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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-31
Ministers Corner.
BIBLE CRITICISM.

Dr. Chevasse, the Evangelical Bishop of Liverpool
addresses to his clergy wise words this sub
Ject subject which, he said touched the very heart
of the Christian religion. Neither the Higher nor
the Lower Criticism wrong in itself but Chris
tans must hold fast three acs-l That the Bible is
Gods Word written. ,. That i'll Gods Word there is
human element of the incarnate Word Jesus Christ
the human and Divine natures are found together
). The Church nowhere defines inspirations DR.
OheNasse contended that with grasp of these three
facts the Church could face with calmness interest
and expectation all that Higher Critics could saw
we should not give way to needless panic that was
iaithlessness The Higher Criticism could only af-
feet the shell it could not touch the kernel of the
Bible Nor should we give way to rash denunca-
ton. The Witness" has ventured ere now to adj
wise hrSt that ministers should acquaint themselves
with Bible criticism, not to make misstatements
about it; then abstain from Pronunciation or scolding
which is apt to create sympathy for the thing de-
nounced; and lastly, not to air any new opinions
about the Bible, for, DR.. Chevasse says criticism
Is only IN the making; few of its positions are asccr-
tanned facts.-BcifdSt Witness
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PREACHING FOR A VERDICT.

IT. Is safe to say that in the coming days there
VIII be heard from the pulpts of the land more of
the note of direct personal appeal to the conscicnccs
OF men The supreme business of the man whose
h'gh privilege it is to stand before his fellowmen as
an ambassador of God is to win the verdict for his
Master. His great work is to persuade men to he
recohciled to God and to press home the issue with
such pleading fervency and power that it cannot no
eVaded To have reused the intellect or stirred the
emotions Is only useful in far as these have con-
trlbuted to the surrender of the will To fail here
Is to fail everywhere In this one centre of securing
verdict Tor Jesus Christ all the converging lines
OF song and scripture reading and prayer and SER
mon must meet. There is the recognized place in
every congregation for instruction and training in
Christian service, but and women must first be
won to clear-cut and definite decision and it uust
NOT too readily be taken for granted that all respecr
"C e., people nave loyalty surrendered to the claims
OF Christ.-TorOnto presbyterian
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CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE

christianity needs not only sacred Scripture for
guidance, warning. inspiration. but also continuous
literature to express its life from age to age to en-
body the evernew experiences of religion in forms of
beauty and power. to illuminate and interpret the
problems of existence in the light of faith and hope
ana love Close this outlet of expression. cut off
this source of communication, and YOU bring Chris
tlanity into state of stagnaton and congestion It's
processes of thought become hard formal mechani-
cal; its feelings morbid, spasmodic hysterca; its
temper at once oversensitive and dictatoriaI It
grows suspicious of science contemptuous of art and
ahenated from all those broader human sympathies
through which alone it can reach the outer world.
Insulated, opinionated petrifed by sefcomplacencv
sits in closed putting together its puzzle
map of doctrine and talking to itself in theological
dialect instead of speaking to the world in univer-
sal language-HenrU Yam DYkc
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Educational.

Inc Synod of Georgia. at its last meeting appoint
cd committee to devise ways and means for the es-
adjustment of a Presbyterian college within IFS
bounds. This committee met in Atlanta on January
I6th at the call of the Chairman DR. c. p Bridewe1I
Drs James Y. Fair. J. w. Walden and D. w Bfen-
nen were appointed a subcommittee to present plan
OF procedure and submitted the following which
adopted:
J. That we proceed at once to take the steps nee
essary Tor the establishment of a PRESBYTERIAN Col
lege under the direction of the Synod
z That n Finance Committee he appoinfed whose
business 1T shall he TO consider location and to secure
h'tlaI subscriptions and to report at the next meet
ing Of the Synodical Committee
!. That the Finance Committee he authorized TO
secure competent man. if possible to canvass the
synod with reference to the interests with which thew
arc charged.
March 27 1906, to consider all matters connected
with the movement.
The Finance Committee was annoirtod with P,
c. R. Nisbet as Chairman. Much enthusiasm pro
vailed and it is expected that the work will he Wig
Orouslv prosecuted
The Baptists of Virginia arc at work 10 raise tbo
sun! OF S'3Ooo this year in order TO get contri-
p"tlon OF $4,000 from John D. Rockefeller fbe LAT
Ter having proposed to give that sum to Richmond
600. "'''u raise 9'''-
Mr. John Willis Baer has accepted the presidency
ot occidental College While Mr. Baer's movo will
ne loss TO the Home Mission Board in which he has
een sIgnay useful, his taking up the work of tbis
nour'snIng ana promising young Presbyterian Col
leoe of Southern California will avalon nof,,15
satisfaction P'oio'"u
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FEBRUARY MAGAZINES.

