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who are forced to retire from labor
and from Income was due not to a lack
of heart, but to a lack of thought.
Our people are Interested in this
cause as never before. Possibly three
fourths of all the remittance letters
that came to the office contained mes
sages of deepest and most prayerful
Interest in the work. When they be
gin thus to pray they will be faithful
and diligent in making proper pro
vision for those who have worn their
lives out in self-denying service to
Christ and the Church.
The securing of this money has been
at a very small cost to the commit
tee. "Wo did not heed the counsel of
many to employ a great number of
financial agents to secure the funds.
We invited into co-operation with us
those who share with us the responsi
bility in this matter. Time would
fail us to tell of the earnest and help
ful assistance rendered by the chair
men of the Presbyterial committees,
secretaries of the Synodical, Presbyte
rial and local auxiliaries, pastors, eld
ers, deacons, Sunday-school officers
and teachers, and leaders in all of the
various organizations of the Church;
men, women, boys and girls who,
through their prayers, their liberal
offerings, and their faithful efforts,
constantly refreshed our hearts and
encouraged us in our work and se
cured such gratifying returns.
These are all known to the great
Head of the Church. They will have
their reward. "For God is not un
righteous to forget your work and
labor of love which ye have showed
towards His name, in that ye have
ministered to the saints, and do min
ister."
Another remarkable thing about
this campaign is that all of the money
(with the exception of a very small
amount in legal, interest-bearing
notes) has been already paid in cash,
and will begin at once to bear inter
est for the immediate needs of our
faithful ministers. Anyone who has
bad anything to do with financial cam
paigns knows that it is very much
easier to get pledges for future pay
ment than to secure cash offerings.
In addition, however, to the $138,500,
we have secured pledges to the
amount of $3,808, payable in one,
two, three, and in a few instances five
years.
We are very grateful to God for
these rich blessings. Our friend
whose heart was touched by Him has
started influences at work in the
hearts and consciences of our people
that will never cease. Our faithful
young ministers who turn their backs
upon the lucrative positions of the
world and go into the hard mission
fields of the Church will be gladdened
and strengthened, as they have the
full assurance that should they be
come disabled or grow old in the ser
vice their needs will be supplied by
the Church they have served; or if
they be called away from the scenes
of their .earthly labors, the loving arms
of the Church will be placed beneath
the wife and the little children who
are left behind.
To God be all the praise. For He
who ordained "that they which preach
the gospel shall live of the gospel"
Inspired the mind and heart of our
friend, guided hTs servants in their
work, and has crowned with abundant
success their faithful efforts.
Louisville, Ky.
THE JOY SET BEFORE US.
By Egbert W. Smith.
Three weeks of sacrificial living,
February 1 to 21, the period assigned
by the Assembly, will supply our For
eign Mission needs.
Adequato occupation of our foreign
parish requires $1,000,000 per year,
or twice the $527,000 given last year.
Tills is the Assembly's goal set in
1907, Recent missionary estimates
confirm its correctness. Again and
again our Assembly has urged our
people to come up to this mark. It
means doubling our gifts. Prayer and
self-denial will accomplish it. Noth
ing else will. Shall the heroic sacri
fices of Europe put to shame the
Church of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Lost Wo Forget.
In Civil War times the men and wo
men of the South gave the world an
example of courage and sacrifice never
surpassed In human history. In be
half of the cause they loved, renun
ciation became privilege, privation
joy, and whoever put self-indulgence
above his country's need was despised
as a coward and a traitor.
The sacrificial spirit of those heroic
days God grant us now, February 1
21, for the sake of a greater cause
and the supply of a{ deeper need.
This tenth anniversary of our Church's
deliberate and prayerful setting of
the million dollar goal let us cele
brate by reaching It. No other cele
bration will be worthy of Him whose
we are and whom we serve. No other
will meet the clamant needs of our
missionaries and of the darkened mil
lions crying in their cry. The issue
depends not on money, but on those
heavenly resources in reach of all ?
prayer and sacrifice.
Pray ? Deny Yourself.
