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AWAY FROM THE WORLD.
It is pleasant to live on a little farm
Away from the world so gay,
To breathe the sweet and wholesome
air
And bathe in the sun all day;
To see the fields once brown and bare
Grow green with growing grain;
To watch the flowers and tender
plants
Drink the refreshing rain.
To hear the low of the gentle cows,
Home-coming from the field,
And see the pails of foaming milk,
Which at milking time they yield.
To hear the crow of the chanticleer
And the cluck of the mother hen,
And see the fluffy little chicks
Run in and out the pen.
To see the sunset clouds piled high
Like towers of gold and red,
While the dear birds sing their even
ing hymn
In the green boughs overhead.
’Tis pleasant when Night has spread
soft wings
Over the earth serene,
To watch the stars and the moon
come forth
To light the quiet scene.
Oh, yes’ it is sweet just to feel you
live
In the beautiful world God made,
And to love each thing His hand has
formed
From the hills to the small grass
blade.
—MATTIE BEVERAGE.
Dabney, Ark.
Temperance Lesson.
May 21, 1911.
Isa. 5:1-12.
Time, 760 B. C.
Place, Jerusalem.
GOLDEN TEXT: “Woe unto them
that are mighty to drink wine, and
men of strength to mingle strong
drink.” Isa. 5:22.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What should I do?
I. Be a Fruitful Vine. Vs. 1-7.
The figure of the Vine and the
Vineyard is often used in the Bible.
(Isa. 27:2-3. Jer. 2:21. Psalm 80:8-11.
Matt. 21:33-41. John 15:1-8.) The
Vineyard in our lesson is the house
of Israel. (V. 7.) In Matt. 21:33-41
the Lord Jesus refers to this song of
the Vineyard. In Psalm 80:8-11 Israel
is the Vine. Jesus in His teachings
speaks of the Vineyard as the King
dom (Matt. 21:41-43). In our present
lesson Judah is the “pleasant plant.”
(V. 7.) In the New Testament Christ
is “the true vine.” (John 15:1.) God
did all that could be done for His
Vineyard. He separated Israel from
the other nations. He went with them
and cared for them and sought in
every way to make them fulfill His
great purpose in them. He looked for
fruit from His Vineyard that He had
done so much for, but He was disap
pointed. Instead cf sweet grapes
Israel only brought forth wild grapes.
The Lord Jesus Christ looks for fruit
today from His Vineyard, the Church.
PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
Hello! Girls: I really had intended
filling my department with a good
Georgia story this week, but I hon
estly believe you girls have conjured
my typewriter. It absolutely refuses
to write anything these days, but
news and views about that big old
June frolic that we are looking for
ward to.
Some of you have sent in such jolly,
enthusiastic letters the past week, tell
ing how finely you were progressing
with your work, that I have been feel
ing optimistic enough to “jump over
the Candler building”—(and it is nine
teen stories high.)
Course there were some who got
discouraged and quit when they found
out there was a little work for them
to do before they could fall heir to
the Seaboard’s beneficence. Some of
them didn’t even try, and others did
try a little bit but because success
didn’t swoop down like an eagle to
crown their maiden efforts, they crawl
ed out under the gourd-vine, in sight
of the Golden City, and “desired for
themselves that they might die.”
All of us have to learn how to do
this special kind of work. It is easy
when you know how, but impossible
when you start at in an apologetic
mood and an apathetic tense.
You know what I mean, don’t you?
Jaccb Wendel, Jr., who plays the part
of the dog in Maeterlinck’s drama, had
the key to my meaning to a T, when
he routed the egotist. Mr. Wendel
was dining in a restaurant recently,
says Success, when a man approached
him and said:
“Pardon me, but you take the part
of the dog in ‘The Blue Bird,’ do
you not? Os course, you don’t know
By B. LACY HOGE, Charleston, S. C
(John 15:2-5.) The way for us to
glorify God is to bear much fruit.
(John 15:8.) The fruit He is looking
for in our lives is the “fruit of the
Spirit, love, joy. peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance.” (Gal. 5:22-23.) Are we
disappointing God? Are we bearing
the fruit of the Spirit?
11. Be Grateful to God for His
Blessings. Vs. 5-6.
Ingratitude is a low, base sin, and
yet men are very ungrateful to God for
His boundless mercies. We condemn
Israel for her ingratitude to God, and
yet I fear that we are often just as
ungrateful as was Israel. Let us ask
ourselves the question—Am I return
ing to God the gratitude I should for
His boundless mercies to me? If we
abuse His mercy it will be withdrawn,
just as God withdrew His protection
from Israel. (V. 5, Isa. 27:10-11.) God
told Israel what He would do if they
were not obedient, and the words of
this prophecy were fulfilled to the
very letter. (Vs. 5-6. Lev. 26:31-35.
Deut. 28:49-52. 2 Chron. 36:4-10, 19-
21. Ne’n. 2:3.” Ps. 8:12-16.) To this
day these prophecies are being ful
filled. (Luke 21:24. Rev. 11:2.) A
part of the original curse pronounced
of Jehovah if they should prove un
true to Him was that He would
withhold the rain, and the land
should be laid waste. (Deut. 28:
23-34.) We see this prophecy
fulfilled in Palestine, a land once mar
velously fruitful, now desolate and
barren because God has' withholden
The Golden Age for May 11,1911.
it, but I can really barks lots more
like a dog than you.”
