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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, With the Children on Sunday, by Sylvanus
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+Title: With the Children on Sunday
+       Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul
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+Author: Sylvanus Stall
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+WITH THE CHILDREN ON SUNDAYS
+
+Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+by
+
+SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.
+
+Author of "What a Young Boy Ought to Know," "What a Young
+Man Ought to Know," etc., "Methods of Church Work,"
+"Faces Toward the Light," etc., etc.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+This book is published and sold exclusively in the United States by
+The Uplift Publishing Company
+Philadelphia, Pa.
+
+Copyright, 1911, by Sylvanus Stall.
+
+Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England.
+
+Protected by International copyright in Great Britain and all her
+colonies, and, under the provisions of the Berne Convention, in
+Belgium, France, Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, Tunis,
+Hayti, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro and Norway.
+
+All rights reserved.
+
+[Printed in the United States.]
+
+Copyright, 1893, by Sylvanus Stall.
+Copyright, 1896, by Sylvanus Stall.
+Copyright, 1907, by Sylvanus Stall.
+
+All the drawings and color-pictures in this took have been specially
+prepared by C. M. Burd, of New York City, for exclusive use
+in these pages. Each of these has been copyrighted in the United
+States and throughout Europe, and all copyright privileges are
+reserved.
+
+
+
+[Illustration: SYLVANUS STALL, D.D.]
+
+
+
+
+          DEDICATED
+
+          TO PARENTS AND CHILDREN WHO DESIRE
+          TO MAKE SUNDAY THE HAPPIEST AND MOST
+          IMPRESSIVE DAY OF THE WEEK.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                  PAGE.
+      PREFACE                                        9
+
+      SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS                        17
+
+   1. OYSTER AND CRAB--Conscience                   27
+
+   2. WORM IN THE APPLE--Sin in the Human Heart     33
+
+   3. WAYSIDE WEEDS AND GARDEN FLOWERS--Neglected
+       vs. Christian Children                       38
+
+   4. NUTS--God Means that We Must Work             46
+
+   5. BANKS--Gathered and Guarded Treasures         51
+
+   6. CHART--Avoiding Dangers                       56
+
+   7. ANCHOR--Hope that Lays Hold of Christ         61
+
+   8. HUSKS--The Disappointed Pleasure Seeker       66
+
+   9. IRON, LOW GRADE AND HIGH GRADE--Character
+       and Worth                                    75
+
+  10. A POCKET RULE--How God Measures Men           81
+
+  11. THE MAGNET--Jesus the Great Drawing Power     86
+
+  12. KEYS--How to Unlock the Human Heart           92
+
+  13. TRAPS--Unsuspecting Mice and Men              97
+
+  14. BREAD--Universal Soul Hunger                 102
+
+  15. THE STONE--The Natural and Changed Heart     107
+
+  16. THE POLISHED STONE--Perfection Through
+       Suffering                                   112
+
+  17. ROPES--Habits and How They Become Strong     120
+
+  18. WATCH AND CASE--Soul and Body                125
+
+  19. PEARLS--One of Great Price                   130
+
+  20. COAL AND WOOD--Jesus the Source of
+       Spiritual Light and Warmth                  135
+
+  21. LANTERNS--The Best Light for Our Path        140
+
+  22. CANDLES--How to Reflect, Obscure or
+       Extinguish the Light                        145
+
+  23. A BROKEN CHAIN--Breaking the Whole Law       151
+
+  24. LOOKING-GLASS--Seeing Ourselves in God's
+       Law                                         156
+
+  25. RAIN--God's Wisdom and Power                 161
+
+  26. SNOW--Lessons Which it Teaches               168
+
+  27. PLASTIC FACE--Character in the Countenance   174
+
+  28. SEEDS--Thoughts, Word, Deeds,--Their Life
+       and Perpetuity                              179
+
+  29. SOWING--The Spring Time of Life              185
+
+  30. REAPING--The Harvest Time of Life            192
+
+  31. WHEAT AND CHAFF--The Coming Separation       198
+
+  32. THE HEART--The Most Wonderful Pump in
+       the World                                   204
+
+  33. THE EYE--The Most Valuable and Most
+       Wonderful Telescope                         210
+
+  34. THE EYE--Smallest Camera, Most Valuable
+       Pictures                                    217
+
+  35. FROGS--The Plagues of Egypt                  222
+
+  36. BLOOD--The Feast of the Passover             228
+
+  37. PINE BRANCH--The Feast of Tabernacles        234
+
+  38. LEAVES--The Lessons Which They Teach         240
+
+  39. THE TURTLE--Man Like and Yet Unlike the
+       Animals                                     246
+
+  40. GRASSHOPPER AND ANT--Negligence and
+       Industry                                    252
+
+  41. BALANCES--How God Weighs People              260
+
+  42. WHITE AND CHARRED STICKS--Good and Bad
+       Company                                     267
+
+  43. DOGS--The Dogs of St. Bernard                272
+
+  44. THE CAMERA--God's Picture Book               279
+
+  45. THE PHONOGRAPH--Books that Talk              285
+
+  46. MAGNET AND NEEDLE--God's Guiding Hand        290
+
+  47. FISH IN AQUARIUM--The All-Seeing Eye of
+       God                                         295
+
+  48. THE CLOCK--Measuring Time                    300
+
+  49. PLANS--Living with a Purpose                 307
+
+  50. THE CHRISTMAS TREE--The Lessons Which
+       It Teaches                                  311
+
+  51. EASTER SUNDAY--The Resurrection of
+       the Body                                    318
+
+  52. CROWNS--We Are Children of the King          325
+
+      A WORD TO PARENTS                            331
+
+      PRESS NOTICES                                332
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+SUNDAY ought to be the most cheerful, sunniest, happiest and best day of
+the week in every home. In most homes it is the dullest and most dreary
+day of the week to the children, and the most taxing and the most
+wearying to the parents, especially to the mother. It not only ought to
+be, but it can be made, not only the brightest and happiest but also the
+most influential in the character-building and religious training of the
+children. In some households Sunday is looked forward to with
+anticipations of pleasure throughout the entire week. In these homes,
+the father does not come down stairs on Sunday morning and say: "Now,
+children, gather up those flowers, throw them out of the window, pull
+down the blinds, get down the Bible and we will have an awful solemn
+time here to-day." Neither is the day given to frivolity or the home to
+demoralizing influences. From morning until night there are two great
+principles that govern; first, the sacredness of the day, and second,
+the sacredness of the God-given nature of childhood. The day is not
+spent in repressing the child nature by a succession of "don't do that,"
+"now stop that," etc., that begin in the morning and continue throughout
+the day, and end only when the little ones lose consciousness in sleep
+on Sunday night. In these homes, the parents recognize the fact that the
+child nature is the same whether the day is secular or sacred. On Sunday
+the child nature is not repressed, but the childish impulses are
+directed into channels suited to the sacredness of the day. In such
+homes the children, instead of being sorry that it is Sunday, are glad;
+instead of regretting the return of the day with dislike and dread,
+they welcome it as the brightest, the cheeriest and the best of all the
+week.
+
+The purpose of the author in the preparation of this book in its present
+illustrated and slightly changed form, is to afford all parents a
+valuable aid in making Sunday not only the brightest, happiest and best
+day of the entire week for both parents and children, but also to aid
+the parents to make Sunday pre-eminently the day around which shall
+cluster throughout the entire life of each child the sweetest, tenderest
+and most sacred recollections of childhood, of father and mother and of
+brother and sister, and especially of their knowledge of the Bible and
+of everything sacred.
+
+Did it ever occur to you, as a parent, that between the birth and the
+age of twenty-one years there are three solid years of Sundays--an
+amount of time almost equal to the number of years given to an entire
+course of college training? The Creator has not laid upon parents the
+responsibilities of parenthood without giving them ample time and
+opportunity to discharge these obligations to Him, to themselves, and to
+their children.
+
+The idea which has been successfully demonstrated in hundreds of homes,
+where the impulses and natural inclinations of childhood have been
+turned into sacred channels on Sundays so as to enable the parents to
+teach spiritual truths in the most effective manner, is the method which
+is suggested by the author to the parents in the use, on Sunday
+afternoons, of the fifty-two little sermons given in this volume.
+
+The parent who fails to use wisely the opportunities of Sunday
+afternoons for impressing the children with spiritual truths, loses the
+greatest opportunity that family life affords. Among the different
+instances known to the author, the following three may serve as
+illustrations of what may be found in many communities:
+
+I knew a mother who regularly on Sunday afternoons gathered her
+children about her and read them religious books and literature. In her
+considerable family, every child became eminently useful. One, who was a
+university professor, told me that those Sunday afternoons with his
+mother in the nursery embodied the most formative influences of his
+life.
+
+I know another family, of some seven or eight children, where Sunday was
+always used for religious instruction with the children. With the
+reading and other things, they always "played church", and the
+experience of those early childhood days made the boys splendid public
+talkers, and the girls were also very capable in the same direction. No
+better school of oratory was ever organized.
+
+I know another family of four children, where the entire family looked
+forward throughout the week to the special and larger pleasure which
+Sunday always brought. They grew up naturally into a religious life, and
+developed that ability for public address and service which could not so
+well be gained in any other way.
+
+Sunday is about the only day in most of households where the father is
+home with his family. It adds greatly to the pleasure and impressiveness
+of the day and its services if the father, with the mother, enters
+heartily into the spirit of that which will be all the more enjoyed by
+the children. It will enable him also to stamp his personality deeper
+into the character of his children than possibly any other opportunity
+which may be afforded him in life.
+
+These brief object talks grew out of the necessities found in the
+author's own parish. When called to the pastorate of the Second English
+Lutheran Church, of Baltimore, I found a depleted congregation, while at
+the same time the Sunday-school was one of the largest and most
+flourishing in the city. It was then for the first time that I
+introduced regularly the preaching of "Five-minute object sermons"
+before the accustomed sermon on Sunday morning. In a very brief period,
+about one-fourth of the infant department and two-thirds of the main
+department of the school were in regular attendance upon the Sunday
+morning service, and, even after this particular form of address had
+been discontinued, the teachers and scholars continued regularly to come
+direct from the morning session of the school to the services of the
+church.
+
+These sermons were preached without notes, were subsequently outlined
+and then spoken into the phonograph, put in manuscript by a
+phonographer, and, that the simplicity of style and diction might be
+preserved, were printed with only slight verbal changes.
+
+The objects used in illustrating these talks have been chosen from among
+the ordinary things of every-day life. Such objects have the advantage
+of being easily secured, and on account of their familiarity also prove
+more impressive, and being more often seen, more frequently recall to
+mind the truths taught.
+
+To any thoughtful student who has marked the simple language and
+beautiful illustrations used by that Great Preacher and Teacher who
+"spake as never man spake," it will be unnecessary to say a single word
+in justification of this method of presenting abstruse truths to the
+easy comprehension of the young. Upon all occasions Jesus found in the
+use of the ordinary, every-day things about Him, the easy means of
+teaching the people the great truths of divine import. The door, the
+water, the net, the vine, the flowers which sprang at His feet, the
+birds that flew over His head, the unfruitful tree that grew by the
+wayside, the wheat and the tares that grew together in the field, the
+leaven which a woman hid in three measures of meal, the husbandman
+pacing his field engaged in sowing his grain, the sheep and the goats
+which rested together on the slopes waiting to be separated each into
+their own fold, the old garment mended with a piece of new cloth, the
+mustard seed, the salt--anything that chanced to be about the Master
+was used as an illustration, that He might plainly and impressively
+teach the people the saving truths of redemption and salvation. May we
+not also reasonably suppose that if Jesus were upon the earth to-day He
+would still exercise this same distinguishing wisdom in the use of the
+common, every-day things by which He would now find Himself surrounded?
+
+Let it be distinctly understood that this book is not a substitute for
+the regular services of God's House. I believe in "the Church in the
+house," but I also believe that the entire family, including the
+children, should also be in the Church on the Lord's day. The absence of
+the children from the services of the sanctuary is one of the alarming
+evils of our day. There are but few congregations where children can be
+found in any considerable numbers. No one will attempt to deny the sad
+consequences which must follow as the inevitable results of such a
+course. The children at eight years of age who have not already begun to
+form the habit of church attendance, and are not quite thoroughly
+established in it at sixteen, will stand a very fair chance of spending
+their entire life with little or no attachment for either the Church or
+religious things. The non-church going youth of this decade will be the
+Sabbath-breakers and irreligious people of the next.
+
+Who are to blame for this state of affairs, and to whom are we to look
+for the correction of this existing evil?
+
+Manifestly, first of all, to the _parents_. That parental authority
+which overcomes the indifference of the child and secures his devotion
+to the irksome duties of secular life, should also be exercised to
+establish and maintain a similar fidelity to religious duties and
+spiritual concerns. If left to their own inclinations, children will
+invariably go wrong in the affairs of both worlds. Attendance upon the
+church should be expected and required, the same as attendance upon the
+secular instruction of the schools; for the best interests of the child
+are not more dependent upon the discipline of the mind than upon the
+development of the heart. In the formation of the habit of church
+attendance, it would be well to remind parents that example will be as
+helpful as precept. They should not send, but take their children to
+church. They should make room for them in the family pew, provide them
+with a hymn-book and see that they have something for the collection.
+Parents owe it to their children to teach them to be reverent in God's
+house, to bow their heads in prayer, to be attentive to the sermon; and
+while requiring these things of their children, they should also see
+well to it that after service, at the table, in the home, or elsewhere
+nothing disparaging of God's house, message or messenger should fall
+from their lips upon the ears of their children.
+
+As these little talks were originally used before the main sermon on
+Sunday morning before a mixed audience of adults and a large number of
+children, it has seemed best, in order to carry out the idea of
+preaching, that the manner of speaking as though to an audience should
+be retained in this book. It is better suited than any other method for
+use also by the parent when reading these pages to the children in the
+home.
+
+The earlier issues of these talks under the title: "Five Minute Object
+Sermons to Children" and the second volume: "Talks to the King's
+Children" were accorded a place of usefulness in nearly every land, and
+the author now sends forth this volume in its present illustrated and
+slightly revised form for a place in every home, trusting that it may be
+as influential in the lives of the children of to-day as it has proven
+in the lives of the children of yesterday.
+
+                                                     SYLVANUS STALL.
+
+[Illustration: DR. STALL WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN DRIVING
+TO CHURCH]
+
+[Illustration: THE LITTLE PREACHER AND HIS INTERESTED AUDIENCE]
+
+[Illustration: LITTLE BILLIE TAKING UP THE COLLECTION]
+
+[Illustration: DR. STALL READING TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN]
+
+
+
+
+SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS.
+
+HELPFUL METHODS FOR MAKING SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE CHILDREN THE MOST
+PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE DAY OF THE WEEK.
+
+
+The idea of "playing church" is by no means an innovation. What is shown
+in the pictures upon a preceding page has been actualized in many homes.
+Let me quote from a single letter which lies before me:
+
+"The writer was one of a large family of children and well remembers the
+Sunday afternoons spent in his village home. 'Playing church,' was one
+of its features. The chairs were placed in regular fashion, imitating
+the seating arrangements of a church, every one of us took his or her
+turn as preacher, hymns were sung, a real collection was taken and one
+of us, as preacher, took his text and preached the sermon. There wasn't
+a dull moment in those good, old Sunday afternoons in our home.
+Occasionally, the preacher would provoke a smile by his original way of
+handling the text and of emphasizing some point in his discourse.
+
+"We have all grown up since those happy days; some of us attained to a
+degree of efficiency as public speakers, and we attribute much of our
+efficiency and character in life to those profitable Sunday afternoon
+hours."
+
+From the experiences of the children as narrated above, the suggestion
+occurs, why not use these object talks in like manner? "Play church"
+Sunday afternoons, read an "object sermon," show the illustrations, ask
+the questions at the end of each chapter and then follow it up with a
+discussion from the children, giving their ideas and experiences.
+
+You will find that you will get as much benefit and entertainment from
+these Sunday afternoons "playing church" service as the children will.
+You will be surprised at their interest and the originality that they
+will display in these discussions. You will be quickening their faculty
+of observation and stirring their imaginations, in a manner that will
+surely make observant, thoughtful and considerate men and women of the
+children, and consequently, affect their entire destinies in the years
+to come. Then, too, you yourself will be helped mentally and
+spiritually, because it is absolutely true that in the devotion that we
+exhibit and the time and attention that we give to our children in this
+companionship, we will ourselves be receiving large blessings in the
+development of our own character and the finer characteristics that make
+for good people.
+
+
+PLAYING CHURCH.
+
+The following suggestions will be helpful, to which original ideas may
+always be added.
+
+1. Make the "Afternoon Church" a real, not frivolous, occasion. The time
+it requires to make careful, pains-taking preparation on the part of the
+parent, is always profitably employed.
+
+2. The afternoon church should always be a regular, fixed engagement. It
+adds to its importance.
+
+3. Do not postpone nor omit it for any trivial reason. Treat it as any
+other important engagement.
+
+4. When visitors are in the home, invite them to be present and to
+participate. It will help them as well as the juniors.
+
+5. The fact that there is only one child in the family does not preclude
+the idea of playing church; for the dolls can be brought to church and
+even chairs can be converted into imaginary people.
+
+6. Never permit the realness of the occasion to be questioned. Always
+avoid embarrassing the child and _never_ ridicule. Refrain from laughing
+at any mistakes that may be made in speech, thought or conduct of the
+child, unless he first sees the mistake and invites you to join in his
+mirth.
+
+7. Ask any additional questions pertinent to the subject besides those
+suggested at the end of each sermon. It will develop wider thought and
+increase the interest.
+
+8. Encourage the child to ask questions, but always lead in directing
+the thought.
+
+9. Adults present should always enter seriously and earnestly into the
+whole program or plan with the child's spirit. Where adults enter upon
+the execution of the plan with this spirit it adds much to the enjoyment
+of all. If they cannot do this, they should not participate.
+
+10. A bell can be slowly rung as the time for church approaches.
+
+11. Use the brightest and most cheerful room in the house for the
+afternoon church. Add to the furnishings on Sunday anything which may
+make the room even more than ordinarily attractive.
+
+12. Chairs may be suitably arranged and a child can drive the others to
+and from church in an imaginary carriage, as shown in one of the
+pictures upon another page.
+
+13. When the church is held in another room, an older child or person
+can receive the attendants and usher them to seats.
+
+14. Open the church service with singing. Select several simple
+devotional hymns or songs, such as are used in the primary department of
+Sunday-schools. Have all the children learn the tunes and teach a verse
+of each song to any child that cannot read.
+
+15. A collection can be lifted by one of the children. A toy bank may be
+used in which to save the money received at this child's service, and
+subsequently contributed through the Church or Sunday-school for
+missionary purposes.
+
+16. Teach the children the importance of saving from their own spending
+money, or earning what they wish to give in the collection.
+
+17. This money should always be regarded as sacred, and care should also
+be exercised lest this little fund might become a source of temptation
+to the children during the week.
+
+18. At some time during the service a brief prayer should be offered.
+This may consist of a sentence prayer by each in rotation or by all
+uniting in the Lord's Prayer, or in some brief selection from the Prayer
+Book.
+
+19. When a child is willing or wishes to do so, have him preach the
+sermon in his own way of expressing the thought, using the text or
+object of the day for his subject. Always give the same interested
+attention to him that is expected from him when another leads.
+
+20. Some of the objects mentioned in the sermons can be easily and
+cheaply obtained for use at the church. When such an object is secured,
+it should not be shown to the children in advance of being used.
+
+21. Do not prolong the service too greatly so as to weary the children.
+Effectiveness and pleasure usually terminate at the same time. Lend
+animation to the service and interest will not so soon flag. It is well
+also to impart interest by having the parent enter heartily into every
+part of the service.
+
+22. A social period after "returning home" from the "children's church"
+should be introduced. If the children have played driving to church
+before the service, the idea should be continued and completed by
+driving home in the same manner.
+
+
+AFTER CHURCH.
+
+23. After the conclusion of the church service, additional exercises or
+games suited to the sacredness of the day may be appropriately used to
+entertain the children and continue their happiness. By methods of this
+kind, Sunday may be made not only the most profitable, but the brightest
+and best day of the week.
+
+24. Some light refreshment may be introduced, as fruit, cake or candy.
+This refreshment should be something very simple and inexpensive, and
+also something not calculated to spoil the appetite or injure the
+digestion of the child. In recognition of good conduct, close attention
+or special help at the church service, one of the children may choose
+what the refreshment is to be for the next Sunday. This choice should be
+kept a secret during the week.
+
+25. Pictures and illustrations can be cut from magazines, and these can
+be pasted in a scrap book or on blank paper to represent Bible
+characters and scenes, or those used in the sermons.
+
+26. Many acting games and tableaux can be arranged by the children from
+the sermons and Bible stories. Chairs can be arranged so as to represent
+a pit or tent, and the children within them may be "Joseph in the Pit"
+(Genesis xxxvii) or "Daniel in the Lion's Den" (Daniel vi). See
+illustrations on pages 80 and 91.
+
+
+FOR OLDER CHILDREN.
+
+27. Let one child represent an idol. He must stand motionless and give
+no sign of life. The others are to ask him questions and for favors. If
+the "idol" laughs, moves or speaks, he loses and another takes his
+place. Idols are lifeless things that cannot move, see, hear or speak.
+
+28. Children's blocks are useful in building a well, altar, castle,
+temple, chariot, etc. Have the children give a text or verse from the
+Bible referring to the objects builded. A Bible story may be told about
+the object, its history, use, etc.
+
+29. One child, or more as may be needed, can pose to represent a
+character or scene. The others are to guess the character represented.
+For example: A child can sit with hands upheld. A child on each side of
+him hold up the extended arms. They represent Moses with Aaron and Hur
+during the battle (Ex. xvii: 12).
+
+30. Charades, or words and scenes may be represented by the children in
+motion. The children may be divided into groups. One group will select a
+word and represent it in the presence of the others by motions. For
+example: Children come into the room and go through the motion of sowing
+("Seeds"), reaping ("Harvest"), threshing with a flail ("Wheat and
+Chaff"), picking flowers ("Weeds and Flowers"), taking pictures ("Eye
+and Camera"). Many of the sermon subjects may be used in this manner.
+Cutting stone, measuring, eating husks, washing dirty face, etc. The
+other groups are to guess the word and have their turn.
+
+31. Children are always fond of riddles; especially when they are able
+to guess the answer. The suggested review questions at the close of each
+object sermon for afternoon church, may often be effectively used with
+slight changes. For example: "What is it that cannot see nor hear, but
+always knows when danger is near?" The answer is--"The Oyster."
+
+What is it which no boy or girl can see or hear, and the approach of
+which can not be made known by any of the natural senses? (Sin.)
+
+What is it which tells us when sin is near? (Conscience.)
+
+Have the children try to make up their own riddles from the objects
+shown and their uses, or lessons learned from the sermons.
+
+
+SLATES AND CRAYONS.
+
+32. Provide slates, or paper and pencils may be provided, and the
+children draw the object or something suggested by its use. Always have
+blank paper and pencils on hand for some of the games or exercises
+mentioned below.
+
+33. Cheap colored crayons can often be used with added value.
+
+34. Each Sunday appoint one child to take charge of the slates, papers
+and pencils, which are to be kept in a safe place and not disturbed
+during the week, and then to distribute them on the following Sunday.
+
+
+BUILDING AND WORD GAMES.
+
+35. Word building games are always interesting. Cut small squares of
+cardboard and plainly mark each with a letter. Many more vowels than
+consonants will be required. (These little squares with printed letters
+can be purchased at any toy-store.) Mix up the squares on a table, and
+the child who spells the largest number of names of places or objects
+mentioned in the sermons, using the letters on the squares, wins the
+game.
+
+36. This can be played in a variety of ways. For instance: Select the
+name of an object, person or place, and the one who first picks out the
+necessary letters to spell it, is declared the winner.
+
+37. Each child is given the same number of assorted letters and all try
+to make up the largest list of names from his portion of letters in a
+given time.
+
+
+BIBLE GUESSES.
+
+38. Tell a Bible story, or review one of the object sermons, omitting
+the names of characters or objects. Without warning, the one reciting
+the story stops, and the next player carries on the story if he has been
+able to guess the omitted names, without mentioning them. If he has not
+discovered or guessed the right story, the next player takes it up, and
+so on until the story is completed and everyone knows it.
+
+39. One of the children goes out of the room and the others decide on
+some object used in a sermon, or a certain thing mentioned in the Bible,
+which is to be described. For example: A watch, telescope, or the Ark,
+Joseph's coat of many colors, etc. Upon entering the room, the child may
+ask all manner of questions which can be answered by "yes" and "no".
+When the right thing is guessed, another goes out of the room and the
+game is repeated. Two or more children, or groups, may be the guessers
+at the same time.
+
+40. The game of thinking is equally interesting. The leader thinks of
+some character, place or object in the sermons or mentioned in the
+Bible. The "thinker" then says--"I am thinking of some thing (person or
+place) and the name begins with 'C' (or the initial letter)." Each of
+the other players asks a question in turn, that can be answered by "yes"
+or "no". The questions are continued until some one guesses the name.
+The one who first guessed the name becomes the leader.
+
+41. Make word pictures by describing persons and scenes without
+mentioning names. The others are to guess what it is. For example: The
+leader may say--"I see some ladies walking beside the water. Suddenly
+they stop and listen. Then one of them wades into the water and finds
+something," etc. If the picture is not promptly guessed, the story or
+picture of Pharaoh's daughter finding the baby Moses (Ex. ii: 3) is
+further described, until the picture is made known. Other stories may be
+used in the same manner.
+
+42. One or two players go out. The others sit in line and choose a well
+known proverb, Bible verse, or sentence from the object sermon, having
+as many words as there are players. Each player having made certain what
+his word is, the others are called in. It is their duty to put the
+sentence together. They ask each player in turn a question on any
+subject, and in answering the player must use the particular word given
+him. The questions may be continued, and the word must always be used in
+the answer, until the one guessing has discovered the particular word
+that player has, and so on until all the words in their order are
+guessed and the sentence or proverb discovered.
+
+In the same way, instead of the questions, the particular word may be
+acted, as charades, until the person guessing has discovered each word
+and at length composed the complete sentence.
+
+43. Distribute paper and pencils. Let a single letter be selected and
+have each child write down the names of characters, objects and places
+mentioned in the sermons, or the Bible, that have the same initial
+letter. For example: The letter "A" may be selected, then would follow
+"Apple", "Adam", "Apostles", "Angels", "Army", "Asia", etc. Other
+initial letters may be selected and the game continued.
+
+44. Have some one call out and write down a Bible name beginning with
+"A", as "Abram". The next one is to think of a name beginning with "B",
+as "Benjamin". "C" would come next, as "Caleb", then "David", "Eli",
+etc. The object is to see how many letters of the alphabet can be used
+and how often without repetition. Also names of places, objects and
+titles may be used.
+
+45. Ask the children to write down as many as they can of trees, or
+stones, flowers, birds, instruments, animals that are mentioned in the
+Bible.
+
+46. Bible geography can be made interesting and profitable. Get a
+shallow box and fill it with fine sand. Cities and countries may be
+wonderfully made. A small pile of the sand will represent a mountain,
+strips of blue or white paper can be used for rivers and lakes. Use
+small blocks and spools for houses and temples, small pebbles for roads.
+The people can be represented by matches and trees by tiny branches or
+leaves. When Palestine, for instance, is to be studied, small pieces of
+paper may be laid on the sand for the cities; the names or initials of
+the cities should be written on the pieces of paper.
+
+47. Maps may be drawn and colored crayons used to show the roads, water,
+cities, buildings, etc.
+
+48. From one of the sermons or a Bible story, select the name of a
+person, place or thing. Have each player write a sentence with the
+selected name embodied in it. When the sentences are read aloud, it will
+show quite original uses made of the name.
+
+49. To supply missing letters is an easy, simple game. Write names of
+sermon objects or Bible characters with letters omitted. The children
+will enjoy supplying the missing letters necessary to complete the name.
+Sentences and Bible verses may be used with missing words for the
+children to supply.
+
+
+BIBLE DRILLS.
+
+50. Bible drills are entertaining and especially valuable to children
+old enough to read and commit the lessons to memory. By a simple method
+the children can figure out the books in the Bible and their
+classifications. By pursuing the studies, the names of the books will
+soon be learned and in their regular order.
+
+51. Have the children count the letters in "Old" (3) and "Testament"
+(9). Place them together (39) and it gives the number of books in the
+Old Testament.
+
+52. Now multiply these two figures (3 × 9) and the result will give the
+number of books in the New Testament (27).
+
+53. Add together the two sets of figures (39 plus 27) and you will find
+the whole number of books in the Bible (66).
+
+54. The figure "6" is found in the number of books in the Bible (66),
+the number of known authors or writers of the books (36), and the
+number of years during which the Bible was written (1600).
+
+Thus we have 36 authors, 66 books, 16 centuries.
+
+55. The books of the Old Testament may be divided into five groups: as
+the Pentateuch (Books of Moses), History, Poetry, Major Prophets and
+Minor Prophets. Have the children trace the outline of a hand on paper
+and the thumb and fingers will represent the groups. Thus, the thumb
+will represent the Pentateuch; the first finger, the History; the second
+finger, Poetry; the third finger, Major Prophets; and the fourth finger,
+Minor Prophets.
+
+56. The New Testament may also be divided into five groups and
+represented by the other hand in the same manner. The five groups are
+Biography, History, Pauline Epistles (or Paul's Letters), General
+Epistles (or letters), and Prophesy.
+
+57. The number of books in each group of the Old Testament are: 5 plus
+12 plus 5 plus 5 plus 12--equals 39 books. In the New Testament, the
+five groups are made up of 4 plus 1 plus 13 plus 8 plus 1--equals 27
+books.
+
+58. The name of each group with the number of books in the group, may be
+written on separate cards. The cards are shuffled and the children sort
+them and place them together in their proper order, forming the Old
+Testament, then the New Testament.
+
+59. The names of the different books which make up the groups are looked
+up and written under the name of the group. Take the groups in their
+regular order. Thus, group one would be Pentateuch, 5 books: Gen´e-sis,
+Ex´o-dus, Le-vit´i-cus, Num´bers, Deu´ter-on´o-my. The second and fifth
+groups, where there are twelve books each, may be subdivided into threes
+and fours for greater ease in committing to memory.
+
+60. If the proper spelling of the names has also been committed to
+memory, or learned, then a regular spelling-bee may be held and the
+names of the Bible books used for the test words. The same tests may be
+made with the spelling of names of persons, places and things mentioned
+in the Bible.
+
+61. After the books of the Bible, in their order, have been learned,
+open the Bible and call out the book at which it is open. Name another
+book and ask which direction (toward the front or back of the Bible)
+shall the pages be turned to find that book. Many other test questions
+may be asked, such as: "What book is between Job and Proverbs?" "In
+which group is Lamentations to be found?" "Between what books is that of
+Luke?"
+
+62. Arrange the children in a row, or let them take their places in
+tents as shown on page 60, and then, as in a spelling-bee, ask the
+preceding or the following questions, or any other Bible questions that
+would be suited to the age of the children. When one fails to answer he
+loses his place and the child who gives the correct answer moves
+forward. The element of play is thus maintained.
+
+
+BIBLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
+
+          63. Who was the first man? Adam.
+
+          Who was the first woman? Eve.
+
+          Who was the first murderer? Cain (Gen. iv: 8).
+
+          Whom did he kill? His brother Abel.
+
+          Who went to Heaven without dying? Enoch and
+          Elijah.
+
+          How old was Enoch "when God took him"? 365 years
+          (Gen. v: 23, 24). The same number of years that
+          there are days in a year.
+
+          Who was the oldest man? Methuselah.
+
+          How old was Methuselah when he died? 969 years
+          (Gen. v: 27).
+
+          Who built the Ark? Noah (Gen. vi).
+
+          How many persons were saved in the Ark? Eight
+          (Gen. vii: 7). Noah and his wife, his three sons
+          and their wives.
+
+          How old was Noah at the time of the Flood? 600
+          years (Gen. vii: 6).
+
+          Who had the coat of many colors? Joseph (Gen.
+          xxxvii: 3).
+
+          How many brothers did Joseph have? Eleven (Gen.
+          xlii: 3, 4).
+
+          What did they do with Joseph? Cast him into a pit
+          and afterwards sold him to the Ishmaelitish
+          merchantmen (Gen. xxxvii: 28).
+
+          Where did the Ishmaelitish merchantmen take
+          Joseph? To Egypt.
+
+          To whom did they sell him? Potiphar (Gen. xxxix:
+          1).
+
+          Who lied about Joseph and had him cast into
+          prison? Potiphar's wife.
+
+          Who were in the prison with Joseph? The king's
+          chief butler and chief baker (Gen. xl: 1, 3).
+
+          Who was King of Egypt at the time Joseph was in
+          Egypt? Pharaoh.
+
+          Why did Pharaoh make Joseph ruler? That he might
+          gather the grain during the seven years of plenty
+          to lay up in store against the seven years of
+          famine.
+
+          What did Pharaoh dream? About seven fat kine, or
+          cows, and seven lean cows (Gen. xli).
+
+          What did Joseph do with the grain he gathered
+          during the seven years of plenty? Put in great
+          store houses.
+
+          Why did his brothers come to Joseph in Egypt
+          during the famine? That they might get food (Gen.
+          xlii).
+
+          Did his father, Jacob, and family go to live in
+          Egypt? Yes.
+
+          How old was Joseph when he died? 110 years (Gen.
+          l: 26).
+
+          How long did Jacob's descendants remain in Egypt?
+          A little more than two hundred years.
+
+          Why did they desire to leave Egypt? Because of the
+          oppressions and cruelty of Pharaoh (Ex. i: 8, 14).
+
+          Whom did God raise up to lead the Children of
+          Israel out of Egypt? Moses.
+
+          How long did they wander in the wilderness? Forty
+          years.
+
+          Was Moses permitted to enter the Promised Land?
+          No.
+
+          Who led the Children of Israel into the Land of
+          Canaan, which was the Promised Land? Joshua.
+
+          How did the Children of Israel cross the Red Sea
+          and the Jordan? The waters were divided and they
+          crossed "dry shod."
+
+          Who was the strongest man? Samson.
+
+          Who was the meekest man? Moses.
+
+          Who, as a ruler, was a man after God's own heart?
+          David.
+
+          Who built the Temple? Solomon.
+
+          Who went to Heaven in a chariot of fire? Elijah.
+
+          On whom did the mantle of Elijah fall? Elisha.
+
+          Who was swallowed by the great fish? Jonah (Jonah
+          i: 17).
+
+          Who destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem and carried
+          the Children of Israel into captivity?
+          Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 24, 25).
+
+          Where did he take them? To Babylon (2 Kings 25).
+
+          How long were they captive in Babylon? Seventy
+          years.
+
+          Who interpreted Nebuchadnezzar's dream? Daniel.
+
+          How did Nebuchadnezzar reward Daniel? Made him
+          ruler over Babylon (Daniel ii: 48, 49).
+
+          What were the names of Daniel's three friends?
+          Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.
+
+          What heathen names were given them instead?
+          Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego (Daniel i: 6, 7).
+
+          What befell the three friends of Daniel? They were
+          cast into the burning fiery furnace.
+
+          Why were they cast into this furnace? Because they
+          refused to fall down and worship a great golden
+          image which Nebuchadnezzar, the King, had set up
+          in the plain of Dura.
+
+          Were they consumed in the furnace? No, God
+          delivered them (Daniel iii).
+
+          What befell Daniel years later, when Darius was
+          King? He was cast into the den of lions (Daniel
+          vi).
+
+          Why was he cast into the den of lions? Because he
+          prayed to the true God.
+
+          Did the lions harm Daniel? No, God stopped the
+          mouths of the lions and delivered Daniel.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_The author's intense interest in the safeguarding and saving of the
+boys and girls from the evils which have wrought the ruin of such
+countless multitudes, prompts in connection with this introductory word,
+to call the special attention of the parents to an advertisement which
+has been placed at the close of this volume._
+
+
+
+
+Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate Into the City of Child-Soul
+
+
+
+
+THE OYSTER AND THE CRAB.
+
+CONSCIENCE.
+
+
+          SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS:--It will awaken the
+          curiosity and add greatly to the interest of the
+          children if the parent will have them secure
+          during the week preceding a couple of oyster
+          shells. In most of cities and towns, these can be
+          easily obtained. It is better for the children
+          themselves to secure them, because it makes them
+          participants and important factors in what is to
+          be done. Do not tell them in advance what use is
+          to be made of the oyster shells; simply say that
+          they are for use in connection with Sunday
+          afternoon.
+
+          Introduce the play idea from the beginning. Let
+          the children arrange the chairs to "drive to
+          church," as shown in the preceding pictures. If
+          there are two children who both want to do the
+          driving, suggest that one can drive to church and
+          the other can drive when returning from
+          church--and a third may drive from the house to
+          the stable when the horses are to be put away.
+
+          At the church service let everything be done
+          reverently, and make it a matter of real worship.
+          One of the children can act as usher, and if there
+          is but one child, this one can usher her dolls to
+          seats; or imaginary people may be shown to seats.
+          All of this will appeal very strongly to the
+          child. Select hymns suited to the children's
+          tastes and such as they can sing. Do not sing too
+          many verses. Children like variety.
+
+          The service ought to be such as is in harmony with
+          that regularly attended by the parents, and such
+          as the children are familiar with. It may be as
+          informal as the Salvation Army, or a greatly
+          abridged form of the "Episcopal Service" can be
+          used. The Lord's Prayer may be repeated in unison,
+          or sentence prayers used, or a brief selection
+          from the Prayer Book. The preaching by one of the
+          children should precede the reading of the Object
+          sermon.
+
+          After carrying out the idea of the church service,
+          the other ideas presented may be introduced, and
+          after the imaginary drive home some simple
+          refreshments can be served, as also mentioned in
+          the chapter of "Suggestions to Parents" on page
+          17.
+
+
+[Illustration: Oyster and Shell.]
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to speak to you to-day about "Having a
+good conscience." (I Peter iii: 16.) This is rather a hard subject, but
+I desire to make it plain by the use of a familiar object. "What's this
+I have in my hand?" I rather expected that you would say an oyster; but,
+really it is nothing but an oyster shell. I suppose you have all eaten
+stewed oysters, or oyster broth. I remember, when a little boy, that one
+day when we had stewed oysters for supper, I found a little yellow
+something in my broth. I did not know whether my mother had put it in
+purposely, or whether it had fallen in by accident; whether I should
+push it aside of my plate, that it might be thrown with the crumbs to
+the chickens, or whether I should eat it to discover what it was.
+
+[Illustration: Little Crab.]
+
+I suppose you have all seen these little animals in your soup, and know
+that they are called crabs. Now, do you know how the crab comes to be in
+with the oyster? I will tell you how it is. The oyster lives in the
+water at the bottom of the bay, and some bright day, when the sun is
+shining down genial and warm, just the same as in the summer, we open
+the doors, and sit out on the porch to enjoy the cool of the day; so the
+oyster opens his shells and lets the cool currents of water move gently
+through his house. But while lying there with his shells wide open,
+along comes a great hungry fish. He sees the oyster, but the oyster
+cannot see him. The oyster cannot see, for he has no eyes. He cannot
+hear, for he has no ears. Of the five senses which each of us have,
+hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling, the oyster can only tell
+of the presence of his enemy when he feels himself being dragged out of
+his house, and being quickly swallowed by the fish. But his knowledge of
+what is happening only comes when it is too late.
+
+[Illustration: Fish Going to Eat the Oyster.]
+
+Now, with the little crab, who also lives in the same neighborhood with
+the oyster, it is quite different. The crab has eyes, and can see the
+hungry fish that comes to eat him up. He has legs, with which to try and
+run away; but the fish can swim so much faster than the little crab can
+run that he is sure to be devoured before the race is half over. So what
+do you think the little crab does? He crawls along quietly, and creeps
+into the shell with the oyster, and the oyster and the crab enter into a
+kind of partnership for mutual protection. After this, when the oyster
+opens his shells, the little crab uses his eyes very diligently to look
+around, and watch for the approach of any fish. As soon as he spies any
+sly fish coming near, he pinches the oyster, and immediately the oyster
+closes his shells very tightly, and the oyster and the crab are both
+within, safely protected from the fish.
+
+Now, boys and girls, we are something like the oyster. We are constantly
+exposed to the danger of being destroyed by sin. We cannot see sin, we
+cannot hear sin, we cannot perceive it by any of our senses. So God has
+given us a conscience, which means "to know with God." When you are
+tempted to do a sinful act, it is conscience that quickly whispers, "Now
+that is wicked," "If you do that, God will be displeased."
+
+Let me illustrate this thought. One real pleasant day, when the birds
+are singing, and everything is attractive out of doors, Johnnie thinks
+how hard it is to be studying his lessons in what he calls a prison of a
+school-room. He knows that papa and mamma will not give him permission
+to stay at home; so a little before nine o'clock, as he saunters towards
+the school, Satan suggests to him to play "hookey," and when he comes to
+the corner of the street, looking back to be sure that no one sees him,
+he turns the corner to remain out of school, intending to come home at
+the regular time for dinner and escape discovery. Just as soon as he
+turns the corner, and even before that, conscience has seen the danger,
+and whispers strong and clear, "Johnnie, this is wicked; you will surely
+get into trouble, and you will make papa and mamma sad, and also
+displease God." Now, if Johnnie does not turn right back when conscience
+warns him, he is sure to go on without having any pleasure all that
+forenoon, because his conscience continues to warn and reprove him.
+
+[Illustration: "Willie is more frightened than the dog."]
+
+Or suppose that Willie goes down the street and sees Mr. Brown's dog a
+little ways off. He looks around quickly for a stone, and immediately
+conscience says, "Now, Willie, don't hit the poor dog, for the stone
+will cause him pain, just as it would if some one were to hit you with a
+stone." But Willie does not listen to conscience. He throws the stone
+with all his might. It strikes on the pavement, just by the side of the
+dog, glances and breaks in many pieces the large plate glass in the
+window of the drug store.
+
+Willie is more frightened than the dog, and without a moment's
+forethought he runs around the corner, to get out of sight. And after
+concealing himself for a time in the alley, he steals quietly into the
+house at the back door. How he dreads to meet his father and mother.
+Every time the door bell rings he thinks surely that it is the druggist
+or the policeman. Oh! how this sin pains him; just like the oyster would
+be hurt if he does not heed the little crab, when he warns him that the
+fish is coming to destroy him. If Willie had only listened to
+conscience, what sin and trouble it would have saved him. So, boys and
+girls, God has given each of us a conscience, and if we want to be saved
+from sin and suffering, we should always be quick to obey our
+conscience. Let each of us try and "keep a good conscience."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Can the oyster see or hear? Can it
+          feel? What often destroys the oyster? What lives
+          down under the water near the oyster? Can the
+          little crab see? Can he get away from the fish?
+          How does he assist the oyster? How does he warn
+          the oyster of danger? Can boys or girls see sin?
+          What has God given each of us to warn us of danger
+          when sin is near? Does every boy and girl have a
+          conscience? Does conscience always give warning?
+          Do boys and girls always obey their conscience?
+          Should conscience always be obeyed? Will you
+          always try to obey conscience in the future? The
+          parent may ask additional questions or make
+          application in any other manner they deem best.
+
+          Next Sunday the sermon will be about the worm in
+          the apple. Let one of the children get a nice,
+          large, perfect apple, and also another apple which
+          has been dwarfed and deformed because of a worm
+          inside the apple. These will be the objects which
+          we shall use next Sunday.
+
+
+
+
+THE WORM IN THE APPLE.
+
+SIN IN THE HUMAN HEART.
+
+
+          SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS:--The objects used to-day
+          are a large perfect apple and a stunted, wormy
+          apple. Have also a knife with which, at the proper
+          time, to open the wormy apple. With these
+          preparations made, let the children "drive to
+          church" after the manner suggested for last
+          Sunday.
+
+          After the singing of a hymn or two, prayer and
+          collection, let one of the children, in the manner
+          of the preacher speaking to his audience, tell in
+          his own way of the "Oyster and Crab" and of God's
+          purpose in giving us a conscience, and let him or
+          her draw the moral lessons and impress the
+          spiritual truths. Even if it is done in but few
+          words, or a faltering way, do not embarrass or
+          discourage by criticisms. Speak words of
+          encouragement. If preferred, the little sermon may
+          be a presentation of the sermon preached by the
+          pastor in the morning, or one child may present
+          the object sermon of last Sunday and another child
+          the sermon by the pastor in the morning. The more
+          who take part, the better, as variety adds to the
+          interest.
+
+          Then gather the children around close so they can
+          see the pictures as you read the following sermon.
+          Have the apples at hand also for demonstration.
+
+THE object which I have chosen to-day, is one with which I am sure every
+boy and girl is thoroughly familiar. The moment you see it you recognize
+it. This large and beautiful apple is one of the most perfect of its
+kind, large in size, beautiful in color, and one which tempts the
+appetite of any one who is hungry.
+
+Now, boys and girls, I have here another object. Can you tell me what
+this is? I expected that you would say that it was an apple, and that is
+true. But you have not told me the whole truth concerning it. This is
+not only an apple, but it is a wormy apple. It did not grow as large as
+the other, and, by looking at the outside, I see that it is defective.
+It is stunted, like wormy apples quite universally are. You might think
+that the worm went into this apple because it was not full grown and
+strong and large, the same as it is sometimes thought that boys who have
+never improved their advantages, but have failed to become noble and
+good, therefore sin has entered their hearts. The truth is just the
+reverse; wickedness first possessed their hearts, and that has been the
+cause of their failure to improve their opportunities, and to become
+manly, and noble, and good, and kind. If they had first got the evil and
+sin out of their hearts, they would surely have stood a much better
+chance. They would have become Christians, and have grown up more and
+more like Christ, to be good, and kind, and generous, and useful.
+
+[Illustration: Worm in the Apple.]
+
+I want to ask you a question concerning this worm. But to be sure that
+we are not mistaken, let me take a knife and cut this apple in two, and
+see whether or not there is a worm inside. Just as I said, this is a
+wormy apple. It has evidently had two worms in it. Here is one of them,
+and the other has taken its departure. Now, boys and girls, I want to
+ask you, did this worm eat his way into the apple, or did he eat his way
+out of the apple? Quite as I anticipated. I expected that you would say
+that he ate his way into the apple; but the fact is, he ate his way out
+of the apple. I am sure that you will ask immediately, at least in your
+minds, how then did he get in, if he ate his way out? I will tell you
+how it was. Early last spring, just after the apple trees had been in
+blossom, and when this apple had just begun to form on one of the
+branches, there came along a bug and stung this apple, and deposited in
+the inside the germ of the worm. As the summer grew warmer, and the
+apple grew larger, the germ began to develop, until finally it grew into
+a worm. When it began to grow strong, it discovered that it was confined
+in the interior of something, and soon it began to eat, and continued
+until it ate its way out of the apple. This other worm, which still
+remained in, had continued to eat in the various portions of the apple,
+and possibly because of having less bodily vigor had concluded to remain
+there for a time, but you can see from the inside of the apple that it
+has done great injury, at the very core or heart, and I suppose that if
+it had been left to itself, in the course of a few days, or a few weeks
+at most, it also would have eaten its way out of the apple, in order to
+escape from its confinement.
+
+[Illustration: Insect Stinging Bud.]
+
+Now, boys and girls, this worm represents sin in the human heart, or
+wickedness possibly presents the thought better, and when you see a boy
+or girl doing wrong, they are simply giving outward expression to the
+wickedness which exists in their hearts. Boys are bad, not so much
+because the influences by which they are surrounded are bad, but because
+their hearts are sinful, and wicked, and bad. But I am sure that you
+will want to know how wickedness gets into the human heart. I will tell
+you how it is. Way back in the spring-time of the history of the human
+race, way back in the Garden of Eden, soon after God had created Adam
+and Eve, Satan came and inspired in the hearts of these first people the
+desire to disobey God. God told Adam and Eve that they should not eat
+of the fruit of the forbidden tree, and that when they did they would
+die, that is, they would be separated from God. Satan came and told them
+that they would not die, but that when they ate of the fruit of this
+tree they would become very wise. They believed Satan rather than God,
+and they did that which was wicked and wrong. And so throughout all the
+generations since, there has been that willingness to believe Satan and
+to do what he wants us to do, rather than to believe God and do what God
+would have us to do.
+
+Boys and girls who find themselves inclined to disobey their father or
+mother, to be disrespectful to those who are older than they, to do
+wrong on the Sabbath, to remain away from the Sunday-school and church,
+and to enjoy the beautiful spring-day, by strolling through the fields
+or wandering through the woods, do so, not alone because the day is
+pleasant or because of the opportunities from which others turn away,
+but because there is wickedness in their hearts. So when boys quarrel
+and fight, or steal, or do any other thing that is wrong, it is not so
+much the influences by which they are surrounded, the temptation from
+without, but the wickedness and the evil and the sinfulness which there
+is in the human heart, eating its way out through their heart into their
+lives, and deforming their lives, which otherwise would be upright,
+honorable and manly and Christ-like. I trust that when you are tempted
+to do wrong you will recognize the fact that there is evil in your
+heart, and that you will go to Jesus and earnestly pray Him to take away
+this evil out of your heart, and to give you a new, clean heart. Just
+the same as with these apples, if you had the privilege of choosing, I
+am sure you would prefer the large one, which has not been spoiled
+because of the destructive worm inside, so I trust you will choose to
+have the good heart, which God can give you, rather than the heart that
+has wickedness and sin within. If you will go to God in prayer and ask
+Him, He will give you a good heart, a true heart, one that has no sin
+and no wickedness within.
+
+          Questions.--Which is nicer, a big, red apple or a
+          little stunted one? What prevented the little
+          apple from growing big and beautiful? When did the
+          little worm get into the apple? If it had not been
+          for the worm in the apple, would the apple have
+          grown large and well formed? What causes boys and
+          girls to desire to do wrong? Who tempted Adam and
+          Eve to do wrong? Did they listen? Did they believe
+          God or did they believe Satan? Are boys and girls
+          still tempted to do wrong? Are they likely to
+          yield to temptation? To whom should we go when we
+          are tempted to do wrong? Who alone can cleanse our
+          hearts from sin? Should we always go and ask God
+          for strength when we are tempted? Which would you
+          choose, a good heart or a wicked heart?
+
+          Suggest to the children (or better still select
+          one or have them select one) to procure for next
+          Sunday some weeds that grow by the wayside and
+          also a few cut flowers or potted plants.
+
+          After "driving home" from church and after putting
+          the horses away, which little action gives the
+          children a few moments' diversion, then other
+          methods contained in the chapter of "Suggestions
+          to Parents" can be selected according to the age,
+          intelligence and interest of the children. After
+          this, refreshments or whatever is best suited to
+          the thought of the parents and the conditions of
+          the household may be introduced.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WAYSIDE WEEDS AND GARDEN FLOWERS.
+
+NEGLECTED VERSUS CHRISTIAN CHILDREN.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS:--The objects to be used
+          to-day are a bouquet of flowers or some potted
+          plants and a bunch of weeds that grow by the
+          wayside. These will illustrate the difference
+          between neglected, untaught and undisciplined
+          children, and the children of a well trained
+          household. Make the lesson impressive, so that the
+          children will appreciate that the restrictions and
+          discipline which are imposed upon them are all for
+          their own good--that without these careful
+          attentions they would grow up like the children in
+          the slums. The neglected character of the clothing
+          of undisciplined and uncared for children is only
+          indicative of the minds and hearts and character
+          of these children.
+
+          Arrange the chairs, "drive to church"; let the
+          ushers show the different real or imaginary
+          persons to seats. Then let the hymn, prayer or
+          "opening service" precede the "preaching" of the
+          object sermon of last Sunday or the regular sermon
+          at the morning church service by one or more of
+          the children, after which a hymn may be sung, and
+          the parent gather the children close so they can
+          see the pictures, and read the following sermon on
+          "Wayside Weeds and Garden Flowers." During the
+          reading, or before, or after, let the children
+          gain the impressive lessons from the colored
+          picture which so beautifully illustrates the
+          sermon.
+
+
+[Illustration: Wayside Weeds and Garden Flowers]
+
+THE land of Palestine, in which Jesus lived, has always been noted for
+its flowers. They grow everywhere in great abundance, and oftentimes in
+very great perfection and beauty. One time, when Jesus was preaching on
+the mountain, He used the flowers which were growing on the side of the
+mountain, to preach an object sermon to the multitudes about Him. He
+said, "Consider the lilies of the field; how they grow; they toil not,
+neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that Solomon, in all his
+glory, was not arrayed like one of these." (Matt. vi: 28, 29.) Let us
+to-day take the same object lesson, to set forth to our minds a clearer
+understanding of some truths, which are very important to every father
+and mother, as well as every boy and girl.
+
+As you see, I have here two bouquets. This, which I now hold in my hand,
+is indeed very beautiful. Here are some lovely roses, some tulips, some
+peonies. Here is a dahlia and heliotrope. Here are some tube roses, and
+a great variety of other flowers, which together constitute a very
+beautiful bouquet.
+
+Now, here is another bouquet. I see you smile, but indeed it is a
+bouquet. I spent a great deal of time gathering these flowers, at which
+you laugh. I sought them in such places as would afford the best
+varieties of these several kinds.
+
+Now, boys and girls, I want to ask you where these flowers grew? I will
+hold up this beautiful bouquet and ask the question. I know what will be
+your answer; you will say that I bought it from a man who keeps a
+hot-house, or that I gathered them in some flower garden which was very
+carefully tended; and such, indeed, is the case.
+
+Now, I will hold up this other bouquet. Can you tell me where I gathered
+these? I did not think that you would have much difficulty in
+determining. I gathered them along the roadside, in the fields and in
+the woods. These flowers are what the farmer calls "weeds." Here is a
+rose with a single leaf that grew in a neglected corner, along the
+outskirts of a woods. It is a genuine rose, but it is by no means
+pretty, or at all to be compared with those in the other bouquet.
+
+I will tell you why there is such a difference in the appearance of
+these two bouquets. One grew in the garden, where it was protected by a
+fence from being tramped upon. The weeds that grew about it were all
+pulled out of the ground, and the stalk upon which this flower grew was
+given a fair chance, so that it might grow successfully. The roots of
+the plants were carefully nourished, and whenever there was not
+sufficient rain the flowers were all watered, and thus the plants and
+flowers grew to their greatest perfection and beauty.
+
+Now, these other flowers which I gathered in the fields and along the
+roadside and in the woods, have had a hard time of it. In their growth
+they had to contend with other weeds. They have been tramped upon by the
+cattle. They have been scorched by the sun. And year after year they
+have grown in these neglected quarters with great difficulty,
+consequently they are stunted and have never attained any perfection or
+beauty.
+
+Do you know that these very beautiful flowers in this bouquet at one
+time grew just the same as the flowers in the other bouquet? But they
+were removed from the roadside, and from the fields and from the woods,
+and placed by themselves where they could be properly cared for and
+cultivated, and they grew more beautiful from year to year, until we
+have this present satisfactory result.
+
+Boys and girls are very much like flowers. Those who are neglected, who
+are permitted to walk the streets, to stroll along the roads and over
+the fields, to go along the streams fishing on Sunday, instead of being
+in Sunday-school and in church, those who are permitted to run out at
+nights and play with all kinds of company--these are the boys and girls
+who are like the flowers which grow by the roadside. Nothing very
+beautiful, or very good, or very perfect can reasonably be expected from
+them.
+
+This beautiful bouquet represents those boys and girls who have
+Christian fathers and mothers, who surround them by influences which are
+well calculated to make them pure in thought and upright in life, so
+that they may grow up to be good Christian men and women. These flowers
+represent the boys and girls who grow up in the Sunday-school and in the
+Church, who give their hearts to the Lord Jesus Christ, and grow up
+into His likeness, and into His image, and into His stature, and become
+noble Christian men and women.
+
+When parents permit their children to run wild, they cannot expect them
+to grow up Christians. It is only by culture and education and Christian
+influences that they can be improved, so as to become honorable and
+upright.
+
+Nearly all the products of the field have been improved by cultivation,
+just the same as these flowers have been improved. Wheat in its native
+state, as it may still be found in France and Italy along the shores of
+the Mediterranean, was a stunted and straggling plant, with a small and
+inferior seed, but after long years of patient and continued
+cultivation, it has grown to its present plump and prolific proportions.
+All the beautiful fruits which now grow in our orchards were at one time
+unsightly and undesirable. The apple was small and sour, and
+unpalatable; but by pruning and grafting and fertilizing, it has grown
+to be not only beautiful to the eye, but delicious to the taste. The
+acrid and unwholesome berries, which formerly grew on the mountain ash,
+have been developed into the sweet and juicy pear. By cultivation, the
+acrid and bitter sloe has grown into the beautiful plum. The same is
+also true of the potato, the turnip and the cabbage.
+
+Boys and girls can only be developed into useful men and women by the
+influence of the week-day and Sunday-school, the Christian home and the
+Church, by reading and studying the Bible and other good books.
+
+When you are restricted or corrected by your parents, you may oftentimes
+feel very much irritated and may feel rebellious, and may think that you
+do not have as many privileges or as much freedom as some of the other
+boys and girls whom you know. But you must remember that all this is
+done by your parents for your good, and later on in life you will see
+the value of it all and be very grateful to your parents for what they
+have done for you.
+
+When I was a boy, in the little village where I lived they organized a
+cannon company of six or eight boys, who were to accompany the men who
+went to other villages to listen to political speeches before elections,
+and then to march in a torch-light procession. I was at that time a boy
+about twelve years old. I was asked to join. The boys were all to wear
+red blouses and red caps, and to my thought just then, nothing in the
+world was so much to be desired as the torch-light procession and the
+red blouse and cap, and to be permitted to march behind the drum and the
+fife, hauling the little cannon after us.
+
+I shall never forget how I cried and how ugly I felt toward my father
+when he would not let me be one of the cannon boys and wear a red blouse
+and a red cap. He said that at night I ought to be at home and in bed,
+and not be exposed to possible bad influences, the danger of catching
+cold and of other bad results which he could clearly see, but which I,
+at that time, thought were only imaginary.
+
+When I grew to be a man, I saw that my father was right, and later when
+at intervals I journeyed back to my boyhood home and visited the
+cemetery, I frequently placed one elbow on the tomb-stone of my father
+and the other elbow on the tomb-stone of my mother, and with my face
+buried in my hands thanked God that He had given me Christian parents
+who were wise and judicious enough not to let me have my own way in all
+things when I was a boy, but who had restricted me and guided me wisely
+and well.
+
+So, boys and girls, it will be with you when you have grown to the
+estate of manhood and womanhood. You will be, oh, so thankful again and
+again that father and mother have oftentimes denied you things which you
+have most desired to have.
+
+          Questions.--Which are the prettier, flowers which
+          are neglected by the roadside, or those which are
+          cultivated in the garden? Are boys and girls like
+          flowers? Which boys and girls are the best, those
+          who are neglected and not taught, or those who are
+          cared for and carefully trained? Is it more
+          pleasant for boys and girls to have their own way
+          in everything, or would they prefer to be taught
+          and trained by their parents? Which kind of
+          flowers are the heathen boys and girls like? Can
+          wild flowers be made more beautiful by care and
+          cultivation? Can the boys and girls in heathen
+          lands be made like Christian boys and girls? What
+          is necessary to effect this change? How can Bibles
+          and missionaries be sent to them? Did the writer
+          of this book want to have his own way when he was
+          a boy? What did he want to be? What kind of a cap
+          and blouse did he want to wear? When he became a
+          man, was he thankful to his father for not
+          allowing him to have his own way at that time?
+          Will all good boys and girls, when they become men
+          and women, be thankful to their parents for right
+          training?
+
+[Illustration: "The Cannon Boys."]
+
+
+
+
+NUTS.
+
+GOD MEANS THAT WE MUST WORK.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used are some nuts of
+          various kinds.
+
+          If the parent has not already familiarized himself
+          with the different methods of entertainment in
+          connection with the reading of the object sermon
+          to the children, he would do well to turn to the
+          chapter on "Suggestions to Parents" on page 17 and
+          introduce some one or more of the play ideas which
+          have accomplished so much of pleasure and profit
+          in many homes.
+
+          Arrange chairs and "drive to church," let the
+          audience, both real and imaginary be shown to
+          seats, and after the opening service let one of
+          the children in his or her own way present the
+          lessons remembered from the sermon of last Sunday,
+          or recast what was said by the pastor in his
+          morning sermon. After the collection and singing,
+          let the children "drive home" and let refreshments
+          or some one of the Scriptural entertainments
+          previously suggested round out the pleasure and
+          profit of Sunday afternoon.
+
+
+NOW, boys and girls, I have here some hickory nuts, walnuts, butternuts,
+chestnuts, and filberts, or hazel nuts as they are sometimes called, and
+I want to tell you something that I suppose God means to teach us by
+these nuts.
+
+[Illustration: Nuts.]
+
+Many people remember that when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden, God
+told them that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" (Gen.
+iii: 19), and also that God drove them out of the garden to "till the
+ground from whence man was taken." (Gen. iii: 23.) On this account some
+people suppose that if Adam and Eve had not sinned it would never have
+been necessary for us to work, but that is a mistake. If you turn to the
+second chapter of Genesis, in the fifteenth verse, you will find that it
+says, "The Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to
+dress it and to keep it." So you see that Adam was required to work,
+even before the fall. Of course his work was not as severe as it was
+after he was driven out of Eden and his labor brought him a richer
+fruitage.
+
+Now, what do these nuts teach us? I think that most all boys and girls
+like to eat hickory nuts and butternuts, and chestnuts and filberts, and
+indeed all kinds of nuts. But did you ever stop to think that God has
+made it necessary that we should crack the shell before we can eat the
+kernel that is inside? God has purposed to teach us that labor is
+necessary before we can eat even of that which He gives us, so on the
+outside of this desired food he places the shell, in some instances hard
+and difficult to be broken, in order to teach us that labor is necessary
+before we can eat of His gifts.
+
+Now the same thing is true with regard to the grain that grows in the
+field. No one ever saw potatoes grow without being planted and
+cultivated. Rye and oats and wheat do not grow wild. Weeds will grow
+without being sown or planted, but grain and vegetables not only have to
+be planted, but have to be taken care of. Possibly you might think that
+my statement was not wholly correct, because we go out into the orchard
+and gather apples and pears and peaches, and other kinds of fruit which
+have no hard shells on them, and which do not have to be planted in the
+spring of the year. But do you know that we could not gather this kind
+of rich fruit from the trees unless trees of these kinds had been
+cultivated for long centuries, grafted and developed so as to produce
+the rich fruit which is now placed upon our tables? So you see that even
+this has cost labor, and if we were to neglect the trees in the orchard,
+it would only be a few years until they would produce only a very small
+variety of fruit, and even that would be sour and have an unpleasant
+taste.
+
+But God means to teach us this lesson also in another way. Man has found
+it very necessary to use the different kinds of metals, iron and copper,
+silver and gold. God has not laid these metals on top of the ground, but
+has made it necessary that we should dig down into the earth and secure
+these metals at the cost of a great deal of labor. The same is also true
+with regard to the coal and the oil, and all the rich mineral products
+which God has blessed us. None of them can be secured without labor.
+
+[Illustration: Apple Tree.]
+
+We are all naturally lazy. I have oftentimes thought that we are all
+born lazy. Some learn to be industrious with less effort, but all have
+to be taught to work. God means that we should work. Have you ever
+thought that God could feed us without our labor if He chose to do so?
+He could rain down our food from heaven, just the same as He gave manna
+to the Children of Israel, while they were journeying to the promised
+land. He could not only feed us, but He could also clothe us from
+heaven. I am sure that if God gave us our clothing from heaven, He would
+not make such foolish fashions as wicked people over in Paris invent,
+and which all the rest of the world seem to think they have to imitate.
+Not only our food and clothing, but God could also have made it
+necessary that there should be no preachers. Instead of giving us His
+Word in the Bible, and then asking us to go into all the world and to
+preach it to all creatures, He might have used the stars at night, just
+the same as the printer uses the different kinds of type and prints the
+letters and words upon the page; so God could have used the stars in
+order to write His law upon the heavens in a universal language that
+would be known by all peoples, and so at night, and even in the daytime,
+people could look up into the heavens and read God's law. Thus it would
+have been unnecessary ever to have printed Bibles, or to send preachers
+to preach. The cost of building churches and supporting ministers would
+thus have been unnecessary, but God does not do things in that way. Lazy
+people might desire that things were arranged in this way, but God has
+seen fit to make it very different.
+
+But why do you think that God means that you and I should learn to work?
+There are two or three good reasons which I can think of. We are so
+constituted that no one can be in good health for any considerable
+period without physical exertion, and so you see that if we want to be
+well--and no one can be happy who is not well--it is necessary that we
+should learn to work. You will always find that lazy people who eat a
+great deal suffer many physical ailments. They are always complaining,
+and I think you will always find that they really are sick, but they
+could be well if they would only go to work as God meant they should.
+
+Then there is another reason. An idle man is always a dissatisfied man.
+A boy or girl with nothing to do is sure to be unhappy. If we desire to
+be happy and contented we must learn to work.
+
+But there is also another reason. Our spiritual well-being also renders
+it necessary that you and I should have something to do. Work is really
+one of God's greatest blessings, and we are told that those who are idle
+tempt Satan to tempt them. I do not believe that an idle person can be a
+good Christian. An idler is of no use either in the world or in the
+church. God can make no use of him, and Satan must surely despise him
+also.
+
+So if you desire to be delivered from sickness and to remain well and
+strong, if you desire to be contented and happy, if you desire to be
+good and useful, if you desire to be helpful in the great purpose for
+which God has created you and placed you upon this earth, you must learn
+to work, and the best time to learn to work is when we are young. We are
+to learn to labor with our hands, with our minds, always remembering
+that whatsoever we do, we are to do all to the glory of God.
+
+Now let us all join in singing,
+
+          "Work, for the night is coming."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Did God assign some work to Adam when
+          he was first created? What was he to do in the
+          Garden? Why does God place the kernel of nuts
+          inside of a shell? Do vegetables and grain grow
+          without being planted? Will weeds grow without
+          being planted? Why did God place the metals, and
+          coal and oil down below the surface of the ground?
+          Are we naturally industrious or lazy? Could God
+          clothe and feed us without our labor? Why does He
+          not do it? How could God have printed His law so
+          that it would not be necessary to have Bibles and
+          preachers? Are idle people healthy and contented?
+          Why not? Whom do idle people tempt? Can an idle
+          person be a good Christian? When is it easiest to
+          learn to work? What should we always remember in
+          our work?
+
+
+
+
+BANKS.
+
+GATHERED AND GUARDED TREASURES.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--Objects for use: A child's bank and
+          a metal kettle of any kind to show how people used
+          to place their money in boxes, kettles, etc., and
+          then bury them in the ground.
+
+          Use the methods suggested in the preceding
+          sermons. Examine the chapter on "Suggestions to
+          Parents" and introduce new features from Sunday to
+          Sunday. Children like variety.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: What is this I hold in my hand? (Voices: "Bank,
+penny bank, money bank.") Yes, you are right, this is a bank, and I
+suppose many of you, perhaps all of you either now, or at some past time
+have had such a place to deposit your money.
+
+[Illustration: A Penny Bank.]
+
+In the time of Christ the children did not have little banks like these.
+Even the big people did not have banks where they could deposit their
+money. When they had jewels or money they would place them in a box, or
+a copper kettle, and bury them in the earth. They would hide them away
+from other people, and thus seek to secure them for themselves. In that
+period of the world, there were many thieves and robbers; Palestine was
+often invaded by hostile armies; there were occasional earthquakes,
+which destroyed whole cities, and so the people used to bury their money
+for safe keeping. After burying it, sometimes they were killed in war,
+or perhaps died suddenly, before they had time to tell anybody where
+they had concealed their money, and on this account all over that land
+there were buried treasures, or "hid treasures" as they are called, and
+to-day if you were to go to Palestine you would see many people digging
+here and there everywhere to find money or treasures that have been
+hidden away for long centuries. Even in the time of Job people must have
+dug for treasures, as they are doing in Palestine to-day, for Job says
+of the miserable and unhappy, that they often "long for death, and dig
+for it, more than for hid treasures." (Job iii: 21.)
+
+It is altogether right for you to economize and save your pennies. I
+hope every boy and girl will have a little bank, but while you are
+learning to save, you should also learn to give to every good cause, to
+give in Sunday-school and to give for the support of the Church, for
+missions, and to give to assist the aged and the poor, and to contribute
+something for those who are in poverty and in distress. If you simply
+learn to save, or hoard up money, and do not learn at the same time to
+give, you will become what people call "a miser," and that word means
+miserable. Misers are always miserable, not because they do not already
+have sufficient, but because there is so much more that they desire.
+They always wish for more.
+
+[Illustration: Hiding Treasures in the Earth.]
+
+But while you are learning to save money and to gather treasures here
+upon the earth, you must not forget that the Bible says, that we are to
+lay up for ourselves "treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not
+corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal." It says,
+"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these
+things shall be added unto you." God means that first of all you and I
+shall give our hearts to Him, and then afterward, in all our getting, we
+should constantly remember that we are only stewards of God--that is,
+that all the money and everything else we possess in this world belongs
+to God. He simply permits us to have it and to use it in His name, and
+we must honor and reverence Him by giving to help on every good work.
+
+Now, after we have given our hearts to God, and have become followers of
+the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to lay up our treasures in heaven by
+living right, by seeking to be good, and by doing good to others. We are
+to lose no opportunity to do that which will be a blessing to those
+about us.
+
+One of the boys or girls said this was a penny bank. That name is very
+suggestive. A bank is a place where you deposit money. Now, if you have
+a bank like this, do you only put into it silver dollars, five-dollar
+bills, ten-dollar gold pieces? If each boy who is here were to wait
+until he had a ten-dollar gold piece, or a five-dollar bill, or until he
+had come into possession of a silver dollar before he placed any money
+in his bank, I am sure his bank would always remain empty. The way to
+fill a bank is to put pennies in it--to save each cent and each
+five-cent piece. To-day a penny, and to-morrow a few pennies, and so on
+through the week, and through the year, and at the end of the year you
+will find that you have saved quite a goodly sum.
+
+Now, there are some people who want to lay up treasures in heaven, but
+they do not want to lay it up there, little by little. They prefer to
+wait until some opportunity comes when they can do a great deal of good
+at one time. But the person who does not do good every day and every
+hour, little by little, will never have any treasure in heaven. It is
+the pennies that make the dollars; it is the "many mites that make the
+muckle." It is the constant doing of little things, for the glory of God
+and the good of others, that makes a man great. Great men are great in
+little things, and if you desire to be great men and great women, you
+must always use the little opportunities, and use them well. Lay up
+treasure in heaven, each and every day, just the same as, day after day,
+you would save your pennies, and thus fill your banks. If you want a
+large treasure in heaven you must constantly be engaged in laying up
+your treasure there. Never lose an opportunity to do good, and in this
+way you will have an abundant treasure in heaven.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Where do people put money for safe
+          keeping? Is it only silver and gold which is put
+          into a bank? Do thieves ever break into banks? Can
+          any treasure be laid up in the earth where it is
+          absolutely safe? Where does the Bible tell us we
+          are also to lay up treasure? When boys and girls
+          are obedient, is that laying up treasure in
+          heaven? Does being great in little things make a
+          great man or a great woman? Should boys and girls
+          learn to save their money? What would they be
+          called if they spent all their money? What would
+          they be called if they hoarded up all they could
+          get? Should we always use all our money in the
+          fear of God?
+
+          After the conclusion of the services and after
+          "driving home from church", introduce some other
+          interesting features so as to make the day
+          sacredly impressive.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE CHART.
+
+AVOIDING THE DANGERS.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--Objects: A geography, or detached
+          maps will serve to show that the portions of the
+          earth which are under the water are quite like the
+          portions of the earth which are above the water.
+          Islands are only mountain summits or elevations.
+
+          "Drive to church", have the ushers show different
+          real or imaginary persons to seats, have the
+          little sermon and service precede the reading of
+          the following object sermon.
+
+
+[Illustration: Outline Map of the United States.]
+
+MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: We are all travelers. Now when a traveler
+starts out upon a journey he always desires to have in his possession
+one of these things which I hold in my hand. I know you will recognize
+it at once, and say that it is a map. This map tells you the name of the
+country; it shows you where there are mountains, where there are rivers,
+where there are valleys, where there are cities, and shows you the
+entire United States of America. In traveling through a strange country,
+if you do not have a map, you might be lost upon the mountains, or your
+journey would be obstructed by the rivers which you could not cross, and
+in various ways you would find it absolutely necessary to have a map.
+
+Now, when a traveler goes out upon the sea, it is just as necessary that
+he should have a map, or what the sailors call a chart, as it is for the
+traveler upon the land. The chart which the sea captain has, shows the
+mountains and the valleys and the rivers which are in the sea; for these
+exist in the sea, as well as upon the land. The rocks, against which
+ships are sometimes dashed to pieces, are simply the tops of high
+mountains that come very near to the surface of the sea; and the captain
+without a chart, not knowing where they are, is likely to run against
+them with his ship. The islands are simply the tops of these mountains,
+that rise higher above the water, and form a place of abode for man; and
+we call them islands, because they are very much smaller than the great
+continents on which you and I live.
+
+A chart of the sea always locates the dangerous places. They show where
+other ships have been foundered, and oftentimes where hundreds and
+thousands of lives have been lost. It also shows what are really rivers
+in the sea, or great currents, one of which we call the Gulf Stream.
+When a ship is crossing the Gulf Stream the motion or current of this
+water might carry it many hundreds of miles out of its course, and if
+the captain had no chart he would not be able to allow for this
+distance, which the ship is being carried, either north or south.
+
+Now, you and I are travelers in this world. We are out upon a great
+voyage, and it is necessary that we should have a chart, and therefore
+God has given us the Bible, which you and I can use greatly to our
+advantage. In the Bible, God has pointed out the dangers which lie like
+the hidden rocks under the surface of the sea. In the commandments God
+marks out the great dangers which beset you and me. There is the rock of
+Idolatry. Whole nations of the earth have been wrecked on this rock.
+Then there is another, Profanity, swearing: Oh! how many boys and men
+are ruined because they do not observe how God has marked this
+dangerous rock, against which no one can run without danger of losing
+his immortal soul. Then there is Sabbath breaking, another rock; and
+there is reverence due to parents; and God marks another, "Thou shalt
+not kill"; and then there are others, against stealing, against bearing
+false witness, against covetousness. All these dangerous rocks God has
+marked in the Bible, in order that you and I may not run against them,
+and thus be shipwrecked in our voyage to the haven of everlasting rest.
+
+[Illustration: Rocks and Mountains at the Bottom of the Sea.]
+
+God also marks the influences which you and I must come in contact with.
+Every boy who goes to school feels the influence of other boys, some of
+whom are very bad. If he permits himself to be moved by these things he
+will go wrong, just the same as the ship that is crossing the Gulf
+Stream is carried out of its course. So the Bible warns us against bad
+company.
+
+Now the chart which the sea captain has, indicates also the ports of
+safety. It shows the location of these different ports, and the
+direction the captain must take in order to reach them. So the Bible
+shows us where you and I can find refuge in the day of storm, and in the
+day of trial, and in the day of sickness, and in the day of distress. To
+the sea captain, out upon the great ocean, there are ten thousand
+directions which are sure to end in shipwreck. There is only one safe
+way to go, in order to reach his desired port in safety.
+
+Now what would you think of a captain out upon the seas who folded up
+his chart and laid it carefully away, and never looked at it, never
+studied it, never sought to know what is on the chart? Do you not see
+how he would go upon the rocks? His ship would go down to the bottom of
+the sea, just as surely as if he had no chart on board his ship. It is
+important that he should have his chart in constant use. So it is
+important, not only that we should have the Bible, but that we should
+use the Bible, that we should read it, that we should study it, that we
+should know what it says. I trust that each and all of you not only have
+a Bible, but that you study it daily, and that you seek to avoid the
+dangers which God has pointed out, and that you desire to know the will
+of God concerning you.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What should a traveler always have in
+          a strange country? What must a sea captain always
+          carry with him on his ship? What does the chart
+          show? Are we travelers? To what country are we
+          journeying? Has God given us a chart to show the
+          dangers to which we are exposed in our voyage or
+          journey? Should we read the Bible every day? What
+          are two principal parts of the Bible? Do you know
+          how many books there are in the Old Testament? Do
+          you know how many books there are in the New
+          Testament? Do you know who was the first man? Who
+          was the first woman? Who was the first murderer?
+          Who built the ark? Who had the coat of many
+          colors? Who led the Children of Israel out of
+          Egypt? Who was put in the lion's den?
+
+          After the entire service has been completed and
+          after the "drive home from church", chairs can be
+          arranged with their backs toward each other, set a
+          little way apart, with a shawl, blanket, or even a
+          sheet, thrown over them so as to form a little
+          tent. A number of tents can be made to illustrate
+          the Children of Israel camping in the wilderness.
+          They were travelers tenting by the way, who forgot
+          about their chart and fell into sin, and God had
+          to turn them back in the wilderness for forty
+          years of wandering. All this suggests important
+          lessons to the parents.
+
+          A series of tents can be arranged like the one
+          shown in the picture below (see also pages 209 and
+          271) and then, with one child in each tent the
+          questions can be asked. When a child fails to give
+          the correct answer, he moves down to the last tent
+          in the row, the other children move up, and the
+          question is passed to the child next in order, the
+          same as in a "spelling-bee" and other progressive
+          plays. Questions like those given on this page and
+          on pages =25= and =26= can be used; also questions
+          such as are found in the chapter on "Suggestions
+          to Parents," especially from paragraphs 50 onward.
+
+[Illustration: The Children of Israel Camping in the Wilderness.]
+
+
+
+
+THE ANCHOR.
+
+HOPE THAT LAYS HOLD OF CHRIST.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--Object: Anchor of any kind. One cut
+          from paste-board would answer. During the week the
+          little ones might be interested to cut out both
+          anchor and the chain, using paste-board.
+
+          Before reading the following sermon, "drive to
+          church" and after the audience has been shown to
+          seats, begin the service with singing, have the
+          regular prayer and have one of the children preach
+          over the sermon at the church in the morning or
+          the object sermon of last Sunday.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to talk to you to-day about a very
+important subject. The Bible speaks of hope, and says, "Which hope we
+have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which
+entereth into that within the veil." (Hebrews vi: 19.)
+
+[Illustration: The Anchor.]
+
+I suppose most of you have been on board a ship or large boat. Very near
+the bow, or front end of the boat, you have doubtless noticed a chain,
+at the end of which was an anchor, made in the form of this one which I
+hold in my hand. Now, I would not care to go out to sea on any ship
+which did not have an anchor on board. In crossing the Atlantic you may
+sometimes be out for days and weeks, and sometimes even for months, and
+have no need of using the anchor. But all the time, while the weather is
+pleasant and everything is moving along prosperously, the fact that the
+anchor is on board the ship and that it can be used in time of danger,
+gives a sense of security to all the passengers. If it were not there
+you would constantly fear, lest the storms or fog might come when your
+ship was near land or dangerous rocks or shoals, and then your ship
+might be lost with its many hundreds of lives on board, simply because
+it had no anchor.
+
+Every man and woman, and every boy and girl, needs to have hope as an
+anchor to his soul. We should have faith in God, and then at times when
+all is well, when we are prosperous and blest, and everything goes along
+like the ship in pleasant weather, we will constantly have peace and
+rest in our minds and hearts, because we know that our hope is staid on
+God, and that though the world be removed, yet God will not disappoint
+us.
+
+Some people seem to think that religion is a good thing to have when
+they get sick, or when adversity or sorrow or great affliction comes.
+But the fact is that religion is a necessary thing at all times. We need
+it when we are well and strong, as well as when we are sick and weak. We
+need religion in this world to live by, as well as to die by, as well as
+for our salvation in the world to come.
+
+The anchor is very serviceable indeed in time of storm. Often it has to
+be used in order to secure the ship and save the lives of all who are on
+board. If it were not for the anchor the ship might be thrust upon the
+rocks, or it might be dashed to pieces by the waves that break upon the
+coast. The anchor is oftentimes very serviceable. So it is with the
+religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. When trials and perplexities and
+adversities come, as they do in every life, then it is that this anchor
+is a source of very great blessing, because it saves from shipwreck,
+occasioned by unbelief and the perplexities into which those are cast
+who have no hope, or trust in God.
+
+[Illustration: Anchor Laying Hold of the Rocks.]
+
+To be serviceable the anchor must take hold of something. If it simply
+drags along it will not hold the ship; but the ship may go to pieces on
+the rocks, even though it has an anchor, which has already been cast
+over. Now in time of sorrow and perplexity or distress every one throws
+out an anchor. That is, he tries to take hold of something which will
+sustain him and keep him, just the same as a boy who falls into the
+water would grab after a board. They say that a drowning man will even
+grasp after a straw in order to help to support his body, so that he may
+save his life. So every one in perplexity reaches out to lay hold of
+something. But the text which I quoted in the beginning says that this
+hope which we have as an anchor to the soul lays hold of something, and
+that something is the Lord Jesus Christ. It is like the ship whose
+anchor goes down, far below the waves, deep down out of sight, and lays
+hold of the rocks which form the foundation of the earth. So the faith
+of the Christian is staid, not on things which are seen, but on the
+things which are not seen. As the text expresses it, it lays hold of
+those things "which entereth into that which is within the veil." That
+is, this figure refers to the Temple at Jerusalem, where the Holy of
+Holies was concealed from the rest of the Temple by a large curtain or
+veil, and no one was permitted to go into this Holy of Holies except the
+High Priest, and he but once a year. But when you and I have the faith
+of the Christian, although we may not be able to enter into the great
+mystery of God's grace and mercy, yet our faith lays hold of that which
+is beyond our understanding, and beyond our possibility to see or fully
+to comprehend, and thus our faith lays hold of that which is "within the
+veil." With our understanding, you and I cannot enter into the mysteries
+of God, but by faith we can enter into them. I trust that every boy and
+girl here will have that faith in God, which will be as an anchor to his
+soul, sure and steadfast, entering within the veil at all times.
+
+I will tell you how this anchor of faith and hope can be of service to
+you. There are times when you see other boys and girls who have many
+more comforts and luxuries and possessions than you have. You may even
+be discouraged sometimes because you think your lot in life is more than
+usually hard and difficult.
+
+When I myself was a boy, my father died, and only three years later my
+mother died. I was left an orphan and without a home. I had to become an
+errand boy in a store, and for a number of years I had a hard struggle.
+I was a Christian boy, and I had this anchor of faith and hope. I
+trusted in God that He would make all of these things to work out
+eventually for my good. I could not at that time understand how. It was
+beyond my understanding, but later on in life I found how all the trials
+and struggles of my earlier years had worked together for my good. I
+understood that passage of Scripture which says: "All things work
+together for good to them that love God." (Romans viii: 28.)
+
+So, when you see others who have it easier and who have more comforts
+and luxuries than you have, if you have this hope which the text speaks
+of as "laying hold within the veil" be sure that in God's own good time,
+in His infinite wisdom and love, He will work out for you also the
+blessing and the good which you can only hope for, but which at the
+present time you can neither see nor understand.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What does every ship carry? Would a
+          ship be safe without an anchor? When the anchor is
+          let down into the deep water, must it take hold of
+          something? When is the anchor used? If a ship did
+          not have an anchor in time of storm along the
+          rocky coast, would it be safe? Do men and women,
+          boys and girls, also need an anchor? Can we have
+          peace and happiness without hope? Is religion
+          necessary only when we are in trouble? On what
+          does hope lay hold? Can we see the things on which
+          the Christian's faith lays hold? Can we always
+          understand God's providences? Did the writer of
+          this book have trials when he was a boy? Could he
+          understand them then? Did he understand them later
+          on in life? Do all boys and girls have trials? If
+          received in the proper spirit, will they always
+          work out for their good?
+
+
+
+
+HUSKS.
+
+THE DISAPPOINTED PLEASURE-SEEKER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--If the children can obtain some of
+          the pods which are called "husks" in the
+          Scripture, which can be had in some towns and
+          cities, and which the children usually call
+          "Johnny-bread" they will be able to taste the
+          husks which the prodigal fed to the swine and
+          which he himself desired to eat. If these cannot
+          be had, the pods from the sweet locust tree will
+          be serviceable.
+
+
+I HOLD in my hand what I suppose most of you have seen, and perhaps many
+of you have eaten. It is what boys oftentimes call "Johnny bread." It
+looks very much like the long pods which grow on the honey locust trees.
+It is sometimes called "Johnny bread," because some people mistakenly
+think that this was the kind of locust that John the Baptist ate when he
+came in the Wilderness, preaching that the kingdom of heaven was at hand
+and that men should repent. We are told in the Scriptures that he ate
+locusts and wild honey. The locusts which he ate were very much like our
+grasshoppers, such as are still eaten by very poor people in the East.
+
+[Illustration: Husks.]
+
+In the 15th chapter of the gospel by St. Luke, we have a very beautiful
+parable, called the parable of the prodigal son. In connection with the
+husk which I hold in my hand, I want to tell you something about this
+prodigal son.
+
+In this parable Jesus tells of a very kind father who had two sons, but
+the younger son was dissatisfied and discontented. He was a boy very
+much like many who live in this country and at this time. He was a boy
+who wanted to have his own way. He thought that his father was an "old
+fogy." The son wanted gay company and gay clothing. He wanted to travel
+and see something of the world; so he asked his father to give him the
+money which would come to him at his father's death, in order that he
+might go immediately and have his own way, and have a good time, as he
+supposed.
+
+His father was very sad, for he had tried to bring up his boy in the
+right way. But when he could not prevail upon him, and his son would not
+listen to him any longer, but insisted upon having the money, and going
+away from home, the father granted his request.
+
+When the money had been counted out, the son gathered it all up, bade
+his father and brother and all his friends good-bye, telling them what a
+happy time he was going to have, and started out for a far country.
+
+This same desire to see something of the world has induced many boys to
+run away from home. Many years ago, when there were numerous ships that
+went out on long voyages to catch whales, oftentimes boys who had run
+away from home went away to sea with these ships. Now, however, restless
+and discontented boys, who have read worthless and deceptive books,
+sometimes go to live a wild life on the plains in the West. Sometimes
+boys even become tramps. Scores and sometimes hundreds of them can be
+met any week by going to the Breakfast Association, in Philadelphia; or
+some of the Rescue Homes, in New York, where poor, wandering boys and
+tramps are given a free meal on Sunday morning or Sunday evening.
+Prodigals now, as in the time when Christ lived, have a very hard time
+of it. They start out with high hopes, sometimes with money in their
+pockets, with fine clothing and bright anticipations, expecting to have
+a good time in the far country which they are seeking. But their
+experience is always the same.
+
+When this prodigal came to the far country, for a few weeks, or possibly
+a few months, he had plenty of money. He thought his money would always
+last. Bad men and women gathered around him, for they all wanted to
+enjoy what his money would secure for them. But it didn't take long; his
+money was soon spent, and when his money was gone his pretended friends
+were gone also. He soon found himself penniless, friendless and
+hungered. He had to go out and seek for work. Perhaps he had been too
+much indulged at home. He had never learned a trade, and possibly had
+never learned to do work of any kind, and so there was nothing for him
+to do but to accept the humblest and meanest kind of labor. He was a
+Jew, and for a Jew to tend swine or hogs was one of the meanest things
+in all the world. And yet he was willing because of his poverty and his
+want, to do even this most degrading service. This boy who wanted to be
+his own master, now became the most menial of slaves, even to the
+tending of swine. He wanted gay company, but he had only pigs for his
+companions. He wanted wine and feasting, but now no one even offered him
+husks to eat. He left his home to seek happiness, but he found only
+misery.
+
+[Illustration: The Disappointed, Hungry Prodigal Tending Swine.]
+
+These husks which I showed you, which some boys call "Johnny bread," are
+exactly what this wayward, disappointed, disheartened, hungry boy was
+given to feed to the swine which he was hired to tend. He was so
+hungry that he would have been glad to eat these husks with the pigs,
+but no one gave him any to eat.
+
+When this wayward boy was thus brought down to poverty and hunger in
+that far-off country, while he was tending the swine, he began to think.
+If he had only stopped to think before he left his home, he would never
+have started away. He would surely have known that he was better off at
+home than anywhere else. But now that misery and want had come to him,
+we are told that "he came to himself." That is, he came to his senses.
+It was sentiment which led him from his home. It was sense that brought
+him back. The trouble with boys and girls, and with older people too, is
+that they do not stop to think. They follow their fancies and
+sentiments, and they are led astray in this way.
+
+God wants us to stop and think, and He says, "Come, let us reason
+together." God does not ask any unreasonable thing of us. He simply
+wants to treat us as thoughtful beings, but we want to follow our own
+inclination and our own desire. God treats us very kindly. He gives us
+every needed comfort and every daily blessing, and yet oftentimes people
+are discontented and dissatisfied with God; they complain and think they
+have a hard time of it. Instead of being faithful and true to God, they
+turn away from him. They desire to forsake God and serve Satan. They
+desire to accept what Satan says, and so turn away from God and all that
+is good. But they have the same experience over and over again that this
+young man had. He went out with fine clothes and plenty of money, and
+with high hopes; but he returned home in rags, without a penny in his
+pocket, disappointed, penitent and ashamed.
+
+[Illustration: The Returning Prodigal]
+
+But I must not forget to tell you, that when he had journeyed many a
+week, toiling wearily over the long road that had separated him from his
+father's house, at last he came near his old home. In going away he had
+nearly broken his father's heart. With sorrow he was bringing his
+aged father down to the grave. But his father still loved his wayward
+boy, and expected him home. As he sat watching at the door looking over
+the hills, he saw the returning prodigal when he was yet a great way
+off. This loving and forgiving father had compassion upon his son, ran
+and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and welcomed him back home again.
+The wayward boy's heart was all broken up by such kind treatment. He
+fell upon his knees at his father's feet and said to his father,
+"Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more
+worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants."
+
+But the father called his servants and commanded them to bring the best
+robe and put it upon this boy who had given him so much sorrow; to bring
+the ring and put it upon his finger; and then to kill the fatted calf,
+so that they might make a great feast, in order that all might be made
+very glad, because this his son, who was dead, was alive again, he who
+had been lost was found.
+
+So when we come back to God after we have sinned against Him, and are
+repentant and sorry for what we have done, in love and great tenderness
+He forgives our sins. And like the prodigal, in the time of his sorest
+misery, found in his father's heart the greatest mercy, so you and I may
+come to God knowing that in the day of our dire distress He is always
+willing to love us and to forgive us as His own dear children. Let us be
+careful not to sin against Him, and then we shall not have the
+humiliation and the sorrow of coming back, like this poor prodigal, when
+he returned in rags and poverty to his father's house. Never make the
+mistake of going away from your God and then you will not have the
+remorse which will bring you back in sorrow and shame.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Who first told the parable of the
+          prodigal son? Why did the prodigal leave his home?
+          What did he do with his money? Did his pretended
+          friends stay by him after his money was gone? In
+          his poverty what did he do? Did he have enough to
+          eat? When he was in want and came to himself, of
+          whom did he think? What did he resolve to do? What
+          do boys who run away from home generally become?
+          Are tramps happy? Was the father sad all the time
+          the boy was away? How did he receive the returning
+          prodigal? Does God love us even though we do
+          wrong? Will God forgive us and accept us? Is God
+          glad when we repent?
+
+          After "driving home from church" a series of
+          tableaux could be arranged: (1) Showing the father
+          counting out the money to the boy. (2) The boy
+          bidding good-bye to his father and friends. (3)
+          Surrounded by flatterers for whom he is spending
+          his money. (4) In poverty tending swine. (5) In
+          rags returning home. (6) Being welcomed by his
+          father.
+
+          Or the children may arrange a tent in which the
+          prodigal is presumed to live on the plains while
+          tending the swine, which may be represented by a
+          series of books, toys or any objects; for the
+          imagination of the children will convert any
+          object into any other object, person or thing.
+
+[Illustration: The Prodigal's Tent.]
+
+
+
+
+IRON--LOW GRADE AND HIGH GRADE.
+
+CHARACTER AND WORTH.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects used: A piece of old iron,
+          some nails, broken clock and watch springs, and
+          also a piece of native iron ore, if convenient.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to show you to-day that there is a great
+difference in the value of things, even though they are made of the same
+material. In the second chapter of Genesis we are told, "And the Lord
+God formed man of the dust of the ground." So, you see that all men and
+women are made of the same material, yet men differ greatly, both in
+character and works.
+
+[Illustration: Iron Products.]
+
+I have here some iron ore, some old iron, some nails; here are some
+clock springs, and here are some springs of watches. This iron ore is as
+it is dug from the earth. It is called the native iron, but mixed with
+it there is much earth and stone and dross, which must be separated from
+it in order to make it pure. This is done by casting the ore, together
+with limestone and other materials, into a huge furnace, where the fire
+is so intensely hot that all are melted and thus the iron is separated
+from the dross, or stone and earth, which is now mixed with the ore.
+When the iron is thus separated and molded into large bars, it is worth
+from a fraction of a cent to two cents per pound, according to quality
+and market price. After it has been cast into great iron bars, and is
+known as pig iron, it is afterward bought and melted over again and
+molded into the form of stoves and wheels, such as are used in
+factories, and a variety of other forms for manufacturing and other
+uses.
+
+[Illustration: Nail, Pen and Clock Spring.]
+
+Now, here I have some pieces of iron, such as boys call "old iron." They
+often find pieces of this kind of iron, which have been thrown away, and
+gather and sell them at a price varying from one-quarter to a cent or
+more a pound, according to circumstances. Then it is melted over again
+and made into stoves, or whatever the manufacturer may desire. Now, here
+are some nails, such as sell at five cents a pound, and here are some
+steel pens, which are worth from one to four and five dollars a pound.
+Here are some springs, such as are used in the construction of clocks.
+These are the springs which make clocks go. When you wind up the clock
+you simply tighten this spring, thus storing the power which is
+necessary to keep the clock in motion for twenty-four hours, for eight
+days, or even a longer period.
+
+Now here are some springs, such as are used in watches. These springs
+are worth, according to their size and quality, from twenty to fifty or
+sixty dollars a pound. Here also are some little screws, such as are
+used in the construction of watches, and which are worth even a hundred
+dollars a pound.
+
+While these different articles are all made of the same material, you
+see there is a great difference in their value. One is not worth a
+single cent a pound, and another may be worth one hundred dollars a
+pound. Now this difference in value is due to two things. One is,
+difference in quality, and the other is the use which is made of the
+article into which the iron is manufactured.
+
+[Illustration: Watch Spring and Screws.]
+
+I suppose, if these different pieces of metal could think, and had the
+power of speech, this piece of old iron would complain to the other
+pieces which are of more value, and say to the watch spring, "I am just
+as good as you are, we were both dug from the same ore bank. I remember
+the time when we were both cast into the hot fire and melted in the
+furnace; after that I was taken to the foundry, and made into a stove,
+and after a few years of use I was rejected and cast into the alley. I
+have had to lie about in the mud and in the cold and snow, and men have
+passed me by and scorned me as though I were of no value. But I want you
+to understand, Mr. Clockspring and Mr. Watchspring, that I am just as
+good as you are, and there is no reason why I should be cast out into
+the mud and cold, while you are placed in a gold case and carried in a
+gentleman's pocket."
+
+The nail also would cry out, and say that he was just as good as the
+little screws which are used in the watch, and would complain against
+being driven violently into a board, where it is compelled, year after
+year, to hold a board on to the side of a building; to have putty placed
+over its head, and then paint over the top of that, so that nobody could
+even so much as see where it was, or know what it was doing.
+
+Now, the old iron, and the nail, and the others have no right to
+complain. There is a vast difference of quality, and there is also a
+difference of work.
+
+The higher grades and better qualities of metals are secured by refining
+processes. Again and again the metal is cast in the fire and melted.
+Sometimes it is beaten on the anvil into such shapes and forms as will
+render the metal of greater service, and consequently of more value.
+
+Suppose this metal had feeling, and the power to express its wish. Do
+you not see how it would cry out against being cast into the fire, and
+being beaten with great hammers upon the anvil? I am sure the fire, the
+hammers, and the anvil bring no sense of pleasure to the metal while
+being refined and being beaten into such forms as render it of greatest
+value.
+
+Just so, in some senses at least, are all boys and girls alike. If they
+were all permitted to grow up in neglect, without being governed by
+thoughtful parents, without being educated and refined, without being
+sent to school and required to attend church, without being taught at
+home and being instructed in the Catechism and in the Bible, and without
+being shown their duty to God and their fellow men, they would all be
+pretty much alike. It is the difference in the influences that are made
+to refine some boys that causes them to differ so much from others who
+are about them. The boy who has only been taught to pick stones, or
+sweep the streets, or dig ditches, may cry out against the boy who is
+gentlemanly, and obliging, and obedient, and truthful, and reliable, and
+who has a position of great responsibility in a bank, or in the office
+of some man who occupies a very responsible position; yet oftentimes,
+and quite universally, there is a very great difference in the merit and
+value of these two boys. One has been disciplined and governed and
+controlled, educated and taught, while the other has likely been
+neglected, and consequently has not learned the importance of these
+things.
+
+God designs to refine all of us, and therefore He desires that all
+should be taught to study, should learn to read and write, should learn
+all they can from the schools, should be taught to work, should be
+taught to expect trials and self-denials, and should be led to expect
+sickness and disappointments, and all these things by which God designs
+to make us better from year to year. But, just the same as the iron
+would cry out against being cast into the fire and being beaten upon the
+anvil, so do boys and girls, and men and women also, cry out against the
+providences by which God is refining them and making them better for
+this world and fitting them for the world to come.
+
+If we desire to be of largest service in this world, and to occupy a
+place of honor in the world to come, we must expect that God will deal
+with us, as He has told us in the ninth verse of the thirteenth chapter
+of Zechariah, in which He says, "I will refine them as silver is
+refined, and will try them as gold is tried." And in the book of Malachi
+He says that He, that is God, is "like a refiner's fire, and like
+fullers' soap, and He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and
+purge them as gold and silver."
+
+When the gold and the silver is cast into the crucible to be purified,
+the fire is made very hot, and the metal is left in the crucible until
+the man who is refining it and who sits looking into the crucible can
+see his own image reflected in the metal. So we are cast into the fires
+of affliction, and God looks down upon us; but when we become like Him,
+so that God sees His own self reflected in our character, and in our
+disposition, and in our temper, then we shall have been refined as God
+desires, and He will then be ready to receive us into His own home on
+high.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Can you name different things made
+          from iron? Is a horse shoe as valuable as a watch
+          spring? What makes the difference in their value?
+          How are iron and steel refined, or made more
+          valuable? Are unrefined and untaught boys and
+          girls all quite alike? What makes them become
+          different? Do some boys and girls become more
+          useful and valuable in the world than others? What
+          causes the difference? Would the iron cry out
+          against being refined? Do boys and girls object to
+          being taught and disciplined? How does the Bible
+          say that God refines us? Can the refiner see his
+          image in the melted metal? Does God want to see
+          His own image reflected in us?
+
+[Illustration: "Joseph in the Pit."]
+
+
+
+
+A POCKET RULE.
+
+HOW GOD MEASURES MEN.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A yard-stick, pocket-rule,
+          tape-measure and any measure or scales convenient.
+
+          Use the measures and scales for measuring the
+          height and weight of the different children, and
+          explain to them that if they continue to grow,
+          they will eventually become full grown men and
+          women. So God measures them to-day in moral
+          things, and if they will learn what God requires
+          and be obedient to their parents, they will
+          increase in moral stature as well.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I am sure you will be able to tell me what these
+are which I hold in my hand. This you would call a yard-stick; the
+other, because it folds, you would call a pocket-rule, and here is
+another, which you would call a tape-measure.
+
+[Illustration: Yard-Stick, Pocket-Rule and Tape-Measure.]
+
+Now, if I were going to measure any of you, to tell how tall you are, I
+would use one or the other of these rules; as each is divided into even
+inches, I could use any of these three I should prefer. I would say one
+boy is four feet two inches, another four feet nine inches and another
+five feet four inches, and so on according to the height of each person.
+We speak of this kind of measure as feet and inches. When it is used in
+measuring cloth, or other goods in a store, we speak of it as yards and
+parts of a yard. Then there are also other forms of measures, dry
+measure--quarts, pecks, bushels; and liquid measure--quarts, gallons and
+barrels. There is also a standard of weight--ounces, pounds and tons.
+
+[Illustration: Farmer's Measures.]
+
+It is necessary to have standards of weights and measures. This is
+absolutely necessary, or we could not tell in purchasing cloth or
+lumber, in buying sugar or molasses, or other things, whether we are
+getting the right quantity, or whether we are not getting the right
+quantity. So, everywhere you go in the United States we have the same
+size or standard of weights and measures, and the Government appoints
+men in each city to go about and examine whether the scales which the
+storekeeper uses for weighing sugar, and the measures which he uses when
+he sells vinegar and molasses--whether these are perfectly accurate, as
+the law requires.
+
+[Illustration: Scales and Measure.]
+
+But, if you look on the other side of this tape-measure, there is a
+different standard of measure. This, on the reverse side, is the metric
+system, used in France and many other countries. If you were to go into
+a store in France and wanted to purchase cloth, you would not ask for a
+yard, you would ask for a metre of cloth, which instead of thirty-six
+inches, which makes our yard, would be a little over thirty-nine inches;
+so the standard of measures and values varies in different countries.
+There is a slight difference in the length of the English yard and the
+American yard. In this country we also speak of dollars and cents. In
+England they have the penny, shilling, pound or sovereign. And so in
+different countries there are different pieces of money, having a great
+variety of values.
+
+I have spoken of these things simply to call your attention to the fact
+that God has a standard of measure, and a standard of value, as well as
+men. When the Government enlists soldiers into the army every man is
+measured, and he must be of a given height; if he is not as tall as the
+requirement, then he is rejected. When Napoleon chose his body-guard the
+men all had to be exceedingly tall.
+
+God also has His standard of measure. He does not measure us according
+to the height of our body, but according to our moral character. He
+measures us to see whether we are good or bad. God's standard of the
+measure of our moral character is found in the Bible. You will find it,
+both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. In the Old Testament
+we have the Ten Commandments, in which we are required to worship God,
+and to worship nothing else; to keep the Sabbath day holy; to honor our
+parents; and various other requirements. In the New Testament we have a
+great many principles for moral government which Jesus announced when He
+was upon the earth.
+
+We have all broken some one or more of the Ten Commandments and the
+precepts which Jesus left for us to follow. If you desire to see how
+you should live, if you would keep the law perfectly, you will have to
+look at the life of Jesus Christ. He was the only perfect man who ever
+lived. He came to this world to set a perfect example for men to
+imitate. Just the same as you copy after the lines correctly written at
+the top of your writing book, so you and I are to copy after the life
+and character of Jesus Christ.
+
+The moral law is a perfect law; the Psalmist says, "the law of the Lord
+is perfect, converting the soul." I showed you how in France they have a
+different standard of measure from that which we have in the United
+States, but with the moral law the standard is the same everywhere and
+at all times. It is wrong to lie or steal in America, and it is equally
+wrong to lie or steal in France, or in Africa, or in India, or on the
+islands of the sea, or anywhere in all of the universe. If it is wicked
+now to swear, or to commit murder it always was wicked. It was just as
+wicked three thousand years ago as it is to-day, and it never will be
+right to take the name of God in vain, or to destroy human life. God has
+but one standard of morality for all people and for all time.
+
+What God requires of the young in order that they may be pure and holy,
+He requires also of grown-up people. If it is wrong for the preacher and
+the Sunday-school superintendent to go to the theatre, or to do anything
+else, it is equally wrong for every member of the church and for every
+member of the Sunday-school. Before God we must all be measured by the
+same standard of morality.
+
+If I had one year ago measured the height of each of you and written it
+down, and then measured you again to-day, I would find that during these
+twelve months each of you had grown. You are taller to-day than you were
+a year ago. Now, God has given us a standard of moral character, right
+and wrong, and I want you all to study it very carefully, so that you
+may see how tall you are, how far you come short of the character of
+Jesus Christ. And as you grow taller in body, so you should grow in
+moral character, and if you will study God's word carefully, you will be
+able to discover what progress you are making in becoming more like
+Christ, in becoming better boys and better girls, and afterward better
+men and better women, from year to year, than you were each preceding
+year.
+
+May God bless you abundantly, and may you grow daily "unto a perfect
+man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." (Eph.
+iv: 13.)
+
+          QUESTIONS.--How many kinds of measures can you
+          name? Are the standards of weights and measures
+          the same in all countries? How many standards of
+          measure does God have? Where can God's standard of
+          measure be found? Are God's standards the same for
+          all persons in all countries, in all parts of the
+          world? Is there any place in the world where it
+          would be right to lie or steal, or murder? Who was
+          the only perfect man? Does God's standard ever
+          change? Should we constantly strive to become like
+          Christ? How can we tell what progress we are
+          making in becoming more like Christ?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE MAGNET.
+
+JESUS THE GREAT DRAWING POWER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A small magnet can be purchased in
+          almost any hardware store at trifling cost. With
+          this, also have some little tacks, nails both
+          small and large, together with some old rusted and
+          crooked nails, and a pocket knife.
+
+          Do not omit "driving to church" and the other play
+          features suggested in previous sermons.
+
+
+I AM sure that there is not a boy or girl here, who has not at some time
+felt a desire to be good and do right. When you have felt this way, it
+has been due to the fact that the Holy Spirit has come to you and has
+put these good thoughts and good desires into your heart.
+
+There is not a person living who has not at some time felt this same
+drawing and desire to do right and to be good. The results, however,
+have been very different with different people.
+
+I shall seek to illustrate this drawing power to you to-day, and to do
+so have brought this magnet. I have also brought these tacks and nails
+of different sizes; and here are also some old, rusted, crooked nails.
+Let these several kinds represent the different kinds of people.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Tacks.]
+
+When I take this magnet, and move it around among these small tacks, and
+then hold it up, you will see that very many of these tacks cling to the
+magnet. They hold on by some unseen power. Sometimes the tacks are even
+not able to touch the magnet, but are drawn through the influence which
+extends through other tacks, and so large clusters hang on to the
+magnet. If I shake the magnet you will see that some fall off. These
+small tacks represent the youngest children. In the early years of our
+lives we are more easily drawn to the Lord Jesus. It is then more easy
+for us to come to Christ and give ourselves fully to Him. It is much
+easier to be Christians when we are young. Yet many put it off till they
+are older, when it is much more difficult and they are less likely to be
+successful in living a Christian life.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Small Nails.]
+
+Now, if I remove these small tacks, and place the magnet among these
+small nails, you will see that several of the small nails cling to the
+magnet, and I can lift them up. There are not as many, however, as there
+were of the tacks clinging to it. In like manner, as boys and girls grow
+older, they find it more difficult to come to Christ.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Larger Nails.]
+
+Here are some larger nails. When I place the magnet among them, but very
+few are attracted to it. And when I attempt to lift the magnet, most all
+of these large nails tall off. Only one, sometimes two, hold on
+successfully.
+
+Here are some nails that are still larger. Now, when I attempt to lift
+one of them with this magnet, you see that I can only lift one end of
+the nail. That is due to the fact that while the magnet draws these
+nails, the earth also draws them. That is the reason why these smaller
+nails, when they fall from the magnet, fall to the earth; because the
+earth draws them. The earth draws with so much greater force and power
+upon these large nails than the magnet draws that I cannot raise them by
+the magnet. It is on this account that they continue to hold fast to the
+earth rather than to the magnet.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Large Nails.]
+
+This represents the people who have grown old; who have large cares and
+responsibilities; who have become worldly-minded; who are drawn away by
+the "deceitfulness of riches and the lust of other things," and who,
+although they feel a desire to do right, yet have a stronger desire to
+do that which is not well-pleasing in the sight of God.
+
+Now, here are some old crooked, rusty nails. Let us see what effect the
+presence of the magnet will have upon them. Just as we might have
+expected. These rusty nails do not seem to feel the power or the
+influence of the magnet's presence. If I place the magnet up against the
+nail, and attempt to lift it, it does not seem to be drawn at all. It
+simply lies still, unmoved. These old, crooked, rusty nails represent
+people who have grown very old and very wicked, and who have become
+greatly hardened in sin. Jesus Christ and His love seem to make no
+impression any longer upon them. They are joined to their idols. God's
+Spirit has taken His departure, and they are left alone. Let me warn
+you, both young and old, that if you feel the drawing of God's Spirit,
+you should yield to Him, so as not to become more corroded and rusted,
+and coated over by every sinful influence, so that at last the love of
+God shall fail to have any effect upon you.
+
+If now we take these different classes of nails and mix them together,
+and then stir the magnet among them, you will see how the smaller nails,
+in larger numbers, cling to the magnet. These bright nails are also
+affected by it. Oftentimes the influence of the magnet is seen, as it is
+communicated from one nail to the other; but these rusty nails, not only
+do not themselves yield to the influence of the magnet, but they also
+fail to communicate that magnetic influence to any of the other nails
+around them. In like manner, wicked people seem to come between Christ
+and others who would be drawn to Him. Let me say to you, keep out of bad
+company. Avoid wicked companions--those who swear, or lie, or do
+anything that is wrong, for their influence over you will be bad, and
+they will prevent the good influences of holy things from acting upon
+you.
+
+Suppose now that I take my knife blade and move it among these nails,
+you will see that it does not attract them like the magnet did. It has
+no magnetic power. If I draw the knife blade across the magnet a few
+times, it receives this magnetic power from the magnet. Now, when I move
+it among the nails you will see how these little tacks and some of the
+larger nails are drawn toward it.
+
+Just so it is with each of us as individuals. Without coming in contact
+with Christ and receiving His Spirit, His drawing power, we will never
+influence others to do that which is right and good and holy. If we
+desire to have an influence for good in this world we must, first of
+all, come to Christ ourselves, and receive this drawing power from Him.
+You have doubtless seen those who have become Christians, and after they
+have given their hearts to Christ they have immediately begun to draw
+others. They go out and invite others to come to church, they invite
+others to go with them to the prayer-meeting, to come with them to the
+Sunday-school, and so in every way they seek to influence others that
+they may draw them to Christ.
+
+When Jesus was upon the earth vast multitudes attended Him. Where He
+went they followed. But now when Jesus is no longer bodily present upon
+the earth, when we cannot see Him with our natural eyes, we speak of
+walking by faith, and you may be curious to know what is meant by
+walking by faith. I think that I can illustrate it in this way: Here is
+a sheet of writing paper. Now above the writing paper I will place this
+magnet, and then below it I will place this small bit of iron. The
+attracting power of the magnet holds the iron up against the paper. Now,
+when I move this magnet on the upper side of the sheet from place to
+place, you will observe that this little piece of iron on the lower side
+of the sheet goes in the same direction. It follows the magnet very
+closely. The paper is between them. Now, if this paper were enlarged so
+as to be as long and as broad as the ceiling of this room, of course you
+would not be able to see the magnet. It would be hidden from your view.
+But as you would move the magnet from place to place, the little iron
+below would continue to follow it.
+
+So Jesus Christ is no longer visible; we cannot see Him with our natural
+eyes, but He draws the Christian who is in this world, and so the
+Christian follows Him. He walks in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus. And
+it is on that account that we say that the Christian walks by faith, and
+not by sight.
+
+Just before Jesus was crucified He said: "And I, if I be lifted up from
+the earth, will draw all men unto Me." (John xii: 32.) So He draws you
+and He draws me. And so also by His love He would draw every person in
+all the world to Him. Let us not resist the drawings of the Holy
+Spirit, but come to the Lord Jesus Christ and love Him with our whole
+heart.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What can the magnet do? Can the power
+          of the magnet be seen? Can the magnet lift as many
+          nails as tacks? Are old rusty nails drawn by the
+          magnet? Who are like the little tacks? Who are
+          like the small nails? Who are like the rusty
+          nails? Does everybody desire at times to be good?
+          What draws them in the right direction? Can we see
+          the power that causes us to desire to be good?
+          What is the name of the power or force that causes
+          the nails to fall from the magnet? What power
+          draws people from doing right? Should we always
+          yield to the power that draws us in the right
+          direction? Does Christ have to be seen in order to
+          accept His influence?
+
+[Illustration: Daniel in the Lion's Den.]
+
+
+
+
+KEYS.
+
+HOW TO UNLOCK THE HUMAN HEART.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects used: Locks and keys of any
+          form or size. If possible open the lock and show
+          how the key fits into the different wards of the
+          lock. Explain how other keys would not fit.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I have here to-day quite a variety of locks.
+Here are also quite a variety of keys. You will notice that there are
+several more keys than there are locks. Now, I suppose that we would
+have no very great difficulty in selecting the keys that would be most
+likely to turn backward and forward the bolts in these different locks.
+We would naturally expect that these larger keys would fit these larger
+locks and the smaller keys would be adapted to lock and unlock the
+smaller ones.
+
+[Illustration: Lock and Key.]
+
+Here is this large lock; I suppose it is very possible this large key
+may be suited to lock and unlock it. Yes, it just fits. You see how it
+turns the bolt in and out as I turn the key.
+
+Now, here is another lock; let us see if we can find a key that will fit
+it. This key seems about the size, but after passing it into the lock
+it seems to strike something that prevents it from turning, and
+consequently is of no service. Let us try another. That seems to work
+much better, and turns the bolt backward and forward.
+
+[Illustration: Lock and Key.]
+
+Here is still another lock; let us try this key with this lock. That
+seems to work very well. Possibly we might be able to lock and unlock
+this other also. Let us try it. Yes, this key fits both these locks.
+This key is what the locksmith calls a skeleton key. It is so made that
+it avoids the obstacles which are placed in the different locks to
+prevent them from being opened by all varieties of keys. Here is a still
+smaller lock. This lock has a very peculiar keyhole, and I know at once
+that there is no need of trying to unlock it with most of the keys which
+I have spread out here. I recognize it at once as what is called a "Yale
+lock." The key is thin, is bent in various ways, and along the edge has
+several notches. Let us try a couple of these keys. This one seems to
+fit very well to the grooves. It passes into the lock, but I cannot turn
+the bolt. Let us try another. Yes, this seems to be the one that was
+made by the locksmith to fasten and unfasten this lock.
+
+[Illustration: Yale Lock and Key.]
+
+A key then is simply something which unlocks the door or the gate, so
+you may open it and pass inside. Now, there are a great many kinds of
+keys. Sometimes a book is called a key to business. Perhaps another book
+is called a key to the study of medicine; another the key to the study
+of law. And so there may be a great many kinds of books which are called
+keys. When properly used or studied they open the way for a clear
+understanding of how to transact business, how to study medicine and how
+to study law. And so there are various books that are keys to the
+understanding of very, very many subjects. When you indicate to me the
+kind of difficulty that you have to overcome, it would be reasonably
+easy to indicate the kind of book you need in order successfully to meet
+that difficulty.
+
+When I find a book that teaches a boy good business habits and helps him
+to become a good business man, I know that book was written with that
+object in view. When I find a book that teaches one how to understand
+the human system, the nature of disease and the character of the
+remedies which are to be used when people are sick, I know that book was
+written with a view to help people to understand the nature of disease
+and the character of medicine. Just so it is with every other book. Each
+is like the lock and the key, for the locks have inside a peculiar sort
+of winding way, and when I find a key that exactly fits into this
+winding passage I know immediately that the locksmith designed that the
+key should fit into that particular lock and turn back the bolt.
+
+Now, God wants to get into the human heart, and I find that God has a
+key with which to unlock it. I do not think you would be long in
+guessing what book God has made the key with which to unlock the human
+heart. I think that every boy and girl would at once say that it is the
+Bible. Yes; it is the Bible. It fits exactly into all the wards and
+chambers, and winding passages which characterize each and every need of
+the human heart. The moment I bring this wonderful key of divine truth
+to the human heart, I find that the lock and the key were both made by
+the same infinite Creator. Some locks are very complicated and
+intricate, and the keys are also very peculiar. They are made especially
+for that particular lock, and no other key in all the world will unlock
+it. The moment I get that particular key and turn it around in the lock
+I know at once that both the lock and the key were made by the same
+person, and that the lock was made to be opened by no other key. So God
+has created the human heart and made it very difficult to be opened, and
+there is no key in all the world that can open it except the Bible.
