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March 12, 1913] THE
Editorial ,
This date is the beginning of the week, not
appointed but requested by our Committee as
a week of self-denial and prayer for the removal
of the Foreign Mission debt. We all
want the debt record obliterated, incinerated,
annihilated or whatever will reduce it to nothincnpsa
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this one week, and pile up a surplus in our
mission treasury if we can. Then we will have
a festival of rejoicing and be ready to go on
working with pur might at whatsoever our
hands find to do. Nothing so exhilarates mind,
body and spirit as the deligent pursuit of meritorious
achievement. Let us all share the blessing.
The rowdyism practiced in treatment of the
Suffragist parade in Washington was not only
a national disgrace but a sign of the times.
Our boasted American chivalry was woefully
discounted while respect for law and order
was outraged, we nave fancied that our men
would even hazard their lives in maintaining
respectful deportment toward women, but so
far as Washington authorities are concerned
that idea appears to be a fragment of American
poetry that is now out of print. In truth,
our social ideals may be on the verge of submergence
by a mixed rabble of foreign and native
degenerates who are all too ready to wreck
our social institutions, trample law under their
feet and scorn the righteous judgments of God.
Among the trees of the forest, however stately
or vast, there are some that tower above the
rest. It is also true of men, true of preachers,
even in a church like our own which emphasizes
the parity of the ministry. Sometimes
occasion arises for isolating, in our atlention
and interest, one or another of these
foresters for purposes of intelligent and cordial
appreciation. This time it is Dr. King,
of Texas, Professor of Theology, in Austin
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uvmiuaijr. xuo uuiucu uuuiiuu ui xhs ministry
in Waco and Austin was celebratod in the
former city on February 16. Forty years of
this ministry was spent as pastor of the First
Church of Waco, and ten years as professor
in the Seminary at Austin. The celebration
was not simply a tribute of affection and admiration
from the church which he had served
so long and well, but from the city in which his
able ministry had been conducted and in which
he had been a faithful and true witness for
Christ and his righteousness through a period
of service extending beyond the limits of a single
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to Dr. King's influence in Waco but in the
Seminary whose prosperity is largely due to his
wisdom and untiring devotion; and not only in
the pastorate and professorship but throughout
the Church, for throughout the Church his
name is well-known, and wherever known, is
loved and honored. All friends of the truth for
which the church stands may testify gratefully
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delivered unto the saints. Our heartfelt congratulations
and may years of service still
be added to the eighty yearn in which God's
blessing hi;8 rightly crowned his life.
It looks as if our Associate Reformed brethren
should bestir themselves. Of the eighty-one new
stndents entering Princeton Seminary this session,
seven come from Erskine College, or nearly
twice as many as from any other college, not
excepting Princeton University itself. Sixteen'
in all, of the entering students, come from the
Southern States, against only thirty-eight from
all the other States'east of the Mississippi.
PRESBYTERIAN OF THE 8
Notes and
LIVINGSTONE.
"Centenary of David Livingstone, Christian
Ilero and World-Benefactor" was the title
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substituted "gentlemen" for "hero" which
spoiled it some, but the intent is all right, for
while the great explorer was about as completely
isolated from polite society as ever a hero
was, he was in the truest, most vital sense a
gentleman. He was noble, honest, brave, selfsurrendered,
God-serving. He had a mental
penetration of life's meaning and value that
few men of his day possessed. His mind grasped
the high purpose and the neaven-born privilege
of living, to a degree far above the ordinary
range of human thought. He was a pio
neer not simply of exploration and a new civilization,
but of a new vision. While to others
the sphere of life was simply the boundary of
their own personal interests, he widened that
sphere to embrace all the world and all the
future. Do not such attributes, such upward
range of thought, purpose and sentiment constitute
a true gentleman T
What an illustrious example of the consecration
of secular industry, skill and vocation to
the highest spiritual ends. lie toiled in pov
erty ns the weaver boy of Blantvre, studied by
the dim light of the candle after working hours
were over. lie acquired knowledge that he
might the better fulfill his mission. lie journcd
for months and years through trackless forests,
along river courses and lake shores, braved the
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nil that ho might open the way for
Christian civilization. ITe endured contact
with degraded heathen practices and revolting
barbarities, faced and resisted covetous and inhuman
Rlave drivers, rebuked conscienceless
adventurers and traders, that be might ulti
mately lift the humanity of a continent to the
plane of a transformed, ennobled existence
Tie lived, wrought, suffered nnd died that lie
might forever consecrate the Continent of Af
rica to the Christ whose salvation it was his
supreme mission to proclaim.
