BIG FUND FOR
SPIRITUAL USE
OF BAPTIST?
NEW YORK, March 20.—How to re
construct a shattered, disorganizec
Protestantism in France and Belgiun
is one of the many vital problems
lacing the national committee o
northern Baptist laymen which is con
dieting 6,000,000 victory campaigi
to insure spiritual democracy at hom<
and for rehabilitation work abroad
If this drive is successful—and presen
indications point to it going over the
top—it means that churches whicl
have been slightly damaged will be
repaired; churches that have beer
totally destroyed will be rebuilt; the
rehabilitation of Baptist pastors and
their families; the construction ol
chapels at strategic locations in re
built districts; the relief of Christian
families for whom government pro
vision is not sufficient and special pro
vision for orphans, widows and dis
abled soldiers.
Discussing the plans of the Baptists
for reconstruction work in France and
'Polcriiim T~1 r BVod P U1770 rrl d 1 rootm
of the national committee of Northern
Baptist Laymen, tonight issued the
following statement:
“France and Belgium have sung nc
hymn of hate, although they have suf
fered most in the war. They must be
restored, rebuilt, remade. Jn this
material reconstruction the help ol
the Baptists in America is necessary
There is nothing more important tc
the peoples of those coluntries thar
their spiritual reconstruction througt
the restoration of churches, the re
building of chapels, the repairing ol
Christian schools, the rebuilding o
homes of pastors, the relief of Chris
tion families. Through all the suf
fering of the peoples of France and
Belgium the Christian spirit has beer
in evidence.
a “One of our Baptist pastors writes:
'For the first time in history since
Lafayette’s days, the United States
and France are allied. Are we hot re
sponsible before God if we do not
make the most of this unique situa
tion for the evangelization Of France?’
“We are responsible. We spent bil
lions for a military victory. Surely
we can give thousands for the spir
itual reconstruction of two nations
which have done so much for world
democracy. This is one of the tasks
of Christendom. Today we have the
opportunity. Tomorrow will be too
late. ! • * *
“A letter received from the Rev,
Reuben Haillens, D. D., who is now at
Nimes, Francd, States that- Alsace and
Belgium are now fully opened and
readier than ever before for the
spreading of the gospel. Dr, Saillens
has been doing wonderful Work during
the war among the soldiers and fheir
families, and now that the conflict it*
over he is devoting his attention to
reconstruction activities. -
“In spite of the marked effort in re
construction, F. W. Ayer, head of the
great advertising agency that bears
his name, who has been devoting all
of his time during the past few weeks
to the victory campaign, he being the
chairman of the national committee,
•says it is cheaper to be a Baptist just
now than a member of any other de
nomination. For the Methodists, Pres
byterians, Congregationalists and
Episcopalians are engaged in far
reaching religious propaganda, the
financial goal of which runs into hun
dreds of millions of dollars. The Bapt
ists are not slow to reconize the de
mands of this hour, but are forced to
accept as their responsible objective
a financial goal far less than the
world’s needs would justify.”
FAMOUS CHARACTER
IN MEXICO IS DEAD
JUAREZ, March 4 (by m^il).—John
O’Bryan, who died here recently, was
a native of Ireland, and at one time
prominent in politics in London. He
was known throughout Northern Mex
ico as the “Irish consul.” He was
given the titl? by the frequenters of
the Juarez cafes and saloons In the
days when the little town was "wide
open” and Villa collected the tolls.
He was always to be found in one or
another of the brightly-lighted gam
bling houses or dance halls which
lined the main street in those days,
and was one of the characters who
was always introduced to prominent
visitors in Juarez for the first time.
Little was known of his family con
nections. Although he never worked,
he .always wore good clothes, Immacu
late linen, and' Bad the air of an Irish
gentleman. He was burled In the
Juarez cemetery, on the hill.
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though it is intimated that “the wishes
of these communities must be a prin
cipal consideration in the selection of
I the mandatory power.” It might be
ungracious to refuse such an invita
} tion, say from Armenia or Syria, but
the United States is not bound so to
do by the terms of the league (Art.
. XIX).
4. All the members share in the
league's bureau of labor, with its ex
pected solution of important interna
> tional problems.
(5) "Freedom of transit and equita
ble treatment” (Art. XXI) are assured
t throughout (he league.
(6) Existing international bureaus
are to be brought together under the
league (Art. XXII); this is a general
( service and convenience.
