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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
Startling RadicaIism
OF a Scotch Clergyman

Most surprising and thought com
polling of ali the comments upon the
subject that have come to my notice is
found in one of the numerous war and
religious books. God and the Soldier"
by two Scotch clergymen, the Rev Drs
Norman MacLean and j. R. P. Sclatcr
of Edinburgh, one of whom served as
preacher and lecturer with the Scot
tish Church huts in France and the
other Of whom was director Of re-
igious services in behalf of the Y. NJ
{ A. Their book has the peculiar dis
tinction of being the substance of ad-
dresses delivered before a weekly con-
ference Of chaplains in one of the great
camps in France. 1t is against the
background Of Scotch theology that the
r.diealism of the utterances quote
nlUst be considered
This Scotch book advocates prayers
for the dead. It does not go as far as
Cardinal MERCER in proclaiming the
sure salvation OF the soldier slain, but
it strikingly voices a sentiment have
repeatedly heard among British clergy,
that this war Will reintroduce the
churches of the Reformation to the
Eucharist. to the crucifx and to
prayers for the departed.
The author introduces the subject by
picturing a service with the soldiers
wherein he had quoted Donald Hankey's
Men If you are wounded it is Blighty;
if you are killed it is the resurrection 4"
But at the close the unexpected con-
fronted the preacher. A killed, grim
faced Scot waited and asked this ques
ton Do you really believe that every
soldier who dies in battle goes to
heaven The spirit of all the Puri-
tans glowed in his deep set eyes. tie
made it clear that he had no use for
such a gospel He was Christian and
not Mahometan. His body was cheap
a shilling day; his life was cheap
mere fodder for guns; his self-respect
required that his soul should not be
cheap And heaven gained through a
splinter of shell would be but cheap
heaven indeed,
"The question to which the stern
faced soldier wanted an answer is this:
What does really happen to the soldier
who dies in battle? In other days the
question found a ready answer; the be-
lever went instantly to a heaven Of
bliss. and the unbeliever went instantly
to hell Of everlasting torment. It
was q clear answer, grim, but logically
unassailable on the premises.
Can we conceive the soldier hurled
from the hell Of battle into an endless
hell2 Are men who never had a
chance on earth to be deprived forever
Of any chance? Doubtless many Of
them are men of sanguinary language
and strange deeds: bat they are the
products O. civilization that herds
mon in Sums and encircles them with
every evil. They lived in CRIME; how
could they be but grimy? Are they to
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hgious they would have to be willing
to talk about their feslin1s. and they
would rather live under shelldre than
do that. They feel that there is
susp'cion of efeminacy about many
religious people and that religious men
tend to be too like women"
Confessing that he never heard of
battalion where numerical majority
OF the men were willing 70 profess
faith, Chaplain Gray bears glowing
testimony 10 the Christian soldiers
who had the kind Of religion that ex-
presses itself in efficiency, in courage,
IN helpfulness, in abstinence from
boastNhg and in good comradeship
They seldom spoke about their religion,
but it spoke through their lives daily"
Il do not know that could speak
with any such pleasure of the rather
noisy and self-conscious Christians
whom one also meets in the army
A certain type of religious expert
ence seems to leave men very much
impressed by their own i.nportance
and very apt to take pleasure in de-
nounclng the sins of others. Men Of
TINS type can often tell to an hour
when they were saved. but famlli-
arlry with their lives does not all
ways leave the observer quite 50
sure that their dates are correct.
WI hen man declares that he and
Tommy Jones and Bill Robertson are
the only Christians in his platoon,
one Is left hoping great things from
Jones and Robertson. but rather
a fr-l o,l- -
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Bv llliam T. Ellis

