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All Is Vanity At a recent" Methodist conference Rev. Luther E. Lovejoy, of Chicago, said: “ American women last year spent 38 times as much money for powder- puffs, rouge, lip sticks and perfumes as all the Methodists gave to the mission ary work of the world.” Congratulations! The ignorance of very smart men is beautifully brought out in a Sunday editorial in a Los Angeles newspaper. The editorial writer lands upon Mr. Bryan for saying that it is “ more impor tant to know the Rock of Ages than the age of rocks.” The writer thinks Mr. Bryan is referring to the song “ Rock of Ages,” and proceeds to show the foolishness of Mr. Bryan’s remark. This particular publication is to be congratu lated upon having upon its staff a man who has heard that there is such a.song. Bow! Wow! Wow! “ The evolutionary view of the world is no longer a theory but a SCIENTIFIC FACT proved by an overwhelming mass of evidence,” shouts Rev. A. Cooke, a Congregational preacher, to liis few dozen, people-—and the news paper gives him a display headline and a couple of columns. Then we pick up the latest work on prehistoric re mains by Pocock, a scientist in London, who tells us that the missing links are still missing. The Piltdown man dis covered just before the war, the Croa tian, the Nanderthal and all the others, he tells us, are human after all. So. you faithful few in the back seats of Dr. Cooke’s little church, don’t take your pastor too seriously.
Brethren, There’s a Limit! Every few days someone writes to say that he cannot go to church in his town without hearing faithful believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible -referred to in Insulting . terms. The apostate preachers have not stopped to consider that nine-tenths of the lay men still belong to the “ fossil class'”—- “ the miserable literalists”— “ the Bible fanatics,” for they have hot become students of German rationalism, and it is not probable that they will. One of these days, we believe the great body of laymen in this country who know experimentally the power of the blood of Christ, will reach the limit of their endurance. Sowing and Reaping University of Chicago, a Baptist in stitution which requires that its presi dent and three-fourths of its trustees should be Baptists, has in its student body this year 1,118 who express no re ligious preference, 323 Jews, 269 Ro man Catholics and 116 Christian Scien tists. So says a Chicago newspaper. The “ Phoenix,” a campus magazine, says the men students of the university spent $175,000 for dances in three months as compared with $66,000 for books. The loose views of the Bible seem, to be bringing forth just such fruit as one might expect. Yet the in stitution gets its support from people 95 per cent of whom are probably loyal to the faith. They Have a Big Job The Federal Council of Churches con tinues to take to itself considerable re sponsibility that has never been dele gated to if. It seems to be able to com-
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