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CHAPTER XVI.
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Tlmt thunder Iti tlio soli, nt first too
deep within It to ho audible, lintl come
'to the surface now and gradually bo
Vnmo heard ns tho thunder of n million
feet upon the training grounds. The
bugles rang sharper; tho drums nnd
llfos of town nnd village nnd country
fide were the drums nnd fifes of u
war tlmt enme closer and closer to
every henrth between tho two ocenns.
All the old symbols beenmo symbols
bright nnd new, ns If no one hnd ever
een them before. "Amerlcu" wns liken
new word, nnd the song "America"
wns like h new song. All the dusty
Wntnncles of orating cnndldutes, seek
'lug to rouse bored nudltors with "tho
old flag"; all tho mechanical patriotic
of school and church and club; nil
these time-worn, llaccld things leaped
suddenly Into living color. Tho ling
became brilliant and strange to set
.strange with a mennlng tlint seemed
iiiew, a meaning long known, yet never
known till now.
Ami so hearts tlmt thought they
knew themselves came upon ambushes
of emotion nnd hidden Indwellings of
uplift not guehscd before. Dora Yo
cum, listening to the "Star-Spangled
llnnner," sung by children of lmmt
grunts to an out-of-tuno old piano In
n mission cluhroom, In Chlcngo, found
(hcrseJt crying with a soul-shnking
heartiness In n way different from oth
er ways that she had cried. Among
the many things she thought of then
was this: That the banner tho chil
dren were singing about was In dan
ger. Tho great country, almost a con
tinent, had always seemed so untouch
able, so safe and sure; she hnd never
been able to conceive of a hostile
power mighty enough to shake or even
Jar It. And since so grcnt nnd fundn
mental a thing could not be Injured, n
war for Its defense had appenrod to
be, In her eyes, not only wicked but
ridiculous. At last, less and less
.vnguoly, she had come to comprehend
something of the colossal German
threat, nnd tho shadow that touched
this bright banner of which tho Immi
grants' children piped so briskly In tho
Imlsslon cJubroom.
She began to understand, though
she could not hnvo told Just why, or
(bow, or at what moment understand
ing reached hor. She began to under
jstnnd that her country, threatened to
;tbe life, bad Hung Its lino those thou
sands of miles across the sea to stand
nnd hold Illndenburg and Ludendorff
land all their kaisers, kings, dukes and
Icrown princes, their Krupp nnd Skoda
'monstrous engines, nnd their mons
trous other engines of men made Into
armies. Through the long hnzo of
misted sen-miles nnd tho smoko of
'land-miles she perceived that brown
jlluo of ours, and knew It stood there
(that Freedom, and the Nation Itself,
might not perish from the enrtb.
And so, n week Inter, sho went home
and enme nervously to ltamsey's moth
'er mid found how to direct the letter
she wanted to write. ITo wns In France.
. As the old phrase went, she poured
out her heart. It seems to npply to her
letter.
She wrote:
"Don't mlsundorstund me. I felt that
my bitter speech to you hnd driven you
to take the step you did. I felt that I
had sent you to be killed, and that I
(ought to bo killed for doing It, but I
;knew that you hnd other motives, loo.
jl knew, of course, thnt you thought of
,the country more thnn you did of me,
or of nny mail thing I could sny but
II thought that what I said might have
;been the prompting thing, tho word
thnt throw you Into it so(hnstl!y nnd
'before you were rendy, perhaps. I
dreaded to bear that terrible responsi
bility. I hope you understand.
"My great mistake has been I
thought I was so 'logical' It's been
In my starting everything with a
thought I'd never proven : that wnr Is
tho worst thing, nnd all other evils
'were lesser. I wns wrong. I wns
wrong, becnuso wnr Isn't the worst
evil. Slavery Is a worse evil, and now
Iwant to tell you I have come to seo
that you nro ranking wnr on those that
make Blnvcry. Yes, you are fighting
those that make both war and slavery,
nnd you nro right, nnd I humbly rov
erenco nnd honor nil of you who nro
In this right wur. I hnvo como homo
,to work In the Red Cross hero ; I work
thero nil day, nnd nil day I keep say
ing to myself but I really mean to you
It's what I pray, and oh, how I pray
It: 'God be with you and grant you
the victory l' For you must win ntid
you will win.
"Forgive me, oh, plense and If you
will, could you write to mo? I know
you have things to do more lmportnnt
than 'girls' but oh, couldn't you,
please?"
