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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA.,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1913.
He was a youngr man who had come
to this city hunting: work. He had
never been out of a job, and as he ex
pressed it, had an idea tnat jobs were
like ripe fruit, waiting Co be taken. He
was a stranger in Atlanta. He thought
he had outgrown things in his home
town, so with $150 in his possession,
he persuaded Her to marry him and
off they started to conquer the world.
At first they decided to go to Califor
nia, but they only bought their ticket
half way and stopped to see the city.
Then she got to thinking about things
and begged him to turn his face to the
south as “Mamma and papa were going
to Florida in November and California
seemed such a long way off.” Some
body at the hotel began to tell what a
wonderful city Atlanta is and that
settled matters. Instead of San Fran
cisco Atlanta was the name stamped
on their next ticket. By the time
those two tickets were paid for and
the boaird bill settled (don't tell them
that two can live as cheap as one),
there wasn’t much money left. „
They had no more idea of economiz
ing than little children and were ab
solutely astonished when he went to
one of the big chain of stores belong
ing to a certain firm and was polite
ly told that there wasn’t any sort of
opening in all the fifty-seven varieties.
Three days, four days, a week passed,
and their money had actually given
out. Fortunately he had something
to pawn and got something like enough
money to give them two meals a day
for a week. Of course before that time
he would have work, or so he thought.
About the middle of that week a
very practical business woman sug
gested that the bride might get work
and tide them over. She was de
lighted, poor child, at the i'dea and this
Business Woman found a place for her.
The princely (?) salary was $6 a week,
Jt>ut Mr. So-and-So knew that he would
surely have work by the end of the
week.
Figure out how far $6 will go when
there are two to feed, a room to pay
for, and street car far e an absolute
necessity. The Samaritan came along
and took them to his house; there was
a room and breakfast for them until
the clouds rolled away.
Plenty of people interested themselves
in the couple, for this is a world full
of helpful people, still Mr. So-and-So
did not get work. Such cheerfulness
and optimism was a good thing to see,
the poor man answered every adver
tisement and walked mile after mile
because there was no money to spend
looking for work. Mrs. So-and-So was
with “the crossest. woman on the face
of the earth,” but she made a joke of
the fact and every evening livened up
her husband and Mr. and Mrs. Samari
tan by telling how things had gone
during the day. A month passed. Bil
lie, as Mrs. So-and-So mailed him, final
ly reached the desperate stage. He
swore he wouldn’t look for work; He (
actually cried when he thought she was
busy on the back piazza. She had.
gone out there to give him a chance to
get it over with. Next morning he
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was as chipper as ever and had half
a dozen new places to go to.
Finally he got a job. There never
will be two happier people and the les
sons taught them will be worth thou
sands bf dollars to them. “We had no
idea that people could live on so little
and be respectable." he confessed, “and
the next six months is going to see us
living just as sensibly."
Mrs. So-and-so agreed to all he said
and in that way they got the habit of
saving and today they own their home
and he has some money laid by for the
proverbial “bad spell of weather.”
Don’t understand me to say that they
save every cent. They are normal
young people. He comes In occasionally
with some treat, or they occasionally
go to the moving picture shows, but
it must be a good one, whereas they
used to go to at least one every night
except Sunday, just to pass the time.
They have one of Ben Franklin’s quo
tations typewritten and she declares
that Billie wears one copy in his hat.
He smiles and says its more than in his
hat, its in his head. This is the one;
“There are two ways of being happy
—we may either diminish our wants or
augment our means—either will do, the
result is the same; and it is for each
man to decide for himself and do thai
which happens to be easiest. If you
are idle, or siclc, or poor, however hard
it may be to diminish your wants, it
will be harder to augment your means.
“If you are active, or prosperous, or
young, or in good health, it may b^
easier for you to augment your means
than to diminish your wants. But if
you are wise you will do both at the
same time, young or old, rich or poor,
sick or well; and if you are wise you
will do both in such a way as to aug
ment the general happiness of society.”
