12 SONGS OF THE AGES The International Sunday School Lesson For Oc tober 7 Is "Psalms of Deliverance." Psalms 85, 126. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS If ono should judge the publlo taste and Intelligence by the "popu lar songs" of the day, he would have warrant for turning pessimist. What people really think of these current jingles is shown by the short dura tion of their vogue; a few weeks, or months at the most, is the longest that the public will endure them, and then others, equally bad, take their place. Not BO with the old songs. The great poems of our tongues And In creasing favor as tho years pass. The old songs grow dearer against the ugly background of these new productions. The poems that touch the depths of nature abide. And it is a striking fact, of mora than strictly religious interest, that tho most popular songs in all human speech are an inheritance from the ancient Hebrews, the newest of the songs being older than the Christian era. A simple, pastoral people, ex pressing at once the primitive and the sublimcst human emotions, have given the world its loftiest literature. The Permanent Passions A rather ludicrous group of social faddists believe that they can make over human nature by hanging choice pictures on the walls of ig norance, providing tine music for un discriminating ears, and talking vague idealism to men and women engrossed in tho hard realities of life. Little they reck of persisting human nature. They think to evolve an ideal civilization in a generation or two; but they conveniently ig nore the long milleniums in which human nature has remained essen tially the same. The power of the appeal of the Psalms resides in their fidelity to the fundamental, abiding passions of life. They are true to universal sen timents. The poets of to-day try in vain to awaken an answering echo from the popular heart; these old Hebrews arf still expressing to a nicety the experience of all sorts and conditions of men. The tremendous truthfulness of the Psalms to life, and to the deepest needs of mankind, is the real reuson for their deathless vogue. The Hosts That Have lleon Helped Contemplate for a moment the procession of thirsty hearts that have been refreshed at the' fountain of Hebrew psalmody. The picture thrills. There are the captive exiles in chains leaving the. Land of Ca naan; some of the same, and their children, returned to the land of Abraham, marching to the music of the Psalms. These were the sonars of ascent to Jerusalem upon the oc casion of the yearly feasts. The hunted Christians of the apostolic age voiced their inextinguishable faith l<y the same old melodies. The Crusaders, the Puritans, and a count- 'l' 'I I ♦ ♦ '!■ ♦ <■ | GIRLS! MAKE A I 3: BEAUTY LOTION I !! 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You Just dampen a sponge or soft brush with It and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning all gray hairs have disappeared, and, after another ap plication or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark, glossy, soft and luxuriant. ' This preparation "is a delightful toilet requisite and is not intended for the cure, mitigation or preven tion of disease. —Adv. , FRIDAY EVENING, les* company of kindred high souls, havo been heartened t>y the inspired and inspiring Hebrew songs. Kings and statesmen and men of largo af fairs have turned for comfort and sustenance to these melodies from royal pons. Armenians, deported to death, have quaffed the comfort of these lines. The aspiring youth, the burdened man and woman, the grief stricken, tho doubting, the fearful and dying, in innumerable hosts, have turned lirst to this never-fall-1 Ing spring of sustenance. David's sliaro of the Psalms are' greater work than slaying Goliath, | or smiting the Philistines or ruling a! kingdom. And of the other writers, | some of them unknown, we can only j rejoice that there have been men I who Have spoken from the depths and the heights, and that their heart cries havo lived. In the wine-press' of Intense experiences, their souls j have given forth the wine of com- j fort to an uncounted company. Sim- | ilarly, Matheson's rejection because l of his blindness by the. woman he j loved has been blessed to millions in his hymn, "O, Love That Will Not Let j\le Go." Samuel ltutlierford's imprisonment at Aberdeen bore fruit in his ••Letters," and from these Mrs. Anne Cousins extracted the phrases which she wove into the exquisite hymn, "The Sands of Time Are Sink ing." When Heart Speaks to Heart As we consider the Psalms and this particular one in which tho souls of returned exiles found utterance, the query is forced upon us, "Where are the great soul songs for today? Triv ial verses we have a-plenty; esoteric, neurasthenic, nebulous musings in rhyme, burden the mail of editors;/ but where are the songs that vocalize the deep sentiments of tho people? The woman suffragists of New York once offered a prize for a "hymn" j and nil they got was twaddle. Van-■ ous publications and organizations I are offering substantial sums for a ! new American national anthem, but in vain. There seem to bo no ring ing English words to express the stirred emotions of men in a mass. The national anthems to both the United States