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Medical Missions.

The case is a selected one. Matthew
tells Of the multitude coming to Jesus,
having with them those that were lame,
blind. dumb, MANNED and many others.
and cast them down at Jesus feet, and
He healed Them Mark presents this
man.. deaf and almost dumb, because he
had an impeachment in his speech, possi-
bly, because the Master took him aside
from the crowd and gave him private
treatment. This unusual method, differ
ing from the touch of the hand that
they requested, abounds in suggestive
actions. 1t is the first time that Christ
used any materials in performing a cure
If the Master cured by the use Of ma
terial instruments We ought not to de-
spise the use of medicinal remedies that
He has placed in the earth for our good.
Prayer was used in treating this man.
Medical practitioners are realizing to-
day, as never before, the value of prayer
in healing the sick. The Christian life
Is frequently developed by the hours of
sickness. when in the silence of the sick
chamber the voice of the Lord is heard
saying, BE still and know that / am
Cod The power that cures is God. even
when We use remedies, for the Almis hty
Lord gave to the herbs their healing
properties and revealed to men their use.
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one solitary ounce of unnecessary weight
And what are these weights? They are
the heavy. heavy weights of unciean Nv
ing and unclean thinking.
Unclean living comprises the vices Q.
the body, which sap the suenStn anu
shorten life.
Cnclean thinking comprises the vices
of the mind. which poison our inner De-
ing. ..
But these two sets of wees interact.
Two physical vices also entail evil men
tai and moral effect; the vices OF the
mind lave evil physical effect. Dlssipa-
ton and immo, ality coarsen the soul.
just worry, envy nance, nasseo'
bIasphemy. store up poisons in the BODY
actual physical poisons, which can De
placed in the test tube and anaiyzeo-
These facts are not mere pulpit utterings.
they are the established findings or
science.
Tnere are young men who do not pc
lieve in the future life. 1 do: but THIS
is not the prelude to an argument. Even
IL our existence, ends with bodily dissoiu-
ton the prime truth still remains, ana
any young man, of any manner OF
thought. will eventually find this same
prime truth exemplitied in his own ex-
nerience that he cannot live well, or
or even realthily, without think
ing c can in addition to living clean
Are you. interested in sports? Become
an athlete in the greatest sport OF ALL
the race of life. Lay aside every
weight" and go out for the record
Fhe apostle makes also another point:
Why patience? Because this Is quail
itiy which combines both endurance ana
without hardening itself
against suffering, as endurance does, OF
nartaking of the self-effa cement implied
by the latter adjective.
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Practical Philanthropy.

The compassionate Christ comprehend
ed the condition Of the people. The camp
meeting had been in progress for three
days. Those of the crowd absorbed in
the words and works of the Master were
unconscious of their physical needs.
which the Master cites. as a reason why
they should not be dismissed when he
placed the responsibility of providing
food for the multitude upon the twelve
whom He was training In His apostolic
college The commissary problem per-
picked the disciples, because they had
failed to understand the miraculous feed
ing of the five thousand jewish follow
ers, for their hearts were hardened. Dur
ing their investigations as to the pos
sibility of feeding the four thousand Gen.
purpose, presence and power of Christ.
The disciples difficulty, like most Of ours.
resulted from their failure to count upon
the help OF the Messiah.
The motive of the Master was the same
as when he fed five thousand. although
the numerical details differed in the
NUMBER fed, the quantity OF food used,
the amount left over that was collected
up. the time they were present with
kind Of baskets used for the fragments
that were left. The excitable citizens
from the west coast sought with a great
to make Christ king,
which caused Jesus to retire for prayer.
The men from the east side Of the lake
allowed our Lord to depart from them
quietly, without any recorded demon
stratiOn. The methods of Jesus were
somewhat similar. marked. as in the for
mer miraculous feeding of the people. by
His using what the disciples provided,
distribution so that all ate
and were filled, and prayed. The blessing
and giving of thanks suggests that the
&at, x-ad rat
blessings and were distributed separately.
There Is mystery in this lesson. Every
miracle Is marked, like life itself. by
mo one can explain how the
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Opportunity Of the Citp Cburrb
BY BISHOP JOSEPH F. BERRY.
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

