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THE WAY TO WEALTH.
There was a young heiress in Spain
Who had more of money than brain;
She married a Yankee,
Who, without saying “Thankee”,
Took her fortune and sailed o’er the
main.
—W. H. R.
THE FLAME THAT FROZE.
Is it could enough for you?
Wait now! Go slow with your big
stick. I am not trying to be imperti
nent. I merely wanted to know if you
were satisfied with your prevailing
weather conditions. Atlanta is receiv
ing large assortments of Christmas
weather every hour, and can furnish
a fresh supply daily on demand.
Cold! Well, yes, rather. But for
tunately for us, we have electric lights,
and cold weather isn’t so terrible as
long as you can keep a light going.
“Don’t know what I am talking
about?” Oh! beg your pardon. May
be I forgot to tell you about the man
and the Western cold wave. Kerosene
lamps were used exclusively where he
lived. One night, when a “norther”
was on, he piled the grate full of coal,
turned down the wick to a small
flame and crept into bed. The next
morning, on awakening, he picked up
the lamp and attempted to blow the
light out, but it wouldn't blow. At
last he lifed the chimney and gave
the wick a sound thump. Astonish
ment of astonishments! a red icycle
snapped off and clattered to the floor!
The flame had frozen stiff!
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THE “CROWS” IN THE KLONDIKE.
But the worst I ever heard was
about the roosters up in the Klondike
region. A disappointed gold seeker
told the story, and as he had been
there and I haven’t, I can only take
his word for it. He said that the first
winter he was there the roosters wor
ried him nearly to death. They would
December 25th, 1910.
Luke 2:6-20.
Time —5 B. C.
Place —Bethlehem.
GOLDEN TEXT:—“For unto you is
born this day in the city of David a
Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”—
Luke 2:11.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What should I do?
I. —Make Room for Jesus. ( Vs. 6
and 7.)
Christ the Lord, the Saviour of lost
men, came into this world to provide
a plan by which man could be saved
and the world had no room for Him.
He began His life in a stable and clos
ed it upon the cross. He began life
in the stable because there was no
room for Him in the inn. Man nail
ed Him to the cross, because they had
no room for Him in the world. There
is no room for Christ today in the
hearts of most men. It is very seldom
that we find room for Christ in the
home, in business, in society, and in
politics. The inn was filled and there
was therefore no room for Jesus. The
hearts of men today are so filled with
business, pleasure, ambition, money
making and other worldly things, that
they take up all the room and there
fore Jesus is shut out. Let us open
wide the door of our hearts and let
PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
Margaret Heberty Upshalv.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By B. Lacy Hoge.
mope about the yard, and occasionally
one would flap his wings lustily and
go through all the contortions of
crowing, but not a sound disturbed the
awful silence. His perplexity was not
relieved until early the next spring.
One morning, awakened by a strange
squeaking noise coming from all
directions around the house and
barnyard, he dressed hastily and
rushed out to investigate. The sun
was beginning to shine, and as its
warm rays penetrated the atmosphere,
the snow-capped plains and ice
crowned peaks rang and reverberated
with the genial sound of a thousand
feathered lords raising a merry “Cock
a-doodle-do”. The voices of the roost
ers had frozen the winter before, and
the spring sunshine was thawing out
a whole season’s “Crowed crows”.
“HAM, PLEASE”
Human nature is a curious thing,
and mighty hard to satisfy. When it’s
cold, we want hot weather, when it’s
cloudy we wish it were fair, etc., etc.,
world without end. Now, I’m like the
“dear young thing” who married a
farmer. Hog killing time came and
the young Benedict, who had always
deferred to his mother’s superior wis
dom when the meat was to be cut up
and packed away, wished to be equally
considerate of his wife’s wishes. “My
dear”, he asked as they lingered over
the coffee cups at dinner, “the hogs
are all dressed —.” A merry peal of
laughter interrupted him. He looked
up in surprise to see his wife’s eyes
dancing with glee. “How perfectly
comical,” she gurgled, “I must run out
and see them right away, you are al
ways doing such quaint things to keep
me amused.” He gasped and nearly
fainted, and then explained. Os
course, she was deeply abashed, and
sat for a long time demurely twisting
a corner of the tablecloth. He felt
sorry for her, naturally he did, so he
Jesus come in, no matter what else
or who else is shut out. Make room
in your heart for Jesus. Make room
for Him in your home, in your busi
ness, in your pleasure and in your
politics. If we will make room for
Jesus, He will come in and save us
from sin, and save our boys and girls
from ruin, both in this world and the
life to come. He will fill our lives
with joy and when this life is ended
He will welcome us into the fulness
of His joy.
ll.—Honor and Praise Jesus. (Vs. 8
to 14.)
The announcement of the advent of
the King was made to the shepherds.
They were wise men. They were men
of faith and ready to receive and ap
preciate this truth. They had been
waiting, longing and looking for the
coming of the Christ. They did not
give up their work, but were faithful
ly attending to their duties when the
revelation came. God has always re
vealed His will to busy men and call
ed into His service those who were
attending to their duties (Ex. 3:1-2;
Judges 6:11-12; I Kings 19:19; Matt. 9:
9.) The Lord does not want idlers
in His service. They must first be
saved from the sin of idleness before
God will call them into His service.
Heavenly messengers have brought to
man several messages about the Lord
Jesus.
