,transcriber's ,notes3 ,italicized text is rendered as text1 bold text is rendered as text4 ,illustration3 ,front cover ,,the ,,bible ,,object ,,book ,illustration3 ,a ,group of ,children ,just ,after a ,happy ,hour ,service at ,winona ,lake1 ,indiana4 ,these ,represent the ,children to ,whom ,this ,book ,is ,dedicated ,the ,,bible ,,object ,,book ,a ,book of ,object ,lessons ,which ,are ,different ,,written ,,in ,,plain ,,english ,,and ,,in ,,common ,,words ,by ,rev4 ,,clarence ,,herbert ,,woolston1 ,d4 ,d4 ,author of ,,seeing ,,truth1 ,,penny ,,object ,,lessons1 ,nos4 #a and #b1 ,,the ,,gospel ,,object ,,book1 and ,,the ,,curiosity ,,book4 ,also ,originator of the ,,seeing ,,truth ,,packets1 ,containing the ,lessons and ,objects ,needed ,illustration3 ,torch and wreath logo ,,philadelphia ,,the ,,judson ,,press ,,boston ,,chicago ,,los ,,angeles ,,kansas ,,city ,,seattle ,,toronto ,copyright1 #aibf1 by ,,the ,,judson ,,press ,published ,august1 #aibf ,,printed ,,in ,u4,s4,a4 ,this book is dedicated to the many ,boys and ,girls who have both heard and seen these visual addresses at ,bethany ,hall1 ,winona ,lake1 ,indiana and to ,mrs4 ,carrie ,besserer who made these wonderful gatherings possible ,for what shall it profit a church if it gain the whole world and lose its own children ,,introduction ,dr4 ,c4 ,h4 ,woolston is the one man ,i know who is most eminently fitted to write a book for children or for the teachers of children4 ,first1 because he loves and understands children2 for work among children is an affair of the heart4 ,in the second place1 through many years he has proved his theories by actual1 practical experience and testing4 ,we know that his plans really work4 ,he is being urged by many of his eminent friends in children's work to give all his time to this great service4 ,he will have a large mission in teaching preachers and teachers how to win children and young people to ,christ4 ,for twenty years he has appeared in the great ,bible conference at ,winona ,lake1 ,ind41 and has always been received by adults with great appreciation while the children have hailed him with huge delight4 ,we must all admit that there is nothing of greater importance among all the problems of the church today4 ,while he has not been able to give all his time to this work he has been most generous and patient in showing others how to use the mechanical and wonder object-lessons in the teaching of children4 ,in this work he gives the worker something entirely new and off from the beaten path of the regulars1 something which would cost months of study and research and literally hundreds of dollars to acquire4 ,in addition to the wisdom of this and other works he has published and thus given to the world1 he will always be glad to help in any of the problems of winning for ,jesus the children that may present themselves4 ,his study is an open post-office4 ,write to him4 ,and so1 for these reasons and many others ,i am especially glad to commend this newest book of ,doctor ,woolston4 ,i hope the readers of this book may be able to have him in their churches or in ,bible conferences some time4 ,to know him personally is a rare pleasure4 ,he is1 in my estimation1 the greatest talker to children we have in this country at this present time4 ,his new methods of reaching children and adults through their eyes has given him the highest place among gospel illustrators4 ,,homer ,,rodeheaver ,,sunday ,,party1 ,winona ,lake1 ,ind4 ,,preface ,these short addresses are designed to help the busy pastor get a flying start in his effort to fill the minds of his church children with compelling imagery and their eyes with the sweet lessons by ,seeing ,gospel ,truth4 ,i have made no attempt at phrase-making1 nor have ,i sought to create a literary marvel4 ,i have used the greatest simplicity of language at my command1 in some cases employing the unpolished words of the children themselves4 ,this ,i have done because many of these chapters have been framed for their eyes and ears1 and it has always been my ambition that the children should hear the truth in their own tongue4 ,perhaps my words and sentences would not pass the ,sanhedrin of the universities1 but my ideas are on the run to catch the child before the ever-shortening days of youth have passed1 and perhaps sometimes ,i have run by some of the standards of the school4 ,when ,evangelist ,d4 ,l4 ,moody was in ,london1 ,england1 the first time some of the critical divines made sport of the fact that ,mr4 ,moody in pronouncing the word ,jerusalem did so in two syllables4 ,the secular press also took up the matter and made high glee over it4 ,c4 ,h4 ,spurgeon1 then in all his glory at the ,metropolitan ,tabernacle1 in one of his sermons used the following language1 ,i am glad there is one minister in ,london who is in such haste to give the gospel to the people that he does not stop to pronounce every syllable4 ,the ,king's business requires haste1 and this business of gaining the ,king's children requires double haste4 ,this will explain some of the sentences of this book that may cause you to stop and think why ,i said them4 ,c4 ,h4 ,spurgeon has given you my answer4 ,these talks aim to fill the eye as well as the ear4 ,this is the reason that a line of simple objects is used4 ,these objects are golden hooks which hang up ideas in the hall of memory to stay put evermore4 ,some of the chapters are designed for children and adults alike1 for there are some adults who1 like ,peter ,pan1 refuse to grow up and still like to see things4 ,read over each chapter twice before you attempt to work it out4 ,think yourself back to childhood's happy days and be a child again just for tonight1 and then when your ideas are romping about in your head with the zest of youth1 tell your lesson and show them the things4 ,and may it come to pass that you may turn the ,wonderful ,eyes and ,hearts of the ,wonderful ,children toward the ,rose of ,sharon as the rose of the garden turns toward the light of the ,sun4 ,this is the prayer of the author to whom ,god has given the distinguished honor of talking to a million and a half of little folks about ,jesus1 who loves the little children of the world4 ,c4 ,h4 ,,woolston4 ,,east ,,baptist ,,study1 ,,philadelphia1 ,,pa4 ,april1 #aibf4 ,,contents ,,chapter ,,page #a4 ,,just ,a ,,few ,,words ,,to ,,the ,,children 44444444444444444444444444444 #a #b4 ,,when ,,the ,,baby ,,discovers ,,america6 44444444444444444444444444444 #c #c4 ,a ,,million-,,dollar ,,cigaret 4444444444444444444444444444444444444 #e #d4 ,,healing ,,leaves 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4444444 #aj #e4 ,,what ,,the ,,bible ,,is ,,like 444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #ab #f4 ,,judging ,,by ,,appearances 444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #ag #g4 ,a ,,child ,,for ,,sale 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444 #bj #h4 ,,weeds 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4444444444444444 #be #i4 ,,the ,,sword ,,of -- 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 444444 #bh #aj4 ,,what ,,can ,,take ,a ,,way ,,my ,,sins8 444444444444444444444444444444444 #cc #aa4 ,,words ,,of ,,anger 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4444444 #cg #ab4 ,,the ,,copper-,,face ,,girl 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4 #da #ac4 ,,making ,a ,,church ,,flag 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4 #dd #ad4 ,,an ,,immortality ,,lesson 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #dh #ae4 ,,off ,,for ,,happy ,,land 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4 #ea #af4 ,,forgotten ,,holy ,,names 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4 #ee #ag4 ,i ,,lay ,,my ,,sins ,,on ,,jesus 444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #ei #ah4 ,,the ,,lord',s ,,prayer ,,in ,,candles 444444444444444444444444444444444 #fb #ai4 ,,how ,,god ,,covers ,,my ,,sins 444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #fh #bj4 ,,what ,,the ,,flag ,,signals ,,say 444444444444444444444444444444444444 #ga #ba4 ,,the ,,devil',s ,,goat 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444 #ge #bb4 ,,shining ,,truth 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444444 #gg #bc4 ,,the ,,beatitudes ,,in ,,colors 4444444444444444444444444444444444444 #hb #bd4 ,,the ,,gospel ,,in ,,the ,,flag 444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #hd #be4 ,,what ,,the ,,lettered ,,blocks ,,said 44444444444444444444444444444444 #hg #bf4 ,,blots ,,taken ,,away 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444 #hi #bg4 ,a ,,lost ,,heart1 ,,and ,,where ,,it ,,was ,,found 4444444444444444444444444 #ib #bh4 ,,brighten ,,your ,,corner ,,as ,a ,,business 4444444444444444444444444 #ig #bi4 ,,the ,,postage-,,stamp ,,as ,a ,,preacher 444444444444444444444444444444 #aja #cj4 ,,candles ,,in ,,the ,,pulpit 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #aje #ca4 ,a ,,post-,,card ,,sermon 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 444 #aji #cb4 ,,making ,,joy 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444444444 #aab #cc4 ,,ye ,,little ,,old ,,folks 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44 #aad #cd4 ,,the ,,crucifixion ,,in ,,colors 444444444444444444444444444444444444 #aaf #ce4 ,,the ,,gospel ,,by ,,ribbons 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #aai #cf4 ,,joining ,,the ,,church 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 444 #abb #cg4 ,,god',s ,,mail-,,bag 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4444444 #abf #ch4 ,,turning ,,the ,,palms ,,into ,a ,,cross 4444444444444444444444444444444 #aca #ci4 ,,jesus ,,changes ,,things 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4 #acd #dj4 ,,the ,,bundle ,,of ,,life 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 444 #acg #da4 ,,the ,,north ,,pole ,,of ,,the ,,bible 4444444444444444444444444444444444 #adb #db4 ,,object-,,lessons ,,for ,,special ,,days 444444444444444444444444444444 #adf #dc4 ,,putting ,a ,,god ,,to ,,bed 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4 #agd #dd4 ,,how ,,to ,,make ,a ,,christmas ,,flag 444444444444444444444444444444444 #agi #de4 ,,that ,,social ,,hour 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444 #ahc #df4 ,,the ,,wordless ,,book 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44 #ahi #dg4 ,,the ,,heart ,,of ,,seven ,,devils 444444444444444444444444444444444444 #aif #dh4 ,,show ,,your ,,colors 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444 #bjd #di4 ,,the ,,books ,,of ,,the ,,new ,,testament ,,in ,,story ,,form 44444444444444444 #bjh #ej4 ,,what ,,ten ,,cords ,,could ,,not ,,do 4444444444444444444444444444444444 #baj #ea4 ,,object-,,lessons ,,extraordinary 444444444444444444444444444444444 #bad #eb4 ,a ,,bottle ,,of ,,mosquitoes 444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #bbb #ec4 ,a ,,christmas ,,tree ,,in ,,august 44444444444444444444444444444444444 #bbh #ed4 ,,the ,,junior ,,post-,,office 444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #bcb #ee4 ,,the ,,black ,,flag 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4444444 #bcf #ef4 ,,how ,,five ,,spades ,,dug ,,through 4444444444444444444444444444444444 #bdj #eg4 ,,the ,,kaiser',s ,,cup 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444 #bde #eh4 ,,how ,,to ,,make ,a ,,rag ,,map 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #bdh #ei4 ,,stations ,,of ,,salvation 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 #beb #fj4 ,a ,,suggestive ,,program 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 4 #bfa #fa4 ,a ,,morning ,,and ,,evening ,,prayer 444444444444444444444444444444444 #bfc ,,list ,,of ,,illustrations ,,opposite ,,page ,a ,group of ,children ,just ,after a ,happy ,hour ,service at ,winona ,lake1 ,indiana2 ,these ,represent the ,children to ,whom ,this ,book is ,dedicated 4444444444444,frontispiece ,rev4 ,c4 ,h4 ,woolston and ,professor ,homer ,rodeheaver 444444444444444 #ah ,a ,meeting of ,children in the ,east ,baptist ,church1 ,philadelphia 7,where the ,author is ,pastor7 ,giving ,attention to ,object-lessons ,described in ,this ,book 444444444444444444444 #ih ,atlas1 the ,big ,lion1 a ,docile1 ,friendly ,beast1 ,performing for the ,children 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444 #baf ,a ,baby ,lion1 ,six ,weeks ,old1 ,receiving the ,name of the ,youngest ,baby in the ,audience 44444444444444444444444444444444 #bah ,a ,baby ,leopard1 ,seven ,months ,old1 ,used to ,illustrate the ,scripture ,reference to the ,leopard's ,spots 4444444444444444444 #bbj ,the ,bear ,is ,called the ,clown of the ,animal ,kingdom4 ,this ,baby ,bear1 ,visiting a ,children's ,meeting in ,doctor ,woolston's ,church1 ,was ,used to ,illustrate the ,sin of ,stubbornness 4444444444444444444444444444444444444444 44444444444 #bbb #a ,,just ,a ,,few ,,words ,,to ,,the ,,children ,,some ,,helpful ,,words ,,to ,,the ,,speaker ,,to ,,children ,at some time during the service the minister will say1 ,now just a few words to the children4 ,he has a big task before him1 and if he is strong enough to know how to say these few words1 is he learned enough to know what to say in these few words8 ,many a great preacher meets his ,waterloo here4 ,will he retire beaten dragging the white flag of surrender after him1 and hang low his head because of the conscious defeat1 or will he with flying banners put it over in these few words1 and take his place in line with the world's greatest conquerors8 ,he must remember all children will not prick up their ears and listen hard just because he is a great preacher4 ,children are great critics4 ,their criticism takes the form of not listening4 ,they know perfectly the art of withdrawing attention when they are not interested in the few words1 but their minds are not vacant during the unheeded few words4 ,they are counting the number of people present in the pews directly in front of them4 ,they are watching the inattention of the members of the choir4 ,they are thinking of their games of yesterday1 or something they received at ,christmastime1 or of some book just given them as a birthday gift4 ,they may be whispering or nudging each other1 or if they have a bit of pencil with them they may be sketching caricatures of the deacons before them or even of the minister who is addressing them4 ,the little girl's motherly thought may be straying home to a sick doll1 or may be smiling at the funny ways of puppy or kitten that she just happens to remember4 ,the boy may be smiling over some funny situation he saw yesterday at the movies4 ,they are all very resourceful in themselves to save them from being bored by an address that has lost its way in its pilgrimage from the minister to their pews in which they are seated4 ,the just a few words like birds have taken to their wings1 and gone over the children's heads to the land of nowhere4 ,the minister1 if he has normal eyes and a common mind1 is conscious of the fact he has missed fire1 and wonders what he can do to put it over so it will stay put6 ,if he thus thinks1 there is large hope for him1 because he has not graduated from the learner's bench4 ,let him be a child again and think as a child4 ,let him learn how to talk to them and not about them1 and then his just a few words will become as interesting to their mind as the toys they left behind them4 ,this is worth the effort2 even the adults who are only tall kids will like the talk better than the preaching at in which they have only a feeble interest4 ,even the polar bear deacon will thaw out and catch himself smiling at the few words of the preacher that just talks4 ,happy is the man who can interest the child in his few words and can also interest the child in its efforts to translate the few words into big acts on the inside building of a child's character4 #b ,,when ,,the ,,baby ,,discovers ,,america6 ,,some ,,important ,,thoughts ,,for ,,work ,,among ,,children ,a ,study of the ,object as ,well as the ,subject ,every little cradle is a ship starting on the voyage of life4 ,little ,eyes looks out from its cabin windows and discovers that the land it sees is ,america4 ,it is not dreaming of lakes sublime or rivers majestic4 ,it is not in fact a discoverer4 ,it is a see-er4 ,it is seeing things1 real things1 in the land it has just discovered4 ,its first adventure is the finding of ,mother1 which means it has discovered perfect love1 protection1 and tender care4 ,mother is heaven1 her shining eyes are the stars4 ,there is a cry in the night4 ,mother understands its language and gives her holy ministrations4 ,watch ,mother1 she is the teacher ,god has trained4 ,listen to her first few words4 ,baby does4 ,mother understands4 ,god give the preacher this understanding4 ,learn how ,mother her first few words1 then try1 try again4 ,learn your first lesson in the language of a child4 ,it loves picture words4 ,it learns the names of common things first4 ,things fix themselves in the eyes4 ,its language is born as it looks4 ,looks at a cow and calls it moo cow4 ,a picture word with action in it6 ,it looks at a lamb and coins its own word ,baa-lamb4 ,teach the children in words full of pictures4 ,they see objects and fix on them certain ideas4 ,do the same in teaching them in their older days4 ,clothe objects with ideas1 and they will shine like stars in the children's understanding4 ,words that are dear and familiar to adult church-goers are so by long and sacred associations4 ,children have no such relation to our churchly words4 ,this does not mean that we are to talk down to them and use baby or silly talk4 ,children know when they are being talked down to1 and resent it4 ,when the preacher arrives to address the children in a few words1 he should be of the same age as the child in his words in order to establish contact4 ,why not8 ,the ,mother talks to the children in words of their age4 ,let the preacher be like the ,mother when he stands to address his words to the little folks4 ,let him use short words1 plain sentences1 pictureful words1 and objects which the children know1 and thus become a child again4 ,let him see the big world through the eyes of the children1 and he will know what stories the children like and do not like1 and when he arrives in the pulpit1 their eyes will be fastened on him1 and they will hear him gladly because he is one of them4 ,so1 as baby discovers ,america1 you discover baby4 #c ,a ,,million ,,dollar ,,cigaret ,,objects3 ,a ,black ,muslin ,flag on ,which ,is ,written ,some of the ,woes of the ,cigaret ,habit ,some months ago in ,jersey ,city1 ,n4 ,j41 a large warehouse and its contents were destroyed by fire4 ,this was the dreadful blaze known as the ,great ,triangle ,fire which finally destroyed a million dollars worth of property4 ,the deadly cigaret was believed to have been the cause of this disaster4 ,an employee walking about the place tossed or allowed to drop from his hand a lighted cigaret4 ,a cigar thus dropped goes out at once2 a cigaret continues to burn until it burns itself out1 and so this cigaret continued to burn and ignited other material1 and thus the great fire had its start1 and one million dollars worth of property was thus destroyed4 ,that was a ,million ,dollar ,cigaret4 ,all cigarets are costly4 ,they destroy things much more valuable than personal property or real estate4 ,they destroy health1 character1 and the chances of good success in life4 ,these things are more valuable than hills of gold4 ,the cigaret is more deadly than natural death1 for it produces a living death and at last flings the ruined soul on the bank of the ,lost ,river in the ,kingdom of ,eternal ,darkness4 ,sir ,christopher ,furness has found that cigaret smoking among boys not only causes deterioration of physique1 but tends to develop lounging habits1 with the result that the juvenile smoker's work is less conscientiously done1 and he is lacking in sprightliness and alertness4 ,where1 as is often the case1 ,sir ,christopher adds1 the boy smokes clandestinely1 habits of deceitfulness will probably be formed4 ,sir ,george ,william's experience as an employer has conclusively proved to him that a boy is a far from satisfactory worker if he smokes1 and he says3 ,the effects of smoking1 with its tendency to encourage drinking1 are to reduce a lad's energy1 to lessen his intellectual capacity1 and to weaken his moral character4 ,the fact that every great public school prohibits smoking among its boys1 and punishes offenders with a strong hand1 is eloquent of the evil effect tobacco has on the young mind4 ,the ,leeds ,school ,board some time ago enlisted the services of eminent medical authorities in its battle against the cigaret1 and the ,plymouth ,board circularized the teachers and parents of the children on the subject4 ,a ,committee of the ,liverpool ,school ,board which investigated the matter declared that cigaret smoking affects the system generally1 and arrests physical development1 and it would be possible to quote thousands of such opinions from the educational side4 ,it goes without saying that the doctor is the strongest enemy of the cigaret for boys4 ,all the evidence1 says ,dr4 ,andrew ,wilson1 points to the undermining of a growing lad's physique by indulgence in tobacco1 and ,doctor ,wilson continues3 ,add to this the moral effect--that of rendering the already precocious boy still more precocious1 and of turning him into an insufferable prig1 and you thus condemn the habit from another point of view4 ,sir ,henry ,little,john1 the veteran medical officer of health for ,edinburgh1 has used his great influence against the boy smoker on many grounds1 and there is much force in his argument that the practise is fraught with dangers to society at large1 owing to the secrecy with which the habit is carried on1 the assembling at nights1 the tendency to visit ice-cream shops to assuage the heat of the mouth that has been engendered by the filthy practise1 and1 in addition1 we have ultimately that disregard of the proprieties due to the other sex which is introducing in our midst a laxity of morals1 which1 in the future1 must bear fruit4 ,magistrate ,crane of ,new ,york ,city says3 ,ninety-nine out of a hundred boys between ten and seventeen years of age1 who come before me charged with crime1 have their fingers disfigured by yellow cigaret stains444 ,the poison in the cigaret seems to get into the system of the boy and destroys all moral fiber4 ,tobacco interferes with the functions of the eye1 of the heart1 and of the kidneys4 ,tobacco smoking interferes with the development of the boy4 ,professor ,mc,keever says the cigaret-smoking boys of several schools1 the records of which were investigated1 were described by his informants by such epithets as sallow1 sore-eyed1 puny1 squeaky-voiced1 sickly1 short-winded1 and extremely nervous4 ,the greatest danger of the cigaret habit is its insidious nature4 ,the boy does not realize the danger until it is too late to correct it4 ,hundreds of tombstones today bear silent testimony to this fact4 ,a chemist took the tobacco used in an average cigaret and soaked it in several teaspoonfuls of water and injected a portion of it under the skin of a cat4 ,the cat almost immediately went into convulsions and died in fifteen minutes4 ,dogs have been killed with a single drop of nicotine4 ,investigation shows that prominent business men positively refuse to engage men for responsible positions who smoke cigarets4 ,the cigaret smoker1 sooner or later1 proves to be unreliable either physically1 mentally1 morally1 or all three4 ,in ,detroit alone1 sixty-nine merchants have agreed not to employ cigaret-users4 ,chicago firms such as ,montgomery ,ward ,co41 ,marshall ,field ,co41 ,morgan ,wright ,tire ,co41 all prohibit cigaret smoking among employees1 ,thomas ,edison and ,henry ,ford1 head of the ,ford ,motor ,company1 are both opposed to the cigaret4 ,the manager of one of ,ohio's largest mercantile houses1 when asked for a job for a boy who smoked cigarets1 said3 ,i'm sorry1 but ,i can't use cigaret smokers4 ,first1 they smell bad1 and ,i don't want to put them in contact with the nice young ladies who work here or the nice ladies who trade here4 ,second1 cigarets prevent the development of strong1 clear1 reliable moral character4 ,they excite the lower passions and dull the sense of right and wrong4 ,judge ,ben ,lindsay of ,denver says3 ,i have been in the ,juvenile ,court nearly ten years1 dealing with thousands of boys who have disgraced themselves and their parents1 and ,i do not know of any one habit which is more responsible for the troubles of these boys than the vile cigaret habit4 ,superintendent1 ,mervine of the ,wells ,fargo ,express ,company1 issued a letter to all agents of the company1 in which he said3 ,any one who habitually smokes cigarets1 in this climate especially1 has something connected with his record or his qualifications that makes him a dangerous person4 ,dr4 ,sims ,woodhead1 professor of pathology in ,cambridge ,university1 says that cigaret smoking1 in the case of boys1 partially paralyzes the nerve-cells at the base of the brain1 and this interferes with the breathing or heart action4 ,now produce a flag made of black muslin which you call the ,cigaret ,flag1 on which you have pinned small slips of paper on which you have written some of the short sayings herewith given1 ,read these lines from the flag and say1 ,we will now listen to the message of the ,cigaret ,flag4 ,if you blow a mouthful of cigaret smoke through a clean white handkerchief1 it will leave a dark brown slimy stain4 ,in this carbon deposit are the different poisons which eat on the delicate spongy membrane of the back of the throat like acid on a piece of cloth4 ,conclude by warning the boys not to smoke the deadly cigaret1 never to begin2 and if they have smoked1 then first urge them to make the last cigaret the last forever4 ,tell them that ,jesus wants boys with clean lips and pure hearts4 ,the cigaret habit has roots which go deep into the heart4 ,this is what makes the grip of the habit so strong4 ,jesus said that ,every plant my heavenly ,father has not planted shall be rooted up4 ,so this is one of the plants doomed by ,god4 ,let him pull it out from your heart by the roots2 only thus can it be taken away to stay4 #d ,,healing ,,leaves ,,objects3 ,a ,collection of ,eucalyptus ,leaves ,secure from a regular drug-store a few dried leaves of the eucalyptus tree which grows in ,california4 ,mount them on cardboard or hold them up in a cluster so all the hearers may see them4 ,then open your ,bible and read ,revelation #bb3b1 and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations4 ,this can be used as a text for this lesson4 ,this great tree is to remind the saved in heaven that there is no sickness there1 for the cure of the nations and the ages is under the shade of the leaves of this healing tree4 ,this tree with its healing leaves is to remind us of ,jesus4 ,he is the great ,tree of ,life1 a root out of the dry ground4 ,his leaves of truth have been for the healing of the nations4 ,this collection of leaves which you now hold in your hand has healing power4 ,an oil is extracted direct from these leaves which has great medicinal value4 ,secure some of this oil from your regular druggist and ask him as to how it is used by the local doctors4 ,in ,africa the natives do much of their curing by leaves4 ,they believe that all diseases can be cured by leaves1 and when a person is ill or bitten by a serpent they hasten to the jungles and secure a healing leaf4 ,this was one of the most primitive means of healing known to men4 ,there is another great ,tree of ,knowledge which we call the great ,bible4 ,the leaves of this tree have long been healing the nations4 ,every leaf has a healing word in it4 ,as you say this hold up the ,bible with the other hand and read what some of the leaves say4 ,read ,john #c3ad and #af4 ,these words on the leaves of the ,bible have healed the millions4 ,they have been and are for the healing of the nations also1 and thus a countless number have received the eternal ,health of ,salvation and are now in heaven1 well forevermore4 ,i remember my mother often told me a ,civil ,war story which to my little head was a wonder story4 ,she said that once in this war a soldier's life was spared because the enemy's bullet embedded itself in the leaves of a ,new ,testament he carried in his pocket4 ,so the leaves of the ,bible saved his mortal life4 ,often the smaller birds fly into the leaves of the trees for safety when the larger wild bird seeks their life4 ,god's word is a mighty fortress and a shelter from the storm4 ,its leaves of truth cover us and surround us1 like a great wall of chariots and armed horsemen1 so we are safe forevermore4 ,if you have a cluster of leaves put a tag on each containing a verse of ,scripture which speaks of ,god's saving power4 ,pin these leaves with their tags up on some background and explain that there are the leaves from the ,tree of the ,bible1 with sure healing in them for the nations of the world4 #e ,,what ,,the ,,bible ,,is ,,like ,,objects3 ,a ,lamp1 a ,mirror1 a ,bowl1 a ,glass of ,milk1 ,bread1 a ,cup of ,honey1 a ,hammer1 a ,sword1 a ,jar of ,seeds ,in this chapter we think together as to what the ,bible is like1 and produce the object referred to4 ,we confine our thoughts to what the ,bible says it is likened unto4 #a4 ,the ,bible is likened unto a lamp4 ,here produce an ,oriental lamp if possible2 if not1 use an ordinary house lamp1 and quote the following ,scripture3 ,psalm #aai3aje1 #acj2 ,proverbs #f3bc4 ,this is a dark world1 it is under the power of darkness4 7,col4 #a3ac47 ,it is controlled by the rulers of darkness 7,eph4 #f3ab74 ,unless it is enlightened by the ,bible lamp it will go to its own place1 the blackness of darkness forever 7,jude #a3ac74 ,god so loved the world1 that he gave us his ,lamp that whosoever should follow the ,light1 might not perish1 but have everlasting life4 ,like the golden candlestick it shines upon divine things near at hand1 and like the pillar of fire it lights up the way through the wilderness journey4 ,all other lamps will go out1 but this light shines more and more to the perfect day4 ,harken1 ye children of men1 listen1 ye people of all nations1 ,the entrance of thy word giveth light4 #b4 ,a mirror4 7#b ,corinthians #c3ah2 ,james #a3be47 ,an ordinary looking-glass can be used here if it is put in an upright position4 ,it shows me myself just as ,i really am1 not as ,i think ,i am1 but as ,i am4 7,rom4 #c3ai47 ,the human heart shrinks from looking at it for it shows the heart as it really is4 ,and yet1 to see one's self as it is revealed in the mirror is the first step in the true way back to ,god4 ,a missionary to ,china once read aloud1 to a large audience1 ,romans #a4 ,one of the ,chinamen present said he thought it was very unfair and unkind for the foreign devil 7as missionaries were there called7 to come to find out all their secret sins and write them down in a book1 and read them out in that public way4 ,it is a truth that the ,bible is a mirror1 ,mine to tell me what ,i am4 #c4 ,a laver4 7,ephesians #e3bf47 ,a large silver bowl can be used here and placed in line with the lamp and mirror4 ,the ,bible not only shows us our sins as in a mirror1 but shows us the way the remedy can be secured4 ,in the old wilderness tabernacle1 a laver was provided at the entrance of the tabernacle to give a means of cleansing from the defilement which would oftentimes render the worshiper unfit for ,god's presence2 so a cleansing stream1 seen only by the eye of faith1 flows through this book4 ,it broke forth from the first promise of the woman's seed 7,gen4 #c3ae7 and flowed all the way through the ,bible until it broke into the trumpet-song of the redeemed in glory4 ,unto ,him that loved us1 and washed us from our sins in his own blood 7,rev4 #a3e74 ,as water cleanses by separating the body from the outward stains1 so the ,word of ,god applied by the ,holy ,spirit causes the heart to abhor the defilement of sin which would stain and defile the inward life4 ,thy word have ,i hid in my heart that ,i might not sin against thee 7,ps4 #aai3aa72 and ,jesus said1 ,now are ye clean through the word which ,i have spoken unto you 7,john #ae3c74 #d4 ,milk4 7#a ,corinthians #c3b2 ,hebrews #e3ab1ac47 ,here place by the side of the laver a glass or bottle of milk4 ,this is to teach us that the ,bible is so plain and simple that little children can feed on it as they do on milk4 ,some people declare that the ,bible is too profound for children1 and that they should seek and read some other simpler book on religion first4 ,but where is the child that can understand human words that does not grasp the stories of many of the ,bible records8 ,noah and the ,ark2 ,daniel in the ,lions' ,den2 ,the ,hebrew ,children in the ,furnace2 the story of the ,finding of ,moses2 ,joseph and ,his ,brethren1 and the parables and the miracles of ,jesus1 etc4 ,we are all babes in ,christ when first converted1 and are exhorted to drink the pure milk of the pure word of ,god4 #e4 ,bread4 7,deuteronomy #h3c2 ,isaiah #ee3aj47 ,here secure a few small cakes1 and explain the bread of the ,bible was not like our loaf of bread1 but like our cakes4 ,place them on a plate and put them in line with the other objects4 ,here we are taught the ,bible is food for the soul4 ,without it we will all perish4 ,i have esteemed thy word more than my necessary food is the confession of the heart that finds the ,bible the real bread for the soul4 ,the prophet said1 ,wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread8 harken diligently unto me1 and eat ye that which is good1 and let your soul delight itself in fatness4 ,this is free bread2 it is without money and without price4 ,come to the gospel ,free ,market and live4 #f4 ,honey4 7,psalm #aai3aj47 ,place now in line with the other symbols a bottle of honey4 ,this teaches the truth that the word of ,god is not only to give us our plain1 necessary food1 but to provide for us ,god's sweets4 ,an invitation to help ourselves to heaven's luxuries4 ,the ,bible is so full of such delights that ,david cried out1 ,how sweet are thy words unto my taste6 ,yea1 sweeter than honey to my mouth 7,ps4 #aai3ajc74 #g4 ,fire4 7,jeremiah #bj3i2 #bc3bi47 ,pour out into a metal plate a small quantity of alcohol and light it with a match4 ,it will burn for a few minutes1 at least long enough to bring home the lesson4 ,fire breaks out and spreads forth1 so if we are saved and have the ,bible in our hearts1 it will break forth into acts1 and the world will behold it4 ,and with burning words on our lips we will speak it forth2 messages for the dying world to hear4 #h4 ,hammer4 7,jeremiah #bc3bi47 ,secure a large mallet if possible1 for this is the form of a ,bible hammer2 if not possible use an ordinary one4 ,place this in line with the other objects4 ,some people's hearts are harder than stone4 ,it takes a strong effort to break their hearts of iron4 ,this is often discouraging work4 ,the hammer does not always work at the first blow4 ,it hits again and again1 and if we who swing the hammer of the word are faithful to the end the rock heart will at last break asunder2 ,god's word never fails4 #i4 ,sword4 7,ephesians #f3ag47 ,place an ordinary sword on the table with the other objects4 ,the ,bible is a sharp sword1 and in the hands of a skilful soldier will often1 by quick action1 bring down the nature that can avoid the hammer wielded by the workman's hand4 ,it was a quick instrument of light on the day of ,pentecost4 ,it reached the heart1 and a full surrender was made4 ,sometimes it falls with a quick1 mighty stroke upon those who continue to rebel against its divine authority4 7,rev4 #ai3ae47 #aj4 ,seed4 7,luke #h3aa2 ,isaiah #ee3aj47 ,secure a jar of any kind of seed1 and place in line with the other objects4 ,the ,bible declares we are born again of incorruptible seed1 by the word of ,god 7#a ,peter #a3bc74 ,it is our task to go forth and sow this seed4 ,behold1 a sower went forth to sow should be said of us every day we leave our homes4 ,we should sow beside all waters4 ,we should sow at all times4 ,in the morning sow thy seed1 and at evening withhold not thy hand1 for ,he that goeth forth and weepeth1 bearing precious seed1 shall doubtless come again with rejoicing1 bringing his sheaves with him 7,ps4 #abf3f74 ,after you have taught this lesson1 cause your audience to repeat with you what the ,bible is like4 #f ,,judging ,,by ,,appearances ,,objects3 ,a ,collection of ,paper ,drinking-cups ,this is a lesson on the folly of judging by appearances or coming to a conclusion from knowing just one side of the truth1 which in the language of the people is called jumping at conclusions4 ,secure ten or twelve paper drinking-cups2 cut them all except one into two parts1 put the top parts into each other1 so that they will look like a pile of cups1 but the only real cup is the bottom cup4 ,say3 ,here we seem to have a stack of drinking-cups from which to drink when we are thirsty4 ,here we seem to have enough cups for a party of ten or twelve according to the number you have but in reality there is only one cup that is a real cup that will hold water4 ,take the half cups out of the pile1 and show the children they are mistaken4 ,you only appeared to have a collection of cups4 ,then teach the danger of judging by appearances2 always be sure you are right before you speak and judge4 ,look into the cup as well as at it before you declare that here there are ten 7or more7 cups4 ,it is a dangerous thing oftentimes to judge by knowing a half-truth only4 ,people who jump at conclusions are in the way of making frequent mistakes and often do great mischief4 ,a woman standing in line before the window of a ,new ,england savings-bank1 waiting her turn to deposit five dollars1 saw a man step up and draw out nine hundred dollars4 ,she was not used to the sight of so much money1 and1 supposing that this meant a heavy drain on the resources of the bank1 held on to her five dollars1 and not only that1 but went and told her friends about it1 saying that the bank must be in danger4 ,the news spread1 and soon there was a run on the bank4 ,before the panic was over1 and scared depositors satisfied that the bank was sound1 between ten thousand and twenty thousand dollars had been withdrawn4 ,better be sure of facts and not judge by appearances4 ,this supposing things makes trouble4 ,some time ago a young man in looking around among the people at a public gathering1 noticed a tall1 heavyset1 well-built man1 and made up his mind that he was the new minister4 ,he went up to a friend and said3 ,very strong1 good-looking man1 isn't he8 ,i am well pleased and satisfied he will make a very good minister4 ,that man replied to his friend1 ,why he is no minister1 he is the manager of the new theater4 ,it takes more than a fine-looking man to be a minister4 ,he may only look like one1 and be only half a cup4 ,a gentleman noticed a refined-looking stranger seated opposite to him at the table4 ,he had a magnificent forehead and a fine1 venerable1 bald head4 ,his eyes were shooting off sparks of expression which seemed to be born of the fires of genius4 ,ah1 thought he1 if he could but speak1 what grand words we would hear6 ,what large utterances would fall from his eloquent lips6 ,suddenly the gentleman who possessed the venerable head and a great talent for silence spoke and said1 ,hand me them dumplings1 them's the jockeys for me4 ,he was wise only in appearance4 ,he was half a cup4 ,there was nothing of eloquence or talent in him4 ,things are not what they seem to be4 ,illustration3 ,rev4 ,c4 ,h4 ,woolston and ,professor ,homer ,rodeheaver ,in #a ,samuel #af3g1 the ,bible teaches us this lesson3 ,look not on his countenance1 or on the height of his stature2 because ,i have refused him4 ,god saw both sides of the man4 ,what he looked like1 and what he really was4 ,man looketh on the outward appearance1 but ,god looketh on the heart 7#a ,sam4 #af3g74 ,learn to see things as ,god sees them1 then you will see aright4 #g ,a ,,child ,,for ,,sale ,,objects3 ,a ,child and a ,number of ,prepared ,business ,cards ,call a little boy to the platform and ask3 ,what is a child worth8 ,not long ago in the great city of ,philadelphia a little girl was fatally hurt by a trolley-car4 ,the jury awarded a verdict of #e1jjj for damages4 ,five thousand dollars was the legal value of a child4 ,would you sell your little girl for that figure8 ,is that what your child is worth8 ,are children for sale in this world of sin and unbelief8 ,this child is for sale1 and the world1 the flesh1 and the devil bid for him4 ,who bids first for this child8 ,a man then walks up to the platform saying1 ,a business man makes the first offer4 ,read the card and say3 ,mr4 ,a4 ,cigaret1 representing the ,smoke and ,brownleaf ,co41 bids for the child4 ,he offers good fellowship1 the thrills of the happy smoker1 and the name of a jolly good fellow4 ,this card you have prepared before the service1 and placed in the hands of one of your assistants who delivers it to you at your call2 after he presents the card he takes his seat4 ,in reply to this bid you say3 ,this bid is rejected4 ,king ,tobacco cannot have this boy with the pure life and happy smile4 ,the bid is rejected for the following reasons4 ,it is a deadly poison4 ',in a cigaret there are five poisons3 the oil of nicotine1 the oil in the paper1 saltpetre to preserve the tobacco1 opium to make it mild1 and the oil in the flavoring4' ,it leads to insanity4 ,dr4 ,forbes ,winslow says1 ',cigaret smoking is one of the chief causes of insanity4' ,it is a crime-maker4 ,a ,new ,york ,city magistrate says3 ',yesterday ,i had before me thirty-five boy prisoners2 thirty-three were confirmed cigaret smokers4 ,tobacco is the boy's easiest and most direct road to whisky4' ,it is the highway to disease4 ',tobacco is the admitted cause of upward of eighty diseases1 including blindness1 and cancers of the lower lip and tongue1 and is credited with killing twenty thousand in our land every year4' ,it is an agent for death4 ,dr4 ,j4 ,j4 ,kellog says3 ',i had all the nicotine removed from a cigaret and made a solution of it4 ,i injected half of it into a frog1 and the frog died almost instantly4 ,the frog was full grown and average size4 ,a boy smoking twenty cigarets in a day inhales enough poison to kill forty frogs4' ,a cigaret smoker is slain before he is dead4 ,slain to all the good chances for success in life4 ,e4 ,h4 ,harriman1 former head of the ,union ,pacific ,r4 ,r4 ,system1 says1 ',we might as well go to the lunatic asylum for our employees as to hire cigaret smokers4' ,the cigaret is a deadly thing4 ,you are seeking the young child's life4 ,your bid is therefore rejected4 ,the next bid is brought to the platform by an assistant who hands you the prepared business card marked3 ,mr4 ,pool-room4 ,i will give a jolly evening for years to come in my game-room4 ,there will be a bunch of happy lads there1 full of glee1 happy all night long4 ,i will give him the thrill of making money easy4 ,will preserve him from hard work4 ,will help him drive away dull care4 ,you reply3 ,this bid is rejected for the following reasons3 ,the poolroom is the place of the gambler's table4 ,it will teach him to get dishonest money1 tainted and yellow with sin4 ,he will meet the depraved1 and they will be his companions4 ,he will lose the purity of heart ,god has given him4 ,it will steal the roses from his cheek and paint his face with the lines of dissipation4 ,it will take him from his father and mother1 and some day toss him up against the door of the old homestead a human wreck4 ,you cannot have him1 ,mr4 ,pool-room4 ,he shall not walk in the sinners' way4 ,i reject your offer4 ,another prepared card is brought to the platform with the words3 ,his ,highness1 ,lord ,ignorance4 ,i bid for this lad1 and for him ,i offer an open mind4 ,let him do his own thinking1 live as he pleases4 ,i will not let him go to school or trouble about knowledge4 ,the less he knows the happier he will be4 ,i will just let him do as he pleases4 ,that will be his religion and education4 ,then you reply1 saying3 ,your bid is also rejected4 ,your card has on it the stain of the blackness of the ,dark ,ages4 ,you would make merely an animal of my boy1 just feed him and turn him loose like a beast4 ,you would bring down on him all the misery of the ,dark ,ages4 ,you would cover him in a dense cloud of ignorance4 ,you would starve his mind and feed his body1 and so make a monster of him4 ,you would lead him astray1 and he would not know the deadly thing you were doing4 ,you would put out the eyes of his mind so they could not see ,god's way4 ,no1 you cannot purchase the soul of this lad for such a price4 ,back1 ,lord ,ignorance1 into the ,dark ,ages2 that is where your castle of sin is built4 ,you are a black dragon of shadows and dwell in the shades of blackness4 ,your bid is therefore rejected4 ,you then say1 ,who will bid for the soul of this boy8 ,you can have various cards prepared with the words1 ,mr4 ,profanity1 ,mr4 ,infidelity1 ,mr4 ,highwayman1 etc4 ,after you have worked it out according to your liking you say1 ,i am now open for the last bid4 ,a card is sent up with the words ,the ,church4 ,the bid reads as follows3 ,i1 the ,church of the ,lord ,jesus1 will now bid for the soul of the boy4 ,i will put him into the ranks of the ,sunday-school children4 ,he will be in the army of 'the millions4' ,he will be taught to sing ,god's praises1 and his lips to speak white words4 ,he will be taught the way of the heavenly life from the ,bible1 ,god's book of wonders4 ,he will be taught to stand upright in all life's tasks4 ,god will lift him to a high station of life and give him great success1 and at last ,god will take his soul to heaven through his faith in the ,lord ,jesus4 ,you then say3 ,o ,church ,militant1 ,i accept your terms of the sale4 ,the boy is yours for this world and for the next4 ,before he leaves the platform you present him with a ,new ,testament which you tell him is life's great lantern to guide him to the end4 ,you give him a little cross which1 you say1 is to remind him of his faith in the ,son of ,god1 and last1 give him a church conquest flag to remind him that the ,christian life is a battle1 