A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . the assembly of 1891, such alterations to theConfession of Faith as in their judgment may be deemeddesirable. This committee was unable to make a fullreport to the assembly of 1891, which met in Detroit, andit, also, was continued. The assembly of 1892 met in May of that year at Port-land, Oregon. It adopted an official seal, and for a de-vice an open Bible upon a circular field. This assembly took note of the disposition of theamounts of money paid by Congress to Roman Catholicschools for Indians. The latter, alone
A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . the assembly of 1891, such alterations to theConfession of Faith as in their judgment may be deemeddesirable. This committee was unable to make a fullreport to the assembly of 1891, which met in Detroit, andit, also, was continued. The assembly of 1892 met in May of that year at Port-land, Oregon. It adopted an official seal, and for a de-vice an open Bible upon a circular field. This assembly took note of the disposition of theamounts of money paid by Congress to Roman Catholicschools for Indians. The latter, alone, having obtainedin round numbers 400,000 dollars of the 600,000 appro-priated for all the denominations combined (Minutes, ). It also condemned the principle of the general gov- 492 A HISTORY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. ernment appropriating money to sectarian schools. Itmanifested much interest in the home missions pertainingto the mountaineers in Kentucky, Tennessee, and NorthCarolina, and the two Virginias. The committee on theConfession of Faith reported Rev. Edward Robinson, D. D., LL. D. (493-497-) L. Presbyterian Worthies. Professor Edward Robinson, , , son of Robinson, was born in Southington, Connecticut,April 10, 1794, of Puritan ancestry, which in church af-fairs is traced back to 1636. His mother, Elizabeth Nor-ton, a lady of fine education, was a sister of ProfessorSeth Norton of Hamilton College. On her dying bedshe sent to her son Edward, who was absent, a charac-teristic message, urging him to do as much good as hecould in the world. His father was under the necessityof cultivating a farm, and during his boyhood Edwardthus worked, and also for a while in a country store. Inschool he ranked high as a scholar, a devourer of booksand of untiring industry in search of knowledge, mani-festing in his boyhood characteristics for which he wasafterward noted, sound moral principles, kindly disposi-tion, cautiousness in his decisions
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