4 WARTIMES AND SUNDAY OBSERVANCE The International Sunday School Lesson For Febru ary 3 is "J esu s Lord of the Sabbath." Mark 2:13-3:6 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Some stay-at-home, conventional persons would be startled to know what havoc this war has already played with the time-honored usages of religion, and' of the Sabbath espe cially. It requires a deal of mental adjustment to enablo them to per ceive that vmen may be deeply reli gious and yet disdainful of old iliurch habits. Let It be confessed, frankly, that a great multitude of Christians are bewildered and uncertain in ttie ia- ce of the new aspects of the Sunday subject. Bound by precedents and practices, eager to do.right, they lind themselves helpless In the face of tho real Sunday question. Many ot the old positions of the churches .Avith respect to details of Sunday ob ■l'ance have been utterly and irre- lost. Christianity cannot Hnntain to-day the kind ot Sunday Blat was kept a hundred years ago. BSio new times, with their general Hinuslon of knowledge; which has the preacher and tho Sunday of the function of principal leadership; and the new Inventions, as of steam electricity, and the automobile, h havo changed altogether man s of a neighborhood, ha\e ■ii'il conditions lor which there solution in the detailed argu of the church fathers. A Live Issue state and church are involved ■ present uncertainty. If the IBWStian Sabbath is to go, the entire character of the civilization of North America will be affected. Sunday has been a vital factor in the creation of this unique western life. The HEADACHE STOPS, NEURALGIA GONE (Dr. James' Headache Powders give instant relief —Cost dime a package. Nerve-racking, splitting or dull, throbbing headaches yield In just a few moments to Dr. James' Head ache Powders which cost only 10 cents a package at any drug store. It's the quickest, surest headache re liet in the whole world Dor't suffer! Kelieve the agony and distress now! You can. 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FRIDAY EVENING, Day, as Canada and the Unit ea States know it, has been one of the greatest forces differentiating them lroni Europe. In all the conti nent of Europe there is nothing like a roronto, or Boston, or Philadel phia or Southern Sabbath. Travel ers from abroad comment upon the peace and restfulness of the Amer ican Sunday. Has that Sabbath _een outgrown? Are we ready to discard it? The point is pertinent. He is blind l\° 4 £* who does not see that the institution of the Chris tian Sunday is seriously menaced, ureat influences are at work to make .unday a mere holiday. The open ing or all places of amusement, the popularity of Sunday athletics, and tne drift of men away from the es " a " s how the tendency to use this day as a secular day. That ouixiay may not lose its sacred char acter, find become a mere holiday, without eventually becoming a work ' ; s ' a Proposition, which many tnougntful jnen undertake to main tain. I pass it by, to point out the ♦ ? * ® uft ' c ' ent for present interest, that the church, generally speaking, is to-day in a dazed condition, seek ing desperately to hold on to shreds of the Puritan Sabbath. In spite of ecclesiastical resolu tions, of countless sermons, and of organizations, tho undeniable urltt of our time is awav from the SL cre . d o,3se rvance of the Lord's Day. This loss means the disappearance of our historical rest day, the day of P? ac i' °' worship and of idealism. The best in our American life is in separably bound up with-this institu ?' ° n _ of the Sabbath, which has nour ished alike our patriotism, our do mestic ideals, and our religion. Can the Church Afford To I.ose The Sabbath? Thetime has arrived when wej may consider fearlessly what will happen to the church if Sunday be comes ITke other days. Then we shall find out whether the Sabbath I is merely an advantageous prop, sus-1 taininff the church, or whether it I a vital institution, essential to the! existence of Christianity. Certainly, I our Sunday makes church-going easy j and natural, and affords time and \ leasure and sanction for specific' Christian work, it gives the right j of way to religion. In open competition with all the devices of modern amusement, can I the church hold her own? If Sunday is not different from other days, may we expect the stated worship of