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VOL. I.
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The Presbyterian Alliance....
Notes in Passing
Home Mission Work f
The Annual Statistics of Our
The Celebration at Genev
The Disciples First C
Baptism
Foroign Mission Notes...,
"Ministering to the S
The Young People's Conventio
The Country Church 1
Editoria
All praise to the Genera
Clerk, Dr. W. A. Alcxand
our table already. This, \v
s lier than last year, which
ord."
Louisiana has the deplo
tllP f An A f fltto /\f
same time she stands firs
manists to Protestants,
studied together.
After all, the Baptist jM
cago has ejected Profess<
was done in a stormy sess
The semi-official defense" <
D. Rockefeller's pastor, E
the latter in New York se
in the case.
In the-papers we see th
1887 the total number c
United States was 27,918,
was 76,062. Let it be grai
tion was one-third great*
ratio of divorces to popu
Is this the fruit of true re
alism?
In the recent General /
lution was adopted: "We *
any form by the clergy (
terian Church, and recoi
of its use by any Presby
We apprehend that even
echo this sentiment?but
...Mnv llllO HIV OUUJttt UI
The city strongholds o
new "Minutes" to be as f<
churches, has 4,275 mem
teen churches, 4,217; N
churches, 3,753; Richmo
^ 3,624; Memphis, with eigh
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SBYTERL
ATLANTA, OA.,
Week?
Page.
4
4
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ui vi wiy11 wjjcotviiiy rcwpic %j
Church 6
a This Week 7
ailed Christians at Antioch 7
9
11
aints" 16
<n 16
Workers' Conference 31
1 Notes
1 Assembly's efficient Stated
ler! The "Minutes" are on
e think, is about a week earwas
up to that time a "recrable
distinction of being at
States in illiteracy. At the
>t in the proportion of Rorhe
two facts may well be
[inisters' Conference of Chisr
George B. Foster. This
;ion of four hours last week.
:>f Professor Foster by John
>r. Aked, from the pulpit of
ems to have had little effect
e statement that in the year
)f divorces granted in the
but that in the year 1906 it
ited that in 1906 the populaer,
yet it appears that the
lation has recently doubled,
ligion or of increasing form
Assembly (North) this resodeplore
the use of tobacco in
and laymen) of the Presbynmend
the discouragement
terian minister or layman."
i the users of tobacco will
is it necessary or wise to
? ??i..i.:?5
a 1.111111.11 1 tsui it null .
f our Church appear in the
allows: Atlanta, with twelve
bers; Louisville, with fourew
Orleans, with fourteen
nd, with thirteen churches,
it churches, 3,452; Nashville,
IN OF THI
JUNE 30, 1909.
with twelve churches, 3,233;
teen churches, including Avo
Lake, Pratt City, and Ensley
six churches, 2,802; Dallas, \v
and Norfolk, with seven churc
In the past month or two
church five changes from the
educational or semi-secular i
severe one and seems to be i
while, the cry for men to fi
places is more and more urge
Is there anything that ma;
Measured by dimensions or h
measured by its place in a <
events, what can he regarded
word, even some thought thai
the mind, so small that we hav
cant, may have been the cot
and destiny.
In the Chinese Mission, so
conducted by the Presbytery
perintendent, Mrs. Radford,
eighty years of age and who
to the work, is always presen
ed under the careful personal
liam Frantz a devoted ruling
Church, the Session of which
affairs. The students are nev
ers in any other relation tha
structor. They do not accon
to the street cars, nor call at
manner mingle socially with
five years' history of this Mi
led up to the case of Miss S
never been known.
On the action of New Yo
certain yoimg men from the
nary, the News-Leader, of Rii
'"While the New York Pi
tion, 'held its theological exi
aoors, mere seems to De utti
men whom it voted to license
refused to do so on a former 01
at variance with current Pre
appears,' continues our conte
for example, that they do n
doctrine of the fall of man
What else could be expected
few years ago, the Northei
made (rom the standards of
sion? In religion, as in oth
a. nri
sicjj uicti tusis. i ucre arc
Presbyterians, of course, whc
old faith, but taking the mal
Southern Church is the bed r<
Presbyterian conservatism an
! SOUTH
NO. 27.
Birmingham, with fo-urndale,
Woodlawn, East
'? 3?x55; Charlotte, with
rith five churches, 1,807,
lies, 1,694.
there have been in our
pulpit to positions of an
lature. The draft is a
increasing. And, mean11
important and needy
;nt.
y safely be called small?
>y time, perhaps so. But
chain of causation, or of
as little? Some act, some
t has left its track across
e regarded it as insignifiinecting
link between us
long and so successfully
of New Orleans, the suvvho
is now upwards of
has devoted many years
t. The work is conduc
supervision of Mr. Wilelder
of the Canal Street
directs all the Mission's
er seen with their teachin
that of pupil and innpany
the teachers even
their homes, nor in any
them. In the twentyssion
such conditions as
>igel in New York have
rk Presbvterv. licensinp
^ y , o
New York Union Semichmond,
Va.f comments:
resbytery,' says the Naamination
behind closed
le doubt that the young
to preach, though it had
:casion, hold views much
sbyterian orthodoxy. It
mporary, 'to be certain,
ot accept the historical
or of the virgin birth,'
after the 'departure,' a
n Presbyterian Church
the Westminster confeser
things, it is the first
+ lirvtipn * % r\ c* C \T/-v?.fU
lUVJtioclllvia Ul i>UI lUCl II
) still hold firmly to the
Iter by and through the
3ck and the palladium of
d orthodoxy."