Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-09

ton, the wooden cross"
/ Naturally, when. the cables
brought the tragic news of Chaplain
Bankers battlefield death, / thought
of the praise that he would win from
I his Lord. 1t would not be, well
performed. o noble ecclesiastic";
nor, We'll spoken, o eloquent ora
tor" nor. Well conducted. o learned
| ritualist," nor We'll drilled, o eff
cient officer; but it would be well
done. good and faithful servant; en-
| ter thou into the joy of thy Lord"
Heavens rewards are for the doers
of the deeds that make men think of
/ Christ. The old, old test, applied by
the Master himself. is this word that
! touches. only helpfulness: "Inasmuch
as We have done it unto one OF tho
least of these my brethren, We have
done IL unto me-"
! Come to think of 1t. this has to be
so. For any other test would shut
out most of us. II the divine favor
were to be extended only to the elo-
quept or the wise or the powerful
or the well-placed or the rich, most
OF us would be excluded. But since
II is given to the doers of deeds
the samples enumerated being of the
most inconspicuous and humble sort
we are all of us let in. Helping
others is serving Christ. We do the
will of Jesus when we minister to
men. The way to go the limit in the
/ service of our Lord is pointed out in
| the Golden Text of this lesson
Bear We one another's burdens, and
so fulfill the law of Christ"
1 War-Work as Worship
| Perhaps the common heart TO
mankind has been quicker to COM
/ prehend the genius of Jesus than
some who are responsible for the
conduct of the churches. Instinc-
| lively, since the beginning of the
war, devoted patriots have given
! themselves to doing things for the
/ soldiers. There is no service 100
lowly for the highest to perform in
| behalf of the fighting men. This
! mood of ministry has fairly trans
formed Great Britain. There, as
/ here, millions of hands are busily
| knitting for the men. High-born wo-
men. in all of the allied countries,
| don the uniform of the Red Cross
and do the heavy work of station res
| taurateurs Tor the travelling troops.
Let a call so forth for any kind of
/ work for the men in the service, and
| there are countless responses.
| In this spirit of ministry, which is
| as holy in its springs as worship it,
| self. men and women are expressing
I
they believe of God. 1 could fill this
column with a catalog of the war
work of volunteer civilians that
/ have personally witnessed in many
of the lands at war. All night long
! in London, for instance, there are
volunteer motorcars carrying soldiers
from station to station, while other
| patriots toll smilingly at canteens
| Colonials resident in London are reg
! II arIN f,Iw
| their daily employ to meet the troop
trains that bring in the Canadian end
Anzac soldiers from France. Indeed,
| 1t is quite a disgrace in Great Britain
! for one not to be usefully employed
in some sort of war work. AS have
! looked upon this service in its many
forms, tears have started to my eyes,
for the scene has been more impress
sive than any cathedral service ever
attended. 1t is the exalted heart of
a people following in the way of
Jesus.
This is the new conception OF
patriotism that is raising the level
| of the life of the nations. We have
| learned the glory of service, the
grandeur of laying all of our pos
sessions and powers upon the altar
of country and humanity. We have
| given of our sons and of our sub
| stance and of our selves, and yet
We long for newer, better. and even
more sacrificial ways of honoring
our God in his great way.
He that careth for the sick and he
wounded,
Watcheth. not alone;
| There are three in the darkness to-
gether,
And the third is the Lord.
Henry VanDyke.
Walking the New Way
BY this path of ministry, this
spirit of service, this heart of help
| fulness, the church is yet to follow
| her Lord into the new day of social
welfare which the war has opened
| before her feet. One needs no fuller
| equipment for social service than a
| passion to minister to men, unset
| fishly and unknown, in the spirit
| of Jesus. It is not so much a fresh
| program that the church is to have
as a new spirit and a new devo-
ton, an absorption in the mind of
Jesus. This will make helpfulness
] free from self-consciousness for it is
| impossible to be a good neighbor
while thinking about ones own
neighborliness. AS a bequest of the
war, we shall surely find the church
of the new era ministering body,
in a large sphere, animated by love
and loyalty TO Christ.
/. There has just come to me from
a missionary friend in India a let
ter telling of the work in his mis-
sion. 1t is wholly a recital of works
of helpfulness He gives some para
graphs to the great civic exhibition.
in the native state of GwaIior, and
TO the Missions part therein. quote
some passages:
The Gwalior exhibition has Just
closed and after it is all over it is
said to have been the largest and
most interesting on record in Cen
trail India. The North India Mission
entered on n new era in mission
work. for all the agricultural ar
rangements for the exhibition were
in its hand. Mr.. Griffin with his
tractors actually plowing, his har-
rows narrowing, his pumps pump
ing, his fine crops of pedigreed
wheat and grain, proved an attrac-
ton superior to the wrestling arena.
DR.. Kenoyer in his beautiful research
laboratory, with experiments of all
kinds under way that the Indian
farmers could see and understand,
his charts. microscopes, and seed
| testing, was more popular than the
| Indian juggler who makes the man.
go tree grow and bear fruit under
a gunEy bag.
Mrs. Wiser, both her demonstra-
| tions of fruit canning and vegetable
| preservation, showing the people of
| India a cheap, sanitary and easy
way of saving food. was much more
/ DOOular than the nautch girl The