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31, 1923, showed net profits available for dividends of $68 a share, while the American company in twelve months ended June 30, 1923, showed $67 a car. The Canadian company reported $5,106,197 net profits on a production of 75,000 units, while the American company reported $124,- 193,062 on an output of 1,833,000 units.” THOUGHT LIBERTY In-an affirmation signed by 150 Presbyterian ministers throughout the United States, the right to exercise liberty of thought and teaching is maintained. The affirmation shows the liberty accorded by the constitution of the church, and it is also for tolerance and unity for those who differ in various doctrines but who are united in their devotion to Christ and the fulfillment of His purpose of establishing the kingdom of God— Exchange. “How can two walk together except they be agreed?” Could a decent man hold fellowship with a man who would malign his father? Why not suggest that true Americans hold fellowship with Anarchists? These men beg the question. They are false to the church, but they want to hold fast to their bread-basket. True believers cannot fellowship with them as brethren, but they can pray for them. A RED SEA We copy the following from the newspapers: “Red sea water has been seen recently by a number of captains of vessels, reports the hydrographic office of the navy depart ment, Captain W. Dalziel of the British steamer Norman Monarch, passed through numerous patches of water off the coast of Peru that were almost blood red. Captain H. L. Rawding of the steamer Thomas P. Beall reported steam ing through a strip of red water a mile wide, near Lower California, Mexico. Captain H. C. Lundgreen of the Danish steamer Gudrun Maersk encountered discolored water off Peru.” It is significant that in 'every case, this red water was found in the vicinity of the recent great earthquake and tidal wave. In Revelation 8:8, the Bible also seems to con nect red water with an earthquake. As we approach the end of the age, the Lord is showing us more and more that we can take the Bible literally. When the Word says that the sea will turn red, it means exactly that. “And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea: and it became as the blood of a dead man.” Rev. 16:3. EVOLUTION DEFINED Our readers will be glad to get this definition of Evolu tion from the pen of Herbert Spencer, the apostle of Evolu tion: “Evolution is an integration of matter, and concom itant dissipation of motion, during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, co herent heterogeneity, and during which the retained mo tion undergoes a parallel transformation.” The English mathematician, Kirkman, makes this free translation of Spencer’s definition: “Evolution is a change from a no- howish, untalkaboutable, all alikeness to a somehowish and in general-talkaboutable, not-all-alikeness, by continu ous something-elseifications and sticktogetherations.”— Methodist Protestant.
YOUTH AND THE BIBLE A class of one hundred thirty-nine students at the Uni versity of Nebraska was recently quizzed on its knowledge of the Bible. The results of that questionnaire are astound ing, even when it is assumed that ignorance of the Old and New Testaments is widespread among Americans of thé younger generation. Of these Nebraska students seven per cent could not name a single book of the Old Testament. Less than half of them could name ten hooks. Eight and one-half per cent could not name one book of the New Testament. “Xerxes” was given as the name of an Old Testament book. Four teen named “Hezekiah” as one of the “Books Of Moses.” If this is the state of things among a body of young men and women thé majority of whom come from the farms, one wonders what to expect from â similar questionnaire taken by students who have been more exposed to the in fluences of the jazz epoch. The strange thing about this neglect of the Bible is that in so many ways it is the sort of book that fits the mood and the mental habit of the present younger generation. If it were only now discovered and appearing from the presses for the first time it would claim their ardent attention. Perhaps for the very reason that it is a book of such ancient and revered tradition it is regarded inhospitably by young minds. Young people Of today like realism. They like to. hear the truth told about men and women. Where more than in the Bible will they find these likes of theirs reflected? The realism of the Bible is one of the sources of its strength. The biographer of Solomon lost no chance to make him appear the greatest man of his time, but he did not gild him over. How few men could tell the story of David and Jonathan without mawkishness! But the Old Testament writer set it down with restraint that yet had room for beauty and depth of feeling. Nothing is more certain than that youth will find the Bible again. No other work has the same vitality. The Book of Ruth will be read when the Pyramids are dust.— New York Herald. FORD FORRES AHEAD AS A MONEY MAKER ,A recent dispatch from Detroit puts Ford in the front rank of all known money-makers in the same period of time. The item says: “The recent revelation that Ford Motor Company of Detroit and Ford of Canada make almost identical profits on each car, and the fact that the latter has a public valua tion, furnish for the first time a basis for computing the market valuation of the $17,264,500 stock in the Detroit Ford Company. On this basis the Ford Motor Corporation is worth $840,000,000 in the market, and when'steady production reaches 10,000 cars a day it will be worth $1,260,000,000 or more. Present market value .of a share is $4866; at 10,000 cars a day each share will be worth $7342. This market valuation is deduced from the fact that in vestors place a market value of $425 a share on the 70,- 000 $100 par shares of Ford Motor Company of Canada and, that this company during twelve months ended July
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