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(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
Sunday School Course Moody Bible In-
stitute, Chicago.)
LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 7
RUTH CHOOSES THE TRUE GOD.
LESSON TEXT—Ruth 1:6-18.
tire book.)
GOLDEN TEXT-—Thy people shall be
my people, and thy God my God.—Ruth
8
(Read en-
The book of Ruth is a great love
story, full of deep spiritual sugges-
tiveness. Amid the tales of war, de-
ceit, success and failure, this story
py most beautifully illustrates another
side of the life of the Israelites. The
author of the book is supposed to
have been the same as the writer of
Judges, perhaps Samuel.
I. “There Was a Famine in the
Land.” This famine drove Elimelech,
his wife Naomi and their two sons,
Mahlon and Chilion, into the land of
Moab, even as Abram before them
“went down” into Egypt. The immi-
grant sons married in that land, one
of them becoming the husband of
Ruth. Through this Israelitish al-
liance Ruth learned of the true God
and the record of this book reveals
God to all who turn to him in sincer-
ity and truth. This suggests the es-
sential missionary character of the
Old Testament. After the death of
her husband and sons Naomi, hear-
ing of returning prosperity in the
homeland (1:16), elected to return to |'
her own people.
Il. “Entreat Me Not to Leave
Thee.” . This story puts to silence all
of the mother-in-law jokes. When
Naomi thought they had gone far
enough she sought to dismiss the
younger women and expressed to
them the tender affection which ex-
isted between them. A woman in an
eastern land can find rest only in the
house of her husband and these young
widows stood but poor chance of se-
curing husbands among those who
hated their race. Moreover we must
remember that they were penniless.
There seemed to be nothing for them
to gain if they proceeded any farther
{w.. 12). Orpah reluctantly and tear-
fully turned back but Ruth clave to
Naomi (v. 14). This illustrates our
experience when we have to decide
whether to leave friends, home and
everything that we may follow Christ
or, on the other hand, have to choose
the things which are good and refuse
to follow the best, (Matt. 10:37; Luke
14:33). :
Lo 3, AON hither Thou Goest | Will
WL + Naomi Ruth another op-
portunity to go back to her people
and this time bases her appeal upon
the love of Ruth for Orpah (v. 15)
The word Ruth means “friendship,”
and one of the strongest motives for
a loving nature to forsake the Lord
, is the love for those that are of the
world. Many young men and young
women have had such loves but they
usually result in making shipwreck
of faith. ‘Read II Cor. 5:14, 15; Rom.
10:37. This test caused Ruth to count
fully the cost (Luke 14:25-33). No
more beautiful nor immortal words
can be found in all literature than
Ruth’s reply (vv. 16, 17). Ruth’s words
are still sung as best expressing our
song of life devotion. They have fur-
nished inspiration for countless lives,
sermons and stories, and for some of ;
the earth’s greatest musicians as well.
They most wonderfully illustrate our
attitude towards him “whom not hav-
ing seen ye love” (I Peter 1:8).
IV. The Sequel. At Bethlehem
Ruth had no other thought than to
cling to her mother-inlaw, even in
poverty and a life of lowly service.
She did her menial duties faithfully,
and displayed more of the real hero-
ism of faith than that shown in the
daring exploits recorded in the other
history (Judges) of her day. The
truest hero is not the reckless partici-
pant in Europe’s battlefields, nor is he
found in the mad struggle for commer-
cial supremacy, but more often in the
self-sacrificing acts of tender women
and in the common round of life's
duties. Ruth in a humble hut with
Naomi was better off and better satis-
fied than to have lived in the finest
palace in Moab (Phil. 1:23). Through
all of this love and devotion Ruth
was being fitted for a larger sphere of
influence in which she was enabled to
give to Naomi the happiest life possi-
ble to her. Not once is Ruth’s beauty
suggested but she had the more at-
tractive attributes of goodness, kind-
ness and courtesy She may have had
personal beauty but her character far
outshone the physical
This lesson is a suggestive one for
Decision day in our Sunday schools.
Give all an opportunity to choose and
to follow even as Ruth did. For the
Jittle folks tell the story simply “as
3 tv a little child”
Emphasize the beauty and value of
lovingly serving our elders.
Naomi is no less a heroine. Her
name means “pleasant, winsome.”
True. she suggested a new name
Mara, “bitterness,” but her sorrow
was not for herself but for others,—
“it grieveth me much for your sakes”
(1:13). Naomi made the religion and
worship of Jehovah so attractive as
to win a most notable convert. It is
our privilege to make religion attrac-
tive.
This gift cannot be bought nor
Song and
Story ......
VIGIL.
I have waited with my mother down
the dim, uncertain ages;
I have waited in the cave and hut and
tower;
From the first dawn’s nameless fear
To the death list posted here
I have slain my soul in waiting, hour
by hour.
