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The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

! Pepper being given an increase in pay
for his duties as copy collater in the day
proof room.
Brady Buckholz. Of the monotype key
board force who Is visiting Bermuda
writes that he and big Ed" Martin, OF
the Washington Fire Department, are
having a most enjoyable trip.
The night forces unusually are busy
in the G. P. o. for, this season Of the
year. and there is little prospect of any
slump this fall. This session Of Con-
gress has made a great deal Of printing.
and there does not seem to be much
prospect of any adjournment prior to the
beginning Of the next session, so II is
probable that a good many extra en-
ployes will be needed in the G. P. o.
for several months.
The printing business throughout the
city OF Washington generally is reported
very good. machine operators being in
demand in several of the book and job
offices. and job men. too, being scarce.
The same condition is reported from
Baltimore and Philadelphia, Baltimore
especially being favored with lots of
work. and the best scale of prices that
city has ever enjoyed.
OF the men selected for official posi-
tons in the bindery by Public Printer
Ford. Joseph Duffy. who has been made
foreman OF binding, is an Ohian, and was
for a number of years connected with
the Werner Company, at Akron. He has
been in the G. P. o. good while. and
is a popular man with his craft. Luke
Ludlow, James E. Cogan, and Timothy
Shea are New Yorkers, all good union
men and popular. r. c. LOhmeyer. who
has been made foreman of the Library
branch bindery. is a Virginian, and FL
mer E. Webster, who assumes charge OF
the ruling and sewing section, comes
from the State of Michigan.
Clarence Lewis is the latest applicant
from Columbia Union for the l. T. L.
pension. sixty-one members from this
union now enjoying this bounty.
Arthur A. Allison has resumed his
duties as a proofreader, after a vacation
OF three months, which he and Mrs. Al
lison spent abroad. a great part of which
they put in in and about London. cross
ing to the Continent only for short
stay in Paris.
Pressman Dan Beckwith, after an eX-
perience of several years as a suburban.
ite, has disposed of his home in Brook.
land. and returned to the city.
d. ]. OLeary. assistant foreman ir
the pressroom, with his family. has been
visiting in Atlantic City and New York
Albert II. Foulke. a well-known mem
Der of Philadelphia Typographical Union,
a machine operator on the Philadelphis
Ledger. and a former G. P. o. printer
was in Washington several days the past
week renewing old friendships and en-
jOying the beauties Of the Nations Capt.
tai
George Merriam, who has Just finished
thirty days vacation on his farm in
Vermont, shows the beneficial effect of
the pure air of the Green Mountain State
in about twenty pounds Of increased
weight and a coat Of tan.
E. ]. Patch appeared at his desk il
the night proof room on Thursday night
the first time in seven weeks. his absence
being due to-an injury during the big
storm, by which he fractured an ankle
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

