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T h e C o u ra g e o f T ex a n s.
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The Happy W a rrio r’ » G ram m ar.
T H E Sabbath calm following the
I N explosion
of Al Sm ithlsm s over the
palpitant ether, yon could almost h ear
the p u rists m urm uring: ‘‘Be sure thy
syntax will find thee o u t''; but the
purist vote Isn't big enough to count.
For culture, a collegiate accent may
have It all over the Brooklyn brogue,
hut there are more people crossing
Brooklyn bridge every day than go
through Yale or H arvard in 50 years.
G overnor Smith may not pronounce
radio the correct way—ns some critics
already have pointed out—but he cer
tainly knows w hat to do with It when
he faces a microphone. All gram m ar
aside— and why not nil gram m ar aside.
If leaving It aside keeps simple speech?
_when he gets through talking there
are no missing word contests, no guess
ing gatneu afterw ard. T ake It or leave
It. you get whnt lie’s driving nt, the
very foist time.
IRVIN S. C O BB.
WNl) Sarvlc».
Lesson
Lesson for February 16
JE SU S’ REPLY TO JOHN THE BAP.
T IS T '6 QUESTION
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T O P IC — Jexu x
A n x w ere
John*» CJueetlon.
J U N IO R T O P IC — J»»U» A n s w e r» J o h n ’»
Q u en tlon .
IN T E R M E O IA T K
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S E N IO R
T O P IC - M e d in a D o u b le W ith F a c t»
YOUNG
PEO PLE
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T O P IC
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Jeaua A n n w e re
H oned
D o u b t» .
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H E B E ’S som ething about T exans—
som ething different.
T he men wlto trum ped the Oregon
trnll w ere hom esteaders. They took
th eir wives with them, and plows anti
seed-corn, the forty nltiers who went to
C alifornia hail shovels on th e ir shoul
ders a n d —If you can believe the Su
sannah song—banjoes on their knees.
Hut If It cam e to a pinch they threw
aw ay the banjoes first. Because they
w ere looking for gold. Hut In the be
ginning those who cam e to T exas enr-
rletl rifles nnd kept their eyes peeled.
They were looking for trouble. And.
Inwsy. how abundantly they found It.
F or nobody dream ed then of the In
credibly rich nnd fertile em pire this
would he. The only prospect w as for a
fight against the wilderness.
T he heritage live« o n ; T exans still
ta k e a chance. A native w aylaid me
today. F irst he offered to het a cool
million Mr. Hoover would be nomi
nated. T hen he tried to borrow tw en
ty. Both of us came out even. He saved
his million. I kept my twenty.
But the spirit o f the tru e adven
tu rer w as there. You've got to adm it
that.
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lly KICV I*. II FITZWATKK h IL.
Mt’tnbfr of Faculty. Moody fllhla
Inal hut«« of Chicago.
O Wesiarn NewapaiHtr Union.
I O U S T O N . T E X .—T o certain
1 ca n d id a tes: D ear cans., plea ic
d isco u rag e your cam paign s tra te
g ists, w hoever those poor a n ti
q u a ria n s m ay he, w ho believe you
can prove the S p artan sim plicity
of y o u r rugged souls by inviting
d istin g u ish ed v isito rs to d ro p in
for pot-luck w ith you and the fam
ily in the kitchen.
IteeauM, «tear cans., that’s •»I<1 stuff.
II flat«« buck to lb« M cIntyre and
lle a th eru of political vaudeville. I he
great common people tuny he common
— anyhow the o rato rs keep on telling
them they ure — hut
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they are n 't exactly stu-
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phi. Merely been Ute a
man baa to live In the
d e e p w o o d s d o e s n 't
•-IR,
menu he has to think
like a wood|M»eker. I
contend It's generally
Ik i the other way around.
With the exception o f
•'Mr. Dooley.” practl-
cully all the outstand-
Ing sa tiric ohaervera
Irvin 8. Cobb ®f ou r natlonul follies
sprang from th e soil
and not from the sldewulk. If there a re
any tru e yokels left, th eir principal
cen ter Is New York city. And If ever
there was a day when A m ericans In
muss believed a man couhl best qualify
for the Presidency by behaving like a
l>easant, that day has passed.
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O d o rlc i, Cabbag».
OME experim ental genius at Cornell
university has bred a non-odorous
cabhuge—a thing nhsolnt. !y g u aran
teed to rem ain unsm ellahle while lie-
Ing cooked. I presum e he croesed It
w ith th e tuberose.
Now. I never protested when they
produced a aprlng onion with no a f te r
m ath to It. no lingering reminiscence.
“ F a ir enough," I said, ’‘a fte r all. why
not let bygones he bygones!"
And I »hall welcome with glad out
cries the evolution of the anti squirt
grapefruit. anil the self o|H-nlng coco
nut. and. g reatest boon of all, the hie
cough lea« radish.
Ilut to take aw ay from the suc
culent fried cabbage Its only m eans of
self defense aeems a cruel thing. Be
sides. how In futu re would a stran g e r
be nhle a fte r dnrk to Identify an old-
fashioned. tw o-dollar n-day. American
plan hotel? Once he got Inside nnd saw
the Gideon lllhlea.and met the resident
cock row*he*. he’d know, of course.
w here he was lint how nhnut nppmnch-
Ing In the night tim e w ith no |>erfume
to guide him?
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FIMES. W IL L A M IN A . OREGON
Thursday, February 13, 1936
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The title. ’’Jeaua Helps a D oubter."
given by the lesson com mittee. Is not
a good one. John was not n doubter,
though somewhat perplexed.
