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4 A BANNER TO What use can a Church fession of Faith? There a Bible itself to be their cree of any Confession of Faith But flip rpciilt lioc Koo.a J. existence of a concurrence out a standard definitely And the fruit is indefinite of harmony. It has been a large part o uess of the great churches they have Confessions, fir the Word of God, which which they gather, and tin The Reformed Churches c the late Ninth Council in N not identical in form and sential doctrine, so that in history, speaking various Our and marr-li mmnoMl.r ? world for Christ. A primary use of a Con world the truth which th Scriptures to teach. The ground of the truth"; premankind for God, and the grace. The Church is con tions. It is her office, not c to defend it, but to hold it i the eyes of men. Her own youth, and all outside of Church what she regards truths of her great text-boo flict of human thought, of t sion of the Church of Chris facts and truths which she from the God of Truth. A Confession or creed i< lowship to those adhering t they rally on the field. L affirms unity, and it effects of a chieftain, which draws holds them in united move ard of a church unites in c common faith, and strength ? common service. By her Confession, more the teaching given by her ? ministers of the Word, anc ministers are instructed an doctrine which the Church bodies in its creed. It is tl of all its witnesses and tea< of all its preachers, the Chu bers and jto all the world, i T t line O 1 ? 1-~ a ..uo <1 ?ii\v pictiuns ia.ii.ii system of truth, and speaks a right to keep its teachers ists and missionaries true tc under its own banner. One of the most vital t church is the instruction c form of catechisms the Chui of the redemption through r THE PRESBYTERIA BE DISPLAYED. have for a creed or a Conre those who, affirming the d, deny the right and value , or other standard of truth. 1 such religious bodies the in unwritten doctrine with stated to which to appeal, views and often a sad loss f the strength and steadfast, known as Reformed, that mly based they believe on are the standards around der which they go forward. >f the world represented in lew York, have Confessions, statement, but one in esmany lands, with a various tongues, they heartily conand confidently to win the fession is to declare to the e Church understands the Church is "the pillar and -eminently a witness to all message of his truth and imissioned to teach all na>nly to uphold the truth and Lip as a blazing torch before members, her children and her have right to ask the as the vital and essential ks, God's Word. In the conruth and error, it is the mist to stand and testify to the has received by revelation 5 a bond of union and fel0 it, a banner around which ike the flag of a nation, it ? unity. Like the standard together his followers, and ment and effort, th? standrne body those who have a tens and inspires them for a over, the Church rbgulates commissioned teachers, her 1 other office bearers. Her d trained in the system of finds in the Word, and emie creed of the Church and :hers. Through the mouth rch speaks to its own memand in no uncertain sound, i, and affirms a concurrent one eTeat messaw Tt hue o ? "* *" " , its preachers, its evangel) its own faith, and battling ises of the standards of a >f her own youth. In the rches bring the great truths the love and the blood of N OF THE SOUTH. Christ to the minds and hearts would she bring them up in the : tion of the Lord. Probably no C a better manual wherewith to iml young in fundamental doctrine th Presbyterians have in the Short brings a somewhat tough and tr youthful intellect, the mental ai which it affords is worth the lal learning it. The men who have j diet are not, as a rule, the weak< race. The most crucial test of any do character. Now men like the grea and the great historian Froude, me and John Morley, being judges, P reason to be ashamed of the ethi in history by their system of doc fies to its capacity to build up firi ter?to make men strong, brave, u inspire them to high and noble a love of righteousness and a passio liiciii iu neroic enaurance ot suttt sisiance against wrong. It is a du owes both to her creed and to her well drilled in the home, in Sabba class. The world needs the discipl still, and never more than today. "VACATIONS FOR PREA< INVESTMENT This was the subject of a striki cent issue of The Atlanta Consti of soundness that we print it in f remember that it was not written 1 a man of affairs, and that it was lished in a religious paper, but in ? There are still a good many peop that the minister has comparativ they can not see any reason why cation. It is to be hoped that the torial. Here it is: "If the theory of regular vacatio as a conceded commonplace in the much more vividly should its prin self-sacrificing men whose import safeguard the spiritual status and munitv? "The clergyman's life has its be and all its intermediate chapters, ii Never is he released from a cont whether it be preparation for his i the even more exacting requireme intimate terms with all sorts and < "The demand upon his sympath perpetual. In sorrow and sicknes ? r ' joji duu success ana ianure, man services are in requisition ; and to e ing call he must-bring^a keen and a spirit chastened of weakness an< "The ordinary individual woulc collapse after a few days of grue tests of this nature. But the pr denomination, is expected to end preserve his cheerfulness under al August 4, 1909. of her children. So nurture and admonihurch anywhere has jue the minds of the an English-speaking er Catechism. If it ying exercise to the id moral gymnastic bor and the pain of grown up upon such ;st specimens of the ctrine is its effect on it theologian Dorner, :n like Mark Pattison resbyterians have no cal results produced trine. History testi11, if rugged, characpright and pure, aiid ims, to give them a >n for liberty, to gird jring, and heroic rety which the Church people to have them th-school, and Bibleline of such a system 3HERS AS AN ing editorial in a re tution. It is so full ull. As yoti read it, by a minister, but by not originally publ large secular paper. ^ le who have an idea ely little to do, and he should take a va:y will read this edins has been accepted business world, how ciples apply to those ant function it is to welfare of the com ! 1 1 * ginning ana enamg, i ceaseless activities, inual mental strairf, .veekly discourses or nt of mingling upon ronditions of men. ies is proverbial and s, sin and suffering, iage and death, his ach fresh and differperceptivc rrtfnd and 3 self. I fall upon ab^u*? lling and contra^ljjL eacher, of whate^B lure it smilingly, t<^ II conditions, and to l L