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pany,” and the regimental commander approved. “When I came to camp three months ago I couldn’t read or write. Now I write my mother three times a week.” The speaker was a tall young man o f twenty-one from Virginia, drafted, to Camp Lee—the best thing that ever happened to him. He not only learned to read but to use the type writer, is in the Bible class, attends every lecture and is eager to meet any man who can teach him something. He realizes that he has discovered the key to all knowledge as he has learned to read and is unlocking every door he comes to. The boy’s father died when he was but a youngster and he was called to help his mother support a family of eight. Now he is learning every habit of health, not only by army regula tion, but as a hospital aide, the only thing about which he doesn’t like is carrying out dead men. --------^ ------- | An Orthodox Moslem paper printed in Japanese and in Malay, in the Dutch West Indies, is issued monthly in hope of coun teracting the influence o f Christianity. 0 -------------------- Indians are swarming into Fiji, so that these fair islands but recently delivered from heathenism are fast becoming orien talized and heathenized again: Over half of the population are Indians. --------- 0 ---------, In Central America day schools are as rare as Bibles were twenty years ago. '
3:9, 10), but there is also to be a continual putting on o f Christ (Rom. 13:14; Col. 3:12). This “new man” “hath been created after God (i. e., in the likeness o f God— cf. Col. 3:10) in righteousness and holiness o f truth,” i. e., the holiness which comes of truth and is o f itself true, or real. The word for “holiness” used here is not the! ordinary word. W e were originally created in the image of God (Gen. 1:27), but that image had primarily to do, as we see here, with our moral likeness to God. That image of God in which we were originally created has been marred and defaced and well-nigh obliterated by the ravages o f sin, but in the new birth we are recreated in His image. Seven men at Camp Lee think more respectfully o f prayer than they did. The eighth man o f their squad every night before he got under the covers, as was his custom, dropped on his knees for prayer. He did the same in the morning. This young Baltimore man was hooted and scoffed at by his squad. He got these words slung at him: “ Where do you get that stuff?” “Ask Him to get you exempted.” “ Cut it out.” He smiled and kept at It. The captain o f the company heard o f it and watched the little man. The third night he broke in and said a thing or two, vigorous and clearly understood by the seven who lost their liberty for thirty days and were given extra duty for punishment. Turning to the praying man, he said: “I shall recom mend you for first sergeant o f this com ------------O------------ Our Soldier Boys
A MEMORIAL OF A RARE LIFE B Y S. M. SAYFORD ROBERT. GARRY “The Mail of One Book’’ He began life in blue, fighting for "his country, and ended his life here helping to make other men fit to fight for the triumph of democracy GREAT PERSONAL WORKER BRAVE SOLDIER CLOTH BOARD, 75 CENTS Evangelistic Association of New England, 519Tr<5^“tnotnTemple
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