4 v ______ • I WAR'S REDISCOVERY IN RELIGION By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Many messages• for the churches, * k are coming back from the battle- 1 fields of France. All the world Is lis- i ' tsning for this transforming < struggle may have<to say upon life's, varied phases. We instinctively know that more than the map of the • world is being made over in the melt- ; ing pot. Since the conflict is essen-! ttally spiritual in its broader aspects, j and since it represents a mignty soul-dectsioin for every fighting man. we are looking and listening rrrast • , eagerly for what the war will have -to say of mankind concerning the - ■ things of religion. " rt It is yet too early to know all. | ~ But the one message has al-1 ready sounder clearly. Anybody who I Uf knows anything ibout the life with I •"the soldiers understands that they! pjhave come to honor the religion that; •Us expressed in terms of ministry. I • Som<*churoh;nenHiave been fat the east with which the men in! K the trenches have let go their noldi It upon the usages and conventions of* '■ the churches. All -our fine if* tions, which separaste creed from.j creed, denomination from denomi-j ' New York Music Teacher j i Says "Vinol Cures Chronic Coughs"] i- New York City, 121 Nicholas Ave- ; inue.—"I teach piano .and singings) (■ and when suffering from chronic ! - coughs colds and bronchitis. ,!, Vinol as I find it cures when i • remedies fail."—-Henry AUbers. ■- The reason Vinol is so-successful lj " in such conditions is because it is a j ' | constitutional remedy, containing j beef and cod liver peptones, iron and ; i'manganese peptonates and glycero-.j "phosphates. It strengthens and re-.; vitalizes the entire system and as-j; it dsts nature to expel the disease. >j> We know ot many such cases. > ;* George A. Gorsas. Kennedy's.' Medicine Store. 321 Market St.. C. F.ij r , Kramer, Third .and Broad Sts.; Kitz- ! •-miller's Pharmacy. 1325 Derry St.. ■* and druggists everywhere. p _ J! 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Our Assortments Are the Largest in This Section of Pennsylvania —simply because we had the foresight and the storage facilities and we received our shipments in time for this great event. We have always been known as the largest furniture store in this section, and now when the benefits of our experience can best be handed to the customer we are able to offer values that mean ' : Savings of 10 to 50 Per Cent, on Present Market Values low for a long time after the war. Make your home a good place to live and enjoy. ii t I The Davenport Bed Is Certainly the Ideal Furniture | £ j For Hot Weather j The Davenport Bed makes tha proper kind of library or living room furniture, and. whenever I K M needed — (and who wouldn't sleep downstairs in the cool)—can be quickly and easily converted !< am Into a full size bed, comfortable as any bed can be. It's comfort, economy and practicability all in one. I i I Three Piece Davenport Bed Suit for $62.00 | fot the living room or library The suit consists of full sise Davenport Bed and the Rocker and Arm Chair to match. Golden Bfl I oak, superbly finished and of the best construction throughout. Imitation brown Spanish leather upnolstery. | I Extra Special—Fumed Oak Davenport Bed $39.00 1 New and artistic design, finished rich brown fumed oak, with imitation brown Spanish leather BE' ■ upnolitery. FRIDAY EVENING, i, nation, church from church, have i simply disappeared. No man in uni ! form In France cares a copper clack ! er about tho individual characteris '! tics, which his home church boasted, i. He left his sectarianism, and many of his scruples, somewhere west of ,j the Atlantic Ocean. The newness of '' his state of mind concerning the de ' tails of his faith is hard for the nome j folk to srasp. Of deep, basic reli | gious conviction he has more than ; ever. There is no cheap and cynical infidelity in the Army. Men who are daily doing business with death, in comradeship wfth noble souls, do net scoff at the supreme realities. Discovering Anew an Old Faith These men in khaki have learned ; afresh, not knowing, usually, that ! they are but getting a new glimpse of j first principles, the primary truth of ' the teachings of Jesus. It has been j brought to them in two ways that -j the most religious thing in the uni ■j verse is to lay down one's life, either j| in one act of superb sacrifice or by ; daily, commonplace acts of service, 1 for somebody or something aside •! from self. J This sreat idea first of all gleams ' before the soldier's eyes as he broods upon his own enlistment as a sol-; 1 dier. Rightly and significantly, he ■j calls the military life a "Service."! i That great word is employed Inter-' Ichangeably for either Army or Navy. Every man in uniform "is in Serv ice." Work behind the lines, either' jat keeping books, unloading ships, i building railways, digging roads or ; erecting barracks, is called, in the i American Army, "the Service of Sup j plies. 