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under the first seal Is said by Pember to be the curved sword of Islam (Rev. 6 ) . Archaeology of Palestine The Prince of Wales has become the Patron of the new British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. The school has been formed to foster the wide and important field of archaeological re search. The director of this new work, Prof. J. Garstang of the University of Liverpool is going to Palestine at once to complete the organization of the School. Anti-Christian Propaganda . A Hebrew newspaper editor was re cently arrested in Jerusalem on the charge of boycotting. He published an article urging the exclusion from the Jewish community, privileges and rights of any Jew who himself attends or sends his children to a Christian mis sion. Another Jewish paper took sides with the first editor, saying that a cam paign against missionaries must be started sooner or later. He wrote: “ The activity of the missionaries is an insult to every Jew. The idea is given that the Jews are a savage people without religion who must be brought back to the right position. This is a part of the insult which the Episcopal prayer book heaps upon the Jews, for they have a prayer which says, ‘Oh, Lord, open the eyes of the Jews and the Turks that they may see the right way.’ ” The stage is being set in Palestine for the most bitter religious war the world has ever known. The Jewish editors do not know the meaning of the words, “ All we like sheep have gone astray.” JAPAN AS IT IS An American f missionary, Rev. Dr. Harrington, writes as follows on the social, moral, and industrial condition of Japan: Moral conditions, both in city and country, are almost incredibly bad. One- third of the marriages end in divorce, and one-third of the births are illegiti mate. In a single year the guests in the licensed houses of shame number over sixteen millions, and spend in vice twenty million dollars (4,000,000 pounds), and probably the clandestine houses could show even higher totals.
By social vice, intemperance, and wretched industrial conditions, Japan is destroying her own physical and moral health. To supply the wastage of hu man life and health in the great fac- ^tories, half a million new workers, large ly women and children, must be re cruited annually from the countryside. In these factories-the day’s work is from twelve to sixteen hours, and the opera tives live and labor amid most un wholesome conditions, sanitary and moral. Japan is mortgaging her fu ture life as a race in order to win a high place in the industrial world. U s U s THE GREAT REVIVALISTS All the great revivalists of the church have had the passion for souls at the root of their work. John Smith, the mighty Wesleyan preacher, used to say, “I am a broken-hearted man; not for myself but on account of others. God has given me such a sight of the value of precious souls that I cannot live if souls are not saved. Oh, give me souls, or else I die.” THE PERIL OF SOULS Said Charles Spurgeon: “ Hast thou ever thought how many souls sink to hell every hour? Did the dreary thought that the death knell of a soul is tolled by every tick of yonder clock ever strike you? Hast thou never thought that myriads of thy fellow creatures are in hell now, and that myriads more are hastening thither? And yet dost thou sleep? What! Physician, wilt thou sleep when men are dying? Sailor, wilt thou sleep when the wreck is out at sea and the life boat is waiting for hands to man it? Christian, wilt thou tarry while souls are being lost? God alone can save them, but thou mayest be the instrument, and wouldst thou lose the opportunity of winning another jewel to thy crown in heaven?
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