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t BIBLE SCHOOL LESSON t
4 Sunday, December 27th.
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By M. a Brlggs
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away for fve years, and went to the
Apostles who were very loath to re
ceive him notwithstana tney nau
heard that he had become a Christian.;
However Peter and Barnabas re-'
ceived him and interceded with the
other of the opostles and he was re
ceived by the members of the band
of Christ while on earth.
Saul preached in Jerusalem and those
Trimming the
I Tree By Frances Grinstead
Golden Text: "I have kept the ,who ijnew him when he was a per
faith." II Tim. 4:7.
ecutor of the church, were not will-
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When his life's work was nearly inc to brieve mm. ana muje
ended and Paul had reached the Jews, who were against the Chris-
twel ling tide, he looked back over tl-ns. sought to kill Paul, and he
hf . "ixtv-even vears of his life, then departed with the aid of others
t! irtv-two of which he had put in in of the church and made his way to
the Service of the Master, as he was his old home at Tarsus of Celicia.
thirtv-five vears of age at the time Here he remained for a year and
of his conversion just in the fullest durinp tr-at time Barnabas, hiring
of the visor of maturing manhood, that there had been a church estab-
he took a retrospective view of the lished at Antioch. went there to see
life's work as the sun of his life was ahcut how the infant church was get-
goina down, he was to pay in full his tin? along and preached there for
devotion to the verv Christ which he some time, but found it a big job he
was the earthly exponent, and whose went to Tarsus and sought out Saul,
eosnel he had "demonstrated so won- who came and assisted in the preach-
derfully during his missionary tours, ing. The two stayed there for three
He was in the dungeon, and with his years, and it was there that the dis-
faithful friend and co-worker. Luke, ciples were first called Christians,
was preparing the letter to Timothy, and also that Saul was called Paul.
knowing fully that he was soon to pauj was then forty-four years of
go over on the other side, and as the ace aTl( had been preaching the
great beyond was just opening to Christ, the Son of God for nine years,
his view." he wrote as in the golden At t-l3 time Paul was called upon
text. "I have kept the faith." to go to Jerusalem to confer with the
He also said. "I have fought a good elders of the church and as there was
it " nntl he had. for he had made a famine in Jerusalem, took with.
the fight for the Master and his nies- him the contributions for the church
sage to a dying world, and had deliv- at Antioch was indeed very pronoun
fed tlie message to the people for eed'y missionary in their tendencies,
whom it was intended, notwithstand- When he returned to Antioch he was
ing the obstacles which were placed forty-five years of age and he. with
in his way. "I have finished my Parnabas. hearing the command of
course." This he knew as well, for the Christ, when he stood on the
he liad been buffeted in the years- mount just as he was ascending to
which he had been a missionary for heaven, when he said. "Go ye into
Masipr He was beaten many all the world and preach my gospel
tin.es with rods, stoned and left for to all nations, making disciples of
dead, had. been in a shipwreck more them and lo I am with ye always
than'once and had spent a night and even to the end of the world."
a day in the deep. These hardships Mark 16:15.
had not deterred him at any time Here began the real work of Paul
from preaching the gospel, these S a missionary to the gentiles, but
things had not broken his "spirit, but tni when he entered a new town hel
as. a man he was feeling the strain always -went first to the sinagogue.)
and was weighted down with more where he preached, and when they(
thm three score of years, still he not ne3r fcjm iie went to the gen-
was willing to fight the good fight, tiies. for indeed he was selected by
but he knew by that inspiration the 2iiasler for that purpose. The
which served him so well many times firPt trip was with Barnabas, they I
during his life, and this he wrote. Fa,;i;ng from Antioch to the Island of
I have finished my course, ana cypres and made a journey through
there is laid up for me a crown of hat island, then going to Asia Minor,
righteousness, and not for me only or more properly at that time called
but for all those who love His ap- Afja. Here they went into the in
pearing." He had fought the good tcrjor ami arrived at a town called
right, he had finished his course, but Antioch of Oasida. they preached, es
cf all the finest was he had kept tablishing a church as they did at
the faith, with all the bumps and iconium Lystra and Derbe. they then
maltreatment which he had received rctraced their steps and returned to
he had kept the faith. i Anticch.
