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10 00 $106 22

17 50

D. H. Brush, Carbondale, Ill., 10; Mrs. H. and
daughter, West Arch St. ch., Philadelphia, 7 50..
Total received for Sustentation, August, 1889...
Total received for Sustentation from April 1, 1889.
O. D. EATON, Treasurer,
Do Filth Ave., N. Y.

Box L, Station D.

RECEIPTS FOR NEW YORK SYNODICAL AID FUND, AUGUST, 1889.

Albany-Galway, 1 60: Stephentown, 4 04; Schenectady
East Ave., 19 cts. Cayuga-Owasco, 9. Corumbia-Centre-
ville, 19; Ashland, 3 60. Geneva-Geneva North, 47 32;
Seneca Falls 1st, 45. Hudson-Good Will, 60 cts.; Monticel-
lo, 3. North River-Pleasant Plains, 5 10, Poughkeepsie, 1.
Rochester-Mt. Morris, 3 25; Geneseo Village, 51 63. Steuben
-Corning 1st, 82 cts. Syracuse-Fulton, 37 50.
Turin, 4 77. Westchester-Thompsonville, 18 25.

Utica

Total received for New York Synodical Aid Fund,
August, 1889.....

Less amount refunded........

$123 72 3279 36

$258 67 560

253 67

Total received for New York Synodical Aid Fund
from April 1, 1889.....
3759 55
O. D. EATON, Treasurer,
Box L, Station D.
53 Fifth Ave., New York.

RECEIPTS FOR MINISTERIAL RELIEF, AUGUST, 1889.

BALTIMORE.-Baltimore-Baltimore Westminster, "M. C. D.," 5; Piney Creek, 12 12. New Castle-Head of Christiana, 10; Wilmington Rodney St., 27 34.

51 46 COLORADO.-Boulder-Rankin, 2; Valmont, 38 cts. Pueblo -Cañon City, 24.

26 38 ILLINOIS.-Bloomington—Bloomington 2d, 100; Homer, 3. Cairo-Nashville, 5 15. Chicago-Chicago Fullerton Ave., 20 66; Chicago Reunion, 5 22; Hyde Park, 82 68. MattoonPana, 87 cts. Rock River-Rock Island Broadway, 24 35. Schuyler-Mt. Sterling, 24. Springfield-Pisgah, 1 15; Springfield 1st, 100 97; Unity, 52 cts.

INDIANA.-Muncie-Hopewell,

368 57
5 00

IOWA.-Cedar Rapids-Centre Junction, 4; Clinton, 90.
Dubuque Sherrill's Mound Ger., 450, Iowa-Winfield, 470.
Iowa City-Columbus Central (sab-sch., 2 43), 8 02. Waterloo
-East Friesland Ger., 9 94.
KANSAS.-Neosho-Fairview, 2 40; Moran, 3 90; Osage 1st,
16 55

10 25.

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NEW YORK.-Albany-Charlton, 6; Jefferson, 14 20; Schenectady East Ave., I 67. Binghamton-Binghamton Ross Memorial, 2. Brooklyn-Brooklyn 2d, 130 21. BuffaloBuffalo West Ave., 3 30. Cayuga-Meridian, 9. ColumbiaDurham 1st, 8. Genesee-Wyoming, 9 19. Geneva-Romulus, 16. Hudson-Chester, 24 57; Circleville, 7 25; Goodwill, 5 40; Monticello, 4. Nassau-Roslyn, 4 73. North River-Poughkeepsie, 9. Otsego-Hobart, 9; Oneonta, 23 04. Rochester-Geneseo Village, 54 33; Mt. Morris, 4; Rochester Central, 100. St. Lawrence-Brasher Falls, 3 43. SteubenCorning, 7 38. Troy-Lansingburg Olivet, 15. Utica-Clayville, 2. Westchester-Patterson, 5 20. OHIO.-Athens-Bristol, 5; Logan 1st, 25. Bellefontaine—

