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ELLIJAY COURIER
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
EDLIJAY. GA.
And now It comes out that silk is
part tin—accounting for tlie rusty
black, perhaps.
At any rate the croaking of frogs
is more somnolent than the popping
of the gasoline engine.
It is to “iaf" at the persistent but
'unavailing efforts of those who seek
to change our spelling.
Some of the new feminine styles
seen on the avenues are a genuine tor¬
ture to a man with a stiff neck.
Now, a self-made woman may be as
‘admirable as a self-made man, but one
must draw the line at self-made wid¬
ows.
Straphanger is a noun that has long
been heard. Invent your own term for
those who have to hang on to the
&eat back handle.
No woman, it has been ascertained,
can live on less than $8 a week, but a
man's minimum stands unexplained
and uninvestigated.
Eastern divine alleges women are
net progressing morally as rapidly as
men. How can they when one con¬
siders hobble skirts?
New York has only 5,332,000 inhabi¬
tants, owing to the freakishness of
law which forbids it to annex Connec¬
ticut and New Jersey.
Did you ever notice how difficult it
is for a woman to be very friendly
■with any other woman her husband
ever was engaged to?
Nobody ever receives a Carnegie he¬
ro medal for wearing the first straw
hat of the season. Mr. Carnegie is
too narrow In his views.
An inveterate gambler was sen¬
tenced by a judge to gamble with no
one but his wife. Nice way of keep¬
ing the money in the family.
That youth who married a girl to
keep his father from marrying her
certainly set an example of self-sacri¬
fice seldom seen these days.
Now that soda water season has
opened, it is well to remember that,
although all drinks are charged, you
will have to pay for them just the
same.
A southern young man drove two
miles alone before be discovered his
sweetheart had fallen out of the buggy.
And then they rave about southern
chivalry.
The New York girl who spent seven
years looking for a “real man” may
have heard of Napoleon’s confession
of unfaith: “Good last'd! how rare
m<tn are." | i . \
Now comes an expert and declares
that much riding in automobiles is the
cause of flat feet. But, in the opinion
of most automobilists, that isn’t as
bad as flat tires.
A Kansas medical scientist is go¬
ing to try two-year, cold-storage eggs
on a squad of men. They are luckier
than most of us, who have to take the
older brands.
Mexican Indians have been tortur¬
ing people. Little can be done about
it just now because the Mexican In¬
dians are outside the humanizing in¬
fluence of baseball.
The blondes are disposed to accept
with philosophic acquiescence, if not
absolute enthusiasm, the dictum of Dr.
Blackford that brunettes are the best, !
working girls. i
j
The automobile knee is the latest
physical complaint to be discovered by
the physicians. But it is to be feared
that putting more seats in the auto¬
mobiles won’t help any.
Now that the, or rather some, of the
women are using the suspender skirts,
it is to be hoped that they are not try¬
ing to perpetrate another of their fa¬
mous hold-up games.
Paris waiters have won the right to
eat their luncheons elsewhere than at
the restaurants where they work. But
what the patrons do not know perhaps
will not hurt them.
A correspondent says “a good way
to lose an old umbrella is to take it
with you to a restaurant and forget
it.” To lose a good umbrella—but, no¬
body needs any formula for that.
Women who constantly wear veils
suffer in time from deterioration of
features, says a London physician. Af¬
ter that stage has been reached the
wearing of veils should be made ob¬
ligatory by law.
A life-preserving suit, with food and
water supplies, has been tested in the
Hudson and may become a competi¬
tor of the New York hotel.
With a new alphabet and a new
constitution the republic of China ha3
laid deep the foundations of a free
press and practical politics.
If that proposal to require the dat- i
ing of eggs is carried oitt it may be- i
come necessary to teach the hens to !
read and write and to provide each j
with a fountain pen.
Anyhow, a l(ing has a heap more of
w dtrf than a president-excepting, of
course, a Mexican president.
The scheme of an organization or
women to dress husbands on a total
expenditure of fifty dollars a year
looks like a conspiracy with the wives
to be the chief beneficiaries.
While four French aeronauts were
sailing over the Sahara desert in aero¬
planes five others were killed in a bal¬
loon’s collapse in France. It Is get¬
ting so that danger cannot be graded.
