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ONE, TWO, THREE!
Sigh, please. Sigh again. Just
once more, good and long. Thank
you. I think the danger is past. If
you hadn’t helped the “Funny Editor”
out that time, the “Sketches” for this
week might have been blown to
“Smithereens” (Whatever that is).
Oh! no. It wasn’t for the tail of
Halley’s comet that your “Funny Edi
tor” was sighing. Haven’t you noticed
how dim and pale it has been for the
past few nights? It thought it was
working, really working, until it saw
me. Since then it has been hiding its
face in shame. Even George Stuart’s
anecdote about the Swede, and
the cyclone loses its velocity when
compared to the running record I
have ben making. You remember
about George Stuart’s Swede, don’t
you? He got caught in a Kansas cy
clone; was carried about ten miles
and let down, still comfortably housed
in his prairie sleeping tent. A stran
ger, seeing him fall and thinking he
surely must be killed or terribly
wounded, rushed to his assistance.
The Swede emerged from the tent
door and looked about, surprise and
perplexity striving for predominance
in his face. “Are you hurt?” shout
ed his would-be rescuer. The Swede
shook his head, “Me no hurt,” he an
swered brokenly. “Well,” ejaculated
his friend, “The Lord surely was with
you.” The stranger from the land
of the midnight sun, scanned the
heavens incredulously, and with deep
conviction in his voice, replied: “If he
were, he were a’going some.”
All of this preamble is necessary to
THE CANAANITISH WOMAN.
June 12, 1910.
Matt. 15:21-29.
Time—A. D. 29.
Place—Tyre and Sidon.
GOLDEN TEXT—“Great is thy
faith; be it unto thee even as thou
wilt.” Matt. 15:28.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What should I do?
I. Have the Hidden and Yet Un
hidden Life. Vs. 21 and 22.
Mark tells us that Jesus “entered
into an house and would have no man
know it, but He could not be hid.”
Mark 7:24.
John says: “But Jesus hid Himself,
and went out of the temple, going
through the midst of them, and so
passed by.” John 8:59.
These Scriptures are not contradic
tory, though at a glance they seem to
be. “He hid Himself.” But from
what? He hid Himself from malice
and unbelief. He still hides Himself
from malice and unbelief. We can
not see the Christ with malice and
in our hearts.
The other statement is, “He could
not be hid.” From what? He could
not be hid from faith and need. This
woman was seeking Him. She had
faith in Him and was in great need,
and therefore He could not be hid
from her. This is still true; faith and
need will always find the Christ.
Faith and vision are ever closely as
sociated. “Faith is the assurance of
PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
SUNT) A Y SCHOOL LESSON
<By < S. Lacy Hoge.
impress you with the fact that your
“Funny Editor” has been busy. And
I want to pause just here long enough
to relieve your mind of the impres
sion that the title of “Associate Edi
tor”, which the management seems to
have thrust upon me, witnout my sug
gestion, knowledge or consent, is no
vain and empty title.
To the uninitiated, the above eu
phonious, high-sounding title carries
with it a fanciful suggestion of a se
cluded private office, decked with
hangings of blue and gold; a mahog
any desk bestrewn with gold and sil
ver writing utensils; velvet carpets
underneath daintily slippered feet, and
a salary check bearing three magic
words served up weekly on a silver
tray. But in stern reality, my! what
a difference!!! It runs something
like this: Nursing broken limbs, chill
and fever patients, a rheumaticky
mother-in-law (who, nevertheless is a
mighty sweet mother), keeping sweet
when the cook fails to come the day
the patients are all at the very worst,
answering a correspondence varying
in scope from an inquiry desiring to
know the relative influence of moon
light upon atmospheric ether, to a
request for the safest treatment for
green apples in small children. And
on top of these few pleasant pas
times, the devil (the printer’s devil, of
course,) bobs up serenely at your el
bow and yells “Copy!” and just at
the same instant you make the de
pressing discovery that your train of
thought has been caught in a wreck
ninety miles from headquarters, and
the tram crew has gone off to pick
huckleberries. James said: “Resist
things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.” (Heb. 11:1.) “By
faith Moses * * * endured, as seeing
Him who is invisible.” (Heb. 11:24-
27.) We can not turn our backs upon
the riches and glories of this world
and suffer affliction without seeing
Him who is invisible, and only faith
can have this vision. By faith this
woman had the vision that revealed
to her the invisible Christ that was
dwelling in the body “made in the
likeness of sinful flesh.” (Rom. 8:3.)
