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THE

RELIGIOUS MONITOR,

AND

EVANGELICAL REPOSITORY.

DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE REFORMATION, AS SET FORTH IN
THE FORMULARIES OF THE WESTMINSTER DIVINES, AND

WITNESSED FOR BY THE

ASSOCIATE SYNOD OF NORTH AMERICA.

REV. JAMES MARTIN,
Editor and Proprietor.

VOLUME XV.

Thus saith the Lord, stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and
walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.-Jer. vi. 16.

ALBANY:

PRINTED BY HOFFMAN & WHITE.
1838-9.

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Of the Associate Synod of North America, at their Meeting in Philadel phia, May 23, 1838, and continued by adjournment, being their ThirtySeventh Annual Meeting.

The Synod met pursuant to adjournment, and was constituted with prayer by the Rev. Abraham Anderson, Moderator.

MEMBERS PRESENT.

[Those members whose names are marked thus (*) were not present at the opening of Synod.]

Of the Presbytery of Cambridge.

Dr. P. Bullions,

Messrs. Martin,

Campbell,

Blair,

*Graham.

ELDERS.

Messrs. John Edwards,

Robert Crookshanks,

James Maxwell,

James Smeallie,

John A. Gilmore,
*John Elliott.

Of the Presbytery of Philadelphia.

MINISTERS.

Messrs. John Adams,

Smart,

Webster,

Wm. Easton,

*McGill,
*McNaughton.

ELDERS.

James Wilson,