and he must fight his way onward1 as he is a ,christian soldier4 ,shake hands with him and pointing forward say1 ,onward1 ,christian soldier6 ,let the organist play this melody as he walks to his seat4 ,the address each bidder makes for the boy may also be all written out and placed in a sealed envelope and presented to you with the card announcing the bidder's name4 ,you can then break open the contract and read as noted in the body of this chapter4 #h ,,weeds ,,objects3 ,a ,number of ,common ,weeds ,i was noticing the other day1 that1 in my garden1 after the winter days had passed1 the first green things to show their head were the little weeds4 ,they seemed to say to me1 ,hello1 we are back again for business4 ,and a pretty lively business they are in1 surely4 ,we are sorry to see them come1 and glad to see them go1 but before they do go ,i want to teach you some important life lessons from them4 ,they are very like the most of us1 so they talk to us as old friends4 ,the first thing ,i hear them say is1 ,we grow very fast4 ,they multiply quickly4 ,the red poppy will give fifty thousand seeds4 ,the dandelion 7show one if you have it in your collection7 will give over two thousand seeds4 ,weeds stand for evil things and useless things4 ,they seem to be like the sands of the sea in number4 ,so our life is full of weeds very often4 ,we tell one lie1 and then another to protect ourselves against the evil of the first lie1 and by and by we have told many of them1 and the habit of lying has been so formed1 that often thousands of lies will be told4 ,so little boys and girls must watch the weeds1 for they grow very fast in the heart4 ,take care of your words4 ,don't let the lie get mixed up with them4 ,these are some of the evil weeds we must watch3 ,envy1 bad temper1 untruthfulness1 selfishness1 unkindness--and there are many more4 ,call all these things weeds1 and don't let them get into the garden of the heart4 ,then1 again1 ,i heard the weeds say3 ,i will walk into your garden and come up as noiselessly as the beautiful flowers4 ,i will push up my soft harmless little leaves1 and do it so gently that ,i will not disturb your roses4 ,and so evil things creep into our life1 and look quite as harmless as the little weed4 ,when they get in1 we like them and encourage them1 and often will not let them go1 because we love them2 then at last we cannot let them go if we would4 ,just a little white lie1 just for fun1 then a lying life1 with everything false4 ,a whole town were once horrified by the confession of a mere boy that he had killed his playmate4 ,he seemed to have no fear or sorrow because of the act1 but his mother said when he was a small child he would catch the flies and pull their wings off1 and smile as he noted the suffering of the fly4 ,first it was the wings of a fly1 at last it was the murder of a playmate4 ,weeds are not good things in a garden4 ,they are not good things in the heart1 ,watch them when they first show their little heads4 ,close the door at once1 they soon turn to poison and death in the soul4 ,then again the weeds say to me3 ,my real name is ,determination4 ,i will come in1 and you will have a hard time to get rid of me4 ,they are determined to stay4 ,it is no use to pull off their leaves1 but pull them up by their roots and cast them into the fire4 ,just as soon as an evil thought comes into our minds1 kill it at once4 ,cast it out of our thought4 ,don't talk about it1 or it will drive its roots down deep1 and will come to stay4 ,evil-thought weeds come from everywhere2 some from far-off lands1 others are carried in our mail1 and in our schoolbooks4 ,some are passing tramps1 but they come and take us unawares4 ,soon evil acts follow naturally and as certainly as day follows night4 ,fill your mind full of good thoughts1 and don't look on evil weeds4 ,solomon said1 ,look not on the wine4 ,this was good advice1 for looking upon evil creates the longing for it4 ,let ,jesus come into the mind as well as the heart1 and he will cast out the evil thoughts1 because he cannot stay with the weeds of sinful thoughts4 ,let your daily prayer be1 ,take away all the ugly weeds from my heart1 ,o ,lord1 and plant beautiful thought flowers there1 that it may be always sweet for thee4 ,in delivering this address display the weeds in separate bunches4 ,put them in a number of glasses and put all in a row on the front of the table so all the class may see them4 ,after the lesson gather them into one bunch and cast them aside 7or out of door or window74 ,this is what ,god does with the thorns and thistles4 ,these are ,bible names for weeds4 #i ,,the ,,sword ,,of -- ,,objects3 ,a ,small ,sword with the ,name of ,benaiah ,written on the ,blade ,i hold in my hand a small sword4 ,it belongs to a great soldier whose name is mentioned in the ,old ,testament in #b ,samuel #bc4 ,i find his name on this sword4 ,i don't think you have ever pronounced it4 ,if you have1 you have forgotten it1 yet the soldier whose name is written here was great and brave and full of kindly deeds4 ,it is too bad his name has been forgotten4 ,i will tell you about his deeds1 and then1 ,i hope1 after ,i have told you his name you will never forget him4 ,there once lived a priest in a little country town4 ,its streets were lined with beautiful palm trees1 and its well of water was deep1 cool1 and sweet4 ,this priest had a son who was so strong and brave that he was greatly beloved by his father4 ,often when he talked with his father1 he said1 as many other boys have said1 that some day when he was older he wanted to be a soldier4 ,he often looked from the door of his home upon the passing army of soldiers1 with their glittering armor and shining spears1 and then1 sometimes1 boylike1 he would follow the procession to the city gates and wave his hand to them1 as he saw the flying banners disappear in the distance4 ,when he grew up1 he was of the same mind1 and one day never to be forgotten he said good-by to his father and all his old friends and went a long journey to join the king's army4 ,his bravery soon made him famous1 so much so that he was soon promoted to the position of captain4 ,once he was met by two robbers of another nation1 who thought they could easily kill him1 and so rid their nation of a troublesome and powerful enemy1 but they did not find this to be so easy a task1 because he was so strong1 and his sword was so powerful1 and he fought so desperately that he not only made his escape1 but left his two persecutors dead by the roadside4 ,he was a good soldier and fought well with his sword of defence4 ,one winter's day there came a man1 in great haste1 crying out1 ,there is a lion prowling about just outside the city gate4 ,all the children were greatly frightened and ran into their houses and shut the door to keep the mad lion from entering their homes to destroy them4 ,it was a cold1 long winter1 and the lion was hungry4 ,he had been unable to find his food in the wild woods1 and had come to the walls of the town in search of food4 ,wolves and other wild animals do the same thing4 ,all the people were alarmed1 so they sent their messenger in haste to the brave soldier with the mighty sword4 ,he was urged by this messenger to make haste and come out and kill this lion before its hunger should drive it to enter into the town and carry off some man or woman1 or perhaps some little boy or girl4 ,when the brave man heard this he quickly took his sword and followed the guide to the place where he had seen the lion4 ,some of the people informed him that it had fallen into a pit and was struggling to get out and roaring with madness4 ,when the brave man saw this1 he sprang into the pit with the lion1 and after a terrible struggle killed it with his sword4 ,he was so handy with his sword1 that ,i think1 just as the lion was about to make a mad rush upon him1 he gave him such a mighty sword-thrust that the lion fell back dead into the pit4 ,so we see he was not afraid of man or beast4 ,he knew how to give a fatal sword-thrust that gave him victory at last4 ,what was his name8 ,such a brave man should have his name written in letters of iron in the temple of the mighty swordsmen of the world4 ,just hear me again1 and then ,i will tell you his name4 ,one day the king1 his master1 who was now getting old1 was in the camp4 ,it was a hot day1 and the great king felt thirsty and was eager for a drink of water4 ,the king thought of the clear cold spring of water in his old home town1 to which he had often gone on a hot summer day to drink of its cool refreshing water4 ,he had often bathed his hands and face with it4 ,he could even now see its waters dancing in the sunlight before him1 ,but alas1 that old home town was in the hands of the enemy4 ,how could he ever get that water to his lips4 ,half unconsciously he cried out1 ,oh that some one would get me a drink from that spring near to the gates of the old home town6 ,our brave soldier boy overheard this wish expressed by the king1 and so called two of his companions and said to them3 ,i heard the king say just now1 that he longed for a drink from the water of the well near the gate in his old home town1 where he was born4 ,the enemy is in possession of that town1 and it may cost us our lives1 but the king is old1 and it would greatly please him4 ,shall we try8 ,his friends said1 ,yes1 we will1 and let us start at once4 ,so they started off with quick steps and brave hearts4 ,so quickly did they move that before very long they were in sight of the little town4 ,they could see the soldiers moving about the spring1 but1 like good soldiers1 they secretly drew nearer and nearer without being seen4 ,when the enemy was not looking these brave soldiers slipped down1 and before the enemy knew what was happening1 they thrust the flask into the waters of the spring and let it fill itself with the good water for the king4 ,a shower of darts from the enemy flew about them1 but they made their escape and safely reached their camp and king4 ,tears filled the eyes of the old king when he saw the flask and remembered the perils his faithful men had passed through4 ,he did not drink of the water4 ,it had cost too much4 ,it was too precious for the lips of man4 ,so he poured it out on the ground1 which was the way this ancient people had of giving it to ,god4 ,so you see our brave swordsman had something more than a strong arm1 that would give a sword-thrust with mighty effect2 he also had a big strong heart4 ,he loved the king4 ,he served him with his heart and hand4 ,his name is written on this sword4 ,what was the name of this forgotten hero8 ,i will read it for you1 ,i have it written on this sword4 ,benaiah was his name4 ,david was the name of the king4 ,the well was just outside the little town of ,bethlehem4 ,let us speak his name again4 ,let us all repeat it together1 and often1 when we think of ,bethlehem at ,christmastime let us repeat the name of the brave hero1 the swordsman of ,king ,david1 and tell the story of the fight for water just outside the gates of ,bethlehem1 and then tell the story of the ,child ,jesus who came to bring us the ,water of ,life from heaven1 for did he not say1 ,whosoever drinketh of the water that ,i shall give him1 shall never thirst1 but the water that ,i shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life8 ,in delivering this lesson hold the sword in your hand and refer to it whenever you use the name of ,benaiah the swordsman4 #aj ,,what ,,can ,,take ,,away ,,my ,,sins8 ,,objects3 ,a ,number of ,lettered ,cards ,the teaching of this chapter is that faith alone in ,christ can save4 ,prepare a large black card with the words ,my ,sins painted upon it4 ,hold it up before the audience so all can see it1 and remark3 ,my sins are dark and terrible4 ,the ,bible tells me they are like a thick cloud4 7,isa4 #dd3bb47 ,note the first letter of sin is an ,s1 which resembles a serpent in the act of striking its deadly blow4 ,you cannot pronounce the letter ,s without hissing as a serpent4 ,sin is a deadly thing4 ,it is poison for the heart and will4 ,sin is like a monster serpent coiled around our soul1 and will at last crush out its life forever4 ,i must get rid of my sins1 ,they will not only ruin my own soul but will smite others also4 ,some years ago some scientific men made an investigation as to the cause of a contagious disease which had spread over a great city4 ,it was discovered that a young man had been stealing goldfish which he put into a little tank in the floor of his room and covered it with boards to hide its secret place until he could sell them to another man4 ,soon after a great contagion sprang up in that vicinity1 indeed in that very room1 ,it began with him at first1 and he was left crippled and blind and went limping along on crutches1 a suffering permanent invalid4 ,the contagion spread to others1 and upon examination made by scientific men from ,warsaw and ,berlin they found out these fish had died in the tank1 and were of such a nature as to spread at once a contagion which became of a most malignant type4 ,a scourge overspread the land and carried away tens of thousands of innocent people4 ,sin acts just like that4 ,every act of evil deposited in a heart given over to disobedience to ,god breeds a miasma1 the fumes of which go out on the silent air1 poisoning the life of others as well as that of the sinner4 ,i must get rid of my sins for the sake of the other man as well as my own soul4 ,how can this be done8 ,what will take away my sins8 ,let me show how my sins can be all taken away4 ,prepare another card about an inch smaller all around it4 ,paint on it the word ,working4 ,shall ,i work8 ,shall ,i do penance8 ,shall ,i suffer bodily torture8 ,will these works obtain my deliverance8 ,now place this card over the black card ,my ,sins1 and you notice it does not cover my sins4 ,they still are visible4 ,working cannot save me4 ,the working' card is not big enough to do it4 ,now prepare a card with the word ,weeping upon it1 making that two inches shorter on all sides1 and place it over the ,my ,sins card1 and you notice it does not cover the black card4 ,it is too short4 ,weeping will not wipe away my sins4 ,weeping will not wash out my sins4 ,weeping will not save me2 ,though my face be bathed in tears1 ,that could not allay my fears1 ,could not cleanse the sins of years2 ,weeping will not save me4 ,after this prepare a card smaller still on which is painted the word ,praying4 ,place this against the black card ,my ,sins1 and again this card does not cover the ,sin card4 ,praying for deliverance from sin is essential1 but we must act as well as pray4 ,we realize our lost condition1 and hear the voice of ,god say1 ,come unto me4 ,we must do something more than just cry1 ,save1 ,save4 ,we must do4 ,the ,prodigal ,son would never have left the far country if he had merely cried out in fervent prayer1 ,i have sinned against thee4 ,but he arose and went4 ,that was his way home4 ,it is our way too4 ,praying will not save me2 ,all the prayers that ,i could say ,could not wash my sins away1 ,the debt ,i owe could never pay2 ,praying will not save me4 ,prepare now a card only half as large as ,my ,sins card1 painting on it the word ,feeling4 ,try now to cover the black ,sin card with this card and it will not half do its work1 ,waiting for feeling is useless delay4 ,it would never save you if it should come4 ,all the feeling that is needed is to feel your need of him4 ,feeling will not save me2 ,though ,i may so happy be ,as to think ,god's pardoned me1 ,feelings change continually2 ,feeling will not save me4 ,at last prepare a red card about an inch larger all around than the sin card on which you have painted the words ,faith in ,christ4 ,now put this over the black ,sin card1 and you will perceive that it covers completely all your sins4 ,it hides ,my ,sins forever more4 ,they are all taken away to stay1 and as you say this remove the black ,sin card and let it fall behind the desk1 or cast it back of you1 for this is what ,god does with our sins when he forgives them for ,christ's sake4 ,he casts them behind his back4 ,now lift up the red card1 and the black has been taken away--and--taken away to stay4 ,that is what faith in ,christ will do4 ,they are rolled away as a thick cloud forever4 ,faith in ,christ will save me6 ,let me trust thy gracious ,son1 ,trust the work that he has done1 ,to his arms1 ,lord1 let me run1 ,faith in ,christ will save me4 #aa ,,words ,,of ,,anger ,,objects3 ,a ,large ,white ,pasteboard ,card with a ,heart in the ,center2 a ,number of ,black ,pins2 a ,large ,apple ,i once heard a story about a little boy whose bad temper troubled him1 because when in anger he would speak words that would cut and stick in1 ,so in order that he might know how bad were the bad words he uttered he made a large white heart1 and in its center he put a cross4 ,he hung this card in his own room and called it ,the ,heart of ,jesus4 ,whenever he said an angry word1 he would stick in the heart a black pin1 just to remind him of the fact that every cross word he said hurt ,jesus4 ,this soon brought him to his senses1 and the heart with the black pins hurt him so greatly that it was a check to his bad speaking4 ,this teaches us the fact that our sins hurt ,jesus4 ,when he was among men he wept over the sinner4 ,perhaps he does now4 ,secure a pasteboard heart about one foot in diameter and pin it up on some background where the audience can see it1 then tell the above story1 and begin to put the black pins 7or other pins7 in the heart as you name the bad words the children say4 ,black pins are preferred as they will show more plainly by reason of the white background4 ,after there are a number of pins in the heart call the attention to the fact that some of those piercing words were spoken about very small1 simple things4 ,there is an old story that tells us about two brothers who were out walking together4 ,one night1 one of them looking up to the sky said1 ,i wish ,i had a field as large as the night heavens4 ,the other boy also looking up1 said1 ,i wish ,i had as many oxen as there are stars in the sky4 ,well1 said the first brother1 ,how would you feed so many oxen6 ,the other brother replied1 ,i would turn them out into your pasture4 ,what1 said the first brother1 would you do that without my permission8 ,yes1 whether you would give permission or not4 ,and so they quarreled1 and when the quarrel was ended one of them had been slain by the other4 ,it began by playful talk1 but ended in tragedy4 ,i think that boy must have filled the heart of ,jesus with black pins of temper4 ,temper is a blemish1 a black spot1 and often happy little children that are called sunshine1 can in a moment turn about and show the black spot of temper and spoil all the sunshine4 ,a good mother trying to teach this lesson to her little girl held up before her a beautiful apple and asked her what she thought of it4 ,she said it was perfect and lovely4 ,the mother turned it around1 and there on the other side was a large black spot4 ,oh1 that spoils it all1 cried the little girl4 ,then the mother said to her little girl1 ,i think that resembles my little daughter1 and the little girl knew what it meant4 ,her temper was her black spot4 ,so every black pin in this heart came out of the black spot in the heart of the one who spoke the angry words4 ,a few days later the beautiful apple lost its glory1 the black spot had spread1 and the apple soon decayed4 ,this was to teach the little girl that if the sin of temper was not thrown out1 and persistently kept out1 it would at last destroy the soul4 ,you can here introduce an apple fair and beautiful with a speck on the other side of it4 ,this will help visualize the truth4 ,don't think that the black spot of temper will always remain on the hidden side1 because it will find its way out sooner or later and will find you at last4 ,a schoolmaster one day missed several boys from school4 ,he had a shrewd suspicion they were playing truant4 ,in the afternoon the boys came to school and he asked one of them where he had been4 ,the boy replied that his mother had kept him home that morning to mind the baby4 ,let me look at your tongue1 said the master1 and he did so1 and it was black4 ,it is just as ,i thought4 ,you have spent the morning rambling in the woods1 picking blackberries4 ,he examined the tongues of the other boys and found them all black also4 ,their tongues had told on them4 ,black tongues of temper always tell out their black words4 ,what shall ,i do with my angry words8 ,my hot mouth so often shoots off evil words4 ,you cannot slay them2 when you think they are buried1 they will walk out of their graves and fight again4 ,bring your heart to ,jesus1 because your tongue only says what your heart whispers to it1 ,ask ,jesus to give you daily good thoughts and let them speak out in good words4 ,once ,i read a fairy tale about a good little boy4 ,every time he spoke there fell from his lips a piece of gold4 ,he grew more beautiful every day1 and at last married the daughter of a king4 ,this is only a fairy tale1 but it teaches us a real lesson4 ,when we say kind words the angels treasure them in heaven as pure gold4 ,now take the pins out from the heart1 and cut out a number of blocks of gold paper1 and as you recite the good words pin them on the heart of ,jesus4 ,such people are precious in his sight4 ,they are his priceless jewels4 #ab ,,the ,,copper-,,face ,,girl ,,object3 ,an ,old ,penny with a ,indian ,girl's ,face on ,it ,we all love to have our names written in important places4 ,when ,i was in the ,tower of ,london1 ,i found one of the walls so filled with names written there1 that it seemed to me to be impossible for any one to write another name4 ,they wanted to be remembered4 ,i think we all do4 ,i want to tell you a true story about a little girl that had her picture engraven upon copper4 ,she did not plan to do this1 she gained this publicity unsought1 and yet her face was in more homes in this land than any other4 ,even the homes of the poorest were glad to get it4 ,the rich also rejoiced to look into her sweet face4 ,now look sharp at your penny1 and you will see an ,indian face4 ,look again with both eyes1 and let me ask you1 ,do you see ,indian features there8 ,i do not think you do1 not even the slightest trace of them1 because the girl on the penny was not an ,indian at all4 ,look again1 and you will see it is the face of a gracious ,american girl4 ,this is the story of how this sweet little ,american girl got her face made over in copper and stamped on an ,american penny4 ,her name was ,sarah ,longacre ,keen4 ,she lived in ,philadelphia and died there a few years ago4 ,for thirty-five years she was the ,secretary of the ,philadelphia ,branch of the ,women's ,foreign ,missionary ,society of the ,methodist ,episcopal ,church4 ,one day1 when she was a child1 five or six years old1 a delegation of ,indians from the ,northwest visited ,washington4 ,they came to see the sights of the great capital and to hold a pow-wow1 with the ,great ,white ,chief--the ,president4 ,after they had spent some time in ,washington they visited ,philadelphia4 ,while here1 among other places they were shown the ,u4,s4 ,mint4 ,the little girl's father was a master engraver1 and connected officially with the great money factory4 ,he was a good1 generous man1 and invited the ,indian delegation to some sort of an entertainment at his house4 ,one of the ,chiefs had his attention attracted to the little ,miss4 ,he was so pleased by her figure and face and maidenly bearing that in a mood of sportiveness1 he took off his head-dress and put it on her head4 ,this did not frighten the little girl and so she stood still for a moment and let the people look at her4 ,then they all laughed and greatly enjoyed the joke1 ,some one present had an eye for beauty1 and also artistic skill1 and he was so struck by the appearance that little ,sarah made in her ,indian hat that he sketched her on the spot4 ,the sketch was engraved by her father4 ,later on when the ,government wanted a new face on the new one-cent pieces they chose this engraving1 and so little ,sarah ,keen's features became the best known face in ,america4 ,this is the story of the ,little ,copper-face1 and this was the way a little ,philadelphia girl was remembered4 ,there is a better way to be remembered than stamping your face upon copper4 ,we could not do this if we wished1 but we can all be remembered by ,god1 if we do his will1 and try to do our best to serve him4 ,this is the way to engrave our names on his heart4 ,there was once a ,bible-woman by the name of ,phoebe4 ,we read about her in ,romans #af3a4 ,she is there called ,phoebe1 our sister4 ,she is mentioned only once in the ,new ,testament4 ,a small matter1 you say1 to make her remembered forever4 ,she did one simple1 little act2 yet we are all rich today because she did it4 ,she carried ,paul's letter to the ,roman church which is now called by that name4 ,a great ,french writer has said that ,phoebe carried the foundation stones of the great temple of ,christian doctrine4 ,this was all she did4 ,we never hear anything about her after that act1 but think what it has meant for the great ,christian church1 and think what it means to all ,bible readers today6 ,in that letter1 more than all others1 is ,god's grace revealed to us4 ,she worked for ,jesus in a humble way1 and in such a simple way that all children can follow her example4 ,she just carried things for ,god4 ,she was ,god's errand-girl1 so her character is engraved on the bronze tablet of ,biblical history4 ,paul says1 ,i commend unto you ,phoebe4 ,god will commend you if you do as ,phoebe did4 ,in delivering this talk hold up the penny as you describe it4 ,this particular penny is a bit rare these days1 but the banks will supply them1 and some of the older people who have savings from other days1 will gladly make an exchange for it4 ,if you found it possible1 you would make a great impression on the little hearts if you should give each an old penny with the ,indian head4 #ac ,,making ,a ,,church ,,flag ,,objects3 ,the ,word ,come ,made by ,flag ,signals ,one of the best church flags is the flag of invitation4 ,let me tell you how you can make one to hang from your steeple point1 and decorate your meeting-room4 ,you can also carry it in your church parade1 and hang it over the pulpit when you give your lesson4 ,it is a set of signal flags which spell out ,come4 ,here are the flags arranged as a streamer4 ,they can be made of bunting or silk and fastened on a cord in the following order4 ,these flags say ,come to the outside world4 ,it is your invitation in the air4 ,the colors can be made to mean ,white--,purity4 ,here is the church to which you are invited4 ,you will be taught that purity is a gift from ,god1 through ,jesus ,christ4 ,it is given away in the church at the meeting4 ,come1 and receive it4 ,the ,red stands for the blood of ,jesus1 which makes black white1 and takes away sin4 ,the ,yellow stands for ,glory4 ,yellow is the dominating color in the sunset which shows forth the glory of ,god4 ,the glory of life is produced by the forgiveness of sin4 ,the glory we can take with us to the ,city of ,glory4 ,the life all-glorious is the life offered by the church4 ,the salvation of the soul makes the soul shine forth like the sun4 ,illustration3 ,diagram describing four flags3 a white triangular flag with a red circle in the center1 a rectangular flag split diagonally with yellow and red halves1 a blue rectangular flag diagonally crossed with white stripes1 and a triangular flag divided into red1 white1 and blue thirds ,note that the last flag of the word ,come contains the three colors of our flag1 the red1 white1 and blue2 so in the church the best citizens are made and stay made4 ,the flag calls you to the ascending life4 ,these flags are like the bells around the high priest's garments--the bells of invitation4 ,when the ,jews heard the clang of those bells in the hem of the high priest's garment they knew it was a call to worship4 ,the bells said1 ,come1 worship6 ,the word come occurs six hundred and forty-two times in the ,bible4 ,it is ,come to the supper2 ,come to the waters2 ,the ,spirit and the ,bride say1 ,come2 ,come1 ,come now2 ,come to ,jesus4 ,the call is for all4 ,hang this signal on the top of the world1 the highest mountaintop1 it tells the same story to all people1 ,come4 ,a minister of the gospel hastening to the train with only a moment to spare1 was stopped by a gentleman1 who ran after him1 and asked him this question1 ,o1 sir1 stop a moment1 ,i am anxious about my soul1 and ,i want to know what to do4 ,well1 said the pastor1 my train is just here1 and ,i can only say turn to ,isaiah #ec3f4 ,go in at the first 'all1' and go out at the last 'all4' ,what does he mean1 said the stranger4 ,he went to the ,bible and read the text3 ,all we1 like sheep1 have gone astray4 ,we have turned every one to his own way1 and ,jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all4 ,so he repeated to himself the minister's message ,go in at the first 'all1' come out at the last 'all4' ,so he read the text again1 ,all4 ,all we like sheep have gone astray4 ,that was the first all4 ,yes1 that is where ,i am to 'go in1' ,i'll go4 ,he believed it4 ,hath laid on him the iniquity of us all4 ,the second all4 ,jesus bore the sins of 'all1' so he bore my sins4 ,that is where ,i go out1 through the last 'all4' ,i go in as a sinner on the first 'all1' ,i come out through the last 'all' because my sins were all laid on him2 and in so doing he rejoiced in ,christ1 his ,saviour4 ,that is what the signal ,come says4 ,hear it singing1 ,come4 ,listen to the call of the signals which1 interpreted by ,isaiah #ec3f1 rings out1 ,come in at the first 'all1' go out at the last 'all4' ,and so make your church flag1 and as you read its meaning1 go and tell it to all the people4 #ad ,,an ,,immortality ,,lesson ,,objects3 ,a ,collection of ,colored ,eggs ,the ,indian1 years before he was told by the white missionary that when a man dies he shall live again1 believed in the life beyond4 ,when the chieftain was buried they placed his weapons of stone and bronze in the grave with his body1 in order that he might pursue his life in the ,happy ,hunting-grounds4 ,he lived on and was a hunter still4 ,our tombstones were first placed on our graves that the departed spirit1 if he should return1 might find his body and learn also that he had not been forgotten4 ,the egg was used to tell the story in the earliest ages4 ,in fact1 the egg has found a place in the earliest traditions4 ,a fable tells us the earth was hatched from a monstrous golden goose egg4 ,tradition tells us how the egg broke in two1 and one-half became the firmament1 and the other1 half1 the earth4 ,this is the way the earliest people explained the making of this old world4 ,to their minds the golden egg seemed to be the prison from which this world was released4 ,here exhibit a gilded egg4 ,this is the strangest story ever told in which the egg played so important a part1 containing the great world which was released as a living chick from the dead egg4 ,here in remote history the egg taught that life sprang from the egg prison4 ,the practise of giving eggs to friends is a very old one4 ,it commenced way back with the ,persians4 ,it was also a custom among the ,egyptians1 ,jews1 and ,hindus4 ,when it was first used among ,christians it symbolized the resurrection1 or life from the tomb4 ,it was always colored red to remind the people of the blood of ,christ shed for sinners4 ,the red egg stood for the blood of ,calvary1 and the grave in ,joseph's ,garden4 ,this egg contains a germ of life2 under proper conditions the life of the chicken will break the shell and come forth4 ,at this point hold up the red-colored egg4 ,the people of long ago often placed eggs on the graves of their friends which told forth the fact that they believed in immortality4 ,they just thought so4 ,now we know so1 for ,jesus said1 ,i shall be raised the third day4 ,that is the reason that on ,easter ,day the people rejoice because ,christ came up from the grave1 and so shall we4 ,this the ancients only thought1 but now we know it as a fact4 ,that makes ,easter such a glad day4 ,we call the place where we bury the dead cemeteries1 which means sleeping-places4 ,it is a beautiful thought to think of the little graves as little cradles where rest the bodies of little children1 but only our bodies sleep there1 for the soul has gone to the ,god who made it4 ,so the egg at ,eastertime is a symbol of immortality1 and we should all be glad we have seen the red egg which stands for the resurrection of ,christ because he has told us the story of heaven and how to get there4 ,the origin of the old ,english word heaven is a curious one4 ,it means to cast up'3 so the sky is a place cast up or heaved up or heaven as we speak of it today4 ,martin ,luther used to tell his children that heaven was a beautiful garden full of merry children in little golden coats gathering apples under the trees and shouting in great glee4 ,luther was just trying as best he could to describe heaven as a happy place for little boys and girls4 ,jesus lives1 says the broken egg1 and because he lives we shall live also1 and so we all want to go to heaven at last4 ,once upon a time a minister took his son to learn mountain-climbing4 ,being a stout lad he grew tired and stopped for a little rest4 ,the father went on alone1 and when he arrived at the top of the mountain1 he found a splendid seat for the boy and marked his name on it1 so he might easily find it when he arrived at the top4 ,then he called down to the boy3 ,james1 my son1 come up here4 ,there is a seat up here on the top of the mountain1 and your name is written on it4 ,this gave new strength to the boy1 and he rose to his feet once more1 and climbed to the top1 and at last found his seat with his name upon it4 ,his father had gone on before him and prepared a place for him4 ,so ,god calls today3 ,my son1 up1 up to the top4 ,there is a mansion prepared for you4 ,your name is graven on the door4 ,turn this way and keep on climbing1 and at last you will find heaven1 the top of the universe4 #ae ,,off ,,for ,,happy ,,land ,,objects3 ,a ,piece of ,plain ,note-paper ,containing a ,sentence ,written in ,invisible ,ink ,do you want a free ticket for ,happy ,land8 ,if you do1 stop and listen1 and ,i will tell you how to get one4 ,all the world seem to fix their eyes on the golden country1 but the road is so narrow that few there be that find it4 ,all people are pilgrims seeking that fair land1 but at the end of their trail they meet the wreckage of the failures of the ages4 ,harken1 and ,i will tell you how to find the trail that leads to the ,land of ,happiness4 ,once upon a time a lad called upon a wise man and asked him if he would direct him to this land of joy4 ,the wise man in reply said to him1 ,i will not only direct you to the country of smiles but will give you a free ticket that will take you there4 ,he handed him a little slip of paper upon which the lad could see nothing4 ,to him it was a blank4 ,he told the wise man so1 but the wise man replied1 ,hold the paper close to a lighted lamp so the heat thereof may strike the paper with full force1 and then will appear the lines which will answer your question1 and this will be your sure passport to your destination4 ,this the lad did4 ,when the heat struck the blank paper1 there appeared in distinct letters the sentence1 ,if you would find the land of happiness become a ,christian and then do some good thing for ,jesus every day4 ,this the lad tried with all his heart to do1 and did do it1 and the smiles he planted on the face of the other man1 reflected a beautiful light on his own face1 and his heart was bounding in joy4 ,this is the secret trail1 walk in it4 ,but all this depends on the fact that your own heart is right with ,god1 and that ,jesus has come to live with you4 ,then every good thing you do is done as unto him1 and his thank you sets all the joy-bells ringing4 ,that is the ,happy ,land1 and this is the way to find it4 ,a woman came to her pastor one day and said she was very miserable and unhappy1 she could not find that contentment of heart which she declared she heard others say they possessed4 ,he told her the secret of being happy in the ,lord1 and said3 ,there is a poor old lady living at the foot of the street4 ,go and see her1 and take with you a basket full of good things2 give them to her1 and you will take away with you a heart filled with joy4 ,the door of her house is the open gate to ,happy ,land4 ,this was the wise man's secret1 ,do some good today for ,jesus4 ,jesus went about doing good1 and in so doing he was revealing the open way to the land of heart happiness4 ,the ,french people have a story about a wonderful ,happy ,land called ,colaigne4 ,it is full of men and women always happy4 ,in this land there are no storms of rain or snow4 ,it is never too cold or too hot4 ,there is no lightning or whirlwind1 no war1 no sickness1 no death4 ,white monks and gray nuns live in a fair abbey built of gems and spices4 ,the ladies are all fair and every month the people all have new clothes4 ,in this wonderful land there is a bubbling fountain4 ,whoever drinks of its waters never grows old1 and if those who are old drink of it they become young and vigorous again1 be they ever so old or ugly4 ,now ,i suppose all of the little folks are saying they would like to live in that land1 but ,i am sure you would find when you reached there it was not a land of pure happiness4 ,happiness does not come from having everything done for you4 ,the wise man was speaking the real truth when he gave as his secret message that doing things for others in the name of ,jesus was passing through the gates to the ,city of ,real ,happiness4 ,in preparing for this lesson use a piece of plain writing-paper1 with a match sharpened to a point write in lemon juice ,be a ,christian1 and ,do some good thing for ,jesus every day4 ,when it is dry it will be invisible4 ,when held up to the heat of a lamp it will become visible so all can read it4 ,in doing this before the class first hold up the paper before them1 showing both sides to be blank4 ,at that time tell the story of the wise man and blank paper given to the lad1 then hold it before the flame of lamp until the heat has had sufficient time to bring out the writing4 ,experiment with this while preparing the lesson so you can regulate your talking according to the time it takes to develop the hidden words4 ,there are many other lessons you can give1 using invisible ink1 that will teach a strong lesson4 ,what ,is in the ,heart1 can be the title of another lesson4 ,in this case cut out a paper heart1 and write the word ,sin on it4 ,call the lamp the ,holy ,spirit1 and show that he brings out just what is in the heart4 ,you can also teach the lesson ,the ,secrets of the ,lord ,revealed4 ,present a piece of paper that seems to be a blank1 but it holds a secret hidden from our human eyes4 ,call the lamp the ,word of ,god4 ,take the paper to the lamp of ,god's ,word4 ,through that word he reveals his will to us1 so we can read and understand4 ,lessons will multiply in your mind1 as you think it through1 which will be of great interest to your listeners4 #af ,,forgotten ,,holy ,,names ,,objects3 ,a ,number of ,cards ,contain the ,names of ,forgotten ,bible ,characters ,written on ,them ,lest we forget sang the old ,english poet4 ,well1 we do forget oftentimes some of the worthies of the ,old ,testament4 ,perhaps we have never heard of them1 then this lesson will introduce us to them and help us not to forget them in the days to come4 ,write the names of the people that you mention on a visiting-card1 and hide these cards somewhere on the pulpit1 and say3 ,i am about to introduce some strangers to you4 ,a few good people that some of us have forgotten4 ,look behind the pulpit chair and on the floor pick up a visiting-card and say3 ,here is a forgotten friend ,i want to introduce to you4 ,the ,dog4 ,did ,i ever hear of him before8 ,well his name is among the greatest names in the ,bible4 ,he lived in a camp of travelers4 ,he was known as ,the ,dog4 ,some of us would be insulted to be called a dog4 ,often we speak of people as being ,as mean as a dog1 but any one who really understands dogs loves them4 ,the dog is the first to greet you and the first to defend you1 he is quick to forgive you1 and will be faithful to you to the last4 ,this dog was faithful1 courageous1 and loving4 ,he was made the leader of a small group of people that went forth to discover something about a people who lived beyond the bushes in an enemy's land4 ,they pressed their way under the guidance of the dog into the strange land4 ,there they found the rich and fruitful vineyards1 grapes1 pomegranates and figs so large they did not know how to bring the fruits of the vine back to show the people in the camp4 ,the ,dog thought it out1 and calling his fellow laborers to him1 he put a stout stick across their shoulders to which he fastened the precious load4 ,when the people saw ,the ,dog returning with this wealth of good things they greeted them with shouts of joy4 ,the friends of ,the ,dog said1 ,these are the fruits of the enemy's country1 but we will never be able to conquer the land because the soldiers protecting the land are very many and very strong4 ,then the people cried out in despair and said1 ,let us get another leader4 ,then ,the ,dog stepped forward1 and with a confident look in his face and a determined ring in his voice stretched forth his hand to command silence4 ,there was a great hush among the people1 and all was quiet in their ranks4 ,then ,the ,dog said3 ,the land is splendid and rich and fruitful4 ,god is on our side--we have no need to be afraid of the giants4 ,the ,lord is with us1 fear them not4 ,at last ,the ,dog and his companions marched into the land1 and found it flowing with milk and honey4 ,who was ,the ,dog8 ,his name was ,caleb which is the ,hebrew name for dog1 and ,captain ,joshua was his companion4 ,read the full story if you wish4 ,its record is found in ,numbers #ac and #ad4 ,in closing remark we have giants to fight today--,pride1 ,anger1 ,sloth1 ,untruthfulness--but never forget the words of ,the ,dog1 ,the ,lord is with us1 fear them not4 ,here is the story of another forgotten character4 ,this story can be used for a second address under the title of ,forgotten ,names or it can be used with this lesson also4 ,you now bring out from under the pulpit1 a bundle of old papers which you remark are to be thrown into the waste-basket as worthless1 but in the act of throwing them into the basket which you have put on the platform previously you find another visiting-card with another forgotten name upon it1 which you now state you have rescued from the papers doomed for the fire4 ,on the card you have written the words ,the ,mountaineer4 ,this man was born in a wild mountain home4 ,his parents passed away in his early days1 and he could never remember them4 ,as he wandered on the hillsides he talked with ,god1 and the hills seemed to speak to him4 ,he grew to manhood and became strong in body1 and fleet of foot4 ,he was a magnificent runner1 and was so strong he once went forty days without food4 ,the ,king of the land was a weak man with a wicked wife1 and the ,king hated him because he was so good4 ,one day this weak ,king and the young man met1 and the ,king hissed out1 ,you are the man who is bringing ruin upon the land4 ,he answered3 ,i have not brought ruin upon the land1 but you and your father's house have forsaken the commandments of ,god1 and worship idols4 ,i challenge you1 therefore1 bring all your people to the mountain1 bring your idols and their prophets1 and let us see who is right4 ,the ,king agreed to this1 and at the appointed time they were all present on the mountain4 ,the tall ,mountaineer1 with bronzed face1 hair streaming down his shoulders1 wearing a rough coat of camel's hair1 stepped forward and said3 ,why halt ye between two opinions8 ,if the ,lord be ,god1 follow him1 but if the idols be ,god1 follow them4 ,let us each build an altar1 and put a bullock on it1 but put no fire under it2 then each of us in turn will call upon his ,god1 and the ,god that answers by fire let him be ,god4 ,then he said to the false prophets1 ,it is your turn first4 ,the heathen danced around their altar all the morning1 and when noon came they were still dancing1 but no fire came down4 ,then the ,mountaineer called out to them and said1 ,cry a little louder1 perhaps your ,god is asleep or gone on a journey4 ,maddened by these words1 they renewed their shouting1 cutting themselves with knives and lancets until their blood splashed on them1 but no fire came down4 ,when the time for the evening sacrifice came they ceased their crying1 and the ,mountaineer called the people to come to him1 and he told his men to throw barrels of water over his altar3 after this was done1 he prayed1 and scarcely had he finished his prayer when there came out of the heavens a vivid flash of light which consumed the offering on the altar1 and the people fell on their faces1 and a great cry went up3 ,the ,lord1 ,he is ,god6 ,the ,lord1 ,he is ,god4 ,who was this ,mountaineer8 ,he was the ,tishbite1 ,elijah4 ,the full story you will find in ,first ,kings #ah4 ,this story teaches us the great fact that ,if ,god be for us1 who can be against us8 #ag ,i ,,lay ,,my ,,sins ,,on ,,jesus ,,objects3 ,a ,block with the ,word ,my ,sins ,painted on ,it1 ,another ,block with the ,words ,jesus ,marked on ,it ,this lesson illustrates the truth that our sins were laid on ,jesus4 ,he bore them in his own body on the tree4 ,this is the old ,bible doctrine that ,christ took our place on the cross1 and took upon himself the penalty that our sins had brought on our souls4 ,this is ,jesus1 ,king of the ,jews1 ,pilate caused to be written and nailed over the cross4 ,we take down the superscription and in its place put up another which reads1 ,he died for me1 and under this line write our own name4 ,this is how we illustrate this truth4 ,place in the hollow of your hand the block marked ,sin4 ,cause the block to be painted black1 because sin is a deadly thing4 ,the wages of sin is death4 ,it is the mark