PAN PRESBYTERIAN COUNCIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7004, 28 July 1884, Page 3

PAN PRESBYTERIAN COUNCIL

The Pan Presbyterian Counci, m session iv Belfast on June 27, devoted part of tho day to missionary matters. The ministers from the various reformed churches on th 9 Continent BPc £ tho fe9lin £ in favour of the cause. After Dr Breed had presented his report the Alliance adopted a resolution that the Council was specially gratified at its contents, and then approved of the efforts made to raise £5000 on behalf of the ancient Moravian and Bohemian Ohurche3. The Council' heard with lively satisfaction the statement of the condition of the churches of Europe and America, and asked, in their behalf, for tho general support toward their progress of the stronger churches of the Alliance. At the session of July 1 Professor Jean Monrod presided He represented the Reformed - Church of France. The application of the Free Evangelical Church of Geneva for admission into the Alliance was granted. James Cavil, of Montreal, read a report on eldership, which waa^discussed. In the afternoon the membera of the Council engaged in a trip. At the evening session Mr Darby, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of America, presided, and papers were read on Sabbath-schools, also on temperance in Great Britain and America. The latter subject waa lengthily dW-»ied. lhe Council concluded its work on VTednesday, July 2, andadjourned to meet in London in ISSP At the reunion on the 4th at Belfast a committee was appointed to effect the union of the Irish and Scotch Presbyterian Churches. Five American delegates and a number of other Americans attended the reunion. Delegates to the Paris Presbyterian Council, which adjourned on the previous Wednesday, were at a l meetsng- A telegram frem President Arthur, in response to a greeting sent to him was read. It is as follows: "Coming from kindred ancestry, the kind greetings of the Irish and Scotch assembled in Belfast to-day are especially pleasing and are cordially reciprocated, lhe reunion was most interesting throughout. The Rev. Dr Steld conducted the services, and Mr Sinclair, Justice of Peace, acted as chairman. He said it was a proud - privilege to preside over such an important and mterestingreunion of men from all quarters of the globe, claiming Scotch and Irish descent He eulogised the people of Ulster, and said their descendants' in America occupied the highest positions in all the walks of life. The - Scotch and Irish were some of the greatest men of the age, and counted such men as Munro, Matson, and Arthur.—(Cheers.) The Presbyterian Church of America was founded by an Ulster man, and to-day hundreds of thousands of Ulaterians on both sides of the Atlantic are carrying on the noble work.