THE KING WHO DID SLAVE WORK The International Sunday School Lesson For May 6 Is "Jesus, the Servant of All."—John 13:1-17 What Is the greatest form of ar tistry in the world? It is to be found in your town and my town, and occasionally, when it gets into the art galleries, it holds the interest of the spectators as dtes nothing else. Life, the great artls-, has done his work so well that thelsser paint ers can only hope to reproduce his masterpiece. This picture, the finest in the world, is usually wrought upon a woman's face, and that voman a mother and a home-maker. The Mines are soft, but deep. There are shadows as well as high liffhts. A Klow like sunset peace suffuses the nc'ure with a "light that never was o\ land or sea." Strength to endure an-J to do is there, laid on '.y the pighents of anxiety and suffering .iind experience of the deeps of \>eing. The title of the work is "Love In Servce." "Tiese faces of the mothers of FRECKLE-FACE Sun mil Wind Bring Out Ugly Spots, low to Hcmove Easily. Here': a chance, Miss Freckle-face, to try a emedy for freckles with the KUarant® of a reliable dealer that it will not lost you a penny unless it removes he freckles; while if it does give you i clear complexion the ex pense is titling. Simply an ounce of othine — double str ; ngth—from any druggist and a few applications should show you how ejsy it is to rid yourself of the homely freckles and get a beau tiful completion. Rarely is more than one ounce jueded for the worst case. lie .sure tc ask the driggist for the double striigth othine as this is the prescriptlol told under guarantee of money bact if it fails to remove freckles.— JV. A SPECIALTY SHOP OF INFINITE VARIETY AND TASTE For Women and Misses James E, Brenner, Ladies' Shop, 6S. 4th St Spec ial SIO.Ib | Special 513.H8 $25.00 Evening I $5.00 Satin do Jer"ey P Ctoth ' Tnfrcta ,m .' set ' s Dresses for | sk,rtß for Coats for i for $2.98 $3.00 , $3.00 $9.98 9 left WE HAVE 1W) NMH SUITS Finding ourselves overstocked with high-grade Suits, we have deciced a big sacrifice and offer them in a sale this and nen week, all at Price 20 Suits formerly priced $25.00 10 Suits formerly priced $30.00 jH B 15 Suits formerly pricec $32.50 |M m 11 Suits formerly priced $35.50 Jrai B 25 Suits formerly priced $40.00 W&B 3 Suits formerly priced $60.00 £§ J8& 1 Suit formerly priced $75.00 B Xo Restrictions No I.aymavs J £gy gf No Approvals &y MgLaffll OWING TO THE TREMENDOUS SAC- _ HUM 108 IN THIS KAI.E AN* .-\1 >l> 1 - 1 w v TIONAL CHARGE WIIX BE MADE ll* i-C Ifl 1/ FOB A I/rER AT IONS. JL 1.1. X \*J ■ j^^^6^South^Fourth^tree^^^| For 26 Years We Have Been Making ! KING OSCAR 5c CIGAR the best we know how. We are making a bid for your patronage by giving you honest quality for "Value Received"—in other words, for your nickel. i JOHN C. HERMAN & CO. Makers FRIDAY EVENING, HXBBISBURG TFIKK TELEGRAPH MAY' 4,1917. By WILLIAM T. IXMS men—and especially of our own mothers —how they fortify our souls! Slowly, deftly, beautifully there has been wrought into them by life the firm, gentle lines of ministry and solicitude and patience and tireless love. They are strong in their beauty and beautiful in their strength. No cosmetic that a sophisticated world can devise has ever been a substi tute for the serene and spiritual beauty which is born of self-forget ting service for loved ones. Some times, Mrs. Grundy calls these faces "plain" and "old-fashioned;" but she has never been able to devise a sub stitute for them. They have been adorned according to the pattern set by Jesus Christ, when, in an upper room, a few nights before He died, He laid aside His kingly dignities and gave himself to lowly ministry, saying "I have given you an ex ample." The religion which holds the world steady to-day is that of the mothers who have learned this secret of Jesus- —love in lowliness of serv- Darinff to Be Radical It was at the apex of His life that the peerless Philosopher, the ' matchless Master, the Teacher of Truth, led His closest friends into this supreme lesson of the sublimity !of self-abnegation. It was a kinglier [deed than the triumphal entry; and 'truer to the genius of His life than j the smiling of the money-changers I or the healing of the blind. He had come to the hour of re i vealing the innermost meaning of His mission and His message. Time I was short. Only a few crowded hours remained in yhich to I the final teaching that was to suffice I a whole world for all the centuries. ! There was no rdom for non-essen tials. The uttermost power of the Christ was crowded to the expression of His message. 