France has had an earthquake, jand is really proud of herself. In liber eastern marches windows have shaken, houses have trembled, people have rushed into the streets, and others have "thought it was burglars", '<3 is been reported from There something irresistibly comic in the thought that people very literally' trembling upon the verge of the wers catastrophe, known to nature should think it was caused by a clumsy burglar. The human mind docs not instantaneously adapt ftself; a distant explosion, wrecking half a mile square, can sound ex-vast, representing such a great constituency of intelligent people in Europe and Americs, and yet recognized by the governments of the world as a force of the firist magnitude, challenges the attention of all Jehoughtful persons."
Dr. Brown asserted that foreign missions are maintained:
"Because Christ commanded his disciples to- give his gospel to all "Because a true Christian experi-Jerce prompts us to seek the world, Christianity 3s a world faith. We [believe our faith to be true. That conviction prompts us to give it to fall who do not possess it; and by of the paradoxes of the Christ jan life the more religion we give away the more we have left at home.
"Because afl men need the gospel which we possess. God is nota national diety, but the Father and [Sovereign of the race. Jesus Christ is "the propitiation for our sins,' and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. We are told that non-Christian peoples have religions of their own; but if Confactanism and Buddhism are not. good enough for us, they are not Rood, enough for the Chinese and the Siamese.
"Because Christ can do for all men what He done for us. The experience of a hundred yerrs thas shown that additional chapters in the Book of Acts might be written. Already there are transformed lives jand great social reforms testifying the continued power of the pel. The peoples of China, India and Japan are far higher in the seciul scale of civilization than our Jamcestors were when the first for-actly like a large metal tray dropped is" missionary found them.
We by "the people overhead-she one [are not sending missionaries so more likely Shes peoples because they are our than the other, French inferiors, but because they are on fearthquare killed nobody, shook] brethren. damage than to a window-pane house, did no more hhere and there; but earthquakes in "Because we have passed the age this "hemisphere are phenomena of provincialism and entered the age fe] which in their lightest manifestation, lof cosmopolitanism. Thirty-five years command un amount of attention ago my predecessor slid that forand awe which would greatly surjcign missionary effort was for peo-inhabitants of more frequent! ples who did not touch our lives at shaken districts. Tokyo would hard-any point. He could not say that ly recognize Messina as a sister in today. Steam and electricity have misfortune, but Messina has quite different notions. brought together the most distant nations China is nearer to New York than California once was.
The inter-relations of Asia and
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