Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-22

| were the small and remote places,
| like Curacao, Farce Islands, Iceland,
| Monaco, San Marino, Afghanistan,
Bokhara, Abyssinia, Macao, British
Somalland. etc. Something over is
per cent. of the entire population of
the United States is enrolled in the
Sunday school.
This international organization will
rot be essentially affected by the war.
All the countries having Sunday
schools will continued to have them,
| in increasing number. And in the
gigantic task of repairing the wars
spiritual damages the Sunday school
| will be a powerful agency. It's bonds
| continue real and vital and will out
last the war. While the worlds con-
vention planned for next year has been
postponed. it will yet be held, and
with representatives from all leading
nations present.
Some Emissaries of Peace
Perhaps the most significant state
ment made at the New York dinner
| was Dr. Motifs declaration that in
confidential conferences with Christian
! leaders in twenty-one countries, held
eral public. eYt there are at this very
new obligations present conditions lay
! upon the Church, there was unani-
| nous agreement that the supreme
problem is that of the new training
of youth. The leaders of the time in
the things of religion realize that they
| must go right down to the bottom
and begin TO educate a generation of
| boys and girls with vital Christian
| principles and an International mind.
The fact that all over the world
there are being held meetings of this
| sort by men and women who have
not been maddened by war and who
retain their poise and sense of re-
! sponsibility may be news to the gen
eral public. Yet there are at this very
hour relatively large number of the
emissaries of idealism and religion 60
ing to and fro among the nations at
war. and in neutral countries, to pre-
pare for the huge tasks that will await
the church when peace has been de-
clared.
That these responsible leaders of
thought have been forced to the con-
| clusion that society must be made over
again almost from the bottom is a
truth of profound significance. While
some men and women-the perfume
tory and professional employees of the
various international religious agen-
cies-are concerned primarily with the
mere integrity of their own organ
izations. the real leaders are devoting
themselves to a conservation of the
ideals which are essential to the l!fe
OF human society. The present crisis
and cataclysm has driven them to a
| care for first principles.
Mhat World Leaders Are Thinking
among the startling convictions
emerging from the world turmoil is
the clear belief on the part of all re-
Hslous leaders that, since all CONT
nents. races and religions have gone
into wars melting pot, so out of II
must come actual, definite consid-
| Grafton of all the worlds people. The
sunday schools are no longer thinking
IN the terms of their own existing
organizations only; they are reckon
| ing with the hundreds of millions ~
children in Asia and Africa, and else
where who are at present entirely be-
/ yond the reach OF Christian training
but who will have a part in detern1in.
ing OF what sort the new world order
| is to be.
DR.. zwemer, the brilliant leader Of
| the world s Christian propaganda
among Moslems. reminded the men
at the New York dinner that there are
SO,OOO,O0O Moslem children TO he recl,1
cned with, whose present unsocial
condition will be intolerable in the
made-over world after the war. The
tnlportaLty INC among them, he said is from
90 10 ~ per cent. More than 80 per
cent. of Moslems are illiterate. Mo
| manned could not say Suffer little
Chlldren to come unto me-" He fold
story of little girl in mission
| school in Arabia who left >hooI at
! teseIi years OF age to be married.
| and returned, six months later, a di-
Vorced woman. This war of tba
! Kings" declared DIR. Zwemer. is of
minor consideration as compared with
the war of the King" --
with the Sunday schools of America
having their attention turned to the
children of the world: with a million
New New. Testaments being furnished by
them to soldiers on Europe's hattte,
fields: with the conviction as 70 tLoi.
responsibility for shaping the worlds
ideais OF a new generation uppermost
III the minds of Sunday school work
ers' this representative gathering in
New York may be called an encourag-
ing sign of the times.