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INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAYS (ilooL
LESSON
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
Sund~v School Course Moody Bible In-
stitr “hicago.)
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LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 14 |
SAMUEL
CALLED TO
PROPHET.
BE A
LESSON TEXT-—I Samuel 3:1-13, 19, 20.
GOLDEN TEXT-Speak, Jehovah: for
thy servant heareth.—I Samuel 339. R. V.
Samuel was the last judge and the
first of the order of prophets. His
name means “asked of God,” and he
was dedicated to God (1:11) as a Naz
arite. In fulfillment of his mother's
vow he was brought to the temple
when he was a young child (1:24), Jo-
sephus says, at twelve years of age.
Hannah's song of rejoicing (2:1-10) is
the expression of a great soul and a
choice piece of literature. Samuel
had the advantage of being well born,
but after studying Eli’s household we
are not so confident as to the environ-
ment amid which he was placed.
I. Samuel’s Vision, vv. 1-10. The
young child entered heartily into the
temple worship and duties as directed
by the aged priest, Eli. This man was
not faithful in giving the people the
word of God. “It was rare” (margin)
and the result was that “there was no
frequent vision” (R. V.). The word
is also “precious” (v. 1; Ps. 19:9, 10),
though when it is as common as it is
in this land men frequently set but
little store by it. God will judge men
for such laxity even as he judged
Israel (Amos 8:46, 11, 12). A vision
is a knowledge of a need and of the
resources at our command. Eli and
his sons had no vision and a people
lacking in this direction perish (Prov.
29:18). Jehovah is about to make
known to Israel his will ard in so do-
ing he passes over this indulgent father
and chooses the child Samuel. Teach-
ableness and obedience are the chief
characteristics of childhood and these
traits count for more with God than
does age or experience (Matt. 11:25,
I Tim. 4:12, Matt. 21:6). Samuel had
not acquired the conceit of youth, he
was faithful to his duties, respectful to
his elders and did not boast of his
elation which came to him. Sam-
Rel fra in the holy place of the “sa-
c ent” near Eli, for the great
temple was not yet built. As such he
is a type for the Christian (Ps. 27:4).
It Vas there that the Lord revealed
himself to him (John 1:14 R. V. mar
gin), One of Samuel's duties as the
special attendant of Ell was to open
the house of God every morning, also
to tend the sacred lamp which burned
front evening to morning (Ex.'27:20,
21). As he attended to these duties
God made himself known to Samuel
v. ." frequently calls men and
they are not at home but have gone
into the far country.
God as ev dev:
‘but 188 not :
Samuel wW
out er w
him, trodeiv a dirgot
did not yet know
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Trev:
revelation, hénce he
Jehovah.” Thinking at once
priest, Samuel ran to receive orders
or to render service. Had he disre-
garded the voice he would not in the
end have received his clear revelation.
To have closed his ears, turned over
for further sleep or to have risen hesi-
tatingly would, in all probability, have
prevented any further calls (Prov.
1:24, 25, 28). God wants, for special
services, those who make glad re-
sponse to his first call (Isa. 6:8; Luke
9:59-62; Acts 9:6). Three times the
call comes and three times Samuel
makes reply.
The teacher needs to be ever alert
to take advantage of these opportu-
nities to unfold and enforce the claims
of Christ and to challenge an imme-
diate decision of the soul. Happy are
they who like Samuel hear and recog-
nize, even though it be a progressive
revelation, the voice of Jehovah, and
hearing, obey it. There is little need
at present for the audible voice, for
we have the word and the still small
voice of the Holy Spirit. The voice
Samuel heard became a vision (v. 15).
II. Jehovah's Verdict, vv. 11-13, 19,
20. The chapter following tells of the
defeat of Israel, the capture of the
ark and the death of Eli and his sons.
These were the things “at which both
the ears of everyone that heareth it
shall tingle.” The word of Jehovah
stands fast, and what he speaks that
he performs “from the beginning even
unto the end” (Luke 21:32, Numbers
23:19). The word of Jehovah to Sam-
uel about the house of Eli was one
calculated to strike terror and silence
into the lad’s heart. Eli was not igno-
rant of the wickedness of his sons
(2:27-36). Eli learns from Samuel Je-
hovah’s message. Eli was a great and
good man, submissive to God’s will,
but he was a weak man, rather than
just piously resigned. He might bet-
ter have prayed for mercy and
strength to deal with his wicked sons.
