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RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE Thursday, Juno l: hh Page Two EDITORIAL PljjT 4&L L Notes and Comments IiOiilsbiug College has secured the "U" rating from the State Department of Education, whicn will give to its graduates the right to teach in the high schools of the State without the neces sity of the examination for certificates. Louis hurg College is entering upon a period of expan sion and development, and it propoes to give every advantage possible to its pupils. It is the purpose of its President and Faculty, as well as of the Hoard of Trustees, to make of k a strong Junior College for girls, and the out look for ils future was nevr brighter than it is now. Our people who are considering the ques tion of sending their daughters off to col ego should not overlook the opportunities which this instituion affords. II H u The Klt'vmth Annual ConiVronci1 of the Xortlv Carolina Conference Kpworth League will bo held in Louisburg College July 1th to 7lh. The opening service will be on Thursday evening and the closing service will be on Sunday evening. Rev. F". S. Love is president of the Conference, Mr. II. S. McCirl is vice-president, and 'Miss Liz zie Hancock is secretary. Splendid program has been arranged, and the ev-nt promises to bo both interesting and profitable. Among the speakers from out of the State may be mention ed Dr. C. 0. Hounshell, of Nashville, T-jiui.; Uev. Arthur Moore, of Macon, CJa.; itev. lialph K. Noilner, Assistant General Secretary of the Kpworth League, whose headquarters is Nash ville, Tenn. Besides these, some of the bes. speakers of our Conference will lake part in the proceedings. The Conference Quartette is announced to be present and assist in the sing ing. Our Leagues should elect delegates at once, if they have not already done so, and send the names to Rev. F. S. Love, Louisburg, N. C. H II u The National Child Labor Law has been held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. It was a close decision, as only live of the nine judges on the bench con curred in the opinion. It is none of our purpose to discuss the righteousness or unrighteousness of the decision. We have often fe t that the agitators on the question of child-labor have been unwise; but there is a strong sentiment in this country, and it is a growing one, to put some very stringent regulations upon the em ployment of children. It goes without question that children should not be confined at labor in unwholesome surroundings, nor for sufficiently long hours to injure their health. We believe that some work for a growing boy is a very wholesome thing, and the same thing is tru of a girl, if the work is of the right sort; but the opportunity for self-culture and the best physical development ought not to be denied to them. Public sentiment, wo believe, will see to it that some legislation will be put upon the statute books that will safeguard these interests and that will stand the test of the courts. X II H 11 The Fifteenth Cuiadi t nnial International Sini- day-scliool Convention will be held in Buffalo, N. Y., June 19-25, 191S. This convention will be composed of about 3,000 accredited delegates from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba and the Isle of Pines, besides hundreds of speak ers and officers. The plan of the convention, as announced by the committee, indicates a little change from former gatherings. The morning sessions will be devoted to reports and business, the afternoon to departmental conferences, and the evenings to inspirational addresses. Satur day will be recreation day, and in the evenini the "Pilgrims" who have attended one or more of the World Conventions will have a reunion; the Canadian delegates will have a banquet or social, and the elementary workers will have a ' Patriotic Birthday Social." 'There will be no session on Sunday, but a "Morning Watch Ser vice at 7:30 a. m. in the Asbury-Deleware Meth odist Episcopal Church. In the afternoon there will be a great temperance mass meeting, and in the evening the World's Sunday School Asso ciation work will be presented. Officers will be tlected Thursday or Friday to serve until the next Quadrennial Convention in 1922. ii n ti The Coal Consumed by Railroads is far greater than cue would naturally suppose who has not studied the question. A report recently sent out from Washington by the Southern Railway brings the information that "it took 130,000,000 tons of bituminous coal, or over one-fourth of the total production of the mines, to transport freight and passengers on the railroads of the United States in 191C. This was an increase of 14,000,000 tens over the amount consumed in I'.i lij, or 11.5 per cent." This reveals the import ance of the coal question in the prosecution of the war. Doubtless a larger amount will be needed than in times of peace, and the necessity for running these trains is still more imperative. Just think what a protracted strike on the part of the miners would mean for this country at this time! For laborers to take advantage of this situation would be treason of the highest order. The Spiritual Dynamic The world has been rudely hurled into the midst of a veritable