Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-18

frlendS every year. In every lana
and language the Lords supper is
celebrated.
Recollections flood a travellers
mind of strange times and places
where the communion has been
shared - kneeling on bare boards
with soldiers: clinging TO the saloon
rails of tossing ship at sea; in a
dlngy little chapel in interior China,
with every other person present
wearing Chinese clothes: in idyllic
country churches and in great relig-
ious assemblies in the homeland
Only n few days ago. before six
O'Clock in the morning, | was present
with the monks at mass and COM
munion in the most ancient Christ
ian church in the world that has
been in continuous use-the one in
the Greek Monastery of st. Catherine,
on Mt. Sinai.
The universally of this observ-
ance is visible evidence of the tri-
umph of the cross. The Christ who
died lives stlll in the hearts OF count
less men and women and children
who love him best of all. This good
ly fellowship is the worlds hope in
a troubled time. They are lovers of
Christ and therefore lovers of their
fellows: they have found him to he
a satisfaction for the deepest needs
of their spirits; they offer him TO
the restless souls all about them.
An Egyptian Memory
few weeks ago. in the midst of
grave times in Carlo. | heard un-
usual sounds proceeding from the
windows of the top floor of a house
across the street from my room.
Childish voices carried strange mu-
sic. | Went out on my balcony and
looked and listened-and il was a
Jewish family keeping the Passover.
And in Egypt. the place of the Pass
overs beginning. The incident stir
red me strangely. This was the
memorial of the great deliverance,
quite after the fashion of its keep
ing by Jesus and his little band of
Jewish friends.
All that Passover means TO the
devout Jew. the Lords supper signi-
ties TO the Christian. Christ. our
Passover, was sacrificed for us"
Thls rite is reminder of our saliva
ton. once. in the far-off Caucasus.
a fine CosSack soldier said to me, IL
am thinking all the time of the
Cross. He was a man of battles.
but the memory of his slain Com
mander was ever with him by this
observance. "Ye do show the Lords
death until he come"
What The Cross Says
over here on the far side of the
world, in the very hands where the
Bible story was enacted, we hear
welcome rumors that America is
awakening religously; that thought
tul persons have come to understand
that society can be saved from dis
"a hN- hA
saves the sinners soul. They are
seeing through the hollowness and
mockery of a new" social pro-
gram that is born of hate and led
by selhshness. Collective ill-wiu and
personal license will never make the
world better. We need TO go back
TO the cross of humiliation. of self
denial. of crucifxion, TO find re-
demption for our wandering times.
To all who have ears to hear, this is
the day of the cross. Says Alfred
Noyes:
Then once again we saw the Cross
go by,
The Cross that fell with all those
glorious towers,
Burnt black in France or Knocked
on Calvary.
Till in one night the crosses rose
like flowers.
Leglons of small white crosses
mile on mile.
Fehclled with names that had out
fought all pain.
mere every shell-torn acre seemed
to smile.
Who shall destroy the Cross that
rose again?
out of the worlds Wa,r,r,,s
W., where hope perished.
"here all the forms of faith IN
ruin fell.
" mere every sign of heaven that
=, earth had cherished
i'iteled among the lava-f1ooos of
Inc eternal Cross that coma, ers
might with right
Rose like star to lead us tb-o,,,.,
the night"
rms old earth is going to be say
eu anew in our time ONLY h,, 90,
anu those of his friends wbo 90,
S1S, %,: we nave been crucified with
~ This Hungry World
mere is more to this sacran,,.
thdn memory and a renindar
is FEAST. In sublime mvstar,
III way passing all mortal t,dd,' IL
SANDING. the Lords Supper feeds
III 1ne spirits of those who nartoI,n
lhey snare the very life of Him VIII
gave himself as bread. His di,,iro
nature flows through their sniritnaI
peihg' The weak become strong r.
IeaFlul become brave. the sad h
coLhe Joyful. Power and a boIv
peace are impaired at tbe tabiss bs
spread by Christ. His friends aro
n nuftured by his life. For hie
hesh is meat indeed" ms
IN a time that is madlv saolir
satisfaction and finding II nor ba,'
ing its fairest fruit turn into annio. I'
OF Sodom, man is sure of attention
Wheh ne talks of real satisfa ction
tor the spirit. Like Athenians of
oid, many persons NOWADAYS spend
the4f ume in nothing else than to
see OF near some new thing. Thev
MT from pleasure to pleasure fror,
fad to fad, from pursuit 10 nurs,,it
only TO grow more jaded and wear,
with each new experience. In ordar
to uttilate tired appetites. they aing
away conventions and moraIitias
ana hout the codes of man and the
laws of God. Still the look Of ax
haustion in their eyes grows deenar
ana the lines of ennui muItinI,,
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