even in the mode of perpetuating that intercourse, no desire exists to introduce any change, so far as this Assembly is concerned. The Committee, therefore, recommend that this Assembly shall inaugurate no change, but leave the appointment of our delegate, already made, as it now stands. And should any desire be expressed to this Assembly, at a future time, by the General Synod, to alter the mode or extent of our correspondence, then such propositions as the Synod may submit, should receive the kind and deliberate attention of this Assembly.

The Committee further suggest, that our delegate be instructed to intimate to the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church the views of the Assembly on this subject.

The Committee reported that Robert W. Patterson, D.D., and the Hon. William H. Brown, Ruling Elder, delegates to this Assembly from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, now holding its sessions in the city of Philadelphia, are present, and recommend that it be the third order of the day for this afternoon to hear them.

Dr. Humphrey moved an amendment that it be the order to hear them at 44 o'clock this afternoon, (May 28.)

On motion of Dr. Humphrey, the Committee on Correspondence was requested to nominate a delegate to attend the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, now in session at Alton, Illinois, it being understood that Dr. R. J. Breckinridge, the delegate last year appointed, cannot attend.

Whereupon Dr. Blackwood, from that Committee, nominated John G. Bergen, D.D., and he was appointed by the Assembly's vote to attend the meeting of said body.

At the times appointed the following delegates were heard and responded to by the Moderator of the Assembly.

ROBERT W. PATTERSON, D.D., Minister, and WM. H. BROWN, Esq., Ruling Elders, from The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, now in session at Philadelphia, Pa.

Rev. WILLIAM F. BAIRD, Minister, from The General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, now in session at Alton, Illinois. DAVID A. WALLACE, D.D., Minister, from The United Presbyterian Church of North America, now in session at Xenia, Ohio.

WILLIAM V. V. MABON, D.D., Minister, from The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America, to meet in Newburg, New York, June 3, 1863.

The following persons were appointed to represent this church in the General Assemblies to meet in 1864: E. P. HUMPHREY, D.D., Principal; N. C. BURT, D.D., Alternate, Ministers. A. E. CHAMBERLAIN, Esq., Principal; SAMUEL HANNA, Esq., Alternate, Ruling Elders, to The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, to meet in Dayton, Ohio. JOHN M. LOWRIE, D.D., Principal; JONATHAN EDWARDS, D.D., Alternate, Ministers. ROBERT MCKNIGHT, Principal; GEORGE JUNKIN, Jr., Alternate, Ruling Elders, to The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, to meet in Philadelphia, Pa.

Rev. ROBERT JOHNSTON, Principal; Rev. H. V. D. NEVIUS, Alternate, Ministers, to the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, to meet

GEORGE JUNKIN, D.D., Principal, and Rev. GARDINER SPRING PLUMLY, Alternate, Ministers, to the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, to meet in June, 1863.

THE UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN COMMISSION.-The Committee to whom was referred the communication from this benevolent association, reported the following paper, which was adopted :

Resolved, 1. That this General Assembly highly approve of the work of charity and benevolence in which that institution is engaged, and recommend it to the patronage of our churches and people.

Resolved, 2. That it is recommended to our churches, in making con

tributions for the purchase of books and tracts for the benefit of our brave soldiers and sailors, that they forward the amount contributed to our Board of Publication, with the explicit request that the Board supply the Christian Commission with books and tracts for the benefit of the army and navy to the amount contributed for that purpose.

Resolved, 3. That a public meeting be held on Thursday evening next. WEEK OF PRAYER.-Rev. Gardiner Spring Plumly, of Elizabethtown Presbytery, offered the following resolutions, which were adopted :— WHEREAS, by the gift of his converting and sanctifying grace, God has signally blessed the appointment of the week of prayer," originally suggested by the Presbytery of Lodiana, in the Synod of Northern India, Therefore,

Resolved, That this Assembly recommend to the sessions of our churches to set apart, as a period of special prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, and the conversion of the world, the week commencing Sabbath, January 3d, 1864, and including Sabbath, January 10th.

Resolved, That the sessions be also recommended to promote, as far as they may deem practicable, the holding of Union Prayer Meetings, during that week.

On motion of H. HI. Leavitt, Esq., the following was also adopted

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Resolved, That it be earnestly enjoined on the pastors and sessions of our churches in which the monthly concert of prayer for the success of missions and the conversion of the world has fallen into disuse, to revive such concert, and to use all proper efforts to increase the interest of the church in the missionary cause.

REVISED BOOK OF DISCIPLINE, from the beginning of Chapter VIII., was referred to the next General Assembly, and that Assembly was requested to make its consideration the order of the day for the second day of its sessions.

MINISTERS WITHOUT CHARGE, and vacant churches. On motion of Rev. Robert Beer, of Milwaukie Presbytery, it was

Resolved, That a committee of three ministers and two elders be appointed to consider the expediency of a plan by which ministers without charge, and licentiates, and vacant churches, shall be brought to acquaintance with each other, and to report on the same to the next General Assembly.

