THE K I N G ’ S B US I NE S S
971
worth of such advertising, but showed a net gain of 3000 columns of adver tisements and 50,000 in circulation. In Birmingham, Ala., the number of violent deaths from all causes in eleven months of 1907 was 342. In the same months under a prohibition law in 1908 it was 166, a decrease of 51%, The grand juries of 1913 sat 117 days and investigated 1639 cases. In 1916 a dry year they sat only 55 days and investigated only 929 cases. Temperance Increases Beauty. Exper iments are constantly being carried for ward by scientific and medical men in America and Europe. Not long ago in a copyrighted article appearing in a large number of daily newspapers, Lillian Russell, whose name has long been a synonym for good looks, declares that drink will disfigure the face with pimples and blotches, glaze the eyes with a criss-cross of tiny blood vessels, paint the nose an unlovely hue, make cheeks pallid, write dark circles under the eyes and will do a few other things, besides inflicting upon the guilty ones such impo>tant co'nsequences as indi gestion, headaches, biliousness, Brights disease, nervousness, bad temper, loss of common sense, loss of power to work efficiently, loss of friends, family and happiness. • Temperance in Work. In Topeka, Kans., in 1914 there were only 53 arrests for actual intoxication instead of 661 in other years. Billy Sunday says, “ Rubie, Matty, Plank and Bugs Raymond started in baseball at the same time. All were pitchers. Two started on the wrong road and two on the right road. Two are dead;> 'Bugs and Rubs.’ Matty is as good as ever, a king in his line, and when he gets so he can’t put anything on the ball he’ll go to work training young pitchers at a dazzling salary. ‘Plank’ grand old man, is getting along, but he can pitch a great game yet. He and Matty are honored by men in every walk of life because they followed the
results had he offered Esau ten thou sand head of cattle or sheep, the prin ciple would have been the same. Jacob knew his man and bought him at a low price because he had a low ideal of values. So the devil buys the souls of men. What difference does the price make, whether it be a mess of pottage, or a million or two? The higher the price he pays, the greater the damage a man does. The lesson is an easy one: Prize your privileges in Christ; hold hard fast to the Word of God; don’t sell out at any price. PRACTICAL POINTS (1) These two old boys present a sorry spectacle. (2) Contrast the power of choice and the irrevocable consequences.. (3) Jacob has his virtues, but also deep vices. (4) The home training of these boys was bad. (5) Jacob had inventoried the stock and knew its value. (6) Esau was an easy mark, as is many another worldling. (7) Jacob was a real Jew; he bid at the lowest price and caught his customer. (8) Estimates should be made in the light of eternity. (9) Many a man has sold out for a song, with no music in it. (10) From faithful Abraham, the friend of God, to the juggling Benjamin Franklin said, “ Temper ance puts wood on the Are, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, content ment in the home, clothes LESSON on the back and vigor in ILLUSTRA- the body.’’ TIONS During eight months succeeding the decision of the Chicago Herald to exclude the advertising of liquor, it refused $50,000 Jacob, is a rapid descent. Does Temperance Pay?
Made with FlippingBook Online newsletter