Tho Century is called the midvinter fiction mum,
"' ana has an exceptional list of serials md short
,,o'les' DR. S. Weir Mitchell begins a story. az
diplomatic Adventure" We are reading the papers
." Lincoln the lawyer and have read the clear and
1l"Uns paper on The President and the Railroads"
by MIR. Proutv of the Interstate Commerce Connie
son 1t will be difficult ever to excel the artistic
features Of this magazine.
DG'oner's has fine feature in "Joseph jefferson
az WorK and Play" by Francis Wilson full of an
'cdote and story. with Illustrations. The frontis
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PAMPHLETS.

Minutes Of the Synod Of FLorida. Fourteenth An
nual Meeting, Palatka. Fla, Nov. 14-16, 1905 Stated
Clerk, Rev. w. B. Y. Wke, Dunedin
the Sun Almanac for 1906 with compliments of
A. 5. Abel Company, Baltimore. This is the 3Ist
number of valuable annual. 1t is particularly
The Blue Book of Maryland. but is full of general
acknowledgements Virginia State Govern
ment and the churches.
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THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.

piece is portrait of Jefferson Rip Van Wrinkle.
Hopkinson Smiths story, "The Tides of Barnegat,'
Is continued. Edith Wharton has short story
1.-The Hermit and the Wild Woman Ernest Thomp-
son Seton tells of the Moose and His Antlers, and
Henry Van Dyke contributes poem Thomas f
Millard writes on "The New China paper that
will be widely read.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-31

In the Womdn's Home Companion for February
Charlotte Perkins Gilman reviews the advance and
the present status of in strong essay Good
rdings of Woman" Other features are the illus
trated articles, 'Wild Animals of the Stage" "Thc
Carnival Queens of the South" and DOG Heroes of
St Bernard, SIN Honor of st. Valentine" by Lillian
Baynes Griffin, with abundant material for the festi-
walls of the month, Washingtons and Lncon's Birth
days and st. Valentines DAY. The fiction list in
cludes adam and Eve" and other stories Published
by The Crowe Publishing Company, Springfield o.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-31
Story Corner.

y theological student was sent one Sunday TO sim
ply a vacant pulpit. A few days after he received
copy OF the weekly paper of that place with the
following item marked ''Rev -- of Tho
senior class of Yale Seminary supplied the punit ot
the Congregational Church last Sunday and tbo
'h"'ch VIII now be closed three weeks for repairs"
negro student is reported as having said of his
work IN mathematics, 81 done learned TO add nm do
noughts but de dggers bodder me" II is renortod
ny woman, also negro, that. when accused of
having spoken ungrammaticaly she replied 81 never
spoke ungrammatically but once and soon as 7 done
it | seen it,"
"What is the matter, darling?" asked the con.
ccrned mother when her small son came to her in
tears. "
well you sec mummy, daddy was hanging 2 mic
ture and he dropped it. and it fell on his toe :"
But that is nothing to cry about" cried the moth
or chee1ly' you should have laughed at that. SON
ny
- did, mummy" responded her small son rooret.
fully-London Chronicle
When the Prince of Wales was little fellow at
SchooI' ne ran out of money and knew his narents
700 wei to ask for it. Tie sat down and Iaborous1
prepared letter to Queen Victoria his grandmother
Patheticay begging her to send him half q sovor
e'gn labout $3.50 The queen instead of forward
ing the money, wrote autograph letter full of
wholesome advice. few days later she received
prlet response. which said: Dear GRANNY. uevor
mind about that money now. don't need IT,
nave sold your letter for e. 800" -4dronce.
small boy'- definition of friend: "a friend is a
''"o" who knows all about you. but likes YOU"
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The proceedings of the recent Inter Church Con-
ference Federation will be published by the Elem
ing Fl. Revell Company during the month of March.
The Report will be sixhundred page volume with a
great many illustrations, and will contain com
pete record of the acts resolutions, committee re-
ports and the text of the addresses.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-10-25
The Pope and Spain

