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?Mlshkln. N. T. . COMMANDER EVANGELINE BOOTH FRANKLIN K, LANE TO "FOLLOW ON" Accepts Invitation to Become Na tional Chairman of Salvation Army's Annual Appeal for Funds. WASHINGTON'S BEST BELOVED RESTARTING LIFE AT 55. Former Cabinet Officer Before Enter ing the Gil Business as an Execu tive for the Doheny Interests Will Lend His Great Abilities to the Church Militant Organization. Franklin K. Lane, referred to far and wide as "Washington's best loved man," is undertaking two notable inno vations at an age when most men think mainly of retiring^to the quiet of pri vate life. One is to "earn enough money to support my family and keep my bills paid," and tlie other is "to step down from a high pince to resume my place among the shirtsleeve boys and give them a hand if I can !" Two history making statements from a man of Mr. Lane's attainments and station in life! And the remarkable part of it all is that he puts the shirt sleeve matter-the thing about helping his neighbors-ahead of that other thing-making more money in order the better to underwrite the Autumn of his life! Few men reach a higher niche In the affections and confidence of the public mind than has this remarkable man from the West, who was once an ed itor, then a lawyer and finally a mem ber of the President's cabinet and who withdraws from public life to "earn a better living" after rendering a service to the government the extent and value of which would be impossible to esti mate. Still fewer men are called to such responsible place? as Franklin K. Lane will now occupy. He will enter the oil business as an executive for the Doheny interests and will be estab lished in New York city for that pnr pose by April 1. But the rosy prospect of making "a living wage" after sev eral years spent in struggling along on the salary of a cabinet officer has not blinder] Mr. Lane to another opportuni ty-that for striking a few powerful blows on behalf of the "man who ls down, but never out !" Franklin K. Lane has accepted an in vitation from Commander Evangeline Booth to become the national chairman for the Salvation Army's annual ap peal for funds In 1920. Ho is already ?n this job, although Wall Stroet docs not groot him as an oil well executive for another month. "It is a genuino privilege to find op portunity for encouraging a work so di rect and practical and so valuable to the masses of the people as tho work of the Salvation Army." said Mr. Lane at his office in Washington the other day. "When Commander Miss Booth asked me to take the responsibilities of national chairman for the liL'O ap peal of that organization," continued the secretary, "the first thought that flashed across my mind was. How cnn I spare time for such work when I am entering upon a commercial task of gn-at responsibility? "And then there flashed across my mind a vision of the things the Salva tion Army does-the help it gives to men and women and little children just when and where they need it most and I thought to myself that, after all there could be no moro important thing than this. So I accepted-along with tho other job-and I am trusting to the generosity of my new employers to indorse my action in the matter. "I believe every right thinking man and woman in America owes tho Salva tion Army some of his or her time .every year. And I am going to pay my share. I am going to get myshoul )d>r squarely behind tho movement for Jiumaa tliat can win '-lie hearts and FRANKLIN K. LANE. the confidence of the common people like this Salvation Army has won them in recent years. I am going to pull off my coat and do some real work that will show where I stand when it comes to weighing the homely, unos tentatious and highly practical relief methods of this amazing hand of work ers. I heard the call. The problems of the poor are there to be solved, and they can use my poor efforts perhaps, so I have answered the call. "I won't do much talking in the com ing drive. I will do real work, and when I do talk I don't want to talk to anyone but actual workers. There will be no speech making by me to those who might he curious to hear a former cabinet officer in action, hut who are not interested in the work of the Sal vation Army. I shall talk to workers and only to workers. The day for ora tory in such matters has gone. We are down to brass tacks. "I think I owe it as a citizen of America (o show my understanding and appreciation of the helpful work the Salvation Army is doing in its res cue homes, maternity hospitals, free clinics, industrial homes, fresh air farms and tenement house relief work. "My testimony Is not needed, how ever, In thig matter. There are 2,000, 000 or 3.000,000 of young Americans who went into the recent war either unaware that the Salvation Army ex isted or having no use for Its methods If they did know of it. So far as I can learn these men came out of that war unanimous on one subject-and that was that the Salvation Army under stood the average man, knew how to deal with him and simply 'delivered the goods' on the 100 per