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Substituted Trustee.
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WANT STEEL, FOUR DRAWER,
filing cabinet. Must be cheap for
cash. Box sol, City.
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WANTED 500 USED PENN AND
Pflueger Reels to clean or repair.
Sneeden's Wilmington Cycle Co.
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basement of the red-brick two-family house
where he lives in St. Louis Mr.. Mcdonald
doesn't smile when he calls them that, either.
But merchant would For not one of Mr..
McDonald's customers" has cent to spend.
No, they're all poor - desperately poor.
They have in common something else rather
more important than their poverty: children.
whose universal right is JOY at Christmas
time And that why these folks come to Mr..
McDonald's basement. This quiet, fifty-two-
year old bachelor sees to it that their little
youngsters pallid faces will light, their eyes
shine on the day of the greatest Of all gifts.
Edward Mcdonald is no rich man who can
dispense largesse through checking account.
He's paper hanger and painter who doesn't
even have steady employment. But last year
he supplied l,l39 children with Christmas
toys, candy and oranges. How does he do it?
It's very simple MIR. Mcdonald thinks.
Il just put in my spare time making toys
and tracking down clues as to where can get
materials and supplies for little or nothing"
How II Begon
IT ALL started fourteen years ago on nippy
November day when Edward Mcdonald was
sent out to do job of painting in dilapi-
dated tenement house. There he heard little
girl ask her father what Santa Claus would
bring her. The father hesitated and looked
away from the child. but he couldn't bring
himself to tell her the truth; he answered,
Something nice j hope"
The brush kept right on making precise,
even strokes on the yellowish paint, but the
painter was seeing in his mind the child's
expectant eyes, the father averted gaze.
That evening when he finished work
Mcdonald went by grocery store on the
way home and asked if he might have some
discarded packing crates. At home, with the
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In one-man basement carpenter shop Edward
Mcdonald bachelor with hobby and heart makes
Christmas toys for the ST. Louis poor Il just put in my
spare time" he says But that isn't all you'll
by Alberta Williams

usual hammer, saw and nails that are most
any mans standard basement equipment, he
made from the lumber in the crates some
pretty little chairs and tables Some leftover
bright paint made the pieces festive and
pretty enough to compare favorably with ex-
pensive things shown downtown in the toy
departments. Yes, Santa Claus would bring
the little girl something nice. But there were
50 many other little girls and boys. What
about them?
With this thought Edward Mcdonald one
man Santa Claus factory was born. That first
year he sleuthed out fifty-four children whose
parents weren't able to give them anything
for Christmas. Working far into the nights,
Mcdonald made toys for these fifty-four;
with his own money he bought candy and
oranges Christmas Day he was happy, in
the happiness he had brought to Others. and
sad because he knew there must still be in
his home city many children who were know
ing no fine rapture, no high glee that wonder
full day. He'd have to work out some plan for
next year and the years after that -.
Every year since that first year, Mr.. Nc
Donald has been Santa Claus's stand-in for
hundreds of poor children. His plan, as he
finally developed it, leaves the task of ferret
ing out needy children to churches, civic or
CARNATIONS and social-service groups, to
which he furnishes blanks for listing the ages
and sex of the children who are to receive
presents. The filled-m blanks are given to the
parents, who present them as their shopping
credentials at McDonald's basement. This
leaves Mcdonald free to give all his spare
time to toymaking and scouting for materials.
He has become extremely capable at both.
For instance, he observes that chain shoe
store has window display using beautiful
eighteen-inch dolls. He visualizes the delight
of little girl at one of these dolls in doll bed
that he can make. Mcdonald calls on the
chain-store company's promotion manager
and explains things. What are the chances of
getting those dolls when the company dis
continues the present display? He gets
the dolls.
Mcdonald has no helpers in making the
toys, but friends, interested in his work, give
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MY CUSTOMERS" is what
Edward Mcdonald
calls them, these shah
bily-dressed men and
women who, for the
three weeks preceding
Christmas, come in a
steady stream to the
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lumber, paint and other materials. An cleo
trio company sent power driven saw to his
aid With the small cash contributions that
various individuals and clubs give him, he
buys candy and oranges and toy mechanisms
that he cannot make himself.
The toys Mcdonald makes are highly
professional looking - dashingly handsome
scarlet black scooters and wagons, all
sorts of colored furniture decorated with stem
ciled flowers, little folding ironing boards,
horses, dogs, ROSTERS and other animals
mounted on hinged sticks so that, when the
sticks are moved, the creatures run, fight,
jump and perform various fascinating antics.
The Mcdonald basement has, of course
long since been given over entirely to the
proprietors avocation. On the day of the
grand opening, three weeks before Christmas,
this is heartening spot to visit. The place
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is CHEEKY with Christmas decorations and the
three-tie shelves along all the walls are
filled with the charming toys.
