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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 We need your renewel—Look at your Label—Send for our 3 in 1 Offer k •1 > «SStaH Wwir^Mb.lv. .-^JMi:a j WwiwS • ‘v* jfffryMfr- ; 1? '-jffir^RXra^^• '*** > 1 >BB : S RXSmAWß^’’<fcdPw3L dKKIWfcM»3 ' ■' fi Jit* Hr sshm 1 ray. 4<Ww rK /SSokK kMEK X J?£ k »TWt ' '■f^TOrZTtfflma^'' > w®WTx 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 j r o* to* “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. 9