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r i m * THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1913. At no other season of the year can one find the first and .second verses of the fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah more ap plicable than during these later days of December. Truly at all seasons there are fortunes spent for things that sat isfy not, but this, the^season* that should be spent in meditation, in happy thoughts of our Father’s gift to us, is occupied with “labor that satisfieth not.” and with a vain search after things that really mean nothing. I must say I admire the people who have rebelled and have formed the Society for ^he Prevention of Useless Giving. Spuds the initials spell, and I say long lif'e tor the Spuds if they can remedy the evil. I heard a woman say that this year had seen a change in her opinions. She has tried to give, sunshine, good cheer and occasional gift! from January until December and this season finds her giving only to, the little children and old people. I heard another say that she had to give Mrs. So-and-so a pres ent and with her limited purse she found it hard to find anything fine enough for her, and that Mrs. So-and-so didn’t care for presents she could not be proud of. And there are so many who really swap presents, the ones who gave last year must be remembered whether their intimacy warrants it or not—“log-rolling,” my grandmother call ed it. With this mad rush after presents and thte day’s routine in addition, when can one follow step by step Mary and Joseph as they took the journey to Bethlehem? On Christmas Eve what time bave parents to tell their children the ^tory of the tired pair hunting a place to stop and not an inn to make them comfortable; of the shepherds out on the hills watching the heavens and probably talking of the Messiah whose coming was so eagerly expected; of the angels and their song? All these things mean so much if one has time to talk to children about them, and we must remember them ourselves, else how can we be feure that the “meditation of our hearts” are acceptable in God’s sight? Do you remember what Daniel said in his last words of counsel to Nebuch adnezzar when interpreting that king’s dream? “Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility,” or “a healing of thine error.” This is a sea son that should be made a time of re joicing, really rejoicing, not gloating over one’s possessions except to be glad that the increase enables one to give more abundantly to the needy, and pro vides more coal for the shivering, more food for the hungry, and more work for the heads of families, men who need work and encouragement. I knew a man in a certain city who had. a woodyard that was for the poor of that city. No man could say he couldn't find work, for there were axes and saws, wagons and piles of wood to bo delivered. He paid the regular prices and if a man said he would like it he gave him a cup of hot coffee to begin on. The Salvation Army and Associated Charities work along lines similar and make all the year a time for shewing mercy to the poor. I am pleased to know that a great many of you are reading your Bibles systematically. There will be many pas- sages that will be obscure but if we put our faith in God and pass them over, even as children must not question their earthly parents' motives, our vis ion will be clearer as the years pass and the things we “see darkly” now will change. The lessons of the Old Testament can be applied to our daily lives. The sin of Achan comes up every day and it is interesting to hear the comments of a Bible class on it. The pessimists say that where there was only one man in that three thousand who disobeyed God there are hundreds today in every three thousand. When one judges the world that way it is hard for me not to ask, “Would you have been like Achan? That would most probably be indignantly denied. Then I would like to remind the speaker that our Savior says, “Judge not.” Yee. I know there are a great many who have one or more of the great sins, but our duty is to help people‘live bet ter Mves,, not tell the world how the bad are in the irjajority. In the be ginning of humafi history, as we find it in the Bible, we have the evangeliza tion of the world foreshadowed, the seed of the woman,” and the victory of human nature even then in a spiritual one. Jhis vague promise was later given -more definitely to Abraham, then to Israel the hope grows clearer, though there must have been all sorts of doubters and murmurers when bond age was their portion. So many people forget that when the Israelites went back to Canaan and took possession of that land they were simply going^ back to their own. Hosea looking back to the deliverance of the people from Egypt calls them God’s son. and Matthew applies his prophecy to our Saviour. Isaiah, in chapter seven and chapter nine, gives us a definite prophecy of Immanuel’s birth and the prince of Four Names. This shows the son born only to share his people’s sufferings, a sufferer for the ains