Under pelt of beast, trap-taken, or the
leaves by chang winds blown,
Under tonic, peasant hemp or cloth of
gold, :
By the fire in low flame burning,
I have crouched in silence, yearning
And, a8 now, my helpless heart has
waited cold.
Ancient is the part I play—like a cloak
of heavy mourning
I take it, bending from a million wo-
men’s hands
They have worn it, they have torn it
Agonizing they have borne it,
And its folds are dark with heartbreak
of all lands.
Oh, the woman figure, standing with
the face towards the horizon;
Oh, the hand above ‘the eyes to ease
the strain!
Gaunt and barren, stricken, lonely,
With empty memories only,
We have stood, the dry-eyed sentries of
our pain.
Nothing can we do to stop them, noth-
ing can we say to hold them;
Taking sunlight, laughter, youth, they
swing away,
And the things they
strange,
House and stret and voices change,
But the women and thé burdened hours
stay.
leave grow
I have waited with my mother down
the dim uncertain ages; :
While my children die, I pray the cen-
turies through,
And I wonder in my fear
At the death list posted here
If God has left the women waiting too!
—Hortense Flexner.
In honor of a visit paid to his plant
by the governor of the state an auto-
mobile manufacturer once had a com-
plete car assembled in something like
seven minutes. : road
Some weeks after this feat was her-
alded in the daily papers; the 'phoné
at the factory rang vigorously. :
“Is it true that you assembled a car
in seven miutes at your factory?”
the voice asked, Md :
“Yes,” came. the reply. {Why 2"
“Oh, nothing, ”said the calm inquirer,
“only I've got the car.” :
His Own Press Agent.
he walked into the local newspaper
office and handed the editor a scrap
of dirty paper. On it was a brief ac-
count of a juvenile football match
which had taken place that afternoon.
Glancing at the report, the editorial
j eye caught the words: “Jones kicked
'a magnificent goal, the finest ever seen
on the ground.”
“Wos is Jones?” asked the editor.
The youngster turned the thumb of
his right hand proudly to his breast.
“I'm Jones,” he said calmly.
During the flood of 1913, Lima re-
ceived her share of the overflowing
waters of the Ohio. The streets turned
into rivers.
A dripping man, who apparently was
suffering from an oversupply of wet
goods inside as well as out, staggered
into a blacksmith shop. With a thick
voice he asked for a monkey wrench,
and getting one, waded back into the
street. <
As he did not return immediately
the blacksmith went to the door to
look for him. He was standing in three
feet of water, working over a hydrant.
“Say; what are you doing there?”
called the owner of the wrench.
The drunk paused, braced himself a-
with true civic pride:
got to shut this water off. We ean’t
waste it like this.”
Why he Kept Boarders.”
The man from the city was inspec-
ting the country boarding house with
the idea of spending the summer there
with his family. “Of course,” he be-
gan, “you have plenty of pure milk
and the best of butter in the state on
your table.”
“No.”
“Fresh beef and lamb every day,
killed on the premises?”
“I hain’t
“Allkinds of vegetables in abund-
ance, large orchard of choice fruits;
cultivated berries picked every morn-
ing?”
“Say, mister! If I had all of them
things on this farm I wouldn’t have to
take boarders.”
Cu..dren Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
SOMERSET COUNTY .
COURT RECORDS.
Conveyances of real estate by trus-
tees, executors and administrators,
in the Orphans’ court of Somerset
county: :
Joseph Penrod and John Henry Pen-
rod, executors of the estate of Josiah
HAPPENINGS THROUGHOUT
Items of Interest Culled from Our
Exchanges.
A civil service examination will be
conducted in the Windber postoffice
| sold a house and lot in Boswell bor fOr a clerk carrier Feb. 13th, with a
{ough to Frank C. Elden for $1,000. view of is 2 need of = additional
Irvin G. Walker and Wm. G. Berk- Carrier for the local service.
ey administrators of the estate of M. J. Bartol of Beaverdale has
Samuel A. Berkey, Stonycreek town- boon pray a Patent telephone Se
ship,sold a 13l-acre farm in Stony- tachment for speeding trains. r.
creek township to Irvin G. Meyers for A Bartol’s device makes it possible to
$1,505. : have telephone service on coaches of
Louis C. Colburn, trustee of the és. fast trains.
tate of Ezra J. Weigley, Somerset! IB a year of slump in the mining
borough, sold a 50-acre farm in Som- iRdustry, the Lochrie interests in
erset township to Chas. W. Walker this county made the tremendous re-
for $2675. : | cord of an increase of 183 per cent in
Henry L. Brant, executor of the es- : ©0281 output. It is doubtful if any other
tate of Jacob L. Brant, of Brothers mining concern of its size in the coun-
valley twp., sold a 99-acre farm in that (TY bas made a record anything like
township to Harry W. Brant for $5800 i eta "he. 3
J. Wesley Barkley, administrator of rist, a wealthy Jenner
the estate of Wm. Bearl, Jefferson township farmer, has instituted par-
twp., sold a ten-acre farm in Jefferson i ange Spanst Daniel B.
