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THE FARMER AND'MECHANIC.
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ATTITUDE TO CHRISTIANS IN
ASIATIC TURKEY THREATENING
Pictures of Massacres Posted in Schoolrooms Said to Have
Been Sent by Government Teachers Compelled to
Inculcate Emotion of Hatred and Contempt.
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w southern Missionary News Bureau
Ida Clyde Clarke, Editor.
letters from Asia Minor describe an
Mtitude on the part of some of the
Turks in authority that looks very
threatening toward Christians of any
);i.e aside from the Germans.
Correspondents of the American
Von rd in Asia Minor describe the mor
ial terror in which Christians in that
i -ion of Asiatic Turkey are kept be
. ;uise of the threats for the future and
l.ecause of the daily outrages. Greeks
in one city were imprisoned simply for
.i-ing the Greek tongue.
Horrible pictures of bioody massa
. res and outrage are posted in school
rooms. "On the walls of a school for
little girls, for instance," says one
letter, "hangs a lurid scene in blood
im1 and white. Headless bodies lie
around' hands, arms, feet from all of
which blood streams. In the center
stands a Christian hacking an old
man to death. On all these pictur.es
are words certain to rouse bitter fan
aticism
The teachers say these pictures are
sent by the government, and declare
that they are instructed also to teach
the children poems which inculcate
hatred and contempt. One hodja on
Leing reasoned with merely stamped
his foot and said: "So will we grind
these enemies under our feet."
The Ited Cross has entered upon re
lief work in various cities in Asia
Minor. In one place, the board's cor
respondent reports, while $3-500 was
turned over to the authorities, the
Christians were denied any aid ex
cept a few boards for huts; but to
Moslems were given olives, oil, wood,
cofr, bread, etc. The Greek orthodox
community and the Gregorians fared
no better than the Protestant Chris
tians. With the allies bearing down upon
Constantinople from both east and
west, it is pertinent to question- "How
will the fanatical Moslem act if Tur
key collapses? Will the Turk hasten
to make the best terms possible for
himself and therefore try to make
friends with these hated Christians, or
will he carry out the threats and kill
and plunder all within his reach in
the short time left him?"
The representatives of the American
board for the most part seem to ex
liect little trouble. Years of kindness
in the past and the help and friend-
deavor society has great problems in
me JtsaiKans. The Lord Jesus will
bring it out right, even without my
service, since I must now go to the
war. It is bitter that I must now go
with weapons against those to whom
a few weeks aero I nrenched nf thp
Lord for Peace. God make me
strong."
Vegetation on "Bogue Banks" R
From Tropic to Hardest of Tern
ate Zone.
arises
UNDAUNTED I1Y WOUNDS
A Layman's Observation.
Mr. J. P. McCallie of the Southern
Presbyterian church, just returned
from a tour of the world, savs: "In
Japan we witnessed such sights as well
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British Prisoners, Permanently
abled, of Good Cheer.
London cable to Washington Post.
In crossing from Flushing to Folke-
filled or crowded churches, the zealous stone tne spirits of the first batch of
preaching of individual Japanese and Permanently disabled rritish prison-
a general willingness to hear on the ers remained undaunted. Strong,
part of the people that convinced us virile soldiers they were; now physical
that now was as great a day for the wrecks- yet though they have lost
Christian message as Japan has ever leS or arm or eyesight, their heart has
seen. One of the evidences of the never been shaken,
greatness of the influence of Chris- Most of their stories went back to
tionity in Japan is the fact that tne earl' dark days, when the little
Buddhism has become awake to the English force was making such des-
danger of being superseded and has Pirate efforts to hold back the flood
installed Christian methods in no less of invasion that was engulfing P,el-
than twenty-three different ways by gium. Of 1,200-odd prisoners who
our count. In China the one oppor- have at last returned to England after
tunity largely lacking in Japan the weary months of waiting and ooncen-
opportunity for Christian education tration, the most date their disability
is furnished plentifully. G overnment I lons and the fights of the great
education is sunine- and the ohurrh retirement
has her great chance."
