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August 18, 1909. THE FOREIGNE They are here. God p tainly for his own glory ! good. His glory is sign doubtless also for our go their prosperity, have as our ancestors would hav< what came of it. That turns upon the way in wh There are half a millioi Texas and Louisiana ale great State, the size of F missions and foreign missi each other right in onr bo onr territory. The glan about the foreign missions sionary as well. These foreigners will s these days. They stand t contact with one another, cause, sometimes in evil, i own. They often niisunc meaning and purpose. 1 leges given under our in is many a time a menace ligious faith, a low faith, hood, and holding allegia well as religious, to a fore itv as a temporal ruler ar make good citizens. Unle do us great harm. The gospel of the Lore than anything else to brinj foreigners. Its beauty ; mould them properly. It the younger people amonj tary and effective. It will tenance of the saloon po1 Lord's Day which are ante almost universal evils of tl that, too, which is above tion and the maintenance them to Christ, the Savio of life eternal. It is cause for rejoicing our church are turning tc tic, missionary field. In teeming Mexican populat progress several years, tin ecutive Committee of Ho happiest and most abuncl tne taitntui work ot the I New Orleans Presbytery, amongst French, Italians Now this work is about t( operation just agreed upc terv and the Atlanta Conn put into the field. More support of the work. The by the faithful Presbyter the belief that the good r tinue to be realized. And of all the church. Recrui are willing to endure hart flip nrnKlpm itict nnur r>i ' THE f RESBYTERI, ;rs amongst us. ut tlicm here. Why? CerDoubtless also for their own alized in doing good. But >od. They may one day, in great occasion to rejoice as ; had, could they have seen |oint good, theirs and ours, ich we do duty, i foreign-speaking people in )ne. That is about half a lorida or Oklahoma. Home ons have come in touch with rders, almost in the heart of lour that has always been try belongs to the home mishape our civilization one of ogether. They live in close They often make common n combining to protect their 1 1 ici oianvi uui iaU5 (UKI UlCir 'hey misinterpret the privistitutions. Their solidarity . And being all of one redirected by a crafty priestnice in everything, civic as ign ruler who claims authorid judge, they do not easily ss properly guided they can 1 Jesus Christ will do more ? about assimilation of these ind grace and power will s influence, especiallv noon ijst them, will be most saludivert them from that mainover and that misuse of the >ngst the greatest public and his class. It will accomplish mere political self-preservaof our laws: it will bring ur, and give them the hope that the mind and heart of )wards this great evangelisthe Texas field, with its inn flip urnrl/ - ? .w, w??v ** V? I\ nao UVCII 111 der the auspices of our Exme Missions, and with the lant results. In Louisiana, local churches, especially in has sustained vigorous work , Hungarians, and Chinese. ) be enlarged, through a corn by New Orleans Presbymittee. More men are to be monev is to be used in splendid work already done y is to he carried on, with esults of the past will conI the work will now he that ts are called for. Men who Iness are needed. They are ore than the money. And AN OF THE SOUTH. above all, the prayers and inter are wanted. When these are multiply. "IS NOT JEHOVAH GOI JL 11U1^ i Judges 4: Can we see Jehovah? Yet E had seen him. And the issue 1 Tabor, as described in the foi of Judges, shows that her vis reality. What was it? The record tells us first of heartened people, of Israel, had been oppressing, robbing a for twenty long years, till their none ventured to raise a ban when, at the call of Deborah, ; defence of their homes, it was t of ten thousand. Man was he Kriroli Qtirl Rirnl' t\n + fnrfli flic fort, they found that God was Let us first trace the inarch < Jabin. lie starts from Jabin's sheth, which is near the coast Sea, much to the north of Mou is southwardly along the coast to the precipitous sides of Ca rily, he turns to the southeast. Along the base of Carmel 1 flowing down to the sea. At shallow, being only about kiv violent rain comes, the water v the sides of Mount Tabor and < it to rise suddenly and change Sisera marches along the hig awhile on the north side of th stream and runs between the ri\ tain side. As he approaches turns and camps on the west Mount Tabor. There Deboral meet him with their ten thousa Tlion 1A :* 4t..l 1 a uvii auu uivic II WdS, 111 cl I J "Up, for this is the day in wl livered Sisera into thine hand out before thee?" What did Deborah see? Fin 5:4. "Lord, when thou wenl thou marchedst out of the fie trembled and the heavens drc dropped water." She saw a 1 "The clouds also dropped wate The was from the east read: "When thou wentest out lay to the southeast of Tabor, usually come the storms of I came this storm. Tf o -A V noil a v IUICIII MUI III. 1 lie before the Lord, even that Sina God of Israel." The rain was that as it ran down the mount; as if the very mountain itself ' declivities. To the west or northwest of Sisera, with his nine hundred 5 est of the whole church given the results will ME OUT BEFORE ? 14)eborah spoke as if she of the battle on Mount irth and fifth chapters ion was not fancy but a discomfited, and disjoin, king of Canaan, nd enslaving the people courage was gone and id of resistance. And a band did rally to the he insignificant number ilpless. But when De'ir prayer and their efhelpful. of Sisera the general of capital, the city Haroof the Mediterranean nt Carniel. His inarch of the Mediterranean, rmel. There, necessa runs the river Kishon, ordinary seasons it is ee deep. But when a vhich pours down from af Mount Carmel cause it into a torrent, fh road which runs for e river, then fords the ,*er and the steep mounthe upper country he or northwest side of i and Barak march to ind soldiers. Deborah said to Barak, lich the Lord hath de; is not the Lord gone d the answer in Judges :est out of Seir, when kl of Edom, the earth >pped ; the clouds also thunder storm coming, r." or the southeast. We of Seir." Seir or Edom and from that quarter Palestine. And thence mountains melted from ii from before the Lord so abundant that day ain side, it would seem were flowing down the Tabor was the host of I chariots of iron, and