+
+As a robber or a burglar may try to get into a house by the use of a
+skeleton key, or by "picking the lock," so men have often tried to gain
+admission into the human heart by the use of various substitutes for the
+genuine and the real key. They have tried amusement, and wealth, and
+sinful pleasure, and very, very many things; but they never succeed in
+getting into the inner sacredness of the human heart. Unless the heart
+is opened by God's Word, and the Holy Spirit is admitted so that God can
+take possession, there is always a sense of loneliness, a sense of
+dissatisfaction, a desire for something that the person does not
+possess; he is at unrest, he is restless and dissatisfied, like a boy or
+girl who is away from home, and has a homesick longing to return to that
+home.
+
+You never will be able to understand the hidden mystery of your own
+spiritual life and spiritual being until you use the Word of God to help
+you to solve the mystery. The Word of God is not only designed to unlock
+the human heart, so that God and the Holy Spirit may gain admission, but
+this key is also designed to lock the door against Satan and sin and
+keep them out of our hearts. Unless we daily use our Bibles to lock our
+hearts against evil thoughts, and wicked purposes, and sinful desires,
+we will find that they will steal into our hearts; and like the evil
+spirit that had been driven out and afterward returned and brought seven
+other spirits more wicked than himself, so sin and Satan will again take
+possession of our hearts and lock them against God and all that is good.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are there many kinds of locks? Must
+          there be as many kinds of keys as there are kinds
+          of locks? Is the human heart like a lock? Does God
+          desire to get into the human heart? With what key
+          does He unlock it? Are the lock and its key made
+          by the same man? Who made the human heart? Who
+          made the key to unlock it? Can the Bible be used
+          to lock the human heart against the entrance of
+          sin? What are skeleton keys? Do men try false keys
+          with which to open the human heart? What are some
+          of the things with which they try? Is the human
+          heart ever satisfied until unlocked by the Bible
+          and possessed by God?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TRAPS.
+
+UNSUSPECTING MICE AND MEN.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--An ordinary mouse trap will be
+          serviceable. The trap can be set and instead of a
+          mouse, a child can spring the trap with his
+          finger. The parent had better try his own finger
+          first, to see that the trap is not too strong. A
+          rat trap should never be tried in this way.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: You may think that possibly there was a time when
+wicked men did not desire to destroy others, as is so often the case in
+this day. Hundreds of years ago, God said, "Among my people are found
+wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap,
+they catch men." (Jeremiah v: 26.)
+
+[Illustration: Mouse Trap.]
+
+I suppose you have all seen traps. There are a great many different
+kinds. Some are very dangerous, and yet you cannot see the danger until
+you are caught, or until you see some other person who has been caught
+in the trap. Now here is a trap. I suppose that you have all seen such
+traps as this, and possibly have them in your own homes, to catch the
+little mice which destroy your food, and oftentimes do much injury.
+
+Now, this trap does not look dangerous to the unsuspecting mouse. The
+little wire, which is to be drawn up by a strong spring to choke the
+mouse to death, is concealed, and he does not know that there is a wire
+there at all. He simply smells the piece of cheese. This tempts his
+appetite, and, as he is fond of cheese, he desires to obtain it, and so
+he attempts to crawl in through this small hole to get the cheese; but
+the moment he nibbles at the cheese, it disturbs the little catch which
+holds the spring, and when it is too late to escape, the little mouse
+finds that he has been caught. Then he does not think of the cheese, but
+struggles to get loose and escape out of the trap. But all of his
+struggles are in vain, and after a few moments he is choked to death.
+Then the man, or the housewife comes, takes the little mouse out of the
+trap, and with the same piece of cheese the trap is again set for
+another unsuspecting mouse. So people go on, day after day, catching one
+mouse after another, with the same trap and with the same bait.
+
+[Illustration: Mice and Trap.]
+
+Now, there are traps which men set for boys and girls, and men and
+women, such as story papers, bad books and pictures, that might be
+called pest papers, printed poison, moral leprosy. To the innocent, the
+unthinking and the unsuspecting these things may not appear very
+dangerous, but they are very deadly in their effects, and they result in
+the temporal and eternal ruin of thousands upon thousands of people
+every year.
+
+Then there are also the saloons, with gilded signs, frosted windows, and
+showy looking glasses. Rooms which are made attractive only to catch
+men, to rob them of their money, and of their self-control, and of their
+reason, and of their homes, and of all temporal good, and of all hope of
+heaven--destroying men's souls and bodies, both for a time and for all
+eternity.
+
+Then there is the theatre, with its glittering lights, with its tinseled
+show, with its corrupting play, with its scenes upon which no
+pure-minded man or woman can look without blushing; scenes which deaden
+the moral sense, pollute the mind, such as are calculated to rob the
+individual of virtue, and of integrity, and of faith in God, and of hope
+of heaven.
+
+Then there are other dangerous traps which are set for young men and for
+older men--tobacco, cigarettes and cigars, and beer. These traps which
+are set for our money, which so often rob of health and strength, for no
+boy who uses tobacco in any form can be strong like the boy who does not
+use tobacco. Boys begin with the deadly cigarette, and then go on to the
+cigar, and then follow with drinking beer, and so, step by step, they go
+on down to ruin.
+
+If you have ever gone fishing on a calm, beautiful summer day, and have
+looked down through the water, you have often seen the fish as they
+gathered around the hook, and then watched them as they nibbled at the
+bait. First they come up very shyly, and barely touch the bait with
+their nose. Then they come again, and possibly just bite a small
+trifle--barely taste of it. Then, again and again they nibble at the
+hook, until finally they undertake to get a large bite, when they
+discover that they have swallowed the hook. Then it matters not how much
+they flounder about, and struggle to get away, it is too late, it is
+impossible for them to escape. They are pulled into the boat or upon the
+bank, and a few hours later they are on the stove, being cooked for some
+hungry fisherman. Just so Satan comes to those whom he wishes to catch.
+He comes with money, and with pleasure, and with the thought of having
+a good time. He tempts people by presenting to their thought something
+which they desire. He leads them on step by step, and when they see
+others all about them who are being destroyed in the effort to obtain
+the same pleasure which they are seeking, Satan makes them think that in
+their own case the result will be very different.
+
+[Illustration: Fish Doing a Dangerous Thing.]
+
+You will notice that this mouse trap has four different places where
+mice can be caught, and is it not strange that when one mouse enters on
+this side, and is caught, and is lying there dead, that another live
+mouse should come along, and see the same trap and desire the same
+thing, and walk right in to the same danger, and the same sure death?
+You would think that when he saw the other mouse had been caught, and
+had lost his life, that he would turn away. But instead of that, he
+smells the cheese, walks right into the trap, and is caught, and in a
+few moments is as dead as his neighbor. So boys see others who have been
+ruined by smoking cigarettes, who have paved the way for their
+destruction by smoking cigars, by keeping bad company, by drinking beer,
+and by going on step by step. They see drunkards all about them who have
+squandered all their money and lost all their friends, and been forsaken
+by their own parents, their wives, and their children; who have become
+outcasts, and for whom no one longer has any respect. Men see these
+things daily, and yet they go on in the same way, beginning with beer
+and going, step by step, from social drinking, until they themselves
+become drunkards and outcasts, and go down to fill a drunkard's grave.
+The Bible says that no drunkard can inherit the kingdom of heaven.
+
+I trust that none of you who listen to me to-day will be so foolish as
+to permit Satan to deceive you. Look about you and see the results of
+worthless story-papers, of card-playing, of theatre going, of social
+drinking, of round dancing, lying, swearing, cheating, and all forms of
+wickedness, and then remember that these same influences, if wrought
+into your life, will also produce the same result. Do not be like the
+foolish mouse, which sees its dead companion in the trap, and then walks
+up unthinkingly and pokes his head into the same inevitable death and
+destruction; but remember that Satan waits to destroy you, just the same
+as he has destroyed others.
+
+In the book of Job (xviii: 10) it says, "The snare is laid for him in
+the ground and a trap for him in the way;" and in the 8th verse of the
+same book and chapter it says, "He is cast into a net by his own feet,
+and he walketh upon a snare." Satan has laid traps and snares all along
+your path through life, and you will need to be very, very cautious,
+lest you are ruined for time and destroyed for eternity. Remember the
+text for to-day, which says, "Among my people are found wicked men; they
+lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What are traps for? Are there
+          different kinds of traps? Is a trap a dangerous
+          thing? Does a dangerous trap always look
+          dangerous? Are there traps set for boys and girls,
+          and men and women? Who sets these traps? What are
+          some of the traps? How are fish caught? Who tries
+          to trap and destroy boys and girls, and men and
+          women? What does Satan sometimes use? When the
+          mouse sees others caught, what should he do? Does
+          he run away? Does he go and do the same thing?
+          Does he suffer the same result? If Satan's traps
+          destroy others, will they destroy us? Have you
+          ever seen any persons who were caught in Satan's
+          traps? Can anybody do wicked things without great
+          danger?
+
+
+
+
+BREAD.
+
+UNIVERSAL SOUL HUNGER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Bread, rolls or biscuit can be used
+          if thought necessary, and these can be used for
+          refreshments later.
+
+          If the children are tired of "driving to church"
+          in an imaginary carriage, let them drive in an
+          imaginary sleigh, with imaginary bells, amid
+          winter scenes.
+
+
+MY LITTLE FRIENDS: I am sure that every boy and girl in this room knows
+what it is to be hungry. It is a part of our childhood experience to
+feel hungry almost every day. While the body is growing there is almost
+a constant demand for nourishment and food.
+
+[Illustration: Loaf of Bread, Roll and Biscuit. ]
+
+We have here a small loaf of bread; it is called a Vienna roll, and here
+is a small biscuit. Now, this is bread, only it is baked in small
+loaves. As people all over the world have hunger, so bread in one form
+or another has become the universal food of the world. When in the
+Lord's Prayer we ask God to "give us this day our daily bread," we mean
+not simply bread made of flour, but we mean necessary food, food of all
+kinds; and so the word bread has come to be used to signify all kinds of
+wholesome food. God gives us our food day by day, just the same as each
+morning the manna rained down from heaven for the Children of Israel
+while they were journeying through the desert. God does not send it to
+us in just the same way, but each day He furnishes us a sufficient
+amount of food to sustain our bodies.
+
+Now, as there is universal physical hunger, and as God has made
+provision to supply the food necessary to satisfy the hunger of the
+body; so there is a universal hunger of the soul, and God has also made
+provision to satisfy this universal hunger of our higher spiritual
+nature. In the sixth chapter of the Gospel by St. John, you will find
+much said about the food for the higher, the spiritual nature. Jesus
+said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from
+Heaven; but My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the
+bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto
+the world."
+
+The body is sustained by the food which grows up out of the earth,
+because the body is earthy. But to sustain the higher and spiritual
+nature of man, which is from heaven, the food is sent down from heaven,
+and therefore Jesus says of Himself that He is "The bread of God which
+cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world," "I am the
+bread of life, he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that
+believeth on me shall never thirst." And in the forty-eighth verse of
+that same chapter He says, "I am the bread of life; your fathers did eat
+manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh
+down from heaven, that man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living
+bread which came down from heaven; if any man eat of this bread he shall
+live forever, and the bread that I will give him is my flesh, which I
+will give for the life of the world."
+
+[Illustration: Plants Reaching Out Toward the Light.]
+
+Now, when you desire to be good, when you desire to live like Christ,
+you desire to know more concerning Him; and when you desire to read
+God's Word, and to learn of that which is holy and good and right, then
+you have this spiritual hunger. That is the kind of hunger of which
+Jesus was speaking in this chapter. The presence of Jesus in the soul
+and the knowledge of Him that is given in the Bible is the best kind of
+food for our spiritual nature. This was the kind of spiritual food upon
+which Joseph fed when he lived in the midst of idolatrous Egypt. It was
+upon these spiritual truths that David and Daniel and Paul and Luther
+fed daily, and this nourished their spiritual natures. I trust you all
+have this hunger for the bread of life. Jesus said, "Blessed are they
+which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be
+filled."
+
+Did you ever see a plant growing at the window in a crock and observe
+how it bends or reaches out toward the light? If you turn the crock
+around so that the plant bends inward toward the room, after a day or
+two you go to the plant and it will have changed its direction, and
+instead of bending into the room, it will be bending out toward the
+window. Now this plant feeds on the light from the sun, and on that
+account it reaches out toward the sun. So if you hunger after that which
+is good, you will reach out after God, just as the plant reaches out
+after the sun.
+
+This kind of bread which I hold in my hand costs something. Flour costs
+several dollars a barrel, and bread from five to ten cents a loaf. In
+times of famine bread has sometimes been sold at many hundreds of
+dollars for one single loaf. But the bread of life is free; it costs
+nothing. Everybody can have spiritual food for the simple asking for it.
+Therefore it is that we go to God in prayer and ask Him for every good
+and helpful grace and blessing; that we ask Him for His presence in our
+hearts, and to make us good, and to help us to become like Christ.
+
+But there are some who have this hunger after that which is good, but
+they do not know about God and about the Lord Jesus Christ. They do not
+have any Bibles. Therefore it is my duty and your duty to send them the
+bread of everlasting life. It is for this purpose that we give our money
+for missions so that missionaries may be sent to them to tell them of
+God and His love, and of Jesus Christ the Saviour, and to take them the
+Bible.
+
+In order that we may be strengthened by bread, it is necessary that we
+should eat it, and that we should assimilate it or make it part of our
+own bodies, in order that we may become strong, otherwise we would die
+of hunger in the midst of great store-houses of food. So men and women
+die spiritually in the midst of churches, in the midst of Bibles, Bible
+influences, and Bible privileges; yes, die without Christ. In order that
+our spiritual natures may be fed with spiritual food, we have every
+Christian influence in our homes, we have the Sunday-school and the
+Catechetical class, and the Church with its preaching service, and
+prayer-meetings and other services. If you desire to be good, you must
+study your Bibles, go to Sunday-school and to church, and seek to know
+all you possibly can concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive Him
+into your hearts, and live a Christian life by His aid and the grace
+which God will grant you from day to day.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Do all boys and girls get hungry? What
+          food is most universally used in the world? Does
+          the body require food every day? Why? Do we have a
+          spiritual nature as well as a physical nature? Is
+          there a spiritual hunger as well as a physical
+          hunger? Will food which satisfies the physical
+          Hunger satisfy the spiritual hunger? Who does the
+          Bible say is the "bread of life"? Can we obtain
+          food for the body without buying it either with
+          money or effort? Must Jesus, the spiritual food,
+          be bought? Can salvation be purchased? If God did
+          not give it to us could we ever pay for it? Where
+          can we learn most about this spiritual hunger and
+          about the "bread" which came down from Heaven? How
+          shall we send the Bread of Life to the people in
+          heathen lands?
+
+
+
+
+THE STONE.
+
+THE NATURAL AND CHANGED HEART.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A small cobble stone and a
+          larger one, to represent the heart of a child and
+          the heart of an adult, and a pin with which to
+          prick the stone and prick the hand.
+
+
+[Illustration: Pricking a Stone. ]
+
+NOW, boys and girls, I have here a stone, which because of its peculiar
+shape reminds me of the human heart. But if I take a pin and prick this
+stone it has no feeling whatever. If I take this pin and prick the back
+of my hand, I feel it immediately. It is very unpleasant. Indeed, I do
+not like to endure it, but this stone has no feeling. If I were to love
+this stone, the stone would never be conscious of it. I might bestow
+great gifts upon this stone, I might purchase fruit for it, and
+everything that you and I might love for food; the finest clothing also,
+the most costly lands and houses, or we might even bestow upon it very
+great honor, and yet this stone would know nothing of it. It would
+always be insensible of all that I might do for it.
+
+[Illustration: Pricking the Hand.]
+
+Now the Bible represents the natural heart as being wicked. We are told
+in the Bible that our hearts have no feeling; that God loves us, and yet
+that we do not appreciate it; that God bestows upon us our daily food,
+and that He clothes us, and blesses us with every good, and has provided
+for us mansions in the skies, and that He desires to give us everlasting
+salvation. He loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus
+Christ, to die for us, and yet with the natural heart no one ever loves
+God, or appreciates anything that He has done for us. And so God
+desires, as He tells us in the Bible, to take away, out of our flesh
+this heart of stone, and give us a heart of flesh, so that we may
+appreciate and love Him in return for all that He has done for us.
+
+The heart is spoken of in the Bible as the seat of the affections, and
+therefore it is that God desires us to have a new heart, a changed
+heart, a heart that can love Him. The Bible says that each one is to
+keep his heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
+We are told also that "the heart is deceitful above all things and
+desperately wicked."
+
+[Illustration: Assaulting the City of Child-Soul.]
+
+Many years ago in England there was a man by the name of John Bunyan. I
+suppose you have all heard of his wonderful book entitled the "Pilgrim's
+Progress." I hope that many of you have read it. All of you should read
+it, if you have not yet done so. Get your mother or father to read it
+for you, if you cannot read it yourself.
+
+This man Bunyan also wrote a book entitled the "Holy War." In this book
+he represents the human soul or the human heart as a city, and calls it
+the "City of Mansoul." This city has various gates, and at all these
+gates the enemy is trying to gain admission into the city, so that he
+may capture it. It is, indeed, a very apt illustration of the human
+heart. Do you know that your heart is like a city, and that Satan is
+trying to capture and to get possession of it? Indeed, he may already
+have possession of it. And when God by His grace shall come and cast out
+Satan and all his evil companions, they will come back and try to get
+into the city again. They will come to the various gates of the city;
+for your heart has various avenues of approach, which may be called
+gates. There is eye-gate. Satan comes and he appeals to you and tries to
+get into your heart through the eye. Bad pictures that are posted upon
+the bulletin boards along our streets, and wicked things upon which you
+and I ought not to look--worthless papers, bad books--these Satan
+desires to have us look upon, and in that way get evil thoughts into our
+minds and wicked purposes into our hearts, so that he can once more get
+possession of our hearts.
+
+Then he comes to ear-gate, and tries to get into our hearts through our
+ears. There are wicked songs, and bad stories, and wicked words that men
+pour into our ears, even when we walk along the streets. And so Satan
+tries to get into our hearts through ear-gate, and he tries to get into
+our hearts through what I will call mouth-gate. He tempts our appetite,
+and would have us eat things which would injure us, or to drink that
+which would harm us. And so he tries to get a boy to smoke, or to drink,
+if at first only beer, or something else, until at last Satan makes a
+drunkard of him. So Satan would get into the heart through mouth-gate.
+And when he cannot get into the heart through mouth-gate, or any other
+way, he oftentimes approaches mouth-gate by way of nose-gate. By the
+smell of something that is pleasant he tempts the appetite, and thus
+would lead us astray.
+
+And then he would also approach our hearts through the sense of feeling.
+There are many wicked things that Satan tempts people to do in order to
+give them pleasure, and so he seeks to get into their hearts, and to get
+entire control of them, and in that way to get God out of their hearts.
+
+The best thing that you and I can do, is to accept of God's invitation,
+where He says, "My son, give me thine heart." I trust that you will give
+your heart earnestly and fully to the Lord Jesus Christ. He will take
+away this heart of stone out of your flesh, and give you a heart of
+flesh. He will keep your heart securely for you, if you will only give
+it fully to Him.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Does the stone have any feeling? Are
+          our natural hearts like a stone? Can a human heart
+          that is insensible like a stone be conscious of
+          God's love? Who offers to give us a heart that
+          will be conscious of God's love? Who wrote the
+          book picturing the human heart like a city? Who is
+          trying to capture this city? Through what gates
+          does Satan try to enter? How does he try to get
+          into Eye-Gate? How does he try to get into
+          Ear-Gate? How does he try to get into Mouth-Gate?
+          Can you tell any other methods that he tries? To
+          whom had we better surrender the city of our soul?
+          If we commit the city of our soul to God, will He
+          protect and defend it? Is there any other way of
+          safety?
+
+
+
+
+THE POLISHED STONE.
+
+PERFECTION THROUGH SUFFERING.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--A piece of polished stone, or a
+          polished jewel, or piece of polished metal will
+          answer for the object to be used.
+
+
+MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I trust you are all trying to be good, and
+perhaps while you have been trying to be a follower of Jesus you have
+desired many things and hoped that God would give them to you, because
+you were trying to do right, and yet, perhaps, you have been
+disappointed because God did not grant your wish. You have been seeking
+to be faithful, and yet, perhaps, sickness has come to you, or
+disappointment and sorrow. Perhaps sickness and death have come into
+your family. Your papa or your mamma has been taken away by death, and
+you have been left very sad and lonely, and you have come to wonder how
+it is, if God loves you, that He does not grant you just what you wish,
+and that He permits sickness and sorrow and bereavement to come to you
+and to your home.
+
+[Illustration: Stones Being Prepared for a Great Building
+
+Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall.]
+
+When you have looked about you, you have seen many good people who have
+been in much distress, oftentimes in poverty, afflicted with sickness,
+bereaved of their loved ones, and left in great sorrow and
+disappointment. When you have taken up your Bible you have found that
+the same was true many hundreds of years ago. David was greatly
+afflicted. Paul had his thorn in the flesh. The disciples were often
+cast into prison, and it is very likely that all of them were put to
+death, as their Master had been before them.
+
+Now I want to illustrate to you to-day why God permits sorrow and
+affliction to come to us. I have here two stones, both taken out of the
+same quarry. This one is polished and has a very beautiful surface. It
+is very beautiful, not only to look at, but it would be beautiful in any
+place you might choose to put it. This other is rough and jagged, and
+not at all pleasant, either to handle or to look upon. This rough stone
+can be made useful, but it would be no more useful than any other rough
+and unsightly stone. It would do very well to place in the foundation of
+a building, to be all covered up with mortar and have other stones laid
+on top of it; to be built in the foundation down below the ground, where
+no one would ever see it. But it would be of no special value in its
+present condition for anything other than that.
+
+I think this polished stone may very properly represent Christian
+people. For long, long years this stone had been lying peacefully and
+quietly in its rocky bed. But one day a man who purposed to build a very
+beautiful palace came along, and he found that the great rocks in a
+certain portion of the country contained stone that could be polished
+very beautifully. They could therefore be made very useful in
+constructing his palace or cathedral. So he sent a large number of men
+to the quarry and they began to drill great holes in the rock. Now, if
+these rocks had any feeling you can see at once that they would object
+to having such great holes drilled into their sides, because it would
+hurt a great deal. But after the men had the holes drilled they put
+powder in them and blasted off great pieces of these rocks. Then these
+great blocks were hauled away and placed in the hands of stone masons,
+who began with chisels and mallets to cut and carve. After that, with
+some fine sand or emery, or something of that kind, other men ground
+and polished the face of the stone until it became very beautiful.
+
+[Illustration: Stones Being Polished.]
+
+Now, if these stones had had feeling, you can see at once that they
+would have objected to being chiselled and cut, and carved, and ground,
+and polished. This process would have hurt so much that the stones would
+have cried out, and asked to be delivered from such a painful process.
+
+[Illustration: "The Beautiful Angel Was Carved Out."]
+
+It is related of Michael Angelo, that one day he was passing a quarry
+where large blocks of beautiful marble were being taken out. In one
+large block he saw a beautiful angel. He ordered the block to be taken
+to his studio, or the place where he studied and worked. And then he put
+his men at work to chisel off the rough corners, and thus to deliver the
+angel out of the rough pieces by which it was surrounded. After many
+days and weeks, and perhaps months of working, in which this large block
+of marble had to submit to a great deal of chiselling and carving, and
+cutting, and polishing; lo! and behold, the beautiful angel was all
+carved out and stood complete and perfect. It was polished and was made
+very beautiful, and when it was set up, it was the delight of every one
+who looked upon it. But all this, you easily see, was only made possible
+by that cutting and carving, which would have been very painful to the
+marble if it had been possessed of feeling.
+
+I think you will begin to see that these things which we call troubles
+and trials, after all, are well calculated by God to bring out that
+which is noblest and best in us.
+
+When you grow older you will come to say like Paul, that you know that
+"tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience
+hope, and hope maketh not ashamed." You will then come to understand
+that these things "work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal
+weight of glory," and like Paul, you will learn to be "patient in
+tribulation." One time when Paul and Barnabas were at Lystra and healed
+a cripple, the people were moved against Paul by some wicked Jews from
+Antioch and Iconium, and they pursued Paul and threw large stones at him
+and hit him with such great force that he fell down, and they supposed
+that he was dead. But Paul was not dead, and afterwards when he met some
+of the Christian people at that and other places, when they talked to
+him about it, and thought that it was very hard that God should have
+permitted these wicked people to stone him, Paul told these Christians
+that "through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of
+heaven."
+
+But I must not detain you longer. I want simply to say in closing that
+when St. John had been banished to the Isle of Patmos and was permitted
+to have a view of heaven, and looked into that glorious city, he saw a
+great company, and he inquired of the angel who these people were. The
+angel replied: "These are they which came out of great tribulation, and
+have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
+Therefore are they before the Throne of God and serve Him day and night
+in His temple; and He that sitteth upon the Throne shall dwell among
+them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall
+the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst
+of the Throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains
+of water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." (Rev. vii:
+14-17.)
+
+If in our sickness, or sorrow, or disappointment here upon the earth, we
+are sad or lonely, let us remember that in the happy home to which we go
+we shall be forever with the Lord, and that all tears shall be wiped
+away, and that we shall be happy forever and ever on high. It is only
+through these tribulations that you and I can be prepared to enter
+heaven. If God were to give us everything we want, like children who are
+indulged, we would soon be spoiled and would not be fit for the
+enjoyment of heaven or the companionship of the angels.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What is rough stone used for? Does the
+          stone have feeling? If it had feeling, would it
+          object to being cut and chiselled and polished?
+          Could it be used in a great building unless it was
+          first quarried and prepared? How can the rough
+          stone be made beautiful? Can it be polished so
+          that you can see your face in it? Who prepares
+          people to be builded into His kingdom? How does He
+          do this? Who composed the great multitude whom
+          John saw in the glorious city? What had happened
+          to them? What should we remember in times of
+          sickness and sorrow? Why are trials necessary to
+          fit us for heaven? Will we be in the presence of
+          God there and have angels as our companions?
+
+
+
+
+ROPES.
+
+HABITS AND HOW THEY BECOME STRONG.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--Objects to be used are a spool of
+          thread, a piece of string or twine and a piece of
+          rope.
+
+          After the sermon has been read, the thread and
+          strings could be used to tie the hands and feet,
+          and thus illustrate how impossible it is to break
+          them when they are wound again and again around
+          the hands and the feet, even though the thread be
+          very fine. So with habits, seemingly
+          insignificant.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I have to-day a piece of rope, and also some
+different kinds of string. If I take this rope and try to break it, I
+find that it is impossible. I do not believe that any five or six
+ordinary men could pull with sufficient strength to break this rope. I
+am sure that no twenty boys and girls could pull hard enough to break
+it.
+
+[Illustration: Rope.]
+
+Here is a very strong string. Perhaps a couple of boys, possibly four
+boys, might be able to break it. But here is a thinner string. Possibly
+I may be able to break this. Yes, I can, but with great difficulty. It
+takes all the strength I have to break it.
+
+Now, here is some that is still thinner. It is about as thick as heavy
+thread. I can break it very easily.
+
+But now, when I take this heavy rope and cut off a piece, if I unwind
+these different strands, I find that this rope is made by twisting
+smaller ropes together. If I untwist this smaller rope, which I have
+taken out of the larger rope, I find that it in like manner is also made
+of smaller ropes, or strings. If I take these smaller strings, and
+untwist them, I find that they are made of still smaller strings; if I
+take any of these smaller strings out of the rope, I can break them
+easily, but when I twist several of them together, I cannot break them.
+
+[Illustration: String.]
+
+I think that these smaller cords, out of which this rope is made, will
+very fittingly illustrate habits. It is a very dangerous thing to form
+bad habits. We should be very careful to form good ones, but bad ones
+are very dangerous. The boy who remains away from Sunday-school but
+once, thinks little of it. The boy who remains away from church, or
+stays at home from school, or disobeys his parents, or spends the
+evenings on the streets instead of in the house reading good books, or
+breaks the Sabbath, or does any one of many things, may think very
+little of it at the time; but do you know that when we go on repeating
+the same thing over and over again, the habit grows stronger and
+stronger until at last we are not able to break loose from that habit?
+There are men who think that they can stop smoking. They began with only
+an occasional cigarette or a cigar, until the habit grew upon them, and
+now possibly they think they are able to stop, but when they undertake
+to break off smoking, they find that it is a very difficult task, and
+very few smokers who undertake it succeed permanently. The old habit is
+likely to overcome them again and again.
+
+So it is with swearing, and with telling falsehoods, and with being
+dishonest, and with drinking liquor, and everything else that men and
+boys often do. These habits at last become very strong, until they are
+not able to break loose from them.
+
+Now, if you take one of these strong habits from which a man is not able
+to break loose, and untwist it, you will find that it was made strong by
+a repetition of small habits. Habits are made strong by doing the same
+thing over and over again. It is just the same as when I take this spool
+of thread and wrap it around the feet of a boy. I can wrap it around and
+around, and while it would be easy for him to break the thread if it was
+wrapped once or twice, or three or four times around his feet; yet after
+I have succeeded in placing it ten or twelve, or twenty-five or fifty
+times around his feet, he is not able to walk at all.
+
+[Illustration: Hands Bound.]
+
+I could tie his hands by wrapping this small thread around and around,
+just a few times. At first it could be broken, but after a little it
+becomes so strong that he is not able to break it at all. So it is with
+habits. When we do the same things again and again, the habit becomes
+stronger and stronger day by day, and year by year, until at last Satan
+has the poor victim bound hand and foot, and he is absolutely helpless.
+No one is able to come and snap the cords, and set this poor helpless
+prisoner free, until God in His grace comes and liberates him from the
+evil habits with which he has bound himself, or with which he has
+permitted Satan to bind him.
+
+It is very important that in the very beginning of life, we should all
+form the habit of doing those things which are right. The doing of the
+right may at first afford us but very little pleasure, yet we are to
+continue to do right, and after a while it will become pleasant for us
+to do right.
+
+[Illustration: Feet Bound.]
+
+At first it may not be very pleasant for a boy to go to school. He
+prefers not to exert himself; not to put forth any mental effort. But
+after he becomes accustomed to going to school, and to putting forth
+mental effort, it becomes more and more natural to him, and finally he
+comes to love study. After he has completed his studies in the primary
+school, he goes to the intermediate, and to the grammar school, and high
+school, and possibly to college, and continues to be a student all his
+life.
+
+So it is with going to church; those who begin when they are young and
+go regularly, Sunday after Sunday, become regular church attendants all
+their lives.
+
+Habits are formed very much like the channel of a river. Gradually, year
+after year, the river wears its course deeper and deeper, until finally
+through the soft soil and the hard rock, through the pleasant meadow
+and the beautiful woodlands, it has worn out for itself a very deep
+channel in which it continues to flow to the ocean.
+
+So the mind, by repeated action, marks out its course. Whether the
+mental effort or manual work be pleasant or difficult, we become so
+accustomed to it, that we go on day by day, and year by year doing the
+same thing.
+
+The Bible gives very wise instruction to parents when it says, "Train up
+a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart
+from it." (Prov. xxii: 6.) It has also been wisely said, "Sow an act and
+you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character
+and you reap a destiny."
+
+Be careful, boys and girls, what you do, for by doing anything you are
+forming a habit. If you do wrong things you will form bad habits, but if
+you do right things you will form good habits, which are always the
+best.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are small ropes or strings used to
+          make big ropes? Can you tie a boy's hands and feet
+          with thread so that he cannot make himself free?
+          How are strong habits made? Is it a good thing
+          that habits are formed in this way? Does this make
+          it easy to form good habits? Does it also make it
+          easy to break away at first from a bad habit?
+          Which is easier, to form a bad habit or to break
+          away from it? Who tries to bind us with bad
+          habits? Who alone can break the ropes of habit
+          with which Satan binds us? What does the Bible say
+          about training up a child in the way he should go?
+
+
+
+
+WATCH AND CASE.
+
+THE SOUL AND THE BODY.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A watch and case (preferably a double
+          case) from which the works can be easily removed
+          will answer the purpose. Jewelers often have such
+          old watches that they would be glad to sell for a
+          trifle, or even to give away. A small old clock
+          from which the works can be removed would also
+          answer the same purpose.
+
+          Keep up the play idea with the children. Older
+          persons may weary of repetition, but to children
+          their play is always new and interesting. After
+          "driving to church", being shown to seats, and
+          after some opening services, let one of the
+          children preach in his or her own language the
+          truth which most impressed them in last Sunday's
+          object sermon, or the truth which they remember
+          from the morning sermon in church, or from any
+          passage of Scripture which they may prefer. No
+          better school of oratory was ever formed, even
+          though the primary purpose is devotional and
+          religious.
+
+
+NOW, boys and girls, what is this that I hold in my hand? (Many voices,
+"A watch.") I expected that you would say it was a watch. Every boy
+knows a watch when he sees it, and every boy desires to have a watch of
+his own--one which he can carry in his pocket, and one which will tell
+him the time of day whenever he looks at it.
+
+But you cannot be sure, even from appearances, that this is absolutely a
+watch. It might be only a watch-case. In order to tell whether it is a
+watch, let us open it. After all, it is not a watch. It is only a
+watch-case. You would not wish to spend your money when you expect to
+get a watch, and on reaching home find that you have been deceived, and
+that you had nothing but a watch-case.
+
+[Illustration: Watch-case.]
+
+Now, boys and girls, what is this? (holding up the works of the watch).
+"A watch." This time you are right, this is a watch. It is a watch
+without a case around it. Now we will put the works into the case, and
+then we will have a complete watch. The works and the case together more
+properly constitute a watch.
+
+[Illustration: A Watch-case and Works.]
+
+You have, I suppose, been at a funeral, and have seen the body of the
+dead man or woman or child lying in the coffin. Unless somebody has told
+you differently, you may possibly have thought the person whom you had
+known was lying there in the coffin. But this was not the fact. Every
+man, woman and child consists of a soul and a body, and when a person
+dies the soul returns to God, who gave it. God made our body out of the
+dust of the ground, and when the spirit leaves the body, it is a dead
+body, and it begins to decay, and soon becomes offensive, and so we bury
+the body out of our sight, putting it again in the ground, and finally
+it moulders back again to dust.
+
+It is not so, however, with the soul. That is a spirit. When God had
+made Adam out of the dust of the ground, He breathed into his nostrils
+the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Now, this soul never
+dies. God has created it to live forever and ever, throughout all
+eternity. Those who are good and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ will be
+received at death to dwell forever with the Lord. And those who are
+wicked and do not repent of their sins, God will banish forever from His
+presence; for sin is hateful in the sight of God, who cannot look upon
+it with any degree of allowance.
+
+[Illustration: Case and Works Separated.]
+
+The moment you look upon a body, without being able to tell how, you can
+nevertheless quickly distinguish between one who is asleep and one who
+is really dead. Even animals can tell a dead body. When a dead horse
+lies along the road, it is very difficult to drive a live horse near to
+the dead one. The living horse knows at once that the other is dead,
+although we do not know how he knows it.
+
+Now, I want to show you that death does not affect the existence of the
+soul. I will now lift these works out of the watch case.
+
+I now hold the case in my left hand, and the works in my right hand. As
+these works constitute the real watch, so the soul constitutes the real
+person, and as these wheels and hands continue to move, and to keep time
+regularly even after they have been removed from the case; so the soul,
+when God removes it from the body, continues to exist and to be
+possessed of all that makes the reasoning, thinking, immortal and
+indestructible being of man. I might take this case, which I hold in my
+left hand, and bury it in the ground, but the works would not be
+affected by this fact, but would continue to run on just the same.
+Suppose I were to leave this case buried in the ground until it had all
+rusted away. Then suppose that, as a chemist I could gather up all these
+particles again and make them anew into a watch case, and then put the
+works back into the case which had been restored or made anew; that
+would represent the resurrection of the body, and the reuniting of the
+soul with the body, which will take place at the resurrection day.
+
+Some years ago there was a great chemist, whose name was Faraday. It
+happened one time in his laboratory that one of the students, by
+accident, knocked from the table a silver cup, which fell into a vessel
+of acid. The acid immediately destroyed or dissolved it, and the silver
+all disappeared, the same as sugar dissolves or melts in a tumbler of
+water. When Professor Faraday came in and was told what had happened, he
+took some chemicals and poured them into the acid in which the silver
+had disappeared. As soon as these two chemicals came together, the acid
+began to release the silver, and particle by particle the silver settled
+at the bottom of the vessel. The acid was then poured off and the silver
+was all carefully gathered up and sent to a silversmith, who melted the
+silver and made it anew into a silver cup of the same form, design and
+beauty. It was the same cup made anew. So, my young friends, our bodies
+may dissolve in the grave and entirely disappear, but God is able to
+raise them up again. He tells us in the Bible that these bodies which
+are buried in corruption shall be raised in incorruption, and that these
+mortal bodies shall put on immortality.
+
+I trust that I have illustrated to you how the soul and the body are
+separated when we die, and God's Word assures us that they shall be
+reunited again in the morning of the resurrection, for all these dead
+bodies "shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth." It
+matters not whether they were buried in the ground, or in the water,
+they shall arise from every sea and from every cemetery, and every grave
+in all the world, and shall live anew and forever, either in happiness
+with God in heaven, or in misery with Satan in eternal banishment from
+God's presence.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What are the principal parts of a
+          watch? Which part is like the body? Which part is
+          like the soul? Which is the real watch? Could the
+          works alone run and keep time without the case?
+          When does the soul become separated from the body?
+          Does death affect the existence and life of the
+          soul? If a watch case were buried and rusted away,
+          could it be made new again? Does the Bible say our
+          bodies are also to be raised again from the grave?
+          What is that raising up of the body called? Will
+          it make any difference whether a body was buried
+          in the sea or in the earth? ("The sea shall give
+          up its dead"). Whose voice shall call the body to
+          immortality? Will the immortal body ever die?
+
+
+
+
+PEARLS.
+
+ONE OF GREAT PRICE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A single pearl, or a string of pearls
+          will serve well for illustration.
+
+
+[Illustration: String of Pearls.]
+
+MY YOUNG FRIENDS: Here is a whole string of pearls. One time I found a
+large pearl in an oyster. I thought it might be valuable, and I took it
+to a jeweler, but he soon told me that it was not worth much, because it
+was not perfect. It was unusually large, but to be valuable it must be
+perfectly round and have no defects. When Jesus was upon the earth He
+told of a merchant who went in search of a very valuable pearl, and when
+he had found it, he sold all that he had and bought that pearl, in order
+that he might have the largest and most valuable jewel in all the world.
+
+[Illustration: Diving for Pearls.]
+
+Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, had a pearl that was worth three hundred and
+seventy-five thousand dollars, and one day she dissolved this costly
+pearl, and drank it in a glass of wine to the honor of Mark Antony, one
+of the Roman rulers. There are pearls to-day worth two and three
+hundred thousand dollars, and possibly more.
+
+The pearl in this parable is the symbol of salvation. Now, salvation has
+cost more, and is worth more than all the farms, and houses, and stores,
+and wealth of all this nation, and all the nations of all the globe, and
+all the created universe about us. It cost the life of the Son of God,
+and it is desirable, therefore, that you and I should obtain it, because
+of the many blessings it secures to us, both in this world and in the
+world to come.
+
+For two thousand years men from all the largest nations of the earth
+have gone to the island of Ceylon, seeking pearls. It is a barren and
+deserted island, but during the months of February, March and April,
+every night at ten o'clock, many boats sail out about ten miles, to the
+place where men, with large leaden weights at their feet, dive down
+through the water until they come to the banks where the large pearl
+oyster has his home. They quickly pick up several of these oysters and
+drop them into a basket of network, and in about sixty or seventy
+seconds are again drawn up by their companions into the boat.
+
+Men and women could not have pearls if it were not that these men are
+willing to risk their lives by diving way down under the water to obtain
+them. No one could secure salvation had not Jesus left His throne in
+heaven and come down to this wicked world to suffer and die, that He
+might make atonement for our sins upon the cross, so that you and I
+might not perish but have everlasting life--so that you and I might have
+salvation, both here and in heaven.
+
+When I went to the jeweler, he told me that the defects on the pearl
+which I had found could not be removed and the rough places polished.
+Diamonds have to be cut and polished. Many precious and costly jewels
+when found look only like rough stones in the field, but the pearl is
+perfect when found; nothing can be done to make it more perfect or more
+valuable. Just so is the salvation of Jesus perfect; no human wisdom can
+improve upon it. The best book that any man ever wrote has been equaled
+by what some other man has thought and written. The religion of the
+heathen can be greatly improved, but the Bible and the salvation which
+it reveals, man has never been able to equal, much less to improve upon.
+
+To-day, as thousands of years ago, pearls are worn as ornaments to the
+body, but the salvation which Jesus Christ came to bring is an ornament
+to the soul that possesses it.
+
+The pearl is valuable and desirable, because it cannot easily be stolen
+away from its owner. When Jesus was upon the earth they did not have
+banks, with large iron safes where people could deposit their money and
+jewels for safe keeping. There were many robbers then, and people buried
+their money and valuables. Often the places where these were concealed
+were discovered, and then all that they had was stolen. A pearl is
+small, and could therefore easily be hidden in a place of safety. If war
+occurred, or for any reason a man and his family had to flee from their
+home or their country, they could easily carry even the most valuable
+pearls. The owner could hide it in his mouth, or even swallow it if
+necessary. If a man had much gold, it was too heavy to carry, and it
+could readily be discovered and stolen. But a pearl was not so difficult
+to hide and keep.
+
+The Bible tells us that salvation is something that the world cannot
+give, and which the world cannot take away. Daniel had this pearl of
+great price, and even though the king cast him into the den of lions, he
+could not get it away from him. His three companions with those hard
+names, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, had this pearl of salvation, and
+even in the furnace of fire it was not destroyed or taken from them. If
+you have this pearl of salvation, you can keep it in spite of all the
+wicked people in the world; you can hide it away in your heart, and all
+the armies of the world cannot take it away from you. In sickness or in
+health it will be yours, and even death itself can not rob you of it. It
+will stay with you in this world, and it will be your joy and gladness
+in the world to come.
+
+As the merchantman went out seeking the most valuable pearl, so all the
+world is to-day seeking for something which will satisfy and render
+their owners happy. There are many good things in this world, but none
+of them can make any one contented and happy, like the salvation which
+Jesus gives when we repent of our sins and in faith accept Him as our
+Saviour. Before you get, or even desire any other pearl, I want each of
+you to accept of this "Pearl of great price," which is Jesus Christ.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Of what is a pearl the symbol in the
+          Bible? Are pearls valuable? Is salvation valuable?
+          Where are pearls principally found? How are they
+          obtained? Are pearls polished like the diamond?
+          Why do people wear pearls? Can we lose pearls by
+          having them stolen? Can we lose salvation? Who
+          would steal it away? Who can give us the "Pearl of
+          great price"?
+
+          It is well to have the children learn the answers
+          to many of the leading Bible questions. Try them
+          in the following:--Who was the first man? Who was
+          the first woman? Of what did God make Adam and
+          Eve? Who was the first murderer? Who was the
+          oldest man? Who built the ark? Who had the coat of
+          many colors? Who was the strongest man? Who slew
+          Goliath the giant? With what did David slay
+          Goliath? Who was the wisest man? Who was cast into
+          the den of lions? Who went to Heaven in the
+          chariot of fire without dying? Upon whom did
+          Elijah's mantle fall? A goodly number of similar
+          questions are found on pages 25 and 26.
+
+
+
+
+COAL AND WOOD.
+
+JESUS THE SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL LIGHT AND WARMTH.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used to-day can be a
+          piece of wood, a piece of coal, a candle and a
+          piece of electric light carbon, such as are daily
+          thrown away in towns where the arc lighting is
+          used.
+
+
+DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: When Jesus was upon the earth, He said of Himself,
+"I am the light of the world." Now, I desire to-day to illustrate to you
+something of the truth which Jesus had in mind when He uttered these
+words.
+
+[Illustration: The Sun and Moon.]
+
+We are told in the Bible, that when God created the world, on the fourth
+day He created the sun and the moon to give light upon the earth, the
+sun to rule over the day, and the moon to rule over the night.
+
+I suppose you all know that the earth is round, and that while the sun
+is shining on our side of the earth, and making it day here, on the
+other side of the earth it is night and is all dark. Now, I want to tell
+you that the sun is the source of all light upon the earth. The sun
+shines and dispels the darkness, and makes it light. And do you know
+that the moon does not shine by its own light, but it simply throws back
+again, as we say, reflects, the light of the sun, just the same as when
+a boy takes a small piece or looking-glass and throws the light across
+the street? There is no light in the looking-glass itself, but it simply
+takes the rays of light which fall upon it from the sun and bends them,
+or turns them, so that the boy can throw the rays of light across the
+street, or upon anything that he desires that is in range of him. So the
+light of the sun falls upon the moon, and is turned again or reflected
+back upon the earth. God has so placed the moon in the heavens that it
+reflects the light of the sun upon those portions of the earth which are
+in darkness. Or, in other words, as He says in the Bible, the moon has
+been "made to rule the night." So you see that even the moon does not
+shine by its own light.
+
+Jesus Christ is the Sun of Righteousness. All the good there is in the
+world, all the righteousness, all that is holy and pure, come from Jesus
+Christ. The Church is also a source of purity, of holiness, of religion,
+and of Christianity. But the church does not shine of itself. It does
+not have these influences within itself. All its light is derived from
+the Sun of Righteousness. All influences which tend for goodness and
+holiness and purity are derived from the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the
+source of all that is good, and only in so far as the Church reflects
+the life of Jesus, and the truth which is revealed in His Word, and in
+the teachings of Jesus, does it become the source of saving power in
+the world.
+
+[Illustration: Candle, Coal and Wood.]
+
+Now, here I have a piece of coal, and a piece of wood, and a candle, and
+a piece of carbon from an electric light. You might ask me whether the
+light that comes from the coal when it burns, or the wood when it burns,
+and the candle when it is lighted, and the electric light when it
+illuminates the street so brightly, whether they are not shining by
+their own light? No; they are not shining by their own light. All the
+light that there is in the wood, or in the coal, or in the candle, or in
+anything else that makes a light at all, derives its source and origin
+from the sun. The light that comes from the burning of this wood is
+simply the releasing of the light that has been accumulated from the
+rays of light shining from the sun upon the tree while it was growing,
+year after year, in the field or forest. And now, when it is burning, it
+simply releases or throws out that light which it received from the sun,
+and which was stored up in the wood of the tree while it was growing.
+
+This coal is simply a portion of a tree which grew many, many hundreds
+or thousands of years ago, and which, in some great convulsion of
+nature, was buried deep under the surface of the earth in what we now
+call coal mines. The coal has undergone some chemical changes, but,
+nevertheless, all the light there is in the coal is simply that buried
+sunshine, which was stored up centuries and centuries ago, in the form
+of vegetables and trees. Now, when it burns in the grate or in the
+furnace it simply releases that heat and warmth and light, which was
+stored up in these trees many, many centuries ago. It is simply buried
+sunshine which God has stored up for our use. The same is true of the
+light of the candle; if it were not for the light of the sun there would
+be no light giving power in any oil or tallow, or in this carbon, which
+is used in the electric light; they all derive their light from the sun
+itself.
+
+Just so it is with all the truth and righteousness there is in the
+world. When you see a man who is good and Christlike, it is not because
+that man has the power in himself to be good, but it is because he has
+received that power from the Lord Jesus Christ. The light of the Sun of
+Righteousness has shone into that man's heart, and the light that goes
+out through his daily conduct and character, is only the light of the
+Son of God shining out through that man.
+
+All objects which live in the sunlight drink in this light-giving power,
+and all people who live daily in the light of the Sun of Righteousness
+will partake of His nature and of His character, and then live that
+nature and character in their own daily lives. In this way they do as
+Jesus commanded, let their lights so shine, that others seeing their
+good work, glorify their Father which is in heaven.
+
+You should be careful to note that Jesus does not say that we ourselves
+are to shine so that others may glorify us. No, not at all. Many people
+try to shine or to attract the attention of others to themselves, but
+that is not what Jesus said or meant, but rather the reverse. Neither
+are we to attempt to shine, or to attempt to attract the glory or honor
+to ourselves. Let not yourself so shine, but let your _light_ so shine
+that others seeing your good works may glorify--not you, but your Father
+which is in heaven. We must let Jesus Christ shine in and through us.
+
+Whenever you see men or women, or girls or boys who are living beautiful
+Christian lives, it is not they that light up the moral darkness that is
+in the world, it is Jesus Christ who lives in them and shines through
+them, that makes them good and holy, and consequently a source of light
+and blessing to all about them.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What does Christ call Himself? What is
+          the source of the light of the natural world? Does
+          the sun shine by its own light? Does the moon
+          shine by its own light, or does it reflect the
+          light of the sun? What is the source of light
+          displayed when coal and wood and other substances
+          are burned? Does all natural light come from the
+          sun? Who is the source of our spiritual light and
+          knowledge? Are the Church and Christian people
+          lights in the world? Do they shine of their own
+          goodness like the sun, or are they like the moon
+          in that they reflect the divine light? Does any
+          person have the power in himself to be good? Where
+          does this power to be good come from? Does Christ
+          want us to shine as lights in the world? Are we to
+          let our lights shine to glorify ourselves, or to
+          glorify Christ?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+LANTERNS.
+
+THE BEST LIGHT FOR OUR PATH.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--A lantern of any kind may be used.
+          If one of the old-fashioned tin lanterns,
+          perforated with holes through which the light was
+          to shine, is available it would add greatly to the
+          curiosity and interest of the children, although
+          these are now very rare, as they were in use a
+          half century ago.
+
+          After "driving to church", and after preaching by
+          the children and the reading of the following
+          sermon on lanterns, a few Japanese lanterns--one
+          for each of the children--would enable the parents
+          to form a little torch-light procession (although
+          no lighted candles need be in the lanterns). After
+          marching through the different rooms, give the
+          children a talk upon the conditions existing in
+          heathen lands like China and Japan, and the
+          changes which are being wrought through the
+          introduction of Christianity and the work of the
+          missionaries.
+
+
+[Illustration: Old Lantern.]
+
+I DO not believe that there is a boy or girl here to-day who could tell
+me what this thing is, that I hold in my hand. It is a lantern, a very
+different lantern possibly, from those which any of you have ever seen.
+This is the kind of lantern that your grandfather and my grandfather
+used many years ago, in the days when they did not have lamps, and gas,
+and electric lights, and such things as we enjoy to-day. When I was a
+small boy in the country we used to have only candles. Later on in life,
+I remember when they first had fluid lamps, and then kerosene oil, and
+then gas, and then, as we have it now, electric lights.
+
+In the second congregation to which I ministered, there was an old
+gentleman who had one of these lanterns. He lived some distance from the
+church, and very dark nights you could always see him coming across the
+hill, carrying this strange lantern. After the candle was lighted and
+placed inside, the light shone out through these small holes, and if the
+wind blew very hard, the light was liable to be blown out.
+
+Now, here is a better lantern. David says of God's Word, "Thy word is a
+lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." On a dark night in the
+country, you could not go out of doors and move about without running up
+against a tree, or the fence, or falling into the ditch, or soon finding
+yourself involved in serious difficulties; and on this account people in
+the country carry a lantern at night. In the Eastern countries where
+Jesus lived, where they did not have gas and electric lamps to light the
+streets, when people went out at night they always carried a lantern.
+And so David said, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my
+path." (Ps. cxix: 105.)
+
+[Illustration: "Coming Across the Hill Carrying this Strange Lantern."]
+
+When people go out of doors into the darkness with a lantern they do not
+hold it way up high, but hold it down near their feet, so that they can
+see the path, and it enables them to walk with security and safety.
+Sometimes there are men who have gone to college, and have learned Latin
+and Greek, have studied the sciences and philosophy, and they think they
+have learned a very great deal. Perhaps afterwards they have studied
+medicine and become physicians, or have read law and become lawyers, and
+they think that they are able with all they know to find the true path
+of blessing through life. They think they have light enough of
+themselves. They do not seem to know that all about them there is a
+darkness of great mystery; that sin and death and destruction lurk all
+along their way through life, and that their pathway is full of
+snares, and pitfalls, and dangers, but they try to walk with the little
+light that there is in the human understanding.
+
+There is another class of men who go through college and who may,
+perchance, study much, and the more they study the more they come to
+realize how little they know, and how much there is beyond them that
+they do not understand at all. With the little light of human
+understanding they comprehend how very dense and dark are the mysteries
+all about them, and so in order that they may walk safely through life,
+and come at last to the city of eternal safety, they take God's Word "as
+a lamp to their feet." Just the same as a person in the country carries
+a lamp in order that he may find his path, so these good people take the
+Word of God and they make it the lamp unto their feet, and the light
+unto their path.
+
+Boys and girls often look at learned men and women and think that when
+they get to be as old and to know as much as these people, that then
+they will know everything. But that is a great mistake. The more we know
+and the more learned we are, the more we discover that there is still
+further beyond us that which we do not understand. No one has ever been
+able to tell how the bread and the meat and potatoes and other food
+which we eat is made to sustain our life, how it is converted into and
+made a part of ourselves. How on our heads these things become, or are
+changed into hair, on the ends of our fingers to nails, and how other
+parts become flesh, and bone and eyes and ears and teeth. Nobody can
+understand how the ground in the garden can be changed by some life
+principle into fruit and vegetables and flowers and hundreds of
+different things, and yet all this wonderful variety, all growing out of
+the very same soil, or ground as we call it.
+
+And so as you grow older and become more and more learned you will come
+more and more to appreciate how much there is that you can never
+understand. There is mystery all about us, and we all need the light of
+divine truth, the light of God's Word, the Bible as a light to guide us
+through the darkness and the mysteries that are all about us.
+
+If you have ever been in the country upon a dark night and have seen the
+railway engine come dashing along, with the great headlight that throws
+the rays of light far down along the track enabling the engineer to see
+very far ahead of him, you would understand what the Bible purposes to
+do for us, when God says that He will make it a lamp unto our feet, and
+a light unto our path.
+
+As you grow older, and sorrow and sickness and trials come to you, you
+will need God's Word to be a lamp unto your feet. And when at last the
+messenger of death shall come and summon you into God's presence, and
+you go through "the valley of the shadow of death," you will then need
+this lamp for your feet, and you will need the Lord Jesus Christ with
+you, that you may lean upon Him and that you may say as David did: "Yea
+though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
+evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." May
+God give you this light through the journey of this life, and bring you
+to that city of light and life on high.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Why did the people of the East carry
+          lanterns at night? What did David call the Bible?
+          Should the lantern be held above the head, or down
+          near the feet? Which is the best light to our
+          spiritual pathway, human wisdom or Divine
+          revelation? Which is the safer light for us to
+          follow, books which men write, or the book which
+          God has given us? Can we understand all that we
+          find in the book of nature? Can we understand all
+          that we find in the book of revelation? Do they
+          both have the same author? Is God infinitely
+          greater than man? Does this explain to you why we
+          cannot understand all that God has done or said?
+          Can we put a bushel basket into a quart
+          measure?--the smaller can not contain the larger.
+
+
+
+
+CANDLES.
+
+HOW TO REFLECT, OBSCURE, OR EXTINGUISH THE LIGHT.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--A candle, a silver dollar, a
+          large-necked bottle and a flask-shaped bottle are
+          the objects used. It will add to the interest of
+          the children if the parent will show the simple
+          experiments of placing the bottle over the candle
+          to illustrate how quickly the light is
+          extinguished as the oxygen is exhausted. The same
+          is the result when a light is hid under a bushel.
+          The flame may also be concealed by the dollar; and
+          in a darkened room a polished piece of metal or a
+          small looking-glass will show how the light can be
+          reflected by money properly used in Christ's
+          cause.
+
+
+MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: To-day I have brought some candles in order to
+illustrate the text, "Ye are the light of the world." In a previous
+sermon I have shown you how all the light in the world is derived from
+the sun, and how all the light in the spiritual world is derived from
+Jesus Christ. Now, to-day I want to show you that we can extinguish this
+light. While we cannot prevent the sun from shining, or put out the
+light there is in the sun, yet we can extinguish, or put out the light
+of a candle. We can blow out the light, we can turn off the gas, we can
+cut off the electrical current, and thus prevent the carbon from burning
+and giving light. Just the same as the firemen can extinguish a large
+fire that is making a great blaze in the midst of a dark night, so we
+can put out these several lights.
+
+Before this candle, which I hold in my hand, can be of any service to me
+in giving light, it must first itself be lighted. So it is with every
+person who is born into this world. He has no light in himself. Before
+ever he can exert any influence for good upon others, or let any
+Christian light shine, he must come to the Lord Jesus Christ and receive
+this light. He must be lighted from above. But now after the candle has
+been lighted, suppose that I take this silver dollar which I hold in my
+hand, and place it in front of the light, you will see immediately how
+it makes it impossible for the light to shine out in front of the
+dollar. Those who are sitting down there in front of me cannot see this
+light. The light is entirely concealed by the dollar. So some people
+allow the love of money to gather around their hearts, until at last
+their money is placed between them and the people whom God intends that
+they should benefit and bless in this world. Instead of being a help,
+their money is only a hindrance to their Christian life. They love their
+money so much that they permit the poor to go hungry, the destitute to
+be unblessed, and the Church to be without the money necessary to carry
+on its work. They allow the heathen to die in their ignorance. Selfishly
+grasping their money, they neglect to do that for which God has given
+them the means and the money.
+
+[Illustration: Light Obscured by Money.]
+
+I believe that money is a good thing. The Bible says that it is the
+_love_ of money, the undue love of it, that is the root of all evil.
+Money itself is a blessing and not a curse; therefore I want to show you
+how this dollar can be made to help in making this light shine even more
+brightly. You will see that if I have this side of the dollar ground off
+and polished, so that it is very smooth and bright like a little
+looking-glass, and then place it back of the candle, instead of acting
+as it did when I placed the dollar between you and the candle, it will
+then reflect the light and throw the rays of light out further than they
+could otherwise shine. It helps to accomplish for the candle the same
+important service which the great reflector does when placed behind the
+lamp in the headlight of the railway engine, throwing the light way down
+the track in advance of the coming of the train.
+
+In the same way, when a Christian has money, you see how he can readily
+use it in such a way as to enable him to accomplish a very great and
+grand work in the world. The man who has lots of money and has a
+consecrated heart, and who is willing to use his money to help him in
+his work for Christ, will be able to accomplish very much more than the
+man who has no money. He can use his money in such a way that it will
+enable him to cast a light in many a dark corner of the earth, to bring
+light in many a desolate home, and to cast the rays of his Christian
+influence even across the ocean into benighted heathen lands. In this
+way his money can be used as I could use this dollar if it were
+polished, and thus carry his influence to the ends of the earth and to
+the end of time, and become a great blessing to himself and to others
+for all eternity.
+
+[Illustration: Money as a Reflector.]
+
+Jesus said, "Men do not light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on
+a candle-stick that it may give light to all that are in the house."
+There are some people who do not like to let their light shine for
+Christ. They do not want others to know that they are Christians. They
+do not want others to know that they are trying to be good. And so they
+seek to conceal their light, to hide it, as Jesus says, "under a
+bushel." If you were to light a candle and put it under a bushel, or
+under a box, the box would prevent it from shining, and therefore you
+would not know that there was any light at all in the room.
+
+But I want to show you, by the aid of this large necked bottle, what is
+the effect of our trying to hide our light. I have chosen this bottle
+because you can see through it, and observe what is going on inside of
+this glass bushel or bottle. The neck being very large, you can readily
+see that the light is not absolutely smothered. Now, when I place this
+bottle over the light, you will see how very quickly it begins to grow
+dim, and then more dim until it dies out altogether. There, you see, it
+has gone out already! Just as quickly as it burns out from the air in
+the bottle the oxygen which it contains, the light dies, because it has
+nothing to feed upon. If I had not placed this bottle over it, it would
+have continued to burn.
+
+[Illustration: Light Under a Bushel.]
+
+Just so it is with those who try to hide their light under a bushel.
+After the light has been placed there, it gradually grows more faint,
+and more faint, and then goes out in darkness. You can never be a
+Christian if you are ashamed of Christ. You must be willing to let your
+light shine; you must be willing to confess Christ before men; you must
+be willing to have other boys and girls know that you are a Christian,
+and that you are trying to do right. Then with God's help you will
+succeed. But if you try to hide your light under a bushel, you will
+never succeed in being a Christian.
+
+Here is another bottle. I am sure that the shape of this bottle will
+suggest to you the kind of stuff which is oftentimes sold in this kind
+of a flask. Sometimes when young men have given their hearts to Christ,
+and young women too for that matter, they go out in company and are
+invited to take a drink of wine or a drink of beer, or something else,
+and without any purpose or thought of ever becoming a drunkard, often
+they soon form the habit of drinking. Soon they have formed a love for
+the taste of liquor, and before ever they know it, like hundreds of
+thousands of others who have preceded them, they have become fond of
+liquor, and are on a fair road to become drunkards. As soon as a young
+man starts out in this direction he takes the road that leads down to
+death and destruction, and the love of God which he had in his heart
+soon dies out. Let me place this bottle over the candle. You will now
+see how the candle begins to grow dim, and the light shines more and
+more dim, after a very few seconds, you will find that it goes out in
+darkness, the same as it did under the other bottle.
+
+[Illustration: A Dangerous Bottle.]
+
+Let me say to you, always carefully avoid the terrible and destructive
+influences of drink, of which this bottle is the symbol. If you want to
+keep the love of God in your heart you must never, never take the first
+step which leads toward the love of liquor, toward intemperance and a
+drunkard's grave.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Can an unlighted candle give light?
+          Can a candle light itself? Who must first give us
+          the light if we are to be a light to the world?
+          Can the light of the candle shine through a silver
+          dollar? If a silver dollar is polished like a
+          little looking-glass and placed behind the light,
+          what does it do? Does this suggest how we can use
+          our money to send the light to the heathen? Under
+          what kind of a measure does the Bible warn against
+          hiding our light? When people light a candle, do
+          they put it under a bushel or on a candlestick? If
+          it is put under a bushel what is the result? Is
+          that the result with people who are ashamed to be
+          known as Christians? Does intoxicating drink often
+          put out the light of Christian people? How can all
+          persons avoid the use of liquor? (By never taking
+          the first glass.)
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A BROKEN CHAIN.
+
+BREAKING THE WHOLE LAW.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A chain of any kind, even a watch
+          chain, will answer. Children could use paste-board
+          and cut out ten links to represent the Ten
+          Commandments. These links could be numbered and
+          the older children could be asked to repeat the
+          Ten Commandments in their order.
+
+
+MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I have here a chain; it is very strong indeed.
+It has ten links in it. You will remember how that, more than three
+thousand years ago, God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
+These Ten Commandments are often called the Decalogue, because there are
+ten of them; the Greek word _deka_ means ten.
+
+[Illustration: A Broken Chain.]
+
+Now the Bible tells us that "whosoever will keep the whole law, and yet
+offend in one point, he is guilty of all." (James ii:10.)
+
+[Illustration: "Suspended Over the Edge of a Great Rock."]
+
+When a boy, I often wondered how it was that when a person broke one of
+the Commandments he was guilty of breaking the whole law. I could not
+understand it. Now, I desire to illustrate this truth to you to-day.
+Suppose that I were suspended over the edge of a great rock by this
+chain. If the chain should break, I would be plunged headlong, hundreds
+of feet down a very great embankment, upon rocks at the bottom of the
+chasm, and lose my life. You will readily see that it would not be
+necessary to break every link in this chain before I would begin to
+fall. In order to break this chain, it is only necessary to break a
+single link. The moment one link breaks, the entire continuity of the
+chain is broken.
+
+I think you will see that it is just the same way with the law of God.
+If you break one of these Commandments, you have broken the law. If you
+fail to "remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," or if you disobey
+your parents, and thus break the Commandment which says, "honor thy
+father and thy mother," or any other of the Commandments--if you break a
+single one, you have broken the entire chain of the Ten Commandments.
+
+Now, there are a great many laws in this land of ours. There are laws
+against murder, and there are laws against stealing, and there are laws
+against getting drunk, and thousands of other laws. If a man simply
+steals and should be caught in the act and brought before the judge, he
+would be convicted of the crime and be sent to prison. It is not
+necessary that a man should be a murderer and a thief and a robber, and
+should be guilty of breaking all the laws of this land, before he is
+cast in prison. It is simply enough that he should have violated one
+law. By breaking only one law he becomes a criminal, and therefore he is
+cast into prison. The man who has committed but one murder has his
+entire liberty taken from him. The man who has been caught in the act of
+stealing but a single time is adjudged a thief, and all his liberty is
+taken from him.
+
+So I think you will see that, in order to become a criminal, it is not
+necessary that we should break all the laws of the land, but if we break
+a single law we become criminals. So it is with the law of God; if we
+break only one of the Ten Commandments we are criminals before God, we
+are guilty of all.
+
+Now the laws which men make in this and every other country are human
+laws. They are not absolutely perfect. They are changed and improved
+from time to time. But the Psalmist tells us, and we all know it to be
+true, that "The law of the Lord is perfect," and God requires us to keep
+His law. He says, "My son forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my
+commandments; for length of days and long life and peace, shall they add
+to thee." (Prov. iii:1.) If you and I are faithful in the keeping of
+God's law, then we can say like David, "I shall not be ashamed when I
+have respect unto all of thy commandments." (Psalm cxix:6.)
+
+Now, if I take this chain, and attempt to break it, I find that God has
+not given me sufficient strength. Samson could have snapped it in a
+moment, but I am not strong enough. God has given to some men much more
+strength than to others.
+
+If I were to pull very hard on this chain so as to break it, where do
+you suppose it would break first? Why the weakest link in the entire
+chain would be the first to break. No chain is stronger than its weakest
+link. So it is with you and with me, our greatest goodness is no greater
+than our greatest weakness. When men want to think how good they are,
+they think of the best things they have ever done. But the fact is that
+no man is better than the worst things he has ever done. A man who has
+committed murder is a murderer. He might have done hundreds of good
+things, but the law does not estimate him by the best things he has
+done. The law estimates that man by the worst thing he has done, and by
+that worst thing he is judged and condemned. And so it is with you and
+me before God. The worst things which we have ever done will be the
+things which will condemn us in the sight of the Judge of all the world.
+
+While I am not able to break this metal chain, yet God has made it
+possible for every person to break the chain of the moral law. God has
+given human freedom to all men; He has told us what we should do, but
+He has left us free to obey or to disobey.
+
+Now, when we examine into the requirements of the Ten Commandments, we
+find that everybody has violated some one or more of them at some time.
+There is not a man or woman or child any where who is not guilty of
+having broken God's law. And when I turn to the Scriptures, I find in
+Galatians the third chapter, 10th verse, that God says, "Cursed is every
+one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of
+the law to do them." I see then by God's Word that we are all sinners,
+that we are all guilty before God, because we have violated His law, and
+next Sunday I will tell you what is to be done in view of the fact that
+we are all guilty before God.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What are the different parts of a
+          chain called? How many links must be broken in
+          order to break the chain? What did God give to
+          Moses on Mount Sinai? How many commandments are
+          there? Who makes the laws for the nation, the
+          state and the city? Are laws perfect which are
+          made by men? Do human laws change? Is God's law
+          perfect? Do moral laws ever change? Was there ever
+          a time or a place where it was right to lie, or
+          steal or murder? Will there ever be such a time or
+          place? How many murders must a man commit before
+          he is a murderer? How often must he steal before
+          he is a thief? Are men put into prison for
+          breaking a single law? Is the entirety of God's
+          law violated if we break only one commandment?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+LOOKING-GLASS.
+
+SEEING OURSELVES IN GOD'S LAW.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a looking-glass of
+          any desired size.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: In my sermon last Sunday, I showed you that God
+had made the law perfect, but that none of us has perfectly kept the
+law, that we have all broken the law, and God has said, "Cursed is every
+one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of
+the law to do them." (Gal. iii:10.)
+
+If the law is perfect, and no one has ever kept it perfectly, but all
+have broken the law in some one way or another, and on that account all
+are guilty before God, you may ask, what is the purpose of the law? Why
+did God make the law? Now, I desire to explain that to you to-day.
+
+I have here a looking-glass. Now the Bible compares the law to a
+looking-glass. In the epistle or letter of James, in the first chapter,
+we are told, "If any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
+unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth
+himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of
+man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
+continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
+work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." (James i:23-25.)
+
+[Illustration: Seeing Ourselves in the Looking-Glass of God's Law]
+
+In other words, the Bible means to say that the law of God is like a
+looking-glass. When we read the law of God, we see just what God
+requires that we should both be and do. He enables us to see what He
+requires of us. It shows us also how imperfect we are. It shows us our
+sins. It reveals to us the importance of doing something in order to get
+rid of our sins.
+
+It is just like a man whose face is all dirty. When he goes to the
+looking-glass and looks into it he sees the dirt upon his face. If he
+did not look into the glass, other people might see that his face was
+dirty, but he would not see it himself. But when he looks into the
+glass, he sees for himself that his face is all black and dirty.
+
+Now, when the man finds that his face is all dirty, he does not take the
+looking-glass with which to wash his face. The looking-glass was not
+made to wash our faces with. It was only made to show us that our faces
+needed to be washed. And then, instead of using the looking-glass to
+wash our faces, we go and use soap and water.
+
+Now, the looking-glass did not make the man's face black, neither will
+it wash his face. It simply shows him that his face is dirty.
+
+So it is with the law of God. The law of God does not make us sinful. We
+are sinful, whether there be any law or not. The law is simply designed
+to show us that we are sinners, and that we are wicked, and that we need
+a Saviour. And when this law reveals to us our sin, and shows us our
+need of a Saviour, it purposes, as we are told in the Scriptures, to
+lead us to Christ (Galatians iii:24.) No man can cleanse or wash away
+his sins by the aid of the law. But the law plainly shows him his sins,
+and then leads him to Christ--to the fountain which has been opened for
+sin and uncleanness. It is all very beautifully expressed in that hymn
+which, I trust, you all know:
+
+          "There is a fountain filled with blood,
+             Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
+           And sinners plunged beneath that flood,
+             Lose all their guilty stains."
+
+Now, I want to tell you the effect of coming to this fountain and
+washing. When we come to Christ our sins and guilt are washed away, and
+we become more like Christ. And then we grow up into His likeness and
+into His image. (Eph. iv: 13.) We become more and more like the Lord
+Jesus Christ from day to day. This change which takes place in our
+hearts and in our lives is very wonderful. We cannot understand it, but
+we cease to be intentionally wicked. More and more we become holy. It is
+this wonderful change which is referred to in Second Corinthians, third
+chapter and the 18th verse, where it says, "But we all, with open face
+beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
+image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."
+
+I think now, you will understand why we have the law. It is not to make
+us wicked, for we are wicked already. But it is to show us our
+wickedness, it is to reveal to us the fact that we are sinners, and that
+we are lost and undone without a Saviour. And then it reveals the Lord
+Jesus Christ to us, and we come to Him, the same as men with blackened
+faces go to the fountain to wash. So we come with our sins and our guilt
+"to the fountain which has been opened for sin and uncleanness," and we
+wash all our sins and guilt away; and then we are changed into His image
+and into His likeness, from glory to glory, until at last, in the world
+on high, we awake in the likeness of Jesus.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--To what does the Bible compare the law
+          of God? For what purpose do people use a
+          looking-glass? What does a man whose face is dirty
+          see in the glass? What does it show that his face
+          needs? Does it suggest that he should wash his
+          face with the looking-glass? What does he use with
+          which to wash his face? What does God's law show
+          us? Does the law make us sinful? Can the law
+          remove the effects of sin? Who is the fountain for
+          the cleansing of our sin? Are we saved by the law,
+          or by the grace of God?
+
+
+
+
+RAIN.
+
+GOD'S WISDOM AND POWER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A bottle partly filled with dust from
+          the roadway will help to illustrate the condition
+          which would quite universally prevail if the earth
+          were not refreshed with frequent rains.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: In view of the fact that the weather is so very
+warm, the earth so dried and parched and we have had no rain for a
+period of weeks, I thought it might be useful to-day to consider what
+would be the result if God should withhold the rain altogether, and then
+to tell you how, or in what manner God brings us the rain and refreshes
+the earth and makes it fruitful.
+
+In order that you might see something of the present condition of the
+earth, I have brought in this bottle some dust, taken from the centre of
+the road. As I turn the bottle around, you see how dry it is and how it
+floats in the air, leaving the inside of this bottle all powdered with
+dust. The dust in this bottle is only a sample of what all the earth
+would soon become, if God did not send rain at frequent intervals
+throughout the year. I suppose you could all tell me of a number of
+instances in the Old Testament where we have accounts of drouths that
+extended throughout a period of years, and of the hunger and famine and
+death which followed.
+
+When you are out of doors and look about you, you cannot but be
+impressed with how dry and dusty the trees and grass and everything
+about you is. If this dry weather were to continue long you could
+understand that soon everything would wither and die, and if it were to
+continue for a few years, men and beasts would not only die of thirst,
+but even the air itself would suck out from our bodies the moisture that
+is in our blood, and death would speedily follow. But if you were to
+remove all the moisture from the air, the earth would not only become
+barren, but it would become intensely cold. It is due to the moisture
+which is in the atmosphere that the warmth which comes to the earth from
+the sun is retained near the earth after the sun has gone down. If it
+were not so, even in a summer's night after the sun has gone down, the
+coldness which exists above the clouds would quickly come in contact
+with the earth, and the cold would become so intense that every person
+and every living thing would be in danger of being frozen to death in a
+single night.
+
+You will remember that the great Sahara Desert is a vast tract of
+thousands of square miles where no rain falls, and where the heat is
+intense. There is, however, much moisture in the air that floats over
+the plains, but the reason that no rain falls is because there are no
+mountains in that portion of the globe for thousands of miles.
+
+Now suppose that there were to be no rain at all, and people should
+undertake to water the earth by bringing the water from the rivers. On
+an average of about thirty-three inches of rain fall upon the surface of
+the entire earth each year, in some places more, in others less. The
+weight of this water in one single square mile would be nearly two and
+one-half millions of tons, and if this water which falls upon one single
+square mile had to be drawn in cars, it would require 100,000 carloads
+of water to keep this one single mile as wet as God usually keeps it
+throughout the year by the rain from heaven. I think you will see, from
+what I have said, that all the cars in the entire United States, and
+there are hundreds of thousands of them, would not be sufficient to haul
+water from the rivers for any considerable distance to keep more than
+ten miles square of earth watered. But you can also see that if all
+these cars were to be run on a piece of ground only ten miles square,
+that entire piece of ground would be almost completely covered with
+railroad tracks, and we would scarcely be able to raise anything on it
+in the way of grain or vegetables or food of any kind. But even if we
+could successfully water ten miles square of land, what would that be
+compared with the absolute necessity of watering the entire continent
+and all the continents of the globe in order to make life possible upon
+the earth. Now the question arises, how does God accomplish this great
+result?
+
+[Illustration: Train of Cars.]
+
+I suppose you have all noticed the teakettle when it is upon the stove
+and the steam is coming out of the spout, and around the lid. You have
+there had a practical demonstration of how God can cause the water,
+which is 800 times heavier than the atmosphere or the air, to rise and
+float, for you know that any substance heavier than air will always fall
+to the earth. In the instance of the teakettle you will see how heat
+causes the water to become steam and thus to rise in the air and float
+away, rising to the height of the clouds which float two, three and
+four and sometimes more miles high above the earth.
+
+Now, just in this same way God makes the heat from the rays of the sun
+to cause that from every river and lake and all the expanse of the
+ocean, as well as from the surface of the earth, there shall constantly
+arise a very fine vapor, which, although it is somewhat like steam, is
+still so much finer that you and I cannot see it with our unaided eyes.
+It is by means of this vapor that God raises the moisture from the
+oceans and all bodies of water and from the earth, to fall again in
+gentle showers.
+
+[Illustration: Steam Rising from Teakettle.]
+
+But when this vapor has been lifted up from the ocean, you will see
+readily that if it were to descend again in rain upon the very places
+from which it had been lifted it would accomplish no good. It is
+necessary that instead of falling back into the ocean and into the lakes
+and rivers, it must be carried over the land. So you see that we might
+aptly compare the vapor to a great pump, by means of which God lifts
+millions of gallons of water every hour from the sea into the
+atmosphere.
+
+Now just the same as men load grain and fruit and other things into the
+cars to ship them to some distant place, so God loads these vapors into
+the atmosphere or into the clouds. When the clouds are all loaded with
+vapor, or that which is to descend upon the earth in the form of rain,
+God sends the winds, and these winds blow the clouds from over the ocean
+far inward over the land until they come to the place where God wants
+to pour them out in showers and rain, and in snow and blessing.
+
+[Illustration: Clouds and Rain.]
+
+But now, you will see that there is another difficulty. When all this
+vast quantity of water is held in the clouds, a mile or two above the
+earth, if it were to be poured out, it would come with such force upon
+the earth that it would destroy every living thing. Now, as God used the
+warmth from the sun as His agent to lift the water into the clouds, so
+also, when He desires to unload the clouds, to pour the rain upon the
+earth, He causes the warm air which carries the water to be blown upon
+by the colder air which floats above it, and as the heat lifted the
+water, so the cold causes it to descend; and immediately it begins to
+form as clouds, one particle or atom of moisture touches another, and
+the two form the larger atom, and these again unite with others, until
+finally a drop is formed, and it begins to descend and comes down in
+gentle showers upon the earth as though it were sifted through a very
+fine sieve. These small drops fall upon the earth so gently as not even
+to bruise the leaf of the tenderest flower or the tenderest insect that
+walks upon the earth.
+
+Possibly some children may not fully understand, but the older ones will
+get some idea of the vast quantity of water which God pours upon the
+earth, when they are reminded that all the water that flows in the
+rivers has been let down from the clouds. God is daily pumping up from
+the ocean and other bodies of water rivers as vast as the combined
+waters of the Mississippi, Missouri, Susquehanna, the Hudson, and every
+creek and streamlet and river that flows, not only on this continent,
+but in all the world. And God is doing this constantly by His own
+infinite wisdom and infinite might. The machinery with which men pump
+the water from the river for the supply of a single city wears out; but
+these great engines with which God is constantly keeping the earth
+supplied with water for man and beast, for tree and flower, for garden
+and field, never wear out. Truly with the prophet we may exclaim: "He
+that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out on the face
+of the land: the Lord is His name." (Amos v: 8.)
+
+From what I have said I think you will all see how constantly we are
+dependent upon God for everything which we enjoy. If God were to
+withhold the rain or the sunshine, famine and want and death would soon
+follow. Yet in the most wonderful way God is constantly providing that
+with which we are daily to be fed and always to be clothed. God is not
+unmindful of us. He never forgets, but in His own good time and in His
+own most wondrous way He sends us the rain and every needed blessing.
+
+God never forgets us, but I fear that we often forget Him and forget
+when we drink the refreshing glass of clear, cool water, that it is God
+who gave it to us. When you sit down at the table, do you remember that
+it is God who gives you the food, and do you thank Him for the food
+which He gives you, or do you, like the unmannerly boy who receives a
+gift and never thanks the donor, sit down and eat and go away without
+ever thanking God the Giver? When He watches over and keeps you during
+the night, do you forget to kneel down and thank Him in the morning?
+When day after day He clothes you, do you thank him? When He feeds and
+clothes you, do you love and serve Him, or do you accept of these
+blessings and then run off and serve Satan, God's great enemy?
+
+These are serious questions, and I trust you will think seriously of
+them, and daily, when you receive God's blessings, that you will turn to
+Him in grateful thanksgiving and faithful service.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What would the entire earth become if
+          there should be no rain? If all moisture were
+          removed from the atmosphere, what would be the
+          result? What is the average rainfall? What is the
+          weight of rainfall in a single square mile? How
+          many cars would it require to carry water for one
+          square mile? How does God accomplish this? How is
+          the water raised up from the sea and the rivers?
+          Can you explain it by the teakettle? Where does
+          God store this vapor? How do the clouds carry the
+          moisture to the places which need it? How does the
+          moisture in the clouds fall? Does God do all
+          things wisely and well? Is God ever unmindful of
+          our needs? Do you ever forget to thank Him? Do you
+          always remember to serve Him?
+
+
+
+
+SNOW.
+
+THE LESSONS WHICH IT TEACHES.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: When God desired to set Job to thinking, among
+other questions He asked him: Canst thou enter into the treasures of the
+snow? (Job xxxviii: 22.) While coming to church to-day, when I saw you
+frolicking and glad in the midst of the snow, which was falling all
+about you, I wondered whether you had ever stopped to think much about
+the snow. So I thought to ask you the question which God asked of Job
+nearly thirty-five hundred years ago: "Hast thou entered into the
+treasures of the snow?"
+
+When you were all so glad on account of this first snowstorm of the
+winter, did you stop to think that the snow comes from God? Now like
+everything else which comes from God, the snow is wonderful. No
+philosopher has ever yet been able fully to explain how the snow is
+formed and to tell us all about it, and I do not suppose that all the
+mysteries concerning it will ever be fully and perfectly solved. It is
+wonderful, however, because it comes down so lightly and noiselessly. It
+drops upon the earth almost like feathers, covering the ground, hanging
+upon the limbs of the trees and shaping them into things of strange
+beauty, piling up on the post by the side of your gate, until perhaps it
+looks more like the white man from the flour mill than like that to
+which people tie horses. Yet it comes down so noiselessly that we
+scarcely notice it.
+
+When the snow falls upon the ground a foot deep it is said to be equal
+in weight to one inch of rain. Now one foot of snow, on one square mile
+of street, would weigh, it is estimated, about sixty-four thousand tons.
+If this snow, which covers only one square mile, were placed in wagons
+loaded with one ton each, and allowing sufficient space for these teams
+to move one behind another, these wagons would make a string or
+procession reaching from Philadelphia to New York, and from New York up
+the Hudson River almost to the city of Albany. I am sure you will be
+astonished at this, but when you consider that some snowstorms cover
+thousands of square miles, and are sometimes more than one foot deep,
+you will see how increasingly wonderful it is that all this great weight
+falls so gently upon the earth as to produce no disturbance, no shock,
+and generally goes away as quietly and peaceably as it came.
+
+Like everything else that God has made, the snow is very beautiful. Did
+you ever hear that poem which begins:
+
+          "Beautiful snow! beautiful snow!
+                Falling so lightly,
+                Daily and nightly,
+           Alike 'round the dwellings of the lofty and low;
+                Horses are prancing,
+                Cheerily dancing,
+           Stirred with the spirit that comes from the snow."
+
+We oftentimes think that God is seen in the fields and flowers in the
+spring and summer, but He is also seen in the beautiful snow of winter.
+If you will let some of the snow fall upon the sleeve of your coat and
+then examine it carefully, you will be surprised at its beauty. It is
+beautiful when examined without a microscope, but much more beautiful
+and wonderful when examined with a microscope. Each flake is fashioned
+into stellar shape. It is formed and fashioned by the same hand which
+made the stars of the heavens and gave them their sparkle and beauty.
+Each flake is a beautiful crystal. Each somewhat like the others, and
+yet no two exactly alike. There are hundreds of varieties, each
+beautiful and all glorious. These beautiful little snow stars are all
+formed with perfect geometrical accuracy. Some have three sides and
+angles, some six, others eight, and some have more. One resembles a
+sparkling cross, while others seem almost like the leaves of an open
+flower. Some are like single stars, others like double stars and
+clusters of stars; and although the ground in winter is covered with
+myriads of them, yet each one is formed with as much correctness and
+beauty as if God had made each one for special examination and as an
+exhibition of His infinite skill and divine perfection.
+
+[Illustration: Snow-flakes Magnified.]
+
+But like everything else that God has made, the snow is also useful. You
+may possibly have thought of it as affording excellent sport in sliding
+down hill, enabling you to enjoy a sleigh ride behind horses with
+jingling bells, affording opportunity for a snow-ball fight, or as
+furnishing the material for making snow men or snow houses. In all these
+ways the snow is a source of delight and pleasure to boys and girls, but
+after all, the snow has a special mission in the world during the severe
+cold of the winter.
+
+[Illustration: A Winter Sleigh Ride.]
+
+The severity of the cold is often greatly modified by the presence of
+snow. The snow forms a warm mantle to protect the grass and grain
+fields. It wraps its soft warm covering around the plants, and thus
+protects them from the frost. Many animals also take shelter in the
+banks of snow, and are thus kept from being frozen to death. The snow of
+winter is as important in securing our food and blessing as the rain of
+the summer. As intense heat and the absence of rain produce the great
+deserts of the earth, so intense cold and the absence of snow would
+produce barren tracts upon the earth.
+
+Now, what are the lessons we may learn from what I have said? I think
+the first lesson that we may learn is that God does everything
+perfectly. God is not in a hurry, as boys and girls often are when they
+do not take time to learn their lessons thoroughly or to do their work
+carefully. Perfection is one of God's attributes. We are impatient and
+imperfect. But God wants us to be perfect. We should constantly strive
+after perfection. We are to seek after perfection here upon earth, and
+although we cannot hope to attain it fully in this world, yet we shall
+attain unto it in the world of blessedness beyond. Remember that
+whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
+
+I think the second lesson that we may learn from what I have said, is
+that God does everything with some good purpose in view. God not only
+has a purpose in all that He does, but He has a purpose for good. Some
+boys and girls do things with a bad purpose. Now, God does not do
+anything with a bad purpose, and He would not have us do anything with a
+bad purpose. He has given us life and being upon the earth in order that
+we may accomplish something grand and good. What is the purpose of your
+life? What have you resolved to make the object which you shall seek to
+attain in this life? Have some noble purpose, some high aim in life.
+Whatever it shall be, let it always have in view the blessing and good
+of others and the glory of God.
+
+The last lesson from this study of the snow is that God has made it a
+symbol of purity. God is pure, and He wants us to be pure. Do you put
+tobacco in your mouth? Then your mouth is not pure. Do you use bad
+words? If so, your mouth is not pure. Do you use your eyes to read
+worthless story papers and books, or to look at evil pictures? Then your
+eyes and thoughts are not pure. Do you permit your ears to listen to
+improper talk? Then your ears and mind are not pure. Do you harbor bad
+thoughts in your heart? Then your heart is not pure. Do you defile your
+body by improper eating and drinking? If you do, then your body is not
+pure. If you and I desire to be pure, we must go to God and earnestly
+ask Him as David did when he cried unto God and said, "Purge me with
+hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me and I shall be whiter than snow."
+
+Now let us sing this beautiful hymn:
+
+          "Wash me and I shall be whiter than the snow."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--About what did God ask Job, to set him
+          thinking? Where does the snow come from? Does
+          anyone know fully how the snow is formed? Is the
+          snow as wonderful as it is beautiful? What do the
+          flakes look like? Are they all formed alike? Are
+          any two exactly alike? How is the snow useful in
+          winter? Is snow as important in the winter as rain
+          in the summer? Is God ever in a hurry? Are you
+          always patient? What is worth doing well? Does God
+          always have a purpose in whatever He does? Does
+          God expect us to have a noble purpose? Of what is
+          snow the symbol? Does God expect us all to be
+          pure?
+
+
+
+
+PLASTIC FACE.
+
+CHARACTER IN THE COUNTENANCE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a small plastic
+          face such as are often sold in toy stores, and
+          even on the streets in large cities. The head of a
+          rubber doll would also answer the purpose.
+
+          A couple of pictures of faces placed in bottles
+          would illustrate the fact that as the faces are
+          seen through the bottles, so our thoughts are not
+          wholly hidden but shine through our faces.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: Here is a soft plastic face; by squeezing it on
+the side I can make the face very long, and it looks very sober. If I
+place the face between my thumb and fingers and press upon the chin and
+forehead it makes the face short, and makes it have a very pleasant
+appearance. I can make it look as though it were laughing, or make it
+seem to be angry and cross.
+
+Just so is it with our faces. When we feel pleasant our faces are short
+and drawn up; when we feel sober, or cross, or angry, they are
+lengthened and the character of the expression is entirely changed. You
+would scarcely know the face were you to see it radiant with smiles and
+pleasantness, and afterwards see the same face when the person is cross
+or angered. When you look at a person you can tell whether they are in
+good humor, or whether they are displeased or angry.
+
+[Illustration: Frowns and Smiles.]
+
+Do you know, boys and girls, that our character and our disposition are
+seen in our faces? It is impossible for us to conceal our real selves,
+even though we might try. I will tell you how it is. If I were again and
+again to press this face only in this way, so as to make it look very
+long, after a time it would retain this expression. If I were to press
+it in this other way, so as to make it very short and give it a very
+pleasant expression, and were to hold it in that position for a very
+long time, it would assume that expression, and retain it constantly. It
+is just so with our faces. When a boy is angered again and again the
+deep lines of his face become more and more permanent, until after a
+time he comes to have a face which expresses anger. If a boy is kind and
+good and generous, these feelings express themselves in his face, and if
+repeated over and over again, day after day and year after year, it
+becomes a permanent expression upon his face and the boy is known by
+all who meet him as a good-natured, pleasant and agreeable boy.
+
+I suppose that most all the boys and girls here can tell a minister when
+they meet him on the street. And when you grow older I think you will
+not only be able to tell that it is a minister, but you may be able to
+tell, possibly to what denomination the man belongs--whether he is a
+Methodist, or a Presbyterian, or an Episcopalian or a Lutheran, or to
+what denomination he belongs. This cannot always be told, but in many
+instances this can be judged quite accurately. The study of the Bible
+and the contemplation of holy and good things inscribe themselves
+indelibly upon the face of those who give them thought and attention.
+
+Beneath a good and generous face you will find a good and generous
+heart. Beneath a bad face you will find a bad heart. If we are
+Christians we shall become more and more like Christ. We shall grow up
+into His likeness, and into His image, and into His stature. We are told
+that not only will we become more and more like Him, but that at last,
+in the great Resurrection, we shall behold Him as He is, and we shall be
+like Him.
+
+If I were to take some pictures and place them in a bottle they would
+shine out through the glass, and you could see them. So with the
+thoughts that are in your heart; they shine out through your face and
+give expressions to it. Even when the body is suffering pain the heart
+may be at rest. David, the Psalmist, said that God was "the health of
+his countenance." Even though his body was suffering pain his face might
+be pleasant, because God was with him, making him happy in his heart.
+There is an old adage that says, "handsome is, that handsome does."
+There are some young persons who may have a pretty face, and yet who may
+not be righteous and holy in their hearts; but as they grow older their
+character will shine out more and more, until at last their face shall
+be entirely changed, and all that is bad in their hearts will appear in
+their faces. If you want a good face you must have a good heart. Take
+Jesus into your heart, follow His teachings and imitate His example, and
+from year to year you will grow more and more like Him. Here is a very
+appropriate and beautiful poem, which was written by Miss Alice Carey.
+
+
+TAKE CARE.
+
+          "Little children, you must seek
+             Rather to be good than wise,
+           For the thoughts you do not speak
+             Shine out in your cheeks and eyes.
+
+          "If you think that you can be
+             Cross or cruel, and look fair,
+           Let me tell you how to see
+             You are quite mistaken there.
+
+          "Go and stand before the glass,
+             And some ugly thought contrive,
+           And my word will come to pass
+             Just as sure as you're alive!
+
+          "What you have and what you lack,
+             All the same as what you wear,
+           You will see reflected back;
+             So, my little folks, take care!
+
+          "And not only in the glass
+             Will your secrets come to view;
+           All beholders, as they pass,
+             Will perceive and know them, too.
+
+          "Out of sight, my boys and girls,
+             Every root of beauty starts;
+           So think less about your curls,
+             More about your minds and hearts.
+
+          "Cherish what is good, and drive
+             Evil thoughts and feelings far;
+           For, as sure as you're alive,
+             You will show for what you are."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--How will a plastic face look when you
+          squeeze it on the head and on the chin? When
+          persons are serious or angry, are their faces
+          lengthened? When people laugh what happens to
+          their faces? Suppose one were to be cross and ugly
+          constantly what would occur? If a person were to
+          laugh constantly, what would be the effect upon
+          their face? Can you tell a minister when you see
+          him? If you put pictures in a bottle do they shine
+          through? Do thoughts in the heart shine through
+          the face? Can you repeat that couplet which
+          begins: "Handsome is--"? If we think Christ's
+          thoughts constantly do we become more like Christ?
+          If we think bad thoughts do we become unlike Him?
+          What book is it which says: "As a man thinketh in
+          his heart, so is he"?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+SEEDS.
+
+THOUGHTS, WORDS, DEEDS--THEIR LIFE AND PERPETUITY.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Seeds, or grain and fruit of any kind
+          can be used for illustration.
+
+
+MY YOUNG FRIENDS: I have here to-day quite a variety of seeds. Some of
+them are very small, and some, as you see, are quite large. The seeds of
+each class have in them a principle of life, which makes them differ
+from sand, or small stones of similar size, because if I plant these
+seeds in the ground they will grow.
+
+[Illustration: Different Kinds of Seeds.]
+
+When you take different kinds of seeds, there is one thing that is very
+interesting about them. It is the different kinds of coverings in which
+they grow. For instance, if you take a chestnut, it grows in a burr with
+sharp thorny points; others are folded as though rolled up very tightly
+in leaves, as you will find in the hazel nut or filbert. Some seeds grow
+in rows, like beans and peas in a pod. Some grow in a very soft bed,
+like cotton seeds. Some grow imbedded in a downy substance which blows
+all around, carrying the seed with it, like the thistle, and the light
+fuzz of the dandelion. Sometimes the seed is buried in the inside of
+fruit, as in the case of apples, pears, peaches, plums, and various
+other kinds of fruit. Sometimes it is buried beneath the beautiful
+leaves of the flower. So you see there is great variety.
+
+Now, these seeds may represent words. There are a great many varieties
+of words. All words have the principle of life in them, because they
+express thought; and these thoughts when received into our minds develop
+into action. Therefore we say that words have a principle of life in
+them, and it is important that we should be careful not to permit bad
+words to have a place in our minds. Very often you will see boys and
+girls reading worthless papers which they think will do them no injury.
+But the fact is, that these boys are influenced in all their living by
+that which they read in these papers. It might be very light and
+trifling, but it tends to corrupt the mind, to give the boy false ideas
+of life, and it gives him such opinions as are not real, and therefore
+very injurious to any one. It is much better that a boy's valuable time
+should be spent in reading good books and good papers, and securing such
+information as will be of value and assistance to him all through life.
+For the life of every boy and of every girl is a very great struggle,
+and no boy or girl can afford to waste time in the beginning. If they
+are ever to amount to anything in this world, it is important that they
+should begin very early in life.
+
+I want to call your attention to another characteristic of these seeds.
+And that is when a single seed is planted, it grows up and produces a
+very great number of other seeds. If you plant a seed of wheat, it will
+produce 30, 60, or sometimes 100 other seeds. If you plant one sunflower
+seed it might produce as many as 4,000 seeds. If you plant one single
+thistle seed, it has been known to produce as high as 24,000 seeds in a
+single summer. If you were to plant only one grain of corn and let it
+grow until it is ripe, and then plant the seeds again which grew on
+these few ears of corn, and thus continue to re-plant again and again,
+we are told by those who have calculated it very carefully, that in only
+five short years the amount of corn that could be grown as the result of
+the planting of the one single seed would be sufficient to plant a hill
+of corn, with three grains in every square yard of all the dry land on
+all the earth. In ten years the product would be sufficient to plant not
+only this entire world, both land and sea, but all the planets, or
+worlds which circle around our sun, and some of them are even a thousand
+times larger than our own globe. So you see that there is wonderful
+multiplying power in the different kinds of grain which you plant.
+
+So it is with the thoughts and the words which we have in our minds.
+Good thoughts enter into good acts, and these acts influence others just
+as though the same thought was sown into their minds, and then it
+springs up into their lives and influences them. Just so when we have
+read a book, whether the book is good or bad, its influence goes on
+reproducing itself, over and over again in our lives, every time in a
+multiplied form. Suppose with your money you send some Bibles to the
+heathen, and as a result a single person is converted. Immediately that
+person would influence other heathen people whom he would meet, and so,
+one after the other, these heathen would be influenced as the result of
+what you have done. This good influence would go on repeating itself
+over and over again, as long as the world shall stand, and only in
+eternity would the wonderful results of what you have done be fully
+known. So it is with all that we say and all that we do; it goes on
+repeating and multiplying itself over and over again.
+
+[Illustration: Pyramids.]
+
+[Illustration: Egyptian Mummies.]
+
+Now, there is another interesting feature of these seeds to which I
+want to call your attention. And that is that the life in the seed may
+continue for a very long time, even hundreds of years. Over in Egypt,
+centuries ago, they built large pyramids, and when a king died, instead
+of burying his body in the ground, they embalmed it with spices and
+dried it, so that it would not decay. Then they wrapped it up in cloths,
+and with these cloths and bandages they sometimes wrapped wheat or some
+other kind of grain. Some of these mummies, for so they are called,
+which have been buried possibly twenty-five hundred years, have been
+found; and when the wheat has been taken out of the hands of these
+mummies and planted in the ground, under favorable conditions, it has
+grown just the same as the wheat which was harvested from the fields
+only last summer. The life which was in the seed had not been destroyed
+by the many hundreds of years which have passed since it was placed in
+the hand of the mummy.
+
+Some years ago there was a very interesting case of this kind in
+England. At Dorchester they were digging down some thirty feet below the
+surface, and at that depth they came upon the remains of the body of a
+man, with which there had been buried some coins. By the date upon the
+coins, they knew that this body had been buried at least seventeen
+hundred years. In the stomach was found quite a large quantity of
+raspberry seeds. The man had doubtless eaten a large number of
+raspberries, and then might have been accidentally killed very soon
+afterward, so that the seeds were not injured by the gastric juices of
+the stomach. These seeds were taken to the Horticultural Garden, and
+there they were planted. What do you think! After seventeen hundred
+years and more, these seeds grew, and in a short time there was an
+abundant fruitage of raspberries, just the same as though the seeds had
+been gathered from raspberries which grew only the year before. Although
+hidden and seemingly dead, yet these seeds retained their life for
+seventeen hundred years or more.
+
+In this same way there is a deathless power in the words which we speak,
+even though they are spoken hastily and without thought upon our part.
+Our words have in them the element of a life which is well-nigh endless.
+You may yourself remember some unkind words which were spoken to you
+months and months ago. The boy or girl who spoke them may have forgotten
+all about them, but you still remember them, and they cause you pain
+every time you think of them. Or it may be that some kind person has
+spoken tenderly and affectionately to you. The person himself may have
+been so accustomed to speaking kindly that he forgot entirely what he
+had said, but his kind words still live in your memory. There is a
+beautiful hymn written some years ago, which begins: "Kind words can
+never die."
+
+About fifty years ago there were some boys in a school yard playing
+marbles. Two other boys were playing tag. One of the boys who were
+playing tag chanced to run across the ring in which the boys were
+playing marbles. One of these boys was accustomed to speaking ugly words
+and doing very hasty and cruel things. He sprang to his feet and kicked
+the boy who had run across the ring, wounding him in the right knee. The
+injury was of such a nature that the bones of that leg below the knee
+never grew any more, and as a result, for over forty years that boy has
+had to walk on crutches. You see how permanent the result of this injury
+has been; and the results of unkind words may be just as injurious and
+no less permanent than the unreasonable and wicked thing which this boy
+did in his anger.
+
+You may sometimes be discouraged because the kind words which you speak
+and the kind deeds which you do seem to fail of a good result. But you
+can be assured that even though you grow to old age and your body were
+to be laid away in the grave, yet sometime, in the lives of those who
+come after you, the good you have done will surely bear its fruitage of
+blessing.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are there many different kinds of
+          seeds? Do apple trees ever grow from peach seeds?
+          Do good thoughts grow from bad words, or bad
+          thoughts from good words? Do seeds have a
+          principle of life in them? Do words and thoughts
+          have a principle of life? How many centuries have
+          seeds been known to retain their life? Have the
+          teachings of the Bible retained their life for
+          many hundreds of years? Into what do good thoughts
+          turn? (Acts). Into what do good acts turn?
+          (Character). Can any boy or girl afford to use
+          their time in reading worthless books or papers?
+          Do words and deeds have the element of unending
+          life in them? Is it a dangerous thing to get
+          angry? What did one of the boys who were playing
+          marbles do to the boy who ran across the ring? As
+          the result, how many years has the injured boy
+          walked with crutches? Will the good that we do be
+          as permanent as the evil that we might do?
+
+
+
+
+SOWING.
+
+THE SPRING TIME OF LIFE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a bag or sack, or
+          a pillow slip would answer the same purpose, hung
+          about the neck as a farmer uses it when sowing
+          seed. While this is not essential, it can be used
+          if desired.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: Spring is the most pleasant season of the year;
+the snow has melted, the cold weather has passed away, and now the warm,
+pleasant days have come. The trees are all in blossom, the fields look
+beautiful, and the air is full of sweetness. If you go into the country
+at this season of the year you will find the farmers plowing their
+fields, and some are sowing grain. The spring wheat has already been
+sown, the oat fields will soon begin to look green, and in the course of
+a few weeks the farmers will be planting their corn.
+
+It must have been at a corresponding period of the year in the East,
+when Jesus spoke those beautiful words which are found in the 13th
+chapter of St. Matthew, contained in the parable of the sower who went
+out to sow. A great multitude of people had gathered to hear the words
+which fell from the lips of Jesus. They could no longer gain admission
+into the house, and so Jesus went down by the sea, or the large lake,
+and getting into a boat he pushed out just a little way from the shore,
+so all the people standing along the shore could see and hear Him, and
+then He began to preach to them. Just back of them on the plain was a
+farmer who was more intent upon sowing his field than upon listening to
+the words of the Saviour. As Jesus saw him pacing to and fro across the
+field, scattering the grain in the furrows, Jesus very likely pointed to
+the man, calling the attention of the multitude to what he was doing,
+and said to the people, "Behold a sower went forth to sow," and then
+called the attention of the people to the character of the soil in the
+different places where the seed fell.
+
+In the country the farmers use a sack or bag. After having tied the
+opposite ends together, they hang this over their neck and shoulder, and
+with the right hand left free, they march up and down the field, sowing
+the grain. This sowing is not so common any more, because farmers now
+often plant their grain fields with a machine called a drill.
+
+With this sack suspended about the neck, in this way, the farmer reaches
+in and takes out a small handful of seed, and then swinging his hand,
+throws the seed over a considerable portion of the ground. Thus he walks
+from one end of the field to the other, sowing the seed, until he has
+the entire field sown and ready for the men who follow with the harrow
+to cover up the grain.
+
+Well, boys and girls, this is the spring-time of life with you. These
+are the pleasant days and years of your life. You have very little care.
+Yet it is, nevertheless, the spring-time. You are now making
+preparations which will tell what is to be the harvest in the later
+years of your lives. As the farmer goes out and plows the field, so by
+discipline and by counsel, and by instruction are your parents preparing
+your minds and hearts that in after years you may enjoy a harvest of
+great blessing.
+
+[Illustration: Behold a Sower went Forth to Sow]
+
+In the spring-time of life, when young persons are to do the sowing,
+they need much careful counsel and instruction. I suppose that there are
+many boys and girls who, if they were to go into the country, could not
+tell the difference between wheat and barley, or oats and rye. Some
+might not even be able to distinguish between oats and buckwheat. If
+the farmer were to send you out to sow, you would, most likely, sow the
+wrong kind of grain. In the same manner, it is important that you should
+be directed by your parents, because they can distinguish between right
+and wrong. They know what you should do, and what you should not do.
+Therefore it is important that they should direct you in the
+spring-time, lest you should sow the wrong kind of grain. And you know
+the Bible says: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
+
+[Illustration: Wheat and Tares.]
+
+It is not only difficult for those who have never seen something of life
+in the country, to distinguish between the different kinds of grain
+which the farmer sows, but even after the grain begins to grow, it is
+sometimes difficult, even for those who are familiar with country life,
+to distinguish between the true and the false. In that same thirteenth
+chapter of the gospel by St. Matthew, to which I referred in the
+beginning, Jesus tells of a farmer who sowed his field with wheat, and
+while he slept an enemy came and sowed tares. Of course he could not
+discover this until the grain began to grow. When it began to get ripe,
+then for the first could he distinguish between the stalks of the wheat
+and the stalks of the tares. By doing this wicked thing the enemy gave
+the farmer a great deal of trouble. Just so it is with you when you have
+tried to do right, Satan comes and puts evil thoughts and wicked
+purposes into your mind, and then if you permit these to grow up, you
+will find that they will give you a great deal of trouble. It is
+important that only the good seed should be sown in the field of your
+heart, and in the field of your mind, so that you may have a fruitage
+that shall be wholly good.
+
+Sometimes you see boys and girls who are doing things which you would
+like to do, but your mother and father tell you that you should not. You
+may not be pleased because you are restrained from doing what you would
+like to do. I well remember how my father, when I was a boy, oftentimes
+used to restrain me from doing what I saw other boys doing. I used to
+think, at that time, that he was not considerate, and possibly not kind
+to me. But now that I have grown older, and have seen the results which
+have come to those boys, some of whom have gone astray, and others who
+have turned out badly in life, I see how wise my father was. Although I
+did not feel at the time that he was doing that which was for my good;
+now I see it all very plainly.
+
+In closing, let me say to you, do as Isaiah suggested, "Sow by the side
+of all waters." That is, be very diligent, that day by day you may do
+some kind act, which will hereafter spring up into a fruitage of very
+great good. The Bible enjoins upon both young and old to be very
+diligent in this work, for it says, "In the morning sow thy seed, and in
+the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether shall
+prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good."
+(Eccl. xi: 6.)
+
+When you go to school during the week, and to Sunday-school and church
+service on Sunday, and when being instructed and taught at home,
+remember that all the instruction you are receiving is like the seed
+that falls upon the waiting soil in the early spring-time from the hand
+of an intelligent farmer. In the parable which Jesus spake, He tells how
+that some of the seed fell by the wayside, some among thorns and some
+upon stony ground, while others fell upon good ground. While the seed
+was the same kind in all instances, it was only that which fell upon the
+good ground which brought forth a fruitage of thirty, sixty and an
+hundred fold. If the fruitage of your life in the harvest of the
+after-years is to be abundant in good and blessing, it can only be
+because you receive the instruction of your parents, your teachers and
+your pastor into a good and honest heart. Others may sow faithfully, but
+after all the result must depend upon you.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Which is the most pleasant season of
+          the year? Why? What is the farmer's special work
+          in the spring-time? Why is the farmer careful to
+          sow good grain? What period of life is best
+          represented by spring? If the farmer failed to sow
+          in the spring, would he have a harvest in the
+          autumn? How does he know what kind of grain he
+          will reap at harvest time? Does wheat ever produce
+          oats? Or clover seed produce wheat? What happened
+          while the farmer slept? Who sowed the tares in his
+          field? Who sows the tares in our minds? What do we
+          call these tares? Should they be removed or
+          permitted to grow? Should we be thankful to our
+          parents for preventing tares from being sown? In
+          what kind of soil did the grain grow to a fruitage
+          of thirty, sixty and an hundred fold?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+REAPING.
+
+THE HARVEST TIME OF LIFE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a small sheaf of
+          grain. For this might be substituted fruitage of
+          any kind--apples, peaches, pears, grapes, etc.,
+          and after reading the sermon, the parent could
+          apply in the manner suited to the objects used.
+
+
+MY DEAR LITTLE HARVESTERS: Last Sunday I talked to you of
+spring-time--the spring-time of the year, and the spring-time of life.
+To-day I have brought a small sheaf of grain to tell us of the
+harvest-time. The spring-time is very pleasant, the air is fragrant, the
+birds are singing, and all nature seems to be rejoicing in its freshness
+and beauty. The world looks just as new and beautiful as it did
+thousands and thousands of years ago. Each spring it puts on youth anew.
+
+[Illustration: Sheaf of Grain.]
+
+But when the summer-time comes, when it gets along to the harvest time,
+along in July and August, then the weather is very warm. The color of
+the fields has then greatly changed, the blossoms have disappeared from
+the trees, and we find that everywhere the fruit is beginning to appear.
+The harvest fields are ripe and are waiting for the husbandmen.
+
+There is just about that same difference in life. Youth is the
+spring-time. It is full of hope, and full of bright prospects. But, as
+we grow older, and the cares and responsibilities of life multiply, then
+we begin to bear the toil and labor which comes with the later years.
+Then we are like the farmer who enters into the harvest field where hard
+work has to be done under a very hot and scorching sun.
+
+A man, called a naturalist, who has devoted a large amount of time to
+the study of plants, tells us that there are about one hundred thousand
+different kinds of plants. Each kind of plant bears its own seed, and
+when that particular seed is sown, it always bears its own kind of
+fruit. Wheat never yields barley, nor do oats ever yield buckwheat. When
+you plant potatoes, you expect to gather potatoes and not turnips. An
+apple tree has never grown from an acorn, or a peach tree from a
+chestnut. Each seed, always and everywhere, bears its own kind. It is on
+this account that the Bible says, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
+for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." (Gal. vi: 7.)
+
+There are some grown persons, as well as children, who think that they
+can do very wrong things while they are young, and afterwards suffer no
+bad results. People sometimes say, "Oh, well! let us sow our wild oats
+while we are young." Now the Bible tells us that if we sow wild oats, we
+must reap wild oats. Four or five handfuls of wild oats will produce a
+whole bag full of wild oats when gathered in the harvest of after life.
+Be assured, my dear friend, that "those who sow to the flesh shall of
+the flesh reap corruption," and "those who sow the wind shall reap the
+whirlwind." "Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap
+a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny."
+
+[Illustration: "The Harvest Fields Are Ripe and Are Waiting for the
+Husbandmen."]
+
+It may seem a long period between the spring and the harvest time of
+life; but be assured, my dear young friends, that the early years will
+speedily pass. Before you are aware of it, you will be men and women
+with all the responsibilities of life upon you, and then you will be
+sure to reap the reward of what you do now while you are boys and girls.
+Lord Bacon said that "Nature owes us many a debt until we are old," but
+nature is always sure to pay its debts. The ancients had an adage that
+said, "Justice travels with a sore foot," but it usually overtakes a
+man.
+
+A few Sundays ago I told you that as the result of planting a single
+grain of corn, a fruitage sufficient to plant the entire earth might be
+secured in only five years. It is told us by historians that, in olden
+times, the harvest in Egypt and Syria would return an hundred fold for
+one sowing, and in Babylonia oftentimes two hundred fold for one sowing.
+Now, if a single grain of wheat were planted in soil as fertile as that
+of Egypt, at the end of eight years of sowing and reaping, if we had a
+field large enough, the product would be sufficient to feed all the
+families of the earth for more than a year and a half. But if we were to
+undertake to plant one grain of wheat in this way, after a few years we
+would fill all the fields which would be suited for a wheat harvest.
+Down near the equator it would be too hot for the wheat to grow
+successfully. In the north it would be altogether too cold. On the
+mountain side the soil is not fertile, and oftentimes is very rocky. For
+these, and various other reasons, it would be impossible to cover any
+large portion of the earth with wheat, for not every portion would be
+suited to produce a harvest. Were it not for this fact, in the course of
+seven or eight years, the entire earth might be made to wave as one vast
+field of wheat.
+
+But there is one truth which God has planted in this world. That truth
+is God's love manifested in the gift of His Son Jesus Christ for the
+salvation of all mankind. This truth is suited to every age of the
+world, to every nation of the earth, to all classes and all conditions
+of people, and to every human heart. During the past centuries men have
+been planting and replanting this seed of divine truth, sowing and
+resowing the earth with it, gathering and reaping the harvest and sowing
+again. And the days are coming when all the earth shall wave as one vast
+harvest field, waiting for the reapers of God, who shall gather this
+blessed fruitage into the garner of the skies.
+
+It is your privilege and my privilege, both one and all, to have some
+part in this glorious work of sowing and resowing, and the Scriptures
+assure us that "he that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seeds,
+shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
+him." (Psalms cxxvi: 6.)
+
+
+AFTERWARD.
+
+ANONYMOUS.
+
+          Now, the sowing and the reaping,
+            Working hard and waiting long;
+          Afterward, the golden reaping,
+            Harvest home and grateful song.
+
+          Now, the pruning, sharp, unsparing,
+            Scattered blossom, bleeding shoot;
+          Afterward, the plenteous bearing
+            Of the Master's pleasant fruit.
+
+          Now, the plunge, the briny burden,
+            Blind, faint gropings in the sea;
+          Afterward, the pearly guerdon,
+            That shall make the diver free.
+
+          Now, the long and toilsome duty,
+            Stone by stone to carve and bring;
+          Afterward, the perfect beauty
+            Of the palace of the king.
+
+          Now, the tuning and the tension,
+            Wailing minors, discord strong;
+          Afterward, the grand ascension
+            Of the Alleluia song.
+
+          Now, the spirit conflict-riven,
+            Wounded heart, unequal strife;
+          Afterward, the triumph given
+            And the victor's crown of life.
+
+          Now, the training strange and lowly,
+            Unexplained and tedious now,
+          Afterward, the service holy,
+            And the Master's "Enter thou!"
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Last Sunday our lesson was about the
+          spring-time and sowing; what has it been about
+          to-day? What are the only results which a farmer
+          can reap at harvest? If he sowed wheat, what will
+          he gather? About how many different kinds of
+          plants are there in the world? Do peach trees grow
+          from chestnuts? The Bible says, "Whatsoever a man
+          soweth"--can you repeat the rest of that passage?
+          Can boys or young men, girls or young women, sow
+          "wild oats" and reap blessing later on? If we sow
+          "wild oats" what must we reap? If you sow an act,
+          what do you reap? If you sow a habit, what do you
+          reap? If you sow a character, what do you reap?
+          How did the old adage say that justice travels?
+          Could all portions of the globe be converted into
+          a wheat field? Why not? Is the truth concerning
+          God's love and salvation suited to all ages, all
+          nations, and all people?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WHEAT AND CHAFF.
+
+THE COMING SEPARATION.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--If the children can secure a few
+          handfuls of some kind of grain and chaff, the idea
+          of separation can be beautifully illustrated by
+          pouring the grain and chaff from one hand to the
+          other, and at the same time gently blowing the
+          chaff, separating it from the grain. By turning it
+          in this manner once or twice and blowing gently,
+          the chaff may be entirely separated from the
+          grain. If a larger quantity were used, it could be
+          poured from one basket or pan to another while
+          blowing the chaff from the grain with a palm leaf
+          or some other fan. This would illustrate how the
+          grain and chaff were separated at that period of
+          the world in which Christ lived.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to read you a very beautiful little psalm,
+or hymn, or poem, written by David. It was originally written in metre
+or verse, but poetry when translated becomes prose. This first Psalm of
+David reads as follows:--
+
+"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
+standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful;
+but his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he
+meditate day and night; and he shall be like a tree planted by the
+rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf
+also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
+
+"The ungodly are not so; but are like the chaff which the wind driveth
+away; therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners
+in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knoweth the way of
+the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish."
+
+We find in this Psalm how the righteous are set forth, and how the
+ungodly are compared to chaff. John the Baptist said of Jesus, "Whose
+fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor and gather
+His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with
+unquenchable fire."
+
+[Illustration: Threshing Grain with Flails.]
+
+Now, when you have been in the country, you have observed the wheat
+growing in the field. If you had been careful to examine it, you would
+have found that while the wheat is growing the grain is enclosed in a
+thin covering called chaff, just the same as Indian corn or sweet corn
+is enclosed by the husks which grow about it. So it is with us; while we
+are in this world, there are many things which are essential to our
+growth and well-being. They minister to our physical needs and supply
+our temporal wants. Although we cannot wholly dispense with these
+things while we are in this world, yet they are not the sole objects of
+our living. The wheat does not exist for the chaff, or the husk in which
+it is enclosed, but the husks or chaff exist for the wheat.
+
+After a time, when the harvest comes, the farmer enters the field and
+cuts down the wheat, and it is then taken to the barn or threshing
+floor. Years ago, when I was a boy, farmers used to spend a large
+portion of the winter in threshing grain. They would spread it out upon
+the floor of the barn and beat it with a heavy stick, which was tied so
+as to swing easily at the end of a long handle. This was called a flail.
+Machines for threshing grain were not then common, as they are to-day.
+When the farmer threshes his grain, he does not do it to destroy the
+wheat, but simply to separate it from the chaff.
+
+The Bible tells us that we must enter into the kingdom of God through
+much "tribulation." And do you know that the word "tribulation" comes
+from a Latin word, _tribulum_, which means a flail? So the teaching of
+this passage of Scripture is, that God places you and me under the
+flail, and smites again and again, in order that the noblest, best and
+most Christ-like in us may be separated by trials and tribulations from
+that which is worthless; and which needs to be cast off in order that
+just as the farmer gathers the wheat into his garner or granary here on
+earth, so God may gather us eventually into His garner above.