the country at large OF the thousandp
OF monks and friars who have estab-
lshed themselves after being driven
out of France, and founded schools
and colleges for both sexes; and the
immense amount of treasure which
the vatican annually takes out of the
country-however high may he the ex-
change from paper money into gold,
in gold the vatican is paid, and the
tithes which II gathers from all
sources in Spain are said TO represent
annually some S9,000.000.
The state spends annually for the
church some 41,O00000 pesetas, or
IS, 200, 900. According to the latest sta
tistics. the total number of religious
communities throughout the country
is 3.l15, containing 50933 members.
OF these, 2,5S6 communities are for
women with 40.lSS members. and 500
for men, with t0,745 members. The
number of those which sought and OBJ
tanned registration by the gov
eminent was 2,6ll, the registra-
ton being of permanent and
definite character in the case OF
LIZ
for 1,410. Registration was Temporal
lily withheld in the case OF $50, pend
ing further examination of their titles
and description. OF the 354 which re-
main, the greater part are orders OF
the Concordat and exempt from regis
| tration.
OF the 100000 pesetas paid by the
state to the church. about $4,000, 900
is devoted to the payment of income;
! $750,000 to building, maintenance, and
repair of churches; $225.000 is de-
stined for religious seminaries and
some $4,000 Is allotted to religious
congregations, clustered nuns, and
others. The sum of a little over ST.
600, 900 Is divided among the higher
clergy, leaving less than s1,000,000 for
the ordinary priesthood. AS the latter
must number considerably over 10000,
the average income of the secular
priest cannot be more than $50.
Nor does there seem to DO much
more margin for economy in the sal
aries paid to the superior clergy.
There are nine archbishops, whose in
comes range from $4,000 to $500;
there are 81 bishops who receive from.
$500 to $4,000; there are so deans
and 500 canons, whose average yearly
income is less than $1,000 But even
out of this poverty the Spanish church
contrived to donate to the govern
ment last year $4,000 Meanwhile,
the native orders and their French
guests barely make living; the viii
lage curate starves; the towers OF
Cuenta Cathedral crumble and fall for
the want of timely repairs; and the
country, which has SO long regarded
such matters with indifference, is be-
ginning, especially the liberal. progress
sive part of 1t, to be Disguised with
the whole question of religious domi-
} nance.
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BORE UNDER RIVER AT NEW
YORK MARVEL OF SKILL.
Successful Completion of Gigantic
Task That Has Taxed the inge-
nuity of the Best En-
qineers.

The railroad tunnel which has Just |
been completed under the North river
from New York city to Weehawken,
N. j., is marvel of ingenuity and
skill, for it was found when the two
bores made from opposite ends APP
preached within 1875 feet of each other
that they were only one-eighth of an
inch out of alignment and only three
quarters of an inch out of grade,
which, considering the size and the
length of the tunnel, is something
never before heard of.
The completion of this seventy-five
million dollar tunnel now makes 1t pos
sible for one to walk from New York
city into New Jersey, and it will not
be long before trains will be speeding
through them. 1t is now five years
since the first announcement was
made of the project of building the
tunnels, and it was only after siren
uous campaign of criticism and oppo-
sition that work was begun.
The route of the tunnel is from the
Jersey Meadows, beyond Bergen Hill
(Weehawken) to Thompson avenue,
Long Island City.
According to the plans as an
nounced, every safety appliance and
mechanical protection against acct
dents known to railroad science Is to
be installed in the tunnels. Electricity
will be the only motive power. The
current for lights will be entirely sep
arate, as in the New York Subway.
The city police will have jurisdiction,
and the city health department will
have sanitary supervision. The new
est ventilating apparatus will be pro-
vided The railroad company has al
ready ordered steel cars, to replace
the wooden ones now in use. The new
Pullmans. too. will be fireproof
A special safety feature will be the
concrete walkways, or sidewalks, built
inside the tubes on a level with the
car windows. If there is an accident
or a long delay, the passengers will
be able to reach these walkways from
the car windows or doors. The cables
for power, water pipes for protection
against fire, and part of the signal
wires will be bedded in the concrete
beneath these sidewalks.
The construction of the tubes has
been designed with n view to safety.
Instead of resting upon the river soil,
they are supported by iron founda-
tions known as screw piles, such s
q used for lighthouse pro"s, In the
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-10-25

