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MOKTREAT.
After a very trying summer finan
cially and most excellent one spiritual
ly Montreat addressed herself to the
task of repairing the heavy damages
done by the flood and making ready
for another season. Soon after the
guests of the season departed a large
force was busy on the grounds, the
Montreat public school, Wildwood pri
vate school and the Montreat Normal
school were all astir in their opening
exercises. Soon the carpenters begun
work on houses for which they had con
tracted to build and so altogether the
beautiful fall has presented a cheerful
picture of business activity.
More and better buildings are In the
process of construction than we have
ever seen at this season of the year
and more contracts than usual have
been let for building in the spring.
Of their own accord the visitors last
season generously donated about $1,
500.00 as an expression of their good
will for the purpose of restoring dam
ages occasioned by the flood. The wa
ter and sewer lines have been perma
nently restored, bridges built, much
work has been done on the roads and
the breach in the dam of the lake is
nearly filled.
After the heavy losses of the summer
and the great amount of work to be
done in restoring the grounds it is
needless to say that we are pressed
financially to do what ought to be done
to put the Montreat grounds and build
ings in order for another season. Our
Montreat friends, whom the Lord has
prospered, could not do better than to
send a check to assist in the great
work that is being done here.
By the generous transfer of a large
majority of stock to the Board of
Trustees last year, Montreat has be
come distinctively a church institution
and is now under control of the sev
eral Synods and the General Assembly
of our Church. The Church can well
afford to make liberal contributions for
the development of this institution that
it may enter into larger service.
All of the Montreat schools are pro
gressing splendidly and the Montreat
Normal School, which is under the
control of a Board of Trustees appoint
ed by ten of our Synods, promises to
render a large service to Christian ed
ucation on the most economical basis.
Every dollar spent on this school util
izes to the best advantage for Chris
tian education about $98.00 worth of
property which would otherwise be
idle. It would be well for those inter
ested in Christian education to inves
tigate this school thoroughly, that they
may know how richly it deserves finan
cial support and that they may make
their donations to the best advantage.
R. C. Anderson, President.
WORLD CONFERENCE ON FAITH
AND ORDER.
As the European war continues to
make it impossible to send a deputa
tion to Europe to explain the object and
methods of the World Conference on
Faith and Order, which, is proposed as
a step in preparation for the reunion
of the divisions of Christendom, the
commissions resident in North Ameri
ca have decided to establish a North
American Preparation Committee), to
collect material for the World Confer
ence, and to explain and spread in
North America the conference spirit,
instead of that spirit of controversy
which has for so many years kept Chris
tians apart.
The North American Preparation
Committee has now been appointed and
will hold its first meeting at Garden
City, Long Island, New York, January
23-24, 1917. The committee consists of
about one hundred and seventy-five men
from all parts of the United States and
Canada and includes members of the
following communions: Anglican, Ar
nienian. Baptist, Congrcgationalist, Dis
ciples of Christ, Friends, Lutheran,
Methodist, Moravian, Polish Catholic,
Presbyterian, Reformed, Roman Cath
olic, Russian and Serbian. It is be
lieved that never before have so many
men of so many different communions
worked together for the common pur
pose of trying to understand and appre
ciate each other and to bring out the
points of agreement which they hold in
common as Christians.
A PEACE THAT SHALL BE LAST
ING.
Calling upon Christians throughout
the world to co-operate in an effort to
establish "a peace that shall be last
ing, because based upon justice and
good will," the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America has sent
by cable and wireless, to members of
the principal Protestant ecclesiastical
bodies of Europe an official message,
embodying resolutions of sympathy for
the peoples of Europe, with an ex
pressed hope for an early ending of the
war.
This message is in part a reply to
fraternal messages received from Euro
pean church, leaders and organizations
by the Federal Council at its Quadren
nial Meeting In St. Louis the second
week in December, and the message
now cent to Europe is based upon reso
lutions adopted in St. Louis. They
are significant and timely in view of
current international developments and
of public sentiment on both sides of
the water.
The message is sent to the following
officials and organizations:
Rev. F. B. Meyer, Secretary of the
Free Church Council of Great Britain.
H. M. Gooch, Secretary of the British
Evangelical Alliance.
Professor J. W. Pont, Secretary of
the Dutch Evangelical Alliance.
The Archbishop of Canterbury.
Rev. Jules Pfender, of the French
Protestant Churches.
Rev. Stuart L. Roussel, of the French
Protestant Churches.
Court Preacher Dryander, of Berlin.
Professor Adolf Deissmann, of the
University of Berlin.
Superintendent Lahusen, of the Ger
man Protestant Churches.
Archbishop Nathan Soderblom, of the
Scandinavian Protestant ChurchM.
Archdeacon Carsten Hansteen, of the
Norwegian Protestant Churches.
Bishop Ostenfeld, of the Protestant
Churches in Denmark.
Also to representatives of the Prot
estant Churches in Italy, Russia, Switz
erland and Japan.
Here is the message:
"The Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America, composed of mem
bers appointed by thirty Christian
bodies with eighteen millions of com
municants, extends to the Christian
brethren in countries now engaged in
war its deepest sympathy, born of
Christian faith and brotherhood. Our
hearts have been touched as we have
learned of the sufferings that war has
brought, and have been stirred by the
reports of the deepening of the Chris
tian spirit through sorrow and self
devotion.
