TABLE OF CONTENTS. PORTRAITS OF PRESBYTERIAN MINISTERS. PAGE 370 DICKSON, JAMES, late of the Associate Synod of North America..... MEETINGS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLIES AND SYNODS, &c. The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, (0.8.) The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America,(N. S.) ............................... The United Presbyterian Church of North America........................... The Associate Synod of North America.... The Associate Reformed Synod of New York..... The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, (Syuod.).. The Canada Presbyterian Church .... 318 41 ........ 238 342 370 879 The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (General Synod),... 380 395 398 402 464 468 The Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland... 477 487 493, 496 The Presbyterian Ch. of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, in con. with the Ch. of Scotland. 499 Patterson,D.D., J. C. 449 479 Wolcott, Wm. A... 330 THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, (0. S.) THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA met, according to appointment, in the Second Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Mo., on Thursday, May 17, 1866, at 11 o'clock A.M. JOHN C. LOWRIE, D.D., the retiring Moderator, opened the session with a discourse from Acts i. 8: "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." After the sermon the Permanent Clerk reported the following commissioners, who were enrolled as members of the Seventy-Eighth General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. MINISTERS. Clarke, John H. Thos. McGechin, Bloomington, J. B. McKinley. J. Van Keuren. Phila. Second. Barton H Jenks. Ogdensburg. Allen Chaney. Jacob Ream. N.Brunswick. Geo. S. Green. Humphrey, E. P. Transylvania. J. C. Maxwell. Hynes, Thos. W. Kaskaskia. IRWIN, J. C. Irwin, Jr., R. JAGGERS, SAM'L H. Logansport. Lindsley.D.D.,J.B. Nashville. Lowrie, D.D., J. C. Littell, Luther Loomis, A. W. Lowry, A. M. Lyon, David MAGILL, J. F. Hudson. Benicia. Luzerne. Albany. Peoria. Hugh Adams. Chas, W. Smith. J. Newland. RAFFENSPERGER,E Maumee. Reed, D.D., V. D. Genesee Riv. Robinson, Chas.E. Mohawk. Rutter, Lindley C. Donegal. A. G. Brown. J. D. Reinboth. D. Mitchell. Shiland, A. R. McKnight. W. C. Hull. H. A. Gilette. V. C. Glenn. E. P. Ketchum. W. G. Reed. WALKER, ROBт. B. Allegheny. West Jersey. Rochester C. A. M. McPherson Mark Hardin. Edmund Buck. Henry B. Ware. G. W. Buchanan. YANTIS, D.D., J. L. Lafayette. DELEGATES FROM CORRESPONDING BODIES. HENRY A. NELSON, D.D., General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, now holding its session in the First Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Mo. A. G, VERMILYE, D.D., General Synod of the Reformed Protestant Dulch Church. ROBERT L. STANTON, D.D., of Chillicothe Presbytery, was elected Moderator. MILES J. HICKOK, D.D., of Luzerne Presbytery, was elected Temporary Clerk. Bills and Overtures. JOHN C. LOWRIE, D.D., of New York Presbytery, Chairman of this Committee, reported the following Overtures: OVERTURE, NO. I.-Concerning papers relating to the forming of Shangtung Presbytery, at Tungehow, China, January 24, 1866, by Rev. Charles R. Mills, of Shanghai Presbytery; Rev. Calvin W. Mateer, of Marion Presbytery; and Rev. Hunter Corbett, of Clarion Presbytery-the said Presbytery to be connected with New York Synod. The committe find that these brethren followed the order prescribed by the General Assembly of 1848, concerning the forming of Presbyteries in our foreign missionary fields abroad, and recommend that the Presbytery of Shangtung be recognized as duly organized, and its name be entered on the roll of the General Assembly. Adopted. No. II-A memorial from Canton Presbytery, asking the General Assembly to adopt regulations making the Presbytery the last court of appeal in certain cases which will occur in the Foreign Missionary Presbyteries, where there is no local Synod; referring to the difficulty of such Presbyteries being represented in the meetings of the General Assembly, and requesting leave to transmit transcripts of their minutes to the Assembly. The committee regard the first of these subjects as worthy of continued consideration, but recommend that the Assembly take no action concerning it at present, and also recommend that the Assembly approve of the Missionary Presbyteries sending commissioners to its meetings, as providential circumstances permit, as well as of their sending transcripts of their minutes to the Assembly; and in general recommend that the act of the General Assembly of 1845, concerning Presbyteries in India, be extended to all foreign missionary Presbyteries. Adopted. No. III.-From Philadelphia Presbytery, asking the Assembly to provide a form for the organization of new churches, and also an additional form for the solemnization of marriage. The committee recommend the following answer: First, that the action of the Assembly of 1831, p. 177, Minutes, on the subject of organizing churches, is deemed sufficient, and the memorialists are referred to that action, as found in the Assembly's Digest, pp. 54, 55; second, no further action is deemed necessary on the second point in this overture. Adopted. No. IV.-Being a request of Passaic Presbytery to restore the geographical arrangement of Synods and Presbyteries in the printing of the minutes. The committee recommend that no change be made. Adopted. No. V. From Leavenworth Presbytery, asking the General Assembly to place the church of Denver City, Colorado Territory, now reporting to that Presbytery, together with the other churches of that Territory, under the supervision and control of some Presbytery which they, in their wisdom, think may best promote the interests of the Master in that wide and interesting field. The committee find that there are but two ministers belonging to our church within the Territory of Colorado; and although the organization of a Presbytery there is desirable as soon as practicable, yet at present it seems impossible, and the committee would, therefore, recommend that this Assembly take no action upon the subject. Adopted. No. VI-From the Board of Domestic Missions, asking that Rev. Andrew Vance, D.D., Rev. William Aiken, and Rev. William B. Rankin, together with the churches of Old Salem, Baker's Creek, and Mount Bethel, in East Tennessee, be constituted a Presbytery under the name of Holston. The committee recommend that the request be granted, and that the first |