The Presbyterian of the South : [combining the] Southwestern Presbyterian, Central Presbyterian, Southern Presbyterian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1909-1931, July 21, 1909, Page 6, Image 6

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6 Cont WHEN ON MY DAY OF I When on my day of life tt And, in the winds from I hear far voices out of da My feet to paths unkno Thou hast made my home Leave not its tenant whi 0 Love Divine, O Helper < Be thou my strength an . Be near me when all else i Earth, sky, home's pictu And kindly faces to my o\ The love which answers 1 have but thee, my Fathe Be with me then to com No gate of pearl, no branc Nor street of shining gc Suffice it if?my good and mm uuiu lurgivcn mroi I And myself by bands fa Unto my fitting place. A HEATH In his "Life of Chris sums up the beneficent cl ity. There is no class < has not remedied. Inde< in elevating woman, in i infirm old age, in shelteri ing as with a halo of sacr of the child, it substan vigor and effectually tri heathenism. This is beautful. It is deed the cure-all. Were cial and economic, all mc readily be adjusted and ; titude towards the old? eral treatment accorded c the practice of the heath old to die. Though the I inhumane than the heat! out into the lonely soliti and plains to die of negle are practically turned o from participating in th affairs of life where the daily bread. it is related that the cently refused men over employment bureau, or lending gratuitous assist, itself handicapped by bei a number of men solely years of age. With no c support, competent and \ these quinquagintarious or steal, or commit suici< r r THE PRESBYTERI/ ributed -IFE THE NIGHT IS FALLiNG. te night is falling, unsunned spaces blow, rkness calling wn. of life so pleasant, en its walls decay; ever present, d stay! is from me drifting; ires, days of shade and shine, vn uplifting mine. r! Let thy spirit fort and uphold; :h of palm I merit, )ld. ill unreckoned, lgh thy abounding grace? miliar beckoned ?Whlttler. [EN CUSTOM. ;t," Dean Farrar graphically lianges wrought by Christianof wrongs, he says, which it :d, in emancipating the slave, nursing the sick, in honoring ng the orphan, and in shrouded innocence the tender years tially vindicated its superior umphed over the cruelties of . Utopian. Christianity is init universally practiced all so>ral and ethical wrongs would ameliorated. What is the atWhen one observes the gen)ld age, one seriously deplores en custom of abandoning the treatment may be less grossly len custom of driving the old .ides of the barren mountains ct and starvation, still the old iff to die by being debarred e common employments and y must necessarily win their pmnlnvpre in 1 loi-/?o /?;? ? -o ... ? .c.&t v-it-jr itfifty years of age. A special ganized for the purpose of ince to the unemployed, found ing unable to secure work for because they were over fifty ompetency, devoid of relative villing.yet unable to get work, were turned off either to beg, ie, or die by starvation. lN of the south. According to the modern cor ress, but according to the Christ heathenism. It is a condition w will tend to multiply frightful percentage of criminals, and d; frequent ehastlv deeds nf vi'r?let ever much it may surprise, chag be acknowledged that this custor Let a minister show signs of aj it be known that he is fifty yea gated to the class of undesiral was considering a minister with The moment it was ascertained notwithstanding his superb qual dinary physical and mental vigo sources of knowledge and experi ilv and insolently dropped that ( of such heathen contempt should milestone. Not so long ago a committee a ing pastor with the urgent requc in getting rid of their preacher signed for this course towards < them, married their children, bu tedly served them amid every was, "He is getting old, and we Alas! "He is getting old." Hz the services of God, having spen fort to do good, having endured discomforts for others, alas! wh< and silvery, when his face is fi thought and care, when his fori weariness, the sadness of prolo by being turned off to die. ."Pre ernist. It is the .very antipode quintessence of heathenism. The practice and tolerance of a positve violation of the law c vitality of the church and impaii is impossible to perpetuate youtl divine grace to honor and pre head and superior wisdom. So at the door of the church, so dearth of candidates, so long wi less annnvanrp c/-? 1 ~ ? J ?, ou lUllg Will I tarry. "So let our lips and li The holy gospel we p So let our works and To prove the doctrine Don't send your children 1 Take them! The need for you 1 that for vnur "v -?< viiiiuiv.ii. i uur greater pleasure to them. The and will not be missed out of y< It will be better spent than in or reading that Sunday paper more about the Bible. Under i provision is made for profitable And if you know so much that y a student, why the more reasoi give out of the wealth of your that will help others. July 21, 1909. iception, this is progian conception, this is hich, if not remedied, suicides, increase the arken the times with ice and crime. Howrin, or grieve, it must n obtains in the church, iproaching age, or let rs old, and he is rele>lcs. A congregation a. view 10 caning mm. that he was fifty, ificationS, his extraorr, his accumulated reence, he was so specd>ne shuddered in view I one attain the fiftieth pproached a neighborrst that he assist them , the only reason asj 3ne who had baptized iried their dead, devovarying circumstance, : want a young man." iving given his life to t his energy in the efuntold privations and en his hair grows thin irrowed with lines of m inevitably yields to nged life is deepened gress!" says the modto progress. It is the this custom which is >f God is sapping the ring its usefulness. It h, but it is possible by fer age for its hoary > long as this sin lies 1r?nor ?r!11 ~ I? ? mil UC H 11 infidelity give needhe looked-for revival ves express rofess; virtues shine all divine." l to the Sunday school! :o go is just as great as going will make it a time will he hnt littlA Dur household business, lolling about the house You need to know modern methods ample study in adult classes, ou do not need to go as n to go, that you may ' knowledge something