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What Is Thy
Name?
By REV. PARLEY E. ZARTMANN. D.D.
SacreUry of Exteorion Department .
Moody Bibla Institute. Chicago
' TEXT And he said, unto him, what la
thy name? And he said, Jacob. Genesis
82::i7.
The Dible is an
honest book; it
does not hide any
thing -when . it
tells us the story
of a man's life;
and this very
characteristic is
one of the evi
dences of the di
vine origin and in
spiration of the
book; an unin
spired man would
have left out the
dark pages and
dark places.
I---
. Jacob was a
wonderful character and God intend
ed him for a great work, although to
accomplish his purpose he had hard
work with this one of the . leaders of
the Jewish race. To understand this
character requires and invites pro
found study, and as a result we shall
'not be inclined .to throw stones at
him. How much he is like ourselves.
His failings appeal to us and comfort
us; his aspirations speak to us and
cheer us in our own efforts; his sor-
lows bring comfort in our own times
of bereavement and separation. If
ever you . are discouraged or down
hearted, take courage. The God who
wrought wonders in Jacob and in
Simon Peter can do as much for you,
if he can have his way with you.
The chapter in which, the text is
found is a great chapter in the life
of this' unusual man, and marks a
crisis in' his temporal career and in
his spiritual experience; and the lat
ter was of far more importance, for
God was making this man a new head
of the race which he had designated
as his own. There are three -im
portant scenes in the chapter. " Morn
ing, when the angel host met him;
afternoon, when he received news that
Easau was coming to meet him and
this news stirred him to fear and
brought him to prayer; and night.
when he was alone with God and
there wrestled a man with him. In
these scenes the temporal and spir
itual life of Jacob begin anew, and
two lessons stand out clearly: First,
God demands spiritual men for spir
itual work; second, surrender to God
is the only but the necessary condi
tion to this spiritual life. At the
end of the struggle we read that God
blessed him there.
The Struggle.
' Let us not miss the facts of the
story nor misinterpret them. How
often we hear or read that Jacob
wrestled with God at Peniel; . but we
read "And Jacob was left alone; and
there wrestled a man with him until
the breaking of the day." It does not
represent Jacob as beginning the
struggle, but as being the second
party in the contest. It Is not an il
lustration of wrestling with God in
prayer. It was an endeavor on God's
part to break down Jacob's opposi
tion, to bring him to an end of him
self, to ' take from him all self-trust,
all confidence in his own cleverness
and resources, to make him know
that Esau is to be overcome and
Canaan gained not by craft or flattery
but by divine grace and power; and
step by step as we go through the
story and study the experience we ob
serve the contrast between nature and
grace, man and God, self-effort and di-
vine power. Men crush the quartz
to get out the gold, but God crushes
. In Christ. Made Free.
'There is no man that sinneth not."
But the force of gravity while never
ceasing, can be overcome. A man
may be in a balloon and fastened
firmly to the earth, but the moment he
cuts the cable that holds him down he
finds another force operating and car
rying him aloft in spite of himself, and
the higher he rises the weaker be
comes the earth ptill. So ln in the
members exists as long as the indi
vidual does, but in Christ It is inop
erative, the spirit every moment giv
ing deliverance, giving victory. "The
law of the spirit of life in .Christ Jesus"
hath made, me free, from the law of
sin and death." Rev. Arthur T. Pier
son. -- ;
Aggressive Christians. ...
A disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Captain of our Salvation, must be
In a moral sense an aggressive man.
not afraid to take part In assaults on
the Intrenchments of evil, and ready
to deal the adversary of souls at. any
time a hard blow. The ancient Greek
warriors, who were accustomed . to
throw leaden plummets from their
Expected a "Ripping" Time.
A" merry schoolboy was about to
spend his vacation on his grandfa
ther's farm. He expected to enjoy a
great and glorious time. The day
before his departure, his mother, pass
ing his room, saw him kneeling b&
side a chair In the-corner with his
head bowed. As the lad was still in
the same position when she repassed
the door, some ten 'minutes later, the
mother stopped. ' ,-:
"Well, Richard, what are you do
inr?" '; -. - :
the' man' to get the gold mto him. He
gei j6coo into a corner, and so he
deals with us when we are trying to
make our own plans successful.
The Touch.