twp. to Edith Baker for $600. » the well known coal op-
Harvey Custer and Samuel Custer, erator, concerning a tract of eight a-
administrators of the estate of Mary o Jem) Wiis in Jenner and Que-
A. Saylor, Allegheny township, sold Mahoning townships. Crist claims a
an 80-acre farm in that township to Au interest in the land.
Lewis J. Eskin for $1800. on 0, a miner employed by
Stephen McClintock, administrator Ye Ses Level Coa) id Company
of the estate of Levi McClintock, Ad- oarding at the Somerset House
dison twp, sold three tracts of land in Paint borough, has returend to his
aggregating 226. acres, in Addison hotel from Philadelphia, where he had
township to James McClintock for bis rleht bil Joker out at the Wills
$1,925. ye an ar hosptal. The eye was
Matilda Burow, administrator of the Pierced about a month ago hy a splin-
estate of Christopher Burow, Addison , te of rock folowing a blast.
township, sold a house in Listonburg |
to AnnieShow for $1,170. Black township, consisting of several
Cyrus W. Truxal, administratorof lots and a two-story frame dwelling
of the estate of Mary A. Beachley, Wa8 sold by Administrator J. R. Haines
Meyersdale, sold 'a house and lot in Ist i gd afternoon to Isaac Kel-
Meyersdale to Urias William Beach- 6%» Of the same townshp for $825.
ley for $3,050. | Mr. Keller and his family, it is under-
Ella M. Trimpey, executrix of the es- | stood, will shortly remove to their new
tate of W. H. Trimpey, Upper Turk- residence in the suburban part of
eyfoot township, sold a 135-acre farm South Hockwood.
in Upper Turkeyfoot twp to Peter A.
Kreger for $8,500. J
Robert M. Luther, trustee of the es- Harrison, is greatly distressed over an
tate of John A. Luther, Scalp Level, 2ccident to his four-year old son last
sold a ten-acre farm in Paint twp. to Week, which permanently crippled the
Robt. L. Wissinger for $1,200. | boy. Young Holberson had been visi-
Samuel G. Walker, administrator of ing his grandparents at Houtzdale and
the estate of Albert Hillegas, Alleghe- While at play about a corn cutter, his
ny township sold a 409 acre farm to’ d was severed.
and another form of 122 acres in Al- .WA8 mentioned in this paper, died at
THE COUNTY. |
gainst the current, and called back |
“Somebody’s |
$950.
PROTECT SHEEP BY KILLING
‘WORTHLESS DOGS.
Dog laws that will impose such,
heavy taxes that worthless dogs will
- | be disposed of, is the salvation of thes
sheep industry, according to W. 4
Coffey, of the University of Illinois, a
sheep raising expert, who addressed
livestock breeders during Farmers’
ent. ‘| Week at The Pennsylvania State Col-
The small boy was dressed in: foot:
ball costume, and, with a’ jaunty air,
lege. He sounded a note of warning,
saying that if the business of sheep
raising is éver to attain the promi-
nence it deserves, the wool bearing
animals will have to be better protect-
ed. He advocates police supervision
of dogs.
" Mr. Coffey urged the organization of !
sheep and wool clubs to augment the
interest in the industry, saying that
instead of there being 34 sheep to |
each farm, there should be fifty to
seventy-five. He could see no reason
why at least 75 per cent of Pennsyl-
vania farms should not have sheep.
“Flocks” he said, “should become the
rule rather than the exception and !
the farm flocks should be larger than '
at present.”He urged co-operation a- |!
mong the sheep owners, advising that
flocks be similar in breeding and that '
methods of caring for sheep and mar-
keting be the same throughout £
community.
CASES FOR FEBRUARY cduRrT.
Among the cases recently docketed
for trial at the February term of court
are the following:
Charles Saylor and Andrew Saylor
larceny of two cans of lard on infor-
mation of John Houpt.
>
William Day, larceny of pork and
shoulders, which he is alleged to have
hidden in a woodpile near Acosta,
on information of Mary Warznick.
Ray Madden, desertion of his wife
and four children on information of
Mrs. Jennie Madden.
Frank G. Larne, slander and abuse,
on information of his wife. The couple :
reside in Elk Lick. The prosecutrix a-
vers that her husband is jealous of
her, and while in those fits he calls
her vile names and charges her with
infidelity.
News From the Front.
He had waited thirty minutes for a
slow waiter to bring his dinner.
