THE KING’S BUSINESS
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A little while ago there appeared two Japanese war vessels in one of our ports, having about 1700 seamen and cadets on board. Hurriedly preparations had to be made to obtain special permission to board these vessels not subject to any domestic authority. The Lord answered prayer and made it possible, through the Bible Insti tute, the American Bible Society and the good help of the Japanese Home Mission ary Society, to supply 200 New Testa ments for the officers and cadets, and 1500 Gospels, one for each sailor. After a visit to the vessels, and a kind reception by the officer in' charge who thanked us in the name of the officers and men, we thanked God for such an oppor tunity to reach so many of the coming leaders of the Japanese Navy. Pray with us that it may please Him to use His Word to His glory in the hearts of so many who know Him not. The other day, upon asking to see the captain of a certain Japanese merchant
vessel, the pleasant young chief officer told the worker he was absent. Leaving a book with him for the captain, he told us of the faithfulness of the Captain’s life and that he was a graduate of a Chris tian school in Japan. It developed that A brother of this officer, having lost a dear one, sought for comfort and was advised to look into Buddhism. This officer, too, was dragged into it, and how glad we were of the opportunity of preaching Jesus unto him. For nearly two hours he listened care fully to the reading of the Word, and questions and answers were exchanged. Finally he said he would believe in Christ and read his Bible, saying that he and the captain spoke often about thè Christian faith; that he had never before felt any, need in his life for faith in God, but that since leaving Japan he was persuaded one must “believe in something” as he expressed it. Having lifted Christ up before him, we need your prayers to win full freedom from Buddha for this man.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FRAUD
AN EXPOSURE
A BOOK entitled “Jesus the Christ in the 4*- Light of Psychology” has been pub lished by Dr. Stanley Hall of Worcester. The book is a thoroughly pernicious book and as irrational as it is unsound. If it were not for Dr. Hall’s high standing in the educational world the book would not be likely to do much mischief. It is utterly absurd in many of its statements, but as Dr. Stanley Hall has attended four Ger man Universities, has been a professor in a Christian College, and for years at the head of a prominent institution for the training of teachers, and has been consid ered one of the leaders in modern psycho logical research and teaching, the book is likely to have a weight that it does not deserve because of its intrinsic worth- We
republish here a criticism of the book which appeared in the “Christian Observer” March 20th. The criticism is entitled, “Phil osophy and Vain Deceit.” It reads as fol lows : It was Paul who couples these terms, describing by the latter the true character of certain systems of thought which described themselves by the former. And their effect upon the spiritual life of men he characterized by his phrases: ‘Make spoil of you,’ ‘rob you of your prize.’ “His unsparing exposure of their ground lessness, their emptiness, and their destruc tiveness is given in the light of the real nature of the Person of Jesus Christ. His severest and final blow at such systems is struck in the declaration that they are ‘not after Christ,’ do not accord with or measure up(to the facts, the actual Christ. “No clearer instance of such a disregard
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