10 THREE HEROES WHO WOULD NOT STRIKE THEIR FLAG The International Sunday School Lesson for September 16 Is "The Fiery Furnace"—"Daniel 3." By WILLIAM T. ELLIS At sunset one evening a few years tfro, 1 stood upon the highest point la the ruins of the palace f Ne buchadnezzar in old Babyiou. and looked out over the desolate Mesopo tamian desert that once was the proud eapitul of the whole world. The soil is red within the city and gn.y without; and that is almost the only sign by which an observer can teil where the city began or ended The barrenness of this waste is so complete that only the inspired imagination of the Hebrew seers could picture it. For when the prophecies were penned, there dead fields were teeming with life. Somwhere out on this plain there once stood a golden image of a god. probably Marduke, whose ruined temple is yonder hillock. It roae ninety feet high, shimmering be neati the rainless sky. I tried to imagine this now dreary stretch of desert as the scene of an imperial function like unto (i< British Corona tion. We fail to get the setting of this story unless we conceive of it in some such terpis. It involved the apex of the career of a world-con queror. All the resources of the em pire were drawn upon to enhance its magr iricenoe. Oriental love of pomp and pageantry actuated It. ( The sycophancy of an autocrat's court quickening hands and brains to do honor to the king. All the \arled oflicials of a farflung domin ion, each with his own full para-1 pliernalia and attendants of state,: adorned the occasion. Men Who Stood Alone So Insatiable Is the vanity of an; oriental monarch, that Nebuchad nezzar decreed a universal, simul-: tancous prostration in honor of the; image which he had set up, at ! given signal. The stopping ot all the wheels of industry and traffic at a set hour in memory of President Mc- Kinley was a remarkable feat but it did not approach Babylonian pro portions. That was a freewill expres sion of a sorrowing people; this was a compulsory action, at the behest i of an absolute autocrat, who wanted | to look on a vast sea of humanity billowing in obeisance to him and; his image. A nation on its knees —\ the thought was one to stir the 1 pulses of Nebuchadnezzar. As a stab to his pride, spiteful! rumor quickly brought to his ears, the sinister news that three Jews.' f'ivoritcs who stood high before him, I had failed to malle the required obeisance. When others bent low, 1 they stood upright. The varying: creeds of the capital had subservient-! ly bent the knee to the king's favir-l ite god. But these stiffnecked Jewsj hod endangered their jobs and their! lives by."landing rigid amid the 1 multitU''" of prone worshippers. 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When a person deliberately flies a flag, he should stand by it. That Is the great tiling in life. Dying is a small mat ter as compared with deserting one's post or principles. The three young Hebrews, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, may not have done the "politic" thing that day, but they did the princely thing. The mob that bowed to the image is forgotten; it is as lost as the image itself. But the three young men are a heritage of heroism for the world. That spirit of fearless indepen dence is rarer than we like to think. A few years ago the mad mob spirit burst from its home in the lawless pit, and seized upon the quiet churchgolng town of Coatesville, Pa. In an hour the bulk of the American population had reverted to a condition of savagery; and the foul and inexcusable murder they com mitted remains as a hideous blot upon the name of Pennsylvania and America. It was only one more Instance of the witless, will less crowd weakly worshiping before the hour's idol. -Vnild the four thousand who participated in, or asaentingly witnessed, the fiendish torture of a wounded mur derer, there was not a single person with manhood enough to say, "I serve law and order and justice; I will not bend the knee to mob rule and the violation of all that civiliza tion esteems sacred.' ' If there had been only one such man, Coatesville's nobler citizenship might have ral lied around him and declared, "This man represents us and not these outlaws." Every day, in some de gree, affords opportunity for the proving of real manhood, and for the flying of noble flags. Sliamu at Babylon Not the high and honorable only are required to be true to their high calling. I found myself welcomed at Baliylon by the German excavators there solely because X was intro duced by my servant, Shamu, ot Bag dad. They did not know me, but him they knew; and when he, who had traveled with me through hard weelts. vouched for me I was wel comed. For Shamu has a name for faithfulness; this is not the place to tell the story of how often he has faced death rather than desert his employer. A wide region honors this humble servant of the highway, because in matters high or low he is faithful to his trust. Nothing else in life counts like this. To have, like the three young Hebrews, some convictions that enn never be abandoned, whatever the cost, is to have got hold of the secret of true manhood. What if all parents could be certain, as they