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VOL. II. ATLANTA, GA.,. X This Week X I 8 8 Page. 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 ah c~-: ?r?? nil gvii|iiui? ID riUllkdUIC Ill f? ; I Editorial Notes ;n?a>????in??imuuu:?????:??t?????)?n??n:?::::?uuu? 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? g <ur> 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 I It - 7h?soi/niwes7zr/i presbyterian j at ?&/ ta/e(ertraa presbyter/am 6 jjt the souther/i presbyter/ah JANUARY 26, 1910. NO. 4. 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 c __J __ ?i Ill wuiLagu, I VV.C1VCS f IUU,UVAJ, dllU <111 urjmailil^c <111 equal amount. Mr. Murdock's church in Chicago, the Second Presbyterian, and his home church in Scotland, receive liberal gifts. iim ? Hiin 14 i If .it- ...O-X st .1 .?Shji