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that constitutes the real efficiency of an
army; it is the quality of the soldiers.
A few veterans like Cesar's legions from
Gaul could march over the Roman en-
pire. A Church organisation in which
every man and woman stood ready to
sell his Cor her) possessions, and to part
them to all men, as every man had need,
would equal in momentum twenty 9th
er organisations Of neither-hot-nor-cold
Christians each one of which should be
equal in numbers with the first.
And this is the answer to our ques-
ton the world will be converted when
the Church is converted and private
church members realise that the same
standard of conservation is laid upon them
that is laid upon the professional leaders
of the Church. And we deem it not at
all improbable, in this day of great ell
terprises and gigantic movements, that
we may see very decided step taken in
this direction by large bodies of devoted
servants of Jesus Christ. The tramp of
that host, when it breaks up its camp,
and sets out on that march, will be the
signal for the conquest of the world to
Christianity
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Austin College, Texas.

DIR. Palmer writes concerning Austin
College: The number of students is now
81, fine body of young men, and 1 think
we will surely go up to 100 if nothing
happens. 1t is evident that we can make
a strong, fourishing College, if we can
only maintain the faculty. l believe we
would have 200 boys here next year.
But as long as we have the interest on
the bonded debt to pay there is danger
of trouble financially, and the danger is
greater this year than perhaps it will
ever be again. The success of the Col
lege is beyond all doubt, if we can have
the pecuniary aid we need at this crisis.
IeraS PreSbwer5o7.
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MARSETLLEiS

1t is gratifying to learn that the Pro-
testant mission work is being carried on
with important results in many parts of
France The London Christian contains
letter from Major General Haig giving
an account of the mission which has been
established in Marseilles under M. Sail
lens. We gather from this letter that
work of considerable magnitude is being
conducted in Marseilles among the chill
dren as we'll as the adults of that great
city. Mr.. Sg"4ns speaks of gathering
of 700 child recent occasion when
prizes were Yributed among them.
These seven ldred were all Sunday
School scho' There is much larger
number ont of the secular schools.
Besides the rem assembled on the
occasion reie to there were seated
around in the body of the hall and gal
leries some 1900 persons, mostly their
parents and friends.
1t was" says General Haig, truly won
derful sight, full of hope for the future of this
great country, as it must also have been full of
encouragement to M. Saillens, and the band of
ernest and devoted laborers who help him in
the Mission. Who could have conceived few
years ago that 1000 persons in the second city
of France would have been willing to meet to-
gether in the most open manner, to manifest
their hearty interest in the Sunday Schools
where their childrden are taught salvation by
Christ alone, and to read and learn and love the
Word of God? Anything more significant or
suggestive in regard to the evangelisatlon of the
masses of this country can hardly be imagined"
The letter goes on to say that M. Sail
lens has now nine halls in the city where
fourteen meetings are held every week,
besides Bible-classes, mothers meetings,
and Sunday Schools. The attendance at
these fourteen meetings is about 1000
weekly.
With such an attendance, with such a gen.
eral readiness to hear and with the popular
sympathies evidently on his side, NJ Sallens
feels that the time has come for a yet more open
and public proclamation of the Truth than has
yet been attempted. He would like to tax the
hall where the meeting l have described was
held, and to hold an evanglistic service there
every Sunday evening He believes it would
be well attended, and that many would 90 to it
who are not seen at the smaller meetings"
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WHEN WILL THE WORLD BE
CON YER TED2

Who knows but that the time will
come when the ideal Church will be the
real Church? We can conceive that the
Church of the Future will have this dis
tinguishing mark as contrasted with the
past experience of Christianity-that it
will, in the length and breadth of the
Church, be a living Church. and not a
dead Church. Brightly the fame OF
Christianity leaped up at first, when Paul
wrote his letters to the Colossans and
the Thessalonians, wherein he spoke of
''their faith in Christ j esus, and the love
which they had to all the saints" Of
+their work of faith, and labor of love,
and patience of hope III our Lord Jesus
Christ" and how his gospel had come
unto them mot in word only but also
in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in
much assurance" When one reads these
Pauline epistles, as also those of the other
apostles, he observes that Christian
Church then was very different thing
'Nst they soon became, "a
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-01-31