“Now”, he said to the waiter. “can
you bring some cheese and some cof-
fee?”
“Yes, sir, in a minute, sir.”
“And,” continued the diner, “while
you are away you might send me a
postal every now and then.”
legheny twp to Robt. McLuckie for Confluence from the effects of a dose
: - i of arsenic takeen in mistake for salts
two years ago. He failed to find rel-
ief from the terrible effects of the
poisoning although he had consulted
doctors and specialists in many cities
At the time of takng the deadly stuff
by_mistelte he was proprietor of a lo-
Caroline Strizak, a daughter of
John Strizak, formerly of Windber, |
The estate of Annie E. Sterner in |
Samuel Holberson, an employe of the .
i Quemahoning Creek Coal Company at |
Geo. E. and C. A. Schiller for $5200 | = William Coughenour whose death '
was brutally asaulted in her father’s |
jewelry store in Twin Rocks recently
by Stanko Bowich, a Croatian. Bowich
was captured after a posse had chas-
ed him five miles and was utterly ex-
hausted. He had disposed of money
and jewelry taken from the safe in the
store, but two watches were found
in his pockets which were identified
by Mr. Strizak. Miss Strizik was fell- |
ed to the floor and feigned death.
State Highway Commissioner Ed-
ward M. Bigelow has filed a bill in
equity in the Somerset County Court
asking for a mandatory injunction re-
quiring the Quemahoning Branch R. R.
Company, a subsidiary of the B. & 0.
to remove its tracks at a crossing ov-
er a state road near the new mining
town of ecker, in the Jenners field.
It is alleged that the railroad illegally.
constructed the crossing in that it
neglected to’ get a permit from the
Public Service Commission.
RULE ON CREDITORS ET AL
In re assigned estate of S. D. Liven-
good—
January 12, 1915, a petition was
presented to the Court of Common
Pleas of Somerset County, by Chas.
H. Ealy, Assignee of the said S. D.
Livengood, praying the court for
leave to grant an option upon all the
right, title, interest, claim and demand
of the said S. D. Livengood of,in and
to the coal and fireclay underlying
certain tracts of land situate in Som-
erset and Stonycreek townships, Som-
erset County, Pennsylvania, contain-
ing in the aggregate eleven hundred
(1100) acres, more or less, and known
as the “Adams Mines” property. Said
option being to purchase the interest
of the said S. D. Livengood of, in
and to the said described property at
and for thesum of Twenty Thousand,
($20,000) Dollars, less charges and ex-
penses, as set forth in said petition in
the sum of $1,000 and to extend for a
period of sixty (60) days. Whereupon
the Court made the following order:
“January 12, 1915, presented
and rule awarded to show cause
why the opton should not be given
as prayed for,—the rule to be serv-
ed by publication in two newspa-
pers in the county. Returnable Jan.
25, 1915 at 10 a. m.
BY THE COURT,
W. H. Rupple, P. J.
Iron Ore.
Next to the United States, German;
and France are the largest produc
in the world.
of iron
Extracts from the records,
SEAL] Certified this 12th day of
; January, 1915.
A. J. H Prothonotary.
THE GOD’ OF GAIN.
We move by some strange impulse on our way;
Some secret motive rules the simple course,
The meagre compensation, meet for toil,
May be illusive when the life is spent.
Our native instinct feeds upon the vague
Uncertain future, that may seem so real;
With grim tenacity we cling to hope
And thus survive the ravages of years.
Enslaved in bondage to the gods of gain,
Ambition leads her servants ever on, -
Forbidding rest or pacive thoughts to soothe
Their noble spirits in a sense of peace.
The glory of the conquest is the charm
Inspiring man to sacrifice and toil.
'T 'were just to strive and greater to succeed
But not destroy the priceless gift of God.
The cost of toil, the human sacrifice,
The fierce relentless grind of mortal man
Extort their toll at last and leave him prone
Te frailties in the waning years of life.
What profits man to gain his end and leave
A gloomy record to the deathless past?
What gain is there acquired in wealth or fame
What compensation justifies the cost,
When lives are steeped in such incessant toil
And man creates the penalty of fate?
A royal freedom is his heritage,
Dominion over all the creatures here;
The soil submits to his controlling hand
And yields its fruitage for his recompense,
And man is master in the form of God.
His power and freedom should he maintain
Nor yield in bondage to the god of gain,
But live to feel the deepest sense of joy,
And, though ennobling, be the fruit of toil,
Toil on but pause to drink the sweets of life.
Howard Phillips.
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colds
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Started Out Larger than Ever,
Giving Tremendous Bargains,
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Meyersdale, Somerset Co., Penn’a
Residence: 3090 North Street Office:
Economy Phone
229 Center Street
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MEYERSDALE, PA.
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