The Springdale news., 1918-05-24
THE ETHICAL AND BUSINESS PHASE OF THE RED CROSS
 WAR WORK.
Rv Rev. Robert S. Brown

|. is matter of simple repetition
 a,r;+e or speak on the subject ol The Red Cross War Work. The Press' ..-o,,cb it's magazines and newspa- ,ers is heralding the dolngs o1 this
 -. bumanitarian organization to ,,++erroost parts of the eartn. pbilanthropic men are plhhe ao"h b,,ndreds of dollars for advertising snace in the daily papers of the eoui'- .r,. .,o+ the American people in every hamlet and cross roads community
 o,, he educated in the matter of the norld-w wide mission of twenty-tWo mli- I;o,s of conseerated men and women. The Red Cross,-the second cross oi tho ayes to be colored. symboi1ealiy, ui+h blood, IS being Wefn as q badge of a. rifIcal service b. more of God s nobIemen than any other insignia known to the human family.
 Men. women and children of every creed of every nation under the sun are proud to wear it. And conscious lv or uneonsciously, they wear 1t as an outward mark of disciples ot lhm whose redemptive blood it is intenced to represent.
 There is not a more positive, pulsat- inc nractical exemplification of the all-redeeming suffciency of the blood stained Cross of Calvary than that which is demonstrated each hour, day and night, by the Red Cross Ar my wherever the cry of suffering, sorrowing humanity IS heard. Who knows but what God IT His ineXoli- cable providence has permitted this proud country of ours to be drawn in- to the maelstrom of blood that IS now delueing the world but for the very purpose of attaining through us as nation the highest and noblest man. ifestation of the spirit of universal brotherhood. the practical fulfillment of the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount?
 The volcano of death whose internal fires had been raging for forty years in the body polite of Prussianism, and that began to belch forth its lav. of death and destruction in August, 1914. has increased in its fury until it has reached out its tongues of fire unto the uttermost ends of the earth. There is no spot on the globe from which may not be seen the flare Of this holo- caust of hell. Every nation in the vastation and of it's moral and physi- withering effects of it's flames of de- avtsation and of it's moral and physi- cal damnation.
 America forecasted the future but dmly at first, but as the clouds of smoke began to thicken and settle as black pail of death over one na- tlon after another in Europe she was aroused to the sad fact that the con flagration was becoming universal. and that to check its onward ravages America must go to the rescue.
 The story of her preparation and entrance into the conflict is too well known to be repeated Enough to know, IS, that we are in it, and in it to the finish! In 1t with half mil hon of the noblest specimens of man. hood the world ever had, now on the battle front in Flanders, with ten. fif- teen or twenty millions more to fol low. Ii necessary to crush the impious Voiator of all virtue and human nghts, and by the help of Almighty tod chain him with his most intimate Ally ID the bottomless pit of hell. Ahd While this stupendous job is be- Ing completed the angels of mercy in the personnel of the Red Cross Army are multiplying their resources and constituency for the Herculean task of aoequately caring for the untold mil ioils ot combatants and non-combat- ants @ho are, and who are to be the F3eems of this scourge of fiendisb demons.
 NeVer, Tn the history of civilization was there an hour like this, when the val to patriotism was more needed to U heard and needed. This is not a 'iae Tor half measures. It is a lime @heA the patriot must face his full eaev squarely and discharge it hon. eSs!g n the sight of God and man HIS III duty both to his country and his >hrlstlan-Patriotisml In this nv Niehated word is summed up all |, a, makes man worthy to live; the.e eonJoihed forces compel to ali noblc ae1loh. They determine character @.'o tell unmistakably where a mar s'ands and what he is. They operate se as to bring out clearly the mark, vnaracter and show up every mar ~ mat he must know himself and D, ,r Tnowh of others for just what he is