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THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S recognize that they are missionaries, and that they are foreign missionaries. Heaven is our home, and they do not need missionaries in heaven. But every believer is sent as a missionary to a lost world. “ The field is the world.” and God knows it is a foreign field. If He leads some—as He does—to be merchants and mechanics; others to be teachers or tradesmen; some to he pastors and evangelists; why not gladly recognize that fact? The mother in the home is God’s missionary with a won derful work to do. The father, at the carpenter’s bench (as was Jesus), is a missionary. Children, in the school, are missionaries. The early church, led by the Holy Spirit, did its work wisely and well. They had no Bibles, no Testaments, no tracts, no committees. They had their Lord’s command to go, and they went. Let us follow their example. Let us eliminate the wheels that bring no grist in the church. Let us eradicate all suggestion of invidious distinctions between “ home” and “ foreign” mission work. Let us recognize that every true believer is a foreign missionary, and let us seek to he in God’s will, glad to serve, glad to rejoice in all that others are doing in the world field. __T. C. H. THE CURIOUS COUE CURE FOR CONVICTS A reader of The King’s Business has called our attention to the following news item in a local paper regarding the latest freak cult to be inflicted on a long-suffering public. The item states: “The 3500 men an d women sh u t up behind th e gray walls of San Quentin and Folsom sta te penitentiaries—many fo r life— are to have a Coue C h ristm as.' “Through th e efforts of P au lin e Jacobson, well-known w riter and social worker, th e two California prisons are to be converted in to g re a t hum an laboratories to te st th e efficiency of th e form ula of th e noted P arisian doctor. “Miss Jacobson, w ith th e assistance of o th er w elfare w orkers, is now busily engaged in preparing fo r th e prisoners’ Coue Christmas. “Bach prisoner received Christmas morning a Coue strin g tied in to SO knots w ith an appropriate p rin ted explanation of its use. Dr. Coue advised those who would h elp them selves to p u t one of these string s un d er th e ir pillow and each n igh t an d morning finger each of these kno ts while th e lips m u rm u r the Coue p rayer: “ ‘Day by day, in every way, I ’m g etting b e tte r an d b etter.’ “The k no tted cords Miss Jacobson p repared were of gay color. ‘We w ant to provide a b it of sun ligh t fo r th e eye as well as th e soul,’ she said. ‘Behind th e prison walls th e re is no magic to stir th e blood. Our little Christmas g ift will carry a message ,of new hope. I t w ill open th e way fo r th e prisoners to find new possibilities w ithin themselves. The Coue strin g will show th e way to freedom . J u s t th in k of th e possibilities of 3500 prisoners tw ice daily speaking th e words of th e Coue formula. I t will m ean a modern m iracle.’ ” The newspapers announced that 1600 of the prisoners at San Quentin became “ Coue chanters,” among the first to accept the “ gay-colored strings” being “ Bluebeard” Watson (who killed 27 wives) and Mrs. Louise L. Peete, who is serving a life sentence for murder. It seems that Mrs. Peete has made a slight change in the “ chant,” her version of it being, “ Day by day, in every way, we want to look better and better.” As she is the recognized “ queen of the prison” this sentiment seemed to her to be more appropriate and equally as effective. No doubt the prisoners who so cheerfully accepted the strings expect that they will be able to climb up the “ twenty knots” to freedom, as inti-
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