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choices."
Glimpses of the Religious World
Frank E. Allen, D. D.
No Atheists
Col. John D. Craig, a former Army man commissioned
by the government to photograph atomic explosions, states
in one of his lectures that "there are no atheists among nu
clear scientists
not a single one. When they succeeded in
splintting the atom, they realized that for the first time man
had stepped into the realm of creation, and that it was di
vine Sovereignty speaking to him, and that man had better
listen to what his Creator is saying to him."
Stative of Mohammed Removed
A marble statue of Mohammed that stood for more than
50 years in a New York City courthouse has been removed
at the suggestion of the U. S. State Department. This action
was requested by the Islamic governments of Indonesia,
Egypt and Pakistan in order to comply with the Moslem
objection to graven images.
Archeological Discoveries
Archeological discoveries in Palestine are becoming
more frequent. Among the recent discoveries are: (1) An
underground church carved out of solid rock 50 feet below
the tomb in the garden at Gordon's Calvary. (2) The re
mains of what may be the idolatrous shrine denounced by
the prophet Amos (Amos 5:5) (3) The ruins of the 2000-
year-old palace of King Herod the Great at Masada, near
the dead sea.
Among the treasures located at the site of Herod's
palace were the palace fortress which has a mosaic flooring
fronted by a large columned terrace, four cisterns estimated
to hold 40,000 cubic meters of water, remains of pottery,
pillars, inscriptions, food and trees, and the earliest mosaics
yet found in Israel.
Youth in Formosa
A group of young people, in the teen-age, have organ
ized themselves into a band which they call, "Christian
Youth in Action." They have decided to form tract bands,
to help in street meetings and do hospital visitation. On each
Sabbath afternoon they
distribute tracts on the highways
and byways of Taichung. On certain Sabbaths the group di
vides and each separate group goes to a village in the vicin
ity for tract distribution. Most, of these are children of
missionaries.
Work in Ecuador
An evangelistic effort has been launched by missionar
ies in Ecuador in an effort to reach the Quecha Indians.
They have established an inn for them near the city Cuenca.
When the Indians come to the city on market days they
find the inn a convenient place to sleep, store their products
and quarter their animals. While they are guests at the inn
gospel messages are given, slides and recordings are used
and tracts are given out.
Atheism in China
The Chinese Communists have joined the campaign still
spreading in the Soviet Union and its satellites to promote
"scientific
atheism"
among
China's youth. The latest effort
appeared in China Youth and labeled religion "an opiate for
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the intoxication of the people, a social problem and an in
strument of aggression."
The magazine declared that "God
was created by the psychology of fear and religion owes its
birth and continued existence to the helplessness of man
against social relations."
Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme Court has just now (today as I write)
ordered the courts of the South to try to carry out as
rapidly as they can well do so, the order to discontinue
segregation in the schools.
More Alcoholism than Polio
An item in The Free Methodist states that alcoholism
is one hundred times more prevalent than polio, according
to Dr. Caradine R. Hooton, executive secretary of the
Methodist Board of Temperance, Washington, D.C. "The
American people raise millions of dollars each year to fight
cancer, TB and Polio," said Dr. Hooton, "but spend billions
to help spread the virus that causes alcoholism."
Causes of Juvenile Delinquency
The Moody Monthly in an editorial says :
"Pity a nation
such as ours that is literally terrified at the spectre of its
young people out of control! Yet in Washington, D. C, New
York, Chicago, Los Angeles and throughout the country,
courts, school officials, juvenile authorities and communi
ty leaders are perplexed and appalled by that they see.
"No one who has faced the problems of juvenile delin
quency will argue that they
are simple or easy. But the
source of juvenile delinquency may be located without much
trouble.
"Like it or not, nearly every juvenile delinquent is a
monument to the failure of a home and the parents in that
home. In the economy of God, the child is entrusted to the
parents not only for physical care but for guidance in his
spiritual and moral
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