So obsessed is the European mind with thoughts of war that the continental peoples are amazed by the prevalent talk of peace and peacemaking in America. Probably there was, before the war, no American better known in Europe than Mr. Henry Ford. Europeans found difficulty in understanding that a man who had accumulated so very many dollars in the manufacture of automobiles should be unwilling to add to his wealth by selling motors to the warring nations. They could not comprehend that a business man of his recognized caliber should not accept their money for armament. passed their understanding, with the world's greatest war in progress, that a real neutral sentiment should exist anywhere.

It

Going so far as did Mr. Henry Ford in chartering a ship and using his wealth to bring his party to Europe in a peacemaking pilgrimage was an undertaking in flagrant discord with war's knell of death. It was absurd, it was the apex of consummate folly, declared the malignant peoples. Yet, while the babel of battle has detracted to a certain degree from the immediate efficacy of the peace mission, in years to come the work which goes forward even now in Europe will bear the fruit of lasting results.

"It seems strange," said Major Winchell in conversation upon this very present theme, "that the followers of Christ who are commanded to be peacemakers should be regarded as madmen."

II

The Armies that Save Amid the Armies

W

that Destroy

AR is paradoxical. On the surface of things, soldiers of both sides are rushing the contending Juggernauts of War under the wheels of which it seems that civilization must be crushed, together with millions already slain.

But, while the leaders of nations are pouring out the vials of malice and one would feel that God had forsaken man in the folly of his own destruction, mighty forces are working for the regeneration of the race. The press is filled with accounts of attacks and counter attacks, the business of destruction and the political and financial bearing of the war's progress.

Yet forces are being exercised to overcome evil. The armies that save are toiling, day and night, in the trenches and in the camps for the salvation of the troops morally and socially. For obvious reasons, very little can be said now but, after the war, volumes will be filled recounting these victories.

It was Major Winchell's privilege to come in touch, more or less, with some of these agencies.

He heard from those who were carrying on this noble work the details of what was being accomplished. The clergy of all denominations have bravely taken their places as chaplains while thousands of Christian laymen, caring not to take up arms, have entered Red Cross work in which they can minister to the spiritual needs of the fighting

men.

This war has made a new France. Known in the past as a frivolous, fun-loving infidel nation, the new France will be, after the war, altogether different.

There are in the great conflict no more thrilling achievements than the heroism of Catholic priests, taking their stand in the thickest of the battles and attending to the souls of the dying soldiers, many dying themselves in devotion to their duty.

No greater work is being done in the Allied ranks than that of the Young Men's Christian Association. Major Winchell was so fortunate as to meet Major Gerald Walker Birks, millionaire jeweler of Montreal, Canada, and an international secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Major Birks is a fine type of the Canadian who, forsaking wealth and ease, volunteers to fight for the British army. But, having the Christian idea of things, he could see that a greater menace to the Canadian troops than the fire of the enemy was the degradation of the boys by the immoral influences of what are known as "camp followers." The number of soldiers who have been poisoned by venereal diseases is alarm

ing. Mothers have more to fear from this source than in the thought of a soldier's death, and hence have been reluctant to permit their sons to enlist.

Major Birks and the Rev. George Adams of London are now in Canada raising a quarter of a million fund to extend Y. M. C. A. work in the way of providing "huts," as they are called-large social buildings wherein the boys may gather to spend their leisure time. Here the Christian touch is felt and the minds of the soldiers are turned away from sin. The great work of the Y. M. C. A. has scarcely been mentioned in the American press, but it is nevertheless vast and far reaching.

The International Headquarters of the Salvation Army in London is the scene of globe-girdling activities, the heart and nerve centre of Salvationists whence arteries pulsate into the miasma of the great cities, into their hotbeds of crime and into their poverty rows.

Thence are despatched the missionaries who toil and sacrifice for the reclamation and rehabilitation of the drunkard, the thief, the fallen woman of the streets, the careless, the indifferent, the infidel. From here consecrated men and women go forth among the millions who tread the hot sands of India's jungles or the fever-stricken isles of Java, ministering to the darkened heathen of China and to the lepers isolated in colonies in out-of-the-way places of the earth.

The International Headquarters represents an organization preeminently evangelistic. Its social

enterprises but serve the great purpose of saving lost souls and bringing them into submission to the Saviour who laid down His life for them upon the Cross.

During the present war the Salvation Army has had to readjust its operations more or less to meet necessities occasioned by hostilities. This great conflict which has separated comrades by battlelines has not interfered with the motto, "Christ for all the world." In England, the Army has arranged to purchase and provision ambulances which are driven by Salvationists to the very battle-front. In December, 1914, London saw a remarkable demonstration when five of these motor ambulances were formally dedicated by General Bramwell Booth at the Guildhall before an immense gathering over which the Lord Mayor presided. The cars, each eighteen feet in length and costing about $2,000, were fully equipped as moving hospitals and were painted in khaki color with the Red Cross prominently displayed.

General Booth, after stating that the bulk of the money for them had been subscribed by poor people, said: "My own feeling is that perhaps the governments of the various countries, who spend fabulous sums and devote the highest skill of their various peoples to the promotion of instruments of destruction, might have given a little more attention to those which are necessary for helping the wounded; and I regret that it should be necessary, after war has broken out, to find in this and other