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RELIGION, IN AND AFTER THE WAR
General Pershing's ruthlessness In
"scrapping" Inefficient men is one of
the surprises of the observer in
France. Xo officer or method can
continue for an hour after he or it
fail.; to "make good." War is not a
polite or considerate thing. Its Is
sues are so vital and tremendous,
that no small thing is permitted to
stand in the way of its success. Pre
cedents. conventions, convenience,
prestige, all are as nothing in the
face of the one supreme considera
tion.
That same spirit, which put first
things first, is being imparted to all
of life by the war. It is making over
many of the great institutions of so
ciety. Soldiers have learned a new
state of mind, which distinguishes
betweon essential or nonessential.
So when they come home they will
change a great many things that we
stay-at-homes have been reluctant to
touch, because of timidity, conserva
tism or prejudice. They have shaken
off old fears, habits and associations,
and it will not irk them to throw
into the scrap-heap many things that
belong there, while they are about
the task of bringing essential insti
tutions up to a hundred per cent ef
ficiency. Every one of us needs to get j
flxe4 firmly in his mind the convic-.
tion that grave changes are coming
in many departments of life, after j
the war.
War's Effect Upon the Church
Now what will happen to the
Church? Something, we may be
sure. For this oldest and largest of
institutions is one of the first and
most formidable factors with which
the world has to reckon. It under
lies and embraces most of the forces
that make for change and progress.
Out of the Church came the ideals
which sent the allied nations to war
for the Jesus-ideals of justice, right
eousness and brotherhood. There is
nothing that touches the life of men
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which is not of deep concern to the
Church.
Already the war has changed the
Church. It luis taught her how to
create new machinery for dealing
with the needs of tho armies, and it
has quickened in her afresh the
Christ-spirit of solicitude for man
kind. Consider what it means that
; there is not a single unit of the
| armies of Britain and America, larg-
I cr than a company, that is not at this
1 moment receiving the helpful and dl
j rect attention of the agents of the
' Church. We sometimes overlook the
magnitude of tho war work done by
1 Christianity. Every regiment has its
I chaplains. These men are doing an
j important part of the army's work,
; under the recognition and direction
of the government. I have talked
j with chaplains in France, and 1 can
• testify to their tireless activity, to J
I their broad-minded efficiency, and to;
their shepherdly devotion and catho
' lie spiritual solicitude.
All the world knows what the Y.
; M. C. A. is doing in France, and in
1 the training camps. This Is done in
[ the spirit of the Church, and as her
I representatives. It is an innovation,
i and on a colossal scale, which is
bound to make all Christian hence
i forth think in larger terms of reli
i gious obligations and opportunity.
l lt has revealed the possibilities of
practical ministry to men in the
name and mind of Jesus. Soldiers ac
cept this beautiful service of the
M. C. A. as being the work of the
Church. They understand the relig
iou spirit back of it all. Its toler
ance, comprehensiveness, freedom
from censoriousness and practical
character, appeal to them as being
true to the genius of Christianity.
Anybody who says that the Church
is out of date and ineffective has
only to look upon what she is doing
in France to-day. in order to have
his notions revised.
That service flags fly from practi
cally every Church in the land, and
that the pulpits are putting heart
and conviction and patience into our
patriotism, and that helpful war
work of many kinds is done in and
from the Church, are clear proofs of
the vital quality of the Church in
our land and time.
A Look in the Large
As a background to our thinking,
let us take a long, large look. We
are most of us accustomed to think
ing only in terms of our village or
neighborhood churches, and of our
western denominations. We forget
how old and widespread is the Chris
tian Church. It is not even confined
to the Protestant and Roman Cathol
ic bodies. I have personal acquaint
ance with the Greek Church, which
includes the Russian and kindred
groups; with the Gregorian, ori
Amenlan, Church; with the Xestor-i
ian Church and its off-shoots: and!
with the Coptic Church of Egypt. All
of these bodies date back to within
three centuries of the Apostolic age..
Even the person who knows
only the surface of history under- j
stands how the Christian Church has I
been the conserver of civilization, in j
the dark days of human history. The j
Roman Church saved civilization in j
the West, fro mthe Goths and the |
Vandals; and the Greek Church;
saved it in the East, from the Tar
tars and Moslems. At the present!
hour, when craft, materialism, self- i
interest and military power, flouting!
the spirit of Christianity, are seek- i
ins to dominate all humanity, it is •
the Christian Church which has held
steadily to the fore the ideal of!
righteousness and brotherhood, to be:
maintained even at the cost of j
blood.
