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L esson for February 28
JESUS
T E A C H E S R E S PE C T
LAW .
O V E R D ID IT
FOR
L E SSO N T E X T — M a tt t ! 1 5 !» 14-40
G O L D E N T E X T — Y . th in k th a t I
am c o m e to d e s tr o y th e la w or th e
p r o p h ets.
I c a m e n ot to d e s tr o y but
to f u l f i l l — M att. 5 17.
P R IM A R Y T O PIC — A L e sso n on O be-
d le n c e
J t N IO R T O PIC — O b e y in g th e L aw
IN T E R M E D IA T E A N D S E N IO R T O P
IC— O b e y in g th e L aw
YOUNG P E O P L E A N D A D U L T T O P
IC H o w to S e c u r e R e s p e c t to r L aw .
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Hum°6
Parson Johnsing—Look heah. Mose,
w hat am yo' doin' bellin’ dem bars?
Mose—Pahson. hit all cum erbout In
dis w a y ; A l l didn't hab no trulible wtd
de constable ner anybody. Hit would
bub bin all rig h t e f hit hundn't bin to'
de women's lub ob dress. My wltnmen
folks, dey wuzzent satisfied Jes’ to eat
mos’ ail dem chickens; but dey had
to put de feath ers in delr hats, an'
parade ’em as circum stantial e v e r
deuce.--A rkansas Thom as Cat.
The B ru te
T heatrical M anager—Your last act
was magnificent, Mias I»e F leu r! Your
suffering was alm ost real.
Leading Lady—It was. I've got a
large nail In my shoe.
T heatrical M anager — Well, for
heaven s sake leuve It In until the end
of the r u n !
T h e Question
Country B ookseller (to custnmei
witn the Roman govern
ment so they came to Him with a who Is searching through a diction
subtle question—“Is It lawful to give a ry )—Oh, you m ust look through the
tribute to CaesHr or not?" At this S’s for “scissors," not the Z's.
Custom er—Well, how s Ol to know?
tim e the Jew s were galling under the
yoke o f tiie Roman government. Some W ot's the good of u dictionary w ith
even denied the right to pay tribute to out a hinder?
the government. To Imve answered
this question yes or no would have
The A n tiq u e Shop
Send 4 cents p o stage t o th e
P E - R U - N A . C O M P A N Y , C olu m b us,
Involved difficulty. To have answ ered
"I can read your mind like a hook,"
O h io , f o r b o o k on c a ta rrh .
yes would have conveyed the Impres the professor was droning. "I can
sion of endorsem ent of ail that the tell ju s t w hat each one of you Is
P e -r u - n a in e ith e r ta b le t o r liq u id
Roman governm ent did. To have an
thinking "
fo r m sold ev ery w h e re .
swered no would have at once brought
“ Well, why don’t you g o there,
Him Into conflict wdth the govern then?" draw led a cynic In the reur KEEP EYES W ELL!
ment. C hrist's renlv to this o n e s t ln n
seat.
BATHE TIRED EYES K W **
c o n ii ic t
Children^ Beloved
P o e t Will Sleep in
Church's Shadow
9
By DE W ITT J. MASON
IIEX Eugene Field moved,
th irty y ears ngo last sum
mer, to his Sabine Farm ,
in the o u tsk irts of Chi
cago, he said, “Now th at
W H A T D O Y O U T H IN K ?
I am here in my own
house, I shall do b etter
work th an ever before.” The beloved
ch ild ren ’s poet assem bled his thou
san d s of books ; arranged his treasu red
collection of antique bottles, old songs,
bells, w alking sticks and to p s; hung on
th e wall the ax G ladstone had given
ld m ; laid out D an a’s scissors-—and
w as suprem ely happy. Hut he died , meeting w ith th e girl of fifteen who > rule. In term s of ‘L ittle Boy B lue’ or
th a t fall and w as buried In G raceland I wns la te r to become his wife.
’The W anderer,' He saved th a t side
cem etery, In Chicago.
“His sh are of his fa th e r's estate w as , of his n a tu re mostly for pen and
Now, the Sabine F arm home is to , $8. (MM). At th e end o f th e y ear in i pancr. Yet it spilled out.
“ ‘I alw ays feel like shedding tears,'
give w ay to an ap artm en t house; also, Columbia, M o ., he shook the d u st of ’
F ield's rem ains ure to be removed ' higher education forever from Ills feet he said to George M illard one C hrlst-
from G raceland cem etery to a special and set off w ith his friend, E dgar ■ mas, ‘when I see all those people going
ly built mem orial tomb In the cloisters , Comstock, b ro th er of the young ludy home w ith th eir little g ifts for the
o f the little Ivy-clad Episcopal Church w ith whom he w as In love, for a babies. I can 't help crying. It over-
o f the Holy C om forter at K enilw orth, hilarious to u r of Europe. From tim e 1 whelms me.’
