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THOUGHTS ON THE ATONEMENT. I.
The Genesis of the *• Federal” Scheme.
The separation of Theology and Christian life
has always been fatal to the former. Whenever
Christian' doctrine has been separated even for an
instant from its perennial source in the life of
Christ in the souls of his people, as apprehending
and conditioned by the revealed word; whenever
Christian teaching fails to mqet and satisfy the
cravings of sanctified hearts, which have .been
made clean by the words spoken unto them, it
must always fail to reflect the truth of God.
Where its main purpose is to draw distinctions
B,nd lines to meet the requirements of the intellect,
rather than to apprehend the great unities of
truth and the realities—ever old ever new —in
which the heart delights, it must necessarily lose
its hold upon the business and bosoms of men. It
may exult in the exclusive possession of the
schools, —may furnish High delight to professional
students, may find free scope in the technicalities
of system-building, but its hold upon life is gone;
it has become, under whatever name, a scholas
ticism. i —something which belongs to the school,
and which divides from the life of the people by
chilling it into the formality of the schools.
It has been the fortune of the Reformed or Cal
vinistic Theology to go through very various phases;
in some sense, even while its dogmatic forms have
remained unchanged, its essential character has
been continually changing. : In spirit and reality
the Calvinism of Calvin died with its author,
while the Calvinism of the Calvinists has taken
a new form with every successive generation and
in every different Country.
In Holland, and during 5 the thirty years suc
ceeding the Synod of D'ort; Calvinism probably
was in a lower spiritual state ’ than in any time
and place where it had not actually suffered from
the inroads of infidelity. It wis allied not with
thC nation, but with q. violent political party,
which paid for the church’s support, by persecut
ing those whom thd! church’s rigid : dogmatism
had driven into, an attitude of dissent from the
famous “ Five Points of the 1 Synod of Dort.” The
very scholastic system against which the reform
ers had, with one voice, protested as the root, of
Romish bitterness, as the vicious method by
which error had been hardened into Anti-Chris
tianigm, was taught in her every school, and.
Aquinas, in the black gown of Geneva, sat in al
most every Professor’s chair. The Synod of Dort
itself had protested against the introduction of
the method by the Pole Maccovius, but the very
acts and decisions of" that Synod were now on
every side defended by the scholastic method 1 of
Rome and Paris. The original investigation of
the Scriptures was neglected or made the bond
slave of dogmatism, and the supreme question
was no longer “Whatsaith the Scriptures? How
readest thou?” but What is the doctrine of
the Reformed Church ? What the decision' of
the illustrious- Synod of Dordrecht?” The very
ground for the existence of a Reformed Church
was subverted by placing tradition above the
word of God; and the very character.of the Re
formed Church as the church of an intelligent
community, was destroyed by making her prin
ciples the mere theme of subtle and punctilious
distinctions of such a technical and scholastic
character as shut, out the teachings of the church
from the sympathies of the common people. Wliat
Calixtus, one of the most candid and moderated'
German theologians, said in 1643 of the state of
theology in his time applies, with ten-fold force, to
Holland*. , n ■
In,such ,on era as this it was that Cocceius was
raised up of Q.od to vindicate the truth' that what
God has joined—doctrine and life—man may not
put asunder. Born in 1663,' he ha.d seen how
little the abstract truths of the word of God
could control men’s consciences in‘priictioaP'iDat
ters; he had sat at the feet of the English Puri-;
tan Ames, who, an exile to Holland for con
science sake, uplifted his voice in the arid
wastes, proclaiming the primary necessity .of a
Christian life. There were already signs of a re
actionary movement against Theology itself,
such as, in a similar state of the Lutheran
Church in Germany, took the name and form
of “ Pietism,” when Cocceius came forward
with the Federal or Covenant Theology, and
saved the Reformed Church by re-calling
her to the Divine Word—the great history of
Redemption. He embodied his scriptural and,
therefore, historical apprehension of Redemp
tion in a theory of two covenants; one of
Nature or .of Works before the fall, the o'her of
Grace, consequent upon the fall, the latter ad
ministered under three economies or dispensa
tions —before the law, under the law, under the
Gospel. The great advantages which the Church
reaped from the new teaching arose from the
facts :
I. That it was new. It was a breath of fresh
air let in upon au audience room, when the at
mosphere had been breathed and re breathed un
til exhausted. It fulfilled the description of the
kingdom of heaven, in that the householder
* “As result of want of adequate Ideologic learning,
there was an ignorance of the limits of human know
ledge, and a pretence of attempting (in matters of
faith) to determine the how when must suffice
us. It doe 3 not satisfy us to know the quod; what
God has revealed to us in Scripture. We want to know
and to explain the quomodo; which God has not re
vealed, and which it is useless to us to know,
Nescire vclTe cinte'Magister'miiximus,
Docuro aon vult, eruuirainucJtia est.
