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PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
The Twentieth Century boasts a
new achievement. A Christian Sum
mer resort! It seems passing strange
that the consecrated men and women
of the years just past overlooked such
an important medium for service.
Dr. and Mrs. H. P. Fitch felt a call
to establish such a resort. 'Mineral
Park, Tennessee offered a most ideal
location, and there they have builded,
wiser than they knew.
Nature endowed the place peculiar
ly for. such a purpose. Seven miner
al springs, offering as many distinct
medicinal qualities, bubble up from
the breast of mother earth, as she
towers high on every side th undu
lating hills. The peaceful stopes, and
drowsy dells, fringed with a wealth
and luxury of mountain shrubbery,
makes “Rest-Awhile Inn” just w r hat its
name implies.
What Do Folks Do?
“But what do folks do for amuse
ment at a Christian Resort?” some
one asked me.
They have the best time in the
world, child. Christian people have a
right and a reason to be the happiest
people on earth. Early morning and
late afternoon finds the tennis court
teeming with players. By another
season, Dr. Fitch proposes to have an
artificial lake for the swimmers to
flounder in, and in the evenings the
guests vie with each other in render
ing impromptu musical concerts, read
ings, story telling, and other interest
ing diversions, until the ten o'clock
hour arrives, and that is the retiring
time. No late hours, languid eyes,
and lifeless loungers at Rest-Awhlle-
Inn. Everybody gets up at the same
hour, and everybody feels good. Its
chronic, you can’t feel bafl.
Tomato Club Girls.
They were a dandy bunch, those
Tomato Club Girls’ Their cheeks
looked as radiant as their produce,
and it was some radiant too.
Farmers day at the Mineral Park
Chautauqua found a. goodly number
of girls and boys, Tomato Club Girls
and Corn Club Boys, picnicing on the
spacious grounds of the resort. It
was a gala occasion. Prof. Adcock
the note-worthy leader of the boys,
THE WHEAT AND THE TARES.
July 28th, 1912.
Time—2B A. D
Matt. 13:24 to 30 and Matt. 13:36 to
43.
Place—By Sea of Galilee, near
Capernaum.
THE GOLDEN TEXT: “Gather ye
together first the tares and bind them
In bundles to burn them; but gather
the wheat into my barn.” Matt. 13'
30.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What Should I do?
I. Consider the Two Sowers. Vs
24:25 and 37 to 39.
In the lesson for July 14th we saw
that the sower was the Holy Ghost and
Jesus the seed and human hearts the
soil. In this parable there are two
sowers. The first is the Lord Jesus,
the sower of the former parable, who
sows the good seed, The second
REST-A WHILE-INN
A Christian Summer Resort.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
and Miss Virginia Moore, the win
some, efficient State Organizer of the
Tomato Clubs, and School Improve
ment Leagues for the State of Ten
nessee, were the honor guests of the
occasion.
There was an air of mystery on the
breeze. Miss Moore came to me just
after dinner and whispered: “Manage
somehow to get Mrs. Fitch on the ver
anda immediately, the girls have a
surprise for her.” I managed.
Ever solicitous for the comfort and
welfare of her every guest, the dear
motherly Mistress of Mineral Park
hurried to my room in response to an
urgent summons. As soon as she
rounded the curve of the “upper
deck” as we delighted to call the spa
cious summer parlor, the Tomato Club
Girls, augmented by a sturdy back
ground of Corn Club Boys, greeted
her, to the inspiring tune of Dixie,
with the following catchy and thor
oughly appropriate song:
Tomota Club Song—Tune, Dixie.
The Tomato Club Girls is a girls’ or
ganization
By the county, state and nation,
Can away, can away, can away, Toma
to Girls.
To make us wise and happy and
healthy
And besides to make us wealthy
Can away, can away, can away, Toma
to Girls.
Chorus:
Then, hurrah for the Southern G. C. C
hurrah, hurrah!
For the G. C. C., we pledge our hand
Head, heart and health at her com
mand,
We’ll try, we’ll try to make the best
better.
We plant our seed in the month
March
Before the sun begins to parch
Plant away, plant away, plant away,
Tomato Girls.
From the hot-bed to the field we take
it —
Ground as rich as we can make it
Plant away, plant away, plant away,
Tomato Girls.
sower is the devil, who, after Jesus
has sown the good seed, comes and
sows the evil seed. Jesus did His
sowing in the light and openly. He
had nothing to hide. The devil sow
ed at night, while the owner of the
field slumbered and slept. His deeds
were evil, therefore he sowed in the
darkness. Jesus sows that which
will bless and save man. The devil
sows that which will curse and damn
man.
11. Consider the Seed. Vs. 26 to
28 and 35.
In the first Parable there was only
one seed and that seed was Christ,
who came down from heaven and died
that He might impart His life to oth
ers. '(Gal. 3:16; John 12:23 and 24;
John 10:10; I John 5:11 and 12.) In
this parable we have many sowers but
only two kinds of seed, The good and
the bad,
The Golden Age for July 18, 1912.
