WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY OF

DIVINES, a Puritan a embly, which sat from Aug. 1643 to Feb. 1649, in order ‘to confer and treat among themselves of such matters and things touching and concerning the Liturgy, discipline and government of the Church of England, or the vindicating and clearing of the doctrine of the same.’ On April 20, 1644, it submitted to Parliament its Directory for Public Worship, while the first part of its Confe ion of Faith was presented in Oct. 1644. Both these documents and the Shorter and Larger Catechisms were ratified and approved by the General A embly of the Church of Scotland, and still remain the authorized standards of that establishment. The A embly also attempted to set up a Presbyterian system of church government in England, but all its work was swept away at the Restoration. cational institution, founded in New Wilmington, Pa., as the Westminster Collegiate Institute, by the United Presbyterian Church, It has a governing board of trustees elected by two synods of the church. Its present name and status was a umed in 1892. Its productive funds amount to $500,000. In 1922 it had a student body of 341 and the members of the faculty numbered 20.