“Well, you see,” answered Wendell,
“I had to learn.”
MOUNT A NEW STEED.
If you have gotten behind, Child,
take fresh courage from the success
that others are making and CATCH
UP. This magnificent and unusual op
portunity comes to very few of us in
a life time, and I tell you, honestly
and candidly, I wouldn’t turn it aside
lightly.
Here is a good story with a very
evident moral:
Away out on the plains of the
West a squatter was hailed to his
door toward sunset. A raw-boned
man mounted upon a more raw-boned
horse saluted him, and said:
“Friend, I am very tired and my
journey is long, can you shelter me
for the night?”
“I ain’t got no room for visitors,
Pard,” replied the Westerner. “You’d
better ride on.”
“I cannot go further, I must rest
here tonight,” urged the traveler.
“Who air ye?” The question was
jerked out in a resentful tone by the
bearded native of the plains.
“I am a follower of the Lord Jesus
Christ,” meekly answered the stran
ger.
The squatter turned aside, speaking
gruffly: “Git down and stay, then.
You never would ketch him nohow
a-ridin’ that nag.”
I want a letter from everyone of
you, who haven’t already written, tell
ing me that you have saddled a new
stead and have gone into the race to
win. You can do, it, and you must.
You have nearly a whole month
the rain. We see that God kept His
word and let all this evil come upon
Israel. If the Church is not true to
God He will not spare her. For if
God spared not the natural branches,
take heed lest He also spare not thee.
(Rom. 11:21-25.)
111. Beware of Covetousness. Vs.
8-10.
Our Lord told us to beware of cov
etousness. (Luke 12:15.) In this
chapter God pronounced six woes up
on His people because of their sins.
(Vs. 8-22.) The first woe is pro
nounced upon covetousness. The
greedy monopolist is engaged in a
form of intemperance, that destroys
all that is best and highest in himself,
and wrongs and curses others. God
pronounces His woe upon those among
us today that are building their great
houses and estates as He did upon
Israel and some day they, too, will be
desolate.
IV. Abstain From Strong Drink.
Vs. 11-22.
God’s second woe is pronounced
upon those that mingle and those that
drink strong drink. We have here a
good description of the drunkard. He
does not sleep much, —he tarries late
into the night at the saloon, and rises
up early in the morning to find a sa
loon, and get a drink to settle his
nerves. The prophets consider that
the fall of Judah was largely due to
intemperance. (Isa. 28:1-8. Hosea
7:5-6.) Strong drink is now cursing
thousands in our land and corrupting
our law-makers.
yet in which to win, and empires have
risen and fallen in a day. What
can’t you do in a month? Come on
with your reports. Hustle, hustle,
hustle, until you are on safe ground.
And when we get to San Francisco,
we will gather all of our group around
in big, easy chairs, on the beautiful
veranda of the commodious Cliff
House, pictured here, and laugh over
the many ludicrous experiences that
you have had and will have in your
efforts to win an adoption into my
family of fortunate girls.
Wave me a hurried good-bye, now.
I am rushing through with my work
to catch an afternoon train to Mem
phis. The “Chief” has invited me to
go with him there. And, by the way,
Memphis is one of the cities through
which our train will pass. Look out
for next week’s Sketches. I will tell
you about the things I see and try to
give you a pen picture of the majestic
Mississippi River into whose turbid
waters we will gaze together, and
dream of poor old man DeSoto who
died too soon to join our jolly band.
Corn Meal Mush.
To three quarts boiling water add
two -tablespoons salt and two of sugar,
then stir in a pint and a half of corn
meal and half a pint of flour that has
been stirred to a smooth paste in cold
water or sweet milk. This is a great
improvement on the old-fashioned way
of making mush. —Ruth Kull.
Although glass bottles were made
by the Romans as far back as the
year 70 A. D., their manufacture was
not begun in England until 1558.
V. Don’t Prostitute Music. V. 12.
These Sinners in Israel gave them
selves over to sensual indulgencies,
prostituted music to their beastliness
and forgot God and “the. Word of the
Lord.” Those that drink strong drink
at this day prostitute music and all
of God’s blessings to their sensual in
dulgence. They forget God and “the
word of the Lord,” and are captives
and slaves of all that is vile and un
godly.
TRUST GOD AND BE A
CONQUEROR.
The world is full of sadness,
And fraught with care and strife,
Yet why shut out the gladness
That conies our way in life?
For each and ev’ry trouble
That may befall our lot
God promises grace treble
To cast off ev’ry clot.
In shadow or in sunshine
If do our pathways lead
There is a power all divine
To help in each succeed,
And Christ, who. reigns in Heaven,
With outstretched hands to all,
Says He will bear the burden,
However great or small.
To some persons Sunday means
merely a chicken dinner.
We are all more or less hypocrites,
but we are ashamed to face the fact.
