AT HOME AND ABROAD A LOOK O VER THE F I ELD' '
T HOSE who are ■accustomed to see a Roman Catholic menace constantly con fronting them in this country, says Zion’s Herald, will be reassured by statistics which have been published by the North western Chronicle, one o f the most con servative Roman Catholic papers in the United States. This periodical declares, in all solemnity, that the Roman Catholic Church is losing ground in this country. Here are the statistics, as given by the Chronicle: , “The great archdiocese o f New York was reported in the Catholic Directory of 1904 as containing 1,200,000 Catholics and in the Catholic Directory o f 1914 as con taining 1'219,000 Catholics, and in the decade past 2,000,000 Catholic immigrants have landed at the port o f New York. Then, according to the official report, there were 200,000 Catholics in the archdiocese o f Cincinnati in 1904, and 200,000 in 1914. The total increase in ten years is nothing. Take th e, fine old Catholic diocese of Savannah. Ten years ago it reported 20,000 Catholics. Today it reports 18,340 Catholics—a loss in ten years o f 660. Com ment is unnecessary.” In the face o f the large Roman Catholic immigration to this country, which is con stantly taking place, it requires but little thinking to realize that Roman Catholicism is losing ground. 1 --------O-------- Admiral Beatty’s Warning Sir David Beatty, England’s youngest admiral, in a letter to the Secretary o f the Society for the Promotion o f Christian Knowledge, which was read at a meeting in Birkenhead, said:. 1 “ Surely the Almighty God does not intend this war to be just a hideous fracas —a blood-drunken orgy? There must be purpose in it; improvement must come out of.it. In that direction France has already
shown us the way, and has risen out o f her ruined cities wifh a revived religion that is most wonderful. Russia has been welded into a whole, and religion plays the greater part. England still remains to be taken out o f the stupor o f self-satisfaction and complacency in which her flourishing condition has steeped her, and until she can be stirred out o f this condition, until religious revival takes place at hoihe, just so long will the war continue. When she can look on the future with humbler eyes and a prayer on her lips, then we can begin to count the days towards the end. Your society is helping to this end, and so help ing to bring the war to a successful end.” An Ambassador’s Tribute “ A residence of over two years in Tur key has given me the best possible oppor tunity to see the work o f the American missionaries and to know the_ workers intimately,” . says Henry Morganthau. “Without hesitation I declare my high opinion o f their keen insight into ,the real needs o f the people o f Turkey. The mis sionaries have the right idea. They go straight to the foundations and provide , those intellectual, physical, moral and relig ious benefits upon which alone any true civilization can be built. The missionaries are the devoted friends o f the people of Turkey and they are my friends. They are brave, intelligent, and unselfish men and women. I have come to respect all. and love,many o f them. As an American citizen I have been proud o f them. As an American ambassador to Turkey I have been delighted to help them.” --------- O --------- Buddhists Adopt Christian Methods T ^HE deep impression made in Japan by the . coming World’s Sunday School Convention at Tokyo, and the campaigns which are being promoted by the mis-
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