12 A STATESMAN ON HIS KNEES The International Sunday School Lesson For No vember 11 Is "Nehemiah's Prayer." Neh. ch. 1. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Drop Into the local room of any large newspaper after the copy is all In, and It will be easy to hear a flippant discussion by the young re perters concerning the out-of-date ness of religion. Spicing their talk with considerable profanity, these young men will demonstrate how cuch modern and wise men of the world as themselves are quite supe rior to that outgrown thing called Christianity. Then go downstairs to where the editoriaj writers have their offices along with the men who con trol the destinies of the paper. Prob ably no profanity will be heard, and a surprising proportion of the men will be found to be members of the church, and occasionally speakers at religious conventions. The parallel Is significant, but its principal point Is that a little knowledge of life tends to Irreverence, whereas a broader grasp of hlman nature and human history makes men religious. The reporters will have outgrown their frivolous attitude towards the sublimities by the time they have graduated into editorial offices. In like fashion, one may find the clerks in the departments at Wash ington. Ottawa and London, quick with clever sneers and gibes at re BAD SPRAINS OR MUSCLE STRAIN Rub pain, ache, soreness and swelling right out with "St. Jacobs Oil." Rub it on a sprained ankle, wrist, shoulder, back or a sprain or Btrain anywhere, that's when you realize the magic in old, honest "St. Ja cobs Oil," because the moment it is applied, out comes the pain, ache, soreness and swelling. It penetrates right into the injured muscles, nerves, ligaments, tendons and bones, and relief instantly. It not merely kills pain, but soothes and heals tlie injury so a quick recovery Is effected. 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Our present lesson takes us Into an oriental palace. Wo find one of the confidential servants of "the great king." a man with constant access to the royal presence, forget ting his pride and privileges and towing low in prayer to the Lord ot Hosts. Old Shushan. that scene ot royal pomp, never witnessed a nobler spectacle than Nehemiah's prayerful concern for the welfare of Jerusalem. Nehemiah was higher when he bent upon his knees than when he stood before the conquering Xerxes. Religion and Affair* There Is a suspicion widely preva lent that the writers of religious lit erature do not know real life. They dwell in an artificial atmosphere of piety. They meet only their own kind. Like some preachers, they are out of touch with men In the every dayness of life, where men meet as men. and the trade of each is forgot ten. That religious talk and teach ing In often perfunctory and profes sional cannot be denied. Some of the standards they hold up will not en dure the fresh air and the sunlight. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, religion Is for real men and for strong men. for the statesman at the capital and for the farmer at the plow. That is one of the attesta tions at the present time. The aston ishing growth of the adult Bible classes, the popularity of the Lay men's Missionary Movement, the Im pt sing parades of the Holy Name So ciety, all testify that Nehemiah, the religious man of affairs, has many successors, and that the man who is out in the busy world is also often apart in the closest of private devo tion. News From Home One evening my raft on the Tigris river tied up at Mosul, opposite the ruins of old Nlnevah, reputed to be the most Inaccessible city in the Turkish empire. Early the next morning I had a visit from a man who said Niat he had seen the Amer ican flag flying from my tent, and he had made haste to come and speak with me, because he also was an American. He was the only Ameri can within a radius of a hundred ot miles, and It seemed good to him to see the old flag once more, and to be able to .have speech with a fellow- American. Throughout my sojourn at Mosul lie was at my service, show ing me many and varied courtesies, all because I was a man from home. That is human nature. An unlet tered boyhood friend from the old home back in the country town, can have the ear of the public man in his private office, while men of affairs cool their heels in the outer office. Who has not seen a busy city man reading the little home paper with mere interest than he bestows upon any of the metropolitan journals? In all this we see mirrored Nehemlah, the dweller in a king's court who sud denly came upon two men from Je rusalem. Forgotten were the pend ing affairs of state and the latest court gossip. The city on Mount Zion, the homo of every true Jew's heart, might be lying in ruins, but it meant more to Nehemiah than all the splendid palaces of Sliushan. Reform Tbnt Hurt nuslnes* Thirteen years have elapsed since | Ezra's return. His drastic reforms, while for the ultimate good of the returned Jews, had created an assort ment of bitter enemies. He had com pelled the men to put awny their heathen wives, and e4ch wife had returned to her tribe to