1 ' Fortitude for the great en ; durance of the past four years has ; been put into the hearts of our flght j ing men by the knowledge that they I are engaged In a holy service of God! j and country and all mankind. > As he comeo definitely into touch j with religion, in camp and on the I field, the soldier finds it taking quite' i different forms from those which he knew at home. In his new life reli gion is synonymous with helpfulness. Chaplain* and T. M. C. A. workers do little or no preaching. They seem to assume that the soldier's religious knowledge and purposes may be tok en for grunted, and that he may be depended upon to Interpret the real significance of what they are doing. So the days of the avowed exponents of religion among: the soldiers tre filled with ministry. They serve the men with station-1 ery and stamps. They provide games,' from checkers to baseball. They | keep a supply of reading matter on ' hand. They run moving picture shows and boxing matches and a! variety of other entertainments. In their "canteens, they supply the r.ol- j diers with the things he cannot ttet: from the army; and when he goes; into battle they follow him with hot, chocolate und other helps. If he can-: not write, they pen his letters for' him. When he is In the hospital,: they visit him and do for him what ever service is in their power. Liter-; ally a hundred and one odd jobs are the major work of the representative! of religion in the Army. Salvation Army lassies at the front express | their prayers in the form of pies; their Gospel by goodies. All of this is h*eturn to the way of Jesus, who "went about doinn good,' and who avowed that He was come "Not to be ministered unto, but to minister." If the churches have imperceptibly come to stress services mflro than service, it is not because of their Gospel, but in spite of it. j Really, the church should be a fel- j lowship of helpers of men, of per sons who are willing to lay down their lives in self-forgetting ministry to anybody who may need them. lt ( was in a moment of illumination that the church began to call her pastors, i or shepherds, by the Jesus-name of ministers. Every true clergyman is above all else the chief servant of! his community. We stepped aside from the straight and narrow way j when we began to speak of them l merely as preachers. Apostolic; Christianity was a marvelous mani-j festation of self-forgetting service, j Applying*the Old Tost One night up at the very front, j during a fierce battle, I spent an in- | teresting hour with Chaplain Dan-: ker, the first American chaplain to j lose his life in France. He had un-! dergone a heavy day, including a! visit to .the trenches to arrange for i the transport and identification of, our slain. Even while we talked, there came a call for his automobile, j which he freely placed at the dis-1 posal of his brother officers. His life | was an endless succession of tasks or ministry; and as he poured out his' heart to me there was a lament that I he did not have more of a distinc- j tively "religious" sort of work. When I he let himself consider his activities. 1 he longed for more preaching and | "spiritual" ministrations. Such was; the conscientious sensitiveness of the! man. As a simple matter of fact, his tireless toil for the men of the regiment, in endless forms of help fulness, Crom mall to money, reveal ed his miss-on to them more than any words could do. It was by the still unfinished grave of one of our i dead, whom he had buried, that a; member of the funeral detail re- j counted to me the courage and devo-| JIAJRJRISBTXR.G TELEGRAPH tlon of Chaplain Danker. The French government honored him with the War Cross; and then he won what the soldiers call the "highest decora tion, the wooden cross." Naturally, when the cables brought tho tragic news of Chaplain Danker's battlefield death, I thought of the praise that he would win from his Lord. It would not be, "Well performed. O noble ecclesiastic"; j nor. "Well spoken, O eloquent ora- I tor," nor. "Well conducted, O learned I ritualist," nor "Well drilled, O effl | clent officer"; but it would be "Well! done, good and faithful servant; en ter thou info the joy of thy Lord." | Heaven's rewjy-ds are for the doers I of the deeds that make men think of I Christ. The old. old test, applied by; | the Master himself, is this word that ; touches only helpfulness: ."Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done It unto me." Come to think of it, this has to bo so. For any other test would shut out most of us. If the divine favor were to be extended only to the elo quent or the wise or the powerful j or the well-placed or the rich, most! lof us would be excluded. But since it is given to the doers of deeds — ' the samples enumerated being of the most inconspicuous and humble sort —we are all of us let In. Helping ; others Is serving Christ. We do the will of Jesus when we minister to ; men. The way to go the limit in the service of our Lord is pointed out in the Golden Text of this lesson— "Rear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." War-Work as Worship Perhaps the common heart to ( mankind has been quicker to com prehend the genius of Jesus than some who are responsible for the i conduct of the churches. Instinc tively, since the beginning of the war, devoted patriots have given I themselves to doing things for the ; soldiers. There is no service too lowly for the highest to perform in behalf of the fighting men. This mood of ministry has fairly trans formed Great Britain. There, as , here, millions of hands are busily I knitting for the men. High-born wo j men, in all of the allied countries.! don the unitorm of the Red Cross | and do the heavy work of station res ; taurateurs Tor the traveling troops, j Let a call go forth for any kind of i work for thp men in the service, and: I there are qpuntless respons'es. i In this spirit of ministry, which is I as holy in its springs as worship it | self, men and women are expressing ! their consecration to a cause which j they believe of God. I could fill this j column with a catalog of the war j work of volunteer civilians that I 1 have personally witnessed in many of the lands at war. All night long ! in London, for instance, there are I volunteer motorcars carrying soldiers 'from station to station, while other patriots toil smilingly at canteens. Colonials resident in London are reg ularly organized to fake time from I their' daily employ to meet the troop trains that bring in the