"And when he saw that he nrevail-
ed not against him
hollow of his thigh; and the hoilow
of Jacob's thigh was out of joint. aa
he wrestled with him." Ju fit" "u: Vi era
Jacob considers himself the strongest,
there God put his finger and brings his
strength to naught; it is only when
we are weak that we are really
strong;" It is just when God has put
his finger on our place of resistance
that the way is ODen for blesslnsr.
power and usefulness. It is a differ
ent place and a different exneriene&
with each one of us. God brings pain,
and sorrow, shame and confusion, or
loss and grief, as the case may be. In.
a thousand different ways he seeks to
make us like unto himself; but at the
end he accomplishes his purposes and
causes us to rejoice In him. His
touch always takes away the power
to wrestle, but not always the desire;
but may It do that for you, and do it
now. What ia "between you and God?
Cease wrestling and struggling, and
cry "I will not - let thee go, except
thou bless me" It will come. It was
ho in the case of Moses, of Job, and
of a host of others. And let us re
member that this experience is a real
crisis in our lives; God wants to
bring you as he did Jacob, from cun
ning to clinging, from resisting to
resting. .
The Question.
"What is thy name?" And he told
the truth; let us give this wily man all
credit for that. A few days ago he
would have said it and with pride
but now with confession and confu
sion: "And he said, Jacob." God asks
you that question; I pray you, tell him
the truth. You may hide your real
name and character from men, but not
from God. Be honest with him. It
may bring shame, confusion, tears, but
teU him that you thought you were
so and so, but now at close grips with
God you know you are only Jacob
''Vile and full of sin I am, thou are
full of grace and truth." God's great
est difficulty is our own lack of hon
esty, want of fairness, and failure to
eive ud everything except a claim on
the righteousness of Jesus Christ
The Result.
"And he said, Thy name shall be
called no more Jacob (Suplanter), but
Israel: for as a prince hast thou pow
er with God and with men, and hast
prevailed. . . . And he blessed
him there. . . . And the sun rose
upon him." Three gracious results
followed this remarkable experience:
A new name or character, a new pow
er, and a" new experience; no wonder
Jacob called the name vof the place
Peniel. "For I have met God face to
face."
' And he blessed him there. May all
these blessings be yours. God has
made such promise to you. Rev. 2:17
and 3:12. Close with God ere, yon
finish reading this sentence; the only
way to these blessings is by the way
of self-surrender. But when you taka
that step then God undertakes for you
"Thou canst overcome this heart of mi no
Thou wilt victorious prove;
For everlasting strength is thin.
And everlasting love."
Never Falling.
"Heaven and earth shall pass away;
but my words shall. not pass away.'
Luke 21:33.
You never get to the end of Christ's
words." There is something In thena
always behind. . They pass Into pro
verbs, they pass into laws, they pass
into doctrines, they pass into consola
tions. but they never pass away, and
after all the use that is made of them,
thev are still not. exhausted. Dean
Stanley.
Use time well, and you win get from
his hand more than he will take from
yours. Ranbow Calendar.
Cease to lament for that thou canst
not help, and study help for that that
thou lamehtest. Shakespeare.
slings, often inscribed on those mis;
siles words of defiance, such as "Take
this!" by that meaning to add insult
to injury. 'Bravado is unbecoming in
a Christian, but a dauntless courage,
accompanied at times by a certain ex
uberance of exultation in attack
which, as It' were, delivers a "Take
this!" of defiance, should be the pos-
session of every follower of the Lord
Jesus. Unless we have even now
some realizing sense of victory over
eviL" we shall lack . moral nerve, and
our campaign for the cross will lag
and lose instead of widening and win
ning. Zion's HeraldV
Man's Will Is Untouched.
God leaves the freedom of man. c
will untouched. . He presents to that
will, at great cost to himself, the
most powerful motives leading man
to choose to be good. (Man can be
come good only by the exercise of
his own free will.) Byithese motives
shining everywhere In earth, bu
moBt- resplendently in the. Incarnate
Son, and by his spirit, he wooes .the
free man and waits in love. Hugh
Russell Frazer is the Outlook.
' The boy looked up pleasantly.
Tm 'most through."- he announced.
with a deprecatory wave of the hand.
Then after another moment or so of
silence, "I'm just getting my prayers
said up before I go to grandpa's in the
country. I 'spect I'll pe too busy to
gay 'em there," , he explained
The Austrian war department has
ordered ten machines invented by one
of its officers with which it .will be
!; possible for 23 workmen to manufac
ture 4,500,000 rifles cartridges a day-
BEST BEANS TO GROW
Some Like Bush and Lima Varie-
ties Because Easy to Grow.
