World's Temperance Sunday
By Editor
"THE National Temperance Union" is the name assumed by the temperance organization that has been formed by the Federal Council of Protestant Churches in America. They have furnished a program for the observance of November 14 as the World's Temperance Sunday. The plan announced by the Federal Council is to make its work an educative one. It will not enter into the political side of the question at all. We wish to do everything in our power to forward every kind of true temperance movement. We believe that the Lord is putting forth superhuman efforts to keep the world sober enough to weigh the evidence He is presenting which shows the speedy return to earth of His Son, our Saviour. WORD has reached us that Elder J. T. Boettcher has been expelled from Russia because he is a German. Brother Boettcher, as those who are acquainted with him know, is an American of German parentage. He made himself proficient, however, in the German language, and for many years he has carried heavy responsibilities in connection with our work in Russia. We are sorry that the government there has seen fit to send him away from that field. His American citizenship, however, gave him the choice of returning to America rather than being deported to Siberia; and in this our brother as well as our work is to be congratulated. ACCORDING to a dispatch from New York, a leading banker who recently returned from the Old World, says that the cost of the war in progress will be three hundred billion dollars if we include the property destruction as well as the expense of the war itself.