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PINEY WOODS TEETH VS. IMAGINATION. By VISTA C. BLACK. As Mrs, Mary Appleton Smith threw back the covers and turned her feet out of bed, she felt surprisingly young and active for a woman who tipped the scales at two hundred and was peri lously near her sixtieth birth day. No doubt this was partly due to the fact, proudly claimed by her, that she had never been sick a day in her life, except when John Henry was born, and she didn’t count that, particularly when she meditated upon the lovable ness of her only child. Her perennial youthfulness of feeling was probably also the reward of virtue, for she was an angel of mercy to all the sick and sorrowful in the country village where she lived. So far as most people knew, Aunt Mary, as she was called by her intimates among the young people, hadn’t a fault. However, John Henry claimed that his mother was mildly obstinate, and he probably knew as he had lived with her longer than any one else and had been both son and daughter to her. On this particular morning, she had everslept a little, and, as an unusual ly busy day stretched before her, she determined to make up as much as possible of the lost time by dressing hurridly. Her toilet proceeded smooth ly and uneventfully until she went over to the wash-stand for her false teeth, and there the trouble began. They were not in the glass where she was accustomed to put them every night just before she retired. As she had never one time put them any where else, she stood motionless for a moment, utterly at a loss. Then she picked up the glass and shook it; something rattled, and she turned out upon the stand a bright, new dime. BALAK AND BALAAM. November 2, 1913. Time: 1452 B. C. Num. 2121:2 to 6. Num. 24:10 to 19. Place: Boab. The Golden Text: “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.”— James 1:8. SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS. What Should I Do? I. Don’t be Double Minded: The Gol den Text, James 1: 8. The double-minded man wavereth like the waves of the sea. He is un stable in all his ways. He cannot re ceive anything of the Lord. (James 1:6 to' 8.) The wise man is the one who finds what is right and then fully de cides to do the right at any cost. Such a man will receive the blessing of the Lord. Balaam knew what was right, and wanted to do the right, but also desired to obtain the reward that was offered to do the wrong. This evil desire in his heart led to his ruin. 11. Live the Life of the Righteous. Vs. 2 to 6. Balaam prayed, “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.” (Num. 23:10.) Many are praying this prayer, that like Balaam will live an ungcdly life, and at last go down to hell without God. We should pray “Lord help me to live the life of the righteous” and then our last end will be like his, and at death we will go to be with the THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF OCT. 23 | ; ; i™vW»w£jSM . <y *4 •■ . “For goodness sake!” she exclaimed, “however did that dime come there, and where are my teeth?” Still pondering, she looked into and underneath the bowl and pitcher and, in fact, every receptacle in sight. Then she ran through the drawers of both the wash-stand and bureau and, dropping on her knees, looked under neath both articles of furniture. Next she turned to the bed. Running her hands underneath the pilliws and find ing nothing, she shook them out of their slips on the floor, then hurriedly tore off the bed covers and added them to the heap. Still no teeth. The mattress followed, and left exposed to the clear light of day every inch of floor space underneath the bed. Limp ly she dropped down on the springs and set herself to the solution of the puzzle. “I know,” she said, speaking aloud, “that I had those teeth in my mouth when I came into the room last night because I never take them out until I am undressed for bed. Somehow, I can’t seem to remember doing any thing with them last night. If I didn’t take them out and they didn’t fall out while I was aslep, /where are they?” Slowly the answer dawned upton her, and it struck every vestige of SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By B. LACY HOGE, Norfolk, Va. Lord. Balaam was one of the most singular characters in the Bible. God had releaved Himself to him, and given wcnderful revelations. He was loyal to God’s word. He would not do less or more than what God said, but he loved the wages of sin (2 Peter 12: 15, Jude 11, Num. 22:18; Num. 24:13.) He obeyed God’s word at