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WORSHIP THROUGH MINISTRY
The International Sunday School Lesson For Janu
ary 20 Is "Jesus At Work."—Mark 1:21-45
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
I am far afield, amid the warring
tiatlons, studying the religious ef
fects of the immeasurable conflict;
Und this lesson comes pertinently as
light upon one of the outstanding
truths of today. For its message is
ministry; the modern version of
Which is T. M. C. A. huts, Church
ami Salvation Army hostels, hos
pitality committees for soldiers, Red
Cross activities, ambulance and hos
pital services, chaplaincies, and all
the other countless forms of work
for soldiers which express the spirit
ef patriotism and of Christ. Preach
ing religion has largely given way to
ministering religion at tho front and
fct the camp.
in detail, too, this story of the
fcusy life of Jesus in and about old
Capernaum parallels the experi
ence of the war. He found in the
congregation of the righteous a man
with an evil spirit. No pacifist was
Uesus when evil was concerned. He
€id not compromise with the condi-
Just One Application
and the Hairs Vanish
(Modes of To-day)
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fiuick removal of hairy growths: Mix
enough powdered delatone and
nvater to cover the undesirable hairs,
*|.ply paste and after 2 or 3 min
*itcs remove, wash the skin and tho
tiairs have vanished. One applica
tion usually Is sufficient, but to be
t-ertain of results, buy the delatone i
J-.i an original package.
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prejudice. tax to buy it already colored. However, we supply
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purest and most economical food products in America of vegetable coloring matter —(the same thing the butter
is "Purity" Margarine. Unfortunately, when margarine makers use to color butter) and this can be quickly
was first produced in this country, certain ill-advised added to "Purity" Margarine in your own kitchen,
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Title Test of Taste Will Savehbu The Price of Prejudice
FRIDAY EVENING,
ticn, but drove out the evil spirit,
at a cost of tumult and violence and
suffering to the victim. There is an
unclean spirit abroad in our world;
the very spirit of Anti-Christ; and
the Allied Nations have accepted
the sacred responsibility of destroy
ing it, to the salvation of the race.
The process is not easy. But It
must be accomplished if Christen
dom Is to be true to Christ.
In another phase of the story, we
find Peter's mother-in-law, and the
poor leper, and many afflicted ones,
touched by the healing, helping
hand of Christ. This represents the
other aspect of the present terrible
war; the ministry to the suffering
soldiers and civilians and to the na
tions which, sitting in a great dark
ness, look to this war for new life
and deliverance. For this is the
war of the merciful heart, as well
as of the strong hand.
The most observant of the Chris
tian leaders of our time are con
vinced that the Gospel for to-day
must be expressed in terms of serv
ice. All the modern social move
ments, be they college settlements
or new political parties, are an ex
pression of a deep desire for the
great realities of practical religion.
Ours is not a doctrinal age—would
that It were more so—yet It is
quick to hear that first doctrine of
Christianity, love In action. Jesus
lived a life before He taught a truth.
His needs outran His words. A
church that renders ser\'ice as well
as holds services catches the atten
tion and wins tho allegiance of the
people of our time.
Growing Up To Jesus
Thirty years ago the Idea of "so-
clal Christianity" meant nothing
bigger than a church sociable. The
few men who were beginning to
ffllmpte this phase of Christ's exam
ple and touching were looked upou
as faddists. It la really difficult for
the modern man to realize that this
present era of the pre-eminence of
the thought of social service was
undreamed of a generation ago.
Nowadays it Is a poor preacher in
deed who cannot support and vindi
cate the social message of the
Gospel.
The plain truth is that all times
are forever rising up to the level of
Christ. The world outgrows some
men; Jeaua it is ever striving to
grow up to. Even this war is but a
convulsion of progress, that will lift
mankind nearer to the level of the
Master.
The last word in modem social
service is the example and message
of Jesus. He "went about doing
good." The attention of His world
and time was attracted to Him by
what lie did rather than by what He
said. His miracles were at the time
his mightiest message. He spent
himself to the last spark of His
vitality in behalf of people. His life
burned so brightly that It consumed
Him in ministry. His message, be
yond which no modern social
preachment goes, was "not to be
ministered unto, but to minister,"
and to give His life a ransom for
many.
