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8 five years ago, no one can i tion as to increase in numl tied. This investigation will b 1905-8, as the minutes of this year have not yet bee: were enrolled in the Sunt 21,188 officers and teachers 1908 there were reported . and 189,086 scholars; or an of 9.7 per cent of officers a cent of scholars. ^ But during these four y< Church increased from 24< cent. This shows that the of the Sunday schools is ju ally be expected from the of the churches. The inert was eight tenths of one | crease in the membership c the scholars was one-tentl This shows that the cor not claim much in the ma number of scholars broug Church. The question very natui penditure during these five tributed by the churches, profits of the Publishing I in this work, or a total o the results that the church In their report for 1906 tion to the need of this woi following figures: The pi States is 30,488,629, the < denominations in these St; 20,325,753 out of the Chur of these States, that is, tho: ty-one years of age, is 8,9 Sunday-schools of all dene 304. Making allowance fo in the Sunday-schools, th 5,000,000 children in our S< are not now reached by tin THE BEST All the departments of profess that they could a< if they were provided wil the one method which I a funds was brought before ceivea not the slightest att< There were two reports minority, and there was p tween them. The majorit was to give according as til is what the tithers preachtheir income when so mud the tithe doubles, etc. L recommend the tithe becau deprecate a haphazard, slip one thing they seevm to fea be as liberal in results as th who think so have had litt THE PRESBYTERIA lossibly tell. But the queslers can very easily be sete limited to the four years, the General Assembly for 11 published. In 1905 there lay schools of our Church , ^ 171 on i i T > diiu scnoiars. in 23,063 officers and teachers increase for the four years md teachers, and of 8.8 per ?ars the membership of the 5,769 to 268,733, or 8.9 per growth in the membership st about what would naturgrowth in the membership ?ase of officers and teachers >er cent more than the in?f the church, whilst that of \ of one per cent less. nmittee and its agents can itter of the increase in the lit into the schools of our rally rises whether the exyears of the $84,162.77 conand the $31,569.35 of the 4ouse that have been used f $115,732.12, has produced had a right to expect, the committee calls attenrk in our bounds, giving the opulation of the Southern Church membership of all ites is 10,162,876, leaving ch. The school population 5e between seven and twen46,497. Enrolled in all the iminations therp arp X _ r the adults and the infants is would leave more than outhland of school age who s Sunday-school. Sunday School Worker. ' METHOD. beneficence of our church :complish very much more h more funds. Yet when m sure would double their : the late Assembly, it reention. made, the majority and the radically no difference bey thought the true method le Lord prospered us. That -and practice; one tenth ot 1; when the income doubles ater in the document they se it is systematic and they shod manner of giving. The r is that the tithers will not le non-tithers. Surely those le experience in the matter. N OF THE SOUTH. The tithers are invariably the church. If there are any largei that they began by giving the tit We have frequently seen churches in which the sum of all tions amounted to $12 or $15, ar or $300 were raised toward the e yet there were members of the gate income was $15,000 to $25,( one-hall of the mission church* porting could we but teach the p A Baptist brother in Virginia pastor came to his church who and in the course of a few year of his people to practice it?and si $7,000 a year as easily as before When will we use the Lord's c tVll the church's treasury? WAS NOT CALVIh By Rev. D. W. Bi There is one apparent stain t Calvin that would s^eni to conn itre, much of the favorable judgrr . and achievements should engend at which the enemies of Calvii their shafts of hatred and ridicul the friends of Calvin broach wi Even our well-equipped Doctor ] ticle, says that "Calvin never si thetically human as in his treatn burning of Servetus at the staki stain upon the fair fame of our Vet, I think a patient, fair and t will save Calvin from the need c of an apology. What are the h uvi who waa tuuuciuiicu duu I Geneva, on October 27, 155 which he was condemned was hi cient church a blasphemer was < sies, who fell away during perse heat of passion, spoke irreverentl In the middle ages the punishmt vere. It was either imprisoni death, therre de l'Etoile, an ei who taught Calvin law in his y for the position that blasphemy 1 murder or robbery. He taught nations depends upon obedience sisted that if they punished outra of men, much more ought the; against the rights of God. "Wh rist, "Shall the law protect a i goods, and not in his soul and in eternal inheritance?" We may i while nations have outgrown French jurist, his logic is unan there was a law against blaspher sympathy with it, if not the auth law Servetus grossly offended. Who was Servetus? Michael iard, who in his youth, obtained ing, and who had some natural { his study of the Bible, he becam July 28, 1909. largest givers in the givers you will fm?.l he. reports oi country the benevolent donaid with difficulty $200 cangelist's salary, and church whose prrfrre XX). We believe that ;s would be self-supeople to pay the tithe., told the writer that a believed in the tithe, s brought a majority lid he, "We now raise we raised $1,800." ommanded method to Eider. I RIGHT? rannen. ipon the character of teract, in great measlent that his character er. There is one event 1 and Calvinism aim e, and which many of th words of apology. Dosker, in a recent arhowed himself so palent of Servetus." The e is the one apparent illustrious Reformer, horough investigation >f even the semblance icts in the case? burned at the stake in 3. The crime for lasphemy. In the anone who taueht here cution, or who, in the y of God or of Christ. ;nt for heresy was senent, banishment or minent French jurist, outh, was responsible ivas worse than either that the prosperity of to the laws, and inges against the rights y to punish outrages at!" said the great ju nan in his body and his most precious and notice in passing, that this opinion of the ? swerable. In Geneva ny, and Calvin was in or of it. Against this Servetus was a Spansome desultory trainjifts of reasoning. In e possessed of the be