Canadian pnd Anzac soldiers from France. Indeed,! ! it is quite a diserace in Grpat Britain] ! for one not to be usefully employed, j in some sort of war work. As I have' I looked upon this service in its many ! forms, tears have started to my eyes, | for the scene has been more impres sive than any cathedral service I ever attended. It iB the exalted heart of a people following in the way of Jesus. This is the new conception of patriotism that is raising the level of the life of the nations. We have learned the glory of service, the ; grandeur of laying all of our pos : sessions and powers upon the altar of country and humanity. We nave given of our sons and of our sub stance and of our selves, and yet] we long for newer, better, and even more sacrificial ways of honoring ! our God in his great way. ! He that careth for the sick and ihs wounded. Watcheth. not alone; There are three in the darkness to gether. And the third is the Lord. —Henry Van Dyke. Walking the New Way By this path of ministry, this j spirit of service, this heart of help : fulness, the church is yet to follow i her Lord into the new day of social t welfare which the war has opened i before her feet. One needs no fuller i equipment for social service than a , passion to minister to men, unsel fishly and unknown, in the spirit of Jesus. It is not so much a fresh program that the church is to have, as a new spirit and a new devo tion. an absorption In the mind of i Jesus. This will make helpfulness free from self-consciousness for it is impossible to be a good neighbor while thinking about one's own neighborllntss. As a bequest of the war, we shall surely find the church of the new era a ministering body, in a large sphere, animated by love and loyalty to Christ. . There has just come to me from a missionaiy friend in India a let ter telling of the work in his mis sion. It is wholly a recital of Vorks of helpfulness He gives some para graphs to the great civic exhibition, in the native state of Gwalior, and to the Mission's part therein. I quote some passages: The Gwalior exhibition has just closed and after it Is all over it is said to hav? been the largest and most interesting on record in Cen tral India. The North Ipdia Mission entered on a new era in mission work, for all the agricultural ar rangements for the exhibition were In Its hand. Mr. Griffin with his tractors actually plowing, his har rows harrowing, his pumps pump ing, his fine crops of pedigreed wheat and grain, proved an attrac tion superior to the wrestling arena. Dr. Kenoyer in his beautiful research laboratory, with experiments of all kinds under way that the Indian farmers could see and understand, his charts, miscroscopes, and seed testlng, was more popular than the Indian juggler who makes the man go tree grow and bear fruit under a gunny bag. "Mrs. Wiser, both her demonstra tions of fruit canning and vegetable preservation, showing the people of India a cheap, sanitary and easy way of saving food, was much more popular than the nautch-girl. The Maharajah brought down the ladies of the palace to see and learn her methods. As he was a mere man he could not go in under the canopy, which was kept strictly purdah. The fruit and vegetables were grown in the palace gardens, the jars were made in the state pottery, common Indian cooking vessels were used and the little common Indian portable! stoves gave the fire for cooking and sterilization. The attention was drawn to the fact that India could do these thing 6 for herself, just as well as depend upon Europe and America for preserved fruits and vegetables. A few days after Mrs. Wiser had shown the Ranis and Princesses how to can and put up food, the Maharajah sent them back to demonstrate to Mrs. Wiser how well they had learned their lessons. He wanted to be sure they got it right, as he will have to eat the things they put up. "Mr. Slater came over with a lot of his chickens from Etah to man age the poultry part of the exhibi tion. It was the best poultry show I have ever seen In India." And that Is missions after the modern mode—or ministry after the Jesus pattern. v v> The New Store WM STROUSE Jg Right at it! Right at it with hammer and tongs! mjp "Put all the pep you have into it" said ~V7H|I \W the big chief, when he told the boys fm/ A to be on the job and serve the on- ' iV \ rushing customers in our , . August Final Sale JfQi^ of men's and young men's suits hi \ rjl which takes on a new start, Saturday slB 1 is the price and you choose from suits that were $25, S2B, S3O and $35. Young Men's Suits, sizes 33 to 44 Men's Regular sizes 34 to 44 Men's Stout Suits up to 48 You can take care of your future needs now and be on the right side of the ledger. And Palm Beach Suits SQ9S And Kool Kloth Suits O They are regular SIO.OO, $12.50 and $15.00 grades All our $2.50 to $3.50 Straw Hats, $1.95 L In The Wm. Strouse Men's Furnishing Sections Metric Shirts r They give a fellow all 4 the individuality of style B II he is looking for and the /7721y// // W V wear he can't get (llIjM//H W in ordinary shirts. These /// IrwSl 1111 Soft Collar Madras Shirts ((/flHf/ Sggg/f at are corking JU Tfdjj I 11/ 7/b*/) good examples. The col- jgHJ 1j ( I JL? .ors are guaranteed fast. I The Full Line Runs From $2.00 Up I In The Wm. Strouse Boys' Clothing Sections F i nal August Sale of Boys' Suits t Starts Saturday We have gathered' into one big assort ment suits that were selling at $7.50, $8.50 and SIO.OO and put them all in at The Sizes Range From 7 to 18 Years Finest fabrics that are used in this season's clothes and the best styles Juvenile Suits — nr . Ages 2 to 18 years— T* Were $5.00 Saturday ™ MM The Specialty Store for Men and Boys 310 Market St.
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