lrlV 6]apolrik Stonq aa Bf /e Sisun

Age not guaranteed---Somc I havc told for 20 ycars---Some Less

He Overdid lr

It was August, m:rny years back, and a terrific drought had struck several of our middlewestern grain-growing states. The crops were burning up on all sides, and even the ground smelled scorched. The situation was desperate. The farmers in a certain center heard of a preacher in Kansas City who had had considerable success in praying for rain, and they sent a delegation to bring him out to help them. And the farmers of several counties stood up to their ankles in hot dust, while the preacher raised his eyes and voice upward, and prayed for rain.

Gives Him q Chuckle

The Lumber Merchant subscription is worth many times the cost just to see pictures of my old friends and to chuckle at how they shorv tl-re wear and tear of city life.

-George W. Burnett, Prop. Burnett Lumber Sales Marvsville. California

Baclced

In the greot foresls of Norlhern Colifornio, Foirhurst ond its qftilioted componies ore qcquiring ond mqintoining huge timber reserves lo selre your needs for the yeors oheod.

And before he had prayed more than a couple of minutes, rain began to fall, a sprinkle at first, and then a genuine rain. And when the preacher got into his car to drive back home, the parched ground was being drenched .with the heavy downpour. The trouble was, it didn't stop. It kept right on raining, all that afternoon, all that night, and three days l,ater it was still raining, and where there had been ankle-deep dust, there was now deep mud. It looked like it ,never was going to stop, and finally the desperate farmers phoned the preacher, told him the story, and he drove back to offer his help.

And now these same farmers stood ankle-deep in rriud, while again the preacher lifted his soul and voice in prayer. He said:

"Oh, Lord, these folks needed rain mighty bad, so we prayed for rainand you sent rainand we were grateful, Lord, up to a certain point-but Lord! THIS IS RIDICULOUS !''

(Tell them you saza it in The California Lumber Mercloant)