Of the skilled machinists who
X with her in her husbands es-
Hshment.
Ter knowledge of machinery is not
tned to the machine shop, for she
into the foundry, which is an ad-
y to the shop, and there can cast
bold anything in the line Of ma
|ery, even to the pouring Of the
fling hot metal itself.
molding, which is regarded as
bring much experience and skill
PREVENT defects in the castings, she
3erfect. She turns out clean cast
] which she pours from the heavy,
ladle very steadily, as required in
class of work. If 1t be a thin
Fe to be poured fast, something
all molders look upon as difficult,
often with fear, she never fails
Bet perfect casting.
handling brass, she makes those
Pings without difficulty, and melts
pours the metal herself.
|ut it is in the machine shop that
heart Is set, and the noise of the
ferrous and powerful machinery is
Pic to her ears. 1t is to her hap
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A Wonderful Tunnel

case Of the trolley tunnels built further
south, the tubes rest in the soil, for
they will not have to bear trains OF
great weight. The Pennsylvania tun-
nels, on the other hand, must support
100-ton electric locomotives, and
hence 1t was necessary to provide
iron foundations extending all the
way down to bedrock.
The method Of construction has
been the same as in the trolley tun-
nels, and in the East river section of
the Subway. AS the shields are pushed
forward through the soil, or through
an occasional uprising ledge of rock,
cast iron rings are knitted together.
forming the links of the tubes. The
lining inside the cast iron is to be OF
concrete, part of which will be the
walkways already described.
Much has been told of the Manhat-
tan terminal 1t has been decided that
this is to be a railroad station from
top to bottom, with only such sub
sidiary departments as are necessary.
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SIGNATURES ON BANK NOTES.
Many Of Them Are Printed Instead Of
Written, as the Law Requires.

Taking out new circulation Is easy
enough, 1t would seem. to make even
the LATEST banker willing to have his
institution carry its limit, says the
American Banker. 1t was formerly
thought that the signature Of one
official should be actually written on
national bank notes before they we're
issued. but this now seems to be
regarded as unnecessary, Bank tell
ers say that a very large proportion
OF the national bank notes that pass
through their hands have no sigma
lures at all written on them. Not
only are the signatures of the treasury
officials printed on the notes with the
rest of the engraving, but the presi-
dents and cashiers of the issuing
banks have fallen into the way of hav-
Ing their signatures printed on the
notes issued by their banks with rub
Der stamps, or by other means that
save the necessity of their writing
their signatures on the notes. Pen.
written signatures are really becoming
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uNLuckY ON HIS BIRTHDAY.
Few Things Left to Happen In the
Chapter Of Accidents.

He was sad looking stranger, and
as he leaned against lamppost he
said to a policeman:
1T is strange how unlucky some
days are"
1T is curious. Anything bad hap
pened to you to-day?" asked the police
man.
We'll" replied the stranger, ut
started with my finding my watch
stopped; then my razor slipped. and
my chin-well, just look at It; then, at
breakfast, my son spilled hot milk
down my sleeve: after that, as l was
rushing up the steps to the station, a
fellow trod on my umbrella and broke
the top of and lost my train through
talking to him, and
But here n water cart came quickly
around the corner and drenched the
stranger from the knee downward. He
gazed around him with sickly smile,
and remarked:
"There! What did l tell you? l
don't care a straw about what has
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Danish English.

