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MY! I wish every one of you
could have heard it, too’
Every individual in the United
States needs the information that
Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson
gave to that vast audience last Friday
night in the Atlanta Tabernacle.
The marvelous facts he has
amassed illumine the mind, and his
winsome personality and the sol
dierly marshaling of his thoughts
charm and captivate the heart as
well as the head of all thinking
people.
Wherever you may be, and what
ever may be your attitude on the
liquor question, let me beg you, for
your own good and the sake of the
generations yet to come, to hear
Captain Hobson at the very first op
portunity in his unique and powerful
lecture, "The Great Destroyer.”
I didn’t start out with the determi
nation of telling you about Captain
Hobson at all, but “out of the abun
dance of the heart the mouth speak
eth,” and I confess, joyfully, that my
heart has been very full of love for
my ignorant, blinded fellow-men since
I heard his magnetic plea for them.
And for the first time in my life I
have been seized with an ardent de
sire to be a voter in this great repub
lic. Indeed, I honestly believe if
these hard-headed men could accom
modate two ideas in their craniums
at the same time, they would see for
themselves that woman’s suffrage for
one year would solve this infernal
booze business in about thirty sec
onds. We know what we want, and
we haven’t a bit better sense than to
go at the devilment, hammer and
tongs, and keep at it until Mr. Brewer
REVIEW.
June 25, 1911.
Time, 894 B. C. to 710 B. C.
GOLDEN TEXT: “What doth the
Lord require of thee, but to do justly,
and to love mercy, and to walk hum
bly with thy God?” Micah 6:8.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What Should I Do?
A good way to review the lessons
of the past quarter is to answer from
each lesson the question of our golden
text for the quarter, “What doth the
Lord require of thee?”
Lesson No. 1.
' April 2, 1911.
2 Kings 5:1-14.
I. Seek the Salvation of the Lord.
Isa. 45:22, Matt. 11:28-30.
11. Testify for the Lord. V. 3.
This little maid’s testimony brought
a great blessing to Naaman. We are
God’s witnesses. (Luke 24:48, John
15:27.) We should at all times testify
for Him, and our testimony will bring
great blessings to others.
Lesson No. 2.
April 9, 1911.
2 Kings 6:8-23.
Strengthen a Weak Brother. Vs,
16-17.
As Elisha sought to strengthen his
servant, s.o we should seek to strength
en our weak brother. (Gal. 5:13, Gal,
6:1-2, 1 Thess. 5:14, Rom. 15:1.)
PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
Witham Won ’em!
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By B. LACY HOGE, Charleston, S. C.
By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
and all his little satellites would have
to resort to the middle of the Medi
terranean to take a permanent rest
cure.
But I didn’t start out to talk about
woman’s suffrage either.
The thing I did start to tell you
about was the introduction that Col.
Hobson received at the hands of Mr.
W. S. Witham.
Now, you would have to know Mr.
Witham to appreciate his introduc
tion fully. He is an Irishman by birth,
an American by adoption, president
of a hundred banks by profession, a
Methodist by persuasion, a philanthro
pist by conviction, a gentleman be
cause he can’t help it, and a patriot
because such a combination of quali
ties couldn’t make anything else out
of him.
But his Irish wit was on top Friday
night when that speech of introduc
tion was brewing in his system. The
first sentence caught that sweltering
crowd, and before he had finished
many of us were wondering if the la
dies of the W. C. T. U., under whose
auspices the meeting was held, had
not made a blunder and set the sky
rocket of the evening off “tail-fore
most.”
Maybe it wasn't dignified, but the
minute the great audience was dis
missed I made a “bee-line” to Mr.
Witham, braved his “red head,” but
ton-holed him and demanded, yes, de
manded, that speech for the readers
of Piney Woods Sketches. He squirm
ed and wriggled and tried to frighten
me by looking ugly; but, bless you!
I’ve been living with an ugly man for
two years and his bluff didn’t work a
little bit. When I finally turned him
Lesson No. 3.
April 16, 1911.
2 Kings 11:9-20.
Keep the Testimonies of the Lord.
V. 17. The Golden Text for the quar
ter, Psalm 119:2, the Golden Text of
this lesson.
God’s testimonies are wonderful,
and if we keep them they will give us
light and understanding. (Psalm 119:
129-130, Psalm 37:3-4.)
Lesson No. 4.
April 23, 1911.
2 Kings 12:4-15.
Give Willingly to the Lord’s Work.
1 Chron. 29:9.
The Golden Text for this lesson
teaches that willing giving is the only
giving that is acceptable unto the
Lord. “God loveth a cheerful giver.”
(2 Cor. 9:7.) Willing and cheerful
giving always fills the heart with joy
and rejoicing. (1 Chron. 29:1-9, John
15:11.)
Lesson No. 5.
April 30, 1911.
Jonah 3:5-10 and Jonah 4:1-11.
Go into all th s world and preach the
Gospel to every creature. Matt. 29:19-
20, Mark 16:15-16, Acts 1:8.
Lesson No. 6.
May 7, 1911.
2 Chron. 26:8-21.
Walk Humbly Before the Lord. V.
16. Micah 6:8, Prov. 16:18.
God dwells with the humble. (Isa.
