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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
For Dec. 16. —Acts 15-28; Ropi. 15-18-20,; Eph. 3:1-11.
BY DR. MARION McH. HULL
Golden text: "I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ; it is the pow
er of God unto salvation to every
one that believeth.” Romans 1:16.
East week we learned how ener
getic the early church was, and how
widespread her activities were. This
was largely due to Paul and his
outreach. Time and
* again he would leave a work that
i would seem tu demand h’s best at
tention and every power he posses
sed, and nush on to other
strategic point. The latter part of
the book of the Acts is a record of
.his travels in the interest of the
gospel,' and his epistles give us in
timation of other places he visited
to preach among the heathen the
• unsearchable riches of Christ. In
‘ the letter to the Romans, written
even before he was taken there the
first time as a prisoner he calls
their attention to the fact that God
had wrought mightily through him,
and that he had fully preached the
gospel from Jerusalem even unto
Illyricum; and then almost uncon
sciously he gives us an insight into
the motive power of all his activi
ties. He had striven to preach the
♦ gospel, not where Christ was named,,
•lest he should be building on an
other's foundation. His great desire
was to give, ebo wonderful message
' of the unsearchable riches of Chris.
to everybody possible, and if ther >
was a place where no one else had
gone or was not likely to go, that
was the place fc/ which he headed.
When he wrote to the Colossians.
as we learned last week, he could
say to them that the gospel had
come to them as It had come to all
the world. There was not a place
known in the world to them then
that the gospel message had not
reached. Paul had carried it to the
whole Roman world. The scattering
of the apostles had brought it into
„ Africa, Asia and Europe. How re
markable this was can be appreciat
ed when we remember that the
earlv church was composed entire
ly of Jews and Jewish proselytes,
and that the whole history of that
people had been one of exclusive
ness. For centuries they had kept
\themselves separate from all other
peoples until when Jesus came they
were narrow in the extreme. All
other nations to them were Gen
tiles —heathen; unworthy -of any
consideration whatever.
The Mystery
What changed their attitude more
than anything else was the activity
of Paul. His mind has resented bit
-4 terly any such suggestion when it
had come through Stephen’s preach
ing. His conversion had resulted-at
once in an attitude of yieldedness;
“Lord, what wilt thou have me to
do?” was his first question and his
constant position. He had gone into
retirement in Arabia for three years
immediately after, and to him then
God revealed the mystery which had
been hid in God from the founda
tion of the world. It was this revela
tion which characterized his life
and ministry from that time for
tward. It brought him into conflict
with the authorities often; it cost
him many a sacrifice; it was re
sponsible for two weary years im
prisonment at Caesarea; it bound
blip between Roman soldiers at
Rome for two more years; it brought
'him before Nero, and was” at last
•responsible for his death. What was
this mystery?
Well, what is a “mystery” in the
scriptural use of the term? It isn’t
something mysterious in our use of
the word, something difficult to un
derstand, occult. The Greek word
means a secret, something hidden,
coming from a root meaning to shut.
A mystery in scripture therefore
was a hidden secret, something that
God knew, something that was in
* His plan all the time but which for
* reasons known to Himself He had
kept hidden, He had not revealed.
There are a number of mysteries in
the Bible—the mystery of God even
Christ, the mystery -of Christ, the
mystery of . the church, the mys-
41 les of the kingdom of heaven, the
mystery of godliness, the mystery
of iniquity, the mystery of the in
jiving Christ.
It would, be a very interesting
• study to discuss these different mys
teries and how they have been re
vealed. but that would lead us too
far afield at this time. It is proper
and profitable however to study this
one that had such a far-reaching in
.fluence on the world in the first gen
eration after Christ, and so largelv
affectefl the life of Paul. That mys
tery he speaks of in the letter “to
the Ephesians which is one of the
selected Scriptures for today. Eph.
8:2-9—the hitherto hidden secret that
the Gentiles as well as the Jews were
to be fellow-heirs, partakers of the
»ame promises in Christ, and mem
bers of the same body, the church,
M the Jews. It was no secret that
lhe Gentiles were to be saved; every
one of the prophets had foretold that
Rut that thej- were to form with the
jews, on the same footing, a new
body, the cfiurch was a secret that
H had never been made known until
■ It was revealed to Paul after hig
H conversion. The prophets knew noth-
■ 4 lng of the church; the first mention
■ Pf it is in Matt 16:18 when Jesus
Spoke of it in the future tense. Upon
MB th!s roc k —Peter's confession of faith
■ln Him as the Son of God-—I will
■ build my church, He said. Israel was
M the church or congregation in the
■ wilderness; but Israel was not
Christs called out” ones. Christ’s
H church was to be composed of those
M who are called out from Jew and
■ Gentile, from every land and people
U »nd tongue and nation.
S We learned last week how Paul
H put into practice what he had been
shown, how he went to Jerusalem,
then, to Tarsus, then to Antioch, then
■ to Cyprus and Perga and Lystra and
|M Derhe, Iconium. Galatia. Troas,
Philippi, Thessalonica, Athens, Cor-
M inth, Ephesus. Illyricum, Rome, Etv
flan d. In ever widening circles the
message of the gospel spread, al
aiming at the strategic points
snd where Christ was not known.
