Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1928 - Rparchives.org

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 59
REPORT OF THE COVENANTER MEMBERS OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE NATIONAL REFORM
ASSOCIATION
Unless we very much mistake, what Synod wants to kno
at this time of the National Reform Association, is what it has
been endeavoring to do this past year and what it proposes to
do for the year to come.
As for the former, two things may be said. First, the
usual lines of work pursued by the Association from year to
year, in the usual ways, and with the usual results—with all
of which the members of Synod are more or less familiar—
have been for the past year pursued with unabating interest.
Second, as the result of much careful and thoughtful deliberation
on the part of the Board of Directors and finally by a
hearty vote of the overwhelming majority of the Board, the
program of the Association for the coming year was not only
greatly enlarged from that of the past year, but also a somewhat
radical change effected in the same, particularly with respect
to its official organ, the Christian Statesman. It is well
known to many at least of the members of Synod that for
years there has been a growing conviction on the part of not a
few members of the Board of Directors that in view of the
great multiplicity of reading matter that today comes to the
reading public, and the consequent ever increasing necessity
for brief and pointed presentation in a concrete and practical
way of that which is to claim their attention, the time had come
to cease the expenditure of so much money as for years has
been expended on the publication of the Christian Statesman,
in the size and form it has been published, and henceforth to
issue it at much less expense in its present form and make-up.
It should be distinctly understood that this change has been
effected solely for practical and economical reasons, and with
no thought or purpose whatsoever of changing the policy of
the journal as it relates to the presentation of the great fundamental
principle or principles for which the Association stands
and has ever stood, save to present them the more effectively.
In other words, principles are eternal and cannot change, while
methods not only may but must change with changed conditions
in the presentation of these principles if they are to be effectively
set forth.
As for the program of the Association for the ensuing
year, in addition to the prosecution of such work as has been
conducted the past year, it has been enlarged by the establishment
of Research and Service Bureaus and the employment of
one of national name and fame who, under the supervision of
the recently elected president of the Association and editor-inchief
of the Christian Statesman, R. H. Martin, is to write,
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