During the first twelve years of Paul with others again went to
his life he had lived at the home of j,rucaiem to meet with the elders of
hi parents at Tarsus in Cilicia. in thc church there to know for a cer
Asia Minor, and at that time he went talrty that it was not necessary for
to Jerusalem for further study, as he onp tG i.ecome a Jew in order to be
was of a bright mind and his parents coir0 a chrjstian. When they return
desired to make of their son all that 0,i to Antioch, Silas accompanied them
was possible. He was placed under 1?ul , ith Paui made the second
the instruction of Gamaliel, who was nnFSion?;ry journey while Barnabas:
accoruea 01 ueing me oesi siuueni 01 went with Mark, they going to
tne scriptures, me taw ana me
HE decorated tree,
around which onr
Christmas holiday
centers, has an
origin .older vtban
Christianity Itself.
Id undent days
trees were held sa
cred to various
pood and evil spirits and offerings to
them were hun upon the branches.
To the Teutons the flr tree, with Its
symmetrical spreading branches, was
a symbol of the sun and they cele
brated the winter season by decking
It in tinsel, flowers, toys and other or
naments. Christian use of the tree symbol
probably began In Germany, but there
are many stories of the first Christ
mas tree. One is that Martin Luther,
walking under the stars one Christ
mas Eve. was moved by their wonder
as a revelation of the nearness of God
to man. When he reached home, he
took a little fir tree and put lighted
candles on its branches to explain his
thought to the children.
With age-old traditions behind It, It
is fitting that the typical Christmas
tree in these days is decorated purely
for the sake of its own beauty. Small
and graceful, it often stands on the
library table, gifts heaped around, its
base, or in miniature form graces the
dining table, the center of cheer until
New Year's. If it is to shine in the
memories of children through years, to
come, its ornaments must be . hung
with as much thought as ever the old
Teutons gave to the placing of their
sun-festival gifts. The secret of dec
orating a tree effectively la to make
Its decorations look as if they grew
there. One secret of that Is to place
the ornaments at the points of growth.
i WANTS AffABIFF CUT
UPON COTTQM GOODS
Washington, Dec. 2!-rAs one ot
a series of bombardments ot repub
lican tariff policies, RBpteatAtlve
Dldfield (Ark.), chairman of the
.democratic national congressional
i committee, introduced in th house
.'today a resolution for to ApDOint
ment of a special eomttitt of fife
members to. investigate autie P
cotton goods with a view tf down
ward revision of rates.
. In a statement explaining the pur
pose of the resolution, Mr. Qldfield
singled out four cotton' mills control
led by Senator William M- BUtler
(rep., Mass.). chairman 61 the repub
lican national committee,, aft n' ex
ample of what he regarded hi giving
proof that existing dtttlet Are unneC
.essarily high.
The Butler companies named by
Mr. Oldfield are the Butler Mill, the
Hooaac Cotton mills, Ned Bedford
Cotton mills, corporation, and Quis
eet mill. The Butler mill, the New
Bedford Cotton mills corporation and
thm On inset mill, he said, each have
. reported stock dividends during re-
cent year besides regular aiviaenas
of from 6 to o per cent.
CAB&IEBS WILL CONFEB
UPON TXOELDA EMBARGO
coast, to give service on the scale
demanded by the rush to the state
gave rise to the meeting.
The situation has been further
aggravated by a decision of the
American Railway Express com
pany to shut down even on the
movement of fruits and fish to the
north out of the state.
Mrs. J. A. Whiteman and daugh
ter, Mrs. J. A. Johnson nnd little
children and Harold Whiteman.
drove up this morning from their
home near Nehawka and (!narted
on the early Burlington train for
Omaha
Blank books at the Journal office.
Washington, Dec. 21. All rail
roads and common carriers serving
Florida territory have been asked
by the interstate commerce commis
sion to send representatives' here
Wednesday to consider an embargo
affecting that section.
' The continued Inability of the
carriers especially along the east
prophets of the time, this enabled the
young man, for at 12 the Jewish lad
was considered as being mature in
years, the best of advantages.
For twenty years Paul studied un
der this great instructor, and at that
time he was thirty-two years of age.
Cypres.
Paul and Silas went over the
ground wJiich they had been before.
strengthening the churches. After j
they had done this Paul thought to;
preach In Asia, but the spirit would
not allow and he was called to Europe.
nd the first place in Europe was
this was shortly after the beginning pb;:iini there I hmm r mem-!
of the preaching of the Master on ,,pr of The church, Paul preaches in
earth. Paul never saw the Master in phinipi xhessolonlca. Berea, and1
him HtMi, ui iie uj. ins uuiai-ies,, thrn Went tQ Athens.
