Excerpt from The Old Guard, Vol. 7: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Literature, Science, and Art, and the Principles of 1776 and 1860; November, 1869 The Philadelphia Presbyterian of last week was sorely grieved by one of Dr. Stuart Robinson's masterly expositions of the inconsistency and bald hypocrisy of the Old School Assembly, in passing on the same day two contradictory papers in res pect to its feelings towards the Southern Church. In one breath the Assembly gives 'expression to its sentiments of Christian fraternity and fellowship towards the ministers and members of the Southern Church, ' and declares that it inbe rits and holds with them the same ancient symbols of faith, the same forms Of government and of wor ship, ' and expresses 'the desire that the day may not be distant when we may again be united in one great organization.' In almost the next breath the same Assembly voted that five thousand dollars should be appro priated from its funds of the Publi cation board to aid certain troub lers in Israel, ' who, having failed in their efforts to rob the Presbyterian congregations of Kentucky of their boas s of worship, moved to the other side of the Ohio River that they rn ght'appeal to the political prej idices of radical judges of Fe deral courts to set aside the deci s one of the Supreme Court of Ken tucky, which had confirmed the rights of congregations to their own houses of worship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.