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THE KING’S BUSINESS
F OREVER, O Lord, Thy Word is set tled in heaven,” Psalm 119:89. Sir Alfred Russell Wallace, in “Man’s Place in the Universe” (1904), says. “This completes my work as a connected argument, founded wholly upon the facts and principles accumulated by modern sci ence; and it leads, if my facts are sub stantially correct and my reasoning sound, to one great and definite conclusion—that man, the culmination of conscious organic life, has been developed here only in the whole vast material universe we see around us.” , Mr. Philip Mauro, quoting the above in his “Life in the Word” (1909), says on page thirty : “Thus we have the surprising fact that one of the foremost living ex ponents of the teachings of science, a man who certainly attaches no importance to the teachings of Scripture, has been at great pains to show that the earth is, after all, the center of and most important place in the whole universe ; and that, so far as any pur pose can be detected in it, the univèrse may well be supposed to exist for the sole benefit of the earth, and for the sake of producing therein those peculiar conditions which are necessary for the existence and maintenance of life. We may say, then, that, considered merely as a book of instruction, the Bible is, as to every subject whereof it treats, not merely abreast of, but far ahead of the learning of these and all other times, whether past or future. The impressions it makes upon believing minds are the impres sions of truth, even though contemporary science may give, as its settled conclusions, impressions directly to the contrary. . . . A child of God through faith in Jesus Christ, should not give the slightest credence to any statements made in the name of ‘science’ or ‘scholarship’ which call into question whàt is written in the inspired Scriptures.” -------— — « ,— ------ — ' We, 100,000,000 of us, have many millions in our Sunday schools; what would we think of reducing, the number to 65,000! Yet China has 100,000,000 children of whom only 65,000 are Sunday school attendants.
I THINK we are too ready with complaint In this, fair world of God’s. Had we no hope, Indeed, beyond the zenith and the slope Of yon gray bank of sky, we might be faint To muse upon eternity’s constraint Round our aspirant souls. But since the scope Must widen early, it is well to droop For a few days consumed in loss and taint? O pusillanimous,heart, be comforted, And like a cheerful traveler take the road, Singing beside the hedge. What if the bread Be bitter in thine inn, and thou unshod To meet the flints ? At least it may be said, “Because the way is short, I thank Thee, God —Elizabeth Barrett Browning. - ---------- $----------- - Do you wonder that the apostles “turned the world upside down?” that the early dis ciples “went everywhere preaching the Word?” that St. Paul spent himself and was spent, hecame all things to all men that by all means he might save some? The first converts felt themselves to be new born men. They had been delivered, and they had been delivered in order to de liver others. “Every Christian told his neighbor, the laborer to his fellow-slave, the servant to his master and mistress, the story of his conversion, as a mariner tells the story of his rescue from shipwreck.”— Rev. John Y. Ewart, D.D. I.■' r The value of the Christian literature dis tributed gratuitously by the American Tract. Society during the past year is $15,439.05. The grand total of free distribution since the organization of the Society amounts to $2,617,820.90, equivalent to four billion pages of tracts. The grand total of all publica tions in all languages issued by the Society from its Home Office during the ninety years of its history amounts to 791,142,050 copies.
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