THE LAST POSTAGE STAMP

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9799, 8 May 1924, Page 5

THE LAST POSTAGE STAMP

; o : KETUHAK'S DISAPPOINTMENT. = (By Safed the Sage.) "And Keturah spake unto me, saying, Hast thou any Postage Stamps? I “And I said. .1 have none here, but • I have some in my Study. I “And she said, I wish thou wouiust j take some letters for me. and see ’ thou forget not to mail tiicin. Three I weeks is the limit ior tuee to carry ! these Letters in tiiy' locket, j “And i said, My dear, iam not i sure why Delilah deii\ ered Samson j over to the Philistines, but- I think he had io:gotten to mail her letters. : I will be careiUi and remember.. But | how is it thou are out of Stamps? ] “And she said, I was sure i had '' some; for in my drawer was an V* hole Strip of what L thought were Stamps upside down. But when i went to get some Stamps, belioid there was not a Stamp there. Only there was a long strip of Perforated paper that had been torn off the margin of a | sheet of stamps. And instead or Ten Stamps there were Ten Scraps of paper id no more value than a German Mark. , “And 1 said, There are lew i_isappointments so great m file as that j of going to the Stamp Box in ooutij dent expectation, and finding tlie Last : Stamp gone, and tlie Post Office Closed.

“And she said. It would not be so had if it had not been aat there were in the Box those papers that looked j like Stamps. : “Now I thought of this, and I cou- : sidered the disappointment of Keturah. how those Blank Stamps were a Delusion iffid an Hollow Mockery and a Snare. Whereas, had they not been there, she had saal cheerfully, Yes. |we have no Postage Stamps, and | straightaway gone and bought some l or asked her Husband to bring some Across. “Now this is the Sad Hung m

Human Experience, not that there are uo men. and not that there are no women, but that when the time cometli when there have seemed to he men and women enough for any possible event, whole rows and sheets ! of them are good for nothing and ! worse than nothing because they j create a false sense of security. lor j they lack what the Perforated Blanks lacked, the stamp of Personality and I Authority and Power upon the one j side, and" the Glue of Tenacity of Puri pose upon the other. J “Now I thought of this, and I rei mom bored the bitter words of the ! Prophet concerning the sorrows of i God. that He looked for a man to i stand in the Gap, and though there i were men enough, there were none j that had the Picture and the Glue, i And I think this must have been the Sorrow of God in all ages. For God hath sometimes stood with an Handful of Righteous Purposes for the which lie would have- sent one great Event to Spokane and another to Santa Fee and another to Skowhegan, hut He - could not do many mighty works i there or in any of those places, j “So the cry of God ringoth out, i Whom shall I send, and who will go , for us? And if so be that there 1 respondeth a Man, and saith. Here ! am I, send me; and that man hath j both the Impress of God upon the ; face of him, and a thick . coating of j Glue upon his Moral purpose, then ; doth God arrive. ~ . I “But God doth look often m his j S-j-,amo Box and find Whole Strips of • Blank Margins.”—The Christian Ceni tnry. -