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AB HEELS WARNED Nono HOARD FOOD , pURCKASERS. OFp MORE FOOD ! AN IMMEDIATELY NEEDED HAVE AWAKENING. OISPATGHES FROM RALEIGH Oolnfls and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo- oie. Gathered Around .-.the Stat 1 Capital. Ra'teign North Carolinians who have been purchasing food commodities in larger quantities-than their immediate re- quirements have a rude awakening coming to them. m ' Realizing that this practice would .. .. disarrange an caicuiauons oi avail j able food supplies and that it is self ish and unpatriotic ,in the extreme, the Food Administration is going after there fellows with gloves off. r-The co operation of the United StatsSecret . . j i i J ., ... Service is oaing usea in lnvesugann.? i : this matter -and Mr. Geo. H." Ilumber of the Food Administration's staff Js also devoting a considerable part of his time to investigation. - State Food Administrator Henry A. Page has ruled that flour shall be re tailed to city or town consumers' in quantities not exceeding half a barrel and to rural consumers in quantities not PTCPpHinf orie barrel. Thst fc " . - maximums are larger than are being allowed in most States. Sugar must be retailed I- entities not exceeding ten pounds to, the rural trade and five pounds to town of city trads. TVn T?rl IHrninfctratinn fi'anVlv ' states that its desire is not to prose- 899 4?. Polk $851 60 Randolpni $2;. cutebut to aecure an enforcement of 977 ?2. Richmondj j2.409 70; Robeson, the law. Consumers: who,-because of $4,785.35. Rockingham. $3,727.70: Ro ignorance or for other reasons have ; Wan 882 S8 . Rutherford $3j91.55; purchased food commodities in larger. .j Sampson. $3 113.67: Scotland '$1715 quantities than are allowed need fear 82; Stanly. $2,588.50; Stokes'. $217s' no prosecution if they promptly dis- j53; SurrVi $3241 87. gwa n.100.40. uluuie luCil l"c ua'1-! titles allowed and report the matter to their County" Food Administratcr o: to the FoM Administration at Raleigh Those who attempt to hoard in spite220 16. Wayne j3.676.5.2; Wilkes, $3,- of all framings will be dealt with ac cording to the law, which provides a penalty ot $5,000 or two years impris onment or both in addition to the con fiscation of the goods hoarded. Graduating Girls to Help. Washington. The graduating class es of all women's colleges In the country and the graduates of the der partments of home economics of all colleges and universities are being called upon to prepare themselves quickly for active service in co-operation with the Food Administration. Mr. Herbert Hoover has addressed a letter to the graduating women; mak ing a strong appeal, and has also wir ed the presidents of all colleges in which women are heing, trained point ing out the vital necessity of educat ing women students for this work. Mr. Hoover's letter to the women is as follows : " ... "The United States Food Adminis tration calls you to its service. Our need is so great that we appeal to you to prepare, yourselves as best you can and to enlist for the great w;ork that must be done.. "There will be a diversity of tasks and therefore diversity of talent and training can be used. All our ques tions now center in food its produc tion, its distribution, its use, its con servation. The more you know about 'hese things, the more valuable you will be and the greater will be your service to humanity. ; "Tf you have not already done so, u e yuu to pursue siuaies Qeduu? A a; J t!- . especially with food, but these should he re-enforced by courses in chemis- try. physiology and economics. xt win I ne well, too! if you have acauired the a-ts of public presentation" of your knowledge to" the people who so much need it. Fortunately most of, our edu cational institutions now offer courses which give the necessary training for ..this worjk. but to the others an appeal is being sent to provide suc instruc tions wherever it is possible. "More detailed suggestions and di rections will be published soon. To day your country asks you to resolve to do what you can In this, the hour of extreme peril to the democratic peoples of the world." ' 1 Food means energy. Energy means more efficient fighting. Efficient fight ing will end the war. Save food! Meatless days in the United States moan a more efficient fighting force fn the front and more speedy conclu- Oveeating is Tend- - - -on or the war. ing to the enemy. The food situation in Europe, not only in the countries of our Allies but in the neutral countries, has reached such a desperate state that tens of thousands of women, children anojnoa must starve during the next , toui months. The only supplies they can hone for urn from America, fsfld thiJ country Is releasing food for export only as "rapidly as it is ayaila W above ' felipp6rier wU1 be tne 8kWf -ou-ctual needs, r Save! Sa. I: la6 under German autocracy. The person who hoards foodstuffs. Is .' 