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THE PRESBYTERL
VOL. I. ATLANTA, GA., F
This Week?
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The BirminghaVn Convention 6, 7, 11
The Best Calvin Memorial 4
The Congo Situation 5
Notes in Passing 4
Distribution of Workers 5
Makemie Memorial Church 8
The New Theology 9
The Church and a Social Program 10
A Forward Movement in Missions 20
Thirty-fourth Anniversary of Dr. S. W. Davies 24
Why Do Churches Keep Christian Colleges? . 21
Editorial Notes
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Growth in grace goes hand in hand with faithfulness
to God's commands. How can a Christian flourish except
he be planted in the house of the Lord? Obedient
use of the ordinances of God's house is essential to the
strengthening in his sanctuary which he has promised.
The "beauty of holiness" implies holiness, not a caricature
of it. Pious airs, religious phrases, holy manner >,
long faces, Uriah Heep humbleness, like the paint on
sonic women's faces, make no impression of beauty. The
pretense that is in it destroys all thought of admiration.
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It is not what one has nor what one does, but what
one is, that is the important thing. Neither possession
nor activity is yourself. God could give-no more significant
name to himself than "I am." It means not only
self-existence and eternity but character as well.
A note of warning has been sounded by Archbishop
Farley, of the Roman Catholic Church. In a recent sermon
at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York he declared
that the theaters of that city are corrupting to the young,
by reason of obscenity and that the stage today is worse
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Roman Catholic, this means a great deal.
The infallible authorities of the same infallible
church which put to death Joan of Arc, for sorcery and
heresy, have now canonized her. A Sunday or two
ago the ceremony was held in the Vatican, in Rome,
and the infallible pope read the decree approving her
solemn beatification. It has taken many years for this
to be brought about, as it seems that there was difficulty
in proving that the maiden warrior has wrought
miracles to attest her right to canonization. If the
infallible church did injustice when it burnt her, it is
right that she should confess it, but the act bears hard
on the principle of infallibility.
SN OF THE SOUTH
EBRUARY, 24, 1909. NO. 8.
The joint committee on the Union of the Presbyterian,
Methodist and Congregational Churches in Canada,
after four or five years of deliberation, have agreed
on a basis of union. A late meeting at Toronto was
.occupied with slight amendment of the work of former
unions. The adjustment of the invested funds of the
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mice entireties, a somewnat ditticult part of the negotiations,
was worked out satisfactorily. The plans of
union are to be submitted to the superior courts of the
churches not immediately. To afford time for full
popular discussion, and to insure that the churches concerned
may reach their respective decisions practically
at the same time, it was recommended that the three
churches submit the matter to these church courts
simultaneously in the fall of 1910.
A correspondent of one of our northern exchanges
construes the decision of the supreme court of the
United States, in the case of Berea College, to be, "that
the State of Kenturkv mav
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United States Constituion, forbid" the education of
white and negro children in the same classes, and remarks
that, "the decision is a deplorable one for which
the only consolation is found in the fact that it was not
unanimous." Other consolation may be found in the
fact that the institution may not be totally deserted
by white patrons. The South must jealously maintain
the separation of races in school and church, for in such
maintenance the best interests of both races are conserved.
How hard it is to abandon that cherished idol
of a persistent and obtrusive sectionalism?the mingling
of the races in the South.
The paper last week mentioned the death of Rev.
P. A. Rodriguez, the Spanish translator of the Southern
Methodist Publishing House. One day many years ago
the writer was rushing along a street in Nashville, showing
haste in every step, hurrying from the station to the
bedside of a sick daughter. A tall, flender man, seated
in a buggy, was driving along. Taking in at a glance
the moving figure on the sidewalk, he drove alongside
and pleasantly called out, "Are you ,in a hurry? Get in
and let me take you where you wish to go!" It was
Mr. Rodriguez. The invitation was so gracious and so
genuine that. it ctiuld not be declined. The two men,
utter strangers before, introduced themselves as they
drove along, and thus began an acquaintance which the
years ripened into friendship and fellowship. The kindness
was very simple. It cost nothing. It was over in a
few minutes. But it showed a Invintr cnirit an A a rron.
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nine heart. It was the cup of cold water in the Master's
name. Its results lighted up a beautiful pathway that
ran through sixteen years.
Sow beside all waters! We know not how farreaching
some little act of kindness will prove, or how it
will brighten the years to come.