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6 well attended and I di< out in the corridors sr the others were prayin other meetings that I I ing but Psalms out of branches of the Churcl printed on a leaflet an entire ten days of the wore pretty well to a played and sometimes cover the principle tha ularly struck with an 2 tional meetings. But prayer. The other w preaching for me and would observe the att I was pained to see 1 comfort since my visit body of Presbyterian world. You would nei standing. However, t ways count on. No m Often he stood alone. Staunton, Va. Some < ready to stand alone r thing else when he thi It would be impossi a detailed program of _r .i- - i?j* givt jumt ui me leauin I. John Calvin can Council. I think they Some of the papers wei tracted most attention field, Dr. S. M. Smith, three were superb. ( York, had a remarkabh When I saw his flamin ways wears, I knew tl in his speech. Indeed, receive a thorough goi: surprise he took the such a flogging as he lis Council in Geneva had the paper was extreme for that very reason, one and needs the utn Yet, the more I study t the more difficult does else John Calvin coult . Servetus had come to struggle with Calvin. 2. Sunday School \ attention. I was grea Sunday School work i Scotch brethren interes say that Scotland was many of their men wet Howard, of Philadelph place in the Sunday-scf anything else I Jieard i school part of the proj day School Times and 1 the Whites and Robert 3. A day was speni Criticism. I expected THE PRESBYTERIi i not see little groups standing noking and telling jokes while g, as I have sometimes seen at have attended. We sang nothdeference to the Psalm singing i. Sixteen of these Psalms were id furnished the music for the Conference. Some of them we frazzle. Sometimes the organ it did not, but I could not dist guided in that. I was particiir of reverence in all they just would not stand in eek a visiting minister was while he prayed I thought *1 itude of my people in prayer, low few stood. I have taken to the Council. There was a ministers from all over the /er see more than two or three here was one man I could allatter who else stood he stood. That was Dr. A. M. Fraser, of }f us have observed that he is lot only in prayer but in anynks he is right. ble in a limited article to give ~ ~? t ?mi .? ' me uicciuig. i win tnereiore g topics that were discussed, le in for his full share of the spent a day and a half on him. re excellent. The three that atwere those by Dr. B. B. Warand Dr. James I. Vance. All General R. E. Prime, of New : paper on Calvin and Servetus. g red tie which they say he allere was going to be emphasis I was prepared to see Calvin ng drubbing. But to my utter other side and gave Servetus is probably not had since Little hold of h irri TuHpaH T ftlAnnrUf and rather failed in its purpose The subject is a very delicate lost calmness in its treatment, he story of Calvin and Servetus it become for me to see what 1 have done but what he did. Geneva to enter into a death vork received its full share of tly interested in hearing how s done in -various lands. The ited me especially. I forgot to well represented and a great e very interesting. Mr. Philin o - r ia, made a talk on the pastor's 100I that gripped me more than n connection with the Sundayjram. He writes for the Sun>elongs in a class with men like E. Speer and John R. Mott. t in the department of Higher to hear all sorts of things, but \N OF THE SOUTH. I did not. A conservative n One Scotchman tried very I failed. From his general den have been radical enough, across the water with all tha system. The best thing I 1 was a paper by Prof. W m. P. "The Resurrection of Texas ; He was crowded for time at but it was a great paper. I h cil that showed more scholar a native of Selma, Ala. When the discussion on H I felt that the Conservative profound scholarship as the that the Church of God had i line. 4. What is a proper prej in this twentieth century? nary boys right in their recei to so re-adjust the course in modern conditions? This wl training was discussed. I wi! ing new out of it. Dr. Then a paper on that subject but 1 Council. His oaoen T simnn * * ? tr i? volume that is to contain th I would like to see what or ideal ministers has to say on Education for the Ministry." 5. Foreign Missions form of most excellent papers and terested me most was Dr. Ro stonia Mission in the heart Livingstonia in 1875. He fo of savages with no written la Now there are nearly 5,000 own Mission, to say nothing there are nearly 45,000 childr Or> hv hi? Miceinn TVio TT^.1 ?J ...w A 11W Will land called him home and of their last Assembly. No 1 since I had the privilege of h< The Council showed greai Drs. Morrison and Sheppard me say that we had the great and Mrs. Robert Whyte, of Presbyterian Church is d Whyte for all the kindness h missionaries since the day to the present time. He ren Virginia gentleman than an who was not one. He is 1 courtesy and cordiality. H striking characteristics. I 1 knew him. 6. Home Missions had as Missions, but unfortunatelv J the papers. Among those that was particularly striking topics discussed. There we make mention of them with< of the paper this week. All the papers were" prepa July 7, 1909. ote ran through all of it, lard to get the floor but leanor I suspect he would But he had to go back it Higher Criticism in his leard in this departmen Armstrong, of Princeton and Historical Criticism." id his delivery was pooi eard nothing in the Coun ship. They tell me he L higher Criticism was ovei s could boast of just as other side, and I felt too lothing to fear along this )aration for the ministry Are the Princeton Semiit petition to the trustees the Seminary as to suit lole subject of ministerial 11 confess that I got nothDn Rice was to have read was not able to be at the se, will be printed in the e reports of the Council, le of our own well nigh the subject of "The Ideal _ J . ? ' ea a topic tor a number talks. The man who inbert Laws, of the Livingof Africa. He went to und himself in the midst inguage or anything else, church members in his * of other Missions, and en in the schools carried ted Free Church of Scotmade him Moderator nan has interested me so ;aring Dr. John G. Paton. t interest in the case of L In this connection let ; pleasure of meeting Mr. London. Our Southern leeply indebted to Mr. e has shown our African Lapseley first went out [finds me more of an old ybody I have ever seen :he very embodiment of is energy is one of his wish ouf whole Church i full hearing as Foreign I did not hear many of I heard there was none T1 ? ? xnc9c are some 01 tne re others but I can not )ut occupying the whole red with care and when