Show OHR CHRISTIAN ISTrAN demoralization A chocking moral state of affairs is revealed in jamaica tho the col lonial bishop of the church of england in and und for that island in a pastoral letter bows shows by incon trover table statistics that more than two thirds ot of all the births that were returned as haying having taken place on the island for over a year were ill illegitimate well may t the lie bishop pray as he does that god may hasten the day when the great majority of the sons eons and daughters af jamaica P acca will be born amid the healthful morals and eu surroundings of pure pur e homes and nurtured under guardian the care of loving fathers and mothers the new york herald points out how monstrous rou the moral conditi tion of jamaica ie is especially tor for a it colony for which the british government with if its high christian pretentious is re it cites other statistics against the i or 66 per cent of il illegitimacy acy in jamaica the per in in england ie is 46 and in much uch abused ireland only 23 per taut in scotland it rises to 89 in neither austria nor noi denmark the two european countries moat most demoralized in this particular doe does it reach 13 in the united state states it is i 7 per cent tnt rev george R crooks D D conclude concludes a paper on an arth why am I 1 a methodist in the north american review R with thie this summing up 1 I am m i 1 th nal spirit of the protestant refo reformation inia because I 1 that the true test of a christian church is its power with the common people and methodism bears the test and because I 1 think that in this regard methodism is asin in the right line of progress and follows the procedure of original christianity janit avary A window to be placed in the presbyterian church at balaton N Y in memory of I 1 the lie rev S prime D D late editor of the new now york observer has just been completed it is a reproduction in stained glass of albert c cal al etching of the ascension and the fidure of the savior ie is nearly life sie size grayr a hearty young a citi zen en of rockville pa bet he cou could I 1 d eat a pint of ice cream in half a minute he ire won gulping down the cream in huge wallows swallows then he bet that he be could eat three large ginger cake cakes that together weighed half a pound la Istone one minute devoured Ile two of them and waa was on the third when he a suddenly tid denly dropped to the floor dead |