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MINUTES 


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30tli  and  81st  of  October,  and  1st  and  2d  of  November, 

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FAYETTEVILLE  : 
N.  C.  PRESBYTERIAN  OFFICE. 

1868. 


MINUTES. 


Newjjekn,  N.  C,  Oct.  30,  ISO?. 

The  Synod  of  North  Carolina  met  according  to  adjourn- 
ment, and  was  opened  with  a  sermon  Tiy  Rev.  Colin  Sliaw, 
the  last  Moderator  present,  from  1  Cor.,  xv:  10:  ''But  by  the 
grace  of  God  I  am  what  I  am." 

The  Synod  was  then  constituted  with  prayer. 

The  roll  of  Ministers  and  Churches  was  callfed,  and  the 
foHowiug  members  were  found  to  be  present: 

PRESBYTERY  OF  ORANGE. 

Ministers— Edward  Hines,  Jacob  Doll,  A.  G.  Hughes, 
A.  Currie,  S.  A.  Stanfield,  Joseph  M.  Atkinson,  P.  H.  Dal- 
ton,  J.  Henry  Smith,  D.  E.  Jordan,  James  C.  Alexander, 
Calvin  N.  Morrow,  H.  G.  Hill,  Calvin  H.  Wiley,  L.  C.  Vass 
and  D.  T.  Towles. 

RrLiNG-ELDERS— Stephen  Neal,  David  Wharton,  Samuel 
Watkins,  Charles  Slover,  Joseph  Potts  and  R.  Sterling. 

PRESBYTERY  OF  CONCORD. 

Ministers — John  Douglass,  Nathan  Shotwell,  G.  Wilson 
McPhail,  D.D.,  Walter  W.  Pharr,  Thomas  N.  Paxton,  A. 
W.  Miller,  D.D.,  AVilliam  A.  AVood  and  H.  II.  Banks. 

Ruling-Elders — D.  B.  Penick,  F.  Scarr,  E.  J.  Erwin, 
Dr.  J.  J.  Summerell  and  E.  Rice. 

PRESBYTERY  OF  FAYETTEVILLE. 

Ministers— H.  McLean,  J.  P.  McPherson,  H.  A.  Mon- 
roe, Colin  Shaw,  D.  B.  Black,  S.  Caldwell  Alexander,  J.  M. 
Slierwood,  D.  D.  McBryde,  M.  McQueen,  H.  L.  Singleton, 
D.  Fairley,  J.  H.  Colton,  S.  H.  Isler,  A.  N.  Ferguson,  Jas. 
Kelly  and  Luther  McKinnon. 

Ruling-Elders— Daniel  McKinnon,  J.  A.  Smith,  J.  D. 
Currie,  W.  W.  Dye,  J.  C.  McMiHan,  W.  T.  Bannerman,  S. 
Player,  R.  W.  Moore,  J.  C.  Smith  and  S.  W.  Caldwell. 

absent— PRESBYTERY  OF  ORANGE. 

Ministers— Thomas  Lynch,  Geo.  W.  Ferrill,  Thomas  U. 


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Faucette,  F.  H.  Jolinston,  A.  D.  Hepburn,  Drury  Lacy,  D.D., 
Charles  Phillip^:,  William  B.  Tid])all  and  H.  B.  Pratt. 

ABSENT— PRESBYTERY  OF  CONCORD. 

Ministers — R.  H.  Morrison,  D.D.,  Jesse  Rankin,  IX  A. 
Penick,  Sr.,  Daniel  Lindley,  Robert  Burwell,  J.  E,  Morri- 
son, James  D.  Hall,  W.  N.  Morrison,  E.  F.  Rockwell,  R. 
H.  Chapman,  D.T).,  William  Graves,  J.  M.  M.  Caldwell, 
J.  F.  W.  Freeman,  T.  E.  Davis,  S.  C.  Millen,  D.D.,  R.  N. 
Davis,  S.  C.  Pharr,  D.D.,  Jacob  Hood,  B.  L.  Beall,  AV.  C. 
Sheets,  J.  S.  Barr,  G.  E.  Eagleton^  G.  D.  Parks,  Alexander 
Sinclair,  J.  Rumple,  D.  A.  Penick,  Jr.,  William  W.  Pharr, 
J.  D.  W^ilson,  E.  H.  Harding,  AV.  B.  Watts.  R.  Z.  John- 
ston, Wm.  M.  Kilpatrick,  R.  B.  Anderson  and  William 
McDonald. 

ABSENT-PRESBYTERY  OF  FAYETTEVILLE. 

Ministers— S.  Colton,  D.D.,  H.  McNeill,  N.  McKay,  G. 
M.  Gibbs,  D.  Johnson,  A.  McMillan,  N.  McDonald,  H.  Mc- 
Alister,  J,  M.  Sj^runt,  James  McQueen,  N.  T.  Bowden.  A. 
McQueen,  J.  H.  Coble,  M.  McNair  and  B.  F.  Marable. 

On  motion,  Rev.  Archibald  Currie  was  chosen  Moderator, 
and  Rev.  James  P.  McPherson  and  Rev.  D.  D.  McBiyde 
Temporary  Clerks. 

On  motion,  the  Synod  then  adjourned  to  meet  to-morrow 
morning  at  9  o'clock.     Closed  with  prayer. 


TiicRsuAY  Morning,  Oct.  31. 

The  Synod  met  according  to  adjournment,  and  was  opened 
with  prayer.  ^ 

The  roll  was  called. 

The  Minutes  of  last  night' s  session  were  read  and  approved. 

The  following  ministers  rendered  satisfactory  reasons  for 
absence  from  the  last  meeting  of  Synod,  viz:  H.  McLean,  J. 
P.  McPherson,  H.  A.  Monroe,  D.  B.  Black,  D.  D.  McBryde, 
M.  McQueen,  D.  Faiiiey,  J.  H.  Colton  and  A.  N.  Ferguson. 

A  communication  was  read  from  Rev.  R.  Z.  Johnston, 
containing  his  report  as  Agent  for  Foreign  Missions,  which 
was  referred  to  Rev.  John  Douglass  as  Agent  pro  tern. 


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Letters,  rendering  satisfactory  reasons  for  absence  from 
the  ])resent  m»'t4in<!:  of  Synod,  were  read  from  Rev.  Messrs. 
D.  A.  Peniek,  Sr.,  I).  A.  Peniek,  Jr.,  Neill  McDcMiakl  and 
Drury  Lacy,  D.D. 

The  Moderator  annonnced  the  following  committt^es: 

I.  On  BiM.s  AKD  OvEUTUUKs — ^fini.•^(()^s:  Colin  Sliaw,  A.  W.  Miller,  D.D., 
and  H.  McLean.     liuliuy-EUU'rii:  Daniel  McKinnon  and  Samuel  Watkins. 

3.  JUDICI.A.L  Committee — Ministers:  G.  Wilson  McPhail,  D.D.,  John  M. 
Sherwood  and  Jos.  M.  Atkinson,    liuliny- Elders:  E.  J.  Erwin  and  Chas.  Slover. 

3.  On  Minutes  of  Oh.^^nc^e  Presbyteuy — Ministers:  Walter  W.  Pharr  and 
M.  McQueen.    Rulinq-Elder:  E.  Rice. 

4.  On  Minutes  of  Concord  Presbytery — Ministers:  A.  G.  Hughes  and 
P.  H.  Dalton.     lluliny-EUhr:  J.  C.  Smith. 

."5.  On  Minutes  of  F.vyetteville  Presbytery — Ministers:  T.  N.  Paxton 
and  John  Douglass.    Ruling-Elder:  R.  Sterling. 

G.  To  preiwre  .\n  Address  to  the  ''nuTicHKs  on  the  State  of  Religion 
— Ministers:  H.  L.  Singleton  and  Jas.  C.  Alexander.    Rulimj- Elder:  Jos.  Pottts. 

7.  On  Devotional  Exercises — Ministers:  L.  C.  Vass  and  D.  B.  Black.  Rit. 
ling-Elder:  David  Wharton. 

8.  On  the  Treasurer's  Account — Ruling-Elder:  Stephen  Neal.  Ministers: 
A.  N.  Ferguson  and  H.  H.  Banks. 

9.  On  Minutes  ok  General  Assembly — Ministers:  D.  E.  Jordan  and  David 
Fairley.    Ruling-Elder:  W.  T.  Bannerman. 

10.  On  Union  Theological  Seminary — Ministers:  J.  Henry  Smith  and 
W.  A.  Wood.     Ruling-Elder:  J.  A.  Smith. 

II.  On  Le.we  of  Absence — Ministers:  N.  ShotwoU  and  James  Kelly.  Ru- 
ling-Elder: Dr.  J.  J.  Summerell. 

12.  On  the  Report  of  the  Trustees  op  Synod— .¥t/u>6r.-  H.  G.  Hill.  Ru- 
ling-Elders: J.  C.  Smith  and  E.  J.  Erwin. 

Rev.  D.  E.  Jordan  and  Rev.  S.  C.  Alexander  rendered 
satisfactory  reasons  for  absence,  wiien  the  roll  was  called, 
at  the  close  of  the  meeting  of  the  Synod  last  year. 

The  report  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Union  TJieological 
Seminary  was  read  and  referred  to  the  committee  on  the 
Seminary. 

The  Trnstees  of  Synod  made  their  report,  which  was  read 
and  referred  to  the  (!ommittee  on  that  subject. 

The  reports  from  the  Presbyteries  of  Orange,  Concord  and 
Fayetteville,  on  Systematic  Benevolence,  were  read,  and, 
on  motion,  were  ordered  to  be  printed  in  the  Appendix  to 
the  Minutes  of  Synod. 

On  motion,  the  committee  on  Union  Theological  Semina- 


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ly  was  directed  to  make  nominations  to  Jill  vacancies  in  the 
fourtli  class  of  the  Directors  of  tlie  Seminary. 

The  committee  to  prepare  a  sketch  of  the  life  and  labors 
of  the  late  Rev.  Robt.  Tate,  not  Innng  present,  a  new  com- 
mittee was,  on  motion,  appointed,  consisting  of  Rev.  J.  M. 
Spriint  and  Rev.  Colin  Shaw. 

It  having  been  announced  to  the  Synod  that,  since  the 
last  meetiilg,  the  Rev.  Messrs.  James  Phillips,  D.D.,  Alex- 
ander Wilson,  J). D.,  Stephen  Frontis  and  Walter  S.  Pharr 
had  departed  this  life,  the  following  committees  were  ap- 
pointed to  prepare  suitable  biographical  sketches  of  these 
brethren,  and  rej^jort  at  the  next  meeting  of  Synod: 

On  the  Life  of  Dk.  Phillips — Rev.  P.  H.  Dalton,  Kev.  S.  A.  Stanfield  and 
Dr.  J.  J.  Sumiuerell. 

Ox  THE  Life  of  Dr.  Wilson — liev.  Charles  Phillips,  Rov.  A.  G.  Hughes  and 
Mr.  Thomas  Sparrow. 

On  the  Life  of  Rev.  Stephen  Fkontis— Rev.  E.  F.  Rockwell  and  Rev.  T. 
N.  Paxton. 

On  the  Life  of  Rev.  Waltek  S.  Piiakij— Rev.  Walter  W.  Pharr  and  Rev. 
D.  A.  Penick,  Sr. 

Letters  were  received  from  Rev.  R.  H.  Chapman,  D.D., 
and  Rev.  H.  B.  Pratt,  assigning  satisfactory  reasons  for  ab- 
sence Irom  the  present  meeting  of  S3aiod. 

The  roll  was  called  to  ascertain  whether  ministers  had  at- 
tended to  the  injunction  of  Synod,  to  instruct  their  people 
in  regard  to  the  duties  of  Elders  and  Deacons. 

The  report  of  the  Treasurer  of  Synod  was  read,  and,  on 
motion,  referred  to  a  committee  on  that  subject. 

The  Narratives  on  the  State  of  Religion,  from  Orange, 
Concord  and  Fayetteville  Presbyteries,  were  read  and  re- 
ferred to  the  committee  appointed  to  prepare  an  address  to 
the  churches. 

The  appointment  of  the  time  and  place  for  the  next  meet- 
ing of  Synod  was  made  the  first  order  of  the  day  for  to- 
morrow morning. 

Rev.  J.  Henry  Smith,  Agent  for  Publication,  read  his  re- 
port, which  was  accepted,  and  pending  a  motion  to  adopt 
the  resolutions  appended  to  that  report,  the  report  of  the 
Agent  on  Education  was  made  the  order  of  the  day  for  1 1 
o'clock  A.  M.  to-morrow. 


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On  motion,  the  Synod  then  {idjourned  to  meet  at9i  o'clock 
to-morrow  morning.     Closed  with  i)rayer. 


Fkiday  Morning,  Nov.  1. 

Synod  met  according  to  adjournment,  and  Avas  opened 
witli  prayer. 

The  roll  was  called. 

The  Minutes  of  yesterday  were  read  and  approved. 

Letters  were  read  from  Kev.  Messrs.  J.  Hood  and  F.  H. 
Johnston,  giving  satisfactory  reasons  for  absence  from  the 
present  meeting. 

Rev.  J.  Leighton  AVilson,  D.D.,  of  the  Synod  of  South 
Carolina,  being  present,  was  invited  to  sit  as  a  correspond- 
ing member. 

The  order  of  the  day  was  taken  up,  when  the  First  Church, 
Wilmington,  N.  C,  was  chosen  as  the  place,  and  Wednes- 
day befoi-e  the  second  Sabbath  of  November  18G8,  at  half- 
past  7  o'clock  P.  M.,  as  the  time,  for  the  next  regular  meet- 
ing of  Synod. 

On  motion,  the  report  of  the  Agent  of  Domestic  Missions 
was  made  the  order  of  the  day  for  this  evening  at  7  o'clock. 

Dr.  R.  L.  Beall,  Ruling-Elder  of  the  Presbytery  of  Con- 
cord, and  Mr.  John  Hodges,  Ruling-Elder  of  the  Presbyte- 
ry of  Orange,  appeared  in  the  Synod,  and  their  names  were 
eni'olled. 

Tlie  order  of  the  Synod,  at  its  last  meeting,  requiring 
Presbyteries  to  enjoin  ujDon  each  church-session  to  make  a 
"written  report  to  Presbytery  of  the  tidelity  with  which  el- 
ders and  deacons  have  discharged  their  duties,  was  taken 
up,  when  it  appeared  that  the  Presbyteries  had  each  taken 
action  on  this  subject. 

The  unfinished  business,  viz:  the  report  of  the  Agent  of 
Publication,  was  taken  up;  when  the  resolutions  appended 
to  the  report  were  adopted,  and  are  as  follows: 

1.  The  Srnod  of  North  Carolina  most  earnestly  endorses  the  plans  and  aims 
of  the  General  Assembly,  and  pledges  its  support,  as  far  as  possible,  in  all  the 
congregations  of  this  Synod. 

2.  The  Synod  cordially  recommends  our  own  Sabbath-school  books  and  paper, 


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"The  Children's  Friend",  to  all  the  Sabbath-schools  and  families  connected  with 
the  Presbyterian  Church  in  North  Carolina. 

8.  The  Synod  enjoins  on  all  the  Pastors,  Stated  Supplies  and  vacant  Churches, 
annual  collections  in  behalf  of  the  cause  of  Publication. 

4.  The  Synod  directs  its  Agent  to  present  annually,  as  far  as  possible,  a  full 
account  of  the  Sabbath-school  teachers,  pupils,  libraries — whence  supplied,  to 
what  extent  supplied — the  number  of  copies  taken  of  the  "Children's  Friend" 
and  other  children's  papers,  the  books  and  tracts  of  our  committee,  8old  and  dis- 
tributed, the  Colporteurs  employed  throughout  this  Synod,  the  funds  raised  for 
publication,  and  whatever  else  will  accurately  and  fully  inform  the  Synod  of 
the  condition  and  progress  of  our  publication  interests. 

5.  And  to  further  this  object,  the  Synod  enjoins  on  all  its  Presbyteries  to  take 
specific  action  on  this  subject,  and  to  direct  its  Presbyterial  Agents  to  forward 
to  the  Synodical  Agent  (not  later  than  the  second  day  of  the  meeting  ot  this 
Synod)  a  condensed  copy  of  their  own  reports  to  their  Presbyteries,  and  the  Pres- 
byterial action  thereupon,  and  that  these  Presbyterial  Agents  be  enjoined  to 
make  reports  on  all  the  matters  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  resolution,  within 
the  limits  of  tlieir  respective  Presbyteries. 

G.  The  Synod  commends  this  whole  matter,  so  important,  so  interesting,  so 
pressing  and  so  promising  of  good,  to  the  prayers,  the  liberality  and  zealous  efforts 
of  all  the  members  of  the  church  under  its  care  in  the  State  of  North  Carolina. 

The  following  resolution  was  then  adopted,  viz: 

Resolved,  That  the  various  church-sessions  within  this  Synod  be  requested 
to  raise  such  funds  as  they  may  be  able,  to  be  invested  in  the  books  of  our  own 
committee  of  Publication,  to  be  distributed  or  sold  by  the  ministers  and  elders 
of  this  Synod,  as  they  may  have  opportunity. 

The  honr  for  the  order  of  the  day  having  arrived,  viz:  to 
hear  the  report  of  the  Rev.  Neill  McKay,  Agent  of  Educa- 
tion, hut  Mr.  McKay  not  being  present,  and  there  being  no 
report  in  the  house,  on  motion,  the  Synod  proceeded  to  hear 
Rev.  G.  Wilson  McPhail,  D.D.,  in  behalf  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  Davidson  College,  and  other  members  of  Syn- 
od, on  the  same  subject.  Pending  this  discussion,  the  fol- 
h)wing  committee  was  appointed  to  bring  in  a  minute  for 
tlie  adoption  of  Synod  on  this  subject,  viz:  Rev.  Walter  W. 
Pharr,  Rev.  C.  H.  AViley  and  Mr.  Ricli'd  Sterling,  Ruling- 
Elder. 

The  committee  on  the  Minutes  of  Concord  Presbytery 
made  a  report,  recommending  their  approval  as  far  as  writ- 
ten.    On  motion,  this  report  was  adopted. 

The  committee  on  the  Treasurer' s  account  made  the  fol- 
lowing report,  which  was  accepted  and  adopted,  viz: 

The  committee  appointed  to  examine  the  Treasurer's  account  report,  that  they 


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find  the  receipts  and  disburementa  correctly  stated,  accompanied  by  proper  vouch- 
eru,  and  recommend  its  approval.  The  committee  further  recommend  an  aPsere- 
ment  of  fifty  dollars  on  each  of  the  Presbyteries. 

The  special  committee,  appointed  to  bring  in  a  minut^'  on 
the  subject  of  Education,  presented  tlie  following  paper, 
which  was  adopted: 

The  committee  appointed  to  bring  in  a  minute,  ex])reRsive  of  th.-  viows  of 
the  Synod  on  the  subject  of  Education,  ofier  the  following:  The  Synod  would 
earnestly  call  the  attention  of  officers  and  members  of  our  churches  to  the  duty 
resting  upon  all  christians  to  exert  themselves  to  bring  the  whole  subject  of 
Education,  in  all  its  departments,  xinder  the  direct  influence  of  christian  princi- 
ple, and  to  extend  the  knowledge  of  letters  as  a  means  of  propagating  the  gospd. 

And  as  we  find  that  the  Presbyterian  Church,  in  the  days  of  "lier  greatest 
purity  and  highest  prosperity,  exercised  direct  infiuence,  not  only  over  the 
schools,  but  also  over  the  literature  of  her  people,  we  would  earnestly  recom- 
mend this  example  as  worthy  of  the  imitation  of  our  church  at  the  present  day. 
We  therefore  urge  upon  all  our  people  the  importance  of  fostering  institution.s 
under  the  care  and  control  of  our  church. 

