FLOWERS m THE TRENCHES International Sunday School Lesson For June 23 Is "Jesus Triumphant Over Death" Mark 16:1-20 | By WILLIAM T. ELLIS 1 >ver in France there is a battered •. ench that has a permanent in my memory. It is possibly a mile long; it seems much longer, because of the rough fragments of slippery limestone that cover its bottom, and because it winds over a hill. Possi bly. also, the fact that it was under bombardment every time I traversed it may have heightened the impres sion of its length. Not primarily, though, because of its heaps of shell <lebrie, or of its battered edges, or of the roar of bombardment, will I re member this particular trench. Part ly because It led to the scene of a brilliant victory by our troops, and partly because of the flowers which bloomed luxuriantly on its edges, this trench stands out from all others that I have known. I named it in my mind the Trench of the Promise of Peace. It is a sym bol of life after death, of victory amid battle. Clustering thickly upon the adges of this battlefield high way grew the sumptuous, fragrant violets of France, in gorgeous patch es. Besides them blossomed the deli cate hepaticas and clump of anemones. Never ha\e wild flowers | Lift Off Corns Doesn't Hurt! I i Few drops stop soreness, then ! ' corn or callus lifts off with fingers The world owes thanks to the genius in Cin cinnati who discovered freezone. V-Tiny bottles of the I I magic fluid can now be \ / had at any drug store V_J for a few cents. You simply apply a few drops of freezone upon a ten der, aching corn or a hardened callus. In stantly the soreness dis- J appears and shortly you A will find the corn or cal- V lus so loose and shrivel ec* that you lift it off 1 with the fingers. Not a Ifl if kit of pain or soreness is Jq fll felt when applying \ freezone or afterwards. 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They reckoned not of the reign of death and destruction that fell all about them. Huge shells might blast the sides of the trench, but the flow ers heeded them not at all. From the woodland there also crept softly down over the scarred sides of this stony trench the lovely green leaves of the ground ivy. Nature was setting her seal of as surance and of permanent reality upon the scene of conflict After war's woe has ended, the scars will be covered by the kindly processes of springtime. The upsnringing life of the earth will win the victory over all the signs of man's strife. Enduring beyond the worst that the heavy artillery can do is the beauty of the wild flower. God's pledge of peace and resurrection. After death comes life. The flower is more po tent than the big gun shell. The trench is not the end, but only an episode. Mowers From the Battlefield As that one particular spot in the extended battlefront is typical of a great and beneficent principle, so the war itself has come to represent, in the minds of mast of us. a construc tive, rather than a destructive force. We see that' the conflict is not an end. It is a process, a way out. Ter rible as are many of its aspects, it nevertheless stands for a great de liverance from an old and intoler able order. Only because we regard it as the purging fire of a just and beneficent and far-reaching God. to whom the right is more precious than peace, can we be reconciled to this overwhelming tragedy. Beyond the portals of this death lies a spiritual and national resurrection for the peoples of the earth. Humanity is now undergoing a great and terrible Becoming. This is the faith that sus tains the world—and puts an ade quate motive into all our enduring and sacrificing and suffering. It is the flower of the resurrection truth blooming amid the war-blasted trenches. An observer returns from the bat tlefields, tilled with the glory of the new life that is coming to our men "o\er there," and he finds something of the same experience befalling here also. Uife is being lifted up to a new level. Cowardice and craven selfishness and petty indulgence are out of fashion. Helpfulness and cheerfulness and sympathy and brave self-denial have become the vogue. Uarge considerations of pa triotism and of world interest have caught up countless lives that once seemed small and ennobled them into newness. Both at home and among the troops, hearts have become ten derer and more comradely. Fel lowship and brotherhood have been won to a degree surpassing the dreams of the sociologist of a de cade ago. We have seen the sancti fying power of a great experience, a great purpose and a great hope. Human hearts have become plastic, and so. consequently, has the world's existing order of things. Is not al! this a foregleam of the power of the resurrection principle in life? Making Death Glorious In Britain and France I was over whelmed to And that practically ev erybody had suffered a personal bereavement in the war. Counties! family lines have been cut off. En