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111 OF 11DB IT WILL. BE OPENED WEDNESDAY MORNING AT CHRIST CHURCH STATE SEMI - CENTENNIAL Xt Represents the Completion of Half ft Century Since the (linrch \V;im Kxlitl. llahed Here. The forty-third annual council of the jlfliocese of Minnesota will assemble in Christ church. Wednesday evening, June 6, at the usual hour. Bishop Whippe will celebrate the holy communion and open the council. This council will commem «":|t'' the liftk-th anniversary of the planting of the church in Minnesota, and Friday morning, June 8, a commemorative service will be held In Christ church with appropriate addresses by special speak ers as foilows: •Missionary Work Preceding Organiza tion vi the Diocese," Rev. E. S. Peake. "Missionary Work After the Organiza tion of the Diocese," Rev. G. C. Tanner, "Bishop Whlpple and Laying Founda tions/ Rev. J. Dobbin, D. D. "Bishop Gilbert and Later Develop ments," Rev. C. A. Poole, D. D. At the evening meeting Bishop Whipple Will be the speaker. • • • A lecture on "Christian Socialism" will !"■ given this evening at the Church of the Good Shepherd, by Rev. William C. Pope. It is the fourth of a series of lec tures to the people, which are being de livered in that church. • • • The ladies of the East Presbyterian church are planning a lawn social to be given at the residence of W. H. Cook. 1009 Famiuier street, Thursday evening. • • • The Oerman-American Veterans' asso ciation will hold its annual memorial ser vicea today at 10 a. m., in the German Presbyterian church, corner Pleasant avenue and Ramsey street. All veterans, sons of veterans, and Women's Relief (Mips are invited to attend. Seats will be reserved for them. • • • Rev. William Oehler, of the German People's church, will deliver the bacca laureate sermon for the graduating class of the Humboldt high, school next Sun day evening:. • • • The following St. Anthony hill churches ■will unite their Sunda/ evening services during June, July and August: Park Congregational, Woodland Park Baptist, First Presbyterian, First Methodist. Day tun Avenue Presbyterian, and after June 17, the Christian church. The first of these services will be held at the Dayton Avenue Presbyterian church this even ing at 8 o'clock. The sermon will be preached by Rev. W. W. Everts. "• • « The service for children announced two weks ago at St. Marks', Highwood, was postponed on account of the Illness of tin- conductor of the service. It will take place this afternoon at 3 p. m. Chil dren in the neighborhood cordially In vited. Sunday is known in Episcopal circles as "Whitsunday," or Pentecost, ■the birthday of the Catholic church, founded in Jerusalem. The event is cele brated with special sermons and euohar- Ists throughout the Anglican episcopate. The L'niversallst Church of the Messiah has changed the hour of service to 7:30 I>. m., commencing Sunday, June 3. Having returned from his short vaca tion, Rev. C. D. Andrews will occupy the pulpit at Christ church this Whit- Bunday, morning and evening. All strang ers are i ordially welcomed and shown to comfortable seats by courteous ushers, era. The St. Paul and Minneapolis Christian Endeavor unions have arranged for an evening excursion to Minnetonka and a Bteamboat trip around the lake for Mon day, June 11. The train will leave the V nion depot, St. Paul, at 6:10 p. m., and return at 11:45 p. m., and music will be furnished by the First Regiment band. The tickets can be had at the local En deavor societies, or will be furnished on application to J. E. Frisby, 184 East Fourth street, or H. A. Pashley, 403 Ryan Annex. CIIIHCH SERVKJBS TODAY. "Woodland Park Baptist. Rev. W. W. Everts will preach at 10:30. At 8 p. m. Union services at Dayton Avenue church. Pacific Congregational, Acker street n< v- Mississippi. Rev. William J. Gray; pastor. Morning 10:30, "Freely Receiving, Freely Giving." Evening 8, "Sowing and Heaping." Grace M. E. church. Burr and Minne haha. Homer C. Ashcraft. M. A.. Ph. D., pastor. Subjects, 10:30, "Jesus Christ's Revelation as to Eternal Gain and Eter jial Lobs;" 8 p. m., "The Anchor and Anchorage of the Soul." Church of the Messiah. Fuller street, near Kent. Rev. Henry Dixon Jones, rec tor. Services, morning prayer, holy com munion and sermon, 11 o'clock. Evening prayer and sermon, 8 o'clock. Morning subject, "The Union Between God and Man, of Which the Presence on Earth of the Incarnate Son Was the Sign, Sealed and Completed by the Communion of the Holy Spirit." Evening subject, "The Revelations That Come to Men in Prayer." Sunday school, 3 p. m. Address j'i i o'clock by Miss Julia C. Emery, sec retary of the Junior Auxiliary Missionary society. Spiritual meeting, Sunday. 8 p. m.. Cen tral block. 75 West Sixth street. Will J. Erwood will lecture and give psychome tric readings. Subject. "Do the Philo sophy and Phenomena of Spiritualism Agree." Seats free. First Christian church. Nelson and Far rington avenues. 11 a. in., Children's day exercises. 8 p. m., sermon, "Stumbling Blocks." First Church of Christ (Scientist), Sem inary hall. Ashland avenue and Mackubin t. Service at 10:45 a. m. Subject God the Preserver of Man." People's church. Pleasant avenue. Dr Smith will preach ut 10:30 a m on "The New Authority in Religion; the King U Dead, Long Live the King." Christian linneavor at 7 p. m. No evening service New Jerusalem (or Swedenborg'an) church, southeast corner Virginia and Selby avenues. Rev. Edward C. Mitchell pastor. Service at 10:30 a. m. Sunday >1 at 11:15 a. m. Subject of sermon "My Meat Is to Do the Will of Him Who Bent Me. and to Finish H'.s Work." Park Congregational. Holly and Mac kubin. Rev. Alexander McGregor, pas tor. Morning service. 