4 60,000 MEN IN TEXAS CAMP Jllurrisburg Lad Gives Ilis Ex periences in Aviation Corps Paul J. Walmer, a Harrlsburg lad: Slow in training with the Aviation Corps in Texas, writes home of his experiences. His letter follows: "Dear Friends:. "I'm in 'wild and woolly* Texas now. but it isn't very warm. They 3>ad a cold spell here and tho atmos phere Jiasn't recovered yet. To-day it is rvtl stormy and there Is about three Inches of sand all over the place. tso you can imagine about •what a dirty place it is. "Wo were three days and four Slights coming from Columbus, Ohio, to this place. "None of us has done very much •work since we came here on Mon day. "Wo live in tents, ten men to a Rent. We sleep on one-man cots and the nights are cold, but we have n over enough and we have a stove Bn each tent.. "For mess we line up at a certain tylace and aro given just a certain amount of stuff. Wo have our own dishes, and wo wash our own clothes. Lots of times we don't get as much to eat as we would like "to have. Thero Is a store here in ■camp where we can buy those boxed takes and crackers, but they want two prices for everything. Since we left St. Louis we pay ten cents for five cent Hershey bars and sixty cents for a pie. "Everybody is well and happy. Aeroplanes are flying over us all the time and they have nearly a hun dred here. These camps hold about 60,000 men and it is nearly full now. 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Army in France Plans Big Christmas For Refugee Children With the American Army in France, Dec. 21.—The purchase of thousands of dollars'worth of Christ mas toys and clothing for the chil dren in this section of France was begun to-day by the Army. One purchase consisted of 300 overcoats for the children of refugees. Every-1 thing has been bought, from drums' to top rifles and dolls, and e,H the gifts will be presented on Christ mas day. One American squadron will set up a Christmas tree in a hangar for the children of a nearby town. It will be lighted with regulation candles, and there will be a present on it for every boy and girl. IDach child will get the gift most desired, the officers having made a list of the names and written beside each what that particular child wanted. All over the zone it will be a Christmas long remembered if the Americans can make it such. Some of the towns will have community trees set up In the public squares, i while others will have theirs In the city halls. The presents for the children are all being paid for out of the soldiers' own pockets, and one division has raised so far almost $7,000 for the purpose. For the Army itself there will be football games in the morning and a dinner at midday that will surpass even the one served on Thanksgiving day. Thousands of pounds of mince meat, turkey and trimmings have al ready arrived, and are awaiting the cooks, and thousands more are ex pected. stuff, but we all like it and will maku the best of it. We'll do our best. "I hope you are well and that everything Is In good shape. Kind regards to all. "PAUL J. WALMER, "Line No. 87, Kelly's Field No. 1, So. San Antonio, Tex." MALACHI'S MESSAGE TO MEN TODAV The International Sunday School Lesson For December 23 Is "Preparation For the Messiah."—Malachi 3: 1-12. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS "preparedness" is the great word of modern times. In newspapers, magazines, books, on the hustings, in legislative halls, Ip the pulpit, that word is being megaphoned into men's ears. It is a proper word, too. But God was the first to speak it. Trace the word "prepare" through the Bible and an Illuminating study will be the result. Ood has prepared His kingdom ("Inherit the kingdom prepared for you," Mfctt. 25:34), and in that king dom "a city whose Architect and Builder is God," and In that city a mansion. "In my Father's house are many mansions," and for that man sion a feast ("behold, I have pre pared My dinner," Matt. 22:4). "Thy salvation which thou hast pre pared," Luke speaks of, and this sal vation was brought out for the world through Messiah's divinely prepared human body ("a body has thou pre pared me," Heb. 10:5) and in the les son of to-day the word prepare oc curs yet again in the message of the last of the Old Testament prophets, Malachi: "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me." An Authority on MeaaenKera Messengers have a vital missloji in God's preparedness plans. The name of the writer of the book from which this lesson is taken, Malachi, means "My messenger." As the lflst of the Old Testament prophets he was in an especial sense God's mes senger, leaving a word of hope from God that was to tide over heaven's silence to a formal, covetous, God forgetting Israel, a silence that was to be unbroken for 400 years and his name is suggestive of the mission of HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH the long line of the prophets that preceded him. Malachi, the messen ger, seems to be a divine authority on messengers, for he foretells the coming of three other messengers: John the Baptist, Elijah and our Lord Himself. A right and proper message, In the divine economy, is evidently an Im portant thing. May we not be re minded by all this that we have an unusual opportunity to-day to send messages of cheer to the soldiers and sailors who are offering their lives to-day In defense of their coun try? In the terrible environment of the world war, a letter from the homeland, from parents, sweetheart, friend, means more than words can express. A worker among the sol diers in Europe said that a French mailcarrier was so touched with pity over the never-satisfied desire of a soldier to get a letter from somebody, somewhere, that he, the mailcarrier, forged a letter once a fortnight and delivered It to the desperately ex pectant trooper. Are you writing to your friends at the front, and are you remembering what an unusual opportunity this offers, to Include in your letter a message of eternal hope by pointing the soldier to Christ? A Messenger For Gen. "Stonewall" Jnckaon God did raise up a wonderful mes swger to "prepare the way" for His Son. Jesus said to John the Baptist, "Among them that are born of wom en there hath not arisen a greater." A trustworthy messenger is a treas ure. General "Stonewall" Jackson re alized this when at the beginning- of the Civil War he chose for his chief of staff a preacher of the Gospel, the Rev. R. L. Dabney. Thp seemingly eccentric choice fully justified itself. Mr. Dabney's alertness as a messen ger probably won one of the great battles of the war for Jackson. Dr. Dabney told the story for the first time in his last public lecture at Davidson College, North Carolina, years ago. The battle had been raging for some time, and was coming