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By BRUCE BARTON
Inspiring Picture Of Jesus.
INSTALLMENT XXIX
Short and Simple
is another parable:
ftt Happened To The One Lost
at man of you, having a hun
sheep, if he lose one of them.
; not leave the ninety and nine
he wilderness, and go after
. which is lost, until he find it ? j
htd when he hath found it, he j
it on his shoulders rejoic-:
Itnd when he cometh home, lie
his friends and neighbors,
unto them. “Rejoice with
for I have found my sheep
a teat.”
say unto you, that likewise joy
be in heaven over one sinner
repentetli, more than over
ty and nine just persons which
ilo repentance . .
you Were given the task of
erasing to the world that God
SVenormously for one human
-no matter how wayward and
that life may be—how
you phrase a message more
»blc than that? Yet how
!} how sincere; how splendid*
and direct. Benjamin
aklin in his autobiography—
first great American “suc
story’*—tells the process
DUgh which- he went in acquir
an effective style. He would
a passage from some great
of English, then lay the
CMside and attempt to repvo
i the thought in his own words,
ing his version with the
he discovered Wherein he
seured the thought, or was
I, or failed in driving
to the point. Every ndver
man ought to study the
of Jesus hi the same
schooling himself In their
|e and learning these four
tnents of their power,
jhfst of all they a re marvel
Etndensed. as all good ad
must be. Charles A. Dana
|ued nn assignment to a new
on the New York Sun. <ii*
him to confine his article
lurnn. .The reporter pro'
hat the story Was too big to
pressed into so small a
[“Gefn *opy 0f the Bible and
1 the first,chapter of Genesis)
Dana. “You’ll be surprised tc 1
■ that the whole story of the
^ “ of the world can he told
vords.”
bn axiom in many magn
ttcee that the introducti >n
„„._jBt tiny article can he cut by
editor without sacrificing any
.of real value. Even ex per
J "writers almost invariably
lapmething before they begin
|r: anything. Advertising writ
JT* .compelled to greater con
iion, but they too are guilty ..f
waste in words. How often
»st rend before you discov
J Wh»t it is that the udvor
't -watts you to do.
had no introduction. A
entence grips your ntten
or four more tell the
pone or two more and the
(lion is driven home. When
e new disciple he said
^“Follow me.” When he
r to explain the deepest
hie mystery—the personal
; character of God—he said,
made a banquet and invi
gv.estx. God is that king
are the guests; the King
Henven Is happiness—a
to be enjoyed.”
men suoke on the battle
•f Gettysburg sixty years
flntt delivered an oration
than two hours in length:
person In ten who rends
earf even renal! his
linl.V not one in a hun
ouote a single sentence
,_“masterly effort." The
Ifpeaker Uttered two hnn
ftfty Words, and those
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Ad
I* hWVt of the mental
sent o? klmost every Amc-r
nWile prayers bnve been
to the Throne of Grac"—
give Utterances The
hicfT Jesus taught his dis
gists Of sixty-eight words.
* written on the bark of
Many poems and es
been penned hy writers
I "Hint they were making
place for themselves
, but the greatest
written consists of on
eijrhty-eight words. It
Third Psalm,
prosy dullness. He
Centurion who was
fp waste his time; the
which he publicly
was Uttered by a poor
merely cried ont.
»1 to me a sinner.’’
-preyer, Jesus call
ge. A sixty-eight
e said, contained all
to aay or God to
be his verdict
tur prayers and our
our advertisements?
2. IT is Innguag • was marvel
ously gimpl?—a ■vinnil great es
sential. Th«c ic< hardly a sen
tence in his teaching which a
child (in n it understand. His il
lustrations were all drawn from
the commonest experiences of life;
“a sower vent forth to now," ‘‘the
kingdom of heaven :■ like a grain
of mustard seed." The absence of
adjcc.ivc-r is striking- Henry Wat a
Hcecher said once that "to a large
extent adjectives are like leaves
on a switch: they make it look
pretty as a branch, hut they pre
vent it Striking Lihglingly when
you use it.
“I recollect a cure in which mv
father at n public meeting was
appointed to draw up : r article,"
Bocehpr continued. “Tin had Wrrit
ter. one sentence; ‘It is wrong.’
Some one in the meeting got up
and moved in his enthusiasm that
this lie corrected, and that the
sentence rend: 'It is exc -'dinerjv
wrong.’ My father got up and said,
in his mild way, ‘When I was writ
in1? out this resolution in its ori
ginal shape that v. r, the way 1
Wrote it. but to make it stronger.
I took out the ‘exceedingly.’
.Icons nsr.ctl low 'qua lily MR
won!- and no lonsr one:-. W.o refer
red a minute asro id those three
literary masterpieces, Tin Lord’*
I’rayer, The Twenty-Third Psalm.
