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let fall a few crumbs from their table. They had built a fire and were cooking rice for; their pilauf. It was a happy moment in their lives. After the delights of the flesh came the higherjoys of the spirit. I can see them yet. There were other groups and other fires, but I shall always see these, as they alternately stood and knelt in the firelight .absorbed in the thought of the world to come, feeling no need of sleep only the great need of all men to commune with something higher than themselves, and wrapped in this sentimental thought, plus a blanket, we fell fast asleep, not even to dream of the four Arab guards, stalwart, and picturesque in the moonlight, as they paced back and forth, keeping armed guard over our camp.
Refreshed by our night's sleep and a hot glass of tea to top our canned breakfast, we felt ready for anything, even brigands. So we thought as we broke camp in that early dawn. About seven o'clock we were not so sure of our valor. It happened, when the convoy reached the top of one of the hills, that three of the cars were missing. We waited a half hour for them. Then they joined us in great excitement, all talking at once. The 12 unarmed Pilgrims had been held up by two armed brigands and robbed of 500 pounds.
Something had to be done to pacify them. The prospect of becoming hajjis, remarks the reporter of the pilgrimage, could not take the place of the stolen money. An awful dispute arose as to who should have the privilege of pursuing the villains. Finally:
The Armenian's machine was commandeered under protest, and when the Armenian wished to drive his own car, he was hit in the jaw by Mah-moud. Mahmoud was determined that no matter who went, he would do the driving. Of course, the fat Sheik, dressed in a white riding suit and Arab headdress^, had to go. His sudden energy was surprising, since he was never seen to get out of his car, however deep the sand or steep the hill. Of his social supremacy, there could be no dohbt, for it was said (one may gossip even on a holy pilgrimage) that he and his sister were-the last of their family. They had refused to marry, because there was no one considered good enough for them. Besides Mahmoud and the Sheik, the two armed police officers and an Arab engineer filled the car.
The two hours they were gone passed in a wave of excitement and chatter. Three times the alarm was given. A large band could be seen in the distance, advancing upon us. The hands of the Arabs carrying the longest guns shook as they called out in trembling tones "Chittys, chittys!" (Arabic for brigands.) We waited in suspense. The chittys did not deign to move, for the simple reason that they became bushes before our eyes.
The officers returned with a small, hard-faced Arab, who might easily have been one of the robbers if he had not been a passing shepherd. However, he did nicely for a scapegoat. He was first threatened by "a long gun, and then, having nothing to confess, was severely flogged by the fat Sheik, who broke his cane in the act. In describing the scene afterward, the small boy of the party, said: "You know, it didn't really hurt, he had on so many clothes." The prisoner was taken handcuffed to Ramadi. In order to satisfy any future curiosity, I will add that he was released by the authorities and the real culprits escaped with the booty.
On account of the floods we had to enter Ramadi on donkey-back, after having been towed, along with the donkey, part of the way by a gentleman who objected to having his picture taken. His reason was that he expected to be coming to America soon. Every
enterprising man one meets in the Orient expects to come to America inside of two months. Unlike the passing shepherd, we were glad to be taken into custody by the district Chief of Police, who rescued us at nine at night from the inn and took us to his comfortable home. It is hard to classify a hostelry where the proprietor sends up word that he is very sorry, but there is no water left for boiling the eggs, as you have exhausted the supply (three pail-fuls) earlier in the evening.
We were entertained the following night at the home of an Arab police officer. Just to' look at his wife gave us a thrill—she was so like the old nursery rhyme, "Rings on her fingers and rings on her toes." There were also rings in her nose and mysterious tattoos on her arms and neck. Poor as they were, our hosts were the souls of Arab hospitality, which accepts no pay and no gift in return. We had other hosts on other nights, but none more well-meaning and kindly. Luckily, there is an end to all things, even to the need of hospitality. In spite of stifling winds, pests of locusts, and a long night of yelping jackals, there came a last stretch of road. It was the morning of the ninth day. As we entered the gates of Aleppa, Mahmoud said, half-assertingly, half-in-quiringly, for the nth and last time: "Me very good driver?" For the last time I pounded those shoulders (patting seemed so mild after watching the Sheik) and said: "Mahmoud very fine driver." It was said without reservations, for had not twenty-six cars left Bagdad and only one tentered Aleppo that day? The others arrived in the days following.
In the meantime we could not wait for the whole convoy before sampling the blessings of civilization—food and a bathroom, a. bathroom and food! (I cannot decide which to place first.) Then there I resolved to spend the rest of my days practicing that English phrase the Prussian Crown Prince once boasted of having acquired: "Boy, ice-water, ple*ase!"
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"TWO-CENT" SUNDAY
SCHOOLS—AND THE
RESULT.
