Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . economical and business has greatly increased, and assets over allliabilities exceed $85,000. Colportage and Sunday-school literature are under the care of this receipts from all sources, according to last report,aggregated nearly $14,000. Through this committee,many most valuable and important works have beengiven to the public ; among them the works of the pro-found thinker and theologian, Dr. Thornwell, and thecollected discussions of that most able professor oftheology a
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . economical and business has greatly increased, and assets over allliabilities exceed $85,000. Colportage and Sunday-school literature are under the care of this receipts from all sources, according to last report,aggregated nearly $14,000. Through this committee,many most valuable and important works have beengiven to the public ; among them the works of the pro-found thinker and theologian, Dr. Thornwell, and thecollected discussions of that most able professor oftheology and philosophy, Dr. Dabney. The Church has ever maintained its ancient tradi-tions in seeking an educated ministry. To aid thosedesiring this sacred office there have been contribu-tions to the cause of education, and the work of its ad-ministration is entrusted to an executive commit-tee, at Memphis, Tenn., with Rev. E. M. Richardson,D. D., as secretary. The whole number of studentsaided during the last fiscal year (1891) was 226, fromthirteen Synods. Receipts for this cause were nearly. WILLIAM SWAN PLUMER, D. D. THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. (.99 $21,500, an increase of more than $3500 over the con-tributions of the previous year. The Presbyterian Church in the United States liasfostered, according to its means and beyond its abilityeven, all learning secular and religious. The influ-ence of Presbyterianism, and of the Southern Presbyte-rian Church especially, is not to be estimated by thenumber of institutions founded under distinctively Pres-byterian control. In many .State institutions, in otherinstitutions founded originally by Presbyterians, but thegovernment of which has been generously shared withothers ; in many private schools of broad patronage, highscholarship and far-reaching influence, Presbyterianministers and teachers, able, learned, eminent and use-ful, are to be found. In the enumeration, therefore,here given, of Presbyterian institutions, it will be seen
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