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36 THE PRESBYTER
fictitious name, under penalty of a fine of five thousand
dollars or two years' imprisonment.
The effect of these laws will be to make it difficult
lor him who would operate a blind tiger to obtain supplies
of liquors. And it will be to break up the practipPC
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v.. in uuici oiaics sending supplies ot
liquor under fictitious names to be delivered by a local
agent to any person who may desire to buy. *
It remains for the people of temperance localities
to see that the new law is faithfully executed.
REV. HUGH WILSON McLEES
Died in Pendleton, S. C., January 3, 1910, in the 79th
year of his age. after a few days' illness. During his
ministry he served Carmel, Pendleton, and some other
churches in South Carolina Presbytery. He was for
several years laid aside from the active work of the
ministry on account of the infirmity of age.
He had a strong mind, simple, child-like faith, and
was well versed in the Scripture.
Africa presents, it is generally thought, the greatest
difficulties in the way of the expectation of an early
preaching of the gospel to every creature. And yet
how wonderfully even the Dark Continent has opened
within the past twenty-five years! Its promise for the
next twenty-five is infinitely greater. There are now
in that Continent 2,470 missionaries, 13,089 Christian
workers, 4,789 places of worship, 221,856 communicants
and 527,790 professed adherents, with 4,000 mission
schools and 202,390 pupils. Like the upright and
transverse beams of the cross, the missionary lines
extend from the Cane to C.n\m anrl
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Mombasa in advance of the great railways which will
one day be built. The way of life has come even before
the great highways of African travel have been
completed there.
Popular but injurious ideas of religious charity and
fraternity are finding expression in many and varied
forms. An instance is seen in the case of a number of
Christian ministers who, as stated by the Philadelphia
"Presbyterian" attended a meeting in a Jewish synagogue
and made addresses 011 "brotherhood and unity.'
One of these speakers said: "We must add together
the sum of all the findings of men from Abraham to
Herbert Spencer; from Confucius of China to Dr.
Foster, of Chicago; from Buddha, of the India plains,
to Campbell in submerged London, and from the
prophecies of Jesus to the conceptions of the humblest
truth seeker in any time, to touch the whole gamut
of spiritual truth for the upbuilding and inspiration of
man." Such men call themselves "liberal." It oc
curs to us that if they were handling dollars out of
their own pockets instead of handling God's revealed
truth there would be far less display of "liberality."
One of the finest things in the world is silence. It
is altogether unanswerable. It has peculiar power
in dealing with calumny. It gets one into least
trouble and patiently and firmly persisted in always
wins in the end.
:IAN OF THE SOUTH January 12, 1910.
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AFTER.
Stern winter presses near with darkening face,
And frost and drifting snow his footsteps trace,
The shrill-voiced piercing blast is in his train;
But courage, hearts, for spring will come again.
Curtaining clouds shut out the sun's warm rays,
The fettered earth lies bound through cheerless days.
Blow, stormy blast, blow on for short your reign;'
The blithe and sunny spring will come again.
The earth will wake, break each restraining band,
And, smiling to be free, with mystic hand
Cast leaf and bud and flower o'er hill and plain,
And sweetest welcome give to spring again.
And when life's ways are wrapped in shadows dark,
And cherished aims fall low wide of their mark,
We'll trust in God, nor will that trust be vain;
We in its light shall find life's spring again.
Bartonville, Va. E. C.
MR. WATSON S DENUNCIATIONS OF FOREIGN
MISSION METHODS.
Some months ago, Hon. Thos. E. Watson, of Thomson,
Ga., published in his magazine a series of articles
in which he severely arraigned the methods of the
foreign mission work and the uses of the money contributed
therefor. He denounced the missionaries for
maintaining in heathen lands "free apothecary shops,
free medical and surgical service, free kindergartens,
free secular schools, free books and free tuition for
the old and the young of heathendom." He demands
with vehemence, "Have we any right to do charity
work abroad, so long as there is a single little white
girl or boy, a white man or woman who needs our charitable
assistance here in the United States."
We read some of these articles at the time of their
publication, and considered the question of replying
and exposing the author's deep ignorance of the conditions
of mission work and of the facts in the case.
The articles were written under such misapprehensions
as to refutp thpmepluoc \\r~ ?
we icmeniDer one passage
in which he censured the missionaries in China for
offering tuition (or board) in a mission school for
some small amount?possibly three dollars a year
?while some children in this land are unable to go
to a boarding school, costing two hundred dollars
a year. But he did not say,?perhaps he did not
know?that many of these boys are the children of
men whose earnings amount to only thirty dollars
a year! ! If the charge was as little as three dollars,?
yet three dollars is ten per cent, of that man's yearly
income. And three dollars out of thirty is a self- ^
denial far greater than tim 1?> ? - '
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thousand. Further, Mr. Watson did not say what per-/
haps he did not know, that the managers of those misy
sion schools have been able to make three dollars
cover the major part of the food expense of tha/
pupil for a year. We know it because some years ag^,
we saw the expense account of a mission school in\
China. U
Recently some gentlemen in Atlanta requested Mr. \