He Was Counterfeit and Tried
Marry a Rich American
Girl,
By JOHN PHILIP ORTH.
It was whispered that Brian
dale, the young lawyer, and Miss
Temple were engaged. It wasn't
No young lady on the face of the
earth ever waited over ten minutes to
spread the glad tidings, and in
case they hadn’t been spread.
That Mr. Dinsdale was calling
Miss Temple, and with her mother
as chaperon was escorting her to the
theater and other places, was a plain
fact, and that their attitude toward
each other was-all that could be hoped
for, was whispered with other whis¬
pers.
Then came what they call down in
Texas a “norther.” The balmy wind
suddenly shifts into the north, and
those who have been swinging in ham¬
mocks and eating ice cream hike into
the house and build a fire In three
stoves.
It was a “norther” that Mr. Dins¬
dale got. He had heea so successful
at law that he owned an auto. He
had Miss June and her mother out for
a spin one day, and the pace was
moderate. He was not a young man
to take chances with his neck. That
day there were two other necks to
be guarded. Therefore, he hadn't in¬
structed the chauffeur to jump the
machine over creeks and climb rail
fences.
The party was floating along on
wings of peace when another auto
came tearing up. In It was seated a
pompous middle-aged man and his
driver. The pompous man indicated
by a wave of his hand that he was
going to pass.
“Don’t you let him,” said Miss June
to Mr. Dinsdale.
“Perhaps he’s going for a doctor.”
“He should have telephoned.”
“But we are in no hurry."
“But he acts as if the road belonged
to him, and I don’t like his style. Tell
your man to hit ’er up.”
“But there’s a bad turn ahead, and I
don't want to race around.”
“Oh, well, let him throw a barrel of
dust over us.”
As the road widened the stranger
whizzed by. He smiled a lordly and
patronizing smile as he did It.
“Mother,” whispered the giri, “I feel
humiliated.”
"But why, dear?”
“Because we let that man by. Mr.
Dinsdale hasn't much pride or cour¬
age. I hope he never comes to the
house again.”
“You see what a bad spot it is,” said
the lawyer as he reached the turn.
“Very bad,” replied the mother.
“It’s as good as the rest of the
road!” sulkily' replied the daughter.
Pew doctors have enough confidence
in themselves to treat themselves
when ill, and when a lawyer has a
case of his own to plead he is almost
to bungle jt. Here jvas,an exam¬ ’that
ple of It. Mr. Dinsdale realized
Miss June was miffed. But he soon
had greater cause than that. They
were passing slowly through a village
when they caught sight of the other
auto at the curb in front of a real
estate office. Just then the pompous
man came out and the real estate man
with him. The latter, as it happened
knew Mrs. Temple in a business way,
and he beckoned for her to stop.
When he had asked her about a cer¬
tain piece of property he called to the
pompous man and said to the ladles:
“Mrs. and Miss Temple, permit me
to introduce the Duke of Richmond.
He is thinking of buying five or six
farms of me and creating a large
estate here.”
Both women gasped for breath, and
in the confusion Mr. Dinsdale was
overlooked. Mrs. Temple was a
woman who doted on titles. Here was
a title. Almost before she knew it
she had invited the Duke of Richmond
to call, and he had replied, and he
was looking full at the daughter, that
It would make him the happiest man
In the world. \
Yes, he thought of buying a large
estate in America and settling down
to get married and live out the rest
of his days.
As the Dinsdale auto went on Mrs.
Temple suddenly exclaimed:
“Why—why, Mr. Dinsdale was not
introduced to the Duke!"
“Why, mamma!” said the daughter,
pretending surprise.
“Oh, that’s all right,” replied the
lawyer. “One can run across a duke
or a lord any day In the city.”
“Then you know a number of
them?” queried Miss June.
“In a way, yes. Several hotels have
sent me bills against them to collect.
I have forgotten whether the Duke of
Richmond Is among them or not!”
home. It was That a mean remark the lawyer and it jifruck
was m it.
He was befuddling his own case.
There was a cool silence for five min¬
utes following his remark, and then
both ladies complained of feeling tired
and the auto was turned about. It
was a very formal parting. Three
beads bowed stiffly, and after Mr.