of others. Isaiah in his earlier years evidently expected the Messiah to come soon, but he also expected Him to be born of earthly parents to suffer for His people and then be Wonderful Counsellor, God- Hero, Father-Everlasting and Prince of Peace. This was a splendid foretelling of what Jesus did 750 years later. Mat thew, in his first chapter, and Luke in his -second, plainly echo Isaiah’s words. Isaiah, in his later years gets the ideal clearer in his mind, age mellowed his vision and he gets the broader view of the world’s Saviour, not simply one for the Jewish people. There is much that I would like to say to you, but Chat is getting over long. But I want all of you*.to remember that throughout the- entire Bible we are exhorted, yea urged, to be strong, to be of good courage and as St. Paul says, “Watch ye,-stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.” And while the years pass, day by day, let us work, let us do whatso ever our hands find to do, for none of\ us know when our summons will come. The Holy Spirit comes not in thunder nor with scenic display, nor will our call to our Father’s house be spectacular. But whether the time given us h^re is long or short, let us live so that there will be no cause f/r the Babe whose natal day we so soon shall celebrate, to regret the record of our lives as He shall see it. And in the language of Tiny Tim, let us pray, “Good bless everybody.” Faithfully yours, LIZZIE O. THOMAS. ■ \K HAS FOUND LIFE •nr; Mias Thomas’ nice, practical . . i a ml the letters that followed I feel like >.iying ;i few words myself. Miss Thomas is a reader of human nature and some of her best thoughts are culled from observations of the lowliest people with whom she may come in contact. People are people, anyway. We en joy Miss Thomas because she Is full of first hand knowledge. I think Vera Noble expressed sensible views when she said that a teacher ought to be get ting something out of life as she goes along. This is as important a part of life as the final retirement will he. If she will take an I interest—an active interest—In the children and the entire community, go to church and Sunday school, and to other societies they may have; form reading clubs or something to help briug the people together in common, she will find that she likes the people and they like her. Not only that, hut they will discover that she is useful in the community and offer her the school again, maybe, at an increased salary. All country people are not fools, and they know a live teacher from if dead one, and very often the friends she makes In the community are her lifetime friends. But Jane Smith has reached the goal of her ambition as a teacher, and still she is not con tent. That is natural. My grandpa once told me that if everybody were contented there would be uo progress. Suppose aue had never outgrown her first wish—her baby wish for a rattler. She would be still content to shake her rattLer ami say •‘goo,’’ and there are lots of people* still shaking rattlers. Time passes on and v^e pass: our capacity for enjoyment en larges: the same thing will not satisfy us long at a time.' I appreciate how lonely Jane feels, but she is contemplating a very serious step—it may he the correct thing to do. It may not be the wrong thing to do to marry her Inferior, whom she docs not even expect to make her happy, but before she does it I hope she will thoroughly consider whether he is a good man. If he is and loves her she may not be doing the wrong thing to marry him. If h e is just uneducated, that is no crime, for she can help him read and inform himself. If he is a kind- hearted man and loves her. I think she will be safe in marrying him. If she is not ashamed of him: but don’t marry any man that requires an apology. South Georgia Girl has quite a little to say about how very bad a widower with a crowd of children needs a wife. Of course he needs a wife, but the question is. does he deserve one? You may talk about being lonely, but of all the loneliness a person can feel in all the com bined days of old-maidbood, 1 nothing can equal the loneliness of being the unloved and unap preciated second wife of a man with a crowd of children. Just try It If you want to be con vinced. Such a woman has to work so hard that she has no time or opportunity to go out at all. If she were to get a chance to go she would have so much work to do before she got off that she would be sleepy when she got there. Jf a woman marries a man with a crowd of children, young or old, and expects him to be different from Mr. Newlywed in the funny supplement she will be disappointed. Nine men out of ten will let the children rule them. They are much averse than the mothers about it. Now, this may be a gloomy picture for South Georgia Girl, who, no doubt, is contemplating marrying a widower. Rut I am speaking what I know, and it is first-hand knowledge, too. However, I must say that all apples are not crap apples. Some men are good men and treat their second wives Just as well as their first ones. A N^rood many cases