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PINEY
WOODS
I Make My Bow.
Hey, friends!
Here I am; how do you like me?
On the first day of July, when I
lacked yet ten days of being three
months old, I braved the camera for
your sake, and here is the result.
I have been wanting to write you
for a long time and tell you how much
I appreciated all the beautiful letters
and presents that have come to me,
Lut as a little boy said about me when
I was four days old, I have been too
busy looking at this beautiful world,
because I have everything to see yet.
My First Step.
Before I was hardly as big as a
minute, my mother and “Little Moth
er’’ took me on the choo-choo train
to see dear Mrs. Bryan. She was con
scious when we got there and her
dear face beamed with pleasure at
;sight of me, and she would like so
much to hold me in her arms, but
those dear arms were too weak to
support even their own weight.
Daddy’s Convictions.
There’s a traveling man who comes
to our home sometimes and calls him
self my Daddy.
Not long ago he declared on a Sun
day morning that I must go to church.
My mother protested, and persuaded,
but he was fixed in his conviction that
my religious training was due to be
gin.
I was asleep when we got there,
but after while I woke up so hot I
was about to melt all to pieces. A big
fat man sitting right by me was melt
ing sure enough, because I saw him
running all down into his collar, and
he was so very big I knew by time he
got melted good mother and I would
CROSSING THE RED SEA.
August 17, 1913.
Time—l94l B. C.
Ex. 14-19 to 31.
Place —Pihahiroth.
THE GOLDEN TEXT: “Before they
call, I will answer.” —Isa. 65-24.
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
What Should I do?
1. Follow the Cloud. —Vs. 19 and 20.
The people of God are on their jour
ney towards the promised land, pur
sued by Pharoah and his host. They
are hopelessly penned, the mountains
are to the right and left of them, the
Red Sea is before them and Pharoah
and his armies are behind them. Man
cannot help them or deliver them.
Yet Israel was not in danger, for God
himself had brought them out of Egypt
and led them to the very spot where
they were and God never leads his
people into danger. He is able and
always delivers his people when things
look hopeless to man. Don’t fear to
follow where he leads, although some
times it seems he is leading us wrong,
in the end we will see he did what
was best. In the time of seeming
danger, do what Israel did, “Cry unto
the Lord.” (V. 10). And he who
lead you will become also your rear
guard. (V. 19). He will stand be
tween you and your enemies. His pil-
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lar of cloud will guide and protect
you by day and become the pillar of
fire to give you light by night. (Ex.
13-21; Ps. 10i5-39 . Christ is all the
Christian needs. He will supply all
he needs. He is our vanguard and
rearguard. (Isa. 52-12). He will be
darkness and confusion to the Egyp
tian and light and protection and
guardance to Israel. Christ is light
and salvation to the believer and
darkness and ruin to those who re
ject him. (John 7-12; I Peter 2-6 to
8; I Cor. 2-15 and 16).
11. Go forward. —Vs. 21 and 22.
It was right for Moses to cry unto
the Lord, but the time has come when
prayer should cease and action begin.
(V. 15.) God had promised to fight
for them. (V. 14). Now he gives
what the world calls an impossible
command. He said, “Go forward.”
This impossible command he makes
possible. He said to Moses, “Lift thou
up thy rod and stretch out thine hand
over the sea and divide it.” (V. 16.
Moses did as God commanded and the
Lord rolled back the waters of the
sea and the children of Israel passed
through on dry land. The waters of
the sea they had considered a very
dangerous ford, but now they are “as
a wall unto them on their right hand
and on their left” protecting them. So
God can and will transform enemies
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR AUGUST 7, 1913
of his people into their friends and
make the dangerous things that threat
en them become their protection. If
God speaks to you saying, “Go for
ward,” no matter what the seeming
dangers or difficulties, move at his
command and he will move the diffi
culties and dangers.
111. Turn Your Enemies Over to God.
—Vs. 23 to 31.
God had said I will “fight for you,”
so the wisest thing for the children
of Israel to do was to go forward at
God’s command and turn their Egyp
tian enemies over to the God of Is
rael. Our God has promised to de
liver us out of the hand of all our ene
mies. (Luke 1-73 to 75). He will fight
our battles for us, if we will gp for
ward and leave our enemies for him
to deal with. The path that is safe
when traveled by faith, will bring de
struction to those who travel it in
disobedience. The pathway through
the sea was safe for Israel, because
they were walking in the will of God.
It was the pathway of danger and
death to the Egyptians because they
were seeking to thwart the will of
God. That which God used to protect
and deliver his people, he used to con
found and destroy their enemies. Don’t
fight against God. The day is com
ing when all his enemies will be de
stroyed.
SKETCHES
By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
have to swin, and we didn’t know
how. I got scared and felt just like
I was going to cry, and maybe I did
cry just a little bit, but you should
have seen how fast my mother got
me out of there and back home again.
I think she acted sensibly, too, be
cause it’s lots more comfortable to
be a cool heathen than a parboiled
saint.
A Night on the Wiggly Bed.
On the 19th of June we went to
Thomasville to see all the folks at
home.
My mother undressed me and put
me in the funniest little bed with
curtains all around and it rocked and
rocked all night and made me sleepy
so hard I didn’t have a bit of chance to
see anything.
Next morning when my mother was
up getting dressed a big black man
came along, tearing up all the little
white beds and shutting them up in
the top of the house. Presently he got
to mine and went to pulling down the
curtains and stripping off the covers,
and I got awful scared, but just then
I heard my mother running back call
ing: “Porter, wait a minute till I can
get my baby out.”
He looked at her so funny, like he
thought she was joking, and then he
pulled the sheets back and looked for
himself. There I lay just a laughing
at him. “Bless de Lawd,” he exclaim
ed, “didn’t know we had a baby on
dis train. I didn’t see ’er git on an’
I ain’t heard a whimper outen ’er all
night. She sho is a good baby.”
I hope you will like me, and I will
try real hard to be all that I should
be as “THE GOLDEN AGE BABY.”
CHEROKEE ACADEMY AT
MURPHY.
By a deeply regretted oversight dur
ing the absence of the Editor and the
illness of the Managing Editor, the
address was left off of the splendid
article of Prof. F. A. Clarke of Mur
phy, N. C., in The Golden Age of July
24th.
It was a story worth while and
young people interested in getting an
education under inspiring surround
ings should look up that article and
read it.
The name of Murphy Institute has
been changed to “Cherokee Academy,”
and the mountain town of Murphy, N.
C., is one of the most beautiful spots
on earth to build a progressive Chris
tian school.
It costs 25 typical Ameriacn cities
an average of less than adollar a
year per pupil to provide free text
books, according to W. S. Deffen
baugh, of the United States Bureau of
Education.
Prof. John A. Miller, formerly of
Cave Springs, Ga., has accepted the
presidency of Perry-Rainey Institute at
Auburn, Ga.
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