of death4 ,as you hold the sin block in your hand you say3 ,sin is now on me4 ,i must bear my own sins4 ,bunyan was right1 according to the ,scriptures1 when he made ,pilgrim carry a burden4 ,it was a heavy load1 and ,pilgrim exclaimed1 ,who shall deliver me8 ,he felt his sin was on him1 and it was a burden too heavy for him to carry4 ,who will help8 ,send out the ,s4,o4,s4 call1 which being translated in the terms of the gospel means1 ,save1 oh save6 ,shall we hide it or try to forget it8 ,suiting your action to your words you place the block in your pocket1 and you think since it is hidden it has been taken away4 ,but the angels saw you hide it4 ,god's great eye is fixed on it4 ,it won't sink out of sight4 ,sin is a sticky thing4 ,it hangs around4 ,an old sailor1 who in his young days had been a smuggler1 and had been in prison for the offense1 said3 ,one day there was a revenue cutter heading straight for us1 and we had on board a cargo of tobacco4 ,well1 if we were caught we knew every man of us would go to jail1 the ship would be sunk1 and the tobacco confiscated4 ,so we pitched the stuff overboard as fast as we could4 ,when this was done1 the captain sent up the cabin-boy to report the approach of the cutter4 ,in an instant he was down-stairs again1 his face as white as a sheet1 and gasping for breath4 ',what is it1' said the captain4 ',the tobacco is overboard1 but it won't sink6' said the boy4 ,yes1 there was the tobacco floating all around the ship1 proclaiming our guilt4 ,no1 sin won't sink4 ,it won't stay hid4 ,we cannot be separated from our sins in that way4 ,take it out of the pocket and say3 ,the almighty eye of the ,great ,father can see the contents of our pockets and discover the hiding-place of our sins4 ,hold the block in the hand and say3 ,still the sin is on me4 ,what shall ,i do to be saved8 ,it will sink me into the darkness of the next world1 ,i shall be lost forever4 ,a little girl was anxious for the conversion of her dear father4 ,he accompanied her to the revival meeting1 but when she asked him to give his heart to ,jesus1 he said1 ,not now1 some other day4 ,this caused the little girl to cry herself to sleep that night1 and in her sleep she had a dream4 ,this was the dream4 ,she seemed to see a throng of angels coming in through the window1 and passing into her father's room4 ,this alarmed her greatly1 for she thought they had come after her father1 and remembering he had rejected ,jesus the night before1 she knew he was not ready to go1 so she followed them and looked into the room4 ,they all had gathered around her father's bed and had been trying to lift him up in their arms1 and having failed she overheard one angel say3 ,he is too heavy for the angels4 ,we cannot take him to heaven1 for his sin is on him1 and all the angels in the skies could not lift him4 ,this startled the little girl1 so she awoke from her dream4 ,the next day she told her father the dream and said1 ,the angels said that you 'are too heavy for the angels4' ,this thought caused the father to think--to heavy for the angels--and this thought brought him to ,jesus1 and he got rid of the sin on him4 ,this is how he did it4 ,it was the same way that ,pilgrim got rid of his burden4 ,he knelt at the foot of the ,cross with a broken1 penitent heart1 and the burden of his sin rolled away4 ,now take the block of sin1 lay it on the larger block painted red and marked ,jesus1 and say1 ,i now by faith lay my sins on ,jesus1 and they are all taken away1 and taken away to stay4 ,he hath laid on him the iniquity of us all4 #ah ,,the ,,lord',s ,,prayer ,,in ,,candles ,,objects3 ,a ,number of ,colored ,candles ,in this chapter the truths of the ,lord's ,prayer are made to shine forth4 ,this is done by the use of a number of common candles4 ,thy word is a lamp unto my feet1 says the old true ,book4 ,we will turn on the light of the ,lord's ,prayer and let it shine into our hearts so that we may see ,god's truth4 #a4 ,our ,father4 ,here introduce a tall white candle4 ,let this stand for the words ,our ,father4 ,highest and tallest of them all4 ,the ,higher ,light4 ,god is light4 ,the ,light of the ,world and the ages4 ,have this light burning before the meeting opens4 ,don't light it as a part of the exercise4 ,this light never had a beginning4 ,how dark this world would be if this light should grow dim or go out6 ,but ,god is ,our ,father and he has promised he will never leave us alone1 and in this prayer we are told to ask him for the things we need4 ,a little chap was busy with his lessons1 and they proved so hard for him to study that the tears began to flow down his little cheeks4 ,his father noticed this and came over and sat by his side and helped him through with the hard part of the lesson4 ,the father said1 ,now crying did not help you1 my son1 did it8 ,the little fellow replied1 ,no1 it did not help me1 but it brought to my side some one who did4 ,prayer brings to our side ,our ,father in heaven1 and he can and will help us4 #b4 ,who art in heaven4 ,for this sentence secure a blue candle which reminds us of the blue heavens above us4 ,god is beyond the blue1 but by his light is everywhere1 and from his throne in heaven is ever watching us4 ,my own dear mother was a little old-fashioned mother1 and from her window watched her children play in the backyard4 ,her watchful eye was ever on us1 and if some wild boy of the street jumped over the fence and annoyed us1 ,mother saw him first1 and came down-stairs into the yard1 and the bad boy soon disappeared4 ,my little brothers and myself were always glad for mother's watchful eye from the upper window4 ,so our ,father looks down from his window in heaven1 and we are safe and happy because ,father is looking down upon us4 #c4 ,hallowed be thy name4 ,for this sentence secure a green candle4 ,green is the most enduring of colors4 ,the cedar and pine are green all the year4 ,winter and summer it shows forth its green just the same4 ,green is the everlasting color4 ,the name of ,god is the name ,everlasting4 ,it will endure forever2 so long as this old earth shall stand his name will be spoken1 and by human hearts be supremely loved4 ,when this world has passed away in the life of the ages his name will also be the highest and best of all4 ,in this prayer we are taught to reverence this eternal name4 ,this is the only part of the prayer where ,god seems to be thinking about himself1 and asks his followers to protect and revere his name4 ,a little girl1 one night1 closed her little prayer by saying1 and please1 dear ,god1 take good care of yourself4 ,she was thinking of ,god1 so this prayer wants us to think of his name and keep it holy4 #d4 ,thy kingdom come4 ,these words are represented by a purple candle4 ,purple is the royal color4 ,the robes of the king are in purple4 ,the decorations of the throne are all in this majestic color4 ,purple is the kingdom color4 ,may ,god hasten the coming of the ,royal ,purple ,day4 ,you can help ,god to answer this prayer by trying to bring in his kingdom4 ,whenever you help one another1 and are kind to each other1 whenever you are truthful and faithful to ,god1 whenever you let your light shine1 then you are helping ,god to bring in his kingdom4 #e4 ,thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven4 ,this sentence can be represented by a brown candle representing the color of the earth1 the brown ground of the world4 ,if so desired1 another blue candle may be introduced to represent1 as in a former instance1 the blue of the heavens4 ,it would be best1 if possible1 to get a candlestick holding two candles to represent this truth4 ,this should be done so the two blue candles may not be confused one with the other4 ,the truth of ,god's will being done on earth as perfectly as in heaven is the cardinal truth of this sentence4 ,a little boy who wanted to go out to the park with his mother1 noticed it had begun to rain1 and soon it was raining very hard4 ,he turned to his mother and said1 ,do you suppose ,god wanted it to rain8 ,his mother replied1 ,god knew best1 and so sent the rain4 ,the little boy replied1 ,i think it would be safe to let him have his own way4 ,i think the little fellow was right4 ,god knows best4 ,his will must be done4 #f4 ,give us this day our daily bread4 ,represent these words by a yellow candle1 yellow standing for the color of the golden grain from which we make our bread4 ,this is a prayer for physical needs4 ,the ,greek word for bread means food1 so this is a prayer for all our temporal needs to sustain this present body1 which is the present home of the soul4 ,god wants to feed the world4 ,he likes to give because he loves us4 ,god also gave us the spiritual bread1 the bread of life1 which is his ,son1 and so supplies all our spiritual needs4 ,trust ,god1 live simply1 work honestly1 and verily thou shalt be fed2 so pray daily1 ,give us this day our daily bread4 #g4 ,forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors4 ,this sentence is represented by a silver candle1 which is the color of the coin by which we pay our debts4 ,this is a hard prayer for some of us to say1 when we remember how some evil people have hurt us4 ,this prayer tells us to forgive1 because that is what ,god does when people by their wicked deeds hurt him4 ,put down the number #dij1 and as you look at it1 what do you think it means8 ,it contains a commandment of ,jesus4 ,this is just what ,jesus means by that figure4 ,it tells us how many times we are to forgive one another4 ,he says we are to forgive seventy times seven4 ,that gives us the figure #dij4 ,this prayer teaches us to forgive our enemy four hundred and ninety times1 and by that time ,god will soften the heart of our foe1 and he will no longer be an enemy4 #h4 ,lead us not into temptation4 ,here we introduce a red candle1 red standing for sin1 into which temptation1 if we yield to it1 is sure to lead us4 ,in this prayer we are to pray to be delivered from sin4 ,we must all have some kind of temptation1 ,god had one ,son without sin1 but he never had a ,son without temptation4 ,he says1 ,blessed is the man that endureth temptation1 for when he is tried he shall receive a crown of life1 which the ,lord has promised to them that love him4 ,so temptation resisted is blessed4 ,how can we resist temptation8 ,by going to ,god in prayer4 ,when tempted pray the prayer of ,jesus1 ,bring us not into temptation1 as a revised edition of this prayer puts it4 ,you can resist temptation by keeping on ,god's side of the fence4 ,an old minister said to a little boy who was trying to serve ,god1 and he a ,christian3 ,when tempted1 my boy1 kneel down and pray for ,god's help1 but never climb over the fence into the devil's grounds1 and then kneel down and pray for ,god's help4 ,pray from ,god's side of the fence4 ,that was good advice4 ,do not run into temptation1 never go on the devil's side of the fence4 #i4 ,but deliver us from evil4 ,the black candle is produced which represents the dark deeds from which we pray that we may be delivered4 ,black deeds are dead black1 because the wages of sin is death4 ,keep the black out of our life4 ,evil thoughts are seeds from which black fruits of sin are raised4 ,think white thoughts1 that will make our lives right1 and we will not do evil things4 #aj4 ,for thine is the kingdom4 ,produce another double candlestick1 holding first a purple candle standing for the words1 ,thine is the kingdom1 and a white candle representing the great white throne1 the seat of ,god's power1 ,god has power to do all the things we ask of him in this prayer4 ,we have asked the ,father ,allpowerful to help us4 ,he can1 and he will4 ,history tells us of ,hudson1 the navigator1 who was exploring in the arctic regions when his crew mutinied1 and they put him and his son1 and one or two sailors into a little boat1 and left them to drift on the cold northern waters until death came and released them from all their hardships4 ,the boat was found1 months later1 floating among the icebergs of the frozen ,arctic ,ocean4 ,the father was in an upright position1 as if steering the boat1 with his little son between his knees1 both frozen to death4 ,you could see1 by the tightened hand1 how he had grasped the handle of the rudder1 and by the terrible stare in his frozen eyes1 what a determined man he was1 but his face was full of despair and woe4 ,he had not been able to save his son4 ,our ,father has power to save all that come unto him1 and power to keep them until the end4 #aa4 ,and the glory forever and ever4 ,this sentence is represented by the orange candle4 ,the orange color stands for the glory of ,god1 as it is the dominant color in the glorious sunset from which shines forth the glory of ,god4 ,the great painters of the ,middle ,ages represented the flame in the burning bush as being orange in color1 which in their day was understood to stand for ,jehovah4 ,this last sentence is like a great doxology sung at the close of the prayer4 ,it is like a grand organ chanting a loud ,amen4 ,and now here we have the truth of the ,lord's ,prayer shining4 ,no prayer is so full of divine radium as ,the ,lord's ,prayer4 ,it is composed of sixty-six words1 but this congress of words contains might and glory that have never before appeared in so many words4 ,these sixty-six words are ,holy ,chapel ,bells which call the world to prayer4 #ai ,,how ,,god ,,covers ,,my ,,sins ,,objects3 ,two ,large ,prepared ,cards ,how to get rid of our sin6 ,this has been the question of the ages4 ,the answer can be given in a second4 ,they must be taken away4 ,jesus1 the ,sin-bearer1 must take them away if they are to be taken away to stay4 ,when the ,standard ,oil ,company was trying to refine petroleum there was a substance they could not dispose of4 ,it was black and sticky4 ,they could not burn it1 it would not burn2 it made a mighty stench4 ,they could not run it into the river1 because it would kill the fish4 ,so they offered a big reward to any chemist who could solve the problem4 ,chemists took it and worked day and night on the problem4 ,one day1 a chemist walked into the office of ,john ,d4 ,rockefeller and laid down a pure white substance which we now know as paraffin4 ,your heart is like that black substance4 ,you cannot make it white1 but ,jesus can make is as white as snow4 ,look and listen4 ,i will show you the good news4 ,prepare a piece of cardboard twelve inches square1 have on it the outline of a heart with a big black dot in the center of it1 and write over and under it ,my ,sins4 ,hold this up before the audience as a gospel ,x-ray photograph of the heart4 ,sin is an affair of the heart4 ,it is a bad heart condition4 ,the gospel offers the only cure4 ,it comes down from heaven1 ,jesus brought it with him and gave it to the world4 ,prepare also another card of the same size containing the words1 ,the blood of ,jesus ,christ cleanseth us from all sin4 ,one night ,martin ,luther had a dream1 and he thought he saw himself standing before the judgment-bar4 ,looking into the open book he saw opposite his name a fearful lot of sins4 ,some were sins of commission1 others sins of omission4 ,some were deliberate sins1 others sins of thoughtlessness4 ,satan1 standing at his side1 said3 ,behold your record ,hold up the heart4 ,there is no hope for you4 ,but just then he saw to his great joy1 written above the crimson stain1 the words1 ,the blood of ,jesus ,christ cleanseth from all sin4 ,now place the second card over the first1 and the sins have all disappeared1 and are under the blood forever4 ,this is the way to take away sin1 so it is taken away forever4 ,in old ,scotland1 in the lake district1 they tell a quaint little story about a lonely little pool of water on the mountainside of ,lock ,lomond called the ,fairy ,loch4 ,if you look into it you will see a great many colors on the surface of the water due to the varied nature of the minerals which form the bottom4 ,there is a legend which says that fairies used to dye things from these waters for the people4 ,one day a shepherd brought a black sheep to the ,fairy ,loch and asked the fairies to dye it white4 ,this the fairies could not do4 ,they could dye white any color1 but not the black4 ,this was an impossibility1 so in their despair they threw all their colors into the ,loch at one time4 ,this gives the ,loch the colorful appearance now4 ,no fairy or any human power can change the black of sin into the white of righteousness4 ,the pool of life is full of these fancy colors that declare that they have the power to change black to white1 but they are only bubbles on the surface4 ,don't trust them4 ,this is a matter for eternity4 ,god alone can change black into white4 ,the blood of ,jesus ,christ takes all sin away4 #bj ,,what ,,the ,,flag ,,signals ,,say ,,objects3 ,four ,plain ,flags of ,different ,colors ,flags have a language4 ,they talk to men when they are employed as signals4 ,the standard signals of the railroad system send forth most important messages4 ,let us see what they teach on the ,railroad of ,life4 ,prepare four common bunting or muslin flags1 mount them on a plain flagstaff about the size of those used by the flagman at the railroad crossing4 ,first ,flag4 ,a red flag4 ,this signifies danger1 and when displayed it means ,stop4 ,as you wave it1 ask the little folks what things that cross our path need to be stopped4 ,help them by naming them first4 ,profane words should be stopped4 ,the commandment which says1 ,thou shalt not take the name of the ,lord thy ,god in vain is a red flag that ,god waved out from ,mount ,sinai4 ,flag profane words which means1 ,stop1 don't swear4 ,rev4 ,doctor ,scudder1 the celebrated missionary to ,india1 on his return passage1 while standing on the deck of the steamer with his son1 heard some one using profane language4 ,my friend1 said the doctor1 this boy1 my son1 was brought up in a heathen country1 but in all his life he never heard a man blaspheme his ,maker until now4 ,a man reporting this event said what a shame it was that a heathen had a cleaner lip than a ,christian4 ,he was wrong4 ,the true ,christian never takes the name of his ,maker in vain4 ,he always flags that word4 ,he throws out the red flag of danger4 ,stealing needs the red flag also4 ,boys and girls are often tempted to take that which does not belong to them4 ,it may be a pencil from the school desk next to them4 ,whatever it may be it is stealing4 ,god flung out the red flag from ,mount ,sinai when he said1 ,thou shalt not steal4 ,a boy was arrested in ,buffalo recently for the theft of a bar of gold from a jewelry firm of ,new ,york ,city4 ,the gold was worth #a1ejj4 ,when asked why he had taken it1 the boy said1 ,i was tired of working for almost nothing1 and thought ,i could go out ,west and lay the foundation of a fortune with this4 ,what a foundation that would have been1 a foundation made of a broken commandment of ,god4 ,there are many people thus building today4 ,they steal from the poor1 giving scant measure to the tradesman1 and stealing the good name of their companions4 ,this is a bad foundation to build on4 ,flag the act of stealing4 ,second ,flag4 ,a yellow flag4 ,this stands for ,caution4 ,it means ,go slow1 be careful4 ,there are a great many things in life that may be harmless in themselves1 but must be handled with care4 ,fire is a very useful thing4 ,it prepares our food1 and gives us comfortable heat for our homes1 but we must handle fire with care1 lest it break away from us and bring destruction to us all4 ,so there are many acts we must watch1 because if we do not heed the ,yellow ,flag of ,caution it will bring great trouble into the world4 ,we should always plant the yellow flag in the center of our amusements4 ,amusements1 when they are pure and good1 are right for us all4 ,there is no harm in clean pleasures4 ,god wants us to enjoy them1 because we shall have pleasure forevermore in heaven1 but here below evil pleasures are so mixed with the good that we must use the yellow flag of caution4 ,ask the children to name other things in which we must use caution1 by reminding them that all doubtful things belong to this class4 ,the yellow flag of caution should always fly over things we are not sure about4 ,third ,flag4 ,a blue flag4 ,this flag is called the working flag4 ,when it is displayed on the track1 it means the trackmen are working there4 ,often they are repairing the road1 or working on a wreck4 ,the blue flag1 therefore1 stands for work4 ,god plants this flag in our path every hour4 ,boys and girls with bright eyes see this flag flying1 and start and get busy4 ,there is an office boy in ,chicago of whom his employer is justly proud4 ,he likes to tell how he came to take him on4 ,busy at his desk one morning1 he looked up to see a little fellow waiting1 cap in hand1 to speak to him4 ,he went on with his work and in about three minutes the boy spoke to him4 ,excuse me1 but ,i am in a hurry4 ,oh1 you are1 well what are you in a hurry about8 ,got to be in a hurry4 ,left school day before yesterday to go to work1 and haven't struck a job yet4 ,if you don't want me1 say so1 and ,i'll look somewhere else4 ,i can't waste any time4 ,the only place where ,i stay long is where they pay me4 ,when can you come to work8 asked the surprised merchant4 ,i'm here now1 said the boy1 and ,i'd have been to work five minutes ago1 if you had said so4 ,this lad saw the blue flag hanging from the window of the merchant's office1 and he walked right in and reported for service at once4 ,over the gateway of the ,lord's vineyard this blue flag is flying today4 ,jesus put it there1 and on it is written in letters of gold1 ,son1 go work today in my vineyard4 ,let us walk in1 and be as anxious to work for ,god as the lad was for the merchant4 ,if we have an anxious heart and want to work with all our heart1 we will see the blue flag flying everywhere4 ,lift up your eyes1 and behold the world waving with blue flags4 ,fourth ,flag4 ,a green flag4 ,this signifies ,go ahead1 road clear4 ,the church flies the green flag4 ,walk in4 ,it is the gate to the road that has been made clear for you4 ,walk in4 ,walk in1 the flag is green4 ,the green flag is waving from the foot of the ,cross4 ,all is clear from that point to go4 ,go straight ahead4 ,ride over obstacles in the road4 ,keep going1 and you will find ,god with your pardon all prepared for you and ready for your taking4 ,he will also dispatch a guard of angels to go with you who will bear the green flag4 ,they know the way of ,god2 follow them and the green flag4 ,at last1 my dear reader1 when the sunset comes and the day of mortal life is ending1 and you are looking out over the sea of eternity1 may you see the green flag flying there4 ,then you will know ,all is clear--go ahead4 ,it may give a good setting to this lesson if you should ask a boy or girl to come to the platform1 and hold the flags as you present them one by one4 ,hold a grand review of the four flags and ask questions as to their meaning4 ,this will help you to plant these flags in the hall of memory of old and young4 #ba ,,the ,,devil',s ,,goat ,,objects3 ,a ,number of ,wooden ,blocks and a ,piece of ,stove ,coal ,it is good and proper to have real friends2 friends that play straight and stick to the end4 ,evil companions are ,satan's road-agents to hold us up1 and rob us of the best we have4 ,it is easy to sin with the crowd4 ,sin masses men together until they think they are strong and often declare themselves right because ,they all do it4 ,this is a hard lesson to learn1 and few there are who learn it early in life4 ,a daughter asked her father's permission one day to visit a gay young friend of the world4 ,her father said1 ,i cannot allow it4 ,then she replied1 ,then you must think me uncommonly weak4 ,the father picked up a piece of coal you do likewise from the hearth and handed it to his daughter1 but she hesitated to accept it4 ,take it1 my child1 said he1 it will not burn you4 ,the daughter obeyed1 and the milky whiteness of her hand had instantly gone4 ,the father said1 ,we must be careful how we handle coal1 if it doesn't burn it may blacken4 ,no boy or girl can spend an hour with an evil companion and be one with them without coming away with a stain inside4 ,if we continue with them1 it is a direct route1 fast express line1 to fall with them4 ,to illustrate this fact1 set up the blocks endwise in a straight line a short distance apart4 ,knock down the first block1 and all the others will fall with it4 ,now raise the last block1 and see if they will all rise with it4 ,but no1 if once down they must all be raised one by one4 ,how easy it is to fall with a crowd1 but when we want to return we must come back one by one4 ,don't walk in the sinner's way or stand in the way of the transgressor1 for together they will all fall into the pit4 ,be on your guard4 ,don't handle the black coal of evil companionship4 ,if it does not burn1 it will soil4 ,one day a minister of the gospel was sitting in the office of a superintendent of a large abattoir1 when a large goat came in and rubbed his head against the superintendent1 ,what is the meaning of that8 asked the minister4 ,he replied1 ,large flocks of sheep are often delivered to the slaughter-houses1 and in order to get them easily into the place of death1 ,judas1 the goat1 is always on hand1 and never fails to trot and lead them to the gate which leads to the gangway that takes them to the slaughter4 ,beware of the ,devil's ,goats4 ,they are working overtime4 ,walk in the narrow path and with the ,good ,shepherd4 ,he slays the devouring beast seeking to destroy the sheep bearing his name4 ,don't tramp with sinners2 stand alone4 ,stand alone in ,god's strength1 and you stand forever4 ,now take one of the blocks1 stand it up endways2 put a ,bible on each side of it1 and you will notice it is too far away from the other blocks to be hurt by them1 and so stands securely1 and can never be overthrown4 #bb ,,shining ,,truth ,,objects3 ,an ,assortment of ,candles ,teaching a ,number of ,lessons ,in this chapter you will find a few brief candle-light lessons which you can use when you wish to give a series of short talks of seven minutes4 ,they can be arranged into one whole sermon if so desired4 ,it is a cluster of shining truth candles1 arrange them as you like4 ,,the ,,ten ,,commandments ,arrange ten candles in a straight line4 ,select blue candles1 because they are called ,blue ,laws1 but show that the light is white because it is night1 and they have been shedding light for the whole dark world4 ,the universal laws of the nations are taken from these great legal lights4 ,they are ,god's lights1 because they came from ,god1 and if the world ever extinguishes them the world will be lost in hopeless darkness forever4 ,produce two yellow candles which stand for the two commandments ,christ gave which contain the truth of all the ,ten ,commandments4 ,this is how the blue laws turn to gold4 ,,the ,,hidden ,,light ,produce a candle from a box in the corner4 ,this represents a hidden light which does not shine even in its own corner4 ,it is a light hidden under a bushel4 ,many a soul has fine powers to serve the world for ,jesus1 but they are hidden in the dark box of disuse1 and are worthless in the black world4 ,they have buried the talent4 ,take it out of the box1 light it1 and place it on top of the box1 and say1 ,henceforth thou shalt be as a city set on a hill whose business it is just to shine4 ,,the ,,vanity ,,fair ,,circle ,arrange a semicircle of a number of highly ornamented candles4 ,name them ,mr4 ,fine ,clothes1 ,miss ,fine ,feather1 ,mrs4 ,good ,opinion1 ,miss ,show ,off1 etc4 ,this is an exclusive circle1 some of the noted #djj giving a little pink tea4 ,now bring in a plain white candle and say3 ,after all1 this white candle shines forth as brightly as any one of them4 ,it makes no noise1 says nothing about itself1 but just goes on and shines4 ,it is not the clothes which make the light of life shine the brighter4 ,,example ,,candles ,arrange on a table a long row of unlit candles4 ,light the first one1 the second one from the first1 the third1 from the second one1 and so one until the end of the line4 ,this illustrates the power of a good example4 ,one follows after another4 ,,the ,,prodigal ,,son ,,in ,,candles ,this is the dear old story of the ,prodigal ,son in candles4 ,produce a solitary candle4 ,this represents the boy at home4 ,surround it with a number of other candles1 calling them the ,prodigal's family4 ,he feels he is all alone4 ,he is not happy with parents and brother1 so goes out where he may shine4 ,now move the light to the other end of the table4 ,this you may call the far country4 ,here bring a few other lighted candles and put them around the ,prodigal light1 and call them the gay company he found in the white way of the new land4 ,now take all the lights away except the ,prodigal light1 and say3 ,now he is poor and alone4 ,his gay companions have taken their departure1 they have forsaken him and left him in want and poverty4 ,move his light to another part of the platform or place it on the floor4 ,he is now down and almost out4 ,he is feeding swine in the field4 ,he is left all alone4 ,no man cares for the swine-tenders4 ,now bring in a small yellow candle and place this beside him and say1 ,this represents memory1 so he thinks of his ,father's home and his ,father's bread--enough and to spare1 and as he thinks he says he will arise1 and go home again4 7,here remove the memory light47 ,place another light in the middle of the table representing the ,great ,father who comes out to meet him4 ,now take both the lights back to the old home4 ,at this point bring in a cluster of lights to represent the neighbors and friends who have come to greet him1 and rejoice with his ,father4 ,and they began to be merry4 ,then from another corner produce a candle which represents the elder brother1 who would not go in to the banquet because of his dislike for his brother4 ,now take a light from the ,home ,cluster representing the ,father1 take it over to the ,elder ,brother light1 and bring both lights back to the feast4 ,sing ,brighten the ,corner1 and drive home the lesson of coming back to the light1 to ,father and home4 ,,the ,,hot ,,temper ,,candle ,this candle represents the angry man1 the man with the ungovernable temper4 ,with a good rasp1 file off an ounce from the fire end of a poker4 ,the iron filings produced are perfectly combustible1 as may be proved by sprinkling them over the flame of a candle4 ,as they descend into the flame they take fire1 each particle burning like a star--producing1 in fact1 miniature fireworks4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,hot ,,temper ,,candle ,the little shower of sparks will greatly impress the small eyes and will not be forgotten4 7,see ,fig4 above47 ,,shining ,,the ,,longest ,,for ,,jesus ,an evangelist was talking to a meeting of children4 ,he illustrated his talk by bringing out a row of candles on a board4 ,a very long candle was at one end and a short candle at the other4 ,between the long and short candles there were candles of various heights4 ,he said by these candles he wanted to represent the ,grandfather1 the ,grandmother1 ,father and ,mother1 and boys and girls1 and the baby of the family who had never heard of ,jesus until a missionary came1 whom he represented by a lighted candle1 and then they gave their hearts to ,jesus1 and from that day loved and served him4 ,he then lit all the candles and said1 ,the whole family are now shining for ,jesus4 ,he then asked which candle represented the ,grandmother1 the ,grandfather1 and so on4 ,they all thought the tallest candle would represent the oldest of the family1 and said that one must stand for ,grandfather4 ,the evangelist said ,no1 that stands for the baby1 the youngest member of the family1 and then said1 ,do any of you know why8 ,presently a little fellow piped out1 ,i know why1 he has the chance to shine the longest for ,jesus4 ,that was a wonderful answer1 and it made a great impression on the audience4 ,it was the heart of the lesson1 ,thus we find a message in the candle4 ,hear it4 ,see it4 #bc ,,the ,,beatitudes ,,in ,,colors ,,objects3 ,a ,number of ,colored ,ribbons ,illustrating the ,truth of ,each ,beatitude ,this is a lesson for older heads4 ,it illustrates the opening verses in the ,sermon on the ,mount4 ,arrange a number of ribbons upon a cross-piece in the following order4 ,if using ribbons is too costly1 cut out strips from cheaper goods of the proper color and use them4 #a4 ,gray4 ,blessed are the poor in spirit1 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven4 ,gray is the color of humility1 and the poor in spirit are ,god's humble ones4 #b4 ,black4 ,blessed are they that mourn1 for they shall be comforted4 ,black is the color of mourning4 #c4 ,violet4 ,blessed are the meek1 for they shall inherit the earth4 ,violet is the color of the meek and lowly4 #d4 ,white4 ,blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness1 for they shall be filled4 ,white stands for righteousness4 #e4 ,red4 ,blessed are the merciful1 for they shall obtain mercy4 ,red is the color of love1 and mercy is the fruit of love4 #f4 ,gold4 ,blessed are the pure in heart1 for they shall see ,god4 ,gold stands for heaven1 the golden home of ,god4 ,it is there that we shall see him4 #g4 ,purple4 ,blessed are the peacemakers1 for they shall be called the children of ,god4 ,purple is the royal color4 ,we are children of the ,king4 ,we bear the family purple mark4 #h4 ,orange4 ,blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake1 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven4 ,orange is the color of the setting sun1 and stands for the glory of ,god4 ,we shall see the glory of ,god's kingdom in heaven4 #i4 ,a cluster of ribbons1 or one ribbon with colored stripes on it1 represents the stripes of the garments which the ,prophets wore who were persecuted4 ,blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you1 and say all manner of evil against you1 falsely1 for my sake4 ,rejoice and be exceeding glad1 for great is your reward in heaven1 for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you4 ,as each color is put in its place1 enlarge on the teaching of the ,beatitude for which it stands4 ,fasten a little sleigh-bell on the base of each ribbon so they will jingle as did the bells on the skirt of the high priest4 ,so the truths of the ,beatitudes are like golden bells sending forth their message of truth to the world4 #bd ,,the ,,gospel ,,in ,,the ,,flag ,,objects3 ,one ,large ,flag and a ,number of ,small ,flags ,for patriotic occasions this lesson1 ,i trust1 will prove to be of value to you4 ,too much front space cannot be given our flag4 ,lawlessness and defiance to our ,constitution is everywhere pronounced4 ,use the flag often1 and show that we1 as ,christians1 love our flag because it preaches the gospel as well as ,america's independence4 ,secure a number of little flags1 ask the children in the audience to come forward and occupy the front seats1 then pass out to them the flags4 ,let them hold them in their hands as you bring out the gospel lessons from the folds of ,old ,glory4 ,notice we have three colors in our flag1 red1 white1 and blue4 ,the ,red teaches us that the gospel declares that the blood of ,jesus cleanses us from all sin4 ,that is the heart of the gospel4 ,god loved the world and gave his ,son for the ,cross4 ,every time ,i look at the red of the flag it makes me think of ,calvary4 ,i am glad the red comes first in the flag4 ,it is first in the gospel also4 ,after this comes the ,white4 ,this is correct also according to the gospel4 ,the blood makes the heart white as snow4 ,purity is a great gospel lesson taught by the flag4 ,after this comes the ,blue which stands for faithfulness4 ,we say of the boy who stands firm for the right1 ,he is true blue4 ,this is a mighty gospel truth4 ,faithfulness is a rare virtue1 but the gospel tells us1 we must be faithful to the end in order to be saved4 ,now note the ,stars4 ,they make us think of the star of ,bethlehem and the sweet ,christmas story4 ,jesus is the ,bright and ,morning ,star1 and he seems to be looking down on us from the star field of the old flag4 ,then as ,i look again the stars of the flag seem to say that1 ,they that be wise shall shine forth as stars4 ,then ,i pray that as these forty-eight stars represent our forty-eight ,states1 so may the ,star of ,bethlehem be the national star of every ,state in our glorious ,union4 ,did you ever note the letters ,u4,s4 are the last two letters of ,jesus8 ,so may all the other letters of the word ,jesus be spelled out in the life of every true ,american1 ,the ,j for ,justice1 the ,e for ,eternity1 and ,s for ,salvation4 ,as ,i look at the flag again ,i learn the lesson of the strength of organization4 ,the ,red1 ,white1 and ,blue as separate colors stand for themselves alone4 ,unite them in the flag1 and they stand defended by the ,army and ,navy of the country4 ,christians often say they can live the ,christian life outside the organized body of ,christians1 called the church1 but by so doing they stand alone and for themselves4 ,united in the church1 they are backed by the greatest organized power in the world1 the church of ,jesus4 ,i notice there are seven red stripes1 which means that every day of the week we should be true to our country and to our religion4 ,note that here the red also comes first4 ,there are six white stripes4 ,let these stripes stand for the great wars which have been fought with a clean sword1 and so we learn that ,old ,glory is a preacher of righteousness4 ,long may she teach in the land of the brave and the home of the free4 ,have a large flag on the pulpit1 and ask all the children with their little flags to come up and stand around it1 while all the people sing ,my ,country1 ',tis of ,thee and ,all ,hail the ,power of ,jesus' ,name4 ,this lesson can be used for a regular ,sunday-night service for adults as well as for children4 ,it could be used as a national lesson--just what is needed for ,flag ,day or ,independence ,day4 #be ,,what ,,the ,,lettered ,,blocks ,,said ,,objects3 ,some ,lettered ,blocks ,secure the loan of a set of children's lettered blocks such as they use during their play hours on the nursery floor4 ,spell out the word ,g-,o-,o-,d4 ,find out how many great words you can spell out from the letters on these blocks4 ,first we find the word ,g-,o-,d4 ,this is a lesson causing us to remember ,god in all our play4 ,how do you suppose ,jesus played8 ,i think he certainly did play1 for he was a real child1 as we all were once4 ,i think he played as we should play1 remembering that ,god was near to see all we do1 and hear all we say4 ,my dear little mother watched me play in the garden from the window4 ,she never took her eyes from me4 ,in those days sometimes children were stolen1 or easily went astray4 ,i can remember that often when a child was lost1 an officer would go through the streets of my home city1 ringing a bell and crying1 ,lost ,child--a little boy--five years old--dark hair--blue eyes4 ,he had gone out to play and lost his way coming back4 ,this was the way they had in that day of finding the lost child1 and my mother kept her eyes on me when ,i played so ,i would not lose my way4 ,god watches us in our play4 ,let these blocks spelling ,god be placed on a shelf looking at us as my dear little mother watched me when ,i played4 ,next go to the word ,,good and get the word ,g-,o4 ,that is a fine little word4 ,it says1 ,always go when mother calls1 go and do what she asks you to do4 ,these two blocks teach us to be obedient to her call1 and if you do so good people will call you a ,prince4 ,some time ago the ,prince of ,wales visited ,america1 and every little boy wished he could be a prince and have a large crowd of people looking at him saying1 ,is he not fine8 ,well1 we can all be princes1 that is if we go when mother calls we will be obedient1 and to be obedient is to be more than a prince in ,god's eyes4 ,the obedient ,,go boy should be called little ,prince ,obedience--for obedience means ,,go when mother calls1 and ,,go comes out of ,,good4 #bf ,,blots ,,taken ,,away ,,objects3 ,two ,school ,copy-books ,john ,maynard was a scholar in a little old-fashioned red schoolhouse far back in the olden times4 ,he had been a shiftless boy and had drifted along aimlessly and carelessly4 ,he had no desire to learn and did not study4 ,one midwinter day some kind words from his teacher roused him to take a new start1 and he became distinctly a different boy and worked hard to make up for his earlier faults4 ,his copy-book lessons had been poor4 ,there was a big blot on the first page4 ,inky finger-marks appeared on numerous pages4 ,sometimes he made foolish drawings at the bottom of the page just to make the scholars laugh4 ,his copy-book was full of the marks of a careless scholar4 ,but now he tried to go straight and clean1 and no longer made the blots of carelessness4 ,the closing examination came1 and to the great joy of his father and mother who were present he passed well and with honor4 ,but he discovered that his copy-books1 which he had used during the entire year1 were to be displayed on a table for the inspection of the visitors4 ,he saw his mother looking over his books4 ,all the blots and finger-marks of former times seemed to grow like big clouds4 ,he was heartily ashamed of his early books1 a mass of blots and bad work1 and as he watched his mother looking over these books his heart was sick as he knew she would see them all4 ,what would she say to him8 ,what would she think of him8 ,but to his great surprise he saw the smile of approval on his mother's face1 and noticed she had called his father over to look also1 and a look of pleasure beamed on his father's face1 and they both told ,john how pleased they were with his fine work4 ,they said nothing of his blots1 finger-marks1 and careless work4 ,afterward he discovered that his good teacher had removed all the bad pages from the book1 and made the copy-book begin from where he started to do better4 ,his dear teacher was just like ,god4 ,he had given him another chance and had put the past out of sight forever4 ,so ,god offers this chance to all who will turn to him4 ,he will take away all the old blots of sin that blacken the past and give us all another chance1 and he will make our life's record begin with the new start4 ,to illustrate this lesson secure two common school copy-books1 the first one filled with careless lines and numerous blots4 ,let the cover be torn in many places to represent careless handling4 ,it is full of marks of imperfection4 ,it is a thing of ugliness to look at4 ,on the front place a red heart1 saying3 ,this is a record of a boy with a red heart of sin1 ,this heart was the big cause of the crooked contents of the book4 ,the boy now becomes a ,christian4 ,god takes the old book and gives him another1 and a new start4 ,on the front page of the second copy-book put a white heart1 which means ,here begins the new life4 ,this book should have a perfect line at the top of the page you exhibit1 and under this a childish handwriting should be placed4 ,it should be a copy1 as near as possible like the perfect top line4 ,in this book1 while all the lines are not straight or perfect1 you can see they have been written by a hand that tried to follow the copy4 ,it is also noted that the farther you look through the book you can note marked improvement in all of the work1 ,so in the new life with the new start we do not always make perfect lines1 but we try with all our heart to do so1 and the older we grow the more perfect our lines will be4 ,at the last day1 the ,great ,review ,day1 the grand and awful day at the end of the way1 only one book will be opened before the ,judge for inspection4 ,it will be the last book1 the book of the white heart4 ,the old book of the red heart will not appear1 ,god has forgotten all about it4 ,it has been cast behind his back4 ,it has been sunk into the depths of the sea of forgetfulness4 ,the book has been lost forever4 ,it will never come up as a witness against us4 ,we often sing1 ,they are all taken away4 ,another line should be added to this which would read1 ,they are all taken away to stay4 ,this is according to the ,scriptures4 #bg ,a ,,lost ,,heart ,,and ,,where ,,it ,,was ,,found ,,objects3 ,a ,child's ,bank and a ,paper ,heart ,where your treasure is1 there will your heart be also4 ,a little girl1 daughter of a ,western banker1 was anxious to bring her father to ,jesus1 but he always said1 when she talked with him on the subject1 that he was too busy at the bank and did not have time to think of religion4 ,this troubled the little girl greatly1 because she knew her father's soul was in danger if he did not give his heart to ,jesus4 ,it seemed to her as if he had given his heart to the bank and not to ,god4 ,one night the little girl went to bed with a troubled mind1 and in her sleep had this strange dream4 ,she thought her father came down-stairs one morning and said that when he awoke he discovered somewhere that during the night he had lost his heart4 ,he could not feel it beating in his breast1 and therefore was sure some power had taken it away from him1 and he was without a heart4 ,the little girl thought1 in her dream1 that she heard all the family laugh at this strange story of ,daddy1 and they said1 ,father must have lost his mind1 if he thought he had lost his heart1 but he only said1 putting his hand upon his breast1 ,my heart is not here1 ,i have lost it somewhere4 ,the little girl was greatly troubled because she thought it was a sure sign that her father would soon die1 because he could not live without a heart4 ,then in her dream a good angel came to her and said3 ,dear little girl1 your father is right4 ,he has indeed lost his heart4 ,he loves his gold1 he loves it so much that he has given himself to the bank and forgotten ,god4 ,now1 little girl1 you can help your father find his heart again1 for ,i am going to tell you where his heart has gone4 ,the angel said3 ,on yonder shelf you will see a little iron bank2 open it up1 and you will find buried beneath the coins of this bank your father's heart4 ,she did as the good angel directed1 and there1 sure enough1 amidst the copper and silver coins1 she found her ,daddy's