1. Mr. Kennedy made no gift to perpetuate his own memory or to bear his own name. There is no suspicion or hint of self-advertising. To give away over thirty million dollars in a manner as impersonal as legal procedure would allow is somewhat noteworthy.

2. Note also the fact that this business man of vast affairs attached no hampering conditions to his bequests. Having selected the institutions which he wished to aid, and in which he had confidence, he was content to leave it to the trustees of these institutions to see that the best possible use was made of the bequests. "For the uses and purposes of said society" is the recurrent phrase as he remembers the missionary organizations of his own and other denominations. Mr. Kennedy's example re-enforces what some generous people do not realize, that the wisest givers are unwilling to embarrass trustees through specific conditions which reach far into the future.

3. He did not give to charity at the expense of his own family or others who might naturally look to him for remembrance. The liberal provision for the widow and for a wide circle of friends, the inclusion of lifetime friends, and his generous distribution to employees, all bespeak a rarely affectionate and appreciative nature.

4. The comprehensiveness of the charitable bequests calls for notice. Here are forty-six institutions remembered. What a list! Colleges at home and abroad for men and women, white and colored, the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association of New York, the Academy of Design, the Metropolitan Art Museum, the Public Library, the Cooper Union, the Children's Aid Society, the United Charities, the City Mission Society, the Tract Society, hospitals, too, and dispensaries-were ever so many and so diverse institutions brought together in a single document?

5. Among the objects which Mr. Kennedy remembered, Presbyterian organizations hold the most prominent place, notably the mission boards of his own church. Nearly three million dollars was given to each of the three leading boards! As a Presbyterian Mr. Kennedy very properly gave mainly to Presbyterian objects, yet did he not confine himself to these. He gave to Robert College at Constantinople a magnificent sum, and remembered two other colleges in Turkey connected with the American Board.

6. Finally, Mr. Kennedy expressed in his will his deep interest in scientific benevolence. It is well known that he was the donor of the United charities Building in New York. The will is added evidence of a special and deep interest in the better methods of relief which are coming into vogue.

In spite of its modesty the will is a remarkably self-revealing document, and on this account it has done more to allay the unreasoning and undiscriminating criticism of the rich which abounds in certain quarters than any recent event. Mr. Kennedy's bequests give color to the saying which some challenge, "A noble rich man is the greatest achievement of God." May his example be followed by many others to whom God has given the opportunity to convert wealth into moral and spiritual power.

DOES IT PAY?

TWENTY-SIX years ago there was not a man in all the region of Luebo, Africa, that had heard the name of Jesus. Now there are over 15,600 believers. Twenty-six years ago there was not a man that knew a letter in any alphabet. To-day there are 15,400 in day schools and 32,000 in Sunday-schools. Twenty-six years ago there was not a man, woman or child in all that great region that could utter a syllable of intelligent prayer. When Bishop Lambuth was there he estimated that at six o'clock every morning 20,000 people gathered in the various villages for morning prayer. And this is but one of the ten missions conducted in Africa by the Southern Presbyterian Church.

LET THE PESSIMIST TAKE NOTE

From Missionary Review of the World

LET those who think Christianity is a spent force ponder the following: When Carey, the first Protestant missionary of the world, went to India, the whole number of nominal Christians in the world was about 200,000,000. Now there are 500,000,000. When he, in the eighteenth century, went out from Christendom as a missionary to the dark world of heathendom, the population

of the world was about 1,000,000,000. It is now supposed to be about 1,500,000,000, which is only another way of saying that, while the population of the world has increased during this period fifty per cent, Christianity has increased 150 per cent, and the ratio shows that the cause of Christ advanced more within the past twenty-five years than it did in the seventy-five years preceding. Our God is marching on.

REALIZING GOD THROUGH MONEY

BY HARVEY REEVES CALKINS

THERE are many ways of realizing God, for

"God fulfills himself in many ways."

He may be realized in prayer. Most people pray; I fear not many realize God in prayer. God may be realized in service. Slowly, very slowly, our generation is coming to know this. God may be realized in sacrifice. We do not know much about that. God in loving kindness is going to let us know something of it during these tremendous months.

However, the "average" Christian man, the man who scans the newspapers and reads the Saturday Evening Post-if God is to be realized by that man, he must be realized in terms of material value. That is where the average man is living. That is where he has always lived, for that is where God placed him, in the midst of things.