NEW theology determined by
democracy 10 emerge from this
| var, May VIC look to the con
.nsus Of popular opinion instead Of to
u. .heologians for our great IDEAS
hon. God and the soul and the future
Tie
There are clear signs pointing that
r.,v For. as these articles have al
readv made clear, really startling
r.dicalism pervades the thinking Of the
mics and of the chaplains and of
young Mems Christian Association
yorkers who have been long with the
.roops. Conventions have lost their
erin Nobody cares & cootie for "ortho-
doxv.' as such Old usages and old
crqcds seem 10 have succumbed to the
r-boats or some other force on the
yav over. All things, from the very
existence o. Supreme Being to the
light OF a church to exist, have had
70 face the challenge Of this new,
,mancipated. FREQ thinking, audacious
var mind. Whether this is as il should
ne or not am not here discussing;
this article is not statement Of the
writer's opinions, but of clearly re-
vealed conditions. Churches and SEM
uaries and religious institutions at
home do not realize it, but they, too,
are in the melting pot that is bubbling
IN France.
Our armies believe in God. There
has been no national propaganda among
the Allies, such as the Germans have
Vigorously prosecuted, to proclaim the
IDENTIFY Of our cause with the divine
purpose and viii. Nevertheless, the
home training OF the troops and the
atmosphere OF our whole previous life
have led them to face the eternal re
atty e. this time. They believe in .
great God whose ways are past finding
out, but who is manifestly doing some
thing with humanity by means OF this
cataclysm 1t IS not a little drawing
room god. fattered TO be patted on the
head by blase society faddists, nor
vet vindictive tribal deity that the
soldiers have come 70 accept. He is
Jehovah of the thunders, Lord God Of
battles
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mean TO do after the war. He is study
ing America, Britain and the world
from the standpoint of one who is sure
that things are going TO be different"
when peace comes. Like others with
whom talked. he considers the war
the greatest social revolution of his
tory. It is teaching verybody. but
most especially the soldiers. who Will
rule the world when they return. unex-
pected lessons IN life's larger mean
ings. The conviction that they fight
for new world order runs deeper and
with wider ramihcations than is com
monty suspected. These fighting men,
who come back with new powers, ney
minds and new self-conidence, will do
things TO the old routine of life in all
its departments.
Many poets have tuned their harps
to this key. f. W. Harvey's of We
Return" puts it we'll:
IF we return, will England be
Just England still to you and me
The place where we must earn our
bread?
We who nave walked among the dead
And watched the smile of agony,
And seen the price Of Liberty,
Which We had taken carelessly
From other hands. Nay, we shall dread,
If we return,
Dread lest We hold bloodguiitily
The things that men have died TO
free.
Oh. English fields shall blossom red
For all the blood that has been shed
BY men whose guardians are we,
II We return
Pjcturng the power of the men who
come home from the wonderful new
fraternity of war, the Rev T. V Pym
declares: There is nothing that we
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rench Talk
From a Padre

The lconoclastic mood Of the chap
lain-authors crops out repeatedly in a
little book o. verse. written BY one Of
them who signs himself "Woodbine
Willy the nickname he earned in the
trenches by his distribution Of Wood
olne cigarettes This startling collec
ton Of war poems, which is called
Rough Rhymes of Padre" is warmly
indorsed by the bishop who is deputy
chaplain general of the British forces.
Hear soldiers solloquy in the pres
ence of slain comrade:
and the lovin' God. E looks down on
it all, VII
On the blood and the mud and the
smell
o God, f its true. 'ow pities YOU
For We must be Twin + ell.
You must be livin' : ell all dav.
And Twin i ell all night.
d rather be dead, WI a ole through
my cad.
l would, by a dam long sight,
nan be llyin' WI you on your 'eavenly
throne,
Lookin' down on yon bloody cap
That were once boz full O. life and
And 'earin' is mother weep.
The sorrows o God nun be ard 70
bear
If Y really as Love in Is cart.
And the 'ardest part i the world to
play
Nun surely be Gods part
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perament cannot but feel that they
help 10 confirm the majority in their
attitude Of hostility.
Earlier in the book there IS a blunt
statement Of the Briton's attitude tow
a"d the church: ON the whole the
average male Britisher of today has
not much respect for the Church. He
does not like or admire the Church.
He does not belong to it, and does not
want to. 1t is not among the national
Institutions that stir his pride. He
does not take this attitude defantly,
knowing it to be wrong and yet choos-
ing it. He regards the Church as a
negligible quantity He neither fears
nor loves It. 1t has for him no voice
of authority. He has never been i'm
pressed by its corporate acts, and its
life in detail seems to him petty and
dual. The men he most respects are
often not in it and great many men
whom he despises are. To his virle
nature it makes no impressive appeal.
That IS the blunt truth"
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| ributes to
The Troops

