THE TRUTH BACK OF THE SOLDIERS International Sunday School Lesson For June 30 Is "Jesus Christ, Our Redeemer and Lord" —A Semiannual Review—John 3-16 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Countless minds are seeking to see clearly tho relation between the world war, with its implications and the great principles of righteousness and religion. For a time, especially in England, there was a rather fran tic questing after occult beliefs, as if the key might be with them: but that vagary has been largely given up. There is now a return to the great simplicities of the life and teachings of Jesus. We perceive, with growing clearness that He has the master word for this perplexing time. So a study of this opportune Sunday School Lesson takes us straight into the realms of the prin ciples of God which are related to the war. Jesus caused this war. If nations had not been sitting at His feet, even so heedlessly, there would have been none to take up the sword of right eousness when the spirit of the Anti christ went forth to smite the na tions into submission to Its cruel sway. The present conflict is more nearly akin to that of Saint George and the Dragon than any war ever before waged. We do not by any means argue for the impeccability of St. George—meaning thereby our selves—but we are clear that he is doing God's work in the slaying of the Dragon. Out of this struggle has emerged a new sense of the awfulness of injustice and cruelty; standards are now being fixed that will not easily be relaxed. And those standards are the standards of Jesus. Despite all of its callousing awfulness, this war has become the war of spiritual vision. John Oxen ham has shown, in one of his poems, what it means to the soldier to be face, to face with reality: "What did you see out there my lad, That has set that look in your eyes ? You went out a boy, you have come back a man. With strange new depths under neath your tan; What is it you saw out there, my lad. That set such deeps in your eyes?" "Strange things, and sad, and won derful— Things that I scarce can tell; I have been in the sweep of the Reaper's seythe, With God, and Christ, and hell. "I have seen Christ doing Christly deeds; I have seen the devil at play; I have gripped to the sod in the hand of God, I have seen the godless pray. "I have seen Death blast out sud denly From the clear blue summer sky; I have slain like Cain with a blazing brain, I have heard the wounded cry. "I have lain alone among the dead, With no hope but to die; I have seen them killing the wound ones, I have seen them crucify. "I have seen the devil In petticoats ' Wiling the souls of men; I have seen great sinners do great deeds. And turn to their sins again. "I have sped through hells of flery hail. 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Introducing Man to God Many a soldier has thus met God for the first time on the battlefield which is the most important thing in heaven or earth. It is so impor tant that it brought Christ to this world. As we look back over six months of study in the life of Jesus, we pereflßve how the central facts is that the Master was continually try* ing to introduce men to the Father in heaven. He wanted men to know God. Their ideas were twisted and email and unworthy. They had been conventionalized to the point of os sification. What the Jews believed was more about a theological and ecclesiastical system than about a living, loving God. All vitalities are in danger thus of losing their reality and becoming a form. So Jesus, with a simplicity that does not at all re semble the elaborate structure that we have erected in his name, came to show us what God is really like, and what he would have us do. Anybody who can bring God down out of a misty and mysterious heav en. and make him personal and present, is continuing the work of Christ. Anything that accomplishes this end is worth while, even though it be a world conflagration. Trivial scepticism and cynical agnosticism and blatant infidelity were early vic tims of the present conflict. We know that there is a God, whose thoughts are not our thoughts and whoso ways are not our ways, and who acts on a stupendous scale for the fulfilment of vast designs, all meant to bring man into closer ac cord with his Heavenly Father. The Jesus program is being fulfilled in strange ways in our time. With new dignity and sacredness, nations are finding themselves in accord, as tools in the hand of the Workman, with these divine purposes. By the red glare of battle we are seeing God anew. The Basis of tlie New Order Only three men have emerged from this war, on the allied side, as dominating figures and they were already such by virtue of their po sition President Wilson, Lloyd George and Premier Clemenceau. In the "quiet talks which men have about the war, saying the things which are never printed, one some times hears this point stressed, that the war has not produced any great leaders from among the un known, but has, instead, been a great revelation of the capacity and character of the common man and woman. Now this is not so wonder ful as it may seem. Since this war means the inauguration of a new world order, we may properly look for analagous principles in the ea tablishment of his kingdom by Jes us. Even a cursory glimpse of his methods shows that he depended upon the Obscure and commonplace people for the carrying out of his plans. He built his kingdom upon the average man. Kaiser William made the mistake of thinking the ancient method of world dominion, which the heathen world has always practiced, was still workable—the rise of an auto crat and conqueror. Even in more civilized quarters there are those who seek still for the advent of a "strong man' in the armies, and es specially in Russia, to lead us out of our difficulties. They are wrongr. The Jesus way is the way of the rise of the common people. There is more hope for humanity in the leveling up of the common average than in the development of a superman. Nothing that I found in France impressed me more deeply than the high plane of the idealism.of the common soldiers. A nation, or rather, a group of na tions, have proved the workability of the noblest principles, of the average citizen. In the new day which lies on the other side of the war—though its sunrise beams already brighten our darkness—the teachings of Jesus for society are to be put into effect by the consensus of opinion of the great mass of us. We cannot look for a great preacher or ecclesiastic to come forth as a Moses; evidently, as in the days of his flesh, our Lord is his reliance upon a group of plain people made effective by their relationship with him, and by their understanding of his mind. Kvery teacher, every parent, every commonplace preacher and editor, is to have an indispensable part in ushering in the regime which Jesus lived and died to bring to pass. A Strange Idea of Religion Ceremony, ritualism and formali ties characterize the temples and cathedrals of earth. The hand of pre-Christian Jewish ritualism has 'been heavy upon the moderiuChrist ian Church. But in the <-<fs!y there is none of this, except the sacra ment of the Lord's Supper, and that most simply