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April 6, 1910. THE
hold of a number of people, some of
them hardened criminals, and a wonderful
work of grace was begun. One afternoon,
when I went preaching and visiting
with Kagawa San, we visited two
murderers and one chief of a gang of
gamblers. One of the murderers made a
most earnest prayer and the gambler
gave us his dice and gamblers' cards and
promised to stop gambling and go to
work. The way that frail boy could influence
those people was simply wonderful.
I might mention here that just after
receiving the cards and dice?some of
them loaded?from our friend, the gambler,
I sent my clothes down to the
tailor for repairs, inadvertently leaving
the suspicious articles in the pockets.
Thereupon an explanation was In order.
This month I have been occupied in
the work of the "Bible Success Band," an
organization to promote the memorizing
of one verse of Scripture every day, and
I have had the little booklet translated
and published in Japanese. I am sending
out hundreds of copies all over the
country, and many write that they are
finding the plan most helpful. If any of
you want to join this band, please write
to the founder, Mrs. E. A. R. Davis, 158
Fifth avenue, New York, where the booklets
may be secured at five cents each.
We have found the plan interesting and
helpful in our own family.
Will you not all join me and hundreds
of God's people in prayer that there may
be a great revival in all Japan in the
coming year? H. W. Myers.
THF. ASSEMBLY'S HOME AND
SCHOOL.
Dear Friends: We Presbyterians glory
in an educated ministry and we have
cause to glory. I am a firm believer in
educational requirement. It usually takes
about four years in College and three in
the Seminary to make a man eligible for
the Presbyterian pulpit. This is the minimum.
A large per cent, take a more extended
course. In many instances the
education is obtained at a great sacrifice
on the part of the candidate and also
on the part of his parents, he often begins
his ministry with a debt hanging
over him. He is fortunate to begin
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and that, too, paid at the will of the people
and so often with Irregularity. He
is expected to dress neatly, to be informed
on the current topics of the day,
hence he must secure magazines, newspapers
etc., to be thoroughly furnished
when he enters his pulpit which means
he must have many valuable books in
his library and books cost money. His
family must he cared for and his children
educated. As a business man and a lay
man i nave never understood this splendid
art of financiering that characterizes
the Presbyterian preacher, but, brethren,
one thing I do know for I have seen it in
all its lonesomeness, its bitterness and
its sadness and it fills my soul with the
very tenderest emotions and this one
thing is the fact that the families of our
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ministers at their death are left in most
dependent circumstances and some of
them in destitute condition.
Friends, I ask you, and I ask It with
all the earnestness of my soul, Is it
charity for the Church to come to the
help of this sad mother with her precious
children? Nay, nay, not charity, it is a
duty as solemn and binding as can be
imagined. Yea, more, it is a God-given
privilege. And yet the Assembly's Home
and School is stretching out her hands
and crying for help and the church at
large, fails to heed the cry as she should.
A few of the churches give quite liberally,
many are contented to give nothing
and others very sparingly. I do not know
what we would have done, had it not
been for the faithfulness and liberality
of some special friends and some earnest
pastors.
Instead of realizing $25,000 from the
December collection as recommended by
the Assembly the total amount will be
about $12,000.
In view of the fact that the contract
with the College was a temporary one
and ends with the session, in order to
provide for the education of our young
people, we have purchased the College.
Through the kindness and liberality of
some special friends we paid $5,000 on
this purchase, leaving us with a balance
of $13,000 du on the property. The balance
on the fild rlehf nf S9 9^n o?-?
glad to say, has been liquidated, and our
running expenses have been paid to date.
But we have the smallest balance in bank
that we have had for several years at
this season, and I do not know what we
will do unless the Church rallies to our
help, for the collection upon which we
are so dependent is over, and we have
nothing upon which we can definitely
count on until next December. This is.
in my mind, the most important era in
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the history of our institution and the
Church ought to rally to its support.
Brethren, please help us. You pastors
who have not taken the collection, will
you not attend to it at once, and kind
reader, if you can, will you not send us
your gift and help us go forward with
the Christ like work? This is the King's
business and it is in your hands.
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S. W. Somerville, Supt.
Fredericksburg, Va.
A GREAT AND GOOD BOOK.
One That is Truly Worth Reading.
Through the very great kindness of
some friends who loaned it to me, I have
recently enjoyed the privilege of reading
"The Life and Letters of Dr. B. M.
Palmer," by Dr. Johnson. Without any
doubt or exception this book is the best
thing of the kind I have ever read. Any
proper description of it would necessarily
be longer than the book itself. I write
this card to suggest to all who have not
done so that you should read it. If you
can not buy it, borrow it and you will
buy it as soon as you have finished it. If
you are so fortunate as to have it. lend it.
Keep it going. The man or the woman
who reads this book will be a better
Christian and a better citizen, the
minister, in addition, will be a better
preacher. Such a life as Palmer's is
well worth the most careful study. Dr.
Johnson has made the happiest combination
of description and suggestive comment
with selections of leters and addresses
of the great citizen and orator.
The biographer was exceedingly fortunate
in having such material for a book.
The subject of it is equally fortunate in *
having had a master biographer.
R. L. McNair,
Charlotte C. H., Va.
March 15, 1910.