COLLEGE OF PREACHERS
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3510 WOODLEY ROAD

March 27th, 1934

Dr. John R. Mott
230 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y.

Dear Dr. Mott:

I have never as yet expressed my keen regret at being absent when you had your conference for laymen here. I am rejoiced to know that it went off to your satisfaction and I am sure that the men who were present were greatly helped and stimulated.

Assuring you of my high regard and hoping that we shall have an occasion for further conference in the near future,

PMR:hb

Telephone Vanderbilt 4697

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AMERICAN RELIEF FOR INDIA, INC.

41 Park Row, New York 7, New York

TELEPHONE: RECTOR 2-6937

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

RUFUS M. JONES, Honorary Chairman

HENRY F. GRADY, Chairman

J. EDGAR RHoads, President

WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Vice-President

GUY EMERSON, Treasurer

GILBERT F. WHITE, Secretary

FRANK AYDELOTTE

WILLIAM GREEN

DAVID HINSHAW

JOHN HAYNES HOLMES

M. ALBERT LINTON

HENRY R. LUCE

GEORGE MEDALIE

PHILIP MURRAY

VICTOR F. RIDDER

SUMNER WELLES

March 23, 1945

Dr. John R. Mott
156-5th Ave.
New York, N. Y.

Dear Dr. Mott:

You will have learned from Richard Walsh of the re-
organization of American Relief for India from the India Famine
Relief Committee which you have supported.

The case for American help at this time is stated
briefly in the attached pamphlet. The need still is urgent.

We have failed to gain National War Fund support,
although funds to maintain the work for a time have been ear-
marked by the national labor groups from their contributions to
that Fund. Now we must take the case to the public. Our
appeal, like the program itself, is non-political. It is one
phase of the Indian question upon which all factions and re-
ligious groups can agree.

Our public appeal will be made during April. We will
keep you informed of the American work in India, which is in
progress.

I hope that after you have read the enclosure you will
feel you want to help us in assuring the continuation of this
impartial expression of American friendship for war-stricken
areas of India.

Encl.

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The President's War Relief Control Board Registration No. 574

American Relief for India, Inc.

41 PARK ROW
New York 7, N. Y.
REctor 2-6937

Board of Directors

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK

February 16, 1945

MR. WINTHROP ALDRICH, President
The National War Fund
46 Cedar Street
New York City 5, New York

DEAR MR. ALDRICH:

American Relief for India, Inc., recently has been organized by citizens interested in seeing American relief continued in India so long as India suffers from the war emergency. It is registered with the President's War Relief Control Board and has been certified by that Board for membership in the National War Fund.

The program which it supports has been endorsed by American government agencies, the Viceroy of India, the Governor of Bengal, and the Agent General for India in the United States. Under date of February 9, 1945, Lord Halifax has written to us as follows:

> "I have consulted our people in the Indian Agency General and, as I expected they would, they commend the proposed enterprise of the American Friends' Service Committee. If, therefore, my name would be of any use to you as a sponsor of the appeal, I shall be delighted for you to use it."

As representatives of American Relief for India, Inc., we are writing to make formal application for inclusion of our organiza-

tion in the National War Fund as a member or participating agency. This letter outlines the distress caused by war in India, the history of American efforts to help, the prospective needs, and our reasons for feeling that the current effort should not be halted.

India is a casualty of war. In normal times, to be sure, life was hard in India. The least shock to the economic system might cause distress. But normally the government was able to deal with emergency problems. The war upset the economic balance. The famine itself was largely war-caused and because of the war, relief measures are impeded. War causes hardship in many ways. The Japanese invasion cuts off Burma and other rice-producing countries from Indian consumers. Military needs place an overwhelming strain on the transportation system. Ocean shipping is restricted to military purposes. War concentrates American troops in the most needy provinces. Food prices have risen to three to seven times pre-war prices, and wages have not kept pace. Refugees and new diseases have come over India's borders.

In 1943 the food crisis affected more than 60 million people, causing mass starvation and more than one million deaths. Today, as an aftermath of famine, the inhabitants of entire regions —especially of Bengal—are physically and economically ruined, and fall easy victims of epidemic diseases.

America's effort to lend a helping hand to India began last year. After a meeting on February 18, 1944 in the offices of the National War Fund, at which various interested parties participated, it was decided that the American Friends' Service Committee would act as purchasing and distributing agency for all private American relief efforts in India. Mr. James Vail, the director of the Friends' foreign relief services, was sent to India in order to investigate the stricken areas, to set up a distribution organization, and to report back on further relief needs. It was agreed to appropriate through the British War Relief Society for

the first four months the total sum of $400,000 and to envisage continuation of the program on a basis of an expenditure of $100,000 a month if Mr. Vail's report should indicate the emergency nature of the need and the practicability of American relief.

Orders for condensed milk and selected drugs immediately were placed. Mr. Vail left this country late in March of 1944, and the relief distribution began in May of the same year. He returned to this country in July with a fervent plea for continuation of American relief in India. In August the National War Fund decided to discontinue allocations for India. Contributions have subsequently been received from the National War Fund labor projects and from outside sources. To date, the Committee has spent or committed more than $800,000, for this supply program. The aid was and still is restricted to emergency projects for sufferers from war. That work has shown that it is possible to administer and distribute relief in India on a strictly non-partisan, non-political, and non-sectarian basis. We enclose a partial list of local agencies through which American supplies reach millions of the Indian people.

We believe that it is essential to continue American relief on the scale of $100,000 a month. The net amount which this would require from the National War Fund for the seven months beginning March 1, and ending September 30, 1945, would be $700,000.* This budget has been submitted to the President's War Relief Control Board for approval. It provides $647,500 for medical supplies and dietary supplements, which as in the past, will be bought almost wholly in the United States, $35,000 for field operations in India, and $17,500 for administration in this country. We would, of course, expect our agency to bear the same responsibilities, here and abroad, as other agencies which share in the budget of the National War Fund.

* The amount required for the entire calendar year 1945 is $1,200,000.

