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sbyterian of the South
Vol.96. No. 23.
RICHMOND, VA.
June 7, 1922.
SSEMBLY reports grow longer and
longer each year. This makes the pub
lishing of them a serious problem. We would
like to publish all the reports of the commit
tees adopted by the Assembly and all of the
actions taken. There was a time when this could
easily be done in two issues of our paper. This
is not the case today. If wo were to give space
to all of these papers adopted by the Assembly
in two issues of the paper, we should have no
-pace for anything else. The result is that
there must necessarily l>e some delay in pub
lishing some of them, especially the long ones.
We feel that our readers do not want to have
only one kind of mental food even for two or
three weeks. We will present these reports
as fast as it seems practicable.
SUNDAY-SCIIOOL workers in great num
bers are to gather in Kansas City, Mo.,
.lime 21st to 27th, when the Sixteenth Inter
national Sunday-School Convention expects to
welcome over 9,000 delegates, representing 1,
<?77,695 Sunday-school officers and teachers and
12,036,246 pnpils from all parts of the United
States and Canada to celebrate the merging of
l lie International Sunday-School Association
and the Sunday-School Council of Evangelical
1 denominations into one great unified body of all
Sunday-school workers to be known as "The
International Sunday-School Council of Irre
ligious Education." The general theme of the
< onvention will be "Building Together,"
through the home, the Church, the community,
North America, the World Field, reorganiza
tion and co-operation, and religious education
and evangelism. Registrations for this Con
vention can be made through State Sunday
School Associations.
SABBATH observance is one of the most
vital subjects before the Church today.
The General Assembly has emphasized its im
portance from year to year, and for several
vears it has endorsed the Lord's Day Alliance
lor its good work in securing a better obser
vance of the day than we should have had with
out its help. In addition to endorsing the Al
liance and its work, the General Assembly has
asked its churches to make an offering for the
support of tins work. The churches were asked
to make such a contribution last November, but
? ?nly $1,500 was received from all of the
? hurclies. At tins rate the Alliance will not
l?e able to accomplish much. This is a work of
vital importance to the Church and to true re
ligion. The Alliance is one of the recognized
agencies of the Church for doing the great work.
< 'olleetions should lie taken in all of the
cliurcheg and sent to Rev. I. Cochrane Hunt,
I*. D., Chattanooga, Tenn.
HOME MISSIONS should, under the action
of the General Assembly, have the right
?f way in the Sunday schools during this month.
I he principal reason for this is that the young
people 0f oiu churches may he educated as to
the work and needs of Home Missions, and that
'heir interest in this part of the work of the
( hnreh may be awakened or deepened. The
"ome Mission Committee lias prepared an ex
?ellent program, which may be used in any
Sunday school. Those Sunday-school superin
tendents who have not already received them
should write for them at once to Rev. S. L.
Morris, D. D., 1522 Hurt Building, Atlanta,
Ga. Arrangements should be made for a col
lection in connection with these exercises. The
money is to be used in rebuilding two mission
schools in the mountains of Kentucky, which
were burned recently, and for completing some
other buildings in the mountains, which have
already been started.
YW. C. A. workers have done a great deal
for the young womanhood of this coun
try. But there is the feeling in some quarters
that the emphasis of their work has not always
Wn placed upon the classes of young women
that are most in need of the help the Associa
tion can give. A young working girl, attend
ing a student-industrial conference, is quoted
as having made this statement. "I believe that
the girls in the factories are as important in
the national life of the country as the girls in
the offices." Whether rightly or not, we are not
in a position to say, the Associations in most
cities are supposed to be devoting the greater
part of their work to helping office and society
girls. That this is needed there can be no ques
tion. But those who have their own homes
and those who have ularies sufficient to enable
BISHOP STUNT Z SAYS:
r M T HE assistant pastor, the silent, un ?
jf answerable assistant, who works
at night and in the morning and
in the hours of leisure, is the Church
Paper."
