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ELLIJAY COURIER
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
ELLIJAY. GA.
The per capita circulation of straw¬
berries is Increasing.
Speaking of cubists, where does our
genial iceman come In?
What’s the score today? makes
beggar and billionaire brothers.
Soon will be time for the crop of
“rock the boat fools” to ripen.
One way to avoid cAld storage eggs
and chicken is to own a farm.
Own a farm so that you can snap
your lingers at cold storage chicken.
One hundred years ago the silk hat
was introduced. A style that never is
new.
It is almost time for the sacrificial
fly to be led in, garlanded with rue and
swatted.
“The man with the hoe” is abroad
in the land in large quantities, and
overalls.
Swatting flies is about as effective
as the effort to catch elephants with
flypaper.
The lobster crop may be short but
there’s just as many persons eating
crow as ever.
Meaning nothing in particular, what
frequently seems to be simplified spell¬
ing is simply pled.
However, baseball was an interest¬
ing game even before percentage col¬
umns were Invented.
A St. Louis man dropped dead while
starting the kitchen fire. This should
be a warning to all wives.
The fact that duty on castor oil has
been reduced, will be hailed with parti¬
cular delight by every kid.
Hereafter, gents, always manage to
have a love letter about your person.
Besides producing a feeling akin to
rare enjoyment. It is practically a sure
means of identification in case of sui¬
cide.
An Australian city Is kicking be¬
cause It has been named "Can¬
berra,” which really means “laughing
jackass.” In kicking, the town is
only exercising its natural prerog¬
ative.
Any fair minded man who will study
the matter carefully and dispassion¬
ately will concede that all persons
dealing in soda water by the glass
should be required to keep the glasses
clean. •
If fashion’s rule that man must
^wear tight clothes is carried out to
"the letter,let us' assure you that stturr
of us will not be seen outside the
house except between midnight and
dawn.
That baby show to be judged by
■doctors on other points than curls
and cuteness, will at least give the
fond mothers a chance to inquire,
what do the doctors know about ba¬
bies, anyway?
A Chinese assassin who killed the
wrong man politely apologized to the
police for his mistake. But there are
times when even politeness falls to
be a palliative, and this seems to have
been one of them.
Fashion says woman’s skirts will
be worn tighter than ever this sea¬
son. And then the next step in the
evolution of skirts will be that which
clings tightly and occasionally are
seen on a chorus lady.
A Pennsylvania judge says that
many upright men get drunk. But
not many drunken men get up¬
right.
Mow they say that Washington not
only swore, but wrote poetry once in
a while. In a sort of cursory way,
mayhap.
Why, women want to know, should
they be required to wear protectors
on the points of their hatpins when it
would be so much easier for men to
wear protective goggles, which would
realy improve their looks?
In Berlin they are showing pictures
of how the stoipach works when in
active service. This is, no doubt,
very interesting, but the majority
are stomach more interested w’orks in in active feeling how j j
the service,
One young plumber was annoyed
when in a New York civil service ex¬
amination he was asked to define
"right ascension.” And yet it is easy.
A right ascension is a home run hit
to the fence when the bases are
full.
The homeless dog will probably
howl at the announcement made
lately that two billicn cans are made
a year.
Thumb prints on safes may mean
much to sleuths, but those on the res¬
taurant plates usually mean a new
cookee.
We are now informed that the doc¬
tors knew how to operate for appendi¬
ces in the middle ages, which shows
that life then was as insecure as it is
today.
Why is It that when a man is look¬
ing for a gas leak he always finds it
when he uses a match to aid him in
his search?
One hundred years ago "a solitary
horseman might have been seen”—
now, however, nothing is seen except
automobiles.
“More autos, fewer horses, less
flies,” is the way one theorist looks
at it. Are we to assume that the fly
will not be eliminated until everybody
has an auto?
(W. a
PAYS TO BE GOOD
One Was Pretty Bad, but the
Other Was Good Enough
for Both.
By JOANNA SINGLE.
Richards sat down and wrote the
letter with a distinctly virtuous feel¬
ing. He Uked the Golden Rule, if
his girt was off in the country and in
process of what Richards graphically
called “acting up’’ with a chap like
Eaton, he would thank any friend for
putting him wise! Richards was al¬
ways more brief than elegant.
