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Vol. 14, No. 19
IN cyder that you may have in your mind a
•picture of the battle-field in Northern
France, where four millions of Christians,
(supplied with Bibles, chaplains, and regular
prayers, on each side) are murdering one
another, according to President Wilson’s
“proud punctilio,” I will ask you to reflect
upon a few of the actual facts.
First of all, you must realize that the length
of the battle-line is only about 50 miles, and
its width less than ten.
Try to imagine the crowding of that small'
territory by four million men, tens of thous
ands of horses; millions of cannon, motor
cars, trucks, wagons, piles of ammunition,
food depots, sleeping quarters, field-hospitals,
&c.
Imagine the vast net-work of trenches in
which the men on duty at the front have to
live, sleep, and fight.
Imagine a deafening roar of cannon
thunder, lasting all night and all day, every
day in the week, every week in the month.
Imagine tens of thousands of soldiers mak
ing charges, every few hours, on several parts
of this short battle-line; and imagine those
soldiers falling, under the terrible fire of can
non, machine-guns, rifles, and hand-grenades.
Imagine at least one hundred thousand of
these soldiers killed along that short line,
every month; and twice as many wounded.
The wounded, of course, are carried to the
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Pa&ors and Parsons! Preach About the Protestant Reformation I J
"THIS is the 400th year, since the birth of
1 modern civilization.
Let us celebrate its anniversary, by teach
ing the young folks what it was that caused
THE GREAT PROTEST.
If your Pastor was not taught the meaning
of the Protestant Reformation, it is high
time he was learning it for himself.
If your theological seminary turned out a
Methodist minister, as ignorant as Wilbeforce
Farmer was, it is high time that said minister
suppplied the defects of his education.
Wilbeforce Farmer is the graduate from
Emory College (Methodist) who did not
know, that Popery was unheard of until 607
years after Christ.
Wilbeforce Farmer was one of the honest
young Protestant clergymen who abandoned
Protestantism, because he didn't understand'
it, and who embraced Romanism, in the belief
that it is primitive Christianity.
The papal priests jibe at you, Parson, and
tell you that your churches are but 400 years
old.
Do you know how to answer?
Wilbeforce Farmer didn’t; and he was a
graduate of a Methodist theological seminary,
Why didn't he know?
Because he hadn't been taught.
fault was it?
It was the fault of Bishop Dry-rot, and his
#< Cabinet” of would-be sacerdotal bosses.
Common Sense Comments on the Great War.
Thomson, Ga,, Thursday, May 17, 1917
rear, sent to hospitals, and treated" perhaps
with every possible consideration.
But what about the dead?
There is no place to bury them, and no time
for it.
All the ground is cut up into trenches:
there is no room for burial on separate soil.
What, then, becomes a dreadful military
necessity ?
The corpses must be piled up. like so many
cords of wood, soaked in kerosene oil, and
burnt to ashes.
In the Augusta Herald'. of last Sunday, ap
pears the following, which shows that some
of the heroic soldiers are burned:
Germany is making soap, oils, fertilizer and pig
feed out of slain soldiers’ bodies.
Reports of rendering plants for human flesh
have been published before, but newspapers from
Germany and Holland, just received, contain de
tails of this horrible industry never told in
America.
From Belgians who have been deported into
Germany to work, and who have escaped, the
newspaper “La Belgique,’’ published in Leyden,
Holland, obtains details, which are included in the
following article:
“We have known for long that the Germans
stripped their dead behind the firing line, fastened
them into bundles of three or four bodies with
iron wire, and then dispatched these grisly bundles
to the rear.
“Until recently the trains laden with the dead
What ought ministerial students learn at
the Methodist Universities, and at the other
Protestant Colleges, whtre ministerial in
struction is given?
They should be taught the following vital
truths, which can all be substantiated by un
deniable historic proofs:
(1.) That the Christian church, founded
by Paul, at Rome, was exactly the same, in
creed and form, as that which Peter estab
lished at Antioch; Matthew, at Batansea;
James, at Jerusalem; Paul, at Ephesus, &c.
(2.) That the Eastern churches gradually
developed a supreme head, known as the Pa
triarch. which office is now hold by a Russian,
in Petrograd, (formerly St. Petersburg)
while the Western churches slowly evolved a
supreme head, known as the Pope, which
office is now held by an Italian in Rome.
(3.) That there were many Christian
churches, founded by the Apostles, which
avoided*the deadly path of centralism and
priestcraft, adhering loyally to the primitive
doctrines and forms.
This is immensely important, and is not
generally’known, even to clergymen.
Feio priests know it, because they are
moulded like bricks in a kiln, just as too many
preachers are.
The Christian churches which steadfastly
maintained primitive creed and form are, the
Waldensians, the Syrians, the Nestorians, the
Armenians, the Greeks, and the Jacobites.
were sent to Seraing, near Liege, and a point
north of Brussels where were refuse consumers.
“German science is responsible for the ghoulish
idea of the formation of the German Offal-Con
version Company, Ltd. t. D A. V. G.,’) or 'Deutsche
Abfall-Gerwertung Gesellschaft’), a dividend
earning company with a capital of $1,250,000, the
chief factory of which has been constructed 1,000
yards from the railway connecting St. Vi th, near
the Belgian frontier, with Gerolstein, in the lonely,
little-frequented Eifel district, southwest of Cob
lentz
“The factory deals specially with the dead from
the west front. If the results are as good as the
company hopes, another will be established to
deal with corpses on the east front.
“The trains arrive full of bare bodies, which
are unloaded by the workers, who live at the
works.
“The men wear oilskin overalls and masks with
mica eyepieces. They are equipped with long
hooked poles and push the bundles of bodies to
an endless chain which picks them up with big
hooks, attached at intervals of two feet.
“The bodies are transported on this endless .
chain into a long, narrow compartment where
they pass through a scalding bath which disin
fects them. They then go through a drying cham
ber and finally are automatically carried into a
digester or great cauldron, in which they are
dropped by an apparatus which detaches them
from the chain.
“In the digester they remain from six to eight
hours, and are treated by steam, which breaks
them up, while they are slowly stirred by ma
chinery. The bones sink to the bottom, leaving
a thick, dark-colored liquid.
“From this treatment result several products.
(continued on page two.)
There were Christian churches, in Western
India, which had never even heard of such a
monstrosity as a Christian pope, until the
coming of the celebrated navigator, Vasco de
Gama, in the 16th century ’
(See Dr. Samuel Edgar’s “Variations of
Popery,” page 38.)
As soon as the Italian church heard of this
independent branch of primitive Christianity,
a ferocious persecution of it begun, and “the
tranquility of 1200 years” was ruthlessly bro
ken.
The papists of Portugal and Spain sub
jugated the primitive Christians of the In
dian sea-coast, but the churches of the inte
rior stood out against popish attempts to en
slave.
Did you know that an Apostolic church had
existed continuously, in India, ever since the
times of Timothy, Barnabas, and Mark?
Did you know that Italian popery waged
bloody war upon this Indian branch of
Christianity, after this New World had been
partly colonized?
The fact is vastly edifying, and explana
tory.
(4.) That the Roman church grew up in
Italy, where the Latin race had become thor
oughly imbued with paganism, the worship of
idols, and the belief in numerous gods; where
the idea prevailed, offended deities could
be placated by gifts to their priests; where
(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.)
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