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8 SOCIALIST COLUMN
EpIiTED BY Louis COHEN.
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PW TW
. THE PARENT-TEA CHERS
ASSOCIATION.
The Parent-Teachers Association of
fleyersdale began its career last week
at a meeting held in the school on
Friday night, and the central action
was a paper read by Mr. Goughenour
on the Moral Training of Children in
The paper was able in
presenting a number of ways by
might develop the
good that is inherent in every child’s
nature, Oy a proper understanding of
the child-mind, the speaker taking
for granted that the family is the
unit of society and that it is almost
ideal cir
cumstances, except in a minority of
the Home.
which parents
universally ideal and in
cases.
While this may be true of a small
portion of the middle class, we do
not believe that it is true of the great
majority of the people, who live in
anything
but ideal and we believe that. the
economic conditions in which child-
ren are born and reared largely de-
termine their state of morality. Few
people will deny to-day that children
born in the homes of parents that are
in poverty, in which it taxes all the
strength of the father to
earn the livelihood and the mental
anxiety of the mother to make ends
meet in these days of the high cost of
living, in which there is often not
proper sanitation and hygiene, can
‘féach the highest state of morality
without some state aid and super-
circumstances that are
physical
vision.
portations from countries that we
have always looked upon as behind
our own.
If it is to be the province of the
Dew organizationjto ‘‘investigate and
discuss,” then we should learn the
best that similar organizations are
doing, and endeavor to improve on
the same or at least do as well.
It should be our task too, to inves-
tigate our own school and find out
just what we know and what we do
not know.
Do we know definitely what goes
on at our school directors’ meeting?
We can know if we send a com-
mittee to attend and report to us.
Do we know what is the record of
attendance and tardiness in detail?
We. can know if we send a committee
to find out by analyzing the records
and reporting to us.
Do we know how the truancy and
child-labor laws are being enforced?
We can know if we have a commit-
tee investigate and report to us.
Do we know in detail the result of
the medical inspection in our public
schools, the extent of virious phy-
sical ailments among children in
our community, the causes of the
same, and whether proper remedies
have been applied? We can know
if we have an industrious committee
to find out and report to us.
Do we know whether the teachers
of our children are as competent as |
they should be, whether they have
too many children to a class, wheth-
er they have special problems that
we might assist them in, whether
worthy efforts on their part are be-
ing noticed and commended? We
can know if we elect school visi-
tors to find out and report to us.
Do we know what goes on at the
teachers’ meetings where the teacl.-
ers problems are discussed? We can
| know if we send a committee to at- |
tend and perhaps we might be of some
assistance.
Do we know #f some of our chilc-
ren are wasting time on useless stud- |
ies and why so many children drop |
school? Let our!
committee find out and report to us. |
Do we know why the night school |
was a success last year and a failure |
out of our High
this year? Let us be diligent and find
out.
Perhaps the greatest need of our
school children at present is to have
a playground. Shall we have a rep-
resentative of the Playgrouncs’ Assn.
or Commission address us and ad-
vise us? ~
Let us hope that more parents and
teachers will interest themselves in
the new movement, and if they do
so conscientiously, it will become a po-
tent factor in our social growth. Then
we will not end our work at theoriz-
ing and discussing, but will get to
‘work and do something practical.
So soon as you admit this, gener-
ally speaking,the home, under piesent
conditions, fall from its high estate
as the most ideal place to develop
child morality, considering the
home, of course, as the speaker did,
as being the narrow confines otf fam-
ily life.
We are much more in accord with
the view expressed by Mrs. Kier-
nan in her address to the Assn. last
month, which is the yiew of the
most modern thinkers, that ‘‘the
home is wherever the child goes’’;
the school, the church, the street,
the playground, the theatre, the
picture show, the store, the office,
the mine and the factory as well as
the four walls of a dwelling or a
shack.
Considering the question from this
wider view, the social view, we can-
not agree that the distinctly family
life is necessarily the determining
factor in morality.
The public view of the family has
undergone a marked change. We no
longer consider the child as the sole
property of the parent to do with as
he pleases. We establish a public
school and with the police power be-
hind us, we force the unwilling pa-
rent to give his child an education
outside the home. We say to the
we mean every word it it.
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it contains no grease, mereury or
lead, and is entirely different from
anything else on the market.
Although it has wonderful healing
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only 25 cents, for a Liberal jar —
enough to give it a thorough trial in
even the worst cases.
cents and $1.00.
