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Rev. Dr.. e. D. Junkin.

The subjoined memorial was
adopted by the Brazos Presbytery
at its meeting on September 18th:
"The Rev. Ebenezer Dickey Junkin. d.
d., was born in Milton, Pa, in 1929. He
came of a Cody ancestry, distinguished
alike in Church and State. His father, Rev.
George Junkin, d. D., was the founder and
president of Lafayette College, Pa, of Mi
ami University of Ohio and for time the
president of Washington College i'm Nir-
ginia. DR.. Junkn himself was educated at
Lafayette College and at Princeton Semi
mary, and entered the ministry well equip
ped 10y thorough training for his work He
was licensed to preach the gospel by the
Second Presbytery of New York in the
spring of 1854, and was ordained to the full
work of the ministry in the fall of 1850 by
the Presbytery of Concord, in North Caro-
lima
During his ministerial life he sustained
the pastoral relation to but three church.
es, VIZ, the Prospect and Bethel churches
IN North Carolina, where he labored about
five years; the New Providence church in
| the valley of Virginia for nearly twenty
years, and the First church, Houston Texas
from May, 1880, until the time of death, July
81, 1891 In all these churches he did good
and successful work and has left the record
OF diligent and faithful pastor and of
sound and able preacher of the gospel of
the grace of God
The Presbytery at this its first meeting
since his decease, would put upon record
her high estimate of his worth and faithful
services
AS man he was always and every
where the Christian gentleman: kind
courteous, prudent, forbearing; a man of
strong and firm convictions, he was yet
charitable and cOnsiderate of the opinions
of others He was a man of deep and fer.
vent piety towards God, and of large and
kindly sympathies towards men As a
preacher he was sound, scriptura and edi-
lying, his sermons always presenting the
great essential doctrines of grace and Civ
ing evidence of careful and praverful
preparation.
- n day of shifting opinions he magni-
ned the cross of Christ and the work of the
Holy Ghost supremely, and God owned his
faithful preaching i'm the comfort of saints
and the salvation of sinners
AS pastor he was industrious. wise
sympa hetic, faithful, preaching the gospel
from house to house and unifying his
sympathies with the Joys and sorrows of
his people.
AS presbyter he was regular and ex-
emplary in his attendance upon the courts
OF the church, and wise and conservative in
counsel His presence and wholesome in
iiuence will he sadly missed in our assem-
Dlies. His last strength was given to mis-
slonary work at the request of this body.
His memory will ever be precious i'm
our hearts and his example an encourag-
ment to us.
p" Though his call was a sad one and far
from home, the end to such man could
be only peace and iOy-the Joy of his Lord.
into which he has entered
"W. N. SCoTT, Chairman.
"W. l.. KENNEDY,
CLERK of Brazos Presbytery."
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What Is Humility?

Perhaps no Christian grace is less
understood. 1t is not thinking
meanly of ones self. 1t is not a
voluntary humbling of ones self
for any particular purpose. We can
understand what humility is when
we study our Lords washing his
disciples feet He was conscious
OF his divine glory and dignity-he
was never more so than he was that
hour. Yet when a lowly service
was needed and there was no other
one to do it, he was ready for it and
performed it, not as an exhibition
merely, but as part of the duty of
the moment-sweetly, cheerfully,
lovingly. Humility, then, is the
spirit which is ready to use its best
powers and its richest gifts in the
lowliest service of love. Love is at
the heart of it. When we truly
love others we are interested in them
and will do them any service, how
ever hard or costly or lowly it may
be, not considering ourselves too
fine to serve them, nor any possess
sion OF ours too good to be used in
their behalf Westminster Teacher.
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deliberate persistence in self-in-
diligence with such vows unfulfilled.
But it is not the undeniable wicked
ness of the thing that impresses us
so much. 1t is its analogy to the
act of Ananias and his wife. They
undertook to palm a gross and
hypocritical falsehood upon the
apostles. hoping to deceive them.
But they might have known that
they were dealing with the Holy
Ghost. And does not the modern
disciple, who virtually promises
the Church his support according
to the extent to which his Lord
should prosper him, really make a
covenant with the Spirit of God?
This is beyond dispute. The only
escape is by the loophole of evasion,
on the pretence that the vows are
not specific as to the amount of
contribution. But true consecra-
ton is without reserve.
The Church has no right to die
tate in this matter, but she has a
right to expect her members to
practice a visible self-denial for
the sake of her Redeemer. If a
Christian man is known to spend
his hundreds on luxury and enjoy
ment, for himself and family, and
yet prove a reluctant and niggardly
giver to the treasury of the Lord,
he cannot hope for a favorable
judgment on the part of Christ,
however he may escape the con-
demnation of men. The fact that
the mercy of God spares him is no
evidence at all that his Spirit APP
proves his conduct.
The name of Ananias is a red
beacon to the covetous and selfish
disciples of all generations. They
may not commit the same sin in
its precise form, but the criminality
may be quite as heinous in the sight
of God. The danger is always great
that prosperous professors may,
like Ananias, be tempted to keep
back too much of their means,
which they have solemnly dedicated
to Christ.
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anindependent Presbyterian Church
for the colored people of the South.