10:30. Sermon by Rev. T. M. Edmand?, of Mankato. Union .services at Dayton Avenue church at 8 p. m. The Temple, corner Tenth and Minne sota Btreeta Service at 10. Sprmon at 11 o'clock by Rabbi Rypins. Subject. 'The Ten Words." Clinton Avenue 11. E., corner Clinton avenue and Isabel street. Thomas Ham l>ly. pastor. Services, 10:30 a. m. and 8 o'clock p. m. Morning topic, "A Sure Covenant." Evening, "Forgiving and Forgetting." Prayer meeting, Wednes day evening at 8 o'clock. Seats free. All are Invited. Church of the Good Shepherd, Twelfth and Cellar streets. Rev. William C. Vnue, rector. Bp. in., subject, "Chris tian -Socialism." •Unlversallst Church of the Messiah. Holly avenue, corner of Bt. A loans street. Services at 7:30 p. m. Rev. A. N. Aicott, pastor. Unity church (Unitarian), "Wabasha ■treet, foot of Summit avenue. Rev. Rich ard W. Boynton, of Boston, Mass., will preach. Subject, "The Present God." Services begin at 10:45 a. m. All seats fr<»e. Sunday school meets at 10 o'clock. St. James A. M. E. church, corner Fuller ar.U Jay streets. Rev. J. C. An derson, pastor. Today, quarterly com munion tiny. There will be three preach ing services. The presiding elder will preach at 10:80 a. m. Rev. J. W. King at 3:30 p. in.,and Presiding Elder Baily will preach at 8 p. m. St. Peter's. Dayton's bluff, coiner Fourth and Maple streets. Seats free. Rev. George H. Mueller, rector. Holy communion and Bermon at 11 a. m. Even- Jug- prnyor and sermon, 7:30 p. jn. Sun day school. 9:30 a. m. Holy Faith Mission. Tost Siding. Sun day .school and catechism, 0:30 a. m. Bt Mary's, Mcrriam Park. Rev. George H. Ten Broeck, rector. Litany, sermon and holy communion at 10:30 a. m. Sunday school at 12 noon. St. Stephen's, Randolph and View streets. Rev. G. H. Ten Broeck in charge. Holy communion, 8:30 a. m. Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30 p. m, Sunday school, 3 p. m. St. Pames, Lawson and De Soto streets. Rev. Prof. Camp priest in charge. Morn ing prayer and sermon, 11 a. m. Evening prayer and sermon, 8 p. m. Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Atlantic Congregational, Bates avenue and Conway street. Morning service at 10:30. "The Conqueror of Sins." Even ing service at 8 o'clock. University Avenue Congregational church, Avon and Sherburne. Morning, 10:45. Subject, "Looking at the Bright Side of Things. Evening, 8 o'clock: "How Peace Comes to the Believer." Plymouth Congregational. Summit and Wabasha. Rev. George M. Morrison, pas tor. Service 10:30 a. m. Subject, "Near- Sightedness." No evening service. Christ church. Fourth and Franklin streets. Rev. Charles D. Andrews, rector. Sunday services, Sunday. June 3; holy communion, 8 a. m.; Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.; morning sen-ice and sermon by the rector, followed by holy communion, 11 a. m.; evening service, 8 p. m. First Methodist Episcopal church, Day ton and West Third. Frank B. Cowgirl, pastor. Preaching by the pastor at 10:30 a. m. Subject, "An Evil Heart of Un belief." Sunday school at 12 m. Christian Endeavor prayer meeting at 6:45 p. m. Union service in the evening at Dayton Avenue M. E. church. St. Paul's church, corner Ninth r..nd Olive streets. Rev. Harvey Officer Jr., rector. Holy communion, S a. m.; Sun day school, 9:30 a. m.: morning prayer, plain, 10:30; holy communion, choral, with sermon, "The Coming of the Holy Ghost," 11 a. m,; evening prayer and sermon, 7:30. St. John's Episcopal church, Kent and Portland. Holy communion at 8 a, m. Sermon by Rev. Edgar Hanft, general missionary, at 11 a. m. Evening service at 7p. m., instead of 4p. m. Sunday school at 9:45, with an address by Miss Emory, of New York. Central Presbyterian church. Cedar and Exchange. Rev. Dr. A. B. Meldrum will preach at 10:30 p. m. and S p. m. Morn ing subject, "Why the Strong Church Should Help the Weak." Evening sub ject, "Other Sheep Not of This Fold." FRENCH ENGINEER Wuo Directed Boer Siejfe Operations Welcomed Back to France. Despite the exposition, Paris has shown her sympathy for the Boers and her en mity to England in the enthusiastic re ception she has given M. Samuel Leon on his return from South Africa. M. Leon was South African agent for the Creusot gun manufactory at the outbreak of the war. He ov/es his fame and pres ent popularity to the friendship of th> late De Vlllebois—Mareuil, who in his letters to newspapers often referred feel ingly to the conscientious and effective services rendered both by Leon and hi* associate, Grunberg, to the cause of the I I(Ca %>^' ff\ South African republics. Leon accompa nied the army in the field and superin tended the installation of the heavy ord nance around Ladysmith, and later at Kimberley; Grunberg remained in Pre toria and repaired the damaged guns as they were returned to him. At th> end of January Leon, while directing the op erations of a heavy siege battery at Kim berley, received a Leo-Aleiford bullet over the left eye, and fell half dead Into the arms of Do Villebojs-Mareuil. After pass- Ing several weeks in a hospital he decided to return to Europe to consult an ocu list and save the sight of his right eye, the other being lost for good. M. Leon has evidently been taken aback by the warmth of the welcome extended to him. Perhaps, being a Jew, he