send forth thetr sons, that, be fall what may, they will bo incap able of dishonor; would It not give peace to many a loving heart that Is now torn with anxiety 'I There are many such young men; the last of them did not die with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Young men who will not betray their trust, who will not be false to their ideals, who are "gentlemen unafraid," fearing nothing but fear, are the salt of so ciety and business. They know the noble art of standing , by thoir flags. A myriad graves in Bolgium or France, and millions of surviving heroes, attest this glad truth that the goodly fellowship of the three loyal and fearless young Hebrews still en riches the earth. A King's Rage Employes who know the unbri dled and unreasoning anger of "the boss" can understand something of the plight of the three when they faced the hot rage, born of pricked pride, of the greatest monarch of the time, a king possessed of the power of life and death. He was incredu lous that anybody should do a deed so contrary to expediency; religious loyalty he did not understand. ".is it of purpose . . . that ye wor ship not my god?" Hear the kingly answer of these royal souls, who, because they feared Jehovah were not afraid of the face of man: "O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace,and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden imago which thou hast set up." Catch the nub of that "Our God is able." Hold fast to that. That is the foundation for all overcoming character, and all serenity of heart. Pin faith there. "Our God is able." That Is the basic truth of Christian ity. Simple enough for a child to understand, it 'is yet beyond the compass of the wisest man's under standing. If we believe that, then life becomes simple and explicable. Trust is then reasonable and peace easy. But if for that faith we sub stitute mere human prudence, God have mercy upon us. For a creed that will suffice in all circumstances, and that will help oife to hold up his head before kings, let us enshrine this In our deepest hearts: "Our God is able." 'Hie Fiery Furnace's Failure The Germans at Babylon told me that they have came to a mysterious place of binning; they do not know what the burnt ground and ashes mean. The spot may have been a crematorium, or a place of sacrifice; 'or," my informant added, half in jest, "it may have been the fiery fur nace." They do not know, neither do I. The spirit and message of the fiery furnace are still ablaze in the world; who cares for a few ashes? Into some sort of retort—foolishly heated sevenfold for the occasion, for the greater the heat the shorter the sufferings of the victims the thee young men were cast. The event must have created as great a sensation as the worship of the golden image: assuredly it fixed the attention of the city upon the He brews and their faith. The fire was not hotter than the king's rage; yet it consumed the attention who' cast the young men into it. This inci dent would be told over and over again whenever men congregated in X V, r HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Babylon, or traveled from the great festival. Then cagie the marvel, the mir acle, that struck wonder and terror to the heart of the king. In the furnace he saw "four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods." Centuries before the promise was spoken the faithful knew Its realiza tion: "Lo, I am with you, all the days." There Is no place where God's friends must go that His presence does not accompany them. "Our God is able." Unscented by the ordeal of fire, the three young men emerged, more than conquerors, to the honor of the Name that they would not be tray. For God gets glory from every soul that stands true to its highest vision; loyalty saves those who pos sess It, serves the race, honors Jeho vah. The Joint Land Commission's slowness In handling this business aroso partly from tho members' ignorance of tropical conditions, landvalues, and agriculture, requir ing much time to get them in formed, and partly from wranglini" over technicalities and the repeti tlon of evidence. The value of a banama tree has probably been testified to a hundred times before' the commission, in one way or another. The Panamanian members have been wealthy businessmen who servei" more for the honor of the work and to protect their country men's interests than from any other consideration. They are verj anxious to see the pending cases settled as soon as possible. Clothing Tattoo Women on Tars' Arms Stopped Chicago, 111., Sept. 14. America's Infant industry, tne placing of skirts and flowing draperies on immodest tattoo decorations of sailors, came to a sudden death yesterday in conse quence of the order of Josephus Dan iels, Secretary of the Navy, placing a new restriction against the Navy League of the United States. When the Navy" began preparing for war the recruiting officers made a special drive for men who formerly had been in the service. Things went along fine until Mr. Daniels discover ed that many of these former service men In discreet hours ashore had had themselves decorated with tattoo markings that should not be display-' ed in the parlor of