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August 12.1913.<br />
A FAMILY t'APm.<br />
vould go ahead in any case. I'he Lowet<br />
Souse approved of the report of the comnittee,<br />
which has been considering a number<br />
)f changes in the Collects, Epistles, and Gos-<br />
^t\s.—The Times.<br />
A meeting of the general executive of the<br />
[ntemational Zionist Organization was held<br />
last: week at the headquarters of the movement<br />
in Berlin to decide upon the programme<br />
of the next Zionist Congress—the eleventh<br />
-which will open in Vienna on September<br />
2. Professor Otto Warburg, ichairman of<br />
the Central Executive presided, and representatives<br />
were present from Russia,. Germany,<br />
Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Belgium.<br />
It was decided that one of the principal<br />
questions to be discussed at the forthcoming<br />
Congress should be the advisability<br />
of erecting a Jewish University in Jerusalem.<br />
It was recognized that the realization of such<br />
a project, in view of the present conditions<br />
in Palestine, is somewhat premature, but<br />
that the obstacles placed in the way of Russian<br />
Jewish students desirous of entering the<br />
Universities of their native countrv and of<br />
[Germany are likely to make the adoption<br />
^f such a plan a necessity before very long.<br />
I TAe Times, June 27, 1913.<br />
^Rev. Robert J. Burdette, of Pasadena,<br />
California, and Rev. Charles Stelzle, of New<br />
!York, on the program of the Portland Conference,<br />
did not attend. The former conitributes<br />
an article to the August number of<br />
[the Ladie's Home Journal, "The One Chair<br />
jin My Pulpit; Why I Banished All the Oth-<br />
;ers and Ministers, Too." It is a g°od lee—<br />
iture on Pastoral Theology, in showing why<br />
fkr. Burdette wants no extra seats in his<br />
Ipulpit. The illustration given at the head<br />
of the article is very instructive.<br />
I Mr. Stelzle has given up his place in the<br />
iSocial -Service work of the Presbyterian<br />
!Church. Labor Temple has been transferred<br />
Ito New York Presbytery. The first step,<br />
lilitiating ministers into labor lodges, over<br />
U decade ago, has not met with any more<br />
fsuccess than their union- with Masonic and<br />
[other Orders to gain influence with men.<br />
Ead Compton, now Marquess of Northlapton,<br />
was engaged to- Mrs. Moss, an<br />
pflglish actress. His father persuaded him<br />
|t« break it off, for social reasons; and on<br />
Ithe second of July, the son, now Marquess,<br />
Ntled this breach of promise case by the<br />
fsum of fiftythousand pounds.<br />
same. His birth was on this wise:<br />
The Pennsylvania Commission for the He is a slave. The long hard day's work<br />
pettysburg celebration invited ex-President is done. The evening meal has been eaten.<br />
I'aft as well as the President, but did not<br />
[The weary body cries for the hard pallet on<br />
'invite Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Taft did not go.<br />
the floor of +he hut, that they call their home,<br />
,r. Wilson was there less than an hour to<br />
but the struggle has not ceased. He can not<br />
i''«'iver an address on Friday, the 4th of<br />
]%• The town was crowded from the first<br />
t| the week.<br />
'There are a thousand hacking at the<br />
"•anches of evil to one who is striking at<br />
^ro't.—Scattish Reformer.<br />
Many expressions similar to the following<br />
«te being received in this office:<br />
"I want t° express my wish that The<br />
Christian Instructor may live on and on, and<br />
that its funeral may be indefinitely postponed."<br />
We suggest that there is but one way in<br />
which to postpone its funeral beyond the<br />
time 'fixed by the General Assembly, and<br />
that is for all who are eager forit^s continuance<br />
to concentrate their strength and give<br />
it a new lease of life. We suggest that all<br />
who are wiUing to help in that direction communicate<br />
at once wiith Dr. W. G. Moorehead,<br />
Xenia, O., stating what you are willing to<br />
do.—Christian Instructor, July 22.<br />
Rev. Professor Joseph Kyle of the Xenia,<br />
O., Seminary, says in the United Presbyterian<br />
of July 17th:<br />
"With all that is acknowledged to have<br />
been fitting and appropriate in the experience<br />
of the late Assemblv, firm insistence<br />
will be made on this: There is a vast difference<br />
between intense desire for union and<br />
willingness to bring about a form of union<br />
through the sacrifice of principle. And it<br />
may as well -be recognized first as last, that<br />
there are thousands of United Presbyterians<br />
