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r 6 THE PRESBYTERIA the Lord shall raise him up." Paul attributes the healing of Epaphroditus, his brother and companion in labor, and fellow-soldier, to God's particular blessing. "For indeed he was sick, nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him ; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow." The Psalmist blessed the Lord not only as the one who forgave all his iniquities, but who healed all his diseases. There can be no doubt that the doctrine of healing in answer to prayer has been much abused, but there has been far less of error ami r\( intm-.* ~..v. v^m I ..Ijiu > 11 v i v mail in the cold, calculating rationalism that excludes the Divine presence from the most cherished interests and most sacred relationships of life: and \vc are in far less danger of harm to the Church from this doctrine of healing than we are of unbelief in excluding the intervention of our Heavenly Father from the most sacred interests of our earthly life. DEATH OF DR. THEODORE L. CUYLER. The venerable Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler came to the earthly close of a life of eminent and extensive usefulness, in the Christian ministry on Friday night, February 26, in his eighty-seventh year. He had been ill but a few days, and died of debility due to old acre. He was a native of Aurora. New York of both Dutch and Huguenot ancestry. He was a typical Princeton man, being a graduate both of the College and of the Seminary. From 1846 until 1890 he had pastorates in Trenton. N. J., in New York City and in Brooklyn, and there was given him more than fifty years of pulpit service, sound, evanrrplirnl fpr\T>nt- on/-i - ' ... _ , ... ,v..v M..U it in 11 ui 111 a i<ngc measure. His ministry for thirty years in the. Lafayette Avenue Church, in Brooklyn, was especially memorable with the many seasons of large ingatherings. But Dr. Cuyler was especially and richly blessed in the ministry of his pen, in all the later years of his long life. We do not know of another Christian minister to whom it was given as to Dr. Cuyler to continue so remarkably the freshness of his mind in the production of a literature, so full of acceptable and effective service to his fellow men. He was the author of fifteen or more books on religious subjects and of about seventy tracts. He has contributed to papers and magazines articles of a religious, evangelical and devotional kind, which are said to number more than four thousand. Many of these articles appeared in the weekly papers of all the Protestant Churches and have been translated into a number of the languages of Europe. Avoiding controversy and denominational differences his pen has carried the truth and grace of Christ into every part of this and other lands. In later years he wisely also avoided all sectional and political differences and thereby immensely widened his great field of usefulness. A few years ago, Dr. Cuyler published his "Recollections of a Long Life" in which he described his associations and conversations with the leading men of the world of all classes through, a half century. He knew Carlyle and Spurgeon, and Gladstone and Stan >N OF THE SOUTH. March 3, 1909. ley in England and in his own country he knew Webster and Greeley and Lincoln and many others. On the occasion of the opening of the new building of Union Theological Seminary at Richmond in 1898, lie made an address that was most appropriate as it was bright and memorable, in which lie wittily said that the errors and vagaries of the New Theology and Modern Bible criticism had been so little felt in Union Seminary that "they had not rattled a window pane." Dear old I)r. Cuyler. he had some vagaries of his own but they were loosening their hold upon him and the love 01 Liod in ins heart was warming liini more and more toward all men. J. P. S. SEVERAL REASONS. By Rev. J. G. Snedecor, LL. D. There are several reasons for supporting our missions among the negroes, which seem to have been overlooked by our people generally. I. The worse the negro grows the more he needs our moral help. People who use the negro's badness as an excuse for not giving to this cause have gotten their religious convfttions into a topsy turvey shape. The greater his need the more certain our duty. "I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." 2. The command of our Lord to love our neighbors as ourselves had no exceptions annexed to it. Not only so, but our Lord set us an example by including in his ministry of helpfulness, the very class to which the negro has been consigned?the social outcast." Not only so, but with wise foresight, he teaches that racial lines cannot be used as an excuse for not obeying the second great commandment. The Jew refusing to help a poor unfortunate of his own race is held up to scorn; while the ^niriariton : 1 ' ? ivnu ^idnuiy ignored tne hatred of his people to the Jew, is held up for our imitation. Are we imitating the good Samaritan in our treatment of the negro? 3. The inconsistency of our hands-off policy in this matter would he ludicrous if it were not so sad. The appeal that ignorance and superstition makes to our missinnnrv 1 fA e~: * "' j me iT.un:an in me uongo Free State is no stronger or more urgent than the same appeal from the African in America. Indeed the fact that the American negro has lived so long in contact with our Christian civilization without being more thoroughly changed thereby, is the most fearful indictment that could be framed against our religion. 4. Whether we will or not, the negro is being educated and is developing certain traits of character. How fatuous and futile is our criticism of these traits, and the methods that are producing them, when we have nothing to offer but criticism. We claim with some justice that the present methods in negro education arc lacking in those natural and sane elements that would fit the negro for his present life in the south. Wo claim with entnfl 1 e 0 ? nuui me must iunaamentai ot educational mistakes is being committed by those whose judgment is being warped by sentiment, and that the negro is being unfitted for his environment. Very good; but when the nobler spirits of our South