478 10

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PACIFIC.-San Francisco-Lebanon, PENNSYLVANIA.-Allegheny-Hoboken, 6. Butler-Muddy Creek, 4; Plain Grove, 6; Unionville, 3 15. Carlisle-Shermansdale, 2 97; Silver Spring, 23. Chester-Downingtown Central, 22 80. Erie-Stoneboro', 3 25. Huntingdon-Hollidaysburg (sab-sch., 5 70), 53 35; Spring Creek, 13 50. Lickawanna-Monroeton, 9; Montrose, 25; Tunkhannock, 27 60. Northumberland-Williamsport 2d sab-sch., 24 41. Philadel phia Central-Philadelphia West Arch St., "Mrs. W. and daughter," 15. Philadelphia North-Abington, 56; Doylestown, 22. Pittsburgh-McDonald 1st, 18 74; Pittsburgh East Liberty, 85. Shenango-Clarksville, 12 13; Leesburg, 7; Westfield, 19. Westminster-Middle Octorara, 5 61. 464 51 TENNESSEE.-Holston-Timber Ridge, 2. Union-Eusebia,

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Rev. W. C. Cattell, D.D., 50; "Cash," 30; G. G.
Butterfield, Pa., 10; Guest money at Perth
Amboy, 106: A clergyman's daughter, N. J., 6;
"W. R. J.," N. J., 135; "L. P. S.." N. J., 500; D.
H. Brush, Ill., 10; Mrs. M. C. Hopewell, Ohio, 7;
Mrs. Helen D. Mills, Pa., 25; E. P. Goodrich,
Mich., 7 50; "Missionary family," China, 30;
"A minister's orphan," 5; Rev. W. L. Tarbet
and wife, Ill., 1 23; "C., Pa.," 6; Miss Carrie De-
marest, Mo., 5......

Interest from permanent fund..

For current fund...

42 47 $1,912 53

933 73 300 00

$3,146 26 Total for current fund since April 1, 1889.... 33,211 09 W. W. HEBERTON, Treasurer.

RECEIPTS FOR SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK, AUGUST, 1889.

ATLANTIC.-Fairfield-Ebenezer sab-sch., 2. South Florida -Titusville, 3 05.

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cago Reunion, 3. Freeport-Freeport 1st sab-sch., 25. Mattoon
-Pana, 29 cts. Ottawa-Aurora, 4 25; Plato, 3. Peoria-
Galesburg sab-sch., 10. Rock River-Newton sab-sch., 8 11.
Schuyler-Fountain Green, 3; Hamilton sab-sch., 1 55.
Springfield-Pisgah, 1 72; Unity, 78 cts.
97 64

INDIANA.-Crawfordsville - Dover sab-sch., 3; Romney,
4 65. New Albany-Jeffersonville sab-sch., 8 81; New Albany
1st sab-sch., 9. Vincennes-Poland, 3. White Water-Knights-
town sab-sch., 7 72.
36 18

Iowa.-Cedar Rapids-Cedar Rapids 1st, 14 85; Cedar Rapids 2d, 433; Cedar Rapids 3d, 8. Des Moines-Chariton 1st English, 2 56. Fort Dodge-Ashton sab-sch., 2 50; Calliope, 12; Fonda sab-sch., 6. Iowa-Mt. Pleasant 1st, 2. Iowa City-Davenport 1st sab-sch., 4 50; Le Claire sab-sch.,

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KANSAS.-Emporia-Emporia 1st sab-sch., 8 60. Winfield, 8. Larned-Halsted sab-sch., 6. Neosho-Independence sabsch., 5. Solomon-Cheever, 3; Minneapolis sub-sch., 32 94. Topeka-Armourdale, 18; Oak Hill, 1; Topeka 1st, 108 16.

190 70 KENTUCKY.-Ebenezer- Dayton (sab-sch., 8 14), 12 69; Frankfort, 18. Louisville-Louisville Warren Memorial, 32 43; Owensboro' 1st, 11 60. 74272 MICHIGAN. Grand Rapids—Grand Rapids Mission Wood sab-sch., 5; Grand Rapids Westminster sab-sch., 29 90; Greenwood sab-sch., 5. Kalamazoo-Buchanan sab-sch., 6. Lansing-Eckford sab-sch., 4 11; Lansing 1st, 1. MonroePalmyra, 678. Saginar-Coleman sab-sch., 2 62. MINNESOTA.-Red River-Euclid sab-sch., 2 60. Buffalo, 4 36; Minneapolis Westminster, 150 20. Rochester sab-sch., 7 14.

