Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-12-02
MESSAGE TO
THE PEOPLE
The Executive Committee Of the "Men
and Religion Forward Movement
Issues LetteA

Boise, Idaho, November 1S, 1911.
TO the people OF Southern Idaho:
The Mem and Religion Forward Move
ment' has been brought before you
for your consideration and support;
it's claims upon your attention being
based upon the fact that it, brings q
message which will certainly enlist
the interest of all who pause long e+
nough in the busy round Of business
and pleasure toacQuaint themselves
with its history, its methods and Its
purposes.
This message is particularly for men
and boys, whether In or out of the
Church; but it is likewise a mes
sage to the family-the unit, the
heart, the life of our civilization and
government. Therefore 1T is almost
as directly message for women and
girls, for are not these the jewels OF
the home, vitality interested i'm every
thing that tends to protect and inn
prove 1T.
This is primarily message OF per,
sonal salvation for Immortal souls,
but it embraces all such collateral
questions as the guarding and devel-
Opment OF boys, protection OF men,
women and children from all forms tt
evil and from conditions and surround
ings which constitute a menace to
health and character alike.
It is character that we need as i'm
dividuals; 1T lis character that the nar
tion needs among it's citizens in or
der that it may maintain its own a.,
G Mt n Q ts M ch OF ord r-y osress|
and development; 1T lis character that
our civilization needs to protect 1t
from being submerged and destroyed
by those blghting evils that brood in
swarms wherever unrestrained, aban-
doned, Goddess human nature secures
full control
When the Church is mea1aced thru
neglect of its teachings, the home
and the nation are placed in imminent
peril.
This world needs all the social SER
vice and all the work for boys and
girls that can possibly be given by
all men and women who have the
only Eight that can successfully lead
human beings i'm humanitarian work.
The appalling conditions that confront
these who study our social problems |
and strive to mitigate human distress
and suffering call for the personal at
tention Of every citizen who has in
his heart any of the milk of human
kindness. Think of the poverty, the
wretched surroundings and the ma
Ign influences amidst which such |
vast mu,titudss of boys are growing
up, who are soon to step upon the
stage to take charge OF the destinies
of our country.
The Men and Religion Forward
Movement has all these conditions in
view It aims to bring about their
anne ioradon by the only method that
can be successfully employed OF
aro @ ng and strengthening the Chris
tian Church, 80 that 1t may have the
working force as well as the princi-
pie needed to accomplish the results
so greatly to be desired.
This movement is not in the inter
est Of any denomination; 1T is a fed
Grafton of Christian forces to save
men and rescue society from the dam
gers upon which 1t is rushing and by
which, in SO many particulars, it is
already partially enveloped
Thus the church, united, calls upon
men everywhere to ally themselves
with it, both for their personal saliva
ton and for the rescuing of down
t oddsn millions from the hopeless
ness into which greed and godlessness
have plunged them because of the a.
Q ounding indifference of masculine
humanity toward the teachings OF the
Savior, toward the Church by which
those teachings have been preserved
and upheld, and toward mems para
mount spiritual interests here and
hereafter.
The interests OF mankind demand
that men be in the church. 1t is
mems work that Is to be done there.
No man who fails togive the church I
his support has right to critfcise 8
x ON the alleged ground that 1t La !
weak and does not fully discharge its 7
duty. If 1t Is in any degree weak, it 1
10 because men so generally ignore |
their duty toward IT. ]
Christs religion gives to men great q
er manliness, and 1T is only In the I
Church of Christ that men can attain t
that full development OF character, !
usefulness and Happiness which should Q