feared that anti-Semetic feeling would prevail, and refuse him well-deserved credit. In any case, it is evident that publicity is not to his taste. He is a young man of modest and retiring disposition, who even refuses to be photographed for the press. He has also shrunk from interviews as a general thing; but on two or three occa sions of his giving expression to his opin ions he has dispelled certain fallacies re garding the Boer army which for months have passed for current coin. Thus, as regards the fighting strength of the South African republics, he declares that it never exceeded 40,000 men. even when the Dutch colonists were in line, and he also maintains that the entire force of foreigners in the service of the Transvaal a few weeks ago was 1.000 on!y, of which about 150 were Germans. It is true that further contingents were arriving with every steamer. NATIONAL PARK PROJECTS. The following resolutions concerning the Minnesota national park project were adopted at the thirty-fourth annual ses sion of the Minnesota State Homeopathic institute on May 17: "Whereas, A committee of this insti tution appointed by Dr. E. L. Mann, then pro.ident, visited in the fall of ISUB the forest region about Leech lake and re ported favorably in the public press upon the project for a great public forest reservation in that beautiful region; and "Whereas, This project ha:; bren taken up by the State Medical society, the Federation of Woman's Clubs, the State Forestry association, and others, and pushed forward into national prominence uniil a formal beginning has been made by the passage in the United States sen ate of a bill creating a congressional commission to visit the region, and de cide upon the feasibility of the proposi tion, and report back to Washington by next year; "Therefore, be it resolved That wo, the members of the Minnesota State Homoeopathic institute, hereby declare curseives heartily in favor of the move ment, beHovirg thoroughly in its im portant physical and financial bearing upon tho future of the state, and we do hereby pledge ourselves to personally aid in every way to bring about this at th<i earliest possible moment since nowhere but in the vicinity of Leech and Casa lakes is there now remaining in lMs great state a fine body of standing pine suitable for a great forest reserve." EXCLUSION TO MINNESOTA NA TIONAL. PARK Via Great Northern Railway Under the Auspices of Federation of Women's Clubs. One day or one month around Northern Minnesota's beautiful lakes. Side trips to all points of Interest. Excursion leaves St. Paul Monday morning, June 11. via Walker. Cass Lake and Duluth. Full in formation at ticket office of Great North ern railway, 332 Robert street, corner Fourth. St. Paul, or address Miss Martha Scott Anderson, 1319 Fifth avenue south. Minneapolis. It's in the Evening. That the "Imperial Limited" will leave St. Paul and Minneapolis for Pacific Coast Points, shortening the time con siderably. Soo Line Ticket Office, 37t Robert street. THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1900. THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION The Westminster confession of faith, around which the discussion of churches fs raging today, was named for the West minster abbey, in London, where It was constructed. Here, by act of the Eng lish parliament, there assembled on Sat urday, July 1, 1643, a company of repre sentative churchmen from the various counties of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The ordinance of parlia ment which called the asembly was en titled "An act for the calling of an as sembly of Godly divines and others." The "others" were "lay assessors," as they were called, laymen, ten from the house of lords, and twenty from the house of commons. Tiie personnel of the Westminster as sembly, the Globe-Democrat says, was not as grim and Puritanical as one might infer from present day discussions. It was picturesque in the extreme. The to tal membership, actively in attendance, numbered 150. It Included the Scotch commissioners, clean shavap and close shorn, with snugly fitting coats, waist coats which buttoned closely to their chins, knee breeches and bright buckles on their low-topped shoes. The English lords wore jaunty, richly-colored cloaks, and carried swords dangling at their sides. They occupied comfortable chairs, which could be moved about at will, while all the other members of the assembly were seated on immovable benches. Here and there was a churchman in full canonicals. The commoners wore short cloaks of somber colors, which gave sharp contrast to the gay hues of the lords. The most notable member of the as sembly was the prolocutor, or, as we would call him, the moderator, Rev. Wil liam Twisse, D. D. He was sixty-eight years of age, diffident, dreamy and ab sent-minded, a man who wrote great Lat in folios on theological questions. He was wholly indifferent to fame, declining all offers of promotion, and dying in his humble vicarage in Newbury. Dr. Twisse was a man of fervent prayer. One of his duties was to make the opening and clos ing prayers at each day's session of the assembly. It was while thus impor tunately pleading that he was stricken with a fatal illness, and fell back into his chair to rise no more. "Now, at length," he said, smilingly, as he was told he cculd not get well, "I shall havo leisure to pursue my studies to all etern ity." At either side of the prolocutor were seat ed the mayter assessors, or, as we