"TO THE LEAST" SHALL BE GIVEN! By ADA WILKERSON. Ever since Joshua died Mary Ann Penrose had been saving up to buy a new altar cloth for the church. Joshua was Mary Ann's husband, and he had been dead ten years. In life Joshua lmd been a treat trial to his wife. He was a carpenter, and a good carpenter, when they were mar ried. He had built their little home himself, and presented it to Mary Ann on her wedding day. "That's how I come to still own it," she said the day she told me about the altar cloth. "Josh would a' sold it long ago if it hadn't been all mine. He hit me once, when he was in liquor, 'cause I wouldn't sign It over to him so he could sell it. But I wouldn't. I was always Arm in that, no matter how much Josh wanted money for pain killer. "The place where he busted his shoulder once when he fell off a scaf fold always hurt in damp weather, an' Josh just naturally took to drinkin' to ease the pain. It's a blessln' the Lord never sent us any children. He would a' sold the clothes off their backs fer drink. But when he waa himself he always said he wouldn't ever take my home away from me. "Goodness knows I had a hard enough time to save money for the taxes. I used to hide it In the old brass teapot I kept 'way back in the corner of the cupboard, an' he never once thought of lookln' there. "But since he's been dend I miss j him. Poor old Josh! He was a good husband, an' I always wanted to give somethlln' to the church as a memo rial. I thought about one of them fancy winders, but they cost too much, so I settled on an altar cloth, white satin, all worked In gold, like the old one, only lots nicer, with more gold and some pieces of glass that look like jewels. "I saw one once, when I was visit In' In the city, an' I have my mind set on one like it. "It would just do me good to set in Grace Chapel every Sunday an' see one of them handsome white and gold cloths hangln* over the pulpit. "I had mey fer it all saved up— a hundred and fifty dollars—in the teapot. Teapots Is safer than banks. An' I was a-goin' togo to the city to git the new fixin's, when along come j that poor, forlorn woman, Mrs. ! Quick, sellin' buttons and thread, lace, j darnin' cotton and needles she had in a basket. She told me she had tramp- , ed all the way from the city. Her j husband was killed workln' on the railroad, and she was tryln' to git money to buy her baby some clothes. , "Poor soul! She was staggerin' j sick when she come to my door. I Just had to take her in—she was a nice, clean little woman, too—an' so white an' miserable lookln'. "Of course, I had to git the doctor; but he couldn't do nothln' to save < her—she hadn't had nourlshin' fond or the right kind of livln' for so long. , Her strength was all gone. "Both of us did everything we could, and Miss Artman come over to help, but It wasn't any use. Doctor said the baby had taken all his mother's vitality—an' you ought to see what a j husky little fellow be is. He's asleep ' now, but when he wakes up I'll let you hold him a while. He's just as pretty and bright! "His mother give him to me before she passed away, an' said she wanted him named for his father —David —so I have named him David Joshua Quick. "It took all the altar cloth money for medicine for the mother and clothes for little David —and the fu neral; but Josh, he'll understand that my memorial to him will be the up brlngin' of the llvin' child, 'stead of the altar cloth. "Last Sunday I went to church ear- , Ir, before anybody else was there — and I told the Ijord how I had to use the money I saved to decorate his house. And it seemed as I knelt there and looked at that old cloth a-hangln' over the pulpit that the gold looked brighter and better than it had fer a long time, and it seemed when I had finished tellln' my story to the Lord, it seemed I could hear a whis per through the silence, like the tree* outside the window were a-whlsperln' together, and it seemed like It said: 'lnasmuch as thou hast don* It unto one of the least of these tnjr children, thou hast done it unto »••• "80, I guess the Lord understands, too." Drew the Line. Pat had been at work for three days digging a well, and as the fore man wanted It finished within the week he had promised Pat another 1 man to help him. It was getting on Jor aleven o'clock, and Towser, the foreman's bulldog, was looking over the edge of the pit, when Pat said to hlmaelf: "I'll have a smoke." He had just filled his pipe, and was •bout to