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Bellefonte, Pa., April 3, 1925.
LOST.
(Continued from page 6, Col. 3.)
shadow, just below that place where
the golden cross was set. As she
climbed to the platform, as she came
to a standstill behind him, she could
hear him speak again.
“God,” said the voice, “I want to
give. But I feel that I have so little
—to give. Let me say the thing that
I should say. Let me answer the
word—""
Naney was close behind the man.
As he paused, her small hand fell
lightly upon his arm. She spoke with
an abruptness that made him, whirl-
ing, come suddenly to his feet. He
was a tall man, and he wore his collar
backward
“Please,” said Nancy, and even the
man’s unexpected height did not star-
tle her, “please—have you seen my
mother?”
The man, looking down at the child,
moistened his lips just a shade nerv-
susly before he spoke in answer. And
then—
“Why, no, little girl, he said, “I
haven't seen your mother. Did you
expect to meet her, in here 7”
Nancy, a tired small figure, looked
up into the man’s face. She tried not
to cry, but—despite her effort at self-
control—two: great ‘tears. went cours-
ing their way down her round cheeks.
“Mother’s lost!” she said brokenly.
And then—answering a sudden im-
pulse—she flung her wee body against
the tall man. And was clinging to his
knees with all the strength of her two
chubby arms.
“Mother’s lost!” she sobbed. “I
can’t find her, not anywhere!”
Perhaps the man was unused to
children. But the soul of parenthood,
that lies in every heart, made him
stoop suddenly to the little, forlorn
figure. Made him gather the sobbing
child into arms grown very gentle.
Made him carry her, with the sobs di-
minishing ever so slightly, down from
the platform. He did not speak at
first. Only when he was seated upon
one of the long benches with the child
cuddled against his shoulder, did the
words come.
“Now,” he said, and his voice was
an understanding voice, “tell me! Tell
me all about it!”
And Nancy told him. Incoherently,
but, despite that, from the very begin-
ning! She told him of the lost time
that she had known, and of her rescue
of the frightened puppy. She told
him about the doctor who came so sud-
denly, and of Mother’s pretty hair and
slim, gentle hands. She told him of
the tears in Father's eyes—and of
nurse’s storm of crying. Of the ladies
who had passed by, pitying her. And
last she told him—between sobs—of
her mental picture of Mother. Moth-
er running through the city streets.
Mother hiding in some dingy place.
Mother cold and hungry and afraid.
Mother lost.
And the man—who had prayed that
he might help others—knew, as his
arms-tightened around the crying
child, the answer to a prayer. Knew
that he had something to give.
He had preached, for years—had
the man. Standing on the platform,
beneath the shining cross of gold.
Looking down into the eagerness of
upturned faces. He had preached
with a flow of rhetoric and a burst of
sound. But as he told, simply, the
story of the Resurrection and the Life
—translating it into words of one syl-
lable so that a little girl might under-
stand and be comforted—he knew that
he had never, really, preached before.
That God had given him something
real to do. Now—and forever more.
To take, for little children, and for
children grown older, the fear out of
death. To take the horror out of
something glorious!
“Not like a frightened waif,” he
said in his soul, “nor like a terrified
animal. Not—lost—"
And: so, speaking softly, the man
told Nancy that Mother was not hunt-
ing, through the darkness, for some
haven of refuge. He told a story of
Mother in a lovely room, with flowers,
such as never bloomed in city green-
houses, all about her. With music
ringing on the air, and laughter
sounding through wide halls. Mother,
with the pink of health in her cheeks,
with hands that were strong enough
to do dear little tasks. With eyes that
smiled as they looked down, out of a
Heaven window, to watch a small girl
as she played in her garden or slept
in her bed.
“For she isn’t lost, dear,” the man
said; “she is just waiting. And she
has gone to a new house, to wait. A
nicer house than the house you live in.
A prettier house. And—if you feel
unhappy, because you can’t see her—
you must try to be glad because she
can see you. And whenever you look
at anything especially beautiful you
must try to remember her. And know
that she is seeing it, too. And when-
ever you do anything especially good
or fine—all through your whole life,
Nancy—" for the child had told him
her name—‘“you must know that you
have made her glad. And some day,”
his eyes were fixed on the Cross,
“some day her white hands will reach
out to you. And I think, Nancy, that
you will see them very plainly. And
you will hold fast to them, very fast.
And you'll never wonder again, my
dear, about anything * * *”
Lying back in the man’s arms, the
child was quiet. And then, at last,
she spoke.
“There’s no being lost, There,” she
said, “in that Other Place? Where
Mother is?”
The minister looked down into the
child’s face. “There is no being lost,
in that Other Place, dear,” he told her;
“only we who do not understand get
lost sometimes. And then—thank God
—" all at once his veice sang like an
anthem—“we are permitted to find
ourselves.”—By Margaret E. Sang-
ster, in Good Housekeeping.
