Report of the Convention of the Presbyterian Brotherhood of America (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... XII ADDRESS By Rev. W. H. Roberts, D.d., Ll.d. Mr. Chairman, Brethren Of The ConvenTion, Ladies And Gentlemen: --It gives me great pleasure to stand here this evening and extend fraternal greetings; first, from the city of Philadelphia to the city of Cincinnati, from the "City of Brotherly Love" to the "Queen City of the West." We greet you, brethren of Cincinnati, and the women of this fair city likewise, as those who in Christ are one with us in the hope of the dawn upon earth of that glad day when it shall know a sanctified and glorified humanity. Permit me also to tender to the convention the fraternal greetings of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, and not only of the General Assembly, but of all the membership of the church. Especially do I extend these greetings to the beloved moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. I shall have something further to say in my address concerning another General Assembly, illustrating in its spirit of self-abnegation the highest of the Christian virtues--that of self-sacrifice in the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ. Dr. Landrith knows well to what I refer. We are to-day within one church, thank God. In speaking to a Brotherhood convention my remarks naturally have to do with the spirit of fraternity, in itself considered, as it is making itself manifest in our land, in particular in the Christian churches, and as it offers, as never before, an opportunity to men and women for Christian service. There is broadcast in our country to-day, under the influence of that guiding Holy Spirit who is supreme in this dispensation of the New Testament, a movement to which, in all its manifestations the word "fraternity" applies in a mark...