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Former I OPPOSITE j tdio^I | *• I I HOUSE ; 13 REAL SHOE MAKERS S3 t*3 217—Market SI.-217 L^j RETURNS TO IMPERIAL GOV ERNMENT 500,000,000 MARKS By .Associated Press Herlin, March 3, via — Arthur Gwinnor, director of the Deutsche Hank told the Associated Press correspondent to-day that the year's return to the government from The most convenient / you / I } ter in s 0 f ° Ur te oll ~ In g u ltl p*ny I r- a "tSrl FRIDAY EVENING, " fcARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 3, 1916. the new tax on war profits will prob ably be 500,000,000 marks. As companies have the right to in vest the special reserve immediately in the war loan it is expected that subscriptions of this character will in crease materially the volume of the forthcoming loan. CHOIR ENTERTAINED Sfecial to the Telegraph Elizabethville, Pa., March 3. Mrs. Ella J. Klinger entertained the Evangelical choir on Wednesday eve ning at her bungalow in East Main street. A pleasant evening was spent with games and music, after which a I repast was served. LAYMAN WAS FIRST MARTYR "Death of Stephen" Subject of International Sunday School Lesson The International Sunday School Les* son for March 5 is "Th« Death of i Stephen.—Acts 7:1 to 8:3. (By William T. Ellis.) All sorts of honors have come to laymen in the long history of the Christian Church. Their greatest distinction, however, is that the first crown of Christian martyrdom was laid on the brow of a layman. Dea con Stephen led that long procession of martyrs which has extended through th e centuries from Jerusa lem to Armenia and which has held priests and laymen, women and children. Although he was only a layman, Stephen was singularly popular in the early Church. Immediately aft er the experience of the last lesson. Dr. Luke's story proceeds to tell of i the ministry of Stephen. One preg- j nant phrase pictures him, "Stephen I full of grace and power." There is j-our model layman; strength plus charm; power with poise small wonder the community could not withstand him. We may outargue a man's wisdom, but we cannot rea son down the grace of his life. The sweetness and flavor of holiness are not a special perquisite of the minis try but are meant to flower in the lives of the laity, even as In Ste phen of old. We can imagine how the hearts of the apostles exulted as they contemplated the growth in grace of the new Deacon. When Might Gets After Right Unable to withstand the wisdom and the spirit by which Stephen spoke when his gospel was chal lenged, the Jews resorted to that stupid old trick of the strong i throughout all ages they tried to crush him by power. Adopting the same ruse as they used in the case of Jesus, they bribed witnesses to make charges of blasphemy against Stephen and carried him before the Sanhedrin. The ordeal was no easy one for this ministering layman. To be taken from his lowly tasks of serv ice to face the very tribunal that had crucified his Lord, we should not be I surprised had he been afflicted with consternation and fear. On the con trary, this seems to have been the experience that brought Stephen to his height. In the heart of the storm that raged about him fie was incarnate peace. "All that sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel." Like Moses, Stephen knew not that his face j shone, hut this "solar look," as Jos eph Cook calls the radiance of the face which comes only from nobility of soul, preached for Stephen as ef fectively as his own lips could do. Si ill when the high priests chal lenged him, "Are these things so'.'" Stephen was ready with an answer that is one of the longest sermons in the New Testament. A Layman's Sermon This is the day of the preaching layman. Ten thousand of him are at work all over the land speaking jin conventions and conferences and ] churches and schools. What a won derful work these devoted laymen I are doing! They do not aspire to ■ fill the preacher's place, but they supplement his ministry. Their ex emplar in this was Stephen who, though he never had attended the j school of the rabbis, was able to ; make answer concerning the faith i that was in him. Most of Stephen's sermon is a re hearsal of the Old Testament his tory. He told the story of the deal ings of God with man. Perhaps if there were less abstract, philosophy ' and more concrete telling of the great Story that we find between the covers of our Bible, there would be ; more convincing sermons. Nothing is more impressive on the mission 1 field than the fact that the mission aries do not argue or contend; they ' chiefly tell the Story and that Story is winning the world. Like a good preacher, Stephen j found common ground with his hear ers, even though he had to go clear back to Mesopotamia. He got to the application in good time, and It cer tainly was not remote; for hard upon the heels of _a straight quotation from Scripture he made the applica tion: "Ye stiffnecked and uncir cumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit it: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers; yet who received the law as it was ordained by an gels. and kept it not." When Aristocrats Became a Mob Most of us have seen at. sometime or other a cultivated man lose his poise and return to the primitive. The sight is not a pretty one. That is what happened with the Sanhe drin. 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Here \ 1 \ / Navy blue and black Serge, poplin and Panama Black and navy Chudda serge and <t» 1 QQ cloth; navy cloth and Afk granite cloth . * si/O or black serge skirts .. g)u<UU «- / v *• ' /" \ f~ " —\ All-wool serge, black audi Extra size skirts ! nav y> Black silk taft ' eta : bcauti white check skirts, black and gray; serge and fully tailored skirts, $3.98, $5, $5.98 $3.98, $5.00, $5.98, sß ' 9B ' WVoo sl# ' 9B ' poplin and Chudda Wool poplin. £q qq cloth, in navy or black; Navy and black all-woOl It b . road :.. $6.50 Zl n $7.98 *£r..T. $5.98 their teeth like an unrestrained rab ble. Imagine the flower of the aris tocracy of the Hebrew nation becom ing a howling mob, crying with a loud voice, stopping their» ears and rushing upon saintly-faced Stephen, and hustling him outside the city walls, where they began to stone him to death. By the way, there is a gate in the present city of Jerusalem called "St. Stephen's Gate," and there are hosts of great churches over the world bearing St. Stephen's name; the most notable of them being the cathedral at Vienna. But I do not