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he thought “the traffic would
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Kathleen Norris Says:
Old Way of Life Is Gone Forever
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
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Women have a share in the world catastrophe. Make “I will be afraid of nothing ”
| your first rule. Yes, even if death is going to be your share, and the boy doesn't come
home from the wars—face it.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
THE strangest years of her
history and the greatest
crisis she ever has faced
are immediately ahead for
America. She has always been
a friendly country, willing to
let other countries solve their
problems and worship their
gods in their own way, not
afraid of her weaker neighbors
any more than they were afraid
of her.
But all this has been changed,
and we have “enemies” now,
we are to be the world’s arsenal
and to attempt to police the
world. And you, the quiet mis
tress of a quiet household, have
your share in the world of catastro
phe, and must do your bit to pull
us all out of a chaos into which the
blindness and stupidity of the na
tions overseas have drawn us.
They talked world brotherhood,
world peace, world distribution of
opportunities and necessities 20
years ago. But nobody meant those
promises or took the slightest inter
est in their fulfillment; blockades
went on; mandatory powers were
not released; children starved and
their mothers and fathers went mad
for revenge.
These conditions will be repeated
in a few years when the war is
over, for the men who are respon
sible for it are not dealing honestly
with their peoples now, and are not
apt to change afterward. No, they
will retire, wealthy and unpunished,
as they did 20 years ago, leaving
sorrow and ruin and bitter change
for all the rest of us to face.
Make Family Unafraid.
Your share is to make the little
unit that is your family, and if pos
sible your group, self-sufficient and
unafraid. Begin this very day to
change your house into a place to
which a man and children love to
return at night. No worry, no fears
and complaining, no violent discus
sion of public affairs at your table
or around your fireplace. Just
the courage of a woman whose fore
bears have faced loss and change,
and who will bear her own share
of the burden when and if it comes.
Make “I will be afraid of nothing”
| your first rule. Your faith will af
fect every member of your family.
Yes, even if death is going to be
your share, and the boy doesn’t
j come home from the wars, face it.
Three million American mothers
will be beside you. Life won’t ever
go back for any of us to what it
was. But face it, and in love for
those who are left, and who will
grieve less, will suffer less, if you
always show a smiling face, learn
to bear the unbearable.
For a second rule: Get out of
debt. Whatever your income is,
live on exactly two-thirds of it.
Save; buy a little farm, and when
you own it, buy another, to rent.
Get your feet solidly on the ground
for what is coming; for each one of
us who can take care of a neighbor
will have to do it then. Cut down
everywhere you can.
Maybe your income is inflated
now, is much larger than it was be
fore defense activities began. If that
is so, try to live as simply as before,
and invest in national bonds, or in
those few acres of real estate that
some day may mean a cellar full
of your own apples and squashes
and potatoes, closet shelves filled
with preserved berries and fruits,
chickens.
And now for a third rule: See
that the family income does not
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KEEP YOUR CHIN UP!
That’s what the women of this
and every country are going to
have to do—keep their chins up.
They are going to have to smile,
even when they would rather
have a good cry. And they are
going to have to make “home,”
in spite of sorrow, hard work
and sacrifice, a peaceful and
courageous place. Kathleen Nor
ris believes that a better world is
in the making. She says that the
more fully we understand the
suffering and injustice others
must endure, the better able we
will be to help build a truly
civilized society. There may be
fewer millionaires when this is
over, but there will probably be
fewer poverty stricken slums and
pale children looking with be
wildered eyes on a heartless
world.
come from just one man. You
would feel yourself heavily bur
dened if you had a wife, a boy and
girl, an old mother, an occasional
maid, a car, a home, insurance
and taxes to maintain; and believe
me, in the face of the clouds, dark
ening over the world today, your
man does. One of you, or better,
two of you, ought to be helping out,
in however modest a fashion.
Share the Burden.
One woman in my neighborhood
went to a contractor and had him
turn her big top-story into an inde
pendent flat, with a roofed outer
stairway. Bath, kitchen fittings and
stairway were the main expense;
stove and plumbing cost her $912.
But the husband, who had been
getting $8 a day was now getting
$l6, and sometimes more, and she
could pay this off, and did pay this
off, at the rate of something more
than $lOO a month.
Then she furijrtshed it, buying new
curtains, but otherwise merely ex
tracting from the 12 rooms down
stairs such tables, chairs and beds
as she could spare. This apartment
rents for $75 a month and she says
she could rent three of them.
Now she has taken three back
rooms on the second floor—yes, the
boys’ rooms, both her boys are in
the service. But she won’t let hoir
self worry or grieve; she says she
never thought life was easy, and
that she thanks God for all the
years she had her sons. She is turn
ing these three rooms into a sitting
room, bedroom and kitchen, and
they are so pleasant, clean and
roomy that even while the paperers
are in there the suite is rented for
a two-year term.
This woman, strong, confident, I
capable, is ready for anything. Are ,
you? Does your husband come
home to an atmosphere of peace, |
courage, helpful planning? Is his
mind at ease about what would hap- I
pen if he became incapacitated?
