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FOREIGN MISSION COMMITTEE'S
DOTS AND DASHES.
A good check for $622 yesterday
brings the $50,000 debt fund up to S18,207.19.
If we reach the $400,000 mark,
(and should there be any doubt?) the
women of the church will truly deserve
much of the credit.
Our total receipts to date amount to
$349,600.98, which leaves only $50,399.02
necessary to be received before Mafch
31, and our goal, $400,000, will be
reached. Most of this amount is
probably in the hands already of our
church and presbyterial treasurers and
needs only to be sent in. Examine your
treasury and remit within the next
eight days. The work needs the money
and needs the satisfaction that $400,000
wil". mean. Such a worthy example to
Canada if our report at the Laymen s
Convention at Toronto, April 3, can read,
"Receipts $400,000."
Mr. Speer says: "Other people are
talking brotherhood, the missionary is
exemplifying it.'' One of our mission
aries in Korea who receives $50 a
month had a tempting offer from a
large firm in Korea of $200 a month and
expenses, but he replied "No, I am
satisfied." Men of the caliber of our
missionaries not only attract but command
the attention of the outside world.
Children's Day, May 23, is for the
"Graybill Memorial School," Mexico.
Arranged program, ' recitations, songs,
etc., will be ready April 15, and will be
sent postpaid for the asking.
"I am the happiest woman in Korea"
writes Miss Nellie B. Rankin, Chunju,
Korea. In answer to prayer a lady In
Pennsylvania sent her a personal gift of
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check came they were just having
conference regarding a schoo! problem
and were at their wits, end to know how
to have a girls* school with no house.
This amount had been given that lady
by her husband for a Christmas gift.
The donor says "I have been so surprised
to have any notice taken of it. 1
feel it was just God's gift to me to hand
over to Miss Rankin for his work." Love
asks not how much must I do. but how
much can I do.
About 500 societies have subscribed
for the Executive Committee's monthly
leaflets. Besides these about 500 socie
loo ni-Hoi- thom mnnthlv Vnr Africa.
the April topic, the leaflets include:
Story of our Congo Mission, by Dr.
Morrison, Children of the Kassai, by
Mrs. Sheppard, Missionary Letter, by
Mr. Seig, He Saveth to the Uttermost.
Dots.nnd Dashes, Suggestions, Program.
Price 10 cents a month. $1.00 pays for
a year, and saves you time, postage,
stationery and possible delay.
Mr. White said at Birmingham, "The
echoes of this Convention will be heard
around the world." Rev. H. W. Myers,
Kobe, Japan, on hearing of the Convention
writes, "We are praying that it
will give the men of the church a mighty
uplift. For such a great church as ours
what a trifling little bit we are doing
for the salvation of the world!" A man
? PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUT
in North Carolina, who had been giving
10 cents a week, attended the Birmingham
Convention and gave $100 for Dr.
Bradley's hospital. An Arkansas pastor
reported to his church his pledge for
1100 for Dr. Bradley's hospital, made at
Birmingham, and his church gave him
$20S to pay it with. Our people need
only to know. "Why and how of Foreign
Missicns" tells in an interesting and
condensed way much about this subject
that all should know, printed on good
na.ner elc-nr Iviw 9SP. notroc elm r* v ~
inches, price 50 cents cloth; 35 cents
paper.
Of the churches S72 are now receiving
the quarterly Station Reports from the
Foreign Field. A share costs only' $50
a year and secures for you these reports.
Have all your gifts applied to one field
and receive reports from that field. Let
us tell you about the Forward Movement
plan.
Address all communications to Executive
Committee of Foreign Missions,
Nashville, Tenn.
TO THE PASTORS AND SESSIONS OF
FAYETTEVILLE AND ORANGE
PRESBYTERIES.
Dear Brethren:
Dr. Vardell is in imperative need of
another building. He needs it and wants
it at once, for office room, for his family
and for the college girls. He wants to
build, he needs to build, he must build
during the coming summer. In order
to build, he must have money?$10,000.
