King's Business - 1927-12

December 1927

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less some unlooked for agreement can be reached between Germany and France there will be a renewal of the struggle for the balance of power, with big and little nations of Europe taking a selfish and in­ triguing part.” Another reads: “War danger great as in 1913, delegates tell League.” ' * * * We are told that the output of per­ fumes and toilet articles has multiplied six times in ten years. Creams, rouges, lipsticks and such rink first in value, their annual production amounting to $34,178,999. Talcum and other toilet powders $21,423,000; perfumery and toilet waters $20,544,000; hair dyes $1,616,000; other cosmetics and toilet preparations, $8,057,000. It is safe to say that 90 per cent of this expenditure cbuld well be spared, and with no loss of beauty for the fair sex. And what blessing might be spread around the world should this money be turned into channels of endur­ ing service 1 ♦ * * The following Story contains more truth than fiction, and may suggest a cause for the lack of devotional life to­ day. A real estate salesman tried to sell a house to a newly married couple. Said the wife: “Why buy a home? I was born in a hospital ward, reared in a board­ ing school, educated in a college, courted in an automobile, and married in a church; get my meals at a cafeteria, live in an apartment; spend' my mornings playing golf, my afternoons playing bridge; in the evening we dance or go to the movies; when I’m sick I go to the hospital, and when I die I shall be buried from an undertaker’s. All we need is a garage with bedroom.” * * * The critics have been fond of berating as dogmatists those who believe the Bible, and have often taunted them with being afraid to study science for fear of discov­ ering contradictions of the Bible. The ex­ perience of a write! in an exchange indi­ cates that there are those in the evolution­ ist ranks who are the narrowest kind of dogmatists. A University of Chicago pro­ fessor had taken exception to an article against Evolution. He wrote asking for proof of certain statements. He was cited to various . books, chapters and pages. He replied that he could not waste time looking up these references as there absolutely could not be a shred of proof against the evolutionary theory. That attitude is getting general among these learned gentlemen. * * * The Chicago Social Bureau prides it­ self on persuading 50,000 errant husbands to return to their wives and families in a single year. The tabulation of reasons for husbands “flying the coop is enlighten­ ing: Another woman, 41 percent; money troubles, 12 percent; wife’s infidelity, 10 percent; nagging, 8 percent; mother-in- law, 7 percent; too many children, 6 per-

“Our universities are spending un­ limited time and money in tracing the similarities of men and monkeys and thus lost their likeness to Him, in whose image we were created,” says The American Baptist. “Surely they have their reward in the abundance of atheism of our age. They have sought the ‘missing link,’ and lost the link that binds a lost world to its Maker and its God.” % * * Here is a concrete example of what we mean by Modernism, a quotation from Dr. Henry C. Vedder of Crozier Seminary (Baptist) : “Of all;’: the slanders men have perpetrated against the Most High, this is positively the most impudent and insulting. No, sin cannot be escaped by a bloody sacrifice. Jesus never taught and never authorized anybody to teach in His name that He suffered in our stead and bore the penalty of our sins.” How any man can get away with such state­ ments and still hold a position in a Chris­ tian' Seminary is hard to imagine. * * * News reports in our daily paper do not indicate that man is about to drag in the millennium by the heels. One report says: “Europe faces new struggle for power . . . European politics has turned a corner and turned for the worse . . . un­

A Southern editor wasn’t far wrong when he said that, “Some appear to think of religion only as something to fight about.’’ * * A brother says that we need more '“■stable thinking” in our Bible study. If he means horse sense, we agree. * * * Think through' this one from the Cleve­ land Leader : “I think I’d rather be an honest man than a rich man, these days.” “But why?” “Rich men have so much competition.” * * * “You can tell the world is growing better,” says a Los Angeles paper. “Even the jails contain a better class of people.” * * * Says the Peoria Star, “Many a man thinks he has an open mind when it’s merely vacant.” * * * A secular paper drops the following suggestion: “In a last foolish effort to compete with flesh-pot entertainers, the church might place ash trays in the pews.” * * * “One fine thing about Christianity” says The Midwest Review, “is that if you’re busy enough practising it, you haven’t much time to argue about it.” * * * This from The American Lumberman might hit some professing Christians: “The United States manufactured a hun­ dred billion cigarets last year, most of which were smoked by young men who say they never had a chance to save any money.” * * * The News-Sentinel, of Knoxville, Tenn., prints this statement from a secondhand dealer in books: “I have discovered that the last book the average person wants to give us is his Bible. If a man falls into financial troubles, he may consent to sell his other books to me, but he holds on to his Bible.” * * * The Presbyterian Advance prints the following true story: “The new minister was calling on the Smiths. Alone for a minute with Bobby, eight, he was getting some of the family history without white­ wash or varnish. ‘And what is your father’s religion?’ asked the minister. ‘Well, from what ma says every little while, I guess he is a Seven Day Ab- sentist.’ ” * * * “The most sacred memories of my life,” says Bishop Russell Wakefield, “are asso­ ciated with the bedside teachings of my mother, and I rejoice that I do not have to associate those memories with the fumes of tobacco.” * * * The editor of Church Management says: “Now that the fear of the interna­ tional Jew is becoming a thing of the past, someone ought to make a revelation free­ ing the minds of certain religious Liberals of the idea that the Fundamentalists are organized to control the thought of the country.”

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