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f) opening' of a new religic the salvation of man. sity, and this, at that tin It was he that proclaim) Christ the same vesterd changed at all, who ch; itv? If authorized, then who declared that, not should pass away. Afte when this Gospel was hi monasteries, it burst for tqry, and through Germ was received as the uptime of Christ, the pure taught the up-to-date rc he such till he conies, w can never accept the nc the demands until we ? change. Ami again; thi styles ami things has re hie houses of worship \ them into some other u: a stately and expensive are put into these mode other in having the fin< temple to the Lord (? pipe organ, a paid choii scholarly preacher, who ing out the gospel, full c therewith. All this witl ev, while millions of pe perishing for the bread the modest beautifying c be neat and comfortable could all sing the soul-s sung by our fathers an< like to feel that we arc church. But these up-tc parently hear the fine how? When the husitn no words about Jesus, ; ligion are heard on stn course, some will argue churches, and the finer proved of the magtiifice ing many millions, So there was but one temj their way to that only p at that day. So millior central house of worshi and cities from one to tended by from fifteen t how much evil the upus. Yes, the woeful dci the Church of Jesus Chr thirst for money, style i ing up as a mighty bar and communion with J should ever enjoy. And persisted in, will eventu of spiritual life, and lai gates and golden streets dations, whose builder a Columbus, Ga. THE PRESBYTERI, >n. The old was inefficient in A new doctrine was a necesrie. was an up-to-date religion, ed through his apostle, "Jesus lav, today and forever." If anged it ? By whose author\VP rail t/M* coil T*- ?-'-A ... .v^. cv?i. 11 \> as v^nnsi a jot or tittle of this word r centuries of degeneration, ddcn away in Roman Catholic th again in the sixteenth ccnlany, England and Scotland it to-date religion. From the , unadulterated Gospel has ligion, and it will continue to hose right it is to reign. We iw religion or any changes in ?ee the official seal of such a is cry for up-to-date manners legated the old, but comforta to the rubbish pile, or turned se, so as to replace them with edifice. Thousands of dollars rn structures, vying with each jst, most beautiful and costly ) with its carpeted floor, its flashy memorial windows, a is tenderly careful in measur>f fire, but no brimstone mixed li its many thousands of mon ople at home and abroad are of life. We don't object to >f the house of God. It should , so that the people as of yore, tirring hymns that were once 1 mothers. Some of us do not : in an opera when we en to _ - n ~ -dates draw crowds, who apsermon, and go away?well, ;ss week opens until it closes and the blessedness of his reeet, or store, or office. Of that God approves of stately the better, because he apnt temple at Jerusalem, costhe did ; but in all the world ale. Millions of people made 'lace for the worship of God? is had a hand in building the p. But now we sec in towns one hundred temples, and ato one thousand members. Oh, tQ-date cry is bringing upon -icusiun in me spiritual lite of ist together with the insatiate md worldly pleasures, arc risto shut out that sweet union esus Christ, which his people this up-to-date watchword, if ally lead us to the downgrade id us far short of the pearly of "that city which hath founnd maker is God." I AN OF THE SOUTH. [ Miss: mtmmmun: ttiniumtxttimn:?. THE PROMINENCE ( BII By Miss Elizal (Cont Who has not read the fir missions? In this book c Christ continued to do an< after Christ was received through the Holy Spirit u had chosen. The Spirit cat Christ had begun. After receiving the Gre? returned to Jerusalem, not but in great, great joy to aw er" as the Lord had comti band had had committed to their own strength. After tion the promise of the Fa were endowed, clothed wit the Holv Snirit nrwl j ?I 9 nuiiltl zation began ; for on that v so great power that three to their number. And th such zeal and success th; ignore their work, and ei witness with his life-blood, secution so terrible that apostles left Jerusalem; t forth on the day of Pentecc the light of the world, and it out. Philip goes down to Sai and founds a Church ; thei chariot expounding the S who receives baptism at hi Peter is summoned to J several days in the house c reveals to him by a vision t tion between the Jews and 1 but Peter's prejudice is stn a message summoning him necessary to open his eye world" included the gentil They had witnessed in J Hnrl uro c Ar?n.^ " ~ 41 iuc way the earth." Now, the Palestinian di by education or environme this work; but the man a meet, and Saul, a devout J citizen, brought up in Tai eational center of Cilicia, a he and Barnabas, of Cypi pointment of the church C iorcign missionaries. Their program was to p the Jews, and during their primarily for their own n these Roman provinces of I November 17, igog. ionary ? tmma UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'TT DF MISSIONS IN THE 1LE. Deth Alexander, inued.) st great history of Christian )f Acts Luke tells of what I to teach; for he says that up He gave commandment into the apostles whom He ne to carry on the work that it Commission the disciples in gloom as when he died. rait the promise of the Fathuanderl tlipm o-.:.. i:*.*! , iui itua ill l it' them a task impossible in ten days of faithful expectather was fiulfilled, and they h strength supernatural, by liately the work of evangelicry day Peter preached with thousand souls were added cy continued to labor with at their enemies could not re long Stephen sealed his Then there followed a perthe Christians except the >ut "the Divine light shed ist" was destined to become mc ^anhedrin could not put naria and preaches to them 11 we sec him sitting in the criptures to the Ethiopian, is hands. [oppa, where he tarries for >f Simon. While there God hat the middle wall of partithe Gentiles is broken down i>ng, so three repetitions and to the home of Cornelius are s to the fact that "all the e world. ferusalcm and Samaria, and to "the uttermost parts of \ sciples had not been fitted nt to most successfully do nd the hour were made to ew, but a free-born Roman sus, the cosmopolitan eduvas called to the work, and us, left Antioch under apthere?the first Christian reach in the synagogues to first journey their work was ation scattered throughout Asia Minor. Nevertheless.