Others Prefer Pole Li mas on Ac
count of Quality, Quantity and
Season of Profitable Bearing
Also . Large.
A writer says that ' both bush and
lima beans are more satisfactory and
easier to grow than the pole limas.
Now, every on for his choice, but
ve prefer the pole . limas every time
for quality, quantity and long season
of profitable bearing; says a writer in
an" exchange. It is true that setting
poles for plants . to vine on requires
more work than when no poles are
used, but the results more than pay
for all thejwork. The trouble" with
mo6t of us in our gardening and farm
ing is that we 'try to grow things in
the easiest' way, but the easiest way
is seldom the best way. - We should
never be satisfied with anything short
of the best.
Pole lima beans are the largest and
best beans grown. Make the soil as
loose and rich and fine as possible.
Harrow, disk and harrow till the sur
face is a smooth, fine and mellow as
an ash heap. Lay off rows, both ways,
about four feet apart and plant three
seeds to the hill at the crossing of the
rows.
Cultivate young lima beans as for
other garden plants, keeping the sur
face clean, fine and level. Allow no
weeds to grow close to the cultivated
plants, as limas will not thrive in the
presence of strange company. Some
people to reduce labor plant corn or
sunflower in the same hill with pole
lima beans for the vines to climb.
This is a grave mistake, for two good
plants cannot grow in a place where
there is room enough for only one. A
Hamper of Pole Lima Beans.
poor bean' crop always results from
this method, as one good, old gar
dener puts It, "It is the lazy man's
way of gardening." ,
We pole our beans with round poles
about eight feet long and the thick
ness of one's wrist. They are set one
pole to each hill and the four poles
form a square brought together and
tied with common binder twine, about
nine feet from the ground. This gives
a wigwam frame with firm, broad base
and so substantial that no ordinary
storm will blow It over.
Almost all other members of the
bean family are quick maturing plants
and the life of the crop covers only
a part of the growing season. Not
so with pole lima beans; they are
rather slow growing. It requires
nearly ninety days for the vines to
fully mature and come into heavy
bearing. But after the vines begin to
bear they continue to produce bios
soms and fruit all through the re
malnder of the growing season, so
long as the green beans are regularly
picked and more allowed to ripen
providing there is sufficient moisture
in the soil to sustain growth. Keep
ing out all weeds and grass and keep
ing the surface raked loose and fine
will help to conserve soil moisture at
dry times. A light sovering of straw
on the surface will also help to conserve-
soil moisture . during August
and September, when rains are often
infrequent and evaporation great.
ADVANTAGES OF DAIRY FARM
Increases Productivity of Soil, In
sures Monthly Income and Even
Distributes Labor.
Prof. F. L. Kent, of the dairy husbandry-
department . of ; the Oregon
Agricultural college, states as follows
the advantages . of dairy farming in
the Oregon Countryman, a monthly
magazine published by. the . students
at O. A. C: , A ,..
"Briefly stated, the advantages of
dairy farming are: Increasing pro
ductivity of the soil, a legular month
ly income putting the ousiness on
cash basis, . a - better distribution of
the labor of the farm than Is pos
sible under a single crop .system, and
supplying a product ! for 'the market,
all of which should be of the highest
grade and for . which there is, always
a ready sale." ;; ; ' ;: : ; , ;
Building Dairy Herd. -
Get a purebred dairy sire and raise
your own cows.
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BEGINNING WITH iTHE SHEEP
No Profit Can Reasonably Be Expected
Until One Has Learned All the
Little Details.
"The love of 'money is the root of
all evil." It lures men into things that
prove disastrous. The greater the
profits, the more certain that a large
number will fail in the undertaking.
Why? Because when profits are large
men are sure to rush in on a big scale,
says a writer in .an exchange. Two
hundred per cent profit on one sheep
is big. Then why not get 500 or. 1,000
sheep and get rich quickly? That's
the argument that traps . everybody
who has a get-rich-quick bee In his
hat. -,
Remember this, that - no .man can
succeed with sheep who has not first
learned how. Big profits do not come
Yearling Full-Blood Karakul Ewe.
to greenhorns. There may be no pro
fit at all for a year or so. Sheep are
the most helpless of all domestic ani
mals. They "don't know enough to
come in out of the rain." They don't
know much of anything. They have
been cared for so attentively for cen
turies that they quit making any effort
to care for themselves. The man who
is not willing to give them this care
is unfit to be a sheep man. It re
quires gentleness, for they are meek
and helpless. .