light It, when he glanced up and beheld Towaer'a handsome fea- j tures. Slowly removing the pipe from his mouth, he said: "Be-e-egorra, Oi've wor-rked wld Germans and Hengar-r --rrlana, and Oi've worrked wld Oltal lans and niggers, but If a man wld a face like that oomes down here to ■work beside me Ol gets up." The Way to Date. "You say you hope to become gaged to a suffragette?" "Well, I'm going to aubmit the ques tion to a referendum oonsistlng of h«r j two sisters and her parenta." | JESUS FATHER OF SAVED HUMANITY He Will Give His Earthly Chil dren Everlasting Life. IMPORTANCE OF BIBLE STODY. Pastor Russell Says Scriptures Are Self -1 nterpreting—Texts Once Dark Become Luminous —Jehovah Is the Life-Giver of the Church, but Jesus Will Be the Regenerator of the World, Humanity. 1 >u'r fun-father had much less op- j portunity for study than have we. j Not only is education general today, j but the facilities for study are emu ■ mon. Every home has at least one Bible and good light wherowltli to study. Moreover, the curse of toil is I lifting; less sweat of face is required i to earn our dally bread; consequent l,\ ! we have more time at our disposal ] wherein to ascertain the things freely giveu unto 11s of God through I lis j Word. And what beautiful and con j venient Bibles we possess, with ideal' j print, marginal references, concur ; dances, helps, etc.! God be praised j for such privileges! Bible students are learning to use these mercies anil are being blessed j in their use. The Bible is being j studied as never before, and being al lowed to interpret itself, one passage j throwing light upon another. This, j evidently, was the I >ivine design. Bill j in addition to all this, we have the ; thought that now is God's "due time" I to grant blessings and enlightenment j to the world along secular lines. All j this enlightenment is coining, we be j Here, because we are in the dawnina j of a New Dispensation, which shortly is to bring more wonderful tilings. I However, we are still in what St. I'e tor terms the "dark place," wait in:' 1 for that "day dawn" to grow mon | clear; anil we do well to take close ! heed to the light upon our path, which J falls from our Lamp, the Bible. Christ Not the Church's Father. j Item after item of Divine Truth be coming clear, sheds a radiance on otlie precious truths. Old, familiar Si-rip tures have a telPfold significance. Otu text is one of these. No one will dis ptlte that it refers to our Lord Jesus J Christ. lie shall be called Wonderful. I Counselor, the Mighty God, the Kver lasting Father lor the Father win I gives everlasting life I. the Prince o j I'eace." Those titles are still prophet ; ic. Our great Redeemer has not yd j become the Prince of Peace: for pi-a. 1 \ has not yet-come. We are still mult" j the reign of sin and death. Our lie j deemer has not yet become the F.vor j lasting Father. Only the Church has yet been dealt with, and Jesus is not the Father of the Church. He is our F.lder Brother' or under another figure. He is our tie trot lied, and at His Second Coining i to be our Heavenly Bridegroom. The Scriptures distinctly tell us that Jesus 1 is not the Church's Father, or Life giver. St. Peter sa*s. "The Cod ami Father of our Lord .lestis Christ * * 1 j hath begotten us." (I Peter i. j Jesus testifies to the same effect. Aft er Ills resurrection, when speaking to Mary, lie said. "I ascend unto My Fa j tiler, ami ymr Father; to My God. .-11111 1 your God." i.lohu \\. 17.1 The St rip j tures never mix luures after such :t manner as to speak of .lesus as the Church's Father, atnl then to intimate j that He would become Bridegroom to His own child. Jshovah. Father of the New Creation. We must remember that t lie Church j ceases to be human, earthly. She be- j comes God's New Creation. She is lie gotten of the Holy Spirit now. and will lie born from the dead by the Hoi* Spirit power in the First Resurrection, to the Divine nature. She will lie like her Lord, Ills Bride. (Revelation x.\i. S*. 