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PINEY
WOODS
SEEING JESUS.
By Jeannette Langley.
Montgomery and Telfair counties of
Georgia were people by mostly the
Scotch, and in memory of those dis
tant days one of the principal towns
in Telfair and just over the line from
Montgomery is known as Scotland.
The cabins of our progenitors were
built of logs, and the people followed
farming and stock raising pursuits.
Over in the East, many years ago,
the rosy fingers of dawn were push
ing aside the sombre pall of night.
The door of a weather-beaten, pioneer
cabin, not far from Scotland opened
softly. A fair-haired maid with the
unfathomable eyes of the mystic step
ped noiselessly from the night within
to the coming dawn without.
She could not have been more than
eight or nine, but her dress of blue
and brown homespun touched the
ground. Her parted blonde hair was
gathered into one long thick braid
at the back, and waved slightly over
a brow whose rounded, white contour
indicated a high order of intellect.
Birds twittered in the big sycamore
beside the gate, and from the throat
of a barnyard rooster in the chicken
house a lusty crow resounded. Paus
ing for a moment in the white, sanded
yard the little girl lifted her dress dain
tily from the dew displaying the small,
dimpled white feet beneath. Then she
turned towards the tall well sweep
looming from the primitive corn crib.
Here in a long wooden trough, hewn
from a solid cypress log, she gathered
her face and hands. She even laved
her small feet smiling gleefully the
while.
Her simple toilet accomplished, she
determinedly climbed the rail fence
beside the corn crib and let herself
MOSES PREPARED FOR HIS WORK.
July 13, 1913.
Time—ls3l B. C.
Ex. 2-11 to 25.
Place —'Egypt and Midian.
THE GOLDEN TEXT: “Biesesd are
the meek; for they shall inherit the
earth.” Matt. 5-5.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What Should 1 Do?
I. Seek to lighten others’ burdens. —
Vs. ilil and 12.
We are taught to bear one another’s
burdens and fulfill the law of Christ.
(Gal. 6-2). Christ is our great bur
den-bearer. We are told to cast our
burdens on him. To be like him is
to bear the burdens of others. Moses
had no heart for the pleasures and
riches of Egypt when he saw the suf
fering of his brethren. He was not
content to live in plenty and ease and
see his people burdened and suffer
ing in many ways. It is not right
for us to be indifferent to the suffer
ings of others now. We should seek
to lighten the burdens of the toiling
masses. We should seek to get bet
ter homes for the poor in the crowded
tenement districts in our cities. We
should seek to get the wages increased
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down silently into her father’s corn
field.
It was the Sabbath. The month was
June, the child’s birth month. Long
slender lances of green waved above
her head, bright with the gold of child
hood. The tender, mystical eyes, blue
as the sky itself and as broodingly
beautiful, were upturned to the heav
ens.
Health glowed in the clear white and
pink of the little maid’s face. It as
serted itself in the suppleness and ease
of her graceful, symmetrical body.
Acre after acre the long rows of
corn stretched evenly away into the
distance. And up and down, up and
down their long, green aisles the child
walked expectantly, her wishful, eager
face turned ever to the East.
She watched the darkness recede
and witnessed the crimson, gold and
azure birth of day.
In one hand she carried her little
Bible, her fingers beneath its leaves
marking the passages she loved. For
her parents being staunch Highland
ers, her’s had been a Christian upbring
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“In the end of the Sabbath, as it
began to dawn toward the first day
of the week came Mary Magdalene
and the other Mary to see the sepul
chre.”
“Blessed are those servants whom
the Lord when he cometh shall find
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By B. LACY HOGE, Richmond, Va.
of working girls and others who are
not receivng a just share for the
work they do. The exalted position
Moses occupied was a God-given one
and was given for the purpose of be
ing used to help and bless Israel and
to lead them out of their bondage] So
the position we occupy is a God-given
one and is given to us to be used for
the glory of God and the good of hu
manity. He blesses us, as he did Ab
raham that we may be a blessing to
others. (Gen. 12-2).
11. Sacrifice to Serve. —Vs. 11 to 15.
It was a great sacrifice that Moses
made when he chose to suffer affliction
with the people of God rather than en
joy the pleasures of sin for a season.
(Heb. 11-<25.) To him the reproach of
Christ appeared “greater riches than
the treausres in Egypt.” (Heb. 11-26.)
If we would serve God and humanity
we must like Moses and like Christ,
sacrifice. The Master saved others,
but himself, he could not save. (Matt.
27-42). He had to sacrifice himself
to put away sin and save men. (Heb.
9-26.) If we are careful to spare our
selves we cannot be used of God to
save others and do great things for
God and humanity Moses was able
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR JULY 3, 1913
watching; verily, I say unto you, that
he shall girl himself, and make them
to sit down to meat, and will come
forth and serve them.”
