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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1913.
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* MISS
hlZZll O. THQMA&
“Thanks be unto God for His un
speakable gift.”
“Make a joyful noise unto the Lord,
all ye lands. Serve the Lord with glad
ness; come before His presence with
singing. Enter into His gates with
thanksgiving and into His courts with
praise; be thankful unto Him and bless
His name. For unto us a Child is born,
unto us a Son is given; and the gov
ernment shall be upon His shoulders;
and His name shall be called Wonder
ful Counselor, The Mighty God, the
Prince of Peace.
“Oh, that men would praise the Lord
for His goodness, and for His wonderful
works to the children of men! Bless
the Lord, O my soul! and all that is
within me, bless His holy name.
“My soul doth magnify the Lord, and
fcny spirit hath rejoiced in God my Sa
viour."
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This issue of The Journal coihes into
your home when Christmas cheer is at
its height. Friends have been good to
you. The fires of hospitality are burn
ing brightly and the family has proved
once more that absence, nor poverty,
riches nor success really counts for as
much as one thinks all the other eleven
months of the year.
Christmas is really the home festival,
there are many today who are not with
the home folks, some who have been
tempted by ambition to forego the pleas
ure for this one time, but in their hearts
they are thinking of home and the
crowd there. Christmas is one season
when few think of clothes as the object
of life. The Giver of Gifts may not
really be a distinct personality in their
lives, but the blessed example has so
permeated the most of the world that
giving is the order of the day. Two
friends may have differences all the
year, but at this blessed season one
at least is sure to let old memories and
intimate associations turn that heart
once more toward the other. There ia
no time in any one’s life for malice and
uncharitableness, least of all at this
anniversary of the day when “God so
loved the world that He sent His belov
ed Son" into it to lighten the burdens
not only of all who believe on Him, but
of the world.
Christmas is really the time that
changes the dates on our letters, that
makes history a continuous chronicle.
Events formerly were “in the time of"
whoever was ruler. Take your Bible
and see how it is in the books of the
Old Testament. Take the history of
heathen nations and turn back even fif
ty years and see what the advent of
missionaries has done even to the out
ward forms.
In just one week we will be testifying
by the date of our letters, by all busi
ness papers and printed papers, that
nineteen hundred and fourteen years
ago a little Babe Was born in Bethle
hem, one who came to be the light of
the world, and there was no room for
Him at the inn. His lowly birth made
no difference to the angels, they sang
for joy and struck the keynote of His
life, “Peace on earth, good will to
jpen."
Let me again repeat the thought that
he Christ child came not for a few but
for the world. Women were as goods
Apd chattel. He loved them and de
fended even those whose sins had barred
them from the avenues of respectable
living. Little children were counted
worthy to live only as suited the whims
or convenience of their fathers and the
Christ child’s coming made a place in
the world for them all, even though
sickly and deformed. Sickness and old
age, poverty and blindness, insanity and
idiocy, disease and helplessness were
looked upon as evidences of the wrath
of the gods and untold suffering was
the result. The coming of the Christ
child has opened the doors of hospitals,
orphan asylums, homes for the friend
less, the insane, the blind. Christian
philanthropy has endowed all sorts of
institutions to help the unfortunate
take care of themselves. Money or food
Is no longer flung to the destitute as a
bone to a dog, but methods of earning
money are provided,
Saturday night the city of Atlanta
had a wonderful example of what can
be done by patience, perseverance anji
Christianity. Miss Helen Keller was
here and spoke. The ignorant, high-
strung, deaf, dumb, blind child was
laken in hand by a woman and through
infinite patience taught more than is
usually learned by the average universi
ty graduate, and also taught to use her
vocal organs. Do you believe that such
a thing would have happened, do you
believe any woman would have devoted
herself to a child that couldn’t have
been' very attractive and held to the
work twenty-six years, if she had not a
heart full of the sort of love that the
Savior had for us when “the Word be
came flesh” and dwelt among men?
