The 1.-Y,wiag. al'Pointed to
•
ekni , the communion
the after; Frederick Starr,
F„rrind,Go,-,1: \‘. Lane, Chancellor
llaincr and Uovid n.trl,our.
Un motion ( - ,f :v,r. Dodge, the calling of
the roll was with.
vor.m AL 10 , , ALATION OF THE VOTE.
jDr. A ,I;11, --Mr. Moderator, I move you
ibe H! ,,,,, j ,. : resolution ;
1 Th i,
.\ —.lolly having received and exa
mine! , ,ndement of the vote in the se
p,, -by tones on the basis of reunion
venal o,/ . (;,,, tt eJ, bodies, now claiming the name
and the rights of the Presbyterian Church
of the raited States of America, in the
„.„ r d s f,rllowing, viz,: The union shall be ef-
Jfected! on the doctrine and ecclesiastical ba-
E ; ; ; of our common Standards. The Scriptures
! o f the Old and New Testament shall be ac
imowledged as being the inspired word of
iiicJil, and the only infallible rule of faith
i.ind practice. The confession of faith shall
continue to be received as containing the
system of doctrines taught in the Holy
geripture, and the government and doctrine
of the Presbyterian Church of the United
States; and whereas in theM is contained
the rules of our polity, it is hereby declared
'that said basis has been approved by more
han two-thirds of the Presbyteries of this
'ranch of the church ; and whereas the other
branch, in the First Church, has reported
that this basis has been approved by more
than t wo•thirds of the Presbyteries Connected
'with that branch of the Church; therefore
we do now solemnly declare that said Baqis
of Reunion is of binding force.
The paper was adopted unanimously by a
'rising vote.
TEE ASSEMBLY. DISSOLVED
Dr. Adams—l now move you, Mr. 'Mo
derator, that this Assembly be dissolved in
the usual form prescribed by our constitu
tion.
Adopted unanimously.
The Moderator then spoke as follows : By
virtue of the authority delegated to me by
the Church, let this General Assembly be
dissolved, and I do hereby dissolve it, and
require another Assembly chosen in the
same manner to meet in the First Presbyte
rian church in Philadelphia on the third
Thursday in May, 1870.
Adjourned with prayer and. the apostolic
1 , 1 benediction.
FORMAL REUNION.
After the adjournment, the members of
the New School Assembly formed in pro
cession in front of the church, and marched
down Sixth to Wood Street. When they
reached a point opposite the gate of the
First Church, the Old School Assembly
moved out in double column to meet them,
they moving on the left, and the old school
onthe right of the street. When all was
ready, the Moderator, Joint Committees,
and other officers, who were at the head
of their respective Assemblies, advanced
towards each other, and meeting in the
middle of the street, shook hands and
locked arms. This example was followed
along the whole line, and the procession
thus formed of a New and Old School man,
two and two, symbolized the union of the
two bodies into one.
A large concourse of citizens thronged
the street, and the windows of the stores
and dwellings in the vicinity of the church
were tilled with spectators, who greeted
this act with the dapping of hands.
The procession, numbering about a
thousand, after a few minutesrdelay, then
started towards Fifthavenue, greeted wtth
cheers, and with the waving of hats and
handkerchiefs.
The following Marshals and Aids head
ed the column,:
ItLIRSIIALS.
Gen. Moorhead,John D. M'Cord,
I
William Rea, Geo. H. Stuart.
Joseph Dilworth, Wm. A. Herron,
Chas..J. Clarke, David Robinson,
Rat. A. Clarke, T. A. Cree.
The procession moved up Fifth avenue
to Smithfield, along Smithfield to Sixth,
and up Sixth to the Third Church.
The streets were thronged all along the
route, and at the Third church an im
mense assemblage had collected in antici=
pinion of the opening of the audience
room.
When the head of the procession ap
proached the church, the doors were
thrown open, and the combined Assem
blies entered the centre aisle.
As the procession entered, the choir
sang to Lenox, the well-known stanzas
oommencin a "Blow ye the trumpet, 'blow."
After the officers and members of the As-
semblies had taken their seats upon the
platform and in the middle block of pews,
the public generally was admitted. The
pressure outside the church was immense,
and in a few minutes—we might almost
limit it to seconds—the spacious audience
' chamber, including the aisles, wasliterally
packed with men and women. Thousands
more would fain have entered, but that was
impossible.
it took some minutes for the vast crowd
to settle into silence, but at about eleven
o'clock, Moderator Fowler gave out the
; Coronation hymn. The vast volume of
sound that rose from the entire audience
standing, was itself a sublime opening of
the services.