Large sizes 50
Your money returned if Hokara
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Sold on guarantee and recommend-
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CHURCH SERVICES
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parent, youshall not send your child
to the mine or factory at a tender
age, you shall not be cruel in your
discipline of the child, and we may
soon ray let us hope, that children
shall not be employed at night or in
dangerous occupations. We are be-
ginning to say what kind of a house
the family shall live in and doing
other things that our
ideal famify bas fallen far short of
doing? All of which tends to prove
real home of the child
This
viewpoint will help as mere easily
to solve many perplexing problems
concerning children, especially when
we become broad enough to make
the school the social home of the
numberless
that the
is the whole
WaiU se
community,
community.
There are many things that a pa-
rent-teachers association might learn
from similar organizations in other
schools that we belieye are behind
We used® to think that our
country was the final dictum in so-
cial, political and industrial develop-
ment, yet we are beginning to at-
com-
ours,
tqupt in eity, state, and nation
prehensive programs of
t that
provement
are all
ot
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Following are the church services
to be held in the United Evangelical
church, Rev. F. D. Ellenberger,
pastor.
Salisbury—Sunday school at 9:30
a. m. Prayermeeting Wednesday
evening at 7:30.
Garrett—Sunday school at 10:00 a.
m. Prayermeeting Wednesday even-
ing at 7:30.
Rockwood—Sunday school at 9:30
a. m. Preachingat7:20p. m. K. L.
OC. E,, at 6:30 p. m.
Harnedsyille—Preaching Saturday
7:30 a. m. Sunday school at 9:30 a.
m. Preaching at 10:30 a. m.
DEAD LETTER LIST.
Miss Stella Buerdman, Mrs. Jere-
miah and Josef Fojcik (Foreign)
Apl. 12, 1913. J. F. NAUGLE, P. M.
scenes eesti
Good Filler,
There’s a country editor not a thou-
sand miles from here who, when he
gets shy on copy, runs in a couple of
| columns of “Lucile.”
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INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCL
LESSON
ing Department The Moody Bible In-
stitute of Chicago.)
LESSON FOR APRIL 20
JACOB'S MEETING WITH ESAU.
LESSON TEXT—Gen. 83:1-15.
GOLDEN TEXT-—“Be ye kind one to |.
forgiving each |
another, tenderhearted,
other even as God also in Christ forgave
you.” Eph. 4:32 R. V.
sider Israel, “a prince.” While Jacob
is not so grand a character as Abra-
ham nor so lovable as Isaac, yet he
is much more like the average man.
The story of his days of willing serv-
ice for Rachel (29:20); of ZLaban’s
deception and of his prosperity in
spite of Laban, can be found. in-chap-
ters 29 and 30, while that of his re-
turn to Canaan is contained in chap-
ters 31-35. Though not included id
the selected portion of Scripture, we
do not see how anyone can teach this
lesson and omit the consideration of
chapter 32. We therefore see before
us (1) Jacob’s diplomacy, 32:18: (2)
Jacob’s prayer, 32:9-12; (3) Jacob's
present to Esau, 32:13-23, and (4)
Jacob’s wrestling, 82:24-32.
A finger tip of God disabled Jacob,
yet vanquished he is victorious for
God—the angel of Jehovah—has tak-
en from this double-dealing, _ crafty
child that which hindered all that
was truest in his life. Not by com-
pelling but by yielding was Jacob en-
iarged; by submitting he found the
throne of power. So much in prepa-
ration for the lesson of today.
Not a Coward.
I. The Approach—vv. 1-3. Jacob
had just had a vision of God (32:30);
why, then, should he fear the face of
his brother? Even so, however, he
continued his measures of precaution
and separated his children into Leah
and Rachel and sent the handmaids
and their children ahead. Notice how
he places his most loved in the rear
of the procession which he himself
led. Jacob was not a coward and, in-
deed, with his new-found power hé
had no need to be. Before he had
fled from the face of his angry brotl.-
er, now with boldness, and yet with
humility, he enters the presence of
that same brother even though he
had had no assurance as to the char
acter of that meeting.
II. The Meeting—vv. 4-11. Twen-
ty-one years had passed, days of
great testing but of great blessing,
before Jacob began this homeward
journey. Jacob had learned the “up-
ward look” (v. 1) and his prevailing
prayer brought Esgu to him in haste
but not in anger. Now Esau lifts up
his eyes (v. 5) and beholds not the
fugitive of old, but a transformed,
prosperous and richly blessed broth-
er. “Who are those with thee?” he
asks, and Jacob at once acknowledges
God as the giver and the blesser.