00.000 fighting me,, will be saved in Identically the same, class as tb? , flring lin0 lf we economic in man, who blows , up ,ttWunyoTi4w Let one lumV suffice: ' plant food is Just as essentia In , , . Cunty School Fund ADDOrtloned. The state bdard of education auth, orized an apportionment of the $250 -000 per capita school fujid Vmong the counties or .the Estate on lh haa, ? w.-w pupuiauon in each-county, S 9a8tionment being W the basis of .281144 or 28 and a frarti per child. '. ebruary there will be dis- Ing th sooT , months minimum, this fund agereeat. mg about $400,000 ancf being derived from the state tax of five cents on the $100 tax valuation ot property. Tb amounts that the various counties will receive in the present distribution or the $250,000 per capita fund follow- Alamance, $2,630.10; Alexander, $1. .1 Alleghany $835.56; Anson. $2,570.50; Ashe, $2,091.71; - Avery. $1.0o9.91; Beaufort, $3,125.76; Bertie, $2,492.06; Brunswick, $1,421.74; Bla den. $2,054.60; Buncombe, $5,468.81 Burke. $1,924.71; 'Cabarrus. $3.117.60 : Caldwell, $2,171.55- Camden jsrri'. Carteret, $1,309.85; Caswell, $1,503. 00; Catawba. $3,230.34; Chatham $ - 322.8r? Cherokee. $1,755.46;- Chowan $987.67; Clay. $465.03; Columbus. $2.' (818.75; Cleveland, $3,12.35; Craven, $2483-63; Cumberland, $5,545.78; Currituck SRRee;. t-i jo o --r. uaiv, qtoaat; jja "U8W"' -.u.zz; Davie, $1,213.42 Duplin, $2,670.86; Durham, $4,319.50 Edgecombe, $3,256.28; Forsyth, $5, 572.84; Franklin. $2,685 49; Gaston, $4,371.10; Gates. $1,032.92: Graham 'S439.7Xt nrnnvilln o canon. -i. : ' .otv.o, ureen, xo.; uuiuora, $6,035.03: Halifax. s,w.6.i; Harnett, $2,647.82; Hay wood, $2,330.40; Henderson. $1,708, 23; Hertford, $1,592.12; Hoke, $1,231, 70; Hyde. $852.15; Iredell, $3,339.15; Jackson. $1,492.87; Johnston. $4,521.64; Jones. 5967.43; Lee. $1,241.25 Lenoir. $2,048.70; .Lincoln, $2,036.90; Macon, $1,367.47; Madison. $2,432.74; Martin. $1,970.82; McDowelL $1.833 06- MPt. lenourg. 203 75; Mitchell. $1.096.18 Montgomery. $1,476.85; Moore. $1.' m.2f; nW 3755.52 New HanJ S2,432,74; Northhampton., $2,494 03 Qnslmv $1 ki q- i Pml'co. $1,073.10.- Pasouotak. O V .fW 9 " x x- 604.73: Persnn. X1SR45. Pitt . Transylvania. $895.17; Tyrrell, $443,- 65; Union, $3,490.40; Vance. $2.103 80; Wake. $6,617.00; Warren. $1,803.26: Washineton. Sl.270.lfi- WntmiP-n i . 220.22; Wilson. S3. 478,31; Yadkin, SI. 596.34; Yancey, Sl.529.70. Opposed Free Service. The conference of members of the selective service exemption boards of North Carolina assembled here devel oped such pronounced opposition to a resolution for free service of exemp tion. board members as to pause Major Langston, aide to the governor, to have the resolution withdrawn! so that the board could devote its time to ef forts to arrive at the most perfect and economical general policies possible for the administration of the work of the boards. The attendance on the conference was surprisingly large, the great ma jority of the boards in all the local counties being represented. Their pa triotism and 'zeal for their work was stressed by the fact that every mem ber of a board present took care of his own traveling expenses and there was no per diem. Dr. Cyrus Thomp son, of Onslow county, was made chairman of the conference. Sugar Price Fixed at 10 Cents. The following order, regarding the sale of sugar, has been received by the local food administrator: "State Food Administrator Henry A. Page' announces the following reg- ulations with regard to the retailing of sugar: ' "The maximum retail price allowed on sugar from this date is 10 cents a nrmnrt "Retail merchants who have . . c,iear on such a basis that they.haye not a-reasonable profit with- in thig price may appeal to the food administration, stating cost price n detail, but none of these shall sell for above 10 cents a pound unless they have the specific written permission of the food administration. "Until further notice sugar must not be sol to city or town . consumers in quantities in execss of five pounds nor to consumers in the rural districts in quantities in excess of 10 pounds. , "Any merchants refusing to con form to these rulings will Invite prompt action by the food adminis tration." ' Save bacon until Berlin is taken. With a beautiful supply of "long sweetening" available in the form of sorghum syrup, we cannot see but that Uv.a Tpnnle of North Carolina are in ' a bit better shape to get along witnout the usual amount of sugar i.. n oimnof nnv other state. , tuv , "wr i man muot uk mauauw ""-'j - - - nin.g the war as ammunition. Genera' Apathy and Private Inter est are two enemies of our nation al welfare. Each