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July 23, 1913 ]
MAKE AN INVESTMENT.
The Christian Worker's Home at 'Montreal
N. C., has been turned over by the
contractors and furnishings have been
installed and the unique institution
starts upon a career of usefulness that
is limited only by the space available
for workers.
The reservation of rooms is going
forward rapidly and it is evident the
mm mug win on iaxea 10 lis capacity
during the latter part of July and the
early part of August,
The nominal charge of $1.50 per week
or second floor rooms and $1.00 per
week for third floor rooms will be made
this year to provide for care of the
nnilding and incidental expenses. Meals
may be had at private houses for $5.00
to $G.G0 per week and at the hotels for
$7.00 per week. While this arrangement
represents a reduction in vacation expenses,
we shall not reach our ideal
until we put in a restaurant, which must
be done before another year.
There are scores of workers serving
iu hard places for pitifully small salaries
who will never enjoy a vacation
until friends provide for the entire expenses
of a brief rest.
It is the chief purpose of this article
to suggest that individuals and church
societies seek out such workers and
send them to Montreat for a ten days' or
two weeks' rest. Special fifteen day
tickets will he on sale on following
dates: .luly 15th, 18th, 25th, 28th, and
r.Oth, August 1st, 5th, 8th, 11th, 12th and
18th. The rates for these tickets is 3c.
per mile for round trip. Regular excursion
tickets are on sale every day,
good until October 31st.
i hp granmae 01 uiese woraers ior
the privilege of enlarging their equipment
for service by attending the course
of lectures at Montreat cannot find adequate
expression in words, and their
eager attention and constant attendance
is really a moving spectacle. The program
this year is especially rich in the
coarse cf Bible lectures offered by such
specialists as Drs. English, McPheeters,
Vinson, iMc/VlUster. Howard Agnew
Johnson. Ogden and others.
As previously announced, special
funds have been provided to furnish 25
of the Ihirty-four rooms in the Home
and wo earnestly hope the remaining
nine rooms will be pledged before the
summer enas. i ne cost 01 rurnisiung a
room is $50.00 and payments may be
made at pleasure of donor. The following
rooms have been assigned:
Atlanta Westminster Room.
Special from Dublin, Va.
W. H. Howe, Memorial.
Oapt. John A. Douglas, Memorial.
Wos. Societies, First church, Nashville.
Mary D. Irvine, of V os. Miss. Society,
First church, Danville, Ky.
I radios' Aid Society, Belmont, N. C.
ladies' Aid Society, First church, San
Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Wm. M. Kincald, Memorial. First:
church. Charlotte, N. C.
Montreat Room, W. lM. S.
Wos. Foreign Missionary Society, San
Angelo, Texas.
J. A. McBryde. Memorial.
'Mrs. W. C. Campbell, Memorial.
Lena Quarterman Whitman, Memorial.
Church Societies, First church, Savannah,
Ga
Daniel Fritchi? and Adelaide Morrison
Snmmey, Memorial.
The Shunammlte Room.
Woman's Society, First Pres. church,
Knoxvttle, Tenn.
Special from Mitchells, Va.
Ladles' (Miss. Society, First church.
Bristol, Tenn.
Arkansas Room.
Special from Thomasville, Ga.
Miss l/ou Withrow Room.
iSpeci3l from Raleigh, N. C.
We still need $800 to complete payments
on the building and we confident
THE PRESBYTERI
iy exncct to receive this amount from
generous friends before the summer
?mds. Make all checks payable to R. E.
'Magill, Special Treasurer, Box 1176,
Richmond, Va.
T1IE SOUTHERN STUDENT CONFF.RENCE.
Tiie Southern Student Conference of
the Young Men's Christian Asociation,
held annually at the Association
grounds, near Black 'Mountain, N. C'.,
adjourned on Thursday night, June 27th,
after a seslon of ten days.
There were present at this Conference
270 delegates from the College and
University Y. M. C. A's. of the South.
