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on Home Missions of the Federal Council and a Special Committee representing the Home Missions Council. Under the direction of this joint Committee, a careful investigation was made of religious conditions in the State of Colorado. The facts gathered, while revealing the evils of overlapping, made even more clear the spiritual destitution in hundreds of communities. On the basis of these facts, the Committee sent an appeal with recommendations which were received with such favor that by their official action, nearly all the Home Missionary Societies of the country stand pledged to a policy that calls for conference in the allotment of "unoccupied fields among the various bodies so that each shall feel especial responsibility for given fields." The Boards of these Societies have also approved the recommendation "to decline to endorse applications for Home Mission aid in places where the Gospel of Christ is earnestly and adequately promulgated by others and where assured prospects of growth do not seem to demand the establishment of other churches."

Following this action, the Home Missions Council inaugurated the "Neglected Fields Campaign." This campaign under the united leadership of secretarial representatives from the National offices, brought together the denominational field workers in nearly all the States west of the Mississippi for conference. These conferences decided upon action regarding coöperative plans and activities that many believe marks the most notable advance ever taken in the interests of practical Christian Unity in the United States.

Not only in connection with the missionary work of the Churches in its fellowship, but in many other ways the Federal Council has proved its efficiency as a unifying force illustrating the federal conception of Church Unity as contrasted with ecclesiastical uniformity.

The story of these activities is a part of a record that during the past few years has aided in giving the evangelical Churches their rightful place in leading the Christian forces of the nation.

While never losing sight of its spiritual mission, the Federal Council has quietly but effectively voiced the convictions of the Churches on Industrial Relations, the Family Life, Sabbath Observance, Peace and Arbitration and the Separation of Church and State. In so doing, those in high places of official authority in the Nation have learned that the Protestant Churches of the country are standing together as never before.

During the year past, several of the State and City Federations that have been organized through the initiative influence and aid of the National Office of the Council have made extended surveys of religious conditions and are carrying forward cooperative evangelistic efforts to meet these conditions. In the recent Men and Religion Forward Movement, it has been found that where local Federations were effectively organized, the success of this movement has been secured with the smallest financial outlay, and with the largest assurance of permanent usefulness.

The Federal Council at its meeting in Philadelphia in 1908 gave a timely message to the world regarding the relation of the Church to modern industrial conditions. Disclaiming the function of the school, of the legislature and of the Court, the Council has declared the convictions of united Protestantism that "the Church must witness to the truths which should shape industrial relations and strive to create the spirit of brotherhood, in which alone those truths become operative. It must give itself fearlessly to the furtherance of all reforms by which it believes that the weak may be protected, the unscrupulous restrained, injustice abolished, equality of opportunity secured and wholesome conditions of life established. Nothing that concerns human life can be alien to the Church of Christ. Its privilege and its task are measured by the sympathy, the love, the sacrifice of its Lord." This message of the Federal Council has already, through the labors of its Commission on the Church and Social Service, become a source of helpful and fruitful action.

The attention of your Assembly will be called to the coming Quadrennial Meeting of the Federal Council to be held in Chicago in December of this year in the Report of your Committee on Church Coöperation and Union.

As your agency in carrying forward this great and difficult task of correlating and allying the religious forces of our country in matters of common interest, those charged with the administration of the work of the Council bespeak, through your action, the generous and prayerful support of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. Á.

Respectfully submitted in behalf of the Executive Committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.

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IVa. LETTER FROM THE MODERATOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEW ZEALAND.

Rev. W. H. Roberts, D.D., Stated Clerk:

ST. CLAIR, DUNEDIN, New Zealand, 24th April, 1912.

DEAR SIR: I desire in a few sentences to bear my hearty testimony to the rich blessing that has rested upon the three weeks' mission conducted by Dr. Chapman, Mr. Alexander and party in Dunedin, New Zealand. There has been no evangelistic mission in the city that has moved the people so deeply and been so productive of results; hundreds have made profession of their faith in Christ as their Saviour. On "Home Nights," 173 young men and lads volunteered for service at home or abroad, should God call them; and 123 young women over seventeen years of age also volunteered. I understand that our official organ, The Outlook, which contains very full details of the mission, is to be forwarded to you. The Presbytery of Dunedin is also sending you a resolution expressing its appreciation of the rich and abundant blessing that has rested upon the labors of Dr. Chapman and party, and the great spiritual uplift that ministers, office bearers, and members of the Church have experienced. As Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, I very heartily endorse the resolution of the Presbytery. I wish also on behalf of our Church to express my hearty thanks, through you, to the Committee of which you are convener, and to the Church which you represent, for the distinguished services which Dr. Chapman and his co-workers have rendered to the people of this city and the province, yea the whole Dominion. May I also be permitted to cherish the hope that your Committee may see its way to extend the time of Dr. Chapman's return visit, beginning of 1913, to, say, at least two more months, to enable him to visit not only the three centres, Christ Church, Willington and Auckland, but also such large towns as Invercargill and Palmerston, North. By so doing a great favor would be conferred upon our Church. With hearty fraternal greetings, believe me,

Yours very truly,

GEORGE LINDSAY,

Moderator of the Presbyterian
Church of New Zealand.

IVb. ANSWER TO THE LETTER OF THE MODERATOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW ZEALAND.

