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Some are now being surprised to learn that the kind of pictures turned out for American use are by no means the worst that are being produced at our movie colonies. Missionaries in Africa are complaining that some of the vilest of moving pictures are'being sent outdo that land and that the natives have formed an opinion of Americans. It is a great hindrance to the missionaries in their work. How can a missionary persuade the be nighted heathen of the superior value of the Christianity which he brings from America ? Another report comes that pictures sent out to Mesopotamia would not be tolerated in the United States. Nightly, it is reported, the Arabs gather to witness scenes of a vile order, that must leave on their minds the im pression that Christian lands are given over to shameless deviltry. In Jerusalem, within one hundred yards of the tomb in the garden in which the Saviour of the world is supposed to have lain after his cruci fixion, there is a moving picture place of the cheapest and most sensational sold, showing low and sensual pictures of American life. ' Apparently nothing can be done to stop this infamy. It is, alas, too true that vice flourishes in our nominally Christian cities. It is our sorrow and shame. But to have it uncovered to the world in all its rottenness, upon the movie screen, is the multiplication of wickedness, and with such hideous infection being spread among the heathen, how can it be hoped that they will turn a ready ear to Christian missionaries ? —K. L. B. Sei v M/ v . M l l afe DIVORCING CHRIST FROM HIS TEACHINGS Quite frequently someone who has been approached with the Gospel, will reply, “ Give me the Sermon on the Mount—tha t’s Gospel enough for me,” They are under the impression that the Sermon on the Mount fur nishes them simply a set of ethical rules, and that the doctrines, such as the blood atonement, the resurrection, and the Deity of Christ, are not referred to. Thus they show how superficial has been their reading of that great sermon. In it, Jesus Christ makes some tremendous claims as to His own Person”! GESTIONS SEE PAGE 9,
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