THE WORLD WAR'S
NEW CALL TO MEN
The International Sunday School Lesson For
February 10 Is "Jesus Chooses the
Twelve" —Mark 3:7-35 m
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
There is a fascination in studyhm
lie principles of the present world
•onfllc t* as we lind them in the f<4ii
)ioKraphies of .fesus. All over th* 1
•arth the call is for "man-power;"
hat is the fai'tor that will decide the
var. Then we turn to the experi
iiue of Christ, and we lind Him
*ill on "man-power;" stat
n the very progress of His kinfi:-
lom upon a group of ordinary men.
Ul through the ag<' the cry has
•een that which now echoes so loud
y. that call for men.
*<!od give us men! The time de
mands
Urong minds, Kieat hearts, true
faith and willing hand
>l n whom t-he lust of office does not
kill
I' ll whom the spoils of office can
not buy;
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FROM DANDRUFF
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and double its beauty
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ave your hair! • Dandruff dis
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coming out.
Immediate? Yes! Certain? —
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id appears as soft, lustrous and
iautiful as a young girl's after an
riplication of Danderine. Also try
lis—moisten a cloth with a little
anderine and carefully draw it
trough your hair, taking one small
rand at a time. This will cleanse
le hair of dust, dirt or excessive
I. and in just a few moments you
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ill'. A delightful surprise awaits
lose whose hair has been neg
cted or is scraggy, faded, dry,
•ittle or thin. Besides beautifying
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irticle of dandruff; cleanses,_ puri
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opplng itching and failing hair, but
hat will please you most will be
ier a few weeks' use when you
e new hair—• fine and downy at
•st —yes—Imt really new hair grow
g all over the scalp.
Danderine is to the hair what fresh
lowers of rain and sunshine are to
■•jretation Jt goes right to the roots.
\igorntes and strengthens them, its
liilarating, stimulating and life
iiduiing properties cause the hair
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" Kpowlton's Danderine from any
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ndorse Value of Such Ingre
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• the principle ingredients of
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-e ingredients aro beneficial no
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"able and those maladies which are
uufted with or have their origin
colds and debilitating and wasting
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I'O give these statements in lull
'•lil take too much space, but we
II furnish on apllcation the list
ingredient- of Father Johns
dieine. the names of the medical;
thorities referred to,, what they
•. the publications and the dates j
same.
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I wear- away the lungs instead,
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FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 8. 1918.
gj Men who possess opinions and a will;
dj Men' Who have honor: men who will
i' j not lie;
e { Men who can stand before a denia
" I ROB lie
e ; And damn his treacherous flatter
- | ies without winking;
11 Tall men, sun-crowned, who live
- | above the fog
-I In public duty and in private
i- | thinking."
All of our studies in the life of
Jesus are made freshly vivid by the
, activities of the armies in the Holy
-; I .and. Where Jesus walked the sol
j diers of (Canada and Australia aud
e 1 Great Britain now march. In a real
j sense they "follow in His train."
t ' They are the successors of His disci
ples of old. Reverently we may say
that Jesus still walks with them
amid the scenes dead to His feet. He
- is in Palestline to-da.v in newness
and largeness of power, working out
great world purposes through armies
j who light for righteousness.
The very designs of (Sod seem to
| be contingent upon the issues of this
war. It is such vast and holy con
j siderations that make us willing to
1 j give ourselves and our sons to the
' ' struggle, sure that they are thus ful
j tilling the .divine end of destiny. The
throb of exultation which went
j through Christendom at the capture
| of Jerusalem, a city not especially
' important from a military stand
i point, revealed how closely thoughts
iof religion are interwoven with the
. war.
Men C'alleil to Ktislit
' i A curious fact about the pacifists
j is that those who know least about
I the Bible are the ones who are trying
Ito quote it most freely. They read
1 the prohibition of private nuii'der.
i "Thou Hhalt Not Kill," and seem not
j to know that the Mosaic Code pro
[ ceeds to describe capital puiiishment
; as the punishment by society and by
; God for various offenses* against the
I common weal. Likewise, they appeal
! to the gentleness and love of Jesus.
1 j apparently unaware of His repeated
' outbursts of wrath against those who
! wrong their fellows.
I No pacifist could he expected to
\ know, for instance, that when Jesus
| sent forth His Twelve Apostles, He
1 commissioned them "to preach, to
heal sickness, and to cast out
I devils." That is, they were to be
\ helpers and fighters. They were sent
forth to war against evil, as well as
~ to proclaim righteousness. They were
•I to be in conflict with sin and ail its
agents. The biggest battle of time
; (and one that is still being fought
i j out in the present war), was taken
on by Jesus and His disciples at the
! beginning of His organized work.
