The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1884-12-24

our chlluren must go out into ETY.
attend and connect themselves wit2 ,mt
church. What must we do?' These
are samples of the work you are asked tC
aid, and they are found in almost every
Presbytery.
at meeting of the Methodist Cen.
tenary Conference
held In this city last night, l heard the
Rev. DR. McAnnally, of st. Louis, in al
address to the young men, press success.
fully these points: l. That in the world
history there has been no government
which was not based upon and guided
by the religious belief of its people 2
That our forefathers being Christians
have founded here civil government in
accordance with soriptural teachings
and hence our Sabbaths, our freedom,
and charitable institutions Then he
made point which I have endeaVored
every re to = press, that
1iIlions of foreigners
from every land are pouring in upon us
every year, and if we do not take them,
they will take us. ca Bible agent re-
Gently cold the Bible printed in nine dit
ferent languages in one town in Texas. J
1t the people of this country become
Mormons, or Pagans, or Mahommedans.
or iDidels of any grade, they will make
a civil government for posterity to suit
those views. If it is to be a government
with the liberty of the Christian religion
1t must result from the fact that the peo.
pie are Christians. And so, we see the
work which Christian people have to do
Our needs
are, first, prayer for God s blessing on our
gifts, on our Committee, our Presbyteries,
ministers, and people. Without this bless
ing we will accomplish no ood. Let
your first act be prayer to God for that
blessing. We need next your gifts in
money. The Committee has no money
We are appointed to disburse among the
Presby yteries the contributions made by
the people for this their work. To the
best of our ability we will disburse what
you send. We need sixty thousand dol
lars, and nothing less than fifty thousand
dollars will save this work from embar-
rassment during 1885. We have one
hundred and thirty-one Thousand mem
bers. Deduct ffty-one thousand for the
merely nominal members, and for those
who from one cause or another will GER
tainly give nothing. Then we have
eighty thousand members left, who are
asked to give only sixty thousand dollars
1t is not only necessary
that pastors, elders, deacons, Sabbath
School uperintendents shall take thls
matter diligently in hand to see that thr
members of their churches and school,
shall not fail to make contributions &C.
cording to ability, and that individua
Christians, who cannot contribute rhrough
a church, shall send their ntributions
directly to Mr. L @ Inglis, treasurer
box l3l Baltimore, Md; and that the
officers and members of vacant churches
shall see to 1t that their people fail not to
contribute to this cause, simply because
there is no minister there to prompt them:
and all will do we'll Allow me to close
this appeal for the January contributions
with
Pauls words to the Corinthians,
" Therefore as ye abonnd in every thing.
faith, utterance, knowledge, dill
gence, love, see that ye abound
in this grace also, for ye know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
though he was ich, yet for your sakes he
became poor, that ye through his poverty
might be rich.
Now therefore perform the doing of 1t
that as there was readiness to will so
there may be performance also out of
that which We have. For if there be first
a willing mind, it is accepted according
to that man hath and not according to
that he hath not"