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l SUNDAY 5rbool lesson(z]

| veals the personal interest of Paul in
the advancement of the church. Prob
ably one reason for his personal petit
tons that made Paul solicitous for
I their welfare was the fact that the new
! organization. composed of both Jews
! and Thessalonian gentiles. separated
! from the synagogue and the heather
| sacrifices and united by the bonds of
! Christian love. labor and life. was with
/ out any formal Organization. The Thes-
/ salonian believers had some members
| who Were conspicuous for their labors
| in behalf of the church. but there is
| suggestion of their holding any office,
since he calls upon all the members to
perform the functions of the pastorate.
/ This new community, united in church
fellowship through their common rela
tionship to God the Father, and the
/ Lord Jesus Christ, was in danger of be-
! ing misled by the sanderous sug2es-
lions made concerning Pauls absence
and their misunderstanding the gospel
of God that Paul had preached to them.
| In this emergency the apostle prayed
for their divine guidance, thanking God
for their victories, as continuously he
their faith resting upon the past, their
/ love promoting present effort. that
looked TO the future with hope of fruit
age and victory. Paurs faith in their
their having bSSn chosen of God be-
cause of the Marvellous manner with
which they had accepted his message
! with JOY. While Paul was not unmind-
! his persuasive powers. he recognized
/ the power of the Holy Spirit as the one
through whom they had received the
new life and power to live the Christian
life that scattered abroad in Macedonia
and Achaia the word of the Lord
/ Paul had given to them a. working
faith that demonstrated it's power to
I be sufficient for all spiritual purposes
He had insisted upon their living a life
separated from the sensuaIity. self-in-
diligence and self-seeking of their for
mer idolatrous practices. Their con-
version was due to their personal faith
/ that worked out in their lives a per
! sonal reformation that fitted them for
t the service of Christ. They accepted
| the message of the apostle as the word
/ of God; they took him seriously as the
i messenger Of God, and they tried to
conform their lives to his message by
! toiiins and laboring for the conversion
/ Of their prosecutors. Their personal
problems concerning morality and dill
gence in daily duty, that Paul treated
/ IN the closing portion OF the epistle
must be passed over for lack of space
/ to consider the message of Christian
| comfort contained in the epistle
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Firm Foundations of Faith.

While Il would be possible 10 throw
much light upon Pauls preaching from
th. letters to the Thessaionians. the
principal revelation given by the eplstles
Is the Insight into the life and character
of those composing the church, who were
thu first 10 receive an apostolic letter
( The one thing that stands out with
great cIearuess Is the evidence II fur
rishes OF the historic foundation Of their
lCrristian faith. The letter that is the
basis Of this weeks study was written
a1org before. any Of our gospels had been
renued so thar Il stands very close 70
Yha life Of Christ. ANY student Of the
FIRST chapter of ThsssaIoniaus will quick
l. agree with Prof. Sunday Of oxford
that II contains clear evidence OF their
pSaith in the deity OF Jesus. One sentence
q TFtesslI oniars. 1870 alone congresses
'sr ~ery few words the evidence Of their
'frrnly-f fixed faith IN the fundamental
i1ruths OF Christian doctrine concerning
trhe historic reality Of the resurrection
sof Jesus. the Son 81 COD, as TO the SUI
iSciercv 81 the deliycrance he effected
IRON tre results Of sin. and to his second
looming paul had taught them that they
should have falth IN Christ and walk
worthily ~ the Lord Jesus.
While IL proves their faith IN the fun
Fdar1eural r. If Christian doctrine and de
stroys The conception n IT'S slow deyel-
5opnert the fundamental facts held were
the Same when this letter written
although il j. true that Paul had not yet
finished his formal theological thesis that
tapprars tu Romans The Thcssalouians
were by their temperament and past
training susceptible TO laxuess IN sp!r-
1tual life and church discipline.
They Fssti been converted from fdola =
Try only "A short time before he sent
Them this epistle, and he knew that
they had much 20 learn A. 70 what they
ought 20 belicT" and how they ought TO
act The standards Cf life, labor and love
that he held before them were as high
as those We now follow Paul was not
disappointed I'm them, because he had
3ntruste ed them not merely to the teach
= fHg Of Timothy. but. above all. to the
lepdershlp and guidance Of the Holy
Spirit
Because Paul recognized their need
Of divine hep he spent most OF the
time pleading with the Lord in prayer
for them that they might possess grace
--unTnerited favor given them through
the love Of God In Christ for their sal
vation-and peace, which is the result
of grace There was great danger OF
difference and division among them, yet
Paurs confidence in the power Of their
common faith and personal relationship
as disciples of Jesus CHRIST to unite
them by a spiritual tie into a life of
observation-disclosures self-deniaI and
social service. was justified by the re-
port of Timothy concerning their
church life.
IL Il q
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Merely Put Out.

