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PINEY
WOODS
HOW DOES IT SEEM TO YOUT
It seems to me I’d like to go
Where bells don’t ring, nor whistles
blow,
And I’d have stillness all around.
Not really stillness, but just the trees’
Low whisperings, or the hum of
bees,
Or brooks’ faint babbling over stones
In strangely, softly tangled tones.
Or maybe some cricket or katydid,
Or the songs of birds in the hedges
hid,
Or just some such sweet sounds as
these
To fill a tired heart with ease.
If 'twern’t for sight and sound and
smell
I’d like the city pretty well;
But when it comes to geting rest
I like the country lots the best.
Sometimes it seems to me I must
Just quit the city’s din and dust,
And get out where the sky is blue,
And say, now. how does it seem to
you?
—Eugene Field.
FRANTIC FABLES.
By Henry Horseceller.
Claude de Clove was a poet, a ro
manticist —>a dreamer. He dreamed
all day. He was more awake when
he was asleep than he was when he
was awake.
He wore his hair Buster Brown
fashion.
I don’t mean to cast any canned
asparagus at Buster Brown, but mere
ly to indicate that he had skinned
barbers as zealously as he had skin
ned creditors for the past ten years.
He was such a good skinner that
he always took a blue ribbon at the
Shun show'. In fact, he was the
original Shunshine kid.
Now it happened that one pellucid
morn he awoke betimes, and his
THE GOLDEN CALF. '
(Temperance Lesson.) V
Sept. 21st, 1913.
Ex. 32:15 to '2O. Ex. 32:30 to 35.
Time —1491 B. C. Place —Sinai.
The Golden Text — “My little chil
dren, guard yourselves from idols.”
Ist John 5:21.
Suggestive Thoughts.
What Should I Do?
1. Keep your vows. The Golden
Text, 1 John 5:12.
It has only been forty days since
the giving of the law (Ex. i24:18; Deut.
9:9). When the people said “All that
the Lord hath spoken, we will do”
(Ex. 19:8; Ex. 24:3 to 7). Now we
see them violating this law they prom
ised to keep. This lesson teaches us
that the human heart is wicked and
unreliable. That the promises of the
natural man are worthies and unreli
able because his “heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately wick
ed” (Jer. 17-9). These people’s hearts
were not turned unto God. Therefore
their vow was easily broken and they
couldi propose to Aaron to make them
gods to take the place of Jehovah XEfc-,
32:1). They wanted something' they
could see to worship. The natural
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poet’s fancy was stirred by the sweet
lilt of some rare bird that carolled in
the catcus outside his window.
A seraphic smile crossed his fea
tures as he lay musing and listening
to the delicate cadences, the glad
somebugle, the liquid quarter notes,
throaty symphony that welled from
the two-fora-quarter liquid notes, the
the feathery of this little messenger
of the morn.
If he could have got a pen without
reaching for it he would have penned
the following lines:
Sweet bird, singest
Thy gosh dingest,
Don’t spike it, I like it,
Sing tra-la to the blithersome morn,
I listen with an ear of corn.
L’ENVOI.
Every ray I hope you do so,
The sweetest rooster never Caruso.
Just at that moment when Claude
de Clove wasn’t penning these lines,
the landlady, Mrs. McFigg, entered
the room.
“Mr. de Clove,” she said, “this bill
which has been overdue now so
Poet, “before we speak of such earth
ly, trivial things—tvould you look out
of the window and tell me w r hat bird
it is that sings so sweetly—”
Mrs. McFigg looked for a minute
from the window.
“That,” she said tartly, “is my old
man carrying dirt to mend the path
that w r as washed out last night. The
old sardine is too lazy to grease his
wheelbarrow'.”
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By B. LACY HOGE, Norfolk, Va.
heart always wants something to aid
him in worship. It may be a cross or
an image of Christ or the virgin Mary.
They do not want to renounce Jeho
vah (Ex. 32:4 and 5), but God re
garded it as an utter renunciation of
Himself (Ex. 32:7 to 10). God wants
only a spiritual worship (John 4:23
and 24). This we will not give Him
until we receive the spirit of Christ
and become spiritual.
2. Have God’s law written in your
heart. Vs. 15 to 20.