This letter, which Bhe had taken
enro not to dampen, as sho wrote, went
In slow course to tho "American Ex
peditionary Forcw In France," nnd
finally found him whom It patiently
ought. Ho delayed not long to answer,
and to time she held In a slinking hand
the penciled missive ho had sent her:
"You forget nil that comic talk about
me enlisting because of your telling
rao to. I'd written my fathor I was
going at the first chance a month nnd
a, half before thnt day when you snld
U. My miuU was aiudo up tho first
tlmo there wns nny tnllc of wnr, nnd
you had about ns much responsibility
for my going ns some little sparrow or
something. Of course I don't mean I
didn't pay nny intention to the differ
ent things you said, becnuso I always
did, and I used to worry over It be
cause I was afraid some daylt would
get you Into trouble, and I'm mighty
glad you'vo cut It out. That's right:
you be n regular girl now. You always
were one, and I knew thnt nil right.
I'm not as scared to write to you us I
was to talk to you, so I guess you know
I was mighty tickled to get your letter.
It sounded blue, but I was glad to get
It. You bet I'll, write to you 1 I don't
suppose you could have any Idea how
glnd I was to get your letter. I could
sit hero nnd write to you nil day If
they'd let me, but I'm n corporal now.
When you answer this, I wish you'd
sny how tho old town looks nnd If the
grass In the front yards Is ns green as
It usually Is, nnd everything. And tell
me some more about everything you
think of when you nro working down
at the Hod Cross like you said. I guess
I've read your letter live million times,
and that part ten million. I mean
where you underlined that 'you' nnd
what you said to yourself at the Red
Cross. Oh, murder, but I was glad to
read thnt I Don't forget nbout writing
anything else you think of like that.
"Well, I was Interrupted then and
this Is the next day. Of course I can't
tell you where, wo nre, becnuso that
dnrned censor will rend this letter, but
tllfc M
j!6ui222Sv " YtJix--
They Were Soldiers.
I guess he will lot tills much by. Who
do you think I ran across In a village
yesterday? Two boys from the old
school dnys, nnd wo certainly did
shako hands a few times 1 It was that
old foolish Dutch Krusemeyer and Al
bert Puxtoti, both of them lieutenants.
I heard Fred Mitchell Is still training
In the Stntes and nbout crnzy because
they won't send him over yet.
"If you have nny Idea how glnd I
was to get your letter, you wouldn't
lose nny time answering this one. Any
how, I'm going to write to you ngnlri
every few days if I get tho chance, be
cnuso maybo you'll answer more than
one of 'em.
"Hut see here, cut out that 'sent you
to be killed stuff. You've got the
wrong Idea altogether. We've got tho
big Job of our lives, wo know that, but
we'ro going to do It. Thero'll be mis
takes and bad times, but we won't fall
down. Now, you'll excuse mo for sny
lng It this way, Dora, but I don't know
Just how to express myself except
snylng of courso we know everybody
Isn't going to get back home but lis
ten, wo didn't come over here to get
killed particularly, we camo over to
give these Dutchmen h 1 1
"I'erhnps you can excuse language If
I write It with n blank like that, but
before wo get back wo'ro going to do
what we camo for. They may not ull
of them bo ns bad as some of them
It's u good thing you don't know whnt
wo do, because some of It would make
you sick. As I say, thero may be quite
a lot of good ones among them; but
we know whnt they've done to this
country, and we know whnt they mean
to do to ours. So we'ro going to at
tend to them. Of course that's why
I'm here. It wasn't you.
"Don't forget to wrlto pretty soon,
Dora. You soy In your letter I cer
tnlnly wns glad to get that letter
well, you say I have things to do more
lmportnnt than 'girls.' Dora, I think
you probnbly know without my saying
so that of course while I have got lm
portnnt things to do, Just as every
man over here has, nnd everybody nt
home, for that matter, well, the thing
thnt Is most lmportnnt In tho world to
me, next to helping win this wnr, It's
rending tlie next letter from you.
"Don't forget how glnd I'll be to get
It, nnd don't forget you didn't hnvo
anything to do with my being over
here. That wns It wns sofnethlng
else. And you bet, whatever happens
I'm glnd I camel Don't ever forget
that I"
Dora knew It wns "something else."
Her memory went back to her first rec
ollection of him In school: from that
time on he had been Just an ordinary,
everyday boy, llounderlng somehow
through his lessons In school nnd
through his swcetheartlng with Mllla,
as the millions of other boys floun
dered nlong with their own lessons
nnd their own Mlllas. She saw blm
swinging his books and romping home
ward from tho schoolhouse, or going
whistling by her father's front yard,
rattling a stick on the fence ns he
went, enre-frce and masterful, but shy
us a deer If strangers looked at him,
and always "not much of a talker."
She had alwuys felt so superior to
him ; sho shuddered as Bhe thought of
It. Ills quiet had been so much better
thnn her talk. Ills Intelligence wns
proven now, when It came to the grcnt
test, to be of n stronger sort thnn hers.
Ho wns wJso nnd good and gentle
and n flghtlug man I "Wo know what
they've done to this country nnd whnt
they menn to do to ours. So we're
going to attend to them." She rend
this over, nnd she knew thnt Ramsey,
wise and gentle nnd good, would fight
like nn unchnlncd devil, and that he
nnd his comrndes would Indeed and
Indeed do what they "came for."