heart4 ,she was very glad indeed at this find1 and in her great joy she awoke from her dream4 ,the next day she told her father this dream which she had had the previous night4 ,he listened to it thoughtfully and said something about foolish little girls who think out strange things in their sleep1 and then he turned toward his bank and spent another day1 amidst his banking books4 ,but all day long his thoughts were upon his little girl and her foolish dream1 but the more he thought about it the less foolish it seemed to him1 and at last he said to himself3 ,dear little dreamer1 ,god was talking to you in your sleep and was talking to me also4 ,it is true ,i have lost my heart4 ,it is buried under the gold of my bank4 ,i have loved my gold more than ,god1 and have given my bank my heart4 ,the ,good ,book says1 ',where your treasure is1 there will your heart be also4' ,my treasure is in my bank4 ,there is my heart also4 ,this message from ,dreamland caused him to give his heart to ,god1 and he became a ,christian1 and then he let ,god keep his heart for him1 and so ,jesus found the father's heart and kept it for him forevermore4 ,to illustrate this1 secure a small toy iron bank such as children use for the safe keeping of their pennies4 ,cut out a piece of cardboard the shape of a heart1 and put this inside of the little bank1 and at the proper time in the story draw it out and show the children that the bank contained the father's heart1 covered up with the money4 ,this money stands for the treasure of the people1 and there you will find the people's hearts also4 ,you can also paste upon this heart a number of pennies1 so that when you take the heart out it will be literally covered with the treasures4 ,what must be done with this heart that it may be separated from the treasures of gold which will separate the heart forever from heaven8 ,it must be brought to ,jesus and a new heart will be given in exchange4 ,although this heart covered with the gold of this world is therefore very attractive to most people1 it is as black as night in the sight of ,god and the angels4 ,there was once a boy named ,william4 ,he was in the habit of doing wicked things4 ,once he told a great lie about his classmate because he was angry at him1 and the teacher punished this classmate1 believing that what ,william said was true4 ,at the next recess ,william noticed that the scholars kept away from him and looked at him as if they were frightened1 but he did not think much of this4 ,when he went back to school that afternoon he saw his teacher looking at him very strangely1 and when he went home his mother looked at him and burst into tears4 ,william then ran up into his little room to look himself over and stood before the mirror to see if he could determine what was the matter1 and there he saw a terrible sight4 ,by some mysterious power he had become so transparent that his heart showed right out from his body through his thick clothing1 and it was a dreadfully black one4 ,his coat was black1 but it looked quite white compared with the blackness of his heart that was piercing through his coat1 and when he saw this he was ashamed to go out1 and hung his head whenever he passed any of his classmates1 ,he tried to run into dark corners where people could not see his heart1 but he could not find any hiding-place dark enough to hide his black heart4 ,at last with tears in his eyes he ran to his mother and asked what he should do4 ,he confessed to his mother the big lie he told about his classmate4 ,his mother now led him to the mirror when he had finished his sad story4 ,she said3 ,see1 ,william1 now that you have made this confession1 your heart is less black than it was before4 ,i think it will become entirely white if you pray to ,jesus to forgive you4 ,tell your classmate and teacher and the scholars how sorry you are4 ,william said to himself1 ,i will4 ,that night he prayed long and earnestly and when the morning had come he was astonished to see how much lighter his heart had grown4 ,this pleased him very much and he said3 ,i don't think ,i will trouble any more about my heart4 ,it is growing so much lighter that ,i think the last remnant of the blackness will pass away in a day4 ,so he ran off to school very gladly1 but his teacher looked at him very strangely1 and the classmates all shrank and ran away from him and he said he was ill and must go home4 ,when he got to his room and looked in the mirror he saw his heart with more intense blackness than ever before4 ,so that night he prayed very earnestly to ,jesus to take away his black heart4 ,in the morning he ran off to school in great haste4 ,as soon as the school was opened1 he arose before all the scholars and told what a dreadful thing he had done and asked their forgiveness4 ,they all forgave him gladly1 and at recess everybody was kind to him and played with him1 and best of all when he got home and looked in the mirror he found that there was no great black heart showing through4 ,he was a happy boy again1 just as he had been before he told the terrible lie4 ,this little story teaches the big lesson that the sinful black heart can only be made right by bringing it to ,jesus4 ,to illustrate this you open the ,bible to some great promise of forgiveness of sin1 and place the heart on that promise1 and close the ,bible4 ,so the sinful heart is now taken away4 ,you open the ,bible again at another promise of forgiveness of sin1 and there take out of it a white heart1 which you have put in there previously1 and say1 ,this represents the heart of forgiveness4 ,you place it back in the ,bible and close the ,bible tight1 and say1 ,my heart have ,i hid in his word1 and it is safe there forever more1 and in his keeping it can never be lost again4 #bh ,,brighten ,,your ,,corner ,,as ,a ,,business ,,object3 ,an ,old-fashioned ,candlestick with a ,small ,candle in ,it ,some years ago an old friend of mine put into my hands an ancient candlestick containing a short stump of a candle4 ,it was an old homestead relic4 ,the good lady had used it in her childhood1 and her mother had used it in her early days also4 ,it was at least seventy-five years old1 and had not been lighted for more than fifty years4 ,it had been stowed away in the old garret and forgotten1 until one day it was taken with other common things from its dusty hiding-place1 and fell into my hands4 ,at once ,i lit the stump of candle1 and it sent forth its golden light again just as it did fifty years ago4 ,it seemed to say to me1 ,i will always shine whenever ,i get the chance4 ,i do not say1 as some of you humans of the day1 ,if you had no better place for me than a dark corner in a garret1 if you have forgotten me1 and failed to recognize my place in the world1 ,i won't shine for you now4 ,no4 ,but ,i will shine for you or anybody that will put the taper to my heart4 ,it is my business to shine4 ,i cannot do anything else4 ,i have often seen folks unlike this old candle4 ,if they cannot be first in the work they won't help at all4 ,if somebody else is asked to take part1 and they are not1 they sulk about it1 refuse to join in and work4 ,if they are asked to do something that some other person has been asked to do1 and refused1 they say3 ,play second fiddle6 ,i guess not6 ,the ,new ,testament tells us of a proud man who loved to have the prominent place among them4 ,this is not a ,christian spirit4 ,jesus said1 ,if any man will be great among you1 let him be your servant4 ,brighten your corner as a business4 ,this is the business of the ,christian--to shine4 ,the candle can do nothing more than this4 ,it shines just as it is4 ,it never tries to be an electric light1 or to do the work of electricity1 but is content to do its own work1 and that is the work of a candle1 just to shine as a business4 ,the electric light gives ten1 fifteen1 forty candle-power light4 ,the electric power turns washing machines1 runs vacuum cleaners1 heats irons1 and does all sorts of things at the touch of its finger of power4 ,all the candle can do is to give its small-power light4 ,but notice how cheerful it is in the midst of darkness4 ,it knows it cannot do the task of electricity1 so it does not fret itself about it1 but just shines and does its best to brighten the little dark corner2 that is its business--just to shine4 ,watch it shine1 and you will notice it puts its whole life into the business of shining4 ,measure it as it shines1 and you will discover it grows less and less1 and leaves nothing behind it--gives itself1 and all of itself into the business of shining4 ,it consumes itself in the process of shining1 ,this is a true light picture of the ,christian4 ,real service requires the giving of the entire self4 ,david ,livingstone1 the heart of ,africa missionary1 gave all that he had and consumed all his energies for the good of the ,dark ,continent4 ,he just let his light shine out until his body burned out1 and when the natives found him dead kneeling by his bed1 they found an old worn-out body burnt out in the business of shining in ,africa's dark corner4 ,but his light still shines4 ,the natives as they sit by their evening fire talk in soft tones about the great ,white ,chief4 ,they are watching that ,white ,candle ,chief burn in the jungles of their wild land4 ,he being dead yet shineth4 ,illustration3 ,a ,meeting of ,children in the ,east ,baptist ,church1 ,philadelphia 7,where the ,author is ,pastor71 ,giving ,attention to ,object-lessons ,described in ,this ,book ,that is the way to shine forever4 ,burn out here1 and you will shine forever in ,god's kingdom4 ,so we learn that we are not only letting our light shine as a business1 but in so doing we light the dark corner lights around the world4 ,this candle ,i now hold in my hand can light a thousand other candles1 and they in turn another thousand1 and so on until it could light shining candles girdling the round world4 ,light is contagious4 ,it easily passes from one candle to another4 ,one courageous enthusiastic person can fire many others to shine in their dark corners also4 ,if every one of my audience held an unlighted candle in their hands1 this one lighted candle would carry the flame to all the candles4 ,this room would be transfigured into a congress of flickering stars4 ,this is the way the kingdom of heaven must come in4 ,one life touches the other life1 and they all shine in their corner as their business1 which is the ,king's business also4 ,but learn the first great essential lesson4 ,this candle1 to shine forth in the dark corner as a business1 must first be lit itself4 ,it cannot light itself4 ,it cannot say1 ,let there be light1 for no light can shine forth by a self-command4 ,some power greater than a candle must touch our dark heart with its taper of flame before we can shine forth4 ,so we must come to the great ,light of the ,world and give ourselves to him1 and become his disciples1 and he will give us the light which shines in our hearts1 and out from our own lives4 ,then we become ,candles of the ,lord1 and brighten the corner where we are as a business4 ,in using this lesson suit your actions to your words4 ,secure if possible an old-fashioned candlestick with a stump of a candle in it1 and say1 ,this resembles the old candlestick mentioned in the lesson4 ,you can use an ordinary candle for other parts of the lesson referred to in the chapter4 ,you can close this lesson by asking a group of children to come to the platform and ask them to hold a candlestick with a lighted candle and sing together1 ,brighten the ,corner ,where ,you ,are4 #bi ,,the ,,postage-,,stamp ,,as ,a ,,preacher ,,objects3 ,a ,collection of ,foreign and ,domestic ,postage-stamps ,hold up a letter with a plain two-cent postage-stamp upon it4 ,let me introduce to you the ,preacher of the hour6 ,he is clothed in his white robe 7the envelope7 and is ready to be a preacher to us all4 #a4 ,this stamp is more than a common piece of paper4 ,it has on it the stamp of the ,government2 therein is its value4 ,it has the ,o4,k4 of the authorities of ,washington4 ,so we must have stamped on our life the image of the ,good ,father to make us worth anything in this old world4 ,we must bear the mark of our ,owner before we can be backed by the kingdom of heaven4 #b4 ,if the stamp was made by ourselves it would have no power4 ,the letter bearing the stamp would be returned4 ,so we can do nothing of ourselves4 ,there is no good in us4 ,when ,i was a little boy ,i was a stamp-collector1 and when we could not find a stamp of the desired nation1 there was issued what is called a facsimile of the original4 ,it was a make-believe stamp4 ,it looked all right in our stamp-book1 but it was out of place and worthless on an envelope4 ,it was only a pretender so we must not be contented with appearances only4 ,that is the way hypocrites are made4 #c4 ,the stamp in the stamp box is always ready for service1 just waiting to start on its journey4 ,it has the mark of approval on it which the ,government has given it4 ,it has the sticking power which man has given it1 and is just waiting to be called into service4 ,paul said1 ,i am now ready not only to die but to live4 ,he who is ready to die1 is best prepared to live4 ,always ready for service1 like a postage-stamp1 is to be ready to go anywhere for the ,master4 #d4 ,the postage-stamp is a good missionary4 ,it will work anywhere4 ,it will go to any part of the homeland or any part of the world1 just as it is directed4 ,no dividing-line between home or abroad1 ,it will go to any part of the world4 ,it just goes where it is sent4 ,it is like a pair of bifocal glasses4 ,it can see home needs as well as the far-away needs4 ,it sees both clearly4 ,that is the plan of ,jesus1 ,jerusalem and the uttermost parts--both are alike to him as far as concerns their need of salvation4 #e4 ,i remember also that when ,i was a stamp-collector1 ,i had one page in my book on which ,i had a stamp from each nation4 ,they were all at peace with each other4 ,it was the first picture of ,the ,league of ,nations4 ,to illustrate the truth1 get as many stamps of the various nations as you may be able1 and fix them on a large cardboard1 and show them to the children1 or bring them out of the ,bible to show that if they are true to ,god's ,word1 they will live together in peace4 ,this is the only ,league of ,nations that can stand through the ages4 #f4 ,the postage-stamp does what it is told to do4 ,it fulfils its task4 ,when it is placed on the envelope1 it takes the letter to the address given4 ,that is its business4 ,that is all that is expected of it4 ,it does not seek to know the contents of the letter1 but to deliver the letter to the party named4 ,so it is our business to do just as we are told to do by our ,good ,father4 ,we are not to pry into his will1 or seek to know his unrevealed secrets4 ,our business is to carry his message4 ,we are to speak where ,god's ,book speaks1 ,we are to be silent where the ,book is silent4 ,we should all try to do as well as a postage-stamp4 #g4 ,the stamp is a non-combatant4 ,when it is licked it does not hit back4 ,it is a peace-lover4 ,it opens not its mouth4 ,so we should learn that when criticism and hardship come to us1 when the road is difficult1 and we are discouraged1 when the enemy does his worst1 and ,satan tries to dislodge us1 we must just stick like a stamp4 ,when we put the stamp on the envelope1 we often give it a blow with our fist4 ,that just makes the stamp stick tighter4 ,so when we are hit by hard experiences we should tighten our grip all the more and just stick4 #h4 ,the stamp sticks to its job to the finish4 ,it holds tight to the letter till it gets there4 ,happy is that boy or girl who continues to the end4 ,a little newsboy by the name of ,george in the ,city of ,philadelphia1 ,pa41 sold papers in the street for a living4 ,he believed if he stuck to his task he would some day be a great man4 ,one day he stood looking up at the great building in which the paper was published and said1 ,i will some day own that building1 and become the editor of the paper ,i now sell4 ,he stuck to his task until at last he was owner of the paper and its editor also4 ,his name was ,george ,washington ,childs1 and the paper was ,the ,public ,ledger4 ,he was like the postage-stamp4 ,he stuck fast until he got there4 ,that is the only way to get there4 #i4 ,the postage-stamp never has a complaining word4 ,sometimes it is put on upside down or very crooked1 and struck a great blow by the cancelling-machine in the ,post ,office1 but it never speaks a word of complaint1 just stands by its post and waits4 ,if it goes to an address that has been changed1 the new address is put on the envelope1 and it starts on its journey again4 ,it makes no complaint because of extra work1 but starts away on another journey4 ,so we should always try again and make another start4 ,many a man has made good by doing this4 ,there is a medical remedy called #fjf4 ,when the firm was asked why this number was given it1 the reply was1 ,we tried #fje times to find a proper remedy1 and failed2 but the next time we found just what we were after1 and so called it ,no4 #fjf4 ,do not be afraid to try over and over4 ,the next time may be the #fjfth of success4 ,now when you look at the little red postage-stamp let it preach over and over again to you the lessons ,i have given you in this chapter4 ,look again1 and you will see on this stamp the face of the great ,george ,washington1 who lived out all these lessons in his life1 and he is now stuck fast to the hearts of his countrymen4 ,now1 ,mr4 ,postage-stamp1 we thank you4 ,you have preached to us a fine sermon this morning4 ,when you receive a stamped letter from the postman remember the ,postage-stamp ,preacher4 ,hear ye him4 #cj ,,candles ,,in ,,the ,,pulpit ,,objects3 ,a ,number of ,candles and a ,small ,green ,tree ,branch ,let us ask the candles to preach to us4 ,these white-robed prophets will now speak4 ,candle ,no4 #a1 come to the desk and be preacher for us now4 ,in answer to this call a small boy or girl comes up upon the platform bearing a small candle and gives it to you4 ,this1 you say1 is a little1 but mighty preacher4 ,in ancient story we are told of a mansion illuminated by a thousand candles1 and in one of the candlesticks there was hidden the owner's will4 ,the heirs searched for the candle with its message of gold4 ,that candle had a message in it4 ,so let us find the hidden truth in this and all the other candle prophets this night4 ,after lighting it you say1 ,it is a light bearing ,god's truth4 ,place it on the desk1 saying1 ,this is a little light1 yet if the room was darkened it would lighten the entire room4 ,this little prophet represents the child in the home1 church1 and world4 ,the ,bible says1 ,a little child shall lead them4 ,that little child is ,jesus4 ,he led the wise men in the ,temple of old4 ,he is leading all men by the light of his ,star to the ,cross where sins are taken away4 ,and ,i1 if ,i be lifted up1 will draw all men to me4 ,this is the attractive power of a little child4 ,all little children are sweet little lights1 the light of the home1 so we all declare1 and we are speaking well as we thus say1 ,when this light is extinguished it has led many a soul back to ,god4 ,this little light stands for the ,primary ,department of our ,sunday school4 ,they come to the school1 they listen1 and receive4 ,they are there taking in light4 ,they go out1 and let it shine out1 and many a soul has seen it and been saved4 ,all the little folks look forward and see the light4 ,be ye little lights and shine in your corner for ,jesus4 ,our next preacher will be the large candle now brought forth by a larger boy4 ,place it on the desk1 and remove the small candle1 extinguish it1 and put it out of sight4 ,this large candle is the pastor in the pulpit1 who is a preaching candle4 ,he is to tell the truth about things and to warn the people of dangers and present perils4 ,sometime the flock does not like his plain talk1 and in ,bible times they took him from his holy place and cast him out and stoned him to death4 ,at this point have the boy so trained that he will come forward to the desk and try to take the candle out4 ,you will stop him and ask him what he is doing4 ,he will reply3 ,he talks too plain to us4 ,we don't like it4 ,you tell him1 the preacher stands in ,god's place and is talking for him4 ,let all the people hear what the prophet has to say to the people4 ,the candle is then placed back on the desk1 and the preaching light continues to shine out its message4 ,who next will be our preacher tonight8 ,this call is responded to by two little girls1 one bearing an ornamented candle coming first1 the other bringing a plain candle following4 ,as you take the first candle you say3 ,beauty and adornment are useless and only pure vanity if just on the surface4 ,people like to show off in religion1 that is1 they often like to show off their clothes and personal adornment1 but you will notice after you have lit this candle that it does not give any more light than this plain candle1 which you now take from the little girl standing a little space from you4 ,you light the plain candle1 and place them side by side1 and by the side of the preacher's candle1 and the preacher says1 ,both the poor and the rich can shine alike for ,god1 for he is ,maker of them both4 ,give the call again1 ,who will preach for us next8 ,a child comes forward with a box wrapped in paper1 and gives it to you4 ,after you have opened it you produce a fine white candle4 ,what does this mean1 ,mr4 ,preaching ,candle8 ,the candle answers1 ,i am a soul which hides his light under a bushel4 ,i have gone out4 ,light it and place it by your side1 that its light may call the people out of the easy pew and comfortable chair to the fortress to fight by light4 ,behold6 ,i see another prophet approaching4 ,it is a foreigner4 ,as he comes to the platform he bears the flag of ,china1 and carries a ,chinese lantern4 ,he is coming not to preach but to listen4 ,hold up the lantern close to the preacher candle and say3 ,china is asking for the true light4 ,what doth the preacher candle say8 ,and the candle answers3 ,hear me1 all ye people1 ,our ,master's great commission tells us we are to go into all the world and preach the gospel4 ,china is the largest nation of the world1 and so according to the order of the ,light of the ,world1 we give ,china the light4 ,here light the lantern1 and give it back to the child1 and bid him ,godspeed in his mission of light to his people who sit in darkness4 ,give the call again1 and six boys and girls come forward with a tall unlit candle in a candlestick4 ,these are six ,lay ,preachers1 ,helpers of the ,pastor4 ,they do his bidding1 and then they are sure to shine4 ,now light the six candles and let them stand around the desk holding their candles4 ,spread the children out as far as possible1 so there will be no danger of their burning each other4 ,now the preacher candle says3 ,i am backed by my church-membership4 ,they stand back of me4 ,they are shining forth the same light that ,i shine out4 ,this is a pulpit of power4 ,here endeth the sermon of the candles in the pulpit4 ,you now take the candles from the children and place them on the desk with the other candles and close by singing ,the ,light of the ,world ,is ,jesus4 #ca ,a ,,post-,,card ,,sermon ,,objects3 ,a ,collection of ,post-cards ,if you wish to preach to the little folks and cause them to remember what you have said1 try the post-card sermon4 ,when you announce the sermon for little eyes ask them to come to the front of the church and stand around the pulpit4 ,then hand to each child a pictorial post-card and make it the subject of your talk to them4 ,tell them the card now belongs to them1 and they can take it home with them to keep4 ,preach about the picture on the card1 calling their attention to every little detail4 ,drive home some truth as pictured on the card4 ,ask them to look intently at every point in the picture you are talking about4 ,this sermon should not be over seven minutes long4 ,children find it difficult to stand in one place for any length of time4 ,if you seek to hold their attention too long1 they will grow tired and their interest will slacken4 ,you must be brief4 ,there are beautiful post-cards without number and the cost is very trifling4 ,use historical cards4 ,take1 if you so desire1 the card containing the ,liberty ,bell1 and preach upon the text of the ,bell3 ,proclaim liberty throughout the land4 ,describe the bell1 give its history in a few words4 ,the seasonal post-cards1 ,christmas1 ,spring1 ,winter1 ,thanksgiving1 ,hallowe'en1 etc41 give a new meaning to these days1 and tell things the children should know about them4 ,use beautiful post-cards4 ,select some beauty spot in your own country and explain what makes it beautiful and what makes its beauty worth while to us4 ,use post-cards that have a children's story connected with them1 such as ,the ,lighthouse-keeper's ,daughter1 ,grace ,darling1 ,the ,boy ,lincoln and ,his ,log-cabin ,home1 ,george ,washington and the ,cherry ,tree4 ,these pictures are running over with simple truth4 ,use curious post-cards1 such as of the ,natural ,bridge in ,virginia1 cave pictures1 the gold-fields of ,alaska4 ,tell them of the ,natural ,bridge as the work of ,god1 and of the other bridge ,god made1 a ,bridge from ,calvary to heaven1 the ,bridge of the ,cross4 ,select foreign post-cards4 ,this will enable you to tell missionary stories about the people who live in those lands4 ,pictures of idols will help you to cause the children to want to tell the heathen children the story of the true ,god4 ,select religious post-cards4 ,reproductions of the great works of art can be secured4 ,di ,vinci's ,last ,supper is a good one to select4 ,you can tell about the face of ,judas and that of ,christ being taken from the same living model4 ,the face of ,judas was the disfigured face of ,jesus which had become repulsive because of the presence of sin4 ,this is what sin will do for a face4 ,select picture-cards of ,bethlehem1 and tell the story of the town as it now is1 and as it was in ,david's time1 and in the time of ,jesus4 ,it would be but small trouble to make a course of eight short sermons or more1 using post-cards4 ,urge the children to put the cards thus received in a little book1 and put under each card the date you preached the sermon4 ,if any child who attends regularly is absent mail a card to them the next day1 with a short lesson written on the card4 ,children always like the postman to bring them something by mail4 ,if they are out of town1 find their address and send it to them4 ,if they just did not come1 say to them that some ,sunday morning if they will call to see you1 you will give them the card they missed4 ,it will give you a chance for a pleasant word with them4 ,it often goes a long way with little folks4 ,on the last ,sunday of the course bring your full line of cards you have used1 and have a short review and ask some questions about each card4 ,this is only another1 but a new1 way of preaching to the wonder eyes of the wonderful folks we call our children4 #cb ,,making ,,joy ,,objects3 ,large ,cardboards ,containing the ,word ,joy ,this is a day of making things4 ,the wise man could have said of things as he said of books1 ,of the making of many things there is no end4 ,did you ever try to make joy8 ,it is a big business4 ,all the world is trying to learn that trade4 ,the world is richer than it has ever been1 that is because we have learned to make money4 ,the world is wiser than it has ever been2 that is because we have learned to make many books4 ,the world at heart is sadder than it has ever been2 that is because it has never learned how to make ,,joy4 ,the joy the world knows is like the desert plant4 ,it fastens its root by the side of a little stream1 and drinks in the moisture1 and spreads out its leaves of life4 ,the stream is dried up at last by the heat of the desert1 and the roots loosen their hold on the soil1 and the windstorm rolls the plant over the desert like a dead leaf until another piece of wet ground is found4 ,there it fastens for another short season1 and again the sun dries up this spring of life1 and hurls the root on in the heart of the desert storm1 ,this is repeated over and over again until at last it tosses it out into the piercing rays of the sun a withered dry old root dead at the heart4 ,so men and women are like this dry root4 ,they absorb this pleasure and another until at last1 when old age finds them they are like the old dead root east up by the winds of time4 ,dead in the inside4 ,they never found any joy to which they could anchor4 ,they never knew where to find real joy4 ,look and listen--,i will tell you where to find it4 ,secure three large cardboards and paint on them the word ,,joy4 ,one letter on each card1 stand them up on a background where they can be seen by all present4 ,these letters spell the word ,,joy4 ,this is what all the world is after4 ,the first letter stands for ,jesus4 ,the middle letter a cipher or nothing4 ,the last letter stands for ,you4 ,nothing between ,jesus and you4 ,this is the way to bring real joy to the soul4 ,most of our sorrows come from disobedience1 and that means that something has come between the ,j and ,y that will never spell ,,joy4 ,paint on a black card the letter ,s which stands for ,sin4 ,hang this card up in the place of ,o4 ,j4,s4,y4 will never spell ,,joy4 ,sin keeps the joy from passing from ,j to ,y4 ,only a short time ago thousands watched the eclipse of the sun4 ,there was darkness at the last4 ,in some of the great cities the street lamps were lit because of the darkness all around4 ,it was because something had come between us and the sun4 ,it was the moon4 ,it looked like a great ,o4 ,it shut off the sunlight for a little season4 ,there was something between4 ,let nothing come between you and ,jesus and you will find ,,joy4 ,the ,o is a cipher which means nothing4 ,nothing between ,j 7,jesus7 and ,y 7,you74 ,that spells ,,joy4 ,that is the big shop where joy is made4 #cc ,,ye ,,little ,,old ,,folks ,,object3 ,a ,picture of ,verse from an ,old ,illustrated ,bible ,used #ajj ,years ,ago ,a century ago there were but few books for children4 ,preachers never thought of a children's sermon1 but here is a page which appeared in a rare old book the children used in that day4 ,it is over a century old4 ,it illustrates ,deuteronomy #e3bi4 ,from some picture-book cut out figures like these to illustrate this ,bible verse4 ,pin them up on some background which they can see4 ,the journals of the day abound in interesting pictures4 ,cut them out and try to teach the children the ,scriptures by pictures they have often seen4 ,it will interest them greatly as it doubtless did ,ye ,little ,olde ,folks4 ,this text is one of many that has some words in it for which you can substitute a picture4 ,in fact1 the ,bible is a picture-book1 not simply in the sense that it tells so many interesting stories about men and women and children1 and tells them in such a taking way1 but even where it is not telling a story1 it uses words and sentences that are pictures1 not the less effective because drawn or painted in speech4 ,this text is such a sentence4 ,,deuteronomy v4 #bi4 ,illustration3 ,o that there were such an heart in them1 that they would fear me1 and keep all my commandments always1 that it might be well with them1 and with their children for ever4 #cd ,,the ,,crucifixion ,,in ,,colors ,,objects3 ,a ,collection of ,colored ,papers ,this is a lesson on the ,crucifixion of ,jesus4 ,it is taught by small colored papers4 ,each stage of the crucifixion is illustrated by a color4 ,the paper used is the common glazed paper which can be supplied by any paper store that deals in fancy paper4 ,you can also use little blocks of muslin or any other colored goods4 ,cut the blocks about #d x #e-a_/b inches in size2 some of the pieces you will notice will be long and narrow4 7,see ,diagram47 ,pin these blocks upon some background so all the listeners may see the work4 ,you will notice by the diagram that when every piece is in its place a perfect cross is formed4 ,follow the order of the diagram and commence at the foot of the cross4 ,at this place put a brown color4 ,this color stands for the common earth1 the ground of ,calvary in which the cross was planted4 ,talk about holy ground if you so desire1 but say this is the ,most ,holy ,ground4 ,it was here they placed the cross and crucified ,jesus4 ,the next block is divided into two parts--white and blue4 ,these were the dominant colors of the high priest's garments to whom ,jesus was sent the hour of his arrest4 ,describe now the wild scene--the mad mob all seeking to bring him to trial for death sentence4 ,the next block is gold--the dominant color in the royal robe of ,pilate4 ,it was the color of his scepter and the golden eagle1 the symbol of the government of ,rome which he represented4 ,before him ,jesus was brought and tried1 and ordered to be sent to the cross4 ,illustration3 ,,diagram ,next put up the purple block4 ,this represents the purple robe the soldier put on ,jesus4 ,the next color is green--the color of the thorns of the bush1 which had been twisted into a crown of thorns4 ,the next color is white--the color of ,christ's own robe that the soldiers put on him4 ,red is the next color1 and it stands for the blood he shed4 ,black stands for the darkness which was in the land from the sixth to the ninth hour4 ,yellow is the next4 ,this stands for the yellowish sponge which was put to his lips4 ,the next colors1 white1 red1 and purple1 were the colors of the veil of the ,temple which was rent in twain when ,jesus gave up the ghost on the cross4 ,and the last color1 silver1 stands for the armor of the centurion who1 when he saw the ,crucified ,one1 proclaimed his belief in the ,son of ,god4 ,you have now built a cross as you talked1 and each part of the cross represents some striking step in the tragedy of the ,green ,hill4 ,after the color blocks are in their place1 ask the children to tell you the story according to the colors4 ,after they have been well drilled let them put the color strips up in their proper place1 and tell you the story4 ,after you are through with this lesson it would be a good plan to paste these colors on a piece of muslin or heavy paper1 and hang the diagram up on the wall and often refer to it1 and ask the children its meaning4 ,this is a ,good ,friday subject1 and can always be used as a redemption story4 #ce ,,the ,,gospel ,,by ,,ribbons ,,objects3 ,a ,number of ,colored ,ribbons ,in this chapter the story of salvation will be told by different colored ribbons4 ,this will be attractive to the eye as the bright colors appear1 and the colors will not only teach the truth of the lesson but will fasten the truth in the mind for years to come4 ,color makes a deep impression on the mind4 ,it is like a foot-print in the clay4 ,it comes to stay as time hardens the mental clay4 ,some years ago ,i was asked by an old friend to be a witness to the transfer of a large tract of land into his possession4 ,the document was drawn up in full legal form1 and deposited by the housewife in a secure and secret place4 ,about a year afterward my friend informed me that the document could not be found4 ,the wife had forgotten where she had placed it1 and believed it to be lost4 ,i was asked if ,i could remember anything about it4 ,at first my mind seemed to be a blank1 and then ,i remembered all about it1 and this was the how of it4 ,on the day of the transfer ,i remembered the wife took the document and tied around it a piece of red ribbon4 ,i remembered she put it in a small closet back behind the old-fashioned fireplace4 ,in closing the door a portion of the red ribbon was left exposed on the outside4 ,i noticed that red ribbon in that position which ,i thought it might direct attention to the document and thus expose it to a thief and so endanger its safety4 ,i remembered the wife arose and opened the door1 put the ribbon inside1 and ,i let the matter pass from my mind1 and it would have passed out of my mind forever1 had it not been that that red ribbon had fastened itself down in my memory4 ,the red ribbon located the lost document4 ,a color is a tack which holds down the truth in the human mind4 ,may the colors of the lesson have the same ministry4 ,secure a number of ribbons of the colors about to be mentioned4 ,they can be about one inch wide and each one six inches long4 ,sew them together at the ends4 ,place them in a box1 and draw out six inches at a time in the following order4 ,first produce the white1 holding it in the hand as if considering it1 and say3 ,thus was man created--in white4 ,he was placed in the ,white ,garden where all was purity and spotless4 ,but the ,tempter entered this ,white ,garden and tempted the white soul to sin1 and so man sinned and the black of sin took the place of the white of righteousness4 ,as thus you speak you draw out from the box the black ribbon2 as you hold this in your hand1 you remark that the black is the sign of death1 for the wages of sin is death4 ,now draw out the red ribbon1 and say1 ,the blood of ,jesus has now come to take away the black of sin and death4 ,as you say this let the black drop out of sight1 and let the red appear4 ,they shall call his name ,jesus1 for he shall save his people from their sins4 ,tell the story of the scarlet rope which was displayed in the window of the house on the wall at ,jericho1 and how safe was ,rahab when the red signal was in her window4 ,how safe are all they who are hiding behind the red line of ,salvation by the ,blood4 ,now draw out the white and remark1 ,now the ,blood has brought back the white state to the heart again1 for when we stand clothed in ,christ's righteousness we have been restored to the place in ,god's heart that ,adam occupied before the fall4 ,now draw out the purple ribbon4 ,this represents the royal standing of the believer4 ,purple was the color of the king's robe4 ,the saved are children of the ,king1 joint heirs with the ,son4 ,it is the family color4 ,all ,christians are children of the ,king of kings4 ,now produce the blue ribbon4 ,this represents the standfastness of the believer4 ,he is true blue for ,god--faithful to the end1 and to all the family of ,god in ,christ ,jesus4 ,now produce the gold ribbon4 ,this represents the mansion of gold in heaven4 ,it reminds us of the streets of the ,white ,city of ,god which1 we are told1 are paved with pure gold4 ,may our eyes look at1 last upon its gates of pearl4 ,may our feet walk through the streets of the city1 the streets of gold4 ,last1 produce the green ribbon4 ,this represents everlasting life1 having reference to the fixed color of green1 the same all the year round4 ,this ribbon is the trail home to ,god1 our everlasting home in heaven4 ,after this lesson is taught ask two of the children to take hold of the ends1 and let the whole span the front of the room4 ,ask them to tell you the meaning of the colors4 ,often give them this drill2 it will fasten the ,bible truth and ,bible order in their hearts for years to come4 #cf ,,joining ,,the ,,church ,,objects3 ,seven ,cards with the ,letter ,i ,printed on them ,this is a lesson showing the importance and value of joining the local church after the heart has been given away to ,jesus4 ,there are some people who think that this is an act purely voluntary4 ,do as you please they think is the thing to do1 and so they dismiss the question as settled4 ,the fact is they do not understand the arithmetic of the ,new ,testament4 ,there #b and #a make more than three4 ,joining the church enables the ,christian to count more than one4 ,there is power in organization4 ,i may take a piece of red silk1 also a piece of white and blue1 and ,i can shoot them full of holes--no one will object4 ,they stand for nothing4 ,they are simply a piece of personal property4 ,i may do as ,i please with them all4 ,but1 if these three colors are united and made over into a flag1 then1 the man who shoots them full of holes must answer to the government of the ,united ,states1 for every soldier and marine is pledged to protect those colors from harm4 ,they are organized into a flag4 ,they mean more than simple strips of colors4 ,to illustrate this big fact1 secure seven large cards and have on each one the figure #a painted1 making it as large as possible4 ,distribute them to children in various parts of the church1 avoid giving two children in one row each a card4 ,the children holding the cards represent the ,christian who declared that he can be just as good a ,christian outside the church as in it1 and so stays outside of organized relationship4 ,now ask them to give you the number on their cards1 and they all exclaim ,number one4 ,that is all they stand for1 ,number one4 ,that really means they stand for themselves and by themselves4 ,they stand for one1 themselves4 ,this is just what ,number ,one looks like4 ,they represent nobody1 they are independent units1 they stand alone3 they have but small representative power4 ,some years ago when the ,west was a child1 a little boy wandered away from his prairie home1 and was lost in the tall grass1 and could not be found4 ,his parents and neighbors started on a searching expedition to find him4 ,they all went in different directions1 and after a day-long search came back without the child4 ,they could not find him by individual searching4 ,the next day they formed a line each in sight of the other and1 like a net1 swept the prairie1 and within two hours the lad was found and brought home to his sorrowing parents4 ,they failed as individuals--they succeeded as a united body4 ,god knew this first1 and so established his church1 where unity of action could do more than independent service4 ,now ask the children to come to the platform1 and stand them in a line holding the figure one side by side4 ,once they stood for one only1 now united they stand for one million one hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and eleven4 ,this is the large reason why all ,christians should join the church1 and thereby multiply many times their value to their ,master and his ,kingdom4 ,if you are a ,christian make the most of yourself1 and you can do this by coming into church relationship with the brotherhood of ,christians4 ,a young convert gave as his reason for joining the church the following3 ,if ,i was going to ,chicago on the ,broadway express and had my ticket straight through to my destination1 including the comforts of a ,pullman car1 and then stood outside on the platform all night1 standing up and facing the storm1 what a miserable man ,i would prove myself to be1 and what a faulty thinker ,i would also be4 ,but ,i am going to get all my ticket grants me4 ,i will go inside and take all the pleasure and comfort of the journey4 ,so ,i am going into the church and take all my salvation has provided for me4 ,i will no longer stand on the platform of the world4 ,i want the best and all of it4 ,he was right4 ,get all that is coming to you1 and get it now4 ,come inside2 you are entitled to a seat4 ,years ago a boy1 sixteen years old1 came into ,new ,york ,city1 with a pack on his back containing all his belongings4 ,he was a stranger in a great city4 ,wandering through the streets one night1 he saw a lighted church with open doors1 heard sweet singing from within4 ,he entered uninvited except by the open door4 ,he heard the story of ,jesus and was saved4 ,at once he offered himself for baptism1 and was received into church-membership4 ,there the lad was trained and schooled in righteousness4 ,he became a great man4 ,his name was ,william ,colgate1 the founder of the great firm bearing his name4 ,he died worth millions1 most of which he gave to his church1 and left a name that will never die4 ,his influence permeated the denomination that he honored as the perfume from his shops has permeated the world4 ,the ,colgate ,perfume ,company of which he was the first member1 gathered its first sweetness from the ,rose of ,sharon that he found in the ,lord's sweet garden--the church of the ,first-born4 ,before you dismiss the children and send them to their seats1 pray that ,god may deepen the lesson of the hour so it may sink into their hearts1 and charge the children to go and govern themselves accordingly4 #cg ,,god',s ,,mail-,,bag ,,objects3 ,the ,bible and ,nine ,lettered ,cards ,spelling the ,word ,salvation ,hold up the ,bible and say3 ,this is ,god's ,mail-bag2 the ,holy ,bible1 filled with holy letters for you4 ,this ,mail-bag came from heaven4 ,it contains ,god's latest wonderful message4 ,i am ,god's letter-carrier4 ,i have nine special-delivery letters4 ,they are all directed to you4 ,my business is to carry the mail for ,god4 ,i will now deliver the mail ,god has addressed to you4 ,before the meeting secure nine envelopes1 commercial size1 and on each draw in large outlines one of the letters in the word ,salvation4 ,before the meeting place these letters in various parts of the ,bible4 ,holding the open ,bible in your hand1 you say3 ,i have now opened the ,mail-bag from ,god1 and find nine letters for you4 ,the first letter you take from the ,bible you find in ,genesis1 and it is the letter ',s4' ,give this to the child who takes the first place in the line4 ,explain that the message which you wish them to remember is the message of the ,ark4 ,eight souls were saved in this big ship4 ,all were invited1 only those who accepted were saved4 ,all who did accept were safely delivered into the new world4 ,during the voyage they just trusted ,god4 ,he fed them as he did the widow with her cruse of oil and little portion of meal4 ,the supply was given each day according to their need4 ,god will take care of you4 ,god will supply all your need4 ,this is the message of ,s4 ,it is a lesson in salvation4 ,now produce the letter ,a from ,genesis containing the story of ,joseph4 ,give this to some child who now takes his place next to the child with the letter ,s4 ,the message ,god gives from this story is that ,truth wins out at last4 ,joseph1 hated1 sold in slavery1 because of false accusation cast into prison1 but at last elevated to the throne1 did not forget the home folks4 ,these are great facts to be remembered because