ee e— ee] THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1917 ” od Thirty-five Years Ago. December 7, 1882, —John J. Arney, of near this place, lost three large hoge and four shoats by the bog disease, A musical convention will be held in the Evangelical church at Rebers- burg, commencing Christmas eve, and closing with concerts Friday and Sal- urday eveninge, under the direction of Prof. P. H. Meyer. : A big haul of deer.—A hunting par- ty of seven, under the leadership of Grenninger & Co, of Coburn, John Horner and son, of near Centre Hall, Mr. Lucas and Mr, Bchireckengast, of Nijtany, went to the Greens woods of Clearfield and returned last Satur- day with seventeen fine deer as their reward. The Horners got five for their share ; the Urenningers got ten and the Nittany boys got two. The party was out thirteen day, and on the last day out they killed five deer. ————— ——————— Lihden Hall From last week, Frank McFarlane, while watering a horse on Tuesday evening, was kick~ 2d on the back and sustained, severe irjuries which have kept him in the house evef since. : : Vernon Geist, Mise Mand Miller and Mr, and Mts, F. E. Wieland and daughter Mildred motored to Bloomas- burg Sunday morning and returned that evening. Mrs. William McClintic and ehil- it@ren spent the.week end with bet. par ents, Mr, and Mre. J. L. Tressler, at Centre Hall, Edmond Bellers went to Bunbury dry. James Swabb is able to be cut after being confined to the house for over a week. ly After-the-War Camp at Mt, Gretos, Plans for a model after-the-war camp at Mount Gretna for Pennsylvania Na- tional Guard are under discussion. These plans take into account (the io- creased productive capanity and gener- al beautification of the fifteen hundred acres of timberland included in the State’s two thousand acres militaryres- ervation. A preliminary inspection of the ground has been made, and it is pro- posed to start operations in a few weeks, The first work will be of an experimenthl nature, and will proba- bly be confined to the reenforcing of existing growth near springs for the purpose of conserving the camp's wa ter supply. Between 5,000 and 10,000 tices will be set out this fall. Plans for future planting seasons call for the establishment of evergreen borders along the main thorofares and paths of the reservation, and the re forestation of large areas on which al most every tree has been killed by chestnut blight. These operations will require over sa million trees, which will be raised in the nurserice of the Department of Forestry. Large quanities of cordwood and lumber are used every yesr at the csmop and aconeiderable direct eaving of money will result if the material can be raised on the ground, ———— AY TLE ———— Cow Breaks Batter Record, The world’s record for butter pro- duction has been broken by Aasgile Acme, as Holstein cow owned by A- W. Morris & Bons, of Woodland, Cal- ifornis, in a test conducted under the supervision of the University of Cali- fornia. The cow yielded 1331.41 pounds of butter in 865 days ; 1167.41 pounds in 805 days and 242651 pounds in two years, : In each instance the records die place those established by Keystone Beauty Plum Johanna, a Holstein owned by Stevens & Sone, of Pennsyl- vanis, it is contended. Aasgie Aome's milk production in 605 days was 22,0928 pounds. STATE AGRIOULTURAL NOTES, Hundreds of acres of buckwheat which was injured by frost early in September remain uncut in Sallivan county, The Bureau of Markets has markets ed thousands of bushels of cider apples for growers in the apple belt, Many farmers reported potatoes still in the ground on Movember 1 and lack of labor to dig them, Much corn in some sections of the State will remain uncut owing to the wet westher and lack of farma heip. Becretary of Agriculture Charles Patton Is urging farmers to save double the usual amount of seed cofn this Northern tier counties show an ine cressed acresge in wheat and this grain crop will be tried fn some secs Sona whats Jt ae Hever eon attemy- LUTHER'S REFORNS | 400th Anniversary of the Rel ormation Celebrated Oct. 31.} BLOWS ON CHURCH DOOR They Have Echoed Down the Ages From the Castle Church at Witten- berg—Economical but Effective Work Done by the Lutheran Church Throughout the World. The Great Reformation of four cen- turies ago, as the name implies, was a movement to bring the church back in faith and in practic to Christ and the Apostles. That this was done is proved by the rapid spread, like true leaven, of the influences of Luther and the other Reformers, The hammer blows struck on the door of the old Castle Church In Wit- tenberg, Oct. 31, 1517, echoed Into ev- pry section of the eivilized world and nave re-échoed down the ages to these the days of the Quadricentennial of that historic nalling of - the famous Luther Theses, : The Protestant Reformation move- ment was by no means a German movement. In Switzeriand, France and later In England similar activities Bartholomew Ziegenbalg, The First Foreign Missionary. octurred. Tt was an evangelical move ment intended to reach men of all tongues : hence one of Luther's first acts was to stop the reading of massed in Latin and to give to his German brethren the Gospel In their own lan- guage. The Idea caught fire and spread rapidly. Begun in 1517 In Ger- many, the evangelical principle of Protestantism was planted in Sweden by 1625; Denmark and Norway, 1537; feeland, 1551: Livonia, Esthonia and Russia, 1520, its triumph in Courland, Russia, being complete by 1530, It spread to Hungary In 1000, Bohemian and Moravia, 1600, It had a strong hold in Austria in 1528, Its influence was strong in England—=so strong, in fact, that King Henry VI in 1522 wrote mgainst the teachings of the Monk of Wittenberg. In Scotland the parliament legislated to keep out the Lutheran influence. In both France and Spain there were many followers of Luther as early as 1523, Already in 1519 Luther's hooks were in great demand even in Itely. Lutherans