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Louis Giroux, B.A., William S. Nelson, B.A.”

AT HOME AND
AND ABROAD.

PHILADELPHIA, JULY, 1887.

EDITORIAL.

REPORT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S COMMITTEE ON THE CONSOLIDATED MAGAZINE.

The resolutions of the General Assembly of 1886, under which this Committee was appointed and its duties assigned, were appended to the Report of the Committee on Missionary Periodicals, and are as follows:

Resolved, (1) That the whole subject of the organization and methods of the consolidated magazine, as determined by the Assembly, is now referred to a special Committee consisting of-Ministers: Marvin R. Vincent, Howard Crosby, Erskine N. White, William P. Breed, Charles A. Dickey, Arthur T. Pierson, John S. MacIntosh; ruling elders: Anson D. F. Randolph, Warner Van Norden, John H. Dey, Robert N. Willson.

(2) That this Committee is hereby instructed to consult with all of the boards through their respective secretaries, so as to be fully informed as to their wishes and the reasons thereof as to the arrangement of the new magazine.

(3) That this Committee shall have power to determine whether an editor shall be employed; and, if one is employed, to determine his duties and fix his salary; to apportion the expenses of the magazine among the boards, and to do whatever may be necessary to start this publication, and to conduct it until the next General Assembly (4) That this Committee is directed to

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report to the next General Assembly any measures which they may deem necessary to continue the magazine in the manner best adapted to meet its purposes; and that, when their report is accepted, their duties will cease.

The resolutions which determined the consolidation of the magazines provided that the first number of the new consolidated periodical should appear on the 1st of January, 1887.

The first meeting of the Committee was held in New York, June 30, 1886. Owing to the summer vacation it was not practicable to hold another meeting until September 17, at which time, according to the instructions of the General Assembly, the secretaries of all the boards were present by invitation, with the exception of Dr. Ellinwood, who was detained by illness. They were invited to express their views at length upon all points relating to the structure and conduct of the new magazine, and a long and interesting conference was held, in which every board was fully represented.

Shortly after the organization of the Committee, the Rev. Erskine N. White, D.D., was elected secretary of the Board of Church Erection, and presented his resignation to the Committee in a letter bearing date September 20. Under the peculiar circum