The most important paper read at the
late Congregational Union at Bristol,
England, was that of Mr.. Bachelor of
Newcastle on 1.-THE Distinctions between
the Church and the World" Mr.. Batch
elor expressed the opinion that these were
being fast obliterated. Amusement was
becoming one of the chief ends of life.
Dancing, billiards, card-playing, theatres,
were now the fashion among protesting
Christians. Since the exhibition of 1851
there had been great change for the
worse.
The same state of things exist in Amer
lea. 1t seems to us that society in the
United States has been revolutionised in
twenty years. The appetite for excite
ment and amusements seems to be insati-
able. There is a vast change in the tone
of our young people-indeed, fearful
change Reverence as sentiment does
not exist in the sense that it once did.
Our home life in the cities is passing
away; our young people, like the Paris
ians, spend their evenings at the theatre,
at the opera, at the granddaughter
but in the quiet home circle.
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A New PHASE IN MISSIONS -The re-
cent progress in the matter of self-sup-
port among the churches of the India
and Ceylon Missions, says the Missionary
Herald, organ of the Congregational
Churches, has been very marked, and
gives much promise for the future. AS
indicated in letter from the Rev. Mr..
Hume, none of the twenty three churches
in the Maratha Mission received the past
years any aid from the Board towards
the support of their pastors. Five Of
these churches are entirely Independent
of any aid, and the other eighteen have
grants from the Association of Native
Churches, which raised last year a small
fund for this purpose. In the Madura
district seventeen of the thirty-four
churches receive no aid from the Board
though several of them are aided by the
Native Evangelical Society. In the Cey.
lon Mission only three of the fifteen pas
tors and preachers seek help from the
Board, and the whole amount appro-
priated the past year for these three
pastors is less than $40. Of the seventy.
one churches in India and Ceylon con.
nected with the American Board, there
are fifty that receive nothing from its
treasury. This statement is as crafty.
ing as it is remarkable.
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WE have received another communica-
ton from r. r. II. in reply to AN
Elder" We have already stated that
we could not continue this discussion.
The matter between "R. r. H." and
" Elder has, as stated By Elder" in
the hali-dozen lines from him in the last
Central, been reduced to an issue on
fact. One affirms that the Supreme
Court decided so and so; the other ira
verses. AS " Elder" suggests, the only
way to decide this point is to read the
opinion of the court in Watson Us. Jones.
That is the onl y way. to settle it. There
is no use in arguing about it.
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AMBETTA

Describing the death-chamber of the
departed statesman, the Paris CORES
pendent OF the Times says:
The eye looks in vain for any symbol con-
Meeting what is below with what is above
There is nothing suggestive of the existence of a
soul. With the last breath everything calling
up the inner man seems to have Disappeared
1t is not spectacle encouraging to sceptlcal
ideas. 1t leaves painful impression and there
Is nothing to console those looking on. Yet
there are men of great intelligence and high
position, themselves the threshold of death,
who are displaying deep emotion. Some are
even weeping, and their sobs break the gloomy
silence.
Upon which the Pail Mall Gazette re-
marks: =
Considering that Gambetta was an avowed
Freethlhker, and that most if not all of those
who were weeping at his bedside We're Free
thinkers too, surely the display of the crucifx
or other Catholic symbol would have been a
piece of hypocrisy much more melancholy than
the honest recognition of a notorious fact.
The display of the cruci6x would of
course have been out of place. They did
not believe in the crucifx. The question
is, what did they believe in? and whether
it was not on the whole very unsatis-
factory state of things for Gambetts and
his friends?
1t IS true ~
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The Missionary Herald says: "The
North Pacific Institute at Honolulu.
under the care of DR.. Hyde, is fast sup
plying the need of pastors for the Haw-
allan Churches The three students who
graduated last year have been ordained
and installed on the Island of Maui,
which is now well cared for There are
now twenty-three students in the Insti-
tute, and DR.. Hyde speaks of them as
older and giving better promise than pre-
vious classes"
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The number of hymns in the New
English Presbyterian hymnal will be
about $40, exclusive of anthems and dox-
ologies. Compared with hymnals used
by other Churches south of the Tweed,
says the Rev. w. Rigby Murray, this
figure may be even regarded as small,
the New Wesleyan Hymn Book contain
ing 1925 hymns, the Congregational
1891, the Baptist 1000, the English
Hymn Book 1850, and "our Own
Hymn Book" (Spurgeon's) 1929, while
tue episcopal hymnals range from the
472 OF Hymns Ancient and Modern, "
to the 1925 of Snepp's Songs of Grace
and Glory"
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WHY does the world dislike the word
" Presbyterian? For the same reason
that they dislike the word "godliness.
1t is religion in serious form. Reli-
gion in mild form they will hob mob
with; but when it comes to reading books
like "Owen on Indwelling Sin" or SER
mons on "The Expulsive Power of New
Affection" or going to plain old-fash-
Toned prayer meeting, not only "the
world, but even your mild Christian, "
shrugs his shoulders, and thinks Though
ne may not speak,, az do not like It'll"
Now, the Christian Git such he is called)
ought to examine himself if he catches
himself feeling this way. The real mean
ing OF it is that he is trying to get along
on just as little religion as possible the
minimum quantity. He wants to go to
heaven, and all he asks is just to squeeze
Through. But many of these will not
even squeeze through. They are in the
gall of bitterness, and in the bond of mi
guilty"
IF any man love not the Lord Jesus
Christ, let him be anathema- maranatha. ="
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The New York Churchma,, saws

