The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-28
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; He had honored his father and mother.
/: This is NOBLE trait of character. There
| is no promise of long life to any man
| who does not honor his father and mother.
God pity the little soul that can speak
unkindly Of father and mother. Of al
the people in the world there is no bod,
who can take the place of father and
mother. Honor thy father and thy moth
er, that thy days may be long in the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee"
| These are all noble characteristics in
this young man. God gives us more such
young men! But he was conscious Of a
| lack. He was not at rest. His question
is plaiEtive, honest acknowledgements of
the hungry void within, that could not
be filled with his wealth or good deeds
There was an aching void Within that
could only be filled by Jesus. Without
Jesus his life was all a failure. SO he
came to Jesus seeking the better way.
He wanted eternal life. Jesus told him
he could have it by making complete
surrender of himself and his possessions
to Him. 1t was at this point that the
young man broke down. He wanted eter-
nal life, but he was not willing to pay
the price. He was tied to earth by the
cords of his wealth. Nothing will satisfy
Jesus but an absolute surrender IF all
we have and are to Him. The hands must
be emptied of all treasures and the hearts
swept clean of all lesser loves. if He is
TO dwell in our hearts. Manv of us are
kept from entire surrender to Jesus Christ,
by money and worldly possessions; and
shrivelled and weak and ioyless because
they are tied to- their money They love
their money more than they love the Lord
and would think it madness to do as this
young man was hidden to do But Jesus
will have the whole heart or nothing at
ALL
Jesus called on this young man to
make an absolute surrender to Him. In
Jesus alone could he find eternal life.
He must surrender his possessions be-
cause he must hold nothing between him
and Jesus. He must follow Jesus There
was work for him to do and he must
be willing to give up everything to do it.
Jesus calls on us all to surrender to him.
He does not call on all to give up business
but He does call upon all to use their
business for His glory But this young
man could not pay the price. He went
away sorrowful. | love to think that he
afterwards got his consent to make al
full surrender to Jesus and follow him un-
reservedly.
No man who does this will loose his
reward. Jesus has said that every man
who follows Him shall receive an album
dant reward in this present time, and
In the life to come everlasting.
Mr.. B. ]. Mahon, once depot agent
here, is now the regular and permanent
agent of the G. and 5. I. railroad att
Florence. A young man, supposed to be
from Alabama, is the operator.
w. l. Butler is moving his drugs this
week from the Ellis building near the
post office into the store room UNDER tn
lodge just across the depot street. There
Mr.. Butler will have greater space for
his immense soda fount and his general
drug business
The play called "Nfrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch" held the boards Tuesday
night, as previously advertised in the
News The play was just splendid ALL
through. Miss Katharine Smith acted
Mrs. Wigs to perfection, and evidently
she controlled the whole affair through
out. Everything moved smoothly. No
one felt restless or tired For the one
hour occupied for the performance, every
one heartily enjoyed the scenes and PLAYS
There was not hitch anywhere. All the
players acted perfectly natural. They
certainly were well trained, and we
presume Miss Smith was the successful
trainer, with probably some assistance
for 1t was too much for just one to do
successfully. The crowd was all thar
could have been expected, for the audito-
rum was about all filled and all the
people OF the town who were physically
able, were there and enjoyed the play to
the full. The play ended few minutes
after g p. m. The crowd found them
selves in moment in one of the larger
recitation rooms where the most delicious
ice cream was dealt out to them at ten
cents per saucer, and was heartily en-
loyed. Everybody was happy. No little
one was over looked in the ice cream
feast. The manager assured us they
would not be. We tried to find some
little girl or boy that might fail of n |
saucer of the cream; but none could be
found. Even your ycung editor Of the
Florence page was not overlooked. One
of the managers and another gentleman
would not allow us to pay for our eating.
So we tried to treat some little child |
but found none lacking.
We were informed Wednesday morning
that the ladies. in this nice affair realized !
nearly $1,000 in cash which according to
the purpose will be used 10 having ihe