Entire columns could be filled with
the tributes to the troops written by
the chaplains One of the scholarly
commentators, the Rev. Neville 5. Tad
bot, in "Thouehts on Religion at the
Front" makes this discriminating sum
mary:
"On the whole, | venture to say.
there is not q great revival OF the
Christian religion at the front. Yet
am eager to acclaim the wonderful
quality OF spirit winch men OF our
race display in this war, and to claim
1t as Christian and God-insp ired.
Deep in their hearts is a great trust
and faith in God, 1t IS an lnarticu-
late faith expressed in deeds. The
top levels. as it were, Of their con-
seriousness are much filed with
grumbing and foul language and
physical occupations; but beneath lie
deep spiritual springs, whence issue
their cheertulness, stubbornness,
patience, generosity, humility and
willingness to suffer ard to die. They
declare by what they are and do that
there il worth Wilderness in effort
and sacrifice.
at is grand fibre or grain of
British nature which the war has
exposed 1t is lnwrought with
Christian eXcellences Of humility,
unselishness. fortitude and all that
makes a good comrade. 1t is precious
s.utf Let there be no talk hereafter
Of the decadence of the race. Let no
one dare to disparage the masses 9
our people; nor let any one, through
class ignorance or prejudice or fear,
.
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Scotch Advocacy
OF a Purgatory

What has become Of The soldier
whom neither the heaven nor the he'll
Of the pre-war theology can receive?
There are seven millions dead, and
twenty millions jousting still with
death, and no man can see the eud
Every other question pales before this
Of the destiny of these millions. The
revolution made by war in the social
organism brings in its train a revolu-
ton in the realms of the soul The
Church must PROFOUND not only doc
trine of heaven and of hell, but also a
doctrine of an intermediate state
A countless company Of byterian
theologians. dead or living, would cry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-04
The Religion {
British Labor

The chaplain general oil the Amer
lean t,xpeditionary Force IN France,
Bishop Brent, said to me: The one
great religious utterance of the war is
the NANTES to- OF the British labor
party" In the large body Of literature
upon the religious aspects Of the war
which has been issued in Great Britain
find the note Of social reconstruction,
and the Church'5 social failures and
new social duties running ike the red
thread through the cordage Of the
British navy. In meetings and CON
ferencos the same note is heard
Now this is a strange thing. Is not
war itself so all-engrossing that She
problems Of civil life should be left
alone until the leisurely days of peace
arrive? On the contrary something
like new social passion is the animal
ing and sustaining force in the breasts
OF the soldiers. This conviction OF the
prominence Of righteousness, in all
domains, as the great goal of the war
is what has led the British people TO
assent so heartily to President Viii
sons definition Of our aims to make
the world safe for democracy and to
accept him MS the leader OF our COM
mon cause against the Central Powers.
The VIII to win the war is scarcely
stronger here than the determination
to bring to pass new order of things
in the economic. industrial and social
life Of the nation
spent one evening here with
young American advertising man, an
aviator, and his talk was partly of war,
but more Of what he and his fellows
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NEW REL >lGlON GROWS ON BATH EFIEID

be damned for the CRIME they did not
create? But no CRIME of mans crea-
ton can hide the godlike in them.
They laugh at misery; they go down to
the earthly he'll with Jest; they scorn
death to save a comrade; and for dim
ideals they lay down life itself right
joyously. 1t is inconceivable, whatever
in1allible theologians may say, that
hell can be the portion of these But
it is equally inconceivable that lives
so stained and marred can Immediately
pass into glory They would be very
unhappy if they did; for they would
not feel at home. There is so much of
good in them that hell cannot be their
portion; and so much of evil that
heaven cannot at once receive them.
What, then, can be their lot?
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Cardinal MERCER
Speaks on the Dead

Of surprising interest 20 the sol
diers, aud even more 50 to their loved
ones at home. is the question OF the
fate and state Of the dead Maly have
seized upon the idea that the man
who falls in lighting for the right IS
by that act assured Of eternal felicity.
and. by the way. future life seems 10
ne pOstulated in all thinking upon this
subject
Belgiun's great leader, Cardinal
MERCER. has spoken the clearest word
IN support of this position. In his
PASTORAL letter. "Patriotism and En-
DURANGO" issued at Christmas, 1871. he
wrote;
Il was asked lately BY staff Of
hcer whether 4 soldier falling in
righteous cause and or cause is
sucn, to demonstration not veri-
'aoly martyr. Well. he is not
martyr IN the rigorous theological
meaning Of the word. lnasmuch as he
Tles In arms. whereas the rlartyr de-
hvers himself, undefenGel and TN
armed, into the hands Of the execu-
TONER. But If am asked what
thinK OF. the eternal salvation OF .
oraVe man wh0 has cons ,iodsly Given
MS lie IN defence OF his country's
nonor and in vindication @ violated
justice. shall not hesi+Ate to reply
nat witnour any doubt whatever
Chrtst crowns hrs military yalor. and
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ing stations l have said-I have
vowed to myself-here are men
worth doing anything for"
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OBITUARY
Mrs. George Armbruster.

