Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-20
HOW ONE WOMEN LOVED
The international Sunday School Lesson For April
% Is Jesus Amounted at Bethany."-John 12:1-11
BY william T. Ellis
a friendly. helping hand.

BY a friendly, helping hand.
say so. Speak out brave and truly.
Ere the darkness veil the land.
Should brother workman dear
Falter for word of cheer?
Scatter thus your seeds of kindness.
All enriching as you go
Leave them. Trust the Harvest Giver,
He will make each seed to grow
So, until its happy end,
Your life shall never lack q friend"
The CRATER Speaks Up
Snarling out his cynical covetous-
ness, a kill-joy at the feast, Judas
complained that the money spent for
practical business man" (God pity
the wives of suchD, who had not time
Tor this sentimental nonsense and eX-
traVagance. Better spend the money
Tor the poor" was his too-thin ex-
cuse. Doubtless Mary was a better
friend of the poor than Judas had
ever been, since there is no heart
IS not also aglow with love for all
the needy for whom He lived and
died.
Despite his hypocritical preten-
slons, Judas betrayed himself. Men
always do. Nobody can keep shut
the windows out of which our true
SELF peeps Every man is RESPONSE
BILE for his face at fifty" The soul
of Judas thrat leered out through his
words, was the soul of thief. He
cared for money, and not for the
poor.
We often hear Judas speak out in
bitter denunciation of our "eXtrava-
gance," in giving to foreign mis-
slons: Let us first care for the
heather at home" But 1 personally
never met one such critic who is
really doing anything for the needy
In the homeland. Charles G. Trum-
bull tells, in the Sunday School
Times, typical incident to illustrate
this: Some University of Pennsyl-
Vania students called on a Philadel-
phia business man to ask his con-
tribution to the foreign missionary
work of the Christian Association of
the university. He replied that he
was not interested in foreign mis-
sions when there was so much to be
done right there at home in Philadel-
phia. If the university were doing any,
thing for the needy people of Philadel-
phia, he said, he would be interested
in that sort of a proposition. His
callers said they were very glad he
had let them know his thoughts
frankly for he would be glad to
Association conducted very practi-
cal settlement work in the heart of a
needy part of the city, and they
would welcome his contribution to
that. And the man coughed slightly,
and said they had better come and
see him some other time!
The Foes at the Feast
Like lovely garden hedged in by
cactus in this episode of Mary's great
and gracious gift Within, were the
friends of Jesus-and one weed,
Judas. Loves fragrance, as of sweet
est flowers, filled the air. Friend
had proved worthy of friend; and
devotion had given of its best: and it
was food for the hungry spirit of the
weary Master toiling onward to a
cross, now so near.
e Ringing round this beautiful
scene, were spies and foes, as we'll as
the common people. All wanted to
see Lazarus, the man back from the
grave. Some wanted to slay Him, be-
cause He was such a good witness for
Christ. When we cast in our lot
with the Lord, we must accept His
foes as well as His friends. Cross
and crown are linked together in