Religious Liberty in Spain
By Editor
The Canalejas government, in its fight for religious liberty in Spain, proposes to reduce the number of religious institutions erected by the numerous Catholic orders, and deny them the privilege of exemption from military service and taxation. It also intends to reduce the state appropriation for the support of the church, and to give Protestants more freedom in their worship. Wanted Men.—The Word and Way, a Baptist paper, in a recent issue has an editorial entitled "People for a Time Like This." It refers to God's raising up men in the past like David, Joseph, Daniel, and Paul to meet specific demands, and it feels that there ought to be men to meet these demands at the present time. One of the difficulties that church is finding is that so many of its real good men who ought to be able to meet these demands are tied up with other churches matrimonially, and that brings trouble; just as it did when Herod married his brother Philip's wife, and Ahab, the sun-worshiping Jezebel. The editorial says, a Baptist minister in China has a wife who is not a Baptist, perhaps the leading man in a community is in his family mixed matrimonially with other denominations; and declares, "It would be an immense help to our Baptist work throughout the world if we could quit forming matrimonial alliances that put us into embarrassing and compromising positions in relation to our Baptist faith and work." And there is splendid good sense in the editorial. God's true men ought not to put themselves in a compromising position in any way. If our Baptist brethren would look beyond the truth of Scripture regarding baptism and take hold of God's message for this time they would find among them a good many men that were fitted for the work which the Lord now has to do.