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/ 24 1 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 r r 'HE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SO 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.