He has made a heroic effort to raise
this money among friends in the South,
with rnnip 'quppocc unH in x:v?
with no success. He now comes to us,
the owners of the college, as he has a
right to do, and ask us to raise it. No
man knows better than I the numerous
and pressing calls for money that are
made upon us almost every day. But
I feel that we must water the vine of
our own planting. To give you sortie
idea of what I know about calls for
money, i invite your attention to the
following statement of facts: During
the ecclesiastical year which closes the
first of April, my people have increased
their gifts to all the benevolent causes,
have assumed a debt of $16,500 on our
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notes for the same, have paid all their
current expenses, have made extra
offerings of $250 to Synodical home
missions and $100 to the orphanage at
Barium Springs, have pledged $600
annually for the support of our own
foreign missionary pastor, and $1,000 for
the H. G. Hill memorial fund of Union
Theological Seminary, are now raising
$65 for the purchase of a small organ
for the use of our young folk, and will
shortly raise about $100 to provide
electric lights for our church.
Notwithstanding all this, we make you
nit: luinjwiiijs uuer; *ve or nea springs
will give $5,000?our half of the sum
needed?provided you, the two great
Presbyteries of Fayetteville and Orange,
will give $5,000 more?the other half.
What do you say to that' Say, "It's a
bargain. We'll raise it, we'll raise It at
once and raise it with a shout!"
And let me venture another suggestion.
Hitherto the Presbytery (Fayette
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ville) has given moral support, adopted
resolutions, approved plans of procedure
and asked the churches to "open
their doors" to Dr. Vardell, but she has
never bestirred herself to raise money
for the colleee. Whenever thof win tr>
be done, Dr. Vardell has had to go out
and do it. That is not right. You are
the ones to raise this money, and you
need the exercise yotf would get in
doing it. Dr. Vardell is needed right
here all the time. He can not possibly
visit all the ninety-three churches of
Fayetleville Presbytery, to say nothing
of Orange. He ought not to have to
visit any of them in this cause. Let us
abandon our laissez faire policy, and
raise the money ourselves. Do you
know that if Dr. Vardell had not been
a man of unusual ability, coupled with
indefatigable energy, our great college
would have died still born, or at most
would never have amounted to anything
more than a wretched little "pren"
school? He has made it a great
college, let us have the glory of making
it and keeping it a greater college. For
all the past and today the welfare of the
college depends on our one man. This
ought not to be.
Come, brethren, the time for adopting
resolutions and approving plans and
waiting tor Dr. Vardell to come and
raise the money, is past?kids and
molly-coddles can do that. The time
for raising money?$?,000 in good hard
cash?has come. This requires men.
You call yourselves by that great name.
You now have a splendid opportunity to
prove your right to that <UsttnoniiaV>o,i
title, by meeting our offer dollar for
dollar.
Fraternally yours,
R. W. Jopling.
Red Springs, N. C.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN
THE UNITED STATES.
The Forty-ninth General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church, in the United
States will meet in the First Presbyterian
church in Savannah, Ga., May 20,
at 11 a. m., and will be opened with
a sermon by Rev. W. W. Moore, D. D..
Moderator of the last General Assembly.
The undersigned will he in the
lecture "room of the church, May 19. at
8 p. m,; also May 20, at 9 a. m., for the
purpose of enrolling commissioners.
Stated Clerks of Presbyteries will please
forward to the Stated Clerk at Clarksville,
Tenn., their Statistical, Sunday
school, Societies, Systematic Peneflcence,
Narrative reports, and response to the
Assembly's overtures, together with all
overtures and other papers for the Assembly,
if they can do so, on or before
May 13; otherwise forward to him at
Savannah. The statistical tables should
be mailed to the Stated Clerk as soon
as prepared, and by all means in advance
of the meeting of the Assembly.
Please notHy the chairman of the loeal
Committee of Arrangements, of the
names and addresses of your commissioners
and alternates as soon as ap
pomiea. uierKS or Synods will please
forward overtures and report time and
place of their next meeting.
Thos. H. Law, Permanent Clerk.
W. A. Alexander, 8tated Clerk.