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VOL. LXXXVli. RICHM
Training f
Instances multiply as to the training requisi
for leadership in every department of life se
vice; but we need to profit by these insistenci
on qualification for leadership more than we d
LEADERSHIP IN THE BALKANS.
The Balkan war teaches us, among oth
things, to give up the hastily formed imprt
sion that the triumph of the allies is the succe
of suddenly inspired patriotism over an arn
regular in its organization and theoretically
sympathy with the modern military idea; th
the armed men of the Balkan nations ha'
sprung up in the night, and by force and fui
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liad been relied upon to defeat them. The tru
is quite the opposite. The armies of the alii
are in every sense of the term "armies;" th<
are not crowds of armed men suddenly inspiri
to attack the Turks and operating under ii
provised leadership. The forces of Bulgari
Servia, and Greece are quite as much the ei
. bodimerits of tl^e up-to-date scheme of milita
organization of nations as are the defeat)
Turks. They bear up no resemblance to t!
Minute Men of our Revolution, and still less
the Boers who so well held the pow.er of Gre
Britain at bay. The lesson to be learned i
That if a nation is to be ready to exert all i
power in wa$, it must give gears of training
its fighting maternal in peace. Certainly no n
tion of our size is so utterly unprepared for tl
advent of war as we are.?The Boston Tran
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A NEEDED REVIVAL: PRIDE IN ONE'S WORK.
In The New Orleans Item of a recent cfate a
pears this editorial:
"If the present'Crusade for Efficiency,' whi<
is talked about so mueh in the manufacturii
world, changes the attitude of the worke
toward their work, it will bo the greatest bles
iug this country has known for many years."
There is no common sense reason why t!
worker at a trade should not love and take prii
in his work, just as so-called professional mi
love and take pride in their work. There a
tasks no one can love, but they are found in tl
professions as well as in the trades.
The social prestige which favors profession
workers can be overcome. Social prestige d
pends on three things: tradition, money, ai
brains. Tradition is on the wane. The mon<
advantage of professional life its negligible. Tl
average bricklayer, plumber, or worker at
dozen other trades is better paid than the ave
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wuu?rv uoctor. or minister, and far bett
paid than most teachers.
As much room for brains exists in the trn
ns in the average practice of most professior
The weakness of both is that they bccor
mechanical. The trade worker has the real a
vantage of dealing with tangible things, whit
grow and change under his hands.
If the Efficiency Movement" can bring bac
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OND, NEW ORLEANS, ATLANTA. JANl
or Leadershi
te the old craftman's pride in work it will do more
r- than a thousand laws to solve labor difficulties,
es CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR RATING FOR EFFICIENCY.
Lo. At the Atlantic City International Christian
Endeavor Convention Rev. Francis E. Clark,
er President of the United Society of Christian
ssf- Endeavor, started "the Efficiency, or Better
ss ment, Campaign in Christian Endeavcr "Work"
ly throughout the world with an address in which
in the pace is thus set:
at "Our's is a religiou society. We stand for
ire training the youth along four great lines: Outry
spoken acknowledgement of Christ; Constant
ih Service for Christ; loyalty to Christ's Church;
th Fellowship with Christ's people. These features
es really spell christian endeavor. In every soey
ed OH MAGNIFY AND PRAISE
HIS NAME.
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ll- By Mis? Emily J. Bryant.
The stare which sang creation's praise
Still pour their glory down the age,
he And every work of God shall raise " -v
to New songs on the unfolding page.
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The wind and rain and snow fulfi.ll
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The message of their Maker's will:
While beast and man with freest will
io His open hand supplieth still,
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HQ W iiw&Buiijr a 11 a p raise 1*13 name,
IS_ Whose sacrifice His love reveals.
Whose blessed Holy Spirit came
To save, aad all our sorrows heals.
p- O holy hope of bliss beyond,
Realms of the bldst supremely fair;
Visions of glory sent to soothe
jg And save us from a dark despair.