"We pray that their tragic experi
ences may inspire us all to a deeper
loyalty to the spiritual realities in which
believers in Christ are one, and that
the time will soon come when differ
ences between nations may be adjusted
in the spirit of the gospel of Christ
rather than by appeal to arms. Espe
cially do we hope that the present war
may come to a speedy end, and call upon
all Christians throughout the world to
co-operate in an effort to establish a
peace that shall be lasting because based
on justice and good will.
"We, therefore, instruct our Execu
tive Committee to extend this expres
sion of our Christian sympathy and this
appeal to the churches of Christ to the
brethren beyond the seas, and author
ize it to adopt such methods in so do
ing as may seem to it effective and
expedient."
Signed: Frank Mason North, Presi
dent; Charles S. Macfarland, General
Secretary; John M. Glenn, Howard B.
Grose, Finis S. Idleman, Alfred R.
Kimball, Albert G. Lawson, Rivington
D. Lord, William I. Haven, Shailer
Mathews, Rufus W. Miller, William H.
Roberts, E. E. Olcott, Alexander Walt
ers. Administrative Committee.
THE MORMON SUBMARINE.
Mormonism is a veritable submarine.
Its methods are underhanded. Its
depth of intrigue is unparalleled. It is
a wolf in sheep's clothing. Calling it
self a church, it is in fact an absolute
monarchy. Under the cloak of religion
it both teaches and practices crime and
treason. Pretending to bo loyal to
American institutions, it is in sworn
disloyalty to our republic, with, all that
that involves.
Its missionaries, to the number of
over four thousand, go about the coun
try visiting at least three million Chris
tian homes each year, carefully con
cealing the real tenets of the system
and capturing with false pretenses the
half-baked people of evangelical faiths,
until it draws them irretrievably into
its meshes. According to its own claims
eighty thousand such were entrtfpped
during the year 1915 ? all from evangel
ical churches. It never converted, nev
er sought to convert, an atheist or an
infidel. Its missionaries sing in choirs,
teach in Sabbath-schools, lead in mis
sionary and young people's societies in
the churches on the Lord's Day ? in
some instances, for pay ? and mission
ate among the members of these
churches the remainder of the week.
Its articles of faith, spread broadcast,
present to the uninitiated everything
but Mormonism. Its key to theology,
carefully concealed from the masses,
unfolds these articles and teaches them
to new converts in their blasphemous,
sacrilegious, lascivious inwardnefcs.
It received a vast trust fund from
the United States government with the
explicit understanding and solemn
pledge that the same would be used
for distinctively charitable, benevolent
and educational purposes, for the ben
efit of its own people, and to-day It has
every dollar of that fund, which., with
accretions, amounts to over $400,000,
000 of quick or mobile capital, invest
ed in the great combines of the country
? some lawful and more unlawful ? for
the exploiting of the mass of its own
people, and the Gentile population of the
entire country, in the interests of the
lecherous few of its own number.
Scrupulously collecting a tithe of all
the income of its people, ostensibly for
the relief of its poor, it unscrupously
uses this tithe for the real purpose of
fleecing financially the pockets of its
hierarchs and maintaining them the
better in the grandeur of their harems.
And this it does in the blasphemed
name of God. And thus doing it has
gotten itself so wormed into the big
businesses of our country that in order
to get at this the blackest sheep of the
entire flock it would seem we must
work serious injury to all the others.
Banking, insurance, mining, manufac
turing. mercantile, railroad interests ga
lore are theirs and theirs predominat
ingly. Money is power. And money
in the hands of the unscrupulous lead
ers of Mormondom, used for the pur
pose it is, is tyrannical power. And
such indeed is the power with, which
American patriots arc covertly confront
ed this very hour.
It leaves undisturbed the form while
at the same time it absorbs the power
of civil government. Constantly pro
testing in the open that as an institu
tion it takes no part in politics, it all
the while in secret directs with abso
lute certainty, the political action of all
its people and, through them, that of
multitudes of others. It gives of its
funds to one of the great political par
ties as a favor and to the other to keep
it quiet. It offers votes to help the
party out of power on condition that
that party if successful do its bidding,
and threatens with political ruin the
party in power by the withholding of
votes from the party if it do not its
bidding, and then ? in the pretended in
terests of the republic ? throws its po
litical strength to whichever party
through its politicians will make the
best bargain with it for the furtherance
of its unpatriotic interests. By cen
tering its voting strength in the sparse
ly settled States of the West (instead
of in the thickly populated States of
the East, or scattering it throughout
the country at large) and concentrating
it at strategic points within these
States, it multiplies its political power
over that of those in many other States
from twenty-five to thirty-five fold in
the highest legislative body in our land
where it already has one of its traitor
ous oath-bound apostles to lead its co
hort of interlocking Gentile Republican
senators to carry out its will upon this
republic, and to which on November
7th last it elected another of its priests
similarly bound by treasonable oath to
lead in like manner the Democratic sen
ators from the States over which it
holds political sway. And all this it
has achieved, from having absolutely no
political strength or standing even,
within the past twenty years! What, I
ask. will twenty years more mean?
It should never be forgotten that
present-day Mormon intrigue is the re
sult of eighty years of defensive war
fare ? an intrigue much deeper and
blacker than any that could possibly
have been gained in the same or any
other period of aggressive warfare. Ly
ing for the glory of God and the safety
of the Saints is the great art of every
faithful Mormon. The whole million
or more in our country, so far at least
as their leaders can influence them, are
first-class Jesuits. They are submarin
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