WHAT THE RECRUIT WINS The International Sunday School Lesson For August 4 Is "Growing Stronger."—l<uke 2:42-52; 2 Peter 1:5-8. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS In his "Rhymes of a Red Cross i Man," Robert W. Service has a poem | called "The Revelation," of which, these stanzas are typical: "We've bidden good-by to life in a cage, we're finished with pushing a pen; They're pumping up full of bellicose rage, they're showing us how to be men. We're only beginning to find our selves; we're wonders of brawn and thew; But when we go back to our sissy jobs—oh. what are we going to do? "For shoulders curved with the counter stoop will be carried erect and square; And faces white from the office; light will be bronzed by the openi air; And we'll walk with the stride of a new-born pride, with a new-found: joy in our eyes, Scornful men who have diced with] death under the naked skies . . . j ! I "Don't you guess that the things we're seeing now will haunt usj through all the years; Heaven and hell rolled into one,, glory and blood and tears; Life's pattern picked with a scarlet, thread, where once we wove with J a gray To remind us all how we played our part In the shock of an epic day?' "Oh, we're booked for the Great Ad-| venture now. we're pledged to the- Heal Romance; We'll find ourserves or we'll loser ourselves somewhere in giddy old France; We'll know the zest of the fighter's, life, the best that we have we'll j give; We'll hunger and thirst; we'll die l . . . but first—we'll live; by the! gods, we'll live!" That is one of the big facts of the: war. It has been an emancipation! of manhood. Wage slaves have be comes free men and heroes. Dwarf-1 ed souls, once chained for life to aj dreary grind, have been set at lib erty to travel half way over the earth, and to enter into new king doms of knowledge. In putting on the uniform, myriads of men have taken on the whole world. That they should win to new physical vigor and power was a foregone conclu sion: what is more important is! that they have grown greater in their | spirits. They look out upon a larger' life, with clearer, braver eyes. Know-- ing life, they know also themselves.; Like the Hero of our Lesson, theyj have "increased in wisdom and sta ture. and in favor with God and man." One great item to be put to the credit side on the balance sheet * of war'is the improvement of our; young men. who are coming home; "to make things new. For "Progress is The law of life: man is not Man, as; yet." Canned Religion Millions will this week study this! Lesson on growth, based upon the story of the boy Jesus. It bears upon i its face the message that the Chris- ( tian life is a progress, and not a once-for-all experience. In Xew ! Fngland "experience meetings" Ij have heard men tell of their religion as if it were a memory of a lifetime; ntro. like their voyage around thei Horn. It was an incident of the past, j and not a reality of the present. Nowj .stale religion Is less palatable Ihan ! mnned food or barrelled water. Shipwrecked sailors are grateful for! the cask of stale water that saves 1 their lives: even so may one in emer- j gency turn to stored-up religiousi experience. But the waters of life* are "living waters," flowing all the! time, "fresh every morning and new c ery eve." Real religion is ever a present ex- : perience. Superstition harks back| always to that which is past. The; "natural religion" of primitive peo- i p'e is a thing of legend and trad!-! tion. In shining contrast is the Je-| siis way, which provides for an etcr-1 rally contemporaneous contract with! God. It is not enough that once in J the long ago Jesus introduced men to 1 the Father. He is doing the sam<v thing day by day at this present, time; so that countless hearts are' pglow with a vital consciousness ofj r.od, who is more of a reality to them than the friend by their side or the! family at their table. Jesus <s "aj living, bright reality" to an increas ing company of persons every d:ly.! 'ho through Him know the Father. The\- "grow in grace" by growing "in the knowledge of the Lord." The ! secret of their characters is their contact and communion with Christ. The World's Sew Schoolliouse Not the Crucades, nor yet the Ren-! naisance or the Reformation, caused' nny such a world awakening as has: come to pass through the present! world-war. Those three epochs in i history marked a great liberation ofj knowledge and intellectual effort,' and consequent reshaping of soci-j ety. The present crisis is literally recreating the entire world order., There is no spot on earth so remote; as to be untouched by it. By this cataclysm, all mankind is being sent to school for a training in cosmopoli-i tanism. in interdependence, in right-' eousness, and in peace. It is not 1 alone the soldiers who have left their homes for the battlefront who i-.re: acquiring new knowledge and new i convictions: all who stay behind are being lifted by these strange new, tides of the times. God's great law of growth Is work- j Ambition k Pills ! For Nervous People me sreat nerve tonic—the famous j Wendell's Ambition Pills—hat will