The Presbyterian of the South : [combining the] Southwestern Presbyterian, Central Presbyterian, Southern Presbyterian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1909-1931, September 08, 1909, Image 1

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VOL. I. ?This W A Copyrighted Bible What are the Proof Texts F More About the New Relij My First Sunday in England ... Men and Missions Love Home Missions at Montreat Expenses of Commissioners Those Statistical Columns To Pastors and Sessions Editorial The statistics of religiou: States, issued by the Census in 1906, 186 denominations members. The percentage church members, was larger than in 1890. In local religioi Protestants increased 27.8 p Catholics 27.9 per cent; churches, increased 30.5 per churches 25.9 per cent, these bracing much more than on< membership. Under all the conditions, it should be an increase church membership in this c forty per cent of the entire pi include baptized children, b tians, actually enrolled in the hundred of the greatly mix pagans, Mohammedans, une> ers of all kinds, coming fron .stood up to confess the nar Around them are many mor ncrents, wno attend tne servi port their work and are moi by their influences. The Outlook for last weef the memorial of Uncle Wa ful and esteemed servant of E . V .. -.?i ? . - . ^ ATLANTA, GA., SEPTE his J eek 11. on f Page, the 2 hav* 'roposed 2 loya jion 3 tian 4 Bev 6 lowl 8 loya 14 call 15 22 T 24 in c in Notes be't no 5 bodies in the United helc Bureau last week, shows, (jas, with 32,934,445 church 0f a of population who were for by 5.4 per cent in 1906 Cou us bodies or churches, the tere er cent, and the Roman that Methodist bodies, local cent, and Baptist local two bodies together em- ' nf tliA f-ntol rViiirr?li IlOt Nor . "go< is encouraging that there ^ts reported of the total ^ ountry. It makes nearly Yor opulation. This docs not ut only professfed Chris- ,n? : churches. Out of every tatl< ed population, including con1 /angelized, and unbeliev- ine 1 many lands, forty have * ne of Christ voluntarily, e who may be called ad- H ices of the churches, sup- ceiv re or less affected in life the that ma> c was much interested in a be rner Liscomb, the faith- friei )r. Robert L. Dabney, and agei ' ? 1 mmi y Othf southwestern / r(triTRAL PRE3B\ 1E SoUTHER/l Pr MBER 8, 1909. family, which appeared in or The Outlook's editors, like m rom afar, have much to learn a relation of the races. Within s been in the homes of a num il to their old masters' families s. We would like The Outlc erly, badly scarred from woui ing his master in the battle tl and true today, as he was the ed to his better home. he present position of the Fedei onnection with the Cumberlai rennessee, is that all the clai lin possession of certain properl :itizens of the other State, or < jurisdiction in the case. Had I when the well known "Wa e," in Louisville, was in the co few members colonized for a t the purpose of getting the ca rr, me result wouia nave Deen sting to note the advancement case was allowed place and a he "Cumberland Presbyterian," to the Cumberland Presbyt thern Presbyterian Church, is ^d people who butt in to oth objection is to the public disci licensure and ordination by the k of young men who do not Word of God. It characterizes "a stick to beat a rival Churc 3n noon the motive"; of other*; temporary. We rather impute earnest desire to preserve the p he living God. as the "Cumberland Fresby ed of the fact that doctrinal lax foundations of our Churches? the question of doctrinal faitl , ,1 UlVlMUlId 111 IIIC V^UUIl irrier to some phases of Churc nds of Christ must ever prote: ment of the Word of God. i. * I FAN ^ESBYTERfAN\ YTER/AH 6 ESBYTER/Afl NO. 36. ir columns, August any more who look ibout the South and a fortnight past we ber of old servants, , and devout Chris >ok to know Uncle ids received in folof Chancellorsville, n, and waiting to be ral Courts, as shown id Church decisions mants who seek to ty in one State must :lse the courts have this position been lnut Street Church ^ _ 1 -1 1 iiris, unuer ucmanu ime over in Indiana se into the Federal different. It is inof the courts since judgment. which now belongs erians, but to the reflecting on some er people's affairs." ussion of the act of Presbytery of New accept the Bible as i the critics as seekh." Such an impuis unworthy of our to all these writers niritv r?f tin* rhnrch terian" never conity is today sapping Has it not realized 'ifulness is one that :h, and that is today h union? The best st against a dispar