Witte—o h , how sweet it was of you
to tim e he cabled home for money.
“He did not have to unbend to chil
to rem em ber my birthday with those
When
six
m
onths
had
passed
and
the
dren.
He
understood
them
because
he
“ It may be th a t th ere have been
beautiful roses. But there were only
poets—not necessarily b e tte r poets, two ad v en tu rers had reached Italy the looked a t the world through th eir eyes.
twenty-five of them when there should
$8,000
w
as
all
gone.
o r m ore religious ones," w rites Robert
“F o r him, us for them , It had mys
have been thirty.
“ ‘I cam e home broke,' he nfterw nrd tery. ‘I believe,’ he suld, ‘in ghosts.
I.. Duffus in the New York Times,
Iluhby—My, my, did I make a mis
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
“ who would feel more at home In the said, ‘so I got m arried.’ Mrs. Field In w itches and In fairies.’ He had the
take? T here's a m irror Just opposite
shadow of a cloister than w ould E u w as then sixteen. T heir life together a ir of a changeling; an a ir of knowing ' with all thy heart, with all thy soul you—can you blam e me, deur?
and with all thy mind." This means
gene Field. Yet the tw o Incidents to wns a happy one. She bore him eight more th an he m eant to tell.
g eth er have th eir significance. The children and understood his whimsical
“Thnt 'm um m er's face,’ as a friend ! th at suprem e and undivided love to
M a r y ’s L ittle C u rl
Sabine F arm dissolves Into the thin v ariety of humor. She also managed culled It, hid more th an it revealed. God Is th e first and grpat command
M ary had a l i t t l e c u r l
su b stan ce of d ream s; hut th e memory th e fam ily finances— h task of which He lam ented, ns new spaper men have ment. Mail’s suprem e obligation Is to
T h at h u n g b e s id e h e r ear.
o f E ugene Field has not been corroded he was co nstitutionally Incapable, done ever since the A cta D lurna of God. It Is wrong to evaluate man's
B u t w h e n s h e w e n t to bed It
ch
aracter
on
the
basis
of
his
morality
T
heir
only
clashes
cam
e
when
he
was
by th e years.
U p on th e c h iffo n ie r .
Rome, th a t his Job left him insufficient
j as expressed In bis relation to his
“It may be, how ever, th a t those who cau g h t try in g to sm uggle home books tim e and stren g th . A gaunt, aw kw ard. ’ fellowman. Real righteousness Is do-
when money w as needed to pay the homely Pagllacct, counted on to make
p ass through th e K enilw orth cloisters
H e a d u io r k
J Ing the right thing with God. The
grocer.
people laugh and cry. Not even his
will rem em ber the au th o r of T h e
Mrs. H ill—I alw ays encourage my
g reatest im m orality of which a man
“Field
knew
th
a
t
he
wns
not
In
wife knew, perhaps, w h at he w as like
Sugar-Pluin T ree.' and 'W ynken, Blyn-
can be guilty is bis failure to respond husband to loll In an easy chair, and
ken and Nod,’ and forget th e madcap every respect a model husband. Hnd when th e make-up w as off.
! to the dem ands of God. The one who park his feet on top of the radiator.
liked
to
tell
about
n
conversation
he
“Dana announced a stan d in g offer does not supremely and with undi
ed ito r and colyum ist of th e old Den
Mrs. N ash—Why so thoughtful?
ver and Chicago d ay s; the wild hum or once had In a dream w ith th e p a tri of double the Chicago salary If Field vided affection love God is the g reat
Mrs. Hill— When he goes to bed,
arch
Job.
ist who gave u tteran ce to ‘T he T ribune
would come to New York. He pre- est sinner.
there Is usually about $4 In small
’’
‘It
Is
tru
e,'
Job
w
as
represented
as
j
ferred to sit In th e R ecord office and ( 2. The Second Commandment (vv. change in the chair.
P rim er’ ; th e g reat je s te r who lived
fo r the purpose of m aking pose and saying, ’th a t for a long tim e I enjoyed let fam e find him there, If It so desired. . 39-40).
“ ‘A L ittle Book of W estern Verse,’
p reten se ridiculous; the relentless quite a reputation for being very p a
P ru d e n t Scotty
The second comm andment Is like
tient, but now I have to tak e a back containing much of his best work, a p
sa tirist.
“Aha Sandy! Did I no see ye In,
unto the first In that It centers In
seat.