Therefore in the stuffy little coun¬
try poatofflce he pushed his hat back
from *his plump, perspiring counte¬
nance and with his tongue slightly
protruding to help him along, he pen¬
ned the following letter shutting his
ears to all June outside. He wrote
thus:
"Dear Fred: —
“You must have gone off your nut
to stick there making a little more
beastly cash on this first day of June!
What’s the use of making more money
to get married on and meanwhile let¬
ting the other fellow get the girl? As
I understand it, you aren’t any too
solid with Rose. It’s nothing to me,
of course, but in that case why allow
absence to make her heart grow fond¬
er of that chump, Eaton? He’s here
and right on the Job, and owes you
no good will, besides being dead crazy
after her from the start. Come out
of it and look after your own Inter¬
ests. This is my first and last holler
on the subject.
“I might add, If it’s necessary, that
she looks like a wild posy. Her moth¬
er doesn't object to Eaton’s filthy
lucre, neither does Rose dislike his
motor and his boat, being a human
girl. The moonlight on the lake is
glorious. 1 stayed with her last night
till she hated me, and I want to do
some fussing on my own account in¬
stead of looking after your .property.
If 1 wasn’t so fat I'd take her away
from you myself.
“Rosie's mother Is certainly the
Ideal country hostess and 1 must say
I like early June better than late
September for an outing. It’s great,
after toiling on a city newspaper all
winter, 1 feel like, a colt turned out
to pasture—I want to kick conven¬
tions and society and all law to pieces
—but I don’t. It pays to be good.
But not too good—to a girl. If you
are, she marries somebody else.
“Elsie Ragan is coming out tomor¬
row. She doesn’t mind my figure and
laughs at my jokes. Come on out
Saturday and let the office go to—
thunder. Note my reserve!
“Yours,
“DICKY."
“P. S.—Dude all up In your white
flannels when you come. D.
“P. S. again.—While I think of it,
who knows much about Eaton, save
that he comes from out west?
Where’d he get his money, and who
the Sam Patch is he, anyhow? D.”
Fred Knowlton read the letter with
a puzzled frown. His work needed
him—and apparently Miss Rose Carey
thought she didn’t. He called himself
a fool for being bound to a girl who
would as yet give him but a half-prom¬
ise. She said she was not sure of
herself, which might mean that she
was too sure of him, and willing to
have another free summer. The en¬
gaged girl is more or less under sur¬
veillance, bound by a thousand ham¬
pering little conventions. Had Rose
been openly betrothed to Frederic she
could not have motored about with
this new breezy young westerner, thus
waking envy In various female
bosoms. Dicky was right in calling
her a human girl.
As that gentleman left the postoffice
he saw her whizzing by with Eaton,
her hair a golden cloud in the sun and
wind. He gave another good wish to
his friend Fred, and went his fat and
happy way to the lake for a swim.
Sweltering in town, for the summer
was hot unseasonably early, Fred
Knowlton went on thinking and frown¬
ing and working. He was not sure
about Richards’ advice. And as he
thought, his anger rose, steadily but
surely. Rose wanted him, or she
didn’t. He- didn't know that he cared
to make the girl he loved the bone of
a more or less savage contention with
Eaton or anyone else. Her apparent
faithlessness rankled and hurt. But
he stuck to his desk another week.
One evening he sat at his window
and looked out on the hot street and
remembered how a month ago on a
soft May night he had walked with
Rose Carey and told her all his heart.
She had half yielded, she did care,
but she was not sure she—wanted to
be—married just yet. And she did
not love anybody else, oh, no! And
finally she let him have one small but
rapturous kiss, and consented to wear
the little old silver ring that was his
mother’s. But—they weren’t exactly
engaged—not quite. He had told her
that he was engaged to her, anyway,
and that he would wait for her to
know her own mind. After that Eaton
had come out to see the Calls, and
had stayed, and stayed, and finally
sent for his car and motor boat and
“Lest We Forget.”