+
+Boys and girls oftentimes have tribulations in this world, just the same
+as older people do. Disappointments come to them, and because of
+ambitions which are not lawful or right, purposes which are not in
+harmony with God's word and with God's will; because of needed
+discipline, or for some good reason God is tribulating them by sorrows,
+disappointments and trials, and making them better by means of the
+experiences through which they are called upon to pass.
+
+[Illustration: Winnowing or Separating Wheat and Chaff.]
+
+If you have been with the farmer in his barn after he is through with
+the threshing, you have seen him take the fanning-mill, and perhaps you
+have turned the crank for him, while he has slowly shoveled the grain
+into the mill and the chaff was being blown away by the wind set in
+motion by the revolution of the large fanning wheel. In the olden times
+they did not have fanning-mills, but when the farmer desired to separate
+the chaff from the wheat, he did it with a fan. He poured the grain from
+one basket or box, or some other receptacle, into another while the wind
+was blowing, or else used a fan to create a draught of wind to blow the
+chaff, and thus separate it from the wheat. It is this ancient custom to
+which John the Baptist refers. He says, concerning Christ, "Whose fan is
+in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and gather His
+wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable
+fire." (Matthew iii: 12.)
+
+So God designs to separate from your character, and from mine, that
+which is worldly and temporal, and worthless so far as eternity is
+concerned. Take money as an illustration. Now money is essential, and it
+is well that we should be willing to work hard for it, and that we
+should be economical in its use, and seek to save our money so that we
+may use it for good purposes, and that it may be helpful to us in old
+age. Money serves a very excellent purpose while we are upon earth, but
+God does not mean that we should make it the chief aim of our life.
+Therefore, to divert our minds from money in one way or another,
+financial reverses and failures sometimes come, and thus God seeks to
+separate the man from the money. We all came into this world
+empty-handed, and we must go out of it empty-handed. Even though we were
+worth many millions of dollars we could take no money with us. You might
+place it in the coffin and bury it with a dead body, but it would not
+and could not go into eternity with the man's undying spirit.
+
+Now, after the farmer has separated the chaff from the wheat, he gathers
+the wheat into his garner, or into his granary; and so, after God has
+separated from our nature and character all that is of no use, which is
+simply earthy, He will gather our souls into heaven, His garner above.
+
+While we live upon the earth we should use the things of this world but
+not abuse them; remembering that finally we must go and leave everything
+behind us, and that we can take nothing with us into eternity except the
+characters which we formed here. Wealth and reputation, and all worldly
+things will have to be left behind us; but character, that which you and
+I really are, shall never pass away, but shall enter into an eternal
+state of being on high. All these earthly things are the mere chaff,
+while character is our real selves.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Who wrote the book of the Bible called
+          the Psalms? Can you tell what the first Psalm is
+          about? What is the covering called which is about
+          the grain while it is growing? How are the chaff
+          and grain separated from the straw or stalk? After
+          being threshed, how is the chaff separated from
+          the grain? Are there many necessary things in life
+          which, after all, do not constitute our character?
+          What are tribulations like? Does God separate the
+          essential from the non-essentials in our life? Is
+          character injured or helped by tribulations? Where
+          does the farmer put the grain after it has been
+          separated from the chaff? What is spoken of in the
+          Bible as God's garner?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE HEART.
+
+THE MOST WONDERFUL PUMP IN THE WORLD.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used are a tumbler of
+          water colored red, a small glass syringe such as
+          can be purchased at any drug store for five or ten
+          cents, also a six-ounce bottle of water colored
+          red. This red coloring can be easily done with red
+          ink. If that is not available, a drop or two of
+          black ink will answer.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: In the 139th Psalm, 14th verse, David says, "I
+will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Now I want
+to talk to you to-day about our wonderful bodies, in the creation of
+which God has so marvelously displayed His infinite wisdom.
+
+I suppose you have been either near or inside a factory. You have heard
+the noise of the shafts and the pulleys and machinery. You have seen the
+carding machines, and listened to the noise of the great spinning jacks
+which twisted the cotton and the wool into yarn or thread, and heard the
+deafening sound of a great many looms as the shuttles flew backward and
+forward, while the many threads were being woven into cloth. A factory
+is quite wonderful, but do you know that in your bodies are found the
+elements of almost all the kinds of machinery that are used in the
+world? God has so created us that we do not hear the noise of the
+machinery of our bodies, but if you will place your fingers gently in
+your ears you will hear a peculiar roaring sound. That sound which you
+hear is the noise of the machinery of your body, which is in constant
+motion.
+
+Now, the heart, which pumps the blood into all portions of the body,
+makes the greater portion of this noise. Do you know where your heart is
+located? I supposed that most of you would point to your left side,
+because you have so frequently heard it spoken of as being located
+there. You have seen public speakers and others, when referring to their
+heart, place their hands upon their left side. But if you will bend your
+head forward so as to press your chin against your breast, as far down
+as possible, the heart will be under and a few inches below your chin.
+It is in the center of the body, and the lower portion of it comes near
+to the ribs on the left side, and when it beats we can feel it throb by
+placing our hand upon our left side; but the heart is more nearly in the
+center of the body, and not wholly at the side. If you were to close
+your hand as the boys do when they say they make a fist, the size of
+your closed hand will be somewhat smaller than the heart.
+
+[Illustration: Water and Syringe.]
+
+In this tumbler I have some water which I have colored with red ink, so
+as to represent blood. Here is a small glass syringe, such as can be
+bought for a few cents in any drug store. Now, when I draw this little
+handle up, you will see how the syringe is filled with this red water,
+and when I press it down how the water is forced out of the syringe back
+into the glass. This very clearly illustrates the principle upon which
+all pumps and steam engines which pump water are made. Even the large
+fire engine, which throws water such a great distance, is made largely
+upon this principle.
+
+You may possibly have been in the engine room, where the huge pumps
+force the water into the reservoirs which supply the city with water for
+drinking and other purposes. From the pumps and the reservoirs there are
+great pipes which lead the water under the streets to many thousands of
+houses which compose the city. After the water has been used it is
+turned into the sewers, runs down into the river and back to the sea,
+where it is evaporated, rises again in the clouds, and by the wind is
+carried hundreds of miles over the country. Then it descends again in
+the form of snow and rain, soaks down through the earth and finds its
+way again into the springs and great veins of water under the earth,
+from which it is carried back once more to the city. Thus it is made
+pure again and again, to be used over and over by the people whom God
+has created and whom He supplies with water in this way.
+
+Now, in somewhat the same way, the heart, which is both an engine and a
+pump, forces the blood out through the pipes or tubes of our bodies
+called the arteries, distributing it to every portion of the body,
+furnishing the materials for building and renewing the muscles and the
+bones and every portion of our system. Then gathering up that which is
+worn out and no longer of service, the impure blood returns through the
+veins back to the right side of the heart, where it is pumped into the
+lungs and purified by being brought into contact with the air we
+breathe. The blood is then returned to the left side of the heart,
+pumped again into the arteries and distributed through all parts of the
+body, and so it goes on circulating. Thus the blood is pumped by the
+heart into the arteries and is distributed to all portions of the body,
+and returned again to the heart, from fourteen to twenty times each hour
+of our life.
+
+In this bottle, which holds six ounces, I have placed some of this
+colored water, which represents about the quantity which is pumped out
+of the heart of an adult each time the pulse beats. As I have already
+intimated to you, the heart is double, and at each throb about one-half
+the quantity in this bottle is pumped out by the right side, and the
+other half by the left side of the heart. Now, if the heart were to pump
+different blood with each pulsation, instead of pumping the same blood
+over and over again, in twenty-four hours the heart of a man of ordinary
+size would pump 150 barrels of blood.
+
+[Illustration: A Wagon Load of Barrels.]
+
+The Bible says that the days of our years are three-score years and ten,
+or, in other words, that the allotted period of an ordinary life is 70
+years. Now, in 70 years the heart would pump 164,389,786 gallons; or,
+to give it to you in barrels, it would make 4,566,382 barrels. If you
+were to place six barrels on a wagon, and this would make a good load
+for two horses, you would have 761,063 loads of these barrels. If you
+were to place these teams, with the wagons containing six barrels
+apiece, with 36 gallons each, at a distance of 25 feet apart, it would
+make a string of teams stretching away 1,778 miles, or as far as from
+New York City to Des Moines, in the state of Iowa, or from New York City
+down to the Gulf of Mexico.
+
+I think you will now be able to understand what a wonderful little steam
+engine and pump each of us has within our own breast. And it may
+surprise you when I tell you that Dr. Buck says that the heart at each
+throb beats with a power equal to 100,000 pounds.
+
+An ordinary engine or pump would soon wear out, but this little engine
+of the heart goes on beating day and night from the time we are born
+until we are 70 years of age, if we live to be that old, and even while
+we rest in sleep, the heart never stops for a moment. Is it any wonder
+that David said that "We are fearfully and wonderfully made"?
+
+I might tell you many other wonderful things about the heart, but this
+will have to suffice.
+
+If the natural heart in these bodies of ours is so wonderful, how much
+more wonderful still is that heart which is the seat of the moral life
+and character? As the natural heart is hidden away in these bodies of
+ours, so the spirit or the soul is spoken of in the Bible as the heart,
+because it is hidden away in the life which we have in these bodies of
+ours; and it is this moral character and spiritual life to which the
+Bible refers when it says, "Keep thine heart with all diligence, for out
+of it are the issues of life."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--How did David say we are made? Does
+          the machinery in a great factory make much noise?
+          Are our bodies like a factory in this respect?
+          How can we hear the noise inside of our body?
+          Where is the heart located? What does the heart
+          do? Can you tell how water is supplied for a great
+          city? Is the blood carried to all portions of our
+          body in a similar way? How much blood is pumped by
+          the heart in twenty-four hours? What does the
+          Bible say is the allotted years of a person's
+          life? How long a string of teams would it require
+          to carry all the blood which the heart ordinarily
+          pumps in seventy years? Does the heart keep on
+          pumping while we sleep? What is still more
+          wonderful than the physical heart? Can we see
+          either the physical heart or the spiritual heart?
+          Does the fact that you cannot see them prove that
+          you do not have them? Are both necessary to your
+          complete being and existence?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE EYE.
+
+THE MOST VALUABLE AND MOST WONDERFUL TELESCOPE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used are a field-glass or
+          opera-glass, spy-glass and sun-glass.
+
+
+MY DEAR LITTLE MILLIONAIRES: You know that when people are very wealthy,
+have hundreds of thousands of dollars, they are spoken of as
+millionaires. Oftentimes these rich people do not have any more actual
+money than poorer people, but they have property which is supposed to be
+worth a great deal of money. Now, I want to show you to-day that each
+one of you possesses that which is worth millions of dollars.
+
+[Illustration: Field-glass, Spy-glass and Sun-glass.]
+
+I want to talk to you about your eyes, and I hope that you will be able
+to understand that they are worth hundreds and thousands, yes millions
+of dollars to each of you. In order that I may better illustrate a few
+of the many wonderful things about the human eye, I have brought this
+field-glass, and here is a small spy-glass, and also a magnifying lens,
+or sun-glass, as boys sometimes call them. Inside of this spy-glass and
+these field-glasses are lenses or magnifying glasses, similar to this
+sun-glass. They are, however, more perfect, and are so adjusted or
+related to each other, that when I place this smaller lens of the
+spy-glass to my eye I also look through the larger lens which is at the
+further end of the instrument. When properly adjusted, it enables me to
+see objects which are at a great distance, and to so magnify them as to
+cause them to seem much nearer to me than they really are.
+
+Now, if you take this spy-glass and look at the stars, it will not make
+them appear any larger than they appear to the eye without the
+spy-glass. It will assist the eye when I look at the moon or the
+planets, but not at the stars which are so much further removed from the
+earth than the moon and the planets. Astronomers have desired something
+larger and more satisfactory, and so have made the great telescopes,
+which are simply large spy-glasses. The telescope and the spy-glass, and
+the field-glasses, are all imitations of the human eye; the same as many
+of our greatest inventions are only copies of that which God has already
+created, and which we have but feebly imitated. The eye is a more
+wonderful instrument than even the largest telescopes which have ever
+been made.
+
+If you desired to look through a telescope at one of the stars or a
+planet, or the moon, you would have considerable difficulty in directing
+it so as to be able to see the desired object. Even with this small
+spy-glass it is very difficult so to direct it as to find a particular
+star in the heavens at night. It is not easy, even to find a distant
+object upon the earth. But with these wonderful eyes, with which God has
+endowed us, you and I can look almost instantly from one star to any
+other star, and find instantly upon the earth any object which is
+distinctly pointed out to us. It takes a very experienced person
+successfully to operate a telescope, but the smallest child can direct
+and control and use his own eyes successfully.
+
+The large telescopes have to be turned and adjusted by machinery, and
+when it is desired to direct them from one star to another star on the
+opposite side of the heavens, they even have to turn around the entire
+roof or dome of the observatory. But you and I do not need any ponderous
+machinery to adjust our eyes, or to turn them about in order to look in
+a different direction. We can easily turn our heads by bending our
+necks, or, if necessary, we can turn our entire body around and look in
+an opposite direction. In looking from one object to another, our eyes
+change their direction so quickly that we are not conscious of any
+effort upon our own part.
+
+[Illustration: Small Telescope.]
+
+If you were to look through a large telescope, or even one of these
+smaller spy-glasses, you would immediately discover that when you desire
+to look at objects at different distances, or in different degrees of
+light and shade, you would have to constantly adjust the telescope or
+spy-glass to these different conditions. If you would look at objects
+which are near, and then turn the spy-glass to look at those which are
+distant, you would not be able to see distinctly until you had adjusted
+the lenses to suit the distance. With our eyes the same adjustment has
+to be made, and yet it is done so quickly and without any conscious
+effort upon our part, that it seems as if it were not done at all. When
+we look at an object which is only a few inches from our face, and then
+turn and look at a distant object, instantly our eyes are adjusted to
+the difference of distance and varying degrees of light and shade.
+
+But what makes this all still more wonderful is the fact that we have
+two telescopes, two eyes instead of one. Both of these little
+eye-telescopes instantly adjust themselves, and both adjust themselves
+to precisely the same necessity. If they adjusted themselves differently
+we would see two objects instead of one; the same as a drunken man who
+has lost the use of his muscles and faculties, whose eyes do not work in
+harmony, and therefore, instead of seeing only one object, he sees two
+objects and sees them in a confused way.
+
+Did you ever think how wonderful it is that when you close your right
+eye, and look at something with your left eye, that you can see the
+object distinctly? Now, if you close the left eye, and look at the
+object with the right eye, you again see the same object distinctly.
+When you open both eyes and look at the same object, instead of seeing
+the object twice, or seeing two objects, you see only one object. That
+is because the eyes work in such perfect harmony, and that is what the
+Scripture means when it says that you and I should "see eye to eye" in
+everything that is good.
+
+Now there is another thing to which I desire to call your attention, and
+that is the size of the eye. If you owned one of these very large
+telescopes which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, you would be
+regarded as a very wealthy person, but you could not carry that
+telescope with you from one place to another. It would be of no service
+to you in looking upon the beautiful scenes which surround you from day
+to day. If you wanted to use the telescope you would have to stay where
+the telescope was, instead of taking the telescope with you where you
+desired to go. But God has made these little eye-telescopes so perfect,
+and yet so compact and small, that wherever we go, on land or sea, we
+can take them with us, and they can be in constant use and give us the
+most perfect delight and satisfaction.
+
+I am sure there is not a single boy or girl who would trade off one of
+these perfect little telescopes--yes, I will call it a telescope and an
+observatory also--for God has beautifully encased our eyes, and shielded
+and housed them more beautifully and satisfactorily than the most
+perfect observatory which was ever built for any man-made telescope. We
+would not trade away one of our eyes for one of the finest telescopes in
+the world, and we would not be willing to give both of our eyes for all
+the telescopes which have ever been made.
+
+But one of these large telescopes and observatories would cost a great
+deal--even hundreds of thousands of dollars; yet God has _given_ you and
+me these telescopes, our wonderful eyes. But because God has given them
+to us they are none the less valuable on that account, and I think
+therefore that I was correct when I addressed you to-day as little
+millionaires.
+
+Now, God has given you, not simply one eye, but He has given you two
+eyes, two wonderful telescopes and observatories. He has given you two,
+so that if by any accident one should be destroyed, you would still have
+the other to depend upon. God has given you two eyes, and two hands, and
+two feet; but He has given you only one soul, and if by sin you lose
+that one soul, then you have lost everything, for the Scripture says,
+"What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
+
+In Palestine, the country in which Jesus lived when He was upon the
+earth, the sun shines with wonderful brightness and clearness; the land
+also is very light in color, and consequently the eyes are oppressed by
+the glare, just the same as those of you who have ever been at the
+seashore have experienced the glare while walking along the beach; or,
+to some extent, like the bright sunlight shining upon the snow in
+winter. This light color of the soil and brightness of the sun in
+Palestine are the cause of blindness to many of the inhabitants. When
+Jesus was upon the earth, one of His greatest acts of mercy to suffering
+humanity was to open and heal the eyes of those who were either born
+blind, or who had become blind afterward.
+
+Now, in this country of ours, and in all countries of the earth, there
+are hundreds and thousands and millions of people who are spiritually
+blind. Jesus Christ is to-day passing by, just the same as when the
+blind man sat by the roadside near Jericho, when Jesus was then passing
+by. As that blind man called upon Jesus and said, "Thou Son of David,
+have mercy upon me," so you and I should call upon God and upon His Son,
+Jesus Christ, that He would have mercy upon us and open our spiritual
+eyes. We should make the language of the Scriptures the petition of our
+hearts, "Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
+Thy law." I pray that God may give each of you to see and to understand
+spiritual things.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Instead of money, in what does the
+          wealth of millionaires often consist? Is the human
+          eye worth more than money? Would you take a
+          million of dollars for your two eyes? Are your
+          eyes worth more than telescopes? Which is the more
+          perfect, a telescope or the human eye? Are
+          telescopes adjusted like the eye? Which can be
+          adjusted more quickly? Where are telescopes kept?
+          Are your eyes kept in a little observatory? Why
+          has God given us two eyes instead of one? How many
+          souls has He given us? If the soul is lost, what
+          is the result? What causes so much blindness in
+          the country in which Jesus lived? Did Jesus open
+          the eyes of the blind and restore the sight of
+          people in Palestine? Are many people spiritually
+          blind? Does Jesus wish to give them spiritual
+          sight or vision?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE EYE
+
+THE SMALLEST CAMERA, THE MOST VALUABLE PICTURES.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a small camera of
+          any kind.
+
+
+I AM going to address you again to-day as LITTLE MILLIONAIRES. Last week
+I showed you how your eyes were more valuable than the most costly
+telescopes, and to-day I want to show you how, in another way, you are
+little millionaires.
+
+Very wealthy people sometimes travel in different countries, and gather
+very rare and beautiful paintings and pictures, oftentimes paying a
+thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, and sometimes very much more for
+a single painting. Then they bring these paintings all together in their
+own homes and hang them on the walls, and as the result of the
+expenditure of many thousands, and sometimes of hundreds of thousands of
+dollars, they have a very beautiful and rare collection. But God has
+made you and me the possessors of a vast number of pictures, more
+beautiful, of greater variety, and infinitely more valuable, than all
+the paintings that were ever hung upon the walls of any art gallery in
+the world.
+
+[Illustration: Camera.]
+
+To illustrate my thought, I have to-day brought a camera. Sometimes such
+a camera as this is called a Kodak or Snap-shot. As the finest
+telescopes have been modeled after the human eye, so the camera is only
+a very imperfect imitation of the human eye. As the spy-glass and
+telescope have lenses, so does this camera have a lens, which you see
+here in the front. Just back of this lens is the dark chamber in the
+camera, and back of it is a ground glass, as you will see here. Now
+whatever is directly in front of the camera is shown on the ground
+glass, as you will observe, but in an inverted or up-side-down position.
+So the eye has its various parts, and as the rays of light pass through
+this lens and reflect the picture on this ground glass, so rays of light
+coming from any object pass first through the small opening of the eye,
+to the retina, where the picture is inverted just the same as upon the
+ground glass. When this picture is thrown upon the rear wall of the eye,
+which is called the retina, the seeing nerve, which is called the optic
+nerve and is connected with the eye, conveys the impression to the
+brain, and the result is what we call seeing.
+
+[Illustration: The Human Eye.]
+
+What I have told you is correct, and can easily be proven by a simple
+experiment with the eye of some animal. If you take the eye of a dead
+rabbit, and cleanse the back portion of it from the fat and muscles and
+then hold a candle in front of it, you can see the image of the candle
+formed upon the retina. If you take the eye of an ox and carefully pare
+off from the back portion, so as to leave it very thin, and place the
+eye in front of (or against) a small hole made in a box; then cover your
+head to shut out the light you will see through the box the picture of
+any object which is directly in front of this eye of the ox. In both
+instances they will be in the inverted form. This experiment would fully
+demonstrate to you that the camera is only an imitation, and a very poor
+one too, of the human eye.
+
+Now when pictures are taken by means of the camera, the negative can not
+be exposed to the light, but must be taken into a dark room, and be
+carefully developed by the use of necessary chemicals or liquids. Then
+specially prepared paper must be used for printing the photographs. This
+paper must also be kept in the dark until it has been thoroughly washed
+and cleansed. But, with the pictures which are taken upon the retina of
+the eye, no such delay and labor is necessary before you can look at
+them. The moment the eye is turned in any direction, instantly the
+picture is photographed upon the retina of the eye, and then stamped
+indelibly upon the memory and becomes a part of ourselves.
+
+There is no cost for chemicals, no delay in adjusting the instrument
+with which the picture is taken, no necessity for carrying around a
+large camera.
+
+The camera has many disadvantages which are not found in the human eye.
+The camera must be adjusted to objects near or far, and different
+cameras have to be used for pictures of different sizes and for
+different classes of pictures. These cameras are costly to purchase, a
+great deal of time is consumed in securing a few pictures, they are
+always attended with expense; and when pictures are to be removed from
+one place to another, the owner is subjected to much trouble and
+annoyance. Then, the camera also does not give us the colors of the
+different objects which are before it. That is the reason why, in the
+beginning, I spoke of these millionaires purchasing such costly
+paintings, because in the paintings different colors are represented.
+
+Now, in the hundreds of pictures which are constantly being taken by
+your eyes, there are no delays, no expenses, no inconvenience when the
+pictures have once been taken. Different shades and colors are all
+clearly represented. And even though you were to stand on a high
+mountain, where you could look off over one or two hundred square miles
+of beautiful landscape, all that beautiful scenery would be pictured on
+the retina of your eye; and the picture, complete and perfect, would not
+be larger than one-half inch square. What would real wealthy people be
+willing to give for a perfect picture only one-half inch square, in
+which the artist had clearly defined every field and tree, the rivers,
+houses, roads, railways and all the beautiful landscape contained in a
+vast area of many square miles?
+
+Our eyes are wonderful cameras, which God has given us so that we can be
+constantly taking these beautiful pictures as we pass through life, and
+look at them not only for the instant, but that we may treasure the
+pictures up in our memories and make them the rich treasures and joyous
+heritage of coming years.
+
+The older we grow, the more we appreciate these memory pictures of the
+past--memories of our childhood days, beautiful landscapes, foreign
+travel, lovely sunsets, the glorious sunrise, green fields and orchards
+of golden fruit. As you grow old, I suppose the richest treasures in
+your picture gallery of the past will be the memories of your childhood
+home, of mother and father, brother and sister. Possibly when you have
+grown old, you will remember how one day your heart was almost broken,
+when for the first time you were leaving home; how mother's eyes filled
+with tears when she kissed you good-bye, and, following you to the gate,
+how she stood and waved her handkerchief, while home faded from your
+view as you rounded the turn in the road and realized for the first time
+that you were launching out into real life for long years of struggle.
+
+Just as the hearts of the parents go out in great tenderness toward
+their son, who is leaving the Christian influences of his home to begin
+service in a distant city, surrounded by evil influences, and oftentimes
+by wicked people; so the heart of our Heavenly Father goes out in great
+tenderness towards you and me, while we are separated from the great
+eternal mansion of the skies. God's heart yearns over us in great
+tenderness, and while we live in the midst of the evil of this world we
+are constantly to remember that God has made us millionaires; not only
+in the possession of the eyes, and other faculties with which He has
+endowed us for use here upon the earth, but we are to remember that we
+are children of the King of Heaven, and that we are heirs of everlasting
+life and of everlasting glory. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with
+Jesus Christ, to an inheritance which is incorruptible, undefiled and
+that "fadeth not away." We are not simply millionaires, but we are heirs
+of everlasting glory.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What instrument for taking pictures is
+          like the human eye? Which can take pictures
+          quicker, the eye or the camera? What is lacking in
+          pictures taken by the camera? Do our eyes show the
+          colors of the objects? Of what is the camera an
+          imitation? Is it expensive to take many pictures
+          with the camera? Why do people pay large sums for
+          oil paintings? Was there ever a picture painted by
+          an artist or photographed with a camera so
+          beautiful as the small pictures taken by the eye?
+          For size, color, variety and convenience, which
+          are the finest pictures in the world? Which
+          pictures are most treasured in old age?
+
+
+
+
+FROGS.
+
+THE PLAGUES IN EGYPT.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: Some paper frogs, which can
+          be purchased at any Japanese store for about five
+          cents each. They are often found also in toy
+          stores.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I am sure you will all be able to tell me what
+this object is which I hold in my hand (voices: "Frogs, bullfrogs").
+Well, it looks exactly like a bullfrog, and was made to imitate a
+bullfrog. The bullfrogs I have here are made of paper, and were made in
+Japan. I bought them that I might show them to you and preach you an
+object sermon on the subject of the "Ten Plagues in Egypt."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+You all remember how Joseph was sold by his brethren into bondage in
+Egypt, how he was cast into prison and afterward taken out and made
+prime minister over all that land; how during the seven years of plenty
+he laid up corn for the seven years of famine which followed, and
+afterward his father and his brethren--in all the seventy persons who
+constituted Jacob's family--came down into Egypt to be fed. After two
+hundred and fifty years this family had increased until it numbered
+nearly two millions of people. Pharaoh had made slaves of them, and
+compelled them to work in the brickyards of Egypt. The task-masters were
+very cruel. They beat them with whips, and demanded excessive labor from
+them. These people were the chosen people of God, and their voice was
+lifted to God their Father for deliverance from all the wrongs which
+they suffered. God heard their prayer, and raised up Moses to deliver
+them out of Egyptian bondage.
+
+When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh to request him to let the Children
+of Israel go from Egypt to the land of Canaan, which God had promised to
+Abraham and to his seed after him, Pharaoh would not consent to let them
+go. He was a proud, wicked king, and God sent ten great plagues upon him
+and his country, to humble him and cause him to do as God desired that
+he should do.
+
+In the first plague the rivers were turned into blood. This plague
+lasted seven days, and at the end of that time Moses stretched forth his
+rod, and all the rivers and ponds and lakes of water brought forth great
+frogs throughout all the land. They came, not by hundreds, but by
+thousands and millions, until the frogs covered all that land. They were
+in the houses of all the people. The king's servants were busy sweeping
+and carrying them out of the palace, and yet they stole into the rooms,
+and at night when the king would go to lie down he would find these
+frogs in his bed-chamber and upon his bed. When his bakers went to make
+bread for the king, they would find them in the bread-troughs in which
+they kneaded or mixed the bread, and in the ovens where they baked the
+bread. The frogs were everywhere in the palace and in the huts of the
+common people; upon the streets and in the roads; wherever the people
+walked they stepped upon them, and the king's carriage could not be
+driven through the streets without crushing thousands of them. The
+plague was so great that Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and entreated
+them to call upon their God that He would remove the frogs; and when God
+heard the prayer of Moses and Aaron He caused the frogs to die. The
+people gathered them up in great heaps and these dead and putrefying
+frogs in the streets and the water of the river caused the air to be
+loaded with a great stench that filled the nostrils of all the people.
+
+After this plague of frogs came the plague of lice, when all the dust of
+the country was turned into lice, and after that the plague of the
+flies; and so on through to the last plague, which was the slaying of
+the first-born, of which I will tell you in another sermon.
+
+I wish you would at your earliest opportunity turn to the second book in
+the Old Testament, the Book of Exodus, and in the early chapters read
+about these various plagues of Egypt. When you read the account of the
+various plagues, you will see how after each affliction Pharaoh's heart
+seemed to relent. He would consent for a time that the Children of
+Israel might be liberated from their bondage, and depart from Egypt and
+start on their journey to the land of Canaan. When he was in affliction
+he would make good promises, but as soon as God had removed the plague,
+and the sorrow of his people seemed to be ended for a time he again
+hardened his heart against God, and refused to do what he had promised.
+Again and again the king refused to do that which he had agreed, and
+caused the unhappy Children of Israel to continue in their bondage.
+
+We may think that we are not wicked like Pharaoh was. We may not be
+wicked in the same degree, but we are wicked after the same nature and
+kind; and so God brings upon us various providences, some of which are
+not very pleasant. God is seeking to educate us by the trials and
+sorrows and disappointments and afflictions which He permits to come
+upon us, so that we will be more obedient, and more faithful, and more
+Christlike. But I suppose you have seen people who were just like
+Pharaoh. When they were sick they would promise to become Christians,
+and live good and right lives, and join the Church and be faithful
+followers of Christ all the rest of their lives. And yet when God would
+raise them up from their beds of sickness they would forget all their
+promises, and generally, as it always was in the case of Pharaoh, their
+hearts became harder and harder. Instead of being better after God had
+raised them up and made them strong and well, or removed some trial or
+affliction, they became worse than before.
+
+Have you not found something of this also in your own experience? When
+you have desired something which you have asked your father or mother to
+secure for you, you have promised that you would run all the errands
+they asked, or that you would go to school and study your lessons very
+faithfully, or that you would go to bed cheerfully at night without
+complaining, or you have made your parents some other promises; and yet,
+after you have received the object you asked for, you have failed to
+keep your promise.
+
+[Illustration: Moses Leading the Children of Israel Through the Red
+Sea.]
+
+Or, to go a step further, has it not been so with what you have promised
+God that you would do? You may have entered into covenant with Him, made
+certain promises, and then afterward forgot to fulfill those promises.
+Let us always remember when we make promises to God, or to our
+parents, that we are not to be like Pharaoh. After God has answered our
+prayers we should not forget to be obedient to Him and to keep our
+promises.
+
+Pharaoh was a great covenant-breaker, but when at last he gave the
+Children of Israel permission to leave Egypt, and then broke his promise
+and followed them with his army that he might destroy them, God opened
+up the waters of the Red Sea and the Children of Israel fled from before
+Pharaoh. When this wicked king and covenant-breaker saw them, he pursued
+after them with his horses, his chariots and his army; and when they
+were all in the midst of the sea, God took away His restraining power
+from the water which stood piled up on both sides of the way along which
+the Children of Israel had marched safely, and the water came down in
+great torrents and buried this wicked king and all his horses and his
+chariots and his men. So God destroyed this great covenant-breaking
+king, because after all of the judgments and wonderful miracles which He
+had wrought before Pharaoh, in order to teach him that Jehovah was God,
+Pharaoh's repentances were all mere shams.
+
+This was a great object sermon which God did before the eyes of all
+these thousands of the Children of Israel, and it should teach you and
+me that we are to be honest in all our covenants with God, and be
+obedient to the will of God in all that we do and say.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Upon what king of Egypt did God send
+          the plague of frogs? How many plagues were there?
+          What effect did each plague have upon Pharaoh? Was
+          he honest when he repented? What did he do each
+          time after the plague was removed? What was the
+          last plague? After the death of the first-born,
+          did he allow the Children of Israel to go? After
+          they started, what did he do? How did God enable
+          the Children of Israel to cross the Red Sea? When
+          Pharaoh followed into the sea after them, what
+          occurred? Should we always keep our covenants,
+          both with God and men? If we do not keep our
+          covenants, whom are we like? Will we also be
+          punished?
+
+
+
+
+BLOOD.
+
+THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a bottle of red
+          ink to represent blood.
+
+
+CHILDREN OF THE COVENANT-KEEPING KING: Last Sunday I talked to you about
+Pharaoh, as the great covenant-breaking king. I showed you some paper
+frogs, and told you how after all of God's long-suffering with Pharaoh,
+He eventually destroyed him and his army in the midst of the Red Sea.
+
+Now, to-day I have this bottle, which has this deep red colored fluid in
+it. This is red ink. But I have brought it not to talk to you about ink,
+but to talk about something else which is of the same color; namely, of
+blood.
+
+[Illustration: Preparing for the Passing Over of the Angel of Death
+
+Copyrighted Sylvanus Stall]
+
+You remember that there were ten plagues in Egypt; the first was the
+turning of the rivers into blood, then the bringing up of the frogs from
+all the rivers and lakes; and then the turning of the dust into lice;
+and then the plague of the flies; and then of the murrain which
+destroyed the cattle; and of the boils which came upon all the people;
+and of the lightning, and rain, and hail which destroyed man and beast.
+Then the locusts came which ate up everything that remained; afterward
+the three days of continuous darkness; and after these nine plagues God
+had yet in store one great plague which He purposed to bring upon
+Pharaoh and his people. After each of these plagues which I have named,
+Pharaoh promised that he would let the Children of Israel go, but
+instead he hardened his heart and refused to keep his promise. At last
+God was going to bring upon him and his people the greatest plague of
+all. (Ex. xii: 1-28.)
+
+God told Moses and Aaron to command the Children of Israel that on the
+tenth day of the month, each family should select either a lamb or a kid
+and shut it up until the fourteenth day, and in the evening of that day
+they should kill it. This was to be a male lamb, one year old, and
+without spot or blemish. The blood, as it flowed from the neck of the
+lamb, was to be caught in a dish, and with a bunch of hyssop the blood
+was to be sprinkled upon the door-posts or the door frame, both above
+and around the door, so that when the Angel of Death whom God purposed
+to send upon that eventful night, when he should pass throughout all the
+land of Egypt and see the blood upon the door posts and upon the lintel
+over the door he would pass by or "pass-over" these houses of the
+Israelites and would not smite their first-born with death; as would be
+the case in every other home of the Egyptians throughout all the land.
+
+After the Children of Israel had sprinkled the blood upon the
+door-posts, they were to roast the entire lamb, and they were to eat it
+with unleavened bread, which was bread baked without yeast, and eat it
+also with bitter herbs, while at the same time their long, loose
+garments were to be tucked up under their belts which went around their
+waists, or as the people in those days would have said, with their loins
+girded. They were to have their shoes on their feet, and a cane or staff
+in their hand, so as to be all ready to start out upon their journey at
+any moment.
+
+At midnight, after these Israelites had eaten this "Passover" meal, and
+had also destroyed, by burning, any portions of the lamb which might
+remain, the Angel of Death passed through all the land of Egypt and slew
+the first-born, the oldest in every house, where there was no blood
+sprinkled upon the door-posts.
+
+As soon as the angel had passed by, the people rushed out into the
+streets in terror and alarm, for in every home there was one or two or
+more persons lying dead. The Egyptians brought out their jewels and gold
+and valuables, and offered, not only to let the Israelites retain the
+jewels which they had already borrowed, but to give them more if they
+would only depart immediately, so that God should bring no further
+afflictions upon them. Pharaoh consented to their going, and immediately
+the Children of Israel started on their long journey to the Promised
+Land.
+
+This eventful night was called, and is to this day called, "the night of
+the Passover," and to this day the Jewish people still celebrate the
+Feast of the Passover. It occurs in the spring of the year, and
+corresponds very closely to our Church festival day, known as Good
+Friday, at which time we commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus
+Christ upon Calvary.
+
+You will see from what I have said, how the lamb which was chosen was a
+figure of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of
+the world to take away your sins, and my sins, and the sins of all who
+would believe on Him. As this passover lamb was a year old, without spot
+and without blemish, so Jesus Christ was perfect, without blemish, He
+never committed a sin of any kind; He was but thirty years old when He
+was crucified, and consequently was young in years.
+
+As the blood sprinkled upon the door-posts and the lintels of the doors
+was the sign by which the Angel of the Lord was to know the homes of the
+Israelites, and deliver their first-born from death, so the blood of the
+Lord Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin and delivers us from eternal
+death.
+
+You and I and all mankind must die, but after this death of the body
+there comes either everlasting life or spiritual death. Now, when the
+spirit leaves the body, or is separated from these bodies, we speak of
+the body as being dead. The death of a person is just the same as when
+wheat is sown into the ground and is said to die; the life that formerly
+was in the seed only springs up into the stalk and grows into a new life
+and into a multiplied fruitfulness.
+
+The life of each grain of wheat does not cease to exist, but is simply
+separated from the seed or grain which was sown in the ground, and lives
+in the new plant and new grain which springs up. So also when the life
+or the soul leaves the body, the body is dead, because it is separated
+from the soul. In like manner also, if the soul is separated from God,
+the Bible speaks of the individual as being spiritually dead, even while
+yet living in this world. Now, if because of sin any soul that is
+banished forever from God's presence, and is eternally separated from
+God in the next world, that eternal separation of the soul from God is
+spoken of in the Bible as eternal death.
+
+From this eternal death you and I can only be delivered by the blood of
+the Son of God. Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb. Neither is He a dead,
+but a living Savior.
+
+          "He ever lives above,
+             For me to intercede;
+           His all-redeeming love,
+             His precious blood to plead;
+           His blood atoned for all our race,
+           And sprinkles now the throne of grace."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What was the tenth plague? How were
+          the homes of the Israelites to be marked, so that
+          the angel of death would pass over them? How old
+          was the lamb to be that was to be slain? What was
+          to be done with the body of the lamb? When they
+          ate it, how were they to be clothed? (So as to be
+          ready to start immediately upon their journey.)
+          What did the angel of death do where the door
+          posts were sprinkled with the blood? What was the
+          event called? (The Passover.) What people continue
+          to celebrate the Feast of the Passover today? Of
+          whom was the slain lamb the symbol? What is Christ
+          frequently called? From what does the blood of the
+          Lamb of God save us?
+
+
+
+
+PINE BRANCH.
+
+THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used are a green branch
+          of a tree and a glass of clear water.
+
+
+DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: Last Sunday I told you about the Feast of the
+Passover, how it came to be instituted, and what it signified. To-day I
+want to talk to you about the Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of the
+Passover occurred in the spring, nearly corresponding to our Easter; and
+at such times when the Israelites from every quarter of the land came up
+to Jerusalem, as was the custom at the three annual feasts, some
+provision had to be made for their entertainment.
+
+At the Feast of the Passover all the Jews living in Jerusalem had to
+throw open their homes, and entertain under the cover of their own
+roofs, all who came to them. They could not decline to receive the
+thousands of worshipers who came up to the Feast, but were required to
+afford them a place of shelter in their homes. Therefore it was that
+before the Feast of the Passover Jesus sent two of His disciples, and
+told them to go into the city, and they would find a man bearing a
+pitcher of water; they should follow him and ask him to direct them to a
+room in his house, where Jesus might eat the Passover with His
+disciples. (Matt. xxvi: 17; Mark xiv: 13.)
+
+[Illustration: Building Booths at Feast of Tabernacles.]
+
+At the Feast of Tabernacles, which occurred in the fall of the year,
+after the harvest and the fruit of the vines and the trees had all been
+gathered in, it was very different. At this Feast, when the Israelites
+came up to Jerusalem, not only those who came from a distance, but even
+those who lived regularly in the city, were required to tent or live in
+booths made by simply placing some poles in the ground, with other poles
+reaching across the top, so as to form a roof or covering. This roof was
+not shingled, but was formed by laying branches of trees upon the sticks
+which had been laid across from one pole to the other. (Neh. viii: 14,
+15.)
+
+You now see why to-day I have chosen this branch of a tree to show you
+in connection with this sermon. I have chosen this to impress upon your
+mind the character of the arbors used at the Feast of Tabernacles; the
+tops or roofs of which were formed or made of olive, and willow and
+pine, myrtle and palm branches. These booths or arbors were to remind
+the Children of Israel of the journey of their forefathers through the
+desert, when for forty long years they did not live within the walls or
+under the roof of any house, but dwelt only in booths.
+
+I am sure that you and I would like to have looked in upon Jerusalem at
+the time when one of these Harvest Home festivals was being celebrated.
+We would like to have seen the booths on the tops of the houses and
+along the side of the hills, outside of the walls of the city, and
+sloping down through the valleys and crowding far out into the country
+upon the Mount of Olives and beyond. We would like to have seen the
+bright faces of the happy throngs of people as they moved in procession
+through the streets, waving their palm branches; and to have listened to
+the music of the trumpeters of the Temple, as they sounded their
+trumpets twice every hour throughout the entire day. I am sure we would
+have been delighted to look down upon the festive crowd at night, when,
+instead of waving palm branches as they did during the day, they carried
+bright flaming torches, amid the clashing of cymbals and the blast of
+trumpets.
+
+[Illustration: "He Bore it Aloft as He Ascended the Stairs."]
+
+This Feast lasted for eight days. The first day and the last were
+especially sacred. And now I want to call your attention to this second
+object which I have; namely, this water, and I want to tell you how it
+was related to and used at this Feast of Tabernacles. On the morning of
+each day, while the smoke of the morning sacrifice was ascending in
+beautiful wreaths in the still air, a priest bearing a large golden
+bowl, and followed by a long procession of boys and girls waving palm
+branches, descended the side of the hill to the pool of Siloam, which
+was in a quiet recess at the foot of Mount Moriah, on the summit of
+which the Temple was built. When the priest had filled the golden bowl
+with water from this clear pool, he held it above his head and bore it
+aloft as he ascended the stairs. As the procession entered the Court of
+the Temple, the trumpets sounded, and all the throngs of people gathered
+within its walls took up the words of the prophet and sang, "With joy
+shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation" (Isaiah xii: 3), and
+as the priest came to the base of the altar he poured the water from the
+golden bowl into a silver basin amid shouts and gladness. Upon the
+eighth day, "the last day, that great day of the feast" (John vii: 37),
+the joy was greater than upon any of the other days. The priests in glad
+procession moved around the altar seven times, singing the Psalms.
+
+It was at the last Feast of Tabernacles which Jesus attended, that He
+stood in the midst of this glad assembly, and beheld their joy as they
+remembered how God had supplied their fathers with water in the
+wilderness; and how God had given them a land of streams, and rivers,
+and wells of water, and it was then when Jesus heard them crying
+"Hosanna, blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord," that Jesus
+stood up in the midst of the Temple and of the people and said, "If any
+man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." (John vii: 37.) To those of
+us who have always lived in the midst of a bountiful supply of fresh,
+clear, crystal water, these words are not as impressive as they were to
+the people to whom they were then spoken. For their land was surrounded
+by deserts, and they lived in the midst of nations whose people often
+famished and died, because there was not a sufficient supply of water to
+drink.
+
+While we live in a country where there is always an abundant supply of
+water to satisfy the thirst of the body, yet spiritually, like these
+people at the Feast of Tabernacles we have the same spiritual needs that
+they had, and if you and I thirst for the water of life, if we desire
+everlasting salvation, if we thirst for the knowledge of sacred things
+and desire to do that which is right, Jesus invites you and me to come
+to Him, and says to us: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
+waters." (Isa. lv: 1.) "If any man thirst let him come unto me and
+drink," (John vii: 37.) "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall
+give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall
+be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." (John iv:
+14.)
+
+          QUESTIONS.--At what season of the year was the
+          Feast of Tabernacles held? How long did it last?
+          In what did the people live or dwell during the
+          Feast? Of what were the booths built? Why did they
+          dwell in booths instead of in their houses at this
+          time? Of what was all this to remind them? Which
+          was the great day of the Feast? On this last day
+          of the Feast what did the high priest bring from
+          the well? By whom was the priest accompanied? Into
+          what did he pour the water from the golden bowl?
+          Of what was this water the symbol? Does every
+          human being thirst for or desire righteousness?
+          Did Jesus invite such to come to Him and drink?
+          Should we always go to Him to satisfy our
+          spiritual hunger and thirst?
+
+
+
+
+LEAVES.
+
+THE LESSONS WHICH THEY TEACH.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: Some autumn leaves or green
+          leaves of different varieties.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: To-day I picked up these few beautiful leaves,
+which during the summer were lifted aloft on the trees and cast their
+grateful shadows upon the weary traveler as he journeyed under the
+scorching rays of the sun. But with the coming of autumn these leaves
+have faded, and the first frost of winter has tinged them with crimson
+and glory. I am sure we cannot look upon them without thinking of the
+words of the Prophet Isaiah, in the sixty-fourth chapter and sixth
+verse, where he says: "We all do fade as a leaf."
+
+[Illustration: Autumn Leaves.]
+
+I desire, however, to use these leaves to teach you not only this
+lesson, but also several others which they suggest.
+
+If, during the summer, you go out into a forest and study the leaves,
+one of the first things which you will notice will be that the leaves
+which grow upon one kind of trees differ from the leaves which grow
+upon every other kind of trees. Indeed, if you pick up a leaf from the
+ground and examine it carefully you will find that the leaf is largely a
+picture of the tree upon which it grew. The shape of the leaf will
+correspond very largely with the shape of the tree from which it has
+fallen. If you study the leaf more carefully you will discover that the
+veins in the leaf will quite closely resemble the shape of the limbs of
+the tree. You would not be able to study the different leaves which you
+pick up without being impressed with the resemblance in many instances
+between the leaf and the tree upon which it grew.
+
+Now, I think that we may learn a very profitable lesson from the leaves
+in this respect. I think that you will find, when you are able to study
+with a little closeness of observation, that the scholars of different
+Sunday-schools are different from each other, at least in some respects.
+Those who come from the school where good order is maintained, where
+there are consecrated, devoted teachers who give themselves carefully to
+the preparation of the lesson, secure the attention of their scholars,
+impress the truth deeply upon the minds, and hearts and consciences--you
+will find that the scholars of this school become attentive and orderly,
+and well behaved, and all the scholars in the school partake of the
+influences which are exerted over them from Sunday to Sunday. The
+scholars who attend a school where the superintendent does not keep good
+order, where the teachers are irregular and disinterested, and where
+everything is permitted to go along as by mere chance, these scholars
+will partake of the influence of the school, and will individually
+become like the school. So you see how important it is that each and
+every scholar should be attentive and thoughtful, and give the very
+largest amount of help possible to the superintendent and teachers to
+render the school orderly, and to encourage the teachers who desire to
+devote themselves to the teaching of Bible truth and the impressing of
+the spiritual lessons, so that those who are under their influence may
+be brought to a saving acquaintance with Christ.
+
+What I have said with reference to the Sunday-school is also true with
+reference to the Church. There is an old saying, that "like priest, like
+people." When a pastor continues for a long period of years in the same
+pulpit, ministering to the same people, if he has their sympathy,
+co-operation and assistance the people will become very much like each
+other in their spiritual character, and all will become more and more
+like the pastor and his teachings. If he is godly, and consecrated, and
+upright, his people will become increasingly so. And you will find not
+only that each scholar becomes a miniature of the Sunday-school which he
+attends, but each Christian becomes a miniature of the congregation of
+which he is a member.
+
+But the leaves teach us another lesson. The great trees which you see in
+the forest are the result of the united efforts and labors of the
+leaves. Each leaf is gifted with individual power, and together they all
+drink in the influence of the sunlight and the showers, and unitedly
+they build up the great oaks and elms and poplars, and all the trees of
+the fields and forest. The coal, which is now dug from the mines, was
+once a great tropical growth of forest trees which were afterwards
+buried by some great convulsion in nature, and now when we dig up the
+coal and burn it in our stoves we are simply releasing the buried
+sunshine which was accumulated and stored up by the individual leaves of
+the great forests of centuries ago.
+
+As we look upon the leaves of the trees I think we must be impressed
+with the fact, that each one labors in his own appointed place. There is
+no conflict, there is no crowding of one, thinking to exalt himself
+above the others. There are no little parties of leaves joining
+together and trying to crowd themselves to the top of the tree, but each
+and all work faithfully and zealously in the place which God has
+appointed them.
+
+[Illustration: The Budding of the New Leaf.]
+
+They are not only faithful workers, but they are unselfish workers. No
+leaf can have the joy which belongs to another, or the glory of all the
+leaves. Each leaf has the reward of doing a little, and when its work is
+done it must drop to the ground and perish in the dust. The work which
+it has done and the tree which it has helped to build will be its
+monument and reward. If each leaf gives its life faithfully for the
+building up of the tree, no leaf can fall to the ground or be shaken
+from its place by the autumn wind and perish in despair.
+
+If you will go into the forest at the autumn period of the year, or go
+into the orchard and examine where the leaves are about to drop off, you
+will find that at the base of the stem of each leaf, already there
+appears the budding of the leaf which is to be unfolded next spring, and
+even though the leaf withers and falls to the ground, leaving the barren
+limb alone to battle with the winter storms, yet there is the promise
+and the evidence that when the gentle breath of spring shall come and
+break open the icy sepulchres of the winter, these little buds will feel
+the genial warmth and unfold their green beauty in a radiant springtime
+of beautiful foliage. So one generation of men may die and pass away, to
+have their work continued and completed by those who are to come after
+them.
+
+But these leaves also teach us of our mortality. For, as Isaiah says,
+"We all do fade as a leaf." We are all very apt to forget that we must
+die. And so each year, when the summer is over and the fruit is
+gathered, the leaves begin to wither, and the early frost tinges the
+forests of the closing year, like the sun oftentimes makes the clouds
+all crimson and glory at the close of the day. These things should teach
+us that as advancing years come, we also must fade and die. God spreads
+out before us this great panorama along the valleys and on the hillsides
+each autumn to teach us that as the leaves perish, so we must also fade
+and droop and die.
+
+But there is one great encouragement, and that is, that although the
+leaves fall, the tree stands. The leaf perishes, but the tree abides,
+and year after year, sometimes for centuries, it goes on increasing in
+stature and in strength, abiding as the giant of the forest. So also,
+when at last each of us must die, that which we have built shall abide,
+and what we have received from others and to which we have added our
+efforts and our labors, others shall receive from us, and they also
+shall carry on the work in which we have been engaged. So each
+generation receives and carries on the work of those who have gone
+before. As the poet has well said,
+
+          "Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found,
+           Now green in youth, now withered on the ground;
+           Another race the following age supplies;
+           They fall successive, and successive rise;
+           So generations in their course decay
+           So perish these when those have passed away."
+
+The tree stands a monument of strength and beauty at the grave of all
+the dead leaves which lie buried at its feet. So what each boy and girl,
+each man and woman, shall have accomplished of good or evil, will remain
+after they have perished and passed away, to tell of their lives, and
+God will note the result. He who says that not even a sparrow can fall
+to the ground without His notice, and who tells us that the very hairs
+of our heads are all numbered, He will note our deeds, and He will be
+our reward.
+
+If I were speaking now to older people I might call attention to the
+fact that the autumn leaves are more beautiful than the summer leaves.
+And so boys and girls, it seems to me, and it has always thus seemed to
+me, that there is something more beautiful in manhood and womanhood,
+during the later years of life, than during the earlier years. Always
+honor and respect the aged whose heads are gray, whose features are
+venerable and whose characters are Christ-like.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are the leaves alike on all trees? In
+          what ways are the leaves like the tree on which
+          they grew? Are Sunday-school scholars much like
+          the school that they attend? Are grown people
+          greatly influenced by the pastor who preaches to
+          them, and the people with whom they are
+          associated? Of what are great trees the result?
+          How do leaves accomplish this? When a leaf drops
+          from the tree, what has already started? What do
+          fading and dropping leaves represent? Does the
+          tree abide when the leaves fall? When we die do
+          the great influences which we have helped forward
+          remain to bless the world? Who still notes our
+          deeds when we pass away? Which are more beautiful,
+          summer or autumn leaves? What periods of life are
+          they like?
+
+
+
+
+THE TURTLE.
+
+MEN LIKE AND YET UNLIKE THE ANIMALS.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--While it is not at all necessary to
+          present any special objects, it will add to the
+          interest if the parent has a turtle shell or even
+          the shells of oysters, clams or abalone, which are
+          somewhat the same in principle, the outside cover
+          of the animal constituting both its home and
+          defence, although differing from the turtle in
+          other respects.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to show you to-day how in some respect we
+are like the animals, and how in other respects we are very unlike them.
+To illustrate what I desire to say I have brought this small turtle
+shell. From the way that some boys treat flies and bugs, and birds, cats
+and dogs and all kinds of animals you would suppose that many boys and
+some girls think that animals have no feeling. Boys who have never
+suffered any bodily pain themselves, oftentimes act as though they
+thought that animals could not suffer pain, but in this they are greatly
+mistaken. Animals can and do suffer pain, the same as people suffer
+pain, and in order to defend them against their enemies God has provided
+these creatures of His hand with some means of protecting themselves.
+The birds can fly away. Some animals, like foxes, have holes in the
+ground where they can hide. Others, like the squirrel, hide in the
+hollow trees. Bees can sting. Some cattle have horns for defence, and
+some others, which are not as capable of defending themselves against
+the stronger animals, God has marvellously provided with two stomachs.
+The cow goes out in the field and crops off the grass rapidly and can
+then go to a place of shelter and lie down, and there, protected from
+the attack of wild beasts, chew what she has gathered. This is known in
+the country as chewing the cud. The same is true with sheep; they also
+bite off the grass and swallow it quickly. It passes into a first
+stomach and then they can lie down in some quiet place and chew the cud;
+or in other words chew that which they have hastily bitten off in the
+fields.
+
+[Illustration: The Turtle.]
+
+Now the turtle cannot escape from his enemies because he cannot run very
+rapidly, and so God has covered him with a coat of mail and given him a
+helmet, a hard, bony covering for the head and this large bony covering
+for his body, which we can very properly call his house. When danger
+approaches, the turtle quickly draws his head and his feet into this
+large shell, and is quite safe from the attack of his enemies. Whatever
+animal might desire to eat the turtle is prevented on account of this
+hard outer shell. On this lower part you will notice how the turtle can
+draw the front portion up more closely, and thus the more securely shut
+himself within his house. So you see how God has provided all the
+animals with a means of protection and defense, first, to protect their
+lives, and secondly, to save them from pain and suffering.
+
+While God has thus successfully protected them against other animals,
+they are not protected against the superior intelligence and ingenuity
+of man. The birds can fly faster than the man can run, but man can shoot
+the bird with an arrow or with a rifle. So with all the other animals.
+Now God has made it right for us to kill animals for food, but it is
+very wrong for us to destroy animals for the simple pleasure of taking
+life, and it is also very wicked to inflict pain unnecessarily upon any
+of the animals.
+
+I want to tell you about a boy who was once strolling through the fields
+with his sister. They found a nest of rabbits. The sister was charmed
+with the beautiful nest itself and with its living occupants, but the
+boy teased them, mimicking their squeaks and their struggles. In vain
+his sister plead with him not to hurt these pretty little creatures, but
+the wicked boy flung them up into the air one by one and shouted when
+each fell dead upon the stones. Ten years after the sister sat weeping
+again by that boy's side. He was in chains, sentenced to be hanged for
+shooting a farmer who was hunting in a neighbor's field. They were
+waiting for the awful procession to knock at the cell door. "Sister," he
+said, "do you remember the nest of rabbits ten years ago; how you begged
+and prayed, and how I ridiculed? I verily believe that from that day God
+forsook me, and left me to follow my own inclinations. If I had yielded
+to your tears then, you and I would not be weeping these bitter tears
+now."
+
+You see how it is that boys who have no regard for the suffering, or the
+preservation of the life of animals are likely to inflict pain and even
+to take the lives of people.
+
+But I want to call your attention to another respect in which we are
+like the animals, or perhaps, more correctly, in which the animals are
+like us. The forms of most all animals have some resemblance to each
+other, and all are somewhat in form like man. If you take the bird, his
+wings correspond to our arms, his legs and feet are somewhat like ours,
+only his toes are longer, and the nails are slightly different in form.
+If you will take the horse you will see that his neck is longer than
+ours, that his front legs correspond to our arms, and if you take your
+fingers and press them together you will see how, if you were to study
+the anatomy of the horse's foot carefully, it resembles the bones in
+our hands, and the bony foot of the horse corresponds to the nails on
+the ends of our fingers, only that in the case of the horse the nails
+are all in one, forming the hoof, to which the blacksmith nails the
+shoe. The horse's hoof, however, is not solid as you might think, but
+only a shell, the same as the nails on the ends of our fingers.
+
+[Illustration: Birds.]
+
+Now if you were to take the turtle that lives in this shell or house you
+would find that he also has four legs, the front legs corresponding to
+our arms, and his hind legs corresponding to our legs and feet. On the
+end of each of his feet he has nails, the same as you and I have at the
+extremities of our hands and feet. But I am sure you would say that the
+turtle was very much unlike us, in that he has such a hard shell of a
+house which he carries about with him. But if you will feel of your
+hands you will discover that you have bones inside of your hands. So you
+have bones in your arms and all through your body. These bones of your
+body are covered with flesh, so our bones are _inside_ of us. But with
+this turtle almost all of his bones are made into one bone, and that is
+on the _outside_ of his body.
+
+Our muscles, with which we move our hands and feet and different
+portions of our body, are attached to the bones which are inside of us.
+His muscles are attached to the bone which is on the outside of him. So
+you see that we are like him, in that both of us have bones, only his
+are on the outside while ours are on the inside.
+
+His bone or shell is a covering and a defense. Our bones, on the inside
+of us, are so constructed as to enable us to defend ourselves also. God
+has given the turtle a house, but He has given us the knowledge and the
+skill, so that we can construct our own house. We are created with
+capacity to till the earth and to subdue the wild beasts of the forest,
+and with our superior intelligence to be king over all the other
+creatures which God has created.
+
+Now, there are several lessons which we may learn from what I have said.
+God has protected all animals against their foes. He has not fully
+protected the animals against us, but He expects us to use our
+intelligence and our better nature, to be thoughtful and careful not to
+inflict pain even upon the worm or insect which crawls upon the ground
+beneath our feet.
+
+While our bodies are somewhat like the bodies of birds and beasts, in
+our moral nature we are not like the animals, but like God. We were made
+in the moral likeness and image of God. We have intelligence and God has
+made us to know right from wrong. The animals have no conscience. Cattle
+do not recognize any wrong when they break out of their owner's pasture
+and break into a neighbor's cornfield. We do not say that cattle have
+sinned, because they know nothing of ownership. They do not know what is
+right and what is wrong, and, therefore, are not accountable beings. In
+our intellectual, moral and spiritual nature we are superior to
+everything else that God has created. We have a moral nature. We know
+what is right and what is wrong, and, therefore, we are accountable
+beings. God has made us free to follow our own purpose and, therefore,
+we are to be held accountable. God has created us not for a few days of
+life upon the earth, but He has made us immortal, and if we have faith
+in the Lord Jesus Christ, and accept Him as our Saviour and love and
+serve Him upon the earth, our condition in the next world will be one of
+great blessing and happiness.
+
+God has given the turtle a house. He has given us intelligence and all
+the materials and left us to construct the house in which we are to live
+upon this earth. But in heaven He has built our house for us. Jesus
+said: "In My Father's house are many mansions." The German translation
+has it, "In My Father's house are many homes." "I go to prepare a place
+for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
+receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
+
+Death may be a misfortune to a poor turtle, but not to a Christian man
+or woman, or a Christian boy or girl. Death is only the blessed Saviour
+coming to take us unto Himself.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Do animals feel pain? Has God provided
+          for their protection? Does the turtle have bones?
+          Are your bones on the outside or the inside of
+          your body? Where are the turtle's bones
+          principally? How does the turtle protect himself?
+          Tell the story of the bad boy and the little
+          rabbits. Are the forms of animals similar to the
+          form of our bodies? To what part of our body do
+          the wings of the bird and the front legs of a
+          horse or cow correspond? Do animals have a moral
+          nature and a conscience? Are they accountable to
+          God for their conduct? Are we?
+
+
+
+
+GRASSHOPPER AND ANT.
+
+NEGLIGENCE AND INDUSTRY.
+
+
+[Illustration: The Royal Exchange, London.]
+
+THE largest city of the world is across the ocean, in England. In the
+busiest part of London is a very large building, called the Royal
+Exchange. On the top of the pinnacle, or tower, of this large stone
+building is a large grasshopper, and the English people have this legend
+in reference to it: It is related that some three hundred and
+seventy-five years ago, a woman, whose purposes we cannot know, might
+have been seen hurrying along a country lane, some distance outside of
+the city. Hastening along she came to a gate leading into a field, and
+looking in every direction to be sure that no one was near, she took off
+her shawl and wrapped it carefully around a little baby which she had
+concealed under her arm, and laid it gently by the side of a hedge. And
+then turning back to the lane, she soon disappeared in the distance. An
+hour or two later a little girl and a rollicking, frolicking boy,
+possibly returning from school, were crossing the field. It was in the
+later days of summer, when butterflies and grasshoppers abounded. As
+this light-hearted boy was whistling along his way, a large grasshopper
+bounded across his path, and, true to the instincts of childhood, the
+boy started in pursuit of the grasshopper. The chase was only begun when
+the grasshopper crossed the fence and landed in a grain field, which in
+England is called a corn field. Stooping to catch his prize, the boy
+discovered near by what proved to be a bright little baby, fast asleep
+in its mother's shawl. Joyful with the prize which they had found, the
+boy took it up in his arms, and hastened to his mother, who, although a
+farmer's wife, with many cares and several children, resolved to adopt
+the little stranger as her own.
+
+[Illustration: Grasshopper.]
+
+Years passed on, and the infant boy grew to be a man of industry and
+economy, and finally became one of the richest and most influential men
+in the city of London. Queen Elizabeth, who was then upon the throne,
+often consulted him, and in after years, as an expression of gratitude
+to the great city in which he had accumulated his wealth, and for the
+royal favor which had been shown him, he built the Bourse, or what is
+called the Royal Exchange, and in recognition of the kind Providence
+which had used the grasshopper to lead the steps of the boy to where the
+baby was lying in the fields, Sir Thomas Gresham, for that was his name,
+placed this large grasshopper in stone, upon the topmost pinnacle of
+this Royal Exchange. While I cannot vouch for the historical accuracy of
+this legend, yet it beautifully illustrates the truth that God often
+uses an humble insect for the accomplishment of His great providences.
+
+Now, I want to tell you something about the grasshopper, and also about
+the ant.
+
+The grasshopper is very much like that class of boys who want to have a
+good time, play and frolic from day to day, but never go to school or
+work, but live for the play and pleasure to be enjoyed each day as it
+passes. The grasshopper jumps from place to place across the field,
+eating his food wherever he can find it, and then spends his days and
+weeks in idleness. He never stops to think that the summer will soon
+pass away, the fields will then be barren, the cold autumn will come,
+when the fields will be left desolate and covered with snow. So finally
+when the autumn comes, he has no food laid up for the winter, but dies
+of poverty and hunger. This little poem which I read in the schoolbooks,
+when I was a boy, will tell the whole story:
+
+
+SONG OF THE GRASSHOPPER.
+
+          I saw a brown old grasshopper,
+            And he sat upon a stone,
+          While ever and anon he chirped
+            In a sad and mournful tone:
+          And many an anxious, troubled look
+            He cast around the naked plain;
+          Where now was but a stubble field,
+            Once waved the golden grain.
+          What ails thee, old brown grasshopper?
+            His voice was low and faint,
+          As in the language of his race
+            He made this dire complaint:
+          "O! in the long bright summer time
+            I treasured up no store,
+          Now the last full sheaf is garnered,
+            And the harvest days are o'er."
+
+          What didst thou, brown old grasshopper,
+            When the summer days were long?
+          "I danced on the fragrant clover tops,
+            With many a merry song;
+          O! we were a blithesome company,
+            And a joyous life we led;
+          But with the flowers and summer hours,
+            My gay companions fled:
+          Old age and poverty are come,
+            The autumn wind is chill,
+          It whistles through my tattered coat,
+            And my voice is cracked and shrill.
+          In a damp and gloomy cavern
+            Beneath this cold, gray stone,
+          I must lay me down and perish--
+            I must perish all alone.
+          Alas! that in life's golden time
+            I treasured up no store,
+          For now the sheaves are gathered in,
+            And the harvest days are o'er."
+
+          He ceased his melancholy wail,
+            And a tear was in his eye,
+          As he slowly slid from the cold gray stone,
+            And laid him down to die.
+          And then I thought, t'were well if all
+            In pleasure's idle throng,
+          Had seen that old brown grasshopper
+            And heard his dying song:
+          For life's bright, glowing summer
+            Is hasting to its close,
+          And winter's night is coming--
+            The night of long repose.
+          O! garner then in reaping time,
+            A rich, unfailing store,
+          Ere the summer hours are past and gone,
+            And the harvest days are o'er!
+
+The little ant is not so foolish. For thousands of years the ant has
+always been wise and industrious. In the Book of Proverbs, written over
+twenty-five hundred years ago, Solomon tells us in the thirtieth chapter
+and twenty-fifth verse: "The ants are a people not strong, yet they
+prepare their meat in the summer." And in the sixth chapter, sixth,
+seventh and eighth verses he says, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
+consider her ways, and be wise; which having no guide, overseer, or
+ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the
+harvest." You have probably noticed the industry, activity and
+perseverance of these little ants. They attempt great things. Sometimes
+you will see one of these little insects carrying a burden which is
+several times larger than its own body. If they come to a stone, or a
+log, or some obstacle, over which they must carry their burden, if they
+do not succeed the first time, they will try again; and even though they
+should fall, or fail as much as a hundred times, they will persevere
+until they have accomplished their undertaking. If you watch them, you
+will see how rapidly they move. They are not lazy, they do not loiter
+along the way, but are always in a hurry. They work with energy and
+gather food during the summer, which they lay up for their supply during
+the winter. Whatever the little ant can gather, it carries home and lays
+up in store, not for itself alone, but all work together, each laboring
+for the good and well-being of all the others.
+
+[Illustration: Ants.]
+
+This grasshopper very fittingly represents the feeling and thought which
+come into the mind of every boy when he is at first required to work, to
+go to school and study, when he is being taught to be industrious and
+useful. When the days are pleasant, boys do not like to go to school.
+When a pleasant Sunday morning comes in the springtime, they often wish
+to stay at home, to go out to the park, or to roam about the fields, and
+if most of the boys and girls had their own way about it, in the
+beginning, they would live pretty much like the grasshopper. They would
+get what pleasure they could out of the days as they pass, grow up in
+ignorance and idleness, and in manhood and womanhood find themselves in
+poverty and want. I think that pretty much all boys and girls are
+naturally lazy, and that feeling can only be cured by being required to
+work, being compelled to go to school and study, and being kept
+persistently at it from week to week and year to year, until at last
+they learn to love to work. If the parents of the grasshopper had not
+themselves been lazy and grown up in idleness, they would have taught
+the young grasshopper that in the spring and summer he was to look
+forward to the wants and needs of the winter. The older ants always
+teach the young ants to work, and in that they are very wise.
+
+Perhaps you have seen boys and girls who have learned to work, who are
+always very active, who seem always to be busy, but after all accomplish
+nothing of any moment in life. If we want to live to some purpose in
+this world, we must remember that we should have a purpose worthy of
+ourselves, and of the great Father in Heaven who has created us. After a
+few months and years the grasshoppers and the ants and all the insects
+die, but you and I shall live on forever and ever. These bodies will be
+laid away in the grave, but our immortal spirits shall still continue to
+live. The stars in heaven which have been shining for thousands and
+thousands of years shall eventually grow pale. The sun itself shall
+cease to shine, and all the heavens and the universe about us shall be
+rolled together as a scroll. But these immortal spirits of yours and
+mine shall live on with God throughout all eternity. It is important,
+therefore, that our industry and our thought and our labor should not be
+for those things which perish with the using; that we should not simply
+lay up treasures which we must after a time go away and leave behind us
+in this world, but that we should lay up treasures in heaven, where moth
+and rust do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
+steal; that where our treasure is, there our hearts may be also; and
+that we may possess and enjoy our treasure throughout all eternity.
+
+I hope that every time you see a grasshopper or an ant, you will
+remember the lesson which I have sought to teach you to-day.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What is on the top of the Royal
+          Exchange in London? Who built the Exchange? Why
+          did he put the grasshopper there? Tell all you can
+          about the little boy and girl going through the
+          field. What kind of boys and girls is like the
+          grasshopper? What does the grasshopper do in
+          summer? What happens to him when winter comes? Is
+          the ant like the grasshopper, or is he
+          industrious? What does the Bible say about the
+          ant? How does he spend the summer? Does he have
+          food for winter use? Does each ant work for itself
+          alone? Who teach the young ants to work? Do boys
+          and girls all have to be taught to work? Do all
+          people who are busy accomplish something worthy of
+          their effort? What should we live for?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+BALANCES.
+
+HOW GOD WEIGHS PEOPLE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A pair of ordinary balances.
+          A very good pair for illustration can easily be
+          made from a piece of wood, a few strings and a
+          couple of little paper boxes.
+
+[Illustration: Balances.]
+
+
+DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I suppose you have all stood on the scales and been
+weighed. I have here a pair of balances. This was doubtless one of the
+earliest kind of instruments with which people weighed different things,
+and it is the kind of scales which are still used when the greatest
+accuracy is desired. These are called a balance, because when I hold
+them by this string you will see that this end of the arm and that end
+of the arm are equal in length and equal in weight and they exactly
+balance each other. Now when I place anything in the pan on this end of
+the arm, and place a small weight in the pan on the opposite arm, and
+then lift the balance up, you will see how I can readily tell how much
+the piece of metal, or piece of wood, or whatever I have placed in the
+balances, weighs. In the drug stores they use this kind of scales to
+weigh medicines, and they can tell accurately the weight of a very small
+quantity. In the laboratory, or the place where medicines are made, they
+have this kind of scales that will weigh the smallest particle of dust;
+even a small piece of a hair laid on the scales can be weighed
+accurately.
+
+In the fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel we read about a king whose
+name was Belshazzar, who lived in the great city of Babylon, surrounded
+by a great wall three hundred feet high and eighty feet broad, and with
+a hundred gates of brass, twenty-five gates on each side of the city,
+and a street running from each of the gates upon the one side, straight
+across the city to each of the corresponding gates upon the opposite
+side, a distance of some twelve or fifteen miles; and then other streets
+crossing these first twenty-five streets, running between the gates
+which were upon the other two sides of the city. God had blessed this
+king of Babylon and given him great wealth and great power; but he
+became proud and defied God. One night he made a great feast and invited
+a thousand of his lords and the generals of his army, and sent for the
+golden vessels of the Temple, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought down from
+Jerusalem, and Belshazzar drank wine out of these sacred vessels of the
+Temple. And, like men and women when they drink liquor, they lost their
+reason, and they praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and brass, and
+iron, and wood, and of stone, and thus dishonored God; and there
+appeared in the banqueting hall the fingers of a man's hand and wrote on
+the wall so that all might see and read it, and these were the words
+which were written before that wicked king: "Thou art weighed in the
+balances, and art found wanting." (Daniel v: 27.)
+
+Now you see that God weighs men and women, not for the purpose of
+telling how many pounds their bodies weigh, but He weighs their
+character, He weighs their conduct, He weighs their purposes, and He
+weighs their principles, and so He weighed Belshazzar, and He said of
+him and to him, "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
+wanting." God weighed Belshazzar as though he were placed in this side
+of the balance, and on the other side of the balance were placed all his
+opportunities, privileges and his blessings, and all that God had done
+for him. When God thus weighed him against all these things Belshazzar
+was found so light that he did not weigh as much as the privileges and
+blessings which God had given him, and therefore, God said that he was
+weighed in the balances and was found wanting.
+
+In just this same way God weighs you and me, in order that we may see
+whether or not we weigh enough. Suppose we turn to the twentieth chapter
+of Exodus and there find what God requires of us. You will find that God
+says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto
+thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven
+above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under
+the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for
+I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
+fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them
+that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
+keep my commandments."
+
+[Illustration: "Thou Art Weighed in the Balances, and Art Found
+Wanting."]
+
+Now suppose I place this requirement in one side of the balance, and
+then ask you to place your obedience to this requirement in the other
+side of the balance. I am sure there are a great many grown men and
+women who could not be weighed against this requirement. If a man loves
+money, so that he sacrifices his obedience to God, or sacrifices his
+character, or gives too large an amount of time to money-making, and
+money-getting; if his love of money is very great, you see how he makes
+money a sort of a god--that is, that he exalts his love of money above
+his love of God. In the same way a person can worship pleasure, and
+ease, and fame in such a way as to exalt these above God. Now any one
+who has done this, cannot be weighed against this requirement of God's
+law without being found wanting.
+
+If we take the next Commandment, it reads, "Thou shall not take the name
+of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless
+that taketh his name in vain." Now anybody who has ever sworn cannot be
+weighed against this Commandment. A man who curses and swears is a very
+wicked man. I hope that none of you, boys or girls, will ever profane
+God's name and disgrace yourself by swearing.
+
+I want to caution you, also, against the use of by-words. Sometimes boys
+swear without knowing it; they say "By Jiminy." Now, the word "Gemini"
+means "Twins," and refers to two heathen gods whose names were "Castor"
+and "Pollux," and when boys use the expression, "By Jiminy," they are
+swearing by those two heathen gods. Jesus said, "Swear not at all."
+(Matt. v: 34.) Then not only those who literally swear, but all those
+who use God's name without reverence and who make light of sacred things
+break this Commandment. So you see that many are not able to be weighed
+against this Commandment.
+
+Then take the next: "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy." There
+are many people who remember the Sabbath Day simply to make it the
+occasion of visiting, letter writing, and to enjoy a trip into the
+country, or in the park. They remember the Sabbath Day, but they do not
+remember it to keep it holy. So you see that you would not be able to be
+weighed against that requirement.
+
+Now take the next: "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may
+be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." If God were
+to come into this community and weigh the boys and girls against this
+Commandment, how many do you think would be found to whom God would turn
+and say, as He did to Belshazzar: "Thou art weighed and art found
+wanting"? Any boy or girl who speaks of his father as "The old man," and
+of his mother as "The old woman"; any boy or girl who is disobedient;
+any girl who yesterday when mother asked her to dust the furniture, or
+any boy who when mother asked him yesterday to run upon an errand, grew
+petulant, and scowled and scolded, perhaps went out of the room and
+slammed the door behind them, all such boys and girls would be found
+wanting. You see how, with one after another of these Commandments, if
+God were to weigh us we would be found wanting.
+
+If we take the other Commandments, "Thou shall not kill," anybody who
+has hated his brother in his heart; "Thou shall not commit adultery,"
+any one who has harbored lust in his heart; "Thou shall not steal";
+"Thou shall not bear false witness"; "Thou shall not covet"; think of
+each of these and see how many times in your life you have broken them,
+if not in letter, yet in spirit.
+
+Now, if you cannot be weighed against these different requirements and
+you have come short of them in the past, how can you expect to stand in
+the great Day of Judgment, when God shall take into account every idle
+word that we have ever uttered, every wicked thought; when we shall be
+weighed in the just balances of an infinite God? When God shall place
+these requirements upon one side of the balance, and you and I shall
+step in upon the other side of the balance, there is only one possible
+way in which we could then be heavy enough, and that is if we could have
+our Elder Brother, Jesus Christ, to step into the balance with us, as He
+is willing to do, and God should accept the obedience and holiness of
+His own Beloved Son, Jesus Christ in our stead. Unless you and I have
+Jesus Christ with us when we step into that balance, it will be said,
+"Thou art found wanting." Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your friend,
+and are you trying to serve Him? If you have not now made Him your
+friend, how can you hope to have His friendship then? May God help you
+to have Jesus as your friend in life, as well as in death; in this life
+as well as in the life to come, now while being tempted and tried in
+this world, as well as when being weighed in the next.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What was the handwriting on the wall
+          at Belshazzar's feast? Does God weigh our bodies?
+          What does He weigh? Against what was Belshazzar
+          weighed? What are we weighed against? Are we
+          weighed against each commandment separately? Can a
+          person who has sworn be weighed against the third
+          commandment? Is the use of by-words swearing? Are
+          we honoring our parents by speaking
+          disrespectfully of them? Can we break a
+          commandment in thought as well as in deed? Tell
+          how. Will all these requirements over-balance us?
+          What must we do to make a proper balance? Is
+          Christ willing to step into the scales with us?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WHITE AND CHARRED STICKS.
+
+GOOD AND BAD COMPANY.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A few pine sticks, some
+          charred; ink and water.
+
+
+ALL boys and girls like to have companions, some one to play with, and
+therefore it is very wise that I should talk to you to-day about good
+and bad company.
+
+First of all let me read some passages from the Bible. "Blessed is the
+man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the
+way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." (Psalms i: 1.)
+"Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding."
+(Proverbs ix: 6.) But here is a passage of Scripture which is exactly
+suited to my purpose to-day: "He that walketh with wise men shall be
+wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." (Proverbs xiii: 20.)
+
+When you go into a large library to select books you will always find
+that they are classified. Some of the shelves have books of history,
+others have books of poetry, and so on throughout the entire library. In
+this way God has classified different people in this text. One class is
+called wise, and the others are called foolish. A companion of wise men
+shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. In the same
+way there are good boys and bad boys, good girls and bad girls; and when
+you choose your companions it is important that you should choose them
+among the good, and not among the bad.
+
+I think you will better understand the teaching of the text, when I show
+you this one stick that has been burned black, or charred, as we say.
+Now here are several clean sticks which have not been burned, which are
+white and not tarnished. Let this black stick represent the boys who
+smoke, or chew, or swear, or lie, or deceive their parents; boys or
+girls who do not go to Sunday-school, who do not obey their parents, and
+who do not love God. These clean sticks will represent good boys and
+girls. Now suppose the good boys and girls choose the bad boys and girls
+as their companions and playmates; what do you think would be the
+result? I will mix these sticks together. I am sure that nobody would
+expect that the white sticks would transfer their purity and cleanness
+to this black stick. When I mix them, or rub them together, the black
+sticks get no whiter, but all the white sticks get blacker.
+
+[Illustration: White and Charred Sticks.]
+
+That is the way it always is with the boys who keep bad company. Instead
+of exerting a good influence, so as to reform and purify, and make good
+boys of the bad boys, the bad boys make bad boys of the good boys. At
+first the good boys are horrified at what they hear and see the bad boys
+say and do. After a while it ceases to be unpleasant to them. A little
+later they may possibly laugh at the bad boys, but after a while they
+will come to like the bad boys, and finally they will do as the bad
+boys do and become like them in conduct and in character.
+
+Perhaps you have seen boys who like to take cork and burn it in the
+candle or fire, and then blacken their faces with it, so as to make them
+look like colored people. Now, it is not the best thing for a white boy
+to try to look like a colored boy, but if he does rub this black on his
+face, he can wash it off with soap and water. But when a good boy goes
+with bad boys and his character becomes tarnished and blackened, he
+cannot cleanse and purify it so easily. He not only gets a bad character
+but a bad reputation as well, both of which are very difficult to
+cleanse or to get rid of.
+
+[Illustration: Glass of Water and Bottle of Ink.]
+
+Now, here I have a glass of water and a bottle of ink. If I take and
+pour a half a teaspoonful of this water into the ink, it makes no
+particular difference in its color. But if I take only two or three
+drops of ink and mix them with the water, it discolors the entire glass
+of water at once. One or two good boys in the midst of many bad ones are
+likely to be influenced in a bad direction. This is especially true if
+the good boys have sought the bad boys as companions. Even one or two
+bad boys, placed in the midst of several good boys, may exert a very bad
+influence over them. I suppose you have all seen this illustrated in the
+school room. You may have had a set of good boys, or a set of good girls
+in your class, but some day a bad boy came to the school, or a bad girl
+joined the class and they were frivolous, laughed and talked and were
+disorderly, disobeyed the teacher, played truant and did all kinds of
+naughtiness when in school, and it had its bad effect upon the entire
+class, and sometimes even upon the entire school.
+
+The text teaches us that we should avoid such foolish boys and foolish
+girls; boys and girls who do not obey God or revere the Bible, who do
+not listen to their consciences, nor do that which is right. Such should
+be avoided at all times, and in choosing our companions, we should
+always prefer those who will have an influence for good upon us
+socially, intellectually and morally.
+
+The influence of bad companions will tend to destroy all our best
+interests physically, by leading to every kind of vice and evil; destroy
+us financially, by causing us to be inattentive to our work, causing us
+to prefer idleness and pleasure to labor and usefulness; destroy us
+morally, by making light of the teachings of the Bible, the importance
+of the Sunday-school and of the Church, the authority of father and
+mother and the wisdom of what they teach and require of us.
+
+But in addition to all this, we should remember that those who are our
+companions upon earth, will be our companions in the world to come. If
+we go with the wicked and the profane here, we shall dwell with them
+forever in the world to come. If we desire to go to heaven and to be
+forever with those who are good and righteous, pure and holy; if we
+desire to be happy for ever and ever in the world to come, we must
+choose as our companions here, those who are living not for this present
+fleeting life, but who are living for the glory of God and who are
+trusting sincerely in Jesus Christ for everlasting salvation.
+
+May God help us all to be wise and to walk with the wise, and not to be
+foolish and choose fools as our companions, both for time and eternity.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Into what two classes has God divided
+          people? What does the Bible tell us will happen to
+          a companion of fools?--of wise men? Whom do the
+          charred sticks represent? Who are like the white
+          sticks? If the sticks are rubbed together, what is
+          the result? What happens to good boys who keep bad
+          company? Do the good boys become bad immediately?
+          What do bad companions do to one's character? Can
+          a boy wash "burnt cork" from his face? Can he wash
+          the stains from his character? What else besides a
+          bad character is given? Will a few drops of water
+          change the color of a bottle of ink? Will a few
+          drops of ink change the color of a glass of water?
+          Who are like the ink-drops? Who are like the
+          water-drops? Why? Whom shall we choose for
+          companions? Who will be our companions in
+          eternity?
+
+[Illustration: The Camp of the Israelites.]
+
+
+
+
+DOGS.
+
+THE DOGS OF ST. BERNARD.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--If a real live dog is too diverting,
+          an earthen or bisque dog, or the accompanying
+          picture of the dogs of St. Bernard, may be
+          sufficient.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to talk to you to-day about dogs. The dog
+is what is called a domestic animal, and wherever you find civilized men
+and women, you will find dogs of some kind. Dogs are not only loved
+because they are companionable, but because they are also, oftentimes,
+very serviceable.
+
+In Switzerland there are some very high mountains, and some years ago,
+when there were no tunnels yet dug under the mountains, as there are
+to-day, travelers during the winter, when going from Germany to Italy,
+or returning from Italy to Germany, had to cross over the tops of these
+mountains. The snow was always deep and the journey was always
+dangerous, particularly in the winter.
+
+[Illustration: The Dogs of St. Bernard
+
+Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall]
+
+There are several places where the mountains can be crossed, and these
+places are called "passes," such as the Simplon, St. Bernard and St.
+Gothard passes. Some years ago, in company with a friend, I crossed the
+St. Gothard pass on the 20th of June. That year the season was very
+late, and after we got well up the mountain, we found the snow from five
+to ten feet deep on the level, and when we arrived on the top of the
+mountain, the snow was even with the roof of a two-story building which
+stood there, and the people living in it had tunneled under the snow,
+around the outside of the building. If this was the way it was on the
+20th of June, you can easily imagine what an awfully cold and stormy
+place it must be to live during the entire winter. It took our horses a
+long time to take us up the mountain, but when we went down on the
+Italian side they went quite rapidly, and in one hour and forty minutes
+from the time we left the Hotel de la Prosa, where the snow was so very
+deep, we were down in the village of Airolo, where little girls were
+selling ripe cherries. It seemed as though we had jumped right out of
+the heart of winter, into the pleasant and fruitful days of summer.
+
+On the top of each of these mountain passes, there is built what is
+called a hospice, which means hospitality, the same word from which we
+get our word hospital. These buildings are erected for the entertainment
+of poor travelers, who are compelled to cross the mountains in the
+winter. There are a number of monks, who live in each of these places of
+entertainment. On each of these mountain passes the monks have some
+large dogs, which are known as the dogs of St. Bernard. In the winter
+when it is snowing, and travelers are likely to be exhausted by their
+efforts to ascend the mountain, and are liable to be lost in the
+snow-storms which prevail almost every day, these dogs are sent out by
+the monks with a supply of food and wine suspended from their necks, and
+they go all over the mountain, barking and making a great noise. When
+they discover a poor traveler who is perishing in the snow, they allow
+him to take the food and the wine in order that he may be stimulated and
+revived, and then these faithful and intelligent dogs lead the way to
+the place of safety and security.
+
+Oftentimes they find men who have become nearly frozen, who have fallen
+down in the snow in an unconscious state and are ready to die. If left
+for a time these men would soon freeze to death beneath the snow that
+falls very rapidly upon them. These dogs are very intelligent, and
+immediately they will begin to scrape the snow off the traveler, lick
+his hands, and if he does not give any indications of life they will
+then lie down upon his body, that the warmth from their own body may
+quicken him again into consciousness, that he may drink the wine and eat
+the food and be stimulated enough to do something toward getting himself
+on to the place of safety. If the man is not too heavy, the dog might
+even be able to carry him.
+
+[Illustration: Dogs Rescuing Traveler.]
+
+At the hospice on the St. Bernard pass they once had a faithful dog
+which had been successful in thus rescuing sixty-eight persons from
+freezing to death upon the mountains. The dog was very sagacious, and
+seemed to know exactly what to do when he found a poor traveler dying in
+the snow. One day he found a man who had evidently been lying for some
+time in the snow, which had already quite buried him. The man was
+entirely unconscious, and when the dog found him he began immediately to
+scrape away the snow and then lay down upon this dying man, that the
+warmth of his own body might quicken him again into consciousness. When
+the man began to revive, and discovered that there was something warm
+lying upon him, he thought it was a wolf or some wild animal which
+possibly designed to take his life. He reached into his belt and drew a
+dagger, which he thrust into the body of the faithful dog that had come
+to rescue him from freezing to death. The poor dog was fatally wounded.
+He started back home, but in a short time after reaching it bled to
+death. The monks had this dog's skin stuffed and placed in the hospice,
+and now he seems constantly to teach an object lesson to all travelers
+who cross the Alps and stop at the hospice.
+
+The story of this faithful dog and his sad death reminds us of that
+loving Saviour, who came from heaven to this world, to seek and to save
+those who were lost. And although He came to redeem and rescue us from
+death, yet wicked men in this world crucified Him by nailing Him to a
+cross upon Calvary, and this is what every person is doing to-day who
+rejects the Lord Jesus Christ. He comes to you and to me, desiring to
+save us from our sins and from everlasting death; to save not only our
+bodies, but our souls for all eternity. If we reject Him we are told in
+the Bible that "we crucify Him afresh, and put Him to an open shame." I
+am sure no thoughtful boy or girl would be guilty of wilfully stabbing
+any kind dog that would come to their rescue if they were perishing in
+the snow, and I trust that none of you will ever reject Jesus and thrust
+Him away from you, and thus crucify Him for yourself and put Him to an
+open shame before the world.
+
+This faithful dog should also teach you and me another lesson. If a dog
+can make himself so useful as to save the lives of sixty-eight people,
+you and I should ask ourselves the question whether we are doing as
+much for the blessing and the salvation of men as this faithful dog did
+on the mountains of Switzerland? But you can do a great deal more than
+this dog. He could only save the lives of people, but God can use you to
+save their souls as well, by the influence of a noble Christian life, by
+what you say and do, by your contributions to missions, and in various
+other ways you may help to save the souls of many who must otherwise
+perish.
+
+But this faithful dog teaches us a lesson of constant, daily duty. It
+was no easy thing for this dog to go out in the fierce cold through the
+deep snow and run about all day to hunt for lost travelers, but it was
+by keeping constantly at it and working faithfully day after day that he
+accomplished this grand result. He did not save sixty-eight people all
+at one time, but saved one at a time, and sometimes worked for days and
+weeks without finding a single traveler whom he could help. In the same
+way, if you desire to be useful in this world, you must use every little
+opportunity which comes to you daily. You must be willing to work hard
+and keep at it, and even though you cannot succeed in doing any great
+thing at any one time, remember that you must keep doing little things
+all the while. I trust that God may inspire each of you to desire to
+accomplish grand results in your lives by the constant doing of both
+little and great things for God and man.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are dogs serviceable? What kinds are
+          the most useful? Where do they live? For what and
+          by whom are they used? What do the dogs do to
+          revive a traveler? Tell the story of the dog of
+          the St. Bernard Pass. Of what does this story
+          remind us? Does Christ try to rescue us? What are
+          we doing when we reject Him? What lesson does this
+          dog teach us? Can we do as much as this dog did?
+          Why? What can we do which the dog could not do?
+          What other lesson does this dog teach us? Did the
+          dog save all the sixty-eight people at one time?
+          Are we able to accomplish God's work all at one
+          time? How must we do it?
+
+
+
+
+THE CAMERA.
+
+GOD'S PICTURE BOOK.
+
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A small camera and a small
+          looking glass.
+
+
+[Illustration: A Camera.]
+
+WHILE talking to you to-day about pictures, it will not seem strange
+that I should have a camera as the object with which to illustrate the
+sermon. But my purpose may not be so plain to you when you hear my text,
+which is taken from the book of Revelation, twentieth chapter, twelfth
+verse: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the
+books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of
+life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in
+the books, according to their works."
+
+[Illustration: "Throwing a Black Cloth Over His Head He Moved About the
+Camera."]
+
+These words refer to the great Judgment Day. I suppose that you know
+that we must all die, but possibly you did not know, or have
+forgotten, that after a time God will raise up all the dead and will
+separate the good people from the bad people, the righteous from the
+wicked. The time when God will do this is called the great Judgment Day.
+It is then that the words which I have read as my text tell us that "the
+books shall be opened," and then all that we have ever done or said in
+this life shall be found written in these books.
+
+Now, if God is keeping a record of all our deeds and words, and even our
+inmost thoughts, which He also knows; and not only keeping a record of
+your words and thoughts and mine, but also of those of every man, woman
+and child--a record of all the fourteen hundred millions now living upon
+our earth--you might think that millions of angels would be kept very
+busy writing all these things down in these books. I do not know just
+_how_ God is doing this, but I do know two ways in which He could easily
+accomplish what to us may seem a difficult or impossible task.
+
+I will now try to show you how God might keep the record of everything
+we do; and next Sunday I will try to tell you how, with equal ease, God
+might secure and keep the record of all we say, of each and every word
+we speak.
+
+I suppose you have all gone to a photograph gallery and had your
+pictures taken. When you stood before an instrument, something like
+this, only perhaps much larger, the artist went behind the big
+instrument, which was pointed right toward you, and throwing a black
+cloth over his head, he moved about the camera, told you just how to
+hold your head, and finally when everything was arranged and he was
+ready, he pressed a small rubber ball which opened the little slide,
+just as you would open your eye to look at any object, and in an instant
+your picture was taken.
+
+That large camera, with which the artist took your picture, was in
+principle just like the smaller and more simple one which I have shown
+you, and both are made to imitate, or in a rude way to be like the human
+eye.
+
+Now, if I point this camera toward you, make it dark back of the camera,
+either by placing a black cloth over my head or in any other way, your
+picture will at once appear upon this glass which is at the back of the
+camera. Now the reason why I can see your photograph on this ground
+glass is because the rays of light which are reflected or come from your
+face, into this opening in the camera, have your likeness upon them, and
+when the light falls against this glass I can see your picture which is
+photographed upon the rays of light, just the same as your picture is
+photographed on paper. So every object about us is photographed on the
+rays of light and the picture becomes visible when we turn our eye,
+which is a small but perfect camera, so that the rays of light can go
+straight into our eye and the picture fall upon the back of the eye,
+which is called the retina, and with which this glass in the camera
+corresponds.
+
+An ordinary looking-glass will demonstrate or show the same thing. This
+covering on the back of the glass corresponds to the black cloth with
+which the photographer shuts out the rays of light which come from the
+back of the camera. In the same way the ground at the bottom of the pond
+cuts off the rays from beneath, and on this account you can see the
+hills, or stars, or clouds reflected in the water; so also in the
+looking-glass, as you turn it in different directions you can see the
+photographs of persons or objects which are pictured upon the rays of
+light.
+
+You may have thought that you saw the person or objects themselves, but
+this is not the case. With your eyes you can see nothing in the dark;
+even the cat and the owl must have some light, although they do not need
+as much as we, before they can see. The rays of light carry the pictures
+of the objects, and where there are no rays of light we can see
+nothing.
+
+Now, while your photograph is being taken from the few rays of light
+which pass into a camera, you see that we might place hundreds of
+cameras one above another, and if they were all pointed at you they
+might each take a photograph of you at the same instant--the same as one
+thousand different persons in an audience with their two thousand eyes
+all look toward the speaker and see him at one and the same instant.
+
+Now, if I have succeeded in making my thought plain, you will readily
+understand that as we have great books with pictures upon every page, so
+God might use these rays of light as the pages of the great book upon
+which each act of our life instantly records itself, it matters not how
+rapidly it is done or how many persons and objects there may be in
+motion or action at the same instant. The fact that the different rays
+of light carry the pictures of the objects from which they are
+reflected, is illustrated in the wonderful cameras with which "moving
+pictures" are taken.
+
+To older persons I might add that if you recall the scientific fact that
+these rays of light, bearing the images or photographs of persons and
+objects from which they are reflected, dash out into space at the rate
+of 192,000 miles in one second, and that they continue to move on
+indefinitely, you see how the rays of light which were reflected and are
+now carrying the image of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, of Noah
+coming out of the ark, of the battle of Bunker Hill, and those carrying
+the pictures of all other objects and actions since the Creation until
+now, are still sweeping on through space, and if you and I could be
+present where these rays of light are now sweeping onward, we could see
+these things as actually and really as if they were even now taking
+place in our presence upon the earth. And you will also understand how,
+as God is everywhere present, He is also present in space where these
+rays of light are at this moment, and so every scene in the entire
+history of the world is perpetually visible to Him. And so, even with
+our feeble understanding, you see how the past may always be present to
+the Infinite and everywhere-present God.
+
+Now, my dear young friends, remember as we see the acts of each other,
+so God sees all that we do, even when no one else is present to see us.
+Do not think that God sees and then forgets. All we do is being
+constantly photographed, not in a camera like this, but upon the rays of
+light as upon the pages of a great book, and in the great Judgment Day,
+God will judge us out of the things recorded against us in these books.
+Our acts record themselves, and in that great day we shall no more be
+able to deny the correctness of the record than we would be able to deny
+the personality or identity of our own photograph.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What is meant by the great Judgment
+          Day? What will God do on that day? Of what does
+          God keep a record? Do we know exactly how He does
+          it? What two ways are there in which He might do
+          it? What brings the person's image upon the ground
+          glass of the camera? What have we that is like the
+          camera? Which part of the eye is like the ground
+          glass of the camera? Why can we not see in the
+          dark? Could God use the rays of light instead of
+          the pages of a book? Is the image of Adam and Eve
+          in the Garden of Eden still existing? Where? Are
+          the images of all other events also passing
+          through space? Can God see them all at once? Does
+          God see all of our acts?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE PHONOGRAPH.
+
+BOOKS THAT TALK.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Object: A small tin box, with a cover
+          and bottom removed. Over one end draw and tie a
+          piece of parchment, or even of strong manilla
+          paper, in the center of the miniature drum-head
+          thus formed fasten a thin string, and you will
+          then have a rude but real telephone and a good
+          representation also of the phonograph.
+
+
+LAST Sunday I talked to you about the great Judgment Day and tried to
+illustrate to your minds what is said in Revelation, twentieth chapter,
+twelfth verse, where it says, "The dead were judged out of those things
+which were written in the books, according to their works." I tried then
+to make plain how God pictures or photographs all our acts upon the rays
+of light, and how we see the objects about us when the rays of light
+fall upon the retina of the eye. I tried to show you how every ray of
+light carries a photograph or picture, and that these rays of light are
+sweeping out into space at the rate of 192,000 miles per second, and
+that if you and I could be present where these rays, carrying the
+picture of the battle of Bunker Hill are now hurrying through space, you
+could see the battle, as if it were taking place at present. If you had
+a camera with you, you could actually take a photograph of it, the same
+as you could have done had you been on the hills outside of Boston on
+the day when this great battle was being fought.
+
+But that is only one book; God has other books also. But you know you
+can not photograph what a person says. So I want to try and show you how
+our words and all we say also go into a great book and write themselves
+down, so as to become permanent for all time.
+
+Now, I have here a baking-powder box, from which I have removed the
+ends, and in place of the tin have covered it with a stout piece of
+paper which I have tried to draw very smoothly. With two such boxes,
+connected by a string, we could make a telephone so that we could talk
+together a short distance. Or with only one box we could construct a
+very rude but yet very suggestive phonograph.
+
+Let me tell you how it is that you can hear over the telephone, whether
+made of a simple box and string like this, or with a wire and electric
+battery, for in one respect they are both alike.
+
+If you will place your finger gently on your throat, against what is
+sometimes called "Adam's Apple," but what is really the delicate little
+instrument with which we speak, and then utter some words in a strong,
+clear voice, you will doubtless feel a vibration or trembling in your
+throat, just the same as I now feel in my throat while I am talking. My
+effort to speak causes these little chords in my throat to vibrate, just
+the same as when you pass your fingers over the chords of a harp or
+violin, or when you strike the keys of a piano you make the wires
+tremble and thus produce sound, so these chords in my throat tremble and
+cause the air to tremble, producing what we call sound-waves. Just the
+same as when you take a stone and drop it into the lake, you see the
+little waves or ripples, as we call them, go out in small circles, wider
+and wider, further and further, until they strike the distant shore. So
+the air is made to vibrate by my effort to speak, and these little
+sound-waves in the air strike against the drum of your ear, back of
+which there are nerves, ever ready to convey to the brain the sensation
+which we call sound,
+
+[Illustration: "The Little Waves or Ripples."]
+
+                "Like clear circles widening round
+          Upon a clear blue river,
+          Orb after orb, the wondrous sound
+          Is echoed on forever."
+
+Now, this small baking-powder box represents the ear, and the paper at
+this end represents the drum of the ear, and this string represents the
+nerves. This string may be prolonged for a considerable distance, and if
+you were to connect the end of the string with another box of the same
+sort you would then have a telephone with which you would be able to
+hear quite plainly the words which are spoken by some other person at
+the opposite end of the string. When I speak into this box it makes the
+paper tremble, and that makes the string tremble, and if there were
+another box at the far end of the line it would cause the paper on the
+end of that box to tremble just the same, and that would cause the air
+to tremble where that box is, and if you were to hold your ear to that
+box you would be able to hear the words.
+
+If I take this box, and instead of a string I should place the point of
+a needle back of it, and a cylinder to revolve, so that the needle would
+scratch the vibrations upon the cylinder, I would then have a
+phonograph. I would then be able to record the words, and with another
+smooth needle to go into the scratches which had been made by the sharp
+needle, I would be able to reproduce the sound; or, in other words, to
+make the cylinder talk back again to me the words which I had spoken
+into the tin box and recorded upon the cylinder.
+
+[Illustration: Phonograph Cylinder.]
+
+Just as light carries the photograph or picture, so the air carries the
+sound of our words and other vibrations of the atmosphere which we call
+sound. Thus you see the light is one book and the air is another, and
+God doubtless has many other forms of making and keeping the record of
+our actions and words--yes, even of our thoughts, and in the great
+Judgment Day these words which we utter will say themselves over again
+in our ears. If you uttered any bad or wicked words yesterday or to-day,
+or shall do so tomorrow, remember you will have to give an account of
+them in the great Day of Judgment.
+
+But there is another thing connected with our uttering of bad words, as
+well as the fact that we must give an account of them. Bad words are
+connected with bad thoughts, and so every bad word which we utter
+indicates the character of our thoughts and has a bad influence upon our
+minds and hearts.
+
+Not only do these words record themselves upon the atmosphere, but they
+also record themselves in a lasting--yes, in an eternal influence upon
+the hearts and the minds and the lives of those who hear them. Just the
+same as the words which are spoken into a phonograph are recorded and
+can be repeated over and over many times, so the bad words and the
+wicked thoughts which are expressed into the ears of others make an
+indelible record upon their thoughts and hearts, and are oftentimes
+repeated to others, thus multiplying the record, and at last all these
+records will appear against us in the great Day of Judgment. How careful
+you and I should be to speak only good words and to think only good
+thoughts.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Has God other record books beside the
+          one of deeds? What does one of the other books
+          record? What is a telephone? What is a phonograph?
+          What happens to the air when our words strike it?
+          What are these air-vibrations called? What does
+          the air do with sound? What two things may be used
+          as God's recording books? Must all bad words be
+          accounted for? What do bad words indicate? Upon
+          what instrument can words also be recorded? Are
+          all words like those which are recorded by a
+          phonograph? Why? (Permanent). Will God hold these
+          records against us on the Judgment Day?
+
+
+
+
+MAGNET AND NEEDLE.
+
+GOD'S GUIDING HAND.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects used: A magnet, a piece of
+          paper and an ordinary sewing needle. In the
+          illustration lay the needle flat against the paper
+          directly under the magnet. The ordinary magnet,
+          purchased for a few cents in a toy store, will
+          answer the purpose.
+
+
+MY DEAR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: The Bible everywhere teaches us that God
+is the Supreme Ruler of the universe. Not only has He created the vast
+system of worlds about us, but He directs each in its orbit. He rules
+over the destinies of nations, and although wicked men plot and plan,
+yet over and above them all God is ruling, and He makes even the wrath
+of men to praise Him.
+
+When you are older and can make a careful study of the Book of Daniel,
+which is in the Old Testament, and then read the history of the world in
+the light of the teachings of that Book, you will see how God used the
+five great empires of the earth to prepare the world for the coming of
+the Messiah, and how since the time of Christ He has used the other
+nations to prepare the world for the full acceptance of the truth and
+the final triumph of righteousness.
+
+But God not only governs in the affairs of nations, He also governs and
+directs in the life of each individual. He not only gives us being and
+preserves our lives and health, but He has redeemed us from sin and
+death by the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ; and if we are willing, He
+will guide us in all the affairs of life. Nothing is too minute nor too
+insignificant to receive His thought and attention, and not even the
+sorrow of a child over a broken toy escapes His notice or fails to touch
+His loving heart.
+
+But many people are not able to understand, and seem also unwilling to
+accept anything that they cannot see, or comprehend with one of their
+five senses. I have therefore brought this magnet, this piece of paper,
+and this needle, such as women use when they sew, in order to show you
+how God can guide us by His unseen hand.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Needle.]
+
+When I lift this needle with my fingers and then let go of it you will
+notice how it drops immediately to the floor. Now, when I lift this
+magnet in the same way, and then let go of it, it will also drop in the
+same manner. But now I am going to hold this magnet up, and bring the
+needle close to the magnet. Now when I let loose of the needle with my
+fingers you see how it is held by the magnet. The gravity, or, as we
+would say, the weight of the needle, which would cause it to fall to the
+floor, is overcome by some greater or stronger power which is in the
+magnet. Now, you cannot perceive that power with any of your senses; you
+can neither hear it, smell it, taste it nor feel it. You can see the
+effect of that power, but the power itself you cannot see. In like
+manner, also, there are powers and influences all about us which we
+cannot perceive with any of our senses, but which are constantly
+exercising their influence upon us and upon things about us.
+
+But now, by the use of this paper, I desire to show you something
+additional. I am going to place the magnet above the paper, and the
+needle below the paper, and show you that even through the paper this
+influence or power which holds the needle exerts itself. You will see
+now that when I lay the needle lengthwise against the paper, with the
+magnet upon the opposite side, that the needle is held up against this
+paper and does not fall, as it would if the magnet were removed. You
+will notice also that, as I move this magnet from place to place, the
+needle on the lower side of the paper follows the magnet. In this simple
+little experiment you are able to see the magnet, but suppose for a
+moment that this paper were increased in size until it was as large as
+the ceiling of this entire room. You will understand that then the
+magnet and any person moving the magnet might be entirely out of sight,
+and as the magnet would be moved from place to place on the upper side
+of the paper, entirely out of view, the needle on the lower side, which
+could be easily seen, would move from place to place, following the
+magnet.
+
+[Illustration: Paper no Hindrance.]
+
+This little experiment illustrates to us _not how_ God guides us, but it
+will show us that there are powers unknown and unseen by us which can
+hold and guide even insensible metal. How much more easily, then, can
+God sustain and guide our thoughts, our purposes, our steps and our
+lives.
+
+We are free moral agents. God has left us free to resist His power and
+His grace, and to live in defiance of all that He has commanded us, and
+of all that He desires us to do. But if we are willing to be led by His
+Spirit, and to walk in His way, God is willing to guide us, if we will
+come to Him and ask Him for the Holy Spirit to lead us in the way in
+which He would have us to walk.
+
+There are many who do resist God's will and purpose, and live in open
+defiance of all His teachings, and of all that God would have them to
+do. I take it for granted, however, that there are no such people here,
+but that you all desire to live in such a way as to secure your greatest
+happiness and your greatest good upon this earth, and your eternal
+happiness and blessedness in the world to come.
+
+In closing this little sermon, I therefore desire to impress upon your
+minds the fact that you and I are without experience in many of the most
+trying and most important events which come to us in life. We are
+constantly liable to be mistaken. We cannot see ahead of us, and do not
+always know what is for our own good. God knows all things, the future
+as well as the past. He cannot be mistaken and must therefore know
+beyond the possibility of error what will be for our good. God not only
+knows what will be for our good but He desires our good, therefore we
+should let Him guide us.
+
+Now, the question might arise in your minds, how does God guide us? He
+guides us by the teachings of His Word. He has told us in the Bible how
+we ought to live, what is for our present and eternal good. If we desire
+financial prosperity, or physical blessings, or mental quickness, or
+spiritual peace, we will find in the teachings of God's Word how to
+obtain them.
+
+God also guides us by the exercise of our consciences, and therefore it
+is always important that you and I should do what conscience tells us to
+be right. First of all we should study God's Word, in order that we may
+have an enlightened conscience, and then we should always follow
+conscience.
+
+God also guides us by the Holy Spirit, and it is our duty to come to
+Him daily and ask Him for the presence and power of the Holy Ghost to
+guide us through each day, and to bring us at last to Heaven above.
+
+Now, I trust you will all be able to enter heartily into the prayer
+which we are going to sing, for when we sing thoughtfully we will find
+that many hymns contain petitions as well as praise, and this is one of
+the kind which partakes largely of the nature of petition. Let us all
+sing the hymn,
+
+          "Guide me, O, Thou great Jehovah."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Who is the Supreme Ruler of the
+          Universe? Who governs the life of every person?
+          Does any little thing escape His notice? Are some
+          people unwilling to believe what they cannot see?
+          Can we see, hear, smell, or feel the power in the
+          magnet? Why do we believe it is there? Are there
+          influences around us like the power in the magnet?
+          Can they all be seen? Will the paper between the
+          magnet and the needle destroy the attracting power
+          of the magnet? Who are like the needle? Like whom
+          is the magnet? Does He guide us? Can we see Him?
+          Are we free to do as we choose? When will God lead
+          us? Do some people defy God? Do we always know
+          what is best for us, or what to do when in
+          trouble? Who does know? By what three means does
+          God guide us?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FISH IN AQUARIUM.
+
+THE ALL-SEEING EYE OF GOD.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Object: A small aquarium with a few
+          small fishes.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I have here an aquarium with a few very pretty
+goldfishes in it. As they swim from side to side they look very
+beautiful. When they see me coming nearer to the aquarium, or moving my
+hand upon this side or the other, they dart very quickly to the opposite
+side of the aquarium. They try to get out of sight, but it makes no
+difference whether they are upon this side or upon the other side of the
+aquarium, I can see them just as well. I can look right through the
+aquarium; I can see through the glass, and I can see through the water.
+And wherever the fishes are in this aquarium, I can see them. It is
+impossible for them to hide away, or to get out of my sight.
+
+[Illustration: Fishes in Aquarium.]
+
+Now, the Bible tells us that "the eyes of the Lord are in every place,
+beholding the evil and the good." (Prov. xv: 3.) We are very clearly
+taught in the Bible, that it makes no difference where we are, God can
+see us just as well in one place as in another. He can see us in the
+night just as well as in the daytime, for "the darkness and the light
+are alike unto Him." David said, "He that keepeth Israel shall neither
+slumber nor sleep." (Psalm cxxi: 4.) So it makes no difference whether
+you are in the house or out of doors, whether it is day or whether it is
+night, God can see right through the house, just as you and I can look
+through this aquarium and through the water, so God can see right
+through the thick walls of a house, or even through a great mountain. If
+you were in the valley beyond the mountain, God could see right through
+the mountain; that would make no difference. He can even see way through
+the earth, from this side through to China. It makes no difference to
+God, for He can see just as well through material substances, through
+which you and I cannot look, as we can see through the air; indeed much
+better, for distance limits the possibility of our seeing distinctly and
+clearly, while God's power to see is not limited or circumscribed.
+
+[Illustration: "There is One Direction That You Have not Looked."]
+
+Once there was a very excellent, good woman, who had a very nice and
+conscientious little boy, but the mother was poor and had to go out from
+day to day to earn her living. Each night when she returned home the
+little boy was very lonely, and would watch very patiently for his
+mother, and when he saw her coming, he would always run to the door to
+meet her, and throw his arms about her neck. But one evening when she
+returned, she noticed that little Willie was not at the door to meet
+her. She could not understand why, when she came into the house he
+seemed to be afraid of her. He tried to avoid her. After a time the
+mother called Willie to her and threw her arms around his neck and
+kissed him very tenderly. This was too much for the little boy's heart.
+He looked up into his mother's face, and said, "Mamma, can God see
+through a crack in the door?" His mother said, "Yes, God can see
+everywhere." He said, "Mamma, can God see in the cupboard if it is dark
+in the cupboard?" "Yes, Willie, God can see in the dark as well as in
+the light." Willie looked up into his mother's face and said, "Then I
+might as well tell you. To-day I was very hungry, and although you told
+me that I should not take the cake which you had put in the closet, yet
+I went to the closet, and when I had closed the door, and it was all
+dark, I felt around till I got a piece of the cake, and I ate it. I did
+not know that God could see in the dark. I am very sorry that I have
+been so wicked and so naughty." And so little Willie threw his arms
+around his mamma's neck and laid his head upon her shoulder and wept
+very bitterly.
+
+[Illustration: Eye in the Pulpit.]
+
+Once a man went to steal corn out of his neighbor's field. He took his
+little boy with him to hold the bag open, while he should pull the corn
+and put it in the bag. After they had reached the cornfield the father
+looked this way and that way, and looked about him in every direction,
+and when he had given the little boy the bag to hold open, the little
+boy looked at his father and said, "Father, there is one direction that
+you have not looked yet." The father was quite frightened and supposed
+that his son had seen some one coming in some direction. But the son
+said, "You have not looked up. There is some one in that direction I am
+sure who sees us." The father was so much impressed that he turned away
+from his sinful purpose, and returned home, never again to steal from
+anyone.
+
+Many years ago, among some of the denominations when they built a
+church, they used to build the pulpit very high. It was built almost as
+high as the gallery. And when the people sat in the pews and desired to
+see the minister, they had to bend their heads back, and look up very
+high toward the pulpit. At Reading, Pennsylvania, there is still one of
+these old pulpits which was formerly in use. On the under side of the
+shelf upon which the Bible rested in that pulpit, there was painted a
+large eye. And when the people would look up from the pews to see the
+minister, or towards the Bible, underneath this lid upon which the Bible
+rested they would always see this large eye. This eye would seem to look
+right down upon each one individually, and thus they would constantly be
+reminded of the text, "Thou God seest me," and the text which I repeated
+at the opening of this sermon, "The eyes of the Lord are in every place,
+beholding the evil and the good." And so Sunday after Sunday, and year
+after year, from childhood to manhood, this object sermon was constantly
+being preached to them.
+
+Whenever Satan tempts you to do wrong, remember that you cannot escape
+from the eyes of One who sees you constantly, and although no human
+being might know of your wickedness, yet God sees you, and God knows it
+all, for "His eyes behold, His eyelids try the children of men." (Psalm
+xi: 4.)
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Can the fish in the aquarium hide from
+          our sight? How are we like the fish in the
+          aquarium? What does the Bible say about the eyes
+          of the Lord? Can darkness hide us from God's
+          sight? Can He see through the earth? Tell about
+          the little boy who ate the cake in the dark. Tell
+          about the little boy whose father wanted to steal
+          corn. Why was a large eye painted on the pulpit in
+          the church? When we are tempted by Satan, what
+          should we remember?
+
+
+
+
+THE CLOCK.
+
+MEASURING TIME.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Object: An ordinary clock or watch.
+
+
+I HAVE here a clock, with which I desire to illustrate and emphasize the
+truth taught us in the twelfth verse of the ninetieth Psalm, where it
+says, "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
+wisdom."
+
+Whatever is valuable we measure. Some things are measured by the yard,
+some things by the quart or gallon, other things by the pound or by the
+ton. Land is measured by the acre. One of the most valuable things that
+God gives to us is time. Queen Elizabeth, when she was dying, was
+willing to give her entire kingdom if she could only have one hour more
+in which to prepare for death.
+
+As time is very valuable we measure it in seconds, minutes, hours, days,
+weeks, months, years, centuries. In the earliest time men had no means
+of measuring time, except as they saw it measured with the great clock
+which God has set in the heavens; for He tells us in the first chapter
+of Genesis that He made "the sun to rule the day, and the moon to rule
+the night." The most accurate clocks in the world are those which most
+nearly keep time with the sun. All the effort to regulate clocks and
+watches is simply to adjust their movements so as to have them keep time
+with the movement of the sun. God has given us a conscience which is
+designed to regulate our lives until they shall be in harmony with the
+life of Christ, who is the Sun of Righteousness. Hundreds of years
+before Christ came, people may have had some very rude way of dividing
+the time during the day and night, but their principal division of time
+was simply day and night, summer and winter. These changes of day and
+night, summer and winter, helped to mark the progress of time, and they
+still do. If it were all daytime, or all night, and we had no clocks, we
+would have no means of measuring time. When Baron de Trench was
+liberated from his dungeon in Magdeburg, where the King of Prussia had
+confined him in darkness for a period of ten years, where he had no
+means of measuring how the time passed and had even very few
+thoughts--when he was liberated, and was told that he had been in prison
+for ten years, his astonishment was almost beyond expression, for it had
+not seemed to him to be so long. It had passed away like a painful
+dream.
+
+In the early period of the world's history, human life was much longer
+than at present. Men lived to be several hundred years old. I suppose
+you can all tell how old Methuselah was. He was the oldest man who ever
+lived. When human life became shorter, time consequently became more
+valuable and men were more anxious to measure it.
+
+I want to show you how to measure time, and what makes it valuable; for
+David asked to be taught properly to number his days; and the purpose
+was so that he might apply his heart unto wisdom.
+
+Now, this watch and this clock are instruments with which we measure
+time. Once there was a king who desired not to forget that, like other
+men, he must die, and he had a man whose duty it was to come before him
+each hour and repeat the words: "Remember thou art mortal!" That is,
+every hour he had this man remind him that sometime he would have to
+die. Each time the man came in before the king, he was reminded that he
+had one hour less to live; so, each and every time that you hear the
+clock strike, you should be reminded of the fact that another hour has
+passed, and that you have one less to live. In this sense every clock
+has a tongue, and when it strikes it tells us that we will now have one
+hour less to live upon the earth.
+
+[Illustration: Hour-glass.]
+
+The earliest device for measuring time was doubtless the sun-dial.
+Perhaps you have never seen one. It is simply a round plate or disc of
+metal, with a small piece of metal standing upright in such a position
+that when the sun shines, the shadow will be thrown upon the round
+cylinder or disc, around which are figures like those on the face of a
+watch or clock. Such methods of measuring time we know were used at
+least seven hundred and thirteen years before Christ, for in the book of
+Isaiah, thirty-eighth chapter and eighth verse, we find a very direct
+allusion to it. King Alfred of England used to use candles that were of
+uniform length; each candle would burn three hours, and by burning four
+candles, one after another, he could measure the hours of the day. In
+order to prevent the air from blowing against the candle and thus making
+it burn more rapidly or interfering with its accuracy in measuring time,
+he placed a horn or shield around it, and in the old cathedrals this was
+the way they measured time. Later on they had hour glasses, such as you
+sometimes see placed on the piano when girls are practicing their music
+lesson. Sometimes you see small ones in the kitchen, which are used for
+timing the eggs while they are boiling, and it is to these forms of
+glasses that various poetical allusions are made when death is spoken of
+as the "sands of life" running out.
