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January 27, 1909. THE PRESBYTERI/
horrors of heathenism and of Islam, the burden of proof
rests on you to sho\v that the circumstances in which God
has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of
the foreign field.
Hear George Sherwood Eddy, for ten years a missionary
to India, author of "The Supreme Decision of the
Christian Student," which should be read by every Chris.
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wa... vYuuiu mat x naa a tnousand lives to give to the
cause."
Hear Horace Pitkin, Yale's missionary to China, as he
faced the great mob of ignorant, misguided Chinese, and
saw death for him written in their faces, as he said to his
Chinese helper who escaped: "Send word to America to
little Horace (his little son who was in America with his
mother) to come over when he is twenty-four and take
his father's place. It is a glorious cause to die in." The
mob closed over Horace Pitkin and cut off his head and
out it on the wall r\( ~ '
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the power of the Gospel of Love of Jesus Christ.
Hear the words of the beloved Rev. Wm. Junkin, sealed
with his own life, laid down in our Master's service in
Korea, as he saw the Koreans eagerly feasting over such
crumbs, from the bread of life, as we could give them,
from the Word of Life; men and women rejoicing and
bringing in others, as he said: "Oh how I thank God that
, he did not let me miss the joy of coming to Korea as a
missionary 1"
Will imi 1 1 - 1
inn answer mvingiy as you near our Savior's
long neglected command: "Go ye into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every creature"? Will you not answer
lovingly as Isaiah of old, "Here am I, Lord, send
me"? Pray daily and give liberally as God has given to
you that the knowledge Of the glory of the Lord would
cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
The Supreme Decision, price ten cents. Student Volunteer
Movement, 125 E. 27th St., New York City,
N. Y.
THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN CHINA.
Agajn 1 see in your paper an appeal for $6,000, our
part of the fund for Union Theological Seminary, Nanking,
China.
You ask "Can it hp thprp ic nn ri/>Vi Pr0t-K.,fo.:? -n
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our prosperous Southland?" Of course there are, plenty
of them who could easily give this amount. But why
wait for a rich Presbyterian to do it?
Are there not at least six hundred Presbyterians of
moderate means who will gladly make a permanent little
investment of $10 each in such an institution, that will
be doing good when we are dead and gone?
We shouldn't miss the money.
Now, to put the matter in tangible, businesslike form,
I suggest that you open a subscription book in your office
and say to yourselves that you will enter^therein the names
of all who will subscribe.
Put roe down for two shares of $10 each. I shall be
surprised if you don't have enough very soon.
THE NANKING (CHINA) THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
Presbyter'an of the South.?Please report the following
donations to the "Nanking Theological Seminary": Mrs. J. R.
Leigh, $2.00; Mrs. Lucy C. Chrlslnan, $5.00; "Lelghton's
friend." $4.00; "A friend." $10.00. C. B. Stevens, Treasurer.
Charlottsvllle. Va.. Jan. 14. 1909. % "i
iN OF THE SOUTH. n
Selections
THE CROSS TO BE CARRIED.
Christ did not command his disciples to seek out
a cross or talk sentiment about it. He told them to
take up the cross and carry it. They were not to choose
it. It was there, in their lives, ready for them. It remains
so today. Each man or woman, ready to obey
Christ, will find the cross at hand, in daily life, waiting
to be taken up. Many Christians prefer to sing about
the cross, to sentimentalize about it. rather nf?
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and carry it in the shape of a quarrelsome relative, or
uncongenial work, or strict economies and daily selfdenials
in home life. The cross is not pleasant, never
was, and never can be so. It means crucifixion, not
talk. The reason that some Christianity is so unsubstantial
and cheap and unsatisfying is that it uses the
cross as an emblem and nothing more.?J. R. Miller.
GROWING LIKE OUR MODEL.
A story is told of a beautiful statue that once stood in
the market place of an Italian city. It was the statue of
a Greek slave purl, anrl ronrocont.J i? --
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tidy, and well-dressed. A ragged, uncouth, forlorn
street child came across the statue one day in her play.
She stopped and admired it. Something in the pure
white marble face seemed to touch her. She went home
and washed her face and combed her hair. Next day
she came before the statue again and gazed at it long
and lovingly, as before. It had an inspiration for her
again, and she went home and washed and mended her
tattered clothes. The statue came to be a favorite place
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oi resort lor her, and each time that she gazed on its
sculptured loveliness she had a glimpse of a more beautiful
life, until she became a transformed child.?The Sunday
School Advocate for Boys and Girls.
A WORLDLING'S VIEW.
There are some books that are absolutely indispensable
to the kind of education that we are contemplating,
and to the profession that we are considering; and of all
these the most indispensable, the most useful, the one
whose knowledge is most effective is the Bible. There
is no book from which more valuable lessons can be
learned. I am considering it now not as a religious
book, but as a manual of utilitv, of professional nrenara
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tion and professional use for a journalist. There is perhaps
no book whose style is more suggestive and more
instructive, from which you learn more directly that
sublime simplicity which never exaggerates, which recounts
the greatest event, with solemnity, of course, but
without sentimentality or affectation, none which you
open with such confidence and lay down with such
reverence; there is no book like the Bible.?Chas. A.
Dana.
If you would find gladness, you must play lifes great
game with eagerness and fairness. .