■(f anyone ever preached a world-
gospel or believed in or prac-
■ Seed world-wide missions it was the
■ yne. to whom the mystery had been
Jew, Greek-, Sryth .-in. bond
■ man. freeman heard the good news
■Hit his hand, and he made It as free
is God's air and sunshine, because
■ there had been revealed to him the
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hidden secret that & new organism
was to be formed composed of those
from everj* people whom God had
chosen.
Have we learned .that lesson yet?
Do we not find that in the hearts of
some at least there is just aa much
prejudice against the other races,
whose skins differ from ours, coming
into the privileges of the Christian
church as those bigoted narrow-mind
ed Jews had when Paul began pro
claiming this mystery that has been
revealed to him? Honest now, do
you not find that you are more in
terested in getting the message over
to some near relative, or neighbor,
or countryman than you are to have
some Chinaman, or Jap, or Korean
hear it? When will our hearts expand
enough to take in the whole wide
world regardless of color or clime or
condition?
The Motive
There is a curious attitude taken
by some who say: “O, yes, I believe
in giving the gospel to everybody;
but I am in favor of finishing the
job at home before tackling anything
outside.” Well, might such an one, i?
a merchant, say: “I want to sell my
goods all over the country and world,
but I don’t believe In trying to sell
‘ a bill of goods anywhere else until
I have sold every merchant In my
home city and have cultivated them
all as regular customers.”
We mentioned last week a tre
mendous motive for the world wide
proclamation of the gospel, amj. it
is not strange that those who ap
preciate fully the truth revealed in
this hidden gospel are as a rule more
tremendously interested in it than
are others who either do not know
this truth or reject it. In the mind
of God there rested the knowledge
that the chosen people, the
would not accept the Son of God as
King and their Messiah when He of
fered Himself to them as an humble
servant of Jehovah; therefore pro
vision was made in His mind for
another organism, the body of Christ,
to be formed which should make
Him known unto the ends of the
earth, and when that? body had been
made complete—or to change the
figure—when the bride of Christ
shall have been made ready the bride
groom should return. At His second
coming one of the things that would
result would be recognition by His
people Israel of the mistake they had
made and an acceptance by them as
a nation of Him as their long-look
ed for Messiah and King. One of
their prophets, Zechariah, had said:
"There shall be a fountain opened by
the house of David—and they shall
look upon Him whom they pierced
and shall mourn for Him as for an
only son.” Zechariah did not know
anything of the period of time that
was to elapse between His first and
second coming; but the great Jew,
Paul, to whom God made known his
hidden secret that had been in His
mind all along, explained it most
clearly in the 9th, 10th and 11th.
chapters of his letter to the Romans.
God had given great blessings to the
Jews; because of their rejection of
Jesus the Christ, He had set -them
aside for a time, and was now form
ing a new organism out of Jew and
Gentile irrespective of place or race;
when this was complete, He would
deal directly with Israel again.
At the great convention at Je
rusalem, the first Christian conven
tion ever held and recorded in Acts
15, James, the president, announced
their decision in these words:
‘Simeon hath declared how God at
the first did visit the Gentiles to take
out of them a people for His name
and to this agree the words of the
prophets; as it is written, After this
I will return and build again the
tabernacle of David which is fallen
down—that the residue of men might
see after the Lord, and all the Gen
tiles upon whom my name is called,
saith the Lord, who diwjth aJI these
things.”
Notice here the program—(l) to
visit the heathen to take out of
them; (2) after this Christ's return:
(3) the restoration of Israel; (4) the
residue (of Israel) to seek after the
Lord; (5) and all the heathen.
Our task now is to preach the
gospel to every creature that the
Holy Spirit may take out of the Gen
tiles a people for His name, and thus
so bring the King back. If there
is a nook or a cranny where Jesus
is not known, there is the place to
make Him known. - If there is a
inß-D or woman, st boy or whet
er yellow, black, red, brown, or
white, who does not know the sin
ner’s only Savior, that is the one
we must reach with the good news.
For the gospel of Christ— not eugen
ics or enthenics nor social service
nor western civilization, nor educa
tion—the gospel of Christ is the
power of God unto salvation to every
one that believeth. Whatever Jesus
Christ means to you, you are re
sponsible for making Him known
that far for everybody.
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The Idleness of Idols
Thou shalt not bow down thyself
to them, i.or serve them.—Ex. 20:4.
; i He that maketh an image or
. likeness of anything in heaven
or earth is higher than the work
i of his making, and the soul of
> the artificer is above the fruit
I of his labor.
. If he bow down to it he is
abased, and if he -worship it he
i layeth fetters on his own spirit.
, The heart of man hath not ut
tered the depth nt his thought,
’ nor the hand of man given shape
. to the fairest of his dreaming.
The living is more excellent
' than the lifeless, and a little
child more precious than all
graven images.
The idols of the mind are
’ fashioned in darkness, and the
3 foolish nay homage to their vain
imaginations.
