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Vol. 97. No. 36. RTC!TTMOTvJT> VA
RICHMOND, VA. September 6, 1922
SCHOOLS will soon begin a new session. The
youth of the land will be attending by the
millions. The future of these millions, of the
country and of the Church will depend largely
upon how these pupils are taught. For this
reason God's people ought to pray earnestly and
continually that lie will guide the teachers in
their instruction and the pupils in their studies,
so that they may be fitted in all things mental,
moral and spiritual, for the place that God
wants them to occupy, and to do the work in
the world that He wants them to do.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS are maintained for the
purpose of making better citizens of the
boys ami girls of this country. The secular ed
ucation furnished is generally. very good, but in
the schools, as a whole, very little is done for
the moral instruction of the pupils. . Most of
what is given is by the teachers individually
rather than as a part of the system. All true
morals are based on the word of God. So the
most satisfactory means of teaching morals is
through the Scriptures. Parents should see
that at least there is the reading of the Bible in
the schools. So far as we are informed there is
110 law against this in any State in the South.
THIS WEEK we begin a new story by Mr.
James Anderson, who is already known to
our readers, as we have already published two
delightful stories by him. This new story deals
with the old, old, but always interesting theme
of the love of two true hearts. Its scene is laid in
Bonnie Scotland, the land of romance, of cour
age, of love and of sturdy men and winsome
women. Ilk who reads the first chapter will
want to continue to the end. There will be
eight or more chapters.
OUR WOMEN READERS will be delighted
to know that we are going to give them a
series of articles, beginning next week, by Mrs.
C. S. Shawhan, so well known by the leaders
in women's work in all parts of the Church.
She is the President of the Woman's Auxiliary
of the Government Street Church, Mobile, Ala.
This Auxiliary has 469 members divided into
twelve circles. But Mrs. Shawhan is more
widely known through her writings and teach
ings on parliamentary law. For the last four
years she was taught this subject in the Woman's
School of Missions at Montreat. These articles
of hers will treat this subject in a thoroughly
practical way from a woman's standpoint. It
will be a great help to the women in the conduct
of their meetings, if tliey will read carefully
and preserve these articles for future study and
reference. It would be a great aid to the work
of the Auxiliaries, if every member had these
articles, and all the other helps our Woman's
Work Department gives every week.
MORMONS are supposed by many people
to belong only to Utah. We wonder how
many of our readers know that they have a
stronghold upon the old State of Vermont, and
that they are making their power felt there. In
1905 they were strong enough in one neighbor
hood in that State to erect a. magnificent and
mostly monument at the birthplace of Joseph
Smith, whom they claim as their founder. From
this place he moved to Palmyra, New York,
where he claims to have received his vision, and
from there to Carthage, Illinois, where at the
age of thirty-nine he was killed. The hold
which the Mormons have now on the Vermont
community is shown by what recently occurred.
31 rs. Lulu Loveland Shtpard, a representative
of the National Reform Association, and a lec
turer who is noted for her eloquence and her
ability to present clearly and forcibly her views
concerning (he Mormon question, held a series
of meetings in that part of Vermont for the
purpose of giving the people the facts al>out
Mormonism. The merchants of these cities de
clined to put in their windows cards announc
ing her meetings, as they said they were afraid
of the Mormons. The newspapers of these cities
refused to publish anything concerning the
meeings, presumably for the same reason. The
Mormons will throttle any community' as soon
as they are strong enough to do so. Yet it is
impossible to arouse the people of this country
to a sense of the danger from this sect that is
making a strenuous effort to destroy the liber
ties of the people of this land.
A M ERIC AN COLLEGES in the Near
il East, Robert Colege at Constantinople,
the American University at Beirut and the Con
stantinople Woman's College, were so hard hit
by the Avar that their very existence became a
serious question. Recently a campaign for the
benefit of these three institutions has been con
ducted in this country, and $1,100,000 was
rai?ed. This will repair the damages and pro
vide the running expenses for the next two
years. No better mission work is being done in
that part of the world than is done by these col
leges.
RIME AND CRIMINAL ACCIDENTS
wore never more common in this country
than at this time. - Whatever other causes there
may l>e, one of the chief causes is that those
who are guilty of them are not adequately pun
ished. On? of the causes for failure to punish
is the long delays in our courts. Frequently a
minor offense is in court for months, before ihe
offender is brought to trial; and more serious
offenses are frequently carried over many
months or it may be for years, before the inno
cence or guilt of the accused offender is decided.
Every one who has any thing to do with court
procedure knows that it is much harder to con
vict a criminal after a long delay than it is
when the evidence is fresh. This delay often
results in the offender being given a much lighter
penalty that he deserves. Another trouble is
that courts too often impose penalties that have
only a very slight deterrent effect upon those
who are tempted to violate the law. Frequently
the man who violates the prohibition law by
making or selling liquor, i.i only fined a com
paratively small amount. Any one in that busi
ness, because of its great profits, is entirely will
ing to risk a fine, and even a short jail lerm.
If he knew that he would be sent to the peni
tentiary, when convicted of this violation of law,
many a man would be made a keeper of the
law, instead of being a law-breaker. The num
lber of so-called accidents from automobiles is
distressingly large. The deaths from this cause
run well up into the thousands and the lesser in
juries into the hundreds of thousands each year.
Some of these accidents seem to he unavoidable
so far as the drivers of the automobiles are con
cerned, but the vast majority of them are due
to their recklessness or carelessness. When a
<1 river of an automobile through careless or reck
lessness kills or injures another, he should be
punished so severely that not only he,
hut others also, will be made more careful in
the future. A determination to violate law or
a carelessness in observing it deserves adequate
punishment. This in the end is for the good of
the offender as well as of the public.
PKOITTBTTTON has its heroes, as well as
other forms of war. Probably the most
popular humorous periodical in this country is
"Judge." The editor of that paper is paid, we
understand, a pretty good salary. But when
the owner insisted that he editorial policy of
the paper should be "wet," its editor, William
Allen White, resigned his position and gave up
his salary. Notwithstanding all that the liquor
propaganda may say, there are many men in
this country who would do likewise under simi
lar circumstances. Such men deserve the high
est praise and support of the good citizens of
the country, as they are the real ground of
hope for this country. It is upon the lives and
work and character of such men that the foun
dations of a free country and a free people will
be built. All honor to William Allen White.
It is hoped that, when our readers see "Judge,"
they will remember what it forced him to do
for the cause of righteouness.
ENGLISH, some people say, is to be even
tually the universal language for the
whole world. Its use is spreading very rapid
ly, and it is now more generally \13ed than any
other language. But one of the most remark
able things about it is its rapid growth in the
number of its words. It now has 2G0,000.
What this means will be seen when it is com
pared with other languages. We are told that
the German has 80,000 words, the Italian 75,
000, the French 30,000, the Chinese .*?0,000,
the Turkish 22,000, the Spanish 20,000. This
gives a total for the six leading languages of
the world, except English, of 2(50,000, or ex
actly the same number of words which the
English has. This slfows a great flexibility
and power of expansion in the language itself,
but it ssows even more clearly the feverish and
restless search of the users of English for new
words to express new ideas. God has given
us sncli a language that it may lie used for
the good of the world and the advancement of
His kingdom.
Mohammedanism does not seem to
flourish in this country. Throngh the
lil>erality of a rich Moslem in Detroit a mosque
was built in that city at a cost to him of $55,
000. This was the only mosque in this country.
Because of differences of opinions in regard to
the teachings of their religion, the mosqne has
been abandoned and no service has been held
iti it for a year. As the Moslems have lost all
interest in it the mosque is to be pulled down.