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September 9, 1914.
A FAMILY PAPER.
S t a ^ r ] > t o t o ^
***Rev. W. J. Sanderson has returned to Selma, Alabama.
***Licentiate Burt Willson preached in New Alexandria.. Pa.,
last Sabbath.
***The attendance at Lisbon.. N. Y., congregation, on August 23
,fig,s 47, and on August 30 was 40.
***Rev. S. Turner Foster, D.D., is now pastor of the Westminster
Presbyterian Church at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
•^ ***Rochester Presbytery, we note met in Lisbon, N. Y., September
1, not September 8, as was announced.
^ «**Mr. Boyd White,, who completed his course at Geneva last
year, is to be at the Indian Mission this winter.
***Dr. McFarland and family motored from Syracuse to the Listen
(N. Y.) Manse, his birthplace, on Friday, August 28.
***Prof. D. B. Willson has returned from Mars, Butler Co., Pa.,
to the city home on Buena Vista street in Allegheny, Pa.
***0n and after September 20 there will be preaching in Montclair,
N. J., on every Sabbath afternoon at 3.30.. following Sabbath
School at 2.30,
***Among the new subscribers received the past week., is a good
sized club from the congregation of Rev. T. B. McFarlane, A.B., of
Newry, Ireland.
***The session of the Theological Seminary for 1914-15 will begin
on Tuesday, September 15. Opening lecture at 8 p. m., by Professor
Willson, in the Allegheny Church.
***The Rev. W. J. McKnight preached and delivered his lectures
in St. John and Barnesville, during August, preaching twice, and lecturing
ten times. The Rev. R. C. Reed fllled his pulpit during his
absence.
***If anyone who has ordered a copy of either of Dr. George's
books, or a set of Tarbell's Life of Lincoln, has not received the
book or books to which they are entitled, we will be pleased to
have them send us a card notifying us of the fact.
***Ilev. J. A. Lyons, CuUybackey, Ireland., whose excellent discourse
we recently pubished, writes: "Sorry for slips in the type on
p. 6, line 36, of issue July 22.. 1914, Christian Nation—and a look like
'broken earthenware' ought to be 'and a book like broken earthenware.'
"
***The Vacation Committee of the National Civic Federation
bas opened a free employment bureau at 38 W. 39th street. New
York, for the purpose of aiding women who are in need of work.
Telephone, Greeley 630-631, ask for the Employment Bureau, and you
will be given immediate attention.
•••^Announcement is made, at the request of Dr. R. M. Sommerville,
of the Foreipi Board, that help for the Chinese Mission has
come from an unexpected source, and for this reason no further contributions
for the China Relief Fund are needed. There were many
prompt and generous responses to the appeal, for which the Foreign
Board is sincerely grateful. If further help should be needed, the
Church will be notified.
***Young men and women of the Covenanter Church, you are
needed to stand by the Church's colors, and your loyalty is going to
be needed more and more. Study the principles, realize that you
we in personal Covenant with our Lord, that He is counting on your
personal co-operation with Him. Misguided bu t well-intentioned
young people will ask you if it is more important to stand for your
Principles than to seek to save souls, 'they think they have put you
to contusion when they insist that you must make this choice. No
such choice is required of you. "If ye love me, ye will keep my Commandments."
One must know them to keep them. "Ye shall know
'he Truth and the Truth shall make you free." Be familiar with the
Wrds of Jesus, and use them wisely. Be filled with His grace. Do
lot argue, but live the life—and stand by the Church's colors.
***We should he in constant prayer for our brethren throughout
Great Britain in view of the great conflict now raging in Europe. A
letter from Robert Holmes, Ballymony, Ireland, August 26, says they
^fe in the midst of terrible times. The Scotch R. P. Witness's
leading editorial in September issue is entitled "Garments Rolled in
Blood." The opening sentence reads: "A war of far greater magnitude
Jhan that which our forefathers and their Allies waged against the
'jst Napoleon a hundred years ago has been suddenly and ruthlessly
forced upon our peace-loving country. And the whole strength of