. 1 To the Ghurdies of Christ in America*. The Federal Council of the Churches of Cferist in America joins with the World’s Evange lical AjHnjifift in inviting all churches and followers of Christ to unite in a “Universal Week of Prayer” at the opening of the New Year. The devotional pro gram here presented will not only be circulated through all English speaking lands, but wiU be transplanted for use in fifty countries. Be whose right it is to rule desires us to be one in payer “that the world may know'.” AH things are posriWe when Christian* agree and not before. Never was the need Ounsge isfiuQ of unrest In sptieof all efforts towards peace iand goodwill the apirit of l«ff lesaness, of 'international suspi don, and of actual warfare* seems to be increasing. We need not linger over dark details that are only too familiar. Bather would we remember jwith un speakable gratitude that the Lord who orders tha ages (Heh. 1:2.) is on the throne. All au thority in Beavenand on earth isinHishaads. He is award of the present portents. Through tha changing years He Himself remains unchanged; and He is able to do exceeding abundantly above ah we ask or think in meeting the needs of His people and the heart-hunger of all npr kind. “Jesus Christ is tha same V^As. encouragement: I. It is God’s will; II. Christ has set us the example; HL Christ promises Hfe presence. During the Week of Prayer from Sunday, January 2nd to Saturday, January 8th, let us all unite with our brethren in many lands to demonstrate afresh the release of God’s power as we pray with one accord in the 'name and spirit of Jesus Christ our Lord. Faithfully mid fraternally yuure, WILLIAM HORACE DAY. Chairman, CHARLES GOODELL, Executive Secretary, Commission on Evangelism and Life Service. Sunday, January 2nd; '1927 Texts Suggested for Sermons and Addresses. “I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. . . . ,1 will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High” (Psalm lxxvii. 5,10). “A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place ©f our sanctuary” (Jeremiah xvil 12). . “The fear of the Lord is thy treasure” (Isaiah xxxiii. 6.) “Be of good cheer** (Matthew ix. 2, xiv. 27, Acts xxiiL 11). “Behold I have set before Thee an open door, and no man can shut if* Revelation iii 8). Monday. January 3rd, 1927 thanksgiving and Humiliation* Let us come before his pres ence with thanksgiving. Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.** (Psalm xcv. 2, 6.) Thanksgiving: For the good ness and mercy of the past year; for tile long suffering of God tcwand us. ^ j * , . That now is our Salvation hearer than when we first be iteour that Thy people may rejoice i* Thee?" (Psalm Ixxxv. 6.) Sscripture readings: xcw.Psalm .ciii. Acts 1-8. v. 16-26. Tuesday* January 4th* 1927— tile Universal Chureh^THit Church oi God, which He Hath Purchased with His Own BlooT (Acta xx, 28.) Thanksgiving: For Christ’s lone to His Church, and for the gracious purposes for which He Miy it into beiug. For the quickened desire after unity among themerabersofHis -M 03$ For tue increase of Brother hood,'and for ah awakened so conscience among mm era Confession: Our n< greater holiness. that, may bemagnified in our} Our lack of k>ve for souls. - Our unreadiness to serve and to hear witness. Our unworthy timidity and pride; . Prayer : For , afl ministers, preachers, church workers and members. For all who are dis couraged and joyless,, in then work; d or lapsed members that they may be restored. For a fresh renewal of the Holy Ghost. “Restdre unto me the joy i ScripfeoA ^Readings; i. 10-20. * Wednesday. January 5th, 1927— and Governments—“He silence seek very definitely to realize the presence of the Lord Jsus, who makes us one in Him with our brethren of every na tion.-' <-•' !■ • Let us give thanks: For all ef forts to promote better under standing and more kindly rela tionships between nations. For a quickened sense of in ternational brotherhood. For that measure of success which the League of Nations has paet with in promoting peace and goodwill. • Let.us pray: For peace in our time, national, international, ana industrial. .