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Nov. 21, 191a. the Christian ] witness (Excerpts from an article by Dean Bos worth, of the Theological Seminary, Oberlin, published in The North Am erican Student, May 1917). The great majority of the American people '■ lieve that the time has come when tl ' United States must enter the war. The United States has entered the war and the question is. How shall the Christian witness in war bear his testi mony in the great Christian Enterprise? (1) In the first place, he bears his testi- mony by fighting from a Christan motive in the face of strong temptation to fight from a lesser motive —by fighting for a better world. He feels that by fighting he will help to create a situation in which the common fatherhood of God and the in ternational brotherhood of all men will find more perfect expression. The state ment that it is democracy against mon archy is j erhaps only part of the truth. The present v. ar may turn out to be only a large item in a great world movement, the introduction of an era of internal rev ohttu »< and class conflict that will include all nations and more or less baptize all nations in baood. v We must not forget that entering the war to secure a better world logically commits us to the securing of a better America. The establishment of the Christ ian world ideal will involve changes m our own land. It means the purifying of American life from the gross social and Industrial injustice of which we are this day guilty. Prussia designates not simp ly a geographical territory, but a disposi tion —a disposition which is found in all parts of the world and from which' the world must be utterly purified—the dis position of the strong to override the wca.c. Our gross traffic in the daughters of 'he poor, our unjust treatment of the negro, the industrial wrongs inflicted on those who have no effective, orderly r mans of protest, are to be put away from Amerii an life as this rising tide of the less privilege classes surges on around the world. (2) The second note that sounds out from the Christian witness in war is in vincible love for the enemy in face of the tempetation to hate him. This brings us to the great paradox of the Christian life —the Christian friendly to the man whom he must regard as an enemy, friendly to the man who has sot himself resolutely against the good for which the Christian man resolutely stands. And yet it is this paradox that is so clearly found among the central as sertions of Jeusus: Ye have heard that it was said. Thou shalt love thy neighbor, ’ and hate thine enemy; but I say unto you, Dove your enemies. The Christian witness in war asserts himself resolutely against the enemy with an invicinble good will. He brings all the force of his being, physical and spiritual, to bear against the enemy, with an un failing good will. Force is absolutely non-moral. It is no more good or bad than is electricity. Moral quality appears only in the disposition of the man who uses force. Force may be applied to the mutilation of the body, as it is by the surgeon, or to the destruction of the physical life, as it is by the executioner, and there is no immorality' in the act so long as the disposition of him who per fo'med it is free from all ill will. The Christian soldier, in friendship wounds the enemy. In friendship he kills the enemy. In friendship he receives the wound inflicted by the enemy. He keepa his friendly heart while the enemy is kill ing him. His heart never consigns the enemy to hell. He never hales. After he has wounded the enemy he hurries to his t.de at the earliest possible moment with all the friendly ministration possible. The Christian in war looks forward also with an indestructible hope that some time and somewhere he and his enemy shall find common ground and move for ward shoulder to shoulder in some great enterprise of -God. (?.) The Christian witness in war bears his Christian testimony by' the daily' prac tice of immortality in the face of death. If the life beyond is to be vital reality, we must conceive it in terms of that which means most to us in the present life. We look forward to a social im mortally and not merely to an individual existence. We lock forward to the future life, not as personal bliss conferred as a reward of merit not to unalloyed happiness, but rather to a new and larger opportunity to work with others at great enterprises for the common good—enterprises which will present many perplexing problems and lay heavy responsibilities upon us. The truly Christian man, the man fit for immortality, has long found his chief satisfaction in working with other men in al! possible ways and at any cost for the common good. In entering the army, he has put himself in readiness to make a supreme sacrifice for the common good. The Christian testimony’ to the Great Enterprise is borne in war by fighting for a better world in the fact of tempta tion to fight from some lesser motive; by invincibly' loving his'enemy 'in face of temptation io hate; by the daily practice of immortality in the face of death. What is before us. we do not know. The war upon which we have entered may be over in a few months. It may, through some unexpected shifting of world condi tions, be entering upon a