• ‘From tliis mood there follows another. Men are
driven by. too much contradicting of adversaries into
the opposite (and often not less vicious, extreme. They
are carried past the mean in which they ought to have
rested. From this proceeds a further mischief; the
neglect to distinguish between what is fundamental
and matters which (without affecting the soul’s salva
tion’) may be determined'in this, or a different way.
Men have wished that their own peculiar opinions
shall be held to be icupiiu Sf>sai ; forgetting that God
does not require from us the knowledgeot' nil .things-}
and that ignorance concerning many of them is no
harm.”
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1868.
brought forth out of his treasures things neu> as i
well as old. The very promulgation of such a 1
system was a re-proclamation of the great Re- ]
formation truth, that God is teaching every gene- <
ration in turn, by leading them into a deeper ap- .
prehension of the truth of His holy Word ; that :
while the thoughts of our fathers may be of the >
greatest service to us, we can only make them ;
our masters by turning our backs upon the Mas
ter of us both. 11. It was Scriptural in form
if not in essence. It led the church, by its very
method, back to the true source of Christian
theology. It made very light of mere traditions.
Its consistent adherents wrote no books on the
Atonement, with so many pages devoted to falli
ble reasonings and distinctions, so many pages
to the opinions of fallible men, and so many other
pages to the Testimony of Scripture. It vin
dicated the rights of exegesis to act independent
ly of the trammels of system. It made man a
learner and, so far as its purpose went, forbade
him to explain away the teachings of the Word,
or to explain his opinions'into the Word. 111.
It was human. The older Calvinistic teaching
saw man as a mere passive! thing, moulded by
a divine decree. Its 1 one-sided—because logical
ly consistent—predestiharianism made ' that de
cree the centre of the universe. ' It. grew from
the assertion of the DivineAVill) which has in all
ages been a,source of human strength, to be mere
ly the denial or ignoring of any will 'in man,
which has always ! beeii :, a fruitful source of hu
man' weakness. The new system saw in God the
Giver of all good, but in man the reeeiverof ,all;
the mere Bredestinabor became the Joying Guar
dian, leading the future of the race down through
successive stages of human history; it recognized
a grateful hunraii Receptivity in the child of God.
Above all, it recognized the' true centre of The
ology iin the incarnation and: life of Christ, it
read the old dispensation- as a, hieroglyph, which,
in every, part, foretold the life, the Way, the
Truth, the Word.'
It is not to ! be wbndered then, that the :Coh
servatives tof ' that age were-in a rage at .this
teaching ab.out t.wo Covenants and .Federal Head
ship. yoetius, a man ,of true piety, but a piety
which had no vital relation to his doctrines, led
in the assault. They showed very clearly, that
“ the'Calvinistic or Reformed System in its' hiS-■
torical sense ” < knew nothing of such a scheme ;
that Calvin and.Bcza and the great Sanhedrim of
Dort must be all wrong,, if Cocceius was right;
that whatever Scripture or reason might say, it
was “not an open question as to what the teachings
of the -Reformed 'Church was.” With su6h
straws did they! tilt, but all to no purpose, for
Gocceianism .spread, and. the Liberals in-
Church and State sustained it. Imperfect, as we
believe it was, it met some of the deepest needs;
and cravings of the church. By and by the
VoetiaU and Orange party 5 got the’upper -hand in
the State, and-jthe. bigots wanted: to itreafcithe
Cocceians as the, Gomarist Orangemen had dealt
with Grotius. ; .Qnly by the interposition of the
always moderate and' M‘elah.d£honht n> Church of
Germany 1 , was' f the Scandal of a ! Schisuf avoided,'
and the-Federalists Obtained <! equal: rights in
the undivided Church.”
