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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
q LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM!
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ny william Baynrd Hal

ny william Baynrd Hale.
O little town of Bethlehem!
How i'll we see thee lie;
'Bove thy red moil and sleepless toll
The slammed stars pass by;
For from thy dark streets spreadeth
An everlasting blight,
And heart-shed tears of dreadful years
Flow forth from thee tonight.
For death is born within thy walls.
And, gathered all above,
While Christians" sleep. the angels
keep
Their watch of anguished love.
o morning stars. together,
Bewail the CHASTITY birth
That insult filings on him who sings
OF peace to men on earth!
How shamefully. how blamefully
The bloody gift is given;
The furnace glows to Stay no foes
Who have against us striven;
We forge the horrid weapons
'Gainst men whove done no wrong
To us; they bleed just for our greed
The Free the braye' the strong
o holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend again to earth;
Redeem the name. blot out the same
or Bethlehem's unworth
Help lis resolve, a nation,
Throughout this peaceful land.
War must It's cursed and bitter worst
Without our aiding hand
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crump. c. o. Alley. B. F. Moomaw, C.
B. Clements, c. NJ. Lunsford. NJ. o.
Nelson. William Pitcher, ]. C Moss.
Westwood Hutchinson, L. D. Foster. n.
H. Williams. Judge w. r. Barksdale.
j. l.. Camp and John A. Oates.
Following the cncampment at Vir-
sinia Beach. there will be conducted
at Bristol. under the same orGaniza-
ton. the Intermont Chautauqua. with
the following departments training
school for Sunday school workers. Il.
Y. r. u. conference. pastors conference.
w. NJ. u. conference and chautauuua
lecture course. This branch was estab-
lished last year and was a great sue
cess. On the program are many prom
inent speakers. among them Lincoln
HUXLEY, Of Florida; Rev. r NJ Halves.
d. D., OF Louisville; Rev. Robert r. Y.
Pierce. d. D.. of New York: Rev John
r. Straton, D. D.. OF Norfolk. and Rev.
w. o. Carver. of Louisville.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS
SINCE HUSS WAS BURNED
Protestant Churches Join to Honor
Martyr Who Had Much to Do
With tho Reformation.

Five hundred years ago next Tues
great reformer in the church OF the
century before Martin Luther, was
burned at the stake at the council Of
Constance
Born in Bohemia in 1873. Huss grad
uated from the newly founded Univer-
sity Of Prague. and in 1902 became
rector OF the Bethlehem Chapel there,
which had been erected and endowed
by some Jealous citizen of Prague for
the purpose OF providing good popular
preaching in the Bohemian tongue"
AS an earnest and independent stu
dent of the Bible, and a man of sincere
and fearless moral purpose. Huss began
to assail some of the notorious corrup-
tions in the life of the church of his
time. In this he found himself in
sympathy with the work of Wycliffe,
who had been condemned in England a
generation before. The opposition
poured against him was bitter and in
tense. He was accused OF heretical
teaching and iniammatory preaching.
and after long struggle. his enemies
before the great general council of the
church. which convened in Constance
In l4l4. The demands of the council
were that Euss should deny and reca
all that he had previously taught
which was Objectionable TO the estab-
lished order of the church. This he
steadfastly refused TO do. Il write
this" he said in letter TO friends at
Prague. in prison and in chains. ex-
pecting TO morrow TO receive sentence
of death. full of hope in God that I
shall not swerve from the truth nor
abjure errors imputed TO me by false
witnesses. The council, in solemn con-
clave. sentenced him TO death. Tied TO
the stake and with the fagots piled
about him, he was again urged TO re.
cant. He replied. God knows that the
great object OF my preaching and writ
ing was to convert men from sim In
the truth of that Gospel which hitherto
! have written. taught and preached,
l now joyfully die"
The relation of Martin Luther TO
John Huss was singularly interesting.
Luther's tremendous work began by
assault upon much the same super
stitions and corruptions which Huss
had fought against. yet Luther had a
horror of being linked with Huss be-
cause of his dislike of what he thought
had been Husss heresies But he
wrote at A later period in his life:
Hitherto l have unconsciously h.ld
and taught all the doctrines of John
Huss. Stanpitz has also taught them
in like Ignorance. Briefly we are all
Hussites without knowing it,"
Thus was it true that John Huss
carried the light on from Wycltffe. 1.-The
morning star of the Reforma ton" to
Luther, who ushered the Reformation
into the fullness of its noon.
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REQ UiESCANT.
BY Frederick George Scott.