There is a mystery of godli
ness, and the hand of man can
? not reveal it to his vision.
1 Therefore let us take pleasure
I in the pictures on the wall, but
? we adore only the King Invisible
? . and Immortal.
; Hallowed be his name in every
» tongue of man.
I
AUNT JULIA’S COUNCIL
A Friendly Meeting Place for All Tri-Weekly Journal Readers
Dear Aunt Julia and Ooualns; Pitas* epen
th* door and let a llttl* girl from North
Carolina In for just a llttl* chat with th*
cousins, I’ll promise not to stay long.
Yes, please give ms a seat among jot all
as dear auntie has let m* In now.
Say cousins, how many of yon art going
to school nowH All 1 guest. 1 am going
and like it fine. We must try and learn
all we can for if we idle our time away
when we could go to *chool. we will some
day aay that we wish we could recall the
golden moments that are gone forever. I
think we all should strivs for an education.
I am a lover of flower* and music. While
you hav* not always music In your home
there is always music in th* woods and
that is the songs of the birds.
I live on a farm and like it fine. We can
have many privileges on the farm that
the city boys and girls don't have.
My home 1* In the western part of North
Carolina, among the hill*. Now they surely
are beautiful with their coat of red and
gold and It 1* grand to see the little birds
fly from tree to tree. It seems that they
are saying good-by to the green trees.
They will all aoon fly away and their songs
will be hushed until the coming of *pring,
when the flower* bloom, and then the birds
will come back.
I will com* back if Aunt Julia will print
this for me.
8o cousins, all who car* to writ* t* a
fonrteen-year-old girl let your letter* come
to:
(Miss) MARIA GLADSON.
Culberson, N. C., lit. 2, Box 19.
Dearest Aunt Julia: Her* comes a girl
from the "City of Smile*” to join the cous
ins for a while. Wonder if I will be ad
mitted. I hope so. J live In town, and
like It fine. I am going to school. Am
a freshman (ninth grade) this year. My
studies are English, algebra, Latin and his
tory. Have four teacher* and like them
all. I am fourteen years old. My sister
is visiting ns from Tampa. She surely has
a sweet baby. I have a sister at home, sev
enteen years old. hut I’m larger than she it.
Would like to have you cousins visit me
this winter. I would give you all the or
anges you wanted. Our bouse is in an
orange grove. I will close before I'm told
to. Write to a Florida cousin.
(MISS) EDNA MAE LANGFORD.
Fort Meade, Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
let a Mississippi girl into your happy band
of boys and girls? I, like most of the oth
ers, live in the country and like it fine. I
am teaching school and like to teach very
much. I am eighteen years of age. Sly
father takes The Tri-Weekly Journal and I
like Aunt Julia’s council best of all. I see
most of you cousins take a subject to write
on. As this is my first time to write, I
won’t take a subject. Come on Mississippi
boys and girls and not let the other states
get ahead of us. Aunt Julia, please print
this, as I want to get acquainted with the
cousins. Will answe? all letters received.
(MISS) ORA TOLAR.
Columbia, Miss.
Dear Aunt Jtilla and Kind Cousins: Here I
am again. I want to thank Aunt Julia for
printing my other letter, and thank all the
cousins who *ent me the songs that I asked
for. Oh, my goodness! I wish some of you
cousins could have been here to help me
read my letters. They surely did come by
showers, tens and dozens at the time. So
many came that I just could not answer
them all, but must say they all were appre
ciated. All those who wrote and never got
an answer will write again I will answer.
Look here, cousins, I am going to ask all
who will to please send me some flower
seed, any kind that you ba,ve. All my
flower seed were destroyed this summer. I
will send songs in the place of the seed.
Here, Aunt Julia, is one of my photos. I
want you to please print it. I hope it will
print well. All the cousins who wrote
asked for It. so I can't send it to all. Aunt
Julia, do please print this yiote and my
photo, for I know you are so dear to us
cousins. Here; auntie, is a dime for the
orphan. Your old cousin,
(MISS) BEULAH JONES.
Mullins, 3. C., Route 3.
Dear Aunt and Cousins: Will you please
lot me in for a few words with you all? We
all seem like one big family—a place to
exchange greetings and new ideas. Let us
all work to try and make our Letter Box
really worth while after all, a help to one
another and everybody who happens to read
our letters. Oh, there’s so much I want to
say I don’t really know how to begin. Some
take for their subject ‘‘Mother” or "Moth
er and Home.” Why not "Mother and
Dad” or ‘Mother, Father and Home, Sweet
Home?” Earth has no love like a mother’s
love: none so tender, so true, so full of
sweet wisdom, so replete with pity and par
don; but don’t our fathers love us, too, and
toil every day that we may have the neces
sities and pleasures of life? So let us love
and praise hUn, too. A good thing for
some of us t<>think of, if not write about
would be gossiping. So many good namw
are ruined by the Idle gossiper, who loves
to hear of some poor fellow's downfall, and,
instead of helping him, cause others to be
lieve the things against him are worse than
they really are; then he is shunned and
despised, and soon loses all care for him
self, when a few good words might hare
saved him. There's a little good in the
worst of us, and a little bad in the best of
us.