THE TEIBUNE’S LEANING: TO INFIDELITY
If the publishers of the Tribune were persua
ded of the claims : of Infidelity, of its superior
moral influence, and If they candidly-published
that as their creed, and entered the lists to cony
tend against’ the alleged error and delusion and
bigotry of thelGhufches, they would; of course,b?
regarded as:-having made a radical change id
their paper. It would no louger be, in any sense,
a party journal. They could not expect to reach
the same readers as by their present treacherous
policy! Their subscriptions would be reduced to
their true adherents,” —namely those Republicans
who chanced to be opposers of the Bible. ; They,
would also Suffer a , corresponding diminution of
their advertising patronage, and consequently of
their great resources. But their standing would
then boon a sure foundation; their success, if
they achieved any, would be fairly earned, and
they would hope to regain their original circula
tion when their ideas 11 had won the victory over
bigotry.” i V
But while the Tribune prefers rather to take:
its present stand as a distinctive Republican or-,
’gan, it is bound to conform, in a certain ’degree,
to <thevaccepted standard of such a paper. Its
editbrs; of the party, cannot.be whol
ly independent of it. Within,certain limits they
must submit to its decisions, as fcfr instance in’
the choice of caifididates. They offer their pa
per for sale as a : camp|ign document. Whoever
thus volunteers to the party is in a
measure amenable to it. though
not exactly similar, is analogous, th that of a can
didate or a platform committee. >
the Tribune think of a nominee who’snouldhan
nounce from the stump his devotioti not’ only
the principles of the party, but to those of infi
delity ? Or what would be thought of a conven
tion that published a platform of principles, one
plank of which pledged opposition to the Bible ?
They would be denounced as enemies of the
party.
The Tribune justly boasts of the morality and
intelligence of its.readers. But these are, to a
large extent, allied to the orthodox Churches.
This is preeminently the case in the rural dis
tricts, where we find the strength of the Tribune’s
influence, and of the party also.' There are whole
churches in which there is not one Democrat.
Of the cases of excommunication that have oc
curred in them during the last five years, no
small portion has grown out of the dissatisfaction
of Democrats with the prevailing antislavery ten
dencies. The’ few Democratic ministers that re
main are compelled to encounter embarrassments
similar to those of the radical abolition ministers
a few years ago. And this superior character of
these subscribers will be found to be largely nour
ished by the.influence of these churches —by those
“ textual platitudes,” as the Tribune calls them—
by a belief in God’s providence iu material things,
by the sacred devotion of a Sabbath to the con
templation of these themes. Practically there is
almost no other source of this morality. Wo do
not generally find it in circles of scientific skeptics.
When this religious sentiment is aroused by the
moral issues of the party , it has great power. It
overflows! in sermons, and prayers, and exhorta
tions, and Sabbath-school instruction, and in every
private channel of influence. In proportion as
the appeals of our Republican leaders reach this
moral sentiment, do they succeed in rousing the
party. Anything that dampens this moral inter
est chills that enthusiasm on which its suocess J
depends. A Christian father, who unsuspect
ingly puts the Tribune into the hands of his son
that he may-embrace correct political principles,
and learns that he has also imbibed skeptical no
tions, which will be likely to prevent his becom
ing a Christian (for it is much easieT to sow tares
than it is to eradicate them) will not be likely to
enter so heartily into the canvass, nor to contribute
money to circulate the paper. When his Demo
cratic or conservative brother objects to those
infidel sentiments, and expresses preference for
the World , or Times, or secular Observer, his
mouth will be shut. It is the most cutting of
all things to say to such a man that he “ need
not go mad," because his Bible is proved false,
since nature is an equally good teacher. Noth
ing like the persistent, advocacy of. infidelity
would so imperil the permanent success of the
party. Nothing would more effectually hinder
ae union of all Christians -in sustaining these
principles. Nothing would-so. tend to build up
here in the North that strange anomaly presented
in the State of Connecticut.. For-iAwas the pre
judice in the minds of the churches of that State
against abolitionism as identical with infidelity,
