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Thursday, May 13, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. BRIGHT STAR .............. IMPROVED................ UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL By Mary Schumann S cHooL Lesson Copyright by Macrae Smith Co. WNU Service SYNOPSIS Kezia Marsh, pretty, selfish and twenty, ar rives home in Corinth from school and is met by her older brother, Hugh. He drives her to the Marsh home where her widowed mother, Fluvanna, a warm-hearted, self-sacrificing and understanding soul, welcomes her. Kezias sis ter, Margery, plump and matronly with the care of three children, is at lunch with them. Hugh’s wife, Dorrie, has pleaded a previous engagement. On the way back to his job at the steel plant founded by one of his fore bears, Hugh passes Doc Hiller, a boyhood friend whom he no longer sees frequently be cause of Dorrie’s antipathy. Fluvanna Marsh wakens the next morning from a dream about her late husband, Jim, whose unstable char acter she fears Kezia has inherited. Ellen Pendleton comes over. She is an artistically inclined girl who is a distant niece of Flu vanna’s and a favorite of Hugh’s. She hap pily tells Fluvanna she has become engaged to Jerry Purdue. Ellen fears that her father and mother, Gavin and Lizzie, will not ap prove the match. Hugh and Dorrie go out to the Freeland Farms to dance with their friends, Cun and Joan Whitney. Whitney, who has been out of work, announces that he has a new position. Cun and Dorrie dance to gether and then disappear for a while. Danc ing with Joan, Hugh is amazed to find her in tears. Apparently she has some secret worry over her husband, Cun. When Ellen and Jerry speak about their engagement to Ellen’s par ents, Lizzie is disagreeable until Jerry sym pathizes with her imagined ailments. The mat ter is left pending. Unexpectedly Hugh has to visit a neighboring city on business. Return ing home to ask Dorrie to accompany him he finds her telephoning. In confusion she quick ly hangs up without saying good-by. After hesitating about Hugh’s invitation, she finally agrees to accompany him. CHAPTER IV—Continued "I am glad I had to go to Con gress City.” He waited. “Not pin ing to have me go to New York? Got over it?” “It’s all right. If you couldn’t— you couldn’t, I suppose,” she an swered. “Sweet here, isn’t it? Too bad we have to leave. I could loaf here all afternoon.” “And yet at first you said you couldn't go. When I came in”—his brows puzzled. “By the way, who were you phoning to when I came in? You hung up without saying good-by.” Her body stiffened against his ever so slightly. A subterraneous tiny pain moved in Hugh. “None of my business of course!” he said with an apologetic laugh. “Shouldn’t have asked you. Ex cuse me.” He sprang to his feet. "You would ask that!” "I’m not checking your phone calls, my dear. It was just an idle question ... I didn’t think how it sounded when I spoke.” She traced the rock with her fin ger. In a moment she said: “Any one who is having a birthday in a few days shouldn't be too inquisi tive.” “Next month—August.” “Well, even then?” she parried good-humoredly. The pain vanished. He looked at his watch. “One- thirty.” “Time to go?” “Afraid so.” Ellen switched on her light and looked at the clock on the mantel. A quarter to four and she hadn’t been able to go to sleep! Two hours and a half of this tossing about. She poked at the pillow to soften it. What were some of the things which made you go to sleep? Count- ing? Squeezing your eyeballs and then watching the funny lights that came under your shut li is? Scenes from the evening over at Marshes’ kept intruding. “Hello, Ellen! Hello, Jerry!" Kezia had smiled enchantingly up at Jerry. “You're ever so nice, aren’t you? Almost up to Ellen's description!” She had helped Ellen with her coat and whispered, just loud enough for Jerry to hear, “He’s precious. You’re in gorgeous luck, Ellen.” Kezia's hair had been in soft curls all over her head, at. effect which looked natural, yet had tak en time to achieve. She wore a long white organdy dress, with a huge scarlet chiffon handkerchief drawn through a bracelet. “Just two tables of bridge—you know Art? And that's Hugh over there . . . Hugh, put up the card tables like a love!” she said. Mar gery and Will Platt, and Mrs. Marsh — Dorrie — beside the man tel.” And Dorrie had been very cor dial, had said to Jerry: “Welcome to the family!” Her voice had a rich moving animation sometimes. “We look like the home guard drawn up to receive you, but we're really not so formidable.” Hugh had been fine—always was. “I wondered why you were so dis turbingly pretty this spring, Ellen . . . so this is the reason!" Will Platt had told her of the pictures he had seen in the Roerich