Yale Democrat (Yale, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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REVIVAL CONTINUES
Christian Church Revival
Meeting Will Continue
Over Next Sunday
as tti o i tfViVai ii gradually ere
uting
The children attend the ser-
vices in very large numbers and
the most excellent discipline is
maintained continually. Evan-
" ' . i gelist Ernest House has an-
The Christian Church Revival | IV1unced that at the Christian
Meeting conducted by Evange- jCiurch Sunday School-under
list Ernest House under the, fche tent_at 9..15 next Sunday
large teiic half block west Santa ; morning he win give another
Fe Depot, will be continued ov- 1 book of the Bibie t0 au the chil-
ernext Sunday night. A larger|dren who attend the Christian!
gas pipe naf been laid to connect. Church Sunday School,
stoves and two additional stoves | The {o||owinK ^
have been placed in the tent. In have ^ Mnounced._
addition to the extra heat ar-
ranged for, the tent is being] Thursday Night: The Great
banked up about the sides to | Question.”
turn the cold in case weather] Friday Night: “The Baptism
should become bad. J of the Holy Spirit. (Illustrated
There is little doubt in the: by a Chart.) - *
minds i.f the large congrega- i Saturday Night: The Work
tions which have oeen attend-! of The Holy Spirit in Conver-
ing this revival regul irly but j sion" (Illustrated by a Chart),
that Evangelist Ernest Hou-e is | Sunday 9:45 A. M: “What is
one of tne very best Bible t^ach-|a Christian?
era in the state and his methods1 Sunday Night: The Wheel
of conducting a revival are very j of Fortune” (Illustrated by a
pleasrng and the people of Yale i Special Invention),
have never shown so much real The services of the revival be-
interest in a religi ms movement gin at 7:45 sharp Sach night.
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FROM OKLAHOMA
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COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
AN AMERICAN BOY AND
AN AMERICAN MOTHER
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Mrs.^A. L. Karraker called Monday to have The Democrat
sent to their new home at Terlton, whenc? it will be forwarded to
Francis wherever he may be in his country’s service.
Mrs. Karaker is proud that her boy enlisted instead of
waiting for the draft and has sent him forward with a patriots’
encouragement and a mother’s blessing. She expresses the
opinion that American mothers should encourage their boys as
best they may toward serving their country, toward entering that
service cheerfully, sustained by the memory of a mother’s smiles
rather than saddened by the memory of a mother’s tear a Such
mothers are true daughters of American patriots who warred man-
fully to establish the principles of American freed nn. We
honor them as the mothers of men who will war manfully to sus-
tain those principles.
We copy the following from a letter of recent date:
To whom it may concern: We are
camiifedin our tents and have all our
equipment except revolvers, Our
clothes are of the best and are sure fine.
You boys who fear the officers of the army,
cancel your fears. They certainly treat
you fine as long as one does right. You
surely get all you can eat. Judge by me; I weighed in at the
federal examination at 154 pounds, now 1 weigh 17G so you can
see how army life treats me. Here’s hoping I get to go to
France.
Private Francis M. Karraker,
Troop C. 1st Kansas Cavalry.
Fort Sill, Okla.
—....................D This offee is in receipt of let-
share its duties and its glories, ters from Senator von Gore, said
But there is a special respon- letters being replete with pos-
sibility which rests upon the ible arguments designed to ex-
young people of America to-day, cu3e his reprehensible conduct
a burden that is peculiarly in aiding and abetting his ad-
theirs. In the heat of battle, it mired friend, Kaiser Wilhelm,
is easy to forget the idealism and the world domination of
which sent us forth to fight; in Prussian military ethics,
the miust of the long warfare it Herr von Gore is basing hit
is e tsy to let the high motives apologies on a system of logic
of the hour of consecration slip not acceptible to the Democrat,
away from sight. America is his premises being false and
fighting to-day a wholly dis- misleading, and we can only.ac-
iiuerested war; she is fighting !c pt his excuses when based, on
for a wholly unselfish ideal; sne known facts, viz:
is moved by no sordid or un- ] Senator Gore is physically in- •
wouhy purpose. And it is pre- capacitated from giving the de-
euiinentiy the duty of the you..g, tails pertaining to his position
people ro s<.e to it that tins | that minute personal attention
splendid idealism is nut forgat-1 necessary to a proper discharge
t n. With ihem the flame of of his duties. It appears that
idealism burns now most clearly, he has not fully recovered, may
and they most keen its ' fire never fully recover, from a re-
aiight, though the torches of cent, physical and mental break-
everyone else be quenched by j down. He is necessarily de-
the dust and smoke of the con- j pendent on the physique, men-
flict America looks to her, tallity and patriotic fervor of a
young men and women not only j corps of secretaries, the mem-
to give their lives for her, but ^ bars of which seem sadly deft*
even mote to keep ever before ci®nt in those manly attributes,
her the vision which ihey see, J The Democrat is obliged to
to carry into the battle the ban- sympathize with Senator von
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The High Summons
of The Hour
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Evangelist Ernest House, who is conducting a very successful re-
vival for the Christian Church, under the tent one half block west
Santa Fe Depot.
Au Extension of Time
Owing to the lateness
with which cotton has
opened, The Democrat pub-
lisher has decided to -give
Yale farmers an extension
of time in which subscrip-
arrears must be paid.
Arrears must be paid this
month. Papers not paid for
to that date or in advance
will be stopped Nov. 1st.
The Democrat circulates
more papers in Yale’s trade
territory than any other
publication, but we believe
it can drop all non-paying
subscribers and still maintain
that lead. They will be
dropped in any event on
Nov. 1.
