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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
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Feb. 2,1918
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Scrapple, lb., iUC
Sliced Liver, 1 nl
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Fresh Pigs' 1 nl
Feet, lb. ... 1 ZfC
Pork Shoulder 1 O 1
Ribs, lb. X tL 2 C
Butter Fish, 1 p*
lb 1 DC
Red Bass, f p*
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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.
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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! *
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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
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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. *
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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.
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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.