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ENDEAVORS PUSH
REVIVAL WORK
Societies Run Own Campaigns
or Aid Others in
Evangelism
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DK. J. SALA LIXAXD
Christian Endeavorers of the Penn
sylvania Christian Endeavor Union,
2,600 societies strong, are grasping
the opportunity of the evangelistic
season. A number of societies have or
ganized their own personal cam
paigns, in the State and others are
assisting in union work, with various
denominations. The Christian Endea
vor societies have evangelistic, pray
er meeting, visitation and publicity
committees appointed. The prelimi
nary work and the campaign meet
ings are in charge of the organized
Endeavorers.
Dr. J. Sala Leland, of Wayneshurg,
is the superintendent of the State
Evangelistic and Quiet Hour depart
ment. He has full charge of the move
ment and reports that much good has
been accomplished since Christian
Endeavor week. Five thousand, one
hundred and one comrades oftheQulet
Hour have been added to the list in
this State since the beginning of the
"'Campaign For Millions."
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Hurray! Hurray! Hurray
This cheer yell will be used by the
Endeavorers of Pennsylvania on the
tray to New York in July. The
State is leading in Christian Endea
vor enthusiasm.
The Allegheny County Christian
Endeavor Union will hold its fifth
annual dinner this evening in Pitts
burgh. The Rev. Ira Landrith, D. D.,
LL. D., editor afield of the "C. E.
World," is the principal speaker.
Endeavorers will study the topic,
"The Home Mission Boards of My
Denominations. What They Are and
What They Do," in the meetings to be
held on Sunday evening.
The Rev. Thomas Reisch, pastor of
the Christ Lutheran church, gave a
splendid talk to city Endeavorers at
the church, this week, on the subject,
"How to Keep Young."
Mrs. Wilma Z. Scheffer will have
charge of the meeting at Market
Square Presbyterian Society on Sun
day evening.
The next convention of the East
Pennsylvania Conference K. L. C. E.
ad S. S. Federation will be held at
Shamokin. The banner will be award
ed to the league having the highest
rating in efficiency.
The Rev. James Kelly, field secre
tary of the British C. E. Union, will
spend three months at the front do
ing religious work among the troops.
Philadelphia Union is aiming to en
tertain 17,000 delegates at the State
cenvention to be held in that city,
July, 191 S.
Charles R. Bartley, treasurer of
the Dauphin County Union, recently
entertained the Park Street K. L. C.
E., when its business meeting was
held.
Miss Violet For,sythe will lead the
junior meeting at the Sixth Street U.
B. Society on Sunday evening. She
will speak on the topic, "How to Get
the "World In Your Eye "
The Rev. W. E. Petfley, of this
city, addressed a big rally at St. Paul's
United Evangelical church, Williams
port, recently. The league is alive and
active with seventy-five members.
The State Christian Endeavor
Union executive committee will be the
guests of the Luzerne County Endeav
orers, at Wilkes-Barre, March 6 and
7. William Ralph of Philadel
phia, and other able conference lead
era will be present.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
Christ Lutheran church enjoyed a
most delightful George Washington
Sixth Street United Brethren church
on Sunday evening.
Boosters for C. E. night at the Pal
mer evangelistic campaign next Thurs
social in the church on Tuesday even
ing. The Sunday school orchestra and
Christian Endeavor choir rendered ex
cellent music and President C. S.
Urich, of the city union, gave a short
talk. Refreshments were served to
eighty persons.
The Park Street K. L. C. E. will
hold an interesting meeting in the
church on Sunday evening, under the
direction of the Young People's Mis
sionary Society. The Rev. W. E. Pef
fley will give a talk on the "Efficiency
Chart."
Miss Madelene Stone will have
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FRIDAY EVENING, &ARBIBBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 23, 1917.
