The Newtown bee., 1905-11-24
eat no flesh while the world standeth,
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COOS WOrQ certainty lOlQS TO CQe
fact OF our responsibility toward our
1t is 50 easy to see the splinter in our
brothers eye and not to see the rafter
which is in our own. Our responsible
ity is claimed by the law Of the land;
it is held to by the world at large in
it's moral status; it is set before US by
the Bible, the Word of God. God not
alone asks "Where is thy brOther?'
but also clearly tells us that we are
our brothers keeper.
WHEN YOU WE'RE BOYS TOGETHER,
that brother and you, and there was
any mischief going on, and there was
punishment awaiting one of you at
the hand of father or mother, who
must at times be stern, those thin lips
were tightly set together while you
willingly bore punishment and would
not reveal by as much as groan who
the real culprit was. In time of dam
ger you were ready to warn and save;
when help of any kind was needed you
were willing and eager to be at hand.
The boyiSh heart was filled with love
for that brother who was SO dear to
you. How is it now? Has the boy
hood love waXed cold? Has that heart
SO ready to respond to brother be-
come heart OF stone? Has the old
eagerness to help died out? Grown to
manhood, to years of discretion and
responsibility, you see that same broth
er on his Way to perditiOn, ignorant If
the way Of Life, in greater pearl ano
danger Of punishment than he ever
was in boyhood and yet you do not
warn him nor lift a finger to save.
Has the boy, now in manhood really
forgotten his pure and binding love?
Fl as the open-hearted boy become a
greedy, graSping groveling wretch that
he should leave his brother to deStruc
ton? No, say not SO. Say rather that
we are not realizing our responsible
ity in the matter. That the boyhood
love is still there, that the good heart
ed boy has become good hearted man,
but that we need to awaken to the
fact that we are our brothers keeper.
Thus in seeking out our brother and
bringing him to the enjoyment of the
| Christian life as we have found it in
| Christ Jesus we are coming back to
the position we ought to occupy rela-
tive to our brother. If a brother is in
need, give to him. If in financial diff
ticulty stretch out loving hands to lift
him up. Invite him to come to God
as you have come: let him enjoy all
that God has for His children as you
are doing. Only let US realize our re-
sponsibility in this matter and there
need be no fear as to the results.
Roberts, in his book, "Earth's ENG
mas" tells story entitled, "Do Seek
Their Meat From God.'' The moon
has sent its rays through the forest in
to the ravine when panther slowly
energies from his lair. He lifts his
His mate busted with the cubs whose
eyes had not as yet beheld the light
presently follows him. She too sends
forth her menacing call, and together,
they steal forth to seek their meat
from God. A sound penetrates tC
their ears which brings them to halt
and listening attitude. 1t was the
voice of child crying-plaintiv and
hopeless it sounds in their ears.
| INTHE THICK OF THE WOODS
stood a cabin where had lived drunk
ard and his child. The child, I. seven
the settlement but because OF his
training was severed from him by
command of the father, who would
not have his child playing with the
drunkard's boy. from him learning
such language as would not be fitting
! in polite society. The drunkard and
son finally moved away, but the little
| Settler-bOy came to seek his playmate
and not finding him sat and wept, Sob
bling passionately for his lost playmate.
The darkness came and the laddie
afraid to venture home stole into the
desolate cabin and in the furthest cor.
ner sat and wept. At times his cry
would cease and the child would listen
for one to come and take him home.
| But all was still and again the wall
| rose reaching even to the ears OF the
pantherS
Along the highway, at some dis
lance from the cabin weary man
podded his way homeward. Over his
shoulder was slung a double barrelIed
towing piece from which hung hun-
| die of purchases made in town fal
away. AS be wended his way by the
wood road leading to the cabin, Cry
of child sounded upon his ear He
stopped, lowered his burden to the
road and listened, as did Just then the
panthers far off in the woods. Their
ears we're keener than his. Presently
he understood that the Cry came from
the squatter's cabin. He despised
the drunken squatter; the boy be re-
garded in an unfavorable light as a
playmate for his own boy. He went
on again but the cry rang out with
| more shrillneSS than before. He
thought of his own boy at home and
turned back to care for the drunkard's
| child.
The panthers entered the clearing
| with no expectation of conflict for it
| was the cry of child and not at all to
| be feared. At the same moment the
settler emerged into the moonlight
| and beheld the beasts Of prey gliding
toward the open cabin door. The set
tier stopped, thought Of his own boy
safe at home and of this little one left
| to the beasts. "Thank God 1 came!
Thank God | came" he murmured as
he dropped on one knee, the better to
aim. He fired and the female dropped,
snarling furiously and striking with
her fore-paws. The male walked
round her in fierce and anxious amaze
ment. The smoke lifting, he saw the
settler. ready to fire again. The beast
escaped as the gun was fired, seizing the
hunter by the shoulder. The man
sought to throw him off and finally
succeeded, the bullet taking effect,
He rose, bleeding freely from the
shoulder. and entered the cabin NPnnr