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H AD Dr. Burrell of New York spent his vacation in Los Angeles, he would have had a more satisfactory experience than he describes in The Watchword and Truth. He is quoted as saying that he at tended church twice every Sunday during a vacation of three months; and did not hear, even once, an invitation to accept Christ. Continuing, he says: “The fact is, the Church has been largely diverted from the business in hand. The business was evangelism, the holding up of Christ and His Gospel for the salvation of sinful men. In many cases there had been a turning aside from the evangel into the multitudinous forms of so-called ‘new thought.’. ‘Ring out the old, ring in the new!’!—new theology, new ethics, Babism, Hinduism, Theosophy—anything but the old-time religion. The- spirit of the age was being exploited at the expense of the Spirit of God. Others had turned aside from the evangel into legalism, and others into sacerdotalism. The name of the de nomination was more deeply emphasized than its place in the economy off the king dom- Others had turned aside into emo tionalism, others into ‘social service’—the feeding of the hungry and the clothing of the naked and the healing of the sick. That is a most Christlike service, but to say that it is ‘the Christ life’ is to say a false and foolish thing. Christ ‘went about doing good,’ but He did not content Him self with ministering to those who wefe laid on couches along His way. Not sus tenance, but salvation „was „the keynote of His ministry. What was the remedy for that state of things? The Lord’s plans called for a marshalling of His professed followers in a crusade for souls. Let them get back to their commission; back to their business, which was to seek and to save the lost. Npthing else will answer. All other tasks are incidental to that.”
T WO graduates of the ' Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Miss Bessie Pike and Miss Martha Pohnert, received the follow ing complimentary mention in a recent is sue of The Ebenezer /Echoes, Honan/ China: “Sisters Pike, and Pohnert are making splendid progress in the language and will no doubt be able to take charge of the Girls’ Boarding School when the compound and buildings, which the Lord has at last so graciously given us, are ready for them. We rejoice with them in the anticipation of this work to which the Lord has so definitely called them, and feel sure He will"make them a great blessing to many of these needy girls.” Henry Martin is reported to have said, “If I should live to see one Brahmin gen uinely converted, it would be to me as great a miracle as if a man should rise from the dead.” That this miracle has been witnessed many times in the later days of missionary effort is well known.—: Miss. Rev. A copy of the New Testament was presented by the Bible Society to one Brahmin just graduated from the, univer sity, which roused Mr. Martin’s interest. After his baptism, his family removed him to a village 3D0 miles away, and gave him medicine to drive the demon out of him. He escaped, and is now teaching in the mission school of Coimbatore, and en gaged in various forms of Christian work. The Evangelical Church of Egypt has 65 ordained ministers, with a total of 102 ministers, theological students, and lay preachers. The membership is 12,194, and there is an average Sabbath morning church attendance of 25,284. The schools of the United Presbyterian Mission report 546 boys and girls, of whom 258 are Mo hammedans, a remarkable proportion.
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