is as dangerous as a Kaiser's agent and should -be exclud- d rorQ every American home and in dustry. Wheatless and meatless days here ! at home mean defeatless dav3 for our boys abroad. , a to th POLK COUNTY rOOD ADMINISTRATOR PAGE AN- NOUNCES ONE DAY TO CON i SERVE PORK. v BIGGER SUPPLIES FOR ALLIES All Food Saved By People of This State Means More Food For Our Allies. ; Raleigh. A Porkless Saturday and one wheatless and one meatless meal each day of the week ar annminrpd i oy state Food Administrator Henry ' A. Page as a part of the more inten-! sive program that must be followed if the American people are not to fall down on their job of supplying the fighting forces of, our Allies with foodstuffs. In addition to the volum 1 tary co-operation, the Pood Adminis-' tration proposes to reauire all hakera ' to use 25 per cent as much of other cereals as of wheat. Mr. Page and Mr.kJohn Paul Lucas, executive secretary of the Fopd Ad ministration, who have just returned from a conference of Food Adminis trators at Washington ,are deeply im pressed with the urgent necessity for the co-operation of every individual in the matter of saving by economy and the up of fmhuHtiiteR for thP fnni products which are suitable for export. " -" I Mr. Page does not hesitate to say that the man, woman or child who refuses to render, the utmost service in the matter of increasing the supply of foodstuffs available for export, is miserably failing in their duty 10 their government, to say "nothing . of their absolute disregard of all human itarian sentiment. "The situation," declares Mr. Page. "has assumed an aspect as simple as it is urgent. It is purely an individual proposition. The Food Administration is gauging the quantity of foodstuffs released for export by the available supply and this available supply ia fixed by the conduct in his eating of every man, woman or child in Ameri ca. The exportable food that any in dividual might save but does not will surely cost the life of a soldier or the life of some woman, child or old man in Europe. It is purely a matter for the individual conscience and indivi dual action. There are no two ways to it. There is no fnce to ride. We either line up with patriotic, whole some decent people and help feed the soldiers and the starving civilian peo ple of Europe, or we line up with the selfish, mean, ignorant, miserly arro gant crowd which cohsinders its own comfort and stomach above all pa triotic or humane sentiments. N. C. to Equip Base Hospital. A base hospital to be designated a3 No. 65 and served by North Carolina physicians and nurses, provided the latter are available, the hospital force to include 500 people or more, is now being organized by Dr. J. W. Long of Greensboro, chairman of the state committee, . Council of Nation1 De fense, medical section, for North Caro lina. Dr. Long is authorized by the Federal Government to equip a base hospital at once to contain 1,000 beds and to be served by thirty physicians' and surgeons, 100 nurses and 250 or derlies. The hospital will be located "somewhere in France" and is expect ed to be ready for use by May or Juna. Dr. Long states that well qualified 1 Korth Carolina nurses are preferred ' for this hospital work but adds that any lack of trained nurses from this j state will be supplied by the Red Cross at Washington. A salary of $50 per month and expresses is assured nurses : who will he accented for this work, i Those, interested in this call to Da- . triotic service are requested to write to Dr. J. W. Long at Greensboro. j- The medical start chosen- for the hospital will be presented to and I passed upon by the Federal authori- . ties before they are officially accepted. The sugar you hardly miss is equal to a week's ration in Belgium'. Use syrup. Child Badly Burn Kinston. Rosebud French, about four years old, may die from burns sustained when her clothing was ignit ed from a fire by which she was warm ing at the residence of L. T. More adith here. The little girl's mother Mrs. Jerry French, a telephone opera tor who lives at the Moreadith home, had just returned from work and left th j child in a room by herself. She returned to find her eveloped in flame. The little victim wa3 fearfully burned Dn the body. Her face and head escap ed Injury. Killed an Eagle. Kinston. Julius Whaley, a Lenoir county farmer, Is exhibiting th talon of an eagle shot at his place near here one day last week. The bird had kill ed and was devouring a two-months: old pig when Whaley knocked it over with a well-directed shot. The eagle measured sven feet across th winga. The species is believed to be getting uore numerous in' this part of the r.t Ate. and Its depredations are begin i ng to constitute a real menace to Hock. ' ' ' : ? -3 .NEWS. TRYON. flr. C. FAG YOUR SHO0EL JAN. 20 Every .Shovel'; full Jjrf Goal Saved Means So Much Support to Coun iry.