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August 20, 1913.
A FAMILY PAPER.
F D I T O R I A T ^^s°"^y would convince that the basis of
*^ *^ v^ X X Z^ I_^ Masonry is not Revealed Religion, thatit is
NEW YORK, AUG. 20, 1913. common to all lands, and to men of every
religion, that the setting of the Lodge Room
indicates heathen affinities. Why connect
The issue of the Christian Nation for August
27tb will complete its twenty-ninth year.
I
France on August li gave back to Russia
the great bronze bell taken from the Cathedral
at Seibastopol and brought to France
as part of the spoils of the Crimean war.
It was forimally presented to the Russian
Ambassador.
(]ov. McGovern, of Wisconsin, on Aug.
I signed the Richards 'bill, requiring every
man applying for a marriage license to hold
a certificate of good health from a licensed
physician, and the Chinnock bill, prohibiting
the marriage of second cousins. The Richards
bill, as introduced, required both parties
to a proposed marriage to present certificates
of good health, but it -was amended
'so as to require the certificate only from
(the mail. Persons avL^^ aittern|pt to evade
the law by going outside the State and marrying
are subject to imprisonment of from
thirty days to one year.
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen of China is a fugitive,
fhe Northern forces having conquered the
Rebel army. His ^ide was presented in this
despatch at the first of the month.
"Dr. Sun Yat-Sen will leave Shanghai tonight
for Hongkong, where he personally
will make an appeal for further support in
his campaign to overthrow Provisional President
Yuan Shi-Kai for crimes wbicb the
Southern leader claims have been committed
by the President, namely, the illegal execution
of military officers, the assassination of the
Nationalist leader, General Sung Chiao-Jen,
the issuing of unconstitutional mandates and
the enactment of lawsj \vithout consulting
Parliament."
it with the names of famous preachers of
the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ which warns against work-righteousness,
and bids men to flee from the wrath
to come?
"SOCIAL SERVICE" CHARGED.
We find the following in The Presbyterian
of August 6:
"Tbe Y. M. C. A. Dance.—This is certainly
a novel title, but it- is no more novel than
the practice which calls for it. The Philadelphia
North American of July 24 contains
the following announcement:
" 'The distance of four city blocks has at
last been bridged by the Young Men's and
the Young Women's Christian Associations. It
may be that the recent campaign to raise
funds for the Young Women's Christian Association
did the trick. It may be simply
that co-operation and cordiality are in tbe
air, and have melted the frigidity of many
years. At any rate, it is a fact that the boys
have invited tbe girls tO' a dance, to be held
on the roof of the central branch at Broad
and Arch Streets, and that the girls have accepted
the invitation with alacrity. The affair
will have the sanction, of the house mother
at Eighteenth and Arch Streets, who believes
that her charges cannot attain a normal
young womanhood without meeting and
making men friends under proper circumstances.
The dance will be chaperoned, and
is expected to be one of the most attractive
and jolliest affairs that has ever been held
at the central branch.'
"Upon inquiry at the Y. M. C. A. building,
we are referred to the Philadelphia Record
for a proper account of the affair. The Record's
account is substantially in accord with
C. A., is apparent, and it is dangerous to discard
it."
This may prove an additional attraction of
the Y. M. C. A. to some young men while
it may prove a drawback to some interested
in Y. W. C. A. work.
This social .service program needs watching.
One of the leading educators of Pennsylvania,
a Presbyterian clergyman, some
time ago attended the re-opening evening of
a local theatre, and being called on he spoke
a few words on the refined theatre. The
managers of theatres have taken hold, and by
thQi iise of Bible subjects with plays and
films, they are luring the church element.
Messrs. Longmans are about to begin the
publication in parts of a new Roman Catholic
translation of the Bible, entitled "The Westminster
Version of the Sacred Scriptures."
It is not intended as a substitute for the
familiar "Douay" version, which, being based
upon the Vulgate, must still be used when
the Epistles and Gospel are read in church,
until the final revision of the Vulgate makes
a new version imperative. The "Westminster
Version" is undertaken, it is announced,
in response to "a widespread feeling, itself
due to increased interest in Biblical studies,
that the great advances made in textual
criticism, the light thrown upon New Testament
Greek by Egyptian papyri, and the existence
of many needless obscurities and
faults in the current version, all demand a
more accurate translation, if the exhortations
of the Holy S'ee to a more frequent and fruitful
perusal of the sacred Scriptures are to
meet with general acceptance."
The work) has the approval of Cardinal
Bourne and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy,
and will be under the general editorship of
the Rev. Cuthbert Lattey, S. J., Professor of
Sacred Scripture at St. Beuno's College,
North Wales, and the 'Rev. Joseph Keating,
A RELIGIOUS GARB.
The following strange item for the religious
press we take from the Presbyterian that of itbe North American. This is one The fourth Duke of Sutherland died on June
S. I.
of August 6:
of the first fruits of the Men and Rehgion 27, at Dunrobin Castle. He was born in
"The Bible on the Wing."—Tbe Pittsiwgh
Christian Advocate bas an interesting which, in its report on recreation, went far
Movement, in its social service committee,
1851. The Times says: "He devoted the
news item. It says:
in its endorsement of the better theatre and best part of his hfe to the management of
"The latest sensation in Masonic circles just the properly conducted dance as suitable his vast estates, and, though a great deal
now is the Irsveling- Bible, which was started
on a trip around the world by Equity auspices.
his father, the greatest English landowner.
recreations for Christians, under Christian of land had been sold, he probably died, like
Lodge at Chicago in 1909. It has journeyed
through Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and New social service people to meet this early har­
"While, therefore, it may be a joy to tbe Besides his English and Scottish estates, he
had bought a great deal of land in Canada,
York, as far as Utica. On April 29, Oriental vest of their sowing; yet there are '>nany
iLodge No. 234. of Utica, started this Bible Christian people throughout the country who which he had visited several times. He owned
in charge of its officers and a delegation of will be grieved to note this new departure. nearly 1,500,000 acres. He worked as hard
four hundred jMasons, to Saint George's Some denominations bar out 'dancing from as any land agent in the management of his
Lodge No. 6, in Schenectady. And later, their practices, and they-ivill seriously question
the righ'lt of 'itbisT interdenomiinational
estates, whch he brought into a businesslike
from there it continued its journey to New
York, where it will start its sea voyage for agency to so"openly tramp down,their convictions.
Moreover, there are men who have
condition."
Europe. At each lodge where the Bible is
received an elaborate banquet is usually held, given freely to the Y. M. C. A. as a religious The Religious IRambler, who so stirred
sometimes the State Armory being used to and moral institution, who will not be disposed
to see it become the fosterer of what byterian Church by his speech at the late
the divided conservative forces of the Pres­
accommodate the necessary hundreds, and
beeches are made bv noted men on the Book they regard as questionable amusements. With Assembly, capturing the Moderatorship for
of books. And so the Masons bave come to the modern trend of dancing, it seems at
his candidate, writes up the Church Union
put a new interpretation on the entry, frequently
met with lin the journals of Wesley association has sowed seed which will prove subject in the North American for July 12:
least an unwise procedure, and we fear this
and Whitfield, 'The Word ran, and was glorified.'
"
some nature. The wisdom of the original for several years. It has been debated in
tares in its field,of a hurtful and trouble­
"This great Canadian union has been 'uo'
A superficial study of the origin of Free plan, separating the Y. M. C. A. and Y, W. manv church gatherings. Recently' it was