SECOND SECTION. FRIDAY EVENING, —HARRISBURG r KT A Kflfi \PH APRIL 10,1914. MEN'S MOODS OFT BLIND JHEIR EYES Only Rare Souls Have Capacity of Holding Always to * the Troth The Internationa] Sunday School lies son For AprU 12th la "The Journey to Kin ma us." Luke 24: 13-35. (By Wm. T. EHis.) Two men are walking with lowered leads toward the west. Their feet ire heavy, as If weighed. Dejection is written In their face, their attitude, heir tones. The fresh gray of the slive orchards by the roadside has ;io beauty for them. They are blind :o the effulgence of the Spring flowers which carpet Judea's hills. A mood of iepreasion is upon them, like a black :loud. Behind them lies the city of David, s-here they had expected to see, at his very time, the wonder of wonders, he consummation of the hopes of the lation, the assumption of kingly power >y the long-expected Deliverer. Instead they had seen Him who was heir hope executed as a common riminal. The leaders of the nation rhich they expected He would restore lad been foremost in the dreadful leed. Their gentle prophet was dead. I'lirough two long nights and a Sab •atli between that awful reality had frown clearer and clearer. Portents n the sky had attended His death, .übstantiating His claims. All to no vail. He now was dead; they had een Him laid in Joseph's new tomb. Now nothing remained but to take ip life's common round, a supreme lope extinguished. These two men be unged in the procession of disap >ointed ones, who nevertheless re life's duties in grim fortitude ilsa faithfulness, even when all the amps of the soul have gone out. Un il this third day they had remained wth the company of comrades of esus; now they must go back to Km naus, their village Lome. High lopes had been extingushed, but at ■ast blessed routine called them. And is they walked, they talked of what niglu have been. When the Mood Is Gray It was like the ride home from the' emetery, was this seven-mile jour- , iey. The dear dead was the theme, 'lie words, the little familiar tricks voice and manner, the kindly Houghtfulness, the great deeds of esus, their crucified leader, filled heir conversation. Over all hung the ray pall, "It might have been!" Discouragement never sees clearly, 'he mood of these men blinded their yes. The great gift of holding to a ruth through all sorts of weather us not theirs. Only rare souls have his capacity. As I write these lines sit propped up in a bed of illness, nd outside the rain is falling; there- ! ore, the. Easter note of Jubilation, oes not sound so spontaneously as he lesson demands. A week hence I lay forget that the sky was ever gray. I The disciples did not "feel" their as if their feelings had aught u do with the immutable love of God i r the changeless truth of Christ. De- J ression is always a foil to faith. | 'hysical moods blind us to spiritual ealities. The mental attiude of those wo disciples intervened like a thick eil between them and a clear vision f their Lord. The Talk by the Way For the stranger who joined them ) their walk, in the easy, familiar nd democratic fashion of the plain eople, was none other than the isen Christ Himself, though they new it not. He slipped naturally into 1e talk, with a few searching ques ons, and they told him all—their opes, the tragedy of the crucifixion, leir despondency, and the unsettling umors concerning thoes who had been arly at the grave, which they found mpty. Then, to their amazement and joy, lis new-found companion began to iden their knowledge by showing •om the Old Testament that it was IUS the Messiah should die and rise gain. These men belonged to the irge company of Christians unfa with the study of the Bible, ike many others, they were discus ng the profundities of religion in rnorance of the teachings of reli ion. A little less speculation and a ttle more reading of the Bible, would lear up most of our spiritual per lexities. We miss a primary teach ig of this particular lesson, unless e learn afresh the importance of >oking Into the Bible for authorita ve teaching upon religious themes, hrist began His ministry by quot ig Scripture; here, risen and trl mphant. He still finds in the Old estament sufficient explanation of imself. Hospitality and a Conseqncnce If the wayfarers had not hospitably ressed their companion to enter their ome, they would never have known rnt the Lord Himself had walked by leir side. How much we miss when e fall of hospitality! In the bless ig of the frugal meal, and In the •eaking of the bread, their eyea were jened. Perhaps they saw the prints ' the nails In His hands; perhaps It as a familiar gesture; perhaps the sw attitude at the meal gave them clearer vision. Somehow, they knew lm. Their faith established, the aster disappeared. The story of the lesson has been re ild In verse by Lily P. Ponder, with 3 application to our daily life. )'«r calm Judean hillsides, sloping slowly from the west, le purple shadows, lengthening, gave promise soon of rest; U beautiful the landscape lay, be neath that chastened light, Tiich in the lovely Orient precedes tb« fall of night. "Votn out the fair Jerusalem, where softened splendor shone, pon the road to Emmaus, two men went forth alone; jjth grieving hearts and voices bushed, they sadly spoke of Him hose recent death on Golgotha made even the heavens dim. i stranger came beside the two, and as He walked their way, Ith sympathy He asked what grief upon their spirits lay; i len, wond'rlng that He had not heard, they told Him of the cross, >eir Master's ignominy, and their own dismay and loss. apt their companion chided them, and showed them this must be, ow Jesus thus must give His life to make His people free; »d many a passage quoted He, from prophecies of old, > prove that all these happenings were as had been foretold. (Then they had reached their des tined place, the stranger would have passed, it kindly urged to enter in, He went ■ GOOD CLOTHES And Your Money's Worth /fjjr\ That s all this or any other store can offer oil— V \ \ I iw -/^Ss V II but more than many give. 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"A Presence walks beside our way, we think we do not know, . Goes with us on the path we tread I with saddened steps and slow; But when we ask Him aa a guest to sit beside our board. Our eyes, no longer holden, see it is j our risen Lord." The Immortal Hope 1 Through the eyes of the two Em maus disciples we glimpse the glor ious truth of the resurrection, and that "He is risen." This is the most i precious teaching of the New Testa ment. A contemporary essayist, E. S. Martin, has freshly expressed the . place of this belief in life. "Beliefs of great strength and in- 1 fiuence may lie dormant in the mind, < unresponsive to surface questionings,!: but accessible to the deep probings of ] j great crises. So it is likely to be with the belief of mortals in their ability | < ft r to survive death. It is the natural belief of people of our race and reli gion. 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