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■: V-'-rj.- V'^' i'- T ■ -'V.t ift ity Plate iefs and chine ket Rifles ention DE RIBBONS Lseful Christmas Gifts, selling IRSETS for next Ten Days r ladies and children. Crochet per ball. BUTTONS, BRAIDS, [and Material for Embroidering. lues through December MILLINERY CE LESLIE Goods! IR SANTA CLAUS Irnamental Gifts lock of standard Cameron, N. C. If.;PROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL c Lesson /gy REV. p. B. FITZWAXER, D. D*t Teacher of English Bible in the Moody pible Institute of Chicago.) , Copyright, 1922. Western Newspaper Union. lesson for DECEMBER. 24 A LESSON IN TRUST AND PRB. PAREDNESS lesson text—Luke 12:13-40. gulden TEXT—The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. -Luke 12:23. PRIMARY TOPIC—The Story of a Foolish Rich Man. JUNIOR TOPIC—A Foolish Rich Man. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —Rich Toward God. young PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —True Riches. Since on October 8 we had a lesson on the birth and childhood of Jesus, iuany will doubtless prefer to have this new lesson instead of the Christ mas lesson. I. A Warning Against Covetousnest (vv. 13-21). 1. Tile Occasion (vv. 13-15). One of the company requested Jesus to be uuii»ire in a disputed estate. Two brothers were in trouble over an in heritance. Christ refused to enter the sphere of the civil law and warned against the spirit of avarice. Christ’s mission w’as preeminently spiritual. 2. Enforcement of the Warning (vv. 16-21). The parable of the rich man shows clearly that to be concerned with earthly riches while neglecting God is the height of folly. The Lord’s warning is of great importance today; for many are seeliing gold and forget ting God. Note (1) his increase in g<MHis (v. 16). His riches were rightly obtained, for the ground brought forth plentifully. This shows that a man ma.v be rich because of the Lord’s blessini,' upon him. (2) His perplexity (v. 17). His land was producing more than his barns would hold. He did not want it to go to waste. If he had pos sessed the right view’s of life and a sense of stew^ardsliip before God, he would have seen that his barns at least had enough for his personal needs and that he could have distributed his* sur plus to the needy and for benevolent purposes. (3) The fatal choice (vv. 18, 19). He chose to enlarge his barns and give up his life to ease and luxury. It ought to be a delightful task for men whom God has made rich to devote their time and energj to the distribution of their possessions to benevolent purposes. (4) The aw ful indictment (vv. 20, 21). God calls him a fool. II. Thie Certain Cure for Anj^ety (vv. 32-34). Having shown the folly of the rich man who gained gold but lost God, He now urged the disciples to trust God and dismiss all anxious care. He as sured them that they need not be anx ious even for the necessities of life. Note: 1. The Argument (vv. 22, 23). This is summed up in one brief sentence: “The life is more than food, and the body is more than raiment.” The God 'tt'ho gave the life and made the body should be trusted to provide food and clothing. 2. The Illustrations (vv. 24-28). (1) God’s care for the fowls (vv. 24-26). The ravens do not sow nor reap—they huve not storehouse or barn, yet they live, for God feeds them. If God does Dot forget the fowls, certainly He ^onld do more for His children. (2) G^’d’s care for the flowers of the field (vv. 27, 28). If God is so careful of^ those flowers which appear but for ft how mzzisa more will He cloth# R'S children! iS. The Exhortations (vv. 29-34). (1) Make not the getting of food and clothes your chief concern. Trust God to provide them. (2) Seek the king dom of God (v. 31). Those who make God’s kingdom first shall have all their | needs supplied (PhlL 4:19). (3) Be! not afraid (v. 32). God’s good pleas-1 ure is upon His own, and all good! things will He give them. (4) Prac-! tlce self-denial in order to be able to, give gifts to those in need (w. 33, 34). The doing of such deeds will tend to lift the thoughts upward to God—to* trust Him. j III. Be Ready for the Conning of the Lord (vv. 35-40). Having warned the disciples against the acquisition of worldly goods while forgetting God, and shown them the needlessness of anxiety for food and clothes, He shows them the blessed* ness of being in a state of readiness when the Lord shall come. Convic tion as to the certainty of the Lord’s coming is the sure cur6 for worldlineaa and anxious care. This attitude of heart He made clear by two parables— that of the returning of the Lord and that of the thief. The Lord will be so pleased with those who are waltlnf for Him that He will take delight im sitting at the banquet with them, ani even serve them. The parable of ths thief shows that the time of the Lord’i coming is not known. Bring us your job work. WHEN YOU TURN OVER THAT make a firm resolution that you won’t go through the year 1923 with your wife and children, your house, your barn or your place of business unprotected. Make the Most Sensible Resolution that you ever made in your life. INSURE YOUR PROPERTY AND YOUR LIFE We will gladly talk it over with you. Fire INSURANCE D. A. McLAUCHLIN, I Life I I Vass, N. C. I iiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiii tlllililliilllllillililillillllllllll SONE OF THESE DAYS The man who had a chance to get a bit of EDGEMOORE HEIGHTS land and failed to get it, will feel about as joyous over it as the man who a few years ago had a chance to get dollar-an-acre land and let it go until the price went into the air. SANDHILL LAND looks high today because we always compare to day with yesterday, but we should turn the tele scope and compare today with tomorrow. When we do that land will look absurdly low. Land values are all comparative. The price of one acre is high or low as compared with that of another acre similarly located. That being the case prices are just as high today as a hun dred years ago; and they are just as low. It takes more money to buy an acre, that’s all; The advances will go on day after day. Land bought now makes just as much money at present prices as land bought twenty years ago at prices prevailing then has made. More people are buying the same old land, and_ as the num ber increases the price goes up. That is all there is to land in vestment. GET YOURS NOW, and get it on EDGENOORE HEIGHTS GET IT FROM FRANK BUCHAN, Southern Pines, S. B. RICHARDSON, Southern Pines LEONARD TUFTS. ^ ^ Manager of Kriollwood, Inc., Pmehurst. ■ 3 llllllllillllillililll LW.’*
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