Temptations to easy adjustment with 9
lconstantly more complicated civilization
are at work today to entice the church
from the strait and narrow path which
Jesus bade his disciples walk. A thousand
whispering voices tell the twentieth cen.
trry Christian that literal following ol
Christ has become impossible.
1 In contrast. there is something magnif'
cent in the fervent conviction with which
this popular novelist retorts. that II Ia
possible.
Even though his blows fall painfully on
tender sensIbilities. the church owes
gratitude to the man who smite II awake
10 realize its absolute and undiminished
obligation TO live according TO every word
that has proceeded from the mouth of
/ its Master
Passing by details subject to contro-
very. the church ought freely to ac-
knowledge that these principles which
Mr.. Churchill hammers home are gospel
truth:
The life Of the church consists not in
solidarity of organization nor in regulari-
ty OF form nor in any aspect of external
prosperity. but wholly in the personal
spiritual. association of its individual
members with the living Jesus Christ.
The vital perpetuation of Gods eternal
| truth In the world depends not upon the
perfect expression OF il in formulated
creed but on the immediate and continu-
ling apprehension of it by souls who in
wardly receive the Spirit of God.
| Real faith in real truth will never fear
rational inquiry nor resent the demand
| that the doctrines of the church shall be
| oxpounded without violence to the pow
ers OF reason wherewith God endows tile
human soul And whoever supremely
loves Jesus loves truth first and creed
afterward.
Giving a reason for the faith that is
| in it, the church today must give that
reason not IN the dialects of dead ages
End cloistered schools. but In language
| "understanded Of the common people"
and vivid with the fire of immediate con-
! temporary conviction.
Those only are truly Christians who
care more for the things of the spirit
than for any good of material comforts
and possessions-who are unhesitatinglS.
prepared to give up any material gooo
whatsoever rather than sacrific the least
possession of the spirit.
No church is a church Of Christ which
desires to draw into its fellowship the
prosperous in preference to the unfor-
tunate.
Wherever the church is incapable OF
purging away from itself the sins of
covetousness. avarice, and oppression
Of the poor. il cannot hope to achieve
either favor with God or influence over
humanity. Alleged philanthropy apar.
from love insults earth as well as
heaven.
II avails naught to cleanse the outside
Of the cup and the platter while "the
inside of the cup continues full from
eXtortion and excess"
The recOmpenses of God against Phar-
isaism or any other wrong are not COM
pleted with the end of the life here seen
and known. There is life beyond, and
il includes Judgments to come
Verify. a book that teaches these things
heralds the kingdom OF God.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Army H-roe. of Air Flight.

From the NrW York Mail
With the death Of Lieut.. Moss l.. Love,
eleven young officers OF the United
States army have given up their lives
to forward the cause OF aviation.
These were Of the flower of young
American manhood. Knowing the dan
ger, they volunteered for the work. They
were of the active. eager, ambitious type
of young soldiers-eXactly the type OF
which brilliant commanders are made.
Their death represents a loss of the
very best material in our army. and a
sum OF heartbreak to their families and
friends that no thought can measure.
What motive inspired these men? For
one thing they wished 10 distinguish
themselves. But that, in a sense. is the
duty Of a soldier.
But the motive Of pure patriotism was
present in each. Every one wished TO
see his country foremost in the use and
mastery of the wonderful machines OF
the air. which gaze. as il were. into
the very heart OF an enemy's army. lay
ing bare HIS strength, his movements, his
intentions The aeroplanes observations
may save many thousands of American
soldiers lives. II may insure American
victory. A war may be won through a
superior aviation service.
When the record OF the American mill
tary students OF aviation Is made up
when a degree of safety in the employ
ment Of aeroplanes is attained which will
put an end to those constant tragedies
let US then have a monument to the
young heroes who have died in air flight
Let il be wrought by our most dis
tiIguished sculptor, and bear beautiful
and inspiring testimony to a service as
brilliant as it was heroic. Let every
name be inscribed there in golden letters
for all time.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Is "The Inside of the Cup"
A Constructive or Destructive
Criticism of the Church:

