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Of prisoners discharged from American jails last year, 2100 were met by workers of the Salvation Army, situations being found for 413 of these. A staggering blow has been dealt the business of organized vice in Chicago by the Committee of Fifteen, incorporated in 1913 and working under the presidency of Henry P. Crowell. ' Publishing names of owners of property used for immoral purposes has resulted in cleansing hundreds of houses. When some one asked a' missionary if he liked his work in Africa, he replied: “Do I like this work ? No; my wife and I do not like dirt. We do not like crawling into vile huts through goat refuse. We do not like association with ignorant, filthy, brutish people. But is a man to do nothing for Christ he does not like? God pity him, if not. Liking or disliking has nothing to do with it. We have orders to ‘go’ and we go. Love constrains us.” Such a love begets the strength to do the “all things.” Russellism is thus described in The Fun damentals, Vol. V II: “1. Christ before His Advent was not Divine. 2. When He was in the world He was still not Divine. 3. His atonement was exclusively human, that of .a mere man. 4. Since His resurrection He is Divine only, no longer liuman at all. 5., His body was not raised from the dead 6. His Second Advent took place in 1874. 7. The Saints were raised up in 1878. 8. Both Christ and the Saints are now on earth, and have been for thirty-seven and thirty-three years, respectively. 9. The pro fessing Christian Church was rejected of God in 1878. 10. The final consummation and end will take place in October, 1914 ( !). 11. Silence as to the person and work of the Holy Spirit until recent years. 12. The destiny of the wicked. It is a mixture of Unitarianism, Universalism, Second Pro bation and Restoration, and the Sweden- borgian .method of exegesis.”
The fact that between 1900 and 1910 the increase in our population was twenty-one per cent, largely from immigration, and that of these immigrants great multitudes come from non-Christian countries, suggests the responsibilities of home foreign missions. Persons of African descent have increased by birth alone eleven per cent; the Indians, who are sometimes imagined to 'he a dying •race, increased twelve per cent ; the Chinese added one-fifth to their number in 1900 ; the Japanese increased 196 per cent. Other less numerous races which are increasing among, us are Hindus, Koreans, Filipinos, and even Maoris. The American Missionary rightly says: “Restrictive legislation may be a temporary barrier, but it cannot permanently shut out these millions of the Orient. It is just the time when every effort should be made to meet this incoming flood of non-Christian immigrants. On the Pacific slope aggres sive work is being done for these various races, including the Hindus. An expert in immigration conditions prophesies ‘that within the. next twenty years there will be at least three million Hindus in our coun try.’ Now is the time to prepare, through the organizations that have this problem on their hands and hearts, to reinforce every agency in its efforts to effect thè Christian ization of these Oriental immigrants already here and to be ready to meet the masses that will doubtless find their way here with in a few years.”—6". 5". Times. War may be “hell” but the present war is affording great opportunity for “snatching 'men as brands from the burning.” Thé Word of God is being distributed among the soldiers by hundreds of thousands of copies, and it is being read eagerly by mul titudes that never opened it before. In numerable agencies are carrying the mes sage to camps, hospitals artd military cap tives and it is listened to with attention and accepted by thousands. No songs, it is said, are so popular with the soldiery as the songs of salvation. So the Lord “maketh the wrath of man to praise Him.”
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