Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1919

82 MINUTES OF THE SYNOD OF THE, The missionary education movement has V*ffi** \>touching the foreign field and one on the home field. N«w LifeCurrents in China*' by Mary Ninde Gamewell gives special.at,tention to the development to the Christian church m China,and "Ministers of Mercy," by James H. Franklin gives thestories of ten outstanding medical missionaries, lor supplementalreading "Foreign Magic," by Jean Carter Cochran 13suggested. It is "a series of delightful tales of Chinese folks.The Home Mission study book is "Christian Americanization:A Task for the Churches," by Charles Alvin Brooks.We also suggest "The Call of a World Task," by J. Lovell Mur-,ray.The statistical report is printed herewith.'The term of membership on the Board of R. C. MontgomeryD D., S. A. S. Metheny, M. D., William G. Carson andJoseph M. Steele has expired. Synod should choose their sue-Dr! F. M. Foster and Findley M. Wilson have been appointedto represent the Board on the floorof Synod.And now, with the fieldslying wide open before us, andwhilst we behold the heart-rending vision of a torn and bleed)-ing and ravaged world, dying yet crying for Christ, who alonecan save, what shall our response be? Shall our faith and*our vision prove equal to our opportunities which spell obliga>tion? Shall our courage be adequate to the tasks our Lordassigns? Shall we falter and fail? Or, believing in the sufficiencyof our God and the power of His Christ, shall we comeup to the help of the Lord against the mighty? Is not the day ofChrist's kingdom breaking? Are not century-long shadows beginningto flee away? Do present duties, mighty and difficult,make us face the hidden future still trembling? Doesmenacing blackness enshroud our pathway? Then let faithhear the words of our Lord and Leader: "He that followefchjme shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.''(John 8:12). Then Christ was the world's leader as it staggeredthrough the awful days of war! "These things have I spokenunto you, that ye should not be offended." (John 16:1). "Butthese things have I told you, that when the time shall come,ye may remember that I told you of them." (John 16:4)."Now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it iscome to pass, ye might believe." (John 14:29). There is anoth^er great word of his he means us to believe even before wesee it completely fulfilled. It was a sure word of God onehour before the devastating hail of death descended upon astartled world. It was none the less sure during every dreadhour of these frightful years of attempted world assassination.And, however long the aftermath of unrest and sporadic riotand revolution may continue, it still remains his sure word oftruth and power—and Christ demands that faith believe it—*'"Come, made der; the He earth; in behold burnetii the He earth. the breaketh the works He chariot maketh of the the in bow, the Lord, wars and fire. what to cutteth Be cease desolations still the unto and spear'in the: know He end hath that sun­of;