were martyred in Antwerp, Holland, as early as 1528. The Augsburg Confession was found in Constantinople in 1559, Thus the faith of Luther rapidly spread practically throughout all Eu- rope, which, being at that time the con- tinent of highest civilization and In- telligence, the Lutheran faith soon be- came the champion of intellectual de- velopment and missionary endeavor, The First Foreign Missionaries. It Is due the Danish Lutherans to say that they started evangelical for- eign missions by sending out the two Lutheran missionaries, Ziegenbalg and Plutschan, who began their work in Tranquebar in 1708, almost a century before William Carey, by some spoken of as the pioneer of Foreign Missions, arrived In India, where. the real plo- neers had already finished a life work and rested from their labors in India graves, While the work of the Lutheran Church has been done on a most eco- nomical basis, it has been none the less effective. Lutherans have missions in. the following countries: Africa, South, East and West; China, India, Green- land, Arabla, Turkey, Persia, Papua- land, South Australia, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Dutch Indies, New Gulnea, To- goland, Madagascar, Japan, Burma, the Sudan, the Congo, Lapland and Turk- estan. There are no less than thirty- five European and fourteen American Boards, er socleties, engaged in this Foreign Mission work, having 27,000 American and European missionaries and about 15000 native missionaries The latest available statistics Indicate an annual expense of over $4,000,000 in Snltnining these missions, into which have been gathered about a mii jion and a half of native Christians. The church preaches the Gospel 1h fifty languages. a The War Interrupts. Prior to the beginning of the great World War correspondence had begun EE oun. THE FIGHTING MUHLENBERGS Monument to the Lutheran Patriarch. His Son Peter Left the Pulpit for the Battle Line—Lutheran Bodies in Unification Movements. When Christopher Columbus discov- ered America a miner's son in Germany was singing for bread that he might pursue his glucation, which was to fit him for devéloping the seeds of liberty which were destined to find root ang largest growth in the Western Hemis- phere, a love of liberty which promises today to prove the dominating force to liberalize the governments of the world and insure world freedom and world peace, Lutherans very early had thelr rep- resentatives in America. In point of fact a Lutheran minister and a com- pany of Danish Lutheran sallors came to America the year before the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock. First Settlers Holland Lutherans were among the first settlers is what is now Greater New York, while Swedish Lutherans were on the Delaware to greet and shake the hand of William Penn when he arrived to establish Peansylvania. German Lutherans, too, came quite early In the history of the country. They were here in large numbers be fore the Revolution and furnished some of the stalwart troops who fought the battles for American liberty. Most notghle among these were the Muhlen- bergs, whose father, the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, organized the first Lutheran sypod In America as early as 1748, The Lutheran Patriarch, 8 monu- ment to whom as the founder of Lu theranism in America Is to be unveiled on the grounds of the Philadelphin Seminary at Mount Alry In October had three sons whose careers {llustrate the spirit of the early Lutherans In helping to make American, Peter was the famous General who threw off his preacher's robe, stepped down from the pulpit, enrolled nearly all his men as members of the colonial army and became of Washington's chief aids, His brother Frederick was the first speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, while the third brother, also a Lutheran clergyman, was the most eminent botanist in America In his day. one Growth, From these humble beginnings, aus | picious because of the typical Amerl canism of the leaders In Colonial Lu theranlsm, there has been a constant growth, at first slow, but gradually in-} Hon, Frederick Muhlenberg, Major General Peter Muhlenberg, Dr. Henry Muhlenberg. creasing until for a generation past Lu- therans have been the most rapidly growing Protestant body in America. The latest available statistics give* KESSLER CAN ia well 00° Synoad, B,8E1 ministers, 15,0009 congregations, 8,774,774 baptized mem- bers, Thelr church property in this country is worth in round pumbers $125,000,000, Typically American, Lutherans in America today are typl- cally American In this that they count thelr adherents as America does her citizens, from many lands and of many tongues, preaching at the present time to citizens of this country in no less than seventeen different tongues, This fact discounts the notion that some have that Lutherans are a Ger- man or a Scandinavian church, They are truly American in constituency and in spirit. In faith Lutherans are ONE. In organization, which to the Lutheran is secondary, they have been separated, but through the Joint Celebration of the blessings of 400 years of Prot- estanism they have drawn very close together, with the result that several of the most important bodies now have under consideration a constitution for the proposed United Lutheran Church of America, This will mean when fully consummated that the church which stands unitedly and unequivoesnl- ly for the Christ as the €God-Man, the Saviour of the world, and for the In- spiration of the eatire Bible and for its great conkessions, unaltered and subscribed to by about half of the Prot estant world, will, as the third Prot estant body in point of numbers In America, be one of the dominating re- lglcus forces for the making of the religious spirit and the development of the Christian consciousness of Amer- fea. CYRUS BRUNGAR JUSTICE OF THE FEACE CENTRE HALL, PA. 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