they were steps upward4 ,because he was true to ,god1 he found his feet at last walking in the golden way of true success4 ,that is the message of the letter ,a4 ,this is a story of salvation4 ,return to the ,mail-bag1 and draw out the letter ,l from the book of ,daniel4 ,give that to the child next in line4 ,this is a letter from ,daniel1 and his message is always dare to stand firm for ,god4 ,when away from your home as was ,daniel1 don't be ashamed to let people know that you pray4 ,daniel prayed before the open window because he was not ashamed to be seen talking to ,god4 ,he faced the lions as well as the people1 and ,god gave him the victory over both1 and his testimony counted one hundred per cent1 because he was a real servant of the ,most ,high ,god1 and this is another story of salvation4 ,open the ,mail-bag again1 and produce the letter ,v1 from the story of the ,hebrew ,children1 asking another child to hold the letter1 standing next in line4 ,the message from these three faithful boys is that ,god's children should stand together like three links in a chain4 ,this gives strength stronger than iron4 ,good companionship is the need of boys today4 ,fall in with the right crowd4 ,a minister of the gospel1 who was appointed spiritual adviser to a boy about to be executed1 asked him one day what was his first step downward1 and he replied1 ,i fell in with the wrong crowd4 ,the ,hebrew ,children were a crowd made good by ,god1 and they went through the fire before they would bend their knees to the idols of the heathen land4 ,god stands with such a crowd2 one and two made four in ,god's table of numbers4 ,he is always in the midst of them4 ,jesus said1 ,where two or three are gathered together in my name1 there am ,i in the midst of them4 ,the king saw him and said1 ,he is like unto the ,son of man1 and this was the reason4 ,three boys were fire-proof saints1 so the fire did them no hurt4 ,open the ,mail-bag again and produce the letter ,a4 ,this you take from ,psalms--open to the ,twenty-third ,psalm4 ,this letter hand to another child and tell the message of the ,psalm1 ,god is the ,shepherd of his people1 and his sheep shall know no want4 ,they shall find green pastures1 which signifies fresh pastures4 ,still water1 deep waters1 and so an endless supply4 ,still water runs deep in the ,twenty-third ,psalm4 ,paths of righteousness open up before the soul1 like the golden sunrise every morning4 ,evil cannot make afraid1 no enemy can destroy4 ,goodness and mercy1 like two faithful shepherd dogs1 follow and protect in the rear till the house of the ,lord lifts itself above the clouds of time1 and the forever with the ,lord comes at last to all who follow the ,good ,shepherd4 ,this is the story of salvation from our enemies and the open door to the house of the ,lord in heaven4 ,at the first part of ,matthew open again the ,bible ,mail-bag and take out the letter ,t1 and ask another child to hold it and take his place in line as before4 ,let this letter stand for the birth of ,jesus1 the ,angels' glad song1 and the sky's ,merry ,christmas to the ,shepherd with its glad melody of ,jesus now born among men1 the ,virgin's ,son4 ,this is the story of the ,glory ,song of ,salvation4 ,open again the ,bible ,mail-bag at the resurrection and take out the letter ,i1 asking another child to take his place in line with this letter4 ,this letter delivers the message of the resurrection of ,christ4 ,it is ,god's special-delivery letter that the last and latest news is that ,christ is risen from the grave1 and orders that all the bells of joy shall be rung and the message declared to all the people4 ,salvation has been accomplished1 and the stone that was rolled away from the grave by an angel's hand1 has become the keystone of our faith4 ,this is the story of salvation from the grave4 ,now take out the letter ,o from the ,bible ,mail-bag opened at the book of ,acts4 ,this is to proclaim how the gospel works among men1 how it turned cities upside down1 and multitudes were converted4 ,it proclaims that all must be saved through the name of ,jesus4 ,even the wicked ,saul of ,tarsus is turned into another man by the gospel's power1 and all who will come in truth will also be turned1 and by ,god's grace will stay turned4 ,this is the story of the salvation of the soul4 ,tell the children that they can never get ,god's full mail from just one letter from the book4 ,we must seek to get all ,god has said before we can know his perfect truth4 ,there is yet one more letter to come to give the full ,bible message4 ,open once more the ,mail-bag1 and in the book of ,revelation you find the last letter from ,god1 and then you produce the letter ,n4 ,ask again some child to come forward and hold this letter standing last in the line4 ,this is the message of the book of ,revelation4 ,jesus is coming back again1 and our prayer should be ,come back1 ,lord ,jesus1 the world is on fire1 come back quickly4 ,now you will note the nine letters from ,god spell ,salvation4 ,that is the message the ,mail-bag contains4 ,this is the message to you and to the world4 ,god's ,mail-bag contains nine letters for the ,whosoever ,tribe1 which means all kindreds and tribes that on the earth do well4 ,these letters can then be pinned up on some background in the form of a cross1 teaching the truth that ,salvation comes only through the ,cross4 ,there is no other way4 #ch ,,turning ,,the ,,palms ,,into ,a ,,cross ,,objects3 ,strips of ,palm-leaves or ,strips of ,green ,paper ,have you ever noticed on the ,sunday before ,easter that some of the boys and girls wear in their coats a cross made out of strips of palm-leaves8 ,it always seemed strange to me that the palm-leaf of joy should be turned into the cross of tears1 but that was just what happened one day in ,jerusalem4 ,jesus was to enter the city as a ,king4 ,the people were very glad because they thought that he would deliver them from the ,roman rule1 which was very cruel and hard for them to bear4 ,they were all very much excited at the thought of seeing ,jesus1 for they had heard so many wonderful things about him4 ,they thought he was coming to do wonderful things for them also1 so they flocked around the gates of the city to welcome him when he came4 ,they all sent forth great shouts of welcome1 and the children stripped the beautiful big leaves from the palm-tree and made a pathway of them for ,jesus1 and the children sang and shouted their praises4 ,it was the first junior choir we ever read about in the ,bible1 a choir of boys and girls praising ,jesus4 ,secure1 if possible1 a long green leaf which you can call a palm-leaf1 or make one out of green paper1 and pin it on the blackboard4 ,teach them the ,hosanna cry which the children used to welcome ,jesus4 ,after this is done1 say3 ,but in a few hours a great change came over the people1 and they no longer showed their joy1 but were silent1 then angry4 ,he did not cast out the ,roman governor4 ,he did not end the wicked rule of the government4 ,they did not understand that his kingdom was to come first into the hearts of men4 ,they could not grasp this truth4 ,they wanted a new law4 ,jesus had come to give them a new life1 and they must patiently wait ,god's time4 ,so their hearts grew cold1 and then they grew angry4 ,they listened to evil men who wanted to get rid of ,jesus1 and so it came to pass in a few days the crowd rushed into ,pilate's hall and cried ',crucify him1' and went to ,calvary1 and with hard hearts saw him die4 ,this is how a palm-leaf was turned into a cross4 ,here add a shorter piece of leaf and make the cross4 ,some of us are doing the same thing today4 ,we say with glad words we will follow ,jesus4 ,we sing with glad strains ,o ,happy ,day that ,fixed ,my ,choice6 ,we join his holy church and say we will live for him forevermore4 ,then1 soon after this glad hosanna1 when ,mother asks us to do things we do not want to do we answer back in bad temper and ugly words1 and often refuse to obey at all4 ,sometimes in the game we don't play straight1 and often cheat a little in our examples4 ,then we have stopped our hosannas1 and ,jesus is sad because he sees us doing wrong and making a cross out of the palm-leaf1 for when we act in that sinful way we are crucifying ,christ the second time4 ,sometimes there are older people who once lived happy ,christian lives1 worked in the church1 gave in their glad testimony1 and lived the glad game of the ,christian life2 they were waving palm-branches1 and their life shouted ,hosanna6 ,then they grew cold and lost their testimony4 ,they slipped back into the old path of sin4 ,they did not go to ,god's house any more4 ,they made close friends of the world4 ,hosannas languished on their tongues1 and they lived without ,god2 their palm-branches had been turned into crosses4 ,they had crucified ,christ afresh1 put him to open shame in the eyes of the world4 ,that is another way in which the palm-leaf is turned into a cross4 ,keep your palm-leaves for ,jesus1 always living a consistent life1 and never let the world grip you1 and your palm-leaf will not turn into a cross1 but into a crown4 #ci ,,jesus ,,changes ,,things ,,objects3 ,a ,large ,prepared ,card1 a ,collection of ,colored ,envelopes ,to illustrate this lesson secure a piece of cardboard about ten inches square1 and place on it in straight rows a number of smaller pieces of cardboard about one inch square4 ,first1 place a row of white squares4 ,this represents the white race4 ,the next row make yellow to represent the ,chinese race4 ,next1 a row all brown to represent the people of ,india4 ,next1 a row all red to represent the ,indians4 ,the last row1 black1 representing the ,african people4 ,on the other side make the same number of rows1 but put them all in gold4 ,hold up first the side containing the colored cards1 and tell the following story4 ,a weary missionary fell asleep and had a dream4 ,a messenger had arrived announcing the ,master was coming1 and to her was given the task of getting all the children ready to receive him4 ,so she arranged them on benches in tiers1 putting the little white children first1 and nearest to where the ,master would stand4 ,then the little yellow1 red1 and brown children far back1 and on the last row of seats sat the little black children1 ,as you thus describe the mission hall hold up the card and say1 ,here is the order in which the children were seated to meet the ,master4 ,when she had completed the arrangements she looked at it1 and it did not seem quite right4 ,why should the black children be so far away8 ,perhaps they ought to be on the front benches4 ,she started to arrange them over again1 giving the black children the front place1 but when all was in a state of confusion footsteps were heard4 ,it was the ,master's tread4 ,he was coming before the children were ready1 and she was greatly troubled to think the task entrusted to her had not been accomplished in time4 ,the footsteps drew near1 and she was obliged to look up1 and lo1 as her eyes rested upon the children all shades of color had disappeared and differences vanished6 ,the little children in the ,master's presence were all alike4 ,here reverse the card showing the little cards all in gold4 ,they were all precious in his sight1 more precious than gold1 for he loves them all alike1 all the little children of the world4 ,to teach the same lesson as to the value of all souls1 begin just the same4 ,secure a white envelope and put in a silver dollar4 ,then ask how much is a silver dollar worth in a white envelope1 and the reply would be one hundred cents4 ,take the same dollar and put it into a red envelope1 which stands for the ,indian race1 and the reply would be just the same4 ,now place it in the yellow envelope1 standing for the ,chinese race1 and still the answer would be the same4 ,likewise the same reply would greet placing it in the brown envelope4 ,at last put it in a black envelope1 asking its value1 and the answer of course would be that its worth had not changed4 ,the dollar represents the soul1 the colored envelopes the races4 ,the souls of the white1 red1 brown1 yellow1 and black are worth just the same to ,god4 ,jesus died for all mankind1 and his blood was shed to save all the races of the earth1 for he loves the nations of the earth4 ,he died to save all souls4 ,they all look alike to him1 for ,jesus changes things4 #dj ,,the ,,bundle ,,of ,,life ,,objects3 ,two ,small ,bundles ,containing a ,number of ,articles ,described in this ,chapter ,text1 #a ,samuel #be3bi3 ,but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the ,lord thy ,god4 ,many long years ago ,david had fled from the angry ,king ,saul who was seeking to kill him4 ,he and a few of his faithful followers had taken refuge at ,carmel4 ,while there the ,elect ,lady by the name of ,abigail brought ,david and his hungry men good things to eat4 ,her gift was #bjj loaves1 #b bottles of wine1 #e sheep1 #e measures of parched corn1 #ajj clusters of raisins1 and #bjj cakes of figs4 ,what a wonderful housekeeper she must have been1 as we note this fine mixture of good things she had2 she prepared for ,david because she was loyal and true4 ,she was also a brave woman as she broke through the enemy's line to find one who was to be her king and help him4 ,she did more than prepare a table for him in the presence of his enemies1 for she comforted his soul not a little4 ,she fell down at ,david's feet and said3 ,jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house1 because my lord fighteth the battles of ,jehovah1 and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days1 and although men be risen up to pursue thee to seek thy soul1 the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the ,lord thy ,god4 ,perhaps when she used the word bundle she was thinking of the bundle of good things she had brought him1 so she comforted her king by her strong words of truth4 ,why should he fear his enemies8 ,he was safe indeed1 because he was wrapped up as in a bundle with his ,lord4 ,yes1 ,abigail was right1 there is a bundle of life1 all of us like pilgrims must carry this pack to the end of life's journey4 ,to illustrate this truth prepare two bundles wrapped up as an ordinary bundle4 ,place them both on the platform table where they can be seen by all the audience4 ,the first bundle you call the ,sinner's ,bundle of ,life4 ,it contains the following articles3 ,a small paper serpent2 a small bottle2 a bag with the bottom left open representing a bag with holes in it2 a cardboard heart with a large black spot on it4 ,around this bundle in place of the common cord place a small piece of chain to hold it together4 ,when you are ready to consider this package hold it up and say1 ,this is ,the ,sinner's ,bundle of ,life4 ,note it is bound together by this chain4 ,this teaches us that the sinner is in bondage to sin4 ,he is a slave and chained to the evil one4 ,he is held captive to all the dark things we shall find in his life's bundle4 ,now unwrap the bundle and produce first the serpent4 ,this teaches us sin is an ugly thing1 a deadly serpent4 ,it crept with the bundle of life far back in the garden of ,eden and has been there ever since4 ,only ,jesus can cast it out4 ,now produce the bag with holes in it4 ,drop in it some coins1 and they pass out of the holes in the bottom4 ,this illustrates the truth that the sinner's life is one of constant losses4 ,god gives him great opportunities to do right and be right1 but instead of holding on to them and making good1 he lets them slip out of his life1 and they are lost4 ,he is like the children on the sands by the seashore2 they gather up a handful of sand1 then open their little fingers and let it slip through and back again to the sands of the sea and their little hands are empty4 ,his gold also on the wings of dissipation and foolishness flies away from him and is lost4 ,next take out the small-sized bottle4 ,this we will call the tear bottle2 in the ,scriptural times the ancients bottled their tears and kept the bottle and its contents as a remembrance of their sorrow4 ,so the sinner has his sorrows also4 ,outwardly he is gay and happy1 but if the door of the heart could be open we would behold a house of mourning4 ,a hopeless sorrow1 the saddest of all sadness1 because there is no ,jesus there to bear his sorrow with him4 ,at last produce the heart with a black stain on it2 this is to teach us that down in the depths of life1 so long as the heart is wrong1 all else is wrong1 for out of the heart are the issues of life4 ,what will the angels do with this bundle if it remains as it is until the last day8 ,they will cast it into the pit of destruction1 the place where all evil works must go at last4 ,let us now consider ,the ,christian ,bundle4 ,in preparing this package have placed into it the following articles3 ,a ,bible2 a cross2 a piece of white goods2 a card with the words ,my ,soul marked on it2 a card with the word ,god marked on it4 ,tie this bundle up with a piece of scarlet tape4 ,in presenting this bundle say3 ,you will note it is tied together by a scarlet cord4 ,this teaches us that1 as in the days of old when the spies were let down from the windows of the house on the wall in the days of ,rahab and thus made their escape1 so the scarlet thread of salvation binds us together and holds us to the throne of ,god1 and we are safe indeed4 ,we are kept in the hollow of his hand4 ,this cord is the first thing we note because we must seek ,jesus and his salvation first4 ,we must seek first the kingdom1 and all else shall be added4 ,let us see what has been added as we unwrap the bundle and look it over4 ,first we find the ,bible4 ,when this is taken into our life it becomes a radiant lamp4 ,this book is a flaming torch lighting the way4 ,we will never lose our way if we walk in this light4 ,this ,book in life's bundle produces a ,bible life4 ,this creates the ,master ,christian4 ,next produce the cross4 ,this stands for the fact that we trust daily in the atoning work of the ,cross of ,jesus4 ,now bring out the white goods which stands for ,peace4 ,the flag of peace waves from over the door of every ,christian heart2 peace through the ,cross of ,christ4 ,next display the card with the words ,my ,soul marked on it4 ,this teaches the idea that all these wonderful qualities are soul deep and therefore will go with you into the other life4 ,at last produce the card containing the word ,god marked on it4 ,this teaches the fact that if ,god be in us and with us1 wrapped up in us1 we are safe for both worlds4 ,what will the angels do with this bundle8 ,they will carry it through the gates1 for the soul is in it1 and the soul goes up to ,god4 ,now make your personal application and say3 ,we are all packing up our ,bundle of ,life2 may we all make it ,the ,christian's ,bundle4 ,do the first thing first1 and do it now4 ,cling to the scarlet thread4 ,remember ,jesus is standing at the door4 ,he is waiting for you to open wide the heart's door4 ,let him come in1 and he will shut the door after him1 and when once he shuts the door1 no man can open it4 ,you are safe forever more4 ,you are wrapped up as if in a bundle with ,god4 ,do it now4 ,so you will note there are two ,bundles of ,life4 ,which is yours8 #da ,,the ,,north ,,pole ,,of ,,the ,,bible ,,objects3 ,a ,pole ,painted ,white ,standing ,erect on the ,platform with a ,scripture ,reference on ,it4 ,also a ,red-and-,white ,cardboard ,heart4 ,the ,north ,pole has been discovered at last4 ,this is an achievement which history will record in large headlines4 ,the names of ,nansen1 ,kane1 ,amundsen1 ,scott1 and ,peary and others are engraven on golden tablets in the ,world's ,hall of ,fame4 ,these famous men now wear the crown of achievement4 ,through fields of ice they plowed1 enduring the rigors of the long ,arctic winters1 suffering the pangs of hunger and loneliness1 but with iron wills and nerves of steel they pressed on and won out4 ,and yet there are ocean depths that never a human eye hath seen2 mountain peaks that never yet have been pressed by a human foot2 mighty rivers up which no civilized man has ever sailed4 ,of a truth there remains much land to be possessed4 ,but harken3 the largest and most mighty adventure in this old world of ours is to find the larger ,north ,pole of ,creation4 ,this larger ,north ,pole you will find in the ,bible1 and all who believe ,god should be striving to find it4 ,here you see standing on the platform before you a white pole4 ,we will call it the ,north ,pole of the ,bible4 ,on it you will notice a passage of ,scripture which reads1 ,and he answering said1 ,thou shalt love the ,lord thy ,god with all thy heart1 and with all thy soul1 and with all thy strength1 and with all thy mind2 and thy neighbor as thyself 7,luke #aj3bg74 ,this should be life's greatest endeavor1 to love ,god with the big measure of this text4 ,this is a gigantic adventure4 ,you are invited to join the expedition4 ,a man by the name of ,thomas ,boston1 who wrote the ,fourfold ,state1 was much afraid when a boy that the number of ,god's chosen ones1 #add1jjj spoken about in ,revelation1 was already made up1 and that his name was not among the number because he had come into the world too late4 ,but no one may despair that his name is not among the number chosen by ,god to reach the ,greater ,north ,pole of the ,bible1 for all the believing world are asked to seek and find1 and all who seek aright shall indeed find4 ,the reason so few fail to find it is because they don't seek long enough4 ,did you ever hear the story of the discovery of gold in ,california8 ,it seems that two men seeking the yellow stuff had gone to ,california4 ,one man's name is not known in history4 ,marshall was the name of the other man4 ,one morning after long months of fruitless toil the man of the forgotten name threw down his pick and pan and declared he was through1 and said he did not believe that gold could be found in that spot1 and he left for his ,eastern home4 ,marshall said he would try again because he believed the yellow stuff was there4 ,six hours after his companion had left ,marshall struck a vein of the finest gold and became rich and famous4 ,both of these men were brave and strong1 only ,marshall was brave just six hours longer than his companion1 and so won out4 ,it is the man who can believe the longest and work the hardest that will find the ,north ,pole of the ,bible4 ,this is the secret passage to the ,greater ,pole3 ,love ,god1 and stick to it until you can do it with all your soul4 ,it is sad to think that not every one will do this4 ,this is why ,god can't reign in his own world1 because of the people's unbelief4 ,god is yet waiting to show the world what mighty things he can do for us with the man who loves him with his whole heart1 and the man who does this has reached the ,north ,pole of the ,scriptures4 ,to love ,god with the whole heart means to love ,god first and most1 and all the time4 ,to illustrate this thought prepare two hearts made of cardboard4 ,one should be red2 this stands for man4 ,the other card should be white2 this represents ,god4 ,make this heart a little larger than the red heart4 ,make it of double cardboard and open at the top4 ,hold up the red heart in the left hand and the white heart in the right hand4 ,hold both hands far apart1 bearing in mind that the red heart stands for man and the white heart for ,god4 ,now say that ,god calls the red heart to come to him1 to repent of sin and forsake all evil ways1 and to love him ever afterward with the whole heart4 ,the truth is he asks for your whole heart1 which means your full and perfect love4 ,he will hide you in his great heart of love4 ,as you make this remark cause both hearts to approach each other4 ,you will notice that the white heart moves toward the red heart1 this is to make clear the fact that ,god meets us always half way4 ,the only time ,god was ever in a hurry was when he ran out to meet the returning ,prodigal ,son4 ,he is anxious and yet more than anxious to meet half way the soul who will seek him and wants to love him with all his heart4 ,now let the hearts approach each other and when they meet let the red heart slip into the white one1 and say3 ,god is ready to receive the believer who wishes to be lost in his love4 ,this is perfect love4 ,this is loving the ,lord thy ,god with all thy heart1 and with all thy soul1 and with all thy strength1 and with all thy mind1 and thy neighbor as thyself4 ,this is finding the ,north ,pole of the ,bible4 ,now fasten the white heart containing the red heart on the ,pole4 ,god will give us large wings of ,faith which can endure the long hard flight to the ,north ,pole of the ,bible4 ,there we will find ,jesus1 this is where he lives1 in the perfect love of ,god4 ,in the ,book of ,life1 which is ,god's ,blue ,book of ,who's ,who in the ,kingdom1 you will find written in letters of gold the names of those who had perfect love and so have reached the ,north ,pole of the ,bible4 ,jesus asks us so to do4 ,let's go4 #db ,,object-,,lessons ,,for ,,special ,,days ,,objects3 ,a ,large ,collection of ,simple ,objects ,herein ,described ,holidays1 festival seasons1 and historical events are always interesting to the little people and may be made of large value to them4 ,as these days come around1 and public attention is thus called to them1 you can use these special seasons as an occasion for the presentation of certain important truths suggested by them and to help the children see and feel the real good for which the days stand4 ,you can thus cause these days to stand for something more than events past4 ,you can make them gleam with truths worth while for the present4 ,some of these events noted in this chapter vary as to their dates in the several ,states and countries2 this matter you can rearrange to fit your own ,state4 ,of course other festival days and special seasons will occur to you1 and you can fit them into your schedule of events according to your liking4 ,some of the objects are very simple1 but they may suggest others to you of greater importance4 ,the ,scripture reading for certain of the days will give you an opportunity to line up religious truths also with the event you are noting4 ,here is a partial list of some of the special seasons and holidays4 ,new ,year's ,day4 ,january ,first ,the ,forward ,look ,day would be a good name also for this day4 ,read ,philippians #c3a-ad4 ,use a blank book with the figures of the ,new ,year on its cover4 ,explain that the ,new ,year is like a blank book of #cfe pages4 ,what shall ,i write on its pages8 ,put a verse of ,scripture on the top of each page4 ,live by its teachings and commit to memory each day's verse on its day4 ,that will give you a clean page1 not a blank one1 but one written all over with ,god's truth4 ,each action of yours will be like a quill4 ,it will write down the story of your life4 ,you may also use a string of beads to illustrate that truth4 ,secure a piece of strong white thread1 and call this the string of time4 ,place on this string one bead at a time1 #cfe in all2 these beads you call the days of the year4 ,every seventh bead should be a large and unusual one which we will call the ,sabbath ,day4 ,if that day is a common day of pleasure put a plain bead as the seventh bead4 ,instruct them to make every seventh bead the best of all the beads by keeping the day holy2 it will be holy unto the ,lord4 ,snowflake ,day4 ,in ,january ,read as a ,scripture lesson ,job #cg3a-ad or ,psalm #adg4 ,this can be used any day in the winter4 ,if there is a large fall of snow on the ground1 it can be used at that time with good effect4 ,cut out a number of small stars and pin them on a background and say3 ,once upon a time there was a little boy who had just discovered that every snowflake was like a little star in shape and exclaimed to his ,mother as he watched them fall1 ',oh1 ,mother1 it's snowing stars4' ,yes1 he was right2 if every flake could be examined under a large magnifying-glass we would find each flake to be a tiny star4 ,some people never tire looking at the beautiful flakes falling down over street and field4 ,how wonderful to watch ,god snow stars4 ,the snowflake is a six-pointed star4 ,that is the shape of the ,bible star4 ,ancient history tells us that on the shield of ,david there was a six-pointed star4 ,it was called the star of ,david4 ,it is so called by the ,jews at the present time4 ,how beautiful it is to have a ,white ,christmas4 ,the wonderful snow covering the ground with spotless white4 ,how much more wonderful it is to remember that each snowflake is a six-pointed star covering the ground with the stars of ,david1 reminding us that there is born this day1 in the ,city of ,david1 a ,saviour1 who is ,christ the ,lord4 ,franklin's ,birthday4 ,january #ag ,the selected ,scripture for that day could be ,solomon's description of the man of thrift as found described in ,proverbs #f3f-aa4 ,secure a boy's kite1 and tell the part it played where ,franklin brought down the lightning from the sky to serve man4 ,we also bring down prayer power from above1 for by ,prayer we bring down ,god's power to serve us4 ,mc,kinley's ,birthday4 ,january #bi ,read ,matthew #e3a-ab wherein ,jesus describes the well-balanced man4 ,president ,mc,kinley was a man thus put together4 ,secure a picture of him if possible1 and comment on the main features of his life4 ,like ,lincoln and ,garfield1 he gave his life for the right and ,god4 ,we may not be called upon to surrender our life as did ,president ,mc,kinley for the cause of humanity1 but we can do what ,god likes just as much--we can live for him and his cause4 ,ground-,hog ,day4 ,february #b ,tell the old story of how this little animal is believed by some to tell certain things about the weather1 so they watch to see him peep out of his little hole in the ground4 ,pin up some pictures of an animal on a background and tell a few short stories about them4 ,missionary ,day4 ,february ,show a map of the heathen country and secure some small idols or curios from some missionary headquarters and exhibit them to the children4 ,tell the audience that though we may smile at these ugly shapes the heathen people revere them and cling to them as their only hope4 ,they will not give them up because we just say they are false gods4 ,they will fight for them and often suffer more for their gods than we will for the true ,god4 ,a returned missionary told the following story4 ,he was holding special meetings for the children and trying to reach them by teaching them to sing the little ,christian songs our mothers taught us4 ,at once the heathen priests opened a children's meeting directly opposite to his place of meeting4 ,the missionary taught the children to sing1 ,oh1 how ,i love ,jesus1 ,because he first loved me4 ,the heathen priest taught the children to sing by the same tune the words3 ,oh1 how ,i love ,buddha1 ,because he first loved me4 ,so you see we must fight a long battle and endure much for ,jesus before we will put the name of ,jesus in the place of ,buddha in the hearts of the people of the heathen land4 ,here exhibit a ,conquest ,flag which stands for warfare4 ,the war is on--but ,jesus will conquer4 ,the ,conquest ,flag tells us this4 ,lincoln's ,birthday4 ,february #ab ,read as the ,scripture lesson how ,god chose ,moses to be the ,emancipator of the ,hebrews1 ,exodus #c3aa-bb4 ,his was a heart trust in ,god4 ,read this truth in ,psalm #ia4 ,secure a broken chain to represent the millions made free from the bondage of slavery4 ,sing the ,battle ,hymn of the ,republic and also ,america4 ,secure a large picture of ,lincoln and have it displayed before the audience as you speak of him as ,father ,abraham the ,liberator4 ,mention his strong faith in ,god2 this was the big sword with which he fought the big battles of the ,union ,army4 ,boys' ,day4 ,any ,day ,in some of our great cities they now celebrate what is known as ,boys' ,week4 ,the boys run the town for an hour4 ,in ,philadelphia1 ,pa41 ,hon4 ,w4 ,freeland ,kendrick at this present writing is now our mayor2 for one hour he surrendered his office to a bright boy of the town1 and all the city was glad to give the boy the first place4 ,this goes to prove that the boy has his opportunity in this present day1 and it is a great opportunity1 for it means that the boy can come to his own if he will4 ,if you have a ,boy ,scout organization in your church ask one or more of them to come to the platform or to serve on the floor as ushers4 ,use also the members of the other boy organizations you may have in the church4 ,have the entire program conducted by bright boys and reserve for yourself only the place of the speaker4 ,japan is a children's country4 ,they have lots of holidays which always make children glad4 ,there is something quaint and happy in them4 ,there is a special holiday which they call the ,boys' ,festival4 ,on a pole in front of almost every house in ,japan there flies a great paper fish4 ,these are made hollow so that the wind can come in at the opening of the mouth and fill the paper fish with air1 and thus the fish seems to swing about in the air with a lifelike wriggle4 ,every fish kite in front of the house means that a boy lives in that house4 ,the parents are glad to make that fact known and are proud of it4 ,the paper fish is made after the pattern of the carp1 which is a favorite fish in that country4 ,it is a vigorous fish1 and no current seems to be too strong for it4 ,it swims against the current1 and when it comes to a waterfall it jumps high into the air and falls into the water beyond the falls4 ,they claim that nothing can stop it when it determines to go ahead4 ,because it is such a wonderful fish they have made it a badge for their boys4 ,they want their boys to be just as steady and courageous4 ,let all the boys of the wide world learn this lesson4 ,plow your way throughout the adverse current of life4 ,let it be said of every boy1 ,nothing can stop him4 ,come to ,jesus2 that is the kind of boy he makes1 and that boy will make good4 ,now you ask me1 ,do they forget little girls in ,japan8 ,never1 only they hang a doll on the pole instead of a fish4 ,if you are located near a ,japanese bazaar you may be able to get this paper fish4 ,secure one if possible2 it will write the lesson on the eyes and memory of the children4 ,st4 ,valentine's ,day4 ,february #ad ,tell the story of godly men who in ancient times were called saints4 ,read ,psalm #af as the lesson4 ,secure a number of paper hearts and distribute them to some of the older children and ask them to write on the heart some good deed2 then collect the hearts1 put them on a small tree which you have placed on the platform1 and call it the ,tree of ,good ,deeds4 ,show that each one can make the life like this tree if it is rooted in the heart of ,jesus4 ,secure now a large white heart1 and pin it to the root of the tree which stands for the heart of ,jesus from which all good comes4 ,if your life is like this tree of ,goodness it is greater than any saint who ever lived4 ,edison's ,birthday4 ,february #aa ,secure if possible the picture of this modern miracle man and tell the story of his discoveries4 ,secure an electric wire1 an electric lamp1 and a phonograph record4 ,explain that he was a light man1 not that he created light1 but he knew how to make men see it4 ,so we should all be light-givers4 ,the light is locked up in ,god's wonderful battery1 the ,great ,bible4 ,we are the wires2 if we let ,god's truth current shine through us the world will see ,god's light4 ,we are living epistles known and read of all men because they see in us ,god's light4 ,washington's ,birthday4 ,february #bb ,read as the ,bible lesson #a ,samuel #ah3e-af4 ,secure a toy hatchet and tell the story of the cherry tree4 ,secure a colonial hat and tell the story of ,washington's soldier days4 ,secure an old colonial flag1 that is1 thirteen ,stars and ,bars1 and tell the story of our first national struggle4 ,longfellow's ,birthday4 ,february #bg ,as the ,scripture lesson read ,psalm #ie4 ,as an example of poetic beauty1 also read ,psalm #if2 it contains the same strong lines4 ,secure his picture if possible4 ,give a short reading from his poetic work4 ,call attention to the fact that the ,bible gave him the master type of the highest class poetry4 ,ash ,wednesday ,read ,matthew #f3af-ba1 which will give the ,bible idea of fasting4 ,secure a piece of purple goods1 which stands for a penitential heart4 ,every day should be ,ash ,wednesday2 that is1 it should be confession day1 for every day brings its load of sins1 and the thing to do with them is to confess them2 this makes every day ,ash ,wednesday4 ,write the word ,sin on a card1 and say if we bring our sins to ,god and confess them he will forgive and cast them behind his back4 ,as you say these words drop behind your back the card with ,sins marked upon it4 ,this was the way the ancient kings did when they were forgiving the criminal4 ,they tore up the charges and cast the torn parts behind their backs1 which meant there was nothing against the offender now4 ,this was the way a little boy made ,ash ,wednesday out of ,christmas4 ,it was a cold and snowy day4 ,the ice was thick in the middle of the streets where the horses were trying to walk1 but many of them were falling because of the slippery places4 ,so the little fellow felt sorry for the poor horses as he expressed it2 he therefore slipped out of the house with a box of ashes1 and covered the ice with the ashes2 after this the horses would not slip4 ,that was ,ash ,christmas1 ,the truest ,ash ,wednesday lasts through every day of the year4 ,st4 ,patrick's ,day4 ,march #ag ,st4 ,patrick was one of the early missionaries to ,ireland4 ,he held great revival meetings as did ,billy ,sunday1 and thousands were converted to the true ,god4 ,today the shamrock is used as the national leaf4 ,it is said he chose it because it taught the lesson of the ,trinity1 having its leaf divided into three large blades4 ,cut out a large leaf after this fashion and say3 ,st4 ,patrick was the great preacher of the ,trinity1 ,he told them about the ,father1 ,son1 and ,holy ,ghost4 ,he was an object-teacher4 ,holy ,week4 ,week ,before ,easter ,this is sometimes called ,passion ,week because it has to do with the sufferings of ,jesus during his last week4 ,common objects can be used for each day3 ,sunday1 a palm-leaf1 and on each following day select some object mentioned in the ,scripture used on that day4 ,good ,friday ,this is ,crucifixion ,day4 ,the great ,day of ,atonement4 ,there were three crosses on the green hill of ,calvary that day4 ,there are three crosses now among men4 ,secure three small crosses4 ,let the first one be painted black4 ,this is the cross of people who reject ,jesus1 as did the impenitent thief4 ,the second is a purple cross2 this stands for the people who are sorry for their sins and do truly repent with the heart1 as did the penitent thief4 ,the other is the red cross1 the cross on which ,jesus died and shed his precious blood4 ,everything depends upon which side of this red cross we take our stand2 if on the black side1 then we are lost forever2 if on the purple side1 then we are saved forever4 ,ask the children to come forward if they will accept ,jesus and take their stand by the purple cross4 ,then it will be ,good ,friday in their hearts4 ,saturday ,night ,a representation of a spear like the one carried by the ,roman guard who stood at the door of the tomb all day4 ,read ,matthew #bg3fb-ff4 ,easter ,day ,read ,matthew #bh3a-aj2 also #a ,corinthians #ae3a-bj4 ,secure a small tree1 not an evergreen tree1 but a common tree with leaves just commencing to appear on its branches4 ,this is the ,easter tree just awakening from the grave of winter4 ,only a few months ago the winds whistled through its bare branches1 and the snow nestled on its limbs in peace4 ,it was to all appearances dead4 ,but the gentle sun began to shine1 and the soft winds began to blow1 and the tree life returned again4 ,it was the resurrection day for the tree1 and when the green leaves bloomed it was an ,easter tree4 ,in ancient times in a great gay cathedral far away on ,easter dawn the people assembled to greet the return of ,easter ,day4 ,the great choirs marched in1 singing their glad tones4 ,at the end of the procession the bishop marched1 carrying in his hands a great tall candle five feet high and six inches thick4 ,he set it into a stone socket on the top step of the altar4 ,silence fell upon the great crowd as they worshiped in the dark and waited for the dawn4 ,the sunshine was just commencing to creep through the cathedral windows and at last the sun's ray had touched the tip of the great candle4 ,the bishop took from his robes a burning-glass lens and held it over the candle wick centering the sun's ray upon it4 ,the wick smoked1 then glowed1 and burst into flame4 ,the ,easter sunrise had lighted the ,easter candle4 ,the choirs sang a hymn of joy4 ,the people pressed forward and lit their pieces of tinder from this candle1 and as they did so they said1 ,christ is risen indeed4 ,they carried the flickering light to their houses1 from which they lit their hearthfires4 ,soon the kindling caught1 the logs began to smoke1 the fire began to glow1 and over it they cooked their ,easter breakfast4 ,tradition says they never let it go out for one year1 until ,good ,friday came again4 ,may all of us take from this service today a ,resurrection ,light that will never be extinguished4 ,christ is risen today1 is an everlasting light4 ,let us live in this light evermore4 ,miracle ,day4 ,may ,miracles are everywhere these early ,may days4 ,just watch the new leaves come forth and you will believe in miracles4 ,they seem so feathery that they resemble the wings of the beautiful butterfly4 ,they are as tender as rose petals1 and yet they have forced themselves through the tree's armor of wood1 and not a single leaf is torn by the struggle4 ,the days of miracles have not gone by1 every day is a miracle day when ,god's ,may days return4 ,remember the story of the miracle of water turning into wine4 ,that was the ,master's first miracle4 ,but every time the rain falls on the grape-vines ,god is turning water into wine4 ,if ,i can believe in the miracle of the vineyard ,i can believe in the miracle of ,cana4 ,in ,cana ,jesus did in a second what in the vineyard he does in a season4 ,it was only a question of time4 ,i believe in miracles because ,i see them every ,may day and every other day4 ,tree ,day4 ,early ,springtime ,read ,psalm #a4 ,he shall be like a tree planted4 ,this is the meaning of ,tree ,day4 ,the time for the planting of a tree4 ,show a little acorn and say1 ,there is a miniature tree in this little acorn4 ,plant it1 and therefrom a mighty tree will finally come forth4 ,so little acts bloom forth into forces of strength and glory4 ,little good words are acorns4 ,plant lots of them4 ,trees help the little birds1 for they fly into the branches for safety when pursued by some wild1 larger bird4 ,trees mean homes for the next generation4 ,they will live in the houses the timbers will give4 ,if possible1 secure a young tree and have a service of planting after the meeting is over4 ,name that tree after the ,junior ,society of your church4 ,forefather's ,day4 ,april #ah ,for this day read ,proverbs #bb3ag-ai1 which exhorts us not to remove the landmarks of the fathers4 ,tell the story of the ,pilgrim ,fathers4 ,make up an ,indian hat which would stand for the ,indians with whom they had to battle when they landed on our shores4 ,secure an old ,bible and say1 ,this old book contained their laws of living4 ,secure a school rule which you say stands for the exactness of their daily living4 ,remember our ,revolutionary ,forefathers also1 and to visualize this idea secure if possible a colonial gun or some old-fashioned piece of furniture1 such as was used in those days by those old worthies1 secure also if possible a facsimile of the ,declaration of ,independence and call the names of the mighty men who signed it4 ,introduce the ,forefathers of the past to the children of the present day--it will be a wonderful meeting4 ,ask the children to stand as you read the names of the men who signed the ,declaration of ,independence4 ,tell them where the original of the famous old document is still carefully preserved1 guarded now against the destructive action of the light1 and urge them to use their earliest opportunity to see this ,declaration for themselves4 ,mother's ,day4 ,may #aj ,read #a ,timothy #e3a-aj1 and speak of the great need for a holy respect for mothers4 ,read ,ruth1 chapter one1 and tell them the story of an old-fashioned mother who was kind and good4 ,read ,exodus #bj3a-ab1 and tell the little hearers that they are to honor their father and mother4 ,read ,matthew #ae3a-aa1 and tell over again the duty of honoring the parents which ,god has given us4 ,i have used with good results a little card containing some timely words for children4 ,the title of the card is ,mother's ,ten ,commandments4 ,,mother ,,mine--,c4 ,h4 ,,woolston ,harken unto all these words1 my children1 for the comfort of mother and the glory of ,god4 #a4 ,be obedient unto her good word4 #b4 ,always show her a joyful face--,be an indoor sun to her4 #c4 ,put cross words far from your lips and always speak the truth4 #d4 ,don't fail to be thankful and always say so with your lips4 #e4 ,learn quiet ways3 it will comfort mother's head4 #f4 ,always be contented when mother has done her best4 #g4 ,be a loving child and kiss your mother first4 #h4 ,never forget your baby days1 for then mother was all the world to you4 #i4 ,be courteous to your mother for she is the first lady in the land to you4 #aj4 ,be a strong ,christian1 for mother always wished the best things for you and this is the best of the best4 ,read these lines over slowly and let the children repeat them after you4 ,urge them to wear a flower in mother's memory4 ,secure a few extra flowers1 and ask some little girl or boy to come forward and deposit the flowers on the table in memory of the forgotten mother1 the mother whose children have forgotten her4 ,if you so desire1 it might be well to place a single flower on the ,bible on the pulpit in memory of ,mary the mother of ,jesus4 ,peace ,day4 ,may #ah ,read for that day as your ,scripture lesson ,psalm #dh1 where it is declared that the weapons of war are to be turned into farm tools and that wars are to cease4 ,read also ,isaiah #b3d1 where it is declared that nation shall not lift sword against nation4 ,prepare a large white flag4 ,this is the flag of peace4 ,ask the children to stand around this flag as you tell them the story of the birth of the ,prince of ,peace who came to give peace on earth and good-will among men4 ,memorial ,day4 ,may #cj ,read as your ,bible lesson for that day ,psalm #df1 announcing the end of war4 ,read ,psalm #dg where the nations are called upon to praise ,god1 and read also ,matthew #bb3ae-bb describing the duty of citizens4 ,secure a wreath of flowers1 place it upon the flag1 and tell the audience the story of the brave men who died for their country and their flag4 ,close by singing the ,national ,hymn4 ,ask that all the children wear small flags1 and have them march around the room singing together the ,battle ,hymn of the ,republic4 ,flag ,day4 ,june #ad ,read as your ,scripture lesson ,psalm #df4 ,after you have read this lesson1 ask some of the children to come forward with flags and stand around the reader while he reads ,psalms #fg and #gb4 ,tell the story of the making of the flag in ,philadelphia by ,betsy ,ross4 ,school ,closing ,day ,read as the ,bible lesson ,ecclesiastes #ab1 and urge them in their youthful days to remember ,god4 ,read also ,matthew #be3ad-cj1 in which the use of the individual talent is urged4 ,tell them that school-days are not all over1 the real school of life has just begun4 ,the ,bible is the greater text-book of the school of life4 ,children's ,day4 ,june ,let the children conduct this service1 all but the address1 you may give this yourself or secure another to do it for you4 ,draw lessons from the flowers1 bring in a bird in its cage1 and read ,matthew #f3ai-cd4 ,tell the story of the ,ark1 the biggest bird-cage ever made1 and what the ,raven and ,dove did in the great flood story4 ,after the lesson1 if possible let them put the flowers you have been using on the graves of the little children of the church who have died during the past year4 ,independence ,day4 ,july #d ,this day should always be kept as a religious day4 ,the noise of gunpowder should no longer be heard4 ,it should be a day exalting peace1 not commemorating bloodshed1 therefore cause the decorations to be white intertwined with the flag4 ,let the little girls dress in white and the boys wear a white flower or have white bands around their arms4 ,war love must be crushed for the sake of the best things4 ,the idea that might is power plunged the world into the great ,world ,war4 ,the only war the kingdom of heaven knows is war against war and all its evil things4 ,display the conquest flag1 and tell the story how the ,cross of ,jesus is marching on to save this old world from sin4 ,close by telling them that when they forsake all sin and come to ,jesus and are saved1 they are an assembly of braves and have put their names to the new declaration of independence4 ,labor ,day4 ,september 7,first ,monday7 ,for the ,scripture lesson for this day read the story of the laborer being worthy of his hire1 as you will find it recorded in ,luke #aj3a-aa4 ,also the call for laborers for the vineyard1 as written in ,matthew #bj3a-ae4 ,take a walk into the carpenter-shop of ,nazareth and watch ,jesus working at his trade at the carpenter's bench4 ,talk of ,jesus as the model ,carpenter4 ,use the carpenter tools as object-lessons3 the saw a separator from wrong4 ,a divider of good things1 ,jesus shared his life with the world as a saw divides the board4 ,the hammer can be used to show how to fix things in their places so they will stay fixed4 ,jesus nailed down his commandments as fixed laws by which the world was to be saved4 ,show the rule1 and talk about the ,golden ,rule that measures things correctly1 and gives a wonderful standard by which we should govern our acts among men4 ,display the plane1 an instrument to smooth things out and to take off the rough places4 ,love is that plane1 and ,jesus always used it to smooth out the hard and ugly places that hate had made in life4 ,so continue to talk about ,jesus and his tools4 ,put up a cardboard sign on the outside of the church containing a message for the laboring man4 ,let it read1 ',god bless the working man' is the prayer of the ,children of this ,church4 ,columbus ,day4 ,october #ab ,tell the story of ,abraham1 who1 like ,columbus1 went forth on a wonderful adventure4 ,you will find this recorded in ,genesis #ab3a-aj4 ,show the children pictures of ships which sail the deep sea4 ,show them a handful of reeds1 and explain that ,columbus discovered floating in the sea a number of weeds which did not grow in his country and therefore reasoned they must come from an unknown land4 ,write on a piece of large white paper the word ,,america2 roll it up and hide it1 and then during the meeting ask some boy or girl to pretend to be ,columbus1 and let him go forth to find the new world4 ,if he fails to find the parchment let another child try4 ,let the fortunate child who does at last find it come back to the platform1 and then give him a new name--call him the ,discoverer4 ,teach the lesson that all of us are starting out in life to find things1 but the best thing to find is the truth4 ,place in his hands a ,bible and say1 ,this will be your guide to all truth1 follow its light1 and you will find the ,cross which is the door to salvation and to heaven4 ,hallowe'en4 ,october #ca ,read as the ,scripture lesson for this service ,romans #a3a-ab4 ,it announces the fact that we are all called to be saints4 ,every good boy and girl made good by being saved is a saint according to the ,new ,testament4 ,hallowe'en is the eve before ,all ,saints' ,day1 and the term means ,holy ,evening4 ,it does not seem much like an holy evening when we remember it is a time of unearthly noises1 witches1 spirits1 ghosts1 elfish creatures1 etc41 the time when fortunes are supposed to be told in many a walnut shell or in a tub with a burning candle4 ,all of this superstition belongs to the realm of frolics4 ,display some post-cards with pictures of witches on them and say1 ,we do not fear these witches because they don't live1 but tell them of the true witches1 lying1 stealing1 profanity1 falsehood1 anger1 temper1 etc41 which are all witches that we should fear for they are real and seek to get into our hearts at all times4 ,explain the new meaning of the decoration you use for this special season1 the black and orange4 ,let the black stand for the night of sin1 and the orange1 the color of the rising sun1 for the dawn of the day of truth and the coming of the light4 ,darken the room1 and let a child from the rear with a lighted candle represent the light that ,god sends into our world of darkness4 ,this is a simple but entertaining pastime4 ,for the conclusion of the service have a peanut party4 ,hallowe'en is the season of nuts of all kinds4 ,so the peanut can be used to the best advantage because it can be easily secured everywhere4 ,secure a number of peanuts and hide them in all parts of the room1 explain this to the children1 and at your command let them all start in to find them4 ,the one finding the largest number should be given some simple little prize4 ,ask them to drop them all in a large bowl1 then ask six children to shut their eyes1 and reach in one hand and take out a handful1 and the one having the number nearest to #be will receive another simple little prize4 ,conclude by having a peanut auction4 ,prepare a number of parcels containing simple little things such as an apple1 a stick of candy1 an orange1 a bunch of raisins1 a lead-pencil1 etc4 ,wrap these articles up in large bundles so the contents cannot be guessed by the shape4 ,ask some merry-hearted lad to be the auctioneer and sell the package to the highest bidder1 payment to be made of course in peanuts1 which at last you cast on the floor--asking the children to help themselves4 ,if so desired serve peanut sandwiches as a special refreshment4 ,election ,day4 ,november 7first ,tuesday after first ,monday7 ,read as the ,scripture lesson ,romans #ac4 ,this teaches the lesson that we are to be subject unto authority4 ,read also ,matthew #bb3ae-bb1 which gives us a lesson of the citizen's duty4 ,secure if possible a sample ballot4 ,display it before the children1 and explain how the people of proper ages vote4 ,after this1 in the place of the names of the candidates and party write such words as ,temperance1 ,good ,citizenship1 ,good ,schoolhouses1 ,full ,churches1 and ,large ,sunday ,schools1 and say we can all vote for all of these4 ,put down your cross mark under each name4 ,sing ,america1 salute the flag1 and all say1 ,god ,bless ,our ,native ,land4 ,let us help to make it ,god's ,great ,land4 ,armistice ,day4 ,november #aa ,for the ,scripture lesson read about the time when wars shall cease1 as you will find it mentioned in ,psalms #df and #dg1 and also in ,isaiah #b3a-aa1 describing the time when nation shall not lift sword against nation4 ,talk about the ,world ,war and display the flags of all nations4 ,have a large white flag prepared1 and call it ,armistice ,day1 that great day when the guns ceased firing4 ,as you say this ask the children who hold the flags of all nations to come forward and stand around the white flag in a circle4 ,tell how glad the people were on that day1 and describe the noises the children made4 ,but this day did not bring lasting peace among the nations1 for there is a whisper about war coming back again1 and nations seem to be preparing for that event4 ,the only peace which shall last and endure is the ,peace of ,god--the world can never take that peace away4 ,ask a boy to come to the platform holding a large cross in his hand1 and as he does this let all the nations kneel around it4 ,the power of the ,cross alone will give the nations of the world ,god's wonderful peace2 until then there will be no lasting peace among the peoples of the world4 ,thanksgiving ,day4 ,november 7last ,thursday of month7 ,read ,isaiah #ab as a thanksgiving song1 also read #b ,samuel #bb3a-ah1 which contains the same thought4 ,psalms #ib1 #ajj1 and #acf are called thanksgiving songs4 ,ask some boy or girl to read these lessons4 ,read ,luke #ag3aa-ai1 the story of a good thanksgiving example4 ,read this lesson at the close of the meeting4 ,display on the table some fruits1 also some large vegetables1 all showing how good ,god is in his wonderful gifts at harvest-time4 ,tell the story of the early settlers1 and why the first ,thanksgiving proclamation was made4 ,thanksgiving ,day is ,old ,home ,day4 ,the separated family come together in one glad reunion1 and the young folks go bounding to see grandma and grandpa1 and all have a good time4 ,now tell the children we will all consider ourselves one big family1 and so prepare for a good time4 ,pass around a number of candles1 and when each has received one1 ask the children to eat them4 ,the candles are made out of apples2 the wick is made of a bit of almond1 which on being lit will blaze for a minute4 ,after this suspend a hoop in the doorway and make snowballs of tissue-paper by crushing them into round shapes4 ,give each scholar four balls1 and standing them a given number of feet away1 see how many of the balls each can put through the hoop at the first trial4 ,give the child who can do this a bag of peanuts as a reward4 ,if you wish an exclusive religious service for that day1 secure a small-sized tree and place it on the platform1 ,distribute small paper hearts1 and ask the children to write on them the reason they are thankful1 and at the proper time ask them to bring the heart to the platform4 ,after you have read them to the children1 pin them on the tree and call the tree the ,thanksgiving ,tree4 ,it should grow all the year around in everybody's home4 ,christmas ,eve4 ,december #bd ,ask the children to keep their eyes on the door4 ,turn down the lights of the room until only a dim light is seen4 ,tell them the ,christmas ,eve story4 ,long ago the people had a kind of ,christmas fancy that the ,child ,jesus came to earth again each ,christmas ,eve and wandered about the streets looking for some one to recognize him and take him into their house4 ,through the winter night he tramps on1 cold and homeless1 so the story goes1 peeping in at the windows where evergreen wreaths and warm fires make all who live in that house comfortable and happy4 ,at last some one is sure to see the dim face outside the window1 and will fling wide open the door and bid him come in1 and give the little stranger loving welcome to all their comforts4 ,here recite the text ,revelation #c3bj3 ,behold ,i stand at the door and knock4 ,open the door of the heart1 for the real ,christ is there tonight and every other night also4 ,did you ever notice that the paneling of the door resembles a cross1 so it is true of the door of the heart1 we must take up his cross in our heart first1 and then the door will open wide to let ,jesus in4 ,open the door of the heart to ,jesus on ,christmas ,eve1 and that will make every day a ,merry ,christmas4 ,it is a good plan to read by candle-light a ,christmas story4 ,place a lighted candle on the table1 extinguish all other lights1 and say1 ,now listen to a ,christmas ,eve story1 and then read ,luke's account of the ,nativity4 ,wish the little folks a ,merry ,christmas and send them early to their homes4 ,christmas ,day4 ,december #be ,for a good ,christmas lesson read the story of the ,nativity as recorded in the second chapter of ,luke4 ,read also the story of the ,wise-men as written in ,matthew #b3a-ab4 ,secure nine tall candles1 and as you light them remark how beautiful the candle-light looks on ,christmas night1 for this is the happy eve of twinkling lights4 ,even the stars throb and glow as if trying to smile on little children4 ,you will notice that ,i have here nine candles1 each candle standing for a letter in the word ,christmas4 ,let us see what each sparkling ,christmas light says to us4 ,this first light stands for the lights of the inn1 the place where ,joseph and ,mary went the night ,jesus was born4 ,this light made plain the path to the rear of the inn where they found the manger crib that ,god had prepared for the little ,son4 ,it was a humble nest1 but it was all the inn-keeper had to offer his guests4 ,they were lights of welcome to ,jesus1 and so ,merry ,christmas was born there4 ,he who walks in the light of humility walks in the ,christmas light4 ,the next light represents the light from the camp-fires of the ,shepherds1 around which they gathered and read the words of the ,great ,prophet of ,israel as to the ,coming ,one1 while they watched their flocks by night4 ,these were quiet lamps of patient waiting4 ,they were lamps of faith which made stout their courage as they believed with all the heart4 ,jesus was coming soon1 and so ,god rewarded their faith1 for their fires were not extinguished until he came indeed4 ,we should keep the camp-fires burning while we are waiting for his glorious coming again4 ,every ,christmastime should cause us to be glad because he did come once1 and we have his promise he will come again4 ,never let that lamp of hope die out4 ,the next light stands for the heavenly light shining in the skies4 ,for a bright light shone about them1 the ,light of the ,world was about to be born4 ,this light was full of angels who sang by that golden light the story of peace on earth and good-will toward men4 ,the next light represents the light of the stable lantern which the shepherds brought with them4 ,they were the lamps of the seeker1 they had heard of the little ,saviour1 and they went forth to seek him4 ,always carry the seeker's light with you1 for it is the finding light4 ,as ,bobby ,burns puts it1 ,they never seek the ,lord in vain who seek the ,lord aright4 ,the next light represents the starlight which the ,wise-men saw4 ,they followed it1 and it brought them to the place where the young child lay4 ,the wisest men of this world are led by heaven's lamp of truth4 ,holding up a ,bible1 say1 ,this is the lamp from ,heaven1 follow it and you will at last find the ,christ on his throne where it is ,christmas every day4 ,the next light represents the lamp of the house where the ,wise-men found ,jesus and his mother4 ,what a wonderful house that must have been4 ,it was a house glorified because ,jesus had once lived there in all of his heavenly beauty4 ,let ,jesus into your house1 and it will be full of golden lamps which will make the home all glorious within4 ,what did those lamps see8 ,they saw the gifts of gold which the ,wise-men brought1 and it seemed to turn to a shining crown and the babe's voice was the voice of the little ,king4 ,they shone upon a beautiful urn of frankincense4 ,this is a pure gum from a certain ,arabian tree which when burned gives a sweet-smelling smoke4 ,in history it has always been used as a symbol of prayer and praise4 ,this gift meant that all the world was to pray to him and praise him with all their heart4 ,these home lamps saw also a golden cup of myrrh4 ,this is a bitter gum and very precious4 ,it used to be wrapped up with the coverings of those who died4 ,it was to teach us that into the baby's life some day the cross would come1 and the winding-sheet with its precious myrrh would prepare his precious body for the grave2 so that house was made beautiful by the shadow of the wondrous ,cross4 ,let the ,christmas light come into your heart1 and all the people will see in you the beautiful life of peace1 contentment1 faith1 love1 and joy4 ,the next light represents the light which ,jesus brings to the dark places of the world4 ,he is a light which shines through the darkness4 ,here tell the story of heathen countries waiting for the light4 ,he is the ,light of the ,world4 ,the next light represents the light of his church4 ,paul ,revere saw the lights flashing from the tower of ,old ,north ,church of ,boston1 and on his fleet-footed horse dashed down through the valley spreading the message of alarm to the people of the sleeping homes4 ,every true church is a light-house4 ,it warns us of the power of sin4 ,it shows us the way of the ,cross4 ,the next light represents the lamp of heaven4 ,jesus came to open the doors of heaven1 where there is eternal light1 and to bid us enter and be at rest4 ,when he ascended he left a light in the window for us all1 which is his good promise that ,where ,i am there ye shall be also4 ,these are the ,merry ,christmas lights4 ,once1 years ago and miles away1 there was an ancient castle4 ,it was the home of the silent and absent ,prince4 ,it was always dark and gloomy1 no light could be seen in its windows day or night4 ,there was an old tradition that some time the ,prince would return1 and then the lights would appear at every window and the bells would chime out most merrily4 ,often the quiet villagers would look up at the castle on the hill and wonder if the ,prince would ever return1 and if their eyes should ever see the long-promised lights4 ,one night the people of the village were startled by the sound of bells1 and from every window of the castle beautiful lights were shining4 ,the ,prince had returned1 and there was great joy among the people4 ,let us light these nine ,christmas lights now1 and we shall all have a ,merry ,christmas1 for the long-expected ,prince from heaven has come to this old dark castle1 the world dwelling in darkness4 ,wilson's ,birthday4 ,december #bh ,read as the special ,scripture lesson for the hour ,isaiah #aa3a-aj1 which describes the man of peace4 ,read also ,proverbs #c3ac-bf1 which describes the scholar and education4 ,secure a picture of the late ,president and dwell on his dreams of peace4 ,new ,year's ,eve ,it is hardly possible that you will hold a watch-meeting for the juniors1 but the following program will make a good order for adults as well as for such children who will attend with them4 ,secure a number of candles1 one for each hour of the service4 ,if the service commences at eight o'clock and continues until midnight1 put four lighted candles on the table1 one for each hour1 and extinguish one at the end of each hour1 and you will have one candle left for the last hour4 ,this will be impressive4 ,at the last moment of the hour extinguish this candle and in total darkness let the old year pass out4 ,at the first minute of the ,new ,year turn on all the lights1 arise1 and sing1 and after the ,lord's ,prayer1 in which they all join1 say to the people ,a happy ,new ,year to all1 and the meeting has ended1 and the ,new ,year begun4 ,as an additional feature for this meeting prepare as large a book as possible with all the pages white and say1 ,this is your book of the ,new ,year4 ,it is a fresh start for you1 ,there will be nothing written on its pages of white except what you write there4 ,begin tonight and go straight and keep white4 ,write over the first page1 ,in the beginning ,god4 ,that makes the start right1 so it will always be white4 ,write this on the fresh page of every day also1 and you will go straight for the whole year4 #dc ,,putting ,a ,,god ,,to ,,bed ,,objects3 ,three ,small ,idols ,i suppose you have often heard of little girls putting their dollies to bed4 ,well1 here is a story of a full-grown woman by the name of ,michal who put her little god to bed4 ,we read this strange story in the ,bible and we will find it written in #a ,samuel #ai3ac4 ,and ,michal took the image1 and laid it in the bed1 and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster1 and covered it with the clothes4 ,but who was this ,michal who put her god to bed8 ,she was the wife of ,king ,david1 and you would have thought she had thrown her idols all away long ago1 but she did not do this but continued to put one god to bed long after she had become the wife of a king who believed only in the one true and living ,god4 ,i suppose she often sang with ,david her husband1 ,the ,lord is my ,shepherd1 ,i shall not want1 and often with her husband had repeated1 ,god is our ,refuge and our ,strength1 but with all this she nevertheless put her idol to bed and motherlike1 she found herself down on her knees placing the bolster under the head of her idol and carefully covering it with clothes just as mother tenderly tucks in her little baby boy for the night4 ,well1 after all1 ,i guess she was just like the most of us1 she openly confessed her belief in the true ,god1 but on the side had a darling idol or two4 ,let us examine ourselves and see if we are putting idols to bed also4 ,secure three images of ,buddha4 ,they can easily be purchased in the shops as they are now sold for incense-holders4 ,the first idol we will label ,irreverence4 ,i am afraid that most all of us have this idol in our possession4 ,we pray to ,god on ,sunday1 and then the rest of the week we live any old way4 ,sometimes when we are in church we whisper1 talk1 and run about during the service1 or look about the room during prayertime1 and pay but little attention to the minister who is speaking to us for ,god4 ,we often pay more attention to our earthly friends than we do to ,god who is our ,chief ,friend4 ,all this is a display of ,irreverence4 ,do not let us do this1 but put this idol out of our life1 and worship the true ,god only4 ,the best way to cultivate reverence is to go to ,god's house and learn how to worship him4 ,the music1 the message1 and the holy surroundings of the place of prayer all make it easy for us to be reverent4 ,oliver ,wendell ,holmes said he had a tender little plant in his heart which he called ,reverence1 which he needed to water once a week to keep it fresh and fragrant1 so he went to church to water that plant2 there he came under the showers of blessing which ,god sends to his people who are reverent and worship him4 ,reverence grows fast when we go to church4 ,after you have said this1 put the idol in an old bag which you have made to hold cast-off things4 ,the second idol we will label ,,selfishness4 ,when we put ourselves first and are self-willed and always want our own way1 then we are putting the idol of selfishness to bed4 ,this idol is like the white ant of ,africa which is a secret destroyer4 ,it feeds on wood4 ,a man built himself a house on a piece of land that he thought was a safe place1 and after it was finished all the people said it was a thing of beauty4 ,but suddenly one day it fell with a great crash4 ,now look over the wrecked timber1 and you will discover that the inside of the timbers had been eaten clean away4 ,this ant is no respecter of things4 ,it eats books1 furniture1 trunks1 chairs1 dolls1 and toys1 or anything4 ,selfishness is like this ant4 ,it secretly eats away the heart of love1 and we are dead to the appeal of the world for sympathy4 ,no boy or girl can love himself or herself above all others without dying inside4 ,like the ,african ant1 selfishness destroys from within1 it kills the heart4 ,bishop ,butler1 one of the most learned men1 said1 ,be more afraid of thyself than of the world4 ,be afraid of the idol of selfishness1 it is yourself at your worst4 ,put it away1 not to bed4 ,a poor little girl in the slums of ,london one cold snowy night said to her little brother who was shivering with the cold by her side1 ,come closer to me1 dear little brother1 come under my shawl1 it will stretch and cover us both4 ,she never knew anything of the idol of selfishness1 no one ever does who stretches the shawl for two4 ,put this idol in the old rag-bag and put it out of sight4 ,the third idol we will label ,hatred4 ,we worship this idol when we say to another1 ,i hate you1 and then add all sorts of evil words designed to hurt and kill1 and so often we seem glad to believe all the evil said about our enemies1 and so worship this idol with glad hearts4 ,often we get some foreign substance in our eye1 and we cannot see except with a blurred vision4 ,we do not see things as they really are4 ,thus hate often blurs our sight1 and we cannot see straight4 ,hate is a foreign substance in the mind's eye and we cannot see people as they are4 ,john ,hus the ,reformer was bound to the stake to be burned to death because of his faith in ,jesus4 ,a poor old peasant woman came up with a piece of wood to add to the fire which was to burn the martyr to death1 and when it was flung on the pile1 she seemed to be happy and contented4 ,john ,hus said to her1 ,have ,i ever harmed you or yours that you are so bitter against me8 ,never1 she replied1 but you are a heretic1 and wood is scarce1 and it looks like a hard winter1 but ,i am glad to do my part to rid the world of such an accursed heretic4 ,john ,hus reached out his hand and drew the fagot close to his side and said1 ,with my heart ,i forgive you1 for ,john was a ,christian4 ,she was a heathen putting her idol of hate to bed4 ,she was so blind with hate that she did not know a saint when she saw one4 ,be like ,jesus who loved all men4 ,a brother of mine when he was converted said1 ,i feel like kissing everybody4 ,he had put the idol of hate in the rag-bag and1 like ,jesus1 loved everybody4 ,should you not go and do likewise8 ,if this lesson is given to small children secure a doll's bed1 and have the idols all put to bed before the children assemble4 ,place this bed on the table or any place where it can be seen by all4 ,take them out of bed one by one1 and give the lesson1 and then say1 ,shall ,i put them back to bed or in the rag-bag8 ,after this tell them we are all to love ,god and not idols4 ,tell them the true ,god never goes to bed1 and neither slumbers nor sleeps1 but watches over us to see if there is not some good thing he can do for us the next day4 ,his ,son looks on and says1 ,suffer the little ones to come unto me4 ,let's go4 #dd ,,how ,,to ,,make ,a ,,christmas ,,flag ,,objects3 ,a ,piece of ,blue ,bunting or ,muslin and a ,yellow ,six-pointed ,star ,bring back ,jesus into ,christmas4 ,this should be in our thoughts as we plan a ,christmas program for children and young folks for this day4 ,christmas is ,christ's birthday1 but it is too often a birthday-party without ,christ4 ,we cannot truly celebrate his glad natal day if we crowd him out of the celebration4 ,i have attended ,christmas celebrations where a cantata was rendered full of fairies1 ,brownies1 and ,santa ,claus1 and the name of ,christ was not mentioned from start to finish4 ,the cantata could have been given with entire acceptance at an infidel's celebration or in a ,hindu temple4 ,christmas is a merry day1 and ,i would not take one glad note from its music1 but do not forget the ,king4 ,it is his birthday we are celebrating4 ,to bring back ,jesus into ,christmas perhaps it will help a little to introduce a ,christmas flag1 and hang it up in sight of all the people4 ,before the festivities begin explain the ,christmas flag1 and by so doing we shall be introducing ,jesus and giving him first place on the program4 ,to make a ,christmas flag1 secure a piece of sky-blue bunting or muslin1 and explain that the blue stands for our faith in ,jesus which is as clear as the blue sky above us without a cloud of unbelief in it4 ,we believe ,jesus to be ,god's only divine ,son without a single cloud of doubt4 ,in the center of the plain blue background place a six-pointed golden or yellow star commonly called the ,star of ,david4 ,this is beyond all doubt the ,bible star4 ,jesus was the ,bright and ,morning ,star4 ,let this star stand for ,jesus of the ,house of ,david4 ,the history of the six-pointed star is most interesting4 ,it will be real news to many of the young people4 ,this star now appears on the ,jewish flag4 ,during the recent convention of the ,federation of ,american ,zionists in ,pittsburgh1 the display of the six-pointed star flag was very much in evidence4 ,on a white background two heavy blue stripes are sewn1 and between them the ,jewish emblem1 the double triangle1 forming a six-pointed star1 and known as the ,shield of ,david4 ,the ,zionist flag1 therefore1 symbolizes in the white background the priestly nation2 the blue stripes stand for loyalty and unity of all ,israel1 and the ,shield of ,david represents the star of faith in the unity of the one true and living ,god4 ,inquiry has often been made as to the origin of the ,shield of ,david4 ,the common opinion held among the ,jews is that it originated with ,king ,david1 and became the religious emblem of the nation1 and was the conspicuous symbol on ,solomon's ,temple4 ,from that time on it continued the popular sign of the ,jews and may be seen at the present time on synagogues1 temples1 and ,jewish institutions4 ,tell the children where they may see it in their own neighborhood4 ,the popular belief regarding this emblem1 however1 finds no historical support4 ,its origin is shrouded in impenetrable mystery4 ,the ,jewish ,encyclopedia does not shed very much light on the subject and makes only the following observation3 ,the ,jewish view of ,god1 which permitted no images of him1 was and still is opposed to the acceptance of any symbols1 and neither the ,bible nor the ,talmud recognized their existence4 ,it is noteworthy1 moreover1 that the ,shield of ,david is not mentioned in ,rabbinical literature4 ,the ,shield of ,david1 therefore1 probably did not originate within ,rabbinism1 the official and dominant ,judaism for more than #b1jjj years1 nevertheless a ,david's ,shield has recently been noted on a ,jewish tombstone at ,tarentum1 in ,southern ,italy1 which may date back as early as the third century of the ,common ,era4 7,c4 ,m4 ,adler in ,jewish ,quarterly ,review1 #ad1 #c47 ,the earliest ,jewish literature which mentioned it1 the ,eskol ,hakofer of the ,karaite ,judah ,hadassi 7middle of the twelfth century71 says in chapter #bdb some names of angels precede the ,mezuzah 7a tiny tin case containing a scripture fastened on the side-posts of doors of orthodox ,jewish houses73 ,michael1 ,gabriel1 etc4 ,tetragrammaton protect thee6 ,and likewise the sign called ,david's ,shield is placed beside the name of each angel4 ,it was therefore at this time a sign on amulets4 ,later ,jewish writers speak of its popularity1 but little of its origin4 ,in using this star you will make a strong appeal to ,jewish children and to all ,christian children4 ,it will help to keep ,christ in ,christmas4 ,after you have finished your address on the ,christmas flag teach them the following salute4 ,tell them to place their hands upon their heart and to fix their eyes on the flag and to say the following words3 ,i salute thee1 dear old ,christmas flag1 ,i will give my love and service to ,jesus whose birthday we are celebrating4 ,i believe in his ,church and the ,holy ,bible1 and will defend it with all my heart4 ,now all stand and sing ,joy to the ,world1 the ,lord ,is ,come4 ,close by using a ,christmas march4 ,on a staff carried by a boy place the ,star of ,david4 ,he will lead the march1 the children will follow him around the room1 representing the ,wise-men following the star4 #de ,,that ,,social ,,hour ,,objects3 ,a ,series of ,stunts and ,pastimes ,when ,i ask the young folks to spend a pleasant evening with me at my home1 what shall ,i do to entertain them and give them a pleasant time8 ,this is a vexing question4 ,i do not understand the children at the play-hour4 ,what shall ,i do8 ,you are entirely right2 plan a play-hour for the children of the meeting4 ,they have a right to their play4 ,god gave them that right4 ,help them to use it to the limit4 ,let them make merry with their friends4 ,it will do more for them than just give them a happy evening2 it will give them a blessed memory1 for when they are grown up1 and look back to their childhood days1 then will they remember that their religion was all tangled up with smiles and glee4 ,in those older days they will not say ,christians are joy-killers and have outlawed the smile4 ,write it down in letters which stick4 ,they must have their play-hour1 they shall make merry with their friends4 ,it may help you to build your program by looking over the following simple little stunts and pastimes4 ,a half million children have given them their ,o4 ,k4 #a4 ,doing ,something ,no ,one ,else ,can ,do ,announce that you will do something in this room that no other person can possibly do1 ,i will seat myself where it will be impossible for another person to do so4 ,now1 sit down in another person's lap4 ,nobody else can sit there while you sit there4 #b4 ,can't ,see the ,candlestick ,for this stunt you hold in your hand an ordinary candle in a common candlestick4 ,state that you will put this candle in a place where everybody but one can see it1 and that person will not be blindfolded1 nor shall he be prevented from examining every part of the room to find it1 neither shall the candle be hidden4 ,this is done by placing the candle on his head1 taking care that there is no mirror or looking-glass in the room4 #c4 ,a ,coin ,trick ,stand up before the children4 ,place a coin in each hand1 and stretch out both hands as far from each other as possible4 ,now say1 ,without bringing my hands together1 ,i can cause both coins to come into the same hand4 ,this is the way to do it4 ,place the coin on a table1 then turn around and pick it up with the other hand4 #d4 ,the ,prison ,circle ,the circle that makes you a prisoner4 ,draw a circle around a person1 placed in the center of the room1 so that he will not be able to jump out of it1 though his legs be free4 ,this is done with a piece of chalk4 ,draw the circle around his body4 #e4 ,crawling into a ,pint ,bottle ,how to crawl into a pint bottle4 ,this is a play on words in every sense1 so it is played by playing on words4 ,hold in your hand a little ink bottle1 or a pint bottle1 and state that you will ask some little boy to crawl into this bottle4 ,watch every movement1 keep your eye upon him4 ,select some little boy1 who has been instructed beforehand1 and also rehearsed in private1 to come forward and place the pint bottle in the center of the floor4 ,he is told to go out of that room and think how it can be done1 and when he is ready to do it1 he is to knock on the door4 ,you then open the door1 and he crawls into the room on all fours4 ,this is crawling into the pint bottle4 #f4 ,candies ,under the ,hat ,place three candies on the table about ten inches apart1 and cover each with a hat4 ,announce that you will now place these three candies under one hat without touching but one hat4 ,look wise and approach the hats with a thoughtful and solemn face1 waving your hand over them and muttering some incoherent words like ,hocus-pocus1 and then call upon three boys to lift the hats to see if the sweets are yet there2 after they have lifted the hats1 quietly pick up the three candies1 place them in your mouth1 and put a hat on your head1 and say1 ,the three candies are now all under one hat1 and ,i touched only one of the three hats4 ,you can add a little variation to this game if you so desire by saying after you have placed the candies under the three hats1 ,on second thought ,i will turn my back1 and when ,i do so1 ,i would like some one to rearrange the candies under the hats4 ,you have previously arranged with one of the boys to do this service4 ,he appears to be playing the joke on you by eating the candies himself4 ,when you look under the hats you will find nothing there1 but when you turn around1 you quietly put one of the hats on his head so the candies are now all under one hat4 #g4 ,will ,tell the ,date ,ask some one in the room to select a penny and note its date4 ,you will now say1 ,i am under the charm of ,king ,copero1 and ,i will try to tell you the date4 ,don't let me see the coin at close range1 because ,i want to tell the date without seeing the coin and cause you to witness ,king ,copero's mystic power4 ,i will now ask you to place it under the corner of the rug1 and then stand on it1 and ,king ,copero will tell me the date4 ,you now close your eyes and exclaim1 ,copero the mystic1 come to my thoughts and tell me the date6 ,open your eyes1 and look around the room for the ,king1 and then place your hand back of your ear and exclaim1 ,speak1 ,copero1 tell me the date4 ,you now exclaim1 ,i hear you1 ,king4 ,you have spoken indeed4 ,then with great dignity say1 ,the date is #aibe4 ,i did not say ,i would give you the date on the coin1 but would give you 'the date1' and the present date is #aibe or the year in which you play the game4 ,this will produce a smile and provoke genuine jollity4 #h4 ,making a ,strong ,man ,sweat ,here is the way to make a strong person sweat and become tired by carrying a small stick out of the room4 ,this seems impossible1 and it causes you to smile as you think it over4 ,this is the way to do it4 ,select the strongest and tallest boy or man present1 and say that you have a task for him to perform4 ,place in his hands a thin stick not much thicker than a pipe-stem and about six inches long4 ,tell him he is to carry it out of the room and lay it down one foot from the other side of the door without sweating or becoming tired4 ,of course1 he not knowing your intention will laugh at this proposition4 ,as soon as he promises to do this task take the stick and with a knife cut off a little bit so small he can hardly see it2 then bid him carry that first4 ,then give him another piece of the stick1 and so until it is all carried out4 ,this would cause him to make about a thousand trips and more before he has carried out the entire stick1 and it would take him two weeks working day and night to complete the task4 ,it would surely make him sweat and grow weary4 ,he himself will so conclude4 ,this little stunt seems quite insignificant at first1 and that makes the laugh more hearty at the last4 ,this was a stunt quite common in the days of ,washington and the ,colonial children4 #i4 ,the ,disappearing ,square ,draw a square about two feet square on a large sheet of common paper4 ,pin it up on the door and say you have the pleasure of presenting to your audience the ,wondrous ,square which has the marvelous power of disappearing and reappearing right before your very eyes4 ,then ask the audience to close both eyes and they will note the square has perfectly disappeared4 ,then ask them to open their eyes1 and the square immediately reappears again4 ,this little stunt has been used by over a thousand little friends of mine and has helped them to make merry with their friends4 ,it will often help a little to secure a small box of tricks and show them how to do them4 ,sometimes one of the invited boys may own such a box4 ,ask him to bring it with him1 and show them how to do wonders also4 ,this can be made a large evening for the teacher personally4 ,be careful to listen to the children as they speak1 observe the laws of their conversation1 note down the words they use when they talk to each other1 and when you talk to them talk as they talk1 observe the same rules of conversation1 and use their words when you talk to them in the lesson1 then will they hear a lesson in their own tongue4 ,it will be something new for them1 and the lesson will be a success1 and you will feel well paid for the labors of your social hour4 #df ,,the ,,wordless ,,book ,,objects3 ,a ,small ,book with ,five ,colored ,pages#a ,some years ago in one of the mining-towns of central ,pennsylvania1 a ,christian ,english miner was noticed going to a secluded spot every noon1 and holding in his hand a small red book4 ,he seemed to be reading it1 and was deeply interested in its contents4 ,this caused his fellow workmen no little astonishment as the book was so small that he could easily read it through in a few minutes1 yet he continued to keep the book before his eyes each noon for many long months4 ,what could he be doing8 ,was he reading it or just looking at it8 ,that was the big question they all had in their minds4 ,at last they determined to find out the truth about the book if possible1 so one day they approached him with the question3 ,what makes that little book so interesting to you8 ,it certainly must contain a most wonderful story to engage your attention for so long a time4 ,the man made a courteous reply by saying3 ,it is a wordless book1 and you are quite correct when you say it must contain a wonderful story1 for it does record the most wonderful story the world has ever heard2 it is the story of salvation4 ,he then showed them the book4 ,it was a book of colors only1 not words1 ,it was the ,story of ,salvation in ,colors4 ,he then explained3 ,the first page is black2 that stands for sin4 ,the second page is red2 that stands for the blood of ,jesus which covers the black4 ,the third page is white2 that stands for righteousness4 ,and the last page is yellow2 that stands for heaven with its streets of gold4 ,this is the most wonderful story of the world1 because it is the ,story of ,redemption which never grows old1 and ,i never grow tired of thinking about it and seeing it by colors4 ,years ago when ,i was a child ,i saw a little book just like that4 ,it was published in ,london1 ,england4 ,when ,i first began to use object lessons in talking1 ,i made an enlarged copy of it4 ,later ,i got out an improved edition of this book1 using one additional color 7green7 and have put it on the market4 ,it is called the ,american ,improved ,wordless ,book4 ,with but little difficulty you can make one for your own use4 ,this is the way to do it4 ,secure an ordinary note-book and cover the two open pages with black paper2 this stands for sin4 ,cover the next two open pages with red paper1 which will stand for the blood of ,christ4 ,cover the next two pages with pure white paper without the ruled lines on it2 this will stand for righteousness4 ,cover the next two with green paper2 this will represent fruitfulness or good works4 ,cover the last two open pages with yellow2 this will stand for heaven1 with its sheets of yellow gold4 ,you may make this book as large as you desire1 and when you have finished it hold it up before your hearers and open it at the black pages and say1 ,the black stands for the sinful heart of man4 ,read the following ,scripture1 ,by one man sin entered into the world1 so death black crape passed upon all men1 for that all have sinned 7,rom4 #e3ab74 ,quote also ,john #c3ai1 ,men love darkness black rather than light because their deeds are evil 7black74 ,romans #f3bc is also a black verse2 it reads1 ,the wages of sin is death 7black74 ,ezekiel #cc3aa is another black verse4 ,it says3 ,turn ye1 turn ye from your evil black ways2 for why will ye die8 7,black47 ,this is a picture of the heart covered with unforgiven sin1 just as ,jesus sees it and just as the judgment will show it4 ,what shall ,i do to get rid of the black8 ,look1 and ,i will show you how4 ,open the next two pages1 and they are red2 that stands for the blood of ,jesus4 ,now you notice that the black is hidden because it is all under the blood4 ,read ,hebrews #i3bb3 ,without the shedding of blood red there is no remission4 ,isaiah #ec3e-h tells us3 ,he was wounded red for our transgressions1 he was bruised red for our iniquities1 444the ,lord hath laid on him the iniquity red of us all4 ,also quote #a ,john #a3g1 ,the blood red of ,jesus ,christ his son cleanseth us from all sin4 ,make it clear that the only thing that will cover sin so it will stay covered is the blood 7red7 of ,jesus4 ,blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven1 whose sin is covered 7,ps4 #cb3a74 ,god's red covering1 the blood of ,jesus his ,son1 is the only covering for sin2 the ,bible has so revealed it4 ,sometimes we try to cover over our sins with a lie or smooth words1 but our sins will not stay covered that way4 ,the ,bible says1 ,be sure your sin will find you out1 which means1 ,be sure your sins will find their way out also4 ,i read in a little old story-book years ago this interesting little tale4 ,three little brothers had been promised by their father that if they planted a certain number of hills with beans they might go to the circus that afternoon1 and see the clown and everything4 ,they began early in the morning and worked with great vigor and zeal to finish their task1 but just before they got to the last row they heard the circus band playing and saw the horses and elephants passing by in the great street parade of the greatest show on