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...meant the 1917 kind of odd jobs. In this war chaplains can concentrate on spiritual work, and, instead of holding services in mess halls and "Y" huts, they will have a $21,220 chapel for every post (22 in the biggest camps), each seating 400 soldiers, equipped with altar, electric organ, slant roof, steeple. The altars are being built on tracks, so they can be slid back when the chapels are used for other purposes. Ground for the first of these new chapels was broken last fortnight at Arlington...
...were liberal, trout-fishing Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston and fat, jovial Dean John D. McLauchlan. But the bank hoped that padlocking, stripping the altar, extinguishing the sanctuary lamp might stir the congregation into a drive to refinance its debts...
Pastor Otterbein credits this success largely to making the church "a place of worship, not a club with religion for an excuse." More than 72% of the congregation use the Lutherans' often-neglected Family Altar Service in their homes every day. The same personal and spiritual touch is preserved in the services in church, where the sermon is always a message from the Bible, never a topical discussion...
...Moody on the new importance of the chaplain. No longer must he double as canteen or mess officer, postmaster, athletic or entertainment director. Now he can concentrate on his spiritual work, aided by the Army's new mobile trailer chapels (there are only twelve so far), complete with altar, loudspeaker, vestments and altar furnishings, portable organ, Bibles, religious literature, other morale equipment. "In 1917," said Dr. Moody, "we were furnished a flag-a piece of blue bunting with a white cross on it. What else? Nothing. . . . It is estimated that 45% of the Army are without church affiliation...
...deferments to an average of one in 191 registrants; another deferred one in 18. Meanwhile Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, supervisor of the New York City area, instructed his boards to consider deferments even for men married after registration day, unless it could be shown that they went to the altar to escape the Army...