Our sole aim is the continuation of the present American relief program in India with as little difficulty as possible. The competent American and British government officials testify to the widespread relief and goodwill that already has resulted from the American program. Supplies from the United States are having a tremendously beneficial effect upon the health of India. Moreover, they are reducing epidemics in that strategic base of Allied operations in which many thousands of troops, including Americans, are unavoidably exposed to the diseases that ravage the country. The United States has great stakes in the well-being of the Indian people, especially at this time because of the presence of large numbers of our armed forces.

Today India needs help. We welcome the opportunity to cement enduring bonds of friendship between the Indian and American peoples by means of relief carried out in a spirit of strict impartiality. New confidence and understanding will grow out of this humanitarian effort. Our help today is a moral obligation; tomorrow it may prove to be a foundation of international goodwill.

If you have any questions about our application we will be happy to discuss them with you at your convenience.

Sincerely yours,

HENRY F. GRADY

J. EDGAR RHOADS

GUY EMERSON

WILLIAM PHILLIPS

HENRY R. LUCE

DAVID HINSHAW

National War Fund, Inc.

46 CEDAR STREET
New York 5, New York
BOWling Green 9-1380

February 23, 1945

MR. HENRY F. GRADY, Chairman of the Board
AMERICAN RELIEF FOR INDIA, INC.
New York, N. Y.

DEAR MR. GRADY:

I regret to inform you that after a full and sympathetic discussion of your letter of February 16th, our Budget Committee has found itself unable to accept the application of American Relief for India, Inc., for membership in the National War Fund.

Mr. Swope and his associates have urged me to stress the fact that we recognize as you do the vastness of the need in India, and the impelling nature of the consequent appeal to American sympathies.

Indeed, the fact that the National War Fund was able to channel $450,000 to India Relief in 1943-44, and $200,000 during the current budget year, is probably proof enough that we have recognized the extent of the problem, and the opportunity for expressing American sympathy in a practical way.

The reason our Budget Committee has felt impelled to decline the application is simply because the National War Fund, in order to make the most effective use of the limited funds available for foreign relief, must of necessity concentrate its resources on liberated areas.

I am sure that all of the officers and directors of the National War Fund would join me in expressing the hope that your important program may be financed adequately in some other way.

WINTHROP W. ALDRICH
President

Some Comments from India - - and the United States

The splendid services rendered by the American Friends in Bengal during the past twelve months have earned the gratitude of all sections of the public in this Province. In distributing large quantities of milk, vitamins and medical supplies they have taken the utmost trouble to ensure that they reach those who need them most, and in this way a great deal of genuine suffering and distress has been alleviated.

Bengal is making every possible effort to help herself, but at the same time she is most grateful for the help that has been forthcoming from friends outside India — all of which has been, and will continue to be, of the greatest value.

Governor of Bengal
Australian Minister to
the United States 1940-1942

American sympathy and aid during the famine in Bengal won the gratitude of India. Further help in removing its after-effects will be widely welcomed with similar feelings. As an Indian, I warmly support American Relief for India's new move of mercy.

Agent General for India in the
United States of America

I have been in India since the war began and I know that India is a real war front. At this critical time, Americans must continue to show the Indian people our friendship for them by sending them essential and impartial aid that only America can supply.

Assistant Secretary of State 1939-1940
Leader of the American Technical
Mission to India in 1942.

My recent assignment in India convinced me that India's acute distress has been greatly aggravated by the war. The lack of rice due to the stoppage of imports from Burma is only one of the several conditions caused by the war which have brought hideous suffering to the people of Bengal and the Southern States. And then too, the presence in large numbers of our own forces, especially in Assam and Bengal, has contributed to diminish the limited food supply of the native population. I believe that a gesture of sympathy from this country is greatly needed, now more than ever.

Representative of the President of the
United States to India 1943-1945

SELECTED LIST OF AGENCIES
DISTRIBUTING AMERICAN SUPPLIES IN INDIA

American supplies are distributed through more than 178 organizations which serve approximately 4500 different centres or outlets. About 75 centres are located in Calcutta; the rest are in small towns or villages in the rural areas where the need is greatest. Among the more important organizations are the following:

1. Indian Red Cross—1200 milk can-
teens for distribution of vitamins in
Bengal, Malabar and Travancore.
19 welfare centres in Bengal.

2. Ramakrishna Mission—57 centres in
Bengal.

3. Bengal Medical Relief Coordination
Committee — 71 medical units in
Bengal and Bihar.

4. Bengal Civil Protection Committee—
21 medical units, part of 71 medical
units as above — in Bengal.

5. Bengal Christian Council Relief Fund
— (Central office for Protestant
Missions). More than 45 centres
not mentioned elsewhere in this
list.

6. Church of Scotland Mission — 3 cen-
tres in Bengal.

7. Surgeon General's office of the Gov-
ernment of Bengal — 625 centres
total. Operated through 31 civil
surgeons each with many hospitals,
dispensaries and medical units un-
der him, all in Bengal.

8. American Baptist Mission — about 15 mission stations in Bengal and Orissa.

9. Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine
— 2 centres in Bengal.

10. Protestant Bishop of Krishnagar — 10 centres in Bengal.

11. Jessore-Khulna Seva Samity — 13 centres in Bengal.

12. Hindu Mahasabha Relief Committee
— 45 mofussil stations in Bengal.

13. Bengal Relief Committee — 75 cen-
tres in Bengal and Bihar.

14. Calcutta Relief Committee — 5 cen-
tres in Bengal.

15. Malabar States — (government hos-
pitals, medical units, dispensaries)
— 110 centres in South India.

16. Bengal Government Revenue Depart-
ment, Famine Relief Centres — 200
centres in Bengal.

17. North Bihar Co-Ordinating Relief Committee — 95 centres in Bihar.

18. Peoples Relief Committee — 50 cen-
tres in Bengal and Bihar.

19. Rangpur All Parties Relief Committee
— 15 centres in Bengal.

20. Bihar Department of Public Health
(Government hospitals, units, dis-
pensaries) — 200 centres in Bihar.

21. All India Institute of Public Health
Hygiene — Bengal.

22. Corporation of Calcutta — 55 clinics
and dispensaries in Bengal.

23. Muslim League Service Committee—
10 in Bengal.

24. Women's Voluntary Services — 4 cen-
tres in Bengal.

25. Birbhum School System — 85 selected schools in Bengal.

26. Khulna District Relief Committee —
65 centres in Bengal.

27. Cochin State (Government hospitals,
units, dispensaries) — 225 centres
in South India.

28. Travancore State — (Government
hospitals, units, dispensaries) —
150 centres in South India.

29. FAU Children's Food Canteens—100
centres in Bengal.

30. Servants of India Society — 10 cen-
tres in Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, South
India — plus many sub-stations.

