Everybody's Friend. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Monday, September 1, 1913 Page: 4 of 14
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EVERY BOD Y ’S FRIEND
September,
1913
The Child Rescue
The Mothef-Hunge-r’s on me
And Orphan Society
(Incorporated)
()e Kansas and Eastern Colorado.
Board of Trustees.
I. 11. Crist, Kansas City, Ks., Pres.
I). A. Crist, Quinter, Ks., V. Pros.
Wm. II. Miller, Independence, Ks., Sec.
J. .1, Bowser, Conway Springs, Ks.
F. J. Price, McPherson, Ks., Treasurer.
Supt. & Manager, E. E. John, McPherson, Ks.
We are hoving exceeding hot and dry weather
in Kansas. Crops of all kinds except wheat and
tirst crop of alfalfa are cut short. This makes
it a little hard for us to keep our Rescue work
going, yet there are those who remember us in
time of need.
Seasons such as this try us or put us to think-
ing. We begin to economize, to cut down ex-
penses. But where shall wo begin our curtail-
ing expenses? Will we deny ourselves of some
imaginary want or luxury, or will wo withhold
the Lord’s part and use it for selfish purposes.
People can attend Chatauquas, Fairs and
other places of entertainment and amusement:
can buy many things that are not really essen-
tial to bodily health or comfort, and find the
money to pay for them. And after they have
gratified their .desires, and the Fair and Cha-
tauqua, are gone, many find their money gone
also, and they have nothing to give to the Lord’s
cause.
Dear reader, is it a good in vestment to thus
spend onr money for that which is not bread,
and our labor for that which satisfied) not.
If the money that is spent so freely for the
things that "perish with the using" was put
into the Lord's treasury, would it not be treas-
ure laid up in heaven? Let us think, where will
we begin to cut down expenses? On the side of
the flesh, or on the Lord's side?
Aug. 11. Fraternally. E. E. John.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister
Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance
of idleness was in her and in her daughters,
neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor
and needy. Ezek. 16.
If I could only find her. for the mother-huner’s on me:
I want to see and touch her, to know her close beside,
I want to put my iiead in the hollow of her shoulder,
1 want to feel her love me as she did before she died.
In all the world is nothing, love of husband or of chil-
dren;
In all tht' world is nothing that can sooth me or can
stir
Like the memory of her fragile hand from which the
ring was slipping—
The hand that wakes my longing at the very thought
of her.
The window in the sunshine and the empty chair be-
side it,
The loneliness that mocks me as 1 find the sacred
place-
Oh, mother, is there naught in the unerring speech of
silence
To let me know your presence, though I cannot see
your lace?
Thank God thad I have had you; that we held each
other closer,
As women and as sisters and as souls that claimed
their own.
Than any tie of blood could bind; and now my heart is
bleeding,
My heart is bleeding, mother, and yours is turned to
stone.
Oh, no, I’ve not forgotten the triumph and the glory—
1 would not bring you back again to struggle and to
pain;
This hour will pass; but, oh, just now the mother-hun-
ger’s on me—
And 1 would give my soul tonight to kiss your hair
again. —Grace Duffield Goodwin.
General Committee
On Child Rescue Work
Frank Fisher, Pres., Mexico, Indiana.
S. B. Miller, Treas., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
P. S. Thomas, Sec’y., Harrisonburg, Virginia.
The Child Saving Work
of
Middle Missouri.
D. M. Miller, Pros., Warrensburg, Mo.
Jesse 1). Mohler, Sec’y. and Treas.,
Warrensburg, Mo.
I). L. Mohler, Associate Member,
Leeton, Mo.
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Cripe, D. E. Everybody's Friend. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Monday, September 1, 1913, periodical, September 1, 1913; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1598513/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.