"GODI S NOW HERE I NOUR HOME"
adorned the wall, confusedly printed by her illiterate parent.
One beautiful day, as all nature seemed in perfect harmony, the child strolled to the barnyard where the hired man was killing the petted calf preparatory to having a great feast in honor of the son, returning from a western college of theology.
A thought struck the child as she saw the life blood of an innocent animal ebbing away, through a horrible knife wound.
She hastened back to her father's home, sad but wiser, and appropriately divided the motto on the wall:
GOD IS NO WHERE IN OUR HOME.
or as Daniel interpreted King Belshazzar's dream, the thinking child weighed her papa in the balances and found him very much wanting in God principle.
Many so-called pious people throughout the land condemn theaters, dancing, sociable drinking, prize-fighting, card playing, pastime smoking, Sunday recreation, the innocent custom of Santa Claus and the comic supplements of our Sunday newspapers, yet none of these pleasures and pastimes could be half so abominable and sinful as the encouragement of slaughter.
Every church member construes the Scriptures to please his own individuality; sometimes he construes literally but when the passage does not coincide with his appetite or manner of living he invariably finds a figurative meaning.