The following amusing advertise.
ment is copied verbatim from Dan
ish paper: "The hotels charmingly
situation, surrounded of a nice gar
den the good cuisine. the kindly ac-
commodation with moderate charge
and good conveyance with easy occa-
sion for salmon and trout fishing, the
ascending of the surrounding noun
tains has done this place well known
and praised of all travellers. N. B.
The Landlord Is spoken English very
goood."
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entZe Woman Who is
an Expert Machinist

py diversion from the humdrum and
monotony of homework. and she en-.
joys 1t. She takes as much pride in
turning out perfect shafting or set
of pulleys or some intricate part OF
an engine as any housekeeper would
in making good cake or in doing
choice bit of embroidery work.
Mrs. Peters can fire the boiler, keep
ing up the proper amount of steam
and water. and can run the engine.
And more than that, she could put 1t
all together again without any trou-
bic were 1t to be taken apart for her.
Threading" piece of steel, job
requiring accuracy and speed at the
same time, she does with as much
ease as threading a needle for sew
Ing, although the operation is indeed
very different.
In making shrinking fit" where.
in casting must be heated to a GER
tain temperature to avoid bursting,
job in which all machinists often fail.
she has no trouble. This is job that
is common in all large engine works
AS one watches her at her work he
Is impressed by the scene of the big
machines responding with surges and
groans to the delicate touch of these
skillful feminine fingers.
Since it has always been believed
that good machinists must have nat.
ural talent to be able to develop the
skill successfully, it makes this wom-
ans work all the more wonderful.
None of the timidity and fear that
woman has, as rule around machin-
cry, is seen in Mrs. Peters conduct
in the shop. She pursues the work
only with an expert knowledge of the
business.
That Mrs. Peters is the only woman
in America with the pluck to tackle
this sort of business is probably
true. She does the work, not because
she is compelled, but because she finds
real enjoyment in the handling of ma
chinery. There seems to be actual
affection in her gentle touch of the
cold steel machines over which she
presides in the foundry.
1t must not be inferred because Mrs.
Peters has proven her adaptabilfty to
such calling that she is lacking in
go to grace womankind. The feminine
side of her nature is equally interest
ing
Possessing a good education, she
can converse intelligently upon most
any subject, and can play the piano
and sing with considerable ability.
Her husband declares she has the
most perfect health of any woman he
ever saw. He says her unusual labor
has not tended to detract from her
womanliness, but that her heart is as
full of womanly tenderness and sym
patty as it was when she became his
wife.
Mrs. Peters, when asked how she
happened to learn to work in the shop
replied with a modest smile:
well, we had no children, and
would get lonesome at home. AS my
husband and / always were compan
ionable, spent much of my time II
the shop to be with him. | began tt
use hammer and wise occasionally
and then I got to trying my hand a.
making things just for fun. Pretty
soon | found could turn out some o.
the simple jobs that came in without
my husbands instruction. Naturally
| felt an exultant pride over my
achievements, and wanted to do more
difficult things all the time. Now, my
husband tells me / am safer in some
of the difficult work than any othe
machinist in the shop"
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TROUBLE SAID TO BIZ BREWING
BETWEEN THE TWO.
Unless Reduction In Clerical Budget
is Obtained from Vatican Rupture
is Likely 10 Take Place.

The struggle which the vatican has
been carrying on with France has re
suited in many of the exiled orders
taking refuge in Spain and this has
created a condition of affairs there
that has brought the question of the
relations of the vatican to the church
in Spain to climax. so that there
seems to be no doubt that, unless the
present government of Spain can sue
coed in inducing the vatican to accept
a reduction of some 100000 in the
clerical budget and acknowledge the
regularity of the civil marriage, rup'
ture will take place between Madrid
and Rome which may even lead to the
denunciation of the Concordat of 1851.
In the meantime, the cardinal primate
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ps1ERs LIKES NOISE AND
,p,Ms OF A FOUNDRY.
sKlLLFUL MOLDER.
v,t and Pour Metal as Well as
H. Skilled Workman - Be-
comes Proficient Through
Tutorship of Husband.

[,raukee.-That a woman is capa.
4, the development of mechanical
| ANAL to that of any man Is fully
kpllaed in the case of Mildred d.
Il of Rice Lake. Wis, a young
Ian who, by her own desire and
for machinery and under the
kehlp of her husband, has become
Btaedged machinist.
Fer three years of work in her
bands machine shop and foundry
In as the Rice Lake Iron Works,
Peters has become so proficient
there is now no job comes into
|shop that is beyond her skill. She
do anything, from making a
linking fit" or "keyseating a cou-
!" to manipulating the trip ham
and other massive machinery in
shop.
ls does not take a back seat for