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The Washington herald., 1917-11-11

and humble themselves as their lit
tie children, and they shall all be
saved with their little children. And
their little children need no repent
ance, neither baptism. Behold, bap-
tlSm is unto repentance to the full
hlllng the commandments unto the
remission of sins. But little children
are alive in Christ. even from the
foundation of the world. Lit
tie cnildren cannot repent: wherefore
1t Is awful wickedness to deny the
pure melcies of God unto them, for
, they are ali alive in him because of
his mercy. And he that saith, that
little children need baptism, denieth
the mcrc.es of Christ, and setteth at
nouGht the atonement of him and the
power of his redemption" (Book of
Mormon, Moroni, S:S-2O.)
So proclaims the Church of Jesus
. Christ of Latter-day Saints to the
world today. Faith in God, repent
ance of sin, baptism by water and of
the Spirit, are required of every soul
that comes to years of accountability
and powers of comprehension; but
without faith and repentance, of
which only understanding minds are
capable, baptism is but a perversion
VI tle NOSftl ordnance.
The Scriptures relating to baptism
in all ages and of all peoples are in
harmony as to the conditions essen
tlal TO the proper reception of the
SAVING rite. In revelation on
church government given through
Joseph Smith, the prophet, in April,
1870. the Lord Jesus Christ thus de
lned the status of acceptable candi-
dates for baptism:
"All those who humble themselves
before God, and desire to be baptized
and come forth with broken hearts
and contrite spirits, and witness be-
fore the church that they have truly
repented of all their sins. and are
willing to take upon them the name
OF Jesus Christ, having a determine
uon to serve him to the end, and
truly manifest by their works that
they have received of the Shirt of
Christ unto the remission of their
sins, shall be received by baptism
into his Church." Doctrine and
Covenants, 2O:30.
These conditions exclude all who
have not reached the age and ca
pacity of discretion and understand
ing; and by specific commandment
the Lord has forbidden the church
10 adfninister baptism to others:
NO one can be received into the
church of Christ, unless he has ar
rived unto the years of accounta-
bility before God, and is capable of
repentance" (Verse ~
BY revelation the Lord has desig-
mated eight years as the age at
whlcn children may be baptized into
the Church. At an earlier age, how
ever children are to be brought %
the elders Of the church, and be
blessed by the laying on of hands in
the name of Jesus Christ, after the
pattern set by the Master in the
course Of His personal ministry.
FOR the Book of Mormon, Doctrine
ana Covenants, and other literature
OF the Church of Jesus Christ Of Lat
ter-day Saints, apply to any of the
missions or the Church, among which
are: Eastern States Mission, 1l4O Bed
lord avenue. Brooklyn. N. Y, and
CITY Utah.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
THE TOWN CRIER.