The modern social gospel is not a I
new religion; it is merely an en
trance into the religion which Jesusl
practiced and preached. This pres-!
ent Sunday School Lesson is best
understood as a little study In ap-1
plied Christianity. It is an illustra- j
tlon of the modern social service
program of the church. All the
noble ministries of mercy that are
exercised behind the battle-fronts
are but expressions of the mind of i
tho Master.
Creating a Commotion
The background of tho lesson is!
lovely Galilee, with its rolling hills,
its rich gray olive trees, so soft and
beautiful In all lights, and Its multi
tude of beautiful flowers, with the
lake Itself in all its varying moods,
UAJRRISBTTRG telegraph
an a constant Influence upon the life
of the people. These were country
folk of simple ways. The wonder Is
that the personality of Jesus still
holds true to type, even when intro
duced Into our modern complex
civilization. That life wai lived
among the peasants cJd the fisher
men whose Interests were few and
trivial.
To them came the news of this
new Teacher, with His wonderful
works and His strange words.
Through the countryside ran the tid
ings of His miracles of healing. The
report strangely moved people. A
commotion was created throughout
the land. As women gathered at the
villago wells, morning and evening,
they talked of the latest bit of news
from the new Teacher and Healer at
Capernaum. Travellers bore the
tidings from village to village. The
leisurely East sent Up representa
tives to see for themselves what
Jesus was doing. He created a real
commotion.
And why not? Part of the out
cry against sensational preaching Is
foolish, and part is based on a mis
apprehend.*.. If preaching is alive
and is tru it ought to create a sen
sation. Jesus came to stir the world.
A minister may question his call if
he is not causing people to talk; and
to talk about the higher things in
stead of the lower, about holiness
instead of evil, about God Instead of
about the trivialities of barren
lives.
The Cry of the City
This story shows a city astir.
Capernaum was all agog over the
sensational work of the new young
Rabbi. His place of sojourn was
thronged, and the record runs that
"all the city was gathered at the
door." What a congregation of the
suffering and needy the narrative
pictures! So great was the multi
tude, so terrific the pressure upon
His vitality, that a long time be
fore it was day, Jesus arose and
went into tho desert place for that
spiritual replenishing which ho al
ways found in communion with the
Father. His disciples, excited by
these new and unprecedented events,
at the center of which they found
tnemselves, said unto Him, "All men
seek for thee."
The sight of a city seemed to exer
cise a strange power over the Imagi
nation of Jesus. He was moved with
compassion when He looked upon a
city In Its multitude of needs. Once
In Vienna I saw a picture of a mod
i urn French school, "Jesus Weeping
over the City" but It was not the
city of David, with the temple and,
the walls; It was a modern Indus-1
trial city, with smoke stacks tower- •
, ing higher than its steeples, and
. with its tenements teeming with life.
| We know that to-day as Jesus looks
I upon the great urban centers of our
own time, He is moved at the Caper
naum crowd, or the multitudes in
tlie capital of His nation. |
The modern movement which at
tempts to stir cities as a whole Is in
line with the example of Jesus. The
day of parochialism is dead or dy
ing. Christian leaders can no long
er afford tp think in terms of the
single church or congregation al
though the new day will exalt rath
er than diminish the real place of
the church. If the Gospel of to-day
is not able to get a hearing from
the city, and to lift up the city's
life, then there is profound inade
quacy in our presentation of the
Gospel. (
Tho Hidden Hunger
The crowds out of sight in our
modern life thrill one with fear and
with inspiration. What of tho mob
of rioters who stone and kill and
defy the law? What shall we say of
the lynchers who have never had an
opportunity to commit a lynching?
Equally out of sight are the hosts
ot good people the heroic hearts
quick to respond to a country's ap
peal for soldiers, the generous giv
ers to all the war causes, Jhe le
gions who leap to respond to the
call of brotherhood.
Still other hidden hosts are those
symbolized by the sick and lame
and blind and deaf and paralyzed
and otherwise physically needy, who
arc brought to the feet of Jesus for
help. The amount of illness which
a city shelters is apalling. The
number of men and women who are
suffering in their bodies Is far great
er than the thoughtless crowd real
izes. Other and graver needs there
are, all hidden from the passing eye.
Beaten spirits, blasted hopes, cow
ering fears—these throng our city
life on every hand, concealed from
the undiscerning by outward masks
of prosperity and conventionality.
