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PINEY WOODS WHAT CAUSED THE PREACHER TO LET UP SO SUDDENLY ON THE SINNER. It was quarterly meeting, and the Rev. Mr. Brooks, an old friend of my father’s, was seated at our board. The holy gentleman was from a small place several miles away and was making his quarters at our house while the meeting lasted. We were deeply impressed by the fervor and spirit he threw into his “blessing” and eating. Mother had just grated horseradish previous to dinner and she put it in a saucer and placed it, as it happen ed, near the end of the table where the good man sat. He struck up on the subject of religion at his first op portunity, and so scon warmed to his work. Victuals did not seem to in terfere with the linguistic power in the least. A mouthful of potato was no impediment to his speech, for he expressed views on the Bible, endless damnation and the wrath of God in a sing-song voice through his nose. In the midst of a picture he was painting with the utmost enthusiasm, in which the sinner was being con signed to the bottomless pit, where the eternal billows of fire were rolling and seething and yawning to engulf the wicked unbeliever, he cast his eyes on mother’s saucer of horserad ish. In his excitement he mistook it for an individual dish of custard plac ed there for his benefit. He plunged his spoon into it and landed a heap ing load in his mouth. He was just JACOB AND ESAU. April 6, 1913. Time—l76o B. C. Gen. 27-22 to 34. Place, Beersheba. THE GOLDEN TEXT—“Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for Him.” —Isa. 30-18. SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS. What should I do? I. Wait for God. —Isa. 30-18. The Golden Text. It had been revealed to Rebekah that Jacob was chosen of the Lord, but she could not fully trust the Lord. Therefore she sought to obtain the blessing for Jacob by fraud. Had she waited for the Lord, he would have made good his promise and Jacob obtained the blessing without the evils that followed his fraud. Let us at al Itimes wait for God. He will never disappoint us. He will keep his word and we will get the prom ised blessings, free from the evils that cause the blessings obtained by fraud. 'll. Don’t do evil that good may come. —Vs. 22 to 29. Rebekah taught Jacob to do wrong that he might defeat the plan of Isaac and obtain the blessing she knew that God intended for Jacob. The son is • '.^*xMSSHlK*4|h&>' preparing to give the sinner the final hoist into the terrible sea. tut he never heaved that sinner. The good man suddenly paused, as he had worked his victim up to the brink. He shut his lips tight. A tear glistened in his eye and coursed hown his cheek. He arose to his feet and raised a leg till his knee touched his eibow. He rubbed the' bald spot on his head, beat the air frantically with his hand, and then let out a howl that scared the children half to death. Father saw what it was that caused the holy man to let up on the sinner so suddenly and wander from the sub ject, and he seized the pitcher and poured a pint of water down his burning throat. The Rev. Mr. Brooks never dined at our house again and, unjustly, he seemed to have taken offense at poor mother. For the benefit of the anx ious reader, we will state that “ma” lived right on all the same. HAD NO PAIN IN THE INTERIM. “You’ve been sick a long time, haven’t you?” sympathizingly remark- SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By B. LACY HOGE, Richmond, Va. to be pittied who has a mother who teaches him to do evil. (2 Chron. 22-3 and 4). Rebekah suffered on account of her evil teachings. She reaped what she sowed. She lost the companion ship of her favorite son. She never saw him again. Rebekah, no doubt, thought she was doing her part to fulfill God’s prophecy (Gen. 25-23). God is not dependent upon man for the fulfillment of his prophecies. He would never have us do wrong that good may come. (Rom. 3-8). Deceit, lying or wrong of any kind is never justifiable. God condemns all evil and when we do wrong, we go contrary to his will and he will punish the wrong doer, no matter what may be his motive. As Rebekah reaped what she sowed, and Jacob reaped what he sowed, so we are sure to reap what we sow. (Gal. 7-7). Sow evil and you will reap sorrow and suffering. Sow good and you will reap blessings and joy. 111. Don’t be partial to one child. — Vs. 22 to 29. The partiality of Isaac for Esau and. of