observed. Religion among the soldiers is chiefly a mat ter of ministry. Only those who have been with the troops can appreciate fully how this new definition of Christianity has come to prevail. Chaplains give most of their time to the doing of odd jobs for the men. The Y. M. C. A. are busy almost ex clusively in ministry, often of the humblest sort. The Salvation Army lassie in France has laid aside her tambourine for a frying pan, and she gives more time to doughnuts than to devotions. This experience has been to all Christian workers a revelation of the power and beauty and dignity and worshipfulness of sheer service. Some say this is the new concep tion of religion, that is to prevail after the war. There is nothing new about It. It is simply a return to first principles. Jesus went about do ing- good. He revealed his message and his mind by his ministry- He was a helper of people. No office of kindliness was too lowly to com mand all of his divine energies. Gladly he made himself of no repu tation. His time was at the com mand of the crowds. Our newly teachable world will learn from Jesus, and from the war, the sancti ty of service. We have caught a new vision of the tremendous reality of Christ's teaching about the giving of a cup of cold water. The H&licst Decoration Look back over the lessons of the past half year, we see one devoted to peace. It was the story of the storm on Galilee, stilled by the words of Jesus. We note in this the first condition of all real .peace. It came by the dominance of a superior will. The waves subsided at the word of their Master. It was not a premature or a negotiated or a com promised peace. There was nothing half way about it. The unruly wa ters obeyed the master word of righteousness. There can be no effect ive peace, apart from this condition. War will cease when the will of righteousness, the demands of Jus tice and human well-being, are ac- Why Lose 1 )andruff and I Your Hair 1 Duticura I All drvyylgta T Soap 25, Ointments & DO, Takroma. Sample each tr*m of "Cmtic*r, IWpt. g, B—%m." KARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! cepted. Out of this awful strife must come the supremacy of the principles of God. The peace we seek is no mere international adjust ment; it is the breaking forever of a malign power on earth, which has palpably done the will of the evil one, and the substitution of right eousness and good will. The biography of Jeeus comes to a climax. Like so many of our dear dead, who have quit life sacrlflcally, in the glory of their youth, and in the act of sacrifice, Jesus did not have to endure the trial of seeing His tasks slip from His hands one by one, while His vitality slowly peter ed out through the long years. Old age is honorable, and may be 'beauti ful: but there is something of the sublime and cllmateric in the life that ends at Is 'very apex. Some how, we cannot think of Christ apart from His cross. It was the fulfill ment of all that He taught and did. In the army; there is a beautiful phrase concerning the fallen sol dier, —"He won a wooden cross, the highest decoration." By the grave of every fallen soldier there is erect ed a plain wooden cross, with the marks of identlficaUon. No other symbol is used in all of France. True, the French put flowers and wreaths upon the graves of their own and the allied dead. As one travels over the area of battle he sees these forests of crosses. The symbolism of it impresses even a dullard. These heroes have followed Christ to a cross. They have died that others may live. In noble self surrender, they have given up their life for mankind. Fittingly, the sign of their victory is a cross. Home tolk are wearing their crosses on their hearts, out of sight. They have entered with their belov ed fallen into the feflowship of the crosai They know the sorrow and majesty of surrender. How many mother Marys there are whose hearts have been pierced by the sword in these days! All the world is conning the lesson of the cross. Among builders of churches it has been common practice to panel the doors in a cross. The cross has become a door. By it we enter into a new unty of experience. By it we approach to an understanding of the deepest meaning of the life and death of the Redeemer who died on the cross, that all who follow Him might live sacrificially, sublimely, and serenly more. Hair Often Ruined By Washing With Soap Soap should be used very care fully, if you want to keep your hall looking its best. Most soaps and pre pared shampoos contain too much alkali. 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Benson, of Tonkers, Socialist candidate for President at the last national elec tion and well known as a writer on socialist subjects, both in the news papers and magazines, resigned from the Socialist party yesterday. His resignation was made by letter, copies of which Mr. Benson sent to the dally newspapers. While expressing regret at the necessity for his action. Mr. Benson declared the attitude of the Social ist party toward the war, and parti cularly as expressed by the "St. Louis resolution® left him no choice. He declared his chief pur pose in resigning to 'be as a protest against "the foreign-born leadership that blindly believes a non-Ameri can policy can be made to appeal to many Americans." Mr. Benson's letter, In part, fol lows; "I herewith present my resigna tion from the Socialist party to take effect at once. I do so with pro found regret. I believe in democracy as applied, both to the government and to industry. 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I know the govern ment of the United States wages war for neither money nor land, while the government of Germany covets both money and land. I know that Germany, any moment she will ac cept it, can get a just peace, and I feel that until she will accept a Just peace she should be compelled to ac cept war. "Beiieving that nothing worse could happen to the world than to be placed under the heel of German Imperialism, I sever hiy relations with a party that nationally places the belligerents upon a parity and. In the State of Wisconsin, recently demanded the withdrawal of the American army from Europe." After commenting on the non- Americanism of the foreign-born leaders and members of the Social ist party, Mr. Benson's letter con tinues: "A few men in the party who should have known better have ac cepted and proclaimed the false doc trine that a workingman can have no country, and therefore' that it is immaterial to him whether the country in which he lives, if it be at war, shall be defeated or not. "For these reasons,' Mr. Benson concludes, "I now take leave of the Socialist party a year after I ceased to agree with it. It seemed to me that, having been at the head of the national ticket two years ago, it was particularly my duty to wait and see if the party would not fight itself. JUNE 28, 1918. 'lt has not righted itself. I therefore resign as a protest against the foreign-born leadership that blind ly believes .a non-American policy can be made to 'appeal to many Americans." Mr. Benson was chosen the can didate of the Socialist party by a mail vote. 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