-WINTER WHEAT
SOWNJN STATE
Dauphin County Has 31,192
Acres Out With 659 Sown
With Rye
Philadelphia. Dec. 19. Dauphin
county has 31,192 acres In winter
wheat and 659 in rye, according to
the Philadelphia field agent of the
United States Department of Agri
culture. Statistics issued to-day show
'how other Central Pennsylvania
counties rank in winter wheat and
rye. They are:
County Wheat Rye
Juniata 19.305 1.522
Huntingdon 28,304 1.633
Mifflin 22.432 287
Montour 12.693 2,150
Northumberland 30,392 4.034
Perry 26.066 2,612
Snyder 26,857 2.440
Berks 83.004 15,103
I.ancaster 129,296 1,439
Debanon 31,662 1,901
Schuylkill 31,320 5.740
Adama 61.070 4.373
Bedford 35,584 7.222
Cumberland 63.1 18 6,208
Franklin 95,676 8.561
Fulton 21.331 3.957
York 109,512 8.507
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TWO WORKINGMEN WHO
CHANGED WORLD
THE liitcriMt'oiinl Sunday SrlifKil I-csson For DWCIIIIHT 28 Js "Tin'
T: niiiliife of l'eter and John''—l John 1:1-9
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
I
Upon tho clouded horizon of the
restless world to-day the most hope
ful sign is the fact that Jesus and
most of bis apostles were callous
palmed worklngmen.
That portends peace. >v hen tno
world's toilers turn from the shrill,
harsh and hate-filled voices of pres
ent-day "leaders," they will be
ready to listen to the quiet, conn
dent tones of the fellow v/orkinE
nien, who, although tliey lived in
Asia nearly two thousand years
ago, stiN have *,• most modern
messages for to-d.
Most of what it, wrong with this
old earth—its injustices, its eva
sions, its ignorances, its prejudices,
its selfishness —is due to plain mis
understanding. Whatever peril there
is in our own present situation arises
from the lack of confidence of masses
of people in the sincerity and sympa
thy of lawmakers and executives.
They feel that their viewpoint is not
the viewpoint of the dominant few.
Jesus and his ossoc'ates are not
subject to this suspicion. They
were plain people, workers with their
hands. They experienced the lot of
the poor. All their teachings re
vealed <1 sympathetic comprehension
of tho loads that the mass of man
kind carry. One of lour modern
poets, Sara N. Cleghorn, has strik
ingly voiced this message from the
Bible:
"Thanks to Saint Matthew, who had
been
At mass meotings in Palestine,
We know whose side was spoken for
When Comrade Jesus had the floor.
" 'Where sore they toil and hard
they lie,
Among the, great unwashed dwell
The tramp, the convict, I am He;
Cold-shoulder him, cold-shoulder
me.'
"By Dives' door, with thoughtful
eye,
He did to-morrow prophesy:—
'The kingdom's gate is' low and
small;
The rich can scarcely wedge through
at ail.'
" 'A dangerous man,' said Caiplias;
'An ignorant demogague, alas!
Friend of low women, it is he
Slanders the upright Pharisee.'
"For law and order, it was plain.
For Holy Church, He must be slain.
The troops were there to awe the
crowd,
; And violence was not allowed.
' "Their clumsy force with force to
foil
IBs strong, clean hands He would
not soil.
i He saw their childishness quite plaif.
| Between the lightnings of his pain.
■ "Between tho twilight of His end,
He made His fellow-felon friend:
With swollen tongue and blinding
; eyes,
j Invited him to Paradise.
"Ah, let, no local Him refuse!
comrade Jesus hatli paid his dues.
.Whatever others be debarred,
j Comrade Jesus hath his red card."
Where It All Occurred
Til's is the time for the long look
backward. The International Sun
day School I.esson Committee lias
assigned for this review the topic
"The Training of Peter and John."
They were the two apostles who fig
ured in the year's studies. So we
are to take a broad, far survey of
them, and of tho conditions amid
which they lived. Perhaps we may
catch a new glimpse of the impor
tance to our own world of these two
Asiatic workingmen of the long ago.
That there is such a thing as a
place-pro vidcnce, no reverent stu
dent of history will deny. There
i? a geography of God. He has cho
sen certain lands as the scene of his
major operations. A myriad preach
ers have seen such a significance in
the situation of this western conti
nent. Anew, as of old, the shores
of the Mediterranean are the thea
ter of vast and world-transforming
events. The Holy T>and has been
the battleground of the ages and
the living spring of waters from
which world-encircling streams have
flowed.
Everybody who Is ordinarily In
telligent should know where Pales
tine is. The vagueness with which
ail foreign lands are regarded as
"over there" is not creditable to
the general education. T once ask
ed a classroom of college studenls
to tell me how to go to Jerusalem:
not one could do so: most of tliem
got only as far as Paris. The men
of the Bible will never be real to
us unless the places of the Bible
are also real. This Book is not in
the same category with Mother
Goose and the Fairy Tales; although
Christian people not a few regard it
with somewhat the same sense of
unreality. A mair'will make clear
why Peter and John were at a place
of universal potency.
