EDITORIAL AFTERTHOUGHTS
B HILADELPHIA School of the Bible is changing its corporate name to “ Scofield School of the Bible,” in honor of its founder, the late Dr. C. I. Scofield. Bible Union of China, organized to oppose rationalism among the mission aries, now has a membership of 1700 missionaries. “ Chinese Christian Intelligencer makes the statement that of 7000 mis sionaries in the larger missions of China, 3000 are modernists. The Annual Conference of the Moody Institute has been called by Dean James M. Gray. The -speakers were chosen with reference to the. following pur poses: “ To meet the attacks of mod ernism; to enlighten believers concern ing extravagancies and disorders, of professed faith h e a l e r s and the ‘tongues- Movement.” Subscribers have sent us display ad vertisements cut f r o m Pittsburgh papers. These extol Romanism and at tempt to answer common charges against popery. They were paid for by Catholic laymen. Protestants who were aroused by the falsity and half-truths in the advertisements tried to get replies inserted, but found that the editors did not dare accept the advertisements re futing Catholicism. England had 41,401 divorces last year. That’s nothing. We had 133, 000 American families split up in the same period— every eleven days we had as many as England had in a year. Every four minutes an American family arranges a divorce. In twenty years 3,767,182 men and women broke up in America. Our country now has the doubtful distinction of being the chief opium con sumer in the world. - The health com missioner' of New York, says this habit is rapidly increasing and is far worse than the whiskey habit ever was. In 1919, 640,000 pounds are known to have been brought in, equaling .50 grains to a person. Three grains per capita is the most allowed in any other country. Dr. Samuel West was once having difficulty in his church in New Bedford, because of a row in the choir. The doctor opened the Sunday morning ser
vice by announcing the hymn, “ Come ye that love the Lord.” After reading the first verse, he turned to the choir loft and read the second verse: “ Let those refuse to sing who never knew our God.” Seventh-day Adventists now have 4541 church congregations and 1717 buildings, with 6151 Sabbath schools. They operate 45 publishing concerns and thousands of their adherents freely peddle the literature to the homes. Oh, for a few thousand people to distribute true Gospel tracts as energetically! “ Atchison Globe” well says: “Ser mons that don’t seem to get anywhere — sermons on dancing; sermons on card-playing; sermons on theatres.” ‘‘Preach the Word” is the best advice we know of for ministers. Knights of Columbus have had much to say recently about Columbus, a Catholic, having discovered America, and therefore his church has a kind of prior lien upon our country^ Editor of the “ Lutheran” thinks the Knights are a little mixed on geography. All that the bold navigator found is still the territory of the church he belonged to. He visited South America and the Caribbean Islands. He never set foot on the soil of the United States or Can ada. Not many of us would care to live in South America, in fact, the suc cessors of the Indians whom Columbus found, are not very grateful for having been discovered by him, or ruled by his successors. “ Western Recorder” says: “Who ever heard of a theological seminary’ or mission board being established by high er critics?” It is then pointed out that “ these wolves in sheep’s clothing skulk into the sheepfold, insinuating them selves into fat salaries and places of honor and influence, made possible by the sacrifices of people who were moved by the Spirit of Jesus Christ and loyalty to the Word of God.” The writer goes on to mention some great colleges founded by devout believers, that have now been slyly captured by the liberal- ists. • Late report gives the membership of the larger religious bodies in the United States as follows: Baptists, 7,085,867; Congregational, 814,326; Disciples,
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