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Orw W'g i W g WTvW g VJ 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 r - 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.) Pries, Five Cents