The service is marked by that same eager
to-please attitude that cash customers en-
counter in a store. Mr.. Mcdonald examines
a mother blank and sees that it lists boy
seven and girl five. From then on it's as if
that mother had money to spend
Good "SoIesmon"
If HE'S seven perhaps he'd like scooter
and a game of marbles" the toymaker sug-
gests. And most little girls of five are old
enough to be proud of an armchair or table"
Under such treatment and in such sur
roundings people who often come to the
Mcdonald basement with an awful mistrust
of accepting charity leave with the quick.
purposeful step of self-respect, the smile that
tells of renewed hope and faith.
Mr. Mcdonald hears reports of the delight
children take in his work, but he's never once
seen child's face glow with pleasure at the
sight of his toys. He can't permit parents to
bring children to the basement with them,
because then the youngsters would be dis
illusioned as to the source of their presents.
And he's never been present in customers
home on Christmas morning to see the won
drous, surprised JOY his hobby brings. With
all his persevering hours of work, he's denied
this inspiration.
Il don't need to see that on Christmas,
Mcdonald insists. Il see it all year in my
mind when I'm making the toys. The thing l
wish didn't have to picture are the faces of
children everywhere who have no Christmas
toys. Seems to me that in every community
there ought to be one or more people doing
this sort of thing. Anybody with little
knack at carpentering can do it. And car
pentering makes as good spare-time hobby
as bowling, or billiards or soft ball. get lot
of satisfaction and pleasure out of the little
shop I've rugged up in my basement, and I'm
glad if it brings some happiness into the
world"
1t seems peculiarly appropriate, almost
symbolic, that the Christmas JOY of hundreds
of St. Louis children comes from an impro-
vised basement carpentry shop. Nearly two
thousand years ago humble carpenters
shop was the environment of the spirit that
brought US the ideal of giving love, and joy,
and happiness to others.
The End
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Leseson XIII June 80
JONAH; THE OUTREACH
OF GODS LOVE

Golden Text-Salavation is Of
the Lord, Jonah 2;9.
LESSON TExT-Jnoah 3;l-l0,
read also $40, II.
~ And the word Of the Lord
came unto Jonah the second time,
saying, (2) Arise, 60 unto Nine
veh, that great city, and preach
unto 1t the preaching that l bid
thee. (S) So Jonah arose, and went
unto Nineveh, according to the
word Of the LORD. Now Nineveh
was an exceeding great city Of
three days journey. (4) And Jo-
nah began to enter into the city
. days journey, and he cried
and said, Yet forty days, and Min
sveh shall be overthrown. (b) So
the people Of Nineveh believed
God, and proclaimed q fast, and
put on sackcloth, from the great
est Of them even to the least Of
them. (8) For word came unto the
king Of Ninevch, and he arose
from his throne, and he laid his
robe from him, and covered him
with sackcloth, and sat in ashes
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WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

ca And he caused it TO be pre-
claimed and published through
Nineveh by the decree Of the king
and his MOBILES, saying, Let neith-
er man nor beast, herd nor flock
taste any thing; let them not feed
nor drink water; (8) But let man
and best be coveredd with sack
cloth, and cry nightly unto God;
yea, let thine turn every one from
his evil way, and from the viol-
encc that is in their hands. (9D
Who can tell II God will turn and
repent, and turn away from his
fierce anger, that we perish not?
(l0) And God saw their works,
that they turned from their evil
way; and God repented of the
evil, that he had said that he
would do unto them; and he did it
not.
Time--About 1862 B. c. Place
Nineveh.
Exposition Il "Preach the
Preaching That ! Bid Thee" Ii,
"The word Of Jehovah came un
to Jonah the second time" 1t was
wonderful grace on Gods part
that it did. God does not always
give us q second chance when we
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turned from their evil way" w.
l0). When Nineveh turned from
their evil way, God turned from
the punishment that He was about
to visit upon them. As God is
Interchangeable in character, He
must change from the attitude that
is hateful to Him to the attitude
that is acceptable to Him. 1t may
be said that Jonah's prophecy that
in forty days Nineveh would be
destroyed had failed, but Gods
predictions of ruin by His own
statement are never absolute and
unconditional (Jer. 1s;7-10)
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JUNE 20, 1910
MALACHI DEMANDS
HONESTY TOWARD GOD

Golden Text - Bring ye the
whole tithe into the store-house,
that there may be food in my
house, and prove me now herewith,
saith the Lord Of hosts, il will
not open you the windows of hea-
ven, and pour you out blessing,
that there shall not be room en-
ough to receive it. Malachi $40.