This mix of problems works out to the
ostensible conclusion that a minister must
renounce the ancient historic doctrines of
the church. particularly the virgin birth.
before he can preach and exempIify the
equality of Christ's love for every sort of
humanity.
But surely Mr.. Churchill himself ha
before now realized the absurdity of that.
Every look around refutes it. Ministers
are not rare but common who along with
the most steadfast orthodoxy are as in
innate with the woes of the poor and the
outcast as the rector of Mr.. ChurchiIl's
fancy could possibly be in his best estate.
Throughout The Inside of the Gun the
one unaccountable phenomenon is the
authors fierce obsession Of antipathy to
the virgin birth. 1t is unaccountabIe
from his own standpoint. He insists that
physical phenomena cannot affect spiri-
tual realities; yet ne is unwilling to ac-
cept the spiritual reality of the incarna-
tion of God in Christ until the physical
phenomenon Of virgin birth disappears.
Perhaps the book is destined, though.
to do good at this point. The super
fiuous vehemence of its assault is weIl
calculated to initiate reaction to the
orthodox view.
Mr. Churchill appears generally to lack.
in abstract reasoning, the penetration to
bore through to ultimate consideration.
This is distressingly true as he handles
the divorce question. where he reasons
from individualistic premises and forgets
both home and society. His conclusions
in consequence are valueless
Make every discount. however, ana IL
still remains to be Acknowledged that Mr..
Churchill has given the church a mighty
message.
Out Of the volume one monumental
teaching rises:
The church can have power in the
world only when it dares be utterly true
to the commands, example, and spirit
of its Lord.
There is no denying that a thousand
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
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Editor NJ tine Continent Presby terian.l
Winston ChurchiIl's latest novel. The
Inside of the Cup" is a book that the
Christian church in America cannot
ignore. It is a direct and all but de-
fiant challenge of the church. from one
of the most substantial of American lit
erary men-a man who does not speak
in a corner.
Yet it is not the production of an
enemy of the church. 1t is written by
one of the church's own sons, who pro-
tests that the enlargement Of the
churchs power is his dearest hope.
OF criticisms and objections against
the book it is easy to enumerate many
particulars.
In the literary sense Mr.. Churchill
has not written a story. The volume is
as strictly a piece of polemics as il
offered in the form of seminary lectures.
Anybody looking for a story might as
well save disappointment by not opening
its covers.
Nevertheless giving his work the guise
of novel has compelled Mr.. Churchill
to mass his materials for dramatic ef-
feet in a way to overstrain all his points
of emphasis. His hero is loaded with all
the perplexities encountered by all sorts
of men in the ministry; his villain is
guilty of all the crimes committed by
all the hypocrites in the laity. Distor-
ton is Inevitable. The picture is
shadowed blacker than any one spot in
actual life could possibly be.
1t is a feature Of this same circum-
stance that accounts for the author 8
confusing two unrelated problems in the
difficulties of this hero. the troubled
young rector. Some ministers struggle
with questionings Of the creeds; others
pass through tribulation on account of
the social issues of the hour But the
novelist, just because he has only one
hero. must make him-unlucky wight
zn through both battles at once
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
Bran, and His Freedom.

From the Boston Globe
1t is the testimony of Warden Mov.r
OF the Federal Prison at Atlanta tbat
Thomas N. c. Bran, who has served
seventeen years OF a life sentence. has
been during that time a power for good
in the institution.
Few merr~who have served a long sen-
tence leave the institution with express
sions and sentiments like those OF Bran.
This Is what he says:
The first thing that am going to buy
Is bunch of flowers. and I'm goirg TO
send them 10 Warden Meyer. He has
been kind to me. Then I am going TO
get me room and go into it by myself
and have good cry. I've got to have
that cry before 1 can realize it's true.
Then I'll want to pray little. And after
that / want work.
Flowers. self-communion. prayer, then
work" This is program that commands
respect II there are more such prisoners
who can be as warmly endorsed by the
prison officials there should be more pa
roles.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
aucrr stamps for Polar Expedition.

Queer stamps for Polar Expeditions
Most arctic and antarctic explorers
have taken a special supply Of stamps
with them for their use. When the
Terra Nova left for New Zealand on
November %. 1910. for instance. she had
on board 500 worth OF New Zealand
penny stamps overprinted with the
words Victoria Land"
Capt. Scott was specially made post
master of the British Antarctic-an ap-
pointment first held by Sir Ernest
Shackleton in 1907
TI.e stamps used by the ShackletOn eX-
pedition were the ordinary New Zealand
stamps surcharged with the words king
Edward VII Land" says Answers. More
than 1900 of these stamps were issued.
and. though only penny ones, they are
now worth 26 shillings each unused, and
are getting more valuable every year
me stamps used by Capt. Scot. and
his expedition will naturally become ex-
tremely valuable.
The Australian Antarctic expedition,
under Dr. Madison. which also has met
with an unfortunate mishap, used the
stamps of Tasmania, Cancelled with a
special postmark, showing in the center
a figure of a penguin. The stamps used
by the Terra Nova expedition were also
Cancelled by a design noticeable for the
figure of a penguin.
The German South Polar expedition of
1911 had a special stamp of its own man
ufacture. showing a picture of its ship,
the Deutschland.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

