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1 LOVE MY PAPER—BUT, OH, YOU
EDITOR’S WIFE.
SHADES of Sherlock Holmes!
“Aunt Patience,” of the House
hold, has jumped at a conclu
sion and landed square on the editor’s
wife. It certainly is a jolt to have
your Aunt Patience tell you that you
have stirred up confusion in the edi
tor’s peaceful camp. But that isn’t as
bad as being classed with the “stuck
ups” and called a spendthrift. Think
of it! After having spent two whole
months trying to keep the editor from
being chewed up in chunks by all
those folks who forgot to pay up. I
will be obliged to give you her letter
just as it was written. If it wasn’t so
funny and didn’t furnish such rich
reading for The Golden Age family,
I think I would feel obliged to go af
ter Aunt Patience with a dull case
knife. If she believes it was all the
fault of the editor’s wife, however, I
will just invite her to ASK HIM.
Dear Mr. Editor of the Golden Age
paper in Atlanty:
I want to seat myself to drap you a
bit of news from these parts. You
use ter be the peacefulest paper edi
tor I ever seen. Afore you got yoked
up with that fair sect of yourn you
never did dun nobody; but now you
hav gone so far as to put the bizness
of the raisin’ of you mony in the
hands of one of them big fellers away
off summers, a officer or some sich
like. When we got the word we was
mity nigh skeered to death. The way
we did git about till we seen them
dolars a travelin’ was some. The ole
man, he was a sight the wust off fur
he has some sort of heart beatin’.
The ole man lows it takes one of
these here spry gals to git a feller to
move on. I says yes, and says I if a
PAUL’S STORY OF HIS LIFE.
November 21, 1909. 2 Cor. 11: 22 to
28 and 2 Cor. 12: 1 to 10.
Time: 57 A. D. Place: Ephesus.
Golden Text: “He said unto me, my
grace is sufficient for thee; for my
strength is made perfect in weak
ness.” 2 Cor. 12:9.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What shall I do?
First, Give up all for Christ. (V. 22.)
Paul was proud of his ancestral pedi
gree and used it when he could make
it count for Christ and His cause. He
boasted of being of the bluest blood
of the blue bloods (Phil. 3:4 and 5),
but he also taught that all this was
worthless, and did not count for any
thing in the plan of salvation. (Phil.
3:6 to 9.)
Second, Be abundant in labors. (V.
23.) Paul declared that he was “for a
pattern to them which should hereaf
ter believe on Him (Jesus), to life ev
erlasting.” (1 Tim. 1:16.) We should
conform our lives to the pattern and
like Paul seek to do all we can for
Christ and His cause.
Third, Endure persecution. (Vs. 23
to 27.) “Unto you it is given in the
behalf of Christ, not only to believe
on Him, but also to suffer for His
sake.” (Phil. 1:29.) If you are true
to Jesus the world will persecute you.
(John 15:18 to 20.) False brethren
will persecute you. Persecution will
come from many sources upon all that
live Godly. (2 Tim. 3:12.) Let us
PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
Zfy Margaret Deberly Upshato.
SUNDA Y SCHOOL LLSSON
Sy S. Lacy Hoge,
body keeps up with the big stuck-up
fellers now a days it takes a sight
of redy cash, so these gals has got to
have a heap of fixin’s. But I don’t
bleve we art to make no complainin’
kase you air a running, to my mind,
about the best readin’ paper in all the
south and mebbe the north. That
piece that was a runnin’ in sevral is
sues about Miss Shirly was powerful
fine, and it turned out jist rite, kase
she got that iron man least ways I
am purty sartin they hav got off afore
this time, kase she want the kind of
a gal to be a tamperin’ with a feller’s
heart and a pesterin the life out of
him, arter she wunst had her mind
made up I felt awful sorry for that
tother feller, but the ole man says to
me, says he, “Now don’t you worrit,
kase all the fellers can’t git the same
gal, kase if they could me and Jim
Johnson says he would both hav got
you. Well, that looked fair enuf so
I giv in, as I most ginerally do with
out thar is some prinsipal at stake.
Me and my ole man is mity pore but
we air jist a scrachin around and a
savin’, a tryin’ to git one of them life
purscriptions to your paper fur as long
as we live. If we can jist git enuf
ahead we’ll be fixed. My ole man is
awful good at figgerin’ and he says
as how, that if a body was just to live
5 years it would be as cheap fur them
then as the ole way a payin’ onct a
year. Now, we air a gettin’ ole, but if
the good Lord is willin’ to leave us
here I don’t see no reason why we
can’t stay longer than that any how —
specially me, and I look at it this way,
Mr. editer, If the ole man does hap
pen to be took —why I can jist keep
on a readin’.
You hav got the honer of a invite
from me and my ole man to you and
ever remember that God will give us
the grace that is necessary to enable
us to endure all things that may come
upon us. (Psalm 84:11; 2 Cor. 12:9.)
He will also give us glory. (Psalm
84:11.) The reward for persecution
will be great. (Matt. 5:11 and 12.)
The persecutions and trials are not
worthy to be compared with the glory
they will bring us. (Rom. 8:18.)
Fourth, Care for all the Churches.
(V. 28.) We should love our Church,
but we should also love all the
Churches and seek to do them good.
Paul loved all the churches and pray
ed for them daily. (Rom. 1:9; 2 Cor.
1:6; Gal. 4:19 and 20; Ephes. 1:16;
Ephes. 3:13 and 14; Phil. 1:4 and 5;
Col. 2: 1 and 2; 2 Thess. 1: 11.