Orange Trees and Men
I have seen orange groves bear
ing at the same time blossoms and
ripe fruit, which is symbolic.
[Certain lives, like those of the two
Galilean fishermen who are at the
moment under review, are bearing
the blossoms of to-morrow's fruit,
even while producing fruit to-dav.
Peter and John have profoundly af
fected human history: they are
among the race's few shaping men;
yet their greatest work is yet to be
done.
It seems as if the world to-day Is
all of a sudden and all In the new,
plastic and formative. We have
como, as it were, to a time of uni
versal social new birth. All the old
forces and institutions are being re
valued. Pome being rejected,
after centuries of use. Others are
coming into fresh power. The
character and message of the great
builders, like Jesus and his apos
tles, are now entering into a remade
opporunity. Bike a discovered die,
they may sirmp tlieir impress upon
the currency of humanity. In all
the long stretches of time, has there
ever been an hour so full of possi
bility as this for fixing the character
of the spirits of mankind?
Aroused over all the world, the
toilers are ready to accept the lead
ership of such comradely heroes as
Peter and John. These two toiler
tenehers are the more welcome as
leaders because they are men from
the ranks. The callouses from the
heavy sweeps of the Galilean boats
are still on their palms. Their sim
ple cloaks smell of the day's catch.
Their eyes wear the understanding
look of the laborer who has been
tired and hungry. These are no
book-laught theories. Their lingo
is that of every-dny men; and not
the shop-talk of seminaries. They
know what they are speaking about,
and the'r word has tlie eternal power
[of the real. Whoever can introduce
j Peter and John, and their Carpenter
i Master, to the workers of the world
I will be doing the most possible to
I serve a puzzled generation.
Soiling What lie Hadn't
Because Peter and John had ex
perienced all tliev tell, they get a
[hearing* The simple explanation
for much of the failure of the Church
to reach the world is that it is offer
ing people what it does not possess.
Its advertised goods are not always
found on its shelves.
Ttecently, T was entering the Cos
mos Clnh, Washington, when a pa
thetic figure, unkempt and poverty
marked, was trying .to get past the
doorman, to call upon someone in
side. The negro evidently thought
the man was not the sort whom a
member of the club would rare to
see. At length, he ushered him into
a I'ttle anteroom, where messengers
wait, and sent for the P"rson want
ed. T happened to be using the tele
phone boo'h in that same room, and
so was enforced witness and auditor
of what followed.
The seedy old man. who had none
of the self-confidence or assurance
of a hooka gent, waited nervous! v
until the arrival of the one sent for,
who proved to he a distinguished
Episcopal clergyman of the city,
Thep, with many preambles aiid
vouch circumlocution and generaliza
tion and not a. little assistance from
the mln'ater. he stated that he want
ed to give a courre of le"tures to the
rrenchers of Wahinrtor nnon c'ocu
tler, ''♦ delivery, vo'ee culture
.wi -one"' 1 1 oT'elonc". AVheo the
e'ergymen—'kn was a tactful gen
t'a-inn and Christian throtihnnt —*
pointed out the tmprnetlehhlltty of
this, the visitor insisted tliat in a
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Mro i course of twelve lectures he
could teach the preachers much, or
1611I 611 this one man alone. He did
not know that the pastor addressed
was himself the author of a book on
preaching.
. man was trying to soli some
thing he did not possess. He had
been unable to impress a negro
oorkceper favorably; yet he aspired
"> tell preachers how to impress
hole congregations. He was a piti
" e example of the man whose pre
.".sions outrun his possessions. Some
cprosentatives of religion are in the
iS P n^ L . u Th,y try to tell 1,10,0
! about God than they know. The
11 eligion they proclaim is far bevond
| the religion they live.
I Not so Peter and John. Thev ex
per enced, then expressed. Thov
ITr ti m Preceded their words.
lim' hnntp h '!> era from the fish
ihJin-hi r ,pfl fhein up the
heights of Idealism, of training in
| human service, and'of personal ac
! were s" Ce^' lth a I!vln *f God. They
Ithe world's t CIP J eB, an<l 80
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and John are introducing Jesus to
their fellow workingmen of all the
world.
Spain's Underground
Railv/ay Is Rushed
Madrid, Dec. 19.—Riding in the
Metro, Spain's first underground rail
way System, is the latest diversion
lof the youth and old of Madrid. The
| trains are crowded, every hour be
j ing a rush hour, while on .Sundays
1 and holidays thousands go home dis
appointed.
Cotton Mill Strike
of 4 Years, Settled
Mlddleton, Eng., Dec. 19.—A cot
ton mill strike which lasted four
years has Just been settled. The
employes of a spinning mill here quit
work in October, 1915, owing to an
alleged grievance. The plant has |
remained virtually idle since.
Another Religious
Revival Hits Wales
Aberaman, South Wales, Dec. 19.
—Another religious revival is j
spreading over Wales. It was started '
at a mission by Stephen Jeffreys, a :
Wolsh revivnlist. !:eports of super- |
natural visions ana instances of dl- |
vine healing have be'en followed by I
hundreds of conversions and people j
are travelling long distances to wit
ness the revival.
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