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December 1928
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The man who once most wisely said, “Be sure you’re right, then go ahead,” Might well have added this, to wit, “Be sure you’re wrong before you quit!” * * * One divorce a year to each 135 couples. That’s our record now. Daily paper says: “The lifelong trips on the sea of matrimony are rapidly being re placed by excursions.” * * * 48,500,000 people in Japan worship Buddha. Shintoism, a form of ancestral worship, has about 16,000,000 adherents. There are' 71,317 Buddhist temples in Japan and 35,079 Buddhist chapels. Turkish Parliament has decided to drop Arabic for the Latin alphabet. Fifteen years will be allowed for the 14,000,000 inhabitants to learn the West ern system, during which time both aphabets may be Used. * * * U. S. Department of Commerce recently stated that of the ninety-four countries whose inhabitants smoke Amer ican cigarettes, more than half of the total shipments is consumed by China. * * * Two young men were arrested recently in Los Angeles, charged with a $10,000- pay-roll robbery. The wife of one, a Catholic, testified that she was at home at the time, praying for the success of the robbery. * * * Murderer of Obregon, according to the papers, went to confession just before committing the murder. Asked how he could do that when he knew that he was about to commit a murder, he replied that the confession was for sins committed, but that killing Obregon was no sin. * * * Faster! Faster! Faster! People are speed crazy. Professor Charles F. Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expert on automobile traffic, states that the situation is growing worse. Manu facturers are advertising faster cars. People will buy these cars. Average high way speeds' are increasing. Sixty-nine per cent of the highway accidents in Massachusetts last year; Professor Park computes, were due to speed “too fast for existing conditions and the kind of driver.” * * * * Since 1921, more than 3,500,000 people have been injured and more than 100,000 killed by automobiles in the United States, while money, losses have been more than $3,000,000,000. * * * * Southern Methodist says : 1“Men have learned many new things, but they have not learned how to begin the Christian life without the new birth, nor how to maintain it without reading the Bible and prayer.”
Here is a real “wise crack” from Sir Oliver Lodge! Speaking before a large audience in London,. Sir Oliver declared that there are still “stupid people, even at the present day, who take that great poem, the; first chapter of Genesis, and interpret it literally ,as if it were a state ment of fact.” All right, Sir Oliver. Put us in with the “nuts” ! sjs sfc 5(5 j(: Dr. W. J. Hampton,1vauthor of “Re ligion -of the Presidents,” says Herbert Hoover’s mother was a Quaker preacher; of grace and beauty as to appearance, and remarkable ability as a preacher. She was well educated, having been grad uated from a prominent seminary and attended the University of Iowa, in which state, in the Quaker village of West Branch, Herbert Hoover was born. * * * * Seattle Times says: “Life has a very of evening things. For every woman who makes a fool out of some man there’s another who makes a man out of some fool.” ♦ * ** National Safety Council estimates 95,500 deaths by accident in this country in 1927, an increase of four per cent over 1926. Only one-fourth occurred in in dustry; one-fifth were the result of auto accidents. Only 91j: railroad passengers were killed, or one for each 9,100,000 carried. This proportion ** J. S. Mill says the whole mechanical outfit of a capitalistic country can be reproduced in about ten years. Hence the. prospect of repeated and costly wars in the future need not lead us. to the pessimistic view that suicide is to be the fate of machine civilization. He thinks we may admit the reality of the perils ahead without adopting the counsel of despair. -* * * * Lewis E. Lawes, Sing Sing warden, tells us that a comparison of the per- centage of foreign-born and native-born prisoners shows that foreigners are not, on the whole, more criminal than natives. Crime is not, in the light of Sing Sing records, thepeculiar .heritage of the foreign-born. How does this line up with Bible.teaching ? * * * * Ellen Terry had her coffin made in the form of a cradle, expressing her belief that death is but a child’s sleep. She wanted no one to wear mourning. Isn’t this the Christian’s view ? Early Chris tians called the graveyards “cemeteries” (sleeping places). “The child is not dead but sleepethf’ said Jesus. “Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep.” Beau tiful thought—the coffin a cradle—not a last resting place (for the Christian). large as that of20yearsago. * *
U. S. Attorney, Chas. H. Tuttle, of New Y o rk : “The enemy of twentieth- .,century Christianity is not twentieth-century science but twentieth-c e n t u r y material ism.” * * Wm. W. Gregg, in “North American Review ” : . “Most of the so-called Mod ernist churches, whose appeal is chiefly intellectual and to the highly educated, are losing ground or barely holding their own as compared with churches where the appeal is more to the emotions!” ; * * * O. If. Cheney, Vice President American Exchange Irving Trust Co “If _ the next generation of business men could receive , the training that- comes from a real religious education and the proper care from wise parents, there would be less need of codes of ethics for trade associations, fewer Sen ate investigations, and more peace and quiet for the Fed eral Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau.” * * * Dr. Faunce, President Brown University, in "World’s Work”: “Evolution is a theory that has not been proved, a hy pothesis that cannot be prov ed, a guess, if one prefers to call it so, a mode of explain ing things that may be dis carded for something better.” (Dr. Faunce is known as a Liberalist.) ♦ * * Dr. Howard A. Kelly, noted surgeon, Baltimore : “The crying sin of our day is not the teaching of evolution in our colleges, but failure of Christian parents so to live, to teach, and to pray with their children in their daily home Hfe as to render them impregnable to any teaching which then fills their heads.”
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