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6 A GREAT HON Louisiana has fifty-ni these twenty-eight hav church, and eleven but each. The population is and a half inhabitants. < represent Presbyterianis here include some churc ferred to the Synod of t the numerical strength c New Orleans alone. Tin isters, outside of New There are three hundrt people and fifty thousam perhaps, fifteen thousam ians and others. Here surely is a field i should pour money and The Methodists, Baptisl funds nnnn tli#? wnrL- Tli products, especially in si oil and lumber, and its are attracting people fro ful if there is a natural than all Southern Loui thousand to eight thousa up all through this sect have no work whatever i unto the harvest. Goo where reap a surer han The Home Mission spiri them here. THE WORKI1 A popular magazine \ man for a day of rest. Not long ago public sen words, "He's worked si: enth," and as a result I --i UI1 uu II \MUC UJJCII, bdiu theatres, and other bus ment being in opera as on any other d; coming up from the w< keep their traffic and w to inquire just where he is dawning upon him other high sounding thir arc at his expense. H to make the holiday for der, he is beginning to that the circle of Sum of late, to accommodate 4l.- -r tr ? ? ? me in my ui ^unaay iaD increased, in the last t and enrolls now not fe These will be heard fror Falsehood is in mam ments. And especially sions which are mislead] The very care and adroi sions are made show th? tated, and conscious dej y r THE PRESBYTERIA IE MISSION FIELD. 11c parishes, or counties. Of e not a single Presbyterian one each, and eight but two considerably above a million Df these about seven thousand m. The Assembly's statistics hes in Mississippi, now trans1 i. C"_ x - XT 1 i ' * iiai oiaie. .\ eariy one-nan ot >f Presbyterianism is found in ere are fewer than twenty minOrleans, in the entire State. ;d thousand French speaking i Italians in the State, besides, I Spaniards, Hungarians, Syrnto which the Church ;>< large men. Others are doing this ts and Disciples are lavishing e richness of the soil, its many igar, rice, cotton, salt, sulphur, now recognized healthfulness, in every quarter, it is dOUbtly richer country in America siana. Towns of from three md people have rapidly sprung ion, and in some of them we in progress. The field is white d men, faithful men, can nozest or have a better support, it, however, is needed to bring NGMEN WANT IT. -oices the plea of the workingIt comes in a peculiar toi.u. timent plead for him with the s: ciays; let mm enjoy the sevSunday was in many quarters ons, ball games, excursions, sinesses, work and employtion as much on Sunday iv. But now the cry is orkingman who is used to ork going. He is beginning i comes in, in the game, and it that the personal liberty and lgs which the others indulge in e is worked harder than ever his neighbor. And so, no woncry for his share. It is stated day workingmen is widened the liberty claiming class, thai orers in the United States has en years, fifty-eight per cent. wer than four million people! n before long.. 7 things besides untrue stateis it found in making impresing, or not in accord with fact tness with which such imprestt they are deliberate, premediaartnre from the truth. N OF THE SOUTH. THE ORDINATION The facts concerning the George E. Fitch, by the Pres given in the "Presbyterian" o in April last, Mr. Fitch aiv Union Seminary (New York tery of New York for license vealed grave divergencies frt matters, such as the fall of A< fall was distinctly disavowed In April the Presbytery refu appointed a committee to co stated meeting of Presbyten vote, Presbytery granted to close of that stated meeting,; a motion was made to adjour July 7. Only a few member motion was made. No circul the members of presbytery th be held. On Wednesday eve their mid-week prayer servi meeting of Presbytery. Out were present. Mr. Fitch app der to accept an appointment under the auspices of the Y. 10 to 7, this adjourned meeti examination on theology; by ing decided to ordain the y dained, but six of the min against the proceeding, refus dination, and withdrew. The no comment. Mere intellectualism and i to the reception of the gos duee superciliousness rather ing of Christ to the Greeks v his great sermon on Mars' ] forts which Paul doubtless n Athens, nothing seems to tllPTA Av/?orvt 4-1-* o 4- a ?' v vmal a icWj dv gite, and Damaris, clave to Athens was that it was too c and too self-satisfied intellecl While worldliness and unl strongholds of Christian fai champions of that faith are ! hosts of heathenism and e peace and righteousness. L tributed by various organiza to Foreign Missions was $9, seven such organizations, hi 2,063 men an(l 3>?54 women, mated at 27,319. Connectec 745 churches with 672,108 c sides adherents and non-pi Christian instruction. The c natives in these foreign fiel The offerings to-Foreign M all lands last year was about ble that this year American one-half of the world's tota of evangelizing and civilizir earth. * > F / August ix, 1909. OF MR. FITCH. recent ordination of Mr. bytery of New York, are f July 14. It appears that d two other students of :) applied to the Presbyire. The examination re>m the truth in doctrinal iam. The doctrine of the by some, or all of them, ised to license them, but mfer with them. At the r in June, by a two-third them a license. At the ibout seven o'clock p. m., n to Wednesday evening, s were present when this ar was sent out to advise lat such a meeting was to ning the pastors were at ces, in ignorance of the of 240 ministers, only 19 lied for ordination in oras a missionary to China, M. C. A. By a vote of ng declined to repeat the a vote of 9 to 7, the meetoung man. He was oristers entered a protest ed to take part in the or: matter is one that needs culture are not favorable pel. The}' tend to prothan faith. The preachi'as "foolishness." Despite Hill and the vigorous efnade to plant a church in have come of his work > Dyonisius the Areopahim. The trouble with onfidcnt in its polytheism utally. >elief are bombarding the th in the homeland, the steadily advancing on the xtending the domain of ast year the amount editions in the United States [47.364. * There are thirtyiving in the mission field with native helpers esti1 with their work are 6,:ommuning members, beofessors who are under uniriouiions maae Dy tne ds amount to $1,564,981. issions by Protestants in $21,000,000. It is probachurches will contribute I gifts to the great work ig all the peoples of the