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A mutual pride and joy which they had shared in watching other things grow on the farm had then been centered in Joey. Martha had decided that life was practically perfect until one day big Joe had come in from his work in mid-morning. Surprised to see him, Martha had inquired what was wrong. Joe just stared oS into space, and then he answered. “Martha, there’s something wrong with me. I’m weak and tired all the time, and I keep coughing and coughing.” For the first time Martha noticed how tired Joe really did look. She suggested that he see a doctor at once, but big Joe said he probably just had spring fever. The following «« JOEY, supper will be ready in J half an hour,” called Martha to her son who was entering the spring house with a bucket of milk in each hand. “O. K., Mom,” shouted the lad in response, “I’m through with the milking. I’ll be in as soon as I clean up.” Martha watched him a few min utes later as he trudged toward the house. He was big for 14, and with faithful "Shep” trotting along at his heels, Joey made an impressive picture against the backdrop of the setting sun. "Just like a magazine cover,” thought Martha, as tears of pride welled up into her eyes. Her little man. Joey had shouldered a burden during the past year that many a man could not have handled as well. The plowing, planting, fence re pairs, and the thousand odd chores that must be completed on a farm had all been mastered by Joey. He seemed to almost relish his role as man of the house while dad was away. Day after day he had toiled in the fields with the team while other boys his age were swimming, fish ing, and berrying, unhampered by the cares of labor. But Joey bad seemed impervious to their com ings and goings. Many evenings at the supper table, Martha noticed the boy dozing from exhaustion. A spoon or fork would often pause, suspended mid-way between mouth and table. She never gave utterance to this observation of weariness, lest her sympathy extinguish his feeling of being the family bread winner. Their conversations were those of business partners rather than mother and son. Martha longed to tuck him in at night, or to hug his tow head to her breast. Little Joey was her only consolation in her longing for Big Joe. Countless times during the lonely nights, she had tiptoed quiet ly into his room to stand beside the bed where he slept. Often she ca ressed his blond head or kissed him lightly on the cheek as he lay deep in the refreshing sleep of child hood. Each time, she struggled within herself to check the tears of love and loneliness as she slipped quietly back to her own empty room, fearful lest she waken him and bring his big world tumbling down around him. Joey was living frorft day to day in a world of big responsibility, and she could not, in spite of her long ing to be more demonstrative to ward her 14-year-old, jolt him into reality. She told herself that was the reason why she had never told Joey about his father. Well-meaning friends had tried to persuade Martha to sell the farm and move to town. Her troubles dated from the day she had re ceived the telegram from the Ari zona hospital. Big Joe was never coming back! He had a hopeless case of tuberculosis—it was just a matter of months. But how could she tell Joey? The knowledge of her unshared grief had caused her to shed thousands of inner tears In Joey’s presence, and endless nights of heart-breaking sobs in her own room. But she felt that, somehow, they must keep the farm that held so many fond memories. The first days after she and Joe were married had seemed almost impossible. The work at the barn and in the fields had continued end lessly. At first, she had worked side come. Big Joe would never be com ing back. There were those who thought Martha cruel for not tell ing the boy that his Dad wasn’t coming home. At times, she thought she must tell him, but she post poned it, feeling that, somehow, the right time would come ... a time when he might be strong enough to stand the heartbreak. Perhaps in a few weeks before Joey re turned to school, or when Miller moved in to sharecrop the farm. The summer had come and gone swiftly. Already the first sugges tion of impending autumn was no ticeable in the coloring of the countryside. The crops had been abundant, and the harvests were good for Joey and Martha. Many had bestowed compliments and Joey glowed with pride when the men had remarked about the size of the yield during the threshing season. Returning home from a Saturday shopping trip, the two were mak ing big talk about the coming school term. “We sure were lucky to get Mill- SCRIPTURE: Mark 2:13-14; Luke 1:1- 4; John 20:30-31; 21:25; Acts 1:1: 20:35; I Corinthians 11:23-25; 15:3-8; Colossiani 4:14; I John 1:1-4. DEVOTIONAL READING: Hebrews 2:1-9. “Just like a magazine cever,’ 1 welled up into her eyes. Saturday when they went to towA she had persuaded him to stop in to see old Doc Crane. It hadn’t taken Doc long to de cide that Joe should have some X-rays. The following month the X-rays were taken by the county health officer in the new mobile unit, and Doc Crane’s fears had been substantiated. Doc suggested Ari zona. ’ t Martha could still remember those two weeks when she and Joe had planned