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America's Futi
By CHAR
United States has today
A. preat as It was In 1783. In
rltory of this country was m
uLilii in r.><n the Panama canal zon
latest acquisition will mean more t
of time In transporting freight. It
mantling the Pacific ocean, the fut
arena Russia. Japnu, China and t
the world Is to be dominated by th
is foreign to most of the Ideals whi<
Thomas Cnrlyle once said. "Ye
'cracy or nuy kind o' poleetical rool
are so happy is that ye have a vast
the day has gone by when the pc
reached the limit In this respect.
In many foreign lands. We have b<
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/ Ori^ina
/ 1783
DATE
l8h generosity. Today by the mere
creases the value of the land In the
babe has the same effect upon lam
our big cities have become exorbitau
is increasing. In spite of our rem
famine of laud for the poor, and th
mine the status and the standards
tional prosperity and happiness Tbi
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THAT LITTLE PONGEE GOWN.
David Patrick McMillan, the auth<
of "That Little Pongee Gown," Is a pe
sonal friend of Miss Annie Dowd, or
quarter of a century missionary t
Kochl, Japan. After hearing Miss Dow
tell of the helpless condition of Japai
e8e girls and how they appealed 1
her for deliverance from their awfi
bondage of sin and shame, and ho
she longed for a house large enoug
to accommodate all who came?for ht
kind heart and sweet, sympathetic ni
ture could turn none away?the at
thor's heart was so stirred that a gt
of one hundred dollars was sent to Mis
Down as an earnest that the 'Honi
wuuia De secured and later $9,041.1
wag raised through the author's reli
tlveB.
Bayfd Patrick McMlllar then had put
llshed In hook form at personal cot
a little Incident Miss Dowd told whdl
'n this country. Your co-operation 1
earnestly asked In disposing of cople
of "That IJttle Pongee Gown," whlc
has been published solely for the ben?
At of this Rescue Home. In union ther
strength. Send for fifty or mor
copies and dispose of them for the sak
?f your Master and the salvation <
these little helpless Japanese ?lrli
THE PRE8BYTER1
lire Development
LES STELZLE
an area nearly four and a balf times as
1803. with the Louisiana purchase, tbe terore
than doubled. Steadily we bave grown
e of 448 square miles was acquired. Tills
u me united states thnn tbe mere saving
will some day figure significantly In comtire
battleground of tbe world, for In tbls
be United States will determine whether
le Anglo-Saxon race or by a nation which
li hnve made America great nnd powerful,
uiny boast o' yer dlmocracy or any Itber
>ish. but the reason why yer laboring folk
deal o' land for a verra few people." But
>or man can secure free land. We have
We are facing a situation similar to that
icome land Impoverished through our foolHE
UNITED STMB
id Area in Square Miles
Total Area
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y*9 square miles
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fact of his arrival every immigrant InUnited
States by $500. Every newborn
1 values. Rents for the workingmen In
t. The percentage of the renting farmers
arkable growth In land area there la a
e poor?the people on the margin?deterfor
the whole people with regard to nae
land question is one of the greatest lmby
our statesmen.
Hundreds of copies are being ordered
and cash gifts are coming in. You do
>r
r_ your part and we will soon have the
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ie nouio rur ZQiB raitnrul servant. All
to cheques made payable to Ex. Com. For.
r<j Miss., Nashville, Tenn. Letters and orders
sent to The Clinton Print Shop,
>0 at Clinton, (Mississippi.
Sept. 3, 1912.
w
;h Heart to Heart Talks on Jesag, by
>r Rev. C. 0*N. Martlndale, is a aeries ol
i- addresses delivered before the Nash>
ville Sunday School Teachers Graded
ft TTnion. The scope of these heart-toheart
talks is, 1. To furnish some good
i? reasons inspiring to direct self-search'0
ing of the Scriptures. 2. To make Jesus
i- more real to teachers, by the help of
the Holy Spirit. 3. To give a working
fffflftn a# iVl a 1 Wa -A * ~ "
.F vii Uio 1UC BUtt WOTK or J ASUS
it by dealing iti the simplicities of the
e Christ life. 4. To better enable teachiB
ers to teacfi Jesus to the growing life
s under their charge. The tract furnishes
h and analysis an articulation of truth
>- that would be helpful to any Bible
e reader.
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If you would keep close to the Ix>rd,
>f try praying a good deal for folks you
I. don't like.
: a a or TFE SOUTH
Details of Parables
The discussion of the parable of- the
leaven has been interesting. It illustrates
what care Is necessary in handling
this figurative teaching leet we see in
it something widely different from what
it was intended to convey. The last
writer strikes out on an independent
line. Dividing the interpreters into
two classes of pre and post millennialIsts
he differs from both, very properly
calling in question their interpretations
of "the whole lump." But his own interpretation
Involves the very thing which
he professes to reject while at the same
time it is more arbitrary than either of
the others in that it depends upon something
which is not in the parable at
all. Holding that "there is no good reason
why we should take the three measures
of meal as meaning all mankind."
ne takes It to mean "the true Invisible
church taken out of the mass of mankind,
the elect remnant within the
visible church." But the text does not
say that the woman took the meal out
of anything, the idea is simply that she
so manipulated the flour (the Greek
word means "wheaten flour," hence it
was no more what we call meal than the
so-called "meat" or "meal" offerings,
which were really of flour), in such a
way as to subject it to the leavening
process. The flour barrel or sack Is not
mentioned at all. And if it were, there
seems to be no good reason why it
should represent mankind, and there is
therefore no pertinence in making the
three measures stand for the true invisible
tfhurch. We beflleve that this
is entirely foreign to its meaning. The
flour 1b nothing more than the sphere
for the leaven's action, and the sole
point In the parable is the simile of the
silent and Dervaslve working r,t fho
leaven. As applied to the kingdom of
heaven there Is no reason to doubt that
It represents the working of the beneficent
spiritual forces of the kingdom.
