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Nurse Your Talent, But Not to The
Neglect of Your Home.
By TESSA W. RODDY.
Marian Harland said truly:
“To the married woman with chil
dren who follows her talent, I can say
that she is of those who will have
trouble in the flesh. For no talent can
be fulfilled in the best way among
countless interruptions and calls upon
the time and energies—and yet these
are what you with an unmistakable
talent assume when you marry and
raise a family. You must resign your
self to have to listen to the baby when
you are in the mood to write immortal
prose. You must learn to leave the
paints to dry while you hearken to
the plaints of a small child and bind
up a cut finger. You must lose the
inspiration for a musical composi
tion because your college boy or girl
telephones they will bring a couple of
friends to dinner and you have to
scurry around to get up a course that
will stretch a meal provided for four
into enough for six. Remember, you
possessor of a talent, that if you are
a wife and mother, home comes first.
“For it is ten to one that your hus
band does not wish to be bored with
the details of your work and the
things you find absorbing he will find
a bore. They are likely to weary him
and whatever you do with your tal
ent do not weary your husband with
it. You may love to hear all he has
to say of his parents, but that does
not mean that he will be thrilled by
Out of Tune With Human Life
R. S. Gavin.
We are living in an age of refined
selfishness. Perhaps there has never
been less hate in the world than to
day, and perhaps, also, there has never
been less real love. Life is too near
ly self-centered. It is acted upon al
most wholly by centripetal forces.
And one of the sad results is that
the great big world is coming to be
no bigger than one’s own household.
A boy was caught on the streets of
a certain city the other day, charged
with having stolen a pair of suspend
ers. The boy is bad, of course; a
veritable waif, a regular street rat.
But then he has nobody in that whole
city to take his part, because none
of his own kith and kin are worth
while.
Those before whom he was tried are
Christian men, so they profess. But
in their refined selfishness, they could
see nothing in the boy beyond the
thief. The result was that they spent
about one hundred times more money
in trying to locate the lost suspenders
than they did in trying to save the
boy.
And that is the way the world is
wagging these days. In spite of all
the benevolent organizations of the
times, and cur charitable institutions
this age is out of tune with human
life!
PINEY WOODS SKETCHES
By MARGARET BEVERLY UPSHAW
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF MARCH 19, 1914
yours. Bear this in mind and spare
him.
“If your ability is something that
will bring in money you cannot afford
to let it lie idle. In these days of
quickly made and quickly lost for
tunes, it is not uncommon to see the
married woman who started married
life as a cherished wife, slip later in
to the position of bread winner for
the family. Your husband may object
to you cultivating your talent now,
and later on may be quite willing to
accord you the privilege of support
ing him on the income derived from
that same talent I can hardly advise
you to point out that possibility to
him, and far less would I advise you
to remind him of it if the hard days
should come; none the less you do
well to keep the contingency in mind,
and if you have a talent that posses
ses commercial value don’t let it be
come rusty from disuse.”
Marian Harland has said or written
many true and fine things, but I am
sure the ideas quoted above will bring
some good advice to all women. Es
pecially will they appeal to the wom
an who for years has helped to sup
port a family and to keep her girls
in school and give them little things
that make for elegance and dainti
ness and refinement, things that the
husband’s salary will not cover and
at the same time do justice to the fam
ily as a whole.
I was leading the other day of a
preacher who was out calling among
his absent from church members. He
came to a neighborhod where he had
one lone member, and she had been
absent from her church for several
months. In the immediate neighbor
hood of the lady’s home there were
more than 100 children between the
ages of three and fourteen. The
preacher asked of the lady why she
had been absent so long. And guess
her reason! She said her pet dog had
been dangerously sick for some time
past, and that she had had to give it
all her time and attention! I can
imagine that preacher’s feelings better
than I can express them. They say the
woman was less than thirty and fair
ly good looking. And if the preach
er had intimated to her that she was
not refined, and that her education
had been sadly neglected, she would
have resented it, and so would her
husband. But she says that she “does
love that doggie, with all her heart,”
and that miserable little old dog is
taking all her time and attention away
from the great things of life.
Within a stone’s throw of that
house where the dog and its mistress
live, there is another house, they say.