Cha les A. Douglas will lecture to
the postgraduate class Of the
American Institute of Banking to-
morrow night in the chapter rooms.
1914 F street northwest His sub
ject will be Economic and Finan-
cial Problems in Mexico"
The Bahai Assembly of Washing
ton has announced a special service
in 'commerlorstion of the Tooth an
niyersGry Of the birth of Baha'o'l-
lah- d.. Hills Cole. of New York.
will sreak in Studio Hall. 1919 Con-
necticut avenue. this evening at
Sis o'clock.
Arrangements for an artists ball
for the benefit of needy families of
District soldiers and sailors will be
discussed ct a meeting of the en-
tertainmcnt committee and chair
men of all committees of the Arts
Club this evening at 8 o'clock 1t
has been suggested to use as a
basic idea for the ball the sculp-
tural model of THE Spirit of 1917"
Phe Pincy Branch Citizens Asso-
ciot.on will meet tomorrow night at
s O'clock at Iowa Avenue Church,
Fourteenth and Emerson streets.
There will be a special meeting
of the membership committee of the
Roard of Trade in the rooms of the
board at 1915 o'clock tomorrow
sftCFnOon. New members for the
year to date number 262 and 1t is
hoped that enough will be obtained
to equal the record of 300 set by
last years membership committee
Second precinct of the Home De-
fense Lee que held it's rifle practice
Ts1r e
range under Polls Theater Messrs.
Whitley. Payne, Martin and White
qualified as marksmen.
"The CO-Operative Commonwealth
in the Light of History is the title
OF an address to be made by Samuel
Saloman .at the meeting of the
Washington Secular League at
Pythian Temple today at p m. A
general discussion will follow.
Examination for registration of
nurses is to be held by the nurses
training board OF the District of
Columbia Wednesday. December IL.
Applications must be in before No
vember IS to Helen W. Gardner
secretary and TREASURER. 1887 K
street.
A meeting of the Young Mems
Hebrew Association is to be held
this afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at the
association quarters. 1347 Pennsyl-
vania avenue. Nominations and
elections to NIL the offices of record
ing secretary, sergeant-at-arms and
several vacancies on the executive
committee will be the principal
business. One Of the members also
will be elected to represent the as
sociation on the executive board of
the Middle Atlantic States Fedora
tion.
\ The Young womcn's Hebrew As
sociation is to hold open house at
its headquarters at Fourteenth and
U streets tonight. beginning at 8
o'clock.
A meeting of Trinity Guild Is to
be held tomorrow evening at 81
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Joseph
Koons. the Senate Hotel
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
SOCIETY
TO HEAR NOTED men
Seasons Lecture Program Includes
Many Distinguished Names.

Travel. science. art. exploration.
diplomacy and war are to be the
topics of distinguished speakers
who will address the 5000 Wash
ington members of the National
Geographic Society on Friday after
Moons and evenings. beginning No
vember l and continuing until
April IL.
Among the eminent public speak
ers who will be heard in the New
Masonic Temple. Thirteenth street
and New York avenue, are: Former
President William Howard Taft; Sir
George H. Reid. former premier of
the Australian Commonwealth; Ar
thur Guy Empsy. a machine gun
sergeant who has become an inter
national celebrity as the author of
over the Top" DR.. Franklin z.
Hoskins, of the American Mission
Press. Beirut. Syria: James F.
Griggs, noted scientist and leader of
the Geographic Society's 1917 ex-
pedition to the Mount Katmai vol
canic region: Maj. Granville Fortes-
cue and Maj. Stanley Washburn. of
the United States national army;
Capt. A. Radcliffe Dugmore, of the
British army; NJ. Stephane Lau-
zanne, chief editor OF Frances
greatest daily. LIE Matin: Frederick
Walcott. of the Food Administra-
tion; Emery Pottle. author and lee
turer; Frederick c. Hicks, member
of Congress now in France; E. NJ.
Newman. traveller and lecturer; Nor
man McClintock. naturalist and
photographer of wild game. and Roy
C. Andrews, who recently pene-
trated to previously unexplored re-
gions of China. Tibet and Burma.
Practically all the lectures will be
illustrated. chiefly with motion pic
lures. Two remarkable series of
Italian war front scenes and of jap
anese views will be special features.
The lectures will be given at 4:45
o'clock Friday afternoons and re-
peated. with a single exception,
Friday evenings at Sis o'clock.
This has been found necessary. as
there is no auditorium in Washing
ton sufficiently large to accommo-
date at one time all the members Of
the society desiring to attend.
There will be no lectures on Decem-
ber 2I and 2S
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
ARE BABES TO BE DAMNED?
A HORRIBLE MISCONCEPTION,
BY DIR. JAMES T.. TALMAGE,
the Twelve, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Dav
Salt Lake City, Utah.

