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VOL. I. ATLANTA, OA., SE This Week? Tage. Copyrighting the Bible 2 Changing the Proof-Texts 2 That They Go Forward 2 Union Theological Seminary 3 A Violated Trust 3 A Sabbath in London Second Probation 6 What is Your Life? 7 Proof-Text Revision 14 Editorial Notes Turn, first of all, to page 22, and read Dr. Fleming's "Orphan Work Day." It ought to have been published last week, but Uncle Sam's agents for one time failed to be prompt. The custom referred to, originated in Atlanta?it is worthy of extension far and wide. We hope our readers will heed the touching appeal. The manner in which Presbyterians give, and the manner in which the great benevolent agencies depend upon them, is illustrated every time one looks in the "Bible Society Record." In the last issue, the acknowledgements of receipts from churches show that fifty-nine of the one hundred and twenty-four contributing churches were Presbyterian. This was a somewhat smaller proportion than usual. The struggle to reach the North Pole, now crowned at last with success, has gone on for three hundred years. And yet it was to reach nothing material or substantial. The reign of the ideal and the power of the sentimental are not to be decried. They may be reckoned among the distinct forces. He who ridicules them knows but little of what it is that moves the world most mightily. The indirect endorsement by our General Assembly of the American Revised Version of the Scriptures is exciting some comment. It would have been better had the Assembly been asked outright to give its approval of that version, and the question of copyright also,comes in as a practical feature. Without \jjul 7pE'SoomiY?S7ERR Presbyeer/ARJ r 86/ Trt?(EF/Tf?AL PRESBYTER/AN ? ? 77lE SoUTHERn PRESBYTERfAn PTEMBER 22, 1909. NO. 38. doubt the great mass of the people would prefer that the proof-texts of our standards be given in the text of the familiar version. The Laymen's Missionary Movement is planning a vigorous campaign through the fall and winter, embracing seventy cities across the continent. The first meeting will be held in Richmond, Virginia, October :21 to if\ It will l>f> ..... ^jyviivv* n liti ti. uaiKJUVl yjll Saturday night, October 22, with Mr. J. Campbell White leading a number of distinguished speakers 011 Missions and the Laymen's work. The Richmond meeting is heartily endorsed by the local denominational board"A second probation"' and the doctrine of probation after death, arc too close akin to be separated. Some hold that there is a second probation, that is, an op portunity offered after death even to those who may have rejected Christ in this life. There is another school of thought trying to present itself which holds that there is not a second probation but that the one probatiou may be offered in the life to come or the one probation may be projected from the present life into the life beyond the grave. Wherein these differ in principle it is difficult to see. Postmortem probation of any kind, whether original then or projected from this life, is to all intents and purposes a second probation. A call for a Conference of Laymen from all evangelical denominations, to be held in New York City in November, is an event of more than ordinary interest. It is significant of the awakening that has come, within a few years, to the responsibility of the rank and file of Christian people for the evangelization of their fellowmen. This work has hitherto been committed to the ministers and church officers, while multi tudes of willing and capable men have remained comparatively inactive. They lacked opportunity because of a mistaken policy of the churches, or the neglect of its available resources. Now the world-field appears so vast, such armies of workers are needed at home and abroad, there is such a call for the spiritual re generation and moral reformation of the masses, that the duty presses urgently on every believer to do with his might what his hands find to do, and it is apparent to all that all the forces of the Church must be utilized to the utmost.