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The Cry of the City 66
The Meeting House 66
Dr. Samuel M. Smith 67
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Practical Work in Missions 68
The Rochester Convention 70
Old Rehoboth's Home-Song 72
The Reproach of the Church 78
Moving in China 78
Restlessness Among Our Ministry 79
All Scripture is Profitable 79
An Educational Conference 87
jjj Editorial Notes j
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 fellowship
with him for manv vpare nnri i?
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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.
"~T7\/ Dispatches from Rome state that the Pope has
^ been summoned to court as a witness in a trial in
\ which the relatives of a wealthy prelate have brought
suit to break his will. This prelate. Mgr. Adami,
died in 1906, leaving the greater part of his fortune
to the Vatican. In his lifetime he made many valv
Ql uable presents to Popes Leo and Pius, and gave lib07
erally to many church institutions. The present suit
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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 powerful
order in the Romish church is pledged to perpetual
poverty, yet no organization in the world ismore
bold and persistent, and few are less scrupulous,
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
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 member
given to foreign missions, and $3.00 to home missions.
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.
The zeal of the converts in mission fields is often
very striking, and impressive, and is an admonition
to many less zealous in the homeland. The Missionary
Review quotes a bulletin of the Presbyterian
Board, which relates an account of 1,013 Koreans
who emigrated to Mexico in 1905. Of this number
only four were Christians, yet last year over 250^
members were added to the Church roll, and twonative
evangelists were brought from Los Angeles
at the expense of these Christian Koreans, who, in
addition to their evangelistic work, established a
Presbyterian home.
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x iic ivxci^ui ui v_,mcinnau nas xaKen a stancl which
the mayors of all the cities of America should take,
lie 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 pa
raded 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 patiently tolerated, has been a source of
wholesale moral corruption and a social snare to multitudes
in recent years.
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