Presbyterian Difference

1) The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.

2) The Presbyterian Church in the United States.

The majesty of the law looks down upon these two imposing names and recognizes two entirely distinct corporations.

In practice, too, they mean quite different things.

No. 1 exists principally north of the Mason and Dixon line. No. 2 thrives in the South. No. 1 has yielded a point or two to Science. Many of its pastors believe that the earth is round, that it revolves round the sun, and some of them entertain a doubt as to whether man was created in the image of God, including the left eyelash. But No. 2 adheres strictly to Faith, uncorrupted by Science, and rejoices in the fact that Evolution has been legislated out of the schools of several good old Southern States.

However, since No. 1 and No. 2 are so nearly twin in name, and since both can reflect upon a good deal of Scotch and Genevan history in common, there has, not unnaturally, been much talk of union and reunion.

No. 1 favors "organic union." No. 2 favors "Federal union." And so, for the present, there will be no union.

This announcement was made last week by Dr. Thornton Whaling, Moderator of No. 2, who concluded his defense of "Federal union" by the following parable:

"I venture to say to my Northern brethren that consolidation was patterned after the mollusk or the oyster, while Federal union was fashioned after the majestic lion or the Heaven-soaring and imperial eagle."