You
see.
th
ere’s
a
woman
In
peared in 1889, and In a popular eill- ) love. It Is not said th at It wus equal night wl' ho' arm s aboot a lassie?"
"E ugene Field cam e o f a d istin
guished family, hut not of one given Chicago named Mrs. Eugene Field Hon In 1890; so did ‘A L ittle Book of unto the first; that would not be true.
"Na. Jam ie, It couldna been me.
to eccentric genius. Ills fath er, us who has proved h erself a lot p atien ter Profitable T ales.’ When he w ent to ) A man may love himself, hut not su alw ays keep ane hand I' ma pocket
than
I.’
England
In
1889
he
found
his
nam
e
a
]
counsel for the runaw ay negro Dred
premely. One s love for his neighbor —P rairie F unner.
“Field had alw ays w anted to be an passport Into w hatever literary circles may be eith er too much or too little
Scott, made a protest again st slavery
actor.
He
even
bought
complete
sets
he cared to enter. He w as conscious , The m easure set Is love for self. We
which for a mom ent gave him n a
Q U IT E T R U E
tional prom inence. H is m other, a o f costum es for Hamlet, I.ear and of grow ing powers, of larg er plans.
should love God better than ourselves.
“But his health hud never been ro- I He is w orthy of all our affections,
women of beauty and charm , died In Othello, and In 1872 actually went out
1856. when Eugene w as only six years with a company of oth er reckless bust, and because he hated exercise, and dem ands all. Love Is not mere
w as fond o f tobacco and pastry, and emotion, hut a suprem e desire for the
«•Id, and he and his bro th er w ere i youths on a b arnstorm ing tour.
brought up by nn aunt. Mary Field ' “In June, 1873, he w ent to th e St. would not tak e enough sleep, It grew w elfare of another and a willingness
Ixiuls Evening Jo u rn al as a cub re worse. F or y ears he fought, with hu to do everything possible to secure
French, In A m herst, Mass,
“At fifteen he w ent to a school at ! porter, and before th e year closed w as m orous gallantry, th e Inroads of dys th at end. The command to love our j
1
In 1893 he n early died of ty neighbor Is involved In the command
Monson, Mass., kept by a clergym an city editor. Subsequently, he w as city pepsia.
1
fever. His h eart gave way, and ; to love God. To pretend to love God
and his wife, and at eighteen he en editor of the G azette of St. Joseph, a phoid
I died In his sleep durin g the night j Is folly If we do not love our neigh
tered W illiam s college. The influences I pnragrapher for th e Jo u rn al and the he
of November 4. 1895. He may have bor. To attem pt to establish a broth
that surrounded him werp thus sober Tim es-Journal In St. Louis, m anaging 1 <
editor of th e K ansas City Times, and felt
I
death coming, for he had said, a erhood among men w ithout the recog
ing If not absolutely P uritanical.
I
days befo re: ’Thia Is th e dying nition of the fatherhood of God Is f
"H e left W illiams p artly because of then, in 1881, m anaging editor of th e few
u tter nonsense. Men become children
I tim e of year.'
the death of his fu th er and p artly be- D enver Tribune.
of
God by faith In Jesus Christ. It '
“He
had
grown
gen
tler
and
more
{
“It
was
In
D
enver
th
a
t
he
began
to
< disc of the faculty's lack of enthusl-
Is tru e thnt In the sense of being |
asin over the prospect of having him acquire more than local fame—not I like th e children's Eugene Field.
God’s creatures, all men are God’s i
any longer. He Irnd not com m itted merely as m anaging editor of a lively
children, but In the New T estam ent (
any unpardonable offenses, but lie too i paper, but as p nragrapher, dram atic i
sense, men are only God's children hs j
plainly lacked thnt respect for office I critic, and. It Is essential to add, prac- I
they are In Christ. The only way to 1 The P atrolm an— I caught Skinny
ttcal
Joker.
I
and autho rity which w as deemed es- j
bring In the brotherhood of man is to Burns, the pickpocket, with the goods
sential. Next y e a r he entered Knox I “111 1883 he was called to Chicago, I
preach
Jesu s C hrist to the race snd on hut he got aw ay from tne.
' liege, a t G alesburg, III., an event j at a considerable Increase o f salary, 1 I
The
Desk
Sergeant— Oh,
well,
secure
acceptance
of Him
We thus
chiefly Im portant because during th at to w rite w hatever he pleased for th e j I
become brothers In the real sense of there's many a slip tw in the cop and
I
year he began new spaper work by i Chicago News,
the term when we have God as onr the dtp.
• attributing to the G alesburg Register. ' "H e look over a nondescript column I «
Father. All obligation resting upon j
called
'C
urrent
Gossip,'
which
bios-
,
n
11“ was restless, and in 1879 moved !
