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Page Two RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. Thursday, September 2 26, IMS EDITORIAL To Our Subscribers Wo UO now sending out statements to our subscribers who are in arrears, and we earncsUy ask lor a prompt response. If you ca"not send the jnoney, please write and let us know when we may ex- pect it. It' you think the statement is not correct, kindly tell us what you think is correct. We do not wish to collect anything that is not due us. Do not con- elude that we are in error because you have sent a remittance in the spring. Many paid then whoso renewal has fallen duo again by this time. Look at your label and see what it says. Usually it conforms to our books. If it says that your renewal is due and you have not re- ceived a statement, you can save us trouble and expense by remitting at once. Please give this matter your kindly atten- tion. si. Notes and Comments Money for War Work will be urgently needed despite the order for the exclusion of caAip pastors. We have an important communica tion from Dr. E. O. Watson upon this subject which we hope to get in this issue. We call special attention to it that our readers may looi it up and give it careful attention. It is highly important that the Church measure up to its responsibilities in all matters pertaining to this war, and we trust that our Church will not fail behind at any point. 11 11 U Conserving (iasolinc In order to save gaso line for war purposes, the government asked the American public to cut out joy-riding in automo biles on Sunday. The response to that request of the government, so far as our observation goes, has been encouraging. It was not made mandatory, but was simply a request; yet the small number of automobiles on our public thor oughfares on the Sabbath has been quite notice able. This because the government requested it in a time of national peril to help win the war. God has requested a reverent and devout ob servance of the Sabbath day to help save the soul from the peril of eternal death. That is a peril infinitely more real than the one that threatens America today, and lie who makes the request is greater than our government. He has a more unchallengeable right to make the request and the need is infinitely more dire. Shall we not hear this higher voice, and respond to this more urgent call? Especially will not those of us who profess to be disciples of Christ hear it? ii n n Kill the Ilats. This may seem a small mat ter for which to start a campaign; but, yes, we must have a rat killing campaign. This is a time when it is unusually important to con serve food, and rats are great consumers. We are told that the rats and mice in the United States destroy each year crops and other prop erty to the value of $200,000,000. This is equivalent to the gross earnings of an army of 200,000 men. It is also stated that on many a farm, if the grain eaten and destroyed by the rats and mice could be sold, the proceeds would more than pay all the farmer's taxes. And it is no easy job to get rid of them. We are told that the common brown rat breeds from six to ten times a year and produces an aver age of ten young at a litter, and that the young female rat begins breeding when only three or four months old. Some one has figured it out that one pair of rats, breeding uninterruptedly and without deaths, would at the end of three years be increased to 359,709,482 individuals. Some rats these. Yes, let us have a campaign of rat killing. The Course of Study for young preachers in the Methodist Episcopal Church continues to come in for criticism. The Christian advocate (Nashville) brings us the following information: "The dissatisfaction with the Course of Study in the Methodist Episcopal Church is growing. Ever since the adoption of the present course, in 191G, there have been serious criticisms of u number of the books, and one at least has been eliminated from the course. Six of the Annual Conferences have passed resolutions ob jecting to the books. It is charged that some of the books are Unitarian in theology, denying the essential attributes of Deity in Jesus, Christ. There seems to be no doubt but that the teachings of several of the books are con trary to the accepted standards of Methodism." This criticism is serious. It is like poisoning, the water at the fountain head. It is time to raise objection when the Church itself puts into the hands of her future leaders an instrument with which to cut her own throat. It would be far more to the point to put into the hands of these young men books that are so thorough ly saturated with the old truths of the Bible that they will be armed against the insidious, iniluences of error that they will inevitably meet on the highways of the world. ii n ii Shall AVo Have a Publicity Service? We be lieve that it is one of the great needs of the Church, and that some day it must come to en able the Church to marshal its forces and direct its activities. We find the following in the