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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1913.
Corsoacrrr.o
ftr MISS
LIZZIE 0. TtiQMAb
“Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies;
Hold you there, root and all, in my hand
Little flower; but if I could understand
What you are, root and all—and all in
all—
I would know what God and man is.”
Flowers are masterpieces, not one of
{is, not anybody in this world can un
derstand how it is that the same soil
that makes a rose pink, a jonquil yellow
and a lahlia maroon will give the modest
violet its beauty.
To be sure there is the reason we all
know that the seeds are true and the
culture right; but even then we must
go back to the Maker of all good and
perfect gifts to get the idea of the
seeds, bulbs or cuttings. “The heavens
declare the glory of God; and the fir
mament showeth His handiwork, day
unto day uttereth speech and night
unto night showeth knowledge.
Not only in the great things like
mountains, but the tiniest blade of
grass, the innermost petals of the rose,
the pencilling of the tulip or green dots
of the snowdrop, the delicate form, odor
and color of the violet shows care and
attention to details.
And that teaches us a lesson that all
should learn—care and attention to de
tail. Every day of my life I realize
more fully that the quality ^’e may call
“dependableness” is one that is very
often absent. We are accustomed to
bravery to a certain amount of punc
tuality and to more of the cardinal vir
tues, but look over yourself and your
list of friends and see how many are
absolutely dependable. A man trav
eled three hundred miles to attend to a
certain business; a friend, commenting
on it, asked him why he did not get
some agent to look after it for him.
“Because I saved my expenses out
of it and had it done right.” This is such
a busy age we can’t find many people
wljo will take time to actually “do as
they would be done by.”
Now this man was perfectly willing
to pay for his work to be done and he
was not especially anxious to do it him
self, but it was a matter of holding
out for what he knew was right and
few would have seen it from his stand
point.
On the other hand, many of us know
a few who work better for others than
they do for themselves. That is an
other phase of not being dependable, and
a very bad phase too, for some one suf
fers when'a piece of work is half done,
or “scamped.”/ as I heard it called the
other day. The Bible tells us that short
weights and measures are an abomina
tion unto the Lord. The house that col
lapsed in Texas had some “scamping”
somewhere, for houses are not expected
to collapse. The boy or girl who cheats
in examinations, or quits a lesson be
fore it is learned, the teacher who
swims along with the current and does
not take the trouble to lay a good foun
dation in every child’s mind perhaps
is getting ready for a greater failure
than the collapse of the store, for souls
may be lost as well as lives. So lets
cultivate the quality of dependableness.
When a violet is planted we are sure of
the wee purple or white flower that
lifts its head so bravely yet modestly,
and fills the air with its delicate per
fume.
We do not expect to gather figs from
thistles, nor grapes from thorns. Such
being true of vegetation, why should
we look for prodigies or dependable men
or women from homes that have never
showed these qualities in the parents?
Sometimes there are exceptions to the
rule, a teacher, a friend, a book or even
a series of articles have been known to
turn a child’s mind and change his life.
On the other hand I have known homjes
in which sobriety, honesty, carefulness
and all that goes into the making of a
noble character was practiced and there
were abject failures among the children.
Why? Because some outside influence
was stronger. Away back in dead and
gone ancestors there may have been the
same yellow streak and it needed only
a faint encouragement to make it pre
dominate.
Just as the secret lies in the flower it
lies in us. “Do I believe in heredity?”
Most assuredly. Why not quit buying
violets and “trust to luck” that our jon
quils will turn into some. Do not send
off v for any more fine seed, fine stock,
fine poultry, if heredity counts for
nothing. Heredity is not everything,
however, it only gives one a better
foundation to build upon. And away
back in the past the horse that is hold
ing its head s.o high may have a marsh
pony for* its ancestor. No disgrace in
being a marsh pony, if it was the best
of its herd and transmitted qualities
infto its colts that has at last made this
one a thoroughbred.
Right here is where man comes out
ahead. The fact that there are “pasts”
in a family should not make any one
weaken and fail. Heredity is a fine thing
if it helps one climb the mountain and
get a better View of life and its de
mands, but if it is going to be a thorn
in one’s side then it’s a pitful thing,
and the sooner it is cast behind one the
better for*all parties. It takes a great
deal of self-control and a vast amount
of dependableness to overcome inherit
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Golden Text: “I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a
token of a convenant between me and the earth.” Gen. 9:13.
