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Thursday, October 24, I9s RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. Page Two EDITORIAL 4 Si THAT WAK OllDEH! Wo trust that none of our readers will fancy that the order of the War Indus tries Board may bo passed over lightly. It brings u face to face with another crisis .in our work. Wo are doing all tliat we can do hero in the office to meet the situation, but the greater part of the work must be done in the field. Collect ed lists brought down to as recent (Lite as it is possible for. us to handle them will be sent to our pastors in a few days. Of course, some renewals are coming in all tho time; and in soliciting the pastor may find a few who have recently sent in their renewal to the office; but this need cause no confusion or embarrassment. It is easy to explain to such that your list was sent from the office before his remit tance reached it, and nobody can justly feel any offense. Wo again appeal to our readers to send in their renewals, if they are due, without delay. Do not wait this year until Con ference; that may bo too late. We shall bo compelled to cut oh' delinquents after duo notice has been given, and tho farther in arrears you are the quicker the knife will reach your name. Wo do not wish to cut off a single subscriber; still less do we wish to oppress any one in forc ing collections. Write us frankly about your case, and wo will give you all tho consideration possible under tho circum stances. But the government has given its instructions and these are Avar times! Notes and Comments The United States Food Administration has postponed its proposed campaign until the first of December. This has been deemed necessary because of the prevalence of Spanish influenza' in the country at the present time. This will affect all notices that may have been given of a campaign to begin the 27th of this month, and the distribution of home cards, as well as the observance of Conservation Sunday in the Churches will likewise be postponed. A The Rus-sellics on the Move. Ex-Judge Ruth erford and his associate leaders of the Russel lite sect since the death of "Pastor Russell" have been imprisoned at Atlanta for twenty years, so an exchange reports. Our understand ing is that the charge is sedition. The Russell headquarters in Brooklyn is being closed. The Brooklyn Tabernacle has been sold to the Came ron Machine Co., and the Bethel Home has been almost completely dismantled. It is said that the Russellites are leaving Brooklyn and are con templating set up in Atlanta. It may be that they want to be near their leaders. The Wes leyan Christian Advocate thinks that Atlanta can get along without them. H II II Hiaher Hank for the Chaplains is being con sidered by the War Department, and a bill has been introduced in the Lower House of Con gress, providing that one-fortieth or less of the chaplains may be made Lieutenant-Colonels; one-tenth Majors; four-tenths 'Captains and the remainder First Lieutenants. Some of the chap lains going into .service, if this bill becomes law, may be commissioned in grades higher than First Lieutenants from the beginning of their service. This general increase in rank for chaplains will be of great service to them and to the boys in the trenches. First of all, the chaplain is the boy's friend at court, and the chaplain who is a Captain or a Major will probably be given a more responsive hearing than one who is a First Lieutenant only. Again, increased rank means increased pay greater opportunity for service both in the trenches and back at home. Yet again rank in the army is the symbol of honor, the approved method of showing appreciation. K t H Buenos Aires Leads World Methodism. That is the rather surprising headline that is shown in a recent bulletin of the Missionary Centenary issued by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Buenos Aires is out on the mission field. It is down in belated South America. We had not expected a company of saints down there to step into the lead of this leading movement of Chris tendom. But they have a First Church down there. Yes, sir, and that First Church, Buenos Aires, has already completed its drive for secur ing its financial quota in the great Centenary Movement. O, well, you say, What was its quota? The figure stands at $200,000 Argen tine. That doesn't look so bad either. How many First Churches in North Carolina will be able to stand up by her side when the drive is over? The mission field is showing us the way. Ill The Fire-Fiend is a genuine enemy of society, and it is a more numerous class than it is gen erally supposed to be. Those who have 'made a study of the subject divide them into five classes- (1) Enemy fires; (2) Fires for fraud; (3) Pyromaniac fires;' (4) Spite fires; (5) Fires accessory to other crimes. Of course these can be dealt with by law, provided they can be dis covered and the evidence produced. But they all fail to account for a great many fires that actually occur from carelessness and neglect. We ought to come to recognize that this also' is criminal. Millions of dollars worth of prop erty and many lives as well are destroyed every year by preventable