12 CITY TO CELEBRATE IN.THE RELIGIOUS WORLD At the general conference session of the I'nited Evangelical Church, held at York, recently, the election of . the general officers was fraught with great interest. The following was the result: Bishops, W. F. Heil. D. D., Allentown, who had previ ously served eight years in the bish opric, and the Rev. M. T. Maze. D. D., of LeMars. lowa, who, when elected, was financial agent of the Western Union College: editor of The Evangelical: the Uev. H. B. Hartzler. D. D., Harrisburg. associ ate editor, former Bishop W. H. Fouke, Naperville. 111.; editor of Sunday school and K. L. C. E. liter ature, former Bishop W. M. Stan ford, D. D., Harrisburg; associate editor, the Rev. W. E. Peffley, Har risburg; president of the Missionary Society, former Bishop U. F. Swen gel, D. D., Harrisburg; correspond ing secretary of the Missionary So ciety, the Rev. B. H. Niebel. D. I>., Penbrook; recording secretary, the Rev. J. Q. A. Curry, Johnstown; treasurer, J. G. Mohn, Reading; publisher, J. J. Nungesser. Harris burg. Many prominent church leaders are represented In the call to prayer. Men and women with a faith that will not shrink whatever may lie fall them, are bowing before God. They have a Christian heart full of humanity and a faith that God will and does answer prayer. In a view of the universal de mand of the Christian heart for fel lowship in expressing its deeper de sires to God in an hour of national and world need, and in unison with those who "have suggested setting apart of a brief period jf time for such, we. the undersigned, in a measure leaders in our churches liy reason of our official positions there in. call upon the people throughout the land to set apart a sacred mo ment daily at the striking of high noon in which united prayers shall be offered: For those who fight and die for us: For an appreciation of the issues involved in the war: For strength to finish the task of winning a just peace: For those who loyally serve and sturdily sacrifice at the home base: For ' individual and world-wide cleansing from the sin which leads to war. For the coming of the kingdom of brotherhood and good will and God: For a revival of the faith that there shall be ultimately aw end to war and the dawning of the reign of peace. (SIGNED! Eugene R. Hendrix, Bishop M. E. Church, South. J. B. Gambrell. president South ern Baptist convention. Edgar DeWitt Jones, president. In ternal Convention of Disciples of Christ. _ William O. Shepard, Bishop M. E. Church. J. I. Vance, moderator Presby terian Church. U. S. Hurbert C. Herring, secretary National Council of Congregational Churches. William M. Anderson, moderator United Presbyterian Churches.' Alexander C. Garrett, Bishop Episcopal Church. J. v r ank Smith, moderator Pres. bvterian Church. U. S. A. George W. Coleman, chairman Northern Baptist convention "War Commission. Four months of a new pastorate at the Second Reformed Church, corner of Broad and Green streets, have done much to restore the for mer healthy condition of that con gregation. Under the splendid leadership of the Rev. Harry Nel son Bassler during a period of four teen years an active church life had ft Glass of Hot Water Before Breakfast a Splendid Habit Open sluices of the system j each morning and wash away j the poisonous, stagnant matter I j Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise; splitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, lame back, can, in stead. both look and feel as fresh a3 a daisy always by washing the poi sons and toxins from the body with phosphated hot water each "morn ing. We should drink before breakfast, a glass of real hot water with a tea spoonful of limestone phosphate in it to flush from the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the previous day's indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary tract before putting more food into the stomach. The action of limestone phosphate and hot water on an empty stomach is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans out all the sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast and :t is said to be but a little while until tlie roses begin to appear in the cheeks. A quarter pound of lime stone phosphate will cost very little at the drug store, but is sufficient to make any one \vho is bothered with biliousness, constipation, stomach trouble or rheumatism a real enthu siast on the subject of internal sani tation. Try it and you are assured that you will look better and feel better in every way shortly. ■ lIUA Sufferers, write to ll Mn day for my words wwlllß of value FREE about Weak I,ungs and how to treat Lung Trou bles. Address M. I Seat j, M. D., 102 Cincinnati, O. . JA plate without n roof which <loes| |St Interfere with taste or speech. 