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December 15, 1909. to New England took on ism, and that which foun had not sufficient vitality the Episcopal Establishrr We shall not be far asti Presbyterians in South < ago who deserve to be < have any connection histc cession with the Presbytei the few Scotch and Scotcl a lot of Congregationalist; in small numbers over th the communities adjacent The total white popul< hundred years ago, inclu dren, was 4,080. Seven! children, leaving the whit is a liberal estimate to cm as genuine, dyed-in-the-wc stream of Presbyterianisn wish, yet when compare* fountain it does not sugg Lest my motive be mi: I sympathize with the fe< he reviews the history of ton Presbytery. Even the ment was chilled in its ] the mother county, whenc it differed so materially ft byterianism in this coun with any other body of I this day it lags far behin at large. During the sixl 1906, the Southern Pre forty-nine per cent, whil creased only nineteen p< therefore, be pardoned fc if he can thereby startle ( its apparent apathy. THE MINISTRY A By Rev. Tho The tollnwinrr wnrrle 1 " w. death of a minister, come appeal to the Church of c "The testimony of a v lieving generation is finis withdrawn; an ambassa( light of the world, which have guided more, into tl extinguished. "It is not the death c valued, or of a relative h( soothed the sorrows of ti i.1. ? jja.ni 01 me; dux it is tne itude watched for the sou diffused, or aimed to defu its eternal existence. \V the greatness of ruch a c? ing voice which, both by and the still holier and i prayer, often lifted the ra] tured them for its gloriesthe cold and silent mart THE PRESBYTERIA the form of Congregationald its way to South Carolina to survive the intolerance of lent. ray if we assert that the only Carolina two hundred years counted, the only ones who )rically by continuity of sucrians of the present day, were h-Irfsh who were mixed with > in Charleston, and scattered e neighboring islands and in to Charleston. ition of South Carolina two ding men, women and chil:een hundred of these were :e adult population 2,380. It int ten per cent, 238, of these >ol Presbyterians. While the 1 is not so large as we could i with the smallness of the rest "drying up." sunderstood, let me say that dings of brother Caldwell as Presbyterianism in Charles; Scotch and Scotch-Irish elerouth by the moderatism of e it drew its life. As a result om the general type of Prestry that it refused to unite 'resbyterians until 1811. To d the growth of the Church teen years between 1890 and shyterian Church increased e Charleston Presbytery in?r cent. Dr. Caldwell may, >r using desperate measures, Charleston Presbyterv out of ND THE CHURCHES, s. P. Hay, D. D. by J. Angcll James, on the : with a solemn and pathetic >ur times: witness for God to an unbehed; a herald of salvation is lor of Christ is recalled; a has guided many, and might be haven of eternal peace, is >f a friend merelv. however >wever dear, whose affection me and softened the rugged removal of one whose solic1, promoted its salvation and se, a beneficial influence over hat arithmetic can estimate ilamity? Instead of that livthe eloquence of preaching. more elevating eloquence of [>t hearers to heaven and ma?they have nothing now but )le, which perpetuated with V'yjj lN of the south. his honored name their own We who are ministers in tinually to be reminded of 01 its sacred duties. Will our n sentiments and sense of los; when we pass away from the ployments? Will immortal s< rowing saints miss us sorel eager for change, seeking foi and large salaries, can never 4 1 x ? iiuii3iu|js ciiiu icnacr ties wni fulness possible, or command people which feels the sense decease. If the Church thus honoi bassadors, and appreciates tl laments over "the cold and sil tal remains, would she leave to want, who are appointed ing in old age before the Lo Would she provide meagerly widows of ambassadors ;vho? as much a benediction to the husbands? And if ministers and churc divine ideal, many evils would ern ecclesiastical life. Paste readily personae non gratae, that they were dealing wit These frequent heart-burning many a useful pastorate woi The dissolution of a pastoral as sorrowful as the final eart and beloved friend.. And would be seeking ambassad< some one has said?looking f hand-shakers and will be mc Mrs. Smith once a month.' And this happy condition very strong appeal to the p men of the church to seek th obstacle would be removed t consecrated vouner man. who his entire life to the service received and treated as a "1 assurance that he will not be arts of the candidate for oj glorious gospel; or have a ' his course at the point whe into his best proficiency, or 1 hireling if he does not succe< or will not consent to be "mi as an unwelcome pensioner i his earthly life shall extend bodily vigor and active serv Gainesville, Florida. The world ridicules the coi ally occur between different religious faiths, and then illus to contentions and its aloofr agog over the utterly useless or Peary first reached the "j world." 7 incalculable loss." active service need conjr sublime calling and of linistry awaken any such 3 among God's people, se earthly scenes and emduIs and tempted and sory? A restless ministry, r the conspicuous pulpits know those sacred relach make the highest usethe strong love of God's of incalculable loss in the -s and prizes God's am leir priceless officers, and lent marble" of their morthe disabled ambassadors to serve by patient waitrd calls them up higher? and grudgingly for those 5c lives have been almost Church as those of their lies thus answered to the 1 disappear from our modirs would not become so if congregations realized ;h Christ's ambassadors, s and conflicts which end ild be heard of no more. rnlo f 1 AM 11 r/M? 1 y-4 ka ?"? 1 iviauull IYUU1U UC (11I1IU5V hly farewell to a revered our pastorless churches Drs of God, and not?as or men who are "the best >st punctilious in visiting of affairs would make a ious and aspiring young e sacred office. Many an >y the assurance that the devotes his best self and of the Church, would be lerald of salvation." The asked to ply the political >portunity to preach the dead line" drawn across re he will have matured je treated like a common ?d in pleasing everybody, uzzled"; or be considered if his Lord appoints that beyond the term of his ice. itentions which occasionclasses of Christians or trates its own superiority less from it by being all problem of whether Cook pole" on the "top of the