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PINEY
WOODS
A NIGHT IN A COUNTRY DRUG
STORE.
By Lester Card.
For a quiet, somniferous job com
mend that of a night clerk in an “Open
All Night” pharmacy in a small town.
After the regular nightly work has
been finished you throw the alarm on
the door, then tilt your chair back
against the wall, read and doze. Easy,
eh? Possibly!
Tingle-jingle ting.
I rouse myself from my doze and
answer the telephone, sleepily. “Yes
—Central Pharmacy—Sam Wiley talk
ing. What!—Oh, my God,” for the
message received was from Dr. Han
see. “Nellie Guider has just died af
ter taking a dose of medicine bought
at your store this evening.”
Nellie, my sweetheart, my Nelie,
dead! Why—why that’s impossible.
What would life be without her. All
my plans and dreams centered around
her. What would I have to live for?
A sudden thought —I filled that pres
cription for her, what was in it. A
hurried search reveals it in the pres
cription file: Codeine, ammonium
chloride, camphorated tincture of
opium, syrup of wild cherry. Nothing
but a simple cough syrup, thank good
ness, and an overdose would not in
jure anyone. Plainly written, too, so
it was impossible to err in filling. I
wonder what she died of.
Great Heavens! Who left that
strychnine bottle on the counter?
Where has the codieine bottle gone?
Had I taken the wrong bottle, I won
der. And the cyanide of ammonia sits
alongside the chloride; I wonder if I
have mixed them up! Then, the laud
anum and paregoric are side by side.
What had I used?
I was busy just then, I remembered
JACOB AT BETHEL.
April 13, 1913.
Time, 1760, B. C.
Gen. 2&-10 to 22.
Place, Bethel.
THE GOLDEN TEXT: “I am with
thee, and will keep thee whitherso
ever thou goest.”—Gen. 28-15.
What should I do?
I. Consider Jacob at Bethel. —Vs.
10 and 1.
Here we see Jacob leaving home
with its hallowed memories and asso
ciations, and going toward Haran,
where he will meet with deception
and injustice. He deceived his Father
and cheated his brother, but it did
not pay. He begins at once to reap
what he sowed. (Gen. 29-23 to 25;
Gen. 31-7; Gen. 37-32; Gal. 6-7.) There
was no reason for Jacob’s deception,
for God had promised to give him just
what he sought to obtain by fraud
(Gen. 25-23). Men in unbelief refuse
to wait for God and seek to obtain
the blessings God has for them by
ways and means that are contrary to
His will and bring upon themselves
many sorrows. It is right to eat and
satisfy hunger, but it would have been
wrong and sinful for our Lord to turn
stones into bread and satisfy His
hunger, contrary to God’s plan. (Matt.
4-2 to 4.) He must wait God’s time
and satisfy his hunger according to
God’s plan. (Matt. 4-11.) Jacob loved
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—some soda sales, several people for
stamps, some cigar customers, and
that telephone call. I was interrupted
steadily while filling it. Then Nellie
was back there talking to me. Oh,
Lord! What had I used! Why had
I replaced the bottles; if they were
out I could compare them and ease
my mind.
Tingle-jingle-ting.
Some of the boys probably wanting
to talk over the baseball game or plan
for tomorrow afternoon. Fools, do
they think I can plan or talk with my
sweetheart lying dead and I probably
the cause? Let them ring.
What was that graduate used for
before I measured the syrup of wild
cherry? Hum-m. Prussic acid, as I
live! I wonder if the boy washed it
cut or took it for granted that because
he could see nothing in it that it must
be clean. And those scales —did I
destroy the papers after weighing the
aconitia for the hospital, or was that
the time I was interrupted? Oh, my
head, how it aches. I wish I could
think.
Tingle-jingle-ting.
Confound you, ring then, wear your
battery out if you wish. My head
turns like a wheel, each spoke sur
mounted by Nellie’s face, contorted by
the agonies of death from the differ-
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By B. LACY HOGE, Richmond, Va.
his home and home life. (Gen. 25-
27.) It was a great sorrow to be
forced to leave his home. Here he
is far from home and the comforts
of home. The sun has gone down
and darkness covers the whole earth.
This was a lonely place with its high
cliff towering before him and he was
a lonely man there beneath this tow
ering cliff. In his loneliness he
thought of home and of his sin that
drove him from home and then his
thoughts turned to his God. (Gen.
35-3.) This was the time of Jacob’s
trial and the time when God answered
his prayer. (Gen. 35-3.) It is in
times like these that Gos reveals him
self unto his people.
11. Show how God seeks sinners.—
Vs. 12 and 13.
Jacob lay down in that place with
only stones for his pillows. His wear
iness and sorrow so overcame him
that he was soon asleep, but his slum
bers were interrupted by strange
dreams. God was speaking to him in
his dreams. He saw the ladder reach
ing from earth to heaven and the an
gels of God ascending and descending
upon it. God was seeking this wan
derer and let him know that though
an exile from home, that Isaac’s God
was still near to him. This ladder was
a symbol of Jesus, the true “ladder
set upon the earth, and the top of
it reaching to heaven.” By means of
The Golden Age for April 3, 1913
ent drugs, sometimes reproachful,
sometimes pleading. I did not do it
—I could not have done it.