We have seen that baptism is es-
sential to individual salvation. But
baptism is enjoined as an indispensa-
BILE requisite to remission of sins, and
as the one and only gate of admission
to the Church of Jesus Christ or the
Kingdom of God. Faith in God and
genuine repentance are prerequisites
to effective baptism. In all consist
ency and justice, therefore, baptism
can be required of those only who
are capable of exercising faith and
of rendering repentance.
The undeveloped mind of a babe Is
incapable OF conceiving sin, of expe-
riencing faith, or of comprehending
repentance. Why then should babes
be baptized?
We search in vain for scripturai
authority or sanction of the practise
of infant baptism. Christ took little
children into His arms and blessed
Them, saying to those who would
have kept the innocents from Him
Suffer little children, and forbid
,hem not, to come unto me: for of
such is the kingdom of heaven" d"
Matt. 19:14)
But He did not baptize them; and,
as an early writer has tersely re-
marked: From the action of Christs
blessing infants. to infer they are to
be baptized, proves nothing so much
as that there is a want OF better
argument; for the conclusion would
with more probability be derived
thus: Christ blessed infants, and so
dismissed them, but baptized them
not; therefore infants are not to be
baptized"
What immeasurable horror attaches
to the conception that infants who
die unbaptized are numbered with
the damned! Nevertheless this fright
full thought has overshadowed the
minds of men for centuries. Babes
are born sinless, notwithstanding the
unuscriptural dogma that they come
into the world attainted from orig
inal sin; they have had no chance
in the flesh to stray from the fold,
and require no ceremony of admis-
sion to the kingdom, to which, on
the word of the Saviour Himself,
they rightfully belong. The practise
of baptizing babes was unknown in
the ancient apostolic period; and not
until centuries later did the un-
scriptural custom become general.
claimed the word of the Lord, in an
epistle to his son, Moroni:
Listen to the words of Christ, your
Redeemer, your Lord and your God.
Behold, 1 came into the world not to
call the righteous, but sinners to re-
pentance: the whole need no physi-
clan, but they that are sick; where
fore little children are whole, for
they are not capable of committing
sin; wherefore the curse of Adam is
taken from them in me, that it hath
no power over them; and the law of
circumcision is done away in me.
And after this manner did the Holy
Ghost manifest the word of God unto
me: wherefore my beloved son, l
know that 1t is solemn mockery be-
fore God, that ye should baptize lit
tie children. Behold / say unto you,
that this thing shall ye teach, re-
pentance and baptism unto those who
are accountable ana capable of COM
mitting sin; yea. teach parents that
thsy must repent and be baptized.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11

impede the progress Of the advance
of the hosts of Sisera; they simply
came not up to the help of the Lord
against the mighty. Their sin was
negative, and yet the curse of AL
mighty God fell upon them Just as
though they had been open enemies
battling against Israel with Jabin,
king of Canaan, and Sisera, COM
mander-in-chief Of his armies.
The curse was not Gods curse. 1t
was Gods declaration as to what al
ways happens to people who are in
different to the cause Of right, who
Join neither one side nor the other in
the battle OF the true against the
false, Of right against wrong, of lib
erty against tyranny, OF mercy and
peace and freedom against oppression,
prosecution and slavery.
1t Is a pity that the race of slack
ers did not become extinct at the
time of Deborah's song.
What are you doing in the great
battle which the world is waging to-
day to help the cause of God and hu-
manity against the mighty but saw
age enemies of Gods children? It
only requires that you should be neu-
trail in order to make you subject, and
Justly subject, to the curse against
the Inhabitants of Meroz-yea, the
bitter curse, because you do not take
sides with noble men and women of
our land and the soldiers and sailors
and marines among the people who
have so willingly and so gloriously
offered themselves.
Scriptures for Today.
The Old Testament Scriptures were
not written for past ages only. They
were written for the present and
almost always have an application to
the present and future, too. In the
present great world war, this Arma-
geddon, where the hosts of God are
lined up against the hosts of Satan,
the church Is one OF the most DO
tent factors to inspire patriotism, to
encourage the weak-hearted, to COM
fort the anxious loved ones left at
home, to ashland, yes, thank God,
to obtain through the united prayers
OF her people. Gods help on our
side. II this be true. what of those
who stand neutral as the church
neutral as to material help, common
worship with their fellows In Gods
house Sunday after Sunday, and in
the use Of the church's sacraments
prescribed by the Son of the Living
God as the strengthening power and
the sustaining food of man and wom-
an in every time of need? Are they
slackers, too? Should the curse of
Meroz fall upon them?
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
CUT OUT CANDY
Which CAUSES
SUGAR FAMINE
Food Administration Gives
Out Interesting Facts Re-
garding Sweets"

