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PATRIOTISM
Topic for Sunday, July 4
miah 4: 0, 12-18.
DAILY I
Monday: Passion for liom
Tuesday: A patriot's fait
Wednesday: A patriot's t<
Thursday: A patriot's strti
Friday: Higher patriotism
Saturday: The abiding co
The country's natal day
turn our thoughts to what Gc
and law.
"The powers that be are
moral code is the only one kn
that puts government cn so 1
"Wherefore ye must need
hut also for conscience* sal
which men can put obedient <
common weal.
God puts secular obedie:
upon all citizens to observe
its welfare not for the good
sense of duty. ,
No code of morals ever
iofty a conception as this. T
pie, in being true to God's V
r.insf nntrlnt in nftlT.r-riQ
True patriotism then has
to God as well as to man,
God for its appreciation am
leges and protection of the Si
The true patriot will ms
is needed to right a wrong <
thrust out the wrong. Som<
citizen's sacrament. The fig
suggesting it is good.
What right have we eitl
government if we do not use
the Great Ruler to place m
his heart? Will he even acq
vote helps any man to positioi
There are enough Christi
munlty to determine the res
volves a moral issue. But CI
on/1 ctmirl r*FF n n rl thp ovil s
their own way. Will God ap
it ourselves?
The prevalance of corrupt
supineness" of those who hai
they complain when it is the!
evil? Corruption in office is
tion on the part of those whi
too idle and indifferent. The
their opponents.
Liberty is bought and b<
vigilance. The worst menaci
country and free institutions
rule to such interests as the c
and grafters, who will use offi
gain and not for the countrj
THE INFIDELI1
The Infidelity and sin of t
??x ~ I,..* v ~
lilt* V.UUUU, UUt llic ililiULlll,
Church is hurting it. The n:
Christ and at the same titr
fundament: 1 principles enum
more harm than a blatant ir
"The Arena," a well-known
of liberalism, has gone into
located at Trenton, New Jersi
s-'Utiment in this country, the
t? wage war upon the ackn<
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THE PRESBYTERI
)le's Societies
THAT COUNTS.
: Patriotism that counts. Neho3EADINGS.
e. Psalm 137: 1-6.
h. Isaiah 7: 1-9.
ears. Lamentations 1: 1-12.
lggle. Judge 7: 15-23.
i. Acts 10: 23, 34, 35.
untry. Hebrews 11: 10, 13-16.
coming on this Sunday, should
d's Word says as to government
ordained of God." The Bible's
own in all the literature of ethics
high a plane.
s be subject, not only for wrath,
to." The highest ground upon
citizenship is experience and the
nee upon conscience. He calls
their country's laws and seek
that will come, but from a high
devised for men has reached as
herefore it is that Christian peo
Vord, always make the best and
in it the element of obedience
and recognizes responsibility to
d use of the rights and priviLate.
ike his vote count whenever it
ar put the right into power and
j one has called the ballot the
ure is a bad one, but the idea
her to pray for or expect good
the power put into our hands by
en in ofllce, who will be after
uit us from responsibility if our
a whom he would condemn?
[an voters in nearly every comults
in evqjry election which inhristian
citizens fold their hands
ind corrupt are allowed to have
prove of this? Can we approve
tion and graft is the fault of the
re the power to control. Shall
lr own neglect that develops the
; but the expression of corrup3
put in office. The upright are
y are not as willing to work as
?ld only at the price of eternal
i that we can have to our free
is to give over our powers and
tamblers, speculators, liquor men,
ice for themselves and their own
r's good.
rY THAT HURTS.
he outside wor'd. is not hurting
y and sin on the inside of the
tan who professes to believe in
le lives a life contrary to the
dated bv Christ does infinitely
ifldel.?Baptist Chronicle.
magaz'ne started in the interest
bankruptcy. The company was
ey. While there is much liberal
re are comparatively few willing
jwledged faith of this Christian
AN OF THE SOUTH.
Prayer
Topic, Home and Foreign Missit
.Mission work is being broi
year. Facilities for reaching x
ever increasing ard lan.ls Torn
resort of tourists and explorers
for travel and the increased f:
nations that were formerly ent
dice, mutual suspicion and hat
to American shorts, constitute a
nits in euipiicisis ami urgency.
