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Sept. 22, igcg. THE PRESBYTER!
was given to missions in other lands, an increase of
$116,000 over the previous year, and about double
the amount given in 1907. In the amount given
to mission work in the home land there was an increase
of $45,000.
The Endowment Fund for Ministerial Relief was
increased by over thirty-six thousand dollars, reachincr
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Assembly hopes to make a full half a million, the
Jterest on which will give reasonable security, with
ne annual help of the churches, that the aged servnts
of God and the widows and orphans of ministers;nd
missionaries will be well cared for.
In two directions our Church is now entering upon
new and very important work. Two new Executive
Committees have been organized, and are entering
upon the work assigned them with much zeal. One is
the Executive Committee of Schools and Colleges;
with the Moderator of this year, Dr. William E.
Roggs, at its head, and his office in Atlanta. Dr.
Lingle's reports to the last Assembly is terse and
forcible, and should be read by all. And the Church
will hear from Dr. Boggs, an able educator himself of
extensive knowledge and experience in the field he is
now to cultivate. A Permanent Committee on Evangelization
has also entered upon its work with vigor,
with its office at Nashville, the Rev. Charles R. Xisbet,
chairman, and the Rev. J. *E. Thacker, general
secretary- We doubt not that this agency will be
both conservative and in accordance with the views
and methods of our churches, and at the same time
progressive, leading on to a wide extension of earnest
evangelistic work, both in old fields and new.
Is our Church making progress in our own field?
The last report of Dr. Morris, our Secretary of
Home Missions, is enthusiastic and hopeful. He reports
the most remarkable year in the history of his
work?new churches organized,* many additions to
the mission churches, new fields occupied, new doors
opened. Great States are filling with population,
and our own people are waiting to be gathered in.
Indians and Mexicans are our heritage; French, Italians,
Bohemians and other foreign people are hearing
the Word.
A period of peace throughout the Church, and the
absence of distracting and divisive controversy, is the
time for the Spirit's energizing grace, and for the
united prayers of all the church.
"Not bv power nor by might, but by My Spirit saith
the Lord of Hosts!"
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
One has to be careful in speaking of Union Seminary,
for there are several. There is not only the
Metropolitan Seminary of that name, which has gotten
nutside of the traces, but the younger and quite attractive
daughters of our Virginia?Carolina Seminarv
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in China, and one in Kobe, Japan, and Mr.
Henderlite's, at Garanhuni, in Brazil; and others in
prospect, not forgetting Motte Martin's School of
\frican princes in his back yard.
Union Seminary, Richmond, Va., came to the opening
of its ninety-eighth annual session on Wednesday,
AN OF THE SOUTH. 3
September 15, at 4 p. m. The buildings were in
ine order, including Richmond Hall, with its comiiodious
dining room and its handsome reception
:00ms./ The grounds were as fresh and beautiful as
late rains and faithful care could make them. A
goodly company of friends from the Seminary community
and from the city, gathered to see the young
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fcw ? wj vtw in wi?v p* v/ojy\.i ttj wi m\- uioiiiu:ion
and all the good work it is doing.
President Moore, conducted the service, prayer was
offered by the Rev. J. Fix, of Manchester, and the
?*ull congregation, with many strong male voices, sang
:he hymn, "O, For a Heart to Praise My God."
The opening address delivered by Professor English
A*as on "The Dangers of the Seminary Life " Extending
a cordial welcome to the students, old and
lew, Dr. English, in a practical and timely address,
earned the young men of some perils to which they
would be peculiarly exposed?a neglect of the care of
;he body, which might lead to impaired health and
follow them all their days; the misuse of time in
idleness, in play that was not needful recreation, in
social enjoyments; the error of want of prudence in
pecuniary affairs, extravagance and' debt. Of socalled
minor virtues he spoke of punctuality, of the
habits and courtesies of the gentleman. There were
ilso the dangers of intellectual doubt, of spiritual
oride, of so letting down among their companions that
:hev were off their guard, and behaviour was not
worthy.
A VIOLATED TRUST.
Last week the original will of John McDonogh, who
left an enormous fortune to the cities of Baltimore and
Xew Orleans, for education, was re-discovered, in the
rubbish of the Cabildo, where it had lain hidden*with
an important letter from the same hand, for forty
years or more. Parts of it have been again published.
And again it is made known that John McDonogh
gave his money fo these two cities with the express
proviso that the Holy Bible should be at all times
and forever made use of in the schools established
with his money. Here is the clause of the will, in its
exact words: "For the purpose of being instructed in
the knowledge of the Lord, and in reading, writing,
arithmetic, history, geography, etc., under such regulations
as the commissioners of said schools shall establish,
always understood and provided, however, that
the Hoi)' Bible of the Old and New Testaments shall
be at all times and forever made use of in those schools,
as one (and the principal one) of the reading or class
books which shall be used by the pupils therein ; as
the first obiect of everv school and all tcarhinor chrmlrt
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be to implant in their minds a knowledge of their duty
to God and the relations of men to their divine Creator,
and singing classes shall be established and forever
supported, and singing taught as a regular branch
of such schools, which means that each pupil shall acquire
the rudiments of the art, and obtain a knowledge
of singing sacred music." And again is the fact
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uiuugiii win, uy me ic-uisiuvcry anu rc-reaaing Ol tnis
will, that while Baltimore is faithful to the trust and is
using its part of the bequest as provided for by McDonogh,
New Orleans is using the money and violat-**