20 CHRIST REVEALS GOD US SEEKING THE LOST This Conception Has Changed the World's Map and Its History OSSIFICATIONS BREAKING UP First Class Snob Always Most Zeal ous Concerning His So cial Position THE TWO TYPES OF RELIGION The International Sunday School Les son For April 26 Is "Tlie Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin." —Luke 15:1-10 (By Wm. T. Ellis) Two pictures are suggested, one older than the inscribed rocks of Per sia or the Inca ru'ns of South Am erica. It is a picture of humanity, of all colore and conditions, in pur suit of spiritual peace. The details of thjß picture are more bewildering than Michael Angelo's "Last Judg ment." They Include the great stone altars, the "high places" of Petra; the sacrificial mounds of the Amer ican Indians, the myriad indescrib able idols of India, the stately tem ples at Nikko, and the majestic shrine at lse, in Japan; the Kabba at Mecca, the noble "Temple of Heaven" in Peking, and the wondrous ruins at old Karnak, in Egypt. A tide of pil grims, and a cloud of Incense are in the background of this picture. Red splotches of human sacrifice stain the canvas. As we look, the great pic ture seems vocal with the oldest and saddest of human wails, the cry of souls seeking salvation. That is the history of human religions; man struggling toward God. No great soul can gaze upon the scene without be ing profoundly moved. The other picture Is a contrast — the great contrast. It is lined mostly In tne experiences of one character, und Its central scene is that character on a cross. In the background we see Him as a Good Shepherd, amid the thorns of the dangerous mountain side at sunset, rescuing a lost lamb that the eagles will get if He does not We see Him too, as a good phy sician, lavishing His healing upon the thankless. As a gentle, patient teacher, we behold Him unfolding to the multitude the truth of the new lcingdoip of brotherhood. A cham pion of the poor, the humble, the outcast, we watch Him fling His life into the snarling teetn of an antago nistic, self-righteous system 01' proud self-interest. In ways small and great, this second canvas reveals the stupen dous and well-nigh incredible spec tacle of salvation seeking souls, God yearning for man. Christianity's Fniqne Trait There, you have the one great dis tinctive truth about Christianity. It reveals God as seeking the lost No longer is the Supreme Being under stood as a fierce and terrible Power, to be propitiated and placated. .Tesus made clear that God is a Father, •with alj of a human lather's best qualities, exalted and extended to the ninth degree. Brooding, yearning, inviting, seek ing—-that Is the picture of God which Jesus painted. That conception lias changed the world's map and the ■world's history. For what people lliink about Ood is the determining factor in all human affairs. Across the f-ce of the sky, deep in the mines of earth, men now read the wonder ful Christ message. "God loves you." With such a mighty truth as this underlying the present Sunday School lesson, no student should spend his time in conniug the mere details of the parable, as, for Instance, the fact that the lost coin was worth sixteen ronts, and that the Syrian home, with Us earthen floor, often had no window At all, making the loss of the coin rosy. So, also, with details of the business of the shepherd. Jesus told these two stories wihout any inten tion that they should be pursued cur iously in all the refinements of their meaning; He designed only to illus trate, from the familiar, every-day experience of His hearers, the tre- If SUFFER FROM UPSET STOMACH Mi-o-na Regulates Bad Stomachs and Ends Dyspepsia If you feel melancholy, languid, or liave headache, coated tongue, distress after eating, heartburn, belching of gas and undigested food, you are suf fering with indigestion and dyspepsia. Now —at once—is the time to stop this distress and forever banish the disease. Get from any druggist a fifty cent box of Mi-o-na Tablets. Their action la sure, effective and im mediate. 