There's none of us that's perfect(
Some poor person who's gone astray
There's few of us that stay
And never stray or wander
From the straight and narrow way.
So, when you start to hammer,
'Twill do no harm to pause and think—
You may lose your grip some day.
What’s the use to kick one
Who's just about to fall?
If you do not care to help him
Don’t mention him at all.
You’ll find, if you take notice,
That what I say is true:
While there may be faults In others, *
There’s a flaw or two in you.
Let ns all think of this and do unto others
as we wish to be done by. I want—
"To live as gently as T can.
To he—no matter where—a man,
To take what comes of good or ill.
And cling to faith and honor still.
"To do my best, and let that stand,
The record of my brain and hand:
And then, should failure come to nft,
Still work and hope for victory.
“To hav* no secret plac* wherein
I stoop, unseen, to shame or sin;
To be the same when I'm alone
As when my every deed is known;
"To live undaunted, unafraid.
Os any step that I have made;
To be without pretense or sham,
Exactly what folks think I am.
"To leave some simple mark behind
To keep my having lived in mind.
If enmity to aught I show,
To be an honest, generous foe.
"To play my little part, not whine
That greater honors are not mine.
This, I believe, is all I need
For my philosophy and creed.”
I would like to receive some Interesting
letters from some of the cousins. Best
wishes to all you old “friends o’ mine” and
all the cousins. Just one of us.
MINNIE GIDDENS.
Eastman. Ga., Route 6.
P. S.—Cousins, my birthday is Jannarf
21. I would like to receive a card from
every one of you. Now, don’t forget.
Dear Auntie and All: Will you admit
three go-lucky Alabama girls into your
merry circle of girls and boys? I, Myrtle,
am fifteen years of age. I, Evelyn, am
fourteen years of age. 1, Hattie Mae, am
twelve years of age. Who has our birth
days? Myrtle’s September 28, Evelyn's
September 30. Hattie Mae’s June 26. We
are at school today, and we like our teacher
real fine. How many of you like to -go to
sciiool? We certainly do. Suppose we bet
ter be going as our letter is getting rather
lengthy. We are going to see who gets the
most letters, so all write. Best wishes.
(Miss) MYRTLE WIGGINS.
McKenzie, Al*., Route 1.
(Miss) EVELYN GARRETT.
Red Level, Ala.
(Miss) HATTIE MAE HODGE,
Brewton. Ala., Route A,
Dear Aunt Julia: Cousin* will you admit
two Alabama girls Into your circle? Like
most of the cousins, we live on a farm, and
like farm life fine. I, Carrie, am a blonde,
age between sixteen and twenty. I, Rallie.
»n> a medium tyne. age between twelve and
sixteen. Now. cousins, let your card* and
letters come to
RALLIE AND CARRIE JOHNSON.
Evergreen, Ala., Route B.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here coms two girls
from the dear old state of Georgia. This is
! our first time to write. We have been
I readers of The Journal for a long time and
surely enjoy the Letter Box. We, like most
of yon cousins, live on s farm, and like it
fine. We are cheesey to Aunt Julia’s let
ters. Oh, cousins, what do you all do for
pastime? One of us teaches school, and
likes it fine, and th* other goet to school.
Oh, Aunt Julia, please print this. We will
thank you so much. We won't describe
ourselves, as we think it won't be neces
sary. We are both eighteen, so if any of
you cousins want to write to ns’we will
appreciate all letter* received and will
assure you all answer*. Your new cousins.
We have the same address.
(MISS) LASSIH JOLLEY.
(MISSI GRACE MANNING.
Adairsville, G*., Route 2.
P. S.—We inclose 10 cent* for Ines.
H«llo, everybody! Will you pleas* admit
two jolly Florida girl*? We are sure that
you will, though. We wish everyone could
be with ns now, a* It’* cane-grinding time.
How many of you go to «cbool. Most, all,
we suppose. W* are both in high school.
Ruth is a freshman and Bva a sophomore.
We like high school fine. English and Al
gebra are our favori’e studies. Like most
of you cousins, w» llv* on a farm, about
one mile from town, and think it a grand
privilege to live on a farm, because you
have so many nlc* thing* t<j eat, and now
everybody is setting out orange trees on
the farm. W* have a satsuma grove about
twelve miles from Chipley. Ruth is sev
enteen, Eva is sixteen. If yon don’t believe
we era game, to answer your letters, just
try us. If we see this in print we will
write again soon. Many good wishes to Aunt
Julia and the cousins. Please send mail
separate. Your new cousins.
RUTH GAINES.
EVA HAYS.
Chipley, Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: A* I did
not see my other letter in print, I will come
again. You know the old saying is, "When
you'v* tried and have not won, never stop
for crying; all the great and good is done
just by patient trying,” so I'll try again.
How are you all this cold November day?
I'm sure you would not turn a poor Georgia
girl outside today, for Jack Frost would be
sure to grab her, for she Is real “cute.”