Few things please me more than to
see a girl, or boy, who has assumed
the responsibility of self-support, sav
ing at least a little out of every week’s
salary. It is no easy job, I know for
I've grazed the edge my own self. But
the man or the woman who makes .$50
a week has just as touch a proposition,
for an increased salary means increased
responsibilities, and incessant calls for
help. Consequently, don’t think that
you will begin to sa\^ when you get
more. It would astonish many of my
readers to know how many girls in
business are buying homes. Some who
get the most meager sort of salary eat
a sandwich at noon and struggle to pay
$20 a month on a home. Many are
bought on - " the “extortion” plan as
the old darkey expressed it, but they
would have to pay rent, so “why not
add a little more and own the home
some of these days?”
Such girls generally succeed. But
I want to tell you of one rock that
wrecks too many of the home buyers. It
is having the payments too large at the
beginning. I have not heard of a girl
losing her home but there are scores
of men who either have to give up, or
sell their equity. Perhaps a word of
explanation will not come amiss right
here for so many do not seem to know
how the installment plan works.
Suppose you buy a place, so much
down and so much a month, say $20.
Kach month a little interest is added,
II or 12 cents more does not seem
heavy for perhaps a year, but that
much., additional each month amounts to
$6 or $7 before the five years is up.
Better make it $15 a month and be a
little longer. Or, better still, save the
money and pay it in a lump sum. Fjit
hundreds own homes that have been
paid for that way who never could
have saved much and paid rent at the
same time, and there are others who
must do this way because money burns
a hole in their pockets.
My work in the office of the Chris
tian association gave me a more de
cided leaning toward the idea of every
girl having a home; One has no idea
of th e derelicts that come floating in
on the tide of helplessness and must be
helped. Woman past even their sec
ond youth who perhaps have earned
?9°d salaries for twenty years and let
it slip through their fingers. Women
who gave their best years to loved
ones who were too selfish to let them
make for independence. Women whose
homes and husbands had gone at the
same time. Yes, there ar e as many
widows as —unmarried Women among
those looking for work, and totally un
fitted for the modern methods. It’s
like turning a canary out of its cage.
And right here let me comfort the
“old maids” by telling them that in
evei y Old Ladies' home I’ve ever seen
there were as many widows as “maid
en ladies.” So don’t be scared # into mar
rying for a home. Every one of you
have heard that far cry, “You won’t
have any on e to love you when you
will need love most.” Well, a
Pity. I’ve been trying all my life to
see when we “need love most,” and it
seems to m e that \ye need it all the
time, and nobody has a guaranteed hold
on any of it. Nor have we on property
for that matter. So I am going to say
that in my opinion the way to do is to
vsum up the situation; do the very bset
you can; give God His fair share, and
you may b e sure that you will never
suffer, for “th e path of the just is as
the shining light, that shineth more
and more unto the perfect day.”
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE O. THOMAS.
WHEN WE MEET OUR FRIENDS.
Uear Miss Thomas: I have been thinking 1
would write you for a long time
Went to church yesterday, heard a fine ser
mon oa faith and the good 'of prayer I thoiiht
of the first time my baby boy tried to pray
two , oWe1 ' children were, studying ?heir
lessons., Joyce and Breeze were in bed. r was
l(Hrt lng ’ i* ' e . b ?, by t>la} ' in S around. All at once
Hlida said, Mamma, look at brother/’ And
there he, was kneeling at my knee to say his
prayer. We thought it awfully sweet^ and
SSTw^uS - " e couM • han,,y ,alt a " d
School started today: the children are all
happy coining and going.
This fall weather makes me wish to be out
seeing everything. I went out riding the other
oay and the trees were just turning yellow.
It will soon be association time, and we are
going to have one here Ibis year. How I wish
you could be with us. ’ I hope a lot of the
Household will be there. I have only met one
of the Household friends, but wo certainly <m-
joyed each other’s company.
