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May 19, 1909.
altics to diagcon nun ini
Mr. Holce says: "From
are no God-establisned <
the primary is of more im
in Palestine." At Syracu
lor is a minister, it was
one religion to another
Professor Earp, of Syrac
"It is unscientific and ah:
turned stone-mason and
rock." The writer says
"is nominally a religious
cated to free thought am
more outspoken in its ai
our orthodox theology."
These quotations are i
having similar import.
the question, What shall
and of decent society to
scholarly and unscientific
swer that forces itself 01
The evangelical faith nu
ence in shaping the educa
of the home, social purity
for divine authority, foi
soul's eternal hope.
THE COUNCI1
And its
In the fifteenth chapte
Sunday school lessons ai
of the Council at Jerusal
for the conduct of Churc
Presbyteries, Synods and
be conformed.
The occasion of the Co
ion as to the demands c
iientile believers. Must
quired to conform to the
The decision of the C
Christians must he requii
offered to idols, (2) from
pled; and (3) from fornic
I yourselves, ye shall do w
In the comments on tl
we see explanations tha
forbidden by the Count
wrong, or because they ai
they were matters on whi
weak and uncertain.
It is true enough that
But is this the reason of
not the Council forbid
anger, lying and stealing
some reason lor omitting
The reason would seci
not considering moral la'
all Christians, Gentiles
commandments. The e^u
tiles must observe the
three matters which wen
the three salient features
THE PRESBYTERIA
o following the adopted plan."
the college standpoint, there
:ovenants. What happens at
portance than what took place
se University, whose Chaticelstated
that "to change from
is like getting a new hat."
:use, who is a preacher, says:
surd to suppose that God ever
chiseled commandments on a
of Chicago University, that it
institution, hut if it were dedid
agnosticism, it could not he
raignment of many things in
selected from a large number
We have only space to raise
he the attitude of the church
iward such revolutionary, un:
teaching? There is one an11
our acceptance. It is this:
ist retain and assert its infltiition
of our youth, for the sake
, stable government, reverence
revealed truth and for the
L AT JERUSALEM
Prohibitions.
>r of Acts, around which our
*e now moving, is an account
cm which is our divine model
h courts, and after which our
(ieneral Assemblies may well
uncil was a difference of opin>f
the Christian Church upon
they or must they not he reMosaic
ritual?
7ouncil was that the Gentile
red to abstain (i) from meats
blood and from things stran ation;
"from which if ye keep
ell."
lis lesson in various journals,
t these things were specially
:il because they are morally
re hurtful to health or because
ich the Gentile conscience was
they are wrong and hurtful,
the Council? If so, why did
profanity, Sabbath-breaking.
Ef? Evidently tlicre must be
these, while specifying those.
11 to be that the Council was
w, but ceremonial. Of course
not excepted, obey the ten
lestion was whether the Genceremonial
laws. And these
; specified by the Council are
of Redemption:
N OF THE SOUTH
1. Abstain from idolati
recognize (lo?l as the onb
any. the slightest recogni
or divine helper.
2. Abstain from blood
In the ceremonial law giv
to Moses, the blood, "vvh
bol of substitutionary at<
feited; symbolically, life t
the symbol of this life. R
set my face against that s
for the life of the flesh is
it to vou uuon the altar t<
souls." Treat with rever<
ment which God has pre
3. Abstain from fori
trifling' with the sacred o
Because God says to hi
thee unto me," as his ont
twentieth of Revelation \>
Lamb is come, and his w
The marriage relation is
tween the Church and CI
Gentiles also with special
tiles had customs with r<
tied the marriage relatio
remember that marriage \v
ordinance merely: not \
Adam, but under the co\
our covenanted union wi
1 ^ it.;..
As we review these tlm
three tyes of the several
demption includes (i) th
namely, God only; (2) tl,
namely, by his blood; at
redemption, namely the (
the marriage supper of the
hoi of atonement, so the
hoi of the union between
To justify the invitati
school, it is specially inci
perintendents to provide a
class. The "Adult Class"
the old-fashioned Bible
ized" as a separate depart
some cases conducted mor
This puts a thin veil ove
towards propitiating the f;
selves too "old" or too
day school scholars." Th
just so they come. But v
held by such wise and f;
i 1_ _ A .1 _ A 1. I _
mat wnen once inev nav
to stay away. Hence Ihe
the instruction of this tlej
Certainly in taking rev<
his enemy, hut in passing
is a prince's part to pardo
7
ry. The demand is that we
ir Redeemer, and abstain from
tion of an idol as our Saviour
and from things strangled,
en to Adam and to Noah and
ich is the life," was the symmement.
Life had been for
mist oe paid. .Aim diooci was
ead. Lev. 17: 11, "I will even
oul that eateth blood .
in the blood, and I have given
:> make an atonement for your
lmicc the symbol of the atonevidcd.
lication: from any levity or
rdinance of marriage. Why?
s Church, "I have betrothed
? only betrothed. And in the
re read, "The marriage of the
ife hath made herself ready."
the symbol of the union beirist;
let it be treated by the
care and reverence. The Gen
egard to divorce which belit11;
let the Gentile Christians
as instituted not as an earthly
irior to the covenant with
enant: that it is the type of
th God, and let the heathen
eschewed.
?e prohibitions we see in them
steps in our salvation. Ree
character of our Redeemer,
ie method of our redemption,
id (3) the blessed results of
Jhurch's welcome as bride at
i Lamb. As blood is the symmarriage
relation is the syniChrist
and his Church.
T. E. C.
on to adults to the Sunday
.unbent upon pastors and suniply
and attractively for this
has lately taken the place of
class. It is usually '"organ:ment
of the school, and is in
e as an "annex" to the school,
r it and perhaps does a little
avor of those who think themadvanced"
to be called "Suniis
makes but little difference,
vlien they come they must be
aithful and studious teachers
e entered they will not wish
great need to provide well for
>artment.
cnge, a man is but even with
[ it over he is superior, for it
n.? Bacon.