The Washington herald., 1914-12-06

Baptist churches of Washington,
members of the Columbia Baptist Asso-
citation, show a total membership of g.
121 on October 81, 1914, a net gain for
the year of 314. The expenditures OF
the churches during the year for
home uses" which includes current eX-
penses, improvements, and Sunday
schools and other organizations with
in the church totaled $114.500. In addi-
tion, s35.OO6 was expended for benevo-
lent and missionary purposes. The con-
tributions of Fifth Baptist Church. of
which Rev John z. Briggs is pastor,
for missionary and benevolent objects
were reported as over 95 per cent OF
those for all homo uses"
The Flying Squadron OF America
who will visit Washington Saturday.
Sunday and Monday, December II, Ii
and II, to present arguments for the
abolition of the liquor traf1c, are about
10 conclude three months campaign
which has carried them into every State
in the Union. Meetings covering three
days will have been held in 200 cities
when the itinerary is completed.
The speakers travel in three groups.
each of which includes three or four
speakers, a musical director, pianist
and a soloist. Each group spends q
single day in city.
The first group. which will hold meet
inEs in Calvary Baptist Church on Sat
urday, December II, contains men
prominent in church circles.
Daniel A. Polling. the leader of group
number one. is a leading Christian En-
deavor, having the tfe4e of presidents
associate, United Society of Christian
Endeavor. Mr.. Polling directed the citi-
zenship work of this international or
Eanization of young people. In the last
;yubernatorial election in Ohio Mr.. Po-
ling conducted an active campaign as
the nominee of the Prohibition party.
Dr. Wilbur F. Sheridan, of Chicago. is
general secretary of the Epworth
League of America, and will be tender
I'd a banquet next Saturday by the
Washington District Epworth League,
when he will meet 400 of the local or
eauization's officers and members.
The third member OF this group of
speakers is Rev. DR.. Charles NJ. Shell
don, of Topeka, hans, author OF In
His Steps"
The music on Saturday evening Will
he directed by L. O. Excel, of Chicago;
his pianist will be a. w. Roper. The
soIoist will be DIR. d. V. Polling, of Port
land. Greg.
Group two. which spends Sunday. De-
cember IS, in Washington, comprises
Clinton n. Howard, orator and lecturer
Of Rochester, n. Y; Mrs. Ella A. Boole.
r L: Eugene w. Chain. late candidate
for President of the United States. and
Mrs CulIa J. Vayhinger. president In
diana w. c. T. u. The musical direc-
tor, pianist and solOist are. respective
Iy, Everett r. Naftzger, Hugh Porter,
and Miss Laura Shave.
J. Frank Hanly, former governor of
Indiana, will lead the third group. and
with him will be oliver w. Stewart, of
Tra
Ward-Belmont College. Nashville, Tenn.
They are scheduled to speak on Monday,
December II. The musical director for
this group is Frederick Butler. of Yon-
kerS, n. Y. Mrs. Butler is pianist and
Miss Vera Mullin sOlOist.
Rev. MuIian X Smyth, of New York.
in lecture on How to Vanquish War"
delivered last Sunday at the New
Church. Sixteenth and Corcoran streets,
directed attention to the prominent
place tho present war has given to the
teachings of Nietzsche. Treitschke and
Bernhardi He declared that there is
hardly a newspaper or a magazine that
does not contain these names and have
something to say Of their teachings.
People have been made aware that the
Christian conceptions of charity. of
ScE-sacrificc. of kindness to the weak.
which seemed so Self-evidently true and
h-autifUl-even il we did not always
live up 10 thcm-haVe been rudcly as
sailed by a philosophy which does not
hcSitat" TO proclaim the will to power
~ the only reasonable law OF progress
and which has been able to back up
this philosophy with a tremendous
show of force. NiCtZSChc'S teachings
haNr been the vogue with a little group
of lilerati in Russia, France, England
and this country. They have been hon
or,d with the name of philosophy" al
though they consist for the most part
of savage epiSramS, ratings and bias
ViicmicS. But here they are and their
aSSrrtions-Irnd accusations are being
discussed in lecture rooms, in clubs, in
homes and on the streets.
rs an example, the lecturer quoted
the following:
81 condemn Christianity. and con-
front il with the most terrible accusa-
lions that Il man has ever had in his
mouth. To my mind, ii is the greatest
of all conceivable corruptions. 1 call
christianity the one great curse. the
one enormous and innermost perver-
sion. / call it the one immortal blemish
Of mankind"
NcitzsChe has blurted out with a
kind of fanatical JOY that which some
men have been inclined to accept as
true and desirable, the will to power
with a corresponding contempt for the |
gcntler Eraces of religion.
This is of the utmost seriousness if |
true; for then we find ourselves face |
to face with a condition of human ma
lure and not merely with the rawlings |
of 4 man who ended his days in a mad
house.
The speaker then contrasted this
teaching with the philosophy of life |
contained in these simple but sublime |
words of the Prophet Micah:
He hath showed thee, o man, what |
is good; and what doth the Lord re-
quire OF thee but to do justly. to love
mercy and to walk humbly with thy |
God"
Here is a calm. inspired assertion of
what a truly human life should be. It |
should be just. it should be merciful
il should be devout. These require
mcnts gain in force when we realize |
that they arc not simply a cluster of
virtues. They mark three planes or
levels OF our nature. the civil. the
moral, and the spiritual. Justice is