1 Dramatically, the Master took a towel and basin, and girding up His cloak, He washed Uia disciples' feet. One would elmost have to be a first- century oriental to appreciate that deed fully. Shoes were not worn in doors. The laving of the feet, after a dusty journey against which san days were a poor protection, was either done by one's self or by slaves. It was not the work of an equal. No laws of etiquette required It of a host. Perhaps never before had It been done by a man of stand ing for his equals or Inferiors. How the company must have stared and protested! Impossible! Preposterous! The Orient cares more for form and ceremony and dignity than does the West; and this was an oriental scene.- The Great Teach er doing a slave's work—and the echoes of the hosannas of the multi tude scarcely yet died away? In credible! We have had the story for nineteen centuries, and It is impos sible for us to comprehend how radi cal the procedure was. There is no modern parallel for It. When the Way-Showers Stoop Great way-showers have not been afraid to stoop. President Wilson helped dig the White House lot, as a reminder of garden-patriotism. King George has been a total ab stainer during the war. Governors have repeatedly doited their coats and taken up shovels on "Good Roads Day." Many eminent men have proudly worn the title of "Com moner;" for, as says the proverb: "A gentleman can do anything." Fa mous generals have fraternized with their troops. Once though, and only once, a great king has voluntarily assumed the tasks of a slavp. "Menial" Is an inadequate word for this feet-wash ing service by Jesus. It was entire ly beneath the dignity even of the disciples. Not one of them had of fered to do it, even for the Master. Every one of them would have re sented the proposal. They were like the modern busi nessman and public official. Jealous of their position. Most of us are pretending to bo more than we are. It is fun to watch the pretense "bluff" is the modern world—of all sorts of men claiming credit for more than their due. Great business or ganizations are full of it, down to the office boy. Each official over magnifies his own position and im portance. Knowing this, the clothing manufacturers advertise shamelessly that they can dress a man so that j the world will be deceived into I thinking that he is somebody of Im j portance. All the world is bent upon ! exalting itself. | Whereas Jesus, when He said "I have given you an example," dellber- I ately abased himself. He knew what He was about. The full significance iof His action was clear to Him. It I seems as it' He invested himself with I full royal panoply before He took | towel and basin. As it were. He ex -5 hlbited His crowd and sceptre and | full royal state before He showed j himself a servant. As runs the rec- I ord, "Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, J and that he was come from God, and went to God * • • took a towel." In stately, regal fashion the King stepped down from His royal throne to do the work of lowliest ministry; that all ministry might thereafter be royal. "Ye call me Master and Lord; and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I'have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you." Dr. Henry van Dyke has caught the genius of Jesus in his poem "The Toiling of Felix;" "Every mason in the quarry, every builder on the shore. Every chopper In the palm-grove, every raftsman at the oar, Hewing wood and drawing water, splitting stones and cleaving sod. All the dusty ranks of labour, In the regiment of God, March together toward His tri umph, do the task His hands prepare: Honest toil is holy service; faithful work is praise and prayer. c I "They who tread the path of labour follow where my feet have trod; They who work without complain ing do the holy will of God. Where the many toil together, there am I among my own; Where the tired workman sleepeth, there am I with him alone. I, the peace that passeth knowledge, dwell amid the dally strife; I, the bread of heaven, am broken In the sacrament of life. Every task, however simple, sets the soul that does it free; Every deed of love and mercy, done to man, is done to me. Thou hast learned the open secret; thou hast come tome for rest; Nevermore thou needest seek me; I am with thee everywhere; "This Is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Dove came down from ahove, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil; Heaven