Old Way Gone Forever.
That old way is gone forever. But
I believe in my heart that new light
is shining behind the blackness of
these clouds, and that in God’s good
time it will break through. I think I
we know more of the suffering of
the world than we once did, and that
we never again willingly tolerate
the crowding, the cold, the hunger
and poverty that the world has so
long taken for granted.
We may live more simply, but it
v/ill be more happily, too, if we can
feel that the old day of contrasted
luxuries and miseries is over, and
men have learned that the real
riches of life lies in sharing.
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SUNDAY 9
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for January 18
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JESUS
LESSON TEXT—Luke 3:1-8, 15-17. 21. 22,
GOLDEN TEXT—Thou art my beloved
Son; in thee I am well pleased.—Luke 3:22.
“A reed shaken with the wind?”
No. “A man clothed in soft rai
ment?” No. “A prophet? Yea, I
say unto you, and more than a
prophet. For this Is he, of whom it
is written, Behold, I send my mes
senger before thy face. . . . Verily I
say unto you, Among them that are
born of women there hath not risen a
greater than John the Baptist.”
Such was the testimony of Jesus
(Matt. 11:7-11) about the man who
in our lesson of today bears his tes
timony concerning Jesus.
I. John: the Preacher of Repent
ance (vv. 1-3).
The times in which a man lives
will often make or break him. If
times are dark and difficult most
men submit to the burden of the day
without protest or effort. But not so
with John. The period in which he
lived is graphically brought before
us as we consider the names of civil
and religious leaders mentioned in
verses 1 and 2. Tiberius Caesar,
the emperor, was virtual dictator,
‘‘talented, ambitious, cruel, licen
tious, infamous, inhuman” (Van
Doren). Pilate was the governor of
Judea, who later condemned Jesus
to the cross. Herod was a seducer
and murderer. Annas and Caiaphas
shared the infamy into which the
priesthood had fallen.
God needed a man with a flam
ing message of judgment, and He
had him ready out in the wilder
ness, far from decadent Rome and
spiritually dead Jerusalem. Upon
this man John came the message,
a word from God—“ Repent
stirred the whole countryside. But
he had even a greater mission.
11. John—the Forerunner of Jesus
(vv. 4-6).
He humbly identifies himself as
the voice in the wilderness prophe
sied by Isaiah. His was the impor
tant duty of preparing the way for
the coming of the Lord Jesus.
The picture is that of the prep
aration for the coming of an orien
tal monarch. When he “was about
to make a journey, a servant was
sent before him to prepare the high
way. Valleys needed to be filled,
hills lowered, crooked places made
straight, rough ways made smooth.
Thus, before men would be ready
to receive Christ, moral obstacles
must be removed, men must repent
of their sins and turn from them”
(Erdman).
Isaiah says that “all flesh shall
see the salvation of God,” some
thing which God has made possi
ble, but which we have not even yet
fully carried out. The gospel is uni
versal in its character—for all man
kind. This prophetic woxd will, of
course, have its complete fulfillment
when the King comes to reign. Then
“they shall teach no more every
man his neighbor, and every man
his brother, saying, Know the Lord:
for they shall all know me, from
the least of them to the greatest
of them” (Jer. 31:34).
111. John—the Follower of Jesus
(vv, 15-17).
The humility of the man, his rec
ognition of true greatness in Christ,
his willingness to efface self, is seen
in the words of these verses and in
such other passages as John 1:29-
30, where he directed his disciples
to Jesus, whom they followed, and
John 3:26-30, where in response to
the effort to make him jealous of
Jesus because his (John’s) disci
ples followed Him, John replied,
“He must increase, but I must de
crease.” He was glad Lo be the
friend of the Bridegroom who re
joiced when the bridegroom came
(John 3:29). He declared himself
unworthy to loose the latchet of
Christ’s shoe (Luke 3:16).
The Christian virtue of humility
is evil spoken of by a world of force
and hatred, but it is still precious
in the sight of God, and the orna
ment par excellence of Christian
character. “Be clothed with humil
ity: for God resisteth the proud and
giveth grace to the humble” (I Pet.
5:5).
As he put himself in the back-
I ground, John put Christ forward as
the one whose baptism would not be
a material element, water, indicat
; ing the inward change of repent
ance, but would be with Holy Ghost
fire, cleansing and transforming life.
However, the Christ who comes as
a Saviour to the repentant one,
comes also as the flaming fire of
Judgment upon the impenitent.
There is wheat and chaff in the
world of men, and the fan of Christ
will soon separate the wheat which
goes into His eternal gamer from
the chaff which He will burn with j
unquenchable fire.
Our God is a God of unfathom- I
able grace, but He is also a God of
severest judgment upon those “that
obey not the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ.” Read the solemn
words of II Thessalonians 1:7-9. It
is an awful thing to reject the Sa
viour, and thus to make Him our
Judge.
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The world is blessed most by
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—James Oliver.
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