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PINEY
WOODS
Here, girls, take it from me this
is mighty valuable talk Miss Victoria
Mumm is giving.
I have tried the stenographer’s life
from both sides, and it is not always
easy to find the tactful path in a
busy day, but cultivate the search,
faithfully, fearlessly, for the finding
is amply worth while:
What is office sense? I have asked
many times. I often recall with de
light a characterization I once heard
of a bookkeeper which illustrates
somewhat the lack of office sense.
The speaker himself I remember with
the utmost affection —a quaint, origi
nal, gentle-souled man. He had
taken a violent dislike to this par
ticular bookkeeper. “Doggone him!”
he confided to me, “I haven’t any use
for him. He’s a good faithful fellow,
all right, but he lacks ballast. Be
gins everywhere but at the point and
is always slopping over.”
But what is office sense? In the
first place, it is not concerned pri
marily with technical skill or training
or conduct, though it reacts on all of
them. As nearly as I can express
my own idea of it, it is a well-blend
ed combination of tact, self-forgetful
ness, open-mindedness, and the abil
ity to distinguish between essentials
and non-essentials.
Tact implies many things—unvary
ing courtesy; the doing of the right
thing at the right time in the right
way; adaptability to circumstances.
Especially it implies the understand
ing of good old Doctor Amboyne’s phil
osophy of “Put yourself in his place.”
Isn’t tact really an instinctive kind
ness and thoughtful consideration of
THE PASSOVER.
Aug. 10, 1913.
Time —>1491 B. C.
Ex. 12-21 to 31.
Place —Egypt.
THE GOLDEN TEXT: “The Son of
Man came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister, and to give his life
a ransom for many.”—Maitt. 2028.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What Should I Do?
1. Trust God's Promises. — Vs. 21 to
23.
God’s promises are true and those
who have trusted them have found God
true to his promises. All who will
trust him now will find that he will
make good his promises. Mr. Spur
geon said that in 1854 when London
was visited by Asiatic Cholera, that
constantly he was visiting the sick
and burying the dead until he “was
exhausted, body and soul and felt ill.
As I returned home I was led by cu
riosity to read a paper that was fast
ened to a window of a shoemaker.
Upon it were written the words: Be
cause thou has made the Lord, which
is my refuge, even the Most High thy
habitation, there shall no evil befall
thee, neither shall any plague come
nigh thy dwelling. This had a won
derful and immediate effect upon my
heart. I could take the words in faith
as written for me, and I now felt
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others which, while it gets results,
gets them without friction? And the
stenographer needs tact! “'No, I won’t
see him —tell him to go to thunder!”
requires more skill at interpretation
than many a foreign idiom. Or sup
pose the boss is wroth over some
letter and dictates a “sizzler” that,
while it gratifies the desire to “get
even,” is a reflection upon the firm’s
general policy? If she takes him the
letter later in the day with a purely
incidental, “Mr. Jones, I thought per
haps you’d like to look this letter
over before it goes out,” the prob
ability is that Ms. Jones, having cool
ed off, and being really a decent
sort, will laugh and say, “I guess
the waste-basket is the best place for
it —I just wanted to get it out of my
system. Bring your book and we’ll
write them another letter.” Chiefly,
working tact means: don’t bother the
boss when he’s busy; be patient when
he’s unreasonable; don’t be officious
or too opening anxious to intrude
your services upon him. The favors
that count most are the ones you do
when he isn’t looKing.
Self-forgetfulness as an element of
office sense has a twofold signifi
cance: forgetfulness of self, first, in a
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By B. LACY HOGE, Richmond, Va.
safe and refreshed. Calm and peace
ful within, I continued my visits to the
dying: ‘1 felt no fear of the plague
and remained untouched by it.” (Ps.
91-9 and 10 . Make the Lord thy hab
itation. “Dwell in the secret place of
the Most High,” and he will shield you
from danger and will let no evil be
fall you. (Ps. 9LI to 10).
II . Be Saved by the Blood.—Vs. 23.
God appointed away of deliverance
for the children of Israel. If they had
refused to accept that way, thinking
that some other would do as well or
they were safe without the blood, they
would have put themselves outside
of the protecting covenant of God and
the first born would have been slain
along with the Egyptians. God has
provided away of salvation for us.
Christ is the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world. (John
J>29). He is our passover. (I Cor.
5-7). His blood will cleanse us from
all sin. (I John 1-7. This is God’s
way of salvation for us and if we re
fuse and not look to the blood of
Christ for salvation, but seek to be
saved in another way they put them
selves outside of God’s great promise
and will therefore be eternally lost.
