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THE PRESBYTERL
VOL. 1. ATLANTA, GA.,
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The Card Table 4
Notes In Passing 5
The Highways and Hedges 5
The March Collection 6
Be Ye Steadfast 6
Statistical Report 6
Dead While Living 8
Light At Evening Time 9
Our Missionaries In the Far East 10
The Exact issue 20
Annual Subscription of a Million Dollars 21
The Annual Meeting of the Mexico Mission 25
Editorial Notes
You can be a hero only in the strife.
Take time to be holy and you will have more time
for other things.
Paul and Silas sang songs in the prison. That is,
their bodies were in prison, that which sang was not
in prison. * Imprisoned souls never sing. .
Christ not only came to the unsuccessful fishermen
at Galilee, but helped them.- He became their partner.
His sympathy, his experience, his advice, were put at
their disposal.
Altruism is a good word and should be in more common
use. It is Christianity in its highest expression
towards the world, and in its.richest appreciation of
the "inasmuch" doctrine of Christ.
Our friend, Rev. J. Benjamin Lawrence, recently of
New Orleans, is making a good paper of "The Baptist
Chronicle," of which he took charge lately, at Alexandria,
La. We congratulate him and wish him continued
success.
In most churches one will hear every Sunday an earnest
prayer for "our missionaries in foreign fields." It
is well to have such a petition. But how often do we
hear a prayer for "our missionaries at home"? It is no
wonder that the congregation thinks little of the home
mission work when the pulpit gives it the go-by.
A good woman the other clay, apologizing for her
husband, said he was a good man and though he nlade
no pretence did not do a great things many professing
Christians did. She might have said also that he did
a good many things many professing Christians would
not do. Judging by human standards clips the wings
of many a soul.
SN OF THE SOUTH
MARCH 10, 1909. NO. 10.
"The Associate Reformed Presbyterian" rightly says,
"When a man feels that he is on the wrong side of a
moral question but is unwilling to change, he begins to
shout 'hypocrite' at those on the other side."
"During the meeting sixty made profession of faith
in Christ. Thirty joined the church." Figures like
these are often reported. They declare that something
is wrong. Have the "fishers of men" holes in their
nets; or are so many professions false or unmeaning?
The Gospel of Christ is the gospel of good cheer as
well as of good news. It speaks peace to the troubled
soul, a peace such as the world can neither give nor
take away. It holds out a hope which anchors the soul
to a certainty of the future. It brings confidence, gladness,
joy, and heaps them upon the peace which it
justifies, so that the believer may sing in the face of
adversity, sorrow, or death.
A Baptist writer, following the discussion to which
our recent short editorial on the subject of "A Bibli
cally Organized Church" gave rise, has fallen into the
fatal error, forced to it logically by his contention, of
a double authority in religion, the Word and the
Church. Why not admit reason and tradition as well?
The grounds for the acceptance of these as co-ordinate
sources of authority are equally good with these
upon which tfce idea is based that the visible church
is co-ordinate with the Word of God as authority.
How infrequently prayers are heard in the cnurcnes
for those who are burdened with the cares of house and
home! We pray for those who are in business. We
ask God to bless and help and prosper them. Why not
ask his aid in behalf of those engaged in domestic
duties and upon whose faithfulness and success the
whole family depends for comfort quite as much as
upon the father, the bread-winner? The toiling housewives
rarely receive that recognition and sympathy
which they deserve.
In a summary by Dr. James I. Vance, published in
the "Christian Intelligencer," we find these figures:
"Seventeen years ago a man in Chicago bequeathed
$50,000 to the American Sunday School Union, stipulating
that only the interest was to be used in missionary
work. During eleven years, in which the union has
used the income from this fund, it has started 819 Sun
day schools, with 3,086 teachers and 29,784 scholars;
97,559 visits have been paid to' the homes of the people;
8,577 meetings have been held 56,149 Bibles and Testaments
and $6,693 worth of religious literature distributed;
3,676 persons have professed conversion and 61
churches have been organized."