The Mainland Messenger (Dickinson, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 2, 1915 Page: 6 of 8
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LESSON FOR JUNE 6
NATHAN REBUKES DAVID.
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Examine the average man’s sore toe
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the year he was defeated for office.
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A woman’s efforts to do better usu-
ally are confined to urging her hus-
band to behave himself.
BILL BOARDS IN LINE.
By its action in refusing to accept
further advertising contracts for whis-
ky or distilled and spirituous liquors,
the members of the Poster Advertis-
ing association place themselves in
line with the 520 daily newspapers
and scores of,magazines in the United
States whose columns are closed to all
liquor advertising.
LESSON TEXT—II Samuel 11:22-12:Ta.
GOLDEN TEXT—Create in me a clean
heart O God.—Psalm 51:10.
Just Once! Try “Dodson’s Liver Tone” When Bilious, Consti-
pated, Headachy—Don’t Lose a Day’s Work.
The Deaf and Dumb Spy.
As the British forces under General
Kitchener neared Khartum, a dervish
Considerate.
Parson (making a pastoral call)—
Why doesn’t your husband come to
church, Mrs. Gooding?
“Oh, he talks so in his sleep."—
Browning’s Magazine.
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Fond Mother—Improvise? Why, my
daughter can improvise any piece of
music you put before her!—Judge.
Ability to Communicate Through Wa-
ter One of Most Recent Impor-
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FROM MANY WITNESSES.
In summing up a complete refuta-
tion of the statements sent out by the
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers as-
sociation in an article on “Facts About
Prohibition in Kansas,” Governor Ar-
thur Capper says:
Let us call the witnesses and see
what they think of prohibition in
Kansas. If anyone should know, they
should know, for they live with it and
under it:
The governor of Kansas says pro-
hibition is a great success.
Every state official who has spoken
out says prohibition succeeds.
More than 700 editors and newspa-
per men of Kansas in state conven-
tion, unanimously endorsed prohibi-
tion.
Every political party in Kansas fa-
vors the prohibition law.
No minister has ever opened his
NTERNATIONAL
SUNDAYSCIOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of
Sunday School Course of Moody Bible
Institute, Chicago.)
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UGH! CALOMEL MAKES YOU SICK!
CLEAN LIVER MD BOWELS MY WAY
FOR WHAT OTHER PURPOSE?
“The moving picture show’ has be-
come a powerful factor in arousing the
prejudice of thoughtless and weak
minded people against the liquor in-
terests, and particularly against the
saloon,” says the Liberal Advocate, a
liquor dealers’ organ.
“In virtually every blood and thun-
der and crime film produced there is
sure to be a scene depicting a bunch
of lowbrows plotting some villainy
from burglary to murder while lick-
ing up liberal libations of liquor tc
give them the proper amount of cour-
age to accomplish their deed.
“Each day thousands of these films
are portrayed to millions of men
women and children in every part of
the country, and those who know nc
better, and many who ought to know
better, soon becoome imbued with the
belief that liquor is only manufactured
and saloons established for the pur-
pose of increasing lawlessness and
crime.”
And to completely settle the ques-
tion for all time the legislature of
Kansas, not by a majority, but unan-
imously passed at its last session a
concurrent resolution affirming in no
uncertain language its belief in the ad-
vantage of prohibition.
(Conducted by the National Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union.)
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Several American battleships and
submarines are now equipped with R.
A. Fessenden’s submarine wireless
apparatus. This sends messages more
than thirty miles under water, and
the inventor expects that with experi-
ence it will be possible so to improve
the apparatus as to make it send and
receive for several hundreds of miles.
The apparatus starts a metal plate
vibrating so rapidly that it sends
waves of sound through the water.
Sound travels through water four
times as rapidly as through air.
In an article in the American Maga-
zine, Cleveland Moffett quotes Profes-
sor Fessenden as saying:
“You see the importance of these
oscillators in naval warfare, for a bat-
tleship equipped with such instru-
ments can talk to its own submarines
while they are miles away and sub- _
merged and can actually direct their
movements against an enemy’s ves-
sels.”
The president of Kansas Retailers
says prohibition pays.
The president of the State Bankers’
association believes that prohibition
is a tremendous asset to Kansas.
One hundred and sixty-six bankers
have filed their testimony in favor of
the law with the Temperance society
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and only six could be found in all the
state who doubted the wisdom of this
legislation.
The president of the Kansas Medi-
cal society believes in prohibition.
The president of the Commercial
clubs of Kansas has said that prohibi-
tion has added real value to every
acre of Kansas land.