"It wasn't you," he said. She nod
ded gently, agreeing, and knew what
It wns thnt sent him. Yet Ramsey
hnd his own secret here, and did not
tell it. Sometimes there rose, faint In
his memory, a whimsical picture, yet
one that hnd always mennt much to
him. He would see nn old mnn Bitting
with a little boy upon n rustic bench
under a walnut tree to watch the "Dec
oration Day Parade" go by and Ram
sey would see n shoot of sunshine thnt
had somehow got through the walnut
tree nnd mnlce a bednzzlemcnt of
glinting fine lines over u spot nbout
the size of a snuccr, upon the old
man's thick white hnlr. And In Ram
sey's memory, tho Httlo boy, sitting
beside the veteran, would hnlf close
his eyes, drowsily, playing thnt this
sunshine spowns a white blrd's-nest,
until he hnd n momentary dream of a
glittering little bird that dwelt there
nnd wore u blue soldier cap on its
head. And Rnmscy would bring out of
his memory thoughts that the old mnn
hud got Into the child's head that day.
"Wo knew thnt nrmles fighting for tho
Freedom of Man hnd to win, In the
long run. . . . We were on tho side of
God's I'lnn. . . . Long ngo we began
to see hints of Ills Plan. . . . Man
has to win his freedom from himself
men In the light have to fight ngalnst
men In tho dnrk . . . Thnt light Is the
answer . . . Wo had the light that
made us never doubt."
A long while Dora snt with the let
ter In her hnnd before oho answered It
and took It upon hcrlieart to wear.
Tlmt wns the placo for It, since It was
already within her heart, where ho
would find it when ho came homo
again. And sho beheld tho revelation
sent to her. This ordinary life of Ram
sey's wub but the outward glinting of
a high nnd splendid spirit, as high and
splendid as earth enn show. And yet
It was only tho llfo of an everyday
Amerlcun boy. Tho streets of tho
town were full, now, of boys like Ram
sey. At first they were Just boys In uni
form; then one saw that they wero
boys no more.
They were soldiers.
THE END.
THE TEMPLE REBUILT
DEDICATED
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THOUGHT IS NOT REALLY RAPID
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Mind Moves Comparatively Slowly,
Notwithstanding Expression That
Has Become Common.
"As quick ns thought" Is nn expres
sion much used to denote the acme
of speed In action, but, llko so many
popular expressions, this one Is mis
leading. Thought, or nt least the men
tal registering of a sensation, l not
an exceedingly speedy process, tho
thought Impulse moving at tho com
paratively slow Bpced of 110 feet n
ccond, or 7fi miles nn hour. Light
travels nearly nine million times ns
swiftly. Thought would bo hopelessly
bentcn In n rnco with a motorcar.
1 Perhaps a good Illustration of the
comparative slowness of thought
wnves Is to assume that n mnn hnd
nn arm 70 miles long nnd tlmt, when
ho was not looking a friend should
grasp his hand. IJofore tho owner of
that arm became conscious that his
hand had been touched, the friend
would hnvo relensed It, and hnd tlmo
to wnlk four miles or ent a very ex
tensive dinner. Knnsns City star.
LESSON TEXT-Kzra 3:1-0:2!.
GOMJEN TEXT My soul lonscth, yea,
even fnlntoth for the courts of tho Lord.
I'salm 84:2.
REFERENCE MATERIAL-IIaggal 1:
1-2:23; iBftlnh C2; Row 21:1-22:5.
PRIMARY TOPIC-Joyfully Building
OoiI'b House. ,
JUNIOR TOPIC-nobullrtlnR tho Templo.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOU TOPIC
Lovo for Ood'8 House.
YOUNO PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
What Ood'a llouso Should Mean to a
Community.
. After becoming .settled In the towns
surrounding Jerusalem the people
were called together for the purpose
of reestablishing the worship of the
Lord God. The lenders in this move
ment wero Joshua the priest nnd
Zerubbabel the governor. In view of
the fact that the clearing nwuy of the
debris of the old city nnd temple nnd
tho erection of the now temple would
tuko n long time, an nltnr wns erected
where sacrifice might be ottered tit
once unto God.
I. The Foundation of the Temple
Laid (3:8-iy).
This wns tin auspicious occasion and
was celebrated with most Impressive
ceremonies. It marked nn epoch In
the history of the nation. It brought
most vividly to them their bitter ex
periences In the daik past, and yet
pointed them forward to the time of
blessing when God's favor would be
upon them again.
1. The priests In their apparel (v.
10). In Exodus :H) the priestly gar
ments are described. These garments
symbolized their consecration to the
Lord's service.
