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The writer has had unusual advantage in obtaining facts concerning the schools and missionaries on the foreign fields, as he has had, also, concerning conditions in our homeland. Why should there be any question concerning the regions beyond when here at home theieneniies of the Bible are rampant in their denial of God’s Word? The leaders know these facts, but seek to evade the truth and avoid acknowledging it, for fear the contributors to Foreign Mission work will begin to ask questions which they do not want to answer. Here is a statement from a missionary who has been for seven years in China: “Modernism is insidiously and openly being propagated ip China. This is a known fact. * * * * The books trans lated for use in the grammar and high schools were often permeated with the most ‘advanced’ and modernistic teach-, ings of the West, and— in addition— a message was at times being preached, not of salvation through Christ’s atoning blood, but salvation through works as a part of and the result of social service.” Another of the young missionaries belonging to the Bible Union testifies: “There are a few who would deny some of the things that we hold to be fundamental teachings, viz: the Deity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, the Blood Atonement, the trust worthiness of the Scriptures,— and who substitute for the Gospel the Social Gospel a gospel without power because it denies the Lord who bought us.” Why waste words? We want all our readers to know the facts. There are missionaries in China, representing evan gelical churches, who are false to the faith, and the savings of godly men and women are being used to support them. If there was but one missionary of this kind he or she should be ordered back and his or her name should be broadcasted as a traitor to the most holy cause; but it is not one, but many! Will the good people of our land whose money is being used for this unholy purpose, sit idly by and consent to the fraudulent use of the sacred funds, or will they rise up in their wrath and condemn such actions? Why hope or pray for God to do things if we fail to do our part? The Bible Union of China has 2,200 voices of protest against any Foreign Missionary Board that pays a salary to men and women who represent the devil on the field. MORE CHANGES AMONG SCIENTISTS In line with Dr. L. S. Keyser’s article in this issue on the changing views of the scientists, we find an article in a recent number of The Sunday School Times by Ernest Gor don. He shows that the temperance people of our country had to fight alcohol for many years against what Professor Forel called official science.” Twenty years ago a com mittee of fifty, composed of leading university presidents, medical professors, and liberal theologians, were insisting on “the food value of alcohol.” ; Dr. W. W. Keen, who re cently published a book in favor of evolution, once cir culated a petition among scientists to have the beer can teen restored to the United States army. The Christian and temperance people had to work against all this “sci entific” propaganda. Who was right in this case? “As a matter of fact,” says Mr. Gordon, “the official scientists have quite as often been mistaken as any other group.” Then he quotes the following paragraph from a recent French summary of scientific investigations: “The history of all science warns us that the simplest discoveries have been rejected a priori as being incom patible with science. Medical anesthesia was denied by Mejendie. The action of microbes was contested for twenty
years by all scientists of all the academies. Bouillaud de clared that the telephone was but ventriloquism. Lavoi sier said that stones cannot fall from the sky, for there are no stones in the sky. The fcirculation of the blood was only admitted after forty years of sterile discussion. In a lec ture in 1827 at the Academy of Science, Girard asserted ft to be folly to suppose that water could be led to the upper floors of houses by pipes. In 1840 J. Mueller declared that the speed of nerve impulse could never be measured.” All of this proves that scientists should be modest in making assertions; also that scientists, as a rule, are as conservative and reactionary as any other class. CALL TO PRAYER Let every evangelical church set apart NEW YEAR’S EVE for a WATCH NIGHT SERVICE. Let every Christian, either at home, or in their church gathering, unite their hearts with the hearts of thousands of believers all over our land, for a REAL REVIVAL. In five years’ time the number of Watch Night suppliants for world-wide revival of the Church has increased from less than a hundred to many thousands; and that God hears the united simultaneous pleading of His interceding children is evidenced by the following figures: During January, the month immediately following the Watch Night of Prayer, A TOTAL OF 13,604 SOULS were reported to the League as having accepted Christ as their personal Saviour, whereas during each of the following three months (when there was no such entire day or night of simultan eous intercession) the number reported was as follows: February, 2,347; March, 2,745; April, 5,947. One short season of SIMULTANEOUS PRAYER, 13,604 souls! Three months of DESULTORY PRAYER, only 11,039 souls! Is there a lesson here for the Church to learn? Will God hold His people guiltless for their failure to “continue with one accord in prayer and supplication” ? What of the thou sands of churches which might be experiencing revival and the hundreds of thousands of souls which might be penitently pressing their way into the kingdom, were there united, believing prayer? Oh, for “a new thing” every where— a Church in continuous, simultaneous prostration before God! Hearest Thou the Summons?
OUR LIGHT AFFLICTION 2 Cor. 4:17 Since God hath given us no rules, But principles alone, He makes this life a training school, For our Eternal home. And if our pain have no release, Life be one constant worry, God’s purpose is to much increase, Th’ “Exceeding weight of glory.” So if our tears should frequent fall, And. struggle be our story, Let us like God at once recall The Eternal weight of glory.” ^ Our God is far too kind to spare A single pang of sorrow, Should that diminish or impair, The glory of to-morrow. Howard W. Pope. From leaflet published by B. I. C olportage as- sociation. , .
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