Show I The I V Churches V OiliiA May 271n the Presbyterian Assembly yesterday morning the the Committee report of on Education showing the number of candidates was read der its control to be M moro than last now un1 making in all C95 There year are debts of h315 000 attributed s ti s S uutcu to the falling off of legacies Net increase i of churches increase last year 188 net of ministers 1029 after filling vacancies caused by 109 deaths Sr Louis May 27 27The attention of tho General Assembly of the Southern Presby terians was entirely occupied with discus sions on the advisability of organizing a nnion with the Northern church J M P Ottes churchV Rev strongly advocated the union as soon as it could be accomplished terms safe and honorable to both sides on The animosities engendered by the war should bo over The Episcopalians and Baptists had united with their Northern brethren and now was tho time for the Presbyterians to do likewise Rev C K Vaughn of Lexington Virginia spoke against the majority thought that the church could not report change He its relations as quickly as business men and politicians He laid particular stress on the color line and after a time bo said see the elegant you will black gentleman offer his to your white girl and she will arm gratefully ac cept it itev a S M Palmer Now Orleans the revived issues of the war and bitterly arraigned the Northern church for what he called eject ment in 1861 and followed it with inflam matory denunciation saying tho color lino was the cause of tho in tho split In 18G1 and was cause of the dissension now MINNEAPOLIS May aAt tho afternoon session of the Baptists Convention tho Committee on Nominations reported tho following officers and they wore elected by a formal ballot President Mr Samuel A Crozier of Pennsylvania vicepresidents Thomas Armitage D D of New York H H Tucker D D LL D of Ger Georgia Ed ward Goodman lug of of Illinois Joshua L Ever Maryland secretary Benjamin Griffith D D recording secretory How ard Gendcll treasurer Charles H Banes The Committee on Enrollment in the afternoon reported that 772 delegates I were present at the Publication Snis thirtyeight States u Society meeting and Territories being represented llov Dr Bitting opened the meeting in the afternoon with the state ment of the finances of the society The congregation that responded to the call of the Womens Baptist Foreign Missionary Society at 2 oclock in the afternoon was so numerous as to crowd the auditorium and comfortably fill the gallery os the Hennepin Avenue M E Church Mrs Howe of Bos ton presided After devotional exercises MM O W Gates and Mrs A M Bates respectively corresponding secretaries of tho I Societies of the East and the West delivered I brief addresses Mrs Bates also on behalf I of Mrs B S rs Learn editor tf the Helping Hand who was unable to be present stated the salient features of that publication The J Enrollment Committee reported Rev D D Prosper of Kansas presented I a resolution declaring an unalterable DQSition to all forms of liquor traffic op for efforts to secnre io and nleqgmg tho bsst At the oveningsossion able and eloquent c addresses on the subject of the day wero de livered after which the anniversary of the publication society was celebrated PHILADELPHIA May 27 fH M 27Clergymen from Maine to Texas and from the Atlantic to the Pacific were in attendance this morning at the opening of tho Twentyninth General Gen-eral Assembly of tho United Presbyterian Church of North America There were present about 3000 delegates comprising equal numbers of ministers and laymen Tno opening prayer was followed by the election of a new moderator Tno contest was of especial interest since it involves the instrumental music issue over which the church for some time has been divided Two nominations were made Rev Matthew McCormick Robinson D I D of San Francisco Fran-cisco an earnest advocate of the organ and Rev J G Carson of Xenia 0 an anti instrumental candidate The nnnual financial reports of the Board of Foreign Missions Church Extension Education Freemans Mission and Publics tion were presented The result of the ballot was a decisive victory for the advocates of a church organ and it indicates how this issue will be disposed dis-posed of later in the session Hev Robin son received 139 votes Rev J C Garson 19 The only important business during the afternoon was the presentation of tho report of the Permanent Committee on Reform which was read and placed on the docket In it the committee declares the right basis of all true reforms is Christianity A reformation re-formation built upon any other foundation would bo unsound and unsettled PHILADELPHIA May 2iTho eleventh biennial bi-ennial session of the General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church continues The new canon on marriage and divorce was taken up fur consideration After a prolonged pro-longed l discussion the subject w as recommit ted to the Committee on Constitution and Laws |