It would be great to have such an assis
tant pastor working in every home, with
every member of the family. With a
little effort you can put this assistant pas
tor to work in some homes where it is now
unknown.
them to secure comfortable places in which to
board, do not need the work of the Y. W. C. A.
as much as those girls whose wages are small
and who must therefore live in more or less
unattractive and undesirable homes. The vast
majority of the girls who work in factories do
not have attractive homes. Many of them have
110 place in which they can comfortably re
ceive company, either male or female. The
result is that they very naturally are tempted
in the evenings to go out on the street or ?i>
places of public amusement. In this way they
are often lacking in proper restraint. The
Y. W. C. A. can do a great deal to meet the
social needs of such girls. But in li ving to do
this great care should be taken not to make
them feel that they are being treated as objects
of charity. They will resent this just as much
as, and probably more than their more for
tunate sisters would. The accommodations may
l*? more simple and inexpensive than are found
in some cases in Y. W. C. A. building*, but let
the girls pay for what ihey get. If the full
cost is not charged, do not tell them so. And
as far as possible all should be treated in the
same way. It is very unwise to make classes
among them based on the wages they receive.
Accommodations may vary in price as circum
stances may demand where room or board is
furnished, but it does not seem wise or consid*
erate to make some of them feel that they are
more the objects of charity than others, or in
deed that they are objects of charity at all. In
providing for their physical and social wants,
their religious needs should not be overlooked.
These are often their greatest needs, and where
they are supplied, the others will likely in a
large measure take care of themselves.
BUNDLE DAY, June 14th, is the time for
men and women to look over their clothes
and see what they have that they do not need
that are still serviceable. An effort is being
made all over this country to secure enough
clothes to keep the suffering Armenians warm
during next winter. Thin, fancy clothes will
not be of service. Warm, substantial garments
are what are needed. Send them to the loeal
agency appointed for receiving them, or semi
by parcel post or prepaid express to "The Near
East Relief, Army Base, Brooklyn, N. Y."
KK. K. are initials that have come into
prominence again in the last year or two.
The members of tins organization have had
many charges made against them, no doubt in
most cases by those who know nothing of the
organization. We have just received a letter
from Mississippi, saying that the K. K. K.'s
have recently placed a well-bound Bible in
every public schoolhouse in their county, not
withstanding the fact that the superintendent
of schools is a. Roman Catholic. Such a work
is highly to be commended, ami if that is a
fair specimen of the work of the K. K. K.'s,
we say most heartily, '*Alay their tribe increase."
CANADA and the United States have long
been the best of neighbors, but just now
Canada is giving this country no little trouble.
Much of the liquor that is illegally sold in this
country comes across our northern border,
brought in by smugglers. It seems that Canada
has no law which can be used to prevent this
being done, though the government of that coun
try is said to be anxious to help us in enforcing
our laws. Speaking on this subject, the To
ronto Presbyterian says: "The Government of
Canada could, by a stroke of the j>en, alter this
condition of things and lend its assistance in
stead of being a handicap to our friends across
the American boundary line in the enforcement
of their laws. So long as she declines to do
this Canada is a menace to law and morals in
her neighbor's house, which is not a comforta
ble position for self-respecting citizens." We
hope the government will make the "stroke of
the |?en," and that it will ftiake it heavy.
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS show
ed his Christian character when writing
in prison he said: "The best source of patience
is the assurance that the world is governed bv
infinite wisdom, and that lie who rules only
permits injustice for some counterbalancing
good, of which the sufferer cannot, judge." His
prison physician, Pr. Craven, said of him:
"Every opportunity I had of seeing him con
vinced me of his sincere religious convictions."
On another occasion the doctor wrote of him
as one "than whom no more devout exemplar
of Christian faith now lives." llis prominence
in political affairs sometimes make those of to
day overlook the fact that he ^vas a Christian.