5 m Plates Repaired While You Walt lIAPIF'C DENTAL mftvlt 9 OFFICES >lo MARKET STREET SATURDAY EVENING* i" * . THE REV. W. F. HEIL i been developed. During the nearly j two years of his absence at the Mexican border and at Camp Han ; cock, Ga., the congregation suffered trom the lack of leadership until the first of June this year when the | duties of the church leadership were . assumed by the newlv-elected min- I tster, the Rev. Alfred Nevin Sayres. The Rev. Mr. Sayres is a native of | Lancaster. He was born and reared i in that city and educated In its public schools, being a graduate of the Lancaster High school in 1909, and a post-graduate of the Commer cial department in 1910. He re ceived his college education at- Franklin and Marshall College, where he was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1914 and entered the Theological Seminary of the Reformed' Church, located also at Lancaster, where he received the degree of B. D. at the close of his three years' course. The senior year at this institution he was also a member of the faculty of Franklin and Marshall Academy in connec tion with his theological studies. Pursuant to this seminary course the Rev. Mr. Sayres spent a year of further theological study at" Union Theological Seminary, New York City, where he again received the degree of B. D. in May of this year. During this same period he ser\ed as an assistant minister in the West Park Presbyterian Church, corner of Eighty-sixth street and Amster dam avenue, befng associated with the Revs. Anthony H. Evans. D. D., and A. W. Atterbury, D. D. The Rev. Mr. Sayres has likewise been interested in Y. M. C. A. boys' work and spent the summers of 1914-1918 at Camp Becket, Mass., as associate director to H. W. Gibson, State Boys' secretary of the Mass. and R. I. Y. M. C. A. The Rev. Sayres does not come to our city unacquainted, but has a host of friends here outside of, as well as within his parish. He joins with the members of his congrega tion in inviting all persons having no other church affiliations to enjoy the fellowship of their services which will be resumed in full order as soon as the influenza quarantine is lifted. The preaching services are held at 10.30 a. m. and 7.30 p. m., and the Sunday school exercises at 1.45 p. m. Sundays, and the mid week prayer service on Wednesday evening at 7.45. RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES The Rev. George W. Sherrick. D. D. D.. pastor of the United Brethren Church, Dallastown. died at his home after an illness due to organic trouble of several months. The de ceased was sixty years old and en tered the ministry in 1884. About 1910 Sunday schools got a footing in the Philippines, and the Sunday school union was organized the next year, with a total Sunday school membership of 8,000. Now the Sunday school membership in the islands aggregates 60.000, and last February a Sunday school con vention in Manila brought together 5,000 persons and ended in a torch light procession. Evangelist S. B. Goff, Jr., has been at work at Camp Merritt as field secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and he has seen as many as 250 men converted in a single day. The Rev. Edward W. Hart, pas tor of the Columbia Avenue Meth odist Episcopal Church, Philadel phia. is critically ill with pneu monia. The Sunday school union in Bra zil offers a certificate to all who pass examinations in the course in teacher-training and many exami nation papers have been sent in. Evangelistic meetings were in full swing at the Seventh Street Meth odist Episcopal Church, Philadel phia, until the close of the churches. The meetings were conducted by- Eva ngelist Hyde. There were forty nine conversions in one day arid a great time. The China Sunday School Union publishes three monthly magazines for adults and children. The Rev. L. W. Ketels, pastor Ridley Park M. E. Church, has left for Ixruisville, Ky., where he will be given five weeks of training for a chaplaincy in the Regular Army and then go to France. Dr. Henry Frankland will take the work at Ridley Park in charge. With Choir and Organist City organs are silent and the voices of the choir singers are mute. The order of the Harrisburg health authorities that there be no services until further danger of the spread of influenza has passed has put or ganists and singers out of business temporarily. This is the season for Harvest Home music and but for the order of the health board churches would be resounding to-morrow with strains of song commemorating the festival incident to the garnering of the fruits of the fields. "Oh. Lord. How Manifold Are Tliy Works," Harnby's thrilling musical exhorta tion, had been prepared by a number of choirs. "With Verdure Clad," the incom parable soprano aria from "The Cre ation," also was to have been sung, and there were numerous other com positions planned for rendition. Miss Casael, contralto soloist at .Reformed .Salem Church, probably has sung the last time from the choir loft of the Third Street