However, it was too late to change
their lives.
“And Samuel grew and Jehovah was
with him” (vv. 19, 20; see algo Luke
2:52). Jesus also grew normally
(Luke 1:80). “When God calls he
qualifies; when he qualifies he calls”
(Matthew Henry). Samuel was trained
in the house of God to be a great
prophet (1) by the dedication of his
parents and the prayers of his mother;
(2) by’ the teaching of Eli, the priest
of God; (3) by the routine of service
in the duties assigned him; (4) by the
of the present war, writes Mrs. Li
. Thy boy is gay and joyous as the birds
( bloodshed, nothing of his own weari-
testing of temptation in his contact
with the sons of Eli.
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A son was born recently to Mr. and
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Story......
The War of Peace.
I am for war. The war that drives
Injustice from the haunts of men;
The war that makes for happier lives,
That helps the fallen up again.
The strife to make a better way
Than ever men have trod before,
To build a land where children play
And neither guns nor cannon roar.
I am for war. The war that frees
The baby slaves of Monster Greed;
The war that battles with disease,
And has real service for a creed.
The war of science and of art
Against the battlements of wrong,
The war of brain and brawn and heart
To equalize the weak and strong.
I am for war. The war to make
This earth a joyous place for all;
To have men rather give than take.
To have them rise and never fall.
I'm for the war that betters life,
That seeks all human wrongs to cease
The bloodless and constructive strife
That is the crowning joy of peace.
I seek no thorns, and I catch the
small joys. If the door is low I stoop
down. If I can remove the stone out
of the way I do so. If it be too heavy, I
g0 round it. And thus every day I find
something which gladdens me—Goethe
in Doubt.
Ethel—Oh, dear me! I don’t know |
what to think! Algy asked me last
night if I wouldn’t like to have some-
thing around the house that I could
love and would love me. Edith—Well.
Ethel-—Well, I don’t whether he
means himself or whether he is think-
ing of buying me a dog!
This little incident has been told of
Thomas Bone, “the sailor missionary.”
Seeing him approach one day, one
of a group of sailors announced his in-
tention of having some fun.
He stepped forward and removed his
hat, revealing a perfectly smooth
crown, and asked:
“Can you tell why my head is so
bald, while all of my companions have
plenty of hair?” (je
“I don’t know,” was the smiling re-
ply, “unless the reason given me by a
farmer the other day would apply,
that an empty barn is not worth shing
ling”
To His Mother.
In France the relation between a |
son and his mother is very sweet and
tender. Even the boys of the least
cultivated class show an almost im-
variable courtesy and unselfishness to
‘their mothers. =]
1 was in Paris the first two months.
anion, and a woman whp worked far
e, spoke pften of her only child, a
boy, who was in one of the very first
regiments, ordered to the front. I have
never seen anything so sweet as the:
letters he wrote to her to allay her
fears. Jam sending you the last ome
he wrote; I borrowed it of her that
I might copy it. In translating it liter-
ally, I have kept much of the charm of
the original.
“Little Mother, So Dearly Beloved.
foo, Hieston to The Youths Com-
that sing. Dost thou hear that, little
one! Thou must not worry in the very
least, my mother. Indeed thou canst
not imagine how happy we have been
nor what delicious things we have to
eat. We caught a rabbit to put in our
stew and we found potatoes in a field.
Thy boy grows fat, my mother! Why
shouldst thou worry? Thou must not
mourn when we are laughing. Give to
all the friends my loving greeting, and
thou, dear heart, look not for letters.
It is so seldom that we can write. , Re-
member that I am safe and that I love
thee.
“I send a thousand kisses and I am
thy son.” :
This letter sent to the mother by a
comrade of her son, had been wrtten
on a scrap of paper with a pencil while
he was in the trenches, before the en-
gagement in which he lost his life.
He said nothing of the horror of the
iness and dread, nothing of the agony
and cruelty and death that he had
seen. He wrote only what he knew
would comfort and reassure her.
