INSIDE THE BID BONDS The International Sunday School Lesson For July 13 Is "Baptism" —Matt. 28:18-20; Acts 8:34-40 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS Along with us on a trip to Mt. Sinai is the black Berber cook of ■ay Arabic-speaking friend and com panion, Prof. C. P. Russell, of As siut. This man Mohammed belongs to some dervish order or other which finds him friends continually. On the trains, oboard ship, in the desert, apparently everywhere in this part of the world, he runs across fellow members of his order who help him through. I have seen him, in a strange city, greet one of f his fellow members most solemnly, k. with three claps of the hand, and three touchings of the breast and the forehead. The incident naturally started thoughts of the desirability of a great fraternity, open to all peo k pie everywhere, which would insure comradeship and helpfulness and all the other obligations of brother hood. Really, such a tie already exists. There is a fellowship, circling the world, made up of rich and poor, wise and unlettered, old and young, and pledged to just such mutual service as our man Mohammed has been experiencing. That fellowship is the Christian faith, and its initia tory rite is the sacrament of bap tism. Baptized believers form the greatest order in the world. They are bound by the strongest ties. , Their common concerns and obliga tions are vaster than any that the Berbers could possibly know. In a day of theories, this is not a Doctor Tells How to Strengthen Eyesight By the Bon-Opto, says Dr. ■ Le wi a, I K2i[JlQ|J have seen KNjHUMRjfUPVS """'r 11 ' CiTf'ilT'lliTilfig strength- ened 50% mßTtMlJllw many instances, and quick relief brought to inflamed, aching, itching, burning, work-strained, watery eyes. Read the doctor's full statement soon t° appear in this paper. 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SHE YOUR TEEIH FROiypm Before Tlicy l.ooiten nml Pall Out— Temlcr, Bleeding Gum* Are Warn ing Signal* of Oangerou* Itigg* Disease, lion- to Treat at Home Don't lose your teetli from Pyor rhoea or Riggs Disease. It's unneces sary now. There is no reason why everybody cafinot have good firm teeth and healthy gums and be free of the humiliation of sore, diseased gums and unsightly, decaying teeth. You needn't have your teeth pulled or wear false ones. Simply go to H. C. Kennedy, Geo. A. Gorgas or any live local druggist and ask for one ounce of Epithol—remember the name, E-P-I-T-H-O-L, and use it as direct ed. This is the prescription of a famous New York dentist and it seems to work like magic on loose teeth and sore, tender. lnllamed, receding, shrunken, spongy, bleeding or pus discharging gums. Teeth tighten and the gums grow sound and healthy and the bleeding pus discharge soon stops. Both dentists and users are amazed at the wonderful improvement it brings so quickly. All the druggists named above dis pense Epithol on thr positive guaran tee that unless it gives satisfactory results the money paid for it will he refunded. This makes lis trial a safe and easy matter and certainly proves its value. What she doesn't know that Resinol Soap K would clear her skin "She would be a pretty girl, if it Eof that pimply, blotchy complex- j ion!" But the regular uie of Resinol | Soap, aided at first by a little Resinol Ointment, would probably make it cfear, fresh and charming, if a poor skin is your handicap, begin using Resinol Soap and see how quickly it improves. .. Rerinot Sea? tnd ftrsinel Ouunwni an mid bv'ldrus ''sflt** / M * < * u ,or ' ,N "mpl* of utli.riuio IJept s-K, Raw FRIDAY EVENING, ' HHWISBURO TEEEGKXFH JULY 11, 1919. theory. The greatest bonds on earth or in heaven are those which unite the disciples of Jesus. For the sake of a secret society or a social club or a political organization, few men would care to die. Throughout long centuries, though, men and women and even little children have gone smilingly to death for the sake of the Church of Christ. That Church is to-day the most widespread, the most potent, the most hopeful of all organizations into which mankind has been gathered. Sometimes she is laggard, and slow to discern the signs of the times or to hear the voice of divine opportunity; never, theless, the Church possesses the power to solve our imperiled civili zation. and to give vital effect to the new programs of human welfare which have emerged from the war. The Admission Fee There is a price to membership in this biggest and best of bodies. Our vague-thinking time is attempt ing to create —as witness recent ex periments in New York and Cairo— a new sort of church without tests or obligations, wherein Christian, Moslem. Jew and agnostic may stand on a common basis of mem bership. This is no new folly; but it is still folly. There is one un changeable condition of membership in the Christian Church, and that is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. Societies and clubs galore may be constituted on a looser founda tion; and in business and politics and social relations people of all creeds may mingle harmoniously. But the Christian Church is com posed exclusively of the disciples of Christ, who have paid the admission fee of surrender of their own wills to his sovereignty: so that they no longer belong to themselves, but to Him. This unity of obligation and of spirit, so that the mind of Christ may work out in the acts of his friends, is what gives the Church her unmatched potentiality as a force for good will and brotherhood and progress among mankind. Through her the sublime ideals of Jesus become operative. She would lose lier power if she relaxed the ! essential condition of her member ship The doors of Church mem bership are open to all people ev erywhere who wilt consent to pay the price of entrance. A Universal Rite One condition that Jesus himself attached to the work of disclpling the world was that all recruits should be baptized into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Varying views of baptism are held by different branches of the Chris tian Church, but all accept the institution —although the Society of Friends discards the outward sym bol and regards only the spiritual baptism. With this single exception, so far as I am aware, all groups of Christians cveywhere—Greeks, Lat ins, Protestants, Gregorians, Nestor ians, Abyssinians and the other rep resentatives of the eastern Church — employ the rite of baptism by wa ter. Save