Church until after the war closes. She was to have been heard last Sunday In solo numbers, but the church was 1 closed on account of the epidemic. "cHURCHLESS SUNDAY" BECAUSE OE INFLUENZA QUARENTINE. LUTHERANS TO UNITE SYNODS Plan to Merge the Several Branches Into One Organization i On Thursday, November 14, repre sentatives of more than three-quar- Iters of a million of confirmed Lu therans will meet in New York formally to organize the United Lu theran Church in America. The Lutheran Church is a very old one in this country, dating back to 1618 in Canada, 1639 in Pennsylvania and 1643 in Manhattan, but its mem bers are of such a liberty-loving and congregational type, and their origi nal blood has come from so many European nationalities, that they have been slow to see the merits of J centralized organization. Their first synod was organized In j 1748, and new synods have been forming rapidly ever since. A syn od represents the congregations of I a state or part of a state. In New j York and New Jersey there ar three synods that will enter the United I Lutheran Church In Pennsylvania I there are five on six. and so on. A I general body covering the United States was organized in IS2O, an other in 1367 and a third in 1886. These are *he three general bodies 1 now coming together. For the last 'year and a half they have been care ] fully preparing for the coming | merger, and next month will see • forty-three synods of the United i States and Canda joined together. Every one of these synods, and the ! three general bodies, The General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran I Church ir North America, The Gen i oral Synod of the Lutheran Church | in the United States and The United I Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran I Church in the South, have voted I singly and severally in favor of this ! move. A joint ways and means ! committee has been at work for over I a year in preparing the legal and .other details for the consolidation. On Tuesday, November 12, each of | the three bodies will meet separate ly in New York. The General Syn od will meet In St. James" Church at Madison avenue and Seventy j third street, the General Council in 1 Holy Trinity Church, Central Park | West and Sixty-fifth street, the Unit ed Synod in the Church of the Ad vent, Broadway and Ninety-thu'd street. These bodies will occupy a day or a day and a half in winding up their own affairs. On Thursday they will enter Holy Trinity Church ir. procession, each body by itselt, and preceded by the ways and means committee, and the first preliminary legal steps toward effecting a merg er v.' ll be taken. In the evening t ere v.'l' be a religious se.Vice wi.h Iloly Communion, when the Rev. Ilonry Eyster Jacobs, dean of the Mount Airy Seminary at Philadel phia and Nestor of the Lutheran Church in America, will preach the set mot). On the following morning thj ncdy will proceed .0 organize for business ard the merger will be consummated, and on Sunday after noon a great central ratification and thanksgiving mass meeting is to be he'd in the Hippodrome. The Lu theran churches of New York have organized their forces for several months and worked out with elab orate detail a program of business and hospitatity. A complete constitution for ,he government of the new body and of all its boards has been prepared and has been adopted by all the synods. This constitution is acknowledged by all to reflect the faith, spirit and practice of the Lutheran Church. Its preamble invites and continues; to invite all Lutheran synods in America to join in the one general organization on this basis. The new boards of the church will probably be chartered in the states in which they have their central office These boards will probably be located in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Chiciago. BOY SCOUTS SELLING FOURTH LIBERTY BONDS Harrisburg Boy Scouts are out to do their bit for the Fourth Liberty Loan drive in this city, from now on to the end of the campaign. What the seasoned and expert bond sales men missed, the Boy Scouts to a |"man" have promised to pick up ! between now and the nineteenth of j the month when the drive closes. ! Scouts who received awards last night for their work in the Third 'Liberty Loan drive were: | Bars, Howard Selsam, Donald 'Royal, Arthur Swanson, Lome Bay ;less, William Maclaughlin. Medals. | Bernard Cohn, William Quaid, Ed ,gar Spotts, Russel Waters, Lawrence | Rebuck, Clarence Hooker, Thomas Wickersham, William Murray, Ed ward Seighman, John M. Smith, !Karl Moeslein, William Fenstemach jer, Edgar Neis, John Earnest, Frank | Foose, Francis Raul and Scout j master Ross H. Swope. W. C. T. U. ENGAGES NOTED MUSICIAN FOR RECITAL i A musical treat Is promised to | Harrisburg when Betsy Lans Shep herd and assisting artists will ap ipear in concert in Fahnestock hall, j Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7. The