That all nations are uot ungrateful
is shown by the annual ceremony per¬
formed in France by our American
ambassador. Every year, usually in
the presence of the many American
tourists then in the city, he places a
fresh flag upon the grave of Marpuis
de La Fayette, in an isolated convent
cemetery in Paris. Although it is now
nearly 150 years since the gallant gen¬
eral' came to the aid of our struggling
colonies, his memory is still green in
the hearts of our grateful countrymen.
It is probably the only place in the
world, outside of our country coun¬
try, where Uncle Sam so decorates
a grave.
This Hen Lays Flat Eggs.
If In' the days of Columbus all the
eggs had been like those laid by
one of six Black Minorcas owned by
Hugh J. Lettimore of 41 Clinton
street, Newtown, N. J., the great dis
coverer would never have been able
to do that famous egg trick.
And the reason is that one of Let
timore’s six Minorcas Iay3 an egg
all the rest. From the first he bad
devoted himself to Rose.
Still Frederic stubbornly stayed in
town, even Sunday. He stopped writ¬
ing daily letters to Rose, and the ones
he did write were brief and to the
point. He loved her, but he couldn't
come out He was too busy, and
would be until August. He was glad
that she was in the country and that
she liked the new house her mother
had bought. He did not ask her If
she cared for him. And all {he time
he grew more sullen as one friend
after another, coming to town,
dropped him a hint, or more, that
Rose was almost continuously with
this Eaton man, with her mother's
evident consent
For four days he did not write to
Rose, and on the fifth came a pretty f
note from her. Was he all right?
Couldn’t he come out for the week¬
end? It was lovely—roses blooming
everywhere. She was having such a
good time. She was, as ever, Rose.
This might mean everything, or noth¬
ing at all. He reflected that girls
have no honor about their signatures
as a rule.
On that day Richards breezed back
to his paper minus ten pounds of his
fat and correspondingly boastful. Also
he was engaged to Elsie Ragan. He
was important.. He gave Fred a look
of pity and contempt as he left after
a brief call.
“Say, you gave her up too easily,
old chap—” he began, and to his as¬
tonishment Fred gave a savage scowl
and a menacing gesture.
“Clear out, Dicky! What you don't
know would fill a library!" Dicky
cleared out with a suppressed whistle
and a remark as to the temper of a
city-bound man. And Frederic Knowl¬
ton sat down and wrote a letter.
“Dear Rose: —
“This has been a crucial time with
my business and I wanted to make
good in order to give my wife every
comfort. I have had no time for out¬
door courting. 1 told you that 1 loved
you and I meant It then—and mean It
now. I asked you to marry me and
you put me off with a half-promise.
But you have my ring and have owed
me some consideration.
“Almost everybody who has been
out at the lake says, Intentionally or
otherwise, that your whole time and
attention Is taken up by John Eaton.
He may be all right. That is for
your family to make sure of. But 1
am now sure of this—that you do not
love me and are afraid to say so flatly.
Don’t you know me better than that,
little girl? So now 1 shall give you
your freedom and ask you to send me
back my mother’s ring. You see 1
don't want to hold you against your
will to even a half promise. You are
entirely free. I hope you will be
happy.
“FREDERIC KNOWLTON."
He savagely stamped and sealed the
letter and himself took It to the office
so that she would get it that night.
He grimly told himself that now he
Vouid really put his mind on his busi¬
ness. But life felt empty and forlorn
enough.
The next morning he was called to
the telephone—by Rose’s mother.
“We’re at the town house,” she saffi
.
quietly. “Rose wants you to come
out right away.”
“I can’t,”'he answered, for he
thought he could not bear the torture
of seeing her.
"You’ll—have to, Frederic, I am
afraid,” she replied, and hung up with¬
out further parley.
He seized his hat and took the first
car out to Carey place. Her mother
let him into the stuffy house.
"You’ll find Rose in the library,"
she said a bit stiffly.
Wondering, still angry, but eager,
the young man went down the hall
and opened the library door. Rose,
tanned, lovely in her white dress, held
out both bands to him. He tried a
moment to resist and then took them
both in his. But he held her off at
arm’s length and searched her face.
Tears filled her eyes.
“Oh, Freddie,” she said, "You 1 —I—I
want your little ring! I want to—
keep it—always.”
“And me, too?" he asked a bit grim¬
ly. “Do you know yet whether you
want me for keeps?"
