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Show I RELIGIOUS TOPICS, Proceedings ol lbs Presbyterian As- semuly at Washtagton. I THU IEIHIIUY OF Till! Ill MX. When llio tUurcli li Lntlllnl lo Heal H with Political (Janlloni. K Ituiptriuro Work. mh Wasii:nutoi, May 10. The most Wm notable jstt Ur Voung'i annua, lit sermon, dillvered before tbo Prctby- IB t rlan asumbly yesterifoy, was Hut WOt if ntlng lo the Inerrancy of too Hcrlp- V lures. Uponthosutjeclheialdt B "Our own beloved church has again nod again expressed thu firm aud art H tied conviction that no discrimination I oato UutblulneMcan bo made between H illllrrcnt pattsoflhe lllblr; Hint Iron) beginning lo etitt, from loo opening sentence of Oeneala to thu lait verse lu Itevclalloii, tun lllble Is Ibu very word ! ol UutJ. Of the aaiue puipoio (and (Ills abould lo concluiivc) la tho ulcar IH poalllvo testimony of Christ, j-rom mm anil to end be placed tti ! ol royal ! assent Uon tho boob. Upon no other MM tbeoryorbelletcaii we, o it scorns to me, claim n divine, infallible, MM perfect conitllutlon tor a churcli. ! No apprehension should bo felt alio the ttiely of Hie Hlble. No oslble harintnn bsfalllt here. To doubt la disloyalty to (o I. To fear It la sin. I It court the most searching lnvostl-K lnvostl-K gallour It welcomes the sharpest crltl-H crltl-H olim, From the fltmlog ordeal through which It la now psislur, It will come tortb as It baa from .ill ether titty tests In Ita full Integrity, with HI out a) muoh ns a araell of fire about It. MM Anil when Ibo very narucaof those H raJIcal reign rallonallatlc critics who urn seeking to destroy Ita historical fm truthfulness, Ha perfect Infallibility, H with their widely huralded produces produc-es productions shall have been burled In MM common oblivion, Ibo lllblo, the H whole- lilble, history, biography, pro-E pro-E pbeay and doctrine, shall by Increasing MX millions of bellevera oonllnuo to t B received, read and prized nbovo ill MM earthly poaaealona aa Ihe Tury work V of Almighty 0)J." H AT Till! ArTEltNOON BU310N, K came the election of u moderator. IrW Thu nominations were aafollowil lleT. IK Dr. Charles A. Ulckty of l'nlladel. Kt lihia: ltev. (Jiorire Hiker of I'blladnl- I this and Hot. Wlllla U. Craig of the 11 Uulveraltyuf Cnitairo; Hot. Calvin WM Btuwait, I). D. of WaahlnKton. Thu Ff mult if the bal ot waa ae followi: km Cralc HU, Hiker 103, tbo other canill- T Untcs having ttltbdruwn. ' VAiitoua itErortTS. ' The annual reports of tho various churob boardf, auch M thoio on tent- ; perance, benellcence, mlrslona of tree. doui, etc., allow uccournitlng reaulta in every brunch of the work undertaken by tho l'reabylerlati cburch. rbtao reiorta will he taken up by Ibe general aneiuhly now in evulou bore and conaldtred from time lo time, Thu report of tho commlltie on tern- perance contemilitee with ahamo the tpeclacleof the "VMt national grog. nop" at Hie World's fair; fuvors the cstatillahnieut by Congress of nnlm- I artlal coruuilislon to lmjtilro concern Ingtho liquor trafllo such has bem ' provided lor In Ihe bill laised leveral I Hint's by the Hsnate but defeated ly 1 tbo liquor Interctt In thullouic. The report emphasises thu statement that church la not a, iwlltlcal organlrallon, lutlf tbuqueitlon of morals becomes aqutstlonof polltlo also, the church Kls not precluded on that uteount from Ueullhc-with It. Thu riort also pro-. pro-. leitsagalnittbe system known ai the army canteen, In which It Isolalmel t Hiuoflliers and soldiers aro delalledos suloonkcepers. f Tho report of the committee on syi- 7 tomatlo beueflcence showa total re- 1 celt t of ull boards during the year of i fJ,7tW W2, uud lucreoao ovsr last year of $178,705. In Hie Hunday school and foreign inltalou fields, the year waa ouo of proapulty and development. Thu home mission work, however, has not teen so prosperous, partly owing lo lack of funds and partly uwlug to tbe Increasing dllllcul.y ol reaching the foreign and akoptlcal elements of tho cpulatlon. Tin: ciiiMJiK yuianuN. Tbe etooud day'a session of tho Presbyterian goueral asiembly oienid with deMitlooal exercUes. Dr. Ilarsba, Nebraska, moved Hie appointment of it commlttoo to fjrmulsluan eiprertlou ufoplulonon the Chlnise exoluslon act, aa It aflecla fqrelgu mltslonary wnrl.. Adopted. H ltev. Dr. Duncan, of Ihe Kplscopal oliurch, wus iulruducsd. llu Is a H member ot tbo joint commltteu ou NH church unity. lie said tho committee 9K had been In tendon for two days. AiV. There weru four K)luls the Kpleoapal RkjE eburch deemed etsentlal to asilst Ihe wm union. On tbreo of these they pra"-y pra"-y tltolly ucreed, and the fourth InvulveJ C Uigely a dltlerenue In terms. Ho H prophesied, there ore, unity In a not K dlilautluturt. |