~ HE city church faces stubborn problems
W distinctly different from those of the church
in the small the rural community
life of the city church intense Its competitions keen
It must be alert or fail.
of the churches in the city deal with shifting popua
People the front door and at the In
stability is written upon much of its work.
Some small fail utterly the
city They lack the push enthusiasm and persisteny to
grapple with city problems
glamour the church, especially to
Young country but the glamour off,
Nevertheless church has special opportunities.
may reach multitude of young people, who always avail
able.
It NAV help amlate and make American and Christian the
vast foreign populations. go
may helpful hand and who have fallen
down amid the rush and push of the crowd.
may also touch hepfuly the civic life of the city as to
tone compel righteous reforms.
The church the city be democratic sympathetic
tical and helpful .
Sensationasm pulpit may for time but the end
it is failure.
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1872. In his brief life he accomp' ished
stupendous work in translating the New
Testament into the Hindoostanee Ian
guage from the original Greek. and also
II anslating it into Persian.
gested by reading the life of David
Brainerd He went to India as chaplain
of the East India Company in 1906 and
began to preach to the natives at Gavin
pore. In 1911 he visited Persia. and
in the following year started on his re-
turn to England, but died on the way at
Tokat. In that brief time he laid the
foundation for all future missionary
work-he opened the way for service
through his translation of the Scriptures
into the native languages, a work that
endures through all coming generations.
Think of his noble endurance as he toiIed
in the awful heat of that cline suffering
yet with unrepining endurance declaring.
II would rather wear out than rust out"
Bishop Heber is another illustrious ex-
ample Of miss 'onary fervor and con-
stancy His labors were SO strenuous in
India that, it is related, on descending
from the pulpit. he sometimes cou'd
hardly speak from exhaustion and yet
he toi'ed on until he died when on
missionary journey, enduring to the last.
1t is not alone among the men that
missionary endurance is exemplified
Many woman missionaries have displayed
that power in very high degree. The
r. Taylor in her missionary journey into
Tibet affords a striking example. Many
efforts were made to murder her, and she
lost her way among the mountains, and
several times came very near starving to
death. Yet she never faltered in her
grand work and ministry of love to the
people. She was sustained by the thought
as she expressed it in her diary, IT am
Gods little woman, and He will take care
of me-
But there is missionary endurance to
be cultivated and practiced by those who
are not missionaries in the strict meaning
of that term. We who remain at home
must have endurance in prayer for those
who are laboring in the home and
foreign fields. We must have endurance
in giving. as God has prospered hs, to
their support.
without this there would soon be no
missionary endurance anywhere.
If the prayers and money cease, the OPP
portunity of the missionary is ended.
Then let us both pray and give.
Give thy hearts best treasures;
From fair nature learn
Give thy love-and ask not,
Wait not a return.
And the more thou spendest
From thy little store,
With q double bounty
God will give thee more.
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are resident I'm some principal cities of
Bulgaria and Macedonia. At Narna. bull
garia, on the Black sea. already fired
on and blockaded by the TURKS there is
a Methodist church built by American
money. 1t is stone. with tile roof. and
steeple 1t is located quite near TO the
center of the city. and has a congrega-
ton of substantial CITIZENS. The Bull
garian Methodist conference is represent
ed in the general European conference
that met last spring in Rome. At Tir-
nova and six other Bulgarian cities are
Methodist churches also IN the confer
ence. At Adrianople. the heart OF the
conflict. resides a bishop of the Greek
Church.
The Roman. Catholic work among Ar.
menians, long disorganized in part by
Moslem persecution. was reore anized by
Pope Plus, and conference held in
Rome. the first n four decades. accorded
new powers to the patr arch. Paul Peter
Terrain XIII, who is resident at Con-
stantinople. The conference in Rome,
held a year ago, revised the concordat
between Armenian and Roman rites.
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lev Charles L. Candee Of Wilmington,

