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embarrass the missionary.
If any Circle can undertake this,
write me at once, as these ought to
"sail" early in November.
A few dolls are wanted, too. Small,
light of weight, and not dressed !n
white. (White is mourning.)
And Children's Circles. Would the
children like to send in each ten cents
to help get presents for another school
for Christmas? How many can give
a dime? Or more dimes for more
children? Write Miss Campbell.
IjEAFIjKTS on stewardship.
Presidents, Secretaries of Litera
ture, and especially Secretaries of
Stewardship, and Treasurers who
have vision, will greet with real pleas
ure these leaflets from the office of
the General Assembly's Stewardship
Committee, 410 Times Building, Chat
tanooga, Tenn.:
The Stewardship of Personality.
The Stewardship of Prayer.
Studies in Stewardship.
Thirty-three Tithing Testimonials.
A Man and His Money.
A Catechism on Christian Steward
ship.
The Missing Link.
Write to Dr. M. E. Melvin. Address
above.
HOW TO SEND PICTURE ROLLS.
Wrap strongly in very tough paper
(the journey is long), and tie well.
Under four pounds they go as print
ed matter: more than four pounds,
at parcel post rate. Send to Miss
Lois Young, Suchoufu Ku, China, or
to Misses Johnson and McRobert, Sut
sien, Ku., China, or to Mrs. J. Curtis
Crane, Soonchun, Korea. Each time
be sure to add, "Care of Presbyterian
Mission."
These picture rolls are very much
needed, and very much used by our
missionaries in all of the Korean, and
the North Kiangsu Mission, in China.
These addresses are given to expedite
matters. But at any address found
in your Survey in these countries they
will be most gladly welcomed.
If your postmaster in the country,
or in a very small place, does not
understand how to mail these rolls
or postcards, send them to Miss
Campbell, care Presbyterian of the
South, and they will be promptly for
warded.
TEN COMMANDMENTS
Fop Secrctarieo of Literature.
Thou shalt order thy "Duties" from
the Woman's Auxiliary.
Thou shalt go to the four Execu
tive Committees and ask for a cata
log of their "wares," and samples of
same.
Thou shalt take a Church paper.
Thou shalt take the Survey and a
Prayer Calendar.
Thou shalt know the current Mis
sion Study Books.
THOU SHALT READ ALL THESE
THINGS.
Thou shalt have a literature table
at each meeting of your Auxiliary.
Thou shalt scatter leaflets, charts
and posters through your local
church.
Thou shalt make scrap-books In line
with current study, home or foreign.
Tlrou shalt have no waste-basket.
(For needed addresses, see inside
cover of Survey.)
? From Survey, given by request.
Life's strongest motive Is the Ideal.
The great discoveries in science were
carried on not through the hope of
material reward, but the realization
of an ldoa. The Unaeen rules thu
world.
AT FLORIDA 8 Y NODICAL.
By Mrs. Modest, whose pen is a mighty
power in this Synodical.
The President's Solioquy.
(With apologies to Shakespeare.)
The President:
I've been the President of this Auxil
iary for 'most a year,
And it has not improved, that's very
clear.
They laughed at me to-day in meet
ing!
Is that a thing that I can stand re
peating?
To be or not to be ? that i3 the ques
tion:
Whether I can longer this dread of
fice suffer
(An ignorance of its duties is my
misfortune),
Or to prepare myself against my sea
of trouble
And by information end them. To
resign and sleep
In peace, and by that resignation end
The heartache and the thousand rude
shocks
My members give me ? 'tis a consum
mation
Devoutly to be wished. To resign
and sleep,
But sleep ? perchance to dream, ay,
there's the rub.
For guilty consciences make dreams
to come,
And dreams like monster serpents
coil.
And we our conscience must respect
If we would spend in peace our life.
For God would have us use for Him
our time,
Would have us to improve continual
ly.
I wonder why my own so long delay
In studying my duties, and the turns
That an Auxiliary which is ambitiou3
takes
When fun of me my members make,
With ill hid pity! Who would this
scorn bear,
To simply live at ease a lazy life?
But rather study quite one's self to
death,
From late at night to rise at early
morn.
To learn the turns, struggling still,
To make us know the best of plans
to have,
And giving us the world to think of.
Thus conscience wakens us to under
take it all,
And thus we seek with resolution
The source of better plans than we
have ever thought.
And inspiration to work every mo
ment.
With this resolve our minds are awry,
And lost for need of Information.
Soft, you now!
The fair visitor! And through your
pages
Be all my faults corrected! Miss Pres
byterian of the South.
(Enter Presbyterian of the South,
who speaks):
Oood! My President, I've come to give
you every aid to-day,
Just turn my pages as I turn, I pray
(turns slowly, President exam
ines),
You'll see that I am published in
Virginia,
"The roses nowhere bloom so sweet
as in Virginia,"
The papers nowhere know so much
as in Virginia,
But I must not on that strain here
continue.
For on my first page yoj will see
Quite cosmopolitan I try to be.
And only in the local news
Does old Virginia seek front pews.
On my pages you will find
Helpful letters of every kind,
(Continued on page IS)
Laymen and Their Work
COMPARATIVE RECORD OF TWO
DENOMINATIONS.
The writer has long been a mem
ber of the Northern Presbyterian
Church; hence he has no hesitation
in offering to the religious press for
publication the facts given below.
