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The League of Clean Speech started in the First Christian Church, Fresno, California, but the originators of the idea are more than glad to have the idea passed along. There is certainly a need for an organized protest against the use of vile and filthy language altogether too prevalent. The pledge of the organiza tion is: “Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength, I promise that I will not listen to, laugh at, or tell an unclean story, and at all times my conversation shall be such as will be an honor to the Master.” The Scriptural basis for the League is : “Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear” (Eph. 4:23). * * * * It is refreshing to have a man like Chauncey M. Depew rise up to answer Thomas A. Edison, who on his eightieth birthday reiterated some of his ,doubts concerning the Bible. “I am more firmly anchored on the Bible than ever before, and believe implic itly in its teachings and the God it portrays,” said Mr. Depew. “I have always felf a real dependence on God,” Mr. Depew con tinued, “My idea of God is a person rather than one of force, Not a personality such as we are, of Course, but a glorified, divine and : infinite heart, brain and spirit—all comprehending, all povOerful, never failing. I think of God as being interested in mortals and mortal affairs. Christ was. His earthly manifestation.”: There are many people who are easily influenced by the ex pressions of great men on the subject of religion, regardless of their qualifications to speak, but by no means all of the great men- are on the side of skepticism. * * * * The Archbishop of York is reported to have said, ‘There, are only half a dozen hymns I can sing with any kind of reality at all.” “We could name him a score in the old hymns, ancient- and modern, that if he.cannot sing with his whole soul he ought, to -;,resign his bishopric” says the Evangelical Christian. The hymnology of . the Church is more and more getting to be a, problem for Modernists. The terms of redemption are distaste ful to begin with, and how can they help but loathe such hymns- a s: “There is. a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel’s veins, And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains”. On the other hand, we would like to inquire if skepticism, has ever produced a hymn that bids fair to live, as have the great hymns of the Church?
while I travel throughout Sweden, my native land, forming local Atheist groups in the larger towns and cities. The younger gen eration in Sweden is becoming incréasingly Atheistic, and I anticipate no serious difficulty.” * * * * We have been hearing much about the “missing link skull which was found in Java last fall. Says the Wichita Eagle. “That skull of an ape man found in Java turns out to be the knee-cap of an elephant.” The Pathfinder further comments: “Doubt has been thrown on the alleged ‘missing link skull’ which Dr. C. J. Heberlein, a Dutch professor, found in Trinil, Java, last fall. The man who in ’ 1892 unearthed part -of an ape-man’s skull • ini’ thei'Tfrmil district: of Java— Prof." Eugene" Dtfbois—says that photographs of the Heberlein find indicate that it is no more: thap part of;the Jeg bone of a prehistoric animal resembling the elephant. He points out the fact that remains of these creatures are frequently found in Java.” So it goes with all the missing links. Why should it be necessary to search in the far corners of the earth for missing links if evolution has been made the Creator’s general method?. The whole surface of the earth, should be strewn with the proofs. * a(c sfc Ernest Gordon tells us of a representative Unitarian who was asked whether American Unitarians have any national foreign mission society. He said they have not. Are they as a denom ination now supporting any foreign missions? No. How many missionaries have'they in the field? None,, Have théÿ any women’s foreign mission society? No. Have thèy any foreign mission society for young people? No. Are they training chil dren in Sunday schools to become interested in foreign missions ? No. Have they any students in college and theological seminaries preparing to go as missionaries to the foreign field? As far as he knew not one. Remember that Unitarianism is Modernism in its most consistent character. * * * * According to advices received by Bishop Nuelsen, of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States, the Soviet Government is to use its printing press for the publication of an edition of the Bible in Russian for the Russian Church. In addi tion, a permit has been received for the, issue of an edition of 25,000 Bibles for the Russian Evangelical groups, under the initiative of the All-Russian Evangelical Union. As the plates from which former editions of the Bible had been printed were destroyed during the War, funds to cover the cost of making new plates have been provided by the American Bible Society. This is indeed a great victory, and there should be a great com pany of intercessors to pray it through. * * * * " Dr.'Shailer Mathews is quoted as saying that “the man who expects to see Christ Goming again in the sky, and expects every body else to see Christ at the same time, obviously had not thought of the difficulty of'all the people around the earth seeing the same spot in the sky at the same time.” This is an excellent example of the method frequently employed by Liberalists of setting up: straw men to demolish. It was our Lord Himself who said: “'Every eye shall see Him" (Rev. 1:7), but who ever thought that all people around the earth were to “see the same' spot in the sky at the same time” ? Who knows how long a time will be taken for the resurrection and translation of saints? No doubt He who created the universe by His Word and re deemed it in a day will find some way to take care of the details of the coming judgment.
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