Today a man said of a woman, “She
Is my niece. I have not spoken to her
in three years. She let her husband beat
me out of nearly $100." I then asked
him where we would be, even those who
do their best to serve God, if He re
fused to hear us when we fail to render
unto Him that which is His due. He
forgives us, and what is more, He “re
members no more our transgression.’’
Before we call He answers and how
seldom do we thank Him or praise Him?
Many of the Atlanta churches have
what they call “a white Christmas.”
There are no presents put on the tree
for teachers or pupils; all bring some
thing and the wealth of good things, the
load of toys, the bundles of clothing,
baskets of fruit, all go to the homes
that sickness, misfortune, incompetence
or dissipation have put the ban of pov
erty upon. All of the children and
grown people are on the lookout for the
unfortunates and many a helpful friend
ship is thus formed that lasts from
year’s end to year’s end, for one cannot
see a mother working to keep the wolf
from the door and not respect her for
it and want to help her. The bravest
battles are not fought by companies of
men, although they are heroes, but by
the man or woman who has a hand to
hand encounter with misfortune, be it
sickness, sorrow or bitter disappoint
ment, and keeps faith through it all.
I have not said one word about the
homes with vacant chairs. They are
all over the country. Some are vacant
because the loved one is too far away
to afford the journey; a few may be
from indifference; some because they
could not be spared; some in foreign
climes are telling the “Beautiful sto
ry" to eager listeners and teaching
tnose who sit in darkness; some, alas,
are prodigals and are wasting their
lives as well as their inheritance in
riotous living. Let us pray that they
may “come to themselves" and in a
short time arise and go to their fa
ther’s house. Others there are, alas,
thousands, in prisons and convict
camps. We cannot see why they were
so foolish for sin is sure to bring its
punishment, but even the hardest heart
aprpeciates the Christmas spirit, and
somewhere there may be a chair vacant
for the man who now wears a number.
Som chairs may be vacant because the
loved one’s body lies with folded hands
and pulseless heart in “God’s acre,"
awaiting the judgment day. Let the
cause be what it may, the vacant chair
is apt to cast a gloom. Do you know
the very best thing to do? Go out and
find some one to occupy it at least this
time. There are lonely men and wom
en to be invited in. I know this is truly
a time sacred to the family circle, but
how do you know that some one with
the “inasmuch" spirit, is not taking
pity on your absentee? You may be en
ter tainiftg angels unaware. Have I
said too much? I hope not. I want
every one of you to thank God and
with renewed zeal press forward ,to do
your share toward winning the world
for Him whose day we celebrate.
Faithfully yours,
LIZZIE G.THOMAS.
Low Fares!
Homesfeekers tickets are
sold at greatly reduced fares
on the 1 stand 3rdTuesdays
of each, month; stopovers
free and 25 days time, via
Cotton Belt Route,—to
Arkansas
and Texas
IVi/tfer tourist tickets (round!
trip) from southeast points to
many points in Texas, Louisiana
and New Mexico, will be on sale
daily Nov. 1st, 1913 to April 30,
1914; with exceedingly long return
limit of June 1st, 1914. Stopovers.
All year tourist tickets on sale
daily to certain points in Texas
—90 day limit.
The Cotton Belt-Route is the
direct line from Memphis toTexas,
through Arkansas—two splendid
trains daily, with electric lighted
equipment of through sleepers,
parlorcars anddining cars.Trains
from all parts of Southeast make
direct connection at Memphis
with Cotton Belt Route trains
to the Southwest.
For full information about Home-
seekers Fares, Winter Tourist Fares
or All Year Tourist Tickets, address
the undersigned. Books about farm
ing in Southwest, sent free. Writel
L. P. SMITH, Traveling Pasu’r Agent,
Brown-Marx Bids. Birmingham, Ala.
THE ART OF BEING CHARMIKG.
Dear Miss Thomas: I should like to say a
few words on the art of being charming.
