Mr. Talmage next addressed the Synod and offered the following resolution: 

“Resolved, That the Synod hear with gratitude to God of the great progress of the work of the Lord at Amoy, and in the region around, so that already we hear of six organized churches with their Consistories, and others growing up not yet organized, two native pastors who were to have been ordained on the 29th of March last, and the whole under the care of a Classis composed of the missionaries of our Church and of the English Presbyterian Church, the native pastors, and representative elders of the several churches.  It calls for our hearty gratitude to the great Head of the Church that the missionaries of different Churches and different countries have been enabled, through Divine grace, to work together in such harmony.  It is also gratifying to us that these churches and this Classis have been organized according to the polity of our Church, inasmuch as the Synod of the English Presbyterian Church has approved of the course of their missionaries in uniting for the organizing of a church after our order; therefore, this Synod would direct its Board of Foreign Missions to allow our missionaries to continue their present relations with the missionaries of the English Presbyterian Church, so long as the present harmony shall continue, and no departure shall be made from the doctrines and essential policy of our Church, or until the Synod shall otherwise direct.”

There were speeches for and against, by distinguished men in the Church.  Dr. T. W. Chambers, President of the Synod, made the concluding address, as follows: 

“If there be any one here who has a deep and tender sympathy with our brother Talmage and his senior missionary colleague (Mr. Doty), I claim to be the man.

“Mr. Doty was my first room-mate at college thirty-one years ago, and ever since we have been fast friends.  As to the other, his parents-themselves among the most eminent and devoted Christians ever known-were long members of the church in New Jersey, of which I was formerly in charge.  For several years I was his pastor.  I signed the testimonials of character required by the American Board before they commissioned him.  I pronounced the farewell address when he left this country in 1850.  I have watched with intense interest his entire career since, and no one welcomed him more warmly when he returned last year, bearing in his face and form the scars which time and toil had wrought upon his constitution.  It is needless to say, then, that I love him dearly for his own sake, for his parents’ sake, for his numerous friends’ sake, but, more than all, for that Master’s sake whom he has so successfully served.  Nor is there anything within reason which I would not have the Church do for him.  He shall have our money, our sympathy, our prayers, our confidence-the largest liberty in shaping the operations of the Mission he belongs to.