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instead of “Religious” in the name of the new merger. A few weeks ago the Executive Committee of the new or ganization, in annual meeting in Chi cago, not only rejected the recom mendation and the word “ Christian,” but decided also to drop the term “ Sunday-school,” This motion was carried by a large majority, and im mediately made unanimous. All that is now left of the historic, evangelical body in which once worked such men as Dwight L. Moody, William Rey nolds B. F. Jacobs, Bishop Vincent, Henry Clay Trumbull, H. J. Heinz, E. K. Warren, George W . Bailey, Mar ion Lawrence, and a host of other such Christian leaders is now known as the “ International Council of Reli gious Education.”— S. S. Times. Announcement has been received of the election of Mr. E. Francis Hyde to the Presidency of the American Bible Society, with headquarters at the Bible House, New York City. Mr. Hyde has been for many years a leader in the financial, musical, so cial and religious life of New York City. He was for thirty-three years a Vice President and Trustee of the Cen tral Trust Company (now the Central Union Trust Company) and has held many other positions of financial responsibility in various institutions. He is also Treasurer of the New York Sabbath Committee, Treasurer of Princeton Theological Seminary and a member of the Marble Collegiate Church (Dutch Reformed) of New York City. Mr. Hyde will bring to his new position a wide and varied ex perience and a deep personal interest in and knowledge of the American Bible Society’s world-wide program. TALKING AND VOTING Recently we heard a man say, with emphasis, he refused to let any one call him a liberal. He was a con servative. He was asked if he did not always vote with the liberals. He answered, “ Yes, I do.” Again he was asked, “How do you reconcile your vote with your profession?” He re plied, “ It is a matter of tolerance.” What is wrong with such a man? Simply this: his vote speaks so loud we cannot hear what he says. This state of mind is common today. Men proclaim themselves in determined tones to be orthodox, and then by vote, action or substance, support the lib eral cause. Such a tendency signifies a strain of mental or moral integrity, or both, and is offensive to normal manhood.-- -The Presbyterian. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT
FUNDAMENTAL C H U R C H HAS PHENOMENAL YEAR The First Presbyterian Church, of Waterloo, Iowa, has just dedicated one of the most stately and commodious edifices in the country, costing $250,- 000.00, with the most modern and up- to-date equipment. Substantial growth in numbers, in gifts, in organization and in spiritual life have been mani fested, and the church begins a new year with every indication of promise and blessing. Needless to say, this is a church that is entirely free of the virus of Modernism or Liberalism. Its pastor, the Rev. John Roberston Macartney, preaches the Bible as the inspired and infallible Word of God, the Deity of Jesus Christ, the necessity of His blood atonement for sin, His physical resurrection and His coming again. The result is a beehive of spiritual life and activity. Great numbers of Bible classes— week day as well as on Sun day— engage in the first-hand study of the Word. We shall be interested in knowing if there are any churches which are avowedly “Modern and Liberal” in belief and practice, which can show such a successful record. The Third Baptist Church of Port land, Oregon, has lately installed a radio broadcasting station. This is the first Oregon church to take advantage of the modern method of spreading the Gospel message. The Rev. W . Arnold Bennett, pastor, in announcing this event, says: “ The Third Baptist Church of Portland intends to witness, through this equipment, for the inspi ration and integrity of the Holy Scrip ture. We believe that the people are hungry for the Word of God, and our station will be used exclusively for the radiation of the Gospel and the truths of the Bible, hoping to reach men in construction, mining and lum ber camps, as well as shut-ins and in mates of hospitals and sanitariums.” A remarkable collection of Bibles is now being exhibited at the New York Public library. The famous Gutenburg Bible (printed in 1453), the first real book ever printed from movable type, heads the list. The first American- printed English Bible was brought out in Philadelphia in 1782, while the first Bible in any language that was printed in America is John Eliot’’s Indian Bible in the Natick, Massachusetts, dialect.— Christian Advocate. OREGON CHURCH BROADCASTS GOSPEL REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF BIBLES
ARE SODOM AND GOMORRAH TO BE UNEARTHED? Perhaps nothing in recent archaeo logical attempts has affected more quickly the imagination of thousands of Bible students than the present expedition to the region of the Dead Sea in the exciting hope that one or more of “ the cities of the plains” may be located and their ruins uncovered. The president of Xenia Theological Seminary, Dr. Melvin Grove Kyle, has placed the Christian world under a peculiar debt by his able research and by his unflinching testimony to the certainty of Holy Scripture, adding by his discoveries unanswerable assur ances that the Bible is history as truly as prophecy, and prophecy as truly as history. Dr. Kyle writes most hope fully of the anticipations of these paltient toilers, who through faith have found subdued kingdoms and have then provided for the student world most entrancing recitals of the unthinkable resurrections that they have witnessed through their advent ures with the spade. While we are dependent largely upon Genesis as our history, that history is re-afflrmed by our Lord when he declared that “ it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment” than for poor, blinded Capernaum. The cities were once there, and were destroyed by the ravages of the fires of God. We will await with an in tense expectation every report of the expeditions— The Presbyterian. WHAT DO THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS ACCOMPLISH? For the year ending February 28, 1923, the American Sunday School Union has commissioned 219 mission aries. Forty one of these, however, have, served but part of the year. As a, result of their efforts, 1,145 new Sunday Schools have been organized and 656 reorganized. Into these schools have been gathered 5,889 teachers and 55,662 scholars.— Amer ican Sunday School Union. PASSING OF THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY ASSOCIATION APRIL, 1924 Little, now, is really left of the old International Sunday School Associa tion which did such a great work for North America’s Sunday schools dur ing the past two generations. In 1922 it was merged, together with the Sun day School Council of Evangelical De nominations, into the International Sunday School Council of Religious Education. The Convention which took this action, at Kansas City, recommended by an overwhelming vote the use of the word “ Christian”
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