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PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
Tell me not, byway, of inf’rence,
Marriage is a baneful dream;
Maidens all, are quite mistaken,
Blisses flood the wedded stream.
Life is real! and Life is earnest!
And the tale is wrong—a fib.
Courtship—Paradise, e’en wedlock;
All, in yielding up—the rib.
Full enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Has been planned as woman’s way;
So just see, each morn, that sunset,
Finds you nearer marriage day.
Art can never satisfy us,
Love we long for, love we crave;
And our hearts keep palpitating,
For soul friendships to the grave.
In this world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of life;
Do not be a lonesome maiden,
Be courageous, someone’s wife.
I wonder what has become of my
“shut-in” friends? I haven’t heard
from dear little Mattie Beverage, and
brave Tom Lockhart in a “coon’s age.”
What are you doing, chillun? Speak
up, and ’spress yourself.
I am tremendously interested in the
culture of grass, flowers and vege
tables just now. Wish some of The
Golden Age readers would tell me
what success they have had growing
Peonies, and how they are cultivat-
THE TRANSFIGURATION.
Nuvember 24th, 1912.
Time —29 A. D.
Mark 9:2 to 13.
Place —Mt. Hermon.
THE GOLDEN TEXT—“A Voice
came out of the cloud, saying, This is
My Son, My chosen; hear ye Him.
And when the voice came, Jesus was
found alone.” —Luke 9:35.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What Should I Dp?
I—Be One of the Elect —V. 1.
Three times Jesus chose Peter,
James and John to go with Him. (Mark
5:37; Matt. 26:37 and 38; Luke 9:28;
Matt. 17:1.) These three were elect
ed from among the disciples to go with
Jesus on these important occasions.
They had gotten closer to Jesus than
the other disciples and the Master
could reveal unto them more of His
ways and plans, and let them witness
manifestations of His power and glory
that was hid from others. “God made
known His way unto Moses, His acts
unto the children of Israel.” (Ps. 103:
7.) We should be so perfectly surrend
ered to God and walking in His will
that He can make known His ways un
to us, and not be like the host of Is
real, so bent on having our own way,
than we can never know God’s plans
and will until it is made
the acts, as the plan is being carried
out. We can live close to Jesus, and
in such sweet fellowship with Him
that He cap and will reveal unto us
The Sum of Life
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
Trust no bach’lor, howe’er pleasant,
Who’s afraid, Love’s field, to glean;
For he’s wanting in some virtue,
Or he’d have a household queen.
Did our mothers not live happy?
Whiled they so much time away?
They got busy, helped the courting,
Leave a name, as well as they.
And a testimony to him,
Wasting hours in idle sport;
When he sees a winsome woman,
To at once take heart, and court.
So be ever on the lookout,
With a heart for any fate;
Still inviting, still pursuing,
And you’ll find, a loving mate.
W. CHANDLER YERGIN.
Tuscaloosa College,
Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
ed to obtain the best results. I want
to get some rose bushes in the ground
during this month, and have things
looking “mighty sprucy” around the
Upshaw bungalow by spring time. And
then think how close Christmas is
getting on us. Whew! I hardly get
my breath from the Fourth of July
excitement before Santa Claus is
knocking at the door. But the rush
is all in the game, and none of us are
pining for a dull time.
things that are hidden from others.
The Master often sent the multitude
away and went apart with His dis
ciples, and told them things that could
not be made known to the multitude.
(Matt. 13:36; Matt. 15:39.) Sometimes
He left a part of the disciples and took
others with Him. (Mark 5:37; Matt.
26:37 and 38; Luke 9:28.) In the gar
den He left the three disciples and
vent alone to talk with the Father.
Matt. 26:38 and 39.) Moses could
take Che elders with him and worship
afar off. (Ex. 24:1 and 2.) He must
leave the elders and take only Joshua
as he goes into the Mount. (Ex. 24:12
co 14.) He must leave Joshua and go
alone into the cloud to talk with God
and get God’s message for the world.
We can worship God with the multi
tude, but we can have sweeter and
closer communion with Him when we
go apart with the elders. We get
closer still as we take some Joshua
and go into the Mount of God, but to
go into the cloud and talk face to face
wich God and get His message for the
people and behold His glory, we must
go alone. Spend much time alone
with God before you stand to teach
your class.
II. —Be Transfigured. Vs. 2 to 6.
Jesus six days before told His disci
ples of His suffering and death,
:, Which He should accomplish at Jeru
salem.” He now reveals unto them
“the glory that should follow.” (I Pet
er, The subject that engaged
The Golden Age for November 14,1912.
By B. LACY HOGE, Richmond, Va.
It was a great lark I had Sunday a
week ago. Skipped off and spent the
day in Macon with my husband. Had
such a good time I have been want
ing to go again, but could not find a
decent chance.
It has been a long time since I have
had a chance to send you a greeting
through Piney Woods Sketches. I
will try this on you now like the doc
tor did his dyspeptic patient. He had
treated the patient for a number of
weeks, and told him, one day, that he
considered him cured, but he was
going to give him a real test to see.
