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?Brown.Canterbury: At the home of '
the bride, on Morris Creek, W. Va.,
August 31, 1912, by the Rev. M. B.
Lambdin, of Montgomery, W. Va., Mr.
Elmer Brown and Mlse Joanna Canter- i
bury.
Laird-Moore: At the home of the
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\ji iuo a uiuiuvr m l^aiu^iuu, * a., n.u- i
guBt 22, by Eh*. A. T. Graham, assisted
by Dr. W. R. Laird, Mr. David Laird, of
Savannah, Ga., to Miss Mary Preston
Moore, daughter of the late Captain
John Preston Moore.
HopUns-Flrebaugh: In the Bethesda
chuTCh, Rockbridge Baths, Va., by
Rev. Emmett W. McCorkle, Miss Anna
Price Firebaugh, the daughter of Mr.
R. D. Firebaugh, of Rockbridge Baths,
Va., to Mr. Abner Kilpatrick Hopkins,
from Harrisonburg, Va.
Sadler-Canterbury s At the home of
the bride, Morris Creek, W. Va., August
24, 1912, by the Rev. M. B. Lambdin,
of Montgomery, "W. Va., Mr. George
Sadler and Miss Ida Canterbury.
Smith-Massey: At the home of the
bride, on Morris Creek, W. Va., near
Montgomery, W. Va., August 6, 1912,
by the Rev. M. B. Lambdin, Mr. Charles
E. Smith and Miss Emma A Massey.
Tully-Larew: At the home of the
bride's parents at Han's Creek, W. Va.,
August 6, 1912, by Rev. T. J. MoConnell,
Mr. Lawrence T. Tully, of Mt.
Hope, W. Va? and Miss Anna Larew,
of Han's Creek, W. Va.
Washington-Jackson: Tn -Mexico,
Mo., August 14, 19-12, at the residence
of the hride's mother, Mrs. Mary Jackson,
by Rev. Walter M. Langtry, Mr.
John Washington and Miss Mary H.
Jackson.
Beatfjg
Kinker: July 20, 1912, in a sanata
rium near wasmagwn, u. Kj., oi oram
fever, Prof. C. P. C. Rinker, of Martinsburg,
"W. Ya., in the 47th year of his
age. He was a successful teacher at
the head of a business school and will
be greatly missed. He united with the
Presbyterian church at Bunker Hill, W.
' Va., when a youth of sixteen years.
Smith: August 18, 1912, at her home
in Mlddleway, W. Va., Mrs. Lydla Ann
Smith, widow of the late Lafayette
Smith, at an advanced age. She leaves
a large family of children and grandchildren
to mourn the loss of a good
mother. She was a life-long member of
the Presbyterian church.
THINKING AS AN ART.
All rational beings think. Consecutive
and concentrated thinking is an art as
well aa experience. It Is not the
amount of reading that strengthens
thought, as much as mental digestion of
that which Is read. Information la not
necessarily educative. There is a vast
difference between readers and thinkers.
The capacity for thinking admits of development
and can be replenished and
greatly strengthened by practice, by disci
pi hie, by unrelenting effort. Assimjlating
what one reads greatly aids in developing
thought capacity, especially
when one absorbs what he reads and
runs It through his own thought mold.
?'Evangelical Messenger.
It is never too late to oorae back.?to
return to God. But there is such a thing
as going so far that the Holy Spirit will
cease to strive. And there is such a
thing as striking a bargain with Satan
or the world that cuts off the Holy
Spirit. It is when the Spirit ceases to
warn, reprove, rebuke or call that
danger Is Imminent?the fatal line has
been crossed.
fIE9SB8BYTBBIJ
NOTES ON MEXICO.
Rev. W. A. Ross.
In spite -of all changes Mexico
City has grown into a modern city of
nearly one-half a million people, with
handsome public buildings, splendid
boulevards, spacious public parks,
statutps rvn flVprv f-hnrniiff-hfaro1
tlonal institutions of every kind; here
is Chepultepec, the home of the president,
which compares most favorably
with the home of .the head of any nation
in the world; here is a Y, M. C. A.
building costing some two hundred
thousand dollars, and every thing else
that goes to make up a modern city.
Among these half anil lion people are to
be found those of every class: government
officials, merchant princes, heads
of manufacturing establishments, owners
and directors of Tall roads and
mines, living in palatial residences of
Bplendid avenues or in suburban homes ;
the well-to-do as clerks, mechanics,
small merchants, etc., in less pretentious7
but comfortable homes, the great
number of the poorer classes of all
grades, the laboring people, the indolent,
the unfortunate, living in humble
ana onen in miseraoie uvuiw, me Indians
from the nearby mountains that
are to be seen constantly on the streets
selling their wares, or begging a penny.
