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PINEY SKETCHES
WOODS lIH By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
The Wife’s Allowance.
Jonas was visibly perplexed and
not a little irritated.
Marse John,” he said, “dat Nigger
Sary sho ly is de mos’ ’stravagant
wile a po’ man ever is had. Why,
Mian, she jes’ nacherly seem to think
dat I m plumb made outer money.”
Marse John turned about and look
ed upon Jonas in amazed silence,
rhroughont the entire crop year he
had watched the faithful Sarah hoe
ing, ploughing and harvesting row for
row with her man; cooking the daily
meals and doing the family wash on
Saturday afternoons while Jonas
either lounged on the front stoop,
passing the time of day with his
neighbors, or loitered in the damp,
cool shade of a g'ant sweet-gum tree
down on the creek bank tending his
set-hooks and smoking his corn cob
pipe.
Without waiting for further com
ment or inquiry, Jonas continued bit
ter’y:
“She don’ been ax’in me fer a
month to carry her to town, carry her
to town, lak I ain’t got nuthin’ to do
1 ut leave my crops an’ go traipsin’ off
to town ever’ whip-stitch. Yistiddy
When I hitch up the critter and start
to drive in to cast my vote in die goo
hertorial ’lection, Sary she cum
whimpering round and ’low as how
she didn't see no eood reason why
she couldn’t go too. So I tuck’er, and
de upshot nv’ it wuz dot ’fore we got
half-way she let in to beggin' for a
nickel to buy snuff; den after she git
dur and Stan’ round lookin’ in de
store winders she let in agin’ axin’
for fifty cents to buy a new dress fer
Nancv, our leetle gal.”
“Well, Jonas,” answered Marse
John in a concilatory tone, “that's
THE REPORT OF THE SPIES.
Oct. 19th, 1913.
Time: 1490, B. C. Place: Kadesh,
Barnea.
Num. 13:1 to 3. Num. 13:25 to 33.
The Golden Text!; "If God is for us
who is against us?”
Rom. 8 .31.
Suggestive Thoughts.
What Should I Do?
I. Shun the Sin of Unbelief. Vs. 1
to 3.
God had told the people of Israel
all about this land. (Ex. 13:5 Deut.
8:7 to 9). yet they send their spies to
see, if God had told them the truth
about it. (Num. 13:17 to 19). God
had promised to go with them and
g”ide them step by step and yet they
told the spies to "find out by what
way we must go up” (Dent. 1:19 to
22). The unbelief of the people
caused them to ask for the spies.
Then God commanded Moses to send
men to spy cut the land. This act
of unbelief led to others that cost
Israel forty years outside of Canaan
wandor'ng in the wilderness. They
could not enter into the land of prom
ise. because of unbelief. (Heb. 3:19).
Mmiy promised blessings the people
of God do not obtain because of un
belief. The Lord wants His people to
have the best, but often lets them
have 4 the wav of unbel’ef. (1 Sam.
8:4 to 7.1 Sam. 8:22. Matt 19:8).
11. Look at Difficulties in Light of
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not so bad; only fifty-five cents, and
remember she only asked for a nickel
tor her own use. ’
He paused a moment for the weight
of h s plea in Sarah’s defense to soak
in, and then enquired:
"How 7 much did you give her,
Jonas?”
“Huh,” he emulated contemptous
ly, “1 ain’t giv’er none yit.”
Turn The Canvas Over.
/nether home picture is pre-ented.
Frank was a spendthrift. In the
payment of his accumulated debts he
was honest in intention but tardy in
pei formance.
Mary, his bride of a few months,
ir.herito'’ from her Scotch mother a
i'r’fty and undent disposition.
After much persuasion Frank was
induced to turn ever to her one half
of h’s monthly salary, upon agree
ment that she should pay out of it
all expenses, barring the rent of the
cottage in which they lived.
Five years passed. Two beautiful
children had come to brighten and
bless the little home, also to add a
heavier drain on Mary’s allowance.
But she continued to meet her obliga
tions promptly and her patronage was
eagerly sought by every merchant in
town.
Frank came home one night raging.
The landlord who owned the cottage
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By B. LACY HOGE, Norfolk, Va.
God: Vs. 25 to 29.
The spies spent forty days hi the
land of premise to find out if God’s
word was true. They were forty days
of unbelief that brought upon Israel
forty years of desolation. (Num. 14-33
and 3'5, Heb. 3:15 to 18. Bal. 6:7).