60 41

St. PaulWinona164 30 MISSOURI-Kansas City-Kansas City Hill Memorial sabsch., 7 42; Salt Springs sab-sch., 7 84; Sunny Side, 2 75. Osage-Springfield Calvary, 17 20. Palmyra-Edina sab-sch., 1 25. Platte-Mound City, 4 65.

41 11

NEBRASKA-Hastings-Ayr sab-sch., 4; Marquette sabsch., 180. Kearney-St. Paul sab-sch., 3 65. Nebraska City -Raymond, 2 25. Niobrara-Willowdale, 1 03. 12 73 NEW JERSEY. - Elizabeth-Lamington sab-sch., 4 69), 14 17; Metuchen, 6 23. Jersey City-Hackensack, 5. Monmouth-Barnegat (sab-sch., 2), 4 16; Forked River, 7 08; Jacksonville, 5 50; Providence, 4 50. Morris and OrangeMadison sab-sch., 50. Newark - Caldwell sab-sch., 33 21. New Brunswick-Amwell United 1st, 4 24; Dayton, 3 66; Hopewell sab-sch., 12 68; Trenton Prospect St., 41 79. Newton-Belvidere 2d, 9 76; Hackettstown, 15; Oxford 2d sabsch, 12 09. West Jersey-Berlin sab-sch., 3; Camden 3d sab-sch., 3 50; Wenonahi sab-sch., 17.

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NEW YORK.-Albany -Schenectady East Ave., 55 cts. Binghamton-Binghamton 1st sab-sch., 25; Masonville sabsch., 3 88. Boston-Boston 1st sab-sch., 26. Brooklyn-West New Brighton Calvary, 7 73. Buffalo-Buffalo North, 31 37; Buffalo Wells St. sab-sch., 11; Lancaster, 5; Olean, 10 31. Cayuga-Auburn Westminster (sab-sch., 1 89), 3 58. Champlain-Fort Covington sab-sch., 21; Keeseville sab-sch., 8 53. Columbia-Durham 1st sab-sch., 5. Hudson-Goodwill, 1 80; Monticello, 2. Long Island-Cutchogue, 8. Nassau-Newtown sab-sch., 13 12. New York-New York Bethany, 14; New York Central, 112 87; New York Mt. Washington sabsch., 12; New York Prospect Hill, 3 25. Niagara-Holley, 6 43. North River-Poughkeepsie, 3. Rochester-Mt. Morris, 3 10; Rochester Westminster sab-sch., 6 30. Steuben-Cohocton sab-sch., 5 60; Corning, 2 46. Troy-Brunswick, 11 55. Westchester-Mahopac Falls, 25; Yonkers 1st, 41 50. 430 93

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NORTH DAKOTA.-Fargo-Ayr sab-sch., OHIO.-Athens - Deerfield, 3. Bellefontaine-Bellefontaine, 75 cts. West Liberty, 61 cts. Chillicothe-Bainbridge sabsch., 6 94; Bourneville sab-sch., 3 26. Cincinnati--Cincinnati 6th sab-sch., 92. Cleveland-Brecksville sab-sch., 11 25. Columbus- Bethel, 2; Bremen, 1 50; Rush Creek, 3 75. Dayton-Springfield 2d, 38 51. Huron Huron (sab-sch., 23 35), 25 10. Marion-Richwood (sab-sch., 1), 5; York (sabsch., 1), 3. Maumee-Milton Centre sab-sch., 4 10. Steubenville-Linton, 2 15; Ridge sab-sch., 6 25. Wooster-Millersburg, 3; Wayne, 4 41; Wooster 1st (sab-sch., 4 86), 41. Zanesville-Granville sab-sch., 37 76; Keene sab-sch., 7.

302 34 PACIFIC.-Los Angeles-Anaheim sab-sch., 2 35; El Cajon sab-sch., 2. San Francisco-San Francisco Howard St. sabsch., 51 35.