She laughed a little laugh through
her tears and came close to lay her
head against his sleeve while she held
to him with her brown, strong little
hands.
“Yes,” she answered. “I know—1
didn’t want anyone but you the min¬
ute I saw I might—lose you. I guess
—I’ve been pretty bad! But
good enough—for both of us, aren’t
you?”
Frederic Knowlton gave her a little
shake. light to his She heart. was always an utter de¬
(Copyright, 1913, by the McClure News¬
paper Syndicate.)
Unpleasant Result.
“Nurse, is my temperature going
up?”
"I am sorry to say it is, sir.”
“So am I, for so will my doctor’s
bill.”
Close Shave at That.
Bix—So you are now living in the
suburbs? Do you have to walk to the
train mornings?
Dix—No, run.”
may easily be set upright. Except
for this the egg is like any other bit
of hen fruit.
But which one of the sextet con¬
tributes the flat-ended egg is a mys¬
tery. The first egg was found a week
ago. Lettimore. who says no one has
access to the coop except himself,
has watched very closely to see
which of the hens produces the.freak,
but his vigil is in vain. Even using
a trap nest has failed, as the hen
makes her nest after the manner of
the ostrich. The freak iB attracting
much attention from the poultrymen
of Newtown.—New York World.
Their Reason.
Why do all the mermaids in the sto¬
ries sit on a rock combing their golden
hair?”
“I guess they are waiting there for
the marcel waves.”
;
On the Water Wagon.
“Why are you ordering stat’ch wa¬
ter?”
i "Because my wife is ordered a temberance
worker, and my doctor a stiff
drink.”
What IsThy
Name?.
By RF.V.PARLEY E. ZARTMANN. D.D.
Svcrcury ol FnnMin« Deputaoit
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'wonderful dBSracter and God intend¬
ed him for a great work, although to
accomplish his purpose he had hard
work with this one of the leaders of
the Jewish race. To understand this
tharacter requires and invites pro¬
found stu'dy, and as a result we shall
not be inclined to throw stones at
him. How much he Is like ourselves.
His failings appeal to us and comfort
us; his aspirations speak to us and
Sheer us in our own efforts; his sor¬
rows bring comfort in our own timej
of bereavement and separation. If
ever you are discouraged or down¬
hearted, take courage. The God who
wrought wonders In Jacob and in
Simon Peter can do as much for’ you,
if he can have his way with you.
The chapter in which the text is
found is a great chapter in the life
of this unusual man, and markB a
crisis in his temporal career and in
his spiritual experience; and the lat¬
ter was of far more importance, for
God was making this man a new head
of the race which he had designated
his own. There are three Im¬
portant scenes in the chapter. Morn¬
ing, when the angel host met him;
afternoon, when he received news that
Easau was coming to meet him and
this news stirred him to fear and
brought him to prayer; and night,
when he was alone with God and
there wrestled a man with him. In
these scenes the’temporal and spir¬
itual life of Jacob begin anew, and
two lessons stand out clearly: First,
God demands spiritual men for spir¬
itual work; second, surrender to God
is the only but the necessary, condi¬
tion to this spiritual life. At the
end of the struggle we read that God
blessed him th'ere.
The Struggle.
Let us not miss the facts of the
*t% nor . misinteijHwb them. How
often we hear or tead that Jacob
wrestled with God at Peniel: but we
read “And Jacob was left alone; and
there wrestled a man with him until
the breaking of the day." It does not
represent Jacob as beginning the
struggle, but as being the second
party in the contest. It is not an il¬
lustration of wrestling with God In
prayer.. It was an endeavor on God’s
part to break down Jacob’s opposi¬
tion, to bring him to an end of him¬
self, to take from him all self-trust,
all confidence in his own cleverness
and resources, to make him know
that Esau is to be overcome and
Canaan gained not by craft or flattery
but by divine grace and power; and
step by step as we go through we'ob- the
dfory and study the experience
serve the contrast between nature and
grace, man and God, self-effort and di¬
vine power. Men crush the quartz
to get out the gold, but God crushes
the man to get the gold into him. He
gets’ Jacob into a corner, and so he
deals with us when we are trying to
make our own plans successful.
