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
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and the constant itching was so great
it kept him awake most of the time.
I tried different remedies without re
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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.
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FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 19, 1914.
Time's up- -Saturday the sale ends
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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.
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([[ $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.
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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.
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Hnrrlsburg Telegraph Pictorial
showing the complete Klag Transfer
parade at the Photoplay to-day and
Saturday.—Advertisement
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