One of the most attractive and popular wom
en I know possesses neither youth nor beauty,
but It is a delight to be in her presence be
cause of her radiant manner for which cheer
fulness seems but a tame word. She radiates
sunshine and optimism and everything bright
and good, and you feel when yon are with her
that it is a grand thing to be alive. Her pres
ence is a tonic. You would think that she is
the happiest person in the world, and yet she
has so little outward cause for happiness. She
has no home and no relatives except a sister,
who lives with her, and a married brother liv
ing at a distance, who neglects her as most
married brothers neglect their sisters. She
works hard for a living, by teaching music in
a normal school for ten months of the year.
Last spring toward the close of the session she
was doubtless worn out from the strain of the
year—but she did not show it—and her sister
was very ill with fever in the one room which
they occupied together and in which they did
light housekeeping. When she went ■, to her.
room tired after the day’s work, instead <vf
resting she had to care for her sister and to
the strain of her school work was added thai
i of anxiety for her sister, when she had to be
; away from her through the day. Yet her
••harm of manner was undiuiinished through it
all She was never gloomy, despondent or tac-
I titurn.
When the president of the school in which
she taught wanted a teacher to solicit prizes
I for a May {'ay contest, from the merchants of a
I neighbor in the city, all of us with one consent
suggested that Miss O— be appointed to this
task. “For she is so irresistible," we said
I “that no one can possibly refuse her." That
was It. She was irresistible.
I know another woman wha possesses this
splendid magnetic charm. She is fifty years
old, and has been a widow for twenty-five
years. Until her three children were grown and
married, she supported them by teaching school.
With school duties and household cares her lite
was a busy one. Her hair has been white ever
since the sudden death of her husband, her
face is furrowed by many lines of care, hut she
is so charming, so radiant. She is just brim
ming over with sunshine and good cheer. Every
one who meets her loves her.
This art of charming can be cultivated. It
is a wonderful asset to the girl who is enter
ing society, to the woman who is making her
way In the business world, and to the mother
in the home. Men, too, would be greater suc
cesses in business and in society if they cul
tivated this art.
Most of us can be charming at times, if we
try very hard, but the adept exerts this power
at all times, and takes the world by storm.
Very sincerely,
JANE SMITH.
BUSY BEE PRAISES COUNTRY LIFE.
Dear Household: Christmas is at our door
and I wonder how and where we are going to
spend the precious holidays. We have no idea
what is in store for us, it may be that some
of our loved ones may be called to the far Be
yond. Last Christmas eve one of my boys had
a toe cut off by an ax fying off the handle,
and m.v job was nursing him all through the
holidays and a way into January. I had
planned for a good time, but my plans were cut
short in an instant, but I have much to be
thankful for. That was the first serious ac
cident that had happened In my family, say m
twenty-five years. I hope that we will all have
fair health and I am planning to go a squirrel
hunting one day in the holidays. The “gude
tnon" and I went two days one Christinas and
got twelve squirrels each day. If I have that
good luck this time I’ll send you two, Miss
Thomas, for I believe you would enjoy them
away up in Atlanta. I believe that yon who
live in town have cause to envy us out on the
farm, who can work a season and play a sea
son. Yet our work seasons is nearly all the
time. I like the country. I can keep chick
ens. bogs and cows and see the crops grow in
their season; even now I can see the small
grain growing which seems to say General
Green isn’t dead yet. Home, sweet home, our
in the counntry. All have ups and downs.
Sometimes more downs than ups; yet life is
sweet, life is real, and with all our experiences
there is no one that is able to say what they
would do if they were placed in the other’s
shoes. Mrs. Wiggins married a widower ana
THE EVENING STORY
PA AND MA
Copyright, 1013.
By W. Werner
The Prestons had gone into the little j
white house on the day of their mar- j
riage. They had not been able to at-1
ford a. wedding trip. They had not spent ■
all their money on clothes, though she
had had two poplin dresses trimmed ap
propriately with quillings and velvet
bows, and he a pair of $7 boots, which
the village shoemaker had worked a
fortnight upon. But they had invested
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rfijiiitity j&l •JMa
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m\ hi
in the little white house and a goodly
plot of ground; their parents had fitted
them out with chairs, a table, a feather
bed and a rag carpet, and they went to
housekeeping. She was thrifty and he
industrious. He worked in a grocery
store and she worked in the little white
house. And presently they both had
something besides each other to work
for they had Laura.