57:15.) He will exalt the humble and
The Golden Age for June 15,1911.
loose the definite promise had been
made, and I went home lotioning my
conscience with a personal appropria
tion of Mark Twain’s comment on the
ocean: “Boys, she’s a SUCCESS!”
AND HERE’S THE “INTRODUCE
MENT.”
“If consistency is a jewel, ladies
and gentlemen, we have here tonight
a bunch big enough to make a string
of beads.
“Two thousand people, wearing a
white badge, the emblem of ‘pure
water,’ have assembled in a Baptist
house to listen to an address by a
member of the Navy!”
The speaker of the evening is a man
of international fame and of an en
viable interstate reputation. He was
formerly of Alabama —more recently
of Santiago; but now of Washngton,
Atlanta, and all points South.
In searching the country for a
speaker whose reputation and ability
would be in keeping with an occasion
so important as this, the final result
of our deliberations and inquiry was
simply “HOBSON’S CHOICE.”
This platform has been honored
with the speeches of many smart au
thors, great preachers, droves of “D.
D.’s,” and not a few “‘X. Y. Z.’s.”
Many of the greatest men of this and
other countries have spoken from
this platform. (I spoke once here
myse'f.) But tonight these sacred
precincts are to be honored by the in
trcd’ ction of a new class of orators,
iri‘iated by that Napoleon of HE
ROES, whom we delight to honor.
Sometimes heroes are BRAVE men.
When the hero of this occasion faced
t’ e Spanish fleet in Cuban waters, the
whole world proclaimed him famous.
He was not successful in that special
resist and humble the proud. (James
4:6, 1 Peter 5:5-6, Prov. 15:33, Prov.
18:12.)
Lesson No. 7.
May 14, 1911.
Isa. 6:1-13.
Answer God’s Call. Vs. 8-9.
God calls each of us to some place
of service. We should seek to hear
His call toi us and at once answer Him
and go with His message. He will
empower us for the service to which
we are called.
Lesson No. 8.
May 21, 1911.
Isa. 5:1-12.
Fight Against the Sale of Liquor.
Vs. 11-22.
The Lord is against the traffic in
intoxicating liquors. His woe is pro
nounced against the seller and the
drinker. There is nothing that is more
corrupting than liquor. The man that
drinks it soon becomes corrupt, the
man that sells it is corrupt, those who
advocate the sale of liquor will do all
kinds of corrupt and crooked things to
get a license law, and the town, city
or State that licenses the sale of li
quor is always filled with political cor
ruption.
Lesson No. 9.
May 28, 1911.
Micah 4:1-8.
Bring Back the King. Vs. 3-7.
The hope of the Church, the hope of
enterprise, but he was faithful to the
trust. The good Book teaches that
the crown of reward is reserved not
for the successful, but for the faith
ful. That’s all.
The next battle of our hero was up
on his arrival in Washington City,
when he was attacked by a regiment
of beautiful girls, who, continually
fired kisses at him until he was com
pletely defeated. The excuse given
was that Mr. Hobson was on the de
fensive in that engagement. I have
been in a few skirmishes of this same
character, but have never been charg
ed with being on the defensive, but
rather on the offensive.
The speaker of the evening is also
a wise man. When the proclamation
of world-wide peace was sprung upon
the astonished public, our hero fore
saw the result and quickly resigned
from the War Department for a more
permanent governmental position
even a seat in the Council of the Na
tion. This world-wide peace idea is
popular, and will come. But, if it
abides, it will be when the “Stars and
Stripes” are interwoven with the flag
of our mother country, and both are
entwined with the white banner of the
temperance cause; and, under the
guarantee of this holy trio, peace will
be abiding—peace will be permanent.
We congratulate ourselves upon
having added to our ranks this new
prophet of American statesmanship,
and pray that he may sink another
“Merrimac” in the channel of our
American life, and thus bottle up all
of the adversaries of the cause repre
sented by this vast audience. I am,
therefore, very happy to have been
appointed to the delightful task of in
troducing to this splendid gathering
the Hon. Richmond Pearson Hobson.
Israel, and tbe hope of the whole
world, is the coming of the Lord. When
He comes, universal peace will be
established on earth, universal pros
perity will be secured, and all man
kind fully protected in life, liberty
and property.
Lesson No. 10.
June 4, 1911.
Hosea 14:1-9.
Return unto the Lord. V. 1.
If we fall into sin, we should not re
main away from the Lord, but go' to
Him at once and confess our sin, He
will forgive us and cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9.)
Lesson No. 11.
June 11, 1911.
2 Chron. 30:13-27.
Teach Atonement by the Blood.
God’s Word teaches in both the Old
and the New Testament that salvation
is by the blood. (Ex. 12:13-23, 1 Cor.
5:5-8, Rom. 3:25-26, John 1:29, Heb.
9:22.) There is no salvation except
by the blood of Jesus.
Lesson No. 12.
June 18, 1911.
2 Kings 17:1-14.
Obey the Lord in all Things.
All the evil things that curse man
and the world were caused by disobe
dience. All that is needed to bless
man will be given him if he will walk
in perfect obedience to the will of
God.
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