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Dr. A. I* Phillips, Sec. Ex. Committee
of Publication:
"I am out and out In favor of the
paper adopted by the Missouri Synod.'"
Dr. H. H. Sweets. Sec. Ex. Committee
of Christian Education and Ministerial
Relief:
"I earnestly hope that the request
which the Ladies Missionary Unions
have made of the General Assembly for
a General Secretary of Woman's Work
will be granted. I believe that such a
work, under the joint direction of the
four executive committees of the General
Asesmbly, will be able to accomplish
wonders in systematizing,
unifying and developing along all lines
of the Woman's Work of our church.
Wonders have already been accomplished
by the women without any careful
supervision. No one could begin to foretell
what would be the results of this
work under systems'ic and business-like
direction. The General Assembly has
introduced up-to-date business methods
in the other departments of her work.
She should not lag behind with regard
to this important p-.rt of her forces."
We have many more of these words
of apnroval from leading ministers and
women, which we hope to bring before
/ ou later. Let us wait before the Lord,
daily, from now until next May. Let us.
like Hezeklah. snread the whole matter
before Jehovah, asking: his direction and
strength. He will give us the courage
and wisdom to go on 'till he grant our
petition. Will you join In this prayer
and in this work In order that the women
of the Southern Presbyterian Church
may unite as one to give to the Cord of
the Harvest the service to which he
calls them? Please let us hear from
you.
Women of the Presbyterian Church
IT. S., "If we are to propagate a heroic
Christian'!;/, we must be heroic Christians."
Shall we allow the emotions
quickened by the outlook from the
mount of vision to quiet down into
mere sentiment? "The Chief use of an
emotion is to arouse the will to action."
Mrs. Montgomery well says, "The Jubilee
vision must he translated into life."
"For Christian women to resign themselves
to the ornamental, the purely cultural,
the small social activities of life
is not simply to prove Inadequate in
the day of opportunity, It is to betray
the future. So a conception of religion
as only a precious personal consolation
must give way to that of religion
as the great transforming force of life,
to be used, to he proclaimed, to he
passed on, to be died for."
Miss Jennie Hanna,
3932 McGee Street..
Kansas City. Mo.
Mrs. W. C. Winsborough.
4001 West Prospect Place,
Kansas City, Mo.
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THE PRESBYTERI
LETTER FROM JAPAN.
Tokushlma, Japan, Nov. 6. 1911.
Dear Friends:
We have been back In Japan for a
month, and have gotten the work of our
station In hand again. We have visited
all the stations and called on most of
the Christians. We were delighted to
find eDjulrers at three of the stations
ready for baptism, and to learn that a
group of Christians In one of our new
stations had contributed the money, and
; ented a building In the center of the
town for a chapel, and that they are
meeting every Sunday morning for worship,
although they have no evangelist
to be with them on that day.
The saddest thing I have seen since
coming hack to Japan was In a neighboring
large town. The teachers of the
public school led all the children up to
the shrine and had them worship the Image
of the god of wealth. And the pity
of It all Is that they are doine this at
the instigation of the Department of
Education. Of course, they claim that
this is not Idolatry, but If there ever
was an Idol In the world, It Is certain
that Eblsu, the god of fortune, is one.
What can we hope for, when those who
ought to enlighten the minds of the
children are thus darkening them?
But how is this for a work of grace?
For several years I have been corresponding
with a number of convicts In n
prison about 300 miles from here. A
number of these men have been converted.
T received a letter from one of
them who Is serving a long term. On
reading the Bible, he wag very deen'v
convlcted of sin, and found no peace until
he accepted Christ's Invitation:
"Come unto me. all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and T will give you
rest." For the past two or three years
he has been living a Christian life, and
was rewarded by the Superintendent
of the prison for pood behavior. He Is
allowed a small pittance a dav. gomethine
less than a cent, for pood service.
pnri durlne his term he bed poeumula*ed
13 yen. He saya that the only sorrow
he has now Is when he thinks of the
man whom he Injured, when he broke
Into his house. So the other day, to
make his repentance complete, he wrote
to the home of hla victim a letter of
apolopy, and encloseed the 13 yen of reward
money that he haB accumulated
durlnp all these years of hard service.