to a crista. Jackson, determined to throw In his reserves, turned to his chief of staff and said: "Ride down the line and order every reserve brigade to charge immediately." Noticing, however, that his aid was pale and ill, he said: "Major Dabney, you are too ill to deliver this message. I will send someone else." And so he did. But Dabney followed the mes senger, and found that he had misun derstood his orders. So, sick as he was, he rode down the five-mile lino and told each brigadier that Jack son had ordered an immediate charge. One general was inclined to protest. "I have just received contrary or ders," he said. The chief of staff ex plained the situation. "Major Dab ney, what would you do in niy place?" nsked this commander. "I would charge as soon as I could give thQ order." was the reply. "I will do so, then." Soon afterward the long line of re serves was flung into the fighting, and the wavering battle became a Confederate victory. "I rode up to Jackson immediately after the battle to tell him the story," rfald br. Dab ney, "but his first comment to me was, 'Major Dabney, I am worn out. Find me a place to sleep!' And I did not get a chance to tell him until months afterwards." Are we equally as zealous as am bassadors for God in passing on the message to a lost world that God is reconciled to sinful man through Christ? The Christian world is cele brating now the four hundredth an niversary of a faithful messenger of God—the leader of the Reformation, Martin Luther. "Wherein," Seven Times Malachl was a contemporary of Nehemiah, and the prophecy gives God's moral judgment on the Jews returned to Jerusalem from the Baby lonian captivity under Ezra and Ne hemiah and who. In spite of the re stored temple were offering a formal and Insincere worship. Malachi was so modest, and so utterly submerged himself in his message, that we know scarcely anything about him. Both the first and second advent of Christ were in the vision of the prophet as he wrote, but he does not see the long period in between. As usual the prophet's message was not popular in the age in which he lived. The Rev. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan has written probably the best modern interpretation of the prophecy, and he finds the keynote to be the word "Wherein," which is the title of Dr. Morgan's book and which occurs seven times in the prophecy. Each time it is a skeptical denial by Israel of God's accusations against Israel. I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast Thou loved us? Chapter 1, verse 2. A son honoreth his father and a servant his master; if then I be a Father, where is mine honor? and'lf I be a master, where is my fear, and ye say. Wherein have we despised thy name? Chapter 1, verse 6. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar. And ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? Chapter 1, verse 7, Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? Chapter. 2, verse 17. Return unto me, and I will return, unto you, said the Lord of Hosts. But ye said. Wherein shall we re turn? Chapter 3. verse 7. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say. Wherein have we robbed thee? Chapter 3, verse 8. Your words have been stout against me. saith the Lord. Yet ye say. Wherein have we spoken so much against you? Chapter 3, verse 13. There is a message in Malachl to the men of to-day. Israel was not then in open rebellion against God, but in the midst of restoration and prosperity, was in heart rebellion. In asking God to bring peace to this warring world should we not confess to the very sins of Malachi's age? Give God the Chance The lesson speaks of the Christ whose coming Malachl foretold as "a refiner and purifier." Let us submit as a nation and as individuals to His refining processes, which are among us to-day. as our soldier boys are about to die on battlefield or in hos pital. It is a terrible crucible, this world war, but God must know the world needed It. 1 as God began in purifying "the sons of Levi," so ohght our self-Judgment begin to day, in the house of God. Are we faithful in our church work? "Is it right and reverent to keep tab on God?" asked an earnest young- Christian girl. "Should we go so much into minute detail as to keep a prayer list, and check oft the an swers when they come?" An answer to that question is found In the con cluding verses of this lesson. God says to His people, "Prove me now herewith." Our God, who gives us in His Word so many precious promises, loves to be put to the test. James # H. MeConkey says: In a great city telegraph office scores of instruments were busily clicking away. Presently, in the midst of the din and clatter the door opened, and in walked a young man—a stranger. He was tkll and rather awkward, with a linen duster reaching nearly to his heels. In resppnse to his re quest for employment the chief op erator motioned him to a chair. By and by another instrument began to click. The most important work of the day was on hand. The press dispatches were 'ready, at a distant city. And by his table in that city sat one of the swiftest writers and most skillful operators in the service, waiting to begin his rapid sending. The chief motioned to the tall young man to take his seat at the table at which the press news was to be re ceived. And there he sat hour after hour. Without a break, without a halt; writing a hand like a copper-plate in its clearness and beauty, he tossed off sheet after sheet of copy to the waiting messenger boy, while all the office stared in astonished admira tion. When the work was finished, the position was his without any fur ther question. When asked his name lie rjplied—Edison. It was the be ginning of his world-wide fame. All he wanted was a Chance. And when he got it he did marvels. And is not this the homely expres sion of the real thought in the verse "rom Malachl, cited above? "Bring *e all the tithes . . . Prove me io\v ... If I will not open the windows of heaven." AVhat is Go< saying here but this? My child, . still have windows in heaven. They are yet In service. The bolts slide as easily as of old. The hinges have not grown rusty. I would rather fling them open, and pour forth, than keep them shut and hold back. I opened them to Moses, and the sea parted. I opened them to Joshua —and Jordan rolled back. I opened them for Gideon, and the hosts fled. I will open them for you—if you will oply let me. On this side of the win dows heaven is the same rich store house as of old. The^, fountains and streams will overflow. The treasure rooms still are bursting with gifts. The lack is not on My side. It is on h,?Xpf 00 TzHv u8bber I OPEN SATURDAY & MONDAY EVENINGS Give the Boy fSfO U S . 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