August 1927
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“It’s easy enough to nail a lie, but it is quite another matter to keep it down.” * * * Of 1,900 prisoners at Leavenworth, only 120 have' ever been inside ofa Sunday school. * * * One paper declares that there are two sides to every dis pute, but to the one in China there are at least a hundred. * * * A news editor remarks : “It is noticeable that of all the humorists who. are getting off wise cracks at the expense of MussoliniggnOt one lives in Italy.” * * * Says The Methodist Protestant: “It, is base ingratitude for some men to deny the reality of the devil. Their every deed and word declare that they are intimate with him.” * * * Some folks are bound to have it that modern youth is on the right track and should be let alone. All we have to say is—“Let youth flame and you will see it cook its own goose.” * * * It is said that if all the Bibles that have ever been printed could be passed out to the human race today, there would not be half enough to go around, giving^one to each person. * * * Seattle, Washington, claims to have the largest Presbyterian Church in the world. It is the First Church, of which Rev. Dr. Mark A. Matthews is pastor, and it has just celebrated the com pletion of twenty years of his pastorate. * * * We may rightly have scientific theories as well as earthly kingdoms in mind when we sing: “Oh, where are kings and empires now, Of old, that went and came? But, Lord, Thy church is praying yet, A thousand years the same.” ♦ * * Says a K. B. subscriber: “I want to voice my appreciation of The King’s Business. It has been a power in our home in the few months we have had it. We were in a way a Christian family but only lukewarm till Dr. Morgan was in Riverside. He awoke my husband and I to a new vision of our Christ.” * * * Dr. I. M. Haldeman, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Borough of Manhattan, New York, declares that a thing to be feared even more than the teachings of infidelity is “the invasion of the pulpit by feminism that is now taking place.” ♦ * * Robert Scott Inglis says: “If modernists shake our belief in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, perhaps we will want to go back to the Egyptian way of mummifying bodies of the deceased. But so long as our faith lasts, -we shall not consider any departure from present methods,” * * * Dr. Cadman answers questions in the columns of the “Chris tian Herald.” In reply to one concerning the purpose of Christ’s death upon the cross, he says: “It is possible that He may, have been mistaken. His ignominious death may not have been abso lutely what His Father willed.” That is modernism “O and O”,
The combined religious membership of the nation now totals over 47,550,000 according to the annual survey conducted by the “Christian Herald.” This means that about 40 per cent of the nation’s population are church members. Note the word “religious,” a word that covers a multitude of damning errors. ♦ * * Half of the American boys who will go to college next fall would be, better off if they went into business, says President Faunce of Brown University. He figures that 50 per cent of the boys who go to College fail to graduate, “not counting the thou sands who, though they do graduate, waste four precious years and receive no benefit commensurate with the time and money spent;” * * * The Utah Gospel Mission is authority for the statement that Mormonism “of both kinds” is making about 10,000 converts a year, and that “nearly every one was once a nominal member of some Christian church.” Mormonism is doubling every twenty- five years, -instead of being about “dead,” as,people often think. s|e He A remarkable demonstration of the love and esteem in which Dr. F. B. Meyer is regarded, was manifestèd at a special service held at Christ Church, London, recently, in recognition of the veteran minister’s eightieth birthday. A birthday cake weighing eighty pounds was cut. * * * For two centuries the Menhonites have passed from one Christian country to another Seeking a resting place, and have not found it. They have now Secured large concessions of land in Paraguay, 2,000 miles up the river Uruguay, The Government has given them 3,000 acres of rich land and a charter promising them freedom ,from military work or service for all time. * * * A minister, in addressing his flock, began, “As I gaze about I see before me a great many bright and shining faces.” Just then 87 powder puffs were brought into action. * * * The latest complete Bible published by the British and For eign Bible Society, is the Dobu Bible. This has been translated into the language of the Dobu people (Papua). An interesting story is told of the landing of Dr. Bro.milow, its translator, and his bride, on the shores of the eastern portion of Papua thirty- six years ago. The first sight which met their eyes was a band of savages bringing along the body of a dead mother and her living baby, which they intended to bury together. Mrs. Bromi- low rushed forward and snatched the baby from the grave and brought him up with her own family. Later on he was one of those who took part in the translation of the New Testament into his own language. * * * Dean Inge is supposed to be an evolutionist but he does not seem to have a high opinion of what it is doing for the world. He recently made the statement that “our unlimited competition exhausts men’s vitality, physical and mental,” and that “there has been a gradual lowering of the perfection of our sense organs. Our teeth have decreased in size and strength. Our jaws are becoming too small for our teeth. Our eyesight has degenerated.
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