Walter d. Morgan. OF the hand section.
was Monday morning transfer to the
day proof section as a reader.
Mrs. Ellen Gibbs. widow of the late
Oliver II. Reed. former well-known
pressman, and about thirty years ago
foreman of the main press room. passed
away recently at the residence OF her
son. in the seventy-fourth year Of her
age.
William ]. Dow. chief clerk Of the Gov
ernment Printing ONCE. will soon be
full-hedged lawyer, having this week re-
ceived notice that he had been successful
IN meeting the requirements of the ex-
amining committee for admission to the
bar OF the Supreme Court Of the District
OF Columbia.
Mr.. Dow originally came to the Gov
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
American Congrega tional Board
One Hundred Years in India

Extensive preparations are being made
IN India for the centennial celebration. in
/ early November. OF the beginning of
missionary work by the American Board.
! The first missionaries sailed from Massa-
chusetts little over one hundred years
ago. and had great difficulty at first in
! being allowed to remain in the country,
but finally permission was given and the
work began at Bombay.
The American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions, with its headquar-
tiers in Boston, is the oldest foreign mis-
sionary society and is the parent from
which several other societies have come.
Hence this centennial takes on an inter-
denOmina ational aspect at the celebra ton
of the first effort of the American
church to propagate Christianity in for
eign lands. The Governor OF Bombay is
to preside at the opening meeting in the
Town Hall. and the celebration is to
cover several days.
In recognition OF this event the board
is sending a commission to represent IL
in India at that time. This deputation
consists Of the president Of the Board,
Samuel B. Capen; the editorial secretary,
the Rev. W. f. Strong, and the Rev.
George \. Hall, A member of its pruden-
tial committee and grandson OF Gordon
Hall, one of the first missionaries who
went to India a hundred years ago Presi-
uent Capen is to speak at Bombay on the
forenoon Of November : on The Sig
nifcance and Value of One Hundred
Years of Missions" In the afternoon OF
the same day he is to address a meet
eng for the Christian community. and his
address will be translated into the
Marathi language. The following week
these centennial exercises will be con-
tinued at Ahmednagar. the educational
center of the mission, and President
Capen will speak on What Christianity
Is Doing for the World"
Seven Fields to Be Visited.
The work Of the commission. however,
is not to be confined to these exercises in
Western India; the missions of the
American board are all over the world
and the commission will visit at least
seven others of the twenty mission fields
Il expects to spend about two months in
India and Ceylon. two months in China
and month in Japan and Korea
During the 100 years the American
board has spent for work in foreign
fields. in the salaries of missionaries and
in building churches, schools, colleges,
hospitals, dispensaries, printing. and in
Gustrial plants, more than $I3,O00OOO: of
this amount s1O.C)0OOO has been spent in
the different mission stations in India
There are now in the foreign field. bear
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21
In the Interest Of Peace.

President Capen in addition to being
one of the commission TO represent the
American board, also goes out as the
representative of the World Peace Foun-
dation. of which he is a member. Fog
many years friends in the East, espe-
cially in Japan, have been urging Mr..
Capen to visit the field in behalf of this
movement, believing that as a business
man he could have a message not only
10 the cnurcnes, Dut TO the business men
and officials of far-away Stions. II
seems especially fitting that Mr.. Capen
can go TO Japan. There is a strong Jap
anese Peace Society, OF which Count
Okuma is a member. and some OF the
leaders in the churches established by
the American board are also officers in
this Peace Society. These will undoubt-
edly give him a hearty welcome when
he reaches Japan next April As mem
Der not only of the World Peace Founda-
tion, but as president of the Massachu-
setts Peace Society and a member of
the executive committee OF the Lake
Mohonk Arbitration Conference, he will
have an especial message as to the in
creasingly intimate relations between the
Orient and the Occident.
DIR. Strong and Mr. Hall sailed Septem-
ber on the Franconia, and President
Capen left by the steamer Cretic Mrs
Hall and their daughter, Mrs Capen and
Miss Mary Capen go with the commits
sion.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