In the cabin lay Private Jones, of
the Middlesex regiment. He was first
hit by a rifle bullet in the left. leg. The
bone was shattered, and he fell. He
lay for hours during the heart of con
flict, hoping in vain for rescue. Sud
denly his hopes died with the echo of
an exploding sharpnel.
The base of the man-killing pro
jectile crashed into his other leg,
striking the knee and tearing off the
The complete Bible in Taga- struck his body. The German line of
The Bible In the Philippines.
v In the Philippines, very manv dif
ferent languages and dialects are cur
rent among the islands of that great
archipelago, Tagalog, however, is the
cnief language in Manila, and the cen
tral provinces of Luzon, as well as in
many of the smaller islands and is
spoken altogether by about 1,500,000
people
log was the earliest to be printed in
any language of the Philippines, and
was first published at Manila in 1905.
Since that date, the Old Testament has
been revised by the Rev. C. N. Magill
of the American Presbyterian Mission,
who has been assisted in the task by
educated Filipinos. He has also pre
pared a set of references for the New
Testament, in the text of which he has
made certain necessary corrections.
This revised Bible is now being
printed.
From Many Lands.
In the year 1814 there were 700,000
uness extended in tne last rew montns Christians of all communions and
have- they believe, laid such founda- races in India; now there are 3,876,
tions of trust that the common peo- 203. In India about one person out of
pie will not carry out the cruel or eighty-six is a Christian. Of India it
bloody plans of some Moslem lead- can be said that th ere? remains miirVi
ers. Many of these Americans, in- land yet to be possessed.
ueeu, are looking forward to greater
intimacy and helpfulness than ever
before growing out of the shared
troubles of recent times.
The Chinese postoffice handled 150,
000,000 more articles in 1914 than in
1912.
The Gospel Among Refugees.
Never before, though he has
The First Baptist church in Dallas.
Tex., gave last year $93,324 for all
preached in some large churches, has purposes. Of this amount, $15,889
Mr. S. Levermore of the London Open was used for local expenses and $77
Air Mission preached in one like the 435 was for missions. The First Bap
mighty open-air church at Folkestone, tist church in Shreveport, La., gave
England, with its great throng of $58,000 for all purposes. Of this
Belgian and French refugees, "a lib- amount $8,000 was for local expenses
eral sprinkling of the military and al- and the rest for missions. In one
ways a crowd of English, excited and case, eighty-three per cent was given
curious." for outside purposes and in the other,
Mr. Levermore, writing in the Ca I eighty-seven per cent.
nadian Churchman, says: "I heard
the resonant accents of the French The missionaries in China have been
tongue on every hand. . . . My almost overwhelmed with opportuni-
satchel was filled with French gospels ties for carrying out the recommenda-
and Testaments, a white band upon tions of the national missionary con-
ny sleeve bore the words, La Mission ference in 1913 in favor of co-opera-
en Plein-Air, 19 John St., Londres, N.
-., and I became the center of at
traction for the Gauls- who straight
way appropriated me as belonging to
themselves."
During the long waitii.g for the
boats, I approached, saying: "It is of
ten more painful to wait than to suf
fer."
tion of missionary
the government.
institutions with
The Shanis education officials offered
the entire charge of the public school
system in eight counties, with a popu
lation of 4,000,000, to the missionaries
advance passed him as dead. He was
picked up and taken to a Belgian hos
pital. For six months he lay in the
care of the good Mme. Bradunt. The
leg with the broken kneecap will not
heal.
As Private Jones finished his story,
he said: "But when I get back home
it will heal. It only needs a little
touch of British soil to heal it."
In the next cabin was Private Smith
of the Royal Rifles. Smith was a foot
ball player. His right leg was cut
off from the hip.
"Better than losin' two legs," said
Private Smith, "an lots better than
losin' your 'ead. I'm satisfied if the
government is."
No word of complaint, no self-pity.
Just a soldier playing the game. An
other of the men wras a sergeant in
the Grendier Guards. His right leg
was gone above the knee. Still an
other he had the regimental marks
torn from his tunic had lost his left
foot.