31. Methodist Missions — 3 centres in
Bengal.

32. Catholic Mission Stations in Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Travancore, Malabar (Bishops Morrow, Crowley, Sullivan and others) — about 35 stations; also many sub-stations. 8 dispensaries operated by American Catholic Bishop of Krisnagar.

DR. H. B. ARBUCKLE, CHM'N BOARD

SHERRARD RICE, GEN. SEC'TY.

SIDNEY CRANE, PRESIDENT

Y. M. C. A.
DAVIDSON COLLEGE
DAVIDSON, N. C.

Jan. 20, 1940

Dr. John R. Mott
230 Park Ave.
New York, N.Y.

Dear Dr. Mott:

All of us who are interested in the religious life of Davidson College are keenly looking forward to your visit to this Campus in April. There is a field of potential Christian leadership here which desperately needs some such challenging voice as your own to awaken us to the need of the world of to-day and to-morrow.

Every year, the Y.M.C.A. has been accustomed to sponsoring a Fall and Spring series of Evangelistic meetings for the student body. Knowing your record with students, we have decided to do away with an additional series this spring, and to concentrate all of our attention upon your visit. Since the Otts Lectures are printed, it may be that you have them already worked out, at least in outline. And it may well be that you have included in them a strong note of evangelistic appeal. In that case, your morning addresses would probably be sufficient for our need.

However, I would like to mention the possibility of securing you for a more informal meeting of some 200 or more students at night -- just as many of your free nights as you would care to give. And in this night meeting, my idea would be for you to share with us those great principles of personal living which have appealed to other students so often in the past. Everything would be done to make these meetings as little additional strain upon you as possible.

I will not take your time with a long description of the need and challenge here, but I assure you that Davidson College, although a Christian Church School, desperately needs such guidance and counsel as you have proved so capable of giving.

I will be glad to write in much more detail as soon as I receive the word from you which will make such a possibility a reality.

International Missionary Council.

Tambaram
Chingleput District
Madras, December 23-1938

Dear Sir,

Your kind and important note of December 20
has overtaken me in the midst of the intensely absor-
bing and exacting task of presiding over our Tambaram
Meeting. My impression is that the Reports to be now
being wrought out here, and which will be published in
due time, will satisfy you that the important questions to which you refer have received thorough
and conscientious attention and that really constructive and enduring work has been accomplished.

with best wishes

Joseph Richards &c
Thycard, Trivandrum
Travancore

Thycaud, Trivandrum

January 4th 1939

Dr John R. Mott
President
International Missionary Council
Tambaram, Madras.
Reverend Sir P.

While thanking you for your very kind note of Decr 23, regret an attack of Asthma, to which I have been subject for over twenty five years, had disabled me from attending to it earlier,

I am glad to observe your impression is that the Reports that are being wrought out in Tambaram will satisfy ... I daresay that some constructive and enduring work has been the accomplishment of the Council there, and it may be in advance of the Reports of the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 or the International Councils of Europe or Jerusalem. Nevertheless I am afraid they may be lacking in the Definite, Clear, Condensed, Comprehensible Message that would commend, connote all to, and conserve them, them in Christ. Surely the Volumes that have resulted from the best endeavours of the Councils do contain enough to establish the superior claims of Jesus the Christ. But what do they mean to the Millions and Millions who do not and could not read them?

And further, as knowledge is infinite, it not highly necessary to come to the central from the circomferential, to the essentials from the nonessentials, to the deeper from the superficial, to the substance from the shadow, to the vital, the fundamental. The kermals and essentials of the mystery of the Revelation of the Infinite, must be so reduced and condensed and clarified that the finite mind of man can easily and fully comprehend. A pamphlet or a booklet that could satisfy the perplexing demands of the Intelligentia

Regret wand of funds cripple me every way. I have a lot of small literature for the non-Christian Intelligence for printing.

Trust this will find you in sound health.

May the Year 1939 be one of real Happiness, Blessedness, and Peace that grants you the deepest vision of the Mystery of the Cross of Calvary- the Mystery of the Immortal!

Yours sincerely

THE SOUL'S LONGING

May the world's present tragedy so constrain the Races
and Nations of the world, that the infinite Love of the Eternal
may refresh and widen the hidden Love-Channels of their hearts,
that their flow may be in such abundance, that the arid wilderness
of Hatred and Vainglory be transformed into a sweet meadow of
mutual Trust, Hope and Charity, that the real meaning and
purpose of human life may be realized as Friendship and
Fellowship — the only two indestructible Ships — that could defy all
the adverse powers of nature and safely sail through the Ocean of
Love to the harbour of the Kingdom of God, where the
Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man shall be its
legitimate realization.

THYCAUD,
TRIVANDRUM.

J. RICHARDS

# THE LAW OF LIFE

BY MR. J. RICHARDS, TRIVANDRAM.

Millions of attempts have been made by millions to find out a solution for the problem of the universe with the result that partial truths have been arrived at tending to greater truths. And yet millions are, and yet shall be, finding explanations which will only be partial and which may be criticised and contradicted by others. The simplicity of the universe is quite unlike the simplicity of the machine. The simplicity of nature is not easily read. It is inexhaustible, inexplicable and inexplicable. The ultimate analysis of the universe is utterly impossible.

But it is admitted on all hands that the whole universe is maintained by laws. That laws are not enigmas but realities and that obedience to laws is constructive and to disobey is destructive. Nay the demands of the laws that govern the universe are inexorable. That although every law is restrained and softened by a counter law the workings of the natural laws in the phenomenal world are of such accuracy, that to question their immutability and universality has come to be counted as sheer madness.

