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.
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surface for 2 or 3 minutes, then rub
bed off and the skin .washed, when
every trace of hair will have vanish
ed. No harm results from this treat
ment. but care should be used to buy
real delatone.
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FRIDAY EVENING.
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
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—But if clothes don't fit and "stay" fit, you don't have f' ||
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•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.
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