The letter did strangely comfort the
lonely, sorrowing mother. It made her
forget the war and think of her boy
as a gay and laughing child again.
There had been no funeral. She had
not seen him dead. His joyous written
words were far more real to her than
what she knew of his death. His lov-
ing thought had lifted her into the
realm of the spirit in which there is no
death.
A INS SNS
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
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Signature of gq
and Mrs. Wm. Bracken, and a son to
Mr. and Mrs. Abert Ohler.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Snyder, Mrs.
Jesse Wood, Misses Ella and Emeline
Snyder, and W. K. Taylor, sleighed to
Somerset recently to attend the sec-
ond annual banquet of the Eastern
| Stars.
Mrs. R. B. Colvin and mother, Mrs.
Grazier, of Somerset are Berlin visit-
ors for a few days,Mrs. Colvin stop-
' ping at thelJ. P. Mc Cabe home and
Mrs Grazier at the C. O. Hay home.
Miss May Fogle returned home on
Thursday night after visiting for a
month with her sister, Mrs. Harry
Zeig, of Pittsburg.
Mrs. U. B. Fuller, of Meyersdale,
visited over Wednesday and Thursday
with Mrs. Joe Vonmoose, of Pine Hill.
Mrs. B. A. McDonnel has been suf-
fering the past few days from injuries
caused by a fall down the attic steps
at her home.
William Koontz is still quite seri-
ously ill.
Miss Hulda Barclay, who underwent
an operation recently at the
Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, for appen-
dicitis, has returned to her home in
‘Allegheny township.
The® banquet tendered the officers
and directors of the First National
Bank and their wives and friends on
the evening of Feb. 2, by Dr. G. B.
Masters and John M. Gambert, vice
president and director, respectively, |
was a great success in every respect.
Landlord Falknor and his wife served
a delicious feast.
VIM.
(Held over from last week.)
Henry Wetmiller, of Berlin, was a
visitor here in these parts a few days
ago.
Oscar Tressler, of Detroit, Mich., is
4 guest at the C. W. Tresler home.
Mrs. Ada Kieffer, of Finzel, Md., was
a visitor for a few days recently at
the W. W. Nicholson home.
Mr. Wilson Walker, one of Summit
township’s school directors, was in-
'specting our school not long since.
Milton Fike and family and Miss Ed-
na Tressler spent last Sunday at the
Wilson Vought home in Elk Lick
| township.
George Stein and family, of Meyers-
dale were visitors here a few days ago
at the home of Mrs. Mary Seggie.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shuck spent a
day recently visiting at the home ofr
their son, Milton in Larimer town-
ship.
Mrs. John Pyle, of Coal Run, spent
Tuesday night of one week ago with |.
his “daughter, "Mrs. Eugene bo
R. S. Nicholson, ‘of Pleasént Hill
was a recent Vim caller. Be
Miss Margaret Knepp, of Larimer
township is staying at the home of
Henry Suder.
Ed. Hoil,of West Salisbury, spent
Wednesday at Vim.
RULE ON CREDITORS ET AL
In re assigned estate of S, D. Liven-
good—
January 12, 1915, a petition was
presented to the Court of Common
Pleas of Somerset County, by Chas.
H. Ealy, Assignee of the said S. D.
Livengood, praying the court for
leave to grant an option upon all the
right, title, interest, claim and demand
of the said S. D. Livengood of,in and
to the coal and fireclay underlying
certain tracts of land situate in Som-
erset and Stonycreek townships, Som-
erset County, Pennsylvania, contain-
ing in the aggregate eleven hundred
(1100) acres, more or less, and known
as the “Adams Mines” property. Said
option being to purchase the interest
of the said S. D. Livengood of, in
and to the said described property at
and. for thesum of Twenty Thousand,
($20,000) Dollars, less charges and ex-
penses, as set forth in said petition in
the sum of $1,000 and to extend for a
period of sixty (60) days. Whereupon
the Court made the following order:
“January 12, 1915, presented
and rule awarded to show cause
why the opton should not be given
as prayed for,—the rule to be serv-
ed by publication in two newspa-
pers in the county. Returnable Jan.
25, 1915 at 10 a. m.
BY THE COURT,
W.. H. Rupple, P. J.
