16 To Speak French Becomes Ambition of Every Soldier All who go to France should be j 'able to talk to the people in their j own native language. To do sOj would save time, money and embar- | rassment. It might even save lives, j J fa can can't talk French in France | he must either seek an Interpreter or make signs. Imagine a young American in a French city gesticu lating wildly while trying to make a native shopkeeper understand! This need not occur. A quick means of acquiring French with correct ac cent is provided in a remarkable dis tribution of books now being con ducted by American and Canadian newspapers. These books are the pocket size, elegant Soldiers-Sailors Diary and English-French Diction ary. "My Diary and Dictionary already has become invaluable to me," re marked a nurse at one of the Army piers as she embarked for France. "Without the memorandum spaces I would.have forgotten many small, things and on the way over I expect! to learn French by studying diligent the easy Sound-Spelling Method oy which Professor has made the vocabulary so easy." Distribution of these books is be ing conducted in this city exclusively by this paper on a remarkable cou pon plan explained elsewhere. Many readers have bought several to send to the boys in service for gifts. Says His Prescription Has Powerful Influence Over Rheumatism j Discoverer Tells Geo. A. Gorgas Not to Take a Cent of Anyone's Money i Unless AUenrhu Completely Ban ishes All Ithcumatlc Pains and Twinges. Mr. James H. Allen suffered for years with rheumatism. Many times this terrible disease left him helpless unci unable to work. He finally decided, after years of ceaseless study, that no one can be free from rheumatism until the ac cumulated impuritis communis cabl ed uric acid desposits, were dissolved in the joints and muscles and expell ed from the body. With this idea in mind he consulted physicians, made experiments and linallv compounded a prescription that quickly and completely banished every sign and symptom of rheumatism from his system. He freely gave his discovery to others who took it, with what might be called marvelous success. After > ears of urging be decided to let suf ferers everywhere know about nis discovery through the newspapers. Geo. A. Gorgas has been appointed agent for Allenrhu in this vicinity with the understanding that he will freely return the purchase money to all who state they received no benefit. —Advertisement. A Nurse's Story A Pa. Woman'* Experience New Castle, Pa. —"I know a little | about Dr. Pierce's medicines. I was a | ta nurse, did quite a bit o. nuising. I especially women, i and always rec ommended 'Fa vorite Prescrip used in a large A l\, number of cases ill i with great suc \\vW_ cess. 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Ilrotnl Street, I'liiltidclnlilu •> * * FRIDAY EVENING. lARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 7,. 1917 "GETTING THE BIG IDEA FIXED" The International Sunday School Lesson For December 9 Is "Ezra and Nehemiah Teach the Law." Nehemiah, Chap. 8 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS In a conservation congress held In 1 a the South one man made the point j s that it Is better to get the great Idea of conservation, or what another £ called the principle of "salvation, into " people's minds than to teach them all J the methods of conservations extant, a c Plans are merely the product of a I a purpose. Methods are the output of j motive. Get the big idea into a peo- „ pie's thinking and they may be trust- j ed to find all the practical outwork- Q ings of it that are necessary. The best j, program of moral and national re form is a passion for righteousness; details will take care of themselves. When one of China's greatest s statesmen told mo that he felt that c his nation needs to adopt Christian- li ity, he did not have in mind any g complete system of theology; he does v not know anything about scientillc li theology. But he did see clearly that y the Christian ideal, and the Christian c spirit, are China's present needs, r Givi China the Book, and let her u people grasp its genius, and she will s make port in her troubled venture of li a constitutional form of government. I Give her only the forms and meth- s ods of constitutionalism with the old j individualistic and selfish spirit, and t she will make shipwreck of her great c experiment. The clear need of China j j as of our own land, is for a new life j to vitalize the hew forms of this changing day. Bettor Tlian Strong Walls f The Great Wall of North China, or] the walls about Peking and Nanking, | are not any more obsolete and inef- | feetive for purposes of defense in these modern times than were the j newly-built wall of Nehemiah to. keep out the most dangerous foes of | Jerusalem. They might thwart San ballat, Tobiah and Geshom, but they were unavailing against the selfish-1 ness, pride, idolatry a>nd godlessness | of the wapdering hearts of the Jews, t The need of the returned Jews was for the protection that would save them from themselves. What says Amos K. Wells?