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8 he must wield with energy th by the help of God. Pastor of Maubengc and \ The Huguenot Society i members to help in sustair membership dues are one do is one feels inclined to g cpnt tn tUo i K\J kill utasuici, HITS. Grace St., Richmond, \ a. NEW TEST AM The members of a young cently surprised to hear tl more bishops in the Presb) other denomination of Chri plained that the New Testa terian bishops or elders, ai the Episcopal or Roman Cat again in that class. What he said on that oc< for the satisfaction of other have given this subject serio >1 1. i na.1 mere was no 01 Testament other than thos< in every church has been tl the Presbyterian Church sin 2. This position has been of the most scholarly divii munion, including Dr. Lig the most brilliant exegcte mentary on the Epistle to article entitled, "The Synon in which he maintains wit! that bishop and presbyter the same church officer. The heads of his aremmei (1) In Philippians I : I P; deacons" and therefore th< presbyters because "elders church" and would not ht apostolic salutation. (2) In Act 20: 17 Paul sn byters or elders of the chi address to them he calls the and 28. (3) In 1 Peter 5:1-2 Sii or presbyters to do theii bishops of the flock, not by (4) In 1 Timothy 3:1-7 qualifications of bishops and (5)* In Titus 1:5-7 Paul and bishop as two titles for (6) Clement, of Rome, w these words as Paul had us the same order of church o (7) This identity of bishc is found in the Peshito S] Scriptures. How can the diocesan bis Papal Church be defendet facts as these? It is gener; admit the facts on the grou is a natural development frc or New Testament elders. ? THE PRESBYTERIAN e weapon of anti-alcoholism ANDRE DURAND. Sous-lc-Bois. is greatly in need of more ling this good work. The liar a year or as much more ive. Contributions can be J. B. Halyburton, 307 W. ENT BISHOPS. men's Bible class were rele teacher say, "There are rterian Church than in any stians." When he had exnient bishops were Presbvrid not diocesan bishops in holic sense, there was peace :asion is here given in part young men who may never >us attention: rder of bishops in the New i elders who were ordained lie faith and the practice of ce apostolic times, i held and defended by many nes of the Episcopal Comhtfoot, Bishop of Durham, of them all. In his Comthe Philippians he has an yms Bishop and Presbyter," li great force and clearness and elder were names of nt are as follows: aul salutes the "bishops and :se bishops were elders or > were ordained in every ive been omitted from the inimons to Miletus the preslrch of Ephesus and in his :m bishops. Read verses 17 non Peter urges the elders r work as shepherds and constraint but willingly, and 5: 17-19 Paul gives the 1 calls them elders, again uses the words elder the same church officer, 'riting about A. D. 90, uses ed them to indicate one and fficers. krvo ti?lf 1-* 1 * ~ yo nun ciucia ui prcsuyiers /riac version of the sacred hop of the Episcopal or the 1 in the presence of such ally defended by those who nd that the diocesan bishop >m the Presbyterian b:shops This is a historic fact, but f OF THE SOUTH. no more defensible than th< were developed in the Chi the immediately following i* a defense peculiarly unfc because it lays him open t diocesan bishop is a natura Testament bishops or eldc is the Pope a natural dev bishop and therefore the 1 than the former. If the de rv/-.,rw1 f 1-:- T7_: swU iui ma episcopacy, w Romanist and his Papacy? no stopping place along th< between New Testament church and the Pope of Ro Certainly there is no plac succession in as much as tl or elders in every church the apostles, (2) were not and (3) were not witnesses Instead of several chun should always be several bi first is defended by "nat second is the teaching of tli is tne diocesan bishop of 1 the second is the New Test terian Church. We will al remain Presbyterians. THE VOICE OF S Writing, some time age sophical and theological j lisle expressed the followi ions. After stating his- ow of ministry may reasonably ment facts, he goes on to a however, within the Chur Lightfoot, do not hold Epi the New Testament; and a scholars outside the Episc of affirming that only two, Christian ministry were i This being so, however dea Cession of oniccnnoto w. v.tw Vp'^vvpaiv, that it is indispensable to 1 sacraments? Can we mail ways acceptable to God , devoted to episcopacy, and able? Acceptable when mi and unacceptable when min To do this is to grant higli moral monsters than to acl Presbyterians, Methodists, and many others outside tl munion; while at the sam that God the Holy Ghost is Unfl IPC fiAlllc onJ I avuu, anu opil lid, II] above all in their holy ze by their fruits we may kn< then may these nomepisco known to be branches of by sacrament and nourishe love."?Church of Scotland June 9, 1909. : genesis of other errors that .irch during the second and centuries of its history. It irtunate for the Episcopalian 0 this pitiless assault if the 1 development from the ?e\v :rs in every church, so also elopment from the diocesan attef is not more defensible dense of the Episcopalian is 1 hy is it not also good for the 1 T or11 ? * 1- * 1 ivaii_v mere seems lO De : line of natural development bishops or elders in every me. e for the doctrine of apostolic lese New Testament bish ?ps (i) were not successors of chosen by Christ in person, of Christ's resurrection, ches for every bishop there shops for every church. The ural development" and the le New Testament. The first P-! - " " iiic episcopal v^nurch, while anient bishops of the Presbybide with the Scriptures and ENSE AND TRUTH. >, in one ot the great philo- | otirnals, the Bishop of Carng shrewd and sound opinn belief that the three orders be inferred from New Testaidd: "Great Biblical scholars, ch of England, like Bishop* scopacy a fact established in . whole host of great Biblical opal dhurches go the length and not three, orders of the ecocnized hv AnnciUf o -j trly we prize the historic siiccan we reasonably maintain the validity of tlie Word and itain that sacraments are alwhen ministered by men I otherwise always unaccept- . inistered by a Caesar Borgia, listered by a Richard Baxter? icr sacramental preference to cnowledged saints; to put all Baptists, Congregationalists, le reach of a valid holy come time we know of a surety , richly blessing them in their i their work and worship, and al for Foreign Missions. If dw churches as well as men, pal churches be certainly the True Vine, incorporated d by humble faith ana activp I Magazine.