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20 THE CONVENTION AND BROTHERHOOD WORK. By A. L. Phillips, D. D., Gen. Supt. ' 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." y y : 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.