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Helen Gailey is attending the Nanking lan guage school and expects next year to open a kindergarten department in the Hunan Girls’ Normal School. Stories of fearful persecution are ;told by Mrs. F. O. Wilkins, a graduate and former Bible woman, gnow with Kauluwela Mission, Honolulu. Christian Science, Adventism, Mor- monism and higher criticism are greatly in creasing the difficulty of her work. ' While acquiring language, Anna R. Clark at the Wanamaker Girls’ School in Allahabad, In dia, is teaching Bible classes for the English speaking girls. Olive G. Matzke and Hugh P. Andrews, for- mer students, were married Feb. 5 at Everett, Wash. They expected to sail March 6 for Honolulu to work under the Hawaiian Board of Missions. Though ea^er to return as soon as possible to her work in Jerusalem which was interrupted by the war, Laura G. Beecroft is taking some special work at the Institute. She is under the Christian Missionary 'Alliance, stationed at a boarding school for girls near Mount Calvary. Jessie J. Ashbury is spending her second fur lough at the Institute in special study. She is trom Osaka, Japan, where her work is under the .foreign Christian Missionary Society of the Christian Church. THEY’RE ON THE MOVE It’s coming! The churches are even tually going to be able to compete with
the world. The money is beginning to be forthcoming. Here is just a little sample of it. A Los Angeles paper says: “ Score one again for the moving pictures! The -------— ------- Methodist church is going to have a regular mov ing picture show. A special appropri ation has been voted to install the ma chine. The 700 parishioners of the church look forward to the. day when they can see their favorite star at the neighborhood meeting place. The pic tures to be shown will not be solely of a Biblical nature. “ Entertainment is being offered at the Sunday services of the church at present. At 7:30 Sunday evening the French-Canadian Rosseau family will furnish music on 35 instruments. Every Wednesday evening lectures by prominent speakers are given. A din ner is eaten at 6 o’clock.”
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S IT POSSIBLE that a book at once so sublime and so simple can be the work of man?” was asked of the philosophers of the last century by one who was him- self too a celebrated philosopher. And all its pages have replied, No—it is impossible; for every where, traversing so many ages, and whichever it be of the God-employed writers that held the pen, king or shepherd, scribe or fisherman, priest or publican, you every where perceive that one same Author, at a thousand years’ interval, and I that one same eternal Spirit, has conceived and dictated all:— every where, at Babylon as at Horeb, at Jerusalem as at Athens; at Rome as at Patmos, you will find described the same God, the | same world, the same mén, the same angels, the same future, the same heaven:—every where, whether it be a poet or a historian that addresses you, whether it be in the plains of the desert in the 1 age of Pharoah, or in the prisons of the capítol in the days of the Caesars—every where in the world the same ruin; in man the same | impotency; in the angels the same elevation, the same innocence, 1 the same charity; in heaven the same purity, the same happiness, the same meeting together of truth and mercy, the same mutual embracing of righteousness and peace; the same counsels of a God who blotteth out iniquity, an |
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