Cold Night for Somnambulist.
It was cold, so cold. In fact, that a
heavy overcoat felt comfortable. A
keen wind kept pedestrians at quick
pace. The hour w r as 10:30. Massa¬
chusetts avenue, was brilliantly lighted
and crowded.
Suddenly a strange figure appeared
at a stairway doer just above New
Jersey street and stopped a moment,
Then, as if it had been determined
that a walk downtown would be re
freshing at that hour of the night, the
figure, with measured tread, began
the journey. It passed under the light
at New Jersey street and Masachu
setts avenue, paused a Second, and
torney across the street saw the fig¬
ure. and exclaimed: “Well. I’ll be
darned."
Other persons watched the figure.
Finally one man with more courage
than the others touched it on the
shoulder. There was an exclamation
of fright, the figure turned and ran
up the avenue and disappeared in the
doorway from which it had emerged a
few minutes before. It was a man. he
was walking in his sleep, and he was
A
Dinsdale was a block ahead he trusted
himself to say to himself:
“If that young lady wants to make
an idiot of herself let her go ahead!"
He tried to make himself believe
that be didn’t care a copper for any
one of the female sex, but what a
sham! He had no sooner reached his
office than be set about tracing the
Duke of Richmond.
As Miss June entered the house she
turned and said to her mother with
great positiveness:
“I think Mr. Dinsdale is the most
disagreeable man I ever met”
“I am both surprised and shocked,”
was the reply.
"I hope he never calls here again!"
“So do I. Thomas must be instruct¬
ed to say that we are not at home to
him.”
Hypocritical June Temple! Within
half an hour she was writing Mr.
Dinsdale a note to say that she had
left her handkerchief in the auto and
“would he be so kind as to bring it
with him when he called again!”
Mr. Dinsdale might have called after
a few evenings, but the lost handker¬
chief would not have been with him
securely wrapped in tissue paper and
then in tinfoil outside. The reason it
wouldn’t was because it was not to
be found in the auto. It had never
been dropped there. It was right be¬
fore the girl as she "wrote the note.
J The lawyer was thinking of calling,
however, when he heard that the
Duke of Richmond was on the job, so
to say. If he wasn't calling every few
minutes it was at least every day.
His highness was having a heap to
say about his title, his castles and
his plans for the future. Mrs. Temple
swallowed the words greedily, but
Miss Temple found that she didn’t
care much about titles and vast es¬
tates and the family jewels of a duch¬
ess. She was more concerned about
a plain young lawyer. She had set
out to make hint sorry, and she was
being sorry herself.
One day the duke called when Mrs.
Temple was alone. He seemed to be
glad to find it so. In one way he was
almost a stranger to her, but in anoth¬
er the friendship had progressed so
fast that he dared to ask for her
daughter’s hand. That is, he wanted
permission to win the hand If he
could. Of course, he had brought
scores of testimonials with him, and
stood ready to submit a barrel or two
of them at any moment.
“I should be proud to be your moth¬
er-in-law,” was the prompt answer re¬
ceived.
“And I should certainly be proud to
call you by that title. As the Duchess
of Richmond your sweet daughter
would have the world at her feet, al¬
most.”
"How grand!”
“I should honor her as if she had
been born queen.”
"I know you would.”
“All I ask is a fair chance to win
her.”
“I will aid you all I can.”
“And there is one more thing, my
dear Mrs. Temple. It is a matter l
must ask you to hold in the strictest
confidence.”
“You have my word that I will,
Duke.” ,
^My solicitors lu’ Loi.au>* tq
send me a hundred thousand dollars a
week ago, but a letter just received
from them says it will be a whole fort¬
night yet before they can comply.
Meanwhile—”
"You need funds?” said Mrs. Tem¬
ple.
“Ah, what a woman! If you have
$3,000 you are not going to use for a
few days—”
“I will gladly give you a check for
it.”
An hour later, when Miss June had
returned and been told of the loan,
she went straight to the telephone and
said to Mr. Dinsdale:
"Come at once with your auto!
Never mind what for, but come!!”
Then she telephoned her mother’s
bank and stopped payment on the
check, and was at the door when the '
auto drove up.
