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ANALYSIS.
. <?nn M nf B Songs of D - Son SS ° f E - Songs Os F. SODgS Os
the Hope. the Process. C. Songs of the Will. cxix. the Pilgrl ' the Expert- the Perfected
cvii.-cxii. cxiii.-cxviii. m^e - . ence - r Prais ®’
cxx.-cxxxiv. cxxxv.-cxliv. cxlv.-cl.
I. The Hope. I. Jehovah’s The Perfections of the Re- |, The Far I. Sufficiency I. Introduc
cvii.-cix. Activity. vealed Will. Country. of Jehovah. tory. cxlv.
i. Assurance cxiii., cxiv. Aleph. 1-8 cxx., cxxi. cxxxv.-cxxxix.
of faith. i. His humili- The Perfect Law. i Desire, cxx.
cvii. ty. cxiii. Beth. 9-16 It Assurance. ”• He,p, ! s ®‘ ”■ J ® hovah ; ..
ii Fixity of ii. His accom- The Way of Cleansing. cxxi. ness of Man - cxlvi -> cxlvu.
faith, cviii plishment. Gimel. 17-24 cxl.-cxliii. 1. Grace.
iil Triumph cxiv. The Fountain of Joy. 11. The Start. cxlvi.
of faith cix Daleth. 25-32 cxxii., cxxiii. ii. Govern-
The Strength of Trial. t Anticipa- ment. cxlvii.
H. The Reason. 11. jehovah-s He 33-40 Sufficiency 111. The Wor-
1. The Com- cxv., cxvi. Vau . 4148 dence. cxxiii. „ xlix
mg One. ex. i. The Pas- The inspiration of Testi- The Jour . cxllv .' , Creation.
ii. The Great- sion. mony. cxlviii
ness and The glory of Za i n 49-56 n.y. . y „ The
Grace of Je- His name. The comfort of sorrow. . exlix
hovah. cxi. cxv. Cheth 57 . 64 hjSCap ® >
iii. The Bles- ii- The Ex- T he medium of fellowship. .. ® ’ IV. The Dox-
sedness of perience. T eth. 65-72 | ** rst ology. cl.
the Trust- Darkness The key of affliction. p.™ P n °
ing man. and Deliver- Jod> 73 . 80 J’ ° ‘
cxii. ance. cxvi. T he depths of desire. ' . J
Caph. 81-88 cxxvi.-cxxxi.
111. Jehovah’s The confidence of darkness. a ‘ aug . er
Praise. Lamed. 89-96 P 6" 1 ’
cxvii., cxviii. T he foundation of faith. tence - .
i. The Call of Mem 97-104 cxxyi.
the Ideal T h e delight of life.
Servant. Nun. 105-112 stren S th -
cxvii. The Light of pilgrimage. Th ® XX X •
ii. The Song samech. 113-120 c -The Family
of the Re- The Line of rectitude. .. es P° n ®
deemed. A in. 121-128 K 37
cxviii. The hope of distress. ‘ , ac ,
Pe 129-136 ward look -
’ ~, . -1 cxxix.
The light of life. Penitence
Tzade 137-144 e " renllence
1 Zade \ . . ,na and Confi-
The knowledge of God.
Koph. 145-152 f i
The inspiration of devotion. ’ ® s f
IKQICQ Will of God.
Resh. 153-168
The principle of life.
Shin. 161-168 jy. The En-
The true wealth. . trance.
I Tau. 169-176 cxxxii.
The perfect Law.
V. The City
and Worship.
cxxxiii., cxxxiv.
i. By Day.
cxxxiii.
ii. By Night.
cxxxiv.
Among the Workers.
The exchanges, religious and secular, North,
South, East and West, are bringing, news of re
vivals and soul-saving meetings. It is not practi
cable to reproduce these stories here. But the far
reaching influence of the revival spirit and work is
everywhere manifest. Its power has seldom, if
ever, been equaled. The Welsh revivals were in a
little corner of the Isle of Great Britain. This
work in America extends from Hudson Bay to
Panama, and from Newfoundland to the Pacific.
The New York Examiner quotes this fine para
graph from The Outlook:
No one who ’ does not know other liter
atures, and especially other Oriental litera
tures, can appreciate the extraordinary dif
ference of note between the Bible and other
literatures; its puiet, apparently unconscious,
assumption of authority, its definite and un
hesitating attitude of command, its direct
statement without any attempt to buttress its posi
tion by abstract reasoning, its simple narrative of
unprecedented experiences and unusual events as
if they were matters of common knowledge, its
freedom from abstract statement, its. marvelous
concreteness. It habitually wears the air and uses
the speech of revelation; it never explains, justi
fies, reasons; it is throughout a literature of intui
tion, insight, and vision anchored solidly in hu
man experience and vitally bound up with histori
cal events. It is, alcove ajl other books, the Book
The Golden Age for July 11, 1907.
of Life, not only because it deals with the ulti
mate things of the soul, but because it is the book
of the life of a race; bone of its bone and blood
of its blood in its sub dance, but soaring far above
the reach of its highest experiences in its revela
tion of God to men and of man to himself.
