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THE KING’S BUSINESS
Two of the greatest nations of the earth are in danger of going down in disastrous defeat by the power of strong drink. If England is conquered, as there seems a possibility at the present time she may be, it will be
Beaten by Booze.
by starvation, and this starvation is not so much due to the.submarines of the enemy-as to her own squandering of her food resources in the manufacture of strong drink. If England two years ago had prohibited, the use of any food grams in the manufacture of strong drink there would not have been the suffering that there undoubtedly is in England today. But not only England is m danger, America is in danger. There seems now a. likelihood that hunger will be staring thousands of our population in the face before many months have passed, but there is no need of this. If all the grain going into strong drink should be kept for food we would have enough to abundantly feed our selves and to#help in feeding the allies.. If we are beaten, and it is not at all sure that we will not be, we will be beaten by booze. That it will be necessary ultimately to prohibit the use of grains at this time for strong drink is clear We will be forced to it sooner or later. The question is, will our legislators and our President have sense enough to prohibit this outrageous waste of food good CntlCal timC Until | iS t0° kte f°r the Prohibition to accomplish much . . • Pshed by the American Baptist Publication Society in its issue of January, 27th, in which the writer gave a definition of God which evidently emanated from Christian Science sources. In our article we were careful to say: “We have no doubt that these ‘Ten Rules’ slipped into The Young People without careful scrunity on the part of the editor of that depart ment, for we are confident there would be no endorsement of such a statement concerning Jehovah.” We are very glad to have received from W. Edward Kaffety, Ph. ,D„ editor-in-chief of the Sunday School publications of the Americ’an Baptist Publication Society, a letter in which he explains, to use his own words; “The unfortunate appearance of that Christian Science ‘stuff’.” In his letter he inclosed the following statement: Those Girls Ten Rules,’ in January 27th Young People contain Christian Science heresies which I repudiate absolutely. Their publication grieves me. When on December 1 1 became editor-in-chief of our thirty-four Sunday School publications, January periodicals were made up. While January 27th issue automatically carried my name, I had no chance to write or proof-read one word in it. We dismissed the person editorially responsible for this issue, during the transfer of the department from Dr. Blackall to myself. We bespeak patience and forgiveness for this unfortunate thing during these days of re-organization of our editorial department. I pledge my'earnest endeavor to SB ^faithful -denominational servant, always seeking to honor Jesus Christ. Sincerely, W. Edward Raffety.” c . This statement of itself will, of course, be eminently satisfactory, not only ^vcry one else. But The Young People also published an'article on March 17th, in which it seeks to undo any evil that may have been done by this unfortunate matter that crept into the paper, entitled, “The Case Against Christian Science,” by T. P. Stafford, Th. D., professor of Systematic A . In our ^sue of May, 1917,: we had a brief article entitled, “A New Definition of God,” calling attention to an article that appeared in “Young People,” pub- An Important Correction.
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