Free Church Presbyterianism, by Rev. James Begg, D.D.

Closing Address: SPECIAL DUTIES AND DANGERS OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

Part 6: (Duties)
OTHER GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS.

OTHER improvements are also required in our Church management.

Something more than at present exists is still necessary in the way of perfecting our executive, of fairly distributing our probationers, of promoting and perfecting our education scheme, of establishing everywhere, on proper principles, Sabbath schools, of procuring endowments for poor districts, of simplifying our under-graduate course of study, of securing that our churches, before being opened, are adapted to our forms of worship, and of making sure of a more complete presbyterial superintendence of our ministers and other office bearers, so that the more slothful shall be stimulated, and the zealous cheered. [Applause.] We have a presbyterial system, but undoubtedly, ever since the days of Moderatism, with too little of presbyterial action and in some parts even of our Church it may almost be as when "there was no king in Israel, and every man did what was right in his own eyes."  

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