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ourselves written the material for T h e K ing ' s B usiness . Help yourselves, breth ren ! Pass it on 1 But why not put an “x” at the end, so we can recognize our own stuff? * * * In the Utah-Idaho region are about seven hundred settlements destitute of local Christian work, the most of which are reached occasionally by the Gospel wagon work of the Utah Gospel Mission. This work has had nearly 400,000 at its meetings, and has used over 25 tons of special Gospel printed matter. It now needs several more devoted, single nien to live in the wagons and visit the towns in the work—serving without salary above all expenses—to meet the peculiar needs of the Mormon people. Men of any age, who are able, are urged to write at once to Rev. John D. Nutting, Logan, Utah, General Delivery, giving full de tails about themselves. ♦ * * Sir Philip Gibbs says that air transport will lead to important alterations in the relations between peoples. Can we keep up the old customs barrier, even the sense of separate nationality, the mental fron tiers, and dividing ambitions and hatreds, when the sky is free and we are alighting in each other’s back yards ? Will it not unify larger areas of the world at least as far as free industrial exchange, free dom of intercourse, general laws, some common language, and cooperation in
producing and distributing the necessities of life? * * * “There is, of course,” says Mr. Gibbs, “an unpleasant alternative. It may be that the dawn of the air age will be the beginning of the end of our civilization. Because if war happens again between nations who have taken to the air, the business . man instead of going to his office will go to some hole in the ground.” * * * “In my judgment,” says Dr. John R. Mott, “the next fifteen years will be the most difficult, in the history of the Chris tian religion. Not because of the forces which oppose us;/ nor because we are called on to deal with so many great issues simultaneously; nor because of the stern challenges that are sounding in the ears of the churches of all lands; but principally for the encouraging reason that never before have so. many Chris tians awakened to the awful implications of the Christian Gospel. We have come to a time, thank God, when large num bers of followers of Jesus Christ have come to see that He must be Lord of all or not at all.” * * * These are days when young people are looking for “thrills,” no matter where they have to go to get them. John S. Sumner, secretary of the New York So ciety for the Suppression of Vice, says that this addiction to thrills is a diseased taste which grows out of surplus leisure
and undirected energies. He puts a good part of the blame right on the parents: “In the pioneering days our forefathers worked off their energies in physical toil,” points out Mr. Sumner. “They were busy preserving life and building up the country, and they had neither need nor time for artificial stimulation. It is only within the past fifteen years,” he says,.,“that the elements making up the situation congenial to the ‘Thrill Addict’ have come upon us. We are the sweat less age, the age of leisure. The leisure brought to humanity by science has been ill employed.” ♦ * * The latest on Christian Science comes from Mrs. Stetson, leader of the move ment of dissenting Christian Scientists. She declares she will not die and that Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, who died in 1910, will manifest herself again on earth in human form. Mrs. Stetson says she has so far grasped the ideas set forth by Mrs. Eddy that she will not experience death in the sense that she experienced physical birth. She is now 85 years of age; unlike her pre ceptress, Mrs. Eddy, she has made no will and intends to make none. “Jesus,’gM rs. Stetson said, “was the masculine embodiment of the Christ spirit, a sort of spiritualization of Adam; Mrs. Eddy was the feminine embodiment of Christ, or the spiritualization of Eve.” The strange thing is that there could be thousands of supposedly intelligent peo ple who believe such blasphemous rot.
“He Led Them Out as Far as B ethany” ( L u k e
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By A. L . M u r p h y
Lord, Thou didst love that hillside town Where faithful friends awaited Thee. When friends were few, and far between Those hearts were Thine, at Bethany. When wearied oft with thankless toil, From which thou would’st awhile be free, Thy lonely heart sought fellowship, And turned for rest to Bethany. There Martha served, and Mary heard Thy words of Life, so full and free, And Thou, the Lord of all the earth, Didst feast with them, at Bethany!
And called their brother from the tomb, Whilst weeping there in sympathy, In mighty power didst call him forth, And conquered death—at Bethany! And as from earth Thou didst ascend, Thy Father’s face again to see, Thy farewell blessing on Thine own, Thou didst bestow, at Bethany. We long, dear Lord, for that glad day, When Thou’lt return, and we shall see Thee, King indeed, in Royal rule, On David’s throne—near Bethany!
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