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Refusal Precipitates Agitation.

This hampering of two eminent Ameri-
can citizens. whom this country had fire.
quently honOred, precipitated the agita-
ton which eliminated I'm the action taken
by Congress abrogating the treaty of
January of this year. Steps have been
taken, however, to continue friendly re-
latiOns between the two countries.
This alliance was one Of the diplomatic
marvels OF the age. Here was a country
which represented the last word in auto
cratic tyranny assuming and maintaining
a most cordial attitude toward a repUb-
lc and democracy which was fairly set
cut upon a mission to cast down those
political ideals which the former coun-
try was making its chief object to main
tain. Notwithstanding this. Russia has
always been ranged on the side OF the
United States in every international is
Sue involving the welfare Of this gov
eminent.
At the time the question Of abrogating
the treaty was up before Congress. Pres
ident Taft pointed out that the treaty
was old and Anticipated and that while
is provisions had been violated in the
matter OF the American Jews, there were
also other important questions that had
arisen since the ratification Of the treaty.
which were not covered by it.
II was William SulZer, Democratic
GOvernOr-elect OF New York. who initi
ated the fight on the treaty in the House
Of Representatives. As chairman of the
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A NEW YEARS CALL.
by Charles Reynolds Brown, Dean
of the Yale Divinity School.

II I can read my church his
tory Alright, there never was a
time when the opportunities and
the rewards Of ministry were so
great.
A man will earn less money in
in the ministry than the same
degree of ability would COM
mand in other fields OF labor,
though congregations, especially
in the cities. were never so gen.
erous with their pastors as now.
What he carries away in his
purse, however. is only one of
the many rewards his vocation
brings.
In the church to-day there is
liberty in thought; in some
branch of It every man desiring
to aid his fellows in doing just
~, in loving mercy, and walking
humbly with God, can find a
hearty welcome and a place to
work. There is a widespread
hunger on the part of the people
for a competent and helpful in
depreciation of this literature in
the Bible.
There is a call for men who
can inteIligently and effectively
apply Christian principles to
modern conditions and problems.
There is an abiding demand for
men who can bring the internal
verities of the Spirit before be-
fore their congregations with
power, and offer strength, cheer,
and. courage. and comfort to
those who come up weary and
heavy-Iaden out Of the work of
the week.
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chancellor warned the clericals aRainst
making a political issue OF the question,
He declared that 10000 900 German Pro-
testants would not be overlaughed by
A,0OOooo Catholics. Talk Of a dissolution
Of the Reichstag has been current
The Presbyterian board Of church cree
ton was one Of the benefciaries under
the VIII Of Mr.. John Kennedy, who left
such large sums to the various mission
airy boards Of that church. This board
received somewhat over 100000 for
its work. The former Presbytery
OF Boston presented its claims for help
Tor three OF its churches. These claims
were afterward urged by the Synod Of
New England, which was recently organ
ICED, with the result that the church at
Lynn has received nearly 5000, the
church at Worcester a little less than
$4,000 and the church at Newport. r. l.,
about the same amount go. O0O) A part
of this is to be repaid to the board in
easy payments. This is one of the early
achievements of the enlargement of the
Presbytery of Boston into the Synod of
New England.
The war between Italy and Turkey be-
ing over word comes from Rome that
the Vatican is entering upon the task of
raising the Catholic Church in Lydia, the
new name for Tripoli and the conquered
country. from a prefecture to a vicariate.
This Is marked advance. The prefect
In Tripoh before the beginning of the
war was Mgr. Rossetti. of tine Franciscan
order. He still remains in Lydia, and II
is said at the Vatican that he will be
given episcopal dignity and the title of
apostolic vicar Of Lydia. It is possible
that later on one or more districts win
be created. A decree on the subject is
now being prepared by the congregation
Of the propaganda.
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be the better policy only to gather them
there and keep them long enough TO be
placed out in the foster homes of fam
lies who assume their care or adopt
them. The cottage" plan of grouping
and housing inmates OF childrcns insti-
tutions not only, but those of asyIums
for the insane, hospitals for the sick,
colonies for the epileptic. and reformatory
farms, are superseding the fcongregate
plan. This recurrence to the lost or in
capacitated family form OF life in the ef-
fort to substitute the next best thing for
Il is the significant emphasis which mod
ern scientific philanthropy is placing
upon the family itself.
The very clubs and other reputable sub
stitutes Cor home shelter and family circle
are attractive to those deprived OF, or
temporarily detached from, these natural
associations just in proportion as they
are homelike. Even the saloons, brothels,
and other disreputable resorts which APP
real to the man away from home, the
stranger in the strange city. the starved
hearts of the lonely, and others without
the restraints and supports of kindred
and fathers house. point their appeal by
stimulating the appearance Of hOmelike
ness. Offering bread, but giving a stone,
tempting with an egg, which turns out
to be a scorpion.
Nothing but the nearest thing to the
nome lIStll CAT De SuDSlllultu SutGcSs-
fully either for real family life or for
those perversions which perveTt itself
into vice. love into lust. The evangelistic
use of the family. the efficacy OF the
home in rescue. the preOccupying, pre-
possessing. restorative resources OF the
household have not only not been ex-
hausted. but have very seldom been ap-
piled. Neither the mission" apart from
the church. nor the church apart from
the missionary spirit. is adequate to the
rescue of the lost. Missions can at best
he the vestibule of churches, and the
vestibule fulfills its function only by
leading into the dwelling. The mission
is likely to be all gate" and not the
way" Many a church is all way" and
no gate" Only homelike church
which is a mission and a mission which
is a homelike church can be the home OF
the soul. Little more than ''foundlings'
are the new born who ave left on the
doorstep of the mission to live. Cardinal
MaI.ning well said that such converts
are exposed TO the last peril of the
spiritual life-the storm in the harbor"
When the prodigal comes to himself he
needs to 60 to his father. The lost
are found again only when we home
them
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F amily Society's Unit
MUST SET LIFE STANDARD HIGHER
H p A 50 %
Minimum Wage One Step Up