would call them, vice moderators or vice chair men. One. Dr. Cornelius Burgess, was a giant in frame and looked every inch a soldier. He was chaplain to the Earl of Essex's regiment of horse in Cromwell's army. liven during the assembly's ses sions he would suspend one of his power ful speeches, which were as overwhelming as mountain torrents, to go out and min ister In true Puritan style to the soldiers in camp or on the field. The other vice assessor was Dr. Herbert Palmer, known as "the little Mr. Palmer," because of his diminutive stature. Dr. Palmer has Income known as the "Father of the i Shorter Catechism." Oddly enough, though he wrote, in large measure, tills catechism with its stern theology, he was also the most accomplished in polite literature of the English divines. So skilled was he In the graces of the French and otr.M court languages that all the foreign correspondence was placed in his hands. The Scotch commissioners were five In number, four being ministers and one a layman. They declined to vote, but took active part in the debates. Foremost among these was Rev. Alexander Hender son, one of the great leaders in the Church of Scotland. Dr. Henderson was moderator of the celebrated general as sembly at Glasgow in 1638, which the Marquis of Hamilton, under instructions from Charles 1., undertook to dissolve. He was in earlier years a minister of the established church. The congregation in the parish of Leuehars, Scotland, to which he was sent, refused to receive him and locked the church doors. Hen derson, however, young- and active, climbed in a windon, broke open the doors of the church and the installation proceeded. A few weeks later he heard a sermon preached by the great dissenter, Robert Bruce, from the text: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the sheep fold, but climbeth up some other way, the s: .'. is a thief and a robber." The sermon, with this singular text, changed the whole current of Henderson's opinions, and he became the leader of the Scotch church in the sanguinary conflict which followed. Rev. George Gillesoie, of Scotland, wag the youngest member of the Westminster assembly. He was educated at the ex pense of the presbytery at the University of St. Andrews, and wrote a theological pamphlet which was burned at the stake. It was Gillespie to whom the world is in debted for the shorter catechism answer to the great question, ''What is God?" The committee on catechism was unable to frame a satisfactory answer, and, re ferring it to the committee of the whole, that also failed. It was proposed tfiat the youngest member of the assembly lead in prayer for the help of the V^fp- Spirit. He began his prayer: "O God, who art a spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable, in thy being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth." The as sembly, .struck with this sentence, se lected it for the catechism answer to the inquiry, "What is God?" Other notable menibors of the assem bly were Samuel Rutherford, a scholar of repute, who, summoned on his deathbed to answer charge of high treason, sent Charles 11. word: "Go, tell your royal master that it behooveth me to appear before a higher judge and judiciary than his, and ere a few days arrive I shall be where few kings and great men ever a> rive;" John Selden, "the learned Sel den," lawyer, historian, theologian, arch aeologist, linguist, the foremost scholar of his day; John Pym, the Puritan lead er, whose influence brought the Karl of Strafford to the scaffold; Francis Rouse, the South of England man, who prepared the metrical version of the Psalms, to the music of which the Scotch covenanters marched; John Lightfoot, Oriental schol ar; Stephen Marshall, popular preacher; WaJlia, of Oxford, the first mathemati cian of his day, and many others almost or quite equally worthy of note. As might be expected from the confes sion, the body was entirely Calvlniotlc. The assembly was not called together to form a creed. The ordinance of parlia ment directed that the assembly should meet "to confer and treat amongst them selves of such matters and things touch ing and concerning the liturgy, discipline and government of the Church of Eng land, or the vindicating and clearing of the doctrine of the same from all false aspersions and misconstructions as shall be proposed unto them by both or either of the said houses of parliament, and no other; and to deliver their opinion and advices of or touching the matter afore said, as shall bo most agreeable to the word of God, to both or either of the sail houses from time to time, in such manner or sort as both or either of the sad bouses cf parliament shall require." On matters of church polity the members of the assembly, though regularly In orders from the Church of England, were mainly Presbyterian in view. There were some advocates of the Episcopal form of church government, pure and simple. Others wer.j independents, believing in the church gov ernment, or a congregational form. Oth ers favored a church government which leaned towards Episcopal. Yet others fa vored the Presbyterian form as explicitly ordained in the Scriptures. The form final ly decided upon was a compromise, a' Presbyterianism. with sessions, presby teries and synods, not as jure divino, but as "lawful and agreeable to the word of God." In the matters of church disci pline there was wide divergence and heat ed debate. Most striking was the discus sion between the learned Selden and