k m ' I A Rebirth of Hebrew Nationalism i ❖ > ❖ .>1 •:• > ❖ •> i *£ The International Sunday School Lesson For October 14 Is * ❖ "Returning From Captivity."—Ezra Ch. 1. ' * t *> % Ijy W'illinm T. Ellis * * v *❖ •> •> ••• *** v* * ••• * ••• •> *> * ♦ ■>♦ ** * ♦ **• ** ♦ v v * ■*' ♦* * * '♦* | Thirty million members of the Sunday schools of the world will this week study about a Persian ruler known in literature as "the great king." Cyrus the Great was one of the half dozen world rulers of all history. The known world then was itv vassalage to Persia. What a de scent to the weakness, anarchy and misery of the Persia of to-day! Yet this war-torn Persia, from which we get occasional dispatches, is one o? the holy lands of history. The other nation that figures in the story is the Jewish people: then, as now, a nation despite their lack of king, capital and organized govern ment. They were exiles in Babylonia and Persia. An interesting analogy i! the present-day fact that while many nations .ire even more eager than Cyrus to get rid of the Jews, they are steadily increasing in im portance, power, solidarity and na tional consciousness. Even the Jews who have remained In Babylonia and Persia unto this day—and they num ber hundreds of thousands—are be ginning to lift up their heads in newness of hope and self-confidence. The prophesied exile of the Jews was almost over. The promised re turn had been permitted by Cyrus, who had various reasons of policy for wishing to possess the loyalty of the Jews, and also to establish them once more in the strategic outposts of his kingdom at Jerusalem. Back of the "Great K4ng", of course, and moving mysteriously upon his will, was the King of kings. The mightiest ot earth is only a servant to do the will of the Most High. God shapes his tory for His own sovereign purposes, in the promotion of His kingdom. "Behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow. Keeping watch above his own." Taught by Trouble Experience is a schoolmaster who always carries a rod. The Jews, un willing to learn their lessons in any soft -. hoot, had been sent into ex ile. •? sole and avowed purpose of the i.:. le was to teach a vagrant minded an ' instable-hearted people the lesson of loyalty to Gocl. They had continually wandered after the heathen gods of their neighbors. Now the great question was. had they learned the lesson dasig:ned for them in their severe school? To miss the meaning of adversity is like refusing a precious letter because one does not like the postman's looks. Ood sends no meaningless trials. "But it has made a preacher out of you," said a close friend to a clergy man. reviewing a deep sorrow through which the latter had passed. One of the vital books of recent years is "Early Letters of Marcus Dods," which reveal the life of the great scholar-preacher-author during the six long years when ,he was an un successful candidate for a first charge. A lesser could would have been embittered and spoiled by the ordeal: it was the refining of the gold of Dods' character. "Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I observe Thy word." wrote the Psalmist. That was Is rael's experience. In exile it learned that Jehovah alone is God. Never more did its heart wander after idols. The bitterness of exile was sweet ened by this fruit: the learned to give God His rightful place. A Teller und n Doer "Of which things also I was a part." wrote Caesar in his account ot his Gallic wars. Ezra is the scribe whose writing we now study; he is the narrator of this record. A his torian. he probably compiled several of th<> sacred books of the Jews; and in a large part of his volume which bears his name he speaks in the first person. His is the testimony of an eyewitness. He was a participant in the scenes he describes. He was a doer as well as a teller. Down along the Tigris river be low Bagdad I saw a great shrine, which was pointed out as Ezra's tomb. The Jews believe that he re turned to Babylonia and was buried there. So great is the esteem in which his memory is held that the Jews from a wide region make an nual pilgrimages to this shrine. Prayers for children especially were supposed to be efficacious when of fered here. The descendants of the exiles who remained behind thus hon ored the memory of the leader of those who left. For many Jews did not go back home when opportunity offered. Only ixtout one out of six returned to Pal estine. The remainder had struck new roots into this fertile soil, and had found prosperity. Business was good itv Babylonia.. Besides, the ex iles from the Northern Kingdom had ir this foreign land become assimi lated with their brethren from Judah. They were doing well socially and commercially: and material considera tions triumphed over sentimental and spiritual ties. The t*er* and the fenders The stay-at-homes helped the go ers-<orth. This is the universal rule. When I climbed the sacred mountain. Fujl-yama. with bands of Japanese pilgrims. I learned that they were but representatives of their respec tive communities: the whole neigh borhood had united to pay the costs. Thus Christian Endeavor delegates go to conventions. So, also, it is with Zionism to-day: Jews all over the earth pay for the maintenance and succor of their fellow religionists who have returned to Palestine. The ~fi a //Cfenwa "Better Quality Fjrniture" Cawfi/' ete rf-nes of fur nit tire, Carfoef^. 