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THE PRE VOL. I. =^=This ' 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 I SBYTERL ATLANTA, OA., Week? Page. 4 4 ~ r>~ ic 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."