Age is not the only claim of the j
Church in reverence. Her far-flung!
magnitude has no rival or peer. How '
small and local seem even the great-1
est of the fraternal organizations j
when contrasted with the band of
brothers founded by Jesus'. There is;
not a single nation'on earth, with,
the possible exception of interiorl
Thibet and Afghanistan, and some j
of the tribes in middle Arabia, where j
Christians, members of the Church,,
may not be found. At times and in j
places the Church has been pervert
ed and palsied, but withal she is the'
most beneflcent. as well as the most t
widespread institution on earth. |
About one-third cf all the people liv- i
ing to-day are nominally Christian.
Xo nation is either so large or so old j
as the Christian Church for the |
continuity of China and Japan Is •
racial, rather than governmental, the ]
national forms having changed.
I
"Oh where are kings and empires
now.
Of old that went and came?
But, Lord. Thy Church is praying
yet,
A thousand years the same.
"For not like kingdoms of the world i
Thy holy Church, O God;
Though earthquake shocks are
threatening her,
. And tempests are abroad.
"Unshaken as eternal hills,
Immovable she stands,
A mountain that shall fill the earth,
A house not made by hands."
Tlie New "Good Society"
Xow that all thinking persons are
looking forward to a reconstruction j
of the social order, we are bound to j
contemplate the place of the Church j
in the new scheme of things. All |
pur problems are problems of human I
relationship. The question is one of j
men and women getting along to
gether in kindlier, pleasanter, more
brotherly fashion. Wise men tack \
big names on to what we want; but j
really, all that we are after is that
folks shall be happier and more!
neighborly all the folks, every-;
where in this big world—and that!
nobody shall be allowed to hurt any- j
body.
Which means that we want "good
society" for .everybody; and "good
society" that is real is the society
of good people. It takes more than
a Fifth Avenue tailor and barber and
haberdasher and manicurist to fit
one for "good society." The transfor
mation must begin at the center of
things, away down at the springs of
being. And that is the business of
the Church. She does not introduce
candidates for her "good society" to
certain social leaders; she introduces
them to Christ. He takes them in
hand and makes them over, from the
heart outward.
In simplest definition, the Church
is a company of friends of Christ.
All congenial to Him. the members
find themselves congenial to one an
other. The tie that binds them Is
their common relation to the Lord.
Many barriers separate them other
wise: for Jesus draws His friends
from every race and condition of
mankind. He has all sorts of
raw material from the stark heathen
African of the jungle to the grad
uate of Europe's universities, and
gives them a new mind, even His
own. He makes them want the same
good and shun the same evils. Upon
them all He puts His own stamp of
brotherhood. He calls them children
of His heavenly Father and imparts
to them the family spirit.
When the Great Change Comes
So we have this world-wide fellow
ship of men and women and children
who give first allegiance to the per
sonality and Spirit and teachings of
Jesus. Devotion to Him Is their com
mon characteristic. They want to
live their lives In His way. To win
His approval Is their highest ambi
tion. They care more about being
Christians Christ's "people—than
about being Presbyterians or % Bap
tists or Methodists or Episcopalians
or Catholics or Gregorlans or Ortho
dpx.
I In these-war-times, when every-
I thing is being appraised anew, they
are learning from the single-minded
, soldiers, who have followed Christ
i clear to Calvary, that it does not
matter much about denominations or
i forms or methods. Over in France I
huve seen Catholic priest and Pro
testant minister unitedly, In a com
mon service, bury both Protestant
and Catholic soldiers In the same
cemetery with no talk of "consecrat
ed ground." And high Church Epis
copalians kneel beside Baptists and
Presbyterians and men of no church
at the Lord's Table, receiving com
munion from the hands of a man of
God, without -once asking who or
dained him, or whether he was im
mersed or sprinkled. This sacra
mental table, spread under the shad
ow of near death, made Jesus very
real; but it made the ecclesiastical
distinctions cf the homeland seem
very unreal and distant. The sol
diers are going to help us back to a
oneness of Christian fellowship that
will shame all our pa?t sectarian nar
rowness and bigotry.