Go'l in public assembly to survive? It unquestionably would, even as it sur vives in heathen land, but the expe rience would be costly to both the church and the world. Such an event would be a calamity of the first order. All historical considera tions aside, the Day is a mon ument to the place of the church among men; it is an expression of tho present life and activity of the church. It stands for the power of religion among men. This being so, the best way to in sure the permanence of the Lord's Day is to, vitalize the church, so that the Sabbath may take its character | from the upswelling life of the Christian community. Let the Sab bath be the consequence of the spir | itual mind of the people, and there will be no question about its obser vance. Picture Or The Frame I Sometimes a picture is so elabo rately framed, and surrounded with such overwhelming detail, that the picture itself is lost sight of. In somewhat this fashion, the "don'ts" of the churches have often shut out a vision of the real character of the Lord's Day. Hen have sought to make the Sabbath to prevail by pro | hibitions. The persistence of the Jewish and Puritan ideals of the day have singularly affected the Chrls tjan church, despite her emancipa i tion from the old dispensation in other respects. The ancient Jews created an elaborate system of regu ! lations for their Sabbath. The Puri- I tans went as far, or farther. They | succeeded in creating a day that was built on the principle that one's I neighbors should not do what one I thought wrong. That type of Lord's Day can no longer prevail. The issue is very | much bigger than petty questions j about whether to cook meals on the 1 Sabbath, or ride in th£ car, or walk I abroad, or read the Sunday rrews j papers. These are incidentals for in- I dividual decision. They hinder a I grasp of the big principles involved, f It is time to look at the picture and I forgot the frame. | This trail leads straight back to I Christ. In Ills example and teaching i must be found the warrant for the | observance of the day., Wc are startled to find that Jesus always appears in connection with the Sab -1 bath in the role of a Sabbath-break- I er. This should give pause to us ; when we are tempted to impose our j interpretations upon another man. ! To-day's lesson enunciates two prin sciples, "The Sabbath was made for ; man," and "It is lawful to do good jon the Sabbath." On this platform Jesus fought the narrow legalists I whose regulations had compressed the life out of the great day which I the law of Moses designed to be a I time of rest, and of refreshing mem ories. The Day To Fight For Let us give up the fight for the j Puritan Sabbath, upon which a man could not even kiss his wife. What * ever Sabbath keep we must be a twentieth century Sabbath, and so j kept in modern ways. Practices must be for individual interpretation. The preservation of the essentia! spirit of the day alone is Important. [Cheerfully may we surrender any rules or regulations, if only wo suc ceed In saving the day of the Lord in the spirit of Jesus. And what is that Sabbath? By His definition, it is a day that min isters to man. "The Sabbath was made for man," but to interpret that statement as meaning that the day was created only for the baser uses of the lower and physical nature of man is absurd. The highest exercise of any office or function is its truest. The Sabbath ministers to man's body, but, more important than that, it serves His immortal spirit. The Sabbath was made first of all for that part of man which is immortal. |lf his mind and soul are not the stronger and the noblfer for this one day in seven, then there has been no I proper Sabbath observance. The j best Sabbath helps man to be his best self. Too much consideration for the body and its pleasures would give us a decadent Rome. By the second definition of Jesus, this should be a ministering day. His example also set the seal of wor ship upon it, for In the house of God the memorial purposes of the Sab bath are best observed. Then the day is to be put to uses of charity nnd brotherliness. The sick are to be remembered, and all the world's needy. Jesus grew angry with the men who put Sabbath regulations abpve the needs of humanity. A day that will bring thoughts of God and tjie help of God to ull men is a Sab bath Day in the spirit of Christ. For more than it needs "bread and cir cuses," or higher wages and more pleasures, this old world needs a new, vital sense of the relation of men to God. A proper Sabbath is one strong; strand of this tie. McVeytown Soldier Dies at Cavalry Camp in Texas Lewlstown, Pa., Feb. I.