LAUGH IT OFF..

Lake County Mail, Issue 17, 17 September 1947, Page 7

LAUGH IT OFF..

Wife: What can a woman do when she is ii]) to her eyes in debt?” Husband: Have her face lifted. ■ Brown: . . . and as for the present generation —why, nowadays no daughter develops housemaid’s knee; the most painful thing she gets is tinopener’s wrist. “Why so sad?” “My wife is deceiving me.” “ Impossible!” “It is true —she says that if I am not home by midnight she will hang herself.” “ Well?” “ ! have tried it but she has not kept her word.” Two men, strangers to each other, happened to be wandering farther and farther down the darkening corridors of an ancient picture gallery. One of them, shivering slightly, said: “Rather spooky, isn’t it?” “Do you believe in ghosts?” asked the other. “No,” said the first speaker; “do you?” “ Yes,” said the other —and vanished.

of bad luck. If we choose to turn our backs on God, what right have wo to look for His Providence? When St. Paul, writing from a wonderful experience, said, “We know that all things work together for good,” he was careful to add, “ to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.” To the Christian there is no such thing as,luck or chance in the sense of the dice or roulette table. The superstitious, as I have said in a previous article —arc worshipping something other than God, and are trusting to luck- —but the Christian knows that God our Heavenly Father will be our provider, on condition that we choose His Providence and not chance as the governing motive of our life. It is not given to us to trace every movement of the hand of God, but we can trust His providence. “ God inodes in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform,” says a well-known, hymn; and another hymn asks, “Hast thou not seen, how thy heart’s wishes have been granted in what He ordaincthf ” —Philip C. Williams.