Our advice is to go slow with sheep.
By all means, raise sheep. They
should be on every farm." But start
with a few, one or two dozen at most,
and learn how to care for them. They
will multiply as fast as your skill in
sheep raising will warrant. If you
can't save- the lambs, then you are
unfit for a larger number. If you can
save them you soon have the large
number. A' dozen sheep will . show
you all the holes In the fences as com
pletely as 500 will.
Prices are alluring, but keep a level
head. There is no telling anyway, be
cause they benefit the farm whether
prices are up or down.
RATIONS FOR DAIRY CALVES
Little Bfoodmeal Frequently Recom
mended as Preventive and Cure
for Calf Scours.
That while linseed meal sometimes
gives very excellent results, yet on the
whole other preparations are to be pre
ferred, says Hoard's Dairyman. Corn,
barley, oats and bran are recommend
ed for this purpose. With the young
calf a mixture of low grade flour,
sieved ground oats, cornmeal or Un
seed oil meal made into a jelly by
boiling, continuing such feed for two
or three weeks, while the stomach
is small and incapable of utilizing
coaraer feeds, Is suggested. As soon
as possible, however, change to whole
corn or whole oats with or without
a little' oil -meal fed dry.
Among other mixtures proposed is
one consisting of 20 pounds of corn
meal, 20 pounds of oatmeal, 20 pounds
of ollmeal, 10 pounds of bloodmeal,
5 pounds of bonemeal. Change to
corn, oats and bran when calves are
three months old. A little of the
bloodmeal as a part of the dairy ra
tion Is very frequently recommended,
It seems to have in some way a tonic
effect, and is also claimed to be' both
a preventive and a cure for calf
scours.
. Straw and hay make good nesting
material. -
Keep your breeders healthy and do
ing well.
On the farm you should keep util
ity uppermost.
Shade for the chickens is very im
portant in hot weather.
No one can foretell the sex of the
chicks while still in the egg.
Keep the egg pan in the coolest
place you can find about the farm.
May-hatched chicks, properly grown.
make profitable fowls the coming win
ter. . - .. . ' '
Sickness and lice are scarce articles
where poultry quarters are kept dry
and clean.
Begiu early to work up a trade in
broilers. The market never will be
overstocked.
; The working .houraof the poultry
man extend from early till late; there
are no holidays. . ,
:. As . a rule hens that lay steadily
during cold weather are - indifferent
hot weather layers. - . c
Little chicks need a feeding coop
where they can eat in peace away
from the older fowls. ' - ?v
Hardiness does not go by color of
plumage. Hardiness depends ' upon
the care given to fowls. ; .
All eggs should bev tented .by -the
seventh day, which often makes It pos
sible to reset some of the hens. ,
A quiet, gentle hen with the mother
instinct .strongly developed, is worth
money in the chicken business. .
It. your, flock Is properly managed
andcared for, there i will be little or
no use of medicines and : tonics. '
So many set too many eggt under a
hen. Pew hens can cover more than
15, and then only in warm weather..
CAUSING A COOLNESS.
The two bosom friends met fortuit
ously and rushed into a mutually fond
embrace. '
"Oh, dearie," cried the first to get
her breath, "I so wanted to be the first
to congratulate you on your engage
ment! How mean you were not to
give your dearest friend a hint as to
what was expected."
"Wen, dear, I "
' "Now," don't "tell me you concealed
things from me on purpose."
"I "
"I know.' And that charming fiance
of yours! Weren't you perfectly sur
prised to death when he proposed?"
"I can't say I was. Why should I
have been?"
"Why, everybody else was."
; A coolness has now' arisen. Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Explanation Demanded.
"Have you heard about poor young
Hicks' trouble with his wife?"
"No. I've been out of town for the
last month. What is it?" 1
"He sent his office boy up to the
house for his raincoat one day last
week and she found a memorandum
in the ..pocket reading 'Ribbon for
typewriter,' and Hicks Is having a
devil of a time trying to explain."
LIppincott's.
THEY DON'T CARRY MONEY.
First Burglai: Does Snatchem, the
pickpocket, make much money?
Second Burglar No. lie works al
most entirely among women shoppers
Tennessee Ain't.