The Moderator appointed the following as this committee: John M. Krebs, D.D., A. G. Fairchild, D.D., and Rev. W. C. Roberts, Ministers ; Robert Carter, of New York City, and Charles Crosby, of Dixon, Illinois, Ruling Elders.

RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS.-Rev. S. S. Sheddan, of Elizabethtown Presbytery, offered the following resolutions, which were adopted :

Resolved, 1. That the thanks of the Assembly are hereby tendered to the Pastor and Trustees of this church, and also of the Second church, for the accommodations they have furnished the Assembly and their Committees.

Resolved, 2. That we thankfully acknowledge the indefatigable labor of the Committee of Arrangements, their extensive correspondence with railroad companies, and their cheerful completion of those arrangements with the members of the Assembly; and we also tender, through them, our thanks to those railroad companies who have been so liberal to us. Resolved, 3. That we recognise in this a special providence of God, that a faithful and devoted missionary, after twenty-five years in the foreign field, should be our impartial and revered Moderator. Our prayers go with him. May his spirit of missions animate us!

Resolved, 4. That we gratefully record the generous hospitality of the citizens of Peoria; and we tender our thanks to the families of our own and other denominations, and citizens generally, who have so cordially

and delightfully homed us amongst them; and we further thank "The Press" for their impartial reports of our proceedings.

On motion of EDWARD P. HUMPHREY, D.D., of Transylvania Presbytery, it was

Resolved, That this General Assembly be dissolved; and that another General Assembly, chosen in like manner, be required to meet in the Third Presbyterian Church, Newark, New Jersey, (E. R. CRAVEN, D.D., Pastor,) on the third Thursday, (19th) of May, 1864, at 11 o'clock, A.M. A. T. MCGILL, D.D., WM. E. SCHENCK, D.D., Rev. J. H. MORRISON, Stated Clerk. Permanent Clerk.

Moderator.

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In Memoriam.

"I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE; HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE. AND WHOSOEVER LIVETH AND BELIEVETH IN ME, SHALL NEVER DIE."-John xi. 25, 26.

Mr.

AVERY, JOHN A.-The Son of Nathan and Anna (Ayers) Avery, was born in Bradford, Vt., in 1795. They were from Connecticut, and emigrated to what was then "the West" for New England people. Avery was a devoted Christian, whose piety was of a very lovely type. His father was not a professor of religion, but in after years whilst listening to his son preaching, he became convicted of sin, and soon after made a profession of religion, though then in the seventieth year of his age.

Mr. Avery was educated in Middlebury College, Vt., and studied Theology with the Rev. Mr. French. He was licensed by Woodstock Congregational Association, ordained, and labored as Home Missionary within the bounds of Plymouth and Bridgewater Congregations, Vt., about the year 1824. He subsequently became pastor in West Haven and Middletown, Vt. He was for six years associated with Rev. G. H. Hulin as Editor and Proprietor of The Religious Recorder, published in Syracuse, N. Y. This paper was merged in The Evangelist, now published in New York City, under the Editorship of Rev. Henry M. Field and Rev. J. Geddes Craighead. He was ever after an invalid, though occasionally preaching. He was a member of Mohawk Presbytery, and when his health permitted would labor as an Agent or Colporteur. He lived in Syracuse, N. Y., where he died. April 28, 1863, of Congestion of the Lungs.

He married Miss Emeline Baldwin, of Monkton, Vt., who, with two children, survives him His son is a Major in the Tenth Regiment New York Cavalry. His daughter is the wife of an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, Syracuse, N. Y.

EDWIN HALL, D.D., Professor of Christian Theology in the Auburn Theological Seminary, N. Y., adds the following testimony:-"It is now more than forty years since I first met the Rev. John A. Avery, and came into intimate relations with him as a member of the same class in college. He was then somewhat advanced in life, and his character was formed and established. We all soon learned that Brother Avery, or 'Father Avery, as we called him by a title of respect and endearment-was a man who feared God, and feared nothing besides. Not a hair's-breadth would he swerve from the simple and absolute truth. No hope of advantage could induce him to turn aside from what he conceived to be right. He was sincere in all things, and in all things honorable and kind. The influence of such a character was soon felt in the class and college; and never was that character tarnished, or its influence diminished to the end. It required some intimate acquaintance to appreciate him; but no one formed such an intimate acquaintance without being compelled to recognize his worth. In the meetings for social worship and prayer he was always at his post; an example and an encouragement to all. No time of general declension seemed at all to affect the steady character of his piety, or to cause any intermission of his efforts to do good. In a long time of general coldness which preceded a revival of religion, the memory of which revival has been cherished in the town and college ever since, and the fruits of which have been widely conspicuous now for thirty-eight years, Brother Avery was one of three or four who met every day at noon for many months to pray that God would revive his work; and when the cloud came at first, no bigger than a man's hand, he was one of the first to discern it, and to go to the Pre