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Show THE PRESS-BULI.ETI- N ' . NORTHERN BAPTISTS MASSING FORCES IN (100,000,000 DRIVE ; By LUPTON WILKINSON. The 10,686 churches which constitute the Northern Baptist Convention are moving forward this spring In a program termed by their leaders one of the most significant unified advances a Christian body has ever made. Thirty-fou- r state convention headquarters are teeming with activity and the entire strength of the denomination Is marshalled, ready for a task whose size may well be called staggering. it is now nine months since the as-sembled 'national delegates of the Northern Baptists met In Denver and after providing entirely new and mod-ern churth organization machinery set the face of 2,000,000 people toward a Ive year effort, necessitating expendi-tures that will total at least $100,000,-00- - The urgency of the world situa-tion, viewed from the Christian stand-point and made clear In detail to the convention through a 150-pag- e Item-ised survey of the field's needs, has worked like multiplying leaven. Thou-sands upon thousands of copies of that survey have been distributed In an-swer to Individual written requests. The denominational program Is known officially as the New World Movement of Northern Baptists. It Is defined as "an attempt to apply vigor-ously the principles of Christianity to the problems confronting the world." The shadow of many Ills, the stresses and pain of humanity, struggling to give a new order birth after the cata-clysm of war has swept away old standards and safeguards, are the ba-sic urges behind the Baptist effort. The churches involved, believing the call to service imperative and fated only to grow larger, have decided to' pledge the entire $100,000,000 Baptist fund in one financial "drive" between April 21 and May 2. My purpose here is not to discuss the task Involved In the raising of such a sum. The Im-petus of aid and from nu-merous other denominations working together In the Interchurch World Movement will aid the Baptists greatly In their money campaign, a larger one than any other denomination faces this spring. What must Interest the general pub-lic in considering the huge undertak-ing are some very practical questions. Through what - channels does the church hope to effect the application of the Christian Ideal and the Chris-tian machinery toward a lessening of unrest? How clearly and wisely have the church leaders viewed the situa-tion? Do they work with a seeing vi-sion of the tremendous ground, phys-ically and spiritually speaking, that they must; cover? How definite and concrete ajatfans?' ' No oneoVwreaa the report of the Field feuryey Committee of the Northern Baptist Convention can rea-sonably doubt, the earnestness with which the men behind, the New World Movement are strivlng to be practical. The- scope - of ,the. Americanization plans Indicates the trend. Children In the Sunday-school- s will be asked to treat the children of the foreign-bor- n as friends. Baptisi women will be asked to cultivate friendship as Ind-ividuals with foreJgn-bor- n women. Mis-sions will --be established In mining, manufacturing and logging districts where the native proportion of the population Is small. Speaking of "future citizens," the report of the committee says : "We cannot honestly preach to them and teach them national Ideals If we are silent while they, because they are strangers, are being exploited. It Is our Christian duty to assist in tbe bet-tering of factory conditions, standards of employment for women in industry, living conditions of foreigners and so-cial, educational, civic and religious opportunities for the forelgn-eer- .' From Czeche-Slevakl- a, from Japan, from the heart of Mohammedan Af-rica, observers have been writing In unanimous agreement that conditions abroad are even mere unsettled than in America. The belief ef the church that the Christian ideal ts the one" so-lution will make itself felt through an Investment of practically $10,000,000 for new equipment In foreign mission fields. This will be In addition to nor-mal operating expenses. Plans include the sending out of 228 new missionary families and 176 single women mis-sionaries and the erection of 188 mis-sionary residences, 241 missionary schools, T6 dormitories, 75 church buildings, 5 industrial schools end 19 hospitals. In China, one of many mission fields, five new high schools for girls will be established. "An intelligent woman-hood is absolutely necessary for the permanent regeneration and Chrlstlan-Izatlo- n of the Orient," says the report which led to this plan's adoption. One domestic trend of the New World Movement will be a steady hammering on the problem of minis-ters' salaries. The average salary of the 8.823 ordained Baptist ministers in the United States is $1.87 a day, or $683 a year. Only eight out of every hundred receive as much as $1,500 a year. Many amusing and appealing letters have been received since It became known that a determined educational campaign to remedy this condition Is under way. One letter from Peru, Ind., Bays : "In my opinion the greatest finan-cier of the times is not Frank Vander-li- p or J. Plerpont Morgan. The wife of the average minister has all of the great financiers of the country beaten to a standstill. If the same degree of efficient management as has prevailed In the ministerial household could be applied to our Industrial and political Institutions we could successfully com. pete in the markets of the world and come off victors." In none of the welfare features of he Baptist program will the evange-lea- l note be subordinated. Dr. J. T. Altchlson,' director of the General Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention, has summed up as follows the keynote spirit of the ef-fort: - "It Is always necessary to remember