New-York tribune., 1880-10-01
THE PANPRESBTThRiAN COUNCIL
DISCUSSING CHURCH WORK.
MISSIONARY WORK AND EDUCATION To HE MINIS
TRY-BUsINEss MATTEBs-THE EVENING sEs-
Pur.AnrLpHIA. Sept. 3O.-Professor Watts,

| TRY-BUsINESs MATTEBs-THE EVENING sEs-
SION.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30.-ProfessOr Watts.
OF Belfast presided at this mornings session OF Tho Pan
Presby Council, and conducted he devotional ex
Some business matters were then disposed Of
The Committee Crerds Confessions enll rged
by the addition Of two elders A. T. Nevin. OF Edinburgh,
and Henry Day, of New York, ard representatives,
The Reformed PresDytery OF Pniadelphia were ad-
miited to membership in the Council
The Rev. Dr. j. Murray Mitchell. OF Edinburgh, read
the report Of the Committee on Foreign Missionary
Work The report suggested tne establishment a great
training college AT Peku China, aud stated that 900 900
pagans mad been converted during the past seventy
years by Protestant MISSIONARIES. Tne Row DIR. Paxton
OF New York. submitted from the American pOron of
lhe committee written history OF the mission en-
tefprlses connected with the churches in this
country The statistics gwen in the report
show that the missionaries IN the field number l95 !;
native missionaries, 1885, native liceutItes and preach
ers, 1913; medical missionaries and teachers, lis !;
American connected with the MISSIONS 266;
native teachers and Bible readers S9i; cOmmuuIcanis.
s.37I; scholars boardlngschools COL scholars in
day-schoOls. 1887 Dr. Paxton supplemented the
report with address. in winch lie dweIt upon
the success the work Tue Roy. DR.. LeIghO Wilson,
Of Baltimore addressed ihe Council IL favor OF the
formation ecclesiastical unOn for the purpose OF
securing cooperation in the mission field; ana tho Rev.
Dr. John c. LOwre, Of New York. followed the
subject
Al the afternoon session. which was opened with
PRAYER by the Rev. Dr. Prime, Now-York IA paper on
the training OF candidates Tor the ministry read BY
the Rev. DR.. Herrck Johnson, OF Chicago, who dis
cussed the methods OF ling the pulpit with strong
ministry. Many men who ought to be ouJ Of he minis
try he said are in it. Among the points I'd, by the
speaker were the folowng First, the Church must
have a more profound spri 'uullty; H. other than
spiritual it may be said, like people, like priest"
Then, there must become prevalent deep conyic
ton toat the call TO the mlustry
None enter the ministry WHO feel thar they
stay out o IT, The supply OF ministers Is not matter Of
market measuring. Inc cry o, " TOO many ministers"
Is prepOstcrous TINS Is matter Of Gods law, not Of
hmetc short cuts to the ministry should be stopped;
they lead 90 "n'r stops Inc c0egs CONNECTED WIN
the Presbyterian Church sOuld be thoroughly efficient.
scholarship gher education shOuIu n pr Nldcd with
feow ships as incentives 10 ehorL Dr. johnson. IN con
come for the Church to giorlfv scholarship
and disgrace ilnteracy in tne ministry.
with paper Cnurcb Order and Lif: in effect the
essay was plea for hsh intellectual cutu"e and for
In discussing the subj Kv DE- CaiderwOod
wlIh DE- Johnson and sad, Ine law o. supply and
deWan does apply the supply candidates tle
~nm vii" Dr. CalderwOod added that In scouand
where nothing known OF supporting candidates
during t1eir studies, there arc can
didales than the church knows what To do with. |
The Rrv. Dr Hnam c. HAYDN. OF Cleveland, and The
R-y ". W. Barr. 0f Phadep pha, followed with papers
ON systematic BrneHceuce" the session closing with
the reading OF paper by The Rev Dr. b. L. Agnew, OF
pglanslbhla on " MlDIslsria SUPPORT"
The of the Presbyterian Council this evening
proved IL auotner overflow meeting sud Hortcnl-
iural Hall again filed with those who could ind
in the Academy. The session at ihe Academy
devoted short addresses the state OF reg. in
hrafhen countries. Among the speakers Rev.
Nj Stout. from Japan; Mr. Mex nze missionary from
China the Rev. Ar. Nelson, from the NeW-Hebrdes
the R-v Mr.. hight, native mssinniry among tho |
ChoctrW Indians. who spoke OF his conversion and
the hrst missionaries among the ChOctaw Indiana
are" said MI Wright " natural PresbyC rials |
for they great believers In predesuation %; the
Rev. A. Mahc. OF luth Africa; the Rev. Mr. Ewing,
missionary from EgYpi. WAC said: - One Oh
-fupenduus examples OF vandalism modern times |
was cOnsummated recently the removal OF |
Clropatra's Needle 10 New York But there are now
being built up Egypt pillars that neither the Tapacty
LJnd H. tnat Ui NEW YORK. VIII be- able remove.
refer 90 tue pillars OF PresbyterlanIsm " the |
Rev. Mr. Hood. native African missionary Liherla
the Rev. Mr.. beatty. missionary from syria, and the
Rev. Mr.. Constantine, from Athens, Greece
Aer these brief addresses the Rev DR.. John Hall OF
NewYOrk offered prat er, and tIen the reports mis
sionary work were continued by the V. Morgan
sheshadri. India, ana the Rev. Charles Chueguy, |
formerly Romaa Catholic priest
Before the adjournment o. the Council last night Dr.
WeatherspOOn read paper correcting misapprehcn-
relieving Professor GIldrr-leeye, OF Johns
Hopkins University, from responsibility for criticisms
upon Canon Farrar