with Canadian forces near Ypres,
May. 1850
In lonely watches night by night
Great visions burst upon my sight,
For down the stretches of the sky
The hosts Of dead go marching by.
Strange ghostly banners DER them
float
Strange bugles sound an awful note.
And all their faces and their eyes
Are lit with starlight from the skies.
The anguish and the pain have passed
And peace hath come 10 them at last
But in the stern looks linger still
The iron purpose and the will.
Dear Christ. who reign'st above the
food
OF human tears and human blood.
a weary road these men have trod,
On. house them in the home of God.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
MY LohD-uis GIFT.

by Ernest Bourner Allen.
My loadAHis gift, How strange I did
not see il so,
II had known His hand had placed
the burden there
Then 1t had been to me no anxious
cross and care,
But just another way for me His grace
to show.
My load--His Sift, How glad am He
knows my frame.
What ! can do and bear he weighs
and watches Well
Some thorn in flesh. some brunt Of
fight. some danger fell
These be the way designed through me
to praise His name.
My load--His gift! thank my God II
different seems,
Than when--a yesterday faitered
on the way.
And CRIED full oft for swifter closing
OF the day,
While now night comes too soon, when
deeds give way 10 dreams.
My load--His gift! II heavier then each
day IT grows.
IT'S discipline reed to test and spus
my'strerEth.
And travel all the road he trod. until
lat length
My Fathers house I reach, the way To
which He shows.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
MODERATOR DEPRECATES
THEOLOGICAL UNREST
Rev. Maitland Alexander and Many
Presbyterian Ministers Urge Re
turn to Fundamental Doctrines.

This years moderator OF the Presby-
terrain General Assembly. Rev Maitland
Alexander. Pittsburgh. together with
| three former modcrators and some Of
the foremost Presbyterian ministers
and elders, $50 in number. has issued
! a statement declaring that great the
illogical unrest exists and calling upon
the Presbyterian Church to set back
to fundamental doctrines. These fun
damentals refer to the divinity of
Christ and the authority of the Bible.
The claim is made that had more time
been allowed many more signatures
could have been obtained. The active
| man in getting up the call is known
to be Rev. Mark y. Matthews, Seattle.
Along with the call in question Rev.
! John Fox, New York. has issued PAM
phlet and sent it to $4,000 Presbyterian
ministers and elders calling upon the
approaching general assembly Of the
church to name a committee that shall
demand OF the New York Presbytery
why 1t persistently disobeys the as
sembly's thrice given orders about the
reception of candidates for the minis
try. The demand is based on the
charge. many times made. that Union
Theological Seminary. New York, sends
out graduates who are unsound in
Presbyterian faith, and that the New
York Presbytery, completely under
the influence of Union Seminary, re-
celves and ordains them. Rumor has 1t
that the demand is more than likely to
be complied with. The assembly has
three times admonish ed the presbytery
in question against the very thing now
complained of.
Signers OF these protests include John
Wanamaker. who is Presbyterian
elder. and II is stated that President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan, both
Presbyterian elders. expressed sympa-
thy with it, but declined to sign at
this time
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
MEMS LIFE PROBLEM CLUB
MEETS This AFTERNOON
Open House Will BE Kept mt Central
Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton on Monday.
CHURCHES HOLD UNION SERVICE
Salvation Army Announces Special
Program-Evening Services Will
he Omitted in Many Churches
During Summer Months.

