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TOM’S INVITATION TO HIS
CHRISTMAS LETTER PARTY.
My annual letter party is almost due
again. I have looked forward to it all
the year. I wish cordially to invite
all my friends to visit me by letter on
that day—December 25. Please send
your letters so they will arrive on or
by that day.
This is my twenty-sixth year in bed
—lying motionless in one position. It
has been the hardest year of all, but of
course, I know that each passing year
will add to my burden, as I am grow
ing older and weaker. This summer
my general health was not nearly as
good, and I suffered much from heat
and weakened heart and nerves.
I was taken out a few times to
Church and once I dined with friends.
I greatly enjoyed these rare outings.
Also the kindness of friends. Every
where they are so nice and good to
me, and this greatly helps it to be a
pleasure to live, even if one must lie
still and suffer.
I have always tried to feel that
whatever is, is best. True the burden
of life often seems too heavy to bear,
but God never permits us to be tried
beyond. The heavier our burdens, the
more we are induced to lean on
Christ. Life may seem dark and
dreary, but the clouds will part and
the sun shine again. There is no use
to fret the soul over what cannot be
helped and I am trying to be patient
and await God’s own good time for
my release.
“Some day we will know and un
derstand that all of God’s plans were
right.” In the meantime we can only
walk by faith, knowing that if God
is leading us we can not go astray.
In spite of my afflictions 1 realize
that there is nothing so bad but what
it could be worse. I am often made
happy by being told that I am a great
comfort to those in health, as it shows
them how much they have for which
to thank God. I, too, have found a
few in a more deplorable condition
than myself; for I at least can see,
hear and talk, and these are blessings
indeed.
Twenty-six years is certainly a long
time to lie one way and suffer, but I
am not in darkness. I can see God’s
THE SOUTH LEADS THE NATION.
Has it ever occurred to you in how
many different fields of human ac
tivity the South has led the nation and
the world? A Southern physician dis
covered Anaesthesia and gave the
world painless surgery. A Southern
surgeon revolutionized surgical pro
cedure and won for himself the name
of “The Father of Gynecology.” A
Southern man invented the harvesting
machine. A Southern General and
Statesman was the “Father of his
Country,” and still another the “Father
of Democracy.” Southern theologians,
orators, jurists, statesmen, generals,
scientists, authors, artists and invent
ors have time and again led the world
to greater achievements in their re
spective fields.
And in the field of instrumental mu
sic it is a Southern Piano House that
is responsible for the perfecting of the
peerless Ludden & Bates Piano, said
to possess the sweetest and purest mu
sical tone of any instrument ever built.
It is this superb piano, that we have
secured for members of The Golden
Age Piano Club._ Five beautiful styles
including the Baby Grand, three Cabi
net Grand Uprights, and a Self-Player
Piano, are offered in the Club’s cata
logue, a copy of which will be sent free
upon request to any reader. Address
Ludden & Bates, Golden Age Piano
Club Dept v Atlanta, Ga,
beautiful world through my window,
and hear the songs of birds.
The death angel has visited my
home four times since I have been in
bed. I have lost father, brother, moth
er and sister. Mother was the last to
leave. She left me destitute to earn
my living the best I could. This I
have done for myself and nurse by
Writing books. For the benefit of new
readers I want to give the prices and.
titles here, and ask all who can to
send me an order when they write
for my letter party. If you, reader,
have read these books, order any way
and give to some unsaved soul. Thus
you will be helping two people at the
same time and have the joy and sat
isfaction that always comes from do
ing a good deed.
“Twenty-six Years in a Mattress
Grave,” the story of my life, giving an
amusing account of my experience
with quack doctors, price 20 cents.
“Ideas of an Invalid,” 30 cents.
“Plain Talks and Tales,” 40 cents.
“Cheerful Chats,” 50c.
These books contain a picture of
me, showing the position in which I
have lain for so many years. I grow
so weary and lonely lying here year
after year, and letters help to break
the dreary monotony. And remember,
friends, that while empty letters are
always welcome those that contain or
ders for books are doubly so and don’t
send stamps if you can do otherwise.
