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not a raw enthusiast, devoid of insight and experience,
but a mau trained and educated (learning
in the schools and the experiences of life.)
The great need still is for men constituted as
Moses was, for leaders who know something of
history, because certain industrial experiments
have been sufficiently tried, and there is no need
that every generation should try them over
again; for leaders who know something of economies,
because the rewards of industry cannot
be distributed straight along on the basis of
feeling and sentiment in defiance of sncinl ins
tice and economic law; for leadens who know
something of morals, because the sources of motive
and stimulus, the incitements to activity
and honesty, to prudence and thrift, cannot be
overlooked by anyone who is planning the betterment
of a people?in a word, for leaders who
are acquainted with nil the facts and forces
which bear upon the entire situation. The call
is loud for trained and skilled leaders, competent
enough to grasp the problem and to correctly
point the way. It is not too much to (say
that this demand for lendnrs hrnnwht nr*
the ranks can in time be adequately met
(through the public school system, the State universities'
privileges, the public libraries' facilities,
the increasing recognition by the rank and
tile of the moral obligation ot' taking thought for
one's class and for those interests vaster every
way than the acquiring of an individual competence."
TRAINING FOR SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP.
"The study of Sociology alone can produce
men of knowledge to discern the times and shape
the activities of the Church to meet new issues
as they come. The whole college course should
have the development of great spiritual leaders
in the forefront of its purposes. It is not sufli
cient that tlic college should stand in the vision
of the people as a glistening snow-clad mountainpeak
of splendid intellectualism. It must cause
the fertilizing streams of its glacial heights to
flow down for the enrichment of the valleys below
and for the healing of the nations. The
measure of efficiency of the ordinary seminary is
its ability to lead students to see what stage of
development our civilization has reached in its
approximation to the kingdom of God; to see
what contribution the Church may further make
to that end, and to develop capable, effective, and
spiritual leaders of the people in the ways of the
kingdom. We do not need champions of the
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pa-si, uui upusues or me iurure. . . . Ministers,
in the best sense of the word, must be
free to be men of affairs, promoters. The
church, to attract virile young men, must blazon
forth the possibility of a career which will justify
their consecration to the ministry; and the
outstanding fact is that their full esuipment is
impossible unless they know the world in which
they live. A minister without a working knowledge
of social problems is seriously out of joint
with the times. The modern social question cannot
be fought through, crowded through, or
blundered through; it must be thought through.
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van mam nas sum: i. ne Jtciormauon was tne
work of a monk; the Revolution must be the work
of a philo-sopher." But, we add, if the revolution
is to be .safely guided, the philosopher must
also be a saint. ... If the Church fulfill
her functions of moral inspiration, she must develop
a corporate conscience and purpose to
meet the high calls of duty and sacrifice demanded
by expanding social ideals."?S. D.
Chown, D. D., Oen. Supt. M. E. Church of Canada.
TRAINING FOR SUNDAY 8CTTOOL WORK.
The churches not only need trained workers,
but properly qualified trainers of workers, especially
in the Sunday school. Reader, are you
a member of or worker in the school of the
PRESBYTERIAN OF THE Si
Church? Wouldn't you like to be a better workcr
aud do more work for the Master? Send for
your own denominational Sunday School
*'Teacher Training Course," and either by yourself
study, or get up a class for study, that you
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ways of meeting the needs of the lives committed
to your charge under God. This is the best
and surest and only systematic method of solving
your problenis and of raising the standard of
your school's efficiency. Will you take the way
pointed out to you? If so, you'll be trained for
service. * r
Crowley, Louisiana.
A REMARKABLE EVANGELISTIC
CAMPAIGN.
ITKNRY M. JIALL.
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a large manufacturing
centre, fifteen miles from Pittsburgh,
Pa., has experienced for the lust six weeks a
marvellous moral and. religious change. This
was the result of an Evangelistic and Temperance
Crusade, against irreligion and vice, by
the ministrations of a wonderful preacher aud
temperance reformer, by the name of the Rev.
William A. Sunday. A man now of fifty years
of age, and for more than a score of years engaged
in Ohio, Pennsylvania and other middle
western States in Gospel work. He started life
as an athlete and sporting character. He was
converted to Christ and he became an active
worker and director for some years, in the Y.
M. C. A. service. From that, he graduated, by
force of character, native eloquence, magnetic
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2-...-. vu.u>t,iiul aval, 1UIV L11C U1U31 successful
evangelist. He is so valuable and popular,
that his engagements are always two years
in advance. Two years ago he was secured for
this McKeesport, autumn season. An immense,
architecturally, designed and most Comfortably
arranged tabernacle was erected for this
campaign, by the Y. M. C. A. and other workers
there, at a cost of about $8,000.
