Show LESS CHRIST SS GERMANY GEt Tho The Rev Dr Cortlandt Myers pastor of ot the Baptist Te Temple Tem Temple Tem Tem- n- n pIe of Boston is responsible for the tho statement that has Inspired the proposal proposal pro pro- to lo send missionaries to the benighted benighted benighted be be- people of or Germa Germany Y after the war is over According to Dr Myers Germany is a nation of oC atheists for not more than 2 per her cent of the people of oC Berlin Derlin ever enter a church The Kaisers Kaiser's god he says is the god godor of or Mohammed for there is no authorIty authority author author- it ity above the Kaiser whose dictum rules the religious ns os well as the civil life of his people Germany has for one hundred years year b been en de- de I de-I destroying the Bible and aud the Kaiser never neer U uses use th the name of ot Christ Chrls t I Frederick Wilhelm was one of the most noted of or modern German philosophers How much his philosophy has affected the views and character of oC the German Germau people is h. answered and In the blood of women and children of devastated Belgium and France Even the Lust LusI tania victims are witnesses to Ger Ger- mall mau man adoption of s spent of Christianity in the following I blasphemous sentences 1 With this I conclude and pro pro- iny my Ul sentence I condemn Christianity To Tome me It Is the greatest greatest greatest great great- est of all imaginable corruptions ns The church is the great parasite with Its anemic Idea of or holiness I It drains life lICe of oC all aU Its strength Its love 4 Us The other world Is the I m motive for the denial of every reali- reali t ty I call Christianity the one great grea curse the one great reat Intrinsic depravity depravity de de- the one great Instinct of t revenge revenge re re- vens-e. vens for which no expedient Is sufficiently suf sut- poisonous secret underhand under under- underhand hand to gain aln its ends emiR I call calI if it the If theone the theone one one immortal shame and blemish upon tine the human race The truth of or the aphorism th that t the he whom the gods would destroy they first make mad Is IR exemplified I In I the h h history l t r o of G Germany for fora or a na na- na a- a nun lUlU IIRen upon us its less culture and perfection must 1 sooner or later follow Collow In the footsteps footsteps foot foot- steps of oC all idolatrous nations At present only one argument appeals appeal to the Hunnish intellect but hut in its wake there will devolve upon the ed nations of or the earth I the dut duty of or converting the Germans to lo the faith so eloquently expounded l II by y the tho immortal Martin Luther for from Crom the ashes of ot the present atheistic tic Germany will arise a new nation when the Kaiser and his hl mon monstrous false prophets will have been heen destroyed destroy destroy- ed and supplanted by a nation that will walk In the fear tear of ot the Lord an evidence of its rational restora restoration restora lion tion to the teachings of oC the rejected Christ 0 A TJ US HI CLOTHING I Beginning this week and arid conlin In big Ing until l nUI next Monday September 30 American Red Cross Chapters throughout Utah litah Colorado New Mexico and Wyoming will do their utmost to collect tons of used clothing for tor the destitute people of or and I France rance who are hemmed in behind the tho Hun Hutt military military mili mili- tary wall Tho The Commission for Relief Relict in Belgium through Its chairman Herbert Her ller- bert hert Hoover has appealed to the tho people peo peo- pie Ille of oC America for tons ot or nothing clothing to prevent these unfortunate people from freezing during the com coot comIng coming ing lug months The rhe four tour states com corn comprising the Mountain Division pf I he heRed Red ned Cross must do their share during durIng dur dur- during ing used clothes week Tho The relief relle commission will have charge of the transportation and delivery of clothIng cloth- cloth Ing Red ned Cross l chapters have been as to lo shipment to seaboard seaboard sea sea- board the kind of or clothing shoes and other ollIer articles required and will wll give the general public all necessary information t Chairman Hoovers Hoover's eloquent plea for tor the millions of unfortunates in ina a cablegram t to the Red Cross follows fol fol- lows Iowa The Tine ten len million imprisoned peo peo- pi 11 In occupied Belgium and France Franco are facing shame suffering disease disease- und and some Borne of ot them death for lack of ot clothing this winer They must be helped I hope that the Rod Cross will undertake a renewed campaign to obtain this clothing In America It n can come only from us Your first campaign yielded magnificent result re result result re- re sult bringing in fully tons of clothing In good condition But much more Is needed J If these war- war ravaged people are to get through tho the winter In tn decency and safety Inthe In Inthe Inthe the face of brutal coercion and spiritual spiritual spiritual spirit spirit- ual suffering they remain splendidly courageous This courage challenges our charity charily Let us match the tho courage of by py tho the Ity Ily of of- America |