The Presbyterian of the South : [combining the] Southwestern Presbyterian, Central Presbyterian, Southern Presbyterian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1909-1931, September 08, 1909, Page 4, Image 4

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4 therefore, be 110 Christ in den conversion in this wc next." And so people will new revelation or to any c at least not a "sudden" o element in it"; consequen revelation, nor will there I no reliance on anything b no eood works, no 'Vnmo heavy laden, and I will gi to reconcile people to pres pensation." The downtroe sore and grief-laden will grin and bear it, and go them there will be no "sue look for the human race, the words of old Polonius "Pol. What do you rea< Ham. Words, words, w< Pol. What is the matte Ham. Slanders, sir." MY FIRST SU1 Our good ship arri\ afternoon after a very Sunday was an import! the most of my Sunday had planned to go dir Sunday there, but we could have stopped in what I would have d< Maclaren) had still bee ed to stop for the sak< Church of which he ws At last I decided to ? ancient and a very qu; and people, about fifte< have not yet regretted the First Methodist CI wife went with me. Chester and can advi: may mention some po before I tell of how I s To begin with, the v< is derived from the Ls camp, or more probabb est of all the Roman Romans occupied F.ng relics have been found recently some very in made. The most in is the old wall that ! city. This wall is ful places it is thirty feet wall is a moat filled wi been well night imprej arrows and spears, walls. At nine o'cloc and the gates were firrr in and no one could g in old Chester. We were there. As we w to several watch tower tower. It has on it th stood on this tower, S army defeated on Ro^ was Charles I| who 1< r THE PRESBYTERIA it. "It will admit neither a sud>rld nor a sudden paradise in the not need to be "converted" to this ither. It will have no heaven in it, ne. It will have* "no supernatural tly there will be no Bible and no IP nnv BPpd fpr nnv T*- "will ?!??? iut the laws of nature." No faith, unto me all ye that labor and are ve you rest." It "will not attempt sent ills by promise of future comIden and the oppressed, the heartjust have to make the best of it, to their graves assured that for Iden heaven." A most hopeful outsurely! The whole thing recalls and Hamlet: d, my lord? ards. rt my lord? NDAY IN ENGLAND. ed in Liverpool on Saturday fine voyage. Where to spend mt question as I want to make ,-s in England and Scotland. I ect to Glasgow and to spend landed too late for that. , I Liverpool, and that is exactly Dne if Dr. John Watscn (Ian n alive. As it was I felt tempt; of attending the Sefton Park is pastor for twenty-five years. ;o to Chester, which is a very aint city, of some forty thous:n miles south of Liverpool. I 1 that decision. A steward of lurch of Atlanta and his good We are all enthusiasts over se our friends to go there. I ints ot interest about Chester ipent my Sabbath there. ;ry name is interesting. Chester itin word Castra and means a the camp. It was the greatcamps in the days when the fland. Many ancient Roman in and around Chester. Just lportant discoveries have been teresting thing- about Chester surrounds the old part of the ly two miles long and in some high. On the outside of the 4- U TU. -V- i- 1 in wdici. i iic euy musi nave ^nable in the days of bows and There were four gates in the k every night the curfew rang ily closed. No one could come et out. The curfew still rings heard it every night while we alked about the walls we came c Onp ic ro 1 l^tnrr Pliorlao' lis inscription : "King Charles eptember 24, 1645, and saw his wton Moor." Of course that >st his head a few years later. * N OF THE SOUTH. The parliamentary forces mad of Chester that dav. Other 1 mentary forces were at that m busy making the Confession o Catechism. "The Rows" are the quainte 1 scarcely know how to desci five of the principal shopping walks on the second story, meat markets and cheaper si story sidewalks are the ham saw the like before and never again. Sunday morning dawned b inciuired at the office of mv h Church. My question threw camp. The porters and ever ably give information were c; curate information. The cor that there was a Presbyterian that was all. I sallied forth of every policeman and newsl thought there was a "Presb> further on, for let it be knoi \ England is the only church in and all others are only chaj coming. I will be in Glasgow these Sundays. Well, I hur despair. When I got back t my hotel I stumbled upon i which proved to be the Pr< Chester. 1 am afraid that th< much. I was too early for s< still locked. A little later ] attend a Methodist Chapel v morning and attend the Pres evening. Accordingly we went leyan Methodist Chapel." Ma) think there is no other kind except a Weslevan Methodist. England they will learn bel micci irum ine one we auer Methodist Church with this i vinistic Methodist Church." I Pan-Presbyterian Council sa; have not only all the actual sible kinds of Presbyterians, of Methodists in England. We were not in the little felt that there was an air of r we were going to get some My Methodist friend said th home as soon as they took u There was no doubt that w Church. But that was not the distinct Methodist flavor was about any of your new fan talking about the old time Me acterized the camp meetings boys. The regular pastor w a middle aged minister from a the service. His text was fr and his sermon was a good j times he rambled and then I r September 8, 1909. e a breach in the walls members of the parliar*mnn f rlnifn ?*t T UIIIWIII. UV W II 111 L?U11UUU i Faith and Shorter st thing about Chester. *ibe them. On four or streets there are sideDown below are the lops. On the second Isome shops. I never expect to see the like right and beautiful. I otel for a Presbyterian consternation into the ybody who could proballed, but I got no aclsensus of opinion was church in Chester, but to find it. I inquired boy I saw. Each one terian Chapel" a little .vn that the Church of Chester or in England, jels. But my day is x or Edinburgh one of ited until I gave up in 0 within two blocks of 1 Presbyterian Church, ^sbyterian Church of ly do not advertise very ervice and the crate was [ decided that I would nth my friends in the byterian Church in the . to "Johns Street Wesrbe some of our readers of a Methodist Church If they will come to tter. Just across the ided there was another sign: "The Welsh Calheard a minister in the y that in America we kinds but all the posHT Inf ctnf nm io x uai oiaiviutiii 13 LI UC chapel long until we everence there and that good old time religion, lat he felt perfectly at p the second collection, e were in a Methodist only proof I had. The there. I am not talking gled Methodism, I am thodist flavor that char when some of us weYe 'as on his vacation and smaller town conducted om the Song of Songs, gospel sermon. Someambled some, too. He