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WALKER MAKES THEM BETTER One More Day on the Hill with Our Fall Line of W oolens and Haberdashery The Srumniesr Line We've Ever Shown. Gall Today ir 5 i i .1 if I'! m. m. s-' w jj v i - - T. A. WALKER & COMPANY, TAILORS AND GREENSBORO, N. C. F. E. Winslow, B. L. Fentress, and Bob Winston, Agents HABERDASHERS Bible Study Rally (Continued from first page) value grow out of the moral earnest ness of the writer, there is only one book of authority upon the matter of eternity. While other books are sug gestive, this one book is authoritative. And since we are what we are, this Book must be the king of books for us. While we want many others, we must have this. In every book there .is a central theme; while many incidental ideas; are brought in, there is just one prin cipal theme, running tnrougnout tne entire book, binding it together into a unity. This is true of the Bible. While! many incidental matters are treated,; the central theme, beginning with' Genesis and closing with the end of Revelations, is Sin and Salvation. It4 is therefore not the purpose of the Bible to teach geology or any science or history. While there is a science in the Bible, it is the science current at the times that the different parts ' were written; and while there is his tory also, it is the history of the Jew ish people. . The Bible came about in 'this way: a nation of people undergoing all the vicissitudes of other nations, having its birth, its period of growth, pro-: duced its leaders, prophets, poets, and historians these men taught, through allegory, proverb and direct statement, their religious ideals for the nation.. The people presented their traditions; and produced a literature that grew, and changed like the literature of other nations. But there was this difference be tween the Jews and other people. While all nations had a religion, their religion was incidental; but with the Jews their religion was their whole life. They were a chosen people, se lected by God to work out for the world a true concept of Himself and to prepare for a Saviour who should be for all people. God dealt with this nation directly through its prophets and these prophets not only labored with their people, but left a record of God's dealing with them. This record is the Holy Scriptures. Since the Bible grew out of the his tory of a people, the revelations in it. are of necessity progressive, starting in its outset from under the simpler; conditions of early semi-barbarous Jew ish life and culminating in the perfect. , word of God as it was made flesh in. Jesus Christ. In reading the Bible understandingly, it is therefore neces sary to have a knowledge of the times in which the various parts were writ-: ten. One should endeavor to ascertain, the author, the public to which he ad-, dressed himself, and the purpose for, which the book was written. All of the Bible is either the back ground or the outflow of the incarna- tion that part before Christ forming background for his coming and that part after Christ being the outflow of his life and work. While there is un limited variety of thought among the different authors of the Bible, the whole book converges upon one point, Jesus Christ. The purpose of the Bible is to interpret Him, whom to know is life eternal. "Ye search the Scrip tures," saith Jesus, "For in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testify of me." The purpose of this Scripture then is to prepare for Christ and to interpret His life, and since Jesus Christ is the one Universal Character without any de fect and with all perfection, the book that interprets Him is the book that needs to be studied most carefully and most regularly. Besides this address Mr. Rowe has delivered before the congregation of the Methodist church two of the most remarkable sermons heard here in some time. ! The Work of the Y. M. C. A. - (Continued from first page) to fear for that five dollars. After receiving benefits as these from the Y. M. C. A. it would be nothing but the rankest ingratitude if new men did not interest themself in its advance ment. Besides helping the new men the Young Men's Christian Association is doing even now an incalculable ser vice to the students in general. Proba bly the direction in which it does most good is the Bible Study groups. There are three regular courses: "Studies in the Life of Jesus", "Life of St. Paul", and "Works and Teach ings of the Earlier Prophets." These courses are gotten up expressly for cd liege men. They are led by college men who have been trained and coach ed for the purpose. Besides the regu lar groups of Bible Study there are: one group for post-graduates and in structors, two groups for seniors, three or four groups for juniors, six for fraternity men, and several other spec groups as, for example, the football group. Thus any man in college may join a group and get in with congenial companions. In addition to the Bible Study classes theY. M. C. A. offers several forms of amusement for the men here. There is the game room in the Y. M. C. A. building. Altho the game room is at present a little run down, the General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. is taking steps to put it in tip-top con dition. He is already in correspondence with several firms seeking to secure covers for the curoquet tables and the chess and checker men will be imme diately replaced in the room. It is hoped that the students will be a little more careful in their use of the games this year as it is quite discouraging to have the game room restocked each year only to be torn to pieces again. The reading room in the Y. M. C. A. building will be especially well stocked this year. The following pa mpers have very generously offered nine imonths subscriptions. The Virginia Hot, The Times Dispatch, The Win ston-Salem Journal, The Ashville Citi zen, The Atlanta Georgian, The Greensboro Daily News, The Nashville Tennesseean, The Tampa Tribune. Besides these newspapers there ar also The Atlanta Journal and The Char lotte Observer, There will be all the college newspapers, magazines and an nual exchanges together with quite a fevj denominational periodicals. This collection of newspapers and periodi cals furnishes a most varied and inte resting assortementof reading mate rial. As a token of the high esteem in which the University authorities hold the Young Men's Christian Association the self-help has been turned .over to its administration. Thro the efforts of its cabinet many men have already been aided. A department of Y. M. C. A. activi ty that does not concern itself directly with the student body of the Universi ty but which none the less is s the Organization of Sunday School Exten sion. As in the past year, there are the eight Sunday Schools in the rural district about Chapel Hill conducted under the management of this organi zation. The teachers of the Sunday schools will be students of the Univer sity, chiefly ministerial students. The student teachers will be coached by Mr. Adolph Vermont who conduc ted such an excellent Sunday school class at the Baptist Church last year. There are, on the second floor of the Y. M. C. A. building several very nicely furnished rooms. The Young Men's Christian Association extends an invitation to all or any of the various organizations of the sudents here to hold their meetings in these rooms. We, however, cordially recommend that whensoever any organization shall take it upon itself to hold a meet ing in any of these rooms, that afore said organisations leave seating capac ity for at least two persons in the Tar Heel room. ' This is, very briefly, an outline of some of the practical service the Y. M. C. A. and its workers are doing the University, It might be well to note that the men who are carrying on this work are not religious cranks but are men who are most busily engaged in other college activities. These young men are thus, without the least thought of self-aggrandisement, doing what they can to benefit the student body. We think this effort to show our ap preciation of their actions is more than deserved by them. In the Phi Society Saturday the query debated was, Resolved, That Congress should lay a pro gressive income tax. After a heat ed discussion the judges decided that the best speech was made by Mr. C. K. Burgess, of the negative side. Messrs. Quincy, N. E. West, Gunter, Stearn and McGaskell were initiated. The University OF North Carolina. ,t? '89 HEAD OF THE STATE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION. .J909. The University stands for thoroughness and all that is best in education and the moulding. of character. It is equipped with 16 buildings, new water works, cen tral heating, electric lights. Eleven Sci entific Laboratories, equipped for good work. The Faculty numbers 98. Stu dents 800. Library of 50,000 volumes. One librarian and four assistants. Fine Literary Societies. There is an active Y. M. C. A. conducted by th.3 students. Scholarships and loans for the needy and deserving. For information, address F. P. VENULE, President, Chapel Hill, N. C. The Royal & Borden Fur. Co. DURHAM. N. C. 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