THE MAN WHO HAD NO FRIEND
The International Sunday School Lesson For Febniary
25 Is, "Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda." John 5:1-15
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
"I am surprised to see so many per
sons with two legs and two arms and
no bandages, and apparently nothing
the matter with them," whimsically
remarked a nurse, walking the street
for the first time after a week In the
public wards of a great hospital. She
was familiar with that world of pain,
whose people are a great host. All un
heeded by the busy throngs on the
great highways of life there dwell
apart In loneliness and suffering a
multitude of prisoners of hope—the
crippled, the ill and the physically
limited. Only the persons who have
themselves been Inmates of hospitals
or sanltorla or sick rooms, know the
burdens and fear of the class to whom
the present lesson Introduces us. If
our knowledge of this subject were
greater our sympathies would be
! keener, and we should walk more
softly through life, with gentle hearts.
Lusty, vigorous folk, unconscious of
their good health, can understand only
by a deliberate effort of imagination
the sick man who had for thirty
eight years been toilsomely dragging
his palsied fonn to the porch of the
Bethesda Pool, In the dim hope of a
healing. His counterpart is to be
found in the army of invalids who
Journey from health resort to health
resort, from physician to physician,
in a vain search for health. To all such
existence has only one supreme aim,
the recovery of health. They haunt
the pools of possible healing. Toward
them our attitude is to be that of the
Saviour, one of compassionate help
fulness.
Those With Sick Wills
The worst thing about sick bodies
is that their illness often communi
cates itself to the will. Some invalids
there have been—a shining company,
among whom Kobert Louis Stevenson
is one of the bright ones, whose souls
have grown strong as their physical
powers have dlmlshed. But most of
us "lose our grip" when severe ill
ness lays us low. We let body con
quer spirit. That was the real difficulty
with the man at the pool of Bethesda.
He had resigned himself to a state of
chronic invalidism. His was a severe
case of paralyzed will power. He was
"down and out." and whined his de
feat to everybody who would listen.
How abject life can really become
is only known by those who are fa
miliar with the Orient. I can close
my eyes now and see in imagination
a long line of beggars whom I have
encountered in Palestine, in India, in
China, in Japan—creatures miserable
beyond the West's power to under
stand. This man by the Bethesda
Pool was afflicted first of all in his
manhood. To every sick and suffering
one conies the summons of Henley!s
vigorous lines, which he, an invalid,
lived before he wrote them:
"It matters not how strait the gate, |
How charged with punishment the
goal;
I am the master of my fate.
1 am the captain of my soul.
"In the fell clutch of frircumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud;
Beneath the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed."
The Desperation of the Destitute
That picture by the pool of healing
challenges our attention. It is so
thoroughly human, and oriental. Na
tive selfishness, plus the intensified
selfishness of invalidism, ruled su
preme. It was every man for him
self. Need made people ruthless. I
have seen starving Chinese on the
famine Held act in the same way. Re
ports tell how the destitute Armenians
are like ravening wild' beasts when
food appears. As the destruction of
the poor is their poverty, so the curse
of the weak is their weakness. Does
not the picture stir our compassion?
What a parable this poor paralytic is
of the left behind in life!
Red, raw, ruthless selfishness was
the rule of life in that company of
sufferefs on the porches of the Beth
esda Pool. Nobody expected unself
ishness. Yet there appeared One
whoso rule was to help those who
could not help themselves. A vicious
proverb says that "God helps those
who help themselves;" the truth is
that we may count on divine aid when
we have reached the limit of our own
resources. It is when the arm of flesh
fails that the Omnipotent Arm is
stretched forth. The Pool of Beth
esda was surrounded by sufferers, but
the one whom Christ helped was the
one who was the most helpless and
had waited longest.
One clear intimation for the larger
aspects of our own time that is wrap
ped up in this story is that Jesus Christ
is not indifferent to the need and suf
fering of the poor. Profoundest of
all the truths touching the unrest of
our day is this one that the Compas
sionate Christ cares, deeply and con
stantly cares, for the destitute and
the down trodden. He is their one
supreme Champion. Wherever on
earth injustice is done to man, there
the warm heart of Jesus glows with
sympathy and sorrow and wrath.
Whoever oppresses his fellow men, or
causes disease to spread, or denies any
person a fair chance for health, may
count upon having to reckon with the
Christ who is a Just Judge, as well as
a loving Saviour.