While  we  would  express  our  feeUngs  of  devout  gratitude  to  the  Ureat  Disposer 
of  all  events,  for  preserving  to  us,  during  the  desolations  of  the  late  civil  war, 
that  noble  institution,  Davidson  College,  we  cannot  too  earnestly  impress  upon 
all  our  people  the  importance  and  duty  of  sustaining  and  widening  the  influence 
of  this  seat  of  sound  literary,  moral  and  religious  education. 

The  Stated  Clerk  presented  the  annual  report  of  the  Synod 
to  the  General  Assembly,  wiiich  was  accepted  and  adopted. 
The  report  is  as  follows: 

lieport  of  the  Synod  of  North  Carolina  to  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Pre^yte- 
riaii  Church  in  the  United  States. 
The  Synod  of  North  Carolina  reports  to  the  Ueneral  Assembly  in  the  United 
States,  that  it  consists  of  three  Presbyteries,  and  that  these  Presbyteries  consist 
in  whole  of  95  Ministers,  having  under  their  care  188  Churches,  0  Licentfetes 
and  15  candidates,  viz: 

Presbyteries.        Ministers.        Churches.        Licentiates.        Candidates. 
Orange,  24  49  2  4 

Concord,  43  72  3  3 

Fayetteville,         29  67  4  g 

95  188  9  15 

The  Synod  further  reports,  that  its  next  meeting  will  be  held  in  Wilmington 
N.  C,  on  the  Wednesday  before  the  2d  Sabbath  in  November  1868  at  71^' 
o'clock,  P.  M.  -02 

JACOB  DOLL,  Stated  Clerk. 

The  statistical  reports  of  the  Presbyteries  were  presented, 
and  are  as  follows: 
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THE  PRESBYTERY  OF  ORANGE. 

The  Presbytery  of  Orange  report  to  the  Synod  of  North  Carolina,  that  they 
consist  of  24  Ministers,  and  have  under  their  care  49  churches,  2  licentiates  and 
4  candidates;  that  on  the  HJth  day  of  October  1866,  they  dismissed,  at  his  own 
request,  the  Rev.  John  W.  Montgomery,  to  join  the  Presbytery  of  Florida;  that 
on  the  11th  day  of  November  1866,  they  installed  Rev.  Jacob  Doll,  pastor  of 
Bethesda  Church;  that  on  the  2d  day  of  December  1866,  they  installed  Rev.  L.  C. 
Vass,  pastor  of  the  Church  of  Newbem;  that  on  the  18th  day  of  December  1866, 
they  dissolved  the  pastoral  relation  between  Rev.  H.  G.  Hill  and  the  church  of 
Hillsboro';  tlmt  on  the  14th  day  of  March  1867,  they  lost  by  death  the  Rev.  James 
Phillips,  D.D.;  that  on  the  11th  day  of  April  1867,  they  dissolved  the  pastoral 
relation  between  the  Rev.  C.  K.  Caldwell  and  the  Church  of  Pittsboro';  that  on 
the  same  day  they  struck  from  their  roll  of  Ministers  the  name  of  the  Rev. 
Willis  L.  Miller;  that  on  the  same  day  they  restored  to  their  roll  of  Ministers 
the  name  of  the  Rev.  P.  A.  McMartin;  that  on  the  same  day  they  dismissed,  at 
his  own  request,  the  Rev.  P.  A.  McMartin,  to  join  the  Presbytery  of  Kalamazoo.' 
that  on  the  16th  day  of  June  1867,  they  installed  the  Rev.  P.  H.  Dalton,  pastor 
of  the  Church  of  Washington;  that  on  the  22d  day  of  July  1867,  they  lost  by 
death  the  Rev.  Alexander  Wilson,  D.D.;  that  on  the  23d  day  of  October  1867, 
they  dismissed,  at  his  own  request,  the  Rev.  C.  K.  Caldwell,  to  join  the  Pres- 
bytery of  the  Western  District;  that  on  the  24th  day  of  October  1867,  they  re- 
ceived the  Rev.  H.  B.  Pratt  from  the  Presbytery  of  Concord;  that  on  the  same  day 
they  received  the  Rev.  Daniel  T.  Towles  from  the  Presbytery  of  Bethel,  and 
that  on  the  27th  day  of  October  1867,  they  licensed  Mr.  George  Williamson 
Finley  to  preach  the  gospel  as  a  probationer  for  the  holy  ministry. 
Respectfully  submitted. 

JACOB  DOLL,  Stated  Clerk. 

October  27, 1867. 

PRESBYTERY  OF  CONCORD. 
The  Presbytery  of  Concord  report  to  the  Synod  of  North  Carolina,  that  they 
consist  of  forty-two  ministers,  and  have  under  their  care  seventy-two  churches, 
three  licentiates  and  three  candidates;  that  on  the  13th  day  of  October  1866,  they 
received  from  the  Presbytery  of  Orange,  the  Rev.  William  A.  Wood  and  the 
Rev.  Ephraim  H.  Harding;  that  on  the  27th  day  of  December  1866,  they  lost  by 
death  the  Rev.  Walter  Smiley  Pharr;  that  on  the  12th  day  of  January  1867,  they 
installed  the  Rev.  E.  H.  Harding  over  the  Church  of  Concord  Town;  that  on  the 
12th.  day  of  April  1867,  they  lost  by  death  the  Rev.  Stephen  Frontis;  that  on  the 
24th  day  of  April  1867,  they  received  from  the  Presbytery  of  East  Hanover  the 
Rev.  G.  Wilson  McPhail,  D.D.:  that  on  the  same  day  they  dismissed  the  Rev.  H. 
B.  Pratt  to  the  Presbytery  of  Orange,  the  Rev.  William  Morton  Kilpatrick  to  the 
Presbytery  of  Georgia,  and  the  Rev.  Gilbert  R.  Brackett  to  the  Presbytery  of 
Harmony;  that  on  the  26th  day  of  April  1867,  they  deposed  from  the  Holy  Min- 
istry the  Rev.  John  Curtis  Stewart;  that  on  the  same  day  they  suspended  from 
the  functions  of  the  Ministry  the  Rev.  John  C.  Carson  and  the  Rev.  Leander 
L.  Stuart,  severally;  that  on  the  6th  day  of  July  1867,  they  installed  the  Rev.  John 
Douglass  over  the  churches  of  Steele  Creek  and  Pleasant  Hill;  that  on  the  80th 
day  of  August  1867,  they  deposed  from  the  Holy  Ministry  the  Rev.  John  C- 
Carson  and  the  Rev.  Leander  L.  Stuart,  severally;  that  on  the  31st  day  of  August 
1867,  they  dismissed  the  Rev.  George  E.  Eagleton  to  the  Presbytery  of  Ouachita 


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»nd  that  on  the  Ist  day  of  September  18G7.  they  installed  the  Rev.  Heury  Howard 
Banks  over  the  church  of  Aeheville. 

By  order  of  Presbytery. 

J.  RUMPLE,  Stated  Clerk. 

October  31, 1867. 

PRESBYTERY  OF  FAYETTEVILLE. 

The  Presbytery  of  Fayetteville  would  respectfully  report  to  the   Synod  of 
North  Carolina.and  the  Ueneral  Assembly,  that  at  present  they  consist  ot  29 
Ministers  and  have  under  their  care  4  Licentiates.  «  Candidates  for  the  Mmistry 
and  67  Churcht>8:  that  on  the  11th  day  of  April  18G7  they  dissolved  the  pastoral 
relation  between  Kev.  N.  T.  Bowden  and  the  Church  of  Sharon,  and  declared 
said  Church  vacant:  that  on  the  same  day  they  dissolved  the  Church  of  LiUing 
ton:  that  on  the  13th  day  ol  the  same  month  they  dissolved  the  pastoral  re- 
lation between  Kev.  J.  P.  McPherson  and  Laurel  Hill  Church  and  declared  said 
Church  vacant:  that  on  the  same  day  they  licensed  Mr.  John  B.  McKinnon  to 
preach  the  Gospel  as  a  probationer  lor  the  Gospel  ministry;  that  on  the  5th  day  of 
May  1867    they  installed  the  Rev.  S.  H.  Isler  pastor  of  Beaver  Creek  Church; 
that  on  the  8th  day  of  June  1867.  they  installed  Rev.  S.  C.  Alexander  pastor  of 
South  River  Chapel;  that  on  the  2Ut  day  of  September  1867,  they  organized 
the  McPherson  Church;  that  on  the  28th  of  October  1867,  they  dissolved  the 
pastoral  relation  between  Rev.  N.  T.  Bowden  and  Pee  Dee  Church,  and  declaretl 
said  Church  vacant:  that  on  the  same  day  they  dissolved  the  pastoral  relation 
between  Rev.  Neill  McDonald  and  St.  Pauls  and  Big  Rockfish  Churches,  and 
declared  said  Churches  vacant:  that  on  the  same  day  they  dismissed  Rev.  Geo. 
M.  Gibbs  to  connect  himself  with  the  Presbytery  of  Concord,  and  that  on  the 
30th  day  of  same  month  they  dismissed  Rev.  Neill  McDonald  to  connect  himself 
with  the  Presbytery  of  Central  Texas. 
By  order  of  Presbytery. 

J.  P.  McPHERSON,  Stated  Clerk. 

Goldsboro'.  N.  C,  Oct.  30, 1867. 

Rev.  Mr.  Hardie,  State  Agent  of  the  American  Bible  So- 
ciety, addressed  the  Synod  on  tlie  subject  of  his  agency. 

The  committee  on  the  Minutes  of  the  General  Assembly 
made  the  following  i-eport,  which  was  accepted  and  adopt- 
ed, viz: 

The  committee  on  the  Minutes  of  the  General  Assembly  respectfully  report, 
that  they  have  examined  those  Minutes,  and  find  nothing  re<iuiring  any  special 
action  on  the  part  of  this  Synod. 

The  committt^e  to  whom  was  refen-ed  the  report  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  Union  Theological  Seminary  made  the 
following  report,  which  was  accepted  and  adopted: 

The  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  report  of  the  Directors  of  Union 
Theological  Seminary  would  report,  that  there  is  nothing  calling  for  special  ac- 
tion by  this  Synod,  but  in  view  of  the  favorable  report  of  the  Directors  as  to  the 
financial  condition  of  the  Seminary,  the  gratifying  addition  of  Students,  their 


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gener&l  good  health,  and  a  deportment  and  induetry  becoming  candidates  lor  the 
minietry,  and  as  to  other  matters  showing  growth  and  prosperity,  the  Synod 
would  express  its  unabated  and  increasing  interest  in  this  Seminary  and  its  grati. 
tnde  to  God  for  the  measure  of  success  with  which  it  has  surmounted  difficulties 
and  is  prepared  to  impart  its  peculiar  and  inestimable  advantages  to  all  who 
wish  to  become  able  ministers  of  the  New  Testament. 

Your  committee  recommend  that  the  following  persons  shall  constitute  the 
fourth  class  of  Directors  to  serve  for  four  years.  Rev.  .lames  P.  McPherson,  Rev. 
Edward  Hines  and  Dr.  N.  M.  Roan,  Ruling-Elder. 

The  committee  on  the  Records  of  the  Presbytery  of  Fay- 
etteville  reported  tliat  said  Records  liad  been  correctly  and 
neatly  kept,  and  recommended  that  they  be  approved  as  far 
as  wi'itten. 

This  report  was  accepted  and  adopted. 

The  hour  for  the  order  of  the  day  having  arrived.  Rev. 
John  M.  Sherwood,  Agent  for  Domestic  Missions,  read  his 
report,  which  was  accepted.  The  Synod  was  then  addressed 
by  the  Rev.  J.  Leighton  Wilson,  D.D.  After  which  the 
following  resolutions  were,  on  motion,  adopted: 

1.  Resolved,  That  the  chairman  of  the  Presbyterial  Committee  of  Missions,  as 
the  organ  of  that  Committee,  be  instructed  to  make  himself  particularly  ac- 
quainted with  the  condition  and  circumstances  of  all  the  Churches  ot  the  Pres- 
bytery, for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining  whether  they  are  contributing  according 
to  their  ability  to  the  cause  of  Sustentation  and  the  otBer  benevolent  enterprises 
of  the  Church;  whether  they  are  giving  competent  support  to  their  Pastors  or 
Stated  Supplies,  and  farther  whether  Pastors  and  Supplies,  that  are  adequately 
supported,  are  giving  the  whole  of  their  time  to  the  spiritual  improvement  of 
their  people. 

2.  Resolved,  That  he  do  what  he  can  by  his  influence  to  induce  the  Churchc* 
not  only  to  give  freely  to  the  cause  of  benevolence,  but  to  provide  adequately 
for  the  comfortable  support  of  their  own  Pastor,  and  especially  if  they  pay  the 
promised  salary  with  punctuality. 

:}.  Resolved,  That  whenever  it  is  ascertained  that  any  single  Church,  or  two 
Churches  united  under  the  same  pastorate,  have  not  the  means  to  give  their  Pas- 
tor a  sutiicient  support,  the  Executive  Committee  be  requested  to  supplement 
his  salary  so  that  the  minimum  amount  shall  not  be  less  than  |600. 

4.  Resolved,  That  where  any  Church  is  found  persistently  delinquent,  either 
in  contributing  to  the  Sustentation  Fund  or  in  neglecting  to  provide  for  pastoral 
support,  that  the  same  shall  be  reported  to  Presbytery  for  it  to  take  such  action 
as  it  may  think  proper. 

5.  Resolved,  That  where  any  Church  has  reasonable  complaints  to  make 
against  their  Pastor  for  not  devoting  the  whole  of  his  time  to  their  spiritual  im- 
provement, after  they  have  provided  him  with  a  reasonable  support,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  chairman  to  bring  such  complaints  to  the  notice  of  the  Presbytery. 


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6.  Resolved,  That  the  said  chairman  be  required  to  render  to  Presbytery  a 
report  from  session  to  session  of  the  manner  in  which  he  has  discharged  these 
duties  and  results  which  have  followed  from  them. 

7.  Kesolved,  That  the  Chairman  of  the  Committee  be  remunerated  for  them 
services. 

8.  Kesolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  published  in  the  "North  Carolina 
Presbyterian,"  for  the  wider  difTusion  of  the  information  therein  contained. 

Tile  Report  on  Foreign  Missions  was  made  the  order  of 
the  day  for  to-morrow  at  11  o'clock  A.  M. 

On  motion,  the  Synod  then  adjourned  to  meet  to-morrow 
morning  at  lialf-past  9  o'clock. 

Closed  with  prayer. 


Satukday  Mokning,  Nov.  2. 

The  Synod  met  according  to  adjournment  and  was  opened 
with  prayer. 

The  roll  was  caUed. 

The  Minutes  of  yesterday  were  read  and  approved. 

The  committee  appointed  to  prepare  an  address  to  the 
Churches  made  a  report,  which  was  accepted  and  ordered 
to  be  printed  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Minutes. 

The  roll  was  called  to  ascertain  whether  the  Ministers  had 
read  the  address  to  the  Chiu'ches  which  w\as  adopted  by  the 
Synod  at  its  last  meeting. 

The  report  of  Rev.  Neill  McKay,  Agent  for  Education, 
was  presented  to  the  Synod.  It  was  read,  ac(;epted  and 
ordered  to  be  piinted  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Minutes. 

On  motion,  the  Stated  Clerk  was  ordered  to  publish  one 
thousand  copies  of  the  Minutes  of  the  present  sessions  in 
pamphlet  form,  and  also  to  publish  in  the  Appendix  a  roll 
of  the  Ruling-Elders  and  Deacons  in  this  Synod,  with  their 
post  offices  respectively. 

The  committee  on  the  report  of  the  Trustees  of  Synod  made 
the  following  report,  which  was  accepted  and  adopted: 

The  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  report  of  the  Trustees  of  Synod 
in  regard  to  the  Lorantz  fund  would  make  the  following  scatement.-s  and  sug- 
gestions: The  report  of  the  Trustees  has  been  carefully  examined  and  all  the 
papers  submitted  to  us,  that  throw  light  upon  the  subject.  With  the  exception 
of  a  few  slight  errors  in  the  calculation  of  interest  and  a  little  confusion  arising 


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rom  the  omission  of  a  small  amount  paid  to  the  committee  of  Colportage,  we 
find  the  report  of  the  Trustees  correct.  In  the  history  of  this  Lorantz  fund  wo 
find  that  at  a  meeting  of  Synod  in  Greensboro',  N.  C,  October  3d,  1846,  twenty 
one  years  ago,  the  Trustees  of  Synod  were  instructed  by  that  body  to  collect 
the  proceeds  of  the  Lorantz  legacy,  and  as  fust  as  collected  to  pay  over  the  money 
to  the  Synod's  committee  of  (Jolportage.  This  committee,  at  the  same  time,  was 
instructed  to  employ  this  money  as  a  loan,  without  interest,  for  prompting  the 
objects  for  which  it  was  appointed,  in  such  a  way  as  not  to  diminish  the  prin 
cipal  of  tliis  fund.  Accordingly  the  Trustees  did  collect  and  pay  over  to  this 
committee  about  the  sum  of  $252.  At  a  meeting  in  Statesville,  however,  in  Oc 
tober  1860,  the  Trustees  reported  that  they  had  collected  and  loaned  to  the 
Trustees  of  Concord  Female  College,  at  6  per  cent,  interest,  f  600  of  this  fund. 
This  action  of  the  Trustees  we  regard  as  unauthorized  and  contrary  to  the  in- 
structions given  them  by  the  Synod  at  Greensboro'  in  1846.  From  the  report 
of  the  Trustees  to  the  present  meeting  of  Synod,  it  appears  that  besides  the 
amount  paid  over  to  the  Committee  of  Colportage,  there  remains  due  the  Synod 
from  Concord  Female  College,  and  two  individuals,  James  Stephenson  and  James 
Lyon,  the  sum  of  $1660  31,  including  principal  and  interest  to  the  22d  of  August 
1867. 

In  view  of  the  preceding  facts  and  statements,  your  committee  make  the  fol 
lowing  recommendations: 

1st.  That  the  Trustees  of  Synod  be  instructed  to  collect,  as  soon  as  practica- 
ble, as  much  as  possible  of  the  debt  due  from  the  above-mentioned  corporation 
and  individuals. 

2d.  That  they  be  instructed  to  pay  over  the  money  as  fast  as  collected  into 
the  hands  of  the  Synodical  Agent  for  Publication,  Rev.  J.  Henry  Smith,  to  be 
used  by  him  for  promoting  the  interests  of  Publication  within  our  bounds,  in  such 
a  way  as,  according  to  his  judgment,  will  not  diminish  the  amount  placed  in 
his  hands,  before  the  next  meeting  of  Synod. 

8d.  That  the  Trustees  of  Synod  be  further  directed,  as  soon  as  practicable,  to 
renew  the  notes  due  from  Concord  Female  College  and  the  before-mentioned 
individuals,  so  as  to  include  the  unpaid  interest,  and  to  obtain  on  these  notes 
such  additional  security,  if  possible,  as  shall  render  them  a  safe  investment. 

4th.  That  the  Trustees  be  directed  to  report  to  the  next  meeting  of  Synod 
whether  they  have  complied  with  these  instructions;  and  that  Rev.  J.  Henry 
Smith  he  instructed  to  report  to  the  next  Synod  how  much  money  he  has 
received  from  the  Trustees,  and  in  what  way  it  has  been  applied. 

On  motion,  the  following  resolution  was  adopted,  viz: 

Resolved,  That  the  Chairman  of  Sustentation  in  each  Presbytery  be  directed 
to  take  such  steps  and  to  recommend  to  the  Presbyteries  such  measures  as  may 
be  deemed  advisable  for  the  combination  and  consolidation  of  feeble  and  vacant 
Churches,  so  as  to  constitute  suitable  and  permanent  Pastoral  charges,  and  that 
efforts  be  made  to  have  them  temporarily  supplied  by  neighboring  Ministers. 

