Minutes - United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Volume 8Vol. for 1958 includes also the Minutes of the final General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America and the minutes of the final General Assembly of the Presbyteruan Church in the U.S.A. |
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... missionary societies were then 167 , now 218 . But what is especially interesting to us , is the fact that the colored churches and schools themselves are so nobly coming up to their own support . Their contributions this year reach the ...
... missionary societies were then 167 , now 218 . But what is especially interesting to us , is the fact that the colored churches and schools themselves are so nobly coming up to their own support . Their contributions this year reach the ...
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... missionaries have also been given their final reward . They rest from their labors , and their works do follow them . Servants of God and the Church , they , like their fellows who remain , lived generous and self - sacrificing lives ...
... missionaries have also been given their final reward . They rest from their labors , and their works do follow them . Servants of God and the Church , they , like their fellows who remain , lived generous and self - sacrificing lives ...
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... missionaries are now in the service of the Board , an increase of 71 during the year ; 135 churches were organized ; 2065 adults and 3958 infants were baptized ; 6216 ... missionary congregations to A.D. 1884. ] 35 GENERAL ASSEMBLY .
... missionaries are now in the service of the Board , an increase of 71 during the year ; 135 churches were organized ; 2065 adults and 3958 infants were baptized ; 6216 ... missionary congregations to A.D. 1884. ] 35 GENERAL ASSEMBLY .
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... missionary congregations to about $ 4,000,000 the splendid fruitage of many toils and tears , prayers and self - denials . For all these abundant favors let us call upon our souls to magnify and bless the holy name of the Lord . But at ...
... missionary congregations to about $ 4,000,000 the splendid fruitage of many toils and tears , prayers and self - denials . For all these abundant favors let us call upon our souls to magnify and bless the holy name of the Lord . But at ...
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... missionary to supervise the field , be- lieving that great good will result from the service of one specially adapted to the work . 4. Your Committee note with satisfaction that the Board is still intent upon using special efforts in ...
... missionary to supervise the field , be- lieving that great good will result from the service of one specially adapted to the work . 4. Your Committee note with satisfaction that the Board is still intent upon using special efforts in ...
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Page 134 - Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Page 3 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth...
Page 240 - Report, according to the form exhibited on page 114, of the present Appendix ; of which a printed blank will be furnished in due season, by order of the Assembly, to the Stated Clerk of every Presbytery. This report should, if possible, embrace all the changes in the Presbytery previous to the first day of April. 2. A Narrative of the State of Religion within the bounds of the Presbytery for the year ending April 1st.
Page 103 - The General Assembly shall consist of an equal delegation of Bishops and Elders from each Presbytery, in the following proportion: viz. each Presbytery consisting of not more than twenty-four ministers, shall send. one minister and one elder ; and each Presbytery consisting of more than...
Page 123 - Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 27 - Missions, which was adopted, and is as follows : The Committee to whom was referred the...
Page 238 - III. In order, as far as possible, to procure a respectable and full delegation to all our judicatories, it is proper that the expenses of ministers and elders, in their attendance on these judicatories, be defrayed by the bodies which they respectively represent.
Page 229 - State, in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system.
Page 73 - In view of the evils wrought by this scourge of our race, this assembly would hail with acclamations of joy and thanksgiving the utter -extermination of the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage, by the power of Christian conscience, public opinion and the strong arm of the civil law.
Page 82 - THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America would proceed forthwith to the First Presbyterian Church.