MM PROBLEM FRONTSTHE WORLD Each Youth Faces Great Question of Choice Between Right and Wrong fS THE TEST TOO HARD? Denial Means New Fellow ship, Wider Vision, Better Reward THE ©•MMEN'CEMHJNT DAT PROBIjEM TThn International Sunday School Les ion For June 21, Is "Tho Great Re fusal"—Blxirk 10: 17-31. (By William T. Kills) The young man problem fronts the Hvorld afresh every year at this sea eon, and lends an especial appropri ateness to this Sunday School lesson. Even the dull of Imagination are etlrred as they see thousands of young men pouring forth from our colleges, and the greater thousands that throng our athletic fields and crowd our streets. What multitudes of them there are! Each young man is a problem, and has a problem. He faces the great question of the choice of all life's best. How may he make the most of himself? What Is the great goal to which he should strive? Thou sands of commencement day speakers enunciate programs and purposes for young men. Is It Well With the Young? For most men there Is a period of Idealism, when they are spiritually sensitive. The fires of patriotism burn brightly In their breasts. The call to human service sounds loud and clear. The making of character concerns them. Who sneers at the Ideals of young manhood Is himself a person not to be trusted, but to be shunned. Longfellow knew that "The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." It is a dark day for any age when its young men are no longer concerned about idealism. If they have ceased to be heroes, ceased to covet some high emprise; ceased tj aspire "to love the fairest and to be the brav est," ceased to be dreamers of dreams and builders of castles; then Indeed, will the nation have fallen on sorry times. No sadder spectacle mt-y be found in our day then the sordid, scheming, sophisticated youth, old and world-weary before they have had a chance to be young. The coun try can hope for little from this typo of worldly-wise scoffers at ideals. Bettering the Best In the pages of three of the bio graphies of Jesus there appears a noble figure about whom art and lit erature havo woven their fancies. He was a yi ng man of wealth and of official position. Clean, upright, spiritually minded, he coveted earn estly the best gifts. At the very Bieht of him the heart of Jesus went out to him in love. His question was, "What shall I <lo that I may inherit eternal life?" ■—the oldest, deepest, highest ques tion that has ever engaged the thought of man. When testing him, Jesus asked if he had kept the com mandments. The young man, with out prlggishness or Pharisaism, could declare that he had done so. But still this was not enough. His own spirit told him that a mere formal keeping of the law was not sufficient satisfaction for an immortal soul. What the young man needed was a new state of mind. He was now self-centered. He needed to be broth er-centered. All his concern was for liis own welfare. Jesus wanted to shock him out of tills narrow con ception of life, and teach him that nobody comes to his best until he has come to self-surrender, and to a life of service. Therefore, lie put him the test; "One thing thou lackest; go, sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shait have treasures in Heaven; and come, fol low me." The Rich Man's Testing Not that Jesus wanted the man's money; He asked him to give up the money because he wanted the man. He knew that the young man's heart had not room for two sovereignties. His love of money was the outward evidence of his self-centered life. The law of the new kingdom is that whatever stands between the disciple and full allegiance to Christ and the kingdom, must be sacrificed. Often —and usually—what is given up to Christ is given back by Christ, in creased many fold. Thus, a general offers his sword in token of surrender, and always a magnanimous conqueror gives it back again. The test was too hard for the rich young ruler. "Hut his countenance fell at the saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one that hail great possessions." He was not will ing to pay tho price. He wanted what Jesus had to offer, but not at the sacrifice of his possessions. "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, li. the strife of Truth and Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God'a new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes t>y forever 'twixt that darkness and that light." Tlu'ough the Needle's Eye The tragedy is repeated daily. It is as old as the world, as new as this