+
+[Illustration: "What Use Do You Make of Your Time?"]
+
+Later came the clocks. They were first made about 2,000 years ago, but
+were very rude and awkward. The first watches were made about 475 years
+ago, but they were very large, and you would almost need to have a man
+to carry your watch for you, it was so heavy. Smaller watches were first
+made about 200 years ago, and now they have some that are so very small
+that you could carry six or seven of them in your vest pocket without
+inconvenience. How else could we tell about the time of the departure of
+trains and steamboats, the hours to go to work in the factory or to go
+to school, when to go to church? And the enjoyment of many other things
+depends upon knowing accurately what moment we should be on hand. You
+should learn never to be late, but always to be prompt. Suppose that,
+with an audience of six hundred people, the preacher should be five
+minutes late. Each person would then have lost five minutes. This, for
+the entire six hundred present, would have been equal to more than
+forty-eight hours for a single person--more than two days and two
+nights.
+
+But now what is it that makes time valuable? It is the use that we can
+make of it. David wanted to know about it, so that he could apply his
+heart unto wisdom. The man who does nothing with his time, in the eyes
+of others, is worth nothing; but the busy man always finds that his time
+is very valuable. It is strange, also, that when you go to idle people
+and ask them to do anything they always say they haven't time, so that
+the expression has come to be used that "if you want anything done go to
+a busy man." The more busy the man is the more likely he is to find
+time, in some way, to undertake any new form of useful endeavor and
+work.
+
+Now, I want to ask you, What use do you make of your time? Are you
+faithful in the use of every moment at home, diligent in doing the work
+assigned you, looking about you, and doing your own thinking, finding,
+for yourself, what is to be done, instead of standing around and
+waiting to be told? Are you diligent in school, always studying your
+lessons, learning all that you possibly can, remembering that everything
+that you can learn will at some time be of service to you? If you are
+employed in a store, or engaged in any other kind of business, are you
+faithful, using each moment and each hour, remembering that you are not
+to be faithful simply when your employer is looking at you, but you are
+to be faithful at all times? As the Bible says, "Not with eye service,
+as men pleasers" (Colos. iii: 22), but doing everything as unto the
+Lord. Are you faithful in the matter of attending church, and then when
+you are in the church, giving your mind to the consideration of the
+truth which is being presented, rather than allowing your mind to be
+engaged with the amusements and plays of last week, or the plans and
+purposes of next week? Are you faithful in the Sunday-school? Do you
+listen attentively to the lessons which are taught by your Sunday-school
+teacher? Each minute of the thirty devoted to the study of the lesson is
+very important, and all of the other moments in the Sunday-school are
+very important.
+
+I was wondering the other day why the clock should have the long hand
+point to the minutes, and the short hand to the hours; but after all, it
+seems very wise that the greater emphasis, and greater importance should
+be attached to the longer hand. It points to the minutes, as though it
+were constantly saying to you and to me, look out for these minutes,
+look out for these small parts of the hour, and the whole hour will take
+care of itself. The big hand points to the minutes because, after all,
+they are the important things. It is like the old saying, "if we take
+care of the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves." If we
+will take care of the minutes, the hours will take care of themselves.
+
+If you have never thought on these things, and have been an idler, I
+want to ask you to "Redeem the time." (Eph. v: 16.) That is, do not let
+your time go to waste. If you are not a Christian, even though you are
+very busy and very industrious concerning temporal things, you are
+really wasting your time. We are placed here upon the earth in order
+that we may love and serve God. That is our main business here. If we
+are going to serve Christ, we should study to know His life and His
+teachings, and yet some people know very little about the Bible. Did you
+ever stop to think that a man who is thirty-five years old has had five
+solid years of Sundays? And the man who is seventy years old, has had
+ten solid years of Sundays? With ten years given to worship and the
+study of God's Word, a man at seventy ought to know a great deal
+concerning the teachings of the Bible. May God teach us so to number our
+days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--How do we measure cloth? Are sugar and
+          coal measured by the yard? How do we measure land?
+          How do we measure time? How many divisions of time
+          can you name besides seconds? What was the first
+          instrument with which time was measured? With what
+          did King Alfred measure the hours? What was later
+          used for measuring time, after the sun-dial? About
+          how long ago were clocks first invented? About how
+          long ago were watches first made? Why did David
+          want to be taught to number his days? Can the idle
+          man or the busy man more easily find time for
+          necessary duties? Will you always make diligent
+          use of your time? Why does the larger hand of the
+          clock point to the minutes? If we take care of the
+          minutes, what will the hours do?
+
+
+
+
+PLANS.
+
+LIVING WITH A PURPOSE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Object: Architect's drawings for the
+          building of a house.
+
+
+[Illustration: Plans for Building a House.]
+
+MY DEAR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I have here what the architect calls
+"plans," or drawings for a house. Unless the carpenter and builder had a
+copy of the plans he is to follow he would not be able to build
+successfully. He would not know what kind of material he would need. He
+would not know where to place the doors, or how large to make the
+windows, and whether to put the dining room on this side of the house or
+on the other side of the house; whether the parlor was to be on the
+first floor or on the second floor. So when a man is going to build, the
+first thing to be done is to decide what kind of a house he wants, and
+then to get an architect who is able to draw the plans perfectly, so as
+to show the size of every door and window and room, and the exact
+position and place of everything that is to enter into the building of
+the house. These plans cost a great deal of thought and oftentimes much
+delay in beginning, but in the end they save both time and expense, and
+secure the most desirable results.
+
+Every boy and girl should have a plan, for we are all builders. We build
+day after day and week after week, and year after year. First of all,
+you should have some great purpose in life, and then all your other
+plans and purposes should be made to further and help the great main
+object which you have in life.
+
+Once there were two boys who were very intimate when they were young.
+They played together, and came to love each other very much. One was a
+boy who always had a plan. He had a plan for studying his lessons; he
+had a plan which showed what time he had resolved to get up in the
+morning; how many hours he would devote to study; what portions of the
+day he would give to play, and how much to work. So each and every day
+he had his plans. At the beginning of the year he had his plans for each
+month of the year.
+
+The other boy never had any plans. Everything went along just as it
+happened. The boy who always had the plans had no money; his father was
+poor. But the boy who had no plans had plenty of money, for his father
+was rich. These two boys both became merchants, had stores in the same
+square in a large city. The one who had the plans always knew what he
+purposed to do, before the season began. He knew just when to purchase
+his goods for the spring trade; he knew when to sell them; everything
+was done methodically and with a plan. As the result of his thoughtful
+plans he soon began to accumulate wealth, obtained a place of confidence
+in the minds of business men, and eventually became one of the most
+honored and influential men in the city. With the other boy it was not
+so. He bought his goods whenever he chanced to see something that he
+fancied; often bought too much of one thing; had no method in business,
+and consequently in the course of a few years lost what money he had and
+died a poor man.
+
+Let me hope that you will always have a plan for everything you do. God
+is the God of order, and we should also be orderly in all that we do.
+
+[Illustration: Plans for Building a Life.]
+
+These plans of the architect, when followed by the builders, will tell
+the stonemason, the bricklayer, the millman and the carpenter, the
+plasterer and the painter, just what each is to do, and all will be able
+to work in harmony, so as to secure a nice, comfortable and desirable
+home when the work is completed.
+
+Now, we are all laying foundations in this world, and the perfect
+character cannot be obtained until in eternity. So when you come to plan
+for life, do not think that your stay in this world is to be all there
+is of your life. Let your plans take in eternity. If they leave out
+eternity they leave out the greatest portion of your existence. If you
+leave out the idea of eternity you will be like the man who simply lays
+the foundation and then never builds a house on it, and there, year
+after year, the foundation stands as the monument of his folly.
+
+But you may desire to know where you can get the plans for a good and
+noble life--a plan that will include eternity. I will tell you: in the
+Bible. This is the best book in which to find the plans for a perfect
+and complete life. Just the same as the man who is going to build a
+house desires to go and examine other houses, so if you desire to be
+great and good, you should desire to read the biographies, the story of
+the lives of great men. I do not mean the fancied stories of lives which
+were never lived, which are so often told in some kinds of books, but I
+mean the lives of real men. When you see the difficulties which have
+been overcome by others; when you see how great and good other people
+have been, it will help you to be great and good. But after you have
+studied the lives of all the greatest and best men who have ever lived,
+and then compare them with the life of Jesus Christ, you will eventually
+come to see very clearly and distinctly, that after all there has never
+been but one perfect life lived on this earth, and that was the life of
+Jesus Christ. So you will readily see that if you desire to use a model
+which is perfect, you will have to take the life of Christ. You will
+find it fully portrayed in the Bible, especially in the first four books
+of the New Testament--Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. This will give you
+the model of a perfect life and enable you to live so as to make your
+life glorious while upon the earth, and prepare you for an eternity of
+happiness and joy beyond this world. Have a plan and live to it, and let
+your plan include eternity. And may God give you grace to live up to a
+high ideal, to be noble Christian men and noble Christian women.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What are needed before a house is
+          built? Are all boys and girls builders? Builders
+          of what? Do they need plans? Should we all have a
+          main object in life? What must we use all other
+          plans and purposes for? Which boy in the story
+          turned out the better? What does the story
+          illustrate? Should we have a plan for each thing
+          we do? Does God love order? What foundation are we
+          laying in this life? Should our plans concern only
+          this life? What kind of a builder are we like, if
+          we make no plans for the life to come? Where can
+          we get our plans? What perfect model can we
+          follow?
+
+
+
+
+THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
+
+THE LESSONS WHICH IT TEACHES.
+
+
+BOYS and girls often think that big people have set apart Christmas as a
+day for gathering around the Christmas tree, as a time for Santa Claus,
+for the giving of presents and for having a good time generally. This is
+not the case. I will tell you why we celebrate Christmas, and
+particularly the significance and meaning of the Christmas tree.
+Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who
+came into this world to redeem us from sin and everlasting death; and
+the Christmas tree, laden with its many gifts and suggestive of so much
+joy and blessing, is a symbol of the Saviour. In order that you may best
+understand the full meaning of the Christmas tree, I must call your
+attention to the season of the year when Christmas came. You will
+remember that last summer, when the sun rose at half-past four in the
+morning and did not set until half-past seven in the evening, the days
+were very long, and you could see to go about in the evening until about
+eight o'clock and after. At Christmas time the sun goes down at
+half-past four in the afternoon, and does not rise until half-past seven
+in the morning. So you see that the days are about six hours shorter in
+December than they are in the latter part of the month of June.
+Christmas occurs at that season when the days are shorter and the nights
+are longer than at any other period of the year. In the Bible darkness
+represents sin and unbelief and wickedness; and the daytime or light
+represents truth and righteousness and godly living. So you will see
+that the long nights at the Christmas period of the year, and the short
+days, fitly represent the condition of the world at the time when Jesus,
+the Son of God, was born in Bethlehem. At no other time in the world's
+history was there so much of moral darkness and sin and wickedness and
+corruption in the world. Cruelty and crime and wickedness abounded
+everywhere. If I were to stop and tell you of the condition of society,
+of the wrong and the iniquity, which abounded everywhere, you would be
+greatly horrified. It was at such a time as this in the world's history,
+when Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to this world, that sin might be
+banished and righteousness might abound. So you see that Christmas
+occurs at that period of the year when the night and the darkness are
+the longest of any of the entire year, and it very fittingly represents
+the condition which existed in the world when Jesus was born in
+Bethlehem, as the Saviour of the world. He came to banish the moral
+darkness which covered the whole earth.
+
+Not only the time of the year, but also the character of the Christmas
+tree suggests something. With the long nights comes also the cold
+winter. The earth is wrapped in snow. The trees, which a few months ago
+were green and beautiful and in the fall all laden with fruit, are now
+all naked and bare, and if you were to go out into the orchard or forest
+you could not tell the difference between a dead tree, and all the
+others which seem to be dead. Among all the trees you would only find
+such as the pine, the hemlock, the fir and other varieties, such as are
+known as evergreen trees, that would be green and give evidence of life.
+So you will see again how the Christmas tree fittingly represents
+Christ, because these evergreens, in the field and in the forest, seem
+to be the only things that have greenness and life, while all else
+around them seems to be dead and laid in a shroud of white snow.
+
+[Illustration: The Christmas Tree
+
+Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall]
+
+The custom of setting up a tree at Christmas time and loading it with
+fruit and gifts seems to have originated in Germany, and the thought
+of these people in introducing this custom centuries ago, was that they
+might teach their children this very lesson to which I have referred.
+
+Now, I desire to call your attention also to the fruit which is so often
+hung on the Christmas tree. The Bible tells us that a tree is known by
+its fruit. If you go into the orchard you could tell the apple tree from
+the pear tree, and you could tell the plum tree from the peach tree. If
+you did not know them by their leaves, you would at least know them by
+their fruit. But when you come to look at this tree you find oranges
+upon it. Now, this is not an orange tree. You find dolls upon it, but it
+is not a doll tree. Here are a pair of skates, but it is not a skate
+tree. Here are some candies, but it is not a candy tree. Neither can it
+be known by the name of any one of these various things which hang upon
+the tree. But it is a Christmas tree. And all these various kinds of
+things are properly hung upon the Christmas tree to represent the
+fulfillment of that promise that, with His Son Jesus Christ, God would
+also give us all things richly to enjoy.
+
+The gifts hung on Christmas trees are usually presents from one person
+to another--often not only from parents to children, but from teachers
+to scholars, and from friend to friend. Now, until Christ was born,
+there were no Christmas presents. There was no Christmas day celebrated.
+But the reason we give presents on Christmas day is to remind each other
+of God's Great Gift to man, the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, to be our
+Redeemer and Saviour. With Jesus Christ, God also gave us grace and
+truth, reconciliation, and pardon and peace and salvation. Man had
+sinned against God; was living in open rebellion against God. Whatever
+was good, man hated. He loved to do wickedly. He preferred to serve
+Satan, rather than to serve God. And Jesus came in order to reconcile
+men to God--to get them to turn away from sin, wickedness and Satan,
+and to accept of God's love and pardon and everlasting salvation, and to
+do that which was right and good and holy.
+
+If you could travel through the countries where they do not know of
+Christ and do not worship Him, and then travel through Christian
+countries, where Jesus is loved and honored, you would soon see what a
+great difference there is between the two. We have railroads,
+steamboats, and telegraphs, and telephones, and phonographs, and every
+kind of cloth, and silk, and furs with which to clothe ourselves for
+greatest comfort, and when we sit down at our tables there is no good
+thing that is produced in any nation under the sun, that is not
+available even to those of limited means.
+
+In the heathen countries it is not so. They are still riding in carts
+drawn by oxen. Without clothing and without comforts, the people in
+Africa are still groping through the bushes and jungles. And if you go
+to India and China and Japan you will find that only in so far as they
+have been brought under the influence of the religion of Jesus Christ,
+do they have even now the material blessings which come with the Gospel.
+
+But there are other blessings which come to us with the preaching of the
+Gospel. In heathen countries they have no asylums to care for the
+orphans, no hospitals for the sick and the distressed and the dying; no
+institutions of charity and of mercy; but few schools, and these only
+for the rich and the upper classes. So you see that these things are
+among the gifts which God has given us with His Son Jesus Christ, whose
+birth we celebrate on Christmas day.
+
+Then there are also the spiritual blessings and gifts. God's grace,
+communion with God, and the joy and satisfaction we have in our hearts
+in knowing that we are the children of God; that Jesus Christ has
+redeemed us from sin and death; that we are the heirs of everlasting
+life, and of everlasting glory. And the Bible promises us that in the
+world to come we shall enjoy everlasting blessedness, and happiness and
+joy--that we shall dwell forever with Jesus Christ; that we shall be
+made kings and queens unto our God. The Bible tells us, that it has not
+entered into the heart of man to think or to conceive of the things
+which God has in store for those who love Him. If we were to laden this
+tree with all the richest treasures of the world they could not
+adequately suggest the great blessings which God has in store for you
+and for me.
+
+How fitting, then, that we should be glad and joyous on Christmas
+day!--that you and I should receive not simply these material gifts, but
+that we should also accept of Jesus Christ in our hearts and receive His
+spiritual blessings; and so be adopted into the family of God, and be
+permitted to dwell for ever in His presence on high. May God always
+bless you in your Christmas joy, and may you be glad not only because
+you receive the gifts of your parents and friends, but also because God
+gives to us all, His Only Begotten and Well Beloved Son, Jesus Christ,
+to be our Redeemer and Friend.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What event does Christmas Day
+          commemorate? About what time of the year are the
+          days shortest and the nights longest? What does
+          the darkness of the long nights represent? Was the
+          world in moral darkness when Christ came? Is He
+          the world's Redeemer? What trees are green in the
+          winter? Whom does the evergreen tree represent?
+          Why? Where did the custom of having Christmas
+          trees probably originate? What do the things on
+          the Christmas tree represent? Did people give
+          Christmas presents before Christ came? What do our
+          gifts to one another represent? With His Son, has
+          God given us other things which we are to enjoy?
+          Where do people enjoy the greatest material
+          comforts and blessings, in Christian or heathen
+          lands? In what lands are the largest spiritual
+          blessings enjoyed?
+
+
+
+
+EASTER SUNDAY.
+
+THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: An egg and a little chick in
+          a cage, or a toy chick, such as are often
+          available at Easter time may be used.
+
+
+MY LITTLE FRIENDS: Can you tell me what we commemorate on Easter Sunday?
+Yes, we commemorate the resurrection of Christ from the dead.
+
+You remember how some weeks ago I showed you a watch-case.[A] You
+thought it was a watch, but when I opened it it had no works in it,
+consequently it was only a watch-case. When I placed the works in the
+case, then it made a complete watch.
+
+So you have also seen the body of a dead person and you have possibly
+thought that that was the individual, the person whom you had known; but
+that which you saw was only the body. The soul, the immortal part, had
+taken its departure and gone back to God who first placed it in the
+body. Now, just the same as the works of a watch can keep good time
+without being in the case, so the soul can exist apart from the body. If
+you were to take the watch-case and bury it in the ground, that fact
+would not affect either the existence or the accuracy of the works of
+the watch in measuring time. So when God takes the soul out of the body
+we say that it is a dead body, and it becomes necessary for us to bury
+it out of our sight.
+
+[Illustration: The Women at the Sepulchre.]
+
+On Good Friday we commemorate the death of Christ upon the cross on
+Calvary. You remember how, after the crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea
+and Nicodemus came and took the body of Christ down from the cross and
+laid it in a new tomb which Joseph had hewn out of rock in his garden.
+When this had been done, Pilate remembered how Jesus had said that if He
+were put to death, after three days He would rise again. Now, Pilate did
+not believe that Jesus would rise again, but was afraid that His
+disciples or some friends might come by night and steal away His body
+and circulate the report that Jesus had risen from the dead; so he
+placed Roman soldiers around the sepulchre to prevent His disciples from
+coming near the tomb, or sepulchre where Joseph had laid away the body
+of Christ. Pilate purposed to prevent the possibility of Christ's
+resurrection, but in the fact that he placed the soldiers there he
+secured for all after ages the most positive proof that Jesus did
+actually rise from the dead. These soldiers were Roman soldiers, and if
+they had slept while they were upon guard duty, the penalty would have
+been death. But when the angel came down from heaven and rolled away the
+stone, then we are told that these Roman soldiers became as dead men.
+
+It is on Easter Sunday that we commemorate this rising of Christ from
+the grave or sepulchre. Now, can you tell me why it is that on Easter we
+have these Easter eggs, such as I hold in my hand? I will tell you why
+it is. It is because while the outside of this egg is like the outside
+of a vault or grave, yet inside there is a germ of life. If you take a
+dozen perfect eggs and place them under a mother hen, and have her set
+on them for three weeks, at the end of that time out of these eggs which
+seem to have nothing of life in them, there will come forth little
+chickens, just such as I hold in my hand, only this one is not alive.
+But it is a very accurate representation of a little chicken a day or
+two old.
+
+Now, just in this same way if you were to drive through a cemetery and
+look at a vault, which is the nearest that we have in this country in
+likeness to the sepulchre in which the body of Christ was laid, you
+would not suppose for a moment that there would be living people in that
+vault. While the bodies that are in the vault are dead bodies, yet they
+have the promise of life, God will some day raise them up, unite again
+the soul and the body and give them that everlasting life and
+resurrection glory which Jesus has promised. And as Jesus rose from the
+dead on Easter Sunday morning, so we have the promise that in the final
+resurrection the bodies of all who have ever lived upon the earth shall
+hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth; those who have
+lived Christian lives to the resurrection of life, and those who have
+done evil to the resurrection of death and eternal punishment.
+
+[Illustration: Little Chickens Just Out of the Shells.]
+
+The egg then is the symbol of life, for out of this seemingly lifeless
+object there comes forth the living chick; so out of the graves and
+sepulchres there will eventually come forth the bodies of all who have
+ever died, and these bodies shall become resurrection bodies. These
+mortals shall put on immortality, and these corruptible bodies shall put
+on incorruption; and then the souls and the bodies of all shall be
+reunited, never again to be separated throughout all eternity.
+
+Perhaps during the past few months or years you may have laid away in
+the grave the body of some dear little brother or sister, or perhaps of
+a kind father or mother, or some other friend; if so, the spring season
+of the year will suggest to you the resurrection. The grass and the
+flowers which appeared to be dead last fall, and which during the winter
+have been wrapped in a white shroud of snow, now feel the warm breath of
+spring, and life and beauty are coming forth out of the sepulchre of the
+winter.
+
+Soon all the trees will put forth their leaves and then beauteous
+blossoms and sweet fragrance will tell of the spring time as the
+resurrection period of the year.
+
+So at Easter time we properly turn to the cemeteries where rest the
+bodies of our loved ones and know that the long winter of death and
+decay shall eventually give place to the promised resurrection of life
+and beauty. On that Easter morn the bodies of our loved ones shall be
+raised up, the soul and the body shall be reunited, and we shall see
+them and know them as they are.
+
+Now, just how God shall gather again all the scattered parts of these
+bodies that were buried in the sea, or have decayed back to earth in the
+ground, we do not know. But our ignorance does not change the fact. I do
+not understand how at first God created man out of dust of the earth,
+nor do I know how the bread and meat and food which I eat each day
+nourish my life and become part of my own body. I do not know how, out
+of the same handful of earth, either an apple or a flower might grow. I
+know that it is so, but the how I do not know; nor does my ignorance
+prevent or hinder God from accomplishing it. If each day I eat food
+which by some strange power which God has placed within me is changed
+into bones in my body, to hair on my head, to nails on the ends of my
+fingers, to teeth, and eyes and ears and thus becomes a part of myself,
+why should I question, or desire to know how God is able to quicken in
+the grave the power to make the body to live again. If in the beginning
+God only spoke and worlds came into being, I know that when He shall
+command these bodies to rise from death and the grave they also will
+hear His voice and obey.
+
+I am sure that no boy nor girl here would want that, on the morning of
+the resurrection his or her body should refuse to obey God's voice when
+He shall command the dead to come forth from their graves in life and
+beauty. You will want to obey Him then, but should you not also desire
+to obey Him now? When God tells you in the Bible what He wants you to
+do, are you obedient? Do you do as He commands? If you are disobedient
+now, then in the morning of the resurrection you might even desire,
+rather to remain in your grave, so that you should not have to look into
+the face of Him whom you have disobeyed and offended. If you want to
+awake on that final Easter morning in the likeness of Jesus and be
+forever with Him in glory, remember that you must obey God now as Jesus
+did when He was upon the earth. If we would be like Jesus in glory, we
+must strive to be like Him in all that we do, and I trust that you may
+think of this daily. At all times when you are uncertain what it is your
+duty to do, ask yourself this question: "If He were in my place, what
+would Jesus do?" And then act and do as nearly as possible as you think
+Jesus would do under the same circumstances.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What does Easter commemorate? Is a
+          dead body actually the person you knew? What has
+          become of the soul? What do we commemorate on Good
+          Friday? Of what are Easter eggs the symbol? What
+          does the shell represent? What does the inside
+          represent? Will the bodies of all who have died be
+          raised some day? Who tells us this? What will God
+          do with the risen bodies? What will become of the
+          good? What of the wicked? Do we know how God will
+          gather the scattered parts of the body? Does it
+          make any difference whether we know how or not? Is
+          anyone likely to refuse God's summons on the
+          Judgment Day? Do we always obey Him now? When in
+          doubt what question should we ask ourselves?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[A] NOTE--Sermon on Watch and Case, see page 125.
+
+
+
+
+CROWNS.
+
+THE CHILDREN OF THE KING.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A crown of leaves or paper,
+          or of both.
+
+
+BOYS AND GIRLS: I have to-day two or three crowns, and I want to talk to
+you about those who are children of the King.
+
+[Illustration: A Crown of Leaves.]
+
+[Illustration: A Jewelled Crown.]
+
+First of all, I have here a crown which is made of leaves. This was the
+first kind of crown ever used. Three thousand years ago or more, those
+who excelled in strength, or running, or wrestling, or in any of the
+games which were common then, received a crown like this, which was
+placed upon their heads. This was regarded as a very great honor.
+Afterward, the kings of the earth began to use crowns. Their crowns were
+made of gold and set with costly jewels. These they wore on state
+occasions to indicate their high rank and position. Here is a crown made
+of gilt paper and set with a few silver-paper stars, meant to represent
+the crowns which kings and queens wear. While this crown is only made of
+paper, the crowns of kings and queens are made of gold, set with many
+costly stones. Besides the larger jewels in the crown of King George V.
+of England, there are also sixteen sapphires, eleven emeralds, nearly
+three hundred pearls, and some twenty-eight hundred very costly
+diamonds, and it is estimated to be worth many millions of dollars.
+
+[Illustration: The Crowns on a Table.]
+
+Now suppose that we had gathered into this room the children, the boys
+and girls, of all the kings and queens of earth. Suppose also that they
+could all understand English, and that none of them knew that they were
+the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and that it was my
+delightful privilege to tell them how great and rich and powerful their
+parents are; and then I were also permitted to tell them, for the first
+time, what beautiful crowns their parents own. Suppose also that after
+exciting their curiosity about these things, I should have the crowns of
+all the kings of earth placed on a long table at my side, covered with a
+beautiful cloth, and after telling them about the crowns, I should
+uncover this table with all these crowns of gold, studded with jewels.
+Don't you suppose that the eyes of all those boys and girls would
+sparkle with curiosity and delight?
+
+But now, suppose that it were my privilege to do more than to show them
+the crowns. Suppose that I were permitted also to tell them that they
+were heirs to these crowns, and that after their fathers and mothers,
+the present kings and queens, had died, they were to become kings and
+queens, and were to receive these crowns as their own. Suppose that,
+more than this, it were my privilege to pick up the crown of Denmark,
+and then calling some little boy to me I were to hand it to him, and
+tell him that he was to keep it, and that some day it would be placed
+upon his head, and he would be King of Denmark. And then I should take
+the crown of Sweden, and calling another girl, I should give her that
+crown, and tell her that she should keep it, until some day it would be
+placed upon her head, and she should be Queen of Sweden. Suppose that in
+the same way I should take the crowns of Germany and Russia, and
+Austria, and Italy, and Spain, and the great crown of England, and all
+the crowns of all the nations of the earth; and calling the boys and
+girls by name, should have them come forward and receive these crowns,
+to be kept until they should be placed upon their heads, when they
+should be Kings and Queens, ruling in great pomp, and splendor, and
+honor, and power. Do you not think that it would be a very happy hour to
+these boys and girls, when all these great thoughts should be disclosed
+to them for the first time, and they should look upon such costly
+crowns, and receive them into their own hands, as their very own?
+
+Now, boys and girls, while you have been listening to me, you have
+possibly not thought that what I have told you is really being fulfilled
+in your own hearing to-day, for the Bible tells us, "I will be a Father
+unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord
+Almighty." (2 Cor. vi: 18.) Then, in another place, it also says,
+"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we
+shall be." (1 John iii: 2.) So you see that it is my privilege to-day to
+talk, not to the children of earthly kings, whose glory is only temporal
+and whose honor is always uncertain, but I am permitted to talk to the
+children of the King of kings. (1 Tim. vi: 15; Rev. xix: 16.) The
+Scriptures not only tell us that God "is the only Potentate (the only
+powerful one), the King of kings," but it also tells us that He "hath
+made us unto our God kings and priests." (Rev. v: 10.) The same great
+book also tells us, not only, that we shall be kings and priests unto
+our God, but that we "shall reign forever and ever." (Rev. xxii: 5.)
+When a king dies he ceases to be king upon earth, but when God shall
+make us kings and queens and crown us in Heaven, we shall never die
+again, or cease to be kings and queens. The Bible tells us very clearly
+that our Father in Heaven is King over all earthly kings; greater than
+any of them; greater than all the kings of earth put together; a million
+times greater; yes, millions and millions of times greater; so much
+greater that the two do not compare in reality, but earthly kings simply
+suggest to our minds something of our great Heavenly King. God, this
+great King, created us and we were His children. But our first parents
+sinned and rebelled against Him, and refused to recognize Him as Father
+and to obey what He wanted them to do. But God loved them and us as a
+tender Father, and sent His only-begotten and well-beloved Son, Jesus
+Christ, to reconcile us; to tell us that God the Father loved us; that
+He was willing to forgive us, and that He would still accept us and make
+us kings and priests unto Himself, would crown us with glory, would give
+us dominion and make us kings and priests forever in Heaven. So you see
+that there can be no mistake about our being sons and daughters of the
+Lord Almighty. We are not only His children, but He has promised us
+crowns of glory and thrones of dominion and power.
+
+If you and I were in England to-day and could walk into the Tower of
+London, where they keep the crown and the jewels of the royal family,
+and we could learn the value of these costly jewels, and crowns and
+scepters, it matters not how rich we might be, I am sure we would have
+to despair of ever being able to purchase these costly crown jewels.
+They are estimated at many millions of dollars. Now, if an earthly
+crown, which can only be retained for a few years, is so valuable, how
+much more valuable are the everlasting crowns, such as God gives, and
+which are to be ours for all eternity? And if we are not able to buy
+such an earthly crown, how much less are we able to purchase or buy a
+heavenly crown? The heavenly crowns are so valuable that we could never
+hope to buy them, therefore God gives them to us because He loves us.
+
+More than two hundred years ago a man by the name of Colonel Blood
+attempted to steal the crowns and the crown jewels of England. He was
+not altogether successful, but was arrested before he escaped with them.
+But do you know that there are many who would steal your crown, and my
+crown of everlasting glory, if they possibly could? Therefore, God tells
+us in the Bible, "Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy
+crown." (Rev. iii: 11.) So you see it is very important that we should
+be constantly on our guard. The King of England has soldiers to watch
+day and night, lest any one should steal his crown. And so also you and
+I need to be constantly on our guard, lest wicked people and sinful
+influences should rob us of our heavenly crown.
+
+Not only are crowns sometimes stolen, but sometimes they are also lost.
+About fifty years ago some people were digging in France, and they found
+eight costly crowns, all lying close together, having been lost or
+hidden away in the earth. Four of them were very costly and very
+beautiful, while the others were smaller crowns. The first four were for
+the king and the queen, and the prince, and one other of the older
+children, and the other four crowns were for the younger children of the
+king's household. Yet you see that the father and mother and all the
+children lost their crowns. I trust that no parents here, or children
+either, would prize their heavenly crowns so lightly as ever to lose
+them.
+
+There are thousands of people who would be willing to put forth any
+effort, or to pay any costs, if they could only obtain an earthly crown,
+and yet the Bible tells us that these people do it "to obtain a
+corruptible crown; but we, an incorruptible." (1 Cor. ix: 25.) Now, by
+a corruptible crown is meant one that, like this crown made of leaves,
+will fade and fall to pieces, and decay, and thus pass entirely away.
+Even a crown of gold, studded with costly jewels, would thus also
+eventually perish. The crown which God gives to us is an imperishable
+crown, which never fades, and never passes away. And therefore the
+Scriptures say, "And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall
+receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." (1 Peter v: 4.)
+
+Since the Bible teaches us these truths so plainly, "What manner of
+persons ought we to be, in all holy conversation and godliness?" (2
+Peter iii: 11.) What more appropriate words could I say to you in
+closing, than that which God says to us in the blessed Book in which He
+has revealed all these things, "Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look
+for such things, be diligent, that ye may be found of him in peace
+without spot, and blameless." (2 Peter iii: 14.)
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What kind of crown was first worn?
+          Because crowns of leaves were so perishable, of
+          what were crowns later made? What can you tell
+          about the crown of the king of England? If the
+          crowns of all the kings of earth could be brought
+          together, would people desire to see them? If the
+          children of earthly kings were present and we told
+          them for the first time that they were the
+          children of kings and gave them the crowns which
+          they were eventually to own, would they be likely
+          to be pleased? Are you the child of a King who is
+          the King above all kings? Has He promised you a
+          crown? Will your crown be perishable? How long
+          will it last? Can you quote any of the passages of
+          Scripture which tell of our being the children of
+          the King of kings? Could the crown of an earthly
+          king be bought? Is there money enough in the world
+          to buy a crown of everlasting life? How then is
+          this crown to be obtained? Who once stole a crown
+          and the crown jewels of England? Was he successful
+          in getting away with them? Who tries to steal our
+          crown of everlasting glory? Is he ever successful?
+          Can you tell about the eight crowns which were
+          found hidden away in the earth in France? In what
+          book are we told that our crown is to be
+          imperishable and unfading, and to be ours forever?
+          What exhortation is contained in the last sentence
+          of the last sermon in this book?
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+A WORD TO PARENTS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+THE imploring letters which come to me constantly from all parts of the
+globe, written by young men and women who are almost hopelessly
+struggling to be freed from evils into which they have fallen through
+ignorance, prompt me to urge upon parents the great importance of
+safe-guarding their children from evils unspeakable by information which
+should always reach the child through the parent.
+
+Many parents appreciate their duty to their children in this matter; the
+only thing that restrains them is that they do not know what to say and
+how to say it. They are in just the situation that I found myself with
+my own boy and girl before I had made a special study of this subject.
+
+It was to assist parents in this trying situation that I wrote "What a
+Young Boy Ought to Know," and that Dr. Mary Wood-Allen wrote "What a
+Young Girl Ought to Know." These two books, together with "What a Young
+Man Ought to Know" and "What a Young Woman Ought to Know," have proven a
+benediction to thousands of parents, and have saved multitudes of boys
+and girls; of young men and young women from evils that come from blind
+blundering among dangers that are attended with consequences that often
+project themselves throughout the entire life, and frequently involve
+even future generations.
+
+These books were written to make men and women--not money. The United
+States Government has had the books to men placed in the libraries of
+all the battleships, and those addressed to boys and girls and young men
+and young women placed in all the schools maintained by the Government
+for the education of the North American Indians.
+
+Requests have been made for permission to translate these books into
+some forty different languages, and most of these requests have come
+from Christian missionaries and church missionary societies, who have
+desired the teachings which these books contain for use by their
+missionaries.
+
+These books, in English, sell at One Dollar per copy, and a simple post
+card request addressed to the writer of the little book you now hold in
+your hands, will bring you descriptive printed matter by early post.
+
+                                 SYLVANUS STALL,
+                                     206 North Fifteenth Street,
+                                          Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A.
+
+
+
+
+WITH THE CHILDREN ON SUNDAYS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate Into the City of Child Soul
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_By_ SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_ENTHUSIASTICALLY COMMENDED BY THE PRESS_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FOR THE FAMILY CIRCLE AND TEACHERS.
+
+"Delightful and instructive reading for the family circle on Sunday
+afternoons."--_The Ram's Horn._
+
+"The language and style are simple and effective. In approaching the
+mind and heart through the eye, as well as the ear, Dr. Stall uses the
+method which the best instructor should use to convey knowledge to the
+mind of the child. The book is suggestive of effective work, and is
+worthy of the careful attention of all who talk to children in the
+Sunday School, Church and home."--_Augsburg Teacher._
+
+"These sermons cannot help being suggestive to every one who would
+interest children. The sermons are fascinating, and their publication
+marks an era in the instruction and edification of children. They will
+serve a noble purpose in calling back to the simplicity of preaching so
+wonderfully illustrated in the words of Christ."--_Wesleyan Methodist._
+
+
+SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CHILDREN.
+
+"Dr. Stall has undoubtedly the happy faculty of presenting to children
+sober truths in a manner to them most interesting."--_Times_, Boston,
+Mass.
+
+"In this little volume there are good examples of excellent preaching to
+the young, and the book merits a wide circulation."--_Central
+Presbyterian._
+
+"These little delightful sermons are models of point and brevity, and
+reach the little hearts through the eye and the ear."--_Christian
+Observer._
+
+"A more practical series of discourses for children we never before have
+seen. The illustrations are simple and forceful, and the lessons worthy
+of consideration."--_Central Methodist._
+
+"It is an excellent work, and the plan is admirably suited to reach and
+impress youthful minds with correct principles. The language is plain
+and easily understood and yet the central thought is well defined and
+easily grasped."--_The Christian Instructor._
+
+"The topics are timely and fresh, the objects simple and telling, and
+the sermons themselves just what sermons to children ought to be, brief
+and well illustrated, fascinating and practical. Boys and girls will
+devour every one of them with relish, whilst we children of a larger
+growth will be children again."--_Lutheran Observer._
+
+"The chapters contained in the volume are such as are sure to win the
+attention and interest of the children. We are confident that Dr. Stall
+has found the right key to the situation, and we commend his work most
+heartily."--_Messiah's Herald._
+
+"The gift of talking sense to children in a way interesting to them is a
+rare one. These fifty-two short sermons show that Dr. Stall has this
+rare gift in an eminent degree. This is shown, not only in his way of
+putting things, but also in his subjects and illustrative
+objects."--_Lutheran Quarterly._
+
+"In this volume the author seeks to attract the young through the
+presentation of the old truths of the Gospel in the form which arrest
+the eye, secures the attention, impresses the mind, and wins the heart
+for Christ and the right. The entrance into the city of Child-soul is
+sought by assaulting both the Eye-gate and Ear-gate. At the same time
+the illustrations used are impressive, the truths taught are simple, and
+the impressions made are likely to be lasting."--_Jersey City Times_.
+
+"It is not every one who is able to present to children sober truths in
+a manner interesting to them, for it requires a special talent to either
+speak to or write for children, but Dr. Stall has undoubtedly the happy
+faculty of doing this. The author's object is to implant in the child's
+mind seeds of truth and love, nobleness and justice, and all the virtues
+that go to make a manly boy and womanly girl, as well as a God-loving
+child."--_Boston Times._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FROM THE CHILDREN OF NEW ENGLAND.
+
+
+          SYLVANUS STALL, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.
+
+            REVEREND SIR:
+
+
+          I wish to thank you in behalf of my school
+          children for having your short sermons to children
+          published. I read them to my school children as
+          part of our devotional exercises, and I often hear
+          remarks like this: "I wish the author would come
+          to Moose Meadow. I wish I could hear him. I wish I
+          could see him and thank him for writing those
+          sermons. Can't we write to him and thank him?"
+          etc., and so I have been led to write you,
+          thanking you in their behalf.
+
+          Moose Meadow is a small country place in Eastern
+          Connecticut, and I wish you to know that the
+          country children enjoy your sermons equally as
+          well as city children, and I am very glad that a
+          copy of your book was put into my hands. I feel
+          very grateful to God for putting it into the heart
+          of some one to write such interesting sermons and
+          beautiful object lessons.
+
+                            Respectfully,
+                                         MRS. A. B. DAWE.
+                            Moose Meadow, Town of Willington,
+                                                    Connecticut.
+
+
+A SUGGESTIVE BOOK FOR PREACHERS.
+
+"Pastors in search of something suggestive for talking in a helpful
+manner to children will find this book both helpful and
+suggestive."--_Reformed Church Messenger._
+
+"A careful reading of this book will enable any minister of anything
+like ordinary brightness to adapt much of his preaching to the
+comprehension of the young."--_Gospel Messenger._
+
+"We do not know that we can give a stronger commendation of this little
+volume than to say that on a brief examination of it we got the
+suggestion for a series of half a dozen evening sermons to young people.
+The book is most suggestive, and spiritually as well as mentally
+refreshing."--_Christian Statesman._
+
+"An examination of the little sermons in this book shows the reader that
+Dr. Stall skillfully manages each topic, and leaves helpful lessons of
+moral and religious truths. The book will suggest to pastors methods of
+work that will bring the children into a closer relation to the services
+of the Sabbath."--_Christian Secretary._
+
+"Excellent, admirable, irresistible approaches through the Eye-gate and
+Ear-gate in the City of Child-soul. The author is a genius. There is not
+a dull line between the covers of this book."--_Christian Endeavor
+World._
+
+
+OTHER ENTHUSIASTIC WORDS.
+
+"These sermons are delightful and helpful in their explanation. We have
+seen nothing that compares with it."--_Herald of Gospel Liberty._
+
+"These sermons are animated in style, bright, interesting and
+practical."--_The Advance._
+
+"Dr. Stall's sermons are excellent examples of abstract lessons from the
+common objects of everyday life, practical and effective."--_Books and
+Authors._
+
+"Dr. Stall is an expert in this line of work attempted, and we may add
+achieved in this little book. He addresses little object sermons as
+bright, pithy and taking as they can be with a good point to them
+always."--_New York Independent._
+
+"These short sermons will be found wonderfully suggestive. The author
+goes back to Bible methods, and selects common things with which all are
+familiar from which to draw his lessons."--_Inter Ocean_, Chicago.
+
+"The old truths of the Gospel in this new form arrest the eye, secure
+the attention, impress the mind, and win the heart for Christ."--_Herald
+and Presbytery._
+
+"The illustrations used are impressive, and truths taught are important,
+and the impressions made are likely to be lasting."--_New York
+Observer._
+
+"The author, after the manner of the parables told by our Lord, presents
+important truths of the Gospel to the easy comprehension of both old and
+young."--_Christian Work._
+
+"These little sermons are free from sensational, mawkish, maudlin
+stories. At the same time, they are interesting for old and young, and
+the short talks to children are admirable."--_Western Recorder._
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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, With the Children on Sunday, by Sylvanus
+Stall, Illustrated by C. M. Burd</h1>
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+<p>Title: With the Children on Sunday</p>
+<p>       Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul</p>
+<p>Author: Sylvanus Stall</p>
+<p>Release Date: May 12, 2010  [eBook #32355]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITH THE CHILDREN ON SUNDAY***</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>E-text prepared by Emmy, D Alexander,<br />
+    and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br />
+    (http://www.pgdp.net)</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class='bbox'>
+
+<h1>WITH THE CHILDREN<br />
+ON SUNDAYS</h1>
+
+<h2>Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate<br />
+into the City of Child-Soul<br /><br /></h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 146px;">
+<img src="images/i001.png" width="146" height="223" alt="Emblem" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2><br /><br /><i>By</i> Sylvanus Stall, D. D.</h2>
+
+<div class='center'><br />
+Author of "What a Young Boy Ought to Know," "What a Young<br />
+Man Ought to Know," etc., "Methods of Church Work,"<br />
+"Faces Toward the Light," etc., etc.<br /><br /><br />
+<br />&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+<i>This book is published and sold exclusively in the United States by</i><br />
+<br />
+THE UPLIFT PUBLISHING COMPANY<br />
+<small>PHILADELPHIA, PA.</small><br />
+</div></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+
+<div class='copyright'>
+<span class="smcap">Copyright</span>, 1911, <span class="smcap">BY</span> SYLVANUS STALL.<br />
+<br /><br /><br /><br />
+Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England.<br />
+<br /><br /><br /><br />
+Protected by International copyright in Great Britain and all her<br />
+colonies, and, under the provisions of the Berne Convention, in<br />
+Belgium, France, Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, Tunis,<br />
+Hayti, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro and Norway.<br />
+<br />
+<i>All rights reserved.</i><br />
+<br />
+[PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES.]<br />
+<br />
+COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY SYLVANUS STALL.<br />
+COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY SYLVANUS STALL.<br />
+COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY SYLVANUS STALL.<br />
+<br />&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;<br />
+<i>All the drawings and color-pictures in this took have been specially
+prepared by C. M. Burd, of New York City, for exclusive use
+in these pages. Each of these has been copyrighted in the United
+States and throughout Europe, and all copyright privileges are
+reserved.</i><br /></div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 214px;">
+<img src="images/i003.jpg" width="214" height="311" alt="SYLVANUS STALL, D.D." title="" />
+<span class="caption">SYLVANUS STALL, D.D.</span>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<big>DEDICATED</big><br />
+<br />
+TO PARENTS AND CHILDREN WHO DESIRE<br />
+TO MAKE SUNDAY THE HAPPIEST AND MOST<br />
+IMPRESSIVE DAY OF THE WEEK.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p>
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Conents">
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><small>PAGE.</small></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Preface</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Suggestions to Parents</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>1.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Oyster and Crab</span>&mdash;Conscience</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>2.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Worm in the Apple</span>&mdash;Sin in the Human Heart</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>3.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Wayside Weeds and Garden Flowers</span>&mdash;Neglected vs. Christian Children</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>4.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Nuts</span>&mdash;God Means that We Must Work</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>5.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Banks</span>&mdash;Gathered and Guarded Treasures</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>6.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Chart</span>&mdash;Avoiding Dangers</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>7.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Anchor</span>&mdash;Hope that Lays Hold of Christ</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>8.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Husks</span>&mdash;The Disappointed Pleasure Seeker</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>9.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Iron, Low Grade and High Grade</span>&mdash;Character and Worth</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>10.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">A Pocket Rule</span>&mdash;How God Measures Men</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>11.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Magnet</span>&mdash;Jesus the Great Drawing Power</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_86">86</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>12.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Keys</span>&mdash;How to Unlock the Human Heart</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>13.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Traps</span>&mdash;Unsuspecting Mice and Men</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>14.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Bread</span>&mdash;Universal Soul Hunger</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>15.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Stone</span>&mdash;The Natural and Changed Heart</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>16.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Polished Stone</span>&mdash;Perfection Through Suffering</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>17.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ropes</span>&mdash;Habits and How They Become Strong</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>18.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Watch and Case</span>&mdash;Soul and Body</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>19.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Pearls</span>&mdash;One of Great Price</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_130">130</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>20.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Coal and Wood</span>&mdash;Jesus the Source of Spiritual Light and Warmth</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_135">135</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>21.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Lanterns</span>&mdash;The Best Light for Our Path</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_140">140</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>22.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Candles</span>&mdash;How to Reflect, Obscure or Extinguish the Light</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_145">145</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>23.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">A Broken Chain</span>&mdash;Breaking the Whole Law</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_151">151</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>24.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Looking-Glass</span>&mdash;Seeing Ourselves in God's Law</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_156">156</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>25.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Rain</span>&mdash;God's Wisdom and Power</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_161">161</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>26.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Snow</span>&mdash;Lessons Which it Teaches</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_168">168</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>27.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Plastic Face</span>&mdash;Character in the Countenance</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_174">174</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>28.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Seeds</span>&mdash;Thoughts, Word, Deeds,&mdash;Their Life and Perpetuity</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_179">179</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>29.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sowing</span>&mdash;The Spring Time of Life</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_185">185</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>30.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Reaping</span>&mdash;The Harvest Time of Life</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_192">192</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>31.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Wheat and Chaff</span>&mdash;The Coming Separation</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_198">198</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>32.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Heart</span>&mdash;The Most Wonderful Pump in the World</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_204">204</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>33.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Eye</span>&mdash;The Most Valuable and Most Wonderful Telescope</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_210">210</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>34.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Eye</span>&mdash;Smallest Camera, Most Valuable Pictures</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_217">217</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>35.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Frogs</span>&mdash;The Plagues of Egypt</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_222">222</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>36.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Blood</span>&mdash;The Feast of the Passover</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_228">228</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>37.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Pine Branch</span>&mdash;The Feast of Tabernacles</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_234">234</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>38.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Leaves</span>&mdash;The Lessons Which They Teach</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_240">240</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>39.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Turtle</span>&mdash;Man Like and Yet Unlike the Animals</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_246">246</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>40.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Grasshopper and Ant</span>&mdash;Negligence and Industry</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_252">252</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>41.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Balances</span>&mdash;How God Weighs People</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_260">260</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>42.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">White and Charred Sticks</span>&mdash;Good and Bad Company</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_267">267</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>43.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Dogs</span>&mdash;The Dogs of St. Bernard</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_272">272</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>44.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Camera</span>&mdash;God's Picture Book</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_279">279</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>45.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Phonograph</span>&mdash;Books that Talk</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_285">285</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>46.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Magnet and Needle</span>&mdash;God's Guiding Hand</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_290">290</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>47.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Fish in Aquarium</span>&mdash;The All-Seeing Eye of God</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_295">295</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>48.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Clock</span>&mdash;Measuring Time</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_300">300</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>49.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Plans</span>&mdash;Living with a Purpose</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_307">307</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>50.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Christmas Tree</span>&mdash;The Lessons Which It Teaches</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_311">311</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>51.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Easter Sunday</span>&mdash;The Resurrection of the Body</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_318">318</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>52.&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Crowns</span>&mdash;We Are Children of the King</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_325">325</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">A Word to Parents</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_331">331</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='right'>&nbsp;</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Press Notices</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_332">332</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PREFACE.</h2>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>SUNDAY ought to be the most cheerful, sunniest, happiest and
+best day of the week in every home. In most homes it is the
+dullest and most dreary day of the week to the children,
+and the most taxing and the most wearying to the parents,
+especially to the mother. It not only ought to be, but it can be
+made, not only the brightest and happiest but also the most influential
+in the character-building and religious training of the children.
+In some households Sunday is looked forward to with anticipations
+of pleasure throughout the entire week. In these homes, the father
+does not come down stairs on Sunday morning and say: "Now,
+children, gather up those flowers, throw them out of the window,
+pull down the blinds, get down the Bible and we will have an awful
+solemn time here to-day." Neither is the day given to frivolity or
+the home to demoralizing influences. From morning until night
+there are two great principles that govern; first, the sacredness of
+the day, and second, the sacredness of the God-given nature
+of childhood. The day is not spent in repressing the child
+nature by a succession of "don't do that," "now stop that,"
+etc., that begin in the morning and continue throughout the
+day, and end only when the little ones lose consciousness in sleep
+on Sunday night. In these homes, the parents recognize the fact
+that the child nature is the same whether the day is secular or
+sacred. On Sunday the child nature is not repressed, but the
+childish impulses are directed into channels suited to the sacredness
+of the day. In such homes the children, instead of being sorry
+that it is Sunday, are glad; instead of regretting the return of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span>
+day with dislike and dread, they welcome it as the brightest, the
+cheeriest and the best of all the week.</div>
+
+<p>The purpose of the author in the preparation of this book in
+its present illustrated and slightly changed form, is to afford all
+parents a valuable aid in making Sunday not only the brightest,
+happiest and best day of the entire week for both parents and children,
+but also to aid the parents to make Sunday pre-eminently the
+day around which shall cluster throughout the entire life of each
+child the sweetest, tenderest and most sacred recollections of childhood,
+of father and mother and of brother and sister, and especially
+of their knowledge of the Bible and of everything sacred.</p>
+
+<p>Did it ever occur to you, as a parent, that between the birth
+and the age of twenty-one years there are three solid years of Sundays&mdash;an
+amount of time almost equal to the number of years given
+to an entire course of college training? The Creator has not laid
+upon parents the responsibilities of parenthood without giving them
+ample time and opportunity to discharge these obligations to Him,
+to themselves, and to their children.</p>
+
+<p>The idea which has been successfully demonstrated in hundreds
+of homes, where the impulses and natural inclinations of
+childhood have been turned into sacred channels on Sundays so as
+to enable the parents to teach spiritual truths in the most effective
+manner, is the method which is suggested by the author to the
+parents in the use, on Sunday afternoons, of the fifty-two little sermons
+given in this volume.</p>
+
+<p>The parent who fails to use wisely the opportunities of Sunday
+afternoons for impressing the children with spiritual truths,
+loses the greatest opportunity that family life affords. Among the
+different instances known to the author, the following three may
+serve as illustrations of what may be found in many communities:</p>
+
+<p>I knew a mother who regularly on Sunday afternoons gathered<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>
+her children about her and read them religious books and
+literature. In her considerable family, every child became eminently
+useful. One, who was a university professor, told me that
+those Sunday afternoons with his mother in the nursery embodied
+the most formative influences of his life.</p>
+
+<p>I know another family, of some seven or eight children, where
+Sunday was always used for religious instruction with the children.
+With the reading and other things, they always "played
+church", and the experience of those early childhood days made
+the boys splendid public talkers, and the girls were also very capable
+in the same direction. No better school of oratory was ever
+organized.</p>
+
+<p>I know another family of four children, where the entire family
+looked forward throughout the week to the special and larger
+pleasure which Sunday always brought. They grew up naturally
+into a religious life, and developed that ability for public address
+and service which could not so well be gained in any other way.</p>
+
+<p>Sunday is about the only day in most of households where the
+father is home with his family. It adds greatly to the pleasure and
+impressiveness of the day and its services if the father, with the
+mother, enters heartily into the spirit of that which will be all the
+more enjoyed by the children. It will enable him also to stamp his
+personality deeper into the character of his children than possibly
+any other opportunity which may be afforded him in life.</p>
+
+<p>These brief object talks grew out of the necessities found in the
+author's own parish. When called to the pastorate of the Second
+English Lutheran Church, of Baltimore, I found a depleted congregation,
+while at the same time the Sunday-school was one of the
+largest and most flourishing in the city. It was then for the first
+time that I introduced regularly the preaching of "Five-minute
+object sermons" before the accustomed sermon on Sunday morning.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>
+In a very brief period, about one-fourth of the infant department
+and two-thirds of the main department of the school were in regular
+attendance upon the Sunday morning service, and, even after this
+particular form of address had been discontinued, the teachers and
+scholars continued regularly to come direct from the morning session
+of the school to the services of the church.</p>
+
+<p>These sermons were preached without notes, were subsequently
+outlined and then spoken into the phonograph, put in manuscript
+by a phonographer, and, that the simplicity of style and diction
+might be preserved, were printed with only slight verbal
+changes.</p>
+
+<p>The objects used in illustrating these talks have been chosen
+from among the ordinary things of every-day life. Such objects
+have the advantage of being easily secured, and on account of their
+familiarity also prove more impressive, and being more often seen,
+more frequently recall to mind the truths taught.</p>
+
+<p>To any thoughtful student who has marked the simple language
+and beautiful illustrations used by that Great Preacher and
+Teacher who "spake as never man spake," it will be unnecessary to
+say a single word in justification of this method of presenting
+abstruse truths to the easy comprehension of the young. Upon all
+occasions Jesus found in the use of the ordinary, every-day things
+about Him, the easy means of teaching the people the great truths
+of divine import. The door, the water, the net, the vine, the flowers
+which sprang at His feet, the birds that flew over His head, the
+unfruitful tree that grew by the wayside, the wheat and the tares
+that grew together in the field, the leaven which a woman hid in
+three measures of meal, the husbandman pacing his field engaged in
+sowing his grain, the sheep and the goats which rested together on
+the slopes waiting to be separated each into their own fold, the old
+garment mended with a piece of new cloth, the mustard seed, the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span>
+salt&mdash;anything that chanced to be about the Master was used as an
+illustration, that He might plainly and impressively teach the people
+the saving truths of redemption and salvation. May we not also reasonably
+suppose that if Jesus were upon the earth to-day He would
+still exercise this same distinguishing wisdom in the use of the common,
+every-day things by which He would now find Himself surrounded?</p>
+
+<p>Let it be distinctly understood that this book is not a substitute
+for the regular services of God's House. I believe in "the
+Church in the house," but I also believe that the entire family,
+including the children, should also be in the Church on the Lord's
+day. The absence of the children from the services of the sanctuary
+is one of the alarming evils of our day. There are but few
+congregations where children can be found in any considerable
+numbers. No one will attempt to deny the sad consequences which
+must follow as the inevitable results of such a course. The children
+at eight years of age who have not already begun to form the habit
+of church attendance, and are not quite thoroughly established in it
+at sixteen, will stand a very fair chance of spending their entire life
+with little or no attachment for either the Church or religious things.
+The non-church going youth of this decade will be the Sabbath-breakers
+and irreligious people of the next.</p>
+
+<p>Who are to blame for this state of affairs, and to whom are we
+to look for the correction of this existing evil?</p>
+
+<p>Manifestly, first of all, to the <i>parents</i>. That parental authority
+which overcomes the indifference of the child and secures his
+devotion to the irksome duties of secular life, should also be exercised
+to establish and maintain a similar fidelity to religious duties
+and spiritual concerns. If left to their own inclinations, children
+will invariably go wrong in the affairs of both worlds. Attendance
+upon the church should be expected and required, the same as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>
+attendance upon the secular instruction of the schools; for the best
+interests of the child are not more dependent upon the discipline of
+the mind than upon the development of the heart. In the formation
+of the habit of church attendance, it would be well to remind parents
+that example will be as helpful as precept. They should not send,
+but take their children to church. They should make room for them
+in the family pew, provide them with a hymn-book and see that
+they have something for the collection. Parents owe it to their
+children to teach them to be reverent in God's house, to bow their
+heads in prayer, to be attentive to the sermon; and while requiring
+these things of their children, they should also see well to it that
+after service, at the table, in the home, or elsewhere nothing disparaging
+of God's house, message or messenger should fall from their
+lips upon the ears of their children.</p>
+
+<p>As these little talks were originally used before the main
+sermon on Sunday morning before a mixed audience of adults and
+a large number of children, it has seemed best, in order to carry out
+the idea of preaching, that the manner of speaking as though to an
+audience should be retained in this book. It is better suited than
+any other method for use also by the parent when reading these
+pages to the children in the home.</p>
+
+<p>The earlier issues of these talks under the title: "Five Minute
+Object Sermons to Children" and the second volume: "Talks to
+the King's Children" were accorded a place of usefulness in nearly
+every land, and the author now sends forth this volume in its present
+illustrated and slightly revised form for a place in every home,
+trusting that it may be as influential in the lives of the children of
+to-day as it has proven in the lives of the children of yesterday.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span class="smcap">Sylvanus Stall.</span><br /></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/i013.jpg" width="600" height="426" alt="DR. STALL WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN DRIVING TO CHURCH" title="" />
+<span class="caption">DR. STALL WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN DRIVING TO CHURCH</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 597px;">
+<img src="images/i013b.jpg" width="597" height="411" alt="THE LITTLE PREACHER AND HIS INTERESTED AUDIENCE" title="" />
+<span class="caption">THE LITTLE PREACHER AND HIS INTERESTED AUDIENCE</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 598px;">
+<img src="images/i014a.jpg" width="598" height="420" alt="LITTLE BILLIE TAKING UP THE COLLECTION" title="" />
+<span class="caption">LITTLE BILLIE TAKING UP THE COLLECTION</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 595px;">
+<img src="images/i014.jpg" width="595" height="426" alt="DR. STALL READING TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN" title="" />
+<span class="caption">DR. STALL READING TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p>
+<h2>SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS.</h2>
+
+<h3>HELPFUL METHODS FOR MAKING SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE CHILDREN THE MOST PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE DAY OF THE WEEK.</h3>
+
+
+<p>The idea of "playing church" is by no means an innovation. What is
+shown in the pictures upon a preceding page has been actualized in many homes.
+Let me quote from a single letter which lies before me:</p>
+
+<p>"The writer was one of a large family of children and well remembers the
+Sunday afternoons spent in his village home. 'Playing church,' was one of its
+features. The chairs were placed in regular fashion, imitating the seating arrangements
+of a church, every one of us took his or her turn as preacher, hymns
+were sung, a real collection was taken and one of us, as preacher, took his text
+and preached the sermon. There wasn't a dull moment in those good, old Sunday
+afternoons in our home. Occasionally, the preacher would provoke a smile
+by his original way of handling the text and of emphasizing some point in his
+discourse.</p>
+
+<p>"We have all grown up since those happy days; some of us attained to a
+degree of efficiency as public speakers, and we attribute much of our efficiency
+and character in life to those profitable Sunday afternoon hours."</p>
+
+<p>From the experiences of the children as narrated above, the suggestion
+occurs, why not use these object talks in like manner? "Play church" Sunday
+afternoons, read an "object sermon," show the illustrations, ask the questions at
+the end of each chapter and then follow it up with a discussion from the children,
+giving their ideas and experiences.</p>
+
+<p>You will find that you will get as much benefit and entertainment from
+these Sunday afternoons "playing church" service as the children will. You will
+be surprised at their interest and the originality that they will display in these discussions.
+You will be quickening their faculty of observation and stirring their<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span>
+imaginations, in a manner that will surely make observant, thoughtful and considerate
+men and women of the children, and consequently, affect their entire
+destinies in the years to come. Then, too, you yourself will be helped mentally
+and spiritually, because it is absolutely true that in the devotion that we exhibit
+and the time and attention that we give to our children in this companionship,
+we will ourselves be receiving large blessings in the development of our own
+character and the finer characteristics that make for good people.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />PLAYING CHURCH.</div>
+
+<p>The following suggestions will be helpful, to which original ideas may
+always be added.</p>
+
+<p>1. Make the "Afternoon Church" a real, not frivolous, occasion. The time
+it requires to make careful, pains-taking preparation on the part of the parent,
+is always profitably employed.</p>
+
+<p>2. The afternoon church should always be a regular, fixed engagement.
+It adds to its importance.</p>
+
+<p>3. Do not postpone nor omit it for any trivial reason. Treat it as any
+other important engagement.</p>
+
+<p>4. When visitors are in the home, invite them to be present and to participate.
+It will help them as well as the juniors.</p>
+
+<p>5. The fact that there is only one child in the family does not preclude
+the idea of playing church; for the dolls can be brought to church and even
+chairs can be converted into imaginary people.</p>
+
+<p>6. Never permit the realness of the occasion to be questioned. Always
+avoid embarrassing the child and <i>never</i> ridicule. Refrain from laughing at any
+mistakes that may be made in speech, thought or conduct of the child, unless he
+first sees the mistake and invites you to join in his mirth.</p>
+
+<p>7. Ask any additional questions pertinent to the subject besides those
+suggested at the end of each sermon. It will develop wider thought and
+increase the interest.</p>
+
+<p>8. Encourage the child to ask questions, but always lead in directing the
+thought.</p>
+
+<p>9. Adults present should always enter seriously and earnestly into the
+whole program or plan with the child's spirit. Where adults enter upon the
+execution of the plan with this spirit it adds much to the enjoyment of all. If
+they cannot do this, they should not participate.</p>
+
+<p>10. A bell can be slowly rung as the time for church approaches.</p>
+
+<p>11. Use the brightest and most cheerful room in the house for the afternoon
+church. Add to the furnishings on Sunday anything which may make
+the room even more than ordinarily attractive.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>12. Chairs may be suitably arranged and a child can drive the others to
+and from church in an imaginary carriage, as shown in one of the pictures
+upon another page.</p>
+
+<p>13. When the church is held in another room, an older child or person
+can receive the attendants and usher them to seats.</p>
+
+<p>14. Open the church service with singing. Select several simple devotional
+hymns or songs, such as are used in the primary department of Sunday-schools.
+Have all the children learn the tunes and teach a verse of each song
+to any child that cannot read.</p>
+
+<p>15. A collection can be lifted by one of the children. A toy bank may
+be used in which to save the money received at this child's service, and subsequently
+contributed through the Church or Sunday-school for missionary purposes.</p>
+
+<p>16. Teach the children the importance of saving from their own spending
+money, or earning what they wish to give in the collection.</p>
+
+<p>17. This money should always be regarded as sacred, and care should
+also be exercised lest this little fund might become a source of temptation to
+the children during the week.</p>
+
+<p>18. At some time during the service a brief prayer should be offered.
+This may consist of a sentence prayer by each in rotation or by all uniting in
+the Lord's Prayer, or in some brief selection from the Prayer Book.</p>
+
+<p>19. When a child is willing or wishes to do so, have him preach the
+sermon in his own way of expressing the thought, using the text or object
+of the day for his subject. Always give the same interested attention to him
+that is expected from him when another leads.</p>
+
+<p>20. Some of the objects mentioned in the sermons can be easily and
+cheaply obtained for use at the church. When such an object is secured, it
+should not be shown to the children in advance of being used.</p>
+
+<p>21. Do not prolong the service too greatly so as to weary the children.
+Effectiveness and pleasure usually terminate at the same time. Lend animation
+to the service and interest will not so soon flag. It is well also to impart
+interest by having the parent enter heartily into every part of the service.</p>
+
+<p>22. A social period after "returning home" from the "children's church"
+should be introduced. If the children have played driving to church before the
+service, the idea should be continued and completed by driving home in the
+same manner.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />AFTER CHURCH.</div>
+
+<p>23. After the conclusion of the church service, additional exercises or
+games suited to the sacredness of the day may be appropriately used to entertain<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span>
+the children and continue their happiness. By methods of this kind, Sunday
+may be made not only the most profitable, but the brightest and best day of the
+week.</p>
+
+<p>24. Some light refreshment may be introduced, as fruit, cake or candy.
+This refreshment should be something very simple and inexpensive, and also
+something not calculated to spoil the appetite or injure the digestion of the
+child. In recognition of good conduct, close attention or special help at the
+church service, one of the children may choose what the refreshment is to be
+for the next Sunday. This choice should be kept a secret during the week.</p>
+
+<p>25. Pictures and illustrations can be cut from magazines, and these can
+be pasted in a scrap book or on blank paper to represent Bible characters and
+scenes, or those used in the sermons.</p>
+
+<p>26. Many acting games and tableaux can be arranged by the children from
+the sermons and Bible stories. Chairs can be arranged so as to represent a pit
+or tent, and the children within them may be "Joseph in the Pit" (Genesis
+xxxvii) or "Daniel in the Lion's Den" (Daniel vi). See illustrations on pages
+<a href="#Page_80">80</a> and <a href="#Page_91">91</a>.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />FOR OLDER CHILDREN.</div>
+
+<p>27. Let one child represent an idol. He must stand motionless and give
+no sign of life. The others are to ask him questions and for favors. If the
+"idol" laughs, moves or speaks, he loses and another takes his place. Idols are
+lifeless things that cannot move, see, hear or speak.</p>
+
+<p>28. Children's blocks are useful in building a well, altar, castle, temple,
+chariot, etc. Have the children give a text or verse from the Bible referring
+to the objects builded. A Bible story may be told about the object, its history,
+use, etc.</p>
+
+<p>29. One child, or more as may be needed, can pose to represent a character
+or scene. The others are to guess the character represented. For example:
+A child can sit with hands upheld. A child on each side of him hold up
+the extended arms. They represent Moses with Aaron and Hur during the
+battle (Ex. xvii: 12).</p>
+
+<p>30. Charades, or words and scenes may be represented by the children
+in motion. The children may be divided into groups. One group will select
+a word and represent it in the presence of the others by motions. For example:
+Children come into the room and go through the motion of sowing ("Seeds"),
+reaping ("Harvest"), threshing with a flail ("Wheat and Chaff"), picking
+flowers ("Weeds and Flowers"), taking pictures ("Eye and Camera"). Many
+of the sermon subjects may be used in this manner. Cutting stone, measuring,
+eating husks, washing dirty face, etc. The other groups are to guess the word
+and have their turn.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>31. Children are always fond of riddles; especially when they are able
+to guess the answer. The suggested review questions at the close of each
+object sermon for afternoon church, may often be effectively used with slight
+changes. For example: "What is it that cannot see nor hear, but always knows
+when danger is near?" The answer is&mdash;"The Oyster."</p>
+
+<p>What is it which no boy or girl can see or hear, and the approach of which
+can not be made known by any of the natural senses? (Sin.)</p>
+
+<p>What is it which tells us when sin is near? (Conscience.)</p>
+
+<p>Have the children try to make up their own riddles from the objects
+shown and their uses, or lessons learned from the sermons.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />SLATES AND CRAYONS.</div>
+
+<p>32. Provide slates, or paper and pencils may be provided, and the children
+draw the object or something suggested by its use. Always have blank
+paper and pencils on hand for some of the games or exercises mentioned below.</p>
+
+<p>33. Cheap colored crayons can often be used with added value.</p>
+
+<p>34. Each Sunday appoint one child to take charge of the slates, papers
+and pencils, which are to be kept in a safe place and not disturbed during the
+week, and then to distribute them on the following Sunday.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />BUILDING AND WORD GAMES.</div>
+
+<p>35. Word building games are always interesting. Cut small squares of
+cardboard and plainly mark each with a letter. Many more vowels than consonants
+will be required. (These little squares with printed letters can be purchased
+at any toy-store.) Mix up the squares on a table, and the child who
+spells the largest number of names of places or objects mentioned in the sermons,
+using the letters on the squares, wins the game.</p>
+
+<p>36. This can be played in a variety of ways. For instance: Select the
+name of an object, person or place, and the one who first picks out the necessary
+letters to spell it, is declared the winner.</p>
+
+<p>37. Each child is given the same number of assorted letters and all try
+to make up the largest list of names from his portion of letters in a given time.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />BIBLE GUESSES.</div>
+
+<p>38. Tell a Bible story, or review one of the object sermons, omitting the
+names of characters or objects. Without warning, the one reciting the story
+stops, and the next player carries on the story if he has been able to guess the
+omitted names, without mentioning them. If he has not discovered or guessed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span>
+the right story, the next player takes it up, and so on until the story is completed
+and everyone knows it.</p>
+
+<p>39. One of the children goes out of the room and the others decide on
+some object used in a sermon, or a certain thing mentioned in the Bible, which
+is to be described. For example: A watch, telescope, or the Ark, Joseph's
+coat of many colors, etc. Upon entering the room, the child may ask all manner
+of questions which can be answered by "yes" and "no". When the right thing
+is guessed, another goes out of the room and the game is repeated. Two or
+more children, or groups, may be the guessers at the same time.</p>
+
+<p>40. The game of thinking is equally interesting. The leader thinks of
+some character, place or object in the sermons or mentioned in the Bible.
+The "thinker" then says&mdash;"I am thinking of some thing (person or place) and
+the name begins with 'C' (or the initial letter)." Each of the other players
+asks a question in turn, that can be answered by "yes" or "no". The questions
+are continued until some one guesses the name. The one who first guessed the
+name becomes the leader.</p>
+
+<p>41. Make word pictures by describing persons and scenes without mentioning
+names. The others are to guess what it is. For example: The leader
+may say&mdash;"I see some ladies walking beside the water. Suddenly they stop
+and listen. Then one of them wades into the water and finds something," etc.
+If the picture is not promptly guessed, the story or picture of Pharaoh's daughter
+finding the baby Moses (Ex. ii: 3) is further described, until the picture is
+made known. Other stories may be used in the same manner.</p>
+
+<p>42. One or two players go out. The others sit in line and choose a well
+known proverb, Bible verse, or sentence from the object sermon, having as
+many words as there are players. Each player having made certain what his
+word is, the others are called in. It is their duty to put the sentence together.
+They ask each player in turn a question on any subject, and in answering the
+player must use the particular word given him. The questions may be continued,
+and the word must always be used in the answer, until the one guessing
+has discovered the particular word that player has, and so on until all the words
+in their order are guessed and the sentence or proverb discovered.</p>
+
+<p>In the same way, instead of the questions, the particular word may be
+acted, as charades, until the person guessing has discovered each word and at
+length composed the complete sentence.</p>
+
+<p>43. Distribute paper and pencils. Let a single letter be selected and have
+each child write down the names of characters, objects and places mentioned
+in the sermons, or the Bible, that have the same initial letter. For example:
+The letter "A" may be selected, then would follow "Apple", "Adam", "Apostles",
+"Angels", "Army", "Asia", etc. Other initial letters may be selected and
+the game continued.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>44. Have some one call out and write down a Bible name beginning with
+"A", as "Abram". The next one is to think of a name beginning with "B", as
+"Benjamin". "C" would come next, as "Caleb", then "David", "Eli", etc.
+The object is to see how many letters of the alphabet can be used and how
+often without repetition. Also names of places, objects and titles may be used.</p>
+
+<p>45. Ask the children to write down as many as they can of trees, or stones,
+flowers, birds, instruments, animals that are mentioned in the Bible.</p>
+
+<p>46. Bible geography can be made interesting and profitable. Get a shallow
+box and fill it with fine sand. Cities and countries may be wonderfully
+made. A small pile of the sand will represent a mountain, strips of blue or
+white paper can be used for rivers and lakes. Use small blocks and spools for
+houses and temples, small pebbles for roads. The people can be represented by
+matches and trees by tiny branches or leaves. When Palestine, for instance, is
+to be studied, small pieces of paper may be laid on the sand for the cities; the
+names or initials of the cities should be written on the pieces of paper.</p>
+
+<p>47. Maps may be drawn and colored crayons used to show the roads,
+water, cities, buildings, etc.</p>
+
+<p>48. From one of the sermons or a Bible story, select the name of a person,
+place or thing. Have each player write a sentence with the selected name
+embodied in it. When the sentences are read aloud, it will show quite original
+uses made of the name.</p>
+
+<p>49. To supply missing letters is an easy, simple game. Write names of
+sermon objects or Bible characters with letters omitted. The children will enjoy
+supplying the missing letters necessary to complete the name. Sentences and
+Bible verses may be used with missing words for the children to supply.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />BIBLE DRILLS.</div>
+
+<p>50. Bible drills are entertaining and especially valuable to children old
+enough to read and commit the lessons to memory. By a simple method the
+children can figure out the books in the Bible and their classifications. By
+pursuing the studies, the names of the books will soon be learned and in their
+regular order.</p>
+
+<p>51. Have the children count the letters in "Old" (3) and "Testament"
+(9). Place them together (39) and it gives the number of books in the Old
+Testament.</p>
+
+<p>52. Now multiply these two figures (3 &times; 9) and the result will give the
+number of books in the New Testament (27).</p>
+
+<p>53. Add together the two sets of figures (39 plus 27) and you will find
+the whole number of books in the Bible (66).</p>
+
+<p>54. The figure "6" is found in the number of books in the Bible (66), the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span>
+number of known authors or writers of the books (36), and the number of
+years during which the Bible was written (1600).</p>
+
+<p>Thus we have 36 authors, 66 books, 16 centuries.</p>
+
+<p>55. The books of the Old Testament may be divided into five groups: as
+the Pentateuch (Books of Moses), History, Poetry, Major Prophets and Minor
+Prophets. Have the children trace the outline of a hand on paper and the
+thumb and fingers will represent the groups. Thus, the thumb will represent
+the Pentateuch; the first finger, the History; the second finger, Poetry; the
+third finger, Major Prophets; and the fourth finger, Minor Prophets.</p>
+
+<p>56. The New Testament may also be divided into five groups and represented
+by the other hand in the same manner. The five groups are Biography,
+History, Pauline Epistles (or Paul's Letters), General Epistles (or letters),
+and Prophesy.</p>
+
+<p>57. The number of books in each group of the Old Testament are: 5 plus
+12 plus 5 plus 5 plus 12&mdash;equals 39 books. In the New Testament, the five
+groups are made up of 4 plus 1 plus 13 plus 8 plus 1&mdash;equals 27 books.</p>
+
+<p>58. The name of each group with the number of books in the group, may
+be written on separate cards. The cards are shuffled and the children sort them
+and place them together in their proper order, forming the Old Testament,
+then the New Testament.</p>
+
+<p>59. The names of the different books which make up the groups are
+looked up and written under the name of the group. Take the groups in their
+regular order. Thus, group one would be Pentateuch, 5 books: Gen&acute;e-sis,
+Ex&acute;o-dus, Le-vit&acute;i-cus, Num&acute;bers, Deu&acute;ter-on&acute;o-my. The second and fifth groups,
+where there are twelve books each, may be subdivided into threes and fours for
+greater ease in committing to memory.</p>
+
+<p>60. If the proper spelling of the names has also been committed to memory,
+or learned, then a regular spelling-bee may be held and the names of the
+Bible books used for the test words. The same tests may be made with the spelling
+of names of persons, places and things mentioned in the Bible.</p>
+
+<p>61. After the books of the Bible, in their order, have been learned, open
+the Bible and call out the book at which it is open. Name another book and ask
+which direction (toward the front or back of the Bible) shall the pages be
+turned to find that book. Many other test questions may be asked, such as:
+"What book is between Job and Proverbs?" "In which group is Lamentations
+to be found?" "Between what books is that of Luke?"</p>
+
+<p>62. Arrange the children in a row, or let them take their places in tents as
+shown on page <a href="#Page_60">60</a>, and then, as in a spelling-bee, ask the preceding or the following
+questions, or any other Bible questions that would be suited to the age of the
+children. When one fails to answer he loses his place and the child who gives
+the correct answer moves forward. The element of play is thus maintained.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />BIBLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>63. Who was the first man? Adam.</p>
+
+<p>Who was the first woman? Eve.</p>
+
+<p>Who was the first murderer? Cain (Gen. iv: 8).</p>
+
+<p>Whom did he kill? His brother Abel.</p>
+
+<p>Who went to Heaven without dying? Enoch and Elijah.</p>
+
+<p>How old was Enoch "when God took him"? 365 years (Gen. v: 23, 24). The
+same number of years that there are days in a year.</p>
+
+<p>Who was the oldest man? Methuselah.</p>
+
+<p>How old was Methuselah when he died? 969 years (Gen. v: 27).</p>
+
+<p>Who built the Ark? Noah (Gen. vi).</p>
+
+<p>How many persons were saved in the Ark? Eight (Gen. vii: 7). Noah and his
+wife, his three sons and their wives.</p>
+
+<p>How old was Noah at the time of the Flood? 600 years (Gen. vii: 6).</p>
+
+<p>Who had the coat of many colors? Joseph (Gen. xxxvii: 3).</p>
+
+<p>How many brothers did Joseph have? Eleven (Gen. xlii: 3, 4).</p>
+
+<p>What did they do with Joseph? Cast him into a pit and afterwards sold him to
+the Ishmaelitish merchantmen (Gen. xxxvii: 28).</p>
+
+<p>Where did the Ishmaelitish merchantmen take Joseph? To Egypt.</p>
+
+<p>To whom did they sell him? Potiphar (Gen. xxxix: 1).</p>
+
+<p>Who lied about Joseph and had him cast into prison? Potiphar's wife.</p>
+
+<p>Who were in the prison with Joseph? The king's chief butler and chief baker
+(Gen. xl: 1, 3).</p>
+
+<p>Who was King of Egypt at the time Joseph was in Egypt? Pharaoh.</p>
+
+<p>Why did Pharaoh make Joseph ruler? That he might gather the grain during
+the seven years of plenty to lay up in store against the seven years of famine.</p>
+
+<p>What did Pharaoh dream? About seven fat kine, or cows, and seven lean cows
+(Gen. xli).</p>
+
+<p>What did Joseph do with the grain he gathered during the seven years of plenty?
+Put in great store houses.</p>
+
+<p>Why did his brothers come to Joseph in Egypt during the famine? That they
+might get food (Gen. xlii).</p>
+
+<p>Did his father, Jacob, and family go to live in Egypt? Yes.</p>
+
+<p>How old was Joseph when he died? 110 years (Gen. l: 26).</p>
+
+<p>How long did Jacob's descendants remain in Egypt? A little more than two
+hundred years.</p>
+
+<p>Why did they desire to leave Egypt? Because of the oppressions and cruelty
+of Pharaoh (Ex. i: 8, 14).</p>
+
+<p>Whom did God raise up to lead the Children of Israel out of Egypt? Moses.</p>
+
+<p>How long did they wander in the wilderness? Forty years.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Was Moses permitted to enter the Promised Land? No.</p>
+
+<p>Who led the Children of Israel into the Land of Canaan, which was the Promised
+Land? Joshua.</p>
+
+<p>How did the Children of Israel cross the Red Sea and the Jordan? The waters
+were divided and they crossed "dry shod."</p>
+
+<p>Who was the strongest man? Samson.</p>
+
+<p>Who was the meekest man? Moses.</p>
+
+<p>Who, as a ruler, was a man after God's own heart? David.</p>
+
+<p>Who built the Temple? Solomon.</p>
+
+<p>Who went to Heaven in a chariot of fire? Elijah.</p>
+
+<p>On whom did the mantle of Elijah fall? Elisha.</p>
+
+<p>Who was swallowed by the great fish? Jonah (Jonah i: 17).</p>
+
+<p>Who destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem and carried the Children of Israel
+into captivity? Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 24, 25).</p>
+
+<p>Where did he take them? To Babylon (2 Kings 25).</p>
+
+<p>How long were they captive in Babylon? Seventy years.</p>
+
+<p>Who interpreted Nebuchadnezzar's dream? Daniel.</p>
+
+<p>How did Nebuchadnezzar reward Daniel? Made him ruler over Babylon (Daniel
+ii: 48, 49).</p>
+
+<p>What were the names of Daniel's three friends? Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.</p>
+
+<p>What heathen names were given them instead? Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego
+(Daniel i: 6, 7).</p>
+
+<p>What befell the three friends of Daniel? They were cast into the burning fiery
+furnace.</p>
+
+<p>Why were they cast into this furnace? Because they refused to fall down and
+worship a great golden image which Nebuchadnezzar, the King, had set up
+in the plain of Dura.</p>
+
+<p>Were they consumed in the furnace? No, God delivered them (Daniel iii).</p>
+
+<p>What befell Daniel years later, when Darius was King? He was cast into the
+den of lions (Daniel vi).</p>
+
+<p>Why was he cast into the den of lions? Because he prayed to the true God.</p>
+
+<p>Did the lions harm Daniel? No, God stopped the mouths of the lions and delivered
+Daniel.</p></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<p><i>The author's intense interest in the safeguarding and saving of the boys and
+girls from the evils which have wrought the ruin of such countless multitudes,
+prompts in connection with this introductory word, to call the special attention
+of the parents to an advertisement which has been placed at the close of this
+volume.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p>
+<h2>Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate Into the City of Child-Soul</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>THE OYSTER AND THE CRAB.</h2>
+
+<h3>CONSCIENCE.</h3>
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions To Parents</span>:&mdash;It will awaken the curiosity and add greatly to
+the interest of the children if the parent will have them secure during the week
+preceding a couple of oyster shells. In most of cities and towns, these can be
+easily obtained. It is better for the children themselves to secure them, because
+it makes them participants and important factors in what is to be done. Do not
+tell them in advance what use is to be made of the oyster shells; simply say that
+they are for use in connection with Sunday afternoon.</p>
+
+<p>Introduce the play idea from the beginning. Let the children arrange the
+chairs to "drive to church," as shown in the preceding pictures. If there are two
+children who both want to do the driving, suggest that one can drive to church
+and the other can drive when returning from church&mdash;and a third may drive from
+the house to the stable when the horses are to be put away.</p>
+
+<p>At the church service let everything be done reverently, and make it a matter
+of real worship. One of the children can act as usher, and if there is but one
+child, this one can usher her dolls to seats; or imaginary people may be shown to
+seats. All of this will appeal very strongly to the child. Select hymns suited to
+the children's tastes and such as they can sing. Do not sing too many verses.
+Children like variety.</p>
+
+<p>The service ought to be such as is in harmony with that regularly attended
+by the parents, and such as the children are familiar with. It may be as informal
+as the Salvation Army, or a greatly abridged form of the "Episcopal Service" can
+be used. The Lord's Prayer may be repeated in unison, or sentence prayers used,
+or a brief selection from the Prayer Book. The preaching by one of the children
+should precede the reading of the Object sermon.</p>
+
+<p>After carrying out the idea of the church service, the other ideas presented
+may be introduced, and after the imaginary drive home some simple refreshments
+can be served, as also mentioned in the chapter of "Suggestions to Parents" on
+<a href="#Page_17">page 17</a>.</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i026a.png" width="300" height="154" alt="Oyster and Shell." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Oyster and Shell.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to speak to
+you to-day about "Having a good conscience." (I Peter
+iii: 16.) This is rather a hard subject, but I desire to make
+it plain by the use of a familiar object. "What's this I
+have in my hand?" I rather expected that you would say an oyster;
+but, really it is
+nothing but an oyster
+shell. I suppose
+you have all
+eaten stewed oysters,
+or oyster broth.
+I remember, when
+a little boy, that
+one day when we
+had stewed oysters
+for supper, I found a little yellow something in my broth. I did not
+know whether my mother had put it in purposely, or whether it had
+fallen in by accident; whether I should push it aside of my plate,
+that it might be thrown with the crumbs to the chickens, or whether
+I should eat it to discover what it was.</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/i026b.png" width="200" height="132" alt="Little Crab." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Little Crab.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I suppose you have all seen these little
+animals in your soup, and know that they
+are called crabs. Now, do you know how
+the crab comes to be in with the oyster? I
+will tell you how it is. The oyster lives in
+the water at the bottom of the bay, and some bright day, when the
+sun is shining down genial and warm, just the same as in the summer,
+we open the doors, and sit out on the porch to enjoy the cool
+of the day; so the oyster opens his shells and lets the cool
+currents of water move gently through his house. But while<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>
+lying there with his shells wide open, along comes a great
+hungry fish. He sees the oyster, but the oyster cannot see him.
+The oyster cannot see, for he has no eyes. He cannot hear, for he
+has no ears. Of the five senses which each of us have, hearing,
+seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling, the oyster can only tell of the
+presence of his enemy when he feels himself being dragged out of
+his house, and being quickly swallowed by the fish. But his knowledge
+of what is happening only comes when it is too late.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 322px;">
+<img src="images/i027.png" width="322" height="151" alt="Fish Going to Eat the Oyster." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Fish Going to Eat the Oyster.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, with the little crab, who also lives in the same neighborhood
+with the oyster, it is quite different. The crab has eyes, and
+can see the hungry fish that comes to eat him up. He has legs, with
+which to try and run away; but the fish can swim so much faster
+than the little crab can run that he is sure to be devoured before the
+race is half over. So what do you think the little crab does? He
+crawls along quietly, and creeps into the shell with the oyster, and
+the oyster and the crab enter into a kind of partnership for mutual<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span>
+protection. After this, when the oyster opens his shells, the little
+crab uses his eyes very diligently to look around, and watch for the
+approach of any fish. As soon as he spies any sly fish coming near,
+he pinches the oyster, and immediately the oyster closes his shells
+very tightly, and the oyster and the crab are both within, safely protected
+from the fish.</p>
+
+<p>Now, boys and girls, we are something like the oyster. We
+are constantly exposed to the danger of being destroyed by sin.
+We cannot see sin, we cannot hear sin, we cannot perceive it by any
+of our senses. So God has given us a conscience, which means "to
+know with God." When you are tempted to do a sinful act, it is
+conscience that quickly whispers, "Now that is wicked," "If you do
+that, God will be displeased."</p>
+
+<p>Let me illustrate this thought. One real pleasant day, when
+the birds are singing, and everything is attractive out of doors,
+Johnnie thinks how hard it is to be studying his lessons in what he
+calls a prison of a school-room. He knows that papa and mamma
+will not give him permission to stay at home; so a little before nine
+o'clock, as he saunters towards the school, Satan suggests to him to
+play "hookey," and when he comes to the corner of the street, looking
+back to be sure that no one sees him, he turns the corner to remain
+out of school, intending to come home at the regular time for dinner
+and escape discovery. Just as soon as he turns the corner, and even
+before that, conscience has seen the danger, and whispers
+strong and clear, "Johnnie, this is wicked; you will surely get into
+trouble, and you will make papa and mamma sad, and also displease
+God." Now, if Johnnie does not turn right back when conscience
+warns him, he is sure to go on without having any pleasure
+all that forenoon, because his conscience continues to warn and
+reprove him.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 359px;">
+<img src="images/i029.png" width="359" height="500" alt="&quot;Willie is more frightened than the dog.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Willie is more frightened than the dog.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Or suppose that Willie goes down the street and sees Mr.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span>
+Brown's dog a little ways off. He looks around quickly for a stone,
+and immediately conscience says, "Now, Willie, don't hit the poor
+dog, for the stone will cause him pain, just as it would if some one
+were to hit you with a stone." But Willie does not listen to conscience.
+He throws the stone with all his might. It strikes on the
+pavement, just by the side of the dog, glances and breaks in many
+pieces the large plate glass in the window of the drug store.</p>
+
+<p>Willie is more frightened than the dog, and without a moment's
+forethought he runs around the corner, to get out of sight.
+And after concealing himself for a time in the alley, he steals
+quietly into the house at the back door. How he dreads to meet his
+father and mother. Every time the door bell rings he thinks surely
+that it is the druggist or the policeman. Oh! how this sin pains him;
+just like the oyster would be hurt if he does not heed the little crab,
+when he warns him that the fish is coming to destroy him. If
+Willie had only listened to conscience, what sin and trouble it
+would have saved him. So, boys and girls, God has given each of
+us a conscience, and if we want to be saved from sin and suffering,
+we should always be quick to obey our conscience. Let each of us
+try and "keep a good conscience."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Can the oyster see or hear? Can it feel? What often destroys
+the oyster? What lives down under the water near the oyster? Can the little
+crab see? Can he get away from the fish? How does he assist the oyster? How
+does he warn the oyster of danger? Can boys or girls see sin? What has God
+given each of us to warn us of danger when sin is near? Does every boy and
+girl have a conscience? Does conscience always give warning? Do boys and
+girls always obey their conscience? Should conscience always be obeyed? Will
+you always try to obey conscience in the future? The parent may ask additional
+questions or make application in any other manner they deem best.</p>
+
+<p>Next Sunday the sermon will be about the worm in the apple. Let one of
+the children get a nice, large, perfect apple, and also another apple which has been
+dwarfed and deformed because of a worm inside the apple. These will be the
+objects which we shall use next Sunday.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE WORM IN THE APPLE.</h2>
+
+<h3>SIN IN THE HUMAN HEART.</h3>
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions to Parents</span>:&mdash;The objects used to-day are a large perfect
+apple and a stunted, wormy apple. Have also a knife with which, at the proper
+time, to open the wormy apple. With these preparations made, let the children
+"drive to church" after the manner suggested for last Sunday.</p>
+
+<p>After the singing of a hymn or two, prayer and collection, let one of the
+children, in the manner of the preacher speaking to his audience, tell in his own
+way of the "Oyster and Crab" and of God's purpose in giving us a conscience,
+and let him or her draw the moral lessons and impress the spiritual truths. Even
+if it is done in but few words, or a faltering way, do not embarrass or discourage
+by criticisms. Speak words of encouragement. If preferred, the little sermon
+may be a presentation of the sermon preached by the pastor in the morning, or
+one child may present the object sermon of last Sunday and another child the
+sermon by the pastor in the morning. The more who take part, the better, as
+variety adds to the interest.</p>
+
+<p>Then gather the children around close so they can see the pictures as you
+read the following sermon. Have the apples at hand also for demonstration.</p></div>
+
+<div class='cap'>THE object which I have chosen to-day, is one with which I
+am sure every boy and girl is thoroughly familiar. The
+moment you see it you recognize it. This large and beautiful
+apple is one of the most perfect of its kind, large in
+size, beautiful in color, and one which tempts the appetite of any
+one who is hungry.</div>
+
+<p>Now, boys and girls, I have here another object. Can you
+tell me what this is? I expected that you would say that it was an
+apple, and that is true. But you have not told me the whole truth
+concerning it. This is not only an apple, but it is a wormy apple.
+It did not grow as large as the other, and, by looking at the outside,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span>
+I see that it is defective. It is stunted, like wormy apples quite
+universally are. You might think that the worm went into this
+apple because it was not full grown and strong and large, the same
+as it is sometimes thought that boys who have never improved their
+advantages, but have failed to become noble and good, therefore
+sin has entered their hearts. The truth is just the reverse; wickedness
+first possessed their hearts, and that has been the cause of their
+failure to improve their opportunities, and to become manly, and
+noble, and good, and kind. If they had first got the evil and sin
+out of their hearts, they would surely have stood a much better
+chance. They would have become Christians, and have grown up
+more and more like Christ, to be good, and kind, and generous, and
+useful.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i032.png" width="300" height="130" alt="Worm in the Apple." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Worm in the Apple.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I want to ask you a question concerning this worm. But to be
+sure that we are not mistaken, let me take a knife and cut this apple
+in two, and see whether or not there is a worm inside. Just as I said,
+this is a wormy apple. It has evidently had two worms in it. Here
+is one of them, and the other has taken its departure. Now, boys
+and girls, I want to ask you, did this worm eat his way into the
+apple, or did he eat his way out of the apple? Quite as I anticipated.
+I expected that you would say that he ate his way into
+the apple; but the fact is, he ate his way out of the apple. I am
+sure that you will ask immediately, at least in your minds, how
+then did he get in, if he ate his way out? I will tell you how it
+was. Early last spring, just after the apple trees had been in blossom,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span>
+and when this apple had just begun to form on one of the
+branches, there came along a bug and stung this apple, and deposited
+in the inside the germ of the worm. As the summer grew
+warmer, and the apple grew larger, the germ began to develop,
+until finally it grew into a
+worm. When it began to
+grow strong, it discovered
+that it was confined in the
+interior of something, and
+soon it began to eat, and
+continued until it ate its way
+out of the apple. This other
+worm, which still remained in, had continued to eat in the various
+portions of the apple, and possibly because of having less bodily
+vigor had concluded to remain there for a time, but you can see from
+the inside of the apple that it has done great injury, at the very core
+or heart, and I suppose that if it had been left to itself, in the course
+of a few days, or a few weeks at most, it also would have eaten its
+way out of the apple, in order to escape from its confinement.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i033.png" width="300" height="141" alt="Insect Stinging Bud." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Insect Stinging Bud.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, boys and girls, this worm represents sin in the human
+heart, or wickedness possibly presents the thought better, and when
+you see a boy or girl doing wrong, they are simply giving outward
+expression to the wickedness which exists in their hearts. Boys
+are bad, not so much because the influences by which they are surrounded
+are bad, but because their hearts are sinful, and wicked,
+and bad. But I am sure that you will want to know how wickedness
+gets into the human heart. I will tell you how it is. Way
+back in the spring-time of the history of the human race, way back
+in the Garden of Eden, soon after God had created Adam and
+Eve, Satan came and inspired in the hearts of these first people
+the desire to disobey God. God told Adam and Eve that they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>
+should not eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree, and that when they
+did they would die, that is, they would be separated from God.
+Satan came and told them that they would not die, but that when
+they ate of the fruit of this tree they would become very wise.
+They believed Satan rather than God, and they did that which
+was wicked and wrong. And so throughout all the generations
+since, there has been that willingness to believe Satan and to do
+what he wants us to do, rather than to believe God and do what
+God would have us to do.</p>
+
+<p>Boys and girls who find themselves inclined to disobey their
+father or mother, to be disrespectful to those who are older than
+they, to do wrong on the Sabbath, to remain away from the Sunday-school
+and church, and to enjoy the beautiful spring-day, by
+strolling through the fields or wandering through the woods, do
+so, not alone because the day is pleasant or because of the opportunities
+from which others turn away, but because there is wickedness
+in their hearts. So when boys quarrel and fight, or steal, or do
+any other thing that is wrong, it is not so much the influences by
+which they are surrounded, the temptation from without, but the
+wickedness and the evil and the sinfulness which there is in the
+human heart, eating its way out through their heart into their lives,
+and deforming their lives, which otherwise would be upright, honorable
+and manly and Christ-like. I trust that when you are
+tempted to do wrong you will recognize the fact that there is evil in
+your heart, and that you will go to Jesus and earnestly pray Him to
+take away this evil out of your heart, and to give you a new, clean
+heart. Just the same as with these apples, if you had the privilege
+of choosing, I am sure you would prefer the large one, which has
+not been spoiled because of the destructive worm inside, so I trust
+you will choose to have the good heart, which God can give you,
+rather than the heart that has wickedness and sin within. If you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span>
+will go to God in prayer and ask Him, He will give you a good
+heart, a true heart, one that has no sin and no wickedness within.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Questions.&mdash;Which is nicer, a big, red apple or a little stunted one? What
+prevented the little apple from growing big and beautiful? When did the little
+worm get into the apple? If it had not been for the worm in the apple, would
+the apple have grown large and well formed? What causes boys and girls to
+desire to do wrong? Who tempted Adam and Eve to do wrong? Did they
+listen? Did they believe God or did they believe Satan? Are boys and girls
+still tempted to do wrong? Are they likely to yield to temptation? To whom
+should we go when we are tempted to do wrong? Who alone can cleanse our
+hearts from sin? Should we always go and ask God for strength when we are
+tempted? Which would you choose, a good heart or a wicked heart?</p>
+
+<p>Suggest to the children (or better still select one or have them select one)
+to procure for next Sunday some weeds that grow by the wayside and also a
+few cut flowers or potted plants.</p>
+
+<p>After "driving home" from church and after putting the horses away,
+which little action gives the children a few moments' diversion, then other
+methods contained in the chapter of "Suggestions to Parents" can be selected
+according to the age, intelligence and interest of the children. After this, refreshments
+or whatever is best suited to the thought of the parents and the conditions
+of the household may be introduced.</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i035.png" width="400" height="148" alt="Sitting reading" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p>
+<h2>WAYSIDE WEEDS AND GARDEN FLOWERS.</h2>
+
+<h3>NEGLECTED VERSUS CHRISTIAN CHILDREN.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions To Parents</span>:&mdash;The objects to be used to-day are a bouquet of
+flowers or some potted plants and a bunch of weeds that grow by the wayside.
+These will illustrate the difference between neglected, untaught and undisciplined
+children, and the children of a well trained household. Make the lesson
+impressive, so that the children will appreciate that the restrictions and discipline
+which are imposed upon them are all for their own good&mdash;that without these
+careful attentions they would grow up like the children in the slums. The
+neglected character of the clothing of undisciplined and uncared for children
+is only indicative of the minds and hearts and character of these children.</p>
+
+<p>Arrange the chairs, "drive to church"; let the ushers show the different
+real or imaginary persons to seats. Then let the hymn, prayer or "opening
+service" precede the "preaching" of the object sermon of last Sunday or the
+regular sermon at the morning church service by one or more of the children,
+after which a hymn may be sung, and the parent gather the children close so
+they can see the pictures, and read the following sermon on "Wayside Weeds
+and Garden Flowers." During the reading, or before, or after, let the children
+gain the impressive lessons from the colored picture which so beautifully illustrates
+the sermon.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 356px;">
+<img src="images/i037.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="Wayside Weeds and Garden Flowers" title="" />
+<span class="caption"><span style="margin-left: 14em;"><small>Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall.</small></span><br />Wayside Weeds and Garden Flowers</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class='cap'>THE land of Palestine, in which Jesus lived, has always
+been noted for its flowers. They grow everywhere in
+great abundance, and oftentimes in very great perfection
+and beauty. One time, when Jesus was preaching on the
+mountain, He used the flowers which were growing on the side of
+the mountain, to preach an object sermon to the multitudes about
+Him. He said, "Consider the lilies of the field; how they grow;
+they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that Solomon,
+in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these." (Matt.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span> vi: 28, 29.)
+Let us to-day take the same object lesson, to set forth
+to our minds a clearer understanding of some truths, which are very
+important to every father and mother, as well as every boy and girl.</div>
+
+<p>As you see, I have here two bouquets. This, which I now
+hold in my hand, is indeed very beautiful. Here are some lovely
+roses, some tulips, some peonies. Here is a dahlia and heliotrope.
+Here are some tube roses, and a great variety of other flowers,
+which together constitute a very beautiful bouquet.</p>
+
+<p>Now, here is another bouquet. I see you smile, but indeed it
+is a bouquet. I spent a great deal of time gathering these flowers,
+at which you laugh. I sought them in such places as would afford
+the best varieties of these several kinds.</p>
+
+<p>Now, boys and girls, I want to ask you where these flowers
+grew? I will hold up this beautiful bouquet and ask the question.
+I know what will be your answer; you will say that I bought it
+from a man who keeps a hot-house, or that I gathered them in some
+flower garden which was very carefully tended; and such, indeed,
+is the case.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I will hold up this other bouquet. Can you tell me
+where I gathered these? I did not think that you would have
+much difficulty in determining. I gathered them along the roadside,
+in the fields and in the woods. These flowers are what the
+farmer calls "weeds." Here is a rose with a single leaf that grew
+in a neglected corner, along the outskirts of a woods. It is a genuine
+rose, but it is by no means pretty, or at all to be compared with
+those in the other bouquet.</p>
+
+<p>I will tell you why there is such a difference in the appearance
+of these two bouquets. One grew in the garden, where it was protected
+by a fence from being tramped upon. The weeds that
+grew about it were all pulled out of the ground, and the stalk upon
+which this flower grew was given a fair chance, so that it might<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span>
+grow successfully. The roots of the plants were carefully nourished,
+and whenever there was not sufficient rain the flowers were
+all watered, and thus the plants and flowers grew to their greatest
+perfection and beauty.</p>
+
+<p>Now, these other flowers which I gathered in the fields and
+along the roadside and in the woods, have had a hard time of it.
+In their growth they had to contend with other weeds. They
+have been tramped upon by the cattle. They have been scorched
+by the sun. And year after year they have grown in these
+neglected quarters with great difficulty, consequently they are
+stunted and have never attained any perfection or beauty.</p>
+
+<p>Do you know that these very beautiful flowers in this bouquet
+at one time grew just the same as the flowers in the other bouquet?
+But they were removed from the roadside, and from the fields and
+from the woods, and placed by themselves where they could be
+properly cared for and cultivated, and they grew more beautiful
+from year to year, until we have this present satisfactory result.</p>
+
+<p>Boys and girls are very much like flowers. Those who are
+neglected, who are permitted to walk the streets, to stroll along the
+roads and over the fields, to go along the streams fishing on Sunday,
+instead of being in Sunday-school and in church, those who
+are permitted to run out at nights and play with all kinds of company&mdash;these
+are the boys and girls who are like the flowers which
+grow by the roadside. Nothing very beautiful, or very good, or
+very perfect can reasonably be expected from them.</p>
+
+<p>This beautiful bouquet represents those boys and girls who
+have Christian fathers and mothers, who surround them by influences
+which are well calculated to make them pure in thought and
+upright in life, so that they may grow up to be good Christian men
+and women. These flowers represent the boys and girls who grow
+up in the Sunday-school and in the Church, who give their hearts<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span>
+to the Lord Jesus Christ, and grow up into His likeness, and into
+His image, and into His stature, and become noble Christian men
+and women.</p>
+
+<p>When parents permit their children to run wild, they cannot
+expect them to grow up Christians. It is only by culture and education
+and Christian influences that they can be improved, so as to
+become honorable and upright.</p>
+
+<p>Nearly all the products of the field have been improved by
+cultivation, just the same as these flowers have been improved.
+Wheat in its native state, as it may still be found in France and
+Italy along the shores of the Mediterranean, was a stunted and
+straggling plant, with a small and inferior seed, but after long
+years of patient and continued cultivation, it has grown to its present
+plump and prolific proportions. All the beautiful fruits which now
+grow in our orchards were at one time unsightly and undesirable.
+The apple was small and sour, and unpalatable; but by pruning
+and grafting and fertilizing, it has grown to be not only beautiful
+to the eye, but delicious to the taste. The acrid and unwholesome
+berries, which formerly grew on the mountain ash, have been developed
+into the sweet and juicy pear. By cultivation, the acrid and
+bitter sloe has grown into the beautiful plum. The same is also
+true of the potato, the turnip and the cabbage.</p>
+
+<p>Boys and girls can only be developed into useful men and
+women by the influence of the week-day and Sunday-school, the
+Christian home and the Church, by reading and studying the Bible
+and other good books.</p>
+
+<p>When you are restricted or corrected by your parents, you
+may oftentimes feel very much irritated and may feel rebellious,
+and may think that you do not have as many privileges or as much
+freedom as some of the other boys and girls whom you know.
+But you must remember that all this is done by your parents for<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span>
+your good, and later on in life you will see the value of it
+all and be very grateful to your parents for what they have
+done for you.</p>
+
+<p>When I was a boy, in the little village where I lived they
+organized a cannon company of six or eight boys, who were to
+accompany the men who went to other villages to listen to political
+speeches before elections, and then to march in a torch-light procession.
+I was at that time a boy about twelve years old. I was
+asked to join. The boys were all to wear red blouses and red caps,
+and to my thought just then, nothing in the world was so much to
+be desired as the torch-light procession and the red blouse and cap,
+and to be permitted to march behind the drum and the fife, hauling
+the little cannon after us.</p>
+
+<p>I shall never forget how I cried and how ugly I felt toward
+my father when he would not let me be one of the cannon boys
+and wear a red blouse and a red cap. He said that at night I
+ought to be at home and in bed, and not be exposed to possible
+bad influences, the danger of catching cold and of other bad results
+which he could clearly see, but which I, at that time, thought were
+only imaginary.</p>
+
+<p>When I grew to be a man, I saw that my father was right,
+and later when at intervals I journeyed back to my boyhood home
+and visited the cemetery, I frequently placed one elbow on the
+tomb-stone of my father and the other elbow on the tomb-stone of
+my mother, and with my face buried in my hands thanked God
+that He had given me Christian parents who were wise and judicious
+enough not to let me have my own way in all things when I
+was a boy, but who had restricted me and guided me wisely and
+well.</p>
+
+<p>So, boys and girls, it will be with you when you have grown
+to the estate of manhood and womanhood. You will be, oh, so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span>
+thankful again and again that father and mother have oftentimes
+denied you things which you have most desired to have.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Questions.&mdash;Which are the prettier, flowers which are neglected by the
+roadside, or those which are cultivated in the garden? Are boys and girls like
+flowers? Which boys and girls are the best, those who are neglected and not
+taught, or those who are cared for and carefully trained? Is it more pleasant
+for boys and girls to have their own way in everything, or would they prefer
+to be taught and trained by their parents? Which kind of flowers are the
+heathen boys and girls like? Can wild flowers be made more beautiful by care
+and cultivation? Can the boys and girls in heathen lands be made like Christian
+boys and girls? What is necessary to effect this change? How can Bibles and
+missionaries be sent to them? Did the writer of this book want to have his own
+way when he was a boy? What did he want to be? What kind of a cap and
+blouse did he want to wear? When he became a man, was he thankful to his
+father for not allowing him to have his own way at that time? Will all good
+boys and girls, when they become men and women, be thankful to their parents
+for right training?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i043.png" width="400" height="219" alt="&quot;The Cannon Boys.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;The Cannon Boys.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span></p>
+<h2>NUTS.</h2>
+
+<h3>GOD MEANS THAT WE MUST WORK.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">suggestion</span>:&mdash;The objects used are some nuts of various kinds.</p>
+
+<p>If the parent has not already familiarized himself with the different methods
+of entertainment in connection with the reading of the object sermon to the
+children, he would do well to turn to the chapter on "Suggestions to Parents"
+on <a href="#Page_17">page 17</a> and introduce some one or more of the play ideas which have accomplished
+so much of pleasure and profit in many homes.</p>
+
+<p>Arrange chairs and "drive to church," let the audience, both real and imaginary
+be shown to seats, and after the opening service let one of the children
+in his or her own way present the lessons remembered from the sermon of last
+Sunday, or recast what was said by the pastor in his morning sermon. After
+the collection and singing, let the children "drive home" and let refreshments
+or some one of the Scriptural entertainments previously suggested round out
+the pleasure and profit of Sunday afternoon.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>NOW, boys and girls, I have here some hickory nuts, walnuts,
+butternuts, chestnuts, and filberts, or hazel nuts as
+they are sometimes called, and I want to tell you something
+that I suppose God means to teach us by these nuts.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i044.png" width="400" height="139" alt="Nuts." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Nuts.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Many people remember that when Adam and Eve were
+driven out of Eden, God told them that "In the sweat of thy face<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span>
+shalt thou eat bread" (Gen. iii: 19), and also that God drove them
+out of the garden to "till the ground from whence man was taken."
+(Gen. iii: 23.) On this account some people suppose that if Adam
+and Eve had not sinned it would never have been necessary for us
+to work, but that is a mistake. If you turn to the second chapter of
+Genesis, in the fifteenth verse, you will find that it says, "The Lord
+God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress
+it and to keep it." So you see that Adam was required to work,
+even before the fall. Of course his work was not as severe as it was
+after he was driven out of Eden and his labor brought him a richer
+fruitage.</p>
+
+<p>Now, what do these nuts teach us? I think that most all boys
+and girls like to eat hickory nuts and butternuts, and chestnuts and
+filberts, and indeed all kinds of nuts. But did you ever stop to
+think that God has made it necessary that we should crack the shell
+before we can eat the kernel that is inside? God has purposed to
+teach us that labor is necessary before we can eat even of that which
+He gives us, so on the outside of this desired food he places the
+shell, in some instances hard and difficult to be broken, in order to
+teach us that labor is necessary before we can eat of His gifts.</p>
+
+<p>Now the same thing is true with regard to the grain that grows
+in the field. No one ever saw potatoes grow without being planted
+and cultivated. Rye and oats and wheat do not grow wild. Weeds
+will grow without being sown or planted, but grain and vegetables
+not only have to be planted, but have to be taken care of. Possibly
+you might think that my statement was not wholly correct, because
+we go out into the orchard and gather apples and pears and peaches,
+and other kinds of fruit which have no hard shells on them, and
+which do not have to be planted in the spring of the year. But do
+you know that we could not gather this kind of rich fruit from the
+trees unless trees of these kinds had been cultivated for long centuries,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span>
+grafted and developed so as to produce the rich fruit which
+is now placed upon our tables? So you see that even this has cost
+labor, and if we were to neglect the trees in the orchard, it would
+only be a few years until they would produce only a very small
+variety of fruit, and even that would be sour and have an unpleasant
+taste.</p>
+
+<p>But God means to teach us this lesson also in another way.
+Man has found it very necessary to use the different kinds of metals,
+iron and copper, silver
+and gold. God
+has not laid these
+metals on top of the
+ground, but has
+made it necessary
+that we should dig
+down into the earth
+and secure these
+metals at the cost of
+a great deal of labor.
+The same is also
+true with regard to
+the coal and the oil,
+and all the rich mineral
+products which God has blessed us. None of them can
+be secured without labor.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i046.png" width="300" height="265" alt="Apple Tree." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Apple Tree.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>We are all naturally lazy. I have oftentimes thought that we
+are all born lazy. Some learn to be industrious with less effort, but
+all have to be taught to work. God means that we should work.
+Have you ever thought that God could feed us without our labor
+if He chose to do so? He could rain down our food from heaven,
+just the same as He gave manna to the Children of Israel, while<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span>
+they were journeying to the promised land. He could not only feed
+us, but He could also clothe us from heaven. I am sure that if God
+gave us our clothing from heaven, He would not make such foolish
+fashions as wicked people over in Paris invent, and which all the
+rest of the world seem to think they have to imitate. Not only our
+food and clothing, but God could also have made it necessary that
+there should be no preachers. Instead of giving us His Word in the
+Bible, and then asking us to go into all the world and to preach it
+to all creatures, He might have used the stars at night, just the same
+as the printer uses the different kinds of type and prints the letters
+and words upon the page; so God could have used the stars in order
+to write His law upon the heavens in a universal language that
+would be known by all peoples, and so at night, and even in the
+daytime, people could look up into the heavens and read God's law.
+Thus it would have been unnecessary ever to have printed Bibles,
+or to send preachers to preach. The cost of building churches and
+supporting ministers would thus have been unnecessary, but God
+does not do things in that way. Lazy people might desire that
+things were arranged in this way, but God has seen fit to make it
+very different.</p>
+
+<p>But why do you think that God means that you and I should
+learn to work? There are two or three good reasons which I can
+think of. We are so constituted that no one can be in good health
+for any considerable period without physical exertion, and so you
+see that if we want to be well&mdash;and no one can be happy who is
+not well&mdash;it is necessary that we should learn to work. You will
+always find that lazy people who eat a great deal suffer many physical
+ailments. They are always complaining, and I think you will
+always find that they really are sick, but they could be well if they
+would only go to work as God meant they should.</p>
+
+<p>Then there is another reason. An idle man is always a dissatisfied<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span>
+man. A boy or girl with nothing to do is sure to
+be unhappy. If we desire to be happy and contented we must learn
+to work.</p>
+
+<p>But there is also another reason. Our spiritual well-being also
+renders it necessary that you and I should have something to do.
+Work is really one of God's greatest blessings, and we are told that
+those who are idle tempt Satan to tempt them. I do not believe that
+an idle person can be a good Christian. An idler is of no use either
+in the world or in the church. God can make no use of him, and
+Satan must surely despise him also.</p>
+
+<p>So if you desire to be delivered from sickness and to remain
+well and strong, if you desire to be contented and happy, if you
+desire to be good and useful, if you desire to be helpful in the great
+purpose for which God has created you and placed you upon this
+earth, you must learn to work, and the best time to learn to work is
+when we are young. We are to learn to labor with our hands, with
+our minds, always remembering that whatsoever we do, we are to do
+all to the glory of God.</p>
+
+<p>Now let us all join in singing,</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+"Work, for the night is coming."<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Did God assign some work to Adam when he was first created?
+What was he to do in the Garden? Why does God place the kernel of
+nuts inside of a shell? Do vegetables and grain grow without being planted?
+Will weeds grow without being planted? Why did God place the metals, and
+coal and oil down below the surface of the ground? Are we naturally industrious
+or lazy? Could God clothe and feed us without our labor? Why does He
+not do it? How could God have printed His law so that it would not be necessary
+to have Bibles and preachers? Are idle people healthy and contented?
+Why not? Whom do idle people tempt? Can an idle person be a good Christian?
+When is it easiest to learn to work? What should we always remember
+in our work?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span></p>
+<h2>BANKS.</h2>
+
+<h3>GATHERED AND GUARDED TREASURES.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions</span>:&mdash;Objects for use: A child's bank and a metal kettle of any kind
+to show how people used to place their money in boxes, kettles, etc., and then
+bury them in the ground.</p>
+
+<p>Use the methods suggested in the preceding sermons. Examine the chapter
+on "Suggestions to Parents" and introduce new features from Sunday to Sunday.
+Children like variety.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: What is this I hold
+in my hand? (Voices: "Bank, penny bank, money
+bank.") Yes, you
+are right, this is a
+bank, and I suppose many of
+you, perhaps all of you either
+now, or at some past time have
+had such a place to deposit your
+money.</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i049.png" width="300" height="397" alt="A Penny Bank." title="" />
+<span class="caption">A Penny Bank.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>In the time of Christ the
+children did not have little
+banks like these. Even the big
+people did not have banks
+where they could deposit their
+money. When they had jewels
+or money they would place
+them in a box, or a copper kettle,
+and bury them in the earth.
+They would hide them away<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span>
+from other people, and thus seek to secure them for themselves.
+In that period of the world, there were many thieves and robbers;
+Palestine was often invaded by hostile armies; there were occasional
+earthquakes, which destroyed whole cities, and so the people
+used to bury their money for safe keeping. After burying it,
+sometimes they were killed in war, or perhaps died suddenly,
+before they had time to tell anybody where they had concealed
+their money, and on this account all over that land there were
+buried treasures, or "hid treasures" as they are called, and to-day
+if you were to go to Palestine you would see many people digging
+here and there everywhere to find money or treasures that have
+been hidden away for long centuries. Even in the time of Job
+people must have dug for treasures, as they are doing in Palestine
+to-day, for Job says of the miserable and unhappy, that they often
+"long for death, and dig for it, more than for hid treasures." (Job
+iii: 21.)</p>
+
+<p>It is altogether right for you to economize and save your
+pennies. I hope every boy and girl will have a little bank, but
+while you are learning to save, you should also learn to give to
+every good cause, to give in Sunday-school and to give for the
+support of the Church, for missions, and to give to assist the aged
+and the poor, and to contribute something for those who are in poverty
+and in distress. If you simply learn to save, or hoard up
+money, and do not learn at the same time to give, you will become
+what people call "a miser," and that word means miserable.
+Misers are always miserable, not because they do not already have
+sufficient, but because there is so much more that they desire. They
+always wish for more.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 301px;">
+<img src="images/i051.png" width="301" height="400" alt="Hiding Treasures in the Earth." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Hiding Treasures in the Earth.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But while you are learning to save money and to gather treasures
+here upon the earth, you must not forget that the Bible says,
+that we are to lay up for ourselves "treasures in heaven, where moth<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span>
+and rust do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break through
+nor steal." It says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His
+righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." God
+means that first of all you and I shall give our hearts to Him, and
+then afterward, in all our getting, we should constantly remember
+that we are only stewards of God&mdash;that is, that all the money and
+everything else we possess in this world belongs to God. He simply
+permits us to have it and to use it in His name, and we must
+honor and reverence Him by giving to help on every good work.</p>
+
+<p>Now, after we have given our hearts to God, and have
+become followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to lay up our
+treasures in heaven by living right, by seeking to be good, and by
+doing good to others. We are to lose no opportunity to do that
+which will be a blessing to those about us.</p>
+
+<p>One of the boys or girls said this was a penny bank. That
+name is very suggestive. A bank is a place where you deposit
+money. Now, if you have a bank like this, do you only
+put into it silver dollars, five-dollar bills, ten-dollar gold pieces?