me VIII. A Real Life Problem" will
be the subject OF discussion before mo
Mems Life Problem Club, which meets
inns afternoon at $40 o'clock in the
Christian Association. General Score
tary Mckee will lead the discussion.
The Boys Sunday Afternoon Club
VIII mold song service in the bows
lobby of the association building. be-
ginning at 2:3o O'Clock. All boys be-
! tween the ages OF ten and sixteen
years, whether members of the asso-
! citation or not. arc welcome at this
service.
The association will keep open
house" Tomorrow. and every proYis-
ion will be made for the comfort of
the members and visitors
Union services, participated in by
the Westminster Presbyterian. FIRST
English Luthern and Hanover Avenue
Christian Churches, will commence
this evening at Westminster Presbyter-
Ian Church. where services Will he con-
Quoted by Rev. J. J. Scherer. Ir. These
! services will continue through July
and August.
Sunday school will be held this after
noon. beginning at 4 o'clock, at Colon
Westhampton Car Vine. followed by
preaching services.
The Sunday school OF Grace Metho-
| dist Church. which is located temper
arily at the Soldiers Home chapel, Will
| meet this morning at $50 O'Clock
Morning services, beginning at 1870
| O'Clock. will also re conducted there by
Rev. r. r. Burnett.
| The regular service Of the Salvation
Army will be conducted this afternoon
at o'clock at William Byrd Park. by
Adjutant Elmer johnson, assisted by
Envoy and Mrs. George Nichols and
! Cadets Edna Pickave and Reed. of
| Brooklyn. a special speaker has been
secured for this service. and seats will
be provided for all who attend.
| The night service will be held at the
Salvation Army Hall. 1925 East Broad
street, at S:l5 o'clock, conducted by
the commanding officer, all local sal
! vationists assisting.
Adjutant Johnson left Thursday
night for Philadelphia to attend the
[ funeral of her brother, who died in that
! city at o'clock of the same night. This
! is the second death in the family in
three weeks, Mrs. Johnsons mother
| having died June ~.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
"ChrI.tians" VS.. Chinese.

When Sherwood Eddy was in
China. he asked former Chinese
premier why he did not become a
Christian. and the Chinaman replied
MIR. Eddy, when I look at Europe,
engaged in bloody and cruel war in
the name of Christ; When I look at
my own city where we, by national
decree. have closed every opium shop
and stopped the sale Of opium, volun-
tarily losing millions of dollars an
nually, and see in your foreign set
Elements 600 opium shops selling
100000 worth of opium every week
to debauch the men we are trying to
save-when I see all this, I do not
like to put my foot into such mess"
This is pretty strong, and some of us
may not think it quite fair. but its
sting Is in its truth. The Christian
nations are not Christian.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
HYMN For ALASKA.

written at the request of Archdea
con Stuck by Rev. Louis Tucker. OF
Der,opolis Ala.)
Lord, who all the land beholding.
Sees our hearts by day and night,
In Thy lovo our lives enfolding
Lead us to eternal light
In the darkness be- Thou near US,
keep and stay us or we fall,
Oh, uphold us, feed US. cheer us,
Guide and guard us safe through all
Give us grace Of Thy salvation,
Hold us safe through All distress,
Make Of us mighty nation
Founded on Thy Righteousness.
Temper Us that He may choose us,
Make us tools to At His hand,
CHRIST the Carpenter. to use US.
Building here cody land.
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SERMONS IN PARAGRAPHS,
SENTENCES AND LINES

Perhaps we do not think enough
what an effective service prayer Is, es-
pectally microscopy prayer. We do
not believe as we should how 1t might
help those we so fain would serve,
penetrating the hearts we cannot open.
shielding those we cannot guard.
teaching where we cannot speak, COM
.fortinS where our words have no
I1ower to soothe; following the steps
OF our beloved through the tolls and
perpleNittes Of the day. lifting off their
burdens with an unseen hand at night.
No ministry is so like that Of an ange
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
MASTERS OF CIRCUMsTA>cEs

y Quaker sitting near John Wesley
at religious service asked him II he
were planning to speak If the Spirit
moved, says the Christian Herald. The
energetic John replied: II shall speak
that the Holy Spirit Will guide us in
our work. but 1t is not safe nor wise
to wait for special leadlngs. If special
leadings come. follow them, burt in the
absence of these, so ahead strenuous
ly trying to save and help everybody
you can reach.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
x.,., The pew wakes Up.