morning's paper. Never was it more acute than in our own money mad day. Last night I heard a min ister deliver to young people a lecture which has made him famous, and the burden of it all is, get rich, get rich! He poured scorn upon poverty, for getting, in his worldly wisdom, that this, and a dozen other unmistakable passages in the Bible, use strong speech on this subject. The Apostle Paul says that covetousness is idol atry. V 4<f One characteristic of Jesus was that He was never led astray by the mood of His time. Wealth could do more, relatively, in His day than in ours. But Jesus frankly faced the fact that there are more cases of real manhood smothered by wealth, than BABY CURED Of Eczema by Saxo Salve Maspeth, L. I. "My dear little baby's face was covered with eczema and the constant itching was so great it kept him awake most of the time. I tried different remedies without re lief until I tried Saxo Salve, and now tny baby's face is well." Mra. H. COFFRE, Maspeth, L. I. If we can't cure your skin trouble with our Saxo Salve and Saxo Soap wa will buy back the empty tube. Geo. A. Gorgas, Druggist, Harris burg, Pa.—Advertisement. s\&r?tPt».iwrs> .t -•.? t*r ; '*" r v -'■'' **" ■'i.iV' FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 19, 1914. Time's up- -Saturday the sale ends f— ——' II I a—" "■" ■■■" I ■—•» , Copyright, 1912, by Stone & McCarrlck, Inc. QyALES MAY come and sales may go—but we doubt if any piano Any order for a piano or player- sale has ever been the success of this. Pianos are things vou do piano, accompanied by the Initial pay- . i j . . . n J ggb £ y CVery day * You buy ° ne in your lifetime ; maybe two. f , OS rCpreSent a conslderable investment. You can furnish a whole money back If you are not satisfied. h ° US C -Comfortably for the price of a SitlgU piQUO. So when I we tell you that there were days during this sale when we could not 1 Tmm\ W ai|i °n CUS * omers, you can en appreciate the stupendous "go'* II L— l j t wa# plan that did it. 11 was co-operation; we co-operating with the manufacturers directjjhe customer co-operating in turn with us. 1111 '"j 1 JBH The prices were low; extremely low. The terms were easy. Any one could meet them And the guarantee (which we call our Bond of Confidence), and the half dozen or more unusual conditions of sale made, altogether, mos t liberal proposition upon which any goods were ever sold. j And the public saw this— and simply "flocked" in to take " The sale is closing two weeks earlier than we expected—and / lißff¥ »j ■ " even *" en we ave been obliged to provide for more instruments than //// mmm C? tf it was our original intention, to sell. /////in ([[ $248.76. The value of the piaycr-piano Is *550. The cVoper- J fjl atlon price Is $395. , 2 #== JljX ————— ffil rather the piano or player-piano will be delivered upon ro- e o nts t wMl! n be^l l 26 ymont f ?5 ' If J'oii order a piano, your ifliigsi Pißn ° yOUr Pttyments wiU be * 2 ' a week— no r 1 Player * 'THE SALE is not closing without everyone having a fairoppor- IB™™B tunity to take advantage of it. If we had restricted the sale 6Sr Fr = BiflHlß strictly to the number originally arranged for—the sale would now : I— BHI We decided upon a definite closing day, which is Saturday. \ Jp B^BrSjj Thus any order received for one of the pianos or one of the player- _J . j| pianos up to Saturday at the close of business will be filled. These orders will be numbered as they are received and filled Those who can call may select the style they wish from the in- ( \ { struments on our 1 floors, which aie sold but not delivered. \ Those who cannot visit our warerooms can order easily and in- \V telligently from our Book of Photographs, which we will gladly j\L The initial payment of Five dollars must accompany all orders y ■■ H whether left at the store or sent in by mail. All orders will be accepted Iff ll \\ j | Bj|l HR II and filled subject to all conditions of sale—even to the delivery of the U /I) V BBj BW instrument into your home upon the first payment of Five dollars and A I \ \ -j! your money back at the end of a 30 days' trial if Also all orders will be held subject to delivery at a time con- —fT venient to you. Copyright, 1912, by Stone & McCarrick, Inc. J. H. TROUP MUSIC p—J v W South Market Square, 15 NORTH HANOVER STREET, CARLISLE PA. larrisOurg, fa. C. S. FEW DRUG STORE, 20S South Union St., Middletown, Pa. Copyright, 1912, by Stone & McCarrlck, Inc. starved by poverty. Using one of His strong oriental figures of