| Show WHAT 10 WI itt AI the meeting or of the Presbyterian hel i In Sin San on the ot of this month montil n Fl IL Clark ot of made some re ne the Iho decrease ot of the M th hn fit sta i n are interesting because th they fur an explanation ot of the jealousy and bItterness with which various mInisters pursue n a Church whIch though unpopular unpopular ular la Is remarkably successful In her work n fler clerk Clark as quoted b by the San francl oo Chronicle stated that there I has been a 11 growing decrease In the ad to his d denomination the PMt past live five rears eari The net gain reported this rr Pr he ha saId MId was al onlY n The Th figures of ago agoo It was gaIn are very ery small th they almost t amount to an arrest or of growth It Ills Is the some IOme with the Sabbath a h schools The Th membership hll has fallen tallen ort oil thou thousand sand nJ AM other are In Ina a state ot of Mr dr Clark Mid there WI sa a sail 11 awl 11 awful I In growth IUt year eAr fth tnt eat continues the next port will s show 1 a ant only In but heo In 10 actual It Is III becomIng mort moes to meet maet the of DC the world Till This somewhat of gil a clew w to the sItuation In the It f John Is II an Incident related which zany be br ed d Ia hI this It If ome lome writers on the t time ot of our OM era are to hi be believed sum Ome of the chief leaders rl of cf JewIsh sects wire were secretly into n a conspiracy against the established government TheIr bitter no the is III said MId to toha ha have dated from the dB day lie He refused to become a pert perty to their hemes hint Dul ne II lOOn sn dw drew n for III His purIty ot of life m benevolence tu to the poor an and lowly and Ills 1111 doctrines l or of life mu People ducked to hoar boar hInt a aid many bettered Then so 10 the tho tells teUs us the chief priests and the J a coun l suid ond said Mid what do we for f r Ihl this man rainy miracles It We VO let hIm thus atone al alt on him murder w was proposed In that council for tor OM cas of the tho chief members hinted that It would bt be better that one San mean should die t for r the pee pM ph thin than for the whole notion nation to perish or Of ou such uch Were faro not pro d b religious bigotry or Ont only by bythe laudable solid tude for tor the welfare elt re of the n can ean be trusted to tell the truth I Itself t Sectarian clerc meri who ho sure ro Incompetent to grapple wIth lIh the world turn the follOwers ot of the an d f ri a u r actions the Is II Visible Jt If we let thom them alone alono all men VIII believe on thom them nut Hut can tilt they clap t Jl the tho progress or of truth Wu Was not Calvary Calvar It Its agony Its darkness Its convulsion or of nature the grandest victory ever won for tor the cause ot of Christ |
