Issued Monthly, except August, at fifty cents per year. Clubs of Five or more-25 cents each subscription. Clubs totalling one-fifth of the gross membership in the church according to the last Year Book-15 cents each When a change of address is requested, both the old and new address should be given and notice of change should reach us by the 15th of the month previous to the issue on which the change is to take effect. The office of this magazine simply has charge of the subscription list. Communications on any other subject should be addressed to the different societies concerned. In sending donations to the Treasurers of the National Societies please remit in checks or money order on New York or Boston as far as practicable; also please give full particulars for proper credit and acknowledgment. Address other communications and make remittances payable to THE NATIONAL SERVICE COMMISSION AND ITS WORK The churches of America are united in the resolve to serve the moral and religious interests of enlisted men. No matter what the cost it must be done. This means swift, intelligent and united action. First, the appointment of competent chaplains is being furthered on behalf of all Protestants by the Federal Council of Churches. Second, through the Y. M. C. A. the churches are solidly behind this effort. Third, by co-operation with the Fosdick Commission. In each cantonment are some 40,000 men; for every 3900 there is a chaplain. There is a staff of Y. M. C. A. secretaries manning the "huts." To them must fall all that is done inside the camp. But thousands of soldiers are off duty every day outside the camps where perils confront them. Shall no hand of welcome be extended except from those who have something to gain by it? Shall nothing be done by the churches to assist and supplement the religious effort inside the camp? It is the unanimous judgment of the War Work Commission of the Federal Council; of the Y. M. C. A.; of the Fosdick Commission; and of denominational leaders that groups of local churches must be re-enforced by the denominations to which they belong. At Ayer, Mass., a Union Church is being erected, outside the grounds, at a cost of $30,000. It will be an outside-the-camp headquarters, a hall for lectures, a place for preaching, and for sacramental services. At Yaphank, Wrightstown, and other places similar work is in progress. The Congregational National Council instructed its National Service Commission to raise and expend $100,000. Many thousands are needed for immediate use. The entire amount will be required during 1918. Will you help? |