Middle West newspapers have
been pushing the claims OF Prof.
Graham Taylor, head OF the Chi
ago Commons Social Settlement,
as candidate for President elect
Wilson's Cabinet. The portfolio
mentioned IN the new Secretary
ship of Labor, which II pretty
likely to be established I'm the
new regime.
DIR. Taylor is not an amateur in
the social problem. He has been
at the game of Improving indus
trial conditions in Chicago for
twenty years, and n n notable
practical success He IL one of
the editors Of the Survey.
It's latest word from his pen
strikes at the root of the whole
social movement and the place of
religion and the church I'm the
present campaign for raising the
human standard.
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Russian Treaty Becomes
AbrogatedNext Wednesday,
Diplomatic Instrument, in Effect Eighty Years,
Goes Out of Effect Because of Discrimina-
ton against american Hebrews. 2.

Next Wednesday, January /. 1918. marks
the day on which the treaty between
Russia and the United States will be
abrogated.
This international agreement between
the Car and Uncle Sam was Entered into
IN 1892, and was terminated because of
Rrssia's refusal to grant passports to
American citizens who were of the He
brew race.
While the relations between these two
countries have been OF a very cordial ma
ture, in diplomatic sense. matters be-
san to grow acute when eminent Ameri-
can citizens of Hebrew lineage were
subjected to the humiliation of being de-
ried entrance into Russia, solely because
OF their religion.
There had been some desultory agita-
ton in regard to this matter from time
TO time, but II came to a head last sum-
mer when Oscar Straus former minister
to Constantinople and recently a can
didate for Governor OF New York, and
Jacob Schiff, New York banker. applied
10 the Russian government for passports
as American citizens and were refused.
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Looked Upon as Victory.

