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...declining birth rate. "A willingness to sacrifice to have more children and to give them home Christian training is fundamental to an efficient church. . . . We old fellows can go to hell without affecting posterity, but the habits of our children are of the utmost importance. A parent begins to take his child to the movies when the youngster is 4 years old and then wonders why the child is queer when reaching the age of 16. . . . We must encourage our mem bers to be more virile, spiritually, physically and mentally. This requires taking a firm stand against liquor, gambling, late...
Chief significance of Dr. Machen's new Church, which will probably not subtract more than a few thousand members from the parent organization, is that it liquidates him as ecclesiastical news. He can no longer with reason utter the peppery denunciations of the conduct of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. which used to keep him constantly before the public. A relieved good-by to Dr. Machen & Co. was said last week by the Presbyterian Banner: "We have no unkind feelings toward these brethren but hope they will treat one another better than they have treated...
...third day of the revolt the Transit Commission got a temporary injunction restraining the Long Island from charging more than 2? a mile within the City of New York. Basis of the injunction was the State Railroad Law, which prohibits a road from charging more per mile than its parent company in cities of 1,000,000 population. The Long Island is owned by the Pennsylvania, which elsewhere is asking 2? a mile. The injunction thus permitted the Long Island to charge the old rates along most of its suburban mileage, but only the new rates after it entered city...
Jimmy had many a brush with the police after that, and some narrow escapes, but they never got him. Meantime he had fallen in love (seriously, this time) with an Indian lass, and she with him. Her stern parent, in view of Jimmy's uncertain social position, frowned on the match, and a blackguard named Montenegro, an even harder case than Jimmy, married the girl. It was a blow to Jimmy but he went his way, dodging the police, smacking other hard cases when they asked for it, gradually adding to his flocks until he was regarded...
Between the red-&-gold covers of Porter Sargent's famed catalog of 4,000 private schools, many an undecided parent seeks an educational niche for his offspring. Schoolmasters browse through it to get information about their competitors. But Private Schools' readership is by no means confined to these two classes. Wiseacres know that practically anybody can find something to amuse and instruct him in this fascinating volume, whose 20th Anniversary Edition was published in Boston last week...