The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-06

of the presence and
power of God"
s. ITO hearten those who go to the
front and to comfort the loved ones
at home"
6. ITO care for the welfare of the
young men in the army and navy, that
they may be fortified in character and |
made strong to resist temptation"
z. ITO unite in fellowship of SER
vice in building up the waste places as
soon as peace shall come"
On this Thanksgiving-hOw impor-
tant it is that the church realize that /
we are facing a new world situation
freighted with grave responsibilities.
Today, it is a shaken world. 1t is
shaken to it's very base. Foundations
are slipping. Nations of the far east
that were once fixed like the plaster
on the walls are becoming plastic;
the old molds are being broken; those
civilizations are to be recast and are
ready to be recast in new molds-
shall they be recast in Christian or
pagan mOlds?
We are being told that Europe is in
the melting pot. Even in lands like
Russia and Turkey, the church is fac
ing a new world. Old things are pass
ing away All things are becoming
new not because of magic or chance,
/ because
tan churches there shall come SUI
ficient leadership to take hold of the
nations and recast them in Christian
Imolds and lead them out into the new
ago.
We are facing a burdened world, a
world over burdened Old burdens are
light in contrast to the burdens to-
day. The interest on the debts as
ISOLATED with this war, will soon ex-
hn
tions. Impossible burdens are hung
about the neck of these nations, the
like of which the human race has new
| err known Under such an impossible
strain is it any wonder that it is snap
ping-why, it is not in man to sus-
tain such burdens.
We are told that the 20 great wars
of the last 125 years cost about TWEEN
ty-two billions of dollars. This war
has already cost eighty billions OF dol
lars.
The United States in the last session
of congress made appropriations au-
thorizing the expenditures of nineteen
lbillions-almost as much as the cost
of the wars of 125 years proceeding
this one. Each day the war expendi-
lures exceed one hundred and thirty
millions of dollars. 1t is suffering
world. Who can trust himself to eX-
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fering peoples in stricken countries
within the war zone?
That our supplicatiOns may be, that
God may summoned the church to en-
ter into fellowship with the suffering
of this generation.
We frequently hear men and women
saying: 81 do not allow myself tc
read about the horrors of the war,
cannot stand it. 1 cut it out Of my
reading"
Imagine Jesus saying that.
We must enter into fellowship-w(
must read until we enter into fellow
ship.
While we are enjoying the privileges
of this day, either in our churches OF
comfortable homes-do we remember
that not less than five million boy
and men lie stretched on beds of pair
in the military and naval hospitals o.
Europe? Do we stop to reflect that il
these hospitals are the greatest con
centration of pulsating, vibrating hui
man pain ever known in the world
One writer tells of his visit to Mos
COW, where he saw twelve hundred
military hospitals, all filled with the
wounded, some so crowded that the,
had to take beds out in the court
yards and backyards.
Hear his words: eff you had stood
by my she ana seen Ile Oiu men an
young women and little children try
ing to handle with such tenderness
these manned, shattered bodies, ther'
would have been borne into you
minds a new connation of the phrase
center into fellowship with suffering.
, Officers and men as they are Gu
down by shell and sword gasp, as hi
last words, what will my wife ant
Z children do now?" Believe me, it is
suffering world. Truly, it has beel
said: I'VE know little about Bel
GUM" And Serbia. and Roumanis
, their people nearly all driven out. w
= have heard a little about Arment
, with one hundred thousand massacreC
and nine hundred thousand exiled,
: fate worse than massacre. We hav
d heard of fifty thousand young wome
e that had to chose between slavery an