The hungry hearts all about us are
indicted by the way men and wom
en reach out after every novel form
of religion that appears. This
questing for a new faith,which dis
turbs so many Christian leaders is
but the inarticulate cry for help of
multitudes whose need is deep and
real and who, though they know it
not, are hungry for the healing
which Jesus gave to the sorely
smitten multitudes at Capernaum.
The Helped at Heralds
This an era of advertising, yet
we have not Improved upon the ex
perience of Jesus at Capernaum,
when the grateful recipients of His
healing touch "went out and began
to publish it much, and to spread
p.broad the matter, insomuch that
Jesus could not more openly enter
into a city, but was without in
desert places; and they came to
I-Jim from every quarter.'
A familiar catch phrase expresses
the principle: "We are advertised
by our loving friends." There is no
form of advertising to equal this.
The Gospel is spread by the herald
ing of people who have felt its
benefits. Man to man, the tidings
have been borne that Jesus pos
sesses the power to heal and help.
Because He has brought salvation
and peace to a person, that person
is constrained to tell another, and
so the news has gon'e on spreading
and so it will continue to spread un
til the fashion of Capernaum has
advertised the Healer and the Re
deemer to every last man in the
world.
U. S. Government Will
Sell Nitrate at Cost
Washington, Jan. 18. As a part of
its program for stimulating agricul
tural production, the Federal Govern
ment announces through the Secre
tary of Agriculture, the purchase of
about 100,000 tons of nitrate of soda
which will be sold to farmers at cost,
farmers paying the freight charges
from tho port of arrival and the state
fertilizer tag fee.
The nitrate probably will be used
most largely by farmers in the Atlan
tic Coast States from Long Island to
Florida, owing to the value of nitrates
for such crops as truck, grain and cot
ton, and the greater cost of freight to
Middle and Western States. The free
on-board cars price at ports will be
$75.50 a ton.
County agents and local commit
tees are co-operating with the De
partment of Agriculture in the work
of distributing thd* nitrate and will
furnish farmers with application
blanks and explanations of how to ob
tain the material. If the total of the
applications exceeds the 100,000 tons
available, the Government reserves
the right to prorate the amount to in
dividuals fn smaller quantities.
None of the nitrate will be sold to
dealers either directly or Indirectly,
according to tho department, un 4 ouch
farmer in his application must agree
not to resell any nitrate, but to use
It on his own farm. Applications
must be signed and returned so as to
roach tho county agents or members
of local committees by February 4.
The Government is making every ef
fort to reach farmers who desire a
part of this nitrate, but Btates that it
will be imposslblo for the county
agents or other persons to visit every
individual farmer, and urges all who
desire to purchase nitrate to get in
touch with their local county agent Or
a member of their local committee.
CONGRESSMAN TO SPEAK
BEFORE Y. M. C. A. SATURDAY
Because of the fuel administra
tor's ruling, the big patriotic mass
meeting originally staged for Fah
nestock Hall, next Monday night,
will be held to-morrow night, In
stead. Walter M. Chandler, con
gressman from New York, will speak
at the meoUng on the subject, "How
tho War Came to America." A large
audience Is expected to be present
l'or the lecture, which Is for men
only.
Congressman Chandler will also
address the Sunday afternoon mass
meeting of tho Y. M. C. A., to bo
lield In Fahnestock Hall. The meet
in? will open at 3.30 o'clock. Con
pressman Chandler will speak on
"The Trial of Christ From a Law
yer's Standpoint." Miss Sara Le
mer will play several numbers.
CLEAR ICE IV PARKRS
FOR CITY'S SKATERS
Park department officials to-day
had forces of men at work at Pax
tang and Wildwood clearing the
snow from the ice for skating. At
Poxtang a large space has been
cleared and lanes haft been made
around the pond. At Wildwood a
large part o fthe north section of
the lako Is being cleared, ten-foot
lanes have been made, one of them
running the enUre length of the
lake to the dam. The Twelfth street
pond has been cleared and can be
used by children during the day.
PARENT-TEACHERS MEETING
Dauphin, Pa., Jan. 18.—The par
ent-teachers meeting of Middle Pax
tan township will be held at Heck
ton schoolhouse on Thursday even
ing. January **•-
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