artists will be heard un jder the auspices of the East Harris- I burg W. C. T. U. I They will be Miss Shepherd, the isoprano soloist; Sara Gurowitsch, I violincellist. and Alma Grade, pian 11st. Each of the three carries reams of press notices attesting to merit in playing. _ The next festival requiring spe cial music will be Thanksgiving. \\ ord to the Telegraph during the week gave the information that an unusually acceptable group of music expressing the gratitude of tile neo ple for the blessings of the year is being arranged. Had the Synod of Pennsylvania sessions been held in Pine Street Piesbyterian Church, as planned, be ginning October 22, those i attend ance would have had the pleasure of listening to excellent music by the splendid quartet choir of this church Frank A. McCarrell, organist and choirmaster, had arranged special programs for the occasion. Singers are taking advantage of the Closing of the churches in pre paring numbers for use when the ban is lifted and worshipers once more till the city sanctuaries. In spite of the war composers have written many new Christmas numbers. In a number Af "churches. if war does not further invade the choir ranks. It is planned to sing cantatas during the Christmas season. If peace comes It will mean the augmenting of choir organizations for the Christmas sea son. „ . . *** RRIF-BUE.G Bolshevik: Give Up Mines and Towns to the Allies Tokio, Friday, Oct. 12.—Bolshevik! forces abandoned the gold mining district west of Morasoefsky, in the Transbaikalia region, when the Japanese and Allied troops ap proached. according to a statement issued at the war office. The Bolshe viki left the vicinity of the loroakai gold mine when the Allied troops entered the village there. When the Allied forces entered the town of Banbuki, on September 27, no Bolsheviki troops were found. WAR WEEKLY Cut Out and Mali to Your Soldier WAR WEEKLY' HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Vol 1, No. 7. HARRISBURG, I>A„ Sept. 28, Oct. 4 Our Ynnk Edition Let's 1 Thoroughfy Understand Each Other , William BEST TELEGRAPH WAR CARTOON OF WEE.K. NEWS OF WEEK BOILED DOWN FOR OUR BUSY SOLDIERS Saturday, October 5 Thirty-five Alpine veterans and sixteen buglers arrive here for big Liberty Loan rally in Reservoir Park. livery ward in city sees heavy fall ing off in registration of voters be cause of soldiers in camps and in France. Republicans enroll almost three to one of every other party. Local draft boards arc placing large percentage of newly registered men in first class. Virtually every public meeting place is closed by state and city health authorities to tight growing epidemic of Spanish influenza or la grippe. Saloons, churches, schools, soda water fountains, clubs and lodges are hard hit. Unable to get anything else Mount Union is planning to build a foot bridge across the Juniata. D'. D. Swavely, 1 tilth Infantry, list ed as missing, turns up in a hospital. A. S. Kreider, Republican candi date for re-election to Congress to have no opposition following the withdrawal of H. H. Mercer, Me chaniesburg, Democratic nominee. G. Chal Port, state tire marshal, dies in Huntingdon county home. Dr. J. A. Lyter, pastor of Derry Street United Brethren Church, re turned by conference for another year. Monday, October 7 Lieutenant Marcel von Bereghy, former Tech High athlete, killed in action. R. W. Jones and wife seriously in jured when automobile is struck by two trolley cars in Second street. John J. Zacharias, well-known Me chanicsburg man, dies of paralytic stroke. Few changes made in minsterial ap pointments by Church of God con ference. Leo Kitzmiller.-Lemoyne, killed in Chambersburg yards. Government decides to build mil lion-dollar sulphuric acid plant in Mount Union. Pennsylvania called upon to fur nish 6,725 men for national army this month to be trained at Camp Green leaf, Georgia. John Good. 52. almost instantly killed when run down by shifter in Steelton yards. Paul J. Klinepeter is wounded sec ond time in France. Allen IC. Diffenderfer, Hlghspire, reported dead of wounds received in action. Pennsylvania has furnished 2,872 physicians for the Army and 4,902 are waiting to be called; remaining 2,098 are unfitted for service. Dauphin county court adjourns all sessions until December because of in fluenza epidemic. Cy Heckert. is promoted from ser geant to second lieutenant at Camp Hancock. Tuesday, October 8 Peter Kohlman arrested, charged with selling Intoxicants despite clos ing order in influenza quarantine. • Mrs. Catherine Feeser dies in phy sician's office of heart disease. B. F. Blough's team sells 1178,350 in bonds, for new record. Edward Saxman, Latrobe, sues Vance C. McCormhk for 125,000 al leged to be due him in a coal mine deal. Newville wins honor flag Liberty Loan drive by exceeding Its quota of $73,000 in seventy-two hours' work. William Heavers, of Cumberland