“And when he saw that he prevail¬
ed not against him he touched the
hollow' of his thigh; and the hollow
of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as
he wrestled with him.” Just where
Jacob considers himself the strongest,
there God put his finger and brings his
strength to naught; it is only when
we are weak that we are really
strong; it is just when God has put
his finger on our place of resistance
that the way is open for blessing,
power and usefulness. It is a differ¬
ent place and a different experience
with each one of us. God brings pain
and sorrow, shame and confusion, or
loss and grief, as the case may be. In
a thousand different ways he seeks to
make us like unto himself; but at the
end he accomplishes his purposes and
causes us to rejoice in him. His
touch always takes away the power
to wrestle, but not always the desire;
but may it do that for you, and do it
now r .
The Question.
“What is thy name?” And he told
the truth; let us give this wily man all
credit for that. A few days ago he
would have said it—and with pride—
but now with confession and confu¬
sion: “And he said, Jacob.” God asks
you that question; I pray you, tell him
the truth. You may hide your real
name and character from men. but not
from God. Be honest with him. It
may bring shame, confusion, tears, but
tell him that you thought you were
; so and so. but now at close grips with
God you know you are only Jacob
“Vile and full of sin I am. thou are
full of grace and truth.” God s great¬
est difficulty is our own lack of hon¬
esty, want of fairness, and failure to
give up everything except a claim on
the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
The Result.
“And he said, Thy name shall be
called no more Jacob (Suplanter), but
Israel: for as a prince hast thou pow¬
er with God and with men, and hast
prevailed. . . . And he blessed
him there. . . And the sun rose
upon him.” Three gracious results
folkwed this remarkable experience:
A new name or character, a new pow¬
er, and a new experience; no wonder
Jacob called the name of the place
Peniel, “For I have met God face to
face.”
//
The Bible Is an
honest book; it
does not hide any¬
thing when it
tells us the story
of a man’s life;
and this very
characteristic is
one of the evi¬
dences of the di¬
vine origin and in
spiration of the
book; an unin¬
spired man would
have left out the
dark pages and
dark places.
Jacob was a
MENACED BY “DEVIL”
Missionary Has Thrilling Adven¬
ture in Africa.
Elder D. C. Babcock Narrates His
Experience With Followers of
Heathen God “Manaka," Who
Demands Noses of Women.
Sierra Leone, West Africa.—With
the arrival of the Seventh-Day Ad¬
ventists' headquarters in Takoma
Park of Elder D. C. Babcock and wife
and little son from Sierra Leone,
West Africa, to attend the quadren¬
nial session of the general confer¬
ence, was heard the story of a hor¬
rible devil-worshiping celebration
among the heathen of that country
and a threat to slash off the nose of
Mrs. Babcock if she left the house.
Mr. and Mrs. Babcock have spent sev¬
eral years as missionaries in Africa.
Elder Babcock recently told of the
threats made against him by the devil
worshipers.
“One evening we left a village
about 150 miles interior from Free
Town,” said Mr. Babcock. "It was
rumored that ’Manaka,’ the greatest
of these devils, would appear in the
village. In the English ‘Manaka’
means cut-nose devil, and he especial¬
ly takes vengeance on women. There
are many women with their noses cut
off by this monster. They tell you
that if any woman looks at him she
will surely lose her nose. The wives
of the chief came over early and ad¬
vised Mrs. Babcock to go Into her
room and hide away so that she
would not become disfigured.
“ ‘Manaka’ is now under the con¬
trol of an old woman; the chief of a
neighboring village, who claims that
she has passed from the stage of
womanhood to that of a man, and al¬
lows no one to call her mamma, buf
daddy. Her very appearance’strikes
terror to the people of the town
where she visits. For some (days be¬
fore the appearance of Manaka she
would pass our rooms, evidently hop¬
ing to terrorize us so that we would
not dare to be outside when her devil
appeared.
“At last the evening arrived when
he was to make his appearancp. The
moon Shone brightly, and the Bundu
women (a secret society) were put in
the bush beating their drums, dancing
and singing. It was late in the night
and Mrs. Babcock had retired, think¬
ing that nothing would transpire.
