The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-25

and who propose to be seventy years young" The palm is unanimously ac- corded to a dear old lady of eighty-two. with silvery side curls, who is begin ming the study of Greek. When this fact brings forth an exclamationNo of as- punishment she defends herself by ex- plaining: am doing 1t in order to un- derstand my Bible better. by-readins 1t in the original
 Which reference to the Book Of Books reminds me of Sam Jones's ex- plantation of the rise of Chautauquas: "We haven't enough religion left to run camp meetings and the country fair has played out so we organize Chautau- ouas" I quote this again because 1t seems refuted by last weeks program: It was Bible Week here. and Grange Day , IS given special prominence Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. the noted Presbyterian evangelist, delivered an eloquent sermon on Sunday and presld- ed at the devotional hour every day during the week. Dr. Chapman Is said by competent judges to be the sanest evangelist of the present day, and while his appeal to the heart Is stronger than to the reason, it is all in harmony ana good taste. Dr. Chapman held a re- vival in the Government Street Pres | byterian Church in Mobile last winter, l the good effects of which are still 1eit He has since then passed through deep | afiictions. his wife dying in June and | his mother in July.
 Another attraction of Bible Week was a series of addresses by Prof Shall | CT Mathews on The Social Signincance | of Christianity. Professor Mathews ID a | theologian of the new school. By tnis 1 is meant no reference to his theoiogical | creed. but rather an nliusloh .o 1 | breadth and .riety of his interests. lie l Is A doctor of divinity, dean of the theo- | logical school in Chicago University. and professor of systemaic theology he | is inc author of many books and the | editor of The world Today, new but successful monthly magazine. HIS l nreaching is energetic yet deVout' pio- 1 found yet easy to understand ms Wnoie | ryorlx is we'll balanced and sound. fro- | faesor Mathews and Dr. Chapman pre- 1 sant striking contrasts in their methods | of working for the same results nut each is equally fine in his cnosen way | one would know at first glance that pr. Chapman was a minister. but one woulo be apt to mistake Professor Mathews for a successful business man whose resemblance to Rudyard Kipling was | startling.
 Bible Week also called together large foreign mission and Sunday School con- ferences.
 On Grange Day there was a confer | ence called to consider the question or | agricultural education in the village. and rural schools. This call met with enthusiastic response, both in attend ance and in the alert. cooperative spir- it manifested. Professor Bailey, of | Cornell. was introduced as one of the l leaders in the stimulus toward the new life on the farm and spoke on the new | rural education. he said in part:
 There is a fundamental necessity of
 putting the school thoroughly in touch
 with the affairs of life and this is just
 as essential in the country as in the
 city. The affairs of common life can be
 so organized as to be as effective in
 training the mind as the old academic subjects. Too many go through school
 with the idea that the common inter
 ests of life are not for scientific study.
 The rural schools are in a state of ar
 rested development when compared
 with those of the city. With the tele-
 phone and multiplied means of trans
 portation. the country is not going to
 tumble head1ong into the "itv. but the
 city people are going to move out into
 the country, forming small suburban
 centers. Each country community
 should have on opposite corners four
 institutions: an adequate attract
 i've assembly hall: a reorgal. zed rural
 school. not afraid to teach of the soil
 on which 1t stands: a historical mu-
 scum, showing old forms of farm tools
 and fostering local pride by preserving
 biogra phies and portraits of local cele- ] brities; and a rural church in close touch with the life of that place. If the