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February 12, 1913 J THE 1
Editorial 1
Advices from Winchester, Va., are to the
oifeot that Dr. James R. Graham has returned to
his home after surgical treatment at the hospital.
He is steadily regaining strength and his
general condition gives promise of complete re
uovery. The treatment afforded the desired relief
from a lingering infirmity that had been
increasing and had been a source of weakness
and pain. Dr. Graham's host of friends will
rejoice together and give thanks.
The school-master is surely coming to the
front! Not content with having seen the vote
of the people of Tennessee recently given to
Wood row Wilson, of Princeton, for President,
the Legislature of that State has just elected
William R. Webb, the principal and owner of
Ihe famous Webb School, of Bellbnckle, Tcnn.,
to the Uniled States Senate. ''Sawney " os hi?
boys affectionately call him. will hold hiR own
beside the ablest in that august body, and as to
vigorous speech, of the kind that men listen to,
he will quickly take his place in the front rank.
The nature and purpose of the church have
everything to do with the character of the
preaching that is appropriate to the pulpit. If
Ihe church be. as one has lately put it, an ambulance
tx> answer hurry calls for rescue and relief,
it is not right for her to waste her time on
doctrine, hut should devote herself to the study
of methods of "first assistance,'* and the like.
Instead of beunc a henrnn nn/1 cniwlo and rdl.M
doing a great part lo keep the ship off the rocks,
she may let such work go and give herself entirely
to takiDg care of the wrecked.
Some of the features of the Eastern European
situation are very far from creditable to the nations
immediately concerned. Austria and
Roumania are specially worthy of condemnation.
Taking advantage of the fnct that Servia
and Bulgaria have been engaged in a most
strenuous and exhausting, as well as bloody war,
both these nations h^ve been mobilizing their
armies and using every means possible, almost
to the threatening of war, to wrest from Servia
and Bulgaria territory which they covet, and
yet for which they have not spilled a drop of
blood or run the slightest risk. Their acts have
been those of the bully and coward who takes
ndvantaee of the situation of those whom they
would attack and rob.
A secular daily has several times criticised
Protestant opposition to Home Rule in Ireland
as being due to religious intolerance. Just how
it is that Protestant objection to government by
a parliament overwhelmingly Roman Catholic,
is intolerance, does not appear. If anything in
religion is conclusive to the average intelligence
it is that a basal principle of Romanism demands
that the Church shall dominate *he State. But
for this claim and its enforcemtnt, Romanism
would long ago have become approximately extinct.
The arraignment of Baptists, Episcopalians,
Methodists. Congregationalists and Presbyterians
in Ireland on a charge of intolerance is
unwarranted by facts. Protestant denominations,
the world over, are pledged to religious
toleration : Romanism is historically and avowedly
against it. For this reason Protestants oppose
Rome Rule in Ireland. A large part of
the secular press is addicted to fawning unon
Romanisnv Tt must have its reasons. This
practice is deplorably common and amnsinsflja
transparent to the observers of journalistic,
diplomacy.
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P B E S B 7 T E B I A N Of THE 30
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Our valued exchange, The Associate l'resbyItrian
Maya zinc, mentions some severe jolts that
Christian Science is receiving in the failure cf
well known cases of treatment of disease. A
much-heralded cure of a long standing case of
cancer was followed bv a return of the riisense
and death of the patient. A little girl in New
Orleans died of diphtheria tinder Christian
Science treatment, and her father and the
"practitioner" are under indictment awaiting
trial by the civil court. An outbreak of diptheria,
including twenty-six cases in one city
was traced to a home where no physician was
called to attpnd the first ease, because the par
ents were Christian Scientists. Such occurrences
are distressing, and if it comes to the worst
we may have to turn over our Christian Science
friends to the fumigation department of our
health boards.
The faculty, students and many guests of
Union Theological Seminary are just now enjoying
the series of lectures by Dr. David James
Burrell. which have fnr <cnmo fimo Kppti
with pleasurable interest. The lectures are sustained
financially bv the James Sprunt Foundation,
which is well endowed by one of the most
generous and loyal friends of the Church. Dr.
Purrell is widely known as pastor of the Marble
Collegiate Reformed church, of New York City,
a church in which the light of evangelical truth
shines with a clear, steady Tadianee. He is
President of the Alliance of Reformed Churches
Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian
System. The lecturer brings forth out of his
Irw.sure of experience and learning. things new
and old. all burnished and aglow with intense
conviction, while dignified and refined by a
spirit of profound reverence. The Sermon, Its ,
Construction and Delivery, ia the speaker's |
topic. Rarelv is the master and his theme so {
liappily associated as in this instance. "With the ,
instruction and example afforded our young men
in the reerular prosecution of their studies, and ]
the added furnishing of such a course of lee- (
hires, they should go to their life-work well
equipped for the high calling to which they have
dedicated mind, body and soul.
