The Benevolent Work of the Church, and the Report of the Committee of Twenty-One [pp. 246-272]

272 TH~ 13ENEVOLENT WORK OF TilE cHURCH. [April,
We are satisfied that misapprehensions and mistakes will
ere long be rectified. Honest differences of opinion there
will be, on matters so important and interesting; nor are such
differences necessarily injurious. We have a firm faith i~ the
fnli~e of our Church. Confident that reunion means, by the
grace of God, more and wiser work for evangelizing the world,
we hope that out of our differences, and even our misapprehensions, there will come to us, in one form or another, all
that the Assembly at Philadelphia sought for. The Church
will not be misled into confounding real improvement with
the evils of revolution.
Such are some of the urgent questions and practical difficuliie, in respect to benevolence and finance, which the Presbyterian Church is compelled to meet and adjust. None of
greater importance are just now before our Church. The last
Assembly only began the discussion; and many of the points
were not fully stated or debated. They will keep coming up
until they are settled in the best way for the whole Church.
In the Chicago debate, in answer to the question, "What is
to be tbe end of these things?" Dr. Hall of New York well
replied: "Mr. Moderator and brethren, there is to be no ena
of these things, until the Presbyterian Church has done its
part in the evangelization of the entire world."