"THE Hymns OF THE AGES" the
book of hymns and tunes prepared
by Rev. DR.. r. P. Kerr, with the
assistance of Rev. Drs. Moses D..
Hoge, William A. Campbell, Games
z. Smith, 7. D. Witherspoon, Will
liam S. Lacy, and Prof. n. B. Clapp,
and which has been delayed in the
press by the printers assuming more
work than they could perform in the
specified time, is now nearly all in
type, and is promised for the latter
part of November. 1t is said by
those who have read the sheets, to
be a work of rare excellence, and is
to be sold at an extremely low price
to bring it within the reach OF all.
The publishers will be A. d. F. Ran
dolph & Co., New York, and it will
be handled for the South by the
Presbyterian Committee of Publica-
ton of Richmond.
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The Dinerenoe

Religion is before morality as life
is before organism. Organism does
not produce life, but is produced by
life so morality does not make a.
man religious, but religion makes
him moral,-EUangeIical Hessenger.
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VIRGINIA STATE SUNDAY-scHooL
SOCIETY, or ALL ORGANISATIONS
The Annual Convention of the Vir-
ginia State Sunday-school Society,
will be held in Norfolk, Va, on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
October 18th, 8th and 9th, 1891.
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Secret Sins.

There are very, very few of us
that dare show our inmost selves to
our nearest and dearest ones. The
most silvery lake that lies sleeping
amidst beauty, itself the very fairest
spot of all, when drained off shows
ugly ooze and filthy mud and all
manner of creeping denominations in
the slime. | wonder what we should
see if our hearts, so to speak, were
drained off and the very bottom
layer of everything brought into the
light? All i let us go to God and
ask him to keep us from secret
sins. Go to Him and ask Him to
root out of you the mischiefs that
you do not know are there. Live
humbly and Enthusiastically, and
feel that your strength is this:
" Hold Thou me up and I shall be
saved. bishop McLaren.
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Rev. w. S. P. BRYAN gives, in the
last number of the N. c. Presbyterian,
statement of the " Colored Evan
gelistic Work" in MeckIenburg Pres
By terry. He says, If recent events
in this Presbytery may be taken as
an index to the state of the Church
at large, the period of inaction is
drawing to close and the Difficult
ties long feared are being grappled
with" We give the following sum-
mary from his letter:
&. A colored candidate for the
ministry was received-being the
third in the Presbytery and the
second from Asheville.
2. A colored minister was re-
ceived from the Presbytery of HoIs-
ton (North.) Rev J. Williams was
before 1868 a slave and was among
the first to enter the PRESBYTERIAN
ministry when the Northern church
undertook that work For twenty
five years he has labored i'm that
church and last spring he presented
a letter to Mecklenburg Presbytery.
His application was laid over that
his record and his motives might be
thoroughly examined into. His
record was shown to be excellent bv
the testimony of his co-Presbvters
and his motive was found to be
desire to unite in the Independent
cOlored church as outlined bv our
General Assembly. Mr. Williams
Informed the Presbytery that he and
many others had been waiting for
years for just such movement and
that they regarded it as the true
solution of the race question in the
Presbyterian church.
3. A colored church was or
ganised. The services held in
Asheville continuously since Feb
ruary resulted in an application by
thirteen persons to be organised into
a colored Presbyterian church and
to be given the name Bethany
4. A colored minister, licentiate
}. >. Morrow, who completed his
course at Tuscaloosa i'm June, 1880.
was ordained and installed.
" 3. A standing committee ON
colored evangelistic work was ap-
pointed.
For these reasons the last meet
ing of Mecklenburg Presby terry may
be called notable"
IT may appear to some that our
Church has done but little for the
evangelisation of the colored peo-
pie since 1865, because there are
now comparatively few colored peo-
pie in connection with our church
es. But good work has been done
through the Tuscaloosa Institute. in
providing an educated ministry for
the colored people, and an equally
good work in preparing the way for
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For the Central Presbyterian.
Notes Here and There.