On the receipt of this letter, the
victim was so preatly Impressed that
he took a lonp trip away down to the
prison to meet him, and there they met
face to face, and made peace by the
moon or tne i>ora jestis i;nnst. ana
prayed together that he might he victorious
to the end- And then the victim
enve him a neatly bound Bible, as a
token of his good will. Wasn't that
beautiful?
What would you think In America. If
a man cut off hl3 finger, when he decided
to become a Christian? I met a
man like that the other day. He Is
selling Bibles now In this province. He
was the ring-leader of a gang of gamblers
and villlans. He was very skillful
In jujltsu and gambling. It seems that
In playing tricks in gambling, the
third finger of the hand plays a very
Important part So when he became a
Christian, In order that he might not
be tempted to go back to his old life,
and In order that he might make known
to all his old associates that he had
broken off from his old life, he took his
short sword, and' cut his finger ofT at
the middle joint. It will De profitable
for him, that one of his members has
perished, If his whole body shall not
be cast into hell.
I can never tell you what a pleasure
it was to us to meet all of you again In
mucnta, uur nun luuca we appreciate
all of your kindnesses to us. And now
will you not pray that this country may
AN OF THE SOUTH
be saved from Idols, and for us that ws
may be faithful to our Lord?
With best wishes to all.
Yours as ever,
Chas. A- Logan.
ENGLISH BIBLE AT S. P. U.
One of the best features of Southwestern
Presbyterian University, and one
which the Synod of Mississippi and the
other controlling Synods may justly
take pride in, Is the compulsory course
of three years' study of the English
Bible. It Is a good course and ig compulsory,
the only course at S. P. U. that
Is compulsory. But In this compulsion
lies one of lts marks of superiority.
Excellent courses are freauentlv offered
in English Bible, but offered as electives.
and that too often means that
they are not taken by many students.
On the other hand at S. P. U. every man
must take English Bible, whatever else
he may elect to omit
An illustration of the wisdom of this
course has come to hand from recent
examination papers. The need of the
course gets an illustration in the answer
a MIssis8ipptan, a young man past
twenty years of age, gave to the question
as to the family of the great
Hebrew law-giver: "Pharroah." said
he, "was the mother of Moses, Miriam,
his sister; Abraham, his brother; Jacob,
his son; Rachel, his wife, and Jethro,
his father-in-law."
In the other direction comes this testimony
from a Tennessean as to the
good of the compulsory feature. The
question put was: " Give your opinion
of Bible study." His answer was:
"Bible study 1n ray estimation Is a live
thing. I did not realize Its true value
till thls year. At the beginning of the
year I did not want to take It. but am
truly thankful that It was compulsory.
I will have to confess that before this
year I don't remember ever having read
a whole chapter of the Bible in my
life."
And perhaps that testimony and confession
could be reduplicated. Many,
too many, times some readers will recall
first in this connection the admirable
sermon by the former pastor of
Florence, Dr. Kirk, on "The Dost Book,"
and Dr. Moore's on "Religion In the
Home," delivered at the Savannah
Assembly. Both these sermons deserve
a wide circulation todav.
The Bible course at S. P. U. Is the
best monument of Rev. Dr. J. B. Shearer
and bears hlB stamp of thoroughness.
The Bible Itself Is the text book and It
Is studied from Genesis to Revelation,
omitting not even the reading of the
genealogies In Chronicles. The study is
first extensive, covering the whole Old
Testament the first year, but the field
In narrowed and the gtudy grows Intensive
as the class advances; the second
year is confined to the Gospels, and the
third to the Epistles. Running palallel
to this direct Bible study there Is a
good course In sacred geography, extending
over three months and a modern
text books of 300 pages, with map
studies, plain and physical. Three
months are given also to a text book of
like extent on Antiquities or Arch,
eology, and the same time is called to
a modern text book on exploration and
light from ancient hlstorv on the monu
menta. Private reading In contemporary
history of Egypt and Assyria
completes the first year's wotk, the Old
Testament course. Thla Is followed by
a pretty full study of the lnter-blbllcal
centuries and the preparation of the
world for the coming of Christ, as an
introduction to the life of our Ix>rd and
the learning of the Gospels.
