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The Assembly's Home and School 2
When Men do Attend Church 2
Every Christian a Missionary 3
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"My Morsel Alone" 3
His Star in the East 4
The Thanksgiving Service With Christ Left Out
Marion's Christmas Fund 10
The Book Publishing Policy of the Executive Committee 14
Elsa's Christmas Blues 18
Notes on the Richmond Convention Laymen's Movement. 22
| Editorial Notes j
"The Festival of the Kindly Heart", as one has
called the Christmas-tide, is with us aeain. hrinrnnrr
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its gladness and its good cheer. It is well?love
reigns supreme, gifts flow freely, carrying their message
of kindliness; the heart that throbs, the life that
thrills, with love, will be the better for it.
Dickens said: "I will honor Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year;" the reason, perhaps,
for this resolve is found in these other words of his:
"I have always thought of Christmas as a good time.
a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time." Yes,
Christmas is all that, and more. All true Christmas
joy, all loving remembrance, all largeness of heart
finds its source and its spring in Jesus, the Babe of
Bethlehem. He gave himself: "While we were yet
sinners," far away from him, without claim or relation;
a great gift of undying, forgiving love, that means
the highest joy. Then his spirit would lead us to
remember not only our friends whom we love, our
enemies, it we have any, whom we do not love, but
also others not of our kin, nor of our friends?those
who can make no return. "The poor, ye have always
with you and whensoever ye will, ye may do them
good." "Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the
least of these, my brethren, ye did it unto me."
We have just been looking at the weekly "bulletin"
of the First Presbyterian church in Wilmington, N.
C. It has on its first page the names of nine foreign
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missionaries, all supported by this church laboring at
Kiang-Yin, China. We think it is the entire staff
of the KiangYin station. Then it has the names of
twelve native Chinese workers who are supported by
this church. And we have heard the remark that the
First Church in Wilmington has more members in
China than in North Carolina. Two other foreign
missionaries, three home missionaries, and four home
mission teachers are also supported by this churchIts
efficiency in this work may stimulate many to
pinnlnf-inti
Go after them! In the parable of the feast which,
wanted guests, the servants were sent out after those
who came in at last. Invitations from the living lipswill
do more than the most daintily or adroitly prepared
cards or requests. Personal work will fill your
church far more surely and readily than printers' ink.
The Moravian Church, long noted for its activity
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conference, that it would be unable to prosecute some
of its undertakings and determined to lessen themThis
will be regretted by all who have admired that
Church and its great activity, and especially so as the
cause is a decline in the funds needful for the support
of its work. It is not to be forgotten, however, that
while this Church has excelled all others in its contributions
per capita to Foreign Missions, this has been
due to the fact that it has concentrated almost all its
giving upon that one cause.
Another instance of the nnno^ition nf Romanic.
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the Bible is found in the case of the priest Charles
Logue, of Freeport, New York, after persistent agitation,
appealed to Commissioner of Education, A. F.
Draper, to prohibit the reading of the Bible in the
schools of that town. The commissioner complied
and issued an order forbidding the reading of the Bible
as the priest had required. Freeport may be a port
but it is not free so long as a Catholic priest can
dictate to its schools. The Bible has been declared
by the highest literary authorities the world over, tocontain
the best literature, the purest morals, the
most authentic history, the most valuable teaching
ever committed to the printed page. Antagonism toit
means antagonism to the enlightenment of the people.
Where Rome holds sway the fruits of this antagonism
abound.