EARLY RECORDS OF A PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
AMONG the many interesting relics in the possession of Dea. S. H. Dominy, of Beekmantown, are the first records of the Presbyterian church of that place, which we have been permitted to peruse, and from which we take some extracts on the subject of church discipline. In the records of 1834, we find the following resolutions unanimously set forth as the sense of the church concerning certain common practices:— Resolved, That dancing and frolicking shall be considered a disreputable offense in the church. Resolved, That playing ball is an unprofitable waste of time, and one that ought to be reproved. Resolved, That horse-racing shall be a disreputable offense. Resolved, That we shall consider that person guilty of slander, who reports unchristian conduct about a member of the church in any other manner than is pointed out in the gospel.—Sel.