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
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By the
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You needn't have your teeth pulled
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Kennedy, Geo. A. Gorgas or any live
local druggist and ask for one ounce
of Epithol—remember the name,
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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
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All the druggists named above dis
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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
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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.
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