Analysis and general and special introduction
receive attention throughout
the three years. In the Epistles exegesis
has chief attention and the great doctrines
and difficult passages are closely
studied, with drill on the life of Paul.
Hi H.
The whole t? summed up In three
months rives to evldencr and to Bible
pedagogy the application of Bible
knowledge In Sunday schools. T. M. C.
A.. and personal work. S. P. U. Is doing
work In English Bible calculated to encourage
religion In the home. In the
church, and In the State.
Chas- Wm. Sommervllle,
S. W. Presbyterian University.
Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 22, 1911.
THE WRECKER.
In the office of the state bank commissioner
of Kansas, says the Topeka
Capital, there Is a memento of the recent
bank failure at Holyrod- It Is one
of the familiar pint whiskey bottles,
covered with wicker-work and tied with
a lavender ribbon. It is one of hundreds
found In the vault, and in the
drawers of the Holyrod bank, by the examiner,
who was sent theie to straighten
up the affairs of the Institution. The
examiner sent it back to the bank com
missloner, with a slip of paper tied
around It On the paper were the
words: "This Is what wrecked the
bank." Commissioned Dolly said In
reference to the Incident, "That will
wreck any bank if applied in the right
place and frequently enough." Slmlllarly
It will wreck every other Institution.
It hag wrecked millions of homes,
and friendships, and reputations and
destinies. It is "the wrecker" par excellence.
Society hunts down the train
wrecker with posses and guns and
forces him to pay the forfeit of his
crimes. How long before society will
hunt down the universal wrecker and
put him out of business??Ex.
"To follow Christ Is to become like
him. To serve him Is to carry out his
spirit into all the relations of our lives.
Thla cannot be done without a dally
rfvincr fn aol f on/I 1x1
-*?0 vv wv*i, u.*iu 51UU5 up a urutiitude
of things, in themselves not sinful,
not evil, but good, because we have a
larger plan of life, a higher purpose
of existence, namely, the establishment
among men of Christ's kingdom of
truth, righteousness and joy. .
Tf there is sacrifice in such a life; if
there 1b a cross In It. It is a cross to
be glorified In; if It leads to death,
death is but the angel that swings open
the portals of heaven's triumphs."
IN MATCH TOWN
Fortunately no Faith Was Required,
For She Had None.
"1 had no faith whatever, but on the
advice of a hale, hearty old gentleman
who spoke from experience. I began to
use Grape-NutH about 2 vears aeo."
writes an Ohio woman, who says she
is 40, Is known to be fair, and admits
that she Is growing plump on the new
diet
"I shall not try to tell you how I suffered
for years from a deranged stomach
that rejected almost all sorts of
food, and digested what little was forced
upon it only at the cost of great distress
and pain.
"I waB treated by many different doc.
tors and they gave me many different
medicines, and I even spent several
years In exile from my home thinking
change of scene might do me good.
You may judge of the gravity of my
condition when I tell you I was sometimes
compelled to use morphine for
weeks at a time.
"For two years I have eaten GrapeNuts
food at least twice a day and I
can now say that I have perfect health.
I have taken no medicine In that time
?Grape-Nuts has done It all. I can
eat absolutely anything I wish, without
stomach distress.
"I am a business woman and can
walk my 2 or 3 miles a day and feel
better for doing so. I have to use brains
in my work, and it is remarkable how
quick, alert and tireless my mental
powers have become." Name given by
Postum Co.. Battle Oreek. Mich.
"'There's a reason," and it is explained
in the little book, "The Road to Wellvill,"
in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are erelnulne, true, and full of human
interest.