“Where to?” asked the lawyer.
"Fourth National bank."
“What for?”
“To nab the Duke of Richmond!’’
On- the way down two detectives
were picked up. The duke had taken
a trolley car and got into a block, and
had only reached the bank three min¬
utes ahead of the others. He was in
line to present his check, but made a
break to get away when he saw the
detectives.
“Who is lie?” asked Miss June as
Mr. Dinsdale was taking her home.
“Dick Turner, the greatest confi¬
dence man in the country!"
“But he has thirteen trunks at the
Belmont and occupies a parlor suit.”
“He has a carpet-bag and occupies
a room in a cheap lodging house.”
“Gracious, but how he has fooled
mamma!”
“And the real estate men and you
and others!”
“No, not me, sir.”
“And why not?”
"Because I had a feeling—feeling—”
“Well?”
“A feeling that I shouldn’t marry
any other man but you, Brian!”
And Mrs. Temple was the only one |
w ho shed tears and talked of the wick¬
edness of the world.
(Copyright, 1913. by the McClure News¬
paper Syndicate.)
clothed only in a thin shirt.- -Indianap
olis News.
Really Not Borrower’s Fault.
“Now', look here, Thompson, remark¬
ed Bloom, “it is six months since you
borrowed that $10 bill from me.”
“Seven,” corrected Thompson, grave¬
ly.
“Well, then, seven months,” snort¬
ed Bloom; "and you promised to give
it back to me in a week—promised
faithfully to return it to me in seven
days instead of months.”
“I know' it,” answered Thompson,
sadly, drawing a memorandum book
from his pocket. "That bill was mark
and then I spent the money. Since
then I’ve been trying to recover it.”
“But,” shouted Bloom, “any other
would do as well.!'
“No,” responded Thompson, shaking
his head. “I’m a man of my word.
When you gave me the bill I said, T
will return this to you,’ and I meant
it. Bloom, old man, just as soon aa
1 come across No. 672,929 I'll see that
you get it, for I am not the cue to go
back on my promise.”
SOWS* KlffiHiJIONAL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS. Director of Even¬
ing Department. The Moody Bin Is In¬
stitute of Chicagt'.j
LESSON FOR MAY 18
JOSEPH MEETSsHIS BRETHREN.
LESSON TEXT-Gen. 42:3-17.
GOLDEN TEXT -"Whatsoever a man
soweth, tiiat shall he also reap." Gal.
«:T.
Joseph was thirty years of age when
he reached his positton of supreme au¬
thority, but w e ough t not to allow our¬
selves to forget 'fliose thirteen years
of humiliation, during which he was
betrayed, sold into slavery and neg¬
lected by those whom he befriended.
Yet those were days of fidelity in his
service, of victory over fierce tempta¬
tion, of enduring am just imprisonment,
—a long period ct patient waiting but
a valuable period In that now at thirty
years of age he comes to this position
of power fully equipped with that
knowledge of meM, control of himself
and faith in Goias to be properly flt
ted for the burtQm of responsibility
thrust upon him.
Did IVSt Forget.
i. The Brothers Need, vv. 3-6. The
famine was not eruiftjfed to Egypt, but
reached over to Canaan, where Jacob
and his sons lived. The desperate¬
ness of the famine is indicated by Ja¬
cob’s command to buy, “that we may
live, and not die/’ But Jacob is too
old to travel, hence the brothers un¬
dertake the journey. Twenty-two
years have pasced since that experi¬
ence when Joseph's brethren cast him
into the pit. They have been years
filled with wonderful experiences for
Joseph. Now their attitude is changed;
instead of being his tormentors they
are suppliants at. his fee't. During
these seven years of garnering Joseph
had set up his own family and two
sons were born, the names of whom
were significant. Manasseh, "God
hath made me 'TStget all my toil, and
all my father’s house.” But as we see
from this less >n he did not forget,
and these subs^fteent events make it
impossible to believe he harbored any
bitterness against his father’s house.
The possession of a child of his own
would naturally quicken his inquiries
as to his fathgjL's household, for he
assumed that ,u the order of events
his father must 45fc dead.
