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VOL. II. ATLANTA, GA., I This Week j Page. Infirmaries and Sanitariums 130 The Messenger and His Message 130 As Thy Day 131 Items of General Interest ....132 The Earliest Calvinistic London Mission 134 The Ministry ..135 Brightside Letter 142 The Dainty Uma 142 The Mode of Baptism 143 A Voice from the Country 150 Macon Convention 151 From Troubled Persia ....152 ** \ Editorial Notes 8 In the city of Baltimore there are 10,600 Presbyterians. The new census will probably give the city 600,000 inhabitants. Thus Presbyterians number more than one in sixty of the entire population of which 175,000 are Roman Catholics and 50,000 are Jews. The ratio of Presbyterians to the entire nonnlation Vine 1 I --W-steadily increased from 1870 to the present time. The Morning Star, the authorized Roman Catholic organ of New Orleans, is doing honor to the Presbyterian Church these days. It is selecting that Church for its most bitter diatribes, sparing neither person, doctrine, organization, or work. In its constantly repeated attacks it is of little concern to it whether its statements agree with fact. Denunciation coming from such a source is a tribute far more real and exalting than would be its praise. The Romanists are right in one respect when they _ ? i1-i ' ? - * * ~ ciaim mat DreaKing away irom their faith is anarchy. It is a fact that when, without having a clear apprehension of a pure faith, their adherents withdraw from the Roman fold, it is into infidelity and rationalism. Having been taught that the rejected faith is the only faith, and having no knowledge of a better, and supposing that all the other religions are in substance -p.. like the one rejected, they break away from all re 1 ligions and yield themselves to a rejection of all faith. "Thr> pvant?>li7atinn nf iVin ' ? * ? ?c ? . w 1..v. nuuu 111 iwcill^-live i )D/ D years" is by no means an unreasonable expectation. ? ^Enff rjHE southwesne#ri Presbyterian \ a? Ity The (t/yrffal Presbyter/am e ^ The southern Presbyter/ah FEBRUARY 2, 1910. NO. 5. If it were the "Christianization" of the world in thai time it would be different. But evangelization means proclaiming the gospel. With its numbers, with its power, with its wealth, with its prestige in the world, and especially in the civilized and enlightened nations of the world, with the present wide openness of every nation on earth, not even Thibet excepted, and with the present marvelous and ever-increasing facilities for travel and transportaiion, the church couid easily preach the gospel to every nation wihtin a de 1 ... taut, mucn more within twenty-five years. The only tiling lacking to the accomplishment of this end is 'he sense of duty, the consecrated willingness and the resolute determination. It is gratifying to note that Ambassador Brice, in addressing the Student Volunteer Movement, which convened in Rochester, N. Y., on December 29, extolled the Christian life and commended it as the ideal for young men. More than three thousand students and professors from more than six hundred institutions of advanced learning were registered as delegates. That the chief representative of Great Britain in America should in this formal and prominent way counsel our young men to lives of vital godliness, may be a propitious omen of both the statesmanship and the young-manhood of the future. While in these modern times, Unitarian beliefs, or rather, non-beliefs, arc aggressive in many forms and places, evidences are appearing at frequent intervals that even in its own strongholds it fails to satisfy. In a comment on the death of Miss Emerson, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, at the old family home in Massachusetts, we read that "Although she was intellectually very much of her father's quality, she never agreed with his religious views. She was a constant attendant on service in tli#? iTnifan'?? church in Concord, but always made it clearly known that the Unitarian conception of Jesus did not satisfy her soul. Instead she received the deity of Christ at the fullest." Her pastor, himself a Unitarian, writes: "The Bible was to her an inspired book, every part of it familiar and dear to her, a subject of lifelong study. Jesus was in a deep, mystical sense her Lord and Master. Her daily spiritual food was found in writers like George Herbert, who in nuaint anri w , u?u aillipit |MII<ISC expressed her own simple, almost childlike sense of communion with God."