Personally, 1 was anxious to see what
would come of the report that bad
come to us, and I remained out on the
veranda until about 11 o’clock. Away
in the hideous distance there had was hean^the hoard.
most sounds I ever
“The noise from the Bundu wpmen
at once ceased, • and within tern min
Natives
utes no one could be found j On the
streets. The silence of death/reigned
in the village. J
“As Manaka neared dreadful/. the village th«
sound became more It was
at least one hour from the ttme I first
heard him until he entered the town.
I knew from the sound that he was
coming direct to the chief's com¬
pound, where we were lodging. I
drew my chair close to the edge of
the veranda so I could get a good
view of him. In a short time the old
woman (the ‘Daddy’) appeared through
the gateway and therf followed a
large company of meq’and boys. By
this time Manaka had become two
instead of one, and occupied a posi¬
tion in the center of the crowd. Some
frantic demonstrations were at once
entered into, and then silence pre¬
vailed.
“The old ‘Daddy’ walked up and
looked me squarely in the face. Her
high Cap. peculiar garment, long staff,
and a long slim nose, reminded me
of the picture of the old witch riding
a broom. The old ‘Daddy’ continued
her devilish gaze at me, and I was
glad when she walked 'over to the
house of a man that could talk a little
English and told him to inform me
that my wife must not even peep out
at the door or she would surely lose
her nose.
“For fully an hour the entire com¬
pany was frantic, and worked itself
to a high pitch of excitement, seen
only when the heathen is worshiping
his god. They then sent word to me
that I must go inside, but I informed
them that the God I worshiped was
stronger than their god, and that I
could not obey them,
j ! “That met before, was something and after they short had time nev
er a
{ they moved left about on to two the o'clock chief’s in house. the
They
j morning. what
! “This is only a sample of
! must be met by the missionary who
I seeks to carry Christianity into West
Africa.'
From Comedy to Priesthood.
Loretta. Pa.—The mystery sur
rounding the sudden disappearance
from the stage of Michael Byrne, of
the Byrne Rrothers, of “Eight Bells”
fame, has been cleared. He has been
in seclusion at St. Francis’ academy
for the past four years and will be
ordained a priest in June. Michael
Byrne, who is fifty-four years old, has
two • sons, one of them an actor. His
daughter. Miss Bessie Byrne, is a
trained nurse in New York.
Mumtional
SwrSOM
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS. Director of Even¬
ing Department, The Moody Bible In¬
stitute of Chicago.)
LESSON FOR JUNE 1.
JOSEPH TESTS HIS BRETHREN.
LESSON TEXT-Gen. 44:4-17.
GOLDEN TKXT—“Confess therefore
your sins one to another, and pray one
for another, that ye may be healed."
James 5:16, R. V.
Last week we beheld Joseph gazing
for the first time upon his brothers.
While we witnessed his joy, at the
same time we noted another strong
trait of character, viz., that of self
restraint. In that lesson we studied
briefly the fear and the suspicion of
the guilty brothers and at the close
we left them with feigned merriment
(for their hearts were at unrest) seek¬
ing to put on a bold front, if perchance
their fears were groundless. It was
doubtless Joseph’s plan to retain pos¬
session of his brother Benjamin and
let the others go (v. 2). In his present
joy and love for his brother Joseph
seems to have forgotten for a moment
the aged father.
Gladness Shattered.
“As soon as the morni«g was light,"
the very earliest possible moment, the
brothers departed, and who can say
but that it was with a sense of relief
that .they were once more well out of
the city and on the road homeward?
I. The Plotting, vv. 4-13. However,
all of their gladness and exultation
was shattered swiftly and suddenly
when Joseph’s steward overtook them
and charged them not only with In¬
gratitude, but worse still of purloining
the cup of Joseph, who was "even as
Pharaoh” (v. 18). It is easy for us to
picture the consternation that filled
them when after their protested inno¬
cence the cup was discovered in Ben¬
jamin’s sack, and with what shame
and fear they must have retraced
their steps. We cannot read into this
story any idea that the brothers- had
any knowledge of the cup being la
Benjamin's sack, and therefore they
must have considered him, upon cir¬
cumstantial evidence, as being guilty,
and having made such a strong pro¬
testation (v. 9) that they were in¬
volved In his guilt. They were,
fore. In a place of great danger and
difficulty. On the one hand the anger
of Joseph, and on the other hand how
could they face Jacob without Benja¬
min (43:8-14)? We can thus see
what it was Into which Joseph was
leading them. This was probably to
see In how far these were the same
men who had covered their sin 20
years before (37:32). “Wherefore
have ye rewarded evil for good?”.Is a
question we can rightfully ask today
of every one i in this treatment of
JeBUs Christ Ind OF their ifellowmen:
Class hatred and bitterness will large¬
ly be obliterated by acknowledging the
good and by doing good gratuitously,
with no ostentatious display or ex¬
pectancy of reward.