Alter a most appropriate prayer by Dr.
13eatty, a committee, consisting of George
H. Stuart, Rev. Dr. John Hall, and Hon.
Wm. E. Dodge was appointed to prepare.
and send a telegram announcing the union,
to the Presbyterians of Great Britain and
Ireland. •
The followingis the text of the message :
To the Rev. Di, Buchanan, Glasgow : The
two great Presbyterian Churches in Ameri
ca, this day united, greet the Presbyterian
Churches of Great Britain and Ireland, and
pray ,that they also may be one.
[Signed] GEO. H. STUART,
JNO. HALL,
WM. E. DODGE.
r The audience then united in singing the
lymn beginning—
" Blest are the sons of peace."
ADDRESS OF DR. FOWLER.
After reading.portions of Scripture, viz.:
tin 133rd Psalm, part of the 17th of John,
link the 40th of Isaiah, Moderator Fowler
said,;
- Well may one feel dumb in the presence
of thls overpowering occasion, and it is from
no chhice of my own thit, I break silence
now. wish that I could sit quietly and
wonder, and pray and adore and rejoice. Is
there a parallel to the event that has been
accomplished, in all history.? It is easy to
rend asunder, but oh how hard to reunite.
You may splinter the rock, but can you ga
ther together the scattered fragments and
\solidify them again? You may easily divide
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEXT BER 18, 1869.
a church, but can you so easily bind it to
gether again ? History is full of divisions
of the Church, but only here and there is
there the record of reunion, and when re
union has taken place; how comparatively
small are the bodies that have been joined
again. But here are thousands of minis
ters, thousands of congregations, hundreds
of thousands of Christians, flowing together
by one impulse, and embracing each other
in what we hope and believe will be an in
dissoluble union. This union does not arise
from a sense of weakness and need in the
constituent parts, for both are stronger now
than ever. [Applause.] And how wonder
ful the unanimity : there have been reunions
before, and how many and what large frag
ments stood out against the fusion ! The
small fragments that withstand the glow of
love under which we have come together,
and those fragments that remain in the mass
will be dissolved. [Applause.] Think of it;
what is the mind of the Lord in it? Are
we mistaken in the interpretation „generally
put upon it, and which has been so frequent
ly expressed. It does not mean that it is
for our own satisfaction merely, although
that is right enough. " Behold how good
and how pleasant it, is for brethren to dwell
together in unity." [Applause.] It is not
the mind of the Lord that our pride should
be gratified, for the church that exalteth
itself shall be abased. Neither is it the
mind of the Lord that we should give our-•
selves to indolence and repose, with a feel
ing that the church has goods laid up,
"therefore, eat, drink and be merry." The
mind of the Lord is effort, progress, strug
gle, Conflict I God has massed us that He
may hurl us upon his foes. [Applause.]
And the spirit of the hour is, onward : for
ward is our rallying cry. [Renewed ap
plause.] What'gladness this reunion gives
to the advanced section of the sacramental
host to God's elect! Our outposts are, re
joicing. '
Two or three days before' I left my home.
for Pittsburgh I met a missionary brother'
from Ceylon. He was about coming to see
me. He was the bearer of a letter from an
other missionary brother. The letter will
best speak for itself, and I will take the li
berty of reading it,
" I have been reading in the New York
Observer and Evangelist_the movements of
the two General Assemblies. In view of
what has been clone, and what is expected
will be done in the future, I can say with
an overflowing heart, praise 'the Lord. I
cannot express the degree of joy I expe
rience better than to suggest that we raise
the sum of five million dollars as a thank
offering to which I gladly contribute my
mite, on the principle laid down in Malachi.
I hope the hundred dollars in gold accompa
nying this will prove a mustard seed; from
which a gigantic tree will spring up with
extended branches, studded with golden
mites, that will bear five millions of dollars.
[Applause.] Thus connected, the Presby
terian portion of Zion can easily collect the
required sum, and we hope to see fulfilled
the Saviour's supplication that they all may
be one." _ [Signed.]
in a Foreir
res
[Applause.]
Here is the donation, converted from gold
o. amounting .to $l2B 75. Non
inued applause.]
