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PAGE 2 William Wilberforce trundled hoops with his children. It is said of Luther, when he had plagued himself all day long with his doctrinal distinctions, in the evening he took his flute, and gazed at the stars, dissolved in melody and devotion. After dinner, Milton was accustomed to take exercise, either walking in the garden or swinging in a machine. His only recreation besides conversation was music. He played the organ and the bass viol, the organ most. Sometimes he would sing himself, or get his wife to sing to him. Chuch was about to be separated from the Established Church, almost every day Thomas Chalmers played at kite-flying with his children on the common. “You may ask of what use is this preaching. I answer you cannot expect fruit without planting the seed. And I truly believe that these poor souls are really being brought nearer to the kingdom every year. I c0mfort myself in the thought that a thousand years are but as a day in God’s sight.” THE RECENT DEATH OF MRS. JOHN SCUDDER OF the Arcot Mission in South India of the Reformed Church of America, after sixty-four years of missionary service, has reminded many of the remarkable record of the Scudder fam- ily, the fourth generation of which is now connected with the Arcot Mission. The first John Scudder, M.D., reached India in 1819 and served in Calcutta, Jafina, Madura and Madras. All his seven sons served in the Arcot Mission. In the past one hundred years, twenty-five of his children and grandchildren have been missionaries in various foreign lands. When the Dr. John Scudder whose widow has just died went from Boston to India in an ice ship in 1861, the trip took four months. He died twenty-five years ago, and she is survived by their five sons and one daughterâ€"the three eldest being in America and the three youngest in the Arcot Mis- sion; namely, Rev. Henry J. Scudder of Punganur, Rev. Walter T. Scudder of Tindivanam and Dr. Ida S. Scudder, Principal of the Women’s Medical College in Vellore. Two of her grandchildren and a great-nephew are also at work in ndia. “The preaching in our village work has to be of the simplest kind. Imagine yourself in a village preaching to a people who can neither read nor write, who have no knowl- edge of the world except within a radius of fifty miles. I asked this morning how many had ever heard of Christ,°and one said, “How can we hear without someone to tell us?” Caste, superstition and ignorance must be overcome. DR. NORMAN, A CANADIAN MISSIONARY IN NAGANO. writes of the increasing strength of the moral reform and prohibition movements in Japan, but goes on to say: “The licensing of prostitution is becoming more and more a live question in Japan. Last fall petitions signed by over six thousand adults were presented to the governor of this pro- vince asking for the abolition of the system. The Governor replied that he did not think public opinion was sufficiently advanced yet for such a step. A month ago there was a convention of brewers and distillers in our city. They dis- tributed literature telling of the good things connected with drink, they held public meetings here and in a neighboring city, and some of them got drunk, evidently thinking that, as example is better than precept, they should give examples of what drinking will do. One thing that struck me was that the brothel keepers and the brewers used the same argu- ments. Both admitted that their business was bad, but they said his evil has always existed and the best way to deal with it is by license and government control.” A YOUTH, LOOKING THROUGH A PICTURE BOOK. asked his tutor: “Do you remember what you used to read first when you were a boy ?” The tutor replied: “The funny page. That is lifeâ€"fun, then romance, then tragedy.” CHRIST ATTENDED FEASTS AND TOOK PART IN THE BELIEF THAT WOMEN WILL BE THE MOST PO- tent force in the disintegration of Islam finds corroboration in the fact thd they will not long submit to the state of deg- redation which'lslam imposes upon them. ' IN A RECENT LETTER FROM THE WRITER’S SON IN India, he says: It must be admitted that many of the tragedies of human life are brought on through love of fun, which love at its best may be a slippery thing, because, as one has said, its appeal is so fundamental an instinct that it enlists our co-operation easily. There is but one thing that can steady our fun and keep life from being a tragedy, and that is the will of God carried out in that fun. We say this believing that fun has its place in God’s will. “What we need in Christianity is not preaching, but wit- nessing. Anyone can preach, but it takes a real Christian, who has sacrificed something for his faith to witness to the truth he has found. I learned from experience that when I preached the gospel I had a certain amount of success, but when I began to bear witness, it was a far greater help to many.” When we look at the results accomplished after the lapse of nineteen centuries, especially in heathen lands, we are forced to ask ourselves to what have Christians been wit- nessing during these centuries, and of what am I witnessing INDIAN SAINT, SADHU SUNDAR SINGH, SAID: For God to look upon. To heip along the way the rent Of all his fellow-men, And make this earth, a holier sight ’Tia night, And,onebyone,thestarscreepout To show themselves to all below. Some big, some small, some faint, But each one has its lovely light, Given by God Himself; To make the sky a lovelier place For mortnl eyes to gaze upon. 80, on this earth God's stars shine out. 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