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The International Sunday School Lesson For January 13 Is
"Jesus Begins His Work."—Mark 1:12-20
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
Jesus identifies himself with thei
big crowd of plain people. Ho wasi
one of "the masses." A toiler and
the son of a toiler: He was in such
i lose fellowship with the working
man tnat He was called "the car
penter." Dr. Van Dyke has written
truly: -•
"But I think the King of that coun
try comes out from His tireless
host.
And walks In ♦his world of
weary, as if loved it the
most;
He meets again the laboring men
who are looking and longing
for Him."
Xo Buddha immured in lonely and
ascc-tic contemplation was He, but a
real man, touching lite on all levels,
and yet closest to the dust-grimed
and sweaty crowd of common peo
ple. The modern fashion of preach
ing Christ as the best Brother of all
mankind, who loved them up to the
leVel of life and the limitless meas
ure of death, is as near to "the sim
ple gospel" as preaching can get.
Lining With the Crowd
A snob wants to emphasize the
differences between himself and the
n:ass of mankind; a Saviour stresses
the points of likeness. This lesson
(ipon the baptism and the temptu-1
tion of Jesus, has one great message:
the identity of the Master with tliej
lite and lot of people. He was ati
constant pains to associate himself,
with the sorrows and toils and joys
and hopes and religious aspirationa j
of the big crowd of us.
, John's preaching was not perfect: |
it was only a preparation; none the;
less, Jesus insisted that He be pub-|
licly enrolled as one of John's
crowd. A lot of conceited persons |
think the church is not perfect and j
not quite up to their standard: and
so refuse to unite with it. To ail j
such may be commended the ex-1
ample of Jesus; He joined John's:
ehurch. He found the best crowd
and stood with it. Xo idle, carping!
critic He.
Each in his place standing for the j
best he knows and not withholding!
open allegiance to the best and most,
hopeful organization God has pro
vided, is the program of progress.
Open and public confession by;
church membership is the counsel }
conveyed by the example of Jesus
in His Baptism. He wanted to be
counted among the friends of, God
on earth. That way comes Chris
tion solidarity.
\ Real Man's Battle-
After exaltation comes depression;
the ecstatic experience of baptism, j
when the heavens opened and thej
Father attested His approval ot j
the Son, was succeeded by the temp- j
tation in the wilderness. Jesus went j
apart awhile; to take the measure |
and meaning of Himself, His new.
• y■!. •■Hnce and His mission. Every j
i • person understands the-
I Jesus wants to get away
11 'he crowd; to be alone with j
liii.'.self and God.
But lie did not get away from the 1
devil. Modern philosophy is lnclin- ;
ed to ignore the devil; substituting;
devilish tendencies in humanity, j
Personally I prefer to think better,
of man and accept Satan. Every-1
body w'ho has lifted his eyes six!
inches from the rim of a book !
| knows that there are forces in the |
' world which make for unrighteous- !
r.ess. The ugly thing called sin Is
no mere theological term; it is a fact!
of life.
A successful businessman sat op- I
posite me and said, "I tell you, I
Know men and I know myself and!
it is only the grace of God that keeps j
me from tumbling over into the vol
cano." That man was not talking
about any metaphysical or subjec-j
tive errors; he meant gross sins, i
such as the law of the land recog-1
nizes as crime. Yet he is a good!
man, made such, he avows, only by j
the religion of the tempted Christ. I
No Sliam Fight
Into st ch battles as this—the kind j
' which most upright men know as!
more real experiences than anyj
struggle in business—Jesus went, i
He fought the fight that no good!
man can escape; and He fought it
with no weapons that may not be
ours.
It was no sham battle that Jesus j
waged. He could have fallen even |
as we may fall. It was possible for
Him to sin; otherwise the experience
of the Temptation would have been
"as idle as a painted ship upon a
painted ocean."
Sturdy words need to be spoken
cn this point, to meet the miscon
ception of those who would amas
culate the Temptation; and Rev. Dr.j
J. H. Jowett has spoken them: I
"Whatever else my Lord shall be toj
me, He shall not be a counterfeit;
man, exposed to counterfeit tire, a|
mere stage fire, a man played upon i
by harmless sheet lightning and!
never moving amid the dread bolts |
and forked flame. His shall not he|
the sham fight and mine the' real j
struggle, or He can be no leader to \
me. He himself suffered being j
tempted. He felt the real heat of!
the tire, and felt the fascination of i
I the real seduction. Jesus of Xaz- I
areth had the real devil to meet and!
the real battle to wage, and the gar- !
lands on His noble brow were nobly j
won."