It is such a pleasure to meet one’s friends
when away from home and the Householders
all seem like friends to me, and when we
meet there is so much to talk about. Friends
are a great blessing in our life, but some one
has said, Cicero, I think, “Every man can toll
how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not
how many friends.” Lovingly,
REBECCA WIIITAKER JENKINS.
THE HANDICAPPED ONES.
Dear Miss Thomas: Last week I was riding
along the road that leads into a certain town
and' saw a boy about ten years old walking on
crutches. A man called his. wife’s attention to
it and said, poor little cuss, he is plucky and
tries to keep up with the other boys, but he
has a bad handicap.
“There ought to be something done for biiu,”
was the lady’s answer. “I’ll bet his father
and mother thought that he would outgrow it
and let him alone when they might have helped
him ” was the comment of another woniai>.
“His parents may have to work so bar-l that
they did not have time nor money to spend on
him,” suggested still another. “I’d hate to
think that any one would let any • iiild g».
through life like that If there was the barest,
chance to help it.”
Silence fell on the group, eac hone bad a
ipental picture of a brave little boy, whoso
feet were useless and his hands of necessity em
ployed holding his crutches. What chance has
/ he Livening Story
Earning Her
Wage
(Copyright, 1913, by W. Werner.)
Elsie Curtis sat at the window of
her room typewriting:. It was 2 o’clock
and at 2:30 there was a matinee to
which she was going. She had a new
hat and gown to wear, and her head
was full of them and the matinee.
She loved the theater, she loved her
good clothes, she loved everything,
indeed, save her work. But in order to
enjoy the theater and possess the
good clothes she must work.
Elsie typed for Miss Brooke. and
Miss Brooke wrote stories. Elsie’s
ideas on the subject of Miss Brooke’s
productivity and her own were in a
certain sense socialistic. Miss Brooke
.——- xj /‘r/V-' f & ~-
“Hoo-o!” some one was calling from
below.
earned at one end of the scale and
she at the other. Miss Brooke thought
in terms of dollars and she pounded
out copy in terms of cents. Yet Miss
Brooke’s thoughts would have been
more or less ineffective without the
clever elucidation produced by her
typing. Miss Brooke fcould not type.
And her writing was that of any per
son whose mind moves faster than her
muscles. No editor in the world could
ever have picked out more than one
word in five of that intricate script
which Elsie had learned to read like
so much print.
Elsie believed herself to be indis
pensable to Miss Brooke. She had
worked for her so long that she had
every detail of the business by heart.
She had learned al of Miss Brooke’s
tricks of trade, modes of expression,
until she felt that if she ever had
time she could dash off a story which
would win acceptance anywhere.
However, she never had the time, for,
she was always either working or
playing. Miss Brooke kept her pretty
busy. All the rest of the time she
amused herself.
For some time now amusements had
been encroaching upon • business. The
theater, the parks, young company
lured Elsie continually. She had less
and less time for her work, but the
such as he is to grapple with opportunity? The
habit of procrastination has a great leal to do
with many an afflicted baby, or small child,
having to go through dife with a handicap. De
termination has accomplished wonders. Some
times the mother would give her right hand to
help her child, would be willing to be hungry
and cold if the money „ would , buy a sound body
for her child, but some men do not ook into
the future or put themselves in the afflicted
one’s place and fail to see things from that
standpoint. I think that the man’s being off
the most of a child’s making hours tends to
minimize his making some things as vital as
they really are.
There are men whose hearts are as tender as
a woman’s hut the fact that their minds must,
be on their work to make a living is often the
cause of their not realizing things. The mother
is usually right where she ean see the lone
afflicted, and her mind may be fully occupied
with the work, yet have a subconscious knowl
edge of what’s going on around her. Some of
the states are beginning to pay more attention
to the personal welfare of the children. Now
one’s throat, eyes and teeth are examined be
fore they enter school and if the parents are
too indifferent or too poor to attend to the de
fects found there the city physician takes the
case.