Here are mingled gaiety and sorrow,
poverty and riches, luxury and misery.
Beyond a doubt Mexico City is a city
modern, magnificent, terrible!
After visiting the City of Mexico one
understands why throughout the republic
it is called "Mexico." One has
hardly seen Mexico until he has seen
her capital. Here is the center of
everything in Mexico. All of the important
railroads lead into the city; the
great mining and smeltering companies
have main offices here; Waters-Pi3rce
Oil Company has captured the city; the
Oliver Typewriter Company occupies its
own large building; a multitude of foreign
enterprises of all kinds have headquarters
here, and for things purely
Mexican, we have here the National
Museum, the National Theatre, the
National School of Agriculture; the National
Conservatory at Music, the National
School of T^aw, the National
School of Medicine, the National School
of Engineering, the National School of
Mines, the National Preparatory School,
the National Palace, ithe Palace of Archbishops,
the Holy Metropolitan Church
of Mexico, Guadalupe, the holiest shrine
in all Mexico. Mexioo City is Mexico.
Being a center of such easy access
and of suoh importance many of the
Protestant denominations working in
Mexico have made the city their centeT
of operations. The Methodists, both
North and South, have schools, colleges,
printing presses and churches here; the
Baptists have a splendid work here, and
our brethren of the Northern Presbyterian
Church, following the example of
the government of mining companies,
of railroads and of other churches, has
made this the largest center for their
work., Here is the printing press from
which there constantly goes a stream of
Christian literature to all parts of the
republic, an important part being the
"EH Faro" (The (Lighthouse), bhe official
_? n j r%r 1? t?
organ 01 me jyyaiuu i/i .hcjidu. iu eran
Angel, a near suburb. la one of their
three Girls' Normal Schools, whose
buildings and grounds are among the
most beautiful of that of any Protestant
Institution In Mexico. In Ooyoean, another
suburb, is situated the college
and Bemlnary for male students.
It Is in this latter Institution that we
as Southern 'Presbyterians are especially
interested. It is hero that our young
ministers are educated. Coyoacan Is on
li ei tn 10 0 9a
the interurban car line, .thirty minutes
from the city, and is "older than the
city Itself since it was here that Cortcz
established the seat of his governuint
and from here laid out the plans and
directed the founding of the city." Onlytwo
blocks from the seminary is pointed
/%.?? li.rv.ia~ nrliUk 1 i trr.,1 Vila
v/uu tuc uvuoe iu nuivu wi ica iivcu uto
coat of arms beiig over the door way
It is in this ancient and rapdly growing
town that the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary is situated. Through
the kindness of God and in answer to
prayer the main building was the gift
of the late large-hearted princely man
of God, Mr. John H. Converse, of iPhiladelphia.
A short time after the Presbyterians
bad bought the grounds at
Gdyoacan and had begun the work of
training ministerial students in the few
small buildings that were at that time
on the campus, they began praying for
funds for a larger equipment. They
made a list of well known Presbyterians
whose hearts God might open to contribute
the funds needed. Heading the
1 ist was the name of Mr. Converse. The
prayers continued, when one day they
read in the Mexican Herald that Mr.
Converse was in the city. They called
on htm, took him to the seminary
grounds, told him of their needs and
plans for the enlargement of the work,
and then and there God touched his
heart and he promised them the needed
building. This building, with the Memorial
Chapel, the home of the President
and the buildings that were on
the grounds at the time of the purchase
make a very handsome group. The
three new buldings being of grey stone,
quarried from the lava beds. The trimmings
are of Ted brick. Converse Hall,
for this the main building is called, has
not been completed yet. TheV only need
the auditorium to make the building a
thing of beauty. We have a very fellow
feeling as they tell us of their
needs for larger buildings when we re
member our own painetlc needs Tor
buildings for the Graybill Memorial at
Montemorelos. The College and Seminary
aTe under separate management.
Dr. William Wallace being president of
the Seminary and Prof. Robert A.
Brown being president of the College.
They are assisted by a competent corps
of professors?American and Mexican.
There aTe seventy students in all departments,
two of them being students
for the ministry from our Presbyterv
and three others beting students for the
ministry from the Texas-Mexican Presbytery.
The Protestant churches in Mexico
are facing the same problem8 that confronts
those in the states as to an inadequate
supply of ministers. "While
it is perhaps true that considering the
present stage of Protestant work in
Mexico and the number of Christian
families, our boys and young men are
more easily turned to the ministry than
they are in our churches at home; still
the opportunities that are offered to
young men In secular pursuits on account
of the material progress in Mexico.
makes a call that is bard to resist.