tire shop windows would hold only mourning wear. One great motive operating against a premature or craven peace is unwillingness to let the brave dead have died in vain. These myriads of the fallen are a new fact in all of our thinking, "'hey are with us as a force to inspire and to restrain. The flower of our life is blooming somewhere beyond the grave. Without controversy or discussion or theological debate, this war has brought an immeasurable reinforce ment to the truth of the resurrec tion. In the presence of unparalleled sorrow, we have simply waived aside speculations and negations, and ag nosticism concerning the future life. It seems as if the world has quietly assented to the conviction which re sides as a great hope in every normal breast, and which is so clear a teach ing of Scripture that it must be ac cepted unless all revealed religion be rejected that our dead shall live again. The risen Christ shines above the horizon of our minds in new ma jesty. Soldiers on the battlefield are confident that death does not end all. Is it to much to assert that this war has revealed a new glory in death, as well as a new shame in mere self-preservation ? That our no blest achievement of existence may be a heroic death is almost an axiom to-day. Our former dread of death has passed away. Soldiers are not afraid to die: that is one of war's most interesting phenomena. I found the feeling general among men in action, up where the missiles of death made incessant music, that they gave no thought to death. Once I walked a heavily bombarded road with a lad who talked of other things entirely than the shells fall ing about us. We are becoming in terested in more important things than the mere prolongation of life, — such as honor and righteousness and human service. All our old con ception of the aim and end of exist ence are being revised. Our goals are now more godlike; and we think beyond the grave. Itrrakiiis An Old Enemy's Power Among the soldiers it seems as if. almost unconsciously, a sense of the supremacy of righteousness and lib erty and justice has effaced all petty considerations of personal safety. They look upon the war as God's task for them; and as part of His own big business in the universe. He has gone forth to make straight for ever some things that were crooked in this earth. In the breaking of the power of arrogance and might and selfishness and injustice, he neces sarily pays a price. In the lives of those who serve Him. But He re compenses them, now and eternally. The battlefield creed may be called that of the "larger hope." The sol dier may march stumblingly, hut he knows he is going the way of the cross; and he is sure of the resur rection morning. His faith is pinned upon the very nature of God, as he has learned it in the character of Jesus. In Britain 1 sought out the extent of the growth of the various phanta sies. such as spiritualism and tlieoso phy and other forms of occultism which has been repored as wide spread. I found them negligible. Britain's new sense of the life of her dead is not based on spookish HARRJSBTTRG TELEGRAPH seances or diluted and scented Hin duism. While she has lost much of her Churchianity, Great Britain holds anew the truth of a living and risen Christ, and of an eternal life with Him. There is sorrow everywhere, and bravely born—oh! so bravely!— but there is also the conviction that the dear dead have offered up their lives after the very fashion of the Redeemer of mankind; and that they live anew and forever. The departed are present as a sanctifying influ ence that is helping to make the world over into a condition worthier of them. The War in Old Jerusalem How Inseparable the new religious thinking of our time is bound up with the facts of the life of Jesus is shown by the remarkable public interest in the capture of Jerusalem by the British. There was enacted the tragedy of all time. Christen dom looks with reverence upon the city of the Holy Sepulchre. The popular imagination has looked upon General Allenby's victory as a new crusade rescuing the holy places of our faith from infidel control. While the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord are great spiritual facts, having a significance dissociated from time and place, yet the actual scene of the events is sacred soil to all the world. Resurrection is synonymous with victory. It stands for the triumph of truth and of God. That is why the resurrection note sounds in so much of our war literature—as in stance this poem of our war said to have been found on the body of a fallen Austrian soldier: Ye that have faith to look with fear less eyes. Beyond the tragedy of a world at strife, And know that out of death and night shall rise The dawn of ampler life. Rejoice, whatever anguish rend the heart. That God has given you a priceless dower. To live in these great times and have your part In Freedom's crowning hour. That