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EDITORIALS The Influential Christ........................................ ..413 Identification Without Victory....... ..................... 413 The Parental Frown................. ......... ........ ........ 413 The Door, of Hope.... ..... ........................... ... ......414 A Protestant Studies the ftfass..... ................... .. .414 He Loved, Yet Lingered........ ...............................415 The “New Civilization”:..................... 415 Broadcasting Tares..................................................417 Editorial Flashlights!........ ...... 418 ARTICLES Was Blood Sacrifice a Primitive Idea? . - W. Bell Dawson............................................. 420 Gladstone, Great Christian and Theologian —Rev. P. B. Fraser........................................... 423 The Scriptures Among the Great Smokies , —William ’H. Richie....... ............................. 425 God and the Humming Birds A—Prof. Roland Case Ross................................. 426 Some Scientific Fallacies Exposed Dr. Harry Rimmer....................................... 428 Moses, the Mystic of Egypt—J. M. M................ 430 The Singing of Lies:—Robert Harkness............... 431 Where Did We Get the Lord’s Day?—K. L. B...432 The Sin of Judging—Rev. Frank Scott............. 433 J|« s{e s|s DEPARTMENTS Defenders’ Column ................................................434 Passages That Perplex ................. 435 Finest of the Wheat............................................... 436 Striking Stories of God’s Workings................... 440 Children’s Garden ................................................. 443 International Lesson Commentary....................... 445 Biederwolf’s Illustrated Texts............................. 439 Notes on the Jews................................................. 455 Biola Table Chat.....................................................456 Daily Meditations ................. 459 Literature Table......I ............. .................I......... .471
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The Influentia l Christ ICTURE the workshop of a common carpenter . in a back street. Inside is a young man born in fa humble family, associating all His life with the common people and having no intercourse with scholarship and no access to books. This young man of His own accord sets out to stir the conscience of the town. He does not play the role of a popular hero. He has no axe to grind. This apparently uneducated peasant suddenly
George Lorimer said: “Christ in subsequent history is more marvelous than Christ in Galilee.” Who dares to say that He was just another man? Who will be so foolish as to think he can escape Jesus of Nazareth—that he can put Him aside as though He never existed ? ah? Iden tifica tion W ithou t Victory “Planted together in the likeness of His death—raised in the likeness of His resurrection.”
displays a spiritual knowledge beyond any thing ever known in the place. He speaks with authority. No one can corner Him in His talk. He makes tremendous claims as to His own person and work and, to climax it all, He reveals marvelous power to heal the sick. Very naturally the home folks were jealous and tried to explain Him away. They said He was mad; a blasphemer; demon possessed. So unanimously were they against Him that He did no mighty works in their midst and the town that saw most of Him was benefited the least. Yet there stood His matchless works and His unanswerable words! Later, in order to get rid of their problem, they killed Him, and He baffled them by rising from the dead. The problem of explaining away Christ is a still bigger one now for added to the resurrection is the fact that this same man has been steadily winning the world’s allegiance and after these 2000 years the workman of Nazareth is worshipped by millions as “Emmanuel, God with us,” He is the one central character of human his
“Reckon yourselves to be dead—but alive unto God through Jesus Christ.” Rom. 6 : 6 , 11. T HIS is the doctrine of “Identification,” so prominent in Paul’s Epistle. It has to do with the victorious life. But many devout people talk about being “dead with Christ” and rejoice in the “position in Christ,” or “identification with Christ,” who seem often to fall short of the fruit of the Spirit which the apprehension of this truth is supposed to produce. As one writes: “I have seen this truth for years, but it does not appear to make any difference in my life.” It is a great step in advance to really reckon on the efficacy of Christ’s death for a guilty past, and upon the power of His death and resurrection for a present vic tory. We are inclined to think that too many consider this merely from the posi tional standpoint and do not apprehend the truth in relation to the context. To make it simply an “attitude” may lead to spiritual pride, while at the same time no one is made aware of any real change in the life. We may well rejoice that He has won for us salvation from a death penalty and a new and wonderful life power, but we are
tory. Some would say His followers through the cen turies have all been mistaken, yet there stands the record of millions of lives transformed by believing in Him, millions who have died in triumph who would have gone out into the night of despair but for Him, What would the Nazareth folks have said if someone had told them that in 2000 years, all over the world, among the highest and most intelligent races, the name of their young carpenter citizen would be the world’s most influential name? Jesus seemed to have an utterly hopeless project before Him. He rallied but a few humble followers. He had no time and no forces for organizing a world system of religion. He left not a word in His own handwriting —just a bit of His spoken truth recorded by comrades of His own social standing. The story of that brief min istry, climaxed by His death and resurrection, is still the greatest uplifting power in the world. His words are the most widely circulated of any in the world. His name is high above all human names. In 1906 S. G. Ayres compiled the titles of 5000 books about Jesus Christ, written in the English language. It is claimed that 25,000 books have been written about Him.