Jesu s
specifically defends him against such
a charge (see Matt. 11:7-11 ns well as
the present te x t). It Is to he hoped
t i n t no teacher will perp etu ate thia
error. John was a great man. In an
nouncing his hlrlli the angel said, ’'lie
shall he great In the sight of the
Lord." lie was great, also, when meas
ured by the sta n d ard s of* men. In
teaching this lessor a survey should
lie made of Jo h n 's life and work.
I. Jo h n 's Birth and M inistry F ore
told (Isa. 40 :8 ; cf. M alt. 8 :3 ).
He w as thought about and his work
planned long before he w as horn. He
cam e ns God's messenger.
II. Jo h n ’s C haracter.
1. H umble (Luke 8 :4 ). He did not
seek human praise nnd com m enda
tion, hut sh ran k from them. His su
prem e concern was to proclaim Christ.
2. C ourageous (l.u k e 3 :7 ).
He
faced a great m ultitude and struck
hnrd nt th e ir sins, lie did not trim
his m essage to suit the crowd.
HI. John’s Preaching (Luke 3:3-8).
1. lie sounded forth a ringing call
to repentance (vv. 3-6).
Suddenly
em erging from his seclusion, he came
into tile region of the Jo rd an as a mes
senger of God. calling upon the people
to repent ns a m eans of prep aratio n
for the coming of the Messiah.
2.
He dem anded proofs o f pen
itence (vv. 7. 8). lie insisted th a t
th eir false prophets hail to tie aban
doned, th eir sinful h earts had to lie
renovated, showing them th at the vile
passions of th eir souls must be up
rooted. T he tu rning of a soul from slu
to God, w as necessary.
IV. John Sent a D eputation to
Jesus ( I.n k e 7 : IB 38).
1. T h eir question (v. IP, 20). "A rt
thou he th at should come? or look
we for an o th er?’’ Because John did
not see the Interval between the suffer
ings of C hrist and the glory th a t
should follow—between the cross of
C hrist nnd Ills second com ing—he was
perplexed ; therefore. I i p sent n dep u ta
tion to Je su s for light. This perplexity
was not som ething culpable In John he
cause the prophets did not see. or nt
least did not make clear, the Interval
betw een the crucifixion of C hrist and
his second coming. T he Messiah, he
knew, had to be th e l/in ib of God
which tak eth away the sin of the
world (John 1 :29).
T he tren d of
events puzzled him. It was not a lack
of faith, hut confusion of mind, th a t
prom pted his Inquiry.
T here were
two lines of predictions concerning
the M essiah: the one set him forth
us the suffering One, as In Isaiah 53;
the oilier ns an invincible conqueror,
ns In Isaiah 63. Laleed, In Isnlah 60:1,
2 (lie two a re joined together (Luke
4:17-26).
2. Jesus* action (v. 21). In th at
sam e hour, doubtless In the presence
of Jo h n 's disciples, Je su s cured many
of th eir Infirm ities and plagues, and
of evil spirits, nnd to many th a t w ere
blind lie gave sight.
3. Je su s' message to John (vv. 22,
23). Je su s said to them, “Go your
way, and tell John w hat things ye have
seen and heard.”
V. Je su s’ Defense of John (Luke
Cactus in E thiopia Came
From Somewhere in America
A m erican barbed w ire m anufac
tu rer* a re »aid to be refusing o r
d e rs from th e belligerent power* In
A frica. But som ething from Amer
lea, aliii<>*t as wicked, was a t the
fro n t long before Itom aM and E thl
op* began taking pot-shot* nnd
apear-Jab* at each other. C actus I*
figuring In new* p ictu res from the
E th io p ian w ar zone. Machine gun
nesl* a re shown Hanked or half-
cam ouflaged by huge p lan ts of Hat-
Jolnted prickly pear bristling with
Mplnes— m enacing alike to Italian
u n ifo rm s and Ethloplun ch.atnmas
n ot to m ention the legs nnd arm s
b en eath them .
All tru e species <>f cactu s are of
A m erican origin. T he prickly plan ts
w ere unknow n In th e Old world be
fo re th e voyages of Columbus. But
once cacti were Introduced from
M exico an d South America they be
cam e estab lish ed all around the Med
ite rro n e a n shores In am azingly quick
tim e, nnd from th ere they spread
th ro u g h o u t th e dry low lands of
no rth en at A frica and so u th ern A la.
u n til now they seem norm al, native
p a r ts of th e landscape.
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Doctors and child authori
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Energy and Inclination for
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7:24-28).
1. lie declared th at John w as not
vacillating like a reed swayed by the
wind (v. 24).
2. John was not doubting because
of the hardship of prison life (v. 25).
3. Jo h n w as not n m istaken prophet
(vv. 25-28). lie makes John equal to
(he g reatest of the Old T estam ent
prophets by declaring that among those
horn of women there hath not arisen
a g rea ter prophet than John.
4. T he response of the people (v.
29). T he people who heard th is de
fense. even the publicans, accepted
it as a vindication of John. They ju s ti
fied God. They not only accepted the
vindication, lint w ere baptized with
the baptism of John.
VI. Jo h n 's M artyrdom (M ark 6:14-
29).
W hile John was in prison Herod
had frequent interview s with him.
John boldly told him th at It w as un
lawful for hint to have his b ro th er’s
wife. H e did not mince m atters even
with a king. This so enraged the
licentious llerodlus that she caused
Ills death.
f course ,
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