Self-support is not the only nor the
chief mission of the Chrurch. The
measure of its real success is its be
nevolences; what it does, not for it
self, but for othrers. Also the con
tributions per capita is the only fair
method of measuring either progress
or decline. The figures of benevo
lences, as given in the Assembly Min
utes of both denominations for 1919,
1920 and 1921 and in the Church
papers for 1922 are as follows:
Northern Church.
Member- Benevol- Per
ship. ences. capita.
1919 1,605,033 $11,707,633 $ 7.30
1920 1,637,105 17,310,690 10.57
1921 1,692,558 16,040,319 9.47
1922 1,756,918 14,551,620 8.28
The loss in 1921 was $1.10 per cap
ita; in 1922, $1.19. Only 98 cents
separates the per capita gifts of the
last year from the record of 1919,
the year in which the New Era Move
ment was started.
It is interesting to compare these
figures with those of our brethren of
the Southern Presbyterian Church.
Their record is as follows:
Southern Church.
Member- Benevol- Per
ship. ences. capita.
1919 364,230 $2,722,186 $7.47
1920. 376,517 4,161,453 11.05
1921 397,058 5,894,232 14.81
1922 411,854 5,472,320 13.28
The per capita gifts to benevol
ences in the Southern Church last
year were exactly $5 more than those
of their Northern brethren, a differ
ence of more than 62 per cent.
If the Northern Church had given
in the same proportion per capita,
their gifts would have amounted to
$8,784,590 more than was reported
to the General Assembly.
In the previous year, 1921, the con
tributions of the Southern Church to
benevolences were $14.84 per capita;
of the Northern Church, $9.47, a dif
ference of $5.37.
Gifts in the same proportion,
$14.84 per member, would have in
creased the offerings of the Northern
Church to missions and other benev
olences by $9,089,033. For the two
years, 1921-22, the increase would
have aggregated $17,873,624.
Why This Difference?
In my opinion there is only one
reason, but that is sufficient. The
leaders in the New Era Movement of
the Northern Church stressed giving,
everybody determining hris or her own
proportion to give. The leaders of
the Progressive Campaign Committee
of the Southern Church accept Qod'a
terms of proportion, the tenth, to be
paid, and hence stressed tithing.
Are there any reasons for believ
ing that if the Northern Presbyterian
Church had pursued the same meth
ods and used the same literature as
their Southern brethren, the results
would not have been at least equal?
Is not nearly eighteen million dol
lars in two years a rather stiff price
to pay for mistaken teaching?
In a pamphlet now in the press
entitled "How One Denomination Is
Succeeding," the methods of the Pro
gressive Campaign Committee of the
Southern Presbyterian Church, so far
as the circulation of tithing and stew
ardship literature is concerned, are
given in detail; also offers of practl
cal partnership with denominational
leaders, ministers and individual
church members, who desire to edu
cate their people in tithing. Upon
request this pamphlet, with two
others bearing on the same subject,
will be sent free to any address by
the Layman Company, 35 North Dear
born Street, Chicago, 111. ? Moody
Bible Institute Monthly.
NORTH MISSISSIPPI LAYMEN.
On November 8th-9th the Laymen's
Association of North Mississippi Pres
bytery will meet in Senatobia, and
the Program Committee is arranging
a splendid program. All laymen who
are expected to attend are requested
to let Mr. W. P. Perkins know by
November 1st, if possible, or not later
than November 5th. If you expect
to attend write us your Intention.
Then, if you are prevented, no harm
will be done.
HE SILENCED THE DEVIL.
If you find yourself getting miser
ly. begin to scatter, like a wealthy
farmer in New York State as the
story goes. The man was a noted
miser, but he was converted. Soon
after, a poor man who had been
burned out and had no provisions,
came to him for help. The farmer
thought he would be liberal and give
.the man a ham from his smoke
house. On his way to get it the
tempter whispered to him, "Give him
the smallest one you have."
He had a struggle whether he
would give a large or a small ham,
but finally he took down the largest
he could find.
"You are a fool," the devil said.
"If you don't keep still," the far
mer replied. "I will give him ever
ham I have in the smoke-house."
The Near East Relief stipend for
orphanage directors, doctors, nurses,
or other administrators, is fixed on a
purely social service basis designed to
cover only reasonable living expenses.
Near East Relief work, therefore,
does not appeal to anyone whose ma
jor consideration is salary. It does
appeal strongly to anyone whose ma
jor purpose is service. Expense of
administration is greatly reduced by
the free use of valuable lands, build
ings and other properties overseas,
and by the voluntary service of many
people Irrespective of race and creed.
It isn't the job we intended to do
Or the labor we've just begun
That puts us right on the ledger
sheet;
It's the work we have really done.
Our credit is built upon things wo
do.
Our debit on things we shirk;
The man who totals the biggest plus
Is the man who completes his work.
Good intentions do not pay bills;
It's easy enough to plan,
The wish is the play of an office boy;
To do is the job of a man.
? Selected.
Friendship cannot be permanent
unless it becomes spiritual. There
must be a fellowship in the deepest
things of the soul, sympathy with the
best endeavors. ? Hugh Black.
"Jesus came to Nazareth, where He
had been brought up; and, as Hia
custom was, He went into the syna
gogue on the Sabbath day." ? Luke.
Tire poorest use for a man's brains
Is to think forever about himself.