(Bee 32:26; Jas. 1:17.) Jacob speaks
of his children as God's gracious gifts.
Although this is everywhere the
teaching of the Bible, yet how often
is it the modern view, at least in
many circles of society. Following
the children came the handmaids and
their children, then Leah and her
children, and last of all Rachel and
Joseph. At once Esau Inquires as to
those gifts Jacob had sent ahead (32:
13-21), and Jacob replies, “That 1
might find grace in the sight of my
Lord.” It is well to hotice that Esau
refused this gift (v. 11) as a purchase
price of reconciliation.
Jacob Astute.
From the marginal reading we see
that Jacob’s words when urging Esau
to accept his gift were: “Because I
have all” Every child of God can
truthfully say as much. (I Cor. 3:21;
Phil. 4:18, 19; Rom. 8.31, 32.) Thus
we see the astute Jacob who had so
arranged his affairs as to make gifts
or not as might be necessary is sur
prised, not as at Bethel when he met
God, but to find that God had so
moved upon the heart of his brother
as to remove for a time at least all
danger.
III. The Separation, vv. 12-15. We
infer from a study of Esau’s life that
Jacob did not deem it safe to make
the proposed journey. “Discretion is
the better part of valor.” God does
not demand nor desire rashness and
needless danger upon the part of his
children. !
There are three main teachings in
this lesson, aside from those of the
preceding chapter. (1) That in mat-
ters of supreme importance in the
life of any man God is interested and
ready to lend his assistance. Jacob
ready to lend his assistance.
(2) There is the lesson that while
men with anxiety seek to make plans
for the Kingdom it is only as they
fully commit themselves to him and
allow him to dominate and to guide:
will they spell success in their lives.
(3) And lastly, when God controls,
when he has the victory in our
hearts and our lives, he not only
changes the attitude of our enemies
towards us but changes our attitude
towards them. (Rom. 12:20, 21.)
The Golden Text emphasizes this
last thought. The only way we can
possibly obey Paul’s injunction wilf
be as we are “in Christ Jesus.” As
we abide in, and recognizing the ex-
ceeding riches of his grace, as we
recognize God’s forgiveness as mani-
fest in Chris
him, we
We are about to lose sight of Jacob, |.
“a cheat,” and we shall hereafter con- |
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CHURCH SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal church ser-
vice, Rev. G. A. Neeld pastor—Ser-
vices at10:30 a. m. Sunday school 9:30
a. m. Epworth League at 6:45 pP. m.
Evening seryice at 7:30. Subject
Sunday morning. ‘Politics and Re-
ligion.’
Church of the Brethren—Preaching
10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
School, 9:30 a. m. Christian Workers
Meeting at 6:30 p. m. Bible Class,
Saturday evening, 7:30 p. m. Teacher
Training classes meet Monday evening
7 and 8 o’clock, respectively. Sunday
School Workers’ Meeting, Friday
evening, 30th inst., at 7:30.
Evangelical Lutheran church—Rev
J. A. Yount, pastor. Sunday school
at 9:30 a. m. Morning service at
10:30. Luther League at 6:45 p. m.
Evening service at 7:30. Lenten ser-
vice every Wednesday evening at 7:30
At Grantsville the Holy Commu-
nion will be observed on Easter Sun-
day morning. Preparatory service on
Good Friday evening, Special Eas
ter service by Sunday school and
church on Easter Monday evening.
St. Paul, Wilhelm Reformed charge,
E. 8. Hassler pastor. Regular servi-
ces next Sunday at 10 a. m. Sun-
day school at 9 a, m. April 6th is Sun-
day school Rally Day. You are in-
vited. Special program and com-
mencement of school’s trip to Pales-
tine.
Evangelical church, Rev. L. B. Rit-
tenhouse pastor—8ervices will be
held next Sunday as follows: Sun-
day school at 2:00 p. m. Preaching
by the pastor at 7:30 p. m.
88. Philip and James Catholic
church, Rev. J. J. Brady, pastor.—
Mass next Sunday 8:30 and 10:30 a.
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m. Vespers and Benedictionat 7:30
Pp. m. :
At the A. M E. Zion church Sun-
day School at 3:00 p. m. Preaching
at 11 a. m. Christian Endeavor at
7:45 p. m.
Brethren Church:—H. L. Gough-
nour, pastor.—Miss Mary Maud Bill-
man, of Dayton, Ohio, the National
President of the S. 8. C. E., will
speak at the regular church services
in the morning at Salisbury, in the
afternoon at Summit Mills, and in
the evening at Meyersdale. Sun-
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