By B. LA C Y HOGE, Richmond, Va
When tomatoes are ripe we begin our
canning
First result of all our planning,
Can away, can away, can away, Toma
to Girls.
When the cans are sold and prizes
are given,
We receive the reward for which
we’ve striven
Can away, can away, can away, Toma
to Girls.
A. canner can can everything that he
can
But a canner can’t can a can, can he?
Can away, can away, can away, Toma
to Girls.
No. a canner can’t can a can, can he?
But a farmer can farm a farm, can’t
he?
Farm away, farm away, farm away,
Corn Club Boys.
Now, why can’t a canner and a farm
er together
Combining their talents find out just
whether
Can away, can away, can away, Toma
to Girls
A farmer by canning can make more
in life
Than a canner by farming without any
wife
Can away, can away, can away, Toma
to Girls.
Music repeats:
For a wife is essential and blest be
the man
Who while farming himself gets a
wife that can can.
Can away, can away, can away, To
mato Girls.
Note. —You see the last stanza is lon
ger than the others. The music as
given in the stanza is repeated.
*** * ~
At its conclusion, Prof. Adcock rose
gallantly to his feet, and with an elo
quent preface, introduced Miss Moore,
who in turn, presented to Mrs. Fitch
an elegant sandwich basket, piled high
with the gorgeous first-fruits of the
Tomato Club Girls. My! but those
tomatoes did look luscious.
Mrs. Fitch rose to the occasion, sur
prised almost beyond utterance though
she was, and wittily said that she car
ried Dr. Fitch along to do her speech
making for her. He started to obey,
Ist. The Good Seed: The good
seed the sons of the Kingdom, which
are sowed by Christ. The sons of the
Kingdom are those who received
Jesus, the true seed, from heaven,
sown by the Holy Ghost. They are
sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom.
Jesus is the seed from heaven through
whom all the nations of the earth
shall be blessed. (Gal. 3:14 to 16.)
By receiving Jesus into our hearts and
lives we become the seed that Jesus
sows in all lands as the channel of
blessing to the world. If we change
the figure, we hear Jesus say, “I am
the light of the world.” (John 8:12;
John 9:5.) Again He said: “Ye are the
light of the world.” (Matt. 5:14.) By
receiving Jesus, the true light, re
deemed man becomes the light of the
world.
2nd. The Bad Seed: The seed
sown by the evil one are the sons of
just like any orthodox, well-trained
husband ought to do, but was prompt
ly silenced by the Master of Ceremon
ies, with an admonition to hold his
breath for a few minutes and give
the other fellow a chance.
Os course, the dear old Doctor was
nonplussed. We all were. We thought
the goods had been delivered, but
that’s where we were off of the main
lead.
At the prompting of Prof. Adcock,
Dr. Allen Fort, of Chattanooga, deliv
ered himself of a gem of a speech,
and concluded the glittering tribute
by presenting to Dr. Fitch a handsome
pair of solid gold cuff-bottons,-*-a gift
of appreciation from the’ Corn Club
Boys.
“Boys will be boys.” Sure they will,
but did it ever occur to you that the
maker of adages may not have had
in mind when he built that epigram
that a boy must needs be a quasi
devil, and a semi-cur-dog. To be a
real Boy is to be a clean-cut, thor
ough-going, red-blooded, whole-heart
ed biped, bounding with hope, full of
errors, but sensitive as a plant to a
kindly interest.
Dr. Fitch knows boys —and you
can’t know them without loving them.
To prove his enthusiastic interest in
those mountain lads, he offered, some
time ago, a prize of five dollars in gold
to the boy whose corn patch made
the best yield. He also promised
them the finest dinner that could be
provided at Mineral Park when the
November Harvest home rolled
around. Mrs. Fitch put the plus mark
Doctor's generosity, and In
vited the Tomato Club Girls to come
along on the same day, to be her
guests. The girls are going, and you
can just better believe that those far
mer lads will feel the pull of destiny
and will be found “kalliofisticating
through the equanimity of the for
ests” on the aforesaid occasion.
I can’t begin to tell you what a
good time we were having, and just
how greatly we do appreciate the new
found boon of a Christian Summer Re
sort. As soon as the sick-list is clear
ed up in the family again (at present
numbering three) we have promised
ourselves a return trip and a repose
ful week in the sheltering arms of
Rest-Awhile-Inn.
the devil. (John 8:44; I John 3:10.)
Whenever Jesus has sown His seed,
the devil has followed and sown his
seed also. Whenever Jesus plants a
good man, Satan plants a bad man
right by his side.
The Darnel. The word for tares
ought to be translated “darnel” (See
Matt. 13:25, R. V. Margin.) This is
a weed that grows with the wheat in
that country and is so much like
wheat that it is hard to tell the differ
ence until it blooms. This blossom
has a peculiar poison which the wind
scatters over the wheat and destroys
its fruitage. This is what the devil
is doing, planting the seed, with the
poisonous blossom, that destroys the
fruitage of the sons of the Kingdom.
These children of Satan may be men
and women of great culture and re
finements. They may have many
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