that closed their pulplits agdiilst it,and 'originated
that conservatism on-which the peculiar.pblitical
condition of that.State.;is,bas,ed, ; L . ;
The final result of persistence in the policy of
slyly insinuating infidel the'paper
itself, will be, to alienate many of its friends, and
if there is no other ucdejitable paper, toTead them
to build up a n'ew one; -. Exactly iinhproportbm
as the newspapef is felt to be. a i( public necessity,
will, the people h arouse to the assertion of their
rights. Just as in the Congregational Church,
many rose up in indignation against the arrogance
of the Independent, stopped their subscriptions
and Btarted ai formidable rival ;to it, and., compell
ed its editors, that talked so bravely of- retiring,
to, eat their words, so will Christian Republicans
rebel against the Tribune, when it has gone too
far. Neither its abilitynor ’its success would
satisfy them. Never so fine a feast spread before
a hungry man l would entice ihim, if he supposed
all the dishes were to bepningled with poison. :
; We ought in justice ,to' the Tribune to say,
that, .the offences of which l we complain are of
comparatively recent date: We’have read-the
■paper for many years and neversympathized.with
a single ; cry against it as .being devoted ; to Wo
men’s Rights, Free Love, Spiritualism, Infideli
ty, &c., nor could, we find ground for what was
alleged by many, but generally gave it our in
dignant' denial. Why attention’ has not been
publicly balled to this of which we speak (if it
hqp not been done without our. knowledge) is,jWe
suppose, oyjing to the fact that on account of the
amount and variety of matter, and particularly
the lengthy foreign Correspondence, but few read
■the’ wholb with'attention': -• Besides, since the be
"ginhing of- the war, men's: minds., have been ab
sorbed in,.events, of extraordinary (interest. Fur
thermore the patience of, the public is proverbial.
‘ The Tribune is jusi now profiting by the mis
takes Of its Avals. -TheT'tWes and' Post will long
have reason' to regret: their rfteddiing in : the great
‘‘ Bread and Butter, Convention.” The Tribune
is also, quite successful in,a plan of preoccupying
the gi’onnd by underbidding—reyidently at great
sacrifice, unless its profits before were enormous
—all the other weeklies of the same-Class. But
its greathess’Could'not prevehtits fall, if it,should
wear out the patience, of its readers, though if
might postponeithe ,day. ....... -, . ( , , r , f , ,
Thoughtful* mendn the Church must always
raise the quest ion whether the hope of ieligion in
the future is hot a matter’of greater concern-than
that of present party success. The present. R
epublican >and i Democratic parties must eontmue,
or have,their legitimate successors. The ortho
dox Church, as,a body, is committed to the lead
ing principles of the former party, and, it she
maintains her faith, her children will be. De
mocracy must become more and more allied, in
the character of its members, with those, who op
pose orthodoxy, with the exception of the few ]
Republicans in the Liberal sects and in certain
literary cirblesj together with the Temnantof the
old- Abolition party that was estranged from.the
Church on account of the prejudice they met, as
infidels, while engaged in that agitation.. But
some of them we can hardly count on. Stephen
S. Foster is not the only rabid one who has gone
over to the other side. But the great mass of
the more outrageous Sabbath-breaking, church
neglecting, Bible-hating classes, will be -found in
opposition to us. The Republican party ought
not to forget how much it owes to the Church for
what’was done, during the’ anti-slavery agitation
and during the war. Possibly Oberlin College,
with its thousands of ministers sent to the then
far West,,turned the scale in that region by giv
ing to those churches their antislavery charac
ter, and thus insured the triumph of the party.
Otherwise the while of that part of the country
*■ 'might have, been somewhat “ Egyptian,” with
just’enough Republicanism there to grace a Dem
ocratic’'-triumph.. With the West neutral or
. hostile, ,a;dcA|pl rac y m ioFt have succeeded there.
Without her might not have been able to
subdue the febellionf'an d thus incalculable mis
eries 'would-have 1 befallen,our country.
Every Christian Republican ought to utter his
protest against the course of -,the Tribune, both
for the sake of true religion au.d of the party.
If appeal to their sense of honor fails and the
evil is "not abated, then it will berime for both
Christians and Republicans to use other means.
In the meantime,- let every reader use the-utmost
diligeuce to guard against the mischiefs which
this subtle sowing of the seeds of error inay cause.
