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THE SUNDAY SCBOOL WESSON. Tiie Interuittoiuil Sunday School Let- mn for Next Sunday, Sepi«m- ., ber ISth, 1914. THE TEN VIKGINS. MATTHEW XXV. 1-13. , 1 Then shall the kingrdom of heav en Ise likened u.>ito ten virgins, Which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegr«om.. 2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 They that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their ves- 'sels with their lamps. ■■' 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all. sluinbered and slept. C6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold the bridegroom coin- eth; go ye out to nieet hiffi. 7 TS'en all those virgins arose, f.nd trimmed their lamps. 88 And the foolish said unto the wise. Give as of your oil; for rur lamps are gone out. 9 But the wise answered, saying. Not say; lest there be not enough for us and you; but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegi'oom came; and they that were ’‘ready went in with him to the mar riage; and the door was shut. 11 Afterward came also the other virgins ssying. Lord, Lord, open unto us. 12 But he answered and said, Ver ily I say unto you, I know you not. 13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hoiir wherein the Son of man coraeth. GOLDEN TEXT. '‘Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the houi’.” (JIatt. x-vv. 13.) ■ WATCHING FOK THE COMING KIXGDO.M. The enemies of our Lord's la^ich- ings were finally silenced, although they were not won over to friendliness ii ki!}i. Not bsing able tc answer his words of divine wisdom, they with drew from open combat and plottel secretly k' destroy him. At !ast Je- ■ sus withdrew from Jerusalem with his disciples and sal down in the Mount of Olives;, from whence they couid ov erlook the entire city. From that point, v/iih the city in full view, cur Lord predicted the utter destruction cf the city which had rejected him r.rd foretold the events that should happe at the tnd of the ages. There is al- v/ays romething profoundly impress ive in looking down upon a city fron; some .point cf observation, as from the top of the Washington Man- ument or the town of the Metfopol itan Building. Thou.sands upon thoiis :iiids of homes are brou(.;ht into me view; and as one thinks of the human . lives which they shelter and gases in perfect silence upon the moving t(T»ong.* fi;r below on the streets, it is impossible not to feel the impact of human life, activity, and destiaty as it breaks with combined power up on the soul. To the sensitive soui of Jesus the appeal of the rebillious city of Jerusalem, as he looked upon it from the Mount of Olives, was over whelming because it was a city with out God. That is the summation of hopeie.ssness and the final word of tragedy. For the multitudes in the city and through their, to the whole assembled worid our Lord had two atl- important words on the eve of his de parture from earth: “Watch! Work!” The first of these words is the key to the present lesson. THE TEW VIRGINS. It was the custom in the East for wedding.^ to be celebrated with much pomp and rejoicing. Religious cere monies were held at the house of the bridegroom before he went with his ’friends for the bride, and other cere monies were held at her home befoi-e she left for her future home.- The journey of the bridegroom from iiis own home and his return with his bride were both attended by pwes- sions of friends and were occasions of much joy and innocent revelry. The wedding took place at night, and any one who had a lightel torch might join the procession at any point on the way and share the festivities of the occanon. Oil one of these wedding occasions ten virgins went out on the highway to join the procession. Each had a lighted torch, and we may easily im- £.gir.e the eagerness with which they lyaited for the bridegroom’s approach. Five of the virgins anticipated a pos sible delay in his coming and provid ed themselves with a fresh supply of oil, should it be needed. The ocaers made no such preparation; but if the bridegroom had come at the time he was expected, everything would hav^*. been all right with them. But a delay did actually occur, and it was midnight before he came. At the sound of the approach all ten of the virgins arose and went forward to join the proges- sion. The five who had fresh oil wsnt oh with the other guests, but the oth er five, foolish at the beginning, were foolish at the end, and at the late hour of midnight Went off in search of a merchant to sell them oil. When at length they apeared at the door of the festival hall they were too late. —0— THE DELAYED KINGDOM. It was concerning the coming of the Lord to consummate his kingdom on earth that JeSus was teaching. He himself is the bridegroom, and the Church which has gathered about liis name is the company of friends wait ing his appearance. His coming in glory and power is not after the man ner nor at the time many eypected it to be. He desired his friends to be standing with loins girt and tamps burning watching for his appearance and ready to receive him' with jiy. Bat generations and centuries pass.'d, and some began to think that Je.5us delayed, and so were not prepared for him v/hen he came. Some do not, ov en in our day, stand ready and watch ful. They do not know that he is al ways coming with new opportunities, new glori“3, new piaiae for those- wh;! wclcome him- It