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of the Jewish faith living in the cities and the villages in which the congregations were located. * * * Rome’s effort to impress America with the intolerance of the present Mexican Constitution is best answered by a quo tation from that document. Here is what it says : “Every man is free to profess the religious belief that he desires, and to practice the ceremonies, devotions, and other acts of his .sect, whether in the church or in his private residence, al ways provided that this practice does not constitute a transgression of the law.” This is Article 24’of the Constitution of the Republic of Mexico. * * * The Department of Commerce an nounces that, according to the returns re ceived, there were in the United States 18,939 churches of the Roman Catholic Church in 1926, as compared with 17,375 churches in 1916. The total membership of these churches in 1926, which includes all baptized persons on the church rolls, was 18,604,850, as compared with 15,721,- 815 members reported in 1916. * * * George T. B. Davis of the Pocket Tes tament League writes : “You will rejoice to know that thus far more than seven hundred thousand of the pocket Testa ments "have been distributed in" China, while funds have been supplied for a total of nine hundred thousand copies. The full million mark would just about have been reached, save that after the capture of Shanghai about a year ago, the cost of the Testaments considerably in creased, thus reducing the number avail able for distribution.” * * * Martin Johnson writes an article in The Delineator on the tricks and traits of monkeys.. Here is a paragraph for modern fathers and mothers to ponder: “I think most monkey children are dis ciplined by their elders more severely than human children are. Young monkeys are always getting into scrapes, being cuffed and howling at the tops of their lungs. If a baby grabs a berry or leaf it is not supposed to eat and puts it into its mouth, the mother doesn’t hesitate to pry open the jaws and rake out the forbidden article.” ♦ * * Uncle Sam has a big sweet tooth in his head. In 1926 he managed to gratify it with 221,000,000 pounds of candy in penny sales alone. The number of coppers that passed over the counter from the fists of small boys thus aggregated 22,100,000,000. However, as a youth who indulges in chocolate and peanut bars, he negotiated 203,500 tons. This' set back his pocket- book $100,000,000. As a lover he bought enough in boxes and bulk to materially reduce the national debt. The forty-eight States consumed 1,393,000,000 pounds. This amount did not include what passed from the sugar bowl to sweeten his cof fee, lemonade and other soft drinks.
When John Taylor, the blind man who preached to President Coolidge at his summer home in Brule, Wisconsin, was asked how he felt about the honor of preaching to the- President, he answered, “It is a great honor to preach the Gospel of Jesus.” Those who have aided the American Bible Society to serve the blind during past years have here also an il lustration of this service. Mr. Taylor uses Revised Braille Grade one and one- half, obtaining all his volumes of the Bible from the American Bible Society. * * * Inwriting on the findings of the re cent International Cancer Conference, Dr.
Saleeby, F.R.S.E., mentions some re markable facts: “It would appear,” he says in the London Daily News, “that, not in this country only, nor in Holland only, but throughout the world, the laws of Moses, who was incomparably the great est sanitarian in recorded time, are at this hour saving large numbers of Jewish men, and even much larger numbers of Jewish women, from forms of cancer which ravage their Gentile neighbors.” While the Jews are liberal eaters, meat is not part of their diet. Meat eaters', ac cording to numerous authorities, are es pecially subject to cancer.
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