We all. both at "home and abroad.
need 1? make our prayer unceaalnglv
to the iJord of the harvest that he would
thrust more lafborers into the harvest.
Out church la greatly Indebted to the
Northern Church for the help that we
are receiving, both in the printing press
and In the Seminary. "Last year In a
graduating class of four ministerial
students our Presbytery received three
of tbem.? The matter of 1n some wnv
more effectively reoavlng the Northern
Mission for the services thus rendered
tas been seriously and Is being seriously
discussed by us.
The geographical position and ac
-
[ September 11, 19^ I >
cessibility of Mexico City makes
popular city for conventions and gath-H
erings of all kinds. The flr?t week inB "
July was the regular time for the bj.H"
ennial meeting of Synod. The polHicajM0
condition of the country made us won-^B
der whether or not we could have tht^B
mnrvf in o huf o4 Tool !-*? woo J ? * ' ?
?~??o' uw:aed toH
have It Although the meeting tv-oHf
years ago was held in Mexico City,
because of Its accessibility and con-^B
venience and because of the disturbed^B
political conditions limits the available
places, and perhaps, because it i^^B
thought wise to get as near as possible ^B
to the seat of government so as to en- H*
joy its protection, it was decided to I
meet in the city again this year. The ^B
date was July 3-8. The over seven ^B
thousand feet altitude makes It delight- ^B
YOU ARE IYTITED.
The advertising manager of the Pres- H
byterlan of the South cordially Invitee ^B
you to Investigate the attractive offer
of the Presbyterian of the South Piano fl
Club. The club has proven, to the en- B
tire satisfaction and delight of its mem- fl
bers, every claim that was made for It. H
It was founded on the prnciple that I
"what is imoossible for one is easy for fl
one hnildred-" Tho trempnitnna nn?- I
chasing power of an army of one hundred
nlano buyers solves perfectly the
otherwise difficult problem of securlne
a piano of highest artistic standard at
a price and on terms which put it within
reach of practically every subscriber.
The new club booklet and catalogue,
beautifully Illustrated and fully describing
the club plans and pianos are
now ready for distribution. We have
a copy for yon. Won't you write for
It today Address Tvudden & Bates.
Presbyterian of the South Piano Club
Dept., Atlanta, Go.
GUNSTOlf HALL
190S Florid* Ave.. N. W.
Washington. T>. O.
4 SCHOOI.( FOR (iini.S.
Mrs. Beverley R. Mason, Principal:
T'.o f M Clark. T,. T, A.. Asso. Prln
STEPHENSON SEMINARY
FOR GIRLS,
Charles Town, Jefferson County, \V. Vn?
Enters her 30th -session September 17,
1912. With the assets?electric lighted, I
steam heated brick buildings; gymnasium
and athletic courts; suburban
location, high and healthful?combining
advantages of town and country; a faculty
of cultured Christian women; mostly
college graduates, this institution is
well equipped for her work, and ever
maintains her record for thoroughness.
The number of boarding pupils, limited
to 26. makes possible that friendly Intercourse
between teacher and pupil which
characterizes Stephenson Seminary as a
Christian Home School.
For references or further Information,
applv to
MRS. C. N. CAMPBELL, Principal, or to
REV. H. M. MOFFET, Charles Town.
Richmond
i A Standard American College
The College grows steadily In resources sad stu- |
dents. In recent years the eftdoAtne it has more thin m
doubled, and attendance has increased lOO-pcr cent. |
All present buildings thoroughly renovated this sum
iner. Swam heat and electric lights. New buildings
to cost 1400.000. In course of erection. m
m Property prepared student a cordially wal- |
g comod. At Richmond CoIIoro tha Individual J
S ? ? In tha crowd.
j Session opens Sept. I?. For catalofue and Inior
* matlon, address
L President F. W. BOATWRIGHT, Richmond. Va. >
Mary Baldwin
Seminary
For Young Ladies : Staunton, Va.
Term begins Sept. lttb, 10H.
cated In the ShennandoaJh Valley ?r
Virginia. Unanrpaseed climates, be*'1'
ttful grounds and modern avpeintmentB
Students peat session from 31 State*
Terms moderate. Pupils enter an*
time. Send for catalogue.
MISS E. C. WEIMAR, Principal
. . ~t~~T
Vanderbilt University
1124 STUDENTS 128 TEACHERS ,
CAMPUS OF 70 ACRES, ALSO
New cutpu far department of Medi<iaa and DeetirWJ
.Err*nw low. Literary eouraea for grarfajtea ana
undergraduates Professional courses in L"*1??"*
ing. Law, Medirine. Dentiatry. Pharmacy. Theel0?'Sead
for catalogue, naming department.
J. E. HART. Secretary. Nathrille. Town. _
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