the scholarly Henderson upon excommunica tion. In point of work the assembly was con siderably ahead of modern church courts. The ordinary exercises took uo the time from 9 o"clock a. m. to 5 o'clock p. m the remainder of the time being devoted to committee work. During the frequent tast days and devotional periods, how ever, the sessions, were, even more con tinuous and uninterrupted. Often the as sembly remained seven or eight hours without intermission hearing sermons praying and psalm singing. The prayers seem to modern churchmen almost In credibly long, befhg- from one to two hours in length. Dr. •BaiUie gives this account of the fast-day exercises- "This day-Monday, Oct. 16-we kept a solemn fast In the place where our sitting is, and no one With us but ourselves, the Scotch commissioners and some parliament men First, at 9 o'clock in the morning, Mr! Wilson gave a picked psalm or selected verses of several psalms, agreeing to the time and occasion. Then Dr. Burgess prayed about one hour; after he had done, Mr. Whittacre preached. Then, having had another chosen psalm, Mr. Goodwin piaycd; and after he had done Mr. Palm er preached. After this sermon we had for about an hour, and with another psalm and a prayer of the Prolocutor, and a collection for the maimed soldiers, which arose to £8 and 15 shillings, we ad journed, at 4 o'clock, until tomorrow morning." Jt would be supposed, that where such a spirit of devotion pervaded the assembly all would be dignity and luiet. This, however, was by no means true. For example, the confusion on the floor was sometimes deafening. If two or more speakers sought the floor at the .same time, 'instead of the presiding of ficer deciding the question who was en. titled to the floor, the decision was left to the body of the assembly, each mem ber shouting vociferously the name of the one whom he desired to hear. So, as old Robert Bafflle Informs v.«. "the divines confus&dlie call on hi.s name whom they desire to heare speake and on whom the loudesi and mairiest voices call, be speakes." England was torn with strife during the days of the Westminster assembly. The long parliament was in session, with Pym its leader. Olivtr CromwU! had charge of the parliamentary forces which were struggling with King Charles anl the royalists in the field. It was while this fierce internal conflict shook England and Scotland that the confession was framed in all its ruggedness. The assem bly first attempted revision of the thirty nine articles of the established church. This "revision" suggests the revision d s cussion of the present day. On the 12th of October, 1643, the assembly had revised fifteen articles. Parliament then gave th? assembly instructions to cease its work on the articles and begin the government and liturgy of the church. Meantime the Scottish commissioners arrived on the 15th of September of the same year. In accordance with the direction of parlia ment the assembly began its w^rk on the government and lij.urgy of the church in October. The assembly seems to have la bored on the form of church government and on the directory for worship at the same time, during the years 164:j and 1644. The assembly presented its first report, a partial one, to parliament on the 24th of May, 1644. Other partial reports fol lowed, and on Jan., 3,- 1646, the parliament gave its solemn approval to the whole directory, which was to take the place of the liturgy, and which was the assem bly's first finished; work. The assembly discussed at length the form- of govern ment, only concluding this part of tho labor in November, 1644. This was ap proved by parliament in August, 1648. Over two years were spent In preparing and revising the confession of faith. Com- mittees were named on the 20th of Au gust, 1644, but it was not until the 4th of December, 1647, that the confession wag completed. This was presented to Par liament by the assembly in a body, the entire membership marching into the par liament house. The confession of faith was not'adopted by'parliament until t'ne following 1 summer, and then not until some important changes in the suggested relations of church and state had been made. The larger and shorter catechisms were next taken up and finished in 1648. The assembly did not really adjourn final ly until 16f>2, having been in session five years, six months and twenty-two diys, and having held 1,163 sessions. Its real work was done before 1649, when Charles I. was executed. Forty-one different denominations now hold to the Westminster symbols. A larger number hold them In part. At the making of the confe.ssion the paragraphs which are now most strenuously objected to by those who would revise the docu ment were adopted with practical unanimity and without debate.. The chief of these are from the chapter which deals with predestination, and are as follows: "3. By the decree of God, for the mani festation of His glory, some men and angels are predestined unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlast ing death. I "4. These angels and men thus predes tined and foreordained are particularly and unchangeably designed; and their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be increased or diminished." The Westminster confession is one of the latest of the reformed creeds. These creeds number about thirty, chief among them being the Heidelberg catechism, the thirty-nine articles, the Helvetic confes sion, the canons of the Synod of Dort and the Westminster confession. They may be classified in nativity as Swiss, German, French, Dutch. Scotch and English. The Heidelberg confession is claimed as the most catholic of all, presenting less jag gedly the angular points of Calvinism. This confession is the creed of the United Presbyterian Church of North America. The foundation of the Presbyterian form of church government is the presby tery. The symbols of its faith are con tained in the Westminster confession. No one save the officers of the church are required to subscribe to the confe.ssion, end they only do It as containing the system of doctrine. This subscription is required of all as a condition of admis sion to the eldership—whether as a ruling or a teaching elder. A(-".