Show I Jottings From Froma II IIa a Prodigal Sont Son t I Dear BISh Every time I sit down to drop you vot youa a line to keep you posted as to my whereabouts how I wish that my jot jot- jottings jottings tings could be so good that aU all your readers would be glad to turn the sheet to find them But I cannot just turn the trick as I have not the innate ability to do It Sometimes I want to tobe tobe be serious senous sometimes r I try to be lIar ar and then I lust Just try to be my own self and from the heart So So I I like the gambler I have to take tahe a aI chance m in or love loce in what I try todo to todo do to keep my credIt good I most I certainly hope that aU all your our readers be they few 0 or many who may take I f takeI the tIme to read what I have to jot jotI doe dm 7 1 will III not pats pass them aU all up be- be beI because I cause a certain J issue SUC does not measure I up to We cannot all be big fish in thIs We cannot all be beI I writers nor can we all be minnows min min- minnows 11 Some have to be average In in- in inI Intellect ill m business in farming and I whatnot m in this busy world SO if I Ican Ican can measure up to average I shall try to be satisfied end Ind plod on and try to tobe tobe I be content Be Whatever You Are If you can t be t 1 cn the top of the hill Be a scrub in the t alley but be beThe beThe The best little scrub by the side of the therill r rill l Be a 3 if you can t be a tree If you OU can cant t be a buh be a blade ot of I grass grassI I And some happiness m in a highway makeI make I If h ou can cant t be b ea fI e b- b bass bassI t I But the mightiest bass m in the lake lahe I If you ou can t be l a highway high nisi t be a aI aI I trail If you can cant t oe ae i a sun be I star stal I It isn t by bigness you yeu or 01 fail falI It Its s being whatever ha you ou are Author Unknown I do not know whether hether there are any more hypocrites on earth rth today than there were In the days of the Saviour unless the IS more densely populated than It was m in His day and age That Th there thele were a lot lotof lotof of them living in the olden da s can be demonstrated by Holy Writ On many occasions they were ere denounced m in unmIstakable language by Him who spoke e with authority and not is as one of that class They used to stand on the corners comers and thank God they were not like others but theIr prayers did not reach any further upward ard than the lips that gage ga utterance to their holy appeal A scorpion thinks when its head is b hId under a leaf It cannot be seen So with the hypocrite If we e ever do a good deed or two t toe we e sometimes think that all our hypocrisy is 15 covered up uIt with that measly good deed In real real- reality reality ity we fool ourselves by thinking that all our blatant goodness is covered up and l hidden from the sight of God Some good wrIter has said What manner of man am I after all What sort of a show V should I make after all i if the people around me knew my heart and all my secret thoughts What sort of show then do I alreadY I make in the sight of Almighty God I Iwho who sees eti e cry ery man exactly as he jc isn i Oh that poor soul though it may fool people and itself it will not fool Goo Many a hypocrite hides his under the cloak of religion I ha have hae e found that out to mY entile satisfaction satisfaction tion Sonic SOme of our good prea preachers hers tv v this way of appearing great grent and good GIven the proper rope they fail faU no not notto to take advantage of getting all can for nothing or the t ne thing to it it Judge ourselves and see just wh what t you are all ye goody goody ones Now Bish I believe I made you ou i solemn promise once that I would qu t preaching to you but I just forget all that I promise and before I know knO itI It ItI I am at my old tricks Just try to fer give We and forget all that I may promIse because it shows the strain of hypocrisy hypocrisy that seems to manifest itself in inthe the v ns as ell ell as the best of us YOU KNOW ME |