II. A Brother’s Memory, vv. 7-17. Jo¬
seph at once recognized his bro'.hers,
but treated them brusquely, demand¬
ing from whence they came and the
purpose that brought them hither
(v. 7). AgaliS<|iv. 8, 9) the text re¬
minds us that Joseph remembered.
Only God can forgive and forget. But
Joseph is an inspiration to us that
though we may not be able to forget
ye can forgim. —The question might
ue raised. dldt Joseph dis-t
simulate?” The answer is threefold:
(1) Joseph desired to ascertain the
characters of his brothers. Did they
remember? Yes. for they replied that
they were “twelve brethren." Ten
were before him, one at home and
“one is not.” That their characters
were not entirely changed is evi¬
denced by their words, "We are true
men” (v. 11), whi^h of course was not
the truth. (2) Joseph desired to know
of his father and of their home life.
The accusatloA that the brothers are
spies called forth the statement that
the father, J?fcob. is still alive. The
third reason for this treatment devel¬
oped out of these first two, viz., Jo¬
seph desired >’o reach his father and
Benjamin, whom he had never seen.
We do not commend Joseph’s method
as being of ,*.be highest ethical value,
for his standard was not the standard
of the man who knows Christ. Joseph
is a type; there is only one perfect
man, Jesus Christ, and Joseph points
toward that promised Saviour. It is
perhaps true that Joseph is the most
faultless man, aside from Jesus, pre¬
sented in the Scriptures, but yet he
sinned. Rom. 3:23. The Bible does
not defend all of the characters it
presents, and it thereby stands
apart from all other books. Joseph
knew full well that his brothers were
not spies and we do not believe he
was justified entirely in the emphatic
repetition of that assertion (Eph.
4:25).'- Let us trust God and tell the
truth, John 8:44. In connection with
Joseph's rough treatment of his bieth
ren we have had our attention called
to the Master’s treatment of the Syro
Phoenician woman. She came to him
on wrong grounds and not till she
stood before Jesus on the ground of
faith in his mercy and grace was her
petition granted. Joseph’s brothers
di(j not recognize him who was as one
raised from the dead to them, even as
the early disciples failed to recognize
Jesus on the Resurrection Day.
Guilty Consciences.
Joseph knew his brothers told the
truth about their not being spies, but
he also knew that they lied when they
asserted themselves to be true men
and that one brother “is not.” Here
is the lesson of mistaken estimates of
one’s self and that a man’s true value
is known and appreciated. Little did
they realize, however, that their false¬
hood was being read as it was uttered
and that the man before whom they
were standing was this same brother.
Joseph affected not to believe any of
their story and demanded proof (vv.
15, 16) of their assertions. After three
days in jail he appeared to relent and
ordered that only one of their number
should remain as hostage. The result
of all is shown in v. 21. After invol¬
untarily leaving Simeon shut up in the
Egyptian prison their minds traveled
back to that time twenty years before
and they remembered Joseph's an¬
guish and distress when they would
not hear, “therefore is this distress
come upon us.” Their guilty con¬
sciences are aroused.
Jacob’s cry, “All things are against
me,” v. 36-, was a mistake. Joseph
was alive and exalted that he might
save the life of Jacob and his chil¬
dren. Simeon was alive and drawing
his brothers back to Egypt. Benjamin
would come back safely.
ERADICATING CATTLE
Increased Activity Expected to
low Revision of Quarantine
Regulations
Washington, D. C.—Increased
tivity in the work of eradicating
cattle tick may be expected to
the revision of the quarantine
lations just announced by the
States Department of
This is the opinion expressed
President Finley of the Southern
way company, who said:
“The provision that cattle may
shipped from the quarantined
under the certificate of an
of the Bureau of Animal
that they have been dipped
with an interval of from five to
days, in an arsenical solution
otherwise treated in a manner
factory to the secretary of
ture and under the supervision
an inspector and that they are
from infection, will greatly
farmers to get the ticks out of
herds. It will enable the
farmer to benefit from liis work
fore the locality in which he lives
entirely released from
The revised regulations indicate a
sire of the department of
to remove restrictions on the
ment of cattle from the
area so far as it may safely be
“Simultaneously with the
of the more libera! regulations,
departmeut has revised the
tine line, releasing large areas
the regions where systematic
against the tick has been carried
and making the total area
since 1905 more than 187,000
miles. Work against the tick
especially active in Mississippi
at the close of the year 1912
were 2,181 dipping vats in
In one county in this state there
185 vats. Similar activity
the entire quarantined area
make the complete destruction of
tick only the matter of a very
years.”