**B;on to tha church requires nothing but repentance of sins and faith In the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, except as indi vidual Presbyterian churches may^ have prescribed some creed, simpler than the "Westminster confession, for the layman's acceptance. A few have done so; mo.-^t have not. The adopting act by which Westminster confession and catechism were made the standard of the Presby terian Church in America was originally passed by the synod of Philadelphia in 1729 and declared: "Although the synod do not claim" or pretend to any authority of imposing our faith upon other men's consciences, but do profess our just dis satisfaction with and abhorrence of such impositions, and do utterly disclaim all legislative power and authority in the church, being willing to receive one an other as Christ has received us to the glory of God, and admit to fellowship in sacred ordinances all such as we have grounds to believe Chris* will at last ad mit to the klngdpm' of heaven, yet we are undoubtedly obliged to take care th*t the faith once delivered to the saints be kept pure and uncorruitt among us." Then follows the adopting declaration, receiving the Westminster confession and catechisms "as being in all the essential and necessary articles good forms of sound words and systems of doctrine." "Imperial Limited" to Be Resumed. "Imperial Limited" Soo-Canadian Pa cific fast service lacrosa the continent, from ocean to ocean, over 2,900 miles, the only long distance fast train in the world will be resumed. 'The new schedule will be in effect on and after June 11th; there will be a fast dally train in each direction, leaving- St. Paul 6:00 p. m., and Minneapolis 6:40 p. m., west bound, daily, through to Vancouver. B. C, Vic toria, B. C, and Seattle, Wash., arriv ing at Pacific Coast Points early third morning; and east bound, same quick service, arriving Minneapolis and St. Paul every morning in time to connect with all South and East bound trains. The same excellent service that made the "Imperial Limited" so popular last sum mer will be used this season. Soo Line Will Cbnn«e Tinte. The "Imperial Limited" will be re sumed June 11th, leaving St. Paul 6:00 p. m., Minneapolis 6:40 p. m.. shortening the time to Pacific Coast Points. fikhl / !?==*\ I 1 Quickness, Cheap- „,„ We place on Jf V h ness and Bestness JM .^SEET sal° M-Onda y fft&i :^^^^L| Monarch eae3soiln oroV UOirstora. 3 Pljl %fiPF An Artistic fi\rf HOW Monarch Gasoline of Summer Piece of (\ i TWf Aftlf - Goods, Furniture O<W, J llf^°w and Oil Stoves ' Is not a luxury Any ~^fli«L iIIiICaO At great!y reduced prices. We bought the Freezers, Hammock. thing that goes to make i «SB^»^ entire sample line of these Stoves at prices Lawn Chairs, Settees. your home attractivo ' nAQAAf* that enable us to sell them to you at Rockers, etc etc in »ike picture, only £§L 1& O^i.^..- than reSu!ar prices. All sizes are repre- J& Gnnri ■ H sented. from the smallest to the largest, V. **WCT Cf7 7S ff^MM ns«HHH< but there Is only one of each, so come Hammock **m mml S9m early if you want to save a few dollars. f or S5Cm Extraordinary Revelations In a New Book Which Has Set All Europe Talking—A Passionate Defense of "Love Matches" for Princes and Peasants Alike. Crown Princess Stephanie has written a book, and all Vienna is reading It, says the Vienna correspondent of the New York World. Love is its principal theme. She is no longer called Crown Princess Stephanie, but Countess Lonyay. For love of an obscure nobleman she gave up her proud position at the Austrian court and resigned herself to life in a Hungarian castle. Proud.as her position at court was, It was not a happy oae. Stephanie had never recovered from the humiliation of the Crown Prince Rudolph's suicide, and the attitude of the royal family was not such as to heal her wounds. Married at sixteen, a mother at nine teen, she was only twenty-five years old when she husband shot himself In rage and despair at being unable to get rid of her in order to marry Marie Vetsera, the girl he loved. In her book, "Thoughts, Experiences and Impressions," the tragedy of her married and widowed lifo finds abundant expression. But Vienna is most interested in searching for passages bearing upon the happiness that has come to her in her love for Count Lonyay; and these are not difficult to find. Here ts something about love at first sight: "Two young people see each other for the first time, have been acquainted bare ly a quarter of an hour, and they speak W/fflp? ;:PAAffi§^s :"'%:^#':~vl%r ~-~ %. ___y_§ #i ARCHDUCHESS STEPHANIE AND HER DAUGHTER. the binding word which naught but death alone can dissolve! If wo read such things In a novel how we would shake our heads and say, 'What exaggeration! Such