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Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ch has attended it, have seemed tojustify the arrangement. Our Church has just received 14 mem-bers, and the Congregational Church 2, all on confession. SUSTENTATION DEPARTMENT. The Sustentation plan, which was organized by the GeneralAssembly of 1871, after three years of separate existence, wasmerged into the Board of Home Missions as a department by theGeneral Assembly of 1874. Its purpose was fourfold : 1. To make a distinction between full pastoral charges and mission charges^ and to encourage and aid the formation of thepastoral relation. 2. To increase the minimum salaries of pastors, and to hastenthe era of self-support. 3. To relieve the Board of Home Missions of the support ofsuch churches, that it might give itself exclusively to its greatmission work, 4. To encourage and aid churches to institute and carry out aplan of weekly or monthly contributions by which every memberof their congregations might have an opportunity to contribute tothis and all the Boards of the Church.
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1894.) BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS. 17 Tlie Assembly of 1874, in joining sustentation to Home Mis-sions, enacted as follows: The work of the Board shall be divided into two departiiipiits, tliat ofHome Missions and that of Sustentation. The claims of each of thosedepartments shall be presented to the churches for a separate collection.Each collection shall be applicable to its own department exclusively, andthe churches are hereby directed to contribute to each; and the Home Boardis hereby ordered so to alter its rules as to adopt and operate the Sustentationscheme in all cases to which it applies, subject only to such modification asthe Assembly itself may hereafter direct. The Assembly of 1878, in the light of seven years experience,made certain changes in the plan of Sustentation, so as to adjustthe conditions somewhat better to the churches seeking aid. Andin view of the fact, that in certain States plans of Synodical Sus-tentation had been adopted, the Assembly of 1884 recommendedthatreportsofmission1894pres

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