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Page Six RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. Thursday, December 3, 1914. ft mm mm Correspondents 9 Department CONFERENCE JOUUXALS. All who wish an extra supply of Conference Journals will please no tify me at once. The number print ed will depend upon the number de sired. The price will be one dollar a dozen plus fifteen cents for post age. All preachers in charge of work will receive a half dozen with out coat as heretofore. II. II. WILLIS, Secretary. Littleton, N. C, Nov. 2 4, 1914. A V I ( K ; ! I A I'll S W'A XT E I ). In the library of our new School of Theology there are autograph let ters of the Wesleys and of nearly all the presidents of the British Wes leyan Conference. There are also letters of nearly or quite all the Bishops of American Methodism; but we have not letters of Bishops Soule, Capers, Early, Kavanaugh, Doggett, and Parker. These are very much desired. If friends who may have autograph letters of these great men will send them to me, the authori ties of our new University will ap preciate most gratefully these contri butions to the rich collection which is already in the library. Brother John It. Pepper has sent me recently the watch seal of Bish op Asbury a most interesting thing, indeed. WARREN A. CANDLER, Atlanta, Ga. SWANS BOItO CIRCUIT. Dear Brother Massey: We were turned to this charge for another year at our recent Conference, and have made a round on my circuit since returning. How will that do for our old time circuit-rider? This appelation is about lost out for our preachers, but some of we older ones love the old names and usages, i. e. we, as a Church, have been called into existence in a providential way to do a good work the work of soul saving cannot move along in the world without experimental religion. The Lord of the harvest has called us to the great honor of being propa gators of the true faith once deliv ered to the saints. Let us be true to our trust. We must be or suffer the disapproval of God. We had two good services in our Churches at Thanksgiving and realized a nice lit tle sum for the Orphanage. The Lord bless you in your great work. Fraternally, .1. M. LOWDER. ena, Montana, was selected as Assist ant to the Corresponding Secretary. Brother Price has been a member of the .Montana Conference for many years, and has represented the Board in the Northwest in much of its work in that general section. He will remove to Louisville and take up the new duties, for which he has been selected, at an early date. Rev. D. B. Price leaves behind him in Montana a record for fidelity and efficiency unsurpassed in the sev eral capacities in which he has wrought, and brings to his new of fice a well-trained mind, exceptional platform ability, and superior busi ness judgment. Those who know him best believe that the Board has made no mistake in calling him to this important task. W. F. McMURRY, Corresponding Secretary. RACK TO HOOKEHTON. Bishop Waterhouse could not have suited us better than to have read us out for Hookerton Circuit for our second year. In some respects this work sent the best report report to Conference in its history. We did not have to say, like so many of our good preachers this year, "Finances not in full, Bishop." But we could say a surplus of $50 on salary, which speaks well for our churches and especially for the stewards. We added more than fifty to the rolls. By the help of God we'll do even better this year. J. W. BRADLEY, P. C. Nov. 29, 1914. KEY. J). 15. PRICE. At the last Annual Meeting of the Board of Church Extension the Ex ecutive and Finance Committee was authorized to secure the services of a well-qualified man to assist the Cor responding Secretary in looking af ter the constantly increasing busi ness of the office of the Board. The General Conference immedi ately following strongly endorsed the avowed purpose of thetBoard of Church Extension to increase its Loan Fund Capital to not less than one million dollars during the next quadrennium, and left to the Board the employment of such agencies as in its judgment are necessary to ac complish this end, together with the proper care of other interests for which the Board is responsible. At the meeting of the Executive and Finance Committee of the Board held October 13, 1914. after careful con sideration, Rev. D. B. Price of Hel- to the ladies; G. S. Sexton, who spoke on class spirit; and John O. Durham, who talked on athletics. Later the merry company joined in two contests, in one of which the class motto was chosen and a prize given to Miss Iris Chapelle for offer ing the best one. In the other con test the prize was awarded to R. S. Blanchard. Immediately afterwards light refreshments were served. The regular monthly meeting of the Trinity College Historical Society was held last Monday evening, when Dr. W. K. Boyd, president of the or ganization, after announcing the re ceipts: of several additions to the museum, read a paper on "The Fin ancial and Economic Condition of North Carolina During the Civil War." The College Glee Club gave a re cital in Craven Memorial Hall Thurs day, November 19, just before leav ing for its fall hour. The entire pro gram, which was enjoyed by a large audience, was pronounced a success in every way. President Few, Dr. F. N. Parker, and Professor R. L. Flowers, who at tended the sessions of the North Car olina Conference in Washington, re turned to the College last Monday. TRINITY COLLEGE NOTES. At the preliminary contest to se lect speakers for the annual inter society debate to be held this winter, J. H. Grigg, of Lawndale; J. S. Cox, of Palmerville, and G. W. IT. Britt, of Burnside, Ky., with A. B. Farmer, of Bailey, as alternate, were named to represent the Columbian Society; and W. R. Shelton, of Asheville; J. , H. Small, Jr., of Washington, and David Brady, of Durham, with C. S. Bunn, of Bailey, as alternate were selected to represent the Hesperian Society. The Turner Art Exhibit, given