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CONTRIBUTED:
Presbyterlanism in Northeastern
Kentucky, Rev. L. H. Blanton, ,
D. D 1
New Light on an Accepted Fable.
Dr. Juan Orta Gonzalez 2
Apparent Human Miefits, by Wm.
Laurie Hill 6 ;
' How Lee Chlng Saved His Title, I
a c. c 6
A True Dog Story (poetry), M.
P. K, 17
. "ine ?innott complaint case," <
Rev. W. I. Sinnott 17 t
The Practical Value of the Elect \
Infant Amendment, Rev. E. C. (
Caldwell, D. D. 17 ,
Calvinism of the Proposed Amend- ,
ment. Rev. A. P. Carr, D. D., .... 17 (
The Relation of Woman's Work to j
the Church, Mrs. Q. A. Wilson, 18 i
Stimuli for the Assemblies, Rev. t
B. W. McCorkle, D. D., 18
The Chinese Churches and Their i
Relation to Present Problems,
Rev. 8. H. Chester, D. D., 19 (
A Pound of Coffee and What It Did,
M. P. H 19
FAMILY READINGS:
A Song for the Stricken Soul, Rev.
R. E. Steele, 4 t
Be Kind to the Living,, 4 i
It Cost Only? 4 ,
Why She Was Popular 4 ,
Humor in the Family b j
Praise Your Wife 6 (
A Little Hero b 1
uamei werater on Christianity, .. ll j
LETTERS FROM THE OHILDRHEN, 7 <
SUNDAY SCHOOU Y. P. S. AND I
PRAYER MEETING, * 1
EDITORIAL: 1
Notes *9 '
Msy the Movement Succeed, 9 *
The Status of Church Union, .... 10 1
"In the Wrong Box," 10 1
Notes in Passing, 10
MARRIAGES AND DEATHS 20 j
TEMPERANCE 22
BTVIDV rADVTO Oi
Cburrf) ijetos
, ' ARKANSAS.
The BateflTllle Presbyterian church
has Just enjoyed a time of refreshing
from the Lord. Our Sabbath, February
25th. the pastor, Rev. A. F. Cunningham
THE PRESBYTERiA
>egan a series of evangelistic services,
preaching every evening during the following
week and until Thursday eveling
of the next week, including the two
Sabbath morning services, His sermons
t'ere plain, earnest, strong presentations
jf the simple truth, dealing in great
faithfulness with sin, the certainty of its
punishment, the law, and salvation
through faith in the crucified one. The
results visible to the present were four
received into this church on restatement
of their faith and sixteen on profession
of their faith in the Lord Jesus, the
latter ranging in age from seventy
years to nine, the oldest and the youngest
being children of the covenant.
A. ladles prayer meeting, one of the
young ladies, one of the young men and
one of the older men, were all maintained
throughout the meeting, at the
instance of the pastor, and yesterday
the men of the church determined to
continue their prayer meeting as a permanent
feature of their work. To the
Lord of the harvest be all the glory,
Our members are much revived and it
is Loped that the end of the ingathering
is not yet in sight.
GEORGIA.
.. 1 ulled Meeting Of Atlanta Presbytery.
The Constitutional requirements having
been complied with, the Presbytery
of Atlanta is hereby called to meet in
the First church of Atlanta, Ga. Alonday.
March 25, 1912, at 11:30 A. M., to
consider the resignation of Rev. J. A.
Simpson from the McDonough church,
and, if the way he clear, to dismiss him
to the Presbytery of Augusta.
W. A. Murray, Stated Clerk.
J. A. Simpson, Moderator.
Georgia Sunday School Workers to
meet In State convention, at Dublin, April
23-24-25.
The program Committee for the Convention
has had three meetings and has
prepared a feast of good things for the
Georgia Sunday School workers. Among
:he speakers are to be: Rev. R. Li. Christie,
pastor of the First Baptist church of
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uviuaiuuo, mil A' iaua lu, *uaiiat/t mmcon;
Rev. Howard T. Cree, pastor of
the First Christian Church of Augusta
Col. A. W. Evans, of Sandersvllle; and
a number of other prominent Sunday
School workers of the State. Among
the out of State speakers will be Mr.
