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A STRIKING CONTRAST Simplicity of Indian Life
GOVERNOR-ELECT OF KENTUCKY COMMENDED At the Thanksgiving prayer meeting of the First Baptist Church of Bowling Green, with a congrégation of about 500 in attendance, the church commended Governor-elect Fields for his decision not to attend the customary inaugural ball, nor to have dances in thé governor's mansion during his administration. , The church jn taking this action commends■ the governor for respecting his own life time scruples rather than a cus tom,, and for -respecting the scruples of a very influential and numerous, body of law abiding and conservative citi zenry of every faith and party. The church realizes in commending the action of the gov ernor that the state and church are separate and should re main so, but that it is for the general good of the state and church that officials of each institution should have due re gard for the feelings and practices.of.the ,other.—Westera Recorder. , . .. .■ • U-'(• ■! GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS SAYS SOMETHING “Every able-bodied man has the right to engage in hon* orable work. The thought ,of enforced servitude was long ago uprooted in this country; that thought çan never again enter the mind of America^ A man has, the .right to leave his employment; buEha- has; no right, and he can acquire ho right, to say that another, shall not take the place he has left vacant. That is a truth which this, country has to recognize, and which public ppinion will endorse whenever- it is placed before them. There, cambe no compromise with that truth. The moment it! i(j. abandoned j^epenter upon a path which ;leads only into the swamp of,disaster, ¿and-to wards the abyss of national destruction.’S^Ghanning W. Cox, Governor of Massachusetts., ’ METHODISM AND T1IE NEW THEOLOGY The New Theology is spreading itself all over Methodism. That great Theologian, Godet,'said: “It is not persecution which threatens the Church but suicide—the gradual and hardly perceptible abandonment of faith in the Divine facts which have given birth to the Church, sustained it and al- ways reanimated it after crises.” ; . . “The thing most to be feared in theology is pure Intéllectuaíism. The entiræîmSàn*:ought to bé présent in the search, the conquest of etesaal-truth, of'the ^buth which ought to be the base of personal life.” Sir Robert Anderson, K. C. B., said: “Lét no one suppose because .of the seeming feebleness and folly of this New Theology, that it is but the flash' of a passing heresy which the common sense of the community will reject in timé. There is a great spiritual power behind it. But it is not the power of the Spirit of God; for it denies that Jesus is the Christ, -and this is the special characteristic of one phase of thé latter days, departure from the faith. It is the lie of the Anti-Christian apostasy, the lie of which the devil is the lather. John 8:44.”—Eastern Methodist. GENERAL FENG FOR METHODIST CONFERENCE Known as the “Chinese Cromwell,” General Feng has been elected to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which meets every four years, and he has been invited, to their meeting at Springfield, Mass., next May. It is confidently hoped that General Feng will, be able to attend, if the outlook in China is then more promising. The General—who is, assuredly, one of the leading Christians,, as well as one of the most promising Methodists in China—is a member of the Asbury Methodist Church in Peking.
It is said on good authority that 40,000,00.0 of India’s people never know what "it means to bo satisfied with food. A large proportion of the ■,families'vof India are main tained on an income not exceeding five dollars per month. Many large families exist on a much,smaller amount. Be sides" this, there are “birds of prey” always ready'to rob the poor Indian of what he does receive. • The daily food of the majority of India’s people consists" of coarse unleavened bread, or a cheai> grade of rice eaten on special occasions a little “gur” or refined sugar.. A year’s supply Of 'clothing for the average woman con sists of nne small jacket and two' pieces .of coarse cloth of about seven yards each. This makes her clothing bill about two dollars per annum. An ordinary Indian home contains no musical, instru ments of any description, no books, magazines or pictures and very little furniture". A couple of rickety beds,,.a wooden trunk, a few earthen jars for Storing grain, etc., several baskets of different sizes and six or eight brass dishes are the sole furnishings of “bed-room, kitchen, din ing-room and parlor,” Happy is the family that possesses two or three quilts or blankets for covering during the: chilly nights of the cold season. J “ Simplicity (?) of American Life ¡“American women paid $750*000,000. for rouge, lip Sticks, powder and, perfume during 1919, according, to luxury, tax returns now on file a.t the. United States Treas ury, “While the American women were paying their $750;* 000,000 beauty bill, the men were burning up $1,310,000- 000 in cigars and cigarettes. Of this huge sum, $8,000,4 000,000 went for cigarettes alone. . “Half a billion dollars were spent for jewelry and one billion was paid out for candy. , “The United States prohibition bill increased the Amer ican consumption of soft drinks to the amount of $350,- 0 00 , 0 0 0 . ,“Furs sold ¡a t. the highest prices in history, but only $300,000,000 worth were bought. The American people paid $2,000,000,000 for automo biles, and. $250,000,000 for phonographs and pianos. “The gum chewing, which includes, dead flies and spiders’ legs and so forth, cost the,people $50,000,000. “Here are only a few items on the nation’s extravagant luxury bill: For joy riding, resorts and different kinds of rests, $3,000,000,000; luxurious, that is, unnecessary foods, $5,000,000,000; extra or luxurious service, $3,000*000,- 000;toilet soaps, $400,000,000 chewing tobacco, and snuff, $800,000,000; ice cream, $2.5,000,000; confections, $350,- 000,000.” / ; It is decidedly against God’s plan that one nation squan der billions in luxuries, while millions of people a few thousand miles away, go to bed every night hungry for the lack of a little of the coarsest food. He who notices the fall of the sparrows also has a record of every misspent dollar. —“The Burning Bush.” HYMNS THAT LIVE “Etude,” a monthly musical journal, conducted a ques tionnaire on the 10 most popular hymns. All creeds, all kinds of people were questioned and. 32,000 responded. These four hymns were highest on the lists, and all ap peared in every list but a very few: “Abide with Me,” 7301; “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” 5490; “Lead, Kindly Light,” 4161, and “Rock of Ages,” 3492.
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