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l'ected flocks of all the. best varieties of pigeons he could get. He placed these upon an island. Returning to the isl and only ten years thereafter, he found that they had all reverted to type and so none but common blue pigeons were to be seen. Henry Drummond showed that this law continues on into the spiritual world. Present day’ young people often scoff at their elders when they say that chil dren were better mannered, better trained, better brought up in years gone by than they are now. But, they were. And why? I will give one reason. It is this: Because, say, before the war, all homes had fences around them and children were taught to play in their own yard, or garden, and not to go out of the gate without leave. This was, as we used to say, “ to keep tìiem from running with the ‘riff-raff’ on the street.” But, since then all fences have been taken down and children of all classes alike are allowed to run and play together on the street or any where, the result being that the slang and manners of the back alley have become the conventional language and manners of the land, attaining its greatest development in the co-educa- tional colleges where thè law of separa- , tion is unknown. Equal suffrage takes down another fence. Instead of being progressive it is only another step on the backward road to a civilized barbarism.— Henry Wood Booth. l è m TWO BIBLE KEYS Unless a man believe the Bible to be the Word of God, containing the truth and nothing but the truth, he cannot understand it in its parts. Un less he believe that Jesus Christ not only has come, but also will yet come again, he cannot understand the Bible as a whole.*—Panin.
Is Jewish Work a Success? Answering the question, Can Jewish Mission Work he Successful, the follow ing facts are a sufficient answer to Jew and Christian alike: During the nine teenth century, as one result of Protestant agencies at work, 72,740 Jews were baptized in connection with the various Reformed Churches. These Hebrews, with their children number 120,000 souls added from Jewry to the ranks of Evangelical Christendom. In the same period, 57,300 Jews were received into the Romish Com munion and 74,500 into that of the Greek Church. The total of baptisms from among Israelites during the past century amounts to 204,540. There is one Protestant Hebrew convert to every 156 of the Jewish population. The proportion from all other non- Christian religions together is one to every 525. If the ingathering from the heathen and Moslem world had been in the same ratio as that from among the children of Abraham, there would be a total of seven million converts from the non-Christian Gentile world, instead of the actual two million for the nine teenth century. The Protestant Hebrew converts who enter the Christian min istry are three times more numerous than those from the ranks of converts from all other non-Christian faiths. THE RAW OF SEPARATION In order to improve flowers, and to develop new varieties of plants, the plants to be improved must be kept separate from all others of the same kind. If a bed of roses be set out with say fifty bushes, one each o f all the finest varieties that can be procured, and allowed to grow thus together, un cultivated for a sufficient length of time, the whole lot will be found to have reverted to the cpmmon red rose. Mr. Huxley tells of a man. who col-
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