Coming to the subject we observe that Life for Life is the "Law of Life." Confining our thoughts to human life (even though the same law runs through all life) we see it is the vegetable and the animal lives that maintain the physical side of man's being. That as either the vegetable or the animal kingdom or both are indispensably necessary for the maintenance of the material side of man's being so a life of Purity and Holiness is absolutely essential for the sustenance of his spiritual life.

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That it is utterly futile to seek for the life that sustains
the spiritual side of man in the vegetable, animal or man's
kingdoms, but that the life to maintain and develop the spiritual
side, should proceed from the kingdom of God alone. Though
the world for ages believed in sacrifice of vegetable, animal and
man, whether it is according to the Jewish, Hindu, Muslim or
any other system of religion, they were at all times invariably
done in singificance of the life of God, the only source and
maintenance of the spiritual side of man's being.

Is it possible for any student of religion to gainsay the
great fundamental truth underlying the idea of sacrifice, viz.
a sacred symbol, an emblem, a token, a significance, a
representation, a foreshadowing of the sacrifice of God, the
origin and fountain of spiritual life? Can any student ignore
the fact that the Scriptures of other religions also, besides the
Jewish, point out to the sacrifice of the Almighty God? That
the law of spiritual life of man demands the life of God to
support it? That the only real symbol or emblem of a religi-
ous flag is the figure of a man without his head, signifying the
death of a great Holy Being for the redemption of man. That
saints and students of different schools have been long medita-
ting on the songs of avatars or incarnations sung by poets and
seers and prophets until they took a definite form and became
a national, nay, an universal idea, the central conception of the
doctrine being God taking the form of or becoming man—
being born as man, and living and dying as man? That here
lay the real power of the whole movement over the mind and
heart of man the world over.

That it is a tragic fact that sin challenges the power of
God, that evil, presents an entanglement worthy of God and
that the deliverance of man from evil is a problem that demands
or challenges the power of God, are indeed other aspects of the
question which contribute to establish the truth, no thinking

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mind, no man of experience, I humbly own, can fail to observe.
Again, it is universally accepted that low life is selfish and
high life is sacrificial. In man's attempt to trace the highest
life in the universe, he arrives at the life of God. Even the
most ordinary mind will grant that the lowest life in the scale
of being is the most selfish one and the highest is the one that
is controlled by the greatest amount of sacrificial spirit. Man
will, I am confident, even instinctively admit that "the extent
of the elevation of any free moral agent can be infallibly
measured by the degree to which sacrificial love for others
controls that being!" Yes, and God, the Lord of the universe,
who is admitted to be infinite in love, mercy and goodness,
in His relation to man stands as Eternal Father.

Now, dear reader, you cannot gainsay the fact that the
whole universe is maintained by laws and that the law of life
is life for life. That the maintenance of the spiritual side of
man's being is only possible by the life of God which is the only
source and fountain of a sinless life. That God's life being the
highest in the scale of being, He must be the embodiment of
the greatest sacrificial spirit. That evil presents an entanglement
worthy of God and that the deliverance of man is a
problem that challenges the power of God.

That many of the Seers and Saints and Prophets of the
best known religions have foretold the incarnation of God of
which the Jewish Scriptures are most clear and vivid in every
detail about the final and the only real incarnation who came
as the consummation of all sacrifices and the only fulfilment of
the inexorable law of the spiritual life of man. By real incarnation,
I meant the only perfectly sinless life ever lived on earth.
For, I believe, all reasonable minds will agree that God taking
the form of man must be able to maintain (of course as a man
by constant strenuous efforts) the highest moral standard of life,
nay the most sublime, sinless life.

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Dear reader, do you yet doubt that Jesus is the Christ?
That He is the manifestation of the Lord of the Universe? Has
He not revealed to man that the Great Unknown underlying
the phenomena of the universe stands to Him in the relation of
a Father? That parenthood involves great care and vicarious
suffering. That the higher the life in the scale of being the
greater is the obligation towards the off-spring? That pain
increases as life becomes higher? The perfect man would be
the "man of sorrows." That in God there should be the
greatest capacity for pain and suffering?

That if immanence is costly to God incarnation is infinitely
more so? That God cannot keep Himself so near to sin
without suffering the perpetual cross on account of that sin?
That our joys and pains are His. That an immanent God is a
suffering God and an incarnate God by the deeper identification
with man passes into a deeper sympathy and consequently a
deeper suffering than a merely immanent God? That Cross
is the culmination of the identification. That if there is incar-
nation there is identification, and if there is identification there
is suffering?

In brief, and in fine, Jesus Christ points to the unity of all
life. That in the social solidarity of life He stood at the centre
of life to raise all human life with Him. That God and man
met in Him. That as 'Son of Man,' mankind suffered with
Him, as 'Son of God,' God suffered in Him. That in this
synthesis of suffering the lower life is raised by the higher.
That Jesus stands quite unique in His claims that He asserts
He is the "Bread of life" that "He came from Heaven to give
His life" for humanity and that in the culmination of His
Sacrificial Love on the Cross of Calvary His claim as the only
fulfilment of the indispensable Law of the spiritual life of man
is once and for ever established.

Albion Press, Madras.

# X'mas and New Year Messages.

O Holy Night of Christmas Tide,
When glorious Heav'n to Earth drew nigh,
Whose brightness did Earth's darkness chide,
And new resplendence filled the sky;

Surely hast thou brought tidings good
Saints for Ages were looking to,
The Message of Peace the Wise would
With joy receive and gladness too.

List ! heav'nly host of Angels sing;
"Glory to God in Heaven's height,
Peace on Earth the bright welkin ring,
Good-will to all who stand for Light"

O Blessed Babe of Bethlehem,
Thy cradle is our wond'rous shrine,
And of all in times past, and them
That e'er shall walk this Earth of Thine.

Grant the world the true vision's peak,
That God in Thee to Earth revealed,
That He through Thee to man did speak,
And from sin and Death him relieved.

That His is the Language of Love—
The Language of the Soul Divine—
Which mind's best intellectual move
Never can attain to divine.

