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THOUGHTS ON DECORA-
TION DAY.
Net s0 hal ago, Memorial Day
was the occasion of jingo speeches.
when the Eagles tail was pulled the
bloody shirt was waved and accen-
tuated, there was the war policy in
the interest of the warship builders
and firearms manufacturers. Now-
adays the sentiment in swinging to
the peace policy. War is becoming
burdensome, intolerable and unpro-
fitable to a large section of the cap-
italist class, and the working class,
more strongly united than ever are
thundering against war in unmistak-
able terms. Their slogan is getting
to be ‘We refuse to murder our
fellow-workers because our masters
have a quarrel.”
If you want to find some ardent
peace advocates, talk to some of
the veterans. It is generally the
fellow who had been in a hard fight,
who exhaust every other means be-
fore resorting to bloodshed. With
the passing of the years, man be-
comes more kindly and tolerant in
his disposition and the veterans
generally speak with regret that
some other way than fighting could
not have been found to settle the
question of chattel slavery.
It is singular, too, that so long as
the veterans were numerous, the
great capitalists of the country ex-
Woited the G. A. R., through the
medium of the Republican Party to
advance thelr interests and that
with the passing of the old sol-
diers, we see the passing of the
Republican Patry.
While the question of chattel
slavery has been settled, the burn-
ing question of wage slayery has
taken its place, and this battle is
being fought out on the political
and industrial fields with all the in-
Cications of a peacefnl ovolution to-
ward the criumph of the working
-
g class.
Only occasionally, as in West Vir-
ginia, do ‘we see conditions where
the workers in self-defence are
forced to take up arms. When the
authorities of a sovereign state
wink at murder of the workers in
their tracks by a private ‘army of
coal company thugs, what can men
do but take up arms as was done
in the mountain districts of West
Virginia.
News comes that two United Mine’
Workers organizers have" “4disap-
peared’’, with strong eyidence point-
ing to murder by coal company
thugs. This and much more of a
startling nature will be brought out
by the investigation to be carried
on by the U.S. Senate Committee.
Meanwhile the Socialist Party is
doing everything possible’ to agitate
the question through its press’ and
forum, and forcing the matter upon
the attention of the President. The
national Democracy is on, trial be-
fore the labor body of the nation.
The manner in which it handles this
grave situation in West Virginia, will
be an index in the minds of Ameri-
can Labor as to what sympathy or
relief it can look for from a Demo-
cratic administration.
On this Memorial Day when we
are celebrating the sufferings and
glories of the past, let us not forget
the brave women and children and
men of the mines of West Virginia,
encamped in tents for a year through
the wintry wind and weather on the
mountain sides of the Appalachian
Range, suffering in rain and snow
and famine and asking a ‘great
prosperous nation this question
‘How much longer must we remain
in bondage?’
WEST VIRGINIA TYRANNY FOR-
CED TO YIELD.
Word comes from West Virginia
that as soon as it was announced
the U. S. Senate had appointed a com-
mittee to investigate conditions in
the miners strike, that Governor
Hatfield immediately released,
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conditionally, the Socialist editors,
who had been arrested by the mil-
itary and whose plants had been
partially destroyed and the mailing
list pied.
Again- is shown that the -‘brave’’
Governoa proves to be a eraven cow-
ard, and that he had not the slight-
est legal grounds for holding these
men for months in the box-car pris-
on of the state militia.
That the laboring class will be em-
bittered by these outrages when they
are given publicity by the Senate
Committee is a foregone conclusion
and who can the operators blame
but themselves when they add vio-
lence upon robbery, if the workers
some day take reprisals?
THE CHURCH AND THE STRIKE
AT PATERSON.
John Reed, a reputable journalist
reports that in the strike at Paterson
against conditions similar to those
at Lawrence, the preachers con-
ference with a few notable excep-
tions, have sided with the .mili-
owners and advised the workers to
return to conditions of slavery. The
workers wisely refused to do so, their
slogan being ‘‘we might as well
starve on the picket line as in the
mills.”
_ But the lesson the church must
learn is this: that the time has
gone by when the workers ‘will be
influenced by honeyed, sympathetic
words, To pass beautiful resolutions
at a General Church Conference
and then go home and fight the
workers in their struggle against
starvation wages is not calculated
to inspire much confidence in the
minds of the working class in favor
of ‘“Social Service’ talk. The work-
ers demand that those who claim
to sympathize with them must make
their actions square with their sweet
talk.
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COMMITTEEE MEETING.
Attorney Charles W. Walker, chair-
man, and Wilber F. Cleaver, Sec-
retary, haye called a meeting of the
Democratic committee to be held |
in the Assembly Hall of the court |
House on Wednesday, June 11th, |
for the purpose of electing a county |
un- |
chairman.
INTERNATIONAL
a =n O. SELLERS, Director of Even-
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LESSON FOR JUNE 1.
‘JOSEPH TESTS HIS BRETHREN.
LESSON TEXT Gen. #4:4-17
GOLDEN TEXT—'"Confess therefore
your sins one te another,” and pray one
for another, that ye ay" ‘be “healed.”
James 5:18, R. V.
Last week we beheld Joseph gazing
for the first time upom his brothers.
While we witnessed his joy, at the |
same time we noted another strong
trait of character, viz. that of self-
restraint. In that lessom we studied
briefly the fear and ‘the suspicion of
the guilty brothers amd at the close
we left them with feigned merriment
(for their hearts were at unrest) seek-
ing to put on a bold front, if perchance
their fears were groundless. It was
doubtless Joseph’s plan to retain pos-
session of his brother Bemjamin and
let the others go (V.'2). In his present
joy and leve ‘for his brother Joseph
seems to have forgotten for a moment
the aged father.
’ Gladness Shattered.
