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T/ZE OVERHANGING ‘BRANCHES
Genesis 49:22.
A few years ago a popular song had
this refrain, “Every little bit added to
what you’ve got, makes just a little
bit more.” That is the wise philoso
phy of worldly prudence and thrift,
and it is excellent, so far as it goes.
The savings bank is a good school of
prudence. But it isn’t a good substi
tute for the church. Although it is
the only one that some people attend.
A little tin savings bank on the man
tle for the baby; a little iron one on
his table in the boy’s room, a big
vault of chilled steel for father, all
show good training in saving. Lay a
little bit of it by, as it comes in. A
little bit out of every pay envelope.
Enough to patch the leaks in the roof.
Enough for the “rainy day.” Enough
for a little vacation once in a while.
Enough for a new book. Enough for
the dreary days of sickness. Enough
to send the children to school. Enough
to get the boy a good trade or start
him in the way of good business.
Enough to marry the girls well and
happily. Enough to keep a loaf al
ways in the larder, and a cup and
crust on the table for the friend who
comes “out of his journey.” Enough
for the waning strength and shorten
ing hours of old age. Enough for the
black day of death, when it comes —
the little fund for the last expense
on earth. “Every little bit, added to
what you’ve got, make" just a little
bit more.” That’s all good. It’s ex
cellent. It’s sound policy. It’s practi
cal wisdom. We ought to learn it
ourselves, and teach it to our chil
dren. It is good judgment, sensible
foresight. Earn, save, lay by enough
to keep the wolf away off from the
door of the little home —shrinking
THE MISSION OF THE TWELVE.
April 10, 1910.
.Matt. 10:1-15.
Time, A. D. 29.
Place —Galilee.
GOLDEN TEXT —“Freely ye have
received; freely give.” Matt. 10:8.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What should I do?
I. Pray that laborers be sent. Matt.
9:35-38.
In our own country there is great
need for laborers, but the need in
foreign lands is greater. Therefore
we, too, should be praying the Lord
of the harvest to send more laborers.
God has greatly honored man in mak
ing him a worker together with God
in the salvation of man. (2 Cor.
5:18-21, and 2 Cor. 6:1.) That man
should be a worker together with God
is wonderful, but that God should be
dependent upon man for the number
of workers in carrying out His great
plan of redemption is marvellous.
Here is the mystery. God has made
Himself dependent upon man in the
matter of practical redemption. This
is the reason He calls upon us to
pray for the sending of laborers into
the harvest, instead of sending at
once as many as He wishes. So let
us give ourselves to prayer that labor
ers be sent and the world evangel
ized, and that speedily.
11. .Receive Divine Powers. Matt.
10:1.
The disciples were called to the
back a little farther even, when the
hearse with its sable plumes halts to
receive its freight of nothingness. And
then—?
You see, the trouble with this phi
losophy, when this is all, is that when
it reaches the grave, it stands like a
bewildered traveler, standing upon the
edge of a great crevice or chasm that
can not be bridged or over-leaped.
There have been men and women
who at this point in the pilgrimage of
life, have stepped lightly over the
grave without seeming to descend
into its gloomy shadows, so beautiful
ly has the life that now is blended
into the life everlasting that is to be.
But as they had not lived only in the
“every-little-bit-added-to-what-you got”
philosophy, so they did not have to
die by it.
There was a man —you may read
the story of him in this book about
men and God —there was a man who
lived up to the “every-little-bit” relig
ion all his days. He prospered under
it so that by and by it grew to be
“every block you get added to the
stock you hold makes heaps of secu
rities more.” He could not rent safe
ty deposit boxes enough to hold his
securities. He could not build ware
nouses big enough to store his goods.
He could not ride the boundaries of
his property in a day. If he never
“added another little bit” he would
have to work hard all the rest of his
life to spend what he already had.
And that is what he decided to do.
“I’ll tear down everything,” he said;
“I’ll show these little holders how a
real man tears down a SIOO,OOO build
ing to put up a $1,000,000 block; then
I’ll live. Soul, enjoy yourself. You’ve
got more than can ever spend or
SUNDA Y SCHOOL LESSON
work and then empowered to do the
work to which they were called. Be
fore Jesus went back to heaven He
commanded His disciples to go into
all the world and preach the Gospel
to every creature. They could not
obey this command in their own pow
ers. Therefore Jesus bid them tarry
in the city of Jerusalem until they
should receive the necessary power.
(Luke 24:46-49; Acts 1:8.) They
were given power to cast out unclean
spirits and to heal all manner of
sickness and all manner of disease.
These powers were not confined to
the twelve apostles. The seventy were
given this power. (Luke 10:17-19.)
This pow’er is for those that believe
and let Jesus work with them. (Mark
16:17, 18, 20; 1 Cor. 12:9; James
5:15.)
111. Remember you are also sent.
Matt. 10:2-6.
As the apostles were called and
sent, so all believers are called and
sent. (John 20:21.) We are not all
called to the same work or sent to
the same field. God has a work for
each of us and the place where He
wants us to work. So seek, by
prayer, the studying of the Word and
the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to be
at the place God wants you, and to
be doing the work to which He calls
you, and He will give you all needed
power and wisdom, and crown you
with success. Go to the wrong place
and seek to do another’s work, and
you will fail.
IV, A? you go, preach. Matt. 10:
7-8.
The Golden Age for March 31,1910.
By R. J. BURDETTE
use. I’ve made it and saved it up for
you; now, eat, drink and be merry.”
And then God stood at his bedside in
the silence and darkness.
