December 1928
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Ralph C. Norton of the Belgian Gospel Mission writes that a great housecleaning is going on in some quarters of Belgium. Idols and crucifixes are disappearing from the walls. In some cases great packages j of these objects are being carried to the river side and there cast in. One woman had a particularly elab orate and ornate shrine in which was ensconced a beauteous idol. She had re moved all the others, but when a worker visited her, it was remarked that she had draped a white cloth over this shrine, until such a moment as she should receive courage to destroy it also. These idol destructions have been followed by multiplied baptism. At one post a pre cious service was held in which twenty of the choicest members were baptized. * * * * Now we know why some church mem bers are so busy digging themselves. The rotogravure section of the Sunday paper, has been indicated as the cause of a severe skin irritation. This “Sunday
paper dermatitis” was described by Dr. Edward A. Oliver, of Chicago, at a meet ing of the American Medical Association. The dry color used in making the roto gravure ink is said to be the offending substance. It contains paranitraninline. sje 3|c ijc 4s Christlife Magazine comes back at some of us who discounted the pyramid date-setting. “We were not surprised,” says that paper, “th a t.so many -adopted the attitude that nothing occurred. We really anticipated that the great bulk of those interested would be disappointedfIS that the ordained event would escape general recognition. Let it be at once remarked that we -seriously believe a definite something did .o&ur—something which marked the beginning of a most serious epoch in the history of the World. We further believe that the truth as to this historical event will« shortly be established beyond reasonable doubt.” * * * * American churches gained 12,698,122 members in the ten-year period between
1916 and 1926, according to census of religious bodies completed by the Depart ment of Commerce. In 1926 there were 213 different sects, which reported 231,- 983 local organizations and claimed a total of 54,624,976 members. In' 1916 a similar survey disclosed 200, with 41;g 926,854 members. The Roman Catholic Church, with 18,605,003, led in 1926 and reported an increase of 2,883,188 members over its total of 15,721,815 in 19l6. The strongest Protestant organization in the country, is the Baptist church, with a total of 8,440,922 members in 1926. Methodist Episcopal has a total of 8,070,- 619 white and colored members. * * * * Before the British Association for Ad vancement of Science in September, Sir Richard Paget said primitive man sang, grunted or' roared to express emotion, ju st as the higher animals do now. To1 illustrate his 'idea of the evolution of speech, he used a pipe, an organ reed and a cork plunger. With this apparatus he was able to produce numerous sounds. This is very enlightening, is it not? Some! highly educated men have been known to grunt and roar even in our day. Step on someone’s foot in a streetcar, and you’ll hear some of those primitive sounds. That should pass for proof of this evolution business. * * * *' CiphersBcpunt for nothing anyway. Gospel Message (Fundamentalist),, pub lished in Kansas City, repeated in The Searchlight, published at Virginia, Min nesota, tells its readers 600 members left the Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles, in July, in protest against the Bible Institute. This church has no con nection whatever with the Bible Insti tute.' The number who left was sixty, and they departed because their pastor preached a Gospel sermon in connection with Passion Week Services, in a church which has a Modernist pastor. The Gos pel Message refers to the offending pas- tor as “one Of the professors of the Bible Institute.” Had the editor mentioned the fact that the man who committed this crime of preaching the Blood Gospel in a modernistic church was none other than Dr. John McNeill, world-renowned Scottish evangelist and one-time associ ate of D. L. Moody, most of his readers would have laughed at the attempt to label the pastor of this famous church a sympathizer with modernism. Its mem bership is still over one thousand. .* * * * Dr. E. E. Free, writing in Week’s Sci ence, says that “of all germ-killing chem icals known to biologists, it is probable that the most effective, and perhaps the one which will prove most useful prac tically, is that which :nature manufac tures for use in tears. At a recent meet ing of the Section of Ophthalmology of the Royal - Society of Medicine, in Lon don, Mr. Frederick Ridley described ex periments with this remarkable substance, named lysozyme by its discoverer, Dr. Alexander Fleming. One teaspoonful of pure substance, ’ extracted from human tears; would be enough to impart antisep tic powers against certain eye bacteria to over one hundred gallons of salty water. This same antiseptic has been found, Mr. , Ridley stated, in the bodies of the white corpuscles which circulate in human - blood, and which destroy germs that in- • vade the body.
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B n " n H International Copyright, 1928, by Herbert G. Tovey -r
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