and Canada are con fessedly inadequate. We have not yet reached the great songs of our own time. Tho best music is religious; there are many hymns, In addition to tho X'salms. that voice the deepest feel ings of the soul. Even here, how ever, there are strange hiatuses. Who can pick out a worthy hymn of invitation to tho unconverted. Most of the so-called missionary hymns are tilled with bad geography, Dad history, and inexcusable provincial ism. With a spirit of brotherhood sweeping over the world, there is as yet no worthy brotherhood hymn. Good citizenship has evoked no dis tinctive and great hymn; nor has the passion for social amelioration. What a field for poets, if they would but forget themselves and catch a vision! Still we turn to the psalms for the clearest etTho of the soul's mood. They speak from heart to heart. We are not sure who wrote them all. Some seventy-three are definitely as cribed to David; Moses wrote at least one, and Solomon wrote some; Asaph and the sons of Korah, are also in the index; but many of the hundred and titty are anonymous; and we can only say that in each case it was the truest and best expression of a hu man heart, intensely sensible of Je hovah, that cried out in sincerity— and lo! the cry still lives. The Shepherd With His Flute Ono evening, under the eastern slope of Mount Carmel, 1 saw a shep herd boy leading homo his sheep; and as he walked in front of them he played upon a home-made flute. , The melody was simple, sweet, Joy- | ous, unusual—a bit of nature's mu sic in the open air. I have forgotten the performances of many great or chestras that I have heard, but I re member that strangely sweet music, apparently improvised, of the shep herd boy of Samaria, who called up visions of the shepherd Psalmist of three thousand years ago. The passion for music is primi tive with the oriental. He naturally breaks forth into it. When he is happy he sings; when he is sad he sings; when he dies, his friends sing dirges over his death. Equally funda mental to the oriental is the thought of God. He cannot conceive of life apart from the supreme Deity. "In'sh Allah" —It is the will of God!" —still sprinkles the conversation of every Arab. Help From on High Thus we have the Psalms of deliv erance. might have talked of good lyck, or boasted of their own merits) but these exiles from Babylon thought first and only of God. Their instictlve cry, as ono of their singers phrases it, was: "When Jehovah brought back those that returned to Zion, We were like unto them that dream, Then was our mouth filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing: Then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them. Jehovah hath dbne great things for us: Whereof we are glad." These Jews clearly traced, as cause and effect, the favor of .Tehovah, with the forgiveness of sin, and their de liverance from exile. 'Jehovah, thou has been favorable unto thy land: Thou hast brought back the captiv ity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: Thou hast covered all their sin." This is the essence of the lesson's teaching. It is the heart of hearts of the live books of Psalms: the fa vor of Jehovah is the one supreme blessing of life. "Our midnight is thy smile with drawn, Our'noontide is thy gracious dawn." Get a grip on the fact of God, and life becomes no more a mystery. "Our times are in His hand." There is no higher philosophy than the twenty-third Psalm. Why National Hymns Arc Reverent Why is it that really national hymns are such as may be sung in religious services? Because they rise to the plane of patriotism which rec ognizes God. They have touched tho deeps of the hearts of nations be cause they respond to the instinctive feeling that national welfare Is a boon from on high; that exalted thoughts of patriotism are associated with thoughts ol God. All sublimi emotions are reverent. 79 I IVINGSTON'Q - 7 i 9 Market " Market Sc * uare Special Offerings 2a Suits, Coats and Dresses Square RIGHT NOW—when your thoughts turn to Winter wearing apparel—comes the glad news from " LIVINGSTON'S" that we are offering merchandise at prices far below any other store in town, our styles are just what the best shops in the land are showing, and our prices within the reach of all. Women's & Misses' just Arrived, 40 Special Lot of Women's and Misses' CITTTC Women's and Misses' Mk,, V/$iA iasC /Av. 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Cloths W inter Suits-- - \ $1.25 Boys' Pants . . 79c $1.50 Boys' Pants . . 89c School and Dress Wear W|| \ Worsted, Serge, Cassimere, Plain Colors, Stripes $2.25 Boys Pants . . $1.49 and Mixtures of all kinds. |||wg |T Sizes range fk*om 6 to 18. $4.00 SUITS $2.49 SIO.OO SUITS $6.98 ii MEN'S and BOYS'SWEATERS : pH,: V J Navy, Brown, Black, Olive, Tan, Gray, Etc. $5.00 SUITS $2.98 $12.00 SUITS $7.98 iWBISSir $1,50 SWEATERS *.... 98* pi' $2 00 SWFATFRS j 40 $6.00 SUITS $3.98 $15.00 SUITS $9.98 fflMBiS B- WS |B, $3.00 SWEATERS .' !! $l!98 <t7 qttttq fii QQ Sizes 6to 18 years. /r-v n IMi $4.00 SWEATERS $2.49 $7.85 SUITS $4.98 Most , y wkh (wq ? s q . sso ° SWEATERS .... #8.98 $8.85 SUITS $5.98 Pants. s.zcs, 40—40. HAKRISBURG Sfsjlfe. TELEGRAPH! OCTOBER 5, 1917.
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