The subject in regard to which
most men are densely ignorant is
knowledge of themselves.
Know thyself is the hardest of all
commands to obey, and the most
difficult of all knowledge to acquire.
have known men who regarded
themselves as the embodiment of
all orthodoxy and Christian graces.
living protest against all that was
un-Christian, yet guilty of conduct
which for intolerance and discour-
tesy and want of general Christian
feeling, would shock the whole com
munity.
Bigotry and hatred often disguise
themselves under love of truth, and
what we regard as intolerance to-
ward error is really intolerance for
persons who do not think as we do,
and who wound our pride or self-love
by presuming to differ from us.
Men often imagine they condemn
thing as wrong, when the truth is
they condemn it simply because
they do not practice it or enjoy it.
How common it is for people to
condemn others for the very faults
they have, yet seem not to know it.
A man will gauge his neighbours
talents exactly, but exaggerate his
own.
#x*
We often see a man who has de-
voted himself to physical and scien-
tifc pursuits dogmatize and speak
with presumptuous and ignorant
confidence about metaphysical and
religious truth, a field in which he
is stranger, and whose objects and
methods are so different from those
he has been engaged in, he cannot
but lose his way and show his igno-
rance in such investigations.
1t is remarkable how ready peo-
pie are to criticise without stopping
for a moment to consider if they are
qualified for that business.
In criticism it is quality, not
quantity, that tells.
A criticism which describes a
circumference of which ones igno-
rance is the generating radius" must
move along a line of very great alb
surdity and inclose whole regions
of nonsense.
! once heard a sermon of very
great ability. One lady passing an
other who was not at church said.
" You missed nothing tonight
while a very celebrated LAWYER said
to friend, We had a very remark
able discourse for mental ability
and originality tonight" 1t had,
OF course, never occurred to the
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A good example given to others is
the best and most effectual provoca-
tive to good works.
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ton of Richmond.
THE CASE of Professor c. A. Briggs
came before the Presbytery of New
York at its regular meeting held ON
Monday.
The Prosecuting Committee ap-
pointed last spring to prepare pa
pers for the trial, presented its re-
port, embodying the charges against
him. The committee said that they
decided to base charges and speciG-
cations upon what is contained in
DIR. Briggs's inaugural address alone
for reasons which they state.
The principal ones being that the
inaugural address was the original
subject of inquiry by the committee
of Presbytery appointed on April
18th, 1891, and it was upon the re-
port of that committee that Judi
cial investigation was instituted :
because of recent publication of the
inaugural address, and because the
inaugural address may be regarded
as the most deliberate and emphatic
expression of DR.. Briggs's doctrine,
and therefore representing most
fairly his position with respect to
those doctrines upon which the
charges and specifications are based
The charges against DR. Briggs are /:
l.. That being a minister of the
Presbyterian Church and member
of the Presbytery of New York. he
teaches doctrines which conflict ir-
reconcilably with the cardinal doc
trine, taught in the Holy Scriptures
and contained in the standards Of
the Presbyterian Church, that the
scriptures of the Old and New Testa.
ments are the only infallible rule
of faith and practice. These hurt
full errors strike at the vitals of re-
llgion, and contrary to the regula-
tons and practice of the Presby-
terrain Church were promulgated in
an inaugural address which DR..
Briggs delivered at the Union Theo-
logical Seminary in the city of New
York, January goth, 1891, on the oc-
casion of his induction into the
Professorship of Biblical Theology,
which address has been, with DR..
Briggs approval, extensively cir
culated and published in a second
edition with a preface and appen-
dix. To this charge there are seven
specifications
2. He is charged with teaching a
doctrine of the character, state and
5anctifcation of believers after
death, which irreconcilably conflicts
with and is contrary to the Holy
Scriptures and the standards of the
Presbyterian Church.
An effort was made and a resolu-
ton offered for the dismissal of the
charges in view of later declarations
Of Professor Briggs disclaiming the
of any opinions which, in
MS view, were contrary to Scripture.
This resolution was lost by the
following vote: Ayes, 62 ~ elders
and 80 ministers) Nays, Cd go ell
iers and A ministers). From this
t seems that a majority of the min
sters in the Presbytery were not in
favor of proceeding with the trial,
1ut the elders favored it.
So DR.. Briggs was served with a
'opy of the charges and speciica-
ions, and will stand his trial before
he Presbytery. Tt must not be in
erred that the vote in favor of the
rial is test of the final decision
n the case.
VIRGINIA STATE SUNDAY-scHooL
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The Truth.

