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Foch is making no boasts, but watch him work.
Omaha will be glad to welcome the boys from
Funston, if only for a few hours.
Pushing the propaganda of pacifism in Ne
braska is not so easy now as it was a year ago.
With our own boy in, the Battle of Picardy
now assumes new interest in the homeland. Get
behind them!
If the alien enemy vote is not a menace now,
wen we are at war, how can it become such
three years from now?
Workers at Kansas City and Norfolk seem
ingly have not heard of the labor war program
adopted in Washington last week.
April sunshine is always welcome, but better
results will be secured if it is mixed dp with a
few well regulated April showers.
Omaha packing house employes refuse to get
excited over the report of increased wages. They
are waiting until it shows up in the envelope.
Easter was a disappointment for the kaiser.
Not only did he fail to reach Paris, but not a
church was wrecked by German shells that day.
The Prussian war bird will hearV new scream
in the fight, that of the American eagle, and it
is a good guess he will not like the sound of the
note.
It will be patriotic as well as prudent to get
in your coal order as early as possible, to the end
that experience of last season be not again un
dergone. ,
Germany has stopped to get breath, but the
Alliei are not disposed to allow the Hun hordes
any rest. "They shall not pass!" is the watch
word in Picardy. .' V '
rood Administrator Hoover is talking of tak
ing over the packing industry, to co-ordinate war
orders. Let us hope he has better luck with it
than he did with the wheat
f Our Own Boys Going In.
Something of a. thrill we have not felt since
our entrance into the war prevaded the community
with the announcement from France that Persh
ing's offer had been accepted. Our own boys
are going in.' They have been busy ftvr months In
training, have taken over a considerable part of
the long line of trenches, have spilled their blood
ii. : r T? ..i i .1
their readiness to do a full share in the work of
crushing the power of the Hun. Now they are
moving, by thousands to throw the weijfht of
their youth and strength against the oppressor
where the red tide of war runs strongest. They
may turn the flood and start the backward flow
of the German war lord's strength. However
that may be, they will strike downright blows for
liberty, and the despots who willed this whirl
wind of destruction will feel ttfose blows. Not
because the men who march under Old Glory in
France are many In numbers, but because they
are thrice-armed In the justice of their cause,
and back; of them' stands the strength and majesty
of an hundred million people, devoted to the one
enduring ideal, the divine right of liberty in man.
The kaiser and his coadjutors may scoff at the
despotism as represented by the Central Pow
ers of Europe was sealed the day America en
tered the war. Andnow our boys are going in to
finish th,e job." Every patriotic heart beats
stronger today because this is so; every true
American holds his head a little higher, and from
the home altars of this proud and prosperous
country prayers follow our boys, now so eagerly
marching to the sternest job of life, the battle
for freedom. America is on the job at lastl
THE CANDIDATES.
With the expiration of the time for filing
the list of candidates is now complete from which
our voters will have to choose seven city com
missioners to manage our municipal affairs for
the next three years. The 74 names will first be
sifted by elimination down to 14, and of the 14
seven will be picked in the windup to go on the
job.
The surplus of volunteers, however, is not
so ominous and confusing as might ap
pear. On one side we have the present seven
city commissioners, all seeking to be retained,
and with the advantage of the constant publicity
due to actually holding the office, all of them,
with one or two exceptions, may be expected to
run the first heat of the 'race. From the other
60-odd candidates at least seven will be nomi
nated to go on the final ballot and it is safe4p
pick four or five whose previous public service
is sure to command the favor of the voters.
In this list we would put former County Treas
urer W. G. Ure, whose familiarity with the mu
nicipal finances will make him a valuable man
in the city hall.
For another we have former Councilman
Harry B. Zimman, who in city matters is un
questionably the best posted and all around ex
perienced. -His service as member of the school
board indicates Tom Falconer as still another
with a public record that commends him.
On the score of faithful public service, Clyde
C. Sundblad, present clerk of the county court,
should be among the top 14 and will be if he
has not started too late.
Then, too, if previous public favor counts,
Willis C. Crosby, several times elected coroner,
will make a good showing.
There are some who have public records
which may not commend them and a few yet un
tried whom the voters may be wiping to try out.