for a few Protestant bod ies. all use the method of sprink ling, rather than immersion. Upon this point there used to be heated controversies, especially ii> America. Our day's mood is opporAl to these discussions; whatever the mode, baptized believers are truly baptized into the mystical body of Christ, who himself ever deemed the spirit, and not the letter, the essen tial thing. Friends and followers of Jesus have too serious business on hand in these days to permit them to differ about interpretations of forms. Reunion for service and union with Christ are the essential things which are not to be hindered by the amount of water used in carrying out tho sacrament and symbol of baptism. The meaning of this rite is three fold. It suggests submission to the salvation and sovereignty of Christ: the baptized one is offered up to the ordinance and the obligation. It Is a master's mark on the forehead. Then the use of water is a symbol of cleansing; all who join Jesus must be washed of their sins and their self-will. That is what man kind needs most. A holy heart cleansing would do more for the world than the League of Nations. At the very portal of admission to the Christian fellowship stands this sign of purified nature. No body is truly baptized into Christ who persists in known sin. The sacrament of baptism will not save such. It is the outward token of an inward reality. Only a clean church can conquer a corrupt world. In the third place this rite is a mystery. It represents a spiritual union between the human heart and the divine Lord. No man can tell bow this takes place; any more than the scientist can explain the union of two human hearts in true love. Despite and beyond all rationality, the mystery of grafting of a soul into Christ is a proved reality. There are many who will read these lines who can sincerely say, from the depths of their spirits, "For to mo, to live is Christ." Union For Conquest Ordinary societies grow only so long as their average members pos sess the recruiting spirit. When membership ceases to interest them sutficiently to seek actively to draw others into their ranks, the organi zation begins to decline. It is to he noted that Jesus gave the sign of baptism In connection with his com- ! mission to recruit. "Go ye • * • i make disciples * • baptize them." There may be those who choose j lo study this theme from a purely doctrinal standpoint; 1 prefer to ro- I gard it as a phase of the burning I question of present-day aggressive I enterprise by an aroused Church. Baptism is an adjunct of Christian conquest. It recalls us partlcuarly, ! at this grave hour, to the importance I of maintaining the high spiritual I standards and prat-tires of the New i Testament. The Church is to bestir j herself, not merely for social re- ! form: that is but an aftermath of j spiritual regeneration. She is first I of all to win men to Christ; In that j new relation they will find them- ' selves won to one another. Trans- ! formed lives will transform the j world. The shortest, surest route to I social amelioration Is personal sal- Nation. Redeemed men will redeem their time. Two Persons in Bradford Killed in Tornado's Path Ity Aaaociatnl Pre an. Bradford. Pa., July 11.- Two per sons were killed, muny others suf fered injuries unrt twenty-five houses were completely demolished by a tornado which swept a narrow path through Bradford yesterday. About tiftv houses were damaged. One small dwelling was carried a quar ter of a utile by the twister. Local Hero Gets First Victory Button When Private Lester Carson, Co. L, 111 th Infantry, came Into the Army Recruiting Headquarters to day to get his Victory Liberty Button, ire little realized that he was the llrst Wm. Strouse's Big Clothing Sale Beginning Saturday Morning ; The Great Event of the Season 125 Men's and Young Men's HIGH GRADE SUITS / from our regular stocks of Spring anajpp^^T WmM%i (If/ Summer models including ADLER- Wmmm\6rm ROCHESTER MODELS-have been W|lpj llf marked to sell at a price that no other Jf Wm EflrfSii stores dare hope to equal Jjf JBwKtfw || I $16.75 Every man knows that such economy in clothes buying under present market conditions is an exceptional event, and no matter how many clothes a man may have, it will be a good investment to buy one or more of these suits • Here's Good News For Our Friends, The Boys Great Reduction Sale on Suits t# Bathing Suits, Shirts, Waists, Hats and Caps Boys $7.50 Suits . $5.85 ALL OUR BOYS' STRAW HATS Boys' $8.50 Suits . $6.85 SELLING AT JUST HALF PRICE Boys SIO.OO Suits $7.85 Boys' Caps Boys' Boys' $12.50 Suits $9.85 Reduced Bathing SPEC AL Boys' sls Suits .ftll 85 minrw 70c Suits V-T. D." R „. (j.-. q q ., — J, ' * P • SI.OO Suits . 79c KNEE PANTS ' Boys $lB Suits . $14.85 $1.50 Caps $1.19 sl-50 Suits $1.19 Boys' S2O Suits . $15.85 $2.00 Caps $1.69 sl*so luits S2A9 C A Lot About 100 Boys' Wash Suits Slightly Soiled—Are Marked to Sell at Exactly One-Halt Of Original Prices Wm RT fn Harrisburg's Dependable Store TV m. Oirouse d CO., 310 Market Street a * . ex-soldier in this district to get this official decoration which Uncle Sam ts giving to his former Soldiers. Carson was the first man to claim his. Not only that but he was tho first man to claim a silver button to which wounded men- only are en titled. In addition to this, Carson is the modest possessor of a Distin guished Service Cross. Lieutenant Hutchinson, who Issued Carson his silver Victory Button n-oticed the Cross and congratulated him on his fine record. "Oh, I was pretty lucky, Sir.' "What did you do to get it?" asked the Officer. Then Carson showed his official citation, which told how he had been a runner between Fismcs and Fismette. He bravely carried a very important message through a severe barrage of shrapr.-el, and machine gun bullets. One runner had previ ously been killed attempting to ac complish the journey. Carson came i through, wounded, yet able to deliver the message. Big Demand For Ship Passage From Tokio to America Tokio, July 11.—So difficult is it to obtain passage on any steamer ' for the United States or Canada that advertisements are beginning to aft pear in the newspapers offering premium for cabins or berths a& ready reserved. The overcrowding is due to the fact that a large nun* ber of Japanese are visiting th< United States and Europe and th* many foreign residents their homelands. 11
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