—George Herman Krepps. of McVeytown, a member of Troop E, Twelfth United States Cavalry, who died January 21 in the Army hospital at Colum bus, New Mexico, been buried iu St. Mark's Cemetery here with military honors. A number of sol ciers in uniform in charge of Ser geant F. XV. Hart, attended in a body and fired over the grave of the dead soldier. A letter 'received bx his wife, written on January 20, stated that he had part of his leg shot oft below the knee and was in the hos pital at Columbus, N. M. This was the last news received by Mrs. Krepps from her husband until she received the message tell ing of his death. Government offi cials at the camp where young Krepps was stationed, sent a mes sage to the wife that full particu lars of the cause of his accident and death would come later. XO SALE FOR BI'TTER Waynesboro, PA., Feb. l.—a St. Thomas woman took a lot of butter to Cliambersburg. She had to re turn homo with eight pounds of it, although she offered it for sale at 46 cents per pound. She reported that she could not sell it to the grocery stores, as they said thev were not selling so much, people refusing to buy at the high price. Many grocers are pushing the sale of oleomargarine. Store Closed " ' ~ Buy War ■ Your Money Fuelless Monday T* n ** • Savings Stamps D'U __ Cheerfully Refunded Our PollCy l D— — fc THE MAN'S STORE OF HARRISBURG FINAL REDUCTION SALE Make up your mind to come to this sale Many reasons can be given why you you better no hiatter how low the price, on Saturday. It will pay you. should buy now—chief among which is - CJ If ever there was a time it behooves men Wm. Strouse's Final Reduction Sale means It s too early in the sale to tell how big it and boys to purchase their complete outfits the best clothes money will buy—and backed will be. We believe it will out do all previous this is that time! by the broad guarantee of this store to serve records. Let's wait and see! * . * m Men's Suits—Overcoats JS Werp $1 jyOQ NOW .tf 1.75 ' /MS Were ff fro how .. $13.75 t/J Were NOW - t ■ $15.75 • " ' Were y $17.75 I ' . 'Were $915-°° NOW ■ $19.75 W r,.„Were S3O-NOW $23.75 Wm. Stroase's Store News Were S2Fv 00 NOW $27.75 mm j^mimmmmmmmmwmmmm mmm The February Boys' Suits, Overcoats |Jf j Hat Sale -- - and Mackinaws Jlgfe y W * Final Reduction Sale f jf It certainly is one of the best ' Were $5.00 Now > $3.85 things that ever lappened!. A JSMtS I 1 Were $6.5) Now > $4.85 ' I good hat at a low price—and Were $7.50 Now > $5.85 $2.00 is a low price—is appreciated by every Were SIO.OO Now > $7.85 man. To say these hats are selling fast is not Were $12.75 Now > $9.85 telling the whole story! The truth of the Were $15.00 Now > $11.85 r matter is the men are going wild over them ,, Boys' Kklloo P&llts —with delight. Did you get one? If not, Sat- ah sizes. * urday is the day. 95c T The New Store of Wm. Strouse — RISK DEATH TO MAKE PICTURES Film "Shooters" Take All Kinds of Chances at Their Work Now York.—Thrilling scenes re produced on the moving picture screen always are obtained at the risk of the lives of some daring pho tographers who are willing to take all manner of chances in order to obtain correct exposures. When the people in the theater see an engi neer jumping from a locomotive and the speeding engine plunge to de struction, accompanying the thrill of excitement that starts every heart jumping comes the thought that danger is over. It never occurs to a single individual that danger has just begun for the camera man. to ward whom that runaway locomo tive is racing at record speed, and that he may not leave his post until his position is rendered absolutely unsafe an| it is impossible to make more exposures. An indication of the manner" in which producers look at the lives of their "film shooters" is shown in the fact that every man is insured for SIO,OOO before each risky operation. Usually the insurance is not col lected, but narrow escapes are al most as numerous as are staged thrillers. Plans For Wreck Went Awry Recently a New York house plan ned to photograph a thrilling- wreck in Georgia. Photographers