The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-12-28

already exist in the commodious base
ment of the new huilding-the finest
of it's kind in the State, and the am
bilious city in which it would be
located eagerly seeks such youths as
would be its graduates. We believe
that the result would be highly bene-
fetal to Havre de Grace aud the county
at large, and il may be added that this
is the experience of the five or six
counties Of the State whele manual
training schools are uow running.
We understand that at an early
day Examiner Galbreath will visit
Havre de Grace to confer with the
leading citizens on the subject, and
We bespcak for him II large audience
to learn of tile nature and practical
yalua of such Il school.
While the adage "to make haste
slowly" has much force, the time has
come when, if Hartford wishes to hold
the proud record she has made for
herself OF being in the vanguard OF
progressive education, she must take
u decisive step in this all important
subject. We hope at an early day 10
| announce our County Manual Train
Ing School as an existing success, and
that arrangements have been made If
possible for its instructor to visit
| quite number Of the county schools
at intervals for tue purpose of giving
them some instructions along his
| special line.
| C4LVINESTEC CREED REVISION.
1t appears to be determined by the
action of the many Presbyteries
throughout the country, il response
| to requests from the special commit
| tee of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church charged with
the duty Of considering and reporting
on the subject to the next Assembly,
| that decided majority of the Pres
| byterian organizations Of the country
| demand a revision Of tho Calvinistic
| creed. The next Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly will be held in PhiIa-
deIphia in May, when the special
committee will report, and the issue
will come directly before the highest
tribunal OF the Church.
The agitation for creed revision i'll
| the Presbyterian Church has been il
progress for many years. but has not
assumed formidable proportions until
lately. If the advocates of revision
had unity of purpose they would
doubtless succeed at an early day, and
probably in the next General Assem-
| bly,, but as the friends of revision are
widely divergent in their views and
purposes, the agitation promises TO
continue for some years TO come.
The Presbyterian Church is one Of
the most conservative of all our
religious organizations, and in thai
has been Its chief safety. 1t is pro
gressive in its own way. No religious
| denomination has more earnest anG
| sincere laborers in the cause Of re.
ligiou; but the fundamental policy OF
Presbyterianism il hostile to inucva-
ton and but for the sanetity the foI-
| lowers OF Calvin attach 10 the deliver,
| ances of those who founded this grea!
| religious organization, the cause o!
| revision would have had many early
| and earnest advocates long ago.
OF all the Protestant churches the
| Preshyterians are most adverse to any
| departure from the teaching which
gave birth to their faith. they have
been Il solid phalanx in religious work
in their own way, and always fore
most in the cause of education. The
| have been 4 great factor not only III
religious advancement, bat in tnt
maintenance OF law and social order
Such an organizaiiop,s strongly welded
| to its traditions, moves slowly on all
disputed points, aud when its final
/ Judgment shall be given, il will com
mand the respect not only Of It's own
| followers but of the civilized world.
| The revision CT the Calyinistic
creed is now Us fully assured as any
thing can he that is not already &C
compiished, bat the common ground
on which the friends Of revision shall
unite when finally able to command
the silent Judgment of the Church, is
an unsoIved problem. With the cen
ssrvative tendency of the Church il
may take some years to formulate the
new creed, but free-will will be az
cepted ana proclaimed as the key
stone of theology. 1t is now rarely if
ever denied in the Presbyterian pul.
pit, but the creed that requires
specious explanation TO reconcile it to
free will, is obviously unacceptable
to the majority of the Presbyteriaus
today Exchange.
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