indeed stopping short of victory until we see that this is made real in the life only by the operation of the Holy Spirit in conjunction with our apprehension of the truth. Paul immediately shows that the word “yield” is the big gest word in the Christian’s spiritual vocabulary (v. 13). Notice its repetition throughout the chapter. This proves that the real seat of sin is in the WILL, which makes the members of the body its instruments. Sin “reigns” just as long as the will goes with the solicitations to evil, although one may be well versed in the doctrine of identification. The Spirit reigns the moment the will says, “No” and presents the body “a living sacrifice” to Christ (12:1 -2). Not until then can the Holy Spirit take up one’s battle or cause any real transformation. The more we unload, the more He fills in. The more we reckon upon Him and yield to Him, the more ready the will becomes to permit God to “work in us to will and to do of His good pleasure.” The Parental Frown H IEF Justice William H. Waste, of the California Supreme Court, does not hesitate to say that there is a rising tide of' lawlessness among the youth of today and c
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He shall be saved from death. “The wages',of sin is death,” but in the valley of, death God has opened a door into life. “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” To enter by this door is to enter into life, the abundant arid uncommon life. Why abide in “The Valley of Troubling,” the place of sin, defeat and death, when God has opened wide a door of hope? Christ is the door, our only hope. A Pro testan t S tud ies th e Mass JOHN R. SÇOTEORD in an article in “The Christian J Leader” (Boston), takes up the question of why the Roman Catholic Mass is the best attended form of reli gious observance to, be found in the world. Writing as a Protestant, Mr. Scotford thinks the Catholic Church is . “wise in its incidental arrangements.” “The idea of early mass is most fortunate,” he declares. “The Protestant hour of eleven is the most common-place . and prosaic period in the entire day.- Early morning worship com bines religious effectiveness with practical convenience. “Simply to be about early in the day is a religious experience. To entér a church in darkness and leave it in the glory of dawn is an experience in which romance and religion fuse.” He writes further of the rich lessons which Rome teaches through her architecture. Even an empty church conveys a religious message to the receptive heart. Real izing that most people see far more than they hear, Rome provides much for the worshiper to look at.: . He thinks that the very fact that the service is rend ered in an unknown tongue actually stimulates the imag ination. This, he thinks, prevents the worship of the indi vidual being cast into a certain mould. Rather is hé brought into “an atmosphere of devotion.” But—is there anything in all this psychological setting
that the criminal indifference of parents is largely re sponsible. He agrees with President Coolidge that “what the youth of the country 1 needs is not more public control through governmental action, but more home control through, parental action. “Through indifference or because of a generous bift ill-considered belief in the dangerous doctrine ;■ of ‘the new freedom,’ parents have given over the reins of authority,” says the Judge, “And now they watch with consternation the resulting runaway. “You cannot give, youth the reins and say. ‘Drive!’ without inviting a smash. Youth—I am speaking now of immaturity—lacks judgment. It ... is dominated to a large extent by the physical urge. Without a guiding hand it will run amuck and smash itself. True religion and good citizenship are inseparable. Supplementing the work of the church is the Sunday 'school. I am sorry that the Sunday school and the church must often do, un aided, what the home should cooperate in doing.” Eli, the priest of Israel, was chastised of God because he “restrained not his sons” (1 Sam. 3:13), whom he knew to be living lewd, and licentious lives. The margin of the R. V. shows that the words bear the meaning.: “He frowned not upon them.” The Bible everywhere teaches the duty of the parental frown. The absence of it in these days is responsible for the raising up of a genera tion of “flappers” and “sheiks.” The land is full of Eli fathers who indulge their children, furnishing them auto mobiles and money and asking no questions as to what they are up to. Parents are becoming a joke to their children and the next generation of parents will be even more of a joke to their offspring. Is the family institution about to pass away? Disobedience to parents and the overthrow of headship