546 495 295 401 Michigan, Self-Support in the Synod of, by the Rev. David howell-July... Self-Support, How to Bring Our Churches to March SELF-SUPPORTING SYNODS: 253 New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Balti- Ellis, Rev. Clarence H., M.D.-February. Ely, Rev. George Wells-March.. Falconer, Fred R.-June. PAGE. 359, 366 134 Baer, John Willis, LL.D.-January. Edwards, Rev. Charles E.-August. Frank, Rev. Howard M.-June. -November 527 Greene, J. Milton, D.D.-May. 243 Harris, Rev. Herbert S.-May.. 249 372 Hastings, Edward E., D.D.-June. 295 142 163 New Jersey, Synodical Home Missions in, by the Rev. Samuel McLanahan, Chairman-December 622 Holt, William Sylvester, D.D.-April. Hosack, Rev. Hermann M.-June. Hudnut, Rev. William H.-March. 167 272 141 Wisconsin, Self-Support in the Synod of, by the Rev. Howard A. Talbot-September. Silver Bay Conference-July.. 370 Kane, Thomas-March. 136 "Special Objects"-March Silver Bay Conference-September.. 458 Keam, Rev. Samuel R.-February. 74 146 Keeler, Rev. Leonard-March. 138 Srodes, Rev. John Jay-March. 145 Kirkwood, Thomas C., D.D.-February. 64 STUDY CLASS WORK: -January -April Knox, George, D.D.-October. 495 15 Lane, Rev. Charles Stoddard-March. 141 177 -August 397 Lindsey, Rev. E. J.-February. 71 -November 542 STEREOPTICON LECTURES: Little, Rev. Henry-December. Logan, Rev. W. H.-May.. 615 253 General-March 142 Our Country in Pictures-August.. 399 Foundation for Effective Appeal, by the Rev. Lukens, Rev. C. E., M.D.-November. McAfee, Cleland B., D.D.-December. McAfee, Joseph Ernest-September. 538 601 450 Charles E. Blanchard-March... 142 -November Interest, Awakened New, by C. C. Hays, D.D. -March Informing and Interesting, by the Rev. George Wells Ely-March. 522, 523 McDonald, Donald, D.D.-August. 401 THANKSGIVING, CAUSES FOR: Methods, One of the Most Satisfactory, by Lyman Whitney Allen, D.D.-March.... 142 McLanahan, Rev. Samuel-December. McMillan, Duncan J., D.D.-August. Noble, W. B., D.D.-April. Olin, Harvey C.-March. 135 Alaska, In-November Panama, In-Our Church 527 Palmer, S. S., D.D.-January. 5 on the Isthmus November Porto Rico, In-November. 525 Phraner, Wilson, D.D.-June. Platt, Edmund P.-March.. 289 140 Workingmen, Among-November 526 Radcliffe, Wallace, D.D.-January. McAfee-November Thanksgiving, Home Mission, by Joseph Ernest 528 November Thanks in Unison, by Joseph Ernest McAfee 523 Rioseco, Rev. Pedro-May. 245 Ritch, Thomas G.-March. 139 TREASURY: 522 Rue, Miss S. Catherine-January. -September II 459 Rev. Leonard Keeler-March. Missions, What a Penny Can Do for, by the --December 614 "Patriotic League," The-March. 138 by Thomas Kane-March... Topics, Treasury, by Harvey C. Olin-March.. 135 What We Owe and the Results of Paying It, 137 Smith, J. Ritchie, D.D.-March. Spencer, William H.-May.. Stelzle, Rev. Charles-January. -September 141 241 9 451 United States a Christian Nation, The (Extracts from the Interior)-January.. 136 -November 528 13 15 79 358 15 Stevenson, Rev. A. Waldo-May. 247 3 72 141 460 606 79 146 177 251 291 370 -June -September Thomson, Henry C., D.D.-November. Tracy, Rev. Leland H.-May.. 307 AUTHORS. Young People's Missionary Movement-September 458 White, Rev. Hiram F.-February. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey-August Allen, Lyman Whitney, D.D.-March. 458 542 Trippe, Rev. Morton F.-February. Underwood, Rev. Judson L.-May. Webb, Rev. Frederic Lee-December. 76 239 609 69 Williams, Edgar L., D.D.-April 174 -November 546 71 480 275 There has been a change of front. We have a new position. Let us try to define it. It is not so very long since our only front was on the Atlantic coast, and it was pretty much all "front" then and one indeed which we were quite willing to conceal in primitive woods. We were a refuge and our immigrants were refugees and we wanted no European connection-the Atlantic could not be too broad for us. But as the seeds of civil and religious liberty flung on that coast were living seeds, they sprouted and grew. The result has been expansionrather, expansions. We need not quarrel with the word nor locate it in our recent history, for our history from the first has been one of repeated and ever-widening expansions,--every one of them under the push and power of moral or religious ideas. EXPANSIONS. Thus our first existence was religiously determined. Our expansion into the old Northwest was declared to be in the interest of liberty, education, morality, and religion. Our expansion across the Mississippi was the assertion of our Protestant Christianity as against the claims of French Catholicism. Our expansion into the far Northwest and our settlements there were under home missionary leadership. And our recent reach into the seas of the Atlantic and Pacific was under the power of the altruistic motive to help people who needed our help. In all of our expansions we have been teachers of the nations. It has not been greed of gain. It has been the irresistible impulse and perseverance of Christian ideals. The general Home Mission topic for January is "Standard of Christianity in America.' Our Revolutionary War was at the behest of a nation's right to liberty. Its results were at once felt in Europe; first in France, culminating in her revolution, and afterward in other European countries where America's example and influence told always for popular rights and popular education. Our Civil War was in the interest of freedom on our own shores. Though getting small sympathy from Europe at the time, it is now acknowledged there to have been a stimulus to liberty and progress throughout the world. Our last war, resulting in increased territory, originated in no desire for it but purely in the purpose to succor the oppressed. The moral influence of it has gone to the Philippines and the West Indies, and is felt to-day in the republics of South America. So our expansion has meant enlarged world frontage for the display of moral ideals which are to the uplifting of the nations. This new position brings prestige. During the last ten years this republic has become the cynosure of all eyes. Prestige is defined as the moral influence of character or success. We have the prestige that comes from success. Our counsels are potent now among the counsels of the nations of the earth; our commerce is getting a hold on countries it had not touched before; and our political influence is reckoned with wherever there is political debate. PRESTIGE OF CHARACTER. But our prestige at last is based on national character. See the directions in which that national character appears: |