At the time the treaty was made u
was looked upon as a shrewd diplomatic
victory for Buchanan and he was the
recipient OF numerous congratulations.
The terms Of the treaty were considered
to be broad, although the thought OF
both countries was. doubtless, that Il re-
lated to commercial affairs only.
The first case OF record in which an
American Hebrew was denied passport
into Russia was IN lS52, when the Rug
sian government refused to wise the pass
port of A. Dudley Mann. who was after
ward Assistant Secretary Of State and
envoy to Brussels from the Southern
Confederacy during the civil war.
Mr.. Mann complained to Secretary OF
State Edward Everett that the first arti-
Gle Of the treaty had Deen violated. But
that statesman did not concur in his
view OF II. He said the treaty covered
commercial relations only and called
Mann's attention TO the stipulation that
the inhabitants OF the two states should
have the same protection and security as
natives Of the country wherein they re-
side "On condition Of their submitting
To the laws and ordinances there pre-
vailinS. and particularly TO the regula-
tons in force concerning commerce" and
that the right OF sojoUrn and residence
must have reference to that subject
There were no more cases of this kind
until 1874. when Marshall Jewel. the
American Minister. brought the attention
Of the State Department 20 the complaint
Of an American Jewess who was threat
ened with expulsion from Russia
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Giving up the struggle of trying to
maintain churches OF their own, the
Baptists. Presbyterians, Methodists. and
Christians of Alma, Mo-, have formed a
union congregation and will hereafter
have nonseCtarian services. All the four
scots will have an equal membership on
the church board, which will employ a
minister and conduct the other affairs Of
the church and the Sunday school. where
the teachings also will be nonsectarian
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Committee on Foreign Affairs he arose
and. burning with indignation, called the
attention OF the House to the gross vio-
lation of the ancient pact and demanded
its abrogation
Introducing a resolution to this effect.
Mr.. Sulzer precipitated a fight In the
House which lasted several days. There
was some members who were disposed to
look upon Russia's discriminatory tactics
with indifference. but before the debate
had progressed many days the temper OF
the American people made itself felt in
so palpable a manner that Congress voted
Overwhelmingly to abrogate the treaty.
This does not mean that diplomatic
relations between Russia and the United
States are indefinitely suspended. In
fact. they will not be cut of at all IN a
practical sense II was but recently that
President Taft sent a message to the
Gar congratulating him upon his birth
day and that ruler replied in terms OF
warm cordially.
The treaty of 1872 was erected by
James Buchanan who was then MIN
lister at ST. Petersburg. and Count Mes
selrode, Russian Minister Of Foreign A.
fairs. At that time no mention was
made by either government OF personal
rights Independent Of commercial rights.
and 1t was this very technIcality which
resulted in Its abrogation eighty years
later
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29
Practical Sociologist De-
aclares the Family Com
mon Denomination in
Social and Religious
Work.
By GRAHAM TAYLOR.

have been so long ignored that II has
become the most latent and unutilized
of the primary factors and forces upon
which social and religious progress de-
Ponds. For It is the most originating
and persistent, the most formative and
final Of all the forms OF our social or
ganizations. However We date or ac-
count for its origin. the family has GER
tainly furnished both the initiative and
type Of church and state. Interdependent
though state, church, and family have
ever been. yet religion has always been
rooted in the home-the church has al
WAYS been Graded in the household. II
is the more conceivable, therefore, to
imagine religion surviving the loss of the
church than the loss OF the family; to
think of restoring the lost church from
the surviving family, than the lost fam
lily from the surviving church.
The Scriptures Of the Old and New
Testaments would fail to reveal God and
our relations 10 Him and to each other
were we TO eliminate all the family terms
from them by which our spiritual rela-
tionships are revealed. Are not these
family terms the well-known quantities
by which those unknown relations are re-
vcaled:
Forms OF religious faith and organiza-
ton have come and gone, political power
and control have passed back and forth
from autocracy to democracy. from re-
public to empire. but the family relation
ship has persisted, essentially unchanged,
however changing the forms of marriage
itself have been. AS the most primi-
tive and persistent form and force OF
human life, therefore, we should expect
the family to reassert its social signifi-
canoe, primacy and supremacy. And it
iS doing cprnr,nr
denOminator of social work in the three
equations which state the problems COM
mon alike to the church and the COM
munity
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Contrary to Spirit.