foment a feud. lteform does Interfere with business, especially with bad bus iness. Yet he has scant devotion to principle who will countenance wrong for the sake of temporary and tem- | pcral benefit. No more shameful de fense of the liquor traffic, for in stance, has been offered than the one that it brings in a revenue to the state; the Implication being that the jingle of this gold in the public cof fers drowns all sound of widows' weeping and children's suffering and strong men's delirium, and prisoners' reproaches. I The conditions In Jerusalem called* urgently for the help of a strong and practical man. The city needed walls, but most of all It needed the walls such as Sparta possessed when the king said to a stranger, pointing to his soldiers. "Behold the walls of Sparta—and every man a brick!'" The need of our own communities to day is the need for Spartan men— or better, let us say, for true Chris tian men, who put public welfare above public profit. China's need in this turbulent hour is for men. Tur key's crisis finds her unable to se cure true men for the fescue of the nation. The prayer for the day is, "God, give us men!" The Praying Courtier Overwhelmed by the news from home, Nehemiah, who seems to have been an antetype of the Amrican, straightway asked himself, "What can 1 do about it?" His practical bent appeared at once. As Kipling says of the American. "He turns a keen, untroubled face Home to the instant need of things." Sore beset by the dire conditions which had come to his knowledge and so to his sense of responsibility. Nehemiah found that his influence and position and statecraft were not equal to the emergency. Like Lin coln, he was compelled to turn to Gor for help by the conviction, that he had nowhere else to go. The glo rious paradox is forever true, that the shortest route to anywhere is by way of the throne of heaven. Con cerned for loved ones beyond our reach, concerned for grave national Ills, concerned for poor, distraught China and for the imperilled Chris tians of Turkey, we can but follow Nehemiah's statesmanlike example and carry their case to the King of kings. A Model Prayer The larger part of this first chap ter of the book of Nehemiah is taken up with the prayer of the cupbearer of the king. It contains all the ele ments of a model prayer. First, there was the humble mind of the supplicant. He wept and mourned and fasted. Arrogance cannot pray.V It is with reason that men pray from their knees. It is more important to recognize that God is on the throne than to know that we are in a posi tion of need. Nehemiah's prayer ex alted Jehovah, "that keepeth cov enant." The old-fashioned prayers of our forefathers, which recognized the greatness and sovereignty of God, have gone somewhat out of fashion, AT ONCE! STOPS STOMACH MISERY AND INDIGESTION "Pape's Diapepsin" makes sick, sour, gassy Stomachs feel fine. Do some foods you eat hit back — taste good, but work badly: ferment Into acids and cause a sick, sour, gassy stomach? Now, Mr. or Mrs. Dyspeptic, jot this down: Pape's Diapepsin helps neutralize the ex cessive acids in the stomach so your food won't sour and upset you. There neVer was anything so safely quick, so certainly effective. 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There must be a true spirit of reverance before there can be any real prayer. This man prayed a big prayer. While it is true that nothing that Is great enough to concern one of God's children is too small to be taken to him In prayer, yet It Is also true that no worthy prayer may be made up wholly of small and selfish peti tions. In Nehemiah's case we see I fulfilled the Psalmist's words, "Pray for the peaco of Jerusalem." He car ried a nation on his heart. The re ligious and physical conditions of his countrymen brought tears to his eyes and anguish to his soul. That is the kind of prayer that God delights to answer. • Frank, square, open dealing with God characterized Nehemiah's peti tion. He confessed his sin and the sin pt his people. He pleaded no merit of his own. All that he asked was of grace, and not of right. Knowledge of the word of God en atles one to pray in accord with the will of God. So Nehemlah pleaded the promises, and he recited God's way and words with the chosen people. Then he left It all with Jehovah, trusting that he might have favor with the king when he should appear before him. He knew that the heart of Xerxes was In the hand of Jeho vah. The close of his petition shows that calm assurance which Is the first reward of true prayer. New Source of Rubber Found in Venezuela Cristobal, C. Z.