From the Dartmouth Jack o Lantern.
4 trust that you don't feel angry
over this said the solicitous Man in
the White Apron, as he showed tho last
iingerins customer out on his ear
No-ope-hlc, came in saddened tones
from the edge of the gutter. ..Jus, n,t
out, ats ALL P"'
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Christian Comfort.

I Phillips Brooks has well called the
letters to the Thessaionfans the epis-
/ Ties Of immortality" When Paul foun,I
/ that many of the converts were grieved
because they had Christian relatives
who died without realizing the great
Expectation Of seeing Christ at his com
/ ing. ne penned this message. They had
been taught TO look for the immediate
return of the King In power The
! second coming of Christ" reference TO
which is made, so Pierson has pointed
out. once in every twenty-five verses
/ in the New Testament is the only doc
irlne discussed at any length in this
4 first Christian document. 1t is treated
I mainly from its practical and ethical
relations as source of comfort to the
saints amid trouble and persecution and
as an enduring hope that would incite
them to spiritual vigilance and So
briefly.
/ In the catacornbs OF Rome, that won
! derful city OF the dead, where several
millions have been buried, there is not
4 sign of mourning: everything-pic-
ture, epitaph. enblem-is bright and
+, joyous IF We believe Jesus died and
rose from the dead" says Paul ut
changes our views of death Chris
tianity has completely changed the
faith of humanity concerning a future
life. by its promise of a better life be-
/ yond the grave. They feared that their
de parted friends would not share with
them in the resurrection of the dead
and the joy of Christs coming Paul
assured them that the departed were
| safe with God and would share the
| glories of the Lords return. This
makes the fact of death an incident Of
/ life. Paul used the bare word died
| in reference to Christ, but he used the
softer word sleep" in reference TO our
: passing from the present life into the
| future.
| L 70 hat co
/ them was the hope Of the Christians
| participating with Christ, when He
| comes again to rule over His Kingdom.
! This was the enduring hope of the
early church, whose members from
| constantly looking I'd the heavens
/ for their Lords return were called
star gazers. II ought to be our hope to-
| day. Watching for 1t. waiting for 1t.
| being patient unto It, grooming without
II. looking for II, Fastening for it,
these are the phrases the Scriptures
! use in reference to the great event of
! the Lords return. The comfort for the
( Christian and the assurance Of our
/ future hope is the historical fact of
( the Masters resurrection.
/ Times OF great anxiety and OF war
| have usually been characterized by the
great expectation of Christs coming.
| The teachings that fix a day or hour
are all contrary to His word, that as
sures us that of that hour only the
| Father knows. We are not to be swept
away from duty by our attitude of
| expectancy of His return. While
watching and praying we should also
| be working to hasten his return. We will
| have no advantage over those who
have gone on before US, for they shall
rise first to NEE the Lord upon His re-
turn before we are caught up to meet
the King of Glory in the air at His
second coping.
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MISREPRESENTATION AL.

ner Memorial Presbyterian Church at
Kensingt OBLIGATED at the marriage
at Kensington a few days ago of
Charles Perry Ross, jr., and Miss Mary
Beattie Smith, both of Sparrows Point,
Md
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WHY, GO TO CHURCH?


By Rev fries PaHorf opl
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This eb not often rernd I is hg %
depend humans k p
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You the nhun without We. dntyo khwdgt
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His Choice.

From the Boston Transcript
The boy stood in the crowded car;
He couldn't turn his neck:
He groaned before he travelled far:
For me the burning deck"
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THE THESSALONIAN CHRIS
TIANS.
I. Thessalonians, 2.17-2o: 4.13-1S.
Golden text-If we believe that
Jesus died and rose again. even
so them also that are fallen
asleep in Jesus will God bring
with him. l. TheSsalonians. Ala.
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Personal Portion.