ITow genera! the attendance is may be
seen from the fact that the University
of Virginia had four delegates; Vanderbilt,
eight; A. and M., Auburn, Ala.,
nine; Oeorgla Technical, six; University
of Florida, five.
Preparatory academies, denominational
colleges, normal and technical
schools,, and the State Universities
were well represented.
The purpose of this Conference is to
bring together the most earnest and
thoughtful young men in the colleges
for the study and discussion of vital
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the numbr of men a college may send.
Rather, all the colleges are encouraged
to send as many of their best men as
possible. These picked young men give*
themselves with great zeal to their
studies. Life at the Blue Ridge Association
is pretty strenuous. Reveille
is blown at 6 A. *M., breakfast is at 7.
Classes begin at 8, and continue till
12. Everybody carries a note-hook, and
uses it, and few stragglers are to be
found, cutting classes. The afternoons
are given to athletics and mountain
climbing, but there are classes and lectures
again from 7 P. M. till 9:30.
Four or five courses are offered in
Bible study, and as many in mission
study. The most popular mission
courses this year were on. '-The Call
of the Country," taught by Mr. Henry
TrTAAK nf Vpw Vnr?lr oHir
"Rural Manhood," and the two courses
on "Negro Life in the South," and
"Present P'oreos in "Negro Progress,"
taught by 'Messrs. J. L. Sibley and Jackson
Davis, respectively. These gentlemen
are State superintendents for Alabama
and Virginia, of negro rural
schools.
The .principal addresses were delivered
'by Bishop Lambuth, of the 'M. E.
Church, South, Air. Robert E. Speer, of
New York city, Dr. E. IM. Potent, president
of Furman University, Dr. W. D.
Weather ford, student secretary for the
South, and Mr. W. <M. Vories. ot Japan.
It is scarcely possible to overestimate
the influences for good that go out to
all parts of the country, and indeed of
the worM, from this Conference. Men
often decide here upon their life-work:
some resolve to become ministers at
home; some to become medical missionaries
abroad, while many a man
gets a new vision of the help he can
give in the battle for the right in collego,
in city and in country.
Loyalty to God, and love to men,
without respect to race or color, are
the dominant notes of these Student
Conferences. Is It too much to ask
that when our college boys write home
for permission to attend them, that
parents givo it cheerfully, even If it
means a further sacrifice for the /ay's
sake. Such sacrifice is well worth
making.
W. H. Mills.
Or makes a friend where'er he come.
And loves the world from end to end,
And wanders on from home to home!
O happy he and fit to live
on whom a happy home has power
To make him trust Me life and give
His fealty to the halcyon hour.
?Tennyson.
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AN OF THE SOUTH
THE ASSEMBLY'S MILEAGE PLAN.
Two Presbyteries called the Assembly's
attention to its mileage plan, one
asking that the Assembly abolish it, or
reduce its cost, and the other suggesting
a way to reduce its cost, by printing
:he Mileage Committeee's report in full,
giving each commissioner's expenses.
The Assembly declined both suggestions.
In view of the fact that there is same
disatisfaction with the present plan, and
that two of the strongest Presbyeries
have wihdrawn from it, we believe the
Assembly acted unwisely in declining
each of these proposals. One objection
to the adoption of the plan originally
was that it removed from the Inspection
of his comrades each man's expense account.
Dallas Presbytery asked that the
Mileage Committee's report be printed
in full in the appendix to the Assembly's
Minutes, along with other reports. It
is estimated that this would have added
$10 to the cost of the Minutes, but it
would doubtless have saved much more
in the long run. At a recent meeting of
'the Assembly, the writer overheard two
commissioners from a distant State talping
ahout their expenses. NutrJber 1
asked' ''What were your expenses?"
Number 2 answered "$30." Number 1 replied,
"How did you come for that sum?
'My expenses were $65." Yet these two
men traveled almost the same distance.
