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helped them find their rightful place
at home and in society.
Begin to Serve Nation.

Begin to Serve Nation.
Bible classes sponsored by the
churches during the early part OF
the Christian movement welcomed
both men and women, and schools
for girls were founded. Today many
young women are taking up various
types OF work side by side with the
men in the reconstruction program
of China. Nursing is a favorite pro-
feSsion with many because of the
opportunity it gives to serve the
people.
There is more suffering in the
world than ever before. Sickness
too, is widespread-not only sick
ness of the body, but of the mind
and spirit. If We who are caring for
the sick are equipped not only with
skillful but with Christian hearts
our work will be channel for con-
veying blessings to others and will
consequently bring our own lives
to a greater fullness and joyous
ness"
Among the inSpirational words
heard last night were those of DR.
Alfred Keller, general secretary of
the European Central Offlce for
Interchurch Aid. speaking at George
Washington University.
DR.. Keller's observation traced
the difference between a purely
man-made institution for the gen.
eral good like the League of Ma
tions and a divine institution like
the Christian church
Saw League Crumble.
"We saw in Geneva" he said
"the greatest human effort to save
the world I mean the League of
NationS-the cooperation of the
majority of the nations of the world
to found a fellowship of men based
upon humanitarian principles and
a basis of international justice and
good will.
This whole secular or humanistic
effort broke down before our eyes.
I often sat in the assembly of the
League and heard the great modern
slogans of democracy, the rights Of
men, liberty of nations. Today. it
has become quite clear that you
cannot found human society
simply upon good will and mutual
trust
Many human things. many
secular ideas come to an end today
while the truth and the promise
of the Bible stand firm as ever
1t Is one of our marvellous expert
ences, for instance. that the fellow
ship of the church universal did
not break down in the present
earthquake. 1t holds and is growing
from day to day as that last fellow
ship which was not founded by
men, but by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Himself"
Miss Lester, in her talk last night,
made a more personal appeal, draw
ing her listeners attention with
abundance of detail to the wide
disparities between professions of
Christian faith and actualities
which have been accumulating dur
ing the past decades.
Sins Bring World Agony.
Speaking at the Emory Methodist
Church mass meeting, Miss Lester
said:
I'VE have all contributed to the
present agony of the world, by our
personal slackness, our sins and our
callousness. Something had to snap
There was too much tension. II
it had not been Hitler, it would
have been some one else. If it had
not happened in Germany, 1t would
have happened in some other coun-
try, perhaps in Britain, perhaps In
the United States.
IF Jesus Christ needed to pray
to practice the presence of God
to discipline Himself until He could
see God in everything, and see
everything as God sees it, we, too
have to take on that discipline. We
need it more than our Lord did
We must out-train the totalitarians
Our programs are clearly out
lined in the teaching of the Gospels
Let us stop using abstract means
stop sermonizing, and face the facts
of life, however ugly, however cruel
Let us put time aside every day for
keeping alone, silent in the presence
of God, not talking but absorbing
something of His wisdom.
Hitler imagines he Is mighty
1t must seem marvellous to conquer
so large a proportion of the nations
of Europe, but his power is very
temporary-like Pharaoh's, like
Nebuchadnezzar's. He can't stop the
earth's motion, nor the stars in their
course, nor the coming of spring, MOI
the dawn, nor the sun rising in the
spirit of man, nor the eventual re-
vival of pity, mercy, creative arts
the passion of universal freedom.
Church Tie Urged.
DR.. Roy Ewing Vale, minister Of
the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church
Indianapolis, urged his listeners tc
take the simple step of joining them