Certain facts and figures 1
the Church's responsibility are
view of the World.'' We quo
emphasizing the magnitude of
summoned by the presence of
American soil.
"The cities are largely th
immigrants. Immigration is ii
tho conditions here and abroad
in otcer countries and the attra
But on the whole immigration i
successive decades of years. Fri
about 150,000. In the next dot
000,000; in the next, threefold
,twelvo times what it was frou
went from 1,500,000 to 20,000,0i
nearly three million. Thus the
o our shoies from 1S70 to 1880
from 1820 to 1830, fifty years
"From 1S90 to 1900t about !
our shores; from 1900 to 1907,
i oon 4 ~ lOAt ?? AA,t A
i?iu iu ii7v? csuceuing zr.uuu.u
one-fourth of the entire present
"The peril lies, as has beer
tlon. These strangers import w
dices, customs, habits, favorabl
of a homogeneous, people. Fre
licentiousness, till free speech,
love, run riot; with no common
birth, common faith or comm
masses into unity.
"These immigrants naturally
they can most easily find wor
can associate and communicate
the cities draw* the foreign popu!
land, Boston New York, Chicai
of every ten inhabitants are of
"The crowding?the almost
working classes in our cities m
body and soul."
INTERNATIONAL <
The 1908 convention of th<
Association authorized the Inter
continue the preparation of a
lessons, which may he used by
sires it, whether in whole or in
authorization a sub-committee 01
This sub-committee hopes to
V.sher3 immediately after the h
of the beginners', primary and
the lesson writers and editors
and quarterlies. It is hoped th
the use of Sunday schools by Oc
Secretary li
ADULT BIBL
The Internntianal Sunday*
twenty-nine denominations repr
the third quarter ending Sopteml
nition were issued to adult Bibl
ber issued to date is 2,152. In t
ing international certificates of
mere were: u. ?. a. t,6i4, sou
663, Associate Reformed 19, Re
ment is 70,b92.
June 23, 1909.
Meeting
ans?Week Beginning, June 27.
jght near to the Church each
emote parts of the earth are
lerly inaccesible, are now the
. But 111 addition to facilities
riendliness between races and
irely estranged by race prejured,
the Hoods of tnimiirroHnn
i call which is steadily increastearing
on this department of
found In the "Missionary Rete
some of these by way of
the work to which we are
masses of foreign people on
e gathering places of foreign
regular, varying according to
, the expulsive forces at work
ctions that draw to our shores,
is on the increase as shown in
om 1820 to 1S30, it reached only
:ade, it rose fourfold to about
more, to about 1,800,000, or
1 1820 to 1830; in the next, it
00; and front 1870 to 18S0, to
number of immigrants coming
was twenty limes what it was
before.
3,850,000 immigrants landed on
over 10,000,000, the total from
00. a niimh?p ormoi ?->
. -t?' "toi IJ
population!
1 said, in the lack of asslmilaith
them foreign notions, prejue
to a heterogeneous, instead
ledoni relaxes into license and
free thought, free press, free
training and culture, common
on church life to fuse these
f drift toward the cities, where
k and those with whom they
i in their own tongue. Hence
lation, and in Cincinnati, Clevego,
etc., from six to nine out
foreign birth or parentage.
; crushing?of the poorer and
eans peril to every interest of
3RADED LESSONS.
e International Sunday School
national Lesson Committee "to
thoroughly graded course of
any Sunday school which depart."
In accordance with this
1 graded lessons was appointed,
be able to issue to the pubolidays
the first year's lessons
junior courses, for the use of
mio |jic|miB iuc ies?on neips
at the work may be ready for
tober 1, 1909.
Ira M. Price,
ntcrnational Lesson Committee.
E CLASSES.
Scbool Association reports
-esented in its ranks. During
ber 25, 365 certificates of recoge
classes, while the total nunihe
Presbyterian classes rccelyrecognition
to September 25,
ith 1,070, Canada 1,767, United
(formed 994. The total enroll