(7) “Every treaty and'international
engagement” is to he made public—
a decided advantage to the United
States, which makes no secret treat
ies.
(8) Treaties Inconsistent with the
present covenant are abrogated. This
Relieves the world, apparently, from
the secret Russian, French, British
and Italian treaties made during the
war for the people of other peoples’
territory and population. Whether it
would apply also to treaties for pro
fpctnrqfou which \\ram nnf st/vn crart i o 1
to the protected powers is a question.
However, if our treaties in the Carib
bean are affected, so are the numer
ous protective treaties of Great Brit
ain and France all over the world.
Presumably those agreements are not (
superseded by the league (Art. XXV).
(9) Members of the league are pro
tected from unwelcome enlargements
by the two-thirds rule (Art. VII), and
from unwelcome amendments by the
unanimous rule in the executive coun
cil and the three-fourths rule in the
body of delegates,
Immediate Bearing of League
The greatest privilege of the United
States and of mankind through the
league is the acceptance of the prin
ciple that wkak powers are not only
entitled to the sympathy ‘but to the
aid of their stronger neighbors when
attacked by a superior enemy. On
the other hand, great powers are re
lieved from the dagger of conflagra- '
tions which begin in apparently petty
controversies between little powers.
The world is now Closely tied together
by immigration, by travel, by com
merce, by world business organiza- <
tions, so that there is no longer any
such thing as a small and insignificant
war. The most highly civilized, rich- "
est and most prosperous nations of
the world have most to lose by war
and most to gain by a world peace. ^
The league document is a presage
of the peace which is to end the pres
ent war. The break-up of Austria
Hungary and Turkey is distinctly rec
ognized, and the creation of new states
in central Europe, the number of which
is bound to increase when the status
of Finland, the Baltic provinces, and
the Ukraine are settled. Independence
of Armenia and Syria Srkl extensions
of Greece are practically promised.
The Germans lose all their colonies,
and one Object of the plan is so to
crystallize the world that these colo
nies will never go back. Japan gets the
northern'Pacific islands, Australia the
southern, and British South Africa
the adjacent German Southwest Af
rica.
A good part of the organization Is
intended to prevent the resurrection of
militarism in Germany. It will have
to be a much chastened and subdu'ed
Germany that finally gets a place in
a league of nations; and when once i
there, the apparatus of arbitration, in
quriy, summons of troops and so on, ~
is intended to make impossible the ”
jumping of a vast army into an un- #
expected war, the devastation of small I
powers and the misery and ruin of
conquered countries.
The principal difficulty in the
scheme, as in all plans of permanent
peace, is that it can not take account
of thg irregular growth of nations and
future changes of conditions. If Al
giers or British East Africa should
some time try to gain independence
by fighting, would they become world
enemies? The plan, however, has
much flexibility, and in one place
(Art. XI) seems to recognize the pos
sibility of putting on pressure to ease
such situations.
As for the United States, no essen
tia] interest is assailed by this plan.
We can have no objection to multiple
treaties, for we have signed several;
particularly the conventions of the
two Hague conferences, the act con
stituting the Congo Free State, in 1885,
and the Algeciras agreement in 1906.
Like most treaties, this involves a
promise to do something or to leave
something undone. Nothing new in
that. We have agreed in many treat
ies not to lay discriminating duties on
shipping or imports from particular
countries. This treaty would deprive
the United States of the privilege of
making war suddeny and without con
sideration for the rights of other na
tions, but that loss will not be felt.
In return for these small sacrifices,
what advantages are offered? Free
dom from petty wars in the two Amer
icas, protection from the growth of
national enemies in Europe.
Perhaps the most important clause
in the whole document is the appar
ently minor provision (Art. VIII)
against the secret manufacture of
“munitions and implements of war,”
for here the greatest danger of the
ruture confronts us. The combination
of airships and gas bombs is threaten
ing to the future of mankind, Any na
tion which Can hereafter succeed in
Ine seoret building q( a thousand war
airplanes, two hundred submarines
and a hundred practicable long-range
guns may defeat, crush and destroy
any city or ajhall state in Europe,
within forty-eight hours of the begin
ning of hostilities. Big armaments
lea’d straight to such a catastrophe.
The only remedy in sight is a world
league. To construct such a league
tvith greater and more direct power
voul 1 be to jam the United States into
i centralized world power. Less pow
ers than are here given would leave
lotlnnig but that comity between un
done which absolutely broke do*n
vhen the German was determined to
arry frightfulness across her borders
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