The courier-index., 1918-09-13
CHURCH EAGERLY GETS READY F0R
 VOLUNTEER DAYS
UNCONVENTIONAL IS SWEPT ASIDE FOR PARTICIPATION IN
 WIDE SPREAD MOVEMENT.
JEWS READY FOR BOND SALE
clennon Says the Spirit Of Willingness is the Thing
 to Consider.

Church leaders are eager to show to the world on Volunteer Days, Sept as-2s, that the spirit of the people Of America still remains firm. and that they have not begun to fight as they intend to do with the weapons that they possess.
 They welcome the opportunity to show how many bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan they are ready to in vest in without an solicitation. The Church is the leading institution of the land, they say, and will take the lead in voluntary offerings along this line.
 one" said Archbishop John J. Gien- non, when asked for his opinion. "This is the spirit that the democracy of America manifests in everything the spirit to give and to do without being asked or solicited. Thousands have enlisted and other thousands in the draft are also to be considered as volunteers. The spirit of willingness is the thing to consider The people of the Church will be glad to respond on Volunteer Days"
 The Right spirit.
 Leading Rabbis of the Jewish Syna Sogues expressed qualification that their people were to be accorded the privilege of showing their spirit to serve freely and unasked. Their peo pie, they said, would not lag on those days. They have already volunteered in . very vital way to help the coming campaign
 In a letter to the Liberty Loan Or ganisation, Grand Rabbi M LipshitT of Philadelphia, Pa. formerly of St. Louis, states that he will buy the first bond in his synagogue and that he and his people will talk Liberty Loan in the meetings that mark the Jew ish New Year and the days that fol low, leading up to Tom Kippur the Day of Atonement.
 St. Louis Rabbis are also volunteers in this particular They led off with speeches and private conversations in the interest of the Fourth Liberty Loan before they were solicited to do so. In fact, this has always been the spirit of St. Louis Jews in every enterprise of the Government. If 1t will help America, that is all we want to know, is the splendid way they ex press it.
 Church Should Lead.
 'I think the Church should lead out on the Volunteer Days selected" Rev. Dr. William Robert King. president of the St Louis Church Federation, said. They should not wait to be asked or made to do their duty. It should be pleasure, as I believe 1t will be. for church people to show their splendid volunteer spirit, not only on these days, but throughout the war.
 We sent Dr. Mcfarland to France some tine since to tell the people and nation of France, Gen. Pershing and the other leaders, that the Church of America was back of them in every needed way. Here is practical way to show the kind of a spirit we pos. sess-the spirit we gave in those mes. sages"
 The Church, whether in the small town or in the city. has never waited to be called upon in any matter of duty Instead it has taken the lead and done the asking. No man coui@ say he was not given an opportunity to do his part in any enterprise that concerned the war or the Government If some other agency or individual did not reach him-and the chances are they did-he could not run the gauntlet of church leaders and pri vate workers
 Greed Not Considered.
 Of the people who bought bondf in the other campaigns without solici tstion a very large majority of them were members of some particular church, and many church organixa tions purchased bonds as. 6 volunteer offering to the Government
 During the two days set apart for volunteer subscriptions to be made on the part of the people and institu tions services will be held. sermons preached from the pulpit and pat riotic addresses delivered by leaders and others.
 It is expected that millions of dol lars worth of bonds will be taken ir this way on these two days The American people, and that includes the Church of America of every creed and faith, will turn up Liberty Loaz subscription through the spirit of vol unteering so great that the Hun will have no further doubts Of American aims in the war.