The Golden Age for December 15, 1910.
sought to relieve the situation by
giving her another chance. “Mother
always liked the pork cut in a certain
way,” he said kindly. “Perhaps you
have a preference; for instance, some
people like all the bones left in and
some want them taken out.” A smile
began to steal up from the region of
her pietty chin, and presently another
came to keep it company. She was
sure of her ground now, and she fair
ly beamed with satisfaction as she
gave her instructions. “Please,
dearie, make all the pigs into hams
except one, and make that one into
heads, leaving all the bones in, it will
be perfectly cute to roast the heads
with big red apples in the mouths, and
hams always make such lovely gravy.”
Now, I’d be ‘pig-headed” about the
weather if I could. I’d have October
all the year ’round, except a May now
and then just for the sake of an an
niversary.
But what’s the use to kick about the
weather? The real philosopher was
the old man who said that, instead of
finding fault, folks ought to be glad
when they wake up in the morning to
find that there is any weather at all.
There is too much pulling to be done
in the world for anybody to be a
kicker. Smile! If you can’t smile,
lock up your face and don’t let it
growl. Life’s too short to grumble
with the weather man.
“The moving finger writes, and, having
writ, moves on;
Nor all your piety or wit
Can lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears blot out a word
of it.”
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NURSERY FOR THE BABIES IN
CHURCH.
“Please check your babies” is in sub
stance the notive given in the fash
ionable Second Presbyterian church of
Pittsburg, with its 1,100 members,
First. They told of His incarnation.
(Matt. 1:20-21; Luke 1:26-35.)
Second. They told of His birth.
(Luke 2:8-16.)
Third. They spoke of His death on
Calvary to Peter, James and John.
(Luke 9:28-31.)
Fourth. They told the women of
His resurrection (Luke 24:4-7.)
Fifth. They told of the second com
ing of our Lord. (Acts 1:9-11). All
the great doctrines, the incarnation,
the birth, the death, the resurrection
and second coming of Christ, were
preached by heavenly messengers. The
first four were literally fulfilled and
we may well look for the literal ful
fillment of the second coming of the
Lord also. The angels brought “good
tidings of great joy” for all people.
They told of the birth of the Saviour,
who was Christ the Lord. He came
to save His people from sin, to bring
peace on earth and good will towards
men. When our Lord comes again,
He will put an end to this tragedy of
sin and sorrow and establish His
righteousness and bring in everlast
ing peace upon earth and good will
among men. The heavenly host prais
ed God for the coming of Jesus in
humiliation to provide the great plan
of salvation. Let us praise Him for
the great salvation He has provided
and praise God for the great truth that
He is coming again. Let us look for
among them the best people of the
city, and what is more, the church has
provided a practical check room, rath
er a real nursery, with real nurses to
take care of the babies while mothers
attend the church. One of the floors
of the Sunday school building attach
ed to this church has been fitted up
as a play room and nursery for the
tots —from the babe-in-arms to the
sturdy, five-year-old.
For some time the nursery idea had
been running quietly, but it has
branched out now in earnest and
there are about as many babies as Miss
Swan, head nurse, who is also a teach
er in the school, and her assistants,
care to handle. One woman, who
had tried the nursery with one of her
previous babies one Sunday, brought
ten the next. The nursery is just far
enough away that the mothers cannot
hear the babies cry, if they do, said
Rev. George W. Shelton, pastor of the
church, who is responsible for the nur
sery idea.
Dr. Shelton was formerly pastor of
the Russell Street church of Nashville,
and it was he who had election returns
read in his church last Tuesday night.
HALF THROUGH.
Sidney was walking on the beach
with his Uncle John, when his uncle
told him that if he could find two peb
bles exactly alike he would give him
a dollar. Full of glee Sidney began
searching. By and by he ran to his
uncle crying, “Oh, Uncle John, I’ve
found one of them.” —The Delineator.
n
Mayor Gaynor, in denying the pos
session of any ambition to be President
of the United States, is quoted as say
ing: “When a man has gone down
into the Valley of the Shadow, and
looked the spectre, Death, in the face,
and said to it, ‘I am ready,’ nothing in
this world looks very large to him.”
His coming and at all times be filled
with the spirit and work earnestly to
hasten the coming of our Lord (Acts
1:8; II Peter 3:12 A. R. V. margin;
II Peter 3:14.)
lll.—Believe God and Testify to the
People. (Vs. 15 to 20).
The shepherds believed God’s word
and went to Bethlehem to “see this
thing that is come to pass, which the
Lord hath made known unto us.” (Vs.
15.) They did not doubt the truth of
what had been spoken to them and
therefore they went to Bethlehem to
see the Saviour —“Christ the Lord.”
They believed, they went and they
found the Lord. If we will believe
God’s word and go as God wants us
to do, we will never be disappointed.
We will always find things just as God
has spoken them. When God speaks,
let us “go and see this word which
the Lord hath made Known to us” —
that is, let us enter into the truth ex
perimentally. The shepherds “ came
with haste” to find the Christ. Fol
low their example and go with haste,
see what God has told you, when you
have found the Christ and experienced
the sweetness of the many truths of
God’s word, tell it out to others and
praise and glorify God for His wonder
ful gifts to men. The multitude may
wonder at your testimony, but many
like Mary will treasure the testimony
and ponder it in their hearts.
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