In this great and good society,
there is the world's best hope for
social solidarity. When the mind of
Christ rules all of us. then nobody
will hurt or cheat or oppress any
body. Once the ideals of Jesus are
given right of way in His Church.
W ;?,, shall a rea l fraternity that
will make all schemes of state
socialism seem paltry and mechan
ical. Although she does not yet fully
realize the fact herself, it is none the
less true that the master word for
tnis hour of social flux and change
is with the Church. She will do more
than allay social unrest; she will
make over the life of business and
industry and politics and society in a
new and beautiful spirit of brother
hood. She, and she alone, has a mo
tive adequate for this achievement.
Poor Russia's Blunder
In all seriousness, it may be de
clared that to work in and for and
through the vitalized Christian
Church is the most direct means for
bringing about the long-desired era
of "peace on earth, good will to
men." When men and women learn
how to say, "The love of Christ con
straineth me" they possess a motive
that can meet all tests. When busi
ness and consular representatives are
fleeing from the most troubled parts
of Russia and Persia, it is the Chris
tian missionaries and the Young
Men's Christian Association men and
the Quaker Reconstruction Unit who
elect to stay. Their passion for help-
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HARRISBURG tlMS&ft TELEGRAPH
Ing people Is so great that they count
their lives of no consequence.
Russia —poor, bunderlng,' bewil
dered and betrayed Russia is the
day's most striking example of the
Inefficiency of mere socialism with
out a religious passion to Bustatn it.
Theoretically, no nobler Ideals were
eve.r offered to a state than the re
volutionists proposed to Russia.
Practically, though, the overthrow of
the old order, and the breaking of
former restraints, merely inaugurat
ed an era of unbridled individualism.
It set everybody to grabbing for him
self. I saw and suffered from that
blind and bestial loosening of primal
passions amid, a people who thought
that liberty meant a new chance to
"look out for number one." Book
socialism, and practical socialism,
have received their worst blow in
Russia.
It takes a motive outside of self,
and supernaturally empowered, to
bring in the day of brotherhood upon
which we have all fixed our hearts.
Restraints will not do it, forms will
not do it, programs will not do it.
There must be such a divine purpose
as Jesus prescribes and imparts.
When the lovo of Christ fills human
hearts, then love for brother man
will overflow.
This is the Church's oppojdunlty,
to carry out her Lord's desires. To
help her fultjll this mission is the
tinest opportunity for the expression
of one's life and personality. Then
"Church work" will be no dreary
routine of petty tasks, but a great
and joyous and adequate service of
man and God. By it the new world
era may be realized.
To Train a Million
Boys For War Work
"VYnabington. —Organization of 1,-
000,000 youths to do industrial work,
lake military training in preparation
for later Army service, and at the
same time attend specially arranged
vocational or technical schools, is
planned by the government as a
means of dealing with the growing
shortage of labor, without drawing
boys away from their schooling.
The erops will be developed through
extension of the United States Boys'
"Working Reserve, which already has
enrolled 250.000 boys between the ages
of 16 and 21, engaged mainly this
summer in farm work. Many of these
boys will go back to school in the
fail, but a large proportion, together
with others to be enrolled, will bo di
rected into industrial work to fill va
cancies left by men now being drafted
for the Army.
These boys will be organized as
units in each community, serving
under an adult training officer, tak
ing courses of study in night schools,
or by some other systematic program,
living either at home or in camps and
wearing the uniform of the Reserve
Corps, which will be of gray cloth
with a roll collar jacket.
Another feature of the program for
drawing on the great reservoir of
youth labor Involves the postponing
of the opening of the schools to about
October 15 for the boys now at work
on farms throughout the country. This
will apni" onl- to those boys and not
to all pupils. Deflnlto plans are now
being worked out through the Federal
Bureau of Education.
If the draft age minimum Is reduc
ed to 18. as Is proposed by Secretary
Baker, youths above that age would
cease to be eligible to membership in
the Working Reserve. Consequently,
officials contemplate lowering the
ages for accepting boys for the work
corps from 16. the present minimum,
to 15 or even 14 years.