Mr.. Blaine argued that Russia had
taken advantage OF technicality in ex-
pclling American Jews and that such a.
ton was contrary to the spirit Of tHa
treaty.
You can further advise the Emperor.
said he in the course OF a letter TO tbs
American Minister at St Petersburg,
that we can make no new treaty with
Russia nor accept any construction Of
our existing treaty which shall disCrim-
mate against anv class Of American citi-
zens on account OF their religious faith"
The treaty article which the Gar ID
accused of violating is the first upon
the list OF fourteen articles. II Is al
follows:
There shall be between the territories
OF the high contracting parties a recip-
rocal liberty OF commerce and naYiea-
ton. The inhabitants of their respective
states shall mutually have liberty to en-
ter the ports. places, and rivers Of the
territories Of each party whersver for
eIgn commerce is permitted. They shalt
be at liberty 10 soJouIn and reside In all
parts whatsoever OF said territories IN
order to attend to their affairs; and shall
enjoy. to that effect, the same security
and protection as natives Of the coun-
try wherein they reside on condition Of
their submitting to the laws and or
d!nanoes there prevailing, and particu.
larry to the regulation in force govern
ing commerce.
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Religion Sets Standard.


DIR. Taylor outlines three ways in
which religious life ana thought are
helping positively to lift the family into
its proper place as the common denomi-
nator Of industrial and social problems.
thus:
To set 4 human standard for life is
the first and perhaps the greatest OF
social problems. And the family fur
nishes both church and community with
the test and task of setting it.
Religion sets the maximum standard in
that heavenliest family type of life 10
which man can aspire fatherhood like
that of the heavenly Father. mother
hood like the brooding mother heart OF
God, marriage like the mystical union
between Christ and his bride. the
Church. brotherhood such as only the
children of God can nave, homes like
the household of faith. and yet a heaven
that shall be as homelike as only our
fathers house can be. The family is
the common denomination of the heav-
emily ideal and the earthly reality
whether you look to the heavenly TO set
the standard for the earthly. or to the
earthly family to set the type by which
the heavenly ideal is TO be interpreted.
Equally significant is the present ten
dency of the community to fix mini
mum standard below which it cannot af-
ford 10 have family life fall. This is
the incentive for limiting the hours and
kinds of work for woman. so as to pro-
tect and promote her mothering the
child; for relating the rate of wages to
the cost OF living, so as to fix mimi
mum wage that will keep earnings from
falling below the possibility of family
life; for infant welfare work, so as to
reduce the death rate of little children
and enhance their right to be well born
and to get fair start toward a normal
life; for the protection of the child's
play time. growth, and schooling, so
that the shop will not rob the child of
its home or the home of it's child. Re
low such a motherhood. birth-right,
standard by family living. and ado
lescence, the community cannot afford
to have human life fall. But II is the
family life that measures the minimum,
up from which the community thus en-
Courages the standards of living to rise.
Church and State Substitutes.
The very task of substituting other
agencies to take the place Of the family
when it has failed or been lost. which
is undertaken both by church and
state, emphasizes more and more how
indispensable the family form of asso-
citation is recognized to be.
The orphan asylum, or home" even
at its best, has been found so unhome-
like and such an inadequate substitute
for the household that It is considered to
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-29

New York is testing an auto ash truck
Of five cubic yards capacity.
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Fish Makes Statement.