Teacher (examining class on fliv-
verology).—“Johnny, what is a uni-
versal joint 7”
Johnny. —“A
department store,
ma'am,”
JOHN WESLEY ON THE CHURCH.
Methodists especially and all other
church members should be interested
in the following copy of the original
letter that John Wesley wrote in 1778.
It came into our hands through the
courtesy of Mrs. H. C. Valentine, and
reveals so intimately the ideas of the
founder of Methodism as to the rela-
tion of the member to his church that
we deem it worthy of publication.
The Miss Bishop to whom it is ad-
dressed was a native of Bristol, Con-
necticut. She was a Methodist and
was about to marry John Mills, a
member of the Society of Friends. It
was the prospect of this step that sug-
gested her written inquiry of Mr.
Wesley as to how he viewed it.—Ed.
London, Oct. 10, 1778.
MI dear Miss Bishop:
I am not unwilling to write to you.
even upon a tender subject, because
you will weigh the matter fairly. And
if you have a little prepossession
(which, who has not?) yet you are
willing to give it up to reason.
The original Methodists were all of
the Church of England, and the more
awakened they were, the more zeal-
ously they adhered to it in every
point, both of Doctrine and Discipline.
Hence we inserted in the very first
rules of our Society, “They that leave
the Church leave us.” And this we
did, not as a point of prudence, but a
point of conscience. We believed it
uttrely unlawful to separate from the
Church, unless sinful terms of com-
munion were imposed; just as did Mr.
Phillip “Henry, and most of - the ‘holy
men who were contemporary with
them.
“But the ministers of it do not
preach the Gospel.” Neither do the
Independent or Anabaptist ministers.
Calvinism is not the Gospel; nay, it
is further from it than most of the
sermons I hear at Church. These are
very frequently unevangelized; but
those are anti-evangelical. They are
(to say no more) equally wrong; and
they are far more dangerously wrong.
Few of the Methodists are now in
danger of imbibing error from the
Church ministers; but they are in
great danger of imbibing the great
error—Calvinism—from the dissent-
ing ministers. Perhaps thousands
have done it already, most of whom
have drawn back to perdition. I see
more instances of this than any one
else can do; and on this ground also
exhort all who would keep to the
Methodists and from Calvinism—
“Go to the church and not to the
meeting.”
But, to speak freely, I myself find
more life in the Church prayers than
in the normal temporary prayers of
dissenters. Nay, I find more profit in
sermons on either good temper or
good works than in what are vulgar-
ly called Gospel sermons. That term
is now become a mere cant word. I
wish none of our Society would use it.
It has no deterriinate meaning. Let
but a pert, self-sufficient animal that
has neither sense nor grace, bawl out
something about Christ and His
Blood, or justification by faith, and
his hearers cry out, “What a fine Gos-
pel sermon!” Surely the Methodists
have not so learned Christ! We know
no Gospel without salvation from sin.
There is a Romish error which many
Protestants sanction unawares. It is
an avowed doctrine of the Romish
Church, that “the pure intention of
the minister is essential to the valide
ity of the Sacraments.” If so we
ought not to attend the ministrations
of an unholy man; but in flat opposi-
tion to this, our Church teaches in the
28th Article, that “the unworthiness
of the minister does not hinder the va-
lidity of the Sacraments.” Although,
therefore, there are many disagreea-
ble circumstances, yet I advise all our
friends to keep to the Church. God
has surely raised us up for the Church
chiefly, that a little leaven may leaven
the whole lump.
I wish you would earnestly consider
that little tract, “Reasons against a
Separation from the Church of Eng-
land.” These reasons were never an-
{verad yet, and I believe never will
I am glad you have undertaken that
labor of love; I trust it will increase
both your spiritual and bodily health.
I am, my dear Miss Bishop,
Yours very affectionately,
J. Wesley.
In the year 1840 the late Mr. John
Mills, on re-perusing the letter, sent
it for perusal to Bishop Phillpotts,
Bishop of Exeter. His reply was as
follows:
London, July 13, 1840.
“Sir. Thank you very much for
your permission to peruse the singu-
larly interesting letter of Mr. Wes-
ley’s which you have transmitted to
me. Your prohibition has been strict-
ly observed——and I rejoice on read-
ing the reason on which that prohibi-
tion is founded—viz.: your intention
of publishing a series of letters from
the same pen.
I consider the document very sin-
gularly valuable. I return it with a
strong sense of the favor conferred
upon me by the communication.
Your obliged and obedient servant,
H. Exeter.
J. Mills, Esq.
Six Days in a Trap.