The  committee  appointed  to  examine  the  Records  of  the 
Presbytery  of  Orange  reported  that  they  had  discharged 


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that  duty,  and  recommend  that  said  Records  be  approved 
as  far  as  written. 

The  hour  for  the  order  of  the  day  having  arrived,  tlie  re- 
port on  Foreign  Missions  was  read  by  Rev.  John  Douglass, 
Agent  pro  tern.  This  report  was,  on  motion,  accepted. 
When  the  Synod  heard  the  Rev.  J.  Leighton  Wilson,  D.D., 
the  Assembly's  Secretary  on  Foreign  Missions. 

The  Stated  Clerk  was  directed  to  publish  the  report  on 
Foreign  Missions  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Minutes  and  in 
the  '-North  Carolina  Presbyterian." 

On  motion,  the  resolution  appended  to  the  report  was 
then  adopted,  and  is  as  follows: 

Resolved,  That  it  be  enjoined  upon  all  our  Ghurcliea  to  revive  the  observance 
of  the  monthly  concert  of  prayer,  and  that  collections  be  taken  up  at  each  of 
these  meetings  to  aid  in  the  good  work  of  sending  the  Gospel  to  all  the  -.rorld. 

The  committee  on  leave  of  absence  made  the  following 
report,  which  was  accepted  and  adopted: 

The  committee  on  leave  of  absence  report  that  they  gave  permission  to  the 
following  members  to  be  absent  after  the  close  of  the  sessions  on  Friday,  viz: 

Ministers— Colin  Shaw,  Edward  Hines,  A.  G.  Hughes,  J.  C.  Alexader,  C.  H. 
Wiley,  H.  A.  Monroe,  James  Kelly,  S.  A.  Stanfield  and  D.  B.  Black. 

Ruling-Elders— S.  Player,  W.  T.  Bannerman,  D.  B.  Penick,  J.  C.  Smith 
and  J.  D.  Currie. 

On  motion,  the  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  the  chairman  of  the  Sustentation  Committee  in  each  Presby- 
tery be  instructed  to  furnish  the  Synodical  Agent  on  this  subject  such  facts  and 
figures  as  will  inform  him  of  what  has  been  done  the  previous  year  within  their 
bounds.  This  information  shall  be  furnished  on  or  before  the  second  day  of  the 
sessions  of  Synod  each  year. 

On  motion,  the  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks  of  this  Synod  are  due  and  are  hereby  tendered  to 
the  citizens  of  Newbern  for  their  hospitality  and  kindness  to  the  members  of 
this  body,  and  also  to  the  authorities  of  the  Methodist  and  Baptist  Churches 
for  the  tender  of  their  houses  of  worship,  and  to  the  several  Railroad  companies 
for  facilities  afforded  to  its  members  in  attending  this  meeting. 

The  committee  on  Bills  and  Overtures  reported  that  no 
business  had  come  into  their  hands.  On  motion,  this  re- 
port was  accepted,  and  the  committee  was  discharged. 

The  Judicial  Committee  reported  that  no  business  had 


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come  into  their  hands.     On  motion,  this  report  was  accept- 
ed, and  the  committee  was  discharged. 

The  roll  was  called,  when  it  appeared  that  the  following 
members  of  Synod  were  absent  without  peimission: 

Of  tue  PUE8BYTKRY  OF  Oranoe — Mesere.  A.  Currie,  J.  llenry  Smith,  H.  H. 
Hill  and  D.  T.  TowIcp,  Miniaters;  and  Messrs.  David  Wharton,  R.  Sterling  and 
John  Hodges,  Ruling-Elders. 

Op  the  Presbyteuy  of  Concord — H.  H.  Banks,  Minister. 

Op  the  Presbytery  op  Fayetteville — Messrs. .).  A.  Smith,  J.  V..  McMM- 
lan,  R.  W.  Moore  and  S.  W.  Caldwell,  Ruling-Elders. 

On  motion,  the  Synod  then  adjourned  to  toeet  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  AVilmington,  N.  C.  on  Wednesday 
before  the  2d  Sabbath  in  November  1868,  at  7^  o'clock.  P.  M. 

Closed  Avith  singing,  prayer  and  the  apostolic  benediction. 

JACOB  DOLL,  Stated  Clerk. 


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APPENDIX. 


ADDRESS  OF  THE  SYNOD 

Of  the  Pre-Hhyhrian  Church  of  Xortlt  Carolina  to  (he  Chuirhes  irithia  its  honndn. 

To  the  saints  and  faithful  in  Christ  Jesus,  members  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  North  Carolina,  with  the  Bishops  and  Deacons:  (irace  be  unto  you  and 
jieace  from  God  our  Father,  and  from  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

Having,  by  the  appointment  of  CJod,  and  by  the  order  of  His  house,  the  spir- 
itual care  and  oversight  of  you,  we,  your  Synod,  herein  express  our  deep  solici- 
tude in  your  spiritual  and  ecclesiastical  estate;  and  enjoin  upon  you  the  observ- 
ance ol  such  things  as  make  for  your  own  good  and  the  glory  of  Zion's  King. 

We  thank  God  upon  the  remembrance  of  you,  brought  uj)  to  us  by  the  re- 
ports of  your  Presbyteries.  "Blessed  be  the  God  and  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  who  hath  blessed  you  with  spiritual  blessings  in  heavenly  places  in 
Christ:"  for  in  many  of  our  Churches  has  He  graciously  dispensed  the  showers 
of  His  grace,  redeeming  sinners  and  refreshing  saints. 

The  Holy  Spirit  has  given  cheering  evidences  ol  his  presence,  and  many 
exhibitions  of  his  power,  in  a  number  of  our  Churches,  and  several  hundred  of 
precious  souls  have  been  gathered  into  our  beloved  Zion. 

There  has  been  a  gratifying  increase  in  your  contributions  to  the  benevolent 
operations  of  the  Church,  and  many  comforting  exhibitions  of  your  zeal  in  the 
Master's  cause  and  love  for  His  Church. 

Your  cheerful  submission  to  the  frowning  providences  ot  God;  your  resigna- 
tion amid  the  disasters  by  which  you  have  been  overwhelmed;  your  patience 
amid  protracted  trials,  and  your  efiforts  to  rebuild  theVaste  places  of  Jerusalem, 
all  evidence  that  the  sustaining  spirit  is  within  you,  and  fills  us  with  gratitude 
to  Him  who  has  jjromised  to  be  ever  with  us;  who  hath  said:  "O  Israel,  fear  not, 
for  I  have  redeemed  thee:  I  have  called  thee  by  thy  name:  thou  art  mine:  when 
thou  passest  through  the  waters,  I  will  be  with  thee,  and  through  the  rivers,  they 
shall  not  overflow  thee:  when  thou  walkest  through  fires,  thou  shalt  not  be 
burned,  neither  shall  the  flame  kindle  upon  thee:  for  I  am  the  Lord  thy  (<od.  the 
Holy  One  of  Israel  thy  Saviour." 

For  all  the  exhibitions  of  God's  grace  to  you;  for  ail  the  comforts  you  have 
enjoyed;  for  all  the  attainments  you  have  made,  and  for  all  the  results  that  have 
been  accompUshed,  we  oflFer  fervent  thanks  to  Him,  by  whom  and  to  whom  al! 
is  due. 

But  we  admonish  you,  Brethren,  that  you  have  not  wholly  fulfilled  the 
commission  of  the  Lord:  you  have  not  put  forth  the  full  measure  of  your  strength 
His  commission  demands  the  largest  exercise  of  your  entire  energies:  His 
kingdom  enlists  the  life-service  of  every  one.  Physical  strength,  intellectual 
•capacity,  spiritual  gifts,  earthly  possessions  of  each  and  every  kind  and  degree. 


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must  be  consecrated  "unto  Him  who  loved  us,  and  gave  himself  for  us."  The 
enemies  with  which  we  must  contend,  the  kingdom  which  we  must  destroy,  the 
unfriendly  elements  with  which  we  are  surrounded,  all  require  the  employment 
of  every  gift  and  aid.  Therefore  the  service  which  we  are  called  to  render  is 
not  a  partial  one— 'tis  the  engagement  of  life.  For  this  we  each  have  our 
stations,  qualifications  and  gifts,  and  we  must  employ  them  as  God  gives  us 
opportunity  and  grace.  We  then,  in  the  name  of  the  Great  Head  of  the  Church, 
and  Bishop  of  your  souls,  call  you  to  awake  and  arouse  to  the  full  exercise  of  the 
mighty  powers  with  which  He  has  endowed  you.  Heavenly  crowns  inspire; 
thrones  and  principalities  urge:  the  dying  wails  oi  sinking  souls,  the  mad  confu- 
sion of  a  sin-tossed  world,  the  marshaling  hosts  against  the  Lord's  Anointed,  the 
promise  of  your  Redeemer's  kingdom,  its  coming  triumph  and  glory,  call  you 
to  awake.    "Awake!  put  on  thy  strength,  O  Zion." 

•'The  elders  which  are  among  you  we  exhort,  who  also  are  elders,  feed  the 
Hock  of  God  which  is  among  you,  taking  the  Bishopric  thereof  not  by  constraint, 
but  willingly,  being  ensamples  to  the  flock." 

To  you  is  committed  all  the  spiritual  interests  of  God's  heritage.  It  is  your 
duty  to  feed,  guide  and  guard  the  flock  of  Christ  as  faithful  shepherds:  to  pro- 
mote by  your  example,  by  your  eflbrts,  by  your  maintenance  of  the  worship  of 
God's  house,  all  of  Zion's  interests;  and  when  the  chief  Shepherd  shall  appear, 
ye  shall  appear  with  Him  in  glory. 

The  deacons  we  urge  to  a  more  active  exercise  of  the  office,  and  to  a  more 
thorough  participation  in  the  interests  of  the  Church.  Especially  do  we  enjoin 
upon  you  the  duty  of  gathering  in  the  offerings  into  the  treasury  of  the  Lord's 
house. 

And  all  who  love  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  we  exhort,  first  of  all  things,  to 
prayer.  Pray,  Brethren,  for  the  peace  of  Jerusalem:  exert  this  mighty  power 
in  the  behalf  of  Zion.  The  spirit  of  supplication  is  weak  in  our  Churches,  its 
voice  is  weak  at  the  altar.  But  'prayer  is  the  power  that  moves  the  arm  of  God; 
the  lever  that  raises  the  world  from  its  fall;  the  furnace  where  the  energies  of 
the  soul  are  forged;  the  voice  which  God  has  pledged  himself  to  hear.  Without 
it  we  can  do  nothing;  with  it  we  can  do  all  things.  Therefore,  Brethren,  culti- 
vate the  spirit  of  prayer:  pray  much,  pray  often,  pray  always,  that  God  will  bless 
and  prosper  our  Zion. 

To  prayer,  add  your  constant  efforts.  Not  only  pray  for  Jesus,  but  speak  for 
Jesus;  work  for  Jesus;  live  for  Jesus.  Let  your  conduct  be  as  becometh  the 
gospel  of  Christ,  not  only  in  furnishing  bright  examples  of  its  peace-speaking 
and  purifying  power,  but  by  living  like  Christ,  in  the  incessant  occupation  of" 
glorifying  God,  by  establishing  His  kingdom.  Aid  your  pastors  and  elders  by 
your  sympathies  and  active  co-operation  in  advancing  the  kingdom  of  Christ; 
encourage  the  worship  of  God's  house  and  the  preaching  of  the  word;  employ 
every  means,  all  influences,  all  things,  legitimately,  in  extending  and  enriching 
the  Church  of  your  love.  Be  faithful  unto  the  household  of  faith,  especially 
unto  the  children  of  the  covenant,  and  bring  them  up  to  a  sense  of  their  obligation 
to  enter  the  service  and  fold  of  Christ. 

We  direct  your  attention  especially  to  the  benevolent  operations  of  the 
Church — that  you  may  accompany  your  prayers  with  liberal  alms;  and  urge  you. 


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to  adopt  some  systematic  plans  by  which  the  treasury  of  tho  lionl  may  be  filled 
and  the  voice  of  rejoicing  heard,  our  destitutions  relieved,  and  souls  redeemed. 
*It  is  more  blessed  to  give  than  to  receive,"  said  our  Lord.  The  reflex  influence 
on  your  own  hearts,  ot  giving  to  the  Lord,  is  a  richer  inheritance  tlian  the  pos- 
sessions of  earth. 

Let  not  the  plea  of  destitution,  of  adverse  jirovidences.  of  the  want  of  mt-ans, 
induce  you  to  retrench  at  the  Lord's  house;  but  manifest,  by  your  increawcd 
contributions,  that  tho  grace  of  (iod  dwells  the  more  richly  in  your  hearts,  for 
your  trials.  The  calls  upon  your  Christian  charity  come  with  unwonted  force 
and  sadness,  not  only  from  the  world  beyond,  but  from  within  our  own  bounds — 
calls  of  souls  starving  for  the  bread  of  life.  Your  Synod  and  P/esbyteries  are 
making  unusual  eflbrts  to  spread  the  gospel  and  to  enlarge  our  borders,  and  we 
look  to  you  to  sustain  us  by  your  prayers  and  means. 

We  call  your  attention,  briefly,  to  the  spirit  of  worldliness  prevalent  in  our 
Churches;  to  the  want  of  proper  observance  of  the  Lord's  day;  to  the  neglect  of 
spiritual  duty:  to  the  laxity  oi  many  in  their  Christian  walk;  to  the  feebleness 
of  effort  in  Christs  service;  to  the  great  absence  of  fervent  love  among  the 
brethren;  to  the  unlawful  absorption  in  the  pursuits  of  the  world;  to  the  disuse 
of  discipline; — and  bid  you  "see  that  ye  walk  circumspectly." 

We  warn  you  against  the  gross  perversions  of  the  gospel  which  are  so  assid- 
uously propagated  at  this  time;  against  every  form  of  rationalism,  which  aims 
to  reduce  the  gospel  of  our  Divine  Lord  to  the  common  reason  of  man,  and  by 
specious  presentations  of  its  theories,  endeavors  to  make  our  holy  religion  simple 
humanitarianism.  We  also  admonish  you  against  the  growth  of  the  ritualistic 
encroachments  on  the  Christian  Church;  against  every  form  of  Phariseeism,  which 
exalts  the  form  above  the  spirit,  and  would  reduce  religion  to  mere  sentiment- 
alism. 

Finally,  Brethren,  remember  that  you  are  not  your  own;  ye  are  bought  with 
a  price,  even  the  precious  blood  of  Christ;  therefore  glorify  Him  in  your  bodies 
and  spirits  which  are  His.  Let  your  thoughts,  your  aims,  your  desires,  your 
efforts,  all  terminate  on  Christ  and  His  Church;  "forget  not  Jerusalem,  but  prize 
her  beyond  your  chief  joy;"  "set  her  as  a  seal  upon  your  hearts;  as  a  seal  upon 
your  arms,  and  love  her  with  a  love  as  strong  as  death." 

Brethren,  God  has  called  us  into  a  grand  and  glorious  Church.  She  has  a 
name  and  history  with  which  no  human  establishment  can  compare.  Her  form, 
her  doctrine,  her  power,  are  divide;  and  there  is  a  nobility,  a  grandeur,  a  simpli- 
city, about  her,  which  is  unequalled,  and  is  a  reflection  of  the  Church  above; 
and  she  has  accomplished  a  history,  by  the  Spirit  of  Uod,  which  should  swell  our 
hearts  with  holy  pride  and  gratitude.  Wherefore,  then,  we  exliort  you  to  love 
your  Church;  we  ask  your  affections  for  the  highest  and  holiest  object  on  earth; 
and  when  we  demand  your  powers  in  her  behalf,  we  are  only  asking  you  to 
obey  the  last  command  of  Jesus,  to  preach  His  gospel  in  the  earth. 

And  now,  dear  Brethren,  we  commend  you  to  the  mercies  of  our  God.  See 
that  ye  overcome,  that  it  may  be  granted  unto  you  to  sit  down  with  Jesus  in 
His  throne. 

Now  the  God  of  peace,  that  brought  again  from  the  dead  our  Lord  Jesus,  that 
Great  Shepherd  of  the  sheep,  through  the  blood  of  the  everlasting  covenant, 


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2.5 

65 

50 

215 

88 

115 

00 

328  07 

764  98 

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make  you  perfect  in  every  good  work  to  do  His  will,  working  in  you  that  which 
is  well-pleasing  in  His  sight,  through  Jesus  Christ,  to  whom  be  glory  forever  and 
ever.     Ainen. 

ARCHIBALD  CURRIE,  Moderator. 

REPORT  OF  ORANGE  PRESBYTERY  ON  SYSTEMATIC  BENEVOLENCE. 
On  the  subject  of  Systematic  Benevolence,  the  Presbytery  of  Orange  ■would 
report  to  Synod,  that  we  have  under  our  care  49  churches.  Of  these  eighteen 
have  reported  contributions  to  benevolent  objects,  during  the  year  ending 
April  Ist,  1867. 

The  whole  amount  contributed  during  the  year  is,  for 

Foreign  Missions, 

Domestic  Missions, 

Sustentation, 

Education, 

Publication, 

Miscellaneous, 

Total,  11686  68 

The  Presbytery  is  sorry  to  be  compelled  to  say,  that  the  amount  contributed 
by  the  Churches,  during  the  last  ecclesiastical  year,  is  not  at  all  in  advance  of 
what  has  been  done  in  years  past.  Indeed,  according  to  the  reports,  it  seems  to 
fall  short.  We  are  sorry  to  say  too.  that  some  of  our  largest  and  oldest  Churches 
have  done  nothing  in  this  department  of  the  field  of  labor.  We  trust,  however, 
that  a  better  time  is  coming,  and  that  a  better  spirit  will  p)er^•ade  all  the  member* 
of  all  our  churches. 

JACOB  DOLL.  Stated  Clerk. 
Chapel  Hill.  N.  C,  Oct.  1867. 
REPORT  ON  SYSTEMATIC  BENEVOLENCE  FROM  THE  PRESBYTERY 

OF  CONCORD. 
The  Presbytery  of  Concord  respectfully  report  to  the  Synod  of  North  Caro- 
lina, that  at  the  meeting  in  April  1867,  they  adopted  and  recommended  to  the 
Churches,  the  Assembly's  plan  of  taking  up  annual  collections  for  the  various 
benevolent  causes,  at  the  times  specified  on  i)age  39  Ass.  Min.  of  186G. 

Some  of  our  Churches  complied  strictly  with  the  injunction,  and  others,  it  is 
thought,  lollowed  their  former  plans  of  taking  up  collections  by  subscription  or 
otherwise,  at  times  formerly  adopted  by  them^ 

From  the  statistical  report  prepared,  we  learn  that  fifty  of  our  seventy-two 
churches  have  contributed,  either  to  all,  or  one  or  more  of  our  benevolent  causes, 
as  follows: 

44  Churches  to  Domestic  Missions, 

24        "  "     Foreign  Missions, 

19        "  "     Sustentation, 

22        "  "    Education, 

22        "  "    Publication, 

12        "  "     Miscellaneous  objects. 