The nrst three chapters of the epistIe.
like the Ast portion Of the lesson. re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-08

The Christian Literature Society of
Japan has sold 1000 copies of a .Iapa-
nese translation of DR., Fosdick' s
The Manhood of the Master in six
months, 1t has also sold 500 copies
of Sabatier's Life of st Francis of
Assist" and $50 copies of Prof. Kashi-
wai's History of Christianity"
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@Dmrb Announcements
PRESBYTERIAN.
Ct,..t 18th AND FAIRMoNT

Fourth Church 18th 1-. AND n rA1RMoNr
REV. JOSEPH T. KELLY. D. D.. Pastor.
II am, sermon by the pastor, God at
Society; S. evangelistfc service in the tent. led
by the pastor. james A. MacElwee. director
chorus choir; Miss Christine Church, soloist;
Miss Mabel Dill. organist.
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- n " If

Mr.. Edwards of the American
Board Mission among the Marathis in
india, announces the conversion of a
prominent guru, or Hindu religious
leader, who has charge of eighty four
villages and who viii, therefore, exert
a powerful irSuence for the evan
geliZng of these villages
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Central tsouthern Assembly,.
0~AAI1 ei1 10th and Irving SITS. NV.
JAMES FL. TAYLOR, Pastor.
Preaching by the pastor at IL am. and
pm. S. s.. $50 am Prayer service, Thurs
iiay
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BAPTIST.
First Raptist 18th AMP Q

FrSt Ddpt1St North of Scott Circle.
Rev. ". W. McMaster. Minister.
II AM Gods Revelation of Himself In
Nature Miss Florence Norwood. soloist-
Free seats. A hearty welcome awaits you.
Rible school a.45
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The sermon tomorrow morning at II
o'clock at Mount Pleasant Congrega-
t!onal Church viii be delivered by Rev
j. w. Ferner Of Aurora. Neb. who is
visiting his son. Roy i. Ferner, a
physicist of the bureau of standa rds.
living in Chevy Chase. Claude Robe
son. who is in charge of the music. has
arranged the following program for
the service: Organ prelude, Ava Ma
ria. by Schubert; offertory, soprano
and bass duet. "Rise. Crowned With
Light tBrackett. Mrs. A. l. Haycock
ana James S. HIGHS; postlude. Bridal
Song" by Goldmark
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Rilasuur. India, reports four baptisms
and a Christian wedding. The church Is
prosperous. The Sunday school averages
about 500 in attendance.
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First PRESBYTERIAN Church,

John Marshall place. one square from Pennsyl-
wanna ave, Rev. John Britain CLARK. D. D.,
pastor.-Morning service at II O'Clock. Rev.
Charles /. TRULY of New York City will
preach. No evening service. Everybody well
come.
Mr.. E. ]. Hammer will teach the combined
mons and young mems classes at $50 am.
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Metropolitan Epworth League gave
an outing the Soldiers II Tome
grounds last Tuesday.
Nessrs. Marshall Thomas Walter
Mold. Packer Bosley. Miss Smith, Miss
True, Miss Jopling. Miss Colonna. Miss
Holmes, Miss Church and others as
sisted in serving the supper.
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At Metropolitan BAPTIST Church to-
morrow evening Toplady's famous
hymn, Rock of Ages VIII be the
theme of song and story.
Pastor John Compton Ball also re-
quests that all persons attending this
service write the name Of their favor
lite hymn on a card and deposit il in
the basket at time Of offering. The
hymn receiving the highest number Of
votes will be the subject for the ser
mon on the following evening.
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Several Bible classes are being con-
Quoted in Marking by missionaries OF
the Christian Church. The enrolment
at the Drum Tower numbers 155, at
the South Gate (men), seventy -four,
and women at the South Gate fifty
eight.
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assisted by friends and faculty mem
bers, contributed the magnificent sum
of s21S,652 for missions. The NUMBER
of students contributing was $4,000:
A very impressive service was held
in the chapel of the United States
Military Academy at West Point sun
day morning. April 8, 1916, when the
forty-sixth annual presentation OF
Bibles to the members of the gradual
ing class was made by the American
Tract Society. The entire cadet corps.
numbering nearly 500 men, was present
in full uniform.
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Rev Paul r Hickok. pastor of the
Metropolitan PRESBYTERIAN Church. will
deliver the address at the y NJ. c A.
open air-servce in Lincoln Park to-
morrow afternoon.
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Immanuel Baptist d 1e5n sFi A Nm
Grace Baptist 9th pa., AND ? ~ Sc Eouxsox