Laura Preston was the most wonder
ful baby that ever was born. Every
body envied Pa and Ma—theq had been
Pa and Ma to each other and everybody
else since Laura came. Laura certainly
promised to be a beauty. Very early she
fulfilled that promise. She was the hand
somest girl of her day in Westmore. And
she was as good as she was pretty. Pa
and Ma thought they were the two hap
piest people living to have such a daugh
ter. Pa worked harder than ever and Ma
planned new ways of saving, even in her
dreams, all that Laura might have a
fresh gown or a new pair of shoes. She
was graduated from the high school and
then they raised money by putting a
mortgage on the white house and sent
her to college. Laura got through with
out making any greater sensation than
being the handsomest girl in her class
Then she taught three years in the city.
And then she became engaged to a young
city lawyer.
“TVo think of our Laura living in a
grand place like New York," exclaimed
Pa and Ma when she sent her lover’s
had to leave In six months. I would hate to
be a “grass widow," and I would hate to be
any one’s drudge. Bingham married a widower
and has the best of husbands, so who knows
how to advise between the two? We have rea
son to believe both were thoroughly good wom
en and I would advise ^:hose old maids who
want to marry to marry bachelors. I married
one and he has made me the best of husbands.
Some one else could say they married a bach
elor and he was mean and disregardful of his
wife’s wishes. So that is the way It goes the
world over, we are not prepared to advise any
one who to marry or when to marry.
A Constant Reader wants to hear the bright
er side of the subject and so do I. I enjoy all
the letters and am glad to see our Household
getting on higher planes. An Anxious Mother
wants to know when to begin to tehch a child.
From the cradle of course, and It should be
punished. I should think even at less than a
year old. When one takes a child away from
a thing and it goes tyack it should be nettleo
then and there; if a child has sense enough to
act that way it has sense enough to be made
to obey. Let a child trample on your toes
and it will trample on your heart when it
grows older. Bend the twig in the way it
should grow and It will make a pretty tree,
train a child in the way you would like and it
will not depart therefrom, the Bible says. We
can’t make, we can teach that is all, but wheu
we have done that our conscience is clear m
the sight of God. Now, I’ll wish you all a
merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Cor
dially yours, BUSY BEE.
HOW TO ROOT CUTTINGS
Dear Miss Thomas: After reading that good
letter from Henrietta, of Toccoa, Ga., I de
cided to write for I am a flower and youltry
crank. I have begonias, ferns, palms, gera
niums and many others. I also raise pure
bred single comb Rhode Island Red chickens,
Tonlouse geese, bronze red turkeys and the
white African guineas.
Henrietta, try rooting all your geranlms In
Augst and see how fast they will grow. To
root them successfully now, try putting about
one-half thimble of oats in a hole made for
the cutting and press the earth hard around
the cutting, turn a glass jar or tumbler over
it for two weeks. When the oats come up,
clip them off: almost every one will root if
put in this way.
Sisters, I fear a good many of us are neg
lecting the most important things that go to
make our homes the brightest and happiest
places on earth. We need not go to the mansion
to find happiness. The priceless gift is within
reach of the most humble household. Wealth
alone cannot give it: it takes affection and
demonstration. Tf a husband has been working
in office or field, greet him on his his return,
let; him feel that his home coming is a ples-
ure. Lav aside your troubles for a little at
least. If they must he talked of tell him
of them after he has been home awhile. He
will appreciate this and your desire to make
him welcome. Do that, which is your duty and
leave that which rlghtfuly belongs to your
husband—let him manage his own affairs. Show
a sympathetic interest when he talks of his
business, but don’t think yourself the only one
with any judgment. He will think no more
of you and your health will be better if ou
carry onl your own burdens. Let him fur
nish the money as every man should do. and you
help him take car* of it. for a dollar saved
is a dollar made. He will do his part, for nA
honest man requires his wife to furnish the
bread in this part of the countrv.
