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Appointees should of course be subject to discharge for ineffic iency like other officers of the national army.

"It is my purpose to give the chaplain corps through these forces a definite and responsible status and to outline, direct and enlarge their work into co-operative and useful aid to the troops. "(Signed) PERSHING."

In general Pershing's letter, we notice this remarkable sen

tence:

"I believe the personnel of the army has never been equaled and the conduct has been excellent, BUT TO OVERCOME ENTIRELY THE CONDITIONS FOUND HERE requires fortitude borne of great courage and LOFTY SPIRITUAL IDEAS."

And again: "It is my desire to SURROUND THEM with the BEST INFLUENCE POSSIBLE." * * * "It seems wise to request the aid of the Churches at home."

Let us be thankful that we have our General Pershing with our boys in France. A writer, evidently an atheist, writes in the San Francisco Examiner in an alarming tone, indicating the kind of influence surrounding our boys in France, which our excellent chief guarding general is anxious to guard our boys against. Thus he writes jubilantly:

Danger of French Skepticism.

"The return of our million crusaders will galvanize us as by an electric current, shocked into living. A thousand new impulses will be given to our national veins. The message of beauty and of fearless thinking will be delivered by a million young, impressionable men, and the bats will flutter in alarm in a thousand cobwebbed belfries and educational attics.

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, after contact with the keen French mind, after digging into the soil of Rabelais, of Montaigne, of Voltaire, of Rousseau, of Diderot, of Balzac, of Fourier, and of Anatole France, after acquiring the free Gallic outlook upon life and drinking anew of that fount of the American Revolution, he will have a fresh tolerance for life and a fresh hatred of sham that will make him a formidable home missionary.

"Even now one hears the thunderous footsteps of the onward marching intellectual emancipation-the new learning-the American renaissance."

Notice the kind of soil he hopes our boys will be digging in: Rabelais, Voltaire, Rousseau, and the others enumerated, every one a full-fledged infidel. Notice the following sentence: "The message of beauty and of FEARLESS thinking will be delivered by a million young impressionable men, AND THE BATS WILL FLUTTER IN ALARM IN A THOUSAND COBWEBBED BELFRIES AND EDUCATIONAL ATTICS." Notice the slap at the churches and theological seminaries of the land in these words:

"The bats will flutter in alarm in a thousand cobwebbed belfries and educational attics."

The inference is that our soldier boys will return home to their Christian loving mothers, who have prayed for them and will rejoice at their safe return, fully developed infidels, renouncing their mother's religion and their mother's God.

But General Pershing has found out that infidels do not make good soldiers. These monkey-descendents have no ideals to live or to sacrifice themselves for.

No; it is the Christian religion, the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, that points out and prepares for habitation. in the Father's Mansions, and divine inspiration that gives courage, fortitude and endurance.

First Experience:

King David's Experience.

The condition of the blessed, genuine Happiness:
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,

Whose sin is covered.

Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord

Computed not iniquity, and

In whose spirit there is no Guile.

Second Experience:

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me.

My moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Third Experience:

The pressure of GOD'S HAND brings acknowledgment of sin and confession:

I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and

Mine iniquity have I not hid.

I said:

I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord;

And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

A Lesson Well Learned.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found, surely in the flood of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Better Than German Kultur.

Thou art my hiding place;

Thou shalt preserve me from trouble;
Thou shalt compass me about with
SONGS OF DELIVERANCE. Selah.

Covenant Renewed.

"I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eyes." Ps. 32: 1-8.

This is God's answer to David's supplication and prayer. Since David humiliated himself, confessed his sins and received forgiveness, a change of mind, heart, disposition and conduct had taken place, and he had become docile, and subservient to the teaching and the will of God, and so susceptible to divine influences that a wink of the eye or the nod of the head was sufficient for him to take notice and to remind him of his duty.

"Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he may have mercy upon us.' Ps. 123:2.

Victory Without Bloodshed.

When our "kaisers," kings, presidents, governors, legislators, and administrators shall bow before GOD as David did; when they shall acknowledge and confess their own and community, state and national sins as Hezekiah and Nehemiah did; when the church shall see, acknowledge and confess sins, broken hearted, fasting, wailing and weeping as Jeremiah, Daniel and Ezra did; when the populace shall gather willingly and listen attentively to the reading and expounding of the law and the Gospel now as in the days of the great and transforming revivals in the days of Hezekiah and Nehemiah-WHEN THESE THINGS COME TO PASS. THEN WE SHALL HAVE GLORIOUS VICTORY WITHOUT BLOODSHED.

The Lord's Proclamation.

We have heard Proclamations and Messages by President Wilson, we have also heard announcements and regulations from the food-administrator, Mr. Herbert Hoover, and we have listened with reverence and submission to both-now let us listen with as much reverence and submission and obedience to the following message by the LORD GOD of heaven:

"Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

"I should SOON HAVE SUBDUED THEIR ENEMIES, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

"The haters of the LORD should have SUBMITTED THEMSELVES unto him: but their time should have endured forever.

"He should have FED them also with the FINEST OF WHEAT: and with honey out of the rock should I have SATISFIED thee." Ps. 81:13-16.

And again:

"Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD thy GOD which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

"O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Isaiah 48:17, 18.

UNCLE SAM

The Teacher and the Administrator of the World

The Fundamental Principle:

Government by the Consent of the Governed

Theme: Universal Brotherhood-Universal Suffrage

Equality.

Administration:-Equal Opportunity—
Equal Responsibility-Protection for the

Weak against the Encroachment of the Strong.

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