24 General Assembly's Committee on Freedmen. Biddle Institute. [January The second term. of this institute will open on the first Monday of January in the new building. The agent of the Board of Trustees, the Rev. R. A. Delancy, D.D., is now making efforts to secure scholarships for the support of students. Preparations have been made to receive eighty students, but it will be impossible for young men without any means of their own to enter upon a course of study without help. We trust many will be found ready to help in this effort to raise up a native ministry for the Freedmen. One of our missionaries has had six young men under his instruction ever since he began his work, dividing with them his meagre support. He says, "Three of the young men, if God wills, expect to enter Lincoln University on the 1st of January, all members of my church. They leave behind them three others who are exceedingly anxious to receive a full and thorough course of instruction some where, and I would like to have them go to Biddle Institute at Charlotte if the way could be opened for them. I would also add another young man from M———, who is very anxious to be educated for a teacher." Will not some of our Sabbathschools or members of our church to whom God has given the ability, provide the means to sustain these young men. One hundred dollars to each will enable them to enter the Institute and pursue their studies for a year. This brother closed his report with the earnest request that he may be allowed at least a catechist to assist him in his constantly extending field, as he has one waiting for a commission at ten dollars a month. Rev. II. A. Mayhew, of Austin, Minnesota, has been commissioned a missionary to the Freedmen, and has entered upon his labours in the Statesville mission in North Carolina. His address is Statesville, N. C. DONATIONS TO THE COMMITTEE ON FREEDMEN IN NOVEMBER, 1868. Ply of Blairsville-Salem ch Pby of Ohio-Bethel ch 40; 4th Pittsburg ch 34 Pby af Beaver-Westfield ch Sab-sch John's 3 00 10 35 74.00 37 45 54.00 15 00 10.00 14.00 2.00 2.75 12.00 9.00 24 57 600 535 MISCELLANEOUS Pby of Catawba-Coloured sch, Brookville 21: ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD. DISSOLUTION OF THE PASTORAL RELATION. Rev. R. G. Thompson, and the church of Willow Creek. Rev. L. Y. Hays, and the church of Malden, Ill. Rev. George W. Fisher, and Evan's Creek and Linton churches, Presbytery of Steuben ville. Rev. James M. Ludlow, and the First church, Albany, N. Y. Rev. Isaac N. Hays, from the Big Spring church, Presbytery of Carlisle, that he might enter upon the pastorate of the new church lately organized in Chambersburg Rev. R. A. Brown, and the church of Columbia. CALLS RECEIVED OR ACCEPTED. Rev. Jas. A. Reed to the First Presbyterian church, Dubuque, Iowa. Rev. A. Dilworth to the church at Beaver Falls, Pa. Rev. C. R. Van Emman to the church of Summit Hill, Presbytery of Cedar. Rev. George Norcross to the Twenty-eighth St. church, Chicago, also to the church at Carlisle, Pa. Rev. Robert McPherson to the churches of Centre and Landisburgh, Pa. Rev. Matthew Newkirk to the North Tenth St. church, Phila. Rev. Robert Proctor to the church at Polo, Ogle County, Ill. Rev. Frank B. Hodge to the church of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Rev. J. W. Clark to the church at Lexington, Mo. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. Rev. Charles C. Hart was received into the Presbytery of Saline, and installed pastor of the church of Shawneetown, Ill., on the 12th of November. Rev. J. W. Dickey was installed pastor of the Bethel church, West Union, on Nov. 5th, by the Presbytery of Frankville. Mr. Thomas J. Milford was ordained and installed pastor of the church. of Callensburg, Presbytery of Clarion, on the 10th of November. Mr. George Craig has been ordained as an evangelist, and taken charge of the churches of Luzerne and Corinth, N. Y. Mr. G. M. Lodge and S. G. Hair were ordained as evangelists, by the Presbytery of Bureau, on the 11th of November. POST-OFFICE ADDRESSES CHANGED. Rev. Benjamin C. Swan from Shawneetown to Carmi, Ill. Rev. H. A. Barclay from Kossuth, Iowa, to Oswego, Ill. Rev. John Branch from Perryville, to Marble Hill, Mo. Rev. Robert Young from Chillicothe to Reading, Ohio. Olney, Ill. Rev. Charles E. Ford from New Brunswick to Newark, N. J. Rev. J. W. McGregor from Corunna to Owasso, Mich. Rev. James Caldwell from Elizabeth to Hamilton, Pa. Rev. Carson Reed from Canton, Ill., to Fairfield, Iowa. Rev. William Dalzell from Mechanicstown to West Point, Ohio. Rev. J. W. Clark from Clarinda, Iowa, to Lexington Mo. Rev. A. B. Lowes from Decatur, Ind., to Tideoute, Pa. Rev J. L. Withrow from Abington, Pa., to 126 North Thirteenth St., Phila. Rev. R. A. Brown from Columbia, Pa., to 502 Marshall St., Phila. Rev. A. Bartholomew from Worthington, Ohio, to Mason City, Ill. Rev. 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Board of Domestic Missions.-Notice-Good News-More Good News-Receipts.. ....25 Board of Education.-Estimates for the Next Year-Remarks upon the Estimates-Sketch of a Suecessful Academy-The First and Best for Seed-" The Only son of his Mother, and she a Widow "Vermillion Institute-Who should devote themselves to the Work of Missions?-Can we withhold Help?-Remarks upon a Candidate-Receipts....... ............ 29 Board of Foreign Missions.-Recent Intelligence-Minute of the Executive Committee on the Death of Walter Lowrie, adopted at their Meeting, December 28th, 1868-The Gospel among the Seminoles-Work for Corisco and Benita Women-Inland Work in China-A Work that EnnoblesReceipts...... 33 Board of Publication.-Colportage in Iowa-Testimony of a Minister-An Example Worthy of Imitation-A Sabbath-school Helped-Knowledge ani Piety-Let them Alone-New Publications--Receipts.. Board of Church Extension.-The Pioneer's Gift-The Lord will have his Own-Receipts.. General Assembly's Committee on Freedmen.-Receipts............ .41 .45 ........46 .47 THE DAYS RECOMMENDED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR COLLECTIONS IN 1869, ARE THE FOLLOWING: January 3....... For Board of Foreign Missions. May 2... For Board of Publication. FORM OF BEQUEST TO ANY OF THE BOARDS. The State laws differ so much, that no one form will answer in all the States, but in every case it is essential to give the RIGHT CORPORATE NAME. The Board of Domestic Missions is incorporated in Pennsylvania, under the title of "The Trustees of the Board of Domestic Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America." Of the Board of Education the corporate name is "The Trustees of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.” The Board of Foreign Missions is incorporated under the laws of New York. under the style of "The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America." The Board of Publication is incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania, under the style of "The Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of Publication." The Board of Church Extension of the General Assembly is not incorporated, but the following form of bequest, it is supposed, would be valid :"I bequeath to my executors the sum of dollars, in trust, to pay over the same in after my decease, to the person who, when the same shall be payable, shall act as Treasurer of the Board of Church Extension of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. located in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, to be applied to the uses and purposes of said Board, and under its directions; and the receipt of the said Treasurer shall be a full and legal acquittance of my said executors for the same." The Fund for the relief of Disabled Ministers, and the Needy Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers, is under the care of the Trustees of the General Assembly, who give the following form:I give and bequeath to my executors hereinafter named, dollars, in trust, nevertheless that they shall, within months after my decease, pay the same to George H. Van Gelder, Treasurer of the Trustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, or to his successor for the time being in said office, for the use of such disabled ministers and their families as the said the Trustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America shall or may designate." When real estate or other property is given, let it be particularly designated. |