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Christian principles. But it is asked, “Where could be found a thousand Chris tian business men ready to go, and who would finance them?” P eter Parker is called “the founder of medical missions.” He is said to have “opened China to the Gospel at the point of his lancet.” Going to China in 1834, he established a free hospital in Canton, an eye infirmary and a medical missionary so ciety, and began to train native physicians and surgeons. There was a time when I had no care or concern for the heathen; that was the time when I had no care or concern for my own soul; when by the grace of God I wanted to care for my own soul, then it was I began to care for the heathen abroad. In my closet on my bended knees, I then said to God: “O Lord, Thou knowest that silver and gold to give to this cause I have none; what I have I give unto Thee. I offer myself; wilt Thou accept the gift A lexander Duff, D. D. D ie W elt, the Zionist organ declares, “Well informed people know that in Russia there are today currents in Jewish life set ting toward Christianity.” This not so en couraging as it may sound to Christian “Lovers of Zion.” These “currents” are not a gravitation toward real Christianity but toward barren “Greek Christianity, for malism and superstition, and are prompted by worldly and social interests, the move ment is not even religious, it is economic. A Jewish Rabbi of Milwaukee speaking for “Reformed” Jews, says, “We believe that Jesús was one of the greatest prophets —a . great moral teacher, and one of the noblest of God’s creatures, with Moses and Isaiah. We do not give him the attributes of deity but of divinity, and there is a spark of divinity in us all.” If the rabbi is right in this first sentence he is wrong in the second, for Jesus claimed the attributes of deity, and could not have been a great teacher of morals and lie.
ous Chinese criminal, imprisoned in Japan, remembered hearing a man preach Christ on the street and fell on his knees crying, “Jesus save me.” Changed in character and released from prison he ran to the nearest church, confessed Christ and became a member. In 1913 the Salvation Army in England sent out a party of 102 officers for service in India, the Dutch Indies, Korea, Japan, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, South America, Holland, France, Malta and Gib raltar. This is the largest group ever dis patched. Seventy-four were destined for India. The chief Rabbi of Salonica, during the late war in the Balkans, exhorted all Jews to save their “fatherland” (Turkey). Now he calls on them to be loyal Greeks. This is according to Jeremiah’s counsel, who bade the Jews to submit to the yoke of their conquerors without resistance, as to the ordinance of Jehovah. Evangelistic services at Coney Island (New York’s great “amusement park”), conducted by the Brooklyn City Mission, last summer were attended by large audiences, eighty per cent of whom were Jews. Sev enteen hundred Bibles and portions were distributed, besides great numbers of copies of the Gospel of Matthew in Yiddish. About 300 conversions were reported. The report of the Vacation Bible Schools for the summer of 1913 shows an admir able statistical leap forward. These schools have been organized in 34 cities. The num ber of teachers, which was 70 in 1907 and 707 in 1912, reached 1003 in 1913; of chil dren, 5083 in 1907, 38,306 in 1912, and 50,522 in 1913. In the same period the number of schools has passed from 19 to 215. European traders in South Africa are so unchristian that, it is said, nothing would so help the cause as to send out a thousand Christian men who would do business on
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