And to it, on the same afternoon, the
preacher went. There a mother lay
in bed very sick. She hadn’t been
out of bed for weeks. A little boy,
two and a half years old, was romping
and rolling around on the floor, look
ing as if he hadn’t been washed in
a whole week. The mother’s linen was
soiled and dirty. A kind hearted
neighbor-woman, a genuine lady, who
herself was the mother of seven, one
a baby less than five weeks old, came
in once in a while to help the sick
woman as best she could.
The preacher did his best to say the
comforting word, prayed a brief pray
er, and left. As he walked down the
hot paved streets, lined with small,
dingy houses and alive with children,
he thought of the woman in her splen
did home and her dear (?) doggie,
and then of the poor soul sick in bed,
dirty ,and practically alone! And he
said to himself, “There is something
wrong with the times somehow and
somewhere. It’s an age that is large
ly out of tune with human life!” And
the preacher was correct!
Both of these women call themselves
Christians. The woman with the pet
ted dog is the member of a very fash
ionable church, the other is not a mem-
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By B. LACY HOGE, Norfolk, Va.
REVIEW JESUS, THE GREAT
TEACHER.
March 29th, 1914.
Matt. 7-21 to 29.
THE GOLDEN TEXT: “What
doth Jehovah require of thee, but to
do justly, and to love kindness and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
Suggestive Thoughts.
What Should I Do?
Give the central teaching of each
lesson and seek to impress that one
thought upon the mind and heart of
the scholars.
Lesson No. 1.
January 4, 1914. Mark 9-30 to 41;
Mark 10-13 to 16.
The central thought here is that we
must receive the Kingdom of a little
child. We must be born into the king
dom. (John 3-3 to 5).
Lesson No. 2.
January 11, 1914. Luke 10-1 to 24.
The central truth taught here is that
if we refuse the light and abuse the
great privileges we will bring upon
ourselves condemnation.
Lesson No. 3.
• January 18, 1914. Luke 10-25 to
37.
The central thought here is that love
always sacrifices and serves.
Lesson No. 4.
January 15, 1914. Luke 8-1 to 3;
Luke 9-57 to 62; Luke 10-38 to 42.
The leading thought of this lesson
is that Christ and his work must be
first.
Lesson No. 5.
February 1, 1914. Luke 11-1 to 13.
The central thought here is that
there is great power in prayer.
Lesson No. 6.
February 8, 1914. Luke 11-14 to
26 and 33 to 36.
The central thought of this lesson is
that Christ has the power to cast out
satan.
Lesson No. 7.
February 15th, 1914. Luke 11-37
to 54.
ber at all. And here we have a pic
ture drawn absolutely true to life, a
picture of the petted dog and the neg
lected child; the picture of a Chris
tian woman, so called, petting her dog,
loving it to death and the picture of a
sick mother within a stone’s throw of
the former’s mansion, with no one to
care for her or her little ones.
And all this in a fine city that re
gards itself as up-to-date, and one of
the cleanest and most cultured in all
the land . It licenses its dogs, and will
not permit them to be mistreated. They
even send around the “dog catcher”
to pick up the stray, hungry dogs, and
if no one calls for them, they are put
to death in the most humane way pos
sible. Yet that same city has hun
dreds of children, unprotected, un
cared for and unwashed. They go to
school, if at all, many of them hun
gry, perhaps, while many others of
them wander about in the streets with
not even the city interested in them.
And this is only one reason in many
for the assertion that we are living
in an age of refined selfishness that is
largely out of tune with human life.
The leading thought of this lesson
is that God is not deceived by out
ward appearances, because he looks
upon the heart.
Lesson No. 8.
February 22, 1914. Luke 12-1 to 12.
The central truth taught in this les
son is to fear God and him .only.
Lesson No. 9.
March 1, 1914. Luke 12-35 to 48.
The central truth of this lesson is
Be rich toward God.
Lesson No. 10.
March 8, 1914. Luke 12-35 to 48'.
The central truth of this lesson is
that Jesus is coming again and that
we should at all times be ready, wait
ing and watching for his return.
Lesson No. 11.
March 15, 1914. Luke 10-10 to 17;
Luke 14-1 to 6.
The central thoughts of this lesson
are: First, it is lawful to do good
on the Sabbath day; second, that the
first day of the week is the Lord’s
day, and that this is the date for
Christians to keep, and that they
should keep it and use every min
ute of it for the Lord.
Lesson No. 12.
March 22, 1914. Luke 13-19 to 35.
The central truth of this lesson is
that the first and great thing is to
be saved and that we must put forth
some effort to be saved.
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