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February 26, 1913]
Bat it should be taken for granted that
they will give then: pel voa to the
strengthening of the Church's life and
work, wherever. the need Is greatest
They should be led to feel, from the
beginning, that they have been saved to
serve God in blessing men here, now
and always, not merely to get into
heavon. Again, they should be led to
give themselves to service in the
Church which gave them spiritual birth,
and along the usual lines of church
work, such as the mid-week service, the
regular Sunday services, the Sunday
school, the Bible study classes, the
Brotherhood, the Young People's Society,
the (Missionary Society, etc., all
of which should bo materially and permanently
improved as a result of the
canrpaign. Otherwise it has been a
comparative, if not a complete failure,
and somebody has come far short of
his duty.
The Mid-Week Service should bo
made the rallying center of this special
covenant. All who take it should be
oxpected, encouraged and persuaded to
attend regularly, to take part In testimony,
prayer, report or otherwise. It
irnv "Ko wlon f a oolr Vi rv rrr/Mi r? a? 1 ao A _
ers to report progress -weekly, the pastor
encouraging, guiding and advising
each, and leading ait to pray for each.
Every young Christian must stddj the
Bible In private and in class, regularly,
intelligently, diligently. He must be led
and trained to do so. Every one should,
therefore, enter at once some class for
Bible study. This should be insisted
on, good<iaturedly but irresistibly. The
pastor should press it. The group leaders
should press it. They should bo
graciously compelled to come in.
Parents should be similarly urged
end led to set up the family altar.
There If great need for this. The opportunity
Is golden. Hearts are plastic.
They can be moulded at will by a wise
potter under God.
Then again this Is a good time to or
ganize the men into a Presbyterian
Brotherhood with its class of Bible
Btudv and Its various lines of social,
fraternal, literary, athletic, missionary,
moral reform and other service.
In some congregations the Christian
Endeavor Society, or Young People's
Meeting may be considered of greater
service or suitability*.
The duty and privileges of systematic
and proportionate giving should be discussed,
pressed and organized for, and
KTTUCTi
I Others are Doing
l.SBa.OO In Fhrot Throo Month*. The Exet
Milling Co., doing ?local mllUr.g business at 6ti
I'.y., using a "Mldg*t" Marvel Holler Mill,
showing bow they bare made tl.ca.oo In thai
throe moctbsol operation, which Itemised
maul wo will be glad to tend.
Big Mon?y In the I
The "MIDGET" i
Roller I
More of theee new wonderfully Improvrd
btned. More * the eecret of these great sua
|H man" roller tlour mill, operated complete w
the Strong Competition of the large mill. 1
flourchcaper than the very largest mill, and
barre laud makes U cheaper, he can aell chea
delivery costs, etc. The owner of a "Mldgi
munity and no ont
THE PRESBYTES1J
the claims of Missions at home and
abroad presented as an essential line
of Christian life and service.
The cleansing of the community's life
should not be overlooked. Give warmhearted
young Christians something
worth while to do. Are there barrooms?
Close them. Is there open
social vice? Root it out. Is the
Lord's Day flagrantly violated? Take
up the battle for liberty to rest for every
man.
Above all things, see that every
covenanted Christian undertakes to win
others to Christ. During the three
months of special Follow-Up work many
of those who did not surrender to
Christ during the meeting can be won
by loving personal effort. 'Many may
feel that they do not know hew. They
should receive specific practical instruction.
ITvnnvollalln wnfV hiia nftan Sa?n
severely criticised because the converts
did not prove steadfast. Of
scores, or even hundreds, few are to be
found in church life or service a year
after the meeting ends. This may and
sometimes is to bo charged to the superficiality
of the work of the evangelist.
The evangelist is sometimes better at
reporting numbers than at really winning
men to Christ. He may by frantic
appeals to e.T.otlon lead many to stand
up or to sign a card who do not realize
what the Christian life is. But more
irequcnuy mis uepioraoie siaie 01
things in chargeable to the local pastors
and chnTch leaders. They found the
worlf lagging. They brought in evangelists
to "boost" it. They lay back and
waited to see the trick done. There
was no soul-burdening concern. There
was no personal heart-searching. There
was no turning to God in confession and
prayer and consecration. There was no
painstaking preparation beforehand, nor
laborious personal work during the
meeting, nor serious solicitude following.
