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BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND
Lawrence peterson was
1 called to the Boss's office in a
large oil company one day and
told that he was flred from the
Job he had worked so hard to pro-
cure and afterward to hold. One
•of the executives wanted his son
In that position, and Lawrence
Was to be sent to a subsidiary
company in the West where there
was, however, little chance for
advancement.
He was so heartbroken that he
couldn't even talk about his demo
tion. He left the office with his
head down. The hardest thing of
all was to tell his wife. She had
made a place for herself and their
children in the town where they
lived, and they all were very hap-
py there. He didn't have the cour-
age to tell his wife that night, nor
the nex^ But on the third night,
he telephoned his wife that he
would be late and walked for an
hour around the town, trying to
talk with the friends he met as if
there were no news whatever
about his affairs. An hour later he
went home. His wife greeted him
with a smile and the news that
it was a bang-up dinner for to-
night.
He smiled to show that he was
pleased, went out and worked in
the garden until he was called to
dinner. As he had worked, he had
thought: it had to be faced so he
would get it over with as soon as
possible.
After dinner he helped his wife
with the dishes. Then, the chil-
dren having gone to bed, he broke
the news of the disaster.
How did his wife receive the
heart-breaking news?
I've just been worrying about
the high school here," she told
him, "and since we are going to
be near a big city in our new
home, 1 won't have to be con-
cerned about that, anymore. The
children will be able to get a
much better education there than
here."
"But your friends?" he replied.
You've made so many here."
"People are the same every-
where; we will have friends there,
too."
And he had spent a miserable
48 hours worrying over something
that did not happen.
SIGNIFICANT PEACE CONFERENCE
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A Warm Welcome Awaits You At
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
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Moments in
Meditation . . .
by Fredna W. Bennett
And Pharaoh said unto Jaeob,
How old are thou? And Jacob said
unto Pharaoh, The days of the
years of my pilgrimage are a hun-
dred and thirty years: few and evil
have the days of the years of my
life been, and have not attained
unto the days of the years of my
fathers in the days of their pil-
grimage Gen 47:8-9
When Joseph presented his fath-
er to Pharaoh, Pharaoh asked Ja-
cob an ordinary question: "How
old are you?"
Jacob's reply was unusual. Speak-
ing with an air of seriousness be-
coming a patriarch, Jacob laid
down some truths for Pharaoh to
think about. Let's consider them.
Jacob called his life a pilgrimage.
Looking upon himself as a strang-
er in this world and a traveler to-
wards another world, Jacob regard-
ed this earth as just a place to
live in for a while. It wasn t home.
Speaking of all the patriarchs,
Paul said: "They confessed that
they were strangers and pilgrims
on the earth."
Jacob counted his life by days.
And since we aren't sure that our
life will continue to the end of
this day, and since we may be turn-
ed out of this tabernacle with less
than an hours warning, let us also
count our life by days. And then
let us so "number our days that
we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom."
His days were evil. Job said:
"Man that is born of woman is of
few days, and full of trouble."
Surely Jacob's life, in particular,
had been full of sorrow The pleas-
antest days of his life were ahead
of him
His days were few When he com-
pared his 130 years to the days of
eternity In which a thousand years
REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
OLD AND NEW •
JANUARY is named after Janus,
the two-faced god of gates
and doors among the ancient
Romans. With one face he looked
behind him to the past, with the
other he looked before to the future.
In January we incline to cast lin-
gering glances behind us over the
way we have traveled in the Old
year. But we also give thought to
the New Year, and that Is bet-
ter than giving too much time to
the Old.
For, while it is well to remem-
ber the past and acknowledge our
debt for the great heritage it has
left us, our time Is needed for the
problems of the present. And it is
wise to bear In mind that the best
way to be true to our heritage is
to be true to the ideals and prin-
ciples the past has left to us. It is
our duty and privilege to carry on
and try to add to the blessed sum
of good that we shall one day
leave to others.
So, while we may look back
over a momentous year in the
history of our nation and of the
world, let us rouse ourselves to
the tasks that belong to us and as
the apostle would remind us, for-
get the things that are behind us
and press forward to the things
that are before us with hope and
courage to the days as they com*
and go.
are but m one day, they seemed
like just a few days
Three Minute Sermon
from Moody Bible Institute
Chicago, 111.
THREE GIFTS
In the joy and activity of Christ-
mas season, it is easy to overolook
the three most important gifts.
The first gift—the one that be-
gan all Christmas gifts—was made
many centuries ago on a silent
Bethlehem night. "For God so loved
the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever be-
lieveth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life" (John
3:16).
The second gift was made in
Christ's voluntary offering of Him-
self, "I am the Good Shepherd."
He said, "the Good Shepherd giveth
His life for the sheep" (John 10 •
II) He gave His head to the crown
cruel lash. He gave His back to the
cruel ash He gave His hands and
feet to be fastened with nails to
the cross. He gave His blood to
pay the penalty of our sins. Jesus
Christ gave everything.
But what of the third gift? This
is ours to give. 1
God does not want our sacrifices.
"For thou desireth not sacrifice;
else would I give it,' wrote King
David (Psalm 51:18).
God does not want our money
offered for selfish purposes. Peter
said to the man who would buy
the power of God, "Thy money
perish with thee" (Acts 8:20).
God does not want even our good
works which apart from faith are
dead, for "by the works of the
law shall no flesh be justified"
(Galatians 2:16).
Our gift to God must be nothing
less than the gift of ourselves.
"Present your bodies a living sac-
rifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
whicli is your reasonable service"
(Romans 12:1). The pattern is that
of the first-century Christians who
"first gave their own selves unto
the Lord" (II Corinthians 8:5).
This is the one gift God wants
from us, and He waits even now
to receive it
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦
Dr. Hugh Sticksel
[ OPTOMETRIST
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AMARILLO, TEXAS
You can't cast a dry crust on
the water and expect hot biscuits
in return.
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AMARILLO
In a way, fools always live In a
fool's paradise, in that they accept
less responsibility and have more
fun than anybody.
WJDE, WONDERFUL
By FRANKLIN J. MEINE
Editor, The American Peoples
Encyclopedia
XjOTHER SHIPTON'S prophe-
cies are not all that legend
has made them. A 15th century
English prophetess, her name ap-
peared on a tract dated 1641,
prophesying the deaths of Crom-
well, Wolsey, Earl Percy and oth-
ers. The narrative now is regarded
as fiction. Her prophecies foretold
the invention of the steam engine,
the electric telegraph, and the end
of the world in 1881. However,
these were additions made by a:
certain Charles Hindley In 1871,
who acknowledged the fraud two
years later.
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If you could travel with the
speed of light — approximately
186,000 miles a second—it would
take you about one and one-half
seconds to reach the moon, near-
ly 238,857 miles away. A' "light
year" is the time it takes a beam
of light to travel six million mil-
lion miles, or the speed of light
times the number of seconds in a
year. The nearest star cluster, ac-
cording to the American Peoples
Encyclopedia, is about 100 light
years away. Star clusters more
remote than 10 or 12 thousand
light years in distance cannot be
seen because of clouds of inste-
stellar dust.
BY FRANKLIN J. MEINE
Editor, American Peoples Encyclopedia
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