And whatever developments may. take ■ place fin
the field of science, let no man fear that any of
.them will, when t-he truth is ascertained, dimin
ish our confidence in that Volume, which alone
is inspired of God. Its authenticity and genu
ineness rest upon a sound historical basis, more
impregnable than that of any other book. .The
history of Christianity is largely made up of bit
ter attacks, most of which serve to strengthen
that which they attempted to destroy, and are
monuments of human prejudice, ignorance and
malice. If auything shall recur to put the foun
dations of our belief on surer grounds, or to de
fine and limit ouy ideas of divine truth, we ought
to rejoice over it.' it is hardly possible that
anything will be. discovered to alter the essential
nature df any of our 'fundamental' beliefs. 1 Rest
ing, therefore, upon these historical grounds, we
may confidently reject those opposing theories,
or rather hypotheses, that are contrary to these
fundamental Bible truths, assured that true
science in its progress will also reject them. In
the meantime we should take a lively interest in
these controversies, and sustain those men who
are contending on scientific grounds against these
errorists. We are under obligations to do this
for truth’s sake, and also because busy hands are
scattering these errors, and many souls are being
entangled, that we ought to be able to help in
recovering themselves out of their snares.
Feed. A. Chase.
BECONSTEUCTION IN CHURCH FINANCES.
By a Layman.
It must be admitted by many who have had
experience in the financial management of church
organizations that the promise to pay of an incor
porated church society is about as.,unreliable as
that of any other organization.
The cost of erecting churches is greatly en
hanced from this cause, builders and.contractors
having little Confidence in the promises of trus
tees, elders, or even ministers of the gospel, when
acting in a corporate capacity. . *■;
The minister himself.knows from sad experi
ence that if his own character for punctuality in
the fulfillment of his promises is made to depend
on the promptitude of the church in the payment
of his salary, his character as a truthful
mgst suffer before the world. Too,often he is
made to suffer, because be finds himself unable to
secure from a single member of!his congregation,
the sympathy that should make every member suf
fer if the pastor loses in character because of the
unfulfilled promises, of the church.
Surely there,is a remedy for all this, which is
very plain. If a church sbeiety is unable to meet
its obligations promptly, the remedy should he
immediately sought for. In mapy cases the defi
ciency of funds could be .met in fifteen minutes
.time, on the very next Sabbath morning, which
would be the time and, place to correct the wrong
because if concerns every member, and is of far
more importance than the sermon itself. Let the'
deficiency be stated by one'of the session, and
the church be exhorted to meet its liabilities, at
once by a contribution from each member, though
it involved the abstaining, from, some unnecessary
expenditure during the week, Make it a matter
of the highest importance, as it is, that cbur.ch
debts should be immediately paid, and the con
gregation will respond, and the credit of the so
ciety‘'be made good. Even in chronic cases of dis
regard of all, covenant obligations by the corpo
rate society, the appeal. would have a salutary
effect. , ' ' ,
In most cases,' ministers and elders wilt be found
to be at fault, in not instructing believers in re
gard to their duty ant this-suhiect,- The collec
tion, ,on the Sabbath is as important a parf'of the
church service as the sermon, the prayers, or the
singing of hymns, and, should be so' regarded.
The of collecting by pew'rents, or -in
■any other method than the Sabbath collection,
should he . abandoned.. Believers should ;be in
structed to lay by during the week as tbe TiOrd
has prospered them, and, always have something
to. give,; even if it required abstinence from a
'ideal, and the church-would be greatly blessed by
such 1 -teaching.
If the expenses of a church amount to $lOO a
week, or $5,0.00 a year, and there are present
200 members on a Sabbath morning, the slpo
should be collected ! before the congregation is
dismissed, though it required a contribution of
50 cents froiu the poorest member, present. In-,
deed it wonld be found that the che.erful contri
butors the poor of the congregation.
The collection should always be sufficient to
pay onC week’s expenses. If inclement weather,
•or absence from other causes, prevent a large at
tendance, and the absent members forget or ne
glect to send, their contributions, the faithful
members present should contribute all that is
needed, which would be their privilege, and for
which they will surely be rewarded at the'Lord’s
appearing arid kingdom.