Evidently He Had Not.
It is told of a certain
Englishman that while on one
sion he was writing a letter in a
taurant he noticed a Scotchman
ing it over his shoulder. ,r The
concluded as follows: i would
more if it were not for
tive Scotchman who is looking
niy shoulder and reading every
I write.” “it's a lie, sir,” shouted
Scotchman, I haven’t seen a word.”
From a Foreign Guide.
“Finest and viewfulest place.
on moderiiest principles. The
not being adapted for healtli resort
ills, is only preserved for the
journ of passengers, tourists
sportsmen. Reputed excellent
ing. Noble, real, well lain wines,
ferent beers. The magnificent
is prandious. Daily six trains to all
parts of the globe. Free view at the
lovely lake.’
Those Cold Chills.
“Can you imagine,” asked Sir
est Shaekleton, “the enormous
oil these !ast wnow field*?’’ “Yes,”
plied the. Irish member, “I had
•same siiijation in public the first toime I
peared wearing a dress
shirt.”—London Chronicle.
Made His Speech Too Long.
Little Herbert, aged five, was in¬
vited to a party, and before leaving
home he was cautioned to be sure to
say “Thank you” to the hostess and
tell her he had a nice time. On leav¬
ing he said to the hostess: “Thank
you very much. I had a nice time,
and your supper was good enough.”
High Priced Sermon.
Perhaps the highest price paid for
a sermon goes every year to a Ger¬
man preacher, who discourses on the
good deers of a French baron named
Favart, who died in Elberfeld in 1690.
Favart left money for this purpose,
and the interest now amounts to
920 pounds per annum, which goes to
the preacher as his reward.
Beside the Mark.
Excited remarks of opera mana¬
gers to the contrary notwithstanding,
the proof of an opera singer is in
his or her voice.
Science in Popular Speech.
“Language was given for the con¬
cealment of thought,’’ said the ready¬
made philosopher. “Yes.” replied
Miss Cayenne. “Many an impropriety
is hidden by a scientific word of four
or five syllables.”
As Usual.
There was a woman in our town
who was so v.’onderous wise she used
her ears for hearing things, for see¬
ing things her eyes. And when she'd
hear and seen it all. what did this
female do but use her tongue for
telling every blessed tiling she knew.
Hidden Meaning Somewhere.
Visitor—“My husband considered a
very long time before he proposed
to me. He was very careful.” Host¬
ess—“Ah it is always those careful
people who get taken in!"
Worth Extra Time.
“Prisoner at the bar,” said the
judge, “is there anything you wish to
say before sentence is passed upon
you?” “No, -my lord, there is nothin’
I care to say; but if you’ll clear away
the tables and chairs for me to
thrash my lawyer, you can give me
a year or two extra."
Daily Thought.
I think it takes a great deal from a
woman's modesty going into public
life: and modesty is her greatest
charm.—Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher.
Economical.
While in a lunch room one day five
year old Beatrice ordered omelet,
and later her guardian was surprised
to see her eating the parsley, too.
•‘Do you like parsley?” “No,’’answered
Boat rice, “but I hate to see things
wasted.”
Telephone Score.
To know whether your telephone
has rung while you are absent, place
a piece of carbon paper between the
bell and the. clapper. When the bell
.ings the clapper will make a mark.
The Ascens rOWORK
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Fit. Attack the cause,
of Chris! Jamed ping ay. c kidneys. and work and once is congested, hard the kid- on
[getting worse.
running disease into gravel,
'4 is serious.
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Dot of the Moody I pd kidneys.
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TEXL-When he
things, lie was taken their!
eelved him out ot
Jggljg^
just as that event aw'aits the fruition
of its purpose in his return again to
the earth; for it is not till then that
the divine plan concerning his man¬
ifested kingdom will begin to ap¬
proach fulfillment.
