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The Teachings of Jesus
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Deuteronomy 6:s—“Thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul and with all thy mind.**
(The International Uniform Lesson
on the above topic for Oct. 2 is the
first of a three-month course on "The
Ten Commandments and the Teach
ings of Jesus,’’ this first one on the
topic, “The One True God,’’ being
based on Exodus 20:2, 3; Isaiah 45:22;
Mark 12:28-34; Cor. 8:4-6, the Golden
Text being Deut. 6:5, “Thou shalt love
Jehovah thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul and with all thy
mind.’’)
By DR. ALVIN E. BELL
The essence of true religion is love.
Not fear, but love; not fear nor per
sonal advantage must be its motives,
but love and love alone. Even God’s
law, being a revelation of his person
as well as his percepts, is grounded
in love.
The Person of God.
As without a center there can be no
circumference, so the Person and the
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CHAPTER 29
I ABBEY’S HANDS did not
loosen their hold on Judy’s arms.
.“Promise you’ll not say one word
about this to Phillippe. Promise!
'Promise, Judy?”
i “Os course I won’t!”
j The voice said more: Don’t
judge me by your code! What
you do, whom you see, is not my
affair!
) Abbey sensed it, and became
apologetic.
“I didn’t mean that. Os course
you won’t talk. It’s just that this
wasn’t important at all, and the
count — Oh, you know the jeal
ousy of foreign men!”
Her voice broke, much as a
frightened, bewildered child’s
might have done. For the first
time in the weeks she had been
a member of the Boland house
hold, Judy felt sorry for Abbey.
What was it Ronald had said?
She had had no background of real
values—. * ''*V:
„ Judy spoke "with a genuine rush
of. sympathetic understanding:
“You needn’t marry Count Phil
lippe; Abbey* No one will misun
derstand if you’ve changed your
mind. When love comes, don’t be
. afraid. I was .. .” She broke off.
! The amazement on Abbey’s face
was genuine. She spoke slowly,
not believing she had heard cor
. rectly if her tones were evidence,
if *You mean you think I should
if not marry the count?”
“Not unless you love him, Ab
bey. Marriage needs so much—so
much more than silver and
gold . , .”
; Now Abbey’s voice was faster
and anger beat through its silken,
light fabric.
; “Whoever told you I didn’t want
to marry him? Where did you
get such an idea?”
“I’m sorry. I. was being senti
mental, I guess.” Better to get
out of tt as quickly as possible,
Judy decided.
“You are entirely misinformed.
I’m marrying Phillippe. I want to
marry him more than—than I
ever wanted anything in my life!”
(Yes, Abbey, I know. You want
to marry him because he has the
Crested key that will open closed
doors, because you think life is a
lotig, gay tour and he knows the
routes as you go. Remember,
Abbey, you can’t leave your heart
behind ... .)
Qh, it was ridiculous to muse in
puch a fashion. Yet the terror in
the purple eyes, for a moment,
was so real that Judy could not
be angry.
'* “No one in my life is impor
tant but Phillippe! Don’t forget
that, ever!”
i Don’t forget that ever! When
all the time she was remembering
that a warm-hearted young attor
tney, who had embroidered a few
words with Valentine messages,
was somehow interested in the
heiress.
When the girls returned to the
carnival, they Jdiscoyered that an
other guest had come. Jh silver
Precepts of God stand related to one
another, a knowledge and love of the
Person being essenual to a respect
for his precepts. So God logically in
troduced his Person preparatory to
promulgating his precepts: “I am Je
hovah thy God, who brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of bondage. Thou shalt have no other
gods before me.” Jehovali’s love for
and his redemption of Israel were to
be the basis of Israel’s love for and
obedience to Jehovah. God’s redemp
tion of them from Egyptian bondage
was not conditional upon their obedi
ence to the Ten Commandments, but
was the free gift of God’s grace in
gratitude for which their obedience
was asked. It is ever after this same
order: “We love him because he first
loved us.” What God is and has done
for us gives color to his every pre
cept.
