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just been concentrated. They have
only about $4,000 communicates in
America but are said to send one
missionary to every sixtyfive men,
bers.
The Wall Street Jouranl says, What
ever be q mans own personal beliefs,
there is no one who would not prefer
to do business with a person who real
ly believes in a future life"
The minister of public instruction
of Ecuador has asked the Methodist
Board of Foreign Missions to furnish
teachers for the schools of that coun-
try at gvernment expense.
William Rosenau writes in The Chi
cago Israelite, protesting against the
efforts of Christians to evangelize
Jews. He declares that such efforts
to convert the Jews are insults
Professor Woodberry in his life of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, says that Emer-
son was mot a Christian in any prop
er use of the word" but that he was
rather the priest of the unchure he'd, "a
link in the e-Christianization of the
world in laying off the vesture of old
religion"
The Earl of Dunmote, a prominent
Scottish peer and an enthusiastic be-
lever in Christian Science, in a late
magazine article, asserts that Christ
practiced Christian Science, and healed
tHS SICK Oh tHt CldlHl6U Dy
Mrs. Eddy. On the other hand, DR..
Buckley, the editor Of The Christian
Advocate, says, Mrs. Eddy can neither
permanently prevent death in the case
of her dupes or in her own case, nor
can she raise the dead
Father William P. Cantwell editor
of The Catholic Monitor, favors the
abolition of oaths in our courts. say
ing. There is a carnival of perjury In
our country" and that neither relig-
ion, justice, nor charity Is served by
the administration of the oath in our
society"
Professor Adolf I-arnack of Berlin
proposes a modus vivendi between
Catholics and Professionals, in which the
individuality of each church shall be
preserved, but there shall be mutual
concessions. each shall be divorced
from politics, and encouragement given
to the peace loving parties of all
creedS.
A symposium in The Homiletic Re-
view indicates that there has been a
striking revival in the uelief of human
immortality. number of strong writ
ers testify to the resurrection of this
belief which for some years has been
buried under materialistic conceptions.
Professor Smith of the University of
North Carolina joins issue with Pro-
fessor Phelps of Lale as to the Bible
knOWltuSt VI COfltE0 SluQenlS. The
former asked fifty freshmen and the
same number of juniors and seniors to
tell the story of Adam and Bve, Noah,
Samson. David, Moses and Pharoah, and
he says that mo student missed as
many as two of the questions and
only three missed one" DR.. Smith
thinks that this Bible knowledge is
due to the Sunday School.
It is said that there are few Protes-
tant churches in New York than six
years ago but six more Catholic
churches and eighteen new synagogues
The former is perhaps due to the SUI
burban movement, and the latter to the
immense Jewish and Italian immigra-
ton.
Baptist Brotherhood was formed
recently in Boston at a meeting of
two hundred men. all being delegates
from New England churches But
it is expected that the movement will
be national one among the Baptist
churches, with the aim of reaching
the 250 900 men Of that denomination,
through one or more of the several
departments of the brotherhood 1t is
expected to organize.
There is hardly a large influential
denomination at present which does
not feel It is time the church, as
whole, took up the agitation of better
legislation with regard to divorce and
this is one of the reforms being urged
by the National Federation Of Church
es 1t has been shown from a ma
tional investigation that in the last
twenty years. in round numbers l.
400. 900 applications for divorce were
filed. and that of these probably a
million were granted. The same set
of figures shows that in the preceding
twenty years the number of divorces