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Praise God In fche long, weary hour,
?" Praise Him who holy courage gives:
God Is our everlaetihg tower,
tie In Him all good forever lives,
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Praise 'Him for the work we share.
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rraise rum lor tne crown tnat waits,
r'J Praise Him for Ms ceaseless care,
he Praise Him "sweeping through the gates."
ciety should be some, at least, who have thorle
oughly studied our Christian Endeavor prinid
ciples; and I propose not only that in every soay
ciety a Christian Endeavor study-class be instihe
luted, but that pastor and president confer the
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w. vyiinsiiciii jiiiaeavor expert i,
ir- on every proficient student. I suggest for our
er local societies that some system of rating be
adopted, that the faithful may be distinguished
es from the faitjhiess, and the conscientious from
is. the careless. If our hicrhest nnivoroiH^c fin/i
tie marking system necessary to promote scholard
ship, why should nor. Ihii iranivg school of the'
oh Church lake n leaf out of the book of experienceT
Let attendance, participation and reverence in
sk the meetings, count. Let faithful and efficient
WESTERN PPESBYTERfAflh
ML PRESBYTER/AN A
thern Presbytej?jan
JAKY 8. 1913. NO. -i* A.
...BY...
113 Rev. C. 0. N. Martindile
service on the committees and worthy monthly
committee reports also count for points. Ijet
proportionate and systematic giving to missions
and the support of denominational enterprise
be l-ecegnized in the rating. Let the winning of
new members, of course, always be considered
wormy 01 recognition, ancl faithfulness to other
services of the church than Christian Endeavor
meeting never be forgotteu. ;Fuil details concerning
this plan of rating for efficiency in ,
Christian Endeavor will be given in The Christian
Endeavor World and in other C. E. publications.)
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LEADERSHIP IN SOCIAL RECOGNITION.
That notable teacher and writer. Dr. Chas. It.
Brown, of Yale, .->ums up the present situation in
many respects in these striking terms:
"The statement that the working men have
'no proper, suitable, and intelligent leaders'
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D&cuu cAaygi'imtu, uui iuere is 110 sumcicnt
number oE such leaders for the heavy task imposed
upon the toilers. We have all seen just
causes go down in defeat for lack of competent
leadership. There are facts enough in the minds
olT men, organization euough, class loyalty
enough, honest determination enough, but there
is, indeed, a sore lack of competent, far-seeing,
trustworthy leadership. The hands on the clock
of industrial betterment nre renontodiv Ko/?ir
not hours, but days and years, by incompetent
leadens, who can feel but cannot see. Unwise, unjust,
violent blows are struck with honest purpose,
it may be, but sure to react to the hurt of
the men who struck them. The sympathetic molive
must therefore be re-enforced and directed
by those vast additions of knowledge and experience
which come through careful study. Leadership
with eyes to see and with ears to hear,
with a mind to understand and with real ability
to point the way of progress, is the insistent de:nand
of the hour. The notion that any wellmeaning
individual who can talk loud and write
with red ink ought to be allowed to undertake
to upset the existing institutions of society in
order to introduce some scheme of his own, does
not command any serious or useful following
these days. . . . We need reforms, many
and radical, hut they will come very slightly, if
at all, through intemperate and bitter denunciation
unaccompanied by any wise suggestions for
relief; they will come rather by the ^patient application
of intelligence, conscience, and experience
to problems too vast and too vital to be
solved rapidly or off-band. v. . . The amount .
of economic, elastieitv in rmr nroconi
_ y ?mm wvt& |^1 OJ RIA7U1 JO
much less than it was fifty years ago. The
stronger, abler, and more resolute wage-earners
will of necessity remain in their own class, and
some of them are destined to become Moses-like
' loaders in the struggle for social betterment.
The result will be that the wage-earning class
will not be left unorganized and leaderless to the
extent that it has been in past ears. Moses was