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May 1927
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Men may misjudge thy aim, Think they have;cause for blame; Say thou art wrong!
circulation among Christians and 'others who are really troubled by seeming difficulties in the matter of Christ’s use of the Old Testament. “Radio has been called the Fifth »lístate in 'récognition of the place it has assumed as à maker of opinión. It has become a giant overnight arid is still almost unaware of its power. Cer tainly it has not yet begun to use its power With a coristructive purpose. . The time has- coiné to ask fof a broader, braver policy that will permit radio to treat more freely arid firmly ori the battlefields of modern thought.” (H, V, Kalterborn—“Century- Magazine”). This also is the time to make the radio Christian to the fullest extent of our opportunity and power. * * * H¿ Herè is a very striking statement gleaned from Charles H. Spurgebri;j!|the great Baptist pastor of London: “It has been my unhappy duty to expel a good mariy people from the membership of the church, but I have never expelled any who were converted in childhood.” Coming from one with such a long and wide experience, these words carry tremendous Weight. It has often been urged against efforts to bring the children early to a knowl edge of Christ that childhood religion dóes not last. But the evidence is strongly against such a theory. As a matter of com parison, childhood religion lasts better than ariy other kind. * * * * Something like a mass movement of Jews to Christ is taking place in parts of Eastern Europe. Since 1918, 40,000 Hungarian Jews have entered the churches; in Budapest alone 2,500 Jews have been added to .the Presbyterian Church; and in-Ukrainia- whole congregations Hold on thy quiet way-; Christ is the judges—not they; . Fear not! Be strong! p * * * j The World today is looking' for super-men. God is looking for men with the child-heart. * * * * A Missouri editor ,hits it right wiien he says: “Man is the only animal that caff be stuffed more than onceili^: H« p * * A Los Angeles paper declares that “it is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” * sjs. * "The reason some people hold their chins when thinking,” suggests the Wall Street Journal, “is to stop themselves from interrupting.” * * * * “President Coolidge is not a member of any fraternal organ ization,” the White House executive secretary wrote the Dover, ■N. J., lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose in declining an invita tion for Mr. Coolidge to join that organization. * * 9|e * There are approximately 750,000 young men and women at- tending the colleges' and universities of the United States. Higher education, according to a recent survey, is centered largely in state and city institutions, some forty per cent of the whole being found in the twenty-five largest •universities. * * * * Sir Edward Sharp, an English baronet, in speaking recently of the service rendered by Sunday schools in the training of youth for Christian manhood and womanhood, emphasized the .value of a Christly personality in the teaching of the Scriptures. He believes that the supreme need in the churches of the present day is the presence of vital and vigorous Christian teachers in the Sunday schools. To that we’ll say “Amen,” and may church members in general be infected with the idea. * * * * We ve just heard of a man who came home from church wringing wet. “America,” he informed his wife, “will be a nobler land to live in when not every American thinks he can keep his religion and somebody else’s umbrella.” The brother has "said something. He might have widened the statement to include the church hymn books—and a few other things. * * * * General Chang Chih-kiang has sent the China Agency of the American Bible Society his second big order for Bibles and Tes taments. This was for 4,500 Bibles and 6,000 New Testaments. This is, undoubtedly, the biggest single purchase of Scriptures on record in China. * * * * The October number of the “Princeton Theological Review” contains a very able and convincing article by Dr. R. D. Wilson on Jesus and the Old Testament.” By a detailed examination of every reference made by Jesus to the Old Testament, Dr. Wilson shows there is not a single statement in them that can reasonably be challenged as untrue. This bit of work is so ably done that we wish it could be put into tract form and given, a very wide
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