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THE PKESBYTERIj
VOL. I. ATLANTA, OA
This Week
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What Is the Higher Criticism? 4
A Multitude a Sad Sight 4
Optimism, False and True 5
Numerical Responsibility Again 6
Liberal Idea of Religion 7
Girardeau's "Last Judgment" 8
From My Corner 8
How the Word of God Was Exalted In Chicago 9
Our Brightside Letter 16
Remarkable Movement In Korea 16
Ministerial Relief Endowment Fund 20
A Visit to Mexico 20
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Editorial Notes
"The Westminster" puts the matter well when it says
that forgetfulness and forgiveness are like two surgeons
treating the same wound; one would heal with a scar and
the other without.
But for the resurrection of Christ the tomb which held
his body would have been the burial place of rejigion as
well as of Jesus. If Christ be not risen, then is our preachincr
vain ntnl vrtnr fnitli ic also vain Vf? arp not in vonr
sins."
Christ declared himself to be "The truth." Truth is
therefore like him. It can never die. Men may suppress
it. They may obscure it. They may hate it, but it will live
on. As Joseph's tomb could not hold Christ, so the grave
in which men would bury truth will never he deep enough
to keep it from rising and coming forth. Truth is mighty
and will prevail. Give it time and it will always prove
itself.
Miss Fanny Crosby, the blind writer of favorite hymns,
came from her home in Bridgeport, Conn., to attend the
Chapman meetings in Springfield, Mass. By request, she.
spoke at one of the meetings, giving an account of'how she
came to write the hymn, "Rescue the Perishing." She
promised to follow the evangelists with her prayers in their
tour around the world. The distinguished authoress is in
her eighty-ninth year. Her hymns have given expression
the praises of multitudes in this and other lands.
"The Advance," of Chicago, the western organ of the
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columns the following suggestive "Rules for
Sending Church News Items": "1. The items must contain
real news and he forwarded promptly. 2. They must he
hrief and free from comment or expression of opinion, as
we cannot he responsible for each expression in the news
columns. 3. They should avoid comparisons which reflect
on former pastors or others. 4. Statistics should not he
given for past time, except in annual reports or at the close
of pastorates."
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APRIL 21, 1909. NO. 16.
Annoucement is made that the loyalist Cumberland Presbyterians
in Tennessee are acting promptly, under the recent
decision of the Supreme Court of that state, and demanding
possession of property carried out'of their church
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can be attached to their act when it is remembered how
completely the other side has taken possession in the other
states, of what they could, under the decision of the courts
of those states.
There is much criticism of tl\e methods of modern evangelism.
Undoubtedly, there is too much method, too much
strategy, too much jugglery and sharp practice. We are
told of so-called evangelist's ''hiring photographers to
take flashlight pictures of himself and his party on slumming
expeditions, and then publishing them." Another is
described as calling out, "Who will be the next to get on
the water-wagon?" and those responding were called "converts."
Sensationalism and commercialism are evils to be
condemned. We cannot, however, oppose the office of the
evangelist simply because of its abuses. The thing to do is,
weed out the spurious evangelists, and steadfastly resist
unscriptural methods. The true evangelist is filling a
scriptural office, and the time is probably at hand when the
number of such men should be multiplied.
An exchange tells us that Bishop Neely, of the Northern
Methodist Church, at a recent meeting of the New
York Methodist Social Union, declared that the people
of that church arc falling behind their fathers in their
knowledge of Methodist doctrine and polity. The bishop
is himself a striking illustration of the fact. He forgets
the history of his own Church, and when reminded
of it calls it a dragging of matter "from its burial in the
dust of forgotten history." The burial of history, and *
the effort to keep it buried because it does not exactly
suit one, is a very fruitful cause of denominational lapse
in doctrine and polity.
In a long and labored article, given to the New Orleans
papers, and printed by one of the morning papers with
large headlines, Archbishop Blenk, of the Roman Catholic
Church, attacks the Protestant Ministers' Association of
New Orleans for its endorsement of a recent book by a
monk who writes under the pen-name of "C. V. Fradryssa."
In the whole article there is not a single word
concerning the book and its contents. It is throughout a
"railing accusation" against the endorsers and the author.
It contains not one word of argument, not one word of
reply to the facts and principles which the volume contains.
1 he archbishop seems to be ignorant of the fact that personal
denunciation of a debater is no answer to his arguments.
He might well study the Book of Jude and pattern
after a greater than himself: "Yet Michael the archangel,
when contending with the devil, he disputed about
the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a* railing
accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee."