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A M TH Contributed J : J HOME MISSIONS AT MONTREAT. Miss Barbara E. Lambdin. "America for Christ: that the world may be won for Christ."?C. R. HempRill. D. D. Another Montreal summer has passed into history , and another Home Mission Conference has been declared "the best we have ever had " The presiding officer on the three days devoted to consideration of the needs of the home field work of the Assembly's Committee, was Dr. 6. L. Morris, Secretary. The "Home Mission Conference" followed without intermission those on "Colored Evangelization" and "Ministerial Education and Relief" the subjects being so closely allied that the transition was scarcely perceptible. Witb the kind consent of Secretaries Suedecor and Sweets the first morning periods from nine to ten of August lb, 20 and 21, were devoted to the Mission Study Class; the following week, August 22. 24, and 22, the class taking the second period: thus gaining six days of valuable work. In the conduct of the class. Rev. F. K. Leyburn. of Durham. K. C., used normal methods, and was able to overcome the obstacle of very liitle time for study of the lesson on the part of the students by using the splendid maps, charts and papers of his own class at Durham. The book used was "The Frontier." ahe thrilling story by Dr. Ward Piatt of the vast possibilities and the urgent call to the church now presented by the West. With tue beginning of the Home Mission Conference proper the first period was el* ell to the bible Study, oouducted by Dr. D. Clay billy, in his own able and impressive way l>r. Lilly sketched rapidly through the Old Testament the story of God's aucieut people, bringing out strongly the parallelism iu the history of the chosen race aud -our own history, as a people destined for great things, if we will remember tne Lord our God, and serve Him only. Oeftly the declining nation was depict od, the foes at first internal in Israel's own heart of sin, and then the strauge i ml.. or 1 i/t L'(ii)/<iiiah/->il ?? J '-.J ^ ? w / ? mi\{uicuru UUU it <U 1 UfUi away captive; and the warning was pressed home to many hearts in the perils confronting our own nation, the neg looted and tlie aliens among us, aud the materialism and irreligiou, so many de parting from the old paths of righteous uess. At the eleveu o'clock service op Moaiday moruiug JAr. /. M. Weils, of Wilming ton. N. (C., discussed the question, "Are We .Reaching the Masses at Home?" and soieinuly the large audience was reminded that reaching the masses at home moaut: "Rilnghug to the people here a gospel sufficient for their needs; vruunqf tg 4,vei> uuu?, wojuuuu ujo4 <biW tia <> tlu; i/>r<3 Jfc?u* CMilm io wu<;L y way riukt it < juj 0* yjiu>l*-<i by tLf iulm), ?Ui<l wllj ayveaJ U? tin- L**ri ?u.<! Jovu! <y Uu* Lu<livl4u?j." w E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU "We have just bogun to awake to the fart," the speaker declared, "that we have been playing with Home Missions. There is work to be done, work that claims our interest, and that ought to grip our hearts, unsaved souls right ...... v ?i uuujc?uu *r irci uu> responsibility for reaching these masses"? Following Dr. Wells. Dr. S. N. Smith, of Columbia. S. C., in a few concise words, emphasized the need of larger support of the work and increased activity. Dr. Smith Baid: "1 think we have the greatest Church in the world, but we have lost in the past many opportunities through over-conservatism. Our motto has been too long 'Hold the Fort." it is high time that we were changing that, and taking as our rallying cry, "Onward. Christian Soldiers.' We have not emphasised Home Missions as the base line, the absolute necessity, for an aggressive and widespread Foreign Mission work. L?et us be. not less conservative, but more aggressive." The news of a stereopticou lecture by Dr. S. JL. Morris on Monday evening filled the Auditorium almost to its limit. So many of our people, ministers and workers, coming to Montreat for their vacation, when they must recruit their energies for the year of work before them, must reluctantly miss some of the addresses that each day otters. But the promise of "pictures," especially when accompanied by an address by one who is sure to hold the attention of the hearer never fails to draw a large crowd, in eluding, too, tuost of the little people iu the community. The Assembly's Home M it & ion work, especially the churches and school* built and assisted, made a strong appeal through eye and ear to the interest and sympathy of the large audience. Many were touched as they had not been before by the great needs, the great opportunities of the work, and the meageruess of the support the Church has given to this most important aggressive effort to bring the message of Christ to every soul in our midst that has ji/it Vitf rna/ilw.J **" /n ' J ..