But it is no small matter to weaken by internal quarrels the most inflencial group of religious forces, that brought American prohibition and pressed through to victory the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armaments and Far East Problems. I claim to be a true “fundamentalist" myself. I stand on what have long been considered the four great foundations of orthodoxy: 1. The deity and atonement of Jesus Christ. 2. The plenary inspiration of the Bible. 3. The regeneration of the individual. 4. Future eternal rewards and punishments. I deny, without bitterness, any man's right to add as a "fifth wheel" to that divine chariot, any of the views of Christ's second coming about which equally good men have differed since Paul wrote First and Second Thessalonians as the first books of the New Testament to correct the error of those who thought the second coming was near at hand, as group after group has been thinking for twenty centuries. Premillenarians are a lovable and very serviceable group so far as they are not prevented by that view from working while they "watch" to make not only their neighbors but their neighborhood more and more Christian. Even on the four foundations I have named not all devout and spiritual men in the evangelical churches are agreed in every detail. The virgin birth of Christ does not trouble me at all, partly because every birth is a miracle, and partly because a different. birth in the case of Christ from that of other men seems to harmonize with His exceptional career, as we expect great deeds from great men. It would be harder for me to believe that one whose matchless life and matchless words and matchless influence form the supreme miracle of the ages began in a natural birth like other men. But I do not see any crime or sin, to be abusively condemned, in the fact that some body dares to differ with me on that or any other subject. I will argue for my view, but I will not abuse the man I cannot persuade. The supreme duty of the Church of God at this hour is to promote peace; first, individual peace through Christ in the heart. And let us not forget that individual peace is cast out when there is abuse of others—a form of personal war that may be worse than blows. The Church should promote peace within itself-not the peace of indifference but of courteous toleration. The churches, or in any case the Christians, are bound to promote peace and brotherhood in the town where they dwell, between classes, sects, and races. And this will help a little to promote peace with justice among nations. Harmony is not necessarily desirable. It may be the harmony of indifference or cowardly compromise. Let us agree only when we can without what seems to us surrender of principle, but in all other cases let us agree to disagree and even to fight without bitterness, "with malice toward none, with charity for all." For love, my brothers, was this planet fashioned, So pray I morn and eve to God, the Planner, On Roosevelt's Birthday, October 27, 1922, Mr. Jas. T. Williams, Jr., editor of the Boston Transcript, urged a return to Roosevelt's foreign policy which he defined in these words: "Do NOT GET INTO A FIGHT IF YOU CAN HONESTLY AVOID IT. IF YOU GET IN, SEE IT THROUGH.” THE BEST TEXTBOOK FOR A STUDY OF THE PRACTICABILITY AND METHOD OF ASSOCIATING NATIONS FOR A GOVERNED WORLD IS AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET PREPARED BY THE AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY, COLO. BLDG., WASHINGTON, D. C. (25 cts., postpaid) ENTITLED: "FEDERAL CONVENTION, AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ADEQUATE TO ITS PURPOSE. HISTORY, SIGNIFICANCE, DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ONE SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION -THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." IT SHOULD BE STUDIED BY ADULT BIBLE CLASSES AND CLUBS AND AMERICANIZATION GROUPS TO SHOW PATRIOTS NOT ONLY THE NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION BUT ALSO ITS VALUE AS A PATTERN FOR A UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD, NOW A NECESSITY OF LIFE TO CIVILIZATION. A TEN-MINUTE PRELUDE OF SUCH STUDY IN BIBLE CLASSES AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES AND COLLEGE CHAPELS MIGHT SAVE THE WORLD FROM THREATENED COLLAPSE AND CHAOS. Bankers' National Convention, Oct. 2, 1922, asked cooperation by U. S. in reconstruction of our upset world: "We believe that the time has come for the Government of this country to formulate the principles on which it will be able to cooperate with other nations to bring about the needed rehabilitation of European countries and peace in the world.” Those who desire to collect and consider all good suggestions to promote peace should write to Mr. J. W. Hamilton, 147 Kent St., St. Paul, Minn, for his free leaflets on that subject. "The Turk returns to Europe and is in every way in a better situation than he has been since the end of the first Balkan War," says The Outlook editorially in issue of October 18, 1922. And that means that Armenians and Americans are in a worse situation, and history will no doubt lay the blame on U. S. in that having put our hand to the plough with our Allies we allowed half a dozen Senators, playing petty politics with the world's agony, to defeat the desire of a hundred million. That the nation believes we should rejoin our Allies in some world association is shown in recent action of churches and bankers alike. The effort of foreigners to break down American Constitutional prohibition by smuggling, which many foreign nations are allowing, if not encouraging, in their nationals, is becoming not only a serious menace to law and order but also to international amity. And our good neighbor Canada is one of the worst offenders. F. J. Lissman & Co., stock brokers, New York City, sent to their customers in 1922 a circular stating that Canada imported only two million dollars worth of liquor in 1919, but thirtytwo millions in 1921. This means one hundred millions, says the circular letter, at "export price" and has "certainly helped to regulate" Canadian exchange. In other words, Canada money has gone to par partly through the smuggling of liquors into the United States. It is time for our people to press the State Department to stronger protest to all foreign powers. Their good folks will help. There should also be a mighty protest from all true humanitarians in every land against the action of the League of Nations (whose work has mostly been wise, but weak because of our "vacant chair") against the substitution of "control" for "prohibition" in the Versailles Treaty that ended the World War, in which treaty prohibition was decreed for all areas inhabited mainly by uncivilized races which Christian nations were named to supervise under "mandates"-not to exploit but to uplift. Mr. Guy Hayler, President of the World Prohibition Federation, on making protest, gets reply that "the prohibition areas established prior to the Convention (that is the Versailles Treaty) would be maintained and thoroughly enforced, and most drastic restrictions would be carried out in other areas." That should satisfy no one who believes treaties should not be torn up as "scraps of paper." Restriction means license, and license means permission, not prohibition. The opium question is a serious one both nationally and internationally. The latest book on the subject "The Black Candle," by Judge Emily F. Murphy, of Canada, is published by Revell at $2. Those interested to do some real fighting against this evil should ask the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade, 2 Bethune Ave., Friern Barnet N. 11, London, Eng., and the International Anti-Opium Association, Peking, and the International Reform Bureau, Washington, D. C., to put their names on lists for their bulletins, "We estimate that there are twelve millions of boys and girls of Protestant parentage of school age (5 to 18) without any Sunday school instruction," says the Presbyterian Sunday School Board in a letter to the author dated Oct. 24, 1922. The chief reason is lack of capable and devoted teachers. If the strong men who serve on |