The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-06-07

ge''ce'' says =" The May Anniversary
seems to have received its final and eff
fectual .quietus this year. and hencefortb
passes into the more practical and prosaic
form OF the Annual Meeting, with per
haps Sunday evening sermon bv wav
OF annex. The work, as we'll 3s tbo
worlo' seems to have outgrown these
peasant and profitable gatherings; and
nenceiorth the public will have to look
INTO the machinery of the societies, and
and over the field of their operations,
through the windows OF the newspaper
Perhaps they will realize none the less
that the field is the world.
Paul would have Christ magnifed
IN his body. whether it be by life or by
death; as If it mattered little to him
which way God should choose. This
wish comes to mind as we read of the
last days OF Adam Meal, the young
leader of the Livingstone Inland Mission
on the Congo, whose death has been re-
Gently chronicled While at Madeira
very weak, so that he spoke with diff
cq uni he was overheard praying thus:
Thou knowest all 1 want. Thou know
est the circumstances, Lord Do as thou
pleasest. L have nothing to say. 1 am
not dissatisfied that thou art about to
take me away. Why should I be? I
gave myself, body, mind, and soul, to
thee; consecrated my whole life and
oelng t. thy service, and now if it please
thee to take myself instead of the work
would do for thee, what is that to me?
Thy will be done. Missionary Herald.
Apparently more than one new
alphabet and language have been lately
discovered upon the inscribed stones and
pottery of Egypt. A letter from Prof
a. II. Sayce, in Tie Academav, refers to
some found by DR.. Widemann At
Karnak, Of which one was a bilingual
partly In Greek and partly in an en-.
tirely new character. Some Of tbeso
texts may be Nubian. A number Of
very interesting Hittite sculptured stones
ana inscriptions have lately been found
IN Marash, in Central Turkey. They
consist OF human figures and lions, and
and one of the lions has an inscription
on 1t, which must be, as described, the
longest Hlttite inscription known. No
copy OF 1T has yet reached this country.
Inc Ghlet trouble about decipher:ng
THESE Hlttlte inscriptions of which quite
number are known, including one short
6lhnngual, is that the language is pro
badly OF the Turanian class, and it is ex-
remeIy difficult to get hold of the roots
OF the language by any comparative pro-
cess, such as would be easy if the Ian
guage were Scientific or Aryan.-Inde-
pendent.
The Synod Of the United Presbyte-
rian Church of Scotland met. Nav an
in the hall of the College BUILDINGS
Edinburgh. The retiring Moderate
the Rev. John Clark, delivered the nsnai
ADDRESS, alter which Dr. Daniel Young.
OF Glasgow, was chosen Moderator, there
beng but one nomination. It appears
that the past year there has been a turn
IN the tide, which threatened to carry
away part Of the membership of the
Church. In 1880 considerable de.
crease OF members was reported. and
some Prophesied that the process of dis
ntegratlon had set in and that the
Church was being drawn upon by botL
the Established and Free Churches
Inns year there has not only been no de.
cine, but net increase Of 575 members
is reported. There is also a net gain of
nearly "a 900 in the total income of the
denomination. The membership is ia
557 as against 173, $50 in 1880 and ia
l34 In 1879 and 1884, 66 in 1878. There
was a decrease in twelve Presbvteries
which was more than supplied by the
other Presbyteries The total income Of
the Church was S1,916650. The Com
mlttee on the status Of Foreign Presby.
teres submitted report The synod
declined to recognize the council of the
Presbyterian Alliance in India as a final
court of appeal in matters concerning
native members. Mr.. Buchanan sub
mltted proposed statement of doctrine
and TO- rnula for native elders licentiates
and ministers. The statement Of doc.
trlne contained eleven articles and the
formula nine. He said it had been
found a needful thing in all mission.
helds to have a simple formula for the
use OF native licentiates and elders. II
was found by all missionaries that if
would never do to make use Of the
Westminster Confession of Faith. the
Larger and Shorter Catechisms. a I'd the
other standards in the native churches
Negotiations had been going on between
the Established, Free Church, and their
own committees for considerable time
with the view-of securing common action
IN this matter. The Synod's Committee
boH fho 49,. r