in the family are signs of the perilous days of the age end (2 Tim. 3 :1-3). The Door of Hope T HIS door was opened in an unlikely place—the val ley of Achor. (Hosea 2:15). This is the valley where the people of Israel assembled dispirited and afraid after the defeat of Ai. Here Achan, who: brought shame and confu sion to the sacramehtal host, confessed his sin and was stoned to death. They called it “The Valley of Troubling,’’ for it was the scene of defeat and death. God transmuted the scene of failure and death into a place of victory and life. Here He provided a highway into the brightness of hope. This is what God in Christ has done for the world. In the place of defeat and death He has opened a door of hope. Jesus is that door of hope. He says, “I am the door and by me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved.” He shall be saved from sin. It was sin that created “The Valley of Troubling,” and Jesus is the only door out of it. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” Wherever there is sin there is trouble and men cannot be saved from trouble until first they are saved from sin. He shall be saved from defeat. The men of Israel were defeated because they sinned and did that which was evil in the sight of God. Saving us from sin means saving us from defeat. Sin is defeat, it is missing the mark, and every man that misses the mark is a defeated man. Jesus is the door to the mark and the life of victory.
that can bring the soul into vital relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ? Cod seeks those to worship Him who can-worship Him in spirit and in truth (Jm 4:23). The devil has never found it difficult to palm off the coun terfeit of a mere feeling of awe, inspired by mechanical devices, such as grand cathedral architecture, beautiful stained windows, im ages of the dead, weird artificial lights., the false voice of one speaking an unknown language, and mere empty forms. In all this there is nothing that relates a soul to God. Our Lord plainly inforrned the Samaritan woman that place and form had little if anything to do with the true worship demanded by the Father.
The sad feature of Mr. Scotford’s study of the mass, however, is that he seems to entirely overlook the false platform on which the whole thing rests. The simple words of our Lord, in which He calls upon His followers to remem ber His all-sufficient sacrifice by the use of the symbols, bread and wine, are twisted into the absurd doctrine of the mass. Rome’s clergymen are declared priests, and a priest must have an altar and a sacrifice. Therefore, Jesus is made a victim to be offered on the Roman altars to satisfy the church’s theory. The priest professes to change the bread into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ. After the sup posed change, the bread is worshipped and prayed to, but
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the wine is partaken of only by the priest. The deluded people look upon the priest as possessed of mysterious divine powers, and depend upon him as mediator between themselves and God, It should not be forgotten that the mass is a sacrifice. There cannot be sacrifice without putting some one to death. In a figurative sense, the priest crucifies the Son of God afresh (Heb. 10:25, 26) every time he professes to offer the literal flesh and blood of Christ upon the altar. The Lord’s supper is not a sacrifice, but a celebration — a “showing forth” (1 Cor. 11:26) of something that has already been done, never to be repeated (Heb. 10:10-12). At the basis of Rome’s mass is a denial of the all-suffi ciency of the sacrifice of Calvary, a rank contradiction of the New Testament teaching concerning salvation, a di verting of the worshiper to a false Christ, the introduc tion of idolatry in the name of Christianity. No amount of psychology in the surroundings can impart to the thing any value whatsoever. The last sacrifice that God can demand for any sinner was made at Calvary (Heb. 9:26). It was absolutely perfect for God Himself provided it. He cannot be dissatisfied with what Jesus has done and want more. Any attempt to offer anything further as essential is a gross insult to Him. There may be something worth considering in Mr. Scotford’s concluding questions: “Does not the Protestant minister talk too much, especially in connection with the incidentals of the com munion service? Have we not exaggerated the intellect ual element in faith? Should we not make the service less an exhibition of the minister’s thought, and more of an opportunity for the worshiper to express his own deeper needs in his own way ? Should we not aim to make man less prominent, letting greater emphasis fall upon the thought of God?”
