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six children had been lost. Still another had, for fear of losing her children, tied all six together with a rope and, fastening this to her person, fled thus with the crowds. 'Qiree women gave birth to children while their friends were carrying them in flight on stretchers. One woman arrived with a dead baby in her arms. Her husband had been shot, she went crazy and broke into a hollow laugh as she looked into the face of her dead child lying in her arms. Naturally amid such huddled multitudes contagious diseases broke out. In Bergen- op-Zoom alone 150,000 people were vacci nated. Hospitals soon overflowed with the sick, especially children. Many babies died. Numbers of aged people who were hurried in their flight dropped dead of heart dis ease on the way. The sight was as terrible, as the suffering and hopelessness* were fearful.”— Rev. A. A. Pfanstiel, in the Con tinent. A False Issue. The sum of the discussions in the Prince ton University publications, in response to The Presbyterian and in connection with Mr. Sunday, goes to show that a group oi cultured gentlemen like Dean West, now in control of that institution, are deter mined that anti-evangelicism, with its re ligion of human speculations, shall be brought in, and that evangelicism, with its religion of a Divine Revelation, shall be shut out. In this they have reverted to a state lower than that of the Greeks and Romans, for they were willing to hear both sides. Men of this class | have called the God of the Bible a “mean monster,’’ and have spoken of the Atonement as a “re volting butchery.” We hesitate even to quote these words, but in the worst of what Dean West calls Mr. Sunday’s “coarse vulgarity,” there is nothing to compare with these gross blasphemies of the so- called cultured teachers. . .’ . Accord ing to this principle, if Elijah or John the Baptist, clad in camel’s hair and leathern girdle, should bring to Dean West the mes
sage of the Almighty, then the dean would refuse to receive it until the prophet should don a cap and gown, or full-dress suit. Then the prophet might speak his message with a fire of righteous indignation, which would cause even a professor to quail. On the other hand, on the same principle, we might expect the door to be opened for the reception of a false and foul monster, if only he came observing proper esthetical form. Esthetics and refinement are good servants, but they are vicious and offensive as lord and master. If Princeton were only teaching and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and excluding the false and soul- destroying teachings, then with reason might the issue between the vulgar and the formal be raised.— The Presbyterian. Startling Statistics The total population of South America is estimated at 45,000,000. The pure Indian population is variously estimated at from 6,000,000 to 15,000,000. The number of negroes in Brazil is given at about 4,000,000. In Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Para guay the population is illiterate to the ex tent of 50, 60, 80 and 90 per cent, respec tively.. Fifty years ago Japan was a pagan na tion, but today there are three times as many teachers, and three times as many pupils in the schools of Japan as in the schools of all South America. South America has been called Chris tian and civilized for four hundred years. There is an appalling prevalence of dis ease. You Can Afford It You can afford a new song book for your church or Sunday School, or for Gospel Work, when you can get “Familiar Songs of the Gospel” for $3.00 a hundred. Words and music, No. 1 and No. 2. Samples 5 cents each by mail. E. A. K. Hackett, Fort Wayne, Ind., U. S. A.
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