No wonder coaverts scattered or
faltered or failed.
Iln a minister's meeting in Boston
some vears ago testimonies were given
ap to the result of the movement. One
said he had been given 104 cards, and
only 4 proved genuine converts. Another
said he had received exactly the
same number of cards as 104, and only
4 had not proved faithful. The difference
In this case undoubtedly lay In the
respective ministers and the Follow-Up
Work. Bach man got out of the camliaVliiiMilW
I ^ Ai I W'W l\wj B B iy
It all Over the Country
isnge Paid far MM Flrrt Vear. Anaon B. Woleott K11U
Brii, Ing Co., of HI. Clemens, Mich., says: "The floor
is better than we could ever make on a f-etand
- . alfler mill we built and opera'ed twelve years In
r "rat this city. We ran make a barrel of flourout of
atato- 4 t-2 buahelacf wheat. Wo paid for Uie mill oat of
the first year'a profits."
Atcal Milling Business With
NARVEL Self-Contained
FLOUR MILL
mills sold In 1*12 than all other makes of flour mills composes.
The "Midget" Marvel la the only complete ''one
Ith only > horse power, that can and does successful I y meet
the "Midget" Marvel will make a barrel of the very best
the owner of a "Midget" Marvel makes a larger j.roiit per
per because he has no selling expenses such as salesmen,
it" Marvel flour mill controls the flour business hi his com*
i can take It from biro.
the "Midget" Marvel. all, the good money that
I being spent In your community for foreign flour. The
mount yon Invest?from tl,7M. up?will come bsckln lets
ban one year. So previous knowledge of milling necetary.
Capacity la 2S barrels a day. Strongest guarantee
ver given with a mill and shipped on M days trial.
Write for Proo Book?"The Story of a Wendeifet
Towr anm" and let us prove to you that not ono statement
re have made la exaggerated. Send post card today.
ANGLO-AMERICAN MILL CO216
Central Trust Bldr., Owsnsboro. Ky.
mmm
i K Of THE SOUTH
palgn in proportion to vrlmt he put into
It. and got what he deserved and all he
deserved.
A simultaneous campaign should
never be lightly undertaken. Nor oftener,
as a rule, than once in three or
four years. It should extend over a
period of full six months. Preparation
of three months, a meeting of two or
three weeks, followed iby organized
special service for three months more.
Such a campaign will nver fall. Does
any other deserve to succeed?
QUESTION A III E FOR PRESBYTE
RIALS.
Urge Delegates to Consider the Following
Questions.
I. Are your programs given careful
and prayerful preparation, sometime in
advance of the meetln??
2. Is the devotional given proper Importance?
3. Is intercesslonal prayer emphasized?
4. Do you urge the use of the Prayer
Calendar?
5. Is the offering made an act of
worship amid silence or appropriate
music?
6. Do you have a "Literary Table"
every meeting?
7. Does your Secretary of Literature
realize her responsibility for increasing
the circulation of the Survey, not only
in her Society, but in the Church?
8. Have you adopted some plan for
planting now Societies where needed in
your pounu?i
9. Are you aiding weak Societies to
grow?
10. Are yon planning to include the
work of the four Executive Committees
in your program for the coming year?
11. Are you striving to approximate
{he Assembly's proportion in your
gifts: CO per cent. Foreign, 21 per cent.
Assembly's Home .Missions, 14 per cent.
"Christian Education and Ministerial Relief,
and 5 per cent. Publicity and Sunday
School Extension?
12. Are you using both Home and
Foreign Text Books in your Mission
Study Classes?
13. Have all classes studying "China's
New Day" sent for the leaflet. "Our
Part In China's New Day." which Is
furnished free by the Women's Auxiliary?
^4 Do you urge upon your Secretary
the need for promptness In sending reports?
16. Will your Society reach the
Standard of Excellence recommended
hy the Woman's Council for this year?
20 per cent. Increase In gifts and 10 per
cent. Increase In membership?
16. Ts votir Presbvterlal resdv tn dr?
its part In sending your Synodica! President
to represent you at the meeting
of the Woman's Council in Atlanta in
May?