earth4 ,they were sure they would be too late if they finished that row and planted all the beans their father had given them1 so the ,tempter said to them3 ,dig a hole1 put all the beans you have left into it1 and fill up the hole and roll a big stone over it1 and they will be hidden out of sight4 ,then go and tell your father you have finished your planting1 and he will then give you your circus money1 and you will thus see all of the show4 ,they listened to the ,tempter1 and did as he told them1 and reported to their father their work was done1 and the father according to his promise sent them to the circus4 ,some weeks afterward the father was inspecting his garden1 and noticed there was an entire row of bean-hills from which no little green blades had yet made their appearance4 ,the father sent for his sons and called their attention to the fact that in every row but the last one the beans had sprouted2 he wanted to know if they could explain to him the failure of the last row4 ,the boys assured the father that the seeds had been planted and if he would wait just a little while longer they would come up like the other seeds4 ,the boys were troubled a lot about it1 but they thought their father would never know why the seeds did not come up1 because they had been cast into a hole and a great stone had covered them over so no one would ever see them4 ,but one day a week or so after this the father was walking out again in that part of the garden and thought he noticed some little green blades pushing themselves out from beneath the stone2 so he rolled away the stone and there in the hole were the little seeds trying to sprout and come up out of the dust4 ,he called his boys to him and showed them the sight1 and they confessed their wrong-doing and promised they would never deceive him again1 even to go to the greatest show on earth4 ,so we see how their sins did not stay covered1 they found their way out4 ,so it will be with all our sins1 they will find us out1 and at the day of judgment will find their way out also4 ,the only thing that will cover sin so that it will not find us out is to put it under the ,blood4 ,there it will not find its way out1 because forgiven sin is taken away to stay forever4 ,open now the next pages1 and you will find them pure white4 ,the white stands for righteousness4 ,read ,psalm #ea3g3 ,whiter than snow4 ,this is the ,snow ,prayer4 ,ask the children to repeat it in concert4 ,read ,john #ac3aj3 ,clean every whit2 this means all the black has gone1 and the all white has come in its place4 ,only the blood of ,jesus can do this4 ,make no effort to explain this1 but quote it as a fact4 ,it is so stated in the ,bible and the ,bible is true4 ,now open the pages showing the green and say3 ,green stands for fruitfulness1 as it is the green branch which bears the leaf1 blossom1 and fruit1 so should we bear much fruit or as the great ,sankey sang in other days1 ',when ,jesus has found you1 tell others the story'2 that is what ,i am doing now1 telling you the story and trying to bear fruit4 ,read ,matthew #ba3bh1 ,son1 go work today in my vineyard4 ,read also ,galatians #f3aj1 ,as we have therefore opportunity1 let us do good unto all men4 ,say to the children that as the pine and ivy are green all the year around and never change with the seasons1 so should the ,christian always be abounding in the work of the ,lord4 ,read ,galatians #f3i2 ,and let us not be weary in well doing2 for in due season we shall reap if we faint not4 ,now open the last pages and you will note they are both yellow2 these pages stand for heaven1 with its streets of yellow gold4 ,these pages remind us of our eternal home1 the home of the soul to which we will all go if we follow the teaching of this book4 ,quote ,john #ad3b1c3 ,i go to prepare a place for you444 ,i will come again and receive you unto myself1 that where ,i am there you may be also4 ,read also selections from ,revelation #bb4 ,you now say ,i have finished my story4 ,it is the most wonderful story in the world1 because it is the story of salvation4 ,it is a story without words1 because it is a story in colors4 ,close the book1 and ask the children how many colors they saw in the book4 ,ask them to name the colors in their proper order4 ,drill them in repeating the colors of the book4 ,then ask them to give you the meaning of each color1 after this fashion3 ,black for sin1 red for blood1 white for righteousness1 green for fruitfulness1 yellow for heaven4 ,drill them now in the meaning of the colors4 ,when ,i am giving this lesson ,i ask some little fellow to come to the platform1 and offering him the book1 ,i say3 ,would you like to have this little book as your own8 ,of course1 he says1 ,yes1 and as you offer it to him he reaches out his hand to take it1 and you explain that this is just the way to receive salvation4 ,you simply ,take it4 ,conclude by quoting ,the ,spirit and the ,bride say1 ,come1 and whosoever will let him take4 ,a private use may be made of this book in the devotional hour4 ,look at every page and read the ,scripture noted1 and then meditate in silence4 #a,the author has prepared such a book4 ,write to him about it in care of the publishers4 #dg ,,the ,,heart ,,of ,,seven ,,devils ,,objects3 ,cardboard ,hearts and a ,number of ,colored ,cards ,text1 ,luke #h3b3 ,mary ,magdalene1 out of whom went seven devils4 ,the heart of this unhappy woman was like a steel-girded prison cell4 ,it had locked in it as prisoners seven devils4 ,jesus opened the door1 and cast them out1 and went in himself1 and shut the door after him1 and when he shuts no man can open4 ,mary ,magdalene was in the hollow of ,god's hand forever4 ,let me tell you how the seven devils got into her heart1 and the story of how they were cast out when she met ,jesus4 ,mary ,magdalene was just like the rest of us1 for we all have seven devils in our heart1 and some have a few more4 ,she was born in sin like all of us4 ,she was not born a sinner2 none of us are1 for we do not become sinners until we arrive at that age when with a free choice we choose to do evil1 then we are sinners4 ,mary ,magdalene began like a pure stream which starts in the mountain2 but as it descends to a lower level polluting streams of water flow into it1 and by and by the river is dark with impurities4 ,the ,hudson ,river has its head in the highlands of the ,adirondack mountains1 #d1jjj feet above the level of the sea4 ,it has a good start4 ,it is almost holy ground4 ,there the trees have grown tall and beautiful for hundreds of years4 ,beneath the shade of these the baby river rolls out and on4 ,it plunges over the rocks in beautiful cascades and races on to its river bed4 ,wild beasts wade through its cooling waters1 slake their thirst1 and at night sleep by the river's side when the high sky hangs out its golden lanterns and smiles at the little baby climbing over the sides of its mountain cradle4 ,and so the river rolls on larger and larger with the benediction of ,god and nature4 ,at first the child river is as clear as the air1 as polished as the fairest diamond4 ,so ,mary ,magdalene started life as fair as the mountain stream4 ,she was born on the shore of the blue waters of the ,lake of ,galilee4 ,she was not born in the slums1 nor was she in her early days surrounded by the vicious1 she did not spend her childhood in rags and filth4 ,beyond all doubt she was well born1 and belonged to the upper class4 ,she seems to have inherited wealth which she spent in after years1 ministering to the work of the ,saviour4 ,she was like a zephyr1 pure as the mountain air2 she was as free and cheery as the birds of the high hills4 ,then temptations came1 and the polluting streams of sinful rivers flowed into this little mountain stream4 ,at last her beautiful heart became the prison house of seven devils4 ,to illustrate this lesson prepare a white cardboard heart4 ,make it a double heart with the top of it left open1 so you can put into it seven small cards1 representing so many devils4 ,call this heart ,mary ,magdalene1 and then as you talk of the polluting streams which flow into it deposit the cards standing for the seven devils into the heart that is clean and white4 ,name the devils3 ,disobedience4 ,this is the sin that is ready to grip us as soon as we tumble over the side of the cradle of life4 ,she went wrong just by disobeying her parents2 at least most little folks do1 and ,i suppose she was just like the rest of us4 ,once there was a prisoner who sat in his cell awaiting the fast approaching hour of his execution4 ,while he was thus waiting1 with a piece of clay he drew on the wall of his cell a picture of the gallows upon which he was soon to die4 ,he made a number of steps which led up to it1 and called each step after a sin which he had done that soon would lead him up to his doom on the gallows4 ,the first step he marked was ,disobedience to ,parents4 ,that was his first great sin1 as he saw it4 ,now take a small black card on which you have written the word ,disobedience and put it into the heart4 ,this is the first devil4 ,the next polluting power which entered the heart we will call ,sinful ,dress4 ,in the land where ,mary ,magdalene was raised the people dressed in gay colors1 and wore much and very elaborate jewelry on the ankles1 arms1 neck1 and head2 there they placed their bands of gold4 ,they had large opportunity to overdo the dress question1 and they did so4 ,the rich owned many changes of raiment1 and often like the leaders of fashion today could boast that they could change their costumes hourly if they so desired4 ,she was doubtless very beautiful and charming4 ,her ,oriental garments made her look like a queen in royal splendor4 ,she soon fell for this polluting poison called fashion1 and like millions of her present-day sisters her feet got tangled up in her robes of fashion1 and she slipped and fell from the pinnacle of purity into the madly burning lake of sin4 ,as you make this remark drop in the heart a pink card on which the words ,sinful ,dress have been written4 ,this is the second devil4 ,make it clear to your hearers that carefulness in dress is not wrong1 and neatness is not vanity4 ,now produce a blue card on which you have marked two large letters ,,co41 which stands for ,company4 ,soon ,mary ,magdalene found evil company as did the ,prodigal ,son and soon she was a common sinner4 ,evil company is like evil spirits seeking to pull down to their level the highest and best4 ,as you say this deposit this card into the heart and say1 ,this is the third devil4 ,the next devil to enter the heart we will call ,bad ,money4 ,write down on a yellow card the dollar sign 771 and say that once a minister of the gospel read from his pulpit a request for prayer which was as follows3 ,prayers are requested for a young man who has just inherited a fortune4 ,he certainly did need the prayers of good people1 because money can be made a mighty curse unless ,god is in it4 ,money is like a skeleton key which unlocks a multitude of sin doors through which we enter to the eternal hurt of our soul4 ,mary ,magdalene found it paid for a season in dollars and cents1 but this is tainted money and slips through the fingers1 and on wings supplied from the demons themselves flies away to come back no more forever4 ,his money was his curse1 that the people often say when like a devil it has entered and destroyed a human heart4 ,we are now speaking only of the evil use of money4 ,put the card with the dollar mark on it into the heart and say1 ,this is the fourth devil4 ,temper is the next devil to enter the sinner's heart4 ,write this word down on a fiery red card4 ,in anger folks seem to be under control of another power2 they do not seem like themselves4 ,there is a strange look in the eye1 another expression has seized the features of the face1 and they seem for a few moments to be changed into other men4 ,the reason for all of this transformation is that temper is a devil1 and it has taken possession of the heart4 ,when ,i was a little boy there were two little brothers who lived on the same street with me4 ,one of them1 the older one1 had a very bad temper1 and when he grew angry he would fling himself upon the ground and kick and scream4 ,all the neighbors noticed this and when they spoke to his mother about it she replied1 ,willie is not himself when in temper4 ,she was speaking the truth1 he was possessed by the temper devil4 ,one day this brother was playing with his little brother and in a moment of anger struck him in the face with his clinched fist4 ,when the doctor came he said the little brother would never see again4 ,he would be blind for life4 ,both brothers lived to be men4 ,the elder brother never had a happy hour afterward4 ,he would often say1 ,i don't see how ,i could have done it4 ,this was why he did it2 as with ,mary ,magdalene1 the devil had entered his heart4 ,the temper devil had entered the soul and taken full possession4 ,as you say these words put the card into the heart and say ,temper is the fifth devil4 ,unbelief is the sixth devil4 ,mary ,magdalene had sinned and lost her standing in the synagogue4 ,her sins were punishable by the laws of ,moses with death2 she was a doomed sinner1 she had left ,god and was alone4 ,if she had kept the devil of unbelief out of her heart when she was first tempted1 she never would have fallen into his black hands4 ,it never pays to leave ,god4 ,believe his word4 ,he has spoken1 trust him4 ,this will keep the devil out4 ,many years ago in a ,new ,england town there was a minister who preached a carefully prepared sermon on ,casting all your care on him1 for he careth for you1 and on his way home from church fell into a well and was severely hurt4 ,it was laughing-stock for a common community1 and it did seem just a little strange that after he had so carefully prepared his sermon and assured the people that if they put their trust in ,god he would take care of them1 and then an hour afterward he should fall into a well and injure himself4 ,the devil of unbelief whispered in his heart1 ,god did not keep his word1 you are a fool to trust him1 but the young preacher resisted the whispering devil and said1 ,wait a little while1 ,god will make it plain to me1 and ,god did4 ,he was sent to a hospital in ,boston1 a town he had never seen but always wanted to visit4 ,while he was there some friends urged him to write the story of ,how ,god cared for a man by casting him into a well4 ,he was a better writer than a speaker2 an essayist1 rather than an orator4 ,he wrote his story and told the world how he believed ,god and did not doubt his promises4 ,he told the story of ,joseph who had been cast into a well and came forth to be a prince in ,egypt4 ,he thus attracted the attention of the entire city of ,boston4 ,he leaped into fame at once4 ,he became one of the most famous writers of ,america1 and for years was the leader of religious thought in all ,new ,england4 ,god took good care of him so he should fall into the well1 for that was the first round in the ladder of his great success4 ,many a man has doubted ,god and stayed down the well of misfortune and upbraided ,god1 denounced him1 and so lived the rest of his days in darkness1 and dying went into eternal night4 ,put this card into the heart and say ,unbelief is the sixth devil4 ,unholy ,pleasure is the seventh and last devil of this black-winged group4 ,have these words written on a piece of gold paper4 ,this devil of ,unholy ,pleasure is in full dress and a gentleman of the world4 ,a regular fellow1 so the people of the world declare1 but he is a deceiver and destroyer4 ,seek pure pleasure4 ,play1 but play straight1 or the lamps of sin over the pleasure garden of the world will blind your eyes1 so you cannot see the evil of sinful pleasures4 ,this devil will be at the end of the road to make captive your soul forever4 ,place this card in the heart and say3 ,unholy ,pleasure is the seventh devil1 and now there is a full house of devils4 ,the heart will soon come to the end of the way as it is now full of devils and full of sin4 ,as you say this produce a red heart the same size as the white heart you have been using1 and put it in front of the white heart4 ,you can now see sin covers her heart entirely1 she is down but not out1 because where the out begins ,jesus stands and waits4 ,he always gives special attention to hard cases1 and ,jesus found ,mary ,magdalene just there1 and saved her soul by casting out the seven devils and making her clean again4 ,he had forgiven all her transgressions and remembers them against her no more forever4 ,as you say this1 still holding the red heart in front of the white heart1 take out all the devils at once if you can1 and as you do so take away the red heart also1 drop them all on the table together and say1 ,please note that when the devils all go out sin goes also having reference to the red heart1 and the heart is now white and clean1 and it will so stay1 for the devils have gone out to stay out4 ,this is the story of how seven devils entered the heart of ,mary ,magdalene1 and the glad story of how they were cast out4 ,god will do the same for you1 for he is no respecter of persons4 ,in delivering this address always keep the heart of ,mary ,magdalene in full view of the audience4 ,hold it in your left hand if possible1 and load the cards with the right hand4 ,be sure and make the heart large enough to contain the seven cards you put into it4 ,practise and rehearse4 #dh ,,show ,,your ,,colors ,,objects3 ,an ,eighteenth ,amendment ,flag2 a ,church ,flag2 a ,conquest ,flag2 an ,american ,flag ,text3 ,psalm #fj3d3 ,that it may be displayed because of the truth4 ,this is an expression we often use when we want to be out and out for any cause we wish to represent4 ,when the ,world ,war was on we pinned a small flag on our coats because we were glad we were ,americans and wanted to be out and out for our country2 we displayed our colors4 ,let us all try to show our colors as good ,americans4 ,produce a flag from an inside pocket and say3 ,as an ,american citizen ,i will now show my colors2 our text says1 ',that it may be displayed because of the truth4' ,when ,i was traveling in ,europe ,i always had a little flag in my hotel room4 ,i did not keep it in the bottom of my trunk1 nor did ,i keep it shut up in the closet1 but ,i placed it in a conspicuous place where everybody who came into the room could see it4 ,i can show my colors also by obeying my country's laws and always speaking well of its ,president and those in authority4 ,i am not ashamed of them1 so ,i show my colors as an ,american citizen1 ,i now will place this flag over the pulpit where you can all see it1 and place my hand on it and vow ,i will always show my colors as an ,american2 and lifting up the other hand ,i say1 ,so help me ,god4 ,from another pocket produce a white piece of bunting with the figures #ah marked on it1 and say3 ,i am a temperance advocate4 ,i believe in the ,eighteenth ,amendment1 and ,i will support it with all my heart4 ,it is a glorious part of the ,constitution of the ,united ,states4 ,i will not call it a failure1 and thereby cause the wicked to jeer at it4 ,i will not speak slightingly of it1 and thereby cause the weak to disrespect it4 ,i believe it came from ,god and it has come to stay4 ,i am for it with all my soul4 ,a visitor once came as a stranger to a ,southern town on the eve of a license or no-license campaign1 and was asked by one of the liquor men which side he was on1 ,he replied3 ,you just step up to ,god and ask him which side he is on2 step up to the wives and children of the drunkards1 and ask them which side they are on2 ,i am on the same side4 ,he was out and out a defender of the glorious ,eighteenth ,amendment4 ,now place this flag over the pulpit next to the ,stars and ,stripes4 ,at this time produce from another pocket the church flag1 which is the white flag with a red cross in its center1 and as you display it1 say3 ,i am out and out for the ,church of ,god4 ,i love its walls and its glorious old songs4 ,i live in it and live for it1 because ,i want to do good by my example4 ,i need the church4 ,there is mighty power in 'the assembly4' ,this ,i say with my lips1 and this ,i say also by my example4 ,jesus was a church-goer1 and ,i want to be like him4 ,it was his custom to go to the assembly4 ,it was a good custom4 ,the ,church is the meeting-place1 not the place where we meet each other only1 but where we meet ,god4 ,it is good to be there4 ,jesus went there to meet his heavenly ,father1 for ,god is in his holy temple4 ,heaven bless the meeting-house4 ,god feels hurt if we do not come to see him1 because we are the children of his heart4 ,let us go to church4 ,when ,mr4 ,moody was converted he went out every ,sunday morning and collected half a dozen boys and brought them into the church1 and they sat in the same church pew with him1 ,he showed his colors4 ,here wave the church flag and place this flag beside the ,eighteenth ,amendment flag4 ,draw out now from another pocket a missionary flag 7the conquest flag7 and say1 ,i believe in spreading the good news of the gospel to all the world4 ,here is a good story about a missionary potato4 ,a little boy1 a son of a rich and prosperous farmer1 came home one day from ,sunday school very much excited about the stories he had heard about the heathen people who worshiped idols4 ,never mind about them1 ,john1 said the father1 we have no money to send them1 besides we have heathen enough at home4 ,this did not satisfy ,john1 and he puzzled his curly head with his own plans to help them4 ,one day he said to his father who seemed to be in a good humor1 ,daddy1 if you will not give me money to help the heathen will you give me a potato8 ,why certainly1 son1 ,i will give you a peck if you like4 ,john said1 ,no1 daddy1 only one good one1 and give me land enough to plant it in1 and all it will produce in four years4 ,this pleased the father greatly and he promised him he would be glad to do this and he said to himself1 ,this lad of mine will make a good farmer some day4 ,so ,john planted his potato1 and the first year it rewarded him by producing nine4 ,these he carefully kept for planting1 and the second year he had a peck4 ,these became seven and a half bushels the third year1 and when the fourth harvest came1 lo1 the one potato had increased to seventy bushels4 ,when he took them to town he told the store-keeper that he had some missionary potatoes to sell4 ,that must be a new kind of potato1 the store-keeper said1 well1 bring them over and if they are all right ,i'll take 'em4 ,so he sold his potatoes for a good price and gave the money to missions4 ,his father seeing this1 concluded he would become a missionary helper also1 and gave liberally each year of his money for the cause4 ,so ,john showed his missionary colors and won his father by so doing4 ,jesus wants us to come out into the open and tell the world the story of his love4 ,thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee1 that it may be displayed show your colors because of the truth 7,ps4 #fj3 #d74 ,we are the flags in full view of the people4 ,let us display our colors4 #di ,,the ,,books ,,of ,,the ,,new ,,testament ,,in ,,story ,,form ,a ,,memory ,,lesson ,it is of the highest importance that we teach our children the names of the books of the ,new ,testament1 and that they shall be able to recite them from memory in their proper order4 ,this is not an easy task as it requires some memory effort1 but it is worth the while and the effort4 ,all children love stories1 and instruction by stories is always winsome to them4 ,it is easy on their heads4 ,this method puts life and movement into facts1 and the little folks like it much because the story method of learning things turns labor into play4 ,in this chapter the names of the books of the ,new ,testament have been put together in story form4 ,cause the children to commit to memory the story and then to recite it in concert frequently during the meeting4 ,after they have learned it well1 ask them to think of the story1 but repeat out loud the names of the books4 ,by this simple method the books of the ,new ,testament will be nailed down in their memory for years to come4 ,this is the story3 ,the ,books of the ,new ,testament in ,story ,form ,matthew1 ,mark1 ,luke1 and ,john determined on ,acts of discovery1 accompanied by seven brave ,romans1 started on a pilgrimage to find the ,temple of ,truth4 ,first and ,second ,corinthians gave them all two changes of raiment1 and1 as they were passing out of the city gate1 they were met by ,galatians and ,ephesians who supplied them camels for their journey1 and there the two famous sword-makers1 ,philippians and ,colossians1 gave them swords and shields for the conflict4 ,as they journeyed on1 they met ,first and ,second ,thessalonians seated at ,jacob's well reading ,first and ,second ,timothy4 ,with hearts stirred by the truth1 they marched bravely on when they noticed the approach of a lone camel upon which was seated ,titus1 who was returning from a visit to ,philemon1 who he announced was keeping the true faith4 ,they then passed through the encampment of the ,hebrews1 where they found ,james expounding the gospel to ,first and ,second ,peter1 who announced to them that the ,palace of ,truth was at the end of the road leading out of the encampment1 and that ,first1 ,second1 and ,third ,john had been watching for their caravan all night4 ,when they arrived at the ,palace of ,truth1 ,jude the door-keeper gave them an open door and told them to enter in peace4 ,as they retired to rest in comfort after their long journey1 ,revelation stood on guard in the tower1 watching the signs of the times4 ,ask the children to repeat this story in concert as an opening exercise for their meeting4 ,this is a ,new ,testament rosary4 ,the beads are the books1 the string is the story4 #ej ,,what ,,ten ,,cords ,,could ,,not ,,do ,,objects3 ,ten ,cords ,three ,feet ,long and a ,double ,heart ,when the children of ,israel were tenting and wandering in the wilderness ,god called ,moses their leader up into the heights of ,mount ,sinai4 ,he wished to speak to him alone1 and so ,joshua1 who had gone up with him1 was left in the lower parts of the mountain to await his return1 while ,moses went up to the cloud-crowned top of the mountain to be alone1 all alone with ,god4 ,this conference with ,god continued forty days and nights1 and when it was concluded ,moses came down from the smoking top bearing two tables of stone1 upon which were chiseled the ten laws or1 as we say today1 the ,ten ,commandments4 ,in few and short words they were as follows3 #a4 ,thou shalt have no other ,god before me4 #b4 ,thou shalt not make graven images4 #c4 ,thou shalt not take in vain the holy name of ,god4 #d4 ,remember the ,sabbath ,day to keep it holy4 #e4 ,honor thy parents4 #f1 ,commit no murder4 #g4 ,thou shalt not commit adultery4 #h4 ,thou shalt not steal4 #i4 ,tell no falsehoods4 #aj4 ,do not covet thy neighbor's things4 ,these ten commandments instruct us in all the duties of life4 ,yet we may keep all these laws and not be a ,christian4 ,once when ,jesus was here among men a rich young ruler came to him asking what he must do to be saved1 ,jesus asked him about the ,ten ,commandments4 ,he replied that he had kept them from his youth up1 but when ,jesus asked him to sell all and follow him1 he then saw that the commandments had not gone through to his heart1 for there he had the gold idol which he would not give up even to follow ,jesus4 ,he had not kept the first commandment4 ,so we can all learn by this story that he was not a ,christian although perhaps he had kept all the commandments1 as he thought4 ,they cannot change the heart4 ,the law can never do that4 ,these ,ten ,commandments are like ten shining cords which may hold us back from evil-doing1 but which can never change our heart and make us ,christians4 ,to illustrate this point of the lesson secure ten strong cords1 each of them at least three feet long2 hang them over the back of a chair where the audience can see them4 ,call these ropes the ,ten ,commandments1 and name each rope after one of the commandments4 ,then tell the following story4 ,the ancient ,greeks had a strange fable about the ,sirens4 ,these were bewitching little sea-nymphs who sat on a great rock in the sea called ,sibylla1 and as they sat there they sang such charming and wonderful songs that they lured the sailors to their destruction on the rocks4 ,one day when the charming ,ulysses was passing that way with his great ship1 ,circe warned him of the peril of these dangerous singers1 and assured him that many a gallant ship had been lost in these stormy waters4 ,so ,ulysses took heed to the word of caution and ordered that the ears of the sailors should be filled with wax4 ,then he had himself fastened to the mast by many strong cords1 so when their ship reached the place where the beguiling sea fairies worked1 the sailors could not hear their music1 and although ,ulysses was enchanted by the music and struggled to break the cords which bound him1 he failed to release himself1 and so passed the temptation rock in safety and soon the music died away in the distance4 ,some days afterward the brave and wise ,argonauts were sailing over the same enchanted waters1 but they had on the ship with them the famous ,orpheus4 ,he was a masterful player on the lyre1 and when the ship came near to the dangerous rock he poured forth such heavenly music that the sailors had no ear for the tempting tones of the ,sirens' songs1 and so passed by in safety4 ,the ,sirens1 seeing that their spell was broken1 leaped into the sea1 and their alluring tones were never heard again4 ,the ,ten ,commandments were like the ten cords which bound ,ulysses to the mast but did not keep his heart from desiring to fly to the sinful song-makers4 ,the cords kept him from sin1 but did not take the love of sin from his heart4 ,the ,ten ,commandments may keep us from doing and saying wrong things1 but they will never take the love of sin away or change our hearts4 ,the two new commandments of ,jesus are like the music of ,orpheus2 they fill our hearts with a holy spell1 and we lose all love for the pleasures of sin1 because the two new commandments have reached our hearts and made us ,christians4 ,to love ,god with all our heart and our neighbors as ourselves is the full teaching of ,christ's two new commandments4 ,to illustrate this truth1 make a double heart out of strong cardboard so it will open by a hinge4 ,call this the ,christian's heart4 ,mark it on the outside with a cross4 ,as you open the heart let them see the word ,god marked on one side and on the other side the word ,man4 ,in the heart of every ,christian you will find love for ,god and love for man4 ,this heart will keep us from evil by taking away the call to evil4 ,this the ten cords could not do4 ,the only way to get such a heart is to go to ,jesus4 ,he gives new hearts for old4 ,this is the only heart he gives away4 ,if you will take it he will take all your sins away to stay4 #ea ,,object-,,lessons ,,extraordinary ,,objects3 ,pictures of ,animals and ,living ,objects ,this chapter is simply a study for the object worker4 ,it is an illustration of how ponderous and unusual objects can be used to teach religious truths4 ,it is a far swing from the smaller and common objects which are available for the regular teacher who employs the eye appeal4 ,yet it is well to remember that ponderous things talk for ,god1 for it is written that the heavens declare the glory of ,god1 and there is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard4 ,it is our big business to interpret the language of things in terms the people can understand4 ,translate the voice of the heavens into ,english4 ,some starlit night use the sky as an object-lesson4 ,gather the children around you and ask them to look up at the sky4 ,tell them a few things that astronomy has told you1 concluding with the story of the ,wise-men and the ,christmas ,star and other ,biblical star stories4 ,by so doing you will make the stars a golden path to ,jesus and the objects in the heavens will preach of righteousness4 ,if some day you can stand with the children by the side of the sea you can use the ocean as an object-lesson4 ,tell them stories of the wonders in the deep4 ,tell them the tales of sea adventures by the hardy mariners4 ,talk about the ocean shells and sands at their feet4 ,conclude by telling them ,bible sea stories2 how a runaway prophet was cast into the sea during a great storm and what happened to him4 ,tell them about the storm on the sea of ,tiberias1 and how ,jesus commanded the winds and the waves to obey his word4 ,tell them about ,paul's sea journeys1 and the wreck of the prison ship1 and how they all escaped to a friendly island4 ,in concluding tell them about the heavenly land where there shall be no more sea1 and of the mercy of ,god which is like the wideness of the sea4 ,you will note that you have used ponderous object-lessons1 the sky and the sea4 ,sometime when it is possible use household pets as object-lessons4 ,tell them how to be kind to animals4 ,explain to them the habits and needs of the little creatures4 ,tell them when possible ,bible stories in which these animals figure4 ,a bird in a cage1 a fish in the bowl1 etc41 will make most interesting and fascinating object-lessons4 ,when this is not possible use pictures of the animals you want to talk about4 ,let me tell you how once upon a time ,i gave an object-lesson extraordinary by using living wild animals4 ,from childhood ,i have been a lover of wild beasts4 ,i could sit up all night and read about wild animals1 ,i loved these stories more than ,i loved my play4 ,as ,i grew older ,i made them my special study4 ,in later life it was my good fortune to study them at close range which finally enabled me to go into their cages with them4 ,they became my good friends4 ,they treated me with the greatest consideration4 ,it seemed to them ,i was their second keeper4 ,let me tell you about the wild animals that ,i have met1 and whose pictures you will see on the following pages4 ,,atlas ,,the ,,big ,,lion ,atlas was four years old and as friendly and gentle as the house dog4 ,wild animals1 like humans1 differ as to their dispositions2 some are snarling and cross1 others are gentle and winsome4 ,atlas belonged to the latter class4 ,one evening ,i invited #a1jjj children to come to his winter quarters and see him4 ,in the center of a large room there was a great cage into which the animals were taken one by one for their daily exercise and run about4 ,into this big cage ,atlas was brought1 and ,i went in with him4 ,while we were together in this great cage he was as friendly as any of my little pets4 ,he purred away like the family cat behind the kitchen stove on a snowy day4 ,he would take his meat from my hand1 displaying at all times great concern lest he should in any way harm me4 ,i did not use a whip or a gun1 simply a little rod to urge him on a bit1 but controlled him by tones1 persuasive tones to which he made quick response4 ,i told the children to use kind words with animals as well as humans1 as these were very winsome powers4 ,a lion of docile disposition was dangerous only when sick1 hungry1 in temper1 or acting in self-defense4 ,when the lion is seeking food he displays great intelligence4 ,the monkey is a mimic1 and can only do what it is taught to do1 and even this he cannot in turn teach to its offspring1 but a lion seems to think out its problems4 ,a man in ,central ,africa was once out late in the day and far from home4 ,he saw a lion at some distance from him4 ,the lion saw him and also followed him slowly4 ,illustration3 ,atlas1 the ,big ,lion--,a ,docile1 ,friendly ,beast ,performing for the ,children ,when the man walked fast1 the lion walked fast2 when the man stopped1 the lion stopped also4 ,the big idea in the lion's head was to follow him all day until dark1 and then in the dark spring upon him4 ,this was the way the man outwitted the lion4 ,when he came to a high cliff below which there was a deep hollow in the rock1 he climbed down into this cleft where the lion could not see him4 ,here he fixed a stick on the rocks and put on it his hat and coat so as to make them look like a man1 and then hid under the rock to watch results4 ,soon the lion came creeping slyly along1 and seeing the coat and hat he made a sudden spring at them1 and falling down on the rocks below1 was killed4 ,but you see ,i was safe in the cage with ,atlas1 because they took good care of him and he was not hungry4 ,i concluded by telling the little folks about the story of ,daniel who was cast into a den of lions1 which is the most remarkable lion story in the world1 for in those days they kept the lions in a state of hunger so that they might destroy their victims with haste4 ,daniel was saved from the hungry beasts because ,god sent his angel1 and they could not open their mouths and had no desire for food4 ,our ,god is able to deliver his children4 ,,the ,,baby ,,lion ,one morning when ,i went to see my friend ,atlas in the winter quarters the friendly keeper said to me1 ,doctor1 look into the lions' cage1 in yonder corner4 ,when ,i did so1 what do you think1 children1 ,i saw there8 ,lying close to its big mother lion ,i saw a little baby lion fast asleep4 ,the big mother seemed very proud of it1 for she looked at me with her big eyes and seemed to say1 ,this is the most wonderful baby of the lion kingdom4 ,and when the little baby opened his eyes ,i thought so too4 ,after a few days the little fellow would play on the floor with me4 ,he looked just like a big cat1 and often when he went after the ball ,i sent rolling over the floor1 he seemed to be a big cat and had the cat's way when he played4 ,i took him to my church one day4 ,the first lion who ever went to ,sunday school--and as it was an anniversary day with the school ,i gave an object-talk with the little fellow in my arms4 ,i told the children that this lion1 so docile and harmless1 had a wild nature1 and in a short time when that nature was fully developed it would not be safe for the boys and girls to come near him4 ,the little paw which ,i held in my hands would soon be so strong and wild that it could bring down in death the strongest man alive4 ,i then permitted a few little girls to come to the platform and hold the little fellow for a few moments1 which they did with great glee and will tell their children's children of the day when they held a real living baby lion in their arms4 ,i then told them that we all like lions have an evil nature4 ,while we are young we are like this little lion1 gentle and mild1 but later on when our wild nature develops we do very wicked things and become sinners4 ,the little lion must always be a lion1 there is no power on earth that can change its nature4 ,but although we have an evil nature1 ,jesus has come to take away the evil within us and make us his gentle1 obedient1 and loving children4 ,i then told the children how much the mother lion loved her little baby4 ,mother love is so strong that she is most dangerous when she has little cubs of her own2 she so greatly fears the stranger will do them harm4 ,illustration3 ,a ,baby ,lion1 ,six ,weeks ,old1 ,receiving the ,name of the ,youngest ,baby in the ,audience ,then ,i told a baby lion story4 ,a circus was in progress at ,woodbury1 ,n4,j41 one afternoon in ,may1 #aiai1 when the keeper of a lioness named ,lucy and her two cubs entered her cage4 ,he succeeded without difficulty in driving the mother lion into a compartment at the other end of the cage1 thus separating her from her cubs4 ,all would doubtless have gone well had he not stopped to fondle the cubs4 ,this aroused the wild anger of the mother1 and she sprang with all her might against the separating door1 burst it open1 and seized the keeper by the neck and killed him instantly4 ,she was transferred into a mad lion when she thought her cubs were in danger4 ,this story shows us how much the mother lion loves her little ones4 ,about this time the baby lion grew restless and wanted to go home1 so when we had named the little cub ,norman after the youngest child present that afternoon1 we took him back to his mother4 ,,the ,,baby ,,leopard ,,lesson ,from the wild animal market one day ,i borrowed a little baby leopard4 ,he was timid as a baby rabbit4 ,he trembled with fear all the time ,i held him in my arms4 ,the little folks did not seem to be afraid of him1 because he looked just like a big cat1 and indeed he was the cat's wild brother4 ,as ,i held him in my arms ,i recited ,jeremiah #ac3bc3 ,can the ,ethiopian change his skin1 or the leopard his spots8 ,then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil4 ,the great lesson this passage of ,scripture draws forth from the leopard is that none of us by our own effort can change our hearts and make them over into good hearts4 ,jesus must do this4 ,the leopard can never change his spots nor can we alone ever change our hearts4 ,,the ,,little ,,bear ,,story ,one day when ,i was thinking out a talk which ,i was to give to #a1jjj children in my ,happy ,hour ,service for them1 ,i learned that a rich man in my city had purchased a little bear for his children to play with4 ,i said to myself here is a new and different object-lesson4 ,at once ,i called on the owner1 and he very gladly sent me the little fellow and his keeper with him4 ,he was a restless little bear and wanted to play all the time4 ,when ,i took him into the meeting ,i had placed on the table by his side a tub of water1 for it was ,teddy's delight to get into the water and set up a great splash1 which hugely amused the children4 ,the bear is the clown of the animal kingdom4 ,he is not an imitator like the monkey1 but thinks out his own stunts4 ,he has more intelligence by far than the monkey and is more human in his head4 ,they are often quite droll in their fun1 they play leap frog1 have wrestling-matches1 and play bo-peep4 ,this is the reason why they are called the ,clowns of the ,animal ,kingdom4 ,this little bear1 ,i said to the children1 teaches us how foolish it is to be self-willed and stubborn4 ,he must have his own way4 ,you can punish him with a whip and hit him so hard he cannot for a few minutes stand upon his feet1 yet when he does get his strength back he will stand up and do the same thing over again4 ,when wounded by the hunter with a deadly shot he seems to be stronger in resisting power than ever4 ,he cannot be taught to give up himself4 ,that is the reason we say as stubborn as a bear4 ,sometimes boys and girls have the will of a bear4 ,be stronger than a bear by giving up when you are in the wrong4 ,so you all see now that ponderous unusual objects can be used for teaching great religious lessons4 ,this is a good chapter to read to the little folks4 ,illustration3 ,a ,baby ,leopard1 ,seven ,months ,old1 ,used to ,illustrate the ,scripture ,reference to the ,leopard's ,spots #eb ,a ,,bottle ,,of ,,mosquitoes ,,objects3 ,five ,prepared ,bottles ,in the beginning ,god made a beautiful garden and dropped it into the ,pacific ,sea4 ,there it rested in sweet repose like a lily fair upon the bosom of the deep4 ,it was a ,garden of ,love as peaceful and calm as a star4 ,its name was ,tahiti1 but as the years passed by the worst features of ,european civilization were flung into it1 and like ,eden of old the serpent came also and destroyed its primeval glory1 and its royal beauty soon faded away forever4 ,among the destroying influences introduced was a bottle of mosquitoes which a sailor out of sheer spite and hateful fun took to the island1 and soon the land was overrun with these disturbing little pests which1 added to other black things of civilization1 soon robbed these islands of their virgin excellence4 ,the world today is full of its black bottles loaded with destructive contents4 ,let us consider some of them4 ,secure three dark glass bottles2 paint them black if necessary2 load and label them as herewith described4 ,bottle ,no4 #a4 ,label this bottle ,liquor4 ,fill it with strong tea1 which resembles liquor in color4 ,pour out a little in a glass1 and tell the story of the wreck and ruin this bottle has caused on ,god's island called the ,world4 ,this bottle came to us in earth's earliest ages4 ,no one has ever discovered the date of its first appearance4 ,back before the ,flood and in the days of ,noah we read that wine was wrecking things4 ,first came the deluge of wine1 then the deluge from the great deep4 ,it was a world-wrecker then1 and is in the same business today1 and will continue on in its black business unless the hand of ,god and the arm of the law shall shatter it and grind it to powder4 ,illustration3 ,the ,bear ,is ,called the ,clown of the ,animal ,kingdom4 ,this ,baby ,bear1 ,visiting a ,children's ,meeting in ,doctor ,woolston's ,church1 ,was ,used to ,illustrate the ,sin of ,stubbornness ,prohibition has chained the monster of this black bottle1 but not slain it4 ,it still lives and is seeking to break its chains of bondage and start on its rampage again4 ,there is a popular cry among men now which demands we shall let the monster loose again4 ,they say1 ,give us light wines and beer4 ,this is a noise from hell4 ,light wines and beer would be leaks in the dam that now holds back this flood of death4 ,open the leaks1 and that will finally wash away the dam1 and let the river of death loose upon the people again4 ,place the cork in the bottle and call the cork the ,eighteenth ,amendment4 ,it shall never come out4 ,the monster of rum must never come back4 ,bottle ,no4 #b4 ,label this bottle ,ignorance4 ,pour out from this bottle into a glass a liquid that has been made black by a few drops of ink1 and this you call the ,darkness of ,ignorance1 the bottled night of the ,dark ,ages4 ,it is as black as ,egyptian darkness4 ,centuries ago where the ,city of ,london now stands1 a tribe of benighted people lived4 ,when they wished to start on a pilgrimage of murder and plunder1 and did not know which way to go to find the greatest spoil1 they placed a little maiden in a large basket1 and pierced it through with a sword slaying the little one1 and they watched to see through which side of the basket the blood would flow first4 ,this1 they