tion through faith can take the slums out of a man. Margaret Slattery, a social worker in New York City, came in contact w ith a child crippled from birth. After great effort in raising money, she placed the child in the hands of an eminent surgeon with marked results. Soon the child was taking steps, then walking followed. If you are expecting to hear of an unusual success story in life, we shall have to disappoint you for this child chose a crooked path through intervening years and is now be hind bars, paying for a crime against society. You see, medical science is great enough to make a crippled boy walk, but only God can show him how and where to walk. * "Look out for the man who has several irons in the fire, you might get burned with one of them." POPULARITY DOES NOT DEPEND UPON A PRETTY FACE or upon being hand some, but upon inner qualities of true Godly character. These quali ties are readily sensed by others. They may be a gentle voice, a God ly friendliness, tender kindnesses, thoughtful of the position of another, patient, loving and gracious. You cannot sow these seeds in the lives of others until first of all the plants are growing within you. The Bible says, “. . . the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long- suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” Let each make his own applica tion for who would know better what is within the heart other than God? * *
"In this electronic age all a woman has to do to run her home properly is to keep plugging." * * * I A M NOT CERTAIN why it is, but for same reason Texas comes in for its share of jokes, and that right often. But this time they w ill serve in il lustration. As a matter of fact, a very excel lent illustration, for they have with in their borders a town which ap pears on the map as Uncertain, Tex as. According to a recent news re port the town w ill have some solidar ity from now on as a recent election brought them incorporation and there w ill be a mayor, a marshal, and five aldermen. This town is located northeast of Marshall near the Louisiana border. Can you imagine one of the resi dents going to a distant city and when asked by the hotel clerk his place of residence, he would respond, “Uncertain.”? Seriously, there are multitudes who live in “Doubt’ and “Unbe lie f’ — and they are uncertain about their position before God — they are lost souls and Oh, so needlessly. The Apostle John wrote, “These things (that is the Word of God) have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” * "One way to keep people from jumping down your throat is to make sure that your mouth is dosed." * * * IT HAS BEEN W ELL SAID that refor mation may be able to take a man out of the slums; but only regenera * *
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