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4 Pray Week Beg CITY Every great city and m problems. In America th effectively dealing with t America there are 37,000,C eign parentage. These r their effect on the moral people. In many parts of where large foreign elemei rious moral conditions ar desecration and intempera spread materialism which induced. There is a supe and helpers of every righti In a recent report at Om the Y. M. C. A. to inves dealing with the foreign e sion showed that of the 10 40 per cent on the United nr nf ? ? wi vi ivtcigu-uui u paicuu scent, and in Canada 80 p Anglo-Saxon origin. In the population from the age of parentage. Of the immigrants who largest proportion are fr nearly 50 per cent of these agricultural communities, lowest and poorest; 82 pe; and Greek Orthodox faith i In thirty cities in thirte< to 85 per cent are of foreig than the farms attract the whole population are eithe barest rudiments of educa The Gospel is the one rei which are engendered by t considerations of self intei and the security of every give the Gospel, which is " down of strongholds," to ( SflVR ft writer i n the Hi ticians are clamorous abo matters of policy, the hoi hand with the most fund national welfare and life, pared with the question of of foreigners who are alrea country. The question o transcends in importance a material interest. In its Home Missionary Society i as well as of religion, and truer and deeper sense tha fill our legislative bodies power. Such a recognitlo are now putting heart ar Missions." Iu addition to work amoi an immense population of i who are totally aloof frc fluence. The responsibilit; ticular is solemn and trei five hundred to one thoua expense, which are doing practically at their doors, call to duty. The Chrlstl: concerted and earnest effo spiritual needs of the dri finitely precious, and they useful and noble membei teaching, the sympathy, tl people. THE PRESBYTERIA er Meeting inning August 29. MISSIONS: any small towns have their slum e chief slum problem consists of he immigrant masses. In North 00 people of foreign birth or foruultitudes must necessarily have and religious life of the whole our land, especially in the West, t)ts have become established, injue seen in the prevalent Sabbath ince, to say nothing of the widethe inferior foreign element has rior element who are the friends eous cause. aha of a commission appointed by tigate conditions and methods in lements in our land, the cominis0,000,000 people of North America, States side of the line are foreign ige, and largely of European deer cent of the immigrants are of United States one-third of the male 12 to 34 years are of foreign-born come to the United States the om Southeastern Europe, where people are illiterate; they are from their standards of living are the r cent are of the Roman Catholic md 13 per cent are Jews, en States of the United States 55 ;n parentage. The factories rather m. More than 90 per cent of this r totally illiterate or ha?e but the tlon. nedy for the disorders and dangers hese extraordinary conditions, congest, the protection of our hoe life personal Interest require that we mighty through God to the pulling :hese, our fellow-citizens, ime Mission Herald: "While pollut surface questions, about mere me missionary is dealing at first lamental things which affect the The tariff is a small matter comthe Americanization of the hordes tdy in control in many parts of the f the character of a civilization til questions of method, policy and dealing with these questions the s doing the work of statesmanship its servants are public men In a in the great majority of those who or sit in the places of executive n doubtless awaits the men who id life into the service of Home ig foreigners in our cities there is natives and the children of natives im Christian institutions and inr of our city churches in this parrnendous. There are churches of land members, sustained at great nothing for the neglected masses. All this means onDortunltv and n. an denominations should unite in rt to provide permanently for the fted masses. Their souls are inr and their children may become s of society in response to the be example and prayers of God's " r .N OF THE SOUTH. Young Peopk uirt LtbbONS FR Topic for Sunday, September 5: the Book of Romans. DAILY REA Monday: What sin does for m Tuesday: Justification by gra< Wednesday: Yielding to God. Thursday: The burden of the 1 Friday: Freedom by the Spiri Saturday: Fulness of redempt Like most of the epistles, this < practical sides. The doctrines pri and the duties grow out of the < There is no high life apart fr< who decry doctrine know not whi knowledge of the truth in its in is essential to a strong life. In the Epistle to the Romans 01 of doctrine to be found anywhen cial reasons led Paul in writing in this masterpiece of his mind i He had been hindered in his greatly desired to go there. His by some to fear on his part to fierce light of the great Roman ci in lieu of himself for the presenl "I am ready," says he, "to pre are at Rome also For T ?m nn Christ; for it is the power of God that believeth, to the Jew first These words contain the theme oi Power of God." Paul's adaptation of his theme addressing is highly suggestive. Power was more to a Roman than loved wiBdom; the Romans glo forth the gospel as the power o attention to it. Starting from this theme, he sh and how, by the deeds of the 1: thus reasons out the need for i how faith in Christ, the eternal S tion. lie then illustrates this t Then he shows the glorious efTec to the practical life. Thrust in, between the more practical parts, is a short treat! tenth and eleventh i>hnntora doctrine of justification by faith 1 Gentiles, then to the two in th< comes in his splendid treatise stirring appeal to Christians to g The eighth chapter is perhaps Bible, outside of that one record: demus. It is on the Christian's The believer is sure because he l of sin and death, because he is Jesus, because the Spirit of God < adopted into God's family, becau the Spirit, because even sufferin his good, because of the eternal ] grace, and Ui? r W r ? ? vuv *WTC VI V and eternal. , Yet this one thing I l?ar Earn day more eurely ru That doors are opened, i Burdens are lifted or am By some great law unsee "Not as I will." August 25, 1909. i's Societies AM DAM A V/IVI nVITIMIMO. Life Lessons for me from Romans 12:1-21. DINGS. an. Romans 1:18-32. le. Romans 5:1-11. Romans 6:12-23. lesh. Romans 7:14-25. t. Romans 8:1-17. ion. Romans 8:18-30. me has its doctrinal and its oject themselves into duties, ioctrines. >m great principles. Those ereof they speak. A proper trinsic nature and relations le will find the richest body } in the work of God. Spe literally to lay himself out ind heart and pen. effort to get to Rome. He failure to go was attributed subject the gospel to the apital. He sends this letter tach the gospel to you that t ashamed of the gospel of unto salvation to every one and also to the Greek." [ the book: "The Gospel the to the people whom he was It was wise and strong. i anything else. The Greeks ried in power. In setting f God be at once attracted ,ows how all men are in sin, aw, none are justified. He i Saviour. Then he shows Son of God, briags justiflca>y the history of Abraham, ts of it. Then he applies it distinctively doctrinal and se, embraced in the ninth, the relation of the great irst to he Jews, then to the sir mutual relations. Here on predestination and his ;ive the gospel to the Jews. the richest chapter *in the Ing Christ's talk with Nicoi assurance of eternal life, las been freed from the law > a. new creature in unrlst Iwells in him, because he is se he has the testimony of g is made to contribute to purpose of God and electing tod in Christ is inseparable n to know, s I go, ways are made, laid, n and still, ?Helen Hunt Jackson. ? %