The spies brought back a report that
rhe land was all that God had told
them. That the land "surely flowed
with milk and honey” (V. 27). They
brought back a fine specimen of the
fruit of the land and yet this unbelief
caused them to suddenly change their
report and seek to discourage the
hearts of the people. In this unbelief
they saw a strong people inhabiting
the land. They saw the giants and
the great walled cities. Faith would
have seen all that they saw, but would
also have seen God, His power and
His promise to drive out all of these
enemies and give them the land.
(Deut. 9:1 to 3. Ex. 33:2. Lev. 2d:24.
Rom. 8:31). The land of promise is
a tree of our present experience in
Christ when we get out of the wil
derness and over Jordan; it is also
a type of the rest that remaineth here
after to the people of God. (Heb. 3:7
to 15. Heb. 4:1. Heb. 4:8 to 11). When
we speak of living the life of which
this is a type, the I'fe fully surrender
ed to God, peonle in unbelief see the
giants, the walled cities, the difficul
ties, but fail to see God and His power
that is pledged to us. There are dis-
in which they had spent these five
years, had, after refusing to make a
number of needed repairs, notified his
tenant that the rent would be increas
ed the coming year.
“It’s a beastly outrage,” he com
mented savagely. “If I only had a
few hundred I would buy a house and
lot of my own and be forever rid of
th's sor 1 of rag-time nightmare that
bobs around the first of every month
singing s ugge stiv e1 y:
“Rufus, Rastas, Johnson Brown,
Whatcher gon’ter do when the
rent comes ’round.”
Mam - hided her time until the out
burst was over. Then she asked
softly:
* Frank, bow do property values run
in *he localities where you would care
' • rrmke ■> "' i manent home? What
wo'T’ it take !o make an initial pay
ment?” .
She asked the questions eagerly,
hungr b’, and waited breathlessly for
p r s wr.
“In thi- smell burg two thousand
wo”ld do the deed in elegant style,”
1 n .an-weed airibg “and two-fifty or
iU’oe hundred beans for a starter
with monthly payments following
would turn the trick on almost any
genteel deal.”
Mary w’-iske 1 out of the room, re
t”rn’ng with a bank book in her hand.
ficulties, but God is for us (Rom.
8:31. Eph. 1:17 to 19). Look at all
the difficulties in the way, but be
sure to see them in the light of God.
ill. Enter the Land: Vs. 30 to 33.
There was a man of faith among
the spies and his cry was “Let us go
up at once and possess it, for we
are well able to overcome it.” (V.
30. Rom. 8:37. Phil. 4:13). The ten
that were with, him said "we he not
able to go up against the people, for
they are stronger than we.” The ten
had their eyes on the sons of Anak,
Caleb had his eyes on Jehovah. (Num.
14:6 to 9). The inhabitants of the land
might be stronger than Israel, but
they were no match for Israel’s God.
(Deut. 9:1 to 33. These men of un
belief rotted in the wilderness, but
Caleb lived .to see. his assertion proved
true. He was among the people that
God used to drive out the inhabit
ants and give the land to Israel (Josh.
15-13 and 14). These unbelievers
flatlv contradicted the man of faith
end the Israelites were willing -to
I elieve the unbelieving snies. but.
would not believe God’s faithful serv
ant or believe God. We find many
todav who are more ready to believe
infidel erit’c than to believe God.
Thev would not believe God, and go
into the land, but believed the infidel
spies and then cried and murmured
oga’nst Moses and Aaron. (Num. 14:1
to 4. Ex. 1'5:23 and 24. Ex. 16:1 to 3.
Frank stared in stupified silence
while she spread open the pages be
fore him. The last balance brought
forward showed a sum large enough
to insure the first payment on the
home about which she had dreamed
by night and by day.
Her husband dropped his head in
shame-faced humiliation, but she, see
ing his mortfication, waltzed around
the room singing gaily:
“There’s no place like home.”
“Little woman.” Frank said as he
put out his arms and caught her
about the waist, “Little woman, I ask
your forgiveness and I also ask a fa
vor. Will yon take me into partner
ship with you and together we
shall save, and then there will be no
more debt for me and no more skimp
ing for you.”
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Ga.
Ex. 17.1 and 2. Ps. 106:24 and 25).
The unbeliever is always a grumbler.
He will not accept what God offers
him, but grumbles at the lot he chooses
for himself. Many of God’s people,
because of unbelief, today have a wil
derness experience instead of enjoy
ing a Canaan experience.
Often and often to me, and instinct
ively, has an innocent pleasure felt
like a foretaste of infinite delight, an
onte-past of heaven. Nor can I be
lieve otherwise than that pure hap
piness is of a purifying effect; like
Jewish bread from heaven, no doubt
it is meant to invigorate as well as
to gratify.—Mount ford.
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