The record-union., 1895-06-29

innate is correct Nine-tenths of the lay
men, 1t says, and tWo-thirds of the min
listers are against the removal of the limit.
If so, the vote in the General Conference
had no such significance. There were
layInen as well Is ministers in thai body;
and II nlne-tenths OF the lay delegates
aud twO-tnirds OF the ministerial had
voted according to the sentiment Of the
church, as the 4 dCOcute estimates il, the
majority would have been, not 29S. but
343, allowing about half az many lay as
ministerial delegates"
Thus far the graduates of Union Sem
mary have found no difficulty i'll secur-
ing calls TO churches and chapelz at home
and abroad" remarks the New York
Er0RgeiSt lPres.). They sustain their
examinations with credit before the Pres
byterles. Those who desired TO exclude
them have been unable TO do SO, because
they were at once scholars au0 sound in
the faith. Even Dr. Booth has TO confess
that he can ask for nothing better. There
fore he appeals 10 the General Assembly
to shut them out on general principles,
simply because they preferred TO study
IN Union Seminary. Therefore they
must be treated as in rebellion with The
seminary. The fact is that the boycott
does not meet the case. Those who made
II do not seem to realize that the only
practical reason for being taken under
the care OF Presbyt6ry prior 10 the close
Of the senior year IN the seminary IS in
order TO receive aid from the Board of
Education, But the students Of Union
receive no aid from the Board of Educa-
ton. Therefore they need not 60 TO Pres
bytery until they go for licensure. Then
at the close of the senior year the boycott
Is out OF date-tOr 1t does not direct the
Pres Dytery not to receive under its care
for ucensure students who have studied
at Mon, but only those who are study
ing, or propose 10 study, there. 1t has
no reference to those whose studies have
already been completed, but aims 10 stop
others from going to the boycOtted insti-
tuition, who, il they should enter now,
would not apply Tor licensure before
1898. And good many things may hap
pen In these three years"
Down East they are talking in heated
manner about the boycott OF L Mon Semi
mary The independent is specially Sc
we're, and as for the EUGngetlSt-! Now
let them all be seated and listen to a
peacemaker." says the Interior (Pres.) of
Chicago. did the Assembly forbid the
licensing of any student who studies at
Union? There are two sides to this ques-
ton. What did the committee intenG?
The committee are preteritionists, thor
Oughly loyal TO the doctrine and willing
all proper occasions TO exemplify it in
their walk and conversation, as all con-
sistent theologians are expected to do in
regard to all doctrine. We should eX
pect them, therefore, to preordain the
number OF students to be passed by
and particularly and unchangeably to de-
sign them so that their mum Der may not
be either increased or diminished. We
give it as our judgment, therefore, that
the committee intended to give the no
license maxim OF the Assembly a new
application. But the church, by q large
majority, voted to eliminate preterltions
from the Confession of Faith. Therefore
we conclude that the Assembly did not
intend TO toreordaln to be passed by any
student; that it meant only to forbid the
extension of care and aid; that students
will continue TO be examined Rs to their
merits without regard to race, color or
previous condition OF intellectual servi-
tude. This bottle of mingled oils we
hasten to pour upon the troubled waters.
But what q racket there will be in New
\ Ork Presbytery!'
"When the church took hold of the
idea that it must do something to attract
young people, its acceptance of the theory
was so hearty and jealous" says the
4N6W ! VI III OOOtJ CEI II IGS. kUdb IL
rushed at once into an exploration of the
whole field of such amusements as should
serve the purpose. But the trouble is
that these church amusements are, in one
respect, like all other amusem ents-the
interest must constantly intensity, or
they grow monotOnOus and cease to at
tract. The cantata which had its little
run some halt-dozen years ago was
founded upon the story Of Queen Esther,
ba Mechanically fata # IaDh. hob 80.
daughter, and so had a remote Biblical
reference which might be detected by one
who possessed powerful intellect, and
was at the same time close Old Testa-
ment student. But in the course of time
these wretched travesties grew monOton-
Gus, and now there is the well-marked
tendency for the cantata to develop into
the operetta, while in the line of outdoor
attractions we have arrived at the point
of the SundRy-school picnic balloon as
censiOns, where the aerOnaut hangs on by
his teeth, and 1t really seems that there is
not much beyond left for the church to
present except the pugilistio combat or
the bull fight Whether the church of
the future will have to choose between
these things and the loss of its young
people remains to be seen; but it is rea-
sOnably certain that If things go on as
they have been going in some quarters,
the successful church of the next decade
viii be one that can secure the services of
Sir Henry Irving to impersorate Judas
Iscariot for the enlig ghtenment of the Sun
day-sChooI, and that is financially able
TO give a grand pyrOtechnic representa-
ton of the fall of Babylon when that
point is reached in the international Les
sons"
The Feminine Imagination.
4 down East dressmaker tells OF an ex-
acting patron who brought back a dress
because 1t waa TOO large in the waist, and