Some of-,these days, when a child’s birth is
registered there will be a law demanding a
certificate of its health and whether its body
is well formed. If it is not the law will see
that proper medical attention is given the help
less little creature.
The thought that in that misshaped body
may be enough mental energy to influence a
town, or even a state, for right or wrong is
one that every parent and teacher should weigh
as carefully as a grain of gold, for the sound
mind needs a sound body, and who is responsible
for the hundreds of men and women who have
had to use crutches since childhood? Science
has done wonders and it’s a sin not to help all
who need it. How about it, are you who read
this paper doing all you can for the children?
A CALL TO THE CLAN.
Dear Miss Thomas: Rainy days like these
make one feel like taking a stroll away off.
Somewhere I know the sun is shining and I am
longing to be there; I do love sunshine, and
T believe I can find as much sunshine and
cheerfulness in “Our Household” as anywhere
now. I have been away a long time and it
seems like all the old timers have gone some
where. I do wish that the members could be
induced to give us plenty of reading for these
gloomy days.
I enjoy reading all our letters. MarionOOY.s
phens has completely deserted us. and so has
Mrs. Hornet. I could mention a hundred of
your natpes, but space forbids so I beg one
and all to come and let’s take up our winter
quarters right here. Let’s have an old time
reunion, a family reunion. Aren’t we a fam
ily? We belong to Our Household. I fee!
like we are a happy family and very much de
voted to each other and I believe we all love
Miss Thomas, the head of our family, do we
not? If we fove her as we should we will
try to help her. Help is what each house
hold needs. There is no one that can make
home what it should be without help from the
other members of the family. Were you ever
in a home where the mother had all the work
to do? If so, did that mother seem like she
was enjoying life as much as she could have
done had. she had the help and co-operation of
the members of her family? I’m sure you
saw a weak, tired, despondent woman, one
who was almost ready to give up and “flee
from the wrath' to come.” Can you see any
thing like that with this Household? The
members are sitting idle and waiting for Miss
Thomas to do all the work and by and by she
may flee from us. I know a few of our mem
bers who could, I think, do better. I have
!>een too busy to visit, but 1 am going to
turn over a new leaf. Let’s not use our neigh
bor for a moral umbrella, let's nut ourselves in
the category of delinquents and sit down and
write a letter this very day. Or week anyhow,
that we read this.
BUSY REE.
work must go on just the same. She
hurried her work and 'loitered over
her amusements. She could make
her fingers fly, and she let them go
at the speed limit of accuracy—and
beyond. Imperfections blotted her
copy and Miss Brooke began to find
fault. Elsie listened carelessly. Let
Miss Brooke grumble! Elsie was not
afraid. She was too valuable to Miss
Brooke to be risking much, and she
had something to gain—added mo
ments for a novel or a chat. Miss
Brooke could not find anybody to
take her place. It would take a year
at least to break in another girl.
On this particular afternoon she was
more reckless than usual. Her type
writer table stood at the open window
of her upstairs room, and she could look
down into an enormous syringa bush,
which not only charmed the eye by its
bloom, but sent wave after wave of
sweetness up to her nostrils. It was
May and everything was young and
bright and full of the joy of life. Earth,
sky, syringa bush, tenderly greening
foliage were kin to her and her girlish
senses rioted with them in an abandon
of delight. All outdoors urged her to
come—come, and here she was fast be
fore an old typewriter, with a lot of
copy ’that must be handed in before the
day ended.
Rebellion seamed up in Elsie—rebel
lion against Miss Brooke, against the
necessity which made her earn wages,
against the whole system of life.
Click—click, click went the keys, ting
went the bell ks the carriage flew back
and forth, and page after page of messy
transcript fluttered to the floor.