ing the commission of the American
board. over 500 missionaries and they
have under their care more than i.O0O ma
tive preachers, teachers. and helpers
Many of the churches that have been
started have already come to self-sup-
port, the natives paying the salaries of
their own pastors. These native Chris
tians gave last year for this work &3l4.-
eco. The board has not only organized
elementary schools, but IL has thirty-five
colleges and seminaries for higher educa-
tion. There are in these different schools
1900 children and youths. The board in
its work does not forget the physical
needs of the people, and It has seventy
five hospitals and dispensaries. and the
medical missionaries last year were able
to treat $4,000 cases.
In India the board has introduced in
dustrial training and one of the mis-
sionaries has invented a foot-power loom
which is doing good work for the weav-
irg class. The board. upon its various
missionary presses, prints over 10000
pages every day in more than twenty
five languages.
The expenditures of the board are over
H,0OO,O00 annually, this in addition to the
money that is given by the natives upon
the field
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

The officers of the G. p. o. Council
National Union. have Jared pretty well
under Public Printer Ford, President Dan
V. Chisholm being made superintendent
of work, Secretary Stanley Ridings be-
ing given the forenlanship of the mono
type section, and Treasurer John J.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

Labor unions of illinois, to the number
Of about nifty. have arranged for meetings
10 be addressed by the Rev. u. X
Schultz during September and October, in
an effort to improve conditions and out
look OF shop and mine workers and to
bring about better relations between
workers and employers Mr.. Schultz is
the labor evangelist OF the American
Baptist Home Mission Society. supported
in part by the Baptists Of Western
PENNSYLVANIA. The Illinois tour in the
int. est of church and labor VIII pave
the cooperation OF both the unions and
almost all churches in cities visited. not
Baptist alone.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

The work which the international COM
mittee of Young Mems Christian Asso-
cations has been doing in the last fifteen
years for the men of both the army and
ravy Of ;he United States is promised a
tremendous development through a be-
quest in this interest found in the will
Of Mrs. Julia Lorillard Butterfield. who
died recently at her home in the town of
Gold Spring Hudson. The estate
of Mrs Butterhsld is supposed to amount
10 about S3.03OOO0. and after specific be-
quests Of S75D.cJ0 to members of the family
ard TO various phiIanthropies, the army
and navy department of the Young Mems
Christian Association is constituted leSa-
tee Of all the remainder. With all con-
ceIrahle shrinkage allowed for, it is re-
* rdec as certain that the international
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

The interest in England over subjects
OF a social kind and in their relation TO
religion and life is shown by the pro
gram Of the church congress to bc held
at Southampton. September 81. at which
the Bishop of Winchester is to preside 2.
The program provides for expressions
from representatives OF various s"hoois
If though. Subjects are arranged in two
groups One includes The Kingdom of
God and the Sexes" The Kingdom of
God and the Social Order" and The
Kingdom of God and the Races The
other group of addresses is as fellows.
The Christ Of Prophecy The Christ
II History" and The Christ of EApeTi-
enCe.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

Hugh L. Buckingham, skilled laborer
in the hand section, has been transferred
to the forwarding and finishing section
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

Charles S. Dennison. of the hand sec
ton. and one of the best-known printers
in the G. p. o., has just returned from
an extended vacation of forty-six days,
during which time be visited many Of the
leading cities in the North, Feast. and
Middle West. and portions Of Canada.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

James P. Garner. Edward Mccormick,
and John Lutte, of the hand section day,
have returned from their leave.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

After twenty-five years the Brother
hood of St Andrew. an organization Of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. Is 70
have its national convention in New York
October Is Meantime, this order has
made the circuit of the large cities OF
the country. This body of laymen is
committed to work among men, especially
young men. in winning them to the
church which they serve. The social tend
ency is observed in this organization by
the very name il bears. brotherhood,
and because Of one of its rule, TO pray Tor
the extension Of the Kingdom of Christ,
though it is not what is known as 81
Cial service organization.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

Thomas L. McEneany has returned to
the hand section after an extended detail
at the State branch.