This part of Mississippi is verv pretty even
at this time of the year, athough most all or
the leaves have fallen and th#» flower are all
dead* there are ferns and grasses hiding here
and there under the dead leaves and the birds
make sweet melody on sunshiny days.,
Mrs. Wiggins. I. too. married a widower,
but he is a good man. consequently he is good
to me. I have never regretted the step T
teok I have helped to raise his two girls
from small children to the ages of eleven and
nineteen years. I did mr nart. I think. I
‘r’od to give them a mother’s love and care.
Of course, it is quite an undertaking to as
sume sueh a responsibility, hut this should have
been previously considered. • After we have
tn^ep it T think we should have courage and
rMnK A f those children as our verv own. . Tf
we will hut f^ton and ttdnt- a minute T helievo
we will love our steplchfidren. I know T love
mine, and would not change mv home life a*
all.
T.' - t’s have more letters from the flower and
poultry pranks. Henrietta. T wonld he glad to
•ret a per«:on/d letter from von.
Miss Thomnm. mv rtms~ks are- very scatter
ing. but t have been two davs writing this
Christmas is so pear that it keens me very
husr. and T only have a few minutes at a
4 ime to write.
Wl f h love and all good wishep.
MRS. MINNIE MAGERS.
Shannon, Miss.
A wo'rvrEfn ov ft
Dear Ho«snhoid; Tn answer to Anxious Moth-
pnooal for o« tr^ , t'* n " children. In
The Journal of 12th in«t.. T wjU sav that T
on> the mother n f s i T bovs and five gir R . and
n n ve brought them all up on the “Peachtree
Rwiteh” route.
She the question: How to teach a one-
vear-old child to oh»v? V^ben you tell it to
W nnvthine *!on*.anfl she tak^s it away and
the child goes right hack. First he uatient
with your habv. umtil it is ahT" to walk, hut
even before that ne eoslt’ve. Then get you a
nandful of Umber' switches and never toil your
child the second/time not to do anything until
ro’i have given .It n taste of what disobedient
brings on it. This is a mr« remedy: hut
ohonid the first dose fall. Increase the next one
«nd if It takes a dav of disoinUne and talk
keep right on- until yon «ret the desired results.
AMOTHER WHO KNOWS.
Douglas, G*.
picture home and asked their permission
to marry.
Ma studied the picture wistfully. “He’s
nice looking. Kinda such an expression
to his eyes as yours had when you was
his age, Pa. He’s six years older’n Lau
ra and he’s a lawyer. They ain’t no say
ing what a lawyer’s like to become. He
may be vice president yet." Ma giggled
hysterically. “He kooks smart enough to
be anything."
“Even Laura's husband,” added Pa sol
emnly.
Laura’s Mr. MacDonald came tq see
her that vacation. He wanted to be
married ot once. There really was no
sense in waiting—that is, if Laura was
willing to live rather plainly at first.
Laura was willing, but she was highly
ambitious, and she had had just enough
oi the city to teach her that she wanted
some of the things she saw there. She
and her mother had a great many confi
dential talks after Mr. MacDonald went
heme and they were getting things ready
for the wedding.
“Frank’s got it in him to succeed,”
she said, “and I’m going to help him.
I’ve always been perfectly satisfied
with what I’ve had, ma, but if I can
get more I’m going to have it. I love
the city! I love its life; I want to be of
it. And you can’t be of it unless you
have money. I’ve learned a good many
things this year I’ve been teaching and
before at college—things that weren’t
in the curriculum.” She smiled faintly,
caressing the lace she was sewing on
a piece of lingerie. “This lace, ma, is
ene of the things. Lace that cost 10
cents a yard would have trimmed just
a:- well, only I know there’s better lace,
and I want it. I paid 80 cents a yard
for this. Yes, I did! There, don’t you
see what I mean? If you’re going to
have money you must know how to
spend it. C«f course I haven’t got the
chance yet, but I mean to get it some
“What did they know about margins
and par value?"
time—I mean that Frank shall stand at
the top if I can help him to get there.