The supreme court has testified in
the following strong language to the
benefits of the prohibition law:
“The prohibitory law is well en-
forced throughout the state. It is as
generally well enforced as any other
criminal law. The enforcement of the
law distinctly promotes social welfare
and reduces to a minimum economic
waste consequent upon the liquor traf-
fice and allied evils. The saloonkeeper
and his comrades have been excluded
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neither bribes nor threats could elicit
one word from the prisoner; he af-
fected to be both deaf and dumb.
Scarcely had be been put in a tent un-
der guard, when another spy was led
in who proved equally obdurate, so
he was put with the first one.
Half an hour later, when the camp
was settling down to rest, there was a
fresh stir and hubbub and a third spy
was brought in, who also would reveal
nothing, and was finally placed in the
tent with his fellows.
Soon the guards outside heard a
murmur of voices from within. The
dumb spies had found their tongues,
but it was impossible to overhear their
talk distinctly or to understand it An
hour or more passed.
Then the door of the tent was
thrown open, and the third spy ap-
peared and asked to be taken to head-
quarters. There he threw off his dis-
guise and revealed—General Kitch-
ener! He had discovered all he want-
ed to know.
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A Cheerful Disposition.
"There’s nothing like a nice, com-
fortable home,” said -the earnest citi-
zen.
“Oh, I don’t know,” replied Mr.
Growcher; "as soon as you get a
place so that ft attracts attention for
comfort the agent is liable to look it
over and raise the rent.”
back guarantee that each spoonful
will clean your sluggish liver better
than a dose of nasty calomel and that
it won’t make you sick.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You’ll know it next morn-
ing, because you will wake up feel-
ing fine, your liver will be working,
your headache and dizziness gone,
your stomach will be sweet and your
bowels regular.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and
cannot salivate. Give it to your chil-
dren. Millions of people are using
Dodson’s Liver Tone instead of dan-
gerous calomel now. Your druggist
will tell you that the sale of calomel
is almost stopped entirely here.
Developments Due.
"Well! Well!” said the skeptical
person. "You say this candidate was
elected to office without having made
a single promise to his campaign
workers?”
"None publicly,” replied the prac-
tical politician, “but we. have yet to
hear from the dictagraph records.”
Alphabetical.
Willis—Won’t you dine with me?
Gillis—Thank you, I just dined. I
was home and had my regular meal of
apples, apricots and asparagus.
Willis—Isn’t that a rather odd com-
bination?
Gillis—Well, you see, my wife went
to a domestic science school and had
to leave after the first week.—Life.
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his fancy as supreme and himself as from effective participation to the poli.
above the law. David was "off guard" tics of the state.
RESINOL BEGINS TO HEAL
SICK SKINS AT ONCE
You don’t have to WONDER if res-
inol ointment is doing you good. You
KNOW it is, because the first applica-
tion stops the itching and your tor--
tured skin feels cool and comfortable
at last. Why don’t YOU try this easy
resinol way to heal eczema or similar
skin eruption? Resinol clears away
pimples, too, and is a valuable house-
hold remedy for sunburn, poison-ivy,
cuts, sores, burns, chafings, etc. It
has been prescribed by doctors for 20
years and contains nothing that could
irritate or injure the tenderest skin.
Sold by all druggists.—Adv.
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in the matter of temptation, a danger-
ous position for all, both soldier and
civilian. David had had too long and
too great a period of success and pros-
perity after his long period of priva-
tion, and this led to carelessness and
pride. David was “off duty,” indulg-
ing in ease while Joab did his fighting.
As a result he became an adulterer
and a murderer, and the record in no
way seeks to palliate his guilt. From
all this the record brings to us many
important lessons. Outwardly pros-
perous and his army successful, Da-
vid must have felt in his heart the
spiritual blight in the words, “but the
thing was evil in the eyes of the
Lord” (v. 27 R. V.); no psalm writ-
ing then.
III. Nathan's Parable, II. Samuel,
12:1-7. It is an evidence of God’s
grace that he sent his servant to re-
buke and restore this “man after his
own heart.” Such is his mercy, for
he does not will that any should per-
ish but that all might come to the
knowledge of forgiveness (Ezekiel
33.11; Matthew 23:37). No parable
ever had its desired effect more quick-
ly than this one It brought conviction
and repentance (v. 13) and led to the
writing of the fifty-first psalm. It was
a delicate task set before Nathan thus
to rebuke the king, yet it reveals the
essential nobleness of David in that
he did not become angry. Nathan’s
task and his wisdom are revealed in ;
his approach and in the way he led
David to condemn, unwittingly, his
own course of action. This was bet-
ter than to begin by upbraiding and
denunciation. Verse two suggests, in-
ferentially, God’s great goodness to
David, which made the offense one of
gross ingratitude.
