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Thursday, August 19, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON ★ Bright Star ing squire. He was a small man, | IMPROVED......... ...... with a round head, and close-set eyes. He looked greedily pleased UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL at their appearance, surveyed them j with quick speculation, and exact UNDAY ed a good sized fee from Jerry be- | fore he asked the necessary ques- ' tions. He would have the marriage ■ By REV HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. license made out and would mail Dean of the Moody Bible Institute it to them in a day or so. His of Chicago. © Western Newspaper Union. wife and daughter appeared as wit nesses. U tlc L z H e re ’s Planned Prettîness Phil I S chool Lesson Lesson fo r August 22 Margery and Will Platt had been over for dinner, and after THE PLACE OF RELIGION IN By ward, Hugh and Will discussed the A NATION’S LIFE. last municipal election and the cal ibre of the men in office. The talk, Mary Schumann LESSON TEXT—Exodus 25:1. 2. ( , »; with Fluvanna and Margery, mak 29:43-48; 40:34-38. GOLDEN TEXT—Blessed is the naUon ing comments, asking questions, God la the Lord. Ps. 33:12. switched to national affairs, to the whose C o p y r ig h t b y M acrae S m ith Co. PRIMARY TOPIC—The Meeting House. labor situation and to the revolu JUNIOR TOPIC—The House of the Lord. W N U S ervio« INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC tion in business methods. a Nation Needs Religion. Hugh was restless after they left. —Why YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC— Now that the interlude of having to The P lace of Religion In a Nation's Life. make conversation and listen to oth CHAPTER XII—Continued The nation of Israel was under ers was over, he was conscious of —23 ■ the direct government of God—a A premonitory shiver went a slump. “I think I’ll go for a theocracy as distinguished from a through Kezia. “What do you walk, Mother.” He had reached for his hat when monarchy, or a democracy. God think?” the front door bell pealed sharply. spoke to them through his servant “That it might be better for us to He took the telegram the boy hand Moses, but his relationship to the break it off.” people was far more intimate than Kezia sat bolt upright. He would ed him, signed for it, tore it open. that of a distant power delivering “The fool! the little fool!” he ejac go back to Ellen! . . . People laws through a representative. God would say he had thrown her over! ulated. dwelt in the midst of his people, “Why, Hugh?” questioned Flu . . . She had a feeling for Jerry and today we consider how he made that no one else had ever stirred. vanna. provision for a place in which to So this was what Kezia had He brought a swift challenge to meet with them, for a holy priest her. He was elusive; he never meant when she said “You’ll all hood to minister before him, and drive me to something one of these satiated her with his dependence. made known his personal presence Jerry guided the car to a bumpy days!” He hesitated a moment be by a manifestation of his glory. pause on the shoulder of the road, fore he handed the message to his I. A Place to Meet God (Exod. switched off the ignition. "Come mother. “From Kezia . . . she’s 2, 8, 9; 29:43-46). here,” he said gently. He gath done what we hoped to prevent— 25:1, Every place of worship, whether ered her in his arms, laid his cheek married him.” Fluvanna read: “Jerry and I the tabernacle in the wilderness, or against hers. “She cares . . . my a church on a busy city street, little Kezia cares,” he whispered. were married in Brookline this eve testifies to the fact that man is ning. Home in a day or so. Very She felt his lips tremble as they happy. Tell mother. Love. Kezia.” indeed “incurably religious.” He is touched hers. Kezia and Jerry came home to a spiritual being, made by God “ You want to give me up!” for fellowship with himself. He is “No, Angel, no! . . . I love live. Jerry was devoted to Kezia, never satisfied until he meets God. thoughtful of Fluvanna. you—you know I do.” The pattern or plan for the taber Uncle John Renshaw, after much “ You’ve been horrid.” was given by God (v. 9), He gave a despairing gesture. wheedling from Kezia, found a nacle place for Jerry in some govern and was to be followed in every de “It seems so hopeless.” But note that the people were "We won’t allow it to be hope ment work at a better salary. An tail. interview with Jerry predisposed to make a willing offering of all less." needed for its construc He was silent for a moment, him in his favor and he recommend that was God gives man the glorious keeping his arms tightly about her. ed that he go to a school for sales tion. privilege of partnership with him. “No?” he questioned. Another long men that his company was pro Shortsighted and foolish is the man pause then