The Getty; burpr Address; Rttall
their phraseology;
Our Father tvhHi are in Heaven,
hallowed he (hv name.
'Flu* Lord is fny shepherd; 1
shall net want
Sincerity ^listened like sun
shine through every sonlen e lie
uttered; sincerity is the third es
sential. Many wealthy men have
nvichf^d newspapers with the
idea of ndvan'eny; their person-.!
fortunes, or bringins: about some
nolitieal action in which they have
a private int t. Such news
papers idnio:<t invariably fr.il. No
mutter ho,v notch money if. spent
on tlier.r, no-matter how zealously
the j-eer d of their own rsirin i«r
ftuimlod. the readers are con- cious
that somethin r is v.*ror*k'. Thy.
feel that .the voice of the editor
is mu his mv t. Th pul.lie l.«s a
sixth cense f.fr o» .c< • inti- .' insin
ccrit;.’; tiuu know instinctively
whe^ words hinsr true.
It was the way Jesus looted at
men, and the life he led amonR
them that itnVe his Words trnns
forminir power. What lie wtis and
what he said were one and the
same thinfe’. Nobody could stand
fit his side for even a minute with
out beinft persuaded that here
was a man who 1m >d people and
considered even the humblest of
them worthy of the host he had to
Rive. There iivna superstition more
deatleniiiR to a writer than the
idea that he can “write down’’ to
his renders. No man was ever bijt
ei oURh to build an onduriny sue
ccsa on the basis of insincerity;
hut many comparatively smalt
men. Hk? Peter the Hermit or
Hilly Sunday, find with Convic
tion, have been able to create and
sustain a very lO’ishlerahle in
fluence.
INSTALLMENT X\\
Repetition
Jems was notably tolerant of
almost fill kinds of sinners. He
liked the companionship of the
rough and ready folks who were
entirely outside the churches; he
was tender toward unfortunate
worrier.; he had a spec ial fondness
for .Tames and John whose un
governable tempers had given them
the title of "Sons of Thumb1)In'
forgave tho weakness of Peter
who denied him: and was not re
sentful at the unbelief of hie :'nar
relatives and hi • native town. Itiu
j for one sin tie had no mw. Tie
l denounced thh insineerilv of the
Pharisees in phrases which ding
’Ike the lash of a whip. Thcv
thought, they had v f‘r niorig’ e
on the Kingdom of iTee.vc' uni he
told them scornfully that only
those who hgcome l'to little child
ren have any chum " of cr'.erlng
it.
Little children have ra prc'in e,
They are startlingly frank. They
look at the world chit nigh clear
and say only what they think.
No writer, ro or.wtor, no sales
man. rzeroise:', any. large d
in the World urtrr- he cun'humble
himself and partake of their na
ture.
‘‘Though I speak with tho ton
gues of men and of enrols and
have not love, I am become as
sounding brnss or a tinkling cym
bal,” wrote Saint Paul.
Much brass hns bem sounded
and many cymbals tinkled in the
name of advertising; hut tho ad
vertisements which persuade peti
ole to nef are written by men who
have an abiding respect for thn
ii telligence of their readers, and
a deep sincerity regarding the
merits of the goeds they have tn
sell.
The fourth big element of Jesus
power was that he knew the neces
sity for repetition and prnctisec
t. One of tiv,' sora of President
Garfield ss'im traveling with him
through Ohio, when the President
wn eddresrii g county fairs. At
the.close of the day he asked his
hoy whi.t he thought of his
speeches. The hoy was embarrass
ed by the (Hiestion:
“Why—why , they were fine,
dad," he stammered, “but I felt ;
awfully uncomfortable part of the
time. You repeated yourself so ■
i i tea; once you. s aid the ' sime
thing in different word four
times over.”
Garfield slapped the bov's
1 shoulder with a hearty laugh.
“SO you thought vottr oh1 dad
was running out of ideas. did you?
be cried. “Well. I don't, hi-' .<■ you:
but there’s a method in bis mad-.
pit*. Tomorrow when I me. b.th." !
to "snye in my talk, you wrl> 'i the '
audience. The first time 1 make the,
(point, you'll see by their facer.j
that a fetv folks near the nbt -'
form get it. I!ut further hack't'hcuv.j
will lie noise ami commotion; ppo
i tile will be turning their head.-- to
find ou: who has just driven up.