Compensation in Shoelcather
Like a flash of lightning which,
makes a wide landscape clear, it is
said of Jesus that He "went about
charge of the C. E. meeting in the
day evening will visit the following
societies on Sunday: Augusburg Lu
theran, Miss Esther Wasson; St. Mat
thews Lutheran, Harry Funk; St.
John's Reformed. Mrs. Hamilton;
Green Street Church of God, R. H.
Derick; Maclay Street Church of
God, Charles Clemments: First U. 8.,
Mrs. Conrad: Otterbein U. B„ George
Troup; Fifth Street M. E., Madelene
Stone: Harris Street United Evan
gelical, Margaret Heck. The Young
Peoples' Societies of Xew Cumber
land, Lemoyne, West Fairview, Enola,
Rockville and Penbrook, will be in
vited to attend.
The missionary committee will have
charge of the services at 6.40 o'clock
on Sunday evening, at the Harris
Street K. L. C. E.
Eighteen field secretaries of the
United Society have traveled more
than 400,000 miles and delivered
nearly 6,000 addresses.
Bishop Mathews, who presided at
one of the sessions of the Ohio Anti
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OLD-TIME COLD
CURE-DRINK TEA!
Get a small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea, or as the German folks
call It, "Hamburger Brust Thee," at
any pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful
of the tea, put a cup of boiling water
upon it, pour through a sieve and
•'rink a teacup full at any time. It is
the most effective way to break a
cold and cure grip, as it opens the
pores, relieving congestion. ' Also
loosens the bowels, thus breaking a
cold at once.
It is Inexpensive and entirely veg
table, therefore harmless. "
.doing good." lle did not wait for
opportunities to come to Him: He
looked them up. If He had remained
quietly In that friendly upper room
in Jerusalem, holding profitable con
verse with His disciples, or with any
chance Nlcodemus who might visit
Him, the man by the Pool of Beth
esda would never have been healed.
It was Christ's custom to put His com
passion Into shoe-leather. He delib
erately sought for opportunities to do
good. Because suffering and need do
not lie in our regular path of life
does not at all free us from our re
sponsibility to minister to them.
This Pool of Bethesda has long been
thought to be the Fountain of the
Virgin, southeast of Jerusalem. But
when I was in Jerusalem, a few years
ago, I was shown a newly-discovered
pool, not far from St. Stephen's Gate,
which is now believed to have been the
famous place of healing. The remains
of a Crusader church surround it, yet
In these few centuries all trace of the
pool had been lost. While It is with
in the present city wall, It might easily
have been without the old wall. I ob
served that the present sheep market
of the city is now outside the Da
mascus Gate, on the same side of the
city.
Another fact to be noted in pass
ing is that this event took place while
Jesus was at the feast. He combined
work and worship. He was as "prac
tical" as the most censorious critic
would have religion be to-day; but He
did not neglect the spiritual exercises
and institutions of His faith, even
though the feasts and the temple were
not above criticism. We are witness
ing a present-day vogue of "Go-to-
Church" campaigns; the best of all
arguments for them Is found in this
lesson, in the practice of Jesus.
After Thirty-eight Years!
There is nothing wrong with our
times, or with any person in our times,
that cannot be remedied by Jesus
Christ. That is a sweeping statement,
but it bears analysis. It seems as if
Jesus delights in difficulties, as in the
case of the man who had been paral
ized for thirty-eight years. Our own
day has been brought face to face
with probelms of social and political
reconstruction of staggering propor
tions. Never before have sober think
ers dared to propose as immediately
practicable so many revolutionary
ideas, all attuned to the notes of Jus
tice and democracy. Yet even the
average man may ' find warrant for
these in the teachings and example of
Jesus of Nazareth. He is wonderfully
the fnaster of these new times. If
we will but let Him, He will bring a
new world order out of the present
strife and upheaval. Sometimes the
waters of human society have to be
profoundly stirred, like the Pool of
Bethesda, before healing can come.