■ If the collection amounts to more than the
week’s expenses, the surplus should be distributed
by the session or deacons to the poor during the'
week. If a collection is to\be made for any
special object, let it be sta&d, and only the
amount collected in addition tdk the week’s ex
penses, be set aside for the objeef
The collection every Sabbath,
payment of all the obligations of
would soon give it a character fork
promptitude it does not now possesk
prevent in many cases the building pi
fices where there is no ability to payh
practice that so much embarrasses min.
congregations in their efforts to extend
pel of Christ.
Sabbath collections would then become do
ceptable part of the Lord’s worship, and
be a bond of union atnong the believers in a>
eiety ; some might staud aloof, and allow the bat
den to fall upon the faithful, but the dollar ;o\
two dollars, a week, or even the five dollars R':
week, contributed by these would be cheerfully
given; and be blessed by Him who lovetii the
cheerful giver. The poor in the church would
then be provided for. There would not be found
in the same congregation members contributing
largely to the firectiou of some splendid church
edifice at; a distance, while their own pastor’s
;salary remained unpaid, and while some 6f their
fellow.members .were suffering for the necessaries
of life, aud others dying in almshouses, and asy
lums ;not under the supervision of the church.
We would not find believers in affliction resorting
for relief to such worldly organizations as Masons
and Oddfellows, because there are none in the
church of Christ to extend a helping hand.
This collection made every week, according as
the Lord has prospered us, would keep alive
among members a - feeling of sympathy for each
other that, would manifest itself before the world,:
and would'train the believer to feel- that . all lib
has is the Lord j and that he is not like Ananias,
and Sapphira to bring only a > certain: part x , after
making a full consecration of all to'His service.
We have received an admirable circular from
our esteemed Secretary of Home Missions, Dr.
Kendall, appealing to ministers and others for
co operation and effort, to save our feeble church
es from extinction. We have been trying to co
operate in this thing for years past, embracing
every opportunity we could to tell how some fee
ble churches have saved themselves, with God’s
blessing. It has been by effort, by enterprise,
by courage, by self-denial, as at Gampbelltown,
at Oaks Corners, and some other places, which
we could easily name. It has not been by de
pending alone or chiefly on Home Missionary
aid. ;If some of these' feeble churches would
work and give, they-would not be feeble much
longer.
There was a church, not a thousand miles from
this, city, depending a few years since on the
Home Missionary Society. A Committee of our
Presllyteiry was sent to talk with them, and see
if it was not time for them to try to take care of
themselves,, and let such money go to more needy
churciies at the West. The conference' begins.
The ' cohimittee asks one of the leading men in
the feeble church how much he gives to the. S
ociety. He answers,. ten dollars a year. He is
asked what .his property is. He has a good farm,
ali paid for, with five or six thousand dollars.
The. committee frankly say to him, “Why, Sir,
We expect men worth as ! inuch as yon are, in out
city churches, to give from fifty to one hundred
dollars, a year, .to: support the.Gospelj and they
do,it all.the time. How can you expect such
men to be giving to the Home Missionary Socie
ty, to aid you, when you do not give more than
one-tenth as much, according to your lheans, to
sustain a sanctuary for yourself and your neigh
borhood?” ■ i • ~
We are happy to add, that, after such frank,
Christian exhortation, that church soon became
self supporting. We do not mean to Say that all
connected' with feeble churches are backward m
regard 1 to the support .of /their own sanctuaries j
but some,, we know,are so, and are asking for help
before doing, all. they can, or doing" as much gs
many others under, tlie circumstances, to help
I themselves, . Many of H these feeble cbuiches
might be raised right up into a reasonable pros
perity,.if-some-of those who .would be regarded
as leading men in. them, were such .givers as we
have in §ome other churches. Let them try it.
Rochester, N. Y.
.■Of Presbyterian (N. S.f Ministers and Churches
■ in Philadelphia'and vicinity ,
Adams, E.E., D. 1)., Oxford, Pa„ Lincoln University.
Adair, Robert, 1737 Filbert St., Secretary Home
Mission Committee, Presbyterian Rouse.
Aikman, yim., Market St., Wilmington, Hanover
St. Church', Wilmington. ' ' ‘ m ,
Allen, K. U.,' 404 South Eighth street, Third Church,
4th and: Pine streets.