Listen, and I'm sure Aunt Julia and all the
cousins will agree that I’m rather "cute."
I have bobbed hair and a few freckles. I
just hear you cousins giggling behind your
hats at me. Anyway, 1 would like to hear
from any of you. Oh, 1 forgot! Guess m.v
age, between fifteen and twenty years. All
who write I’ll try my best to answer all I
receive. Every boy, girl, man or woman
who sees this who is named Venable or Mat
tie please write me, ’cause I want to con
gratulate everyone on their pretty name.
I must stop. Your loving niece and cousin,
MATTIE VENABLE.
Adairsville, Ga. •
i ,
My Dearest Aunt Julia: Won't yon give
space for just one one more girl* from the
Tarheel State, U. S, A.? 'Tis a grand old
state, now. Auntie, isn’t it? I have written
once before, but wasn’t admitted, so I
thought I would try again, see? Papa
takes the dear old Journal, and likes the
Letter Box best. And, my, my. are not the
"Jeff and Mutt” pictures sights? And 1
read them most every time. How many of
you like goiuig to cane grindings? Oh,
just look at the hands'. But listen! How
many like to work at one? I don’t, but I
surely like to visit it anyway.
Christmas and .also "Santa Claus’’ will
soon be here, and, Cousins, hurry and sweep
out your chimneys so old Santa won’t get
his suit so soiled. Know Auntie will be
expecting more oranges this time, won't
you. Auntie? Now, I am expecting bushels
of letters, so hurry and write me. Your
newest Cousin sends heaps of love.
(MISS) LULA MAE GEESLIN.
Damascus, Ga., Route 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Thanksgiv
ing day forces reflection upon a grateful
people. "How sharper than a serpent’s
tooth is a thankless child!" I wish every
one of Aunt Julia’s Letter Box cousins would
read these verses on Thanksgiving day':
Psalm 105:1, 100:4; 1 Thess. 5:18, Phil 4:6,
Eph. 5:20, Col. 3:17, Psalm 65:11, 107:8.
"God's goodness hath been great tu thee.”
Don’t think more of having a "fat turkey''
or going hunting on that day, but remember
what simple meals Jesus always served—
never a banquet, but bread and fish with
Jesus makes a real banquet. No sumptuoti,
feast would be able to do more than turn
our thoughts to the Giver of every good and
perfect gift, and no scantiest fare should
do less. He gives us richly' all things to
enjoy. Gratitude is the parent of many
virtues, and is among the things that are
eternal. Without forgetting God's daily
benefits, each should say in his heart daily,
“Father, I thank thee," Sincerely,
BERNICE BEATTY.
184 Hill St., Toccoa, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I wonder
if you would let an Alabama married lady
join your happy band? I have been a reader
of The Journal for some time, and 1 espe
cially like the letters. I am a farmer's
wife. I have six children, the oldest eleven
years and the youngest fifteen months, so
you may know I am kept busy. I do all mv
work, also help on the farm. I havea lot
of real pretty flowers, also some box flow
ers. I wish more of the married ladies
would write to the Letter Bolt. Cousins, 1,
too, think Aunt Julia is a plum sweet old
dear, and that she is so good to let us have
this space in which to meet each other.
Let us show her we do love and appreciate
her b yeach one sending her a nice Christ
mas card. It will make her feel more like
we Indeed do appreciate her and what she
is doing for us. If anyone has the book,
"Grace Trumon,” and will lend it or sell it,
I would be glad to hear from them. I would
be glad to get letters from all the cousins.
I wonder how many will say “I will" to
the Christmas cards for auntie. Just listen,
auntie! Yoon just as well get ready for
your Christmas box. Thank you, auntie, for
this space. Find inclosed a gift for the
orphan. Lots of love for everybody.
(MRS.) CONNIE MOODY.
Elba, Ala , Route 2.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: After
reading so many- nice letters from the
cousins, I thought I would write a few
words. I am just a country girl asking for
admittance into your happy band of boys
and girls. -I think Aunt Julia is a dear
lady for giving us kiddies room in the dear
old Journal to get acquainted with the boys
and girls of different states. I live in Ala
bama, and think it is a dear, beautiful
state. Boys and girls, I live in the coun
try, and can say I surely do have some jolly
times. I like country life best. I have
tried both city and country. How man~
agree with me? Oh. just look at the hands
going up! I live ode mile from the city of
Russellville, at a beautiful lake. We had
some good times this summer. I suppose <
had better go for this time. lam seventeen
years old. Now, cousins, please write to a
little girl who gets lonesome sometimes. To
one and all I will assure you an early reply.
Your new friend,
iMISS) SUSIE COOK.
Russellville, Ala., Route 7.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit a jolly Tennessee girl into your
hand of Jiappy boys and girls? I, like some
of our cousins, live in the city, and like it
fine. I don't think I would exchange with
any country cousins. Have I a twin? My
birthday is .lune 6. I will leave my age
for all to guess; it is between eighteen and
twenty. I have blue eyes, dark hair, fait
complexion. For pastime I read, write,
crochet, car ride, go kodaking. The Bible is
my favorite book. For flowers I love the
rose the best. My father lias been taking
The Tri since last May, and I surely enjoy
the letters from all the cousins. You
cousins who want to write to a good-looking
Tennesseean let your letters come to
/ WILLIE HAMILTON.
