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tine, and stated th a t they believed th e tim e for action is here. They suggested th a t th e first steps should be a cam paign again st m alaria in o rder to sani ta te th e land in advance of extensive imm igration. I t was advocated th a t land should be purchased on a larg e scale and forestation and irrig ation started. Strong financial support was pledged. The Z ionist Budget Growing The grow th of the Zionist budget is a rem arkable sign of the advance of the movement. Since th e beginning of the war, which it was feared would destroy Zionism, it has gone forw ard by leaps and hounds. In th e year ending Ju ly 1st, 1914, th e F ederation of American Zionists, according to its secretary, was not able to collect th e am ount of th e budget of $5,200. The next year th e budget rose to $137,000, then to over $250,000. This year th e Zionists of America are raising a R estoration Fund of th re e m illion dollars. F rom $5,000 to $3,000,000 is a trem endous jum p in five years. The office staff has grown from a force of two clerks to “ a huge adm in istrative body th a t may well prove to he th e nucleus for th e civil service of th e Jew ish Commonwealth in Pales tin e.” Get Jew s To Christ Now In Mark 16:15 th e command is, Go ye into all th e world, and preach the gospel to every creatu re.” “ Every crea tu re ” surely includes th e Jew. Now, if we place the to tal number of Jews a t the close of th e nin eteen th cen tu ry a t 15,000,000, which is a most generous figure, th e re would he one Jew ish convert or Christian to every 152 to 150 of th e population. This is a much higher average th a n can he shown among Moslem lands, where the average for th e same period of tim e was only one in every 525 of the population. This would mean th a t th e re are about four Jew ish converts to one converted from Mohammedanism. T han th e Jewish mission fields few of modern tim es have
been more fru itfu l of encouraging re- sults. ^ W A R AND TH E WORD A strik ing w itness to th e value of good reading in tim e of stress and need, is provided by th e competition initiated by “ Claudius C lear” in “The B ritish Weekly,” on “Books th a t Have Helped Me Through th e W ar.” The entries are largely from retu rn ed soldiers, and not a few references are made to th e com fo rt afforded by th e Book of Psalms. One w rites:— t The Ancre in the 1916 offensive was a death-trap, a valley of hell. Stumbling over dead bodies, tripped up w ith barb ed wire, crashing down into shell-holes and craters, sickened w ith th e cries of th e wounded, we made our way a t night along th a t valley into th e attack of Beaucourt. Being physically worn out, th e men almost mutinied. I t was then th a t th e transcendent beauty and su blime confidence of th e 23rd Psalm nerved me w ith courage and filled me w ith serenity am id all the te rro rs of b attle: “Yea, though I walk th rough the valley of th e shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou a rt w ith me.” In th e 1918 March re tre a t in F rance a panicky caught-in-a-trap, baffled sort of feeling came over me, as for days from dawn to dusk the reg u lar rap! rap !! of th e German machine-guns got ominously nearer. The hail of bullets whizzing past made escape alm ost im possible. Words fail to convey th e rap tu re of th e assured hope found in the 91st P salm : “A thousand sh all fall a t thy side, and ten thousand a t th y rig h t hand; h u t it shall no t come nigh th ee.” AN “IVORY KNOB ” You have been w anting a definition of “ b rain s.” H ere it is. Mrs. Eddy in “ Science and H ealth ” tells us. “B rains —-a m o rtal consolidation of m aterial m entality and its suppositional activi ties.” Let th a t settle th e m atter.
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