A man who comes from Tennessee
takes great pride in having sat silent
at dinner the other day while a New
Yorker, who has never been south of
Philadelphia, told, amid applause, this
story and planted it in a Tennessee
town:
Small Girl (to grocer) Ain't yer
got no onions?
Grocer I ain't said I ain't.
Small Girl I ain't ast yer ain't yer
ain't. I ast yer is yer ain't. Now, is
yer or ain't yer?
Doing Good.
Mrs. Flitterby So you are on the
visiting committee of your social
workers' society. I should think you'd
find it dreadfully Irksome, making all
those slum calls.
Mrs. Hunter-Fadde I'm willing to
make the sacrifice for a good cause.
Every visiting day I send my maid
around with my cards. Judge.
No Wonder.
"My wife doesn't like him."
"And yet he's . a very likable fel
low?" . . ,
"Yes, but he came to our house to
dinner one day, and -when' my wife
told him to make himself right at
home he took off his coat and collar
and lighted his pipe."
THEY SUSPECTED.
Bosh I hear you are going to Eu
rope? . . .
Josh First I heard about it ,
Bosh Oh! but it is a -common rumor.-
.... . . -.
Josh You must have been talking
to my creditors.
.' His Inference. .
"Was George Washington such a
terrible liar, - mother?" v i
'Liar, my son. Why, what do you
mean?" '
"Well, If he wasn't, why was such a
fuss made when he told the truth?"
; Left the Gay Life y
' "I haven't seen Bangs for a long
time. He used to . be a dickens of a
fellow among the girls," . :
"He's been cured of all that."
? "What cured him?" , v ;
v "Marriage'; - -' " - ,: .' .-'
' 4r .
TRUE TO PRINCIPLES.
Mr. Converse My uncle is a ' vege
tarian, so, of course, he is opposed to
eating eggs.
Miss Wabble And so his little chil
dren can't have any?
He has tried to compromise by of
fering them hand painted eggplants.
Fully Explained.
"Swank, swank? What is this
swank you hear so much about?" In
quired a Harvard freshman of his big
brother graduate at the Harvard club.
"Why, swank means 'putting on
side,' of course," replied brother.
"And what does 'putting on side
mean?"
"If you really want to know," was
the reply, "both of them are Picadll
ly for the good old Missouri phrase
'throwing the dog." Nowkee quiet."
Pat and the Clock.
One of the Inmates of a New York
insane asylum, an Irishman, was sent
to an adjoining ward to find out the
correct time. He returned in a mo
ment and announced:
"Twinty minutes t' twilve."
"Pat, are you sure that clock is
right," he was asked.
"Right, is it," he replied. "Dye
think it wud be in this place it it wuz
Voight?" Judge.
Self-Preservation.
Mrs. Hicks was telling some woman
about the burglar scare in her house
the night before.
"Yes," she said, "I heard a noise
and got up, and there from under the
bed I saw a man's leg sticking out."
"Mercy!" exclaimed a woman, "the
burglar's legs?"
"No, my dear! My husband's legs.
He had heard the noise, too." La
dies' Home Journal.
SHE KNEW HIM.
Mrs. Jones I'll never have any con
fidence in his veracity again.
Mrs. Smith Why not?
Mrs. Jones He went on a fishing
trip with' my husband.
Credits and Debits.
Some boys are credits to their duds;
We, favor such as these.
But then we know that other lads
Are liabilities.
Sized Him Up.
Bookseller (having taken an order
for note paper) Have you read "Peb
bles." sir? Had a wonderful sale.
The Author of "Pebbles" Has it?
I think I could write as good a book
myself.
Bookseller (always t prepared to
agree .with a customer) Do you
Well, I really believe our boy could,
sir. Punch.
Between Girls.
Maud Why, the creature even hint
ed that I am Indebted to the druggist
for my complexion.
Ethel The idea! I know positive
ly, dear, that you always pay cash."
Obtuse.
"I'm afraid poor Twobbersly has no
sense of humor." '
"I'm- afraid bo, too. Twobbensly
could attend a meeting of a vice com
mislon and never crack a smile."
- Hard to Please.
Grocer What was that woman com
plaining about? v .-; ' . '.. . i i
Clerk The long wait, sir. '
Grocer And only yesterday she was
kicking about the short weight. . You
can't please some people. -
: - A Makeshift.! ,
"Look here, Mose; I thought you
were going to be baptir.ed into the
Baptist church?"
"Ya'as, Bah, I was. But I'se bein
sprinkled Into de 'Plscopal till de sum
xner comes." Life.