anybody's home or on any self-respecting battleship. Mr. Daniels immediately issued an order that recruiting officers should reject all seamen who came along so adorned. The Navy, he ruled, should be a very modest Institution. So the Navy League conies to the rescue. Why not dress the women that adorned the seamen who wanted to fight? No sooner suggested than done and the Navy League maintained here an establishment which would fix up tatoo marks free of charge for men who wished to enlist. TMie work went merrily and successfully on for weeks, then the order came from Mr. Daniels to cut off the help of the Navy League. So the enterprise had to stop. Portugal Is Declared in a State of Siege Madrid, Sept. 14. Portugal has been declared In a state of siege, ac cording to a telegram received here from Lisbon, on account of a general strike. All establishments In the Portu guese capital have been closed. Several persons, including a num ber of soldiers, have been wounded by the explosion of bombs. INSURANCE BILL FOR U. S. FORCES PASSED BY HOUSE Families Left Behind Will Be Protected by the Nation Washington, Sept. 14.—The House late yesterday passed the adminls i tration sailors ( and soldiers' lnsur ; ance bill. No negative votes are re corded on the measure. ' The principal amendments to the . bill as It passed are tnese: ' The limit of Insurance one soldier may carry was restored to SIO,OOO, ( after Representative Rayburn, of j' Texas, explained that In committee of the whole it had Inadvertently ' been reduced to $5,000. ' Amendments raised the compen sations in the case of death of an en ' listed man by about 15 per cent, all I through and reduced the officers' j families compensations accordingly. - The compensations in the bill as' it passed the House are as follows: To a widow, $3 5 a month. A widow with one child, $45 a . month. A widow with two children, $52.50 a month. A widow with three children, $57.50 a month. ! A widow with four children, $62.50 ; a month. A widow with five children, $67.50 • ,a month. : Motherless child, S2O a month. Two motherless children, $35 a . month. t Three motherless children, $45 a ■ month. : Four motherless children, SSO a ■ month. Five motherless children.' $55 a [ month. A widowed mother. 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Do not take a sub- I istitute. In boxes, three sizes.—Adver- I tisement. cease upon her remarriage and a de pendent childls would cease at IS years of age. Monthly benefits to a soldier or sailor In caao of total disability would be as follows: If he has neither wife nor child living, S4O; wfle, $56; wife and one child, $65; two or more children, $75; no wife but one child, SSO, and $lO additional tor each child up to two; dependent widowed mother, $lO additional. t Injured men requiring nurse's care would received an additional S2O monthly. i A man losing both feet, hands or eyes would be entitled automatically to SIOO a month. The main purpose of the bill is to provide a substitute for the present pension law, as it would apply to men engaged in this war a new system of allotments and compensations which will provide for dependants of the Tramp Tramp Tramp ie Children Are Marching to School. . f V® 4 * Hundreds in Shoes From Our Big Store. J Or— ! ' —p >/< And witli School Shoes at such line savings few parents will be con tent to buy only one pair. It will pay to get the Children all the Shoes they need for the entire season while our prices are exceptionally low. Girls' Shoes, from children's size 6, to women's size 6. Boys' Shoes in sizes 6 to 11. . Prices: $1.25, $1.75, SI.OB, $2.25, $2.48 and $2.98. 20th Century Shoe Co. "SHOES THAT WEAR" E. F. Deichler, Mgr. "The Everybody's Store" 3 SOUTH MARKETSQUARE SEPTEMBER 14, 1917. soldier and rehabilitate men upon their return from the war. Upon enlistment under the pro visions of the bill, a soldier* or sailor would be entitled to take out from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO worth of optional Insurance at approximately $8 to SI,OOO, His dependents would be en- to allotments from the gov ernment of from $5 to SSO a month and Nan equal amount up to sls a month from his pay. Death or total disability resulting, the dependants of any person in the military or naval service, including women members of the nurse corps, woifld be entitled to compensation ranging from S2O to S7O a month and the insurance. In case of total disability, the in jured persons would be paid from S4O to SIOO a month. BOTTLES WHICH WARN YOtT THAT THEY CONTAIN POISON In a bulletin on poisons, issued from the Surgeon General's office Washington, D. C„ it is stated t every year five thousand people, an average, take poison by mlsta ■ A bottle has been invented wh has the skull and cross-hones moli deep In tho glass, so that when bottle Is taken up at night in dark it Is easily distinguished by sense of touch. Should the la drop off or become defaced, the f that the contents of the bottle poisonous will be obvious from shape and design of the bottle its —Popular Science Monthly. J.S.Belsinger 212 Locust St. New Location Optometrists Opticians Eyes Examined . 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