Get others to do likewise. Spread
the fire of holy resolution by example,
by tongue, by pen, by every means at
your command.
Thus shall we make this year for
ever memorable in our mission his
tory. Thus shall we set a mark for
the Inspiration of other churches.
Thus shall we place In his pierced
hand a love-token through which, In
some real measure, "Ho shall see of
the travail of his soul ana shall be
satisfied."
In the silence of your heart, face,to
face with Him, ask, "Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do?"
PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY OP KENTUCKY. .
Examinations tor the first semester
are now on at the Seminary. They ex
tend from Thursday, January 11,
through Saturday, January 20.
A letter has just been received by
one of the professors from Rev. E. E.
Preston, a native of England, one of
the ables members of the class of 1913,
a minister for some time in Wyo
ming, and now, after six months' train
ing in Canada for machine-gun work,
or possibly by now on the firing line
in the front line trenches in Europe.
He writes from London as a member
of Company D, Canadian Machine
Gun Depot. He writes, in part, under
date of December 10, 1916:
"We came over here last October.
We had every reason to believe that
the German submarine U. 53 was espe
cially interested in our transport, and
we certainly came at high speed, every
once In a while swerving at a tangent
ofT our course In order to avoid any
submarine calculating our probable
position. Guns fore and aft promised
a warm reception for any unwelcome
stranger, and boats were provisioned
and slung out on the davits ready for
lowering at an instant's notice, whilst
It was obligatory for every man on
board to wear hl9 life belt at all times.
However, we made a safe trip and
landed after a very fast passage. ? ? ?
"Life here is very busy and very
real. Shooting, bdmblng, entrench
ing, bayonet fighting, practicing with
gas helmets, all making for one end,
an efficient fighting maohlne. My
original battalion, with which I en
listed and came across to England, is
now practically all in France. I was
sent here about a month ago to take a
special course in machine-gun work.
1 was in London a short while back
and had the very great pleasure of see
ing my parents once again. It would
need a better pen than mine to ade
quately describe life in London at
this time. 'Busy as usual' seems to
be the motto of all; nevertheless, mili
tary precautions have wrought great
changes. The streets darkened at
night prevent the thronging, glitter
ing crowds of peace times, and, of
course, kliakl is the predominant
color. Soldiers from all parts of the
world jostle each other upon the
streets ? Canadians, Anzacs, South
Africans, and a thousand others. Re
cruits in brand-new uniforms, vete
rans in sheepskin coats and covered
with mud fresh from the trenches on
leave, and convalescent wounded ?
all present an ever-changing picture.
As a military factor I think the Zep
pelin raids on London are nil. Instead
of producing a panic-stricken popu
lation fleeing in terror, the appear
ance of a Zeppeline is the signal for
curious crowds, all Immensely pleased
at getting a chance to see one." ? ? ?
Rev. Harry Rhodes, of Kangkai,
Korea, spoke most forcibly at the
Seminary on January 6 on "The For
eign Mission Call and Service," and
the Rev. Faddoul Maghabghab, of Mt.
Lebanon, Syria, whose lecture on the
Twenty-third Psalm has been heard in
many parts of America and abroad,
spoke, some days before, on "Mar
riage Customs in the East." His ap
pearance in the costume of an East
ern bridegroom made more real and
vivid a most interesting lecture.
The winter term of the Y. M. C. A.
Bible School, of which Dr. J. Gray
McAllister, of the Seminary faculty, is
dean, opened Thursday night, Janu
ary 11. The first term enrolled 265
students and the goal of 365 has been
set for the second semester. The fol
lowing courses, with their teachers,
are offered: From Sinai to Palestine,
by Dr. J. Gray McAllister; Social Prin
ciples. of Jesus, by Dr. S. J. Thomp
son; Life Problems, by W. T. Baker;
Life of Christ, by General Secretary
W. 1. McNair; Problems of Young
Men, by J. H. Chandler; Manhood of
the Master, by Dr. C. B. Spalding;
The Ideal Life, by Dr. E. A. R. Torsch.
