The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-31

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and the call has come to our great ma
ton to unite In battle In defense of
right. In every nook and corner OF
our country the call has sounded that
/ our men shall assemble to fight for de-
mocracy, for justice and for righteous
ness for all the people. Every section.
every state, every city. every town,
every village has heard the summons
/ to ''come up to the help of the Lord,
/ to the help of the Lord against the
mighty" Who is indifferent to this
mighty conflict? who Is SO seif-cen-
tered, and so absorbed In personal and
I private matters and pleasure as to be
/ deaf to this call? who is filled with
! false humility and will not give aid
/ because he cannot do great Things!
! Who viii play the coward, ana SINK
/ back and shirk responsibility %niic
/ the battle is raging, which Is franght
! with such tremendous results not only
/ to our own people. but TO humanity the
! world over?
! Not Lack of Soldiers.
The call for troops has resulted In
a great outpouring of the choice young
men of our nation. who have left. their
I business and their homes. and gone
to the camps to be trained to render
effective service. Here and there there
I may be a ''shirker," real coward.
/ who is not willing to render service for
democracy and Righteousness. but
there is little question that there will
/ be found sufficient soldiers to repre-
sent our great nation on the battle
/ fields of Europe, or in the navy fight
ling for the freedom of the seas.
Not a Lack OF Money.
I Nor will there be any lack OF money
to buy guns, cannon, munitions OF war
/ and general supplies for the army. The
congress of the United States. which
represents the people, has appropriat-
1 ed huge sums of money for carrying
on the war, and the people are ac-
! cepting the increased taxation with
ready minds. and are purchasing the
| immense issues of liberty bonds.
| What Then Is Needed?
What is the special need OF the
| hour? One hesitates to emphasize ii.
| for it really seems too great reftec-
zion upon our people to suppose that
having done these things, they would
leave the other undone. The great
need of the hour is SEIIF-DENIAL
AND CARE IN THE USE OF FOOD.
! The appeal for food has come to our
people from the allied nations. BREAD
{ and MEAT. SUGAR and FAT. these
are the bullets which We are told will
freedom and righteousness today are
, WASTE AND SItLF-INDUIGENCE.
Save food. especially wheat, and beef,
and pork, and sugar. Eat other things
which will be equally as nourishing
and less expensive Follow the
apostolic injunction. st Paul gives us
! the rules of warfare: 81 therefore so
/ run not as uncertainty, so fight not
as one that aeateth~ the a!S.- but keen
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| lection To win the war in which we
i are engaged we must not cheat tho
mir" We cannot win by doing IN
necessary things no matter how many,
! or how difficult they may be.
Do the Needed Thing.
! We must find out what is essential.
and having discovered that we must
do that essential thing, even If some
other things are left undone. The
apostle declares the essential thing Is
to keep the body under and bring It
iirto subsection" and that is the call
to us as a people at this critical time.
We must control our appetites, we
must deny ourselves whatever indulg
ence of the flesh will stand in the
way of final or speedier victory. II
will be a very ea.y matter TO play the
part OF Meroz in this battle for more
bread and meat for our needy allies
We can refuse to respond to the call
of the government, We can be Meroz
tho ndifferent--utteriy needless OF the
great effort which our fellow country
men are making to save the absolute
Is necessary food supplies; we can be
Mcroz the Self-Centered--so entirely
absorbed in our own selfish plans in
tho indulgence of oar own appetites, IN
the qualification of our own senses,
} that we will decline to put ourselves
to any sort OF Inconvenience. or to
practice any form OF self-denial. In
short. we oen be Mcroz--the Shirker--
} hearing the call of Liberty, hearing
the call of Righteousness. hearing the
call of God. but utterly unwilling to
meet our individual responsibility. or
to set an example to others. or to put
forward our utmost efforts TO perform
; 1.-THE one special duty which has been
laid upon us In this awful crisis OF
+ the worlds history.
One Slice Less.
A slice of bread less for meal;
corn bread instead of wheat bread
! fish, oysters. eggs, rice, hominy. Pc
: tatoes, and other heavy vegetables in
A stead of beef and pork. a spoonful less
= of sugar at each meal; boiled and
( baked food instead of fried; buckwheat
E cakes instead of wheatcakes: these
4 are some OF the forms of self-denial
which we are called upon to practice
: How relatively small and Insignificant
they are compared with the sacrifice
i even unto death. which is being made
by the choicest and best OF our homes
What father or mother. what sister OF
= brother, what friend of the soldiers Ii
a the camp can fail to measure up tc
this duty? Who win play the part oil
Meroz in this emergency? Who viii
not gladly overcome the old habits OF
Wastefulness and over-eating? Who
u will not surrender some specially liked
=, article of food?
Let us all as a united people re.
spond to this call, keep our bodies un.
der, bring them into subsection, con
troll our appetite, exercise prudence
r and care. and thus 40 our part Il
. save the food which is to help to max,
the world safe for democracy and
= Righteousness.
can abstract of talk by DR.. James
Cannon, Jr., to the students of Black.
stone college on Sunday night. Octo-
C Der rs, concerning the right attitud,
of all citizens OF the nation toward the
Y present world war;.
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