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EVENING TUBLIO LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, ' THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1910
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Which of us has not prayed in this War-?
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Written in a shell hole
private letter from
a French soldier
"My dear and good ones: When
this letter reaches you, your child will
have gone to heaven yesterday I was
struck and fell. I am still on the same
spot; for, by a truly unworthy similar
ity, I am actually nailed to my cross,
being unable to move. I am suffering
desperately from thirst. I pray and I
await the will of my good God. You
know that before I left I had made a
vow to sacrifice my life. I have no
fear of death. My greatest sorrow is
to leave you, but I know that before
long I shall find you again."
Thousands of instances of such touch
ing faith, such joyful sacrifice by the
I soldiers of all the sillies have moved thei
world and brought us all new interest in.:
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A wounded American
soldier said:
"I used to wonder art the Gross
not now! I think a man is lucky
to have a chance to die for a great
cause." This splendid spirit shown in
the brave deeds as well as the words of
so many of our boys, has reinspired the
American people to new, more vital
ideals.
In his book telling of the spiritual
awakeningas he has seen it in the soldier
overseas, H. P. Almon Abbott adds,
"The conversions of the battlefield are
not, in point of numbers, to be men
tioned in the same, breath with the
conversions of the relatives and friends.
They are counted in the hundreds of
thousands and they constitute a well
nigh universal Pentecost of Humanity."
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
after six months' work with
the A.E.F. says: "One gains
among our men in France an
impressive sense of the uni
versal influence of religious
life and thinking in the
United States."
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A new spiritual awakening
is sweeping the 1Wbrld!
Interprets world events
Each week Christian Herald interprets the news of
the world to three hundred thousand of the best typc
of American families. No other magazine of its class
or character has a circulation half as large as this.
Twice the percentage of subscription
renewals of the average magazine
Most magazines consider that they have made a fine
record if they get 40 to SO per cent of subscription
renewals. For the last IS years, 75 to '85 per cent of
the readers of Christian Herald have renewed their
subscriptions year after year.
Huge sums given by Christian rterald readers
In recent years, through Christian Herald, almost
$5,000,000 have been. given for the relief of suffering
all over the world. Since the beginning of the war,
151,000 readers have given Christian Herald $1,000,000
,. . for relief work, an average of almost $7 apiece.
THE danger, the heroic sacrifices, the simple faith of
those so dear to us in this war these things have
touched each one of us tothe quick, have wrung prayer
from the heart even of the skeptic.
Spirituality has Become the vital thing in American life.
It has inspired vast gifts gifts of more than six hundred
million dollars since we went to war gifts for the help of
the suffering and the lonely.
It is finding expression in the enormously increasing
church membership. Since the war began, over two; million
wholly new members have joined the churches of the United
States! We now have over 41,000,000 church members!
Book" publishers are now selling hundreds of books on
every phase of religion. Our papular magazines, which used
seldom to mention spiritual matters are now printing in
numerable articles on these subjects. Even in the daily news
papers, religious and spiritual topics have become "live news"!
There is a vast new interest in these things a vast new
turning toward them. ''
Yet there is but one news magazine which- in setting forth
the events of the world consistently interprets their 6pirhual
significance; but one which regularly sets forth the great spirit-
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GRAHAM PATTERSON, PUBLISHER
ual thought of the day. That one is the Christian Herald.
Take, for exampb, such a subject as the League of Nations.
There is hardly a publication which has not discussed it from
the political, economic or some other viewpoint. Ii re
mained for i Christian Herald to discuss it in the light of
Christian ideals.
The one news magazine inspired by these,
great interests
For men and women of broad interests, Christian Herald
does more than report world events. It interprets them. ' It.,
illuminates them, in picture and article. Especially for church
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of the churches, stimulating religious thought from the
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problems and the education of the child it throws new light.
Its very fiction is inspiring.
In the homes of people of varied interests, Christian
Herald is a vital factor, a trusted friend. It is interesting and
stimulating thousands of different types of minds; is strength-,
eningand moulding the: spiritual -thought of every member
of three liundred thousand families.
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