is too late to laake preparations after the Lord has come; but it is a joyt-us day for those who with love and fidelity in their hearts, hear the sound of his approach at mid- nischt or at daybreak or in the busy lush of the full day. It is a blessed thing so to live that at any moment we may enter into the Lord’s plans for the world with perfect harmony of spirit and perfect accord of ambition. His coming is our day of opporturity; and if we are wise we shall be ready when the cry is raised: ‘Behold ne corneth!’' Wc shail enter into Ms courts with praise and shall sit down %vith him at his fea.st. —0— •'WATCH THEREFORE!" We are living in a day when the sound of his approach is heard fi-jm every land and every nation. China i; rapidly becoming a Christian nation; Africa is opening up her darkened e ir- ners to the light of the go.spel; the Balkans are presenting their stark i ^ to the healin;: of the Great t ny- sician; Russiu i* warming her heart at the altar of Divine Love; South .America is appealing: lo the brotherly sympathy of C'hristiana^ in the United States for leadership in the way of truth; and even fi'om Mohammedan lands come some iiidi- cations of spiritual life and activity. Never m the history of the Church have there been so many indications of the movement of God among peo' pies of the earth. In the homeland are evidences of enlarging spiritual life and outreaching eagerness to pre pare the way of the Lord. Every pi*ob- lezn that is called a social problem is discovered to be at heart a moral challenge demanding the cure which the Son. of Man alone is able to r:^>ike effective. All of these indications of the Lord^s coming are heeded by the wise, and they enter into his rencw*id glory with him. No period of ten years the world has ever sen has ever heen so full of life and divine energ}’^ as will be the ten years upon which we are now entering, and we shall ie- serve our place among the foolish if we delay longer the time of our prepa ration for the Lord’s return to the earth. ^ We someiimes complain that we cannot see the Lord as the early dis ciples saw him, and therefore we think we cannot be sure of his coming, ns the Ten Virgins on the roadside were sure. But if we have ears to hear, the Lord is speaking today, in louder tones than when he walked by Qali- PRINT less or when he spoke the doom of Jeru3a]e:fn from ^e Mount of Olives. TIjie cry, *‘Behold, he cometh!" Is shaking every continent of the earth to its foundations, and the Son of God comes forth with the wise of all nations in his train. Shall we be among the wise who arise, and go forth to meet him ^ “Just Bread.” “Just bread and butter and honey and milk for slipper,'* said Doris, “Guess we’re most to the starving place.” *‘Pm sorry,” mother began,; but grandfather interrupted, “I have seen the time when that plate of bread would have looked better to. m^ chan all the turkey in the world.*^ .“Funny eyes you had,” laughed Do ris. always take the turkey, please.” “Yes,” said grandfather, “a big dish of nice .slices of turkey breast would not have tempted me from one little piece of that bread one time.. It was when this country was all new,** grandfather went oni for Doris was listening for the story, “It was very different from now. We bought the land at a dollar an acre. Now it is worth more than a hundred times as much; but we w’orked hard, and had none of the conveniences that are thought to be necessities now, while we were helping to bring the land up to its present value. “The com and wheat were ground at water mills run by the streams through the country. Well, one un usually cold winter all th^> streams froze, and for weeks no fiour or meal could be ground. The nearest mar ket was a hundred miles away, and could be reached only in wagons, and as nobody wanted to risk the trip in such weather, we did without br ad for six long weeks. My! but the first hoecake tasted good after that! X never have felt like saying *just bread’ since. And what do you sup pose we ate instead of bread? Why, twrkey breast!. There wpve plenty of wild turkers, %vhich are rtfally the best kind. Mother put sUoer, of ihe breast on a plate as she would brcc^d, and we a-a them with K^avy or mo- la.sses or anythini? we hud. It was goo(i at firat, and we children who came from the East, where turkey was not -SO plentiful, thought we were living like kings. But soon we l>eg«n to get fearfully tired of it. In fact, if you try to cat anythinj^ every day for six week?, you get tir»d; but when you istop to think, you always want bread, tlusl imajrine not having ov en a cracker or a batter cake for ssix weeks, and 5;ee how good this bread and butler will triste.” “I‘t^s i?ood without imagining such bad luck,” Doris said, ‘'and 1*11 not say ‘just bread* a»?ain, eitiicr.”—Wes leyan Christian Advocate. 0 That Mourztful Wail. Somt* iv*uld have you believe that North ('arolina is going forward by leaps and bounds. For our part we wish it was so but occasionally there arises a mournful wail from Raleigh about the shortage of funds to meet current expenses. This too, in face of the fact that has doubled in the last decade. They tell u.^ there is something loose somewhere in the administration affairs. Bah! There is none so blind but they can see some things some time.