Quite properly the first of these
edged green flounces, a mile of !
them, Mrs. Bedford was holding a \
miniature court. She had not ]
drawn near the count, but across
the room Judy saw the eyes of the j
two meet, laugh together, ac- i
knowledge the situation, and share •
an appreciation of life—its daring, ;
its intrigue, its blondes and its i
mad quest for pleasure.
Marjorie saw that glance, too.
It made her a little ill. She had :
felt that way ever since she had
first greeted the representative of
European royalty tonight. In two ;
years Marjorie had learned much.
She was able to analyze that :
month by the Adriatic sea very
clearly. She had been in girls’
schools in Switzerland, France,
Italy and New York most of her
life, before her mother left her at
the Lido that magic month. She
did not believe in the reality of
love because she had witnessed its
disappointments so repeatedly.
Then along came the count.
He was not flesh of the flesh.
He was a story book creature, a
count with a castle and a silver
sword on his ancestral hall, and
a scarlet banner on the tower wall.
She had taken her dreams, woven
a shining mantle of them, draped
it on his shoulders, and somehow
believed that when the summer
ended the dream would fade away
in the clouds without hurt. She
had not analyzed the plan. She
merely knew.
But she fell in love that month,
and she thought the count did* too.
Only one thing came .true in the
silly drama. He did go away.
But first he told her he loved
her . , .
Marjorie had had her debut in
the autumn and she had grown up
very quickly after that. Never
again would a man’s voice sweep
her heart from its moorings. She
was wondering tonight how this
count could have done so. She
acutely disliked him. He wasn’t
the way she recalled him.
She felt contemptuous of both
Mrs. Bedford and Abbey.
Ronald was standing by Mar
jorie as the famous skater began
another group of numbers. She
smiled at him, whole-heartedly and
radiantly, because he was real and
clean and honest.
Abbey, who could be charming
when she chose, was smiling,
laughing, talking, now with one
person and now with another.
She looked like a golden-haired
princess, sweet and gracious, mov
ing among her court. Marjorie,
who knew' nothing of the tyran
nical grasping of the white jeweled
hands, shook hep head.
•'She’s too sweet for the count.
Why doesn’t somebody stop her?”
Ronald’s heavy eyebrows were
lifted in perplexity. “You dpubt
the royal manner, too?”
“Oh, he’ll be all right. Ruf a
husband on your order could
make a real person out of the
girl.”
To Judy, who came along at
that moment hunting a place to
HENDERSON, (N..C.) DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY, .OCTOBER 1, 1838
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*X am Jehovah thy God, who brought
thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage,” said Gpd to Israel
through Moses. Therefore Israel was to
Jove God and obey his commandments.
precepts has to do with our relation to
our redeeming God. Our duties to God
introduce our duties to our fellow
men. "Jesus answered, The first, is
Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God,
the Lord is one: and thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all
thy mind, and with all thy strength.
The second is this, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself. There is none
other commandment greater than
these.” \Supreme love expresses all
there is to religion: the outflow of
God’s love to us and the back flow
of our love both to him and to our
neighbor in appreciation of his love
to us. But it is to be the utmost of
love of which we are capable, giving
to God the full measure of the af
fection of our hearts, the devotion of
our souls, the thoughts and reason
ings of our minds and the service of
our strength. In every realm of our
'being God is to be enthroned as Lord
of all. This pre-eminence in all things
is to be given him not only for his
glory, but for man’s own good. “Look
unto me, and be ye saved, all the
ends of the earth: for I am God and
there is none else." Apart from Qod
no blessedness is possible for us. “To
us there is one God, the Father, of
whom are all things and we unto him;
and one Lord Jesus Christ, through
whom are all things and we through
him." St. Augustine expressed it say
ing: “Thou hast made us for Thy
self, and the heart of man is restless
until it finds its rest in Thee.”