>.1 u ivmacv y>) iu<- <>iaw i iaiu&? it ie woudeiful wbat baa been a<>couxi>Uabfcd witii *o Uttit; bu< even more wonderful la the yroutiae of rebi><j!iw to more adeuuat,e effort in be balf of tbt brother ''whom we have neen." T utaday morning after Uxe 11 j bit and tlit Miaaiob Study Ciaaata, Dr. T. S. <3y<*; vrtaide/U of Aubtjjj College, a yoke on Hit tlxtuxe, "The Valut of our Preue?t <>HXxi'uoitioa," ding ua au exatuyie ?be Fatibtuidit of Tex*#, wbU'b it waa yroooatd, at vu* time our Cbureh ? in *11 IA klxMJliiiill illiJuXlil <1 U/OXJ xd rt/.J 'Juttf tiilts v**J etretx-b #tiould ljt U&14, Uiat vur bieeet mud aiiouJd be put there, bud luouex tu>t wUiikc-ld; aud Uje j fault* ixi four yeuia eveu bee uutre tbeu Ju*?>tied the dLcixioti itev J- W i'ulAwfll 4kf N/xxur /li-lnuno r - rr * t t rf "" " f-** uext yrefcc-JjOed tluf urgeut jjceda iu l<00U JtOi*, "tiWi JMCtfl*/1?4 ?l*?* in OOf Howe MiM*v;u work." He tti/oke from 0 full kfcait of Uut ml*mut*r?iMti4tBii 'but i? TH. September 8, 1909. prevalent of conditions in Louisiana?of its advantageous location, mild climate, its healthfulness in spite of general belief to the contrary, and its great need of men to man its destitute fields. Mr. Caldwell asked, "Do you know that we have 300,000 French-speaking people in Louisiana"? These are not immigrants, they are descendants of the original settlers, most of them, but they are under the thraldom of Romanism, and need our gospel. He added, "I do not think there is any Presbytery in the whole Presbyterian Church that is doing the cosmopolitan work that the Presbytery of New Orleans is doing. We have services every Sunday for Germans, for Italians, for Chinese, for Negroes, for Syrians, and for the sailors of every port on the globe whose vessels come into our harbor. In the rural communities there are many who never heard a Protestant preacher. I bring you the appeal of need from men and women bound down in superstition, in shame and in sin, to whom we must come with the pure gospel of the blessed Son of God." At the evening service, Dr. Lilly made a strong address on "Some Home Mission Ideals" that will doubtless set many thinking. it was one of the treats of Montreat to have, among our other splendid home workers, Rev. Walter S. Scott, of San Antonio, Texas, "our apostle to the Mexicans in Texas," who v/as most gladly heard. He told of the 300,000 Mexicans who are now on this side of the Rio Grande, and of the work that our church is attempting a uoflg them, all loo Utile, Yel <iod has richly blessed It, and ill the eighteen years that Mr. Scott haa been laboring among them he haa organized sixteen churches, which have now a membership of over a thousand He made known the needs of San Antonio aa a strategic center, to which many Mexican boys and girls come each year Lo school. "Jf we strengthen San Antonio, we strengthen the whole mission." impressed with the importance of this work, Mr. Scott was given some assistance in building a new chapel. We ought to do more generously and wisely by our Mexi< an mission. Dr. Henry C. Miuion, former moderator of the Heueral Assembly of the i'res P//X-IIUII "Jiijnu 11) llie l.'Dlted fSlHleb of Amerh u, no well known and ao he loved by i ho Hoot horn Church, gave a maaLerly uddreaa on Wedneaday morning on "Our Country aud Home Mlaalona," the held, iho force and the future. At tue laat aeaaton Of the Home Mia aioo Conference Or, ft. Homy hill, of Jx/ulavllie, Ky., look aa hla theme "Home Hi-oeder Abyecla of Home Mlaaioua " witii idling tftrokfctt ilia varlou* phaaaa of Hit work of the Aaaewhjy'tt committee were wade to atami vividly forth?tha weak i hurt he* ihat timet he aupport'a4, or pariah with tha fruM*, that, if nourJahcd, they would ylald to the Church; the rail for I he da vol ad lahora of ilia ayangellat, the momitaineere who are not only "grandly worth tha aavlng", hut ara routrlhutlug apleodid material for tha