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Positively the best typewriter value ever given-the best selling plan ever devised. If You Own a Typewriter Now-trade it in to us as first payment-we will be liberal with you. If you are renting an old typewriter, you will want to send it back when you see this one. Send your name and address on coupon and we will tell you more about this unusual offer -more about this splendid typewriter-it won't cost you anything and you will be under no obligation-we won't send a salesman. Tear out the coupon now. Additional Inducements to Ministers Only TYPEWRITERS DISTRIBUTING SYNDICATE 159 J. A. H. North State St., Chicago, COUPON TYPEWRITERS DISTRIBUTING SYNDICATE 159 J. A. H. North State St., Chicago (78) You may send, without placing me under any obligation, further information typewriter offer. Name Address of your W. JOHNSON QUINN, Proprietor My old machine is a No. In Writing Advertisers Please Mention THE ASSEMBLY HERALD. This cut shows our famous Imperial Dissolving Stereopticon which is (complete with rheostats), priced at $100.00 Our prices are made on a close net cash basis and we must make a lot of sales at a small margin. We must also turn our money over as fast as possible. Our profits are not big enough to carry the account for a long period of time. We put our money into good "Honest Lanterns" -not easy payments. Our "Cooperative Payment" plan may help youIt has helped others. WE SELL AND RENT SLIDES, TOO A postal brings our catalogue MCINTOSH STEREOPTICON COMPANY 422 Atlas Block, CHICAGO OF.... Timely Interest WHAT OF THE CHURCH? J. SHERMAN WALLACE This book is a real, red-blooded, alert-andalive discussion of the church and its functions. Men everywhere are asking how it may best meet the conditions of the day, and this book will help them to an answer. Price, 75 cents net. THE EFFICIENT LAYMAN HENRY F. COPE. This book is a thorough study of the whole subject and is a positive contribution to the Laymen's Movement in our churches, and toward the utilization of all forces in our church life. It should be in the hands of every intelligent layman in our churches. Price, $1.00 net. THE GRIFFITH & ROWLAND PRESS Philadelphia 1701-1703 Chestnut St., THE ASSEMBLY HERALD PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. A. W. HALSEY, D.D., JOHN DIXON, D.D., WILLIAM H. SCOTT, Committee. CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1912 Headquarters and Outreach. Joseph E. McAfee From the Arctic to the Tropics. Rev. Charles L. Thompson, D.D., LL.D. The Standard Oil Company-The American Tobacco Company-The Missionary Company A Chance in China. Rev. J. Stewart Kunkle The Chinese Youth and the Missionary. The Hugh O'Neill Memorial School for Boys. Rev. E. C. Hawley. The Fati Middle School. Rev. W. D. Noyes A Missionary Ducking and What Came of It. Rev. Charles E. Scott. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Joseph Wilson Cochran, D.D., Secretary. THE BOARD OF CHURCH ERECTION. Duncan J. McMillan, D.D., Secretary 41 THE BOARD OF MINISTERIAL RELIEF. B. L. Agnew, D.D., LL.D., Cor. Secretary. THE BOARD OF PUBLICATION AND SABBATH SCHOOL WORK. Alexander Henry, D.D., THE MINISTERIAL SUSTENTATION FUND. Rev. George Francis Greene, D.D.. THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON TEMPERANCE. John F. Hill, D.D., Cor. Secretary.. Office, Room 515, Witherspoon Bldg., 1319 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. Moderator, Rev. John F. Carson, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y. Stated Clerk, Rev. William Henry Roberts, D.D., 1319 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. The Board of Home Missions.-Office, 156 Fifth Ave., N. Y., N. Y. Secretaries, Charles L. Thompson, D.D., LL.D. Associates, John Dixon, D.D., Mr. Joseph Ernest McAfee. Treasurer, Mr. Harvey C. Olin. The Board of Foreign Missions.-Office, 156 Fifth Ave., N. Y., Secretaries, A. Woodruff Halsey, D.D., Mr. Robert E. Speer, Arthur J. Brown, D.D., and Stanley White, D.D. Treasurer, Mr. Dwight H. Day. The Board of Education.-Office, 1319 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. Secretary, Rev. Joseph Wilson Cochran, D.D. Treasurer, Mr. Jacob Wilson. Alexander Henry, D.D. Bus. Sup., and Treas., Frank The Board of Church Erection.-Office, 156 Fifth Ave. N. Y. Secretary, Duncan J. McMillan, D.D. Treasurer, The Board of Ministerial Relief.-Office, 1319 Walnut Street, Phila., Pa. Secretary, Rev. Benjamin L. Agnew, D.D., LL.D. Treasurer, William W. Heberton, D.D. The Board for Freedmen.-Office, 513 Bessemer Bldg.. Pittsburgh, Pa. Secretary and Treasurer, Rev. Edward P. Cowan, D.D. Associate Rev. John M. Gaston. The College Board.-Office, 156 Fifth Ave., N. Y., N. Y. Sec. Robert Mackenzie, D.D., LL.D. Office Sec. and Ass. Treas. Rev. G. R. Brauer, to whom all remittances Permanent Committee on Temperance. - Office. ROYAL Baking Powder Used and praised by the most competent and careful pastry cooks the world over The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar---made from Grapes THE ASSEMBLY HERALD The Magazine of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. JANUARY, 1912 The Assembly Herald PRESENTS its New Year greetings with the hope that each number of 1912 will bring inspiration and help to all subscribers and readers who are engaged in the work of the Kingdom. During the year it will give as it were photographs of the different agencies of the church, and will endeavor to make them so realistic that each reader will comprehend at once the cause appealing for recognition, and at the same time it will aim so to blend them all that the picture will be a composite the different Boards appearing but as one in the realization in an earthly sense of "a glorious church." 163,951 |