The sugar used for making candy
IN the United States, according to
the best information that could be
obtained by the United States Food
Administration, is sufficient to meet
all the sugar requirements of Eng
land under the rationing standard
adopted there.
II the people of the United States
would cut out the eating Of candy.
the sugar so saved would be more
than SUFFICIENT to meet all the sugar
requirements of France, the Food
Administration says
II one-half the sugar used in the
making of candy in this country in
1911 could have been saved, 1t would
have been sufficient to meet the
sugar requirements of Italy for
year under that country's present
sugar standard.
Would Keep Belgium.
The money spent for candy in the
United States in the past year is
nearly double the amount of money
needed to keep Belgium supplied with
food for a year.
OF the total sugar consumption of
the United States, according to the
best estimates obtainable. about one
third goes into the manufacturing OF
various foOdstuffs, including confec-
tionery, while the remainder is con-
sumed as sugar. The amount of sugar
employed in the making of confec-
tionery is variously estimated from
10000 to 81, ,0O0 tons per year. There
has been compiled no absolutely &C
curate data from which the exact
amount may be determined. but a
conservative estimate would place this
at somewhere about 10000 tons per
annum.
The confectionery business of the
country. measured by the value of its
prodrct. is about two-thirds as large
as the butter business; a little less
than one-third as large as the wheat
fi8ur business; slightly larger than
the canning and preserving of fruits;
and about tvO-ffths as large as the
bakery business.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
Y. M. H. A. WILL BALLOT.

A meeting of the Young Mems
Hebrew Association will be held at
headquarters this afternoon at $3.50
o'clock.
There will be elections to the Offices
or recording secretary, sergcant-at-
arms and executive committee, va
Gated by the departure of incum-
bents for various BRANCHES of wa
service.
Capt Rostrand. OF the French
army will deliver lecture on Life
In the Trenches on the Western
Front"
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
SEEKS ALLIANCE
OF ALL MUSICIANS

John c. F'reund. editor of Musical
America. will address the Arts Club
the evening of November Is on THE
Issue Before Us In Music"
The organization of the musicians
of this country into an effectively CO.
operating body will be advocated by
Mr.. Freund, who belives such an al
lance would gain a more complete
recognition of music as an essential
Of the nations life.
Mr.. Freund estimates that there are
more than two million people actively
engaged in musical activities and
s1Oo, 100000 spent annually for music
in the United States.
Willard Howe, a musical critic, will
preside at the dinner. Miss Mary A.
Cryder and Mrs. Felix Garziglia will
be hostesses. Miss Mary Helen Howe,
soprano, will sing several selections.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Service Com
mission has announced an examina-
ton for Alexandria County. Virginia.
in Washington, December 8, to fill
the position of rural carrier at East
Falls Church, Va. The examination
will be open only to male citizens
domiciled in the territory of a post
Office in the county. Application
blanks may be obtained from the
Civil Service Commission. Washing
ton
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
2,500,000 Pounds of Beet
Sugar to Be Shipped

Word was received today by the
Sugar Division of the United States
Food Administration that 5000 bags
or 100000 pounds, of beet sugar will
be shipped next week from the beet
sugar districts.
This sugar will be consigned to New
England States and will be distributed
where sugar is most needed. The
distribution will be under the direc-
tion of the American Refners Com
mittee of the Food Administration.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
CUbAN'PoSTAL
SWINDLE NETS
100000 IN us.
Money Order Counterfeiter,
Who Drew on False
Credits, Arrested.