A Three Battle War
To the mind of the lonely, spent, i
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and hungry young man, worn >vlth
his long vigil of forty foodless days,
the Temptation appeared. There is
no need to apparel him in horns
and hoofs; the devil wears evening
clothes ottener rtian the rig of red.
A well fed man may not be
tc-mpted by food; but a starving
man may. It is amazing how the
elemental wants, food, shelter,
warmth, appeal to eve'n the highest
reason. And Jesus was hungry. So
Satan had him turn the stones into
bread. Now it surely was God's
will that his Son should be fed —
but not in Satan's way. Better hun
ger than dishonor. Allegiance to
evil is too high a price to pay for
life.
More subtle was the second on
slaught. When Jesus would not re
spond to a physical allurement, He
was attacked in His faith. These
spiritual temptations are usually
more powerful than those of the
tlesh. "Prove yourself and God by
casting yourself down from the pin
nacle of the temple; the angels will
bear you up," said the Evil One glib
to quote Scripture. Faith exercised
needlessly and at sin's be'hes'. is
felly.
The third allurement was to take
a short cut to his dominion and
kingdom by compromising with the
devil. "I'll sjgree to let you have
the world if you will acknowledge
yourself feudatory to me. Let nte
be overlord and you may be King
of kings." This was nothing else
than the common temptation to
compromise: "the end justifies .the
means." By the devil's program,
Jesus would escape shame and sor
row and and Calvary. But
He knows that God's crowns are to
be earned in God's way, so he cried:
"Get thee hence, Satan, Thou shult
worship the Lord thy God."
The Hills of Home
Nearly a year elapsed between the
temptation of Jesus and His calling!
of the first disciples. Jesus had I
turned his face back to Galilee, Hisj
boyhood home. Amid the excite
ment of life in Jerusalem His hu-|
man heart often turned longingly |
toward the sweet hills over which
he had ranged in boyhood. He
longed for a sight of the wild-flow- '
ers that lie loved, and for the fresh!
breezes that blow over Galilee. The!
heart of man is hungry for home;!
no other spot on earth seems quite!
so attractive as that in which he 1
spent his boyhood.
The big heavy boats of Galilee—!
T have ridden in them, and I have I
seen them half filled with fish—l
tould not be handled by one man;!
they needed team work. Jesus!
called to his service men who were'
used to working with men. That is!
a first quality for success in organ
ized service. The ability to * get
along with fellow workers, and to
help and be helped, neither over
rating nor underrating an associate,'
is a talent which often counts for'
more than genius.
What if James and John, with
approved business sagacity, had re
plied to the invitation of the Mas
ter: "Can't you see that it is ob
viously impossible for us to leave
our nets. Business is business and
it must come first." They certain
lv did not realize the uniqueness of
the opportunity tha* had come to
them in the voice of Jesus. They
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could not see ahead. But they were
willing to follow the best that beck,
oned. They put religion above rev
enue, belief above business, the
Prophet above profits. They saw ti
gleam of new life, and by following
it they became transformed and
transformers. Christians to-day are
being confronted with a crisis which
means as much to them as the call
means to the Galilean fishernien.
New summonses to new service in
new ways are being sounded -by
Providence. The man who lets His
cwn material entanglements liold
now is deaf to the higher call of
the hour. Many a man of affairs
drops his business and puts him
self at the disposal of the Y. M, C.
A. for service at home or abroad.
Thousands of young men are turn
ing away from office and farm and
factory and college life to lay down
their lives in defense of righteous
ness.
TNT Had a Perfectly
Innocent Ancestor
Trinitrotoluene, the trotyl of the
Germans and the TXT of the Amer
icans and British, is the most power
ful and the most commonly used ex
plosive of to-day. High explosive
shells are loaded with it. It is the
force which makes the torpedo ef
fective. or which endangers subma
rines when, in depth bombs, it is ex
ploded in their vicinity. It was trin
itrotoluene which caused the recont
disaster in Halifax.
And this substance, holding 3ueh
great potential powers of destruction
in its seemingly innocent pale yel
low or white crystals, is a product
of our harmless domestic coal tar.
