The Detroit times., 1917-10-30

bT William ' . Lilo
/ once year the attention OF all
Protestant churches. everywhere on
the globe. is directed 20 the subject
of temperance N its broader rela-
tions One Sunday in November IS
designated as Worlds temperance
Sunday" and the regular course OF
international Sunday School lessons
Is interrupted 90 make way FOR H.
The study is less a study OF a Scrip
ture passage thar of topic
Thrust into the foreground Of alt
the worlds thinking by the exigen.
cies OF war. the temperance question
has made greater strides in the past
three years than in the preceding
600 yenrs. There has been real
revolution in mems attitude toward
| g. Stern reality has lifted the sub
jeCt entirely ouj OF the realm ot
theory II is now seen 20 touch tn
very vitals OF national existence.
High Motives for Ordinary Life
The fact ia undeniable that Chris
tianity brings 10 bear upon the race
new impulses. and erects within tn'
spirits OF mankind new ideals
There IS nothing irrational in q
Worlds temperance Sunday" for
the church and sunday school In
| this thev arc strictly attending to
their own business For the gospe
| has 10 do with the ordinary rela
tionships of human beings II is in
the business OF creating new men
and women Cleanness. sobric' y.
chastity, sclfdeni5l. have been car
dinal to its teachings As se let
ters OF Paul make clear Christian
ity stands for = type Of chsractel
I'm contrast 10 that OF the old. disso
lutte nations
This T. vividly brought HON
The traveller n bible lands why IT,
II that these once four,shing citic.
proud Ephesua where Diana vas
splendidly worshlped. Sardls. whe~,
| Crocsgs roifned lconum. which
bonsted OF being tho Grst spot ic
emerge from the deluse are nov o.
interest chiefly FOR their ruins
What laid low the power ~ thi'
proud Rome | asked myself A. M.
hors" logged down tho cchctne ma p
bic highway. Uttered with brok 3
columns at Ephesus. while the onl
habitstion in sigh' was q shepherd
hut n Nas self-indulgrnce ROM
did as ~ pleased and IL nov bJ
a memory Christianity taught pur
ity. selfdenial. love end TO- ~ reign
IN increasing power over ths er'afn.
pef, Of fhs caTTh. The ciliow youtt
who snoers a. tho old-fHshloned vir
tucs of his mothers religion. shouit
go 10 nc library and &C. volun
of general history No drunken
scltpieaslng nation ever had lorf
lie Tho reason the outlook FOR iht
Turkish empire seems dark 90 ma :,
close observers IL that tho pc0pl,
| Themselves arc no. noble. broad
minded purc-souled and fraterns'
Very divergent forces nave been
az work. In many different ways. to
overthrow the drinking customs Ot
aEss. There IL first the open ssssul,
and direct charge " the regular TEN.
peraloe army with all its divisions
and weapons. It's big guns and its
small arms These have taken post
tion after position and have been 10
the stress of hand-tohand conflict
They are the main reliance of fh,
| besiegers.
The sappcrs and miners tave be n
a work. also, by a paNeHi process
of education tunneling under tfe
very foundations Of the migaty iu
stitution. More than one mino he
been exploded with disastrous r.
sults BY these skillful Warriors The
| feet % literature has bombarded ile
forts from where ii rides IN he
ofhng Great authors and modern
! newspaper. alike have uourcd hot