in and take your places in these ranks; it is not every man who is fit to do so. God won His victory in that day at Jericho, as He will in this day, in such a fashion as shall pour contempt on all military prowess, and on all the might or glory of men or ministers.

There was one word Joshua said which was of great use on that seven days' march: "Let no noise or shouting proceed out of your mouth." There is too much of that in the young men of the present day. You talk too much and do too little. This kind of young fellow is of very little use for what I have my eye upon, and I am trying to get my eye set upon what Christ's eyes are set upon, and the more I try to do it, and to do what He bids me, the more I am convinced that some of you who look and talk big are of very little use. Joshua said virtually, Let there be no talking, but march in prayer and in great expectation. That was a good plan of gagging two kinds of people, the one that wants to Hallelujah all the time, and the one that lacks grace and says, "Do you think there is any good in this? do you think it is ever going to bring the walls of Jericho down?" Let us have more working and less talking; it will take the best that is in us to believe in God and go on in His work.

THURSDAY, 12th July 1888.-Forenoon.

The Rev. Dr. WHIGHAM (Ballinasloe, Ireland) presided at this morning's session, and opened the proceedings with devotional exercises.

THE TREASURER OF THE ALLIANCE.

The Rev. W. S. SWANSON, on the part of the Business Committee, moved a resolution to the effect-" That the best thanks of this Council are due to George Duncan, Esq., for his services as treasurer during the past four years for the Eastern section of the Executive Commission, and that the Council accept with regret his resignation of the office; that R. T. Turnbull, Esq., East India Buildings, London, be appointed in his room; and George Junkin, Esq., Philadelphia, be reappointed treasurer to the Western section." The services rendered to the Alliance by Mr. Duncan, who had asked to be relieved of the duties of the treasurership, were singularly meritorious. He had stood by the Alliance in foul weather and in fair. He had done a great deal to further Presbyterian extension in England, almost the beginning of which he had witnessed. His sympathies with his Church, as well as his devotion and ardent attachment to her principles, were notorious. The property of the whole Presbyterian Church, his praise was in all the churches. No man had a more catholic heart to the cause of Christ. The Alliance was thankful to him for all he had done, and wished for him, in his retirement, many years of happiness and blessing. Of Mr. R. T. Turnbull he might repeat what he had said of Mr. Duncan. They all loved and respected Mr. Turnbull, and it was by a happy providence that the Alliance had such a successor to Mr. Duncan. They would show their gratitude to Mr. Junkin for past services by asking him again to continue to serve as treasurer to the Western section of the Commission.

The motion was agreed to unanimously, and with acclamation.

THE JOURNAL OF THE ALLIANCE.

Dr. WATTS (Belfast), Convener of the Committee on the journal of the Alliance, reported that the Committee to whom the question had been intrusted for consideration had agreed to suggest that

one of two courses might be adopted: (1) the continuance of the Quarterly Register, so ably edited by Dr. Blaikie and Dr. Mathews; or (2) that the Executive Commission should avail itself of the existing religious papers in Europe and America, and that the secretaries be instructed to communicate to the churches of the Alliance from time to time any information of special interest bearing upon the work of the Alliance. The Committee left the Council to decide which course Iwas the better one. They, however, somewhat inclined to the first suggestion. The first organ of the Alliance was the Catholic Presbyterian, very ably conducted, at much personal inconvenience, by Dr. Blaikie. It was regarded by a great number of the members of the Council as a most valuable contribution to the cause they all had at heart. But as it was not supported as it ought to have been, the Quarterly Register was substituted.

Dr. ROBERTS (Assistant Clerk) thought that both courses suggested by the Committee might, with advantage, be adopted. He moved that, while the Quarterly Register should be continued, it be committed to the General Secretary to consider how to make use of the existing periodical press.

DR. ROBERT BURNS (Halifax, Canada) seconded the motion.

Dr. WATERS (New York) suggested the revival of the Catholic Presbyterian, than which no journal had supplied more valuable information or more able discussions in regard to their polity, system, and doctrine. They ought to have their own quarterly journal.

Dr. ROBERTS's motion was agreed to.

Dr. WATERS then moved that it be remitted to the Executive Commission to consider whether a journal similar to the Catholic Presbyterian might be started anew.

This proposal was also accepted.