- Children Ito Help. $ ) Raleigh. January zkh has been set aside as National 'jfTag-Your-Shovel I Day" by the United tates Fuel Ad ministration. On'thatjjday, school chil dren will tie tags beaming instructions for coal saving to every shovel in the country, the purpose Jf this being to remind each man, wman and child i who uses a coal shovel that every j shovelful of coal savefjl means, just so much additional poweft and health an J j support for the American soldier and ' sailor on the firing llije. ! "Any worthy cause fvhich enlists the ' sympathy of the children is already half won." declared t)npl Aimini, tm. tor McAlister. "TKeir enthusiasm i and. eagerness is spontaneous and 6" iuoj. iweniy-oms mu "uu no cnnaren mi the' united ftates start t0 spread the word of ueI economy througb;jutvthe country, )Ve may be sure that n be spread, U is only sane optimism to believe that Practically everj coal shovel in the cPuntry will be - jagged, and the me3sage of conservatism thus carrted wxU hardly be "ghtlygregarded or for ?otten. Record Miniry Work. United States Fuel Administrator Harry A. Garfield, in'1 a recent stite 3ient stressing the importance of ' Tag-Your-Shovel Day," sa'0: "The United States is .mining a record-breaking amount of coal in an lttempt.to supply the record-breaking lemand caused by th.war. nl 1 il . )i ...... '8 ine greai Prce oenmn tn.j nen in the. Frenches; behind .the battle ships, the transports, he munition fac tories, and the railroads. J Demands Unheardl of Amount. "'The war demand a hitherto un neard of amount of "coal. The Fuel Administration is doifg its utmost tc supply this emergency demand. Through the adjustment of labor troubles at the mln:Mr inor ni the available number jpf coal cars and the speeding up of col transportation. I flie Fuel Administration is endeavor ! ing to supply army jind" navy needs and to keep factories running and homes warm. f - j "The miners are doMng their part to aid the Fuel Administration- in its task. They are mining mor s coal than ever before. The over-burdened railroads are grappling with (ie problem of transportating this unusual quantity of coal, in addition to tip great amount of war freight whicljl Is congesting their lines. : "As a result of allflof these efforts, an extra million carldids of coal tiave been mined this year! This is 50,000, 000 tons more coal han has ever been mined .before inilany year in the history of the United ftates. "We Heed another pillion car load1;. It is a physical impossibility to pro duce this additional jmount at onco. It must be saved fromthe coal already available. i " "The American people are asked to do their part in thfj emergency by saving shovelful by hovelful in fac tory and home this additional coal for war needs, and this is the reason for "Tag-Your-Shovel Day," Woman Burnett; to Death. Monroe. Mrs. MarjVJ. Hoover was accidentally burned Uto death here. She was stirring thjj fire when the house robe she woreljcaught fire, and she was badly burnHd before help could reach her, djjing about five . i j. ; ' nours later. "Tell me what yo eat and I 11 you what you H are," was will once merely a clever phaae . invented to prove someone's set tpipry. Now it is an intrenational wa3ciom. If you "eat for victory"" thenlyou are practic- ing the better patrio-r-iSm. If not, then fines not matter rrrach what colors you wear your patriotism will only hp button deen. 'I A ' Fat at least one Meatless meal a day. f i Eat more fish, cheege: eggs, poultry, and save beef, pork.ijand mutton for our fighters. . p Every spoonful or lujmp of sugar you save is a snot tor fou across .no Man's Land" at the ethemy. . m V' llT Back of the boys fehind the guns is your order today-are you . with them? NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. Capt. Edward R. lantbn, quarter master corps, national guard, who comes from Raleigh, jjN. C, and who has acted as arsistait constructing quartermaster at CaSip Sevier sinco July 19 last, has beerf relieved ot dutv there and ordered tojireport to Wash 1 irgton for assignemejjt to addition:'.! constructing work, fuaptain piamon has already left. J The recent .windstorm blew down sonie barns ar. . kiljed several cows near Maxtor The contract has Jee.n let for fhe enlargement of the plant of the North State Knltt!ng:millsat Durham, and the work will be we under way in a few days. The plan will be tripled in size, so far as fl&r space is con cerned, and the additional space will ?ive room for five tijnes the knitting machinery thai is nflw in use. Thfs will give employment' to about 200 more people. fl - Garland Daniel, secretary of the Central Carolina Faifljassociation, was