Beholding the man who was the
worst of all the cases gathered in the
great concentration of suffering about
the porches, Jesus appealed to the
poor, sick will of the man. "Are you
willing to be made whole?" What
a question! Yet the man did not an
swer it directly; he wanted to whine
a bit, and talk about his troubles. So
he began his familiar tale of woe, to
the effect that he had no friends, no
chance, no "pull." Jesus did not dis
cuss the matter; fixing His eyes upon
the sufferer, with a look that startled
the poor fellow into a realization that
this was no common man with whom
he had to do, Jesus gave him the
amazing command, "Arise, take up
thy bed and walk."
What if the man had stopped to
argue the question, and declare that
the claims and commands of Jesus
were unreasonable and impracticable?
Many persons are doing just this now
adays. Fortunately, the man had
faith, and his faith saved him, for he
did arise and he did walk, and in his
hysterical enthusiasm he did not even
wait to thank his deliverer, or even
to learn his name. Gathering up his
bedding roll he was off, a new man,
freed by the power of Christ.
Pettifogging Piety
Worse than the bigness of sinners,
a hindrance to righteousness and re
ligion, is the littleness of the saints. It
his been said that the most wonderful
achievement of Christianity is that it
has survived the Christians! Many a
person has been repelled from religion
because it has been interpreted to him
in terms of petty prohibitions and re
strictions. The person whose faith is
a set of "don'ts" never got it from
the Bible. Imagine, if you can, this
healed man. whole for the first time
in thirty-eight years, aglow with new
joy, scarcely able to contain himself,
being met, as he hastened homeward,
not with congratulations or sympa
thetic inquiries, but with black looks
and open reproof, because he was
carrying his bedding!
Naturally, the man had assumed,
without thinking the matter out at
all, that the Healer who had power to
give him life also had authority to
bid him bear his bed away. Which
was truer than the fellow supposed.
For Jesus has given us a new Sab
bath. a holy, happy day, free from
petty restriction, a day to be kept in
the spirit of reverence and liberty, for
the welfare of man and the glory of
God.
What sort of Sabbath we shall have
is, admittedly, one of the day's funda
mental problems. Let us be careful
that we do not imitate the pettifogging
tactics of the old Jews. The Lord's
Day should be kept in the Lord's
spirit and in the Lord's way.
| Saloon convention, reports it the most
enthusiastic and determined conven
tion yet. Delegates eagerly went home
to organize for a dry victory in Ohio.
Dan Poling served the crowd with a
masterly address. Bryan is as popular
and influential as ever.
Harrisburg C. E. Union Endeav
orers planned many new features for
the coming year at a meeting held
last evening.
Margaret A. Spencer, Pitsburgh, su
perintendent intermedite department,
reports, 130 intermediate societies in
the State and many counties are or
ganizing new societies.
A Mossouri society recently added
twelve new members by a contest be
tween the Live Wires and the Get
Mores.
Thousands of pillow text cards,
100,000 Gospel portions and testaments
have been given to soldiers by British
Endeavorers.
FIRES OX SENTRY
By Associated Press
San Dieago, Cal., Feb. 23.—A ma
rine sentry on duty at the Point Lonia
radio station and an unidentified man
exchanged shots yesterday when the
latter attempted to approach the wire
less towers. The trespasser opened
fire when challenged, shooting three
times at the sentry, who replied. So
far as known, none of the shots took
effect.
FIFTY S2O BILLS IX BOTTLE
Uniontown, Pa., Feb. 23. —A for
eigner walked into the Fayette Title
and Trust Company yesterday, hand
ed a teller a pint whisky bottle and
demanded a SI,OOO bill. The bottle
was taken to P. E: Sheppard, the
treasurer, who broke it and discovered
that it contained fifty ?20 bills. The
foreigner went out holding the large
bill In a caressing manner. "
GERMAN CHANCELLOR DI CTATING TO SECRETARY
This photograph was taken in December about the time the German
peace note to the neutrals was Issued, and it may show the German Chan
cellor, von Bethmann-Hollweg, dictating that to his secretary.
Northcliffe Hopes United
States Will Keep Out of War
In a briefinterview that was cabled
on the day we broke with Germany,
and which appears in Everybody's for
March, Lord Northcliffe displays no
eagerness for the active support of the
United States on behalf of the Entente
Allies. "I am one ot' those," be said,
"who have not desired American in
tervention in the war.
