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VOL. II. ATLANTA, OA.,
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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
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From Troubled Persia ....152
j Editorial Notes |
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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 arc Jews.
The ratio of Presbyterians to the entire population has
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 arc right in one respect when they
claim that breaking away from 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 infidelitv and ratirmniicm
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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 arc in substance
like the one rejected, they break away from all re
I I^ ligions and yield themselves to a rejection of all faith.
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"The evangelization of the world in twenty-five
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years" is by 110 means an unreasonable expectation.
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The Southern Presbyter/an
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 fai.ilitipc
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easily preach the gospel to every nation wihtin a decade,
much more within twenty-five years. The only
thing lacking to the accomplishment of this end is 'lie
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, are aggressive in many forms and
places, evidences are appearing at frequent intervals
mat even in us own strongnoids it tails 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 services in the Unitarian
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 tr? her a cnliiori nf
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Jesus was in a deep, mystical sense her Lord and Master.
Her daily spiritual food was found in writers
like George Herbert, who in quaint and simple phrase
expressed her own simple, almost childlike sense of
communion with God."