+If each boy who is here were to wait until he had a ten-dollar
+gold piece, or a five-dollar bill, or until he had come into
+possession of a silver dollar before he placed any money in his
+bank, I am sure his bank would always remain empty. The way
+to fill a bank is to put pennies in it&mdash;to save each cent and each five-cent
+piece. To-day a penny, and to-morrow a few pennies, and so
+on through the week, and through the year, and at the end of the
+year you will find that you have saved quite a goodly sum.</p>
+
+<p>Now, there are some people who want to lay up treasures in
+heaven, but they do not want to lay it up there, little by little.
+They prefer to wait until some opportunity comes when they can
+do a great deal of good at one time. But the person who does not
+do good every day and every hour, little by little, will never have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span>
+any treasure in heaven. It is the pennies that make the dollars;
+it is the "many mites that make the muckle." It is the constant
+doing of little things, for the glory of God and the good of others,
+that makes a man great. Great men are great in little things, and
+if you desire to be great men and great women, you must always
+use the little opportunities, and use them well. Lay up treasure
+in heaven, each and every day, just the same as, day after day,
+you would save your pennies, and thus fill your banks. If you
+want a large treasure in heaven you must constantly be engaged in
+laying up your treasure there. Never lose an opportunity to do
+good, and in this way you will have an abundant treasure in
+heaven.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Where do people put money for safe keeping? Is it only
+silver and gold which is put into a bank? Do thieves ever break into banks?
+Can any treasure be laid up in the earth where it is absolutely safe? Where does
+the Bible tell us we are also to lay up treasure? When boys and girls are obedient,
+is that laying up treasure in heaven? Does being great in little things make
+a great man or a great woman? Should boys and girls learn to save their money?
+What would they be called if they spent all their money? What would they be
+called if they hoarded up all they could get? Should we always use all our
+money in the fear of God?</p>
+
+<p>After the conclusion of the services and after "driving home from church",
+introduce some other interesting features so as to make the day sacredly
+impressive.</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 413px;">
+<img src="images/i053.png" width="413" height="127" alt="lying down to read" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE CHART.</h2>
+
+<h3>AVOIDING THE DANGERS.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions</span>:&mdash;Objects: A geography, or detached maps will serve to show
+that the portions of the earth which are under the water are quite like the portions
+of the earth which are above the water. Islands are only mountain summits
+or elevations.</p>
+
+<p>"Drive to church", have the ushers show different real or imaginary persons
+to seats, have the little sermon and service precede the reading of the following
+object sermon.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i054.png" width="300" height="189" alt="Outline Map of the United States." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Outline Map of the United States.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class='cap'>MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: We are all travelers.
+Now when a traveler starts out upon a journey he
+always desires to have in his possession one of these
+things which I hold in my hand. I know you will
+recognize it at once, and say that it is a map. This map tells you
+the name of the country; it shows you where there are mountains,
+where there are rivers, where
+there are valleys, where
+there are cities, and shows
+you the entire United States
+of America. In traveling
+through a strange country, if
+you do not have a map, you
+might be lost upon the mountains,
+or your journey would
+be obstructed by the rivers
+which you could not cross, and in various ways you would find it
+absolutely necessary to have a map.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></div>
+
+<p>Now, when a traveler goes out upon the sea, it is just as necessary
+that he should have a map, or what the sailors call a chart, as
+it is for the traveler upon the land. The chart which the sea captain
+has, shows the mountains and the valleys and the rivers which are
+in the sea; for these exist in the sea, as well as upon the land. The
+rocks, against which ships are sometimes dashed to pieces, are simply
+the tops of high mountains that come very near to the surface
+of the sea; and the captain without a chart, not knowing where
+they are, is likely to run against them with his ship. The islands
+are simply the tops of these mountains, that rise higher above the
+water, and form a place of abode for man; and we call them
+islands, because they are very much smaller than the great continents
+on which you and I live.</p>
+
+<p>A chart of the sea always locates the dangerous places. They
+show where other ships have been foundered, and oftentimes where
+hundreds and thousands of lives have been lost. It also shows
+what are really rivers in the sea, or great currents, one of which we
+call the Gulf Stream. When a ship is crossing the Gulf Stream
+the motion or current of this water might carry it many hundreds of
+miles out of its course, and if the captain had no chart he would
+not be able to allow for this distance, which the ship is being carried,
+either north or south.</p>
+
+<p>Now, you and I are travelers in this world. We are out upon
+a great voyage, and it is necessary that we should have a chart, and
+therefore God has given us the Bible, which you and I can use
+greatly to our advantage. In the Bible, God has pointed out the
+dangers which lie like the hidden rocks under the surface of the
+sea. In the commandments God marks out the great dangers which
+beset you and me. There is the rock of Idolatry. Whole nations
+of the earth have been wrecked on this rock. Then there is
+another, Profanity, swearing: Oh! how many boys and men are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span>
+ruined because they do not observe how God has marked this dangerous
+rock, against which no one can run without danger of losing
+his immortal soul. Then there is Sabbath breaking, another rock;
+and there is reverence due to parents; and God marks another,
+"Thou shalt not kill"; and then there are others, against stealing,
+against bearing false witness, against covetousness. All these dangerous
+rocks God has marked in the Bible, in order that you and I
+may not run against them, and thus be shipwrecked in our voyage
+to the haven of everlasting rest.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i056.png" width="400" height="308" alt="Rocks and Mountains at the Bottom of the Sea." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Rocks and Mountains at the Bottom of the Sea.</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>God also marks the influences which you and I must come in
+contact with. Every boy who goes to school feels the influence of
+other boys, some of whom are very bad. If he permits himself to
+be moved by these things he will go wrong, just the same as the
+ship that is crossing the Gulf Stream is carried out of its course. So
+the Bible warns us against bad company.</p>
+
+<p>Now the chart which the sea captain has, indicates also the
+ports of safety. It shows the location of these different ports, and
+the direction the captain must take in order to reach them. So the
+Bible shows us where you and I can find refuge in the day of
+storm, and in the day of trial, and in the day of sickness, and in the
+day of distress. To the sea captain, out upon the great ocean, there
+are ten thousand directions which are sure to end in shipwreck.
+There is only one safe way to go, in order to reach his desired port
+in safety.</p>
+
+<p>Now what would you think of a captain out upon the seas
+who folded up his chart and laid it carefully away, and never
+looked at it, never studied it, never sought to know what is on the
+chart? Do you not see how he would go upon the rocks? His
+ship would go down to the bottom of the sea, just as surely as if he
+had no chart on board his ship. It is important that he should have
+his chart in constant use. So it is important, not only that we should
+have the Bible, but that we should use the Bible, that we should
+read it, that we should study it, that we should know what it says.
+I trust that each and all of you not only have a Bible, but that you
+study it daily, and that you seek to avoid the dangers which God
+has pointed out, and that you desire to know the will of God concerning
+you.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What should a traveler always have in a strange country?
+What must a sea captain always carry with him on his ship? What does the
+chart show? Are we travelers? To what country are we journeying? Has<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>
+God given us a chart to show the dangers to which we are exposed in our
+voyage or journey? Should we read the Bible every day? What are two principal
+parts of the Bible? Do you know how many books there are in the Old
+Testament? Do you know how many books there are in the New Testament?
+Do you know who was the first man? Who was the first woman? Who was
+the first murderer? Who built the ark? Who had the coat of many colors?
+Who led the Children of Israel out of Egypt? Who was put in the lion's den?</p>
+
+<p>After the entire service has been completed and after the "drive home from
+church", chairs can be arranged with their backs toward each other, set a little
+way apart, with a shawl, blanket, or even a sheet, thrown over them so as to
+form a little tent. A number of tents can be made to illustrate the Children of
+Israel camping in the wilderness. They were travelers tenting by the way, who
+forgot about their chart and fell into sin, and God had to turn them back in the
+wilderness for forty years of wandering. All this suggests important lessons to
+the parents.</p>
+
+<p>A series of tents can be arranged like the one shown in the picture below
+(see also pages <a href="#Page_209">209</a> and <a href="#Page_271">271</a>) and then, with one child in each tent the questions
+can be asked. When a child fails to give the correct answer, he moves down to the
+last tent in the row, the other children move up, and the question is passed to the
+child next in order, the same as in a "spelling-bee" and other progressive plays.
+Questions like those given on this page and on pages <b><a href="#Page_25">25</a></b> and <b><a href="#Page_26">26</a></b> can be used;
+also questions such as are found in the chapter on "Suggestions to Parents,"
+especially from paragraphs 50 onward.</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i058.png" width="400" height="182" alt="The Children of Israel Camping in the Wilderness." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Children of Israel Camping in the Wilderness.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE ANCHOR.</h2>
+
+<h3>HOPE THAT LAYS HOLD OF CHRIST.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions</span>:&mdash;Object: Anchor of any kind. One cut from paste-board
+would answer. During the week the little ones might be interested to cut out
+both anchor and the chain, using paste-board.</p>
+
+<p>Before reading the following sermon, "drive to church" and after the
+audience has been shown to seats, begin the service with singing, have the
+regular prayer and have one of the children preach over the sermon at the
+church in the morning or the object sermon of last Sunday.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to talk to you
+to-day about a very important subject. The Bible
+speaks of hope, and says,
+"Which hope we have
+as an anchor of the soul, both sure
+and steadfast, and which entereth
+into that within the veil." (Hebrews
+vi: 19.)</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 166px;">
+<img src="images/i059.png" width="166" height="250" alt="The Anchor." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Anchor.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I suppose most of you have
+been on board a ship or large boat.
+Very near the bow, or front end of
+the boat, you have doubtless noticed
+a chain, at the end of which was an
+anchor, made in the form of this one
+which I hold in my hand. Now, I
+would not care to go out to sea on
+any ship which did not have an anchor
+on board. In crossing the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span>
+Atlantic you may sometimes be out for days and weeks, and sometimes
+even for months, and have no need of using the anchor. But
+all the time, while the weather is pleasant and everything is moving
+along prosperously, the fact that the anchor is on board the ship and
+that it can be used in time of danger, gives a sense of security to all
+the passengers. If it were not there you would constantly fear, lest
+the storms or fog might come when your ship was near land or
+dangerous rocks or shoals, and then your ship might be lost with its
+many hundreds of lives on board, simply because it had no anchor.</p>
+
+<p>Every man and woman, and every boy and girl, needs to have
+hope as an anchor to his soul. We should have faith in God, and
+then at times when all is well, when we are prosperous and blest,
+and everything goes along like the ship in pleasant weather, we
+will constantly have peace and rest in our minds and hearts, because
+we know that our hope is staid on God, and that though the world
+be removed, yet God will not disappoint us.</p>
+
+<p>Some people seem to think that religion is a good thing to
+have when they get sick, or when adversity or sorrow or great
+affliction comes. But the fact is that religion is a necessary thing
+at all times. We need it when we are well and strong, as well as
+when we are sick and weak. We need religion in this world to
+live by, as well as to die by, as well as for our salvation in the
+world to come.</p>
+
+<p>The anchor is very serviceable indeed in time of storm. Often
+it has to be used in order to secure the ship and save the lives of all
+who are on board. If it were not for the anchor the ship might be
+thrust upon the rocks, or it might be dashed to pieces by the waves
+that break upon the coast. The anchor is oftentimes very serviceable.
+So it is with the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. When
+trials and perplexities and adversities come, as they do in every life,
+then it is that this anchor is a source of very great blessing, because<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span>
+it saves from shipwreck, occasioned by unbelief and the perplexities
+into which those are cast who have no hope, or trust in God.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i061.png" width="400" height="380" alt="Anchor Laying Hold of the Rocks." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Anchor Laying Hold of the Rocks.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>To be serviceable the anchor must take hold of something.
+If it simply drags along it will not hold the ship; but the ship may
+go to pieces on the rocks, even though it has an anchor, which has
+already been cast over. Now in time of sorrow and perplexity or
+distress every one throws out an anchor. That is, he tries to take
+hold of something which will sustain him and keep him, just the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span>
+same as a boy who falls into the water would grab after a board.
+They say that a drowning man will even grasp after a straw in
+order to help to support his body, so that he may save his life. So
+every one in perplexity reaches out to lay hold of something. But
+the text which I quoted in the beginning says that this hope which
+we have as an anchor to the soul lays hold of something, and that
+something is the Lord Jesus Christ. It is like the ship whose anchor
+goes down, far below the waves, deep down out of sight, and lays
+hold of the rocks which form the foundation of the earth. So the
+faith of the Christian is staid, not on things which are seen, but on
+the things which are not seen. As the text expresses it, it lays hold
+of those things "which entereth into that which is within the veil."
+That is, this figure refers to the Temple at Jerusalem, where the
+Holy of Holies was concealed from the rest of the Temple by a
+large curtain or veil, and no one was permitted to go into this Holy
+of Holies except the High Priest, and he but once a year. But
+when you and I have the faith of the Christian, although we may
+not be able to enter into the great mystery of God's grace and mercy,
+yet our faith lays hold of that which is beyond our understanding,
+and beyond our possibility to see or fully to comprehend, and thus
+our faith lays hold of that which is "within the veil." With our
+understanding, you and I cannot enter into the mysteries of God, but
+by faith we can enter into them. I trust that every boy and girl
+here will have that faith in God, which will be as an anchor to
+his soul, sure and steadfast, entering within the veil at all times.</p>
+
+<p>I will tell you how this anchor of faith and hope can be of
+service to you. There are times when you see other boys and girls
+who have many more comforts and luxuries and possessions than
+you have. You may even be discouraged sometimes because you
+think your lot in life is more than usually hard and difficult.</p>
+
+<p>When I myself was a boy, my father died, and only three<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span>
+years later my mother died. I was left an orphan and without a
+home. I had to become an errand boy in a store, and for a number
+of years I had a hard struggle. I was a Christian boy, and I had
+this anchor of faith and hope. I trusted in God that He would
+make all of these things to work out eventually for my good. I
+could not at that time understand how. It was beyond my understanding,
+but later on in life I found how all the trials and struggles
+of my earlier years had worked together for my good. I
+understood that passage of Scripture which says: "All things work
+together for good to them that love God." (Romans viii: 28.)</p>
+
+<p>So, when you see others who have it easier and who have more
+comforts and luxuries than you have, if you have this hope which
+the text speaks of as "laying hold within the veil" be sure that
+in God's own good time, in His infinite wisdom and love, He will
+work out for you also the blessing and the good which you can
+only hope for, but which at the present time you can neither see nor
+understand.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What does every ship carry? Would a ship be safe without
+an anchor? When the anchor is let down into the deep water, must it take
+hold of something? When is the anchor used? If a ship did not have an
+anchor in time of storm along the rocky coast, would it be safe? Do men and
+women, boys and girls, also need an anchor? Can we have peace and happiness
+without hope? Is religion necessary only when we are in trouble? On what
+does hope lay hold? Can we see the things on which the Christian's faith
+lays hold? Can we always understand God's providences? Did the writer
+of this book have trials when he was a boy? Could he understand them
+then? Did he understand them later on in life? Do all boys and girls have
+trials? If received in the proper spirit, will they always work out for their
+good?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p>
+<h2>HUSKS.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE DISAPPOINTED PLEASURE-SEEKER.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;If the children can obtain some of the pods which are called
+"husks" in the Scripture, which can be had in some towns and cities, and which
+the children usually call "Johnny-bread" they will be able to taste the husks
+which the prodigal fed to the swine and which he himself desired to eat. If
+these cannot be had, the pods from the sweet locust tree will be serviceable.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>I &nbsp;HOLD in my hand what I suppose most of you have seen,
+and perhaps many of you have eaten. It is what boys oftentimes
+call "Johnny bread." It
+looks very much like the long
+pods which grow on the honey
+locust trees. It is sometimes called
+"Johnny bread," because some people
+mistakenly think that this was the
+kind of locust that John the Baptist
+ate when he came in the Wilderness,
+preaching that the kingdom of
+heaven was at hand and that men
+should repent. We are told in the
+Scriptures that he ate locusts and
+wild honey. The locusts which he
+ate were very much like our grasshoppers,
+such as are still eaten by
+very poor people in the East.</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i064.png" width="250" height="383" alt="Husks." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Husks.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>In the 15th chapter of the gospel by St. Luke, we have a very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span>
+beautiful parable, called the parable of the prodigal son. In connection
+with the husk which I hold in my hand, I want to tell you
+something about this prodigal son.</p>
+
+<p>In this parable Jesus tells of a very kind father who had two
+sons, but the younger son was dissatisfied and discontented. He
+was a boy very much like many who live in this country and at this
+time. He was a boy who wanted to have his own way. He
+thought that his father was an "old fogy." The son wanted gay
+company and gay clothing. He wanted to travel and see something
+of the world; so he asked his father to give him the money
+which would come to him at his father's death, in order that he
+might go immediately and have his own way, and have a good
+time, as he supposed.</p>
+
+<p>His father was very sad, for he had tried to bring up his boy in
+the right way. But when he could not prevail upon him, and his
+son would not listen to him any longer, but insisted upon having
+the money, and going away from home, the father granted his
+request.</p>
+
+<p>When the money had been counted out, the son gathered it
+all up, bade his father and brother and all his friends good-bye,
+telling them what a happy time he was going to have, and started
+out for a far country.</p>
+
+<p>This same desire to see something of the world has induced
+many boys to run away from home. Many years ago, when there
+were numerous ships that went out on long voyages to catch whales,
+oftentimes boys who had run away from home went away to sea
+with these ships. Now, however, restless and discontented boys,
+who have read worthless and deceptive books, sometimes go to live
+a wild life on the plains in the West. Sometimes boys even
+become tramps. Scores and sometimes hundreds of them can be
+met any week by going to the Breakfast Association, in Philadelphia;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span>
+or some of the Rescue Homes, in New York, where poor,
+wandering boys and tramps are given a free meal on Sunday morning
+or Sunday evening. Prodigals now, as in the time when Christ
+lived, have a very hard time of it. They start out with high hopes,
+sometimes with money in their pockets, with fine clothing and
+bright anticipations, expecting to have a good time in the far country
+which they are seeking. But their experience is always the
+same.</p>
+
+<p>When this prodigal came to the far country, for a few weeks,
+or possibly a few months, he had plenty of money. He thought
+his money would always last. Bad men and women gathered
+around him, for they all wanted to enjoy what his money would
+secure for them. But it didn't take long; his money was soon
+spent, and when his money was gone his pretended friends were
+gone also. He soon found himself penniless, friendless and hungered.
+He had to go out and seek for work. Perhaps he had
+been too much indulged at home. He had never learned a trade,
+and possibly had never learned to do work of any kind, and so
+there was nothing for him to do but to accept the humblest and
+meanest kind of labor. He was a Jew, and for a Jew to tend swine
+or hogs was one of the meanest things in all the world. And yet
+he was willing because of his poverty and his want, to do even this
+most degrading service. This boy who wanted to be his own
+master, now became the most menial of slaves, even to the tending
+of swine. He wanted gay company, but he had only pigs for his
+companions. He wanted wine and feasting, but now no one even
+offered him husks to eat. He left his home to seek happiness, but
+he found only misery.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 305px;">
+<img src="images/i067.png" width="305" height="425" alt="The Disappointed, Hungry Prodigal Tending Swine." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Disappointed, Hungry Prodigal Tending Swine.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>These husks which I showed you, which some boys call
+"Johnny bread," are exactly what this wayward, disappointed,
+disheartened, hungry boy was given to feed to the swine which he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span>
+was hired to tend. He was so hungry that he would have been
+glad to eat these husks with the pigs, but no one gave him any to eat.</p>
+
+<p>When this wayward boy was thus brought down to poverty
+and hunger in that far-off country, while he was tending the swine,
+he began to think. If he had only stopped to think before he left
+his home, he would never have started away. He would surely
+have known that he was better off at home than anywhere else.
+But now that misery and want had come to him, we are told that
+"he came to himself." That is, he came to his senses. It was sentiment
+which led him from his home. It was sense that brought
+him back. The trouble with boys and girls, and with older people
+too, is that they do not stop to think. They follow their fancies
+and sentiments, and they are led astray in this way.</p>
+
+<p>God wants us to stop and think, and He says, "Come, let us
+reason together." God does not ask any unreasonable thing of us.
+He simply wants to treat us as thoughtful beings, but we want to
+follow our own inclination and our own desire. God treats us very
+kindly. He gives us every needed comfort and every daily blessing,
+and yet oftentimes people are discontented and dissatisfied with
+God; they complain and think they have a hard time of it. Instead
+of being faithful and true to God, they turn away from him. They
+desire to forsake God and serve Satan. They desire to accept
+what Satan says, and so turn away from God and all that is good.
+But they have the same experience over and over again that this
+young man had. He went out with fine clothes and plenty of
+money, and with high hopes; but he returned home in rags, without
+a penny in his pocket, disappointed, penitent and ashamed.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 349px;">
+<img src="images/i069.jpg" width="349" height="500" alt="The Returning Prodigal" title="" />
+<span class="caption"><span style="margin-left: 14em;"><small>Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall.</small></span><br />The Returning Prodigal</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But I must not forget to tell you, that when he had journeyed
+many a week, toiling wearily over the long road that had separated
+him from his father's house, at last he came near his old home. In
+going away he had nearly broken his father's heart. With sorrow<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>
+he was bringing his aged father down to the grave. But his father
+still loved his wayward boy, and expected him home. As he sat
+watching at the door looking over the hills, he saw the returning
+prodigal when he was yet a great way off. This loving and forgiving
+father had compassion upon his son, ran and fell upon his
+neck and kissed him, and welcomed him back home again. The
+wayward boy's heart was all broken up by such kind treatment. He
+fell upon his knees at his father's feet and said to his father, "Father,
+I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more
+worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants."</p>
+
+<p>But the father called his servants and commanded them to
+bring the best robe and put it upon this boy who had given him so
+much sorrow; to bring the ring and put it upon his finger; and then
+to kill the fatted calf, so that they might make a great feast, in order
+that all might be made very glad, because this his son, who was
+dead, was alive again, he who had been lost was found.</p>
+
+<p>So when we come back to God after we have sinned against
+Him, and are repentant and sorry for what we have done, in love
+and great tenderness He forgives our sins. And like the prodigal,
+in the time of his sorest misery, found in his father's heart the greatest
+mercy, so you and I may come to God knowing that in the day
+of our dire distress He is always willing to love us and to forgive us
+as His own dear children. Let us be careful not to sin against Him,
+and then we shall not have the humiliation and the sorrow of coming
+back, like this poor prodigal, when he returned in rags and
+poverty to his father's house. Never make the mistake of going
+away from your God and then you will not have the remorse which
+will bring you back in sorrow and shame.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Who first told the parable of the prodigal son? Why did the
+prodigal leave his home? What did he do with his money? Did his pretended
+friends stay by him after his money was gone? In his poverty what did he do?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span>
+Did he have enough to eat? When he was in want and came to himself, of
+whom did he think? What did he resolve to do? What do boys who run
+away from home generally become? Are tramps happy? Was the father
+sad all the time the boy was away? How did he receive the returning prodigal?
+Does God love us even though we do wrong? Will God forgive us and accept
+us? Is God glad when we repent?</p>
+
+<p>After "driving home from church" a series of tableaux could be arranged:
+(1) Showing the father counting out the money to the boy. (2) The boy
+bidding good-bye to his father and friends. (3) Surrounded by flatterers for
+whom he is spending his money. (4) In poverty tending swine. (5) In rags
+returning home. (6) Being welcomed by his father.</p>
+
+<p>Or the children may arrange a tent in which the prodigal is presumed to
+live on the plains while tending the swine, which may be represented by a
+series of books, toys or any objects; for the imagination of the children will
+convert any object into any other object, person or thing.</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/i072.png" width="500" height="313" alt="The Prodigal&#39;s Tent." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Prodigal&#39;s Tent.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p>
+<h2>IRON&mdash;LOW GRADE AND HIGH GRADE.</h2>
+
+<h3>CHARACTER AND WORTH.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects used: A piece of old iron, some nails, broken clock
+and watch springs, and also a piece of native iron ore, if convenient.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to show you
+to-day that there is a great difference in the value of
+things, even though they are made of the same material.
+In the second chapter of Genesis we are told, "And the
+Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground." So, you see
+that all men and women are
+made of the same material,
+yet men differ greatly, both in
+character and works.</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i073.png" width="300" height="142" alt="Iron Products." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Iron Products.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I have here some iron
+ore, some old iron, some nails;
+here are some clock springs,
+and here are some springs of
+watches. This iron ore is as it is dug from the earth. It is called
+the native iron, but mixed with it there is much earth and stone and
+dross, which must be separated from it in order to make it pure.
+This is done by casting the ore, together with limestone and other
+materials, into a huge furnace, where the fire is so intensely hot
+that all are melted and thus the iron is separated from the dross, or
+stone and earth, which is now mixed with the ore. When the iron
+is thus separated and molded into large bars, it is worth from a fraction
+of a cent to two cents per pound, according to quality and market<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span>
+price. After it has been cast into great iron bars, and is known
+as pig iron, it is afterward bought and melted over again and
+molded into the form of stoves and wheels, such as are used in factories,
+and a variety of other forms for manufacturing and other
+uses.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i074.png" width="400" height="172" alt="Nail, Pen and Clock Spring." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Nail, Pen and Clock Spring.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, here I have some pieces of iron, such as boys call "old
+iron." They often find pieces of this kind of iron, which have been
+thrown away, and gather and sell them at a price varying from one-quarter
+to a cent or more a pound, according to circumstances. Then
+it is melted over again and made into stoves, or whatever the manufacturer
+may desire. Now, here are some nails, such as sell at five
+cents a pound, and here are some steel pens, which are worth from
+one to four and five dollars a pound. Here are some springs, such
+as are used in the construction of clocks. These are the springs
+which make clocks go. When you wind up the clock you simply
+tighten this spring, thus storing the power which is necessary to keep
+the clock in motion for twenty-four hours, for eight days, or even a
+longer period.</p>
+
+<p>Now here are some springs, such as are used in watches.
+These springs are worth, according to their size and quality, from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span>
+twenty to fifty or sixty dollars a pound. Here also are some little
+screws, such as are used in the construction of watches, and which
+are worth even a hundred dollars a pound.</p>
+
+<p>While these different articles are all made of the same
+material, you see there is a great difference in their value. One is
+not worth a single cent a pound, and another may be worth one hundred
+dollars a pound. Now this difference in value is due to two
+things. One is, difference in quality, and the other is the use which
+is made of the article into
+which the iron is manufactured.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i075.png" width="300" height="232" alt="Watch Spring and Screws." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Watch Spring and Screws.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I suppose, if these different
+pieces of metal could think,
+and had the power of speech,
+this piece of old iron would
+complain to the other pieces
+which are of more value, and
+say to the watch spring, "I am
+just as good as you are, we
+were both dug from the same ore bank. I remember the time when
+we were both cast into the hot fire and melted in the furnace; after
+that I was taken to the foundry, and made into a stove, and after a
+few years of use I was rejected and cast into the alley. I have had
+to lie about in the mud and in the cold and snow, and men have
+passed me by and scorned me as though I were of no value. But I
+want you to understand, Mr. Clockspring and Mr. Watchspring,
+that I am just as good as you are, and there is no reason why I
+should be cast out into the mud and cold, while you are placed in
+a gold case and carried in a gentleman's pocket."</p>
+
+<p>The nail also would cry out, and say that he was just as good
+as the little screws which are used in the watch, and would complain<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span>
+against being driven violently into a board, where it is compelled,
+year after year, to hold a board on to the side of a building;
+to have putty placed over its head, and then paint over the top of
+that, so that nobody could even so much as see where it was, or
+know what it was doing.</p>
+
+<p>Now, the old iron, and the nail, and the others have no right
+to complain. There is a vast difference of quality, and there is
+also a difference of work.</p>
+
+<p>The higher grades and better qualities of metals are secured
+by refining processes. Again and again the metal is cast in the fire
+and melted. Sometimes it is beaten on the anvil into such shapes
+and forms as will render the metal of greater service, and consequently
+of more value.</p>
+
+<p>Suppose this metal had feeling, and the power to express its
+wish. Do you not see how it would cry out against being cast into
+the fire, and being beaten with great hammers upon the anvil? I
+am sure the fire, the hammers, and the anvil bring no sense of pleasure
+to the metal while being refined and being beaten into such
+forms as render it of greatest value.</p>
+
+<p>Just so, in some senses at least, are all boys and girls alike. If
+they were all permitted to grow up in neglect, without being governed
+by thoughtful parents, without being educated and refined,
+without being sent to school and required to attend church, without
+being taught at home and being instructed in the Catechism and in
+the Bible, and without being shown their duty to God and their
+fellow men, they would all be pretty much alike. It is the difference
+in the influences that are made to refine some boys that causes
+them to differ so much from others who are about them. The boy
+who has only been taught to pick stones, or sweep the streets, or dig
+ditches, may cry out against the boy who is gentlemanly, and obliging,
+and obedient, and truthful, and reliable, and who has a position<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span>
+of great responsibility in a bank, or in the office of some man
+who occupies a very responsible position; yet oftentimes, and quite
+universally, there is a very great difference in the merit and value of
+these two boys. One has been disciplined and governed and controlled,
+educated and taught, while the other has likely been neglected,
+and consequently has not learned the importance of these
+things.</p>
+
+<p>God designs to refine all of us, and therefore He desires that
+all should be taught to study, should learn to read and write, should
+learn all they can from the schools, should be taught to work, should
+be taught to expect trials and self-denials, and should be led to
+expect sickness and disappointments, and all these things by which
+God designs to make us better from year to year. But, just the
+same as the iron would cry out against being cast into the fire and
+being beaten upon the anvil, so do boys and girls, and men and
+women also, cry out against the providences by which God is refining
+them and making them better for this world and fitting them for
+the world to come.</p>
+
+<p>If we desire to be of largest service in this world, and to occupy
+a place of honor in the world to come, we must expect that God will
+deal with us, as He has told us in the ninth verse of the thirteenth
+chapter of Zechariah, in which He says, "I will refine them as
+silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried." And in the
+book of Malachi He says that He, that is God, is "like a refiner's
+fire, and like fullers' soap, and He shall sit as a refiner and purifier
+of silver, and purge them as gold and silver."</p>
+
+<p>When the gold and the silver is cast into the crucible to be
+purified, the fire is made very hot, and the metal is left in the crucible
+until the man who is refining it and who sits looking into the
+crucible can see his own image reflected in the metal. So we are
+cast into the fires of affliction, and God looks down upon us; but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span>
+when we become like Him, so that God sees His own self
+reflected in our character, and in our disposition, and in our temper,
+then we shall have been refined as God desires, and He will
+then be ready to receive us into His own home on high.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Can you name different things made from iron? Is a horse
+shoe as valuable as a watch spring? What makes the difference in their value?
+How are iron and steel refined, or made more valuable? Are unrefined and
+untaught boys and girls all quite alike? What makes them become different?
+Do some boys and girls become more useful and valuable in the world than
+others? What causes the difference? Would the iron cry out against being
+refined? Do boys and girls object to being taught and disciplined? How does
+the Bible say that God refines us? Can the refiner see his image in the melted
+metal? Does God want to see His own image reflected in us?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i078.png" width="400" height="252" alt="&quot;Joseph in the Pit.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Joseph in the Pit.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span></p>
+<h2>A POCKET RULE.</h2>
+
+<h3>HOW GOD MEASURES MEN.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects: A yard-stick, pocket-rule, tape-measure and any
+measure or scales convenient.</p>
+
+<p>Use the measures and scales for measuring the height and weight of the
+different children, and explain to them that if they continue to grow, they will
+eventually become full grown men and women. So God measures them to-day
+in moral things, and if they will learn what God requires and be obedient to
+their parents, they will increase in moral stature as well.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I am sure you will be
+able to tell me what these are which I hold in my hand.
+This you would call a yard-stick; the other, because it
+folds, you would call a pocket-rule, and here is another,
+which you would call a tape-measure.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;">
+<img src="images/i079.png" width="375" height="122" alt="Yard-Stick, Pocket-Rule and Tape-Measure." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Yard-Stick, Pocket-Rule and Tape-Measure.</span>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i080a.png" width="300" height="174" alt="Farmer&#39;s Measures." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Farmer&#39;s Measures.</span>
+</div>
+<p>Now, if I were going to measure any of you, to tell how tall
+you are, I would use one or the other of these rules; as each is
+divided into even inches, I could use any of these three I should
+prefer. I would say one boy is four feet two inches, another four<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span>
+feet nine inches and another five feet four inches, and so on according
+to the height of each person. We speak of this kind of measure
+as feet and inches. When it is used in measuring cloth, or other
+goods in a store, we speak of it as yards and parts of a yard. Then
+there are also other forms of
+measures, dry measure&mdash;quarts,
+pecks, bushels; and
+liquid measure&mdash;quarts, gallons
+and barrels. There is
+also a standard of weight&mdash;ounces,
+pounds and tons.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>It is necessary to have
+standards of weights and
+measures. This is absolutely necessary, or we could not tell in
+purchasing cloth or lumber, in buying sugar or molasses, or other
+things, whether we are getting the right quantity, or whether we are
+not getting the right quantity. So, everywhere you go in the United
+States we have the same size
+or standard of weights and
+measures, and the Government
+appoints men in each city to go
+about and examine whether
+the scales which the storekeeper
+uses for weighing
+sugar, and the measures which
+he uses when he sells vinegar
+and molasses&mdash;whether
+these are perfectly accurate, as
+the law requires.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i080b.png" width="300" height="266" alt="Scales and Measure." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Scales and Measure.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But, if you look on the other side of this tape-measure, there
+is a different standard of measure. This, on the reverse side, is the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span>
+metric system, used in France and many other countries. If you
+were to go into a store in France and wanted to purchase cloth, you
+would not ask for a yard, you would ask for a metre of cloth, which
+instead of thirty-six inches, which makes our yard, would be a little
+over thirty-nine inches; so the standard of measures and values
+varies in different countries. There is a slight difference in the
+length of the English yard and the American yard. In this country
+we also speak of dollars and cents. In England they have the
+penny, shilling, pound or sovereign. And so in different countries
+there are different pieces of money, having a great variety of
+values.</p>
+
+<p>I have spoken of these things simply to call your attention to
+the fact that God has a standard of measure, and a standard of
+value, as well as men. When the Government enlists soldiers into
+the army every man is measured, and he must be of a given height;
+if he is not as tall as the requirement, then he is rejected. When
+Napoleon chose his body-guard the men all had to be exceedingly
+tall.</p>
+
+<p>God also has His standard of measure. He does not measure
+us according to the height of our body, but according to our moral
+character. He measures us to see whether we are good or bad.
+God's standard of the measure of our moral character is found in
+the Bible. You will find it, both in the Old Testament and in the
+New Testament. In the Old Testament we have the Ten Commandments,
+in which we are required to worship God, and to worship
+nothing else; to keep the Sabbath day holy; to honor our
+parents; and various other requirements. In the New Testament
+we have a great many principles for moral government which Jesus
+announced when He was upon the earth.</p>
+
+<p>We have all broken some one or more of the Ten Commandments
+and the precepts which Jesus left for us to follow. If you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span>
+desire to see how you should live, if you would keep the law perfectly,
+you will have to look at the life of Jesus Christ. He was
+the only perfect man who ever lived. He came to this world to
+set a perfect example for men to imitate. Just the same as you copy
+after the lines correctly written at the top of your writing book, so
+you and I are to copy after the life and character of Jesus Christ.</p>
+
+<p>The moral law is a perfect law; the Psalmist says, "the law
+of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." I showed you how in
+France they have a different standard of measure from that which
+we have in the United States, but with the moral law the standard
+is the same everywhere and at all times. It is wrong to lie or steal
+in America, and it is equally wrong to lie or steal in France, or in
+Africa, or in India, or on the islands of the sea, or anywhere in all
+of the universe. If it is wicked now to swear, or to commit murder
+it always was wicked. It was just as wicked three thousand
+years ago as it is to-day, and it never will be right to take the name
+of God in vain, or to destroy human life. God has but one standard
+of morality for all people and for all time.</p>
+
+<p>What God requires of the young in order that they may be
+pure and holy, He requires also of grown-up people. If it is wrong
+for the preacher and the Sunday-school superintendent to go to the
+theatre, or to do anything else, it is equally wrong for every member
+of the church and for every member of the Sunday-school.
+Before God we must all be measured by the same standard of
+morality.</p>
+
+<p>If I had one year ago measured the height of each of you and
+written it down, and then measured you again to-day, I would find
+that during these twelve months each of you had grown. You are
+taller to-day than you were a year ago. Now, God has given us a
+standard of moral character, right and wrong, and I want you all
+to study it very carefully, so that you may see how tall you are,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span>
+how far you come short of the character of Jesus Christ. And as
+you grow taller in body, so you should grow in moral character,
+and if you will study God's word carefully, you will be able to
+discover what progress you are making in becoming more like
+Christ, in becoming better boys and better girls, and afterward
+better men and better women, from year to year, than you were
+each preceding year.</p>
+
+<p>May God bless you abundantly, and may you grow daily
+"unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness
+of Christ." (Eph. iv: 13.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;How many kinds of measures can you name? Are the
+standards of weights and measures the same in all countries? How many
+standards of measure does God have? Where can God's standard of measure
+be found? Are God's standards the same for all persons in all countries, in all
+parts of the world? Is there any place in the world where it would be right to
+lie or steal, or murder? Who was the only perfect man? Does God's standard
+ever change? Should we constantly strive to become like Christ? How can
+we tell what progress we are making in becoming more like Christ?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i083.png" width="300" height="100" alt="Girl lying down to read" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE MAGNET.</h2>
+
+<h3>JESUS THE GREAT DRAWING POWER.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;A small magnet can be purchased in almost any hardware
+store at trifling cost. With this, also have some little tacks, nails both small
+and large, together with some old rusted and crooked nails, and a pocket knife.</p>
+
+<p>Do not omit "driving to church" and the other play features suggested in
+previous sermons.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>I &nbsp;AM sure that there is not a boy or girl here, who has not at
+some time felt a desire to be good and do right. When you
+have felt this way, it has been due to the fact that the Holy
+Spirit has come to you and has put these good thoughts and
+good desires into your heart.</div>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i084.png" width="250" height="172" alt="Magnet and Tacks." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Magnet and Tacks.</span>
+</div>
+<p>There is not a person living who has not at some time felt this
+same drawing and desire to do right and
+to be good. The results, however, have
+been very different with different people.</p>
+
+<p>I shall seek to illustrate this drawing
+power to you to-day, and to do so have
+brought this magnet. I have also brought
+these tacks and nails of different sizes;
+and here are also some old, rusted,
+crooked nails. Let these several kinds represent the different kinds
+of people.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>When I take this magnet, and move it around among these
+small tacks, and then hold it up, you will see that very many of
+these tacks cling to the magnet. They hold on by some unseen<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span>
+power. Sometimes the tacks are even not able to touch the magnet,
+but are drawn through the influence which extends through
+other tacks, and so large clusters hang on to the magnet. If I shake
+the magnet you will see that some fall off. These small tacks represent
+the youngest children. In the
+early years of our lives we are more
+easily drawn to the Lord Jesus. It is
+then more easy for us to come to Christ
+and give ourselves fully to Him. It is
+much easier to be Christians when we
+are young. Yet many put it off till
+they are older, when it is much more
+difficult and they are less likely to be successful in living a Christian
+life.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i085a.png" width="250" height="161" alt="Magnet and Small Nails." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Magnet and Small Nails.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, if I remove these small tacks, and place the magnet
+among these small nails, you will see that several of the small nails
+cling to the magnet, and I can lift them
+up. There are not as many, however, as
+there were of the tacks clinging to it. In
+like manner, as boys and girls grow
+older, they find it more difficult to come
+to Christ.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/i085b.png" width="200" height="207" alt="Magnet and Larger Nails." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Magnet and Larger Nails.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Here are some larger nails. When
+I place the magnet among them, but very
+few are attracted to it. And when I attempt
+to lift the magnet, most all of these
+large nails tall off. Only one, sometimes
+two, hold on successfully.</p>
+
+<p>Here are some nails that are still larger. Now, when I
+attempt to lift one of them with this magnet, you see that I can only
+lift one end of the nail. That is due to the fact that while the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span>
+magnet draws these nails, the earth also draws them. That is the
+reason why these smaller nails, when they fall from the magnet,
+fall to the earth; because the earth draws them. The earth
+draws with so much greater force and power upon these large nails
+than the magnet draws that I cannot raise them by the magnet. It
+is on this account that they continue
+to hold fast to the earth
+rather than to the magnet.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i086.png" width="300" height="266" alt="Magnet and Large Nails." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Magnet and Large Nails.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>This represents the people
+who have grown old; who have
+large cares and responsibilities;
+who have become worldly-minded;
+who are drawn away
+by the "deceitfulness of riches
+and the lust of other things,"
+and who, although they feel a
+desire to do right, yet have a
+stronger desire to do that which is not well-pleasing in the sight of
+God.</p>
+
+<p>Now, here are some old crooked, rusty nails. Let us see
+what effect the presence of the magnet will have upon them. Just
+as we might have expected. These rusty nails do not seem to feel
+the power or the influence of the magnet's presence. If I place the
+magnet up against the nail, and attempt to lift it, it does not seem
+to be drawn at all. It simply lies still, unmoved. These old,
+crooked, rusty nails represent people who have grown very old and
+very wicked, and who have become greatly hardened in sin. Jesus
+Christ and His love seem to make no impression any longer upon
+them. They are joined to their idols. God's Spirit has taken His
+departure, and they are left alone. Let me warn you, both young
+and old, that if you feel the drawing of God's Spirit, you should<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span>
+yield to Him, so as not to become more corroded and rusted, and
+coated over by every sinful influence, so that at last the love of God
+shall fail to have any effect upon you.</p>
+
+<p>If now we take these different classes of nails and mix them
+together, and then stir the magnet among them, you will see how
+the smaller nails, in larger numbers, cling to the magnet. These
+bright nails are also affected by it. Oftentimes the influence of the
+magnet is seen, as it is communicated from one nail to the other;
+but these rusty nails, not only do not themselves yield to the influence
+of the magnet, but they also fail to communicate that magnetic
+influence to any of the other nails around them. In like manner,
+wicked people seem to come between Christ and others who would
+be drawn to Him. Let me say to you, keep out of bad company.
+Avoid wicked companions&mdash;those who swear, or lie, or do anything
+that is wrong, for their influence over you will be bad, and
+they will prevent the good influences of holy things from acting
+upon you.</p>
+
+<p>Suppose now that I take my knife blade and move it among
+these nails, you will see that it does not attract them like the magnet
+did. It has no magnetic power. If I draw the knife blade across
+the magnet a few times, it receives this magnetic power from the
+magnet. Now, when I move it among the nails you will see how
+these little tacks and some of the larger nails are drawn toward it.</p>
+
+<p>Just so it is with each of us as individuals. Without coming
+in contact with Christ and receiving His Spirit, His drawing power,
+we will never influence others to do that which is right and good
+and holy. If we desire to have an influence for good in this world
+we must, first of all, come to Christ ourselves, and receive this
+drawing power from Him. You have doubtless seen those who
+have become Christians, and after they have given their hearts to
+Christ they have immediately begun to draw others. They go out<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span>
+and invite others to come to church, they invite others to go with
+them to the prayer-meeting, to come with them to the Sunday-school,
+and so in every way they seek to influence others that they
+may draw them to Christ.</p>
+
+<p>When Jesus was upon the earth vast multitudes attended
+Him. Where He went they followed. But now when Jesus is
+no longer bodily present upon the earth, when we cannot see Him
+with our natural eyes, we speak of walking by faith, and you may
+be curious to know what is meant by walking by faith. I think that
+I can illustrate it in this way: Here is a sheet of writing paper.
+Now above the writing paper I will place this magnet, and then
+below it I will place this small bit of iron. The attracting power
+of the magnet holds the iron up against the paper. Now, when I
+move this magnet on the upper side of the sheet from place to place,
+you will observe that this little piece of iron on the lower side of
+the sheet goes in the same direction. It follows the magnet very
+closely. The paper is between them. Now, if this paper were
+enlarged so as to be as long and as broad as the ceiling of this room,
+of course you would not be able to see the magnet. It would be
+hidden from your view. But as you would move the magnet
+from place to place, the little iron below would continue
+to follow it.</p>
+
+<p>So Jesus Christ is no longer visible; we cannot see Him with
+our natural eyes, but He draws the Christian who is in this world,
+and so the Christian follows Him. He walks in the footsteps of
+the Lord Jesus. And it is on that account that we say that the
+Christian walks by faith, and not by sight.</p>
+
+<p>Just before Jesus was crucified He said: "And I, if I be
+lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me." (John
+xii: 32.) So He draws you and He draws me. And so also by
+His love He would draw every person in all the world to Him.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span>
+Let us not resist the drawings of the Holy Spirit, but come to the
+Lord Jesus Christ and love Him with our whole heart.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What can the magnet do? Can the power of the magnet be
+seen? Can the magnet lift as many nails as tacks? Are old rusty nails drawn
+by the magnet? Who are like the little tacks? Who are like the small nails? Who
+are like the rusty nails? Does everybody desire at times to be good? What
+draws them in the right direction? Can we see the power that causes us to
+desire to be good? What is the name of the power or force that causes the
+nails to fall from the magnet? What power draws people from doing right?
+Should we always yield to the power that draws us in the right direction?
+Does Christ have to be seen in order to accept His influence?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i089.png" width="350" height="237" alt="Daniel in the Lion&#39;s Den." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Daniel in the Lion&#39;s Den.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p>
+<h2>KEYS.</h2>
+
+<h3>HOW TO UNLOCK THE HUMAN HEART.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects used: Locks and keys of any form or size. If possible
+open the lock and show how the key fits into the different wards of the
+lock. Explain how other keys would not fit.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I have here to-day
+quite a variety of locks. Here are also quite a variety of
+keys. You will notice that there are several more keys
+than there are locks. Now, I suppose that we would
+have no very great difficulty in selecting the keys that would be
+most likely to turn backward
+and forward the bolts in these
+different locks. We would
+naturally expect that these
+larger keys would fit these
+larger locks and the smaller
+keys would be adapted to lock
+and unlock the smaller ones.</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i090.png" width="300" height="320" alt="Lock and Key." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Lock and Key.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Here is this large lock; I
+suppose it is very possible this
+large key may be suited to lock
+and unlock it. Yes, it just fits.
+You see how it turns the bolt in
+and out as I turn the key.</p>
+
+<p>Now, here is another lock; let us see if we can find a key that
+will fit it. This key seems about the size, but after passing it into<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span>
+the lock it seems to strike something that prevents it from turning,
+and consequently is of no service. Let us try another. That seems
+to work much better, and turns the bolt backward and forward.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i091a.png" width="250" height="229" alt="Lock and Key." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Lock and Key.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Here is still another lock; let
+us try this key with this lock. That
+seems to work very well. Possibly
+we might be able to lock and unlock
+this other also. Let us try it. Yes,
+this key fits both these locks. This
+key is what the locksmith calls a
+skeleton key. It is so made that it
+avoids the obstacles which are
+placed in the different locks to prevent
+them from being opened by all
+varieties of keys. Here is a still smaller lock. This lock has a
+very peculiar keyhole, and I know at once that there is no need
+of trying to unlock it with
+most of the keys which I
+have spread out here. I
+recognize it at once as what
+is called a "Yale lock."
+The key is thin, is bent in
+various ways, and along the
+edge has several notches.
+Let us try a couple of these
+keys. This one seems to fit
+very well to the grooves. It
+passes into the lock, but I
+cannot turn the bolt. Let us try another. Yes, this seems to be
+the one that was made by the locksmith to fasten and unfasten this
+lock.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i091b.png" width="300" height="239" alt="Yale Lock and Key." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Yale Lock and Key.</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>A key then is simply something which unlocks the door or
+the gate, so you may open it and pass inside. Now, there are a
+great many kinds of keys. Sometimes a book is called a key to
+business. Perhaps another book is called a key to the study of
+medicine; another the key to the study of law. And so there may
+be a great many kinds of books which are called keys. When
+properly used or studied they open the way for a clear understanding
+of how to transact business, how to study medicine and how to
+study law. And so there are various books that are keys to the
+understanding of very, very many subjects. When you indicate
+to me the kind of difficulty that you have to overcome, it would be
+reasonably easy to indicate the kind of book you need in order successfully
+to meet that difficulty.</p>
+
+<p>When I find a book that teaches a boy good business habits
+and helps him to become a good business man, I know that book
+was written with that object in view. When I find a book that
+teaches one how to understand the human system, the nature of
+disease and the character of the remedies which are to be used
+when people are sick, I know that book was written with a view
+to help people to understand the nature of disease and the character
+of medicine. Just so it is with every other book. Each is
+like the lock and the key, for the locks have inside a peculiar sort
+of winding way, and when I find a key that exactly fits into this
+winding passage I know immediately that the locksmith designed
+that the key should fit into that particular lock and turn back the
+bolt.</p>
+
+<p>Now, God wants to get into the human heart, and I find that
+God has a key with which to unlock it. I do not think you would
+be long in guessing what book God has made the key with which
+to unlock the human heart. I think that every boy and girl would
+at once say that it is the Bible. Yes; it is the Bible. It fits<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span>
+exactly into all the wards and chambers, and winding passages
+which characterize each and every need of the human heart. The
+moment I bring this wonderful key of divine truth to the human
+heart, I find that the lock and the key were both made by the same
+infinite Creator. Some locks are very complicated and intricate,
+and the keys are also very peculiar. They are made especially
+for that particular lock, and no other key in all the world will
+unlock it. The moment I get that particular key and turn it around
+in the lock I know at once that both the lock and the key were
+made by the same person, and that the lock was made to be opened
+by no other key. So God has created the human heart and made
+it very difficult to be opened, and there is no key in all the world
+that can open it except the Bible.</p>
+
+<p>As a robber or a burglar may try to get into a house by the
+use of a skeleton key, or by "picking the lock," so men have often
+tried to gain admission into the human heart by the use of various
+substitutes for the genuine and the real key. They have tried
+amusement, and wealth, and sinful pleasure, and very, very many
+things; but they never succeed in getting into the inner sacredness
+of the human heart. Unless the heart is opened by God's Word,
+and the Holy Spirit is admitted so that God can take possession,
+there is always a sense of loneliness, a sense of dissatisfaction, a
+desire for something that the person does not possess; he is at unrest,
+he is restless and dissatisfied, like a boy or girl who is away from
+home, and has a homesick longing to return to that home.</p>
+
+<p>You never will be able to understand the hidden mystery of
+your own spiritual life and spiritual being until you use the Word
+of God to help you to solve the mystery. The Word of God is
+not only designed to unlock the human heart, so that God and the
+Holy Spirit may gain admission, but this key is also designed to
+lock the door against Satan and sin and keep them out of our hearts.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span>
+Unless we daily use our Bibles to lock our hearts against evil
+thoughts, and wicked purposes, and sinful desires, we will find that
+they will steal into our hearts; and like the evil spirit that had been
+driven out and afterward returned and brought seven other spirits
+more wicked than himself, so sin and Satan will again take possession
+of our hearts and lock them against God and all that is good.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Are there many kinds of locks? Must there be as many
+kinds of keys as there are kinds of locks? Is the human heart like a lock?
+Does God desire to get into the human heart? With what key does He unlock
+it? Are the lock and its key made by the same man? Who made the human
+heart? Who made the key to unlock it? Can the Bible be used to lock the
+human heart against the entrance of sin? What are skeleton keys? Do men
+try false keys with which to open the human heart? What are some of the
+things with which they try? Is the human heart ever satisfied until unlocked
+by the Bible and possessed by God?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i094.png" width="400" height="143" alt="Keys and Bible" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p>
+<h2>TRAPS.</h2>
+
+<h3>UNSUSPECTING MICE AND MEN.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;An ordinary mouse trap will be serviceable. The trap can
+be set and instead of a mouse, a child can spring the trap with his finger. The
+parent had better try his own finger first, to see that the trap is not too strong.
+A rat trap should never be tried in this way.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: You may think that
+possibly there was a time when wicked men did not
+desire to destroy others, as is so often the case in this
+day. Hundreds of years ago, God said, "Among my people
+are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares;
+they set a trap, they catch men." (Jeremiah v: 26.)</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/i095.png" width="325" height="108" alt="Mouse Trap." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Mouse Trap.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I suppose you
+have all seen traps.
+There are a great
+many different kinds.
+Some are very dangerous,
+and yet you cannot see the danger
+until you are caught, or until you see some other person who has
+been caught in the trap. Now here is a trap. I suppose that you
+have all seen such traps as this, and possibly have them in your own
+homes, to catch the little mice which destroy your food, and oftentimes
+do much injury.</p>
+
+<p>Now, this trap does not look dangerous to the unsuspecting
+mouse. The little wire, which is to be drawn up by a strong<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span>
+spring to choke the mouse to death, is concealed, and he does not
+know that there is a wire there at all. He simply smells the piece
+of cheese. This tempts his appetite, and, as he is fond of cheese,
+he desires to obtain it, and so he attempts to crawl in through this
+small hole to get the cheese; but the moment he nibbles at the
+cheese, it disturbs the little catch which holds the spring, and when
+it is too late to escape, the little mouse finds that he has been caught.
+Then he does not think of the cheese, but struggles to get loose
+and escape out of the trap. But all of his struggles are in vain,
+and after a few moments he is choked to death. Then the man,
+or the housewife comes, takes the little mouse out of the trap, and
+with the same piece of cheese the trap is again set for another unsuspecting
+mouse. So people go on, day after day, catching one
+mouse after another, with the same trap and with the same bait.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i096.png" width="400" height="105" alt="Mice and Trap." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Mice and Trap.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, there are traps which men set for boys and girls, and
+men and women, such as story papers, bad books and pictures,
+that might be called pest papers, printed poison, moral leprosy.
+To the innocent, the unthinking and the unsuspecting these things
+may not appear very dangerous, but they are very deadly in their
+effects, and they result in the temporal and eternal ruin of thousands
+upon thousands of people every year.</p>
+
+<p>Then there are also the saloons, with gilded signs, frosted
+windows, and showy looking glasses. Rooms which are made<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span>
+attractive only to catch men, to rob them of their money, and of
+their self-control, and of their reason, and of their homes, and of all
+temporal good, and of all hope of heaven&mdash;destroying men's souls
+and bodies, both for a time and for all eternity.</p>
+
+<p>Then there is the theatre, with its glittering lights, with its tinseled
+show, with its corrupting play, with its scenes upon which
+no pure-minded man or woman can look without blushing; scenes
+which deaden the moral sense, pollute the mind, such as are calculated
+to rob the individual of virtue, and of integrity, and of faith
+in God, and of hope of heaven.</p>
+
+<p>Then there are other dangerous traps which are set for young
+men and for older men&mdash;tobacco, cigarettes and cigars, and beer.
+These traps which are set for our money, which so often rob of
+health and strength, for no boy who uses tobacco in any form can
+be strong like the boy who does not use tobacco. Boys begin with
+the deadly cigarette, and then go on to the cigar, and then follow
+with drinking beer, and so, step by step, they go on down to ruin.</p>
+
+<p>If you have ever gone fishing on a calm, beautiful summer
+day, and have looked down through the water, you have often
+seen the fish as they gathered around the hook, and then watched
+them as they nibbled at the bait. First they come up very shyly,
+and barely touch the bait with their nose. Then they come again,
+and possibly just bite a small trifle&mdash;barely taste of it. Then, again
+and again they nibble at the hook, until finally they undertake to
+get a large bite, when they discover that they have swallowed the
+hook. Then it matters not how much they flounder about, and
+struggle to get away, it is too late, it is impossible for them to
+escape. They are pulled into the boat or upon the bank, and a
+few hours later they are on the stove, being cooked for some hungry
+fisherman. Just so Satan comes to those whom he wishes to catch.
+He comes with money, and with pleasure, and with the thought of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span>
+having a good time. He tempts people by presenting to their
+thought something which they desire. He leads them on step by
+step, and when they see others
+all about them who are being
+destroyed in the effort to obtain
+the same pleasure which they
+are seeking, Satan makes them
+think that in their own case the
+result will be very different.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i098.png" width="300" height="294" alt="Fish Doing a Dangerous Thing." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Fish Doing a Dangerous Thing.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>You will notice that this
+mouse trap has four different
+places where mice can be
+caught, and is it not strange that
+when one mouse enters on this
+side, and is caught, and is lying
+there dead, that another live mouse should come along, and see
+the same trap and desire the same thing, and walk right in to the
+same danger, and the same sure death? You would think that
+when he saw the other mouse had been caught, and had lost his
+life, that he would turn away. But instead of that, he smells the
+cheese, walks right into the trap, and is caught, and in a few
+moments is as dead as his neighbor. So boys see others who have
+been ruined by smoking cigarettes, who have paved the way for
+their destruction by smoking cigars, by keeping bad company, by
+drinking beer, and by going on step by step. They see drunkards
+all about them who have squandered all their money and lost all
+their friends, and been forsaken by their own parents, their wives,
+and their children; who have become outcasts, and for whom no
+one longer has any respect. Men see these things daily, and yet
+they go on in the same way, beginning with beer and going, step
+by step, from social drinking, until they themselves become drunkards<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span>
+and outcasts, and go down to fill a drunkard's grave. The
+Bible says that no drunkard can inherit the kingdom of heaven.</p>
+
+<p>I trust that none of you who listen to me to-day will be so
+foolish as to permit Satan to deceive you. Look about you and
+see the results of worthless story-papers, of card-playing, of theatre
+going, of social drinking, of round dancing, lying, swearing, cheating,
+and all forms of wickedness, and then remember that these
+same influences, if wrought into your life, will also produce the
+same result. Do not be like the foolish mouse, which sees its dead
+companion in the trap, and then walks up unthinkingly and pokes
+his head into the same inevitable death and destruction; but
+remember that Satan waits to destroy you, just the same as he has
+destroyed others.</p>
+
+<p>In the book of Job (xviii: 10) it says, "The snare is laid
+for him in the ground and a trap for him in the way;" and in the
+8th verse of the same book and chapter it says, "He is cast into a
+net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare." Satan has laid
+traps and snares all along your path through life, and you will
+need to be very, very cautious, lest you are ruined for time and
+destroyed for eternity. Remember the text for to-day, which says,
+"Among my people are found wicked men; they lay wait, as he
+that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What are traps for? Are there different kinds of traps? Is
+a trap a dangerous thing? Does a dangerous trap always look dangerous?
+Are there traps set for boys and girls, and men and women? Who sets these
+traps? What are some of the traps? How are fish caught? Who tries to
+trap and destroy boys and girls, and men and women? What does Satan
+sometimes use? When the mouse sees others caught, what should he do?
+Does he run away? Does he go and do the same thing? Does he suffer the
+same result? If Satan's traps destroy others, will they destroy us? Have you
+ever seen any persons who were caught in Satan's traps? Can anybody do
+wicked things without great danger?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span></p>
+<h2>BREAD.</h2>
+
+<h3>UNIVERSAL SOUL HUNGER.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Bread, rolls or biscuit can be used if thought necessary,
+and these can be used for refreshments later.</p>
+
+<p>If the children are tired of "driving to church" in an imaginary carriage,
+let them drive in an imaginary sleigh, with imaginary bells, amid winter scenes.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY LITTLE FRIENDS: I am sure that every boy and
+girl in this room knows what it is to be hungry. It is a
+part of our childhood experience to feel hungry almost
+every day. While the body is growing there is almost
+a constant demand for nourishment and food.</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i100.png" width="350" height="178" alt="Loaf of Bread, Roll and Biscuit. " title="" />
+<span class="caption">Loaf of Bread, Roll and Biscuit. </span>
+</div>
+
+<p>We have here a small loaf of bread; it is called a Vienna
+roll, and here is a
+small biscuit. Now,
+this is bread, only it
+is baked in small
+loaves. As people
+all over the world
+have hunger, so
+bread in one form or
+another has become
+the universal food of
+the world. When in the Lord's Prayer we ask God to "give us
+this day our daily bread," we mean not simply bread made of
+flour, but we mean necessary food, food of all kinds; and so the
+word bread has come to be used to signify all kinds of wholesome<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span>
+food. God gives us our food day by day, just the same as each
+morning the manna rained down from heaven for the Children of
+Israel while they were journeying through the desert. God does
+not send it to us in just the same way, but each day He furnishes
+us a sufficient amount of food to sustain our bodies.</p>
+
+<p>Now, as there is universal physical hunger, and as God has
+made provision to supply the food necessary to satisfy the hunger
+of the body; so there is a universal hunger of the soul, and God
+has also made provision to satisfy this universal hunger of our
+higher spiritual nature. In the sixth chapter of the Gospel by
+St. John, you will find much said about the food for the higher,
+the spiritual nature. Jesus said, "Verily, verily I say unto you,
+Moses gave you not that bread from Heaven; but My Father giveth
+you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He
+which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world."</p>
+
+<p>The body is sustained by the food which grows up out of the
+earth, because the body is earthy. But to sustain the higher and
+spiritual nature of man, which is from heaven, the food is sent
+down from heaven, and therefore Jesus says of Himself that He is
+"The bread of God which cometh down from heaven, and giveth
+life unto the world," "I am the bread of life, he that cometh to me
+shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst."
+And in the forty-eighth verse of that same chapter He says, "I am
+the bread of life; your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and
+are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,
+that man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living bread which
+came down from heaven; if any man eat of this bread he shall live
+forever, and the bread that I will give him is my flesh, which I
+will give for the life of the world."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 303px;">
+<img src="images/i102.png" width="303" height="400" alt="Plants Reaching Out Toward the Light." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Plants Reaching Out Toward the Light.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, when you desire to be good, when you desire to live
+like Christ, you desire to know more concerning Him; and when<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span>
+you desire to read God's Word, and to learn of that which is holy
+and good and right, then you have this spiritual hunger. That is
+the kind of hunger of which Jesus was speaking in this chapter.
+The presence of Jesus in the soul and the knowledge of Him that
+is given in the Bible is the best kind of food for our spiritual nature.
+This was the kind of spiritual food upon which Joseph fed when
+he lived in the midst of idolatrous Egypt. It was upon these spiritual
+truths that David and Daniel and Paul and Luther fed daily,
+and this nourished their spiritual natures. I trust you all have this
+hunger for the bread of life. Jesus said, "Blessed are they which
+do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."</p>
+
+<p>Did you ever see a plant growing at the window in a crock
+and observe how it bends or reaches out toward the light? If you
+turn the crock around so that the plant bends inward toward the
+room, after a day or two you go to the plant and it will have
+changed its direction, and instead of bending into the room, it will
+be bending out toward the window. Now this plant feeds on the
+light from the sun, and on that account it reaches out toward the
+sun. So if you hunger after that which is good, you will reach
+out after God, just as the plant reaches out after the sun.</p>
+
+<p>This kind of bread which I hold in my hand costs something.
+Flour costs several dollars a barrel, and bread from five to ten
+cents a loaf. In times of famine bread has sometimes been sold at
+many hundreds of dollars for one single loaf. But the bread of
+life is free; it costs nothing. Everybody can have spiritual food
+for the simple asking for it. Therefore it is that we go to God in
+prayer and ask Him for every good and helpful grace and blessing;
+that we ask Him for His presence in our hearts, and to make
+us good, and to help us to become like Christ.</p>
+
+<p>But there are some who have this hunger after that which is
+good, but they do not know about God and about the Lord Jesus<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span>
+Christ. They do not have any Bibles. Therefore it is my duty
+and your duty to send them the bread of everlasting life. It is for
+this purpose that we give our money for missions so that missionaries
+may be sent to them to tell them of God and His love, and of
+Jesus Christ the Saviour, and to take them the Bible.</p>
+
+<p>In order that we may be strengthened by bread, it is necessary
+that we should eat it, and that we should assimilate it or make it
+part of our own bodies, in order that we may become strong, otherwise
+we would die of hunger in the midst of great store-houses of
+food. So men and women die spiritually in the midst of churches,
+in the midst of Bibles, Bible influences, and Bible privileges; yes,
+die without Christ. In order that our spiritual natures may be fed
+with spiritual food, we have every Christian influence in our
+homes, we have the Sunday-school and the Catechetical class, and
+the Church with its preaching service, and prayer-meetings and
+other services. If you desire to be good, you must study your
+Bibles, go to Sunday-school and to church, and seek to know
+all you possibly can concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive
+Him into your hearts, and live a Christian life by His aid and the
+grace which God will grant you from day to day.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Do all boys and girls get hungry? What food is most universally
+used in the world? Does the body require food every day? Why?
+Do we have a spiritual nature as well as a physical nature? Is there a spiritual
+hunger as well as a physical hunger? Will food which satisfies the physical
+Hunger satisfy the spiritual hunger? Who does the Bible say is the "bread of
+life"? Can we obtain food for the body without buying it either with money or
+effort? Must Jesus, the spiritual food, be bought? Can salvation be purchased?
+If God did not give it to us could we ever pay for it? Where can we
+learn most about this spiritual hunger and about the "bread" which came down
+from Heaven? How shall we send the Bread of Life to the people in heathen
+lands?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE STONE.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE NATURAL AND CHANGED HEART.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects: A small cobble stone and a larger one, to represent
+the heart of a child and the heart of an adult, and a pin with which to prick the
+stone and prick the hand.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i105.png" width="300" height="237" alt="Pricking a Stone. " title="" />
+<span class="caption">Pricking a Stone. </span>
+</div>
+
+<div class='cap'>NOW, boys and girls, I have here a stone, which because of
+its peculiar shape reminds me of the human heart. But
+if I take a pin and prick this stone it has no feeling whatever.
+If I take this pin and prick the back of my hand,
+I feel it immediately. It is very unpleasant. Indeed, I do not like
+to endure it, but this stone
+has no feeling. If I were
+to love this stone, the stone
+would never be conscious
+of it. I might bestow
+great gifts upon this stone,
+I might purchase fruit for
+it, and everything that you
+and I might love for food;
+the finest clothing also, the
+most costly lands and
+houses, or we might even
+bestow upon it very great
+honor, and yet this stone would know nothing of it. It would
+always be insensible of all that I might do for it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span></div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i106.png" width="400" height="254" alt="Pricking the Hand." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Pricking the Hand.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now the Bible represents the natural heart as being wicked.
+We are told in the Bible that our hearts have no feeling; that God
+loves us, and yet that we do not appreciate it; that God bestows
+upon us our daily food, and that He clothes us, and blesses us
+with every good, and has provided for us mansions in the skies,
+and that He desires to give us everlasting salvation. He loves us
+so much that He
+gave His only begotten
+Son, Jesus
+Christ, to die for us,
+and yet with the
+natural heart no one
+ever loves God, or
+appreciates anything
+that He has done for
+us. And so God
+desires, as He tells
+us in the Bible, to take away, out of our flesh this heart
+of stone, and give us a heart of flesh, so that we may
+appreciate and love Him in return for all that He has done
+for us.</p>
+
+<p>The heart is spoken of in the Bible as the seat of the affections,
+and therefore it is that God desires us to have a new heart,
+a changed heart, a heart that can love Him. The Bible says that
+each one is to keep his heart with all diligence, for out of it are the
+issues of life. We are told also that "the heart is deceitful above
+all things and desperately wicked."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/i107.png" width="288" height="400" alt="Assaulting the City of Child-Soul." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Assaulting the City of Child-Soul.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Many years ago in England there was a man by the name
+of John Bunyan. I suppose you have all heard of his wonderful
+book entitled the "Pilgrim's Progress." I hope that many of you
+have read it. All of you should read it, if you have not yet done<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span>
+so. Get your mother or father to read it for you, if you cannot
+read it yourself.</p>
+
+<p>This man Bunyan also wrote a book entitled the "Holy
+War." In this book he represents the human soul or the human
+heart as a city, and calls it the "City of Mansoul." This city has
+various gates, and at all these gates the enemy is trying to gain
+admission into the city, so that he may capture it. It is, indeed,
+a very apt illustration of the human heart. Do you know that
+your heart is like a city, and that Satan is trying to capture and to
+get possession of it? Indeed, he may already have possession of it.
+And when God by His grace shall come and cast out Satan and all
+his evil companions, they will come back and try to get into the
+city again. They will come to the various gates of the city; for your
+heart has various avenues of approach, which may be called gates.
+There is eye-gate. Satan comes and he appeals to you and tries to
+get into your heart through the eye. Bad pictures that are posted
+upon the bulletin boards along our streets, and wicked things upon
+which you and I ought not to look&mdash;worthless papers, bad books&mdash;these
+Satan desires to have us look upon, and in that way get evil
+thoughts into our minds and wicked purposes into our hearts, so that
+he can once more get possession of our hearts.</p>
+
+<p>Then he comes to ear-gate, and tries to get into our hearts
+through our ears. There are wicked songs, and bad stories, and
+wicked words that men pour into our ears, even when we walk
+along the streets. And so Satan tries to get into our hearts through
+ear-gate, and he tries to get into our hearts through what I will call
+mouth-gate. He tempts our appetite, and would have us eat
+things which would injure us, or to drink that which would harm
+us. And so he tries to get a boy to smoke, or to drink, if at first only
+beer, or something else, until at last Satan makes a drunkard of
+him. So Satan would get into the heart through mouth-gate. And<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span>
+when he cannot get into the heart through mouth-gate, or any
+other way, he oftentimes approaches mouth-gate by way of nose-gate.
+By the smell of something that is pleasant he tempts the
+appetite, and thus would lead us astray.</p>
+
+<p>And then he would also approach our hearts through the
+sense of feeling. There are many wicked things that Satan tempts
+people to do in order to give them pleasure, and so he seeks to get
+into their hearts, and to get entire control of them, and in that way
+to get God out of their hearts.</p>
+
+<p>The best thing that you and I can do, is to accept of God's
+invitation, where He says, "My son, give me thine heart." I
+trust that you will give your heart earnestly and fully to the Lord
+Jesus Christ. He will take away this heart of stone out of your
+flesh, and give you a heart of flesh. He will keep your heart
+securely for you, if you will only give it fully to Him.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Does the stone have any feeling? Are our natural hearts
+like a stone? Can a human heart that is insensible like a stone be conscious of
+God's love? Who offers to give us a heart that will be conscious of God's
+love? Who wrote the book picturing the human heart like a city? Who is
+trying to capture this city? Through what gates does Satan try to enter? How
+does he try to get into Eye-Gate? How does he try to get into Ear-Gate?
+How does he try to get into Mouth-Gate? Can you tell any other
+methods that he tries? To whom had we better surrender the city of our
+soul? If we commit the city of our soul to God, will He protect and defend it?
+Is there any other way of safety?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE POLISHED STONE.</h2>
+
+<h3>PERFECTION THROUGH SUFFERING.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions:</span>&mdash;A piece of polished stone, or a polished jewel, or piece of
+polished metal will answer for the object to be used.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I trust you are all
+trying to be good, and perhaps while you have been trying
+to be a follower of Jesus you have desired many
+things and hoped that God would give them to you,
+because you were trying to do right, and yet, perhaps, you have
+been disappointed because God did not grant your wish. You
+have been seeking to be faithful, and yet, perhaps, sickness has
+come to you, or disappointment and sorrow. Perhaps sickness and
+death have come into your family. Your papa or your mamma
+has been taken away by death, and you have been left very sad
+and lonely, and you have come to wonder how it is, if God loves
+you, that He does not grant you just what you wish, and that He
+permits sickness and sorrow and bereavement to come to you and
+to your home.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 348px;">
+<img src="images/i110.jpg" width="348" height="500" alt="Stones Being Prepared for a Great Building Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall." title="" />
+<span class="caption"><span style="margin-left: 14em;"><small>Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall.</small></span><br />Stones Being Prepared for a Great Building</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When you have looked about you, you have seen many good
+people who have been in much distress, oftentimes in poverty,
+afflicted with sickness, bereaved of their loved ones, and left in
+great sorrow and disappointment. When you have taken up your
+Bible you have found that the same was true many hundreds of
+years ago. David was greatly afflicted. Paul had his thorn in
+the flesh. The disciples were often cast into prison, and it is very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span>
+likely that all of them were put to death, as their Master had been
+before them.</p>
+
+<p>Now I want to illustrate to you to-day why God permits
+sorrow and affliction to come to us. I have here two stones,
+both taken out of the same quarry. This one is polished and has
+a very beautiful surface. It is very beautiful, not only to look at,
+but it would be beautiful in any place you might choose to put it.
+This other is rough and jagged, and not at all pleasant, either to
+handle or to look upon. This rough stone can be made useful, but
+it would be no more useful than any other rough and unsightly
+stone. It would do very well to place in the foundation of a building,
+to be all covered up with mortar and have other stones laid on
+top of it; to be built in the foundation down below the ground,
+where no one would ever see it. But it would be of no special
+value in its present condition for anything other than that.</p>
+
+<p>I think this polished stone may very properly represent Christian
+people. For long, long years this stone had been lying peacefully
+and quietly in its rocky bed. But one day a man who purposed
+to build a very beautiful palace came along, and he
+found that the great rocks in a certain portion of the country contained
+stone that could be polished very beautifully. They could
+therefore be made very useful in constructing his palace or cathedral.
+So he sent a large number of men to the quarry and they
+began to drill great holes in the rock. Now, if these rocks had any
+feeling you can see at once that they would object to having such
+great holes drilled into their sides, because it would hurt a great
+deal. But after the men had the holes drilled they put powder in
+them and blasted off great pieces of these rocks. Then these great
+blocks were hauled away and placed in the hands of stone masons,
+who began with chisels and mallets to cut and carve. After that,
+with some fine sand or emery, or something of that kind, other men<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span>
+ground and polished the face of the stone until it became very
+beautiful.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/i114.png" width="325" height="431" alt="Stones Being Polished." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Stones Being Polished.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, if these stones had had feeling, you can see at once
+that they would have objected to being chiselled and cut, and
+carved, and ground,
+and polished. This
+process would have
+hurt so much that the
+stones would have
+cried out, and asked
+to be delivered from
+such a painful process.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 290px;">
+<img src="images/i115.png" width="290" height="400" alt="&quot;The Beautiful Angel Was Carved Out.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;The Beautiful Angel Was Carved Out.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>It is related of
+Michael Angelo,
+that one day he was
+passing a quarry
+where large blocks
+of beautiful marble
+were being taken
+out. In one large
+block he saw a beautiful
+angel. He
+ordered the block to
+be taken to his
+studio, or the place
+where he studied and worked. And then he put his men at work
+to chisel off the rough corners, and thus to deliver the angel out of
+the rough pieces by which it was surrounded. After many days
+and weeks, and perhaps months of working, in which this large
+block of marble had to submit to a great deal of chiselling and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span>
+carving, and cutting, and polishing; lo! and behold, the beautiful
+angel was all carved out and stood complete and perfect. It was
+polished and was made very beautiful, and when it was set up, it
+was the delight of every one who looked upon it. But all this,
+you easily see, was only made possible by that cutting and carving,
+which would have been very painful to the marble if it had
+been possessed of feeling.</p>
+
+<p>I think you will begin to see that these things which we call
+troubles and trials, after all, are well calculated by God to bring
+out that which is noblest and best in us.</p>
+
+<p>When you grow older you will come to say like Paul, that
+you know that "tribulation worketh patience, and patience <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'experence'">experience</ins> ,
+and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed." You
+will then come to understand that these things "work out for us a
+far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory," and like Paul,
+you will learn to be "patient in tribulation." One time when Paul
+and Barnabas were at Lystra and healed a cripple, the people
+were moved against Paul by some wicked Jews from Antioch and
+Iconium, and they pursued Paul and threw large stones at him
+and hit him with such great force that he fell down, and they supposed
+that he was dead. But Paul was not dead, and afterwards
+when he met some of the Christian people at that and other places,
+when they talked to him about it, and thought that it was very
+hard that God should have permitted these wicked people to stone
+him, Paul told these Christians that "through much tribulation we
+must enter into the kingdom of heaven."</p>
+
+<p>But I must not detain you longer. I want simply to say in
+closing that when St. John had been banished to the Isle of Patmos
+and was permitted to have a view of heaven, and looked into
+that glorious city, he saw a great company, and he inquired of the
+angel who these people were. The angel replied: "These are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span>
+they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their
+robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore
+are they before the Throne of God and serve Him day and night
+in His temple; and He that sitteth upon the Throne shall dwell
+among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more;
+neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb
+which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them, and shall lead
+them unto living fountains of water; and God shall wipe away all
+tears from their eyes." (Rev. vii: 14-17.)</p>
+
+<p>If in our sickness, or sorrow, or disappointment here upon the
+earth, we are sad or lonely, let us remember that in the happy home
+to which we go we shall be forever with the Lord, and that all
+tears shall be wiped away, and that we shall be happy forever and
+ever on high. It is only through these tribulations that you and I
+can be prepared to enter heaven. If God were to give us everything
+we want, like children who are indulged, we would soon be
+spoiled and would not be fit for the enjoyment of heaven or the
+companionship of the angels.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What is rough stone used for? Does the stone have feeling?
+If it had feeling, would it object to being cut and chiselled and polished? Could
+it be used in a great building unless it was first quarried and prepared? How
+can the rough stone be made beautiful? Can it be polished so that you can see
+your face in it? Who prepares people to be builded into His kingdom? How
+does He do this? Who composed the great multitude whom John saw in the
+glorious city? What had happened to them? What should we remember in
+times of sickness and sorrow? Why are trials necessary to fit us for heaven?
+Will we be in the presence of God there and have angels as our companions?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span></p>
+<h2>ROPES.</h2>
+
+<h3>HABITS AND HOW THEY BECOME STRONG.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions</span>:&mdash;Objects to be used are a spool of thread, a piece of string
+or twine and a piece of rope.</p>
+
+<p>After the sermon has been read, the thread and strings could be used to tie
+the hands and feet, and thus illustrate how impossible it is to break them when
+they are wound again and again around the hands and the feet, even though
+the thread be very fine. So with habits, seemingly insignificant.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I have to-day a piece
+of rope, and also some different kinds of string. If I
+take this rope and try to break it, I find that it is impossible.
+I do not believe that any five or six ordinary men
+could pull with sufficient strength to break this rope. I am
+sure that no twenty boys and girls could pull hard enough
+to break it.</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i118.png" width="400" height="145" alt="Rope." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Rope.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Here is a very
+strong string. Perhaps
+a couple of
+boys, possibly four
+boys, might be able
+to break it. But
+here is a thinner string. Possibly I may be able to break this. Yes,
+I can, but with great difficulty. It takes all the strength I have to
+break it.</p>
+
+<p>Now, here is some that is still thinner. It is about as thick as
+heavy thread. I can break it very easily.</p>
+
+<p>But now, when I take this heavy rope and cut off a piece, if I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span>
+unwind these different strands, I find that this rope is made by
+twisting smaller ropes together. If I untwist this smaller rope,
+which I have taken out of the larger rope, I find that it in like manner
+is also made of smaller ropes, or strings. If I take these smaller
+strings, and untwist them, I
+find that they are made of
+still smaller strings; if I take
+any of these smaller strings
+out of the rope, I can break
+them easily, but when I
+twist several of them together,
+I cannot break them.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i119.png" width="300" height="154" alt="String." title="" />
+<span class="caption">String.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I think that these smaller cords, out of which this rope is made,
+will very fittingly illustrate habits. It is a very dangerous thing to
+form bad habits. We should be very careful to form good ones,
+but bad ones are very dangerous. The boy who remains away
+from Sunday-school but once, thinks little of it. The boy who
+remains away from church, or stays at home from school, or disobeys
+his parents, or spends the evenings on the streets instead of in
+the house reading good books, or breaks the Sabbath, or does any
+one of many things, may think very little of it at the time; but do
+you know that when we go on repeating the same thing over and
+over again, the habit grows stronger and stronger until at last we
+are not able to break loose from that habit? There are men who
+think that they can stop smoking. They began with only an occasional
+cigarette or a cigar, until the habit grew upon them, and now
+possibly they think they are able to stop, but when they undertake
+to break off smoking, they find that it is a very difficult task, and
+very few smokers who undertake it succeed permanently. The old
+habit is likely to overcome them again and again.</p>
+
+<p>So it is with swearing, and with telling falsehoods, and with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span>
+being dishonest, and with drinking liquor, and everything else that
+men and boys often do. These habits at last become very strong,
+until they are not able to break loose from them.</p>
+
+<p>Now, if you take one of these strong habits from which a man
+is not able to break loose, and untwist it, you will find that it was
+made strong by a repetition of small habits. Habits are made
+strong by doing the same thing over and over again. It is just the
+same as when I take this spool of thread and wrap it around the feet
+of a boy. I can wrap it around and
+around, and while it would be easy for
+him to break the thread if it was wrapped
+once or twice, or three or four times
+around his feet; yet after I have succeeded
+in placing it ten or twelve, or
+twenty-five or fifty times around his
+feet, he is not able to walk at all.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i120.png" width="250" height="390" alt="Hands Bound." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Hands Bound.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I could tie his hands by wrapping
+this small thread around and around,
+just a few times. At first it could be
+broken, but after a little it becomes so
+strong that he is not able to break it at
+all. So it is with habits. When we
+do the same things again and again, the
+habit becomes stronger and stronger
+day by day, and year by year, until at last Satan has the poor victim
+bound hand and foot, and he is absolutely helpless. No one is
+able to come and snap the cords, and set this poor helpless prisoner
+free, until God in His grace comes and liberates him from the evil
+habits with which he has bound himself, or with which he has
+permitted Satan to bind him.</p>
+
+<p>It is very important that in the very beginning of life, we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span>
+should all form the habit of doing those things which are right.
+The doing of the right may at first afford us but very little pleasure,
+yet we are to continue to do right, and after a while it will become
+pleasant for us to do right.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i121.png" width="300" height="336" alt="Feet Bound." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Feet Bound.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>At first it may not be very pleasant for a boy to go to school.
+He prefers not to exert himself; not to put forth any mental effort.
+But after he becomes
+accustomed to
+going to school, and
+to putting forth
+mental effort, it becomes
+more and
+more natural to him,
+and finally he comes
+to love study. After
+he has completed his
+studies in the primary
+school, he goes
+to the intermediate,
+and to the grammar
+school, and high
+school, and possibly
+to college, and continues
+to be a student
+all his life.</p>
+
+<p>So it is with going to church; those who begin when they are
+young and go regularly, Sunday after Sunday, become regular
+church attendants all their lives.</p>
+
+<p>Habits are formed very much like the channel of a river.
+Gradually, year after year, the river wears its course deeper and
+deeper, until finally through the soft soil and the hard rock,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span>
+through the pleasant meadow and the beautiful woodlands, it has
+worn out for itself a very deep channel in which it continues to
+flow to the ocean.</p>
+
+<p>So the mind, by repeated action, marks out its course.
+Whether the mental effort or manual work be pleasant or difficult,
+we become so accustomed to it, that we go on day by day, and year
+by year doing the same thing.</p>
+
+<p>The Bible gives very wise instruction to parents when it says,
+"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
+he will not depart from it." (Prov. xxii: 6.) It has also been
+wisely said, "Sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and
+you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."</p>
+
+<p>Be careful, boys and girls, what you do, for by doing anything
+you are forming a habit. If you do wrong things you will
+form bad habits, but if you do right things you will form good
+habits, which are always the best.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Are small ropes or strings used to make big ropes? Can you
+tie a boy's hands and feet with thread so that he cannot make himself free?
+How are strong habits made? Is it a good thing that habits are formed in this
+way? Does this make it easy to form good habits? Does it also make it easy
+to break away at first from a bad habit? Which is easier, to form a bad habit
+or to break away from it? Who tries to bind us with bad habits? Who alone
+can break the ropes of habit with which Satan binds us? What does the Bible
+say about training up a child in the way he should go?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span></p>
+<h2>WATCH AND CASE.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE SOUL AND THE BODY.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;A watch and case (preferably a double case) from which
+the works can be easily removed will answer the purpose. Jewelers often have
+such old watches that they would be glad to sell for a trifle, or even to give
+away. A small old clock from which the works can be removed would also
+answer the same purpose.</p>
+
+<p>Keep up the play idea with the children. Older persons may weary of
+repetition, but to children their play is always new and interesting. After "driving
+to church", being shown to seats, and after some opening services, let one of
+the children preach in his or her own language the truth which most impressed
+them in last Sunday's object sermon, or the truth which they remember from
+the morning sermon in church, or from any passage of Scripture which they
+may prefer. No better school of oratory was ever formed, even though the primary
+purpose is devotional and religious.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>NOW, boys and girls, what is this that I hold in my hand?
+(Many voices, "A watch.") I expected that you would
+say it was a watch. Every boy knows a watch when he
+sees it, and every boy desires to have a watch of his own&mdash;one
+which he can carry in his pocket, and one which will tell
+him the time of day whenever he looks at it.</div>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 225px;">
+<img src="images/i124a.png" width="225" height="284" alt="Watch-case." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Watch-case.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But you cannot be sure, even from appearances, that this is
+absolutely a watch. It might be only a watch-case. In order to
+tell whether it is a watch, let us open it. After all, it is not
+a watch. It is only a watch-case. You would not wish to spend
+your money when you expect to get a watch, and on reaching home
+find that you have been deceived, and that you had nothing but a
+watch-case.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<p>Now, boys and girls, what is this? (holding up the works of
+the watch). "A watch." This time you are right, this is a watch.
+It is a watch without a case
+around it. Now we will put the
+works into the case, and then we
+will have a complete watch. The
+works and the case together more
+properly constitute a watch.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i124b.png" width="300" height="225" alt="A Watch-case and Works." title="" />
+<span class="caption">A Watch-case and Works.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>You have, I suppose, been at
+a funeral, and have seen the body
+of the dead man or woman or
+child lying in the coffin. Unless
+somebody has told you differently,
+you may possibly have
+thought the person whom you
+had known was lying there in the
+coffin. But this was not the fact. Every man, woman and child
+consists of a soul and a body, and when a person dies the soul returns
+to God, who gave it. God
+made our body out of the dust
+of the ground, and when the
+spirit leaves the body, it is
+a dead body, and it begins to
+decay, and soon becomes
+offensive, and so we bury the
+body out of our sight, putting
+it again in the ground, and
+finally it moulders back again
+to dust.</p>
+
+<p>It is not so, however, with the soul. That is a spirit. When
+God had made Adam out of the dust of the ground, He breathed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span>
+into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
+Now, this soul never dies. God has created it to live forever and
+ever, throughout all eternity. Those who are good and trust in the
+Lord Jesus Christ will be received at death to dwell forever with
+the Lord. And
+those who are
+wicked and do not
+repent of their sins,
+God will banish forever
+from His presence;
+for sin is hateful
+in the sight of
+God, who cannot
+look upon it with
+any degree of allowance.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i125.png" width="350" height="461" alt="Case and Works Separated." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Case and Works Separated.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The moment
+you look upon a
+body, without being
+able to tell how, you
+can nevertheless
+quickly distinguish
+between one who is
+asleep and one who
+is really dead. Even
+animals can tell a
+dead body. When a dead horse lies along the road, it is very
+difficult to drive a live horse near to the dead one. The living
+horse knows at once that the other is dead, although we do not
+know how he knows it.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I want to show you that death does not affect the existence<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span>
+of the soul. I will now lift these works out of the watch case.</p>
+
+<p>I now hold the case in my left hand, and the works in my
+right hand. As these works constitute the real watch, so the soul
+constitutes the real person, and as these wheels and hands continue
+to move, and to keep time regularly even after they have been
+removed from the case; so the soul, when God removes it from the
+body, continues to exist and to be possessed of all that makes the
+reasoning, thinking, immortal and indestructible being of man.
+I might take this case, which I hold in my left hand, and bury
+it in the ground, but the works would not be affected by this fact,
+but would continue to run on just the same. Suppose I were to
+leave this case buried in the ground until it had all rusted away.
+Then suppose that, as a chemist I could gather up all these particles
+again and make them anew into a watch case, and then put
+the works back into the case which had been restored or made
+anew; that would represent the resurrection of the body, and the
+reuniting of the soul with the body, which will take place at the
+resurrection day.</p>
+
+<p>Some years ago there was a great chemist, whose name was
+Faraday. It happened one time in his laboratory that one of the
+students, by accident, knocked from the table a silver cup, which
+fell into a vessel of acid. The acid immediately destroyed or dissolved
+it, and the silver all disappeared, the same as sugar dissolves
+or melts in a tumbler of water. When Professor Faraday came
+in and was told what had happened, he took some chemicals and
+poured them into the acid in which the silver had disappeared. As
+soon as these two chemicals came together, the acid began to
+release the silver, and particle by particle the silver settled at the
+bottom of the vessel. The acid was then poured off and the silver
+was all carefully gathered up and sent to a silversmith, who melted
+the silver and made it anew into a silver cup of the same form,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span>
+design and beauty. It was the same cup made anew. So, my
+young friends, our bodies may dissolve in the grave and entirely
+disappear, but God is able to raise them up again. He tells us in
+the Bible that these bodies which are buried in corruption shall be
+raised in incorruption, and that these mortal bodies shall put on
+immortality.</p>
+
+<p>I trust that I have illustrated to you how the soul and the
+body are separated when we die, and God's Word assures us that
+they shall be reunited again in the morning of the resurrection, for
+all these dead bodies "shall hear the voice of the Son of God and
+shall come forth." It matters not whether they were buried in the
+ground, or in the water, they shall arise from every sea and from
+every cemetery, and every grave in all the world, and shall live
+anew and forever, either in happiness with God in heaven, or in
+misery with Satan in eternal banishment from God's presence.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What are the principal parts of a watch? Which part is like
+the body? Which part is like the soul? Which is the real watch? Could the
+works alone run and keep time without the case? When does the soul become
+separated from the body? Does death affect the existence and life of the soul?
+If a watch case were buried and rusted away, could it be made new again?
+Does the Bible say our bodies are also to be raised again from the grave?
+What is that raising up of the body called? Will it make any difference
+whether a body was buried in the sea or in the earth? ("The sea shall give
+up its dead"). Whose voice shall call the body to immortality? Will the
+immortal body ever die?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PEARLS.</h2>
+
+<h3>ONE OF GREAT PRICE.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;A single pearl, or a string of pearls will serve well for illustration.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i128.png" width="300" height="215" alt="String of Pearls." title="" />
+<span class="caption">String of Pearls.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class='cap'>MY YOUNG FRIENDS: Here is a whole string of pearls.
+One time I found a large pearl in an oyster. I thought
+it might be valuable, and I took it to a jeweler, but he
+soon told me that it was not worth much, because it was
+not perfect. It was unusually large, but to be valuable it must be
+perfectly round and have no defects. When Jesus was upon the
+earth He told of a merchant
+who went in
+search of a very valuable
+pearl, and when he had
+found it, he sold all that
+he had and bought that
+pearl, in order that he
+might have the largest
+and most valuable jewel
+in all the world.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 304px;">
+<img src="images/i129.png" width="304" height="400" alt="Diving for Pearls." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Diving for Pearls.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Cleopatra, Queen
+of Egypt, had a pearl
+that was worth three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars,
+and one day she dissolved this costly pearl, and drank it in a glass
+of wine to the honor of Mark Antony, one of the Roman rulers.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span>
+There are pearls to-day worth two and three hundred thousand
+dollars, and possibly more.</p>
+
+<p>The pearl in this parable is the symbol of salvation. Now,
+salvation has cost more, and is worth more than all the farms, and
+houses, and stores, and wealth of all this nation, and all the nations
+of all the globe, and all the created universe about us. It cost the
+life of the Son of God, and it is desirable, therefore, that you and
+I should obtain it, because of the many blessings it secures to us,
+both in this world and in the world to come.</p>
+
+<p>For two thousand years men from all the largest nations of
+the earth have gone to the island of Ceylon, seeking pearls. It is
+a barren and deserted island, but during the months of February,
+March and April, every night at ten o'clock, many boats sail out
+about ten miles, to the place where men, with large leaden weights
+at their feet, dive down through the water until they come to the
+banks where the large pearl oyster has his home. They quickly
+pick up several of these oysters and drop them into a basket of network,
+and in about sixty or seventy seconds are again drawn up
+by their companions into the boat.</p>
+
+<p>Men and women could not have pearls if it were not that
+these men are willing to risk their lives by diving way down under
+the water to obtain them. No one could secure salvation had not
+Jesus left His throne in heaven and come down to this wicked
+world to suffer and die, that He might make atonement for our
+sins upon the cross, so that you and I might not perish but have everlasting
+life&mdash;so that you and I might have salvation, both here and
+in heaven.</p>
+
+<p>When I went to the jeweler, he told me that the defects on
+the pearl which I had found could not be removed and the rough
+places polished. Diamonds have to be cut and polished. Many
+precious and costly jewels when found look only like rough stones<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span>
+in the field, but the pearl is perfect when found; nothing can be
+done to make it more perfect or more valuable. Just so is the salvation
+of Jesus perfect; no human wisdom can improve upon it.
+The best book that any man ever wrote has been equaled by what
+some other man has thought and written. The religion of the
+heathen can be greatly improved, but the Bible and the salvation
+which it reveals, man has never been able to equal, much less to
+improve upon.</p>
+
+<p>To-day, as thousands of years ago, pearls are worn as ornaments
+to the body, but the salvation which Jesus Christ came to
+bring is an ornament to the soul that possesses it.</p>
+
+<p>The pearl is valuable and desirable, because it cannot easily
+be stolen away from its owner. When Jesus was upon the earth
+they did not have banks, with large iron safes where people could
+deposit their money and jewels for safe keeping. There were
+many robbers then, and people buried their money and valuables.
+Often the places where these were concealed were discovered,
+and then all that they had was stolen. A pearl is small, and could
+therefore easily be hidden in a place of safety. If war occurred,
+or for any reason a man and his family had to flee from their home
+or their country, they could easily carry even the most valuable
+pearls. The owner could hide it in his mouth, or even swallow it
+if necessary. If a man had much gold, it was too heavy to carry,
+and it could readily be discovered and stolen. But a pearl was not
+so difficult to hide and keep.</p>
+
+<p>The Bible tells us that salvation is something that the world
+cannot give, and which the world cannot take away. Daniel had
+this pearl of great price, and even though the king cast him into the
+den of lions, he could not get it away from him. His three companions
+with those hard names, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego,
+had this pearl of salvation, and even in the furnace of fire it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a></span>
+was not destroyed or taken from them. If you have this pearl of
+salvation, you can keep it in spite of all the wicked people in the
+world; you can hide it away in your heart, and all the armies of
+the world cannot take it away from you. In sickness or in health
+it will be yours, and even death itself can not rob you of it. It will
+stay with you in this world, and it will be your joy and gladness in
+the world to come.</p>
+
+<p>As the merchantman went out seeking the most valuable
+pearl, so all the world is to-day seeking for something which will
+satisfy and render their owners happy. There are many good
+things in this world, but none of them can make any one contented
+and happy, like the salvation which Jesus gives when we repent of
+our sins and in faith accept Him as our Saviour. Before you get,
+or even desire any other pearl, I want each of you to accept of this
+"Pearl of great price," which is Jesus Christ.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Of what is a pearl the symbol in the Bible? Are pearls valuable?
+Is salvation valuable? Where are pearls principally found? How are
+they obtained? Are pearls polished like the diamond? Why do people wear
+pearls? Can we lose pearls by having them stolen? Can we lose salvation?
+Who would steal it away? Who can give us the "Pearl of great price"?</p>
+
+<p>It is well to have the children learn the answers to many of the leading
+Bible questions. Try them in the following:&mdash;Who was the first man? Who
+was the first woman? Of what did God make Adam and Eve? Who was the
+first murderer? Who was the oldest man? Who built the ark? Who had the
+coat of many colors? Who was the strongest man? Who slew Goliath the
+giant? With what did David slay Goliath? Who was the wisest man? Who
+was cast into the den of lions? Who went to Heaven in the chariot of fire without
+dying? Upon whom did Elijah's mantle fall? A goodly number of similar
+questions are found on pages <a href="#Page_25">25</a> and <a href="#Page_26">26</a>.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span></p>
+<h2>COAL AND WOOD.</h2>
+
+<h3>JESUS THE SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL LIGHT AND WARMTH.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The objects used to-day can be a piece of wood, a piece of
+coal, a candle and a piece of electric light carbon, such as are daily thrown away
+in towns where the arc lighting is used.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: When Jesus was upon the
+earth, He said of Himself, "I am the light of the world."
+Now, I desire to-day to illustrate to you something of
+the truth which Jesus had in mind when He uttered
+these words.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/i133.png" width="450" height="274" alt="The Sun and Moon." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Sun and Moon.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>We are told in the Bible, that when God created the world,
+on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon to give light<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span>
+upon the earth, the sun to rule over the day, and the moon to rule
+over the night.</p>
+
+<p>I suppose you all know that the earth is round, and that while
+the sun is shining on our side of the earth, and making it day here,
+on the other side of the earth it is night and is all dark. Now, I
+want to tell you that the sun is the source of all light upon the
+earth. The sun shines and dispels the darkness, and makes it light.
+And do you know that the moon does not shine by its own light,
+but it simply throws back again, as we say, reflects, the light of the
+sun, just the same as when a boy takes a small piece or looking-glass
+and throws the light across the street? There is no light in the
+looking-glass itself, but it simply takes the rays of light which fall
+upon it from the sun and bends them, or turns them, so that the boy
+can throw the rays of light across the street, or upon anything that
+he desires that is in range of him. So the light of the sun falls
+upon the moon, and is turned again or reflected back upon the
+earth. God has so placed the moon in the heavens that it reflects
+the light of the sun upon those portions of the earth which are in
+darkness. Or, in other words, as He says in the Bible, the moon
+has been "made to rule the night." So you see that even the moon
+does not shine by its own light.</p>
+
+<p>Jesus Christ is the Sun of Righteousness. All the good there
+is in the world, all the righteousness, all that is holy and pure, come
+from Jesus Christ. The Church is also a source of purity, of holiness,
+of religion, and of Christianity. But the church does not
+shine of itself. It does not have these influences within itself. All
+its light is derived from the Sun of Righteousness. All influences
+which tend for goodness and holiness and purity are derived
+from the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the source of all that is
+good, and only in so far as the Church reflects the life of Jesus, and
+the truth which is revealed in His Word, and in the teachings of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span>
+Jesus, does it become the source of saving power in the
+world.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i135.png" width="300" height="194" alt="Candle, Coal and Wood." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Candle, Coal and Wood.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, here I have a piece of coal, and a piece of wood, and a
+candle, and a piece of carbon from an electric light. You might
+ask me whether the light that comes from the coal when it burns, or
+the wood when it burns, and the candle when it is lighted, and the
+electric light when it illuminates the street so brightly, whether they
+are not shining by their own light? No; they are not
+shining by their own light. All the light that there is in the
+wood, or in the coal, or in the candle, or in anything else that makes
+a light at all, derives its source and origin from the sun. The light
+that comes from the
+burning of this wood
+is simply the releasing
+of the light that
+has been accumulated
+from the rays of light
+shining from the sun
+upon the tree while it
+was growing, year
+after year, in the field
+or forest. And now,
+when it is burning, it simply releases or throws out that light which it
+received from the sun, and which was stored up in the wood of
+the tree while it was growing.</p>
+
+<p>This coal is simply a portion of a tree which grew many, many
+hundreds or thousands of years ago, and which, in some great convulsion
+of nature, was buried deep under the surface of the earth
+in what we now call coal mines. The coal has undergone some
+chemical changes, but, nevertheless, all the light there is in the
+coal is simply that buried sunshine, which was stored up centuries<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a></span>
+and centuries ago, in the form of vegetables and trees. Now, when
+it burns in the grate or in the furnace it simply releases that heat and
+warmth and light, which was stored up in these trees many, many
+centuries ago. It is simply buried sunshine which God has stored up
+for our use. The same is true of the light of the candle; if it were
+not for the light of the sun there would be no light giving power in
+any oil or tallow, or in this carbon, which is used in the electric light;
+they all derive their light from the sun itself.</p>
+
+<p>Just so it is with all the truth and righteousness there is in the
+world. When you see a man who is good and Christlike, it is not
+because that man has the power in himself to be good, but it is
+because he has received that power from the Lord Jesus Christ. The
+light of the Sun of Righteousness has shone into that man's heart,
+and the light that goes out through his daily conduct and character,
+is only the light of the Son of God shining out through that man.</p>
+
+<p>All objects which live in the sunlight drink in this light-giving
+power, and all people who live daily in the light of the Sun of
+Righteousness will partake of His nature and of His character, and
+then live that nature and character in their own daily lives. In this
+way they do as Jesus commanded, let their lights so shine, that
+others seeing their good work, glorify their Father which is in
+heaven.</p>
+
+<p>You should be careful to note that Jesus does not say that we
+ourselves are to shine so that others may glorify us. No, not at all.
+Many people try to shine or to attract the attention of others to
+themselves, but that is not what Jesus said or meant, but rather the
+reverse. Neither are we to attempt to shine, or to attempt to attract
+the glory or honor to ourselves. Let not yourself so shine, but let
+your <i>light</i> so shine that others seeing your good works may glorify&mdash;not
+you, but your Father which is in heaven. We must let Jesus
+Christ shine in and through us.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Whenever you see men or women, or girls or boys who are living
+beautiful Christian lives, it is not they that light up the moral
+darkness that is in the world, it is Jesus Christ who lives in them and
+shines through them, that makes them good and holy, and consequently
+a source of light and blessing to all about them.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What does Christ call Himself? What is the source of the
+light of the natural world? Does the sun shine by its own light? Does the
+moon shine by its own light, or does it reflect the light of the sun? What is the
+source of light displayed when coal and wood and other substances are burned?
+Does all natural light come from the sun? Who is the source of our spiritual
+light and knowledge? Are the Church and Christian people lights in the world?
+Do they shine of their own goodness like the sun, or are they like the moon in
+that they reflect the divine light? Does any person have the power in himself to
+be good? Where does this power to be good come from? Does Christ want us
+to shine as lights in the world? Are we to let our lights shine to glorify ourselves,
+or to glorify Christ?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i137.png" width="400" height="161" alt="Coal and wood" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span></p>
+<h2>LANTERNS.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE BEST LIGHT FOR OUR PATH.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions</span>:&mdash;A lantern of any kind may be used. If one of the old-fashioned
+tin lanterns, perforated with holes through which the light was to
+shine, is available it would add greatly to the curiosity and interest of the children,
+although these are now very rare, as they were in use a half century ago.</p>
+
+<p>After "driving to church", and after preaching by the children and the
+reading of the following sermon on lanterns, a few Japanese lanterns&mdash;one for
+each of the children&mdash;would enable the parents to form a little torch-light procession
+(although no lighted candles need be in the lanterns). After marching
+through the different rooms, give the children a talk upon the conditions existing
+in heathen lands like China and Japan, and the changes which are being wrought
+through the introduction of Christianity and the work of the missionaries.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 275px;">
+<img src="images/i138.png" width="275" height="340" alt="Old Lantern." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Old Lantern.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class='cap'>I &nbsp;DO not believe that there
+is a boy or girl here to-day
+who could tell me what this
+thing is, that I hold in my
+hand. It is a lantern, a very different
+lantern possibly, from those
+which any of you have ever seen.
+This is the kind of lantern that
+your grandfather and my grandfather
+used many years ago, in the
+days when they did not have
+lamps, and gas, and electric lights,
+and such things as we enjoy to-day.
+When I was a small boy in
+the country we used to have only candles. Later on in life, I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a></span>
+remember when they first had fluid lamps, and then kerosene oil,
+and then gas, and then, as we have it now, electric lights.</div>
+
+<p>In the second congregation to which I ministered, there was an
+old gentleman who had one of these lanterns. He lived some distance
+from the church, and very dark nights you could always see
+him coming across the hill, carrying this strange lantern. After the
+candle was lighted and placed inside, the light shone out through
+these small holes, and if the wind blew very hard, the light was
+liable to be blown out.</p>
+
+<p>Now, here is a better lantern. David says of God's Word,
+"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." On
+a dark night in the country, you could not go out of doors and move
+about without running up against a tree, or the fence, or falling into
+the ditch, or soon finding yourself involved in serious difficulties; and
+on this account people in the country carry a lantern at night. In the
+Eastern countries where Jesus lived, where they did not have gas and
+electric lamps to light the streets, when people went out at night they
+always carried a lantern. And so David said, "Thy word is a
+lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." (Ps. cxix: 105.)</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;">
+<img src="images/i140.png" width="287" height="400" alt="&quot;Coming Across the Hill Carrying this Strange Lantern.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Coming Across the Hill Carrying this Strange Lantern.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When people go out of doors into the darkness with a lantern
+they do not hold it way up high, but hold it down near their feet, so
+that they can see the path, and it enables them to walk with security
+and safety. Sometimes there are men who have gone to college,
+and have learned Latin and Greek, have studied the sciences and
+philosophy, and they think they have learned a very great deal.
+Perhaps afterwards they have studied medicine and become physicians,
+or have read law and become lawyers, and they think that
+they are able with all they know to find the true path of blessing
+through life. They think they have light enough of themselves.
+They do not seem to know that all about them there is a darkness
+of great mystery; that sin and death and destruction lurk all along<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span>
+their way through life, and that their pathway is full of snares, and
+pitfalls, and dangers, but they try to walk with the little light that
+there is in the human understanding.</p>
+
+<p>There is another class of men who go through college and who
+may, perchance, study much, and the more they study the more they
+come to realize how little they know, and how much there is beyond
+them that they do not understand at all. With the little light of
+human understanding they comprehend how very dense and dark
+are the mysteries all about them, and so in order that they may
+walk safely through life, and come at last to the city of eternal
+safety, they take God's Word "as a lamp to their feet." Just the
+same as a person in the country carries a lamp in order that he may
+find his path, so these good people take the Word of God and they
+make it the lamp unto their feet, and the light unto their path.</p>
+
+<p>Boys and girls often look at learned men and women and
+think that when they get to be as old and to know as much as these
+people, that then they will know everything. But that is a great
+mistake. The more we know and the more learned we are, the more
+we discover that there is still further beyond us that which we do
+not understand. No one has ever been able to tell how the bread
+and the meat and potatoes and other food which we eat is made to
+sustain our life, how it is converted into and made a part of ourselves.
+How on our heads these things become, or are changed into
+hair, on the ends of our fingers to nails, and how other parts become
+flesh, and bone and eyes and ears and teeth. Nobody can understand
+how the ground in the garden can be changed by some life
+principle into fruit and vegetables and flowers and hundreds of different
+things, and yet all this wonderful variety, all growing out of
+the very same soil, or ground as we call it.</p>
+
+<p>And so as you grow older and become more and more learned
+you will come more and more to appreciate how much there is that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[144]</a></span>
+you can never understand. There is mystery all about us, and we
+all need the light of divine truth, the light of God's Word, the Bible
+as a light to guide us through the darkness and the mysteries that are
+all about us.</p>
+
+<p>If you have ever been in the country upon a dark night and
+have seen the railway engine come dashing along, with the great
+headlight that throws the rays of light far down along the track
+enabling the engineer to see very far ahead of him, you would
+understand what the Bible purposes to do for us, when God says
+that He will make it a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path.</p>
+
+<p>As you grow older, and sorrow and sickness and trials come to
+you, you will need God's Word to be a lamp unto your feet. And
+when at last the messenger of death shall come and summon you
+into God's presence, and you go through "the valley of the shadow
+of death," you will then need this lamp for your feet, and you will
+need the Lord Jesus Christ with you, that you may lean upon Him
+and that you may say as David did: "Yea though I walk through
+the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art
+with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." May God give
+you this light through the journey of this life, and bring you to that
+city of light and life on high.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Why did the people of the East carry lanterns at night? What
+did David call the Bible? Should the lantern be held above the head, or down
+near the feet? Which is the best light to our spiritual pathway, human wisdom
+or Divine revelation? Which is the safer light for us to follow, books which
+men write, or the book which God has given us? Can we understand all that
+we find in the book of nature? Can we understand all that we find
+in the book of revelation? Do they both have the same author? Is
+God infinitely greater than man? Does this explain to you why we cannot
+understand all that God has done or said? Can we put a bushel basket into a
+quart measure?&mdash;the smaller can not contain the larger.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[145]</a></span></p>
+<h2>CANDLES.</h2>
+
+<h3>HOW TO REFLECT, OBSCURE, OR EXTINGUISH THE LIGHT.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestions</span>:&mdash;A candle, a silver dollar, a large-necked bottle and a flask-shaped
+bottle are the objects used. It will add to the interest of the children if
+the parent will show the simple experiments of placing the bottle over the
+candle to illustrate how quickly the light is extinguished as the oxygen is
+exhausted. The same is the result when a light is hid under a bushel. The
+flame may also be concealed by the dollar; and in a darkened room a polished
+piece of metal or a small looking-glass will show how the light can be reflected
+by money properly used in Christ's cause.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: To-day I have
+brought some candles in order to illustrate the text, "Ye
+are the light of the world." In a previous sermon I have
+shown you how all the light in the world is derived from
+the sun, and how all the light in the spiritual world is derived from
+Jesus Christ. Now, to-day I want to show you that we can extinguish
+this light. While we cannot prevent the sun from shining,
+or put out the light there is in the sun, yet we can extinguish, or put
+out the light of a candle. We can blow out the light, we can turn
+off the gas, we can cut off the electrical current, and thus prevent the
+carbon from burning and giving light. Just the same as the firemen
+can extinguish a large fire that is making a great blaze in the midst
+of a dark night, so we can put out these several lights.</div>
+
+<p>Before this candle, which I hold in my hand, can be of any
+service to me in giving light, it must first itself be lighted. So it is
+with every person who is born into this world. He has no light in
+himself. Before ever he can exert any influence for good upon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[146]</a></span>
+others, or let any Christian light shine, he must come to the Lord
+Jesus Christ and receive this light. He must be lighted from above.
+But now after the candle has been lighted, suppose that I take this
+silver dollar which I hold in my hand, and place it in front of the
+light, you will see immediately how it makes it impossible for the
+light to shine out in front of the dollar. Those who are sitting
+down there in front of me cannot see this light. The light is entirely
+concealed by the dollar. So some people allow the love of money
+to gather around their hearts, until at last their money is placed
+between them and the people
+whom God intends that
+they should benefit and bless
+in this world. Instead of
+being a help, their money is
+only a hindrance to their
+Christian life. They love
+their money so much that
+they permit the poor to go
+hungry, the destitute to be
+unblessed, and the Church
+to be without the money necessary
+to carry on its work. They allow the heathen to die in their
+ignorance. Selfishly grasping their money, they neglect to do that
+for which God has given them the means and the money.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i144.png" width="300" height="242" alt="Light Obscured by Money." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Light Obscured by Money.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I believe that money is a good thing. The Bible says that it is
+the <i>love</i> of money, the undue love of it, that is the root of all evil.
+Money itself is a blessing and not a curse; therefore I want to show
+you how this dollar can be made to help in making this light shine
+even more brightly. You will see that if I have this side of the
+dollar ground off and polished, so that it is very smooth and bright
+like a little looking-glass, and then place it back of the candle,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[147]</a></span>
+instead of acting as it did when I placed the dollar between you and
+the candle, it will then reflect the light and throw the rays of light
+out further than they could otherwise shine. It helps to accomplish
+for the candle the same important service which the great reflector
+does when placed behind the lamp in the headlight of the railway
+engine, throwing the light way down the track in advance of the
+coming of the train.</p>
+
+<p>In the same way, when a Christian has money, you see how he
+can readily use it in such a way
+as to enable him to accomplish
+a very great and grand work in
+the world. The man who has
+lots of money and has a consecrated
+heart, and who is willing
+to use his money to help him in
+his work for Christ, will be able
+to accomplish very much more
+than the man who has no
+money. He can use his money
+in such a way that it will enable
+him to cast a light in many a
+dark corner of the earth, to
+bring light in many a desolate home, and to cast the rays of his
+Christian influence even across the ocean into benighted heathen
+lands. In this way his money can be used as I could use this dollar
+if it were polished, and thus carry his influence to the ends of the
+earth and to the end of time, and become a great blessing to himself
+and to others for all eternity.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i145.png" width="300" height="326" alt="Money as a Reflector." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Money as a Reflector.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Jesus said, "Men do not light a candle and put it under a
+bushel, but on a candle-stick that it may give light to all that are in
+the house." There are some people who do not like to let their light<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[148]</a></span>
+shine for Christ. They do not want others to know that they are
+Christians. They do not want others to know that they are trying
+to be good. And so they seek to conceal their light, to hide it, as
+Jesus says, "under a bushel." If you were to light a candle and put
+it under a bushel, or under a box, the box would prevent it from shining,
+and therefore you would not know that there was any light at
+all in the room.</p>
+
+<p>But I want to show you, by the aid of this large necked bottle,
+what is the effect of our trying
+to hide our light. I have chosen
+this bottle because you can see
+through it, and observe what is
+going on inside of this glass
+bushel or bottle. The neck
+being very large, you can readily
+see that the light is not absolutely
+smothered. Now, when
+I place this bottle over the light,
+you will see how very quickly
+it begins to grow dim, and then
+more dim until it dies out altogether.
+There, you see, it has
+gone out already! Just as
+quickly as it burns out from the air in the bottle the oxygen which it
+contains, the light dies, because it has nothing to feed upon. If I
+had not placed this bottle over it, it would have continued to burn.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 295px;">
+<img src="images/i146.png" width="295" height="323" alt="Light Under a Bushel." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Light Under a Bushel.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Just so it is with those who try to hide their light under a bushel.
+After the light has been placed there, it gradually grows more
+faint, and more faint, and then goes out in darkness. You can
+never be a Christian if you are ashamed of Christ. You must be
+willing to let your light shine; you must be willing to confess Christ<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span>
+before men; you must be willing to have other boys and girls know
+that you are a Christian, and that you are trying to do right. Then
+with God's help you will succeed. But if you try to hide your light
+under a bushel, you will never succeed in being a Christian.</p>
+
+<p>Here is another bottle. I am sure that the shape of this bottle
+will suggest to you the kind of stuff which is oftentimes sold in this
+kind of a flask. Sometimes when young men have given their
+hearts to Christ, and young women too for that matter, they go out
+in company and are invited to take a
+drink of wine or a drink of beer, or
+something else, and without any purpose
+or thought of ever becoming a
+drunkard, often they soon form the
+habit of drinking. Soon they have
+formed a love for the taste of liquor,
+and before ever they know it, like
+hundreds of thousands of others who
+have preceded them, they have
+become fond of liquor, and are on a
+fair road to become drunkards. As
+soon as a young man starts out in this
+direction he takes the road that leads
+down to death and destruction, and
+the love of God which he had in his
+heart soon dies out. Let me place this bottle over the candle. You
+will now see how the candle begins to grow dim, and the light shines
+more and more dim, after a very few seconds, you will find that it
+goes out in darkness, the same as it did under the other bottle.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 275px;">
+<img src="images/i147.png" width="275" height="374" alt="A Dangerous Bottle." title="" />
+<span class="caption">A Dangerous Bottle.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Let me say to you, always carefully avoid the terrible and
+destructive influences of drink, of which this bottle is the symbol.
+If you want to keep the love of God in your heart you must never,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[150]</a></span>
+never take the first step which leads toward the love of liquor,
+toward intemperance and a drunkard's grave.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Can an unlighted candle give light? Can a candle light
+itself? Who must first give us the light if we are to be a light to the world?
+Can the light of the candle shine through a silver dollar? If a silver dollar is
+polished like a little looking-glass and placed behind the light, what does it do?
+Does this suggest how we can use our money to send the light to the heathen?
+Under what kind of a measure does the Bible warn against hiding our light?
+When people light a candle, do they put it under a bushel or on a candlestick?
+If it is put under a bushel what is the result? Is that the result with people
+who are ashamed to be known as Christians? Does intoxicating drink often put
+out the light of Christian people? How can all persons avoid the use of liquor?
+(By never taking the first glass.)</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i148.png" width="400" height="250" alt="Bible and candle" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[151]</a></span></p>
+<h2>A BROKEN CHAIN.</h2>
+
+<h3>BREAKING THE WHOLE LAW.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;A chain of any kind, even a watch chain, will answer. Children
+could use paste-board and cut out ten links to represent the Ten Commandments.
