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20 THE
CONVENTION AND BROTHERHOOD
WORK.
By A. L. Phillips, D. D., Gen. Supt.
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I.
ROBT. W. DAVIS.
Supt. Covenanter and Brotherhood Work.
.nr. nuui. ?. uavis, our new superintendent
cf Covenanter and Brotherhood
Work, is really for his work among the
churches. For some time he has been
one of the most active and beloved
workers in the Second Presbyterian
church, Louisville, Kv.. where he is a
deacon. He has been in the closest touch
with the Brotherhood movement, i nd is
familiar w>th its organization and methods
of work. He has had successful experience
with boys in Covenanter Companies,
and wins his way directly to
their hearts. For several weeks he has
been studying the conditions that confront
him and mastering the details of
general organization. He is provided
with an exhibit of material that will be
of the greatest value to those who are in
icitroicu in niese lines 01 worK. He comes
to his work by the authority of our General
Assembly. He will be glail to correspond
with pastors, sessions, or private
workers in regard to the plans for his
work, and will be grateful for opportunities
to work where a visit from him may
be desired. He may be addressed at P.
O. Box 883, Richmond, Virginia.
Mr. C. H. Smith, of Carbon, Texas,
is a new volunteer for the ministry of our
church, and while it costs the Carbon
church some life-blood, yet she rejoices
to make such a fine contribution to the
ministry. Mr. Smith is a successful
young business man, of our first families,
of strong personality and influence, a
graduate of the University of Texas, and
a man of grace and grit. He has already
Closed his business, anri anrnlloH ot in**
Austin Theological Seminary. The call
of El Paso Presbytery to receive him
failed to have a quorum. He will probably
apply to Central Texas Presbytery.
"The difference between a glass of water
and a tailor's bill," says the St. Louis
philosopher, "is simply that the water will
settle itself if it's allowed to stand."
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: PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUTI
GYPSY SMITH IN NEW YORK.
The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian, the
Fifth Avenue Baptist, the Madison Avenue
Reformed, the Madison Avenue
Methodist, the Church of the Strangers
(Independent) and the Central Presbyterian
churches united for a series of
Ullinn PVAIIPpHcHp oorrinno '
ducted by Gypsy Smith, the noted English
evangelist, at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church every evening for the
two weeks beginning on Sunday evening,
November 29, afternoon services being
also held during the first week at the
Central Presbyterian Church.
The results exceeded all expectation
and on Sunday night, December o, several
of. the churches clcsed and united
at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian (which
seats 2,100) in a service which none present
will ever forget.
At 7:45 every seat was filled and u.e
doors closed. A service of song was neld
until 8, when Mr. Smith took charge. He
preached from the fifth chapter of Mark
upon the three miracles. From the first
one he discoursed upon "Christ as the
Savior of Men." xrom the second,
"Christ as Savior of Women." From the
third, "Christ as the Savior of Children."
His whole appeal was tender, thrilling
and melting, even when he made an intelligent
demonstration of the common
sense of accepting Christ; closing with a
story of his gypsy aunt, who had mothered
him and whom he had been
the means of converting. While holding
a large meeting he received a telegram
that she was dying. Hastening there by
night train he found her still alive and
kneeling at her bedside asked if he
should pray for her.
"No, my boy," she said, "Don't pray for
me, only thank God for what he has
been to me." Then she told him to go
back to his meeting and give them her
message, "That an old dying gypsy woman
had found her Savior to be a 'Great
Rock' in a weary land and her 'Refuge
in the time of storm.'"
Then while all heads were bowed in
prayer he asked all who had felt the need
ot Christ and wanted to accept him as
their Savior to rise. Perhaps thirty did
so; then after praying for them, he requested
every head to keep bowed while
they came forward and passed into tne
lecture room for prayer and conversation
with the ministers and members of
the various churches who were awaiting
tnem; then, while the congregation with
heads bowed sang very softly, "Just As
I Am" he said there must be others who
did not rise, but who must feel inclined
to follow them. Then the wave came?
not the little breaker which splashes
noisily upon the shore, but the smooth,
unbroken, resistless roller of the deep
water, carrying so many along that apparently
every unconverted man and woman
present was swept into the inquiry
room.
This object lesson to the pastors and
members of the participating churches
will not be lost. While this evangelical
union might be and has been cabled a
"confession of weakness" yet they may
be thankful that their very individual
weakness has proved that "in union there
is strength"?a strength which will be
carried back into their own churches
when these meetings close and make
them exclaim: "Whereas we were weak
-I. January 20, 1909.
COFFEE TALKS
No. 2.
STRENGTH.
A prime essential of a good coffee
is strength. Not that everyone
appreciates strong coffee:
some prefer a weak decoction.
But if the coffee itself is fresh
and strong, a small quantity is
sufficient for ordinary purposes.
If it is not, a small quantity will
make a flat, insipid drink and it
will require an enormous amount
to make any showing for
strength. A strong coffee is
therefore the most economical.
That is one of the reasons why
LUZIANNE COFFEE
is so popular today that it is
sold everywhere?it is a DOUBLE
STRENGTH coffee, requires
only one-half as much
and goes twice as far as the ordinary
kind. Six million pounds
of this coffee are consumed annually.
THE REILY-TAYLOR CO.
New Orleans, U. S. A.
yet now are we strong."?New York Observer.
PERSONALS.
Rev. W. B. Harrison's address is changl
ed from Lebanon, Ky., to 914 First street,
Louisville. Mr. Harrison id on his vacation
from Korea.
Rev. Mark B. Grier, of the Chinese
Mission, has arrived in China, after a
I fino VAvoffo "JJ- 1
~ 1113 uuuiess uereauer will
' be care of the Methodist Publishing
I House, Shanghai, instead of Hsuchoufu,
China.
Rev. Dr. J. W. Lupton's many friends
in Virginia and Tennessee, and of those
splendid women, the wives of Rev. Dr.
Cannon, of St. Louis, Rev. Dr. Caldwell,
of Waco, and Rev. W. L. Caldwell, of
Memphis, rejoice with them in the escape
from death of Vice-consul Stuart Lupton,
in Messina, Sicily, last week, the son of
Dr. Lupton and the brother of the ladies
named. Mr. Lupton had just arrived at
his post and was one of the very few who
passed safely through the great disaster.
Rev. Carlisle P. B. Martin, of the Presbytery
of Brazos, died on Tuesday night,
December 22, 1908, at the home of his
son, in Memphis, Tenn. He was in the
ninety-nun year or his age. He was
born in Hampton, N. Y., in 1814, was licensed
in 1842, and ordained soon thereafter
by the Presbytery of Hopewell. He
was pastor in Troy, Mo.* Huntsville,
Texas, and associated with educational
work as President of the Synodical College,
at Griffin, Ga., President of the Agricultural
College, Montpelier, Ga., and
Professor in Hunsville an<f Nacogdoches,
Texas.