Cleveland, Tenn.. Route 7.
Dear Aunt Julia: Many, many thanks for
printing my letter. Let me also thank each
and every cousins who wrote to me. While
I haven’t r"ead any of the letters, I know
they must be interesting, as this is a jolly,
good council. When I wrote the Letter Box
I was in Nicholasville, K.v., but before my
letter was printed I went to Ohio, visited
several towns and am now in Indiana. Yon
see, I don’t stay in any one town long
enough to have my mail sent to me, there
fore I can’t answer the letters until I get
home, which will be about Christmas. For
the benefit of the ones who are interested
in my age I will say I was born September
11, 1900. Who guessed it? Aunt Julia,
please print this as soon ns you get It, so
the people will understand why I haven’t
answered their letters.
CLYDE TEATER.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please let
a little Mississippi girl join your jolly band
of boys and girls. I have been reading The
Journal for almost two years, but haven’t
had courage enough to write before now. I
live in the country, and like country life
fine. I go to school every day, and enjoy
it very much. It I were to take a subject
to write on it would be "Friendship.”
Friendship is one great force that keeps us
sustained when things look blue and our
hearts are heavy. The more we love, the
better w*e are, and the dearer our friend
ships, the dearer we are to God. There is
nothing in the world better than a real,
true friend, and in order to have a friend
you must be one. Sometimes we do not
appreciate some of our very best friends
until it’s too late. Be kind and friendly
with everyone until you know they are un
worthy. I’ve stayed too long for the first
time, Excuse me, please, and all who care
to write to a little girl who believes most
in love, sunshine and smiles, let your letters
come to
(MISS) JESSIA PERRY.
Chester, Miss., R. F. D. 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will yon
admit a lonesome school boy to your happy
band of hoy* and girls? I have never writ
ten to the corner before. I have been a
constant reader for about ten years, and I
always enjoy reading the letters from the
cousins. I am an ex-soldier and am taking
vocational training here at Athens univer
sity. My home is at Calhoun, Ga. Prob
ably some of you cousins have been through
that city. I believe I have read some letters
from girl* and boys in the adjoining towns.
As I am a newcomer, I will trv and describe
myself: I am 5 feet 10 Inches low. I will
let you guess my age: It is between eighteen
and twenty-seven. Now, I am not so far
from home, but I surely do get lonesome,
and If any of you good-looking cousins wish
tn write me I will assure you an answer to
all who write me. I guess I had better run
along now. Hoping to see this In print, I
will say good-by to Aun’ Julia and the
cousins. WILLIE J. PYE,
370 S. Lumpkin St., Athens. Ga.
QOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME
If Parents Would Only Try to See <
Things From Their Children’s
Viewpoint, Instead of Getting
Angry and Clouding the Issue,
a Workipg Agreement Between
the Two Generations Might
Be Reached
A YOUNG girl was telling me her
tale of woe, which was all
about a stern father who
wouldn't let her make dates with
some peachy boys she knew, and
how was she going to endure life, to
say nothing of having a good time
and getting mar
rieci w hen she
' /y- was kept shut
up at home of
f an evening?while
\ *> other girls were
“11 • allowed to go to
" places, and eo on
and on, to an ac
companiment of
many tears and
\ much despair.
SSHBr An( j then the ;
5 g ;rl said:
'|| “And I can’t
T - alk over with
my father be
*■■*. -aswo cause when I try
to tell him things, he gets so angry
he just raves, and I have to shut
up.”
After the little flapper had flapped ]
away with her scanty skirts, and |
her bobbed hair, and her painted j
child’s face, I thought that some- i
times, truly, out of the mouths of
babes and sucklings cometh wisdom.
For in one sentence, she had sum
med up the great tragedy of family
life.
"1 can’t talk things over with my
father because when I try to tell
him things, he gets so angry he just
raves, and I have to shut up.”
There is the secret why parents
cannot influence their children;
why children do not confide in their
parents; whv husbands and wives
are at loggerheads so often, and live
in a kind of armed neutrality, each
ready to fly at the other’s throat.
They never talk anything out
calmly, quietly, and dispassionately.
They never try to get at each oth
er’s motives, or to understand each
other’s point of view. The minute
the subject upon which they disa
gree is broached, one or the other
flies into such a violent passion that
he or she becomes temporarily a
mad man or woman*, incapable of
understanding anything, and the
matter has to he dropped unsettled
in the interest of decency and
peace.
In this particular case to which I
have referred, the father is a splen
did man, perfectly devoted to his
little daughter, and he is doing his
best, according to his lights, to pro
tect her. But his lights are the
flickering yellow gas lights of his
youth, instead of the flashing elec
tric lights of today.
Because, when he was young, all
girls wore petticoats and red flannel ,
underwear, he is in a state of per
petual outrage over the wisps of
chiffon that suffice for lingerie for
the modern girl, and he tries to
back his daughter into the sort of
clothes her mother wore thirty-five
or forty years ago.
