The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-07

preaching power to the South, by say ing: Many ministers who never rub bed their backs against Q college wall, have fuller insight into the Word of God than nine-tenths of the profess sors in the theological seminaries."
 The Christian Register, Boston, thinks that Tin the ministry there is no choice for any man but unstinted and absolute devotion to the one thing in hand"
 Judge Newcomer of the municipal court. Chicago, says that in that city there is white slave traf1c in young girls for immoral purposes more horri- ble than the negro slave trade.
 Secretary Taft has appointed Miss Gertrude Beeks, of the American Civic vestigate and improve the social and moral conditions of the American em- ployes working on the canal.
 Chancellor J. R. Day of Syracuse University, who became prominent for defending Rockefeller. Hartman and other trust magnates, says that about the worst thing in the world is a sis- sy minister. A heresy hunter is a
 
 the bane of the church."
 The Israelite thinks that at the ded- ication of Jewish hospitals, orphan homes and the like, Gentle speakers should not pat Jews on the back, say nice things about them and soft-soap them"
 The Episcopalians have just celebra- knA x.yftl. = centennial of the University of the South at Sewanee. Tenn. This insti- tuition is doing much for the church in all the Southern States.
 Concerning the movement among the churches to adopt the tithe system of the Old Testament, a writer in The Christian Weekly Witness says that the Mosaic law applied not to wage-work- CTS but only to agriculturists and Le- vites." Under the Hebrew conception of land ownership the land belonged to God and was only rented, as 1t were to the owners, the tithes being the rental"
 In The Homiletic Review Dr. Snow- den contends that modern theology Is regaining its hold on the world, be- cause 1t is no longer a metaphysical skeleton that alarms men. but it is thing of flesh and blood and of life and beauty and blessedness. It is more reasonable and practicable. easier to believe and more fruitful in life. than ever before"
 The Lend a Hand" Society was founded by Edward Everett Hale thir- ty-six years ago. On Dr. Hale's S5th birthday a committee, including five United States, Senators, college presi- dents, editors and ambassadors was constituted looking to the permanent endowment of the organization.
 The Rosetta stone, now in the Brit ish Museum, was found by French en- gineers near the mouth of the Nile in 179S. It dates from 136 B. C., is cov- cred with hieroglyphic characters in demotic and Greek, and relates to the reign of PtolemT Ephiphanes.
 pr. Ecob gives as reason for re- signing from the First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia. that nowadays people want ministers to tiptee gently about to 5 o'clock teas. He must be dle nothing more important than re- ligious millinery"
 Thomas Law. President of the Free Church Council of England, has been visiting America. He says: One of the alarming features about America is that the religious people and the churches are not in the least degree touching the civic life. They admit that this life is rotten, but they fold their hands helplessly and ask: How are we to remedy matters""