'Tis Soul's lucent wisdom that grants
The ears the Language of God hear;
The Cause depends and on Christ stands,
Who born in man the fruit can bear.

The psychic currents of the Soul
Will then, with Christ, be born in man,
And then in him will shine the Soul,
Which grant the vivid wisdom can.

God and His Truth are nowhere else
In the Universe as in Christ;
Who has realized God in Christ
Is greater than anyone else.

But shameful 'tis that Christendom
Sadly failed to know God in Him,
And worse it is than Pagandom
Having the grip lost of the Helm.

May the world's present tragedy so constrain the
Races and Nations of the world at the dawn of the
eventful New Year 1944, that the Infinite Love of
the Eternal, may refresh and widen the hidden
Love-Channels of their hearts, that their flow may
be in such abundance, that the arid wilderness of
Hatred and Vainglory, be transformed into a sweet
meadow of mutual Trust, Hope and Charity, that
the real meaning and purpose of human life may
be realized as Friendship and Fellowship—the
only two indestructible ships that could defy all
the adverse powers of nature and safely sail
through the Ocean of Love to the Harbour of the
Kingdom of God where the fatherhood of God and
the Brotherhood of man shall be its legitimate
realization.

Thycaud,
Trivandrum.

J. Richards.

# ANTINOMIANISM.

It is admitted on all hands that Christendom is
not Christian and I have been, for a considerable length
of time, trying to know the reason thereof. And one of
the causes that appeared to me, and a vital one too, is the
perversion of the Pauline doctrine of Justification by
Faith, and the consequent unconscious assimilation of
Antinomianism which means "the belief that Christians
are emancipated by the Gospel from the obligation to
keep the moral law."

Ah! Antinomianism,
Thou art an awful perversion,
Of the Pauline doctrine-ism
Of Christian justification.

Ah! what among men hast thou done,
Who by the great name of Christ go?
What seeds of lie and deceit sown,
To make millions the wrong way gol

Millions in thy trap hast thou caught,
Misleading countless from the Truth—
Paul, of justification, taught—
Which meant a Christ-like life in sooth.

Ah! what demoralising thought,—
Confounding the simple Gospel,
Hast thou in thy perversion brought,—
The plain Truth of Christ to dispel.

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Hast thou not eaten, oh! Monster,
Into the vitals of Christ's Truth —
The world's most supreme — that foster
The best religious Truth on earth?

Cease thou oh deceitful Monster!
Subtly perverting Christendom —
Luring Christians from their Master,
With thy deluding conundrum.

Ah! into what devil's cover
Hast thou been led, oh Christendom?
Thou art made salt without savour,
Fit to be trodd'n by Heathendom!

Wake up, noble Christian nations,
To your high calling, your prestige;
Shake off the strategic notions,
And follow your Master's vestige.

Else art thou only a disgrace
To Him who gave His life for thee;
A curse to man, instead of grace,
To whom a blessing thou shouldst be.

'Tis thine — the great prerogative,
To bring the whole world to Jesus,
The Way, the Light, the Life active —
The end and aim of all Causes.

J. RICHARDS.

HEDONISM.

Another reason that appeared to me why Christendom is not Christian is the unconscious appropriation of Hedonism which means in brief, "In ethics, the doctrine that happiness is the highest good," the pleasant enjoyment of a luxurious or a comfortable life.

Ah! Hedonism thou deluding ill,
Thou art misguiding the whole human thought
Into ruinous selfseeking and dost kill,
All noble visions of Life man e'er caught.

Thou hast taught happiness the highest good,
Which made all men and Nations self centred—
Seeking life's pleasures as best as they could—
Crushing all selfless thoughts their brains entered.

How sad, how disgraceful, it is that man
The highest creation of the Almighty,
Whose legitimate path here is pain, can
Crave for Ease, Rest, Joy—and turn so petty!

Become cowards—craving for all comfort—
The best wardrobe, the best meal, and dwelling,
Riding the rights of many they transport—
All their noble aspirations quelling.

What baneful doctrine teachest thou to mean
Eudemonism to be the sure test,
Of righteousness or of rectitude keen,
When in truth Altruism is the test.

How utterly false it is that the good
Shall as palm trees grow and their rich offspring
E'er around their plentiful table would
Gather; and like tender Olive plants spring.

The righteous, on the contrary, shall e'er
Be prepared to stand for Truth, and the Poor,
The Orphans, the destitute, and suffer—
To right the wrong and all the ills to cure.

The greatest educating, enobling,
Force of Nature and of Spiritual Realm,
In pain and grief is seen—and controlling
The low desires of earth to hold the helm.

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The legitimate lot of the righteous
Is none but obloquy, opposition;
As their life on earth is very precious,
To redeem man from his low position.

For they know that suffering for others
Is the noblest thing in human creatures—
The great discipline to elevate man,
As nothing else in the world ever can.

Ah! Hedonism, art thou not the seat,
The cause, the source, the fount, of all evil—
The root of malice, of hatred—the heat
That fuses wars—military, civil?

Thou art responsible for the ghastly
Realities of most brutal slaughter
Of crores and crores of men most hastily—
Their stinking frames to carrion crows cater.

Ah! What pen can describe the hideousness,
The stupidity, the mere vanity,
Abomination, and devilishness,
Of war,—the result of sore enmity?

Hedonism, thou art the baneful root,
The subtle foot-pad whose carnal passions
Unduly develop to wrongful loot,
Against all rightful human relations.

Ah! Christian Nations where have you been led,
By a philosophy which is Pagan,
Hindu Jewish, Muslim, with which you're fed,
And which against Christ remains a slogan?

Awake Christendom—Thy Master bleedeth!
Arise, from thy stupor and stand by Him
For Love, For Peace, for Service, that heedeth
Every word that proceedeth from Him.

Thy philosophy is Altruism—
The highest ethics the world ever had—
That transcends the laws of ev'ry ism;
Standing for Truth, the right Christian Standard.

J. Richards.

Sagaya Press.

# A Happy New Year to All

May the dawning of the New Year,
Fill your hearts with sweet renewings
Of your brightest hopes and cheer.
And prosper you in all your doings.

