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THE REFOR1
Sufficient time has now
to expect the fruits of th<
accomplished when our C
formed Council scheme.
held, one in the cast, one
heart of the middle west,
been anything but a full
members. Two or three i
represented at all, or so m<
dicate considerable indiffer
The gatherings have bet
fraternal and happy spirit,
dresses have been made o
?
been possible, and the m<
popular fancy. They ha
carefully prepared report"
many practical suggestion:
tion have been made. Tl:
.avoid trpnrliino- Iit-wr-..-. O."
-- C*|VW11 L 11 VJ
courts of the several churcl
upon the Council and has
its resolutions or work.
The co-operation of the
Council, in foreign and h
in promoting Christian lit
the work of evangelizing t
absorbing theme at all the
have been adopted in com
not much has actually bee
tions. The willingness o
operate in the Negro work
lingness of the Freedmen's
byterian Church to emb;
scheme. The council is st
however, and may one da
needs of the case are sur
most strenuous efforts to 1
great results.
Of one fact there can b
has conclusively proved t
mera. This has been sho\
difficulties which have be
co-operation upon even the
of problems; and next, by t
of the distinctive work of t
in which each is best able t
drawn more closely togetl
tion, their divergencies woi
ana instead of unity in uni
numerable grounds of difl
would be holding together
the same general name am
yet happier and more effe<
arate life. What a pity it
tion of the Cumberland i
feeling!
An announcement is 11
was lately filled "to the fr<
the doors." All
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sition of our people. It is
fashioned style is not revi
cated between the front (3
THE PRESBYTERIA1
VIED COUNCIL.
passed to make it reasonable
e semi-federation which was
hurch embarked on the Re
Three meetings have been
in the south, and one in the
At each meeting there has
attendance of the accredited
lenominations have not been
?agerly, in numbers, as to inence
on their part,
in characterized by the most
Not as many great adr
papers read as might have
ietings have not caught the
ve been rather dry. Some
? t ?
3 ncivc uccn presented, ana
s as to methods of co-operaic
care that is necessary to
prerogatives of the supreme
lies has been a great restraint
tended to give vagueness to
churches represented in the
ome missions, in education,
erature, and especially in
he colored race, has been the
: meetings. Many resolutions
lection with the subject, but
n done in any of these direcf
most of the bodies to cohas
been offset by the unwilBoard
of the Northern Presirk
upon any co-operative
ill dealing with the problem,
y find a solution of it. The
ely enough to incite to the
ind some way to accomplish
? little A~. K* T>I-- /- ?
v ?iuv uuuui. x iic council
hat organic union is a chi,vn
in two ways: first, by the
en encountered in practical
: most important and present
he vision which each has had
he others, and of the manner
o conduct its special work. If
ler in the effort of co-operauld
appear still more sharply,
on, there would be found inference.
The outward bond
bodies which, while bearing
a Having the same spirit, are
:tive in sustaining their sepwould
be to see a reproducmion
unhappiness and hard
riade' that a certain church
ant seats." It "? / *
illustrates the retiring dispo5
almost a pity that the oldved
by having the pulpit loloors.
SI OF THE SOUTH.
PROBLEM O
In a recent address bete
Dr. Aked of New York, v
wise and sometimes other
bearing 011 conditions in A
tion to the stability of our
suggestive. Ambassador I
company of Americans: "
twenty-five years in your
going 011 for the last twen
will put back progress in
prominent educator affirm
American cities is the wor
ican judge testifies that "fo
penditure is graft." A o:
politician said : "The tim<
can city will place a stra
such as the great Civil Wa
In current literature the
die ucing repeated in a vai
writers, and from events t
intervals and in cities tha
cality, we must believe tl
gers that are being depict*
Instead of being citadel:
law is secured and order is
has become the resort an*
his chosen field where the
his lawless tendencies are 1
cessful evasion of penalties
Scarcely any other resi
with little discrimination, >
hordes of untutored aliens
is freedom from the restra
nism to orderly governmen
of oppression.
Remedial agencies of n
certain ends and police vij
restraint but when the spii
it is only waiting its oppc
ties are occurring with inc
There is one adequate 1
be found in the governmen
subordination of those wh<
nothing less than mouldin
conformally to the standar
Christian point of vie
SUCCeSsfllllv nnl..
J \jiuy llirougn
sufficient hope is to give til
way to the entire popula<
before the Christian Churc
also the stalwart, resotirc
men of the Church who arc
ing their way in the thick
The perversity of a St
by a correspondent of
account of the recent Nati
Hull, England. In recor
encouraging religious cor
says: "All the churches ;
just establishment with v
at home; no one sect, in
authority, wielding imm<
April 13, 191 o.
F THE CITIES.
:>re a convention of bankers,
those sayings are sometimes
wise, made some quotations
merican cities and their relainstitutons,
whch are at least
rice is quoted as saying to a
You can't go on for the next
big cities as you have been
ty-five years. If you do you
Europe four centuries." A
is that, "the government of
st in the world." An Amer>rty
per cent, of municipal exne-time
prominent Northern
; is coming when the Ameriin
on American institutions
r never did."
se affirmations and warnings
icty of forms and by leading
hat are occurring at frequent
t are widely apart as to lolat
the weaknesses and dan?d
are not wholly imaginary,
s in which the observance of
maintained, the modern city
J refuge of the law breaker,
probabilities of restraint on
east and ther prospect of suc5
are greatest.
lit is to be expected when,
ve welcome from many lands
, whose conception of liberty
int of law and whose antagoit
has been fostered in schools
secular character will serve
jilance will secure temporary
rit nf vir>lon<?n ?- ?
-- Mviv.m.t vji enuie exists
rtunty, and these opportunireasing
frequency.
'emedy for the corruption to
t of our cities, and for the in3
are governed. It consists in
g the character of the people
ds of a sound morality. From
:w this can be accomplished
i evangelical agencies. Our
ic gospel in the most effective
:e. Here is the task that is
h ; not the preachers only, but
eftll pnlorr>?:?.'-~ * 1
, lanig, unaaunicQ
5 holding their place and makof
secular life.
ate church is well described
The British Weekly," in an
ional Free Church Council at
diner a mpmKer'c
^ o a\.v,uuuv W
iditions in South Africa, he
ire free. They have no un/hich
to contend as we have
a position of Parliamentary
?nse political power for its