The Postoffice Department has un-
covered a swindling scheme employ
ing a counterfeit Cuban postal money
order. through which a large number
Of American business establishments
have been defrauded of about 800, 900.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Dockery yesterday received this notice
from Charles Hernandez, director of
posts at Havana:
Jose Linares, purporting to be
Francisco Vega Echememdia. forger
money orders, arrested yesterday San
tiago by p. o. Inspector Jesus La
torre. Printing establishment with
forged money orders, mail connection
with forgery. In our possession"
Simple System Used.
The system used by Lnares, who
formerly was employed in the Cuban
Postoffice Department, was to send
forged money orders to big business
firms In the United States on the
pretext that he contemplated making
purchases from their establishments
and asking to have the amosat of the
money orders placed to his credit.
He announced incidentally that he
might draw on the firms against a
part Of the credit SO established
These forged money orders were
usually for about 5000 each.
1t was invariably Linares' practice.
after having the money orders placed
to hisrcredit, to make draft upon the
firms for an amount less than the
money order. For instance, IL the
money order placed TO his credit was
for 5000 he would make draft for
$500 or $500.
Fifty Firms SwIndIed.
In this manner he succeeded In
swindling 50 or more large firms. The
fraudulent operations netted him more
than 10000.
When the fact that counterfeit
Cuban money orders were being issued
was brought to the attention of the
Postoffice Department, Mr.. Dockery
instituted Investigations and notified
postmasters not to cash orders of a
serial number above $4,000. Through
the inspectors service Linares was ar
rested in Cuba
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11

Bee Hive Store. g6 7ih st.; LrinsSton's uen's
wear. 2s 9Th St; Loeb ComTsny. hdies' suiu,
coats aud millinery 5lf Tth st.; S. Louis. -bo-s.
eo4 7th st.; MertI a MeTtI. tsiloFs. ss Y -. /;
S. y. Meyer. Millinery Shop. l5I 2 st.; The
MODE. clothiers. llth and r SIS; McCroy &c
and l0c stores; r. Milton Ney. ladies' outhtteT.,
sOl Pa. ave: oppcnheimer'S, swing machines.
sth and E Sts-; Saks a Co. men's and boyt'
outftters 7th St and Ia. ave; n. Samuel.
ladies suits and dresses % r s.: Schlosbsfs
Bros Faultles Clothes Shop. K fth ~. /:
schmedtie Bros. SeSeiers. 7d 9Th q; ]. Small,
hardware, rs 9TH st.; Snyder a Little, sboes.
Igl y s.: Spalding sporting soods, as 18th
st.; Stielel millinery. iD G ST.: Sweater
Shop Tth ana b sts. Travers' Shoe Store SIC
1th 81: Whites outftteT 20 women. sls Y y.
NV wolfs wsIk-oveT Shoe shop. SO 81 nv.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11

Adler Son. shoes. 7O 9Th st. NV; Estene
S. Andrews. millinery. Ills St NV; Asso-
ciated Drts Store. 7th and sts. NV Castel-
beTgs. jewellers. s6 Pa. ave: ID. DerzSVitz,
hardware, 6l3 7th St: Eiseman Bros. SIS 7th St
and 1874 Pa. AVE.; Percy {. Foster. everything
musical. 1880 St; HnedlAnder Bros, clOthiers
snd habcrdasherS, IS 9Th ST.; Cans Co., milh-
nery. ZIG 7th st. nv; Goldsmith a Co. iewelry.
2c5 St I. haas 4 Co. tsilors, lZll Ia. ave. !;
Il. Harris, jewelry. 40 eth st.; Harris shop
csnen's wear. l21e F ST.: n. Hess Sons bench
made footEear. s5I ia. ave; Howard q Dean.
iinnorerz. 1909 T St: Irving Hat Company,
Hats That Top Them All. S5 Pa. ave; Charles
kaufman & Son. l5l 7th ST.; Il. kaufman. the
Store for Thrifty People, lsls 1th st.; Klein's
Horner. mems wear. 7th and E sts.; kohner.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
Three Chinese Fined
As Dealers in Opium

