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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1917
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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.
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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,
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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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