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6 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