of that kind have come under my observation. But as sure as you are born, all are not that wav. He thinks, as a rule, that he and his children are all who need , any consideration. It a woman is thinking of marrying a widower, she would better be certain in the first place that he is either a good man or that he is badly in love with her. If he loves her, even If they are both in the sear , and yellow leaf, that will remedy everything else -when it corns to happi ness. Poverty is nothing to compare with hav ing a man nagging and complaining. But love gives them both a heart to do, and it makes them more appreciative. However, I am sorry to say that a man with a crowd of children often ruthlessly marries without taking time to woo. thinking loye will come later. Little motnerlebs children are sweet. Their little hearts are hungry for a mother’s love and care, and they are glad to welcome a new mother. The stepmother goes Into the family with'her mind made up to love and be a mother to the children, and her heart is craving the Jove of the child. It is generally the case that in spite of the father and older children the young children and their stepmothers love each other. MARY E. WIGINS. MARION STEVJSNS’ THANKSGIVING. Busy Bee, here I am after a long, long si lence. I’ve just been listening, you know. In between times I’ve been busy, with housework —that includes more things than I shall at tempt to describe in words. I’ve learned to quilt and feel very proud of that . I’ve al ways had it done before, but I have' some old- fashioned notions that just now are creeping out and demanding expression. * You can imag ine how I enjoy doing these things when prompted by love for-my little family which consists of my big-hearted, considerate hus- j ai ? tl ~ an< * * Wo b,e8Sed - babies—a boy and a girl. Then I have my reading and writing and music, blessings unnumbered which I have learned and am learning to appreciate and en joy | Mrs. Wiggins, I feel like I know you. It happens that I know of a case very similar to ^ours. # I met her, was with her a short time not long after her marriage. Having known the man previously, also his first wife of whom I was very fond, I knew she had more on he* hands than she bargained for. The children doubtless she could and would have made an. excellent mother for them—but the drudgery she had to perform in orier to save, save, save. As for his love let trie pass it by. I could write largely about his love for money, etc. I was much impressed by her pleasant manner ner soft voice and kindnesfe to the children and when she asked me if I knew the address or Mothers’ Magazine and she copied it down so that she might send for it, study it in order to learn more about being a mother to those children, I felt she was certainly Interested In their welfare and was determined to do her part. The months passed. I came back home, but I never forgot her. I often wonddVed about kff Rod recalled little incidents and when once, after telling her some little episode in my life, she remarked, “You married each other when young, you can grow up together and under stand one another, can’t you?” She had taught for some fifteen years. At present she is gone—has been gone some weks. I do not knoW the circumstances, but knowing the situation & 1 do 1 can imagine some things and my sympa thy is lor her. He is a man who should never have married. There was no room in his heart for a woman and children—especially the lat ter. His first wife used to tell me to be glad I married a man who loved children. She was a nobie, splendid woman, but her fifteen year* of life with him had made her weary, so when death came she was ready to go to rest. Sometimes j»eople marry for what they be lieve is love, but you can’t love a person with out a principle, or without something within them that grows and develops with the years and grows finer and bigger and greater, and not realize that you have made a mistake Perhaps you love a man whom others may censure. You’ve got to be sure that he is worthy Better find out beforehand than after ward, then you will not live to regret. There’s a number of ways to know. It seems strange and sad so many girls make a mistake in the selection of a life partner. I used to teach, too. I have tender memories of those days when life was full of dreams and promise of days to come—dreams I am now realizing. I am glad I married Instead of continuing alone—something could have come between us in all those years to come, and I am glad I have lived and loved and known and realized the beautiful joys of home, husband and ba- Wes MARION STEVENS. MY GOLDEN RULE. . Yf a F Miss Thomas: i read something in the Atlanta Journal a few days ago that reminded me very much of myself. I often have a severe case of the blues and think I have more troubles than anyone else, then I think I must uot press that in my mind, for so many others have Just as big a share, though in different ways, we must push back such evil thoughts and give room for praises and thanks. If we give way to our troubles