But that which gives peculiar inter¬
est to Christ’s ascension is its bear¬
ing on our spiritual life today, for if
we are being established in the faith,
enlightened in the knowledge of God,
sanctified in our souls and anointed
by the Holy Spirit for service, all
blessings viour’s are the in result heaven of our Sa- in- j j
presence as our j
terceding high priest at the right
hand of God.
At the ascension the body of Jesus
did not vanish into nothing, fqr not
only did the desciples see him as he
went up, but Stephen beheld him af¬
terwards, standing at the right-hand
of God (Acts VII. 55-56). Moreover,
the angels on Mount Olivet said to the
desciples that he would so come in
like manner as he was seen to go
Acts, 1-11). In other words, heaven
is a locality and Jesus Christ, the
glorified God-man, is there. We can¬
not understand how the original body
of Jesus was transmuted into his res¬
urrection and glorified body, any more
than we can understand how heavy
wated is changed into light vapor, or
dark flint into transparent glass, by
heat; but we know that he is in the
same body, although now in another
form of existence and standing under
other laws. How the thought digni¬
ties our conception of human nature
and broadens our idea of the scope
of the atonement! The presence of
his glorified body in Leaven takes
away any vagueness as to our own
glorified bodies being there, if we
have been united to him by a living
faith—becquse he lives, we shall live
also.
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and death on behalf of guilty men?
Was it not the joy set before him for
which he was willing to endure the
cross, despising the shame? And yet
there is more to follow, when, in the
regeneration of the heavens and the
earth, he shall sit upon the throne of
his power in the sight of the whole
universe, and every knee shall bow to
him and every tongue confess that he
is lord, to the glory of God the father
(Philippians II. 9-11),
Of course we speak now, only of his
human nature, of the God-man consid¬
ered as the mediatorial prince. Such
terms do not pertain to his deity, in
which sense his glory could not be
enhanced and the thought of reward
is entirely excluded.
But the ascension of Jesus Christ
means great things for us who believe
on him as well as great things for
himself. It means the reinstatement
of our nature in all its lost honors,
in reconciliation with God. It means
our reception into Paradise and par¬
ticipation in endless felicity. If Christ
had risen from the dead and still re¬
mained on earth, we might have been
assured of deliverance from the grave,
and possibly a protracted residence
here; but what we desire before ail
things is reunion with God, the hab¬
itation of glory and the communion i
of his presence. The ascension se- i
cures this. j
Furthermore, the descent of the
Holy Ghost on the day of pentecost
as the guide and comforter of the
church, could not have taken place if
Christ had remained upon the earth.
It was expedient for him to go away
that this might become true. The
spirit of God is the successor of the
Son of God in his official ministery on
earth (John XVI. 7-15). It is his of¬
fice to complete the image of Christ in
every believer, but as another beau¬
tifully says, "The Divine Artist could
not fitly descend to make the copy be¬
fore the entire original had been com¬
pleted. But the complete Christ was
not ready to be communicated to liis
church until he had not only died and
risen again, but ascended into glory.”
Oh, you to whom these truths have
no meaning, in whose esteem they are
as foolishnesses, think what you are
losing now, and shall forever lose, if j
they be true! I would have you fol-1
low the example of John Keble, who,
conscious of his groveling thoughts
which lay half buried, roamed lawless¬
ly around this earthly waste, ex¬
claimed,
“Chains of my heart, avaunt. I say—
I will arise, and In the strength of love
Pursue the bright track ’ere It fade away. |
My a r ’ 3 Pa “ !Way ‘° His Home
abo ve” #
But It is useless to urge a man to !
do this without telling him how to
do it. When, or how, can one obtain
this “strength of love" of which the
poet speaks? How can he pursue "the
right track” whose eyes are blinded
by sin and the things of the present
world.” WLj . will seek the "homo
above” unless be shall be awakened to
its glories? It i3 God only who can
accomplish these things in human ex¬
perience, and he begins the work by
weakening the ties of earth, and re¬
vealing the loathsomeness of sin and
th» peril of unbelief.
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sidi
see:
the ea^P^^fiis
tory of our Sa¬
viour referred to
in these words
viz: His ascen¬
sion into heaven.
