Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-09-20
Pan.PTesbyteFiRu.
MEETING OF A GREAT BODY IN FniLApEIrUI.
THIS WEEK.


THIS WEEK.
The meeting OF the Presbyterian Alliance.
known also as the Pan-PreSby terrain Council In
pn nIs "a 'pls week, Will Without doubt,
Church. Never before, IN the history OF that
church In this country. has such distinguished
pooy Teen called together, and the results
growing out OF It's DELIBERATIONS Will probably
be OF most marked and beneficial characte r.
producuVe OF good throughout the entire
churcn; II IS the second meeting OF the ALL
ance, the hist nav ing been held in Edinburgh
Scotlsnd, IN 1871. The first idea OF such co,in
en- Is satd 70 have been Ia an address by Rev
Df. Musgrave delivered in the general Assem-.
bly, OF 1870, With whom also many OF the i'm
portant movements ia the Presbyterian church
have originated. The idea once formed
II was carefully considered by such men as d..
McCoSh, the venerable president OF Princeton
and Others. and preliminary arranpements madas
10 nold meeting-which was accordingly done
ia 1917. Al the same tine IL was decided that
one eeungs OF The council should be tier 7ia,.
spd IL Is 10 accordance " ,th this provision thai,
the present meeting is now held. As the cou1-
Gil is at present constituted. IL consists OF dele
SS, rro ministers and elders appointed by the
churcheS forming the Aliauc5-the number
from each church being regulated by the coun
Gil. The council has the power 10 consider
any topics brought before Il by any church
or member OF the council, but not the power
TO interfere with the existing creed or
cons .utlon OF any church in the Alliance
or Win lls Internal order or external rels.
tfons. questions OF general interest - the pres
by ,erian community; the welfare Of Churches
especially the weak; the gathering and dissen.
mating OF knowledge OF Christ throughout the
world: and, in fact. the entertaining such SUBJ
Jects as In any way tend TO the CHARACTERIZATION
OF the world at large. The constitutional
methods OF the council In this work are TO I ,eI-
TO guide and stimulate public sentiment by
various means employed-such as addresses.
pubDshipg papers, ETC., etc. Ii viii thus be seen
that the council is simply an advisory and not
an executive body; its real power being exceed
ingly limited. While this IS SO. however. ia a
literal sense the council in fscL W eios an infu-
ence felt throughout the church at large by
Its counsel only, and which, coming from such
body or representative men within the
church. necessarily carries with it much weight.
The sessions OF the council Will be held partly
In the Academy OF Music, at Philadelphia aud
partly In Horticultural Hall, IL being impossible
10 secure the academy for all the meetings It
is expected that some three hundred and ffty.
or more, delegates will be present, coming from
al branches ofthe church, and from all parts or
the world. There are according to general sts
t,st1cs, some twenty-five thousand parishes bC
lop@lpg TO the various branches Of the Presby.
t2i.an church; OF these, about five thousand b.
ing on the continent, the same fin Great Britcin
end about twelve thousand In the United StGtes
Cene ia end British Provinces the United States
alone claiming ten thousand parishes IL Is ex-
pected that al these VIII be fuiiy represented.