Men’s Bible Class.
B. H. Perry will teach the Men’s
Bible class of Holy Innocents Epis
copal church at 10 o’clock Sunday
morning. All members are asked to
attend.
sit and watch the flying figure
that winged its way over the ice,
Marjorie repeated her words.
“I was telling Ronald he would
make a much more suitable hus
band for Abbey than the count.
Then the count could marry Mrs.
Bedford and they would always
understand each other perfectly.”
“Do you believe there’s a bond
between the count and Mrs. Bed
ford?” asked Ronald.
He asked it eagerly, Judy
thought. So she wandered on to
a place near the door and present
ly slipped away because she was
not needed now. She was nearly
asleep when she heard the guests
going home. So the evening had
wound its streamlined, glittering
way into the morning. The band
had signed off, the; revelry was
done. V .
She slipped deeper into the
warm blankets, smiling at the cool
air that spattered an occasional
snowflake on her tilted nose. When
you were very tired, very sleepy,
nothing much mattered. Tomor
row, along about noon, she would
face reality *pd ;.wojpdep
about Ronald ftKji
and Abbey . . $
It was 12 when she wakened.
There were no sounds of life in the
great house. The snow had fallen
steadily in the night. Now it had
stopped. She decided to take a
walk. She found a thick sweater
and heavy skirt, a rust tarn and
mittens to match. She was glad
she had her heavy hiking shoes
along.
There was no breakfast pre
pared in the dining room. The
servants had expected no one to
be up for another hour or two.
Coralee called to her as she was
slipping out the door.
“Miss Rogers, I’ll bring you
some fruit juice and coffee and
toast. Won’t you sit down? i I’m
eating in the kitchen.”
To have eaten in the kitchen
was something which Abbey would
have scorned. But Judy had had
more than one piece of bread'and
butter, richly spread with" jam, in
the kitchens of her father and
mother’s homes. So she said:
“Oh, may I eat by the kitcheh
stove, too? I’m cold." >\
“Certainly, only—why, of
course!”
The kitchen was a long,' low
room, shining with its copper find
I pewter paps and bowls and plat
. ters, scrubbed to the meticulous
whiteness of a Dutch kitchen it
self. At a long table, near the
I great fire, a man was sitting, his
hack to Judy. But she recognized
him at once. Ronald was up
’ early, too. And he was . being
. equally democratic. / i
He grinned at her. *1 feel at
home. I always ate in the kitcheh
t until I was know houses
I had more than one room.”
, She was finishing her toast
when he asked:. “What are -you
: doing now?”
i {To Be Continued'
The first of God’s precepts dealt with
God’s person. He is to be first in our
love because God has put us first in his
love: “Thou shalt have no other gods
before me.**
Bishop Penick To
Be Here Sunday
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18118
BISHOP PENICK
The Right Reverend Edward A.
Pennick, D. D., Bishop of the diocese
of North Carolina, Protestant Epis
copal Church, will be at Holy In
nocents church here tomorrow morn
ing at 11 o’clock to administer of the
holy rite of confirmation, it was an
nounced today by the rector, Ray.
I. W. Hughes. All members and the
public are invited.
Churches
FIRST M. E. CHURCH.
Rev. R. E. Brown, pastor.
J. W. Sanders, superintendent Sun
day school.
F. S. Royster, Chairman of Board.
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. This is
the first Sunday in the new Church
school year, every one is urged to be
gin with a fine attendance, Bishop
Percell has announced this year to
have special emphasis on Sunday
school attendance.
Sermon by pastor at II a. m*, “The
Friendship of Jesus” followed by Holy
Communion.
Fellowship supper M. F. and M. E.
Intermediates and Young Feople at
6:30 p. xii.
Sermon at 7:30 p. m. by Rev. D. A.
