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


holy ambition of conquest, but on
the mission of rescue" True and
ecelleat as far as it goes, but is
taore not Tor them the higher com
pensa ion Of living, vital faith in a
future immortality?Further he says;
''The soldiers want to pay" Up to
October %, men of the U. S. army
| had subscribed on the second Liberty
Loan sci, ,45O. Splendid loyalty
and economy. But do the men in
arms not need to pray as we'll as to
pay?
4 vast work never before in his
tory has SO much been done for the
soldiers on all sides as in the present
war. The churches and Y. M. G. A.,
in all the camp towns, and in the
camps, and at the front are minister
ing to the whole soldier, physical,
educational, social and religious.
Writing desks are always crowded
evenings by the boys who are writ
ing home There is in each building
piano, usually a photograph, always
a moyong picture equipment, books
magazines, and papers, post office
and savings bank and $4,000 was sent
home from one camp in day.
But That is not all. Every We'd
nesday morning the war camp Y. NJ.
G. A, secretaries and the 80 or more
ministerial workers meet at some Y.
Nj. c. A. headquarters for counsel
and prayer, and are usually enter
tanned by some church for noon
lunch, and get in touch with the
religious work for the soldiers"
A minister who had been granted
three months service in the camp by
his church told this incident. you
know he said, that a part of my
duties is to sell postage stamps in the
evenings to the soldiers Now that |
does net seem a work of much signi-
fcance; and yet d homesick boy came !
TO the counter the other evening and.
after a few words together, we
went out together under the starry
skies Of the night, and that home
sick boy was led to pledge his life
% the Lord Jesus
Shall we not all take the following f
o heart? A general secretary said:
What we want our secretaries to
'ealize, and the Christians to realize,
$ that the soldiers-these boys who
nave gone out from our home to go
INTO this awful world-war-fully 1
NOW what they have gone into, and
of them wants our help
'hey want our help to fight the hard
st battle they have got to fight-the
'attle against self They want help
o know God and in the future life.
me Of them graphically expressed it
o me in a little confidential talk
yo were having together the other
Yening I tell you, he said L
want to know where | am going
hen come to die
And to help the soldier boys in .
he terrible battle against sin and !
Elf as well as to help them know
he life eternal, is surely the task
.hich not only faces the Y. M. C. A.
orkers in the army camps and the ]
hurches of Washington, but the
people of America from one
aean to the other" !
And the boys at home, and the !
iris, in behalf of our children, let {
e appeal to you, fathers, mothers, !
en-, women, lovers of your kindred ]
esh of your flesh for other mothers I
nd fathers, sons and daughters, for I
ONE and native land and all lands, !
n time and eternity, for humanity
I'd God, let us answer according to I
lie gracious will of Christ his ques- i
on: ]
What shall it profit man if he I
lin the whole world and forfeit his \
yn soul life?"