If compelled to, however, send one
and two cent denominations. As for
This Splendid Song Book Free to You
327 Taste and See.
H. L. Haldor Lillknas.
1. Taste and see that the Lord is good, Bet - ter far is He
2. Taste and see that the Lord is good, 0 how sweet to rest
3. Taste and see that the Lord is good, 0 the vic -to- ry
4. Taste and see that the Lord is good, Come and seek His face
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than all else could be, I would tell you if I could Os the won-der-
on His Icving breast, I would tell you if I could Os this gio - ri-
and the lib-er-ty, I would tell you if I could Os this ut - ter-
and receive His grace, I would tell you if I could, Os this full and
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ful sal - va - tion.
ous sal - va - tion. Taste and see that the Lord is good, Better felt than
most sal - va ■ tion.
free sal - va - tion.
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understood, I would tell you if I could, Come and seek this great sal-va-tion.
Copyricbt, I*ll, by Charlie D Tillman,
Abpye Song from Church Hymnal and Sunday School Songs,
The Golden Age for December 5, 1912.
cards I don’t caire for them very
much. May God bless you all!
THOS. F. LOCKHART,
Wellington, Mo.
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MRS. ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY
SUMMERS.
Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery Sum
mers’ new novel, “A Girl From the
Ozarks,” is meeting with such success
that it is very interesting to know
who Mrs. Summers is. Many of us
have read her charming book without
knowing the claims that Mrs. Sum
mers has on our friendship. Mrs.
Summers makes her home in Mar
shall, Texas, she comes of a very tal
ented family. The mother of Mrs.
Judith Hyams Douglas, perhaps bet
ter known as Mrs. Roydan Douglas,
president of the Louisiana State Fed
eration of Women’s Clubs, and Mrs.
Summers were daughters of the same
father. Miss Lucile Rutland and Mrs.
Summers are step-sisters, and Mr. A.
L. Ponder, the recent game warden
attorney, is her first cousin. Mrs.
Summers has been a frequent con
tributor to the press for several years,
and has written for several of the
leading papers of the South, but most
recently has written exclusively for
Texas papers, and is known wherever
these are read,
Mrs. Summers has now ready to
send i out her last work, “The Wheels
of Caesar.” The scene is laid in
southeast Texas, and if this book
reaches the sale of “A Girl From the
Ozarks,” Mrs. Summers is indeed to
be congratulated. “A Girl From the
Ozarks” is a delightfully refreshing
story, charmingly natural and told
with simplicity and easy grace of
style. The plot is skillfully construct
ed and the reader is kept in excited
suspense until the climax is reached.
There is a great deal of mountain dia
lect, and “Grandaddy Johnson,” as one
critic, has said, “can be seen at any
time in the mountains about the coun
try stores, even on the streets of the
smaller towns, spinning a yarn from
which a stray sentence or two pro
claims who he is.” In the absolute
naturalness of her characters lies
Mrs. Summers’ genius. The Boston
Times, and the Atlanta Constitution
have both given exhaustive and fine
reviews of the book. One critic, in
speaking of the book, says of Mrs.
Summers:
“She is a Southerner born and bred,
and of a family famed from the days
of the revolution for their dexterity
with both pen and sword. Still fur
ther back, she traces her ancestry,
the Holdens being descendants of fa
mous Scandinavian sea-kings of un
equalled valor. No wonder she knows
so well how to depict true courage
and nobility as distinguished from the
counterfeit; while the charm and lov
ableness of the women whose fates
are so strangely and tragically inter
woven, are but a reflection of the
charm of the writer’s own personal
ity.”
The io
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Song Book
Church Hymnal and Sunday School
Songs, recently published by the
CHARLIE TILLMAN SONG BOOK
COMPANY, is meeting with favor
among Presiding Elders, Pastors and
Superintendents. It is marvelous
how the different denominations are
adopting this book. Since it’s appear
ance, over one hundred and sixty
churches and Sunday Schools have
been supplied with it. This is an av
erage of two churches a day.
The book contains 387 numbers,
music with them all, round or shaped
notes. In the full cloth binding, it is
$35,000 per hundred, 10c. each extra
for postage. The small edition, shap
ed notes only, which takes the place
of a word editiion, $15.00 per hundred,
sc. each extra by mail.
SPECIAL OFFER TO PASTORS:
For the next thirty days.
For only 35c., the Charlie Tillman
Song Book Company, 800 Austell
Building, Atlanta, Ga., will mail you
one copy each of this book (one of
the large and one of the small), which
you can return at their expense if not
satisfactory, or send $1.50 for one
year’s subscription to The Golden Age,
and we will give you one copy of the
“full-cloth binding” free, and post
paid.
THE GOLDEN AGE.
814 Austell Building,
ATLANTA, GA.
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