Petty, pastor of Middleburg Charge
Rev. R. E. Brown, will preach at Mid
dleburg revival Sunday night-
Monday afternoon at 3:30 p. m.
Miss Josephine Dameron of Seoul
Korea, returned missionary, will speak
at the church. All Missionary Societies
of the city and surrounding territory
are invited. All ministers and their
missionary committees given special
invitation. Miss Dameron is one of
the outstanding missionaries of the
Southern Methodist church and her
presence in Henderson affords a great
treat for; all churches.
Monday night at 7:30 p. m. Meeting
cf the Board of Stewards, all mem
bers of the Board urged to attend in
view of the coming of Annual Con
ference six weeks dista,nt. President
Royster requests all members to at:
tend.
METHODIST PROTESTANT.
T. J. Whitehead, pastor.
'a:-m., Sunday school: Rally Day
will be observed at this session of ithe
r tfiool. The speaker will be Rev. J; P.
Pegg. The new officers will take
charge at this time as follows: C, L.
Finch, supperintendent; Robert Oak-
Icy, assistant superintendent; E. O.
Falkncr, secretary; and Ralph Gris
com, assistant secretary.
11 a. m., Loyalty day service. The
entire membership of the church is
urged to be present for this service.
Sermon subject: “The Kingdom of
God—Man’s First Loyalty.”
6:30 p. m. Fellowship meeting of
Young Feople at First Methodist
church.
7:30 p. m., Evening worship. Ser
mon subject: “Kingdom Builder's —
Francis E. Clark.”
“Our civilization cannot survive ma
terially unless it be Medeemed spirit
ually.”—Former President Woodrow
Wilson.
Go To Church.
HOLY INNOCENTS EPISCOPAL.
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity.
Rev. J. W. Hughes, rector.
9:45 Church school and young wo
men's Bible class.
10 Men’s Bible class.
11 Holy Communion, Confirmation,
and sermon by the Bishop.
6:30 Young Peoples Service League.
7:30 Evening prayer and sermon.
St. John’s Mission, North Hender
son, 2 o’clock, church school.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. James A. Jones, Pastor
9:45 A. M., The Church school. J.
Harry Bryan, General superintendent.
Departments of worship and classes
qf study for all age groups. The
regular fall rally day exercises will
be held at the dose of the class
period.
11:00 A. M., the morning worship".
Subject, “The Mastery of Corrow,”
ydth the sermon by the pastor. The
celebration of the Sacrament of the
Lord’s supper will be observed.
6:00 P. M., the Young People’s
Forqm will meet for supper. Mr.
Jones will lead the concluding dis
cussion on the subject, “Overcoming
an Inferiority Complex.”
7:30 P. M., The evening Worship.
Subject, “The Reward of Persistence,”
with the sermon by the pastor.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
J. Everette Neese, Pastor
9:45 A. M. Sunday school service.
Sunday is rally day in the Sunday
schotol and friends of the school are
invited to be present. A special rallv
day service in the form of a broad
cast will be the main feature of the
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CHAPTER 30
THE BOLANDS had a dog, a
long-haired Dachshund, which be
longed to Abbey, Now and then
the dog was permitted in the house
but no one paid much attention to
him. Judy remembered him that
Christmas morning, and asked the
stable man if she might take him
for a walk.
’ Ronald, amused, liking dogs,
the motion.
{ They walked through the white
'woods. Sometimes they were to
gether. More often single file
Iwith the dog going ahead, grate
ful for attention. They said little.
(Maybe Ronald’s hand helped Judy
jover a fallen log. Maybe he
I laughed as she cleared it of her
|own volition.
j They sat on a stile and talked
While the clear blue air grew
‘darker with the swift coming of
December night.
Ronald mentioned a case which
he must try, one which had been
Page One news for weeks. He
went into the intricacies of law,
and Judy, understanding little of
it, listened eagerly, eyes shining.
He asked her advice about some
draperies he was choosing for the
modest apartment into which he
was moving. He mentioned a play
he had seen, a book he had read.