“For the lightning cometh out of the
East and shineth even unto the West,
so shall also the coming of the Son
of man be,” she read.
“Oh!” breathed the little one, her
innocent expressive face as much as
the longing words voicing the desire of
her soul. “Oh! if Jesus would only
come today! If I could but meet him
in father's cornfield plucking the ears
of corn. I would bring him in the
house to break bread with us! Oh!
I want to see him face to face. Per
haps now he will come. He may be
behind that bright speck yonder.” Her
eager, searching gaze was ever turn
ed toward the East hung with the pink
mists of dawn.
It was so her father found her when
the burning sun had scorched away
the dawn. He was a religious man,
and when the child had sobbed out
the bitterness of her disappointment
he comprehended her. Tenderly, sooth
ingly he told her that the only way
to seek God was by loving him and
obeying his commands. Comforted, the
child placed her hand in his, and
hand in hand they entered the cabin.
This child grew into womanhood.
The hard, pioneer days of her parents
were passed. Her childhood home was
to make this sacrifice because “he
had respect unto the recompense of
the reward.” (Heb. 11-27. The Lord
Jesus endured the cross and despised
its shame, “for the joy that was set
before him” of bringing a lost world
back to God. (Heb. 12-2; Eph. 5-25 to
27; Jude 24 . To enable us to sacrifice
to serve God and humanity we must
get the vision of Him, who is invisible
and learn the great value of “our
hope or joy or crown of rejoicing.”
(Thess. 2-19).
111. Love your people. —Vs. 11 and 12.
Moses loved his people; therefore,
he was willing to serve them. A pas
tor cannot rightly and successfully
serve his church, unless he loves his
people. You cannot be a successful
Sunday school teacher unless you love
your class.
IV. Don’t Run Ahead of God. —Vs. 11
to 15.
Moses knew that he was called of
God to be the deliverer of his people.
(Acts 7-25.) He ought to have waited
God’s time, but he did not. Therefore
he went at the work in the wrong way,
did wrong by killing the Egyptian, fail
ed to deliver his people and had to flee
for his life into a strange land. Had
SKETCHES
By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
no more. In a populous town the child
had a home of her own, and in it was
every convenience and luxury of life.
For she and her husband had prosper
ed. And they had been blessed, for
little children played merrily about
their door.
The little girl with the eyes of the
mystic and the golden hair wandered
forth no more into the green lanes
of corn, to meet her Lord.
Instead old age had come upon her
and her golden, waving hair was sil
vered with the frost of years. She
was a wife, a mother and a grand
mother. Moment by moment, hour by
hour, day by day, year by year, her
Lord had ever found her ready, wait
ing obedient to his will.
Sometimes during the long years,
when in the stillness of evening, her
young husband’s hand pressed her
own, she remembered that Sabbath
dawn in the cornfield when she had
sought to see her Lord. With her
baby’s head pillowed against her
breast, she thought of her childish de
sire of that Sabbath in the cornfield.
But it was not to be yet. She under
stood now. Her work was not fin
ished. Her’s was the spiritual, inner
life working outward in all good deeds,
in love, in charity in patience, in duty
performed, in deep and abiding peace.
And as the swift years passed, and
she grew old and feeble, she asked
only of the Lord that when her sum
mons came, she might be called on
the Sabbath, the blessed day, the holy
day, the day she loved.
Again, the rosy fingers of dawn push
aside the pall of night, and again it
is the Holy Sabbath dawn. Birds sing
outside in leafy branches, flowers
breathe in their sweet perfume. But
within the house is another pall light
ened only by the promise of the res
(Continued on page 16.
he waited God’s time and followed
God he would not have made mis
takes and done wrong. He would have
delivered Israel and saved himself
much trouble. So in our work for
God. We should be sure we are called
of God and then follow and he leads
the work according to his plan. This
will keep us from blundering, save us
from failure and make our work a suc
cess.
V. Be courteous. —Vs. 16 to 22.
Moses was a brave man, therefore a
courteous man and especially to ladies.
This is a virtue all should cultivate
and yet let us remember that true
courtesy Is of the heart. To be truly
courteous we must enthrone Christ in
our hearts and lives.
VI. Learn in God’s School. —Vs. 23 to
25.
God had lessons for Moses to learn
from his mother. He had lessons to
learn in the court of Pharoah and
the schools of Egypt. (Acts. 7-23). Our
present lesson teaches us that Moses
needed to be sent “to the back side of
the desert,” (Ex. 3-1) to be humbled
and prepared to lead his people and
become the great giver and mighty
man of God.
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