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vol. i. - -This Week=no. 7.
Sabbath School Extension Work.
Waldensians in the Earthquake Province.
Brightside Notes.
A Standard Bible Dictionary.
As Jesus Would Have Us Live.
Has the Church the Right to Have a Special Program
of Any Kind?
The Holy Spirit.
God's or Caesar's.
Dr. Gordon's Criticism.
Calvin Celebration.
Infant Salvation and Our Confession.
Editorial Notes
The demands for help from the Richmond committee
are increasing constantly. Wherever possible they
are cheerfully met. But the stringency of the past year
decreased the committee's receipts to a considerable
extent, making it imperative, if the Church would have
the good work go on, that the offerings soon to be
made be as liberal as possible.
Happily for us, it is but one day at a time, and but
one duty at a time in that day, that concerns us. A
sight of all the days at once or a sense of the responsibility
of all the duties of a year would appall us. The loving
Father does not allow such a sight. He tells us that
as the day so shall our strength be, and that if we
shrink from the duty of burden, "My grace shall be
sufficient for thee."
It is significant that while Presbyterians are less
numerous in America than some other denominations,
they far surpass all others in liberal gifts to missions
and are usually the strongest communion in mission
fields. A minister in Brazil writing to one of our exchanges
says: "Few at home are aware of the size
?f this country and of the Presbyterian missions here.
Brazil is larger than the United States if Alaska be excluded.
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Methodists, Baptists and Episcopalians combined. We
are ?n'y outnumbered by the German Lutheran and
Roman Catholic Churches. The latter we regard as
an aP?state Church, and baptize her members when
convinced of their conversion.- There are 14,000 Presbyterians,
6,000 Methodists, 5,000 Baptists and* 900
piscopalians. The increase during the past year is
remarkable."
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FEBRUARY 17, 1509. RICHMOIND, VA.
A very false impression has been created bv a press
dispatch sent from Atlanta a few days ago, concerning
charges against a certain Bishop of forcing preachers
who were given good places to pay him for making
the appointments. The notion has gone out from
this, and so put in great headlines, that there is graft
in the Church which has the system of ministerial
appointments. This is gross injustice to the Methodist
body. The report neglected altogether to say that all
the parties in the alleged case were negroes. That
such things should be done among them is certainly
bad, but it is not unexpected, if it be true. The alleged
corrupt acts of this class should not be allowed to
reflect discredit upon the white Methodist Church.
Psychotherapy is th name given to a new cult which
proposes the relief of disorders affecting mind, body
or estate. We read that a Presbyterian minister in
Chicago, who is a practitioner of Psychotherapy is
claiming authority under his svstem ^rm'rfo
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He says, "The functions of life, under faith in God, are
to forgive sins, to heal all manner of disease and to
bestow the Holy "Ghost." The "Christian Work" approves
this claim and quotes the Episcopal prayer book
as supporting it. "The Presbyterian" of Philadelphia
shows, however, that the prayer-book does not justify
such a claim, but only teaches that ministers of religion
are authorized to declare to the truly penitent, sin
is forgiven. This is certainly the construction that
Evangelical Anglicans .have uniformly given to the language
of their prayer-book. However, this may be we
must believe that Presbyterianism and Psychotherapy
are incompatibles.
A professor in the Yale Law School says that the
best account of Germanic law with which he is acquainted
is found in the translation of the German Code into
English by a Chinese who has taken a post-graduate
course in Germany. Another Chinese who is studying
for a Ph.D. degree in Berlin, has prepared a pamphlet
which has reached its third edition, the title of-which
is "An Examination of the Effects of Civilization, Eth
ics ana tne ^nrisnan uospei in cnina. Alter saying
that China has for centuries possessed a high civilization
and theoretical morality he says the Chinese heart
longs for something more; that the consciousness of
sin is as deep there as in Christian lands and that nothing
but an evangelical presentation of the person and
work of Christ can save China.
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