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I I . . ... . J . THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1913. C^ONOWCTt-O * 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." r, 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 1 rfijiiitity j&l •JMa m 4 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 EL 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. % 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. 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