1 Nobody is a full worker for Christ
| who is not able to fight hs well as to
j preach.
A >lan \>ru<i n Church steeple
How dramatically this new era !s
reversing old procedures! Until the
war broke, we were all busy building
up institutions. Little was attempt
ed on a broad scale in religion ex
cept by organizations." Indeed the j
1 suspicion was prevalent that the best
,of our powers were going to the
; strengthening of congregations anil J
I denominations and societies and
: "movements," rather than to the min
istry of mankind. The world's in
vestment in religious institutions and
their salaried workers, from the
tinaricial side alone, was staggering.
Now, of a sudden, we hear the
• camps calling for men—real men,
with an essential, vital message. The
average parson, it seems, makes a
poor padre for the troops. It Is the
r< d-blooded. fearless, brotherly man,
who is not disturbed by the smash
ing of conventions, whom this life
and death ministry calls. Our boys
"over there" do not need a variety of
buildings and organizations; they
want men who can speak the real j
word, and lend the real helping hand.
One chaplain or secretary of the j
Young Men's Christian Association. •
of the right sort, is worth a dozen
I societies and denominational build
i ings.
The New Call For the Church
It takes no gift of . prophecy to
, perceive that the deeper tendency
among Cl.iistian leaders is hack to
ward the Christ way of making disci
ples and putting into everyday men
and women new ideas and new pur
poses: and then trusting them to find
ways of making over the world. A
man is bigger than a church steeple;
and his kingdom-capacity is greater
j than an apartment house and gym
! r.asium and school combined. "Back
'to man." will be the new cry. The
elemental human resources that God <
! has used from the beginning still re- ;
main the chief dependence of the ,
Kingdom of Heaven. This lesson j
■ ipoll the call of the Twelve Apostle." j
i ; timely and capable of significant
development In the right hands. |
There is no blinking the fact that j
i these claimant times demand some- j
I thing radical of the church. The
realization of new opportunities has
! brought a new urgency, and new
lense of the Immediateneas of the duty
1 of thq church to rise' to this fresh
! occasion. There never has been such
j call upon the forces of religion ,by
I social, political, and economic con-
I ditions as to-day.
Realizing this, certain zealous per- |
1 sons would turn the church into a j
• debating club or a charitable relief i
j .iocietv. Others would shatter all ec
i Sesiastical organization, and quickly
merge the various bodies into a col
| orless entity.
The Crowded Christ
So serene and poised was the Mas-
I ter and so free from the distraction
i of the cares that thronged His days
: t bat we forget how really crowded
! with work He was. Observe the re-I
ci rrence In His biography of the sin- !
..•1,, phrase, "a great multitude" which
followed Him. He literally was
pressed by people. They impaired
| His liberty of action; they robbed
Him of rest: they made Him a scr
j vant of the poorest and the neediest.
* And what needs that throng em
d! Jesus seem to he the focus I
I of all the sin and suffering and woe
; and want of His world. Every man
I with a burden or a grief crowded
] toward Christ.
Physically, it was imposible for
Him to minister to all who needed
Him, or to carry His message to all
| the places ready for it. Then, as
I now. He must go to the feet of His
i friends if He would run all the er
rands of the Father. He is in this
j our Exemplar. There is scant wis
dom in trying to do a great work
i alone. We must- all learn to labor
I with people. If leaders, we must
1 utilize helpers and train them to
: their highest efficiency. The respon
slbillty that comes to us we must
j distribute. Every leader should mul
j tiply himself by his disciples. Thus,
in the purpose of Christ, His college
of apostles became himself twelve
times repeated.'
Tli<- I'oMxihllitlrn of I'lain Men
Jesys did not wait for geniuses.
Tile differences between a good ex
ecutive and a second rate one is that
! the Rood executive can take the ma
i teriai in hand fand utilize it effec
tively. The second rate man goes
; about whining over the lack of com
petent helpers. We are prone to bo
; mistaken in our estimate of the apos
j ties, for we see them in the ripeness
{of their power and service. When
I they were called by the of Gal
' ilee they were amazingly, like you
; and me. All of them were average,
| everyday folk, without much social
I poise or polish. Most of them were
| more at home in a lumbering, fish
; I odorous boat than in a palace or In
I | "good society." bet us get hold of
I this great truth. Anal.v/.c the list of
-I the twelve and in' temperament and
ifi training they are seen to be com
- mon folk; more common than the av
erage of delegates at any religious
8 convention to-day.
I We are prone to boast of the big
L I names that adorn our churches and
i religious organizations. We are
. jpioud of the rich and famous lay
' j men who are on our lists. The. exal
-1 i tation of the merely wealthy or
prominent to places in church work
" j has reachefi an absurd length. Those
J j who have worked with them have
' | come to see that these are not the
j men who make things go. The ex
" ; ample of .lesus rises up to remind us
' ! that His source of supply, the every
-1 | day folk wtio toil, is still at hand.
