The General Assembly [pp. 545-580]

The General Assembly.
4. Resolved, That in connection with this discouraging view
of the past four years, taken into comparison with the preceding ten, the Assembly would record with devout gratitude, that
during the year just closed, there has been an increase of the
regular church contributions to this cause, amounting to
$6000, and would express the hope that this regular flow of
the charities of our churches may henceforth never know
an ebb.
5. Resolved, That this Assembly would express their special
approbation of the earnest appeals made in this report by the
Board to our Presbyteries, in favour of more vigilant and energetic Presbyterial action in behalf of Domestic Missions.
6. Resolved, That this Assembly, while deprecating any
wasteful or unnecessary expenditure of Domestic Missionary
funds, would express particular approval of the conduct of the
Board in increasing, as they have done, the salaries of missionaries in the field. The Assembly would express further the
assurance that the Board may proceed to a much larger increase
in the allowance to their missionaries, fully relying on the justice and liberality of our people to supply the Board with such
an increase of means as will enable it to lessen, to some extent,
the privations now endured by our brethren; and while the
Assembly express thus decidedly their view of the duty of the
Board, they would most earnestly exhort the churches to greatly
increased exertions to meet the increased demands on the funds
of the Board, which must result from any attempt to do justice
to our missionary brethren.
7. Resolved, That it be recommended to the Board of Missions to encourage, as far as possible, the organization of the
missionary field into districts, embracing several points of labour, with a view to adapting the system to the work of pioneering by an itinerant ministry.
8. Resolved, That it be recommended to the Presbyteries to
encourage more and more the union of several small congregations in the support of one pastor, which, separately, are unable
of themselves to sustain a minister, with a view to the more
efficient support of the ordinances of God among them, with less
expense to the missionary fund.
9. Resolved, That the following named ministers and ruling
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