11:0O-''The Sin Problem"
7:45-'.David. Son of Jesse. Musician.
Eft E NEAR eth s.w.--PASToR JOHN F.
/ I'LL Briggs will preach at II and 745. Bap-
tism at night. S. s., $50. B. Y. p. e..
pm, Brief bright subjects during
rhs
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"Hetty Green and Her Last VIII and
Testament" will be the topic of spe-
cfal sermon which Rev. DR.. James
Shera Montgomery will preach in Cal
vary NJ. f. Church tomorrow evening
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Page Mex. Etchison. religious work
director of the Y. VI. G. A. will speak
at the morning service tomorrow in the
North Carolina Avenue Methodist Prot
nstant Church.
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Colonel T1ous

THE @man Of blood and iron,'
: they called Bismarck, from
which most people have drawn the
conclusion that he lived on raw
meat and wire nails. On the con-
trary, he was a good husband and
companion. But in matters Of pol
itics he wouldn't hesitate to change
the text of a telegram. when giving
it to the newspapers. and he be-
lieved that the Lord was generally
on the side of the fellow that hits
first and hardest. Wilhelm the
present told him he had better
look around for another job;
whereupon Bismarck had inscribed
on his tombstone: "A loyal SER
vant-of Emperor Wilhelm l."
Photograph from Charles l.. Rt,mann
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Photograph from Charles L Ritzmann.

Photograph from Charles L Rzmann.
CHOOSE between this feler and me-, said the
queen mother Of Louis XIII Of France, look
ing very scornful. The fellow to whom she re-
ferred was Cardinal Richelieu, whose morning
exercise consisted in twisting Louis XIII twice
around the fore6nger of his left hand. Poor.
weak little Louis agreed to give Richeieu up;
but, though he hated him, he didn't have the
nerve to fire him. And so Richelieu held on until
his death. laying the foundations for the great
ness of Louis XIV. and incidentally getting
France so plentifully sick Of monarchs that a few
years later the French people began choppng off
heads right on the corner of Main Street. Paris.
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aTNHE Honey-Pot.' they called Mary
= Queen of Scots, so many courtiers
buzzed about her. But, while her cousin
Elizabeth kept her suitors buzzing and
never married any of them, Mary's love
affairs were in a constant tangle. James
Hepburn, Earl of Boutwell,, was the
most masterful of the suitors. He gave
her to understand that she might be
queen, but he was going to be the boss.
Though he never really loved her, he
gained such complete mastery over her
that she was suspected of encouraging
him in the murder of her husband. Let
us draw veil over this terrible scene.
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- SA~~ - @AsS>~& ~~tcSSSp AAS
would deal out political
plums. Once, when he
prosecuted some men for
burning shafts in his
iron-works in a labor
strike, the strikers were
defended by a young
chap named William
Mckinley. So much
was Mark attracted to
William that he said:
"I'll make that young
fellow President; and,
sure enough. he did just
that little thing.
Photograph from
Charles L. Ritzmann.
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WHENEVER the President doesn't know exactly what do he
has House He talks things with Colonel M.
House of Texas and the morning all is settled There have
been of these Colonel Hosespowers behind the
throne Catharne de Mdc the Colonel House of her day.
She the wife of king and the mother three but
during Of her Charles TX France she
really Colonehoused Charles TX when he the
throne and used him to play the Catholics and Potestants
off against each other that she succeeded bringing the Thirty
Years War.
Evening star., 1916-08-27

REHIND the grocery counter
young Mark Hanna show
eled out the prunes, and even
while he did it his eye was on
the day when, as political boss
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Soma Exercise.

Walking is the best exercise. DO
some OF it every day. Next to walk
ing comes bowling. You can't throw
a bowling ball without STOPPING clear
to the floor, and every stoop stimulates
the liver and exercises the intestines.
Fifty per cent of the sickness in the
world would be eliminated ii every
body bowied. Walk or bowl every
day. And at night lie fat on your
back and raise your legs above your
head slowly as many times as you can
without fatigue Then, anchoring your
toes under weight of some sort, raise
and lower the body. These two exer-
cises repeated fifteen or twenty times
night and morning will do lot for
you. And you'll be surprised to find
how quickly you develop endurance.
Start with FIVE times and increase
each day or two until you reach TWEEN
ty.-Woman's Home Companion.
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somethina to Step On.