Cf his preaching, of his crusci fiction. Affor hnvins- nreached there for a
and hos redirection from the dead
and hi" ascension to heaven. Still
time he went to Corinth and thence
m Ephesus. where a mob would have
i -ui. u..n caui or larsus. mougni ljkc(1 t(, have kied him because he
h:n:se!f right in putting down the rroiche'1 a new belief. From Ephe-
nw sect, which afterwards, under
sus to Jerusalem, then back to Ephe-
Vr V "uuen, "ere can- Fns cn,i to Mascedonia again and into
w i v v - t 1 1 ' it tic i ex iisiua
He persecuted the new converts to plMng him he must go to Jerusalem
d nth nnd held the clothes of those nd then he was to preach the gospel
- ! r ctr.ned the martyr Stephen to -t Rome.
death. We cannot but think that this He returned from Corinth to to
Mene had some impression on Saul, Ephesus and then to Jerusalem where
for he obtained letters from the he was arrested, he then being .fifty
chief priests that he might go to risht years of age. Here an attempt
Damascus to arrest those there who was made to kill him by the Jews,
wore in the "way" and that he might and forty of them swore with an
srid them bound to Jerusalem for oath that they would neither eat or
trial by the Jews. We cannot but drink until they had slain Paul, but
think he was something like Jonah, they did not get to do this. Paul was
when he was trying to run away from Immortal at that time, that is he
the Lord, for when the light shone had a mission which the Lord had
upon him as he was nearing Damas- given him, telling him at Corinth
cus. and the voice of the Master ask- that he must aDDear for him in the
cd. "Saul. Saul, why persecutest thou preaching of his gospel at Rome, and
me?" Saul answered, "Who art thou, while many things looked as thoughv
iora: Knowing tull well it was the a combination of causes would pre
very Christ whom he was just then vent Paul from going to Rome, but
persecuting. When he was instruct- not so, that was his destiny when
ed to go to Damascus, when he had the Master had said for him to, the
asked the Master, for indeed it was elements are all Gods, and they were
he, "What will you have me to do " the friends of the purpose and mission
Christ who had placed in the hands with which Paul was charged. He
of his earthly workers the carrying spent 1 wo years in prison at Caeserea,
on of his mission and the carrying then came the trial of the shipwreck
of the gospel to the world which he of which we have so shortly studied,
came to 6ave, sent Saul to Damascus Then the two years at Rome when he
for instructions and at the same time preached and Paul was then 63 years
instructed Ananias to go see Saul and of age.
instruct him in the matter of what At the end of the two years of
he was to do. The Christ, who knew imprisonment and which time Paul
that the world would be slow to re- put in in preaching, he was released,
ceive the report of Saul, told Ana- and then came a three years period
nias. Acts. 9:16, "For I will show of world wide evangelism, of which
him how great things he must suffer the Acts of the Apostles make no
for my names sake." From this we mention. ' It is claimed that he
know only those persecusions and preached over western Europe and
the hardships through which Paul went as far as Spain. However this
passed were a portion of his exper- bo as it may we find him again in
iences and when he said he had prison at Rome and this time not in
fought a good fight we know he had. his own hired house but in the dun
Following the opening of Saul's geon. This was an underground
eyes and his baptism, he went to prison, with the only light or ventil
Arabia where, like Moses, when he ation from above. At wet times there
was in the land of Midean, he spent was much water in this hole and at
in meditation and getting the right other times the water would subside
condition to deliver the Masters' and there was much deep mud.
message. Then he returned to Damas-1 Here under these conditions was
cus and began to preach of Christ the the epistle to Timothy written of
Son of God, but no one would hear, which the present lesson is a por
him. He began to realize the posi-tion. It was here that Paul, with
tion the new church was in when Luke as a companion wrote, as In
he was its persecutor. He offended the Colden Text: "I have fought a
the jews at Damascus to the extent good fight. I have finished the course,
that they were going to kill him and, I have kept the faith." II Tim. 4:7.
watched the gates night and day to
prevent his escape. He was let downf Mrs. Sophia Ray of Huntington,
from a window in the wall like one West Virginia, who has been visit
or the spies which escaped from. ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Jericho, years before. , I William Nickson near this city de-
From Damascus when he escaped parte! this morning for her home in
he returned to Jerusalem having been. the east after a pleasant stay here.j
where the limbs branch and where the
twigs leave the branches; the other
Is to place ornaments that look heavy
where the tree looks strongest, well
back on the branches and toward the
lower part of the tree.
It Is a good thing to lay out the
materials for decoration with those Of
like shape and color together and to
handle one kind of decorations . at a
time. In this way It Is easy Jo dis
tribute masses of trimming and spots
of color evenly and to see that the dif
ferent kinds are well Intermingled. . It
is a common mistake to place most of
the ornaments on the tip ends of the
branches, under the impression that
they will show up best there. As a
matter of fact, a few ornaments well
placed on the body, of the tree are
more effective than If they are scat
tered on the outer circumference.