Because, when he was young, the
boys and girls sat at home by the
fire, and popped corn,' and ate ap
ples, and sang songs, he is horrified
at the way young people rush away
from home to joy-ride, or dance in
public places.
Moreover, he is under the halluci
nation that in his day the young men
were of a superior breed to the mod-
FARM EDUCATION
BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
Using Meat from Hogs Attacked
by Cholera
H. O. W., Thomson, Ga.,
writes: Is there any danger for
using the meat of a hog that
had cholera eighteen months
ago, but is in a healthy condi
tion now? Please give me a
good recipe for making country
sausage.
There is no danger from eating
the meat of a hog that is in a
healthy vigorous condition. Animals
may sometimes be attacked by chol
era and recover. It is unusual for
this to happen, but when they make
a thorough and complete recovery,
the meat would be all right to eat.
There are good many ways in
which sausage may be prepared.
Nearly every one has a favorite
recipe. We believe, however, you
will find the following recipe satis
factory. It is one which has been
very extensively used throughout
the country, and is recommended
and indorsed by home economics ex
perts generally. A mild flavored
pork sausage, which is not greasy,
may be made by following this
formula:
75 Pounds of lean pork
25 Pounds of pork fat
1% Pounds of salt
1 Ounce of salt peter
4 Ounces of black pepper
2 Ounces of red pepper
2 Ounces of sage
These ingredients may be varied
to suit individual taste.
The lean meat and the fat are cut
into small pieces, and the salt, salt
peter and spices added and well-mix
ed with the meat and fat. This mix
ture is run through the coarse plate
of a food grinder and again well
mixed by kneading with the hands.
This makes a very acceptable sau
sage, but many people prefer the
sausage ground fine, in which case
it is again run through the grinder,
using the fine plate.
Sausage may be packed in bulk
containers, or may be stuffed in cas
ings or - in narrow muslin tubes or
sacks. Sausage is usually eaten
fresh, but it makes a delicious article
of diet if given a light smoking after
stuffing.
Meat and fat used in making sau
sage must be fresh, sweet and clean.
All utensils used in the making must
be scrupulously clean. Spoiled sau
sage or sausage made from tainted
meat or fat is a source of grave dan
ger to those who eat it.
Influence of Peanuts on Soli
Fertility
T. L. D., Millen, Ga., writes:
I have been told that “lay out”
land will not make peanuts. Is
this true? Please tell me the
best kind of land to use for pea
nuts, and how to plant end cul
tivate and fertilize the crop.
Land which has lain out for a few
years should produce a satisfactory j
crop of peanuts, provided several
matters are given the attention they 1
deserve. It is important that the;
land be broken early and all the
trash and weeds effectively buried :
las soon as possible. It is desirable :
I that this material be well decayed I
I before planting, and that a firm and i
I compact seedbed be provided. Where
I one grows peanuts, it is desirable, of
i course, to apply lime. From 1,000
! pounds to a ton of crushed, raw
I lime should be used. We rather
j favor the larger amount, though it
may not be necessary to make this
application oftener than once in four
or five years, during which time
two crops of peanuts may be pro-
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1928.
ern youth, and that when they vis
ited a girl they sat up and discussed
serious topics Instead of skylarking,
and giggling, and talking foolish
ness, as they do now.
That’s father’s position. Daughter
would like to set forth her side of
the case to him.
She would like to tell him that she
belongs to the year of grace 1923,
instead of 1883. That this is prac
tically a new world since the war,
with new standards. That custom
makes ths right or wrong of many
things, and that the things that it
used to be scandalous for a girl to
do, are perfectly proper now.
She v.ould like to tell father that
she is more worldly wise at twenty
than her mother was at forty, and
above all, she wants to tell him that
she is young, that she must have
some pleasure.
She *wants to tell him that she
must dance, and have good times.and
have beaux, arid that she has to play
the game in the way her generation
plays it, or else not play it at all,
and that if he shuts her up at home
and won’t let her do ’he things the
oti er young people are doing, he is
dooming her to a bleak, joyless old
maidenhood.
If the girl could tell her father
these things and they could thresh
them out together, they could arrive
at some sort of a compromise, in
which she could have her fun, while
he stood like a guardian angel in the
background. But they can’t do it,
because when they try to talk to
gether he gets too angry to listen.
The result is that father is misera
ble, and anxious all the time about
the girl, and the girl sneaks off, and
meets boys on the streets, and looks
upon her father as a tyrant, and a
killjoy.
I know a wise woman, married to
a i irritable and quick-.empered man,
who never discusses any important
family matter with her husband. In
stead, she writes him a letter in
which she sets forth her reasons
why she things such and such a
thing should he clone, and mails it to
him at his office.
"If I attempted to tell him that I
think John ought to be sent off to
college, or Mary should be permitted
to accept an invitation to visit a
school friend in a distant city, he
would go up in the air, and want to
know if I think he is made of money.