things do not happen in real life!' And yet, oh, they do happen, and not so rare ly, and life often paints in stronger colors than the pen of the novel writer. Life Is much more often like a novel than a novel is like life." Stephanie's life has been a novel! Following this is a defense of love mar riages: "People say 'Love matches gen erally end miserably, and they are only happy in novels —sympathy is all that is needed.' I do not share this opinion. For those who have a heart must feel that in marr'age something more is wanted than social convenience or a fine balanc ing of fortunes and rank. "Why else has nature given the heart such an ardent wish for love? Why else do we dream or feel exalted, why do we seek moral beauty and why does it fill our heart with ineffable joy? If it is all false, useless, ridiculous, surely those are at fault who have taught us to love. "It is not at all necessary that a love match should prove unhappy—the very reverse, I think, should be the rule, es pec'ally if the affection Is pure and born of hearts worthy of each other, united by a continuous tenderness, nourished by respect, which dies only with the cherish ed person to rise again beyond the tomb. "When one has suffered beyond certain limits no human remedy can bring about forgetfulncss and confidence," she says in cne place, but later she takes cour age and exclaims: "There are only two doctors In the world who can banish the darkness of the soul—death and love." She appears to triumph over her own lack of courage when she says: "The world is a great stupid and a coward —it pays attention if you speak with a firm voice and does not dare to attack you if you know how to Inspire fear." The confession of a new love is easy after this, and the writer says: "Here everything whispers to me of you. Every leaf, for It has sheltered you —every blade of grass, for you have pass ed your hand over it—the moss your foot has trodden, the flower that has smiled upon you, the bird whose song charmed your ear, the breath of the wind that caressed your temple. Here all cries out for you like my heart—for all love you a3 I do." She even confesses to having prayed at the foot of an altar in a remote French village where the girls, dressed in their Sunday clothes, pray for a hus band whom thoy can love. "Strange certainty! While I was still praying something seemed to tell me that my prayer wa3 heard, that happi ness was coming to me at last." A paragraph called "His Name" frank ly describes the writer's condition of be ing 1 very much In love. "Oh. could I but tell the whole world h's dear name! I would sing It with all my heart, that woods and fields, moun tains and valleys should hear, that all that lives and breathes should learn to love him. "But no; I dare not. Echo Is a woman, envious of the happiness of mortals and a tell-tale besides. She would betray my secret to the babbling Dryads, to the cold, unfeeling sprites of the brooks, and they would mock me. "And the birds would sing their envy in their songs and the flowers would bend to the mirror of the lake and try and please him. too. And butterflies would carry the message from flower to nower how my sweetheart's love might be stolen from me. ''Oh, no. I will not speak his name. I will keep it locked up deep in my heart' Who will be able to find it there?" There are some tender passages that refer to the crown princess' only child The first is called "A Cradle Song" and runs thus: "Sleep, my child; sleep in peace. In your dreams you must be hearing the angels, for it U from them that vuu have come to me to beautify my days. "Sleep, my child; sleep in peace. A thousand perfumes fill the air, flowers bloom in their first beauty round your cradle. On your lips I see a smile. To your tender age grief is unknown. Be happy, my child; sleep in peace." And later on she says: "My child la the sunshine of my life. How often, oh, how often, have 1 found courage in bitter hours in its clear eyea and bright laughter!" Perhaps the most touching chapter in the book is the one called. "A True Fact." It sounds like the bitter cry of a loving daughter who protests against being given in marriage to one whom she does not love. It certainly sounds like a terrible accusation against the par ents. "They are sending me away, far, far away from you, my beloved home, from all that I love, to a far and distant country, amid strangers, alone, without the love that waxms the heart. Alone, without anyone to help me. Far from wMfM — ' * COUNT LONYAT. you, who are all in all to me. "What will I, what can I do? With out the sun which is my life, without yuu who are all my happiness. Who will advise me, who will lead mo by the hand? Who? Deep sorrow, such sorrow that I cannot express it. Site my htrtrt; fear shakes me as if the frost of solitude, of abandonment, had already seized me! "Bitter yearning for my home seizes me when I think of what the last hour !n my father's house will be, \vh<Mi I picture th<- separation, the banishment. And yet it must be! "Oh, what a hard fate, what a bitter duty is mine! What .shall I seek with out experience in a world that is so deso late, so forlorn, so cold that it does not know what misery is concealed benoath my smile? "Kut those who thus cruelly, merci lessly turn me out do not can; for all this. What am I to them? They have no heart, no feeling, ho understanding. 