“As soom as the morning was light,”
the very earliest possible moment, the
brothers departed, and who can say
but that it was with a semse of relief
that they were once more well out of
the city and on the road homeéward?
I. The Plotting, vv. 4-13. However,
all of their gladness and exultation
was shattered swiftly and suddenly
when Joseph's steward overtook them
and charged them not only with in-
gratitude, but worse still of purloining
the cup of Joseph, who was “even as
Pharaoh” (v. 18). It is easy for us to
picture the consternation that hed
them when after their protestéd’
cence the cup was ‘discovered 3 Bes
jamin's sack, and with what
and fear they’ must" ‘have altri]
their steps. We cannot read Its dita
story any idea that the brothers’ ha
any knowledge of the cup being
Benjamin's sack, and therefore Arey
must have considered him, upon ci
cumstantial evidence; as being guilty,
and having made ‘Such a strong’ pro:
testation "(v. 9) thai’ they were in-
volved in his guilt.” “They were, there-
fore, in a place of great danger and
difficulty.
Involved in Web.
Again, as last week, we do not
4
“blink at Joseph's deception and we
need’ to remember that divination
(vv. 5, 14) was later strictly forbidden
in the Taw, Deut. 18:10:12. It is prob
able, however, that Joseph did not
practice that art. The profuse self-
defense of these brothers (v. 8) in em-
phasizing their honesty may, in the
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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
Evening service ‘at 7:30.
Church of the Brethren—Preaching
+110:30_a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
Schoo hool, ¢ 9:30 a. m. Christian Workers
ond at 6:30 p.f¥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 church, Rev. L. B. Rit-
tenhouse pastor—Services will be
held next Sunday as follows: Sun-
day school at 2:00 p. m. Preaching
by the pastor at 7:30 p. m.
S88. Philip and James Catholic
church, Rev. J. J. Brady, pastor.—
Mass next Sunday 8:30 and 10:30 a.
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.
St. Paul, Wilhelm Reformed charge
Mog, S. Hassler pastor. Snnday school
next Sunday at 9 a. m. At 10 a. m,
services in observance of Memoria}
Day. A detail of Meyersdale G. A.
R. Post will be present to take
part in the service and to decorate
the soldiers graves in the cemete ry
Everybody invited.
Brethren Church: —H. L. dbugh-
nour, pastor.— Services are ‘being
held each evening this week in the
Salisbury church. Next Sunday,
June Ist preaching in the morning at
light of their history, be questioned.
The return of the money was more to |
avoid trouble than because of con- |
scientious scruples. A proper regard |
for the events of their former ‘visit
ought to have cautioned them against |
undue protestations or any gp
less promises in this Instance. As i
was, they involved themselves ‘in
web from which they were unable “
extricate themselves.
Of course the steward knew of their
innocence, but notice’ how he prolongs
their anxiety by beginning with the |
eldest and going through each sack
till he reaches that of” Benjamin (v. |
12). Now it was their turn to rend |
their clothes (v. 13); deception’ has |
been practiced upon them even as they
had practiced it upon Jacob.
II. Pleading, vv. 14-17, and the bal-
ance of the chapter. Whether or not
Joseph foresaw the result of his plan,
a remarkable thing happened. Though
in all probability these mem judged
Benjamin guilty yet they i at once de-
cided to stand by him, both r his
own and for Jacob’s sake. = hey | there.
by Sr onanled the fact that a IES had
r else was
avs a out in oa Ton
was waiting for them as though 1a the
main he had all the mgs OX ‘Worked out
in his own mind. Yesterday feasting
and making merry, today with abject,
servile fear they are on their faces
‘before Joseph protestin their inno-
cence and through the mouth of Judah
pleading for Benjamin. We need to
remember that it was Judah who sav-
ed the life of Joseph by advising his
sale into slavery, and it was ‘Judah
who undertook to be respersible for
Benjamin when they began this pres-
ent journey. This is net the last time
they were on their faces before Jo-
seph (50:18), even se the day of con-
fession before our Joseph is coming,
Phil, 2:10, 11. They are called upon
to give an account of their deeds, even
80 must we give am accoumt of our
stewardship and of our acts, 2 Cor.
5:10. Judah’s plea is a fine bit of
logic and an appeal to cempassion. His
words indicate that he knew that all
of the difficulties were the outcome of
their own sin, vv. 16, 29 and 42:21, 28.
God always finds out our iniquities,
but blessed is that man whose sin is |
covered by the “robe of his righteous-
ness.” This new attitude of these
men as voiced by Judah is a remark-
able illustration of what the grace of
God can do in the character of a man.
Judah’s sin, chapter 38, is a type of
that danger ever present to God's
children.
One ought to study this entire chap-
ter in order properly to teach this les-
The story is one that is full of |
but do not let the | yn
son.
dramatic power,
telling of it be so vivid as to exclude | i
the fundamental lesson.
Summit Mills and in the afternoon at
Salisbury. In the Meyersdale chureh
lon Sunday evening the S.S. C. E.
will hgve charge of a special service
, of story and song. The evening ser-
vices begin at 7:30. All are cordially
| invitd to be present.
—— ee
‘State Spraying Demonst: ations
The present spring campaign of
| spraying demonstrations;in the Model
Orchards under the direction of Prof.
| H. A. Surface, Economic Zoologist of
| the State Department of Agriculture,
| has created a widesrpread interest in
| the protection of fruit on the trees
from the ravages of pests, such as the
codling moth,curculio, and destructive
fungus diseases. The attendance at
the publi¢ meetings has been unusual-
ly large. Thousands of fruit growers
have witnessed the operation of spray-
ing trees by the State agents and are
treating their orchards in accordance
with the improved methods shown.
The series of domonstrations previ-
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