county, missing for nineteen years turns up in court in ' time to avoid being declared legally dead. Using a rolling pin as a weapon, Robert Beeehman, Ephrata, kills wife, daughter and stepdaughter and com mits suicide. Plans are made for establishing "Y" hut at Bethlehem steel plant, first of kind in country. William B. Bennett and Albert M. Ilamer leave for France as Y. M. C. A. secretaries. New triennial assessment ready and property owners wishing to appeal notified to do so. Corporal William S. Noggle, 112 th Infantry, reported killed In action. Draft boards'begin calling of men for October draft. Dr. H. R. Wiener, well-known young physician, dangerously ill with pneumonia. F. W. Cranston, Reading, falls dead In Capitol Park on way te acr cept new job in Auditor General's Department. Hard Coal Men Agree on Means to Increase Output Washington, Oct. 12. —Anthracite operators and officials of the United Mine Workers conferred yesterday with the war labor policies board. It is understood an agreement has been reached on measures to in crease the output of the anthracite fields and to guard against a recur rence of the unauthorized strike re cently put into effect by some of the miners. The operators and union of ficials also have been in conference with Fuel Administrator Garfield and Secretary of Labor Wilson. Wednesday, October 9 James H. Trout, Pennsylvania engi neer, killed when two fast trains col lide near Longfellow on the Middle Division. No passengers Burt in wreck. Harrisburg called upon to send seventy and Dauphin countv to send eighty-two men to Camp Greenleaf. October 23. ' Men serving sentences in county jail are given chance to work on county bridge repairs. William H. Sidle, former burgess; of Dillsburg, and former proprietor' of the Grand Hotel in Harrisburg I dies of pneumonia, aged 49. Twelve nurses of Carlisle hospital are ill with influenza. First frost of fall does little dam- 1 age to crops. One hundred deaths result from i pneumonia at Camp Colt, Gettysburg ; John H. Pomeroy. well-known Chambersburg man, dies following an operation. Robert H. Barrow. Sunbury, Penn sylvania engineer, dies after short I illness. Martin L. Houser, Middletown, re-1 ported as being in hands of enemy,' now reported killed in action. George D. Umholtz. Progress, re ported dead in France. Steelton raises honor flag in Lib- | erty Loan drive, subscribing more! than 31,000.000, $200,000 more than quota. Thursday, October 10 Fire in pile of 10.000 tons of bi tuminous at Steelton coke plant de stroys much valuable fuel. Police elated at closing of saloons because of influenza quarantine- few arrests being made as old offenders are sober. Cumberland county prepares for "Gold Star Hour" at 11 a. m., Sundav morning, when tribute will be paid soldiers killed in action. Fall of Beirut to British army be lieved to have released family of George N. Stewart, Jr.. who have been virtually held prisoner there for months. Henry C. Miller, of Dauphin, well known young businessman, dies of pneumonia, aged 26. Sergeant William I. Laubenstein is promoted to lieutenancy in quarter master's corps. H. E. Best, 38th Infantry, report ed wounded in action. Red Cross issues instructions how to mail Christmas parcels to soldiers in 1' ranee. Technical High boys on vacation because of influenza epidemic serve as conductors on trolley cars, taking places of sick men. " Six boys arrested for sending in false (Ire alarms. William McClain and Ella Brown held for perjury because of swearing to being married to escape the draft Death is taking terrible toll here in influenza epidemic. Many Harris burg soldiers in training-camps are dying with the disease of complica tions developing into pneumonia. Friday, October 11 Steelton employes granted time and half time for all work over eight hours with privilege of electing com mittees to treat with general man ager on all questions of labor. Father J. J. Smythe, of Mt. Carmel named by Bishop McDevitt to succeed the Rev. Father Rice, recently ap pointed army chaplain, as rector of Sacred Heart Church. Sixty-three members of France's famous Foreign Legion parade here in interest of Fourth Liberty Loan. Every man has been wounded and dec orated. Lieutenant Donald Johnston, mem ber United States Aviation section reported missing after air battle. Open air school turned into emer gency hospital to combat Spanish In fluenza; all stores asked to close Sat urday evenings. Mr. and Mrs. William Shuey cele brate 50th wedding anniversary. Telephone companies ask patrons to use telephone only for necessary calls because of illness of operators with Influenza. Mrs. Sarah H. Slmonton, widow of Judge Simonton, dies in eighty seventh year. Much elation felt here over Secre tary Lansing's address declaring United States will not make peace while Kaiser Is in power. Dr. C. M. Sullivan, well-known phy sician, dies after short