cent basis. "There is no division of opinion on that one subject. There could have been no greater test for the Salvation Army than the test It received in the war. So after all I am merely adding my voice to the mighty chorus I have referred to when I say that the Salva tion Army has long since won the right to make an appeal to the rest of us for its maintenance, and I am sure lt will not make that appeal in vain. "The Salvation Army one year ago abandoned its old custom of begging in the streets the year around so that its workers could devote all of their time and attention to the poor. It makes an annual appeal each May. Personally I know of no greater bul wark that could be raised against the rising tide of human unrest than to strengthen the hands of this hand of self sacrificing Christian toilers who have the confidence of all mon and wo men, regardless of race, creed, color or position In life. I think it is Impor tant for the interests of our advancing civilization that such a practical and wholesome work be stimulated and maintained to the utmost. "They say there are no 'down and outers' any more. Personally I do not believe it, or if I did believe it I would know that the nhnormal times have swung the pendulum buck ton far on one side-and that it will swing far to the other side directly. There will always he a bottom to society. The poor will always he with us. We owe it to our fellow men lo know our neigh bor and share his 1 roubles and prob lems, and only hy that method can we. in all fairness and righteousness, keep the scales even in litis life. "I am proud to face the problems of the poor with the Salvation Army In such a trying hour, and I hope tiiat American men and women will stand with me in the work ahead of us. But they must bc workers. I shall have no lime to entertain inore observers." j Both for the organization that gives I aid and relief to thc poor and for the poor themselves, the high cost of living has hoon a troublesome factor iu re ! cent months. Money does not go far these days, but there's no one in the world who can get more worth-while work out of a dollar than can lho Sal vationists. In this country they gave away 3,699.767 meals In the twelve month ending last September SO, and provided 371,334 meals besides at ap proximate cost. T'ney supplied fres hods for 1,181,547 night lodgings and 1,498,887 at a merely nominal charge. And in addition to all this and to all that wis don1 for thousands in the Anny institutions they gave tetuporfir; relief to 709,351 persons. Can Anyone Know? By REV. W. W. KETCHUM Director of the Evening Classes, Moody Bible Inatitute, Chicago TEXT-These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life; even unto you that be lieve on the name of the Son of God. I John 5:13 R. V. Cnn anyone know in this life is eternally saved? This certainly is an important thing to know, if it can be known. The Bible, the theme of which Is salvation, gives this information. If anyone, desir I ng to know whether he is eternally saved, will go to the Bi ble, it will tell him, for it speaks in unmistakable terms. First of all, the Bible states plain ly that all people of whatever race or class are lost. This message of the Bible Is resent ed by many, but why should we resent knowing the truth about ourselves, especially since God, who tells us we I are lost, also tells us that he has made \ provision whereby we may be saved? Is it not better that we know our actual condition thnn to go on in ig norance of it? If we know we are lost, and also know there is salvation ' for tho lost, then we may be suved if we desire. If for a single moment you doubt that all men are lost, I would ask you to read the third chapter of Romans, and find out just what God says is the actual condition of all men. The teach- j ing of this chapter in Romans, which j is confirmed by other portions of the ' Word of God, gives the plain, un- i varnished truth concerning this matter. It should stir us to the very depths of our beings, and would leave us in hope less despair if God did not at once tell I us that he has graciously provided, in 1 the Lord Jesus Christ, salvation for all ; men, and that they may be saved if i they will take Christ as their Savior, j In the next place the Bible makes n clear distinction between people who have taken Christ by faith as their j Savior and those who have not done I so. It says of those who have failed to ? make Christ their Savior that because ? of this failure, since they are afflicted, with sin, they shall perish. What could . be.plniner concerning this than the statement of our Lord himself, spoken to those who have not settled this mo-1 mentous question, "Unless ye repent j ye shall all likewise perish ;" or this ' one, "He that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God nbidefh on him." You see, the Bible does not leave anyone, who has not taken the Lord < Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, | in doubt for a moment as to whether or not he is saved, but plainly tells him that he is lost. Now what does the Bible say