The remains of Mrs. George Arm bruster, whose death occurred at Charleston, Mo-, "Wednesday, from pneumonia, following in uenza, will arrive this morning at 10.40 a. h., and will be taken to Holderness chapel. From there the body will be taken to the Catholic church, from which place the funeral will take place at 3:30 p. m. The death of Mrs. Armbruster came as a shock to her many friends, who will remember her as Miss Nellie Dowd, sister of J. J. Dowd and daughter of P. J. Francis. Mrs. Armbruster was talented mu' sician and graduate of the Annun- citation Academy of this city. For a number of years she was organist for the St. Joseph Catholic church, loved by all for her bright and cheerful dis position, always ready with kind words and a sunny smil etc cheer the lonely.
 Besides her husband, Mrs. Arm bruster is survived by her father, r:
 Frascis a brother J. J. Dowd, and four cousins, Mrs. w. A. Bishop of Little Rock, Mrs. w. J. Williams and Misses Birdie and May Fox of Pine Bluff. The pail bearers will be: J. E. Boyce, o. E, McKinzie, Frank Franey Frank Stewart, Jim O'Neil. Jack ker- win, Adolph Bahlau, Joe Cook.
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.JO.Jp B. White,

Joe B. White, 57 years old, died Fri day night at 9 o'clock, at his home, 913 Cedar street, of in Iuenza.
 Mir. White was we'll known man of Pine Bluff and Jefferson county. For 30 years he was county surveyor and was known throughout the state as an expert at his trade. He was born and reared in Pine Bluff and is known for his kindness and congen- jality. He is survived by his widow, who was Miss Emma Vaugine, and one son Allen White.
 The funeral services will be con. ducted by Rev. E. R. Steel, pastor ot the First Methodist church, of which the deceased was member: this al, ternoon at 200 o'clock. The pail bearers will be: Honorary, F. Il. Walker, w. J. Smith, E. A. Shepard, R. L. Johnson, w. J. Parkes, Acy Watson of Tucker, c. H. Triplett, ST., w. I. Payne of Tucker, c. H. Trip, lett, Dr. U. Orto, w. D. Jones and w. J. Dutton and Henry Cady; active Elson Hale, Hugh Humphrey. W. A. Lowe, H. B. Strange, C. M. Nlchoi' Sam Vaux, and Zack Tankersley.
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Greek flag, have been given to Greece by the United States. at time when half million Greeks were turned out of their hearth and firesides by Turkish soldiery and Moslem mobs, having suffered all that a people can suffer at the hands of the Turk
 Greece is vindicated, and America displays before the palace of the Sultan her power to impose Right whenever might gets the upper hand.
 Constantinople is in OUT hands. Whether Greece is to stay there or not, for one thing we may be sure and this is that America will see to it that no matter how the Eastern question is solved, Greece's rights under and arrangement will be safe.
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W. Y. Ellis Dead.

News has been received by relatives of the death of w Y. Ellis at Camp Humphrey, Va, of pneumonia, follow ing influenza. Although Mr. Ellis was making his home in Denver at the time of his enlistment, his former home was Pine Bluff. For several years hew as connected With the Tran sit Company of which his two uncles,
 J. F. and R. L. Rutherford were mana
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gers. He was a graduate of the State University and a prominent young man in business and social afafirs, and has many friends and relatives in this city.
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SONG SERVICES.

The services of the First Methodist church this evening will be largely gwen over to song service The choir Will render musical numbers of praise and thanksgiving, with patriotic sell ectlons Mrs. c. z. McClean, violinist Will assist in the program and other musicians of talent will take part in the service.
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Ladies' Coat Suits in serges' woo, nonlins and broadcloths, at reauceu prices. $45.0O chiffon broadcIotn suits for, $34.9S: other styles aoMn to S9 98 .-Leayitt's Cut Price store Quit Business Sale
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Miss Kate Johnson.