Its the that imaketh atone
ment.” “Without shedding of blood
there is no remission.” (Lev. 17-11;
Heb. 9-22). The Lamb did not save
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR JULY 31, 1913
lack of sensitiveness; second, in the
willingness and ability to make others
forget one, or, as it has been more
aptly termed, “the gift of self-efface
ment.” How many stenographers suf
fer from over-sensitiveness! This
would not be so bad if the unfortu
nate superior did not have to suffer
too. A man with his head full of
perplexing matters scowls at the sur
rounding landscape, and instantly the
stenographer is filled with dismay—
of course, he is thinking of some of
her short comings! Or he speaks
with a passing irritation born of some
thing utterly aside from the matter
in hand, and she is forthwith saucy
or sulky or sad, and so adds material
ly to his discomfort. Our supersensi
tiveness is so palpably vanity as to
make us ashamed when we analyze it.
And if the scowl and the irritation
really are aimed at us, we most, like
ly deserve them, and if we have done
wrong, what right have we to refuse
to take our medicine? If we do not
deserve them, then we can add to our
self-esteem by being martyrs occa
sionally; it is in a good cause —the
development of our own character. As
far the second phase of self-forgetful
ness, it is its own reward, for here
the children of Israel by being inno
cent and spotless or by its example,
but it saved them by its blood. When
the Lord saw the blood, he passed
over them and would not suffer the
destroyer to come in and smite the
first born. So Christ does not save us
by his innocence or his purity or by
his example, but he saves us by his
blood. When God saw the blood the
first born was safe. (V. 13). When
the first born saw the blood he knew
he was safe. (V. 13). God seeing the
blood gave them security; their see
ing the blood gave them assurance, be
cause they believed God’s word. The
blood of Christ makes us safe. The
word of God makes us sure we are
safe. The first born behind the blood
was safe no matter what his past life
had been, no matter how bad he had
been, and no matter how weak he
might still be. Those not behind the
blood were slain no matter how good
they had been or how strong they
were now. The blood and only the
blood of Christ is what God looks for.
The blood and nothing but the blood
will save the sinner. (Cor. 1:20; Rev.
1-5; I Peter 4-18 and 19; Gal. 3-15;
Rom. 5-9). Christ made the atone
ment on the cross. (I Peter 2-24;
Gal. 3-13; Matt. 20-28). The blood has
been shed, but this is not sufficient.
By faith the blood must be applied.
SKETCHES
By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
lies one of the greatest of joys of
service. To have a man completely
oblivious of you, so that he thinks
aloud readily in your presence, to hear
his brain work, to watch his charac
ter reveal itself —this is fascination.
When a stenographer is in sympa
thy with her chief, is interested in
his work, and gives herself wholly to
the task in hand without any outward
indication of her own individuality, es
pecially if he is a man of mental
power, there is a delight no less than
thrilling in following him through the
course of his thoughts.
Open-mindedness is eagerness to
learn from every possible source;
grace to accept suggestions and be
grateful for them even when they
hurt; willingness to respect other
points of view besides one’s own. We
can learn something from almost any
one.
“How in the world does that girl
endure so gracefully that grouchy old
bear?”
“How can this girl get out so much
work with so little apparent effort?”
“Why does that girl make every one
like her, even when she falls short in
many ways, while this girl is disliked
in spite of her proficiency?”
Then we can learn from things;
things inconvenient and imperfect are
incentive to the origination of im
provements; we have done this way
today, tomorrow we will try the other
and weigh the results. We can read
of other people’s way, and compare
and classify. We can watch for ev
ery slight indication of how our su
perior wishes a thing done, and when
he has shown us either openly or
(Rom. 3-25; I John 1-9; Rom. 10-9 and
10). The lamb slain and the blood
in the basin J was not sufficient to pro
tect the first born. The bunch of
hyssop must be dipped in the blood
that is in the basin and applied to
the lintel and side posits. (Vs. 7
and 22 . Only those under the blood
could eat the lamb, and only those who
are saved by the blood can feed upon
Christ.
111. Keep God’s Ordinances. —Vs. 24
to 31.
God gave to the children of Israel
an ordinance to be kept for a memor
ial when they came into the land. (V.
14). It was after their deliverance
from death and Egyptian bondage by
the blood that God gave them the or
dinance of the passover. (Vs. 42 and
43). God informed Moses who should
keep this ordinance. (Vs. 43 to 49).
None of those saved by the blood could
keep his ordinance until the sign and
seal of God’s covenant, circumcision,
was placed upon them. (Vs. 48 and
49). God gave to us an ordinance for
a memorial of the slaying of our
passover. (Luke 22r19; I Cor. 11-26).
We must be saved by the blood and
the sign and seal of God’s covenant,
Baptism must be placed upon us be
fore we can keep the ordinance. (Col.
2-11 and 12; Rom. 6-3 to 5; Mark
16-16; I Cor. )l-2; II Thes. 3-6.
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