Gallery recently . . • poetry and symbolic mystery, he called them. That was while Kezia was out fixing the lunch. She had come in and called —not Art Williams—but Jerry to come out and help her with the ice cubes. They were gone a long time, and came in laughing . . . But the thing which kept her awake was trivial—even ridiculous. All evening long no look from Jer ry, no quick little glance of re assurance that said: "Hello, dear . . . all right?" So absorbed in being agreeable to Dorrie, to Mar gery, to Kezia, that she might have been anyone—just someone whom he had met for the first time and was not interested ini ... Of course she didn’t want him to act dithering in her presence—give her burning glances. She liked him to be reserved. Still, if only once his eyes had flickered in her direction with trust and mutuality, made her aware that he remembered . . . She clasped the palms of her hands together. “You know, God,” she said soundlessly, “that I don’t bother You very often, but I do be lieve in You. For I prayed to go to art school . . . Mother was so against it. Suddenly she gave in— gave in all at once for no reason at alli ... So You must have done it. . . . And this time it is about Jerry ... I love him so terribly that I don’t believe I can go on living if I don’t get him. I don’t have to tell You—You understand. Please don’t let him stop loving me —ever . . . Thank You. Amen.” Three hours before this Kezia switched out the light in her room with the gold and green chintz draperies, snuggled down in her pil low. The night wind rustled the oaks, stole in with the fragrance of honeysuckle; the window was a framed oblong of silver from the moon; the clock downstairs tinkled the half hour. Kezia was very sleepy, very contented with her self. The power she had over men was tremendous—simply tremendous. It was all quite easy, just as Lolly had said. It worked every time. You made your eyes so'ft and in nocent, got your face very close to theirs, spoke low, and said “You” a great many times ... It had worked with Walter DeGraffe, with Arthur, with Pete Matthews—Pete was almost engaged to that Pease girl, too—with Eric Olsen, with Jer ry Purdue tonight. Ellen didn't need to think she had that boy on a hook! . . . When he was getting out the ice cubes, he had turned his eyes on her—he had keen eyes, dark brown with a sort of droop to them—and said, % M “I'm Not Checking Your Phone Calls, My Dear.” “Don’t stand so close; I might splash that dress. Mind if I say you look charming tonight?” She hadn’t moved from his side but answered in a half whisper, “You’re sort of unusual yourself— you fascinate me.” He had laughed and replied, “I’m not really so phisticated, you know!” . . . He had understood. It was enough for a start. He’d be calling her up soon, she assured herself. Like the others. She might have a little fun with Jerry— show Ellen—then hand him back to her . . . CHAPTER V The telephone jangled constantly for Kezia. Young people came and went with chatter and laughter, the radio played at all hours and meals frequently were delayed, for Kezia was always hurrying from one en gagement to another. The constant clamor began to pall on Fluvanna, and her usual serenity was now oc casionally disturbed. It was a little hard to become ad justed to the furore of excitement after the quiet winter. Fluvanna assured herself that it was good for her—good to have a gay young person in the house. Kezia must have this youthful time of pleas ure. This springtime of her life was so fugitive; its memories threaded the pattern of life with shining strands for the years to come. For the past week, Margery had been having illness in her family and had sent the boys over to stay with her each day. Michael and Will were a strenuous pair, aged three and five, who came at nine each morning, and departed with tears and grubby embraces at five when Will Platt came to take them home. She had been strangely lan guid each night, too tired to glance at a paper or a book. She stood near the windov after lunch, glancing over some mail she had received. The telephone rang. It was Margery. “Mother, can you take the chil dren out in the car this afternoon? Millie Jennings is here visiting, and I haven't seen her for ages. I haven’t been out of the house since Baby took sick ten days ago.” Her voice had a plaintive note. (TO BE CONTINVW) UNDAY I By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. Dean of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for May 16 THE FORBEARANCE OF ISAAC LESSON TEXT—Gene»!» 26: 12-25. GOLDEN TEXT—Blessed are the peace* makers: for they shall be called the chil dren of God. Matthew 5:9. PRIMARY TOPIC—A Man Who Wouldn’t Quarrel. JUNIOR TOPIC—Was Isaac a Hero? INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC— How to Prevent Quarrels. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Promoting Peace. In a world largely dominated by the philosophy that might is right, and in which men are urged to as sert themselves and demand their rights, exacting them even by law less and violent methods, it is in creasingly difficult to proclaim the truth that meekness is not weakness and that the Christian virtues of pa tience and long-suffering are not simply outmoded theories which do not fit our modern world. The story of Isaac, the second of the patriarchs, is instructive from beginning to end. The five chap ters preceding our lesson merit careful reading. Isaac had come through many blessed experiences and had also sadly tasted the de feat of unbelief and sin before we reach the time of our lesson. Fear ing a famine, and evidently not be ing certain that God would care for him, he had gone down from the promised land, and was dwelling in the land of the Philistines. But God had not forsaken him, and even there he blessed him. I. Peace, Prosperity, and Envy (vv. 12-17). Isaac was at peace although he was in the enemy’s territory. God had given him great prosperity with the result that the Philistines hated him. Times have changed, but men are the same. Many are they who will not have the Lord Jesus Christ to rule over them, but who cast en vious glances toward those who be cause they have honored God have been honored by him with peace of heart and have been prospered in whatever they do. (Read Psalm 1.) Note that Isaac's testimony is strengthened by his willingness to yield even what was his right, rather than cause contention. Un doubtedly there are times when one must defend his name and his pos sessions, but all too often those who “stand up for their rights” have wrecked homes, churches, and na tions, and have gained nothing but an empty victory. II. Peace in the World Is Tempo rary (vv. 18-21). Isaac moved on and digged more wells, and for a time he was again at peace, but not for long. He was still in the land of the Philistines. We are in the world. We long for peace, we would throw all our influ ence on the side of peace. But let us not be misled, for as long as sin is in the world there will be strife and war. Many noble Christian men and women have permitted their God given hatred of war and killing to mislead them into support of un- scriptural and impossible peace pro grams, often to the loss of their in terest in the preaching of the gospel and the winning of souls to Christ. But is there then never to be “peace on earth”? III. Perfect Peace in the Pres ence of God (vv. 22-25). When Isaac came up into Canaan the land which God had promised him, he found permanent peace and renewed fellowship with God. Even so, the Christian man and woman who will step out of a spirituality- destroying fellowship with the world and will come wholly over into the spiritual Canaan will find true peace and intimate communion with God. A broader application of the same truth brings before us the teaching of Scripture that when the One who has a right to reign, the Lord Jesus Christ, returns to take his throne, then and not before, will peace cover the earth. In the meantime those who bear the beautiful name Christian, who are true followers of the Prince of Peace, will give them selves to such patient, loving, and longsuffering testimony to Him that their personal influence will be to ward peace in the home, in the church, in the community, in the earth. Always remember that God’s Word, the Bible, is our guide. Let us read it diligently, intelligently, prayerfully. To help the reader to do this, the writer of these notes will be glad to supply without cost or obligation a Bible-reading calen dar with a workable plan for read ing the blessed Book through in a year. If possible enclose a stamped and self-addressed envelope with your request. Items of Interest to the Housewife AROUND the HOUSE "Quotations" —v— Let me not forget that the power and joy of sacrifice grow upon those who exercise it. Pure passions grow as well as dark ones.— Dr. W. L. Watkinson. This thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.— Mary Pickford. Village improvement is the only foundation on which conditions in India can be permanently amelio rated.— Mahatma Gandhi. Human beings feel bored in this mechanical world which they them selves created by means of brains and hands.— Dr. Alexis Carrel. As once we put an end to slavery, so now we must slop war or war will destroy us.— Sherwood Eddy. Americans are becoming too civi lized—too much like the effete Euro- peans.— Dr James Marshall. pinch of salt, put the beef and wa ter in a glass jar and stand it on ice, over night. 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