To the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand:

REV. AND DEAR BROTHER:-Your welcome letter came to hand after the meeting of the General Assembly of 1912, but that body had its attention called to the fact that Dr. Chapman was conducting evangelistic services, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Churches of Australia and New Zealand, and adopted unanimously the following recommendation:

"Resolved, That this Assembly extend its hearty greetings to Dr. Chapman and the Presbyterian Churches of Australia and New Zealand, assuring them of our interest in the work and of our prayers for God's richest blessing upon it." In sending to you this resolution of the Assembly, it is desired to emphasize

the great pleasure which the American Presbyterian Church has in the know!edge that one of its ministers, and some of its members, have been so largely useful in the service of Christ in Australasia. There is certainly no desire on our part to limit the term of service of Dr. Chapman in relation to any of our sister Churches. The only limitations that can arise are those connected with the evangelistic needs of other Churches of the Presbyterian family in other lands. We invoke upon your Church increasingly the spirit of the "refreshing" from above, that there may be yet the more added unto you daily of such as shall be saved, and that your efficient working forces may be largely increased, through the work of grace, which is still progressing in your midst. We wish for you, and all Christian Churches, so wide an opening of the windows of heaven that there shall not be room to receive the blessing, and ask you to unite with us in the prayer that there may be everywhere in our churches a great advance of the spirit of true devotion to Christ. Then shall the promise through Malachi have notable fulfillment in all our work.

In behalf of the General Assembly,

M. A. MATTHEWS, Moderator;
W. H. ROBERTS, Stated Clerk.

Va. MESSAGE FROM THE DELEGATE OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMERICA.

SPRINGFIELD, O., May 21, 1912.

To the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Ky.:

As especially appointed Commissioner of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, holding its recent sessions in Washington, D. C., I have the honor to present to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in session at Louisville, Ky., official greetings. We wish you well in this Twentieth Century Forward Movement for a true faith, in action for Christ. See Ephesians i: 15-23.

V. G. A. TRESSLER,

Professor in Hamma Divinity School.

Vb. ANSWER TO THE MESSAGE FROM THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. cordially acknowledges the greetings of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, through its specially appointed Commissioner, the Rev. V. G. A. Tressler, Professor in Hamma Divinity School, Springfield, O. We rejoice in your devotion as a Church to the true faith, and, above all, to that fundamental doctrine of the Christian Church, justification by faith alone. We are glad to go forward in this twentieth century side by side with you, upholding and disseminating the Gospel of Christ throughout this great nation, and invoke upon you in all your work the blessing of Him who is able to save unto the uttermost all who come to God by Him. May we draw closer together as the years advance, co-workers with God for the redemption of the world for which Christ died.

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"Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace; comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work."

M. A. MATTHEWS, Moderator;
WM. H. ROBERTS, Stated Clerk.

II. Theological Seminaries.

I. PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
[PRINCETON, N. J.]

ANNUAL REPORT.

I. BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEES.

1. DIRECTORS.

a. Officers.

ETHELBERT D. WARFIELD, D.D., LL.D., President, Easton, Pa.
SILAS B. BROWNELL, LL.D., First Vice-President, New York City.
JOHN R. DAVIES, D.D., Second Vice-President, Philadelphia, Pa.
REV. SYLVESTER W. BEACH, Secretary, Princeton, N. J.
FRANCIS L. PATTON, D.D., LL.D., ex-officio, Princeton, N. J.

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The following changes have been made in the Board of Directors since the last report: Alfred H. Barr, D.D., has been elected in place of Rev. John H. Jowett, D.D.; John Y. Boyd, Esq., in place of John J. McCook, deceased; and Henry Hodge, Esq., in place of Hon. William M. Lanning, deceased.

2. TRUSTEES.

Annual Report of the Trustees.

a. Officers.

Thomas W. Synnott, Esq., President..

John Dixon, D.D., Secretary..

John Fox, D.D., Vice-President....

..Wenonah, N. J.
New York City.
Trenton, N. J.

E. Francis Hyde, Esq., Treasurer, 54 Wall St......New York City.

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Robert M. Anderson, Assistant Treasurer and

Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings......Princeton.

The following change has been made in the Board of Trustees since last Report: Lewis W. Mudge, D.D., has been elected a Trustee.

The financial statement appears on p. 331.

II. FACULTY.

Rev. FRANCIS LANDEY PATTON, D.D., LL.D., President of the Seminary, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion.

Rev. BENJAMIN BRECKINBRIDGE WARFIELD, D.D., LL.D., Charles Hodge Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology.

Rev. JOHN D. DAVIS, D.D., LL.D., Helena Professor of Oriental and Old Testament Literature.

Rev. JOHN DEWITT, D.D., LL.D., Archibald Alexander Professor of Church History.

Rev. WILLIAM BRENTON GREENE, JR., D.D., Stuart Professor of Apologetics and Christian Ethics.

Rev. GEERHARDUS Vos, Ph.D., D.D., Charles T. Haley Professor of Biblical Theology.

Rev. ROBERT DICK WILSON, Ph.D., D.D., William Henry Green Professor of Semitic Philology and Old Testament Criticism.

Rev. WILLIAM Park ArmstroNG, A.M., Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis.

Rev. CHARLES ROSENBURY ERDMAN, D.D., Professor of Practical Theology.

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