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THE PRESBYTERI
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The Redeemer's Care For His Church 4
Brave and Fruitful Ministry 5
Methodist Missions in Cuba 5
A Visit to Our Mission in Cuba G
"On Earth, Peace" 8
Easter in the Greek Church 9
The Divine Companionship 11
r The Elect Infant Clause 16
* Should the Elect Infant Clause Be Revised? 16
The Lees-McRae Institute .* 21
Our Brightside Letter 21
Concerning the Assembly's Question 26
Editorial Notes
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Let the churches organize their home mission work
and support it well. And let every Christian, man and
woman, do what their hands find to do.
During the last fiscal year, our Assembly's Home
* , Mission Committee received over ninety thousand doiIlars.
Add to tins the money raised for local Home Missions,
and we have a very encouraging showing for
home mission work.
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I The Foreign Mission receipts for the fiscal year have
been upwards of $400,000?exceeding the standard set
by our last General Assembly. In this we recognize
the valuable help of the Laymen's Missionary Movement.
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But there is one fact which is more encouraging still.
It is the large number of accessions on profession of
faith. In' this country the average of conversions is
about five per cent of the membership. On the mission
field at large the conversions are about twelve per
cent. In the mission churches under the care of# our
General Assembly the ratio is nearly twenty-five per
Icent. For this Jet God be thanked.
An exchange well says, "Only ignoramuses 'snort'
Aery time 'doctrine' is mentioned." Intellin-ent i?ir>r?n1o
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know that doctrine is the basis of everything. Doing
follows believing. And believing implies to be taught,
that is, doctrine.
I The special point at which evolution attacks religion is
in its substitution of naturalism for supernaturalism. If
evolution be true as to faith, the Scriptures, the new life,
redemption, then the best that religion can do, or that God
can do, for the human soul, is to hasten, in a small way, by
affording a favorable environment, a process which would
t eventually produce its own results. There is no real need
for a divine Savior, an inspired Bible, the work of the
Holy Spirit, a scheme of grace. The best that God can do
is to hurry up the result just a little.
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AN OF THE SOUTH
l., APRIL 7, 1909. NO. 14.
In Tennessee, the Supreme Court has rendered a decision
in the iltigation over the church property of the
Cumberland Presbyterians, in favor of those who refused
to unite with the Northern Presbyterian Church.
But in half a dozen other states, in which there was
litigation over property of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, the Supreme Courts have decided that the
action of the Cumberland General Assembly, forming
a union with the Northern Presbyterian Church, controls
the title to the property of each congregation?
except in cases where the title deed contains some "cxpressscd
trust or limitation." It is well that every congregation
in every Church take notice of these decisions,
and define the use of their property.
By reason of these decisions all the legal title to Cumberland
churches and manses ami schools passes to the
Northern Presbyterian Church. But so long as a large
proportion of the membership remain unwilling to go
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equity would leave to them a due share of this property.
We hope yet to see such action by those who
are victorious in the courts.
Do we ever fully realize the religious destitutions of
the far West? We have just read of the appointment of
a Presbyterian minister to serve one county in Oregon.
But that county is larger than the state of Rhode Island
or Delaware, and he ii* the only Christian worker
of any denomination within its bounds. Like destitutions
exist elsewhere. Would that the home mission
treasuries were better supplied with funds!
Rev. Dr. John Benjamin Drury, for more than twenty
years the editor-in-chief of the "Christian Intelligencer,"
the organ of the Reformed Church in America, died at
his home in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on March 21.
The news of this death brings grief to all who have
admired the ability, soundness, and charitableness of
spirit which Dr. Drury possessed and which have for so
many years shaped the paper and made it so strong a
bulwark of the faith.
It is with great satisfaction that we read again and
again of the triumphs of the gospel. The Chapman
evangelists in Richmond, in Boston and in Springrfield.
preached the same evangel, the doctrines of grace, sin,
its guilt and doom, salvation by a Divine Saviour and
his atoning death, that have been the power of God
unto salvation. Many thousands have heard with a
great hunger and believed, to a new hope and a new
life. Torrey and Gipsy Smith and Sunday have
preached the same message, and men of all classes have
felt its power. The largest result is that a great company
of ministers have been, brought back to preaching
the everlasting gospel with a new faith and with demonstration
of the Spirit and with power.