LESSON TEXT--Malachi 3;7-
49, A.~N,
ca Even from the days Of your
fathers ye are gone away from
mine ordinances, and have not kept
them. Return unto me, and l
will return unto you, saith the
LORD Of hosts, But ye said, Where
in shall we return? (S) Will a
man rob God? Yet ye have rob-
bed thee? In tithes and offer
ings. (9) Ye are cursed with q
curse; for ye have robbed me,
even this whole nation. (l0) Bring
ye all the tithes into the store
house that there may be meat in
mine house, and prove me now
herewith, saith the LORD Of hosts
II l will not open you the windows
, of haeven, and pour you out u
blessing, that there shall not be
room enough to receive it. QD
And will rebuke the devourer for
your sakes, and he shall not de-
stroy tho fruits Of your ground; !;
either shall your vine cast her
fruit before the time in the field
saith the LORD Of hosts. (12)
And all nations shall call you
blessed; for ye shall be q delight
! some land, saith the LORD OF
hosts. (ls) Your words have been
stout against me, saith the LORD
Yet ye say, What have we spok-
on SO much against thee7 (l4) Ye
have said, It is van to serve God
and what profit is 1t that we have
kept his ordinance, and that we
have walked mournfully before
the LORD Of hosts? (l5) And
now we call the proud happy; yea,
they that work wickedness are set
up; yea, they that tempt God are
even delivered. (ie) Then they
that feared the LORD spake often
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refuse the first (Nuin. l4;40-Io)
Jnoah was simply to preach the
preaching that God bade nm tW
-. We are not to preach what
prudence dictates or what we
nave reasoned out, or what we
think or guess, whether men will
hear or iorbear (Ezek. 2;O We
are TO preach all God bids US
preach (Jer. l;l7; Ac. 20;27) The
Hebrew word translated "preach"
means literally to cry out" or
call out" and sets forth the in
tense earnestness and insistence
that is necessary on the part OF
the true representative Of God.
Jonah proved the genuineness OF
his own repentance b yimmediate-
ly rising and doing as he was told.
He went without asking any ques-
tons. The great secret of hap
py and useful life is doing at
ance Just what God bids US do.
Nineveh was a vast and magniii-
cent city ". 81, but its vastnes
and magnifieence did not atone
for its wickedness.
There were many things worth
seeing in Nineveh, but Jonah did
not spend his time sightseeing
he began at once crying yet
forty days and Nineveh shall be
overthrow" To some it would
have seemed better if Jonah had
given a few preliminary discoursss
on the authority of the Word OF
God, or in proof Of his own pre-
phetic calling, or ION the agree
ment between his message and
current scientific and philosophi-
cal opinions" or the argument
for tho existence and retributive
justice Of God. II someone had
said to Jonah, 1--WE want argu-
ment and not mere assertion he
would simply have cried again.
"Yet forty days and Nincveh shall
be overthrown," The form Of the
warning itself showed that the
fuliillment Of the prediction was
conditioned upon continuance OF
SIN. Those forty days were days
of testing and opportunity for re-
pentance. Forty Is always the
number Of testing and probation
In the Bible. This warning was
intended in mercy and rot in wrath
and SO are all Gods sternest warn
ings. The unkindest preacher in
the world is the one who slurs
over Gods warnings and speaks
only the smooth things. Warning
and opportunity for repentance
usually precede judgment in Gods
dealing luke 1873, 81. Jonah did
not hesitate to appeal to fear and
no true preacher ever does.
II The Repentance Of the Men
of Nincveh $40.
The first step in Nineveh's re-
pentance was that they "believed
God That Is always the first step
in true repentance. BY believing
1onah. who waA Gods prophet,
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spake often one to another; and
the LORD hearkened, and hesrd
it, and a book Of remembrance
was written before him for thsn
that feared the LORD, and thss
thought upon his name. (i7) And
they shall be mine, saith the
LORD of hosts, in that day when
l make up my jewels; and ! viii
spare them, as q man spassth biz
own soA that servsth him. (1s)
Then shall ye return and disesrA
between the righteous and the
wicked, between him that serveth
God and him that serveth him not
TINE 4;30 B. c. PLACE -
Jerusalem.
Exposition The Guilt and Fol-
ly of Robbing God, TO.
The Prophecy Of Malachi was
occasioned by the unfaithfnlnsss Of
the people toward Jehovah. They
were blind to their unfaithfulnsss
when Jehovah brought His charges
they constantly replied with
"Wherein" have we done this or
that (ch. 1;6, z; 2;l4, II; 81, 9.
13 r. W. Malachi was speaking
for God. In the earlier part Of this
chapter God had declared that He
would send His messenger to pre-
pare the way for Himself and
the character Of the messenger
and his work Tvs. 1-6). The Lord
was coming to execute judgment
upon various classes Of sinners
and to be a swift witness sgsinst
them ". 81. All through His deal
ings with Israel God had called
them to repentance and promised
them pardon ". 7; Ct. Lew 26i<0.
