WORLD'S UNREST AND CHRIST
MAS PEACE
Tlie International suiulay School l.os-oti For December 21 1- "Ahe
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By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
O little town, O little town,
Vpon the hills so far,
"We see you, like a thing- sublime.
Across the great gray wastes of
time.
And men go up and men go down,
But follow still the star!
And this is humble Bethlehem I
In the Judcan wild:
And this is lowly Bethlehem
"Wherein a mother smiled;
•Tea. this is happy Bethlehem
That knew the little Child!
Aye. this is glorious Bethlehem
Where he drew living breath
(Ah, precious, precious Bethle
hem!—
So every mortal saitlil
Who brought to all that tread the
earth
* I.ife's triumph over death!
O little town. O litle town,
t'pon the hills afar.
You call to us. a thing sublime. 1
| BEAUTIFUL
Christmas Trees |
KB . RH
Thousands of the same kind of magnificent Trees that
'"' we have been supplying you with for years.
:: Fresh from Santa s Forest in the Far North
All Sizes at Reasonable Prices
1 Tree Holders, Holly Wreaths, Gravel for walks
v and drives. Popcorn and Poppers
Se hell's Seed Store
t) Hal it y Seo d s
1307-1309 Market St. ft",
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Specials For The
Christmas Holidays
AT THE
Liberty Meat Market
BROAD AND FULTON STREETS
Pure Country l.ard. 11) 26c
j Two pounds to a customer. Sold only in combination with
purchases of other products. 1
BEEF PORK
Soft Rid. lb 16e r , Tj „
Best Chuck Roast, lb 20c Fre:ih Bacon - lb 2S <~
Rump. Duck, Shoulder. Pork Roast, lb 25c
' b - ; Pork Ch °P s - lb - • • -28 & 32c
Mo Roust. lb 24C
Boneless Rib Roast, lb. 28c ■ Pork ?tt ' ;ik - ,b 32c
Sirl oi tt Porterhouse. Fresh Hams, lb 2Sc
Club, lb 23c • „
~ , , ,* , Npare Ribs, lb 23c
Round ami Pin bteaks. '
Hamburg, lb 20c
LAMB
VEAL
Veal Chops, lb 25c Leg of Spring Lamb, 1b.,28c
Kidney Roast of \ cal. Lamb Chops lb 22c
lb 25c .... , , T
Veal Flank, lb 25c kulne - v Lan,b Roast, 1b..22c
Stewing Veal, lb 18c Lamb Shoulders, lb. ..18c
MISCELLANEOUS
Bacon, lb 32c Dried Beef. l /\ lb 12c
Lebanon Bologna. ; 4 lb.. 5c Minced Ham. 34 lb 7c
Ham Bologna. : 4 lb. .. So Frankfurters, lb 22c 1
Butcher Bologna 22c Garlic Bologna, 11) 22c
Fresh and Smoked Sausage, lb 25c
Fresh dozen 78c
Fresh Selected Eggs, dozen 62c
Pudding. 11) 22c
( bir Wonderful Scrapple 10c
Pigs' beet. Pig Ears. Pig Tails, Pig Snouts. We dress ail
our own meats.
I Wmvh for the opening of our Na-aonil now alurr. nhirli will It..
■he 1110*1 uioilrrii ami Hnr*t tillalilv mrnt market in tlie cite, a i is:
lieatnlit Mreet.
Come Around and Look Around
URGES PEOPLE TO FIGHT CATARRH
WITH SIMPLE HOME MADE REMEDY
Can Make Pint at Home and Costs Little, Says Leading
Druggist of Covington,Ky., Who Has Made
Special Study of Catarrh.
Says: Inflamed Nostrils
Invite Influenza
People who say that catarrh is
a disease not to be taken serious
ly are harshly rebuked by a Ken
tucky druggist who has for years
been much interested in the
growth of this loathsome, yet al
together too common disease.
He claims that the sore, tender,
inflamed membrane of the nos
trils and throat is a nrolifl.c
breeding ground for germs—not
only the germs of Influenza, but
many other kinds as well.
If peonle would only stop ex
perimenting for two weeks and
try a simple remedy made of
Mentholized Arcine mixed with
enough boiled water to make a
full pint, half of the catarrh in
this country would be abolished.
It's really no joke for people
w the dentrifice that contains
the properties recommended as
ideal by United States Army
Dental Surgeons ft ft $
FRIDAY EVENING,
Across the great gray wastes of
time ,
For men go up and men go down,
But follow still the star!
—Clinton Scollard.