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A first class snob is always most of all zealous about his social standing, and unwilling to do any thing at all to compromise it. Some socially ambitious persons are j ashamed of their own humble parents, j Jesus, however, was the originator of ■ democracy, and He never looked at j the label which society had pasted on a man. He would as lief eat with | a publican as a pharisee. Whereat j the pharisees gnashed their teeth, j Jesus answered them by this incom parable cluster of three parables, the j lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost j son. At the plinth of things lies this; Christ-teaching of the worthwhile-; ness of every human soul. It is thej onlv basis for democracy. Equality of i life, equality of opportunity, and j equality of value of every human be- • i,i g —these are bed-rock principles of democracy. In a democracy no man j can say, as the old pharisees said, "This multitude is accursed." Even | as Jesus prized the outcast, so democ- j racy prizes every baby, every boy and j girl, every laborer in mill and mine, and every Bheep wandering from the ( fold of good citizenship. More than a score of years ago a | few baseball players, put for "a good] time," sat on a Chicago curb. Nobody > heeded them greatly; they were only) "sports." The music of a gospel mis- ( Ision reached one; he became con- j I verted, and that curbstone "sport,"' (that flighty hare-brained baseball player, in the mighty hand of the God who seeks and saves the lost, ! became "Billy" Sunday, the greatest i I evangelist of the age, who has led (two hundred thousand souls to pub lic confession of Christ, and who has [ made over for righteousness whole cit ies. No man can know what will RUPTURE Appliance* uned nnd approved bjr U. S. Government now here. Rupture Is not a tear or a breach In the abdominal wall, as Is commonly supposed, but a stretching of a na tural opening, therefore subject to closure. 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Is a Revival Coi ling? Even the ecclesiastics, who are slowest to discern spiritual tenden- 1 cies and moods, perceivethe pres- i I ent portents of a revival of religion. 1 They are putting evangelism on their Iprograms, and appointing committees; ;ana commissions on the subject. A: [multitude of voices arc calling the; Christian church back to her first | work. Old ossifications arc breaking up, Ito prepare the way for a fresh ex . pression of spiritual concern. The ! veritable earthquake of social unrest 'is but ploughing up the ground for ' the harvest. Social service has come •as a fashion, only to find that the most effective social service is recla , matlon of individual lives. Unit by ! unit the foundations) of society must !be built up of redeemed individuals, j All things conspire to cry aloud our ! day's need for a new seeking of the | lost. j There is an evangelism that is proo ! fessional and stereotyped and spoken; [there is another that is incarnated in a life. Recently I was obliged to J hasten from the great tabernacle | meetings of Evangelist Sunday at iScranton. where hundreds were being I converted daily, to the funeral of a | friend whose rare life of exquisite i saintliness had embodied all that *the I evangelist preached, and more. The i message of that bier was more im ! pressive to me than any of the mighty | tabernacle sermons. Truth is most i eloquent when lived. A sunrise needs jno trumpeter. A life of Christian love, ministering, forbearing, seeking love, is real evangelism. So it was that all the wonderful words of Jesus concerning salvation were overshadowed by His life. He first lived the truth He taught. More impressive than the parables of the lost i htestru hrdl-:AldMgtemagosmt lost is the truth that "the Son of Man is come to seek and to save the lost." He told about the good shepherd; iHe was the good shepherd. He taught love for sinners; He loved lost men even up to the climax of Calvary. j^tAMUSE^MENTS^ MAJESTIC To-night—Firemen's Minstrels. ! To-morrow matinee and night—"Way Down East." j Monday matinee and night, April 27 "The Smart Set." | Tuesday night, April 28 Yiddish I Company. [Wednesday night, April 29 "The Lure." "WAY DOWN EAST" So far from needing endorsement, "Way Down East" confers it, since it represents the good taste of a public that made and maintained its success, i This famous play jars a certain theory concerning the tired businessman of whom we hear so much. He never misses his chance to be present when a visit is made. There are no tropical choruses, French heels or like reme dies for masculine brain-fag, and by the time the first scene Is well on its way there is no tired man. "Way Down East" will be presented at the Majestic Saturday afternoon and even ing.