Extracts from the records,
Certified this 12th day of
January, 1915. ;
A. J. Heiple, Prothonotary.
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GRAND PRIZES
TO BE AWARDED IN
$2200.00 Trade Extension Campaign $2200.00
HARTLEY, CLUTTON CO.
WEDNESDAY SFECIAL SAL
February 3rd, 19:5.
HOOSIER
"Ten Votes for One.
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Bet
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Service Checks
FIRST PREMIUM.
$600.00 Claxton Player Piano.
SECOND PREMIUM.
LADY'S WATCH —Z0 year
gold filled, 15 Elgin
movement, and one DUE BILL
FOR $375 on the purchase of
la Claxton Player-Piano when
Jewels,
jaccompanied by the balance in
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THIRD PREMIUM
THREE-PIECE TOILET SET—
and one DUE BILL GOOD FOR
£365.00 on the purchase of one
Claxton Player Pianp when ac-
companied by the balance in
cash.
FOURTH PREMIUM
ONE HALF-DOZEN ROGER’S
SILVER KNIVES AND FORKS
and one DUE BILL FOR $355.
on the purchase of one Claxton
Player Piano when accompani-
ed by the balance in cash.
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FIFTH PREMIUM
ONE HALF DCZEN ROGER’S
KNIVES AND FORKS and one
DUE BILL FOR $345.00 on the
purchse of a Claxto.. Player Pi-
ano when accompanied by the
balance in cash.
SIXTH PREMIUM.
ONE-HALF DOZEN ROGER’S
SILVER TABLE SPOONS and
one DUE BILL.FOR .$335.00
on the purchase of one Claxton
Player Piano when accompani-
by the balance in cash.
SEVENTH PREMIUM
ONE HALF DOZEN ROGER’S
SILVER TABLE SPOONS and
one DUE BILL FOR $325.00
on the purchase of one Claxton
Player Piano when accompa-
nied by the balance in cash.
EIGHTH PREMIUM.
ONE HALF DOZEN ROGER’S
SILVER SOUP SPOONS.
NINTH PREMIUM.
ONE HALF DOZEN ROGER’S
SILVER SOUP SPOONS.
TENTH PREMIUM. §
ONE HALF DOZEN ROGER’S
SILVER SOUP SPOONS.
premiums.
Hartley Block,
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
In Re Assigned Estate of S. D. Liven-
—.
The undersigned having been duly
appointed Auditor by the Court of
Common Pleas of Somerset County,
Pensylvania, to make distribution of
the funds in the hands of Chas. H.
Ealy, Assignee of S. D. Livengood as
shown by account filed to and among
those legally entitled thereto, hereby
gives notice that he will sit to perform
the duties of his appointment on Fri-
day, the 19th day of February, 1915,
between the hours of 9 a. m. and 3 p.
m. at the Court house in the Borough
of Somerset, Pennsylvania, when and
where those interested may appear.
All persons having claims against the
said assigned estate are hereby noti-
fied to present the same to the Auditor
on or before the above date or there-
after be forever barred from participa-
ting in the fund for distribution.
J. C. LOWRY,
Auditor.
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IN THE ORPHAN’S COURT OF |
SOMERSET COUNTY PA.
In the Estate of Louisa Clark, Deceas-
ed, Late of Rockwood Borough, Som-
erset County, Pa.
Letters of Administration having
been granted the undersigned adminis-
trator for the Estae of Louisa Clark,
deceased, late of Rockwood, of the
County of Somerset, State of Penn-
sylvania, notifies all persons having
claims against the said estate to pre-
sent the same and those being indebted
are requested to make settlement on
or before Saturday, March, 13th at one
o'clock in the Borough of Somerset,
Pennsylvania.
ERNEST O. KOCSER,
Administrator.
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FOR FLETCHER'S
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FOR BACKACHE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER
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THE HARTLEY
THIS COUPON
MEYERSDALE, PA.
to 100 Votes in Piano Player Contest.
By THE COMMERCIAL.
Void After Februaryl17th , 1915.
In addition to theabove therewill be given in monthl
FILLED LADY'S WATCHESto club member s and 22 Sil verware Premiums as weekly
the person presenting it at
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