The Ellijay courier. (Ellijay, Ga.) 1???-1915, May 29, 1913, Page Page 2, Image 2
yu i<h 's 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 Moody Bibto inabhao. Chicogo TEXT—And he said unto him, what la thy name? And he. said, Jacob. Genesis 12 :: 27 . , 5 'N‘sfix \ /-..’:-:-:;;;" :35 32112:“ ! a:zaisiaéqfaéfi1:;2;ssza».-::::»=;-::~:2;»-=: ‘. . * 1915??? flog”. 33;, (4*: | I :3 .6'3 -. ‘32. ' 31". $3 «3 v "| 1 0%., -:..= «n’ :' 553-2.: ‘23; ,':;E£S:3'-E_E'1£3 «33,, #11535 93' "7142122? " _ E a“); ' VHF-"x12 ,1 .::.<;:=:35.::=éfi3'552 .. =11"i'=":':'53 '31-’33: ‘ \3 3 a; {sag-F- 5" '53-. "q _;;. 4' -' :3 .3 5‘" ‘ ' 3-=: g ; '¢%:é:égi;;;;::, “£35,328- ' 3‘13; 3'1 "2-""Z'«.::EE.IEII,.£ ~. . :::a-,g._ '25::- >,,«:'2:=:"'*~. . _ I . w” , 533$». _ y, , V I _..-_.,- K. , '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,. 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