—Dr. Henry Plt tler, botanist, writes from the ex periment station of the Department of Agriculture, at Caracas, Venezue la, that there are forests of the Hevea Braslliliensis, or Para, rub ber tree in the region at the head waters of the Orinoco and Rio Ne gro rivers. While this fact may be known to some botonlsts. It is not generally known to the public or to the rubber trade. The Hevea Is well known to be by far the most important of all the rubber-bearing trees of the world. Up-to-date plantations plant no oth er kind. It flourishes best at an alti tude of between 500 and 1,500 feet. There has been much waste and de structive tapping of the wild trees in the upper Amazon, and the center of Hevea production has begun to pass to the East Indies, where ex tensive plantations have been estab lished in the last twenty v years. Professor Pittier says they are get ting rubber in northern and central Venezuela from the Mlerandra genus, one closely allied to Hevea. Labor conditions prevent much planting of rubber in Central and South Amer ica In competition with cheap coolie labor and easy living conditions In the East. Professor Pittier was until re cently connected with the United States Department of Agriculture. He haa in preparation an exhaustive report on the flora of Panama, where he worked for several years for both the Republic of Panama and the Isthmus Canal Commission. He has specialized on economic botany also, established the agricultural school of Panama, and had much to do with the early development of the cacao Industry in Costa Rico and other South and Central American coun tries. He discovered In Panama the largest bean In the world, and also found the largest tree In northern South America, the cuipo, growing here. STOKOWSKI ASKED TO OMTT GERMAN MUSIC Pittsburgh, Nov. 9. —The Phila delphia Orchestra, which !s giving a series of symphony concerts in this city, must omit the compositions of Germans and the composers of the nations allied with Germany from future programs here, accord ing to an edict of the Pittsburgh Or chestra Association, under whose auspices the concerts are held. The executive committee of the associa tion, In view of the opposition to ar tists of the central allies and com positions by subjects of these coun tries, decided unanimously to in struct the Philadelphia Orchestra to omit numbers of these composers from future programs. PARASKEROPOUIOS NOW OWNS A LIBERTY BOND Washington. D. C.—Take oft your l\at Costos Paraskeropoulos! He gets the prize for being -the man with the longest • name who owns a Liberty Bond. Treasury offi cials discovered this to-day. Paraskeropoulos is a Greek and operates a peanut stand at Nyack, N. Y. He went to a bank in Nyack and laid down SIOO. • "If the United States Government needs my money to fight the Ger mans" he said, "It can have It and I don i care whether I have a bond or not. ' Bank officials Insisted he take a ] bond. STATE GETS LAND FOR PARK Portland, Ore. —A patent has been filed for record at Astoria, says a dispatch to tho whereby the United States deeds to the State of Oregon about 802 acres in the Saddle and Humbug mountain dis tricts. This Is a part of the land that is to compose Saddle Mountain Park. The balance of the land de sired for park purpoe - is the sub ject of litigation YOUTH MUST BE GIVEN TRAINING Boys and Girls Arc Really in Keeping of Their Elders BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX "More than three hundred boys and girls, whose ages range from eleven to sixteen, are hoping that you will pass on a message to the thou sands of your readers who have younger brothers and sisters. They realize that elder brothers and sis ters- have the lives of their Juniors in their direct control; that if they act honorahly at home. In the street. In school—everywhere and every time —their younger brothers and sis ters will unconsciously Imitate them. That if, on the other hand, they niisbehave and set a bad example, their younger relatives, sure as fate, will go and do likewise." This message has come to me from the director of a splendid organ ization in one of our public schools. II is built around a larger message, which I give to you here. "As we sow. so shall our younger brothers and sisters reap. "Constant honesty—cheerful obe dience —ready helpfulness—lf prac ticed by us in our dally lives, will surely be imitated by our younger brothers and sisters. "Let lis lead the way." Ever since the days of Cain, who took the life of his younger brother because of his overmastering Jeal ousy of Abel, men and women have been destroying. Not always mur der, but often a crime scarcely lack ing the inalignanty of murder—the destruction of ideals—the death of a soul. Which of us has not caught him self using on some occasion the very cruel phrase with which Cain evad ed the Issue of his guilt: "Am I my brother's keeper" There is no evading the Issue— you and I, we are the keepers of our brothers and sisters. The world leans forward toward the new generation. Youth must be taught and trained— not all by precept, but. greatly by ex ample. Children are born imitators, we all know that. From the childish SALE —Get Your Old Car in Soon Before the Sale Ends! We Want Your Old Car Th is is We have a demand for a few Overland used autofnobiles a good an d a few other good standard makes. If your car is any one of time to eight standard cars we can place it to advantage and give you a secure real trade-in opportunity. your f\ I j Y° u may not have thought of If you wait you'll have to trade Ver an trading your car in on a new one against a higher price. But if you Touring for several months yet. 