New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-01

s work has bas II Gd 81 @ ne ha
p' c II natural i s WITH aiS uent culture lofty
and consecratcd purpose n tender and aaectonate
heart and burning desire for salvation OF souls
especially interesting this year. The folowi9g arc
the gusS Elder. i'll deaeonesSes 30 added on on
total a22; added on ccrtihcate-home, church ~.
bethany Mission g. total = total additions hrc I?S'
BETHANY Mission /: dled-Betiany Mission l adults
haptized-home church 81. Bethany Mission h t0ai
church 500 bethany Mission So total S75: net gain
for The year 90 reserved roll mot ncufed In I ne
. funds cohiriju ted 1h Including individual sits)-
hone hon o de so of% msGHS work s
church erection s6l5s, relief fund sIle freedmen
Assembly s244 so Congregational ssaSls American ian
Bible society sos miscellaneous slIso1 S.aI 5s
total for all purposes S6s651 so.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE REVISION COMMITTEE.
The chairman OF the Revision Committee Is one VI
the most popular In the Presbyterian CHURCH. in''
Is Dr. W. c. Roberts. whose geniality has maze MN
friends from the Atlantic to the Pacific. and whose
judgment and scholarship have retained that hold lor
many years. DR.. Roberts was born In Wales siAV
years ago. and came to this country when q mere
child. receiving his education, collegiate and me
oloscn at Princeton. Wilmington. Del Columbus;
his pasoraies While in NewJersey he was deeply
Interested In the home mission work and Ten or or
Wcsmister Church. to become
tary OF that board. Having entered upon ms worh,
with which he was already more or less famllar' ne
resolved to study 1t the ground. and In his search
for be c o San S"ee IN
and other home mission territory For hye Sss
he worked with Dr. Kendall. making iiehdS IN 1917 1917
synod and Pr"sbytcry where ne spo NE syln aThe
heroes and hcrones of the lTesby,ean Ins
became his friends, and Il was universal 'Vis
when he resigned the secrctarvshlp 10 accrpt Nv
.df Oh a III
institution increasing It's iaGu,,v anu a,n Torns h.
served the church moderator, ana IS nov ,he
chairman Of It's most important comne Hoard nertcd
him senior secretary and ne has accepted u 70 the
Ioy OF missionaries and pastors East ana West.
WHO WILL RE MODERATOR
II & NOT certain vet who will rs Moderator
Tw, names have been prominently mentioned tvosc vi
DR.. wallace Radcliffe and Dr. :. J. Mcpherson. Dr.
Radcliffe l. Princeton graduate and the pastor OF
leading church I'm Detroit. DR.. Mcpherson IS n Nn
caco man to whom the presidency OF Lake Forest uni
vcrsltv has been offered since tho resignation OF Dr.
THE RETIRING MODERATOR.
Dr Green. the retiring Moderator. is sixty-scvcn
years old. lie born near Bordentown ~ De- ana
was graduated from lafayette College In 184o After
,oach,rc classics and mathematics for three or four
yeors he entered Princeton seminary graduating III
LAC Ills only pastorate was In Philadelphia In
49,, no became a professor In Princeton seminary
ho,dIpU the chair OF Oriental and Old Testament
literature for more than forty years lie was the
chairman NJ the old Testament Company Of the Amerl-
c,r committee which assisted in making the revised
version of the Bible. and he i now scI'lns on thc
$500, h.scr,iIvs committee, 10 revise the Confession
Of Faith lie Is Of the abl'~t Hebrew s,hoHrs
I'm America but his sympathes are diametncay , op,
,nscd IN Tho methods pursued by the German school
~ higher criticism Of which DR.. Briggs Is the CHIEF
American representative