News of the death Friday cvenlsg of Miss Kate Johnson, of Lake vll- lage, has reached friends in r1hc m, Bluff. Miss Johnson was the daugn- ter of the late Captain J. B. John. son and Mrs, Johnson, formerly of Pine Bluff, and spent her early girl, f,uor for many any, years and where they have have a a large circle of friends Miss Miss }Sha, S,[,@ son was graduate of the 11sod Pine Blqm hr her associates. Miss Johnson is sur vived vi by her mother, five sisters. Mesdames Garland Street, Harry Cook Beatie, of Fort Worth, Arthur IConley Miss Laurine Johnson, ana n, two brothers, Duval and Thornton Miss JJohnson was a member ol tne Episcopal church. Funeral services viii be held Sunday, and the body %y:Iy will be laid to rest in the Lake Vii- lage cemetery.
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VESPER SERVICES.

me Vesper services of the Y. w. .' A. Will be held Sunday afternoon at r.so, oclock in the Cafeteria building. rlIln and Main streets. All young wo- ulen Of the city are asked to attend ;nese ;n'.sa services, although the public is .nVited. Mrs. B. R. Steel will make n .ne Vesper talk and Miss Lucy ,Hearn nloadstreet will honor the congrega- uoh With a vocal selection.
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". M. U. SOCIETY.

:, Ihe w. M. U. of the Ohio Street bapt'st clIrch will meet Monday af- tefnoon at the home of Mrs. B. F.. Shields. S15 Ohio Street. Mrs. J. Fl. nahklns will conduct the missionary program and there will be a prayer service connected with the meeting.
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PERSONALS

Sam Hilzheim of Camp Pike is spending the week end at home.
 M. w. Taggart, U. s. s. from San Diego. Cal, is spending a furloush with his parents, Mir. and Mrs. w. 70. Taggart at COB West Second.
 Sgt. c. $. Bucks of Camp Pike is spending the week end with his wife at. 101 Rutherford Place.
 A. M. Freemeyer went to Little Rock yesterday on business.
 Judge Reeves Taylor,, has re- turned to his home in Winchester, after visiting relatives here.
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Society ,.o,os for this department should ho nhoned to No. S6 after 2 p. m.
,,ss,o,ARY AND AID SOCIETY

- The Woman's Missionary Society of .,a First Baptist church will meet Monday M morning at 10:30 o'clock in .hoir all day meeting. In the morning tho young Matron's Mission Circle will give Missionary program: The afternoon will be given to the election of officers. All members are request od to come and bring their lunches.
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ganlzing and successfully conducting the lodge of which they were mem bers. At late hour tho guests retired 10 their homes, promising that they would all be present at the lodge meeting December 9
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Miss Elma saeler of Kingsland Wal the guest of Mrs. G.Bradley, Ill; West Nineth avenue, yesterday
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DAVID 0. DODD CHAPTER Y. D. c.

The David o. Dodd. Chapter U. D. C., will hold meeting on Friday after noon in the committee room of the Public Library. The vice president Mrs. W. 0. Taegart, will preside. The subject for discussion will be "Arkan- sas.'
 Mrs. J. w. Withers will have charge Of the program with the following assistants: Mesdames Mary Tomlin- son, John Temple, Huber Strange. Sue Trlplett, and Frank Tomlinson.
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CiacOmer Picinetti.

Giacomer Picisetti, aged 50 yeaIs' nrosperous Italian farmer of the Dan Burford place, near thls el.y' y. died Saturday morning at o ocioch oe. after a brief illness following lnao enza. The deceased is survived py hls wife and three children and nun, Der of relatives. MT. Picinettl was wa l. d native of Italy. The funeral will De I hald from St. Joseph Catholic church on Monday morning conducted D! Father Higgins. The following nave been selected as pallbearers;; frim' Rereeri, w. Turchey, Frank Turchsy 1e iChas Artaldior. Elsare Ruggerl, Eu' gene Mitchelloti.
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SOCIAL SERVICE CLUB
 s1TURDAY AFTERNOON.

The Social Service Cum met yes terday afternoon with Miss Lillian philpot, with Miss Elizabeth Schober and Mrs. Roy Senyard as assisting h0stesses.
 The meeting was largely attended and an enjoyable afternoon was spent. All members present, as requested, brought pair of knitted socks, to be given as a Thanksgiving donation to Camp Pike Several pairs are expect ed vet however, and those who did not attend the meeting will please turn the socks ill to the president as soon as possible. The knitted squares for the ambulance robe were turned in. Any members having squares will please get them to the president that they may be given in the Thanksgiv- ing gift also.