The Day the Cardinal Rode Through the Mud: A Historic Union of Northern and Southern Presbyterians

The Presbyterian Centennial Celebration.

TWO MASS RIDDINGS HELD. Commemoration of the First Call — The Calendar at Washington. The guests of Bishops by the Methodist W. Central.

This is the centennial day of the founding church, and the members of the two general assemblies united in great mass meetings in the Academy of Music and the Horticultural hall. The ceremonies began in both buildings at 10 o'clock this morning, and the crowds in attendance at both places were enormous.

In the Academy of Music Rev. J. J. Bullock, D.D., moderator of the Southern Assembly, presided. When Dr. Bullock was introduced as presiding officer there were thunders of applause. He presented by Dr. Smith, moderator of the Northern Assembly, and when Dr. Smith, in welcoming the southern guests, said that the audience should remember that the members of both these great assemblies were Presbyterian above all things, and that the brethren from the south had crossed the Mason and Dixon line almost without knowing the division, there was another round of enthusiastic applause. They were of the same ancestry, the same faith and the same glorious history.

The fifteen thousand people then rose and sang "Praise God, from Whom all Blessings Flow." Dr. Bullock, as representative of the Southern Assembly, made a brief but eloquent address. "He formally reciprocated the fraternal sentiments of the brethren of the north."

Then the congregation sang "All the People that on Earth do Dwell," and "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name." Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, was the first orator, and spoke for an hour on the "History of Presbyterianism." "The Future" was the subject of an address by Rev. Benjamin M. Palmer, D.D., of New Orleans.

The great audience also crowded Horticultural hall adjoining the academy, and here, too, there was the same commingling of the blue badges of the northern assembly and the blue and white lodges of the representatives from the southern branch. Rev. Dr. Charles L. Thompson, of Kansas City, moderator of the northern assembly, was in the chair. The opening ceremonies were brief and when Moderator Thompson introduced Congressman Breckenridge of Lexington college there was much enthusiasm. He spoke on "Calvinism and Religious liberty." His reference to church union was received with extreme warmth.

Rev Howard Crosby, D.D., followed with an address on "Presbyterianism and Biblical Infallibility."