When the poor widow was utterly cast down, the prophet asked, "What hast thou in the house?" He did not say, as some good ministers might have said, "Think oftener of heaven, my sister, and you'll feel better!" The worried woman's thought was in the house, where nothing remained for her creditors but a pot of oil; and that is where God met her-measuring oil. It is idle to exhort driven business men to come to prayer meeting." Their whole thought is immersed in their business, and ought to be; and that is where God will meet them and claim them, if so be that we, their ministers, are wise enough to recognize Christ's Gospel of property, and strong enough to preach it.

PUTTING WAR OUT OF BUSINESS

FOREIGN MISSIONS AS A PEACE PROMOTER-HOW THEY DIFFER FROM RED CROSS CHARITY-BOTH SHOULD BE SUPPORTED TO THE LIMIT

(Report of an Address by Rev. James Vance, D.D., at the Northfield Conference, August 1918.)

It has been suggested that during the prevalence of the war large sums of money expended by church bodies on foreign missions should be donated to the Red Cross. In support of this it is urged that the fact that Christian nations are now engaged in a bloody war in Europe disqualifies their representatives from preaching the gospel of peace and good-will to the non-Christian nations. This proposal will no doubt meet with approval among large numbers who believe that foreign missions are unimportant, somewhat fanatical, and may just as well wait, while Red Cross is important, patriotic, practical and urgent. They ask why we should not stop trying to win the world until we have won the war. One Christian minister reasons that it is more important to save one soul than a thousand lives. This estimate that foreign missions are trying to save souls and Red Cross to save lives is an inadequate and mistaken estimate of the purposes of both organizations. The Red Cross is far more than a ministry to the bodies of men; it is pre-eminently a ministry to the spirit. She sends the soldier back to the battle line not only with a sound body but with a valiant and unconquerable spirit. Foreign missions, on the other hand, are far more than a ministry to the soul. The missionary is not engaged in trying to foist a creed, but share a blessing. The hospitals and schools, as well as the work of the evangelists, are intended to show men not so much how to die as how to live. Therefore, there is no real conflict between foreign missions and Red Cross; they are not competitors, but comrades, moving in the same direction and toiling for the same end. It is therefore a vicious plea which would rob one to support the other. The proposal is not practicable; Foreign Mission Boards handle trust funds, their money is received for a definite purpose. If the $100,000,000 recently contributed to Red Cross purposes should be diverted to foreign missions there would be a storm of denunciation, but it would be no less reprehensible if it were reversed.

THE CALAMITY IN EITHER CASE

If foreign missions were discontinued it would mean the destruction of an organization built up through long years and by most laborious processes. Expensive equipment provided for the workers employed in foreign lands would be seriously injured and the workers left stranded. The situation would be comparable to that if the Red Cross work were cut off, and the thousands of doctors, nurses, and the many hospitals were left with no treasury behind them. Either course would be a calamity. The example of our Allies in Great Britain and Canada, where are some of our largest missionary boards, discredits the proposal to discontinue missions until the war is over. The burdens of the war have pressed on these peoples as they have not begun to in America, yet they have largely increased their gifts to the mission cause. They have felt that this is no time to take a backward step in the prosecution of the greatest of all wars. The Christian people of America can do no less than these people.

The chief objection to the suggestion is that the foreign mission enterprise is our greatest war measure. We are waging a war against war. The gospel is doing more, perhaps, than anything else to put war out of business, and the spread of the gospel is our one substantial hope of a new world in which war will be impossible.

ISAIAH'S VISION OF PEACE

In seeking a remedy, something in which is the promise of making war a thing of the past, we have Isaiah's vision. In his picture of world-wide and enduring peace he paints in a great leader, a hero, God's man; sanest and strongest of his race, a man of wisdom to think out world problems, a man of counsel and might who can rectify world wrongs, a man of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord who can reconcile world alienation; strong son of God, the hope of the future world. Isaiah paints next a judgment; wrong must be sentenced and right rewarded. Oppressors must be dragged down from the seat of power, and the bound of the earth have their emancipation. It must be a peace in which the poor shall have justice and the meek equity. No peace is permanent which comes through compromise; far better wage war forever than crawl before the beast. The third thing in the picture is a social millen