When it comes to the subsequent choice of
seven out ,of 14, personalities will be more
carefully weighed and the issues more definitely
drawn. 1 1
Turn in the Great Battle.
For two days conditions in the great battle
of Picardy have been in favor of the Allies. Ter
rific rushes by the Huns have been met and held
up by the consolidated resistance, and in some
places the invaders have been dislodged from
ground secured. This phase of -the battfc is
doubtless an interlude, during whicli the German
front line is expected to hold while artillery is
brought up to prepare the way for another on
slaught. These tactics are too well developed to
be misunderstood, and the German plan appar
ently admits of no variation. How General Foch
will meet, the situation will only be known when
the step has been taken. English experts are ad
vising an immediate counier-attack, assuming
that the initiative may now be seized. Others
are impressed wjth the policy of allowing the
Hindenburg fury to expend ttself m further great
sacrifices of men and material. In support of
either plan many reasons may be aligned. It is
encouraging for the present to realize that the
last two or 'three days have seen the wave of de
struction reach its crest and to discern some
signs of its subsidence. . Confidence is felt in the
ability of the Allies to cope with any move the
kaiser may now make.
' "Buy It In Omaha."
The Chamber of Commerce Journal announces
another "Buy-it-in-Omaha" campaign under di
rection of the publicity committee of the Omaha
Manufacturers' association. The purpose is to
conduct a campaign of education to impress the
local public with the advantage and necessity of
buying Omaha-made goods if we are to build up
and strengthen our city as an industrial center,
as The Bee and other papers are constantly urg
ing. To set the example for everybody to "buy-it-in-Omaha,"
iO is further announced that this
work is to be carried on "through an extensive
billboard campaign." The use of the billboards, all
being owned by an out-of-town corporation, will
make sure that the big part of the money spent
will be used to'buy it somewhere else. Of course,
the retort will be, "sour grapes the newspapers
want it all." For The Bee and The Bee family,
however,. Ve can say that we not only preach
"buy-it-in-Omaha," but we try to practice it con
sistently, too,
Any man who can contemplate an untidy back
yard these bright spring days is not going to be
greatly disturbed or uplifted by a . "clean-up"
day set for the end of the month. Get busy
now and have it over. .
The kaiser's war college is extremely anxious
to learn how Americans b'ehave on the front line,
and will doubtless find out in time, although the
knowledge will hardly encourage festivity in
Berlin. . '
Frark Wisdom has closed his law office arid
enlisted in the army. Here is a splendid chance
for his brethren of the bar; the younger may fol
low his example, while their ciders entertain
themselves with obvious punning. 1
Navigation on the Missouri is officially opened,
the first steamer having safely docked and dis
charged its cargo in Omaha.
Newspaper Men in Public Service
Pert and Pertinent Discussion of the Object by a Member
of the British House of Commons ,x
In the British House of Commons Lloyd
George recently answered a criticism di
rected at his appointment of Lord North
cliffe and certain other newspaper men to
have charge of the publicity propaganda
and started a debate upon the propriety
of taking newspaper men into the govern
ment service and also upon the personality
of Lord Northcliffe. The debate was given
a pithy and humorous turn by the speech
of the member from Stockport, Mr. S. L.
Hughes, which is reported quite fully in
the London Times and here reproduced.
Mr. S. L. Hughes said that after the state
ment from the prime minister and the speech
of the right honorable gentleman who had
occupied cabinet rank and who again might
occupy cabinet rank, it was just as well,
perhaps, that the House should hear some of
the views of a very ordinary and a very pri
vate member. He had never attacked this
government or the late government, or the
government before that, because, so far as he
was concerned, he had regarded each one of
those three governments as trying to end
this war by the only way in which he thought
possible or acceptable by winning the war.
But the subject was a very interesting one
to him, and obviously it divided itself under
two headings.
First, the presence in the government or
in positions under the direction of the gov
ernment of newspaper proprietors, and, sec
ondly, the supposed influence of the press
over the government or of the government
over the press. He did not know exactlv
which it was. (An honorable member: "A
little of both.) Possibly it was a little of
both. The justification for the presence of
newspaper proprietors in . the eovernment
depended upon this "Is it or is it not desir
able to have a campaign of propaganda pur-
aucu in mis country, in aiuea countries, in
neutral countries, and in enemy countries?"