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' impulse to dress in grown-up clothes and "play lady" of policeman or Indian, we can read a sermon for ourselves. The little play actors are copying: the externals or what they see—but the baby mimics go fur ther. Recently, I went to visit a friend who had a tiny three-year-old girl. The child came and sat in front of me with hat and veil and gloves on. In her hand was a little hoop which she held parallel to the ground and Jerked about as If it were the driv ing wheel of an automobile. "I'se Aunt Lll," said the bady. Then she got up and ran around the room in a staggering, crooked course exactly like her aunt's alarming methods of steering a car. The baby knew better than to drive straight when she was imitating Aunt L.ll. And if it were possible for her to <*et her hands on the steering wheel of a big car in motion, think where she would guide it! Now in real life, children do get their weak, untrained little handte on the steering wheels of their lives. How shall they guide them straight —how avoid collision—how keep away from the dangerous ditches :and precipices at the side of the road. If their only model of guiding is the erratic, insane zest for sneed jand whirling around corners on one wheel we have let them see? I There is a tragic seriousness In I the fact that no human being can live to and for himself alone. Each Facts About the Sugar Situation Our Government has asked you to use sugar spar ingly. We believe that the people of this country will be glad to do their part to conserve the sugar supply when they know the facts. These facts are as follows: More than two-thirds of the source of Europe's sugar supply is within the present battle lines. This has resulted in greatly reducing the production of sugar in Europe. England and France and other countries have been forced to go for sugar to Cuba. Ordinarily, nearly all of the Cuban raw sugar comes to the United States and is refined here, chiefly for home use. This is not the case now. In view of the exceptional world demand for sugar there is no surplus, and barely enough to tide us over until the new crop comes in. The people of the New England and Atlantic Coast States should use sugar sparingly.- No one should hoard or waste it. This Company has no surplus sugar to sell. It is working with the Government to conserve the supply, and to take care of the Allies so far as possible. Do not pay an increased retail price. The Franklin Sugar Refining Company "A Franklin Sugar for every use" Granulated, Dainty Lumps, Powdered. Confectioners. Brown • . NOVEMBER 9, 1917. of us Impresses the force of ex ample on someone else. Each of us Is responsible for the dangerous cir cumstances we set In motion when our cruelly bad or weak example gives someone else a wrong stand ard. The first ten years of a child's Hfft are determining factors In his moral as well as his physical nature. If a baby nature accustoms Itself to lies, lies become as natural and per haps as acceptable to it as the truth is to a child who grows up in a more decent environment. A Dangerous Thine Habit is a tremendous and dan gerous thing. Repeat an act often enough and it becomes a liatyit. Gath er together a set of habits and you mould n character. Destiny itself depends on character. Etfen a fairly vicious man or wom an who is willing to "take his fling" and pay the bitter reckoning for his own sad folly will hesitate to drag down with him an innocent soul who did not know, did not under stand, had no way of recognizing the doom for which hewas heading when he Joined his fortunes to those of the evil doer. Everyone's younger Brother and sister has for long years of youth to join his fortunes to those T>f the older members of the family. En vironment, atmosphere, standards of living and attitudes toward life all I envelop a littlo child. The child is not independent—it cannot choose where It la born, how It Uvea, 01 air that surrounds It. These are x for It—conditioned for It by.lt ders. It Is a sober and serious pIM business to recognise that you pi ed some one the wrong way— you drove a ship on the shoals wrecked it. isn't It? You and I—we want to avoid ugly consciousness of wrecking destroying and devastating y< lives, don't we? And there is one way to do that—we have to our own lives so finely and cle and decently that the younger eration which follows us wltl blind, baby instinct to Imitate, not be destroyed,by us. It has all been said for us sii and finally—beyond evasion: I say unto you, inasmuch as ye It not to one of the least of tl ye did It not to me." We sow and the llttl brot and sisters who would thems* lovingly after us, reap. Blindly, votedly and boasting'of the and power of "my sister" or brother," the little tots follow us, are the gods of their youthful fi —wo stand for everything they i to be and do. They long to grcv and be like us—they will grow and be liko us. And when some day we face High Tribunal, we shall hav< answer and give jpeckonlng for question we cannot evade: "Am : brother's keeper?"
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