55 70

PENNSYLVANIA. - Allegheny - Allegheny North, 30 97.

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Blairsville-Ligonier, 15 24: Livermore, 4 60; Manor, 2: Penn, 1. Butler- Concord, 8 09; Muddy Creek, 3; North Butler, 3 52; Plain Grove, 7; Sunbury, 12 20; Unionville, 3 29. Carlisle-Carlisle 1st, 6; Carlisle 2d sab-sch., 17; Harrisburg Westminster (sab-sch., 10 75), 19 25; Newport, 11 50. Chester-Upper Octorara sab-sch., 38 46. Clarion-Brockwayville, 4; Rockland sab-sch., 7 26. Erie-Wattsburg sabsch., 8. Huntingdon-Everett ch. and sab-sch., 5; Lewistown sab-sch., 23 74; Lower Tuscarora, 6; Saxton ch, and sab-sch., 4; Spring Creek, 4. Kittanning-Indiana sab-sch., 32; Kittanning 1st, 17 31; Tunnelton, 3 05; Washington (sab-sch., 18), 25. Lackawanna-Herrick, 5; Lebanon sab-sch., 1; Scranton Green Ridge Avenue, 18 25; Wyalusing 1st, 6. Lehigh-Mahanoy City sab-sch., 27 72. NorthumberlandBloomsburg (sab-sch., 13 23), 28 77; Shiloh, 4; Williamsport 2d sab-sch., 6 77. Philadelphia North-Jenkintown, 11; Norristown 1st, 24 53. Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh East Liberty, 25; Wilkinsburgh sab-sch., 44. Redstone-Pleasant Unity, 3 30. Westminster-Chestnut Level, 8 02; Christ, 64 cts.; Columbia, 679. West Virginia-Ravenswood sab-sch., 11 25. 554 52 SOUTH DAKOTA.-Aberdeen-Aberdeen sab-sch., 25; Britton sab-sch., 11 50. 36 50 TENNESSEE.-Holston-Elizabethton, 2; Mt. Bethel (sabsch., 2 50), 7 50; Timber Ridge, 1. Kingston-Mt. Tabor sab-sch., 731; Salem sab-sch., 8 76. UTAH.-Utak-Ephraim sab-sch., 6; Hyrum Emmanuel, 575; Parowan, 5.

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WISCONSIN.-Lake Superior-Marinette, 30; Menominee, 16; Sault Ste. Marie sab-sch., 27. Milwaukee-Waukesha sab-sch., 25 71.

Total from churches, August, 1889..

Total from Sabbath-schools, August, 1889..

Total from churches and Sabbath-schools, August, 1889......

MISCELLANEOUS.

Interest, J. C. Green Fund, 157 50; School-house sab-sch., N. Y., 1; A friend, 4; Union sab-sch., Shank's Run, Pa., 4 60; Allen Mission sab-sch., Va., 3; Rev. Robert A. Paden, Sumner, Iowa, 1; Interest from Trustees, 3; W. R. J., New Bruns wick, N. J., 90; Dr. I. N. Lucas, Dell Rapids, Dak., 5; Joseph Brown, Wis., 231; Chas. Shepherd, Wash. Ter., 1 55; D. S. Baker, Tenn., 96 cts.; G. T. Dillard, Laurens, S. C., 50 cts.; Mt. Hope sab-sch., Neb., 55 cts.; Fairview sab-sch., Neb., 60 cts.; L. V. Nash, Lexington, Neb., 1 78; J. C. Gowlland, Minn., 133; A friend, 6; E. H. Grant, Huron, Dak., 15 24; Ashtabula Union sab-sch., N. Dak., 52 cts.; Geo. R. Braithwaite, Utah, 40 cts.; J. E. Cummings, 6 25; Rev. E. P. Goodrich, Ypsilanti, Mich., 7 50; A. J. Montgomery, Cincinnati, O., 2 77; F. G. Beebe, Neb., 1 65; W. J. Rankin, Martinsville, Va., 3 24; Interest from Trustees, 1 12; Rev. W. L. Tarbet and wife, Ill., 1 83; C., Pa., 1......

Total receipts, August, 1889...
Amount previously acknowledged.......

