Federal Council One of America’s important maga zines, Fortune, speaks out with amazing candor with regard to the Federal Coun cil of Churches. We quote: “Today the Federal Council is a vigor ous, going concern, representing 25 de nominations with 28 million members. Yet in 39 years it has made only one memorable contribution to the domestic welfare of the U. S., and that nearly a quarter of a century ago. Its famous 1928 report on conditions in the steel industry undoubtedly helped persuade U. S. Steel’s pious Bible-quoting Elbert H. Gary to renounce the twelve-hour day. Since then the Council’s well-mean ing, ill-informed approach to domestic, social and economic problems has won little confidence. Much of the time it has seemed to be thinking of the U. S. of 1908, when most workers were un organized and trusts were the economic issue. ‘To most business men,’ one church-minded big business man ob served recently, ‘the pronouncements of the Federal Council on business matters have seemed at best a lot of hooey and at worst plain Communistic’.” Smart Ants Dr. Ernest N. Cory of the University of Maryland states that the ant and the termite are more intelligent than man. These insects are able to supply enough food for all of their species. Everyone works, but everyone eats. The inability of man to provide food for all is due to human greed. Dr. Cory declares that “ artificial control of prices and supply” was tried as early as 1700 B.C. in Egypt, and failed. With Dr. Cory’s theory of ant wisdom, the Book of Proverbs is in complete agreement. Bored Miss Evangeline De Castro, a 17-year- old young lady from the Philippines, who was chosen as Miss Philippines from the Miss America contest in Atlantic City last summer, has announced that she is to become a nun. The reason given by Miss De Castro for turning to a very different type of life is that social life with so many dances bores her. How many prominent socialites would say the same thing, and a great deal more, if they were to tell the exact truth! Solemn Figures Since the close of the war, there has been a great deal of talk regarding Russia’s changed attitude toward re ligion, but the following are some figures which every thinking Protestant ought to know: According to Ripley’s “ Believe It or Not,” Josef Stalin and the Communists have, since 1918, liquidated by murder or exile 255,078 members of the clergy and destroyed 88,874 religious edifices. In cluded in this are 152,471 priests and monks and 52,032 nuns of the Russian church; 26,000 rabbis and teachers of the Jewish faith; 16,914 Mohammedan M A R C H , 1 9 4 8
of others by a gift of blood. All of which makes us think that not this man, but the Son of Man is the world’s greatest blood donor for how many multiplied millions of souls have found new life through the shed blood of Calvary. Subscriptions Fulfilled An interesting note is to be found in the subscription notice printed at the masthead of The Gospel Minister, “ Sub scriptions are received on the following condition: Should the Lord return to take the church, and the paper neces sarily cease publication, all obligations concerning unexpired subscriptions will be considered fulfilled.” This is a practical approach indeed to the “ blessed hope” of the Lord’s return. Too many who steadfastly affirm belief in the imminency o f His coming do not give any practical exhibition of it in “ I foresee peace and abundance in 2004 because the greed and lust of the 20th century will have been brought into the open where they can be seen and de stroyed. The destruction of these evils began in 1947 with our determined effort to aid the suffering people of Europe.” With our brother’s prediction we have sincere sympathy, but does it not say in the Word of God that conditions are to become steadily worse until God Himself calls a halt to the entire matter, and sends His Son to rule and to reign? One-Third Women The tragic and alarming fact is that records show 1/3 of the inmates in our institutions who are confined there be cause of chronic alcoholism are women. This statement is from the California Department of Mental Hygiene. These statistics should be considered along with the disturbing fact that far more men use alcoholic liquors than women. A trail of broken hearts, dis rupted homes and frightened children, completes the picture. s Paqe Five their daily lives. Peace In 2004 Ernest I. Pugmire, who is the Nation al Commander of the Salvation Army, is quoted as saying:
By WILLIAM W . ORB. D.D. mullahs; 5,106 priests and monks of the Roman Catholic Church; 2,025 Armenian priests, 530 Lutheran pastors,. The Com munists also confiscated 18,900,000 acres of church property and stole four bil lion dollars’ worth of church funds. Iron Fish Recently a British submarine remained submerged for “ several weeks” and then resurfaced under her own power with a crew of 7 officers and 60 men in good health. New inventions and perfected mechan isms are responsible for almost unlimited under-water stay. This reminds us of an Old Testament story in which God pre pared an under-water conveyance for an erring prophet. Strange to say, no one ridicules the submarine report, while the story of Jonah has been shamefully criti cized for centuries. Kagawa Says Although we have not previously been able to endorse the views of Japan’s so-called “ greatest Christian,” what he wrote recently in the Christian Century is worthy of careful reading: “ By the abandonment of war, we in Japan have emerged from the era of barbarism. . . . If only we had done this willingly ten years ago, history would have taken another course. . . We are going to alter the definition of a ‘great’ state. A truly great state is not neces sarily big, nor rich, nor quarrelsome with its neighbors. The great state is one which is wise, moral and God-fearing. The ideal we pursue is that of making Japan a state with which God can be pleased.” Blood Donor Recently, in the city of Philadelphia, a man died at the age of 68 who was known as the world’s champion blood donor. He had given more than 1,100 pints of blood and it was his boast that his blood flowed in the veins of some of the country’s best families. Furthermore, he claimed that he had never sold a drop of blood in his life, saying that it was a great thing indeed to prolong the life
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