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business Men and Missions.
The American laymen’s movement of systema
tized, businesslike supervision of missions is said
to be the first movement within at least the last
two hundred years in which men of the whole
English-speaking world have joined together for
a Christian purpose. Mr. William J. Schieffelin
and Mr. J. Campbell White, two of the deputies
from America, have returned from the conferences
recently held in England, and report that at the
last meeting held in London, which was attended
by more than a thousand men, it was decided by
vote to organize a committee of one hundred lay
men to carry on the missionary movement in Eng
land and Ireland, and it was announced shortly
afterward that enough money had already been
raised to pay the salary of a permanent secretary
for this committee. The American committee of
laymen were invited to cross the Atlantic and ex
plain the new system of co-operation which is
bringing working Christians together in America.
Meetings were held in various cities of England
and hi Edinburgh. As described by the roiTC'po’i
dent of the New York Tribune:
“At the conferences and public meetings, Mr.
Alfred E. Marling is ordinarily the first among the
delegates to talk about missions from the p int of
view of a business man, and to show the disad
vantages of the present system of divided councils
and lack of organization. Mr. William Jay Schief
felin usually follows him, and gives an account of
the origin and progress of the lay movement in
America, which has received the support of all
the Protestant organizations. Mr. J. Campbell
White is the statistician, who has the facts of mis
sion work at his fingers’ ends, and makes a con
vincing demonstration of the necessity of united
action if the results are to be immeasurably en
larged. Mi‘. Silas Mcßee, Editor of The Church
man and chairman of the delegation, invariably
sums up the case in an incisive and earnest speech,
in the course of which he reads an eloquent letter
from Secretary Root in support of the movement.
In the London conferences and meetings the Ca
nadian delegates, Professor Hoyles, of Toronto,
and Mr. Woods, have also taken an active part.
These American and Canadian laymen, speaking
with business! k° directness and bro'd-mindvl
tolerance, have shown how much can be accom
plished by laymen in supervising mission work
with practical intelligence and in increasing the
interest of all religious denominations in it.”
Captain Mahan, a member of the American com
mittee, unable to be present, wrote a letter assert
ing that “in the activities of the mission field,
where they are brought face to face with alien
conditions, Christians will ultimately find the so
lution of the worst of their home problems —
namely, their corporate separateness from one an
other —and be brought together in the single su
preme purpose of common, concerted ae’ion.” This
purpose of the movement is further elaborated in
these words:
“The contributions to mission work abroad, out
side the Roman Catholic communion, amount to
$21,800,000, of which 85 per cent is drawn from
England, America, and Canada. This may be an
insignificant sum in comparison with the magni
tude of the field, but it is an investment suffi
ciently large to require prudent supervis : on by
business men. If laymen can have the guaranty
of energetic, experienced men that the m-mey is
not wasted, that missionaries are not idlers sup
ported in luxury, and that the work is efficientlv
managed, there will be a ine’ease of
the receipts. That is the practical method in
which the American laymen have presented the
case, and they have explained how easy it has
been to obtain thirty-eight volunteers as experts
for the investigation of foreign mission work, es
pecially in the Far East, at their own expense, and
how important it is to issue a call for the ser
vices of another hundred. So long as the work is
conducted by missionary societies on denomina
tional lines, there will be well-grounded suspicions
that a large share of the capital invested is ex
pended in emphasizing differences of theological
views and ecclesiastical organization. The laymen’s
movement begins with concerted action on com
mon lines, and must end with concentration of ef
fort, the introduction of systematic organization,
and the prevention of unnecessary waste.”
The American investigators, it is asserted, will
visit this year Japan, China, Korea, India, the
Philippines, Africa, Arabia, and Turkey, travel
ing in groups and studying in detail the mission
ary work now in progress throughout the non-
Christian world. Further:
“Their reports will be published early next year,
and cannot fail to be helpful in interesting lay
men of all religious denominations in the evangel
ization of the world. It is a preliminary campaign
of education conducted by business men at their
own expense, and when it is closed it may be pos
sible to devise a comprehensive plan of operations
for future work. It does not involve the creation
of a new missionary board, nor any interference
with administrative organizations already in ex
istence. It implies sympathetic co-operation among
all Protestant communions for a common end, and
denotes a close approach to church unity.” —Ex-
change.
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