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December 15, 1909. their confidence and vvor den treasure. If we mist in such a spirit as this, a part of the Christian me the vexed problem of th< Book, and the discomfit! riety by juggling with people once arouse thei their estimate of the on authority upon all the pi and endeavors of life, a awake to the realizatioi The Bible in the hands citizenship of every con testify that they lo^e tl perishable truths, will 1 brightening and a finalh kind. OUR ASSOCIATE R It will interest many and activity of our brethi Synod of the South. T1 is in North Carolina and churches in Tennessee, C Arkansas, Texas, Kentu< well, though in some of 1 very small indeed. The lows: Presbyteries, 8; c municants, 13409; chun past year, by professi< Losses by death, 152; t adult, 188; infant, 344. teachers, 1,101; pupils, 9 aries, $50,029; Synod's f ary fund, $7,821; ministe avf-onpI'nm r . ?. -4 ~ ' vAitusiuii xuiiu, ; / Orphanage fund, $866; age per capita, $9.15. T the one just closed were the exceptions being in schools and funds contrib church extension. In its doctrinal princi accord with our own. I cisely the same, and its e more rigid and pronour it has receded from its rei music and organs are be mon in itc rtinrftioc T parture from our Church does not permit the use i but the Psalms, though a change from the use of use of the Revised, whil to our ears of late have b to fit the stately old Psali are noted for the care 1 Sabbath, and family reli hv thpin tn nparlv cr> rrro -J J fe?V. The loyalty of all the p< marked. Indeed, it is thi together despite the sm; the general unpopularity THE PRESBYTERI thy to be searched as for hidake not, the Church is to find md such an attitude upon the n of our time, the solution of ; radical criticism of the Holy Lire of those who court notothe sacred oracles. Let the nselves to the expression of e divinely inspired source of roblems and duties, the hopes ind the irreverent critic will i that his vocation is gone. and hearts of the dominant imunity, while they formally lie Book and believe its im )e the prophecy of an everf radiant future for all manEFORMEp BRETHREN. to know the exact strength en of the Associate Reformed hat body's chief constituencv South Carolina. They have ieorgia, Alabama, Mississippi, :ky, Virginia and Florida, as :hese States their following is general statistics are as folsrdained ministers, 117; com:hes, 158; accessions in the Dn, 725; by certificate, 455. >y dismissal, 558. Baptisms: Sabbath-schools: officers and 1,460". Funds contributed: salund, $7,347; foreign mission:rial relief fund, $17Q*. church American Bible Society, $228; miscellaneous, $25,724; averbe figures for the year before slightly larger in most items, number of pupils in Sunday>uted to Foreign Missions and pies this body is in singular ts theological tenets are premphasis of them, if anything, iced. In its church services cent objection to instrumental coming more and more comM - iic one solitary point ot deis in respect to Psalmody. It in public worship of anything even in this there has been the old Scotch Version to the e the lively tunes so familiar een worked in, in many cases, ns. The people of the Church witn wmcn tney observe the igion has not been neglected at an extent as among others, iople to their Church is most s chiefly which has held them ajlness of their numbers and of their doctrines and testi* -% *? ... AN OF THE SOUTH. mony. They have sustain with great faithfulness, esp seminary, and first-class co young women. In this the) woithy of imitation by all < \ _ 4.^ aL . e.. A r ,1 iAs iu inc iuiure 01 tnis well be believed that it wi corporate life which all stu< to admit, namely, that as 1 or organization stand for sc have life. The numbers and may not increase to any gr has within itself the elemc hold its own in the sisterh< If, however, it should see it: organic connection with ou it will not have traversed it: will have greatly enlarged usefulness. The bond of sy us, uic similarity 01 worK, the readiness with which al unity of doctrine are such without harm to either. 1 Psalms would not be obje indeed, many amongst us \v in the church that would sec and exalted service in a day much in the direction of tin ter that is palmed off for song. Many of our own ] those who have known the pie, would welcome them n helpful addition to the wor we are encraered. THE INTERIOR AN] ORDINA The "Interior'' of Xover rap two of its Southern ex< for their comments on the i Presbytery in ordaining ur try, and of the Synod of N ordination. It says: The comments of many relii tions raised New York Presb Messrs. Black and Fitch are headedness, based on the ass accepted these young men In d lr? f hoi.* im.li L>c.ici3 nuiu iiie ouiu specific example, The Presbyt rantly in this regard?and inc Christian Observer is not wholl We have before us the mirable monthly, entitled Teacher" (published at 86 It says of these young mer nation for licensure in Ap or denial of all the fundam Presbyterian standards on evaneelical faith." At a subsequent examina sented modified statements jority of the Presbytery v minority protested. In a meeting during the S 3 ed their own institutions ecially a small theological lieges for young men and r have set an example well Dt US. splendid old body, it may 11 illustrate a principle of lents of history are bound ong as a people or nation )mething distinctive it will power of this little Church eat extent, but the Church ;nts of life, and is apt to Dod of Christian churches, s way clear to coming into > r body, it would find that 5 distinctive principles, but its field of testimony and mpathy between them and the oneness of the field, II could cooperate, and the that the two could blend 'heir continued use of the cted to by any one, and, rould rejoice in an element :ure for us a more dignified ' when the tendency is too e flippant and foolish matsacred music and sacred people, especially amongst : Associate Reformed pcolost heartily, as a real and k and testimony in which D THE NEW YORK TIONS. nber 25 takes occasion to rhanges over the knuckles, ecent action of New York isound men to the minisew York in approving the ;ious journals on the commoytery over the ordination of still, with persistent wrongumption that the Presbytery isregard of radical departures dards of the Church. For a erian of the South errs flagleed, the usually accurate tf ~ ' j iico iiuiu iuc name ueiusiua. November issue of an ad"The Bible Student and Bible House, New York). 1 that at their first examiril they expressed "doubt ental doctrines, not of the I? i A- ~ r ** iy, uui 01 tnc general tion, on June 14, they preof their views, and a maoted to license. A large umnier, held on a Wedncs