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July 7, 1909. published in book form wil to Christian literature. The Council took three full of pleasure and interes on a boat excursion up th< At West Point we were i given every opportunity t our army officers are tra must learn war there is i this land where they cou thought came over and ove before in the history of th reason or excuse for war, nations so thoroughly arm to be praying more earnes reign of the Prince of Peac Another day we were tj all immigrants to this cot the inspection given by out interesting place, yet there sink deep into one's soul a does not have to live on El load of Russian Hebrews the examinations and cross We saw others rejected ar sea. Indeed we saw a wh Some were in tears, some i left a brother minister re sermon in what we saw. On still another day we in the Presbyterian Board building. The Foreign ft floor, the Home ftlission off other, and Church Erectior of having them all in one ci idea might be carried furth of their work together. These side trips made it cnnMl.. u: ~c . 1 ouuaujf aimicuiiug Ul me ( lands. This we enjoyed, own Southern delegates, known at close quarters be admire them and love then Dr. Oswald Dykes, the was to me the most intere: He has been the leader of years. I was all the more I had read his book on the < He is very affable and talk* When he learned I was froi particularly into our prohil gro question. I was also James Orr, that great defer not show the slightest ini eise so iar as I could see, ex He does not seem to have manity that Dr. Dykes has. The most winsome man 'Merle D'Augigne of Paris fine and he showed a cordk But time fails to make m Dr. G. D. Matthews, of Lc retary of the Council, and who is Secretary of the We dominating men of the Cot THE PRESBYTERIA1 11 make a valuable addition ] little side trips that were 1 t. One day we were taken ? : Hudson and West Point. 1 shown every courtesy and ( o inspect the place where 1 ined. If our young men < no more healthful spot in 1 Id go to learn. But the ' r again, must it be? Never ' e world was there so little and never before were the J ed to the teeth. We need itly for the coming of the :e. iken to Ellis Island where jntry must land and pass government. It is a most is a pathos about it all that nd makes him glad that he His Island. We saw a ship land. We saw some pass ? the ferry to meet friends, id ordered back across the ole room of rejected ones. ( seemed indifferent. As we :marked that there was a There are a dozen. were entertained at lunch I rooms. It is a splendid fission offices occupy one ices another, Education an1 another. I liked the idea ty and in one building. The er by having them do more possible for us to see perdelegates from the various First of all, I enjoyed our Some of them I had never ;fore. To know them is to 1. president of the Council, sting figure in the Council. English Presbyterians for interested in him because Christian Ministry recently. ; in a most interesting way. m Georgia he inquired very i>ition law and into the negreaHv interested in Dr. ider of the faith, but he did erest in me or in anybody cept a few personal friends, that intense interest in huin the Council was Dr. TJI- 1.11? ? >. ms iaiK.s were always 1 ility that was irresistible. 1 ention even of the big men. J >ndon; who is General Sec- J Dr. \ym. Henry Roberts, 1 stern section, were the two < incil. i * OF THE SOUTH. I may close with a few Bishop Candler, of the Met hat he had but one serious ind that is that there are n jrobably thinking about tl Georgia. I wonder if he ki vorld? According to the C lay in round numbers five ; ng members in the Presby ion scholars in Presbyte lave heard it said that the r\ i- 2? . aigcsi V^llUlLll III inc WOl ustify that statement. "/ sm" by W. J.'Townsend iress, claims more than < he Methodist Church anc VIethodist Sunday-schools, iierzog New Encyclope< jranches have "six million nay not be the largest an* :o feel lonesome or do as El >elf under the juniper tree o .know that there are fiv working under the Prest here are millions upon mi ither names, working toj janner of the Cross. Wher 'eel that the Kingdom is c< THE REFORME1 A late member of the In rated art magazine publisl landsome engravings of submitted for the monu lieneva. The association purpose of preparing for tl >f the four-hundredth ann iccided to mark that evenl iment planned on broad 1 :he public mind, the name ormers in all parts of the ine site 01 trie monumc rown Council of 1907 is amparts which were cons Reformation for the defen jendence of the City. The rhe Reformer's Wall, are < ions, near the Bastion Ga /ersity. The design to wh rancs was given was that c ianne and M. Reymond, sc nonumental work with tab aistoric wall, and has in tl :haracter to the whole wc Reformers, Farel, Calvin, We are not informed as ivill be completed and reac /in Celebration in July in >embly appointed the forn Moore, tp be its representa :ion. It will be universal! :ould not accept the appo ind engagements at Union 7 figures. When I first met hodist Church, he remarked i objection to Presbyterians ot enough of them. He was he Presbyterian Church in lew how many there are in ouncil reports there are toand a half million communterian Church and four milrian Sunday-schools. We Presbyterian Church is the Id. These figures hardly i New History of Methodand others, just from the sight million members for I seven million scholars in According to the Schaff jia, tne rsaptists ot all members in the world. We d yet we have no occasion ijah did when he flung him. It is a great inspiration e and a half million others >yterian banner, and that Uions of others, known by 'ether with us under the i we take it in we begin to Dming. Walter L. Lingle. R'S MONUMENT. ternaiional Studio, an illus nea in i\ew YorK, nas very a number of the designs ment of the reformer at organized in 1906 for the tie celebration this summer liversary of Calvin's birth, : by the erection of a monlistorical lines, recalling to :s and influence of the Re: world. :nt selected by the Geneva at the foot of the ancient .tructed at the time of the ce of the liberty and indese old ramparts, known as Dn the Promenade des Bas rdens, and facing the Uniiich the first prize of 10,000 if a certain architect of Lauulptor, of Paris. It extends let and inscription along the ie centre, giving unity and irk, a group of four of the Beza and Knox, to whether this monument ly for unveiling at the CalGeneva. Our General. Asler Moderator, Dr. W. W. tive at the Geneva Celebra y regretted that Dr. Moore intment, because of duties Seminary.