put vigor, vim and vitality into ner- ! vou, tired out, all in, Respondent I people In a few days In many ln ■tances. Anyone can buy a box for only 60 ' cents, and H. C. Kennedy Is author- i lzed by the maker to refund the pur chase price '.t anyone Is dissatisfltd ! with the first box purchased. j Thousands praise them for gen eral debility, nervous prostration, ! mental depression r>.nd unstrung | nerves caused by over-indulgence In ' \lcohol, tobacco, or overwork of any kind. For any affllcttsn of the nervous ' ivstpnr. Wendell's Ambition Pills are ! unsurpassed, while for hysteria ' trembling and neuralgia they are' elmply splendid. Fifty cents at H. C Kennedy's and dealers everywhere I —Advertisement. FRIDAY EVENING. ing out. In a mysterious and violent fashion, the race is being lifted up to higher levels. Already we have learned a lesson which the centuries had failed to teach us —the sacred ness of the personality and rights of the weaker peoples and nations. Brotherhood has had its best ex emplification alongside of all of the strife of the past for years. Justice is seen to be more valuable than safety, and, in the words of the one great interpreter of the moral mean ings of the war, "the right is more precious than peace." All who have analyzed the mind of the soldiers are agreed that there is a new resolute ness to right the society and econo mic and industrial wrongs that nave long existed in our nations. This midnight experience of humanity is but the forerunner of the brightest morning man has known. All thoughtful persons—and who is not thoughtful in these days?—look for ward to a recons'ructed world. The Soil Wliei u Souls Grow Any soil is good for soul-growth— except that which is too rich. Herein is a spiritual paradox, contrary to the analogy of nature. Stony ground produces granite characters. Bar rens .swept by winds of adversity, grow fruitful spirits. Hard circum stances make hardy heroes. Depriva tion becomes addition. Softly-nur tured lads are changed by the war from idleness and uselessness into noble manhood* Usually, the sol dier "finds himself" in the service. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but fo! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe! —Robert Browning. While society is busy trying to make a nonentity of everybody, seek ing conformity at all costs, God is at work building personalities. Our prevalent conceptions of religion have committed few greater blunders than this, that they have exalted 'he passive virtues, and have stressed an ascetic self-effacement, so that the "model" Christian, held up lor youth's emulation, is a forceless, characterless, inoffensive creature that really is an offense to both God and man. God wants personalities. He would have His friends to be mighty in their individuality. He gets no honor from showdy saints, singing "Oh, to be nothing" and leaving no more permanent impres sion upon their world than a reflec tion does upon a mirror. Christ was all personality. He was a Somebody —for the sake of everybody. For it is a kindergarten lesson that we must be before we can do. 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Carpenter, Vagabond, felon, Jew: Whose humorous eye took In each phase Of full rich life this world displays, Yet evermore kept fast in view The far-off goal it leads us to: Who, as your hour neared, did not fail— Tbe world's fate trembled In the' scale — With your half-hearted band to dine, And chat across the bread and wine: Then went out firm to face the end, Alone, without a single friend: Who felt, as your last words con fessed. Wrong from a proud ynflinching! breast By hours of dull ignoble pain. Tour whole life's fight was fought! in vain: Would I could win and keep and ! feel That heart of love, that spirit of steel. "I would not to Thy bosom fly To slink off till the storms go by.! If you are like the man you were You'd turn with scorn from such a! prayer. Unless from some poor workhouse crone. Too toil-worn to do aught but moan. Flog me and spur me, set me! straight At some vile job I fear and hate: I Some sickening round of long en deavor, No light, no rest, no outlet ever: All at a pace that must not slack, | Tho' heart would burst and sinews 1 crack: Fog in one's eyes, the brain a-swim. | A weight like lead in every limb, ' j And a raw pit that hurts like liell Where once the light breath rose and /ell: Do you but keep me, hope or none. ; Cheery and staunch till all is done, i And, at the last gasp, quick to lend I One effort more to serve a friend. ' Do you want skin-health? If V?" , are suffering from eczema or AEgSSfyg&T some similar distressing, embarrassing skin eruption, why don't you get rid of & M "by us [ne.Resinol Ointment? Unless ' -raW i r .° ' e Is due to some serious inter- | V- ffiff na it quickly yields to R<*si- K \ u •' and 10 most cases is easi| y healed Wn \ Vl Pyit The first application usually stops U ! W>i ,tc hingand makes the skin feel cool and I §& corr ''Qrtable. 