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verted to my Saviour, and expect yet to see my brother a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus.” Compare Mr. Nathan’s ex perience with our Lord’s promise in Mark 10:29, 30.—/. W. McKean in S. S. T. J ohn R. M ott has recently returned from a trip to Europe, during which he conferred with Christian leaders both in England and Germany. The result is that Mr. Mott came away feeling that the German, French and English Christians would be ready to re sume their united work for the kingdom of God as soon as the close of the war gives them permission. At the outbreak of the war Dr, Julius Richter and other German members of the standing committee appoint ed by the Edinburgh World Missionary Con ference declared that they should never be able to work with British Christians again. Dr. Mott, however, now finds Dr. Richter in a distinctly more favorable mood, and heartily asserting that the German mem bers of the committee will be ready to re sume their joint work with their French and English brethren as soon as the war shall close. Dr. Mott states that while we have not been given an exaggerated idea of the misery of the Belgium people, that of the Poles is probably worse and that the suffering of the Jews in Jerusalem is the most pitiable of all.— N. IV. Advocate. B ecause some one told our forefathers, we have a hope that India does not have. I have seen the life of the most loved of the household going out, and the mother’s heart rent, and she had(no hope. I hear a sound of wailing, and see the women going about a sacred pepul tree, some scattering red powder, others holy water. They are try ing to get up some hope, but cannot. India knows nothing of purity. The god Shiba, worshipped the length and breadth of India,' has been called ‘India’s abomination,’ the .child of five worshipping at his shrine can teach me filth of which even after years in India I know nothing. His mother has taught him—she knows no better. They need some one to teach them to tell the
truth and to live the truth. A baby was brought to my dispensary, limp from opium. The parents seemed so candid when they answered my questions, I believed them when they said that the opium had been given the night before, and I treated the baby accordingly. When I was able to come back to it, the baby was dead. They had not told the truth.”— Dr.. Mary Cong- don (fourteen years in Bengal.) I t seemed to us rather incongruous that at one end of the Witherspoon building there was the magnificent, up-to-date Book Store of the Presbyterian church, faithfully and successfully laboring to circulate the best Christian literature as a means of spreading the Gospel and persuading men to become reconciled to God through Jesus Christ,' and at the other end of the building was With erspoon Hall, occupied by a goodly com pany of people, before whom this eminent man (Dr. C. W. Eliot, ex-president of Har vard University) delivered a dogmatic tirade against the Bible, the Church, the Person and character of Christ, and against every thing held sacred by the Christian church in a hall dedicated by Presbyterians, and maintained by Christian money, for the pro pagation and defense of the Gospel. Is not this a toleration beyond all limits? No government, no fraternity, not the Unitar ians themselves, would go so far. The rent- age of this hall for this address reminded us of “the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued.” In this case, it was most surely followed by “crucifying afresh.” It seems also that, in the spirit and substance of this tirade, Dr. Eliot for ever uncovers the true spirit of liberalism. Instead of being gentle, without strife, kind ly and courteous in its thoughts and feel ings and words, it openly, violently, and recklessly attacks everything that differs with it. As we listened to this long paper by this eminent American citizen, we could not help but ask, “Has anti-Christ come at last ?”—The Presbyterian. The Presbytery of Philadelphia in a res olution loyally condemned “the rentage” of
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