who will not consent to union on such a<br />
basis as the committee has proposed."<br />
"Organic union on such a basis as the<br />
Church is asked to accept would have few<br />
of the marks of the oneness for which our<br />
Lord Jesus prayed. Its firsteffect would be<br />
the separation of brethren who have long<br />
dwelt together in unity; for—let no one mislead<br />
himself in this matter—the hope is absolutely<br />
without foundation, that the United<br />
Presbyterian Church will be wholly or nearly<br />
unanimous in its acceptance of this basis.<br />
For the disunion it would occasion, it ought<br />
to be rejected."<br />
/<br />
THE COMING OF JOSHUA.<br />
By the Rev. O. F. Thompson-<br />
The birth of Christ was on this wise; a<br />
virgin of Bethlehem brought forth a son and<br />
called his name Jesus.<br />
And the angel of<br />
the Lord came to the watchers in a night vision<br />
and said, "Fear not, for behold I bring<br />
you good tidings of great joy, which shall<br />
be to all people.<br />
day a Savior."<br />
For unto you is born this<br />
Thirteen hundred and sixty years before<br />
that event in Bethlehem—or near that time<br />
there was another Savior born who was<br />
called Jesus—or Joshua, which is the<br />
give up tO' sleep.<br />
A slave, I said! Yes, he is a slave—his<br />
body, but not his «oul. His soul is his own,<br />
and God's-<br />
Through the open door the hot air pours<br />
in. Rising frcm his seat he moves slowly to<br />
the opening and stands bo-king out at the<br />
wonderful night. The sky is full of stars.<br />
They seem to Crowd each other, so anxious<br />
are they that their own Jight shall be seenin<br />
the world. They are each so small, too. He<br />
wonders why they are so anxious aibout their<br />
shining, for the world would not know if a<br />
thousand of them w-ere suddenly blotted out<br />
of the sky. The thousands thait were left<br />
would still fill the heavens like a bed of<br />
diamonds.<br />
As he looks he thinks of his own people<br />
—tv/o millions of them—all slaves! How<br />
small they, each one, are in the eyes of their<br />
masters. If a thousand of them were suddenly<br />
blotted out it would make no difference<br />
to Egypt. The thousands that were left<br />
would still be enough to- fillthe land and to<br />
fire the brick kilns and build the monuments<br />
and the cities.<br />
"I wonder why they are all like me, so anxious<br />
to live and do something in the world,<br />
to leave a name, to work and love and make<br />
others love them. Perhaps it is that we are<br />
like the s'tars. They are made to shine and<br />
they must. We are made to live and we<br />
must live! But how can we! There are so<br />
many and the food is so poor and the work<br />
so hard! The task-masters are so cruel. The<br />
people are discouraged. And well they may<br />
be, for the king has decreed that all the children<br />
must die! O, God! Why is it so ! And<br />
a child is to be born to us! Must he die?<br />
O, my Father! Must he die! Must he die!"<br />
The vrords came unconsciously. He had<br />
not intended to speak except in his own<br />
heart. But the words are formed there and<br />
can not be kept back.<br />
Behind him a woman kneels at the stone<br />
mill grinding a handful of meal for the morrow.<br />
For a little as she droops aibove tbe<br />
stone she is too tired to understand. Then<br />
the words form into her thoughts and she<br />
knows. Raising her itired eyes she looks, and<br />
as she sees the man against the star-lit sky<br />
he seems beautiful to her and a light comes<br />
into her tired eyes. She f<strong>org</strong>ets the meal<br />
and the stone and tbe morrow and rising<br />
she stands in the doorway by his side.<br />
She touches his arm. Hie does not move.<br />
His slave-body, tired with the work, is' asleep<br />
and his mind is far away in the sky. He is<br />
free for an hour and has gone away to- walk<br />
with God. She waits. Again she touches<br />
his arm. She holds him by the hand. "Nun,<br />
my husband, God is good." His eyes open<br />
once moire. Slowly (he turns and looks into<br />
her face—"A Savior which shall be to all<br />
the people—our people. He shall live and<br />
lead them into the promised land. Then our<br />
people shall live and shine as the brightness<br />
of the firmament and like the stars for ever<br />
and ever. He shall not die! He must not<br />
die!"<br />
Side by side they walk down- the path from<br />
the door toward the river. It is the Nile<br />
and its muddy, oily surface glistens in the<br />
starlight like the back of some great serpent<br />
gliding noiselessly along its banks. They<br />
stand by the water and gaze far out over