Tie v/ould tell how be had to go to
work before he was their age, and
d?nand to know what the younger
generation is c>. ming to, and launch
forth on a general tirade on the de
generacy of the times.
‘I couldn’t get in a word about
tl e advantages of education, and
terming good associations, or Mary
needing a change, and I would
finally have to shut up to end the
scene. But when I write it all out
he is bound to read my arguments,
and he is perfectly reasonable about
agreeing with me.”
And how many men have their
whole home life ruined by never be
ing able to speak freely and frankly
to their wives! They can’t talk over
tn 3 rearing of their children, or the
household budget, or any plans, be
cause the wives go into hysterics,
or rave like fishwomen in bursts of
temper.
It is a great pity, for there is noth
ing like being able to sit down and
talk things over. "When we do that
wo can nearly always reach a good
working agreement.
(Copyright, 1923.)
duced on the land. Peanuts, of
course, should not be grown on the
same land or after oats. This crop
tends to exhaust the soil for the
simple reason that it takes from the
land a good deal of phosphoric acid
and potash. Where the peanut does
not function properly, the crop may
gather a good deal of the nitrogen
it needs from the soil rather than
from the air. On land which is not
well supplied with nitrogen and
where peanuts have not been pre
viously grown and the soil inocu
lated, it may be good practice to use
a formula containing 1 per cent ni
trogen, 8 to 10 per cent phosphoric
acid and 3 to 4 per cent potash. The
formula should be applied, at the
rate of about 500 pounds per acre on
ordinary land. Peanuts may be
planted the same as any other le
gume. Seed in drills and leave them
a reasonable distance apart in the
row, depending on the richness of
the soil. Cultivation should be suf
ficient to keep the land free of weeds
and trash. Peanuts are often plant
ed on the level, though some people
plant them on a slight ridge. There
is not much to choose between these
methods unless seasonal conditions
interfere. For general field cultiva
tion, the White Spanish will prob
ably make a larger yield and prove
the most satisfactory. As soon as
the peanuts begin to peg down, cul
tivation should cease.
Bailiff of Camilla
District Ends Life;
Motive Is Mystery
CAMILLA. Ga., Dec. 11.--Will G.
Stewart, bailiff for the Camilla dis
trict, and a prosperous farmer liv
ing three miles west of Camilla, shot
and killed himself with a pistol at
noon Monday, leaving no message as
to the motive of the act. He leaves
a wife and six children, none of them
small. He was prominently connect
ed, and was 45 years of age.
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A BEDTIME STORY
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS
Be courteous to those you greet,
Nor laugh at those whom you may
meet. —Old Mother Nature.
Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse
had escaped from the great man
bird or airplane, which had brought
them to this place far down in the
Sunny South"? They xvere glad to be
no longer prisoners. Os course, every
prisoner is glad to be free. It always
has been so, and it always will be
so. But Nanny was not happy. She
was not as bold as Danny, and she
was afraid of this new land. She
was the more airaid because she
didn't know what to fear. But when
Danny insisted on going exploring,
Nanny went along, too. She simply
couldn’t be left alone.
Everything was new and strange
Nothing was familiar. Even the
grass such as they found was quite
different from the grass of the
Green Meadows of their old home.
There was no need of any little
paths through it, for it didn’t grow
thick enough for this. They found
many strange seeds and berries.
Some they ate, but some they let
alone.
At last they came to a place where
many pine trees grew. They were
not like the pine trees of the Green
Forest back home, but still they
were pine trees. The very sight of
them made Danny and Nanny feel
better. The ground was dry and
sandy. Danny spied a little mound
of sand at a distance. It reminded
him of Johnny Chuck’s doorstep.
“See, Nanny!” he cried. “Do you
suppose Johnny Chuck has a cousin
down here? Let’s go over thore And
find out.”
But cautious Nanny insisted that
they must keep out of sight. She
didn’t propose to take any unneces
sary chances.
"That,” said she, “may be the
home of a cousin of Johnny Chuck.
If it is there will be nothing to fear.
But it may not be. It may be the
home of some one who would be
delighted to gobble up two fat
Meadow Mice. We don’t know any
thing about this land. We don’t
knoxv anything about the people
who live here.”
“Oh, I guess there’s nothing to
worry about,” said Danny careless
ly. “They probably are not very dif
ferent from the people we already
know. However, I suppose it is just
as well to be careful.”
So Danny and took care to
keep under the protection of bushes
and plants so as not to be seen, and
gradually made their way to that
mound of sand. Just as they expect
ed, they found a hole there. It was
a hole that went down in the ground
on a long slant. It appeared to be
quite as long, a hole as Johnny
Chuck would have dug. They could
only guess how far down in the
ground it went by the amount of
sand that had been brought out
of it.
For a while they watched for the
owner, but no owner appeared.
Finally they went close to the en
trance. They found queer footprints
there. These were footprints they
didn't recognize. They followed them
a short distance, and so it was that
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them. He had four legs covered
with scales, blunt, stout claws, a
blunt, rounded head, a very short
tail, and he carried his-house with
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(Copyright, 1923, by T. W. Burgees.l
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