we will soon think of nothing or no one but ourselves, even be dull and no pleasure to ourselves or anv one. It will seem to us as if the whole world is against us. Then is when we forget our part in “do ing unto others as we like for them to do unto ns.” We want others to sacrifice their trou bles, or rather push back their troubles to console us. But think of reversing those last words, instead of expecting kind deeds from others we should search for some way to make happy* every one we come in contact with. It will become a habit and everyone around will find pleasure. Do unto others as we want them to do unto us. would be fulfilling our duty to ourselves and to our fellowman, but the longer we act indifferent to our fellow- man the farther away we get from our duty to them. Then the plainer we see their faults and the deeper our own are hidden from us. Let us dig out all selfishness envious thoughts, so that we can readily see hundreds of good deeds others are doing unto us. I want every reader of my letter to pray that all of ns will always live right. Sometimes the futures looks dark and gloomy. I am a widow with one little girl to raise, but I feel like I will be blessed with health to f*arn a support for us. I am certainly thank ful for all the blessings I have already had. I would have written to The Journal long ago but was afraid it would reach the waste bas ket. Hoping Miss Thomas will ever have a successful page. Cordially, MRS. QUINNYE HARRISON. '©Si- jjccemuer Ul, >.913. GOLDEN TEXT: And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among* ub, We are always interested in begin nings. There is a peculiar attractive ness about the first citizen of a place, about the oldest house, about the first baby born in a town, the % .first bank established, etc. We treasure as one of the glories of our country’s history the story of its first settlers, and there is not one who is not interested to a certain extent to the first man. Imagination can scarcely reach that far, but even then, when we stop to think we long to know what preceded him, and when we try to stretch back to the very beginning of things, every thing is unsatisfactory and unsatisfy ing, until we realize that in the begin ning was God. There our imagination rests, and we can be satisfied even though we cannot realize the truth of this in all of its completeness. This great personality is i the self- existent one, who is independent of all His creatures, and why was called by the Jews, Jah or Jehf>vah to express this trijith of his personality. The great “I am” He called Himself, when Moses asked what he should reply to Pharoah if he should .ask who sent him. This is a significant fact, that the first four words in the Bible were just those words, and expressed this truth, “In the beginning, God.” By comparing John-1 with Genesis-1, we learn that He existed not as ohe person, but as at least two persons in one. Genesis states, in the beginning, God. John says, in the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God, therefore iden tical with Him, and the Word was God, therefore different from Him. Elsewhere we learn that there was a third person in this great personality, the Holy Spirit who was also with God, and who also was God distinct, yet iden tical. There are many things that we cannot understand, and fully compre hend, which are nevertheless facts, and this fact of the trinity is one of them. I do not suppose that anyone can fully comprehend the truth that three per sons could exist distinct yet the same; but the fact tha we cannot comprehend it does not alter the fact of their ex istence. Some day, when the limitations of the earth have been taken from our midst, we shall be able to comprehend this truth in all its fullness, but not until then. It is of the second person in the trin ity that we study this morning. He is called here, the Logos, the Word. John was writing to Greeks and Jews, both of whom fully appreciated this reference; the Greeks particularly understood the characterization of the great personali ty by the term Logos, Word. The word means a thought, or a word, and is just the same, because the word is a means of expressing a thought. So John suggests it here, calling the second per son of the trinity, the Word, because it is through Him that the great person ality God speaks. Through Him God expresses Himself. All things were made by Him. Through Him God has expressed His creative power. In Him was life. Through Him God expresses His life-giving power. Through Him when He breathed into the clay which had been formed as man the breath of life. This life was the light which Ughteth every man that cometh into the world. Through him God gave an in sight into the mysteries of God,' as He expresses Himself in the universe. The more of His life that we have in us, the more light we have. The man who is animated by the life that is Christ sees God in every flower, in ev ery - circumstance and condition of life, in all nature ,as well as in the realm, of grace. He sees God in the storm *».nd in