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PAGE EIGHT 1 An Easter Appeal 1 1 - ' • >» : W | By MAUD ROYDEN - \ " Famous Evangelist and Lecturer. J fg TX7HEN I plead for the Armenian children at Easter-tide I i » * ask myself what excuse can anyone have for refusing help \ » in this case. The only one I have yet met is this: “We don’t like j the Armenians.” , But if you were to travel about the world and realize how Jss intensely we are disliked in some parts of the world, your hair F would stand on end. Is everyone who is disliked to die? If so, SB we shall be among the first, I assure you. ;• 1 T It is true that the Armenian race is a very troublesome one. { n It is always beijjg massacred! It is always in trouble. For 4,000 + years the Near East has been the battleground of nations. No ’ § other portion of the world’s surface has been so drenched with X human blood. Millions qf lives and billions in property have X been sacrificed. Armies and navies have failed. They have u 9 A brought only desolation and ruin. They have not enriched life. R |K Where there was hatred they have engendered more hatred, sus- A gT picion, distrust and desire for revenge. A - Yet there will be no permanent world peace until the Near A V!T East question is solved. ''-J i? In the Near East today there is a latent and new force that . §» will prove mightier than all the armies of the past —little chib ' Cto dren, about a hundred thousand of them, fatherless, motherless, ' & homeless, penniless, but none the less potential leaders of a new M Near Easty t ':■£ The tragedy of these children is poignant. Many of them j jSF became refugees at the age of one or two years; they have lost ' fr 211 memory of their families; their relatives are dead; their m mothers would not even recognize them again if they saw them, j |p They have no country, for Armenia has ceased to exist. The 1 |jjh present plight of the Armenian nation is in some respects worse * S than it was under Abdul Hamid. A heroic little Christian nation J is homeless. g f~' Yet I do not plead for them because they are Christians. ( §j? Whatever their religion, I should feel the same about them. Ido 4 plead because for their religion, whatever it is, they have suffered | unnameable things, and any people that is willing to do that is £ sL a people that deserves to live. si Let us do that pitiful little service which at present seems % - to be all we can. do—give our help to those who are trying to J [ g collect the scattered families and provide food and clothing for f |p a orphans. We do’ hot know how far a few loaves and fishes can be made to go. Here is no gigantic, unmanageable problem, like the £ 5k Russian famine. It is a handful of people for whom I plead, and £ , who knows'how far the help we send may go? y Here are people needing only a little help to make good 3 I!* Will you help them? We shall all be happier at Easter if we do. J KLOYD COLLINS' BODY j IS AGAIN’ REACHED Welkers Find Body In Fair Condition— Will Be Removed and Buried ak Crys tal Cave. Cave City, K.v., April 10. —Workers •engaged in a second effort to recover the fi.ifly of Floyd Collins from Sand Cave where he was caught by a rock fall January 30, reached the body this af ternoon ami found it in fair condition. 1 auys a report reaching here from Sand Cave. The body will not be removed today, however. Mis Brother Horner Is Paying Miners Pot W'och Stockton. Calif.. April 10.—Homer Collins, brother of Floyd Collins, at pres ent in this city, when notified that W. H. Hunt, a miner, had reached within a few feet of his brother’s body said: "That’s good news. I have been pay ing Hunt to dig for the body of Floyd so that it could be moved to the Crystal Cave he discovered. X expect to return home to Cave City as soon as t have enough money to pay Hunt for his work, v.'lliclj will be in a few weeks more and than I will see that • suitable monu -1 meat is erected for Floyd iu front of sinsnswwmi iiiwroomnrswwsTaiasi iigin—b—hmimii i .. .1 , , i :. , . , .a , ; .