SHAME'S SYMBOL, VICTORY'S j EMBLEM ; Tlic International Sunday School Lesson l ; 'or XJocoinlwr 11 Is "At the Trial mid Crucifixion of Jesus"—.John 18:15-27; 19:25-27 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS America's most famous business man is also a life-long Sunday school teacher, he older he grows, the stronger is the hold of his Bible class and brotherhood upon him. Recently, 1 went through three morning services with him —an "in ner circle" Bible class, a large men's brotherhood and a church service. He himself spends all of Sunday in the big downtown church of which he is an officer, or else visiting the siek in the neighborhood. What most interested me was the hold that the crucifixion of Jesus has taken upon this man's thinking, Again and again he adverted to it as the center of Christian faith and hope. Jt was he who started the crowd of men singing, "At the Cross, at the Cross." When a returned prodigal, ar ex-convict, testified to the* change made in his life by the Crucified Christ, this great merchant not only approved it publicly, but later spoke to me privately of the significance of the testimony. In the famous old church with which his name is associated he has seen the miracle wrought times beyond num ber, of men and women whose lives were made clean by the blood of Christ. Musing upon the theme, memory harks swiftly back to France and to Macedonia and to Palestine, where lows upon rows, acres upon acres, of little crosses mark the resting place of the soldier dead. This has been the war of the cross. By some impulse deeper than reason, the na tions have chosen the cross symbol for the fallen —Protestant England, once-atheistic France, Catholic Italy, orthodox Serbia, Romania and Greece. All accept the cross as the significant memorial of the men who have laid down their lives for the Cause. Instinctively, we have placed them in fellowship with the Saviour who has given the cross its mean ing of victory and of vicariousness. Crosses At Mount Sinai Is it not becoming clear that only the Cross will save our troubled time? We have tried legislation and arbitration and war and a council of nations; yet still the unrest of humanity grows apace. All that wis dom and law could do lias been done; but in vain. There is knowl edge enough in the world to save civilization; and Jaw enough: and material force enough; nevertheless, organized society is in a desperate case to-day. 1 am reminded of a spectacle which I observed at Ml. Sinai last summer. Surmounting the Mountain of the Law. and all the surround ing peaks, are iron crosses, erected centuries ago by devout Greek monks from St. Katherine's Mon astery. At pains and personal risk, they placed the symbol of our faith upon those rocky peaks: sensing the great truth that the Mountain of the Law, without the sign of Love and Sacrifice, is incomplete. Moses is inadequate, except as he leads to Christ. Mount Sinai is bare and 5 Open an Account Here For Your~ ~~ 311 Christmas Clothes—Pay Later n | |Do Your Xmas Shopping Now. Select Your Xmas | jc Clothes Now While Our Selection is Complete • I | Delightful New Apparel that will delight the eye and please the pocketbook { I evt T w °man. The Xmas Spirit is in this store and our holiday selection J iJ stunmn g models is ready. Every case and department are brim full. We ( have prepared long in advance for the holiday customers and it is very gratify- A ing to us to know we can furnish our customers with superior quality merchandise |l! y. at prices to please all. |X r ■ —— rij Ladies' Coats M Visit our rj II $20.00 and up MeiTst.it. 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Of course we should deal vigorously with lawbreakers, all lawbreakers, regardless of class; but even when so doing the motive needs to be the motive of Calvary, which is to save. Love to the point of self-sacrifice alone can deliver the world from the menace of bitterness and selfishness and vindictiveness and class-spirit. The I'ncltastcncil Nations Real radicalism is. in a dictionary sense, the getting down to the root of things. The superficial thing of the l'olsheviki is not genuine radi- calism; it is the most obvious and shallow sort of unrestrained self interest. 11' the thinking people of to-day would really turn radical they would quickly perceive that at the root of a successful social order, even as it was put at the foundation of our constitutional democracy, there must be the spirit of good will to men, and of the subordination of the desires of the individual for the sake of the community. True radi calism digs deep until it comes to the cross foundation. Apply that test to the times. The common cry is that the world needs to lie reformed. Assuredly. Aigl to lie remade. Pes. And to be reled. Doubtless. And to be reorganized. Admittedly. And to be re-educated. Without question. But beyond all those needs, and underlying them ev ery one, is the all-pervading need that the world be saved—saved from itself and its old self-centered na ture, which the preachers call sin; saved from foolish leaders and fatu ous reformers; saved from theorists and demagogs; saved from heedless followers of everything that is new, and saved from the blind obscurant ism which clings only to what used to he. . War lias not chastened humanity: sorrow lias not chastened it, nor yet hunger or cold or vast social up heavals. Is it not time that we