“Marred, so He made it again”—this
might be made the summary of the his
tory of the human race at Noah’s time.
How great was the care God had given
to the race! Made in His image, with
everything that body or mind or spirit
could desire, having dominion over the
whole creation—that was the condition
of the race at the beginning.
But in spite of all this, Adam sinned,
failed to realize God’s desire for him.
The sin that marred him multiplied
itself in the lives of his descendants
so ; greatly that finally God could stand
it' no longer. Even the patience of the
Holy Spirit was exhausted, when men
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We see people who have attained the
heights to which we aspired and some
times envy them. We forget the days
and nights they spent in the endeavor,
we forget that when the test came to us
we let minor affairs absorb us, * or de
cided that life was too short for so
much work. The price of work that is
started and dropped, no matter at what
stage of completion, is not the thing to
help one, but the evidence of self-con
trol in the completed job is what counts.
There are certain studies in one’s
school life that most probably will
never, of themselves, be used by two 1
thirds of the pupils, but for training
the mind in accuracy/ in teaching ther
root and growth of our language they
are to my mind indispensable.
William George Jordan very truly
says: “Man has two creators—his God
and himself. His first creator furnishes
him the raw material of his life and the
laws in conformity with which he can-
make that life what he will. His second
creator—himself—has marvelous pow
ers he rarely realizes. It is what a man
makes of himself that counts.”
This same writer say also: “The pa
tience man expends in bearing the little
trials of his daily life nature stores for
him as a wondrous reserve in a crisis of
life. With nature, the mental, the
physical or the moral energy he daily
expends in right-doing is all 'stored for
him and transmuted /into strength. Na
ture never accepts cash payment in full
for anything—this would be an injustice
to r-e poor and weak.”
C e upon a time I told you that this
pen of mine was very unruly, that when
I would write of flowers and birds and
bees this pen of mine perchance would
transcribe the doings of humanity of the
possibilities of life. So it has been
today, a vase of violets, a violet bed in
a neighbor’s yard that looks like a man
tle of purple and green took me over
the hills and far away. But pegasus
was not content on the pleasant country
road, and you who have read this Chat
will see that back to mankind, and the
virtues and frailties incident thereto, the
path was taken. Never mind, the violets
are still blooming and the jonquils have
begun to call attention to themselves.
The iris has taken as much space as
possible and there promises to be a
battle royal for supremacy among the
bulbs and pinks; both claim first place
along the walk to the gate.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
persistently refused to yield to His sug
gestions and strivings. The whole race
was marred, so God determined to wipe
it out, make a fresh start, and make
it over again. . J
We learned last week how God accom
plished this. He was not willing that
any should perish, but that all should
have eternal life; but He could not force
them. He selected a man who had
shown a glimmer of faith and reVealed
to him His will. He gave the people
ample time to repent. For 120 years
Noah preached righteousness by faith
and repentance from sin, with his ham
mer and saw. But they would not
heed.
At last the flood came and destroyed
every man and living thing save those
who had accepted God’s way of salva
tion.
Science has but recently confirmed the
Bible statement of this total destruction,
in practically every detail. I take off
my hat to Noah as the man of more
faith than any on record, for he had
to wait 120 years for the realization,
iyet he never wavered, so far as we
know.
SAVED FOR SERVICE.
For three months after the rain stop
ped that great sea captain and his crew
and burden floated without casting
anchor. That was trying to their faith;
they might have thought that God had
forgotten them. But He had not; He
was strengthening them for a larger
service. They had been in His memory
all the while. Then He caused the ark
to rest on the tops of Ararat, miles
north of where it had been built. He
was going to start the race over again
amid new surroundings.
More testing—two months' and thir
teen days later the first glimpse of land
was seen. Forty days later, Noah sent
forth a raven and a dove; but the dove
returned. A week later he sent the dove
forth agaih, apd she returned in the
evening with an olive leaf; and a week
later when he sent forth the dove again,
it did not return.
But Noah’s testing time was not over
yet. It had been comparatively easy
on his faith while he was busy navigat
ing the ship. But for more than four
months now he had been at anchor just
waiting. I do not know whether his
Of
1,000 Delegates Swarm Chat
tanooga for First Mis
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(By Associated Press.)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 4.—With
between 750 and 1,000 delegates already
in the city and the majority yet to ar
rive, the opening session of the first
laymen’s missionary convention of
Southern Baptists convened in the city
auditorium this afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The program was somewhat estranged
bj r the absence of Governor Ben W.