And when he’s there he isn’t going to be
ashamed of his wife.”
“My, Laura, you’re awful smart,"
sighed ma. “I wish I’d been as smart
a3 you. But, la, what’s the use? Pa
never was cut out to be anything
more’n a grocery man. But he suits me
just as he is.”
Laura laughed exquisitely. “And he
suits me. You suit me, too. I woudn’t
have either of you one atom different.
Do you know why, dear? Because
you’re pa and ma.”
“That ought to content us, I’m sure,"
ma.said, happily and triumphantly.
Laura was married early that fall in
the same quiet way that her parents had
been married. Only she had a wedding
trip. After that she and her husband
took up living in the city.
Pa and ma were left alone. She kept
the white house, baked the bread,
scrubbed the floors, dusted the old fur
niture, which was little better than they
had started out with. She wore shiny,
starched calico and stuck a comb in her
thin gray hair except on Sundays, when
she wore a black silk dress. Pa jogged
back and forth to the grocery store
daiy. He wore spectacles now, and his
hair was always a little dusty from
handling dusty commodities. He owned
the grocery store. <He had paid off the
mortgage by which he had raised the
money for Laura’s education and had a
little money laid by. He and ma were
in a fair way to prosper; but they did
not change their way of living. The
first vacation they had ever taken in
their lives came when they went down
that winter to visit Laura for a few
days. They would perhaps not have
gone then if she had not come all the
way from New York to fetch them.
The very thought of going frightened
them, but Laura piloted them so skill
fully that after the first starts and
thrills they almost enjoyed themselves.
She took them to the theater and the
opera, to the big stores and to a big
cafe. Her husband took his turn at
showing them the sights. He was just
as nice to them as Laura was. And
they liked him just as well as they
could like anybody .they stood so much
in awe of.
Mr. MacDonald was speculating a lit
tle. and he wanted pa to go in with
him. Pa hadn’t the least idea of mak
ing money in any other way than at the
rate of one-third profit on flour and
coffee and starch. The most iron he had
ever seen in his life was in a hard
ware store, and as for railroad shares—
his brain refused /to grasp the idea.
And ma’s was no better. But anything
Mr. MacDonald urged must be right. In
the end pa put all the cash he could
rake and scrape into Mr. MacDonald’s
hands'. He couldn’t have felt any safer
about it had he buried it in the cellar.
A man as smart as Mr. MacDonald
could look after any amount of money—
pa and ma both knew that.
They were very glad to be home after
their visit. The old house looked very
shabby after Laura’s handsome new
flat, and Westmore seemed very quiet,
but it was all home and they were used
to it. It suited them better than the
great city.
“Laura’s young and, besides, she’«
had thre years of it. It’s all right
for her,” said ma, “but, la, pa, I
wouldn’t live there a month if you’d
give me the hull of Broadway. Though
why they call it Broadway beats me.
'Tain’t a mite wider-n Trout street, if
’tis as wide."
A week passed and there came a
telegram from Mr. MacDonald—a
cryptogramic telegram that pa and ma
puzzled over in vain. What did they
know about margins and par values?
It was well that the telegram was
followed right up by a letter—a big
letter from the lawyer, a long one from
Laura, and a check with so many ci
phers in the upper right hand corner,
and such a goodly figure preceding the
ciphers that pa and ma turned white
as they tried to read them with their
dazed old eyes. This much they made
out finally—the check was money, real
money. The speculation was a suc
cess. Mr. MacDonald had manipulated
the stocks so cleveJy that he had
cleaned up enough for them to live com
fortably on for the remainder of their
lifetime. They could not conceive of
how he had done it. They only knew
-©a m
WRilQN'
December 2$. 1913
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Review Lesson—Golden Text: For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not
perish, but have everlasting life. Jno. 3-16.