'You must' is the word given out, and this word will be the leading-string of my life —it is all the comfort they have for ma as I leave them. "How hard it la to drag this heavy chain through life; only those know who have possessed and lost all that is worLh! having or those who have a heart that can fuel for others." TWO MINING STORIES. How One Rich Claim Was I,o*» and Another l.mnril. New Orleans Times-Democrat. "Fortunes have slipped through men's fingers in very curious ways out In the mining- couritiy," said a citizen of New Orleans who lived for a number of years in the West. "You remember, of course, Mark Twain's story of the bonanza that ho and his partner lost in Virginia City because each depended on the other to record the title. I dare say that yarn vraa founded on fact; at any rate it re minds me of a singular episode for which 1 am able to vouch personally. In ISO an old prospector named Joe Dixon dis covered a fine outcropping of 'horn sil ver' rear Carbonate, Col. In order to hold a claim under the mining law as it then stood it was necessary to 'stake it out;' that is to say, drive stakes at the corners, with name and date written on one of them, and sink a shaft at leas' ten feet deep during the first year. Dlxon and a partner who was with him at the time saw they had a good thin*; and proceeded to do the necessary work. They had an. old tape-line, which had been given to them by a surveyor, and used it in measuring the depth of thi shaft As the digging was pretty hard they stopped as soon as ten feet reached in the measurement, and. f';« lin secure as to the property, went off to Investigate another prospect, mil••.-• away, in the Aspen district. It afterward turned out that continual use of the old tapeline had worn It out at the end, ami the surveyor had clipped oft the sixteen Inches, making it nearly a foot and a half short. Neither of the pros pectors had observed thi.s <i. n -i .>»•;,•, but some months afterward a prattle a! i grist came along, saw at a glan.v tl.it the claim was Immensely valuable di« covered that the shaft was not full depth, and at one minute- after 12 o'clock on the following New dear's night ha 'jumped' the property. Poor Dixon an.l his partner were half crazy when they heard about it. but the proof was dead against them and the mining commis sioner laughed at their protest Tho other follow sold th.- claim for HS.CPO • ash. Bring something of a humori presented Dixon with a lino, new metallic tapcline In a silver ease ' "That's rather a mournful story," salil a Western man among the group of. listeners. "I think I'll have to tell you atx>ut the Little Triangle mine as a sort of antidote. The Little Triangle w, i located by a man who wasn't ;i prospect or, and who never had a pick or shovel in his hand In his lit,-. 11,. discovered it in a little back room on the third floor of a cheap boarding hous>3 in LeadvUle at about 1 o'clock in the morning. It was something like the mathematical sharp who discovered Neptune with a lead pencil and table „( logarithms In stead of a telescope. The man In my story was an old German proof reader, who had been a scrub BUrveyor In hi ly youth. I've forgotten his name, but that really doesn't matter. The po^nt is that he drifted out to Leadvllle In. the days of the great mining boom, an.! night, sitting in hl.s littif back room, por ing over a map of the mineral tract, for lack of anything better to do. hi happened to catch an error in the s'd i measurement of a rich and Important mine. It wa.s something which would have attracted the attention of nobody but a surveyor, uivl a petty, fault-finding, scrub .sur veyor at that, but he pounced on it like a hawk, mado a few calculations, and found there was a triangular I>lt of land, about ten feet wide at the i and twenty feet long, that nobody f!;iir:i ed. It lay right in the heart .f a cluster of the richest mines in the LeadvUle trict, and was supposed to be Included in the. boundaries of the two most Valua ble of them all, but owing to the in the survey which I have already men tioned, it wasn't covered by the d Marly next morning he '.vent over st-ike.j out the triangle as an orl claim. Folks thought him crazy at but when they examined tin- records they sang a. different song. The owners <>:' the adjacent land paid $60,000 for his title - they simply had to have the strip to work their own mines: and he went hick t<> Germany and lived happily ever after. The property is .still known, by the way, as 'The Little Triangle.' " The (Jrent Glade* Of the Selkirk*, a vast plateau of gleam- Inn ice, extending ,<h far as the eye reach, to the left of which rises an . pyramid of naked rock shooting u;> 8.000 feel Mt sir Donald: to the lei I <')".>ph. Ross Peak, the Hermit r;m<r; below in the valley, «lac wael Hriistenlnjc through th»* trees forma a panorama once seen never forgot The great glacii-r h ■ i few hun dred feel above the station, and cxi one mil*' and a half. Tlm glacier can be explored quite easily. This wonderful awr-lnsplring sf-n^ can be enjoyed from the >b»ervati©n car of the Ko.i Line "Imperial Limited." • will leave St. Paul G:i><) p. m , Minneapolis 6:10 p. m.. for Pacific coast points on and after June 11. HIS DOW >X A 1.1,. I ■life. Johnny—Ah! Sweet Edith O'Hara. it is you. and you alone, that I 1 Edith—"Sh! 'Sh! Do you not know my father i.-s the biggest man on •he fore-? And if he were but to hear one word of this— Johnny—Bah! What fare r f r With such love n.s mine bur.. . thin bosom I would not care li j ut fa ther was as big a.-.- m j3§^m "^ — *'f~~ —' III! ! ! ! I