THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS boards. One American board conducts school in thirty languages. The Bible has been chosen as the book on which aliens entering the Untied States shall be examined as to their abil ity to read. It is said that the choice was not due to religious reasons but because it is the one book available in all tongues and dialects and always translated into every-day speech with which the average person is familiar. Whatever the reason for the choice, it is a great thing for the United States that the Bible should be the first book placed in an immigrant’s hands when he reaches our land. — The Home Mission Monthly. While we are eager to help the women “ over fhere” upon whom has fallen the heavy hand of war, there are lonely women at our own doors of whom we think but little—women of foreign birth, isolated by lack of knowledge of English and by Old World customs, whose hus bands are Italian reservists, perhaps, who have left them here while they have gone back to fill the ranks of our allies. There are said to be 899 families of Italian reservists in New York alone. Foreign men more quickly adopt Amer ican ways and a new language than do the women, who when left in their lone liness find themselves indeed strangers in a strange land. Among these women there is a great opportunity for Chris- tion neighborliness. •—-The Missionary Herald. In 1870 there were only 55 Japanese in the United States; to-day there are more than 96,000. What are we doing to win these to Christ? It is interesting to know of the num ber of distinct liens of effort which are carried on by the white churches for the Negro. These include assistance in the building of negro churches, evangelistic work through missionaries, both white and colored; Sunday school efforts, largely in the cities, where white teach ers are available, and educational work o f all grades. The Northern churches
663 have put larger emphasis on church building and education; the Southern churches have put most emphasis on evangelism and Sunday school work. THE CHURCH I believe in a Church which serves the community. I believe in a Church which enjoys, not just endures, religion. I believe in a Church with a job for every member and every member always on the job. I believe in a Church which is the brightest, most attractive spot in the en tire community. I believe in a Church which care fully conserves the spiritual welfare of its boys and girls. I believe in a Church which transacts its business -in a manner to commend itself to the business sense of the com munity. I believe in a Church which uses its pastor not as a packhorse to bear the load, but as a general to direct a well- planned campaign. I believe in a ,Church which is not a hothouse for the care of dyspeptic Christians, but a well-organized army (with ambulance corps if necessary), to conquer the community for Christ. I believe in a Church which is so busy about its great task of cheering the faint and saving the fallen, that it has not time for gossip, backbiting and neigh borhood quarreling and« jealousy.— Rev. C. E. Hickman. V■’ 8 » BEADY FOB WORK What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trou ble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what comes next. —George Macdonald.
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