AZ.
From the days Of their fathers
Israel had gone astray from God's
ordinances, and from the days Of
the fathers Gods constant CRY was
"Rcturn unto me and I will re-
turn unto you" ". y. In the blind
self-righteousness Of their hsarts
the people asked. wherein shall
we return?" With similar pre-.
tense Of guiltlessness those whs
reject Christ today are saytns,
wherein shall We rsturni" II y
a startling question that God pats
in verse 8, "Will . man rob 0od"
Then God goes on to tall how,
ain tithes and offerings." Ths
law Of tithes In the lsttss of u
belongs to the oh Covenant, but
we are under moral obligations
higher than the Jew, and ~ man
who does not set . proper poTtioa
Of his income apart for 0ed's
work Is robbins God. Do you give
as much as you ought for foreign
missions7 We rob Him In the Ne
Of our time. talents, our strength.
our use Of the Lords Day etc. Ths
result 10 appalling ". o..
II Bring Ys All the Tithss H.
10 the storshouss" io.la
(Cestiausa = nask tsesl
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tney Hhu pei'SNeu Nou
(Jno. 1920 1t always pays to
believe God e Chron. 2O;2O) II
there had been any Higher Critics
in Nineveh they would have
taught the people that Jonah's
warning should be taken only as
poem and that they should be on
their guard against slavish literal
ism a9d must not take Jonah's
prediction too literally. They
showed they believed God first
of all by humbling themselves be-
fore Him. From the greatest o.
them even to the least Of them
they tasted and put on sackcloth.
Tidings of Jonah's teaching at
last penetrated even to the palace
and the king also believed. As
mighty a king as he was, he re-
cognized the fact that there was a
greater King. Three elements Of
repentance were set forth in the
royal decree-Humiliation OF self,
prayer, turning away from sin.
The power was to be intense; they
must cry nightly unto God; that
is the only kind of prayer that
conuts with God (Jer, 1918; Ac,
1875, R. v. Rom. 1880; Col. 4;l2,
10, R. W Having humbled them
selves and cried to God they
were to "tun every one from his
evil way" Mere huniliation of
self and prayer will effect nothing
II there is not merciless dealing
with sin; the very essence Of re-
pcntance is turning from sin lisa
$3.50, n.
The sin from which we today
must especially turn If our re-
pentance Ia to b. acceptable to
God is the sin Of rcpecting Jesus
Christ. (Ac. 2;S6-sS; S;l4, Ii, 1917
The men of Nineveh shall stand
up in the Judgment with this
generation and shall condemn it
luke ll;iS). Ono fact gave Jo-
nah's preaching such power, the
fact that he was practically n man
who had come back from the dead
the fact Of Christ's resurrection
takes away all excuse for repect-
ing Him. The purpose Of Nine
veh's repentance was to induce
Dol, II possible, to repent and
turn away from His fierce anger
". ~, that they might not per-
ish. III neon Of Ninsveh had q
bare hope, that God might repent
and turn from His anger; we have
an absolute certainty founded
upon Gods own Word that II we
repent God will turn from His an
ger toward Us (Ac. s;lS; Luke IL
7, lg. w.
The mon Of Nineveh would have
been great fools II they had not
acted upon the bare hope, and how
much greater fool any man Is who
does not act upon the certainty
today. What God looked at espec-
tally In their repentance was
"their works." the fact that they
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COLEMAN CHAPEL AME ZION
5th and Bender Streets
$3.50 Sunday School
100 a. m. Morning Service
7:45 Night Service
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UNION A. M. E. CHURCH
Wright Avenue and Pulaski Streets
Rev. G. W. Blackmsn. Pastor
$3.50 Sunday School
II 90 q. m. Morning Service
$50 A. C. E. League
-:45 Night Service
ST. ANDREWS A. NJ. E. CHURCH
33rd and State Streets
Rev. R. Il. Thompson
$3.50 Sunday School
II 90 a. m. Morning Service
$50 A. C. E. League
,.7:45 Night Service
BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH
North Little Rock
$3.50 Sunday School
II 90 a. M. Morning Service
6 80 A. e. +. League
7:45 Night Service
MILES CHAPEL C. M. E. CHURCH
Rev. H. N. Rhodes. D. D. Pastor
5th and Bender Street
$3.50 Sunday School
II 100 a. m. Morning Service
$50 Epworth League
7:45 Night Service
-
SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH
18th and Hanger Streets
Rev. C. d. Pettiway, Pastor
$3.50 Sunday School
II 90 a. m. Morning Service
$3.50 P. NJ. B. Y. P. U. and BAU
7:45 Night Service