fires. The individual whos2 property goes up in smoke may have an insur ance policy covering it that will repay him, but that does not change the fact that it is a prop erty loss to the world's wealth, and the insurer has only divided the loss among all the people who insure plus enough to enrich the company that does the insuring. The remedy for it all is to prevent the fire. I H II The Closing of the Breweries by the govern ment will meet with the approval of the general public. Of course, there will be persons who have" private interests in them, or who are in fluenced by those who have, that will do more or less kicking; but the great moral sentiment of the country will strongly approve. The ac tion was hot taken hastily, or without due con sideration, as the following letter from II. A. Garfield, United States Fuel Administrator, to United States Senator Wesley L. Jones, of Washington State, will show: "I have your let- :er of September 21st, enclosing copy of tele gram sent you by business men and hop grow ers of Yakima, Washington, with reference to the closing of breweries. I am sure that no one regrets more than I the financial loss restric tions of this kind entail, but I can assure you that this restriction was not imposed until after the matter had received the most careful atten tion The entire matter has been under con sideration' at Washington for many months, and it was considered of such importance that prac tically all of the various governmental depart ments were consulted. After studying the mat ter most carefully from all its angles, it was decided that brewing ran counter to the war needs in so many important directions that the best interests of the war called for the action taken." It must be remembered that this was not the action of a prohibition enthusiast, but o& a great nation that is right up against tho cola facts. Brewing is against all the highest inter ests of the nation in times of war or peace, but it took a terrible war to bring the fact home to the people. n n k The Centenary Celebration at Columbus, Oliio, will be one of the greatest religious gatherings that has ever been held in this country, it js being scheduled to meet June 20-July 7, 1919. It is expected that 100,000 delegates from all parts of the world will be there, together with thousands of visitors from the United States and Canada. It will be the great celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of American Methodist Missions. This great celebration will afford thousands of persons, unable to make a tour of the world, the opportunity to visit and study the world's races as they will be brought together in Columbus, at that time. Seven great buildings will be filled with missionary exhibits from all parts of the world. Natives from every mission field will be there, showing the village life and customs of their people. An unsurpassed program of lectures, pageants, stereopticon lec tures, etc., wll be presented, the theme of which will be "The Christian Crusade for World Dem ocracy." It will be a great event, and every one who can possibly do so should plan to come under the influence of that mighty gathering. 11 I II The Intercollegiate Prohibition Association has put itself on record in favor of world-wide prohibition. At a meeting of the Executive Committee held. October 1, it stated its creed, so to speak, in the following words: "The In tercollegiate Prohibition Association believes that the approaching culmination of the cam paign lor national prohibition should be fol lowed immediately by the launching of a united and world-wide crusade against beverage alco hol." This is only one unit, so far as number? go a comparatively small unit, that will enter this world-wide fight. Of course, the politicians will shrug their shoulders and prophesy failure. Others will characterize it as a movement to try to force on tho whole world the personal habits which a few enthusiasts have chosen for them selves. Still others will charge that these peo ple are trying to force on others restrictions to solves. which they are unwilling to suomu inl and raise the old cry of hypocrisy. All these i things but grow out of the fact that a grw many people persist in looking upon the pro hibition movement purely as a political m ure, while at bottom it is the eternal protest righteousness against evil. As a ere go; mental expedient, it would have been balia years ago, but the proddings of a con5aenperi. abhors the wrong knows no let up in ous demands. This imperative of an a a conscience is behind the demand that the erage liquor traffic must go This Epidemic of Spanish Influent is aj; ous thing in many ways. First am &eA the health and life of our people are en j by it. It is costing us far more live great war that is raging in Europe. illustration on the front page of the q letin for October issued by the stal! l8S Health, reveals the fact that between and August 1st of this year 94 Noi uled -m nrVlilft 1 Vl-ir ans were killed in vim, wriliosis. ,o iv. til 1)01 GUI""" by typhoid fever ana v.x UaS n0i How many have died in this epiden been counted, but we shall expect i
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