In a darkened cabin he's Private
Brown. He has five scars on his face
where the German bullets entered
The cabin is darkened because he
cannot see. . As he lies stretched out
on his bed it is not difficult to esti
mate he is over 6 feet tall and more
than 13 stone. Out of the semidark-
ness came the crude wrords of "It's a
lvtv 1 n TWT rt 1 T 4 TiTMai-O TIT ' ' Oil Tl
in a minor key.
It so happened that the English
wounded met the Germans in the
waiting room of the station at Flush
ing. There they saw these men wrell
dressed. They themselves were cloth
ed in the ragtag and bobtail of the
field hospital. As to their rations
while with the Germans, the men
made no complaint. "They gave us
as good as they had themselves," they
said.
P. E. Hice. land and ir.duMrial
agent of the Norfolk Southern Rail
road, here today, told of a wonder
land almost unbelievable. Mr Rice
has just lias just visited " The Pines."
as it is officially known, more popu
larly referred to as ;ogue Bank?,'
stretching from Whiteoak river on the
south to Beaufort inlet on the north
"There isn't as queer a place in the
whole country." declared Mr. Kice.
who is an Ohioan and has traveled
pretty much over the entire country,
says a Kinston special of Friday.
Mr. Rice describes the Panks
island, which in few places is more
than a mile wide, as an agricultural
El Dorado. The vegetation ranges
almost from the tropic to the hard
iest of the temperate zone growth.
The most freakish thing about it i
the sudden change from the tropic
and semi-tropic to the temperate. Just
as if a line were drawn, almost per
fectly straight, north and south along
the entire length of the island, the
division is startlingly apparent. On
one side of the imaginary line, the
side next to the ocean, palms and
shrubs and vines of distinct hot cli
mate varieties thrive, almost run riot.
On the other side, although there in
no perceptible change in the terrain,
the plant growth is temperate to the
utter exclusion of the tropical. There
are great quantities of dogwood and
other hard woods on the sound side,
and the woods are magnificent. The
part of this extraordinary condition
hard to understand is that when on
crosses this imaginary line into the
temperate" country the trees tower.
straight and graceful, many feet abov
those on the "tropical side," which are-
gnarled and stumpy. There are places
on the island, Mr. Rice firmly be
lieves, where frost has never touched.
He reiterates the claim of other ad
mirers of this wonderland that any
thing that can be grown in the Ber
mudas or in the central part of North
Carolina can be produced on "The
Pines." The view from one of the
high sand dunes is beautiful. The
marshes are extravagant in color.
with myriad lilies and wild flowers.
and the woods are a riot of white and
green and blossom shades.
Bogue Banks, Mr. Rice states, is
intended to become an exclusive re
sort place unexcelled in the country.
For twenty miles along the beach in
an automobile track, a natural course
that will not have to be touched to
improve. The bathing from the sfa
beach, where the water, warmed by
the Gulf stream, is almost always of
ideal temperature, is possible almost
the year through- Deer and other
game abound, but are protected by
law
IN REFRIGERATOR CAR 7 DAYS.
DR. POTEAT TO LECTURE
of the American board, full liberty be-
"Vous avez raison," they cry. I ing granted to teach Christianity.
Goes
Then I say, "We have a little hymn in
English that is often a great comfort
to me." Translating into French
".Jesus, Lover of My Soul," or "How
Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds," I
begin to sing, the people gather, and
the rest is easy. Preaching, can
vassing, singing, translating, writing
letters, and even giving lessons
To Texas To Deliver Six
dresses at Seminary.
Ad-
A hall of evangelization and ortho
doxy was lately opened in Cario, Egypt
to train Moslem missionaries for work
in Japan, South Africa and Europe.
French and English, all pave the way
for "the one thing needful."
The total increase of pupils of all
kinds of schools in British India in
in the years 1912-1913 was nearly 400,
A pathetic letter addressed to Dr
Francis E. Clark of the Christian En
deavor society by a teacher in Croatia
000. Only twenty-nine per cent of
boys and only five percent of girls of
school age are in school in India.
