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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 y ~ ''<>**" - r !%"->TK Kl < ■ ' '■ \ . jMjLftM ' < > -GHslp* '■'r SfBHHBBHHIKiEBEBHiEWHHH^HHBHMK^^^^^^.. • * ■-/ —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.) 9