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PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
HE KNEW THE SYMPTOMS.
I wondered when I saw them meet
What made each woman’s smile so
sweet.
It was so radiant and bright
And so expressive of delight.
I saw then hasten to embrace,
With rapture written on each face.
With arms outstretched they quickly
ran
And kissed as only woman can.
They broke away at last and then
They smiled and hugged and kissed
again.
Each said, “You darling!” and “You
pet! ”
Each did w'hen each the other met.
“How well you’re looking, dear! It’s
strange
To me you never seem to change.”
“And, precious one, how well you
seem!
That hat you have’s a perfect dream.”
They looked each other up and down.
And, “What a simply lovely gown!”
“I wanted to see you, dear!
How long it’s been! Almost a year!”
“I’ve thought of you so often, too,
But, oh, I’ve had so much to do!”
They gushed and gurgled in that wy
For twenty minutes I should say.
I thought, “Well, I should like to know
What makes them hate each other so.”
—Chicago News.
hand touched the hand of the secretary of the move
ment. The next outgoing ship carried an eloping
couple, a prominent merchant of Auckland, a man
of family, and the woman evangelist. She had
underestimated her calling and had been careless
of her company.
Samson lost the spirit of God and he lost free
dom. How sweet it is to feel that there is nothing
between us and God, and how galling and degrading
it is to be in a slavery like this. Gipsy Smith
talks of the lost Christ and says the man who
finds Him must go back to the place where he
lost Him.
In very earnest manner Miss Miller applied the
lesson to the hearts of the people and begged those
who had lost something out of the heart and the
life to open the door to let the King come in.
Rev. S. D. Gordon followed Miss Miller. At his
request the people closed their eyes and sang a
prayer in the words of that well known hymn, “I
Need Thee Every Hour.”
It was an impressive scene to look upon the
hundreds of people sitting with closed eyes and
singing in subdued tones, without the assistance of
an instrument, this beautiful song that has echoed
around the world. Mr. Gordon followed in a tender
prayer, in which he that Christians might
have a knife tighty gripped in the hand for sin,
but a big, soft heart and a sweet smile for the
man wrapped up in the sin from which we would
sever him.
Mr. Gordon read a portion of the first chapter of
the gospel of John, basing his remarks upon the
keynote of this book. “He came unto His own and
His own received Him not. But as many as re
ceived Him, to them He gave the right to become
the children of God.”
This was all of John’s message. The rest of
the book is but an illustration of the thought in the
keynote. In the first chapter there is a group that
rejects and another that accepts.
In the second chapter, at the marriage in Cana of
Galilee, the disciples received a second supply of
faith in Jesus.
Cleansing of Temple.
Mr. Gordon spoke of the cleansing of the tem
ple. He said the priests bad allowed these people
to make a barn yard out of this corner of the
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He Didn't Grasp the Letter of the
Law.
The story comes to us that a few
years ago, in a little Georgia town,
an ignorant, dull-witted boy applied
to tiie judge of the court desiring to
be appointed as bailiff.
A few days after the appointment
had been made one of the attorneys
in the town called in the new bailiff,
handed him a slip of paper, and in
structed him to go out to Mr. Jones’
on the edge of town and levy on any
thing he could find that would make a
tax execution.
The Bailiff took the slip of paper,
jammed his old wool hat down over
his eyes, and strode off on his errand.
It was a sultry day in August, and the
attorney had started the Bailiff off
early in the morning in order that he
might get through with his work be
fore the heat of the day. Hour after
hour passed until mid-afternoon had
come, and still the Bailiff did not re
turn. About four o’clock a shuffling step
was heard on the stair, and in a mo
ment he stumbled into the office and
dropped wearily into the nearest
chair. His face was streaming with
perspiration, his shoes covered with
mud, his trousers bristling with sand
spurs, and in his hand he still carried
a crumpled, soiled slip of paper. His
whole attitude bespoke his disap
pointment and indignation.
“Why, what on earth is the matter
with you?” asked the attorney. “Col
onel,” he answered wearily, “when I
got there Mrs. Jones said the old man
was not at home and that they didn t
have nothin’ I could level that paper
on for execution but a young cow out
in the pasture. I went out there and
temple, for a consideration. When Jesus touched the
pockets of these people He touched a sort of pneu
mogastric nerve and they winched. The tree of
the cross began growing that very day. When the
national senate rejected Jesus, Nicodemus accepted
Him and thus throughout the book there is a con
tinual record of rejection and acceptance. John
recorded these, seemingly to prove the statement he
made at the outset that Jesus was rejected by His
own people, but received by other individuals. It
is a continual contest between acceptance and re
jection.
Mr. Gordon spoke of how Jesus comes today in a
human way to woo the sons of men and those who
receive Him are made members of His own great
family. He pictured how we would feel if we
went home and our best beloved refused to let us in.
That was the way Jesus felt. He told of an old
English mother whose boy grew into a life of promi
nence. In her old age she went to him, but she
saw he did not want her and she went away from
him to return no more.
For an hour at night a steady stream of humanity
was pouring from all directions towards the Taber
nacle and by half past seven the main auditorium
was well filled and the gallery was rapidly filling
up. From then to eight o’clock the people were
delighted with the song service conducted by A. C.