Hooper, of Nashville, and Mayor Thomp
son, who were to have delivered the
addresses of welcome*.
The opening devotions were conducted
by General Secretary J. T. Henderson, of
Bristol, who introduced the permanent
president of the convention, the Hon.
Joshua Levering, of Baltimore.
The principal address of welcome was
delivered by the Rev. J. C. Massee,
D. D., pastor of the First Baptist church
of Chattanooga, and the response by A.
Y. Ford, of Louisville, for eleven years
the managing editor of the Courier-
Journal.
Following this Dr. Henderson delivered
an address on “Why Are We Here?”
W. j. Williamson, of St. Louis, spoke
on “The Dynamic of Missions,” this be
ing followed by an address on “The Mor
al Mission of America,” by President E.
M. Poteat, of Furman university, South
Carolina.
A feature of Tuesday night's session
will be the introduction of student vol
unteers from Baptist institutions, as
follows:
Thirteen from £he seminary, two from
the training school, three from the
woman’s college, two from Shorter, be
sides representatives from Wake Forest
college, Furman university, Carson and
Newnan college, William Jewell college
and Howard university.
They will assemble on the platform
and be presented by President J. ’ L.
Johnson, Ph.D., of the Woman’s college,
Hattiesburg, Miss. Each school will have
a representative to speak.
wife and children complained or not.
Possibly God kept them there to develop
their faith; but they had to wait near
ly two months more befbre the com
mand came to disembark. It had the
desired effect, for God now had a nucleus
from which to make a new beginning.
One year and seventeen days before
that, God had given the invitation, yes
the command, to come in. Now the
command is to go forth.
God had not gone, to all of this trou
ble for nothing; nor had He dope all of
this for Noah’s sake only. Noah and
his family were saved for service. God
had a work for them to do. He had In
vited all to come in who would that He
might save them. Now He commands
those who have been the recipients of
His grace to go forth to do the work He
had saved them to do.
Do you catch that? Do you see
your picture? Well, note what Noah
did when God had told him what His
will was. He builded an altar, and of
fered thereon an offering of a sweet
sovour to God, acceptable to Him. Then
God made him a promise and sealed it,
that He would never again utterly de
stroy men in this way.
THE BASIS OF THE CONTRACT. .
God's contract, or covenant, with
Adam was made on the ground of per
fect- obedience. What was the basis of
His covenant with Noah? On His side
God agreed that “while the earjth re-
maineth, seedtime and harvest; and cold
1 and hdat, and summer ana winter, and
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THOMASVILLE, Ga., Feb. 5.—The
warmest January in five years is the re
port given by the weather bureau here
in regard to the temperature of the- first
month of the year in Thomasville. The
highest temperature recorded was 81 on
the sixth day of the month and the low
est 35 on the fourth.
The entire rainfall for the month
was 1.65. Last year the amount of pre
cipitation for January was 6.93, the nor
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day and night shall not cease.” In
other words He would see to it that
everything man needed for sustenance
and maintenance of his life should be
given him, and that never again should
a flood utterly destroy mankind and
beasts.
As a sign of this covenant God point
ed to the bow in the cloud. There had
been rainbows before; but now God
used it as a sign of this covenant.
Whenever He looks upon it He re
members His contract. Whenever we
look upon it we are reminded of our
part of the contract as well as God’s
promise.
Well, what was Noah’s part? What
was he to do? ^He was to replenish
the earth, and to safeguard the lives
of those who live. He was given wider
liverty in the use of food, but he was
not to ruthlessly destroy. He was made
responsible for his neighbor. Life was
to be required for life.
My brethren, this contract is binding
upon you today if you 1 expect God to
keep His part of it. When you see the
bow in the cloud you think of God’s
promise not to destroy the earth with
a flood, and you sit back in ^ase and as
surance. But remember, remember,
that a contract is only binding When
both parties keep it. You must keep
your part God has saved you that
you might serve Him and others. God
requires their lives at your hands. All
around you are men and women, youths
and maidens, boys and girls, who are ^
dying for want of the bread of life.
God holds you responsible for them
under the terms of your contract.
How are you keeping it?
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A RAINY DAY AND CRICKENS.
Dear Miss Thomas: This is the sort
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Yours truly,
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