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VOL. II. ATLANTA, GA.,.
X This Week X I
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The Old Religion 98
In Due Time 98
Work Without Glamour 99
Philadelphia Presbytery Please Answer 4 99
News Items 100
The Rochester Convention 102
Hallowed Be Thy Name 103
Appeal of Evangelistic Committee 110
The Westminster Assembly on Immersion 111
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Editorial Notes
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Are our Church collections keeping pace with our
bank clearings?
Frankly, now, why do our modern ministers never
settle anywhere to "stay put?"
The little fellow \^io, on finding his mother's church
I letter, yellow and faded, in an old trunk in the garret,
exclaimed, "Oh, mother, I'v found your religion in
the trunk," was nearer right than he knew. Church
members who are content to let their letters lie around
in that way, or who never think to get letters of dismission,
and are unidentified with Christian activity
have a very easily lost kind of religion. A trunk can
I hide it.
Surely "Onward," in a recent issue, is incorrect in
its list of "Westminster Leagues" in our church. Is
it possible that there are only twenty-nine all told, as
"Onward's" table shows, four each in Virginia and
Texas, three each in Mississippi, Missouri and West
Virginia; two each in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana
and South Carolina, and one each in Alabama, Arkansas
and North Carolina?
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The Standard puts in its "humor" column the story
I-pr-v^of a little girl, the daughter of a minister. The child,
' on being told by her father that he had no money with
SQ which to buy her a doll, which she desired very much,
replied, "Well, why can't you take up another special
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collection?" The incident surely belongs in the serious
column. It is of a piece with much current "his
tory. ask almost any active pastor. And as for the
Sundays that all sorts of organizations and reform
projects ask to be wholly set apart together with,
their collections, the year hardly contains enough to
go around !
The Associate Reformed Church at the recent
meeting of its Synod determined to enlarge the sphere
of its missionary operations by sending a missionary
to India. He is expected to go to that field and open
the new work in February. We congratulate that vig
orous cnurcn on tins aggressive step.
Presbyterians are a missionary people. They accept
the commission to "preach the gospel to every
creature." They believe that the field is the world.
They believe the promise. "Lo, I am with you." They
believe that "God is able to make all grace abound."
and that the Redeemer "shall see of the travail of
his soul, and shall be satisfied." We accordingly find
that the Church is firmly planted in many foreign
lands and enjoying a vigorous growth. Statistics are
published to the effect the native Presbyterian communicants
in India number 25.000; in China, 40,000;
in Korea, 20,000; in Africa, 10,000; in Brazil, 11,000,
and in Mexico, 6,000. These figures are aooroximate.
but when we consider the number of adherents in
addition to communicants, we may be encouraged to
expect that each year, with increasing power, the gospel
shall have free course and be glorified.
Another American Presbyterian of Scotch birth has
made large bequests to Christian enterprises. Only
a few weeks ago Mr. John S. Kennedy, of New York,
died, leaving the larger part of a vast estate to the
endowment of Christian and educational institutions.
More recentlv Mr. Thomas Murdock. of Chicaeo.
passed away, leaving a will in which he bequeaths
several millions to the maintenance and enlargement
of Christian work. The Presbyterian Hospital, of
Chicago, the Young Men's Christian Association, and
the American Sunday School Union, each receives
half a million dollars. A Home for the Friendless
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equal amount. Mr. Murdock's church in Chicago,
the Second Presbyterian, and his home church in
Scotland, receive liberal gifts.
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