The Washington herald., 1913-01-18
Presbyterian.

At the II o'clock morning service in
Charles Wood will preach. The double
sextet will furnish the music for the
musical service at $50 O'Clock, preceding
the preaching service at o'clock. In
DR.. Woods series Of sermons on LIES
Contrasts" at the O'Clock evening
service, the special topic will be 'Iife's s
Successor" The evening chorus choir Of
100 voices will assist in the service.
THE pressure on the church for days
to be celebrated in the interest Of re-
ligious and moral copcerns threatens to
burst the calendar" says the Continent,
'and presses hard, too, on the patience OF
pastors and church officers who fire.
quentiy, for local reasons, want to do
something very decidedly different on the
day when a big board or society Is
pounding at the door and demanding
right OF way. In contrast with all this,
the Board OF Education in Philadelphia,
has hit up on a happy expedient that will
undoubtedly get entrance for Its idea
In a good many places where more dicta-
torial applicants are shut out.
The Board of Education wants day,
too. but its modest petition does not
stipulate any time to which the local
church must conform. Have it any time
you please says the courteous Board
of Education; only please do have it
And this gentle generosity will no doubt
persuade most of the congregation in
the boards constituency, for the idea
is an excellent and appealing one. .Voca-
ton Day is what Secretary Cochran and
his colleagues propose, and their thought
OF using a whole Sunday to put up to
the young people of congregation the
solemnity of choosing a life work in the
fear OF God has an urge about 1t 10
which certainly thoughtful Christian lead
ers cannot fail to respond.
"Of course the Board Of Education ex-
poets more young ministers to be pro-
duced from an observance of this kind,
but that after all is only secondary, as
the board itself knows, to the much
larger effect OF making all young people
realize that a Christian boy or girl ought
not to enter upon any occupation or
course o. life without a sense OF the
summons OF the Master to service there
in. BY all means let there be at least
an annual Vocation Day in every Pres
byterian Church
All items of influence taken together,
tie mems conventions of the Southern
Presbyterian Church have doubtless been
the most successful church assemblages
of that character since the idea of mems
conventions became popular in religious
work. The scene in the Chattanooga
convention of last February. when Motto
Martin called for volunteers for Africa
and for money to send them to the field,
appears 10 have been the most impress
sive result from single speech ever
known in a religious meeting in America.
The craftsmanship and earnestness of
Charles a. Rowland and his colleagues
On the executive committee OF the Lay
mans Missionary Movement of the
Southern Presbyterian Church are not
eXcelled in. any other American denomI-
ration at the present hour. These men
have set a standard OF efficiency and ac-
tivity which should certainly provoke the
men OF other denominations to like good
works.
On such accounts there is special in
t.rest in the announcement that South
ern Presbyterian men are to hold an
other general convention in Memphis
February 1870. The preceding conven-
tions of the mems movement In that
church have been devoted to foreign
missions, but the last general assembly
asked that the next of its gatherings
should be devoted to problems of the
home land-especially those problems
falling under the heads of home missions
ana evangelism. Ihe programme Tor
Memphis is therefore being made up
along these lines with great breadth and
variety. Thus far no speakers are an
nounced, but the statement of main
topics is put alluringly. The themes
which it is proposed to discuss in the
convention are Romanism; the negro
question; the country church: immigra-
tion-its advantages and evils; fedora
ton: the Anglo-SaXons of the mountains;
the source and supply of the ministry,
and evangelism-pastoral and personal.