.j.Vt September 12, 1018 This is the deepest sort of criminal- HALEIGH CHRISTIAN AbvOCATE Page Three ity. 1 to get back to the elemental truth W 6 . . , i iU . r in P Ui 1, vliioh the Psalmist set to the music of his harp. 1 nw"h out under the open heavens and Uw lived i'1UL'' pd with nature's God; and this truth was in in u" IWU i. mi, ot. 1-i id T.nivl'o o ,i . 1 , g(l tO 111 111. J-He c" i" o -" ."wiv Q, 111-1 lt;e. , thereof; the world, and they that . .en therein." Many of us do not grasp this aWe f Goii-j5 ownership so clearly today. We elf.villed, anu uns wics uu it mu uc- s4f-lossession. We like to claim our We are prone to ask whose busi- ue st are fur impendence. - is it if we wish to go a certain way, or make ' t,in ue of our powers. If it proves un are not we the sufferers; and, if it proves 'easing and desirable, have we not the right to t enjoyment? So we argue in our blindness, and sometimes fancy that the Point is proved. But what is there about us that we originated of ourselves? Have we strength in our strong right r l0 tin the soil and extract from mother earth the riches that are stored in her fertility? Whence came that strength? Have we intelli gence and skill to gather. about us wealth and comfort? Who endowed us with that intelli gence? Who determined that we should have powers beyond those of the beast of the field, or the fowl of the air? Did we originate these things for ourselves? Truth compels us to look up to God and say: "It is Thou that made us, and not we ourselves?" No, there is not an emotion that stirs the soul with joy or with pain that we can claim to have begotten of ourselves. We sweep back in Imag ination very easily to the time when self did not exist. Memory has only a few years over which to roam and gather up its treasures. Within the range of this memory are perhaps father and mother, and about them gather the most sacred things that memory holds; and back of these are c;lier fathers and mothers, and on back of tiios still others. But it is no difficult thing to get. back to the point where there were no fathers and mothers back in the dim unknown. Whence came the first man? This is the inevitable ques tion, and the only satisfying answer that has ever come to the human heart is God. He has fashioned us according to His own will, and de termined the bounds of our privileges and possi bles. It is to the credit of His infinite good tfcss that Ha created us in His own image, that He endowed ua with God-like powers and made t possible for us to be partakers of His joy. We have no assurance that the angels have this high privilege, if they do, it has not been revealed t0 us. Thero was something about the creation m redeniption of man that they "desired to took into," and could not. Just what it was we Uo not know; but there is evidence in the in Splred ord that in man God reached the climax ot His creative work. He has put within us JWers of soul that can scale the heights where tlWellS, aild Rhnro until U 4 m 1, inaffo)xa I., '- " MltU J.X1111 111C7 1 11 ILL V wiss of means unmixed and triumphant life. What this Ve do not lrn tot that rsn.i . - , ..... v4wU liaa B0 creaieu us uiai sucu "es are within our reach certainly obii- Us to leavo at TT?a llt! , - -"j uiojUkiai till iiicjio ui- llut UUT UWU, WO UCiuilo The tan mnt nt -.,ri,i l.?, v axes itself in that fundamental is His. Sates usual to God On ..... ... ijeisonality Have You Enlisted for College ? e L! n0t aDolSize for the large space that iave given n . eral 1 1S question for the past sev- and "e feel crucial time Jllst 110 w' hch,, that We can render our young people, induce n ' lh State' no better service than to every 0 ng People to take, advantage of ny for the best possible training to meet the issues that must b mot now ,i the immediate future, it seems t0 us that no thoughtful man can be indifferent to the manner in which the world's life will shape itself within the next five years. While the world is in flux is the time to set its currents to moving in tin right direction. When once, these currents gather momentum in a determined direction, it will be too late then to fashion the future. ' Ii will have been already fashioned. We r0 in the. midst of the time thai, must give character to the future for at least many years to com.'. What will that character be? The answer to this question must not be lefi to chance. The current of the world's life mus; not be allowed to drift as it will the drift al ways moves to a lower level. God has given to us intelligence and conscience, and these divine -gifts are for use; but their highest, use calls for training and cultur-3. This training and culture, too, must be of the right sort. We do not de sire the "kuitur" of German rationalism that has thrown the world into this seething caldron that is trying men's souls today. Hut this cannot be offset by ignorance and undeveloped powers. This throws a tremendous responsibility upon the school and the college at this crisis. It is for them so to train the youth that is thrown wilhin their walls that righteousness and justicj and lovo shall bo the dominating elements of their character. Our institutions cannot do this without taking Christ, into co-partnership with them in a very real sense. The Christian reli gion must be the foundation upon which the new world s'ructurc shall be built, and those who are to do the building most- especially those who are to bo leaders in this building must be brought, to know Christ in the most intimate and experimental way. Tho school into whose hands l he youth are turned at