he said, “Have you moting. Kezia was triumphant. She who grumbles because the church did not see the trying, intermedi anything to suggest?” ate steps of a salesman’s life; her needs money. A father might just “We might live with Mother.” Life was very dreary, thought imagination visioned Jerry as a as well grieve because his children their clothing. Thank God Kezia, when you couldn’t have trusted steel salesman with trips outgrow your church is alive and grow what you wanted! And Jerry was to California, New York, South if the right combination for her. Just America, Russia. She immediate ing, and be glad for the opportuni the way his hair went back was in ly went out and rented a two-room ty to buy it some “new clothes.” gifts and faithful build- vested with a certain quality of apartment, had the excitement of i n Sacrificial g according to God’s plan, emotion; the sulky fullness over finding furnishings for it with the completion a place of his dark eyes sent warm waves up check furnished by her mother and brought to which God sanctified and j her arms into her shoulders. She Hugh, and moved in the week aft meeting accepted. was caught up in that attribute of er In Christmas. January Dorrie got her de II. Priests to Minister to God ’ youth which drives for what it cree, and a few days later was (vv. 44,45). wants, mistakes or not, the imper married to Cunningham Whitney, Note, first, that they were men ious urge which cannot wait for whose divorce had been granted in called of God. Those who stand 1 wisdom. They were married at to minister to him for the people "Yes, we could live with Moth December. sister's home in Forest Hills dare not appoint themselves, o r er,” she said a little more firmly. her to live in Philadelphia seek an appointment by men. They The hesitation on Jerry’s face and went Cun had secured a position. must be “God-called.” deepened. “ Yes, that’s a thought where Hugh frequently was invited to They were also sanctified, or or to hold to! . . . Have Hugh patron dinners at the houses of his friends, dained, by God. Only as men act in ize me?” parties which were dull or lively true recognition of God’s selection “He wouldn’t.” to the company. It was and setting apart of his chosen “I can see him welcoming me according a wrench to go but he made it a servants does ordination have real to the family circle—big boy they point accept most of the invita meaning. had to keep!” His tone was rue tions. to People, places, things which Finally, notice that the priests ful. normal were the best antidote were “to minister to” God. His “It would be for only a little were perils of introspection. servants are to serve him, and thus while,” she coaxed. “You’ll get for He the saw Gavin Pendleton one to meet the need of the people for something good in a few months. noon at a director’s meeting, and whom they speak. They are “ put Perhaps Hugh would . . . then.” thought he looked much older. in trust with the gospel,” and there “Do you think so?” His voice, Gavin touched Hugh’s arm as fore to “so . . . speak; not as still uncertain, was slightly yield they were leaving the meeting. pleasing men, but God” (I Thess. ing. yuh?” 2:4). If you have that kind of a “And Uncle John Renshaw—not “H’r “Very well. And you?” pastor, praise God for him, and really my uncle, but a cousin of looked meaningly back at give him your earnest support and Mother’s—has a weakness for me. the Gavin room they were leaving and encouragement. I think if I went to him, asked him understood that he wished to III. The Presence of God (Exod. very prettily, told him how fond Hugh to him privately. He fol 29:45, 46; 40:34-38). I am of him—and of you—he’d try speak lowed him back to its farther cor He dwelt in the midst of his peo to help.” ple. Christians also know what it “He might do something,” said ner. “ Mother well?” blurted Gavin. means to have “God with us,” for Jerry thoughtfully. “No matter “Rather frail this winter. How is such is the very meaning of the how good you are, it’s pull and Lizzie—and Ellen?” name “Immanuel” (Isa. 7:14; Matt. family that put a fellow up. I ’ve Gavin’s left cheek and eye 1:23). He it was who as the living seen it happen too many times not twitched, giving the effect of a to know. And if I made just a lit grimace. “Wanted to speak to you Word "became flesh and dwelt tle more—say forty or fifty a week . . . puzzled . . . don’t know what among us” (John 1:14). For our further instruction and —you’d be willing to try it, Love to do.” blessing let us observe that when liness?” Hugh waited. God dwelt with his people his glory Kezia nodded, her eyes like stars. “One of the family . . , like your “filled the tabernacle” (v. 34). Is He started the car. They drove advice. Ellen.” that true of our churches? Have we for a mile or so when the head “Ellen?” said Hugh with quick lights swept a sign oij a curve of concern. “Something