— "Closer is the lord's protection, than a near investing wall; • i Closer than a moat about me, closer : than a tower tall; Closer than a suit of armor, or my j hands and feet can be; For againpt mine own assailing, His protection keepeth me." The Jews who had returned from ] the Babylonian exile were in a capi- 1 tal position to adopt an electic rell- | I gion; and they had leaning that way. They were surrounded by an assort ment of creeds. There were more [ gods than virtues. Most of the pop- I ular divinities were easygoing, ask ing nothing of their devotees in the way of moral straitness. There was free rein for all passions in the serv ice of the gods of the nations. That is why the Jews were so often tempt ed to stray from Jehovah. A man is glad to cloak the indulgence of his frailities under the cover of some re ligion. I The popularity of all sorts of cults j in our own time is to be explained in this same way. Their moral obliga tions are not rigid and exacting. They profess scorn of the old legal ism of the Mosaic law. "Natural re-1 ligion,' is a veritable highbrow fad | in our times. It is an easy creed. It ; will let a man indulge his selfishness j to any extent, so long as he is mind- | : t'ul to burn incense to the goddess of i | Good Form. Be polite and conven- j tional, and you may do whatever you please within these wide bounds, says ; natural religion, which deifies the 1 worst as well as the best of man's nature. Loaders Real and Sliam Sir Bobertson Nicoll, the great British editor and critic, once gave I me his impression of certain public I men on this side of the water. Con-! | cernlng one famous man he said that | I "He manages to keep just a step in ] front of the crowd, and he is ever I looking back over his shoulder to see | !if they are following." That is a definition of many, a popular politi-[ cian; but the term "leader," must be j denied him. The truly great states man is the one who leads the way to what he believes to be righteousness and honor and public welfare. He is less concerned about people's ap plause than about their progress. Fortunately, Jerusalem had that kind of leaders during and after the rebuilding of the walls. Nehemiah and Ezra cared more for helping their people than for pleasing them. They never hesitated to point out the dangers which resided In the hearts of the Jews, as well as those which arose from without the city walls. They were true leaders, and ; followers of the crowd who managed | to keep in front of the procession, ' like small boys running at the head I of a circus parade. Clnce the wall was finished, these leaders planned for a great festival of I recognition of the law of the nation, I which was the law of Jehovah. It I is the degree of .a community's rever ! ence for law that measures its real i I stability. A common misapprehen ' sion is that it is the volume of busi- j ; ness that determines a community's i ! strength; but this is not so. The I strength of the law is the strength [ of a people's civilization. Not with- | out reason does the British poet of | empire cry to his far-flung fellow | countrymen: "Keep ye the law; be swift In all j obedience: Drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own. That he reap where he hath sown; | By the peace among our peoples let I men know we serve the Lord." | j I A Get-Together Meeting Many cities In the southern and j j western parts of the United States, j I have entered upon a regular cam- | I paign of advertising and pr6motion. | They have adopted slogans and em blems, and assiduously woo increased prosperity. The first step in every such campaign is to get the peotde ' together, and to make them feel their | civic solidarity. No committee of | businessmen can boom a city suc- I cessfully, unless there be present the I genuinely unified community con- I sciousness. Ezra had never studied psychology, but he knew human nature, which is ! the same thing, so his first step, in i the great religious and law-observing ; revival which he projected for Jeru j salem. was to get all the people to- | gether in one place. He wanted them j to become conscious of themselves, tq see one another, and to feel the | thrill of the "elbow touch" of which I | old soldiers talk. Into the broad j place before the water gate the whole assembly of the people gather. Wise I is the church which holds reunions and socials, not for money-making purposes, but solely to promote his self-realization of the organization. The churches which expect to have crowds of worshipers merely by the fact of opening their doors, may take a lesson from Ezra's procedure. He was Ezra, the great leader, and all the people had special reason to give heed to his words, but he organized and planned for this rally as thor oughly as churches make ready for i Billy Sunday campaign. It was not a one-man meeting; Ezra had with him a corps of assistants, Judiciously placed. He was after results and not after a reputation for himself. The occasion was a prepared one, an an ticipated one, and an enthusiastic one, for the "get-together" spirit had hold of the people. "And Gave the Sense" A man was speaking upon the pos sibilities of Mesopotamia's cotton crop, but he took it -or granted that his hearers were more familiar with geography than was the case, so he was surprised when a friend said to him, "A man was telling me about your speech upon the possibilities of cotton in China." The speaker had not been careful to make his hearers understand, which is as truly the speaker's responsibility as it is the listeners. Most persons listen to the Bible without expecting to under stand it as they understand the news paper. Their knowledge of Mesopo tamia Is as hazy as their knowledge of the Hittites or the lands of Paul's journeys. 