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T W O widely read persons were discuss- ing the recent action of the Rockefeller Foundation in agreeing to supplement and support certain missionary hospitals and medical colleges in China, with a view to giving that nation a modern scientifically trained medical profession. “Isn’t it fine,” remarked the ingenuous one, “that the Foundation has chosen the missionary in stitutions, instead of establishing new ones?” “It is,” replied the sophisticated one, slowly; “but what else could the Foun dation .have done, even if it had so desired ? Where could medical men of the right cali- bej and spirit be secured? ’You cannot for money hire great doctors to live in China. It needs the missionary spirit.” The rea son so many really great doctors have been developed in China is because they have been touched with the compassionate spirit of the Great Physician, and in His train have risen to lofty service and ability. It is a striking fact that in spite of the immense Jewish population of New York only 170 of the 9467 applying to and receiv ing help in 1914 from the Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor were of the Jewish faith. Of the bal ance, 74 per cent were Romanists—chiefly Irish and Italians. The Jewish community in New York, while receiving relatively lit tle public charity, contributes lavishly to the common needs of the city. Catholics of wealth, on the other hand, contribute ex tremely little.— Rec. Chr. Work. It was an American trained Japanese Christian, Joseph Hardy Neesima, who sounded a missionary slogan which is being accepted today as never before: “Let us advance upon our knees.”
/'"'AN a Jew believe on Jesus Christ and ^ still be a Jew—not a Christian? It is interesting to discover how serious a ques tion this seems tb some Jews who do be lieve that Jesus of Nazareth is indeed He for whom the prophets taught their nation to wait. Must they, His own countrymen, be Christians because they have come to ac cept him? Certainly those Jews who first received him as Messiah were not less Jews on that account. And as for becoming Christians, they had never even dreamed of such a name. But today Hebrews who turn to follow Christ are immediately claimed as members of some Christian church—which from the Jewish standpoint means a gentile church. That separates them instantly from their former acquaintance and friends; they are voted not only apostates from the re ligion of their fathers, but also traitors to their national heritage, which is the sorest of accusations to a really loyal Hebrew heart. And through such isolation from Hebrew fellowship, the Jew who takes Jesus forfeits the chance to convince his old friends of his new truth; so that there is but small progress of discipleship among Jews on the Andrew-and-Philip line of “come and see.” _ Might it not, then, be more advisable if Jews believing on Christ would continue at tending the synagogues as the original dis ciples did in Palestine, but meanwhile keep up their witness to Christ,by social groups within synagogue circles?— Continent. This is a fine theory—but how long would a genuine Christian Jew, i. e., a testifying Jew, be tolerated in the synagogue?—Acts 4:21; 5:40; 14:1, 2, 19. Mr. Parker, Methodist missionary to the Telugus, has seen a little handful of Chris tians grow to an army of 16,000 baptized, with 8000 more on the waiting list.
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