At Home and Abroad
R ev . M iloslav F ilipi was visiting in his native land, Bohemia. While waiting his return for a dedication last month, the people were informed that he had been shot dead by military recruiting officers, who de manded that he become a soldier in the army of Austria. Upon his refusal because he had become a naturalized citizen of the United States, it is said they dispatched him on the spot. T he S cripture G ift M ission of London is distributing thousands of Scriptures among English, French and Belgian soldiers. A specially prepared emphasized edition of the Gospel of St. John has been given out to the British troops; copies of the New Testament are bound in waterproof khaki, especially for soldiers. A captain of the regular forces who was present at the last Keswick Convention and became interested in the Pocket Testament League wired to the secretary of the league for 700 copies for his battalion. W hat right has the Church to send forth men into its ministry who blue pencil the Bible? The time is coming when such men will have a very small following in the Churches and the people will desire minis ters who receive the solemn affirmations of the Bible and are willing and glad to declare them. The makers of interrogation marks in the pulpit are being fast numbered in this country. Theh people are not going to be fooled by any pretense of higher education and better scholarship. The Bible is good enough for them and that they are going to have and hold to .—Wesleyan Christian Ad vocate. T he charge is made by the governor of a Mexican state that the Roman church “has forgotten its spiritual mission” and “con secrated itself principally to conquest in pol itics.” He decreed the expulsion of all priests who meddled in politics, prohibited the confessional (a trouble breeder) and' ordered all Catholic schools to conform to civil regulations. These criticisms point to
T he U nited S tates , taken all in all, is the richest and most prosperous country on earth. They give all told about $15,000,000 a year to prosecuting the foreign missionary work of the Church, which is about one- third of what the warring nations of Eu rope are expending daily for the prosecu tion of war. I n one church in Toronto there are 190 contributors. Of this number 36 are tithers and 154 non-tithers. For pastoral support the tithers paid an average of $13.34 per year; the non-tithers,- $4.77. For missions the tithers $17.00; the non-tithers, $1.63. For all purposes, the tithers, $57.10; the non-tithers, $9.94.— Rev. R. W. Woodworth. A sked hoiv such atrocities as this bar barous war could be tolerated by the Chris tians of Europe, a prominent European statesman replied, “There are no Christians in Europe.” Appearances seem to justify the statement. But the Lord has His tens of thousands there and knows them that are His. The trouble is that they do not reign yet. H istory records that when Alcibiades was boasting one day about his great estates, Socrates placed a map before him' and asked him to find Attica. Though small on the map he found it. “Now,” said Socrates, “find your own estate.” : “It is too small to distinguish in so small a space,” replied Alcibiades. “ See, then,” said the philoso pher, "how much you are affected about an imperceptible point of land.” T he M issionary R eview sums up the amounts paid annually in the United States for certain “unnecessaries” of life as fol lows : Chewing gum .................................21,000,000 Soft drinks.....................................120,000,000 Candy 200,000,000 Theaters 750,000,000 Jewelry ............................... 800,000,000 Tobacco...................................... 1,200,000,000 Intoxicants ......................... 2,000,000,000
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