Involved In Web.
Again, as last week, we d6 not
blink at Joseph's deception and we
need to remember that divination
(vv. 5, 14) was later strictly forbidden
in the law, Deut. 18:10-12. It is prob¬
able. however, that Joseph did not
practice that art. The profuse self
defense of these brothers (v. 8) in em¬
phasizing their honesty may, in the
light of their history, be questioned.
The return of the money was more to
avoid trouble than because of con¬
scientious scruples. A proper regard
for the events of their former visit
ought to have cautioned them against
undue protestations or any thought¬
less promises in this instance. As it
was, they Involved themselves In a
web from which they were unable to
extricate themselves.
Of course the steward knew of their
innocence, but notice how he prolongs
their anxiety by beginning with the.
eldest and going through each sack
till he reaches that of Benjamin (v.
12). Now it was their turn to rend
their clothes (v. 13); deception has
been practiced upon them even as they
had practiced It upon Jacob and caused
him to rend his clothes, see Gal. 6:7.
II. Pleading, vv. 14-17, and the bal¬
ance of the chapter. Whether or not
Joseph foresaw the result of his plan,
a remarkable thing happened. Though
in all probability these men judged
Benjamin guilty yet they at once de¬
cided to stand by him, both for his
own and for Jacob’s sake. They there¬
by revealed the fact that a change had
taken place or else was beginning to
work itself out in their lives. Joseph
was waiting for them as though in the
main he had all the details worked out
in his own mind. Yesterday feasting
and making merry, today with abject,
servile fear they are on their faces
before Joseph protesting their inno¬
cence and through the mouth of Judah
pleading for Benjamin. We need to
remember that it was Judah who sav¬
ed the life of Joseph by advising his
sale into slavery, and it was Judah
who undertook to be responsible for
Benjamin when they began this pres¬
ent Journey. This is not the last time
they were on their faces before Jo¬
seph f50:I8l, even so the day of con¬
fession before our Joseph is coming.
Phil, 2:10, 11. They are called upon
to give an account of their deeds, even
so must we give an account of our
stewardship and of our acts, 2 Cor.
5:10. Judah's plea is a fine bit of
logic and an appeal to compassion. His
words indicate that he knew that all
of the difficulties were the outcome of
their own sin. vv. 16, 29 and 42:21, 28.
God always finds out our iniquities,
but blessed is that man whose sin is
covered by the “robe of his righteous¬
ness." This new attitude of these
men as voiced by Judah is a remark¬
able illustration of what the grace of
God can do in the character of a mar,.
Judah’s sin, chapter 38, is a type of
that danger ever present to God's
children who do not separate them
selves from the CanaanUes of this
world.
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Wanted to Keep Her.
“She cost her father two thousand
a year for clothes alone.”
"I don’t believe it.”
“Why not?"
“He would not let me marry her.”
Egotism.
The Man (sourly)—The home team
always loses when I go to a game.
I’m the hoodoo, all right.
The Woman—How can you he so
conceited, John?
Exceptions.
“Never put your foot in it when
acknowledging a birthday present.”
“Not even if it is a pair of slip¬
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Explained.
The Venus of Milo explained.
“I was trying to make myself into
a cubist effect,” she said.
What She Wanted.
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Girl— Oif. who doesn’t smoke,
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—Judge.
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A man with small feet hideth them
not, and she whose hands are well
formed delighteth to play chess.
Why doth the virgin rejoice? Why
readeth she her love letters to her
Bisters? Behold, there is a compliment,
therein, and it shall not be concealed.
Enthusiastic is women’s praise of a
passable damsel; yea. they lift up
their voice continually, saying, Lo, she
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