17. Have all your Societies sent their
contributions to the support of the
Auxilllary to "Mrs. A. <M. Howlson,
Ptaunton, Va.?
18. Do you urge systematic giving to
Missions on the part of your merrihers,
and close all reports March 31st?
19. Have vou an annual Praise Service?
20. Have you a Prayer Circle?
21. Are yon nslng the office of the
Woman's Auxllllary for the advancement*
of your "work "by writing them
when they can serve you?
22. Is the key-note of your service
sadness and discouragement or JOY
and CONQUEST?
Printed copies of these questions will
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8?pt. Woman's Auxiliary.
Kansas City. Missouri.
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A STATEMENT FROM THE FOREIGN
MISSION COMMITTEE.
In answer to Inquiries that have come
to this office, the present executive committee
of Foreign Missions assures the
Church at large, that all possible precautions
consistent with the R!ifo.ffiinri1.
lrvg of the sacred interests committed to
it, are being taken, and will be taken,
to prevent future debt, when the present
burden is lifted as we trust in God it
will bo by nox: April 1st.
"While no fortnight or mr nagexent "by
any Fc.o gn Mission board has ever
succeeded, or can ever rjueeed, in proeluding
the possibility of an occasional
deficit ar. the close of tho t?r j.J year, yet
Euca anoiiM-r accumulation of deficr.a as
the present debt represents we be'.ie.o
to be impossible under the committee's
present financial methods and safepiards;
impossible, ive are care'ul to
state, so far a* committee management
la concerned. It is tonc?lvoble that tue
committee's income might be disastrously
affected by causes bearing no
relation to tbo committee's management.
The present Foreign Mission Committee
assures the pastors ar.d members
01 our cnurcnes mat it has as keen a
sense or the evil of debt, and as great a
loathing and horror of it, as any other
body of men in our Church can possibly
have.
A NEW "HANDS-ACROSS-TIIE-SEA"
MOVEMENT.
The largest club of girls and women
in the world has entered the field of
social service. The Girls' Cluh of The
Indies' Home Journal has undertaken
to raise among Its members a fund of
$1,200.00, to be used for endowing a
perpetual scholarship in medicine for
Chinese women at The Union Medical
College for Women, located at Peking,
China, with the understanding that tho
successive beneficiaries will devote
their services to the neglected and
suffering among their own sex. June
1st, 1913, Is the date set for the completion
of the fund, and The Journal
has promised to subscribe to one-half
of the fund, $600.00, if the members of
the Club, by email individual contributions,
will make up the remaining $600.
Only members of The Girls' Club are to
be allowed to contribute to the fund,
HOOD NATCRED AGA1X
Good Humor Returns with Change to
Proper Food.
"For many years I was a constant
sufferer from indigestion and nervousness,
amounting almost to prostration,"
writes a Montana man.
"My blood was impoverished, the
vision was blurred and weak, with moving
spots before my eyes. This was a
steady daily condition. I grew illtempered,
and eventually got so nervous
I could not keep my books posted, nor
handle accounts satisfactorily. I can't
describe my sufferings.
"Nothing I ate agreed with me, till
At.. T 41?
uuc uaj x iiajiimicu iu iiuiict? urapeNuts
in a grocery store, and bought a
package out of curiosity to know what
It was.
"I liked the food from the very first,
eating it with cream, and now I buy It
by the case and use it dally. I soon
found that Grape-Nuts food was supplying
'brain and nerve force as nothing in
the drug line ever had done or could do.
"It wasn't long before I was restored
to health, eo:r.f:?rt and happiness.
"Through the use of Grape-Nuts food
my digestion has been restored, my
rerves are steady once more, my eye
sight is good again, my mental faculties
are clear and acute, and I have become
so good-natured that my friends are
trn1? ? *
w?it nsunumicu ul lilt- c:iuiige. 1 ipei
younrer and hotter than I have for 20
years. No amount of monev would Induce
me to surrender what I have gained
through the use of Grape-Nuts food."
Name riven bv Postum Co., Battle
Creek. Mich. "There's a reason." Read
the little hook, "The Road to Wellville,"
in pkgs.
Ever read the ahoTe letter? A nen
one appears from time to time. They
are rename, true, and fall of haman
Interest.