that neither money nor buildings nor additional workers serve to express the terms of the New World Mov-ement It Is not a campaign. It Is the advance of an ideal. The raising of the money and the spending of the money are Incidental to the supreme task of offering Christianity like a healing bandage to the wounds of the world. "We are going forward on the theo-ry that the denomination or the church or the man who hangs back now, 1 what President Roosevelt would have called a 'pussy-footer- .' Where Chris-tianity dominates, there cannot be lust and greed and hate. Certainly there cannot b Bolshevism." EDITORIALS (By I. H. Masters.) CHILD AND HOME. 1 There is no doubt about the value that Jesus' appraisal puts upon, the child. The Christian conception of the home and the child would make the former function for the fundamental pro-tection and development of the latter. Home was made for the hild. Our system of education throws our children into contact with our neighbor's children, provides opportunity for continuous and methodical instruction, recognizes the duty o the state to educate its potential citizenship. Yet the home is in a most real sense the real educator. What books are on our home library shelf? What records are used on our victrolas? What pictures ire on our walls? What periodicals do we read and place within reach of our children? How closely do we. follow the history and geography and other text books our children use? Because our public school system is highly organized, the Christian home has only a greater duty to sweeten and chasten and supplement and round out the mental processes and equipment of our own dear ones. , Therefore parents should cultivate the acquaintance of the teachers of our boys and girls, should follow the deliberations of our boards of education, should take vital interest in the elec- - tion and selection of school commissioners, in the choice of text books, should visit the schools, should be intelligent on the ques-tion of teachers' salaries, and should wrestle with the great problem of religious education in connection with our schools. Our system of religious education revolves around the church and properly so. The progress made here is evident to all. THE TREATY. Humiliated nationally, by the senate, we can but hope that the world will not judge the American people by the actions of those senators who misrepresent us at Washington. The great admiration, the feeling of fellowship that our soldier boys won by their superb achievements on the battle fields of France have been frittered away. Our nation has been humiliated by the buffoonery of the strong arm senatorial debaters As far as the United States senate is concerned the great was war fought in vain. Americans and their brilliant associates at arms died for naught. Our self-sacrifi- ce has become a mockery. After eight months of debate the treaty has failed of rati- -' fication. It may be dead. Perhaps it is only sleeping. Its resur-rection can only come if public sentiment be aroused to that pitch that will frighten the senatorial irreconcilables from their dom-ineering perch. We don't know what the senate expects to do. There are honest men in the senate. There are capable men. There are some who strove earnestly to effect a compromise so that the glory gained on the fields of France might not be blackened by political intrigue. But there was a domineering minority, few in numbers, but holding the balance of power willing to yield nothing, to concede nothing fighting only to destroy, to crush and to humiliate. They won. Whatever credit there may be for the defeat of the treaty can 'be accorded them. The shame is ' theirs. .... ; ?' The great idealism that prompted America to enter the war ' ". . 'has been besmirched. ' The patriotism, that, made us a united na--, tion, standing with our brothers across the seas for the salva-- . tion of all humanity, has been defiled. The disgrace that has been imposed upon us has been intensified by the sordidness of dirty politics. America stood brilliant while the war continued; With the war concluded, American people had a right to expect that peace should be concluded. We now have neither peace nor war. We keep Germany as an enemy and we betray the allies at whose side we fought. We stand a national outcast, our inaction embittering other nations, feeding fuel to the Bolshevism of the world.. But we should not give up all hope. Perhaps those senators, who are patriots more than they are politicians, will yet be able to save something out of the wreck and bring us peace. God .knows the American people want peace. Telegram. REAL DANGER. We sit complacently in our homes and read about the doings of the I. W. W., the Bolshevist and the Reds of all orders. .We give scant thought to the problems of maintaining a safe and staple form of government. Many of us think the reports of radical activities are largely exaggerated and that anyway the trouble is so far away it wont hurt us. A lot Of us thought the same thing about the European war at first. Now comes a declaration from the governor of Alaska stating that this farthest north section of our country needs more police protection to cope with the wave of radicalism that threatens to break out at any minute. The peril to civilization arising from bolshevist victories which have almost extinguished all opposition in Russia i3 not limited to Europe and Asia.. If bolshevism shall devour Poland, Rumania and the Baltic states which have split off from Russia, it may sweep on through Germany and the Danubian states, gain-ing power as it advances until Great 'Britain, France, Italy and Spain cannot withstand it. If it shall overflow India, Afghanistan, Persia and Turkey, it may also extend eastward through China and Japan. 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