speech. He declared that "It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." That is terrific, but it is true. Look about you. Every reader of these lines can give names and par ticulars of young men driven to the devil by the possession o« money. Homes are wrecked by It. Ideals are Buffocated beneath a golden store. It should give pause to the pros perous that, in the clear words of Jesus, it is only the miracle-working grace of God that can save a rich man. For wealth is of such a nature that It makes of itself a god and de mands the soul allegiance of those who own it. It possesses its posses sors. The hope held out to those bound by golden chains is that "All things are possible with God," even the salvation of the wealthy. The Price of Disciplcslilp Those very human disciples of attention to the fact that they had left all to follow Christ. We have all heard the nreachers telling how much money they could have made had they entered business. Probably most 6f those disciples of Jesus would have remained commonplace, un known, poverty-stricken fishermen, had they not been called into a larger life by Jesus. In this connection the general proposition was laid down by the Master that God rewards In this pres ent life as well as in the future. A moment's observation proves this true. The Christian people are the happy and prosperous people. Char acter works out in material blessing; for every self-denial In dlscipleshlp there is new fellowship, new horizon, new service and new rewards. Dls cipleshlp costs, but It pays. Possibly as a caution to the dis cinles who might begin to plume themselves on their special merit, Jesus warned them "Many that are first shall be last, and the last first." In Heaven's final adjudication great surprises await, it may not be the distinguished preached or the famous evangelist or the eminent philoso pher who will be most honored in the next world, but the unknown saint who has bravely borne and sweetly served for the love of the Christ. The unmistakable teachlngf of Jesus is that this world's currency cannot purchase Heaven's rewards. EBERLY'S MILLS SUNDAY SCHOOL AT BOILING SPRINGS Eberly's Mills Sunday School will picnic at Boiling Springs Park to morrow. Announcement had been made that the Sunday school would hold lta an nual outlntf to-day, but the Sunday school officials explained that to-mor row was to be the day. Several hun dred folks, youngsters and oldsters, will attend. Boiler Explosion Sent Owner to Hospital For Year Special to The Telegraph Columbia, Pa., June 19. Abram Frankford, who operates a sawmill along the Susquehanna river, was so .badly injured by an explosion of the boUer in his plant a year ago, tjiat he was Just recently able to be out of the hospital, where he was taken for treatment. Yesterday tor the first time since the explosion, he saw the boiler, which was blown into the river at the time of the accident and had lain under the water since. The boiler weighs 8,000 pounds and will now be consigned to the scrap heap. CO:rEDY SKETCH AT COLONIAL Frank Mayne's Players, a dramatic trio, are presenting a laughable sketch at the Colonial Theater for the re maining days of the week. The sketch is called "Pretzels" and is as funny as its title would indicate. There are two other acts on the bill that round out a very pleasing show. A shadowgraph artist does some very pleasing work, and th e are two men in a singing and dancing act that Introduces some of the best wood shoe dancing that Harrisburg has seen. All next week the ColoniaJ Theater will feature La Graclosa, a beautiful posing act in which fourteen magnificent scenes un fold themselves in a myriad of light. —Advertisement. SEE YOURSELF IN THE MOVIES Hnrrlsburg Telegraph Pictorial showing the complete Klag Transfer parade at the Photoplay to-day and Saturday.—Advertisement Business Locals YOU'VE HEARD OUR STORY But a good story is worth repeating, and in our business repetition builds reputation. Therefore we want to em phasize the fact again that we serve the best 25-eent noon-day lunch In the city. That's the best story you care to hear when you're hungry. Court Dairy Lunch, Court and Strawberry streets. In charge of John H. Menger. DYEING TO PLEASE YOU You may have some lace or trim mings that you wish to match your gown. If you will send us a sample of the gown and the material you want dyed, we will match it for you, the exact shade without affecting the orig inal luster and finish. 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