Illness. Mayor Keister calls on boys of city to see that there Is no noise in streets because of many sick with Spanish Influenza. Jacob Knons. one of city's oldest i residents, dies In nlnety-flfth year. LUTHERAN MEN REACH FRANCE Church Commissioners Will Carry Greetings to Military Leaders Overseas A cablegram has just been re ceived at the National Lutheran Commission headquarters in New York that its two commissioners re cently sent to France have safely ar rived in Paris. The men serving on the commission are the Rev.. Charles J. Smith, pastor of Holv Trinity Church, New York, and Frank M. Riter, of Philadelphia. They are carrying the greetings of 2,300,000 Lutherans of the United States to General Pershing, Marshal Foch and President Poincare. The occasion for the visit is the repeated invitation of the Lutheran Churches of France to the American Lutherans to send fraternal dele gates and plan mutual assistance for war work. There are a little over 100,000 French Lutherans. The congrega tions arc grouped in the rection of Montheliard, near the German boun dary in Alsace, and In and about Paris. They have taken a leading part in French war activity since France entered the war. About half of the French Lutheran clergymen have entered the army, as chaplains, hospital workers or active combat ants. Many of them have been dec orated for service. Some have been killed, among them one of the lead ing French Lutheran- pastors. With the entry of America into the war the French Lutheran Churches have organized to take care of the Lutheran hoys coming over with the American Army, not only to bring them the comfort and encouragement of their religion, but to bid them welcome and piake them feel at hon\e on a foreign soil. For that purpose a French-Amer ican Bureau has been organized with headquarters in the famous old church of St. John -in Paris. Bach Gladstone is in charge. The diocese of Montheliard has rendered splen did service recently. It is situated in the heart of the region where the American Army is active at present. Three large Lutheran Churches are located in Montheliard itself, while there are a number more in sur rounding villages. The churches as well as the homes of the parishion ers have been open to the American boys. Many letters have reached this side speaking in glowing terms of the warm welcome accorded to the Americans. The commissioners of the Lu theran Churches of America have gone to France with the message that the Lutheran Church of Amer ica will back the French Lutheran churches to their last dollar. Dr.- J. A. O. Stub, executive secretary of the National Lutheran Commission, states: "Our motto has been that the Chprch must go wherever the boys are. They are in France mak ing the supreme sacrifice. There the Church must be. We have a million dollars to back our boys. And we can get more if that is not enough. We'll use it for the boys that are fighting on the frontier line of free dom." ' CITY CHURCHES TO BE CLOSED Because of "Flu" All Religious Gatherings For Tomorrow Are Banned Every church door in Harrisburg will be shut tight tomorrow for the second Sunday in succession, be cause of the epidemic of Spanish influenza raging in the city. Fol lowing the ruling of the State Healtn Department last week, ministers of the city immediately cancelled all plans for services to be staged last Sunday. Owing to the fact that the ban on public gatherings has not been lifted, there were no plans made for any religious or secular meetings tomorrow. Therefore the Telegraph does not publish any church notices today. In addition to tomorrow being a "churchless Sunday" it will be cele brated as a "gasless Sunday" and no automobiles will be seen on the street unless they arp on necessary business. Since citizens of Harrisburg have been asked not to hold church ser vices tomorrow it has. been suggest ed by officers of the Harrisburg Ministerial Association that they hold family worship in their homes. As a result it is predicted that for the first time in many years family worship will be held in homes throughout the city. Many have spoken about the happy plan of the pastor of Market Square Church to give a brief mes sage from the bulletin board, to the passing people. The second message was a prayer. It read: "Heal our sickness, O Lord! and by Thy great mercy and power defend us from personal, civic and national perils, this day; for the love of Thy Son, our Saviour." " The prayer might well be copied, and used by any people who feel the need of some form of prayer for the minute angelus. When it was taken down the pastor put in its stead a prayer of David, found in the 57th Psalm. It is: "Be merciful unto me, O God; for my soul taketh refuge in thee; yea, in the shadow of Thy wings will I take refuge, until these calamities be I overpast." HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS Be Better Looking—Take Olive Tablets If your skin is yellow—complexion pallid—tongue coated —appetite poor— you have a bad taste in your mouth— a lazy, no-good feeling—you should take Olive Tablets. