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editorial page. Our statement mental doctrines, as expressed Christendom: The T rinity of th e Godhead. The Deity of Christ. The P ersonality of th e Holy Ghost. The S up ern atu ral and P len ary au tho rity of th e Holy Scriptures. The Unity in D iversity of th e Church th e Body and B ride of Christ. The Substitutionary Atonement. The Necessity of th e New B irth. We are sure1 that all sincere us that these doctrines furnish Christian work.
of doctrine covers the following funda- in the common creed of evangelical The Maintenance of Good Works. The Second Coming of Christ. The E verlasting Existence of the Spirit. The Resurrection of th e Body. The Iiife E verlasting of Believers. The Endless Punishm ent of th e Im penitent. The R eality and P ersonality of Satan, believers in the Old Book will agree with a safe, sane and sound foundation for —T. C. H.
IS IT A HOME OR A HOUSE? There is quite a distinction between a “ home” and a “ house.’’ A house may be a hotel, or an apartment house, or a number of other things,— but a home is something entirely different. We are rather short on homes these days. We have not been giving much attention to the value of the ideal home life. The word “ home” used to carry with it an aroma of sweet and sacred memories. A home meant a Bible, a mother’s knee, the lisping of little lips in prayer, sometimes the tucking in at night by the mother’s hands and the wetting of the child’s cheek by mother’s tears. There were scenes which could never be erased from the tablets of memory—the imprint of holy touches which in after years were effective in bringing wayward ones back to the feet of Jesus. Now we have houses instead of homes, —apartments, lodging houses, hotels. Now it is rare to see a Bible in the living room, rare to have morn ing or evening prayers. There are-mot many fathers and mothers of the old-fashioned kind. Mother is at the club, the polls, the jury room, the movies, or the dance. Father is busy, day and night, for the club, the lodge, the theater, politics, have a constant call. The children grow up in an atmosphere of their own making. They know more about sin and crime at twelve now, than their parents knew at twenty. Before they are sixteen, girls are bearing children and others are in the detention home. Boys are criminals at ten and murderers be fore they are twenty. We boast of our educational facilities, not realizing that but a meager per cent of our youth ever avail themselves of them. Read this from a prominent morning paper: “ In determining the responsibility of modern education, a group of researchers gave but five per cent to the college. The schools were given credit for twenty per cent, and the home for sev’enty-five per cent. “ With so much of responsibility for the future of the child placed upon it, it is sad, indeed, that the home should be failing in its obligation. The influence of the home in the up-bringing of the child is becoming less and less,—yet it is in the home that character should be. formed and made. The things that take the place of home in the training of the youth of
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