Marion Lawrence, of Chicago, General
Secretary of the International Sunday
School Association; Dr. H. M. Hamlll,
of Nashville, Tenn; and Mrs. H. M. Hamlll.
Dublin makes big preparations.
As the Convention is to be held at
Dublin, the people are making big prepirations.
A chorus of about one hundred
irolces is being organized, and the vari
dub committees are busy, for they are
determined to make this the greatest
Sunday School convention Georgia has
Bver had. All who attend will be entertained
free. Every white Sunday School
in Georgia Is requested to send three
lelegates, besides pastor and superintendent.
who are delegates by vlrture of
their office. But the Dublin friends and
the officers of the State Sunday school
Association would much prefer any
ichool that would do so to send ten or
twelve delegates. All will be amply
taken care of.
A feature of the Convention will be a
>arade by the Sunday school workers,
leaded bv a band of music.
Special Rates.
On account of the Convention, the railroads
of the State have granted a rate
which is practically half price. Railroad
tickets at reduced rates can be
>ought at almoet any railroad fctatlon in
3eorgla. Mr. J. H. Witherlngton, DubIn,
is chairman of the entertainment
iommittee. and would he glad to have
tnyone correspond with hlnr for further
jardoulars.
OF THE SOUTH
KENTUCKY.
Ilev. Geo. >V. Uelk In Muhlenbnrg
Presbytery: How this brother came to
be at work In this part of Kentucky
Synod is a story which may serve to
encourage similar efforts in Home Missions.
Muhlenburg is one of the feeblest of
the six Presbyteries of Ketftucky. Its
existence is in a large measure due to
the perserverance of the venerable Rev.
John C. Tate, now living at Clarksville,
Tenn., and the late Rev. Dr. W. L.
Nourse. There are thirteen counties In
the territory with a population of over
300,000. Of these It is estimated that
200.000 are outside of any church of any
sort. Southern Presbyterians number
less than 1,600, and what are these
among so many? There are seven pastors,
but only three churches enroll
above 100 members. These are Bowling
Green (668), Owensboro (314), and
Hopkinsvllle (233). Rev. Dr. McCaslin,
of Bowling Green, made a Btudy of the
field and presented the facts to Presbytery.
Fifteen churches were vacant
or abandoned; ten had no Sunday
school. The outlook was alarming.
nearly nopeiess. l>r. McCaslin, as Presbyterial
Chairman, visited much of the
field, held several meetings, stimulated
interest in Presbytery. But funds were
not available for any extension of work.
Presbytery appointed a committee of
laymen, elders, Chas. E. Barber, of
T^ester Memorial church; J. E. McPherson,
Hopkinsvllle, and Dr. Frank
M. Stites, of the same; Wm. E. Pillsbury,
and A. H. Taylor, Bowling Green,
and Dr. Coffman, of Owensboro. Associated
with them are Mr. Duncan.
Greenville; Mr. Steele, Owensboro, and
Dr. Douglass, Franklin. After several
meetings it become apparent that if
anything was done to overtake the
destitution it must be done not by the
churches, but by these men individually.
The alternative presented was,
Give or give up. Their determination
was to give. One of them led the way
by saying, "I will give $100. a year for
uve yearn. Anomer saia, 1 win ao tne
same, and I have added a codacil to
my will providing for its payment In
case death should remove me." Another
said, "God has prospered me, I
will give * * * dollars." And so on
till the amount needed was pledged for
five years.
The next question waB the evangelist.
The men determined to secure the best
man possible to be had. They determined
to choose from those sections where
most was being done in aggressive
Home Mission work and to call a man
who had already succeded In the work.
Their eyes were turned to Virginia and
North Carolina. They called Rev. G. W.