When Moses saw the awful apostacy
of the people he spoke very sharply
and sternly to them. He was indig
nant because of the way in which they
had dishonored God. He was very
jealous for God and His glory. His
anger waxed hot when he saw the
golden calf and the people dancing
around it. In his holy wrath he broke
the tables that had been written upon
by God Himself. Well might the true
servant of God wax hot as he sees the
professing children of God today wor
shiping the golden calf and engaging
in their licentious dancing. Many,
even the best of men, cannot keep un
broken the law written on tables of
stone, but the time has come when
A LEGAL MATTER.
A woman walked into the office of
the courtrooms one busy day and, ad
dressing the judge, said:
“Are you the Reprobate Judge?”
“i am the Probate Judge, madam.”
“That’s what I mean,” she contin
ued. “You see 1 have come to you
because 1 am in trouble. My hus
band was studying to be a minister
at a logical seminary and he died de
tested and left me three little infidels,
and I have come to you to be ap
pointed their executioner.”
AN EMERGENCY.
When a certain darky of Mobile,
Ala., announced his engagement to
the dusky one of his choice, the con
gratulations that were showered upon
him included a note of wonder.
“Joe,” said one of these friends, “I
shore is surprise. We-all never
thought you’d speak up. It’s going
on two years sence you began to fool
around Miss Violet.”
Dat’s true,” said Joe, “but de fact
is, old man, 1 didn’t lose my job until
last night.”
WALK RIGHT IN.
Arthur was a very mischievous lit
tle boy and played many pranks
around the neighborhood. One after
noon one of the women called to see
Arthur’s father about something the
boy had done.
“I want to see your father,” she
said to the boy.
“I’m afraid you can’t see father
God will write' His law in the hearts
of His people (Heb. 8:10 and 11.)
Therefore go to Him and ask Him to
put His laws into your mind, and
write them in your heart and enable
you to walk in Ilis statutes, that the
righteousness of the law may be ful
filled in you and that you may walk
after the spirit and not after the
flesh (Ro m.8:4).
3. Have Power in Prayer. Vs. 30
to 35. j
Moses was a nian of great power in
praygr because he was 'unselfish and
willing to sacrifice Irmself. He did
not seek to cover the sins of the peo
pie but confess them and so got for
giveness for them. He offered him
self as a sacrifice for the s ; ns of the
people. Paul offered himself as a
sacrifice for the salvation of his
brethren, his kinsmen accordhig to
the flesh (Rom. 9:3). These men had
the spirit of Christ. The spirit that
iead Him to sacrifice Himself to put
ay sin and save men (Heb. 9:26 to
28). We greatly need men of this
type today. If you wish to be a man
of power in prayer, then you too must
have the spirit of Christ. You must
seek to know and do God’s will. You
SKETCHES
Br MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
now,” answered the boy.
“I must see him,” the woman con
tinued, “and I intend to see him.”
“Well, all right,” and the boy open
ed the door for her to enter. “Go
right up stairs. Father is in the bath
room taking a bath.”
A Scotch class was examined in
Scripture. “Can any boy or girl here
tell me how Noah would be likely
to use his time while on the ark?”
asked the inspector. One boy timid
ly showed his hand and replied:
“Please, sir, he w'ad fish.” Well,
yes, he might,” admitted the inspec
tor. Another little fellow waived his
hand, excitedly, and said: “Please, he
couldna fish vera lang.” “What makes
you think so, my little man?” “Be
cause there were only two worms in
the ark.” —Record Herald.
“That doctor is a regular human
dynamo.”
“Yes; w'hen I came in contact with
him I myself was highly charged.”—
Washington Herald.
An Italian who kept a fruit stand
was much annoyed by possible cus
tomers who made a practice of handl
ing the fruit and pinching it, thereby
leaving it softened and often spoiled.
E’xasperated beyond endurance, he
finally put up a sign which read:
If you must pincha da fruit —
pincha da cocoanut! —Lippincotts.
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must have such a great love for lost
men and women that you are willing
io sacrifice yourself that they may be
saved.
DON’T BURN YOUR COTTON.
What would you think of a man who
would deliberately burn eight hundred
and thirty-three pounds of good cot
ton? He would be destroying about
one hundred dollars of good money.
No sane man would waste his wealth
in such a manner, and yet we all
waste a hundred dollars or more each
year in thoughtless and careless buy
ing. When we pay more for an arti
cle than is necessary we are wasting
'just that much money and are burn
ing our good cotton.
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Ga.
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