—Advertisement. "TICK SMART SET" That inimitable and resourceful comedian, Salem Tutt Whitney. Is to appear In a brand new musical com edy at the Majestic Theater Monday afternoon and evening. It is entitled "The Wrong Mr. President," and from all accounts is the best play this well known funmaker has appeared in since he became a popular favorite. This season he will again be supported by the tamous "Smart Set" Company, an unusually strong organization, in cluding Homer Tutt and Blanche Thompson, regarded as entertainers de luxe in their particular line. New and appropriate scenery has been pro vided and nothing seemingly has been left undone to make the production one to conjure with. The ottering is all the more noteworthy because It will Introduce Mr. Whitney in the role of an author. He is responsible for the book and lyrics, while the music is the work of T. L. Corwell, a young man who Is rapidly coming to the fore as a composer.—Advertisement. N'EARING SEASON'S CLOSE While it's true that the Orpheum's season is slipping rapidly away, it is also true that the high tide of vaude ville in Ilarrisburg is here and that it will be augmented by another bill equally as good for next week. With Lasky's "Beauties" as the crowning attraction of the current offering, the Orpheum has a vaudeville offering this week that is certainly a deserving one. Merit, variety and talent is embraced in every turn and there is a dash and go to each act. The vocal and instru mental treat of the season is promised in the Nine White Hussars, who will appear as the big attraction of the Orpheum's last offering. The triple trio are costumed in the snow-white i uniforms used by the German Em peror's personal bodyguard. Of head line importance also will be Maria lo's Dresden china pictures, the greatest | posing sensation of the year. All of the pictures are done in colored china ef fects. "Butch" McDevitt will also be another feature of interest on next week's offering.—Advertisement. AT THE COLONIAL Along with the fine vaudeville bill that came to the Colonial yesterday, patrons of the busy corner will be treated to the usual popular stunt of "Country Store" to-night. The cur rent offering comprises a fine male quartet, called the Old Town Quartet; a clever comedy sketch called "Tom Katz Night l Out," with E. T. Jackson and company, and also an expert lariat twlrler.—Advertisement. PALACE THEATER Note the stars appearing in the Photoplay at the Palace, Saturday. Florence Lawrence and Matt Moorej in a Victor three-reel drama entitled | "Diplomatic Flo." Here we find Flo | as the daughter of the superintendent | of Uncle Sam's secret service. While j her father and sweetheart appraise I her only as a girl, a child who knows | nothing of political problems. Flo flnds a mission, turns diplomat and prevents an affair that would bring about international complications. It is not going too far to say that this play is one of the best comedy-dramas in which the little actress has ap peared for some time. Clean, whole some, with a sturdy denotement of true political intrigue and normal heart-interest, it is' replete with every little touch that makes a Victor-Law rence production a success. Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush and Lou Chaney will also be shown in a three reel 101 Bison western drama, "The i Lamb, the Woman, the Wolf." If you like the play that strikes a new note you are going to like this one. And the three leading parts are enacted by artists of the highest ability—acknowl edged stars. There are Pauline Bush, Murdock MacQual'rie and Lon Chancy. The play is set in a western town and the mountains. The Lamb, played by Mr. MacQuarrie in a brilliant manner, is one of those gentle young men who ! spend their lives looking after the i affairs of others and in the meantime ' lose all the best that is the heritage of j the young. This boy is devoting his j life to his invalid mother, and in his | spare moments editing a weekly pa- j per. The citizens of the town deride ! the editor and his paper. But there are two persons who have faith In him —the woman and his mother. Except for the Invalid mother the boy would lay his heart at the Woman's feet.— Advertisement. FRECKLES Now Is the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots There 's no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the prescription othine— double strength—is guaranteed to re-| move these homely spots. Simply get an ounce of othine — double strength—from any druggist | and apply a little of it night and j morning and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to 1 disappear, while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It is seldom that more than an ounce is needed to com pletely clear the skin and gain a beau tiful clear complexion. 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