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets—a sub stitute for calomel—were prepared by Dr. Edwards after 17 years of study with his patients. Dr. Edwards'OliveTrfbletsare a purely vegetablecompoundmixedwitholiveoiL You will know them by their olive color. To have a clear, pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like childhood days you mustget at thecause. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel—yet have no dangerous after effects. They start the biie and overcome con stipation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Take one or two nightiy and note the pleasing results. rtTOniTR TT Trns " CHRISTIAN ENDEA VORERS NOT A SPENT FORCE, MINISTER SA YS Big Rally of This Church Or ganization Is Planned, to Be. Held in Harrisburg After "Flu" Epidtmic Is Cheeked Who said that Christian Endeav or is a spent force, and that the devil is getting a grip on the En deavorers? Not on your life; that must be one of those pipe dreams which a minister had after he was thrown out of the pulpit by the higher authorities for indecency, or one of tlioso minor mistakes com monly known as unbecoming to a minister. That catchword, "spent force." was started some years ago when a minister in a pessimistic mood, who applied it. in his address to all church organizations, not only to iChristian Endeavor, but to the Sun day .school and the church itself. It meant little at the time, except that the speaker was suffering from a fit of blues, and all the years since has disproved it. As for Christian Endeavor, it is twice as strong now as when that remark was first made Consider these facts and you can "realize that when an organization with a mem bership of over 4,000,000 members and joined together by 80,000 socie ties, and with a pledge which in part says, "Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength, I promise Him that I will strive to do what eper He would like to have me do," it is very much alive and has a I place in the great church organiza ' tion. ! The Rev. Francis E. Clark, D. D., of Boston, founder of the Endeavor movement, says: "Our numbers arc I growing year by year. Single cam ! paigns have added a million new members and ten thousand new so cieties in two years (not a net gain of these numbers, of course). "New and successful plans of work are constantly developed, suggested I by the officers of the United Society at the biennial conventions, operat ed and often enlarged and improved by the state unions. "The state Christian Endeavor un ions are better organized for greater efficiency each year, many of them have field secretaries who give their whole time to Christian Endeavor. ' "Intermediate and Junion En deavor societies have of late "been multiplied and improved. "The denominations, with one or two exceptions, are more and more cordial to Christian Endeavor, many having adopted the society as their | only young people's organization. "In war service Christian Endeav er has found a great opportunity. Not only are nearly 200,000 Endeav orers serving with the colors, but in production and conservation, in Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. work Endeav orers have been in the front ranks, receiving the commendation of President Wilson and many others in authority. "From foreign countries we learn that Christian Endeavor, in spite of awful war conditions, has not been seriously checked, and in some, like Mexico, Brazil and Norway, has ac tually taken new life. "Australia has just had a great convention; the British union is in better condition than before the I war; China has added 300 societies jto her ranks lately; Japanese En deavorers have more than doubled j their numbers within two years, while India has made large ad vances, as usual. Christian Endeav or is a spending force, and not a spent force It is spending its force every where for Christ and the church and the world. "Mexico, after the distraction of seven terrible years of civil war, which interrupted the life of many societies, has had a widely repre sentative national C. E. convention, wholly under native Mexican lead ers. The whole republic has been divided into Christian Endeavor dis tricts, eleven of which already have superintendents. This is a remark able illustration of the persistence and vitality of the Christian En deavor spirit and principles. They cannot be killed even by an awful war, thank God." A rousing' annual Christian En deavor rally will he hold under the auspices of the Harrisburg and Dau phin County C. E. Unions, in the Second Reformed Church, this city, as soon as the influenza disease is abated. Special music will be rendered by the Harrisburg C. E. Choral Union. A luncheon will be served by the Reformed