!'-r what sort of lint Mrs. Jones
: h«n ot . and they won’t hear me of j
: all. When I repeat it the first time,
; a few faces in the. midrib- of the ‘
: rowd will show a respdp.se; on the
! third go. I’ll make atili more con-'
verts. .•muI on the fourth 11 >•> 1
^hoy'll - H have a netien of ylrot,
I am talking about !’ :i i! fake
four shots to land them all: ;
i!(njenr,e hit h all sorts of aud
ience has made trie sure of (liar.”,
It has- beer, sail that “n puha-j
tied is repetition.” No important |
truth can he impressed upon the!
minds of any large number of neo-1
nle bv being said only on o. The
thoughts which Jesus had to give i
the world were revolutionary, but
they were few in Mini her. “G, 1
is your father,” iie -aid “curing
mere for the welfare of every one
of you than any human father can
nosslbly care for his children. His ,
Kingdom is happiness! bis rule is!
love." This is what he had to
teach, but he knew the necessity i
n.1- driving it homo from every
po-\' il>1 li'.elo. So In one of his
stoic. Cod is the :-h' jiiioi it seatvh
Lnjr.the wilds for’one wand’'ring
sheep; in another, the Father wel
coining home a prodigal Foy; in
another •>, King who forgives hi .
debtors large amounts and ex
perts them to he forgiving in
turn—many stories, many ndver
t.i- : l< nts. hut t: - same hi r Idea
Because the advertisements were
rnforgctahle, the Idea lived, and
is today the one most powerful in
fluence on human notion and
thought. To be sure the work of
the advertisements is far from
"inlc* Tbr> Mr. that God is the
Father of all met. not merely <.f
■ pe nally selected few— has still
to penetrate some creed*-, and to
oFahlhsh its dominance in so.-ioty.
Mov or less unconsciously a lot
(f i.; - shaie the feeing of the
French nobleman in St. Simon’s
'tr.morfid !pry who was sure that
God would “think twice before
da' -aing 'i teraa el Ids iiup.Jjiy,.”
St'd tl e 1; aehe«» of Buckingham-to
‘ h ' Court'"- of ffnntinrrhn n. in a
d ■ i • toes let 11 r:
1 thank your T.nd’wddp for the
iriformation, cope imb»g th • Me
!hod; t 'trenchers; their doctrines
r • mo‘'t repulsive and strongly
t in hired with import in nee and
h*n 'pc ' toward their superiors.
It. is monstrous to be told you have
t: hear r.s .infill as the common
'■ ret,the:, that crawl on the earth.
This highly offensive . and in
sulting, and I eannt c, but wonder
hb'd '.(•ur kulyship would relish
:<nv r-o titpents so much nt variance
with high rank and good breeding.
In spite of all the Duchesses of
Buckingham, however. the Great
Advertisements continue to make
Progress. Monarches are succeeded,
by clemcnraeies, building their
covet union fa on the firm founda
tion that men ar ■ free and equally
ntithd I a a chance at t he; good
tiiin.es of life. The privileged pro
.est iind the ’gitatpr denounces, hut
i nniis.'i iml lv the world is becom
ing ever* day a fairer, hwter and
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happier living? place for the gren
majority «,f ns inhabit anti.
And whoever feels an impulse It
make his own life, count in .his
| grand pr>>< i of human better
ment, eon haw r.o surer guide for
his activities than the advertise
ment of Jesus. Let him learn
•their logon, that if you would
tench people y,ou firs1 mu*d cap
lure their inter, t with news; that
your •crywe ruth r In- 1 v >fr s>r*
mens mt):it hr you- claim upon
their attention; twat what you say
must he simple, a; d brief, and
above ail .-in,era—the unmistak
able voice of true ngnrd and af
fection.
"\e," said he, • are my friends.”
(To be continued)
(€opyrfpht !ft>5 by Brute Barton)
I)’ pc. Cider to Get People
To Take Free Apples
MartincbUvK, W. Va.—Unnb.lp to
sell Berkeley county’.' million bar
rel apple crop, even at prices jgen
erally admitted to he profitless,
fruit growers have started to give
their t A duct., away.
A tar.!: of sweet cider has been
t up in the public square here and
free cider alone; with rip* eating
apples are dtispe; set! to Martins
bui •; a iG.tJflO lcsklonts as well as
tourist*:-. and visitor;; who are tak
ing full advantage of the opoor
tm.ily. Tiie Ei wants dub operates
the stand.
ROII.ING SPRINGS V. INS
OVER CHEKNEK 51 TO 7
The strong Boiling Springs team
.'.vamped the CherPce High school
team of S. (?., yesterday f>l to 7
on the Che-nee field. Ghesnec
reeved on a fumbled punt coupled
vviih a pas-.. The visitor <s outplay
ed the rhese.ee tear.- at all times in
the game. The entire squad of
Boiling Springs took part in the
fracas. The .‘-•tars for Boiling
J?piinwere the entire team. Wil
liams hie the line for several
gains for Che-nee.
Our nerd game* will he with
Shelby, arid we hope to hold them
to low score.