+These links could be numbered and the older children could be
+asked to repeat the Ten Commandments in their order.</p></div>
+<div class="figright" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/i149.png" width="325" height="132" alt="A Broken Chain." title="" />
+<span class="caption">A Broken Chain.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I have here a
+chain; it is very strong indeed. It has ten links in it.
+You will remember how that, more than three thousand
+years ago, God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses
+on Mt. Sinai. These Ten Commandments are often called the
+Decalogue, because there are ten of them; the Greek word <i>deka</i>
+means ten.</div>
+
+
+<p>Now the Bible
+tells us that "whosoever
+will keep the
+whole law, and yet
+offend in one point,
+he is guilty of all."
+(James ii:10.)</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 305px;">
+<img src="images/i150.png" width="305" height="400" alt="&quot;Suspended Over the Edge of a Great Rock.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Suspended Over the Edge of a Great Rock.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When a boy, I often wondered how it was that when a person
+broke one of the Commandments he was guilty of breaking the
+whole law. I could not understand it. Now, I desire to illustrate
+this truth to you to-day. Suppose that I were suspended over the
+edge of a great rock by this chain. If the chain should break, I
+would be plunged headlong, hundreds of feet down a very great<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[153]</a></span>
+embankment, upon rocks at the bottom of the chasm, and lose my
+life. You will readily see that it would not be necessary to break
+every link in this chain before I would begin to fall. In order to
+break this chain, it is only necessary to break a single link. The
+moment one link breaks, the entire continuity of the chain is broken.</p>
+
+<p>I think you will see that it is just the same way with the law
+of God. If you break one of these Commandments, you have
+broken the law. If you fail to "remember the Sabbath day to keep
+it holy," or if you disobey your parents, and thus break the Commandment
+which says, "honor thy father and thy mother," or any
+other of the Commandments&mdash;if you break a single one, you have
+broken the entire chain of the Ten Commandments.</p>
+
+<p>Now, there are a great many laws in this land of ours. There
+are laws against murder, and there are laws against stealing, and
+there are laws against getting drunk, and thousands of other laws.
+If a man simply steals and should be caught in the act and brought
+before the judge, he would be convicted of the crime and be sent to
+prison. It is not necessary that a man should be a murderer and a
+thief and a robber, and should be guilty of breaking all the laws of
+this land, before he is cast in prison. It is simply enough that he
+should have violated one law. By breaking only one law he
+becomes a criminal, and therefore he is cast into prison. The man
+who has committed but one murder has his entire liberty taken from
+him. The man who has been caught in the act of stealing but a
+single time is adjudged a thief, and all his liberty is taken from him.</p>
+
+<p>So I think you will see that, in order to become a criminal, it
+is not necessary that we should break all the laws of the land, but if
+we break a single law we become criminals. So it is with the law
+of God; if we break only one of the Ten Commandments we are
+criminals before God, we are guilty of all.</p>
+
+<p>Now the laws which men make in this and every other country<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[154]</a></span>
+are human laws. They are not absolutely perfect. They are
+changed and improved from time to time. But the Psalmist tells
+us, and we all know it to be true, that "The law of the Lord is perfect,"
+and God requires us to keep His law. He says, "My son
+forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments; for
+length of days and long life and peace, shall they add to thee."
+(Prov. iii:1.) If you and I are faithful in the keeping of God's
+law, then we can say like David, "I shall not be ashamed when I
+have respect unto all of thy commandments." (Psalm cxix:6.)</p>
+
+<p>Now, if I take this chain, and attempt to break it, I find that
+God has not given me sufficient strength. Samson could have snapped
+it in a moment, but I am not strong enough. God has given to
+some men much more strength than to others.</p>
+
+<p>If I were to pull very hard on this chain so as to break it,
+where do you suppose it would break first? Why the weakest link
+in the entire chain would be the first to break. No chain is stronger
+than its weakest link. So it is with you and with me, our greatest
+goodness is no greater than our greatest weakness. When men want
+to think how good they are, they think of the best things they have
+ever done. But the fact is that no man is better than the worst
+things he has ever done. A man who has committed murder is a
+murderer. He might have done hundreds of good things, but the
+law does not estimate him by the best things he has done. The law
+estimates that man by the worst thing he has done, and by that
+worst thing he is judged and condemned. And so it is with you
+and me before God. The worst things which we have ever done
+will be the things which will condemn us in the sight of the Judge
+of all the world.</p>
+
+<p>While I am not able to break this metal chain, yet God has
+made it possible for every person to break the chain of the moral
+law. God has given human freedom to all men; He has told us<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[155]</a></span>
+what we should do, but He has left us free to obey or to
+disobey.</p>
+
+<p>Now, when we examine into the requirements of the Ten
+Commandments, we find that everybody has violated some one or
+more of them at some time. There is not a man or woman or child
+any where who is not guilty of having broken God's law. And
+when I turn to the Scriptures, I find in Galatians the third chapter,
+10th verse, that God says, "Cursed is every one that continueth not
+in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."
+I see then by God's Word that we are all sinners, that we are all
+guilty before God, because we have violated His law, and next
+Sunday I will tell you what is to be done in view of the fact that we
+are all guilty before God.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What are the different parts of a chain called? How many
+links must be broken in order to break the chain? What did God give to
+Moses on Mount Sinai? How many commandments are there? Who makes
+the laws for the nation, the state and the city? Are laws perfect which are
+made by men? Do human laws change? Is God's law perfect? Do moral laws
+ever change? Was there ever a time or a place where it was right to lie, or
+steal or murder? Will there ever be such a time or place? How many murders
+must a man commit before he is a murderer? How often must he steal before
+he is a thief? Are men put into prison for breaking a single law? Is the
+entirety of God's law violated if we break only one commandment?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i153.png" width="300" height="202" alt="Ten Commandments and chain" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></span></p>
+<h2>LOOKING-GLASS.</h2>
+
+<h3>SEEING OURSELVES IN GOD'S LAW.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The object used is a looking-glass of any desired size.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: In my sermon last
+Sunday, I showed you that God had made the law
+perfect, but that none of us has perfectly kept the law,
+that we have all broken the law, and God has said,
+"Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are
+written in the book of the law to do them." (Gal. iii:10.)</div>
+
+<p>If the law is perfect, and no one has ever kept it perfectly, but
+all have broken the law in some one way or another, and on that
+account all are guilty before God, you may ask, what is the purpose
+of the law? Why did God make the law? Now, I desire to
+explain that to you to-day.</p>
+
+<p>I have here a looking-glass. Now the Bible compares the
+law to a looking-glass. In the epistle or letter of James, in the first
+chapter, we are told, "If any be a hearer of the word, and not a
+doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for
+he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth
+what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect
+law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful
+hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his
+deed." (James i:23-25.)</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;">
+<img src="images/i155.jpg" width="355" height="500" alt="Seeing Ourselves in the Looking-Glass of God&#39;s Law" title="" />
+<span class="caption"><span style="margin-left: 14em;"><small>Copyright 1911 by Sylvanus Stall</small></span><br />Seeing Ourselves in the Looking-Glass of God&#39;s Law</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>In other words, the Bible means to say that the law of God
+is like a looking-glass. When we read the law of God, we see just
+what God requires that we should both be and do. He enables<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[159]</a></span>
+us to see what He requires of us. It shows us also how imperfect
+we are. It shows us our sins. It reveals to us the importance of
+doing something in order to get rid of our sins.</p>
+
+<p>It is just like a man whose face is all dirty. When he goes to
+the looking-glass and looks into it he sees the dirt upon his face. If
+he did not look into the glass, other people might see that his face
+was dirty, but he would not see it himself. But when he looks
+into the glass, he sees for himself that his face is all black and dirty.</p>
+
+<p>Now, when the man finds that his face is all dirty, he does
+not take the looking-glass with which to wash his face. The looking-glass
+was not made to wash our faces with. It was only made
+to show us that our faces needed to be washed. And then, instead
+of using the looking-glass to wash our faces, we go and use soap
+and water.</p>
+
+<p>Now, the looking-glass did not make the man's face black,
+neither will it wash his face. It simply shows him that his face
+is dirty.</p>
+
+<p>So it is with the law of God. The law of God does not
+make us sinful. We are sinful, whether there be any law or not.
+The law is simply designed to show us that we are sinners, and
+that we are wicked, and that we need a Saviour. And when this
+law reveals to us our sin, and shows us our need of a Saviour, it
+purposes, as we are told in the Scriptures, to lead us to Christ
+(Galatians iii:24.) No man can cleanse or wash away his sins
+by the aid of the law. But the law plainly shows him his sins, and
+then leads him to Christ&mdash;to the fountain which has been opened
+for sin and uncleanness. It is all very beautifully expressed in that
+hymn which, I trust, you all know:</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+"There is a fountain filled with blood,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Drawn from Immanuel's veins;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And sinners plunged beneath that flood,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Lose all their guilty stains."</span><br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[160]</a></span></div>
+
+<p>Now, I want to tell you the effect of coming to this fountain
+and washing. When we come to Christ our sins and guilt are
+washed away, and we become more like Christ. And then we
+grow up into His likeness and into His image. (Eph. iv: 13.)
+We become more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ from day to
+day. This change which takes place in our hearts and in our lives
+is very wonderful. We cannot understand it, but we cease to be
+intentionally wicked. More and more we become holy. It is this
+wonderful change which is referred to in Second Corinthians, third
+chapter and the 18th verse, where it says, "But we all, with open
+face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed
+into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of
+the Lord."</p>
+
+<p>I think now, you will understand why we have the law. It
+is not to make us wicked, for we are wicked already. But it is to
+show us our wickedness, it is to reveal to us the fact that we are
+sinners, and that we are lost and undone without a Saviour. And
+then it reveals the Lord Jesus Christ to us, and we come to Him,
+the same as men with blackened faces go to the fountain to wash. So
+we come with our sins and our guilt "to the fountain which has been
+opened for sin and uncleanness," and we wash all our sins and guilt
+away; and then we are changed into His image and into His likeness,
+from glory to glory, until at last, in the world on high, we
+awake in the likeness of Jesus.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;To what does the Bible compare the law of God? For what
+purpose do people use a looking-glass? What does a man whose face is dirty
+see in the glass? What does it show that his face needs? Does it suggest that
+he should wash his face with the looking-glass? What does he use with which
+to wash his face? What does God's law show us? Does the law make us sinful?
+Can the law remove the effects of sin? Who is the fountain for the cleansing
+of our sin? Are we saved by the law, or by the grace of God?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span></p>
+<h2>RAIN.</h2>
+
+<h3>GOD'S WISDOM AND POWER.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion:</span>&mdash;A bottle partly filled with dust from the roadway will help
+to illustrate the condition which would quite universally prevail if the earth were
+not refreshed with frequent rains.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: In view of the fact
+that the weather is so very warm, the earth so dried and
+parched and we have had no rain for a period of weeks,
+I thought it might be useful to-day to consider what
+would be the result if God should withhold the rain altogether,
+and then to tell you how, or in what manner God brings us the rain
+and refreshes the earth and makes it fruitful.</div>
+
+<p>In order that you might see something of the present condition
+of the earth, I have brought in this bottle some dust, taken from
+the centre of the road. As I turn the bottle around, you see how
+dry it is and how it floats in the air, leaving the inside of this bottle
+all powdered with dust. The dust in this bottle is only a sample
+of what all the earth would soon become, if God did not send
+rain at frequent intervals throughout the year. I suppose you could
+all tell me of a number of instances in the Old Testament where
+we have accounts of drouths that extended throughout a period of
+years, and of the hunger and famine and death which followed.</p>
+
+<p>When you are out of doors and look about you, you cannot
+but be impressed with how dry and dusty the trees and grass and
+everything about you is. If this dry weather were to continue long
+you could understand that soon everything would wither and die,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span>
+and if it were to continue for a few years, men and beasts would
+not only die of thirst, but even the air itself would suck out from our
+bodies the moisture that is in our blood, and death would speedily
+follow. But if you were to remove all the moisture from the air,
+the earth would not only become barren, but it would become
+intensely cold. It is due to the moisture which is in the atmosphere
+that the warmth which comes to the earth from the sun is retained
+near the earth after the sun has gone down. If it were not so, even
+in a summer's night after the sun has gone down, the coldness which
+exists above the clouds would quickly come in contact with the
+earth, and the cold would become so intense that every person and
+every living thing would be in danger of being frozen to death in
+a single night.</p>
+
+<p>You will remember that the great Sahara Desert is a vast
+tract of thousands of square miles where no rain falls, and where
+the heat is intense. There is, however, much moisture in the air
+that floats over the plains, but the reason that no rain falls is because
+there are no mountains in that portion of the globe for thousands of
+miles.</p>
+
+<p>Now suppose that there were to be no rain at all, and people
+should undertake to water the earth by bringing the water from the
+rivers. On an average of about thirty-three inches of rain fall upon
+the surface of the entire earth each year, in some places more, in
+others less. The weight of this water in one single square mile
+would be nearly two and one-half millions of tons, and if this
+water which falls upon one single square mile had to be drawn in
+cars, it would require 100,000 carloads of water to keep this one
+single mile as wet as God usually keeps it throughout the year by
+the rain from heaven. I think you will see, from what I have said,
+that all the cars in the entire United States, and there are hundreds
+of thousands of them, would not be sufficient to haul water from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span>
+the rivers for any considerable distance to keep more than ten miles
+square of earth watered. But you can also see that if all these cars
+were to be run on a piece of ground only ten miles square, that
+entire piece of ground would be almost completely covered with
+railroad tracks, and we would scarcely be able to raise anything on
+it in the way of grain or vegetables or food of any kind. But even
+if we could successfully water ten miles square of land, what would
+that be compared with the absolute necessity of watering the entire
+continent and all the continents of the globe in order to make life
+possible upon the earth. Now the question arises, how does God
+accomplish this great result?</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;">
+<img src="images/i161.png" width="425" height="208" alt="Train of Cars." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Train of Cars.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I suppose you have all noticed the teakettle when it is upon
+the stove and the steam is coming out of the spout, and around the
+lid. You have there had a practical demonstration of how God
+can cause the water, which is 800 times heavier than the atmosphere
+or the air, to rise and float, for you know that any substance
+heavier than air will always fall to the earth. In the instance of
+the teakettle you will see how heat causes the water to become
+steam and thus to rise in the air and float away, rising to the height<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span>
+of the clouds which float two, three and four and sometimes more
+miles high above the earth.</p>
+
+<p>Now, just in this same way God makes the heat from the rays
+of the sun to cause that from every river and lake and all the expanse
+of the ocean, as well as from the surface of the earth, there
+shall constantly arise a very fine vapor, which, although it is somewhat
+like steam, is still so
+much finer that you and I
+cannot see it with our
+unaided eyes. It is by
+means of this vapor that
+God raises the moisture from
+the oceans and all bodies of
+water and from the earth,
+to fall again in gentle showers.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i162.png" width="250" height="203" alt="Steam Rising from Teakettle." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Steam Rising from Teakettle.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But when this vapor
+has been lifted up from the
+ocean, you will see readily that if it were to descend again in rain
+upon the very places from which it had been lifted it would accomplish
+no good. It is necessary that instead of falling back into
+the ocean and into the lakes and rivers, it must be carried over the
+land. So you see that we might aptly compare the vapor to a great
+pump, by means of which God lifts millions of gallons of water
+every hour from the sea into the atmosphere.</p>
+
+<p>Now just the same as men load grain and fruit and other
+things into the cars to ship them to some distant place, so God loads
+these vapors into the atmosphere or into the clouds. When the
+clouds are all loaded with vapor, or that which is to descend upon
+the earth in the form of rain, God sends the winds, and these
+winds blow the clouds from over the ocean far inward over the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span>
+land until they come to the place where God wants to pour them
+out in showers and rain, and in snow and blessing.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i163.png" width="400" height="330" alt="Clouds and Rain." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Clouds and Rain.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>But now, you will see that there is another difficulty. When
+all this vast quantity of water is held in the clouds, a mile or two
+above the earth, if it were to be poured out, it would come with such
+force upon the earth that it would destroy every living thing. Now,
+as God used the warmth from the sun as His agent to lift the water
+into the clouds, so also, when He desires to unload the clouds, to
+pour the rain upon the earth, He causes the warm air which carries
+the water to be blown upon by the colder air which floats above it,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span>
+and as the heat lifted the water, so the cold causes it to descend;
+and immediately it begins to form as clouds, one particle or atom
+of moisture touches another, and the two form the larger atom, and
+these again unite with others, until finally a drop is formed, and it
+begins to descend and comes down in gentle showers upon the
+earth as though it were sifted through a very fine sieve. These
+small drops fall upon the earth so gently as not even to bruise the
+leaf of the tenderest flower or the tenderest insect that walks upon
+the earth.</p>
+
+<p>Possibly some children may not fully understand, but the
+older ones will get some idea of the vast quantity of water which
+God pours upon the earth, when they are reminded that all the
+water that flows in the rivers has been let down from the clouds.
+God is daily pumping up from the ocean and other bodies of
+water rivers as vast as the combined waters of the Mississippi, Missouri,
+Susquehanna, the Hudson, and every creek and streamlet
+and river that flows, not only on this continent, but in all the world.
+And God is doing this constantly by His own infinite wisdom and
+infinite might. The machinery with which men pump the water
+from the river for the supply of a single city wears out; but these
+great engines with which God is constantly keeping the earth supplied
+with water for man and beast, for tree and flower, for garden
+and field, never wear out. Truly with the prophet we may
+exclaim: "He that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth
+them out on the face of the land: the Lord is His name." (Amos
+v: 8.)</p>
+
+<p>From what I have said I think you will all see how constantly
+we are dependent upon God for everything which we enjoy. If
+God were to withhold the rain or the sunshine, famine and want
+and death would soon follow. Yet in the most wonderful way
+God is constantly providing that with which we are daily to be fed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span>
+and always to be clothed. God is not unmindful of us. He never
+forgets, but in His own good time and in His own most wondrous
+way He sends us the rain and every needed blessing.</p>
+
+<p>God never forgets us, but I fear that we often forget Him and
+forget when we drink the refreshing glass of clear, cool water, that
+it is God who gave it to us. When you sit down at the table, do
+you remember that it is God who gives you the food, and do you
+thank Him for the food which He gives you, or do you, like the
+unmannerly boy who receives a gift and never thanks the donor,
+sit down and eat and go away without ever thanking God the
+Giver? When He watches over and keeps you during the night,
+do you forget to kneel down and thank Him in the morning?
+When day after day He clothes you, do you thank him? When
+He feeds and clothes you, do you love and serve Him, or do
+you accept of these blessings and then run off and serve Satan,
+God's great enemy?</p>
+
+<p>These are serious questions, and I trust you will think seriously
+of them, and daily, when you receive God's blessings, that
+you will turn to Him in grateful thanksgiving and faithful service.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What would the entire earth become if there should be no
+rain? If all moisture were removed from the atmosphere, what would be the
+result? What is the average rainfall? What is the weight of rainfall in a single
+square mile? How many cars would it require to carry water for one square
+mile? How does God accomplish this? How is the water raised up from the sea
+and the rivers? Can you explain it by the teakettle? Where does God store this
+vapor? How do the clouds carry the moisture to the places which need it? How
+does the moisture in the clouds fall? Does God do all things wisely and well?
+Is God ever unmindful of our needs? Do you ever forget to thank Him? Do
+you always remember to serve Him?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span></p>
+<h2>SNOW.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE LESSONS WHICH IT TEACHES.</h3>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: When God desired
+to set Job to thinking, among other questions He asked
+him: Canst thou enter into the treasures of the snow?
+(Job xxxviii: 22.) While coming to church to-day,
+when I saw you frolicking and glad in the midst of the snow, which
+was falling all about you, I wondered whether you had ever stopped
+to think much about the snow. So I thought to ask you the
+question which God asked of Job nearly thirty-five hundred years
+ago: "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?"</div>
+
+<p>When you were all so glad on account of this first snowstorm
+of the winter, did you stop to think that the snow comes from God?
+Now like everything else which comes from God, the snow is wonderful.
+No philosopher has ever yet been able fully to explain
+how the snow is formed and to tell us all about it, and I do not suppose
+that all the mysteries concerning it will ever be fully and perfectly
+solved. It is wonderful, however, because it comes down so
+lightly and noiselessly. It drops upon the earth almost like feathers,
+covering the ground, hanging upon the limbs of the trees and
+shaping them into things of strange beauty, piling up on the post by
+the side of your gate, until perhaps it looks more like the white man
+from the flour mill than like that to which people tie horses. Yet it
+comes down so noiselessly that we scarcely notice it.</p>
+
+<p>When the snow falls upon the ground a foot deep it is said to
+be equal in weight to one inch of rain. Now one foot of snow, on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span>
+one square mile of street, would weigh, it is estimated, about sixty-four
+thousand tons. If this snow, which covers only one square
+mile, were placed in wagons loaded with one ton each, and allowing
+sufficient space for these teams to move one behind another,
+these wagons would make a string or procession reaching from
+Philadelphia to New York, and from New York up the Hudson
+River almost to the city of Albany. I am sure you will be astonished
+at this, but when you consider that some snowstorms cover
+thousands of square miles, and are sometimes more than one foot
+deep, you will see how increasingly wonderful it is that all this
+great weight falls so gently upon the earth as to produce no disturbance,
+no shock, and generally goes away as quietly and peaceably
+as it came.</p>
+
+<p>Like everything else that God has made, the snow is very
+beautiful. Did you ever hear that poem which begins:</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+"Beautiful snow! beautiful snow!<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Falling so lightly,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Daily and nightly,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Alike 'round the dwellings of the lofty and low;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Horses are prancing,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Cheerily dancing,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Stirred with the spirit that comes from the snow."</span><br />
+</div>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i168.png" width="300" height="249" alt="Snow-flakes Magnified." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Snow-flakes Magnified.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>We oftentimes think that God is seen in the fields and flowers
+in the spring and summer, but He is also seen in the beautiful
+snow of winter. If you will let some of the snow fall upon the
+sleeve of your coat and then examine it carefully, you will be surprised
+at its beauty. It is beautiful when examined without a
+microscope, but much more beautiful and wonderful when examined
+with a microscope. Each flake is fashioned into stellar shape. It
+is formed and fashioned by the same hand which made the stars
+of the heavens and gave them their sparkle and beauty. Each<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span>
+flake is a beautiful crystal. Each somewhat like the others, and yet
+no two exactly alike. There are hundreds of varieties, each beautiful
+and all glorious. These beautiful little snow stars are all
+formed with perfect geometrical accuracy. Some have three sides
+and angles, some six, others eight, and some have more. One
+resembles a sparkling cross, while others seem almost like the leaves
+of an open flower. Some are like single stars, others like double
+stars and clusters of stars; and although the ground in winter is covered
+with myriads of them, yet each one is formed with as much
+correctness and beauty
+as if God had made
+each one for special
+examination and as an
+exhibition of His
+infinite skill and
+divine perfection.</p>
+
+
+<p>But like everything
+else that God
+has made, the snow
+is also useful. You
+may possibly have
+thought of it as affording
+excellent sport in
+sliding down hill, enabling you to enjoy a sleigh ride behind
+horses with jingling bells, affording opportunity for a snow-ball
+fight, or as furnishing the material for making snow men or
+snow houses. In all these ways the snow is a source of delight and
+pleasure to boys and girls, but after all, the snow has a special mission
+in the world during the severe cold of the winter.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/i169.png" width="289" height="400" alt="A Winter Sleigh Ride." title="" />
+<span class="caption">A Winter Sleigh Ride.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The severity of the cold is often greatly modified by the presence
+of snow. The snow forms a warm mantle to protect the grass<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span>
+and grain fields. It wraps its soft warm covering around the plants,
+and thus protects them from the frost. Many animals also take shelter
+in the banks of snow, and are thus kept from being frozen to
+death. The snow of winter is as important in securing our food
+and blessing as the rain of the summer. As intense heat and the
+absence of rain produce the great deserts of the earth, so intense
+cold and the absence of snow would produce barren tracts upon the
+earth.</p>
+
+<p>Now, what are the lessons we may learn from what I have
+said? I think the first lesson that we may learn is that God does
+everything perfectly. God is not in a hurry, as boys and girls often
+are when they do not take time to learn their lessons thoroughly or
+to do their work carefully. Perfection is one of God's attributes.
+We are impatient and imperfect. But God wants us to be perfect.
+We should constantly strive after perfection. We are to seek after
+perfection here upon earth, and although we cannot hope to attain
+it fully in this world, yet we shall attain unto it in the world of
+blessedness beyond. Remember that whatever is worth doing at
+all is worth doing well.</p>
+
+<p>I think the second lesson that we may learn from what I have
+said, is that God does everything with some good purpose in view.
+God not only has a purpose in all that He does, but He has a purpose
+for good. Some boys and girls do things with a bad purpose.
+Now, God does not do anything with a bad purpose, and He would
+not have us do anything with a bad purpose. He has given us life
+and being upon the earth in order that we may accomplish something
+grand and good. What is the purpose of your life? What
+have you resolved to make the object which you shall seek to attain
+in this life? Have some noble purpose, some high aim in life.
+Whatever it shall be, let it always have in view the blessing and
+good of others and the glory of God.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The last lesson from this study of the snow is that God has
+made it a symbol of purity. God is pure, and He wants us to be
+pure. Do you put tobacco in your mouth? Then your mouth is not
+pure. Do you use bad words? If so, your mouth is not pure. Do
+you use your eyes to read worthless story papers and books, or to
+look at evil pictures? Then your eyes and thoughts are not pure.
+Do you permit your ears to listen to improper talk? Then your
+ears and mind are not pure. Do you harbor bad thoughts in your
+heart? Then your heart is not pure. Do you defile your body by
+improper eating and drinking? If you do, then your body is not
+pure. If you and I desire to be pure, we must go to God and earnestly
+ask Him as David did when he cried unto God and said,
+"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me and I shall
+be whiter than snow."</p>
+
+<p>Now let us sing this beautiful hymn:</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+"Wash me and I shall be whiter than the snow."<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;About what did God ask Job, to set him thinking? Where
+does the snow come from? Does anyone know fully how the snow is formed?
+Is the snow as wonderful as it is beautiful? What do the flakes look like?
+Are they all formed alike? Are any two exactly alike? How is the snow useful
+in winter? Is snow as important in the winter as rain in the summer? Is God
+ever in a hurry? Are you always patient? What is worth doing well? Does
+God always have a purpose in whatever He does? Does God expect us to have
+a noble purpose? Of what is snow the symbol? Does God expect us all to be
+pure?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PLASTIC FACE.</h2>
+
+<h3>CHARACTER IN THE COUNTENANCE.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The object used is a small plastic face such as are often sold
+in toy stores, and even on the streets in large cities. The head of a rubber doll
+would also answer the purpose.</p>
+
+<p>A couple of pictures of faces placed in bottles would illustrate the fact that
+as the faces are seen through the bottles, so our thoughts are not wholly hidden
+but shine through our faces.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: Here is a soft plastic
+face; by squeezing it on the side I can make the face
+very long, and it looks very sober. If I place the face
+between my thumb and fingers and press upon the chin
+and forehead it makes the face short, and makes it have a very
+pleasant appearance. I can make it look as though it were laughing,
+or make it seem to be angry and cross.</div>
+
+<p>Just so is it with our faces. When we feel pleasant our faces
+are short and drawn up; when we feel sober, or cross, or angry,
+they are lengthened and the character of the expression is entirely
+changed. You would scarcely know the face were you to see it
+radiant with smiles and pleasantness, and afterwards see the same
+face when the person is cross or angered. When you look at a person
+you can tell whether they are in good humor, or whether they
+are displeased or angry.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/i173.png" width="450" height="342" alt="Frowns and Smiles." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Frowns and Smiles.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Do you know, boys and girls, that our character and our disposition
+are seen in our faces? It is impossible for us to conceal our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span>
+real selves, even though we might try. I will tell you how it is. If
+I were again and again to press this face only in this way, so as to
+make it look very long, after a time it would retain this expression.
+If I were to press it in this other way, so as to make it very short and
+give it a very pleasant expression, and were to hold it in that position
+for a very long time, it would assume that expression, and
+retain it constantly. It is just so with our faces. When a boy is
+angered again and again the deep lines of his face become more
+and more permanent, until after a time he comes to have a face
+which expresses anger. If a boy is kind and good and generous,
+these feelings express themselves in his face, and if repeated over
+and over again, day after day and year after year, it becomes a permanent<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span>
+expression upon his face and the boy is known by all who
+meet him as a good-natured, pleasant and agreeable boy.</p>
+
+<p>I suppose that most all the boys and girls here can tell a minister
+when they meet him on the street. And when you grow older
+I think you will not only be able to tell that it is a minister, but you
+may be able to tell, possibly to what denomination the man belongs&mdash;whether
+he is a Methodist, or a Presbyterian, or an Episcopalian
+or a Lutheran, or to what denomination he belongs. This cannot
+always be told, but in many instances this can be judged quite
+accurately. The study of the Bible and the contemplation of holy
+and good things inscribe themselves indelibly upon the face of
+those who give them thought and attention.</p>
+
+<p>Beneath a good and generous face you will find a good and
+generous heart. Beneath a bad face you will find a bad heart. If
+we are Christians we shall become more and more like Christ. We
+shall grow up into His likeness, and into His image, and into His
+stature. We are told that not only will we become more and more
+like Him, but that at last, in the great Resurrection, we shall
+behold Him as He is, and we shall be like Him.</p>
+
+<p>If I were to take some pictures and place them in a bottle they
+would shine out through the glass, and you could see them. So
+with the thoughts that are in your heart; they shine out through
+your face and give expressions to it. Even when the body is suffering
+pain the heart may be at rest. David, the Psalmist, said that
+God was "the health of his countenance." Even though his body
+was suffering pain his face might be pleasant, because God was
+with him, making him happy in his heart. There is an old adage
+that says, "handsome is, that handsome does." There are some
+young persons who may have a pretty face, and yet who may not
+be righteous and holy in their hearts; but as they grow older their
+character will shine out more and more, until at last their face shall<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span>
+be entirely changed, and all that is bad in their hearts will appear
+in their faces. If you want a good face you must have a good
+heart. Take Jesus into your heart, follow His teachings and imitate
+His example, and from year to year you will grow more and
+more like Him. Here is a very appropriate and beautiful poem,
+which was written by Miss Alice Carey.</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />TAKE CARE.</div>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+"Little children, you must seek<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Rather to be good than wise,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">For the thoughts you do not speak</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Shine out in your cheeks and eyes.</span><br />
+<br />
+"If you think that you can be<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Cross or cruel, and look fair,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Let me tell you how to see</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">You are quite mistaken there.</span><br />
+<br />
+"Go and stand before the glass,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And some ugly thought contrive,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And my word will come to pass</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Just as sure as you're alive!</span><br />
+<br />
+"What you have and what you lack,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">All the same as what you wear,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">You will see reflected back;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">So, my little folks, take care!</span><br />
+<br />
+"And not only in the glass<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Will your secrets come to view;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">All beholders, as they pass,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Will perceive and know them, too.</span><br />
+<br />
+"Out of sight, my boys and girls,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Every root of beauty starts;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">So think less about your curls,</span><br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">More about your minds and hearts.</span><br />
+<br />
+"Cherish what is good, and drive<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Evil thoughts and feelings far;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">For, as sure as you're alive,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">You will show for what you are."</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;How will a plastic face look when you squeeze it on the head
+and on the chin? When persons are serious or angry, are their faces lengthened?
+When people laugh what happens to their faces? Suppose one were to be
+cross and ugly constantly what would occur? If a person were to laugh constantly,
+what would be the effect upon their face? Can you tell a minister when
+you see him? If you put pictures in a bottle do they shine through? Do
+thoughts in the heart shine through the face? Can you repeat that couplet
+which begins: "Handsome is&mdash;"? If we think Christ's thoughts constantly do
+we become more like Christ? If we think bad thoughts do we become unlike
+Him? What book is it which says: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i176.png" width="400" height="251" alt="Looking into the glass" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span></p>
+<h2>SEEDS.</h2>
+
+<h3>THOUGHTS, WORDS, DEEDS&mdash;THEIR LIFE AND PERPETUITY.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Seeds, or grain and fruit of any kind can be used for illustration.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY YOUNG FRIENDS: I have here to-day quite a
+variety of seeds. Some of them are very small, and
+some, as you see, are quite large. The seeds of each
+class have in them a principle of life, which makes them
+differ from sand, or small stones of similar size, because if I plant
+these seeds in the ground they will grow.</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i177.png" width="300" height="213" alt="Different Kinds of Seeds." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Different Kinds of Seeds.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When you take
+different kinds of
+seeds, there is one
+thing that is very
+interesting about
+them. It is the different
+kinds of coverings
+in which they
+grow. For instance,
+if you take a chestnut,
+it grows in a
+burr with sharp
+thorny points; others are folded as though rolled up very tightly
+in leaves, as you will find in the hazel nut or filbert. Some seeds
+grow in rows, like beans and peas in a pod. Some grow in a very
+soft bed, like cotton seeds. Some grow imbedded in a downy substance<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span>
+which blows all around, carrying the seed with it, like the
+thistle, and the light fuzz of the dandelion. Sometimes the seed is
+buried in the inside of fruit, as in the case of apples, pears, peaches,
+plums, and various other kinds of fruit. Sometimes it is buried
+beneath the beautiful leaves of the flower. So you see there is
+great variety.</p>
+
+<p>Now, these seeds may represent words. There are a great
+many varieties of words. All words have the principle of life in
+them, because they express thought; and these thoughts when
+received into our minds develop into action. Therefore we say
+that words have a principle of life in them, and it is important that
+we should be careful not to permit bad words to have a place in our
+minds. Very often you will see boys and girls reading worthless
+papers which they think will do them no injury. But the fact is,
+that these boys are influenced in all their living by that which they
+read in these papers. It might be very light and trifling, but it tends
+to corrupt the mind, to give the boy false ideas of life, and it gives
+him such opinions as are not real, and therefore very injurious to
+any one. It is much better that a boy's valuable time should be
+spent in reading good books and good papers, and securing such
+information as will be of value and assistance to him all through
+life. For the life of every boy and of every girl is a very great
+struggle, and no boy or girl can afford to waste time in the beginning.
+If they are ever to amount to anything in this world, it is
+important that they should begin very early in life.</p>
+
+<p>I want to call your attention to another characteristic of these
+seeds. And that is when a single seed is planted, it grows up and
+produces a very great number of other seeds. If you plant a seed
+of wheat, it will produce 30, 60, or sometimes 100 other seeds. If
+you plant one sunflower seed it might produce as many as 4,000
+seeds. If you plant one single thistle seed, it has been known to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span>
+produce as high as 24,000 seeds in a single summer. If you were
+to plant only one grain of corn and let it grow until it is ripe, and
+then plant the seeds again which grew on these few ears of corn,
+and thus continue to re-plant again and again, we are told by those
+who have calculated it very carefully, that in only five short years
+the amount of corn that could be grown as the result of the planting
+of the one single seed would be sufficient to plant a hill of corn,
+with three grains in every square yard of all the dry land on all the
+earth. In ten years the product would be sufficient to plant not
+only this entire world, both land and sea, but all the planets, or
+worlds which circle around our sun, and some of them are even a
+thousand times larger than our own globe. So you see that there is
+wonderful multiplying power in the different kinds of grain which
+you plant.</p>
+
+<p>So it is with the thoughts and the words which we have in
+our minds. Good thoughts enter into good acts, and these acts
+influence others just as though the same thought was sown into
+their minds, and then it springs up into their lives and influences
+them. Just so when we have read a book, whether the book is
+good or bad, its influence goes on reproducing itself, over and over
+again in our lives, every time in a multiplied form. Suppose with
+your money you send some Bibles to the heathen, and as a result a
+single person is converted. Immediately that person would influence
+other heathen people whom he would meet, and so, one after
+the other, these heathen would be influenced as the result of what
+you have done. This good influence would go on repeating itself
+over and over again, as long as the world shall stand, and only in
+eternity would the wonderful results of what you have done be
+fully known. So it is with all that we say and all that we do; it
+goes on repeating and multiplying itself over and over again.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i180a.png" width="400" height="128" alt="Pyramids." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Pyramids.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i180b.png" width="250" height="326" alt="Egyptian Mummies." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Egyptian Mummies.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, there is another interesting feature of these seeds to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span>
+which I want to call your attention. And that is that the life in
+the seed may continue for a very long time, even hundreds of years.
+Over in Egypt, centuries ago, they built large pyramids, and when
+a king died, instead of burying his body in the ground, they
+embalmed it with spices and dried
+it, so that it would not decay.
+Then they wrapped it up in cloths,
+and with these cloths and bandages
+they sometimes wrapped
+wheat or some other kind of grain.
+Some of these mummies, for so
+they are called, which have been
+buried possibly twenty-five hundred
+years, have been found; and
+when the wheat has been taken
+out of the hands of these mummies
+and planted in the ground, under
+favorable conditions, it has
+grown just the same as the wheat
+which was harvested from the
+fields only last summer. The life which was in the seed had not
+been destroyed by the many hundreds of years which have passed
+since it was placed in the hand of the mummy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Some years ago there was a very interesting case of this kind in
+England. At Dorchester they were digging down some thirty feet
+below the surface, and at that depth they came upon the remains of
+the body of a man, with which there had been buried some coins.
+By the date upon the coins, they knew that this body had been
+buried at least seventeen hundred years. In the stomach was
+found quite a large quantity of raspberry seeds. The man had
+doubtless eaten a large number of raspberries, and then might have
+been accidentally killed very soon afterward, so that the seeds were
+not injured by the gastric juices of the stomach. These seeds were
+taken to the Horticultural Garden, and there they were planted.
+What do you think! After seventeen hundred years and more,
+these seeds grew, and in a short time there was an abundant fruitage
+of raspberries, just the same as though the seeds had been gathered
+from raspberries which grew only the year before. Although
+hidden and seemingly dead, yet these seeds retained their life for
+seventeen hundred years or more.</p>
+
+<p>In this same way there is a deathless power in the words which
+we speak, even though they are spoken hastily and without thought
+upon our part. Our words have in them the element of a life
+which is well-nigh endless. You may yourself remember some
+unkind words which were spoken to you months and months ago.
+The boy or girl who spoke them may have forgotten all about
+them, but you still remember them, and they cause you pain every
+time you think of them. Or it may be that some kind person has
+spoken tenderly and affectionately to you. The person himself
+may have been so accustomed to speaking kindly that he forgot
+entirely what he had said, but his kind words still live in your
+memory. There is a beautiful hymn written some years ago,
+which begins: "Kind words can never die."</p>
+
+<p>About fifty years ago there were some boys in a school yard<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span>
+playing marbles. Two other boys were playing tag. One of the
+boys who were playing tag chanced to run across the ring in which
+the boys were playing marbles. One of these boys was accustomed
+to speaking ugly words and doing very hasty and cruel
+things. He sprang to his feet and kicked the boy who had run
+across the ring, wounding him in the right knee. The injury was
+of such a nature that the bones of that leg below the knee never
+grew any more, and as a result, for over forty years that boy has
+had to walk on crutches. You see how permanent the result of
+this injury has been; and the results of unkind words may be just
+as injurious and no less permanent than the unreasonable and
+wicked thing which this boy did in his anger.</p>
+
+<p>You may sometimes be discouraged because the kind words
+which you speak and the kind deeds which you do seem to fail of
+a good result. But you can be assured that even though you grow
+to old age and your body were to be laid away in the grave, yet
+sometime, in the lives of those who come after you, the good you
+have done will surely bear its fruitage of blessing.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Are there many different kinds of seeds? Do apple trees
+ever grow from peach seeds? Do good thoughts grow from bad words, or bad
+thoughts from good words? Do seeds have a principle of life in them? Do
+words and thoughts have a principle of life? How many centuries have seeds
+been known to retain their life? Have the teachings of the Bible retained their
+life for many hundreds of years? Into what do good thoughts turn? (Acts).
+Into what do good acts turn? (Character). Can any boy or girl afford to use
+their time in reading worthless books or papers? Do words and deeds have
+the element of unending life in them? Is it a dangerous thing to get angry?
+What did one of the boys who were playing marbles do to the boy who ran
+across the ring? As the result, how many years has the injured boy walked
+with crutches? Will the good that we do be as permanent as the evil that we
+might do?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p>
+<h2>SOWING.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE SPRING TIME OF LIFE.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The object used is a bag or sack, or a pillow slip would
+answer the same purpose, hung about the neck as a farmer uses it when sowing
+seed. While this is not essential, it can be used if desired.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: Spring is the most
+pleasant season of the year; the snow has melted, the
+cold weather has passed away, and now the warm,
+pleasant days have come. The trees are all in blossom,
+the fields look beautiful, and the air is full of sweetness. If you
+go into the country at this season of the year you will find the
+farmers plowing their fields, and some are sowing grain. The
+spring wheat has already been sown, the oat fields will soon begin
+to look green, and in the course of a few weeks the farmers will be
+planting their corn.</div>
+
+<p>It must have been at a corresponding period of the year in
+the East, when Jesus spoke those beautiful words which are found
+in the 13th chapter of St. Matthew, contained in the parable of the
+sower who went out to sow. A great multitude of people had gathered
+to hear the words which fell from the lips of Jesus. They
+could no longer gain admission into the house, and so Jesus went
+down by the sea, or the large lake, and getting into a boat he pushed
+out just a little way from the shore, so all the people standing along
+the shore could see and hear Him, and then He began to preach to
+them. Just back of them on the plain was a farmer who was more
+intent upon sowing his field than upon listening to the words of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span>
+Saviour. As Jesus saw him pacing to and fro across the field, scattering
+the grain in the furrows, Jesus very likely pointed to the man,
+calling the attention of the multitude to what he was doing, and
+said to the people, "Behold a sower went forth to sow," and then
+called the attention of the people to the character of the soil in the
+different places where the seed fell.</p>
+
+<p>In the country the farmers use a sack or bag. After having
+tied the opposite ends together, they hang this over their neck and
+shoulder, and with the right hand left free, they march up and
+down the field, sowing the grain. This sowing is not so common
+any more, because farmers now often plant their grain fields with a
+machine called a drill.</p>
+
+<p>With this sack suspended about the neck, in this way, the
+farmer reaches in and takes out a small handful of seed, and then
+swinging his hand, throws the seed over a considerable portion of
+the ground. Thus he walks from one end of the field to the other,
+sowing the seed, until he has the entire field sown and ready for the
+men who follow with the harrow to cover up the grain.</p>
+
+<p>Well, boys and girls, this is the spring-time of life with you.
+These are the pleasant days and years of your life. You have very
+little care. Yet it is, nevertheless, the spring-time. You are now
+making preparations which will tell what is to be the harvest in the
+later years of your lives. As the farmer goes out and plows the
+field, so by discipline and by counsel, and by instruction are your
+parents preparing your minds and hearts that in after years you may
+enjoy a harvest of great blessing.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;">
+<img src="images/i185.jpg" width="355" height="500" alt="Behold a Sower went Forth to Sow" title="" />
+<span class="caption"><small><span style="margin-left: 14em;">Copyright by Sylvanus Stall</span></small><br />Behold a Sower went Forth to Sow</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>In the spring-time of life, when young persons are to do the
+sowing, they need much careful counsel and instruction. I suppose
+that there are many boys and girls who, if they were to go into the
+country, could not tell the difference between wheat and barley, or
+oats and rye. Some might not even be able to distinguish between<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span>
+oats and buckwheat. If the farmer were to send you out to sow,
+you would, most likely, sow the wrong kind of grain. In the same
+manner, it is important that you should be directed by your parents,
+because they can distinguish between right and wrong. They
+know what you should do, and what you should not do. Therefore
+it is important that they
+should direct you in the spring-time,
+lest you should sow the
+wrong kind of grain. And you
+know the Bible says: "Whatsoever
+a man soweth, that shall
+he also reap."</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i187.png" width="250" height="392" alt="Wheat and Tares." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Wheat and Tares.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>It is not only difficult for
+those who have never seen
+something of life in the country,
+to distinguish between the different
+kinds of grain which the
+farmer sows, but even after the
+grain begins to grow, it is sometimes
+difficult, even for those
+who are familiar with country
+life, to distinguish between the
+true and the false. In that
+same thirteenth chapter of the
+gospel by St. Matthew, to
+which I referred in the beginning,
+Jesus tells of a farmer who sowed his field with wheat, and
+while he slept an enemy came and sowed tares. Of course he
+could not discover this until the grain began to grow. When it
+began to get ripe, then for the first could he distinguish between
+the stalks of the wheat and the stalks of the tares. By doing this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span>
+wicked thing the enemy gave the farmer a great deal of trouble.
+Just so it is with you when you have tried to do right, Satan comes
+and puts evil thoughts and wicked purposes into your mind, and
+then if you permit these to grow up, you will find that they will
+give you a great deal of trouble. It is important that only the good
+seed should be sown in the field of your heart, and in the field of
+your mind, so that you may have a fruitage that shall be wholly
+good.</p>
+
+<p>Sometimes you see boys and girls who are doing things
+which you would like to do, but your mother and father tell you
+that you should not. You may not be pleased because you are
+restrained from doing what you would like to do. I well remember
+how my father, when I was a boy, oftentimes used to restrain
+me from doing what I saw other boys doing. I used to think, at
+that time, that he was not considerate, and possibly not kind to me.
+But now that I have grown older, and have seen the results which
+have come to those boys, some of whom have gone astray, and
+others who have turned out badly in life, I see how wise my father
+was. Although I did not feel at the time that he was doing that
+which was for my good; now I see it all very plainly.</p>
+
+<p>In closing, let me say to you, do as Isaiah suggested, "Sow by
+the side of all waters." That is, be very diligent, that day by day
+you may do some kind act, which will hereafter spring up into a
+fruitage of very great good. The Bible enjoins upon both young
+and old to be very diligent in this work, for it says, "In the morning
+sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for
+thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or
+whether they both shall be alike good." (Eccl. xi: 6.)</p>
+
+<p>When you go to school during the week, and to Sunday-school
+and church service on Sunday, and when being instructed
+and taught at home, remember that all the instruction you are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span>
+receiving is like the seed that falls upon the waiting soil in the
+early spring-time from the hand of an intelligent farmer. In the
+parable which Jesus spake, He tells how that some of the seed fell
+by the wayside, some among thorns and some upon stony ground,
+while others fell upon good ground. While the seed was the
+same kind in all instances, it was only that which fell upon the
+good ground which brought forth a fruitage of thirty, sixty and an
+hundred fold. If the fruitage of your life in the harvest of the
+after-years is to be abundant in good and blessing, it can only be
+because you receive the instruction of your parents, your teachers
+and your pastor into a good and honest heart. Others may sow
+faithfully, but after all the result must depend upon you.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Which is the most pleasant season of the year? Why? What
+is the farmer's special work in the spring-time? Why is the farmer careful to
+sow good grain? What period of life is best represented by spring? If the
+farmer failed to sow in the spring, would he have a harvest in the autumn?
+How does he know what kind of grain he will reap at harvest time? Does wheat
+ever produce oats? Or clover seed produce wheat? What happened while the
+farmer slept? Who sowed the tares in his field? Who sows the tares in our
+minds? What do we call these tares? Should they be removed or permitted to
+grow? Should we be thankful to our parents for preventing tares from being
+sown? In what kind of soil did the grain grow to a fruitage of thirty, sixty
+and an hundred fold?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i189.png" width="350" height="193" alt="Chair tent" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span></p>
+<h2>REAPING.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE HARVEST TIME OF LIFE.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The object used is a small sheaf of grain. For this might
+be substituted fruitage of any kind&mdash;apples, peaches, pears, grapes, etc., and
+after reading the sermon, the parent could apply in the manner suited to the
+objects used.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR LITTLE HARVESTERS: Last Sunday
+I talked to you of spring-time&mdash;the spring-time of the
+year, and the spring-time of life. To-day I have
+brought a small sheaf of grain to tell us of the harvest-time.
+The spring-time is very pleasant, the air is fragrant, the
+birds are singing, and all nature
+seems to be rejoicing in its freshness
+and beauty. The world looks just
+as new and beautiful as it did thousands
+and thousands of years ago.
+Each spring it puts on youth anew.</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i190.png" width="250" height="289" alt="Sheaf of Grain." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>But when the summer-time
+comes, when it gets along to
+the harvest time, along in July
+and August, then the weather is
+very warm. The color of the fields
+has then greatly changed, the blossoms
+have disappeared from the
+trees, and we find that everywhere the fruit is beginning to appear.
+The harvest fields are ripe and are waiting for the husbandmen.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[193]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>There is just about that same difference in life. Youth is the
+spring-time. It is full of hope, and full of bright prospects. But,
+as we grow older, and the cares and responsibilities of life multiply,
+then we begin to bear the toil and labor which comes with the
+later years. Then we are like the farmer who enters into the harvest
+field where hard work has to be done under a very hot and
+scorching sun.</p>
+
+<p>A man, called a naturalist, who has devoted a large amount
+of time to the study of plants, tells us that there are about one hundred
+thousand different kinds of plants. Each kind of plant bears
+its own seed, and when that particular seed is sown, it always bears
+its own kind of fruit. Wheat never yields barley, nor do oats ever
+yield buckwheat. When you plant potatoes, you expect to gather
+potatoes and not turnips. An apple tree has never grown from an
+acorn, or a peach tree from a chestnut. Each seed, always and
+everywhere, bears its own kind. It is on this account that the Bible
+says, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man
+soweth that shall he also reap." (Gal. vi: 7.)</p>
+
+<p>There are some grown persons, as well as children, who
+think that they can do very wrong things while they are young,
+and afterwards suffer no bad results. People sometimes say,
+"Oh, well! let us sow our wild oats while we are young." Now
+the Bible tells us that if we sow wild oats, we must reap wild oats.
+Four or five handfuls of wild oats will produce a whole bag full
+of wild oats when gathered in the harvest of after life. Be assured,
+my dear friend, that "those who sow to the flesh shall of the flesh
+reap corruption," and "those who sow the wind shall reap the
+whirlwind." "Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit,
+and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 285px;">
+<img src="images/i192.png" width="285" height="400" alt="&quot;The Harvest Fields Are Ripe and Are Waiting for the Husbandmen.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;The Harvest Fields Are Ripe and Are Waiting for the Husbandmen.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>It may seem a long period between the spring and the harvest<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[195]</a></span>
+time of life; but be assured, my dear young friends, that the early
+years will speedily pass. Before you are aware of it, you will be
+men and women with all the responsibilities of life upon you, and
+then you will be sure to reap the reward of what you do now while
+you are boys and girls. Lord Bacon said that "Nature owes us
+many a debt until we are old," but nature is always sure to pay its
+debts. The ancients had an adage that said, "Justice travels with
+a sore foot," but it usually overtakes a man.</p>
+
+<p>A few Sundays ago I told you that as the result of planting
+a single grain of corn, a fruitage sufficient to plant the entire earth
+might be secured in only five years. It is told us by historians that,
+in olden times, the harvest in Egypt and Syria would return an
+hundred fold for one sowing, and in Babylonia oftentimes two
+hundred fold for one sowing. Now, if a single grain of wheat
+were planted in soil as fertile as that of Egypt, at the end of eight
+years of sowing and reaping, if we had a field large enough, the
+product would be sufficient to feed all the families of the earth
+for more than a year and a half. But if we were to undertake to
+plant one grain of wheat in this way, after a few years we would
+fill all the fields which would be suited for a wheat harvest. Down
+near the equator it would be too hot for the wheat to grow successfully.
+In the north it would be altogether too cold. On the mountain
+side the soil is not fertile, and oftentimes is very rocky. For
+these, and various other reasons, it would be impossible to cover
+any large portion of the earth with wheat, for not every portion
+would be suited to produce a harvest. Were it not for this fact,
+in the course of seven or eight years, the entire earth might be made
+to wave as one vast field of wheat.</p>
+
+<p>But there is one truth which God has planted in this world.
+That truth is God's love manifested in the gift of His Son Jesus
+Christ for the salvation of all mankind. This truth is suited to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[196]</a></span>
+every age of the world, to every nation of the earth, to all classes
+and all conditions of people, and to every human heart. During
+the past centuries men have been planting and replanting this seed
+of divine truth, sowing and resowing the earth with it, gathering
+and reaping the harvest and sowing again. And the days are
+coming when all the earth shall wave as one vast harvest field,
+waiting for the reapers of God, who shall gather this blessed fruitage
+into the garner of the skies.</p>
+
+<p>It is your privilege and my privilege, both one and all, to have
+some part in this glorious work of sowing and resowing, and the
+Scriptures assure us that "he that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing
+precious seeds, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing
+his sheaves with him." (Psalms cxxvi: 6.)</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />AFTERWARD.<br />
+
+<small>ANONYMOUS.</small></div>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+Now, the sowing and the reaping,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Working hard and waiting long;</span><br />
+Afterward, the golden reaping,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Harvest home and grateful song.</span><br />
+<br />
+Now, the pruning, sharp, unsparing,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Scattered blossom, bleeding shoot;</span><br />
+Afterward, the plenteous bearing<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the Master's pleasant fruit.</span><br />
+<br />
+Now, the plunge, the briny burden,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Blind, faint gropings in the sea;</span><br />
+Afterward, the pearly guerdon,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That shall make the diver free.</span><br />
+<br />
+Now, the long and toilsome duty,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Stone by stone to carve and bring;</span><br />
+Afterward, the perfect beauty<br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[197]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the palace of the king.</span><br />
+<br />
+Now, the tuning and the tension,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wailing minors, discord strong;</span><br />
+Afterward, the grand ascension<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of the Alleluia song.</span><br />
+<br />
+Now, the spirit conflict-riven,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Wounded heart, unequal strife;</span><br />
+Afterward, the triumph given<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the victor's crown of life.</span><br />
+<br />
+Now, the training strange and lowly,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Unexplained and tedious now,</span><br />
+Afterward, the service holy,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the Master's "Enter thou!"</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Last Sunday our lesson was about the spring-time and sowing;
+what has it been about to-day? What are the only results which a farmer
+can reap at harvest? If he sowed wheat, what will he gather? About how many
+different kinds of plants are there in the world? Do peach trees grow from
+chestnuts? The Bible says, "Whatsoever a man soweth"&mdash;can you repeat the
+rest of that passage? Can boys or young men, girls or young women, sow "wild
+oats" and reap blessing later on? If we sow "wild oats" what must we reap?
+If you sow an act, what do you reap? If you sow a habit, what do you reap?
+If you sow a character, what do you reap? How did the old adage say that justice
+travels? Could all portions of the globe be converted into a wheat field?
+Why not? Is the truth concerning God's love and salvation suited to all ages,
+all nations, and all people?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i195.png" width="400" height="187" alt="Reading with wheat" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[198]</a></span></p>
+<h2>WHEAT AND CHAFF.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE COMING SEPARATION.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;If the children can secure a few handfuls of some kind of
+grain and chaff, the idea of separation can be beautifully illustrated by pouring
+the grain and chaff from one hand to the other, and at the same time gently
+blowing the chaff, separating it from the grain. By turning it in this manner
+once or twice and blowing gently, the chaff may be entirely separated from the
+grain. If a larger quantity were used, it could be poured from one basket or pan
+to another while blowing the chaff from the grain with a palm leaf or some
+other fan. This would illustrate how the grain and chaff were separated at that
+period of the world in which Christ lived.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to read you a
+very beautiful little psalm, or hymn, or poem, written by
+David. It was originally written in metre or verse, but
+poetry when translated becomes prose. This first Psalm
+of David reads as follows:&mdash;</div>
+
+<p>"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
+ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat
+of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in
+His law doth he meditate day and night; and he shall be like a
+tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in
+his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth
+shall prosper.</p>
+
+<p>"The ungodly are not so; but are like the chaff which the
+wind driveth away; therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
+judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[199]</a></span>
+Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly
+shall perish."</p>
+
+<p>We find in this Psalm how the righteous are set forth, and
+how the ungodly are compared to chaff. John the Baptist said of
+Jesus, "Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge
+His floor and gather
+His wheat into the
+garner; but He will
+burn up the chaff
+with unquenchable
+fire."</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i197.png" width="300" height="388" alt="Threshing Grain with Flails." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Threshing Grain with Flails.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, when
+you have been in the
+country, you have
+observed the wheat
+growing in the field.
+If you had been
+careful to examine it,
+you would have
+found that while the
+wheat is growing the
+grain is enclosed in a
+thin covering called
+chaff, just the same
+as Indian corn or
+sweet corn is enclosed
+by the husks
+which grow about it. So it is with us; while we are in this world,
+there are many things which are essential to our growth and well-being.
+They minister to our physical needs and supply our temporal
+wants. Although we cannot wholly dispense with these things<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[200]</a></span>
+while we are in this world, yet they are not the sole objects of our
+living. The wheat does not exist for the chaff, or the husk in
+which it is enclosed, but the husks or chaff exist for the wheat.</p>
+
+<p>After a time, when the harvest comes, the farmer enters the
+field and cuts down the wheat, and it is then taken to the barn or
+threshing floor. Years ago, when I was a boy, farmers used to
+spend a large portion of the winter in threshing grain. They would
+spread it out upon the floor of the barn and beat it with a heavy
+stick, which was tied so as to swing easily at the end of a long
+handle. This was called a flail. Machines for threshing grain
+were not then common, as they are to-day. When the farmer
+threshes his grain, he does not do it to destroy the wheat, but simply
+to separate it from the chaff.</p>
+
+<p>The Bible tells us that we must enter into the kingdom of God
+through much "tribulation." And do you know that the word
+"tribulation" comes from a Latin word, <i>tribulum</i>, which means a
+flail? So the teaching of this passage of Scripture is, that God
+places you and me under the flail, and smites again and again, in
+order that the noblest, best and most Christ-like in us may be separated
+by trials and tribulations from that which is worthless; and
+which needs to be cast off in order that just as the farmer gathers
+the wheat into his garner or granary here on earth, so God may
+gather us eventually into His garner above.</p>
+
+<p>Boys and girls oftentimes have tribulations in this world, just
+the same as older people do. Disappointments come to them, and
+because of ambitions which are not lawful or right, purposes which
+are not in harmony with God's word and with God's will; because
+of needed discipline, or for some good reason God is tribulating
+them by sorrows, disappointments and trials, and making them better
+by means of the experiences through which they are called
+upon to pass.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[201]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i199.png" width="300" height="397" alt="Winnowing or Separating Wheat and Chaff." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Winnowing or Separating Wheat and Chaff.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>If you have been with the farmer in his barn after he is through
+with the threshing, you have seen him take the fanning-mill, and
+perhaps you have turned the crank for him, while he has slowly
+shoveled the grain into the mill and the chaff was being blown
+away by the wind set
+in motion by the revolution
+of the large
+fanning wheel. In
+the olden times they
+did not have fanning-mills,
+but when
+the farmer desired to
+separate the chaff
+from the wheat, he
+did it with a fan.
+He poured the grain
+from one basket or
+box, or some other
+receptacle, into another
+while the wind
+was blowing, or else
+used a fan to create
+a draught of wind to
+blow the chaff, and
+thus separate it from
+the wheat. It is
+this ancient custom to which John the Baptist refers. He says, concerning
+Christ, "Whose fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly
+purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He
+will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." (Matthew iii:
+12.)<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[202]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>So God designs to separate from your character, and from
+mine, that which is worldly and temporal, and worthless so far as
+eternity is concerned. Take money as an illustration. Now money
+is essential, and it is well that we should be willing to work hard
+for it, and that we should be economical in its use, and seek to save
+our money so that we may use it for good purposes, and that it may
+be helpful to us in old age. Money serves a very excellent purpose
+while we are upon earth, but God does not mean that we
+should make it the chief aim of our life. Therefore, to divert our
+minds from money in one way or another, financial reverses and
+failures sometimes come, and thus God seeks to separate the man
+from the money. We all came into this world empty-handed, and
+we must go out of it empty-handed. Even though we were worth
+many millions of dollars we could take no money with us. You
+might place it in the coffin and bury it with a dead body, but it
+would not and could not go into eternity with the man's undying
+spirit.</p>
+
+<p>Now, after the farmer has separated the chaff from the wheat,
+he gathers the wheat into his garner, or into his granary; and so,
+after God has separated from our nature and character all that is of
+no use, which is simply earthy, He will gather our souls into
+heaven, His garner above.</p>
+
+<p>While we live upon the earth we should use the things of this
+world but not abuse them; remembering that finally we must go
+and leave everything behind us, and that we can take nothing with
+us into eternity except the characters which we formed here.
+Wealth and reputation, and all worldly things will have to be left
+behind us; but character, that which you and I really are, shall
+never pass away, but shall enter into an eternal state of being on
+high. All these earthly things are the mere chaff, while character
+is our real selves.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[203]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Who wrote the book of the Bible called the Psalms? Can you
+tell what the first Psalm is about? What is the covering called which is about
+the grain while it is growing? How are the chaff and grain separated from the
+straw or stalk? After being threshed, how is the chaff separated from the grain?
+Are there many necessary things in life which, after all, do not constitute our
+character? What are tribulations like? Does God separate the essential from
+the non-essentials in our life? Is character injured or helped by tribulations?
+Where does the farmer put the grain after it has been separated from the chaff?
+What is spoken of in the Bible as God's garner?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i201.png" width="350" height="195" alt="Wheat and scythe" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[204]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE HEART.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE MOST WONDERFUL PUMP IN THE WORLD.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The objects used are a tumbler of water colored red, a small
+glass syringe such as can be purchased at any drug store for five or ten cents,
+also a six-ounce bottle of water colored red. This red coloring can be easily
+done with red ink. If that is not available, a drop or two of black ink will
+answer.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: In the 139th Psalm,
+14th verse, David says, "I will praise thee, for I am fearfully
+and wonderfully made." Now I want to talk to
+you to-day about our wonderful bodies, in the creation of
+which God has so marvelously displayed His infinite wisdom.</div>
+
+<p>I suppose you have been either near or inside a factory. You
+have heard the noise of the shafts and the pulleys and machinery.
+You have seen the carding machines, and listened to the noise of
+the great spinning jacks which twisted the cotton and the wool into
+yarn or thread, and heard the deafening sound of a great many
+looms as the shuttles flew backward and forward, while the many
+threads were being woven into cloth. A factory is quite wonderful,
+but do you know that in your bodies are found the elements of
+almost all the kinds of machinery that are used in the world? God
+has so created us that we do not hear the noise of the machinery
+of our bodies, but if you will place your fingers gently in your ears
+you will hear a peculiar roaring sound. That sound which you
+hear is the noise of the machinery of your body, which is in constant
+motion.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[205]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now, the heart, which pumps the blood into all portions of
+the body, makes the greater portion of this noise. Do you know
+where your heart is located? I supposed that most of you would
+point to your left side, because you have so frequently heard it
+spoken of as being located there. You have seen public speakers
+and others, when referring to their heart, place their hands upon
+their left side. But if you will bend your head forward so as to
+press your chin against your breast, as far down as possible, the
+heart will be under and a few inches
+below your chin. It is in the center
+of the body, and the lower portion of
+it comes near to the ribs on the left
+side, and when it beats we can feel it
+throb by placing our hand upon our
+left side; but the heart is more
+nearly in the center of the body, and
+not wholly at the side. If you were
+to close your hand as the boys
+do when they say they make a fist,
+the size of your closed hand
+will be somewhat smaller than the
+heart.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/i203.png" width="200" height="274" alt="Water and Syringe." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Water and Syringe.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>In this tumbler I have some
+water which I have colored with red
+ink, so as to represent blood. Here is a small glass syringe, such as
+can be bought for a few cents in any drug store. Now, when I
+draw this little handle up, you will see how the syringe is filled
+with this red water, and when I press it down how the water is
+forced out of the syringe back into the glass. This very clearly
+illustrates the principle upon which all pumps and steam engines
+which pump water are made. Even the large fire engine, which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[206]</a></span>
+throws water such a great distance, is made largely upon this principle.</p>
+
+<p>You may possibly have been in the engine room, where the
+huge pumps force the water into the reservoirs which supply the
+city with water for drinking and other purposes. From the pumps
+and the reservoirs there are great pipes which lead the water under
+the streets to many thousands of houses which compose the city.
+After the water has been used it is turned into the sewers, runs
+down into the river and back to the sea, where it is evaporated, rises
+again in the clouds, and by the wind is carried hundreds of miles
+over the country. Then it descends again in the form of snow and
+rain, soaks down through the earth and finds its way again into the
+springs and great veins of water under the earth, from which it is
+carried back once more to the city. Thus it is made pure again
+and again, to be used over and over by the people whom God has
+created and whom He supplies with water in this way.</p>
+
+<p>Now, in somewhat the same way, the heart, which is both an
+engine and a pump, forces the blood out through the pipes or tubes
+of our bodies called the arteries, distributing it to every portion of
+the body, furnishing the materials for building and renewing the
+muscles and the bones and every portion of our system. Then
+gathering up that which is worn out and no longer of service, the
+impure blood returns through the veins back to the right side of the
+heart, where it is pumped into the lungs and purified by being
+brought into contact with the air we breathe. The blood is then
+returned to the left side of the heart, pumped again into the arteries
+and distributed through all parts of the body, and so it goes on circulating.
+Thus the blood is pumped by the heart into the arteries
+and is distributed to all portions of the body, and returned again to
+the heart, from fourteen to twenty times each hour of our life.</p>
+
+<p>In this bottle, which holds six ounces, I have placed some of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[207]</a></span>
+this colored water, which represents about the quantity which is
+pumped out of the heart of an adult each time the pulse beats. As
+I have already intimated to you, the heart is double, and at each
+throb about one-half the quantity in this bottle is pumped out by
+the right side, and the other half by the left side of the heart. Now,
+if the heart were to pump different blood with each pulsation,
+instead of pumping the same blood over and over again, in twenty-four
+hours the heart of a man of ordinary size would pump 150 barrels
+of blood.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i205.png" width="400" height="303" alt="A Wagon Load of Barrels." title="" />
+<span class="caption">A Wagon Load of Barrels.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Bible says that the days of our years are three-score years
+and ten, or, in other words, that the allotted period of an ordinary
+life is 70 years. Now, in 70 years the heart would pump 164,389,786<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[208]</a></span>
+gallons; or, to give it to you in barrels, it would make
+4,566,382 barrels. If you were to place six barrels on a wagon,
+and this would make a good load for two horses, you would have
+761,063 loads of these barrels. If you were to place these teams,
+with the wagons containing six barrels apiece, with 36 gallons
+each, at a distance of 25 feet apart, it would make a string of teams
+stretching away 1,778 miles, or as far as from New York City to
+Des Moines, in the state of Iowa, or from New York City down
+to the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
+
+<p>I think you will now be able to understand what a wonderful
+little steam engine and pump each of us has within our own breast.
+And it may surprise you when I tell you that Dr. Buck says that the
+heart at each throb beats with a power equal to 100,000 pounds.</p>
+
+<p>An ordinary engine or pump would soon wear out, but this
+little engine of the heart goes on beating day and night from the
+time we are born until we are 70 years of age, if we live to be that
+old, and even while we rest in sleep, the heart never stops for a
+moment. Is it any wonder that David said that "We are fearfully
+and wonderfully made"?</p>
+
+<p>I might tell you many other wonderful things about the heart,
+but this will have to suffice.</p>
+
+<p>If the natural heart in these bodies of ours is so wonderful,
+how much more wonderful still is that heart which is the seat of the
+moral life and character? As the natural heart is hidden away in
+these bodies of ours, so the spirit or the soul is spoken of in the
+Bible as the heart, because it is hidden away in the life which we
+have in these bodies of ours; and it is this moral character and spiritual
+life to which the Bible refers when it says, "Keep thine heart
+with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life."</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;How did David say we are made? Does the machinery in a
+great factory make much noise? Are our bodies like a factory in this respect?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[209]</a></span>
+How can we hear the noise inside of our body? Where is the heart located?
+What does the heart do? Can you tell how water is supplied for a great city?
+Is the blood carried to all portions of our body in a similar way? How much
+blood is pumped by the heart in twenty-four hours? What does the Bible say is
+the allotted years of a person's life? How long a string of teams would it
+require to carry all the blood which the heart ordinarily pumps in seventy years?
+Does the heart keep on pumping while we sleep? What is still more wonderful
+than the physical heart? Can we see either the physical heart or the spiritual
+heart? Does the fact that you cannot see them prove that you do not have
+them? Are both necessary to your complete being and existence?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i207.png" width="400" height="227" alt="Sitting in a chair tent" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[210]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE EYE.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE MOST VALUABLE AND MOST WONDERFUL TELESCOPE.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The objects used are a field-glass or opera-glass, spy-glass
+and sun-glass.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR LITTLE MILLIONAIRES: You know
+that when people are very wealthy, have hundreds of
+thousands of dollars, they are spoken of as millionaires.
+Oftentimes these rich people do not have any more actual
+money than poorer people, but they have property which is supposed
+to be worth a great deal of money. Now, I want to show you
+to-day that each one of you possesses that which is worth millions
+of dollars.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/i208.png" width="325" height="186" alt="Field-glass, Spy-glass and Sun-glass." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Field-glass, Spy-glass and Sun-glass.</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[211]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I want to talk to you about your eyes, and I hope that you
+will be able to understand that they are worth hundreds and thousands,
+yes millions of dollars to each of you. In order that I may
+better illustrate a few of the many wonderful things about the
+human eye, I have brought this field-glass, and here is a small spy-glass,
+and also a magnifying lens, or sun-glass, as boys sometimes
+call them. Inside of this spy-glass and these field-glasses are lenses
+or magnifying glasses, similar to this sun-glass. They are, however,
+more perfect, and are so adjusted or related to each other,
+that when I place this smaller lens of the spy-glass to my eye I
+also look through the larger lens which is at the further end of
+the instrument. When properly adjusted, it enables me to see
+objects which are at a great distance, and to so magnify them as to
+cause them to seem much nearer to me than they really are.</p>
+
+<p>Now, if you take this spy-glass and look at the stars, it will not
+make them appear any larger than they appear to the eye without
+the spy-glass. It will assist the eye when I look at the moon or the
+planets, but not at the stars which are so much further removed
+from the earth than the moon and the planets. Astronomers have
+desired something larger and more satisfactory, and so have made
+the great telescopes, which are simply large spy-glasses. The telescope
+and the spy-glass, and the field-glasses, are all imitations of
+the human eye; the same as many of our greatest inventions are only
+copies of that which God has already created, and which we have
+but feebly imitated. The eye is a more wonderful instrument than
+even the largest telescopes which have ever been made.</p>
+
+<p>If you desired to look through a telescope at one of the stars
+or a planet, or the moon, you would have considerable difficulty in
+directing it so as to be able to see the desired object. Even with
+this small spy-glass it is very difficult so to direct it as to find a particular
+star in the heavens at night. It is not easy, even to find a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[212]</a></span>
+distant object upon the earth. But with these wonderful eyes, with
+which God has endowed us, you and I can look almost instantly
+from one star to any other star, and find instantly upon the earth
+any object which is distinctly pointed out to us. It takes a very
+experienced person successfully to operate a telescope, but the
+smallest child can direct and control and use his own eyes successfully.</p>
+
+<p>The large telescopes have to be turned and adjusted by
+machinery, and when it is
+desired to direct them from
+one star to another star on
+the opposite side of the
+heavens, they even have to
+turn around the entire roof
+or dome of the observatory.
+But you and I do not need
+any ponderous machinery to
+adjust our eyes, or to turn
+them about in order to look
+in a different direction. We
+can easily turn our heads
+by bending our necks, or, if
+necessary, we can turn our
+entire body around and
+look in an opposite direction.
+In looking from one
+object to another, our eyes change their direction so quickly that we
+are not conscious of any effort upon our own part.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i210.png" width="300" height="385" alt="Small Telescope." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Small Telescope.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>If you were to look through a large telescope, or even one of
+these smaller spy-glasses, you would immediately discover that
+when you desire to look at objects at different distances, or in different<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[213]</a></span>
+degrees of light and shade, you would have to constantly
+adjust the telescope or spy-glass to these different conditions. If
+you would look at objects which are near, and then turn the spy-glass
+to look at those which are distant, you would not be able to
+see distinctly until you had adjusted the lenses to suit the distance.
+With our eyes the same adjustment has to be made, and yet it is
+done so quickly and without any conscious effort upon our part, that
+it seems as if it were not done at all. When we look at an object
+which is only a few inches from our face, and then turn and look
+at a distant object, instantly our eyes are adjusted to the difference
+of distance and varying degrees of light and shade.</p>
+
+<p>But what makes this all still more wonderful is the fact that
+we have two telescopes, two eyes instead of one. Both of these little
+eye-telescopes instantly adjust themselves, and both adjust themselves
+to precisely the same necessity. If they adjusted themselves
+differently we would see two objects instead of one; the same as
+a drunken man who has lost the use of his muscles and faculties,
+whose eyes do not work in harmony, and therefore, instead of seeing
+only one object, he sees two objects and sees them in a confused
+way.</p>
+
+<p>Did you ever think how wonderful it is that when you close
+your right eye, and look at something with your left eye, that you
+can see the object distinctly? Now, if you close the left eye, and
+look at the object with the right eye, you again see the same object
+distinctly. When you open both eyes and look at the same object,
+instead of seeing the object twice, or seeing two objects, you see
+only one object. That is because the eyes work in such perfect
+harmony, and that is what the Scripture means when it says that
+you and I should "see eye to eye" in everything that is good.</p>
+
+<p>Now there is another thing to which I desire to call your attention,
+and that is the size of the eye. If you owned one of these<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[214]</a></span>
+very large telescopes which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars,
+you would be regarded as a very wealthy person, but you could not
+carry that telescope with you from one place to another. It would
+be of no service to you in looking upon the beautiful scenes which
+surround you from day to day. If you wanted to use the telescope
+you would have to stay where the telescope was, instead of taking
+the telescope with you where you desired to go. But God has
+made these little eye-telescopes so perfect, and yet so compact and
+small, that wherever we go, on land or sea, we can take them with
+us, and they can be in constant use and give us the most perfect
+delight and satisfaction.</p>
+
+<p>I am sure there is not a single boy or girl who would trade off
+one of these perfect little telescopes&mdash;yes, I will call it a telescope
+and an observatory also&mdash;for God has beautifully encased our
+eyes, and shielded and housed them more beautifully and satisfactorily
+than the most perfect observatory which was ever built for
+any man-made telescope. We would not trade away one of our
+eyes for one of the finest telescopes in the world, and we would not
+be willing to give both of our eyes for all the telescopes which have
+ever been made.</p>
+
+<p>But one of these large telescopes and observatories would cost
+a great deal&mdash;even hundreds of thousands of dollars; yet God has
+<i>given</i> you and me these telescopes, our wonderful eyes. But
+because God has given them to us they are none the less valuable
+on that account, and I think therefore that I was correct when I
+addressed you to-day as little millionaires.</p>
+
+<p>Now, God has given you, not simply one eye, but He has
+given you two eyes, two wonderful telescopes and observatories.
+He has given you two, so that if by any accident one should be
+destroyed, you would still have the other to depend upon. God
+has given you two eyes, and two hands, and two feet; but He has<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[215]</a></span>
+given you only one soul, and if by sin you lose that one soul, then
+you have lost everything, for the Scripture says, "What shall a man
+give in exchange for his soul?"</p>
+
+<p>In Palestine, the country in which Jesus lived when He was
+upon the earth, the sun shines with wonderful brightness and clearness;
+the land also is very light in color, and consequently the eyes
+are oppressed by the glare, just the same as those of you who have
+ever been at the seashore have experienced the glare while walking
+along the beach; or, to some extent, like the bright sunlight shining
+upon the snow in winter. This light color of the soil and brightness
+of the sun in Palestine are the cause of blindness to many of the
+inhabitants. When Jesus was upon the earth, one of His greatest
+acts of mercy to suffering humanity was to open and heal the eyes
+of those who were either born blind, or who had become blind
+afterward.</p>
+
+<p>Now, in this country of ours, and in all countries of the earth,
+there are hundreds and thousands and millions of people who are
+spiritually blind. Jesus Christ is to-day passing by, just the same
+as when the blind man sat by the roadside near Jericho, when Jesus
+was then passing by. As that blind man called upon Jesus and
+said, "Thou Son of David, have mercy upon me," so you and I
+should call upon God and upon His Son, Jesus Christ, that He
+would have mercy upon us and open our spiritual eyes. We should
+make the language of the Scriptures the petition of our hearts,
+"Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
+Thy law." I pray that God may give each of you to see and to
+understand spiritual things.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Instead of money, in what does the wealth of millionaires
+often consist? Is the human eye worth more than money? Would you take a
+million of dollars for your two eyes? Are your eyes worth more than telescopes?
+Which is the more perfect, a telescope or the human eye? Are telescopes
+adjusted like the eye? Which can be adjusted more quickly? Where are telescopes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[216]</a></span>
+kept? Are your eyes kept in a little observatory? Why has God given
+us two eyes instead of one? How many souls has He given us? If the soul is
+lost, what is the result? What causes so much blindness in the country in which
+Jesus lived? Did Jesus open the eyes of the blind and restore the sight of people
+in Palestine? Are many people spiritually blind? Does Jesus wish to give them
+spiritual sight or vision?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i214.png" width="400" height="314" alt="Looking through spy-glass" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[217]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE EYE</h2>
+
+<h3>THE SMALLEST CAMERA, THE MOST VALUABLE PICTURES.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The object used is a small camera of any kind.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>I &nbsp;AM going to address you again to-day as <span class="smcap">LITTLE MILLIONAIRES</span>.
+Last week I showed you how your eyes were more
+valuable than the most costly telescopes, and to-day I want
+to show you how, in another way, you are little millionaires.</div>
+
+<p>Very wealthy people sometimes travel in different countries,
+and gather very rare and beautiful paintings and pictures, oftentimes
+paying a thousand
+dollars, ten thousand dollars,
+and sometimes very
+much more for a single
+painting. Then they bring
+these paintings all together
+in their own homes and
+hang them on the walls,
+and as the result of the
+expenditure of many thousands,
+and sometimes of
+hundreds of thousands of
+dollars, they have a very
+beautiful and rare collection. But God has made you and me the
+possessors of a vast number of pictures, more beautiful, of greater
+variety, and infinitely more valuable, than all the paintings that were
+ever hung upon the walls of any art gallery in the world.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/i215.png" width="325" height="265" alt="Camera." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Camera.</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[218]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>To illustrate my thought, I have to-day brought a camera.
+Sometimes such a camera as this is called a Kodak or Snap-shot.
+As the finest telescopes have been modeled after the human eye, so
+the camera is only a very imperfect imitation of the human eye. As
+the spy-glass and telescope have lenses, so does this camera have a
+lens, which you see here in the front. Just back of this lens is the
+dark chamber in the camera, and back of it is a ground glass, as you
+will see here. Now whatever is directly in front of the camera is
+shown on the ground glass, as you will observe, but in an inverted
+or up-side-down position. So the eye has its various parts, and as
+the rays of light pass through this lens and reflect the picture on this
+ground glass, so rays of light coming from any object pass first
+through the small opening of the eye, to the retina, where the picture
+is inverted just the same as upon the ground glass. When this picture
+is thrown upon the rear wall of the eye, which is called the
+retina, the seeing nerve, which is called the optic nerve and is connected
+with the eye, conveys the impression to the brain, and the
+result is what we call seeing.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i216.png" width="400" height="217" alt="The Human Eye." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Human Eye.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>What I have told you is correct, and can easily be proven by a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[219]</a></span>
+simple experiment with the eye of some animal. If you take the
+eye of a dead rabbit, and cleanse the back portion of it from the fat
+and muscles and then hold a candle in front of it, you can see the
+image of the candle formed upon the retina. If you take the eye
+of an ox and carefully pare off from the back portion, so as to leave
+it very thin, and place the eye in front of (or against) a small hole
+made in a box; then cover your head to shut out the light you will
+see through the box the picture of any object which is directly in
+front of this eye of the ox. In both instances they will be in the
+inverted form. This experiment would fully demonstrate to you
+that the camera is only an imitation, and a very poor one too, of the
+human eye.</p>
+
+<p>Now when pictures are taken by means of the camera, the
+negative can not be exposed to the light, but must be taken into a
+dark room, and be carefully developed by the use of necessary
+chemicals or liquids. Then specially prepared paper must be used
+for printing the photographs. This paper must also be kept in the
+dark until it has been thoroughly washed and cleansed. But, with
+the pictures which are taken upon the retina of the eye, no such
+delay and labor is necessary before you can look at them. The
+moment the eye is turned in any direction, instantly the picture is
+photographed upon the retina of the eye, and then stamped indelibly
+upon the memory and becomes a part of ourselves.</p>
+
+<p>There is no cost for chemicals, no delay in adjusting the instrument
+with which the picture is taken, no necessity for carrying
+around a large camera.</p>
+
+<p>The camera has many disadvantages which are not found in
+the human eye. The camera must be adjusted to objects near or far,
+and different cameras have to be used for pictures of different sizes
+and for different classes of pictures. These cameras are costly to
+purchase, a great deal of time is consumed in securing a few pictures,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[220]</a></span>
+they are always attended with expense; and when pictures
+are to be removed from one place to another, the owner is subjected
+to much trouble and annoyance. Then, the camera also does not
+give us the colors of the different objects which are before it. That
+is the reason why, in the beginning, I spoke of these millionaires
+purchasing such costly paintings, because in the paintings different
+colors are represented.</p>
+
+<p>Now, in the hundreds of pictures which are constantly being
+taken by your eyes, there are no delays, no expenses, no inconvenience
+when the pictures have once been taken. Different shades
+and colors are all clearly represented. And even though you were
+to stand on a high mountain, where you could look off over one or
+two hundred square miles of beautiful landscape, all that beautiful
+scenery would be pictured on the retina of your eye; and the picture,
+complete and perfect, would not be larger than one-half inch
+square. What would real wealthy people be willing to give for a
+perfect picture only one-half inch square, in which the artist had
+clearly defined every field and tree, the rivers, houses, roads, railways
+and all the beautiful landscape contained in a vast area of
+many square miles?</p>
+
+<p>Our eyes are wonderful cameras, which God has given us so
+that we can be constantly taking these beautiful pictures as we pass
+through life, and look at them not only for the instant, but that we
+may treasure the pictures up in our memories and make them the
+rich treasures and joyous heritage of coming years.</p>
+
+<p>The older we grow, the more we appreciate these memory
+pictures of the past&mdash;memories of our childhood days, beautiful
+landscapes, foreign travel, lovely sunsets, the glorious sunrise, green
+fields and orchards of golden fruit. As you grow old, I suppose
+the richest treasures in your picture gallery of the past will be the
+memories of your childhood home, of mother and father, brother<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[221]</a></span>
+and sister. Possibly when you have grown old, you will remember
+how one day your heart was almost broken, when for the first
+time you were leaving home; how mother's eyes filled with tears
+when she kissed you good-bye, and, following you to the gate, how
+she stood and waved her handkerchief, while home faded from
+your view as you rounded the turn in the road and realized for the
+first time that you were launching out into real life for long years of
+struggle.</p>
+
+<p>Just as the hearts of the parents go out in great tenderness
+toward their son, who is leaving the Christian influences of his home
+to begin service in a distant city, surrounded by evil influences, and
+oftentimes by wicked people; so the heart of our Heavenly Father
+goes out in great tenderness towards you and me, while we are separated
+from the great eternal mansion of the skies. God's heart
+yearns over us in great tenderness, and while we live in the midst
+of the evil of this world we are constantly to remember that God
+has made us millionaires; not only in the possession of the eyes, and
+other faculties with which He has endowed us for use here upon
+the earth, but we are to remember that we are children of the King
+of Heaven, and that we are heirs of everlasting life and of everlasting
+glory. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus
+Christ, to an inheritance which is incorruptible, undefiled and that
+"fadeth not away." We are not simply millionaires, but we are
+heirs of everlasting glory.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What instrument for taking pictures is like the human eye?
+Which can take pictures quicker, the eye or the camera? What is lacking in
+pictures taken by the camera? Do our eyes show the colors of the objects?
+Of what is the camera an imitation? Is it expensive to take many pictures with
+the camera? Why do people pay large sums for oil paintings? Was there ever
+a picture painted by an artist or photographed with a camera so beautiful as the
+small pictures taken by the eye? For size, color, variety and convenience,
+which are the finest pictures in the world? Which pictures are most treasured
+in old age?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[222]</a></span></p>
+<h2>FROGS.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE PLAGUES IN EGYPT.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects: Some paper frogs, which can be purchased at any
+Japanese store for about five cents each. They are often found also in toy stores.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I am sure you will all
+be able to tell me what this object is which I hold in
+my hand (voices: "Frogs, bullfrogs"). Well, it looks
+exactly like a bullfrog, and was made to imitate a bullfrog.
+The bullfrogs I have here are made of paper, and were made
+in Japan. I bought them that I might show them to you and preach
+you an object sermon on the subject of the "Ten Plagues in Egypt."</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i220.png" width="400" height="230" alt="Frogs" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>You all remember how Joseph was sold by his brethren into<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[223]</a></span>
+bondage in Egypt, how he was cast into prison and afterward taken
+out and made prime minister over all that land; how during the
+seven years of plenty he laid up corn for the seven years of famine
+which followed, and afterward his father and his brethren&mdash;in all
+the seventy persons who constituted Jacob's family&mdash;came down
+into Egypt to be fed. After two hundred and fifty years this family
+had increased until it numbered nearly two millions of people.
+Pharaoh had made slaves of them, and compelled them to work
+in the brickyards of Egypt. The task-masters were very cruel.
+They beat them with whips, and demanded excessive labor from
+them. These people were the chosen people of God, and their
+voice was lifted to God their Father for deliverance from all the
+wrongs which they suffered. God heard their prayer, and raised
+up Moses to deliver them out of Egyptian bondage.</p>
+
+<p>When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh to request him to
+let the Children of Israel go from Egypt to the land of Canaan,
+which God had promised to Abraham and to his seed after him,
+Pharaoh would not consent to let them go. He was a proud,
+wicked king, and God sent ten great plagues upon him and his
+country, to humble him and cause him to do as God desired that he
+should do.</p>
+
+<p>In the first plague the rivers were turned into blood. This
+plague lasted seven days, and at the end of that time Moses
+stretched forth his rod, and all the rivers and ponds and lakes of
+water brought forth great frogs throughout all the land. They
+came, not by hundreds, but by thousands and millions, until the
+frogs covered all that land. They were in the houses of all the
+people. The king's servants were busy sweeping and carrying
+them out of the palace, and yet they stole into the rooms, and at
+night when the king would go to lie down he would find these
+frogs in his bed-chamber and upon his bed. When his bakers went<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[224]</a></span>
+to make bread for the king, they would find them in the bread-troughs
+in which they kneaded or mixed the bread, and in the ovens
+where they baked the bread. The frogs were everywhere in the
+palace and in the huts of the common people; upon the streets and
+in the roads; wherever the people walked they stepped upon them,
+and the king's carriage could not be driven through the streets without
+crushing thousands of them. The plague was so great that
+Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and entreated them to call
+upon their God that He would remove the frogs; and when God
+heard the prayer of Moses and Aaron He caused the frogs to die.
+The people gathered them up in great heaps and these dead and
+putrefying frogs in the streets and the water of the river caused the
+air to be loaded with a great stench that filled the nostrils of all the
+people.</p>
+
+<p>After this plague of frogs came the plague of lice, when all
+the dust of the country was turned into lice, and after that the
+plague of the flies; and so on through to the last plague, which was
+the slaying of the first-born, of which I will tell you in another
+sermon.</p>
+
+<p>I wish you would at your earliest opportunity turn to the second
+book in the Old Testament, the Book of Exodus, and in the
+early chapters read about these various plagues of Egypt. When
+you read the account of the various plagues, you will see how after
+each affliction Pharaoh's heart seemed to relent. He would consent
+for a time that the Children of Israel might be liberated from
+their bondage, and depart from Egypt and start on their journey to
+the land of Canaan. When he was in affliction he would make
+good promises, but as soon as God had removed the plague, and
+the sorrow of his people seemed to be ended for a time he again
+hardened his heart against God, and refused to do what he had
+promised. Again and again the king refused to do that which he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[225]</a></span>
+had agreed, and caused the unhappy Children of Israel to continue
+in their bondage.</p>
+
+<p>We may think that we are not wicked like Pharaoh was.
+We may not be wicked in the same degree, but we are wicked after
+the same nature and kind; and so God brings upon us various providences,
+some of which are not very pleasant. God is seeking to
+educate us by the trials and sorrows and disappointments and afflictions
+which He permits to come upon us, so that we will be more
+obedient, and more faithful, and more Christlike. But I suppose
+you have seen people who were just like Pharaoh. When they
+were sick they would promise to become Christians, and live good
+and right lives, and join the Church and be faithful followers of
+Christ all the rest of their lives. And yet when God would raise
+them up from their beds of sickness they would forget all their
+promises, and generally, as it always was in the case of Pharaoh,
+their hearts became harder and harder. Instead of being better
+after God had raised them up and made them strong and well, or
+removed some trial or affliction, they became worse than before.</p>
+
+<p>Have you not found something of this also in your own
+experience? When you have desired something which you have
+asked your father or mother to secure for you, you have promised
+that you would run all the errands they asked, or that you would
+go to school and study your lessons very faithfully, or that you
+would go to bed cheerfully at night without complaining, or you
+have made your parents some other promises; and yet, after you
+have received the object you asked for, you have failed to keep your
+promise.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/i224.png" width="288" height="400" alt="Moses Leading the Children of Israel Through the Red Sea." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Moses Leading the Children of Israel Through the Red Sea.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Or, to go a step further, has it not been so with what you have
+promised God that you would do? You may have entered into
+covenant with Him, made certain promises, and then afterward
+forgot to fulfill those promises. Let us always remember when we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[227]</a></span>
+make promises to God, or to our parents, that we are not to be like
+Pharaoh. After God has answered our prayers we should not forget
+to be obedient to Him and to keep our promises.</p>
+
+<p>Pharaoh was a great covenant-breaker, but when at last he
+gave the Children of Israel permission to leave Egypt, and then
+broke his promise and followed them with his army that he might
+destroy them, God opened up the waters of the Red Sea and the
+Children of Israel fled from before Pharaoh. When this wicked
+king and covenant-breaker saw them, he pursued after them with
+his horses, his chariots and his army; and when they were all in the
+midst of the sea, God took away His restraining power from the
+water which stood piled up on both sides of the way along which
+the Children of Israel had marched safely, and the water came
+down in great torrents and buried this wicked king and all his
+horses and his chariots and his men. So God destroyed this great
+covenant-breaking king, because after all of the judgments and
+wonderful miracles which He had wrought before Pharaoh, in
+order to teach him that Jehovah was God, Pharaoh's repentances
+were all mere shams.</p>
+
+<p>This was a great object sermon which God did before the eyes
+of all these thousands of the Children of Israel, and it should teach
+you and me that we are to be honest in all our covenants with God,
+and be obedient to the will of God in all that we do and say.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Upon what king of Egypt did God send the plague of frogs?
+How many plagues were there? What effect did each plague have upon Pharaoh?
+Was he honest when he repented? What did he do each time after the
+plague was removed? What was the last plague? After the death of the first-born,
+did he allow the Children of Israel to go? After they started, what did he
+do? How did God enable the Children of Israel to cross the Red Sea? When
+Pharaoh followed into the sea after them, what occurred? Should we always
+keep our covenants, both with God and men? If we do not keep our covenants,
+whom are we like? Will we also be punished?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[228]</a></span></p>
+<h2>BLOOD.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The object used is a bottle of red ink to represent blood.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>CHILDREN OF THE COVENANT-KEEPING
+KING: Last Sunday I talked to you about Pharaoh, as
+the great covenant-breaking king. I showed you some
+paper frogs, and told you how after all of God's long-suffering
+with Pharaoh, He eventually destroyed him and his army
+in the midst of the Red Sea.</div>
+
+<p>Now, to-day I have this bottle, which has this deep red colored
+fluid in it. This is red ink. But I have brought it not to talk
+to you about ink, but to talk about something else which is of the
+same color; namely, of blood.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i227.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="Preparing for the Passing Over of the Angel of Death
+
+Copyrighted Sylvanus Stall" title="" />
+<span class="caption"><small><span style="margin-left: 14em;">Copyrighted Sylvanus Stall</span></small><br />Preparing for the Passing Over of the Angel of Death</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>You remember that there were ten plagues in Egypt; the first
+was the turning of the rivers into blood, then the bringing up of the
+frogs from all the rivers and lakes; and then the turning of the dust
+into lice; and then the plague of the flies; and then of the murrain
+which destroyed the cattle; and of the boils which came upon all
+the people; and of the lightning, and rain, and hail which destroyed
+man and beast. Then the locusts came which ate up everything
+that remained; afterward the three days of continuous darkness;
+and after these nine plagues God had yet in store one great plague
+which He purposed to bring upon Pharaoh and his people. After
+each of these plagues which I have named, Pharaoh promised that
+he would let the Children of Israel go, but instead he hardened
+his heart and refused to keep his promise. At last God was going<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[231]</a></span>
+to bring upon him and his people the greatest plague of all. (Ex. xii: 1-28.)</p>
+
+<p>God told Moses and Aaron to command the Children of
+Israel that on the tenth day of the month, each family should select
+either a lamb or a kid and shut it up until the fourteenth day, and
+in the evening of that day they should kill it. This was to be a
+male lamb, one year old, and without spot or blemish. The blood,
+as it flowed from the neck of the lamb, was to be caught in a dish,
+and with a bunch of hyssop the blood was to be sprinkled upon
+the door-posts or the door frame, both above and around the door,
+so that when the Angel of Death whom God purposed to send
+upon that eventful night, when he should pass throughout all the
+land of Egypt and see the blood upon the door posts and upon the
+lintel over the door he would pass by or "pass-over" these houses of
+the Israelites and would not smite their first-born with death; as
+would be the case in every other home of the Egyptians throughout
+all the land.</p>
+
+<p>After the Children of Israel had sprinkled the blood upon the
+door-posts, they were to roast the entire lamb, and they were to eat
+it with unleavened bread, which was bread baked without yeast,
+and eat it also with bitter herbs, while at the same time their long,
+loose garments were to be tucked up under their belts which went
+around their waists, or as the people in those days would have said,
+with their loins girded. They were to have their shoes on their
+feet, and a cane or staff in their hand, so as to be all ready to start
+out upon their journey at any moment.</p>
+
+<p>At midnight, after these Israelites had eaten this "Passover"
+meal, and had also destroyed, by burning, any portions of the lamb
+which might remain, the Angel of Death passed through all the
+land of Egypt and slew the first-born, the oldest in every house,
+where there was no blood sprinkled upon the door-posts.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[232]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>As soon as the angel had passed by, the people rushed out
+into the streets in terror and alarm, for in every home there was
+one or two or more persons lying dead. The Egyptians brought
+out their jewels and gold and valuables, and offered, not only to let
+the Israelites retain the jewels which they had already borrowed,
+but to give them more if they would only depart immediately, so
+that God should bring no further afflictions upon them. Pharaoh
+consented to their going, and immediately the Children of Israel
+started on their long journey to the Promised Land.</p>
+
+<p>This eventful night was called, and is to this day called, "the
+night of the Passover," and to this day the Jewish people still celebrate
+the Feast of the Passover. It occurs in the spring of the year,
+and corresponds very closely to our Church festival day, known as
+Good Friday, at which time we commemorate the crucifixion and
+death of Jesus Christ upon Calvary.</p>
+
+<p>You will see from what I have said, how the lamb which was
+chosen was a figure of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, slain from
+the foundation of the world to take away your sins, and my sins,
+and the sins of all who would believe on Him. As this passover
+lamb was a year old, without spot and without blemish, so Jesus
+Christ was perfect, without blemish, He never committed a sin of
+any kind; He was but thirty years old when He was crucified, and
+consequently was young in years.</p>
+
+<p>As the blood sprinkled upon the door-posts and the lintels of
+the doors was the sign by which the Angel of the Lord was to
+know the homes of the Israelites, and deliver their first-born from
+death, so the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ cleanses us from all
+sin and delivers us from eternal death.</p>
+
+<p>You and I and all mankind must die, but after this death of
+the body there comes either everlasting life or spiritual death.
+Now, when the spirit leaves the body, or is separated from these<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[233]</a></span>
+bodies, we speak of the body as being dead. The death of a person
+is just the same as when wheat is sown into the ground and is said
+to die; the life that formerly was in the seed only springs up into the
+stalk and grows into a new life and into a multiplied fruitfulness.</p>
+
+<p>The life of each grain of wheat does not cease to exist, but is
+simply separated from the seed or grain which was sown in the
+ground, and lives in the new plant and new grain which springs up.
+So also when the life or the soul leaves the body, the body is dead,
+because it is separated from the soul. In like manner also, if the
+soul is separated from God, the Bible speaks of the individual as
+being spiritually dead, even while yet living in this world. Now,
+if because of sin any soul that is banished forever from God's presence,
+and is eternally separated from God in the next world, that
+eternal separation of the soul from God is spoken of in the Bible as
+eternal death.</p>
+
+<p>From this eternal death you and I can only be delivered by the
+blood of the Son of God. Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb.
+Neither is He a dead, but a living Savior.</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+"He ever lives above,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">For me to intercede;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">His all-redeeming love,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">His precious blood to plead;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">His blood atoned for all our race,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And sprinkles now the throne of grace."</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What was the tenth plague? How were the homes of the
+Israelites to be marked, so that the angel of death would pass over them? How
+old was the lamb to be that was to be slain? What was to be done with the body
+of the lamb? When they ate it, how were they to be clothed? (So as to be
+ready to start immediately upon their journey.) What did the angel of death
+do where the door posts were sprinkled with the blood? What was the event
+called? (The Passover.) What people continue to celebrate the Feast of the
+Passover today? Of whom was the slain lamb the symbol? What is Christ
+frequently called? From what does the blood of the Lamb of God save us?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[234]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PINE BRANCH.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;The objects used are a green branch of a tree and a glass of
+clear water.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: Last Sunday I told you
+about the Feast of the Passover, how it came to be instituted,
+and what it signified. To-day I want to talk to
+you about the Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of the
+Passover occurred in the spring, nearly corresponding to our Easter;
+and at such times when the Israelites from every quarter of the land
+came up to Jerusalem, as was the custom at the three annual feasts,
+some provision had to be made for their entertainment.</div>
+
+<p>At the Feast of the Passover all the Jews living in Jerusalem
+had to throw open their homes, and entertain under the cover of
+their own roofs, all who came to them. They could not decline to
+receive the thousands of worshipers who came up to the Feast, but
+were required to afford them a place of shelter in their homes.
+Therefore it was that before the Feast of the Passover Jesus sent
+two of His disciples, and told them to go into the city, and they
+would find a man bearing a pitcher of water; they should follow
+him and ask him to direct them to a room in his house, where Jesus
+might eat the Passover with His disciples. (Matt. xxvi: 17; Mark
+xiv: 13.)</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 285px;">
+<img src="images/i233.png" width="285" height="400" alt="Building Booths at Feast of Tabernacles." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Building Booths at Feast of Tabernacles.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>At the Feast of Tabernacles, which occurred in the fall of the
+year, after the harvest and the fruit of the vines and the trees had
+all been gathered in, it was very different. At this Feast, when the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[236]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[235]</a></span>
+Israelites came up to Jerusalem, not only those who came from a
+distance, but even those who lived regularly in the city, were
+required to tent or live in booths made by simply placing some poles
+in the ground, with other poles reaching across the top, so as to form
+a roof or covering. This roof was not shingled, but was formed
+by laying branches of trees upon the sticks which had been laid
+across from one pole to the other. (Neh. viii: 14, 15.)</p>
+
+<p>You now see why to-day I have chosen this branch of a tree to
+show you in connection with this sermon. I have chosen this to
+impress upon your mind the character of the arbors used at the Feast
+of Tabernacles; the tops or roofs of which were formed or made of
+olive, and willow and pine, myrtle and palm branches. These
+booths or arbors were to remind the Children of Israel of the journey
+of their forefathers through the desert, when for forty long years
+they did not live within the walls or under the roof of any house, but
+dwelt only in booths.</p>
+
+<p>I am sure that you and I would like to have looked in upon
+Jerusalem at the time when one of these Harvest Home festivals was
+being celebrated. We would like to have seen the booths on the
+tops of the houses and along the side of the hills, outside of the
+walls of the city, and sloping down through the valleys and crowding
+far out into the country upon the Mount of Olives and beyond.
+We would like to have seen the bright faces of the happy throngs
+of people as they moved in procession through the streets, waving
+their palm branches; and to have listened to the music of the trumpeters
+of the Temple, as they sounded their trumpets twice every
+hour throughout the entire day. I am sure we would have been
+delighted to look down upon the festive crowd at night, when,
+instead of waving palm branches as they did during the day, they
+carried bright flaming torches, amid the clashing of cymbals and
+the blast of trumpets.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[237]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;">
+<img src="images/i235.png" width="299" height="400" alt="&quot;He Bore it Aloft as He Ascended the Stairs.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;He Bore it Aloft as He Ascended the Stairs.&quot;</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[238]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>This Feast lasted for eight days. The first day and the last
+were especially sacred. And now I want to call your attention to
+this second object which I have; namely, this water, and I want to
+tell you how it was related to and used at this Feast of Tabernacles.
+On the morning of each day, while the smoke of the morning sacrifice
+was ascending in beautiful wreaths in the still air, a priest
+bearing a large golden bowl, and followed by a long procession
+of boys and girls waving palm branches, descended the side of the
+hill to the pool of Siloam, which was in a quiet recess at the foot of
+Mount Moriah, on the summit of which the Temple was built.
+When the priest had filled the golden bowl with water from this
+clear pool, he held it above his head and bore it aloft as he ascended
+the stairs. As the procession entered the Court of the Temple, the
+trumpets sounded, and all the throngs of people gathered within its
+walls took up the words of the prophet and sang, "With joy shall
+ye draw water out of the wells of salvation" (Isaiah xii: 3), and
+as the priest came to the base of the altar he poured the water from
+the golden bowl into a silver basin amid shouts and gladness.
+Upon the eighth day, "the last day, that great day of the
+feast" (John vii: 37), the joy was greater than upon any of the
+other days. The priests in glad procession moved around the altar
+seven times, singing the Psalms.</p>
+
+<p>It was at the last Feast of Tabernacles which Jesus attended,
+that He stood in the midst of this glad assembly, and beheld their
+joy as they remembered how God had supplied their fathers with
+water in the wilderness; and how God had given them a land of
+streams, and rivers, and wells of water, and it was then when
+Jesus heard them crying "Hosanna, blessed is He that cometh in
+the name of the Lord," that Jesus stood up in the midst of the
+Temple and of the people and said, "If any man thirst, let him
+come unto me and drink." (John vii: 37.) To those of us who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[239]</a></span>
+have always lived in the midst of a bountiful supply of fresh, clear,
+crystal water, these words are not as impressive as they were to the
+people to whom they were then spoken. For their land was surrounded
+by deserts, and they lived in the midst of nations whose
+people often famished and died, because there was not a sufficient
+supply of water to drink.</p>
+
+<p>While we live in a country where there is always an abundant
+supply of water to satisfy the thirst of the body, yet spiritually,
+like these people at the Feast of Tabernacles we have the same
+spiritual needs that they had, and if you and I thirst for the water
+of life, if we desire everlasting salvation, if we thirst for the knowledge
+of sacred things and desire to do that which is right, Jesus
+invites you and me to come to Him, and says to us: "Ho, every one
+that thirsteth, come ye to the waters." (Isa. lv: 1.) "If any man
+thirst let him come unto me and drink," (John vii: 37.) "Whosoever
+drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst;
+but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
+springing up into everlasting life." (John iv: 14.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;At what season of the year was the Feast of Tabernacles
+held? How long did it last? In what did the people live or dwell during the
+Feast? Of what were the booths built? Why did they dwell in booths instead
+of in their houses at this time? Of what was all this to remind them? Which
+was the great day of the Feast? On this last day of the Feast what did the high
+priest bring from the well? By whom was the priest accompanied? Into what
+did he pour the water from the golden bowl? Of what was this water the symbol?
+Does every human being thirst for or desire righteousness? Did Jesus
+invite such to come to Him and drink? Should we always go to Him to satisfy
+our spiritual hunger and thirst?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[240]</a></span></p>
+<h2>LEAVES.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE LESSONS WHICH THEY TEACH.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects: Some autumn leaves or green leaves of different
+varieties.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: To-day I picked
+up these few beautiful leaves, which during the summer
+were lifted aloft on the trees and cast their grateful
+shadows upon the weary traveler as he journeyed under
+the scorching rays of the sun. But with the coming of autumn
+these leaves have faded, and the first frost of winter has tinged
+them with crimson
+and glory. I am sure
+we cannot look upon
+them without thinking
+of the words of
+the Prophet Isaiah, in
+the sixty-fourth chapter
+and sixth verse,
+where he says: "We
+all do fade as a leaf."</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i238.png" width="300" height="243" alt="Autumn Leaves." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Autumn Leaves.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>I desire, however,
+to use these
+leaves to teach you
+not only this lesson, but also several others which they suggest.</p>
+
+<p>If, during the summer, you go out into a forest and study the
+leaves, one of the first things which you will notice will be that the
+leaves which grow upon one kind of trees differ from the leaves<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[241]</a></span>
+which grow upon every other kind of trees. Indeed, if you pick up
+a leaf from the ground and examine it carefully you will find that
+the leaf is largely a picture of the tree upon which it grew. The
+shape of the leaf will correspond very largely with the shape of
+the tree from which it has fallen. If you study the leaf more carefully
+you will discover that the veins in the leaf will quite closely
+resemble the shape of the limbs of the tree. You would not be able
+to study the different leaves which you pick up without being
+impressed with the resemblance in many instances between the leaf
+and the tree upon which it grew.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I think that we may learn a very profitable lesson from
+the leaves in this respect. I think that you will find, when you are
+able to study with a little closeness of observation, that the scholars
+of different Sunday-schools are different from each other, at least in
+some respects. Those who come from the school where good order
+is maintained, where there are consecrated, devoted teachers who
+give themselves carefully to the preparation of the lesson, secure
+the attention of their scholars, impress the truth deeply upon the
+minds, and hearts and consciences&mdash;you will find that the scholars
+of this school become attentive and orderly, and well behaved,
+and all the scholars in the school partake of the influences which
+are exerted over them from Sunday to Sunday. The scholars who
+attend a school where the superintendent does not keep good order,
+where the teachers are irregular and disinterested, and where everything
+is permitted to go along as by mere chance, these scholars will
+partake of the influence of the school, and will individually
+become like the school. So you see how important it is that each
+and every scholar should be attentive and thoughtful, and give the
+very largest amount of help possible to the superintendent and
+teachers to render the school orderly, and to encourage the teachers
+who desire to devote themselves to the teaching of Bible truth and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[242]</a></span>
+the impressing of the spiritual lessons, so that those who are under
+their influence may be brought to a saving acquaintance with
+Christ.</p>
+
+<p>What I have said with reference to the Sunday-school is also
+true with reference to the Church. There is an old saying, that
+"like priest, like people." When a pastor continues for a long
+period of years in the same pulpit, ministering to the same people,
+if he has their sympathy, co-operation and assistance the people will
+become very much like each other in their spiritual character,
+and all will become more and more like the pastor and his teachings.
+If he is godly, and consecrated, and upright, his people will
+become increasingly so. And you will find not only that each
+scholar becomes a miniature of the Sunday-school which he
+attends, but each Christian becomes a miniature of the congregation
+of which he is a member.</p>
+
+<p>But the leaves teach us another lesson. The great trees which
+you see in the forest are the result of the united efforts and labors
+of the leaves. Each leaf is gifted with individual power, and
+together they all drink in the influence of the sunlight and the showers,
+and unitedly they build up the great oaks and elms and poplars,
+and all the trees of the fields and forest. The coal, which is
+now dug from the mines, was once a great tropical growth of forest
+trees which were afterwards buried by some great convulsion in
+nature, and now when we dig up the coal and burn it in our stoves
+we are simply releasing the buried sunshine which was accumulated
+and stored up by the individual leaves of the great forests of
+centuries ago.</p>
+
+<p>As we look upon the leaves of the trees I think we must be
+impressed with the fact, that each one labors in his own appointed
+place. There is no conflict, there is no crowding of one, thinking
+to exalt himself above the others. There are no little parties of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[243]</a></span>
+leaves joining together and trying to crowd themselves to the top of
+the tree, but each and all work faithfully and zealously in the place
+which God has appointed them.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;">
+<img src="images/i241.png" width="375" height="226" alt="The Budding of the New Leaf." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Budding of the New Leaf.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>They are not only faithful workers, but they are unselfish
+workers. No leaf can have the joy which belongs to another, or
+the glory of all the leaves. Each leaf has the reward of doing a
+little, and when its work is done it must drop to the ground and
+perish in the dust. The work which it has done and the tree which
+it has helped to build will be its monument and reward. If each
+leaf gives its life faithfully for the building up of the tree, no leaf
+can fall to the ground or be shaken from its place by the autumn
+wind and perish in despair.</p>
+
+<p>If you will go into the forest at the autumn period of the year,
+or go into the orchard and examine where the leaves are about to
+drop off, you will find that at the base of the stem of each leaf,
+already there appears the budding of the leaf which is to be
+unfolded next spring, and even though the leaf withers and falls to
+the ground, leaving the barren limb alone to battle with the winter<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[244]</a></span>
+storms, yet there is the promise and the evidence that when the gentle
+breath of spring shall come and break open the icy sepulchres of
+the winter, these little buds will feel the genial warmth and unfold
+their green beauty in a radiant springtime of beautiful foliage. So
+one generation of men may die and pass away, to have their work
+continued and completed by those who are to come after them.</p>
+
+<p>But these leaves also teach us of our mortality. For, as Isaiah
+says, "We all do fade as a leaf." We are all very apt to forget
+that we must die. And so each year, when the summer is over
+and the fruit is gathered, the leaves begin to wither, and the early
+frost tinges the forests of the closing year, like the sun oftentimes
+makes the clouds all crimson and glory at the close of the day.
+These things should teach us that as advancing years come, we also
+must fade and die. God spreads out before us this great panorama
+along the valleys and on the hillsides each autumn to teach us that
+as the leaves perish, so we must also fade and droop and die.</p>
+
+<p>But there is one great encouragement, and that is, that
+although the leaves fall, the tree stands. The leaf perishes, but the
+tree abides, and year after year, sometimes for centuries, it goes on
+increasing in stature and in strength, abiding as the giant of the
+forest. So also, when at last each of us must die, that which we
+have built shall abide, and what we have received from others and
+to which we have added our efforts and our labors, others shall
+receive from us, and they also shall carry on the work in which we
+have been engaged. So each generation receives and carries on the
+work of those who have gone before. As the poet has well said,</p>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+"Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Now green in youth, now withered on the ground;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Another race the following age supplies;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">They fall successive, and successive rise;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">So generations in their course decay</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">So perish these when those have passed away."</span><br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[245]</a></span></div>
+
+<p>The tree stands a monument of strength and beauty at the
+grave of all the dead leaves which lie buried at its feet. So what
+each boy and girl, each man and woman, shall have accomplished
+of good or evil, will remain after they have perished and passed
+away, to tell of their lives, and God will note the result. He who
+says that not even a sparrow can fall to the ground without His
+notice, and who tells us that the very hairs of our heads are all
+numbered, He will note our deeds, and He will be our reward.</p>
+
+<p>If I were speaking now to older people I might call attention
+to the fact that the autumn leaves are more beautiful than the
+summer leaves. And so boys and girls, it seems to me, and it has
+always thus seemed to me, that there is something more beautiful in
+manhood and womanhood, during the later years of life, than during
+the earlier years. Always honor and respect the aged whose
+heads are gray, whose features are venerable and whose characters
+are Christ-like.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Are the leaves alike on all trees? In what ways are the leaves
+like the tree on which they grew? Are Sunday-school scholars much like the
+school that they attend? Are grown people greatly influenced by the pastor who
+preaches to them, and the people with whom they are associated? Of what are
+great trees the result? How do leaves accomplish this? When a leaf drops
+from the tree, what has already started? What do fading and dropping leaves
+represent? Does the tree abide when the leaves fall? When we die do the great
+influences which we have helped forward remain to bless the world? Who still
+notes our deeds when we pass away? Which are more beautiful, summer or
+autumn leaves? What periods of life are they like?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[246]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE TURTLE.</h2>
+
+<h3>MEN LIKE AND YET UNLIKE THE ANIMALS.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;While it is not at all necessary to present any special objects,
+it will add to the interest if the parent has a turtle shell or even the shells of
+oysters, clams or abalone, which are somewhat the same in principle, the outside
+cover of the animal constituting both its home and defence, although differing
+from the turtle in other respects.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to show you
+to-day how in some respect we are like the animals, and
+how in other respects we are very unlike them. To illustrate
+what I desire to say I have brought this small turtle
+shell. From the way that some boys treat flies and bugs, and birds,
+cats and dogs and all kinds of animals you would suppose that
+many boys and some girls think that animals have no feeling. Boys
+who have never suffered any bodily pain themselves, oftentimes act
+as though they thought that animals could not suffer pain, but in this
+they are greatly mistaken. Animals can and do suffer pain, the
+same as people suffer pain, and in order to defend them against their
+enemies God has provided these creatures of His hand with some
+means of protecting themselves. The birds can fly away. Some
+animals, like foxes, have holes in the ground where they can hide.
+Others, like the squirrel, hide in the hollow trees. Bees can sting.
+Some cattle have horns for defence, and some others, which are not
+as capable of defending themselves against the stronger animals,
+God has marvellously provided with two stomachs. The cow goes
+out in the field and crops off the grass rapidly and can then go to a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[247]</a></span>
+place of shelter and lie down, and there, protected from the attack
+of wild beasts, chew what she has gathered. This is known in the
+country as chewing the cud. The same is true with sheep; they
+also bite off the grass and swallow it quickly. It passes into a first
+stomach and then they can lie down in some quiet place and chew
+the cud; or in other words chew that which they have hastily bitten
+off in the fields.</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i245.png" width="250" height="137" alt="The Turtle." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Turtle.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now the turtle cannot escape from his enemies because he
+cannot run very rapidly, and so God has covered him with a coat of
+mail and given him a helmet, a hard, bony covering for the head
+and this large bony covering for
+his body, which we can very
+properly call his house. When
+danger approaches, the turtle
+quickly draws his head and his
+feet into this large shell, and is
+quite safe from the attack of his
+enemies. Whatever animal
+might desire to eat the turtle is
+prevented on account of this hard outer shell. On this lower part
+you will notice how the turtle can draw the front portion up more
+closely, and thus the more securely shut himself within his house.
+So you see how God has provided all the animals with a means
+of protection and defense, first, to protect their lives, and secondly,
+to save them from pain and suffering.</p>
+
+<p>While God has thus successfully protected them against other
+animals, they are not protected against the superior intelligence and
+ingenuity of man. The birds can fly faster than the man can run,
+but man can shoot the bird with an arrow or with a rifle. So with
+all the other animals. Now God has made it right for us to kill animals
+for food, but it is very wrong for us to destroy animals for the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[248]</a></span>
+simple pleasure of taking life, and it is also very wicked to inflict
+pain unnecessarily upon any of the animals.</p>
+
+<p>I want to tell you about a boy who was once strolling through
+the fields with his sister. They found a nest of rabbits. The
+sister was charmed with the beautiful nest itself and with its living
+occupants, but the boy teased them, mimicking their squeaks and
+their struggles. In vain his sister plead with him not to hurt these
+pretty little creatures, but the wicked boy flung them up into the
+air one by one and shouted when each fell dead upon the stones.