~L .. . Superior Performance >lL ;j . * Every day a Buick owner realizes more and more the greater safety of Block mechanical 4-wheel brakes, the extra reserve of power in the Buick Valve-in-head engine, and the easier steering and parking that result from Buick’s ball-bearing, worm and nut Steering mechanism. More reasons why more than a million Bnicks are in daily use today. ’ ' ■ will~huilri them ■ , | the Crystal Cave and the casket inclosed in a steel box." Jack Dempsey Retires Again. Los Angeles. April 10.—The Los An geles Times today said that Jack Demp sey admits to his intimate friends that he has retired and never will enter the ring again except for chaVity. In sporting circles here the retire ment of Dempsey has been accepted as a fact since shortly after his marriage to Estelle Taylor, motion picture actress, but the heavyweight champion has not yet publicly announced his withdrawal. He stated shortly before his marriage, however, that he would hang up his gloves once and for all after the wed ding. Earthquake Aids Wircletts. Geneva. April 11.—After a severe earthquake shock, accompanied by heavy rumblings, which occurred in Switzer land recently people \flio were listening to a sermon being broadcast from Lau sanne station were able to hear with much greater distinctness. The bank book continues to he opr Great National Novel. THE CONCORD SAILY TRIBUNE - - » ... , Carst3rr=©ap m €aker=saitb ' By DR. a. R. VWT*m i* ' Castor come* at a different date In the NisrEast than la Ameriea, j •*»«» to the fact that the Greek church still ettags to the antiquated Byzantine calendar. Eaater ic pre-eminsntiy the meet Important holt- . | day of the year in Greene, and Re obsen«neptlO mom unlvereei end. I morß elaborate than anywhere' hi Weatern coentrle*. in this article Dr. Vinton, famous world-traveler end lecturer, teffe es hie eaperteaacw In Athene, where he spent Easter laet year emenp the refugees end orphans who are being cared for by Ameriea through the Near East üBIIBf. QAM writing la Athena, at two o'clock 1a the morning of Eaater Sunday, according to the Greek calendar. I ham ) Just come from a two hour service that started shortly before midnight, Although I could not un derstand the Greek words of tye serv ice, I could enjoy and appreciate it, and as a result of three days of church-going there runs through my mind very persistently the words so long ago uttered by St Paul in this very place: “Ye men of Athens— very religious.” Tonight was the climax of a series of observances that started on Good Friday. All that day the bells were tolling and flags wen at half-mast ev erywhere. Business stopped. Through out the day steady streams of people poured into the churches, not simply the greet Cathedral, but into scores of little chapels I had never noticed before. I went into many of them. There was no general or congrega tional service; it was all individual worship. People came alone or in family groups. Every class of society was represented. In most of the churches there were representations of the sepulchre and people knelt for rs=a=^====z== jraßyf 11 | | ♦ -t ORPHAN CHILDREN OF THE NEAR EAST RELIEF ON THEIR PLAY GROUND IN CLABBIC ATHENS a moment as they kissed reverently the sacred pictures in front of the “tomb." I watched long and, I am frank to say, critically, fop evidences »f mere formality, mere routine. But I saw earnest, reverent, prayerful worship. Late into the evening the bells still tolled and the people were still going to the churches. That night thousands and thousands march ed in procession through the streets and up the long winding road to the Chapel of SL George at the top of Mount Lycabetus. Saturday night the city took on a more festive turn. By ten o’clock the streets were full of people. Every per son carried a candle, most of tkem unlit, but enough lit to make the scene one long to be remembered. Soon after ten, a movement started toward the great square in front of the Cathedral, and I pushed along with the crowd. After a few blocks the crowds became thicker .and prog ress difflculL But it was a good-na tured crowd. There was talking aad laughing, bnt there was nothing bois terous. It was a reverent, home]’ crowd, grouped in families, with thou sands of children. Reaching a cross street, I found the main approach to the Cathedral Square. I could scarcely believe my eyes: the square was as light as at noonday from a thousand flaring gas lamps and at least tea thousand can dles, The center of the square was a great stand which had been erected for the church dignitaries mid their midnight Easter service. In front of the stand were a thousand orphans from the American orphanages, drawn up in close formation, hats off, rev erent and worshipful. At 11:45 the bells of the Cathedral burst Into music. The crowd surged forward. Those who had not yet Et their candles borrowed lights from their neighbors. Then came the pro- from the church, first the sa cred ikons, then the pzriSh priests, then the bishops and finally the Metropolitan, head of the church. A band began to play a stately Gregb rlan chant; the soldiers came rigidly to salute and held it for the full five minutes of the chant Everybody joined in the singing. Ten thousand voices earn* to me, a deep vibrant sound like the combined music ft wind through the pines and the' dis tant breaking taf heavy surf. I could distinguish no single voices, so heavy aad overpowering was the swelling chorus. Everybody knew the chant and joined reverently, it was as, If they were singing to themselves and God alone, with ne con scion mess es anyone aronnd them. . The Chant was finished Just before midnight and the Metropolitan's voice rose clear and strong, reaching a climax on the stroke of twelve with the famlllac words “Christos Attest!” —Christ Is Risen! As the bells bookie forth in joyful whole throated pealing, every person in the crowd repeated again and again these words, “Christ is Risen.” Etch matt greeted each Os his neighbors with the joyous phrase. » People in an American crowd will back Into Mm church; the crow# be gan to move, bnt nobody was is a hurry. They were greeting friends with the glad tidings, “Ohrlates Anesti.” Mother* whispered tt to their children and the ekildrea lisped back reply. Refugees in otd ragged clothes, wRh the memory of massacre, deportation and suffering, snM eefUy, thankfully, “Christos Anesti.’’ A t we-hour service of mere formal character tallowed, in the Cathedral, marked by antipbonal chanting ot very impreaalvo character. Perhaps five thousand pee pie- crowded Into the building, aQ-standing. Am impressive thing waa their obvious familiarity with all the intricate requirement* of the service: at certain potato tare thousand hands moved as onO whoa they made the sign es tho crow at some point In the chant or reading. No one had a prayer-book; hveryone seemed to know the service perfectly. At one point in the service, a Bish op advanced toward the open door and called out a question in a lopd voice. There came ba«k from five thousand throats the answer, in Greek, bnt unmistakable: “He is not here; He is risen.” The climax came when two Bishops advanced to the altar, carrying bo-' tween them, a very old book. Then > the Metropolitan, in toll ecclesiastical 1 robes, came forward and read a chap-1 ter in a clear, strong voice that filled the great church, closiag. with the words, “Christos Anesti.” Every can- ’ die swept upward as the crowd, in hushed tones vibrant with deep emo- ! tion, echoed his phrase. Three times' this was done, and then fellewed s' chant in which the same words rang! ont again and again. | In the American orphanages and in' the refugee camps, it has often seem] ed to me that the secret of these re-] markable people es the Near Bast is to 1 be found in Paul's phrase “very relig ions.” An amazing thing is the faith and spirit of these people. In every corner of the Near Bast I have been impressed with their deep religious character and their devotion to their church. In the American orphanages there is, of course, dally Bible study. That is generally taken fer granted; 1 didn't take for granted, however; | inquired everywhere and never tailed ' to find a regular program, in- which the children displayed great Interest But there is also spontaneous relig ious life among- these children. At Sidon, I found'the orphanu holding a prayer service\of their own. not daily, bnt thrice daily. At Nasazeth the boy carpenters used a part of their touch hour for n devotional service. On the door ot the Boys' Club in an other