Finally, he broke off to say:
“Judy, it rests me to talk to you.
You’re the best listener I’ve ever
found.”
“Is that a compliment?”
“Decidedly! Most women want
to tell you how they have shone,
where they have been. They don’t
understand that a man pre-sup
poses that. He wants an audi
ence.”
(Sit in the gallery and applaud,
Judy. He’ll talk a while longer
then!)
i But there was one question she
;wanted to ask, and presently she
did: “Ronald, where did your peo
ple hail from? How did they get
into the mountains?”
He laughed. “So that puzzles
you, too? They were Scotch-’
Irish. Somewhere around 1600,
when a good king, James, sat on
the English throne, he issued a
command that the weavers of his
kingdom had to bear heavy tax
ation unless they lived in merrie
England. So the Scotch-Irish had
to migrate—couldn’t live on what
was left when James had passed
the crown for the income tax.
“My great grandfather—remove
him enough times to get the
lineage clear—was the younger
soil of an earl. He had gone into
business—been almost ostracized
because of it—so he came to
America with the others. And
they crossed to the mountains.
'His strain married and, well, we’re
mountaineers, that’s all.”
i For no accountable reason Judy
I felt better. She called herself a
|*nob for rejoicing that Ranald had
(known breeding and prestige some
; where in his lineage. After all,
(the native Scotch-Irish people
were as clean, as fine, as morally
isound, as any group that ever had
jtaken ship to the brave new
.world.
“Let’s not go home for a long
.time,” Ronald was saying with the
gay independence of a small boy.
<! l’m hungry. Could you eat din
ner?”
They found a small tea room fn
• the heart of the white forest, and
the proprietor offered to have his
wife prepare dinner since tea and
; toast did not satisfy the two hun
gry callers.
j There was a slice of ham, a
golden brown color.' There were
hot biscuits and honey, home fried
potatoes, cottage cheese, a salad
of crisp lettuce, tomatoes and cu
cumbers, and a mince pie for
dessert The dog fed lavishly,
tod.
In the moonlight they started
to retrace their path, but the,
forest was dark and they had to
hunt the main road. They were
trudging along, humming a snatch
of one carol, now another, when a
(jar drew up.
Abbey’s voice called: “Say, you
Many years after Moses’ time the
prophet Isaiah commanded us to wor
ship the true God only, saying, “Look
unto me, and be ye saved ... for I am
God, and there is none else.”
hour.
11:00 A. M., morning worship ser
vice with sermon by the pastor.
6:45 P. M., Pilgrim Fellowship pro
gram at the church.
7:30 P. M., Evening worship service
with sermon by the pastor using as 1
his subject “Cooperation in Soul Win-,
ning.”
You are invited to attend.
I
FIRST BAPTIST
Albert S. Hale, Pastor
Tomorrow marks the beginning of
a new church year. A cordial invi
tation is extended the members of
our church, visitors and strangers in !
cur midst, and whosoever will, to at- J
tend our services.
9:45 A. M., Sunday school, F. E. J
“One always takes that chance l"
two wanderers! How about a
lift?”
“It would be great!” Ronald an
swered.
“I’d adore it,” sang Judy, won
dering if it were truth or kind
ness that prompted Ronald’s an
swer. “Can you take your mag
nificient pet?”
Already the chauffeur had
opened the door, however, so the
dog could ride with him.
The count was in the car. He
said little. Abbey talked con
stantly, her voice a provocative,
lilting stream of velvet words. In
some way she pulled her tones
down an octave, made them low.
Much later in the evening, when
the household was assembled
downstairs, yawning, bored, trying
to chatter over unimportant
events. Count Phillippe sought out
Judy.
“You’re wholesome. I don’t
need to pretend. I’m taking the
11:10 to the city for a few days.”
“Yes?” Why did he tell her?
“Abbey and I have quarreled.