Infinite Wisdom looked down upon
all this prudence. The omnipotence
and the incomprehensible wisdom
that called the flaming suns out of
the darkness; the glory and wisdom
that spreadeth out the heavens like a
tent and hangeth the earth upon noth
ing, looked down upon the human wis
dom, the cleverness, the shrewdness,
the far-reaching foresight, the clear
human brain the strong intelligence
that planned and the strong will that
accomplished all this which won the
admiration of all the otherwise and
clever men, and spake to him —“thou
fool, thou fool, thou fool.” The God
of the universe who created his chil
dren for his love, no less than for the
glory, looked at it all; measured at a
glance the capacity of the newly
planned warehouses; knew the state
ment of the banks; the value of all
the securities, the wealth of the mines,
hidden from human knowledge; the
sure returns on all the investments;
counted the cash on hand; weighed
and measured it all; knew its accu
rate value in billions; and then spake
the verdict of Wisdom —“thou fool,
thou fool.”
For while he had been adding a lit
tle bit every day to what he had, all
through the long years of gain, he had
not saved a thing. He had kept it all.
And now, when he needed it, it was
all gone. He should have given it
away. Then he would have had it
forever. The strongest, best loved
tree in all the orchard is the one that
grows nearest the wall, drives its ea
ger roots down to kiss the life-giving
2J. Lacy Hoge.
Jesus went about preaching the
gospel of the Kingdom. (Matt. 9:35.)
We are told to preach the Word in
season and out of season. (2 Tim.
4:2.) We must preach the gospel as
we go, or it will be useless for us to
go and preach. Many have gone and
preached a fine gospel sermon in the
church, but the sermon was spoiled by
the kind of preaching the preacher
did along the way. In our homes
and business and amusements we
must preach the gospel to make ef
fective the preaching and teaching in
the church and Sunday-school.
V. Be a missionary. Vs. 9-15.
Every Christian is called to be a
missionary. Not that all should go to
the foreign field or become preachers
in the home land, but all can, by per
sonal work from day to day, do some
real home mission work. Then we
can give to the Home and Foreign
Mission Boards, and in this way be
good missionaries. Let us lift up our
eyes and look upon the field and see
the great need. Millions in heathen
lands are passing into eternity with
out Christ. Sixty-six souls a minute
are lost. One hundred thousand every
day go down without Christ and with
out hope. Do you realize that Jesus
hade you preach the gospel to these?
Will you have a good reason for not
giving them the gospel when you
stand before the King? Look on the
home field and see the need. We are
told that one immigrant enters our
country every forty seconds, coming
at the rate of 788,400 every year. We
treasure of a deep hidden spring,
breaks over the boundaries of the
property and swings its long branches
laden with fruit like the sunset, and
cries to owner and beggar, school
children and tramps, “Here, every
body, everybody, whosoever will, eat
and rejoice. I’ll have plenty more
next year.” The strongest spring in
the United States is the one that bub
bles up somewhere around Lake Gla
zier away up in Minnesota. It looks
around, cries, “What am I good for, if
I stay here in this fern-rimmed pool?”
and then with a song 3,000 miles long
hurries away to the Gulf of Mexico,
picking up canoes, rafts, flat-boats,
freight scows and tugboats, all the
coal barges and steamboats all the
way down. That is something like a
spring.
“How God blesses the life that over
flows; how he loves the tree with the
overhanging branches.”
Created Newspaper Comment.
The remarkable cure in two extreme
cases of opium and cocaine addictions
that had been made at Dr. Woolley’s
Sanitarium in Atlanta, Ga., were freely
commented upon by the Atlanta Consti
tution, the leading paper in that city.
The Atlanta Constitution said: “These
were extreme cases, using both mor
phine and cocaine, each using from forty
to sixty grains of morphine, and from
twenty to twenty-five grains of cocaine,
hypodermically, in twenty-four hours.
Their vital forces were impaired, they
were emaciated, and were seriously in
doubt about ever being cured by any
method of treatment; their whole bodies
almost a mass of sorbs as a result of the
puncture of needles. Both of these pa
tients were discharged after thirty days’
treatment, neither of them taking any
medicine the last 15 days. The sores of
their bodies had healed, they could sleep,
there was no insomnia, no loss of ap
petite, and no material suffering. They
progressed nicely from the first dose of
medicine and gained strength and flesh
rapidly.” Those interested can have,
without charge, a copy of Dr. Woolley’s
book on these habits and their cure, by
addressing, No. 16 B Victor Sanitarium,
Atlanta, Ga.
must give these people the gospel,
first, because Christ commands us to
do so; second, in self-defense. The
gospel is the only thing that will pro
tect our homes and save us from be
ing overwhelmed by these floods of
heathenism. Every State in the
union is a mission field. All our
cities need missionaries.
VI. Attempt great things for God.
Vs. 40-42.
We will be rewarded for giving a
cup of water, but we should not be
satisfied with doing little things, but
should do our best for God. Be like
Caleb, who said, “Give me this moun
tain.” Be ready to do hard things for
God. Be a Mary, that gave the ala
baster box that was “exceeding
precious.” Jesus is worthy of receiv
ing the best. “Only the best is good
enough for Jesus.” Be a disciple that
is ready to forsake all to follow
Jesus. If you do small things for
Jesus, you will get your reward. Do
your best for Jesus, and you will be
rewarded for doing your best. Do
great things for Jesus, and He will
give you a great reward. He is com
ing soon and will bring the rewards
with Him and “give to every man
according as his work shall be.” (Heb
22:12.)
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