The incarnation,
death and resur¬
rection of Jesus
Christ are each
and all of them
incomplete with¬
out the
, Sd pained
all ■ibly. I was
run down.
Doan's Kidney
Pills gave my
life kidneys new
and a few
boxes cured me
completely.”
Get Doan’s at Any Store. 50c a Box
BSAgaSSSSK
At the Army Maneuvers.
Medical Officer—What did you do
first of all?
Ambulance Man—Gave ’im some
brandy, sir.
Medical Officer—Quite right; but
what would you have done if you
hadn’t any brandy?
Ambulance Man (promptly)—Prom¬
ised 'ini some.—Punch.
ALMOST LOST
HER REASON
But Thanks To An Old Friend,
This Terrible Catastrophe
Was Avoided.
Tampa, Fla.—Mrs. E. C. Coraro of
No. 2905 Highland Ave. says; “I was
very weak and worn out from woman¬
ly troubles. My husband bought me
two bottles of Cardui to take as a
tonic, and from the first day it seemed
to me I felt its good effects.
By the time I had used the two bot¬
tles, I felt and looked like a new
woman.
Some time later I got my feet wet
at the wrong time, and I turned to
Cardui to remedy the mischief done.
Before I had taken one bottle it
gave me the needed relief.
Again, in later life, when passing
over a critical time, I almost lost my
reason, but thanks to three or four
bottles of Cardui, I did not. That has
been 15 years ago. tarn now 59 years
of age, and feeling fine.
I constantly praise Cardui to all my
sick friends.
It is a wonderful remedy.”
This earnest letter should take from
your mind any doubt you might have
as to the merits of Cardui, the wom¬
an’s tonic. Mrs. Coram is certainly
competent to recommend Cardui,
since it helped her over three critical
stages of life.
“T.
Ladies’ M.. 'B.—Wrtte Advisory to: Dept., Chattanooga Chattanooga, Medicine Co..
Tenn , for
wrapper. Adv.
Absolutely No Admittance.
The New York Evening Post re¬
minds us of a good story told of the
late Lord Wolseley, or Sir Garnet
as he then was, during the
occupation of Egypt. Deem¬
it advisable, for obvious reasons,
place a guard around the harem of
local potentate, a brother officer,
into an adjacent garden, was
by a sentinel. “Hi, sir; you
go there, sir!” “Don’t you see
I am?” protested the officer. “1
Colonel Blank of the--” “Yes,
I know,” interrupted the trooper,
“but they's leddies livin’
that ’ouse, an’ th' borders f'm Sir
is that 'e's not to be let to go
there ’isaelf—no matter 'ow bad he
to.”
Envy Rewarded.
They were sitting side by side on
soft when the young aftthoi’ said:
“Yes, I have a new volume in the
“How I envy that volume," eaid the
girl, blushing.
When he saw the point they were
very happy.
Undesirable Neighbors.
"There’s a foreign couple living in
flat next to us, and they are sim¬
torment to my wife.”
“Why so?”
“They quarrel incessantly, and she
understand a word of it.”—Louis¬
CourieY-Journal.
CLEAREp AWAY
Food Put the Troubles Away.
Our own troubles always seem more
than any others. But when a
is unable to eat even a light
for years, without severe
he has trouble enough.
“it is small wonder he likes to teil of
which cleared away the troubles.
“I am glad of the opportunity to
of the good Grape-Nuts has done
me," writes a N. II. man. “For
- v y eara 1 " as unable to eat even
]i S ht breakfast without great suffer
"After eating I would suddenly bs
with an attack of colic and
This would be followed by
and misery that would some¬
last a week or more, leaving me
weak I could hardly sit up or walk.
Since I began to eat Grape-Nuts .I *
been free from the old troubles.
usually eat Grape-Nuts one or more
a day, taking it at the beginning
the meal. Now I can eat almost
I want without trouble.
“When I began to use Grape-Nuts I
way under my usual weight, now I
30 pounds more than I ever J
in my life, and I am giad tc
of the food that has worked tV|
Name given by Pcs turn Col
Creek, Mien. Read the littll ij
“The Road to Wellville,”
“There’s a Reason.”
Ever read the above letter? A oi-v
ffenulue. appears from true, time and to full time. of h.im.if TheJ