“Hoo—oo!” Some one was calling
from below. Elsie leaned on the sill
and looked down into a laughing, up
turned face.
“I’ll be right down, Marjory. Just
let me put on my hat.”
She sprang from the chair, nearly up
setting the typewriter, caught her new
hat from the bed and flew to the glass
to put it on. It was pretty and becom
ing, but as she stabbed it through with
a hatpin Elsie remembered enviously
that Miss Brooke was probably wearing
one that cost three times as much.
“Her old copy can just wait till I
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doth not behave itself unseemly.
She left Marjory staring* open mouth
ed.
get back to it,” she thought. “I’ve put
her off twice successfully, and I guess
she won t make any great fuss if I have
to put her off again. A day sooner or
later isn’t going to make any great dif
ference with one story, I’m certain.”
She ran downstairs and joined Mar
jory, whom she found enjoying the
syringa bush.
“Lovely and white, isn’t it?” Mar
jory said, as she tucked a sprig into
her belt. “ I saw you were working
for dear life. How,do you get on with
Miss Brooke, Elsie? Isn’t she dread
fully flpstartish? I can’t understand
how she can write stories. Why, she
doesn’t look a mite different from you
and me.”
“She isn't any different, Marjory. But
don’t let’s talk about her. I want to
forget her and everything else unpleas
ant for the whole afternoon.”
On their way to the theater they
stopped at a confectioner's and Elsie
bought a box of chocolates. How gooxl
it was to be twenty-two, wearing a
new hat and sitting out a spring
afternoon at a charming new play!
There was only one thing to spoil El
sie’s happiness, and that was the
thought of the untidy work with which
she must presently confront Miss
Brooke. But by the time the first act
was over she had lost herself complete
ly in the play. As the curtain went
down she sat staring at it as if she still
saw the scene it had just hidden, hjr
eyes big and bright with emotion, the
hero’s last passionate utterance repeat
ing itself in her ears.
“She doesn’t understand, and I can’t
make her understand. I've tried, in
deed, to Impress upon her the fact that
life is something more than one long
matinee; th a t each one owes a duty to
her fellows as well as to herself. And
a duty to her work. After all, life is
work. And the more one gets out of
one’s work, the more one enjoys life.'
Elsie started. Her heart started, too,
and got into her throat with one cruel,
headlong leap. For that was Miss
Brooke who was speaking just behina
her. And she had never dreamed that
Miss Brooke would come to the mati
nee.
“Elsie is no longer a very young
girl,” went on Miss Brooke, in that
soft, carrying voice of hers. “But she
still has a young girl’s utter lack of
responsibility. And that, you know, is
always so hard to deal with. I’ve had
to find a feood deal of fault with her
of late, but instead of taking more pains
she takes less. She dashes off her copy
apparently at lightning speed. Her one
thought seems to be to get' it off h
mind and out of her hands as quickly as
possible. You see. auntie, she hasn’t
got to the point where she realizes that
it is work. Neither does she realize that
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Some time while the people of Slsrael
were at Sinai Moses was joined by his
wife, Zipporah, who was a Cushite. In
some way she and Moses’ sister Miriam,
did not get along very well. There is
no evidence to show that Zipporah had
done anything to induce the disfavor
of Miriam, but because o\ some femin
ine disagreement there was not the best
feeling between them. Up until this time
there had not been any outward mani
festation of thip dislike, and probably
there never would have been any had
it not been used by Miriam and Aaron
as an excuse for a\ graver sin of
theirs.
Miriam - was twelve years older than
Moses, and Aaron was three years old
er. You will recall that Miriam had
been set to watch the ark of bulrushes,
and through her ready wit had assured
the salvation of her baby brother by
securing the services of his own moth
er. I have no doubt but that she took
a keen interest in his advancement, and
when he had returned to Egypt to lead
the people out, she was one of his most
trusted councillors and helpers. But
now the continued success of Moses and
the place of prominence into which he
had been thrust were in a measure re
sponsible for the feelings of envy and
jealousy which were beginning to grow
in her heart towards him. She had not
crushed this out at once, as she should
have .done, but had allowed it to grow.