Making  a  total  of  |4278  55 

Dividing  this  sum  total  between  the  fifty  contributing  Churches  will  yield 


$779  00 

544  55 

718  00 

269  00 

495  00 

1473  00 

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an  average  $85  56  to  each.  On  throwing  out  ol  the  account  the  miscellaneous 
$1473  00,  some  of  which  may  relate  to  congregational  concerns,  and  dividing 
the  remainini;  $2805  55  by  50,  we  will  obtain  an  average  of  $50  GO  to  each  con- 
tributing Church. 

in  addition  to  these  strictly  benevolent  contributions,  the  following  payments 
are  mt-ntiont-d: 

S2  Churches  to  Com.  and  Con.  Fund,  $414  00 

41        "  •■  Con'g  purposes,  16,306  00 

This,  added  to  the  benevolent  causes,  viz:        4,278  55 


Gives  a  sum  total  of  all  payments  of  $20,998  55 

The  whole  number  of  our  Comnumicants,  as  reported  this  year,  is  0210. 
Dividing  the  sura  total  by  this  number,  we  obtain  an  average  of  $3  38  to  each 
<'hurch  member  in  our  Presbytery. 

If  reports  had  been  received  from  the  otlier  22  churches,  the  aggregate 
would  have  been,  doubtless,  materially  changed,  but  the  average  would  probably 
be  about  the  same. 

This  sum  is  indeed  small,  yet,  considering  the  hardships,  high  prices,  and 
high  taxes,  it  is  indicative  of  an  encouraging  spirit  of  liberality,  that  compares 
not  unfavorably  with  the  results  of  other  and  more  prosperous  times. 

In  the  year  1800,  Concord  Presbytery  reported  to  the  General  Assembly  7,255 
communicants,  and  a  payment  of  $33,822  to  all  ecclesiastical  purposes.  This 
yields  an  average  of  $4  60  to  each  communicant,  against  $3  38  of  the  present  year. 

With  the  blessing  of  God  upon  our  Churches,  with  returning  prosperity,  we 
hope  that  the  spirit  of  liberality  in  the  future  will  far  surpass  that  of  years  gone 
by.  We  trust  that,  as  the  "fining-pot  is  for  silver,  and  the  furnace  for  gold,''  so 
will  be  the  ordeal  through  which  we  are  passing  to  the  piety  and  liberality  of 
our  beloved  Zion. 

Respectfully  submitted  to  the  Synod  of  North  Carolina,  by  order  of  Concord 
Presbytery. 

J.  RUMPLE,  Stated  Clerk. 

Asheville,  N.  C,  Aug.  31,  1807. 

REPORT  ON  SYSTEMATIC  BENEVOLENCE  FROM  THE  PRESBYTERY 
OF  FAYETTEVILLE. 

The  Committee  whose  duty  it  is  made  to  present  a  semi-annual  report  on 
the  subject  of  Systematic  Benevolence,  would  ask  leave  to  offer  the  following 
observations  on  this  important  subject: 

1.  We  regard  it  as  the  duty  of  each  Church-member  to  contribute  something 
annually,  however  little  it  may  be,  to  the  cause  of  Christian  Benevolence. 

Under  the  Mosaic  economy,  every  Jew  was  required  to  give  according  to  bis 
means,  and  for  this  reason  specific  sums,  or  offerings,  are  named.  Those  who 
were  rich  were  required  to  give  of  their  abundance,  wliilst  those  who  were 
poor,  were  to  present  smaller  offerings. 

Not  only  was  the  tenth  required  for  the  service  of  (iod,  but  in  addition, 
free-mil  offerings  were  encouraged.  Under  the  (Jospel  the  rule  seems  to  be, 
that  we  are  to  give  "according  as  God  has  prospered  us."  That  He  claims  His 
proportion,  whatever  it  may  be,  seems  to  be  clear,  and  to  refuse^Him  this,  is  to 
incur  His  displeasure,  and  rob  ourselves  of  much  liappiness. 


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There  is  great  force  in  that  declaration  of  our  Saviour:  "It  is  more  blessed 
to  give  than  to  receive." 

2.  Among  the  various  plans  suggested,  that  adopted  by  this  Presbytery,  at 
Oak  Plane  in  April  18CG,  we  regard  as  Scriptural,  for  the  inspired  command  is. 
Upon  the  first  day  of  the  week  let  every  one  of  you  lay  by  him  in  store,  "as 
God  has  prospered  him.  that  there  be  no  gatherings  when  I  come."  I.  Cor. 
xvi:2. 

That  this  injunction  is  still  binding  upon  all  (iod's  children  will  scarcely  be 
questioned;  and  yet  we  very  much  fear,  that  the  duty  thus  enjoined  is  generally 
neglected,  and  tlierelore  there  must  be  guilt  somewhere. 

o.  We  would  respectfully,  but  earnestly,  urge  Ministers,  Ruling-Elders  and 
Deacons  to  be  more  faithful  in  imparting  instruction  to  those  under  their  care, 
upon  this  subject,  and  especially  upon  the  children  and  youth  of  all  our  con- 
gregations— for  until  our  people  are  better  instructed  and  trained,  we  have  but 
little  hope  thai  the  Church  will  rise  to  that  standard  of  giving  which  the  Oreat 
Head  of  the  Church  requires. 

If  the  office-bearers  in  the  Church,  and  our  Sabbath-school  teachers,  will  but 
do  their  duty  to  the  rising  generation,  a  race  of  Christians  will  soon  sjjring  up, 
whose  influence  will  be  felt  far  and  wide. 

In  our  day  we  read  and  hear  much  uhoiit  the  poverty  of  tJic  ChurcJi — those 
redeemed  by  the  blood  of  Christ,  and  made  heirs  of  grace  here  and  glory  here- 
after, and  who  are  able  to  liave  all,  or  nearly  all,  of  the  comforts  of  life — are  so 
poor,  that  they  cannot  give,  even  a  few  cents  annually,  for  the  cause  of  Christ, 
whilst  they  can  spare  their  hundreds  to  increase  their  worldly  substance!  Why 
is  this?  We  answer,  because  there  is  so  little  religion  among  professing  Chris- 
tians! 

Alas!  that  those  who  have  named  the  name  of  Christ  should  have  so  little  of 
His  Spirit! 

From  the  Treasurer's  Report  and  from  other  sources  of  information,  we  gather 
the  following  facts: 

Contributed  to  the  Contingent  Fund, 
"  "    Domestic  Missions, 

"  "     Foreign  Missions, 

"  "     Superannuated  Ministers, 

"  "     Publication, 

"  "     Education, 

Total,  1,445  82 

By  order  of  Presbytery. 

J.  P.  Mcpherson,  stated  Clerk. 
Goldsboro',  N.  C,  Oct.  30,  1867. 

REPORT  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 

The  Committee  appointed  pro  tern,  to  prepare  a  report  on  the  subject  of 
Foreign  Missions  submit  the  following: 

From  all  the  returns  which  have  been  made  by  the  respective  Presbyteries, 
as  shown  by  your  Agent,  and  from  the  books  of  Prof.  Woodrow,  the  Treasurer 
of  the  Committee  in  Columbia,  S.  C,  it  appears,  the  whole  amount  contributed 
to  this  cause  for  the  past  year,  from  the  Churches  connected  with  this  Synod,  is 
$1222  01. 


$367  60 

255  28 

297  00 

.98  96 

224  18 

202  80 

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This  sum  baa  been  contributed  as  follows,  viz:  Concord  Presbytery,  with 
fifty-three  Churches  and  a  membership  of  7,343.  Of  these  fifty-three  Churches 
only  twenty-seven  are  credited  with  giving  anything.  This  Presbytery  gave 
f544  55.  The  Presbytery  of  Orange,  with  forty-nine  Churches  and  a  member- 
ship  of  o  023.  is  credited  with  giving  !j;40a  74.  Only  nineteen  of  the  forty-nine 
are  credited  with  giving  anything.  The  Presbytery  of  Fuyetteville.  with  .ixty- 
six  Churches  and  a  membership  of  3,610.  has  contributed  -^37:!  73. 

From  these  returns  it  api>ears,  out  of  one  hundred  and  eighty-seven  Churches 
only  fifty  little  over  one-fourth  of  the  whole  number,  have  contributed  anything 
to  this  great  and  good  work  of  sending  the  Gospel  to  the  heathen.  The  sum  of 
$1  '>^3  It  first  glance  and  considering  the  stringency  of  the  times,  may  appear  a 
liberal'donation:  but  when  wo  take  the  aggregate  of  all  our  Church-members, 
which  is  13,974,  and  adjust  the  scale  of  our  benefactions  so  as  to  include  every 
Church-member,  it  will  be  found  our  giving  will  not  e-iual  the  widows  two 
mites.  With  this  measure  of  liberaUty,  or  degree  of  interest,  we  may  well  in- 
quire: By  whom  shall  Jacob  arise?  or  how  are  the  heathen  to  be  brought  to  a 
knowledge  of  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus? 

Your  Committee  would,  therefore,  recommend  that  our  Pastors  bo  urged  to 
give  this  subject  greater  prominence  in  their  labors,  and  our  Church-members 
be  recommended  to  adopt  some  more  efficient  and  systematic  means  of  spreading 
the  knowledge  of  God  over  the  dark  places  of  the  earth,  and  hastening  on  the 
time  when  the  heathen  shall  be  given  to  Christ  for  his  inheritance,  and  the 
uttermost  parts  of  the  earth  for  a  possession. 

Resolved,  That  it  be  enjoined  upon  all  our  Churches  to  revive  the  observance 
of  the  monthly  concert  of  prayer,  and  that  collections  be  taken  up  at  each  of 
these  meetings  to  aid  in  the  good  work  of  sending  the  Gospel  to  all  the  world. 

JOHN  DOUGLASS,  Agent  yr/v)  tern. 
REPORT  ON  DOMESTIC  MISSIONS  AND  SUSTENTATION. 
Almost  nothing  was  done  within  the  bounds  of  the  Synod  in  this  most  im- 
portant branch  of  labor,  from  the  close  of  the  war  to  the  meeting  of  this  body 
at  Charlotte  last  year.  And  it  will  appear  from  the  facts  furnished  below,  that 
during  the  past  twelve  months  no  great  results  have  been  accomplished,  though 
some  beginnings  have  been  made. 

The  Presbytery  of  Orange  has  been,  up  to  the  recent  meeting  of  that  body, 
■working  in  part  independently  and  in  part  in  connection  with  the  Assembly's 
CommiUee  of  Sustentation.  One  Missionary  has  been  employed  at  a  salary  of 
$300;  and  three  of  the  Ministers  of  the  Presbytery  have  received  aid  from  the 
Sustentation  Committee,  to  the  aggregate  amount  of  $335.  At  the  meeting  of 
Presbytery  last  week,  it  was  determined  to  adopt  the  Assembly's  plan  of  opera- 
tions, and  to  unite  heartily  with  the  Sustentation  Committee  in  carrying  on  this 
work.  An  Evangelist  was  also  elected,  and  the  whole  territory  of  the  Presbytery 
was  divided  into  imstwates,  with  the  view  of  supplying  the  destitute  fields  with 
the  preached  Word.  The  whole  amount  of  funds  collected  from  the  Churches, 
lor  Domestic  Missions  and  Sustentation,  is  about  $500. 

The  Presbytery  of  Concord,  at  the  meeting  last  Spring,  determined  to  unite. 
in  this  work,  with  the  Assembly's  Committee  of  Sustentation.  An  Evangelist 
■was  elected,  at  a  salary  of  $1,000;  and  three  Missionaries  have  been  employed 
within  the  bounds  of  the  Presbyter}'.  The  amount  of  funds  collected  from  the 
Churches  for  this  object  has  not  been  ascertained  with  any  accuracy. 


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The  PreBbytery  of  Fayctteville,  by  resolution  last  Spring,  expressed  a  deter- 
mination to  maintain  its  own  missionary  operations;  and  ordered  a  collection  to 
be  taken  up  in  all  the  Churches  for  the  cause  of  Sustcntation.  Appropriations 
have  been  made  during  the  year,  in  aid  of  three  feeble  Churclies,  .-unounting  in 
all  to  $250.  A  Missionary  was  elected  last  Spring  by  the  Presbytery,  to  preach 
in  some  of  the  Northeastern  counties  of  the  Presbytery,  now  almost  wholly  des- 
titute of  Presbyterians.  Several  points  have  been  selected  in  the  counties  of 
Jones  and  Onslow;  and  at  the  late  meeting  of  the  Presbytery,  a  petition  came 
up  from  one  of  these  points  for  the  organization  of  a  Church.  The  Missionary 
laboring  in  this  destitute  field  preaches  one-fourth  of  his  time  at  a  small  Church 
organized  by  him  before  he  was  elected  Missionary,  receives  from  the  Domestic 
Missionary  funds  $200,  and  f/ivcs  the  remainder  of  his  labor  to  this  cause.  At 
the  late  meeting  of  the  Presbytery,  the  Domestic  Missionary  c'ommittee  was 
instructed  to  appoint  an  Evangelist,  at  a  salary  of  $1,000,  to  labor  in  the  Eastern 
part  of  the  Presbytery;  and  a  Committee  was  appointed  to  «,<■*('**  or  apportion 
the  amount  of  this  $1,000  to  be  paid  by  each  Church  in  the  Presbytery.  The 
whole  amount  of  funds  collected  from  the  Churches  during  the  year,  for  Domes- 
tic Missions  and  Sustentation,  is  something  over  $500. 

The  members  of  Synod  will  see  at  once,  from  these  facts,  that  the  subject 
under  consideration  has  elicited  increased  interest  at  the  recent  meetings  of  the 
Presbyteries.  If  we  really  accomplish  what  we  have  already,  in  Presbytery,  re- 
solved to  do.  the  next  year  will  be  very  far  in  advance  of  anything  that  has  been 
doing  of  late  years.  And,  if  we  shall  do  what  we  have  resolved  in  Presbytery 
to  do,  we  shall  find  ourselves,  twelve  months  hence,  in  a  position  to  accomplish, 
still  greater  and  nobler  results.  It  is  a  matter  of  the  first  importance,  therefore, 
that  we  return  to  our  respective  charges  prepared  to  enter  heartily  into  the 
scheme  of  our  Presbyteries  for  carrying  on  this  great  work.  It  is  of  vital  im- 
portance to  our  Church,  and  of  incalculable  value  to  the  cause  of  God  in  Christ 
throughout  our  beloved  State.  There  is  a  strong  probability  that,  ere  long,  a 
mental  and  material  activity  will  be  aroused  in  the  masses  of  the  people  of  the 
State,  greater  than  ever  heretofore.  Emigrants  may  come  in  amongst  us  from 
abroad,  and  our  own  people  will  be  entering  upon  new  plans  and  schemes  for 
improvement  and  prosperity.  The  Churcli  must  be  active  too.  The  people  of 
God  must  be  alive  to  the  issues  before  them,  and  must  be  )irepare<l  to  grapple 
with  error,  in  whatever  shape  it  shall  appear.  Never  was  there  a  time,  perhape, 
when  the  lovers  of  truth— of  the  vhole  truth  of  God— were  called  upon  to  be 
more  active,  more  vigilant,  more  completely  alive  to  everything  going  on  around 
them.  We  must  watch,  and  work,  and  pray,  lest  the  enemy  should  find  us 
sleeping  at  our  post.  We  must  raise  high  the  standard  of  truth,  and  call  all 
men  to  come  and  enlist  with  us. 

.JOHN  M.  SHERWOOD,  Agent. 

REPORT  OF  THE  SYNODICAL  AGENT  ON  EDUCATION. 
In  presenting  to  Synod  the  annual  report  on  Education,  we  are  compelled  to 
record,  in  reference  to  the  past  ecclesiastical  year,  the  painful  fact,  equally  true 
of  the  four  preceding  years  of  the  existence  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  Edu- 
cation, that  it  has  done  literally  nothing  towards  the  accomplishment  of  the 
great  work  contemplated  by  its  creation.  By  the  report  of  the  Treasurer,  $215  16 
was  received  for  the  year  ending  let  Nov.  1866;  contingent  expenses  $6  50;  bal- 
ance in  his  hands  $208  66. 


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One  candidate  is  reported  as  received,  and,  recommended  by  the  Presbytery 
of  Fayetteville,  was  placed  on  the  'iiberal  ucholursliip'  oHered  liy  Col.  William 
Bingbam. 

The  fifth  annual  report  of  the  Executive  Committee  to  the  late  (ieutral  Ati- 
aembly  ig,  in  fact,  merely  apologetic,  rendering  good  and  satisfactory  reasons  for 
tlie  inaction  and  consequent  inefficiency  of  the  Committee,  growing  out  of  the 
uncertainty  thrown  around  the  wliole  subject  of  Education  as  committed  to 
them,  the  hesitancy  of  successive  Assemblies  as  to  the  continuance  of  the  Com- 
mittee, and  the  manifest  reluctance,  on  the  part  of  the  Churches  and  Presbyte- 
ries, to  entrust  their  funds  and  candidates  for  the  gospel  ministry  to  the  control 
and  management  of  an  agency  whose  existence  seemed  to  l)e  so  i)recarious. 

This  unfortunate  state  of  things  OKdht  nut,  and  we  trust  will  not,  longer  exist. 
The  final  action  of  the  late  Assembly,  after  a  prolonged,  various  and  jjatient 
discussion  in  the  lower  judicatories  and  by  the  journals  of  the  Church,  as  well 
as  by  successive  Assemblies,  aflbrds  the  highest  possible  evidence  that  the  mind 
of  the  Church  is  fully  made  up,  and  that  her  plans  in  reference  to  her  education- 
al arrangements  are  definitely  settled.  In  the  constitution  appointed  Ijy  the 
(ieneral  Assembly  for  the  conduct  of  the  Executive  Committee,  the  whole  scheme 
of  Beneficiary  Education  is  so  modified,  the  rights,  privileges  and  responsibilities 
of  the  Presbyteries  are  so  clearly  defined  and  guarded,  that  it  is  believed  the 
advocates  of  the  various  plans  which  have  been  suggested  may  adopt  it  '.vithout 
the  compromise  of  principle.  If  our  whole  Church  cannot  be  brought  to  see  eye 
to  eye  in  reference  to  the  prosecution  of  the  work  of  ministerial  education,  the 
paramount  importance  of  which  is  fully  admitted  by  all,  we  may,  at  least,  divest 
the  subject  of  all  collateral  issues,  ignore  minor  differences  of  opinion,  give  up 
preconceived  notions  and  old-standing  jirt^udices,  and.  in  a  spirit  of  generous 
concession,  commend  the  policy  adopted  by  the  Assembly  to  the  favorable  con- 
sideration of  our  people,  Churches  and  Presbyteries.  This  by  no  means  implies 
an  endorsement  of  the  various  reports  which  have  been  presented  to  the  Assem- 
bly on  the  subject  of  Education,  or  an  admission  that  the  most  practical,  eco- 
nomical and  efficient  plan  has  been  adopted.  It  is  accepted  as  vastly  superior  to 
the  Old  Board  scheme  under  which  wc  labored  in  our  former  connection,  and  a 
decided  improvement  on  the  initiativ(.-  policy  of  our  own  Church.  Article  filth 
of  the  constitution  of  the  Education  Committee,  organized  at  Augusta,  not  only 
authorized  the  Committee  "to  hold  and  disburse  funds  put  into  its  hands,"  but 
says,  "it  shall  also  have  a  general  oversight  of  the  diligence  and  deportment  ot 
those  who  are  aided  by  it."  In  the  constitution  appointed  at  Memphi.s.  it  is 
expressly  declared  that  "all  candidates  shall  be  solely; responsible  to  their  own 
Presbyteries."  And  it  is  further  provided  by  the  same  Assembly,  that  the 
Presbytery  may  manage  "the  funds  collected  within  its  own  bounds,  as  well  as 
all  other  parts  of  the  work  of  education."  The  Presbytery  must  report,  liowvv- 
er,  "to  the  General  Assembly,  through  the  Committee  of  Education,  what  amount 
of  money  has  been  raised  and  exi>ended  within  its  lx)unds,  so  that  the  General 
Assembly  may  see,  at  one  view,  what  the  whole  Church  has  done  in  this  great 
work." 