declared1 indicated the direction in which they were to go on their murderous pilgrimage4 ,they had all been drinking from the black bottle of ignorance4 ,yes1 you say1 that might all be true of heathen tribes4 ,but it would be well to remember also that the black bottle of ignorance is found with the wiser people of this day also4 ,the placing of the horseshoe over the door1 the fear of the black cat which crosses our path at night1 the dread of the number #ac and the day ,friday1 are all drops from the bottle of ignorance2 and so it appears that civilized people are often influenced by these things4 ,our colonial fathers when they spilt salt at the table1 threw a pinch of it over the left shoulder to keep the witches away2 so it seems that often this black bottle of ignorance finds a place on our table of daily bread4 ,let us seek knowledge and light always4 ,learn something every day1 and keep far away from this bottle of dark ignorance4 ,remember the mountaintop window of light is to know ,god aright1 and to love him and keep his commandments4 ,if this we do1 the cup of life will be so full that ignorance will find no place to dwell in it4 ,the liquid night cannot reign where we all love ,jesus and walk in his light4 ,the third bottle is labeled ,war4 ,load this bottle with a red liquid which can be produced by red ink or from regular dye-stuff4 ,this liquid represents the blood that war has shed4 ,as you pour this out into the glass say1 ,modern war is murder made lawful by the nations1 but it is unlawful by the laws of ,god4 ,war is sin1 it is an enemy to ,jesus4 ,he came to give peace on earth and good-will among men4 ,that was his way among men4 ,put up thy sword is one of the commandments of the ,new ,testament4 ,it is the word of the ,prince of ,peace4 ,all the world questions should be settled by arbitration4 ,come let us reason together is ,god's good way to settle questions with the sinner or the nations4 ,the spirit of this bad black bottle has slain its countless trillions1 and if all the human skulls through which war bullets have crashed could be assembled in one great ,potter's ,field they would cover an acre of ,towers of ,babel4 ,if all of the bones of the slain by war could by some magic magnet be thrown together they would well nigh cover the civilized acres of the world4 ,put the stopper into this bottle and say1 ,paralyzed be the hand that ever draws out the stopper of the bloody bottle of war4 ,bottle ,no4 #c4 ,labeled ,gold4 ,fill this bottle with a yellow liquid which resembles the gold color4 ,pour out into a glass and remark3 ,the love of this yellow stuff is a universal destroyer4 ,the worship of this demon will cause a man and woman to do all manner of evil4 ,they will lie1 steal1 deceive1 and sell their souls for it4 ,they will offer up the sacrifice of their own lives to possess it4 ,they will sell out both worlds just to toy with it for a few days4 ,gold is evil only when we worship it1 that is1 think more of it than we do of ,god4 ,this is forbidden by the ,first ,commandment4 ,the ,israelites did this when in the wilderness they erected the golden calf and worshiped it4 ,when we use it aright it is not a black bottle1 but a bottle with glad yellow sunshine4 ,we then call its contents charity 7love74 ,paul said charity is even greater than faith and hope4 ,this bottle is not yellow with the sunshine of love1 but of sin1 so ,i will put the cork into this bottle and put it out of sight4 ,may ,i put it out of my mind as ,i have put it out of sight4 ,but here are two other bottles from which ,i may and will drink most freely and live ever more4 ,secure two plain glass bottles4 ,label the first one ,,water1 and the second1 ,,milk4 ,lifting up the bottle marked ,water1 explain that it stands for the ,water of ,life4 ,lifting up the bottle marked ,milk1 explain that it will stand for the pure ,word of ,god4 ,holding up the first bottle1 pour a little of the contents into a new clean glass and say3 ,this crystal water stands for the ,water of ,life or ,god's ,salvation4 ,jesus once offered it to the woman of ,samaria1 and she drank of it and was saved2 she told all her town people of this water1 and hundreds drank from the same bottle to the salvation of their souls4 ,lift high the glass and say3 ,this living ,water is free to all2 come1 and drink1 and live4 ,remember1 ,o ye people1 that just looking at it with admiring eyes will not save you4 ,drink of it1 partake of it--this alone will give you salvation4 ,a thirsty man does not have his thirst quenched by admiring the gushing fountain1 he must drink to lose his thirst4 ,my next and last bottle is labeled ,milk4 ,this stands for the ,word of ,god1 the pure milk of ,god's word4 ,this ,bible milk adds daily strength to the soul which will live on it4 ,it is heaven's prepared food4 ,the ,bible by its promises of help gives us a tall lift when we are weak and worn down4 ,when the ten virgins went forth to meet the ,bridegroom1 the five wise virgins not only took their lamps with them1 but also other vessels filled with reserve oil to be used in replenishing their lamps when the oil had burned away4 ,the extra bottle was their life preserver1 for when the midnight cry was heard1 from this bottle they refilled their lamps1 and went in to the wedding with the ,bridegroom4 ,in our journey home to ,god we must take this bottle of heavenly milk1 ,god's word with us4 ,take a ,milk ,verse every day--that is1 inwardly digest a promise of ,god daily4 ,this will give you strength now and victory in the hour of death4 #ec ,a ,,christmas ,,tree ,,in ,,august ,,objects3 ,a ,tree ,trimmed with ,gifts for the ,heathen ,a ,christmas-tree in ,august6 ,this thought sounds like a misfit among ideas4 ,a ,christmas-tree with its atmosphere of frost1 snow1 and ,december dropped down in the summer garden of ,august seems to be like a rose-bush with its roots planted in the air4 ,but the ,christmas-tree that ,i am thinking about is never a misfit in any month or in any place4 ,any time is the right time for this good tree4 ,let me now tell you about the ,christmas-tree in ,august4 ,it is a foreign-mission tree4 ,in order to send our ,christmas gifts to foreign-mission stations so they will be received in time for ,christmas1 they must be sent months ahead of that date1 and therefore often they are collected in ,august4 ,this will give you ample time to send the gifts to any port in the world4 ,august is the best time to gather the children together also4 ,they are free from school duties1 and the weather is quite suitable for open-air services4 ,select if possible some open space or a lawn on which there is standing a small tree by itself1 ,this tree should not be over five or six feet high4 ,drop on its branches a few bunches of cotton to give a snow-and-winter effect4 ,when the people have assembled around this tree1 and after a brief prayer has been offered1 state that this will be a missionary service1 and that the ,scripture lesson will be the closing verses of the last chapter of ,matthew containing the ,commission4 ,this tree we will call our ,august ,christmas-tree1 for we will now trim it with our ,christmas gifts for the children of the foreign lands4 ,some time previous to this date you have asked all the people to bring their ,christmas gifts for foreign ports to this meeting1 and to wrap them up in white packages securely tied with strong cord4 ,now ask a few selected children to tie a ,christmas card on every package4 ,these cards can be secured at any of the wholesale shops where pictorial post-cards can be obtained4 ,you then with the aid of the older boys and girls trim the tree with these white gifts4 ,this ,christmas-tree under the hot rays of an ,august sun is not unlike the real ,christmastime tree that many of the little folks in some of the far-away lands will in reality have4 ,for in some of these lands flowers and hot sun rays are with them at ,christmastime4 ,this tree bowed down with white gifts will resemble a ,january tree after a heavy snow-storm4 ,it is a joy tree1 for it will send joy to many people4 ,you conclude the service by reading the ,bible ,christmas story and telling the children our gifts will remind the heathen that peace and good-will is for them also as the angels said1 to all men4 ,then offer a concluding prayer that our gifts may all be safely transported across the seas and that the presents may make our little brothers and sisters very happy4 ,now ask the children to help you untrim the tree1 and as they take the presents down ask them to load them on one or more small sleds as if sending them far away4 ,select a number of the very small children to take hold of the ropes of the sleds and to be prepared to march when the order is given4 ,place on the children at the ropes the names of the countries to which these gifts are going1 and let them draw the sleds over the lawn while the other children cheer them as they go on their journey4 ,at last let the children and the sleds disappear behind a cluster of trees at the far end of the lawn where a committee of adults awaits them to receive the gifts and attend to the final shipment to the missionary boards of the ,church4 ,when the children come back with the empty sleds announce that just before they go home they can play a bit4 ,some days before this event roll up into balls some cotton until they look like snowballs4 ,let the children gather around the ,christmas-tree and play snowball games4 ,try this little game3 ,hang up upon the tree a common basket with a handle on it4 ,give each child a certain number of balls1 ask them to stand ten feet away from the basket1 and in turn see how many of the little folks can cast into the basket all their balls4 ,each child continues to cast in the balls until he misses1 and then the next one will take his turn4 ,all of the little folks who put all their balls in the basket should be given a small prize which may consist of a few nuts1 some fruit1 or small candies4 ,here is another snowball game3 ,secure a small hoop and ask some large boy to hold it up as high as possible4 ,then select five girls and five boys each holding five balls apiece4 ,ask them to stand six feet away from the hoop and to cast as many balls through the hoop as possible4 ,each child continues to cast the balls until he misses one1 then he is out1 and the next child tries out his skill4 ,the object of the game is to see which side will cast through the hoop the larger number of balls4 ,the side which does this is the winning side4 ,these games and others like them which may occur to the mind of the committee of arrangements will give the little folks a merry time4 ,tell the children that this ,christmas-tree in ,august is the king of trees because it is a giving tree2 it is therefore blessed by ,jesus because he has said1 ,it is more blessed to give than to receive4 #ed ,,the ,,junior ,,post-,,office ,,objects3 ,a ,box in ,which the ,letters ,can ,be ,deposited ,this book has been telling you what to say to children4 ,the ,junior ,post-office will enable the children to say words to you4 ,this is the ,junior ,post-office idea4 ,have a letterbox placed on the outside of your study door4 ,have posted up over this box the words ,for ,junior ,mail ,only4 ,ask the children to write to you and drop their mail in this box1 and you will receive it promptly and will gladly answer every letter4 ,when you receive the letters and answer them1 announce from the pulpit that you have letters for the following juniors1 and then read out the names and say the letters will be found on the pulpit table and can be secured after the service4 ,sometimes it will have a larger effect if you send the answer through the regular mail to their homes4 ,children like to receive letters in the regular way2 they regard such letters as highly important4 ,announce at your ,junior ,service that you would be glad if they would write to you about the story or lesson of the evening4 ,let them tell the story you told in their own words1 and you will be richly rewarded with a stock of information which they will thus give to you as to how children listen and oftentimes fail to get your point and don't understand the meaning of the words you use4 ,you will often be surprised to note how well they do hear and how much you have put into their heads and hearts4 ,you will notice the words they use1 and how they construct their sentences4 ,you will also get a hint as to the action of their little minds when they are thinking4 ,all of these things are of the utmost value to the worker with children who has his heart in his task4 ,sometimes ask them a question and ask for a written answer through the ,junior ,post-office4 ,for instance1 ask them if some good friend should give them a thousand dollars1 what would they do with it4 ,you will be amused with the answers you will receive4 ,when this was tried once with a bright group of juniors in a city church1 one of the answers was1 ,i would put it in the bank and save it 2 another answer was1 ,i would buy books of travel1 etc4 ,the best answer the pastor said was this one1 ,i would give it to my parents4 ,each of these letters was answered personally and good counsel given to the letter writer4 ,at the next meeting all these letters were read out to the children1 and they took a vote as to the best answer4 ,sometimes the letters which come through the ,junior ,post-office will be little complaints4 ,one wants to know why it is that he is never put on any committee1 especially the committee for the annual excursion4 ,another wants to know why she is never asked to sing a solo at the meeting4 ,another calls the pastor's attention to a modest and backward boy who is a good reciter1 but will never push himself forward4 ,another little girl inquires if her little brother at home who is too young to come to the meeting1 might be made a member of the meeting and get all cards1 papers1 and other things that are given away4 ,these questions the children ask are big questions to them4 ,they should be answered with dispatch and dignity4 ,they are windows through which you can look into child life and see things4 ,sometimes the letters will tell you of their little sorrows and troubles which to them are as real as your own4 ,your answer may give them a lift which they will remember all their lives4 ,often they will write to you about the ,bible and its wonderful stories1 and in their own language they will discuss these events4 ,children all believe the ,bible unless some older head has been tampering with them4 ,sometimes this fact will come out in their letters4 ,your answer can easily set the matter right for all time4 ,they believe in you1 and what you say is the big law in the case1 and that settles it4 ,they will often tell you the story of their little lives which seems to be long and important to them1 and by your answer you can tell them of their big friend ,jesus1 and how he leads all the way to the end4 ,at times they will want to know what they must do to be a ,christian4 ,the answer to this letter should always contain an invitation for them to come and see you personally and talk it over with you4 ,you must1 however1 fix the time1 or many of them will not act quickly4 ,this is the best method to use in bringing children to ,jesus4 ,if in the open you ask them1 ,all of you who want to be saved and live a ,christian life1 come forward to the platform1 after the first two or three respond they will often come forward with a rush4 ,of course1 they do not want to be lost1 but many of them have no real thought of what that act means1 and so before their names are taken for church-membership they should each be dealt with personally4 ,just putting the name on a card declaring they desire to be a ,christian is entirely insufficient and should never be regarded as final4 ,each one should be dealt with personally and alone4 ,after ,decision ,day or revival season their names should be secured and written to1 and an announcement should be made that there are letters in the ,junior ,post-office for them1 which should contain a request for a personal interview with them1 at which time you can make plain the way of life4 ,this ,junior ,post-office method will be a new way of approach to their inner life and will enable you1 as their pastor1 to give counsel that will linger with them for all time4 ,they will also find that you are their good friend and belong to the company of juniors as well as the congregation of elders4 ,this1 of course1 will take the pastor's time4 ,well1 so let it be2 it is time well spent4 ,and what if the work is hard at times8 ,it is first-place work and pays the most in the work of the kingdom4 ,jesus said to ,peter1 ,feed my lambs1 before he said1 ,feed my sheep4 ,he put first things first4 ,go thou and do likewise4 #ee ,,the ,,black ,,bag ,,object3 ,a ,plain ,black ,bag ,when ,i was a boy in my early teens ,i had a ,sunday-school teacher who was surely fifty years ahead of her times4 ,she knew nothing of a teacher-training course or child psychology4 ,she never talked in public on the ,art of ,teaching a ,sunday ,school ,class4 ,she knew but very little of those well-chosen words which the public speaker commands4 ,she knew nothing of the science of public instruction4 ,but she did know boys and was a master of the self-learned art of interesting and instructing a class of early teen-age boys4 ,we boys noticed that often she would bring with her a black bag and would say to us1 ,now boys1 give me your attention1 and after the lesson ,i will show you something ,i have brought with me to the class1 and which ,i have in my little black bag4 ,this little idea showed her mastery over boys4 ,she aroused their curiosity1 and as curiosity is the mother of attention we all listened like regular fellows to what she had to say1 and also kept a longing eye on the bag4 ,we were all set to see what strange things she would draw from it when the lesson was over4 ,she was a great teacher and always gave us boys a story form lesson1 and it sank in to stay1 and often memory brings back the truth she gave us and also the contents of the black bag4 ,we can yet see pouring out of it wonderful truth as from a horn of plenty4 ,sometimes it would be some little trinket which had a bit of history connected with it that brought our heads together and opened our eyes in wonder as we looked and listened4 ,the first object ,i remember she produced from the bag was a little idol from ,china4 ,she had a sister there who had sent it to her4 ,we had never seen an idol before1 and as we passed it around the class for close inspection and listened to her tale of how the heathen worshiped it1 it seemed to our boyish minds as fascinating as a fairy tale1 and just as wonderful4 ,sometimes it would be a little flower for each of us that was produced from the black bag4 ,she lived in those days when many of the city homes had a front-yard garden4 ,she had such a garden1 and when any of us were ill she brought us a cluster of beautiful flowers4 ,sometimes the black bag yielded a big apple apiece1 and we boys never tasted such apples before1 and devoured them as only an always hungry boy can do when he is at his best4 ,we were always at our best when the black bag produced4 ,generally the lesson from the black bag had nothing to do with the regular ,bible lesson1 but was a supplementary lesson4 ,oftentimes there was no lesson to the object at all1 but just a little gift which took its place with the reward cards of that day4 ,one ,saturday morning ,i met my teacher going to the market4 ,she always stopped me when we met and had a few words with me1 and often down in her basket she found a stick of candy among the contents which she always gave me1 and which ,i always received with thanks4 ,her thoughts were with her boys so constantly that she always had a bit of candy among things in her basket1 thinking that perhaps she might meet some of her boys playing in the street as she passed by4 ,this particular morning she said3 ,clarence1 tomorrow ,i will have something new and wonderful in the black bag2 tell all the boys to be sure to be present4 ,then she gave me a stick of candy which had a magic effect on my heels1 for they seemed to have wings1 as ,i spent the entire afternoon running around to the homes of the scholars and giving them the great news about the ,black ,bag4 ,next day we were all in our places and ready for the lesson and also anxiously waiting for the opening of the black bag4 ,when it was opened she gave us a small bag of chestnuts and a picture-card4 ,i have never forgotten the black bag1 as you see ,i am recalling now its history in detail half a century after it opened to us its first simple lesson4 ,that dear teacher long ago put on her white garments and went to heaven4 ,her boys1 six in number1 never forgot their teacher and the black bag4 ,i recall now that two of those boys became ministers of the gospel4 ,two of them went into the practise of law4 ,one went ,west1 and the other passed on4 ,i am all that is left of the old class4 ,the other boys are with her in heaven1 and ,i often think that perhaps they talk over yet the story of the black bag4 ,i have such a black bag now1 and whenever ,i use it in teaching ,i tell them the story of my dear teacher and her black bag4 ,i use it now as a covering for my objects4 ,if the children see the objects before you use them the surprise element is lacking4 ,if they are brought out of a bag as you use them1 the children will be curious about what comes next1 and will wait and watch as you speak4 ,the black bag can be easily made as it is a regular bag4 ,make it about the size of a child's school-bag1 and as books of learning come forth from such a bag tell them that they can learn something from your black bag4 ,you may load it with a variety of objects1 if you so desire1 and let each object teach a lesson4 ,some of the objects used in the chapters of this book can be made first to appear from the black bag4 #ef ,,how ,,five ,,spades ,,dug ,,through ,a ,,chapter ,,to ,,be ,,read ,,for ,,the ,,training ,,of ,,the ,,object ,,worker ,this is an uncommon object-lesson4 ,it is a curio in visual instruction4 ,one summer while traveling in the great ,northwest1 ,i dropped into a ,salvation ,army meeting1 and in their ,war ,cry1 which ,i then purchased1 ,i read the following story4 ,it is a record of the conquest of an uncommon object-lesson upon which ,god had put his great ,o4,k4 by the salvation of a soul4 ,read it through as another helpful illustration of the ministry of visual instruction in thorny ground4 ,this was the story4 ,a friend of mine was once coming on a train when five of the nine in the coach began to play cards2 they were evidently sharpers1 and before long challenged others to play with them1 but all declined1 ,at last they turned to my friend and said3 ,we can see by your face that you fully understand the game2 come1 take a turn4 ,i did know the cards once2 but it is so long since ,i played that ,i forget how to play4 ,nonsense6 they said1 you could win all our money1 if you only tried4 ,perhaps that would not be very much1 he replied2 anyway1 ,i will not attempt4 ,five of you are enough for your game2 we will look on4 ,as they still pegged away at him1 he said at last3 ,gentlemen1 ,i tell you ,i cannot play2 but there is one thing ,i can do4 ,what is that8 they asked eagerly4 ,i can tell fortunes4 ,capital6 ,will you tell ours8 ,if you wish it2 but1 ,i warn you it may not be very flattering4 ,what card will you want8 ,the five of spades1 please1 and it was handed to him with expectation of great sport4 ,i shall require one other thing1 if you don't mind1 he further said4 ,what8 they asked a little impatiently4 ,a ,bible4 ,they could not produce one4 ,no1 but you had one once1 said the fortune-teller1 and if you had followed its precepts you would not be where you now are4 ,however1 ,i have one1 and to their dismay he produced it4 ,a pistol would hardly have been a more unwelcome object4 ,but the fortune-teller began3 ,gentlemen1 you see these two pips at the top of the card8 ,i wish them to represent your two eyes2 this one in the middle1 your mouth2 and these other two1 your knees4 ,now1 in ,revelation #a3g ,i read1 ',behold1 he cometh with clouds2 and every eye shall see him4' ,the speaker is the ,nazarene1 once red with blood for sinners like you and me4 ,your eyes will see him1 and you will have to stand before him to be judged4 ,that is the future of your eyes1 he continued2 now concerning your mouth and knees1 let me read ,philippians #b3i-aa3 ',wherefore ,god also hath highly exalted him1 and given him a name which is above every name2 that at the name of ,jesus every knee should bow1 of things in heaven1 and things in earth1 and things under the earth2 and that every tongue should confess that ,jesus ,christ is ,lord1 to the glory of ,god the ,father4' ,from this ,i foretell that3 your knees will bow to ,jesus1 and your tongue that used to say1 ',gentle ,jesus' and ',our ,father1' will have to confess that he is ,lord of all4 ,your eyes will see him1 and when you see him1 your knees will grow weak1 and you will fall before his majesty4 ,they got more than they bargained for2 but he gave them some more4 ,gentlemen1 that is only the first reading of this card2 now for the second1 if you please4 ,these five spades represent five actual spades that are already made1 and may1 ere long1 dig the graves of you five sinners1 and then your souls will be in the lost world crying in thirst for a drop of water and you will wish you had never been born4 ,the five card-sharpers were getting more and more fidgety2 but it was useless1 for they could not get out1 as the train would not stop for some time yet4 ,gentlemen1 continued the fortune-teller1 you may escape this terrible future1 and my fortune not come true1 if you will do what ,i did1 and perhaps ,i was the worst of the six4 ,my eyes saw ,jesus upon a cross for me in my stead1 bearing my doom1 ,my tongue confessed him as ,lord1 and my knees bowed to him in lowly submission4 ,if you do this1 ,i can foretell the very reverse of all ,i have said4 ,i have told your fortunes1 as ,i promised1 and if ,i am right1 you ought to cross my palm with a dollar apiece2 but ,i do not wish your five dollars4 ,i will be content if one of you will promise to try the ,saviour whose blood cleanseth from all sin4 ,they would neither pay nor promise2 but as the train pulled up at the station they tumbled out as if the carriage had contained a smallpox patient1 leaving my friend in possession of the five of spades4 ,stop1 he cried1 here is your card1 which he tossed after them4 ,recently walking near his home at ,shepherd's ,bush1 ,london1 he was accosted by some one saying1 ,good evening1 sir4 ,it is a good evening1 if all your sins are forgiven1 was the rejoinder4 ,yes1 and ,i am glad you are still at it1 replied the stranger4 ,still at what8 ,telling fortunes4 ,that is not my line4 ,well1 you told mine more than ten years ago4 ,i think you are mistaken1 said my friend4 ,no2 any one who has once seen you can never mistake you4 ,he then recalled the memorable ride4 ,ah6 ,i remember1 and you left like a lot of cowards1 without paying the fortune-teller4 ,i am your payment4 ,your words came true of three of us2 three spades have dug their graves4 ,the other one ,i saw a few days ago2 he is anxious to be saved from the fortune you foretold1 and is attending religious meetings4 ,as ,i parted with him ,i said1 ',sam1 don't forget the five of spades4' ,and what about yourself8 ,when you saw me1 ,i had been to a sister's4 ,i was right down miserable4 ,mother had just died4 ,calling me to her bedside1 she had said3 ',william1 kiss your mother1 and ,i leave you this ,scripture3 ,behold1 he cometh with clouds2 and every eye shall see him' 7,rev4 #a3g74 ,when you quoted those very words1 it seemed as if my dear mother rose up and frowned upon the cards4 ,that text followed me4 ,i drank1 and drank1 and drank again2 but continually ,i heard1 ',every eye shall see him4' ,at last ,i went to ,california1 for the gold-diggings4 ,as soon as ,i landed1 having nothing to do1 ,i stopped to hear some singing2 the singers formed a little procession1 and ,i followed to a hall1 ,when the young man got up to speak1 he gave out as his text1 ',behold1 he cometh with clouds2 and every eye shall see him4' ,it was more than ,i could stand2 that night ,i bowed my knees in submission1 saw ,jesus as my ,saviour1 and with my tongue confessed him4 ,he was soon going back to the diggings2 but that one interview was good payment for the fortune-teller4 ,this is the story of five spades which dug their way through a hardened conscience and there found the open door to a closed heart4 ,it was ,god's way and therefore wonderfully good4 #eg ,,the ,,kaiser',s ,,cup ,,objects3 ,a ,plush ,box and a ,plain ,wooden ,box ,in one of the great ,new ,york daily newspapers some days ago ,i read the following announcement3 ,the ,kaiser's ,cup which belonged to the winner of a trans-,atlantic yacht race has been sold for the benefit of the ,red ,cross and was publicly broken into pieces in ,new ,york ,city4 ,it was supposed to be made of solid gold and to be worth five thousand dollars4 ,it was really made of pewter with a thin gold lining and was valued at about forty dollars4 ,things are not always what they seem to be1 said one of the wise men of the other century1 and the famous ,kaiser's ,cup is another illustration of the truth of that statement4 ,when ,i was a child ,i read in my old blue primer the story of a great dance at which time two children appeared on the floor dressed in gay attire and danced to the great delight of the assembled people1 who greatly wondered at the skill of two such small people when suddenly some one rolled an orange across the floor when the two little dancers stopped their fancy dancing and made a mad rush for the orange2 they fought for it to such an extent that they tore off their gilded robes1 and lo1 they were only two little monkeys4 ,it was the story of the ,kaiser's ,cup dramatized on a ballroom floor4 ,don't let a bright exterior dazzle your eye1 remember the cup may be made of pewter1 not gold4 ,to illustrate this truth1 secure two boxes2 one should be covered with plush1 the other1 just a common wooden box4 ,the plush box should be empty1 the plain box loaded with beautiful flowers or other valuable things4 ,have these two boxes on the table in full view of the audience4 ,after you have told the story of the ,kaiser's ,cup1 turn to the two boxes and say3 ,look at these two boxes on the table before you2 which of them do you think is of the greater value8 ,i think ,i hear you answer and say1 ',the beautiful plush box1 it looks just like a box containing jewels4' ,you open it and find it contains nothing4 ,it is the truth of the ,kaiser's ,cup in wood4 ,gold on the outside1 pewter on the inside4 ,then open the plain wooden box and show it to be full of flowers which you scatter about on the table or distribute among the people1 ,things are not what they seem to be is as true today as when the saying was first uttered4 ,learn to see things as ,god sees them2 man looketh upon the outward countenance1 but ,god at the heart4 ,remember there is coming a time when the ,kaiser's ,cup will be broken4 ,we call that time the ,day of ,judgment1 the ,bible gives it that name4 ,when that day does come1 then all that is hidden will be revealed2 then our cup of life will be tested by ,god's word4 ,will it be pure gold or will it be like the ,kaiser's ,cup8 ,a little girl surprised her father by asking him the question1 ,what is ,god's address8 ,the father1 wishing to teach his little child a lesson1 said1 #adba ,grand ,avenue4 ,it was the number of their own house he had given4 ,he meant to say to her1 ,god is living here with us4 ,both ,god and the little girl had the same address4 ,the cup of their home was gold inside also4 ,martin ,luther had the same thought in his mind when once a stranger knocked at his door and said1 ,who lives here8 ,luther replied1 ,god and ,martin ,luther4 ,if we can say this of our hearts1 ,jesus and ,i live in the same heart together1 we shall be able to stand when the great day comes when evil things will be opened up and broken up4 ,remember the ,kaiser's ,cup4 #eh ,,how ,,to ,,make ,a ,,rag ,,map ,,object3 ,a ,map of ,palestine ,constructed with ,pieces of ,rags ,here is another way of teaching children sacred geography4 ,it is a map of the ,holy ,land made of pieces of canton flannel cut out into various forms and put together in map form before the class4 ,secure a piece of black canton flannel or dye it black if it cannot be secured in that color4 ,mount it on a frame with the rough finished side on the front1 giving it a slight tilt backward4 ,make this background as large as you desire1 the larger the better1 and make all the figures herein mentioned of the same material and put the rough side of each figure against the background1 pressing down the figure and smoothing it out with the hand1 and it will stay in its place without the use of pins or tacks4 ,the fact that it stays put develops a great degree of interest in the little folks1 and they will watch you with big eyes of curiosity4 ,in building this rag map first cut out a number of strips about one inch wide1 and with these make the coast-line4 ,after this cut out strips of blue representing the water ways and put them in their proper places4 ,after this cut out a number of pointed pieces about five inches to the peak4 ,these will represent the mountains4 ,put these in their respective places4 ,now cut out a number of square red pieces about two inches square1 and cause these to represent the cities and put them in their proper locations4 ,after this much of the map is finished drill the children in the location of the rivers1 mountains1 and cities4 ,let them put the figures in their proper places and build that part of the map themselves4 ,after this teach them the ,bible history of each locality4 ,cut out a star in yellow1 put this over ,bethlehem1 and tell them the ,christmas story4 ,put a red cross over ,jerusalem1 and call it the ,crucifixion ,city1 and tell them the story of the ,cross4 ,now make a flat form of a water-pot and place it next to the city of ,cana and tell the story of the first miracle4 ,next cut out in brown a small ladder and place it next to ,bethel4 ,tell the story of ,jacob and his dream4 ,cut out a representation of a bottle which you call a bottle of oil1 and place it near to ,jericho1 and tell the story of the ,good ,samaritan and how the oil was poured into the wounds of the man who fell among thieves4 ,cut out now a representation of a hammer and place it over ,nazareth1 and tell the story of the ,carpentershop and how ,jesus worked in it while he was learning his trade4 ,cut out a side view of an altar and put it on ,mount ,carmel and tell the story of ,elijah and the priests of ,baal4 ,cut out a representation of a green tree2 place that next to ,gethsemane and tell the story of the prayers of ,jesus under the olive-trees4 ,cut out a white representation of a tent and place it by the side of ,hebron and tell the story of ,abraham and the ,visiting ,angels4 ,now cut out a number of dark green trees1 and place them in the ,mountains of ,lebanon in the far north1 and tell them the story of the building of ,solomon's ,temple1 and how they took the timber from these hills to build the ,temple4 ,cut out a representation of a one-story ,oriental house1 and place it near to ,bethany1 and tell the story of the ,home of ,mary and ,martha1 the place where ,jesus loved to go4 ,after the map is finished take down these pictures1 and ask the children to put them back into their proper places and tell the ,bible story connected with each4 ,this method of teaching sacred geography you will find to be very interesting to boys and girls because they are building together4 ,here is another use to which you can put the rag method4 ,if you so desire you can make profile or front-view pictures and tell more ,bible stories with them4 ,here is a representation of the ,ark and ,tower of ,babel4 ,illustration ,put the hull part of the ark in place first1 then add to the top1 and later put on the door and window2 this will give a fair representation of the ,ark of ,noah4 ,the ,tower of ,babel can be built this way also4 ,it is possible to draw line pictures on the smooth side of the flannel with the oil crayon which is now found in all the stationery shops at small cost4 ,after the figure has been drawn out cut it into a number of pieces and put them together on the background to add a little variety to this method of teaching4 ,bring all the rags out of a bag which you call the ,ragged ,prophet's ,bag4 ,turn the bag upside down1 allowing all the rags you use to fall out on the table top4 ,have the rags you use all pinned together so they will not mix with the other rags of the bag4 ,this is how we use rags to teach big ideas4 ,let's try it4 #ei ,,stations ,,of ,,salvation ,,objects3 ,seven ,cards ,fully ,described in the ,chapter ,this is a pictorial attempt to make the plan of salvation as plain as day4 ,the ,romanists have what they call ,the ,stations of the ,cross4 ,these are fourteen in number4 ,by these stations the way of the cross and its blessings are made plain to the worshiper4 ,they offer a prayer at each station and pass on4 ,there is no virtue in this devotion unless they pray from the first station to the last4 ,the sinner in seeking ,christ has his stations of salvation also4 ,he must not miss one4 ,the following stations of salvation can be reproduced on large cardboard and hung up upon the wall in front of the class1 and the way of ,salvation can be pointed out as each station is read and explained4 ,after this explanation1 the prayer of each station should be offered together4 ,if possible have these stations printed on small cards and given to each hearer to take home1 and so make good use of them in daily devotions4 ,a ,roman ,catholic girl seeking the true light happened to be present when ,i was preaching on the stations of salvation and was convicted of her sins and converted to ,god4 ,she had been trained since childhood to see truth in this way and by these stations she found the pathway of the ,cross and the glorious ,saviour4 ,i had lantern slides made of each of these stations and used one of them at a time as a sermon on salvation1 and afterward used the seven stations as the conclusion of the sermon when ,i wanted to make a personal appeal and urge a heart decision for ,christ4 ,these seven stations of salvation can be used for older heads also4 ,you will note the cross at the top of each station4 ,this is the great theme of all the stations4 ,you will also observe the heart beneath the cross containing the words ,i believe4 ,this signifies that salvation is an affair of the heart1 and not an empty form4 ,in discussing each station ask the people to recite the scripture together4 ,after you have explained these scriptures and commented on the subject of the station1 ask your people to repeat with you the prayer of the station1 and then pass on to the next station4 ,the following are the stations in their order3 ,station ,no4 #a4 ,condemnation ,illustration3 ,i ,,believe ,,the ,,seven ,,stations ,,of ,,salvation ,station ,no4 #a ,for all have sinned and come short as the glory of ,god 7,rom4 #c3bc74 ,the soul that sinneth1 it shall die 7,ezek4 #ah3d74 ,,prayer ,o ,lord1 cause me to know that ,i am a lost sinner and under condemnation in this life and will be lost forever in the life that is to come4 ,o ,lord1 hear my solemn prayer4 ,lamb of ,god that taketh away the sin of the world1 have mercy upon me4 ,and this ,i ask in ,jesus' name4 ,amen4 ,,condemnation ,condemnation is the first step4 ,this is an inward sense of sin4 ,we must all feel this1 or we shall not be inclined to take the next step4 ,station ,no4 #b4 ,conviction ,illustration3 ,i ,,believe ,,the ,,seven ,,stations ,,of ,,salvation ,station ,no4 #b ,father1 ,i have sinned against heaven and before thee 7,luke #ae3ah74 ,god1 be merciful unto me a sinner 7,luke #ah3 #ac74 ,,prayer ,my ,father in ,heaven1 my sinful heart now condemns me and ,i know ,i am guilty of the sin of not believing on thy ,son1 my ,saviour4 ,o ,lord1 be merciful to me a sinner1 and hear my solemn prayer4 ,lamb of ,god that taketh away the sin of the world1 have mercy upon me4 ,for ,jesus' sake4 ,amen4 ,,conviction ,conviction must follow condemnation1 or it will avail nothing4 ,to know ,i am condemned is of itself of little value4 ,it must lead to conviction4 ,station ,no4 #c4 ,repentance ,illustration3 ,i ,,believe ,,the ,,seven ,,stations ,,of ,,salvation ,station ,no4 #c ,repent ye3 for the kingdom of heaven is at hand 7,matt4 #c3b74 ,bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance 7,matt4 #c3h74 ,,prayer ,hear thou my prayer1 ,o ,lord1 for ,i have a godly sorrow for my sin and do now turn away from my transgressions and turn to thee4 ,hear my solemn prayer1 ,lamb of ,god that taketh away the sin of the world1 have mercy upon me4 ,in his name4 ,amen4 ,,repentance ,after conviction repentance must follow--repentance deep enough so that we feel our sins have hurt the heart of ,god4 ,station ,no4 #d4 ,redemption ,illustration3 ,i ,,believe ,,the ,,seven ,,stations ,,of ,,salvation ,station ,no4 #d ,in whom we have redemption through his blood1 the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace 7,eph4 #a3g7 ,christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law1 being made a curse for us 7,gal4 #c3ac74 ,,prayer ,blessed ,lord1 who didst hang on the tree of the cross for me1 and thus redeem my precious soul1 ,i do now accept thee as my ,saviour and ,redeemer4 ,hear1 ,o ,lord1 my solemn prayer4 ,amen4 ,,redemption ,repentance when it is of the heart is sure to lead to redemption1 because no truly repentant heart ever sought the ,lord in vain4 ,station ,no4 #e4 ,confession ,illustration3 ,i ,,believe ,,the ,,seven ,,stations ,,of ,,salvation ,station ,no4 #e ,return unto thy house1 and show how great things ,god hath done unto thee 7,luke #h3ci74 ,i will declare what he hath done for my soul 7,ps4 #ff3af74 ,,prayer ,blessed ,lord1 having been redeemed by thy precious blood1 ,i now declare to the world what thou hast done for my soul1 ,i will proclaim it by my baptism and union with thy blessed church4 ,make and keep me ever thine4 ,amen4 ,,confession ,a sure sign we have been redeemed is that we will tell somebody2 not because we must1 but because we cannot help it4 ,we must tell the world of it4 ,station ,no4 #f4 ,submission ,illustration3 ,i ,,believe ,,the ,,seven ,,stations ,,of ,,salvation ,station ,no4 #f ,submit yourselves therefore to ,god 7,james #d3g74 ,for one is your ,master1 even ,christ 7,matt4 #bc3h74 ,,prayer ,o ,lord1 ,i pass over my life into thy hands4 ,i submit to thy rule--thou art my good ,master4 ,work out thy will by thy ,spirit in me4 ,lamb of ,god that taketh away the sin of the world1 have mercy upon me4 ,lamb of ,god that taketh away the sin of the world1 give me peace4 ,for ,jesus' sake ,i ask my prayer4 ,amen4 ,,submission ,if we have received ,jesus and openly confessed him we will submit our souls to him4 ,he is our master4 ,station ,no4 #g4 ,glorification ,illustration3 ,i ,,believe ,,the ,,seven ,,stations ,,of ,,salvation ,station ,no4 #g ,thou wilt shew me the path of life2 in thy presence is fullness of joy2 at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore 7,ps4 #af3aa74 ,and there shall be no night there 7,rev4 #bb3e74 ,,prayer ,i pray thee1 ,o ,lord1 bring me at last to thy right hand in heaven1 and to thy pleasures everlasting1 and so will ,i be glorified1 and sin no more4 ,hear thou my solemn prayer4 ,for ,jesus' sake4 ,amen4 ,,glorification ,at the end of the way we will find the golden gates to glory wide open for us1 and the angels waiting there all ready to sing the chorus of ,welcome ,home4 #fj ,a ,,suggestive ,,program ,this ,program ,is ,simply a ,little ,hint as to ,what ,next in the ,exercises4 ,this and ,any ,other ,program ,should ,be ,completed in ,not ,more ,than ,one ,hour4 ,,suggestive ,,program #a4 ,call to ,order4 ,three slow bells4 #b4 ,guard enters with the ,bible and places it on the desk4 7,all standing47 #c4 ,flag-bearers enter with ,conquest and ,united ,states flags4 #d4 ,salute ,conquest ,flag4 ,sing ,doxology4 7,hand on the heart47 #e4 ,salute the ,united ,states ,flag4 ,sing ,america4 7,hand over the eyes47 #f4 ,prayer1 concluding with ,lord's ,prayer4 #g4 ,recite in concert the ,twenty-third ,psalm4 #h4 ,evening ,song4 #i4 ,prayer by ,leader4 #aj4 ,song of ,praise4 #aa4 ,elevation of the ,scriptures4 ,lift up the ,bible1 and say1 ,this is ,god's ,holy ,word1 the guide of our fathers and the rule of my life4 #ab4 ,all recite in response1 ,god's ,holy ,word1 ,i promise to search4 ,god's ,holy ,word1 ,i will try to keep4 #ac4 ,address--,an ,object-talk or ,picture-lesson4 #ad4 ,notices1 etc4 #ae4 ,hymn4 #af4 ,united ,prayer4 ,all repeat the prayer after the leader4 #ag4 ,the ,taps in ,song4 ,day is gone1 ,night has come1 ,day has gone1 ,night has come1 ,god is near1 ,god is near1 ,all is well1 ,all is well4 #ah4 ,all in concert say1 ,good ,night1 ,pastor4 #ai4 ,pastor says1 ,good ,night1 ,junior ,church4 #fa ,a ,,morning ,,and ,,evening ,,prayer ,a ,,memory ,,exercise ,,my ,,first ,,prayer ,when ,i was a little fellow my mother taught me this simple little prayer3 ,now ,i lay me down to sleep1 ,i pray thee1 ,lord1 my soul to keep4 ,if ,i should die before ,i wake1 ,i pray thee1 ,lord1 my soul to take4 ,daniel ,webster remembered this prayer when dying and repeated it with his white lips as his last words4 ,it is with all of us a prayer that we cannot easily forget4 ,it sinks into our childhood mind which is plastic so that ideas stick4 ,it holds its place on the throne of memory even when that throne totters with the weight of years4 ,now ,i want to give you a companion to that prayer as you begin your day1 as you older grow3 ,now ,i wake myself to work1 ,i pray thee1 ,lord1 ,i may not shirk4 ,if ,i should die before the night1 ,i pray thee1 ,lord1 my work be right4 ,this is not only a prayer for the nursery1 but for the work-shop and the day's task as well4