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Boards; be fair with the Assembly; be fair with the Church, and be fair with yourself. Elect men to the respective Boards who are true to the Church, true to her doctrines, true to her great commission to evangelize the world with the blood-bought Gospel of Jesus Christ. You now have an opportunity to fill the Boards with the right kind of material. Don’t complain; don’t misjudge; don’t criticise; but, in prayer and consecration, begin a constructive piece of work. You have no right to think about organizing an other Board as a substitute for any one that now exists. It is unfair to the Church and unfair to-the work the Boards are trying to do. Help the present Boards; build them; perfect them; direct them. Do your constructive work within the Boards. There is no place for another organiza tion. (c ) The people are not measuring up to their stewardship obligations. The materialistic, worldly, grasping spirit is affecting the men of the Church, and, thereby corrupting their spirit of giving. Again, a false doctrine is affecting the giving. A cold, Social Service Gospel will never produce givers. Federal Council Censured (3 ) ' The General Assembly adopted the minority report concerning the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The General Assembly said, by adopting that min ority report, the Council should not, in the future, undertake to speak for the Presbyterian Church on any moral question until it had submitted ltB proposed utterances to the General Assembly. The Federal Council deserved the severe censure the General Assembly gave it. Its report on the prohibition qustlon was reprehensible, disgusting, discouraging and dis heartening to intelligent, sane, consecrated Christian people. In the future, its utterances will be guarded or the Presby terian Church will withdraw from such an irresponsible body. Princeton Seminary (4) The report of the Standing Committee on Theological Seminaries is being misconstrued. The Committee’s report concerning Princeton Seminary and the proposed confirma tion of the election of Dr. Machen to the Chair of Apolo getics was handled very unscientifically. The report should not have asked for the appointment of a committee before it set forth the reasons for the committee. The facts should have been presented in the majority report and the report should have concluded by asking for the confirmation to be referred and a committee to be appointed. The minority report should have been a clean-cut argument in opposition to the majority report, setting forth the reasons for con firmation, and should have concluded by asking for the con firmation of the professor and the appointment of a com mittee to study the other Internal conditions of the Sem inary. I presented a substitute report, asking that the Board of Directors be required to report to the Assembly their ability to handle the Internal affairs of the Seminary. From a technical standpoint, I think that is the only authority the Assembly has over the internal affairs of the Seminary,— namely, to require the directors to report to the Assembly. The General Assembly has to confirm or veto the election of directors, and, it has only veto power over professors. I promised if the Assembly would follow that course we would not take advantage of the fact that the Assembly did
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