WINS A COMMISSION' C. E. Meckley, of Penbrook, Pa., has been promoted to Second Lieu tenant in the Sixty-sixth Company, now stationed at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Lieutenant Meckley was home on a furlough several weeks ago, and upon his return to his regi ment the Sixth Replacement Regu lars), was notified of his promotion. He is anxious to go "over there." AUSTRIAN PREMIER RESIGNS By A ssociattd Press London, June 14. —A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Am sterdam reports that Dr. von Seyd ler, the Austrian premier, tendered his resignation to Emperor Charles on Wednesday. The dispatch adds that tho Emperor has not yet ac cepted it. Very Effective Method for Banishing Hairs (Modes of Today) 1 At very little cost any woman can rM her face of hairy growths if sne will use the delatone treatment. This is made by mixing some water with a little powdered delatone. 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FRANCE'S CROSSES; CHRIST'S CROSS International Sunday School Lesson For June 16 Is "Jesus on the Cross"—Mark 15:1-47 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Back from France and busy with the classification of information and impression gathered there, X find my self called upon to write a Sunday school lesson dealing with the Cruci fixion. Straightway there march across my vision the crosses of France—the wayside crucifixes; the great floral cross in the Church ot the Madelaine. Paris, on Good Fri day at the hour when the German long range gun devastated a similar service in another part of the Cl *> • the crosses that cluster so thickly by the battlefields and In the gravo yardS; the new wooden crosses hur riedly made for a large group ofj American graves, after a great ac tion: the little crosses which the peasants of Brittany offer at the *°ot of the wayside shrines; the outstand ing red—oh, so red?—of the cross in the British flag; the red cross that is the symbol of mercy and ministry —is this not the war of the cross? A spirit sublimely sacrificial per vades this war. There is less talk of religion than the folk at home imagine, of formal piety there is very little; soldiers have a horror of parading their religion, or of, any thing that may seem like Pharisaism. They often cloak their deepest feel ings beneath jesting speech. The ideals of the war are not discussed in the camps and the trenches as much as they are among the people at home. Soldiers have reached the action stage. Yet their purpose and spirit are branded with the cross of service and sacrifice. Does it seem irreverent to say that the army wears the stigmata on its hidden soul? "Over the Top" fop Others Startling in its indifference to con ventional forms and phraseology of religion, the army has none the less glimpsed the glory of the cross spirit. Men who go to death for rea- , sons Entirely outside of themselves, , and for the sake of others who have no immediate personal claim upon them, cannot be Indifferent to the example and inspiration of the ; our "went over the top" of! .ai\ary f° r the redemption of men. fi nes t heroism of this i fin^ s 'ts spring in the death of tnat other young man, the Hero of fo wllo & ave l 'P and suf iereti all, for the sake of an ideal and of a service. . Reverently, many soldiers know in their deepest hearts that they are in His footsteps when they J, j' r " ves '"to this ministry of mankind. Chaplains remark upon: eagerness of soldiers for the Su PPer; men who have never fi, ~e n °' the sacred emNents in r- A v knecl reverently in Y. M. <-. A. hut or in barracks or in a dug out to receive the Memorials of the r ruc 'fed. What is this but a crav ing for the fellowship of the Re cteemer, who first gave His body to be broken for the sake of the world? The sense of fellowship in sacufice is JW- The soldier servants of a cause! tnat would have been impossible had; not Jesus taught men how to die for! an ideal and a duty feel their kin snip with, as well as dependence' upon, the Christ who became a sac-1 HHcc. With a new and living and untheological reality, the cross has econie central to this war. AU the countless battlefield crosses that point backward and forward and up ward with their arms of faith testify to a fresh appreciation of Christ and Him crucified. From Calvary to the Somme Horror-smitten by the awfulness or thus war. many persons are unable to look beyond the moment, with its weight of suffering and death. They l see no reason for it all. To such it! is well to recall Calvary. It has been! ?.t. two thousand years since i Christ died, the just for the unjust.] How many times during these lonsji centuries it has seemed as if His; supreme sacrifice was in vain! The cross-principle seemed to triumph [ with heart-breaking slowness. An cient selfishness and sordldness and i smallness persisted. Twenty cen-' juries is a long time to wait for the i indication of an act and a principle.: . . ut behold! In an unexpected! nay, when materialism was rampant Q .'i.. ea l th V an<l P ride and ambition! stalked abroad in vaunting arro-| gance, there sounded the call of the' cross—the summons