EDITORIAL A FTER TH O U GH T S
Some things are being reduced, it is true, but there is no prospect of an early reduction of the wages of sin. The devil is trying hard in these days to make the world believe that the old fashioned Holy Ghost revival has had its-day and is a thing entirely of the past. The only reason some pastors and many church members are willing to have it so, is because they are not will ing to pay the price of the kind of a revival God sends. A news dispatch carries this headline: “American Woman Decorated.” It’s the truth. The Queen of Sheba wouldn’t be in it today with some of the women that may be seen going into our churches on a Sunday. Someone has said, “The devil isn’t as black as he is painted, nor are some women as pink.” Hon. Wm. «L Bryan is being ridiculed by a number of editors because in ad dressing a church convention in Wash ington a few weeks ago he said, “We have allowed the doctrine of neutrality in religion to be carried too far. Our universities and colleges are teaching agnosticisms and skepticisms under the guise of philosophy, and the minds of the young men and young women are being corrupted.” The above reminds us also that some Methodist editors have been “rubbing it in” because the “Eastern Methodist” turns down the evolution theories being preached in many Methodist churches. The editor comes back with these words: “As to Evolution, with the presi dent of the British Association of Sci ence declaring there is more evidence of degeneration than of evolution, and old Haeckel in Germany bemoaning the fact that he alone is left of the believers in it, Haeckel even giving a long list of eminent scientists, all of whom have abandoned evolution, the Eastern Meth odist, thank you, is quite up-to-date, and in a great and goodly company of wide awake scholars on these questions. Wake up, it is not 1880!” A Christian man corresponding with the editor of an exchange, says the fol lowing: “May I state that I was present
at a Spiritist demonstration in London, where the medium, after undergoing the process of trance, deliberately prayed as follows: “Father, we thank thee that Jesus is not Thy Son, but our brother.” No well informed Spiritist medium dares to recognize the deity of Christ, yet hun dreds of sincere Christians are being caught in the Spiritist delusion. “The World Call’ carries an article comparing Catholic hospitals in America with Protestant hospitals. Roman Cath olics have capacity in hospitals for the sick of 22,000,000, its whole member ship and one-fourth more; all Protestant churches for only 10,000,000, and they turn away 1000 sick persons daily. One- half of all American hospitals are Roman Catholic, and only one-tenth are conducted by evangelical churches, a large percentage of these being run by Seventh Day Adventists. What an op portunity the churches are losing to propagate the Gospel by letting the Romanists and Seventh Day people have the field. Up to the present “The Christian Sci ence Monitor” has held the field as a daily paper published by a church and that it is one of the most reliable news papers, aside from the fact that it pro pagates religious error, cannot be dis puted. Now the Roman Catholics have started a big daily, the “American Tribune,” published at Dubuque, Iowa. The aim of the church is to have it in troduced in all Catholic homes in place of other dailies. Hot on their trail comes the announcement of. “An Amer ican Christian Daily” to be started at Chicago. It will attempt to carry re ligious news of all denominations, as well as the current political, social, fin ancial and general news. The enterprise will be watched with interest. A remarkable incident which oc curred in connection with the recent Keswick Bible Convention in England is related in British magazines. The Rev. T. R. Howard, Principal of St. Aidan’s College, Birkenhead, delivered an ad dress on Divine Immanence, which went to the verge of the pantheistic view of
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