* That the nations may be de livered f rom raaterialism and de fective moral standards by their recognition of Christ and His teachings That- rulers. and governments may submit themselves to the guidance of God aa they seek to discharge their great tasks and responsibilities. That thi present spirit of lawlessness may be restrained and replaced by, the heavenly wisdom which is pure and peace able. , JThat the ev*ls of . impurity, in temperance .and "gambling may be -overcome 3 wopgh , the pxeachmg of ;theGospel. That especially, in lands long provided with the knowledge of Christ the Lord’s 0qy may be rightly, regarded and observed, r Scripture, Readings: Deut. vi. 145, Psalm; lxxxvii. I Tun. ii. 1-6. Rev 94*. Thursday, January 6th, 1927 world . Every jjfteatiire” (Mark 16:15. thanksgiving : That there are frontiers in the Redeemer’s ho “hoihe” and no fields: for “the field is the wofrW!” , That GOd so loved the world that He gaVe His orily begotten Sop ‘to. save iti and calls upon His ‘Church to behjr witness to h during the ted missionary the blessing may ■ That tite Lord of the harvest will send forth more laborers in to the ripened fields. That the Church may ever keep in mind that her first duty is to Evangelize the world. C That native converts may be faithful to their unevangelized neighbors. >! For the work of all Bible So cieties. . i. ... - [i For missionaries in special dif ficulty at this time of unrest in Cttina ano elsewhere. f Scripture Readmes; Psalm exit. Isaiah lx. Matt. vii. 5-13. Acts x. 34-48. Rev. xxi. 1-4 and Rev. xxt^22 to xxii. 5. Friday, January 7th, 1027v—Our Young Peoples—“The Promise ftfe. Unto You and to Your Children* f.*'-' (Acts ii. 39.) : ^ Thanksgiving: For the faith ful work of Sunday school teach ers. Bible CBass leaders, and Chritsian workers in all young people's organizations. For all young lives which have been yielded to the Saviour dur ing this past year. I j For thct.york of all agencies that promote the habit of daily Bible reading among the young. Prayer: For parents, that they may realize their opportunities and responsibilities in training their children for- God. _ For ah who Influence the young people of our land, teach ers, professors and writers. For a blessing upon our homes and for an increase in the habit of family worship. For ail Christian work and Witness in schools, colleges and: universities. v. - Scripture Readings: Psalm exix. 1-16. Matt. xix. 13-22. John iv. 46-54 2 Tim. 111. lOf 17. 1927— eve^r^rtn^ realization that Jesus Christ is the moral judge of the world, and that nothing is right which He would disap prove. For the response of men and the leadership of the Church in all appeals for help for human need# For the work of the Church in all its agencies to establish Christianity as the supreme power in the life of the nations. Let us Confess: Our want .of brotherly love and of inter-ra cial and industrial goodwill; our prejudice against other racep and our negligence in seeking to win them to Christ. Let us Pray: That the Church at home may be so pure in faith, so rich in benevolence, so faith ful in duty; that none of her en terprises at home or abroad may suffer for want of men or sup port. That all races may realize that the solution of the race problem is in Christ; that Christians may be delivered from the love of rapidly growing wealth into a love like that of Jesus. That the - Bible, the Lord’s! Day, and the Sacraments, the gracious wealth of Christian worships may be loved and pre served.--. Scripture Readings: Rom. x,; Paa. xciv. ; I Cor- xvi. 1-9 ; 2 Cor. ix. - CHURCH SfTREET CHURCH, SALISBURY. By Mrs* Jolla Hipps Sunday morning, December 19, our pastor, Rev. J. M. Mor tonr, preached to us from the text, "And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at mdse things which were told them by the shepherds.” Sub ject, "They Told It.” (The Sunday school will have their Christmas exercise Friday night, December 24th. Mrs. Juga Hipps spent Sun day in Raleigh. While there she visited the State School for the Dumb and Blind. As the holidays are, drawing asMsSIIE* SSjUk; n the Christian religion ere to become law-abdd aliens of men and: women bat Britain today are ask hemselves how thex can fjings done which impera . need doing, with the »om ba ot emotional ferver and M sense... One can/foresee IStttLe^feoTtoatBri^ movement nas Vt*yet, pe the Bible and of the er for all the churches of that country. “Nor is there any doubt that it will spread to our shores, exactly as the Moody and Sankey revival, beginning in the United States; blazed a holiness around the Speaking as President Federal Council, T cdvet rious honor of seeing this al in the United States of Amer ca, but let it arise where it may, so that God Himself originates it, it will be in the first instance a renewal of personal devotion, personal consciousness of the in dwelling of Christ, and personal hope and joy derived presence in the “At a time wh Bishop oi Winchester, ’Super national religion is widely ques tioned, when Christian ethics flouted, and when the sn are preme issue is whether Christi anity can sufficiently influence the behavior or Society as to insure the survival of civiliza tion,” should not all who love the honor of God and the -Kingdom of His Son^ lay aside theological and other differences and unite to proclaim the saving Gospel of that Kingdom ? “But 1 the proclamation. will have to be ..splendidly equipped and well led. , It must; assert’ in intelligent ways the "major truths W the New Testament