Article  fifth  of  the  same  constitution  reads  as  follows,  viz:  "It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  this  committee  to  plac^  itself  in  correspondence  with  the  Executive 


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Committees  of  Education  appointed  by  the  several  Presbyteries,  the  cbairman- 
of  each  of  whick  Presbyterial  committees  must  be  regarded  as  a  corresponding 
member  of  tins  committee.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  committee  to  procure 
from  these  corresponding  members  semi-annual  reports  with  respect  to  the  state 
of  thf  work^vithin  their  respective  Presbyteries,  and,  in  turn,  to  transmit  to 
these  members,  for  the  information  of  their  Presbyteries,  semi-annual  statements 
of  the  condition  of  the  whole  field." 

Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  the  Executive  Committee  of  Education,  divested  of 
all  the  obnoxious  features  of  the  Old  Board  system,  is  really  little  or  nothing 
more  than  a  central  financial  and  advisory  agency.  And  if  its  appellation  corre- 
sponds strictly  to  its  functions,  and  if  its  whole  duty,  work  and  responsibility 
devolved  on  one  instead  of  eleven  agents,  we  would  be  more  hopeful  of  its  effi- 
ciency and  success — upon  inkich  the  ultimate  success  of  all  our  eflbrts  for  home 
and  foreign  evangelization  so  much  depends. 

The  correspondence,  made  obligatory  by  the  constitutional  provision,  on  th© 
pan  of  the  committees,  has  not  been  fully  inaugurated.  Whether  the  fault  is 
with  the  Presbyterial  committees  or  the  General  Assembly's  committee,  or  with 
both,  we  are  not  informed.  But  as  to  any  desirable  information,  through  the 
authorized  channel,  '"of  the  whole  field  under  the  supervision  of  the  Assembly's 
committee,'  we  are  as  uninformed  as  we  could  have  been  at  the  hour  of  the 
Assembly's  adjournment. 

The  following  statistics  wo  gather  from  the  reports  of  the  Presbyteries  which 
compose  this  Synod: 

The  number  of  candidates  reported  by  the  Presbytery  of  Orange  is  4,  Concord 
:].  Fayetteville  8.    Total  15. 

Contributions — 29  Churches  of  Fayetteville  Presbytery,  $2o4  90 

18        "         of  Orange  "  115  00 

22        "         of  Concord  "  269  00 


$638  90 

Resolved,  That  Synod  earnestly  urge  upon  all  our  people,  Churches  and 
Presbyteries,  whether  they  adopt  the  policy  of  conducting  the  work  of  education 
by  the  Executive  Committee  or  the  Presbyterial  plan,  to  take  measures  for  the 
collection  of  an  amount  of  money  commensurate  with  the  importance  of  the 
subject  and  t\iep)'escnt  and  pressing  necessities  of  the  Church;  and  that  in  their 
approaches  to  a  throne  of  Divine  grace,  they  remember  the  injunction  of  the 
Ureat  Head  of  the  Church:  "Pray  ye  the  Lord  of  the  harvest,  that  he  would  send 
forth  more  laborers  into  his  harvest." 

NEILL  McKAY,  Agent. 
ABSTRACT  OF  REPORT  OF  SYNODIC AL  AGENT  OF  PUBLICATION. 

The  Agent  is  at  a  loss  to  know  exactly  what  the  Synod  designs  by  this  ap- 
pointment. He  submits  resolutions,  which  if  passed,  will  define  his  work  and 
guide  him  as  to  the  subjects  to  be  reported  upon. 

No  Colporteurs  or  Book-Agents  have  been  at  work  within  the  bounds  of  this 
Synod  during  the  past  year.  The  whole  amount  foi:  Publication  from  the  Synod 
is  $1153.  This  comes  from  72  Churches;  116  Churches  report  no  collections  for 
Publication. 


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The  PiX'sbytery  of  Fayettcvilli'  have  raised  !f;;j;JO;  '62  Churches  contributing 
ont  of  67.  Rev.  Neill  McDonakl,  Agent  for  this  Presbytery,  received  two  boxes 
or  packages  of  books,  ^:)26  4."»  in  valuf, — no  report  as  to  the  sale  or  circulation  of 
any  of  them. 

The  Presbytory  of  toncord  Iuvvl'  niiswl  !j;49."):  22  Churches  contributing  out 
of  72.  At  the  recommendation  of  Rev.  (i.  1).  Parks,  Agent  for  this  Presbytery, 
A.  T.  Summey  of  Asheville,  was  credited  with  $174  85  worth,  sent  to  him  from 
Richmond:  no  report  as  to  the  sale  or  circulation  of  any  of  them. 

The  Presbytery  of  Orange  have  raisfil  $1328:  18  Churches  contributing  out 
of  49. 

The  Synwlical  Agent  at  considerable  length  discusses  the  importance  of  our 
Publication  Committee  and  its  work, — describes  and  commends  the  books  and 
papers,  argues  the  cheapness  of  the  books  compared  with  those  published  else- 
where, and  presses  active  co-operation  to  secure  and  widely  circulate  its  books 
and  'Children's  Friend,"  in  all  our  Sabbath-schools,  families,  and  wherever  prac- 
ticable. 

The  report  closes  with  an  exhibition  before  the  Synod  of  the  plans  and  pur- 
poses of  the  Committee  of  Publication  as  defined  and  enjoined  by  the  General 
Assembly.  By  way  of  expressing  tlie  feeling  and  purpose  of  this  Synod,  the 
Agent  submitted  the  following  six  resolutions  which  were  passed  with  unanimity 
and  apparent  cordiality. 

1.  Resolved,  &c.  These  resolutions  have  been  already  published  and  will  be 
found  in  the  published  Minutes  of  the  Synod,  and  are  commended  to  the  atten- 
tion and  practical  consideration  of  every  minister,  elder,  deacon  and  member, 
male  and  female,  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  North  Carolina. 

J.  HENRY  SMITH,  Agent. 

Synod  of  North  Carolina,  in  account  loith  D.  A.  Davis,   TrcasW. 
1867. 
Oct.  To  amount  paid  for  printing  Minutes  of  1864,  $56  50 

"  1866,  60  00 

Sept.  28.  By  assessment  on  Orange  Presbytery,  1866,  $60  00 

Oct.  9.       "        "  "  FayetteviUe  Presbytery,  1865,  72  00 

9.        "        "  "  "  "  1866,  60  00 

21.        "        "  "  Concord  "  1866.  GO  00 

30.  To  amount  paid  Rev.  J.  Doll,  balance  due  for  1866,  G  90 

"        "  "  "  services  reported  to  1867,    75  00 

"        "  "  "  stationery,  &c.,  in  part,  1  10 

"  Balance  to  new  account,  52  50 


$252  00  $252  00 

18C7, 
Oct.  30.  By  balance  in  Treasurer's  hands,  $52  50 

"    31.  Ralance  due  Stated  Clerk  $4  38,  as  per  account  rendered. 

REPORT  OF  TRUSTEES  OF  SYNOD. 
Tlie  Trustees  of  Synod  make  the  following  report: 
On  settlement  of  a  committee  of  Court  with  J.  P.  Caldwell,  at  May  Term 


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1848,  it  appears  that,  after  paying  legacies  under  the  will  of  Abraham  Lorantz, 
there  was  due  the  Synod  $131  36;  and  under  an  order  of  Synod,  16th  Oct.  1848, 
we  paid  over  to  the  Synod's  Committee  of  Colportage  $23o  00,  of  which  sum 
$103  04  WHS  from  the  sale  of  the  land  left  as  a  legacy  by  paid  Lorautz  to  the 
Synod  of  North  Carolina. 

On  the  2d  Nov.  ISOO,  we  made  a  special  report,  showing  every  note,  with 
date  and  amount  for  -which  the  land  was  sold,  so  that  all  might  be  known  satis- 
factorily.   We  here  set  the  same  in  full,  with  interest  up  to  the  22d  Aug.  1807: 

One  note  on  James  Stephenson,  due  August  22d,  1849,         $108  00 

Interest  to  22d  of  same,  1867, 

Note,  22d  August  1850, 

Interest  to  22d  August  1867, 

Note,  22d  August  1851, 

Interest  to  22d  August  1867, 

Note,  22d  August  1852, 

Interest  to  22d  August  1867, 

Note,  22d  August  1853, 

Interest  to  22d  August  1867, 

Note,  James  Lyon  and  others,  due  August  22d,  1850, 

Interest  to  "  "     1867, 

Note  on  same,  due      "  "     1851, 

Interest  to  "  "    1867, 

Note  on  same,  due       '  "     1852, 

Interest  to  "  "     1867, 

Note  on  same,  due      "  "     1853, 

Interest  to  ....     jgg--^ 

^Vhole  amount,  with  simple  interest  to  this  time,        $1548  40 
We  have  on  hand  the  following  notes  to  settle  the  above  statement : 
Due  from  Trustees  of  Concord  Female  College — 

One  note,  with  interest  to  22d  August  1867,  $292  90 

One  note,         "  "         " 

One  note,         "  "         " 

One  note,         "'  '         " 

One  note  on  J.  Stephenson,  "         " 

One  note  "  "         " 

One  note  on  James  Lyon,    •'         " 

One  note  " 

$1600  31 
To  which  ought  to  be  added  the  $103  64  loaned  to  the  Syn- 
od's Committee  on  Colportage,  with  interest,  $11  87,  221  70 


116  04 

119  84 

122  23 

126  20 

121  20 

132  08 

119  41 

139  10 

116  04 

39  10 

39  80 

41  30 

39  04 

43  40 

39  36 

45  50 

38  22 

463 

45 

441 

01 

129  50 

166  93 

25 

08 

82  26 

38 

32 

Making  altogether  1882  07 

This  gives  an  increase  of  $333  07  more  than  the  simple  interest. 
We  further  state  that  the  $102  90,  reported  Oct.  9th,  1851,  was  from  the  sale 
of  the  laud,  and  was  at  the  disposal  of  the  Synod  at  any  time,  and  on  which 
interest  has  been  counted  all  the  time.     We  also  paid  John  Davidson,  for  sur- 
■veying  the  land,  $2  in  1849. 


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We  lurtlitT  stall-  tbai  iioic!;  do  not  go  out  of  dale.  Presumplioa  ot  payniLiit 
arieos  after  ten  years.  On  noce  of  the  notes  on  hand  can  presumption  of  pay- 
ment bo  pleaded. 

The  individual  notes  we  think  are  good  and  can  be  collected,  but  the  unsettled 

state  of  the  country  is  such  that  it  is  hard  to  say  who  are  good  and  who  are  not.  The 

amount  duo  from  the  Trustees  of  t'ollege  !.-;,  to  say  the  least,  in  a  very  precarious 

situation.     Respectfully  submitted.  THOS.  A.  ALLISONJ  rr      . 

WILL.  F.  COWAN,   i  Trustees. 

Union  Theological  Seminauy,  Va.,  May  1G,  18G7. 

The  Directors  of  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  Virginia,  respectfully 
present  to  the  General  Assembly,  and  to  the  Synods  of  North  Carolina  and  Vir- 
ginia, this  their  Annual  Report. 

From  the  Report  of  the  Faculty  of  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  to  the 
Board  of  Directors  it  appears  that  the  following  old  students  have  been  in  at- 
tendance during  the  Session  of  1860-7,  viz:  W^m.  L.  Bailey,  Edward  IL  Barnett, 
Brice  B.  Blair,  Geo.  W.  Finley,  John  K.  llitner,  Math.  H.  Houston,  Edward 
Lane,  Geo.  L.  Leyburn,  S.  Taylor  Martin,  G.  Nash  Morton,  W^m.  TJ.  Murkland, 
Robert  H.  Nail  and  Wm.  IL  IL  W'infree— 13. 

2d.  The  following  new  students  have  been  matriculated  during  the  session: 

Sept.  10th.  Alexander  Cowan,  member  of  Shelbyville  Church,  Tennessee, 
graduate  of  JeflSerson  College,  Pennsylvania,  and  student  of  Western  Theological 
Seminary,  Pennsylvania. 

Lauchlin  Washington  Currie,  member  of  Carthage  Church,  and  candidate  ot 
Fayetteville  Presbytery. 

Wm.  Ezekiel  Hill,  member  of  Newcastle  Church  in  Montgomery  Presbytery, 
and  graduate  of  the  Virginia  Military  Institute. 

Henry  Ruffner  Laird,  member  of  Monmouth  Church,  Lexington  Presbytery, 
and  student  of  Washington  College,  Virginia. 

Wm.  Johnston  Lapsley,  graduate  of  Centre  College,  Kentucky,  student  of 
Danville  Seminary,  and  licentiate  of  Transylvania  Presbytery. 

Washington  Cosby  Shane,  member  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  Covington, 
Kentucky. 

Sept.  15th.  Francis  Marion  Woods,  member  of  the  North  Church,  Chicago, 
graduate  of  Washington  College,  Pennsylvania,  and  licentiate  of  Chicago  Pres- 
bytery. 

Josiah  Morrison  Smith,  member  of  College  Church,  Virginia,  and  graduate 
ot  Hampden  Sidney  College. 

Thomas  Edwards  Converse,  member  (in  transitu)  of  Tenth  Presbyterian 
Church,  Philadelphia,  and  graduate  of  Princeton  College,  N.  J. 

James  Booth  Converse,  member  (in  triumtu)  of  Logan  Square  Presbyterian 
Church,  Pliiladelphia,  and  graduate  of  Princeton  College,  N.  J. 

Sept.  18th.  W^m.  Dennis  Morton,  member  of  College  Church,  West  Hanover, 
Virginia,  and  student  of  Hampden  Sidney  College. 

Archibald  McFadyen,  member  of  Big  Rockfish  Church,  candidate  of  Fayette- 
ville Presbytery,  North  Carolina,  and  graduate  of  Chapel  Hill,  N.  C. 

Harvey  Glass,  member  of  Big  Spring  Church,  Kentucky,  graduate  of  Centre 
College,  Kentucky,  and  candidate  of  Louisville  Presbytery. 


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Ben.  Helm,  member  of  the  Church  of  EHzabethtown,  Kentucky,  Louisville 
Presbytery,  and  graduate  of  Centre  College,  Kentucky. — 14. 

The  total  number  of  students  during  the  session  is  27. 

3d.  All  the  appointed  exercises  have  been  conducted  regularly  during  the 
session,  without  interruption  from  the  sickness  of  professors.  The  health  of  the 
students  has  also  been  generally  good,  and  none  have  been  driven  from  their 
studies  by  sickness.  Mr.  Currie,  after  several  months'  experiment,  finding  his 
literary  preparation  inadequate  to  keeping  up  with  the  studies  of  his  class,  left 
the  Seminary  by  tlie  advice  of  the  professors,  with  a  view  of  resuming  his  Col 
lege  course  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina.  Messrs.  Bailey  and  Lapsley, 
being  licensed,  liave  recently  left  to  enter  upon  the  work  of  the  Ministry. 

The  Faculty  are  happy  to  renew  the  pleasing  report  of  last  year,  as  to  the 
deportment  and  industry  of  the  students.  Their  general  conduct  in  this  respect 
has  left  nothing  to  be  desired. 

The  Faculty  are  also  able  to  report,  that  through  the  divine  blessing,  and  the 
liberality  of  christians  in  Virginia,  and  other  sections  of  the  Church,  all  the  stu- 
dents who  needed  assistance  have  been  aided  to  such  extent  as  to  enable  them 
to  continue  their  studies. 

The  members  of  the  Faculty  remain  and  occupy  the  chairs  of  instruction  as 
last  year,  viz: 

Kev.  Samuel  B.  Wilson,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Pastoral  Theology  and  Evidences. 

Rev.  Robert  L.  Dabney,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Theology  and  Sacred  Rhetoric. 

Rev.  B.  M.  Smith,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Oriental  Literature. 

Rev.  Thomas  E.  Peck,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Ecclesiastical  History  and  Polity. 

From  the  report  of  the  Committee  of  Examinations  of  the  exercises  held  on. 
the  Thursday,  Friday  and  Saturday  previous  to  the  annual  meeting  of  the- 
Board,  it  appears  that  the  professors  have  been,  for  the  year  past,  both  faithful 
and  successful  in  imparting  instruction,  both  general  and  minute;  and  that  the 
students  have  been  diligent  in  their  attention  to  their  required  studies. 

On  the  recommendation  of  the  Committee  and  Faculty,  the  certificate  of  the 
Board  testifying  to  their  having  completed  the  full  course  of  study  with  dili- 
gence and  propriety,  was  awarded  to  the  following  six  candidates,  viz:  Edward 
H.  Barnett,  Virginia;  Brice  B.  Blair,  Pennsylvania;  John  K.  Hitner,  Virginia; 
(ieorge  L.  Leyburn,  Virginia;  S.  Taylor  Martin,  Virginia,  and  F.  M.  Woods, 
Missouri;  and  was  conferred  upon  each  publicly  in  the  Chapel. 

The  Treasurer  reports  favorably  on  the  financial  concerns  of  the 
Seminary.    The  investments  in  States  Stocks  amount  to  $103,547  51 

On  $8200  the  interest  is  suspended. 

In  individual  Bonds,  30,300  00  • 


$132,847  51 
A  more  extended  report  is  annexed  for  the  use  of  the  Assembly  and  Synods. 
(See  paper  marked  A.) 

The  Clerks  of  Synods  will  furnish  them  with  a  list  of  Directors  and  Electors, 
whose  term  of  service  expires  in  the  Fall  of  1867.  Members  of  the  Synod  of 
Virginia  in  attendance  on  this  meeting  of  the  Board  were:  Rev.  Messrs.  Wm.  H. 
Foote,  D.D.,  Wm.  Brown,  D.D.,  Henry  C.  Alexander,  and  Elders  A.  G.  Mcllwaine 
and  C.  C.  Read.    Absent:  Rev.  Messrs.  Wm.  S.  White,  D.D.,  J.  H.  Fitzgerald,  J 


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C.  Barr,  S.  D.  Stuart.  Charles  Head.  D.D.,  and  Elders  Joseph  Cloyd  and  J.  Han 
dolpli  Tucker. 

01"  the  Synod  of  North  Carolina  were  present:  Kev.  Messrs.  J.  M.  Atkinson, 
J.  Rumple  and  F.  H.  Johnston.  Absent:  Rev.  Messrs.  S.  A.  Stanfield.  J.  H. 
Smitli,  T.  U.  Faucette,  J.  M.  Sherwood,  George  A.  Russell,  and  EldersM.  V. 
Lanier.  J.  (J.  Shepherd,  E.  Nye  Hutchison  and  N.  M.  Roan. 

The  Boai-d  also  report^s  that,  according  to  the  directions  of  Synods,  the  charter 
lately  obtained  iMoving  satisfactory,  the  Trustees  were  organized  on  Tuesday 
14tL  of  May,  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  charter.    The  proper  officers 
were  chosen,  and  the  property  and  papers  in  connection  with  the  Union  Theo 
logical  Seminary,  under  the  can-  of  the  Synods  of  Virginia  and  North  Carolina, 
were  duly  transferred  to  the  corporators.     Henceforth  the  Board  have  corporate^ 
powers.     A  copy  of  the  charter  is  also  appended  herewith,  and  the  names  of  the 
officers  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.    (Papers  B.  and  C.) 
A  true  copy. 
(Signed,)  C.  C.  READ,  Secretary  of  Board  of  Directors. 

R.  L.  DABNEY,  Assistant  Secretary. 
The  following  papers  accompany  the  Report  of  the  Board  of  Directors  as 
therein  mentioned,  to-wlt: 

A. KIXAXCIAL. 

After  deducting  losses  by  the  war,  the  Treasurer  estimates  available  invest- 
ments as  follows: 

Of  Virginia  Registered  Debt,  $105,495  00 

Of  North  Carolina  Bonds,  (interest  suspended,)  8  200  00 

$113,695  00 
From  which  must  be  deducted  certain  Scholarships,  Library  Fund, 

and  other  balances  held  in  trust  for  specific  purposes,  11,147  49 

State  securities  of  permanent  fund  invested,  $103  547  51 

($8,200  being  suspended  as  above.) 