how they could make out if she could keep the farm go ing. Her father would help and little Joey would continue to school. Big Joe was not to worry, but ex ert all (ris effort toward getting well again. The first year, things had gone very smoothly indeed, until the rheumatism laid her father on the shelf. Martha was desperate. All the spring work lay ahead, and it was impossible to find anyone to take over the work. She had talked it over with Joey, and together they had decided to go U alone. She could still hear little Joey as he said. “Gee, Mom, I’m big enough to do the work. Grampa let me plow some last year, and I’m lots big ger and stronger now.” So Joey had become the man of the family. Then the telegram had My Creed 1 HAVE the £uch to know chat this deep sorrow Weighing upon my heart will lift at lait; That I shall waken on some glad tomorrow, Happy once more, the troubled darkness pafi And I have hope—I keep its fire burning, Although my soul and body be distressed The hope that somehow with the old earth’s turning This pain will cease, and time will bring me reSL Oh, 1 believe that He who walks beside me Closer than any lover, any ftiend. Will lead at last, no matter what betide me. Into the sunlight at the journey’s end. [Grace Noll Crowell thought Martha, as tears of pride er, weren’t we, Mom?" asked Joey. “Yes, son," replied his mother, "And not a bit too soon either, j don’t know what I would have done with you going back to school it we hadn’t found someone to take over this winter." Suddenly Martha knew that the time had come to tell Joey the un happy secret which she had carried now for more than a year in her grief-stricken heart. But how coqjd she bring herself to do it? She must strive to make it as easy as pos sible. She swung the car into their lane, and pulled to a stop in the yard before the kitchen door. The purchases were quickly unloaded,, and Joey lighted a fire In the big kitchen range. Now was the time! Even before she removed her wraps, Martha laid her arms across Joey’s shoulders, and began. "Joey, dear, there’s something I’ve been wanting to tell yoij for a long time. I’ve been so proud of you this summer, and I . . . Well, somehow it seemed I just couldn’t spoil everything you were working so hard for with bad news. Now you’re going back to school, and we’re so fortunate to have Miller coming. \ ‘1 want you to work hard at school this fall," she continued as she noted the questioning look in his eyes. Then she simply related, “God decided that you and I had a job to do together, Joey . . . Your Father will never be able to come home. In fact,” she continued as she struggled to hold back the tears, "he may have only a few more months to live.” There was a long moment of si lence ... a moment which lasted an eternity for Martha. “Oh, dear God, make him understand,” she prayed silently. Joey didn’t say a word but drew his mother's face to his own and kissed her, tenderly and boyishly. He patted her softly on the cheek. “Aw, gee. Mom, I understand," he said, and the tears stood in the comers of his eyes. Martha could see how brave he was trying to be. “Now I better take care of my feed ing,” he said somewhat hoarsely. “Can we have the pecan roll we got in town for our supper. Mom?” he asked as he changed from his suit coat into his overall jacket. The coat was thrown carelessly across the seat of a nearby chair. Martha watched him walk slowly from the room, a firm set to his shoulders. “He took it like a man,’’ she thought, as she removed her own wraps. Then she saw his coat lying on the chair, and smiled, thinking, “He acts like a man in some ways, but when it comes to his clothes, he’s all boy.” She picked up the coat to hang it properly. As she did so, a small notebook and some pa pers tumbled from the inside pocket. Gathering them up to re place them, Martha was startled at the sight of the yellow envelope. Could it be? It was! Among the contents of Joey’s pocket was the well-worn and much read telegram from the tu berculosis sanitarium In Remembrance Lesson for January 9, 1949. Dr. Foreman J ESUS OF NAZARETH was the Unforgettable Man. All our in formation about him as he lived in Galilee comes from four small booklets known as the Gospels. There was a little more about him in the letters of Paul, and a few additional sayings of his have been preserved in papyrus fragments in Egypt. But the main source of our historical knowl edge of Jesus is in these four Gospels. All put to gether they do not make a big book; but any one of them by it self is a gre: t book. Who Remembered Him? I T BOTHERS some people to dis cover what scholars have always known, that our Gospels as we have them are based on earlier writings and spoken traditions. But this gives us an even better reason for trusting the reliability of these records. They were not made up for the first time a generation or more after Jesus’ resurrection. They go back to the lifetime of thousands who personally knew Jesus. The farther back scholars Am trace the origins of the Gospels, the more historically reliable they are proved to be. Some of the Information worked into our Gospels came from personal reminiscences; this is the case with large parts of Matthew and John. In the case of Mark, the early story in the