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August ii, 1909.
Contr
DAY I
When Time be
(God'B gift to ma
He broke it up in bits 1
And one by one,
With rolling su
He doth these gifts of tl
The strength we
(For so we read
Is meted out, as days m
Our Manna falls.
As each day call:
And keeps us from anxU
'Give us this day
(He bids us pr
For bread, that doth our
We take no thou
For what is brou
By Father's hand, for ch
Tomorrow's 111,?
(If God so will)Will
work out for us onl;
We choose the p
Of God for man,
And would not change It
Yes, 'day by day
(Is what we say!
And spend our time In <
God's way is bei
And glveth rest,
To creatures, frail as
SIR RORRRT HART A1
By Rev. G
This gentleman was rec
per as an enemy to mis:
in the many lectures I li
turn to America, his testirr
we are doing in solving
World has given itself, h
on than that of any othei
vious to the Boxer uprisi
missionaries themselves?(
little confidence in the sue
Chinese. But as to the
was always their friend, a
them financially in any
thev were doinc. It is or
* 0
a statement, that he is at
prise which is being laum
of which is to help China
form in medical and edu
intention was to work tl
the foundations on which
t ? u:.?
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^'Presence in China has b<
suit?since we tell them tl
requires change; their cul
dition; their gods despica
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THE PRESBYTERIA
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childlike trust.
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ND CHINESE MISSIONS.
. W. Painter.
ently referred to in your pasions.
Let me say that
ave delivered since my relony
to the value of the work
the problems the Western
as been mlich more relied
r man. It is true that prcng,
he was prone to say to
Dn occasion?that he had but
cess of mission work among
missionaries themselves, he
ind always generous to help
of the philanthropic work
ily a few days since I saw
; the head of a erreat enter
ched in England, the object
in her gigantic effort at recational
lines, and that the
irough the missionaries on
they are already building,
quoted as saying that our
sen felt to be a standino- in
0 ...
lat their conduct is bad, and
It inadequate and wants adble
and to be cast into the
& A.
N OF THE SOUTH.
gutter; their forefathers lost ;
saved only by accepting the n
but these are not the words o
are introduced by these words:
ary class their devotion, zeal an
ognized by all." Who does not
of the Cross?" Or, who know
selves that faithful preaching al
above that previous to the Bi
not have confidence in our sue
China. But during the seige of
the effect of Christianity on the
never had opportunity to see it
his whole opinion on that mat)
thinking our efforts in vain, h<
the Church throughout Christei
missionaries as rapidlv as doss
success of the work they were d<
solve the problem the world wa
gest one other possible way c
Peril," viz.?the partition of CI
powers?but he thoroughly op]
stir up strife among themselv*
count of the great injustice of
it was a possible solution. Unh
fully influenced by Christianity
power, he felt that the world's
peril, and so he called on niissic
only safe power to secure peace
Church in the following words
that have ever operated on hui
been, and is none which vivifyii
center,?the heart of man itself
family, social and national life
thoroughly as Christianity?an
direction of all that is good and
Such are not the words of a
sonal acquaintance also with th
tified in presenting these facts.
IS IT RIGH
I see that in place of Rev. Dr
time was chaplain of Congress,
other Unitarian.
I ask are we a Christian nati
that one who absolutely denies 1
chaplain of a Christian people?
tarian in any sense be called a
do most seriously protest again
a v^nristian minister. 1 he discij
tians because they were not (
Christ, but believed in him an
the son of God, as well as the sc
a true God the equal of the fat
I may be called narrow-min
my contending for the one grar
character of my Lord and Mas
livered to the saints, let me be n;
oted, if that makes me so.
I do feel that it is time, high
people to call upon those placed
nize the truth, as held and taugh
of the people of this land.
Would it possible for anything
7
ind themselves to be
lissionary's teaching,"
>f an enemy, for they
: "As for the missiond
good works are recknow
of "The offense
s better than we ourwavs
offends? I said
oxer uprising, he did
cess in Christianizing
the Legations he saw
Christians, as he had
before, and it changed
ter, so that instead of
i actually appealed to
ndon, to rush forward
iible, since it was the
Ding which alone could
s facing. He did sug?f
averting a "Yellow
iiina among European
posed it as certain to
ss, as well as on aco
f-? rv 1 i 4- -? C A. * 1 1
ouv.11 a ouill L lull. 01111
ess China was powerwith
its transforming
? future peace was in
inaries as wielding the
and he plead with the
>: "Of all the forces
man nature, there has
ng and quickening the
,?influences personal,
so powerfully and so
d influences it in the
beneficial."
11 enemy. From pere
man I feel fully jusTP
. Hale, who for a long
they have elected anion?
If so, is it right
Christ should he made
Can one who is a uniChristian?
I for one
ist calling a Unitarian
3les were called Chris>nly
the followers of
d that he was divine.
>n of man, and himself
her.
ded and bigoted in
id and only safety the
ter the faith once dearrow
minded and bigtime,
for the Christian
in authority to recogr
it by the vast majority
; to be done that would