Boys who serve in the Working
Corps are to receive medals and ser
vice records representing official rec
ognition by the United States Gov
ernment of their value in the war
emergency. Development of the pro
ject is assigned mainly to the Depart
ment of Labor, under which the Boys'
Working Reserve now operates, and
enlistment in the corps will be entire
ly voluntary.
Plucky Lad Fights Huns
in Deserting Brother's Place
London. —A remarkable story of a
plucky boy who impersonated his
brother In the big battle was describ
ed at police court when Henry Arthur
Stevens. 15. was charged with wear
ing a military uniform without au
thority.
Chief Constable Reeve said the boy
had been brought from Prance to be
dealt with by the civil authorities. He
had an elder brother in the Army, but
when on leave last November he de
serted.
In February, when the police made
Inquiries, the accused boy dressed up
in khaki and surrendered to the po
lice, impersonating his brother.
He was handed over to the military
authorities and was sent to France
in his brother's name. He joined a
regiment in the front line.
For the first sixteen days of the
German offensive he wgs actually in
action. He said he had killed many
Germans —in fact, he could not miss
them.
His identity was subsequently dis
covered and he was sent back to Eng
land. In view of the facts the com
petent military authority declined to
grant necessary permit for a sum
mary prosecution, and the magistrate
agreed with the military decision.
They ordered the case to be with
drawn.
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Sun Drying Effects Fuel
Saving; Is Inexpensive
Sun-drying has much to recom
mend it, as there Is no expenditure
of fuel and no danger of the fruits
and vegetables becoming overheat
ed. An Inexpensive tray may be
made at home. Make an oblong
frame, 36 inches long and 18 Inches
wide, of four strips of wood, one and
one-half inches wide, and one-half
Inch thick. Galvanized wire netting
of one-half inch mesh may be
stretched across the bottom of the
frame and fastened with small
staples. Or laths one-eighth inch
apart may be secured across the bot
tom of the frame. If the trays are
made of uniform size, they may be
stacked one on top of the other and
protected from the rain by canvas.
Only bright, sunny days should be
chosen for sun-drying, as rain and
clew cause the products to decay.
Place the trays between chairs, or
on legs, to allow a complete circula
tion of air under and above the
fruits. Place cheese-cloth on the
trays before ikying on the fruit. To
prevent llies nnd mosquitoes from
touching the fruit, a covering of
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cheese-cloth should be placed over
the fruit, supported so that It will not
rest directly on the food. Once or
twice during the day the vegetables
or fruits should be turned so that
the moisture can be evaporated
evenly.
After the products have dried the
required length of time, the "con
ditioning" stage follows. This is per
haps the most important stage of the
process of drying. Place the product
in paper bags, boxes, or cartons.
Once a day for three or four days
pour the products from one box to
another, so as to give the whole
mass of vegetables and fruit an even
degree of moisture. If it is found
that any of the products are not com
pletely dry, they should be returned
to the drier again.
With the conditioning stage com
pleted, the vegetables are stored
away. Glass jars, paper bags, tin
cans, pasteboard boxes, or paraffin
cartons make excellent receptables
for the dry products. Any receptable
which protects the product from
moisture and mold is satisfactory. It
proves convenient to pack sufficient
vegetable or fruit for two or three
meals in each bag. Dry products
should be stored in a cool, dry, well
ventilated place.—Dorothy B. Marsh
in Good Housekeeping.
Original "Buster Brown/'
U. S. Airman, Hurt in France
New York—Richard F. Outcault,
Jr., the original "Buster Brown," a
son of tho cartoonist, was Injured In
an airplane accident In France a
few weeks ago, according to letters
received by friends of the family
here to-day. .
Young Outcault Is a member of "
Mho 213 th aero squadron. It Is said
'his machine collided with two other
planes when several hundred feet In
the air. Tho extent of Outcault's
injuries was not stated.
Farm Produce Is Cheap
on Haddonfield's Market
Haddonfleld, N. J.—Hundreds of
ears of fresh-cut corn at 15 and 20
cents a dozen, cabbages at four heads
for 10 cents, many baskets of fine
peaches and other vegetables and
fruit at low prices and as women of
the "community market" here could
hand them out to eager customers
at the curb corner of Kings highway
and Tanner street, early this morn
ing. Several farmers also opened
stands there ancf disposed of their
truck in a few hours. The market
will continue several days a week
all season.