were stationed in relays, some a quarter of a milo from the wreck location, where the engineer leaped from the train and others in close succession HARRISBURG TEEEGRXPH! so that every feature of the racing train's course might be sought. At the point selected for the wreck, a box car was chained to the railroad track, and engineers figured that when the locomotive struck the ob struction it would turn, fall down a sharp grade and explode. In line with the box car was a photographer on a 28-foot platform to catch the crash. Down at the base of the steep embankment was another in a trench to catch the explosion of the ?nglne among the wreckage. But plans went awry. When the engine struck the box car, it did not stop but plowed through the .mass and the instant the operator near the track caught his section, he leaped, landing in two feet of mud, thus saving his life. Instead of turning backward and rolling down the embankment, the engine made a plunge at the dug out in which an operator was con coaled. Ho ran up a ladder just in time to escape the weight of the mammoth machine as it crushed into his trench. The engine failed to ex plode as was planned, but even be fore the danger was past photograph ers were "shooting closups in the wreckage. Immense Perry County Hogs Weigh 720 and 730 Pounds Blain, Pa., Feb. I.—Russell J. Martin, a progressive fi|rmer of Madison township, killed two full bred Duroc hogs on Tuesday that dressed 7.20 and 7.30 pounds, re spectively. Fifteen lifty-pound cans of lard were rendered out of the two hogs, making a total of seven hun dred and fifty pounds of lard at the market price of forty cents, which he receives, wound be worth a total of $;!00. The fat on the hogs' backs was seven inches thick. William A. Johnston, of Blain, was boss butch er, assisted by M. Orash Hench and Joseph 1,. Gutsliall, of Madison township. TOBACCO'S NEED IS RECOGNIZED Women Urge Men to Stint Themselves to Aid Sol diers in France Sometimes I have to grin and laugh To think how many folks are daft; They keep on sending eats to Sam' Which dry up, spoil; mince pie and ham; When Sam wants smokes to stand the gaff— Send on your coin to the Telegraph. "We stuck it out without <4ur to bacco, but it was a long day," de clared ltoad Supervisor Wesley Gormley, of Hickory township, in speaking of experiences of himself and crew on tobaccoless day. Mr. Gormley, who was in New Castle Saturday, said that he had taken out a crew of about a dozen men to shovel snow off the highways. "Boys, 1 ' he said to them, the- women folks want us to do without the weed to-day and donate the money to the soldiers. I'm in favor of giv ing it a trial." "Here too," came the response from every man in the crew. Gorfn ley then passed around the hat and a nice little sum was secured. Tho men then went to work shoveling snow. Every man in the bunch agreed that it was a "mighy long day," but they stuck it out and Mr. Gormley brought in the money for the Women's Aid Society on Satur day. Would any carping soul want more convincing evidence than this of the worthiness of the smokes for FEBRUARY 1. 1919 soldiers' cause? Here are the good women of a town asking the men at home to cut out smokes for one day In order that the soldiers may be supplied. That a soldier in the trenches gets vast relish and help from a good smoke is proved by the fact that these husky farmers found it a "long day" without the weed. One single quarter, if sent to this paper, buys forty-five cents wofth of delicious tobacco for brave Ameri cans in the battlefront. Every package—every tablet of ( | Genuine Aspirin bears ER; "The Bayer /7\ Your Guarantee R Cross— Only One (fUI jk "Aspirin" (Reg. U. S. A . Pat. lOff.) is a guar- . t 1 \ • • antee that the mono- V B | i>! I I*l If* A Qmrin aceticacidester of Y ¥ ji ** WV nOUH 111 salicylicacid in these lit-.- * P * tablets is of the reli- | able Bayer manufac- + j j tm \ p) POSTPONE MEETING Mount Joy, Pa., Feb. 1. —The Six- JeenerK, former pupils of the Mount Joy Soldiers' Orphans' school, who have been holding their annual re union here on Washington's Birth day for a number of years, have de cided not to meet this year on ac - count of railroad difficulties anil other reasons. The next reunion will now be held in the Mount Joy hall on February 22, 1919.
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