Such is the constitution of mind
that it can give force only to that
which it feels to be true. Hence
the experience of holiness gives
JUNCTION and power to the preaching
of holiness. When the rich enioy-
ment of perfect love pervades the
soul, it becomes a well-spring of
purity in utterance as we'll as in life.
We can employ nothing but the
whole amounting if we do the work
of God successfully. Orthodoxy,
logic, rhetoric, are simply brain and
lung power. We may make clear
our orthodoxy, vociferate until our
lungs are exhausted, but if the unc-
ton is not there, it will be an intel
lectual performance and passing
echo. When a minister can say:
1--WE speak that we do know, and
testify to that we have SEEN" with
the power of God dwelling in him,
his words, though not freighted with
culture, will nevertheless be
to the honest inquirer as "apples of
gold in pictures of silver. "-Ch1is-
tian Witness.
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The best of men need to be warned
against the worst of sins.
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If the Gospel does not influence
our homes, it is little likely to make
Roadway amongst the community.
God has made family piety to be, as
it were, a sort of trademark on re-
ligion in Europe; for the very first
convert Lydia brings with her all
her family. Her household believed.
and were baptized with her. You
shall notice in Europe, though 1 do
not mean to say that it is not the
same anywhere else, that true god
illness has always hourished in pro-
portion as family religion has been
observed. They hang bell in a
steeple, and they tell us that it is
our duty to go every morning and
every evening into the steeplehouse
there to JON in prayer; but we reply
that our own house is better for
many reasons; at any rate, it will
not engender superstition for us to
pray there. Gather your children
together, and offer prayer and sup
plication to God in your own room.
O. II Cy,,,ooo,,
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Our Northern Presbyterians are
at work revising "The Confession"
Here is what distinguished scholar
says Of it as it stands:
No creed except that of Trent
was composed with such delibera-
ton, none of modern times has had
so great an influence. 1t has for it's
basis the system of faith known as
Calvinism, but which is higher than
any name of man, and has come
down to us through long line of
elect ones-Paul the Apostle; Au-
gustine, whose symbol is a burning
heart; the profound Anselm, the
subtle Aquinas, Luther the hero,
Calvin the constructive genius of
the Reform Pascal, who taught the
French to speak divinity; South,
the keenest wit, and Leighton the
spiritual thinker of England; Knox,
the fiery herald; Chalmers, the ora
tor; through Baxter and Bunyan,
Owen and Howe, Edwards and Bel
lamy."
FarmUille, Va. E. Fl. II.
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1t is often a great help to read
the Bible in another tongue fresh
turns of expression give new flashes
of thought, and the translatabilitv
of the Bible is one of its marvels
To take but one example: Isa-
iah's expression, which we trans
late, Mighty to save" is even more
beautiful in the German version
"a Master in helping" TO a blind
man, eager to regain his sight, it is
glorious news to be told of an oculist
who is a perfect master of the
special disease that now troubles
him. So to doubling hearts that
almost despair, what cheer in the
words, Tell Tesus trust Him, for
He is a Master in helping" Among
He alone has never lost
a case. Among friendly helpers He
only has never made mistake.
The Christian (London).
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Is religion the world in which we
live and move and have our being?
Is it something we take up as task
and lay down with joy, glad to es-
cape from it? Or is it our home.
our rest, our real life, our natural
orbit, world in which we delight to
be as bird in air, fish in water, child
in his fathers house, his home, his
rest?
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Another: 81 am in the Church un-
der the rule of bishops, jure dioiao
right of episcopacy; been regene-
rated in baptism; holy hands upon
me in confirmation; receive Sacra-
ment of the Supper from ordained
hands in succession from apostles :;
keep Lent, Good Friday; use our
beautiful Liturgy. Why am 1 not
a Christian? Am l not in The
Church, the Body of Christ?n
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Another: " Was L not happy in a
glorious old-fashioned camp-meet-
ing? All, the groans and the songs
and the prayers Did 1 not see my
Saviour plain as | see you? l know
was converted. 1t was a regular
old-time John Wesley revival got
religion right there at the mourner's
bench"
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Another; Have | not taken up
the cross, been down under the wa
ter, buried in the liquid grave, be-
long to the only genuine, real, pure
believers baptism church It h e
Baptist-only church whose baptism
represents death, burial, resurrection
of Jesus ? have been baptised as
Jesus was. He says follow me; I
have done it, into and out of and
under the water"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-11

