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struct a reservoir and filter for the homes. “Strange, was it not,” said Mr. Quarrier, “that our water supplies should have come from the savings of money earned at the washtub ?”—The Christian Herald. T he American Bible Society’s representa tive in Vigan was selling Scriptures and at night gave cinematograph exhibitions of Bible scenes. To buyers of a Bible a free ticket was given for the exhibition, or in some cases a copy was given to those who bought tickets for the performance. As a result some 6000 were sold during the three days of the exhibition. This stirred the •Catholic church to a counter movement, and on the day following the last Protestant performance they announced one of their own, admission to which could only be gain ed through delivery of a copy of the Pro testant Bible. More than two thousand ad mission fees were thus secured, and on the next afternoon the Romanists invited the public to witness a unique spectacle on the church plaza. Thousands came to see the sight, which proved to be the destruction by fire of nearly 2500 Bibles. The following day more than three thousand Bibles were sold on that plaza .—Philippine Presbyterian. T he effort of the present day to restore the Bible to our public schools is bringing out the hatred of its enemies, and they are using the press to fight the movement. The latest argument in a Columbus daily is that “These preachers do not believe, their own Bible, as of any authority, or worth.” To prove it they are quoting some of these higher critics, and naming them out at that. It is émbarrassing f«r some men to stand up and defend the Word after they them selves have indorsed the views of Paine, Hume, Voltaire and Ingersoll. Then think of their names being now associated by these skeptics with noted infidels, and their very learned (?) arguments to save the Book from its fancied unreasonableness and thereby saving the world from its unbelief. How ungrateful in these infidels to misun derstand and misrepresent thè thinking tal-
receiving final instructions, his master, a farmer, called him to go to work. The man delayed a few moments to answer the cate chist’s last questions, and the farmer sat down and listened with much interest. When all was over he said, “Now, I want to sëe that you keep all those promises out in the field.” And the man answered : “Yes, that is right. If I do not keep my prom ises and live a better life, it is dishonoring Christ and Christianity.” The standard set by the non-Christians for the newly bap tized believers is proving a real strength to the latter. I n the list of influential persons uniting to call the- Niagara “conference of Catholics favorable to the prohibition of the liquor traffic” there did not appear the name of even one bishop. Of course, if any bishop in the whole church were willing to co operate, his name would be put at the head of the column ; the prestige of it would have been too .Valuable to forfeit. Such total absence of high official sympathy with this effort to muster Catholic aid for America’s most potent present moral reform is a far more tangible and damaging indictment than most of the accusations brought against the church by professional anti-Romanist lec turers. M r . Q uarrier , the founder of a home for the waifs and strays of Glasgow, once re ceived a remarkable gift from a washerwo man. When she was an old woman she one day sent for him from Gorbals. He found her very weak and ill. “Ye were once a puir body yerseT,” she said to him, “and I was once a puir girl with naebody to care for me, but God has been kind and good.” Greatly to his astonishment, she handed him receipts on the bank which amounted to £627, with the words: wjSTve plenty mair, an’ ye’ll get it all when I dee.” Soon after wards Janet quitted her life of toil, singing as she passed away, “Just as I am, without one plea.” Altogether she gave the orphans £1400, saved from her earnings as a wash erwoman, The money was used to con
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