church was that as a young companion of Peter on missionary journeys, / Mark jotted down the stories which Peter told about Jesus. At any rate the Gospel of Mark contains just the sort of things that a man like Peter would be likely to remember. Luke himself, a missionary doctor and great friend of Paul, never knew Jesus personally, but lived for two years in Palestine and gathered the ma terials for his Gospel while there were still hundreds of people there who remembered Jesus well. • • • What They Remembered J OHN teUs us that it would be impossible to write down all that was then known of Jesus’ life. Out of the 400 days (at least) during which Jesus’ public min istry lasted, not over 40 are re corded, even in part. Yet what these men did re call and record is enough to reveal a matchless Person. A fifth Gospel might enlarge our knowledge of Jesus; but it would not greatly change It. Jesus never wrote a book, not even a letter so far as we know; yet such words of his as were remembered have influenced the world. Jesus’ entire public ministry lasted a shorter time than it takes to go through college; yet what he did has had a deeper effect on the world than the work of any university graduate in history. Jesus started no corporation, no formal organization; yet out of his fellowship have grown the greatest institutions in the world. • • • Why They Remembered T HE STORY of Jesus was re membered and recorded by his followers partly because they could not help it. They could not forget him and did not want to forget him. One thing is true of all those who lovingly cherished these mem ories of the Master: they loved and adored him. No unbeliever ever wrote • Gospel. Pilate wrote no life of Christ. Even if Judas had lived, he could not have written one. Our Gospels were written by men of faith, for the purpose of calling ont faith in others. “These things were written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Son of God” (John 29: 21). In one sense of the word we could write a better Gospel now. for today 19 centuries of Christian experience are behind us, and those centuries are full of the doings of Christ through his church. The four Gospels tell us of what Jesus did in Galilee. But now we can tell the story of what Christ has done in Africa and Greenland and Aus tralia and America. Reading the Gospels is interesting, it is im portant; but the reading has not bit the bull’s-eye if it leave you, the reader, merely better informed than you were. (Copyright by tho Intornttionsl Count* ol Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) Ringold Lady Dora Tops Hampshire Sows Raises Total o! 71 Pigs to Weaning Age V First of her Hampshire breed to become a “seven-star" sow, Rin gold Lady Dora No. 753,056 has raised a total of 71 pigs to wean ing age, an average of 10.1 pigs per litter. This record is more impressive when compared with national averages. According to U. S. department of agriculture re ports, the national average is 6.18 Here, with her seventh “star” family, is Ringold Lady Dora No. 753,056, champion prodnetion sow in the Hampshire breed and the first of her kind to qualify as a "seven-star" sow. spring pigs and 6.39 fall pigs per litter raised to weaning age. To qualify for a star in the Hamp shire production registry a sow must raise a litter of at least eight pigs, without fault or defect, to weigh 320 pounds within 56 days of farrowing. And of course to gain a "seven-star” record Ringold Lady Dora has repeated this per formance seven times. She is the first sow in the Hampshire breed to be listed for either the sixth or seventh “star” litters. In her seventh “star” litter, this sow farrowed 15 pigs, nine of which were saved. The eight selected for registration weighed 443 pounds at 56 days after farrowing. The production champion was fed a ration containing com, oats, al falfa and pelletized milk by products prior to farrowing. Her pigs were creep fed early? and raised on a ration of seven parts com and three parts oats, with 8 per cent milk by-products added. Ringold Lady has been owned and bred by William C. Goodheart, Jr., of Eaton, Ohio, since 1944, and was sold to Meadowlark Farms, Inc., Sullivan, Ind. Farm Production Costs Farm production costs have near ly tripled since the pre-war years of 1935-39, according to U. S. de partment of agriculture statistics. These costs totaled 14.9 billion dol lars in 1947, compared with 5.2 bil lion before World War II’s out break. Farm wages Are now three and a half times the 1935-39 aver age. Meanwhile, farm prices have slumped and many economists ex pect a further easing in months ahead. Com and wheat are already 25 to 40 per cent under their early 1948 peaks. Farmers can best meet the im pact of higher production costs and lower prices by good soil manage- FARM PRODUCTION COST'S ment that steps up crop producing efficiency and lowers output costs per unit Good soil management involves no magic or mystery. It simply means playing fair with the soil by returning organic matter and plant nutrients used up by constant crop production. Organic matter can be restored by growing deep-rooted legumes such as alfalfa or sweet clover in the rotation and plowing them under for green manure. 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