simple recommendation that $150,000 should be raised would not meet the case; that there ought to be a co-operating Secretary at the West, instead of at Philadelphia; that more collecting agents should be put into the field, the best men in the Church, to go among the churches. Explained what Rev. Mr. Winis had accomplished in the establishment of German Presbyterian Churches in Newark, and insisted upon the need of Presbyterian publications in the German language. Dr. Parsons. Believed that the General Assemblies did not feel the importance of this subject of Home Missions as they should feel it. The time was when we could preach the Gospel in this country to every creature, but we neglected to do the work then as we should have done it, caring more for the roods and acres of these prairie farms than for the souls of men. It was now again possible for us to preach the gospel to every creature. There were some ministers on the frontier who felt the importance of this matter sufficiently to convince them that they must work and induce others to work. We had given to this object of our abundance and not of our penury. It was not enough for us to say that we recommend that $120,000 be raised for this object during the current year. It was necessary something should

be done here which would reach individual members of the churches. Last year they had besought the General Assembly to care for and assist them in orthwest Missouri. The General Secretary and those associated with him had done what they could, but the work had not been done. There were churches to be occupied-numbers of men were wanted. Should they who are placed at the outposts of Zion go home from this Assembly and say that they had an able report on Home Missions, which was received with marked interest; that many elaborate speeches were made, and the recommendations of the committee passed without a dissenting voice to raise $120,000 this year, and be compelled to stop there? Should they be permitted to go home and say to those who look up to them from the right and left and ask them couldn'

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