+Ten years after the sister sat weeping again by that boy's side. He
+was in chains, sentenced to be hanged for shooting a farmer who was
+hunting in a neighbor's field. They were waiting for the awful
+procession to knock at the cell door. "Sister," he said, "do you
+remember the nest of rabbits ten years ago; how you begged and
+prayed, and how I ridiculed? I verily believe that from that day
+God forsook me, and left me to follow my own inclinations. If I
+had yielded to your tears then, you and I would not be weeping
+these bitter tears now."</p>
+
+<p>You see how it is that boys who have no regard for the suffering,
+or the preservation of the life of animals are likely to inflict pain
+and even to take the lives of people.</p>
+
+<p>But I want to call your attention to another respect in which we
+are like the animals, or perhaps, more correctly, in which the animals
+are like us. The forms of most all animals have some resemblance
+to each other, and all are somewhat in form like man. If
+you take the bird, his wings correspond to our arms, his legs and
+feet are somewhat like ours, only his toes are longer, and the nails
+are slightly different in form. If you will take the horse you will
+see that his neck is longer than ours, that his front legs correspond to
+our arms, and if you take your fingers and press them together you
+will see how, if you were to study the anatomy of the horse's foot<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[249]</a></span>
+carefully, it resembles the bones in our hands, and the bony foot of
+the horse corresponds to the nails on the ends of our fingers, only
+that in the case of the horse the nails are all in one, forming the hoof,
+to which the blacksmith nails the shoe. The horse's hoof, however,
+is not solid as you might think, but only a shell, the same as the nails
+on the ends of our fingers.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;">
+<img src="images/i247.png" width="375" height="181" alt="Birds." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Birds.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now if you were to take the turtle that lives in this shell or
+house you would find that he also has four legs, the front legs corresponding
+to our arms, and his hind legs corresponding to our legs and
+feet. On the end of each of his feet he has nails, the same as you
+and I have at the extremities of our hands and feet. But I am sure
+you would say that the turtle was very much unlike us, in that he has
+such a hard shell of a house which he carries about with him. But
+if you will feel of your hands you will discover that you have bones
+inside of your hands. So you have bones in your arms and all
+through your body. These bones of your body are covered with
+flesh, so our bones are <i>inside</i> of us. But with this turtle almost all of
+his bones are made into one bone, and that is on the <i>outside</i> of his
+body.</p>
+
+<p>Our muscles, with which we move our hands and feet and different<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[250]</a></span>
+portions of our body, are attached to the bones which are
+inside of us. His muscles are attached to the bone which is on the
+outside of him. So you see that we are like him, in that both of us
+have bones, only his are on the outside while ours are on the inside.</p>
+
+<p>His bone or shell is a covering and a defense. Our bones, on
+the inside of us, are so constructed as to enable us to defend ourselves
+also. God has given the turtle a house, but He has given us the
+knowledge and the skill, so that we can construct our own house.
+We are created with capacity to till the earth and to subdue the
+wild beasts of the forest, and with our superior intelligence to be
+king over all the other creatures which God has created.</p>
+
+<p>Now, there are several lessons which we may learn from
+what I have said. God has protected all animals against their foes.
+He has not fully protected the animals against us, but He expects
+us to use our intelligence and our better nature, to be thoughtful
+and careful not to inflict pain even upon the worm or insect which
+crawls upon the ground beneath our feet.</p>
+
+<p>While our bodies are somewhat like the bodies of birds and
+beasts, in our moral nature we are not like the animals, but like
+God. We were made in the moral likeness and image of God.
+We have intelligence and God has made us to know right from
+wrong. The animals have no conscience. Cattle do not recognize
+any wrong when they break out of their owner's pasture and
+break into a neighbor's cornfield. We do not say that cattle have
+sinned, because they know nothing of ownership. They do not
+know what is right and what is wrong, and, therefore, are not
+accountable beings. In our intellectual, moral and spiritual nature
+we are superior to everything else that God has created. We have
+a moral nature. We know what is right and what is wrong, and,
+therefore, we are accountable beings. God has made us free to
+follow our own purpose and, therefore, we are to be held accountable.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[251]</a></span>
+God has created us not for a few days of life upon the earth,
+but He has made us immortal, and if we have faith in the Lord
+Jesus Christ, and accept Him as our Saviour and love and serve
+Him upon the earth, our condition in the next world will be one of
+great blessing and happiness.</p>
+
+<p>God has given the turtle a house. He has given us intelligence
+and all the materials and left us to construct the house in
+which we are to live upon this earth. But in heaven He has built
+our house for us. Jesus said: "In My Father's house are many
+mansions." The German translation has it, "In My Father's house
+are many homes." "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go
+and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you
+unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."</p>
+
+<p>Death may be a misfortune to a poor turtle, but not to a Christian
+man or woman, or a Christian boy or girl. Death is only the
+blessed Saviour coming to take us unto Himself.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Do animals feel pain? Has God provided for their protection?
+Does the turtle have bones? Are your bones on the outside or the inside of
+your body? Where are the turtle's bones principally? How does the turtle protect
+himself? Tell the story of the bad boy and the little rabbits. Are the forms
+of animals similar to the form of our bodies? To what part of our body do the
+wings of the bird and the front legs of a horse or cow correspond? Do animals
+have a moral nature and a conscience? Are they accountable to God for their
+conduct? Are we?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[252]</a></span></p>
+<h2>GRASSHOPPER AND ANT.</h2>
+
+<h3>NEGLIGENCE AND INDUSTRY.</h3>
+
+
+
+<div class='cap'>THE largest city of the world is across the ocean, in England.
+In the busiest part of London is a very large building,
+called the Royal Exchange. On the top of the pinnacle,
+or tower, of this large stone building is a large grasshopper,
+and the English people have this legend in reference to it:
+It is related that some three hundred and seventy-five years ago, a
+woman, whose purposes we cannot know, might have been seen
+hurrying along a country lane, some distance outside of the city.
+Hastening along she came to a gate leading into a field, and looking
+in every direction to be sure that no one was near, she took off
+her shawl and wrapped it carefully around a little baby which
+she had concealed under her arm, and laid it gently by the side of
+a hedge. And then turning back to the lane, she soon disappeared
+in the distance. An hour or two later a little girl and a rollicking,
+frolicking boy, possibly returning from school, were crossing the
+field. It was in the later days of summer, when butterflies and
+grasshoppers abounded. As this light-hearted boy was whistling
+along his way, a large grasshopper bounded across his path, and,
+true to the instincts of childhood, the boy started in pursuit of the
+grasshopper. The chase was only begun when the grasshopper
+crossed the fence and landed in a grain field, which in England is
+called a corn field. Stooping to catch his prize, the boy discovered
+near by what proved to be a bright little baby, fast asleep in its
+mother's shawl. Joyful with the prize which they had found, the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[254]</a></span>
+boy took it up in his arms, and hastened to his mother, who,
+although a farmer's wife, with many cares and several children,
+resolved to adopt the little stranger as her own.</div>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i251.png" width="300" height="400" alt="The Royal Exchange, London." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Royal Exchange, London.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+<p>Years passed on, and the infant boy grew to be a man of
+industry and economy, and finally became one of the richest and
+most influential men in the city of London. Queen Elizabeth,
+who was then upon the throne, often consulted him, and in after
+years, as an expression of gratitude to the great city in which he
+had accumulated his wealth, and for the royal favor which had
+been shown him, he built the Bourse, or what is called the Royal
+Exchange, and in recognition of the kind Providence which had
+used the grasshopper to lead the steps of the boy to where the baby
+was lying in the fields, Sir Thomas Gresham, for that was his
+name, placed this large grasshopper in stone, upon the topmost pinnacle
+of this Royal Exchange. While I cannot vouch for the historical
+accuracy of this legend, yet it beautifully illustrates the
+truth that God often uses an humble insect for the accomplishment
+of His great providences.</p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;">
+<img src="images/i252.png" width="375" height="134" alt="Grasshopper." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Grasshopper.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, I want to tell you something about the grasshopper, and
+also about the ant.</p>
+
+<p>The grasshopper is very much like that class of boys who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[255]</a></span>
+want to have a good time, play and frolic from day to day, but
+never go to school or work, but live for the play and pleasure to be
+enjoyed each day as it passes. The grasshopper jumps from place
+to place across the field, eating his food wherever he can find it,
+and then spends his days and weeks in idleness. He never stops
+to think that the summer will soon pass away, the fields will then
+be barren, the cold autumn will come, when the fields will be left
+desolate and covered with snow. So finally when the autumn
+comes, he has no food laid up for the winter, but dies of poverty
+and hunger. This little poem which I read in the schoolbooks,
+when I was a boy, will tell the whole story:</p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br />SONG OF THE GRASSHOPPER.</div>
+
+<div class='poem'>
+I saw a brown old grasshopper,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And he sat upon a stone,</span><br />
+While ever and anon he chirped<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In a sad and mournful tone:</span><br />
+And many an anxious, troubled look<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He cast around the naked plain;</span><br />
+Where now was but a stubble field,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Once waved the golden grain.</span><br />
+What ails thee, old brown grasshopper?<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">His voice was low and faint,</span><br />
+As in the language of his race<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He made this dire complaint:</span><br />
+"O! in the long bright summer time<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I treasured up no store,</span><br />
+Now the last full sheaf is garnered,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the harvest days are o'er."</span><br />
+<br />
+What didst thou, brown old grasshopper,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When the summer days were long?</span><br />
+"I danced on the fragrant clover tops,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With many a merry song;</span><br />
+O! we were a blithesome company,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And a joyous life we led;</span><br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[256]</a></span>But with the flowers and summer hours,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My gay companions fled:</span><br />
+Old age and poverty are come,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The autumn wind is chill,</span><br />
+It whistles through my tattered coat,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And my voice is cracked and shrill.</span><br />
+In a damp and gloomy cavern<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Beneath this cold, gray stone,</span><br />
+I must lay me down and perish&mdash;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I must perish all alone.</span><br />
+Alas! that in life's golden time<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I treasured up no store,</span><br />
+For now the sheaves are gathered in,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the harvest days are o'er."</span><br />
+<br />
+He ceased his melancholy wail,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And a tear was in his eye,</span><br />
+As he slowly slid from the cold gray stone,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And laid him down to die.</span><br />
+And then I thought, t'were well if all<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In pleasure's idle throng,</span><br />
+Had seen that old brown grasshopper<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And heard his dying song:</span><br />
+For life's bright, glowing summer<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is hasting to its close,</span><br />
+And winter's night is coming&mdash;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The night of long repose.</span><br />
+O! garner then in reaping time,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A rich, unfailing store,</span><br />
+Ere the summer hours are past and gone,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the harvest days are o'er!</span><br />
+</div>
+
+<p>The little ant is not so foolish. For thousands of years the
+ant has always been wise and industrious. In the Book of Proverbs,
+written over twenty-five hundred years ago, Solomon tells
+us in the thirtieth chapter and twenty-fifth verse: "The ants are a
+people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer."
+And in the sixth chapter, sixth, seventh and eighth verses he says,
+"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[257]</a></span>
+which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in
+the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." You have
+probably noticed the industry, activity and perseverance of these
+little ants. They attempt great things. Sometimes you will see
+one of these little insects carrying a burden which is several times
+larger than its own body. If they come to a stone, or a log, or
+some obstacle, over which they must carry their burden, if they do
+not succeed the first time, they will try again; and even though
+they should fall, or fail as much as a hundred times, they will persevere
+until they have accomplished their undertaking. If you
+watch them, you will see how rapidly they move. They are not
+lazy, they do not loiter along the way, but are always in a hurry.
+They work with energy and gather food during the summer, which
+they lay up for their supply during the winter. Whatever the little
+ant can gather, it carries home and lays up in store, not for itself
+alone, but all work together, each laboring for the good and well-being
+of all the others.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/i255.png" width="325" height="90" alt="Ants." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Ants.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>This grasshopper very fittingly represents the feeling and
+thought which come into the mind of every boy when he is at first
+required to work, to go to school and study, when he is being taught
+to be industrious and useful. When the days are pleasant, boys
+do not like to go to school. When a pleasant Sunday morning
+comes in the springtime, they often wish to stay at home, to go out
+to the park, or to roam about the fields, and if most of the boys<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[258]</a></span>
+and girls had their own way about it, in the beginning, they would
+live pretty much like the grasshopper. They would get what pleasure
+they could out of the days as they pass, grow up in ignorance
+and idleness, and in manhood and womanhood find themselves in
+poverty and want. I think that pretty much all boys and girls are
+naturally lazy, and that feeling can only be cured by being required
+to work, being compelled to go to school and study, and being kept
+persistently at it from week to week and year to year, until at last
+they learn to love to work. If the parents of the grasshopper had
+not themselves been lazy and grown up in idleness, they would
+have taught the young grasshopper that in the spring and summer
+he was to look forward to the wants and needs of the winter. The
+older ants always teach the young ants to work, and in that they are
+very wise.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps you have seen boys and girls who have learned to
+work, who are always very active, who seem always to be busy,
+but after all accomplish nothing of any moment in life. If we want
+to live to some purpose in this world, we must remember that we
+should have a purpose worthy of ourselves, and of the great Father
+in Heaven who has created us. After a few months and years the
+grasshoppers and the ants and all the insects die, but you and I
+shall live on forever and ever. These bodies will be laid away in
+the grave, but our immortal spirits shall still continue to live. The
+stars in heaven which have been shining for thousands and thousands
+of years shall eventually grow pale. The sun itself shall
+cease to shine, and all the heavens and the universe about us shall
+be rolled together as a scroll. But these immortal spirits of yours
+and mine shall live on with God throughout all eternity. It is
+important, therefore, that our industry and our thought and our
+labor should not be for those things which perish with the using;
+that we should not simply lay up treasures which we must after a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[259]</a></span>
+time go away and leave behind us in this world, but that we
+should lay up treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not corrupt,
+and where thieves do not break through nor steal; that where
+our treasure is, there our hearts may be also; and that we may
+possess and enjoy our treasure throughout all eternity.</p>
+
+<p>I hope that every time you see a grasshopper or an ant, you
+will remember the lesson which I have sought to teach you to-day.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What is on the top of the Royal Exchange in London? Who
+built the Exchange? Why did he put the grasshopper there? Tell all you can
+about the little boy and girl going through the field. What kind of boys and
+girls is like the grasshopper? What does the grasshopper do in summer? What
+happens to him when winter comes? Is the ant like the grasshopper, or is he
+industrious? What does the Bible say about the ant? How does he spend <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'the the'">the</ins>
+summer? Does he have food for winter use? Does each ant work for itself
+alone? Who teach the young ants to work? Do boys and girls all have to be
+taught to work? Do all people who are busy accomplish something worthy of
+their effort? What should we live for?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i257.png" width="400" height="207" alt="Boy pointing at ants" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[260]</a></span></p>
+<h2>BALANCES.</h2>
+
+<h3>HOW GOD WEIGHS PEOPLE.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects: A pair of ordinary balances. A very good pair for
+illustration can easily be made from a piece of wood, a few strings and a couple
+of little paper boxes.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='cap'>DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I suppose you have all
+stood on the scales and been weighed. I have here a pair
+of balances. This was doubtless one of the earliest kind
+of instruments with which people weighed different
+things, and it is the kind of scales which are still used when the
+greatest accuracy is desired. These are called a balance, because
+when I hold them by this string you will see that this end of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[261]</a></span>
+arm and that end of the arm are equal in length and equal in weight
+and they exactly balance each other. Now when I place anything
+in the pan on this end of the arm, and place a small weight in the
+pan on the opposite arm, and then lift the balance up, you will see
+how I can readily tell how much the piece of metal, or piece of
+wood, or whatever I have placed in the balances, weighs. In the
+drug stores they use this kind of scales to weigh medicines, and they
+can tell accurately the weight of a very small quantity. In the laboratory,
+or the place where medicines are made, they have this
+kind of scales that will weigh the smallest particle of dust; even a
+small piece of a hair laid on the scales can be weighed accurately.</div>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i258.png" width="300" height="208" alt="Balances." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Balances.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>In the fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel we read about a
+king whose name was Belshazzar, who lived in the great city of
+Babylon, surrounded by a great wall three hundred feet high and
+eighty feet broad, and with a hundred gates of brass, twenty-five
+gates on each side of the city, and a street running from each of the
+gates upon the one side, straight across the city to each of the corresponding
+gates upon the opposite side, a distance of some twelve
+or fifteen miles; and then other streets crossing these first twenty-five
+streets, running between the gates which were upon the other
+two sides of the city. God had blessed this king of Babylon and
+given him great wealth and great power; but he became proud and
+defied God. One night he made a great feast and invited a thousand
+of his lords and the generals of his army, and sent for the
+golden vessels of the Temple, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought
+down from Jerusalem, and Belshazzar drank wine out of these
+sacred vessels of the Temple. And, like men and women when
+they drink liquor, they lost their reason, and they praised the gods
+of gold, and of silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and of stone,
+and thus dishonored God; and there appeared in the banqueting
+hall the fingers of a man's hand and wrote on the wall so that all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[262]</a></span>
+might see and read it, and these were the words which were written
+before that wicked king: "Thou art weighed in the balances, and
+art found wanting." (Daniel v: 27.)</p>
+
+<p>Now you see that God weighs men and women, not for the
+purpose of telling how many pounds their bodies weigh, but He
+weighs their character, He weighs their conduct, He weighs their
+purposes, and He weighs their principles, and so He weighed Belshazzar,
+and He said of him and to him, "Thou art weighed in
+the balances, and art found wanting." God weighed Belshazzar
+as though he were placed in this side of the balance, and on the
+other side of the balance were placed all his opportunities, privileges
+and his blessings, and all that God had done for him. When
+God thus weighed him against all these things Belshazzar was
+found so light that he did not weigh as much as the privileges and
+blessings which God had given him, and therefore, God said that
+he was weighed in the balances and was found wanting.</p>
+
+<p>In just this same way God weighs you and me, in order that
+we may see whether or not we weigh enough. Suppose we turn to
+the twentieth chapter of Exodus and there find what God requires
+of us. You will find that God says, "Thou shalt have no other
+gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,
+or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the
+earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt
+not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy
+God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
+children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
+and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep
+my commandments."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;">
+<img src="images/i261.png" width="289" height="400" alt="&quot;Thou Art Weighed in the Balances, and Art Found Wanting.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Thou Art Weighed in the Balances, and Art Found Wanting.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now suppose I place this requirement in one side of the balance,
+and then ask you to place your obedience to this requirement
+in the other side of the balance. I am sure there are a great many<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[264]</a></span>
+grown men and women who could not be weighed against this
+requirement. If a man loves money, so that he sacrifices his obedience
+to God, or sacrifices his character, or gives too large an amount
+of time to money-making, and money-getting; if his love of money
+is very great, you see how he makes money a sort of a god&mdash;that is,
+that he exalts his love of money above his love of God. In the
+same way a person can worship pleasure, and ease, and fame in
+such a way as to exalt these above God. Now any one who has
+done this, cannot be weighed against this requirement of God's law
+without being found wanting.</p>
+
+<p>If we take the next Commandment, it reads, "Thou shall not
+take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not
+hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." Now anybody
+who has ever sworn cannot be weighed against this Commandment.
+A man who curses and swears is a very wicked man. I hope that
+none of you, boys or girls, will ever profane God's name and disgrace
+yourself by swearing.</p>
+
+<p>I want to caution you, also, against the use of by-words.
+Sometimes boys swear without knowing it; they say "By Jiminy."
+Now, the word "Gemini" means "Twins," and refers to two
+heathen gods whose names were "Castor" and "Pollux," and
+when boys use the expression, "By Jiminy," they are swearing by
+those two heathen gods. Jesus said, "Swear not at all." (Matt. v: 34.)
+Then not only those who literally swear, but all those
+who use God's name without reverence and who make light of
+sacred things break this Commandment. So you see that many are
+not able to be weighed against this Commandment.</p>
+
+<p>Then take the next: "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it
+holy." There are many people who remember the Sabbath Day
+simply to make it the occasion of visiting, letter writing, and to
+enjoy a trip into the country, or in the park. They remember the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[265]</a></span>
+Sabbath Day, but they do not remember it to keep it holy. So you
+see that you would not be able to be weighed against that requirement.</p>
+
+<p>Now take the next: "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy
+days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth
+thee." If God were to come into this community and weigh the boys
+and girls against this Commandment, how many do you think
+would be found to whom God would turn and say, as He did to
+Belshazzar: "Thou art weighed and art found wanting"? Any
+boy or girl who speaks of his father as "The old man," and of his
+mother as "The old woman"; any boy or girl who is disobedient;
+any girl who yesterday when mother asked her to dust the furniture,
+or any boy who when mother asked him yesterday to run
+upon an errand, grew petulant, and scowled and scolded, perhaps
+went out of the room and slammed the door behind them, all such
+boys and girls would be found wanting. You see how, with one
+after another of these Commandments, if God were to weigh us
+we would be found wanting.</p>
+
+<p>If we take the other Commandments, "Thou shall not kill,"
+anybody who has hated his brother in his heart; "Thou shall not
+commit adultery," any one who has harbored lust in his heart;
+"Thou shall not steal"; "Thou shall not bear false witness"; "Thou
+shall not covet"; think of each of these and see how many times in
+your life you have broken them, if not in letter, yet in spirit.</p>
+
+<p>Now, if you cannot be weighed against these different requirements
+and you have come short of them in the past, how can you
+expect to stand in the great Day of Judgment, when God shall take
+into account every idle word that we have ever uttered, every
+wicked thought; when we shall be weighed in the just balances of
+an infinite God? When God shall place these requirements upon
+one side of the balance, and you and I shall step in upon the other<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[266]</a></span>
+side of the balance, there is only one possible way in which we
+could then be heavy enough, and that is if we could have our Elder
+Brother, Jesus Christ, to step into the balance with us, as He is
+willing to do, and God should accept the obedience and holiness of
+His own Beloved Son, Jesus Christ in our stead. Unless
+you and I have Jesus Christ with us when we step into that
+balance, it will be said, "Thou art found wanting." Have you
+accepted Jesus Christ as your friend, and are you trying to serve
+Him? If you have not now made Him your friend, how can you
+hope to have His friendship then? May God help you to have
+Jesus as your friend in life, as well as in death; in this life as well
+as in the life to come, now while being tempted and tried in this
+world, as well as when being weighed in the next.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What was the handwriting on the wall at Belshazzar's feast?
+Does God weigh our bodies? What does He weigh? Against what was Belshazzar
+weighed? What are we weighed against? Are we weighed against each
+commandment separately? Can a person who has sworn be weighed against the
+third commandment? Is the use of by-words swearing? Are we honoring our
+parents by speaking disrespectfully of them? Can we break a commandment in
+thought as well as in deed? Tell how. Will all these requirements over-balance
+us? What must we do to make a proper balance? Is Christ willing to step into
+the scales with us?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i264.png" width="300" height="259" alt="Playing with scales" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[267]</a></span></p>
+<h2>WHITE AND CHARRED STICKS.</h2>
+
+<h3>GOOD AND BAD COMPANY.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects: A few pine sticks, some charred; ink and water.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>ALL boys and girls like to have companions, some one to
+play with, and therefore it is very wise that I should talk
+to you to-day about good and bad company.</div>
+
+<p>First of all let me read some passages from the
+Bible. "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
+ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat
+of the scornful." (Psalms i: 1.) "Forsake the foolish and live;
+and go in the way of understanding." (Proverbs ix: 6.) But
+here is a passage of Scripture which is exactly suited to my purpose
+to-day: "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion
+of fools shall be destroyed." (Proverbs xiii: 20.)</p>
+
+<p>When you go into a large library to select books you will
+always find that they are classified. Some of the shelves have
+books of history, others have books of poetry, and so on throughout
+the entire library. In this way God has classified different people
+in this text. One class is called wise, and the others are called
+foolish. A companion of wise men shall be wise, but a companion
+of fools shall be destroyed. In the same way there are good boys
+and bad boys, good girls and bad girls; and when you choose your
+companions it is important that you should choose them among the
+good, and not among the bad.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[268]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I think you will better understand the teaching of the text,
+when I show you this one stick that has been burned black, or
+charred, as we say. Now here are several clean sticks which have
+not been burned, which are white and not tarnished. Let this black
+stick represent the boys who smoke, or chew, or swear, or lie, or
+deceive their parents; boys or girls who do not go to Sunday-school,
+who do not obey their parents, and who do not love God. These
+clean sticks will represent good boys and girls. Now suppose the
+good boys and girls choose the bad boys and girls as their companions
+and playmates; what do you think would be the result? I
+will mix these sticks together. I am sure that nobody would expect
+that the white sticks would transfer their purity and cleanness to this
+black stick. When I mix them, or rub them together, the black
+sticks get no whiter, but all the white sticks get blacker.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i266.png" width="400" height="136" alt="White and Charred Sticks." title="" />
+<span class="caption">White and Charred Sticks.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>That is the way it always is with the boys who keep bad
+company. Instead of exerting a good influence, so as to reform and
+purify, and make good boys of the bad boys, the bad boys make
+bad boys of the good boys. At first the good boys are horrified at
+what they hear and see the bad boys say and do. After a while it
+ceases to be unpleasant to them. A little later they may possibly
+laugh at the bad boys, but after a while they will come to like the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[269]</a></span>
+bad boys, and finally they will do as the bad boys do and become
+like them in conduct and in character.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps you have seen boys who like to take cork and burn it
+in the candle or fire, and then blacken their faces with it, so as to
+make them look like colored people. Now, it is not the best thing
+for a white boy to try to look like a colored boy, but if he does rub
+this black on his face, he can wash it off with soap and water. But
+when a good boy goes with bad boys and his character becomes
+tarnished and blackened, he cannot cleanse and purify it so easily.
+He not only gets a bad character but a bad reputation as well, both
+of which are very
+difficult to cleanse or
+to get rid of.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i267.png" width="300" height="197" alt="Glass of Water and Bottle of Ink." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Glass of Water and Bottle of Ink.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, here I
+have a glass of water
+and a bottle of ink.
+If I take and pour a
+half a teaspoonful of
+this water into the
+ink, it makes no particular
+difference in
+its color. But if I
+take only two or three drops of ink and mix them with the water, it
+discolors the entire glass of water at once. One or two good boys in
+the midst of many bad ones are likely to be influenced in a bad
+direction. This is especially true if the good boys have sought the
+bad boys as companions. Even one or two bad boys, placed in
+the midst of several good boys, may exert a very bad influence over
+them. I suppose you have all seen this illustrated in the school
+room. You may have had a set of good boys, or a set of good girls
+in your class, but some day a bad boy came to the school, or a bad<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[270]</a></span>
+girl joined the class and they were frivolous, laughed and talked
+and were disorderly, disobeyed the teacher, played truant and did
+all kinds of naughtiness when in school, and it had its bad effect
+upon the entire class, and sometimes even upon the entire school.</p>
+
+<p>The text teaches us that we should avoid such foolish boys
+and foolish girls; boys and girls who do not obey God or revere the
+Bible, who do not listen to their consciences, nor do that which is
+right. Such should be avoided at all times, and in choosing our
+companions, we should always prefer those who will have an
+influence for good upon us socially, intellectually and morally.</p>
+
+<p>The influence of bad companions will tend to destroy all our
+best interests physically, by leading to every kind of vice and evil;
+destroy us financially, by causing us to be inattentive to our work,
+causing us to prefer idleness and pleasure to labor and usefulness;
+destroy us morally, by making light of the teachings of the Bible,
+the importance of the Sunday-school and of the Church, the
+authority of father and mother and the wisdom of what they teach
+and require of us.</p>
+
+<p>But in addition to all this, we should remember that those who
+are our companions upon earth, will be our companions in the
+world to come. If we go with the wicked and the profane here,
+we shall dwell with them forever in the world to come. If we
+desire to go to heaven and to be forever with those who are good
+and righteous, pure and holy; if we desire to be happy for ever and
+ever in the world to come, we must choose as our companions here,
+those who are living not for this present fleeting life, but who are
+living for the glory of God and who are trusting sincerely in Jesus
+Christ for everlasting salvation.</p>
+
+<p>May God help us all to be wise and to walk with the wise,
+and not to be foolish and choose fools as our companions, both for
+time and eternity.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[271]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Into what two classes has God divided people? What does
+the Bible tell us will happen to a companion of fools?&mdash;of wise men? Whom do
+the charred sticks represent? Who are like the white sticks? If the sticks are
+rubbed together, what is the result? What happens to good boys who keep bad
+company? Do the good boys become bad immediately? What do bad companions
+do to one's character? Can a boy wash "burnt cork" from his face?
+Can he wash the stains from his character? What else besides a bad character
+is given? Will a few drops of water change the color of a bottle of ink? Will
+a few drops of ink change the color of a glass of water? Who are like the ink-drops?
+Who are like the water-drops? Why? Whom shall we choose for
+companions? Who will be our companions in eternity?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i269.png" width="400" height="131" alt="The Camp of the Israelites." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Camp of the Israelites.</span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[272]</a></span></p>
+<h2>DOGS.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE DOGS OF ST. BERNARD.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;If a real live dog is too diverting, an earthen or bisque dog,
+or the accompanying picture of the dogs of St. Bernard, may be sufficient.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to talk to you
+to-day about dogs. The dog is what is called a domestic
+animal, and wherever you find civilized men and
+women, you will find dogs of some kind. Dogs are not
+only loved because they are companionable, but because they are
+also, oftentimes, very serviceable.</div>
+
+<p>In Switzerland there are some very high mountains, and
+some years ago, when there were no tunnels yet dug under the
+mountains, as there are to-day, travelers during the winter, when
+going from Germany to Italy, or returning from Italy to Germany,
+had to cross over the tops of these mountains. The snow was
+always deep and the journey was always dangerous, particularly
+in the winter.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i271.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="The Dogs of St. Bernard Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall" title="" />
+<span class="caption"><small><span style="margin-left: 14em;">Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall</span></small><br />The Dogs of St. Bernard</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>There are several places where the mountains can be crossed,
+and these places are called "passes," such as the Simplon, St. Bernard
+and St. Gothard passes. Some years ago, in company with a
+friend, I crossed the St. Gothard pass on the 20th of June. That
+year the season was very late, and after we got well up the mountain,
+we found the snow from five to ten feet deep on the level, and
+when we arrived on the top of the mountain, the snow was even
+with the roof of a two-story building which stood there, and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[275]</a></span>
+people living in it had tunneled under the snow, around the outside
+of the building. If this was the way it was on the 20th of June,
+you can easily imagine what an awfully cold and stormy place it
+must be to live during the entire winter. It took our horses a long
+time to take us up the mountain, but when we went down on the
+Italian side they went quite rapidly, and in one hour and forty minutes
+from the time we left the Hotel de la Prosa, where the snow
+was so very deep, we were down in the village of Airolo, where
+little girls were selling ripe cherries. It seemed as though we had
+jumped right out of the heart of winter, into the pleasant and fruitful
+days of summer.</p>
+
+<p>On the top of each of these mountain passes, there is built
+what is called a hospice, which means hospitality, the same word
+from which we get our word hospital. These buildings are erected
+for the entertainment of poor travelers, who are compelled to cross
+the mountains in the winter. There are a number of monks, who
+live in each of these places of entertainment. On each of these
+mountain passes the monks have some large dogs, which are known
+as the dogs of St. Bernard. In the winter when it is snowing, and
+travelers are likely to be exhausted by their efforts to ascend the
+mountain, and are liable to be lost in the snow-storms which prevail
+almost every day, these dogs are sent out by the monks with a supply
+of food and wine suspended from their necks, and they go all
+over the mountain, barking and making a great noise. When they
+discover a poor traveler who is perishing in the snow, they allow
+him to take the food and the wine in order that he may be stimulated
+and revived, and then these faithful and intelligent dogs lead
+the way to the place of safety and security.</p>
+
+<p>Oftentimes they find men who have become nearly frozen,
+who have fallen down in the snow in an unconscious state and are
+ready to die. If left for a time these men would soon freeze to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[276]</a></span>
+death beneath the snow that falls very rapidly upon them. These
+dogs are very intelligent, and immediately they will begin to scrape
+the snow off the traveler, lick his hands, and if he does not give
+any indications of life they will then lie down upon his body, that
+the warmth from their own body may quicken him again into consciousness,
+that he
+may drink the
+wine and eat the
+food and be stimulated
+enough to do
+something toward
+getting himself on
+to the place of
+safety. If the man
+is not too heavy,
+the dog might
+even be able to
+carry him.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i274.png" width="300" height="400" alt="Dogs Rescuing Traveler." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Dogs Rescuing Traveler.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>At the hospice
+on the St.
+Bernard pass they
+once had a faithful
+dog which had
+been successful in
+thus rescuing sixty-eight
+persons
+from freezing to
+death upon the mountains. The dog was very sagacious, and
+seemed to know exactly what to do when he found a poor traveler
+dying in the snow. One day he found a man who had evidently
+been lying for some time in the snow, which had already quite<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[277]</a></span>
+buried him. The man was entirely unconscious, and when the dog
+found him he began immediately to scrape away the snow and then
+lay down upon this dying man, that the warmth of his own body
+might quicken him again into consciousness. When the man began
+to revive, and discovered that there was something warm lying upon
+him, he thought it was a wolf or some wild animal which possibly
+designed to take his life. He reached into his belt and drew a dagger,
+which he thrust into the body of the faithful dog that had come
+to rescue him from freezing to death. The poor dog was fatally
+wounded. He started back home, but in a short time after reaching
+it bled to death. The monks had this dog's skin stuffed and placed
+in the hospice, and now he seems constantly to teach an object lesson
+to all travelers who cross the Alps and stop at the hospice.</p>
+
+<p>The story of this faithful dog and his sad death reminds us
+of that loving Saviour, who came from heaven to this world, to
+seek and to save those who were lost. And although He came to
+redeem and rescue us from death, yet wicked men in this world
+crucified Him by nailing Him to a cross upon Calvary, and this is
+what every person is doing to-day who rejects the Lord Jesus
+Christ. He comes to you and to me, desiring to save us
+from our sins and from everlasting death; to save not only our
+bodies, but our souls for all eternity. If we reject Him we are told
+in the Bible that "we crucify Him afresh, and put Him to an open
+shame." I am sure no thoughtful boy or girl would be guilty of
+wilfully stabbing any kind dog that would come to their rescue if
+they were perishing in the snow, and I trust that none of you will
+ever reject Jesus and thrust Him away from you, and thus crucify
+Him for yourself and put Him to an open shame before the world.</p>
+
+<p>This faithful dog should also teach you and me another lesson.
+If a dog can make himself so useful as to save the lives of
+sixty-eight people, you and I should ask ourselves the question<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[278]</a></span>
+whether we are doing as much for the blessing and the salvation of
+men as this faithful dog did on the mountains of Switzerland? But
+you can do a great deal more than this dog. He could only save
+the lives of people, but God can use you to save their souls as well,
+by the influence of a noble Christian life, by what you say and do,
+by your contributions to missions, and in various other ways you may
+help to save the souls of many who must otherwise perish.</p>
+
+<p>But this faithful dog teaches us a lesson of constant, daily
+duty. It was no easy thing for this dog to go out in the fierce cold
+through the deep snow and run about all day to hunt for lost travelers,
+but it was by keeping constantly at it and working faithfully
+day after day that he accomplished this grand result. He did not
+save sixty-eight people all at one time, but saved one at a time, and
+sometimes worked for days and weeks without finding a single
+traveler whom he could help. In the same way, if you desire to be
+useful in this world, you must use every little opportunity which
+comes to you daily. You must be willing to work hard and keep at
+it, and even though you cannot succeed in doing any great thing at
+any one time, remember that you must keep doing little things all
+the while. I trust that God may inspire each of you to desire to
+accomplish grand results in your lives by the constant doing of both
+little and great things for God and man.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Are dogs serviceable? What kinds are the most useful?
+Where do they live? For what and by whom are they used? What do the dogs
+do to revive a traveler? Tell the story of the dog of the St. Bernard Pass. Of
+what does this story remind us? Does Christ try to rescue us? What are we
+doing when we reject Him? What lesson does this dog teach us? Can we do
+as much as this dog did? Why? What can we do which the dog could not do?
+What other lesson does this dog teach us? Did the dog save all the sixty-eight
+people at one time? Are we able to accomplish God's work all at one time?
+How must we do it?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[279]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE CAMERA.</h2>
+
+<h3>GOD'S PICTURE BOOK.</h3>
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects: A small camera and a small looking glass.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/i277.png" width="325" height="169" alt="A Camera." title="" />
+<span class="caption">A Camera.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class='cap'>WHILE talking to you to-day about pictures, it will not
+seem strange that I should have a camera as the object
+with which to illustrate the sermon. But my purpose
+may not be so plain to you when you hear my text,
+which is taken from the book of Revelation, twentieth chapter,
+twelfth verse: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before
+God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened,
+which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those
+things which were written in the books, according to their works."</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 362px;">
+<img src="images/i278.png" width="362" height="500" alt="&quot;Throwing a Black Cloth Over His Head He Moved About the Camera.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;Throwing a Black Cloth Over His Head He Moved About the Camera.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>These words refer to the great Judgment Day. I suppose that
+you know that we must all die, but possibly you did not know, or<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[281]</a></span>
+have forgotten, that after a time God will raise up all the dead and
+will separate the good people from the bad people, the righteous
+from the wicked. The time when God will do this is called the
+great Judgment Day. It is then that the words which I have read
+as my text tell us that "the books shall be opened," and then all
+that we have ever done or said in this life shall be found written in
+these books.</p>
+
+<p>Now, if God is keeping a record of all our deeds and words,
+and even our inmost thoughts, which He also knows; and not only
+keeping a record of your words and thoughts and mine, but also of
+those of every man, woman and child&mdash;a record of all the fourteen
+hundred millions now living upon our earth&mdash;you might think
+that millions of angels would be kept very busy writing all these
+things down in these books. I do not know just <i>how</i> God is doing
+this, but I do know two ways in which He could easily accomplish
+what to us may seem a difficult or impossible task.</p>
+
+<p>I will now try to show you how God might keep the record of
+everything we do; and next Sunday I will try to tell you how, with
+equal ease, God might secure and keep the record of all we say, of
+each and every word we speak.</p>
+
+<p>I suppose you have all gone to a photograph gallery and had
+your pictures taken. When you stood before an instrument, something
+like this, only perhaps much larger, the artist went behind the
+big instrument, which was pointed right toward you, and throwing
+a black cloth over his head, he moved about the camera, told you
+just how to hold your head, and finally when everything was
+arranged and he was ready, he pressed a small rubber ball which
+opened the little slide, just as you would open your eye to look at
+any object, and in an instant your picture was taken.</p>
+
+<p>That large camera, with which the artist took your picture,
+was in principle just like the smaller and more simple one which I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[282]</a></span>
+have shown you, and both are made to imitate, or in a rude way to
+be like the human eye.</p>
+
+<p>Now, if I point this camera toward you, make it dark back of
+the camera, either by placing a black cloth over my head or in any
+other way, your picture will at once appear upon this glass which is
+at the back of the camera. Now the reason why I can see your
+photograph on this ground glass is because the rays of light which
+are reflected or come from your face, into this opening in the camera,
+have your likeness upon them, and when the light falls against
+this glass I can see your picture which is photographed upon the
+rays of light, just the same as your picture is photographed on paper.
+So every object about us is photographed on the rays of light and
+the picture becomes visible when we turn our eye, which is a small
+but perfect camera, so that the rays of light can go straight into our
+eye and the picture fall upon the back of the eye, which is called
+the retina, and with which this glass in the camera corresponds.</p>
+
+<p>An ordinary looking-glass will demonstrate or show the same
+thing. This covering on the back of the glass corresponds to the
+black cloth with which the photographer shuts out the rays of light
+which come from the back of the camera. In the same way the
+ground at the bottom of the pond cuts off the rays from beneath,
+and on this account you can see the hills, or stars, or clouds reflected
+in the water; so also in the looking-glass, as you turn it in different
+directions you can see the photographs of persons or objects which
+are pictured upon the rays of light.</p>
+
+<p>You may have thought that you saw the person or objects
+themselves, but this is not the case. With your eyes you can see
+nothing in the dark; even the cat and the owl must have some light,
+although they do not need as much as we, before they can see.
+The rays of light carry the pictures of the objects, and where there
+are no rays of light we can see nothing.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[283]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now, while your photograph is being taken from the few
+rays of light which pass into a camera, you see that we might place
+hundreds of cameras one above another, and if they were all
+pointed at you they might each take a photograph of you at the
+same instant&mdash;the same as one thousand different persons in an
+audience with their two thousand eyes all look toward the speaker
+and see him at one and the same instant.</p>
+
+<p>Now, if I have succeeded in making my thought plain, you
+will readily understand that as we have great books with pictures
+upon every page, so God might use these rays of light as the pages
+of the great book upon which each act of our life instantly records
+itself, it matters not how rapidly it is done or how many persons and
+objects there may be in motion or action at the same instant. The
+fact that the different rays of light carry the pictures of the objects
+from which they are reflected, is illustrated in the wonderful cameras
+with which "moving pictures" are taken.</p>
+
+<p>To older persons I might add that if you recall the scientific
+fact that these rays of light, bearing the images or photographs of
+persons and objects from which they are reflected, dash out into
+space at the rate of 192,000 miles in one second, and that they continue
+to move on indefinitely, you see how the rays of light which
+were reflected and are now carrying the image of Adam and Eve
+in the garden of Eden, of Noah coming out of the ark, of the battle
+of Bunker Hill, and those carrying the pictures of all other objects
+and actions since the Creation until now, are still sweeping on
+through space, and if you and I could be present where these rays
+of light are now sweeping onward, we could see these things as actually
+and really as if they were even now taking place in our presence
+upon the earth. And you will also understand how, as God is
+everywhere present, He is also present in space where these rays of
+light are at this moment, and so every scene in the entire history of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[284]</a></span>
+the world is perpetually visible to Him. And so, even with our
+feeble understanding, you see how the past may always be present
+to the Infinite and everywhere-present God.</p>
+
+<p>Now, my dear young friends, remember as we see the acts of
+each other, so God sees all that we do, even when no one else is
+present to see us. Do not think that God sees and then forgets.
+All we do is being constantly photographed, not in a camera like
+this, but upon the rays of light as upon the pages of a great book,
+and in the great Judgment Day, God will judge us out of the things
+recorded against us in these books. Our acts record themselves,
+and in that great day we shall no more be able to deny the correctness
+of the record than we would be able to deny the personality or
+identity of our own photograph.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What is meant by the great Judgment Day? What will God
+do on that day? Of what does God keep a record? Do we know exactly how
+He does it? What two ways are there in which He might do it? What brings
+the person's image upon the ground glass of the camera? What have we that is
+like the camera? Which part of the eye is like the ground glass of the camera?
+Why can we not see in the dark? Could God use the rays of light instead of the
+pages of a book? Is the image of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden still
+existing? Where? Are the images of all other events also passing through
+space? Can God see them all at once? Does God see all of our acts?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 390px;">
+<img src="images/i282.png" width="390" height="175" alt="Camera and ribbon" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[285]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
+<img src="images/i283.png" width="450" height="284" alt="talking on soup can telephones" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<h2>THE PHONOGRAPH.</h2>
+
+<h3>BOOKS THAT TALK.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Object: A small tin box, with a cover and bottom removed.
+Over one end draw and tie a piece of parchment, or even of strong manilla paper,
+in the center of the miniature drum-head thus formed fasten a thin string, and
+you will then have a rude but real telephone and a good representation also of
+the phonograph.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>LAST Sunday I talked to you about the great Judgment Day
+and tried to illustrate to your minds what is said in Revelation,
+twentieth chapter, twelfth verse, where it says, "The
+dead were judged out of those things which were written
+in the books, according to their works." I tried then to make plain
+how God pictures or photographs all our acts upon the rays of light,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[286]</a></span>
+and how we see the objects about us when the rays of light fall upon
+the retina of the eye. I tried to show you how every ray of light
+carries a photograph or picture, and that these rays of light are
+sweeping out into space at the rate of 192,000 miles per second, and
+that if you and I could be present where these rays, carrying the
+picture of the battle of Bunker Hill are now hurrying through space,
+you could see the battle, as if it were taking place at present. If
+you had a camera with you, you could actually take a photograph
+of it, the same as you could have done had you been on the hills outside
+of Boston on the day when this great battle was being fought.</div>
+
+<p>But that is only one book; God has other books also. But you
+know you can not photograph what a person says. So I want to try
+and show you how our words and all we say also go into a great book
+and write themselves down, so as to become permanent for all time.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I have here a baking-powder box, from which I have
+removed the ends, and in place of the tin have covered it with a
+stout piece of paper which I have tried to draw very smoothly.
+With two such boxes, connected by a string, we could make a telephone
+so that we could talk together a short distance. Or with only
+one box we could construct a very rude but yet very suggestive
+phonograph.</p>
+
+<p>Let me tell you how it is that you can hear over the telephone,
+whether made of a simple box and string like this, or with a wire
+and electric battery, for in one respect they are both alike.</p>
+
+<p>If you will place your finger gently on your throat, against
+what is sometimes called "Adam's Apple," but what is really the
+delicate little instrument with which we speak, and then utter some
+words in a strong, clear voice, you will doubtless feel a vibration or
+trembling in your throat, just the same as I now feel in my throat
+while I am talking. My effort to speak causes these little chords in
+my throat to vibrate, just the same as when you pass your fingers<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[287]</a></span>
+over the chords of a harp or violin, or when you strike the keys of a
+piano you make the wires tremble and thus produce sound, so these
+chords in my throat tremble and cause the air to tremble, producing
+what we call sound-waves. Just the same as when you take a
+stone and drop it into the lake, you see the little waves or ripples,
+as we call them, go out in small circles, wider and wider, further
+and further, until they strike the distant shore. So the air is made to
+vibrate by my effort to speak, and these little sound-waves in the air
+strike against the drum of your ear, back of which there are nerves,
+ever ready to convey to the brain the sensation which we call sound,</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 425px;">
+<img src="images/i285.png" width="425" height="199" alt="&quot;The Little Waves or Ripples.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;The Little Waves or Ripples.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class='poem'><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Like clear circles widening round</span><br />
+Upon a clear blue river,<br />
+Orb after orb, the wondrous sound<br />
+Is echoed on forever."<br />
+</div>
+
+<p>Now, this small baking-powder box represents the ear, and
+the paper at this end represents the drum of the ear, and this string
+represents the nerves. This string may be prolonged for a considerable
+distance, and if you were to connect the end of the string with
+another box of the same sort you would then have a telephone with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[288]</a></span>
+which you would be able to hear quite plainly the words which are
+spoken by some other person at the opposite end of the string. When
+I speak into this box it makes the paper tremble, and that makes the
+string tremble, and if there were another box at the far end of the
+line it would cause the paper on the end of that box to tremble just
+the same, and that would cause the air to tremble where that box is,
+and if you were to hold your ear to that box you would be able to
+hear the words.</p>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i286.png" width="300" height="146" alt="Phonograph Cylinder." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Phonograph Cylinder.</span>
+</div>
+<p>If I take this box, and instead of a string I should place the
+point of a needle back of it, and a cylinder to revolve, so that the
+needle would scratch the vibrations upon the cylinder, I would then
+have a phonograph. I would then
+be able to record the words, and
+with another smooth needle to go
+into the scratches which had been
+made by the sharp needle, I would
+be able to reproduce the sound;
+or, in other words, to make the
+cylinder talk back again to me the
+words which I had spoken into the tin box and recorded upon the
+cylinder.</p>
+
+
+
+<p>Just as light carries the photograph or picture, so the air carries
+the sound of our words and other vibrations of the atmosphere
+which we call sound. Thus you see the light is one book and the
+air is another, and God doubtless has many other forms of making
+and keeping the record of our actions and words&mdash;yes, even of our
+thoughts, and in the great Judgment Day these words which we
+utter will say themselves over again in our ears. If you uttered any
+bad or wicked words yesterday or to-day, or shall do so tomorrow,
+remember you will have to give an account of them in the great
+Day of Judgment.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[289]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But there is another thing connected with our uttering of bad
+words, as well as the fact that we must give an account of them.
+Bad words are connected with bad thoughts, and so every bad
+word which we utter indicates the character of our thoughts and has
+a bad influence upon our minds and hearts.</p>
+
+<p>Not only do these words record themselves upon the atmosphere,
+but they also record themselves in a lasting&mdash;yes, in an
+eternal influence upon the hearts and the minds and the lives of
+those who hear them. Just the same as the words which are
+spoken into a phonograph are recorded and can be repeated over
+and over many times, so the bad words and the wicked thoughts
+which are expressed into the ears of others make an indelible
+record upon their thoughts and hearts, and are oftentimes repeated
+to others, thus multiplying the record, and at last all these records
+will appear against us in the great Day of Judgment. How careful
+you and I should be to speak only good words and to think
+only good thoughts.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Has God other record books beside the one of deeds? What
+does one of the other books record? What is a telephone? What is a phonograph?
+What happens to the air when our words strike it? What are these
+air-vibrations called? What does the air do with sound? What two things may
+be used as God's recording books? Must all bad words be accounted for? What
+do bad words indicate? Upon what instrument can words also be recorded?
+Are all words like those which are recorded by a phonograph? Why? (Permanent).
+Will God hold these records against us on the Judgment Day?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[290]</a></span></p>
+<h2>MAGNET AND NEEDLE.</h2>
+
+<h3>GOD'S GUIDING HAND.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects used: A magnet, a piece of paper and an ordinary
+sewing needle. In the illustration lay the needle flat against the paper directly
+under the magnet. The ordinary magnet, purchased for a few cents in a toy
+store, will answer the purpose.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: The
+Bible everywhere teaches us that God is the Supreme
+Ruler of the universe. Not only has He created the
+vast system of worlds about us, but He directs each in
+its orbit. He rules over the destinies of nations, and although
+wicked men plot and plan, yet over and above them all God is
+ruling, and He makes even the wrath of men to praise Him.</div>
+
+<p>When you are older and can make a careful study of the
+Book of Daniel, which is in the Old Testament, and then read
+the history of the world in the light of the teachings of that Book,
+you will see how God used the five great empires of the earth to
+prepare the world for the coming of the Messiah, and how since
+the time of Christ He has used the other nations to prepare the
+world for the full acceptance of the truth and the final triumph
+of righteousness.</p>
+
+<p>But God not only governs in the affairs of nations, He also
+governs and directs in the life of each individual. He not only
+gives us being and preserves our lives and health, but He has
+redeemed us from sin and death by the gift of His Son, Jesus
+Christ; and if we are willing, He will guide us in all the affairs of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[291]</a></span>
+life. Nothing is too minute nor too insignificant to receive His
+thought and attention, and not even the sorrow of a child over a
+broken toy escapes His notice or fails to touch His loving heart.</p>
+
+<p>But many people are not able to understand, and seem also
+unwilling to accept anything that they cannot see, or comprehend
+with one of their five senses. I have therefore brought this magnet,
+this piece of paper, and this needle, such as women use when
+they sew, in order to show you how God can guide us by His
+unseen hand.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/i289.png" width="200" height="117" alt="Magnet and Needle." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Magnet and Needle.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When I lift this needle with my fingers and then let go of it
+you will notice how it drops immediately to the floor. Now, when
+I lift this magnet in the same way, and then let go of it, it will also
+drop in the same manner. But now I am going to hold this magnet
+up, and bring the needle close to the magnet. Now when I let
+loose of the needle with my fingers
+you see how it is held by the magnet.
+The gravity, or, as we would say, the
+weight of the needle, which would
+cause it to fall to the floor, is overcome
+by some greater or stronger power
+which is in the magnet. Now, you
+cannot perceive that power with any of your senses; you can neither
+hear it, smell it, taste it nor feel it. You can see the effect of that
+power, but the power itself you cannot see. In like manner, also,
+there are powers and influences all about us which we cannot perceive
+with any of our senses, but which are constantly exercising
+their influence upon us and upon things about us.</p>
+
+<p>But now, by the use of this paper, I desire to show you something
+additional. I am going to place the magnet above the paper,
+and the needle below the paper, and show you that even through
+the paper this influence or power which holds the needle exerts itself.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[292]</a></span>
+You will see now that when I lay the needle lengthwise against the
+paper, with the magnet upon the opposite side, that the needle is held
+up against this paper and does not fall, as it would if the magnet
+were removed. You will notice also that, as I move this magnet
+from place to place, the needle on the lower side of the paper follows
+the magnet. In this simple little experiment you are able to
+see the magnet, but suppose for a moment that this paper were
+increased in size until it was as large as the ceiling of this entire
+room. You will understand that then the magnet and any person
+moving the magnet might be entirely out of sight, and as the magnet
+would be moved from place to
+place on the upper side of the
+paper, entirely out of view, the
+needle on the lower side, which
+could be easily seen, would move
+from place to place, following the
+magnet.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 275px;">
+<img src="images/i290.png" width="275" height="291" alt="Paper no Hindrance." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Paper no Hindrance.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>This little experiment illustrates
+to us <i>not how</i> God guides
+us, but it will show us that there
+are powers unknown and unseen
+by us which can hold and guide
+even insensible metal. How
+much more easily, then, can God
+sustain and guide our thoughts, our purposes, our steps and our
+lives.</p>
+
+<p>We are free moral agents. God has left us free to resist His
+power and His grace, and to live in defiance of all that He has
+commanded us, and of all that He desires us to do. But if we are
+willing to be led by His Spirit, and to walk in His way, God is
+willing to guide us, if we will come to Him and ask Him for the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[293]</a></span>
+Holy Spirit to lead us in the way in which He would have us to
+walk.</p>
+
+<p>There are many who do resist God's will and purpose, and
+live in open defiance of all His teachings, and of all that God
+would have them to do. I take it for granted, however, that there
+are no such people here, but that you all desire to live in such a
+way as to secure your greatest happiness and your greatest good
+upon this earth, and your eternal happiness and blessedness in the
+world to come.</p>
+
+<p>In closing this little sermon, I therefore desire to impress upon
+your minds the fact that you and I are without experience in many
+of the most trying and most important events which come to us in
+life. We are constantly liable to be mistaken. We cannot see
+ahead of us, and do not always know what is for our own good.
+God knows all things, the future as well as the past. He cannot
+be mistaken and must therefore know beyond the possibility of
+error what will be for our good. God not only knows what will
+be for our good but He desires our good, therefore we should let
+Him guide us.</p>
+
+<p>Now, the question might arise in your minds, how does God
+guide us? He guides us by the teachings of His Word. He has
+told us in the Bible how we ought to live, what is for our present
+and eternal good. If we desire financial prosperity, or physical
+blessings, or mental quickness, or spiritual peace, we will find in the
+teachings of God's Word how to obtain them.</p>
+
+<p>God also guides us by the exercise of our consciences, and
+therefore it is always important that you and I should do what
+conscience tells us to be right. First of all we should study God's
+Word, in order that we may have an enlightened conscience, and
+then we should always follow conscience.</p>
+
+<p>God also guides us by the Holy Spirit, and it is our duty to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[294]</a></span>
+come to Him daily and ask Him for the presence and power of the
+Holy Ghost to guide us through each day, and to bring us at last
+to Heaven above.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I trust you will all be able to enter heartily into the
+prayer which we are going to sing, for when we sing thoughtfully
+we will find that many hymns contain petitions as well as praise,
+and this is one of the kind which partakes largely of the nature of
+petition. Let us all sing the hymn,</p>
+
+<div class='center'>
+"Guide me, O, Thou great Jehovah."<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Who is the Supreme Ruler of the Universe? Who governs
+the life of every person? Does any little thing escape His notice? Are some
+people unwilling to believe what they cannot see? Can we see, hear, smell, or
+feel the power in the magnet? Why do we believe it is there? Are there influences
+around us like the power in the magnet? Can they all be seen? Will the
+paper between the magnet and the needle destroy the attracting power of the
+magnet? Who are like the needle? Like whom is the magnet? Does He guide
+us? Can we see Him? Are we free to do as we choose? When will God lead
+us? Do some people defy God? Do we always know what is best for us, or
+what to do when in trouble? Who does know? By what three means does God
+guide us?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;">
+<img src="images/i292.png" width="375" height="255" alt="Lamp, Bible and magnet" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[295]</a></span></p>
+<h2>FISH IN AQUARIUM.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE ALL-SEEING EYE OF GOD.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Object: A small aquarium with a few small fishes.</p></div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 275px;">
+<img src="images/i293.png" width="275" height="211" alt="Fishes in Aquarium." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Fishes in Aquarium.</span>
+</div>
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I have here an
+aquarium with a few very pretty goldfishes in it. As
+they swim from side to side they look very beautiful.
+When they see me coming nearer to the aquarium, or
+moving my hand upon this side or the other, they dart very quickly
+to the opposite side of the aquarium. They try to get out of sight,
+but it makes no difference
+whether they are upon this side
+or upon the other side of the
+aquarium, I can see them just
+as well. I can look right through
+the aquarium; I can see through
+the glass, and I can see through
+the water. And wherever the
+fishes are in this aquarium, I
+can see them. It is impossible
+for them to hide away, or to get
+out of my sight.</div>
+
+
+
+<p>Now, the Bible tells us that "the eyes of the Lord are in every
+place, beholding the evil and the good." (Prov. xv: 3.) We are
+very clearly taught in the Bible, that it makes no difference where
+we are, God can see us just as well in one place as in another. He
+can see us in the night just as well as in the daytime, for "the
+darkness and the light are alike unto Him." David said, "He<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[296]</a></span>
+that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." (Psalm cxxi:
+4.) So it makes no difference whether you are in the house or out
+of doors, whether it is day or whether it is night, God can see right
+through the house, just as you and I can look through this aquarium
+and through the water, so God can see right through the thick walls
+of a house, or even through a great mountain. If you were in the
+valley beyond the mountain, God could see right through the mountain;
+that would make no difference. He can even see way
+through the earth, from this side through to China. It makes no
+difference to God, for He can see just as well through material substances,
+through which you and I cannot look, as we can see through
+the air; indeed much better, for distance limits the possibility of
+our seeing distinctly and clearly, while God's power to see is not
+limited or circumscribed.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 284px;">
+<img src="images/i295.png" width="284" height="400" alt="&quot;There is One Direction That You Have not Looked.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;There is One Direction That You Have not Looked.&quot;</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Once there was a very excellent, good woman, who had a
+very nice and conscientious little boy, but the mother was poor and
+had to go out from day to day to earn her living. Each night when
+she returned home the little boy was very lonely, and would watch
+very patiently for his mother, and when he saw her coming, he
+would always run to the door to meet her, and throw his arms
+about her neck. But one evening when she returned, she noticed
+that little Willie was not at the door to meet her. She could not
+understand why, when she came into the house he seemed to be
+afraid of her. He tried to avoid her. After a time the mother
+called Willie to her and threw her arms around his neck and
+kissed him very tenderly. This was too much for the little
+boy's heart. He looked up into his mother's face, and said,
+"Mamma, can God see through a crack in the door?" His
+mother said, "Yes, God can see everywhere." He said, "Mamma,
+can God see in the cupboard if it is dark in the cupboard?"
+"Yes, Willie, God can see in the dark as well as in the light."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[298]</a></span>
+Willie looked up into his mother's face and said, "Then I
+might as well tell you. To-day I was very hungry, and although
+you told me that I should not take the cake which you had put in
+the closet, yet I went to the closet, and when I had closed the door,
+and it was all dark, I felt around till I got a piece of the cake, and I
+ate it. I did not know that God could see in the dark. I am very
+sorry that I have been so wicked and so naughty." And so little
+Willie threw his arms around his mamma's neck and laid his head
+upon her shoulder
+and wept very bitterly.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/i296.png" width="350" height="322" alt="Eye in the Pulpit." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Eye in the Pulpit.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Once a man
+went to steal corn
+out of his neighbor's
+field. He
+took his little boy
+with him to hold
+the bag open,
+while he should
+pull the corn and
+put it in the bag.
+After they had
+reached the cornfield
+the father
+looked this way
+and that way, and looked about him in every direction, and when
+he had given the little boy the bag to hold open, the little boy
+looked at his father and said, "Father, there is one direction that
+you have not looked yet." The father was quite frightened and
+supposed that his son had seen some one coming in some direction.
+But the son said, "You have not looked up. There is some one in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[299]</a></span>
+that direction I am sure who sees us." The father was so much
+impressed that he turned away from his sinful purpose, and returned
+home, never again to steal from anyone.</p>
+
+<p>Many years ago, among some of the denominations when they
+built a church, they used to build the pulpit very high. It was built
+almost as high as the gallery. And when the people sat in the
+pews and desired to see the minister, they had to bend their heads
+back, and look up very high toward the pulpit. At Reading,
+Pennsylvania, there is still one of these old pulpits which was formerly
+in use. On the under side of the shelf upon which the
+Bible rested in that pulpit, there was painted a large eye. And
+when the people would look up from the pews to see the minister,
+or towards the Bible, underneath this lid upon which the Bible
+rested they would always see this large eye. This eye would seem
+to look right down upon each one individually, and thus they
+would constantly be reminded of the text, "Thou God seest me,"
+and the text which I repeated at the opening of this sermon, "The
+eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the
+good." And so Sunday after Sunday, and year after year, from
+childhood to manhood, this object sermon was constantly being
+preached to them.</p>
+
+<p>Whenever Satan tempts you to do wrong, remember that you
+cannot escape from the eyes of One who sees you constantly, and
+although no human being might know of your wickedness, yet
+God sees you, and God knows it all, for "His eyes behold, His
+eyelids try the children of men." (Psalm xi: 4.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;Can the fish in the aquarium hide from our sight? How are
+we like the fish in the aquarium? What does the Bible say about the eyes of
+the Lord? Can darkness hide us from God's sight? Can He see through the
+earth? Tell about the little boy who ate the cake in the dark. Tell about the
+little boy whose father wanted to steal corn. Why was a large eye painted on
+the pulpit in the church? When we are tempted by Satan, what should we
+remember?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[300]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE CLOCK.</h2>
+
+<h3>MEASURING TIME.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Object: An ordinary clock or watch.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>I HAVE here a clock, with which I desire to illustrate and
+emphasize the truth taught us in the twelfth verse of the ninetieth
+Psalm, where it says, "So teach us to number our days,
+that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."</div>
+
+<p>Whatever is valuable we measure. Some things are measured
+by the yard, some things by the quart or gallon, other things by the
+pound or by the ton. Land is measured by the acre. One of the
+most valuable things that God gives to us is time. Queen Elizabeth,
+when she was dying, was willing to give her entire kingdom
+if she could only have one hour more in which to prepare for death.</p>
+
+<p>As time is very valuable we measure it in seconds, minutes,
+hours, days, weeks, months, years, centuries. In the earliest time
+men had no means of measuring time, except as they saw it measured
+with the great clock which God has set in the heavens; for
+He tells us in the first chapter of Genesis that He made "the sun
+to rule the day, and the moon to rule the night." The most accurate
+clocks in the world are those which most nearly keep time with
+the sun. All the effort to regulate clocks and watches is simply
+to adjust their movements so as to have them keep time with the
+movement of the sun. God has given us a conscience which is
+designed to regulate our lives until they shall be in harmony with
+the life of Christ, who is the Sun of Righteousness. Hundreds of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[301]</a></span>
+years before Christ came, people may have had some very rude
+way of dividing the time during the day and night, but their principal
+division of time was simply day and night, summer and winter.
+These changes of day and night, summer and winter, helped
+to mark the progress of time, and they still do. If it were all daytime,
+or all night, and we had no clocks, we would have no means
+of measuring time. When Baron de Trench was liberated from
+his dungeon in Magdeburg, where the King of <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Persia'">Prussia</ins> had confined
+him in darkness for a period of ten years, where he had no
+means of measuring how the time passed and had even very few
+thoughts&mdash;when he was liberated, and was told that he had been
+in prison for ten years, his astonishment was almost beyond expression,
+for it had not seemed to him to be so long. It had passed away
+like a painful dream.</p>
+
+<p>In the early period of the world's history, human life was
+much longer than at present. Men lived to be several hundred
+years old. I suppose you can all tell how old Methuselah was.
+He was the oldest man who ever lived. When human life became
+shorter, time consequently became more valuable and men were
+more anxious to measure it.</p>
+
+<p>I want to show you how to measure time, and what makes
+it valuable; for David asked to be taught properly to number his
+days; and the purpose was so that he might apply his heart unto
+wisdom.</p>
+
+<p>Now, this watch and this clock are instruments with which we
+measure time. Once there was a king who desired not to forget
+that, like other men, he must die, and he had a man whose duty
+it was to come before him each hour and repeat the words:
+"Remember thou art mortal!" That is, every hour he had this
+man remind him that sometime he would have to die. Each time
+the man came in before the king, he was reminded that he had one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[302]</a></span>
+hour less to live; so, each and every time that you hear the clock
+strike, you should be reminded of the fact that another hour has
+passed, and that you have one less to live. In this sense every
+clock has a tongue, and when it strikes it tells us that we will now
+have one hour less to live upon the earth.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 175px;">
+<img src="images/i300.png" width="175" height="274" alt="Hour-glass." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Hour-glass.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The earliest device for measuring time was doubtless the sun-dial.
+Perhaps you have never seen one. It is simply a round plate
+or disc of metal, with a small piece of metal standing upright in
+such a position that when the sun shines, the shadow will be thrown
+upon the round cylinder or disc, around which are figures like those
+on the face of a watch or clock. Such methods
+of measuring time we know were used
+at least seven hundred and thirteen years
+before Christ, for in the book of Isaiah, thirty-eighth
+chapter and eighth verse, we find a
+very direct allusion to it. King Alfred of
+England used to use candles that were of
+uniform length; each candle would burn
+three hours, and by burning four candles, one
+after another, he could measure the hours
+of the day. In order to prevent the air from
+blowing against the candle and thus making
+it burn more rapidly or interfering with its
+accuracy in measuring time, he placed a horn or shield around it,
+and in the old cathedrals this was the way they measured time.
+Later on they had hour glasses, such as you sometimes see placed
+on the piano when girls are practicing their music lesson. Sometimes
+you see small ones in the kitchen, which are used for timing
+the eggs while they are boiling, and it is to these forms of glasses
+that various poetical allusions are made when death is spoken of as
+the "sands of life" running out.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[303]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 288px;">
+<img src="images/i301.png" width="288" height="400" alt="&quot;What Use Do You Make of Your Time?&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;What Use Do You Make of Your Time?&quot;</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[304]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Later came the clocks. They were first made about 2,000
+years ago, but were very rude and awkward. The first watches
+were made about 475 years ago, but they were very large, and you
+would almost need to have a man to carry your watch for you, it
+was so heavy. Smaller watches were first made about 200 years
+ago, and now they have some that are so very small that you could
+carry six or seven of them in your vest pocket without inconvenience.
+How else could we tell about the time of the departure of
+trains and steamboats, the hours to go to work in the factory or to go
+to school, when to go to church? And the enjoyment of many
+other things depends upon knowing accurately what moment we
+should be on hand. You should learn never to be late, but always
+to be prompt. Suppose that, with an audience of six hundred
+people, the preacher should be five minutes late. Each person
+would then have lost five minutes. This, for the entire six hundred
+present, would have been equal to more than forty-eight hours for
+a single person&mdash;more than two days and two nights.</p>
+
+<p>But now what is it that makes time valuable? It is the use
+that we can make of it. David wanted to know about it, so that he
+could apply his heart unto wisdom. The man who does nothing
+with his time, in the eyes of others, is worth nothing; but the busy
+man always finds that his time is very valuable. It is strange, also,
+that when you go to idle people and ask them to do anything they
+always say they haven't time, so that the expression has come to
+be used that "if you want anything done go to a busy man." The
+more busy the man is the more likely he is to find time, in some
+way, to undertake any new form of useful endeavor and work.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I want to ask you, What use do you make of your time?
+Are you faithful in the use of every moment at home, diligent in
+doing the work assigned you, looking about you, and doing your
+own thinking, finding, for yourself, what is to be done, instead of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[305]</a></span>
+standing around and waiting to be told? Are you diligent in
+school, always studying your lessons, learning all that you possibly
+can, remembering that everything that you can learn will at some
+time be of service to you? If you are employed in a store, or
+engaged in any other kind of business, are you faithful, using each
+moment and each hour, remembering that you are not to be faithful
+simply when your employer is looking at you, but you are to be
+faithful at all times? As the Bible says, "Not with eye service, as
+men pleasers" (Colos. iii: 22), but doing everything as unto the
+Lord. Are you faithful in the matter of attending church, and
+then when you are in the church, giving your mind to the consideration
+of the truth which is being presented, rather than allowing
+your mind to be engaged with the amusements and plays of last
+week, or the plans and purposes of next week? Are you faithful
+in the Sunday-school? Do you listen attentively to the lessons
+which are taught by your Sunday-school teacher? Each minute of
+the thirty devoted to the study of the lesson is very important, and
+all of the other moments in the Sunday-school are very important.</p>
+
+<p>I was wondering the other day why the clock should have
+the long hand point to the minutes, and the short hand to the hours;
+but after all, it seems very wise that the greater emphasis, and
+greater importance should be attached to the longer hand. It points
+to the minutes, as though it were constantly saying to you and to me,
+look out for these minutes, look out for these small parts of the hour,
+and the whole hour will take care of itself. The big hand points
+to the minutes because, after all, they are the important things. It
+is like the old saying, "if we take care of the pennies, the dollars
+will take care of themselves." If we will take care of the minutes,
+the hours will take care of themselves.</p>
+
+<p>If you have never thought on these things, and have been an
+idler, I want to ask you to "Redeem the time." (Eph. v: 16.)<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[306]</a></span>
+That is, do not let your time go to waste. If you are not
+a Christian, even though you are very busy and very industrious
+concerning temporal things, you are really wasting your
+time. We are placed here upon the earth in order that we may love
+and serve God. That is our main business here. If we are going to
+serve Christ, we should study to know His life and His teachings,
+and yet some people know very little about the Bible. Did you
+ever stop to think that a man who is thirty-five years old has had
+five solid years of Sundays? And the man who is seventy years
+old, has had ten solid years of Sundays? With ten years given to
+worship and the study of God's Word, a man at seventy ought to
+know a great deal concerning the teachings of the Bible. May God
+teach us so to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto
+wisdom.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;How do we measure cloth? Are sugar and coal measured by
+the yard? How do we measure land? How do we measure time? How many
+divisions of time can you name besides seconds? What was the first instrument
+with which time was measured? With what did King Alfred measure the hours?
+What was later used for measuring time, after the sun-dial? About how long
+ago were clocks first invented? About how long ago were watches first made?
+Why did David want to be taught to number his days? Can the idle man or
+the busy man more easily find time for necessary duties? Will you always make
+diligent use of your time? Why does the larger hand of the clock point to the
+minutes? If we take care of the minutes, what will the hours do?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[307]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PLANS.</h2>
+
+<h3>LIVING WITH A PURPOSE.</h3>
+
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Object: Architect's drawings for the building of a house.</div>
+
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY DEAR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I
+have here what the architect calls "plans," or drawings
+for a house. Unless the carpenter and builder had a
+copy of the plans he is to follow he would not be able to
+build successfully. He would not know what kind of material he
+would need. He would not know where to place the doors, or how
+large to make the windows, and whether to put the dining room on
+this side of the house or on the other side of the house; whether the
+parlor was to be on the first floor or on the second floor. So when a
+man is going to build, the first thing to be done is to decide what
+kind of a house he wants, and then to get an architect who is able to
+draw the plans perfectly, so as to show the size of every door and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[308]</a></span>
+window and room, and the exact position and place of everything
+that is to enter into the building of the house. These plans cost a
+great deal of thought and oftentimes much delay in beginning, but
+in the end they save both time and expense, and secure the most
+desirable results.</div>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;">
+<img src="images/i305.png" width="375" height="179" alt="Plans for Building a House." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Plans for Building a House.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Every boy and girl should have a plan, for we are all builders.
+We build day after day and week after week, and year after year.
+First of all, you should have some great purpose in life, and then
+all your other plans and purposes should be made to further and help
+the great main object which you have in life.</p>
+
+<p>Once there were two boys who were very intimate when they
+were young. They played together, and came to love each other
+very much. One was a boy who always had a plan. He had a
+plan for studying his lessons; he had a plan which showed what
+time he had resolved to get up in the morning; how many hours he
+would devote to study; what portions of the day he would give to
+play, and how much to work. So each and every day he had his
+plans. At the beginning of the year he had his plans for each month
+of the year.</p>
+
+<p>The other boy never had any plans. Everything went along just
+as it happened. The boy who always had the plans had no money;
+his father was poor. But the boy who had no plans had plenty of
+money, for his father was rich. These two boys both became merchants,
+had stores in the same square in a large city. The one who
+had the plans always knew what he purposed to do, before the season
+began. He knew just when to purchase his goods for the spring
+trade; he knew when to sell them; everything was done methodically
+and with a plan. As the result of his thoughtful plans he soon
+began to accumulate wealth, obtained a place of confidence in the
+minds of business men, and eventually became one of the most honored
+and influential men in the city. With the other boy it was not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[309]</a></span>
+so. He bought his goods whenever he chanced to see something
+that he fancied; often bought too much of one thing; had no method
+in business, and consequently in the course of a few years lost what
+money he had and died a poor man.</p>
+
+<p>Let me hope that you will always have a plan for everything
+you do. God is the God of order, and we should also be orderly in
+all that we do.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 325px;">
+<img src="images/i307.png" width="325" height="198" alt="Plans for Building a Life." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Plans for Building a Life.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>These plans of the architect, when followed by the builders,
+will tell the stonemason, the bricklayer, the millman and the carpenter,
+the plasterer and the painter, just what each is to do, and all will
+be able to work in
+harmony, so as to
+secure a nice, comfortable
+and desirable
+home when the
+work is completed.</p>
+
+<p>Now, we are
+all laying foundations
+in this world,
+and the perfect character
+cannot be
+obtained until in eternity. So when you come to plan for life, do
+not think that your stay in this world is to be all there is of your life.
+Let your plans take in eternity. If they leave out eternity they leave
+out the greatest portion of your existence. If you leave out the idea
+of eternity you will be like the man who simply lays the foundation
+and then never builds a house on it, and there, year after year, the
+foundation stands as the monument of his folly.</p>
+
+<p>But you may desire to know where you can get the plans for a
+good and noble life&mdash;a plan that will include eternity. I will tell
+you: in the Bible. This is the best book in which to find the plans<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[310]</a></span>
+for a perfect and complete life. Just the same as the man who is
+going to build a house desires to go and examine other houses, so if
+you desire to be great and good, you should desire to read the biographies,
+the story of the lives of great men. I do not mean the fancied
+stories of lives which were never lived, which are so often told
+in some kinds of books, but I mean the lives of real men. When you
+see the difficulties which have been overcome by others; when you
+see how great and good other people have been, it will help you to
+be great and good. But after you have studied the lives of all the
+greatest and best men who have ever lived, and then compare them
+with the life of Jesus Christ, you will eventually come to see very
+clearly and distinctly, that after all there has never been but one perfect
+life lived on this earth, and that was the life of Jesus Christ. So
+you will readily see that if you desire to use a model which is perfect,
+you will have to take the life of Christ. You will find it fully portrayed
+in the Bible, especially in the first four books of the New Testament&mdash;Matthew,
+Mark, Luke and John. This will give you the
+model of a perfect life and enable you to live so as to make your life
+glorious while upon the earth, and prepare you for an eternity of happiness
+and joy beyond this world. Have a plan and live to it, and
+let your plan include eternity. And may God give you grace to live
+up to a high ideal, to be noble Christian men and noble Christian
+women.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What are needed before a house is built? Are all boys and
+girls builders? Builders of what? Do they need plans? Should we all have a
+main object in life? What must we use all other plans and purposes for?
+Which boy in the story turned out the better? What does the story illustrate?
+Should we have a plan for each thing we do? Does God love order? What
+foundation are we laying in this life? Should our plans concern only this life?
+What kind of a builder are we like, if we make no plans for the life to come?
+Where can we get our plans? What perfect model can we follow?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[311]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE CHRISTMAS TREE.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE LESSONS WHICH IT TEACHES.</h3>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>BOYS and girls often think that big people have set apart
+Christmas as a day for gathering around the Christmas tree,
+as a time for Santa Claus, for the giving of presents and for
+having a good time generally. This is not the case. I will
+tell you why we celebrate Christmas, and particularly the significance
+and meaning of the Christmas tree. Christmas commemorates
+the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came into this
+world to redeem us from sin and everlasting death; and the Christmas
+tree, laden with its many gifts and suggestive of so much joy
+and blessing, is a symbol of the Saviour. In order that you may
+best understand the full meaning of the Christmas tree, I must call
+your attention to the season of the year when Christmas came. You
+will remember that last summer, when the sun rose at half-past four
+in the morning and did not set until half-past seven in the evening,
+the days were very long, and you could see to go about in the evening
+until about eight o'clock and after. At Christmas time the sun
+goes down at half-past four in the afternoon, and does not rise until
+half-past seven in the morning. So you see that the days are about
+six hours shorter in December than they are in the latter part of the
+month of June. Christmas occurs at that season when the days are
+shorter and the nights are longer than at any other period of the
+year. In the Bible darkness represents sin and unbelief and wickedness;
+and the daytime or light represents truth and righteousness
+and godly living. So you will see that the long nights at the Christmas<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[312]</a></span>
+period of the year, and the short days, fitly represent the condition
+of the world at the time when Jesus, the Son of God, was born
+in Bethlehem. At no other time in the world's history was there so
+much of moral darkness and sin and wickedness and corruption in
+the world. Cruelty and crime and wickedness abounded everywhere.
+If I were to stop and tell you of the condition of society, of
+the wrong and the iniquity, which abounded everywhere, you would
+be greatly horrified. It was at such a time as this in the world's history,
+when Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to this world, that
+sin might be banished and righteousness might abound. So you see
+that Christmas occurs at that period of the year when the night and
+the darkness are the longest of any of the entire year, and it very fittingly
+represents the condition which existed in the world when
+Jesus was born in Bethlehem, as the Saviour of the world. He
+came to banish the moral darkness which covered the whole earth.</div>
+
+<p>Not only the time of the year, but also the character of the
+Christmas tree suggests something. With the long nights comes
+also the cold winter. The earth is wrapped in snow. The trees,
+which a few months ago were green and beautiful and in the fall
+all laden with fruit, are now all naked and bare, and if you were
+to go out into the orchard or forest you could not tell the difference
+between a dead tree, and all the others which seem to be dead.
+Among all the trees you would only find such as the pine, the hemlock,
+the fir and other varieties, such as are known as evergreen
+trees, that would be green and give evidence of life. So you will see
+again how the Christmas tree fittingly represents Christ, because
+these evergreens, in the field and in the forest, seem to be the only
+things that have greenness and life, while all else around them seems
+to be dead and laid in a shroud of white snow.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;">
+<img src="images/i311.jpg" width="351" height="500" alt="The Christmas Tree
+
+Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall" title="" />
+<span class="caption"><span style="margin-left: 14em;"><small>Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall</small></span><br />The Christmas Tree</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The custom of setting up a tree at Christmas time and loading
+it with fruit and gifts seems to have originated in Germany, and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[315]</a></span>
+thought of these people in introducing this custom centuries ago, was
+that they might teach their children this very lesson to which I have
+referred.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I desire to call your attention also to the fruit which is
+so often hung on the Christmas tree. The Bible tells us that a tree
+is known by its fruit. If you go into the orchard you could tell the
+apple tree from the pear tree, and you could tell the plum tree from
+the peach tree. If you did not know them by their leaves, you
+would at least know them by their fruit. But when you come to
+look at this tree you find oranges upon it. Now, this is not an orange
+tree. You find dolls upon it, but it is not a doll tree. Here are a
+pair of skates, but it is not a skate tree. Here are some candies, but
+it is not a candy tree. Neither can it be known by the name of any
+one of these various things which hang upon the tree. But it is a
+Christmas tree. And all these various kinds of things are properly
+hung upon the Christmas tree to represent the fulfillment of that
+promise that, with His Son Jesus Christ, God would also give us
+all things richly to enjoy.</p>
+
+<p>The gifts hung on Christmas trees are usually presents from
+one person to another&mdash;often not only from parents to children, but
+from teachers to scholars, and from friend to friend. Now, until
+Christ was born, there were no Christmas presents. There was no
+Christmas day celebrated. But the reason we give presents on
+Christmas day is to remind each other of God's Great Gift to man,
+the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, to be our Redeemer and Saviour.
+With Jesus Christ, God also gave us grace and truth, reconciliation,
+and pardon and peace and salvation. Man had sinned against
+God; was living in open rebellion against God. Whatever was
+good, man hated. He loved to do wickedly. He preferred to
+serve Satan, rather than to serve God. And Jesus came in order to
+reconcile men to God&mdash;to get them to turn away from sin, wickedness<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[316]</a></span>
+and Satan, and to accept of God's love and pardon and everlasting
+salvation, and to do that which was right and good and
+holy.</p>
+
+<p>If you could travel through the countries where they do not
+know of Christ and do not worship Him, and then travel through
+Christian countries, where Jesus is loved and honored, you would
+soon see what a great difference there is between the two. We
+have railroads, steamboats, and telegraphs, and telephones, and
+phonographs, and every kind of cloth, and silk, and furs with which
+to clothe ourselves for greatest comfort, and when we sit down at
+our tables there is no good thing that is produced in any nation
+under the sun, that is not available even to those of limited means.</p>
+
+<p>In the heathen countries it is not so. They are still riding in
+carts drawn by oxen. Without clothing and without comforts, the
+people in Africa are still groping through the bushes and jungles.
+And if you go to India and China and Japan you will find that
+only in so far as they have been brought under the influence of the
+religion of Jesus Christ, do they have even now the material blessings
+which come with the Gospel.</p>
+
+<p>But there are other blessings which come to us with the preaching
+of the Gospel. In heathen countries they have no asylums to
+care for the orphans, no hospitals for the sick and the distressed and
+the dying; no institutions of charity and of mercy; but few schools,
+and these only for the rich and the upper classes. So you see that
+these things are among the gifts which God has given us with His
+Son Jesus Christ, whose birth we celebrate on Christmas day.</p>
+
+<p>Then there are also the spiritual blessings and gifts. God's
+grace, communion with God, and the joy and satisfaction we have
+in our hearts in knowing that we are the children of God; that Jesus
+Christ has redeemed us from sin and death; that we are the heirs
+of everlasting life, and of everlasting glory. And the Bible promises<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[317]</a></span>
+us that in the world to come we shall enjoy everlasting blessedness,
+and happiness and joy&mdash;that we shall dwell forever with
+Jesus Christ; that we shall be made kings and queens unto our
+God. The Bible tells us, that it has not entered into the heart of
+man to think or to conceive of the things which God has in store
+for those who love Him. If we were to laden this tree with all
+the richest treasures of the world they could not adequately suggest
+the great blessings which God has in store for you and for me.</p>
+
+<p>How fitting, then, that we should be glad and joyous on
+Christmas day!&mdash;that you and I should receive not simply these
+material gifts, but that we should also accept of Jesus Christ in
+our hearts and receive His spiritual blessings; and so be adopted
+into the family of God, and be permitted to dwell for ever in His
+presence on high. May God always bless you in your Christmas
+joy, and may you be glad not only because you receive the gifts of
+your parents and friends, but also because God gives to us all, His
+Only Begotten and Well Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to be our
+Redeemer and Friend.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What event does Christmas Day commemorate? About what
+time of the year are the days shortest and the nights longest? What does the
+darkness of the long nights represent? Was the world in moral darkness when
+Christ came? Is He the world's Redeemer? What trees are green in the winter?
+Whom does the evergreen tree represent? Why? Where did the custom of
+having Christmas trees probably originate? What do the things on the Christmas
+tree represent? Did people give Christmas presents before Christ came?
+What do our gifts to one another represent? With His Son, has God given us
+other things which we are to enjoy? Where do people enjoy the greatest
+material comforts and blessings, in Christian or heathen lands? In what lands
+are the largest spiritual blessings enjoyed?</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[318]</a></span></p>
+<h2>EASTER SUNDAY.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects: An egg and a little chick in a cage, or a toy chick,
+such as are often available at Easter time may be used.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>MY LITTLE FRIENDS: Can you tell me what we commemorate
+on Easter Sunday? Yes, we commemorate
+the resurrection of Christ from the dead.</div>
+
+<p>You remember how some weeks ago I showed you
+a watch-case.<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> You thought it was a watch, but when I opened it
+it had no works in it, consequently it was only a watch-case. When
+I placed the works in the case, then it made a complete watch.</p>
+
+<p>So you have also seen the body of a dead person and you
+have possibly thought that that was the individual, the person
+whom you had known; but that which you saw was only the body.
+The soul, the immortal part, had taken its departure and gone back
+to God who first placed it in the body. Now, just the same as the
+works of a watch can keep good time without being in the case, so
+the soul can exist apart from the body. If you were to take the
+watch-case and bury it in the ground, that fact would not affect
+either the existence or the accuracy of the works of the watch in
+measuring time. So when God takes the soul out of the body we
+say that it is a dead body, and it becomes necessary for us to bury it
+out of our sight.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[319]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 285px;">
+<img src="images/i317.png" width="285" height="400" alt="The Women at the Sepulchre." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Women at the Sepulchre.</span>
+</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[320]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>On Good Friday we commemorate the death of Christ upon
+the cross on Calvary. You remember how, after the crucifixion,
+Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus came and took the body of
+Christ down from the cross and laid it in a new tomb which Joseph
+had hewn out of rock in his garden. When this had been done,
+Pilate remembered how Jesus had said that if He were put to
+death, after three days He would rise again. Now, Pilate did not
+believe that Jesus would rise again, but was afraid that His disciples
+or some friends might come by night and steal away His
+body and circulate the report that Jesus had risen from the dead; so
+he placed Roman soldiers around the sepulchre to prevent His disciples
+from coming near the tomb, or sepulchre where Joseph had
+laid away the body of Christ. Pilate purposed to prevent the possibility
+of Christ's resurrection, but in the fact that he placed the
+soldiers there he secured for all after ages the most positive proof
+that Jesus did actually rise from the dead. These soldiers were
+Roman soldiers, and if they had slept while they were upon guard
+duty, the penalty would have been death. But when the angel
+came down from heaven and rolled away the stone, then we are
+told that these Roman soldiers became as dead men.</p>
+
+<p>It is on Easter Sunday that we commemorate this rising of
+Christ from the grave or sepulchre. Now, can you tell me why it
+is that on Easter we have these Easter eggs, such as I hold in my
+hand? I will tell you why it is. It is because while the outside of
+this egg is like the outside of a vault or grave, yet inside there is a
+germ of life. If you take a dozen perfect eggs and place them
+under a mother hen, and have her set on them for three weeks, at
+the end of that time out of these eggs which seem to have nothing
+of life in them, there will come forth little chickens, just such as I
+hold in my hand, only this one is not alive. But it is a very accurate
+representation of a little chicken a day or two old.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[321]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now, just in this same way if you were to drive through a
+cemetery and look at a vault, which is the nearest that we have in
+this country in likeness to the sepulchre in which the body of Christ
+was laid, you would not suppose for a moment that there would be
+living people in that vault. While the bodies that are in the vault
+are dead bodies, yet they have the promise of life, God will some
+day raise them up, unite again the soul and the body and give them
+that everlasting life and resurrection glory which Jesus has promised.
+And as Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday morning,
+so we have the promise that in the final resurrection the bodies of
+all who have ever lived upon the earth shall hear the voice of the
+Son of God and shall come forth; those who have lived Christian
+lives to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the
+resurrection of death and eternal punishment.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i319.png" width="400" height="214" alt="Little Chickens Just Out of the Shells." title="" />
+<span class="caption">Little Chickens Just Out of the Shells.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The egg then is the symbol of life, for out of this seemingly
+lifeless object there comes forth the living chick; so out of the graves
+and sepulchres there will eventually come forth the bodies of all
+who have ever died, and these bodies shall become resurrection<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[322]</a></span>
+bodies. These mortals shall put on immortality, and these corruptible
+bodies shall put on incorruption; and then the souls and the
+bodies of all shall be reunited, never again to be separated throughout
+all eternity.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps during the past few months or years you may have laid
+away in the grave the body of some dear little brother or sister, or
+perhaps of a kind father or mother, or some other friend; if so, the
+spring season of the year will suggest to you the resurrection. The
+grass and the flowers which appeared to be dead last fall, and
+which during the winter have been wrapped in a white shroud of
+snow, now feel the warm breath of spring, and life and beauty are
+coming forth out of the sepulchre of the winter.</p>
+
+<p>Soon all the trees will put forth their leaves and then beauteous
+blossoms and sweet fragrance will tell of the spring time as
+the resurrection period of the year.</p>
+
+<p>So at Easter time we properly turn to the cemeteries where rest
+the bodies of our loved ones and know that the long winter of death
+and decay shall eventually give place to the promised resurrection
+of life and beauty. On that Easter morn the bodies of our loved
+ones shall be raised up, the soul and the body shall be reunited,
+and we shall see them and know them as they are.</p>
+
+<p>Now, just how God shall gather again all the scattered parts
+of these bodies that were buried in the sea, or have decayed back to
+earth in the ground, we do not know. But our ignorance does not
+change the fact. I do not understand how at first God created man
+out of dust of the earth, nor do I know how the bread and meat and
+food which I eat each day nourish my life and become part of my
+own body. I do not know how, out of the same handful of earth,
+either an apple or a flower might grow. I know that it is so, but the
+how I do not know; nor does my ignorance prevent or hinder God
+from accomplishing it. If each day I eat food which by some<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[323]</a></span>
+strange power which God has placed within me is changed into
+bones in my body, to hair on my head, to nails on the ends of my
+fingers, to teeth, and eyes and ears and thus becomes a part of
+myself, why should I question, or desire to know how God is able
+to quicken in the grave the power to make the body to live again.
+If in the beginning God only spoke and worlds came into being, I
+know that when He shall command these bodies to rise from death
+and the grave they also will hear His voice and obey.</p>
+
+<p>I am sure that no boy nor girl here would want that, on the
+morning of the resurrection his or her body should refuse to obey
+God's voice when He shall command the dead to come forth from
+their graves in life and beauty. You will want to obey Him then,
+but should you not also desire to obey Him now? When God tells
+you in the Bible what He wants you to do, are you obedient? Do
+you do as He commands? If you are disobedient now, then in the
+morning of the resurrection you might even desire, rather to remain
+in your grave, so that you should not have to look into the face of
+Him whom you have disobeyed and offended. If you want to
+awake on that final Easter morning in the likeness of Jesus and be
+forever with Him in glory, remember that you must obey God now
+as Jesus did when He was upon the earth. If we would be like
+Jesus in glory, we must strive to be like Him in all that we do, and
+I trust that you may think of this daily. At all times when you are
+uncertain what it is your duty to do, ask yourself this question: "If
+He were in my place, what would Jesus do?" And then act and
+do as nearly as possible as you think Jesus would do under the same
+circumstances.</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What does Easter commemorate? Is a dead body actually the
+person you knew? What has become of the soul? What do we commemorate
+on Good Friday? Of what are Easter eggs the symbol? What does the shell
+represent? What does the inside represent? Will the bodies of all who have
+died be raised some day? Who tells us this? What will God do with the risen<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[324]</a></span>
+bodies? What will become of the good? What of the wicked? Do we know
+how God will gather the scattered parts of the body? Does it make any difference
+whether we know how or not? Is anyone likely to refuse God's summons on
+the Judgment Day? Do we always obey Him now? When in doubt what question
+should we ask ourselves?</p></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/i322.png" width="400" height="165" alt="Decoration" title="" />
+<br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> <span class="smcap">Note</span>&mdash;Sermon on Watch and Case, see page <a href="#Page_125">125</a>.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[325]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2>CROWNS.</h2>
+
+<h3>THE CHILDREN OF THE KING.</h3>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Suggestion</span>:&mdash;Objects: A crown of leaves or paper, or of both.</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='cap'>BOYS AND GIRLS: I have to-day two or three crowns,
+and I want to talk to you about those who are children of
+the King.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 272px;">
+<img src="images/i323a.png" width="272" height="112" alt="A Crown of Leaves." title="" />
+<span class="caption">A Crown of Leaves.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;">
+<img src="images/i323b.png" width="250" height="178" alt="A Jewelled Crown." title="" />
+<span class="caption">A Jewelled Crown.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>First of all, I
+have here a crown which is
+made of leaves. This was the
+first kind of crown ever used.
+Three thousand years ago or
+more, those who excelled in
+strength, or running, or wrestling, or in any of the games which were
+common then, received a crown like this, which was placed upon
+their heads. This was regarded as a
+very great honor. Afterward, the
+kings of the earth began to use crowns.
+Their crowns were made of gold and
+set with costly jewels. These they
+wore on state occasions to indicate their
+high rank and position. Here is a
+crown made of gilt paper and set with
+a few silver-paper stars, meant to represent the crowns which kings
+and queens wear. While this crown is only made of paper, the
+crowns of kings and queens are made of gold, set with many costly
+stones. Besides the larger jewels in the crown of King George V.
+of England, there are also sixteen sapphires, eleven emeralds,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[326]</a></span>
+nearly three hundred pearls, and some twenty-eight hundred very
+costly diamonds, and it is estimated to be worth many millions of
+dollars.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/i324.png" width="300" height="193" alt="The Crowns on a Table." title="" />
+<span class="caption">The Crowns on a Table.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Now suppose that we had gathered into this room the children,
+the boys and girls, of all the kings and queens of earth. Suppose
+also that they could all understand English, and that none of them
+knew that they were the sons and daughters of kings and queens,
+and that it was my delightful privilege to tell them how great and
+rich and powerful their parents are; and then I were also permitted
+to tell them, for the first
+time, what beautiful
+crowns their parents own.
+Suppose also that after
+exciting their curiosity
+about these things, I
+should have the crowns
+of all the kings of earth
+placed on a long table at
+my side, covered with a
+beautiful cloth, and after
+telling them about the crowns, I should uncover this table with all
+these crowns of gold, studded with jewels. Don't you suppose that
+the eyes of all those boys and girls would sparkle with curiosity and
+delight?</p>
+
+<p>But now, suppose that it were my privilege to do more than to
+show them the crowns. Suppose that I were permitted also to tell
+them that they were heirs to these crowns, and that after their fathers
+and mothers, the present kings and queens, had died, they were
+to become kings and queens, and were to receive these crowns as
+their own. Suppose that, more than this, it were my privilege to
+pick up the crown of Denmark, and then calling some little boy to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[327]</a></span>
+me I were to hand it to him, and tell him that he was to keep it, and
+that some day it would be placed upon his head, and he would be
+King of Denmark. And then I should take the crown of Sweden,
+and calling another girl, I should give her that crown, and tell her
+that she should keep it, until some day it would be placed upon her
+head, and she should be Queen of Sweden. Suppose that in the
+same way I should take the crowns of Germany and Russia, and
+Austria, and Italy, and Spain, and the great crown of England,
+and all the crowns of all the nations of the earth; and
+calling the boys and girls by name, should have them come forward
+and receive these crowns, to be kept until they should be placed upon
+their heads, when they should be Kings and Queens, ruling in great
+pomp, and splendor, and honor, and power. Do you not think that
+it would be a very happy hour to these boys and girls, when all
+these great thoughts should be disclosed to them for the first time,
+and they should look upon such costly crowns, and receive them into
+their own hands, as their very own?</p>
+
+<p>Now, boys and girls, while you have been listening to me, you
+have possibly not thought that what I have told you is really being
+fulfilled in your own hearing to-day, for the Bible tells us, "I will
+be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith
+the Lord Almighty." (2 Cor. vi: 18.) Then, in another place, it
+also says, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not
+yet appear what we shall be." (1 John iii: 2.) So you see that it
+is my privilege to-day to talk, not to the children of earthly kings,
+whose glory is only temporal and whose honor is always uncertain,
+but I am permitted to talk to the children of the King of kings. (1
+Tim. vi: 15; Rev. xix: 16.) The Scriptures not only tell us that
+God "is the only Potentate (the only powerful one), the King of
+kings," but it also tells us that He "hath made us unto our God
+kings and priests." (Rev. v: 10.) The same great book also tells<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[328]</a></span>
+us, not only, that we shall be kings and priests unto our God, but
+that we "shall reign forever and ever." (Rev. xxii: 5.) When a
+king dies he ceases to be king upon earth, but when God shall make
+us kings and queens and crown us in Heaven, we shall never die
+again, or cease to be kings and queens. The Bible tells us very clearly
+that our Father in Heaven is King over all earthly kings; greater than
+any of them; greater than all the kings of earth put together; a million
+times greater; yes, millions and millions of times greater; so
+much greater that the two do not compare in reality, but earthly
+kings simply suggest to our minds something of our great Heavenly
+King. God, this great King, created us and we were His children.
+But our first parents sinned and rebelled against Him, and refused to
+recognize Him as Father and to obey what He wanted them to do.
+But God loved them and us as a tender Father, and sent His only-begotten
+and well-beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to reconcile us; to tell
+us that God the Father loved us; that He was willing to forgive us,
+and that He would still accept us and make us kings and priests unto
+Himself, would crown us with glory, would give us dominion and
+make us kings and priests forever in Heaven. So you see that there
+can be no mistake about our being sons and daughters of the Lord
+Almighty. We are not only His children, but He has promised
+us crowns of glory and thrones of dominion and power.</p>
+
+<p>If you and I were in England to-day and could walk into the
+Tower of London, where they keep the crown and the jewels of the
+royal family, and we could learn the value of these costly jewels,
+and crowns and scepters, it matters not how rich we might be, I am
+sure we would have to despair of ever being able to purchase these
+costly crown jewels. They are estimated at many millions of dollars.
+Now, if an earthly crown, which can only be retained for a
+few years, is so valuable, how much more valuable are the everlasting
+crowns, such as God gives, and which are to be ours for all eternity?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[329]</a></span>
+And if we are not able to buy such an earthly crown, how
+much less are we able to purchase or buy a heavenly crown? The
+heavenly crowns are so valuable that we could never hope to buy
+them, therefore God gives them to us because He loves us.</p>
+
+<p>More than two hundred years ago a man by the name of
+Colonel Blood attempted to steal the crowns and the crown jewels
+of England. He was not altogether successful, but was arrested
+before he escaped with them. But do you know that there are
+many who would steal your crown, and my crown of everlasting
+glory, if they possibly could? Therefore, God tells us in the Bible,
+"Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown."
+(Rev. iii: 11.) So you see it is very important that we should be
+constantly on our guard. The King of England has soldiers to
+watch day and night, lest any one should steal his crown. And so
+also you and I need to be constantly on our guard, lest wicked people
+and sinful influences should rob us of our heavenly crown.</p>
+
+<p>Not only are crowns sometimes stolen, but sometimes they are
+also lost. About fifty years ago some people were digging in
+France, and they found eight costly crowns, all lying close together,
+having been lost or hidden away in the earth. Four of them were
+very costly and very beautiful, while the others were smaller crowns.
+The first four were for the king and the queen, and the prince, and
+one other of the older children, and the other four crowns were for
+the younger children of the king's household. Yet you see that the
+father and mother and all the children lost their crowns. I trust that
+no parents here, or children either, would prize their heavenly crowns
+so lightly as ever to lose them.</p>
+
+<p>There are thousands of people who would be willing to put
+forth any effort, or to pay any costs, if they could only obtain an
+earthly crown, and yet the Bible tells us that these people do it "to
+obtain a corruptible crown; but we, an incorruptible." (1 Cor. ix: 25.)<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[330]</a></span>
+Now, by a corruptible crown is meant one that, like this crown
+made of leaves, will fade and fall to pieces, and decay, and thus pass
+entirely away. Even a crown of gold, studded with costly jewels,
+would thus also eventually perish. The crown which God gives to
+us is an imperishable crown, which never fades, and never passes
+away. And therefore the Scriptures say, "And when the Chief
+Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth
+not away." (1 Peter v: 4.)</p>
+
+<p>Since the Bible teaches us these truths so plainly, "What manner
+of persons ought we to be, in all holy conversation and godliness?"
+(2 Peter iii: 11.) What more appropriate words could I
+say to you in closing, than that which God says to us in the blessed
+Book in which He has revealed all these things, "Wherefore,
+beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent, that ye may
+be found of him in peace without spot, and blameless." (2 Peter
+iii: 14.)</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Questions.</span>&mdash;What kind of crown was first worn? Because crowns of
+leaves were so perishable, of what were crowns later made? What can you tell
+about the crown of the king of England? If the crowns of all the kings of
+earth could be brought together, would people desire to see them? If the children
+of earthly kings were present and we told them for the first time that they
+were the children of kings and gave them the crowns which they were eventually
+to own, would they be likely to be pleased? Are you the child of a King who is
+the King above all kings? Has He promised you a crown? Will your crown be
+perishable? How long will it last? Can you quote any of the passages of
+Scripture which tell of our being the children of the King of kings? Could the
+crown of an earthly king be bought? Is there money enough in the world to
+buy a crown of everlasting life? How then is this crown to be obtained? Who
+once stole a crown and the crown jewels of England? Was he successful in
+getting away with them? Who tries to steal our crown of everlasting glory?
+Is he ever successful? Can you tell about the eight crowns which were found
+hidden away in the earth in France? In what book are we told that our crown
+is to be imperishable and unfading, and to be ours forever? What exhortation is
+contained in the last sentence of the last sermon in this book?</p></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br /><span class="smcap">The End.</span></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[331]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2>A WORD TO PARENTS</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/i329.png" width="200" height="53" alt="Decoration" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='cap'>THE imploring letters which come to me constantly from all parts of the
+globe, written by young men and women who are almost hopelessly struggling
+to be freed from evils into which they have fallen through ignorance,
+prompt me to urge upon parents the great importance of safe-guarding their
+children from evils unspeakable by information which should always reach the
+child through the parent.</div>
+
+<p>Many parents appreciate their duty to their children in this matter; the
+only thing that restrains them is that they do not know what to say and how to
+say it. They are in just the situation that I found myself with my own boy
+and girl before I had made a special study of this subject.</p>
+
+<p>It was to assist parents in this trying situation that I wrote "What a
+Young Boy Ought to Know," and that Dr. Mary Wood-Allen wrote "What
+a Young Girl Ought to Know." These two books, together with "What a
+Young Man Ought to Know" and "What a Young Woman Ought to Know,"
+have proven a benediction to thousands of parents, and have saved multitudes
+of boys and girls; of young men and young women from evils that come from
+blind blundering among dangers that are attended with consequences that often
+project themselves throughout the entire life, and frequently involve even future
+generations.</p>
+
+<p>These books were written to make men and women&mdash;not money. The
+United States Government has had the books to men placed in the libraries of
+all the battleships, and those addressed to boys and girls and young men and
+young women placed in all the schools maintained by the Government for the
+education of the North American Indians.</p>
+
+<p>Requests have been made for permission to translate these books into
+some forty different languages, and most of these requests have come from
+Christian missionaries and church missionary societies, who have desired the
+teachings which these books contain for use by their missionaries.</p>
+
+<p>These books, in English, sell at One Dollar per copy, and a simple post
+card request addressed to the writer of the little book you now hold in your
+hands, will bring you descriptive printed matter by early post.</p>
+
+<div class='sig'>
+<span style="margin-right: 8em;">SYLVANUS STALL,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-right: 3em;">206 North Fifteenth Street,</span><br />
+Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A.<br />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332">[332]</a></span></p>
+<div class='bbox'><h2>WITH THE CHILDREN ON SUNDAYS</h2>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<h3>Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate Into the<br />City of Child Soul</h3>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<h3><i>By</i> SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.</h3>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<div class='center'><i>ENTHUSIASTICALLY COMMENDED BY THE PRESS</i></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<div class='center'><span class="smcap">For the Family Circle and Teachers</span>.</div>
+
+<p>"Delightful and instructive reading for the family circle on Sunday afternoons."&mdash;<i>The
+Ram's Horn.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The language and style are simple and effective. In approaching the
+mind and heart through the eye, as well as the ear, Dr. Stall uses the method
+which the best instructor should use to convey knowledge to the mind of the
+child. The book is suggestive of effective work, and is worthy of the careful
+attention of all who talk to children in the Sunday School, Church and home."&mdash;<i>Augsburg
+Teacher.</i></p>
+
+<p>"These sermons cannot help being suggestive to every one who would interest
+children. The sermons are fascinating, and their publication marks an
+era in the instruction and edification of children. They will serve a noble
+purpose in calling back to the simplicity of preaching so wonderfully illustrated
+in the words of Christ."&mdash;<i>Wesleyan Methodist.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br /><span class="smcap">Specially Adapted to Children</span>.</div>
+
+<p>"Dr. Stall has undoubtedly the happy faculty of presenting to children
+sober truths in a manner to them most interesting."&mdash;<i>Times</i>, Boston, Mass.</p>
+
+<p>"In this little volume there are good examples of excellent preaching to
+the young, and the book merits a wide circulation."&mdash;<i>Central Presbyterian.</i></p>
+
+<p>"These little delightful sermons are models of point and brevity, and reach
+the little hearts through the eye and the ear."&mdash;<i>Christian Observer.</i></p>
+
+<p>"A more practical series of discourses for children we never before have
+seen. The illustrations are simple and forceful, and the lessons worthy of consideration."&mdash;<i>Central
+Methodist.</i></p>
+
+<p>"It is an excellent work, and the plan is admirably suited to reach and impress
+youthful minds with correct principles. The language is plain and easily
+understood and yet the central thought is well defined and easily grasped."&mdash;<i>The
+Christian Instructor.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The topics are timely and fresh, the objects simple and telling, and the
+sermons themselves just what sermons to children ought to be, brief and well<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_333" id="Page_333">[333]</a></span>
+illustrated, fascinating and practical. Boys and girls will devour every one of
+them with relish, whilst we children of a larger growth will be children again."&mdash;<i>Lutheran
+Observer.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The chapters contained in the volume are such as are sure to win the
+attention and interest of the children. We are confident that Dr. Stall has found
+the right key to the situation, and we commend his work most heartily."&mdash;<i>Messiah's
+Herald.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The gift of talking sense to children in a way interesting to them is a rare
+one. These fifty-two short sermons show that Dr. Stall has this rare gift in an
+eminent degree. This is shown, not only in his way of putting things, but also
+in his subjects and illustrative objects."&mdash;<i>Lutheran Quarterly.</i></p>
+
+<p>"In this volume the author seeks to attract the young through the presentation
+of the old truths of the Gospel in the form which arrest the eye, secures
+the attention, impresses the mind, and wins the heart for Christ and the right.
+The entrance into the city of Child-soul is sought by assaulting both the Eye-gate
+and Ear-gate. At the same time the illustrations used are impressive, the
+truths taught are simple, and the impressions made are likely to be lasting."&mdash;<i>Jersey
+City Times</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"It is not every one who is able to present to children sober truths in a
+manner interesting to them, for it requires a special talent to either speak to or
+write for children, but Dr. Stall has undoubtedly the happy faculty of doing this.
+The author's object is to implant in the child's mind seeds of truth and love,
+nobleness and justice, and all the virtues that go to make a manly boy and womanly
+girl, as well as a God-loving child."&mdash;<i>Boston Times.</i></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+<div class='center'><span class="smcap">From the Children of New England.</span></div>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<span class="smcap">Sylvanus Stall</span>, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.<br />
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Reverend Sir</span>:</p>
+
+<p>I wish to thank you in behalf of my school children for having your short
+sermons to children published. I read them to my school children as part of
+our devotional exercises, and I often hear remarks like this: "I wish the author
+would come to Moose Meadow. I wish I could hear him. I wish I could see
+him and thank him for writing those sermons. Can't we write to him and thank
+him?" etc., and so I have been led to write you, thanking you in their behalf.</p>
+
+<p>Moose Meadow is a small country place in Eastern Connecticut, and I
+wish you to know that the country children enjoy your sermons equally as well
+as city children, and I am very glad that a copy of your book was put into my
+hands. I feel very grateful to God for putting it into the heart of some one to
+write such interesting sermons and beautiful object lessons.</p>
+
+<div class='right'>
+<span style="margin-right: 8em;">Respectfully,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-right: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Mrs. A. B. Dawe</span>.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-right: 1em;">Moose Meadow, Town of Willington,</span><br />
+Connecticut.<br />
+</div></div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[334]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br /><span class="smcap">A Suggestive Book for Preachers.</span></div>
+
+<p>"Pastors in search of something suggestive for talking in a helpful manner
+to children will find this book both helpful and suggestive."&mdash;<i>Reformed Church
+Messenger.</i></p>
+
+<p>"A careful reading of this book will enable any minister of anything like
+ordinary brightness to adapt much of his preaching to the comprehension of the
+young."&mdash;<i>Gospel Messenger.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We do not know that we can give a stronger commendation of this little volume
+than to say that on a brief examination of it we got the suggestion for a series
+of half a dozen evening sermons to young people. The book is most suggestive,
+and spiritually as well as mentally refreshing."&mdash;<i>Christian Statesman.</i></p>
+
+<p>"An examination of the little sermons in this book shows the reader that
+Dr. Stall skillfully manages each topic, and leaves helpful lessons of moral and
+religious truths. The book will suggest to pastors methods of work that will
+bring the children into a closer relation to the services of the Sabbath."&mdash;<i>Christian
+Secretary.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Excellent, admirable, irresistible approaches through the Eye-gate and
+Ear-gate in the City of Child-soul. The author is a genius. There is not a dull
+line between the covers of this book."&mdash;<i>Christian Endeavor World.</i></p>
+
+
+<div class='center'><br /><span class="smcap">Other Enthusiastic Words.</span></div>
+
+<p>"These sermons are delightful and helpful in their explanation. We have
+seen nothing that compares with it."&mdash;<i>Herald of Gospel Liberty.</i></p>
+
+<p>"These sermons are animated in style, bright, interesting and practical."&mdash;<i>The
+Advance.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Dr. Stall's sermons are excellent examples of abstract lessons from the
+common objects of everyday life, practical and effective."&mdash;<i>Books and Authors.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Dr. Stall is an expert in this line of work attempted, and we may add
+achieved in this little book. He addresses little object sermons as bright, pithy
+and taking as they can be with a good point to them always."&mdash;<i>New York Independent.</i></p>
+
+<p>"These short sermons will be found wonderfully suggestive. The author
+goes back to Bible methods, and selects common things with which all are
+familiar from which to draw his lessons."&mdash;<i>Inter Ocean</i>, Chicago.</p>
+
+<p>"The old truths of the Gospel in this new form arrest the eye, secure the
+attention, impress the mind, and win the heart for Christ."&mdash;<i>Herald and
+Presbytery.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The illustrations used are impressive, and truths taught are important, and
+the impressions made are likely to be lasting."&mdash;<i>New York Observer.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The author, after the manner of the parables told by our Lord, presents
+important truths of the Gospel to the easy comprehension of both old and young."&mdash;<i>Christian
+Work.</i></p>
+
+<p>"These little sermons are free from sensational, mawkish, maudlin stories.
+At the same time, they are interesting for old and young, and the short talks to
+children are admirable."&mdash;<i>Western Recorder.</i></p>
+
+<p>"With the objects of every day life presented to the eye, the author, after
+the manner of the parables, presents important truths of the Gospel to the easy
+comprehension of both the old and young."&mdash;<i>Methodist Recorder.</i></p>
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3>
+<p>Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.</p>
+
+<p>Inconsistent hyphenation was retained.</p>
+
+<p>The remaining corrections made are indicated by dotted lines under
+the corrections. Scroll the mouse over the word and the original text
+will <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'apprear'">appear</ins>.</p></div>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, With the Children on Sunday, by Sylvanus
+Stall, Illustrated by C. M. Burd
+
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+
+
+
+Title: With the Children on Sunday
+       Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul
+
+
+Author: Sylvanus Stall
+
+
+
+Release Date: May 12, 2010  [eBook #32355]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WITH THE CHILDREN ON SUNDAY***
+
+
+E-text prepared by Emmy, D Alexander, and the Project Gutenberg Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net)
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+
+
+WITH THE CHILDREN ON SUNDAYS
+
+Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+by
+
+SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.
+
+Author of "What a Young Boy Ought to Know," "What a Young
+Man Ought to Know," etc., "Methods of Church Work,"
+"Faces Toward the Light," etc., etc.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+This book is published and sold exclusively in the United States by
+The Uplift Publishing Company
+Philadelphia, Pa.
+
+Copyright, 1911, by Sylvanus Stall.
+
+Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England.
+
+Protected by International copyright in Great Britain and all her
+colonies, and, under the provisions of the Berne Convention, in
+Belgium, France, Germany, England, Spain, Switzerland, Tunis,
+Hayti, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro and Norway.
+
+All rights reserved.
+
+[Printed in the United States.]
+
+Copyright, 1893, by Sylvanus Stall.
+Copyright, 1896, by Sylvanus Stall.
+Copyright, 1907, by Sylvanus Stall.
+
+All the drawings and color-pictures in this took have been specially
+prepared by C. M. Burd, of New York City, for exclusive use
+in these pages. Each of these has been copyrighted in the United
+States and throughout Europe, and all copyright privileges are
+reserved.
+
+
+
+[Illustration: SYLVANUS STALL, D.D.]
+
+
+
+
+          DEDICATED
+
+          TO PARENTS AND CHILDREN WHO DESIRE
+          TO MAKE SUNDAY THE HAPPIEST AND MOST
+          IMPRESSIVE DAY OF THE WEEK.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                  PAGE.
+      PREFACE                                        9
+
+      SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS                        17
+
+   1. OYSTER AND CRAB--Conscience                   27
+
+   2. WORM IN THE APPLE--Sin in the Human Heart     33
+
+   3. WAYSIDE WEEDS AND GARDEN FLOWERS--Neglected
+       vs. Christian Children                       38
+
+   4. NUTS--God Means that We Must Work             46
+
+   5. BANKS--Gathered and Guarded Treasures         51
+
+   6. CHART--Avoiding Dangers                       56
+
+   7. ANCHOR--Hope that Lays Hold of Christ         61
+
+   8. HUSKS--The Disappointed Pleasure Seeker       66
+
+   9. IRON, LOW GRADE AND HIGH GRADE--Character
+       and Worth                                    75
+
+  10. A POCKET RULE--How God Measures Men           81
+
+  11. THE MAGNET--Jesus the Great Drawing Power     86
+
+  12. KEYS--How to Unlock the Human Heart           92
+
+  13. TRAPS--Unsuspecting Mice and Men              97
+
+  14. BREAD--Universal Soul Hunger                 102
+
+  15. THE STONE--The Natural and Changed Heart     107
+
+  16. THE POLISHED STONE--Perfection Through
+       Suffering                                   112
+
+  17. ROPES--Habits and How They Become Strong     120
+
+  18. WATCH AND CASE--Soul and Body                125
+
+  19. PEARLS--One of Great Price                   130
+
+  20. COAL AND WOOD--Jesus the Source of
+       Spiritual Light and Warmth                  135
+
+  21. LANTERNS--The Best Light for Our Path        140
+
+  22. CANDLES--How to Reflect, Obscure or
+       Extinguish the Light                        145
+
+  23. A BROKEN CHAIN--Breaking the Whole Law       151
+
+  24. LOOKING-GLASS--Seeing Ourselves in God's
+       Law                                         156
+
+  25. RAIN--God's Wisdom and Power                 161
+
+  26. SNOW--Lessons Which it Teaches               168
+
+  27. PLASTIC FACE--Character in the Countenance   174
+
+  28. SEEDS--Thoughts, Word, Deeds,--Their Life
+       and Perpetuity                              179
+
+  29. SOWING--The Spring Time of Life              185
+
+  30. REAPING--The Harvest Time of Life            192
+
+  31. WHEAT AND CHAFF--The Coming Separation       198
+
+  32. THE HEART--The Most Wonderful Pump in
+       the World                                   204
+
+  33. THE EYE--The Most Valuable and Most
+       Wonderful Telescope                         210
+
+  34. THE EYE--Smallest Camera, Most Valuable
+       Pictures                                    217
+
+  35. FROGS--The Plagues of Egypt                  222
+
+  36. BLOOD--The Feast of the Passover             228
+
+  37. PINE BRANCH--The Feast of Tabernacles        234
+
+  38. LEAVES--The Lessons Which They Teach         240
+
+  39. THE TURTLE--Man Like and Yet Unlike the
+       Animals                                     246
+
+  40. GRASSHOPPER AND ANT--Negligence and
+       Industry                                    252
+
+  41. BALANCES--How God Weighs People              260
+
+  42. WHITE AND CHARRED STICKS--Good and Bad
+       Company                                     267
+
+  43. DOGS--The Dogs of St. Bernard                272
+
+  44. THE CAMERA--God's Picture Book               279
+
+  45. THE PHONOGRAPH--Books that Talk              285
+
+  46. MAGNET AND NEEDLE--God's Guiding Hand        290
+
+  47. FISH IN AQUARIUM--The All-Seeing Eye of
+       God                                         295
+
+  48. THE CLOCK--Measuring Time                    300
+
+  49. PLANS--Living with a Purpose                 307
+
+  50. THE CHRISTMAS TREE--The Lessons Which
+       It Teaches                                  311
+
+  51. EASTER SUNDAY--The Resurrection of
+       the Body                                    318
+
+  52. CROWNS--We Are Children of the King          325
+
+      A WORD TO PARENTS                            331
+
+      PRESS NOTICES                                332
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+SUNDAY ought to be the most cheerful, sunniest, happiest and best day of
+the week in every home. In most homes it is the dullest and most dreary
+day of the week to the children, and the most taxing and the most
+wearying to the parents, especially to the mother. It not only ought to
+be, but it can be made, not only the brightest and happiest but also the
+most influential in the character-building and religious training of the
+children. In some households Sunday is looked forward to with
+anticipations of pleasure throughout the entire week. In these homes,
+the father does not come down stairs on Sunday morning and say: "Now,
+children, gather up those flowers, throw them out of the window, pull
+down the blinds, get down the Bible and we will have an awful solemn
+time here to-day." Neither is the day given to frivolity or the home to
+demoralizing influences. From morning until night there are two great
+principles that govern; first, the sacredness of the day, and second,
+the sacredness of the God-given nature of childhood. The day is not
+spent in repressing the child nature by a succession of "don't do that,"
+"now stop that," etc., that begin in the morning and continue throughout
+the day, and end only when the little ones lose consciousness in sleep
+on Sunday night. In these homes, the parents recognize the fact that the
+child nature is the same whether the day is secular or sacred. On Sunday
+the child nature is not repressed, but the childish impulses are
+directed into channels suited to the sacredness of the day. In such
+homes the children, instead of being sorry that it is Sunday, are glad;
+instead of regretting the return of the day with dislike and dread,
+they welcome it as the brightest, the cheeriest and the best of all the
+week.