Rev Charles L. Candee Of Wilmington,
Del.
Addresses will be made Tuesday even
ing upon 1.-THE Country Church." by Rev.
DR.. Marion H. Wilson of Brooklyn. N Y,
and 1.-The Down Town Church." by Rev.
Norman NJ Thomas of New York.
conference on Boys Work" will be led
Wednesday by Rev. w. T. M. Beale Of
Salisbury. Del; one upon "Evangeline,
led by Rev. Paul R. Hickok of the Metro
politan Church, and on Missions" by
Rev. Dr. Crawford Of Wilmington, Del.
The popular meeting Wednesday even
ing will be addressed by Rev. DR.. Lyman
Whitney Allen of Newark. N j.. and
Rev. DR.. Arthur ]. Brown of the Pres
byterian foreign mission board, in New
York.
The Synod Of Baltimore embraces all
the churches Of the Presbyterian Church
of the United States of America in the
District of Columbia, Virginia, Mary
land and Delaware. 1t has upon its men,
bership rolls III ministers, 165 churches.
13O.SS3 communicates. a Sunday school
membership of over $1,000 scholars. and
has contributed to church purposes dur
ing the past year $598 100.
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MA Bp~ Reb. .Rugt a. @tebenson.

dicates a tour that was filled with the
same helpful ministry that marked
Christ's work among the house of Israel.
We are justified by the events given In
tOday's lesson to believe that. having
shown In the case of the Syrcphoenician
woman, which was part of last week $
study. a personal consideration for the
narrow faith of His disciples, Jesus fol-
lowed His usual method of helping the
needy who sought His aid.
The trip from Sidon was probably made
over the mountains of Lebanon. where
the road passes over the mountains at
the height of G000 feet, and crosses
the Leontes river. OH a natural rock
bridge. going toward Damascus. The view
of this ancient city from the crest CT the
mountains. which are about two miles
distant. lis scarcely surpassed in the
world"
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assoc alton Sunday afternoon. 4:3O o'clock.
will be Miss Mary baltimore, for many
years a missionary in China.
At the class in Everyday Problems and
Their Relation to the Christian Religion"
Tuesday evening at 7:3O o'clock the SUBJ
ject treated will be 1.-The Church and the
Individual" All women are invited to
these talks, which are entirely free. They
are given in the rest room at the Y. w.
e. A.
X X X \
Rev. j. E. Naff, a member OF the HOls-
ton NJ E. conference, field agent Of
Martha Washington College. Abingdon.
Va. will preach for the Mount Pleasant
Southern Methodist congregation. in the
Post Office Hall, 1413 Park road north
west tomorrow morning.
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bunting Gburtb Site

THE territory west of 9Th and north
W of Euclid street is being looked over
by the trustees of Gurley Memorial Pres
byterian congregation as a site for the
proposed new church for the organiza-
ton. the old edifce at Florida avenue and
Bohrer street having been sold to the
Florida Avenue Colored Baptist congre-
cation for $4,000.
Sites adjacent to 18th street north of
Columbia road and also others on the
Mount Pleasant car line. 1t is said, are
being investigated.
Rev Father McGraw, who has been
pastor of the Pikesv.Ile (Md) Catholic
Church has been made assistant pastor
OF ST. Stephens Catholic Church. Rev.
Father Mihm who has been assistant
pastor at St. Mays Church here, takes
the Maryland pa ;torate.
Rev. Thomas Walsh pastor Of st.
Thomas Catholic Chapel. Cathedral ave-
nue. and 9th street. who recently frac-
tured his right ankle. has left Providence
Hospital and gone to Baltimore. He will
not be able to take up his work for some
time.
REV JOHN T. BRIGGS. pastor Fifth
Baptist Church, has returned from
Richmond, Va where for the past two
weeks he has been conducting success. ul
revival meetings.
In the tomorrow morning meeting he
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Of Athens argue that such a task belongs
to the Christian women of the world, not
to those Of the Balkans merely. Every
body knows of the massacres of Chris
tians by the Moslems Catholics and
Protestants of the western world are one
with the Greeks Of the east in the respect
indicated. Already in the centers of ac-
ton in America there is discussion OF
what action ought to be taken.
Directly in the line of battle. chiefly as
teachers of mission schools. are about
forty American women. In addition there
are sixteen American clergymen. These
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tiniest germ Of life, not distinguishable
under the microscope from germ that
would develop into an ape or dog, may
none the less carry over I'm it's minute
cells a mysterious bundle of human char
acteristics, facial resemblances, mental
traits. moral tendencies. like those OF
the father" The same power that gives
the strange potencies, living cells. which
seed to enlarge and life to unfold. made
the supplies to multiply in the Masters
hand. He wants to use the forces that
we have SO as to increase the life of men.
God has revealed to us through the In
vestigation of scientists that one child
dies somewhere in this world every ten
seconds and that in our country alone
one person Is killed every three min
utes by tuberculosis.
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In the Foreign Field.