Boatman and his well-trained chorus choir.
Mr. Boatman and his wife sang a beautiful duet,
“If There Is Sunshine in Your Heart.”
The congregation that faced Rev. J. Stuart Holden
when he arose to speak was enough to inspire
any speaker. It was a great opportunity and he
made the best of it. He announced that he wanted
to talk about the causes of discouragement. The
devil wantea nothing better than a discouraged heart
in which to get in his work.
Some of the reasons for discouragement were the
sins when the heart had played traitor to the
conscience, the difficulties of life, the conflicts of
life and the sense of personal uselessness.
Jesus was always meeting disheartened folks and to
them He often said “Be of good cheer.”
He spoke of the palsied man brought into the
.presence of Jesus. Jesus said, “Be of good cheer,
thy sins are forgiven thee.” His concern was for
that which was far deeper than all else, his sins.
The Golden Age for March 18, 1909.
walked up to her just as quiet as I
could and when I got close enough to
touch her I held out that paper over
her back to level it on her, but that
spotted heifer h’isted her head and lit
out from there like she had just heard
that the cow election was over in
town and she was due there to trim
up uie preacher’s violet bed. I said
to myself, ‘Mebbe you think you can
run some, old lady, but you ain’t seen
nuthin’ ’til your Uncle William lets
his’self out.’ And then we had it,
througgh them briars and sand-spurs,
into the branch, round and round that
pasture. Every time I got close to her 1
banged that paper down on her, but we
were running so fast I didn’t have no
chance to level it. After while I got
kinder mad and the next time she pass
ed by me I grabbed her by the tail and
thought I would just hold on until
she run herself down. Whoopee! she
let out a bellow that sounded like a
fog horn and in less time than it takes
to tell it she dragged me across that
pasture, stepping about ten feet at a
jump, and leaped over the fence like
a deer. I slammed up against the
fence as she went over, and when I
come to, Mrs. Jones was pouring
water in my face and yelling foi* ‘Pa.’
I got up as soon as I could, and told
her that her cow was gone, and I was
going too, but the next time I come
back I was going to ask you to mark
that execution on a piece of fly paper,
and I bet I would fix her then.” He
rose slowly, rubbing his stiff limbs,
and as he walked out of the office, he
turned in the doorway, looked re
proachfully at the attorney, and said:
“Colonel, the next time you send a
man out to level on a cow before he
executes her, for pity’s sake don't be
so stingy with your paper, there just
ain’t no use in working a fellow to
death for nothing.”
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(From the New Orleans Picayune)
IS BALDNESS DOOMED?
Baltimore Specialist Says It Is Un
necessary and Proves It.
The intense interest in the wonder
ful work that is being accomplished
in Baltimore and other cities by Wil
liam Chas. Keene, president of the
Lorrimer Institute, continues un
abated. Many cases of baldness and
faded hair of years’ standing have
been remedied by the remarkable
preparation being distributed from Mr.
Keene’s laboratory and its fame is
spreading far and wide and thousands
of persons are using this remarkable
hair food with gratifying results.
What makes this treatment more
popular is the fact that free trial out
fits are sent by mail prepaid. Those
who wish to try it are strongly ad
vised to write to Mr. Keene at the
Lorrimer Institute, Branch 290, Bal
timore, Md. They will receive the
full trial outfit free of charge and
much useful information about the
hair which will put them on the road
to a rapid and certain Improvement.
How many are discouraged because of sin. To all
such Jesus says, “Be of good cheer, thy sins are
forgiven thee.” The forgiveness of sins means the
renewal of opportunity, the bestowal of fellowship
with God.
Disciples in the Boat.
He pictured the ddisciples toiling in the boat that
was being dashed about in the storm. Christ came
toward them, saying, “Be of good cheer. It is I, bo
not afraid.” He had sent them across the sea, and
he was watching over them.
There are similar difficulties today, and they are
sent upon us to strengthen us, and when they come
He is ready at the critical moment today, “Be of
good cheer. It is I, be not afraid.”
Some of us thought the Christian life was a
picnic, but we have learned that it is a struggle.
Jesus does not say we shall have popularity and
success, but tribulation, but he says, “Be of good
cheer, for I have overcome the world.”
There are so many discouraged because of con
flicts. There is the conflict of temptation, the con
flict of home life, where one is suffering' because of
devotion to Christ. He knew what it was to be the
only Christian in a large family, for it is said that
neither did his brethren believe in him.
The minister may be disheartened because he has
come into conflict with the worldly-minded element
of the church. It was the church that gave Jesus
trouble, the church that crucified Him. He says to
all such, “Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the
world.”
There are those who feel so useless because they
seem to have done nothing. To all such Mr. Holden
pointed to Paul in his prison cell. He probably said,
“What’s the use of all this? I tried to be faithful,
and this is what it has brought me to. I have done
nothing.”
That very night the Lord stood by Paul and said,
“Be of good cheer.” Then He told him that as he
had been faithful in Jerusalem he must also be
faithful in Rome. The reward for tribulation is more
tribulation. In Jerusalem there were dogs. In Rome
he was to meet lions.
In closing, Mr. Holden begged the people to
remember that they were children of God, and that
Christ was in them to give them the victory.
(Concluded Next Week.)
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