Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

4 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. Hnw rn 1 *1 \r 1IIUIIJ 111 1 1 1 to Itl 3 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 -.v.1 ti. i ji 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 iHflll Pnrliono If 1-*? J X Vil.apo 11 lit WUU1U 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 '-likp Hrv r?r mmrinr* ? , ?j ? '"*?>> "*v Q which they are members, and rt. But why should not the -s be enlarged? It can not ardent supporters that the * r N OF THE SOUTH. prayer meeting's work is done sometimes not one-tenth, of tl liaVP Q t fpnHnrl if " '1 "1"^ * ^ Miiv.iuvu a t auu 3IIUWII I 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 ^ W? V, v^uipiwLi: j;i iMiiinmill W 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 _ . ? ~ 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, .11 ~ r 1. _ 1- .1 r* 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. kro r?/-\4- nltifAfffl ?-J '? v ai w <xy 3 iiiimcui; that splendid effort in t to have accepted the not win, it enrages, if conscience tells one to