the calm. He sees God in the fruit and in the flower. He communes with God in his business life as well as in the sanctuary. But this is one of the marvelous things, that this light has come into the world, and the darkness comprehends it not. Dong before Jesus came there was God. He had expressed Himself in na ture and providence sufficiently to light en every man, but no man had grasped the true conception of God. So God sent a man named John to bear wit-' ness of the light, and then the true light came. But when the true light came into the world which He had made, that world did not receive Him. He came to His own people, but they did not re ceive Him. But as many as received Him by believing in Him, exercising His authority as the word of expres sion of God’s power, he made a great gift—He gave them the right to be come sons of God, to them who were born, not of water, nor of the flesh, nor of will of man, but of God. THE INCARNATE WORD. Men had had difficulty in grasping the conception of God, of this great per sonality who made and keeps the world. So when they could not grasp the truth in any other way, one of these marvel ous things happened, which shows not only the grace of God, but His marvel ous love, shows His yearning after His people that they might know Him. This Word, the Legas, this person in the great personality by whom God has ex pressed Himself i,n creation, became flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth. He lived among the pooi- est and the humblest. He walked as a man among His people. He lived as one of them that they might know Him, that they might learn to know God, so ti.at they might behold the glory of the Father as we see the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father. It was as though a child had been separated from his father all of his life; he had haa letters from him, he had spoken about him, he had written to him; he was a great personality to him, and yet he haa never seen him; and then that father came into his life, so that he could act ually handle him. He could touch him; he would physically perceive him, and appreciate hijn. To that boy, the fa ther, who was merely a personality or a spirit before that, had become flesh and dwelt with hijn. Just so His peo ple had been grasping after God They had some conception of Him, but a very dim one. They had never seen Him, but now He had become flesh and welt among them, so that every man might handle Him, and their eyes might see Him, and their ears might hear Him speak, that He might become the living personality ini their midst. This was what Jesus did. He was the Word. He was God. He was the one through wnom God expressed Himself; and be came flesh, that they might see Him, and know Him, and love Him. Until that time, they had only the law, and the ‘thou shalts,” and the “thou shalt nots.” This was all good so far as It went, but it was still law. The law came by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. And all those who received Him, and believed Him, be held the glory of the Father In Hjlm. Grace was added to grace, and grace} to grace, undeserved favor to undeserVed favored, as they learned to know Him more and more fully, and to appreciate God more and more. GOD REVEALED. No man has seen the great jersonali- ty, God. The only begotten Son of the Father who is in His bosom, who is God, who was in the beginning with God, who expressed His creative, His life-giving, His * lightening power—the Son of God, the Word, the Second person in the trinity, who became flesh and dwelt* among us—He has revealed Him. Would you know God? Then look in the face of Jesus Christ. Would you know His humility? Look into the face of the Babe of Bethlehem. Would you know His gentleness? See the children crowded about the knee of the Man of Gallilee. Would you know His tern- ness? See Jesus driving the many changes oiit of the Temple. Would you know His power? Look at Jesus as He raises the daughter of jorus from the dead, having just died, as He raises the son of the widow of Nain from the dead, ater two days; as He raises Laza rus even ater decomposition had set in. Look at Him as He heals all manner of sickness and disease of His people. Would you know God’s mercy? Then see Jesus as He hangs on the cross, voluntarily' giving up His life in order that we might not suffer the penalty of our sins. Yes, we may behold the glory of God when we look into the face of Jesus Christ. \ We have no cause for not knowing God now. The Word has revealed Him. He has done all He can to show you how much He loves you, and how much He wants to *make you a member of His family. He has shown you how to be come such. 