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KMI'LiOYED CHRISTIAN WORKERS
TO MEET AT MONTREAT.
The Association of Employed Chris
tian Workers of the Southern Pres
byterian Church, which was organ
ized at Montreat last summer, com
posed of Pastors' Assistants, Church
secretaries. Directors of Young Peo
ple's Work, Secretaries of Religious
Education, Salaried Sunday School
Workers and Bible Teachers in Sec
ondary Schools and Colleges, will hold
its annual meeting at Montreat dur
ing the Young People's Conference In
June.
An interesting program pertaining
to the different departments of Church
work represented by the membership
will be presented, and discussions of
the various phases of the work will
be heard.
An opportunity for enrollment of
new members will be given, and the
annual election of officers will be
held.
Persons unable to attend this meet
ing may be enrolled as members by
sending proper credentials to the Sec
retary, together with the $1 member
ship fee.
The officers at the present time
are as follows: President, Miss Nancy
P. White, Huntington, W. Va.; Vice
l'resident, Mrs. C. E. Mead, Tampa,
Fla.; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss
Aline McKenzie, Durham, N. C.
MT. OLIVE, N. C.
Instead of using the whole of Sur
vey Week to canvass for new Surveys
and renewals, our new Secretary of
Literature, Mrs. B. W. Souther
land, with her live assistant, Mrs.
Faision Witherington, put the
canvass through in one day. Of
course she did lots of work before
the day came in securing her can
vassers, mapping out the territory
to be covered, planning a little party
at the close. Our church was already
on the Survey Honor Roll. Canvass
ers met at Mrs. Southerland's home
on Wednesday afternoon, and after a
prayer were sent In teams of two to
every home In our congregation for
new subscriptions or renewals. When
the canvassers returned they reported
results, and it was found that nine
teen new subscriptions had been se
cured, twenty-five renewals, and that
with the ten new subscriptions the
past Secretary had Just sent in, makes
rtfty-flve Surveys in our congregation
of sixty-three homes. Of course, she
is planning to see the representatives
hi those other eight homes as soon
as they are in town, because her goal
is a Survey in every home.
The work done cannot be too high
!y praised, for It was most excellent
ly planned and carried out with great
enthusiasm, all heartily co-operating
'o make it a huge success.
Mrs. W. M. Baker.
TUSCALOOSA PRE8BYTERIAL.
By Mrs. Charles N. Maxwell. .
In the beautiful historic town of
Selma, in the heart of the great
hlack belt, where the Confederate
Government erected the large arsenal
?f the Confederacy and where was
built the first iron-clad vessel ever
taken into action, met the twenty
sixth annual Woman's Auxiliary of
Tuscaloosa Presbytery on April 11,
1822.
Representatives from sixteen aux
iliaries were present; twenty-five del
GKates, nine officers and three Synod
'eal officers registered; Many auxil
iaries have adopted the Circle Plan.
rhe financial and educational reports
^ere all most encouraging. More
women studying the Bible and mis
sions than ever before.
The new Standard of Excellence has
been placed in many of the auxilia
ries. The Home Missionary, Miss
Burnett, brought a message from the
mountains. Mr. Robert Miles, pastor
at Auburn, spoke of the Young Peo
ple's Conference at Mobile in June;
Rev. E. B. Robinson, in charge of
the Orphans' Home in Talladega, made
a fine plea; Rev. A. G. Irons told of
Evangelism in Tuscaloosa Presbytery.
Our Synodical President made a fine
report.
The most beautiful service was the
memorial hour. Some faithful work
ers have left us; though we see them
no more in bodily presence, they live
on in the lives of those whose lives
they have touched and brightened.
The women of the Presbyterial mourn
the going away of these faithful mem
bers, and record their sense of loss
with sincere sorrow.
A most beautiful and impressive
pageant was given at the church one
evening. The music rendered added
much to the pleasure of the occasion
and the hospitality of Selma was gra
cious and overflowing.
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
A NEW PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL.
FOR RICHMOND.
For several years a large private
school for girls has been conducted
in this city, known as the Collegiate
School. This has recently been
brought by the Presbyterian League
of Richmond, and will hereafter be
conducted under its auspices.
The school is located on Monument
Avenue, the handsomest residence
street of the city, and is adjoining
the lot to Grace-Covenant church. It
has two large buildings erected for
the school only a few years ago, and
which are admirably suited to its pur
poses. There is also room for an
athletic ground, or for future enlarge
ment of the buildings when needed.
The property is valued at $150,000.
The school is in successful opera
tion with more than 260 pupils in
attendance this session. The pros
pects are for a much larger attend
ance next year.
This school will supply a long felt
need in Richmond, where there has
been no Presbyterian school for
girls. There is every reason to be
lieve that those who will have charge
of it, under ' the direction of the
League, will make it a first-class
school for preparing girls for college
work.
Richmond is to be congratulated in
having such an organization as the
Presbyterian League, which can un
dertake such an enterprise, with every
prospect of success.
RECIPE FOR PRK8BYTERIAV
SCRIPTURE CAKE.
1 cup of Psalms 65:21.
3% cups of 1 Kings 4:22.
3 cups of Jeremiah 6:20.
2 cups of 1 Samuel 30:12.
2 cups of Nahum 3:12.
1 cup of Genesis 24:17.
(Or substitute Judges 5:25.)
1 cup of Numbers 17:8.
6 of Isaiah 10:14.
A little of Leviticus 2:1?.
A tablespoonful of 1 Samuel 14:
25.
Add 1 Corinthians 5:6.
Season to taste with 1 Kings 10:
10.