Dr. BLAIKIE thanked the Council for its appreciation, both of the Catholic Presbyterian and the Quarterly Register. He reminded the Council that henceforward the conduct of the journal would be in the hands of the General Secretary, but said he would be very willing to help Dr. Mathews. It might be found feasible to improve it in more ways than one, and, perhaps, to make it less of a burden on the funds of the Alliance.

THE NESTORIAN MISSIONARIES.

Dr. DONALD FRASER submitted the following report of the Committee on this subject :

"The Committee have considered the statement transmitted to it from Orooniah by the Rev. Dr. Shedd, part of which has been printed in the volume of reports submitted to this Council. In

this document serious complaint is made that this Evangelical mission, which has been conducted by American missionaries among the Nestorians for half a century, is opposed and thwarted by Anglican clergymen, sent out by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Committee have also had before them a printed circular, lately issued in London in behalf of the "Archbishops' Mission to the Assyrian Church," in which it is represented that the Anglican mission originated in a request from the authorities of the "Chaldean or Assyrian Church," and is intended to rescue that ancient communion from succumbing to "external organisations." It is obvious that an Anglican mission is quite as much an external organisation in Persia as any American mission can be. As to the appeal for Anglican help, on which so much stress is laid, doubt has been cast on the purity of its motive; but, even if it be taken as quite genuine and disinterested, it appears to the Committee a very different thing to justify the presence of two rival missions from the West in so small a community as the Nestorian, numbering in all about 100,000 people. The intrusion of a second mission in the present case is all the more to be deplored, because it is so much at variance with the friendly relations which have subsisted between the missionaries of the Church Missionary Society in the East and the American brethren. The Committee, therefore, recommend that the Council should express its opinion that this pre-occupation of the Nestorian field by the American mission ought to be respected, and its regret that the name of English Christianity should in any way be associated with a movement which is avowedly hostile to a long-established and successful Evangelical mission.

The report was adopted.

THE MEMORIAL OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.

Dr. TALBOT CHAMBERS (New York) presented for the consideration of the Council the following minute from the committee on the Memorial from the Society of Friends :-" The Council having considered the memorial, on behalf of the Society of Friends, upon the subject of peace and the use of arbitration as a substitute for war, are happy to express their entire and hearty concurrence in the sentiments of their brethren. We hail with joy the settlement of international disputes already effected without an appeal to arms, and see no reason why this method of adjustment should not be applied in all cases whatsoever. In view, therefore, of the many miseries of war, and of the intolerable burdens which preparation for it imposes upon the nations, we commend the whole subject to the sympathies

and prayers of the churches we represent, in the hope that He whom we worship as the Prince of Peace will more and more incline the hearts both of peoples and of rulers to settle all their differences by an appeal to reason and forbearance, and not by force."

The minute was adopted.

THE ADDRESS FROM BERLIN STUDENTS.

Professor AITKEN submitted the report of the committee appointed to consider this Address. It was a memorial from a small body of students connected with the University of Berlin. They were mostly students of theology, one or two being connected with the philosophical faculty, who had associated themselves under the auspices of two Reformed Pastors of Berlin, in a seminary, for mutual aid and encouragement in studying the literature and principles of the Reformed Faith. They had sent to the Council, in good university Latin, an expression of their Christian salutations, and the assurance of their prayer for God's richest blessing upon the proceedings of the Council, and wished to commend their own studies to the notice and care of the Council. The committee recommended that the secretaries acknowledge the salutations of these brethren, and send the assurance of sympathy with them in their praiseworthy endeavour to qualify themselves for the better advocacy and defence of the principles of the Reformed Church through the diligent study of writings. of its fathers and founders.

The recommendation of the committee was adopted.

THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE.

Dr. FRASER gave in the report of Committee as to the action of the Council in relation to the Lambeth Conference, the substance of which was contained in the following resolution :- "This Council, having learned with interest that a Conference of Bishops of the Anglican Communion is convened in this city, cannot separate without placing on record its fraternal recognition of all branches of the Anglican Communion as sister churches of Christ, its desire to maintain friendly relations with their clergy and people all over the world, and its humble prayer to Almighty God that He would be pleased to bless the bishops met in Conference, and guide their deliberations to the spiritual welfare of His Church Universal and the glory of His holy name."

Dr. FRASER said:-It has been thought judicious and kindly that we should pass this resolution. The relations between the churches of what may be called the Anglican style and order and our churches