In our studies the last three months
we have covered quite a wide territory
in more ways than one. When we be
gan we joined the children of Israel at
Sinai just as they were leaving, after
having been given the law, and been
changed from a motley crowd of slaves
to a nation with some definite place as
signed for every tribe. We leave them,
after they have completed the conquest
of Canaan, and entered into the posses- ;
sion of the land which God had given
them by promise nearly 500 years be
fore. Let us briefly trace their journey
and recall the incidents that occurred on
the way, which we have studied, that we
may, by this bird’s-eye view focus our
attention upon the elements of success
and failure, and thus be helped in our
journey of life.
No sooner had the Israelites left Sinai
than did they begin to murmur, as they
had done ever since leaving Egypt. It
would seem that God’s marvelous deal
ings with | them on the mount would
have forever stopped their murmuring;
but their natures had not been changed
at all. Moses finally reached the end of
his row. Even his patience gave way,
and he cried out to God for help. In
his desperation he wanted to die; but
God answered him in another way. He
gave him seventy helpers. Incidentally,
Moses learned a great principle of gov
ernment; namely, the division of labor.
We next see them when Moses has
to contend with another great obstacle,
jealousy. His brother and sister had
become so envious of him that they re
belled against his authority. God, how
ever, set the seal of His approval upon
Moses. Every man who has success, no
matter what his line of work may be,
has to contend with jealousy on the part
of some one else, who is envious of his
success. It is very much easier to weep
with them that weep than to rejoice
with them that rejoice.
We next come in contact with the peo
ple of Israel gathered at Kadesh-Barnea.
Through apparent carefulness and fore
sight, but through real faithlessness,
they sent spies in to bring a report of
the country, instead of following God,
and taking possession of it. Ttye report,
of the spies was one of the most disas
trous steps that Israel had ever made.
r ihe voice of the people is not always
the voice of God. Joshua and Caleb
with God, were mightier than three mil
lion people without Him. As the result
of their report and the cause which was
taken, the people were condemned to live
a nomadic life for thirty-eight years.
Using Kadesh-Barnea as a center, they 1
moved about from oasis to oasis, accord
ing to the water supply for themselves
and pasturage for their flocks.
Finally Moses realized that his life
was drawing to a close, and gathering
the people together at Kadesh-Barnea
again, he determined upon a forward
step. He was not able to go directly
as he had hoped, because of the oppo-
that he had done it, and the result was
in their hands. That blue slip of pa
per represented twice the earnings of all
their years of toil. They were rich
among their neighbors—rich.
And now arose the question: What
should they do with their mopey? They
had their home and a paying business.
To be sure, the furniture was worn
out, but they loved it. They 'looked
about at the old home-like things and
realized that they could not change a
thing. They had cashed the check
and put the money in the bank and
there it lay, idle, doing nobody any
good.
“I can’t think of a thing I want to
use it for," said pa.
“Nor I," ma sighed. Then she
brightened. “I know now what Laura
meant when she said that time that
she wanted to know how to use money
in case she ever had any. We’ve never
learned how to spend, pa. That’s the
trouble.” She laughed softly. “We’ve
never learned how to spend and it’s
too late nowfl But, I’ll tell you. Laura
has learned. She ought to have this
money. I say we give it to her to use
as she sees fit. She'll get the good
of it, but we never will. It’s going to
be a regular nuisance lying there in
the bank and doing nobody any good.
Let’s give it to Laura."
And they gave it to Laura,
sition of the Edomites, but had to make
a circuit around the land of Edom. The
people were so discouraged because of
the way that they began to murmur
again against God, and many of them
lost their lives because of the plague of
the serpents. Finally they reached the
eastern side of the River Jordon, and
were encamped in the Plain of Moa’o.
Here they were blessed by Balaam in
stead of cursed, as Balak had desired.
Here, also, they heard the farewell ad
dress of their great leader. Here, they
watched him as he climbed the sides of
Mount Hebo for his view of the prom
ised land, into which he was not allow
ed to enter on account of his sin in the
matter of the rock back at Kadesh.