7 in o /e u 9775 , l* S £ rri/s/l S wCredtf 18. HANDLER | 1212 N. 3d St. I FRIDAY EVENING, newly-quickened Zionist movement is not only a question of Jews willing to return to the Holy Land, but also of an entire people aroused to Israel's ancient hops. In this manner the more pious and devoted of trio Babylonians expatri ates were helped home. The im ! nsense sums necessary tor the Journey ] and for the of life in the Promised Land were provided" <by those who. for various reasons. were unable to pro themselves.. Sirni i larly the great missionary propa j gonda of to-day is made possible by j the few who go abroad and the many ' who stay behind. "If you cannot go, | send." was the cry raised in Baby | ionia by Exra and his lieutenants ! nearly two thousand, five hundred . years before it was heard in mission- | ary meetings. The Itrntoreil Tr ensure* As the buried libraries of Baby- ] lcnia are to-day being dug up to shed new light upon the beginnings of j civilization, and as the tombs of | Egypt are yielding up their well- , j kept records, so the treasures of the j j Jewish temple were restored to the : ! returning exiles by Cyprus. I "God moves in a mysterious way, ' j i His wonders to perform." ■ He had made Israel a nation by I i the bondage in Egypt; now He had j cured them of idolatry by the £xile . |in Babylon. So He had strangely j | preserved for them, in the hands of j j their enemies, the utensils for tern- ; pie use. They could not have kept ; | these themselves; so Jehovah pro- j | vided a Babylohian storage vault for j J them. We may yet learn that He has I i likewise kept the Ark of the Cove- : ! nant in the secret depths, of Mount > ] Moriah, to be restored in His own ; | good time. The return —which a later lesson ■ will enable us to study more in de tail—was in sharp contrast to the jcurney from Jerusalem to Babylon. They, the Jews, were captives in tears and misery, spoiled of all their pos sessions. torn from their homes. Now , they were a well-organized company, ' numbering about forty-two thousand. | I with more than seventy thousand servants. They had the royal favor of the king of the known world. They were properly equipped, and j : had great treasure, .both for their j own use and for the rebuilding of the ; temple. They were a broader-mind- j I ed and a more worldly-wise company J j than they had been half a century | I before. Their sojourn at the seat of | j the world's finest civilization had taught them many lessons that would I ' tinge all their future experience. Itnck Home ' "Hard-headed" men would be likely) ! to approve of the Jews who stayed 1 in Babylon, rather than of tr.c— o who | went back to the ruined city ot! i Mount Zion. The contrast was com plete. Babylon was a great city, i i '"he whole world centered there, and j sent its tribute of trade and people, 1 in a rich and constant stream. Baby lon was full of commercial, social and : political opportunities. As the cases . of Daniel and his friends proved, the right sort of man might any day fall I under imperial favor and contract ! profitable alliances. So far as pru i dence colud foresee, Babylon was I safe from the ravages of war; who brighten up this City \ Cy C ° me t0 emonstrate * * n y° ur home, the wonder-workinor Welsbach The best ever invented for home lighting if It is simple —just a small burner, three 4 'thimble size" mantles, a shade and self-lighter. u t —just a pull of the chain to light or extinguish. m It is effective —the soeciallv designed "C. E-Z" shade softens and diffuses the lipht M with that eye-comforting semi-indirect effect so desirable in home lighting. mf is economical— on half the gas gives three times the light of an open flame burner. Jw When Light P* f\(t and 50c per N° chimneys nor cylinders to keep clean nor to break. No other incandescent lamp jfw Is Installed I I Month For approaches it in economy of upkeep. The mandes are small and cost little, are power- dßp You Pay Three Months fu l and last long. A "See-Easy" man