"We can finish this thing ourselves.
The Germans want you in because
they believe you have been supplying
us. with the major part of our muni
tions—which is quite untrue —and be
cause they believe German influence in
the United States will help them at the
Peace Table.
"If you do come in. you will find
that getting a democracy into war
shape is not the easy task it is when
war is controlled by one man or a
small group of men. You have found
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look with confidence TO the develop
■ ment of American ingenuity, to the
full force of American vitality, and the
| great weight of American capital.
"But, writing this on February 3, 1
lam hoping you will keep out. France
and Great Britain, with Russia, have
got Prussia put, and we mean to keep
the monster put."
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German Atrocities Faked
is Belief of Correspondent
"I have been with armies on both
sides in the Great War," says William
G. Shepherd, war correspondent, in
Everybody's for March.
"I have been in all the warring
countries except Rumania and Russia,
and after all that 1 have seen, and
heard and learned, my once neutral
mind has settled into the Ally groove.
I am convinced that humanity will
gain more from an Allied victory than
from German success. Yet, In spite of
this, I am bound to say, knowing what
1 do of the business of war news, that
every American who has based his
ideas of German atrocities in Belgium
ono newspaper reports of the early,
free-lance days, is carrying a vast
amount of misinformation in his head.
"I was in Belgium when the first
atrocity stories went out. I hunted and
hunted for atrocities during the first
days of the atrocity scare. I couldn't
find atrocities. I couldn't find people
who had seen them. 1 traveled on
trains with Belgians who had fled
Don't Experiment With Catarrh;
It Often Leads to Dread Consumption
You Will Never Be Cured by
Local Treatment With Sprays
and Douches.
Catarrh is a condition of the blood
and cannot be cured by local appli
cations of sprays and douches; this
has been proven by the thousands who
have vainly resorted to this method of
treatment.
Catarrh should not be neglected or
experimented with. The wrong treat
ment Is valuable time lost, during
which the disease is getting a firmer
hold upon its victim, and making it
more difficult for even the proper
treatment to accomplish results.
Though Catarrh makes its first ap
pearance in the nostrils, throat and/
SEVERE COLDS AND COUGHS
SHOULD NOT BE TRIFLED WITH
A Stnlt-llke I'nin, n Chill nnd n Sore
I'lnee In Yuur Side Telia of I'lteu
ni on In—Xa Time to Trifle Now
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[ thoroughly spread over throat and
I chest covering with a piece of warm
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| quickly releases certain ingredients
that are part of the Famous Forkola
I prescription in the form of medicated
j vapors that are inhaled all night long
i through the air passages, while the na
tural oils and fats are quickly absorbed
j through the pores reducing all Intlam
mation.
from the German lines and I spent
much time among Belgian refugees. I
offered sums of money for photo
graphs of children whose hands had
been cut oft or who had been wounded
or injured in other ways,
"I never found a lirst-hand Belgian
atrocity storyj and when 1 ran down
the second-hand stories they ail pe
tered out.
I "Yet In those days there were news.
I paper men around me, spending their
jlime as I spent mine, living in the
i same hotel with me, eating at the same
'cafes and often at the same table,
! making the same news rounds that (
i made, who were sending their dally
'budget of atrocity stories back to the
United States. 1 am only telling the
i truth when 1 say that the tlrst Belgian
I atrocity stories to reach the United
j States from Belgium were those of
I certain correspondents whose reputa
tions among American newspapermen
are those of arch-fakers, and who,
1 since the early days In Belgium, have
ilied about so many other things that
they have since become discredited in
newspaper circles."
air passages, the disease becomes more
and more aggravated and finally
reaches down into the lungs, and
everyone recognizes the alarming con
dition that results when the lungs are
affected. Thus Catarrh may be the
forerunner of that most dreaded and
hopeless of all diseases, consumption.
No local treatment affords perma
nent relief. Experience lias taught
that S. S. S. is the one remedy which
attacks the disease at its source, the
blood, and produces satisfactory re
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