A Historical Sketch or Compendious View of Domestic and Foreign Missions in the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... among all the extraordinary doings of the Assembly of 1836, there was no one act, which had a greater influence in producing the changes and reform of the following year, than that which is now the subject of notice. To violate a formal treaty, and declare that the Presbyterian church, in its aggregate and distinctive character, should not establish and sustain a Foreign Missionary Board, (leaving all its members to their own preferences of the mode in which their missionary duties should be discharged, ) was calculated to excite both grief and indignation, and to produce a powerful reaction. Accordingly, the subject was resumed in the General Assembly of 1837, and the following transactions took place. " Wednesday Morning June 7th, 1837: The Committee on Overture No. 7, viz. the overture from the Presbytery of Salem, on the subject of foreign missions, made a report, which was accepted, and adopted, by yeas and nays, as follows: viz. " 1. Resolved, That the General Assembly will superintend and conduct, by its own proper authority, the work of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian church, by a Board appointed for that purpose, and directly amenable to said Assembly. " 2. The General Assembly shall at its present meeting, choose f%rty ministers and forty laymen, as members of the Board of Foreign Missions, one fourth part of whom shall go out annually, in alphabetical order; and thereafter ten ministers and ten laymen shall be annually elected as members of the Board of Foreign Missions, whose term of office shall be four years; and these forty ministers and forty laymen, so appointed, shall constitute a Board to be styled, ' The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, ' to which, for the time being, shall be intr...