10; Romans vlll, 17.) To her, "old things pass away; all things become | new." Under the begetting of the Holy | Spirit she becomes in the present life j transformed by the renewing of her mind and sets her affections on things | above, ller perfecting 111 the resurrec j tion is clearly stated by St. Paul, who 1 says that in the resurrection each seed hill have its own kind of body. The human, or Atlantic seed will i have human bodies; but those begotten j again of the llol\ Spirit during this Gospel Age become the new Seed, to whom will be given new spirit bodies j Thus fbey shall be made like their g|o ! rifled Savior or Bridegroom and lie 1 "like Hi 111. * * * see Him as He is" I 11 spirit being. DeS-rlblng tile Sp ritual Seed and Its resurrection. St. Paul says "It is sown in weakness; it is raised in I power; It is MIWII In dishonor: it raised in glory: ii is sown an nnitta! j body; It Is raised a spiritual bmh There Is an animal hotly | luminal; there Is a spiritual hotly" ude-ti.i heavenly. I Corinthians xv. I,'t. If Jesus the Second Adam. After the exaltation of the Church b,\ j Ihs Flr>t Resurrection. nc\t will follow then wakening, liolpiiitr. Mossing- up lifting of Immunity In uciicr.'i I: lull that work will Im> exclusively in the linuds of flit* glorified Siivim-. St. l'nnl as nun's us that tin l I'atluM - will put all tiling's into subjection to tin- Son. for the very work of lilossing anil assisting llic world of mankind for whom lit* died. Then the Son will deliver up the Kingdom authority to the Father, that Jehovah "may lie All and in all." But j during tile thousand year*. absolute! control of the world will lie in the hands of the Great Messiah, who will put down all things opposed to the I >i vine will, and lift up the willing and obedient from sin. degradation and the tomb. St. l'eter tells us that at the Second Coining of Jesus I'ivine blessings will be showered upon the earth "Timesof Itefreshing shall come from the pres ence of the 1/inl: ami lie shall send Jesus Christ." He tells us that the heavens will retain Jesus until the destitution Times, of whieh (.Sod has t been telling us through the "mouth of nil Ilis holy I'rophets sinee tlie world began."— Aits iii, ISKM. The Second Adam's Children. The lilble teat-lies that Jesus is the ; Second Adam. The tirst Adam had the ' privilege of being the father of .-t'lui- ! man race. In the image and likeness of iiod and blessed with everlasting life, to enjoy a world-wide Paradise. All this Adam lost by disobedience anil l came under Divine sentence of death. ! called in the Scriptures the "curse." He can- ot extricate himself, and there fore cannot extricate his children from this calamity. Neither can any of his j children get free from the curse, nor gi\e to (Sod u ransom for his fellows. Jesus left the glory which He hail ] with the Father, anil came into the j world a Man. He did not become a j sinful man. Oil the contrary, Iho j Scriptures tell us that "The- Man j Christ Jesus" was "holy, harmless, nil- j dellled and separate from sinners." j He had the right to produce a human i race as instead of Adam's race: but J this was not the Father's Plan. In stead of starting another race, Jesus | gave His life sacriliclally. I" (Soil's j "due time" this sacrifice will be made | applicable to cancel all the claims ot j Justice against mankind on account of ; original sin. in harmony with the Father's Plan. | Jesus purposes that -is the Second Adam lie will take over the Adamii ; race, anil adopt as many of them as j may be willing as His own family. This, in the Bible, is called "Uogenera | lion." Kogeneratioti means to generate j life again. Jesus has the right to give | lite to Adam and to his race, having purchased that right with the sacri- ! tice of His own life. He died, the .lu.-t One for i he unjust: and all the ri-jhts which lie had to an earthly life He may therefore give justly to Ailam unii to as many of Ailam s children as will accept it. The process of this regeneration w 11 be very different from the process o' the lirst generation. The life which will come to mankind will come through the Word "My words are spirit and are life." Whoever will hearken to the words of the great I.ifc-give.' will thereby receive the new life. 1 His words work in tbcm "to will an I to do" in harmony with the laws of the Kingdom, they will gradually rise out of their weaknesses and Imperfections, to perfection of human nature. "The Everlasting Fattier." We should carefully note' that tlx- Mutt Jesus was not the Kverlasting Fa ther. Ih ' Man Jesus gave lllmseit a Hansom price a con < mmmling /./ice for the man Adam, in order that lie might become the Second Adam and have the rightful authority to give everlasting life to Adam and his children. Jesus did not become the Second Ad urn until lie hail finished laying down the liatisom-prlce. So long as Jesus maintained His earthly