orphanage center I saw a sign, written by one es the boys, “Come 1 here to study the Bibte.” The deeply religious nature ot tbs' people of the Near East and their in-j tense faith in God are a chief explana tion of the spiiit ta which they M*e I endured so much without losing heart 1 and hope. Recognition and develop-! ment of this spiritual factor are ot great Importance in tho contribntfea! that America is making toward a per-1 manent and just solution of the many j problems of the Near Bast. j The East has been awakesed. It' Is stirring with new fits, new vitality, i new aspirations. The Nils VaUsy.l Palestine, Syria, Turkey and {he I Balkans, are electric with potoa- 1 tlalities. Perhaps tj»e future «f every on earth today is' taking form in this cauldron ot old races and old hatreds, of new hopes aad new power. Ten years ago a bomb exploded at Sarajevo in the Balkans, and destroy ed the old life of every man and woman and child in the United States. Let ns not doubt that the taw es our children is beta# affected by the momentous events of today la the Near East. We do not doubt it. Nor are Wo helpless and MEtad in imagined secur ity, as we we?e ten* years ago. The American people are acting now, lq the turmoil of the Levant. They tow ft tan din*, nr— lM. nuia.-ll ___ j. it from the AwSo oa*e r* 1 I %„• v ' v v < 7 >'■-* f /l ■ AanT ' 11 36$ r :’■ SRy it * ' : ' . |MKr / ;•>—-- . Tf' JbU" - aSSts^ sk§sbP\ i • % Tor v *■> 1 . snE) '^ss^.^J*SßSr§i WB*%r' 1 ißsk lfi % 9y /ipi !«II« STWf ii * \ q ° f§jr jf fi? < ij I \ |§& !i| ■ jf|P Orno^ ! ; m* •’• Spring Costtmie ! *: i t ■ ‘ Our buyer has just returned from a hur- 1 "W"” > A. *J »■■ tied trip to northern markets and brought ~ jA i t 'VJi ‘S '' back .with him the very latest patterns in < k frp y j; ‘ J *Jk lie. <i Blond Satins, Black Satins, Patents, Two- , 1 ‘ \M|/ M ; I jUp'- j Tones and -White Kid leather. ' .]! Over one hundred new patterns to se- I i ' 4} * CCt r ° m ' $k J»|e«P j AH Sizes All Colors All Widths ! ! : S|| $3.95 to $9.00 jjgg; fjljY Ruth - Kesler Shee Store ijR Bradstreet’s Trade Review. New York. April I(l.—Bradstreet's to morrow will say: “The best pre-Easter weather condi tions for several years past, coupled with intensive advertising of "sales," have made fcr the most' aeffve week at ret ill since last 1 tecemßtrc Bence a little more cheerful tone among distributors, ; who, because of -the date of Easter j last year and .Hie unfavorable condi i tions fhen ruling, find trade bet'er than a year ago at titis date' . A like report comes as regards retail? trade in March, ,this both ns order and chain .sales, as well as department stores, which later, it will.be recalled, reported j small decreases from a year ago in both January auU February. Combined rc ! rg|rf&£s^J> T" Lasting Protection ;iS,s>' . -'A '■ 1 [ * *" " **paifttT**j Ki pjjj - iOuitviLU? • KEN?uCWV t J fjr' O sf S<3 C J If 1 **; ! \** ' ; < ' § IS tail sales by three agencies undoubtedly made a belter showing in March than they did in earlier months. ft is true there are some discordant note«. these more especially in the southwest and northwest, where the need of rain to give the crops n good start is stressed, and it is. doubtful if retail trade, although better, is fully up to expectations. "Weekly bank clearings *8,7411,371.- 000. - ’ TttBAVS EVENTS Saturday. April Jl, 1#35 Centenary of the birth of Ferdinand Lassalle, originator of the social-demo cratic movement in Germany. , Greetings to John W. Weeks, secretary Safti r3ay K S\pr il If, 1925 of war in the Coolidge cabinet, on the occasion of his 05th birthday anniver sary. Sixty years ago today the Federal forces captured the forts in Mobile Bay. 1 resulting in the surrender of the city tile following day. Miss Glenna Collett, former American woman golf champion, sails fob’* Europe today to participate in the- .British, French and Belgian championships. Col. Theodore Itooscvelt and his broth er, Kermit, sail from New York today IjjatL the .Tames Simpsnn-Fte'.d Mu sSuuf ekpe<litton into Turkesthn. Tim ex)iendition plans to leave Kashmir for the Pamirs and Southwestern Aida about the middle of May.
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