will call at your home. We want you to see the many Erery Light u Only $2.00 In All advantages of this marvelous new light. "C-C" Lighter WW O 1 —tlw pilot light that Harrisburg Gas Co. sis useful amount of li*nt — Middletown . j,i, n . r"iffrrfi'iiriiinßEnftm iirifilf N it T n i . > rj : *' . -._tw /. j&JJLtuit&t':*. . J would dare attack this so great city, 1 the capital of the earth? The com forts, pleasures and luxuries of life J abounded there. On the other hand, Jerusalem was only a ruin. There were none of the | comforts of home, even of the old | home that their fathers used to know. i Business opportunities would be I slight, and agricultural opportunities less. Robbers and hostile armies both II were to be feared. Every man who went back would be taxed severely in purse, body and mind for the re- ( . building project. ' That sort of reasoning would have kept Abraham in the prosperous city of Ur of the Chaldees; and the Pil gram Fathers in Holland. It was the! old. old choice that was offered the exiles. They could have the best, at a high price. Up in Judea awaited various hardships—but also the pure worship of God. They had to make ] choice between the material and the spiritual. Sentiment and spirituality called them back to the old home, j where they could honor Jehovah, by tthe restoration of his pure worship]] upon Mount Zion. Personal ease and j I profit bade them remain in Babylon. M One out of six chose the better part; : it is eternal wisdom to seek the free-11 doni and growth of the soul, and to 11 put the concern of the spirit above the concerns of the body. i | Sergeant Blake Meets With Good Receptions I Sergeant John K. Blake, of the ! Army recruiting headquarters, 325 I Market street, has been meeting with i an enthusiastic reception everywhere, i j in presenting the aims of this dis | trict in the big prive for men now! | under way. At Reading, prominent business- 1 ! men, after meeting Sergeant Blake. I I arranged for a meeting to be held! ! next Monday. At this meeting a rep-j resentative from practically every' organization in the city will be pres-t ! ent and plans will be made to se cure a large number of recruits from! ! Berks county. At Pottavllle, members of the Ro-j , tary Club and the defense committee: ! heard the recruiting officer, and plans were laid for extensive recruit-; • ing by the businessmen of that city, j ; Mr. Blake will leave'tliis afternoon. | for York, where he will address a! i committee of leading businessmen. j TURNED HOSE ON WIFE TO KEEP HE It AWAKE Butte. Mont.—That her husband, Jeremiah Legraflf. turned a stream j ,of water front a garden hose into! J her face and sang boisterously when I she tried to sleep at night were the | ; claims of Mrs. Anna Legraflf. Mrs. j ! Leg raff testified that her husband \ 'would make her get up at II or 12 | ! o'clock at night and turn out the j ] lights to save the current, and at \ (other times would burn the lights i j until a late hour to keep her awake, i For the last two months, stated ! j Mrs. Legraff. her husband had failed j ; to support her. and she was forced j. to go out to work. In a sobbing voice • : she related that her work her ! to be tired at night, but that it was ! necessary for her t6 go and rent a i room in order to sleep, as her hus- j ' band tormented her continually ; I when she was in his presence. WAR VETERAN, AGED 10.->, SEEKS TO ENLIST IN AitMV ! i Portland. Ore.—Although ne is j 1105 years "young" and fought in tho Indian and Civil wars, "Uncle" John j Dowd, of Wiltaatina, has not had erough of excitement and wants to I enlist in the United States Army and gc to France to fight the Germans. He is as earnest in his desire to en list as any youthful recruit. Dowd valks two miles daily and often' > makes six miles a day on foot. HARRISBURG Qfi&Qg. TELEGRAPH! NATIONAL ARMY I 1 HAS 131.180 MEN IN CANTONMENTS : Citizen Soldiers Rapidly Be- J ing Equipped For Serv- - ices Abroad Washington, Oct. 12.—There are ( now 431 ISO men in the sixteen Na- | tional Army cantonments, nccoril- i ing- to an official statement issued by , |the War Department. This leaves jbut 255,820 men to bo called until the entire increment of 687,000 'authorized as the number to enter 1 |the service in the first call, is under j inrms. The 431,150 are divided as 1 foilows: Camp Custer, Mich 16,193 ' Camp Devens, Mass 33,090 Camp Tso3gre, la 20,323 Camp Pix, N. J. . 