When I rose it Was with the sincerest pur
pose to observe the utmost brevity, but be
fore I take my seat, my dear brother Mo
derator, may we not perform a simple act,
symbolic of the union that is now taking
plate bet Ween the twa branches of the
Church? Let us shake hands. [The Mo
derators here clasped hands amidst prolong
ed and deafening applause. The effect was
electrical.] The audience then united in
singing,
"Praise God from whom all blessings Itow."
ADDRESS OF DR. JACOBUS
After the intense feeling created by this
act had subsided, Moderator Jacobus said :
These are the nuptials of the Churches we
represent. Then, I am sure, my brethren;
that the Great Apostle and High Priest of our
profession, .7esus Christ, officiates at the
wedlock. In His name I will put the ques
tion now, and just here say, if there be any
person here present who knows of any reason
just and sufficient why these parties may not
b 3 lawfully united, let him now speak or for
ever hold his peace. [Great applause.]
Turning to Dr. Elliott., the Moderator of
the Assembly of '37, and at the stormy open
ing of 'BB, who, by a marked Providence, was
permitted to be present, and to whom a
prominent seat on the platform had been as
signed, he said : Venerable father! I ask you,
who presidedat the division of these bodies,
do you know of any reason why they should
not be joined together?
Dr. Elliott, rising and inclining his head ;
I know of none, sir. [lmmense and long
continued applause.]
Geo. H. Stuart—" What God bath joined
together, let no man put asunder."
Dr. Jacobus—ln the name,of God Amen.
When we met together on another platform
in the great commercial metropolis, six
months ago, we looked, with happy anticipa
tions to this hour—this solemn, impressive,
eventful houf. May we not say the hour has
come ; may we not add, with all reverence,
the hour has come that the Son of Man may
be glorified', and that these kernels of wheat
that . fall into the ground and die, die only
that they may not abide alone, but that they
may bring forth much fruit .. The Presbyteries
have spoen from Maine to California, and
from across the Pacific, from ,China to India,
and they have sent up with such, single and
marvellous unanimity, as only God himself
could bring about we believe, their affirma
tive response on this subject of reunion.
We stand upon symbolic ground. . These
beautiful rivers that run into each other
-they run into each other I say—the Mo
nongahela runs into the Allegheny, or the
Allegheny into the Monongahela. At the
confluence there is a little difference in the
currents, but it is for a little time. The clear
waters of the 'Allegheny united with the
Monongahela make the Ohio, the beautiful
river. You ask where is the Old School
Church ? Where is the New School Church?
Ask where is the Allegheny and the Monon
gahela in the great Ohio. No analysis on
earth can separate them. They are there,
and there they are together in. one grand,
glorious stream rushing down to the Father
of Waters.
This is a joyous day. We have spoken
of the event as a marriage, but let us
speak of it henceforth as a partnership—as
a bUsiness partnership—well understood in
this great commercial centre, where we in
vest everything that belongs to us, and the
name of the firm is the Presbyterian
Church of the United States of America
(applause), and with our representative
system, our press and our ecclesiastical
polity we may be called the great Ameri
can Church if we understand and accept
the situation, and put our energies into it
and go forth to evangelize the people.
This day this reunion is the bugle' blast,
as we believe, calling upon all the brethren
of the Presbyterian ffimily to come to
gether. But here already there are flee
thousand ministers nearly, with half a mil
lion members nearly, having expended last
year eight million dollars, too much of it
expended, perhaps, in matters not closely
connected with the multiplication of sanc
tuaries and the sending abroad of the
living missionaries. But the money is
there, and it is at the command of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Men have said Pro
testantism is a failure. That statement
was well answered by a Bishop, in an ad
dress delivered in the very church where
the declaration was made. He said that
coining out of his house early one day,
he saw an owl sitting on the bough of a
tree—and what do you think he said:
"Daylight is a failure!" (Laughter). No,
my friends, Protestantism is not a failure,
and Presbyterianism is not a failure, it is
to go throughout all lands and throughout
the world.
ADDRESS OF DR. MUSGRA.VE
After singing :
" Blest be the tie that binds,"
Dr. Musgrave was announced. He said
Thank God for this hour! and for the pri
vilege of being present on this occasion I
HoW marvellous a change 1 How great
the contrast between 1869 and 1837-38!
As a calyinist, I must believe that every,'
thing has been ordained 'of God, so that
I believe that our separation was the will
of God, as our reunion is-. But, sir, we
have been accustomed to distinguish be
tween the permissive and the efficient will
of Godt '(Applause). And that is the
logical method of solving a great many
difficulties which embarrass Arminians.