Hot weather has n particularly disas-
truus effect on bangs when one has to re-
sort to papers or "A curling iron, so Miss
Flippcrty thought she was very farseeing
when she pinned on Il becoming little
fringe Of hair. She was on her way to
Narragansett Pier, and was TO be cared for
10y one of the other sex, friend of her
chaperon. 1t was too bad to have him
continually asking her to remove her cha
peau and make herself comfortable. At
last in sheer desperation she quoted him
with the following experience, which was
fresh in her mind;
II was q coaching party, and of course |
wanted 90 look my best, and it was to be a
long day, so combed my own hang out
and then rolled it up into a tight little
knob, through which I Stuck a hairpin
Now, ii You have never seen girl with
her hair arranged in this way let me tell
you il is anything but becoming Into my
hat pinned a real artistic fringe of hair,
with just the right amount OF curl in it,
which knew would not change in its ap-
pearance. rain or shine, and the chapeau 1
fastened on my head with a long hatpin
The effect was all that could he desired,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-11

A correspondent asks, How often do
elections occur in England, and what are
the qualifications for voters?
The statutory duration of q parliament
is seven years, but parliaments do not last
out the full period allowed by law. Dur
ing the present century the average length
of parliaments has been about four years.
That is to say, the house of commons is
chosen on the average once in every four
years or thereabouts. The present house
was elected in the summer of 1885, 1t
could by lew run on until 1893, but the
chances are that it will end sometime In
1891 and a new election take place The
parliament which lasted longest of any ex-
listing in the Nineteenth century was chosen
in 1920, and continued for six years, one
month and nine days. The voter in par
liamentary election must be q years of
age, householder or a ledger or occupier
whose lodgings cost him $40 a year.--St
Louis Globe Democrat.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-11

Abraham Hayward, an English wit and
author of the prescnt century, had a genius
for society lie knew everybody considered
worth knowing, and cultivated CONVERSE
ton rs n fine art As age crept upon him
his appetite for admiration increased with
dislike of being interrupted by other am
bilious takers.
One day he was dining at a house where
an eminent Frenchman, who was among
the guests, talked much and well He cut
into Hayward's best stories, and with the
skill of II practced raeouteur talked the
Englishmau down.
After dinner Hayward approached his
hostess and said to her with that familiar
ity which was his pr, llygo
Lady WaldeEraye, You really must not
have Count ---- here 10 dine again"
"But why, Mr., Hayward"
Because he spells conversation. -
Youths Companion.