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BAPTIST WORLD ALLIANCE.
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it to be questioned that as early as
1527, the Anabaptists were promul
gating their revolutionary ideas, de
manding liberty for all men in matters
of religion, applying the law of Christ
to every relation of life, and specially
to the ordering of the affairs of.
States. Strong as they w T ere as indi
vidualists, they were by the force
of the same principles, collectivists
or socialists, and socialists in a hurry
being nearly three centuries before
their time; and therefore they had to
suffer accordingly. It was natural, if
premature and unexpected, for Bap
tist ideas carry us with tremendous
momentum to the side of the “Com
mon man,” as a son of God as our bro
ther of value in himself incomputable
and of possibilities measureless; with
rights that must be defended for the
sake of duties that must be done;
possessed of claims on the collective
resources and activities of society
that must be conceded for the sake
of the brotherhood of man and the
Kingdom of God.
“Liberty, equality and fraternity”
were in the heart of the Baptist faith
The deliverance of the poor out of the
hand of the evil-doers becomes a pri
mary duty when you once really ac
cept Christ’s estimate of the worth of
man. Poverty must be dealt with in
its causes. Charity must not be ac
cepted as a substitute for Justice.
Justice must limit the range of char
ity, and leave no room for it that
justice ought to fill. Social misery
must be extinguished; unjust laws
must be repealed. The men who have
been “flattened out” by the long
tramp of misery, must be rescued,
healed, strengthened and set on their
own feet. Whoever touches these so
cial problems with a timorous hand,
w r e assuredly must grip them firmly
and courageously and persistently,
and attempt their solution or be trait
ors to that word of the Lord by which
we live.
We are held by the most sacred
bonds to seek the fullest realization of
universal brotherhood. To us war is
a crime, and the promotion of inter
national peace one of our foremost
duties. The dual of nations must
disappear in this century as the dual
of individuals in the English-speak
ing countries, disappeared in the nine
teenth. No doubt there are discour
aging and reactionary appearances,
but we must feed the deep and hidden
currents of the world’s life so steadily
setting towards peace. In the in
creasing perplexity of modern life we
have to fight against all the encroach
ments of might on the rights of the
weak, against commercial and social
military and ecclesiastical systems
linked together for the defence of
wrong. We must break them up, and
prepare them for the fire in which all
that injures man, God’s child, and
stands in the way of his redemption
and total regeneration, shall be con
sumed.
Man must be free to work out his
own salvation, to realize himself, and
to enthrone God in Christ, in the
whole life of mankind.
TRAVELING .N EGYPT TODAY.
It is wonderful what changes have
been wrought in Old Egypt since it
fell under British Supremacy. The
haunting charm of mystery apd wierd
romance is vanishing, but the increase
in comfort, safety and facility in sight
seeing is almost incredible. The mod
ern traveler prefers to take the sights
of the desert from a hotel veranda or
at least from an automobile or a
floating palace steamer on the Nile.
There are really more comfortable
steamers on the Nile than on the Hud
son and more sumptuous trains to
Luxon than to London or Paris. Com-
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loJhai Our ®auqhiei& »
Way be as
flfotiAhed after the „ RlOjiy
Polished in physical health and grace I
of manner. Polished in mental attain- ■.<
ments and power to use them. Polished
in purity of soul and inspired with the
lofty ideals of true womanhood. Such is
the desire of every Christian parent and
such is the ideal of The College for
women in the education of your daughter.
The College for Women has directed its efforts not only to educate but to give exactly
the education needed by the women of the South. We believe that the education which
is purely technical and which neglects the so-called “small things” of life, will fail to
give to Soutnern women the grace and charm which characterized their mothers.
To develop to their fullest degree the natural talents of your daughter, to educate her
mina in the sciences, literature and the arts, to assist her to “discover herself ” and real
ize her power for usefulness, to correct her physical defects and promote her health, to
develop her grace and charm of manner, to inspire her soul with noble impulses,—these
are ends which require the closest and most constant association with the best
instructors.
At The College foi Women this close association of student and preceptor is secured
oy lestricting the number of boarding students, the proportion being approximately one
faculty member to five students. With ~
its beautiful campus, modern buildings
and equipment, and a select faculty of '
experts, Ihe College for Women is
admirably equipped to give your
daughter that individual attention
which her needs require.
A Complete, Descriptive Catalog
may be had by Addressing
Miss Euphemia McClintock, Pres.
THE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN I
Columbia, S. C. BhKHMHB
sortable sand carts will take one
across the desert for the few hours’
journey to the tombs of Sakkara, and
one may ride in a landau to the elec
tric-lighted tombs of the Pharaohs at
Thebes. It is as ii a velvet carpet
had been laid to all the historic spots
in the land; so that today a lady may
see the famous sites of Egypt with
out ruffling her coiffure, or crumpling
her lawn dress.
Intoxicated by his first contact with
the picturesque Orient, so different
from aught he has known elsewhere,
the traveler has flung about his coin
most lavishly, to the sore demoraliza
tion of the people. “Backsheesh” is
the modern plague of Egypt; some
persons would go farther and say that,
despite his gold, the traveler himself
is a plague. To please him, the stal
wart and once independent son of the
desert has become a sycophant. The Be
doum of majestic mien row swaggers
like a cheap tragedian in front of the
Cairo hotels, conscious that he holds
the eye of the tourists lolling on the
verandas. When hired as a guide he
fills the ear of his client with stories
of the bravery of his untamed people
and the perils of the wild free desert.
This furnishes exactly the romantic
thrill that the tourist is after; it
would be quite disillusioning for him
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to realize that he is safer m any part
of Egypt than on Broadway in New
York. When they adventure into the
bazars of the native city, tourists feel
that they are braving the perils of the
perfidious East, though every other
bazar-keeper cries after them in Eng
lish, entreating their trade. Many
travelers have returned from Egypt
with harrowing tales of their narrow
escape from death in the great pyra
mid. The trick is rather a pretty one,
and shows that the Arab understands
the tourist better than the tourist with
his book understands the Arab. Af
ter having been pushed and pulled
and lifted and lowered and encourag
ed into the heart of the pyramid of
Cheops—and the experience is rather
an interesting one, with its sense of
the oppressive mountain of granite en
compassing the tourist so utterly—the
travelers are lined up alongside of the
empty sarcophagus of Cheops. Then,
after the magnesium flar has died
down, and only one candle is left burn
ing, they are asked, in sinister tone
how much backsheesn they intend
to give. The threat is more covert
than open; but the psychological con
ditions furnish the argument.
There are many persons who to this
day believe that they escaped from
the great pyramid with their lives
only by th Q payment of a great sum!
Had they known the orient a little
better, and the strong hand of the
British rule, they would have under
stood they were as sate in that pyra
mid as m their own beds at home, and
they would have given the clever men
dicants nothing more substantial than
a “piece of their minds.” Perhaps,
however, the thrill was worth what it
cost.
A British achievement, which al
most ranks with the building of the
pyramids, is the abolition of the beg
gary that formerly dogged every step
of the traveler’s way in Egypt. Now
it is illegal for even the little children
to call “backsheesh!” and the country
has been placarded witu cautions to
tourists against gaving unearned back
sheesh. It was plain that the people
were being pauperized by the way
tourists would throw about small
coins on demand, solely because the
natives were “interesting.” In civiliz
ed parts children would strip off all
their clothes at the approach of a trav
eler in order to appear naked and pic
turesque little savages, and so receive
a shower of coins. The present condi
tion in Egypt respecting these things
is in delightful contrast with the Holy
Land. British order has wrought the
wonder.
