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March 24, 1909. THE PRESBYTER
sister denominations have gone far ahead of us in this
work. Churches, chapels, and residence halls have been
built around these institutions, and student pastors are
being secured.
We greatly need the sympathy, the prayers, and the
financial support of the whole church. Our work deals
with the sources of the church's power and influence.
Her life and growth is largely dependent upon consecrated
and trained leaders. When the Master gave the
command. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest
that he will send forth laborers into his harvest," he
clearly laid upon the church the work she is seeking to
cio inrougn mc executive committee of Ministerial
Education.
This year the General Assembly calls upon the church
for $40,000 for Ministerial Education. Last year 1,618
churches contributed $24,930, while 1.582 churches
made no contribution.
We earnestly appeal to you now for money which is
greatly needed in this fundamental work of our church.
Please contribute through your church, or send your
offering to John Stites, treasurer, no Fifth St., Louisville,
Ky.
For further information address Rev. Henry H.
Sweets, Secretary, Executive Committee of Ministerial
Education and Relief of the Presbyterian Church in the
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A CLOSE AND PECULIAR PARTNERSHIP
WITH THE SON OF GOD.
Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., LL.D.
I do not underrate the need or the usefulness of godly
laymen, but there are peculiar satisfactions and honors
and spiritual rewards to be won by the preacher who
preaches God's glorious messages to men, and the pastor
who gathers and feeds and leads the Master's flock.
In the first place, he is in close and covetable partnership
with the Lord Jesus Christ. His work is on the
same lines with Him who ranip tr> reveal thp min/l
God to suffering and sinning humanity, and to seek
and to save the lost." Christ's great commission to the
band of men who were in the most intimate relations
to Himself was, "As ye go, preach!'
In addition to the joy and honor of a peculiar partnership
with the incarnate Son of God every true minister
is, in the best sense of the word, a successor to the Apostles.
Although without their infallible inspiration^ and
miraculous gifts, yet, like them, the faithful minister is
the ambassador of the Lord Jesus.
Think, too, of the glorious themes and the sublime
studies that will occupy your mind as a minister of
God's Word. Is human science elevating? How much
more is the science of Almighty God and of man's redemption;
and of the unseen realities of eternity! Your
themes of constant study will be the themes that inspired
the mighty Luthers and Weslevs and Pascal*
and Chalmers. You will be nurturing your sou ami
those pages where John Milton fed, and amid the sue
cess that taught Bunyan his matchless Allcgorv, an
Jeremy Taylor his heaven-lit melodies. Every nugge
of fresh truth you discover will make you happier t an
\ one who has found golden spoil.
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IAN OF THE SOUTH. 9
If the high range of his studies and the preparation
of his discourses arc so stimulating to an earnest soulwinning
pastor, he finds even richer satisfaction in his
pulpit and in his labors among his flock and the surrounding
community. During my ministry I have had
an immense correspondence, but the letters that I embalm
in lavender are those which express gratitude for
a soul-converting sermon, or for words of uplifting consolation,
spoken either in the pulpit or elsewhere. Happy
the minister who is thus helped while he is helping
others! He gets a small instalment of heaven in ad
vance.
I do not assert that every able and godly young man
in our schools and colleges should enter a pulpit. There
are many who can serve their Master and their country
more effectively in some other sphere. It is equally true
that the only occupation that is not over-done in*
America is the occupation of serving Christ and saving
souls. The only profession that is not over-crowded is
the guild of good, clear-headed, conscientious, industrious,
Christ-loving ministers.
Not one such is likely to go begging for a place. They
are in demand.
IMPRESSIONS OF CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA AND
NEW MEXICO.
Dr. George L. Leyburn.
A recent trip from Lexington, N. C., to Los Angeles,
Cal., brought us, over the Southern Pacific, through the
southern parts of the States named. Of other States
farther east, from North Carolina to Texas, your readers
are more or less familiar, but not very many I suppose
have ever visited or even passed through these three of
the far west. For myself I had never passed this way
heretofore; it was a new experience in a new part of
the country, almost in a new world. I am well aware
that a continuous trip gives small opportunity for anything
but impressions, and these generally of small
vaiue, lor wnat one sees ana learns tnrougn a car window
is always imperfect and often of little worth.
And I would not think of offering these for publication
in your columns, if this were all. But we were
fortunate enough to meet and travel for four days with
a very intelligent gentleman and his interesting family,
wife and two little girls, who added much to the interest
and pleasure of the way, and gave us not a little valuable
information. This was Dr. A. E. Marden, an Eastern
man, who came to Arizona fifteen years ago for his
health. He has held for some years a Government appointment
as resident physician among the Pima Indians,
his home at Sacaton, Ariz., the Reservation headquarters
; and that his office is not a mere sinecure, it
may be mentioned that he last year vaccinated 2,500
Pima Indians, old and young, great and small! This
friend I found well informed on many points fcutching
the country through which we passed, its history, productions,
etc., and very ready to impart what he knew
to others; he is besides an earnest Christian and a Presbyterian
elder, having been a member of the St. Louis
General Assembly of 1900, and much interested in the
home mission work of his church, especially among the
Pima and Maricopa Indians. So that my own "impres