Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1916-12-15

81 told that officer to explain to
you fully that, while religious SER
vices along the usual lines were con-
Quoted III the camps by chaplains
and other clcrgymen, and were wei
coined, could not give my consent to
.hc holding of REVEALS, therein Civ
ing the word, as ! was justified in
ioing, its usually accepted meaning.
{ told Colonel Bainum to explain to
you why revival services would be
cut of place in Il military camp, cit
hg the disgraceful performance in
San Antonia last winter MS an ex-
nipple OF what rcvivals are apt to de-
vclop into and drawing to certain
extent on Il general knowledge as tn
tow REVEALS or "protractod" meetings
rs they are sometimes called, are us
laily conducted.
81 further instructed Colonel Bar
mum to say TO you that | did not nc
cept, in fact, resented the implica-
non that because 4 man had put on
his country's uniform, he was nee
essarily lost, or worse than other
men, that thought there were people
who stayed at home who needed reviv-
ais worse than the soldiers did.
Was AslOnished.
"Under the circumstances YOU can
my astonishment when /
read your statement to the effect
that | had said that | would not al
low the soldiers to be told that thev
were lost. You must know, as we'll
as do, that the doctrine that should
be preached TO tho men was never
once considered or mentioned, and
with all due courtesy, ! fell compell-
cd to say that your making repeated
ly the statements you arc quoted as
is absolutely ineXcusable, and
did me Il grave injustice.
The only time the word lost was
used by me was when / said that |
did not accept the view that because
Il man put on his country's uniform
he was necessarily lost.
u say frankly that would not
want to take chances of allowing a
series OF rcvivals or protracted meet
ingS IN these great camps. am jus-
tilted in giving the word REVEALS its
usually accepted meaning-a series OF
meetings continued day and night for
an indefinite period with loud eXhorta-
tlon and singing and much emotion
alism.
Men Have Rights.
"How about the rights of men
who do not want to attend revivals
and who do not wish to be disturbed
by them? Are thy to be compelled
to leave the camp, which is their
home, and wander about downtown,
or through fields TO get away from
them? Has man no rights because
he is a soldier? There are MANY re-
iigous people who disapprove strongly
of REVEALS with their attendant emo
tionalism. And, anyhow. be a man
religious or irreligous, be he Chris
ton or Hebrew or Mohammedan, no
other person has n right to rub his
belief or his worship into his face,
that is, to bring it into the place
where he has right to be and where
he cannot escape from it without
abandoning that place.
Soldiers must be protected from
imposition by their superior officers
and If these officers, from weakness
or other reason, fail in their duty
Their only reasonetao ctao etao eta
their onl y recourse is submission or
riot; and 1t is safe guess that the
latter Is what you would have got
with typical, old-fashioned revival
I'm any one of the camps.
Every regiment has its chaplain,
and these practically represent every
Christian denomination = many of
these chaplains are Baptists. They
regularly hold services in the camps.
but at the proper time and along the
usual lines, just as services are ordi-
narlly held in churches.
Not Religious Dictator.
by the way, does it not seem
queer to you that | have never indi-
Gated to anyone Of them that he
should not preach to the men that