He would begin by assuming that it was.
Governments were often a little unfairly criti
cized in matters of this sort. He agreed with
the wise saying of a man who knew the
house longer than he did, that "no govern
ment is as good as it ought to be, and that
no critics of ftovernments are half as virtu-
ous-as they pretend to be." (Laughter and
:ai. f 111c units 111 uiis case taKe mis
line about propaganda If the eovernment
do nothing they say, "Look at what Germany
has done by propaganda in Russia and Italy."
Then if theigovernment starts a campaign
of propaganda they say, "What isthe good
of spending all this money and making these
appointments?" There was obvious unfair
ness in that view. He would assume that it
was tyell to have such campaigns conducted.
The question then arose who were the best
men to conduct it. He thought that practical
and experienced newspaper men were the
best men. He would add, men who were not;
iikely to be hampered in their proceedings
by what Dr. Johnson had termed ' Needless
scrupulosity." (Laughtet.)
How far did two of the chief representa
tives of propaganda in the government, Lord
Beaverbrook and Lord Northcliffe, answer
to those simple conditions? About Lord
Beaverbrook he would say little, because of
what might seem to some an inadequate rea
son, that he knew, very little about him.
(Laughter.) He once did (Lord Beaverbrook
a service unwittingly and unwillingly. He
went and spoke against him when he stood
as a, candidate for the house, and he got in.
(Laughter.) He thought Lord Beaverbrook
got in because of more potent reasons.
(Laughter.) His absence or presence at the
election in fact did not matter. He had seen
allusionsl to Lord Beayerbrook in the Ca
nadian papers, allusions of an amazingly
frank and even libelous character. (Laugh
ter.) But he did not accept them and, knew
nothing about the facts of the case. He
would only say that if one-tenth of what was
said in the Canadian press about Lord Beav
erbrook were true it only showed he would
never fail t as a director of propaganda be
cause of neeedless scrupulosity. (Loud
laughter.) '
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Compliments to Lord Northcliffe.
He turned to a much more potent and. in
teresting personality Lord Northcliffe. He
should approach the study of Lord North
cliffe's character from a standpoint of abso
lute impartiality, what Burke had called "The
cold neutrality of the impartial judge." Lord
Northcliffe never did him any good and never
did him any harm. Only once in his life had
he written an article forne of Lord North
cliffe's publications. It had nothinor to do
wmi jjuiiucs, ana ioru orinciine naa tni
good taste and sense to publish it. (Laueh
ter.) He might say that there was a dif
ference between writing for the press and
writing in the press, as some honorable mem
bers might have found out. (Laughter.) Lord
Northcliffe had also stood as a candidate for
the house some years ago at Portsmouth,
and as he on that occasion did not speak
against him Lord Northcliffe was rejected.
(Laughter.) In regard to Lord Northcliffe,
he thought the attacks upon him had been
ridiculously overdone. It was always a mis
take to overstate one's case. Lord North
cliffe had been held up as a sort of sinister
figure brooding over this country and over
a great part of Europe with a hidden hand,
a cloven hoof, art-evil eye, and a forked tail.
(Loud laughter.) That was the wrong way
in which to criticize Lord Northcliffe. No
man reallytesented being callea a monster;
it added to his sense of self-importance.
(Laughter.) He believed that any man
would rather, be called a colossal monster
than a well-meaning man. (Laughter.) He
remembered the case ,of an archbishop, no
longei living, who some few years ago felt
very much hurt at being described as "a man
of much piety and some learning." (Laugh
ter.) No doubt the archbishop would have
been the first to recognize that .piety was
better than learning, but he did not like that
way of putting it.
Does He' Look Like Napoleon?
The way to approach Lord Northcliffe
was to begin by recognizing, as he did, that
he was human. He elieved all Lord North
clfffe's faults and failings could be traced to
one cause, that was, that he thought he
looked like Napoleon. (Loud laughter.)