life He would have no life to give to humanity: lc lie would need His life for Himself When (Sod raised Him from the dead, no longer a human being, but reward ee Hie Second Ailam. so the Church, as the New Creation, must pass from the human to the spirit condition he fore she can fultil her part in God's great Plan as the Second Fve. View ed from a scientific standpoint, the picture is complete. The ///'' of the child comes, not from the mother, but from the father. So our I.ord. the Hedeeiner, is the I.ife-giver. The (liuivh Is not the l *'e giver. But 1 mother, nevertheless, has a very im porinnt part in the Divine arrange ineiit for the bringing forth of chil ilren. Si the Church of Christ is ti ha\« a very Important part in the , great work of lb-generation and liesti tutlon. The mother is the liourishcr Hud caretaker of the children; and so the Bride, the Lamb's Wife, co-labor ing with tlie great Life giver, will nourish, sustain, care for, supervise the interests of tnaiikind in the Ite geiieration. Is it any wonder, in view of the work that (Soil has outlined for I lis Sou and for the Church, that lie should consid- 112 er it necessary to V.ive us lessons and s lests in faith, in I' • .in obedience?. Is it any wontli i in i. wof the work t which lie has for i: to do for man ' kind, that He d, ■■ nvs that the He dec .er Himself w.i -• :. en 1.-ep exper- ' ietices in suft'eiic: i! I II ■ might be a t faithful and l: ■ ■■ •■ i fu 1 Iliv.h Priest iu , the things of i: ! in rela ion to hu- 1 inanity? Ah. ii" ed. whci we come 112 to lindersfand the hi !i calling of (Sod to the Church and the grit work of ' • ire auiaz-| ' ed! Our souls cry out. "True anil right-1 eons nre Thy vsys. Lord God A - i | nihility! \\"hos!,.!| not come anil wor-| nhip before 'I hi e * * when Thy i ' riuhteous ile:.li:■ ■- s'liill be made man ifest!" Revelatioii \v. I. I 1 The New Order of Things. Guided by the Divine Word, the eye of faith may see, not only the Church in great glory with her Lord, but also the operation of tlie Divine Plan in the blessing of humanity. First iu the Klttgd an will he the Hedeeuier Him- j self. King of and Lord of lords. Next to lllni, as llis ijueeu Consort,! will be the Fleet Utile Flock, the | saintly ones of ali nations, having His I Father's name in their foreheads. I'll- ; seen of men. their knowledge will be Infinite, as it is written: "Hi- shall not , judge by the hearing of the ear. nei-| tlicr by the sight of the eye. but He shall judge lighteous judgment." Then next to these will be the Great ■ Company, w ho will do a work of super vising the affairs of the children ot Christ: for as a mother may have a maid for an assistant, so also will the Bride of Christ have these assistants. We read in the Scriptures that the Brlile "is till glorious within,"' and that she shall be brought Into the presence of the Great King, Jehovah, in raiment "Piwrought with gold." Gold is .sym bolical of the Divine nature. We read that "the virgins, her companions that follow her," shall also lie brought into the King's presence. Psalm xlv. L"»- As Isa.-i" t\'pi tifd our Lord Jesus, and as Hebecca ty pi tied the Church, so He bocca's maid, lyp-itied these "virgins, her companions." a i ori esponilitig serv ice to the lev ill s of old. All tlieso will lie on tie- spirit plane Invisible to men. The Heavenly Host will be quite sufficient to serve the interests ' of the redeemed race, whose t egeue: a ' tlon to human jier feet lon will be their work for a thousand years. "Princes In AH the Earth." But while the Kingdom of (Sod will bo spiritual, it w ill have earl lily repre sentativi s. who will he perfect, and thus eiis imples of what Hegeiicratloli will tueiin to the willing ami obedient. These Princes Goil has already select oil from amongst men. They are compos ed of the Worthies of mankind who lived before Pentecost, w hen the spirit begetta 1 lirst came to the Church as a result of Jesus' ,'ppeaii ig before the Father as her Advocate Psalm xlv. Hi. Who we"c these one time lathers who become the eli ; Ireti: The S ripi lll'.'ll ! answer is lh.lt Al-rahani, Isaac. Jacob, and the Prophets were called the fath ers: that wlicn .It -us came lie \yas the child of David and Abraham tie cording to the tic i., through 11 is moth er; and that 111 -e Wo therefore, were His I I tiler - a t-' the tlesli. But the.v are n •! His lathers ,-n cording to the spirit. l'hey have had nothing 1 whatever to do with His