It is not pessimism. kind Reader, to recall the autho-
ritative assertion of Nietzsche, this morning, the deep
disquisitions of whose philosophy had reached the rock
bottom vision that the real life of an ideal man was not
one of adaptation to pain but that it was one of continual
pain all throughout. Yes. and the perfect man was a
"Man of Sorrows". And does it appear Strange. Tragic,
Perplexing? Is it an appalling mysterv. yet an everlasting
fact that goodness in all moral natures has a doom of
bleeding upon it, and it conquers only as it bleeds? What
Nietzsche had paradoxically perceived—nay experienced
had been the experience of millions who had had the
ideal life for their goal.

Where, friend, where can we find the meaning of
and the key to this, but in the Lord of the Uuiverse, the
Projector and Preserver of it all, who is Love? And surely
it was Love, the breath of God, the pulsation of His
Being, that created everything, that the whole Universe
might move in tune to its one vibrant note Love. He the
Lord of all, is the All in all, and all His all is Love which
is the secret of all true life.

And what is Love but Service, Suffering, Death,
which was manifested to the world in and through Jesus
whose heart throbbed at the sin and suffering of the
world, the Uunique One who revealed the culmination of
His redemptive Love on the Cross of Calvary and whose

"Love is a circle that doth ceaseless move
In the same sweet eternity of Love"

which gently awakens the human heart in responsive
Love to the All Lover "in whom we live and move and
have our being".

J. Richards.

The Sagaya Press, Palamcottah.

A X'mas and Aelw year Message

Where's He who is born King of Kings
And Lord of Lords over all things?
Shall we Him in palaces seek
Where earthly Kings their dwellings keep?

Is He in stately mansions found
Where all earthly comforts abound,
And Hedonism reigns suprere
With passions and desires and crime?

Is He among great Princes seen
Where warriors for their fame are keen,
Where vanities their hearts control
And selfishness their highest goal?

Oh, no, He the great King of Kings
Who is supreme in supreme things
In manger lone in Bethlehem,
 Wrapped round in swaddling clothes, is seen!

Wonderful! — a mystery all,
In swaddling clothes the Lord of all
Is laid on the coarse bed of straw,
To wonder great of all who saw!

Strange paradox—Magi from East
This forlorn Baby do worship,
The Angels in choir sing sweet,
Shepherds come heeding no hardship!

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Oh! how, the Universe attests
The advent of the most Divine—
The Magi's coarse the star arrests
Angel hosts rejoice in Heaven.

Come, all ye Nations of the Earth,
Let us in all sincerity
Join hands— from East, West, South and North,
In intellectual honesty!

Let us to face this Babe make bold
Praying God the Truth to reveal
And inspire all the same to hold
In Wisdom, Love, and Holy Zeal.

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Ah! Brother Jew, seest thou not in Christ
The Divine Martyr thou blindly slewest,
The identity of the Messiah,
Foretold in your Scriptures by Isiah?

"Wonderful Counsellor, The mightily God,
Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace,
The increase of whose Government and peace
There shall not be any end upon earth"

Brother Hindu, fairest thou to perceive
The fulfilment of Scriptures you preserve,
In Christ, the highest revelation of God,
Which is worthy of all pure minds to hold?

Buddhist dear, discernest thou not in Christ
The One who is unique from all the rest—
Real identity of the Highest—
Ethical progress couldn't reach at best?

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Brother Islam, who is Jesus the Christ
Whom Quran grants is the Holy Spirit
Of Allah, born of virgin Mother pure,
And transcending all beings, to be sure?

Did He not control the realm of Nature,
Is He not the Master of the future,
Has He not had power o'er sin and death,
Has He not solved all the ills of the Earth?

Is He not the Unique King who could shake,
All the Kingdoms of blood and fear to dust,
And the Kingdom of Love and safety make,
Where Brotherhood and Peace shall rule at last?

Why not, then, Friends, accept Him as the Truth,
The Way, the Light, the whole world needs in sooth?
Indeed, worthy is He as King of Kings,
And Lord of Lords over all supreme things!

Ye Nations, Crown Him, Crown Him Lord of all,
True Mailed hands of Might leadeth men to thrall,
The Nailed Hand of Love healeth all alike:
Hail Him Alone Saviour and King alike!

Almighty Father,—Ah! Infinite Love,
Inspire Christendom of its Parody—
Ah! its present terrible tragedy!
Grant it may know Thee in Christ—in Him move.

In the inevitableness of Life
May it realise Christ its solution;—
Else unavoidable spoliation—
In utter destruction shall end its strife!

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May the dawning of the eventfnl NEW
YEAR 1945, with the world's present terrible
tragedy, adequately wake up the Races and
Nations of the world from their Ignorance,
and Delusion, and the consequent unconscious
Smug Ease and Self-complacency and inspire
them to squarely face the most imminent
question -- what is the meaning and purpose
of Human Life - "Why should a man Live?"
And may the most heart-rending, solemn sacri-
fice of the Millions and Millions of precious
Lives - Lives so Beautiful, so Loving, so Noble,
so daring to stand for nobler things, - Lives
of innocent children - of helpless women-grant
them the intellectual honesty, resulting in the
daringness of the mind for Truth, the robustness
of the heart for the labyrinth, until Love, the
most powerful Force of all the forces of the
world - Love the Source, the Origin and
Fountain of all Intelligence, Wisdom and
Knowledge - grants the greatest, the gravest
and the deepest Divinely constructive vision
that the whole Universe was created in and
for Love by the Eternal Who is Infinite Love.

Patton Thycaud,
Trivandrum.

J. Richards

Bharath Press, Trivandrum.

# THE BRIDAL WINE CUP

"Pledge with Wine!" "Pledge with wine!" cried young and thoughtless Harney Wood. "Pledge with wine!" ran through the bridal party.

The beautiful bride grew pale: the decisive hour had come. She pressed her white hands together, and the leaves of the bridal wreath trembled on her brow. Her breath came quicker and her heart beat wilder.

