The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-05-03

anu ISdrieSS cOHSeCTdtiOn 10 Quly, IudL
was the price of their purchase.
Thus are webeyond measure debtors to
those who died that we might enjoy our
blessings. The grandest monument our
country's defenders can have is a peace
full, prosperous and happy people.
Then let the land whose hearts they
saved from shame.
For many an age proclaim
Their ever loyal hero's fame,
With honor, eternal to their name"
But while it is proper that we be not
unmindful of this debt. we must not
forget the greater debt we owe our
King, the God of battles, whose curse
has fallen upon the coward and the
hYpocrite. We owe Him life, liberty,
happiness and the blessings of religion.
To secure for US the privileges and
priceless blessings we have, He laid
down His life.
Shall we refuse Him the gratitude of
our hearts, the devotion of our lives and
our sincerest affection and most hearty
service. We owe it to Him, first of all
to enlist under His banner and having
done that to fight the good fight of
faith, pressing on toward the prize of
the high calling in Christ Jesus" lest
greater curse fall upon moral cowardice,
which holds US back from enllsting. A
call for volunteers for life has gone
forth from the eternal throne. There
will be no drafting or compulsory
service required-but though the war
fare is arduous, good wages and great
rewards are promised. The enemy is
active, shall we enter his ranks, or re-
fuse to aid our Captain to whom we be-
long. The enemy resorts to all kinds
of warfare, and is more relentless than
the U-Boat warfare that is a disgrace
to civilized nations, If God is dethron-
ed; if religion is destroyed and infidelity
is allowed to sway its iron scepter over
the nations. then scenes like those of
the French revolution, or in some of
the modern nations now, will be enacted;
our countrys honor will be stained, her
banner trailed in the dust aud her
citizens will fairly wade in blood. These
are the possibilities of the future. May
we never see that day-nor witness
such things-yet we may, we will see 1t,
if the nation forgets her dependence
upon the Lord, and forsakes the God of
her fathers. We shudder at the
thought of war 1t is fearful calamity
and nothing but the steInest necessity
can ever justify it, yet the triumph of
error, anarchy and oppression is a
greater calamity, and as in nature
violent thunder storms are necessary
at times to clear the atmosphere and
relieve stagnation, 80 nothing short of
the carnage of war and the thieves of
the nation, will suffice to purify the
moral sense, clear the mental vision and
deliver the nation from bondage and
corruption and leap into a new and
higher career of integrity and pros
perity. Christianity is eminently patri-
otto. Religion as we'll as sentiment
sanctions the love of country. Every
where and in all ages the church has
been foremost in response to the call
of patriotism IN behalf of justice, liberty
and righteousness.
AS we recall the valiant deeds Of
heros, let us pray for a greater
baptism of patriotic sentiment and life
Maryland Preparedness and Sur
vey Commission.
To aid in meeting the shortage of
farm labor throughout the State. the
Maryland Preparedness and Survey
Commission created last week a Farm
Labor Bureau Committee, with w. H.
Manss, head of the Industrial Depart
ment of the B. & o. R. r. as Chairman,
and composed chiefly of men who are
closely in touch with the supply of labor
in Baltimore City.
At the first meeting, held April 18th,
N. M. Parrot, of the Advertising Club
of Baltimore, was elected Secretary,
and committees were appointed to be-
gin at once the various phases of the
work.
A census will at once be taken of the
farm labor situation. Blanks for this
purpose are beng sent to every County
Agent, to be filled out by the farmers,
and returned to the County Agent, who
with the Chairman of County Agents
Advisory Committee of County Pre-
paredness and Survey Commission will
act as local County Committee to CO.
operate with Baltimore Headquarters.
Meanwhile an extensive publicity
campaign is to be started in Baltimore.
Volunteers for farm work will apply to
the United States Employment Ser
vice. which is earnestly cooperative in
the work. The intention is to have this
bureau at the city end, and the county
agent at the county end act as the 60
between for the distribution of the help
among the farmers as needed.
This work is under way, and will be