The Bishop of Durham proposes to make q
greater use of female helpers in his diocese. AS
he reads the New Testament, he says, the female
diaconate is definite an institution in the
Apostolic Church the male diaconate, and
the Church of England in his diocese at least,
will work one handed until it is restored. The
result will probably be the establishment of
deaconess institution. He also favors the estab-
llshment of permanent diaconate into which
intelligent men may enter without relinquish-
Ing their secular avocations or having any in
tention of being advanced to the priesthood.
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- Won UEl

NNGou I'LL
dispersion" Unto you viii -.
is precious - living stones, a spiritual
house, a holy priesthood y" whom not
having seen we love"-and in another
place, And besides this, giving all dill
gence, add to your faith virtue; and to
virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge,
temperance and to temperance, patience;
and to patience, godliness and to godli-
ness, brotherly, kindness and to broth
erly kindness, charity" And if they
have not these things, what then The
apostle goes on to tell them, that in that
case "they are blind, and have forgotten
that they were purged from their old
SINS"
What picture do we have in the second
chapter of Acts of the early Church ?
And all that believed were together
and had all things common; and sold
their possessions and goods, and parted
them to all men, as every man had need. "
This was the spirit in which the Church
commenced, and it was in this spirit that
it made such an astonishing impression
on the Pagan world of that day. The
lives of the early Christians at once ar
rested the attention of the population of
the Roman Empire. That was the preach.
eng with which the Church broke down
the traditions of heathendom.
May it not be that the next great re-
vival which the world shall see shall be
IN the Church, and that for the first time
since the close of the apostolic age, the
eyes OF the Church shall be fully opened
to the conservation which is implied in
church membership?
If the Church were a camp-a mobili-
sation Of the Christian host" harnessed.'
like the Israelites when they went ur
out Of Egypt, we should have "Salva.
ton Army" indeed. 1t would not be
merely the work which every Christian
would do, but; Of equal value, it would
be the life which every Christian would
I5Ue, which would constitute trumpet
call to repentance such as the world had
not heard before.
1t is the obstruction to the reception
of Christianity in India, and other pagan
countries, that citizens Of Christian coun
tries lead such irreligious lives. And 81
at home here the Church fades so int,
the World that unbelievers do not re
mark any signal difference between them
1t is not the length Of the muster-rol
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Mr.. Spurgeon has been seriously la
menting the waste Of time occasioned by callers.
= Why" he asks, should we be thus at every
mortal's beck and call, and have neither space
for meditation, nor time for devotion People
do not call ON doctors at this rate, and our time
is quite az precious as theirs. We cannot pro-
tect ourselves by fees, and yet, if we do not see
every one, there will be such an outcry. All
we can say ls They must cry, for we cannot
neglect our Masters business to play lackev to
everybody who is moved by the powers of dark
ness to call us away from the work Of God and
prayer"
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U. S. CONSUL MERRILL, at Jerusalem,
writes that the past year has been a year
of unexampled prosperity in Palestine,
and that the ancient city of David (Jeru-
salem) has largely increased in popula-
ton. The immigrants, however, are in
a most deplorable condition, being poor
exiles from persecution.
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1t IS true n