There were those who blamed Lord North
cliffe for lust of universal conquest and
world-wide dominion; there were others
among his critics who complained of him that
every now and then he made all the organs
under his control play the same tune. He
raised, if not one grand sweet-song, at all
events a sturdy choros, and then he said,
"Look at this great outburst of independent
public opinion 1" (Laughter.) But that had
not always been the case. Lord North
cliffe was not ever thus. His Napoleonic
instinct at one time induced him to address
the public in effect in this way: "H you do
not like the unionism preached in my London
papers, try the liberalism and free trade in
the Leeds Mercury. Or observe my honest
sympathy with labor in Glasgow. Again, if,
as is only too possible, my humorist papers,
such as Comic Cuts, sadden and depress you,
you will always find an excuse for an honest
laugh in my religious publications." (Loud
laughter.) Instead of what had been called
simultaneity, Lord Northcliffe sometimes
presented all the attractiveness of a variety
artist. All this went to show that he might
make a very successful minister of propa
ganda. Being human, as he was subject to
faults and failings so also he had merits and
virtues, though they might be negative vir
tues. There was one which had always at
tracted him; Lord Northcliffe was not and
had never presented to be a' philanthropist.
(Laughter.) He was not one of those pesti
lent people who pretended to run newspapers
in order that they might leave the world a
little better than they found it. People could
not be made to see that the best way for
them to leave the world better than they
found it would be to leave the world at once.
(Laughter.)
Influence of the Press.
With regard to the influence supposed
to be exercised by the press over the -government,
whereas the appointment of Lord
Northcliffe was a matter of fact, the other
was a matter of conjecture to a great ex
tent. And here, aeain. he thoueht the" critics
of the government were very often mistaken.
They said, "Look at the Northcliffe press
ana otner papers; they attack certain individ
uals, and then those individuals go under."
But one should remember that it was a verv
old art of the press to find out what was go
ing to nappen, to advocate it, to insist on it,
and then when the thing happened, to say,
"See what we have' done." No, one was more
candid about that than the late Mr. Labou
chere, who had often toldNiim with chuck
ling satisfaction of his successes in that way
many years ago.
The influence of the press he regretted
to have to say it was, he thought, ridiculous
ly overestimated amd exaggerated. But he
was.nqt very much impressed when some
other newspapers, raising one eye to heaven
in self-righteous indignation, kept the other
eye fixed on the main chance. Some of these
critics in the press, at any rate of Lord
Northcliffe, seemed to be inspired by that
querulousness which comes to disappointed
rivals who had been beaten at their own
game. (Hear, hear.) When the Northcliffe
press conducted a campaign of insult and
slander against the -right honorable gentle
man the member for East Fife (Mr. As
quith), he felt that that was a proceeding on
tne part of those papers which was not only
deplorable, but detestable. He had some
times wished when he read those criticisms
of public men that the house could have the
man who wrote the article produced and put
by the side of the man he assailed. They
could then judge which of the two had ren
dered the country and the empire the great
est service; which was the more like a thinly
disguised Bolo. (Laughter and cheers.)
Vendetta Against the Prime Minister.
He could not forget that there were other
papers which conducted a ouiet similar ven-
thcWetta against the present prime minister, and
in tne course ot tneir criticisms, some ot them
pretending to be writing open letters to him,
openly posted, quoted or misquoted what
they alleged had been said by him in private
conversation. Those who could stoop to
such practices need not lecture any other
part of the press upon propriety of conduct.
(Hear, hear.) The fact was that the modern
press was to much too great an extent run
on methods which were well described by a
young Oxford editor some years ago in a
valedictory address when, taking farewell of
his readers, he used these words: :
"We have never hesitated to stand up for
the right when we felt that public opinion
was with us. We have always protested
against the wrong when wevsa,w it to be un
popular. We have stated the truth when we
happened to know the facts, and have never
hesitated to resort to fiction when we have
been convinced of its superior' validity. We
have never employed the lumbering and
tedious methods of demonstration when we
felt we could rely on the credulity of our
readers, and we have never asked for grati
tude when we have, found self-satisfaction
the. surer road to happiness."