of that person who has by faith accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior? Does it say of him that he is eternally i saved, or does It leave him In doubt? | Logically, if the one who has not tak en Christ as his Savior is eternally | lost, then conversely it is true that the i one who has taken Christ as his Savior Is eternally saved. But does the Bible tench this, and does lt as plainly give'the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ tho assurance of his sal vation, as it gives the unbeliever the assurance that he is lost? It certain ly seems reasonable that if one who fails to accept Christ as his Savior can know he is eternally lost, the one who accepts Christ as his Savior should be able to know he is eternally saved. This is precisely what our text says the believer may know: "These things have I written unto you-that ye may know," not hope, nor feel, but "know that ye have eternal life." Numerous passages in the Word of God substantiate this teaching, and lt is only because we have hearts of un belief that we ever doubt it. It is so wonderful, and it seems too good to be true, that God shourd eternally save those who accept Christ as their per sonal Savior. But it is true just the same, for God has said it, and he can not lie. It is a marvel of God's grace that the believer In tho Lord Jesus Christ nt once has eternul lifo (John 3:16); that ho passes at once from death I unto lifo, and that he shall not come into judgment (John 5:24). God who saves has promised to finish tho job, and has made provision to do so. It is not for us, if we really have appropri ated Christ as our Savior, to doubt that God will faithfully finish our sal vation : but as Paul tolls tho Philippi ans (Phil. 1:6), so should wo be con fident of this very thing, "that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." Church Must Be Democratic. An undemocratic church in a demo cratic ago is an anachronism, and no matter how ancient her lineage, or well J established her historic posilion, unless i she is in close and sympathetic touch with those great world movements she is doomed to defeat and to spiritual deadness and decay.-Bishop Guerry. whether or not he The German People Yearn for Their Kaiser. The German people will one day be ruled again by the Hohenzollerns. The former German Kaiser does not mean to quit. The German people do not mean to quit. They mean to have a Hohenzollern on the throne to di rect German affairs, and the Hohen zollerns mean to get on the throne and strive again for the mastery of the world. TheEuropcan people seem to have but little faith in any form of gov ernment unless it is headed by a monarch. This is so, not even except ing France. The French republic is a republic today but the French people have such a feeling of confidence and sympathy towards a monarchial form of government that the French re public may again be overthrown and an emperor put on the throne of France. While a majority of thc French people want a republic now, yet there is still in France a large number of people who feel a certain insecurity in their present form of government, and would gladly turn again to king craft and all its ills. The people of Europe havo never known anything in the way of gov ernment but "God save the King." They have been taught for hundreds of years, and from generation to generation, to reverence with equal awe their God and King. They have been taught that the king could do no wrong, that he was divinely sent and inspired, and that he was their provider, defender and protector. They have been taught that the hap piness of the people, their prosperity in peace and their success in war, lay in the direction and guidance of their king. Thus the people of Europe know scarcely anything of government but that headed by a king, who moves grandiosely among his awe-stricken subjects, and whose ears hear the deafening cries of the populace "long live the King, long live the Empire." The German people are thoroughly monarchial in' feeling and belief. In peace, prosperity smiled upon them, and they gave the Kaiser the credit. In peace, they were a happy and con tented people, and the Kaiser was hailed as their sole benefactor. Now, in their woe and sorrow, in .their tragic impoverishment, when the hour demands a strong and powerful government, thc German people feel an unstability in popular government and they will yet recall from Amer ongen their former idol and king and place his with acclaim on the throne he so cowardly abdicated.-Augusta Chronicle. Bodies of 70 Per Cent of Sol diers Coming Back. Washington, March 13.-Bodies of seventy per cent of the Ameri can soldiers who died in the world war will be returned to the United States for burial, Secretary Baker informed the senate today in a re sponse to a request for information. In all about 50,000 bodies are to be brought back at a cost Baker es timated at $30,000,000. From twen ty thousand to twenty-five thousand will lie in the "field of honor" to be provided in France. 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