Yet we have never really translated this
marvelous life into its true languacre and mean
ing until we have discovered it to be a signal
triumph of redeeming grace. It has no parallel
in pagan annals. # The undevout naturalist,
the materialist, or utilitarian cannot account
for it. Such men might offer the puny
solution of abnormal ambition. Such suggestion
does not tally with the facts. Secluded,
lost to the civilized world, hardships unceasing
and without mitigation, no sympathy from
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profit by his discoveries, a practically boundloss
region to explore -these do not lure ambition
or invite hazardous exploits. Compassion
for the natives, instructing them in righteousness.
appeal for support to the promises of
God, unwavering faith, the spirit of perpetual
prayer, consecration of all possessions to God
unshaken purpose to die in the cause which
he had espoused?these are the fruits and
the token of a life consecrated wholly to the
service of TTim whom ho had learned, from
the old family Bible in liis Scottish home, tc
love and trust.
Whnt a lesson is such a career, to onr hoy?
and pirls of today! TTow laden with sucrsrestion,
incitement and appeal. A life abandoned to
the serviee of Ood is immortal, not only
an the imperishable qualities with which jrraoe
endows it, but in its beneficence to all who come
^ Hhin the reach of its influence to remotest
cren orations. M.
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Comment
THE ROMISH PROBLEM. -
Among the tine addresses heard at the Laymens
Convention at Memphis was one by Dr.
OrtsOonzalez, on "Romanism The Greatest Problem
Now Before American Protestants." As in all
his addresses and writings, the speaker assumed
11 kindly land generous nttjttude toward the
1 Romanists as a people, but exposed in a frank,
intelligent and convincing argument, the perils
of the Romish system as administered in this
country by. the Romish hierarchy, from the Pope
i of Rome on down through his subject officials
u< mc uuscurrai priest ana nun.
The speaker showed, as has been shown a thousand
times over, that the Romish system is funda
mentally and irreconcilably opposed to American
institutions, to the constitutions of State and
1 nation, upon which depends the security of our
civil order, our intelligence and standards of
morality. He showed that efforts to remove
those hostile features of Romanism, that eternal
ly war against the integrity and security of our
national life, had been steadfeastly resisted. He
showed that to-day as in the darkest days of the
dark ages of popery, the hierarchy holds tcn1
aciouslv to those destructive principles that are
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of civil government and liberty of conscience. He
1 showed that the system which has through the
1 ages been the nesting-place of every moral abomination
was entrenohed in the strongholds and
' high-places of government favor, and in tho
! patronage of the metropolitan press, the moulder
of public opinion.
' The speaker did not hesitate to arraign the
' public press and our systems of news service,
' which are censored by Romanist agents, for
concealing the policies of Rome and disguising
1 its flagrant attacks, not simply upon civil institution,
hut upon that most sacred of all human
institutions, the Christian home. Attention
was directed to the familiar fact that the press
is silent about RomLsli slanders of Protestant
doctrine and practice, hut profuse in denuneia1
tion of Protestant "bigotry." The press is
silent about the order of Paulist Fathers which
1 stands chiefly for the perversion of Protestants
to Romanism, but condemns Protestant missions
' among Papists. The press extols the Knights of
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are pledged to the supremacy of the Romish
Church in the affairs of state, and sounds not a
ncte of warning against the growing conspiracy.
Rome denounces our public school system and hy
dominating civil courts throws the Bible into the
glitter yet the press remains complaeent. Rome
L pronounces every American Protestant marriage
to be spurious and the children springing from
such marriage to be illegitimate, yet the press receives
such a pronouncement with equanimity
and refuses to resent this wanton insult to the
wives and daughters of America.
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Withal, the chief peril, in the judgment of the
' speaker, is not that which threatens the state,
hut that which, working insidiously and pervasively,
endangers the Protestant Church. This
danger inheres primarily in the indifference, or
cherished ignorance, or the time-serving sentiments
and methods of our Protestant people. Of
the present state of the case in this particular he
savs:1
That is to me the most distressing feature of
the problem. Catholics are not nnlv mlalen/tlrir*
> and almost controlling public opinion in the
United States, but. they are even misleading,
weakening, yea jblinding aind disrupting the
Protestant American Churches. In marry of our
! most influential Protestant Churches, particu:
larly the ones located in our larger cities and
surrounded by Catholics, the sensitiveness of