(Laughter.) A good many papers were
run on. those lines today. Ht could not
think it was right that the fate of any public
rrffln, statesman or sailor or soldier, should be
left in the hands of papers so conducted, nor
could he think it right, indeed it was scarcely
credible, that the policy of such papers
should control or influence in any degree the
policy of any administration which was
worthy the name of government. (Cheers.)
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1 1 onAV
6ne Tear Ago Today in the War.
President Wilson asked congress to
aMn ra nttat a tt vrni" with Clarrrxarwr
i-'aia v wv iu va n va aaafca
' Last fortified village outposts In
iront 01 tne jmnaenourg line crumDiea
before the British advance.
Steamer Aztec, first . of American
merchant liners to sail armed for Eu
rope, reported sunk by German sub
marine off France.
The Day We Celebrate.
Dr. Andrew Johnson, physician,
born 1860.
' Judge William Armstrong Redlck
born 1859.
William B. Wilson, secretary of la
bor in President Wilson's cabinet, born
is Scotland, 6 (.years ago. -
Dr. Frank Billings, Chicago physi
cian, who bended the Red Cross com.
mission to Russia, born at Highland,
, Wis., 64 years ago.
ur. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi
dent of Columbia university, born at
Eliza.feeth, N. J.. 56 years ago.
This. Day' In History.
171 Count de Mirabeau, famous
Trench revolutionist and statesman,
died in Paris. Born March 8, 174.
1905 The Simplon tunnel, longest
in the world, was opened from the
Swiss and Italian rides.
. : 1805 Hans Christian - Andersen,
whose fairy, tales are ' marvels of
imagination and humor,, born at
, Odenie, Denmark. Died at Copen
hagen, August 4, 1875.
J ust 80 Years Ago Today
About E0 neranna frnm tha mamt
who have been in California for some
time, are in tne city on their way
home.
The 1,700 dog tags ordered by the
city were exhaust. 1 and an additional
number was ordered and will be ready
for distribution today.
The- first shoo: cf the Omaha Gun
club took place. The shoot was the
initial one for the John J. Hardin
medaL
. The springiterm of the public
schools began with more than an aver
age attendence in all the departments.
The shipments today were IS cars
of cattle over the Northwestern: 56
cars of cattle and fUr cars of sheep
over the Burlington.
The Emmet Monument association
gave its eighteenth annual ball under
pleasant auspices at -Masonic nalL
Right to the Point
Wall Street Journal! Pershing
shows diplomacy, temper and good
sense in not reporting on other gen
erals' battles. , v
Minneapolis Journal: Fancy hosiery
will not be so comon this year. The
war Is making all the noise we can
stand.
St Louis Globe-Democrat: Every
time a few hundred thousand Ger
mans are killed, the kaiser gives a
new title to one of his stms,
Louisville Courier-Journal: When
the cablegrams to America said the
Germans had advanced "four to nine
miles," the Berlin press" bureau, by a
mere twist of the wrist, made it "49"
miles for German readers.
New Tork World: The Pan-German
alliance claims New Tork, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Mil
waukee, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Cleveland
and Baltimore among the 63 great
German towns of the world. As to
Milwaukee, there is a reason.
New York Herald: There are Dutch
who would like to be swallowed by
Germany, and there are other Dutch
who would fight to the end against the
swallowing. Just now we are hearinp:
much from those who favor playing
the part ot Jonah to the Potsdam
wlialC
Brooklyn Eagle: Every ship that
sails the sea will be doing active serv
ice for our side, since we control the
seas despite the submarine. It is
some job to sink all the shins at the
rate of 17 a week where 4,000 go In
ana out. uniy a German scientist
could tell when the end would be-
"Over There and. Here11,
TaatrirA trnnnrta f crlnt paper
compels the strictest economy in news-
nono .vnnB tn Kruriand.- The London
Times curtails returned copies to one
in 100 ana aavancea us pni;-
pence as a further restrictive measure.
- . . 'a Li.
An admirer or tne Kaiser anu mo
bloody, brood, . living near De Soto,,
Mo., was persuaaea oy xw r muu
ta ctorf-a hnnflre with the
Hohenzollern family picture which
... . . i I 1 fhaA.rU,.
nung in tne vicum a nonw. x i u-vxe. -manism
is & dangerous disease in a
healthy American community.-
The school board of Los Angeles
some months ao decided to abolish
teaching German In the elementary
grades, permitting a few students to
continue their studies to the close of
the term. After June the study will
be entirely eliminated. , Replying to
the recent adverse'suggestton of R. P.
