The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-03-07
hopetuI convention is how to secure train send out
ana maintain volunteers for the evangelTzation of
Hie "ollu IN TINS generation A. l.. Phillips.
ENLARGED OPPORTUNITY-INCRE
RESPONSIBILITY

of making many books there is no end" said
the inspired writer about 5000 years ago. when the
production of volume represented months if
not years, of laborious writing on rolls of parch-
ment on the part of the author and his assistant
copyists
1t is interesting to conjecture the comment Of
this same writer should he flood OF printed
matter which is to-day pouring from the press at
the rate of book hour.
The printed page has in the worlds his
tory been so potent for good evil as it is to-day
BY reason of its large constituency it is a greater
power FOR righteousness than the spoken message
and the circle of it's influence widens daily with the
increase of intelligence and improved mail faciIl-
ties
The devil and his cohorts are keenly alive to the
enlarged opportunity circulating vicious litera-
ture, and this fact, and the need the masses for
helpful and uplifting reading matter should arouse
the church to increased activity circulating pub
LEGATIONS of the better sort.
Your Executive Committee of Publication nrints
and circulaes fifty million pages of religious
literature annually. over 100000 religious tracts
We're published for free circulation last year.
depository is maintained from which may be gotten
the best books of all lands.
The circulation of evangelical and doctrinal liter
allure in destitute places dspels Ignorance arouses
interest and often opens the way for planting mis-
sion Sabbath Schools, which in time devotion into
self-supporting. churches. Free literature is now
supplied to 12O mission schools in which are gath
cred about $500 children. The only religious ira in
ing the majority of these children receive is that
given by devoted workers in these mission schools
Thirty-seven new schools have been added TO our
donation list since January LIST, sixteen schools
formerly on free list have assumed self support
force of trained experts is in the field arousinp
interest in Sabbath School work, encouraging the
organization of new schools and through Institutes
ana conferences they training workers for more
efficient service
Inc Assembly asks the churches and Sabbath
schools to raise $2OOOOOO for the support of this
work this year The Sabbath schools did their part
hobly In October and if the churches will show the
same generous interest in March, the amount ask-
ed for will be raised.
All funds contributed for this cause go directly
back to the church in benevolent work. The Bust
ness Department earns the operating expenses of
the Committee, and in addition supplements in a
liberal way the offerings of the church.
over 100000 white children in the South are
to-day out of the Sabbath school, What then. is
the religious condition of the homes and localities
where these children are found?
we again emphasize the fact that the limit of
our helpfulness is fixed by Offering made by the
church. and we urge that a more generous provision
be made for the enlargement of this work
r. e. Magil, Secretary.