OF the great number Of glorious heroes
who have gone forth to foreign lands to
suffer and endure for humanitys sake
only few can now be named. In for
mer articles 1 have told of William Ca
rey. Melville Cox. Robert Moffat and
others. AS notable illustrations Of our
topic the names of Henry Martyr,
Bishop Heber and Miss Annie r. Tay-
Tor tout OF host OF others) may be
cited.
Henry Martyr. an English missionary.
and died at Tokat, Armenia, October 10,
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Reb. Mr. Zimmerman
to preafb.

- Ev A II. ZIMMERMANN. lecturer
~ and evangelist. is to occupy the pull
pit of Western Presbyterian Church to-
morrow evening. The subject of the ad-
dress Will be. The World We Live in and
How to Make 1t Better"
Rev. Mr.. Zimmerma nm. who has recov-
cred from long illness. is an ardent ad-
mirer and friend of Col Theodore Roose-
Welt. and it is expected will, take occasion
during his sermon to comment on the
recent attempt on the life of the progress
I've party leader.
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Aem assistant pastor

~ EV. HOWARD ]. BELL OF Merton.
~ Pa, has been selected by the
Fourth Presbyterian Congregation as as
sistant for the pastor. Rev. DR.. Joseph T.
Kelly. Mr.. Bell Is graduate OF Lafa-
yette College and Of Princeton Seminary.
and, 1t Is declared. Is we'll fitted for his
new duties He will have special charge
of the work in the Sabbath school and
among the young people of the church.
Mr. Bell, who comes to the city with
high Endorsements, is regarded as a
young man of high attachments and an
attractive personality. He and Mrs. Bell
will arrive In the city next week and
begin service with. the Fourth Church
November !.
Rev. DR.. ]. Kinsey Smith, who re-
signed some me- ths ago as pastor Of
the wealthy Shady Side Presbyterian
Church Of Pittsburgh, will be the preach
er at Washington Heights Presbyterian
Church tomorrow. The clergyman, who
was also formerly pastor of the Fourth
Avenue Presbyterian Church Of Louis
Vile KY, is tall with a keen eye and for
some years has been regarded as one of
the forceful Presbyterian preachers Of
the country.
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~ HE opening sermon OF the annual
VI meeting of the Presbyterian Synod
of Baltimore. which begins Mon
day evening in the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. is to be preached by
the retiring moderator, Rev. DR.. j. b.
Turner, now secretary of the Presby-
terrain Historical Society OF Philadelphia.
The synod meeting VIII close Wednesday.
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efforts amount TO
little in, any cause.
"Hold on" Is the
great watchword In
life' IS endeavors
There can be only
Indifferent achieve
ment unless there is
long suffering endur-
ance. The mission
airy more than any
other must possess
the power of endur-
ance. The soldier,
whose profess on in
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live a life Of joy
] e S s mirth; his
armies march to
I h e depressing
strains of an inter-
minable dirge. His
laugh is the leer Of
a demon, hts armies
meet. with defeat
but never with VIC
tory. and the graves
of his subjects bear
no honorable in
scription. The ia
Their planning for
his son breads lest
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By the Churchman.

- UEEN OLGA OF Greece heads a
w committee of women Of Athens in
~ an appeal to American wom-
en- for sympathy and help in the fight of
the allies against the Turks. The ground
Of the appeal Is that three or four weak
peoples Of the Balkans are fighting for
Christian lives, for religious liberty and to
drive, it may be. Moslem authority from
the continent of Europe. These women
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Starves Well.