Claxton. United - States commissioner
.j.. tha nrottlrlont AT ttlfi
school board says the- subject is a
closed Incident tnere ana win nui
reopened. ' . ,
The brand of pro-German disloy
alty abloom in spots in Minnesota
broke out in Fairfax, Renville county,
i..., ...I, Cnma time aerrt School Su-
perintendent Bowden started - 8ries
or loyalty taixs to mi t-iiu v,n.;...
Five members of the school board ob
jected and criticised the works as
"prejudicing the children against Ger
many." As a consequence 1J of the
teachers resented the criticism by resigning.-
The American end of the
community emphasixed-4ts displeasure
with yellow paint There isn t much
punch in yellow paint.
Twice Told Tales
Father's Idea.-"
: The father In this moral tale is a
local manufacturer. Things hadn't
been going well at the works, and he
came home tired the other evening.
But- father is never too tired to help
Willie with his arithmetic. So when
Willie looked up from his book and
itslccd
"Father, how many cents make a
dime?" -
"Ten." replied father,
i,- "And how many mills make a
cent?" pursued Willie..
"Not a darn one of 'em, till this
coal situation loosens up,'; answered
father, emphatically Cleveland Plain
Dealer. - -
.
, Cliange of Tune.
"Can't you play something - else
than that everlasting march from
Lohengrin at my wedding?" asks the
several-times-grass Widow who is ar
ranging far another of her .matrimo
nial events. '
"Certainly, madam," responds the
courteous organist.
And as the bridal cortege wends its
way down the aisle the church shakes
to the thundering forth of that pop
ular classic, "Over and Over Again."
Judge. ,
i Proper Resentment.
' i'l told the old iady that her daugh
ter had her good looks."
Yes?'' -S
"But she didn't seem pleased."
"No, the ild dame thinks she is
still beautifu lln her own right"
Louisville Courie-Jo",,
Ask to Be Understood.
Omaha, March SO. To the Editor
of The Bee: In your paper of recent
date I noticed a statement from Mr.
A. N. Dugger of Stanbury, lo., that
they as a people do not belong to the
same body that call themselves the
Church of God of Omaha that are
now in the public eye by a recent oc
currence in Avery. That statement- of
Mr. Dugger's creates a wrong impres
sion and we feel In Justice to us and
to our government it should be cor
rected. ,
A great injustice has been done us,
as we are a perfectly loyal people.
Ail our sympathies are with America
not alone because we are Americans,
but because, the prophets have fore
told the present conditions and that
the kaist is to come to his end, so
you see the Germans in the Church of
God in Christ Jesus must be against
their native country in order to be
loyal to the prophetic word of God.
This precludes any possibility of our
being disloyal to America.
There has been a difference of opin
ion among us as to how we should
help in these war activities and pe
consistent with our faith. Some took
one view and some another, so Mri
Adams says while our hearts are right
and loyal to God and the government,
yet the people do not understand us
so We must do the things in a way to
be understood. ,As true -Americans
let us try to understand each other,
for to be misrepresented fills our
hearts with sorrow and there is
enough of that now in thcworld. Our
money and sympathy is ready to help
alleviate that suffering as far as pos
sible. If we cannot be 'understood when
we do it our way then we will do it
in a way to be understood. It only
hurts our cause when we try to make
out disloyal people when they are not.
Mr. Editor, we hope you will please
help us to correct these wrong im
pressions. MRS. EMELINE E. HJAVIS.
5024 Florence Boulevard.
Setting the Sabbath Straight.
Council Bluffs, la., March 27. To
the Editor of The Bee:. Since Mr.
Walter Johnson seems to have not
seen my reply to his letter regarding
the Sabbath, I wish without meaning
to "strive about questions of the law"
to summarize my previous statements
and thus I hope make clear the truth
as contained In Leviticus 23, and as
to what remains binding in the Mosaic
law.