P la y in g C o if
man Is em braced In these two com !
<ai to the U niversity of M issouri, at - somed out. on August 31. 1883, ns the j u
m andm ents T hose who conform their W han p la y in g g o lf , tn ap art y o u r t
(
a r . w h ic h a tr o k a y o u a
1 olunihla. T he most significant thing fam ous 'S h arp s and Flats.’
lives to them are God’s children and . T o A a nd la a h p a v o e n a f l o c w
e ry b a d . o f c a
• hat happened to him there w as his I "Eugene Field did not talk, as a 1 I
are the very best citizens.
Y o u h a v . to m in d y o u r p ■ a n d q*s.
M
No Keys Are Needed There
An American traveler, putting up at
the leading hotel In Auckland. New
Zealand, found he hnd no key to his
room and asked the clerk to give
Mm one. says C apper's Weekly. T hat
dignitary, with a p a ’ned look In
formed him, “We never lock doors
h ere; nothing has been stolen from
« New Zealand hotel, so fur as I
know, in th e mem ory of th e oldest
Inhabitant." The New Zealand, ra live
toration. My entire system be
came involved and I grew worse.
It seemed as if I could not recover
from a constant cough and fre
quent attacks of bilious colic. My
bowels were affected, causing
alarming hemorrhages.
I tried
many remedies and finally took
Pe-ru-na. In three days I was re
lieved of my bowel trouble and en
tirely cured by five bottles. I most
cheerfully recommend Pe-ru-na."
June 50, 1924, Mrs. Bourland writes
again
‘T will soon be seventy-nine years
old and enjoy good health for one
of my age. I still recomtnend
Pe-ru-na and take it myself when
necessary.”
For more than half a century
Pe-ru-na has u proud record of
good done. Men and women the
world over stand ready to testify to
its value in the treatment of all
catarrhal disorders.
on an island about the size o f the
sta te of Oregon. In the Pacific ocean.
T here are som ething more than a mil
lion New Zealam lers. They have been
well isolated from the rest of the
world and a re a closely knit people.
P oet’s A p pren ticesh ip
Have you ever considered how d if
ferent the apprenticeship of the poet
to hi* art is from th a t of the musician
and the painter? The young violinist
or composer, once he has felt the urge
of the muse, consigns him self to some
renowned conservatory w here a great
man tak es him under his wing and
leaches him his art. T he young p ain t
e r feels th e call of P u n s o r Italy, and
sets up his easel In th e Lots’”* , In the
eyes of a m aster. But th e poet has no
person to go to and learn his art
from. He m ust qu arry alone, shaping
his verses alone, with only th e work»
of great dead poets to guide him.
H ard and b itte r work and Impossible
unless the poetic gift U stro n g .— M ac
quelte Journal.
I he Soul o f R e lig io n
Always rem em ber th at sincerity Is
the very soul of religion. A single In
tention to please God and to approve
ourselves to Hltn must anim ate and
govern all th at we do.—Philip Dodd
ridge.
H oliness
Holiness Is religion shining. It Is
faith gone to work. It Is charity coined
Into sctlons, snd devotion breathing
lienedhtlons on hum an suffering.-*
Bishop Huntington.
w ith Dr. Thompson's llyew ster.
IN FLA M E D EYES
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Carry a bottle In
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Peterson’s Ointment
“All pim ples a re Inflammation of th e
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A
When a young man steals a kiss ha
doubtless has good Intentions about
retu rn in g It.
A n o i n t 1 h . . y . l l d . w i t h R o m a n B y . Flal
• a m a t n ig h t a it il a .« h o w r a fia a n a d i n ,
■ t r a n a t h a n a d y o v r a y . , a r e In the m o r n in g
S a n d n o w to S7Z F a a r l S t , N T.
Adv
N ecessity Is ». violent s, hoolmlstress,
Montaigne.
Sarcastic
"Do you rem em ber Miss Sm ith?“
“No, I esn 't say 1 do.”
“O, yon must rem em ber h e r ! She
was th e plainest girl In the village.
B ut I forgot th at w as a fte r you l e f t ”
—P earson's Weekly.
Closing H o u r
"John," naked the nagging wife,
as the bedtime hour approached. “Is
everything shut up for the night?"
“T h at dejiends on you," growled Mr
llcn p eck ; “everything «is« la "
By millions ended
H ill'» «top millions o f colds every winter—
sod in
hours. T h ey end headache and
fever, open the bowels, tone the whole sys
tem. iJ w nothing less reliable, (adds anil
Grippe call for prompt, e lk lent lielp. Be
sure you get iL
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