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A STARTLING TEST.—To save a life,Dr.
T, G. Merritt, of Mehoopany, Pa., made a
startling test resulting in a wonderful cure.
He writes, ‘‘a patient was attacked with
violent hemorrhages, caused by ulceration
of the stomach. I had often found Electric
Bitters excellent for acute stomach and liv-
er troubles so I prescribed them. The pa-
tient gained from the fisrt and has not had
an attack in 14 months.”’ Electric Bitters
are positively guaranteed for Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, Constipation and Kidney trou-
bles. Try them. Only 50c. at Green’s
drug store.
Real Indian Warriors.
Pawnee Bill’s Wild West is the first big
tented exhibition to visit us this year. Ful-
ly a thousand men and horses are utilized
and a Juvenile Wild West is one of the
new features.
Doin
Bellefonte Pa.. May 6, 1904.
PLEASANT FIELDS OF HOLY WRIT
Save for my daily range
Among the pleasant fields of Holy Writ.
I might despair —Tennyson
THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSON.
8econd Quarter. Lesson VII. Luke XV, 11-24
Sunday, May, 15th, 1904.
THE PRODIGAL SON.
The parable of the Prodigal Son was one
of three spoken in answer to the Pliarisaic-
al murmuring against Jesus’ familiarity
with publicans and sinners. With cumula-
tive power they set forth the Savior’s ac-
knowledged mission in which he and all
heaven delighted; namely, the recovery of
the lost.
If a woman loses a coin, part of her dow-
ry, does she despise it because itis lost,
because mayhap it is trampled in the mire
somewhere, or is corroded by exposure?
Not a bit of it! On the contrary,her heart
is set upon recovery. She lights her hand-
lamp and thrusts it into every recess, and
as a last resort, she sweeps the floor, and
passes the litter through her hands. When
the coin is found her delight bears some
proportion to the intrinsic value of the coin
and to the length and arduousness of the
search. So the apostate sons of Abraham
are still dear to God; the publicans, too,
who unpatriotically make merchandise out
of Israel’s servitude and fallen state.
It is the sorry plight, the dangerous pre-
dicament of the lost sheep, which touches
the faithful shepherd’s heart to pity. It is
difficult for us to appreciate the strong bond
which maintains between the keeper and
his flock. In this instance the true shep-
herd, who is no mere hireling, sees in im-
agination his dear lost sheep on the moun-
tain, cut by stones, lacerated hy thorns, un-
til its snowy fleece is dyed in its own blood.
Its piteous bleating haunts his very dreams.
He knows that most timid and defenseless
of domestic animals will be the prey of
some ravening beast.
The shepherd heart asserts itself. Oat in-
to night and danger he goes. The sheep is
found and the joy is proportionate to the
strength of the shepherd’s attachment, the
perils of the search and the value of the
sheep. So each sinner and publican is still
one of the favored flock, only astray,imper-
iled. To search, find and restore such a one
is a divine work, in which angels would
fain engage—in the consummation of which
they are at least permitted to rejoice.
See the progression. It is from the inan-
imate to the animate—from the animate to
the human. A son in anoble and wealthy
family, chafing under parental restraint, or
having exhausted local means of dissipation
aud sighing for fresh fields of voluptuous
conquest, inconsiderately requests an ante-
mortem division of the estate. The indul-
gent father makes it. Perbaps he has no
recourse; parental authority is at an end.
The son’s heart is callous to the appeal of
love;sin has indurated him. The guileless
youth, the father’s pride and joy, bas grown
the gruff, defiant rebel. The amenities of
home are insufferable.
In the shortest time possible the infatu-
ated youth tucked the sparkling gems and
golden bare, his patrimony in portable
form, easily convertible into coin of any
country, in the pockets of a money-belt,
and, strapping it about his person, he went
abroad —perhaps without even a ceremon-
ious farewell.
He wasted his substance. He tossed it
in the air (literally) as the farmer does the
wheat when he will separate it from the
chaff. He lived dissolutely. He was in-
salvable (literally) while his infatuation
lasted. The coincidence of the devoured
(literally patrimony and the universal and
extreme famine puts a pathetic touch to
sorry plight of the dissolute spendthrift.
He was left. behind (literally) behind in
the race. He never, in spite of his infatu-
ated effort and extravagance, 80 much as
reached the glittering goal of his wanton
ambition. The gay reveling party that
kept him company while his means held
out, swept past him thanklessly and dis-
dainfully when his once plethoric purse was
at last empty. He awoke as from a dream
—aloune! penniless!
With the pertinacity of despair he glued
(literally) himself to a foreign land-owner,
whom in his prosperity he would have dub-
bed a‘‘Gentile dog’’—with whom he would
have no intercourse, much less receive a
favor from him. In his despair he cleaves
to the foreigner so tenaciously that he can-
not be shaken off. A superlatively disgust-
ing and degrading task is given him—of-
fensive to all the senses, repugnant to all
the ideas of ceremonial cleanliness instill-
ed in his mind from boyhood. So sharp
were the pangs of hnoger that he kept cov-
eting the swine their feed—the locust pods
he threw down before them. What humil-
iation, sorrow, despair are compressed in
the five words ‘‘No man gave unto him!”
