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AUSTIN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
DOTS.
There are many things of interest with
reference to this young Seminary; the
industry and zeal of the faculty, and students.
It is inspiring to be in the class
room of any of the five professors. They
are not sansneu wnen tne class work In
the Seminary is well done, but their
nearness to the great University of Texas
is turned to good account. The instructors
are averaging each nearly two hours
a week teaching in connection with the
University. In this way a progressive
and versatile teacher is a preacher of
the Gospel, and an interpreter of the
church. While the University students
are helped by contact with these Christian
teachers, the theological students
are neiped py class-room advantages
kindly offered them by the University,
and also by contact with the scholarship
and spirit of this large institution.
A few words as to the supply work
that is being done by the Seminary will
show that some good is done in the way
of spreading the Gospel. Many gaps are
are filled that otherwise would have to go
unfilled. Prof. S. C. Chandler is supplying
Highland University church of this
city, and has been for some time past.
Dr. R. E. Vinson has been ministering
to the Texarkana church sinct> thnt mil.
pit has been . vacant. Prof. E. C. Caldwell
has regular supply work, and has
been out of the city almost every Sabbath
since the first of last October. After
Prof. T. R. Sampson fills the office as
superintendent and treasurer, where this
growing institution is making so many
demands, he has no time for outside
work. Dr. Samuel A. King, now about
seventy-six years of age, does not make
much "ado" in the performance of his
duties, but the amount and quality of his
work is second to none.
The thirteen students up to Christmas
supplied eight churches, some of them
three Saboaths a month. In all the stu
ucuia utivc ueeu giving eignieen aays (in
Sabbaths) of service to the Home Mission
field of Texas, that it would not receive
if the institution were not here. The
total number of churches supplied by the
Austin Theological Seminary is twelve.
This should certainly indicate that one of
our Seminaries is wide awake and practical.
Since Christmas two new .men
have been added to the thirteen already
there. An Alumnus.
GIPSY SMITH IN ST. LOUIS.
The proposed visit of Gipsy Smith, the
noted English gypsy evangelist, to St. *
Louis, where he will conduct a sixteenday
meeting, from January 24th to February
8, has aroused wide-spread interest
in that city and vicinity, and his arrival
is awaited anxiously by tne thousands
who desire to see him and to hear him
preach.
A movement was started some months
ago among the evangelical churches of
the city, the object of which was to bring
this famed evangelist into their midst for
a series of meetings.
An organization has been formed which
is complete in every detail. This organization,
known as "The Gipsy Smith Coliseum
Meetings," with the watchword,
"Win Souls for Christ," is founded on a
basis necessary for undertakings of this
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nature. Committees and sub-committees
have been appointed to look after and
into the minutest detail. Of this organiT
T ?..! At- A.
/ianwii tut; ncv. j. i^txy ivn AuauLt;, pusiur
of the Central Presbyterian Church, is
general chairman.
To add to the attractiveness of the
Gipsy Smitn meetings, there will be in
attendance each evening a choir of three
thousand voices, under the direction of
R. O. Bolt. The singers who will compose
this great choir have been selected
with care, and among them are some of
the most noted church singers in St. Louis.
The Coliseum, has been selected as the
most available place in which Smith may
conduct his services.
Many may ask: "Who is this man and
why all th's preparation, if he be but a
gypsy, as his name implies?"
Yes, 'tis true that Rodpey Smith, (the
world knows him as Gipsy Smith,) is a
gypsy, but a gypsy of no ordinary type.
Rnrn in n font in tho norrlch U7ono?an,l
England; deprived by death of a mother's
love and care when but a child of tender
years; reared until almost a young man
under the influence of a gypsy camp, and
by a father who for many years led a
drinking, wandering life; Gipsy Smith
today stands a peer among men.
Until the time he first began preaching,
when but sixt^eq years of age, he coukl
scarcely read Wwrlte. He had attended
school for but four weeks in his life, and
was totally ignorant of the conventionali
ties of the world. Until tnis age he had
never slept in a bed. He had never eaten
at a table nor did he know the use of a
knife or fork. A napkin he had never
seen. His clothing was of the gipsy type,
and his manners and customs were in
accord with the surroundings in which he
was reared. But notwithstanding these
circumstances, he was not what might be
termed a bad boy. He had few of the
vices of boys of his own age and of similar
or more refined parentage.
For some time after he had began to
preach, (his first sermon was delivered
to a field of turnips) his only books were
the Bible and an English dictionary. But
the desire to learn was strong within him
and little by little through the slow process
of studying without a teacher and by
keeping eyes and ears open, he acquired
the knowledge which today, at the age
of forty-nine years, places him in the foremost
rank of the world's evangelists and
preachers.
It is expected that many persons from
the surrounding country will vlst St.
Louis, in order to hear this noted man,
and all such will be welcomed. It will be
chance of a lifetime to many, as of course
the gypsy will never have time to visit
any but the largest cities, his time always
Deing nned many months ahead. Ont-oftown
pastors desiring platform tickets
may secure them by writing Dr. J. Layton
Mauze, Delmar and Clara Avenues,
and persons desiring board for a few days
in private homes or boarding houses, apply
on arrival in St. Louis to the Central
Y. M. C. A., Grand and Franklin avenues.
Without labor there is no arriving at
rest nor without fighting can the victory
be reached.?Thomas A. Kempis.
The most agreeable people in company
are those who are perfectly agreeable at
home. Home is the university of life.
UTH. January 27, 1909.
COFFEE TALKS
No. 3.
FRESHNESS.
To insure good coffee it is very
necessary that the roasted article
be perfectly fresh. The
aroma and flavor that make
coffee so agreeable come from
an oil in the coffee berry that
evaporates very rapidly upon
exposure to the air. When this
oil has escaped, flat, insinid.
tasteless coffee is the result.
This is the great objection to
roasted coffee sold in bulk and
open barrels; when you buy
such, you get only the shell
from which the spirit has
flown. One of the superior
merits of
LUZIANNE COFFEE
is its perfect freshness. It is
roasted in gigantic closed receptacles
and goes hot into airtight,
dust-tight, damp-proof
cans before the least particle
of its aroma escapes. Open a
can of it and note the delicious
odor that exhales from it. This
cofTee is so popular that dealers
frequently order Dy the
car-load?30,000 lbs. at a time.
It's sold everywhere.
THE RE 1LY-TAYLOR CO.
New Orleans, U. 8. A.
THE MOVEMENT TOWARD UNITY.
Missionaries in foreign lands are rising
out of the petty rivalries of sects in the
majestic unities of the Kingdom of God.
Eighteen denominational bodies are cooperating
in Japan. In China the sinking
of differences among Christians resulted
in "the greatest revival of recent years."
Australia is alive with the same spirit.
Canada is discerning and urging it on.
Its presence is manifest in the growing
desire for union or federation among denominations
in this country. The best
sentiment of the age experiences a feeling
of shame at the waste and rivalries
of division. The nant tw?ni? vnoro !>?'">
done more to reunite the scattered flocks
of Protestantism than all the centuries
since the Reformation.?Dwight M. Pratt,
D. D., in the nomiletic Review.
PREACH OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW.
One resolution that ought to be made
by everybody at the beginning of the new
year is. to preach evangel of obedience to
law. This country needs a revival of
law-enforcement and law-obedience. It
should be preached from the pulpits and
taught in the school rooms more earnestly
than ever before; it should be urged
from the bench, and in all gatherings of
intelligent people the spirit of law-enfcrcement
should And a leading place.