cataclysm of material forces. The power of the sword, the destruction wrought by cannon and bursting shells and pow erful explosives, the force that makes itself felt by the massing of men and rushing them for ward wave on wave this type of force has been thrust upon the world's attention for these last years. And it has forced the world to take knowledge of it. It has strewn the battlefield with the dead the very flower of the world's ate. It has broken through barriers that were thought to be impregnable. Thousands of men, as well as women and helpless children, have been driven from their homes. It is estimated that something like five millions of people have starved to death because of the ruthless exer cise of this kind of power. It is throwing its dark shadow over the world and leaving ruin and desolation in its wake. It is true that the greater part of world has been shocked by the awfulness of i.. all. The very thought of it has recoiled with tremendous force upon the moral sensibilities of men. They have felt a sense of outrage ana an inexpressible disgust with the spirit of it all. The most professional linguist lacks words to express the fulness of his condemnation. The whole moral sense of right thinking men has been stunned and amazed that men should be capable of committing such outrages. All this is true, and yet the exercise of this brute force is changing the face of the world before our eyes. It is bringing things to pass most un desirable things it is true, and yet it is accom pushing results, is there not danger that in the upheaval of the old order that is upon us we shall come to think more than ever that the higher and finer things of life cannot stand X 1. 1 1 H i. IS At. 1 againsi uus onsmugui vi me pnysicul and th material? We have for a long time been a," customed to worship success. We hav.i Sl00 for that which will bring things to pass-thjllg. that our eyes can see and our hands can handle Shall the present world commotion increase tin tendency among us, or sha.l it open our eyes f the awfulness of it all? Those of us who believe in Christ must b lieve that in the end the spiritual forces ai the mightiest. Revealed truth has ever sough, to impress this fact upon the conscience.; of men. The Psalmist stood amidst the commotion, of his day, and considered the boastful cann ot" the heathen. David was a man of war ana knew the strength of the sword, but he recog nized a higher power. He calmed his soul in the hour of peril with the assurance that noth ing coiKd finally succeed, if his God was against it. In terms of poetic beauty he said: Tn heathen raged; the kingdoms were moved." Th. nations surrounding Israel exerted their utmost power. They brought into play all the forces at their command. With a desperation bor dering upon madness, they threw themselves in to the exercise, of the power that the sword rep icsents. What were they able to accomplish'.' The boundary lines separating one of the na tions from another were changed. A city here and there was taken from one sovereign atui made to obey another. In larger or smaller de gree, this was all that they could hope for. Power of a material and political sort did no reach any farther than this; it did not mow upon any higher plane. But the Psalmist knew of another sort of power entirely. It was emi nently superior to this earthly power, and even in this material world it exerted a more tie mendous influence. He spoke of it in terms o. personality: "He uttered His voice; the earth melted." Here was no seeming strain upon Hi reserve force at all. There was no desperation in His action; no exhaustion of His resource hinted at. He simply uttered His voice, and ye. "the earth melted." The boundary lines of t lu nations were not simply changed here or thre but there was a complete collapse of every ele ment of resistance; not simply a transference from one allegiance to another, but also a com plete change of character in the substance it se;f. There is a principle involved in this that will be well for us to remember in these time that tests men's souls. The power that is to save the world is not material; it is not Pll'si" cal. The deepest needs of a human heart an never met by any changes in his mateiial am physical surroundings. These things aitect th physical life. They contribute to our piiysica comfort or discomfort, as the case may be. The make a strong appeal to the sensuous nature, and sometimes cloud our vision to the real chai acter of the inner life; but the power that would transform the nature of the soul must ie from another source; it must move upon anothei plane altogether. For this purpose, w mUS call into exercise the spiritual dynamic, must proceed from God, as He is revealed to u in the person of Jesus Christ. It is not a Pwe' that moves in the realm of space, but it ' in the realm of character. It does not manifest itself in the commotion that it causes anion!, men, but it reveals itself in the changed atti lot bed; of men toward God and toward one another, niav rf v,nir unn. fail nr better !'otl but it creates within us purer thougnts a holier affections. We may not be able to 1 -f wronger heavier weight, but we can resist
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