(Laughter). 'Well, sir, I believe that this
reunion has been brought about .by the
efficient, efficacious, gracious will :of God.
(Applause). I don't believe it is possible
that anything less than an Almighty Power
could have produced this result. When
we remember our antecedents (I only speak
of the Old School) ; when we think, I say,
of our antecedents, and the materials of
which we are ;composed, it is marvellous
(laughter)—ii is almoSt miraculou(re
new ed laughter)—that we should have
been brought together so trustingly and so
lovingly. (I.aughter).* Well, lam con
strained to say that I yielded to nothins
short of the conviction that this thing is
of ,God, And is in accordance With His
will. Now, sir, Ihelieve that this union
will be permanent. Why, 'sir; there is such
an affinity between us that we' cannot be
kept apart. (Applause). You recolleet
how it was a century ago, when the two
Synods Separated—the Nevl' Lights and
the Old Lights—and how they quarrelled
for some years, and then had to 'come to
gether again. Now; after a separation of
more than thirty'yeara, we Pare agreed to
come together again. It puts me in mind
of a remark mad by a good Quaker, whose
wife on one occasion was disposed to quar
rel—well, there are ladles here, and I don't
like to tell the story—but she was any
thing but sweet tempered'; 'but the hug - -
band of the old lady would say to her,
" My' dear, it is not worth while for you .
and me to quarrel, for we will haVe 'to
'Make it up afterwards." And so there is
no use in these two churches quarrelling;
and I think now, historically, that we have
been taught this lesson—that it is not
worth our while, in the future, ever to
quarrel, for we.shalthaveto make up again.
(Laughter). Well, sir, as I believe this
reunion is in Accordance with the will of
God, I have given it my whole soul, and I
rejoice in the belief that God will bless it;
and make it a blessink: , to our country and
to the world. But, Moderators, we must
be humble, we must be prayerful, we must
be devoted to our Master's cause and glory,
that we may have His continued favor—
for without His blessing our means, our
numerical strength, our intelligence and
our wealth will avail nothing. 0, let us
lie low at His feet, and implore God to re
strain us from pride, and ambition and self
seeking, and enable us as His servants to
seek Eris honor and the prosperity of His.
Church. Let us go to work with a will;
with energy; with perseverance; and let
this spirit of activity pervade the whole
Church. I would close by repeating an ex
pression that I had occasion to use a little
while ago. Let the bugle sound the ad
vance along the entire line; and let us, as
one uniform phalanx, move forward in the
name and for the sake of the glory- of
Christ and the spiritual conquest of this
and all other lands. (Long continued ap
plause).
n Field
ADDRESS 'OF REV. DR. ADAMS. .
I, too, thank God that I am :permitted to
see this day. Many have desired to see it,
and have been denied the sight.. ,Three of
them who were on the Joint Committee,
as originally constituted—Brainard, lirebba,
and Gurley—have gone to their reward,
and I have no doubt they are bending
over us to-day, and are rejoicing with us.
Glory be to God in the highest; this is the
Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our
eyes. None but those who were originally
on that committee can comprehend, I think;
all the difficulties, and fears, and misgivings
that were felt when first brought together,
,by no seekina ° of our own, upon a cold
wintry day. Sir, -those fears, misgivings,
doubts and difficulties they have all
passed away. I would say this morning
that we are not slaves to the bondage of
fear. I will say as the patriarch of old,
" Let me go for the morning breaketh."
We have crossed the ford of Jabbok ; our
fears are all behind us. Alienated brethren
have met. Esau and Jacob have fallen
upon each others necks; they have kissed
each other and wept. There is aleautiful
custom in the Moravian church, at their
seasons of communion. It is. miy great
pleasure oftentimes to go to a Moravian
church in New York, to celebrate the Lord's
supper ; and I was startled by the novelty
Upon one occasion when one of these breth
ren, Dr. Muhlenberg, from one side of the
communion table, came around and offered
me his hand. I was surprised to see that
throughout the whole mass of the church
that thing was done, as though they spoke
in this bautiful language, " Here is my
heart and here is my hand." I had hoped,
Messrs. Moderators, when you joined your
bands in that symbolic act of Union, that
this whole Assembly of brethren might
have been induced at the same time to have
joined hands all through this house, saying,
" Here is my heart and here is my hand."
