Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-06
WILL PROVIDE TEsTAMENTs
t OR SOLDIERS IN FIELD.
Sunday-School Scholars"
Is Appeal.
HEADED BY JOHN wANAMAKEI,
Recalled Here That DIR. Hoge Brought
Large Shipment of Bibles Into
South During War Between tho
States.

IA million nickcls from 4 million
sunday school scholars for II million
testaments for million soldiers in the
hospitals. camps. war prisons and bat
tlefields of the great war" This is
The present slogan of the American
section of the Worlds Sunday School
Association, In an appeal just sent out
through the press to Sunday schools
of all denominations all over ting
l2tited States.
asNhe executive committee of the
NSbrld's sunday School Association, OF
Which f. j. Heinz is chairman, and
Whose membership includes prominent
SEherican business men. among whom
is John Wnnamakcr. is behind the plan.
and will bear the administrative eN-
pense OF the movement. so that every
nickel contributed by every child will
70, every penny of ii. into a testament
tor soldier or sailor. on the Euro
pean fields the distributing machinery
of the various national Bible societies
will be used, SO that there will be no
expense to the senderS and no over
tapping OF gifts.
The sympathies Of the American peo-
pie have been drawn out by the suffer-
ing of noncombatants in the war zone
and have found expression In multi
piled agencies for relief by gifts of
food and clothing. There would seem,
however. TO have been no wide popular
appeal on behalf of the spiritual side
OF life under the terrible conditions
prevailing I'm Europe. 1t was thought
fitting that AN organization in q neu-
trail country, nonsectariau and inter
denominational. whose main purpose is
II dissemination Of knowledge of the
Bible, should bring TO the men who
every day face death and eternity the
message of the Prince OF Peace.
APPEAL COMES WITH
PECULIAR SIGNIFICANCE
to. al ~. -,
he done by the Sunday school scholars.
The nickel is within the financial reach
OF hll For the price of car fare or
u soda n child can put testament
into the hands of II wounded soldier or
prisoner of war and gain access with
Ehe Christian message to Il man in the
most serious time of his life. IT is cs-
simated that there are now mt least
100000 men. detained either in hos
S,itals or In prison camps.
s Tho Worlds Sunday School Assocla :
sion VIII supply each child who gives
souvenir boolimark, which will serve
both as an official receipt and as "A life
aong reminder of the part the child
had in mlnstering 10 the highest needs
pf the soldiers In the present war.
schese bookmarkS will be sent without
cost In quantities desired to any sun
aIay school superintendent who will
undertake to use them in his school
Hnd who will write for them to the
Worlds Sunday School Association,
metropolitan Tower. New York City.
Eemittances Should be sent to Arthur
A. Harris, treasurer. at this address.
The appeal comes with peculiar
significance to Richmond people, as
many of the older residents OF this city
will recall that during the War Be
tween the States Rev. Moses ID. Hoge,
ID. ID, the distinguished minister of the
Second Presbyterian Church, made II
visit to Europe and secured from tho
British and Foreign Bible Society "a
large shipment. of copies of the New
Testament for the use of soldiers in
the Confederate armies. On his return
DIR. Hoge was forced to run the block
ade Of Southern ports. was chased by
Northern war vessels. and, after mar
row escapes, succeeded in bringing his
shipment or Bibles into the Confed-
an.