Tn tills way it naturally stands, not for
regeneration or conversion especially,
but for all the good Influences of the
Christian religion.
We see these influences at work in
the world today on a very wide scale.
The ideas of human liberty, and the
dignitv and worth of the individual iman.
are gaining ground in the whole world;
gnil tVl 1 a la a /-ru?i?ii
.. ..... ... a, ^luuUkB UI UUimiHIllljr.
These ideas have begun to take China,
and Russia, and to some extent even
Turkey. The democracy which is taking
the world is a product of the religion
of Christ. These ideas prepare
the way for independent thinking and
prepare mankind for the reception of
the gospel, which In its inward spiritual
power is more and more permeating the
mass of mankind. There is no reason
to dou<bt that these spiritual forces in
their natural workings under the
guidance of God's Spirit will -ultimately
dominate the world. This is clearly
- taught not only in the plan and tenor
of the hook of Revelation, but in Ezekiel,
its wonderful Old Testament parallel,
as well as in prophecies in Isaiah,
Jeremiah, and Daniel, and others: but
there Is no need to hold that this truth
is directly taught in this brief parable,
except as this is involved in the one
idea of the marvelous power of the
silent, spiritual forces of fhristianitv
There is a naturafi pertinence In the
flsrure of the leaven applying to falae
Ideas and evil principles as -well as to
the good. When our Tjord warned
against the leaven of the Pharisees, and
the Sadueees, and the leaven of Herod,
he so need It; and Haul uses not onlv
the figure of the leaven, but "the whole
lump" as well, applying It to the restricted
sphere of a single congregation.
(1071) IT
Not to be Pressed
Surely there is no natural Te&aon why
leaven should apply to evil Influences
rather than to the good. True it has
been claimed by some fanatics on the
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ouujvwv vi tjv-canea unflrmented wine
that firmentation naturally stands for
uncleanness, but this Is not borne out
either by the symbolism of the Scripture,
or the natural history of germ
life as we have it in the science of bacteriology.
"Wlhile it is true that some
germs are disease producing, by far the
greater number of germs are beneficial
and even necessary in the economy of
nature. And certainly the leaven wTilch
is so universally used in the making of
wholesome wheat bread, the staff of life,
is to be classed among the beneficial
genms. But when used either of good or
evil influences, the beneficial or deleterious
nature of the germ life is probably
not directly in mind at all, but only
the working of an unobtrusive, silent
and powerful force.
The ideas of Justice and of human
rlrht and 1' '
? u^jnjituujk} wuica are exemplified
In the progress of the Christian
nations of the world are an example
of the silent pervasive force of truth
which comes from the true religion.
And the Eastern peoples are beginning
to connect these things with their true
source and to change their attitude
towards the Christian religion.
It may be very likely that the expression
"old leaven," as used in Paul's
writings, expresses directly an evil influence,
but we think it cannot be shown
that the feast of unleavened bread, or
the passover contained any such idea
of the leaven in connection with the
order for its removal, for the historical
meaning of the ordinance Is given with
sufficient clearness to exclude such
idea. In Deut. 16:3 it is called "the
bread of affliction," this meaning not
that they ate much bread in affliction of
Egyptian bondage, but that this hastilv
gotten up meal was intended to give
them strength to escape from the affliction
under God's protection. The lack
of the usual leaven represented the
haste of their departure. We read that
"the people took their dough before it
was leavened, their kneading-troughs
being bound up in their clothes upon
their shoulders." Ex. 12:34. The feast
stood for their deliverance, which
typified their salvation. And as salvation
was deliverance from sin, and a
bringing to God and the regenerated
life, it naturally came to stand historically
for salvation in both aspects. In
connection with the paschal lamb it
passed into the national churdh ritual
as the principal feast of the Jews, the
original and ??./*?.? *?
_ ...vol, (ji/Lirpreueiisive symbol
of their religion. Paul uses the
figure in 1 Cor. 5:7, when he exhorts the
people to "purge out the old leaven,
that ye may be a new lump, even as ye
are unleavened." Iln the same connection
he draws a contrast between the
"leaven of malice and wickedness," and
"the unleavened bread of sincerity and
truth." Let It be noticed that the figure
springs out of the historic feast of the
passover and has no connection with the
nature of leaven as unclean or representing
essentially an evil principle.
Luther Link.
There Is many and many a Bingle
K'u/'ug sum, poor (lien and women in
obscurity and poverty, that God's impels
dwell with more abundantly than
with those who stand In the consplculty
of exhlbltlve holiness. The higher life
Is very low. "He that would be chief
among you, let him be your slave; let
him be minister of all."?'Henry Ward
Beecber.
When reason rules, appetite obeys.