The Mena weekly star., 1919-05-01
SERfTARY OF TREASURY
 ADDRESSES ALI PASTORS

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 Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury, Washington, sends the fol- lowing letter to pastors of churches all over the land:
 Reverend Dear Sir-That the mon- ey changer has no place in the temple is so true and just rule that I would hesitate to address you and, through you, your congregation, were not the Victory Liberty Loan redeemed from all association with commercial sor- didness by the high purpose which stands with it and for it.
 It is certain that the high spirit uality for which the preacher stands pervades the American people prob ably to greater extent than any oth- CT people in the world. By this 1 do not mean that we Americans art de- voices of the sort of routine religion which has characterized some na- tions in the worlds history Ours is the everyday religion which enables us to take into our daily endeavors the high precepts and practices of gracious code, a code which dictates that sort of personal responsibility and unselfishness so necessary to peace and fair dealings among men and peoples. So widespread a spirit uality could not have been built up were it not for the unremitting efforts of the great body of teachers who pronounce from our pulpits the word which by multiform modes of com munication spreads among us all.
 This has been accomplished in no small measure by the fundamental impulse which every preacher has to finish the job. 1 was born and raised in a rural community. The circuit rider is to me not a character of historical fiction, but a real, living memory of my youth. And l have no more vivid impression of my young days than that of the persistent pa- tience of the divines who from sturdy youth to infirm age labored unceas- ingly among the parishoners of the Virginia hills. With them, to finish their job was to finish long, long life of every kind of usefulness. Day in, day out, summer and bleak winter, the task was ever before them and never knew one whose zeal Tagged. Was it birth, marriage, sorrowful death; good counsel to the wayward sound advice to the wiliful, kind en- couragement to the sick at heart, the pastor was ever at hand, working not only to finish his job but to aid others in the consummation of theirs.
 Now it is our task to arouse in ev- cry American this same spirit to car ry thru to successful conclusion the greatest and most spiritual task ever undertaken by whole nation.
 The whole world has been awaken ed to new meaning of life by the high enterprise which American en- tered just two years ago. With noth- ing material to gain, nothing material sought, but with the firm purpose of defending the right and spreading farther abroad its own national spiri- duality, the United States went into the most destructive of all wars. ! Victory shines upon our banners, at tracted by the force of Justice. 1t remains but for us to finish the job. l The hoarse clamor of battles is stilled but there remains for us to make full performance of the thing we set out to do. In the world today there is a restlessness, begotten of a thousand springs of discontent. Our world stands bewildered in the face of new and hard-won liberties. The tooth of autocracy is drawn but there is a lingering ache about the place whence it came.
 Here in America we are used to quick-moving events. We can adapt ourselves to rapid changes. We can readjust our lives to meet new condi- tions. The world looks to us today for leadership. It is our task to show restless Europe the strait and care ! ful way to pleasant times and ever lasting peace, We must make the Victory Liberty Loan, the last great financing effort which will finish the war job, an overwhelming success for upon it's success depends much of our national solidity. We must show the world that when it looks to us for leadership, it looks not to people uncertain of it's sestinies, careless of it's responsibilities. but to nation which with it's might does that which it's hand finds to do.
 May count on you to devote your sermon on May to a discussion of the Loan7
 
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