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the Scriptures. Another neglected continent has been found! There are four hundred million people on the continent of Eu rope found in eighteen or more coun tries waiting to hear the Gospel of Christ. They offer a definite challenge to the Christian forces of our land. Ordinarily Europe is not considered a mission field. Here is real need for prayer. ♦ A recent issue of Time quotes the Church Man on the subject of funerals. Pointing out the pagan aspect of our modern burial, the editor of this pe riodical demands to know why, if we believe the corpse is an out-worn tent, do we not treat it as if it were. Furthermore, it is "suggested that, along with the abolishment of funer als, cemeteries should be done away with and the pagan custom of visit ing them as well! The real Christian type of funeral is said to be one with no publicity, in the nature of a mem orial service, where the bereaved gather around a living spirit, not a dead body. ♦ Contrary to widespread rumors, there are atheists in fox-holes in the opinion of Chaplain Lewis A. Myers According to his survey, eighty per cent of the soldiers are returning with more skepticism than ever, more indif ference to religious services, and with less scruples about wrongdoing. He advises if you desire a man to come out of a fox-hole with something, you had better send him in with it, and that the fox-holes w ill never do the work which God has appointed to Christian institutions. ♦ The Christian Century reports in an article by Dr. Wesner Fallaw that the Sunday school is dead and we might as well admit it. He calls attention to the fact that the Sunday school flourished in a period when religious teaching was centered in the family, and family life was centered in the Church. He states that the family now looks to specialists in religion to train the children.
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South Carolina and the Mid-South. The basis of their disagreement with the regular denomination is summed up as follows: “We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and we do not care to follow any. leadership with actions to the contrary. We be lieve in the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ, and that He is our Lord and Saviour. We believe that our mis sion is to spread scriptural holiness throughout the land; to glorify God and bring men into saving relation with Jesus Christ, and we know that only through Him can men be sav ed.” While these groups are com paratively small, the new union be gins with fine evangelistic fervor. ♦ A plea to the Federal Communica tions Commission, from the Rev. Sam Morris of San Antonio, Texas, asks that they refuse to renew the license of Station KRLD, Dallas, Texas, on the ground that they would not sell broadcasting time to advocates of pro, hibition. His contention is that radio stations in various parts of our land are violating the principle of freedom of speech in denying equal opportun ity for both sides of the liquor ques tion to be aired. Dr. Morris invites other organizations interested in this vital question to support this action. He claims it is u n f a i r to allow “ glamour broadcasts,” urging people to drink, and refusing those opposed to liquor the right to present their side. ♦ The Chicago Tribune of April 8 re ports that the United States Army has gone into the beer-brewing business in France. The army has decided to make its own beer because of the in ferior quality of the French product. Exponents of this move also claim that it w ill take less shipping space to send over to France the ingredients rather than the finished product. We believe this is the very first time that the United States Army has ever stoop ed so low as to manufacture this brew which brings sorrow and is in no way beneficial to our people.
According to a news item, the first large shipment of grapefruit from Pal estine, consisting of 100,000 cases, was recently transported by two ships to England. It is reported that this is only the beginning of what promises to be a continuous and profitable busi ness in citrus fruit from the Holy Land. However, there is still quite a problem to be worked out in the mat ter of transportation and price. It is consistent with the prophecies of the Word of God that there should be such production. ♦ Reports persist regarding plans to take Jews from France, Belgium, Greece, Jugoslavia, Italy and Poland to Palestine. At least eighty percent of. 300,000 Jews remaining in Rumania are preparing to go if and when their admission can be arranged. While there seems to be determined opposi tion on the part of certain govern ments to the increase of Jewish popu lation in Palestine, and while the United' Nations Conference seems to have successfully sidestepped the is sue, yet we are certain that the Jews w ill return in large numbers to their homeland, if this is God’s time. ♦ The Arab Press reports the discovery of “considerable quantities of oil” in the territory between the Dead Sea and the Egyptian border. The dis covery was made by members of a British oil research group, which is conducting operations in that region. If Palestine is to have equal prestige with other nations of the world, there must be a supply of oil, the blood of commerce. We feel that God has pro vided for this matter as well as for all other needs of His people, as He prepares to bring them back to their homeland after these centuries of wandering. No doubt this oil w ill be desired greatly by the nations as they cast their covetous eyes toward the Holy Land. ♦ A new religious union has recently been formed from two dissenting con ferences of the Methodist Church—the
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