19,363 Camp /'unston, Kas 39 553 j Camp Gordon, Oa 22^507 Camp Grant, 111 25,502 Camp Jackson, S. C 24.975 Camp Lee, Va 27,061 Camp Lewis, Wash 39,171 jCamp Meade, Md 20,300 Camp Pike, Ark 24 639 j Camp Taylor, Ky i Camp Travis, Tex 29,249 Camp Sherman, 0 32,886 Camp Upton, N. Y 29,555 Simultaneously the War Depart* : ment issued a statement detailing i the work of equipping the new I At my, which indicates amazing speed in tho mobilization of manufaetur j ins for war purposes. , The statement reveals the re markable fact that approximately ; 1 3,000,000 articles of wearing ap ! parol and sleeping equipment were | shipped to the sixteen camps up to ; Octolier ; ,2. TO CAM, NEGRO SOLDIERS Washington. Oct. 12.—Negro men j of the National Army will be called;- jout some time this month, it was! | stated at the War Department to- j I day. to be assigned to the canton- j j merits throughout the country. The | jCall will be issued soon after the! j graduation of the negro officers from 1 the training camp at Des Moines. ! ANNUAL MEETING NOV. 1 The annual business meetinr of| i the Chamber of Commerce will be; held about November 1, it was an- 1 1 nounced by Secretary McColgin to day. The second Liberty Loan will j be disposed of before tho business ; meeting is held. j t | Be young looking '•* tesHjrtal will kerp you so by removing every trace of prematurely (tray and faded hair. Thousands 1 are doing it permanently, naturally, safely and | without anyone knowing it, too. Is not a dvc. ' Sold by all dealers. Philollay Co., Newark, N. J. 1 Y. M. C. A. Schedule Announced For Winter . # !, Classes for businessmen are fea- I ] tured by Physical Director Miller, of I the local Y. M. C. A., in his winter's i schedule. Classes for clerks, working j boys and schoolboys are included. The schedule follows: Business and ' professional men-*-Monday, Wednes- I day and Friday. 5 to i p. m.; office 9o e Pc —Monday, Wednesday and Friday, i 1 ni - : young: men—Monday and Thursday, 5.15 to u.30 p. in.; men leaders—Tuesday, 8.15 to 9 p. m.;| api>aratus elass—Friday. 8.15 to 9 , p. m.; basketball—Thursday. 4.30 to I b and Saturday. 4 to 6 p. in. Older students—Monday and Thurs- j t. 8.15; older employed boys] luesday and Kridav 7.15" iO 8.1-5 P- in.; younger boys—Tuesday. 1.30 to I 5.30 p. m.. and Saturday. 10 to 11 j a. m.; boy leaders—Saturday. 9.30 to 10 a. in.; older boys' game period— Saturday, 2 to 3 p. m. MOTOR LICENSE REVENUE i Toronto, Ont.—Tho total revenue 1 derived from motor licenses In the j province of Ontario so far this year ! is J900.000, an increase over 1916 I of nearly $250,000. There arc in all, ' according to the returns of the Do- I part meat of Highways, 75,000 cars | in the province. slops iflfflir PI, NEURALGiA Don't Suffer! Get a dime pack age of Dr. James' Headache j Powders You can ctear your neaa and re- I lieve a dull, splitting or violent | throbbing headache in a moment , with a Dr. James' Headache Powder, i This old-time hcada'-lie relief acts al- j most magically. Send some one to I the drug store now for a dime pack- j age and a few moments after you I take a powder you will wonder what j became of the headache, neuralgia i and pain. Stop suffering—it's need-! less. He sure you get what you ask | ! for.—Adv. ™\ Ily rcHHon of ( lioi-ihikli illirll>u tion nitli the ilrug trade in the I iiitcd Stnten imil tower Helling cuklh, reduced price* are min pin- Bible for Eckman's Alterative FOR THROAT AND LUNGS Stubborn Cough* anil Collin No Alcohol, Narcotic or ilublt forming Drug Size $1 Size Now $1.50 . Now 81) Cts. Kckman Laboratory, Philadelphia. V CONSULT US TO-DAY, TO MORROW IT MAY HE TOO I.ATE TO SAVE THE TOOTH (JOI.D CROWNS AND tfJC BRIDGE WORK, SI and "D* 3 Fillings from 50c BELL DENTAL PARLORS 10 N. Market Square GIANT TARANTULA IS CAUGHT WITH SULPHUR | P' ttsvllle, Pn.—A giant tarantula j of the kind which has frequonti: - ' fatally bitte* human beings darlel Th e APPEARANCE You Make COUNTS Kl JX 1 PjWMWTPLANijII CLOTHES You to See I 1 The New Styles 1 @ Stunning New Fall ren's W earing Ap|(ar -9 Suits, Coats, Dresses el " MS Ajyj JgfifjA marvelous collection of ladies' and —, , _ g ! h misses' wearing apparel awaits your 1 lllS Is 1 116 r IflCC™ jjO 3 Ladies' Suits - SIB.OO up GUARANTEED Smart Coats ~ $12.50 up clothing on our ! - DRESSES - $10.50 up EASY PAYMENT I I ' You Dont't Need the Cash clothes ' N Ow'and S Men: Here Is Y our Chance! arrange to pay for it Pick out any GUARANTEED Suit or monthly amounts. || PW Overcoat in the house and CHARGE IT I M J. L The values are rea- fljtg f\f\ No tape whatever. sonable '1 9 OCTOBER 12, JGI7. down tfic coat sleeve of Arthur Syl- I vestcr, a grocer, and was preparing ] to attack when attendants overcame tho big insect by throwing sulphur ! over It and capturing It alive. It 'n now on exhibition. Tho tarantula which Is about the size of fifty ordi nary •ipiders, came hero In a tninc:i of bani.nas. 17
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