He Loved, Yet Lingered “Jesus loved Martha and her sister-and Lazarus” (Jn. 11 : 5). “Therefore * * He abode two days in the same place where He was” (v. 6 ). ' N OT even those, whom Christ especially loves can expect to be always exempt from sickness and anguish. The main thing, in such a time, is to know that His love is set upon us and to desire that the affliction should give Him an opportunity to be glorified (Ps. 50:15). Strange that Christ should abide where He was, after having received the urgent call from His sick friend! Does it sometimes seem that His promises have utterly failed? Is all a perplexing riddle? Remember, Jesus lingered because He loved. He knows the proper time to act. The time we set- is Usually the worst time. His delays are not denials. Perhaps He is enlarging our capacity to receive. Come what may, let nothing shake confidence in His love. If we are truly committed to Him we need have no misgiving. Somehow He will be glor ified and we shall get to know Him better. “Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace. Behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face. We leave it to Himself To choose and to command. With wonder filled, we soon shall see How wise, how strong His hand.” ^t£. ' (£. The “New C ivilization”
I N an article entitled, “The Gods of the Moment,” Ber nard I. Bell, in a recent number of The Atlantic Monthly, attempts to analyze what is now being termed “the new civilization.” A professor of sociology not long since made the statement that the Christian religion makes its appeal only to the rural, simple and Arcadian peoples, or else to those who are urbane, sophisticated and disillusioned. “Jesus,” he declared, “has no appeal to the new civilization.” What is this “new civilization” ? After all, it is nothing more than “the way of Cain” gone to seed. There is not much in it that is new, except that just at present
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chaste, not because He is too emasculated to feel the pull of passion, but because that passion has been sublimated into something which includes the soul. He is emanci pated from slavery to luxury and ease; to Him comfort matters little one way or the other. He is the incarnation of, humility, not because He is too ignorant to be proud, but because He is infinitely too wise. It can hardly be expected that he should be the chosen God of an adoles cent civilization intent upon the hungry search for super ficiality.” Then—what will the end of these things be? The law of the harvest is—“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” The most popular of all proposals for regenerating the race i s : “More education, more training; drill them to competency!” Yet biology teaches most certainly that education and training do not “get into the blood.” Writing in McNaught’s Monthly for January, S. K. Humphrey says: “Biology points out that the only way to start our racial values on the up-grade is to get more children per family from the superior stocks than from ,the little brained. But what a contract! This involves a complete reversal of our present distribution of child-bearing; a regulation of parenthood for very considerable portions of the population at both ends of the intelligence scale. Could anything more impossible be proposed ?” Thus, many of the world’s thinkers are being driven to see that they are coming up against a stone wall. It may take the second coming of Christ to awaken this new civilization to the fact that it is hell-bound, in spite of all its culture. In the meantime, there are still many who have learned from the histories of past civilizations that the only hope of men is the old message of “Christ cruci fied, unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness” (1 Cor. 1:23). Martin Luther preached this Christ to slumbering Europe, and Europe awoke from the dead. Amid all his defences of the divine sovereignty, Calvin never ignored
