The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-05-23


parade and other similar stimulants OF
emotion take In cities. That Is one
reason why the camp meeting, with fs
wild crowd ernotiOnalism, Is found II
all backwoGis sections. 1t also prob
ably explains In part the appeal a.
such sects as the Holiness church.
York's father was Methodist. and
he was brought up a Methodist. buk
he and his mother and sisters hecam
converts to the Holiness church. ThG
belief of this church seems to be thai
II mortal neither does wrong nor
thinks wrong, he Is already, in effect.
an angel, and may taste on earth some
thing Of the bliss Of heaven. At its
meetings there are brief readings from
the Scripture. then periods Of silent
meditation, then shouting Of great 10y
as the full glory Of their triumph over
sin and trouble burst upon the CON
sregation. all at once. These alternate
periods Of silent meditation and fren-
zied rejoicing often extend fnr Into the
night, and throw the congregation lnts
a state of religious ecstasy.
York took his new faith seriously. Il
satisfied some cravings Of his nature.
He still carried arms. He was stin
prepared to fight when need arose
But when he heard OF the war and the
draft law he realized that he faced q
great crisis. He believed in fighting
for the right, but he did not see how.
as an angel on earth, he could XIII .
fellow who had never as an individual
done him any harm.
Willing to Drill, Not KIN.
York and his mother went to s. K
Frogge, a merchant and farmer Nv
ing near them, who was their repre-
!, sentative in the state Legislature. and
begged that Frogge try to obtain an
exemption for York. The young man
, said that he could never kill in war
, Frogge, of course, could do nothing. A
: few days later York left for the first
time in his life the little clearing ana
the cabin and the wild Woodland
, which had heretofore been all the
? world to him. He took his convic-
2 tons against war with him mistaken
5 AS soon as he reached camp ne said
l that he was willing to drill, but not t.
5 fight. He made his position perfectly
: clear to the captain Of his company.
In having this captain, York was for
tunate. If he had been imprisoned
haZed or mistreated, as other conscien
I tious DIRECTORS were, he would almSss
; certainly have spent the period of thu
u war in prison. But this captain wal
a man Of insight. He saw that Yori
u had In him the making of fine sol
; der, and he also saw that York was {
: conscientious objectOr by sincere re
ligiOus convictions.
This captain was something of 81
bic student himself. He now refresh
ed himself on the Scriptures, catle<
York to him, ara set out to CONVEX
him to war by the good book. 1t I
| said that the argument lasted far int,
the night, that it was audible at quit
a distance, and that Biblical quotation
81 Numbered back and forth like big gun
in battle. But when the pale daw1
came, one mountain man was cor
II WINGED that his God commanded him +
go forth and slay Germans.
Battled for the Lord.
When he went home on a furlOugi
Corporal York, late conscientious n
jectOr, was soldier through an
through. hunter and marksman b
training, he was fascinated by mOder
q military arms. The machine gun, wifi
: its deadly sweep and play, the vicicu
army automatic, the military rife wit
its wonderful range and fiat trajectOr.
now held his heart as the crevxi I
holiness on earth had held 1t before.
There is nothing more to tell abog
Corporal York. except that when I
performed his wonderful feat Of shO6
ing "a Germans and capturing 1872 I
g them, he did not take the prisoner
81 back to his own battalion, but to q
\ other. Nor did he report what he ID
done. His exploit was discovered M