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THE PRAY
1 he "church thermor
called, is as often the ch
fair to regard it as the in
warmth or coldness. It i
of the pastor's temperati
with its making as the p
turns on his treatment o
It is an undeniable fac
not as well sustained, in t
as it should be; that its
does not attract the kind
benefitted by attendance
upheld only by a very f
who attend it do not dc
terest and delight as fron
regarded as a burden,
tain inquiries.
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thought into the prepara
ing, and the conduct of
ices? What care is tak
choir, trained leaders
speakers who will be att
to devote thorough stud
parts ?
A long continued obse
this service is given the
will be there, the preacl
waste his best thought,
mental toil, on that hai
do this a few times he \
requiring a giant's palm
he would do it long eno
fr? r?rvniri?f a ~~* -
vv vwimuvv. UlC people
meeting as good as any
as a fact, he would soon
be measurable by handsf
The music should be ;
should not be allowed to
familiar hymns, like simp
tor, given out just beca
little company which is
to attract. The very del
same-thing-every time pi
touched, if wisely and s;
a good example to give
tion. By special arrange
themes for prayers and ]
even in holding if nee
prayer, where men will 1
their own voices and get
making petitions on spec
wearisomeness of the av<
be greatly changed, to t
peace and to the greate
congregation.
There is no doubt but
attend the prayer meel
the meeting dull or life
blessing to the church of
a joy to the pastor's hea
blessing and the workei
be claimed by its most
THE PRESBYTERIA
ER MEETING.
neter." as it is sometimes
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uiv.it jjiuuicui. it is nanny
dicator of the congregation's
is as frequently the indicator
ire. He has as much to do
eople. Its success or failure
.f it.
:t that the prayer meeting is
he vast majority of churches,
numbers are small; that it
of people who would be most
upon its exercises; that it is
aithful few; that even those
? so quite as much from in1
duty; that it is by too many
This condition suggests cer
throw as much life and
tion for the mid-week meetit,
as into the Sunday serven
to enlist workers for its
for its prayers, occasional
ractive for its addresses, and
y and preparation to all its
rvation shows that as a rule
leavings and scraps. So few
ler says, that he should not
the product of his severest
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vould soon find that handful
to hold it, and very likely if
ugh and persistently enough
of his purpose to make the
he holds, and to establish it
find that his crowd will not
ul, but by roomsful.
as carefully looked after. It
become montonous. Merely
ile little ''talks" from the pasuse
they are familiar to the
there, will prove no magnet
icate matter of the long-andrayers
need not be left unympathetically
handled, with
proper impulse and suggesiment
beforehand, in naming
nroviHino- *!->
I "t> -cvvm.i;
;d he "training classes" in
earn to become familiar with
into the way of talking and
ial topics, the monotony and
;rage leaders in prayer might
heir own great comfort and
r pleasure and profit of the
that the faithful few who do
:ing, rain or shine, and be
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which they are members, and
rt. But why should not the
-s be enlarged? It can not
ardent supporters that the
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prayer meeting's work is done
sometimes not one-tenth, of tl
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its tedium. The meeting ouj
and growth, not for the testing
of endurance and of self-denia
onous, and if given life and m<
would, after awhile, commanc
ance.
LOUISIANA AND T.
Of Louisiana's fifty-nine Pa
"dry," counting in this list tw<
one town in each. About thre<
territory is dry, and over half
in the dry territory. The Sot
and those along the river, in a
Catholic Church is dominant,
there is not a white Protesta
are chiefly the ones where the
ground.
Some of the strongest ad
however, are found among th<
some of the Parishes which
large Romanist population. '
the last session of the legislat
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physician from one of the "\\
State. It is a very common b
few years the saloon business
out. Louisiana is beginning' i
. not be the clumping ground i
near by.
PAUL AS A PE
Our recent studies in the
brought out, more than any
facts concerning Paul as a ]
method, adaptation, zeal, and
stantly shown, and the result:
have been given.
In one place he is reported
who were turning the world "
some one has remarked that it
if the world was wrong side ui
charge that the new doctrin
He wishes to make a complet<
thoughts and convictions. A r
revolutionary, in the best sens
He wes singularly tactful.
Hill was as fine a piece c
surroundings, as rhetoric or
produced, in addition to its p
plea for Christian faith. His
Pisidia, was also a masterpie
people, time and place. Paul
he made skilful use of condi
thing his own way, but so a<
were drawn almost without ki
And yet Paul's sermons w<
ately fruitful. Even following
Athens, but two oeoole seen*
faith. Where the truth does
the mind recognizes it and <
August 25, 1909.
when not one-third, or
ie people of the church
heir faith by enduring
ght to be one for joy
of the believer's; nnwpr
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I. If made less monotivement
and interest, it
1 attention and attendHE
SALOONS.
Irishes, thirty-three are
o which are all dry but
^-quarters of the State's
the population is found
ithern tier of Parishes,
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in ui wmcn me Koman
and in some of which
nt church of any kind,
liquor dealers hold the
vocates of prohibition,
; Roman Catholics, and
have gone dry have a
One of the leaders, in
ure, in the effort to seras
a Roman Catholic
rettest" parishes in the
elief that within a very
will be driven entirely
to realize that she canor
all her sister States
1EACHER.
: Sunday-schools have
other single thing, the
preacher His purpose,
wisdom have been con5,
too, of his preaching
as being one of those
upside down," of which
was a good thing to do
3! He did not deny the
es were revolutionary.
; change in the people's
ninistrv that i<; nr>t thuc
>e, is a poor ministry.
The sermon on Mars
if art, fitting all the
dialectics have ever
ower and cogency as a
discourse in Antioch in
ce in its fitness to the
studied adaptation, and
tions. He bent everydroitly
that his hearers
tiowing it.
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that splendid effort in
t to have accepted the
not win, it enrages, if
conscience tells one to