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THE PRESBYTERIi
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VOL. 1. ATLANTA, GA.,
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t The Classics and the Ministry 4
Pres't Patton's Estimate of Mr. McCormick 4
i nc neacemers tare OT MIS tnurch 5
The Grace of Godliness ....'.1 7
Testimonies to Missions 8
M Worldly Conformity 9
Our Brightside Letter 16
Riches in Poverty 17
One Way of Being God's Minister 20
Editorial Notes
To Dr. Summey, in the death of his little grandson.
Albert Bledsoe, Jr., his confreres in editorial work extend
their loving sympathy.
The farmer who is stingy in his supplies of seed corn,
can expect only a limited harvest. The church that is
> limited in the work of providing a supply of ministers,
can expect, in the years to follow, only a fruitage of
empty pulpits. Our Secretary of Education reports that
in the last year there has been a marked increase in the
number of candidates for the ministry, but that of these
quite a number, instead of being in college, are at work
earning money for their support while studying.
Now comes the April collection for Education for the
Ministry.. If our people shall respond with a liberal
contribution, fliese young men may be enabled to enter
at once on their course of study. We have now many
vacant pulpits. Here Is one way by which we may help
to fill them in the early future.
Some of our Baptist friends are making very much of
Dr. Henry Van Dyke's comments on Jordan, in his recent
book, "Out of Doors in the Holy Land." They do not
know that the brilliant author is a poet, and that the muse
frequently gets the better t>f his theology and interpretation.
' Poetic license pardons a good many flights of the
imagination.
A contemporary calls attention to the very singular
fact that though Horatius Bonar composed some of the
sweetest and best hymns of modern times, and some
of the most widely used among all the churches, his
own congregation in Edinburgh would not sing them
but clung to the Scotch version of the Psalms, and that
when he made a new paraphrase of the Psalms a large
number of his congregation seceded and went into a
church which was in the recent ecclesiastical troubles
| . in Scotland, the only one in Edinburgh to join the "Wee
Frees."
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MARCH 31, 1909. NO. 13.
A Canadian National Missionary Congress will be
held in Toronto March 31 to April 4. The programme
is one of great strength and attraction. It includes the
leaders of the Protestant Churches of the Dominion.
Bishops of the English Church, college principals,
statesmen and mission secretaries. With them will be
J. Campbell White, Robert E. Speer, S. M. Zwemer, of
Arabia, Sir Andrew Frazer, Chas. W. Gordon, and from
our own church Mr. Chas. Rowland, nf Athens n<>nr.
gia. It will be a great meeting. About the same dates
there are meetings of the Brotherhood, and the Laymen's
Missionary Movement.
The thirtieth anniversary of "Christ's Mission," es-.
tablished in .New York City by Rev. James O'Connor,
a converted priest, and maintained by him as superinintendent,
was recently celebrated. This mission is
doing a great work in the way of informing Protestants
of the true character and dark ways of the Romish
church, and in enlightening Romanists in the truths of
evangelical religion. There are signs of a great move
rneirt among intelligent and conscientious Romanist
teachers and priests, away from their former bondage
into the liberty of the gospel.
At a meeting of the American Society for the Study
of Narcotics, held in Washington, D. C., in session on
March 17, it was declared that alcohol is of no use in
the healing art. "Alcohol has no therapeutic uses,"' was
the judgment expressed by those who spoke 011 the
subject, and that it is gradually being eliminated as a
drug. Papers were read bv Dr. Henrv O. Marcv. of
Boston, honorary president of the society, entitled "A
Medical Study of the Temperance Movement in the
Soutji"; Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of Baltimore, on "The
Alcoholic Problem in Everyday Life"; Dr. T. A. Crothers,
of Hartford, Conn., "The Future of the Alcoholic
Problem," and Dr. W. B. Parks, of Atlanta, Ga., "The
Effects of Alcohol on Temperament as it Relates to
Race and Nationality." %
The recent revival in Boston, under the leadership
of Dr. Chapman, presents before us a strong lesson.
Boston is under the shadow of Unitarianism, and many
oftits pastors opposed the plans of Dr. Chapman for
revival services. The great truth of salvation by the
blood of Jesus has been ignored or vehemently opposed
in that city. But the services of Dr. Chapman have
been crowned with a hlessinf. Nicht after niabt the
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Attendance at the several churches has been upwards
of twenty thousand, and conversions are counted by
the thousand. And this in Boston. It is pleasant to
note that Rev. J. Ernest Thacker, of Norfolk. Ya.,
rendered very useful and notable service in this great
meeting.