National Reform Association Meeting
By Editor
A MEETING of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Association was held in Pittsburg, September 15. The Pittsburg Times of the 16th gives the following notice of the meeting:— "The Executive Committee of the National Reform Association held a meeting in the afternoon and evening yesterday at the Y. M. C. A. rooms. Several reports were read and accepted, and arrangements made to continue not less than seven district secretaries in the field. It was also decided to employ a secretary to instill into the foreign population a due regard for Sunday observance. Professor McAllister, who will visit Europe next year, was empowered to use his efforts to bring about an International Congress of the friends of Christian civil government. Arrangements were also made to hold a National Reform Training School at Lakeside next summer, under the direction of Dr. McAllister." We have no doubt that Professor McAllister will meet with a cordial reception from the officials of the national churches of Europe. But the most cordial of all receptions received there we expect will be that which will be given him by the Pope; especially as he goes carrying the commission of Dr. Herrick Johnson, Joseph Cook, and their confreres of the Saratoga Conference, to bring to the attention of Roman Catholic authorities the matter of using the Catholic Bible in the public schools of the United States, wherever the Catholics are in the majority, and to secure "such a basis of agreement if possible." Of course, as they are to bring this to the attention of the "Roman Catholic authorities," the proper thing to do is to go to the Pope at once. For isn't he the sole Catholic authority? Dr. McAllister may possibly get the Pope to send a legate to preside at the proposed International Congress.