Three Chinese. all residents of low
er Pennsylvania avenue, arrested in a
raid by agents of the Department of
Justice two months ago as opium
dealers. were lectured and fined yes
terday by Justice Mccoy in Criminal
Court No. 2.
The men are Wong Ping, Lee Kong
and Wong Hong Kee. Wong was
fined 500. Lee $50 and Kee $50. Ea ch
paid his fines.
In addition to the fines Justice Nc
Coy sentenced each to serve two
years in the penitentiary but paroled
them
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
Not if II Is Well Digested. Take a
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet After
Meals and Prevent Heart
burn, Gas, Sour Ris-
ings and Heaviness.

Skipping from dainty food to the
rougher variety will surprise the
stomach in many cases. Coarser food
will not hurt any one If the digestion
is good, but most stomachs will need
help. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after
meals will digest the food, clear the
stomach and prevent dyspepsia, bad
breath, gastritis, catarrh of the stom-
ach, pains in bowels. nervousness,
heartburn, belching. bloating. etc.
These are the causes of muddy.
blotchy compilations in most cases.
No face creams can do any good.
Get a 5o-cent box of Stuart's Dyspep-
sia Tablets at any drug store. cor
rect the faults OF the stomach to re-
store the complexion to its natural
beauty.-Ady.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-11
ernors sof Israel who were with De-
borah and BaIak in the battle.
Laggurds and SIackers.

ernors sof Israel who were with De-
borah and BaIak in the battle.
Laggards and sIackers.
But she not only praises the worthy,
the patriotic, the brave; she denounces
the laggard and slackers: the shep-
herds OF Reuben, who had their
business to look after. remained in
the sheep to hear the bleatings Of
the flock" the dwellers in Gilead be-
yond Jordon, who remained in their
mountain Businesses safe from the
foe; and Dan, who continued their
work of shipping in the Mediteran-
mean; and Asher, who hid themselves
safely in the breaches of the rocks
by the seashore. She would have
been less than a woman, less than
patriot, had she not given the great
est praise to the men of Zebulun
and Naphtali who jeoparded their
lives unto the death, those Kings
who came and fought the Kings of
Canaan by the waters of Megiddo
and refused to take pay as soldiers
and left the money in the treasury
of the land that they loved.
In the center of the war zone was
the little city of MeroZ, small but
quite able to do it's bit in the battle
and perhaps under ordinary condi-
tions to turn the tide OF battle; but
they played safe, remaining neutral.
escaping the ravagcs of war which
the Canaanites were making. In the
indignation of her courageous woman's
soul, Deborah in her song of triumph
utters the words of the text: Curse
ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord,
curse ye bitterly the inhabitants
thereof, becausn they came not to
the help of the Lord. to the help
of the Lord against the mighty"
The curse came true. The entire
city with its inhabitants soon van
ished so completely from the face
OF the globe that no man today pre-
tends to he able to tell even its de-
finite location. The curses declared
by God. by his angels. or by His
chosen prophets when given as God 5
messages to man. always come true
in national as well as in individual
life.
just Plain Paciist.
Was the curse just? Meroz did not
fight against Israel; neither the city
nor the inhabitants furnished sup
plies TO help the enery of their
people; they did not aid or abet the
Canaanites. They were not spies for
The enemy. They simply did not help.
They did not willingly offer them
selves; they did not furnish supplies
to their own people. the patriotic
lsraelites; they did not undertake to