This structure seats 10,000 people, and with
standing room, has accommodated, it is said
about 13,000 auditors. Sabbath day, December
15th, the concluding services occurred. A banner
occasion; never in my life have I beheld
bu uittiijr uieu, amy men, togetner in a building,
all entranced by one speaker. It was a grand
sight Sunday afternoon to behold that sea of
10,000 uncovered heads and faces of earnest
men, each appearing eager for the "words of
life" and salvation, as spoken by "Billy Sunday,"
as he is affectionately called.
The early morning service consisting of upwards
of a thousand children direntlv in fmnt
of the platform, and eight or nine thousand
men and women, was also a most inspiring
scene, with its music, songs and speaking. In
some of the hymns, the chief leader called on
all that wished to whistle, to whistle in the
choruses. This was largely acceded to, and
produced not a discordant, but an interesting,
enthusiastic, spiritual effect, such as I never
before witnessed. The concluding evening
service was most spectacular. Deafening roars
of cheers shook the building, as the Mayor of
the city, Dr. Steele, the newly elected Asseiri
blyrnan, and five hundred other men professed
belief, and shook hands with Mr. Sunday.
That the people of "The Tube City" are
grateful for his strenuous six weeks' labors for
the uplift of its people, its young men, employees,
and all classes, is emphasized by this
last day's contribution to Mr. Sunday, the only
collection given him during his campaign.
The amount of all the contributions, during
the three meetings of this Sabbath, December
15th, footed up $13,411.
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liicli aud poor, young and old, look pail iu
raising this magnificent gilt to a beloved leader.
These gifts started from a $1,000 from
"McKcesport Tin Plate Co.," along down to
$500, $300, $200, $100, $50, $25, $10, $5, $2 and
$1. Many of the one dollars were the combination
of a number of children, etc., after that,
me universal " uasaet collection," (in tin
pans) was taken. At the men's meeting a
resolution was passed by a ten thousand "rising
vote," to the Mayor, and City Council to
"enforce the laws relating to Sabbath observance,
gambling, slot machines, disorderly
houses, etc.
t is stated, that upwards of 10,000 persons,
iu.ee been led publicly to profess belief in the
Saviour. Many saloons, even breweries, have
been disabled or closed, by this great religious
and temperance revival. Mr. Sunday is a remarkable
reformer. Seldom have greater tangible
results been achieved, than bv his elo
quent preaching. The story is similar iu all
cities wherever he has been, a3 an evangelist.
He is an earnest Christian, oratorical, magnetic,
wise, witty, a natural actor, and dramatist,
peculiar but biblical, and capable, seldom
equalled or excelled in the annuls of accomplishments
for the Master.
Pittsburgh, December, 1912.
HEART AND MOUTH.
DY EDWIN A. WILSON.
"Yea, in heart ye work wickedness." Ps.
58:2.
'' W ith my whole heart have I sought Thee.''
Ps. 119:10.
"Thou givest thy mouth to evil." Ps. 50:9.
"All the labor of man is for His mouth."
Ec. 6:7.
"He hath put a new song in my mouth."
Ps. 40:3.
"My mouth shall praise Thee." Ps. 63:5.
God's methods are right and His messages,
as found in the Holy Scriptures, are simple
enough when they, in their simplicity, are accepted
as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth. This pre-supposes preexisting
faith. All God's utterances are hard
problems to no faith. The application of reason
fails utterly to furnish their solution. The
faithless finite has no access to the infinite
apart from grace.
God, in emphasizing the mediatorial work
of His Son as presented by Paul through the
Spirit in 1 Cor. 5:21, says:
"For He Hath Made Him to Be Sin for Us.
who knew no sin; That we might be made the
righteousness of God in Him." He discloses a
double purpose in action and in reaction, typified
by the serpent of brass (Nehushtan) as recounted
by Moses. Num. 21:6, 9, and verified
fifteen hundred years later by the self same
Spirit in John, 3-14. Thus, the heart and the
mouth in man become connecting links in con
bcijuuui ucuon, to point the two fold aspect
of Salvation, Godward and manward.
"For with the Heart (man) believeth unto
righteousness, "Godward humanly speaking,
the heart, the vital, human center, alienated in
the beginning.
"Deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked," when operated upon by the Most
Holy Spirit, becomes the incipient seed plot
for engrafting the incorruptible word which
liveth (through faith) and flbideth forever.
"For out of the heart, are the issues of
life." The heart, then, dominates the life. The
heart corrupted by the evil one, openly and
defiantly opposing its Maker, becomes under
the sway of the Spirit of the gracious God, a
breeding ground for such serious impressions
as shall at onco change the whole course of