Revival is in the air to-day, but
the real revival will only come when
preaching the word becomes domi.
nant in the pew, rs in the pulpit" says
a writer in the Christian Herald. Il
suppose the greatest revival of modern
times was that of Ulster. ireland, in
the late SOS. which spanned the ocean
and k.ndled the fire ut the old Fulton
Street prayer-me.ting 1t awakened
Moody and Sankcy, by whose ministry
il sparned the ocean second time and
blessed the whole of Great Britain.
nut il was n layman's revival. that
is 10 say, able pastors had faithfully
indoctrinatci their ftocks Will! the
teaching of Holy Scriptures for more
than a decade or two. They had built
the altar, piled the wood and laid the
sacrifice upon it, when the fire from
heaven fell. it kindled' the laity, who
went everywhere preaching The word"
In church. chapel and meeting house.
in town hall and public market-place,
on the village green and in the home
of the cottager, by day and by night
they proclaimed 1t, and oh, what a
work of God followed. To read about
it is to cry out with a great longing
for It's return.
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MOTHER OF MANKIND
BY GEORGE BENEDICT.
tAir, "Dort wo die Zeder.")

There where the cedar throws Its lofty arn,.
There would they gather free from all
There In rejoicing In Gods r O
q
Love and life unclaimed fearless, md fre
Lord OF his sou servant hut to Thee.
Such lonGings bre
America what ]
Mother mankind, faithful snd VI and
still the Rockies throw he
Still sObbnE breas
Help help hey
q, q nlen free
Teach the sou a slnye
Tint he alone IL free IL land BRAY
the true man fs
Free as thy pralries shall =
W. >
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INTERNATIONAL POLlTY
Is SUBJECT OF STUDY
Summer School at Ithaca, Under Strong
Auspices, Discusses Interdepcnd-
ence OF All Nations.

A summer school for the study Of in
terHational relations. under the aus
pieces OF the Church Peace Union, to-
gether with the World Peace Founda-
ton and the Carnegie Endowment, has
sessions continuing through June at
Ithaca, =. Y. The students are select
ed from thirty of the leading American
colleges. including Harvard. Yale. Co
lumbia, Princeton. Cornell, Dartmouth
Amherst. the Western State universi-
ties, Wesleyan Toronto, etc The men
arc said to be those who have been
making an intensive study of the moral
and economic interdependence of ma
tons. They have been chosen with spe-
cial reference to qualities of leader
ship in rational ideas on international
relations. Some of the men are expect
ed to go into international work as a
profession. Others Will carry the train
ing into other professions. DR.. George
w, Sasmyth. a director OF the World
Peace Foundation. is said to have had
active charge Of the organization Of
of The Great Illusion" is announced
as the presiding officer.
The so-called breakdown of civiliza-
ton in Europe. emphasizing the need OF
study concerning the underlying ideas
that should govern the nations toward
each other. is announced as the funda-
mental principle on which the study is
based. 4 searching analysis will be
made of militarism and the philosophy
| of force for the purpose of finding the
truth. Short courses on international
law. the theory of International trade.
will be given by experts. The Hague
conferences, Pan-American relations.
, conditions between Japan and the Unit
ed States, methods Of enforcing inter-
national obligations, are all included In
! the curriculum. Mr.. Angel has con-
Quoted two such schools in England
land in France. a system OF interna-
tional polity clubs is reported to have
developed the last year or two on this
side of the water and this convention
appears TO be the outcome OF It,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04

Sunday school will be held this after
noon, beginning at 4 o'clock, at Colon
iai Place Christian Church, Stop Is,
Westhampton Car Nine. followed by
preaching services.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04

We are wisest when We cease to
question how and in what manner the
Spirit may speak 10 u.s. and simply
seek 10 keep ourselves so attained to
spiritual influences and impressions
that we shall hear and recognize Him
In whatever voice or tone or form His
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04
LOCAL CHURCH NOTES

First Presbyterlan-The morning
service will be conducted by the pas
tor. Rev. r. T. McFaden. u. d. There
will be no evening service.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04

Let this be thy whole endeavor. this
thy prayer. this thy desire-,hat ,hon
lhaSest be stripped Of all selhshness.
and with entire simplicity rolion 80
only.-Thomas Kempis.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04