wrong with so loved God and so fully yielded ourselves and our churches to him the hill: “ Brookline. Marriage Li Ellen?” that he is free to fill the place with censes. No Waiting.” Gavin nodded gloomily. “Won’t Kezia smiled to herself as she eat . . . hardly talks . . . some his glory? The word “abode” in v. 35 is turned it over in her mind. Why, times I think . . . Mother not good it actually stood there as if it were for her.” He peered at Hugh with significant. What blessed peace and suggesting a way for them! There his near-sighted eyes. “What to assurance must have come to Is rael when they knew that God had might be advantages to it. She do?” come to abide with them. In this chuckled a little and he turned to “Have you had a doctor?" of transitory things we need her inquiringly. “ Umm-m,” he assented. “Ton world such an anchor for the soul—God’s “I was thinking about that sign ics and iron no good—nerves.” abiding presence. on the hill—the one about marriage “Young friends?” But God's people must move on. licenses.” “She won’t go . . . did for a are victories to be won, a “ What about it?” while . . . says people terrify her.” There promised land to take. So we read “Think!” she commanded. “Then "You might send her away.” that the cloud arose when they were tell me if you are thinking the "Sent her to Louise in De to move forward, and when it was same thing I am.” cember—sister—Boston—after that His eyes gleamed with swift in —came out.” He shrugged his "not taken up, then they journeyed telligence. “ You wouldn't-----?” shoulders and Hugh felt he referred not until the day that it was taken She snuggled her face against his to Kezla’s elopement. “No good up." The Psalmist tells us that “the sleeve. “Funny boy—it would work, . . . came back in ten days . . . wouldn’t it? . . . All over and says she's haunted . . . funny steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord” (Ps. 37:23). I believe done with . . . everyone would stuff.” have to put a good face on about “She used to be fond of Mother, it was George Mueller of blessed it! . . . Is it a grand idea or isn't came to see her almost every day memory who inserted three words it?” —and Mother has missed her very —"and the stops.” The man, or the “Not give a hang for the future? much," said Hugh. “ My sister church, or the nation, that trust Let it take care of itself?” isn't there now. Perhaps she would God, will have both “steps" and “It would—it would!” she chant like to come over . . . you might "stops” “ordered by the Lord.” ed gleefully. “I know my family suggest it to her.” Beginning of Eternal Life —they're very loyal. Once it's done "Good woman, Fluvanna!” blurt-: and over with they'd---- ” ed Gavin. “ Try it." He looked at | Eternal life does not just mean “Have to like it?” his watch, and nodding in dismissal that when our bodies die our souls last on. It means a kind of life “They'd help us—Hugh, Uncle to Hugh, rushed for the door. which we can begin to live here and John, Will Platt.” (TO BK CONTINUED) now, and which cannot be destroyed Excitement played over Jerry’s by death because it is united with face, excitement and something W estm inster Confession more. He drove with one hand The Westminster Confession was God.—A Day Book of Prayer. slowly while his right arm encir the confession of faith framed by Always an Answer cled her. “And I'd have you for Presbyterian and Calvinistic di A little girl was once teased by a keeps, darling Kezzie!” vines at the Westminster Assem In Brookline which was just over bly, whose sessions lasted from skeptic, who remarked that God the Pennsylvania border, it was not 1643 to 1649. The confession was had not answered her prayer. difficult to be directed to the frame mainly an exposition of the Cal “ Yes,” she said, “he answered. He said no.” house of John Basconie, the marry vinistic doctrine. Calm W ith the Calm The silehtest thing is a bomb un til it explodes. Don’t peck and pound at conditions when they’re calm. There are people whose presence is imposing to other people; and when they know it and live up to their appearance, they do well in life. Be Yourself There never can be equality among human beings in their char acters, their abilities or their pop ularity. So why worry over equality? That word “expert,” itself do- rives from the same root aa ’experience.” A man who can hang on to a dol lar can provide for a wife. Tha two will have food on the table. she finds a dress for Little Sis that’s as carefully planned as the captivating model above center. It gives the growing girl the fluffing out she needs in the shoulders, and the prettily flared skirt offers her graceful poise indoors, plus full freedom for activity out of doors. It’s adorable with the collar and cuffs in white linen. It heightens the contrast of her luscious healthy suntan. Chic for the G. F. 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