Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-25
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS

re are more tongues in Paris
we're heard at Pentecost. ours
igger world than Peter knew
the forked tongues of hre
upon the little company OF
md women gathered in Jeru-
to await the promised out
Is of the divine Spirit, they
ented the universal outreach
ristianity. From that room the
es went everywhere preach
The rapid dissemination OF
Message became one of the
RS of history; and it made over
orld.
world is larger than theirs,
is also more easily reached.
fly in an earoplane over the
of Paurs long, tedious mis-
y journeys in few hours. IL
ut yesterday that l covered IN
ht and a morning the distance
Rome to the tip Of Italy, which
the prisoner apostle weary
Couriers carried the DEGREES
sar to the limits of the Roamh
E, so that the oUtermost prov
were many days or weeks IN
news: but now the ends oil
rth read at breakfast what
one in Paris the day before.
rea has enlarged since the day
ntecost. (alreadY the Bible Is
n in five hundred languages
ialectsl. but so also have our
al facilities. The apostles had
IN opportunity as the Christian
h TO-DAY possesses.
the WCrid Was Turned Upside
Down
b huu q. Power which explain
wonder. So marvellous was
effect upon life that they got
ltation as earihquakers. Peo-
hclared that they had turned
orld upside down. No pagan
II was too strong for them to
Even Caesars household was
q by them. The military
of the Roman empire became
10 them. Greek philosophy
was their tool. Exploration
|nmnlerce ana t~aycl and even
ution were but rs so many
by which the message flew. In
less ways. overcoming all OBJ
this new Power operated
human society for its henetl-
ansforuation.
Power Is variously named in
cord: but II was the Spirit Of
:nE God. He was the express
the Divine. He was OTnipo-
~ethod Of operating. Unseen,
ible. indescribable. incompre-
lie. this mysterious Spirit of
expressing Himself TO and
h. man. Theologians have
O catalogue the qualities and
#,teristfcs OF this Divine
y: hut in vain. He may be eN-
ceE. hut Re may not be de-
This Spirit Is he who sup
hts srDa-natu~al'y all that Is
for God humanity. He takes
|orl6's worst and makes /. The
he i the one supreme eNDlana-
: the miracle Of Christianity.
After Paris. What?
lesson is being written in an
room in Pauls old city OF
alorica. As ! have wandered
its muddy. filthy streets, and
ave come into contact with its
sordid oriental life. I have
much upon Paul and the
r that he wrought here in the
sCo. For he made heather
hlonica Christian-and by no
that is not at the command of
nurch to-day.
ing the pagan cities of COM
It Rome. the little company of
ian disciples needed a new
nent. Roman arrogance could
overawe them, Roman power
. dishearten them, and Greclan
ophy could confute them. 1t
vain for them to so forth as
anded unless they had some
inducement which the proud
could neither match nor meet:
sciples simply had to possess
4 =irresistahle equipment.
is the logic of PenteCost. 1t
5ecessary and inevitable. The
+ hi of the Spirit was a natural
ary of the resurrection. Chris
+ IS heralds had TO be both en-
ged and empowered.
&the present time all the world
ting upon the deliberations of
race Conference in Paris. The
Iissioners have envisaged a new
order. They see what must
'olished and what must be es-
he'd. So far as saCacious
'nanship can do so they have
! led for better state of human
J. everywhere. out here in
Salonica, however, amid such
and sordidness as the Peace
Sission knows nothing of. it is
to everybody that if the desir-
snder is TO he wrought there is
l some such Power as turned
'hessalonica upside down.
Law Versus Life
~ mile I have travelled since
Ear began-and I have been all
by around the world, and back
to France. and one more half
Iround again-has only in
led my conviction that all me
cost of the conflict will have
wasted unless the heroism of
Itttlefield and of the home can
bplemented by new and more
sense of spiritual obligations.
h vain that We have chased the
but of France if we do not also
his spirit out of human hearts.
en- to be free matters little un-
hey are also noble. To-day II
|lncheon with three British Of
ia lieutenant colonel, a major
captain - who have been
'Eh the bitterness of the Salon
Impaign. and as we discussed
bestion of what is ahead of the
they were a unit in thinking
bnly religion, vital, unprofes-
religion. can save society. No
'aws will avail unless there be
|ew life.