July 1928
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“Don’t be discouraged about getting on the front page,” says one editor. “It took King Tut 3,200 years to get there, but he landed at last.” * * * A daily paper declares that the fine old custom of “asking the blessing” began to wane about the time can openers'- became universal. * * * Studies by insurance actuaries.iindicate that the potential value of a new-born baby is $9,000 and that a boy at the" age of J5 is worth in excels! °f $25,000 to society.. * n * An Exchange says that there were 75,000 illegitimate children born in the United States last year. That 40,000 of these mothers were under the age of 14. That the average age of the fallen girl is 16. * * * The insurance companies have discov- ered that in certain States the average cost of the funerals .of industrial workers insured with them ‘is about five hundred dollars. In the State, where the cost seems to be the lowest, the average is about two hundred dollars. * * * Rev. S. B. Rohold of the Mount Car mel Bible School, Haifa, Palestine, has undertaken a tnissionary journey to Mes opotamia, where there are 150,000 Jews in the great city of Bagdad alone, having no definite Jewish Christian mission. In Basra there are over 40,000 and large numbers in other town|^ Mr. Rohold and his helpers are taking hundreds of Testaments and tracts to be distributed ,among these Jews. Pray for this work. * * * It is difficult to realize that such small and common things as phosphorous matches were unknown before 1833, and that it was not until the end of the eigh- teenth century that illuminating gas was first developed by heating coal in closed vessels away from the air. Gas came into general use within the nex't twenty years and before the invention of matches. sfc || * The Church Missionary Review states that the “Gendarmerie of Palestine” (raised after the British occupation) has been disbanded. . . . The present state of Palestine is so peaceful that they are no longer needed. From the same source we learn that during last year (1925) “the Jewish population in Palestine increased by 31,660 persons.”
“$1,500,000,000 is owed on cars purchased by the American people in 1927. That is according to figures in the New York World. If this stupendous debt should be equally divided among the American people for. payment* figuring on a popula tion of 118,000,000, every man, woman, boy and girl in the United States would be under obligation to pay a little over $12.72. There are at present a total of 23,125,000 automobiles in usé in this coun try. That makes one automobile for about every five persons, w;hich means that there are more machines than there aré occupant-owned homes.” * * Hi According to daily papers modernism has finally won the Y. W. C. A. At the International Convention at Sacramento, a constitutional amendment, was passed discarding the old statement of aims which read: “To lead students to faith in God through Jesus Christ.” This is changed to read: “We unite in the desire to realise full and creative life through1 a growing knowledge of God.” The old statement: ‘‘To lead them into member ship and service in the Christian Church,” no longer appears. * * * Charles Stelze, in World’s Work, shows that piety in the United States is costing church members as much as a package of chewing gum a day. That is what the average member is giving to the church. Millions of church members do not con tribute a cent a day. Only one-half cent a day is sent to foreign mission fields. Congregational expenses have steadily in creased while missions and benevolences have greatly fallen off. ♦ * * It is said that in the Department of State at Washington, 61 per cent of the employees are Catholics. In our Treasury Department, in which the work of prohi bition enforcement is lodged, 70 per cent of the employees are Catholics. In the Service Department, 53 per cent of the civilians, and 70 per cent of the army em ployees are Catholics. In the Department of Justice, 73 per cent; in Insular Affairs, 89 per cent ; in Indian Affairs, 95 per cent; in the Education Bureau, 60 per cent ; on the Alaskan R. R., 100 per cent. Roman Catholics have but 18 per cent of our population. Is it not both suggestive and sinister that they hold 75 per cent of our offices? * * * Not members of any church, in United States—65,000,000. Young people over nine and under 25 who have no religious training—27,000,000. Think of it! A vast field of practical heathenism in our very midst.
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Charles Vincent Massey, Cana dian Minister to Washingtqn : “A highbrow is one whose learning has outstripped his intelligence." * * sje Los Angeles Times'. “We’re hopelessly old-fashion ed, but we’re glad we culled sffibur kisses before they, were flavored with cigarettes.” * * * Robert E. Speer: “Any man wh6 has a religion is bound to do one of two things ;Jwith it,' change . it or spread it. If it isn’t true, he must give it up. If it is true, he must give it away.” He Hs The Methodist Recorder, London: “I am afraid of the superfi ciality of my generation. The young people of today outside the churches^j’are simply out '¿8for pleasure. I would rather have the Puritan with his mighty sense of obligation and his keen sense of duty, than see young people gig gling out their best days.” H« H= H= Brooklyn Eagle : “Civilization has spread until the radio and the rifle can be heard almost anywhere in the world.” * * * Wall Street Journal: “What America needs more than railway extension and western irrigation and a low tariff, and a bigger wheat crop, and a merchant marine, and a new navy, is a revival of piety, the kind mother and father used to have, a piety that counted it good business to stop for family prayer be fore breakfast, right in the middle of harvest; that quit field work half an hour earlier Thursday night, so as to get the chores done and go to prayer meeting, that prayed fervently for the salvation of the rich man who looked with scorn on such unbusiness-like behavior.’*®
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