98 71

$1,407 65 1,232 28

$2,639 93

326 20

$2,966 13 44,749 46

$47,715 59

'C. T. MCMULLIN, Treasurer, 1334 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Total contributions since April 1, 1889.................

THE CHURCH

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

DECEMBER, 1889.

AN EDITOR'S OUTING.

Much careful fore-thinking, fore-planning and fore-casting had made it possible for me to be bodily absent from 1334 Chestnut Street for a month, without interrupting the complex processes which perpetually work and co-work and inter-work, for the regular monthly issues of THE CHURCH AT HOME AND ABROAD. A whole month of absence had not before been ventured upon. A few days in the middle of any calendar month, just after one number has gone to press, and while manuscripts are coming in for the next, can more easily be provided for. But now an absence had been arranged for thirty-two days, beginning on September 20. The kind and intelligent co-operation of many associates and assistants, and the quick communication everywhere possible by post or telegraph, made this practicable.

September 22 found me in St. Louis. I worshipped in the morning with the First Presbyterian Church, in their new and pleasant sanctuary, two miles west of the one in which I used to minister to them, and quite beyond what was then the western border of the city. In the evening I preached to the West Presbyterian Church, lately organized, three miles still further west, and just within the city's present western limit. This fitly illustrates the steady growth of that city-by no means the most rapidly-growing city of the West, yet steadily and healthily and not tardily growing.

The Presbyterian ministers' meeting on Monday morning was lively, sympathetic, earnest. What a number of such brotherly gatherings occur every Monday in our land, and what storage-batteries of beneficent social and spiritual forces they are!

The next Sabbath, September 29, I spent in Independence, preaching twice to a congregation composed of people from the north and the south of our country, dwelling together, working together, worshipping together in unity, unable to see why there should be two General Assemblies, unable to unite in adhering to either, and so denying themselves the privilege of practical connection with either, while working and praying and reading and thinking in sympathetic and intelligent harmony with both. I doubt if THE CHURCH AT HOME AND ABROAD has more eager and appreciative readers anywhere. They have an ingenious method of working for foreign missions in harmony with both Assemblies by supporting a missionary in Brazil. Outside of Brazil I know of no better examples of Presbyterian unity in spirit than in Missouri; in Missouri, none better than in Independence.

That marvel of western growth and enterprise, Kansas City, I was obliged to hasten through without stopping. Presbyterianism is alive there, and is in fellowship of love and labor with all other forms of evangelical church-life.

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At Parkville (October 2) I had the pleasure of addressing the Ladies' Missionary Society, of Platte Presbytery, on missions to freedmen, and of listening, with the ladies, to Dr. Bullard's address on home missions -an address full of practical, common-sense suggestions and wise counsel, the wholesome fruit of large and various experience in an emphatically home-mission presbytery.

I here witnessed the laying of the cornerstone for a new building for Park College. It is to cost five thousand dollars. The name SNYDER on the corner-stone was explained to me as the name of the donor. This building is to be the home of twenty young ladies and a matron. President McAfee hopes that half a dozen or more such homes will be provided by similar thoughtful beneficence. He thinks this much better than a single dormitory containing rooms for a hundred or more.

Near by, I noticed that the walls are going up for a much larger building. These were draped with emblems of mourning for Mr. Mackay, lately deceased, the donor of $25,000 for erecting this building for recitation-rooms, lecture-rooms, laboratories, etc.

This remarkable institution has over three hundred pupils in its different departments, and over two hundred applicants have been refused admission for lack of room. Are there not more Snyders, Mackays and McCormicks somewhere?

At Lawrence (October 3) the Synod of Kansas convened. Lawrence is widely known for its early experiences of civil war, especially the Quantrell raid, one of the darkest spots on that crimsoned leaf of our national history. Lawrence is now a beautiful city of about 11,000 people, and on one of its sightly hill-tops is the University of Kansas, to which, in a morning walk, I saw

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many groups of eager and happy youth of both sexes cheerily hastening.