recall any gates or churches or pillars or ruins named after these members of the Sanhedrin, who thought themselves so great. They had power, but it was only for a day. Alas, that the custodian of eternal truth so often falls into the hands of the local po tentate with the power to slay. Luke, who was an artist and knew how to bring out his contrasts, pauses in his description of the fury of the Sanhedrin to show again the serene llgure of Stephen who, "being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastl yinto heaven, and saw the glory of God. and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said. Be hold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." A Glimpse of Glory I once heard Moody say, in a ser mon on this text, that Stephen saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God, because the Lord of glory could not remain seated on His throne while a beloved disciple was going forward to martyrdom in Ilis name. Our imagination is stirred by the consideration of what Stephen be held through the opened windows of 1 heaven. Various eschatological ques -1 tions arise, but we brush them aside Ito recall chiefly that it was Jesus ; Himself whom Stephen saw. The in j effable glory of the eternal kingdom ; seemed not worth speaking about I when he could hold in full view his i risen Lord, for whose sake he was re joicing to die. "The bride eyes not her garment, But her dear bridegroom's face; j I will not gaze at glory, I But on my King of grace: j Not at the crown he gifteth, But on his pierced hand: The Lamb is all the glory Of Kmmanuel's land." Some of the commentators suggest that Stephen doubtless knew Jesus on earth; that he must have been one of the seventy sent out by the Master, and so he recognized Him in heaven. The point counts for little. There is not a disciple of Christ in all the millions since who has not instantly recognized his Lord when the gates of glory open to him. There will be no need for introduc tions to the Lover of our souls. I know it is out of fashion in these days to talk too much about heaven, but the comfort that came to Stephen as the rocks of hate pounded against his flesh and crash ed into the shining face was the comfort of a real heaven and a liv ing Christ. This was his encourage ment to pray in the Spirit of Christ he saw, and so long as there was a vestige of his features left be neath that storm of stones, there was still the shining of the reflected light of the soul of him who was true unto death. Victory l>,v Defeat. Great as was Stephen's sermon, his martyrdom was greater. The pic ture is one that the world would not lose from its memory; for Christ's man died in Christ's way. At the very last, even as when he had walk ed in ministry among the poor and lowly, Stephen reminded people of his Master. His last words were like those of his Lord, —"Lord Jesus, re ceive my spirit," and "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" an echo of Calvary's "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." This parallel in the two death scenes must have set all Jerusalem by the ears. "Behold, how these Christians die" was on many and even the stern implacability of the Sanhedrin must have been sha ; ken as they saw a faith that martyr | dom could not blot out: the Light shone the brighter for the wind that blew upon it. The Man Who Held the Coats There are strange links in history. Stephen's was not the only apparent defeat that led to a real victory. Most zealous among the mob of the murderers was a young man named Saul", an aristocratic Pharisee or the stricter sect. It Is not recorded of him that he lost control of himself as some of the elders did, and shout ed and frothed and fumed, but he kept watch over the coats of those who stoned Stephen. He thoroughly approved of the deed. While his philosophic mind must have been sorely puzzled, yet his religious training taught him that this pes tiferous Christian sect must be wiped out by force. Saul, Saul! how little you knew that the torch that Stephen dropped j from his bruised and broken hand 1 was to be picked up by you and car ried as a blazing beacon across the ! then known world and throughout I the ages! As dramatic as the death jof this young man was to be Saul's conversion to the faith for which he died. Most of the Christians were driven out of Jerusalem by this persecu tion, and they went wailing over Stephen's but even as they wailed they testified. They went everywhere preaching the Gospel. In his death Stephen accomplished more than in his life. The fury of persecution tested the infant Church and challenged her faith. Tens of thousands of Christians in this same land have within less than a year been forced to face for the first time the question "Ts my Christianity worth dying for,?" Hundreds of thousands of corpses of slain Ar menians make answer in the affirma tive. Miracle 1 tuorfes wonders with the feet. It raises the weak or broken- , down arch to its normal position. It makes walking easier, as well as prevents 1 ! the ultimate breaking down of the arch so co persons j v i "Trouble!", , The Miracle Shoe relieves the foot of all strain. i It corrects any foot ills. It combines the desir able qualities of the best shoes with its own dia- < tinctive feature of the built-in arch support. The Miracle Shoe is exceptionally neat in ap- ( pearance and in good taste anywhere. The price is $6. On sale at Bowman & Co. Popular Department Store i 314-316-318 Market * ■*—————jjj Stock Transfer Ledger The Pennsylvania Stock Transfer Tax Law (Act of Juna 4, 1915) which is now in effect requires all corporations in the State, no matter how large they may be to keep a Stock Transfer Ledger. We are prepared t« supply these Ledgers promptly at a very nominal price. . && The Telegraph Printing Co Printing—Binding—Designing—Photo Engraving HARRISBURG, PA. WITNESS IN MURDER TRIAL Among 1 the witnesses who have been called to Pittsburgh to testify in the murder trial of Aaron Fell for the murder of Mrs. Caroline Flaccus Viohmier is H. F. Gamber, a clerk at the Columbus Hotel. Fell's defense is an alibi as he contends he was in this city attending a poultry show on the date of the crime. TEACHER ENTERTAINS BOYS Elizabethville, Pa.. March 3. Mrs. j H. H. Collins pleasantly entertained ' her Sunday school class of boys at her home on Wednesday evening, j There were games and victrola musi<\ after which a light lunch was served.
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