Bryan’s Daughter Feels No Fear Fer
The Mode: n Girl—To Beat Mothers
w Orleans.—No danger signals
need bo hoisted along the paths
which the “modern American girl’
is treading: no mourning need bo
worn for supposed death or decay
of the staunch old American ideas
and ideals.
The ideas and ideals arc ar
staunch as ever, and the modem
American girl, with ail her short
skirts, her rouge and lipsticks, her
<iga'cnt-niroking* will amount to
more than her mother or grand
mother did.
it’: a .grandmother of the line-,
age of Willijiin Jennings I)r*n’s
.rice. B van’s eyes, Bryan’s intel
lect—>rif!i nerhariR a lot more of
liberalism iha . the “Commoner”
had.
Th>s grandmother is Bryan’s
: daughter, Ruth Bryan Owen.
Graadmothf rhood? Delightful!
; “Isn’t if delightful ?” she laughs
: v hen lier grandmbtiurhbad—at
1 i I—is montmivd. Her granddaugh
! t n-—Ruth Bryan Meeker—is just
2 years old, the daughter of Mrs.
[Oven’s daughter. Mrs. William P.
Mcrkm'. who 22.
! Fresh from her first verture 'n’n
politics a losing race for Cou
j g.-r-nr Mrs. Owen is on a lecture
' tour. Her father’s bent for ehau
I taucjua and Ivceum apnearancr., i.>
. par: of her Bryan heritage.
“Wc hear much of unrest,” she
observes. "But hunt for it and yon
will find an overwhelming amount
| of eouilibrium and basic pc-rnian
ierr? in American life.
I ‘‘Boast of ail should wo worrv
about the American girl. I elorv
in her. She in splendid. Criticisms
of her are o trivial! I can't see
how the trivialities can be remem
bered when out of th«ir freedom
there lies come such fire, full de
c-uey. »uch honesty, such vitality.
First cf A11—Freedom
“I grew vn with an apnreciation
of freedom for girlhood. My moth
er bellevbd in it at a time when I
\va. anathema to many. While I
•van a hnby, she was studying law.
She did an almost unheard of
thing for those days when she won
her degree. \
"Wlie" I w;-< old enough to be
jrir. d teaming of » career. I ro'.neiri
b‘-r she told ine to be a blacksmith
if I felt that, suited iny mind i-.nd
muscles best.
“There is no danger for the
Amo can girl in freed'.,n. There ss
lai’e: " i denial of if.”
Girlhood linger; in the grand
niotherhoo'l of Mr-.. Owen! Her
•rray Bryan oyer are rib'.’, with
the krone: t enthv.sisir.?n. Her hair
i:- phb;;jled,' h'.'r gown is of thd
n node.
She a;i enfer lev r of Vfr:a
tvre. r usV. rr: No othoi V.'o:u<vr
lee:aver of Inday eo.nur.’.nds ns
high fee:-.
Vli’or o* :bought mark- ■-1 -
daughter of Iliya . hi:- as i
m. 11 rd h'-r famous .parent.
it. ir “ nl idid’’ for women to
Vi in polities.. bu. she- has no ' i
r>or: c,.f women r-mrogo.iix nx I he
While if-men, the supreme eu'jr..
> ha:'; of .Ccngrc ss.
An end of war may come' tome
d hot ivoi iis tiie day of people
new living. ov their children.
Economic wrong of war i~ th ■ !e-:
rrm the world in h priming to 'earn.
Thai son has a tier in “ uo'-.-M
sxiKsi rh:: eonaideratif 1- o’ hr
r:,-” si: fieri eg end sorrow.
<Y.:v: -c f alarm over iT- ' :i
clement’' in America’s -p'-m"
rncr.net! for. “The “viclGr.j?
trot" nlcT - a rut fu. . it . hu
man ingredients.
The aeeuimii tier of wealth ? It’s
an urge rooted; in human nevure.
■n ’ no-‘. to !«■-> denied. A", far Gv*
“leaded ;r in*, -u-ifc; " in A meric:: of i
which .- folk? c6r.ipl»in. wore-1
n’t, Geotve Washington and i
Tlu.inas J 'ffer;or. landed ar’;fo
1; people of wealth trv.t to;
1 eeludo theirir.elvcs, to secj; '-pace i
,.r:,-.r.y_ .that’s- junt human !
.':■ * iivjfjt'
So think; the daujjldrr of IVli
lt ■' .!. Brveo. u whose pe-nonel
ilv and intr-1 dual vr«*y:e the
‘Torsur.otffof o’/i rec-ms .to
anew—
Save, per bars, {hat by the ..al
e-homy of rebirth the. steimnet;of
his view? on the ways ar.d thoughts7
of men has-, beer, mellowed some
what, and idCrdlcuri has- given way
in n (inffi-rs to tho practical and
t anrriblc.
lv'
in
vom
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