Tingle-jingle-ting.
There it goes again, that Central has
no more brains than a kettle of fish.
Ring! Ring! Perhaps it’s the coro
ner notifying me as to the result and
warning me to skip out, for he would
never put me behind the bars.
What, ringing again; I’ll escape
them. A shot from my truest friend
here and I am • with you, Nellie.
“Bang.”
Evidently, one shot was enough for
the chair fell sideways with its bur
den.
Tingle-jingle-ting.
Jerusalem, that telephone has been
ringing for the last 10 minutes, and I
dozing here. So, picking myself up
from the floor, I answer—
“ Hello! Yes, Central Pharmacy.
Yes, Oh, that you, Doc, what is it?
All right. Good night.”
BRENAU GIVES SCHOLARSHIPS.
For several years Breniau, the:
great college for girls at Gainesville,
Ga., has given away a number of
scholarships in music, oratory and the
literary course. Most of these scholar
ships are competitive. Eleven schol
arships in music are given among the
this ladder communication is had be
tween a Holy God and sinful man.
(John -5, 1; John 14-6; Heb. 10-9 and
20.) The angels are God’s messengers
and servants to bear His messages
and minister to the saints. (Heb.
1-14; Luke 15-10; Ps. 91-11; Matt. 13-
41.) This message of God’s brought
joy to Jacob’s heart. No doubt he
felt that his sin had not only driven
him from home, but had shut the door
of heaven in his face; so when he
saw God himself standing at the top
of the ladder and (Gen. 35-9) speak
ing to him, he knew that the way of
life was open to him. It is a glad
time for a sinner who has gone far
into sin, when he realizes that God
is seeking him to save him. Jacob had
learned about God in his father’s
home, therefore, in his time of trouble
he called upon the God of his fathers
and the God of Abraham and Isaac
heard and answered him. (Gen. 35-3.)
Parents should be careful to instruct
their children about God and his truth.
111. Consider the fullness of God’s
promises.—Vs. 13 to 15.
God made to Jacob nine great prom
ises, as follows:
1. To give him “the land whereon
thou liest.” Vs. 13.)
2. “And to thy seed.” (V. 13.)
3. “Thy seed shall be as the dust
of the earth.” (V. 14; Gen. 13.)
4. Thou shall spread abroad to the
SKETCHES
By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
different congressional districts in
Georgia, but the oratory scholarships
are open to competition for young
people anywhere in America. Those
who are interested may correspond
with Brenau, Gainesville, Ga.
“When my wife and I were first
married we used to call each other
‘Birdie.’ ”
“Do you still do it?”
“No. I call her a parrot and a mag
pie, and she usually refers to me as a
jay.”
“Yesterday,” said Jabson, “I refused
a poor woman a request for a small
sum of money, and in consequence of
my act I passed a sleepless night.
The tones of her voice were ringing
in my ear the whole time.”
“Your softness of heart does you
credit,” said Mabson. “Who was the
woman?”
“My wife.”
Sunday School Teacher —And when
the prodigal son came home, what
happened, Tommy?
Tommy—His father ran to meet him
and hurt himself.
Sunday School Teacher —Why where
did you get that?
Tommy —It said his father ran and
fell on his neck. I bet it would hurt
you to fall on your neck!
A couple of jail birds were eating
a meal together, when one of them
looked at his watch to see the time.
“Why, goodness me, you’ve got a
watch!” exclaimed the other. “How
much did it cost you?”
“Six months,” was the reply.
west and to the east, and to the
north, and to the south.” (V. 14. This
promise has been wonderfully fulfilled,
for there is no part of the earth where
Israel is not found.
5. “In thee and in thy seed shall
all the families of the earth be bless
ed.” (V. 14; Gen. 18-8.) This promise
has its real fulfillment in Jesus Christ,
who was the seed of Jacob. (Gal.
3-16; Matt. 14 to 16.)
6. “I am with thee.” (V. 15; Matt.
28-20.)
7. “I will keep thee whithersoever
thou goest.” (V. 15: Ps. 121-5 to 8;
I Peter 1-5; John 10-28 and 29.)
8. “I will bring thee again into
this land.” (V. 15; Gen. 35-6.)
9. “I will not leave thee.” (V. 15;
Heb. 13-5.)
IV. Pay your vows unto God. —Vs.
16 to 22.
When Jacob awakened out of his
sleep he was afraid because God was
there. He said: “How dreadful is this
place, this is none other but the house
of God and this is the gate of heav
en.” His sin made him afraid of
God. Sin makes us fear God. In
view of God’s promises Jacob vowed
? vow unto God. He said: If thou
shall do as thou hast promised then
I shall give the tenth unto thee. We
should give God his tenth now. (Matt.
23-23.)
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