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14 THE PRESBYTERIA1
Missionary
A WANT OF SELF-RESPECT VS. A LABOR OF
LOVE.
All our Church papers have recently had a statement
from our veteran missionary, Dr. John L. Stuart, about
Union Theological Seminary, Nanking, China. Our
Southern Church entered into an agreement with the
Northern Church to build it, each to furnish six thoucaml
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uv.mu. n was cxpccxea mat tne wliole amount
would be given by individuals, so that the general funds
of the mission treasury would not be used. The Northern
Church promptly did its part and more: ten thousand
dollars were given by two donors only. On our
part, alas, no donations appeared, and at last for very
shame, the China Mission, with advance work clamoring,
with hospitals and schools suffering, had to take
three thousand five hundred of its scarce dollars. Even
now Mr. and Mrs. Leigh ton Stuart have to be quartered
upon another professor, because we have built no
house!
Can it be there is no rich Presbyterian in all our
prosperous Southland? It cannot be that our rich people
are stingy, when we are called "big-hearted Southerners."
and erand cifts havp hppn marln {^.r
i^iasii vine, linn.
Miss Lucy McGowan,
Louisville, Ky.
Only fixed convictions will produce permanent Christian
activity, and only those who are actively at work
will maintain fixed convictions. The two stand together;
either attempted alone will fail.?John A.
Broadus.
relief and the needs of missions. Every now and then
there is a rumor of somebody who wants to give '"five
thousand a year for five years"?what a noble gift!
Here is the opportunity.
WOMEN'S CONFERENCE AT MONTREAT.
The women's meetings held during the missionary
conference at Montreat, N. C., during the past summer
proved so helpful and interesting that the women appointed
a committee of three to arrange a program for
similar services to be held at the same place during the
missionary conference of 1909. Your committee asks the
co-operation of our women interested in missions, and
especially requests that the presidents of presbvterial
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of women in their unions who have proved to
he true helpers, and along what lines, and who will be
willing to participate in making these women's meetings
an incentive to better service for the Master. Any suggestions
regarding the make-up of the program will be
thankfully received.
Miss A. C. Wing,
502 Forsyth street, Macon, Ga.
Mrs. James O. Reavis,
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^ OF THE SOUTH. January 13, 1909.
THREE MEN WANTED FOR AFRICA.
The Executive Committee hereby appeals for three
men to offer their services for the work in Africa. One
of these men is wanted with such an equipment as fill
enable him to take charge of the training of the native
evangelists for their work. Another one is needed to
help operate the Lanslev. ThU nprenn 1?
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of mechanical gifts and of general resourcefulness indifficult
matters of that kind. Tehnical knowledge as
to how to run an engine is not essential, provided one
has a general knowledge and ability to adapt himself
to circumstances and emergencies that are likely to arise
in connection with work of this kind.
The third man is needed especially to take charge of
the business affairs of the Mission. He ought to be
able to do the work of an evangelist as he has opportunity,
but his main work would he to manage such
matters as transport and the keeping of books, and to
take general supervision of the various business matters
that necessarily are involved in the conduct of our
African Mission.
The Executive Committee would be gratified bv an
early response to this call, as the need is very urgent.
S. H. CHESTER, Secretary.
Nashville, Tenn.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NOTES.
The Executive Committee of Foreign Missions met
in the mission rooms, Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday,
January 5th.
Miss Grace Olcott Sands and Miss Mary P. Sands,
of Richmond, Va.; Miss Irene Hawkins, of Danville,
Va., and Miss Elinore Lynch, of Marshall, Mo., were
appointed as missionaries, their fields to be assigned
hereafter.
Miss Clara Gennett Moore, of Richmond, Va., was
appointed as a missionary to Eastern Brazil.
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mis. .nunc .u<iimi, iumieriy iviiss J5essie sentell, ot
Bunkie, La., was appointed as a missionary to Africa.
The secretary was instructed to issue an appeal for
three additional white men for the African work, one
of them to be assigned to the care of the steamer in
the place of Rev. L. C. Vass, whose furlough is now
due. The letter of the African mission making this
appeal, which was endorsed by this action of the committee,
was published in the January number of The
Missionary.
Rev. Motte Martin and Rev. J. McC. Sieg were authorized
to make arrangements for returning to Africa
in the month of February.
Appropriations were made for the missions of East
Brazil, North Brazil and Mexico.
An earnest appeal from the Japan mission that reinforcements
be sent to supply the places of members of
that mission retired from the work on account.of ill
health was presented, and the secretary was instructed
to present this appeal personally to some members in
the present senior classes in our theological seminaries.
Rev. F. A. Brown, one of the young men working in
the interest of the Forward Movement, was present,
and gave a very interesting report of his recent work