Why should our secretaries spend
* ' their time trying to beguile a reluc
\ ' tant hour or two from a busy man
*j of affairs, when there are virile,
J forceful young men with unoccupied
' | time in all our churches waiting only
1 i the call of leadership?
, ; The amazing fact about the whole
. j story is what Jesus can do with an
ordinary man. We talk much of the
I self-made man, but he is not to lie
compared with the Christ-mads man.
j The most ordinary person. plus
I Christ, becomes an extraordinary
i person. The twelve untutored rustic
| Galileans, about whom we study to
day. became the statesmen of the
world's greatest empire. That group
of Syrian peasants have changed all
the history of the race, and are still
at work in our own time. Their
achievements throw into the shade
those of Alexander and the Caesars.
The High ( nil
Garibaldi summoned his recruits
to long marches, to hunger, to pri
vation. to wounds, to death. His
followers leaped in heroism to the
high summons. So it is no easy al
legiance that Jesus offers to His dis
ciples. He calls men and women into
service that is hard as it is holy.
He bids them give themselves to the
difficult task of being salt for the
salvation of society. As salt is ever
in danger of losing its savor, so
Christians are subject to the con
stant temptation of losing their salt
ness—their uniqueness, their power
to preserve—because they become
like the lump they are meant to I
leaven.
Likewise Jesus bade His disciple* j
to be the lights of the world. Then, I
as now, the 'salvation of a neighbor
hood and of a state depends upon I
| the righteous men. No nation can j
! live without the lives that are light j
and that are salt. These are the
hope of our time. No city can get
so bad that even a handful of true
disciples cannot redeem it. Ten
righteous men would have saved
Sodom. The day's need is voiced by
the hymn of the brotherhoods:
"Jesus calls us, o'er the tumult
Of our life's wild, restless sea:
Day by day His sweet voice soundeth
Saying, 'Christian, follow Me.'
As of old. apostles heard it
By the Galilean lake.
: Turned from home and toil and kin
dred.
Leaving all for His dear sake."
Program For Y. M. C. A.
' Entertainment at Wiconisco
Wiconisco, Pa., Feb. B.—A Y. M. |
C. .y entertainment will he given in I
the Wiconisco High School bullring |
on Saturday evening next, with the
j following program:
| Selection. Wiconisco orchestra;
| "Liberty With the Red. White and
j Blue." Marion Kline. Margaret* Wil
liams, Sylvia Hart and Mary McXu
faaAra: duet, "Wartime in ' the
| Trenches." Sittings and Aucher; rec-
I itation. John Jury: duet, violin an;l
guitar. John and Harry Miller; dram-'
I atization, "Arnold the Traitor." |
eighth grade boys; chorus, "My
Country First and Last;" "Future I
Voter," Ruth Poticher, Sara Min- j
nicta and Fanny Klinger; duet, Har- i
vey Botdorf and Margaret Hoffman; I
vocal solo. Janette \Higgins; "Sol- 1
riier's Farewell," Wilson Dodd;
"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground," |
Edith Hoffman; "Vacant Chair," |
Marion Keene, Frank and Irene i
Seip; tableau, "With Liberty and j
Justice to All;" "The Volunteers," I
eighth grarie pupils; recitation, Lola
Minnich; "Hats off," eighth gradel
boys; tableau, "War, Victory and ;
Peace;" selection, Wiconisco orches- ;
tra.
Edison Gives to War
His 71st Birthday
New York. —Thomas A. Edison;
j will be 71 years old on February 11.
i The day will lind the inventor oe-
II upied with the technical problems
* of the war In full enjoyment of sound
mental and physical vigor and as'
dangerous an opponent as confident j
German Wissenschaft well could ;
wish.
Devoting all his time to the pres- j
ent great purposes of America in the ,
world convulsion, the noted inventor ;
will not loose his grip on his biggest |
| problem to spend the day in the <•" - j
, totnary celebration at his home in
Llewellyn Park. West Orange, X. J. i
The Association of Edison Pio- j
neers, recently organized at the En- 1
gineering Building in New York and !
composed of sixty of Mr. Edison's!
early associates, will commemorate |
the anniversary at a luncheon in this i
city. Some of the pioneers were |
with Mr. Edison at Menlo Park and i
others were among his first New York
j aids. They date their service with;
I Mr. Edison from fifteen years and
' curlier and membership In the pio- I
neers is restricted to those who;
served the "Wizard of the l,abora- \
tory" in these early days. These!
men are scattered all over the Unit-1
ed States. Mr. Edison will not be j
with them, as his duties will not I
permit.
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