Belk, but he declined. They called
others-with like result After a year
had passed one more meeting was held
OnH diaAAiianiVA
u?? tui u^mutw iu unci mowum?c"
ment. The money could be had. hut not
the man. One member of the sub-committee
came home dejected; he tossed
through the night unable to sleep, as
he besought Clod for Zlon. There came
to him In the stilly night the conviction
that Mr. Belk must be had; there could
be no alternative.
Next day these men went after Mr.
Belk with telegram and letter in such
way as to take no denial. And they
got him.
March 10th it was my pleasure to
bear him preach three times, three
strong sermons, at Franklin, Ky. He
was heard with closest attention. Three*
Baptist ministers and two Methodist and
their congregations were present. Mr.
Belk has fine powers of description.
He made Qethsemane and Calvary plain
to view, and the scenes In Abraham's
life. His emphasis is upon faith and'
repentance and the Lamb of God. He
is remarkably familiar with the Bible,
being himself the product of an old
[ March 20, 1912
fashioned Catechism-teaching home.
His mother was his best teacher. Those
who hear her son call her blessed.
The laymen of Muhlenburg Presbytery
may feel that God has answered
their prayers in sending them this son
of North Carolina, trained at Davidson
and Union Seminary, and fully tried, experienced.
with a fine record behind
him, and full of struggle and enthusiasm
for the Southern PreB/byterian Church
and her doctrines.
C. W. S.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans: At a recent meeting or
the congregation of the First church,
the following members were elected to
the office of deacon: Messrs. E. W.
Beck, W. J. Barkley, Frank G. Hardie,
Frank Hart, Jas. J. Manson, J. N.
Schroedel, and Geo. Pentecost Thompson.
Carrollton Church: The pastor of
the Carrollton church. Rev. Jno. W.
Caldwell, Jr., has been engaged to give
a course of lectures in the Monteagle
Sunday School Institute, at the session
of the latter August 11-18. Mr. Caldwell
has done notable work in similar
lines in New Orleans during the past
few years.
Sew Orleans Presbytery: Special
efforts are making just now to secure
the funds needful to carry on successfully
the Presbytery's great Home
Missions work. As an encouragement
to the people to give, pastors have in
some cases given to their people the
following facts: During the past eight
years, in the Home Missions part of the
Presbytery's work, eight churches have
been organized, seven churches that
were helped have become self-sustaining,
eleven houses of worship have been
erected, three manses have been built,
fourteen Sunday schools have been organized,
and to-day 16 weak churches
are supplied, besides fourteen other
points where churches may be organized,
four of the latter being almost
iwuj uun. i cu 111 en art) eugi>geu in
the work for the whole of their time,
and four others for a part of their time.
The effect of the Home Mission activity
may be traced in other lines of the
Presbytery's life and activity. The ministers
have increased, in these eight
years, from 18 to 29, the churches from
30 to 38, the communicants from 3,584
to 4,704, the Sunday school scholars
from 3,130 to 4,301, the candidates for
the ministry from 4 to 8, while the
contributions to benevolence have
riBen from $15,561 in 1903 to $36,596 in
1911, the most notable advances being
in Foreign Missions, from $2,830 to $9,090,
and in Home Missions from $5,220
to $10,442. The quickening effect of
activity in giving the Gospel to the
thousands of English speaking and
foreign speaking people who are within
the Presbytery's bounds and needing the
word of life has been felt in every other
department of the work.
MISSISSIPPI.
McOomb: Sunday, March 3rd, was a.
good day for this church. We had a
targe Sunday school and welcomed eight
new scholars, and the pastor presented
& Bible as a reward for bringing In five
new scholars. Others are trying for the
reward. The congregations were large
also, and one new family was received
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babe baptized. Tbe following new
officers were ordained and Installed:
Elder, J. D. Fly. Deacons, H. L. White,
and A. H. Anders. Mr. J. J. White had
also been elected elder, but was not able
to be present for ordination.
The Fonrth Annual Meeting of the
Woman's Missionary Union of Central
Mississippi Presbytery will be held in
Oreenvllle, April 9-11. There will be an
address by Rev. Homer AfoMllll&n, D. D?
at 8 P. M., Tuesday, followed by a re