IV. Thou Art the Man”—v. 7a. Thus
far the story is one all too common,
then and now, of the strong crushing
the weak and glorying in their selfish-
ness. What follows is the evidence
of God’s response to man’s repentance,
the parallel to which has nowhere else
been found in the ancient world. The
glory of it is that David heard and
* heeded God’s messenger. The whole
sordid story with its resultant action
on David’s part brings us many price-
less lessons. (1) That man who had
lived a life of faith and communion
fell most miserably when he neglected
his duty and took his eyes off God.
There is a grave danger ahead of the
man who begins to trifle with sin (I
Cor. 10:12). (2) Though a man fall
(the godly man) yet he is not utterly
cast down. There is pardon for the
vilest sinner and the most abject
backslider. David’s murderous hands
and sin-stained soul found pardon
(Ps. 32 and 51). (3) A man's sins,
though he may find pardon, will cloud
all of his future.
Cured by a Bullet.
Private Redmond of the First Colo-
rado volunteers, once on duty at Ma-
nila, was the star stutterer of the
English army corps. Nothing in the
way of treatment did him any good,
and he realized sadly that he could
never be even a noncommissioned of-
ficer, because he could not give the
simplest words of command without
stuttering. He was a brave and effi-
cient soldier, and always first in the
firing line.
At the battle of Marquis Redmond
was shot in the mouth. The Mauser
bullet passed downward and came out
at the nape of the neck.
He was taken to the hospital, where
he recovered rapidly, and all that
could be seen of the wound was a lit-
tle scar about his upper lip where the
bullet entered. But the remarkable
thing about the affair was when he
left the hospital he was cured of his
habit of stuttering. How it happened
neither he nor the doctors can ex-
plain, but he was so joyous over the
fact that he blessed the bullet that
brought him relief.
Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel
fine and cheerful; make your work a
pleasure; be vigorous and full of am-
bition. But take no nasty, danger-
ous calomel, because it makes you
sick and you may lose a day’s work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver,
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That’s
when you feel that awful nausea and
cramping.
Listen to me! If you want to enjoy
the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced just
take a spoonful of harmless Dodson’s
Liver Tone. Your druggist or dealer
ss you a 50 cent bottle of Dodson’s
Liver Tone under my personal money-
PAYS NOTHING BACK.
This from Billy Sunday:
"The saloon comes as near being a
rat hole for a wage eamner to dump
his wages in as anything you can find,
The only interest it pays is red eyes
and foul breath and the loss of health.
You go in with money and you come
out with empty pockets. You go in
with character and you come out ru-
ined. You go in with a good position
and you lose it. You iqse your posi-
tion in the bank, or in the cab of the
locomotive. And the saloon pays noth-
ing back but disease and damnation
and gives an extra dividend in delir-
ium tremens and a free pass to per-
dition. And then it will let your wife
be buried in the potter’s field, and
your children go to the asylum, and
yet you walk out and say that the
saloon is a good institution, when it
is the dirtiest thing on earth. It
hasn’t one leg to stand on and has
nothing to commend it to a decent
man, not one thing.”
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mouth in favor of return of license; to headquarters for examination,
neither has any schoolteacher. ......
This is a lesson that demands great
care in its presentation and treatment,
which will differ widely according to
age. For the younger the briefest sort
of statement that David fell in love
with Uriah’s wife and to obtain her
had her husband killed will be suffi-
cient. With such, throw the emphasis
upon the danger of harboring evil
thoughts and the need of heart purity
(see Golden Text).
With adults, however, some time
may be devoted to the social evil
which is such a menace to every na-
tion, care being taken lest the discus-
sion become morbid, or that we neglect
to emphasize the fact that the cure
is not in regulation or reformation but
in the regeneration of the human
heart
I. David’s Many Good Deeds, JI
Samuel, 7 and 9. As a background
for his most repulsive sin David had a
long list of excellent deeds. His de-
sire for a better abiding place for the
ark was not according to God’s will
for two reasons: first, that an ornate
house might easily corrupt, through
idolatry, the spirtuality of the Hebrew
religion; second, David was a man of
war and therefore not qualified for
temple building. Though denied, David
did not despair, but at once provided
that his successor carry out his desire.
II. David’s One Great Sin, II Sam-
uel, 11:6. David’s victories over his
enemies are dismissed in a few
verses, yet his sin is set forth in de-
tail—another evidence of the divine
origin and inspiration of the Bible.
David had followed the example of
neighboring kings and taken to him-
self many wives, evidently regarding
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Nelson, H. L. The Mainland Messenger (Dickinson, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 2, 1915, newspaper, June 2, 1915; Dickinson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577452/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.