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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S in four years will die each month. These conditions do not tend to godli ness Destitute, hungry people cannot be reasoned with. The Philadelphia North American says 1 “ Bolshevism, a force as ambitious, as tyrannical and as menacing as Prussianism, has set out to conquer and enslave the world. World peace is not in sight except as we see it coming in the soon commg of the Prince of Peace. . . . , Must God by another demonstration, prove to the world that the human heart untouched by the Spirit of God through Jesus Christ is a helpless thing? In spite of democracy and peace councils, it remains the same in its deep need of Christ. No inward resources can change or satisfy it. Its need is spiritual rather than material and physical. Men are still conceived in sin (Psa. 51:5) sold under sin (Rom. 7 :14) the servants of sm (Jno. 8 :34) beset by sin (Heb. 12:1) dead in sin (Eph. 2 :1) and dying eternally because of sin (Rom. 5:12). Perfumed oratory and pink teas will not save the day. There is no other hope and no other work to be done until Jesus conies, but to tell them of One who was without sin (Heb. 4 ¡15) who came to put away sin (Heb. 9:26) to cleanse us from all sin (1 Jno. 1:7) to make us victorious over sin (Rom. 8 :2) and who at length is coming to take us out of the very world of sin (1 Jno. 3:2).—K. L. B. T h e Y E L LOW PER IL of America Look at his fingers. What is that yellow streak? That is the yellow peril of the youth of the United States. It is the cigarette streak; the hand writing on the wall, sealing the doom of tens of thousands of soldiers who are coming back thoroughly inoculated with the virus, slaves to a habit repellent to every sane, sensible, practical student of the moral and physical requirements for our youth. , , , , , , There are some facts in this connection not pleasant to contemplate, and which will become more and more obvious as the days go by. A recent Washington dispatch says : “Tobacco ‘seems to be established as a necessity in the soldier s life, 95 per cent of the members of the American Expeditionary Forces using it m some form according to the report of the War Department, wliich goes on to say: It is a, part of the regular daily ration, but the quantity allowed is not sufficient for the However, every soldier may buy at the canteens cigars, cigarettes and smoking tobacco in unlimited quantities and at prices considerably lower than they are sold for in the United States. . . . . . . . Smoking has increased in our army overseas since the signing of the armis tice. The average monthly purchases by the subsistence division now amount to 425 000,000 cigarettes and 20,000,000 cigars for overseas shipment. About 2,000,000,000 cigarettes were sent to France prior to the signing of the armistice, and the present rate of shipment is much increased.” Drawing conclusions from this statement, we are informed that cigar ettes are a necessity for the soldier’s life. If this is time, and the Boy Scouts are to be trained with a view to their becoming soldiers, it is a logical con clusion that they must soon be initiated into the habit. It will not be easy to preach against it or argue against it. There is the seal of the govern ment of the United States; there is the testimony of so-called preachers, and there is the seal of the organiation supposed to be in the business of making men.
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