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November 19, 1913.<br />
A FAMILY PAPER.<br />
GHRISTItN NATION PUBLISHING GO.<br />
1105 Tribune Building, N. Y.<br />
ro 1 T ORIAL<br />
John W. Pritchard, Editor.<br />
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 19, 1913.<br />
Considerable interest is taken in the prospective<br />
"Billy" Sunday campaign, which is<br />
to be inaugurated in Pittsburgh in December,<br />
and continue for eight weeks. Arrangements<br />
to that end were made on Tuesday of a recent<br />
week. As is his custom, Mr. Sunday desired<br />
to have the churches closed on each Sabbath;<br />
but this plan was wisely opposed by<br />
the Evangelistic Committee, and it was finally<br />
agreed to divide the city into eight divisions,<br />
and have the churches in each one of<br />
these divisions closed on each Sabbath, and<br />
have all the otber ones open. In a city as<br />
large as Pittsburg, it would be a great mistake<br />
to close the churches oin an occasion<br />
like this.<br />
The Christian Instructor of October 28th<br />
contains the following:<br />
'After advertising The Christian Instructor<br />
for several months, and making earnest<br />
efforts to dispose of it on satisfactory terms<br />
to parties in different centers of the Church,<br />
the Board of Publication received an offer<br />
for the same from Rev. R. J. Miller, D. D.,<br />
and after due consideration accepted his proposition.<br />
According to the terms of this<br />
transaction, (the ownership and icontrol of<br />
The Christian Instructor is transferred to the<br />
purchaser at the close of the month of October,<br />
1913. All unpaid subscriptions are<br />
now due and payable to the new proprietor.<br />
"E. .AI, MILLIGAN,<br />
"Business Manager."<br />
ACCEPTED RESPONSIBILITY.<br />
"As announced above, the ownership of<br />
The Christian Instructor has been transferred<br />
to the undersigned, the transfer being made<br />
by sale and purchase. There are those to<br />
whom this announcement will bring disappointment,<br />
their desire being that the Instructor<br />
might be transferred to some other center<br />
of the Church. No one would have re-<br />
.ioiced more than the writer, had the Board<br />
been able to make such a transfer. Only<br />
when this seemed hopeless, on what seemed<br />
to be an equitable basis, did we make the<br />
proposition which, after careful conside'ration,<br />
was accepted.<br />
"R, J, MILLER."<br />
Dr, Miller is the editor of the Ckristian<br />
Union-Herald and has been editing the<br />
Christian Instructor since it was rescued from<br />
perishing at the close of 1912, being taken<br />
over by the Board of Publication. The General<br />
Assembly of this year directed that it be<br />
•disposed of by the close of this year, or<br />
dropped. Dr. Miller is a brother of the late<br />
Rev. J. R. Miller, so long connected with the<br />
Presbyterian Board of Publication, The<br />
newspaper he now purchases has had a long<br />
and honored history.<br />
PRESENT DAY iMOVEMENTS,<br />
In the course of a letter to us, Rev, Dr.<br />
James Martin,, the Alissionary at Antioch,<br />
Syria, of our brethren in (jreat Britain and<br />
Ireland, writes as follows:<br />
Alount Lebanon, Syria,<br />
October 15, 1913,<br />
In a letter on "Union in Missions," which<br />
I posted a few days ago to the editor of<br />
The Christian of London, I made an apt<br />
quotation from Uie Christian Nation on the<br />
falsfe unions now advocated. This indiscriminating<br />
"union in missions," now being promoted,<br />
is of quite ruinous tendency, and itspath<br />
is Rome-ward; but, craftily, via Prelac\-,<br />
• * =•- Of all the evils of the<br />
time I suppose the Great Antichrist is the<br />
most serions and menacing. White it has<br />
latterly been growing "worse and worse,"<br />
and has been making its statutes and their<br />
sanctions more stringent than before, the<br />
mas.s of so-called Protestants seem to imagine<br />
that the beast's teeth have been drawn<br />
and that he has cast his claws. Only let<br />
him get the opportunity, (and the blindness,<br />
apathy and deceivableness of Protestants<br />
seem to be preparing for him the opportunity),<br />
and the beast of Rome will give the<br />
so-called churches and the world such a display<br />
of his character as he never gave before,<br />
although already he has "shed the<br />