How little regard many a trapper
pays to the legal requirement that he
shall visit his trap every twenty-four
hours was illustrated last month when
a young hound, in Massachusetts, was
caught and held for six days in the
jaws of a heavy trap. At last, with
one leg badly mangled, and reduced
almost to skin and bones, he reached
his home dragging the trap and a
piece of wood about five feet long to
which the trap had been fastened. The
poor little fellow had made a heroic
fight for his life and barely succeed-
ed. That Massachusetts, or any other
State, should allow young lads of
twelye years to set traps is. wholly
wrong. The majority of these boys
soon lose interest in the: experiment
and then neglect their traps altogeth-
er for days or even weeks. Meanwhile
the innocent victims of the cruel trap
* pay the bitter penalty.
THE PRICE OF A PAIR OF SHOES.
The person who now buys well-
made shoes of good calfskin has to
pay almost twice as much for them as
he used to pay ten years ago. At the
same time the farmer or stockman
who has a hide to sell can get no more
for it than he got in 1914. What is
the reason?
Whenever the price of an article is
high it is the manufacturer or the re-
tailer that is first suspected of mak-
ing an undue profit. But any one who
knows anything about the shoe indus-
try knows that just now profits are
not excessive. One of the largest and
most prosperous manufacturing con-
cerns in the country, and one of the
few that publish a statement of their
earnings, made last year a profit of a
little more than six per cent. on sales,
or between nine and ten per cent. on
its invested capital and surplus. Few
manufacturers do so well as that.
Many of the smaller concerns make no
profit at all, and, if the corporation
menticned above should sell its shoes
at a price that would yield it no profit
whatever, it would reduce the whole-
sale price of a pair of six-dollar shoes
by only a little more than thirty cents.
Although a calfskin still sells at
less than the price of a single pair of
good shoes, tanned leather is consid-
erably more expensive than it used to
be. That is owing to the higher wag-
es paid in the tanneries. Even so it
is less than half as expensive as it was
in 1920, though the price of finished
shoes is about three-quarters of what
it was in that year. For three years
few tanners have been able to show a
profit on their books.” ‘Wages in the
shoe factories are more than twice as
high as they.were ten years ago, and
not much below the peak of 1920. On’
the average they were fifty-two cents
an hour then, and they are forty-eight
cents an hour now.
The cost of retailing is said to be
much higher than it used to be. Pre-
cise figures are not easy to get, but
every one who really knows the busi-
ness agrees that it costs more than it
should to market shoes. The retail-
ers blame the public for wanting too
many styles in shoes and the ladies in
particular for demanding frequent
and whimsical changes in fashions,
which frequently make a good part of
their stocks unsalable.
Obviously the man who has hides
to sell is not getting one cent too
much for them. Obviously the tan-
ners are not guilty of making an ex-
cessive profit, and the manufacturers
could not reduce their prices enough
to affect the retail price of shoes with-
out having to go out of business. The
retailer might save something in the
cost of distribution, but he will not be
able to reduce it much until people are
willing to be satisfied with a smaller
choice in styles and a less whimsical
taste in fashions.
_ The final reason for the compara-
tively high price of shoes is to be
found in the wages of the workmen,
which are more than twice what they
used to be. That is not to say that
the workers in shoe factories and tan-
neries are paid too much. Like other
commodities, shoes can be too low in
price as well as too high, and the
workers are entitled to wages as gen-
erous as the industry can support.
But those who grumble at the wide
difference between the value of a skin
and the price of a pair of shoes should.
understand that it represents higher
pay for human workers.—Youth’s
Companion. :
68,000 Veterans Get Claim Checks.
Applications for adjusted compen-
sation received by the army, navy and
marine corps from world war veterans
up to and including March 7, totaled
2,800,000.
This is 65 per cent. or about two-
thirds of the total number of 4,293,-
000 eligibles as setimated by the Sen-
ate Finance committee.
Legion headquarters points out
that the fact that two-thirds of the
veterans have applied “within two-
thirds of a year following the issuance
of application blanks, completely re-
'futes the charge of opponents that
veterans ‘do not desire their adjusted
compensation. On March 1 the Vet-
erans Bureau mailed out 68,000 checks
totaling $2,272,000, to veterans and
dependents of veterans who died prior
to making application. In the latter
case the benefits are payable in ten
equal quarterly installments.
Commander Chase spent an entire
week in Allegheny county attending
membership meetings of a number of
posts. The twenty leading posts are:
Post 294, Johnstown; 6, Clearfield;
127, York; 3, Philadelphia; 34, Lan-
caster; 73, Shamokin; 91, Mt. Carmel;
21, Reading; 29, Allentown; 281, Ty-
rone; 11, Erie; 318, Greensburg; 5,
East Liberty; 39, Norristown; 17, Du-
Bois; 316, McKeesport; 412, Philadel-
phia; 201, Sunbury, and 81, Pitts-
burgh.
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