ye may tell your sons who see the light High in the Heavens—their herit age to take. "1 saw {he powers of darkness put to flight, I saw the morning break." Dedicatory Services to Close at Messiah Lutheran A preparatory service to-night and li'oly communion rites on Sunday will close the week o£ dedicatory ser- | vices of Messiah Lutheran Church, j Special services will be held Sunday evening, at 8 o'clock, fololwing the I evening tummunlon. when Kniglus of j Malta will be present in uniform to hear the pastor, the Rev. H. W. A. i Hanson, speak on "Following Our Captain." Musical numbers and addresses by prominent city clergymen were fea tmes of the community service held I last night ,in the church. Ministers and rectors from various denomina tions extended the warm hand of wel- COtne to the members and friends of the church. The Rev. Elis X. Kremer, of Reformed Salem I'hurch, delivered the first address, telling of the close relations between Lutheran and Re formed churches. The Rev. G. E. Hawes, of Market Squai" Presbyterian Church, talked along the same lines, praising the work of Messiah congre gation. The Rev. Rollin A. Sawyer, rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church: the Rev. M. O. Peirce, of Tabernacle Baptist Church; the Rev. E A. P.vles. of the Fifth Street Metho dist Church, and the Rev. Lewis S. Mndge. of the Pine Street Presby terian Church, delivered addresses. Rules For Sending War Prisoners Mail Washington. The rules govern- j ing letters sent to prisoners of w.irj in the central empires should be | closely followed, according to a bul-i letin just issued by the American Red Cross. This bulletin and the arrangements made by the Red Cross to deliver letters to Americans whoi may be in the central empires, brings) home to the people that some of: their soldier boys are being sent to j German and Austrian prison camps.: The letter should be addressed j with the name of the man. his num-' ber and rank, if any, his regiment! and company and the prison camp in which he is held. On the upper right-hand corner! should appear "American Prisoner of ; War Mail, Post Free." On the low-! er left-hand corner must appear the; words "via New York." These letters should be mailed in! the usual way. They should be writ-' ten on one side only, of not more] than two sheets of paper. The same rules apply to letters to allied pris oners in Germany, except that the! words "Allied Prisoner" instead of "American Prisoner" must appear." j Tf there is money to be sent, it j must go through the Bureau of; American Prisoners' Relief American ; Red Cross. Washington, D. C. The same applies to checks, drafts, or] postal orders. They are to be drawn ' to the order of the American Red, Cross and sent in the same way. Because of the overcrowding ofj the mails and also because there isj no way of safely checking the iden-1 tity of individual prisoners, the send-1 ing of parcels to allied prisoners! from this country is not deemed ad-! vi.able. If, however, persons would; like to do so. money may be sent toj the Bureau of Prisoners' Relief, and j it will arrange with some recognized i society in England or France to pur-j chase the parcels and forward them. Crush the Pacifists, Is Call of Women New York - Women are called from their knitting needles and the kitchens by Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr.. formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, to take a public stand in the discus sions of the war in their neighbor hoods. Tn a statement which she sent out to the presidents of all fed erations of women through the Na tional Security League, she said: "In the crisis that is still ahead of us there is still great danger that the paciflets and pro-Germans may stampede public opinion in favor ofj an unrighteous peace. Nothing can] avert this terrible peril but a thor-1 ough grounding in the truth. Let I us unite to spread the knowledge! of the truth. "Many will say that material serv ice such as knitting and farm work | is more important, but it must never) be forgotten that if the opinion of the country is stampeded we may! lose the war and the fight for right and truth Just as if we had no army aid navy. The women's clubs at this time can strengthen public opinion on the war at home by lectures, educational work with foreign speaking women, newspaper articles and similar work. Its effect should be made felt In the community." REO MEN TO PARADE It was decided at a meeting of War rior Eagle Tribe, Xa. 340. Improved Order of Red Men. that members will march in the Fourth of July parade Plsns for the meeting of the Great Council, to be held here next year and for a picnic to lie held t I'axtang Park, July 1". weer discussed. A solid service ring was presented to Charles Frlck, keeper of the wampum. BELI, 11101—2330 UNITED HARRIS BURG, FRIDAY, JUNE 31, IJIIB. 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