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able victory for the “drys,” and in which he had had. an active part, arid held a prisoner seven weeks in dark cellar^, rush ed iri an automobile at midnight to a more horrible dungeon, starved, bound and half dead, reads like the stories of the Inquisi tion. That he is alive and restored to his family appears a miracle. It is hoped that the law will hunt down and punish to the limit the perpetrators of this deed. That such a thing is possible in our land should be -a tremendous aid in a final country-wide temperance victory. How is that, for a temperance lesson ? Two young soldiers were talking about the service of Christ. One of them said. “I cari’i,ltell you all that the Lord Jesus is to me. I do wish that you would en list in His army.” “I am thinking about it,” answered his comrade, “but it means giving up several things; in fact, I am counting the cost.” An officer passing at that moment heard the remark, and laying, bis hand,on the shoulder of the.speaker he said: “Young friend, you talk of counting the cost of following.Christ, but have you ever counted the cost of not following him?” For days that question rang in the ears of the young man, and he found no rest till he sought and found it at the foot of the Saviour of sinners, whose faithful soldier and servant he has now been for twenty-seven years. B ishop S chrembs of the diocese of To ledo declares: “As a Catholic bishop I am perfectly willing to—yes, as a Catholic bishop I must—subscribe to the following anathema: ‘Cursed be he who says you owe. the church temporal allegiance.’ . I subscribe to that anathema with all mv heart. So does every Catholic.” The bishop .is mistaken about this, last remark, for the incredibly silly Western Watchman of St. Louis takes a column and a half of edi torial space to denounce him for his “griev ous. blunder” and “wild statements.” But it’s a hopeful sign that even one American bishop has courage to promulgate a curse
T h e aggregate issues-of all the .Bible, so cieties in the. world which print the Scrip tures, so far as is known, amounted in 1912 to 15,902,396. volumes. It is somewhat sur prising to note of this aggregate 14,309,157 volumes were printed ,by the three great Anglo-Saxon, societies. . The issues of the British and Foreign Bible Society were 7,899,562 volumes; those of the National Bible Society of Scotland, 2,359,985 vol umes, and^ those of the American Bible Society, as -mentioned above, 4,049,610 vol umes—1,444,000 of which in English.” The. Bible is still in circulation 1 “R ejoice in the L ord .” But how many of its there, are who. do not reach this ad vanced stage in the religious life! We re main mindful of curbs and restraints and trespass boards, TYe are more mindful of commandments than of our freedom. We have not arrived where joy is natural and spontaneous, The elementary .stages in all things, are statutory and restrictive. . . . So in learning a language, when we first begin we are the bond-slaves of minute rules, hedged about on .every side. But little bv little these restrictions cease to goad us. and at last our feet move in a large place. — J. H. Jowett. W hy J ohn W annamakes goes to church. “I go to 'church,” he says, “be cause the Creator of the world enjoined it upon me for my own benefit, and because an experience of blessing extending for nearly sixty years that there is no place, so good for me to go for instruction and encouragement in my endeavor to live, the Christian life.” Good; but are his reasons only these, that center and reflect on him self? Does he not meet first for the meet ing with and worship of the Saviour of the world, and for the fellowship and exhor tation (Heb.: 10:25) of, the brethren, and to. keep burning the light of th p men? We know he does. T he story o f , Rev.. Louis ,R. Patmont, kidnapped from Danville, 111., after a favor
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