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streets of the large towns is a common sight, whereas it was extremely rare fif teen years ago. * * * Rev. Richard S. Beal, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Tucson, Arizona, is a Fundamentalist of the Fundamental ists. He is also a Fundamentalist of excellent judgment, for he says: “K ing ’ s B usiness is the best ever. I enjoy every issue. You are rendering a great ministry through its pages. I do not see how it could be improved upon. It is deserving of the widest possible circulation.” * * * Referring to the increased suicide ratio among college students, Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, draws the wise conclusion that “a re naissance of great teaching is one of the needs of American universities. The greater the complexity and confusion of an era, the greater the need for teachers with genius for guidance, interpretation, and stimulation. Better teachers on our faculties will mean braver spirits in our student bodies. A cynical and indecisive intellectualism is a blind alley into which modern education is in danger of heading.” He advocates a policy of frée discussion, even when it goes to lengths that make some instructors wince. * * * Evangelist John Brown has been giving a vital message on the necessity of more young people preparing for constructive manual work rather than for white-collar jobs if our country is to be saved. A writer in World’s Work who has made investigations in 92 high schools in lead ing cities, declares that 60 per cent of the students had no serious thought of what they would make of themselves and had never even talked with their parents on the subject. Strange to say, of those who had talked with their parents, 93 per cent had been advised not to follow the voca tions of their parents. Children are being advised to seek easier lives than their parents, and there is less and less love for real work. When the question was put : “How many have thought of farm ing as a life work?” whether it was asked in city or country schools, invariably it brought down the house. When the min istry was suggested, laughter always re sulted. A serious situation is brought to light. Thè vocations of feeding and clothing the body and feeding the souls of men have little appeal to modern youth. Ease, which is the mother of degeneracy, is the goal. John Brown is right in insist ing that there is a social revolution and that unless parents wake up and show their children the honor of real work, we are on the road back to caste, serfdom, peerage ancj slavery. * * * The announcement by the University of Chicago that à new version of the Bible is being brought forth, has brought some interesting comments from secular papers. The consensus of opinion seems to be that this attempt by Prof. Powis Smith maims
Angeles has been considered a city of beautiful churches, but it appears that over a million are in the way of becoming pagans. Yet some Christian people are still waiting to be “led of the Lord” be fore they; seek to win anyone to Christ. * * * Mussolini may be a bad egg, but we will have to give him credit for closing 25,000 bars or wine shops in Italy. He is- not content, and intends to withdraw licenses from a large number of others. The chief difficulty that faces Fascist Government is that, although the export trade in Italian wines is small compared with that of France, there is one-third as much again more land devoted to the cultivation of grapes for wines in Italy than in France or Spain, Wine is abund ant and cheap, and the economic pros perity of the country has led to excessive drinking, so that drunkenness in the
“Evolution is slow,” says a Los Angeles paper. “There is no noticeable change in the disposition of the mosquito.” * * * The Newark Ledger says: “It must be awful to be a neighbor’s child,, because they never will amount to anything.” * * * • “If a child of God marries a child of the devil,” says an exchange, “the said child of God is sure to have some trouble with his father-in-law.” * * * - After a recent riot in Foochow, China, the resident Methodist bishop, there cabled home: “Wife left for Manila. Every thing quiet here.” There! You have the cause of the whole thing. ♦ * * It was Mark Twain, who said: “Some people are troubled by the things in the Bible they can’t understand. The things that trouble me are the things I can under stand.” * * * The New Testament says that he whose gift is ministering should wait on his ministry, but here is a preacher in Piedmont, Missouri, who advertises: “I preach Christ crucified, sell monuments for your dead, and auctioneer your prop erty. Please let me serve you.” * * * There come rumors that atheism is making much headway in American schools, but the Lexington Herald observes that those who are familiar with atheistic timber generally are sure that whatever the thing is doing it is not making headway. ♦ * * The Pathfinder points out the astound ing fact that of all the children in our orphan asylums, only five per cent are actually orphans. Thirty per cent of them are half orphans, while sixty-five per cent have both parents living! Let the advo cates of loose marriage ties figure that out and tell us what condition we shall be in when people get away altogether from the Bible view of marriage. * * * The Boston Transcript tells of a little girl who came home from church and told her parents that the people sang “The Dog’s Holiday” and went home. * * * Rev. L. B. Irwin, writing in The Pres byterian of the South, wants to know if anyone knows of a divorce of husband and wife who both daily asked the guid ance and help of God to be with them in their daily life. Think that through. * * * A church survey in Los Angeles brings ¡¡out the startling fact that out of a total population qf 1,350,000 there are but 290.000 church members, including Catho lics and Jewish synagogs. That leaves 1.060.000 people who belong to nothing at all. Only one person in eight is a member of any religious body, and only one in fifteen is a Protestant. Los
God’s G ifts The fragrant flowers, The cooling breezf^Tf The bird’s sweet song, The leafy: trees, The blue, blue sky, The sunshine bright, The twinkling stars. The moon’s soft light, The changing clouds, The rain, the snow, The rosy dawn, The sunset’s glow, The sloping hills, The forest shade, The valleys green, The sunny glade, The little rills, The rivers wide, The sandy shore, The ocean tide, Each pretty view, Each golden day, Each pleasing joy, . , Whqr,e’er you stay , . Are gifts of God to man. —Myra A. Buck.
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