By faith we can see Him who is invis
ible. To have this life that will be
hidden from unbelief and malice, and
yet always found by those in need,
we must have Christ, for this life is in
Him. (1 John 5:11, 12.) He is the
life. (John 14:6.) The man that has
Christ dwelling in him will always be
found by those in need, and be used
of God to bless mankind. ,
11. Persevere in Prayer. Vs. 23-26.
Many difficulties must be removed
before this woman’s prayer can be
answered, but the prayer of faith can
remove mountains of difficufcies and
get the blessing desired. (Matt. 11:
22-24.) This woman had faith and
continued to pray, and the mountains
of difficulties were removed, and her
daughter was healed. We are taught
that man ought always to pray and
not faint. (Luke 18:1.) In our work
for the Lord we should not give up
because great trouble and difficulties
stand in the way, but remember that
Jesus has “all power” (Matt. 28-18)
and has promised to hear and answer
the prayer of faith. “All power” can
The Golden Age for June 2, 1910.
Margaret ‘Beberly Upshalv.
the devil and he will flee from you.”
But James hadn’t had any experi
ence with printers’ devils when he
wrote that.
But what’s the use to growl. The
best folks in the world are busy folks,
and even when everything goes dead
wrong you can still be thankful that
you haven’t got club feet and your
wife hasn’t got a wart on the end
of her nose. There is always a bright
side to life. Look at the doughnut
and forget the hole.
Helen Hunt Jackson solved the
secret of happiness when she wrote
those beautiful lines:
If I can Live.
If I can live
To make some pale face brighter,
and to give
A second lustre to some tear-dim
med eye,
Or e’en impart
One throb of comfort to an aching
heart,
Or cheer some way-worn soul in
passing by;
If I can lend
A strong hand to the fallen, or de
fend
The right against a single envious
strain,
My life, though bare
Perhaps of much that seemeth dear
and fair
To us on earth, will not have been
in vain.
The purest joy,
Most near to heaven, far from earth’s
alloy,
move all difficulties that stand in the
way. We must ask in faith. (James
1:6.)
111. Humble Thyself. V. 27.
This woman took her place as a
gentle dog, only asking for the
crumbs that fall from the Master’s
table, but the Lord opened to her His
storehouse and told her to go in and
help herself. She got far more than
she sought. She humbled herself and
asked that her daughter be healed,
and obtained this blessing, and was
also exalted to a place in the family
of God. The sinner that will humble
himself as a vile, unclean sinner that
deserves eternal death, will be ex
alted to be a child of God. He that
humbleth himself shall be exalted.
(James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6; Matt. 18:4;
Matt. 23:12; Luke 14:11; Luke 18:14.)
IV. Have Faith in God. V. 28.
God is able to do great things for
thee. He can do great things with
and through you, and He will do
these things if you will supply the
tools for Him to work with. Faith is
the one thing needed. Great faith
will enable Him to do great things
for thee. He has “all power in
heaven and in earth.” (Matt. 28:18.)
He is able to do all things. There is
nothing too hard for God. All He
asks and all that He needs is your
faith in Him. All things are possible
to you if you believe. (Mark 9:23.)
He is not now doing mighty works
with you because of your unbelief.
(Matt. 13:5-8.) We can not please
God without faith. (Heb. 11:6.)
Faith is precious. (1 Peter 1:7.) To
Is bidding clouds give way to sun
and shine;
And ’twill be well,
If on that day of days the angels
tell
Os me: “She did her best for one
of thine.”
*
PREPARING FOR A LONG SERMON.
Dean Hole in his “Memories” tells
an amusing story of a church collec
tion dn a Sunday when the congrega
tion happened to be unexpectedly
large. The rector, seeing that there
was only one almsdish, beckoned to
a rustic, and hade him go through
the garden into the rectory dining
room and bring a dish from the table.
“Take it down one side of the north
aisle and up the other,” he said, “and
then bring it to me.” The rustic
came back with the dish, as ordered,
and presented it to the people on eith
er side of the aisle . Then, approach
ing the rector, whispered in his ear:
“I’ve done as ye told me, sir, I’ve
taken it down yon side the aisle and
up t’other —they’ll none on ’em ’ave
any.”
No order had been given to empty
the dish, and it was full of biscuits.
AIDING THE ILLITERATE.
An Irish sign painter was sent to
a cross road to paint a sign board
giving the distance by each road to
certain villages in the distance and
after painting the original sign he
added the following: “If you can’t
read, Inquire at blacksmith’s shop.”
have great faith it must be tried. (1
Peter 1:6, 7; 1 Peter 4:12.)
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