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defects should be recognized and treated. Isn’t it time Chris tian parents and teachers awoke to. this fact also? * ■ * * It has been shown that deaths from heart disease in this country have doubled in the last IS years. Twenty years ago, the death rate from heart disease to each 100,000 population was 103.3, while in 1925. it had risen to 210—an appalling advance. This, rapid increase is thought to be due to the speed of modern living. * * * What a crime that Henry Ward Beecher’s home in Brook lyn, which he occupied for nearly fifty years, should be torn down to be replaced by a building to be used as headquarters of the International Bible Students’ Association (Russellites) I Says'the Presbyterian of the South: “It would be well for them to learn to build upon the religious principles of Beecher, as well as to build upon the foundations of his old home.” * * * Dr. Charles R. Brown, dean of Yale Divinity School, sug gests a path to sleep, calm and rest may often be fo'und in 10 words, each to be thought of slowly and separately Until restless ness disappears and the subject is mentally in harmony with the meaning of the words, which, in order, are: quietly, easily, rest- fully, trustfullyj patiently, serenely, peacefully, joyously, cour ageously, confidently. We wonder if the good doctor ever tried repeating some of the restful promises of the Scriptures. More than once, the writer has gone to sleep on “I will both lay me down in peace and sleep, for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety" * * * Henry S. Whitehead, writing in The Commonwealth, New York, we will have to admit makes' one good score against some churches when he refers to the “cheapness often seen in Amer ican Christianity.” He condemns “the claptrap methods of the cheap-john for the raising of ‘church funds,’ the undignified competition for ‘members,’ and the other characteristic devices identified with sectarianism.” ♦ * >1« How can one help but think of Jas. 5 :l-7 when he learns that in the last twelve years there has been an increase of 6,500 in the number of ihillionaires that the United States pos sesses? At the present time this great country claims to house 11,000 who are in the millionaire class. There are at least 74 people whose net incomes are in excess of a million dollars each. * * * Professor Bendandi, the Italian seismologist, prophesies that the present year will be noted for “great earth paroxysms which will scatter death and destruction to the most distant parts of the world. The year will be an extremely agitated one on all continents. Seismic commotions with volcanic eruptions will be the prelude to vaster activity in the near future, when earth quakes of unprecedented violence will threaten the whole world." * * * If you wish a concrete example of the unscrupulous methods of the tobacco concerns, you have it in the Madame Schumann- Heink case. Her photo appeared in cigarette advertisements which ran through the newspapers, together with an autograph reproduction of her personal recommendation of a certain brand, with the statement that they were “kind to her throat.” How
Edward Armstrong, one of our readers, bursts into rhyme as follows :
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’Tis food for soul and food for mind, You’ll find few papers of this kind. Now, what I say I know is true, It’s done me good—-you’ll like it too.” * * * “The most astonishing thing about evolution,” says a Los Angeles paper, “is. the long way ithas yet to go.” * * * An Albany paper suggests that “maybe one reason for the flaming youth epidemic is that the new fashioned razors don’t require the old fashioned razor strop.” ♦ * * Speaking of some who are always crying poverty, an El Paso paper says : “Oftentimes, it’s the mink in the closet that is responsible for the wolf at the door.” A * * * Thomas Carlyle made a sensible resolution. He said on one occasion : “Sarcasm is the language of the devil ; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.” * * * Editor of Detroit News thinks it is a “wonder that any one thought of the phrase ‘the quick and the dead’ before the age of automobiles.” ^ ^ These days much is written about “personal liberty.’f. ; “It may be a good thing,” says the Dallas News, “but deliver us from riding with a driver who is full of it.” * * * A Pittsburgh editor refers to the $28,000,000 collected in cigarette taxes last year, and thinks this greatly increased sum is “one evidence of what women are doing to help their country.” ♦ * ' * Says an exchange : .“The home where the children pay no heed to th e .parents is very likely the same home where in earlier years the parents paid no heed to the children.” ♦ * * A newspaper in Missouri remarks : “Lot’s wife has nothing much on Mrs: Dave Kirk. The former looked back and turned into a pillar of salt; Mrs. Dave looked back and turned into a telephone pole.” * * * There is some real sense in the statement of a Pennsyl vania editor who says that the clergymen who are eliminating the hell of the future should show a little more ability to coun teract some of the hell on earth. * * * How times do change ! It’s the great Southern Methodist Church that rises up to defend evolution in the schools. In session at Memphis, it was resolved that anti-evolution legisla tion interferes with the proper teaching of science in the Amer ican schools and is futile. * * * A recent bulletin of the U. S. children’s bureau says the first five years of a child’s life—called the pre-school years—is the time when.undesirable habits, personality quirks and mental
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