Those who endure hardness as good
soldier of Jesus Christ are Of the num-
her most to be honored in LIES warfare,
and none endure more hardness than the
missionary soldiers of the cross.
Con Daniel Morgan of revolutionary
fame said: LAS to the fighting part Of
the matter, the men Of all nations are
pretty much alike They fight as much
as they find necessary. and no more. But
for the grand essential in the composition
of the good soldier give me the Dutch
mamie starves well.
n NAV be said Of the missionary more
than of any soldier. that he starves WELL
He can and does endure hunger when the
necessity arises with unrepinfng fortitude
He knows that man does not live by
bread alone.
He relies upon Him who Is the head
of life. and is sustained as was the great
missionary apostle. who was " In Journey
ings often. In perils OF wa'ers. In perils
of robbers, in perils by his own country
men. in perils by the heather. in perils
in the city. in perils in the wilderness.
in perils in the sea. in perils among false
brethren: in WEAKNESS and painfulness. in
watchines often. in hunger and thirst, in
Hastings often in cold and nakedness''
and vet through all this taxing the W.
most power Of endurance he was "in
labors more abundant" And so 1t is with
the missionaries Of today. There is no
class of men who display as great patient
endurance under hardships and diff
culties above measure as those who con-
secrate their lives to personal missionary
service.
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son, presents Jesus as
a social worker. The
Master, by precept
and practice. is pre-
pairing the disciples
to carry out His pro-
gram for the evan
gelization of the
world. The details
of the journey. from
the borders Of Tyre.
through Sidon unto
the Sea of Galilee.
through the midst of
the borders of De-
oOor The record in
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another. and from cabin to cabin min
istering by loving words and deeds to the
lumbermen: toiling amid great hardships
in the woods Of the northwest region. i'm
itating in his daily life and service his
divine Master in teaching, preaching and
praying in his parish Of the pines in a
consecrated effort to pilot the lumber
jacks from the wilderness of sin to the
bright region Of the skies.
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A Mans Christian.

There is a little book by Norman Dun
can entitled Higgins a Mans Chris
tian" that is well worth reading by those
wishing to be informed about the condi-
tons under which our home missionaries
labor in the northwest section of our
country. There are some thirty thousand
lumberjacks and river pigs as they are
called, living in the Minnesota woods.
They are men usually of great physical
in a big way not only in work, but in
wickedness. The seasons of paying off,
are times of unbridled debauchery.
In the lumber towns the saloons are nu-
merOus. The barkeeper may not eject
drunken men into bitter cold weather and
leave them to freeze, and so what is
known as the snake room is provided adj
joining the barroom, into which those who
drop down in drunken stupOr are car
ried: others stagger in and fail upon their
reeking fellows.
There is no arrangement of the bodies
but squirming heap OF them, from
which legs and arms protrude, wherein
open-mouthed, bearded faces appear IN
a tangle of contorted limbs. Men moan
and laugh and sob and snore, and some
cough with early pneumonia; some curse.
some sing. some horribly grunt, and
some del.rious, pick at spiders IN the air.
and talk to monkeys, and scream out to
be saved from dogs and snakes. Men
reel in yelling groups from the bar to
watch the spectacle of which they will
themselves presently be part"
Such is the picture described by an
eyewitness of conditions existing in the
field where the mln.sterial activities OF
Mr.. Higgins are being exerted. Here he
has labored for many years, and through
his efforts conditions have been greatly
improved. At the first it was difficult tor
him to get a hearing in the camps. but
he has long since fought and preached his
way into the confidence and trust of the
lumber jacks.
He has so lived and labored with this
people as to win the respect Of even the
church; he tramps. with pack on back.
on the logging roads from camp to camp,
in all kinds of weather-often for many
miles in a blizzard at 10 degrees below
and breaches every day, and frequently
two and three times a day in the bunk
houses.
'He buries the boys-and marries them
to the kind of women they know-and
scolds and beseeches and thrashes the n
to them now. In all their troubles they
go to him for comfort and help. He is
doing a hard work in correcting and per-
suading this class of men to live better
lives.
They are not all bad. Many are self
respecting, Intelligent and sober men, who
return to their homes when the winter is
over with clean hands and mouths. But
all of them, with scarcely any exception.
including the saloonkeepers and gamblers,
re-pect 1.-The Pilot"
The story Of this mans loving and
helpful ministry is alone sufficient illus
trat'on of our tonic. but he is but one of
many, exemplifying the grace of mission
airy endurance.