"Yes, Marian, lay aside your scruples for this once", said the judge in a low tone, going toward his daughter. "The company expects it. Do not so seriously infringe upon the rules of etiquette. In your own home do as you please, but in mine for this once, please me."

Pouring a brimming cup they held it with tempting smiles, toward Marian. She was very pale though composed; and her hand shook not, as, smiling back, she gracefully accepted the crystal temptor and raised it to her lips. But scarcely had she done so when every hand was arrested by her piercing exclamation of "O how terrible!"

"What, is it?" cried one and all, thronging together, for she had slowly carried the glass at arm's length, and was fixedly regarding it.

"Wait" she answered, while a light which seemed inspired, shone from her dark eyes—"Wait, and I will tell you." "I see," she added, slowly pointing one finger at the sparkling ruby liquid, "a sight that beggars all description, and yet listen! I will paint it for you if I can. It is a lovely spot. Tall mountains crowned with verdure rest in awful sublimity around; a river runs through and bright flowers grow to the waters edge. But there a group of Indians gather. They flit to and fro, with something like sorrow upon their dark brows. Among them lies a manly form, but his cheek how deathly! His eyes are wild with fitful fire of fever. One friend stands before him—nay, I should say, kneels, he is pillowing that poor head upon his breast.

"Oh, the high, noble-looking brow! Why should death mark it, and he so young? See him clasp his hands. Hear his thrilling shrieks for life. Mark how he clutches at the form of his companion imploring to be saved. O, hear him call piteously his father's name! See him twine his fingers together as he shrieks for his sister, his only sister the twin of his soul, weeping for him in his distant native land.

"See," she exclaimed, while the bridal party shrank back, the untasted wine trembling in their hands and the judge fell overpowered upon his seat—"see! his arms are lifted to heaven he prays—how wildly!—for mercy. Hot fever runs through his veins. Now he moves not; his eyes are set in their sockets. In vain his friend whispers the names of father and sister, death is there—death and no soft hand, no gentle voice to sooth him. His head sinks back on convulsive shudder—he is dead!"

A groan ran through the Assembly, so vivid was her description, so unearthly her look, so inspired her manner, that what she described

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seemed actually to have taken place then and there. They noticed also
that the bridegroom with his face in his hands, and was weeping.

"Dead", she repeated, her lips quivering and her voice more
broken. And there they scope him a grave and there without a
shroud, they lay him down in that damp, reeking earth, the only son
of a proud father, the only idolized brother of a fond sister. There
he lies my father's son, my own twin brother, a victim to this deadly
poison." "Father", she exclaimed, turning suddenly, while the tears
rained down her beautiful cheeks—"Father shall I drink now?"

The form of the old judge was convulsed with agony. He raised
not his head, but in a smothered voice faltered: "No, no, my child,
no!" She lifted the glittering goblet, and let it suddenly fall to the
floor where it was dashed in a thousand pieces. Many a tearful eye
watched her movement, and instantly every wine glass was transferred
to the marble table from which it had been served. Then as she looked
at the fragments of crystal she turned to the company, saying,
"Hereafter let no friend who loves me tempt me to peril my soul for
wine. Not firmer are the everlasting hills than my resolve, God helping
me never to touch or to taste the poison cup. And he to whom I
have given my hand, who watched over my brother's dying form in
that last solemn hour and buried the dear wanderer there by the river
in that land of Gold, will I trust, sustain me in that resolve."

"His glistening eyes, his sad, sweet smile, were his answer to her.
The judge left the room. Then, an hour later, he returned and with
a more subdued manner took part in the entertainment of the bridal
guests. No one could fail to read that he had determined to banish
the enemy from his princely home."

Dear reader, who yet finds pleasure to "pledge with wine", do
you not see the sad end of the mournful story of your dear brother?
The untimely end of a life so youthful, so noble, so loving? Your
brother! Yes, I say, dear reader, your brother! For caste and sect
and division are confined to the animal kingdom only where caste to
caste and kind to kind alone unity and harmony and progress are
possible.

Provided you fail to see your brother in the dirty, famished, hag-
gard human form, clad in rags tattered and torn, ruined by alcohol
destitute of relations, friends and home, it is, dear reader, if you will,
for God's sake and for truth's sake forgive my audacity and overlook
the bluntness of my statement, I will take the liberty to say, because
you are yet between the "Indifferent" and "Legal" stages of life
where achievement of anything really noble is impossible. If the
mists of custom, conventionalism and prejudice yet delude your right
vision of your degraded brother in the street, do you not see a loving,
noble, sister in the beautiful bride, in the midst of a gay company, who
inspires you to rise to the right focal distance of your mental vision
to perceive your brother in the drunkard; and seeing, to feel the
great responsibility to do all in your power to rescue and redeem him,
which is, doubtless, the great end of a noble life, the highest creation
of the infinite God?

J. R.

HOGARTH PRESS, MADRAS. — 2000 — 7-31.

# THE TOBACCO DEMON

May I, in all humility and earnestness place the following truths for the serious consideration and immediate acceptance of all those who are in the clutches of all or any of the triune demon: opium, alcohol, and tobacco in any form :—

Dr. Russel T. Trall in his famous lecture on the scientific basis of Vegetarianism delivered at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Vegetarian Society, held in Philadelphia on 19-9-1860, speaking of America, expressed as follows :—

> "Leaving foreign relations to themselves, how is it with us? What is the prospect of permanent prosperity in our country, which an eloquent senator has well pronounced "The most glorious country that the sun has ever shone upon."

