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“A Little Nonsense Now and Then”
Gathered Here and There
He likes to be a fellow,
Who does as he is bid—
The lady told him to skiddoo,
And he —skiddid.
“Why do you praise him? he inher
ited all his money—”
I know it, but I believe in giving
him credit for knowing how to take
care of it.”
The bat has fur and not a feather,
His wings look like they’re made of
leather,
He sleeps all day well out of sight
And only flies about at night.
Why was it decicded to sink the
Merrimac?
Because it was “Hobson’s choice.”
What New York river asks a ques
tion, and a Vermont river answers it?
“Hoo-sick?” “Pa-sum-sick.”
CHRIST’S HATRED OF SHAMS.
February 15, 1914. Time 28 A. D.
Luke 11:37-54. Place, Galilee.
The Golden Text: “Be not deceiv
ed; God is not mocked.” Gal. 6:7.
Suggestive Thoughts by B. Lacy Hoge,
Norfolk, Va.
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
1— Have a Clean Heart —Verses 37-41.
The Pharisees were more concerned
with the outside than with the inside
They cared more for clean hands and
a clean platter than for a clean heart.
They were careful to keep clean from
ceremonial defilement, “extortion and
wickedness.” We have many at this
day who, outwardly are clean but in
wardly, unclean. They are careful
as to how they appear unto men but
do not care how they appear unto
Goa. The Word says that such a
man is a fool. Verse 4*6. Be wise and
have the heart cleansed from all sin.
“The pure in heart will see God.”
Malt. 5:8. Without a pure heart we
cannot enter heaven or see the Lord.
Heb. 12:14; Rev. 21:27.
2 Be Ail You Seem To Be—-Verses
42 to 44.
Our Lord pronounced His woes up
the Scribes and Pharisees because
they sought to make people believe
they were much better than they
knew themselves to be. In Matt. 23,
our Lord pronounced eight woes upon
the Pharisees. Here He pronounces
three. The woes are not the same.
The first one here is pronounced be
cause they were only doing a part of
God’s will and pretending to be doing
all while they knew they were neg
lecting matters of the greatest im
portance. Verse 42. The second woe
was pronounced because they loved
to have the pre-eminence. This is
a great sin and yet we have many
that “love the uppermost seats in the
synagogues.” Verse 43. This love of
pre-eminence is condemned by the
PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF FEB. 5, 1914
Why is Haverhill so clean a city?
Because they keep Hannah Dustin
there all the time.
Have you heard the secret of the
heart of the ear of corn?
No.
Well you can ask the kernel.
What is a counter-irritant?
A woman shopping.
When Woodrow Wilson said to
George Harvey “Get out of my band
wagon,” is that what made the edi
torials in Harper’s weekly?
The prize for the most vivid imagi
nation goes to the man who discover
ed sewer gas in a Pullman car.
Anybody who is interested in help
ing people to understand the Bible
is a patriot.—Justice David Brewer.
By B. LACY HOGE, Norfolk, Va.
word of God. Matt. 23:8. Luke 14:7-
11. Rome. 12:10. 3 John 9. One that
is truly great will show his greatness
by taking the lowest place. Matt.
23-11; Matt. 20:28; John 13:14-15;
Phil 2:5-8. Don’t try to appear to be
what you are not but try to be all
that you wish to be and be sure to
' '' all that you seem to be. The
third woe was pronounced upon the
Pharisees because of their outward
pretense of purity while within, they
were Pke graves, full of death and
decay. Don’t be like a beautiful se
pulchre which outwardly, is attractive
but within, full of corruption. “Let
your light shine before men so they
will see your good works and glorify
your Father which is in heaven” but
don’t live so as to appear fair to
men while you are an abomination in
the s’ght of God who reads your
heart. Have the heart right with
God and the life, right before men.
3 —Practice What You Preach—
Verses 45 to 54.
The lawyer, spoken of here, is not
a lawyer in the modern sense of the
word. He was not a member of the
legal profession but was a theologian
or an expounder of the Mosaic Law.
have many’ of these theologians
and ethical teachers among us today.
Our Lord pronounced three woes upon
the lavzyers. The first one was be
cause they placed heavy burdens up
on others which they would not touch
themselves. Matt. 23:4 —Verse 46.
Our Lord’s teaching is that we should
meet the obligation ourselves that we
teach and require others to take. We
should practice what we preach. It
was said of a certain lawyer who
gave up the practcice of law to go
into the ministry that he had” quit
practicicng and gone to preaching.”
Our Lord wants us to continue to
practice while we preach. The sec
ond woe was pronounced upon the
By Margaret Beverly Upshaw.
THE STRONGEST MAN.
Here is a story that is just too good
to be passed around by word of
ist be preserved to pos
terity by means of print.
An Anderson Sunday School teach
er was telling his class that Sampson
was the strongest man, when one of
the pupils interrupted to say that he
thought Roosevelt was entitled to that
honor.
“Why do you think so?” asked the
teacher.
“Well,” replied the boy, “Sampson
took the jawbone of an ass and slew
four thousand Philistines, hut Roose
velt took a bull moose by the horns
and killed the whole Republican par
ty.”—Anderson Daily Mail.
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lawyers because they honored the
prophets of the past and built tombs
and monuments to them while at the
same time they were persecuting the
prophets of the present. Verses >57
to 51; Matt. 23:29-35. Our Lord
here teaches that it is better to lis
ten to the message of a living prophet
than to build the tombs of dead proph
ets. It is better io give flowers to
the living than to put them on the
graves of the dead. It is better to
treat God’s servants right while they
are living than to build monuments
to them after they are dead. As we
treat the living so we would treat the
« d we honor if they were living.
The third woe was pronounced upon
them because they had taken away
the key of knowledge from men.
They were supposed to interpert the
law but had obscured it. They were
supposed to lead men into the truth
cut they had shut the door of truth
and would not enter in themselves
and were h’ndering others from enter
ing in. Be a teacher of the truth
and also a doer of the word and a
leader that leads others into God’s
truth and God’s way.
ABSURD IDEA.
No honest man who has his own
neighbor’s welfa e at heart will vote
for saloons. When you vote for sa
loons you sanction crime in all its
phases.
You can’t bar the “bad” saloon.
That would mean that all saloons
must be closed. The good saloon we
hea rebout is the same as a “good
dev’l.” The idea is absurd in the
extreme. License and “regulations”
don’t stop drunkenness, not in any
single instance. The saloon is a
lawless institution in every case, and
it breeds more lawlessness, suffering,
want and national debauchery than
any other force known to history.
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