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us.". .for BEAN SOUP the inheritance andrights that were his.It is easy to condemn this hungryman, but lookis that bean soup youare eating? I must confess there arebeans in my bowl too! Christ bridgedthat awful Eden tragedy.. . yet howeasy to choose the scrubby crumbs andwatery stews of worldly, possessions,selling our spiritual inheritance!"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God"by choosing Christ FIRST all thesethings will be added unto you.SYNODICALWar Cry.FROM ELIZABETH McELROYDear Friends:on the High SeasRev. Luther and Mrs. McFarland andMiss Weir came on the boat to see usoff. They gave me the box of fruit fromthe Synodical. I surely thank all thewomen for their thankfulness. BeforeSandersons'sailing we met in cabinfor prayer by Rev. Henning. We sangthe 121st Psalm.On Sabbath, September 11 we heldservices in Sandersons' cabin. As Nehemiah had a work to do so we in thespiritual life have something to accomplish.Pray for a revival in Latakia in 1956,Latakia's centennial. We are notworthy of His blessings. "He visited andredeemed Ps. 45: "My heart dothoverflow, a goodly theme I sing. Mytongue's a ready writer's pen to speakabout the King."Thanks for all your letters.MRS.Yours in Christ,E. McElroyANNA MARSHALLThe Women's Missionary Society ofthe Youngstown Congregation wishes topay tribute to the memory of Mrs.Anna Marshall who was called to herheavenly home on July 11, 1955, atthe age of 83 years. She was a veryfaithful and devoted member and worker, both in our congregation and in theMissionary Society. She came to theYoungstown congregation in the late1890's, and for over 20 years she served as President of the Missionary Society. She also served as Superintendent ofthe Sabbath School for a number ofyears.She is greatly missed by her children,grandchildren and great-grandchildren,and bya large host of friends. Wecommend her loved ones to the Onewho said, "Blessed are the dead whichdie in the Lord from henceforth; Yea,saith the Spirit, that they may restfrom their labors, and their works dofollow them."252Youngstown W.M.S.Would you please print our correctaddress in the Witness? Instead of 1975E. Sutter Avenue,Rev. and Mrs. T. F. Harsh1975 (F) Sutter AvenueCincinnati 25, Ohioour correct address isPSALM FESTIVALFOR PITTSBURGH PRESBYTERYAT THE ALLEGHENY CHURCHNovember 4, 19558:00 P. M.HISTORICAL CORRECTIONIn your review of Dr. Stonehouse'sbook entitled J. Gresham Machen (Covenanter Witness, September 28, p. 198)you state that the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of America (now the Orthodox PresbyterianChurch) "was the beginning of theWestminster Theological Seminary inPhiladelphia .This statement is incorrect, for Westminster Theological Seminary existedfor seven years before the origin of thePresbyterian Church of America. Theseminary was founded on July 18, 1929,whereas the first General Assembly ofthe Prsebyterian Church of Americawas opened on June 11, 1939.Many people seem to think that Westminster Theological Seminary is an institution of the Orthodox PresbyterianChurch. This, however, is not the case.It is an independent institution not officially connected with any denomination. It is controlled by a self-perpetuating board of 29 trustees. This board atpresent includes members of five different denominations, namely :The Orthodox Presbyterian ChurchThe Christian Reformed ChurchThe Reformed Church in AmericaThe Canadian Presbyterian ChurchThe Southern Presbyterian ChurchOrder your Minutes of SynodNOWFrom C. R. Fox, 209 Ninth St.,Pittsburgh 22, Pa.Price $1.00AMERICAN BD3LE SOCD3TY PLANSTO PRINT RSV: ACCC SECRETARYURGESCHRISTIANS TO PROTESTA number of requests to publish thissad."have come. "If 'tis true, 'tisA letter addressed to Christian publications was recently received from Dr.W. Harllee Bordeaux, generalsecretaryof the American Council of ChristianChurches. The Christian Beacon desires to bring this communication tothe attention of its readers. Dr. Bordeaux writes:If, as I believe is probably true, youregard the Revised Standard Version ofthe Bible as a per-version of the HolyScriptures in more than a few places;if, as I trust is your conviction, you arefullyconscious of the fact that the RSVis the product of those extremely modernistic views, then I am sure you willbe interested in this communication.It is with genuine sorrow that I haveto advise you that the American BibleSociety has been following a policy designed to popularize the RSV on foreignmission fields.Certain "diglots" havebeen prepared by the American BibleSociety, and beside the foreign languagethere is the companion text in Englishwhich is that of the RSV. I believe thata host of godly Christians who are nowsupporters of the ABS (and a multitudeof believers who have departed thislife and gone to be with Christ whowere, during their lifetime, benefactorsof the ABS)shocked if theywould be immeasurablyrealized what the ABShas been doing to popularize and gainacceptance for the RSV.While these diglots are sad enough,something far worse is looming on thehorizon. We know, on excellent authority, that the American Bible Society isabout to accomplish the changing of itsconstitution, whereby it will then havea legal right to publish the entire Bibleof the RSV. Conferences in which Ihave personally participated with prominent officials of the ABS, about two orthree years ago, are such as to convinceme that nothing will deter the ABSfrom accomplishing the revision of itsconstitution andbeginning to publishthe entire RSV Bible unless it is a clamor and determined volley of protestsfrom God-fearing Christians who see theimportance of keeping a pure Bible inthe hands of the people and who willtherefore cease to support the ABS if itstubbornly and sinfully persists in theCOVENANTER WITNESS