Said he: “Take a dill pickle tonight,
and if you can hold that on your
stomach I know you are all right.”
The patient reported as usual at the
physician’s office the next morning.
“Well, how did you make it with the
pickle?” asked the Doc. “Got along
fine as long as I stayed awake,”
cheerily responded the convalescent,
“but every time I went to sleep the
fool thing rolled off my stomach.”
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THEN HE WENT UP.
A clergyman who resides on East
Eighty-sixth street tells this story
about himself:
“My little daughter was feeling a
bit under the weather the other even
ing, and, therefore, had to be put to
bed early. She had not been under
the covers more than five minutes be
fore she called out:
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the attention of Christ and Moses and
Elijah on the Mount was the atoning
death of Jesus on Calvary. (Luke 9:
31.) All heaven is interested in this
great subject. (I Peter 1:10 to 12.)
We need to teach and preach it more,
for it is the only hope of a lost world,
(rieb. 9:22.) The cross is essential
to the bringing in of the glory. The
glory always follows the cross. The
transfiguration was a minature pic
ture of the second coming of our Lord.
(II Peter 1:16 to 18.) Moses was the
representative of the law and of the
resurrected saints. (Judge 9), and Eli
jah was the representative of the
prophets and the translated saints.
(I Thes. 4:12 to 18; I Cor. 15:50 to 58.)
In due time our Lord will come again
and we will be transfigured and caught
up to be with Him. (Phil. 3:21 R. V.;
Col. 3:4, R. V.) There is a transfig
uration for us in the life that now is.
We are commanded to be transfigured.
(Rom. 12:2.) The word transformed,
in Romans, 12:2, is the same Greek
word that is here translated “Trans
fiured.” “As He prays.” (Luke 9:29.)
He was transfigured and “His face did
shine as the sun.” Moses had spent
forty days in communion with God
when “the skin of his face shone.”
(Ex. 34:29 to 35.) The man that
spends much time in prayer and com
munion and fellowship with Jesus, his
face will shine as did Stephen’s. As
we get alone with Him and “Beholding
the glory of the Lor<V' we “are trans.
“‘Mamma, I want to see papa!’
“ ‘Go to sleep, dearie,’ answered her
mother. ‘Papa can’t see you now.’
“In a few minutes there came a
pleading voice:
“ ‘Mamma, I gotta see papa!’
“ ‘I can’t disturb your papa now. He
is very busy. Go to sleep.’
“There was a silence for nearly four
minutes. Then this pronunciamento
floated down the stairs:
“ ‘Mamma, I am a very sick woman,
and I must see my pastor at once!’
“Then I went up.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
4. 4.
APPROPRIATE.
“What did the banker’s bride wear
at the meeting?’
“Oh, some check goods.”
PIANOS FOR CHRISTMAS.
How would you like to receive a
beautiful piano for a Christmas gift,
one that would retain its sweet tone
and easy action for a life time? Could
anything be more acceptable? And
if a high grade piano would be so ac
ceptable to you, what about the other
members of your family, wouldn’t
they appreciate it, too?
Liet us suggest that The Golden
Age Piano Club presents just the op
portunity which you have long waited
for, and that it will help you im
mensely in solving this, otherwise
difficult, piano problem. The Club
makes it so easy, safe and convenient
that when you have thoroughly in
vestigated the plan we feel confident
that you will do what many others
are doing, namely, “Join in time to
get your piano for Chri~tmas.”
Write for your copy of the hand
somely illustrated Club catalogue to
day. Address Ludden & Bates, The
Golden Age Piano C’ub Dept., At
lanta, Ga.
formed into the same image.” (II Cor.
3:18, R. V.; 11. Cor. 4:6:)
lll—Hear Ye Him. Vs. 7 to 10.
Peter wanted to make three taber
nacles, one for Christ, one for Moses
and one for Elijah. While he was
speaking the cloud overshadowed them
and a voice came “out of the cloud,
saying, This is My beloved Son, hear
Him.” We must not build tabernacles
to Moses or any saint. We must not
worship Mary or pray to her or to
saints, we must worship God and Him
only. We must pray to God and Him
only. Moses and Elijah were remov
ed and “Jesus only” was left. But
that was enough. He is the all-suffi
cient one. God is well pleased with
Him. The voice pointed out Jesus and
said, “Hear ye Him.” Not Moses and
Elijah; Not the Pope or Church or
Church creed; but: “Hear ye Him.”
Hear the Son of God. In these last
days God has spoken to us in His Son.
(Heb. 1:1 and 2, R. V.) Destruction
will be the portion of those who will
nut hear Him. (Acts 3:22 and 23;
Hub. 12:25.)
IV. —Believe Christ’s Word. Vs.
11 to 13.
The prophecy that Elijah would
come was fulfilled in part by John’s
coming in the spirit and power of Eli
jah. But there will be a complete
fulfillment before “the great and
dreadful day of the Lord” shall come.
(Malachi 4:5 and 6; Rev. 11:3 to 13;
John 1:19 to 25.)
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