At last the hypnotic spell of sin is broken.
Self-consciousness, self-control are regain-
ed. Memory paints the ancestral home.
The flown blessings brighten. What abun-
dance, comfort, care there extends to the
most abject menial! The veriest scullion
bas such a superahundance that he can
pose as a heuefactor before the tramp.
“I will!” What a battie-royal has pre-
ceded and made possible those talismanic
words! Fear, shame, pride have been met
and conquered. ‘‘I have sinned’: is the cor- | €
| done against God.
relate of ‘‘I will arise.”” Confession abso-
lute and frank, without apology or plea in
abatement, shall he made. The penalty
and consequences of apostasy, -disinberi-
tance, servitude instead of sonship, shall
be assumed without a syllable of com-
plains.
It is done. But how different the sequel
from that which the prodigal anticipated!
He is met long before he can reach the door
where he expected to make his confession
and prefer this noblest request. The fath-
er’s compassion, how admirable! Kiss of
reconciliation, how sweet! The first robe,
richly dyed and embroidered, is cast about
the bare and sunburntshoulders. The sig-
net of rank is placed upon the wan finger.
Bare feet, mark of servitude, are shod with
the sandals of a free man. Now follows the
joyous bauques.
The murmuring Pharisees cannot but see
themselves portrayed in the elder son, with
his ill-formed,ill-natured protest. The true
Messiah has come to heal the sick, raise
the dead, find the lost. Will the hale, the
unstrayed, those who do not need his kind-
ly offices, begrudge them to their brother,
whose plight is so -pitiable and desperate?
Tie climax is reached, the plea unanswer-
able.
‘THE TEACHER’S LANTERN
The primary use of the parable of the
Prodigal Son must not be lost sight of in
its evangelical and modern applications.
By it Jesus sought to justify His kindly
and familiar bearing toward publicans and
sinners, at which the Pharisees and scribes
were so outraged. He showed the veriest
renegade of Israel as still the object of Di-
vine compassion, his restoration possible—
a thing He earnestly sought.
* *
* * *
In its universal, gospel application this
‘pearl of parables’’ pictures sin as a revolt
against a beneficent Heavenly Father,
whose law is right and just and good.
* * * * *
Here is mirrored the freedom of the will.
The son has his own way. He isnot let or
hindered, except by the pleadings of love
and its faithful warnings.
* ® * * *
The folly of sin has no more startling ex-
emplification. True asstartling; drawn to
life! How swift the ‘‘descensus Averno!’”’
How soon the fool and his money are part-
ed! How irrevocable the last estate! Rem-
ediless! In the mire with swine!
* * * * #*
Who shall ever number the sinners to
whom this parable has been the ‘‘open se-
same’’ toa new life? Blessed be the day
in which it was spoken! °*‘I will arise!”’
‘‘Father, I have sinned!’ The Heavenly
Father meets the returning prodigal in the
way.
* * * * *
“Lost!” ‘‘Dead!”” Here is no minify-
ing of the prodigal’s fallen state. Lost to
God; lost to heaven ;dead in trespasses and
sins?
* * * * *
The far country is not a matter of geog-
rapby. It is expressive of estrangement,
of alienation from God.
* % * * *
The prodigal’s theology was bad, though
it showed well the strength of his compune-
tion. It would he impossible for him to
ever be his father’s hired servant. He is
{ son or nothing.
* * * * *
‘‘Sinned heaven-high and in thy sighs.
Here the penitent is strictly orthodox. The
turpitude of sin consists in this, that 1b is
Judah’s penitent king
knew this when he cried, ‘‘Against Thee,
Thee only, have I sinned!” With this
truth Joseph armed himself when he cried,
‘‘How can I commit this sin against my
God!’
* * * * *
Solomon is the example for all time of
the unsatisfying nature of sin. He drank
every cap of joy, but hear his dying protes-
tation of the inadequacy of the sensuous
world to satisfy an immortal: ‘Vanity of
vanities, all is vanity!’
Flames Damage Union Station!
Pennsylvania Railroad Company Sustains a Loss at
Harrisburg. Valuable Records Burned.
HARRISBURG, April 30.—The Pennsyl-
vania railroad union station was damaged
by fire to the extent of $75,000 to $100,000
tonight. All the records of the company,
including highly valuable blue prints, are
included in the loss.
Traffic was delayed about three hours.
The train despatchers’ office was destroyed
and to facilitate traffic temporary offices
were established at North street, this city,
a branch intersection.
The fire is supposed to have originated
from crossed electric wires in an elevator
shaft on the third floor.
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Court House
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Attorneys -at-Laws.
C. M. BOWER, E.L. ORVIS
BER & ORVIS, Attorneys at Law, Belle-
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J C. MEYER—Attorney-at-Law. Rooms 20 & 21
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ORTNEY & WALKER.—Attorney at Law
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H. WETZEL.— Attorney and Counsellor at
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Physicians.
S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Surgeon,
« State College, Centre county, Pa., Office
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Dentists.
E. WARD, D. D.8., office in Crider’s Stone
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