it is wearing the new dress of some peculiar philosophies and methods. Mr. Bell points out that there never was a time when so many people had so much money. As a new-rich culture, he believes “we are making the same two characteristic blunders that the newly rich always make. First, that the mere possession of wealth is an index of a man’s worth. Second, that with his means a man can buy for himself happiness. These mistakes commonly seem folly to an old-rich man, one who was born to prop erty, whose father was bred with it. He knows that merely because he or his friends have it they may not be worth i t ; and he has learned through experience that hap piness cannot be purchased, but is an illusive something not for sale.” Mr. Bell concludes that the 20th century is sacrificing itself to goods and appetite and comfort and conceit, and that, as long as it continues to do so, as long as these seem satisfying ends to its new, crude and suddenly wealthy citizens, it is unlikely that any more subtle religion can make much headway—in fact, the world is taking exactly the course which the prophets of old foresaw. We believe he has rightly characterized the day in which we live. What means Jesus Christ to this so-called “new civilization” ? He is an enigma to the moment unless he can be dressed up in modern terms and presented as “a go-getter” or a “country clubber.” Hence the Mod ernist preacher with his attempts to keep up with this popular swim, by remaking Jesus into the image of “mod ern” man. But there is no power in any such message to either teach or enforce purity, or to banish even the gross est of lusts which lead men into the pit. Mr. Bell has insight enough to see that it is futile to try to adapt Jesus to this present order of things. If men will not adopt the Christ of the Scriptures, it is useless to try to adapt Him. “Jesus is the antithesis of all that in our day seems of most worth,” says Mr. Bell. “Christ is poor when we would be rich, not because He is too weak to gain wealth, but because His strength is needed elsewhere. He is
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or belittled the atonement. Cowper sang of it among the water lilies of the Ouse. Spurgeon thundered this glorious doctrine of Christ crucified into the ears of peer and peasant with a voice like the sound of many waters. John Bunyan made the cross the starting-point to the celestial city. Moody’s bells all chimed to the keynote of Calvary. No man need expect to find saving power in anything else. Broadcasting Tares T HE turn of a dial-—and into the room come in clear soothing tones some words by Mrs. Eddy: “God is all . . . God is good . . . God is mind . . . God is divine mind . . . The one mind is God . . . Soul is God . ". . God and man are inseparable . . . Since God is all, there is no room for His opposite.” (Whatever this may mean!) How easy sometimes to listen to these soft voices that seem to come out of the very skies; yet the discerning soul knows that they emanate from Satan, the prince of the power of the air. How few in these days are able to discriminate between the good seed, the Word of God, and the subtle seed from which the tares spring! It is not strange that in the latter days of the age the enemy should make use of the, world’s most wonderful inventions to broadcast his tares. The parable of Mat thew 13 warns us that the tares will be sown “among the wheat” (v. 25). Tares are the most troublesome of weeds. They are so much like wheat, especially in the early stages, that the trained farmer cannot distinguish between them until the tares come to a head. The heads are blacker. This weed cannot be uprooted by hand, for the roots are too closely entwined with the wheat with which they mingle. In harvest time, it is necessary to sort out the tares, as the heads are bitter and nauseating. What revenge to sow such stuff in a neighbor’s field! But does not this parable explicitly set forth the malice and cunning of Satan in these last days? In all false religions of the day, there is much imita tion of the true Gospel. It is this that fools the people. Our China Work Because many missionaries have been returned from China, and work in some quarters is at a standstill, is no reason to conclude that there has been a reduction of expenses for mission boards. It should be borne in mind that the return of workers necessitates increased expense. It costs missionaries more to live in this country than in China and their living expenses must be taken care of, as well as traveling expenses. Some mis sionaries will of course get supply work to help sup port themselves, others will find it difficult for some time, and not a few will need a long recuperation as the result of experiences through which they have passed. Dr. Frank Keller, Superintendent of our Hunan work was, at last report, making Shanghai his head quarters, and directing the work of our evangelistic bands. Our Bible Institute property at Changsha is in the hands of soldiers and it is expected that much of the equipment will be ruined. A few of our native workers have remained there, hoping to preserve some of the equipment by assisting the soldiers. Mrs. Keller is resting in Los Angeles.
