Volume XL
1 AYBE THEY WILL.
Maybe they'll hang Arbuckle
He needs it, I suppose;
And maybe they'll try to purify
And clean up the movie shows.
Maybe they'll jail, old Simmons-
He must be a turbui man;
is riht
And stamp out the Ku Klux
Klan.
Maybe they'll junk the navies,
And disband the armies too;
They will bime-by, but you?d
better not try
To hold your breath till they do.
The "Amateurish" Head.
It is none of my business, I know,
but the execution of your top front ington by the foremost nations of the
page illustration of the fools, being world beginning on the day the arm
so amateurish, tends to give a weak- istice was signed three years ago. If
ening impression of the many good that conference fails to hasten the
things your paper contains. Undoubt- day of universal peace for which the
edly you will some day improve upon
the execution of it.
FRANK STEWART.
854 Clairmonfc Ave.,
Detroit, Mich.
Well, now, maybe there is
something in that. I admit that
me neacung aesign isn't a very
high grade of art work. But there
is one advantage about it T mad p.
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it ray very own self. Away back
7 B
yaiider in 1910 when I first started
The "Fool-Killer, I took myself off
to one side and had a long talk
with mvself about the matter Gf
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a heading design for the papeT
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to do the work, but neither of us
had money enough to pay an
artist. o I said to myself: that time 19 uow
"You draw it yourself." Well, yes.
And myself replied: It is important in a way.
"All right, I will." At least, it ought to be.
And, my self did.
When myself got the drawing
done and showed it to me I didn't
like it very well, but thought it
would do. And 1 have made it do
until now.
But of course it does look "am-
ateurish," and is getting consider-
ably worn. So maybe 1 had beUer
try to get abetter one purty soon,
oomer, North Carolina, October, 1921.
THAT HEATHEN CONFAB.
My very eminently respectable
orthodox friend, Mr. Archibald
Johnson, the able editor of Char
ity and Children, is generally
supposed to be an incurable
optimist. But it seems that the
general hellbentness of the times
is beginning to tell on Editor
Johnson's nerves. In a recent
editorial touching on and apper
taining to the forthcoming Disa-
greement Conference, he rumin
ates in the manner following:
"Perhaps few of our people have
realized tae tremendous importance
of the conference to be held in Wash-
weary world is longing, the outlook
is dark indeed. It is proposed by the
Presbyterians of the South that a day
of prayerjbe appointedby all Chris
tian denominations, that the Lord
will lead the nations in this great
conference to sound and safe and
Ligneous conclusions. That greed of
gain shall nave no place in the coun
sels of the wise men, and that each
natioil shall have one end and aim in
view, and that the general good of
. , , ,
all. This s.njTP'fiaT.iOTi. wnmh has hpn
made by our brethren, is eminently
wise, and we hope Christians of every
name will fall in with the proposal
and that millions of the Lord's chil-
dren on the designated day on bended
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knee will ask for divine guidance to
tne representatives assemDiea in our
natidnal capital. If ever there was
need for a national prayer meeting
It could be aJery important
step toward peace if the rea
friends of peace had charge of it.
But since the whole thing will be
made up of slick-duck politicians,
each one scheming to feather
s own national nest, the chances
are ten to one that it will be a
step AWAY from peace and to-
ward another big war.
If that conference fails . . ....
the outlook is dark indeed,"
wails Editor Johnson.
Well, Mister Johnson, I regret
to break the sad news to you, but
t will fail. Just as sure as God
s in heaven, it will fail. And
, ' ......
irom a numan standpoint tne
outlook certainly is dark. But
there is a bright side to it that
you do not see. However, there
s no use to tell you about that
you wouldn't believe it.
There are several reasons why
the Disagreement Conference
will be just that and nothing else.
To start with, the conference
will be composed of the wrong
sort of men, and they will come
with seirisn ana aisnonest mo
tives. And besides that, they will
try to do it all in their own hu
man strength, without even a
bare acknowledgement that a
Higher Power exists. They will
simply ignore God in - all their
deliberations, just like they did at
Versailles three years ago. Even
if the so-called Christian nations
were really Christian and they
are not they would still have
Japan and China to deal with,
and it would be an insult to J apan
and China to mention any God
except a wooden one. Our good
Christian nations will think it is
more important to please the
heathen than to please God, and
so they will just leave God out of
it. Just watch and see if they
don't.
And yet I am invited to get
down and dirty my hew breeches
praying to God to guide, direct
and bless a gang of heathens
who will not even acknowledge
that there is any God. Well, I
just ain't going to do it. I am very
well satisfied that God knows His
business, and if He wants to
bless that heathen conference
that - is ashamed of His very
name, He can do it without any
advice from me;
This conference, you. under
stand, is going to be a purely
s
Number
human effort to prop up the old
tottering nations. Well, accord
ing to prophecy the time has
come for them to fall, and I don't
believe God wants them propped
up. I believe He is just letting
the wicked nations destroy them
selves, after which He will set
up His Kingdom here on the
earth.
The failure of this conference
is inevitable, and let it come. I
repeat it, let it come. The faster
we can plunge on through this
nasty mess the sooner we will be
out of it and into the Golden Age,
PRETENDERS."
In discussing the Debs case4
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one aay, someooay asKea me
this question:
Does Debs' pretend to be a
Christian?"
I replied:
"AO! He does not PRETEND !
He IS! It is so much of this in
fernal 'pretending' to be a
Christian that has brought the
world to the brink of ruin."
And that is the God's truth.
The men now in power at Wash-
ington are all great "pretend
ers," and that is why they con
tinue to keep America's best
Christian in jail.
"When Jesus Christ began his
ministry in Palestine he had
eleven true disciples and one old
"pretender" named Rev. Judas.
But in America today he has just
about . forty million Rev. Judas
"pretenders" and just a few true
disciples. Debs is the most noted
of the true disciples, and there
are a few others. And most of
them are n jail, or have been
recently. o
No man can be an absolutely
true f ojlower of Jesus Christ in
America today and keep out of
jail. But he can be a pretend
er" and get elected president of
the Benited States.
God pity a land where "pre
tenders" rule and true Christians
rot in filthy jails!