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are drowned in the roar o f battle, in the ceaseless welding o f war equipment. Yet that good hour may not be so far away as men think. He who calmed the troubled sea has not lost His might. There is another army. Its king is Jesus. That heroic host is disciplining all nations. The world will come home. It will find itself. at last and its place will be the foot of the cross. Paul’s prophecy will become history. “.Till we all come—unto the full grown man: unto the measure o f the stat ure o f the fullness o f Christ.” This is the end o f the ages, the goal o f the race: not a utopian dream, but a dictum o f revela tion. The day will come when “ The whole wide world is bound in golden chains' about the feet o f God.”
must ever restless be until they find their rest in Thee.” Jesus’ exhortation to this seeker was of supreme wisdom. “ Seek- ye first the King dom o f God and His Righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.” What things? Food arid clothes and all the necessities o f life. But man has reversed the order. He refuses to conform to the rational method. The world spirit is his guide and teacher and it has a mighty grip now. The world is one battle field and the councils o f the nations a seething cald ron o f hate and passion. How strangely in this “confusion worse confounded” sound the words o f the mountain sermon, “ Blessed are the pure in heart, the meek, the poor in spirit, the peace makers." They
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T HE minister o f public instruction in Argentina lately inquired o f bankers and mercantile houses why they preferred to employ young then from the mission schools rather than from the public schools. They replied that they found them more honest and trustworthy. The president of the Anglo-Chinese (Methodist) College at Foochow gave similar testimony. A. Chinese said to him : “ I can have my son as well taught in the modernized gov ernment schools as in yours, without cost, I prefer to pay you for his tuition, not because o f your religion—I dont care for that—but because o f your ethics, which I find nowhere else .”—All the World. A missionary o f the China Inland Mis sion writes: “ The work is opening up far greater than we can overtake. For eleven months o f this' year (1915) baptisms in the China Inland Mission alone are over 3,900.”
Through a legacy from the estate o f Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, the Women’s Mis sionary Societies o f the Baptist Church are receiving the sum o f $450,000, one-third o f which is for Home Missions, and $300,000 for Foreign Missions. The Young Men’ s Christian Association o f Peking, China, in all o f its branches is marined by graduates o f Princeton, who are supported by the Philadelphia Society o f the University and represent the Chris tian Association o f Princeton in the For eign field. The Association in the Far East is the special agent o f the Christiari Church among the educated classes and a large part o f the actual work in Peking is carried on among the students who come to the capital, city from all parts o f China. The other young Chinese who appreciate the Association most are the young busi ness men and the government officials and employees .—-/The North American Student.
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