If Aaron had -had any such feelings
in his heart they had been dormant un
til' after he had been so severely re
buked by Moses for his part in the
matter of the golden calf. I don’t be
lieve that Aaron would have been guilty
of this sin had he not allowed Miriam
to influence him. He had been elevat
ed to the sacred office of the high priest,
and the homage which was paid him
was in a„ measure no less great than
that given Moses by the people. Aaron,
however, was of a ^rather yielding
character, and Miriam was an unusual
ly forcible woman. She used her fem
inine prejudice against Zipporah, who
belonged to another race, as a cloak to
in cheating me she cheats herself. These
little things, these little every-day er
rors in the way of honor, leave such in-
dellibie impressions. And too many such
impressions spoil any character. I
learned it through my writing. Writing
is the hardest work in the world, the
most heartbreaking, the most inspiring,
the most uplifting.
You know how I have slaved to get
where I am today. You know how
I ve lost sleep and given • up every
pleasure. Why, even now a matinee
is a great event for me. And I
wouldn’t be here now if I hadn’t
stopped in with you on our way to
that club meeting. But enough of me
and just a little more about Elsie.
I’m fond of her, I long to keep her
on, but I’m afraid, auntie, that I can’t
keep her. She is too careless. I can’t
risk my own literary reputation by
continuing to send on the copy she
turns out. She has a piece of work in
her hands now which I am going to
let decide for me. If it is up to the
mark I shall keep her. If not I shall
let her go. I have a trusty applicant
for her place and I can’t afford
The curtain went up. “Can’t we stay
through this second act, auntie?”
A deeper voice answered:
“I think we had better go to the
club.”
They went out quietly. Elsie turned
her head and sajv them go. An allur
ing herojjpe was holding the centre of
the stage, but Elsie looked down
at her hands, instead—her wayward
hands that were capable of such good
work and turned out such poor work, j
She was thinking over what she had !
just heard Miss Brooke say. There j
had been revelation in the words ut- j
tered unconsciously in her presence. !
It came to her that her work was her
very self, that she was not indispen
sable. that all 'the matinees in the
world could not r^pay her for losing {
her job, and with it the brightness of I
her young honor.
She touched Marjory.
“You stay on, Marjory, I must go:
I’ve got to go. . Don't^-ask any ques
tions. Just let me go.V
She left Marjory staring open-
mouthed a£ such unwarranted beha
vior. She rushed out into the spring
day. As its light fell upon her ■ she
seemed to be bathed in a new con
sciousness of self and of the whole
system of toil for wage. And with
light heart and feet she hurried to
ward home and her waiting task.
cover her most disgraceful sin, envy.
Nothing had been said about Moses’
marriage through all these years, but
now it is used as an excuse; this is
shown by the words which they used
in this connection. They resented the
fact that God had spoken through Moses
so much, and were piqued because He
had not spoken through them. The con
nection of Zipporah with the matter
was a side issue, an dwas not the real
issue at all.
PENALTY FOR PROMINENCE.
Such envy and jealousy as they aimed
against Moses was the penalty for*
prominence. Every man who attains
prominence in any line has to face just
such enemies as Aaron and Miriam
proved to be. Usually they do not come
out in the open, although sometimes
they do, but more frequently they hide
their hatred under cover of some other
excuse.
' One of the strange things is that ''fre
quently these enemies prove to be our
blood kin. It seems hard to see a rela
tive attain prominence and success.
Moses stood this in a most wonder
ful way; in fact, there *is little ques
tion but that he was/cognizant of their
rebellion against him; but he was the
meekest man that had ever lived and
did pot say anything. Let’s get it into
our minds, however, what meekness
means, for we believe there is a wide
spread misunderstanding of the word.