to lay down life! for the sake of God's goals of right eousness and justice and mercy. A power calling itself "Superman," that scoffed at riirht and sneered at Jesus as a weakling, flung its iron gauntlet jnto the whole world's arena. Would the nations dare to respond? Or would the crushing of Belgium be permitted and the de struction of Serbia, and the nullifica tion of all the slowly erected sanc tities of civilization be allowed to go by default? Tben came the answer that proved .? e ,^ ality of the cross princple in the life of Christian peoples. Great nations flung themselves, in sublime surrender of all the former prizes of life, upon the cross of sacrifice. The lesson of Calvary has not gone un learned. Life laid down is still the highest conception of existence. To offer up all for the sake of others, and of principles, is the act that links man with God, and that relates Calvary to the Somme. Whoever would see the outworking of the Crucifixion of Jesus needs but to be hold the stream of dedicated soldiers nourin* across the waters to France. These young men who go forth to die are In the train of the Hero of the cross. By their labors and death they are establishing the supremacy of the cross-principle in civilization. It ! s a new world, pledged to vicari ousness, that is being created on the battlefields of France. This reward is worth all that it costs; even as God deemed the salvation of mankind worthy the sacrifice of His only Son. The Gift From the Garden "I find myself liking this cross best of all my treasures, and wearing it oftenest." said one, a few days ago, to whom I had once brought a little olive-wood cross that I had made tn Jerusalem, from a piece of wood of' the ancient olive tree that still grows! in the Garden of Gethsemane. The sentiment symbolizes the mood of our world to-day. We are learning to prize the cross of sacrifice, and to enter into its deeper meanings. Un counted parents and wives and sweethearts have come to a new spiritual height as they have offered up their spirits upon the war's cross. Theirs is the greatest sacrifice: and by it they have come to know the fellowship of the Crucified. Life at home is being sanctified by the self surrender of all who suffer because of what they have given up for this war's sacred cause. It seems, at times as if this Calvary experience of our countries may be their real 1 salvation. To bear a cross, and even to be crucified in spirit on the cross, is to know life's redemption and life's Redeemed. Two words of Scripture are often found tn many minds during these days. One is "Without the shedding of blood there Is no remis sion of sin." We perceive how war's unmeasured sacrifice is purging the nations of grossness and evil. The price that is heing paid should free us from our national sins. Should this war end without the trans formation of the life of the nations engaged, it will have bee'n fought In vain. Every drop of blood shed on the battlefield is a call to sanctifica tion at home. The other Bible verse in mind is, "He shall see of the tra vail of his soul and be satisfied." Out of all thim harvest of woe there is being threshed the fine grain of the fulfilled purposes of a Supremo Authority whose thoughts are greater than our thoughts. Some how, in ways we cannot freely un derstand. God is fulfilling the sacri fice of His Son in this great hour, j All who serve and suffer vicariously in this hour o£ crucifixion are sharers in the travail and triumph of the patient Christ. Tlvo Little Crosses of Brittany A few weeks ago, in traveling about fair Brittany, I saw a new usage and learned a new lesson. Like all the devout peasants of France, it is the custom of these peo ple to erect wayside crosses, with the figure of the Crucified upon them. In Brittany, however, they have a usage all their own. For at the base of the crosses by the roadside they have laid little wooden crosses, which rep resent their personal prayers and thanksgivings. It is common to see a cross, where roads meet, with doz ens of simple little wooden crosses heaped about its foot. That is the best thing to do with our little crosses—the cares and per plexities and burdens and sorrows and misunderstandings and bitter nesses and defeats of life. Take them to the Cross of Christ and leave them there. Into His great sacrifice all our little sacrifices may be merged. His cross is the refuge for our crosses. There is no care too small, as there is no sorrow' too great, to be comprehended in the salvation wrought on Calvary's Ooss. ttXRJUSBTTRG iftM TELEGRAPH DR. MUDGE TELLS OF CAMP LIFE Minister Is Principal Speaker at Annual Presbyterian Meeting A first-hand description of camp life was presented by the Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, who ad dressed the annual meeting of the Presbyterian Association of Harm burg in Olivet Presbyterian Church last night. For those present who have sons in the camps and trenches, he had many comforting words and in his address spoke highly of the morale of the American troops. "The boys are taken better care of in the camps than they are at home," he said. When