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THE OTHER SIDE.
While “the husband thou gavest
me” is rhapsodizing in poetic meas
ures over the blisses of the first year
at, housekeeping, ’spose we take a
peep at the other side of the family
“just for fun.”
In the first place that editorial that
appeared in the last issue of The Gol
den Age has placed me in the same
•boat with the illiterate negro, who was
married in the South the other day by
a white minister. At the conclusion
of the marriage the groom asked the
price of the service. “Oh, well,” an
swered the minister, “you can pay me
whatever you think it is worth to
you.” The Negro turned and silently
looked his bride over from head to
foot; then slowly rolling up the whites
of his eyes, said; “Sah, you has done
ruined me for life; you has, for sure.”
All of the “poor stuff” that appears
in the columns of The Golden Age will,
henceforth and forever, be duly cred
ited to my defenseless pen.
But going back to the housekeeping.
Such times as we have had! Just as
my long expected “summer guests” ar
rived for the first visit, the managing
editor fell ill and the office turned a
pitying but compelling eye on me. The
next tragedy passed over with the de
parture of my cook. And then the
fun started. The guests rose to the
occasion, and before I could gather
myself together I had been bundled
off to the office with my “working
clothes” on, and the doll house was
in th* hands of “the company.” A pic
nic was the first item on the pre-ar
THREE QUESTIONS.
Sept. 18, 1910.
Time: A. D. 30.
Matt. 22:15 to 22.
Matt. 22:34 to 36.
Place: Jerusalem.
GOLDEN TEXT: —“Render, there
fore unto Caesar the things which are
Caesar's, and unto God the things that
are God's." Matt. 22:21.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What shall I do?
*
I. Rpnder Unto Caesar the Things
That Are Caesar’s. (Vs. 15 to 22 and
Rom. 13:7.)
When a person becomes a Christian
he does not cease to be a citizen,
therefore he must perform all his du
ties and obligations as a citizen. His
responsibilities as a citizen are great
er than they were before he became a
Christian. It is the duty of a Chris
tian to take a deep interest in all that
concerns our country. He should in
every way seek to get the best laws
enacted and use his powers to see that
they are enforced. He should do his
best to have repealed all laws that per
mit the traffic in liquor and other evils,
and seek to have the traffic in liquor
and other evils made a crime under the
laws of the land.
11. “Render Unto God the Things
That Are Gods.’ (Vs. 15 to 22.)
We belong to God. (1 Cor. 6:19 and
20.) All our powers and talents should
be fully dedicated to Him and His
service. (1 Rom. 12:1 and 2.) Our
Lord is “worthy to receive power, and
riches, and wisdom, and strength, and
honor, and glory, and blessing.” (Rev.
5:12.) Are you bestowing these seven
filings upon our Lord? We are all
PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
Margaret Ifeberly Up shah?.
SUNDA Y SCHOOL LESSON
7sy 3. Lacy Hege.
ranged program and a picnic we did
have. Such a delicate, delicious lunch
as those girls did fix, and such an
evening as we did spend on the mur
muring Chattahoochee! If you doubt
me, ask the editor. He utters only
truthful statements, as you can judge
from his “editorial policy.” After the
first day’s housekeeping the domestics
pro tern, presented each an application,
for a permanent position in the doll
house establishment. And here are
the letters that were decorously pre
sented by the would be butler, the
husband of the prospective cook:
Mrs. W. D. Upshaw.
Dear Madam: As your dearly belov
ed and effective cook is about to leave
you I would like to apply for her po
sition. I don’t make a practice of
carrying anything home under my
apron and can cook anything from
frizzled toe nails to fleas’ livers on a
cart.
Your most humble servant,
MAE FORD.
Mrs. W. D. Upshaw.
Dear mum: I am a respuctable Irish
Lady lukin fur a pusition to chamber
made (cleanin bed rums and skrubbin
and kleanin porches) I never go snup
in round my landladvs drarwers nur
tuch what dont belong tu me fur
xampl kandy, nur use her sowin ma
chine nur wear her gode froks I al
ways du what I ame tuld fur xample
skrub the back porch. If yule gib me
a job ill lube you and do my best to
plaze. I am rather stout but remark
able suple. Respectful,
ILA B. LEE.
ready to say, He is worthy to receive
them. We ought to be ready to glad
ly bestow upon Him all our power,
riches, wisdom, strength, honors, glory
and blessings.
“Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small,
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.”
111. Love God. (Vs. 34 to 38.)
To love God is the first duty of man.
To love God is the first and great
Commandment of God’s book. To
break this commandment is to commit
the greatest of all sins. We have all
at some time broken this great com
mandment. With all our capacity to
love we must love God. Put Him first
in our business, in our politics, in our
pleasures, in our home life, in our so
cial life, and in everything. The test of
love is obedience. The Master said,
“If you love me you will keep my com
mandments.” (John 14:15, R. V.; 2
John 6.)
IV. Love Your Neighbor. (Vs. 39 and
40.)
We are to love God with all our
heart, soul and mind. Our neighbor
we must love as we do ourselves. This
does not simply mean to say nice
things to him, or about him, but to
love “in deed and in truth.” (1 John
3:18.) We must seek to help our fel
lowman and do him good. Paul says,
“Bear ye one another’s burdens and so
fulfill the law of Christ.” (Gal. 6:2;
Rom. 15:1 and 2.) Love for your neigh
bor is the gauge to tell your love for
God. As the engineer looks at his
gaiige to tell how much water is in
the boiler of the engine, so we must
look at the gauge God has given us
in His Word to see how much love we
The Golden Age for September 8, 1910.