If any warning were needed that the standard or religious education of the young is so deplorably low as to verge on the useless, it is contianed in the startling disclosures resulting from a survey conducted in Indiana, a representative American commonwealth, by the Institute of Social and Religious Research of New York. The survey, published byf George H. Doran Company, shows, in effect, that the Protestant Church is failing to meet its opportunities and its obligations, not deliberately, but—and none-the-less significantly—with an inefficiency that would not be tolerated by the civil authorities, or the people, for that matter, in the public schools.
The investigation was made on a scientific basis, and was subjected to all the usual tests demanded by an exhaustive inquiry, so that it may be considered as a non-partizan and unbiased report on a situation with which the Protestant Church should be acquainted. Credit is given for much sincerity of effort and purpose put forth by teachers and others connected with the religious instruction of the young; but it is shown, nevertheless, that the majority of them are untrained, and therefore, unfitted, to impart an education that is essential to the religious progress of the country, and that the conditions in Indiana are representative of a prevailing situation. The conditions exposed are ho more a reflection on the State of Indiana, says Walter S. Athearn, who conducted the survey, than on any other State.
Professor Athearn, who is Dean of the School of Religious Education and Social Service in Boston University, a Methodist institution, is an authority on religious education. A member of the Disciples of Christ, he is chairman of the Committee on Education of the SundaySchool Council and
of the International Sunday School Association, and was a director of the religious education survey department of the Interchurch World Movement. He is also the author of many authoritative books, among which are "The Organization and Administration of the Church School," "Religious Education and American Democracy," "A National System of Education," "An Introduction to the Study of the Mind," and various brochures relating to education under religious auspices. In an interview with a reporter for the New York Tribune given out just before he left for a rest in Bermuda, after four years of work on the survey, he states that it was "projected by the Institute, because no problem is more vital than that which concerns the moral integrity of/ the people." He proceeds:
"When the Institute found by general surveys that more than $4,000,000,000 worth of property is stolen every year in the United States, that 15,-000 murders and homicides occur in the same time, that it costs the Government more than $600,000 a year to guard the mail-sacks on railroad trains, that juvenile delinquency is mounting at an alarming rate ,and other similar facts, it felt that the time was ripe for an inquiry into the apparent failure of the home and the Church to inculcate adequate standards of moral integrity. It found in the United States 27,000,000 children and youth under twenty-five years of age who are not receiving systematic religious and moral instruction from any church, while seven out of every ten of the children and youth of America are not enrolled in any Sunday school or parochial school for religious instruction.
"Indiana churches spend twice as much for their janitors as they do for the religious education of their children. Forty-seven cents out of every municipal dollar in Indiana are expended on the public schools; only two cents out of every church dollar are expended on church schools. The amount of money expended on religious schools in Indiana is too low to secure a dignified and efficient program of religious education."
Dean Athearn concludes by noting that the survey recommends that a*committee of one hundred be appointed to give careful consideration to the data contained in it, with a view to formulating plans and policies for a State-wide system of religious education which would parallel the system of public schools and operate under interdenominational auspices.
To turn back to the survey: Dean Athearn was assisted in its preparation by E. S. Even-den, W. L. Hanson, and William E. Chalmers. It is characterized as "an unparalleled and authoritative source book of well-ordered and significant information on religious education that will furnish religious and educational leaders everywhere with weapons to combat the menace of spiritual illiteracy." Again, "it is startling in its revelations; exhaustive in its assemblage of facts; dynamic in its presentation, and sympathetic and constructive in its method."
At the outset we are told that Indiana was chosen for the survey because it is centrally located, has a variety of geographical and, occupational conditions, is a progressive State educationally, represents the dominant types of denominational and interdenominational organizations of religious education, and because the Protestant denominations are well represented. Bearing in mind, then, that the report no more stigmatizes Indiana than any other State, and that it was prepared, we are told, with the desire to lay bare a situation that it may be properly remedied, we read that Indiana church and religious educational plants fall far below modern standards. The typical church building scores about 500 on the basis of 1,000 points. Many of the church buildings are inadequately heated, the systems being old and inefficient. The
majority are exposed to coti-< stant fire hazards, and practically no fire protection is provided—a condition which the civil authorities should not permit.
But the main concern is with the Sunday Schools and the religious instruction of the young. In the two Counties surveyed, we are told that of the total rural population under twenty-one years of age, 39.1 per cent, are enrolled in Sunday Schools, while of th» totsl urban population under twenty-one years of age, 48.6 per cent, are enrolled in Sunday Schools. During the twelfth and the fourteenth years occurs the greatest elimination of Sunday School pupils. The school session lasts one hour, one-half of which is (Continued on Page 10)
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