Christian Mission Work and the Peace Plea
These are days of strenuousness, or ought to be, in Christian work. There is a world to be warned. Souls are dying on every side, blinded to the things of eternal interest by the near and temporal. Among the special mission papers that have a decided mission is the Life Boat, published at 4-33rd Place, Chicago, edited by Dr. David Paulson. Among the excellent things in the November number is “The Relation of Diet to Character,” by Prof. W. W. Prescott, and “A Visit to the Life Boat Mission,” by Col. H. H. Hadley, superintendent of the old Jerry McAuley Mission, New York. A special feature is rescue work. Send five cents for a sample copy. It ought to be 50 cents a year. In another column is printed “A Plea for Peace” from our brethren, The Friends. It speaks for itself. They feel that God has placed upon them the burden of pleading against bloodshed, and for the better conquests of peace. But so has He called every true Christian. The simple fact is that the world is war-mad and gold-mad, just as divine prophecy said it would be. Nevertheless, in the words of the prophet, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression.” Some will hear and fear, and escape.