[A voice—lt's not too late to do it ,37et. 'The
whole audience here rose and acted on the
suggestion]. •
I am told that it is not often
that such a bright moon and bright
•
sun are apparent 'here in tsburgh,
[Laughter) as We bayed:l'9;d' these it
.evenings
and days past, and, although I am not in
clined to be superstitious, this seems to me
to be significant. One night Luther looked
out of the window, when he was despondent
and sad, and said : " I see a sign in the
heavens. The whole glorious firmament
banging upon nothing." Oh sir! these are
halcyon days; days of which Virgil sung.
These are eras of Christian joy and piety.
Let us thank God that we are permitted to
see-and enjoy them. Now, this crowd of
people that eyed our procession here to-day,
composed as it was in a peculiar way, per
haps have been inclined to ask, " What does
this thing mean?" We may all ask this
question, " What does this thing mean?
What does it mean in regard to the past?
What was all this old strife about?" \\Tell,
I think the first thing' that that this occa
sion means is a magnanimous forgetfulness
of the past. The fractured bones are
coming . together, and being knit and it is
not a time to undo the bandages, arid scrape
the bones again. [Applause]. And now,
sir, forgetting the past, let us ask how God
forgives and forgets. Oh, what would be
the comfort of our souls if this passage were
taken out of the Scriptures: "He temem
bereth our sins no.more, forever." Let us
thank God that these things are past, and
let them sink like lead in the great
Writers.
But what does this occasion mean for the , 1
future? It means liberality. I use the.
word in the best sense. We are abiding by ,
our own symbols; we stand by our own i
faith and.church polity. .Butctve are pledged
by this occasion to liberality in the best
.sense of the term for th'e the, future, letting
unexpected differences no more have power
to divide us; corning together with a true
magnanamity, OppbSing that; there will be'
mutual differences, but never allowing
them to separate and divide us. This occa
sion means the utmost magnanamity in all
our plans for the future. ' It means progross
in all that we undertake. We haVe been
for many years past very familiar with the
Basis and Standards. We have had occa 3
siodto refer to that. many times in our dis
cusssions. Now sir, I believe that the '
word Standard can be used in two different ' .
senses.. Here, where you manufacture iron, '
it sometimes means an upright stiff pillar, '
There is another sense in which .we can
take the word Standard, and that is as
the symbol of our faith and polity. It '
is the great banner of our Church.
It is something that we don't look to
to bear us up, but something which
we are to bear forward in the name of
Jesus Christ. 'We have been familiar with
these designations—Old School and New
School—for many years. Well, it has ,oc
curred to me that the only way we can
combine those terms is just to transpose
one letter, and instead of 0. S. put S. 0.,
and 'you have SONS . ; sons of the Church :
sons of the one Church!—the Presbyterian ,
Church; sons of God, and if sons, than heirs,
"heirs of God and joint heirs with. JeSus
Christ." That blue banner of the Presby
terian Church, which has been borne in the
times of strife over the hills and the heath
-ors of Scotland ; let us take it in our hands,
now quartered with new armorial bearings
—learning, liberality, piety, charity, mag
nanimity—and let lis bear it on, in the name
of God; in the great! work which is given
us to do as a Church.
I was very much Struck with that beau
tiful reference t o the symbolical waters
which surround ns where we are met. We
should have that pAtitooraphed upon our
memories. We sho ild 'Fake it with us to
our homes. But it - e'ems to me we might
carry the figure a lit le further. A. brother
said to me this morn ng that he hoped that
this was the last occasion he would ever
see of this sort. I hope not, but I hope
that we will see luau more of the same
sort. Where the Ohio is formed just be
low Pittsburgh, it go is on. I cannot recall
the rivers that flow i to it. But you have
the Kanawha and Ole Wabash . and the
Tenessee, and the and,
all flowing
together and becoreing one. Now, sir, I
believe that in theuture more branenea
of the Presbyterian hurch will come with
us. I cannot forge bur brethren of the
South, and our , }Act ren of the West, in
t
all their dispersions nd divisions, and we
expect that there wit be flowiegs together,
and on future occasions. Presbyterians—
those who live lnqg enough—will, see
grander occasions for rejoicing than we
have to day Now( I was a little fearful
just for a moment} when my excellent
friend, Dr. Musgrake '
said that his Work
was about done. 1 4 1 . was afraid he was
going to say that hf expected to go some
where else before (this great union shall
take place. Ido hope that Dr. Musgrave, ,
Dr. McGill and minty of these fathers of
the Church will 11+ to see' more unions.