longer and bloodier period than that through which it has already passed. If it shall be soon over God grant that the experience ve are now passing through may teach us. in peace to apply ourselves with all the energy and self-sacrifice that we would show in war, to the prosecution o' the great Christian Enterprise. Whether this great war be near its end or still near its beginning, the birth pangs cf a New Age are upon the world. The call is for men and women with the I ght of the New Age on their faces. This iigh> is on their faces because Christ their leader has shared with them His vision of a day when all men in the day’s work everywhere find in God their Fath er, in all men of every race their broth ers, and in human life the beginning of immortality. ISELIN REMEMBERS SOLDIERS. J. Oliver Iselin, a wealthy New Yorker, who has a magnificent winter home at Aiken, sent recently to Walter Duncan, editor of the Aiken Standard, a box con taining 100 comfort kits, containing all kinds of toilet accessories and sewing ma terials, with a fine sweater. The articles are to he presented to every boy’ who has gone from Aiken to enter the service. TRENCH AND CAMP 800,000 Penna. ’ Women Sign Reports coming to the Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety from the Food Administration show that more than 100,000 Pennsylvania women have pledged themselves during the past few weeks to aid in the conservation of food. This brings the total past 800,000, and it is al most certain that the million mark will be exceeded. In 1913, the year before the great con flict opened, France produced 146,000,000 bushels of wheat. In 1914 this had drop ped to 128.000,000 bushels. In 1915 only 101,000,000 bushels could be raised, and in 1916 the output was 97,000,000 bushels. This year the production of wheat was pitifully' small; only 66,000,000 bushels. France has sent word that if the Unit ed States can spare her an additionaL 66,000,000 bushels she will somehow man age to get through the year. Food Rules in Pennsylvania Following the announcement that food retailers guilty of profiteering face the prospect of having their supplies cut off, Horvard Heinz, food director of the State Public Safety Committee and Federal food administrator of Pennsylvania, to day issued a summary of the federal food regulations which control all phases of food handling. The three principal objects sought by the government are: 1. To limit the prices charged by every licensee to a reasonable amount ever expenses and to forbid the acquisition of speculative profits from a rising market. 2. To keep all food commodities mov ing in as direct a line and with as little delay as practicable to the consumer. 3. To limit as far as practicable con tracts for future delivery and dealings in future contracts. 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Editor Evening Ledger: Sir:—Just a few lines to tell you that our Philly boys now in encampment at Camp Hancock. Augusta, Ga„ are certain ly delighted with the methods the Y. M. C. A. is employing in entertaining them. Gee, but your tent gets lonesome and dreary at times, and when you wander into one of the Y. M. C. A. buildings, how you are greeted by a cheerful Y. M. C. A. secretary (every one of them seems to have a never-fading smile), and the en tertainments for the amusement and bet terment of the men are simply great and go a great way toward taking away that lonesome feeling which will come over a fellow every now and then. The Y. M. C. A. has benefited me and I know has done the same for others, and our Philly boys should not hesitate one moment in making the fact known to the people at home. JOSEPH C. GERSHEN, Hospital Corps, Thud Regiment Depot Brigade, Camp Hancock. Augusta, Ga., November 9. SURRA SOME TENOR. Signor ohnj H. Surra, of the 112th In fantry Band, is some tenor soloist, and has made quite a hit with his comrades as well as with the people of Augusta. Mr. Surra is an Italian, and has all the warmth of Italian temperament. He has studied voice and his singing shows it. At the recent convention of the Wom en’s Federated Clubs of Georgia in Au gusta, Mr. Surra scored a great success. He sang “The Sunshine of Your Smile” in faultless style, and for an encore gave Oley Speaks’ “Morning,” in which the great range of his voice was given ample scope. The audience demanded another song and the popular “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling,” was given with rare expres sion. His breath control and phrasing, coupled with his artistic interpretations, stamp him as an artist of wham any band or regiment should feel proud. Lord Northcliffe, the famous British publicist, recently said: “I can truthfully say that the war can not be won without the Y. M. C. A.,” and this opinion is beginning to be shared by high officials of the Allied govern ments. Articles From You Wanted by Trench and Camp The editor of Trench and Camp desires all Camp Hancock soldiers to con tribute to this paper. Poems, short articles on some special phase of camp life, human interest stories, jokes, will be accepted. Photographs will be wel comed, also cartoons. Get Busy! Send Today! Leave at any Y. M. C. A. Building, addressed to Trench and Camp. Page 7 I 111 nW JlTur I ■ 1 w Ts 11 ! I