—Credmoor Times News. O If they continue to kill thsm off at the rate cf a hundred thousand or so a day the war cannot last forever. O It is a hard matter to raise more money by taxation when everybody seems to be thinking they are paying- enough. Gets His Fifth Wife. About three weeks ago the fourth wife of Mr. Kufus Henry Pulley, of Raleigh^ N. C., divorced, decided to many again. About the same time Mr. Pulley also decided he was ready for another ceremony and Miss Mary Emery became his ffith wife. Depu ty Clerk Virturvius Royster perform ed the ceremony and ti* office of the clerk of the Superior Court was the scene of the wedding. Pully gave his age as 70 years and his W'ife*s was 65. Snttw Camp Telephotii Sltuatioiu Since the division of ihe telephone exchange at Snow Camp and the gen eral upheaval of the community in which it is situated there has been little progress made toward a satis factory settlement of the “affair” in fact the subscribers on the old and the ones belonging to the exchange seem to have gone farther away from any agreement whatever and mean while the commuiiity in general lias been very unpleasantly divided in so cial “afFuirs” In some sections the lines have been drawn very tighily. Those of the new lines refusing to help a near neighbor who remained with the old company; in some cases there has been harsh words very free ly indulged in and ill feelings arisen that it \viil take years to remove. A very unfortunate and shameful state of .affairs it- cei*tainly isi and one that needs to be carefully attended to, for a division of the “phone” service of a community is serious enough, to say nothing of differences between friends and neighbors which is a hun dred times worse. Nowr as to the cause of the trouble or rather the causes, for quite sure there is more than one cansc. How ever the most apparent one, seems to have been a few “runners” as they were fittingly named, who took it up on themselves, to boost the new com pany. These tacklers have caused z lot of the unpleasantness by running to and fro and telUiig tales and count ing “coups” regardless of the truth or common sense of their statements, frequently the brunt of their talk was turned on some friend or neighbor v.ho did net side with them, and in this way caused disputes and differences between many who had always been friends. However these i-ur«ners have to a great extent ceased their talk and although the result of their works is painfully apparent. But af ter all it is to lie hoped that a satis factory settlement may be reached and ; good will resi:«red toward one and all | These lenv.irks have been given from i an unbiased point of view, and can be seen are not intended lo reprimand the old company or the new. AN OBSETRVF.R. O September Court Abaudoned. Greensboro,-Sept. 5.—The lawyers here met a ftnv days ago and decided not tu make up a calender for the tw^o weeks September term oi ’ourt i I and thi^- term wiil probably be aban-^ doned. Judge Devin does not approve ‘ of this practice, hoNvever, and he has 1 told the lawyers that if a calender is | not nia'ie up for terms in the future j w'hen iie la riding the district that he i win come on the Hrat day of the term ; and t;)ke ui; the docket with the first ca.?es and call through the docketing, nonsuiting canes in w’hich thei-e are nre no pleading and apparently no ef fort to get them trietl. There are more th;»n t?00 ca.ses on the docket in the county and there is no ex- irnsr for the attorney!^ doing away with the present term. It is such things as this that bring courts and attorneys into disrepute. The more than i,000 litgants wl^o have casei pending in court have a right to have- their cases settled whether attori.eys j wish to try it or not. Mrs, Whittier—“What delightful manners your daughter ha?.'* Mrs. Wiler (proudly)—“Yes, you see she has been away from home so iiiuch.”- Smart Set. O The same old bull is fuund in many of the w'ar bulletins.—The Greensboro News.. - Those counties that get more from the State Treasury than they i^ay into it will perhaps be satisfied for things to i'emain as they ai*e.—Durham Her ald. The laws of supply and demand do not seem to operate in war- times.— Greensboro News. Cassidy Will Bring Suit Against t'ity. Mt. Airy, Sept. 1.—Joseph Cassidy, whose daughter was killed here last Saturd:iy by a live wife, will enter suit againat the city, which he will claim was negligent avowing a live wire to fall ar^d remain on the street. Ke will claim that the v,*ire fell two houj's before the accident, and the city will contend that the wire had ji^st fallen and the girl received ample warni??g. O W'ord from Chicago is, “Wheat ral lied today after an early break due to sales by speculators.” If the ma nipulations of the speculators could be eliminated prices on everything would be steadier and the p-iople gen erally would ha'je a better idea of where they are located as regards the cost of living.—News and Observer. 0 The Xew York Evening Pose takes a column to prove that war Is never humane. We are sorry for the person W'eak-minded enough to suppose that it ever is.—News and Observer. you DON’T OFTEN RUN AGAINST 1 such real estate bargains as we are now offering. And the longer you wait the surer you will have to pay a lot more money than what we are asking now for some of the most desirable properties in town. If you are looking for a real reai estate chance come and see us. Akmance Insurance & Real Estate Co. W. E. SHARPE, Manager. Burlington, North Carolina. 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