Or rather it is a grandson, as it were,
of coal tar. Toluene, more common
ly known as methyl benzine, is the
base of trinitrotoluene, and toluene
is derived through a process of dis
tillation from coal tar.
Toluene contains much hydrogen,
and in the process of manufactur
ing trinitrotoluene these hydrogen
atoms arc replaced by nitro groups.
This process of nitrosubstitution per
mits many variations in the arrange
ment of the nitro groups, and hence
chemists are able to produce twelve)
different trinitrotoluenes, each vary
ing from the others in boiling point, i
melting point, solubility, specific j
gravity and sensitiveness to detona
tion.
Trinitrotoluene in its natural state
is in the form of pule yellow or
white crystals, but in loading shells
or bombs these crystals are melted,
and in a fluid state the explosive is
poured into its case, where it is
sealed under pressure. In the form:
most commonly used its sensitive- j
ness to detonation is so slight that it j
is necessary to use a detonator of |
mercury fulminate. Because of this,
lack of sensitiveness it is one'of the
safest explosives to handle, but a t <
the same time its explosive force, oc-1
casioned by the rapid expansion of!
a small quantity of the solid into a]
greater volume of gas, is
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—Kansas City Times.
DR. KAI.BFL'S TO SPEAK
Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of
the State- Game Commission, will lec
ture before the Harrisburg Natural
History Society in the Techn'ical high
school auditorium this evening, on the
subject. "American' Frontier Days.'
Admission will be made by tickets,
which are free upon application to the;
secretary of the society or members.
RABBI TO SPEAK
"Spiritual Aspee-ts of the Present
Crisis" will be the subject of an ad
dress bv Rabbi Louis J. Haas at Ohev
.Sholom Synagogue to-morrow night.
Services will open at 7:45.
SPROUL SAYS HE
IS A CANDIDATE
Not Man of Any Faction, De
clares Delaware Senator,
in Announcing Ambition
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 11.—Senator
William C. Sproul, "Father of the
Pennsylvania Senate," announced
here last nfght that he 1 would be a
candidate for Governor. The Sena
tor's announcement came after nu
merous conferences with Western
Pennsylvania Republican leaders
and when the Senator appeared at
the dinner to Ex-Mayor Armstrong,
he received an ovation.
In announcing his aspirations Sen
ator Sproul said:
"I am going to run for Governor.
I am not being urged to run by any
body. 1 am the candidate of no fac
tion. It happens that yesterday I met
Theodore Roosevelt. Perhaps I am
like him. Without waiting to discuss
the situation I will simply say that
I am a candidate for Governor and
will make the run. Governor Brum
baugh has issued a statement in
which he has discussed the political
situation. I am sure that the Gov
ernor did not have me in mind when
he made that statement."
Senator Sproul's announcement, of
course, was the big feature of the
conference of the day. It was made
just before the opening of the dinner
to Joseph G. Armstrong, the retiring
Mayor of this city. Although Senator
Penrose declined to commit himself
publicly on the question of the Gov
ernorship, it was plain among his
allies that Sproul was the candidate.
Sentiment on the Governorship,
Senator Penrose said, not only has
not "crystallized," but that it was not
Intended that it should, the purpose
of his visit here, the first he has been
able to make in over a year, was, he
said to learn the sentiment of the
party leaders to have it expressed
openly and freely, and then to have
the party prepared to go into the
spring primaries to put forth its best
effort.
Admitting he had found some sen
timent in western counties for State
Chairman Crow for the nomination
for Governor, Senator Penrose, an
swering a question put immediately
afterward, said also he had not yet
been informed that Senator Crow
had reconsidered his declination to
run for Governor made some time
ago. Crow himself laughed away the
talk to-day, but made no state
ment.
Senator Penrose gave the following
as candidates suggested to him in
the conferences: For Governor, W> C.
Sproul, State Chairman William C.
Crow, of Fayette; State Senator E. E.
Beidleman. of Dauphin, and Auditor
General Charles A. Snyder.
For Lieutenant Governor, Senator
Beidleman, former Speaker George
E. Alter, and Chairman J. F. Wood
ward, of the House Appropriation
Committee, both of Allegheny.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs.
J. F. Woodward, of Allegheny, and
Ben Williams, of Wilkes-Barre.