To begin with, the Sabbaths of the
first, the eighth and the 15th of the
first and seventh months are declared
in the 23d chapter of Leviticus. The
37th and 38th verses then say in part
"These are the feasts of the Lord
Beside the Sabbaths of the Lord
And when the ceremonial Sabbath
came at the same time as the Sabbath
of the Lord it was called "an High
day," (see John 19-31). Reviewing
the facts relative to Jesus fullfilling
the law (Ceremonial), we find that he
was sacrificed at the time of the Jew
ish Passover. I Corinthians 5:7 says,
"For even Christ out passover is sac
rificed for us," and (2.) He rose on
the day of first fruits, I Corinthians
15:20 says: "But now is Christ risen
from the dead and become the first
fruits of them that slept," and (3).
the Holy Ghost was given at Pentecost
as the anti-typical feast of the Har
vest of Souls, and (4), the Day of
Atonement was fulfilled as Paul says
in Romans 5:11: "Our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom we now received the
atonement." Finally Colossians 2:14
says: "Blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that vas against us and
took it out of the way nailing it to
his cross, and so we aretold we are
to let no man judge us in respect of
holy day (feast), new moon or of
the Sabbath days which are a shadow
of things to come; but the body is of
Christ." Col.. 2:17. The Sabbath of
the. Lord which comes every seventh
day whether there be 29, 30 or 3J
days in the month was established
before sin came into the world.
The ceremonial Sabbaths mentioned
in Leviticus 23 were established after
ward as a remedy for sin and has been
previously stated were lulfllled in
Christ. A wonderful testimony to the
power of God. that the seventh day
remains unchanged upon the calendar
while the majority of Christians keep
the first day ot the week, .thinking
they are keeping the seventh day Sab- :
bath of God or that the Sabbath was
changed to the first day of the week
(traditions of men;Matthew 15-3.) I
It might well be that the old Jewish
calendar was better than our calc idar
for do we not read in Daniel 7th
chapter and 25th verse that he (the
king which was to follow the 10
kings and subdue three of them. His
tory shows who conquered three of
the Roman powers and traces the
other seven up to this present time),
shall think to change times and
laws. Also in Isaiah 66:22 and 23 we
find, "For as the new heavens and the
new earth from one Sabbath to
another shall all flesh come to wor
ship before me," saith the Lord. Let
us not confuse ceremonial Sabbaths
with the Sabbaths of the Lord.
A BIBLE STUDENT.
CHERRY CHAFF. '
"Pawnbrokers ought to ba atrong advo
cate of temperance."
"Why pawnbrokers especially?"
"Because they take the pledge to a man
and keep it." Baltimore American.
"I know a young actor with a laudable
ambition."
"What Is it?"
"Ha wants to atar In a service flag."
Life.
Ha (wkh newspaper) Here's something
odd. A summer girl by mistake fastened
her girdle with a needle Instead of a pin.
and two mo.-itha later the necdla caml
out of a young man'a arm.
gne But how do they know it waa tj' W
same needle?
He Can't say, unleas It waa by tha 4
pression of tta eye. Boston Tranaorlpt.
THE WOUNDED SOLDIER.
Minneapolis Journal.
(Miss Woolsey of New Tork wrote th ,
following verses while aha waa In thi
sanitary service in Virginia In the civil wai
A copy of them was found under the pllloa
of a soldier lying dead In a hospital at Pori
Royal in South Carolina. This copy fell tinj
dr the eye of General Henry N. WhlttelaeM
who made It public. After the war, Misj
Woolsey became the wife of the Rev. Robert
Shaw Howland of New Tork City.)
I lay ma down to sleep.
With little thought or cara
Whether my waking Jind
Me here, or there.
A bowing, burdened head.
That only- asks to rest,
Unquestioning, upon
7 A loving breast.
My good right hand forgets
Its cunning now
To march the weary march
I know not how.
I am not eager, bold.
Nor strong all that is past:
I am ready not to do
At last, at last.
My half day's vork Is dons.
And this is all my part;
I give a patient God
My patient heart.
And grasp his banner still,
Though all Its blue h dim; ,
These stj-Ipcs, no less than stare, J
Lead after Him.
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