The Gavelyte, October 1914

CEDARVILLE COLLEGE 13 student body. This is a student publication, so students get in the line and help. Subscribe Now. Second, the ,allumni must feel that they have a p.Jace to fill in the pu'blication. We know that you alumni say that it does not interest you; that you are not acquainted with students here now; that the news which The Gavelyite contains does not appeal to you. A-11 true enough, perhaps, but wby not put your shoulder to the wheel ,and PUSH, also, with the rest of us, aru:l make it interesting for the alumni. Send in articles. Subs·cribe NOW. Third, the friends of Cedarville College must he.Jp us with this publication, in order for us to put out a first-class paper and come out even. How can you do it? BOOST IT. How? By, writing articles, by patronizing our advertisers so that they will advertise more with us, and last, but not lea~t, sulbscribe NOW. Now, in summing all up, what we want to impre"s here is that we must have finan,cial backing in order to put out a paper worth while. We can do it. Give us a chance. N'otice-All copy for public,ation in The Gavelyte should be writ– t~n on .standarldl letter paper, one side only.~Editor. No doubt many of the students in college mission classes are wondering what effect the European war is having on missions. The nations of 'Europ,e are manifesting such an anti-Christian spirit that it is being quesUone,d by many whether •Christianity is going to be able to hold its place as a world religion. The mission fields are feeling the effects of the war in many ways and th;,J missionaries are lbei ng greatly hindered in their work. The October number of the Missiona ry Review gives in a few words a number of ways in which the work of evangelization in foreign countries is being hindered by the war. First, the attention of the world1 has been turned from the war •between the darkness of heathenism and the light of the Gospel, to the war that is now rag– ing between the nations of Europe for purely selfish ends. IS,econd, all the money in Europe is ·being used to carry on the war and there is a scarcity of money in our own ,country beca:u£e ·of the failure of European investments to pay dividends. Third, hitherto Europe has furnished a number of men for mission work in foreign countries, but at present they are all being used to help along the war. Fourth, com– munication with the mission fields has been cut off. Travel, especially across the Atlantic, is unsafe and a number of missionaries who in· tend 1dJ going to Africa and India this fall were, for this reason, ipre– vented. Missionaries on the field al'e unable to g:et reliable in– formation about the state of affairs in Europe. A rec nt letter fTom Mr. Waide, known to many of the Gavelyte readers, stated that the EngliFh were collecting troops in U:e territory, of Patiala, and great ex– citem nt pr vailed, but it was unknown where they w re going. There was a rumor that they were to go to Egypt, but no one, only the