Fifth, Glory in visions and revela
tions. (Vs. 1 to 6.) To glory in self
is dangerous, but it is always safe to
glory in Christ and the visions and
revelations He gives. Paul was
“caught up to the third heavens.” “He
was caught up into Paradise.” On the
day of His crucifixion Christ went
into Paradise (Luke 23:43), which was
then in the heart of the earth (Matt.
12:40), but at His ascension He emp
tied this subterranean Paradise and
took the Saints up with Him. (Eph.
4:8 to 10.) Paradise the present
abode of those who have fallen asleep
in Jesus is now with Christ in Heaven.
(Phil. 1:23; 2 Cor. 5:8, R. V.) It was
into this Paradise Paul was caught
up either in the body (Acts 8:39) or
out of the body and heard the un
speakable words. To those who live
The Golden Age for November 11, 1909.
yourn to come to see us and give us
one of them stirrin’ speaches agin the
sellin’ and drinkin’ of intoxicatin whis
ky and the like. You shore hav got a
glib toongue and you aint afeard to
use it nuther. Well, I will has to
close. Ix)ve frum all to all.
Your lovin’
AUNT PATIENCE.
writ fur publishin in the paper.
KEEPING HIS WORD.
A house-painter in a New Hampshire
village was proceeding down “the
main street” one day when he was ac
costed by a fellow-townsman.
“Hello, Tom!” called the latter.
“Why I thought you were working on
old Spinner’s house today.”
“I was about to commence the job,”
said the painter, “when the old man
picked a quarrel with me. He said
he’d put the paint on himself.”
“Do you think he’ll do it?”
“Well,” said the painter, with a
smile, “when I passed just now, that
is where he had put the most of
it.” —Edwin Tarrisse.
A long-haired man walking along the
street, met a little boy, who asked
him the time.
“Ten minutes to nine,” said the man.
“Well ” said the boy, “at nine
o’clock you get your hair cut.” And
he took to his heels and ran, the ag
grieved one after him.
Turning the corner, the man ran
into a policeman, nearly knocking him
over.
“What’s up?” said the policeman.
The man, very much out of breath,
said: “You see that young urchin run
ning along there? He asked me the
time, and I told him, ‘Ten minutes to
in close communion with Christ, He
gives experiences they can not make
known to others.
Sixth, Thank God for the thorn. (V.
7.) When God gives a thorn, no mat
ter how it hurts, we may always be
sure it is for some good purpose. Af
ter we have ascertained that the thorn
is God given, we should thank Him
for it. The thorn has saved many
from a wrecked life. As the thorns on
the foliage bearing plants keep the fo
liage loving animals from eating the
plants, so the thorns have prevented
Satan from devouring many. The
thorn prevented Paul from being ex
alted above measure and becoming a
castaway and thereby losing his
crown. (1 Cor. 9:24 to 27.)
Seventh, Pray till God makes known
His will. (Vs. 8 and 9.) Paul contin
ued to pray for the removal of the
thorn in his flesh until God answered
him and made known His will. So
soon as Paul learned the will of God
concerning this thorn in the flesh and
found that it was given to keep him
from being exalted above measure, he
ceased to pray for its removal and be
gan to glory in the infirmity which
brought the power of Christ upon him.
Eighth, Give God your weakness.
(Vs. 9 and 10.) God has all the power
He needs of His own, therefore, He
does not ask for your strength. He
has no weakness of His own. He
needs yours and asks you to give it to
Him. Your weakness united to His
strength will do His perfect work.
We are not told what Paul’?! particular
nine,’ and he said, ‘At nine o’clock
get your hair cut.’ ”
“Well *’ said the policeman, “what,
are you running for? You’ve got eight
minutes yet.”—Hapgood’s Opportuni
ties.
I?
SUMMARILY DISPOSED OF.
A man noted as the most unmiti
gated bore in New York met Clyde
Fitch on Broadway recently and hailed
him in this wise:
“Hello, Fitch! What’s going on?”
“I am,” was the playwright’s re
joiner, and he quickly suited the
action to the word. —Henrietta Laza
rus.
FORESTALLED.
“Nellie,” called down the strict par
ent, giving his daughter’s nightly
caller the usual warning to get out.
as the clock struck eleven, “I’m com
ing dow r n there now!”
“You needn’t mind, father,” was the
unexpected reply “Mr. Wells has
wound up the clock and put out the
cat.” —Charles C. Mullin.
A SATISFACTORY COMPACT.
At a golden wedding celebration the
groom of fifty years ago referred to
the perfect unanimity and concord
there had existed between him and his
wife during the long years of wedded
life.
Said he: “When we were first mar
ried we agreed that she should settle
all the small differences that occurred,
and I all the large ones. This rule
we have adhered to. She has always
settled the small disputes, and, my
friends, there have never been any
large ones.” —Lucy Lincoln Montgom
ery.
“thorn” was. and no doubt God did
not make it known, so that His conso
lation would avail for all to whom
any thorn may be given. God’s grace
was sufficient for Paul, and is suffi
cient for all, no matter what their in
firmity. It is God’s purpose that our
disabilities should be united to His
enabling. Our weakness is to mate
His power. His grace and power are
at their best when brought in contact
with humanity’s greatest weakness.
So give Him your weakness and re
ceive His power and then you will find
that your weakness is stronger than
the strength of the stoutest.
NO REST FOR THE WEARY.
An old colored mammy employed in
a Virginia household complained to
her mistress that she had no peace in
life.
“Well, why is that, Aunt Dinah?”
questioned the sympathetic mistress.
“’Cause I kain’t lay nights fo’ de
fleas, an’ I kain’t set days fo’ de wo’k.
—T. J. Robertson.
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