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858 the Boxer and other times of persecu tion in China, and the attractive power has been the wonderful grace of God, always sufficient to meet the need of God’s children. Turn to the picture of us and “ the children whom the Lord has given us,” and when you look, PRAY. Pray that God may supply all our needs. We know He shall, but He wants His children to tell Him these things. “ Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” We are return ing to China, we hope in October, and these ten young people are going for the first time, to help to tell the unevangelized1300 million that Jesus has died for .them, and we go forward with the conviction that the work must be done speedily, for the Lord Jesus Christ is coming again very, very soon. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. IS UNITARIANISM A LIGHT? The ' “ Christian Register” (Unitar ian) requested recently various prom inent Christian - teachers (Dr. James M. Gray, Professor Erdman, Mr. S. D: Gordon, President Mullins and others) to state their belief as to the Second Coining of our Lord. In the number which followed this symposium the edi tor undertook to demolish this funda mental Christian belief. He speaks of it as “ remote from ethical integrity,” one of “ the chattering imbecilities of the time” and talks of “ the devils of millenarianism and every other stupid and vicious ism.” This paper which is published in Boston, the “ Ville- Lumiere of America, says character istically: “ The Unitarian Church still has a magnificient opportunity in darkest America to lighten the spiritual life of our millions.”
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Consulting witk Spirits in War Time, and all Times, Forbidden When God through Isaiah (Isaiah 9) foretold approaching days of great dis tress for Israel, He gave a very definite warning to His own people against any consultation with those dealing with “ familiar spirits.” The practice in war times of resort ing for comfort to spiritualistic mediums is then, by no means a new idea. The only difference between our own times and the times of Israel is that leading men in scientific circles have more fully demonstrated the exis tence of spirits, and the unprecedented sufferings of the world have given greater publicity to the matter. Mediums in Europe have made .use of the death lists from the battle fields to get pat ronage of grieving relatives. Many of our own scientists have become con vinced that these spirits are evil emis saries of the devil, catering to the whims of the people, impersonators of those who have passed away, and that when once they secure a hold upon a person they are very rarely shaken off. This need not have been a new thought to men, for God’s Word has maintained this through the centuries. Notice what God says just prior to a great war: “ And when they shall say unto, you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Notice what is said of these mediums. They peep and mutter, they muffle their heads, they take on fantastic gestures and talk in weird tones. The plain-
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