The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-27

mean religion that doesn't belong to
 denomination. Men are religious today
 who do not realize it; for after all, are
 not the ideas that men hold and fight
 for merely Christian ideals? And many
 man is a Christian at heart who
 doesn't know it.
 "As I said before, the conditions
 brought about by the war; Dr. billiard
 continued, 'are largely responsible Tor
 this revival among men; the evolution
 has been an interesting one, too; at first
 the terrific conditions had a tendency to
 arouse skepticism; people said, If there
 is a God of infinite power He isn't good,
 or He would have prevented this war,
 and if there is a God who is good, He
 cannot be infinite in power, or He would
 have prevented this war The conclu-
 sion, hastily drawn, therefore, was that there is no God such as the Christians have been teaching and preaching; but,
 on maturer thought they were led to be- lieve that there must be a God who has
 given such conviction to our boys over there as to fire them with this wonder
 ful spirit of vicarious self-sacrifice and from whence comes this except from God Himself?"
 Let me cite an example right here
 which came under my own personal ob- servation,' Dr. billiard continued.
 There was a boy in our town, Jack Culver by name; the boy went out brave and strong with the other soldiers early
 in the game and shortly after he had
 gone he met with an accident which re-
 suited in the necessity of having one of
 his eyes removed; he was in a terrible
 condition and the doctors after consul
 tation decided that even with this fright
 ful operation performed unless there was
 transmission of some sort of anti-toNn the boy would die; the theory was that
 if some big strong healthy boy would
 allow the poison from the sick boy to
 be transfused the combination would re-
 suit in an anti-toxin which being ad- ministered would cure the sick boy; so 1t
 was decided to ask which of the men in
 his company would offer their strong
 young bodies in order to make their sick comrade well, and what happened When the question was asked every sin gle solitary man in the company an- swered the roll call by offering himself
 as sacrifice for his sick comrade. The boys father learned of the supreme sac rifice that his sons comrades were mak- ing and he said he would not allow such a sacrifice and offered himself the op- peration was successful and just before left home I saw Jack Culver walking around in the streets hale and hearty. There's the spirit I speak of-vi- 1 fNeIiouS-Sell-SdCIlll DT- bllldIu odii' the lesson we have learned from this terrible world war, and it is this very attitude of our boys which has made older men stop and think and applaud 1 the magnificent spirit; it has brought l them to think seriously-more seriously 1 than they have ever done before on re- l ligious matters.
 While strengthening the first line oi | defense Over There,'" Dr. billiard said l we must not lose sight of our secont l line of defense-our boys over here--ba ck l home-and always the high school boys l and girls have appealed to me. I like tt | work with them and interest them il church work.
 '.very much I feel toward my auto l mobile, I've never had an automobile until I came to Birmingham; always de | clined to run one, but now I am a: l happy a boy with new toy trying tt 1 learn to run nay car and I've beer 1 impressed with one thing tremendously l in getting out of speed number one int, ! speed number three. it is mighty diff l cult, for the car sets up bucking ant ] a jerking that is most alarming and ap, l paling: to make this transition smoothl, | and quietly is the desire of every man l who runs a car now that's the way I feel about my church work. getting peo pie out of speed number one, into spec number three. without any bucking a 1t were; the church which has been jog ! ting the procession pass must speed III