Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . nods,to ^become its auxiliaries, and pledged itself not tointerfere, in the slightest degree, with denominationalwork. But the object of the Society left unprovidedfor some things which the Assembly thought quite in-dispensable to the prosperity of the Church. TheSociety believed it could not modify its plans to includethem, and agreed, with the Assemblys committee, thatsuch objects should be provided for directly by theAssembly. Some of these projects were met by tem-porary arrangements with a few ind
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . nods,to ^become its auxiliaries, and pledged itself not tointerfere, in the slightest degree, with denominationalwork. But the object of the Society left unprovidedfor some things which the Assembly thought quite in-dispensable to the prosperity of the Church. TheSociety believed it could not modify its plans to includethem, and agreed, with the Assemblys committee, thatsuch objects should be provided for directly by theAssembly. Some of these projects were met by tem-porary arrangements with a few individuals ; but thesearrangements were not sufficiently permanent and reli-able to be adopted as a future policy. In 1855, therefore,the General Assembly established a Church ExtensionCommittee. This step was denounced, in many quar-ters in the Congregational ranks, as an unfair and un-friendly attempt to gain denominational Home Missionary Society took up the contest, andasserted that the step was impairing confidence anddiverting funds from its treasury. It was next to im-. < -• 214 PRESBYTERIANS. possible that a society to establish churches and sup-port pastors should not prefer doing this in such waysas would increase the number of its friends and securethe extension of its territory. Its appointment of mis-sionaries and its appropriations of aid, therefore, wereliable to be partial to its own friends, and very certainto be looked upon with suspicion by others. News-paper correspondents on both sides rather aggravatedthe difficulty. The General Assembly of 1857 ap-pointed a commission to investigate all the facts, learnthe principles and modes of administration of theAmerican Home Missionary Society, and to furnish awell-authenticated report to the next General committee did not report until the meeting of theAssembly at Pittsburgh, in i860. The spirit of thatAssembly maybe understood when it is stated that A. Mills was its Moder
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