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THE PRE VOL. I. ?=This 1 "Jehovah Jesus Christ" Dr. Eliot's New Religion The Best Every Timt A Great Home Mission Field. Sir Robert Hall and Chin< Is It Right Three Types of Preachers... Wny Is It How Do I Know I An Erightside Letter Editoria We again call the atte may have sons or daughu number of schools and col umns. rrom much car* suaded that educators in o proper prominence to bu while training the mind would be pleased to have rian of the South. The subject suggested f< month of August is papal difficult field for Protest; In some countries, as in J almost no religious tolcrati and Italy, Romanism has 1 and atheism. The effort t< free them from spiritual and from utter rejection o is a difficult task. But ii faithful witnesses for who: The reports and letters the seas, in tlie August Mh Ing. We hear of contini of a new church establishe the opening of Mr. Sammc Lavras, Brazil. Everywh before us an open door, foreign field committed to inforcements. I Most gratifying are the in China of extended and in the mission* churches ; Kiangyin and Tungshianj times of refreshing from th c&llSWCI IU Cdl IlCal dllU COll the Spirit was shown in co mation and new obedienci mission to the Church, ment it must bring to all t their many friends at home SBYTERI ATLANTA, OA., Week ^ Page. 4 5 ! 6 :se Missions 7 7 8 8 l A Child of God? 10 16 l Notes ntion of our readers, who :rs to educate, to the large leges advertised in our col ;ful inquiry we are perur Southland are giving all ilding Christian character, and body. In writing we you mention the Presbyte3r mission meetings in this Europe. This has been a int and evangelical work, spain and Austria, there is on, and in others, as France borne its fruits of infidelity 3 evangelize the people and bondage on the one hand, f all religion on the other, 1 all these lands there are m we should pray. from our missions beyond ssionary, are all most cheerled enlargement in Korea, d at Placetai, Cuba, and of mi's new school building at ere, it seems, God has set and from all parts of the ' us, comes the cry for retidings from our missions fruitful revivals of religion and chapels. At Kashing, our missionaries report le presence of the Lord. In tinned nraver the nnwer nf nfession of sin, moral refore, and many apply for adWhat a great encouragehe workers in the field, and ' AN OF THI AUGUST 11, 1909. A distinct and useful step i zation in the home lands of auxiliary to the work of Med eign field. . In Great Britain ; of the denominations have ta thi* mt'fliral u-nrl- ?-?f churches informed. It receiv cal work in the field, studies help and cheer. Christian p do much for their brethren has about twenty-two Medic of whom are laymen, six are also ministers and evangelists We have been looking ovei the Presbyterian Church (Noi lished. The number of canc drops from 1,105, last year, that this apparent decrease i: the Cumberland rolls. The creases from 8,951 to 9,023. inrrpacprl Kir ...vtvuuvu \J J IlllJ-aiA, clliu i torate by eighty-seven. The : nation is 82,053, numerically t of that Church. But the perc far below that of 1906. Then a half per cent.; now, it is or cent. In the matter of contribut Northern Church shows well, and Foreign Missions, and fo cept Church Erection, show a there is a decrease, but it is the home or local expenses of The average per member of tl large as before the Cumberl; average was $18.33 per men beginning of the year; in 190 The progress of temperanc* creased Knowledge of the m< of alcoholic stimulants, is ind the employers in the recent burg strike. Says the New Yc cant as well as curious that t the Pittsburg strikers did no ployers was the abandonmeni the men in the company's s intoxicants, even when not < demanded, on the ground ths an unwarrantable infringenu I nnrl cr\ if 1A ^? --? - ?3W av tvwuui lldVC UCCU UU a few years ago, but now the minishing efficiency are bett< merly were, and. the corporati other point stuck firmly to tl I SOUTH NO. 32. in advance is the organisocietics or committees irnl Missinns in flm TiVr tnd in this country some ken this step. It unifies i missions, and keeps the es report from the medi> its wants and sends it hysicians at home could far away. Our church al Missionaries, fourteen ladies and two who are r the annual statistics of rth), which are just pub lidates for the ministry to 1,066. We suspect s due to the purging of number of ministers inThe installations have lissolutions of the pasnumber added on examihe largest in the history :entage of conversions is it was nearly seven and ily six and one-third per ions, this report of the The receipts for Home r other benevolence, exm increase. In the total due to retrenchment in the individual churches, le contributions is not so md union. In 1907 the nber on the roll at the 9 it is only $16.66. ; sentiment, based on in3ral and physical effects icatcd by the attitude of adjustment of the Pitts>rk Times: "It is signifihe one concession which obtain from thejr em. - : ^ 1? . U1 Lilt; 1CIJU1IC111C1II L11 el L ervice should not drink Dn duty. This the men it such a regulation was ;nt on personal liberty, iversally considered only : effects of alcohol in di\r known than they foron that gave in on every his one.'^