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The assumption is that all that per tains to the Bible is somewhat vague and conjectural. One does not expect to comprehend the Bible as he does a book of travels or a history or a novel. That state of mind was given a severe jolt by Ezra, who in this great Bible-reading assembly had the law read so that the record runs, "And they read in the book of law dis tinctly, and gave the sense, so that they understood the reading." No other book is read so unintelllgently as the Scriptures. Philip's question to the Ethiopian eunuch might well be repeated to many a Christian at his private devotions, "Understand est thou what thou readest?" Often the Bible is treated as a sort of charm or incantation, to be read because there is virtue in it, but not because It is understood. Some folk, following this gobd '.uck method open their Bible at random for their daily reading, trusting to be guided thereby, though it is usually the bookbinder and not the Spirit who determines the pages at which the volume will open most easily. The only Bible reading that is worth the time spent upon it is Bible reading which gives the reader the sense of what he has read. Otherwise, one might as well read last year's al manac, or a volume of cuneform In structions. The Scpaker Who Made a Hit At a great Philadelphia conven tion a few years ago a professor in Haverford College read the Scripture lesson. I have forgotten even the names of the distinguished speakers of the evening, but I have not for gotten how Bufus M. Jones read the thirteenth chapter of Corinthians, as if it were living literature, and as if it. meant every word. That, I fancy, Is the sort of reading of the Penta teuch which the multitude of Jews alongside of the water gate heard that day so long ago. Small wonder that they wept and shouted "Amen!" and bowed them selves to the earth In contrition, and listened for dear life for six short hours. No sermons are long when they are messages of life, from living men to living men. Emotions? Of course there was emotion. There is always emotion when hearts are deeply stirred. There Is emotion when a man tells a woman of his love. There is emotion over the birth of the firstborn. There Is emotion at the deathbed. There is emotion when a country's call is heard by patriots. The stirring of the deep always pro duces emotion, and the academic ob jection to emotion in connection with religion is little less than ab silrd. The lesson of this whole lesson is obvious. It Is that the surest way to the most abiding religious revival is by the study of the Word of God. Give the people the Book and they can do without an evangelist. The entrance of the Word gives light and life and fortitude and conviction an.i lowliness and peace. The people who havve come upon a revival of Bible study have the best reason to be glad and grateful, as the-Jews after the festival of study of the law. Thev celebrated because the. had learned anew the Pentateuch: how much greater should be the celebration of those who have the living Gospel as their light and their strength! Army Ordnance Department Grows to Unusual Size Washington.—Before the war be gan the United States government employed approximately 500,000 per sons in the civil branch. Now that this country is actually engaged in the conflict, the great army of work ers behind the fighting forces is growing by tens of thousands. A good example of this rapid addition of employes is in the civilian force of the Ordance Department of the Army. Seven large privately owned office buildings in Washington are required to house the officials and clerks of this force, in addition to the usual quarters in the State, War and Navy building, which were sufficient before Uncle Sam began to prepare for war. The gun division alone, . which did not exist as a separate di vision before we entered the war, now has more than two thousand civilian employes besides about three hundred commissioned officers, and it is estimated that this division will be three times its present size within a year. The great manufacturing plants of the Ordnance Department in var ious parts of the country employed about 10,000 men last spring. Now (SEISTMASWEDDINGANDOTHERGIFTS JEWELS-SILVERWATCHES-ETC. distinctive articles of the belter quality tho moderately priced Ma,led THE HANDBOOK 1918 only request illustrates and prices nearljy 800 suggestions Bai leyßan KS sßiddle(§ Philadelphia 20,000 are at work in these estab lishments. The task of supplying these thou sands of workers in the face of the greatest demand for labor the coun try has ever known is the problem of the United States Civil Service Com mission. At this time great numbers of men and women are needed to fill stenographic and other positions in the oifices at WashinKton and me chanical trades and technical posi tions in the ; ivernment plants for manufacturing artillery and ammu nition. The local boards of civil service examiners at the post offices In al cities are furnishing detailed lnfor ination concerning positions In whlc, men and women (ire needed. Cuticura Soap —and Ointment— Clear the Skin Room and Bath H™PerJ)ay, i.VD UPWAJUt tin* hot*) thai load* lta repu tation on It; oleanllneee ani ■orvlce, •>' held It • t excellent an 6 priced "mlenuf * A number el cheerful col lide room m* SI.OO per da; Bafrtv Flrtt — So ruiae ilwH TEW V ANOVER Twelfth and Arch Sts. Philadelphia, Pa. 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