But, horror of horrors! the new
“cook” had a spell of acute indiges
tion before the third day’s service was
out. And the chambermaid had to do
double duty. And now she has gene
for the “usual vacation.” Even the
editor has slipped his leash and van
ished from the old familiar haunts,
and the doll house is plunged in gloom.
Thus endeth the first year.
*
A TEST FOR ANY SAMSON.
There is a theatrical manager in
New York who, in his early days, pi
loted a small circus through the vil
lages of the Middle West.
“At that time,” he Lays, “I was feat
uring an Italian as ‘Biancialli, the
Strong Man from Rome.’ One day,
traveling from Kansas City to Omaha
in a day coach, the strong man and
myself were seated just ahead of a
tall man with side whiskers. Whether
or not the man overheard our conver
sation, I am unable to say; but after
a time, he leaned over and tapped my
companion on the shoulder, saying,
‘Execuse me, sir, but are you not Bian
cialli the Strong Man?’
“Biancialli admitted the soft im
peachment.
“ ‘ls it true you can lift two and a
half tons in harness?’
“ ‘Yes.’
“ ‘You can hold two men at arm’s
length ?’
“ ‘I can.’
“ ‘And put up five hundred pounds
with one arm?’
“ ‘Yes.’
“ ‘Then,’ concluded the man with the
have in our hearts for God. If we love
God we will according to our ability
supply our neighbor’s needs. The
Word says, “Whoso hath this world’s
goods, and seeth his brother have need,
and shutteth up his bowels of compas
sion from him, how dwelleth the love of
God in him.” (1 John 3:17.) If we
love God we will love the brethren.
(1 John 3:14 to 16; 1 John 4:20 and
21; Gal. 5:13; 1 Peter 4:8.)
V. Love Yourself. (Vs. 39 and 40.)
We must put God first and our neigh
bor equal with ourselves. We ought
to love ourselves and our neighbors
equally as well. It is right that we
should love ourselves and seek the
highest good for self both in this life
and the life that is to come. God holds
out to us great rewards; He wants us
to have them and enjoy the blessings
they bring for all eternity. Therefore
have such great love for yourself, that
you will give up all evil, every bad
habit, and lay aside every weight, that
will hinder you from obtaining God’s
highest and best both for the life that
now is and the life that is to come.
“God has His best things for the few
That dare to stand the .test;
God has His second choice for those
Who will not have His best.”
“It is not always open ill
That risks the Promised Rest;
The better, often, is the foe
That keeps us from the best.”
“There’s scarcely one but vaguely
wants
In some way to be blest;
’Tis not Thy blessing, Lord, I seek,
I want Thy very best.”
“And others make the highest choice,
But when by trials pressed,
side whiskers, ‘would you kindly rais«
this car window for me?’ ”—Every
body’s Magazine.
*
A SOFT SNAP.
“Hay all in?” asked Amzi Cloverbud
of Israel Pepperpod, as they drew reia
in the road leading to the village.
“All in,” said Israel.
“I reckon I’ll finish up mine by Sat
urday. What are you doin’ now?”
“Not much o’nothin’. Havin’ a kind
of a soft snap of it. Ain’t milkin’ but
nine cows now, an’ I take it easy in
bed until ’most 5 o’clock morning’s.
Fact is, I ain’t got much to do this
fall but dig ten or twelve acres o’ per
taters and grub out six or eight acres
o’ my timber land an’ git it ready to
seed down in the spring an’ git sev
enty-five cord o’ wood I agreed to de
liver in town by Christmas. Got to
put up ’bout half a mile o’ wire fence
an’ shingle my barn an’ putter round
at work o’ that sort but I got so much
less than usual to do that I feel as if
I was havin’ a kind of a soft snap of
it.”
LEGAL PUBLICATION.
GEORGIA—FuIton County:
I, Arthur G. Powell, do make oath that
as a candidate for the position of Judge
of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, in
the Democratic Primary, held on Au
gust 23, 1910, I incurred the following
campaign expenses, and no other. As
sessment of the Executive Committee,
SSO. The money so paid was derived
from my personal funds.
ARTHUR G. POWELL.
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this first day of September, 1910.
G. H. ATKISSON,
Notary Public, Fulton County, Georgia.
They shrink, they yield, they shun the
cross,
And so they lose the best.”
“I want, in this short life of mine,
As much as can be pressed,
Os service true for God and man;
Help me to be my best.”
“I want to stand when Christ appears
In spotless raiment dressed;
Numbered among His chosen ones,
His holiest and best.”
“I want among the victor throng
To have my name confessed;
And hear my Master say at last,
Well done, you did your best.”
“Give me, O Lord, Thy highest choice,
Let others take the rest;
Their good things have no charm for
me,
For I have got Thy best.”
VI. Believe in the God Man. (Vs. 41
to 46.)
Jesus is the Son of man: the Son of
David. (Matt. 1:1; Matt. 21:9; Isa.
11:1 to 4.) He is also the Son of God.
(Matt. 16:16 and 17; John 1:49; John
6:69; Rom. 1:3 and 4; Rom. 9:5; Heb.
1:8.) Jesus is both God and man.
(1 John 1:1 to 3; John 1:14; Heb. 1:
3-1; Tim. 3:16; Col. 2:2, R. V.; Matt.
1:20 to 23; Luke 1:35.) We must be
lieve in Christ as the Son of God to
get eternal life. (John 20:31; John
5:5.) The way to know Jesus as the
Son of God is—
-Ist. Be born again. (1 John 5:1;
John 3:3 to 7.)
2d. Study the Bible. (John 5:39.)
3d. Be taught by the Spirit. (John
16:13 and 14; John 6:45; Isa. 54:13.)
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