Prsldent Wilson's policy is to turn the
light on everything in public affairs.^ It
is a wise suggestion. The Mileage Committee
asks no questions, puts no restrictions
whatever upon any man's bill
of expenses. To print it would 'be some
sort of restriction. No honest man
< -l i- i At- -
c-uwuiu uujcci >u nit? wmoie cnurcn KnowIng
just what it cost to send him to the
Assembly. The last Assembly combined
the two taxes, contingent and
mileage, for the next year. What the
furpose was in this we do not know,
unless it be a device to try to get Presbyteries
to nay all taxes, or none. The
pastors' salaries is the 'best test of a
Presbytery's strength, and it would be
a juster basis for the Asseixlbly's taxes.
And each commissioner's expenses
ought to be published, so the Church
might know what each man's services
cost her. We believe this would be
more nearly equity, and would have a
tOndoilCv tn roHiiPA ovnfincAc onH
carry out Nashville Presbytery's suggestion.
Lux.
A\ APPRECIATION.
By Rov. C. n. Dobbs, I>. D.
Among the most highly prized treasures
Is an autograph copy of "Among
the Llllles." a book of sermons by Dr.
Edward O. Guerrant. It contains 25
sermons that go to the heart
That vast host who have been brought
to Jesus by this great soul winner will
!'nd some of the sermons that helped
and some of the sermons that brought
WIVUI V.U UCCIOIUII.
Ministers of the gospel will be glad to
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Christians will be cheered and
strengthened, and their hearts will be
warmed as they read these discourses.
Those burdened by sin will find guidance
and instruction sure. He tells the
gospel story with wonderful simplicity
end force, and his own self-sacrificing
labors and service back up and enforce
vyeijr worn ne uners.
Those who want a book of sermons
for any of these purposes or to read now
iind then In the home or for use in the
absence of the pastor will scarcely find
anything that will please them more
than this.
The 20th sermon, entitled, "The House
We Live In," is of itself worth the cost
o* the book, and could have been written
only by one skilled in treating the
hody as well as the soul. Every physi
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I write this because these sermons
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' The Psalms in Human Life.'' By Rowland
E. Prothero. Cloth, 12 mo., pp.
331. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.,
1913.
This is a renrint. in n ????.? ??
. ? ? uiuoi. liaiiuy
little volume and at a very low price,
of the splendid English work first issued
ten years ago, but published in such
form as not to be adapted to popular
circulation. It is a work that ought to
be in the hands of every student of the
Psalms. As the title indicates, it is a
record of the Psalms as they have
wrought their way into the human life
and experience. Unlike other works
dealing with the same theme, it does
not take up each Psalm and show historical
instances of Its use, but It deals
with periods and epochs and traces the
working and application of the Psalms
in the developing history of mankind.
The first chapter, which is general
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.uuu^ui;. ueuis wim me Psalms
as the mirror of the human soul, shows
their universality, as to age, variety of
creed, their relation to poets and men
of letters and literature in general, and
their power over human lives in all the
ages of history. Then follow most analytical
chapters on the history of the
Psalms in the Early Ages of Christianity,
the Formulation of Nations, the
Middle Ages, the Reformation Era, the
Struggle Between Protestant Ene-innH
and Rorran Catholic Spain, the Hugenots
1521-1762, the Puritans 1600-1660.
the Scotch Covenanters and the Revolution
of 16S8, the Religious, 'Missionary,
and Philanthropic Movements from 1688
to 1000. One appendix contains an elaborate
list of authorities and a Bibliography.
Another appendix contains an Index
to the Use of Particular Psalms.
This Index is of immense practical value
in the tracing and study of each Psalm.
The whole work is scholarly and
philosophical in the highest sense. Its
publication in the present form niiedit
to be appreciated by many who could
not avail themselves of the work before.
Its opening paragraph is worthy
of note: "Above the couch of David, accorddng
to Rabbinical tradition, there
hung a harp. The midnight breeze, as
It rippled over the strihgs, made such
roupie that the poet-king was constrained
to rise from his bed, and, till the
dawn flushed the eastern skies, he wedded
words to the strains. The poetry
of that tradition is condensed in the
saving that the Books of Psalms contains
the whole music of the heart o?
(Continued on page 21.)