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VOL. II. ATLANTA, OA.,.
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A Year in Heaven 34
New Orleans Laymen's Movement 34
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tie uuiiuuk ox juaaism 35
The Sabbath Day and the Japanese Commission 35
Hints For Temperance Workers 35
Watson's Denunciations of Foreign Mission Methods 36
Circumstances of Dr. Alexander's Death 37
Of Things New 38
The Love of God 39
Beginning at Jerusalem 46
The Bible in Venice 46
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It is announced that the Assembly's Home and
School, located at Fredericksburg, Va., and which
has valuable buildings and grounds, has acquired the
property of Fredericksburg College, a prosperous educational
institution of that city. The two institu
tions will, after the close of the present session, be
one, and doubtless the union will in every way be
congenial and advantageous. Our Southern Church
thus acquires a valuable equipment for the care and
education of the children of our missionaries and of
deceased ministers who have left dependent families.
Our people all over the South should generously support
this noble enterprise.
"What do you think of a preacher who stands in
the pulpit of a Christian church and in the name of
Christ denies his virgin birth? What do you think
of a preacher who denies the death of Christ as an
atoning sacrifice and makes the cross no better than a
common murder or a brutal barbarism." This is an
extract from a sermon by Dr. Haldemann of the First
Baptist church, New York City. The subject of this
sermon was, "The Modern Theological College, a
Menace and a Peril to the Church," and the twelfth
thousand edition has been printed to meet the demand
for it by the people. We look to the people to rebuke
| professional skepticism and usher in a new era of
robust faith.
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Chapman and Ottman have created a decided sensation
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in recent addresses in prominent pulpits "by stating in
effect that many of the missionaries of our Foreign
Board ought to be immediately recalled and left at
home, and the money of the Church given for such
missionary work ought not to be expended in support
of ministers who are discrediting the historicity, in- |
tcgrity, the inspiration and authority of the Bible."
It is strange that such men should want to go to the
foreign field when the inspired Bible is their only authority
for going. It is unmanly in them to go and
betray their credentials. It is dishonorable in them to
go, and desert the standards of faith to which they
have solemnly subscribed.
A number of welcome meetings greeted Messrs.
Chapman and Alexander on the return from their Australian
tour. These were held at Minneapolis, ChicaP(l
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and all were characterized by expressions of high appreciation
and genuine enthusiasm. In Philadelphia
an audience of three thousand and choir of seven hundred
greeted the evangelists. In his response to words
of welcome, Dr. Chapman said that three men especially
had contributed to whatever success he had attained
as an evangelist. One was Mr. Moody, wha
had kindly told him in his earlier ministry that the
evangelistic note was missing in his preaching. An
other was Mr. John H. Converse, who had been a wise
counselor and was at the helm in sustaining the work.
The third was Mr. Alexander, who has given enthusiastic
support with his wonderful power of song.
Let us hear the honest-hearted, wise and able Dr.
Chapman give his testimony derived from almost
world-wide observation after returning from his evangelistic
tour through Australia, China, Japan and
Korea. At a great welcome meeting, held at the
Academy of Music in Philadelphia, the evangelist
said, "Wherever we found the ministers preaching
Christ, wherever we found them telling the story of
the Cross, there we found flourishing churches and
men active in seeking souls. * On the other hand,
wherever the preacher doubted the inspiration of the
Bible, or questioned the divinity of Christ, there Christian
work languished."
The wretched "Chinatown" of New York City is reported
to be rapidly passing away. Rigid police inspection
began the work. After that the Elsie Sigel case
occurred. Since then the population has decreased
about seventy per cent.