To  this  may  be  added  Bonds  for  the  McCormick  Professorship,  and 

other  Bonds,  '  o^  oqq  ^(^ 

Amounting  to  $132~8471il 

SCHOLAKSIIIP.S. 

Complete— 1st.  West  Hanover.  3d.  Second  ditto.  3d.  Devereux.  4tli.  Win- 
chester, each  $3500. 

Incomplete,  to-wit:  5th.  Third  West  Hanover,  $994  57.  Gth.  Lacy,  $584  54. 
7th.  Ladies',  $3,128  0.5.  8th.  Winchester,  $440  33.  9th.  Oliphant,  complete, 
but  not  all  invested,  $3000.  10th.  Wm.  J.  Hoge,  $1250.  11th.  J.  W.  Alexander', 
$800.    13th.  VanDyke,  $100. 

A  portion  of  the  scholarships  lost  by  the  result  of  the  war  are  not  reported. 
But  one  other,  the  Hart,  is  temporarily  suspended  and  will  probably  be  available. 

The  Legislature  of  Virginia  has  made  provision  for  the  payment  of  six  per 
cent,  on  so  much  of  her  securities  as  are  held  by  seminaries  of  learning.  It  is 
hoped  tliat  so  laudable  an  example  will  be  followed  by  her  sister,  North  Carolina. 


•A2 

1!. THE  CHAKTEK. 

I.  "Be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly,  that  the  act  passed  on  the  sixth 
day  of  March,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-eight,  entitled  an  act  to  amend  an  act 
entitled  an  act  for  the  incorporation  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  passed 
December  twentieth,  eighteen  hundred  and  fifty-five,  be  amended  and  re-enacted 
Bo  as  to  read  as  follows: 

"1st.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  (ieneral  Assembly,  that  Wni.  S.  White,  William 
Brown,  William  H.  Foote,  J.  H.  Fitzgerald,  J.  C.  Barr,  S.  D.  Stuart,  Charlt-^  H. 
Read,  H.  €.  Alexander,  C.  C.  Head,  A.  (t.  Mcllwaino.  Joseph  Cloyd,  J.  Kaudolph 
Tucker,  S.  A.  Stanfield,  Jetlno  Rumple,  M.  V.  Lanier,  F.  II.  Johnston,  Joseph 
M.  Atkinson,  J.  (J.  Shepherd,  J.  H.  Smith,  J.  M.  Sherwood,  E.  Nye  Hutchison, 
T.  U.  Faucetto,  (i.  A.  Russell,  N.  M.  Roan  and  their  successors  be,  and  they  are 
hereby  appointed  a  body  politic  and  corporate,  by  the  name  and  style  of  The 
Trustees  of  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  Virginia;  and  by  that  name  shall  have 
a  perpetual  succession  and  common  seal;  may  contract  and  be  contracted  vith: 
sue  and  be  sued;  may  acquire,  receive,  hold,  possess  and  enjoy,  and  may  rent. 
Bell,  convey,  invest  and  otherwise  manage  or  dispose  of,  as  to  them  may  seem 
most  conducive  to  the  interest  of  said  Seminary,  all  lands,  money  or  other  pro- 
perty, real  or  personal,  which  may  have  been,  or  which  may  be  given,  or  other- 
wise acquired  for  the  use  of  said  Seminary;  and  the  said  Trustees  and  their  suc- 
cessors shall  hold  office  as  trustees  no  longer  than  they  remain  in  office  &» 
directors,  or  till  their  successors  enter  upon  the  discharge  of  their  duties  as 
trustees;  provided  that  the  sum  of  money  so  acquired  shall  not  exceed  five 
hundreil  thousand  dollars:  and  provided  that  the  amount  of  land  held  by  them 
shall  not  exceed  two  hundred  acres. 

"2d.  The  said  trustees  and  their  successors,  as  a  board,  shall  have  power  to  fill 
vacancies  in  their  own  body — the  i>ersons  elected  to  fill  such  vacancies  to  be 
chosen  from  the  directors  appointed  under  the  plan  and  constitution  of  said 
Seminary;  to  appoint  a  treasurer,  secretary,  professors  and  such  other  officers  as 
they  may  deem  best;  they  may,  for  cause  deemed  good  by  a  majority  of  the 
Trustees  for  the  time  being,  remove  from  office  any  professor,  teacher,  trustees  or 
other  officers  of  said  Seminary;  and  shall  have  |K)wer  from  time  to  time,  to  make 
and  establish  by-laws,  rules  and  regulations  for  the  management  of  the  institu- 
tion, not  inconsistent  with  the  constitution  and  laws  of  Virginia. 

"3d.  The  treasurer,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  shall  execute 
bond,  to  be  approved  by  the  trustees  or  by  some  one  appointed  by  them,  in  such 
penalty  as  the  trustees  shall  direct,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  performance  of 
the  duties  of  his  office;  and  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  trustees  to  obtain  judgment 
for  any  part  thereof,  or  for  any  special  delinquency  incurred  by  the  treasurer,  on 
motion,  in  the  circuit  court  of  Prince  Edward  County,  against  the  treasurer  and 
his  securities,  upon  giving  the  parties  thirty  days'  notice  of  said  motion. 

"4th.  Seven  trustees  shall  be  requisite  to  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  trans- 
action of  business;  but  it  shall  require  a  majority  of  all  the  trustees  to  constitute 
a  quorum  for  the  sale  or  mortgage  of  real  estate,  or  the  election  of  a  professor  or 
other  officer,  or  for  the  removal  of  an  officer  or  professor. 

"5th.  This  act  shall  take  eflFect  fi-om  its  passage,  and  shall  be  subject  to  amend- 
ment, modification  or  repeal,  at  the  pleasure  of  the  General  Assembly.'  ' 


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('. — THE    COHPOKATIOX. 
In  i)ursuance  of  the  act  of  incorporation,  (paper  B,)  the  Board  was  organized 
on  tlie  14»h  of  May  1807,  ae  "The  Trustees  of  Union  Theological  Seminary  in 
Virginia";  such  being  the  legal  title  of  the  corporation.    ItB  officers  are  as  fol- 
lows, to-wit: 

Rev.  S.  A.  Stanfield,  of  North  Carolina,  President. 
Rev.  Wm.  H.  Foote,  D.D.,  of  Virginia,  1st  Vice  President. 
A.  O.  Mcllwaine,  Esq.,  of  Virginia,  2d  Vice  President. 
F.  N.  Watkins,  Farmville,  Virginia,  Treasurer. 
C.  C.  Read,  ditto.  Secretary. 

Rev.  R.  L.  Dabney,  D.D.,  Hampden  Sidney,  Assistant  Secretary. 
Correspondence  in  relation  to  the  Seminary  (other  than  the  Treasury)  should 
be  with  the  Rev.  R.  L.  Dabney,  D.D.,  Corresponding  Secretary,  Hampden  Sidney 
P.  0.,  Va.     In  regard  to  Finance,  with  F.  N.  Watkins,  Esq.,  Farmville,  Va.    The 
Post  Office  address  of  Faculty  and  Students  is  Hampden  Sidney,  Va. 

The  annua  meetings  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  will  hereafter  take  place  on 
the  Tuesday  after  the  second  Monday  of  May  in.  each  year,  at  4  P.  M. 

Stated  Clerks  of  the  Synods  are  requested  to  furnish  to  Dr.  Dabney,  on  their 
adjournment,  the  names  and  post  office  address  of  each  Director  and  Elector, 
noting  changes;  and  also  official  copies  of  all  orders  in  regard  to  the  Seminary. 
True  copy.  Signed. 

C.  C.  READ,  Secretary  of  the  Board. 
R.  L.  DABNEY,  Assistant  Secretary. 


]Mo<leratoi*s  oF  the  Synod  ol*  IVoi-th  Carolina. 

MODKK.\TORS.  PLACE  OF  MEETINC:. 

181o.  Rev.  Robert  H.  Chapman Alamance  Church. 

1814.  Rev.  Samuel  C.  Caldwell Thyatira  Church. 

ISlo.  Rev.  William  McPheeters Fayetteville. 

1816.  Rev.  John  Robinson Raleigh. 

1817.  No  meeting — no  quorum  present.  Rocky  River. 

1818.  Rev.  Joseph  Caldwell,  D.D Fayetteville. 

1819.  Rev.  Jonathan  Otis  Freeman,  M.D Raleigh. 

1820.  Rev.  William  Paisley Poplar  Tent. 

1821.  Rev.  John  M.  Wilson Salisbury. 

1822.  Rev.  John  Robinson Hillsboro'. 

182:1  Rev.  John  Witherspoon Fayetteville. 

1824.  Rev.  Colin  Mclver Statesville. 

1825.  Rev.  John  B.  Davis Greensboro'. 

1826.  Rev.  William  McPheeters,  D.D Fayetteville. 

1827.  The  Stated  Clerk  has  no  record  of  this  and  two  succeeding  meetings. 

1828.  Rev.  Lemuel  D.  Hatch Raleigh. 

1829.  Rev.  John  Williamson. Fayetteville. 

1830.  Rev.  Samuel  Graham Hoi)ewell. 

1831.  Rev.  Hiram  P.  Goodrich HilLsboro'. 

1832.  Rev.  Samuel  William.son Salisbury. 

1833.  Rev.  Henry  A.  Rowland Wilmington. 

1834.  Rev.  James  W.  Douglass Oxford. 

1835.  Rev.  Henry  N.  Pharr Salisbury. 

1836.  Rev.  Joseph  Brown Favetteville. 

ia37.  Rev.  N.  H.  Harding Shiloh  Church. 

1838.  Rev.  Stephen  Frontis Third  Creek  ChurcL. 

1839.  Rev.  Daniel  A.  Penick Lincolnton. 

1840.  Rev.  Alexander  Wilson,  D.D Danville,  Va. 

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1841.  Kev.  William  N.  Peacock Fayetteville. 

1842.  Rev.  Walter  S.  Pliarr Poplar  Tent. 

1843.  Kev.  James  Phillips Raleigh. 

1844.  Rev.  Simeon  Col  ton Fayetteville. 

184.'5.  Rev.  Samuel  Williamson Charlotte. 

1846.  Rev.  Drury  Lacy Greensboro". 

1847.  Rev.  Evander  McNair Fayetteville. 

1848.  Rev.  (Jyrus  Johnston Salisburj-. 

1849.  Rev.  John  A.  Gretter Hillsboro'. 

1850.  Rev.  Adam  Gilchrist Centre. 

18'51.  Rev.  Archibald  Baker Rocky  River. 

1852.  Rev.  William  N.  Mebane Danville,  Va. 

1853.  Rev.  Hector  McLean Wilmington. 

1854.  Rev.  A.  L.  Watts Concord. 

1855.  Rev.  Eli  W.  Caruthers,  D.D Greensboro'. 

185G.  Rev.  Neill  McKay Fayetteville. 

1857.  Rev.  Walter  W.  Pharr Charlotte. 

1858.  Rev.  Jacob  Doll N(!wbern. 

1859.  Rev.  F.  K.  Nash Wilmington. 

1860.  Rev.  H.  H.  Lafferty Statesville. 

1861.  Rev.  Edward  Hines Raleigh. 

1862.  Rev.  John  M.  Sherwood Goldsboro'. 

1863.  Rev.  R.  N.  Davis Salisbury. 

1864.  Rev.  A.  G.  Hughes Greensboro'. 

18G5.  Rev.  Colin  Shaw Fayetteville. 

1866.  Rev.  R.  Hett  Chapman,  D.D Charlotte. 

1867.  Rev.  Archibald  Currie  Newbern. 

Stated  Clevliss!  o±*  tlie  Synod  ot*  lVoi*tli  Carolina. 

1813.  Rev.  Robert  H.  Chapman.  1855.  Rev.  Archibald  Baker. 

1818.  Rev.  Colin  Mclver.  185'J.  Rev.  Jacob  Doll. 

1849.  Rev.  Drury  Lacy. 

XJiiioii  Theological  Seiiiiiiai*y. 

MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD  IN  NORTH  CAROLINA. 

KIKST  CLASS  TO  SEUVE  FOUll  YE.VRS.  SECOND  (LASS  TO  SEKVE  TUIJEE  YEARS. 

Rev.  Jas.  P.  McPhersou.  Rev.  S.  A.  Stanfield. 

Rev.  Edward  Hines.  Rev.  J.  Rumple. 

Dr.  N.  M.  Roan,  Ruling-Elder.  Mr.  M.  V.  Lanier,  Ruling-Elder. 
To  go  out  in  1871.  To  go  out  in  1870. 

THIlir)  CLASS  TO  SKKVK  TWO  YEAIJ;?.  FOUUTII  CLASS  TO  SERVE  ONE  YEAR. 

Rev.  F.  H.  Johnston.  Rev.  J.  H.  Smith. 

Rev.  Jos.  M.  Atkinson.  Rev.  J.  M.  Sherwood. 

Hon.  J.  G.  Shepherd,  Ruling-Elder.  Dr.  E.  Nye  Hutchison,  Ruling-Elder. 
To  go  out  in  186!).  To  go  out  in  1868. 

Eleetoi'S  in  IVox'tli  Cai'oliiia. 

MINISTEltS.  RLLING-ELDEKS. 

Rev.  Jacob  Doll.  Hon.  J.  G.  Shepherd. 

Rev.  P.  H.  Dalton.  Mr.  C.  H.  Wiley. 

Rev.  D.  A.  Penick,  Sen.  J.  G.  Ramsay,  M.D. 

Rev.  Geo.  M.  Gibbs.  R.  L.  Beall,  M.D. 

Rev.  William  W.  Pharr.  Prof.  M.  D.  Johnston. 

Mr.  William  B.  Carter. 

•    Ti'iisstees  o±*  tlic  Synod  of*  Nortli  Carolina. 

Col.  Thomas  A.  Allison Statesville,  N.  C. 

Mr.  D.  A.  Davis Salisbury,  N.  C. 

Mr.  William  F.  Cowan Snow  Creek,  N.  C. 

Mr.  Jesse  H.  Lindsay Greensboro',  N.  C. 

Agreats  of  Synod. 

Rev.  R.  Z.  Johnston,  Agent  of  Foreign  Missions. 

Rev.  J.  M.  Sherwood,  Agent  of  Domestic  Missions  and  Sustentation. 

Rev.  Neill  McKay,  Agent  of  Education. 

Rev.  J.  H.  Smith,  Agent  of  Publication  and  Colportage. 


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A.  ILiitsit  of*  Hitliii«>;--]i]l<lci*K  siikI  Dcaooius 

IN    THE    SYNOD    OF    NORTH    CAUOLINA. 


PKESBVTERY  OF  ORANGE. 

CHtmCHES.  I{ri,TN(i-KI,UKHS   AND    I)KA(()NS.  I'OST  OFFFCK. 

Qraasy  Creek R.  E. — Dr.  John  R.  Hicks Henderson,  N.  C. 

Alexander  Cooper Oxford. 

Thomas  Shotwcll Sassafras  Fork. 

Oxford R.  E. — Sam  1  L.  Veuable Yancey ville. 

M.  V.  Lanier Oxford. 

J.  C.  Cooper do. 

Thomas  M.  Lynch do. 

Daniel  Osborne do. 

T.  Brown  Venable do. 

D. — Anderson  Crutcher do. 

Hawfields R.  E. — Stejthen  White Mebaneville. 

Henderson  Scott do. 

Ueorge  W.  White do. 

(George  A.  Allen do. 

R.W.Wilson do. 

Joseph  Tate do. 

Dr.  B.  F.  Mebane do. 

D. — Wm.  C.  Johnston do. 

Jeremiah  Bason do. 

Thomas  B.  Thompson.  .  .         do. 

William  J.  Kerr do. 

John  W.  Bason do. 

Stephen  A.  White do. 

Cross  Roads R.  E. — William  J.  Murray Big  Falls. 

John  Walker Pleasant  Grove. 

J.G.Tate do. 

Andrew  Murray,  Sen. . .  .  do. 

Dr.  B.  B.  Walker Mebaneville. 

William  B.  Lynch do. 

E.  C.  Forest Locust  Hill. 

Milton R.  E.— N.  M.  Lewis Milton. 

John  Wilson do. 

Samuel  Watkins do. 

Benjamin  Hines do. 

Dr.  Wm.  L.  Stamps do. 

Red  House R.  E. — John  P.  Rainey,  Sen Milton. 

Richard  L  Smith do. 

John  P.  Rainey do. 

D.— W.  W.  Taylor do. 

Joseph  N.  McCain do. 

Grier's R.  E. — Robert  Walton Leasburg. 

Eno R.  E.— Samuel  W.  Hughes Hillsboro'. 

Thomas  H.  Hughes do. 

John  Baine do. 

Little  River R.  E. — Isaac  Laws Caldwell. 

Samuel  H.  Jordan do. 

W.  R.  Hughes,  M.D do. 

W.  D.  Woods Hillsboro'. 

John  L.  Woods do. 

Hugh  Woods do. 

Robert  Redding do. 

N.  P.  Hall do. 

D. — James  Allison Caldwell. 

John  Wilkerson do. 

L.W.Hall do. 

T.J.  Hall do. 

John  W.Hall do. 

Joseph  C.  Allison do. 

Thomas  Wilson Hillsboro'. 


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CHURCHES.  RULING-ELDERS  AND  DEACONS.  POST  OFFICK. 

Buffalo R.  E.— David  WTiarton Greensboro'. 

Harper  Donnell do. 

George  A.  Denny do. 

John  C.  Cannon do. 

Samuel  II.  Denny McLeausville. 

Thomas  B.  Donnell do. 

,  D. — Robert  C.  Caldwell Greensboro'. 

Samuel  D.  McLean do. 

Wm.  D.  Wharton do. 

Daniel  E.  Albright do. 

Daniel  D.  Gillespie do. 

Bethel R.  E.— Eli(*lm  Wharton McLeausville. 

Elijah  Denny do. 

Thomas  Rankin do. 

Dr.  J.  A.  McLean do. 

George  W.  Wharton. . . .  do. 

Thomas  A.  (iray do. 

Robert  Wilson do. 

D. — John  Wharton Gibsonville. 

W.R.Smith do. 

John  C.  Rankin do. 

Robert  C.  Rankin do. 

Stanford  Woodyard do. 

Willis  Sikes do. 

Rufus  W.  Smith do. 

Nutbush R.  E. — Victor  M.  Eppes Townsville. 

Henry  T.  Watkins Hendersonville. 

William  C.  Bullock Sassafras  Fork. 

Dr.  Wm.  R.  Wilson Townsville. 

Richard  A.  Bullock Williamsboro'. 

Bethesda R.  E. — Joshua  Butler Locust  Hill. 

Stephen  Neal do. 

A.  S.  Williamson do. 

Dr.  John  L,  Williamson.  do. 

Dr.  Robert  H.  Scales Lenox  Castle. 

Robert  B.  Watt Lawsonville. 

William  P.  Watt do. 

Robert  A.  Montgomery.  .Reidsville. 

Yanceyville R.  E. — Dr.  N.  M.  Roan Yanceyville. 

Alamance R.  E. — James  Paisley McLeansville. 

Samuel  Rankin do. 

Finley  Shaw Shaw's  Store. 

J.  Wesley  McMurray. . .  .Greensboro'. 

Col.  John  A.  Pritchett.  .  .  do. 

Joseph  W.  Gilmer Gilmer's  Store. 

D. — David  Whitt Gilmer's  Store. 

James  Thom do. 

•         Col.  David  Stewart do. 

John  Donnell Greensboro', 

Allen  Scott do. 

