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VOL. II. ATLANTA, OA. | 18 This Week 18 j Page The Cry of the City 6f The Meeting House 6( Dr. Samuel M. Smith 67 f Practical Work In Missions 6i The Rochester Convention 7C Old Rehoboth's Home-Song 72 The Reproach of the Church 7E Moving in China 7E Restlessness Among Our Ministry 7S All Scripture is Profitable 7S An Educational Conference 87 'I Editorial Notes | The death last week of Rev. Samuel M. Smith D. D., pastor of the First Church, Columbia, S. C. is a great grief to us personally, as well as a grief and loss to the Church at large. We enjoyed close fel lowship with him for many years, and we loved him as a brother. May the Saviour whom he served with such rare ability and faithfulness administer to his loved ones the same rich and tender comfort which his ministry always brought to others! Dr. Chapman gives the following seven reasons "why some ministers fail i. Because preaching to them has become a profession instead of a passion. 2. Because they use the wrong method of approach, by the door of the head rather than by the heart. 3. Because they have departed from the Bible as authority. 4. Because they have lost the evangelistic note. 5 Bcause they have lost the note of authority in the pulpit. 6. Because they do not spend enough time in devotional Bible study and private prayer. 7. Because, even with all else, they are without loyalty to Christ. "~T7V Dispatches from Rome state that the Pope has ^ been summoned to court as a witness in a trial in QQ/ \ which the relatives of a wealthy prelate have brought suit to break his will. This prelate. Mgr. Adami, ^ied *n i9?6? leaving the greater part of his fortune tr? flip Vatican Tn hie liiptimp ho mn/lo ....... ?. 1 vv v?v ? *?? ...vni.iv ??V iiiuuv, mail V NellV.Qt uable presents to Popes Leo and Pius, and gave lib^^6 ^reSent Sl"t tj^mrfo?so(/77tw?srr/?fl presbyteriamj it=5 w thequtral p/??3byt?r/aff 6 7~HF SmfTHFf?n ?>Dr.*avn~e-DfA ~ f -v - - . ? . IU # ? ? / ii.\JU/ / L-TUSM I , JANUARY 19, 1910. NO. 3. L is the result of extended and thorough investigation | and the relative charge that undue influence was used | to secure the bequest for the Vatican. The most pow1 erful order in the Romish church is pledged to perpetual poverty, yet no organization in the world is | more bold and persistent, and few are less scrupu, lous, in the pursuit of money. , The Covenanters are a stalwart branch of the Presbyterian family. They are not numerous, but wherever they are found, they count for. righteousness. , They are true to conviction and duty as the needle to the pole. In Philadelphia they have three churches r with an aggregate membership of 518. Last year they gave $26,000 to home and foreign missions. Of : this amount there was an average of $7.25 per mem\ ber given to foreign missions, and $3.00 to home mis| sions. Like libertality in all the churches would soon be sufficient to supply the destitutions at home and ' send the gospel to all the world in this generation. > I The zeal of the converts in mission fields is often 1 very striking, and impressive, and is an admonition 1 to many less zealous in the homeland. The Mission? ary Review quotes a bulletin of the Presbyterian 1 Board, which relates an account of 1,013 Koreanswho emigrated to Mexico in 1905. Of this number only lour were Christians, yet last year over 25a members were added to the Church roll, and twonative evangelists were brought from Los Angeles at the expense of these Christian Koreans, who, inaddition to their evangelistic work, established a Presbyterian home. The Mayor of Cincinnati has taken a stand which the mayors of all the cities of America should take. He has notified the theatres that the posters which are displayed to advertise their plays must be officially censored. This means that the posting of indecent pictures and language will hereafter be forbidden. It is a gross insult to refined tastes and good! morals in any community to have vulgar pictures paraded before the public gaze, wherever one's eyes are turned in passing along the public thoroughfares. Doubtless this offensive custom, so commonly practiced, and so patientlv tolerated, has been a source nf " # ' ? "" wholesale moral corruption and a social snare to multitudes in recent years. 'm