first, and refused to go with the Princess of Balak, (Num. 22:12: and 13), but he was not satisfied with the Lord’s de cision, and sought to get permission to go. He obtained permission (Num. 22:19 and 20), but the Lord would not let him curse Israel, but compelled him to bless them. God will not suf fer his people to be cursed, but is ever seeking to bless them. When Balaam found that he could not curse Israel and obtain the reward, but had been compelled to bless the people of the Lord, he sought to undo the will of Godj and lead Israel into sin by coun seling the seduction and corruption of the people of Israel. (Num. 31:16, Num. 25:1 to' 3, Rev. 2:14.) Although God had revealed to Balaam that Is rael was his favored people, yet he cast his lot with these bitter enemies of Israel and perished with them in battle. (Num. 31:8, Josh. 13:22.) God had made wonderful revelations to Ba laam, and opened the way to the highest honors, but his life was end ed in the deepest disgrace. The sam© is true today. God gives to some men great ability, and extraordinary color fram her face and brought an erpression of horror to her eyes. Just then, she heard John Henry coming down the stairs on his way to break fast. As he neared her door, she call ed to him in a high, shrill voice, shak en by terror. “Yes, Mother,” he answered, and pushed open the door. “Why, Mother,” his surprise was obvious, “not dressed yet?” Then, as he caught sight of he face, —“Mother, what is the matter?” But his mother, usually so calm and serious, burst into a storm of tears, and could not answer. Hie patted her on the back and soothed her as best he could, —“There, there, don’t cry so. No matter what’s happened, it’s not a« bad as that.” “Oh! y-e-s it is, John Henry, Oh-o-o! “It’s what? Mother, do tell me the trouble.” “Oh, John Henry, I‘ve —I’ve —swal- lowed my teeth! “Swallowed your teeth! How per fectly absurd 0 What makes you think you have swallowed them?” “Oh, because I can’t find them any where else, and besides, I feel them in my stomach.” Then she told of her failure to find the teeth where she always put them and of her subsequent search for them. knowledge of Himself and His word. They become mighty preachers, but the love of money and the love of ap plause has corrupted them and they have gone off into the ways of sin, and are leading others into sin. Bal ak’s plan to hire a prophet of God was a devilish one, and brought ruin upon himself. (Deut. 23:3 and 4, Josh. 24:9 and 10, Neh. 13:1 and 2.) The same servants of Satan this day follow the same plan. The liquor dealers are ever seeking some back sliden preacher to advocate the sale of liquor and to speak against pro hibition laws. He is busy at this day getting men with Dr. and Rev. in front of their names to declare their is no hell, and teaching many other false doctrins, and lead many away from God into the ways of sin. 111. Practice What You Preach. Num. 24:10 to 19. What Balaam said in verse thirteen sounds all right untill we read it in the light of his conduct. Many men talk all right, but they fail to practice what they preach, and, therefore, their words do no good but, like Ba laam, their conduct does much harm. IV. Teach that Prophecy is Sure. Num. 24:10 to 19. Balaam was forced to pronounce not only God’s blessing upon Israel, but he was also compelled to declare the things that shall come to pass in the latter days. Many of these things have come to pass and those relating SKETCHES By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW John Henry began to feel somewhat uneasy, but was still not convinced that his mother had really allowed the teeth to slip down her throat during the night. However, when he had call ed the servant and she had, under his supervision, thoroughly searched the room without results, he was forced to accept his mother’s statement, par ticularly as she seemed to be suffer ing a severe pain in her stomach. He felt that something must be done, and that right away. Coatless and hatless, he rushed down the street to the nearest long-distance telephone, and called up the dentist who had made the teeth. Why the dentist in stead of a physician, I have never been able to understand, unless he act ed on the idea that the dentist, having launched the teeth in the first place, should be held responsible for their wanderings. (To be continued.) - .. 1 . -J! T . J . ’ ■ EVERYBODY ‘“DELIGHTED.” The Golden Age Piano Club has de vised away of pleasing everybody. 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