turn aside from our cheap and futile de vices for bettering life and kneel at the foot of the Cross, where peace has ever been found by the peni tent? We have failed to save our selves: why not let-the Christ save us? Bis yearning for the world's betterment is more real tliun that of the most solicitous publicist. If we could but hear. He still is crying from His Cross, "Come unto Me. all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest." Tlic Master Word The master word for our troubled to-day is the Master's word. In front of a time thrt is engrossed in the pursuit of more money, more leisure, new pleasures, fresh sensa- tions, trivial and prideful gratifica tions, He holds up the Cross upon which He was uplioldon. "I, 1f 1' be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me." The new level of life we seek is the Cross-level. It is salvation from sin that is a more pressing need of the land to-day than the need for lower prices or for greater | production or for social and indus • trial peace. Once let the world come | to the foot of the Cross, and every | thing, yes, literally everything, that I ails our sickly time will be healed straightway. To save the world it Is necessary | to save the people in the world. Ana | when they are saved from sin they 1 will be saved from everything that lis the matter with our day. The j broken heart of the Saviour will j break the proud and stubborn and 1 wilful hearts of all df us who are : hurting our generation. His vast ' love will drown our miserable set l lishness. What salth the Scripture? ! "He died for all that they that live | should no longer live unto them i selves, but unto Him who for their j sakes died and rose ngain." All the problems of poverty and t pelf meet in the Christ on the Cross, ' and are there solved. Says Harrv ( Lee: | "My Master was so very poor ! They nailed Him to a cross: | So very rich my Muster was ! He gave His all j And knew no loss." i The Greatest Story of All Time Unable to do more than cast a clouded glance at the unfathomable ! meanings of the crucifixion of Jesus | for this era, wo turn to the inspired ; story itself, quoting the Weymouth , tierslon: "Then Pilate took Jesus and | scourged Him. And the soldiers, i twisting twigs of thorn into a wreath j put it on His head, and threw | round Him a crimson cloak. Then ; they began to march up to Him, saying in a mocking voice, ! " 'Hail, King of the Jews!" j "And they struck Him with the ; palms of their hands, j "Once more Pilate came out and I said to the Jews. ! " # 'See, lam bringing him out to : you" to let you clearly understand j that 1 find no crime in hint.' j 'So Jesus came out, wearing the I wreath of thorns and the crimson ; cloak. And Pilate said to them, " 'See, there is the man.' I "As soon then as the High Priests and the officers saw Him, they | shouted, ( " 'To the cross! To the cross!' " 'Take him yourselves and crucify j him,' said Pilate; 'for I, at any rate, find no crime in Him.' " 'We,' replied the Jews,, 'have a j Law, and in accordance with that I Law he ought to die, for having j claimed to be the Son of God.' "It was the day of Preparation for I the Passover, about 6 o'clock in the I morning. Then he said to the Jews, ! "There is your king!' i "This caused a storm of outcries, " 'Away with him! Away with I him! Crucify him!" " 'Ant r to crucify your king?' I Pilate asked. j " 'We have no king, except Caesar,' answered the High Priests. "Then Pilate gave Him up to them ' to be crucified. "Accordingly they took Jesus; and He went out carrying His own cross, to the place called ".Skull-place or In Hebrew, Golgotha—wliere thev nailed Him to a cross, and two oth ers at the same time, one on each side and Jesus in the middle. And l Pilate wrote a notice and had it \ fastened to tlic top of the cross, it j ran thus: 'Jesus the Nazarenc. the King of | the Jews' "Many of the Jews read this no- : tiee, for the place where Jesus was ! crucified was near the city, and the I notice was in three languages—He- j brew, Latin and Greek. This led the Jewish High Priests to remonstrate i with Pilate. i " 'You should not write, 'The King of the Jews," they said, 'but that he , claimed to be King of the Jews.' | "What I have written I have writ- j ten,' was Pilate's answer.' " Pays High Tribute to Late Col. Roosevelt on Receiving Medallions Kio De Janeiro, Dec. s.—General ! Candido Rondoir, famous Brazilian ; explorer and companion of Theodore j Roosevelt when he explored the j "River of Doubt," paid high tribute to Colonel Roosevelt the other night, when before a distinguished j audience in the Municipal Theater, the General was presented with me dallions from the New York Geolog ical Society, the Explorers' Club of New York and the Rio de Janeiro Geographical Society. • "At this moment when I am so glad and grateful to receive your homage," General Rondon said, "the image of my virile and dear friend Roosevelt is with me. I see before me the massive structure of his tine body, his radiant joviality* his keen and intelligent eye." The General recalled the times he had spent with Colonel Roosevelt on various expeditions, especially in the exploration of the River of Doubt. The Colonel, he said, was al ways first on the march. He re ferred to Colonel Roosevelt's travels and explorations in South America in company with his son Kerniit . 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