THE KING’S BUS INESS è — Vol 7 , MARCH, 1916, No. 3 El E D I T O R I A L m i] Some of the letters that we receive from those renew- Sound Doctrine’s ing their subscriptions to T he K ing ' s B usiness are not Defender. only encouraging but suggestive. Here is one from a minister in New Brunswick: “ I enclose $1.00 for a-year’s subscription to T he K ing ’ s B usiness . More power to you in defense of sound doctrine! Cry aloud and spare not. Insidious belief is paralyzing the church of today. The people are overwhelmingly for orthodoxy; the col leges, many pulpits, many so-called religious journals, are engaged in a cam paign to inoculate Christianity with the virus of infidelity. You have come to the kingdom for such a time as this. The Lord strengthen and prosper you and your enterprise.” ________________ __ At the present time all other interests seem to be sacri- Incidental ficed to the monstrous war god. Even the necessities Evils of War. of life are being diverted from their true use to the manufacture of instruments o,f destruction. Even the cheese-factory men are complaining of a shortage of milk because so much milk is now consumed in the making of ammunition. The casein is being extracted from the milk and employed in various ways in the manufacture o f' ammunition. Vinegar is being employed for the same purpose, the acid in the vinegar being converted into an explosive of the picric-acid type. The war god is proving himself a far more horrid monster than the Moloch of ancient times, or the Juggernaut of more recent times in India. It is becoming a burning question, in all lands today as Soldiers r to whether we shall introduce military training into our or Citizens. public schools. Because of Germany’s tremendous success in the opening months of the war, many are thinking that we should follow in Germany’s footsteps in the training of pur boys and young men. It is suggestive that exception to the German system of training has been taken by a German in an address before the National Educa tional Association in California. John Mez of Munich, Germany, gave, it as his opinion that Germany’s system of education was entirely wrong. He is reported as saying: “ Those of my country who made war did it for the world’s gain. They did not mean to destroy. They are victims of a wrong system of education. They know nothing beyond an irrational conception of militarism.” Many of those who are most familiar with the German system of education and of the attitude of the German people toward the present war, are Of the opinion that this statement is true. Certainly we should hesitate a long time before we train our boys and our young men to be soldiers. After all, the best national defense is not a large and well equipped army, but righteousness in our conduct toward other nations.
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