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save souls? Did you ever
in the ministry,-in the presl
We discuss Articles of
portant and valuable, but
church courts in discussing
the Church itself?
When we come to read
not uninteresting; when v
numbers that are put down
animation ; when we read
milliners report one or t\v
souls saved, we are impres
rank and file of the Church
idea aiul aim of the church
Three Thousar
We read in the second cli
inspiration of one sermon, s
of saving immortal souls,
added unto the Church in
very wittily said that that
sermons to convert one
around; instead of one sen
and, it takes about three tl
one man. We have been
and God has given us what
C :
ouiucumes you will see tha
papers are taking to disci
see .sometimes in the ne\>
"IS CHRISTIANITY A .
some man answered that '
failed because Christianity
consequently anything that
be said to be a failure. If (
life is simply to feed the b
of the poor?why, my frier
the Church of the Loi
social wrongs?I wish to be
of the Church of the Lor<
right social wrongs, if it i
taste, we would just as w<
fire, and take the writings
just as well.
(To be C<
THE B
On the water was the sil
lying in a broad ribbon froi
ship.
Moved by the restless m
in exquisite curves where t
tiful sheen captivated the e;
Going forward to enjoy
music and laughter of ch
from the Caribbean swept
whole being. Soft and sw
it was both invigorating am
sleep.
Only a wall separated th
and the same soft breeze cat
screen shut out the moonli
tricity from without, a wile
on the shutter, denizens of
come to make night hideous
y.
THE PRESBYTERIAN
hear it discussed, brethren,
jytery ? i
agreement, etc., that arc im- \
do we spend time in our
the great aim and object of ,
1
statistics, and statistics are t
vc come to see the meager |
ill tliat linn .->f n ^1 .1 i 11 ^t
? ?...%*?. tiiiv w* avivuuuii iyy cx- c
that some churches large in
o or three or half a dozen s
?sed with this fact, that the
have never yet grasped the
life.
id to Save One.
lapter of Acts that under the
miniated by this definite aim
three thousand souls were
one day, and somebody has
now it takes three thousand
soul. The ratio is turned
11011 converting three thouslousand
sermons to convert
i /* ? -
sausnea with lesser things,
t we have asked for.
it the newspapers?for newsissing
religious topics?you
rspapcrs in black headlines
FAILURE?" My friends,
'No, Christianity has never
has never been tried," and
has never been tried, can not
Dur only aim and purpose in
todies and clothe the bodies
ids, if the aim and object of
rd Jesus Christ is to right
: heard, if the aim and object
\ Jesus Christ is simply to
s to cultivate the aesthetic
ill throw the Bible into the
of Confucius; they will do
2
mtinued.) 2
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REEZE. ]
ver gleam of the moonlight, ^
m the night's horizon to the 1
i
otion of the sea, and rising s
he prow tossed it, the beauye.
(
it in silence, away from the 1
arming senoritas, a breeze s
the rail and refreshed one's *
eet, yet cool and insistent, ?
d calming, wooing to restful f
d
ie stateroom from the deck,
ne thither, but as the slatted a
ght and concealed the elec- t
1 noise came from the wind s
tropical forests might have d
;! t
OF THE SOUTH.
A touch and the electric s]
A-as fastened open, and as i
jillow the quiet moonlight bi
Then came a realization,
vinds which howl about us.
>reeze, quieting and strcngt
asks. 'Tis we ourselves v
?i.- r
me iences wliicli nitcrr
?o that wc no longer recogn
Let us throw open the sh
structions, and again breathe
>f the Lord's still voice.
OLD /
It Is too late! Ah, noth
Till the tired heart shall
Cato learned Greek at e
Wrote his grand Oedipu
Bore off the prize of vers
When each had numbers
And Theophrastus at fo'
Had but begun his "Cha
Chaucer at Wocdstock, v
At sixty wrote the "Canl
Goethe at Weimar, toili
Completed "F'aust" when
What, then? Shall we s
The night hath come; it
The night hath not yet ci
Cut oft from labor by th
Something remains for u
Even the oldest tree son
F6r age is opportunity n
Than youth itself, thougl
And as the evening twil
The sky is filled with sti
- ABOUT C
Will some good brother te
inything if Christ is not the
is the Jews charged him as c
rr t i ? ?
ii i understand tne teachi
7aith, and as I believe of the
lope for any one ever to be 5
he virtue of his atonement,
inder heaven given among i
aved."
The underlying doctrine
Jenesis to Revelation, is thai
eading truth is, that by some
atisfaction to the la wof Got
hat the demands of the law i
pressor saved. The one who
>erson pay the penalty of th<
ibility to do so must pay it 1
Taking the teaching of oui
iny possible hope for *any on
hat Christ is the Son of G<
llbstitllte for tllf cinnerJ /"*.
livinity, his miraculous conc<
erious union of human and
June 16, 1909.
park went out, the shutter
i* weary head touched the
reeze re-entered.
\Tr?f Ai
-, ~v wuu tome me
He sends the refreshing
henihg us for our proper
/ho draw the shutters or
upt the wind of the Spirit
ize its voice.
utters, tear down the obonly
the heaven-sent calm
Cartegena.
^GE.
ing is too late
I cease to palpitate.
sighty; Sophocles *
s, and Simonides
te from his compeers,
sd more than fourscore years;
urscore and ten
racters of Men."
vith the nightingales,
lerbui^r Tales."
ng to the last,
eighty years were past.
it idly down and say,
is no longer day?
sme; we are not quite
e failing light;
s to do or dare,
ae fruit may bear;
;o less
ii in another dress,
igni fades away,
ars, invisible by day.
?From Morituri Salutamus.
HRIST.
11 me if the Bible is worth
Son of God, and as such,
laiming, the equal of God? *
ng of our Confession of
Bible, there is no possible
saved, but by him through
"There is none other name
men whereby we must be
of the whole Bible from
: of substitution. The one
; way, there must be made .
1, which man has violated,
may be met, and the transis
guilty must in his own
s law, or one who has the
For him.
r Church as true, is there
e to be saved wKo denies
xl, the divinely appointed
in any one who denies his
eption and birth, the mysdivine
natures in which