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THE CHRISTIAN<br />
NATION.<br />
Vol. 59.<br />
E D I T O R I A L<br />
NEW YORK, SEPTE-AIBBR 24, 1913.<br />
THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.<br />
The Minutes of the Synod of 1913 at the<br />
present price (loc.) will come into the hands<br />
of a larger number of people than usual. We<br />
ask their attention to the Report on pages<br />
79 and 80. Is it not meet that thanks should<br />
be given to the Head of the Church for hearing<br />
the prayersi of his people, when the item<br />
as to the Seminary opening in the Star Notes<br />
is read?" Then the twO' institutions, the College<br />
and the Seminary, will both be kept in<br />
mind, and prayer shall continue that the Lord<br />
of the harvest will send forth laborers into<br />
his harvest.<br />
Dr. Henry Preserved Smith, professor of<br />
the Language and Literature of the Old<br />
Testament and the History of Religion in<br />
the Meadville Theological School (Unitarian),<br />
hasi been chosen Librarian of Union Theological<br />
Seminary.<br />
The following Sabbathi venture is published<br />
with the names in the daily press:<br />
"Washinig)ton, Sept. 14.—Ele-ven society<br />
Aphrodites in tbe early morning today, clad<br />
in skirtless bathing suits, braved the cold waters<br />
of the Tidal Basin for a three-quartermile<br />
swim across it. There were 11 when<br />
tey plunged in, but only seven reached the<br />
ether side, and those seven were blue and<br />
chilled when kind friends pulled them to the<br />
bank."<br />
What is "Society," after all?<br />
A CHINESE VIEW.<br />
The Republic Advocate is a Chinese paper<br />
published in English at Shanghai. Tbe Missionary<br />
Herold for September contains this<br />
quotation from it:<br />
"The splendid self-sacrifice of thie missionaries<br />
in ouir midst is frequently neutralized<br />
by the selfishness of their governments, and<br />
we bope thiey will let this truth be widely<br />
known."<br />
The writer is supposed to be a Yale graduate.<br />
A KINGDOM OE CHRIST<br />
It is not thie private sentimen't.s or individual<br />
conduct of the inhabitants of a land,<br />
which gives character to a Kingdom of this<br />
world, as such; neithier is the adoption of<br />
Christian principles and practices by the<br />
great bulk of a people sufBcient to constitute<br />
the nation a Kingdom of Christ. The nations<br />
of the world have, in thieir national capacit\',<br />
too plainly acknowledged and served<br />
the god of this world. They have also, in<br />
too many instances, proclaimed themselves<br />
Kingdoms of anti-Christ, gi-\-ing their power<br />
and support directly to the beast in their<br />
public social character. When the happy state<br />
of things announced in this prediction shall<br />
have been introduced, it is impossible to believe<br />
otherwise than that these Kingdoms<br />
shall in the same public social capacity, become<br />
the Kingdoms of Christ. And what<br />
does tbis becoming the Kingdoms of Christ<br />
imp rt? Certainly at the very least, that for<br />
which we are now contending, namely, that<br />
in token of tbeir subjection to Him they shall<br />
recognize His authority, and subordinate<br />
their interests! to the advancement of His<br />
glory.—Messiah the Prince, by William Syming-ton.<br />
AVHO EDITS THE MAGAZINES.<br />
"fial monthly magazines were not edited by<br />
college graduates. The man who made the<br />
remark<br />
was- piromptlly confrcnited with the<br />
following record:<br />
The Qentury, edited by Robert Sterling<br />
Yard, Princeton, '83.<br />
Scribner's, edited by Edward L. Burlingame.<br />
Harvard, '69.<br />
Harper's, edited by Henry M. Alden, Williamis,<br />
'57.<br />
Atlantic Monthly, edited by EUery Sedgwick,<br />
Harvard, '94.<br />
Review of Reviews, edited by Albert<br />
Shaw, Grinnell, '79.<br />
World's Work, edited by Arthur W. Page,<br />
Harvard, '05.<br />
commandment teaches us that we should keep<br />
holy the Lord's Day. The Sabbath of 'the<br />