Is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil." The Call to Our Bay War is changing many things for mankind. Uncounted Institutions and usages are being transformed. A new day is dawning for humanity. All who are seers of God should be preparing the mind ot the world for the changed order. Life after the war cannot be maintained on the old basis of narrow selfishness and prjdb and provincialism. "Old things have passed away; behold, all things are become new." Not to the ambitious ■and to the vainglorious, but to the humble and to the helpful; not to the getters, but to the givers; will the transformed world look for sal vation. In this hour there comes from the I old lilble the very word in season. It is this message of Jesus, spoken at the climax of Ills life. All who would save the world must serve the world. Only the ministers of men are the real masters. A new mood of lowliness and helpfulhess must possess us. Christianity needs to be Interpreted afresh. In terms of serv ice. A Christ-llke passion for un selfish ministry alone can save the Church. We are entering an era of broken heartedness. Burdens beyond belief, wounds worse than war, sorrows that sting the coul, await us all. Even the least thoughtful of us knows that the old way, of pride and self-inter est and Indulgence and vain-glory, has not paid. May we not, as our Gethsemane draws near, do as Jesus did, on the verge of the Garden, and accept the program of self-abase ment and service? Let us go forth into the new day, and into the dark night, in the spirit of feet-washers —people with a passion for minis tering to our fellow men, at what ever cost to our own pride and profit, and in the divine spirit of Jesus, who Is newly our Master. Then He will stamp His likeness upon us, and en able us to share In Hl* Work of re deeming the world. MOUNTAIN LAND LEASED Dauphin, Pa., May 4.—Emanuel Feaser haa leased 900 acres of moun tain land from th United Ice and Coal Company. This land extends from Kllendale Forge to the stone quarry. A force of men started work at Ellendale Forge yosterday. "The Live Store" . "Always Reliable" Decide Now! §A momentous problem during these strenuous times asto decide just what to do to be guided right in the clothes question is a most important thought. Nature is budding and blossoming forth in all its beauty and you too New Spring Suit If you are going to follow popular sentiment and buy your clothes where most men and young men are going, come here and look at the vast quantity of good clothes that have been stocked for your convenience-you'll know that only a "Live Store" doing a tremendous volume of busi ness could carry such enormous stocks of high grade clothing. It's a well-known fact that "Dout richs" stands for high quality and greater val"®t. Th Rout* ef Eapp*nh'-*> Then too they sell Kuppenheimer Clothes It's also well known that the rock-ribbed policy here "always your money's worth" —is the backbone of our phenomenal growth and our unquestioned dominance as the leading and largest clothing store through out Central Pennnsylvania. If you want to buy your clothes from a concern that has set and is determined to maintain the highest possible standards, not alone in fabrics, but in all the other essentials of Good Clothes and in all its relations with the public as well, this "Live Store" is the place to come. You'll find style and fabrics to please you at sls $lB S2O $25 "Stand Before a Mirror" * ZK View them from every angle and you will J be compelled to say the "most beautiful" "perfect fitting" 1 D| High Grade Crepe Silk Shirts you have ever seen. We've just received f .V, mb? another shipment and will display them for the first time to- \1 \jl morrow-Fabrics such as you'll see in this assortment will not | ]/ be very plentiful this season. • W / Hln They Come—Out They Go—As Happy as a Bi{£ Sunflower bubbling over with extreme pleasure and joy. Ever watch a boy who has just oeen fitted with a new suit? Well we've seen a great many boys— and little "kiddies" walk out of this "Live Store" with that satisfied grin on their face this year because their mothers had bought their new Spring Suits at "Dout richs"—Say they will never go anywhere else either, not as long as you can get such good "Suits" with two pairs of trousers for $5.00, $6.50, $7.50, $8.50 and SIO.OO. Hats and Caps to match every suit at 50c to SI.OO 304 1 iißii ■lm ra lyi iarrisburg II 13
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