Bethlehem is real. It is a place
to which travelers may go. 1 have
been there myself within the past
six months. Myriads of devout pil
grims from this western hemisphere
will turn their steps thither as soon
as the present paralysis of normal
life is cured. New highways have
been opened by the war: so that
one mar now go from London to
Bethlehem by rail, with only two
brief ferrages on the way.
Bethlehem is in itself not the
most beautiful of Judean towns:
probably that distinction to-day be
longs to Ain Karint. where Eliza
beth dwelt and John the Baptist,
the kinsman of Jesus, was borti:
and where Mary went to visit her
cousin before the birth of the babe
of either. To-day, Bethlehem has
. who don't know about this simple
recipe to be constantly sniffing
and snuffling, blowing and hawk
ing, when all these obnoxious
symptoms as well as the foul dis
charge can be made to disappear
in a few day...
Ask for three-quarters of an
ounce of Menthoiized Arcine—
that's all you need and after you
have mixed it with enough boiled
water to make a pint, gargle the
throat twice daily and snuff or
spray some up the nostrils, as di
■ rected.
The tender nostrils will soon
lose their soreness, heal up, and be
clean and healthy.
Important Reminder: Just as
soon as anyone in the family gets
a cold in the head, check it at once
with this same medicine. s
lost much of its Oriental character,
because of the many modern Chris
tlon buildings in it, which devotion
and missionary zeal have reared.
The population is mostly Christian;
and the main industries are the
working in mother-of-peal and
olive-wood. Betliiehemites are dis- :
tinctive in both dress and appear- !
ance. probably owing to Crusader
blood and influence.
A IVII Picture of Betlilelieiii ' j
On a terraced hillside, with the
, limestone rock outcropping, and
! vineyards tucked away on tiny ;
t ledges, and olive trees growing 011 j
j the stormy soil, is built the "little I
town of Bethlehem." with its gray, '
| square, flat-tlooted limestone houses [
i standing almost solidly along nar- j
row streets. Through the doorways j
t the visitor from Jerusalem, which
j is only tlve miles away, may see I
the men and women toiling at prim- I
itive lathes amid the dust of moth- 1
er-of-pearl. Alas, the workers are j
not many now. for war and starva- ;
tion took a heavy toll of Bethlehem.
The shops where mother-of-pearl
articles are sold are few and mea
ger. and their principal sale is of j
i regimental badges to the British 1
soldiers.
British troops guard the town of
Bethlehem to-day, and keep watch !
by the manger. For long years
Turkish soldiers guarded the Church !
0111 the Nativity, which houses the
ecclesiastics of three warring Chris
tian faiths—Greeks, Lit ins and Ar
menians. Now a genial Tommy
stands at the entrance to the erypt j
! containing the manger. "To keep
tlie priests from scrappin', and front ■
swipin' each other's lamps." lie 1
says. Sectarian strife shows at its j
worst at the Church of the Nativity 1
and the Church of the Holy Sepul- (
chre.
The oldest Christian edifice in the !
world covers the traditional and
universally accepted site of the
manger. On this hillside was the
village khan, where Mary and
• Joseph lodged, and the stable, as is
, still the usage, was tlie cave room
cut into the limestone, with the ,
manger hewn out of the living rock, i
Outwardly, tlie church is unprepos-|
sensing, with a door so small that it j
| admits but one person at a time, j
Within, the partition which eccle
siastical jealousy had erected has ;
. been removed by British influence, |
j and the proportions of the church 1
1 as it was in Crusader times may be j
I seen. The entrance to the subter-
I ranean manger-crypt is down j
i through a side-chapel.
The Storied Hills
While the town of Bethlehem has j
entirely changed, the surrounding -
j scenery remains the same. These ;
| are the very hills upon which the!
shepherds watched tlieir tloeks by
| night. The fields across which we ;
looked at a glorious moon arising i
above the mountains of Moab. be- j
; vond the opalescent waters of -the
bead Sea. were once flooded with a j
j celestial glow more wonderful than |
the sunsets we have watched here. 1
Silent now at eventide, the echoing •
| hills then resounded to the strains
| Of an angelic chorus.
1 It was here, on the very spot
where we stand, that the greatest of ;
messages, straight from heaven, was
I heard by a group of workingmen: j
"Glory to God in the highest.
And on earth, peace among men, j
in whom ke is well pleased." :
i To the traveler standing on a Beth- !
lehent hillside the sweet old story j
seems newly real. It was a place- !
i event, as well as a universal mes- j
sage. When we localize it, we un-
I derstand more vividly its ever-pres- i
! ent meaning. The old carol seems |
like an interpretation written yes- ;
terday:
' "It came upon the midnight clear.
That glorious song of old.
From angels bending near the
ea rtli
To touch their harps of gold;
"Peace on the earth, good will to ;
men.
