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The Church's Mission 2
Magazine Reforms 2
Outsider's Views 3
The Home of the Soul ? 3
Earthly Prosperity and Gospel Progress 4
Manaus "5
The Wave of False Doctrine in Sinim 6
Who Will Take Away Our Reproach? 7
Youth and Age 8
The Proposed New Proof Texts 14
Cove Church Centennial *... 15
Presbyteries 22-27
Editorial Notes
Among the candidates for the ministry received under
the care of Presbyteries in the past few weeks, it is
observable that several are sons of ministers. Take
from the active ministry all who enter it from preach
ers' homes, and a large gap would be made.
The Rev. J. W. Lupton, D. D., an honored and beloved
member of Chesapeake Presbytery, died at his
home in Winchester, Va., on Friday, October I. He
was a native of Winchester, and after theological education
at Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny,
Penn., and Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, he
was ordained by Winchester Presbytery in 1854.
From 1857 to 1872, he was pastor of the Leesburg
Church, and from 1872 to 1898, for twenty-six years,
he was nastor of the imnortant church at Clarks
ville, Tenn. He then returned to the(. pastorate at
Leesburg, and after nine years of most acceptable ministry
in his first charge, he retired to his early home
at Winchester. He was a faithful minister of the
truth and grace of Christ, loyal, gentle, loving and
much loved.
The acquittal of William H. Sheppard. our missionary
in the Congo country, is a remarkable proof of the
power of public opinion. No one attributes it to righteousness
on the part of the court. The court which
was to try him was the creature of the very prosecutors
in the case, and its verdict would inevitably have
been against him if it had dared to brave universal
public opinion. Everybody knew that the court and
the prosecutors were one, that the purpose of the pros%
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ecution was to do harm to the missionary, and that
all the facts were against the prosecutors and in favor
of the man on trial. Had the court dared to do otherwise
than acquit him the civilized world would have
cried, Shame, and would have compelled the suspension
of the judgment.
One of the most interesting papers on John Calvin's
life, writings, and contributions to biblical literature
and theology which has yet appeared may be found
in the current number of the Methodist Review, published
in Nashville. It is from the pen of Dr. Warfield,
of Princeton. Its appearance in such a publication
is a splendid commentary on the broad-mindedness
and appreciation of the editor of the Review, Rev.
Dr. Gross Alexander.
rrofessor Poster, of Chicago, whom the baptist Association
of that city disfellowshipped, comes out in the
"Baptist World" with his defense. Speaking of the
trinity of God, and the deity of Christ, he asks: "At the
great white throne, will you and I be put among the
sheep or the goats according as we do or do not hold
to these dogmas and to the inerrancy of the Book?"
The answer is in the Epistles of John. "Whosoever
abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God."
"Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the
Father."
The decision of the Chancery Court at Nashville,
Tenn., concerning the title to the "Cumberland Presbyterian
Publishing House" has been rendered. It
follows the decision of the Supreme Court of Tennessee
in the Fayetteville case, and gives the property to
the "loyalists."
In the petition to the court, in the case of the Cumberland
Publishing House, the claim was made that at
the Cumberland General Assembly at. Dallas, Texas,
in 1904, some of the members were misled, by the reply
of the Moderator of the Assembly, and therefore gave
votes which were contrary to their wishes. The judge
ruled out this claim. Each member must decide for
himself as to the significance or effect of his vote.
The court gave the property to the Cumberlands on
other grounds.
We understand that another suit involving the title
to the Publishing House is now pending before the
United States Court. In this suit no decision has yet
been reached.