Follow Solomon's advice for mak
ing good boys (Prov. 23:14), and
you will have a good cake.
Note: This would make an Inter
esting Bible Study for your circle un
til you undertake a heavier Bible
work.
I
Laymen and Their Work
CIRCULATING TITHING
LITERATURE.
"Layman," of the Layman Com
pany, 35 North Dearborn Street, Chi
cago, sends us the following report
of the number of pages of literature
advocating tithing which that com
pany has furnished to denominations
and individual ministers and church
workers for circulation in their
churches during the five years com
mencing January 1, 1917, and ending
January 1, 1922. The figures are as
follows:
1917 10,817,000 pages
1918 8,901,600 pages
1919 17,374,000 pages
1920 21,996,700 pages
1921 21,968,000 pages
Total 91,058,100 pages
From January 1, 1922, to May 6th,
faur months and six days, orders have
been received which aggregate over
10,566,000 pages, making a total of
over 100,000,000 pages.
May 6th the Committee on Conser
vation and Advance of the Methodist
Church ordered 181,000 copies or
seven pamphlets, over 2,000,000
pages.
From January 1 to March 1, 1922,
the Baptist Young People's Union of
America, through its General Secre
tary. James Asa White, ordered a to
tal of 3,170,000 pages.
During six months from September
1. 1921, to March 1, 1922, the Bap
tist General Board of Promotion, New
York, and the State Convention sec
retaries of nine different States, or
dered a total of 1,699,400 pages.
Tithing literature is stewardship
seed. The church or denomination
that sows the seed bountifully will
reap an abundant harvest of. -tithing
stewards with a corresponding in
crease in church support and offer
ings for benevolences. My experience
of more than forty-five years, espe
cially during the last five years, abun
dantly proves this statement.
THE GREAT INVITATION.
Another Chance.
What will you nay to the man who
has failed in mora' life? Answer h!m
as Napoleon is said to have answered
one of his marshals. The marshal
rode up- and said: "General, I fear
the battle is lost." Napoleon coolly
looked at his watch and replied:
"Time for another battle. Summon
the army to a fresh charge." ? The
Optimist's Good Night.
How to Come.
Samuel H. Hadley, of the Water
Street Mission in New York, said that
one day after a long debauch, and
with several indictments for crime
threatening him, he found himself
sitting on the top of a liquor barrel
in a saloon. In his dazed condition
he fell into a mood almost of despair
All at once, however, there came
floating to hiB brain a remembrance
of the cross of Calvary, and the Sa
viour who hung on It. He felt
strangely roused to try and go to
that cross. Suiting his action to his
materialized thought, he climbed
down from the barrel to "go," as he
said, "to the cross." But as he did
so he fell headlong to the floor.
"But," said Mr. Hadley, "I fell to
ward the cross, and Jesus picked me
up."
Room for Failuren.
"His great establishment Is made
up of failures," laughed a man who
was describing one of the largest and
most successful mercantile establish
ments in a great city. "That is, it
is made up of men who have started
in business for themselves and failed,
though they are experts in their cwn
particular lines. Knowing how to
manage a special line of work is one
thing, and knowing how to manage
all the details of a business is quite
another." And so this man with the
fine business ability has gathered to
his aid these others, each an adept
in his own department, and out of
the combination has come the great
mercantile house that is known
throughout the nation. The failures,
fitted into their proper places, be
come a success. Something of that
kind is true in the universe-wide en
terprise that the Creator holds in His
hands. ? Forward.
Call of the I>argor Life.
Rev. John McNeill tells of a friend
who had kept an eagle confined in a
hen-house. He caught it when it was
young, and had brought it up, as far
as he could, like a domestic fowl.
Having to leave the country, he de
cided that he would set the eagle
free. He opened the place in which
it had been kept, and brought it to
the back yard. How the eagle was
astonished! It walked about, feeling
as if this were rather bigger than its
ordinary run; but that was all. The
man was disappointed, and, taking
the big bird in his arms, he lifted it
and set it up on his garden wall.
It turned and looked down at him!
The sun had been obscured behind a
cloud, but just then the cloud passed,
away, and the bright, warm beams
poured out. The eagle lifted its eyes.
Pulling itself up, it lifted one wing
and stretched it out ? and then lifted
the other wing ? and outstretched It.
Then it gave a scream, and soon was
a vanishing speck away in the blue
of heaven. The eagle had had no
choice of its home; but we have.
Living in a hen-house when we might
soar in the heavenly places! Living
in a hovel when we might rule from
a palace! Let us seek a spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowl
edge of Christ, that we may know
what is the riches of the glory of
his inheritance in the saints. ? Pacific
Baptist.
OPPORTUNITY SOON GONE.
The impressive story will bear
repetition of a sculptor who showed
his visitor a studio full of statues
of the gods. One statue presented a
very odd appearance, the face being
covered with hair, to conceal it, and
wings being represented on each foot.
"What is the name of this statue?"
asked the visitor. "Opportunity,"
was the answer. "Why is his face
hidden?" "Because men seldom
know him when he comes to them."
"Why has he wings?" "Because he
is soon gone, and once gone, he can
not be overtaken!"
In that allegory there is a striking
lesson. Success comes, as a rule, to
him who knows his opportunities
when he sees them, and, seeing them,
embraces and exploits the chance for
all it is worth, before It flees from
him. ? New York Observer.
A Sabbath well spent
Brings a week of content
And strength Tor the toil of to-mor
row;
But a Sabbath profaned.
Whatsoever is gained.
Is a certa'.n forerunner of sorrow.