I hope they won't, mote dimittis too
hard.—l want you .o live; I want these
fathers to live, th they may rejoice in
_gray
the unions which, believe, God intends
fn. us. I want the to live, that we may
do all in our powe o show them what re
spect and eonfiden we have for them.
[Applause.] The I ccasion means, too,
an enlargement of heart, an* I think
it a grand privii, ge for , us' that we
i
may have more irties to. love. Let
us cultivate each of er's acquaintance. It
seems to be a very l the thing to say add
to do. But it is a d fferent thing to come
together intimately'n our sociafrelatiorts.
Let us cultivate eac other's acquaintance,
1
and not . be kept ap rt by any cheveaux de
1,
freze of old prejudi'es. And lam sure
as we know each other more, we will love
each other more, and have occasion to re
joice in God's great mercy in bringing us
together. Dr. Musgrave said he was a
Calvinist. We are all Calvinists: In one
view of the case, Dr. Musgrave claims that
-he was in favor of this transaction because
God had decreed, it. I suppose that I
shall not be suspected Of extreme New
Schoolism, if I say that we, on the other
side, are rejoiced that we have been per
mitted to do so much in the way of
making our calling and election sure.
[Long continued and vehement applause.]
Will ydu bear with me, Mr. Moderator,
in one word further. It is a little personal,
but I ask it in the name of justice. It has
so occurred, in the Providence of God,
that I have been connected with the joint
Committees from the beginning. I think
that none can understand air the cares
and anxieties and fears, that there • have
been at particular times, when some of the
Committee thought that the thing ought
to be abandoned. I believe we shall not
forget the services of these men who gave
the question all care and toil, day and
night, and without their aid, it is due to
_them to say; we should never have reached'
the: point to which we have now' oble. And.
now we will lift up our standard, and let
us bear it, forivard, with those armorial
, bearings, and
_with the, name of Jesus
Christ upon it; let us bear it down these
rivers, and over the prairies and slopes,
over the mountains, all over our own land,
and throughout all lands, and so on earth
and in Heaven will we bless God for this
day. [applause.]
After prayer by Dr. Hatfield, Dr. Rod
gers moved a vote of thanks to the mem
bers of the Re-union Committees, which
was unanimously passed.
Dr. S. W. Fisher then read the report of
the Joint Committee on the proposed me
morial fund, to be raised by the united
Church, in honor of the Union. Tl.e
amount was put at $1,000,000 in the re
port, but was amended to $5,000,000, and
was passed. The time allowed for com
pleting the fund is a year after the nest
meeting of the General Assembly. No
particular objects are assigned for the use
of the fund.
The next address was made by Dr. John
Hall, of New York. It was in - fine spirit, but
was more general in character than the
others. It closed with a most touching nar
rative of the reconciliation of two aged and
long estranged brothers which he had wit
nessed and brought to pass, which brought
the tears like rain to scores of faces.
Judge Strong followed. He said :
My heart is too full for utterance, and I
have no words with which to express my
emotions. I cannot describe my joy, and it
would be vain were I to make the attempt•.
I have listened to all that has been said this
morning, and I have rejoiced in all that has
been said. I have appreciated the symbols,
and . the figures by which the union of these
two great potties has:been represented, but
they are all inadequate to express my feel
ings. I cannot think of the junction of
these branches of the Church as a marriage.
We are too near of kin, and always have
been too near of kin for that. [Laughter.]
We are not as - husband and wife. There is
no head in the family except Christ. Nor are
we like rivers. We have not different sources.
We have but one source, in God the Father,
through the Holy Spirit. I can find: no lan
guage adequate to express my ideas in regard
to this union of the Church. Throughout
this land it is believed, I have no doubt, that
the,union of these two great bodies of the
Presbyterian Church is to be the beginning
of nobler efforts and higher achievements in
the cause of Christ than has ever been ac
complished. Let us begin at home, in our
own churches, and labor -for the blessing of
God, that we may be an efficient Church, and
be a great blessing to the whole land.
