declares that the American Presbyterian Church has
herself materially changed the Westminster Confession
of a hundred years ago, and that this spirit of
revision pervades the whole Christian world. Finally,
he asserts that, as the theory of verbal inspiration of
the Scriptures is not in the Westminster Confession of
Faith, it cannot be demanded from any Presbyterian
minister or professor, and warns churchmen that any
attempt by the General Assembly to enforce an extra
Scriptural and extra Confessional theory upon the
Church will create a split worse than that of 1837. The
_Herald_ observes that:--

"Dr. Schaff's international fame as a church historian
and theologian will compel the greatest respect from
not alone the ministers of the Presbyterian church, but
also from the clergy of all Christian churches.

As early as 1845, he was tried for heresy in this
country, and acquitted. In 1854, he represented the
American German churches at the Ecclesiastical Diet at
Frankfort, and received the degree of D. D. from the
University at Berlin. In 1870, he accepted the chair of
sacred literature in the Union Theological Seminary of
this city. He is a member of the Leipsic Historical,
the Netherland, and other historical and literary
societies in this country and in Europe, and is one of
the founders and honorary secretary of the American
Branch of the Evangelical Alliance. In 1871, he was one
of the Alliance delegates to the Emperor of Russia to
plead for the religious liberty of his subjects in the
Baltic Provinces.

He was president of the American Bible Revision
Committee, which was appointed in 1871 at the request
of the English committee, and in 1875 was sent to
England to arrange for the co-operation and publication
of the Anglo-American edition. The same year he
attended officially the conferences of the Old
Catholics, Greeks and Protestants at Bonn, to promote
Christian unity.

Dr. Schaff was first president of the American Society
of Church History, and is the author of a great number
of historical and exegetical wo