given here several days last week, under the auspices of the Campus Club, was visited by a large number of people from the college commu nity and the city. The proceeds from the ten cents admission charged, which went to the Belgian Relief tudn vs'G rot- inconsidorub'e. President W. P. Few, Prof. E. C. Brooks, Miss Laura Drake Gill, and Dr. Edgar W. Knight have returned from Charlotte, where they attended the sessions of the annual meeting of the North Carolina Teachers' Assem bly, and the Trinity College Alumni dinner on Thanksgiving night. Miss Gill addressed, at a luncheon at the home of Mrs. John Paul Lucas, of the class of 1905, the alumnae of Trin ity College, on Friday. On Friday night, November 20, the sophomore class was host at a reception given, to their friends among the women students of the college and number of Durham la dies, in the West Duke Building from 8:30 until 11 o'clock. Dr. C. A. Moore, of the English Department, was toastniatpr for the occasion, and presented the class president. B. A. Stnrney, who in a few words, welcomed the guests; J. R. Smith, who responded to the toast APPEAL TO TTTE CHURCHES OF THE WORLD. (The following appeal originated with the Archbishop of Upsala, Sweden, and was conveyed to the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America with the request that it be signed by the President and Secretary of the Council and conveyed by the Federal Council to the American Churches.) "The war is causing untold dis tress. Christ's body, the Church, suffers and mourns. Mankind in its need, cries out, "O Lord, how long?" The tangle of underlying and ac tive causes which accumulate in the course of time and the proximate events which led to the breaking of peace, are left to history to un ravel. God alone sees and judges the intents an dthoughts of the heart. We, servants of Christ, address to all those who have power or in fluence in the matter an earnest ap peal seriously to keep peace before their eyes in order that blood-shed soon may cease. We remind especially our Chris tian brethren of various nations that war cannot sunder the bond of internal union that Christ holds in us. Sure it is that every nation and every realm has its vocation in the divine plan of the world and must, even in the face of heavy sacrifices, fulfill its duty, as far as the events indicate it and according to the dim conception of man. Our faith per ceives what the eye cannot always see: the strife of nations must fin ally serve the dispensation of the Almighty, and all the faithful in Christ are one. Let us therefore call upon God that He may destroy hate and en mity and in mercy ordain peace for us. Like some great cathedral organ, we must be prepared in every part for the Master; we must give our selves absolutely to Him as the Mas ter Musician. Under His hand we shall indeed bring forth eternal har monies. R. B. Johnson. EUROPEAN WARNING, TO US. Rev. C. E. Jefferson, D.D. Europe is uttering a solemn warn ing to America. The old world is speaking to the new. Ancient mon archies are offering counsel to our young republic. For a generation we have been aping Europe. The ideal of Washing ton and the other founders of our nation have been fading from many eyes. To not a few Europe has be come a model. We have adopted many of the old world customs. We have a Navy League, and we launch our dreadnoughts with the playing of bands, and the hurrahs of high State officials. We have our an nual war-scares and our annual na val reviews all just like Europe! We have our swelling naval bud gets, and our niggardly appropria tions for the causes of social better ment, after the European fashion. We have our interminable chatter about hypothetical attacks and con jectural perils, and the incessant speech-making and magazine-writing and book-making of colonels and commodores, admirals and generals, active and retired, just as it is all done in Europe. We have squandered millions of dollars on fortifications in the Phil ippines and other millions in Hawaii, and we are about to squander o'her millions in Panama. We have spent in a few years over two billion dollars on our navy, and this is but a trifle compared with what we are going to spend, if the naval oligarchy entrenched in Wash ington City has its way. We have learned to talk glibly about naval tonnage, and naval pres tige, and to admire fourteen-inch guns, and to publish pictures of Bat tleships, even in religious papers. They do it that way in Europe. We have even begun to send our boys to summer military camps, and are considering the advisability of in troducing1 military instruction into our colleges and making target prac tice a part of the high school curric ulum. We have caught the fever. We are in the race. And now Europe, being in torment, calls to us: "O Republic of the West, do not follow my example! There are ways which seem right to a nation, but they lead down at last to the chambers of death. Do not believe the creed which we have long accept ed. Armaments are not guarantee? of peace. They are not insurance. They are not instruments of reason or righteousness. They create first suspicion, then hatred, and at last lead young men by the million to the fields of blood. Do not choose the path which we have followed. Work out your destiny along a different line. Make the new world different from the old. "Beware of guns. Banish the im plements of hate from before your eyes. Take your mind of the ma chinery' of slaughter. Cease to de light in the engines of destruction. Trust in reason. Have faith in broth erhood. Believe in love. Build your j civilization on the principle of good will. Bind all the nations of. the Western Hemisphere into a federa tion which, by its fidelity to the law of kindness and its devotion to the Prince of Peace, shall become at once the inspiration and hope of the world!" God weigheth more with how much love a man worketh, than how muil) he doeth. -Thomas A. Kempis.
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