We don't get very high in this world
unless we have something to step on.
That is why we put risers in stairs
and rounds in ladders.
When we were boys if we could
stick our toenails into crevice in the
bark CT tree, be it ever so shallow.
We could shin up to the top oil right.
When we got to the lowest branch we
were all right. After that we could
pull ourselves up easier. But it did
seem a long ways to the lower limbs
sometimes.
That is the story of all life-getting
the feet on something and then spring
ing up.
Life is fine. or it is a tragedy, just
according to whether we see the mean
ing of the experiences which come t
us and use them to climb up by
Farm Life.
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lnnarsoIl,a EloouencA.

In his book. Notes of Busy Life
Joseph Benson Foraker. writing Of the
Republican national convention of 1876,
says: 'Tle intellectual feature was
the famous speech of Robert G. Inger-
soil nominating Mr.. Blaine. have
many times seen popular orators
arouse great enthusiasm. but have
never seen before or since anything
equal to the effect of his eloquent and
telling sentences. Some one preceding
him had said to make sure of the cleo
ton we must nominate q man accept
able to Massachusetts. This nettled
lngersoll He rebuked it in his first
sentences, saying if any man who had
been mentioned at that convention as
possible candidate should be nomi-
mated and could not carry that state by
$1,000 majority. Massachusetts should
tear down Bunker Hill monument and
sell Faneuil Hall for Democratic head.
quarters. His speech throughout fair
ly bristled with sharp, jagged points
and smashing. bludgeon-like blows that
thrilled his audience, aroused their en-
thusiasm and brought forth round aft
er round Of applause, and the climax
was reached when he likened Blaine
to a plumed knight with shining lance
shifting traitors in congress full in the
face"
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Iennyson,s Birds.

OF all the poets Tennyson was the
most exact in his rendering Of the
songs or calls Of birds. A young lady
was present when he was reading
MAUD" When he came to the pas.
sage which says. Birds in the high
hall garden cry, Maud, Maud, Maud! +"
he suddenly ceased reading and asked
her abruptly what the birds We're.
She blushed and hesitated and then
said:
"Nightingales, l suppose"
The poet turned away with the one
HGrd "Rooksw
He always made the sound right.
What could be better than "the moan
Of doves" and "'Whit, whit, whit!
chirruped the nightingale"
Then, linnets, robins and thrushes
pipe" in his pages. the woodpecker
laughs" and "mocks," the lark and
the plover whistle" the jay "scritch-
es." the parrot Screams" the peacock
squalls the blackbird MARBLES" the
ocean fowl "shriek," and the eagle
"yelps." He may we'll ask in one, Of
the daintiest Of his lullabies, "What
does little birdie say?" He knows, and
he let's his readers know. too.-London
Answers.
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MORE LOCALS.

Miss Bessie Baber was up from Dow
City Saturday visiting friends and
shopping.
Mrs. f. r. Able returned the first of
tho week from Dow City, where she
enjoyed a weeks visit with her sister.
Misses Laura McElwain, Lillian Cole
and Fannie Howorth spent Sunday at
Dow City visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer McElwain.
Joe James has purchased a half in
terest in the barber shop of r. E. But.
Ter, located In the basement of the
Gulick building, and took possession
Of the same the fore part of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Friday, who re.
side on farm near Vail. are in Deni.
son today transacting business and
shopping. Mr.. Friday called at the
Review Office this afternoon and ex.
tended his subscription to the paper
for another year.
A six inning game of baseball was
played last evening at the Athletic
park between the new Denison team
and the high school nine. The game
resulted in victory for the new team
the score being 4 to 2. 1t was not I'M
til $3.50 that the boys got started and
the game had to be called off at the
end of the sixth inning on account Of
darkness.
Mrs. Allen Beck and little son, Fred.
erick, arrived in Denison the latter
part of the week for visit at the home
Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Strahan. Mrs. Beck has been in poor
health for almost two years, but re-
Gently had her tonsils removed and
since that time has steadily improved
until now she is enjoying her usual
good health, fact her many friends
will be pleased to note.