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in a survey o f all religious denominations in this country. California now has more than three times as many Christian Sci ence church® with twice as many mem bers, as Massachusetts, the State where, the Mother Church was founded by Mary Baker Eddy. W e might add that our State also boasts the largest number o f Buddhist temples. In Boyle Heights, Los Angeles', is a section which is said to be the largest Buddhist center in /th e United States. There is a temple there (one o f about a dozen in Los Angeles) which has over 2,000 men in its member ship. On its literature you will finiTthe hymn, “My Jesus, I Love Thee/’ but with the name Buddha substituted for Jesus. The cost of this temple was $250,000.. * * * Things must be in a bad way when Dr. Shailer Matthews, who will never be a ® cused' o f being a Fundamentalist, warns the official leaders 'o f the Sunday school movement, at their recent convention in Chicago,- that they are ||fcortC!|aKhg, God behind a smoke-screen of ..psychology.” On the other hand, Prof. F. S. G North rop o f Yale recently told the annual con vention o f the Religions:/ Education As sociation that the world must look to an inductive philosophy o f science for a solution o f the “problem of religion.” “We must search out those facts of sci ence which bear upon the theory of the nature o f things,” said the professor, “to determine- whether the universe as we know it today provides any concrete meaning for the claims o f religion. If the result is favorable, our aim must then be to put religion into a form in which its claim will be intelligible in terms of the facts o f science.” Will these men ever come to see that it is nothing but the warm, glowing mes sage o f the crucified and risfen Christ that can save the day «for the churches? We hold, furthermore,: that the proclamation of His personal second advent is a mes sage ordained for the times in which,;we are living, and one of the greatest means o f arousing men to prepare to meet God. life 35,000 to 1; Reinforce the One! In Mormon land i s ’ a beautiful valley, 40 miles long, with 35,000 people in 34 places, and only one minister! The people are nearly all Mormons,/who will not at tend Christian church services, and hence MUST be evangelized by a traveling auto work, visiting them in their homes, hold ing special Gospel services on the street, etc. The Utah Gospel Mission is doing this urgent work, and last summer and early fall, had 11,000 people at its meet ings in this very valley, besides visiting
3,350 homes* using Carefully 48,000 pages of special printed matter, selling Bibles, etc. Mormonism of both kinds sends out over 1,000 emissaries a year, drafted with out salary, staying two years or more;: and getting nearly 10,000 of our pflple as con verts. The Mission asks for only TEN able, devoted adaptable men to take the real Gospel to these people, to live in Gos pel auto or team wagons under careful in struction, for at least one year, with all expends provided. About 125,000 square tnilCkj o f the United States present these temditions./ Men 'Who might' go are de sired to sefd details ,at once about them selves, including r e fe r e n c e s /^ The Utah Gospel Missi'ofi; 9277 Amesbury Avenue, Cleveland, O h ioill Eight Good Reasons The Christian gives eight Scriptural points against the use o f tobacco, as fol lows':: ^ First—It is n ot/lor the .glory o f God. “ Ye are bought with a price/" therefore glorify God in your bodwj and in your spirit, which are God’s” (1 Cor. 6:20). Second—It brings on disease o f the heart and canèçr o f the tongue. H f any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy” (1 Cor. 3:17). ./.Third—It is expensive and the money wasted. “Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? (Isa. 55:2). / - Fourth—It is infringing on the rights of others by contact with them in its nauseous^ sickening odor. ,/ ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbpr as thyself’’/(GuL 5:14). Fifth—It is a wrong example to set be fore the young. “ Let your light so shine before men, that they may1see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matt. 5:16).,:./ Sixth- -It is,1a filthjÇTiàKit., “Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness.of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear o f God” (2 Cor. 7:1). Seventh—The habit .once formed brings one -into _bondage. “Whosoever com- mitteth sin is the servant of sin” (John 8 :34.) , . 1 : ; EightF—It causes unnatural desire, and leads to intemperance. “ If ye live after the flesh, yé shall die. To whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey” (Rom. 6:16) 9:13).' I :, I ■ aïs Couldn’t Find the Song A very clever German anatomist, who, : was also an atheist, declared that’ he would not believe in manW'soul because he had never discovered such an organ in the bpdy. A friend remarked to him one day : “A ;cat listened with admiration to the song of a nightingale. Ambitious to learn the secret of that entrancing music, he caught the sweet singer and tore it to pieces; yet, to his surprise, he found no musical organ present.”
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Frank H. Simonds in American . Review o f Keviezvs : “ I do not see any escape from the colfelusion that Europe is moving toward another catas- . trophe. . AndMit is moving fn that direction because,Igo far, it has proven impossible to3|e- J^pomplish anything in adjusting the complicated tangle of' dis- |?pputes /which divide nations. It might be,, said, H paradox, that the greatest danger of war is caused by. the fear of war among many peoples.” ■ * * * David Lloyd-Gieprge: “If Christian mission!/ fail, the rest ( S EHhad better close lip shop. The ' missiptiaty» pro gram r.eprese||ts the/most’ sUc- . cessf® enterprise for the rec lamation of mankind that the modern world has ever seen.” ♦ * * ■Nelson ( B . G ),W ezJl|nS “ All your sinJSjmay be for given .’and feever trouble you ,againRhlesS'ly« run fo il o f fice.” - * * * Secretary, o f Commerce, ' Hoover : ifilP'he .10 ways to:''evil in the tim lgof Moses have increased to 10,000.” • * * * Bishop Freeman, Washington!/. '; “This is the most dissatisfied period in human history.” ♦ * * Cincinnati Inquirer : ,. “ This would be a terrible .world for a lot ^ « p e o p le if everything was the same price and they.couldn’t have things better thaS other folks.” Jjs sit * lames T. Adams, {in Harper's Magazine) : “ Basing my prediction on the unchanging nature o f man’s* deepest cravings throughout history, I do believe that sci- , ence will some day cease, to be the sole method o f interpret ing the universe and'that sci entists will cease to be th|;| high priests whose words are the sole .authority as. to" what men -can, and cannot believe about themselves and their environment. I believe that science,:: cannot permanently , satisfy the whole of man’s na ture, and I believe the ‘intel lectual climate’ will gradually alter again—as it has so man;§|i times—and ' science, althougipj an indispensable tool, will lose -its present high station as the sole interpretation o f the whole universe.”
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