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and that he expected to travel as far as Pandharpur, covering a total distance of 350 miles, and that after he had reached Pandharpur he knew God would forgive his sins. I told him that this self-torture was un necessary; that God had sent his Son into the world for the sake of saving all man kind from their sins. But the poor fellow shook his head, refusing to believe me, and said, ‘I must keep on, there is nothing else for me to do,’ and away he rolled.” Our Roman Catholic neighbors are seek ing merit the world over by similar meth ods, so near by as in South America, even Mexico they do far more absurd and cruel penance. But you “ Protestant,” “ Chris tian,” what signs are you giving of peni tent conviction, professing to be saved, what are you enduring for reciprocal love? T heosophists predict the coming of a great world-teacher and have organized themselves into “The Order of the Star in the East” to welcome him. This order “ finds its center in one mighty figure, the Su preme Teacher of Gods and Men. He is already its center, even though the time may not have come for Him to advance control in His own Person.” ‘‘Never before,” writes Professor Wode- house, “has the work of the Supreme Teacher been heralded and prepared by a worldwide organization of men and women, definitely conscious of the future, seeking to tune themselves beforehand to the work which the Teacher shall sound forth.” “We must place the hope of this coming,” writes Lady Emily Lutyen, “in the fore front of our lives; we must make it the cen tral idea round which every other idea will revolve; the one thought which is to color all our other thoughts.” The order was founded in Benares, Jan uary 11, 1911. It has now 12,000 members. Mrs. Besant boldly announces “ a curious and interesting development,” viz., that some Christian journals suggest that the Coming One will be an Antichrist. ' This idea, she believes, “is not likely to do harm. On the contrary, I think it may do good by familiarizing peo ple whom we cannot reach with the idea and by influencing them to think about it.”— Rec. Chr. Work.
black devil of opium is gone the little white devils of cigarets and morphine are. come.” The real devils, black or white, are Euro pean and American, “ Christian” merchants. What could be more devilish than the slo gan of the Br. and Am. Tobacco Co., “A cigaret in the mouth of every man, woman and child in China.” They are giving cigar ets away by the million; spending $2,000,000 a year in advertisements, and already selling $25,000,000 a year. Boys and girls of 6 and 7 are seen smoking the “ little white devils” on the streets. Seven tons of morphine manufactured in Edinburg alone are almost equally divided between China and Japan annually. All this devilish business is done because, as one of their salesmen put it, “ There is big money in it.” Let our slogan be, “A Bible in the hands of every man, woman and child in China.” But if so, we must put “big money in it.” T he most impressive hour one spends in the Vatican museum is that which is de voted to the "Hall of Inscriptions.” It is a long and narrow apartment containing no furniture and devoid of all ornamentations, but set into the plaster of its opposite walls are three thousand epitaph inscriptions. One half of these are taken from old pagan tombs and one-half from old Christian graves. The pagan are on one side of the hall, the Christian on the other, and thus the tourist walking slowly down the passage between has brought before him in startling contrast the difference between the Christ- less and Christ-illumined world. On the one side every inscription without excep tion speaks of grief, on the other each is eloquent of joy. On the one side he reads of broken hearts, on the other of joyous an ticipation. On one side is the extinguished torch; on the other the rising sun, eloquent with hope of immortality .—The Advanct. A M ethodist missionary from South In dia says, “ The other day I saw a man roll ing along in the road. I stopped him and asked where he was going. He said that his home was in Amratsi, 100 miles away,
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