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THE PKESBYTERIj VOL. I. ATLANTA, OA This Week Page 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 I 1 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 ?4- 1:?4. . i .* i: i i _ r i.i_ v. wiii;i I'^ciuunaiiMs, kccjjs siamuiig ai nit: ut:uu ui uie appropriate 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." L i ? 4 IN OF THE SOUTH 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 4 K/\ ...M. iLA XT il. PL 1. T ~ U1 uiiu in%z iiiiiuu wiiii uic nuiuicni ^uuku. i^uuc uiaiuc 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."