Oh, not seriously. She thinks so,
though. I'll stay away until she
relents. Then I’ll be back.”
“If she doesn’t relent?”
“One always takes that chance.
If not—” He shrugged his shoul
ders.
“But it’s almost time for the
wedding!” Had the two principals
quarreled over Ronald—Ronald
who had been so young and happv
in the white woods today?
“That’s why she’ll come to
terms! I don’t like having my
affianced wife conducting secrets
with young attorneys. I told her
so. And she denied it. After the
wedding that is different! You
are suggesting, aren’t you, Miss
Rogers, that I fear there will be
no wedding? I fear nothing of
the sort!” 6
“But you can’t—l mean you are
perfectly disgusting . . .” Judy
was floundering in her words when
Abbey, icy-eyed, velvet-voiced,
came along. She said nothing but
her chin went a little higher.
Judy felt a pang of sympathy for
her, another pang of contempt.
It was two days later that Ab
bey announced that her dog was
missing. Since Abbey had paid
such little attention to the animal,
Judy was amused at her sudden
concern. She had little time to
think about it. Marie, the maid;
who had been ill, returned and
Coralee had been dismissed. She
Jesus taught us saying, “Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind
and with all thy strength, and thy neigh*
bor as thyself.”
(GOLDEN TEXT—Deut. 6:5.)
Pinnell, General Superintendent,
11:00 A. M., morning worship ser
vice with the observance of the Lord’s
supper.
6:00 P. M., the Friendly Forum
supper and discussion meeting. S. M.
Crowder of the Henderson high school
faculty will lead the discussion.
7:30 P. M., worship service. The
pastor will preach the first in a series
'of sermons on the Twenty Third
Psalm. The topic for this service
will be:
“Are you sure you are secure?”
The Tar River Association meets
in annual session with the Wise Bap
tist church on Wednesday and Thurs
day of this week. Due to this fact
there will be no service in our church
Wednesday evening.
told Judy before leaving that she
would return to Danceland.
“I’ll get you a job as soon as I
get one myself,” Judy promised.
“I want to meet your family, too.”.
She hated to see the girl leave.
In some strange way she bound
her to the outside world.
Late the next day Abbey made
her astounding declaration. She
did it in the presence of her father*
the chauffeur, the gardener, the
assistant gardener, the house*
keeper—Judy did not look beyond
them. Everyone was here#
“I’ve had detectives tracing
Boris”—Boris was the dog—"arid
we have found him.”
“Oh, I’m glad!” breathed Judy;'
whole-heartedly.
The interruption was ignored.!
“He had been taken from, home'
and sold, but we found out through’
advertising and investigation
where he was. I have reason to
believe that the party who stole
him is in my employ. The dog
fancier, who bought him, said a
girl brought him. She had his
license with her.” !
There was a low hum of con
versation. Abbey ignored it, her
brows wide and serene, her vbice
breaking a little.
“I’m so sorry, but I have every
reason to believe it wash—it
was ... If that person will speak
up, we’ll let the matter drop.”
There was silence. : I
Then Abbey turned to Judy?
“Miss Rogers, did you sell my
dog?” !
“I sell your dog?”
If Abbey had asked Judy if she
had confiscated the Hope diamond,
ordered the sun to turn purple, or
decided to walk on her head'
through Times square, she could
not have been more amazed. Then'
anger asserted itself, tinged with'
contemptuous amusment. “ofj
course I didn’t sell Boris! it'
would be contemptible! And I
think I deserve an apology.” % \
“You may have one—when wo
know the truth. You are dis
missed.” ”
Court adjourned. The seed of
suspicion planted in every mind.
If she left, it would be taken as k
sign of guilt. But how could she
stay with doubt watching her
from every pair of eyes?
Mr. Boland interrupted: “Abbey,
you can’t mean that! I beg your
pardon most humbly, Miss
Rogers!”
{.To fie Continued)