this critical time have an important part to perfoim in this work, and it cannot be too insistently demanded that thoy enihione Christ in their life and teaching. We have been writing particularly with refer ence to our young men, but tho need for the Christian training of our young women is none the less imperative. The necessities of the battle front have thrown the men somewhat forward at this time, but the call for cultured and trained Clicristian young women was never so impera tive as it is now. Woman's part in giving lone, and character to the life oL tho rising generation is a most important one. Even in the very thick of the light in these stormy times of war, she is finding a necessary place to fill, and that place .is growing larger all the time. She will con tinue to mak ethe home, and the home will con tinue to determine the type of life that, we will find in every field of human activity; but ner work is no longer by any means confined to the home. She is making her way into practically every field of endeavor in which men engage, Lnd her elliclency is not one whit behind them. Liu:, all this calls upon her to qualify herself for the larger tasks that she is assuming. Xow is the time, therefore, of all times to crowd our colleges both for men and for women with eager students. The world needs a genera tion of trained and consecrated workers in this crucial period when the world's life is in a state of flux. It is needed that the future may be made secure against the forces of evil, and that our Christ shall be the centre of the forces that, fashion it anew. The Church is the one divine institution in this world. She is the Lamb's b.ide, and He watches over her with a peculiar jealousy. And yet this bride has a large human element in and she sometimes dirts too mucn wun me number of times in history she has gone aside from her central purpose and become soiled with the garments of the flesh. She has her world flirted with political power, and in doing so has been temporarily shorn of her spiritual strength, i-'ue has .sometimes sought to use the powers ot the world, and it has not infrequently happened in such cases that the powers of the world have used her. It seems to us that thero is a multi tude of things trying to use the Church today. Th y clothe themse.ves with plaisib.e reasons in appealing for her influence, and sometimes they grow brazen enough to atiirm that they ar the chief thing tor which the Church should concern herself, if he would maintain her hold upon the people. In all of this there is muc.i Peril, and there is only one safety. Tne Cnurch must never cease to put the supreme emphasis upon the one thing of saving men from sin and hill. Whenever, other issues are allowed to cloud this one, then the Church is in imminent peril. Advocate Stock-Washington District Kev. C. L. Read, presiding dder of tho Wash ington District, wishes us to announce that. th. following charges on his district have paid in full the amount apportioned them for the pur chase of the Advocate stock: Wilson, Farmville, Rocky Mt. First Church, Kocky Mt. Marvin, Stantonsburg, Kim City, 1! thel, Fremont, Swan Quarter Circuit, (credit of 12.00). The total amount in date plM.fiu. We shall be glad to add to this list as rapidly as the money is sent in and reported to us. Mostly Personal. liev. L. L. Smith asks us to announce that his postoilice. is Timberlake, N. C, instead of Kouge li) out as formerly. II II II Mrs. J. J I. McCoy, wife of Hishop J. II. Mc Coy, lecently underwent an operation for appen dicitis. At last report she was doing well. II II II Kev. W. A. Stanbury, pastor of our Church at Wilson, held a special service for the young peo ple of his congregation on the morning of Sep t mber Sth. U U II Rev. R. C. Deainan, D. D., of Lumberron, has been visiting in New Bern recently. His son, Mr. J. Southgato Beaman, of Henderson, accom panied him. II II 1i Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Royall and little son, Richard, who have been spending somo time in the mountains, have returned to Sanford, where Brother Royall is pastor of our Church. II II II From the Coaster wo learn that Rev. J. C. Wooten, presiding elder of tho Durham District, and Bev. W. C. Martin, pastor at West Durham, Kpent two days in Morehead City last week. H II 1! The National Committee on the Churches and the Moral Aims of the War are planning a speak ing tour of the country this fall. They will be assisted in this campaign by Chaplain Daniel Couve who comes as a representative of the French Protestant Committee of Paris. Rev. J. W. lloyle, Jr., who has had charge of the work at Lodge Street and at Barefoot's Chapel, has been drafted into the army. He left, on August 8, and has been stationed at Camp Wadsworth. lie has been ordered overseas, and his address is at this time unknown. Tho Wil son Methodist. n n n A special from Oxford to the Greensboro Daily News of August 3 0th says: "The revival services in the Oxford Methodist Church for the past ten days have been well attended. Rev. R. M. Courtney, of Hickory, is assisting Rev. It. 11, Willis, and he has preached somo strong ser mons.!' H II H In its issue of August Sth the New York Chris tian Advocate noted the fact that the various in stitutions of higher learning for men under the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church had 10,775 representatives in the army and navy of the United States. The list of institutions was not complete and the number is, of course, con stantly increasing.

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