Hon. Chas. D. Drake, being next an
nounced, said: Seldom have any of us here
present this day witnessed, in the same day,
a buirial and' a resurrection. We have come
here to-day to bury all that was symbolized
in the addition to the name•of the Presby
terian Church, of thoie strange letters, here
after to be known no more, except in history
—O. S. and N. S. And from the burial comes
the resurrection, in its simple grandeur, with
out any prefik or suffix; of "the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of America."
[Applause.] The sides of the mountain, and
above all the clouds that haviloWered around
us for one generation, have at length been sur
mounted, and we stand with hearts and hands
locked in one embrace on the top of this
Lookout Mountain of the Christian religion
and the Presbyterian Church in the United
States. And now, as we stand on this , great
and glorious height above the clouds, what
should be the first object that should com
mand our attention? To what shouln we
first look? The glorious Sun of Righteous
ness that radiates the world that lies before
us. Two great bodies of Christians to-day
change their orbits, and merge themselw
into one—doing in the Christian world, what
is impossible in the natural world!'
After furtli er brief remarks by Henry Day,
Esq., and Hon. W. E. Dodge, Geo. 11. Stuart,
Esq., responded to a loud call from the au
dience. He expressed his profound interest
in the great event of the day, and closed as
follows: O . brethten, of this Presbyterian
Church of the United States of America,
think of it, that since this hour yesterday—
since these twenty-four hours have passed
away—eighty-four thousand six hundred im
mortal souls have gone to the judgment seat
of Christ, and we ought to ask ourselves the
question which Baxter asked when he said,
" I never hear the funeral bells tolled with
out asking myself the question, what have I
done to point that departed soul to the'Lamb
of God that died to save a perishing world?"
Brethren, buckle on your armor for the great
conflict; buckle it on for giving the glorious
gospel of the Son of God to the millions of
the world who are perishing for the lack of
knowledge.
May God bless this great Presbyterian
Church, and may. God grant that the day
may soon come when you shall embrace all
other Presbyterians—all other bearing the
name in this land;
Prayer was offered by Robert Carter, and
the Assembly was dismissed with the bene
diction by Dr; Jacobus, after having been in
session nearly four hours.
AN EXTRACT,
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while it is, just new, but the thing is to
get clothing that will not lose its shape
liness and beauty before you have worn
it a month. Now this is one of the great
points about this clothing of which we
speak, it is so well made, and of such
good material, that with any ordinary
degree of care, it will look as good as
' new,' even after it has been well - Worn.
It is made by Wanamaker & Brown, at
Oak Hall, and is, without exception, the
cheapest clothing I have ever bought."
MARRIED.
STETLEIL—DELANEY.—On the 9th WA., by Rev.
A. V. C. Schenck, Mr. Harry R. btetler and kiss Kate
Delaney, both of ph.ladelpaia.
SIITITERLXND—BREWER. — On the 3d inst., at the
residence of Dr. Charles Brewer, Montgomery Co., Md.,
by the Rev. J. Garland ll.onner, Cal. Charles Sather-
WO, U. S. A., to Mss B. Witt Brewer, of Annapolig,
Maryland.
Twelfth Anniversaiy of the Noonday Union
Prayer Itleetiog, w.ll be celebrated on Tuesday, the 22d
of this month, at 12 o'clock, in the Church on Broad
above Chestnut St. Rev. Dr. Johnson will preside.
Various Clergymen will take part in the exerohes.
Philadelphia Tract+ and Mission SO
eiety.—Tnn Tr..ct Visitors' .monthly Union Meeting,
for the 3d District,West of Broad to the Schuylkill.
will ha held at the Methodist Episcopal Church, corner
of •20th and Spring Garden, on Friday eveniag, 19th, at
7% o'clock. Several missionaries will be present, and
address the me, ting. Come.
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TILE WHOLE STORY IN A'NUTSIIELL.
The office of the stomach is to convert the food into
scream-like semi -fluid, called CHYME. This is effected
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and partly by a mechanical movement of that organ,
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Now, it is evident that if the great solvent, the gas
tric juice, is not produced in sufficient quantity, or if
the mechanical action of the stomach is hot sufficiently
brisk, thefirst process of digestion will be but ismer
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REFERENCES:
Ron. William Strong,
Rev. Z. M. Humphrey. D.D.,
Rev. Daniel March, D.D.,
Rev. Roger Owen,
Benjamin Kendall, Esq.,
Hon. William C. Porter,
Theodore.Ouyler, Esq.,
Rev. John W. Mears, D.D.,
Geo. W. Riddle, Esq.
Samuel C. Perkins, Esq.
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