The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1905-09-27
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Letters from many pastors come to Rev.
Charles StelZle telling of the success of the
vices on the Sunday devoted to workingmen. In
instances the results border on the marvel
There have been crowded congregations of
men who for years had never entered church.
in some cases labor unions coming in body and
the cordial after-greetings have told of hearts
touched as never before. 1t is matter of signf-
canoe that in two most important movements the
Presbyterian Church stands at the denominational
forefront,-the one evangelistic work, and the
other, its organized and earnest endeavor to reach
the homes and hearts of workingmen."
The Herald and Presbyter says:
In a church of twenty-five families and
hundred members it was agreed to hold church
supper. Fifteen of the ladies baked cake EACH
costing one dollar apiece. The others contributed
ten dollars to pay for ice cream and lemonade
The ladies worked alone day arranging for the
supper, and one-half the next day in cleaning no
and restoring everything to order Each of the
members bought a ticket for twenty-five cents,
and outsiders bought seven dollars worth of
tickets After paying all the expenses the ladies
found that they had cleared thirty-two dollars,
and they thought they had done very well. But
in order to clear this thirty-two dollars they had,
themselves, spent fifty dollars and worked for
nearly two days. in addition to securing seven
dollars from outside. Some of them wished that
they might have the privilege of simply contrib
uting the thirtytwo dollars"
Speaking of the failure of the guided Subway
Tavern, opened with prayer by Bishop Potter, a
secular paper, the Cedar Rapids Republican, says:
"a prayer and benediction and the singing of
the Doxology do not change the nature of the in
gredient which biteth like serpent and stlngetn
like adder. prayer will not take the dell
rum tremens out of the steenth bottle of whisky.
1t will not take the boat, the puffiness and he
coarseness out of kegs of beer No one but Bishop
Potter was so deceived. Every one else seems to
have known better than he. He has now learned
what the rest of the people knew all the time
that saloon is saloon whether it is in the gid
ed subway of New York or the Bowery. The
devil is right there on hand and there is no use
in trying to substitute Christ in His place. Not
even a Bishop with his conservation can do that"
The English infdel of the eighteenth century
Lord Bolingbroke, said this of the Christian re-
ligion:
mo religion ever appeared in the world whose
natural tendency was so much directed to pro-
mote the peace and happiness of mankind as the
Christian. The Gospel of Christ is one continual
lesson of the srictest morality of justice, benevo
lence and universal charity. Surprising Christi
anity to be a mere human invention, it is the most
amiable and successful invention that ever was
imposed mankind"
It was strange folly that he could not see that
the prominent character of Christianity proved
its divine origin and authority.
There has been and still is disagreement among
religious teachers many points, but their differ
ences are small compared with the differences
among the scientific theorists of the age. When
it is remarked that Science teaches" such and
such and such thing it may be questioned
(which science, called?" Undoubtedly there is
truth as to the material world that is already
known, and light is continually breaking
forth, but this does not bring to our knees be-
fore every little theorist who may be teaching
atheism in the name of what he calls science
Gods truth in the natural world is to be accepted
absolutely when it is discovered, and much OF IL
is already known We accept 1t readily ana
gladly wherever and whenever it is discovered,
but we do not take the little dogmatic dicta OF
every tiny-minded "scientist' as the truth We
have believed that between the truths Of coos
world rightly understood and the truths of Gods
Word rightly interpreted there can be no contra
dicton.-Herad and Presbyter.
The christian Inte1Hgencer, the valuable paper
of the Reformed Church. Dutch has this to say OF
our Bureau of Information:
"The experiment inaugurated by the General
Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church,
i'm creating a Bureau Of Information as an official
agency for bringing into correspondence available
ministers and vacant churches will be watched with
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