The remainder of lights reflected
from various ornaments should also
be considered; those with glassy sur
faces shine with a different glow from
that of tinsel, and apples, oranges and
cornucopias of candy must not be. ex
pected to counterbalance brighter, snj
facea So distribute the decoratlona
having a different kind of surface.
The glassy ornaments will relieve the
dark masses of the tree If they ar
hung well back In it, but dull-surfaced
objects, if not too large, should be
hung In nearer view. A good place for
fruits, which are heavy but too dull
to show in the body of the tree onleee
there is a break in the foliage, la on
the sturdy lower limbs.
The small electric lights which have
superseded candles for the Christmas
tree should be arranged la orderly
gradation from the lower limbs to the
top. A pretty effect Is produced If
tiny white bulbs are substituted for
the vari-colored ones that usually
make up these circuits and each light
enclosed in a small paper cone of soft
yellow or orange. These cones pro
jecting downward give much the same
Impression as the vertical effect of
candles.
Chains of tinsel and colored paper
are effective decorations if they are
used rightly. They should not be sim
ply strung around the tree, weighing
on the tips of Its branches, bo that
they seem to fetter It. : If they wind
branches, as a vine might, they seem
to belong in the tree.
Toys may have their place on the
tree itself, if they are decorative. An
amusing doll perched on a limb, a
bright-colored horn gleaming tn the
shadows, a rubber ball suspended high
in the branches, will delight the chil
dren. - :.'
The grown-up who trims a Christ
mas tree has a chance for once in the
year to be an artist with the most ap
preciative public In the world. The
children on Christmas morning will
recognize his work as a masterpiece if
he only remembers two rules:. First,
the tree's the thing; It must be treated
as a unit and every bit of decoration
must further the total effect. Second,
don't overload It; If It is not smoth
ered with trimming, the tree Itself Is
the very best part of the decoration.
((&. 115. Waatars Nawapapar Union.)
Best Wishes for Your Christmas
A Christmas a year
That's not such a lot,
So let's all be happy,
With grievances forgot.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
OUR FRIENDS
H. G. lUinger, Produce Buyer
Yuletide Joy to Everyone
May joy, good will and peace prevail in
your hearts and homes this season of Yule
tide. And may your happiness and success
be increased in 1926, is our cordial wish.
Prady Garage
FOR THE FRIENDS OF THIS STORE
DURING CHRISTMAS AND
THE COMING YEAR
This is Our Wish Sincere
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The Brightest Christmas
.. . . .For Everyone
: May four home be full of
' fclinahine;
V And yqttt heart so very
' "- .glad-- "
You'll tay this was the
brightest Christmas'
That. you have ever had!
Tidball Lumber Company
"Good tumber Hot Coal
Greetings for Christmas and
the New Year
To our new and old friends, accept our
sincere thanks for your past favors.
Chilton & Fullerton Cafe
Basement Main Hotel
Our Town's a Good Town
c : -
, Our people are a good people. We all
have a great deal to be 'thankful for." .
May This . be" a Very Merry Christmas
for you and those whose happiness depends upon
you and may the New Year bring you rich rewards.
The Handy Way Grocery
Martin & Jones. Props.
Telephone 116 So. 6th St Plattsmouth, Neb.
May Your Christmas Be Merry
AND YOUR NEW YEAR
FULL OF CHEER
If we knew more to wish for our patrons
we would do it, for we think you deserve it.
Lugsch, The Tailor
Telephone 166 514 Main Street
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
csasoini $b
Here's hoping : your Christmas . will be
cheery and bright and that good fortune
will smile on you through the days of 1926.
AND TO THIS WE ADD OUR THANKS FOR
YOUR BUSINESS OF THE PAST .
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THE CORNER STORE!'
Diy Goods and Groceries
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Phone 64-65 r 6th and Main
, Plattsmouth Nebr.
The Christmas
Candle's Glow
May it spread joy about you and light the
way for each of our patrons into a Happy
year filled with prosperity for every one.
WELL
Telephone 13 South 6th Street
Service Our Motto
Anybody Can Make a Wish, But-
There's not a firm nor an individual in this town who
can put more heartfelt sincerity in a Christmas message
than that which we send you.
May multiplied joys be yours this Christmas and all
through the year 1926.
Frank E. Vallery
Dodge Bros. Car Agency Real Estate
Phone 308 Main Street