The General Assembly [pp. 545-580]

The General Assembly.
moved from the session of the church of Wooster, by his
own resignation of his office in that church, and not by the
judicial action of the Session, it was not competent for the
Presbytery to order his restoration to office by the Session;
and, therefore, the judgment of the Synod of Ohio, confirming
such action of the Presbytery, was erroneous, and ought to be,
and is hereby reversed, and the complaint of the Session, so far
as it relates to this point, is sustained.
Division of the Synod of Philadelphia.
The Committee of Bills and Overtures reported, without
any expression of opinion, the requests of certain Presbyteries
belonging to the Synods of Philadelphia and Virginia, to be
constituted into a new Synod.
Whereupon, the following resolution was presented by the
Rev. Stuart Robinson: Resolved, That the requests of these four Presbyteries be
granted, and that the Presbyteries of Carlisle, Baltimore, and
Eastern Shore, from the Synod of Philadelphia, and the Presbytery of Winchester, from the Synod of Virginia, be hereby
set off and constituted a new Synod, to be called the Synod of
, which body shall meet in the F Street Church in the
city of Washington, on the last Tuesday, (31st) of October next
at 7~ P. M., and be opened with a sermon by the Rev. Win.
S. Plumer, D. D., or in his absence by the oldest minister present, who shall preside till another Moderator be chosen; and
that thereafter the Synod convene on their own adjournment."
After an extended discussion, the resolution was adopted,
and the blank was filled with "Baltimore," as the name of
the new Synod.
-Division of the Synod of Pittsburgh.
The following petition from the Synod of Pittsburgh was
presented by the Committee of Bills and Overtures:
"Resolved, That the next General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States be petitioned to erect a
new Synod, embracing that part of the Synod of Pittsburgh
which lies west and north of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers;
and in case it shall erect the new Synod for which this Synod
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