Faith; there must be no deal ing with iniquity,; no compro mise with wrongs no. economy of truth ; no flattering of error. .i “Hence those .. who, .align themselves for .this crusade must be .prepared, to takerisks. They will have to combat the. in difference which» paralyzes countless chyrches • and makes them subservient,to the dictates of worldly-minded multitudes. They will have bo refuse to low er Christ’s, claims upon the whole life of mankind by a sin gle iota. : :J; . l.!:. “They must %st deal with the individual if they ,wodld' bring about that social reconstruction in justice, peace; and Security for which the nations are asking today. It may well be that th? decline Of interest in politics is the forerunner ot a fresh * hold the everlasting verities are changeless in the of constant change.” beginning of the leading, indust try of the South, agriculture. There are several kinds of ocr cupation, such as publte school teaching, preaching, practice of law and several others, but none is more important than-the oc cupation of voluntary Sunday school teaching. Now, if our Sunday school keeps pace with the standard of modern times, it must be carried on by those who are deeply interested in training the little minds and m directing the older minds in the right way. It is true that educa tion, especially in these years of superior civilization, is impend tive, but Unless there is a reas onable knowledge of the Bible the education is incomplete. The Sunday school is the place to gain that knowledge. It is there whege we are taught that all honest labor is honorable and a large number of our exalted people have passed through some chance for service. For the lamented Woodrow Wilson, who was once a pedagogue serv ing as President of Princeton* later became Governor of New Jersey. As a result of proficient service rendered in each capadU ty he succeeded in ingratiating himself into the confidence ,of the American people and they as an appreciation of him mat his real worth to the world, be stowed upon him the highest gift that was in their power to giVe.'. ‘ ; we nave anoiner example ui efficient service in the Rev. Dr. Mordecai Johnson, who, having oiice' been- a teacher in More house College,1 Atlanta, was so proficient in his work that he was recently elected to the Pres idency oi Howard University. Washington, D. C;, the first $fegro that has ever held that honored position. We have as a lawyer Attor ney McGill, who, through his efficient ‘ service, has been appointed Assistant States Attorney for Cook County in which Chicago, the second larg est city in the United States, is the County seat. And there arc many others that time will not allow one to mention. It is the purpose qf: these, il lustrations to show ivhat- ii means to receive an education follows: _ A number c them nawtAn, V mm m "WW. - try which is to be expect time of year. In St. where they have, been men off in the fouadri< milis, employers say this in Columbus, i due in part to the importation of men by the railroads. Organized labor—In Heir York City colored strikers and strike1 breakerc are still taking a very active part in the Paper Box Workers* Strike, Width is now ig; its tenth week as# col ored members of the Motion Picture Operators’ ■ Union are still -picketting a Harlem Thea tre which is giving employment to non-union operators. ' -/ I FavoraDle Conditions Reported Jackson, Mich.—-New Hotel Hayes opened recently is -hiring colored bell boys and waiter* ud der a colored head Waiter. ' Cleveland, 0.—Colored «Hs have been placed as elevator op erators in a large department store which formerly used men. The men were transferred to other jobs. Albany, Ga.—The payroll in the new Sky water Development is said to be 120,000. - Negroes are doing practically all the work—skilled and unskilled. Brookyn, N. Y.—The union man in charge of a small fur fac tory had consistently refused to accept colored apprentices. Re cently he left and the owner re fused to accept another union man-unless he agreed to train colored apprentices. The Brooks lyn Urban League has* placed two Colored boy* with this firm. San } Antonio, ored manager Tex..—A has been cd em ployed for a million dollar thea tre in the Negro sectionj.. ■ 4 New York City—Four stenog raphers have • been placed in1 a white Office and openings niadS in other fields as a result of a campaign being made in Harlem by a Joint Committee, sponsored by - the New York Urban League, to induce white enterprise! to hire colored workers f6r posi tions which they are brained to fin. / A MISSIONS* STORY Bessie had a new dime to in vest in' an ice cream social * * > ■ ' “Why don't you give your dime to missions V said the min ister, who Was calling. ‘ -{ thought about that,” said Bessie^but I think TU buy the ice cniKn soda and let the drug Mst We it to missions” ‘