thousand more vlslUo. ..-On..ise,
and brought as many more flowers with
them. There was a heap of them in front
of the vault nearly quarter of mile
long.
Buff GAMBETTA is to have no resur-
rection, what good will these flowers do
him? Human sympathy wants more
substantial diet than that.
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Sir Charles Trevelyan says that the CONVEX
sion Of India to Christianity will take place in
different way from that generally anticipated.
When the absorption Of Christian truth has gone
far enough, he says native opinion will declare
itself, and a nation will be born in a day" .
Exchange.
BY the way will somebody tell us where
the quotation in the above occurs. We
have often heard it, but do not think it
Is in the Bible.
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You want to save three dollars. Do
not save it by depriving your family of
that indispensable article in every Chris
tian household religious paper Do
without something else. That paper
may save a soul in your house, or
it may kindle into fame the languish-
ing spark in your own breast.
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JOHN, Scotchman, meeting James,
was asked if he knew certain Peter.
" Ken Peter ?" said he, "Hoots, man !
fine dae l ken him. Him and mes sleepit
thegither in the same kirk for the last
twenty years"
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A NEW Waldensan church, about to
be opened in Rome, stands, strangely
enough, close to the spot where the
Waldensian Pascal was burnt at the
stake. martyr for the truth now freely
preached.
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IT is sad statement that in the parish
OF Folkstone, England, the prayers of the
congregation were requested for {" the re-
pose of the soul of the late Archbishop
of Canterbury.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-01-31

S1GNoR FRANcIsco ALBR1C1As says IL
Is intended to start in Bubi Catalonia, a
Protestant newspaper, which will be
made as attractive as possible, by means
OF engravings, giving at the same time re-
ligious information.
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The items Of Northern Presbyterian
news given elsewhere show that there is
a decided revival spirit in many parts of
the country. The accessions to the
churches have been quite numerons.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-01-31

ATLANTA, GA, takes two pastors,
greatly esteemed, from Virginia. The
churches in Atlanta are fortunate in Sc
curing such pastors as Dr. g. B. Strick-
Ter and Rev. E. II. Barnett.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-01-31

TITS announced that Professor William
Robertson Smith, formerly Hebrew Pro-
fessor in the Free Church College in Alb
erdeen, has accepted the Professorship of
Arabic in Cambridge University.
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kn- I'D especially made known to the
readers OF the Southern journals which
have criticised him. We trust, therefore,
that these journals will publish the para
graph from the Interior, which, speaking
for DR.. johnson, made the disavowal which
we have mentioned above. This is due
to fairness and justice, and to a proper
understanding of the result which has
been reached. We are sure that none OF
these journals would leave their readers
under an erroneous impression as to DR.
Johnson's position, or the position of the
Northern Church.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-01-31

WHILE Mr.. Spurgeon was in Mentone,
France, ne regularly worshipped with
the Scotch Presbyterian church, and at
the communion made most admirable
address.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-01-31

THERE is one cure for petulance that
is cheerfulness. In this case the remedy
is far better than the disease.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-01-31

We call attention to the important
communication from DR.. Nall Be sure
to read it.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-01-31

GOING to the Wednesday evening lee
ture is like bathing in the week.
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AT Havre, France, dancing saloon
has been turned into a Methodist chapel.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-01-31
Says our Richmond neiehbor :.

The Presbyterian Journal is astonished ut -
pun in the Central Presbyterian which, it saw
Is almost always serious. The difference l., =
tween us and our esteemed contemporary is
that we never say anything funny until We get
something really good"
The Journal responds
"A good natured hit from our excellent Rich
mond friend. l never speak until | have
something to say remarked one. How un
broken your silence must be + was the retort. "
The Central has the floor.
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THERE is likely to be opposition to the
adoption of the Revised Confession of
Faith prepared in the Cumberland Pres
"urch. The new book has
~ the Synod of Alabama,
lit IS stated that the Synod has re-
ported adversely to the adoption of the
Confession. 1t is also stated that there
was minority in the General Assembly
of the Church opposed to the Revised
Book, but that their voice was stihed.
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WE published two weeks ago state
ment from DIR. Herrick Johnson explain
ing that his object in the resolution he
offered at Springfield contemplated the
with avail of all imapattations of every
soteUer in the deliverances of the
n Assembly on the Southern
As Sc
had
90
Tempt
und, le
of Dr.. son should be made
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Well, if we must speak, here is on
answer:

GIT ~ VIC "'tVoV oP5dhi H5T5 IS OUT
answer:
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse.
But talking is not always to converse;
Not more distinct from harmony divine.
The constant creaking ora country sign