This Is No Mean Compliment! D. T. Bass was for many years manager of the Gospel Publishing House of New York City. His name was known throughout the world as a publisher of books that could always be depended upon as to orthodoxy. Writing to the Managing Editor recently, Mr. Bass said: “About sixteen years ago Dr. A . T. Pierson, Dr. C. I. Scofield, a New York business man and I, met at the Northfield Hotel to plan a popular Christian magazine. The plan fell through after much preliminary work. Your magazine, in its present form, comes the nearest to the ideal we had at that time of any magazine I have ever seen. I t is splendidly adapted to the average Amer ican reader.” 1 2
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J. B. Reynolds, president of the Kansas City Life Insurance Company, gave a $100,000 endowment to William Jewell College, to aid in financing the education of ministers. Students bene- fitting from the fund must accept thé Biblical account of cre ation, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, His divinity, His deity, His resurrection and second coming. The endowment fund will yield $4,000 a year. William Jewell is a Baptist institution and although invaded for a few years by a Unitarian professor, is said to stand for the old Gospel. ♦ * * Resolutions recording the order as opposed to the philos ophy of atheism and pledging its strength to bring about a wider use of the Bible in public schools of the country were adopted by the thirty-sixth continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, meeting in Washington, April 10th. “Real izing the fundamental training emanating from familiarity with the Bible,” the delegates resolved to do their utmost “in their own homes and communities to stimulate renewed interest in reading the Bible.” * * * It would appear that the relations between Fascism and Roman Catholicism are becoming increasingly intimate. The Italian Roman Catholic Centre Party has recently expressed its devotion to Mussolini. Mussolini is a most clever individual and will row in the Roman boat so long as his purposes can be served by so doing. * * * Evolutionists continue to talk about “the origin of the God idea.” We are informed that the Bible shows the “evolution” of man’s thought about God. Now here is one for the evolu tionist ! Evolution seems to have caused nearly the whole human family to conceive of God as a Personal, Supreme Being, the Creator of all. Evolution must be queer stuff, to cause men to believe in such a God and then try to rid them of that belief, yet that is what the evolutionist is trying to make out. ♦ * * Dr. Harry Rirnmer, our Los Angeles research scientist, owns a petrified human skull found in southeastern Missouri. He showed it to some professional geologists, and they unhesitat ingly agreed that it was at least 25,000 years old ! Mr. Rirnmer says it cannot be more than 250 years old, because he found buried with it some old-fashioned hand-hammered iron nails, the kind that the colonial blacksmiths made on their anvils. An Indian had no doubt traded for them, and they were buried with him. ♦ * * Prof. S. B. Ely, Carnegie Institute, points out in The Scien tific Monthly, that a decidedly pessimistic note has come into man’s thinking. He calls attention to such books as : The Decline of Western Civilization, The Revolutions of Civiliza tion, Mankind at the Crossroads, etc. Civilizations appear to disintegrate from an internal wearing out, rather than from any outside cause, A people by the accumulation of wealth and comforts become soft and indolent, and are then either overrun by inferior races or simply degenerate into an inferior race themselves. The well-instructed Christian knows that such declines go hand in hand with apostasy. We are certainly in the midst of one.
A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, And a swamp where the reptiles dwell; Then a glimpse of law and beauty And a man evolved from monk— Some call it evolution, But a better name is—BUNK! ♦ * *
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Harnack once said, “There is no such thing as comparative religion. For sheer power to transform and ennoble life, no reli gion can compare with the religion of Jesus.” * * * The biggest religious liars we have today are those who specialize in half-truths. We are reminded of the lines: “Lie to me, and lie to me, But this I ask of you : „ Never, steeped in falsity, Utter what is true.” * * * We recently heard of a man who visited a certain church and during the entire service heard the name of God but once. That was when he stepped upon the usher’s toe in getting into the seat. * * * Bishop Charles Williams is credited with having said that, “There are some saints who are as hard and uncomfortable, to live with as it would be to wear a starched undershirt.” * * * When pig-tails disappear from China (says an old adage) Europe may make ready for its end. * * * The editor of The Jimtown Weekly says: “My biggest ambition is t’ sneak into. Mussolini’s ■ house an’ hear him say, ‘All right, my dear, have it your own way.’” * * * It was Wessenburg who said: “Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.” * * * “The word obey is now deleted from the marriage service,” says a London paper, “but many husbands will find it hard to shake off a long-established habit.” * * * The following motto is found in Woodland Christian Church (for Negroes), Kansas City, Mo.: “Wake up, sing, up, preach up, pray up, pay up, stay up, and never give up, or let up, or back up, or shut up until the Cause of Christ in this Church and the World is built up.” * * * Whether or not Thomas A. Edison has much use for religion, it appears that his wife places some value upon it. Speaking before the daughters of the American Revolution not long ago, she made an appeal that was both patriotic and spirit ual, ending with these words, “Isn’t thefe some strategic plan by which we can get back on the old road? Is it impossible to reintroduce family prayer? Our young people need us in their domestic troubles.”
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