T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S A remarkable testimony to the work of the late J. Wilbur Chapman was re cently placed in the Fourth Presbyter ian Church of New York, of which he was once pastor. A memorial tablet reads as follows: “In Loving Memory of REV. J. WILBUR CHAPMAN, D. D., LL. D., 1859-1918. Pastor of this church 1899-1902 An evangelist of world-wide renown, moderator of the General Assembly, 1917-18. Entered into rest Christmas Day, 1918. A heart aflame with love of his Lord, a mind richly stored with the learning of the Word, a tongue in spired. by the) spiritual eloquence of the truth, a voice full of all tender ness and persuasive pleading, a hand ever open to ithe needs of men, he preached the gospel in the world for thirty-six years, bringing many sons to glory. “He that is wise winneth souls. Pro verbs. 11:30.” Here is something that modern Chris tian workers may well ponder. Wilbur Chapman got down to the real business on which his Master sent him. Many of us today are all Itaken up with “tink ering at the machinery,” and have little to report along the line of soul-winning. . Congressman Emerson of Cleveland has offered a bill to prohibit sending through the mail any periodical or ar ticle which obviously is printed to stir up religious prejudices. If the bill carries, it provides a $5,000 fine or five years imprisonment or both for persons found guilty ’of violation. This thing smells of Rome, although the congress man claims that it is a Jewish organiza tion that has urged that such a bill be passed. IVe all know what Rome has sought along this line, and with bur Romish officials at |t'he head in many states, the Pope would, by the help of such a law, get a strangle hold upon Protestantism. Every false religious system, many of which deceitfully han dle the Word of God, could propagate their lies' and anyone attempting to (turn the searchlight upon them would get $5,000 fine or a jail sentence. Such a law would be worthy of the Bolshe viks in Russia. Shall it pass in Amer ica? The Central China Post gives an account of what the "young intellect
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uals” of the Foreign Missionary Col leges are teaching. It says: “According to statements made, the young intellectuals sent out from home for College work in many cases belong to the school of Higher Critics. They question the authority of the Book as a whole; they have no use for prophecy; they deny the Virgin Birth, and doubt the divinity of our Lord; they disbe lieve in miracles, see no need for inspir ation, and question if the writers of the Bible were as well informed as they are credited with having been-—they recognize no difference in level between the Chinese classics and the book-re vered by Christians.” The Post concludes |thst(t, if these things are found to be true, young China will soon have to pay for its own education instead of being educated cheap by Missionaries sent out by the Home Churches of England and Amer ica, since the real givers to all good causes are, it says, not the new theolo gians and .their followers buft the old style believers. A recent census of Chicago Baptist churches is said to show that only per cent of the members were in av tendance on Sunday morning, and only 10 per cent in the evening. Only 4 per cent claim to have done personal work, and these were practically all Sunday school teachers. Now lelt them take a census of moving picture places and the theatres and we’ll guarantee it will be found that the attendance at these places is made up very largely of church members. More prayer for re vival in the Body of Christ! Before the war we heard much from the pulpilts about the “moral cleansing of a great war”—and how it would stem the” tide of materialism, worldli ness, sensuality and infidelity. Dr. R. A. Torrey in these columns contended strongly that the war would have no such effect. London papers .and maga- ines are testifying sadly to (the effects of war on Europe, and we all know that America has not been purified. The London Graphic says: “The war has come and gone,: judgment has fallen with a heavy and costly blow—900,000 of her fair sons have fallen as part of the price paid, but the signs of moral cleansing and national regeneration are not in evidence.”
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