Is there anything at work like a canker-worm in the bud of the gigantic oak, eating out the vital stamina of our people, sapping the very foundations of life and thus undermining our social and political fabric? Indeed, there is. There are many such things. Turkey, not long since a powerful nation, is now dying of narcotic poisons. The swarming millions of China are becoming rapidly demoralized and deteriorated with opium. And who is so bound that he cannot see that the four great and powerful nations of the earth—England, France, Russia and the United States—are taking a serpent to their bosoms, yea, many serpents, which are bound ere long to have their best heart’s blood, unless they in some way, and that speedily, rid themselves of them? It is enough to name the triune demon, alcohol, opium and tobacco. These physiological fiends are just so sure to sink all of these mighty Empires to barbarism, sooner or later, provided the people generally persist in their use, as effect is sure to follow cause; so surely as there is law in the universe; so surely as God reigns. In our own country the tobacco plague is more than any other single cause, working the ruin of the race. It is deadening the vitality of our people at a fearful rate. It is besotting the old, corrupting the middle-aged, and blighting the young. It is transforming the very breath of man into a source of disease and depravity. "God breathed into man the breath of life, and man became a living soul." Man takes tobacco into his mouth and fills the whole air with the seeds of death. The tobacco using habit is causing man—the highest and no. blest work of the Infinite God—to smoke out contagion from his nostrils; to expectorate miasm from his lungs; to perspire poison from his skin; and to exhale pestilence at every pore, where ever he goes or stays. It is making the atmosphere of our cities rank with the vapours of death. It is attaining all the air of the country, slowly, insidiously, yet surely and effectually; as the vampire abstracts the vital current from the sleeping victim it paralyses the moral sense and perverts the intellect, so that the besotted devotee has often no desire

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to reform; and even no realizing sense of his filthiness; no shame for his depravity and no sorrow for his degradation. And the most melancholy and alarming feature of this matter is found in the fact that this habit of tobacco.using is spreading. It is rapidly increasing among all classes, not even excepting the female of our country—our ladies and young women—and especially the young men. And, more than all, the Press is against us. Statesmen applaud tobacco raising as a great and desirable branch of national industry. Our agricultural papers commend and foster tobacco culture as they do grain, or cotton or fruit culture. Scarcely a Newspaper in all the land exerts its influence except to encourage tobacco.using. It is but a few months since a dozen pages of that hight-toned New England Magazine the *Atlantic Monthly*—were devoted to an elaborate, ingenious, deceptive, and sophistical argument in favour of the habits of chewing and smoking tobacco; and it is but a few weeks since the *New York Tribune*—that pre-eminently reformatory paper. published an article in which the practice of smoking tobacco in Central Park was not only justified and commended, but those who objected to it were held up to ridicule! Such lamentable defections on the part of those periodicals from which we had a right to expect better things—where we had a right to expect, if not assistance, in staying this rapidly gathering tide of desolation, at least neutrality—are the most discouraging of all the sad signs of the times.

If the *Atlantic Monthly* and the *New York Tribune* are thus recreant to truth, to God, to humanity, to decency, what or whom can we trust against the seductions of this all pervading destroyer ?

Suppose this tobacco.using habit is to go on increasing, and what is to hinder it ? In a few generations all will use tobacco. Then it will require no prophet's ken to pronounce the doom of the nation. When there is not one person left in all the land uncontaminated with the vile weed ; not one righteous to call sinners to repentance ; when each is to his neighbour a fellow poisoner, the journey to the gates of the City of Perdition will not be slow.

And we who do not choose to use this narcotic; those of us who would be free of the curse; those of us who are unwilling to injure ourselves and then transmit to our offspring the curse of a perverted instinct and a depraved organization, are poisoned with it in spite of all that we can do. Indeed we are tobacco users, though not willingly.

We must breathe or we cannot live. And we are compelled to breathe such air as surrounds us. If all the air is pervaded with to. bacco-smoke, we are obliged to inhale it *nolens volens*. If we converse with a person, his lungs poison us. If we even sit very near to him, our lungs receive the foul infections that constantly emanate from his nostrils. And our breathing apparatus, instead of expanding to the utmost to receive so much as possible of the vital air, is forced to waste a portion of its powers in contending with this poison. Instead

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of employing all its energies in purifying and aerating the blood, replenishing the tissues and supplying the brain with the elements of pure thoughts and moral sensations, its powers are wasted in a warfare against tobacco. And in its constant efforts to resist its entrance into the organic domain, our lungs and the whole chest grow more and more contracted, and become gradually narrow, smaller, and feebler; so that we who would be pure and strong and long lived; we who do not wish to leave this world until we can see that it is better, and not worse for our having lived in it, have no chance at all.

And thus we are thrown upon this only alternative. We must either stop the tobacco using habit in others, or we must follow them in the downward career. We must reform them or they will deform us."

Dear readers, What does Dr. Trall mean ? Does he mean what he says ? Is it the product of a prejudiced mind—the outcome of perversion and prepossession ? Or is there truth in his statements ? Are they not entirely and wholly true ? Is not Dr Trall dead yet ? Does he still speak ? Yes, he still speaks. speaks with great power and authority. For, "the lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment." Yes truth is immortal, eternal and thanks be to God for Russel. T. Trall, for he speaketh yet ! "Those who have ears to hear let them her," Brothers, do you hear the Truth ? If you do, act it ; so that you may hear more and more of Truths, that your perception may become finer and finer till you have heard and known all the Truth you are created for. No gross matter has intelligence in its own essence. It is the finer body, the spiritual body of man, that has the intelligence to hear Truths. Let not tobacco, the Demon, pollute, demoralize, detericrate or degenerate you.

Your humble servant,

J. RICHARDS.

HOGARTH PRESS, MADRAS.—2000—7-31.

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December 5, 1947

My dear Dr. Mott:

When your wonderful gift arrived a short time ago, a mental picture immediately came to mind. Way back in 1903 when my father was convalescing from the terrible hemorrhage suffered, you called during your first visit to Honolulu, when you and your wife were visiting Arthur and Eleanor Wood. You sat out on the piazza of our old home telling my father of the Student Volunteer Movement, arousing his keen interest, so that he passed that interest on to his sons and daughter, and they have followed the career of John R. Mott through all these years. I have more than appreciated the wonderful work and life which he has lived. You can therefore know how honored I felt to receive the gift of your books, and so appreciated your remembrance of me.

We still, to a large extent, keep in touch with you through the International Missionary Council, and only last week received a letter from Galen Fisher asking for further funds to finance Merle Davis' coming research work in Africa. How many corners of the globe you have touched during your long life! - a blessing to all mankind.

May we send to you and Mrs. Mott our very heartiest Season's Greetings and Aloha nui, and that you may bless the world for many years to come.

Your friend,