From heaven's all-gracious i
King:'
The world in solemn stillness lay, ;
To hear the angels sing.
"Still through the cloven skies they :
come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heavenly music floats 1
O'er all the weary world:
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing.
1 And ever o'er its Babel-sounds
The blessed angels sing.
j "And ye. beneath life's crushing i
load.
Whose forms are bending low.
Who toil along the climbing way j
With painful steps and slow. — !
I.ook now! for glad and golden I
hours
Come swiftly on the wing:
1 O rest beside the weary road.
And hear the angels sing.
"For 10. the dais are hastening on,
By prophet bards foretold,
When with the ever-circling years !
Comes round the age of gold; i
When peace shall over all the I
earth
Its ancient splendors fling.
And the whole world give back the ]
song
Which now the angels sing."
Christmas Help For To-day
Whatever makes that first Christ- J
mas real and near is a message for I
our own dut ; for we need to hear, i
I above the clash of class, the strife
I of strikes, the pandemonium of ;
, profiteering, and the harried hunt j
lor happiness, the old. old truth !
Ming by the angels over Bethlehem's i
little hills, that the Peacemaker has !
come: and that Goodwill has been j
incarnated in a manger. That is the i
j most m-esent and practical and im- i
' portant of all words for our day. j
To find a solution of our riddles, tlie !
calming of our unrest, the. way of
| fight in our hour of darness. we ;
need but to go back to Bethlehem j
and find the reality of Christmas. i
i Our time's turmoil takes a thou- 1
! sand forms: its real need is only 1
; one. Camouflaged by humanity's 1
1 heotie pursuit of pleasured is a
| ,ieep-flowing desire for real peace— i
j nence among men and peace in the
human heart. We are weary of
war: and much of our currents rest- !
lessness is only a reaction against
its work and its woes. We think we I
want easier lives and pleasanter j
times and greater prosperity; in I
truth, our need is for peace of 1
spirit and for an era of good will I
among all men.
T'ntil our overwrought and light- j
seeking world follows the shepherds j
*0 the place of the Christ it will not |
be healed of its fret and its fears. 1
The love of God. made personnel and
near In Christ. Is alone sufficient to j
satisfy the present quest Tf red- j
sta'ned P.ussia. distraught Europe '
and bewildered Asia, and our per
turbed America eould only hear, as
if for the first time and in fullest
reality, the message of Christmas,
thrv would not need revolution or
Bolshevism or any of the desperate
remedies lhv are now seeking.
For the Christmas truth Is the
truth of a living and sunreme God,
interested in rqan: of n loving Sav
'onr. makin- clear the character o"
G"d; and of a divine snSrjt of good J
will which alono can b-ing In that j
golden c™c which is best descr'hed j
...j fhn Kins-doin of TJenvoi The i
I***othorbnod toward which ♦he re,-a I
r.e,. Iro will hn reotlzcd cel.. j
Ch"d>t.<o Day has truly broken J
■ everywhere.
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Two Perfect Backs
This sketch was made from an original photo- was dangerously undernourished. He discovered
graph sent to the Companion editor. also how any mother could bring her child up
It is a beautiful testimony of what the Com- to normal weight
panion has meant to one woman —a successful Now, not only thousands of parents, but schools
mother of two perfectly developed children. and public clinics all over the country, are work-
But these are only two children. Thousands ing out this problem according to the instructions
of children will have happy, successful lives be- in the Woman's Home Companion,
cause their mothers and fathers are following Does your child weigh what he should ? Do
Dr. Emerson's simple rules, which appear month you realize that only 1% underweight means a
by month in the Companion. whole year lost in his development?
Dr. Wm. R. P. Emerson is the great pioneer Buy your January Companion to-day and
in malnutrition. He discovered that one child read what Dr. Emerson tells you about the effect
in every three, in even the wealthiest homes, of home atmosphere on your child's health.
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If you are employed in an office, or a store, if you are Did Father forget that package this morning? Will
a salesperson or a buyer —there's an especially appropri- should return his library book today. Let us hope the
ate way for you to dress. maid orders that extra ice for this evening! There's a I
A business woman's appearance is either an asset or a piece of pie in the cupboard for Bob when he gets in I
liability of an office. to-night—if he only looks for it
Miss Gould picks you out, you and your positions, one Everything will go along ship-shape—no forgetting —
at a time —and talks confidentially to you about how to no nagging—if you have a Family Bulletin Board,
dress in keeping with your work —and at the same time That's one of many really splendid household sugges- I
with taste and smartness. Read how to make your tions in the January Companion. And every Companion
clothes a business asset. is full of just such things.
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