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THE CHRISTIAN NATION. Vol. 69.
sented 1-] different denominations, 37 States
and 23 foreign countries. 142 were graduated,
of A\hom a large proportion had foreign
missionary Avork in view, although the
Institute is proving to be a great help to
Home ?\Iissionar_A' Boards in supplying men
for frontier fields in our OAvn land. It also
docs a great Avork for Chicago itself, Avhere
the larger part of the students obtain their
training in practical Christian Avork. ILast
year they conducted or rendered other ser-
A'ice in 16,033 religious meetings in the city,
taught 13,161 Bible and mission study classes,
made 21,2.4.4 personal calls, conversed Avith
35,722 persons on the subject of salvation,
and reported 4.721 souls Avho had professed
conversion to Jesus Christ,
the exception of a small deficit at the lime
of closing the books, of $813.00.
The Institute expects tjo erect another new
(building next year, which has become absolutely
necessary, for the accommodation of
class rooms, music studios, business offices,
library, etc., and which wdll cost not far from
$300,000; there is also necessity for another
diormitory to cost $200,000; for these an appeal
is made to Godly men and women of
Avealth, as well as those of smaller means,
Avho believe in that for Avhich the Institute
stands
eousness. Yea, Aca, and naA, nay, are the
rules of life, xV man is saved, or he is damned,
in the Cumberland creed. The lake of fire
and brimstone still seeths for sinners^ literally.
You hear singing in a little log church
on Saturday 'Or Sunday—for it takes two da)'s
of preaching to appease a Cumberland Covenantei"—and
you stop your boat to go ashore
into a scene Avith a century-oM setting. A
preacher illiterate as any George Washington's
backwoods days hands out to his congregation
the terror of the Avrath to come; and
they, as in the times of Peter Cartwright or
his predecessors, groAV "happy," groAV hysterical,
sometimes even yet fall in the cataleptic
fits of religious frenzy; later to arise and sally
forth faithfully, rifle in hand, to plug some
fellow citizen Avhose grandmother may er-
ACTION OF KANSAS PRESBYTERY.
The following resolution was passed by Kansas
Presbytery at the meeting in Blanchard, Iowa,
The Institute, as hitherto, holds itself to
November 5, 1913:
ringly have married across the feudal line. its three cardinal subjects: the Bible, Gospel
In the removal of Mrs. W. W. Carithers from
Life thereabout is upright and doAvnrigbt, inexorable,
Music and Personal W^ork, but is adding the scene of her earthly labors, this Presbytery
unchanged. Lovable as they are, others for the broadening of its Avork, to recognizes that there has been taken from our
splendid as they are, none the less Ave must
almost be obliged to call them heathen. For
meet the demands of the churches such as
Pedagogy, Public Speaking, and the English
human vision and fellowship, a noble, competent,
and consecrated servant of Jesus Christ, and a
a century they have practised many of the and Italian languages. It is also introducing most helpful and devoted wife, friend, and sister.
Avays of barbarism, have held to the old creed a strong Sabbath School department to equip
To those who knew her most intimately
of the early frontier. About a hundred years Christian young men and Avomen who desire
she Avas a constant Inspiration to fidelity,to
or so ago some Craig or some Tolliver was
to make that v>ork their life calling, and duty, to faith in Jesus Christ, and to unwearied
picking the flintof his squirrel-rifle and getting
ready for the first of the feudal manhunts
for Avhom there is a growing demand. The
special training for vA'omen for Avork among
devotion to those whose souls needed the help
of a sympathizing friend. -She gave her life to
of the Appalachians. It Avas then that women and children in churches, missions her Savior and to those whom she so devotedly
there broke out one phase of the old Covenanter,
and Gospel settlements also, is receiving served.
the old Highland spirit. Today no one more thought than before, so that noAv the Her influence extended not only over the entire
knows the cause of the original feud betAveen
the Craig and the Tolliver families. It
might have been property, it might have been
Institute is prepared to give an "up-to-date"
training in all the newer kinds of practical
service, without Avhich Avomen are fruitless
mission field where she served, but also throughout
the Church and to the regions beyond. The
Indian Mission, which she helped to found, is a
women. But all the feuds date back to that servants in many fields of labor. Like all its monument to her memory. It is a testimony to
ancestral warfare.''
other training for both men and Avomen, in the value of prayer, on which she and her devoted
Concerning this "cariacature" of Covenanterism
husband constantly relied through the twenty-
all its departments, this is provided for the
Mrs. Boyd Avrites: "There is a com­
students free of cost.
five years of service which they were permitted
munity in the southern part of this (Randolph)
County, where the Catholic religion prevails,
and the Bible has been excluded from the public
The foregoing data refers only to the Educational
Department, so-called, but in addrtion
the Institute carries on both a Corres­
to enjoy together.
The power of such a life cannot be lost when
the servant is transferred to another sphere of
school, and Avife beating is tolerated acpondence
and an Extension Department. labor. It will bear fruit in the renewed consecra­
cording to current report, that can as consistently
The progress of the former during the past tion of those with whom she was associated.
be called a Christian community as those year is the most notable feature of the an­"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death
people be called Covenanters, It may be true nual report, showing an increase in students of His saints.''
enough that those people are fbc degenerate of 66 per cent. The Extension Department
While we miss her voice and her presence, we
ofl^spring of Covenanters ; yet than the Covenanters
is a channel for sending out evangelistic are certain that He who guided her to such faith­
there is no other Christian organization preachers and singers, and Bible teachers, to ful ministry will endow with a double portion of
that is more progressive in all moral reforms, every part of the country. These conducted His Spirit those who give themselves to the service
and keeps any better abreast of the times as
Avell as holds fast to attainments and proper
1000 meetino's last year and, Avhile no special
emphasis is laid on the number of persons
of their Lord.
To our beloved brother whose lile was one
principles,"
professing to accept Christ as the result, with hers in this consecration, we extend our
yet J 235 of such cases Avere reported. The sincere sympathy, praying that "the God of all
THE ^lOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF
E:ctension Department also serves as a clearing
comfort will comfort him in all his tribulation,
house for ministers, evangelists, and oth­
CHICAGO,
that he may be able to comfort those who are
ers,, fillinglast year 125 positions from which in trouble by the comfort wherewith he himself
The character and extent of the work carried
on bv the Moody Bible Institute of Chi­
responsible as Avell for the Summer Bible
calls Avere received for such workers. It is is comforted of God."
The memory of her love and fellowship is a
cago is revealed in the following summary School at Winona Lake, Ind., Avith an enrolment
last year of about 600, and pub­
solace, and the memory of the unfinished task
of facts culled from the President's report
which she left provides for us the occupation of
for the year.
lishes Aveekly sermons and Sabbath School
mind and body which will keep us in fellowship
lessons through a ncAvspaper syndicate, by
T047 stnf:ent= passed through the hands of
-s^ith the life she lived in the fellowship of Him
which it is estimated that upwards of five
the Institute during the year in the Day,
whose companionship is delight and in whose
million readers are reached everv week.
prese-ice there are pleasures forevermore.
l^\-cnii\c;' and G- rrf";pondencc Departments, :is The budget of the Institute for last year
J. M. Wylie, W. A, Aikin, W. J. Elliott, Committee.
.-eah'-t t'^50 the vear before. They repre­
Avas *228,i78.76, all of which Avas met Avith