the .boys were at their homes and an order was given them "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" £ What Are Good Clothes? I All clothes are "good" in [ 1 the advertisements, and they I yirfr all look good when you first see them— Of course they do; nobody would buy them if V I But "good doesn't only mean I the looks, style and fit—they're all 1 parts that go to make up the perfect garment |, , | • a t f —But if clothes don't fit and "stay" fit, you don't have f' || much style. "Good" isn't color or pattern, however good Jr these look to you. The important part of good clothes is f MW fl the part you don't see —Be sure you're on the safe side in 1$ I Go Hand-in-Hand—it's jf good management to be care- | ful and spend your money for the sort of clothes that save themselves that's why we J Hart Schaffner 1 I • Kuppenheimer - | The economy is in the clothes, ' not in the price—we don't offer these IBf vi 1 as low priced clothes—you'll have no difficulty Iv at all in finding suits lower priced than these—But you won't find any that are less expensive, because all-wool cwigb* fabrics and fine tailoring do wear better than cheap sub- Jp||| stitutes —If you figure the costs per month, you'll see how 4 *SL low-priced these clothes are. 3yjlllk Try This Dependable Doutrich Service That Everybody "Manhattan Shirts" "Munsing Underwear" •by their parents, they oftimes re fused to obey it. In the camps he said, they obey the officer promptly and willingly. He told of the Interior of the men's barracks and said that the dining hall is "as clean as a pin." He chal- j lenged any housewife to show a I cleaner dining room than that of the : camps. If the portion of the room ! i assigned to a man, is not clean, lie | |is sent to the guard house. The men | keep their tables shining like mirrors to avoid the penalty. The officers and men in charge take every care to make the camps; comfortable and homelike. Dr., Mudge denied unscrupulous reports which declared that the men were | not respectfully treated. He en- j | larged upon the work of the Y. M. C. I A. saying that the mn are very! j grateful for its help. Telling i ;of the huts in which the men j j are welcomed by the Y. M. C. j | A., he described the interior and said i | that there are signs such as "When I | did you write to your mother last?" hanging on the wall. He advised ihe ' I members of the audience who want to visit a soldier or an officer, to notify him in advance. He said that a letter bearing a name.and no ad dress is Just as likely to reach a per | son in Harrlnburg as a man or a i letter without company, regiment or camp would reach the soldier. I When one of the interested hearers asked Dr. Mudge to tell about | the typo of Y. M. C. A. secretaries in , the camps, he said they are usually | men of draft age were tirst taken i over forty years old. Inexperienced i but these proved to be failures and older men with more experience are ; now taken. Empey Tells Crowd of "Sliding to Second" i Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey, sol ! dier, author and lecturer, has the • respect for valor that comes of first j hand knowledge, and for this reason |he dealt a rebuke to a crowd of young men recently when they saw JUNE 14, 1918. !"t to "Josh" about a Scotch soldier. The incident occurred in the Grand Central Terminal, New York, where Empey was waiting to take a train. A kilted Highlander came through the waiting room and a group of boys gathered there to poke fun at his bare knees, asking if he wasn't afraid of catching cold, etc. The Highlander went on his way and made no reply, but Empey did. "You kids ought to be ashamed of yourselves," ho said, "to try and 'kid' a real man. You see that little piece of tin on his tunic? If you had gone through what that man did to gat that, you'd be able to say .you was a man!" The youths were mollified by this, and Empey continued: "That's the Victoria Cross that 'Scottie' is wearing and he went right to the gates of Hell to get it." One of the youngsters then noticed a deep scar on Empey's left cheek, the result of a shell fragment tear ing open his face after he had been wounded in a trench raid and had crawled into a hell crater In No Man's I^ttnd. "How did you get that?" asked the youth. "Aw, X got it sliding to second," said Empey as went through the gates to his train.- Victoria theater here for four days Victoria Theater, has decided only beginning Monday, June 17, when he appears as the star of the Vitagraph production of "Over the Top." In this big, patriotic- production the fighting sergeant lives over again the events which he details so graphi cally in his fampus book. Despite the tremendous expense involved In bringing this feature filip to this city, especially just at its premier. Manager George, of the Victoria Theatre, has decided only to charge twenty-five cents for adults and fifteen cents for children. This low price, considering the tre mendous importance of the film and its great cost, is exceedingly low as contrasted with the high admission prices asked elsewhere. 11
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