]e-\\-s. which is our Saturday, was gradually<br />
changed by the Christian Church to the day<br />
of re:urrection, which is Sunday.<br />
But the<br />
fourth co-mmandmenit applies absblutely to<br />
the Christian Sabbath even as it applied to<br />
the Jewish Sabbath. It teaches us that one<br />
day in seven is holy, and is to be used for<br />
worsbip and nest. It teaches us also that we<br />
are to work six days. Idleness during the<br />
-si-eek is just as mnch a violation of this law<br />
as is staying away from churcb on Sunday,<br />
In these days when the observance of Sun-<br />
day is getting more and more slack it might<br />
be well for us to urge this, commandment as<br />
strongly as possible. God will not bless the<br />
individual or the; nation which 'refuses to<br />
obey this law."<br />
Plans for a great International congress on<br />
marriage and divorce, tO' be held in San Francisco<br />
May 19-25, 1915, were tentatively decided<br />
upon at a reoenit luncheon attended by<br />
members of the California State Commission<br />
on Marriage and Divorce. The congress will<br />
be held under the auspices of the international<br />
committee on marriage and divorce,<br />
at the head of which is Bisihop Luther B.<br />
During a recent, discnission of the old Wilson, of New York. Cardinal Gibbons and<br />
quesition, college versus no-college, one of W. Bourke Cockran are expected to deliver<br />
addresses.<br />
tbe contestants remarked that the substan-<br />
SOCIALISM NO. 3.<br />
Class Struggle.<br />
By the Rev. J. M. Coleman.<br />
Marx finds two, and only two, classes in<br />
society, capitalists! and laborers.<br />
Henceit<br />
is impossible to reconciile the interests of<br />
these classes; there must be hostility<br />
as long as both endure. The outcome of<br />
the struggle between these classes will be the<br />
disappearance of the capitalists and the abolition<br />
of capitalism.<br />
Since th'is result is to<br />
oome about, not through any process of education,<br />
but through the, working; of social<br />
laws over which man had no control, it will<br />
be interesting tO' see how far the inevitable<br />
President Woodrow Wilson bas appointed<br />
process has gone.<br />
the Rev. Dr. Rufus W. Miller one of the 11<br />
In the evolution of the class struggle there<br />
delelgates to represent the United States<br />
are several inevitable results to be noted.<br />
Government at tbe International Congress on<br />
I. The wages of the laborers will be continually<br />
reduced from period to period and<br />
Alcoholism which will be held in Milan, Italy,<br />
September 22 to 28. Doctor Miller is secreitary<br />
of the Publication and Sunday School<br />
the pauper class will increase until all laborers<br />
belong to it. Marx wrote these views<br />
Board of the Refonned Church. Another of<br />
about fifty yearsi ago, so that sO'me will be<br />
the delegation is /Rev. Carles Scanlon, of the<br />
able to judge how far thfe theory seems to be<br />
Presbyterian Temperance Committee.<br />
supported by t'be facts.<br />
According to the statements, of those who<br />
Rev. Dr. Floyd Tomkins says in his comment<br />
on the Sabbath School Lesson of Sep<br />
have given careful study to the question, not<br />
only wages, but also the standard of living,<br />
tember 7, in the Public Ledger: "Tbe fonrth has a higher level than when M'arx wrote<br />
"Das Kapital". But if the view of IVTarx<br />
is correct the decline of wages and increase<br />
of pauperism should have been going on for<br />
at least a century and a half, or since the<br />
definite rise of capitahsm'. Wages should be<br />
lower, not only in money, but in what money<br />
will buy than in our grandfather's days.<br />
Those whoi are supported by charity should<br />
be growing in numbers year by year. But<br />
none of these things are turning out accord'<br />
ing to the theory, which would seem to indicate<br />
that th'ere is something radically wrong<br />
with the theory or the facts.<br />
2. The number of capitalists will inevitv<br />
blv decrease.