Hamilton Fish. Secretary OF State, IN
structed him thus:
The context and subject Of this arti-
Gle Article 4 seem 10 contemplate q
commercial sojourn and residence within
the territories Of the respective contract
ing parties in order to attend to their
AFFAIRS. and ii insured TO the parties
awaiting themselves of the liberty thus
granted the same security and protection
as natives Of the country wherein they
reside may enjoy on condition Of their
submitting to the laws and ordinances
there prevailing, and particularly to tha
regulations in foros concerning COM
merce.' thus strengthening the idea that
the article was intended to guarantee
only a commercial residence"
Later in the same year Mr. Fish added
these comments on the treaty:
1T may be proper subject for reEres
that the Russian government should feel
itself constrained to adhere TO a policy
which the statesmen OF the United States
regard as a relic OF ilIiberaIty. But in
the presence Of history il cannot be de-
MED that the right to enact and enforce
laws respecting religious faith and OBJ
servance of persons who receive the pro-
lection Of state has been insisted upon
and exercised by almost every nation Of
modern Christeudom'
II was not until 1881 that an America n
statesman took the opposite view Of thu
matter. And since the man who did
was no other than James G Blaine. his
Interpretation OF the treaty has been tina
one generally accepted by the people and
the statesmen OF the United States.
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In recent visits of Gypsy Smith, the
famous English evangelist, to America it
was somewhat annoying to American
committees in charge of his meetings. 20
find that he was not free man. Under
an arrangement made several years ago
he had contracted his services as an
evangelistic preacher to the National Free
Church Council of England, and could
accept invitations to America or other
countries only on consent of this organi-
Zation.
The Gypsy's contrast bound linn Tot
to accept anywhere any conn erSs ton
beyond the yearly salary paid him by the
council, which has been understood to
De $500. In a certain way this stipula-
ton worked to the evangelist's advan-
tage. because 1t saved him from any sus-
ricion of avarice in connection with mis-
ministry. But the council which en-
pIoyed him has not been equally free
crom criticism. II seemed to treat GYPSY
Smith very frankly as a money-making
Gkset. 1t demanded, IN consideration Of
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umfdue.

- 6arrp Jlopb, Elm InItreiher,
ftrate seitern pdbrenb Der 9lrbeiet I'm
GcIrtbauIe pon einem 9eriit aus Ell
ner 5Dbe BON 10 SUB ab. unb 5og iih
Thlimme aopfipunben uno aontuS
iionen au. gr nurbe nah benz itGbz
tifhen 9oipitul Oebruht.
9enrp Barter, 55 Sabre alt. pon
No. 4O8 Wabe Strabe, glitt geitern
auf benz Geiienpege on Court unb
Central Mpe. aus unb broh iih Die
Iinte 6ufte. Der Weruneliidte murbe
In einem patroIipusen beimgebrahi.
Sobn Greamp. elm Sc Sabre alz
ter Nnftriher, bon go. PIT Straber
Mpe.. Derunsliidte seiterr pGbrenb Der
Mrhit am Orpbeum 9beater an ber
6. Mpe. uno McMiIIan Strabe, inbem
er bas gleihseipiht perlor unb bon
bpn Geriif, auf ipsldem er itanb. 3ur
grbe binunteritiir3te. gr aog iid eis
men gru9 Der linten 3iifte au uni
ipurbe in einem patrolipagen mad
bem ftdbtiihen 9oipital sebradt.
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NcrbD4ftdnbiat
Sit Die @erihmclsung Der CONNER
etal giipeiatiun nit her 6an-
belsfammer.

Die 0erIhmelaung Der Commercial
Nliociation nit ser Sanoelsfanuner
trat geitern in Strait llno in 3ufunft
meroen alle bisberigen glrbeiten Der
erlteren organization, beren Saupt.
quarter oorldufig nod I'M garetp.
8ebauoe bleiben miro, i'm Iomen Der
Sanoelsfamlner ausgefiibrt perben.
Brdiioent DRAPER nad)te geitern Die
Wtitglieoer Der Sanbelsfamn1er nit
nen gin5elbeiten Der 8erlhrel5ung
befonnt, ipormlf lid iofort 1S1 Mtit.
glleoer Der Commercial gliiociation
ais ioi4c Der Suuoeisfalnmer on.
meloen lieBen. Seute iperoen peitere
200 snmel0ungen erfolgen uno es
miro ertuurtet, onB Dor gnoe Der
ISOLDE idnlmtlite Mitglieoer ser
Commercial 2iIociation lire 9lufnob-
meaelufe lnterbreitet baben tperoen.
Die 8rlinbeigentbunl. .Wanagers
Der Sanoelsfarluer, oeren 8fliht es
lit, bas @runbeigentbum Der Srgonl-
lotion I'M eSSntereiie oerienigen Mit,
glieoer 5u Deripalten, pelhe Gertiii-
fate beliben, organiiirte ii6 geIterll
ourd) Die Grlpdbllmg oes Serrn
Gaspar s. &otpe als goriiber uno
SSsobn $. 9laen ais Sefretdr unO
S6asmeIiter.