The Webb-Shepherd bill, which is desighed to
remove federal protection from inter-state ship
ment.s of liquor in violation of State laws will .
come to vote in the Senate February 10. It is
confidently expected that the bill will be favor- i
nbly reported and will be passed by the Lower ]
House. For fifty years efforts have been made j
to secure the passage of such a law. Obstructive
methods, directed by the liquor interests, i
have hitherto prevailed and the will of our vir- ?
tnous people has been thwarted. These tactics ,
are still being employed. Since January 1st, re- <
peated efforts in the Senate to secure a vote on 1
the bill have been defeated. For this purpose <
the two Mormon senators, Messrs. Sutherland and
Smoor. Senator Reed of Mo., Senator Ixvdge
of Mass.. and Senator Warren of Wyoming. have ,
been used. Wilber F. Crafts, of the Internation- i
al Reform Bureau, says that "when the vote .
romes there is little doubt of a big majority for <
the measure in both House and Senate. But the
broadside of petitions, letters and telgrams from
the neonle in behalf of this bill should eontinne t
until the hill has passed both houses of Congress
and reeeived the President's siprnature.** ,
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Tt is probably that the marriaire of Mr. Pinley |
Shepherd and Miss ITelen Oould attracted nn- i
usual attention because of the bride's wealth. <
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but there were other reasons more worthy and
which gave better /jest to the pleasurable interest
of the public. Mr. Finley Shepherd is a
prominent business man of high Christian character,
the well trained sen of a Presbyterian minister.
That is something to rejoice in at a time
when it is common for an American heiress to
marry a foreign title having a human string to
it. lahplpH "n mari " ri?1,1i i
_ ...u... .iimd uuuiu s iit115c uenefactions
that had been continued through a
series of years entitled her to an unusual degree
of public appreciation. Some years ago
she was declared to be the most popular American
woman in a voting contest of considerable
prominence. But none of these facts need to
Oe recalled did they not lead to the further remark
that Mrs. Shepherd is a Christian woman
of sound evangelical faith. Last year a dormitory
which she had given to Northfield Seminary,
Mr. Moody's great school, was dedicated. In a
brief address 011 that occasion, Miss Gould said:
"It is a great pleasure to me to give this dormitory
built in memory of my dear parents, to
Xorthfield Seminary. Especially am I glad to
do so. believeing that Northfield will stand in
the future, as she has in the past, for faith in
the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of
his apostles. I hand you the keys, and entrust
this building to your care. May God's blessing
rcwt upon those who come within these walls, and
may faith, peace, and kindliness dwell here."
NOTES IN PASSING
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BY HK3T.
There is something pathetic, alTurkey's
though in accordance with strictest
Downfall, justice in the fate which has at last
overtaken Turkey. With the giving
up of Adrianople, Turkey will cease to be numbered
with European nations. "The Sick Man
of the East" has for many years made the muhiol
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...... ^u.iiiwuo ui iuf great powers tne prop to
sustain his wauing strength. At last that prop
lias failed him. His barbarous dealing with the
Christians in his borders has brought its only
possible return. The nations that forget God
must die.
The abandonment of the inaugural
F-xatnple. ball by President-elect Wilson has
borne immediate fruit in tb*
iluction of a resolution into the legislature of
Texas to the effect that the inaupural ball for
the povernor is not in harmony with the sentiments
of the Christian people of the state. The
inaupural ball was not much of a ball anyway.
It afforded an opportunity thrnuph the sale of
tickets for men who pot credit for liberal contributions
to pet their money back, and incidentally
for women of fashion to display their
clothes and icu-nls Rut
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room to dnnce. "Wood row "Wilson with his strong
iommon sense nnd democratie tastes has rather
i small appreciation for dress parades. A soul
adorned with the majesty of eternal troth, a
mind en great ideals, a just conception of
man's true relation to his fellows and his God
ire worth more to a commonwealth than the vain
lisplav of extravagance in hodily adornment.
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\>e are to love the laird with
Our Strength, all our souls, with all our minds.
and strength. To love flod
vith all onr strength is a curious phrase, but a
fory beautiful one. Tt brines to my mind a
[>ieture of a strong man. taking bis child in his
irms and carrying him safely across a danger>ua
chasm, or ont of a burning bouse: his