The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-14
By DADDY JIM

ones look to him Tor support. He has managed
to keep them in school till now, and it looks like
he has gone far he can. His wife is frail
He has not a relative in the world who help
him. He is behind with his house rent, and has
been notified to give up the house. He doesn't
know where to go or what to do. Must he send
his children to the Orphans Home? Must he
separate his family? Must he beg? He is
good, true man, and he has hesitated to tell the
people of his condition Will you help him and
his feeble wife and his helpless little children?
Corkscrew Methods.
| could tell you of people who have died in
attcs here since | have lived Noteworthy peo-
ple-who lived and labored here for years and
then died away from any home at all. They
white people-our own race-and they
members of the church of God All the cases I
have told you of belong to the churches in this
town. They are homeless and without means,
and without health. 1t is such cases these
that frequently wake up a community when
suicide is announced; for I tell you it must be
hard for father to his little suffer
when it is no fault of his 1t is hard for
to be dependent the people for her daily bread,
and have to beg that. You may ask the ques-
ton How came they to be in this state? Now
listen again. Jesus never one time said that.
But He said: Feed the hungry and cothe the
naked" He said the cup of cold water to His
little ones will not lose His reward. And
as live and you live, WI at is called the organ
lied charities Of this country causing many
to suffer rather than apply to them, because of
their Corkscrew method of dealing out the funds.
"Freely We have received, freely give is what
the great Teacher said. l tell you are putting
thousands of dollars into stained glass memorial
windows that are needed for the daily bread and
the clothes and the homes of the suffering living.
We are building fifty thousand dollar churches to
attract the people, when the little ones" are go
ing hungry and cold and naked.
Jesus and the Old Lady.
Listen to this little story certain rich lady
in her parlor rainy, cold evening,
graduating herself on the abundance of her
charity. She president of this, and director
of that and secretary of the other. Only that
day she had sent tea to one poor woman, a quilt
to poor man, and dress to little child. While
she thinking of these things she began to
think about her Lord and how glad she would
be to Him. At that moment He entered the
door and she arose to greet Him. But He beck
oned her to follow Him. He took her to the
home of the poor man. There in his howell she
found him without fire and suffering from hunger;
and wrapped around him was the quilt. He was
moaning with pain from his rheumatism and
Jesus pointed to him and said, This is of
My little Ones" she recognized the thin quilt she
had sent to him.
He carried her next to the home of the woman
and there they found little girl trying to per-
suade her consumptive mother to drink cup of
the tea ''the kind lady sent her that day.. The
tea was some that had been discarded because too
old for her Jesus said, "This is another of
My little ones
Then He carried her to the place to which she
had sent the little dress; and there they found
little girl twelve years old watching the baby Sis
ter while mother had gone to carry the washing
uomo 1uoy were UOIu hungry, anu Iu0 llICle one
crying from the cold, and complaining of
hunger. The lady the little thin slip she had
sent that day and the older child called the
attention of the younger to it and how warm it
was, Jesus said "This is another of My little
ones" She tried to clasp His feet and cry for
forgiveness, but He gone and she awoke.
Then she said, st will do something worthy of
my Lord Heretofore have only given what
was ashamed to or what worthless to
me, but will hereafter give the richest and best
gifts to my King
What Self-Denial May Do.