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 And where is the man who comes up from the throng, Who does the new deed and sings the new song, Who makes the old world as a world that is new? And who is the man? It is you! It is you! And our praise is exultant and proud. We are waiting for you there—for you are the man! Come up from the jostle as soon as you can; Come up from the crowd there, for you are the man— The man who comes up from the crowd. (Text.)

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CROWN, THE CHRISTIAN'S

A true Christian gladly works for the souls of the people without hope of any earthly fee or reward, but such an elevated policy naturally appears aimless to the selfish or unenlightened worldling.

Gipsy Smith says: "My father was once preaching in the open air at Leytonstone. A coster in his donkey-cart shouted out, 'Go it, old party, you will get 'arf a crown for that job.' My father stopt his address for a moment, and said quietly, 'No, young man, you are wrong; my Master never gives half-crowns. He gives whole crowns.'" (Text.)

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CROWNING CHRIST

"Why did you put your five-dollar gold-*piece in the missionary collection, instead of some silver?" Davie was asked. "Because," he replied, "as the congregation sang, Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord of all,' I imagined that I could hear his steps coming down the aisle to receive his crown, and I did not want Him to wear a copper crown, or a silver crown, but a gold crown." A part of the missionary work is giving gold for Christ's coronation.

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Crucified—See.

CRUEL GREED

A missionary from a north China city wrote to the Missionary Review of the World:

Recently some professional procurers going the rounds of the cities of northern China buying girls for the brothels of Shanghai stopt here in their diabolical quest. They negotiated a sale with a mother living near us for her seventeen-year-old daughter. As this daughter's feet were not small enough to command the sum desired, the mother arose at midnight while the children were sleeping and proceeded to beat the feet of the daughter in question to a pulp. The agonizing pain, the heartrending screams were of no avail. The feet were bound into a smaller compass by this process and a more advantageous sale expedited.

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Dr. William H. Leslie, for many years a missionary in the Kongo, recently confirmed many of the stories of the atrocities that have marked the rule of the Belgians in that country. This is what he says:

With my own eyes I have witnessed many of the most horrible examples of cruelty practised upon the poor natives in that country. I have seen natives with one hand cut off and I have seen them with both cut off, and in many cases the poor victims were children.

Dr. Leslie also said that much of the cruelty had been practised in order to impress upon the blacks the necessity of their bringing to market the rubber wanted by their persecutors, and to emphasize the dire results that would follow their failure to do so.

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CRUELTY, CHINESE

There is a cruel custom which prevails in some districts in South China in time of drought. A large collection of brass locks is made, and each is marked with a Chinese character. One iron lock is added to the pile, and duplicate slips are distributed among all the male population of the villages. The unfortunate man whose slip holds the same writing on it as the iron lock must have a slit made in the front of his throat and through this, the bar of the iron lock passed. He is considered to be in some way the cause of the drought and must wear this lock until rain comes. Blood-poisoning often carries the victim off before the drought is broken.

As fast as Christian mission work prevails in China, these cruelties disappear.

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Cruelty from the Past—See.