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camp, also leaving religious literature. He leads the convicts in singing services by means of Gospel song gramophone records. At a meeting of the C. M. S; a speaker said: “W e are always looking at our par ishes, but for once we got. alongside John Wesley and looked at the parish. What a sight it w a s!: Half a million new. teachers wanted for new primary, schools.in India, and many of them may be Christian teach ers, if — !. China, sick of its old medical men, and wanting new ones trained in Western science, and many of these may be Christians, if — ! Thirty millions of de pressed classes in India moving towards the Gospel. That move may become a rush, if — ! The invasion of the Crescent in Africa may be stopped and the whole tide turned, if— ! If what? If the Church is really militant here on earth. That was our final vision. The Church quiescent turned into the Church militant.” Anthony Comstock, at the age of nine teen, volunteered to take his brother’s place and gun when that brother was killed at Gettysburg, and the courage he showed as a soldier oft' the field did not desert him when he was slugged, stabbed and left for dead by the white slavers in New York. He has not- only saved thousands o f boys and girls from the brutes who ’lay in wait for them In the cities, but he has sent to jail and prison upwards o f three thousand criminals who preyed upon the virtue of youths and women. A braver man never faced a thug or a sneering reporter. He has run down, dug up and consigned to the flames something like one hundred tons of obscene books and pictures, and the man, whosoever he be, that seeks to belittle An thony Comstock and his work is himself doing the dirty work of the pimps and touts who make so many of our streets unsafe for decent women after dark. Mr. George Long, a depraved victim o f whiskey and opium, was converted to Christ July 20, 1909, in the Galilee Mission; Phila delphia. Shortly after his conversion he
went to Dr. George Woodward and ob tained from him permission to use various old houses in that part of the city known as “ Hell’s Half Acre,” for the establish ment of a mission to outcasts. The houses were lent him gratis , and with ;art: initial i capital of twenty-seven cents the “ Inasmuch Mission” of Philadelphia was started*on its course. Articles of furniture, were coritrib- ■j uted one by one, and today, six of the‘ orig inal twenty houses, fully equipped with dormitories, shower -baths, kitchen and eat ing rooms, are at the mission’s Service. . Forty men are in residence receiving help, instruction and physical reconstruction. There are no industrial features, and no charge is made for anything. When the men have sufficiently recuperated physically, employment is found for them. O f the 3000 men for whom work has been secured,'a large percentage is said to have made good. Names are kept on file, and the men who have entered on a new life are followed up and watched over. . The mission is also holding out-of-door services on an auto truck which are resulting in many conver sions. Bishop Rhinelander, of Philadelphia, is the president of the board of trustees. Dr. Lepsius, a German missionary, re ports an alleged conversation between a liberal theologian and a Moslem. Lib. Th. r I believe that Jesns was a great prophet. ■ M os.: That’s iny opinion, also. L. T .: I believe that God is gracious and pitiful. M . : That is written on every page o£ the Koran. L. T . : I deny a Divine Trinity. M . : As I do. L. T .: I will 1 not listen to Christ’s being God’s Son. M . : I agree with you perfectly. ■ L: T .: I believe that man, In order to be weH-pIeasing to God, must keep His commandments. M .: So think I. By the beard o f the prophet you are a Mohammedan! But do you believe that Jesus was born o f the Virgin Mary?
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