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J 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 ed tendencies, but it is done every day. Women Are Constantly Being Restored ig t Health by Lydia E. Pinkh Vegetable Compound. am s “ Worth mountains of gold,” says one woman. Another says, “I. would not give Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for all the other medicines for women in the world ” Still another writes, “ I should like to have the merits.'of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound thrown on the sky with a searchlight so that all suffering women could read and be convinced that there is a remedy for their ills.” We could fill a newspaper ten times the size of this with such quo tations taken from the letters we have received from grateful women whose health has been restored and suffering banished by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Why has Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound accomplished such a' universal success ? Why has it lived and thrived and kept on doing its glorious work among the sick women of the world for more ' than 30 years ? Simply and surely because of its sterling worth. The reason no . other medicine has ever approached its success is plainly and sim- fply because there is no other medicine so good for women’s ills. Here are two letters that just came to the writer’s desk—only two of thousands, but both tell a comforting story to every suffering wo man who will read them—and be guided by them. FROM MRS. D. H. BROWN. lola, Kansas.—“During’.the Change of Life I was sick for two years. Be fore J took your medicine I could Hot bear the weight of my clothes and was bloated very badly. I doc tored with three doctors but they did me no good, fhey said nature must have its way. My sister ad vised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and I purchased a bottle. Before it was gone the bloating left me and 1 was not so sort. I continued taking it until I had taken 12 bottles. .Now I am stronger than I have been for years and can do all my work, even the washing. Your medicine is worth its weight in gold. X cannot praise it enough. If more women would take your medicine, there would be more healthy wom4. You may use this letter for the good of others.”— Mrs. D. H. 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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 F# 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 sionary Conference (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? 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THQMASVILLE HAS WARMEST JANUARY 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 mal for the month being about four inches. 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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Traveling in those days was by stage coaches or private carriages, and right heavy vehicles they were, while the roads were even worse than the ones we have. I read of a poultry show at Madison Square Garden just fifty years ago, the fowls were in significant compared with the sort now shown, and I suppose they certainly had to “scratch for a living,” consequently the sort taking the rain in the yard at the inn must have presented a very be draggled appearance. Have you ever considered how much like some people some chickens are? The hens in my chicken yard have good . quarters, but right now at least six are under some boards that are stretched across two work benches and must dodge the water as it drips through. It never was in tended for a shelter, just a sort of ta ble When I need one in there. Plenty of men and women are today uncomfort able with just as little reason for their discomfort. 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