2. Tho priests with trumpets (v. 10).
These trumpets were of silver nnd
were used In culling tho people to
gether. :. The Lovltes with cymbals (v. 10).
These were to furnish the Instrumental
music of the snnctuary. This was ac
cording to the arrangement made by
David (I Chron. 15:10-21).
'1. They sang together by courso
(v. 11). This means that they sang
to one nnother responslvely. The one
company sang, "The Lord Ls Good";
the other responded, "For Ills mercy
endureth forever."
0. Mingled weeping and shouting
(vv. 12-i:i). Some of the older men
who had seen the magnificent nnd
glorious temple of Solomon, which hud
been destroyed, wept much when they
saw how far short the present founda
tion came of the former temple. Oth
ers were glnd of the fuvor of God
which had brought them back and that
a beginning had been made In the new
house of worship.
II. The Building of the Temple Hln
dered (Ch. -1).
Tlu! three perils which put bnck the
building of the temple for some four
teen years reveal thu persistent meth
ods which the enemy uses to hinder
the constructive building progrums of
God's people In every nge.
1. An unintelligent pessimism (3:12).
It wns no credit to "priests, Levltes
nnd chief of the futhers" to mnr this
glorious occasion with weeping. Un
der tho clrcumstuiices this wns n
glorious beglnulug nnd gave promise of
great things for tho future. God's
promises looked to the future when
even grenter glories should be to the
chosen people thnn over hnd been en
joyed In the days of Solomon. Many
today, because things are not quite
what they should be, do not go for
ward with a constructive program, nnd
even hinder those who hnvo the hope
ful outlook.
2. Worldly comprQmlso (4:2, 3). "Let
us build with you, for we seek your
God." Tills ls Sntnn's most common
nnd effective method today. May tho
courageous Zerubbabels declare anew,
"Ye have notldng to do with us to
build nn house unto our God."
3. Open opposition by ro world (4 :4
24). When refused a part In the work,
open nnd violent opposition was re
sorted to. Intimidation nnd political
Bchemlng wero used to defeat the build
ing plan of God's people.
III. The Temple Finished (5:1-0:15).
Through the ministry of the proph
ets, Ilaggal and Zezcharlnh. tho peo
ple were encouraged to resumo the
work of building tho temple. They
wrought with energy and enthusiasm.
How necessary nre God's prophets to
encourage and urge on the workers in
tho Lord's vineyard I
IV. The Temple Dedicated (0:10-22).
The people were united In this build
ing and came together upon Its com
pletion nnd solemnly dedlcnted It .to
God. It was u Joyous occasion nnd
they united In tho observance of tho
passover with gratitude to God that
He had strengthened their hands In
their work.
Time nnd Tldo Is the nnmo of a
London nowspnper which Is owned nnd
controlled entirely by women.
Experience tenches people lota of
tilings they would rather not know
The Doer of tho Work.
Hut whoso looketh Into tho perfect
law of liberty and contlnueth therein,
ho being not a forgetful hearer, but a
doer of the work, this man shall be
blessed In his deed. James 1:25.
No Disguise Can Conceal Love.
No disguise can long conceal love
where It ls, nor feign It where It U
not. Rochefoucauld.
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There's fatigue-resisting food-iron
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Vital men cat like this and resist
the weather. Don't work their diges
tion because they want to work their
brains.
Try it for a few days and you'll
feel better.
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Funerals by Train for Paris.
Parisian cemeteries nre so over
crowded ns to threaten public health;
cremation has proved unpopular.. The
municipal commission studying the
problem advises the building of four
big cemeteries 15 miles out of Paris,
with railroad service to and from the
city. Scientific American.
There Is nothing more satisfactory
after a day of hard work than a line
full of snowy white clothes. For such
results use Red Cross Ball Blue. Ad
vertisement. A Trifling Matter.
"Is he eligible In every way?"
"Almost. All he needs ls a divorce
from his present wife."
The .Tupniiese bride culls upon her
neighbors and friends, Instead of the
neighbors and friends calling upon her.
Two Viewpoints.
Sim nnd Sam, who hudn't seen each
other since overseas days, met In the
street nnd, nfter artlully strangling
each other by way of greeting, begnn
getting personnl.
"Married?" asked Slim.
"Yep," replied Sam. "You?"
"Nope," answered Sim. "You're n
lucky dog. 'Tatn't good for u mnn
to live alone."
"Xo-o-o," drawled Sam somewhat
dubiously. "I'rob-ly not, but some,
times I'd bo willing to try It."
Too Strong for Home Use.
, One of tho nmateur golf chnmplons
Is being sued for divorce, his wife
naming golf as the cause, i'erhnps
he fell Into the habit of using the golf
vocabulary around home.
No man can feed his soul who Is
starving bis servants.
Don't Forget the Sands.
Steer your ships by the stars, bul
don't forget the sands. Spurgcon.
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