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The Captain of our Company: Call me out. look me up and down, j And paes me through without a frown. • With half a smile, but never ai word— And so I shall have met me Lord." j Again we turn to one of the books! from the trenches for the word to clinch the lesson. Pointing to the! examples of the strong Son, of God. i Chaplain Gray writes: "It is plain; that He lived on the levels where it Is always risky. It was for Him i an adventure in which He always; had great forces against Him. He! needed all His quiet strength, and, His consummate bravery. He need-| ed a spirit that could not be con- j quered by fear. It was His lot to! take great risks and to take them] daily. "The strain of It was tremendous.! There were times when He had to 1 go away, and be with God through! long, lonely nights in order to recov- ] er His strength. But from such j times He always emerged serene andi strong again. He was perpetually) on active service, and never knew! the respite of a safe life in a retired' home. The cross on which Ho died | was on His shoulders all through His; d.ays. He had a great affectionate heart, and yet had to see friend after friend depart, and to discover that His calling was making Him intense-1 ly lonely. He had all our human j longings for joy and ease, but He had | to forego them in order to be true' to His destiny. His life was in many! respects like the soldier's, the explor-l er's, the pioneer's, or that of a trav-! eler in Arctic regions. It was a per petual endurance. . . . "That is how it came to pass that men who had seemed to others quite ordinary persons learnt from Him the secret of an heroic endurance, and a splendid persistence which till ed the world with wonder. The whole world could not conquer Him, and so even His friends were lifted above the world's power." Want No Man in Mines Who Conducts a Saloon Serunton, Pa.—Mine workers in the three anthracite districts have start- Brown & Co., IT®. The. Big Uptown Home Furnishers August Furniture Sale In view of the present general shortage in nearly all lines of manufactured goods, it was really a serious question for some time, whether or not we should this year, hold our usual August Furniture Sale; not for the reason that we do not have a good stock of goods in our store at the present time, as we fortunately have one of the best and largest stocks we ever had, but with the prospects in the very near future of being sub jected to a decreased production and further advances in prices in all our lines, it looked as though it would be the best judgment as well as probably conforming to Govern ment methods for us not to push for the regular August Furniture business as in for mer years. On the other hand we felt as though our customers' interests also deserved our best consideration along these same lines, thereby helping them to aid the Government by a proper conservation of their own resources in a saving on their purchases. We did not want-to disappoint them. Taking everything into serious consideration we finally de cided that it was only proper and right that our August Sale should be held as in former years. In a few words we say, Come Here This Month for Your Home Furnishings and expect to see a first class stock of goods, priced at the most liberal reductions from our regular selling prices which cannot help but mean big savings over goods bought later in the fall season. Especially is this true when you realize that all goods coming in from now on must necessarily take higher prices than present regular prices. One more word, Buy as Early in the Month as Possible. Ed a movement to divorce the mines from the saloon by decreeing that no man can work in the collieries and at the same time conduct a liquor es tablishment. The movement was started in District No. 9, but is find ing favor in Districts Nos. 1 and 7. Those objecting the practice of hav ing saloonkeepers work in the mines say a miner who spends almost the entire night behind a bar is in no shape to report for work and handle explosives, etc. They also maintain a clause in the union rule states plain ly that men engaged in the liquor tiade cannot be members of the union. This clause has never been strictly en forced. AUGUST 2, 1918 State Won't Compel RRs. to Carry Banned Paper MmllNon. Wis. The Wisconsin Railroad Commission denied that it had jurisdiction to compel express companies of the state to carry the copies of th.e Milwaukee leader. Socialist paper, which had been barred from the mails by the United States Government. It holds that the publication should bring the matter into the courts by a mandamus action. It declares the matter is judicial and not administra tive. Every Child in Berlin to Receive a Pass-Book New York.— Every child in Berlin Is to receive a passbook shown a deposit c! one mark, according to a plan announced by the Berlin City Council and the Berlin Saving' Bank, a municipal institution. TMa method was adopted as a means of celebrat ing the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the bank on June 15. The annual birth rate of Berlin Is 40,000. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets.—Adv.
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