Under the leadership of Joshua, the
new leader, whom God had chosen, they
crossed the Jordan under the most mir
aculous circumstances, waged a cam
paign against Jericho, according to the
plan of the Captain of the Host of Je
hovah, and utterly destroyed the city
and its inhabitants. They were de
feated at Ai temporarily, because ot
the sin of Achan, but afterwards took
the city as they had done Jericho. Dur
ing the next seven years, they waged
a war of conquest, and conquered thir
ty-two kings. Under the guidance of
Jehovah, Joshua divided the land
amongst them, giving to Caleb, Hebron,
the place of his choice, and building
himself a home at Timath-Serah, where
he dwelt in peace for eighteen years.
At the age of 110 years, Joshua fath
ered all the people together at Schech-
em, and there, after reciting God’s
marvelous dealings with them, and
showing: how they had won and how
they had lost, he put before them the
ne'-ssity for making a choice. “Choose
you this way whom >ou will serve,”
he said, and then set them the right
example by adding “as for me and my
house, we will serve Jehovah."
Glancing back over their journey as
we have thus done, I believe we can
see that this great truth stands out in
bas relief, namely, God’s gifts to them
were*'realized when they believed and
obeyed. They were lost when they
doubted and disobeyed. Doubt and dis
obedience were responsible for the fact
that every man but two who left Egypt
failed to take possession of the Land
of Promise. It was faith and obedience
which gave them the victory.
Now our attention is called to anoth
er gift which God has made to us,
which is so much greater than the gift
of the land that it can scarcely be
compared with it. That gift is the
gift of His love, “for Gfod so loved the
world that He gave His only begotton
Son." The same truth holds good with
regard to this gift, as held with re
gard to His other gift. There those
who doubted and disobeyed were lost;
those who believed and obeyed entered
Why Is Papa Ostrich
Considered Best Father
—
! Ostrich Can Travel Fast as
Train, Yet He’s Easy to
Catch Because He Is Sense
less
The ostrich is the largest and on of
the swiftest of all birds, but it has little
brains. The ostrich can take a twenty-
foot stride and can travel almost as
fast as a railroad train, yet it is caught
by men on horseback because when ex
cited it runs in a circle. The rider in
tercepts it by making short cuts across
the arc of the circle.
The ostrich £ets his reputation of be
ing the best father in the bird kingdom
because he takes turn with his wife in
setting on the eggs and after birth he
helps mother rear the family.
Hire Help by the Year
Good farm hands are not attracted
to a place where they are furnished
with work only about six or seven
months and cast adrift for the winter.
The annuHl demand, for farm laborers
to be used for a few months is the
unfortunate accompaniment of sys
tems of crop growing that do not
include live stock as a complement.
Not only does this cause a scarcity
of far mhelp, but it drives the compe
tent man to the cities. Men who go
about from one place to another and
stay only long enough to get a fresh
start do not naturally like to do hard,
work.
The only way to attract good men
to the farm is to furnish them with
steady ‘work for the year. Men who
stay on one farm from year to year
learn what is required of them and
take more interest in their work and
earn more money for their employers
than they otherwise would.
Mongrel Geese
The mongrel goose is generally the
result of a mating between a Canada
gander and some dark colored domestic,
usually an African or a Toulouse. It is
difficult to fatten mongrels properly un
til the cool weather comes, when they
fatten very readily. They are never
sold as green geese, being reserved for
the Christmas trade.
We place no stock in the theory that
the pure breeds give us better quality in
flesh, however; that is a matter of
food and care. A mongrel properly fed
will have better flavored meat than the
pure brecj improperly fed.
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into the rest, and into the possession
of the Promised Land. Just so those
who doubt and disobey this gift of His
So i can expect nothing else than de
struction. This destruction will be
proportionately greater than was the
destruction of the men who doubted
then, as this gift Is greater than the
gift of the land. On the other hand,
whosoever believeth in Him shall not
perish, but have everlasting life.
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