Barnes, Albert, 420,9 Walnut street.
Barnes, A. Henry, 735 Spruce street.
Beale, J. H„ 1029 Palmer street, First Church
. Kensington,.Girardav. near Hanover street.
Boggs, James, 1223 South 16th street.
’ Relief, Presbyterian. House. . , ;
Bruen, Edward B. 1531 Chestnut street.
Butler, J. G., D.TD. ,4035' Chestnut street.
Cox, George W. 1822 Frankford Road.
Crittenden, Samuel W. Presbyterian House.
Culver, Andrew, 1506 South Third street, First
Churcii, Southwark, German street above 2nd.
Diver, Charles F. 2138 Mt. Vernon street.
Duffield, Samuel W. l"th and Tioga.streets, First
Church, Kendferton. Tioga street above Broad.
Dulles, John W. 4037 Chestnut street, Secretary
- Presbyterian Publication Committee, Presbyteri
an House. , J
Eva, Wm. T. No. 8 Harrison street, Bethesda
Church. ' ' ' , ,
Hammer, G. R.,. Springfield, First Church, While
marsh, Pa.
Hamner, J. Garland, 826 Wharton street, Wharton
street Church, Ninth dhd Wharton streets.
Helffenstein, J., D.D., Germantown, Market Square
Church, Germantown.
Hendricks, ‘Francis, 1543 Vine street.
Hotchkin, B. 8., Haverford P. 0., Delaware county,
Marple Church, Marple.
Humphrey, Z. M., D.D., Pastor elect of Calvary
Church; Locust Btreet above 15th.
Johnson, Herrick, D. D., Marquette; Mich., Pastor
elect of First Church, Washington Square.
Jones, M. P., Chester, Pa., Chester City Church,
Chester, Pa. ,
'Locker, George, 123 Otter street, German Church.
Malin, David, D.D., Broad and Ellsworth streets
Mallery, Richard A. 814 South 15th street, Cedar
. street Church. South street above 11th.
March, Pauiel, D.D., 320 South 10th street, Clinton
street Church, 10th and Clinton streets.
McLeod, John, 2015 Fitzwater street, Secretary A.
B. C. F. M., Presbyterian House, Southwestern
Church, 20th and Fitzwater streets.
Meara, -John W. D.D., 1425, Vine street, Ed. Am.
Presbyterian, Presbyterian House.
Miller, .Jeremiah, 1106 Callowhill street, Secretary
Philadelphia Sabbath Association.
Mitchell, James V.. 1003 North sth street, Central
Church ;N. L„ Coates street above 3rd street.
Moore, W. E. West Chester, Pa., West Chester
Church.
Moore, George R., 1732 Catharine street.
Parsons, B. 8., D. D., 1721 Fitzwater St., S. S. Tabor
Church, 18th and Christian streets.
Prentiss, N. A. 231 Chestnut street.
Reeve, J, B. 219 Rodman street, Lombard street,
Central Church, Lombard street above Stli.
Robbins, Frank L. 1317 Jefferson street, Oxford
Presbyterian Church, Broad .and Oxford streets.
Manayunk Church, ManayunK.
.iug street, Wilmington, Central
don. .
. D.D., 507 Brown street, hirst
iuttonwood street above 6th.
s, Baring above 36tli street, Man-
P„ 36th and Bridge streets.
;st Wilmington, Olivet Chapel,
Si the. prompt
ojHthe church,
irwpucsty and
would
dSpstly edi
and
PEEBLE OHUEOHES.
DIEEQTOEY
.er P. 0., Pa., Reeseville and East
chee, Reeseville, Pa.
D„ New York City, Pastor elec,
street Cliurck, Broad and Green
•d Hermon Presbyterian Church,
iet, Frankford, Pa. .
low. Kingsessing, Second Cliuren,
1 Wallace street, Olivet Church,
non streets.
14112 North 15th street, Green
irard avenue above 10th streets.
Hill Church;
Irch, 20th and Vine streets.
17th and Filbert streets.
|ch, W. Pbila.;
|y, Darby, Pa.,
■Ltituaj Lancaster avenue.
Logan Square Cln
Western Church, 1
Walnut -street dun
First Church, Dare
Second' Church, Mi