The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-17

experience. Thus does God put to con. fnsion the high and the mighty. The profoundest intellect. as weilA as the simplest faith. Is overwhelmed when 1t is given a clear vision of the in- evitable Christ
 Amid light brighter than the shim- mering oriental noontide, Saul saw Jesus All his philosophy and fluency disappeared on the instant, and he could only stammer out the needless question, "Who art thou, Lord?' A modern philosopher.f using the favorite current shop-talk of his trade. would call that magnetism. It was truth in demonstration. To. that experience Saul thenceforward appealed. This was the bedrock of his new faith he had seen Jesus. ana seeing Jesus had made a new man of him.
 needing.
 Strengthen, joy and willingness come
 with the sight;
 We would see Jesus, dying, risen,
 pleading.
 Then welcome day. and farewell
 mortal night
 The way Saul wasl made over is still the way new men--who alone can make new social conditions--are to be secured for the world. A transform ing spiritual experience, which will bring men Into allegiance to the ideals and personality of Jesus. is the deep- est need of our day. Not new social environment imposed upon the old human nature. but new hearts In i'm divdual men and women Is what alone can heal the ills of the present social order. Nothing would so bless our generation as for our people to have Saurs experience of confronting Christ. and entering his discipleship.
 A New Ananias Club.
 Blinded by the radiance of his vision. and all his old world hanging ie shreds around his heels. Saul was led Into Damascus. There he remained in darkness for three days. fasting the while, and breeding over the tremen- dous experience which he ever after regarded as his new birth. .s There he was found by disciple named Ananias, sent by Jesus. Let us advertise the fact that there is in the New Testament another Ananias be- sides the liar. This is a different sort of man. Would that there could be in every Sunday School an Ananias Club of boys pledged to be helpers like him. He was an T am here" man. not
  understand. Sent to instruct Saul the arch-persecutor, whose very name was a terror to the Christian community, he went whole-hearted saluting him as Brother Saul" His part was a lesser part, such as falls to the most of us; but he dii it well. Thus he be- came identified with Sauls life and work, and a sharer in all the triumphs of the Kingdom that were effected at.. 1..
 News And Notes.
 The Catholic Association of the University of Minnesota is to have a new two-story brick building. costing twenty-five thousand dollars.
 Two prominent Masons and anti clericafs. Leonadi Bissolatti and Pilado Mazza, have been elected to the muni- cipal council of Rome.
 The Alaska-Yukon Exposition, to be held this summer at Seattle will not permit the sale of liquor within two miles of the fair grounds.
 'The Congregationa1st" reports. that English passive registers are still be- ing sent to prison for non payment of the education rate.
 The Boston newspaper men who have been reporting the Chapman and Alexander meetings in Boston, one afternoon presented Dr. Chapman and MT. Alexander with handsome pocket editions of the Bible.
 A conference of college men to con sider the claims of the Christian minis- try was held in Hartford Theological Seminary April 2-4. with distinguished educators and churchmen among the speakers.
 Between seven and eight hundred men. from all parts of the country where the denomination is represent ed gathered recently at Harrisburg for the first Mems Missionary Copven- tion of the German Reformed Church.
 Before President Roosevelt left Washington he was given a farewell meeting by the German Reformed Church which hes has regularly attend ed. He reminded the members that he has not missed single communion while in Washington.
 The increasing interest of foreign statesmen in missions is shown by the fact that Sir Andrew Frasor, lieutenant governor If Bengal, travelled ail the way from Calcutta to Toronto in crder to address the Mis- sionasy Conference there.
 The various women's home mission ary societies and boards of the denomi- nations have been united Tn a new or ganization to be known as "The Coun- ell of Women for Home Missions" This is one more expression of the ten dency towards interdenominatfonal CO., operation.
 Canadian Methodists have been con- siderably disturbed over an address by Rev. George Jackson of Toronto, in