El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-19

= TALF a dozen Of the larger Protest
ant bodies, and some Of the
smaller ones, plan evangelistic
campaigns to start Immediately after
the first Of the year. Their argument
Is that the war has so changed the
temper OF people as to make them open
20 the consideration of serious matters
as they have not been open in years.
Their logic is also that the war in
Europe has demonstrated the fact that
civilization Is not on the safe basis a
good many people thought it to be. The
challenge to Christianity to stop the
war or admit its failure has further
more stirred leaders to action.
The plans proposed for these 1915
revivals are the mass ones. Barring
Billy Sunday. who goes on his own
plan, whole bodies Of Christians, in Of
fetal form, are getting up teams COM
nosed Of speakers with different quail
fications, and singers, both male and
female. In some cases home mission
airy societies have the matter in charge
IN others special commissions have
been named. The teams are several in
number and hold forth in different
cities at the same time, Careful local
preparation is made in advance of the
team arrival, some of the Billy Sunday
methods being adopted. Indications
now are that the biggest evanEelistic
wave of many years viii be attempted.
Baptists south have just invaded
Louisville with mass team. Twenty
or more meetings in as many centers
are held daily. Newspaper publicity is
EMPLOYED. Disciples of Christ have put
their plans under their home mission
airy agency. Methodists north have
commission. and Presbyterians north
have the same. EpiscOpalians are N
the plan with what they call a preach
ing campaign" Some Of their best
men are to leave their pulpits to take
part and, like the others, the whole
country is covered by plans.
COMES IN BEHALF OF
THE WOMEN OF EUROPE
An international Council Of Equal
Suffrage association, with women OF
England. France. Germany, Austria
Hungary and Switzerland in it, has sent
10 the United States Mrs. ROsiha
Schwimmer, an able leader with wide
knowledge Of conditions in Europe and
a fair command of the English Ian
guaEe Her purpose is not merely to
propagate suffrage ideas, but to tell
American women about women of
Europe at this time because Of the war
She declares that Americans have, at
their distance, no adequate conception
OF the horrors and the devastation, and
that unless the war ends soOn Europe
will be little more than a page Of his
tory.
This leader affirms that women Of
these warning countries are not filled
men. They are helping each other. AT
the same time it is the women who are
the chief sufferers by the war. She re-
ports, upon personal knowledge. that
women by the tens of thousands are
committing suicide and going insane
I'm Poland. northern Hungary, eastern
Prussia Belgium and northern France
The cause is the censorship Of news
Vienna, Breslau, Cracow, Lemberg,
Warsaw. Metz. Strasburg and Brussels
papers are not printing war news as
are American papers. Women know
nothing Of the whereabouts Of hus-
bands. brothers, sons. and while there is
a plan Of letter exchange without ad
dresses. it fails. The silence maddens
and drives to suicide.
Mrs Schwimmer, who has just ar
rived in this country, points out the
terrible winter conditions of northern
Europe, and states that in the line Of
battle. hundreds Of miles, old men and
old women, boys and girls are home
less and starving by the hundreds Of
thousands. The picture she paints is
appalling in details She has promises
she says that equal suffrage is to come
after the war, but she asks what's the
gOOd2 There will be nothing left worth
having unless the war ceases soon.
She charges religion with simply add
ing TO the bitterness.