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PRACTICAL LESS
After the Council at Je
trines were determined by
sembled to consider certai
Paul and Barnabas return*
by Judas and Silas. After
returned to Jerusalem, but
and became his companior
tour.
Some time after, Paul s
they revisit the cities where
pel and had founded chur<
peaceful and fruitful in Am
ticular work was not the s
gage in the frontier work <
places of opportunity ami s
already established. Tlies
lished were probably minis
had been ordained on the j
in marked contrast to our
ing a church and leaving it
tion, and the church not wi
unless they have a pastor in
If the great home missio
be done and churches sust
will be when the Church re
all the means of grace an
work, whether Paul be ab<
Christian of the present d;
of Paul's day, that each n
evangelist, an<l that each eh
waste places be built up anc
as the garden of the Lord.
Paul remembered his chi
aware that they might be<
relapse or be seduced by he
a tender solicitude concern
he had an earnest longing
pastor of the present day \\
those whom he has led to C
Throughout all of Paul'
same remembrance of his i
the writing of many of his
whole today should ever k
in the obscure fields and b
weak churches strcngthenec
It is much easier to orgai
keep them alive.
If one has gone wrong i
place to lead a better life is
was passed. There the gen
be recognized and the sures
the most friends and inter
There the truest sympathy w
11 ? i- - i_
LC1CM wen winners UC Willi
mistake to go off to some d
shadow will be apt to folio
and it will not be so well ui
seeking a better life will 1
ceiver and as having sailed
Y
THE PRESBYTERI/
ONS FOR TODAY.
rusalcm, when certain docthe
apostles and elders asn
differences and practices,
?d to Antioch, accompanied
delivering the decree, Judas
: Silas remained with Paul .
1 on his second missionary
uggested to Barnabas that
: they had preached the gos:hes.
While his work was
:ioch, Paul felt that his pariettled
pastorate, but to en)f
the Church, opening new
trengthening those churches
>e churches already estabtered
to by the elders who
)revious journey. This was
present practice of organizwithout
services or instruclling
to undertake any work
charge.
n work of the Church is to
ained and made fruitful, it
cognizes the fact that it has
d means of prosecuting its
>ent or present. When the
ly realizes as the Christian
lember of the church is an
ier is a pastor, then will the
[ the wilderness will flourish
ldren in the faith, and was
:ome discouraged or suffer
;resy; so he had at all times
ling their spiritual welfare;
to behold their faces, as a
rishes to keep in touch with
Christ.
s ministry, there was this
former friends which led to
epistles. The Church as a
eep in mind those who are
e just as eager to keep the
1 as it is to begin new work,
nize churches than it is to
T. M. H.
n any way, by far the best
right where ^he poorer life
mineness of the change will
t confidence regained. There
ested people will be found,
ill be manifested and the sinthe
one struggling. It is a
istant place to recover, llie
w in some mysterious way,
iderstood there, and the one
?e regarded as being a deunder
false colors.
lN of the south.
THE DISAGREEME
BARNi
The disagreement betvve<
aries to the Gentiles, Paul a
trated the fact that both 1
There were no doubt sharp a
much personal feeling ente
No doubt both of them \ver<
ally impetuous and impatien
and thought perhaps that it
in a hard work depending i
might forsake them and lea
helpers. He was not ready
had undergone any change o
resolute and more courageou
nabas resented what he the
towards his kinsman. It vvj
who had cost him many tea
wished to give him anotl
good." He thought that Jol
return to missionary endea
willing to endure hardship:
shrank. It appears that Ba
later spoke high of John \
and declared that he had
ministry."
KCHOKS IN
A correspondent of "The
Savannah Assembly, and an
which to base a hope of org
"The threat of civil suits ^
before the Assembly, furnh
references to the present un
tions between the Northern
land remnant. Of course, th
union of the Northern and
made more of these contenti
Nevertheless it must be admi
has served to postpone all
union. This Assembly was
before it an overture or a si
that is recalled as to the que
or con. Both sides are sati:
tions established by the fed<
Churches.
The anticipated position o
minority Presbyterian Churc
with the necessity of organi
face, has not been realized,
many former Cumberland P
plored as a real loss to the k
families are reported to be
and perhaps lost to church
it is thought that a good in
finally find a home frt the
rather humorous situation is
Calvinistir sprtinn r?f thp phi
ern Assembly, while the Am
the Southern churches."
June 23, 1909.
NT OF PAUL AND
<VBAS.
m the two great missionnd
Barnabas, signally illusthese
men were men still.
>vords between the two, and
red into the disagreement.
; at fault. Paul was naturt,
and perhaps overbearing,
would be unsafe to engage
upon one who at any time
ive them without sufficient
to believe that John Mark
f heart or had become more
is. On the other hand, Bar>ught
to be undue severity
is hard to leave behind one
irs and much anxiety. He
ler opportunity to "make
lin Mark was sincere in his
vor, and that he was now
s from which he formerly
rnabas was right, for Paul
lark as a "fellow laborer,"
become "profitable to the
T. M. H.
CHICAGO.
Interior," writing from the
xious to find something on
anic union, says:
which Colonel Young made
died some ammunition for
ifortunate property contenAssembly
and the Cumberle
opponents of the organic
1 Southern Churches have
ons than the facts justified,
itted that the present status
practical talk of ortranic
notable for not having liad
ingle expression of opinion
rstion of organic union, pro
sfied with the present relajration
of the Presbyterian
f the Southern Church as a
h in several southern states
ic union staring her in the
The disintegration of so
resbyterian churches is de:ingdom
of Christ, as many
without any church home.
activities nencerortn. tsut
iany of the "loyalists" will
Southern Church, and the
pointed out, that the more*
irch has gone to the North"linian
element is coming to