THE EDUCATIONAL MESSENGER 17
Dork in the Training Camps
There 1s a splendid held of usefulness for "our boys" at the training camp, but
the work is somewhat different from what mo of us have conceived it to be. [thay
been all along that the bed of Christan books, magazines, and papers could be sent
to the training camps and placed in some hbrary or other public place where the
soldiers in general could have access to them. True religious books of any denom-
ination will be received by the American Library Association, which association re-
cetves ard supplies moch of the reading matter for the training camps. But the im-
mediate organization for setting religious literature before the soldiers is the Y. M. C,
A, and it has felt obliged in many ngtances to rejed@ all matter which many way
promulgates the peculiar views of anv denomination, this course having been adapted
because of the tons of denominational Literature which 1s conftantly bemg received.
However, publications of high, spiritual value, setting forth no peculiar, denominational
teachings are gladly received by the Y. M. C. A. Doubtless this arrangement will
curtail much missionary propaganda. At the same time: there 1s in the camps an
opportunity for devout defenders of any particular religious views to circulate special
reading matter among their acquaintances and by this means cast a positive influence
in their own direction. The task, then, of influencing the multitudes mn training by
means of literature— which is one of the mo& efficient means - in the interest of any
particular church mut depend almost solely upon the loyalty and faithfulness of the
truth-loving Chriflians in the camps. Our boys have thus a wide sphere of action
and should be entitled to the hearty cooperation of all Adventist young people with-
J. Phillips.
out the camps.