Bethlehem R.  E.— William  P.  Morrow Oaks. 

John  Morrow do. 

William  Smith do. 

D. — William  Bingham Mebaneville, 

Stony  Creek R.  E. — Thomas  Moore Morton's  Store. 

John  W.  Wilson McCray's  Store. 

John  H.  Wilson do. 

A.  G.  Hughes Big  Falls. 

Freeman  Leath Union  Ridge. 

Washington R.  E. — Joseph  Potts Washington. 

S.R.Fowle do. 

Thomas  Sparrow do. 

Horeb R.  E.— William  H.  Jones Knap  of  Reeds. 

Benjamin  H.  Cogart Tally  To. 


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cnuRcuES. 
New  Hope. . , 


R&Ieigb . . . 

Newbern.. , 
Geneva. . . . 

Hillsboro'. . 
Fairfield. . . 

Greensboro' 


Louisburff.. 
Shiloh 


Oak  Hill. . . 
Pittsboro'.  .  , 

Haywood. . . 
Chapel  Hill. 


Asheboro'. 


RULIKfi-ELDEKS  AND  DEACONS.  I'OST  OFFICE 

. .  .K.  E.— D.  Craig Hillsboro'. 

A.  Dickson ^q 

B.  Stray  horn do 

W  Blackwood Chapel' Hill. 

5s.  C5.  Clayton do 

W.  S.  Kirkland jo' 

G.  R.  Long (JqI 

D. — J.  Kirkland do.' 

W.  J.  Kirkland do 

R  P     n/^'"\f Hillsboro'. 

.  .  .K.  E.— Charles  Dewey Raleigh. 

Jesse  Brown do 

James  M.  Towles do 

Richard  N.  Taylor do 

Prof.  W.  C.  Kerr do' 

D.— L.  E.  Heartt do 

C.D.Hill ;;;    do! 

. .  .R.  E. — Charles  Slover Newbern 

George  Allen do. 

.  .R.  E.— William  Clement Oxford 

S.VV.  Smith do     ■ 

W.  T.  Allen .' ." .'     do.' 

S.  D.  Ferrill Tally  Ho 

.  .R.  E.-Dennis  Heartt Hillsboro'. 

John  W.  Norwood do 

Thomas  Webb do 

D.— John  A.  Turrentine.  ..  ..         do         ' 
Calvin  E.  Parish do 

•  •^-  E.-John  N.  Clark Hillsboro'. 

James  W.  Riley do. 

Joseph  Faucette do. 

John  Wilkinson do. 

George  A.  Faucette ]         do' 

D.— Samuel  Wilkinson do 

Ishmael  Carden do' 

.  .R.  E.-Ralph  Gorrell '.Greensboro-. 

JfseH  Lindsay do. 

W.W..  Wharton do 

John  C.  Wharton do 

Richard  Sterling do 

D.— James  Sloan ' ."         do 

A.  Weatherly do! 

R.  G.  Lindsay do 

Robert  P.  Dick .'. '.         do' 

Wm.  A.  Caldwell do 

Charles  G.Yates do 

■  R.  E.-James  Wilson Louisburg. 

•  R.  E.-James  B.  Daniel Sassafras  Fork. 

J.J.  Speed do 

John  Amis a^' 

A.  W.  Venable ;;;;:  do! 

R.  H.  Graves An 

N.  V.  Watkins .■.;■.  do." 

James  Amis Oxford 

•  R.  E.— John  Baird Roxboro' 

•  R.  E.-John  A.  Womack Pittsboro'. 

George  Thompson..  do 

'  r'  F~wmV'"'^  ^/xf"^ Haywood. 

■  D~H         °A"^a^?^"^'° N°  P-  <^-  reported. 

D.— Henry  C.  1  hompson Chapel  Hill. 

Franklm  A.  Davies do 

•  R.  E.-Robert  McCadden New  Salem. 

^"g|i  McCain Asheboro'. 

David  W.  Porter do. 


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CHURCHES 

Graham 


Madison. . . . 

Wentwortli . 
Leaksville.. 


Roxboro' 

Lexinfftou.. . . 


Higli  Point. 


Winston 

Oakland 

Long's  Mills.. .  . 

Milburnie 

No  Report  from 
Warrenton. 


CHURCHES. 

Asheville.. . . 


Back  Creek.. 


Bethany. . 
Bethel. . . 


Betlilehem. 


RULINO-EI.DKRS   AXD   DEACONS.  POST  OFFICE. 

. . .  .R.  E.— Robert  Hanuer Graham. 

Thomas  McLean do. 

Thomas  M.  Holt Haw  River. 

R.  E.— W.  R.  D.  Lindsay Madison. 

T.  D.  Rosebrough do. 

William  B.  Carter do. 

D.— John  I).  Watkins do. 

A.  M.  Searcy do. 

Nicholas  Dalton do. 

J.  M.  Cox Reidsville. 

.  .  .  .R.  E. — James  Irvin Reidsville. 

Dr.  Jesse  Carter Wentwortli. 

D.—Thomas  A.  Ratliff do. 

. . .  .R.  E.— Hugh  Willis Leaksville. 

William  S.  Kankin do. 

George  W.  Martin do. 

Nat.  S.  Smith do. 

D. — George  Peay do. 

Samuel  Smith Ridgeway,  Va. 

. .  .  .R.  E. — Hon.  Edwin  G.  Reade. .  .Roxboro'. 
R.  E. — Joseph  Conrad Lexington. 

Robert  Foster do. 

Alfred  Hargrave do. 

Dr.  Robert  I,.  Payne do. 

D. — Andrew  Hunt do. 

H.  C.  Hege do. 

J.  H.  Mabry do. 

R.  E.— Eli  Denny High  Point. 

Malcom  Shaw Trinity  College. 

Robert  E.  Blair do. 

K.  E. — Thomas  J.  Wilson Winston. 

H.  D.  Lott Salem. 

K.  E.— John  W.  Hodges Clayton. 

R.  E. — William  Long Long's  Mills. 

R.  E. — Richard  Seawell Raleigh. 

Mount  Airy,  Speedwell,  Snow  Creek,  Murfreesbor(«'.  and 

PRESBYTERY  OF  CONCORD. 

RUIJNG-ELDERS  A>rD  DEACONS.  TOST  OFFICE. 

R.E.— A.  T.  Summey Asheville. 

S.  (i.Kerr do. 

D.  F.  Summey do. 

Wm.  M.  Cocke do. 

R.  E.— William  King Amity  Hill. 

D.  H.  Patterson Mount  Ulla. 

Moses  Lingle do. 

J.  F.  Goodman do. 

J.  T.  Stewart Miranda. 

D._j.  W.  McNeely Mount  Ulla. 

J.  F.  Clodfelter do. 

R.  E.— William  F.  Cowan Statesville. 

Rufus  W.  Gibson do. 

Andrew  Gray Bethany  Church. 

R.  E.— D.  A.  Caldwell Davidson  College. 

William  Patterson do. 

A.  Jetton do. 

Robert  Knox do. 

D.—C.S.  Potts do. 

Joseph  Wilson do. 

William  Cathcart do. 

John  Knox do. 

R.  E.— D.  C.  Purviance Clear  Creek. 

R.  H.  Henderson Oak  Grove. 

J.H.Long do. 


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CHURCHES.               UULINa-ELDEIlS  AM)   DEACONS.  X'OST  OFFICE. 

Bethesda R.  E. — Isaac  A.  Witlierepoon.. .  .Statesville. 

(loorge  Robertson do. 

John  R.  Patterson do. 

Ebenezer  McNeely do. 

Betbphage R.  E.— E.  W.  Kimmons Mill  Hill. 

John  M.  Cannon do. 

Levi  RiHni>le do. 

yimeon  Winecofl'. Concord. 

Nat.  Johnston Coddle  Creek. 

D. — Samuel  M.  Furr do. 

James  A.  Allison Mill  Hill. 

John  Good  right do. 

William  Rogers Concord. 

Caldwell R.  E.— Samuel  H.  Todd Charlotte. 

Elam  T.  McCord do. 

J.W.Todd do. 

William  A.  Cathey do. 

D.— R.  W.  Elliott do. 

Alfred  Cathey do. 

John  M.  McNight do. 

John  D.  Johnston do. 

Castania  Grove R.  E. — S.  X.  Johnston Lincolnton. 

Centre R.  E. — Lawson  Torrence Davidson  College. 

y.  S.  J.  Houston Mount  Mourne. 

William  Knox do. 

Robert  McPherson do. 

Jacob  Lemly do. 

J.  A.  W.  Kerr do. 

D. — James  Shepherd do. 

William  Brawley do. 

Charlotte R.  E.— David  Parks Charlotte. 

Joseph  H.  Wilson do. 

John  A.  Young do. 

A.  Graham do. 

E.  Nye  Hutchison do. 

Daniel  H.Hill do. 

F.  Scarr do. 

William  Maxwell do. 

D. — John  L.  Brown do. 

Charles  Overman do. 

J.  C.  Boroughs do. 

James  P.  Irwin do. 

James  A.  Carson do. 

S.  P.  Alexander do. 

John  B.  Burwell do. 

S.  F.  Houston do. 

College R.  E. — T.  W.  Sparrow Davidson  College. 

J.  R:  Blake do. 

Alexander  Mclver do. 

W.  G.  Richardson do. 

Concord R.  E. — William  Morrison Fancy  Hill. 

David  Hart do. 

W.  R.  Stevenson do. 

W.  S.  Stevenson do. 

Abner  Morrison do. 

J.  M.  Alexander do. 

John  S.  Watts New  Stirling. 

Thomas  M.  Hill Liberty  Hill. 

Charles  H.  King do. 

D.— J.H.Hill do. 

H.  C.  Summers New  Stirling. 

James  Means Fancy  Hill. 

L.  F.  Stevenson do. 

Concord  Town li.  E. — U.  W.  Allison Concord. 


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CHURCHES.  RtTLING-ELDEUS  AND  DEACONS.  POST  OFFICE. 

Concord  Town R.  E. — A.  H.  Moss Concord. 

A.  J.  Yorke do. 

Daniel  Coleman do. 

V.  C.  Barringer do. 

George  Fink do. 

Dallas R.  E.— A.  Hoyle Dallas. 

W.  Pegram do. 

J.  Fronebar^er do. 

Davidson's  River K.E. — James  W.  Killian Davidson's  River. 

Charles  Patton do. 

Elizur  Patton do. 

Duncan's  Creek R.  E. — J.  J.  Purcell Duncan's  Creek. 

James  McFarland do. 

John  A.  McFarland do. 

Ebenezer R.  E.— G.  N.  Rush Franklin. 

G.  C.  Sellers do. 

W.  P.  Penland do. 

J.  y.  Gray do. 

D. — Leander  Sellers do. 

Fifth  Creek R.  E. — James  Adams Cool  Spring. 

John  D.  Kickart do. 

J.  R.  B.  Adams do. 

J.  F.  Houpe Oak  Forest. 

D. — W.  T.  Montgomery Cool  Spring. 

J.  E.  Adams do. 

L.  W.  Knox do. 

Fourth  Creek R.  E.— T.  A.  Allison Statesville. 

J.F.Bell do. 

E.  B.  Stiipsou do. 

John  Steel do. 

R.N.  Freelaud do. 

J.  R.  Adams do. 

D. — Joseph  W.  Stockton do. 

J.  S.  Ricket do. 

W.S.  Tate do. 

J.  S.  Roseboro do. 

C.  N.  Summers do. 

J.  H.  Morrison do. 

D.  C.  Thomson do. 

Franklin  (Macon) R.  E. — Curtis  Sanders Franklin. 

E.  L.  Slagle do. 

William  Sanders do. 

Wilev  Moore do. 

D.  C. "Hardin do. 

Franklin  (Rowan).. .  .R.  E.— S.  S.  Trott Salisbury. 

G.  W.  Thomason do. 

Jacob  Fraley do, 

D. — Lewis  Jacobs do. 

Goshen R.  E. — William  Rutledge Wood  Lawn. 

Robert  Rankin do. 

David  Rhyne do. 

Henry  C.  Fite do. 

James  P.  Gates Dallas. 

D. — Bennet  Smith do. 

Hendersonville R.  E. — William  Connell Hendersonville. 

A.  T.  Fuller do. 

John  Spann do. 

John  Miller do. 

Hopewell R.  E. — J.  F.  Harry Martindale. 

A.  B.  Davidson do. 

A.  A.  Alexander do. 

R.  F.  Blythe do. 

J.  D.  Kerns do. 

J .  M.  Houston do. 


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Jerterson. 
Joppa.. . . 


Lincolnton. 


Long  Creek.. 


Little  Britain. 


CHURCHES.  nUI-TNO-EI.DElJS   AXD   nEACOXS.  I'usT  oKFICE. 

llupi'well K.  E. — W.  A.  Samplo Martiudale. 

J.  |{.  DiividKon do. 

D. — James  A.  Wilson do. 

('.  V.  C'anipbell do. 

W.  15.  Harry do. 

. .  .K.  E. — Benjainiii  II.  Ncal Jefferson. 

. . .  R.  E. — Tlioinas  Brown Mocksville. 

James  Frost do. 

. . .  K.  E. — James  Harper Lenoir. 

E.  W.  Faucette do. 

K.  L.  Beall do. 

. .  .R.  E.— J.  F.  Pinter Lincolnton. 

J.  A.  Ramsour do. 

Abner  MeCov do. 

\V.  H.  Michal do. 

\Villiam  Tiddy do. 

D.— W.  II.  Alexander do. 

. .  .R.  E. — John  Brown Shelby. 

John  White Old  Furnace. 

William  Arrowood do. 

S.  A.  Torrence do. 

J.J.  Price do. 

D.— H.  B.  Huffstetter do. 

T.  :M.  A.  Oates Double  Slioals. 

. .  .R.  E. — William  Erwiu Rutherfordton. 

A.R.  (luttey do. 

Thomas  Morrison do. 

A.  B.  Long do. 

.1.  H.  Forney do. 

J.  M.  Spratt   do. 

D. — Jolui  A.  ^^'atson do. 

William  Carson do. 

Adam  Alexander do. 

R.  P.  Morrison do. 

Machpelah K.  E. — C.  L.  Hunter Cottage  Home. 

C.  Dellinger do. 

Daniel  Somerougli do. 

Marion K.  E. — James  II.  Greenlee Turkey  Covo. 

Robert  Burgin Marion. 

James  B.  Rankin do. 

Mallard  Creek R.  E. — James  Query Query's  Turnout. 

John  Kirk do. 

B.  II.  Oarrison do. 

Mills'  River K.  E. — Jacob  Sunmiey Mills'  River. 

Turner  Williams do. 

Morganton R.  E. — E.  J.  Erwin Morganton. 

W.C.Tate do. 

William  S.  Moore do. 

New  Hope R.  E. — James  W.  Reid South  Point. 

William  R.  McLean do. 

S.  W.  Craig do. 

William  Nolen Zeno,  S.  C. 

D. — Eli  Cox Catawba  Creek. 

James  Ford do. 

Newton R.  E. — D.  B.  Gaither Newton. 

D. — Hiram  A.  Lowrance Catawba  Station. 

Olney R.  E. — Enoch  McNair Dallas. 

William  Dixon Catawba  Creek. 

W.  R.  Holland do. 

S.  C.  Robinson do. 

Ezra  B.  Wilson do. 

James  McNair Dallas. 

D. — (leorge  McAlister do. 

Kobert  Bell Catawba  Creek. 


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CIIUnCIIES.  RULINO-ELDEKS  AND   DEACONS.  POST  OFFICE. 

Olncy D. — W.  D.  Corroll Catawba  Creek, 

Alfred  Dixon do. 

William  H.  Hill do. 

M.  L.  Holland do. 

Philadelphia li.  E.— James  Hea Charlotte. 

C'yrus  Morrison do. 

Williaiu  Beaver do. 

K.  li.  King do. 

K.H.  Maxwell do. 

W.  M.  Miller do. 

J.  E.  Moore do. 

Pleasant  Hill II.  E.— E.  K.  Erwin White  Hall. 

J.  M.  Choate do. 

G.  W.  Campbell do. 

l>avid  Caruthers do. 

D. — Samuel  Knox do. 

D.H.Hart do. 

Matthew  Knox do. 

T.B.  McLean do. 

K.E.  Capps do. 

Poplar  Tent K.  E.— E.  R.  Harris Oak  Lawn. 

M.  W.  Johnston do. 

W.  S.  Harris Concord. 

D.S.Caldwell do. 

T.  H.  Robinson do. 

Theophilus  Cannon do. 

D. — C.  A.  Barringer Oak  Lawn. 

R.  W.  Johnston do. 

C.  J.  Harris do. 

J.  C.  Ross do. 

D.  (i.  Holbrooks Concord. 

J.  H.  Morrison do. 

Prospect  R.  E. — J.  N.  Lowrance Deep  Well. 

David  Kilpatrick do. 

H.  M.  Oiray do. 

David  Creswell do. 

J.  S.  Bcatty do. 

J.  H.  West  do. 

C.  A.  Johnston do. 

A.  Leazar do. 

Providence R-  E. — William  Rea Providence. 

Robert  Grier do. 

J.N.  Reid do. 

E.  C.  Kuykendall do. 

J.  Sol.  Reid do. 

W.  N.  McKee do. 

D. — Joseph  C.  Ross do. 

J.  E.  Sample do. 

John  Reid do. 

William  M.  Stitt do. 

Ramah R-  E.— T.  H.  Hamilton Coddle  Creek. 

John  Parks Parks'  Store. 

William  Parks do. 

Rocky  River R.  E. — L.  C.  Kirkpatrick Kirkland. 

A.  C.  Alexander do. 

J.  N.  Black Pioneer  Mills. 

R.  H.  Morrison do. 

J.  S.  McLarty do. 

D.  B.  Penick Concord. 

J.  M.  Query Harrisburg. 

R.C.Caldwell do. 

Rutheri'ordton R.  E.— J.  B.  Miller Rutherfordton. 

L.  P.  Erwin do. 

Salem  R.  E. — E.  McMalon Stonv  Point. 

E.  McLeland Elk  Shoal. 


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CnimCIIES.  llULINfi-ELDKUS   ANU   DKACONS.  I'O^T   OFFICE. 

Salem K.  E.— J.  Thoini)8on Tajiorsville. 

(}.  W.  C'lodMter do. 

D. —  Thomas  PatttM-.sou do. 

•  W.M.  Murdoch do. 

Salisbury R.  E. — Alcxaiidi  r  Long Salisbury. 

Michafl  Urown do.  ' 

D.  A.Davis do., 

William  Murdoch do. 

J.  J.  Bruner do. 

J.  J.  Summerell do. 

J.  S.  McC'ubbius do. 

D. — John  D.  Brown do. 

Obadiah  Woodson do. 

John  A.  Bradshaw do. 

J.  D.  McNcily do. 

J.  M.  Ilorah do. 

J.  K.  Burke do. 

Sharon K.  E.— Charles  T.  Alexander Charlotte. 

T.N.  Alexander do. 

John  Wolf do. 

John  Walker do. 

Thonia.s  B.  McKee do. 

H.  C.  Keid do. 

James  G.  Johnston Pineville. 

D.— W.  II.  Walker  Charlotte. 

Abdon  Alexander do. 

Shelby R.  E.— Isaac  Ervin Shelby. 

Shilob R.  E.— John  H.  McLelland Fancy  Hill. 

J.  M.  Lewis Catawba  Station. 

James  H.  Stevenson New  Stirling. 

D. — J.  N.  Raymer do. 

D.  Bradford do. 

Siloam R.  E.— George  C.  McCoy Marion. 

James  M.  Greenlee do. 

Caleb  A.  Blackwelder. . .     do. 
Steele  Creek R.  E.— A.  G.  Neal White  Hall. 

