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HE marriage of Miss Elna Sophia Lun- *■ dell and. Albert Leonard Johnson is an nounced by the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. LundelJ of Turlock, Cal., the ceremony having been performed on Sep tember 1. Both the young people prepared for missionary work at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and will sail from San Francisco on October 2, for Siang Yang, China, via Hankow, which will be their field address. Hearty congratulations and united prayers will follow them from their many friends here. . — J- - - - - - A missionary writes us: “Of recent years the Buddhist priests of Ceylon have adopted the title of ‘Reverend,’ ‘Venerable,’ ‘High. Priest.’ They have Buddhist carols on the birthday of Buddha, Buddhist Young Men’s Associations, Sunday schools, orphanages, etc. They also have bells in their temples, lighting of candles., and have built a mortu ary chapel in the cemetery in which to hold their funeral ceremonies, and have tombr stones erected over grayes. . All these things have been copied from. Christian people. There are several high or chief priests, but they have no control over the ordinary priests and cannot dismiss any priest who has done wrong; or interfere in other mat ters of the temple.” The “Million Testament” Movement, in augurated by the World’s Sunday School. Association, to send Testaments and Gospels to ,soldiers in the warring countries as gifts, of American Sabbath-school scholars,, is trying hard to. meet, the great demands that are being made upon, it. Rev.. A. C. Harte, working in prison, camps, in Germany,, writes: “I am beginning to distribute the Testaments, and long, before this reaches you, I will have used up the 40,000. It will be good if you can get another 40,000 or 80,-, 000 for us.” .
]SJ ONE but a disreputable journalism : would be capable of saying editorially as The New York Telegram said recently concerning Presbyterianism: “Even infant damnation was—and is—one of the beliefs of this church. No wonder in this enlight ened age the Presbyterian Church is losing at the rate of 50,000 members a year.” The slightest editorial intelligence would know —or easily be able- to- find out—.how gro tesquely false both statements are. But if it is disreputable journalism which indulges in slanders so inexcusable, is it not disrep utable religion—and foolish besides—which will copy and circulate them in an effort to. recommend itself? Yet that is precisely what “Pastor” Russell is doing. He copied this ignorant screed from The Telegram into his “Bible "Students’ Monthly,” and has scat-, tered it broadcast all over the United States by free distribution.— Continent. Never have the sufferings of the Jews, been greater or more hopeless. In Eastern Europe a condition prevails that exceeds in horror even that of Belgium today. Of the six million Jews in Russia, nearly ninety- four per cent are to be found in what is called the “Pale of Settlement,” the very district that is being devastated ¡by the ter rific conflict now in- progress. There are also, in Galicia, nearly a million Jews, not to speak of t he> tens, even hundreds of thousands to be .found in East and West Prussia and the provinces of Posen. In a word, more than half the lews of the world are-gathered together in the very districts most of all decimated by the war; and be ing comparatively out of sight,? as regards Western Europe and America,, are also un aided by their succour. Nothing is being done to help them. Such relief as is pos sible, is willing afforded to Belgium on all handSi .and even; so its-sufferings surpass
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