Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . Presbytery, and care-fully considering the facts, the matter wasexplained to the Cumberland PresbyterianBoard of Missions and Church Erectionand in due time the following response wasreceived from the superintendent. We consider it a model of Christian cour-tesy and so redolent of a broad fraternalspirit of comity that we look upon it as apromise of perhaps closer relations with oursister Church. St. Louis, Mo., February 7, E. N. White, My Bear Sir and Brother :—Replying to yourletter of February 4, I beg to say that aftersome invest
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . Presbytery, and care-fully considering the facts, the matter wasexplained to the Cumberland PresbyterianBoard of Missions and Church Erectionand in due time the following response wasreceived from the superintendent. We consider it a model of Christian cour-tesy and so redolent of a broad fraternalspirit of comity that we look upon it as apromise of perhaps closer relations with oursister Church. St. Louis, Mo., February 7, E. N. White, My Bear Sir and Brother :—Replying to yourletter of February 4, I beg to say that aftersome investigation I find that there is but littlechance for us to hold the Webber Church in theCumberland Presbyterian Presbytery, except bymethods which might jeopardize the life of thecongregation and perhaps injure the cause forwhich we are all laboring, hence, in a liberalspirit of interdenominational comity, we givewith all our hearts that which, but that thouhast already, we would with all our hearts with-hold. Yours most cordially, J. W. PARDEE HALL, LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. EDUCATION. LAFAYETTE General Assembly of 1847 met in Rich-mond, Ya., and was opened with a sermon bythe Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D., from I Cor. ix:14, Even so hath the Lord ordained that theywhich preach the Gospel should live of theGospel. He took occasion to give his warmapproval to the idea that the Church shouldassume the care of the education of her ownchildren, establishing for their benefit schools ofvarious grades in which with secular learningthere should be careful instruction given in theSacred Scriptures, and in the doctrines and his-tory of the Church. The Report of the Boardof Education that same year contained an earn-est plea by the corresponding secretary, theRev. Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, D. D., on thesame subject. The report gives a careful reviewof the case, calling attention to the achievementsof Presbyterians in the past both in Europe andAmerica, and to the mischievous
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