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I’ve left Will.” “You’ve left Will!” Her father stared ai her, his face stiffening into horror. “My God, girl, you don’t mean it! What has Will done?” Rhoda shook her head. “ ’Tisn’t what he’s done. It’s what he won’t do. He's shiftless. I'm tired of trying to push him along. And I’ve given up, that’s all.” Her father pondered with his eyes on the floor. “Your ma’s always pushed me along,” he said. “There’s a difference,” replied Rhoda crisply. She drew the pins from her hat with an air of intending to make herself thoroughly at home. Her fath er watched her, sighing. “I’m sorry about this, Rhody— darned if I ain’t. I like Will. You’ll make it up, I guess. Your ma never left me!. I dunno about this, Rhody. I’m glad to see you home, but I’m sorry on Will’s account. Darned if I ain’t.” “Father,” said Rhoda, facing him with one of her mother’s looks, “I wish you wbuldn’t talk about this any more. Let it drop. I’ve left Will, and I’m not going back. I’ve come home to stay. If mother was here she’d say I’d done right. If you don’t think I have, keep It to yourself. Now I’m going upstairs to put away my things. / My trunk’ll be here pretty soon. When I come down I’ll get supper, if there’s anything in the he use to cook.” “If there ain’t I’ll get it,” agreed her father meekly. Rhoda opened her suitcase in her old room, which was still as she had left it/ She had been married two years—two tempestuous years, in which she had striven to break her husband by the same method her mother had 'used on hei father. Rhoda had begijm her mar ried life with the resolve “not to let her husband boss her.” but she had made no allowance for a like resolve on his part. Yet she had married Will Helm because she had loved him so much that she ctuld not live without him. He was a good deal like her own father, being of the type known as “easy-going,” while she was energetic and eager to “get ahead.” There was in consequence a constant clash between their natures v hich had at last resulted in open rup ture. Whereupon Rhoda had packed her belongings and left. Her mother, she knew, would Uphold her, because she simply was carrying out her mother’s policy. As for her father’s opinion, it did not count, of course. Rhoda took up the reins of govern ment in her old home just as her moth er had laid them down. Her father was easier to manage than her husband had teen, ahd she had a very good time for a few days. She was still very angry with Will, otherwise the thought of him did not trouble her much. Those Who had known her best as, Rhoda Kent flocked to see her. She told them mere ly that she had come home to stay for a time, and avoided all mention of her husband. She had been home a week whten one afternoon as she was about to leive the house to make calls her mother walked ir. Mrs* Kent was extremely like her daughter, though larger and with more resolution about her large chin and handsome mouth. She shut the door be hind hfer with a crack and her black eyes s^vept her astonished daughter from top to toe. “Hello! What are you doing here?” she demanded. Rhoda made a welcoming rush* to ward her, but Mrs. Kent warded her off. “Keep away from me till you answer my question,” she said. ‘^Why, I’ve come home to stay,” re plied Rhoda lamely. “How queer you act, ma! Aren’t you glad to see me?’ “I’m glad enough to see you, but I’d be gladder to see you where you be long.” Mrs. Kent loosened her wraps without removing them. “You see, 1 stayed out at Aunt Mate’s as long as I could stand it, and then I went on to Hartwick to see you. I found Will keeping house alone. I asked him where you were, and he told me what I had happened.” Rhoda bit her lip with anger. “I ex pect he told you,” she cried, furiously, “and told you just the way* he wanted yen to hear it. But I’ll tell you one thing, Ma Kent: when I left him I left for good. I’m sick of pushing him up to a job and trying to make him work. He’s never been so bad as he’s been lately. And I won’t put up with him.” Mrs. Kent scrutinized her daughter coldly, eye to eye. “Will’s sick,” she said. “He’s got the Janders. The doc tor says he’s been ailing for quite a spell back. It’ll be three vfeeks before he’s able to work much.” “]/ didn't know he was sick,” Rhoda said. “Well, he is; ar,d under the circum stances your place is with him at home,” said her mother. “He’ll have to get along alone, moth er. T m not going back.” “But I say you will.’ “And I say I shan’t.” As Rhoda spoke the last word her mother’s hand flew out suddenly and clipped her on the cheek with such force that the clear skin bore the white imprint of at least four finkers dis tinctly visible in stinging outline. “Say shan’t to me, eh?” blazed Mrs. Kent. “Sass your mother, will you? I igiess you won’t. Not much. When I tell you to do a thing you’re going to do it, and no back talk. You can boss your husband, but you can’t boss me. I say you’re going home where you be ll ng t and you’re going. You can’t stay here another day. The idea! I waa never so disgraced in my life as I am this minute. To think mv daughter would leave her husband! I’m ’shamed of you. You ought to be ’shamed of yourself. March straight upstairs and pack your things. Your pa’ll see to getting them to the depot. And we’ll follow right after. You’re going home, Rhody Kent, and I’m going with you to see that you get there. 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