J.  H.  McDowell do. 

Jeff.  Berryhill do. 

B.  F.  Brown do. 

W.  P.  Brown do. 

William  Clark do. 

T.  B.  Price Charlotte. 

D.— T.B.  (i.  Farris do. 

William  Porter do. 

F.  Sadler White  Hall. 

A.  Brown do. 

R.W.  McDowell do. 

Sugar  Creek R.  E. — Henderson  Query Charlotte. 

J.  F.  McNeelv do. 

R.  A.  McNeely do. 

John  Howie do. 

James  M.  Caldwell do. 

E.  C.  Wallis do. 

Ira  Parks do. 

James  A.  Todd do. 

James  M.  Hutchison do. 

D. — Albertus  Wilson do. 

Elam  Robinson do. 

J.  P.  Alexander do. 

John  Kirk do. 

Swannaaoa R.  E. — G.  C.  Alexander Swannanoa. 

A.  Burgin do. 

William  D.  Alexander.. .  do. 

T.  C.  Westall do. 

D.— R.  C.  Patton do. 


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CHURCHES.  RULIXfi-ELDEUS  AND  DEACONS.  I'OST  OFFICE. 

Tabor R.  E.— Natb.  Holmes Olin. 

David  Flemiuing Hamptonville. 

M.  M.  Bailey Turnersburg. 

.James  M.  Andrews Eagle  Mills.  . 

D.— Jobn  H.  Dalton do. 

George  V.  Keid Bethany  Church. 

Taylorsville R.  E.— A.  C.  Mclnto.'ih Taylorsville. 

Robert  C.  Wilson do. 

William  Matlieson do. 

T.S.Boyd do. 

Third  Creek R.  E. — Jacob  Krider Mount  Vernon. 

J.  D.  Johnston do. 

J.  G.  Ramsay Rowan  Mills. 

R.  M.  Roseboro do. 

T.  A.  Burke do. 

Benjamin  Phif'er do. 

Thyatira R.  E.— Thomas  Todd Rowan  Mills. 

N.F.Hall do. 

Henry  Seckler Salisbury. 

Joseph  Henderson do. 

J.  P.  Silliman do. 

James  B.  Gibson do. 

John  K.  Graham do. 

D. — Joshua  Miller do. 

J.  F.  Carrigan do. 

W.F.Watson do. 

W.  L.  Stansell Rowan  Mills. 

Unity  (Lincoln) R.  E.— K.  I.  McDowell Beatties  Ford. 

J.  M.  Moore do. 

John  Nixon do. 

Unity  (Rowan) R.  E. — Edmund  Rice Wood  Leaf. 

J.  P.  Marlin do. 

R.  Culbertsou do. 

J.  C.  Foard Salisbury. 

D. — S.  S.  Culbertson Wood  Leaf. 

John  Lyerly do. 

Wilkesboro' R.  E. — Allen  ])enny Wilkesboro'. 

No  Report  from  Beulah,  Drusilla,  Flat  Creek,  Hiwassee,  Lebanon,  Rheims* 
Creek,  Sandy  Plains,  and  Wadesboro". 

PRESBYTERY  OF  FAYETTEVILLE. 

CnrRCHES.  RUT.IXO-EI.DERS   AND   DEACONS.  POST   OFFICE. 

FayetteviUe R.  E. — Edward  W.  Barge Fayetteville. 

J.  G.  Shepherd do. 

Duncan  McLaurin do. 

William  B.  Wright do. 

William  McL.  McKay. . .  do. 

B.  Fuller do. 

D. — Charles  A.  McMillan do. 

Joseph  Utley do. 

t  Robert  Johnson do. 

E.  T.  McKethan do. 

Galatia R.  E. — Alexander  Leach FayetteviUe. 

Duncan  Shaw do. 

John  Ellis do. 

Neil]  R.  Blue do. 

John  D.  McNeill do. 

Malcom  Mclnnis do. 

D. — Archibald  Lindsay do. 

Neill  Ray,  Jr do. 

Neill  Shaw do. 

Lumber  Bridge R.  E. — Duncan  Malloy Fayetteville. 

Daniel  A.  Malloy do. 

Alexander  Little do. 

Peter  Brown do. 


45 


CnURCIIES. 
Barbecue. . . 


PhilacU'lplius. 


Antioch. 


Bethel 


Laurel  Hill. 


Montpelier 

Centre 

Brown  Marsh.. . 


Mount  Horeb. 


Elizabethtown 

Black  River  Chapel 


nULING-EI,DEKS  AND  DEACONS.  POST  OKEICK 

. .  . .  K.  E.-James  S  Harrington ....  Swann's  Station. 

Dame!  Morrison do. 

D.  McConiiick ^q 

Siou  Harrington do! 

t>- McDougald Jq. 

Monroe ^\^^' 

H.  E.— Duncan  McNeill .'  .Shoo  Heel 

James  McCalluni Kod  Banks 

Arcliibalil  McMillan do. 

Angus  I).  Brown do. 

D.— Duncan  McKay do' 

.  .  .  .K.  E.— Duncan  (i.  Mclnnis Shoe  Heel 

James  A.  Smith do. 

John  C.  Campbell '      do 

Col.  A  McMillan Fayetteville. 

D.— John  Mclnnis do 

ij   T^     )yri'!''""  •^-  «tinvart Shoe  Heel. 

■  ■  ,., '.'"""  ^"^icDearmid. .  .  .Fayetteville. 

Phihp  McHae do. 

William  McLaughlin..  . .         do' 

John  McLaughlin do. 

D. — David  Currie do 

. .  .R.  E.-Daniel  C.  Stewart .'Laurinburgh. 

xMurdoch  MorrLson Laurel  Hill 

Dr.  A.  Patterson do 

Milton  Mcintosh Shoe  Heel. 

John  McNeill do 

John  McKay do 

^•"^^r^'^T,^^-?^*''^^^"-  ••••••  -Laurinburgh. 

\V.  Buchanan do 

M.W.McNair '  do 

R   F      rn'rAVr"\^ 103W.C.&R.R.R. 

.  Ai.  L.— Col.  A.  McEachern Shoe  Heel. 

Duncan  McPhatter do 

Laughlin  McNeill do 

. .  .R.  E.— Archibald  C.  Leach Shoe  Heel. 

Archibald  Smith do 

Daniel  McKinnon do 

Dr.  A.  D.  McLean do 

D.— Archibald  Patterson do' 

Edmund  Lilly do. 

A.  Wilkinson do 

.  .R.  E.-Malcom  McLeod Brown' Marsh 

James  A.  Kelly do 

John  H.  Ballentine..  . .  do 

F.  M.  Wooten do' 

William  M.  Buie do 

John  D.  Currie dn 

D.— John  N.  Kelly .][[[  do 

John  K.  McNeil] do 

John  W.  McLeod do 

Calvin  B.  Ballentine do' 

John  McFatter do 

.  .R.  E.— Alexander  K.  Cromartie.' Brown  Marsh. 

Dr.  NeiU  Graham do. 

M.  T.  Harris do 

Daniel  J.  Clark..  .  .  do" 
D.-J.  H.Clark .■;.■;            Jo- 
James  Cromartie do 

•  R.  E.-George  Tate Elizabethtown. 

„  „      J .  W.  C  romartie do 

.K.  E.-James  Kerr. Black  River  Chapel. 

James  Murphy do 

Daniel  McAlister do 

William  Henry do 


40 

CHURCHES.               RULING-ELDERS  AND   DEACONS.  TOST  OFFICE. 

White  Plains R.  E. — Neill  Buie Rosendalc. 

Daoiel  Pt'rry do. 

W.  C.  Burney do. 

Buffalo R.  E. — Richard  M.  Cole Jonesboro'. 

J.  H.  Dalrymple do. 

W.  M.  Mcintosh do. 

R.N.  Buie do. 

E.  McGilvary do. 

Daniel  Mcintosh do. 

J.  Hunter do. 

Daniel  Mclntvre do. 

D.— N.  R.Bryan.'. do. 

A.  CJ.  McBryde do. 

F.  K.  Mcintosh do. 

A.  M.  Wicker do. 

D.  B.  Mclver do. 

Kenneth  Mclver do. 

South  River R.  E. — Peter  Croinartie 

W.  J.  Cromartie 

W.  K.  Cromartie 

Moore's  Creek — R.  E. — S.  B.  Riveubach Colvin's  Creek. 

James  W.  Colvin do. 

Aaron  M.  Colvin do. 

John  II.  Murphy do. 

D. — James  A.  Murphy do. 

James  P.  Moore do. 

James  N.  Henry do. 

Clinton R.  E.— L.  C.  Graves Clinton. 

Warren  Johnson do. 

William  Holmes do. 

James  Wright do. 

Mount  Zion R.  E. — James  W.  Boney Clinton. 

Z.  W.  Boney do. 

Gibson  S.  Carr 

John  C.  Millen 

D.— T.  J.  Carr 

Wilmington,  1st  Ch..R.  E. — George  Chadbourne Wilmington. 

James  C.  Smith do. 

John  N.  Andrews Statesville. 

D. — Jo.seph  B.  Russell Wilmington. 

James  D.  Cumming do. 

Samuel  Northrop do. 

Malcom  Mclnnis New  York. 

Hopewell R.  E. — Lewis  Sanders 

Robert  Fiilvaw 

Rockfish R.  E.— John  W.  Boney Warres. 

J.  W.  Carr do. 

Burney  Carr do. 

James  Alderman. do. 

D. — G.  Boney do. 

D.  T.  Carr do. 

Pike R.  E. — John  P.  Hand Burgaw. 

M.  R.  Mclntyre Rocky  Point. 

R.  T.  Bowden do. 

D.— S.  P.  Hand Burgaw. 

Lebanon R.  E.— A.  S.  Baker Red  Banks. 

A.D.Wilkinson do. 

Beth-Car R.  E.— W.  N.  Whitted 

D. — B.  Robeson 

Big  Rockfish R.  E.— John  McDonald Fayetteville. 

Dr.  D.  Sinclair do. 

Cypress R-  E. — L.  D.  Cameron Johnsonville. 

Duncan  Keith do. 

Peter  Monroe do. 

Neill  Cameron do. 


cnuTicnEs. 
St.  Pauls 


China  Grove.. . 
Grove 


Union  (Duplin). 
Keith 


Mt.  Williams. 


Bluff.. 


Sardis. . . . 
Sharon.. . 


Mount  C'armel. 
Harmony 

Macedonia. . . . 


Mizpeh 

Lumberton 


47 

"  RT'^N^fir^-^'^/^  ^'^•'^"^■''-  ^"ST  OFFICE 
"•^•—Neiil  Sinclair «»    p„„i-^ 

JolinMcNair ..do 

Duncan  Caiui)l)cli..  a' 

John  Caldwell ■■"       Jo 

D.— Duncan  McNair. .  .  jo' 

^-  ^"i^V,.^";"^ Fayetteville. 

R  F      i?/^""^' ',"«"" Manchester. 

I.i.n..^  11  A ivenansville. 

JuuiLs  15.  Carr. ...  Jq 

Dickson  Mallard... do' 

James  Dickson...  '  a^' 

Robert  B.  Carr do 

W.D.  Pearsall ■■"  Z' 

T>  5— :^lc'xander  Sutherland. . .  do' 

"■^-"o'-JS?.  "■'"*' Fai.n.Depot. 

....r.e.-Sl'':™'^---'     ^°-' 

W.  A.  Lamb "■ 

h.  Bowden.  . . 

R.  W.  Moore. .    

D.— M.  C.  Collins.....' .'.'.■.■.■.■ 

W.  A.  Lamb 

R.  E.— J.  B.  Bannerman .. . . 

S.  Player. ... 

D.-W.H.  Player.;; 

D.Shaw....  

"^'  ^'"Ln'r -^  •  ••;, •'•■"•  •  -Fayetteville. 

A    M.f  n  '^'^ Averasboro'. 

I'S^'^^"^ Fayetteville. 

D.  McMillan.;;;;; d^- 

^-J?-s^t.^' .■.■;::Aver;sw. 

johnB;;fr^ ^^^-r^"- 

■■  'R'p~iT^'  P.Hodges Mill  Grove. 

. . .  R.  E.-Angus  Mclnnis Mount  Gilead. 

Charles  McKinnon..  do 

fl'^^.Read Ashebor'o-. 

n     i. ,"  ^^^x"^"'^/ Mount  Gilead. 

D.—Roderic  McKinnon..  do 

George  McAuley do; 

A   M.n  S'V- Curriesville. 

D.-jVntSl^^;:: ^-^t'-^  Mills. 

■^•~?SSsS^'"'^^°;-'--^-^^t''^"'«- 

James  H.  Forbis do' 

D.— Malcom  D.  Bethune do 

Malcom  Mclnnis do 

..R.E.— James  Batton.  Troy 

Malcom  Murchison.  do' 

Alexander  A.  McCaskill.  do' 

Neill  Gillig.  do 

Neill  Mclnnis.  do 

D.— Neill  McCallum.  do' 

David  Batton.  do 

Wilson  McCaskill.  do  * 

T?  V     if'""  ^-  I^rborough.  do; 


48 


CnURCHES. 

Ash  pole 


Smyrna. . 


Longstreet. . . 

Sandy  Grove. 
Betliesda.  . . . 


RULING-ELDEUS  AND   DK.\CONS.  POST  OFFICE. 

, ,  .R.  E.— Dugakl  McCallum.  Red  Banks. 

Sion  Alford.  do. 

Duncan  McNair.  do. 

Alexander  Blue.  do. 

Nathaniel  McNair.  do. 
Wasliington  W.  McLean,     do. 

John  A.  McArthur.  do. 

D.— John  McArthur.  do. 

Alexander  McLean.  do. 

Alexander  McLeod.  do. 

.  .  .R.  E.— Alexander  McRae,  Sr.  Shoe  Heel. 
Alexander  C.  McKinnon.          do. 

James  Stewart.  do. 

Archibald  McRae.  do. 

John  C.  Stewart.  do. 

Alexander  McRae,  Jr.  do. 

A.  J.  McQueen.  do. 

J.Q.R.  McRae.  do. 

D. — Malcom  McRae.  do. 

Duncan  McCallum.  do. 

John  L.  McRae.  do. 

. .  .R.  E. — William  Shaw.  Fayettevaie. 

Neill  McPhail.  Johnsonville. 

D. — Duncan  J.  Monroe.  Manchester. 

Malcom  Campbell.  Fayetteville. 

\V.  Brown.  do. 

. .  .R.  E. — Peter  Monroe.  Fayetteville. 

Archy  McLeod.  do. 

D. — John  M.  Graham.  do. 

...R.  E. — Malcom  McNeill.  Montrose. 

Alexander  Ray.  Carthage. 

Malcom  M.  Blue.  Montrose. 

John  B.  Graham.  do. 

D. — Archibald  Buchan.  do. 

Patrick  Monroe.  Carthage. 

Evander  McLeod.  Montrose. 

Alexander  (iraham.  do. 

Carthage R.  E.— K.  Black.  (Jarthage. 

.           A.  R.  Kelly.  do. 

A.  R.  McDonald.  do. 

Alexander  Kelly.  do. 

Dr.  John  Shaw.  do. 

A.  McCallum.  do. 

K.  C.  Chisholm.  do. 

D.— Thomas  B.  Tyson.  do. 

Hugh  Biack.  do. 

Thomas  C.  Cole.  do. 

D.  P.  Shields.  do. 
A.  H.  McNeill.  do. 
J.  D.  Mclyer.  do. 

Union  (Moore) R.  E.— M.  Ferguson.  Carthage. 

J.  C.  Ferguson.  do. 

E.  Kelly.  do. 
I.  H.  Rowan.  do. 
Daniel  McDonald.  do. 
John  B.  Black.  do. 
Patrick  M.  Blue.  do. 
Daniel  Blue.  do. 

D. — John  M.  N.  Ferguson.  do. 

James  Gilchrist.  do. 

Hugh  Leach.  do. 

R.  A.  McLaughlin.  do. 

M.  J.  Blue.  do. 

D.  R.  McDonald.  do. 

A.  A.  Ray.  do. 


cacmcHBS. 

Grlt'eboro* 

EuMlironia 

Moun'-  Pisgah. 


Tir:&. 


Ben-Salcm.. 


WTiiicvillo 

Miaerul  Spring. 


*3 

ET7LIKO-ELDB?.C  AND  DBACCKO. 

B.  E.— John  Evaritt. 
. .  .R. E— "W'illiain C. Cato^bell. 
.  .R.  E. — Tiobo.>i  D=:*v.i^ 

W  ill  in  Hariiagtoa. 
Hector  Mcileill. 
R.  E.— A.  C.  McLean. 
M.  UcYsy. 
K.  Murcbi:x)a. 
3.  McL<?a:i,  Jr. 
R.E.-Joh.:  E.  Cu.ie. 

Arcuib-.ld  3.  CuiviJ. 
Kcnnel-i  Matlieso".. 
NeJH  Morrison. 
D.  B.  Curric. 
R.  E.--  FicbcvL  IJ.cEor,-'.ie. 
_R.E.— M.  C.  Ciark. 
Patric.^  -L^r.y- 
ArcaitAl  "i  Ray. 
Alexsmdff-  McKensie. 
Daniel  llcKeiz^s. ^ 
Mnrdocli  McCaskill. 
Daniel  Campbell. 
D.- -Duncan  Patterson. 
Joliu  3.  Clrxk. 
Wiliiam  P..  Pcole. 
D.  M.  McDonald. 
. .  .R.  E.— Ncill  McDugrJd. 

Georii3  L.  McKay. 
. .  .R.  E.— Dr.  D.  H.  Patterson. 
Malco-i  Gillie. 
D.— Ishaui  Durnr.o. 

R.  E.— M.  McKinnor. 

John  Mclntyre. 
Angus  Blue. 
_  .R.  E.— Patrick  Murphy. 

Dr.  J.  W.  Robinson. 
Dr.  T.  C.  Murphy. 
James  Lamb. 
Ed^va^d  Smith. 
D.— W.  K.  Chesnntt. 

R.  E.— Daniel  Currie. 

Daniel  Campbell. 

R.  E.— William  E.  Brown. 

Archibald  Smith. 
D.— John  McMillan. 

R.  E.— W.  A.  Faison. 

Jame3  Morisey. 
Dr.  "V/.  J.  Thompson. 
D._W.  H.  Moricey. 

R.  E.— Samuel  V/.  Caldwell. 

J.  C.  Wooten. 

R.  E.— Mai  com  McDonald. 

Hugh  (irahim. 
D.  C.  Currio. 
D.— Alexander  McPherccn 
Alexander  McEethan 
Joseph  A.  Mc/.rthur. 
Robert  Register. 
2d  Ch.,  Wilmington.  .R.  E.— Alexander  Sprunt. 
'               "  D.— John  Colnlle. 

John  R.  Latta. 
St.  Andrew's R.  E.-WiUiam  McDugald. 


Bethlehem. . . 
Pee  Dee 

Laurinburgh 


Oak  Plane. 


Mark'3  Creek. 
Mount  Tabor. 

Spring  Vale. . 


Beaver  Creek. . 
McPherson's... 


POBT  OFFICH. 

GoldGDoro'. 
Cartb.T.gt. 
Gv.anii's  Station, 
do. 
do. 
Summorville. 
do. 
do. 
do. 


Red  Banks. 
CurriesviUe. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
Carthage. 
FayetteviUe. 

do. 
Mangum. 
Little's  Mills. 
Mangum. 
Laurinturgh. 
do. 
do. 
Wilmington- 
Magnolia. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
103  W 


C.&R.R.R. 


Rockingham. 
Red  Banks. 

do. 

do. 


Kinsto''.. 

do. 
FayetteviUe. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
Wilmington. 

do. 

do. 
Swann'a  Station. 


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