For Congress-at-large, Joseph Mc-
Laughlin, M. M. Garland, T. S. Crago.
present members; Isadore Stern, of
Philadelphia, and Anderson H. Wal
ters. Johnstown.
Aside from State Representative
Stem, who may oppose John R. K.
Scott for one of the Philadelphia
places, for Congress-at-large if Stern
decides to make the race, the new de
velopment in that situation was the
possibility that former Representa
tive Anderson 11. Walters, of John
stown, may be one of the four picked
by the Penrose forces if Represen
tative-at-Largo M. M. Garland or T.
S. Crago retire from the state fight
to become candidates In their local
Congressional districts. Garland is
being urged to oppose M. Clyde Kelly
in the Thirtieth district here.
RED CROSS TO SEND
7,000 ARTICLES TO FRONT
Xine boxes, containing over 7,000
articles, will be shipped to division
headquarters this weke from the local
Bed Cross Chapter.
Six boxes contain the folowing list
of hospital supplies: One hundred
and fifty sheets, 110 pads, 160 cotton
pads, 382 gauze rolls, 68t> splint
.••traps, !>0 pairs of pajamas, 250 hand
kerchiefs, f>o scuititus, 100 flannel
scultitus. 50 heel rings, 1,040 shot
bags, 200 gauze rolls. 2,140 gauze
compresses 4 by 4 inches; 1,040 gauze
compresses 9 b,y 9 inches.
The three others contained these
knitted articles: Two hundred sweat
ers, 110 mufflers and 75 pairs of
wristlets.
A check of SSB came from Tckes
burg yesterday, showing a substan
tial membership gain from Perry
county. Shiremansdalo will turn in
work soon, they report. Knitters and
workers re enthusiastic. Knola re
ports eight members for the Red
Cross, although there is no auxiliary
there.
POLITICAI. H A DUES ARE
tiIVE\ HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
At a meeting of the Dauphin Coun
ty Historical Society, held lasi night
at the organization's headquarters, 9
South Front street, officers were re
elected for the coming year. Mrs.
Mabel Cronise Jones presented a col
lection of political badges and
trophies gathered by the late Thomas
M. Jones. After an address. "Remis
cenees," by Benjamin M. Nead, he pre
sented twelve of his published books
and addresses to the society.
410 IX 11. S. SERVICE
A miniature service flag, bearing
41 stars, is being displayed in the
window of the local branch of the
Fisk Rubber Co., 19 South Third
street. It is an exact copy of the
large flag now flying from the gen
eral offices of the company in Chico
pee Falls. Mass. The Fisk Company
lias sent many of its employes into
the service of Uncle Sam already, and
more are leaving almost dallv, so the
number of stars on the flag will be
increased from time to time.
Clear your skin-
Mafeyourface
a business asset
That skin-trouble may be more than
, a source of suffering and embarrassment
j —it may be holding you back in the
j business world, keeping you out of a
j better job for which a good appearance
is required. Why "take a chance" when
Resinol
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Sample free, Dept. 4-R, Resinol, Baltimore, Md.
AITO DEALERS TO MEET
A special meeting of the Harris
burg Motor Dealers'' Association will
bo held Saturday, Junuary 12, 191S, at
7:30 p. m„ at the Overland sales
rooms. General matters pertaining
tc the Automobile Show will come op
for action.
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This suit is a splendid example COV ered with black leather.
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furniture can be secured at a quirements A number of
1M , other period suits displayed on
store like ours at a moderate our floors> • all moderate ] y
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Records Stoves
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MIT 10 SOCIETY OFFICERS | .
Enola. Pa., Jan. 11.—Officers for the
' coming year were elected last night ,
c at a meeting of the Indies' Mite So
s clety of £t. Matthew's Reformed j
f Church at the home of Mrs. John
3 Kauffman, in Bruck Church road. Tiie
■ officers chosen are: President, Mrs. <
7
John S. Famous; vice-president, Mrs.
William IJ. Fisher; treasurer, Mrs.
I''. M. Bltnerv secretary, Mrs. John F.
Zellers; collectors, Mrs. John Kauff
man and Mrs. John F. Gruver; visit
ing committee, Mrs. Charles Welker,
Mrs. George Cullens, Mrs. John Sny-*
der, Mrs. G. A. Yeager.