Western Christian Advocate of September 11: "It is to be hoped that some day the Protestant world will awake to the necessity of publicity. The different denominations have taken their journalism only half seriously. Notice what the Itoman Catholic editors did recently at their eighth annual convention. They voted to raise an endowment of one million dollars to found a. Roman Catholic publicity service. It was sug gested in carrying out the plan that central offices should be established at New York, Lon don, Paris, Rome, and later in Germany, and then in other large centers, as the growth of the work should demand. That is a world-grasp of a situation that requires statesmanship. If the Roman Catholics beat us to a great world idea and place it in operation to our embarrass ment, we need not say we were not warned." In this enterprise the Roman Catholic editors are showing consummate skill. Our Church, in common with many others, has been trying to get its publicity work done without making any investment in it; and, as usual when we try to get something for nothing, the Church is get ting cheated in the undertaking. We have been trying to ride private enterprise, and get our Church periodicals circulated as though they were only another paper the people are called upon to take, long enough. Wre need more statesmanship in our publicity work. H fl it The Great War continues to absorb the thought and energy of our people, and the bat tles on all fronts continue to go in favor of the Allies. In Palestine the P.ritish army has sud denly sprung into renewed activity and almost annihilated the Turks on the western side of the Jordan. The news reports indicate " that the Ottoman army there has practically collapsed. Some 25,000 prisoners had been sent to the rear and counted, and n. 1 munitions of war had been capture. On Macedonian front also the Serbs ,, ? ue made great advances against the Bulgarian Th' collapse of the enemy at that point seems al most as complete as in Palestine, I hough trJ booty is not so large. Something ;,je U)() prisoners have been reported from that front On the Western front the progress has be slower. The Germans are there making their determined stand, but the Allies are reported to be eating their way into the heart of the Huns' defenses. All the news is encouraging and re ports indicate that the thing to be done is to continue the pressure with constantly increasing force unil victory is achieved. The next few weeks are going to witness another great sub scription of Liberty Loan bonds that will show to our soldiers that they have the undivided sup port of the people back home, and that will show to the Germans that America is in to win. Stewardship The Centenary Movement The Church has ever held the doctrine of stewardship as a theory; shall we come to rec ognize it as a fact? Shall our conviction of this truth reach the level of the Psalmist's faith when he said: "I believed, therefore have I spoken;" and shall our speaking be not only in word but also in deed? There is no higher doctrine of man's relation to his earth ly possessions than this of stewardship, as we have pointed out in two preceding editorials: but how faithfully are wo living up to our pro fessions? The Church is at last awaking to its task ami making plans that will call for a larger practice of this doctrine. It will not demand . that we carry this doctrine to its limits. The full recog nition in practice of the truth that we and all our possessions belong to God, and all alike should be used with an eye single to His glory, would swing the Church far beyond anything that is being planned even in this day of big undertakings. But the time has come when the Church simply must move in that direction. We must take some long steps in advance of what we have been doing. Anything short ol this would be to fail in this hour of world-crisis, and failure on the part of the Church is not to be thought of for one moment. In compart therefore with what we have been doing, 1 Church is planning for a great forward move ment. Thirtyi-Five 3Iillions for Jlisions. It is conservatively estimated that to sustain the men and women necessary for theJ and to equip them so that they can do e i work, will call for thirty-five million dollar i 011 f?SS the next five years. This is not a rash B , ,,,, eU11 what it will require; it is not an that is subject to discounts. The field lx&m gone over carefully by men who are a with the situation. The urgent need- hae itemized and the cost of supplying them i vi be 13 ii been figured; then these items hum - med up in order to determine the to that will be needed. This amount is ly to increase as we advance in the v- it is to decrease. Initial successes th'i. company this movement on tne 1'" i(jn f0r Church will inevitably lay the ""' not call still larger expenditures; but this res0urces for an added burden to anybody. lL will also increase. What we need io a3 is lo make up our minds to put ou
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