Endeavor Society at 6.30 o'clock. The Rev Charles E. Schaeffer, D. D., Philadelphia, one of the State C. -E. Union vice-presi dents, will be the principal speaker. The Rev. Mr. Schaeffer served pas torates at Macungie, Norristown and ! Reading, and became the general secretary of the Board of Home Mis |sions of the Reformed Church in i the United States in 1908. He is Ithe secretary and treasurer of the | Commission on Evangelism of the I Federal Council of the Churches of Play Safe — Stick to KING OSCAR CIGARS because the quality is as good as ever it was. They will please and satisfy you. 7C-—worth it JOHN v.. . ian & CO. Makers Christ in America, a member of tht executive committee of the Home * Mission Council, president of the National Service Commission of the Reformed Church in the United States . He has written the com ments on the Christian Endeavor topic for The Reformed Chuitth Messenger for the last twenty-thMo years. He has just returned from a trip to the Pacific coast, where ha spent six weeks in the interests ol the home mission work. C. E. Notes Anywhere and everywhere through- * out the world "you go, | A truer C. E. union will be hard to , find, you know. For Christ and the church, friends, our best we always do * And remember the pledge as wa onward go. About the finest convention fea ture put over in a long time was Ilia hristinn Endeavor Scouts, organ ized by Chairman Harris K. Browne for the All-South Christian Endeav or convention in Memphis recently. The Rev. Daniel A. Poling, of Bos ton, started early in October on an other Christian Endeavor tour, vis iting more than fifty cities. The rallies will be continued after the churches are open again. * Endeavorers of Essex county, N. J., recently entertained 64 2 persons at their fresh-air home at New Fern wood. Nearly all of these guests, who come from the slums of the city, were kept at the home for two weeks, and all of them were chil dren except forty-seven. "The Young People's Societies of New York are doing a great work among the soldiers and sailors who are either here permanently or oth erwise, a work that is highly appreci ated by the men and is answering ' a great need of theirs," writes 'a California Endeavorer who is now 41 an officer of the United States Army. The International Christian En- * Ideavor Field Workers' Union, whose | members are largely C. E. field sec. retaries in the United States, is pre j paring for the great C. E. mission study drive in February and March, 1919. DO VOV KNOW THAT A Christian Endeavor Society was started by Endeavorers among tht V troops at Lucknow, India, some time ago? It now has more than lOC members. The state executive committee meeting to be held at Reading and the four-county C. E. convention as announced for T.ancaster are post- • poned until further notice? Cayenne pepper doesn't come from a pepper plant, nor Burgundy pitch 'from Burgundy? Jerusalem arti chokes Jo not come from Jerusa lem, nor turkeys from Turkey? Camelshair brushes are made from the tail of squirVel? German silvet is not silver, and it was invented in * China? Cork legs are not made of cork, neither do they come from Cork, Ireland? Prussia blue does 1 come from Prussia? Irißh stew is not Irish, but an English dish? Cleo- I patra's Needle was set up a thousand i years hefore that lady was born? I Chamois leather is not the hide ol {chamois, but the flesh of sheep- I skin. VIVE POINTED SAYINGS ! "The Christian must put his re ligion into politics, if democracy is to be safe."—William Shaw "The church must set an exam ple of scrupulously exact and effi cient conduct of its own business." —Arthur W. Kelly. "When can a man do a big job so easily as by making a few pencil crosses on a ballot? If he neglects this glorious privilege, he classes himself with those who do not ex ercise it because they are forbidden to, the criminals, the idiots, the in sane."—Amos R. Wells. "The cessation of beer would ef fect a saving in grain of approxi mately 3,150,000 bushels a month, ot 1,890,000,000 pounds a year."— Hoover. "There is a need for a closer re j lation between the Christians repre senting the most powerful institu tion in the world, the church, and the political parties of to-day. Thes J I need to get together."—A. J. Shartle. J TO EXTEND AID | Whenever possible the aid of the Relief Department of the * iHarrisburg Chapter, American Red iCross will be extended to families of I civilians as well as families of sol diers, it was announced this morn ling. The visiting nurses of the de ipartment, under the chairmanship lof Mrs. William Jennings, have been J doing noteworthy work in the pre jsent influenza epidemic. It is again i requested by the Red Cross that all | nurses or volunteers who can help in any way, should register at chap iter headquarters in the basement of the Public I.ibrary.
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