Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-10
The Responsibility is Vast.

ii we take a million young men
cut Of their homes, he continues, and
give them no consideration, leaving
them to find their way in these un-
tried problems, and when the war is
over, scatter them over the country
with all the things they have learned
and ought not to have learned, we
shall have lowered the whole level
of the moral life of this nation in a
way that we cannot afford to do. AS
a consequence there is thrown upon
our cities and villages, thrown
upon our ordinary citizens, the great
task OF making the environments of
military camps wholesome and stimu-
lating
The Government has spoken. Lis
ten to the voice Of the power behind
the thrown, the united motherhood
of our land. That it might awaken
the fatherhood of our land from its
apathy.
You tell us that you are going
to draft our sons for this awful war"
these mothers said in effect. Very
well. We are patriots too, and we
will not hold them back. But there
y one proviso which MUST be made.
From the battle fields of France. and
from the homes of Canada, we have
heard horrible stories of a leprosy of
sin that. to our view, far outstrips
the horrors Of war We saw what |
happened to some of our own boys
on the Mexican border last year, and |
in some of the training camps We, |
that in the new army our boys be
protected from those horrors, or we |
will be driven to say with that
French mother who had seen her son
soiled and scared with sin, and who
In her agony declared she could
never forgive her government yea,
verify, il our sons are not protected,
we shall never forgive our govern
ment. The appeal was not lost. Not
only did President Wilson put the
government back of the Y NJ. C. A,
out he created the Commission on
Training Camp Activities.
Second Indication Of the Coma State.
o. World Miasma: The Paralysis
Of Interest with Reference to a
Future Life.
A lecture on morality dwelt on the
Indifferent, lethargic, attitude OF the
multitude toward the whole problem
of future life Another has point
I'd to the changed or changing at
.itude of the Christian laity toward
leath. Their solicitude was less
about the future, with whatever it
night bring, than about the well
ARE Of those they left behind. Or.
feorge 4. Gordon Of Boston said
We ministers know as no other per-
iOns in the community what L
paralysis has come over intelligent
md thinking people in regard to the
eality of the other life. SO many
Ioubt it; so few have any strong I
ontdence in regard to it" But it q
$ asked what is being done, or can / T.
e done to shake this generation out
+ its lethargy on this point
In all the excellent solicitude for y
he soldier boys, to furnish them
wholesome entertainment, and praise
hem for their valor, how much is
eing done and how much more
hould be done to give them sustain
ng faith through the gospel in God a
nd the comforts of future life
hen they are dying by the thousands
nd even millions, To quote Secre-
airy Baker again, when | visit the
amps in which our drafted men are -,
eng trained, he said Il know that y,
ONE of these boys will die on the
attic fields of the great war. But O.
here is a compensation in the know O,