present gen-, er ition as a New Creature, l-e-jotton of the Holy Spirit to the Divine nature They are His fathers no lot get*. The.v ; in I urn will get their life from the g'.o ritiod Messiah; hence they will be His children, receiving their everlasting life from Him. the Redeemer, the l.it'e- > r. the St- • nil Adam. Because of their loyalty and l'aithtul- J nt'ss to God in their day we have the , testimony that they pleased (Sod. Nev ertheless the.v c -nltl ii (i i liter into any j blessings mill! the redemptive work is finished. Neither could they follow | next to the Redeemer: for that place. In i the Father's program, w as arranged for the Bride. Ihe Lamb's Wife. Thus St. 1 Paul tells i.s tl.a! "God has reserved: some-better thing for us than for them, and that they witimet us will not be made perfect." Hebrews \i. 38--10. But when the i liur h has been glori fied. and the King l un shall have been established on the spirit plane, the next thing in order will be the blessing of tile Ancient Worthies The.v will bo , the first members of the human family to receive resurrection, which will be Instantaneous, because they have al ready been approved b.v the Divine standards. Not having been begotten of the Holy Spirit, tliey will not be spirit beings in the resurrection, but perfect men. As such these will be Princes in all the earth, superior to the remainder of the race. The Great Mes siah will riuiioiiit them to be l'rinces. chiefs or rulers amongst men. They will constitute the earthly phase of the Kingdom >f Messiah. Men will see them 'and receive their Instructions f,';rough them, but will not see the real, spirit'pal Kingdom. Jesus expressed this thought to the Jews, saving "Ve shall see Abraham. Isaac and Jin oh .mil all the Prophets in the Kingdom, but ye yourselves wi be outcasts" not In K.'ngdom power, but in a subordinate posltio.' 1 - subjects. How beautiful, how complete. a"d how | logical are all the arrangements of thi* I Divine Plan for the great work of (Soil i outlined in the Bible! When mankind | shall come to see His Wls-toiu, Justice, j Love and Power, who can doubt that ; many knees will bow and muni tongues • confess to His glory; ninl that the nutn ber of those who must, because of love for evil, he destroyed In the Second l>eath, will be proportionately small! Linens anil cotton voiles stand * foremost in the list of fabrics for smart blouses. Leather handbags promise to have things all their own way rather than fancy bags. The dominant style tendency is bet- : ter described by directoire than any. ' thing else. Black and white chantilly is a favor ite trimming for the frock of soft satin, chiffon and pompadour taffetas. Skirts with becoming yokes, shaped over the hips and forming a panel at i the back, are among the newest mod els. Tones and shades will be mingled more rreely than will different colors. ! Especially does this apply to evening - which will very often be built of rich medium and even dark shades, lightened with chiffon and lace. CORDS ARE TO BE POPULAR 112 \ All Widths and Color# Will Be Used t As Trimmings This Fall and Winter. Cords of all widths and colors will be extensively used on autumn and winter models. Not only as fastenings anil "buttons," but as trimmings, and ■ also to weight the borders of the coats aud skirts. Narrow cords with pipe ] edging and light and heavy cords will be used for ornamental designs in the braid style. At one time color was the difficulty, but now the colors and shades are quite as numerous as those | In silk, and cords have worked their way into a position of great impor- I tance. Waistcoats are again to be worn, but introduced into frocks as well as coats, and these have cordlngs and buttons which come Into full play. Blue serge and blue cloth will be principally treated in this way, and many and beautiful will be the colors and designs seen on the winter mod els. As I have mentioned before In these columns, velvet as well as cord and braiding will be greatly used, giv ing a very rich appearance to the plainest materials. —Women's Wear. Fads. The new waists are being finished, many of them, with high crushed satin girdles to wear outside the skirt. Leather collars and cuffs are com ' lng in, of white or colors, finished with wee straps and pearl buckles. Some of the heavy lace tunics to the new white satin gowns are edged with ermine and veiled with chiffon. 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