In spite of the heavy burden that
Holland is bearing in the support of
Austria, who devotes his summers and Belgian refugees, the leading mission-
all his frp timo in cihristinn Endeavor ary societies report tnat nnanciai
work, is one of those sidelights on the anxiety, so far as the present ear is
war which give it its vital human sig- concerned, has been entirely removed.
nificance. This teacher writes: "For
four weeks I have borne the Christian For the first time the Chinese gov
Endeavor banner through the Bal- ernment has sent ten women students
kans. I was obliced to cut off four- all of them Christians, to America,
teen days of the journey planned and under the indemnity fund
hasten home on account of the politi
cal unrest. Here the war call of my I The remarkable demand for worn
earthly king suddenly reached me, an's education is making itself felt
which I must obey early in the morn- not only among Hindus and Christians
ing. Unfortunately, I have not time but also among Moslems, whose girls
enough for a complete report. Every- now go readily to school,
where there is an earnest longing for The student volunteer missionary
salvation in Christ. Everywhere I union of England has registered fifty
had to promise either to return or to per cent "hiore volunteers since the war
send a secretary. The harvest is ready began than during the correspo iding
at the door, and the Christian En- period in the year previous.
Wake Forest. May 1. President
William Louis Poteat left this after
noon for Fort Worth, Texas, where
he will deliver a series of six lectures
before the South Western Baptist
Theoloerical Seminary. The lectures
will be delivered from Wednesday,
May 5th to Friday, 7th. After this
engagement he leaves Forth Worth
for Houston where he will attena
Two Starving Stowaways Almost
Frozen on Transcontinental Trip.
The Philadelphia Record.
Seven days locked in a refrigerator
car, with the temperature at 40 de
grees, three of the days without food,
was the experience that nearly cost
the lives of two Philadelphia men.
who were making their way back
home from California. They are
John Ledles and James Bellew. Lieut.
Horn, of the Pennsylvania Railroao,
police, discovered them in a half-
conscious and nearly crazed condition
when he inspected cars on a fruit and
produce train that arrived at 1 for
tieth and Chestnut streets.
The two men were found in a heap
in a nttie section mat nau ueen cieui
ed of the greens. When the officer
reached them they were unable to
speak. As quickly as possibly they
were taken to the University iiopitai.
where vigorous measures were re.
sorted to, with the result uiat tney
were brought around suflici' nily to
tell enough to explain their presence
in the car, which was kept at the low
temperature by ice in compartment
at the ends. rI hev said tney naci
a
portion of the Southern Sociological startf.d from California on the" train
Congress and tne boutnern bapusi witn the idea that it was a fast freight
Convention. and that it would reach this city in
The general topic for all six ot the nv,mit five davs. Enough corned
lectures to be delivered Dy uoctor meat. bread, and other edibles were
Poteat is Christianity and Culture, taken along to last through the trip.
The lectures will maintain the thesis
that Christianity originated in the
midst of the best culture of its time,
and when it has not been miscon
ceived it has been the nourishing
mother of the best culture ever since.
Doctor Poteat will stop off in At
lanta tomorrow and will address the
Mens Bible Class of the First Baptist
church in the morning, he goes di
rectly from Atlanta to Fort Worth.
The world's record sugar planta
tion contains 13,000 acres, 20 miles of
railway and employs 1,500 people.
It's a good brand of fertilizer that
will raise a mortgage.
they thought, but the supply gave out
in four days.
VILLA CLAIMS VICTORY.
His Troops Clash With Obrcgon Ad
vance Guard.
(By the Associated Pr-s?.
El Paso. Texas, April 30. A batt!
was fought yesterday between two of
Villa's brigades and the Obregon ad
vance guard at Trinidad, according to
an official Villa statement reaching
here today. It was said the Carranza
troops were defeated, retreating to
Siloa. It was stated that the enemy
tost six hundred dead, while the
Villa losses were placed at 140 killed.
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