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GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY. ! FROM PA>NTlNG BV Pt-OCftHORST *5 .The Jazz*plc^lre of modern youth la badly out of focus, and the proof for It la that Interest In blble study and religion Is actually on the increase ’ among the rising generation, especial ly in the cities. Q 11 There Is also nonsuch thing as a •blble belt" In America, say religious leaders and publishers of blbles and blble-study courses, who have been making an analysis of the reasons for the steady Increase in blble sales since the world war. Sales statistics so far gathered disclose that the city Is Just 'as good a market for religious Items as the town. "Almost 17 million blbles and tens 8f thousands of blble-study courses were sold In the United States last year,” Btates O. E. Bogart, commis sioner of the Direct Selling Federa tion, Chicago, who has been gather ing the business statistics of the sur vey, "and 1929 promises to smash all previous records. ft "One blble house alone has sevency flve thousand representatives and dis tributing channels this year, more than one-third of which will be ac tively selling blbles the entire year through. The lf>28 sales of blble-study courses ran Ir.lo several Stotired tbou ud,, courses, the majority in the •IUmi sod towns.” Modem youth may not practice formal religion as keenly as bis grand parents did, states Dr. James M. Gray, president of the Moody Bible Insti tute. Chicago, but "he 1s more uni- • versally Interested In education and in studying religion In a sincere effort to learn Its personal value to hlm.<a The Increased Interest in religious rtudy with the blble as its center, la demonstrated by the constant growth of the "Family Altar League," a non sectarian organization which encour ages parents to gather their children around them in the home for religious Instruction or prayer," says John Meredith, Chicago, secretary of tbs league which now is backed by many well-known business men throughout the United States. The Increased use of blbles In hotel rooms Is the final confirmation ct these facts, says Fred Fulton. Milwau kee. the successful automotive equip ment manufacturer who also is in ternational president of the Gideon society supplying blbles gratis to hotels. "We find no difficulty now In getting hotels to let us supply a *lble i for every room,” be says 'The blble Is getting to be standard equipment and the extent to which It Is used proves It Is growing more popular every day.” luPina/ional Sunday School Le.no,, for SeMrnder 1 { ^.. - a E^RA S RETURN TO JERUSALEM <, vr,V Ezra 7:6-10; 3:21-23, 31, j2 | Rev. Samuel U. fricc, D.D. 'About R0 voirs after the first return to Jerusnlen from T>’’ "n, Rustam urge upi,,',he devout jew to have part in .he rcslora.'^ ;u ' the land which had been given him in peipetuity by J-iiONa^ ;; , work of leadership had become a matter ot consc ence to e meditate'! on the entire situation, for he ‘ had set • 's h.a t to u ^ "aw of Jehovah and do it, and to teach to Israel statute, ...a ^Authorization had been obtained front ^nl JSSWe’T Though"muctTtreasure . « was requested. Such a request could not b ■' A survey st*i> wi.*» niauc ^ thi . .. r,,.nM.» i*»v \ tak • that not a ite was t f «f rid this tribe furnished thc-Wj -n , . saer fi csaisd o* rings, and thes v 'e very } l t? were sent tael to the br, 1 - 1th nn ^ , ; .... . ■ who became emerg ncy men to - also secured 220 Nethcnim, whose duties were le • ■ • ■-» w rshi > bu: highly esscn.ial. • g; non flOO In! h«w*u \jr mftV an(i valuables to the extent or nearly *a.t , - M^we.^ri»-t;r„Ku A custodians. . .1 rr<«nerjl situation an ! then re Ezra took three days to size up thet **n««. the Cl)m,araiively forms her,'an. tor base things had bee. .[>h >v -naj intermarried few years of residence •>>’ the <-» • r\me({ nations rv:l). Herein had with the Canaan:tes and seven other n ^s m;i.,c lhe Captivity been the basic cause oi .he tornur •- then “sat down neeessarv the. station and Ezra confound.d 'On the otn rs thc wor,t3 ot the God of Israel v is joined by those tha» t^mo.ed , • inv return to such i k..4* Cod is upon u»i iu*.u