The following subscrip-
tions have been paid since
last publication, towit:
J P Whalen
J S Minor
W W Flct'sa
Mrs A L Karraker
Ereeman Jarrett
J H Lasater
James E Holder
A D Dennis
Monta F Davis
C D Pearson
F M Gregory
Charlie Pugh
A L Reid
W H Watson
Mrs Little
George Marquette
Otis Clasby
Eight of-the above list are
new subscribers and about
the same ratio of new read-
ers, upward of 50 per cent,
has been peculiar to this
season’s collection campaign
Mr. R. A. Berga of Arkansas
City, who is with the Empire
Gas and Fuel Co., is locating in
Yale this weak. His family will
arrive in a few days.
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W. W. Fitch is among this
weeks new subscribers to The j
Democrat.
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“Now, God be thanked Who
has matched us with His hour,’’
cried Rupert Brooke, the young
English poet who gave his life
for the cauge of freedom; and
the words find ready echo in the
hearts of the young people of
America to-day. That we are
living in tremendous times,
that the issue of the hour are
the very issues of life itself and
all that makes life worth living,
and that we rejoice in the high
privileges of bearing our part in
the struggle of mankind to work
out its destiny, are the chief
thoughts in all our minds. We
may have very different parts to
play, we may be called up>n for
a wide variety of service from
the humblest to the highest: but
what unites us all in the crisis of
the moment is the common im-
pulse to service in the highest
of all possible causes. Not to
have a part in the struggle would
be to forego our birthright: to
stand aloof from the strife
would be to make the great re-
fusal; for in a time like this,
when the life and hopes of man-
kind are in abundance,, to be
“above the battle” would be to
stand apart from all that is
significant and vital in the world,
William James, who is for
many American young people
the greatest modern prophet,
has a remarkable passage in
‘‘The Will to Believe” that i3
worth quoting at some length,
“I confess that 1 do not see why
the very existence of an invis-
able world may not in part de-
pend on the personaj response
which any one of us may make
to the religious appeal. God
himself, in short, may draw vital
strength and increase of very
being from our fidelity. For my
own part, I do not know what
the sweat and blood and tragedy
of this life mean, if they mean
anything short of this. If this
life be not a real fight, in which
something is eternally gained
for the universe by success, it is
no better than a game of private
theatricals from which one may
withdraw at will. But it feels
like a real fight,—as if there
were something really wild in
the universe which we, with all
our idealities and faithfulness,
are needed to redeem. Be not
afraid of life. Believe that life
i i worth living, and you yvid
help create the fact. The ‘scien-
t.fic’ proof that you are right
may not be clear before the day
of judgment (or some stage
of being which that expression
may serve to svmbulize) is
reached. But the faithful fight-
ers of this hour, or the beings
that then and there represent
them, niay turn to the faint-
hearted, who here decline to go
on, with words like those with
which Henry IV g-eeted the
tardy Crillon after a great battle
had been gained: ‘Hang your-
self, brave Crillon! We fought
at Arques, and you were not
there!’ ”
The high summons of the hour
is, then, to share the dangers
and the hardships of the battle
in which not merely the cause
of one nation is at stake,
nor even rperely the cause of a
K-roup of nations, but in which
the future of humanity and—if
we follow William James—the
very being and strength of God
are in peril. Never was there
a challenge more splendid to the
youth of any nation; and never
has the response of the youth of
any land been more ready than
it is to day in America. The
appeal is irresistbile; for it calls
upon all the best idealism in us.
It gives us each and all a privi-
lege of service that we had
scarcely dreamed of before; it
makes it possible for us to give
“what we have and what we
are” in a way that will change
the whole fabric of the world,
and make it a better and a more
righteous place for the rest of
time. What we do in this hour
will cou it more than the toil of
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ner of pure devotion and never
to let it waver. They are the
guardians of her idealism, the
custodians of her sacred honor.
To the young piople of our
free churches, as to all the rest
of the youth of the land, this
summons comes with compell-
ing power; and we cannot refuse
to answer, if we would. The
voice of God is calling, and we
have learned how to meet its
call:
We heed, O Lord, thy summons,
And amswer, Here are we!
Send us upon thine errands,
Let us thy servants be.
Our strengt h is dust and ashes,
Our years a passing hour,
But Thou canst use our weak-
ness
To magnify Thy power.”
—Unitarian Word and Work
Talk By Former German.
I have seen several articles
about Germans trying to raise
strife in this c:>untry. I am a
German by birth and I am an
American, heart and hand. I
will tell vou why I left Germany.
There were ten in our family
and we were poor l’ke the mist
of my countrymen are who come
to the good old United States of
America to get away from op-
pression, and it was a hard mat-
Gore in his personal misfortune.
It cannot cindone his actions.
It can only excuse his conduct
when he manfully confesses the
wrong he has done, or has al-
lowed his representatives to do.
ter to keep the wolf from the
door at times. When I landed
in this country I secured wofk
at once and received more mon-
ey for one month’s work than I
got in Germany for one year’s
work. I sent for my folks fluad
I am proud they are all true
American citizens and will ans-
wer to the president’s call to
amis against Germany or' any
other country when needed. I
don’t see how my countrymen
cm go back on Uncle Sam. They
came here without a cent and
made money here; now they
want to fight the country that
fe ds them. The kaiser never
did anything for them or me. If
he had we would be there yet..
All he did was to start this cruel’
war and starve all our people-
there and make soldiers out of:
everybody and force them to
work for a dirty 12 cents a day
with a fourth of a pound of
m< at and a loaf of black bread.
I ope to see the day when he ia;
kicked out of Germany and a.
president put in his place. You
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