Unfortunately we have come to think of
a meek person as a “namby-pamby”
sort of an individual who will take any
kind of insult and injury rather than
resent it. The Bible' idea of meekness
is entirely different from this. The
original word comes from a root, mean
ing one who hears, and if Moses was
the meekest man it was because he
listened, to God as no other man would
listen. You can readily .understand how
one meek in that sense of the word
would not resent expressions of envy
and jealousy that his own blood kin
showed. It is this kind of meek man
which Christ referred to when He said
“The meek shall inherit the earth.”
This meekness has its reward, and it
was not long before it came to jVlosss.
Suddenly God called Moses, Aaron
and Miriam to meet Him at the door of
the tabernacle, then leaving Moses there
He called the two who had been guilty
of such a heinous sin, envy, one side
and spoke to them in the most severe
terms, i He called their attention to the
fact that while He had, spoken through
other men* and women, He had done so
by means of visions; , but Moses was
unique in that He had spoken face to
face with him, as a man speaks to his
friends. When they recognized that God
had shown such a peculiar liking for
Moses, how dared they speak against
him, or how dared, any one else? So
saying, God withdrew, and the cloud
was lifted from the tabernacle. This
was the greatest punishment that God
could have inflicted upon Miriam and
Aaron. It is the greatest punishment
that He can inflict upon you. In His
presence there is fullness of joy; in His
absence there is no joy whatever. The
outward manifestation of displeasure
and withdrawal was shown by the fact
that Miriam, a woman ninety-five years
old, became leprous, as white as snow.
The tendency to leprosy was in Moses'
family. One of the signs which God
used to signify to Moses that He would
give him success was that his hand be
came leprous when he put it into his
bosom. Possibly the only reason why
this tendency had not shown itself be
fore in Miriam was because of the re
straining influence of the presence of
God. Now that God had withdrawn Him
self, the disease broke out all at once.
You can have no greater blessing than
the consciousness of God’s presence
with you always. May God spare you j
the curse of withdrawing Himself.
REASON FOR PROMINENCE.
We have had another glimpse in lot
the life of Moses showing us some
thing of the real man. Just as on a
dark night the flashes* of lightning
show us the way to g 0 so did these
littl c instances lay bare the heart of a
man to let us see him as God sees
him.
It did not take Aaron long* to see his
enormous sin. and while Miriam did |
not say anything, we are sure that she
recognized her sin and repented.
Aaron hunts up Moses right away, as
hf recognizes the superiority of Moses
because of God’s blessing upon him. and
beseeches him as his Lord that h e will
intercede for their sister that the curse
might be removed. If Moses had been
of an ordinary mind, treated as he was.
he would have said, Let her alone; but,
their sin had been a great pain to him.
I believe that he spent the time while
God was talking to them in interceding
for them; and now when they show
evidence of repentance, he pleads with
God that she be 'healed. It was the
same spirit that Christ showed on the
cross when He prayed for His enemies,
“Father, forgive them, for they know
not what they do.” And his soul got
bigger and bigger with every word.
That was the reason of Moses’ promi
nence. God can use a man like that.
In answer to Moses’ prayer, God re
turns. He grants the request, but stip
ulates that Miriam shall remain with
out the camp seven days that she
might have time to meditate, and other
people might know her 'sin and God s
grace.
I have no doubt but there is some
one envious of you. How are you go
ing to meet it? Retaliate? or listen to
what God has to say, and wait for
Him?
GERMAN WARSHIPS AT
PANAMA EXPOSITION
BERLIN, Oct. 9.—An Invitation to
the German government to sehd Ger
man warships to attend the ceremohy
of the opening of the Panama canal was
received from Washington at the Uni
ted States embassy hero today. It is to
be presented to the German foreign
office tomorrow by Charge d’Affaires
Joseph C. Grew.
Acceptance of the invitation by Ger
many is assured.
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