The synod seemed to me a body of intelligent, earnest, mauly Presbyterians. Their devotional exercises were alive and hearty. Their discussions were not of petty and frittering questions of forms or methods, but of grave and practical matters. They had time and disposition to listen and to think concerning missions and education. Drs. Hays and Marshall thrilled and held attentive a large audience, on Friday evening, while they illustrated various phases of mission work through the whole range from Dr. Hays' ideal "Jewhillicsville" (see p. 505) to Dr. Marshall's picturing of scenes lately visited in Japan, China and India. The next two Sabbaths and the intervening week (October 6-13) I spent in St. Joseph. This city of about sixty thousand people is built on and among a picturesque congregation of hills on the east shore of the Missouri river. Its founder was Joseph Robidoux, about as much of a saint, probably, as Daniel Boone or David Crockett. The prefix "Saint," so common in all this region, is a historic index of the papal auspices and usages under which its earlier settlements were made. Later it was prefixed by mere force of fashion to ordinary names, as in one instance which I remember, in which the iron works of a Mr. James gave the name of St. James to the nearest station on a new railroad.

There are real saints in St. Joseph according to the biblical meaning of the wordmen and women who are consecrated to Christ and living saintly (i. e., godly) lives. A fair share of these are Presbyterians. I enjoyed preaching to some of them in the Westminster and North Presbyterian churches, under the care of pastors Bullard and Moore. These are in connection with our (U. S. A.) General Assembly, and there are congregations and pastors here connected with the

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other (U. S.) Assembly. But, as elsewhere in Missouri, they know of no reason why there need be more than one General Assembly.

In company with Dr. Bullard and his mother, on one of my days in St. Joseph, I visited a part of the schools for colored pupils. In one large and commodious building we found 375 pupils of different grades. The building is sufficient for 600 or more. Thirty-three are in the high-school department. The senior class, consisting of five young women, were reciting to the principal.

Their lesson was in Cicero's first oration

against Catiline. They read and translated well. Their knowledge of the words and phrases and construction was tested by suitable questioning, and stood the test satisfactorily. Mr. Jones, the principal, was educated at Lincoln Institute, in the capital of Missouri. He is a gentleman, a respected citizen of St. Joseph, and has held a seat, for a term of two years, in the City Council. Twenty-five years ago he was a little black boy who, like his mother, was the property of some man, as liable to be sold for money or bartered for other property as any mule or pig or bale of hemp. The times have changed, and Missouri has changed with them. My own opinion is that Missouri has had a large share, and is to have further share, in the work of changing them. In the public schools of St. Joseph now there are between 600 and 700 colored children, their school-houses and facilities for instruction being on a level with those for white children. The colored teachers in charge of the school-rooms which I visited were selfpossessed and courteous, and the rooms were as pleasant and as well furnished as any in which I was ever a pupil or teacher.

On Monday, October 14, Dr. Bullard and I started for the Synod of Missouri, which

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was to convene at Holden on Tuesday evening. We stopped at Leavenworth for a visit to the fort and the Soldiers' Home. By the courtesy of General McCook and his officers, the officers of the home and Rev. Dr. Page, we had opportunity to see something of the admirable provision which our national government there makes for the instruction of its soldiers and the comfort of its veterans. The whole visit was full of reminders most satisfactory to patriotic feeling, and of suggestions concerning the work

of our Church for the education of her min

isters and her care for them in age and infirmity. We spent that night in Kansas City, on that high bluff which was Dr. Timothy Hill's post of watchful observation for the wide field (Kansas and Indian Territory), over which he travelled so much and so usefully. We were cordially welcomed in the same home from which he

lately went to the house not made with hands, and we enjoyed the same genial hospitality which we have so often enjoyed there when he was visibly present.

The Synod of Missouri began its sessions at Holden on Tuesday evening. They were of the same earnest and manly character with those of the Synod of Kansas. The reports concerning the condition and the work of the presbyteries and their congregations were encouraging. The work of our Church, as supervised by the General Assembly and administered by its several boards and committees, received earnest and careful consideration, and speakers representing these different agencies were heard with eager and sustained attention by the synod and the people of Holden, filling the large audience-room until a late hour on successive evenings. Nowhere have I seen more gratifying appreciation of THE CHURCH AT HOME AND ABROAD, or more intelligent

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