The saints did not allow themselves
TO be carried away by the sense OF
divine favor. of relief. or deIiverance:
they presently composed themselves in
me attitude OF servants. or rather OF
angels. waiting humbly round the
throne. watching TO learn what next
He would have them do or suffer for
His names sake.-Keble
Evening star., 1915-11-08

is perhaps the most aggravated case
of all four. The building was known
as firetrap, and the owners had
been ordered repeatedly by the t1re
commissioner to make certain
changes in its construction and ar
rangement. None of those changes
had been effected, though the orders
were given as long ago as last Janu-
ary. The fire commissioner now de-
clares that he is powerless under the
law to enforce his orders. What a
shameful state of law or administra-
ton! AS far as protection of life
is concerned apparently New York's
tire-prevention regulations are less
than scraps of paper" to be ignored
fearlessly by building owners and
tenants.
The destruction of human life by
fire is one of the most shocking fail
ures of American government. 1t re-
ours so frequently that it has be-
come almost a settled conviction on
the part of the public that in every
city fire regulations. designed to
safeguard life, are worthless as to a
large percentage of buildings and un-
fortunately those of most dangerous
character and use.
Evening star., 1915-11-08

matter appears in recent dispatches
to the effect that. Italian and allied
troops are being landed at Avlona,
which is directly across the Straits
of Otranto, the narrowest point in
the Adriatic, from Italy.
Whether Serbia's army can be
saved or not, it is obviously the al
lied purpose to drive strongly against
the Austro- ro-German-Bulgarian troops
from at least two directions, possibly
three. If a large force of English,
French and Italian troops gain solid
base south of the Belgrade-Constan-
tinople railway before the Teutonic
armies gain full possession of not
only the line, but its protecting
flanks, the way to Constantlnople Will
be extremely insecure.
Meanwhile Greece remains III state
OF uncertainty, with a new cabinet
organized under Skouloudls, who IS
reported to have declared his inten-
ton of observing an attitude OF very
benevolent neutrality toward the en-
tente powers" At present such an
attitude is all that the allies could
desire, short of actual participation
by Greece with the aid OF her army.
Any policy OH the part of Greece that
will ignore the violation of her ter
ritory at Saloniki will be highly sat
isfactorv to London and Paris.
Evening star., 1915-11-08
Sixty-Seven Sacrificed.

Within two weeks four fires have
occurred in as many cities in this
country with shockingly fatal re-
suits. Twenty-Five lives were de-
stroyed in the burning OF Pitts
burgh paper box factory Oc-
tober 25. October o8 twenty
pupils were burned TO death in a
Peabody, Mass, parochial school.
November I thirteen lives were lost
in a New York tenement fire, and
Saturday, November 6, twelve peo-
pie were killed in Brooklyn shirt
factory fire. The total loss of life in
these four fires was sixty-seven
and every one of these lives was sac
rificed because OF palpable neglect
of the law and regulations governing
the construction and use of buildings.
The latest fire horror, in Brooklyn,
Evening star., 1915-11-08
The Campaign in Serbia.

With the British official acknowl-
edgment that Lord Kitchener is on
his way to the Balkan theater OF war,
presumably to take charge of the al
lied operations there, comes the reve-
lation that the German assault upon
Serbia, with the object of driving a
route through to Constantinople, is
regarded by the allied powers as the
most vital phase OF the war at pres
ent. All dispatches indicate that
French and English troops arc being
landed in large numbers at Saloniki
and being rushed into Bulgaria and
Serbia as rapidly as the railway IA
cilities permit. A new phase Of the
Evening star., 1915-11-08
A Wild Pursuit.
Twas only just a little fly

Twas only just a little fly
That fingered into fall.
All cheerily he wandered by,
Nor needed autumn's call.
In fragments lies statuette
With other works of art;
The chairs and table are upset
'Mongst curtains torn apart.
The fallen pictures mark the scene
OF tumult long and grim.
The rubber tree that stood serene
Is broken limb from limb.
All inaccessible he clings
Aloft with wary feet,
And laughs to hear the fervent things
| Justify repeat.
His doom is sealedl I'll nail him yet
In sorrow by and by
I'll figure what it cost to get
That one belated fly!