The last two are classes for the
students of the medical and dental
colleges, respectively. A supper is
given each Thursday night in the ban
quet room of the big half-million-dol
lar Y. M. C. A. Building, at 6:15, for
which a charge of 15 cents is made.
At 6:45 the men go to their classes in
big rooms on the same floor, and ad
journ at 7:30.
OPPOSITION TO CANADIAN
CHURCH UNION.
Canada has led the way in the
world-wide movement toward Church
union, hut, like the course of true
love, things are not likely to run
smooth with the new departure. The
union, which is to come into effect
after the war, is that of the Congre
gational, Methodist and Presbyterian
Churches. Briefly, the Congregation>
alists are to surrender their indepen
dency, the Methodists their three
years' system, and the Presbyterians
their doctrinal standards (there will
be a new united doctrinal basis. of
course). All three denominations
show minorities againBt the scheme;
but while the Congregationalist. and
Methodist minorities are willing to
yield, the Presbyterian minority, es
pecially in Eastern Canada, and the
maritime provinces in particular, are
intractable. The Canadian corre
spondent of the London Christian
Commonwealth points out that In the
new and stirring West, where Metho
dists and Presbyterians have planted
causes side by side in every small vil
lage, and where, therefore, the mis
ery of overlapping is most keenly felt,
there is a solid "plumping" for union.
It is far otherwise in the East. There
an obstinate and impassioned minority
is determined to light to the last gasp
for what it believes to be precious and
vital. They view the surrender of
the Westminster Standards with hor
ror, believing that to depart from It
Is to pluck the linch-pin out of the
whole fabric of Christian faith. They
also feel that the coming union will
"destroy their beloved Church," bury
ing in oblivion its glorious history,
counting as naught the great things
the fathers fought for and won at the
cost of blood. The minority in the
Assembly at which the union was de
cided upon was 93 against 405. Like
the notorious "Wee Frees" in Scot
land, this minority claims to be the
true Presbyterian Church. Will it
press its claims before the civil courts?
The decision of Assembly provides:
that when the union Is consummated
after the war, the dissenting congre
gations shall be asked to take another
vote which will Anally decide whether
they agree to come in or not, the
property rights of non-union congre
gations to be carefully safeguarded.
Should .however, the minority mean
while decide to secede en bloc and lay
legal claim to the entire property of
the Church, this somewhat leisurely
program may have to be "speeded
up" considerably. ? Homiletic Review.
THE FIVE-CENT EGG.
Nourishing aiul Easily Digested, But
Its Food Value Greatly
Overestimated.
With eggs costing all the way from
sixty to eighty cents a dozen, persons
who have never given the subject of
food value and study are now raising
the question, "is the egg as valuable
a food as it has been cracked up to
be?"
Human beings are creatures of
habit. A person sees some one else
eat a couple of eggs every morning,
and he proceeds to do likewise. It
never occurs to him to ask how much
real food value there is In an egg.
But when eggs cost five cents apiece
one may reasonably Inquire, "is the
egg worth It?"
Of course, soft-boiled eggs are fed
to invalids, but it doesn't follow that
the egg is a complete food for a
hearty, robust person. In his famous
work on "Food and Dietetics," Dr.
Robert Hutchinson says: "The ab
sence of carbohydrates prevents eggs
from being in any sense a complete
food, and it would require twenty of
them a day to supply even the amount
of^flitrogen required by a healthy
man."
In other words, you have to eat
something else with the eggs in or
der to make up the deficiency in car
bohydrates. Now, this applies to
strittly fresh eggs. What would the
doctor say about the modern cold
storage eggs? As a matter of fact,
there is much more real nutriment in
two cents' wprth of shredded wheat
biscuit than in ten cents' worth of
eggs. Shredded wheat biscuit con
tains both proteids and carbohydrates
? just enough of each to perfectly
nourish the human body. Two of
these biscuits will supply all the
strength-giving nutriment needed for
a half-day's work or play. They have
in them the material for building new
tissue ? for furnishing heat and ener
gy and for keeping the bowels healthy
and active. - Two of these biscuits
with hot milk and a little cream make
a cortifclete, nourishing tneal at a cost
of n4t over four or flvo esttts.