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VOL. I. ATLANTA, OA.,
This Week=-Page.
The "New Song" to the Redeemer 2
Th#> Rurfn^f ?
Answered Prayer 3
The Poor and Foreign Missions 3
The Synod of Virginia 4
The Federal Government and the Liquor Trade.. 4
How Can the Ministry Be Recruited? 5
The Eskimos of Labrador 6
The Spiritual Side of the Sabbath.. 8
Our Ministers and Their Work 14
The Synod of Oklahoma 15
The Presbyteries 22
Editorial Notes
We pray to God: "Give us this dav. our dailv
bread." Have we seen the answer? In one way we
see it. Our grandfathers used to reap their wheat with
a sickle; in those days the daily wage of a harvester
was a peck of wheat. Today the harvester receives
for a day's work the value of two or three bushels of
wheat. The prayer has jts .gjiswej*.
Hut more than this: We expect the soil of the older
States to become worn and exhausted. Is it so? Prof.
Milton Whitney, of the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, says that in the last forty years the yield
of our fields' has increased rather than decreased.
Even in New England it has increased. In the nation
at large, while there has been a decrease of half a
bushel per acre in the yield of corn; there has been
an increase of two bushels per acre in the yield of
wheat. God is giving us our daily bread.
Dr. Lewis W. Mudge's studies in the Minutes of
the Northern Presbyterian Church have come to be a
feature of the late summer issues of the church papers.
His last published study is one of the Seminaries, and
reveals the sad fact that from 1895 to 1900 the attendance
of students dropped from 982 to 670, and of graduates
from 306 to 164. There has been an increase,
* however, of late, and the figures of 1909, while dc
plorable as compared with those of 1895, are encour
aging when compared with more recent years.
The "Western Recorder" uses a column to insist
that if a man has been immersed by some minister who
had not been regularly immersed, his baptism is void.
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If this be correct, then each applicant for membership
would have to trace the ecclesiastical genealogy of the
minister who is to baptize him, before he can be sure
that the proposed baptism is valid. To do this is utterly
impossible. Surely God does not require impossibilities.
A timely note was sounded by Dr. Charges S. Stoddard
in a sermon preached on the fiftieth anniversary
of his ordination. In speaking of the high office of
the Christian ministry, he said: "It is not a minister's
chief duty to make social visits, or conduct school
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on literary or scientific subjects; it is not his chief
duty to raise subscriptions or direct benevolent institutions,
or preside over colleges or edit newspapers?
though all these may sometimes come within the
sphere of, his duty and be properly undertaken. Nor
is it his chief duty to build church edifices or procure
funds for benevolent purposes, though he should do
all that he can consistently do to build up the external
walls of Zion. But it is his chief duty, everywhere
and at all times, in the church and in the school, in
the house and in the street, on the First Day and
on every week day, to Christians and infidels, to
brother ministers and to publicans and sinners, to proclaim,
by his words and in his life, Jesus Christ and
hiin crucified."
I)r. Gedrge Edwafd Post, whose death has been
announced, rendered to the world a life-service whose
value is beyond all estimate. He was both a minister
and a physician. For a time he was connected with
the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania;
then a student at Union Theological Seminary,
New York. He was professor of surgery in the Syrian
Protestant Hospital at Beirut, under the care of the
Presbyterian* Board of Foreign Missions, which position
he held at the time of his death. For his work
in missions, and medicine he received decorations of
honor from Turkish, German and other sources, and
was a member of prominent scientific societies in
Great Britain and America. He was the author of a
number of volumes on scientific and medical subjects,
and of a concordance to the Bible. He wrote in the
English, Syriac, French and Latin languages. The
Orient is feeling the new life that is coming out of the
teaching of this man and his associates. The customs
of a thousand years are changing and governments are
being transformed.