Rebekah for Jacob lead to the wrongs here recorded. The partial ity of Jacob for his son Joseph caused his brothers to take him and to sell to the Egyptians. Evil always comes The Golden Age for March 27, 1913 ed a. lady to her poor but uneducated neighbors. “Yes, I have had a tedious time of it. I was confined to the house dur ing August and I really thought I had the daminia. I got a little bet ter, but I was taken down again, No vember last.” “Did you suffer in the interim?” ask ed the lady. “No, I did not suffer at all in the interim, the pains were all in my stomach.” —Pretzel’s Weekly. SO MUCH LIKE HER HUSBAND’S SNORING. “Let’s see; it’s been three months, Johnson, since your husband died. Dear me! Don’t you feel lonesome?” “I did miss my dear husband ever so much at first, Mrs. Tatler, and never slept a wink during the first six weeks, but I don’t miss him much now.” “Why, Mrs. Johnson, how you do talk! What is the reason you don’t miss your deceased husband now?” when father or mother is partial to one of the children above another. God may overrule this evil for good as he did in the case of Joseph. IV. Don’t trust feelings. —Vs. 22 and 23. Jacob was a deceiver, a liar and a cheat. He was a pious fraud. He ac complished his purpose by falsehood and a pious profession. He said he found the venison so quickly “because the Lord thy God brought it to me.” (V. 20). The meanest of all deceiv ers, liars and frauds is the one who professes great piety. Isaac recogniz ed the voice of Jacob and ssupected deception and to make sure that it was Esau, he felt of Jacob and Jacob felt like Esau and Israel went by his feelings and made a great mistake. This is the only case in the Bible where anyone went by his feelings, and this one went wrong. The per son who goes by his feelings is sure to go wrong. The voice of Jacob he knew, but he would not trust his hearing. We know the word of God is true and yet we too often turn from this to follow our feelings, and like Jacob make a serious mistake. Let us in the future hearken to the word and voice of God, even though our feelings contradict God’s word and voice. The SKETCHES By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW “Why, I let the hogs sleep under the house now, and their quarreling over the middle of the bed is so much like my dear husband’s snoring that I can sleep soundly the livelong night.” BRIC-A-BRAC. Ladies Will Please Skip This. Ladies, skip this paragraph. It got into type by mistake and the printer was requested to destroy it, but failed to do so: ‘Moqs b jo puiq jsßaj aqj sjaS aqs jj Moqouios jno Ji puq q.aqs jaq uoX jug lAiouq oj jou jqSno aqs Suiqjauios sjj ‘uriuoAV b SOU.IOM SuqpCuß s.ajaqj ji •puaq aaq uo Pubjs oj peq aqs jj ‘Moqauios ji jb jaS p.aqs Avauq a.\\ —puaj Xpßa-Jiu SBq aqs uiaod siqj, Suiqj -jbj b oj sjuaa uaj jbSbm n,aAv a\om DISENCHANTED. Her neck was alabaster white, I thought sbe was a charming lass. But soon I saw by steadier light, Her northeast eye was made of glass. And when she opened her pretty mouth, To take the gum she loved to chew, And turned her features to the south, A row of “store teeth” hove in view. My expectations quickly dropped, Love’s mercury seemed to drop a peg; And when, to tie her shoe, I stopped, I found she had a wooden leg! blessings obtained by going contrary to the word of God are always cursed. Wrong doing and deception never pays. Jacob obtained his blessing by fraud, but the curse was upon him and this evil followed him all his days. He could have had the same blessing without the curse and the evil, by fol lowing God’s plan. V.—Don’t sell your birthright.—Vs. 30 to 34. Esau sold his birthright to Jacob so ra mess of pottage. He tried to obtain it again and to get the bless ing that went with the birthright. His father aimed to give it to him, but gave it to Jacob. Esau despised his birthright and solcj it for the mess of pottage and when “he would have in herited the blessing he was rejected.” (Heb. 12-16, 17). Esau “cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry.” He sought the blessing with tears, but his bitter tears could not bring back that which his foolish action had thrown away. The birthright of all “is life and life more abundantly.” (John 10-10). If we despise our birthright and sell it for the mess of pottage the world offers us, we will spend entern ity shedding bitter tears over our fool ish bargain. (Continued on page 13.) 9