blood of the saints like water," Thus if the<br />
British throne were occupied by a Papist,<br />
the Irish Papists would not ask for "Home<br />
Rule" at all, Itis purely a "religious'' (strictly<br />
(nifj'-religious) move; to restore a temporal<br />
power and kingdom to the Pope, and drive<br />
Protestantism and Protestants out of Ireland,<br />
and set up in Dublin the sort of<br />
government there was in Rome before<br />
C^aribaldi entered there. There wo.uld<br />
be no dan,ger of war between Germany<br />
and Great' Britain only that more than<br />
one-tbird of Germany is Romanist and those<br />
Papists really rule the government of Germany,<br />
and the Pope would like to get up<br />
another war against Protestantism and its<br />
Bible, as the Papacy of 1870 got up the<br />
Franco-Prussian<br />
war.<br />
AVHY NOT SING PSALAIS?<br />
The eloquent pastor of the Fifth Avenue<br />
Presbyterian Chnrch, New York, the Reverend<br />
J. H, Jowett, D, D„ in a lecture at<br />
Yale which is now published in his book eiititled<br />
"The Preacher; His Life and Work,"<br />
gives his opinion of the hymns, from which<br />
we take the following extract:<br />
"Alany oi the hymns we sing are artificial.<br />
They are superficial and unreal. They frequently<br />
express desires, that no one shares-,<br />
and which no healthy, aspiring soul should<br />
ever wish to shaie. Some of our hymns are<br />
cloistral, even sepulchral, smelling of death,<br />
and are far removed from the actual wa.ys of<br />
intercourse and the throbbing pulse of common<br />
need. The sentiment is often sickly and<br />
anaemic. It has no strength of penitence or<br />
ambition. It is languid, and weakly dreamy,<br />
more fitted for an afternoon in Lotus-land<br />
than for pilgrims who are battling their way<br />
to God. And yet these hymns are indiff'erently<br />
chosen, and w e use and sing them with<br />
a detachment of spirit which makes our<br />
worship a musical pretence."<br />
If some Psalm-singer had said this it<br />
wc/,itld be regarded as. the language of ignorance<br />
and prejudice, the evidence of a lack<br />
of taste and of s.piritual appreciation. Of<br />
course Dr, Jowett does not have this opinion<br />
of all hymns, but who is to judge but the general<br />
Christian public, and we see how unsafe<br />
that judgment is by the hymns that are popular.<br />
Why not sing psalms ?<br />
IMMUNITY.<br />
The investigations of recent years seem to<br />
have established the theory that diseases result<br />
from microbes which, in one way and<br />
in another, find lodgment in the body. There<br />
are microbes in the air we breathe, microbes<br />
in the water we drink. Daily we breathe<br />
and eat and drink the germs of many, if not<br />
most of the diseases, to which human flesh<br />
is subject. If any one is. in search of the<br />
germs of typhoid', tuberculosis, or diphtheria,<br />
he need not search hisi neighbors to get his<br />
samples, since he has them in stock.<br />
Why is it then that we do npt have all<br />
these diseases.? Not through any lack of<br />
the seeds on hand, but because they do- not<br />
,get into fertile soil. The body, if in good<br />
liealth, has its own health officers on guard<br />
and they arrest these incoming germs and<br />
make them harmless. But if the body is in<br />
some way weakened so that at SD|me point<br />
the health officials are oft' duty, then the immigrants<br />
that we have taken in set up a<br />
business of their own. Each germ has its<br />
O'wn culture, the particular soil in which it<br />
grows hest and the obly safety of the body<br />
is to prevent this growth. Try as one may<br />
he can not prevent the entrance of the enemies,<br />
but he can fortify the weak places so<br />
that their assaults shall be harmless.<br />
AA'hen one has strengthened the body<br />
against some special enemy he is said to be<br />
immune to! the germ which causes it. We<br />
cari not escape the attack altogether, but we<br />
can make it fruitless. We take food, exercise,<br />
fresh air, and much good advice, for the<br />
sake of getting this immunity, since it is<br />
much easier to prevent the disiease than it is<br />
to cure it when once it has broken through<br />
the defences and makes war on the centers<br />
of life.<br />
Jesus was immune to sin. It was all about<br />
him }'et it could never get a lodgment because<br />
his soul was in perfect health and al-