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Better work at no more cost. THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Either phone. Try Telegraph Want Ads FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TEJJEGRAPH AUGUST 20, 1915. REFORM IN OFFICE GOODJOR ISRAEL "Asa's Good Reign" International Sunday School Lesson The International Sunday School lies son For August 22 Is "Asa's Good Reign."—ll Chron. 15:1-15. (By William T. Ellis) "Whom does the baby resemble?" Is the question asked concerning al most every new life. If we could see Into that potential soul, the ans wer Would be more significant. For should the baby "take after" his no ble grandfather, rather than his shift less, characterless father, the result would be Important to the world. The weakness of the argument about heredity is that a child has so many ancestors, of such varied sorts, and he often shows the characteristics of re mote forebears whose worth over powers the worthlessness of nearer progenitors. There was Prince Asa, our present instance. Surely he was doomed to a bad life, with both heredity and environment to operate against him. He lived In a corrupt court Rotten heathen practices prevailed all about him. His father, Abijam, had yielded to them; and his grandfather, Reho boam, whose folly had split the king dom, was more Interested in being "a good fellow" than in being a good king. One of his heathen wives, Maacah, mother of Abijam and grand mother of Asa, was the most forceful personality in the palace; and her in fluence was wholly bad. The outlook Was dark for Asa. Your modern sociologist might write his case down in advance as hopeless. But stay. Was not Solomon Asa's great-grandfather and King David his great-great-grandfather? So the strain was not wholly bad. The virile qualities of these greatest kings of the Jews would surely assert them selves. And they did. Asa came to the throne of Judah as a young man, in a time of peace. He was a "good" young man. God and religion meant most to him. He loved his people more than he loved himself. His heart was aflame with a passion for reform; and all great reformers must become such while young. Well nigh hopeless is the case of the young man who passes the period of impres sionable Idealism without yielding to noble and unselfish ambitions. Like his shepherd-boy ancestor, who in boyhood sang songs of Jehovah and did battle with a giant, Asa early be came fired with resolutions of right eousness. A notable fact, of peculiar interest Just now, is that Asa came to his throne at the beginning of a period of peace for Judah. War had been the rule during the reigns of his father and grandfather. Now peace gave him an opportunity for internal reform. With the distraction of enemies at the gates, Asa's great work of cleansing could not have been done. It needed quiet and self-examination to make possible this purging of the people from pollu tion. Progress and peace go hand in hand. Not on the battlefield, but in the quiet times of Industry, educa tion, Invention and social conscious ness, a nation comes to Its greatest height. This truth might be ampli fied, with Illustrations from every day's newspaper. Asa's reign was righteous, In times of peace; war made him forget his holy purpose. Toward the end of his days he even clapped a prophet Into prison for telling him the truth, and he oppressed the people and permit ted a return of idolatry. Good King Asa is a striking instance of war's deteriorating effect upon character. Other examples may be gathered from recent cablegrams. When the young king came to the throne he found the nation in a sorry state of decline. The worship of Jehovah had been largely super seded by the idolatries of the sur rounding nations, with their appeal to the sensual nature of man. An appalling state of depravity had been reached, one so far below our modern conceptions of religion that only those with a knowledge of, say, the baser side of Hinduism can under stand it. War and its contacts and compromises had brought into Judah all the abominations of the sur rounding nations. Pure religion and immorality cannot coexist, side by side; and the true worship of Jeho vah was engulfed by this flood of de pravity. No modern reformer evftr faces conditions so bad as those melt by young King Asa. Left to Itself, society sags and slumps. When men do as they please, they commonly please to do wrong. Throughout the centuries, the great social corrective has been the prophet and the reformer, some times both offices being united in one man. A world without these ideal ists would be hopeless indeed. Con sider how far Judah had deteriorated from the great days of David and Solomon! Nobody, be he the great est of kings, can establish a social order that win endure permanently; but he can transmit to his sons the impulse and the purpose and the vision to maintain life at high levels. This "gleam" had been passed on to Asa. "Where there is no vison, the people perish"; and without the diviner conceptions of life which burn in noble breasts this old world would soon perish of its own rotten n.e,ss' Always these reformers are de rided by their own generation, just as practical" men to-day sneer at tne prophets who proclaim a coming* day of Inevitable social justice, of peace on earth, and of world brother hood. The administrators in Asa's court gave him scant encouragement in his reforms. They knew "human nature : by which they meant that they understood the baser side of people. Nobody truly knows human nature who does not clearly perceive its capacity for idealism. Judah for a time rose to Asa's lofty expccta tlons for it, even as the' peoples at war to-day have shown a heroism a self-sacrifice, a devotion to great ob jectives which a year ago the cynical observer never suspected. A wise reformer enlists the high est motives that can possibly be at tached to his cause. So Asa, because he himself was primarily a spirit ually minded young man, made his appeal to Judah on a religious basis. He rallied the people to the God of their fathers. All the force of the covenants which had been made with Jehovah by Solomon and David and Moses and Jacob and Abraham was directed to the re-enforcement of the new movement. Let it be said over and over again, that true reform can not' come on any other basis. Not prudence, not prosperity, not enjoy ment, not self-interest, Is an ade quate foundation for a change in the social order. Only religion, which transforms the heart of man, can make over the world in which man lives. That is why a "Billy" Sunday campaign does more to clear up a community than a political reform movement. Some things have to be smashed, In any true reform.' That is where a ✓x ww y This great Mid-summer sale m ■_ If IJ 1 I 111/ passes into history. Let us I 1111 I I I 1 I yl/ make it clear to you that JL V/ ill VJL JL V f f everything in the store is reduced w w n (except Arrow collars.) Will Be f The Last* Day of Our Mark-Down Sale A remarkable tribute to our effi- The sale marks the close of the ciency methods is found in the biggest season in the store's his fact that of all the sales made, tory . Majly of our customers not a single complaint has „ , reached us and let us remind you now that Why Sell yOUf good if there was a single case for disatisfac- standard merchandise at mark-down Hon we want to make good now ... We prices?" To prevent anything from grow want you to come here tomorrow and let ■ old in this Live Store We h us show you what we mean by absolute ... , . _ . / satisfaction .. . Satisfaction which reigns permitted our stock to dwindle to broken here regardless of time, circumstance or lines or odds and ends such as others are price paid. now offering. It really seemed as though every man and woman in Harrisburg visited us since the sale started, such overwhelming crowds have thronged our store. Come to-morrow and get your share of the savings. 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The man with a hammer, like Asa, who dares to go out and break up the Idols and tear down the heathen groves and banish the priestesses of sensuality, is the one' on whom the world counts. He will make mis takes and he will make enemies, but he will serve his time. Even the all-powerful old Dowager Queen Mother Maacah, had to be fought and removed, ere Asa's reform could be effective. It Is the way of reform to come very close to home. No end of "'vested Interests," upon which Asa himself was dependent for revenue, had to be overthrown. Heedless of these "practical" consid erations, Asa pushed his work to the end. Of course, there were unexpected rewards. The best people of Israel came flocking' down to Judah, wlttn they found that the worship of JelS vah was being restored. A grffet accession of the most desirable sift of citizens was a by-product of reform movement. There Is a rial estate value to righteousness. OcMH neighbors are the beat asset of aS& community, as good people are best customers of any business. W »*.' MR 9
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