unanimously elected iy the board of iirectors ,6f the chancer- bf commerce is secretary of that Organization. & MARY xBAHAMEQ2SFfc WHAT CRABS CAN DO. The horny crab was at the bottom of the sea eating up all the things that were bad for the other creatures. In fact, his work was very good for every one and never seemed to hurt him in the least. Thhermit. crabs were fighting for their shells and they were all talking. "1 am the finest crab of all," said Mr. Blue Crab. "I am considered a great delicacy in the world above the sea. The people eat me and they call me the soft-shelled crab. 1 am one of the finest foods there is." You'd better not let the lobsters hear von-snv tht." SJiiH th ntlipr crabs. Two lobsters were quite a lit They Were Shaking Hands Most Politely. tie distance away and they Were shak ing hands, or rather claws, most po litely. The lobsters were a little bit afraid of the Polypus who was near by and so both had wandered away where things were safer. For the polypus is Sreat fighter down under the sea, and he loves to fight the lobsters. When he fights he almost always, wins and many a lobster has been killed by the polypus. "I'm safe enough," said Mr. Blue Crab. "The lobsters will not come here now. They would have to pass Mr. Polypus in coming." Mr. Blue rab always spoke of the polypus most politely because he, too, was a little ai'raid of him. " "What do you think of us?" asked' the racer-crabs. "We are often called the horsemen because we rush along just the way horse races do." "Dear me, dear me,"Jsaid one of the lady-crabs, whose family had been gfven that name because of their gieat beauty, "you're not as fine as we are. We are beautifui." "Beauty is not everything, ' said the spider-crabs. "Just look at our out stretched legs. We are interesting. That is far. finer than beauty." "And I am the red crab." "Weil, we are called the porcelain crabs because we are so bright and have such lovely colors," said some little crabs, "That's all very well, but there is nothing so fine as swimming," said the swimming crabs, and the paddle crabs and the shuttle crabs agreed. "Now, come, come," said Mr. Blue Crab, "we can all have various things that are fine about us, but in the long run I am the best of all because I can be eaten." "We're glad you like to be eaten," said the others. "I don't," said the blue crab. "But It's a great honor. I'm proud of it." Just then a little old crab came along who was always known as the story telling crab, because he al ways told the others fine stories of the life under the sea and the many won derful adventures the crabs before them had had. He was very, very, old and very, very wise,, and all the crabs liked to hear him tell his wonderful stories, have heard you talking," he said, . 1 r .-! . 4 as he csime. crawling along from side to side. "You were all bragging and boasting of what you could do. It Was very silly, for boasting is apt to niakt; other people loss happy because they do not feel so fortunate and it is very conceited. Those who boast have lit tle to boast of, as a rule. And those who don't boast, do things. Thy don't just talk them. "am l must xeii you an someinmi; that will -make every single one of you happy." All the crabs listened attentively, and Tev had quite stopped talking thomc0iv0c "Hear!" And all the crabs heard the sea shells singing. "We are going to their chorus In, a very little while, for they are singing all the afternoon. But first of all I must tell you of something that we all have to be thankful for. "We mustn't boa3t of it, we must be glad of it. There are many creatures in . fact, most of the creatures on earth and under the sea who can only swim or walk or crawl in one way ; that is, straight ahead. Now we can crawl in any direction without turning; around. Usually we crawl sideways. But we can crawl any way. Just sup pose we had to turn around every time we wanted to go backwards. We can crawl anyway at all WoK nv-orf it he min? In ll Rorts of wnvs to the sea shell concert ' - ' ' . Needle Was Asleep. Little Buth was frying., to sew. 'Mamma,' 'she , complained, . this ..needle mmstjbe asleep ; I just can't $et :the thread in" its eye' at all.H 'J1 i IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL iiMSfflpoi: (By E. O. SELLBRS, Acting Director of the Sunday School Course of the Moody Bibles Institute, Chicago.) f Copyright, 1917, Western Npapr Union. LESSON FOR JANUARY 27 ' JESUS FORGIVING SIN. LESSON TEXT-Mark 2:1-12. GOLDEN TEXT The Son of Man hath authority on earth to forgive sin. Mark 2:10. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL - FOR TEACHERS Psa. 82; Luke 15:11-24; 7:36 50; Matt. 1:21: fleb. 7:25. PRIMARY MEMORY VERSE Forgive us our sins. Luke 1:4. INTERMEDIATE TOPIC Jesus heal ing soul and body.' jr- SENIOR AND ADULT TOPIC-Jesus meeting man's deepest need. This is one of the most tlramatlc, spectacular Incidents recorded in the Bible. It ls--tfgood illustration 5 for Sunday school teachers on how to tell a. story by imagining what one woud naturally do. We ought to have our, . scholars see with tfielr imagination,, the story of this lesson as though they were eye-witnesses of the whole scene. The time was about May or June A. D. 28, the second year of Jesus' ministry, a few weeks following the last lesson, during which time he had been preach ing and healing in the surrounding( country. I. Introduction. Jesus could testify In a home as well as before the multi tudes. Indeed It was after having tes tified In the home (v. 1.) that the crowds gathered about the doorway, for It was not known that he was there,' until some days after he had been' In the house. Luke tells us that the crowds which came, came not only from Galilee but Judea and even Je rusalem. Jesns did his work so wil In the home that wherever he was, the world wore a path to his doorway. No tice verse two; when the crowd gath ered about, he spoke unto them "the , ,word." In this we see a parable. Many a successful man, when he be comes popular, forgets to preach the . a i it . i - e T i r.. pure uospei, uie voru ot lJiie. II. An Impelling Need (vv. 3:4). This man who had paralysis,4. e dis- abled on one side, was not only de prived of his sensation but his power of motion. As to the cause of his diffi culty, his previous character of life, ; there is no word of suggestion. We see ' abundant evidence today,' however, to know that many such cases are the results of our own debaucheries and -j one would gather from the m course which Jesus pursued with this man that perhaps his case was likewise the result of his early sin. The teacher might well read in this connection j Luke 16:11-19. Of course, this man may not have been a prodigal son. Nevertheless, he had as -much suffer ing as though he ha'd been and as far j as he himself was concerned, he was i helpless, a picture of all sinners. He; however, had frierds very enterpris ing ones. And so putting him upon the double quilt or coverlet, which could be size, they carried him into the pres ence of the master. III. Jesus Forgives and Defends His Rights (vv. 5:12). The crowd was so great about the house that "they could not come nigh unto him for the press." They were mf, however, discouraged ; but leaving the 'crowd, they went up, ; the usual outside stairs, bearing the sick man with them unto the roof which "they uncovered" literally they dug through the flat roof made of , branches and twigs and covered with earth, and which could be as easily re paired. Travelers in eastern countries , have often seen a similar act perform ed even in this dry. They then let ! down -the bed or mattress by the four corners. The roof was so low that j. no eords were needed and those below received the man from the hands of the four upon the roof and placed him i in front of Jesus. Jesus commends "their deed" as indicated in all three of the Gospel records. Not alone phys ical obstacles had to be overcome, but fhe altitude of the scribes (v. 7). Was it right, was it honest to break through the roof . of a n inn's house? Won 1 they, make It good? Was the owner glad to have had it done? Jesus did not hesitate or speculate oyer such questions, but goes at once to the issue and said to the man sick of the palsy, "Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be (are) forgiven thee." See Matthew's and Mark's account. "Son," is a word of endearment; the word "be" Is not as strong in the old formas the word r"are" fofgiven. Jesus went at once to the unhealed wound In the soul, tae sense of unforgiyen sin. Forgiveness is not of the judge who sentences "not guilty," but a father who welcomes and restores one to sonshlp. It Is res toration to life. The Bible story of the prodigal son and that scene pic tured in the seventh chapter of Lut-e? the feast where Jesus dealt' with a woman of the city, who ministers unto him, are good illustrations of the ror ttr's attitude of mind on this occasion The scribes charged blasphemy whicji Is to silander. God and Speak treasOi agaiast him. Blasphemy Is practical ly uttered treason. He perceived thefr inmost thoughts and answered thea (v. 9J. To forgive, sin, or to cot,i ni.ind the man. to rise were both dl- vine acts. ; be could do either; ne pro- d one b-y the of tne otner Hu command to the young man' to tan f tip his bed was ajtest to be proved j the man's faith. That the cure wyr complete we know,' for he immedlat y ly aro,se; To "arise"' was a physicui impossibility to -tKe up nis oea permitted no relapse. , "'
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