+
+The purpose of the author in the preparation of this book in its present
+illustrated and slightly changed form, is to afford all parents a
+valuable aid in making Sunday not only the brightest, happiest and best
+day of the entire week for both parents and children, but also to aid
+the parents to make Sunday pre-eminently the day around which shall
+cluster throughout the entire life of each child the sweetest, tenderest
+and most sacred recollections of childhood, of father and mother and of
+brother and sister, and especially of their knowledge of the Bible and
+of everything sacred.
+
+Did it ever occur to you, as a parent, that between the birth and the
+age of twenty-one years there are three solid years of Sundays--an
+amount of time almost equal to the number of years given to an entire
+course of college training? The Creator has not laid upon parents the
+responsibilities of parenthood without giving them ample time and
+opportunity to discharge these obligations to Him, to themselves, and to
+their children.
+
+The idea which has been successfully demonstrated in hundreds of homes,
+where the impulses and natural inclinations of childhood have been
+turned into sacred channels on Sundays so as to enable the parents to
+teach spiritual truths in the most effective manner, is the method which
+is suggested by the author to the parents in the use, on Sunday
+afternoons, of the fifty-two little sermons given in this volume.
+
+The parent who fails to use wisely the opportunities of Sunday
+afternoons for impressing the children with spiritual truths, loses the
+greatest opportunity that family life affords. Among the different
+instances known to the author, the following three may serve as
+illustrations of what may be found in many communities:
+
+I knew a mother who regularly on Sunday afternoons gathered her
+children about her and read them religious books and literature. In her
+considerable family, every child became eminently useful. One, who was a
+university professor, told me that those Sunday afternoons with his
+mother in the nursery embodied the most formative influences of his
+life.
+
+I know another family, of some seven or eight children, where Sunday was
+always used for religious instruction with the children. With the
+reading and other things, they always "played church", and the
+experience of those early childhood days made the boys splendid public
+talkers, and the girls were also very capable in the same direction. No
+better school of oratory was ever organized.
+
+I know another family of four children, where the entire family looked
+forward throughout the week to the special and larger pleasure which
+Sunday always brought. They grew up naturally into a religious life, and
+developed that ability for public address and service which could not so
+well be gained in any other way.
+
+Sunday is about the only day in most of households where the father is
+home with his family. It adds greatly to the pleasure and impressiveness
+of the day and its services if the father, with the mother, enters
+heartily into the spirit of that which will be all the more enjoyed by
+the children. It will enable him also to stamp his personality deeper
+into the character of his children than possibly any other opportunity
+which may be afforded him in life.
+
+These brief object talks grew out of the necessities found in the
+author's own parish. When called to the pastorate of the Second English
+Lutheran Church, of Baltimore, I found a depleted congregation, while at
+the same time the Sunday-school was one of the largest and most
+flourishing in the city. It was then for the first time that I
+introduced regularly the preaching of "Five-minute object sermons"
+before the accustomed sermon on Sunday morning. In a very brief period,
+about one-fourth of the infant department and two-thirds of the main
+department of the school were in regular attendance upon the Sunday
+morning service, and, even after this particular form of address had
+been discontinued, the teachers and scholars continued regularly to come
+direct from the morning session of the school to the services of the
+church.
+
+These sermons were preached without notes, were subsequently outlined
+and then spoken into the phonograph, put in manuscript by a
+phonographer, and, that the simplicity of style and diction might be
+preserved, were printed with only slight verbal changes.
+
+The objects used in illustrating these talks have been chosen from among
+the ordinary things of every-day life. Such objects have the advantage
+of being easily secured, and on account of their familiarity also prove
+more impressive, and being more often seen, more frequently recall to
+mind the truths taught.
+
+To any thoughtful student who has marked the simple language and
+beautiful illustrations used by that Great Preacher and Teacher who
+"spake as never man spake," it will be unnecessary to say a single word
+in justification of this method of presenting abstruse truths to the
+easy comprehension of the young. Upon all occasions Jesus found in the
+use of the ordinary, every-day things about Him, the easy means of
+teaching the people the great truths of divine import. The door, the
+water, the net, the vine, the flowers which sprang at His feet, the
+birds that flew over His head, the unfruitful tree that grew by the
+wayside, the wheat and the tares that grew together in the field, the
+leaven which a woman hid in three measures of meal, the husbandman
+pacing his field engaged in sowing his grain, the sheep and the goats
+which rested together on the slopes waiting to be separated each into
+their own fold, the old garment mended with a piece of new cloth, the
+mustard seed, the salt--anything that chanced to be about the Master
+was used as an illustration, that He might plainly and impressively
+teach the people the saving truths of redemption and salvation. May we
+not also reasonably suppose that if Jesus were upon the earth to-day He
+would still exercise this same distinguishing wisdom in the use of the
+common, every-day things by which He would now find Himself surrounded?
+
+Let it be distinctly understood that this book is not a substitute for
+the regular services of God's House. I believe in "the Church in the
+house," but I also believe that the entire family, including the
+children, should also be in the Church on the Lord's day. The absence of
+the children from the services of the sanctuary is one of the alarming
+evils of our day. There are but few congregations where children can be
+found in any considerable numbers. No one will attempt to deny the sad
+consequences which must follow as the inevitable results of such a
+course. The children at eight years of age who have not already begun to
+form the habit of church attendance, and are not quite thoroughly
+established in it at sixteen, will stand a very fair chance of spending
+their entire life with little or no attachment for either the Church or
+religious things. The non-church going youth of this decade will be the
+Sabbath-breakers and irreligious people of the next.
+
+Who are to blame for this state of affairs, and to whom are we to look
+for the correction of this existing evil?
+
+Manifestly, first of all, to the _parents_. That parental authority
+which overcomes the indifference of the child and secures his devotion
+to the irksome duties of secular life, should also be exercised to
+establish and maintain a similar fidelity to religious duties and
+spiritual concerns. If left to their own inclinations, children will
+invariably go wrong in the affairs of both worlds. Attendance upon the
+church should be expected and required, the same as attendance upon the
+secular instruction of the schools; for the best interests of the child
+are not more dependent upon the discipline of the mind than upon the
+development of the heart. In the formation of the habit of church
+attendance, it would be well to remind parents that example will be as
+helpful as precept. They should not send, but take their children to
+church. They should make room for them in the family pew, provide them
+with a hymn-book and see that they have something for the collection.
+Parents owe it to their children to teach them to be reverent in God's
+house, to bow their heads in prayer, to be attentive to the sermon; and
+while requiring these things of their children, they should also see
+well to it that after service, at the table, in the home, or elsewhere
+nothing disparaging of God's house, message or messenger should fall
+from their lips upon the ears of their children.
+
+As these little talks were originally used before the main sermon on
+Sunday morning before a mixed audience of adults and a large number of
+children, it has seemed best, in order to carry out the idea of
+preaching, that the manner of speaking as though to an audience should
+be retained in this book. It is better suited than any other method for
+use also by the parent when reading these pages to the children in the
+home.
+
+The earlier issues of these talks under the title: "Five Minute Object
+Sermons to Children" and the second volume: "Talks to the King's
+Children" were accorded a place of usefulness in nearly every land, and
+the author now sends forth this volume in its present illustrated and
+slightly revised form for a place in every home, trusting that it may be
+as influential in the lives of the children of to-day as it has proven
+in the lives of the children of yesterday.
+
+                                                     SYLVANUS STALL.
+
+[Illustration: DR. STALL WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN DRIVING
+TO CHURCH]
+
+[Illustration: THE LITTLE PREACHER AND HIS INTERESTED AUDIENCE]
+
+[Illustration: LITTLE BILLIE TAKING UP THE COLLECTION]
+
+[Illustration: DR. STALL READING TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN]
+
+
+
+
+SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS.
+
+HELPFUL METHODS FOR MAKING SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE CHILDREN THE MOST
+PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE DAY OF THE WEEK.
+
+
+The idea of "playing church" is by no means an innovation. What is shown
+in the pictures upon a preceding page has been actualized in many homes.
+Let me quote from a single letter which lies before me:
+
+"The writer was one of a large family of children and well remembers the
+Sunday afternoons spent in his village home. 'Playing church,' was one
+of its features. The chairs were placed in regular fashion, imitating
+the seating arrangements of a church, every one of us took his or her
+turn as preacher, hymns were sung, a real collection was taken and one
+of us, as preacher, took his text and preached the sermon. There wasn't
+a dull moment in those good, old Sunday afternoons in our home.
+Occasionally, the preacher would provoke a smile by his original way of
+handling the text and of emphasizing some point in his discourse.
+
+"We have all grown up since those happy days; some of us attained to a
+degree of efficiency as public speakers, and we attribute much of our
+efficiency and character in life to those profitable Sunday afternoon
+hours."
+
+From the experiences of the children as narrated above, the suggestion
+occurs, why not use these object talks in like manner? "Play church"
+Sunday afternoons, read an "object sermon," show the illustrations, ask
+the questions at the end of each chapter and then follow it up with a
+discussion from the children, giving their ideas and experiences.
+
+You will find that you will get as much benefit and entertainment from
+these Sunday afternoons "playing church" service as the children will.
+You will be surprised at their interest and the originality that they
+will display in these discussions. You will be quickening their faculty
+of observation and stirring their imaginations, in a manner that will
+surely make observant, thoughtful and considerate men and women of the
+children, and consequently, affect their entire destinies in the years
+to come. Then, too, you yourself will be helped mentally and
+spiritually, because it is absolutely true that in the devotion that we
+exhibit and the time and attention that we give to our children in this
+companionship, we will ourselves be receiving large blessings in the
+development of our own character and the finer characteristics that make
+for good people.
+
+
+PLAYING CHURCH.
+
+The following suggestions will be helpful, to which original ideas may
+always be added.
+
+1. Make the "Afternoon Church" a real, not frivolous, occasion. The time
+it requires to make careful, pains-taking preparation on the part of the
+parent, is always profitably employed.
+
+2. The afternoon church should always be a regular, fixed engagement. It
+adds to its importance.
+
+3. Do not postpone nor omit it for any trivial reason. Treat it as any
+other important engagement.
+
+4. When visitors are in the home, invite them to be present and to
+participate. It will help them as well as the juniors.
+
+5. The fact that there is only one child in the family does not preclude
+the idea of playing church; for the dolls can be brought to church and
+even chairs can be converted into imaginary people.
+
+6. Never permit the realness of the occasion to be questioned. Always
+avoid embarrassing the child and _never_ ridicule. Refrain from laughing
+at any mistakes that may be made in speech, thought or conduct of the
+child, unless he first sees the mistake and invites you to join in his
+mirth.
+
+7. Ask any additional questions pertinent to the subject besides those
+suggested at the end of each sermon. It will develop wider thought and
+increase the interest.
+
+8. Encourage the child to ask questions, but always lead in directing
+the thought.
+
+9. Adults present should always enter seriously and earnestly into the
+whole program or plan with the child's spirit. Where adults enter upon
+the execution of the plan with this spirit it adds much to the enjoyment
+of all. If they cannot do this, they should not participate.
+
+10. A bell can be slowly rung as the time for church approaches.
+
+11. Use the brightest and most cheerful room in the house for the
+afternoon church. Add to the furnishings on Sunday anything which may
+make the room even more than ordinarily attractive.
+
+12. Chairs may be suitably arranged and a child can drive the others to
+and from church in an imaginary carriage, as shown in one of the
+pictures upon another page.
+
+13. When the church is held in another room, an older child or person
+can receive the attendants and usher them to seats.
+
+14. Open the church service with singing. Select several simple
+devotional hymns or songs, such as are used in the primary department of
+Sunday-schools. Have all the children learn the tunes and teach a verse
+of each song to any child that cannot read.
+
+15. A collection can be lifted by one of the children. A toy bank may be
+used in which to save the money received at this child's service, and
+subsequently contributed through the Church or Sunday-school for
+missionary purposes.
+
+16. Teach the children the importance of saving from their own spending
+money, or earning what they wish to give in the collection.
+
+17. This money should always be regarded as sacred, and care should also
+be exercised lest this little fund might become a source of temptation
+to the children during the week.
+
+18. At some time during the service a brief prayer should be offered.
+This may consist of a sentence prayer by each in rotation or by all
+uniting in the Lord's Prayer, or in some brief selection from the Prayer
+Book.
+
+19. When a child is willing or wishes to do so, have him preach the
+sermon in his own way of expressing the thought, using the text or
+object of the day for his subject. Always give the same interested
+attention to him that is expected from him when another leads.
+
+20. Some of the objects mentioned in the sermons can be easily and
+cheaply obtained for use at the church. When such an object is secured,
+it should not be shown to the children in advance of being used.
+
+21. Do not prolong the service too greatly so as to weary the children.
+Effectiveness and pleasure usually terminate at the same time. Lend
+animation to the service and interest will not so soon flag. It is well
+also to impart interest by having the parent enter heartily into every
+part of the service.
+
+22. A social period after "returning home" from the "children's church"
+should be introduced. If the children have played driving to church
+before the service, the idea should be continued and completed by
+driving home in the same manner.
+
+
+AFTER CHURCH.
+
+23. After the conclusion of the church service, additional exercises or
+games suited to the sacredness of the day may be appropriately used to
+entertain the children and continue their happiness. By methods of this
+kind, Sunday may be made not only the most profitable, but the brightest
+and best day of the week.
+
+24. Some light refreshment may be introduced, as fruit, cake or candy.
+This refreshment should be something very simple and inexpensive, and
+also something not calculated to spoil the appetite or injure the
+digestion of the child. In recognition of good conduct, close attention
+or special help at the church service, one of the children may choose
+what the refreshment is to be for the next Sunday. This choice should be
+kept a secret during the week.
+
+25. Pictures and illustrations can be cut from magazines, and these can
+be pasted in a scrap book or on blank paper to represent Bible
+characters and scenes, or those used in the sermons.
+
+26. Many acting games and tableaux can be arranged by the children from
+the sermons and Bible stories. Chairs can be arranged so as to represent
+a pit or tent, and the children within them may be "Joseph in the Pit"
+(Genesis xxxvii) or "Daniel in the Lion's Den" (Daniel vi). See
+illustrations on pages 80 and 91.
+
+
+FOR OLDER CHILDREN.
+
+27. Let one child represent an idol. He must stand motionless and give
+no sign of life. The others are to ask him questions and for favors. If
+the "idol" laughs, moves or speaks, he loses and another takes his
+place. Idols are lifeless things that cannot move, see, hear or speak.
+
+28. Children's blocks are useful in building a well, altar, castle,
+temple, chariot, etc. Have the children give a text or verse from the
+Bible referring to the objects builded. A Bible story may be told about
+the object, its history, use, etc.
+
+29. One child, or more as may be needed, can pose to represent a
+character or scene. The others are to guess the character represented.
+For example: A child can sit with hands upheld. A child on each side of
+him hold up the extended arms. They represent Moses with Aaron and Hur
+during the battle (Ex. xvii: 12).
+
+30. Charades, or words and scenes may be represented by the children in
+motion. The children may be divided into groups. One group will select a
+word and represent it in the presence of the others by motions. For
+example: Children come into the room and go through the motion of sowing
+("Seeds"), reaping ("Harvest"), threshing with a flail ("Wheat and
+Chaff"), picking flowers ("Weeds and Flowers"), taking pictures ("Eye
+and Camera"). Many of the sermon subjects may be used in this manner.
+Cutting stone, measuring, eating husks, washing dirty face, etc. The
+other groups are to guess the word and have their turn.
+
+31. Children are always fond of riddles; especially when they are able
+to guess the answer. The suggested review questions at the close of each
+object sermon for afternoon church, may often be effectively used with
+slight changes. For example: "What is it that cannot see nor hear, but
+always knows when danger is near?" The answer is--"The Oyster."
+
+What is it which no boy or girl can see or hear, and the approach of
+which can not be made known by any of the natural senses? (Sin.)
+
+What is it which tells us when sin is near? (Conscience.)
+
+Have the children try to make up their own riddles from the objects
+shown and their uses, or lessons learned from the sermons.
+
+
+SLATES AND CRAYONS.
+
+32. Provide slates, or paper and pencils may be provided, and the
+children draw the object or something suggested by its use. Always have
+blank paper and pencils on hand for some of the games or exercises
+mentioned below.
+
+33. Cheap colored crayons can often be used with added value.
+
+34. Each Sunday appoint one child to take charge of the slates, papers
+and pencils, which are to be kept in a safe place and not disturbed
+during the week, and then to distribute them on the following Sunday.
+
+
+BUILDING AND WORD GAMES.
+
+35. Word building games are always interesting. Cut small squares of
+cardboard and plainly mark each with a letter. Many more vowels than
+consonants will be required. (These little squares with printed letters
+can be purchased at any toy-store.) Mix up the squares on a table, and
+the child who spells the largest number of names of places or objects
+mentioned in the sermons, using the letters on the squares, wins the
+game.
+
+36. This can be played in a variety of ways. For instance: Select the
+name of an object, person or place, and the one who first picks out the
+necessary letters to spell it, is declared the winner.
+
+37. Each child is given the same number of assorted letters and all try
+to make up the largest list of names from his portion of letters in a
+given time.
+
+
+BIBLE GUESSES.
+
+38. Tell a Bible story, or review one of the object sermons, omitting
+the names of characters or objects. Without warning, the one reciting
+the story stops, and the next player carries on the story if he has been
+able to guess the omitted names, without mentioning them. If he has not
+discovered or guessed the right story, the next player takes it up, and
+so on until the story is completed and everyone knows it.
+
+39. One of the children goes out of the room and the others decide on
+some object used in a sermon, or a certain thing mentioned in the Bible,
+which is to be described. For example: A watch, telescope, or the Ark,
+Joseph's coat of many colors, etc. Upon entering the room, the child may
+ask all manner of questions which can be answered by "yes" and "no".
+When the right thing is guessed, another goes out of the room and the
+game is repeated. Two or more children, or groups, may be the guessers
+at the same time.
+
+40. The game of thinking is equally interesting. The leader thinks of
+some character, place or object in the sermons or mentioned in the
+Bible. The "thinker" then says--"I am thinking of some thing (person or
+place) and the name begins with 'C' (or the initial letter)." Each of
+the other players asks a question in turn, that can be answered by "yes"
+or "no". The questions are continued until some one guesses the name.
+The one who first guessed the name becomes the leader.
+
+41. Make word pictures by describing persons and scenes without
+mentioning names. The others are to guess what it is. For example: The
+leader may say--"I see some ladies walking beside the water. Suddenly
+they stop and listen. Then one of them wades into the water and finds
+something," etc. If the picture is not promptly guessed, the story or
+picture of Pharaoh's daughter finding the baby Moses (Ex. ii: 3) is
+further described, until the picture is made known. Other stories may be
+used in the same manner.
+
+42. One or two players go out. The others sit in line and choose a well
+known proverb, Bible verse, or sentence from the object sermon, having
+as many words as there are players. Each player having made certain what
+his word is, the others are called in. It is their duty to put the
+sentence together. They ask each player in turn a question on any
+subject, and in answering the player must use the particular word given
+him. The questions may be continued, and the word must always be used in
+the answer, until the one guessing has discovered the particular word
+that player has, and so on until all the words in their order are
+guessed and the sentence or proverb discovered.
+
+In the same way, instead of the questions, the particular word may be
+acted, as charades, until the person guessing has discovered each word
+and at length composed the complete sentence.
+
+43. Distribute paper and pencils. Let a single letter be selected and
+have each child write down the names of characters, objects and places
+mentioned in the sermons, or the Bible, that have the same initial
+letter. For example: The letter "A" may be selected, then would follow
+"Apple", "Adam", "Apostles", "Angels", "Army", "Asia", etc. Other
+initial letters may be selected and the game continued.
+
+44. Have some one call out and write down a Bible name beginning with
+"A", as "Abram". The next one is to think of a name beginning with "B",
+as "Benjamin". "C" would come next, as "Caleb", then "David", "Eli",
+etc. The object is to see how many letters of the alphabet can be used
+and how often without repetition. Also names of places, objects and
+titles may be used.
+
+45. Ask the children to write down as many as they can of trees, or
+stones, flowers, birds, instruments, animals that are mentioned in the
+Bible.
+
+46. Bible geography can be made interesting and profitable. Get a
+shallow box and fill it with fine sand. Cities and countries may be
+wonderfully made. A small pile of the sand will represent a mountain,
+strips of blue or white paper can be used for rivers and lakes. Use
+small blocks and spools for houses and temples, small pebbles for roads.
+The people can be represented by matches and trees by tiny branches or
+leaves. When Palestine, for instance, is to be studied, small pieces of
+paper may be laid on the sand for the cities; the names or initials of
+the cities should be written on the pieces of paper.
+
+47. Maps may be drawn and colored crayons used to show the roads, water,
+cities, buildings, etc.
+
+48. From one of the sermons or a Bible story, select the name of a
+person, place or thing. Have each player write a sentence with the
+selected name embodied in it. When the sentences are read aloud, it will
+show quite original uses made of the name.
+
+49. To supply missing letters is an easy, simple game. Write names of
+sermon objects or Bible characters with letters omitted. The children
+will enjoy supplying the missing letters necessary to complete the name.
+Sentences and Bible verses may be used with missing words for the
+children to supply.
+
+
+BIBLE DRILLS.
+
+50. Bible drills are entertaining and especially valuable to children
+old enough to read and commit the lessons to memory. By a simple method
+the children can figure out the books in the Bible and their
+classifications. By pursuing the studies, the names of the books will
+soon be learned and in their regular order.
+
+51. Have the children count the letters in "Old" (3) and "Testament"
+(9). Place them together (39) and it gives the number of books in the
+Old Testament.
+
+52. Now multiply these two figures (3 x 9) and the result will give the
+number of books in the New Testament (27).
+
+53. Add together the two sets of figures (39 plus 27) and you will find
+the whole number of books in the Bible (66).
+
+54. The figure "6" is found in the number of books in the Bible (66),
+the number of known authors or writers of the books (36), and the
+number of years during which the Bible was written (1600).
+
+Thus we have 36 authors, 66 books, 16 centuries.
+
+55. The books of the Old Testament may be divided into five groups: as
+the Pentateuch (Books of Moses), History, Poetry, Major Prophets and
+Minor Prophets. Have the children trace the outline of a hand on paper
+and the thumb and fingers will represent the groups. Thus, the thumb
+will represent the Pentateuch; the first finger, the History; the second
+finger, Poetry; the third finger, Major Prophets; and the fourth finger,
+Minor Prophets.
+
+56. The New Testament may also be divided into five groups and
+represented by the other hand in the same manner. The five groups are
+Biography, History, Pauline Epistles (or Paul's Letters), General
+Epistles (or letters), and Prophesy.
+
+57. The number of books in each group of the Old Testament are: 5 plus
+12 plus 5 plus 5 plus 12--equals 39 books. In the New Testament, the
+five groups are made up of 4 plus 1 plus 13 plus 8 plus 1--equals 27
+books.
+
+58. The name of each group with the number of books in the group, may be
+written on separate cards. The cards are shuffled and the children sort
+them and place them together in their proper order, forming the Old
+Testament, then the New Testament.
+
+59. The names of the different books which make up the groups are looked
+up and written under the name of the group. Take the groups in their
+regular order. Thus, group one would be Pentateuch, 5 books: Gen'e-sis,
+Ex'o-dus, Le-vit'i-cus, Num'bers, Deu'ter-on'o-my. The second and fifth
+groups, where there are twelve books each, may be subdivided into threes
+and fours for greater ease in committing to memory.
+
+60. If the proper spelling of the names has also been committed to
+memory, or learned, then a regular spelling-bee may be held and the
+names of the Bible books used for the test words. The same tests may be
+made with the spelling of names of persons, places and things mentioned
+in the Bible.
+
+61. After the books of the Bible, in their order, have been learned,
+open the Bible and call out the book at which it is open. Name another
+book and ask which direction (toward the front or back of the Bible)
+shall the pages be turned to find that book. Many other test questions
+may be asked, such as: "What book is between Job and Proverbs?" "In
+which group is Lamentations to be found?" "Between what books is that of
+Luke?"
+
+62. Arrange the children in a row, or let them take their places in
+tents as shown on page 60, and then, as in a spelling-bee, ask the
+preceding or the following questions, or any other Bible questions that
+would be suited to the age of the children. When one fails to answer he
+loses his place and the child who gives the correct answer moves
+forward. The element of play is thus maintained.
+
+
+BIBLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
+
+          63. Who was the first man? Adam.
+
+          Who was the first woman? Eve.
+
+          Who was the first murderer? Cain (Gen. iv: 8).
+
+          Whom did he kill? His brother Abel.
+
+          Who went to Heaven without dying? Enoch and
+          Elijah.
+
+          How old was Enoch "when God took him"? 365 years
+          (Gen. v: 23, 24). The same number of years that
+          there are days in a year.
+
+          Who was the oldest man? Methuselah.
+
+          How old was Methuselah when he died? 969 years
+          (Gen. v: 27).
+
+          Who built the Ark? Noah (Gen. vi).
+
+          How many persons were saved in the Ark? Eight
+          (Gen. vii: 7). Noah and his wife, his three sons
+          and their wives.
+
+          How old was Noah at the time of the Flood? 600
+          years (Gen. vii: 6).
+
+          Who had the coat of many colors? Joseph (Gen.
+          xxxvii: 3).
+
+          How many brothers did Joseph have? Eleven (Gen.
+          xlii: 3, 4).
+
+          What did they do with Joseph? Cast him into a pit
+          and afterwards sold him to the Ishmaelitish
+          merchantmen (Gen. xxxvii: 28).
+
+          Where did the Ishmaelitish merchantmen take
+          Joseph? To Egypt.
+
+          To whom did they sell him? Potiphar (Gen. xxxix:
+          1).
+
+          Who lied about Joseph and had him cast into
+          prison? Potiphar's wife.
+
+          Who were in the prison with Joseph? The king's
+          chief butler and chief baker (Gen. xl: 1, 3).
+
+          Who was King of Egypt at the time Joseph was in
+          Egypt? Pharaoh.
+
+          Why did Pharaoh make Joseph ruler? That he might
+          gather the grain during the seven years of plenty
+          to lay up in store against the seven years of
+          famine.
+
+          What did Pharaoh dream? About seven fat kine, or
+          cows, and seven lean cows (Gen. xli).
+
+          What did Joseph do with the grain he gathered
+          during the seven years of plenty? Put in great
+          store houses.
+
+          Why did his brothers come to Joseph in Egypt
+          during the famine? That they might get food (Gen.
+          xlii).
+
+          Did his father, Jacob, and family go to live in
+          Egypt? Yes.
+
+          How old was Joseph when he died? 110 years (Gen.
+          l: 26).
+
+          How long did Jacob's descendants remain in Egypt?
+          A little more than two hundred years.
+
+          Why did they desire to leave Egypt? Because of the
+          oppressions and cruelty of Pharaoh (Ex. i: 8, 14).
+
+          Whom did God raise up to lead the Children of
+          Israel out of Egypt? Moses.
+
+          How long did they wander in the wilderness? Forty
+          years.
+
+          Was Moses permitted to enter the Promised Land?
+          No.
+
+          Who led the Children of Israel into the Land of
+          Canaan, which was the Promised Land? Joshua.
+
+          How did the Children of Israel cross the Red Sea
+          and the Jordan? The waters were divided and they
+          crossed "dry shod."
+
+          Who was the strongest man? Samson.
+
+          Who was the meekest man? Moses.
+
+          Who, as a ruler, was a man after God's own heart?
+          David.
+
+          Who built the Temple? Solomon.
+
+          Who went to Heaven in a chariot of fire? Elijah.
+
+          On whom did the mantle of Elijah fall? Elisha.
+
+          Who was swallowed by the great fish? Jonah (Jonah
+          i: 17).
+
+          Who destroyed the Temple and Jerusalem and carried
+          the Children of Israel into captivity?
+          Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 24, 25).
+
+          Where did he take them? To Babylon (2 Kings 25).
+
+          How long were they captive in Babylon? Seventy
+          years.
+
+          Who interpreted Nebuchadnezzar's dream? Daniel.
+
+          How did Nebuchadnezzar reward Daniel? Made him
+          ruler over Babylon (Daniel ii: 48, 49).
+
+          What were the names of Daniel's three friends?
+          Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.
+
+          What heathen names were given them instead?
+          Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego (Daniel i: 6, 7).
+
+          What befell the three friends of Daniel? They were
+          cast into the burning fiery furnace.
+
+          Why were they cast into this furnace? Because they
+          refused to fall down and worship a great golden
+          image which Nebuchadnezzar, the King, had set up
+          in the plain of Dura.
+
+          Were they consumed in the furnace? No, God
+          delivered them (Daniel iii).
+
+          What befell Daniel years later, when Darius was
+          King? He was cast into the den of lions (Daniel
+          vi).
+
+          Why was he cast into the den of lions? Because he
+          prayed to the true God.
+
+          Did the lions harm Daniel? No, God stopped the
+          mouths of the lions and delivered Daniel.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_The author's intense interest in the safeguarding and saving of the
+boys and girls from the evils which have wrought the ruin of such
+countless multitudes, prompts in connection with this introductory word,
+to call the special attention of the parents to an advertisement which
+has been placed at the close of this volume._
+
+
+
+
+Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate Into the City of Child-Soul
+
+
+
+
+THE OYSTER AND THE CRAB.
+
+CONSCIENCE.
+
+
+          SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS:--It will awaken the
+          curiosity and add greatly to the interest of the
+          children if the parent will have them secure
+          during the week preceding a couple of oyster
+          shells. In most of cities and towns, these can be
+          easily obtained. It is better for the children
+          themselves to secure them, because it makes them
+          participants and important factors in what is to
+          be done. Do not tell them in advance what use is
+          to be made of the oyster shells; simply say that
+          they are for use in connection with Sunday
+          afternoon.
+
+          Introduce the play idea from the beginning. Let
+          the children arrange the chairs to "drive to
+          church," as shown in the preceding pictures. If
+          there are two children who both want to do the
+          driving, suggest that one can drive to church and
+          the other can drive when returning from
+          church--and a third may drive from the house to
+          the stable when the horses are to be put away.
+
+          At the church service let everything be done
+          reverently, and make it a matter of real worship.
+          One of the children can act as usher, and if there
+          is but one child, this one can usher her dolls to
+          seats; or imaginary people may be shown to seats.
+          All of this will appeal very strongly to the
+          child. Select hymns suited to the children's
+          tastes and such as they can sing. Do not sing too
+          many verses. Children like variety.
+
+          The service ought to be such as is in harmony with
+          that regularly attended by the parents, and such
+          as the children are familiar with. It may be as
+          informal as the Salvation Army, or a greatly
+          abridged form of the "Episcopal Service" can be
+          used. The Lord's Prayer may be repeated in unison,
+          or sentence prayers used, or a brief selection
+          from the Prayer Book. The preaching by one of the
+          children should precede the reading of the Object
+          sermon.
+
+          After carrying out the idea of the church service,
+          the other ideas presented may be introduced, and
+          after the imaginary drive home some simple
+          refreshments can be served, as also mentioned in
+          the chapter of "Suggestions to Parents" on page
+          17.
+
+
+[Illustration: Oyster and Shell.]
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to speak to you to-day about "Having a
+good conscience." (I Peter iii: 16.) This is rather a hard subject, but
+I desire to make it plain by the use of a familiar object. "What's this
+I have in my hand?" I rather expected that you would say an oyster; but,
+really it is nothing but an oyster shell. I suppose you have all eaten
+stewed oysters, or oyster broth. I remember, when a little boy, that one
+day when we had stewed oysters for supper, I found a little yellow
+something in my broth. I did not know whether my mother had put it in
+purposely, or whether it had fallen in by accident; whether I should
+push it aside of my plate, that it might be thrown with the crumbs to
+the chickens, or whether I should eat it to discover what it was.
+
+[Illustration: Little Crab.]
+
+I suppose you have all seen these little animals in your soup, and know
+that they are called crabs. Now, do you know how the crab comes to be in
+with the oyster? I will tell you how it is. The oyster lives in the
+water at the bottom of the bay, and some bright day, when the sun is
+shining down genial and warm, just the same as in the summer, we open
+the doors, and sit out on the porch to enjoy the cool of the day; so the
+oyster opens his shells and lets the cool currents of water move gently
+through his house. But while lying there with his shells wide open,
+along comes a great hungry fish. He sees the oyster, but the oyster
+cannot see him. The oyster cannot see, for he has no eyes. He cannot
+hear, for he has no ears. Of the five senses which each of us have,
+hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling, the oyster can only tell
+of the presence of his enemy when he feels himself being dragged out of
+his house, and being quickly swallowed by the fish. But his knowledge of
+what is happening only comes when it is too late.
+
+[Illustration: Fish Going to Eat the Oyster.]
+
+Now, with the little crab, who also lives in the same neighborhood with
+the oyster, it is quite different. The crab has eyes, and can see the
+hungry fish that comes to eat him up. He has legs, with which to try and
+run away; but the fish can swim so much faster than the little crab can
+run that he is sure to be devoured before the race is half over. So what
+do you think the little crab does? He crawls along quietly, and creeps
+into the shell with the oyster, and the oyster and the crab enter into a
+kind of partnership for mutual protection. After this, when the oyster
+opens his shells, the little crab uses his eyes very diligently to look
+around, and watch for the approach of any fish. As soon as he spies any
+sly fish coming near, he pinches the oyster, and immediately the oyster
+closes his shells very tightly, and the oyster and the crab are both
+within, safely protected from the fish.
+
+Now, boys and girls, we are something like the oyster. We are constantly
+exposed to the danger of being destroyed by sin. We cannot see sin, we
+cannot hear sin, we cannot perceive it by any of our senses. So God has
+given us a conscience, which means "to know with God." When you are
+tempted to do a sinful act, it is conscience that quickly whispers, "Now
+that is wicked," "If you do that, God will be displeased."
+
+Let me illustrate this thought. One real pleasant day, when the birds
+are singing, and everything is attractive out of doors, Johnnie thinks
+how hard it is to be studying his lessons in what he calls a prison of a
+school-room. He knows that papa and mamma will not give him permission
+to stay at home; so a little before nine o'clock, as he saunters towards
+the school, Satan suggests to him to play "hookey," and when he comes to
+the corner of the street, looking back to be sure that no one sees him,
+he turns the corner to remain out of school, intending to come home at
+the regular time for dinner and escape discovery. Just as soon as he
+turns the corner, and even before that, conscience has seen the danger,
+and whispers strong and clear, "Johnnie, this is wicked; you will surely
+get into trouble, and you will make papa and mamma sad, and also
+displease God." Now, if Johnnie does not turn right back when conscience
+warns him, he is sure to go on without having any pleasure all that
+forenoon, because his conscience continues to warn and reprove him.
+
+[Illustration: "Willie is more frightened than the dog."]
+
+Or suppose that Willie goes down the street and sees Mr. Brown's dog a
+little ways off. He looks around quickly for a stone, and immediately
+conscience says, "Now, Willie, don't hit the poor dog, for the stone
+will cause him pain, just as it would if some one were to hit you with a
+stone." But Willie does not listen to conscience. He throws the stone
+with all his might. It strikes on the pavement, just by the side of the
+dog, glances and breaks in many pieces the large plate glass in the
+window of the drug store.
+
+Willie is more frightened than the dog, and without a moment's
+forethought he runs around the corner, to get out of sight. And after
+concealing himself for a time in the alley, he steals quietly into the
+house at the back door. How he dreads to meet his father and mother.
+Every time the door bell rings he thinks surely that it is the druggist
+or the policeman. Oh! how this sin pains him; just like the oyster would
+be hurt if he does not heed the little crab, when he warns him that the
+fish is coming to destroy him. If Willie had only listened to
+conscience, what sin and trouble it would have saved him. So, boys and
+girls, God has given each of us a conscience, and if we want to be saved
+from sin and suffering, we should always be quick to obey our
+conscience. Let each of us try and "keep a good conscience."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Can the oyster see or hear? Can it
+          feel? What often destroys the oyster? What lives
+          down under the water near the oyster? Can the
+          little crab see? Can he get away from the fish?
+          How does he assist the oyster? How does he warn
+          the oyster of danger? Can boys or girls see sin?
+          What has God given each of us to warn us of danger
+          when sin is near? Does every boy and girl have a
+          conscience? Does conscience always give warning?
+          Do boys and girls always obey their conscience?
+          Should conscience always be obeyed? Will you
+          always try to obey conscience in the future? The
+          parent may ask additional questions or make
+          application in any other manner they deem best.
+
+          Next Sunday the sermon will be about the worm in
+          the apple. Let one of the children get a nice,
+          large, perfect apple, and also another apple which
+          has been dwarfed and deformed because of a worm
+          inside the apple. These will be the objects which
+          we shall use next Sunday.
+
+
+
+
+THE WORM IN THE APPLE.
+
+SIN IN THE HUMAN HEART.
+
+
+          SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS:--The objects used to-day
+          are a large perfect apple and a stunted, wormy
+          apple. Have also a knife with which, at the proper
+          time, to open the wormy apple. With these
+          preparations made, let the children "drive to
+          church" after the manner suggested for last
+          Sunday.
+
+          After the singing of a hymn or two, prayer and
+          collection, let one of the children, in the manner
+          of the preacher speaking to his audience, tell in
+          his own way of the "Oyster and Crab" and of God's
+          purpose in giving us a conscience, and let him or
+          her draw the moral lessons and impress the
+          spiritual truths. Even if it is done in but few
+          words, or a faltering way, do not embarrass or
+          discourage by criticisms. Speak words of
+          encouragement. If preferred, the little sermon may
+          be a presentation of the sermon preached by the
+          pastor in the morning, or one child may present
+          the object sermon of last Sunday and another child
+          the sermon by the pastor in the morning. The more
+          who take part, the better, as variety adds to the
+          interest.
+
+          Then gather the children around close so they can
+          see the pictures as you read the following sermon.
+          Have the apples at hand also for demonstration.
+
+THE object which I have chosen to-day, is one with which I am sure every
+boy and girl is thoroughly familiar. The moment you see it you recognize
+it. This large and beautiful apple is one of the most perfect of its
+kind, large in size, beautiful in color, and one which tempts the
+appetite of any one who is hungry.
+
+Now, boys and girls, I have here another object. Can you tell me what
+this is? I expected that you would say that it was an apple, and that is
+true. But you have not told me the whole truth concerning it. This is
+not only an apple, but it is a wormy apple. It did not grow as large as
+the other, and, by looking at the outside, I see that it is defective.
+It is stunted, like wormy apples quite universally are. You might think
+that the worm went into this apple because it was not full grown and
+strong and large, the same as it is sometimes thought that boys who have
+never improved their advantages, but have failed to become noble and
+good, therefore sin has entered their hearts. The truth is just the
+reverse; wickedness first possessed their hearts, and that has been the
+cause of their failure to improve their opportunities, and to become
+manly, and noble, and good, and kind. If they had first got the evil and
+sin out of their hearts, they would surely have stood a much better
+chance. They would have become Christians, and have grown up more and
+more like Christ, to be good, and kind, and generous, and useful.
+
+[Illustration: Worm in the Apple.]
+
+I want to ask you a question concerning this worm. But to be sure that
+we are not mistaken, let me take a knife and cut this apple in two, and
+see whether or not there is a worm inside. Just as I said, this is a
+wormy apple. It has evidently had two worms in it. Here is one of them,
+and the other has taken its departure. Now, boys and girls, I want to
+ask you, did this worm eat his way into the apple, or did he eat his way
+out of the apple? Quite as I anticipated. I expected that you would say
+that he ate his way into the apple; but the fact is, he ate his way out
+of the apple. I am sure that you will ask immediately, at least in your
+minds, how then did he get in, if he ate his way out? I will tell you
+how it was. Early last spring, just after the apple trees had been in
+blossom, and when this apple had just begun to form on one of the
+branches, there came along a bug and stung this apple, and deposited in
+the inside the germ of the worm. As the summer grew warmer, and the
+apple grew larger, the germ began to develop, until finally it grew into
+a worm. When it began to grow strong, it discovered that it was confined
+in the interior of something, and soon it began to eat, and continued
+until it ate its way out of the apple. This other worm, which still
+remained in, had continued to eat in the various portions of the apple,
+and possibly because of having less bodily vigor had concluded to remain
+there for a time, but you can see from the inside of the apple that it
+has done great injury, at the very core or heart, and I suppose that if
+it had been left to itself, in the course of a few days, or a few weeks
+at most, it also would have eaten its way out of the apple, in order to
+escape from its confinement.
+
+[Illustration: Insect Stinging Bud.]
+
+Now, boys and girls, this worm represents sin in the human heart, or
+wickedness possibly presents the thought better, and when you see a boy
+or girl doing wrong, they are simply giving outward expression to the
+wickedness which exists in their hearts. Boys are bad, not so much
+because the influences by which they are surrounded are bad, but because
+their hearts are sinful, and wicked, and bad. But I am sure that you
+will want to know how wickedness gets into the human heart. I will tell
+you how it is. Way back in the spring-time of the history of the human
+race, way back in the Garden of Eden, soon after God had created Adam
+and Eve, Satan came and inspired in the hearts of these first people the
+desire to disobey God. God told Adam and Eve that they should not eat
+of the fruit of the forbidden tree, and that when they did they would
+die, that is, they would be separated from God. Satan came and told them
+that they would not die, but that when they ate of the fruit of this
+tree they would become very wise. They believed Satan rather than God,
+and they did that which was wicked and wrong. And so throughout all the
+generations since, there has been that willingness to believe Satan and
+to do what he wants us to do, rather than to believe God and do what God
+would have us to do.
+
+Boys and girls who find themselves inclined to disobey their father or
+mother, to be disrespectful to those who are older than they, to do
+wrong on the Sabbath, to remain away from the Sunday-school and church,
+and to enjoy the beautiful spring-day, by strolling through the fields
+or wandering through the woods, do so, not alone because the day is
+pleasant or because of the opportunities from which others turn away,
+but because there is wickedness in their hearts. So when boys quarrel
+and fight, or steal, or do any other thing that is wrong, it is not so
+much the influences by which they are surrounded, the temptation from
+without, but the wickedness and the evil and the sinfulness which there
+is in the human heart, eating its way out through their heart into their
+lives, and deforming their lives, which otherwise would be upright,
+honorable and manly and Christ-like. I trust that when you are tempted
+to do wrong you will recognize the fact that there is evil in your
+heart, and that you will go to Jesus and earnestly pray Him to take away
+this evil out of your heart, and to give you a new, clean heart. Just
+the same as with these apples, if you had the privilege of choosing, I
+am sure you would prefer the large one, which has not been spoiled
+because of the destructive worm inside, so I trust you will choose to
+have the good heart, which God can give you, rather than the heart that
+has wickedness and sin within. If you will go to God in prayer and ask
+Him, He will give you a good heart, a true heart, one that has no sin
+and no wickedness within.
+
+          Questions.--Which is nicer, a big, red apple or a
+          little stunted one? What prevented the little
+          apple from growing big and beautiful? When did the
+          little worm get into the apple? If it had not been
+          for the worm in the apple, would the apple have
+          grown large and well formed? What causes boys and
+          girls to desire to do wrong? Who tempted Adam and
+          Eve to do wrong? Did they listen? Did they believe
+          God or did they believe Satan? Are boys and girls
+          still tempted to do wrong? Are they likely to
+          yield to temptation? To whom should we go when we
+          are tempted to do wrong? Who alone can cleanse our
+          hearts from sin? Should we always go and ask God
+          for strength when we are tempted? Which would you
+          choose, a good heart or a wicked heart?
+
+          Suggest to the children (or better still select
+          one or have them select one) to procure for next
+          Sunday some weeds that grow by the wayside and
+          also a few cut flowers or potted plants.
+
+          After "driving home" from church and after putting
+          the horses away, which little action gives the
+          children a few moments' diversion, then other
+          methods contained in the chapter of "Suggestions
+          to Parents" can be selected according to the age,
+          intelligence and interest of the children. After
+          this, refreshments or whatever is best suited to
+          the thought of the parents and the conditions of
+          the household may be introduced.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WAYSIDE WEEDS AND GARDEN FLOWERS.
+
+NEGLECTED VERSUS CHRISTIAN CHILDREN.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS TO PARENTS:--The objects to be used
+          to-day are a bouquet of flowers or some potted
+          plants and a bunch of weeds that grow by the
+          wayside. These will illustrate the difference
+          between neglected, untaught and undisciplined
+          children, and the children of a well trained
+          household. Make the lesson impressive, so that the
+          children will appreciate that the restrictions and
+          discipline which are imposed upon them are all for
+          their own good--that without these careful
+          attentions they would grow up like the children in
+          the slums. The neglected character of the clothing
+          of undisciplined and uncared for children is only
+          indicative of the minds and hearts and character
+          of these children.
+
+          Arrange the chairs, "drive to church"; let the
+          ushers show the different real or imaginary
+          persons to seats. Then let the hymn, prayer or
+          "opening service" precede the "preaching" of the
+          object sermon of last Sunday or the regular sermon
+          at the morning church service by one or more of
+          the children, after which a hymn may be sung, and
+          the parent gather the children close so they can
+          see the pictures, and read the following sermon on
+          "Wayside Weeds and Garden Flowers." During the
+          reading, or before, or after, let the children
+          gain the impressive lessons from the colored
+          picture which so beautifully illustrates the
+          sermon.
+
+
+[Illustration: Wayside Weeds and Garden Flowers]
+
+THE land of Palestine, in which Jesus lived, has always been noted for
+its flowers. They grow everywhere in great abundance, and oftentimes in
+very great perfection and beauty. One time, when Jesus was preaching on
+the mountain, He used the flowers which were growing on the side of the
+mountain, to preach an object sermon to the multitudes about Him. He
+said, "Consider the lilies of the field; how they grow; they toil not,
+neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that Solomon, in all his
+glory, was not arrayed like one of these." (Matt. vi: 28, 29.) Let us
+to-day take the same object lesson, to set forth to our minds a clearer
+understanding of some truths, which are very important to every father
+and mother, as well as every boy and girl.
+
+As you see, I have here two bouquets. This, which I now hold in my hand,
+is indeed very beautiful. Here are some lovely roses, some tulips, some
+peonies. Here is a dahlia and heliotrope. Here are some tube roses, and
+a great variety of other flowers, which together constitute a very
+beautiful bouquet.
+
+Now, here is another bouquet. I see you smile, but indeed it is a
+bouquet. I spent a great deal of time gathering these flowers, at which
+you laugh. I sought them in such places as would afford the best
+varieties of these several kinds.
+
+Now, boys and girls, I want to ask you where these flowers grew? I will
+hold up this beautiful bouquet and ask the question. I know what will be
+your answer; you will say that I bought it from a man who keeps a
+hot-house, or that I gathered them in some flower garden which was very
+carefully tended; and such, indeed, is the case.
+
+Now, I will hold up this other bouquet. Can you tell me where I gathered
+these? I did not think that you would have much difficulty in
+determining. I gathered them along the roadside, in the fields and in
+the woods. These flowers are what the farmer calls "weeds." Here is a
+rose with a single leaf that grew in a neglected corner, along the
+outskirts of a woods. It is a genuine rose, but it is by no means
+pretty, or at all to be compared with those in the other bouquet.
+
+I will tell you why there is such a difference in the appearance of
+these two bouquets. One grew in the garden, where it was protected by a
+fence from being tramped upon. The weeds that grew about it were all
+pulled out of the ground, and the stalk upon which this flower grew was
+given a fair chance, so that it might grow successfully. The roots of
+the plants were carefully nourished, and whenever there was not
+sufficient rain the flowers were all watered, and thus the plants and
+flowers grew to their greatest perfection and beauty.
+
+Now, these other flowers which I gathered in the fields and along the
+roadside and in the woods, have had a hard time of it. In their growth
+they had to contend with other weeds. They have been tramped upon by the
+cattle. They have been scorched by the sun. And year after year they
+have grown in these neglected quarters with great difficulty,
+consequently they are stunted and have never attained any perfection or
+beauty.
+
+Do you know that these very beautiful flowers in this bouquet at one
+time grew just the same as the flowers in the other bouquet? But they
+were removed from the roadside, and from the fields and from the woods,
+and placed by themselves where they could be properly cared for and
+cultivated, and they grew more beautiful from year to year, until we
+have this present satisfactory result.
+
+Boys and girls are very much like flowers. Those who are neglected, who
+are permitted to walk the streets, to stroll along the roads and over
+the fields, to go along the streams fishing on Sunday, instead of being
+in Sunday-school and in church, those who are permitted to run out at
+nights and play with all kinds of company--these are the boys and girls
+who are like the flowers which grow by the roadside. Nothing very
+beautiful, or very good, or very perfect can reasonably be expected from
+them.
+
+This beautiful bouquet represents those boys and girls who have
+Christian fathers and mothers, who surround them by influences which are
+well calculated to make them pure in thought and upright in life, so
+that they may grow up to be good Christian men and women. These flowers
+represent the boys and girls who grow up in the Sunday-school and in the
+Church, who give their hearts to the Lord Jesus Christ, and grow up
+into His likeness, and into His image, and into His stature, and become
+noble Christian men and women.
+
+When parents permit their children to run wild, they cannot expect them
+to grow up Christians. It is only by culture and education and Christian
+influences that they can be improved, so as to become honorable and
+upright.
+
+Nearly all the products of the field have been improved by cultivation,
+just the same as these flowers have been improved. Wheat in its native
+state, as it may still be found in France and Italy along the shores of
+the Mediterranean, was a stunted and straggling plant, with a small and
+inferior seed, but after long years of patient and continued
+cultivation, it has grown to its present plump and prolific proportions.
+All the beautiful fruits which now grow in our orchards were at one time
+unsightly and undesirable. The apple was small and sour, and
+unpalatable; but by pruning and grafting and fertilizing, it has grown
+to be not only beautiful to the eye, but delicious to the taste. The
+acrid and unwholesome berries, which formerly grew on the mountain ash,
+have been developed into the sweet and juicy pear. By cultivation, the
+acrid and bitter sloe has grown into the beautiful plum. The same is
+also true of the potato, the turnip and the cabbage.
+
+Boys and girls can only be developed into useful men and women by the
+influence of the week-day and Sunday-school, the Christian home and the
+Church, by reading and studying the Bible and other good books.
+
+When you are restricted or corrected by your parents, you may oftentimes
+feel very much irritated and may feel rebellious, and may think that you
+do not have as many privileges or as much freedom as some of the other
+boys and girls whom you know. But you must remember that all this is
+done by your parents for your good, and later on in life you will see
+the value of it all and be very grateful to your parents for what they
+have done for you.
+
+When I was a boy, in the little village where I lived they organized a
+cannon company of six or eight boys, who were to accompany the men who
+went to other villages to listen to political speeches before elections,
+and then to march in a torch-light procession. I was at that time a boy
+about twelve years old. I was asked to join. The boys were all to wear
+red blouses and red caps, and to my thought just then, nothing in the
+world was so much to be desired as the torch-light procession and the
+red blouse and cap, and to be permitted to march behind the drum and the
+fife, hauling the little cannon after us.
+
+I shall never forget how I cried and how ugly I felt toward my father
+when he would not let me be one of the cannon boys and wear a red blouse
+and a red cap. He said that at night I ought to be at home and in bed,
+and not be exposed to possible bad influences, the danger of catching
+cold and of other bad results which he could clearly see, but which I,
+at that time, thought were only imaginary.
+
+When I grew to be a man, I saw that my father was right, and later when
+at intervals I journeyed back to my boyhood home and visited the
+cemetery, I frequently placed one elbow on the tomb-stone of my father
+and the other elbow on the tomb-stone of my mother, and with my face
+buried in my hands thanked God that He had given me Christian parents
+who were wise and judicious enough not to let me have my own way in all
+things when I was a boy, but who had restricted me and guided me wisely
+and well.
+
+So, boys and girls, it will be with you when you have grown to the
+estate of manhood and womanhood. You will be, oh, so thankful again and
+again that father and mother have oftentimes denied you things which you
+have most desired to have.
+
+          Questions.--Which are the prettier, flowers which
+          are neglected by the roadside, or those which are
+          cultivated in the garden? Are boys and girls like
+          flowers? Which boys and girls are the best, those
+          who are neglected and not taught, or those who are
+          cared for and carefully trained? Is it more
+          pleasant for boys and girls to have their own way
+          in everything, or would they prefer to be taught
+          and trained by their parents? Which kind of
+          flowers are the heathen boys and girls like? Can
+          wild flowers be made more beautiful by care and
+          cultivation? Can the boys and girls in heathen
+          lands be made like Christian boys and girls? What
+          is necessary to effect this change? How can Bibles
+          and missionaries be sent to them? Did the writer
+          of this book want to have his own way when he was
+          a boy? What did he want to be? What kind of a cap
+          and blouse did he want to wear? When he became a
+          man, was he thankful to his father for not
+          allowing him to have his own way at that time?
+          Will all good boys and girls, when they become men
+          and women, be thankful to their parents for right
+          training?
+
+[Illustration: "The Cannon Boys."]
+
+
+
+
+NUTS.
+
+GOD MEANS THAT WE MUST WORK.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used are some nuts of
+          various kinds.
+
+          If the parent has not already familiarized himself
+          with the different methods of entertainment in
+          connection with the reading of the object sermon
+          to the children, he would do well to turn to the
+          chapter on "Suggestions to Parents" on page 17 and
+          introduce some one or more of the play ideas which
+          have accomplished so much of pleasure and profit
+          in many homes.
+
+          Arrange chairs and "drive to church," let the
+          audience, both real and imaginary be shown to
+          seats, and after the opening service let one of
+          the children in his or her own way present the
+          lessons remembered from the sermon of last Sunday,
+          or recast what was said by the pastor in his
+          morning sermon. After the collection and singing,
+          let the children "drive home" and let refreshments
+          or some one of the Scriptural entertainments
+          previously suggested round out the pleasure and
+          profit of Sunday afternoon.
+
+
+NOW, boys and girls, I have here some hickory nuts, walnuts, butternuts,
+chestnuts, and filberts, or hazel nuts as they are sometimes called, and
+I want to tell you something that I suppose God means to teach us by
+these nuts.
+
+[Illustration: Nuts.]
+
+Many people remember that when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden, God
+told them that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" (Gen.
+iii: 19), and also that God drove them out of the garden to "till the
+ground from whence man was taken." (Gen. iii: 23.) On this account some
+people suppose that if Adam and Eve had not sinned it would never have
+been necessary for us to work, but that is a mistake. If you turn to the
+second chapter of Genesis, in the fifteenth verse, you will find that it
+says, "The Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to
+dress it and to keep it." So you see that Adam was required to work,
+even before the fall. Of course his work was not as severe as it was
+after he was driven out of Eden and his labor brought him a richer
+fruitage.
+
+Now, what do these nuts teach us? I think that most all boys and girls
+like to eat hickory nuts and butternuts, and chestnuts and filberts, and
+indeed all kinds of nuts. But did you ever stop to think that God has
+made it necessary that we should crack the shell before we can eat the
+kernel that is inside? God has purposed to teach us that labor is
+necessary before we can eat even of that which He gives us, so on the
+outside of this desired food he places the shell, in some instances hard
+and difficult to be broken, in order to teach us that labor is necessary
+before we can eat of His gifts.
+
+Now the same thing is true with regard to the grain that grows in the
+field. No one ever saw potatoes grow without being planted and
+cultivated. Rye and oats and wheat do not grow wild. Weeds will grow
+without being sown or planted, but grain and vegetables not only have to
+be planted, but have to be taken care of. Possibly you might think that
+my statement was not wholly correct, because we go out into the orchard
+and gather apples and pears and peaches, and other kinds of fruit which
+have no hard shells on them, and which do not have to be planted in the
+spring of the year. But do you know that we could not gather this kind
+of rich fruit from the trees unless trees of these kinds had been
+cultivated for long centuries, grafted and developed so as to produce
+the rich fruit which is now placed upon our tables? So you see that even
+this has cost labor, and if we were to neglect the trees in the orchard,
+it would only be a few years until they would produce only a very small
+variety of fruit, and even that would be sour and have an unpleasant
+taste.
+
+But God means to teach us this lesson also in another way. Man has found
+it very necessary to use the different kinds of metals, iron and copper,
+silver and gold. God has not laid these metals on top of the ground, but
+has made it necessary that we should dig down into the earth and secure
+these metals at the cost of a great deal of labor. The same is also true
+with regard to the coal and the oil, and all the rich mineral products
+which God has blessed us. None of them can be secured without labor.
+
+[Illustration: Apple Tree.]
+
+We are all naturally lazy. I have oftentimes thought that we are all
+born lazy. Some learn to be industrious with less effort, but all have
+to be taught to work. God means that we should work. Have you ever
+thought that God could feed us without our labor if He chose to do so?
+He could rain down our food from heaven, just the same as He gave manna
+to the Children of Israel, while they were journeying to the promised
+land. He could not only feed us, but He could also clothe us from
+heaven. I am sure that if God gave us our clothing from heaven, He would
+not make such foolish fashions as wicked people over in Paris invent,
+and which all the rest of the world seem to think they have to imitate.
+Not only our food and clothing, but God could also have made it
+necessary that there should be no preachers. Instead of giving us His
+Word in the Bible, and then asking us to go into all the world and to
+preach it to all creatures, He might have used the stars at night, just
+the same as the printer uses the different kinds of type and prints the
+letters and words upon the page; so God could have used the stars in
+order to write His law upon the heavens in a universal language that
+would be known by all peoples, and so at night, and even in the daytime,
+people could look up into the heavens and read God's law. Thus it would
+have been unnecessary ever to have printed Bibles, or to send preachers
+to preach. The cost of building churches and supporting ministers would
+thus have been unnecessary, but God does not do things in that way. Lazy
+people might desire that things were arranged in this way, but God has
+seen fit to make it very different.
+
+But why do you think that God means that you and I should learn to work?
+There are two or three good reasons which I can think of. We are so
+constituted that no one can be in good health for any considerable
+period without physical exertion, and so you see that if we want to be
+well--and no one can be happy who is not well--it is necessary that we
+should learn to work. You will always find that lazy people who eat a
+great deal suffer many physical ailments. They are always complaining,
+and I think you will always find that they really are sick, but they
+could be well if they would only go to work as God meant they should.
+
+Then there is another reason. An idle man is always a dissatisfied man.
+A boy or girl with nothing to do is sure to be unhappy. If we desire to
+be happy and contented we must learn to work.
+
+But there is also another reason. Our spiritual well-being also renders
+it necessary that you and I should have something to do. Work is really
+one of God's greatest blessings, and we are told that those who are idle
+tempt Satan to tempt them. I do not believe that an idle person can be a
+good Christian. An idler is of no use either in the world or in the
+church. God can make no use of him, and Satan must surely despise him
+also.
+
+So if you desire to be delivered from sickness and to remain well and
+strong, if you desire to be contented and happy, if you desire to be
+good and useful, if you desire to be helpful in the great purpose for
+which God has created you and placed you upon this earth, you must learn
+to work, and the best time to learn to work is when we are young. We are
+to learn to labor with our hands, with our minds, always remembering
+that whatsoever we do, we are to do all to the glory of God.
+
+Now let us all join in singing,
+
+          "Work, for the night is coming."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Did God assign some work to Adam when
+          he was first created? What was he to do in the
+          Garden? Why does God place the kernel of nuts
+          inside of a shell? Do vegetables and grain grow
+          without being planted? Will weeds grow without
+          being planted? Why did God place the metals, and
+          coal and oil down below the surface of the ground?
+          Are we naturally industrious or lazy? Could God
+          clothe and feed us without our labor? Why does He
+          not do it? How could God have printed His law so
+          that it would not be necessary to have Bibles and
+          preachers? Are idle people healthy and contented?
+          Why not? Whom do idle people tempt? Can an idle
+          person be a good Christian? When is it easiest to
+          learn to work? What should we always remember in
+          our work?
+
+
+
+
+BANKS.
+
+GATHERED AND GUARDED TREASURES.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--Objects for use: A child's bank and
+          a metal kettle of any kind to show how people used
+          to place their money in boxes, kettles, etc., and
+          then bury them in the ground.
+
+          Use the methods suggested in the preceding
+          sermons. Examine the chapter on "Suggestions to
+          Parents" and introduce new features from Sunday to
+          Sunday. Children like variety.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: What is this I hold in my hand? (Voices: "Bank,
+penny bank, money bank.") Yes, you are right, this is a bank, and I
+suppose many of you, perhaps all of you either now, or at some past time
+have had such a place to deposit your money.
+
+[Illustration: A Penny Bank.]
+
+In the time of Christ the children did not have little banks like these.
+Even the big people did not have banks where they could deposit their
+money. When they had jewels or money they would place them in a box, or
+a copper kettle, and bury them in the earth. They would hide them away
+from other people, and thus seek to secure them for themselves. In that
+period of the world, there were many thieves and robbers; Palestine was
+often invaded by hostile armies; there were occasional earthquakes,
+which destroyed whole cities, and so the people used to bury their money
+for safe keeping. After burying it, sometimes they were killed in war,
+or perhaps died suddenly, before they had time to tell anybody where
+they had concealed their money, and on this account all over that land
+there were buried treasures, or "hid treasures" as they are called, and
+to-day if you were to go to Palestine you would see many people digging
+here and there everywhere to find money or treasures that have been
+hidden away for long centuries. Even in the time of Job people must have
+dug for treasures, as they are doing in Palestine to-day, for Job says
+of the miserable and unhappy, that they often "long for death, and dig
+for it, more than for hid treasures." (Job iii: 21.)
+
+It is altogether right for you to economize and save your pennies. I
+hope every boy and girl will have a little bank, but while you are
+learning to save, you should also learn to give to every good cause, to
+give in Sunday-school and to give for the support of the Church, for
+missions, and to give to assist the aged and the poor, and to contribute
+something for those who are in poverty and in distress. If you simply
+learn to save, or hoard up money, and do not learn at the same time to
+give, you will become what people call "a miser," and that word means
+miserable. Misers are always miserable, not because they do not already
+have sufficient, but because there is so much more that they desire.
+They always wish for more.
+
+[Illustration: Hiding Treasures in the Earth.]
+
+But while you are learning to save money and to gather treasures here
+upon the earth, you must not forget that the Bible says, that we are to
+lay up for ourselves "treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not
+corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal." It says,
+"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these
+things shall be added unto you." God means that first of all you and I
+shall give our hearts to Him, and then afterward, in all our getting, we
+should constantly remember that we are only stewards of God--that is,
+that all the money and everything else we possess in this world belongs
+to God. He simply permits us to have it and to use it in His name, and
+we must honor and reverence Him by giving to help on every good work.
+
+Now, after we have given our hearts to God, and have become followers of
+the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to lay up our treasures in heaven by
+living right, by seeking to be good, and by doing good to others. We are
+to lose no opportunity to do that which will be a blessing to those
+about us.
+
+One of the boys or girls said this was a penny bank. That name is very
+suggestive. A bank is a place where you deposit money. Now, if you have
+a bank like this, do you only put into it silver dollars, five-dollar
+bills, ten-dollar gold pieces? If each boy who is here were to wait
+until he had a ten-dollar gold piece, or a five-dollar bill, or until he
+had come into possession of a silver dollar before he placed any money
+in his bank, I am sure his bank would always remain empty. The way to
+fill a bank is to put pennies in it--to save each cent and each
+five-cent piece. To-day a penny, and to-morrow a few pennies, and so on
+through the week, and through the year, and at the end of the year you
+will find that you have saved quite a goodly sum.
+
+Now, there are some people who want to lay up treasures in heaven, but
+they do not want to lay it up there, little by little. They prefer to
+wait until some opportunity comes when they can do a great deal of good
+at one time. But the person who does not do good every day and every
+hour, little by little, will never have any treasure in heaven. It is
+the pennies that make the dollars; it is the "many mites that make the
+muckle." It is the constant doing of little things, for the glory of God
+and the good of others, that makes a man great. Great men are great in
+little things, and if you desire to be great men and great women, you
+must always use the little opportunities, and use them well. Lay up
+treasure in heaven, each and every day, just the same as, day after day,
+you would save your pennies, and thus fill your banks. If you want a
+large treasure in heaven you must constantly be engaged in laying up
+your treasure there. Never lose an opportunity to do good, and in this
+way you will have an abundant treasure in heaven.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Where do people put money for safe
+          keeping? Is it only silver and gold which is put
+          into a bank? Do thieves ever break into banks? Can
+          any treasure be laid up in the earth where it is
+          absolutely safe? Where does the Bible tell us we
+          are also to lay up treasure? When boys and girls
+          are obedient, is that laying up treasure in
+          heaven? Does being great in little things make a
+          great man or a great woman? Should boys and girls
+          learn to save their money? What would they be
+          called if they spent all their money? What would
+          they be called if they hoarded up all they could
+          get? Should we always use all our money in the
+          fear of God?
+
+          After the conclusion of the services and after
+          "driving home from church", introduce some other
+          interesting features so as to make the day
+          sacredly impressive.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE CHART.
+
+AVOIDING THE DANGERS.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--Objects: A geography, or detached
+          maps will serve to show that the portions of the
+          earth which are under the water are quite like the
+          portions of the earth which are above the water.
+          Islands are only mountain summits or elevations.
+
+          "Drive to church", have the ushers show different
+          real or imaginary persons to seats, have the
+          little sermon and service precede the reading of
+          the following object sermon.
+
+
+[Illustration: Outline Map of the United States.]
+
+MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: We are all travelers. Now when a traveler
+starts out upon a journey he always desires to have in his possession
+one of these things which I hold in my hand. I know you will recognize
+it at once, and say that it is a map. This map tells you the name of the
+country; it shows you where there are mountains, where there are rivers,
+where there are valleys, where there are cities, and shows you the
+entire United States of America. In traveling through a strange country,
+if you do not have a map, you might be lost upon the mountains, or your
+journey would be obstructed by the rivers which you could not cross, and
+in various ways you would find it absolutely necessary to have a map.
+
+Now, when a traveler goes out upon the sea, it is just as necessary that
+he should have a map, or what the sailors call a chart, as it is for the
+traveler upon the land. The chart which the sea captain has, shows the
+mountains and the valleys and the rivers which are in the sea; for these
+exist in the sea, as well as upon the land. The rocks, against which
+ships are sometimes dashed to pieces, are simply the tops of high
+mountains that come very near to the surface of the sea; and the captain
+without a chart, not knowing where they are, is likely to run against
+them with his ship. The islands are simply the tops of these mountains,
+that rise higher above the water, and form a place of abode for man; and
+we call them islands, because they are very much smaller than the great
+continents on which you and I live.
+
+A chart of the sea always locates the dangerous places. They show where
+other ships have been foundered, and oftentimes where hundreds and
+thousands of lives have been lost. It also shows what are really rivers
+in the sea, or great currents, one of which we call the Gulf Stream.
+When a ship is crossing the Gulf Stream the motion or current of this
+water might carry it many hundreds of miles out of its course, and if
+the captain had no chart he would not be able to allow for this
+distance, which the ship is being carried, either north or south.
+
+Now, you and I are travelers in this world. We are out upon a great
+voyage, and it is necessary that we should have a chart, and therefore
+God has given us the Bible, which you and I can use greatly to our
+advantage. In the Bible, God has pointed out the dangers which lie like
+the hidden rocks under the surface of the sea. In the commandments God
+marks out the great dangers which beset you and me. There is the rock of
+Idolatry. Whole nations of the earth have been wrecked on this rock.
+Then there is another, Profanity, swearing: Oh! how many boys and men
+are ruined because they do not observe how God has marked this
+dangerous rock, against which no one can run without danger of losing
+his immortal soul. Then there is Sabbath breaking, another rock; and
+there is reverence due to parents; and God marks another, "Thou shalt
+not kill"; and then there are others, against stealing, against bearing
+false witness, against covetousness. All these dangerous rocks God has
+marked in the Bible, in order that you and I may not run against them,
+and thus be shipwrecked in our voyage to the haven of everlasting rest.
+
+[Illustration: Rocks and Mountains at the Bottom of the Sea.]
+
+God also marks the influences which you and I must come in contact with.
+Every boy who goes to school feels the influence of other boys, some of
+whom are very bad. If he permits himself to be moved by these things he
+will go wrong, just the same as the ship that is crossing the Gulf
+Stream is carried out of its course. So the Bible warns us against bad
+company.
+
+Now the chart which the sea captain has, indicates also the ports of
+safety. It shows the location of these different ports, and the
+direction the captain must take in order to reach them. So the Bible
+shows us where you and I can find refuge in the day of storm, and in the
+day of trial, and in the day of sickness, and in the day of distress. To
+the sea captain, out upon the great ocean, there are ten thousand
+directions which are sure to end in shipwreck. There is only one safe
+way to go, in order to reach his desired port in safety.
+
+Now what would you think of a captain out upon the seas who folded up
+his chart and laid it carefully away, and never looked at it, never
+studied it, never sought to know what is on the chart? Do you not see
+how he would go upon the rocks? His ship would go down to the bottom of
+the sea, just as surely as if he had no chart on board his ship. It is
+important that he should have his chart in constant use. So it is
+important, not only that we should have the Bible, but that we should
+use the Bible, that we should read it, that we should study it, that we
+should know what it says. I trust that each and all of you not only have
+a Bible, but that you study it daily, and that you seek to avoid the
+dangers which God has pointed out, and that you desire to know the will
+of God concerning you.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What should a traveler always have in
+          a strange country? What must a sea captain always
+          carry with him on his ship? What does the chart
+          show? Are we travelers? To what country are we
+          journeying? Has God given us a chart to show the
+          dangers to which we are exposed in our voyage or
+          journey? Should we read the Bible every day? What
+          are two principal parts of the Bible? Do you know
+          how many books there are in the Old Testament? Do
+          you know how many books there are in the New
+          Testament? Do you know who was the first man? Who
+          was the first woman? Who was the first murderer?
+          Who built the ark? Who had the coat of many
+          colors? Who led the Children of Israel out of
+          Egypt? Who was put in the lion's den?
+
+          After the entire service has been completed and
+          after the "drive home from church", chairs can be
+          arranged with their backs toward each other, set a
+          little way apart, with a shawl, blanket, or even a
+          sheet, thrown over them so as to form a little
+          tent. A number of tents can be made to illustrate
+          the Children of Israel camping in the wilderness.
+          They were travelers tenting by the way, who forgot
+          about their chart and fell into sin, and God had
+          to turn them back in the wilderness for forty
+          years of wandering. All this suggests important
+          lessons to the parents.
+
+          A series of tents can be arranged like the one
+          shown in the picture below (see also pages 209 and
+          271) and then, with one child in each tent the
+          questions can be asked. When a child fails to give
+          the correct answer, he moves down to the last tent
+          in the row, the other children move up, and the
+          question is passed to the child next in order, the
+          same as in a "spelling-bee" and other progressive
+          plays. Questions like those given on this page and
+          on pages =25= and =26= can be used; also questions
+          such as are found in the chapter on "Suggestions
+          to Parents," especially from paragraphs 50 onward.
+
+[Illustration: The Children of Israel Camping in the Wilderness.]
+
+
+
+
+THE ANCHOR.
+
+HOPE THAT LAYS HOLD OF CHRIST.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--Object: Anchor of any kind. One cut
+          from paste-board would answer. During the week the
+          little ones might be interested to cut out both
+          anchor and the chain, using paste-board.
+
+          Before reading the following sermon, "drive to
+          church" and after the audience has been shown to
+          seats, begin the service with singing, have the
+          regular prayer and have one of the children preach
+          over the sermon at the church in the morning or
+          the object sermon of last Sunday.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to talk to you to-day about a very
+important subject. The Bible speaks of hope, and says, "Which hope we
+have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which
+entereth into that within the veil." (Hebrews vi: 19.)
+
+[Illustration: The Anchor.]
+
+I suppose most of you have been on board a ship or large boat. Very near
+the bow, or front end of the boat, you have doubtless noticed a chain,
+at the end of which was an anchor, made in the form of this one which I
+hold in my hand. Now, I would not care to go out to sea on any ship
+which did not have an anchor on board. In crossing the Atlantic you may
+sometimes be out for days and weeks, and sometimes even for months, and
+have no need of using the anchor. But all the time, while the weather is
+pleasant and everything is moving along prosperously, the fact that the
+anchor is on board the ship and that it can be used in time of danger,
+gives a sense of security to all the passengers. If it were not there
+you would constantly fear, lest the storms or fog might come when your
+ship was near land or dangerous rocks or shoals, and then your ship
+might be lost with its many hundreds of lives on board, simply because
+it had no anchor.
+
+Every man and woman, and every boy and girl, needs to have hope as an
+anchor to his soul. We should have faith in God, and then at times when
+all is well, when we are prosperous and blest, and everything goes along
+like the ship in pleasant weather, we will constantly have peace and
+rest in our minds and hearts, because we know that our hope is staid on
+God, and that though the world be removed, yet God will not disappoint
+us.
+
+Some people seem to think that religion is a good thing to have when
+they get sick, or when adversity or sorrow or great affliction comes.
+But the fact is that religion is a necessary thing at all times. We need
+it when we are well and strong, as well as when we are sick and weak. We
+need religion in this world to live by, as well as to die by, as well as
+for our salvation in the world to come.
+
+The anchor is very serviceable indeed in time of storm. Often it has to
+be used in order to secure the ship and save the lives of all who are on
+board. If it were not for the anchor the ship might be thrust upon the
+rocks, or it might be dashed to pieces by the waves that break upon the
+coast. The anchor is oftentimes very serviceable. So it is with the
+religion of the Lord Jesus Christ. When trials and perplexities and
+adversities come, as they do in every life, then it is that this anchor
+is a source of very great blessing, because it saves from shipwreck,
+occasioned by unbelief and the perplexities into which those are cast
+who have no hope, or trust in God.
+
+[Illustration: Anchor Laying Hold of the Rocks.]
+
+To be serviceable the anchor must take hold of something. If it simply
+drags along it will not hold the ship; but the ship may go to pieces on
+the rocks, even though it has an anchor, which has already been cast
+over. Now in time of sorrow and perplexity or distress every one throws
+out an anchor. That is, he tries to take hold of something which will
+sustain him and keep him, just the same as a boy who falls into the
+water would grab after a board. They say that a drowning man will even
+grasp after a straw in order to help to support his body, so that he may
+save his life. So every one in perplexity reaches out to lay hold of
+something. But the text which I quoted in the beginning says that this
+hope which we have as an anchor to the soul lays hold of something, and
+that something is the Lord Jesus Christ. It is like the ship whose
+anchor goes down, far below the waves, deep down out of sight, and lays
+hold of the rocks which form the foundation of the earth. So the faith
+of the Christian is staid, not on things which are seen, but on the
+things which are not seen. As the text expresses it, it lays hold of
+those things "which entereth into that which is within the veil." That
+is, this figure refers to the Temple at Jerusalem, where the Holy of
+Holies was concealed from the rest of the Temple by a large curtain or
+veil, and no one was permitted to go into this Holy of Holies except the
+High Priest, and he but once a year. But when you and I have the faith
+of the Christian, although we may not be able to enter into the great
+mystery of God's grace and mercy, yet our faith lays hold of that which
+is beyond our understanding, and beyond our possibility to see or fully
+to comprehend, and thus our faith lays hold of that which is "within the
+veil." With our understanding, you and I cannot enter into the mysteries
+of God, but by faith we can enter into them. I trust that every boy and
+girl here will have that faith in God, which will be as an anchor to his
+soul, sure and steadfast, entering within the veil at all times.
+
+I will tell you how this anchor of faith and hope can be of service to
+you. There are times when you see other boys and girls who have many
+more comforts and luxuries and possessions than you have. You may even
+be discouraged sometimes because you think your lot in life is more than
+usually hard and difficult.
+
+When I myself was a boy, my father died, and only three years later my
+mother died. I was left an orphan and without a home. I had to become an
+errand boy in a store, and for a number of years I had a hard struggle.
+I was a Christian boy, and I had this anchor of faith and hope. I
+trusted in God that He would make all of these things to work out
+eventually for my good. I could not at that time understand how. It was
+beyond my understanding, but later on in life I found how all the trials
+and struggles of my earlier years had worked together for my good. I
+understood that passage of Scripture which says: "All things work
+together for good to them that love God." (Romans viii: 28.)
+
+So, when you see others who have it easier and who have more comforts
+and luxuries than you have, if you have this hope which the text speaks
+of as "laying hold within the veil" be sure that in God's own good time,
+in His infinite wisdom and love, He will work out for you also the
+blessing and the good which you can only hope for, but which at the
+present time you can neither see nor understand.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What does every ship carry? Would a
+          ship be safe without an anchor? When the anchor is
+          let down into the deep water, must it take hold of
+          something? When is the anchor used? If a ship did
+          not have an anchor in time of storm along the
+          rocky coast, would it be safe? Do men and women,
+          boys and girls, also need an anchor? Can we have
+          peace and happiness without hope? Is religion
+          necessary only when we are in trouble? On what
+          does hope lay hold? Can we see the things on which
+          the Christian's faith lays hold? Can we always
+          understand God's providences? Did the writer of
+          this book have trials when he was a boy? Could he
+          understand them then? Did he understand them later
+          on in life? Do all boys and girls have trials? If
+          received in the proper spirit, will they always
+          work out for their good?
+
+
+
+
+HUSKS.
+
+THE DISAPPOINTED PLEASURE-SEEKER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--If the children can obtain some of
+          the pods which are called "husks" in the
+          Scripture, which can be had in some towns and
+          cities, and which the children usually call
+          "Johnny-bread" they will be able to taste the
+          husks which the prodigal fed to the swine and
+          which he himself desired to eat. If these cannot
+          be had, the pods from the sweet locust tree will
+          be serviceable.
+
+
+I HOLD in my hand what I suppose most of you have seen, and perhaps many
+of you have eaten. It is what boys oftentimes call "Johnny bread." It
+looks very much like the long pods which grow on the honey locust trees.
+It is sometimes called "Johnny bread," because some people mistakenly
+think that this was the kind of locust that John the Baptist ate when he
+came in the Wilderness, preaching that the kingdom of heaven was at hand
+and that men should repent. We are told in the Scriptures that he ate
+locusts and wild honey. The locusts which he ate were very much like our
+grasshoppers, such as are still eaten by very poor people in the East.
+
+[Illustration: Husks.]
+
+In the 15th chapter of the gospel by St. Luke, we have a very beautiful
+parable, called the parable of the prodigal son. In connection with the
+husk which I hold in my hand, I want to tell you something about this
+prodigal son.
+
+In this parable Jesus tells of a very kind father who had two sons, but
+the younger son was dissatisfied and discontented. He was a boy very
+much like many who live in this country and at this time. He was a boy
+who wanted to have his own way. He thought that his father was an "old
+fogy." The son wanted gay company and gay clothing. He wanted to travel
+and see something of the world; so he asked his father to give him the
+money which would come to him at his father's death, in order that he
+might go immediately and have his own way, and have a good time, as he
+supposed.
+
+His father was very sad, for he had tried to bring up his boy in the
+right way. But when he could not prevail upon him, and his son would not
+listen to him any longer, but insisted upon having the money, and going
+away from home, the father granted his request.
+
+When the money had been counted out, the son gathered it all up, bade
+his father and brother and all his friends good-bye, telling them what a
+happy time he was going to have, and started out for a far country.
+
+This same desire to see something of the world has induced many boys to
+run away from home. Many years ago, when there were numerous ships that
+went out on long voyages to catch whales, oftentimes boys who had run
+away from home went away to sea with these ships. Now, however, restless
+and discontented boys, who have read worthless and deceptive books,
+sometimes go to live a wild life on the plains in the West. Sometimes
+boys even become tramps. Scores and sometimes hundreds of them can be
+met any week by going to the Breakfast Association, in Philadelphia; or
+some of the Rescue Homes, in New York, where poor, wandering boys and
+tramps are given a free meal on Sunday morning or Sunday evening.
+Prodigals now, as in the time when Christ lived, have a very hard time
+of it. They start out with high hopes, sometimes with money in their
+pockets, with fine clothing and bright anticipations, expecting to have
+a good time in the far country which they are seeking. But their
+experience is always the same.
+
+When this prodigal came to the far country, for a few weeks, or possibly
+a few months, he had plenty of money. He thought his money would always
+last. Bad men and women gathered around him, for they all wanted to
+enjoy what his money would secure for them. But it didn't take long; his
+money was soon spent, and when his money was gone his pretended friends
+were gone also. He soon found himself penniless, friendless and
+hungered. He had to go out and seek for work. Perhaps he had been too
+much indulged at home. He had never learned a trade, and possibly had
+never learned to do work of any kind, and so there was nothing for him
+to do but to accept the humblest and meanest kind of labor. He was a
+Jew, and for a Jew to tend swine or hogs was one of the meanest things
+in all the world. And yet he was willing because of his poverty and his
+want, to do even this most degrading service. This boy who wanted to be
+his own master, now became the most menial of slaves, even to the
+tending of swine. He wanted gay company, but he had only pigs for his
+companions. He wanted wine and feasting, but now no one even offered him
+husks to eat. He left his home to seek happiness, but he found only
+misery.
+
+[Illustration: The Disappointed, Hungry Prodigal Tending Swine.]
+
+These husks which I showed you, which some boys call "Johnny bread," are
+exactly what this wayward, disappointed, disheartened, hungry boy was
+given to feed to the swine which he was hired to tend. He was so
+hungry that he would have been glad to eat these husks with the pigs,
+but no one gave him any to eat.
+
+When this wayward boy was thus brought down to poverty and hunger in
+that far-off country, while he was tending the swine, he began to think.
+If he had only stopped to think before he left his home, he would never
+have started away. He would surely have known that he was better off at
+home than anywhere else. But now that misery and want had come to him,
+we are told that "he came to himself." That is, he came to his senses.
+It was sentiment which led him from his home. It was sense that brought
+him back. The trouble with boys and girls, and with older people too, is
+that they do not stop to think. They follow their fancies and
+sentiments, and they are led astray in this way.
+
+God wants us to stop and think, and He says, "Come, let us reason
+together." God does not ask any unreasonable thing of us. He simply
+wants to treat us as thoughtful beings, but we want to follow our own
+inclination and our own desire. God treats us very kindly. He gives us
+every needed comfort and every daily blessing, and yet oftentimes people
+are discontented and dissatisfied with God; they complain and think they
+have a hard time of it. Instead of being faithful and true to God, they
+turn away from him. They desire to forsake God and serve Satan. They
+desire to accept what Satan says, and so turn away from God and all that
+is good. But they have the same experience over and over again that this
+young man had. He went out with fine clothes and plenty of money, and
+with high hopes; but he returned home in rags, without a penny in his
+pocket, disappointed, penitent and ashamed.
+
+[Illustration: The Returning Prodigal]
+
+But I must not forget to tell you, that when he had journeyed many a
+week, toiling wearily over the long road that had separated him from his
+father's house, at last he came near his old home. In going away he had
+nearly broken his father's heart. With sorrow he was bringing his
+aged father down to the grave. But his father still loved his wayward
+boy, and expected him home. As he sat watching at the door looking over
+the hills, he saw the returning prodigal when he was yet a great way
+off. This loving and forgiving father had compassion upon his son, ran
+and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and welcomed him back home again.
+The wayward boy's heart was all broken up by such kind treatment. He
+fell upon his knees at his father's feet and said to his father,
+"Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more
+worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants."
+
+But the father called his servants and commanded them to bring the best
+robe and put it upon this boy who had given him so much sorrow; to bring
+the ring and put it upon his finger; and then to kill the fatted calf,
+so that they might make a great feast, in order that all might be made
+very glad, because this his son, who was dead, was alive again, he who
+had been lost was found.
+
+So when we come back to God after we have sinned against Him, and are
+repentant and sorry for what we have done, in love and great tenderness
+He forgives our sins. And like the prodigal, in the time of his sorest
+misery, found in his father's heart the greatest mercy, so you and I may
+come to God knowing that in the day of our dire distress He is always
+willing to love us and to forgive us as His own dear children. Let us be
+careful not to sin against Him, and then we shall not have the
+humiliation and the sorrow of coming back, like this poor prodigal, when
+he returned in rags and poverty to his father's house. Never make the
+mistake of going away from your God and then you will not have the
+remorse which will bring you back in sorrow and shame.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Who first told the parable of the
+          prodigal son? Why did the prodigal leave his home?
+          What did he do with his money? Did his pretended
+          friends stay by him after his money was gone? In
+          his poverty what did he do? Did he have enough to
+          eat? When he was in want and came to himself, of
+          whom did he think? What did he resolve to do? What
+          do boys who run away from home generally become?
+          Are tramps happy? Was the father sad all the time
+          the boy was away? How did he receive the returning
+          prodigal? Does God love us even though we do
+          wrong? Will God forgive us and accept us? Is God
+          glad when we repent?
+
+          After "driving home from church" a series of
+          tableaux could be arranged: (1) Showing the father
+          counting out the money to the boy. (2) The boy
+          bidding good-bye to his father and friends. (3)
+          Surrounded by flatterers for whom he is spending
+          his money. (4) In poverty tending swine. (5) In
+          rags returning home. (6) Being welcomed by his
+          father.
+
+          Or the children may arrange a tent in which the
+          prodigal is presumed to live on the plains while
+          tending the swine, which may be represented by a
+          series of books, toys or any objects; for the
+          imagination of the children will convert any
+          object into any other object, person or thing.
+
+[Illustration: The Prodigal's Tent.]
+
+
+
+
+IRON--LOW GRADE AND HIGH GRADE.
+
+CHARACTER AND WORTH.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects used: A piece of old iron,
+          some nails, broken clock and watch springs, and
+          also a piece of native iron ore, if convenient.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to show you to-day that there is a great
+difference in the value of things, even though they are made of the same
+material. In the second chapter of Genesis we are told, "And the Lord
+God formed man of the dust of the ground." So, you see that all men and
+women are made of the same material, yet men differ greatly, both in
+character and works.
+
+[Illustration: Iron Products.]
+
+I have here some iron ore, some old iron, some nails; here are some
+clock springs, and here are some springs of watches. This iron ore is as
+it is dug from the earth. It is called the native iron, but mixed with
+it there is much earth and stone and dross, which must be separated from
+it in order to make it pure. This is done by casting the ore, together
+with limestone and other materials, into a huge furnace, where the fire
+is so intensely hot that all are melted and thus the iron is separated
+from the dross, or stone and earth, which is now mixed with the ore.
+When the iron is thus separated and molded into large bars, it is worth
+from a fraction of a cent to two cents per pound, according to quality
+and market price. After it has been cast into great iron bars, and is
+known as pig iron, it is afterward bought and melted over again and
+molded into the form of stoves and wheels, such as are used in
+factories, and a variety of other forms for manufacturing and other
+uses.
+
+[Illustration: Nail, Pen and Clock Spring.]
+
+Now, here I have some pieces of iron, such as boys call "old iron." They
+often find pieces of this kind of iron, which have been thrown away, and
+gather and sell them at a price varying from one-quarter to a cent or
+more a pound, according to circumstances. Then it is melted over again
+and made into stoves, or whatever the manufacturer may desire. Now, here
+are some nails, such as sell at five cents a pound, and here are some
+steel pens, which are worth from one to four and five dollars a pound.
+Here are some springs, such as are used in the construction of clocks.
+These are the springs which make clocks go. When you wind up the clock
+you simply tighten this spring, thus storing the power which is
+necessary to keep the clock in motion for twenty-four hours, for eight
+days, or even a longer period.
+
+Now here are some springs, such as are used in watches. These springs
+are worth, according to their size and quality, from twenty to fifty or
+sixty dollars a pound. Here also are some little screws, such as are
+used in the construction of watches, and which are worth even a hundred
+dollars a pound.
+
+While these different articles are all made of the same material, you
+see there is a great difference in their value. One is not worth a
+single cent a pound, and another may be worth one hundred dollars a
+pound. Now this difference in value is due to two things. One is,
+difference in quality, and the other is the use which is made of the
+article into which the iron is manufactured.
+
+[Illustration: Watch Spring and Screws.]
+
+I suppose, if these different pieces of metal could think, and had the
+power of speech, this piece of old iron would complain to the other
+pieces which are of more value, and say to the watch spring, "I am just
+as good as you are, we were both dug from the same ore bank. I remember
+the time when we were both cast into the hot fire and melted in the
+furnace; after that I was taken to the foundry, and made into a stove,
+and after a few years of use I was rejected and cast into the alley. I
+have had to lie about in the mud and in the cold and snow, and men have
+passed me by and scorned me as though I were of no value. But I want you
+to understand, Mr. Clockspring and Mr. Watchspring, that I am just as
+good as you are, and there is no reason why I should be cast out into
+the mud and cold, while you are placed in a gold case and carried in a
+gentleman's pocket."
+
+The nail also would cry out, and say that he was just as good as the
+little screws which are used in the watch, and would complain against
+being driven violently into a board, where it is compelled, year after
+year, to hold a board on to the side of a building; to have putty placed
+over its head, and then paint over the top of that, so that nobody could
+even so much as see where it was, or know what it was doing.
+
+Now, the old iron, and the nail, and the others have no right to
+complain. There is a vast difference of quality, and there is also a
+difference of work.
+
+The higher grades and better qualities of metals are secured by refining
+processes. Again and again the metal is cast in the fire and melted.
+Sometimes it is beaten on the anvil into such shapes and forms as will
+render the metal of greater service, and consequently of more value.
+
+Suppose this metal had feeling, and the power to express its wish. Do
+you not see how it would cry out against being cast into the fire, and
+being beaten with great hammers upon the anvil? I am sure the fire, the
+hammers, and the anvil bring no sense of pleasure to the metal while
+being refined and being beaten into such forms as render it of greatest
+value.
+
+Just so, in some senses at least, are all boys and girls alike. If they
+were all permitted to grow up in neglect, without being governed by
+thoughtful parents, without being educated and refined, without being
+sent to school and required to attend church, without being taught at
+home and being instructed in the Catechism and in the Bible, and without
+being shown their duty to God and their fellow men, they would all be
+pretty much alike. It is the difference in the influences that are made
+to refine some boys that causes them to differ so much from others who
+are about them. The boy who has only been taught to pick stones, or
+sweep the streets, or dig ditches, may cry out against the boy who is
+gentlemanly, and obliging, and obedient, and truthful, and reliable, and
+who has a position of great responsibility in a bank, or in the office
+of some man who occupies a very responsible position; yet oftentimes,
+and quite universally, there is a very great difference in the merit and
+value of these two boys. One has been disciplined and governed and
+controlled, educated and taught, while the other has likely been
+neglected, and consequently has not learned the importance of these
+things.
+
+God designs to refine all of us, and therefore He desires that all
+should be taught to study, should learn to read and write, should learn
+all they can from the schools, should be taught to work, should be
+taught to expect trials and self-denials, and should be led to expect
+sickness and disappointments, and all these things by which God designs
+to make us better from year to year. But, just the same as the iron
+would cry out against being cast into the fire and being beaten upon the
+anvil, so do boys and girls, and men and women also, cry out against the
+providences by which God is refining them and making them better for
+this world and fitting them for the world to come.
+
+If we desire to be of largest service in this world, and to occupy a
+place of honor in the world to come, we must expect that God will deal
+with us, as He has told us in the ninth verse of the thirteenth chapter
+of Zechariah, in which He says, "I will refine them as silver is
+refined, and will try them as gold is tried." And in the book of Malachi
+He says that He, that is God, is "like a refiner's fire, and like
+fullers' soap, and He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and
+purge them as gold and silver."
+
+When the gold and the silver is cast into the crucible to be purified,
+the fire is made very hot, and the metal is left in the crucible until
+the man who is refining it and who sits looking into the crucible can
+see his own image reflected in the metal. So we are cast into the fires
+of affliction, and God looks down upon us; but when we become like Him,
+so that God sees His own self reflected in our character, and in our
+disposition, and in our temper, then we shall have been refined as God
+desires, and He will then be ready to receive us into His own home on
+high.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Can you name different things made
+          from iron? Is a horse shoe as valuable as a watch
+          spring? What makes the difference in their value?
+          How are iron and steel refined, or made more
+          valuable? Are unrefined and untaught boys and
+          girls all quite alike? What makes them become
+          different? Do some boys and girls become more
+          useful and valuable in the world than others? What
+          causes the difference? Would the iron cry out
+          against being refined? Do boys and girls object to
+          being taught and disciplined? How does the Bible
+          say that God refines us? Can the refiner see his
+          image in the melted metal? Does God want to see
+          His own image reflected in us?
+
+[Illustration: "Joseph in the Pit."]
+
+
+
+
+A POCKET RULE.
+
+HOW GOD MEASURES MEN.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A yard-stick, pocket-rule,
+          tape-measure and any measure or scales convenient.
+
+          Use the measures and scales for measuring the
+          height and weight of the different children, and
+          explain to them that if they continue to grow,
+          they will eventually become full grown men and
+          women. So God measures them to-day in moral
+          things, and if they will learn what God requires
+          and be obedient to their parents, they will
+          increase in moral stature as well.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I am sure you will be able to tell me what these
+are which I hold in my hand. This you would call a yard-stick; the
+other, because it folds, you would call a pocket-rule, and here is
+another, which you would call a tape-measure.
+
+[Illustration: Yard-Stick, Pocket-Rule and Tape-Measure.]
+
+Now, if I were going to measure any of you, to tell how tall you are, I
+would use one or the other of these rules; as each is divided into even
+inches, I could use any of these three I should prefer. I would say one
+boy is four feet two inches, another four feet nine inches and another
+five feet four inches, and so on according to the height of each person.
+We speak of this kind of measure as feet and inches. When it is used in
+measuring cloth, or other goods in a store, we speak of it as yards and
+parts of a yard. Then there are also other forms of measures, dry
+measure--quarts, pecks, bushels; and liquid measure--quarts, gallons and
+barrels. There is also a standard of weight--ounces, pounds and tons.
+
+[Illustration: Farmer's Measures.]
+
+It is necessary to have standards of weights and measures. This is
+absolutely necessary, or we could not tell in purchasing cloth or
+lumber, in buying sugar or molasses, or other things, whether we are
+getting the right quantity, or whether we are not getting the right
+quantity. So, everywhere you go in the United States we have the same
+size or standard of weights and measures, and the Government appoints
+men in each city to go about and examine whether the scales which the
+storekeeper uses for weighing sugar, and the measures which he uses when
+he sells vinegar and molasses--whether these are perfectly accurate, as
+the law requires.
+
+[Illustration: Scales and Measure.]
+
+But, if you look on the other side of this tape-measure, there is a
+different standard of measure. This, on the reverse side, is the metric
+system, used in France and many other countries. If you were to go into
+a store in France and wanted to purchase cloth, you would not ask for a
+yard, you would ask for a metre of cloth, which instead of thirty-six
+inches, which makes our yard, would be a little over thirty-nine inches;
+so the standard of measures and values varies in different countries.
+There is a slight difference in the length of the English yard and the
+American yard. In this country we also speak of dollars and cents. In
+England they have the penny, shilling, pound or sovereign. And so in
+different countries there are different pieces of money, having a great
+variety of values.
+
+I have spoken of these things simply to call your attention to the fact
+that God has a standard of measure, and a standard of value, as well as
+men. When the Government enlists soldiers into the army every man is
+measured, and he must be of a given height; if he is not as tall as the
+requirement, then he is rejected. When Napoleon chose his body-guard the
+men all had to be exceedingly tall.
+
+God also has His standard of measure. He does not measure us according
+to the height of our body, but according to our moral character. He
+measures us to see whether we are good or bad. God's standard of the
+measure of our moral character is found in the Bible. You will find it,
+both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. In the Old Testament
+we have the Ten Commandments, in which we are required to worship God,
+and to worship nothing else; to keep the Sabbath day holy; to honor our
+parents; and various other requirements. In the New Testament we have a
+great many principles for moral government which Jesus announced when He
+was upon the earth.
+
+We have all broken some one or more of the Ten Commandments and the
+precepts which Jesus left for us to follow. If you desire to see how
+you should live, if you would keep the law perfectly, you will have to
+look at the life of Jesus Christ. He was the only perfect man who ever
+lived. He came to this world to set a perfect example for men to
+imitate. Just the same as you copy after the lines correctly written at
+the top of your writing book, so you and I are to copy after the life
+and character of Jesus Christ.
+
+The moral law is a perfect law; the Psalmist says, "the law of the Lord
+is perfect, converting the soul." I showed you how in France they have a
+different standard of measure from that which we have in the United
+States, but with the moral law the standard is the same everywhere and
+at all times. It is wrong to lie or steal in America, and it is equally
+wrong to lie or steal in France, or in Africa, or in India, or on the
+islands of the sea, or anywhere in all of the universe. If it is wicked
+now to swear, or to commit murder it always was wicked. It was just as
+wicked three thousand years ago as it is to-day, and it never will be
+right to take the name of God in vain, or to destroy human life. God has
+but one standard of morality for all people and for all time.
+
+What God requires of the young in order that they may be pure and holy,
+He requires also of grown-up people. If it is wrong for the preacher and
+the Sunday-school superintendent to go to the theatre, or to do anything
+else, it is equally wrong for every member of the church and for every
+member of the Sunday-school. Before God we must all be measured by the
+same standard of morality.
+
+If I had one year ago measured the height of each of you and written it
+down, and then measured you again to-day, I would find that during these
+twelve months each of you had grown. You are taller to-day than you were
+a year ago. Now, God has given us a standard of moral character, right
+and wrong, and I want you all to study it very carefully, so that you
+may see how tall you are, how far you come short of the character of
+Jesus Christ. And as you grow taller in body, so you should grow in
+moral character, and if you will study God's word carefully, you will be
+able to discover what progress you are making in becoming more like
+Christ, in becoming better boys and better girls, and afterward better
+men and better women, from year to year, than you were each preceding
+year.
+
+May God bless you abundantly, and may you grow daily "unto a perfect
+man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." (Eph.
+iv: 13.)
+
+          QUESTIONS.--How many kinds of measures can you
+          name? Are the standards of weights and measures
+          the same in all countries? How many standards of
+          measure does God have? Where can God's standard of
+          measure be found? Are God's standards the same for
+          all persons in all countries, in all parts of the
+          world? Is there any place in the world where it
+          would be right to lie or steal, or murder? Who was
+          the only perfect man? Does God's standard ever
+          change? Should we constantly strive to become like
+          Christ? How can we tell what progress we are
+          making in becoming more like Christ?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE MAGNET.
+
+JESUS THE GREAT DRAWING POWER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A small magnet can be purchased in
+          almost any hardware store at trifling cost. With
+          this, also have some little tacks, nails both
+          small and large, together with some old rusted and
+          crooked nails, and a pocket knife.
+
+          Do not omit "driving to church" and the other play
+          features suggested in previous sermons.
+
+
+I AM sure that there is not a boy or girl here, who has not at some time
+felt a desire to be good and do right. When you have felt this way, it
+has been due to the fact that the Holy Spirit has come to you and has
+put these good thoughts and good desires into your heart.
+
+There is not a person living who has not at some time felt this same
+drawing and desire to do right and to be good. The results, however,
+have been very different with different people.
+
+I shall seek to illustrate this drawing power to you to-day, and to do
+so have brought this magnet. I have also brought these tacks and nails
+of different sizes; and here are also some old, rusted, crooked nails.
+Let these several kinds represent the different kinds of people.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Tacks.]
+
+When I take this magnet, and move it around among these small tacks, and
+then hold it up, you will see that very many of these tacks cling to the
+magnet. They hold on by some unseen power. Sometimes the tacks are even
+not able to touch the magnet, but are drawn through the influence which
+extends through other tacks, and so large clusters hang on to the
+magnet. If I shake the magnet you will see that some fall off. These
+small tacks represent the youngest children. In the early years of our
+lives we are more easily drawn to the Lord Jesus. It is then more easy
+for us to come to Christ and give ourselves fully to Him. It is much
+easier to be Christians when we are young. Yet many put it off till they
+are older, when it is much more difficult and they are less likely to be
+successful in living a Christian life.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Small Nails.]
+
+Now, if I remove these small tacks, and place the magnet among these
+small nails, you will see that several of the small nails cling to the
+magnet, and I can lift them up. There are not as many, however, as there
+were of the tacks clinging to it. In like manner, as boys and girls grow
+older, they find it more difficult to come to Christ.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Larger Nails.]
+
+Here are some larger nails. When I place the magnet among them, but very
+few are attracted to it. And when I attempt to lift the magnet, most all
+of these large nails tall off. Only one, sometimes two, hold on
+successfully.
+
+Here are some nails that are still larger. Now, when I attempt to lift
+one of them with this magnet, you see that I can only lift one end of
+the nail. That is due to the fact that while the magnet draws these
+nails, the earth also draws them. That is the reason why these smaller
+nails, when they fall from the magnet, fall to the earth; because the
+earth draws them. The earth draws with so much greater force and power
+upon these large nails than the magnet draws that I cannot raise them by
+the magnet. It is on this account that they continue to hold fast to the
+earth rather than to the magnet.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Large Nails.]
+
+This represents the people who have grown old; who have large cares and
+responsibilities; who have become worldly-minded; who are drawn away by
+the "deceitfulness of riches and the lust of other things," and who,
+although they feel a desire to do right, yet have a stronger desire to
+do that which is not well-pleasing in the sight of God.
+
+Now, here are some old crooked, rusty nails. Let us see what effect the
+presence of the magnet will have upon them. Just as we might have
+expected. These rusty nails do not seem to feel the power or the
+influence of the magnet's presence. If I place the magnet up against the
+nail, and attempt to lift it, it does not seem to be drawn at all. It
+simply lies still, unmoved. These old, crooked, rusty nails represent
+people who have grown very old and very wicked, and who have become
+greatly hardened in sin. Jesus Christ and His love seem to make no
+impression any longer upon them. They are joined to their idols. God's
+Spirit has taken His departure, and they are left alone. Let me warn
+you, both young and old, that if you feel the drawing of God's Spirit,
+you should yield to Him, so as not to become more corroded and rusted,
+and coated over by every sinful influence, so that at last the love of
+God shall fail to have any effect upon you.
+
+If now we take these different classes of nails and mix them together,
+and then stir the magnet among them, you will see how the smaller nails,
+in larger numbers, cling to the magnet. These bright nails are also
+affected by it. Oftentimes the influence of the magnet is seen, as it is
+communicated from one nail to the other; but these rusty nails, not only
+do not themselves yield to the influence of the magnet, but they also
+fail to communicate that magnetic influence to any of the other nails
+around them. In like manner, wicked people seem to come between Christ
+and others who would be drawn to Him. Let me say to you, keep out of bad
+company. Avoid wicked companions--those who swear, or lie, or do
+anything that is wrong, for their influence over you will be bad, and
+they will prevent the good influences of holy things from acting upon
+you.
+
+Suppose now that I take my knife blade and move it among these nails,
+you will see that it does not attract them like the magnet did. It has
+no magnetic power. If I draw the knife blade across the magnet a few
+times, it receives this magnetic power from the magnet. Now, when I move
+it among the nails you will see how these little tacks and some of the
+larger nails are drawn toward it.
+
+Just so it is with each of us as individuals. Without coming in contact
+with Christ and receiving His Spirit, His drawing power, we will never
+influence others to do that which is right and good and holy. If we
+desire to have an influence for good in this world we must, first of
+all, come to Christ ourselves, and receive this drawing power from Him.
+You have doubtless seen those who have become Christians, and after they
+have given their hearts to Christ they have immediately begun to draw
+others. They go out and invite others to come to church, they invite
+others to go with them to the prayer-meeting, to come with them to the
+Sunday-school, and so in every way they seek to influence others that
+they may draw them to Christ.
+
+When Jesus was upon the earth vast multitudes attended Him. Where He
+went they followed. But now when Jesus is no longer bodily present upon
+the earth, when we cannot see Him with our natural eyes, we speak of
+walking by faith, and you may be curious to know what is meant by
+walking by faith. I think that I can illustrate it in this way: Here is
+a sheet of writing paper. Now above the writing paper I will place this
+magnet, and then below it I will place this small bit of iron. The
+attracting power of the magnet holds the iron up against the paper. Now,
+when I move this magnet on the upper side of the sheet from place to
+place, you will observe that this little piece of iron on the lower side
+of the sheet goes in the same direction. It follows the magnet very
+closely. The paper is between them. Now, if this paper were enlarged so
+as to be as long and as broad as the ceiling of this room, of course you
+would not be able to see the magnet. It would be hidden from your view.
+But as you would move the magnet from place to place, the little iron
+below would continue to follow it.
+
+So Jesus Christ is no longer visible; we cannot see Him with our natural
+eyes, but He draws the Christian who is in this world, and so the
+Christian follows Him. He walks in the footsteps of the Lord Jesus. And
+it is on that account that we say that the Christian walks by faith, and
+not by sight.
+
+Just before Jesus was crucified He said: "And I, if I be lifted up from
+the earth, will draw all men unto Me." (John xii: 32.) So He draws you
+and He draws me. And so also by His love He would draw every person in
+all the world to Him. Let us not resist the drawings of the Holy
+Spirit, but come to the Lord Jesus Christ and love Him with our whole
+heart.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What can the magnet do? Can the power
+          of the magnet be seen? Can the magnet lift as many
+          nails as tacks? Are old rusty nails drawn by the
+          magnet? Who are like the little tacks? Who are
+          like the small nails? Who are like the rusty
+          nails? Does everybody desire at times to be good?
+          What draws them in the right direction? Can we see
+          the power that causes us to desire to be good?
+          What is the name of the power or force that causes
+          the nails to fall from the magnet? What power
+          draws people from doing right? Should we always
+          yield to the power that draws us in the right
+          direction? Does Christ have to be seen in order to
+          accept His influence?
+
+[Illustration: Daniel in the Lion's Den.]
+
+
+
+
+KEYS.
+
+HOW TO UNLOCK THE HUMAN HEART.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects used: Locks and keys of any
+          form or size. If possible open the lock and show
+          how the key fits into the different wards of the
+          lock. Explain how other keys would not fit.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I have here to-day quite a variety of locks.
+Here are also quite a variety of keys. You will notice that there are
+several more keys than there are locks. Now, I suppose that we would
+have no very great difficulty in selecting the keys that would be most
+likely to turn backward and forward the bolts in these different locks.
+We would naturally expect that these larger keys would fit these larger
+locks and the smaller keys would be adapted to lock and unlock the
+smaller ones.
+
+[Illustration: Lock and Key.]
+
+Here is this large lock; I suppose it is very possible this large key
+may be suited to lock and unlock it. Yes, it just fits. You see how it
+turns the bolt in and out as I turn the key.
+
+Now, here is another lock; let us see if we can find a key that will fit
+it. This key seems about the size, but after passing it into the lock
+it seems to strike something that prevents it from turning, and
+consequently is of no service. Let us try another. That seems to work
+much better, and turns the bolt backward and forward.
+
+[Illustration: Lock and Key.]
+
+Here is still another lock; let us try this key with this lock. That
+seems to work very well. Possibly we might be able to lock and unlock
+this other also. Let us try it. Yes, this key fits both these locks.
+This key is what the locksmith calls a skeleton key. It is so made that
+it avoids the obstacles which are placed in the different locks to
+prevent them from being opened by all varieties of keys. Here is a still
+smaller lock. This lock has a very peculiar keyhole, and I know at once
+that there is no need of trying to unlock it with most of the keys which
+I have spread out here. I recognize it at once as what is called a "Yale
+lock." The key is thin, is bent in various ways, and along the edge has
+several notches. Let us try a couple of these keys. This one seems to
+fit very well to the grooves. It passes into the lock, but I cannot turn
+the bolt. Let us try another. Yes, this seems to be the one that was
+made by the locksmith to fasten and unfasten this lock.
+
+[Illustration: Yale Lock and Key.]
+
+A key then is simply something which unlocks the door or the gate, so
+you may open it and pass inside. Now, there are a great many kinds of
+keys. Sometimes a book is called a key to business. Perhaps another book
+is called a key to the study of medicine; another the key to the study
+of law. And so there may be a great many kinds of books which are called
+keys. When properly used or studied they open the way for a clear
+understanding of how to transact business, how to study medicine and how
+to study law. And so there are various books that are keys to the
+understanding of very, very many subjects. When you indicate to me the
+kind of difficulty that you have to overcome, it would be reasonably
+easy to indicate the kind of book you need in order successfully to meet
+that difficulty.
+
+When I find a book that teaches a boy good business habits and helps him
+to become a good business man, I know that book was written with that
+object in view. When I find a book that teaches one how to understand
+the human system, the nature of disease and the character of the
+remedies which are to be used when people are sick, I know that book was
+written with a view to help people to understand the nature of disease
+and the character of medicine. Just so it is with every other book. Each
+is like the lock and the key, for the locks have inside a peculiar sort
+of winding way, and when I find a key that exactly fits into this
+winding passage I know immediately that the locksmith designed that the
+key should fit into that particular lock and turn back the bolt.
+
+Now, God wants to get into the human heart, and I find that God has a
+key with which to unlock it. I do not think you would be long in
+guessing what book God has made the key with which to unlock the human
+heart. I think that every boy and girl would at once say that it is the
+Bible. Yes; it is the Bible. It fits exactly into all the wards and
+chambers, and winding passages which characterize each and every need of
+the human heart. The moment I bring this wonderful key of divine truth
+to the human heart, I find that the lock and the key were both made by
+the same infinite Creator. Some locks are very complicated and
+intricate, and the keys are also very peculiar. They are made especially
+for that particular lock, and no other key in all the world will unlock
+it. The moment I get that particular key and turn it around in the lock
+I know at once that both the lock and the key were made by the same
+person, and that the lock was made to be opened by no other key. So God
+has created the human heart and made it very difficult to be opened, and
+there is no key in all the world that can open it except the Bible.
+
+As a robber or a burglar may try to get into a house by the use of a
+skeleton key, or by "picking the lock," so men have often tried to gain
+admission into the human heart by the use of various substitutes for the
+genuine and the real key. They have tried amusement, and wealth, and
+sinful pleasure, and very, very many things; but they never succeed in
+getting into the inner sacredness of the human heart. Unless the heart
+is opened by God's Word, and the Holy Spirit is admitted so that God can
+take possession, there is always a sense of loneliness, a sense of
+dissatisfaction, a desire for something that the person does not
+possess; he is at unrest, he is restless and dissatisfied, like a boy or
+girl who is away from home, and has a homesick longing to return to that
+home.
+
+You never will be able to understand the hidden mystery of your own
+spiritual life and spiritual being until you use the Word of God to help
+you to solve the mystery. The Word of God is not only designed to unlock
+the human heart, so that God and the Holy Spirit may gain admission, but
+this key is also designed to lock the door against Satan and sin and
+keep them out of our hearts. Unless we daily use our Bibles to lock our
+hearts against evil thoughts, and wicked purposes, and sinful desires,
+we will find that they will steal into our hearts; and like the evil
+spirit that had been driven out and afterward returned and brought seven
+other spirits more wicked than himself, so sin and Satan will again take
+possession of our hearts and lock them against God and all that is good.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are there many kinds of locks? Must
+          there be as many kinds of keys as there are kinds
+          of locks? Is the human heart like a lock? Does God
+          desire to get into the human heart? With what key
+          does He unlock it? Are the lock and its key made
+          by the same man? Who made the human heart? Who
+          made the key to unlock it? Can the Bible be used
+          to lock the human heart against the entrance of
+          sin? What are skeleton keys? Do men try false keys
+          with which to open the human heart? What are some
+          of the things with which they try? Is the human
+          heart ever satisfied until unlocked by the Bible
+          and possessed by God?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TRAPS.
+
+UNSUSPECTING MICE AND MEN.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--An ordinary mouse trap will be
+          serviceable. The trap can be set and instead of a
+          mouse, a child can spring the trap with his
+          finger. The parent had better try his own finger
+          first, to see that the trap is not too strong. A
+          rat trap should never be tried in this way.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: You may think that possibly there was a time when
+wicked men did not desire to destroy others, as is so often the case in
+this day. Hundreds of years ago, God said, "Among my people are found
+wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap,
+they catch men." (Jeremiah v: 26.)
+
+[Illustration: Mouse Trap.]
+
+I suppose you have all seen traps. There are a great many different
+kinds. Some are very dangerous, and yet you cannot see the danger until
+you are caught, or until you see some other person who has been caught
+in the trap. Now here is a trap. I suppose that you have all seen such
+traps as this, and possibly have them in your own homes, to catch the
+little mice which destroy your food, and oftentimes do much injury.
+
+Now, this trap does not look dangerous to the unsuspecting mouse. The
+little wire, which is to be drawn up by a strong spring to choke the
+mouse to death, is concealed, and he does not know that there is a wire
+there at all. He simply smells the piece of cheese. This tempts his
+appetite, and, as he is fond of cheese, he desires to obtain it, and so
+he attempts to crawl in through this small hole to get the cheese; but
+the moment he nibbles at the cheese, it disturbs the little catch which
+holds the spring, and when it is too late to escape, the little mouse
+finds that he has been caught. Then he does not think of the cheese, but
+struggles to get loose and escape out of the trap. But all of his
+struggles are in vain, and after a few moments he is choked to death.
+Then the man, or the housewife comes, takes the little mouse out of the
+trap, and with the same piece of cheese the trap is again set for
+another unsuspecting mouse. So people go on, day after day, catching one
+mouse after another, with the same trap and with the same bait.
+
+[Illustration: Mice and Trap.]
+
+Now, there are traps which men set for boys and girls, and men and
+women, such as story papers, bad books and pictures, that might be
+called pest papers, printed poison, moral leprosy. To the innocent, the
+unthinking and the unsuspecting these things may not appear very
+dangerous, but they are very deadly in their effects, and they result in
+the temporal and eternal ruin of thousands upon thousands of people
+every year.
+
+Then there are also the saloons, with gilded signs, frosted windows, and
+showy looking glasses. Rooms which are made attractive only to catch
+men, to rob them of their money, and of their self-control, and of their
+reason, and of their homes, and of all temporal good, and of all hope of
+heaven--destroying men's souls and bodies, both for a time and for all
+eternity.
+
+Then there is the theatre, with its glittering lights, with its tinseled
+show, with its corrupting play, with its scenes upon which no
+pure-minded man or woman can look without blushing; scenes which deaden
+the moral sense, pollute the mind, such as are calculated to rob the
+individual of virtue, and of integrity, and of faith in God, and of hope
+of heaven.
+
+Then there are other dangerous traps which are set for young men and for
+older men--tobacco, cigarettes and cigars, and beer. These traps which
+are set for our money, which so often rob of health and strength, for no
+boy who uses tobacco in any form can be strong like the boy who does not
+use tobacco. Boys begin with the deadly cigarette, and then go on to the
+cigar, and then follow with drinking beer, and so, step by step, they go
+on down to ruin.
+
+If you have ever gone fishing on a calm, beautiful summer day, and have
+looked down through the water, you have often seen the fish as they
+gathered around the hook, and then watched them as they nibbled at the
+bait. First they come up very shyly, and barely touch the bait with
+their nose. Then they come again, and possibly just bite a small
+trifle--barely taste of it. Then, again and again they nibble at the
+hook, until finally they undertake to get a large bite, when they
+discover that they have swallowed the hook. Then it matters not how much
+they flounder about, and struggle to get away, it is too late, it is
+impossible for them to escape. They are pulled into the boat or upon the
+bank, and a few hours later they are on the stove, being cooked for some
+hungry fisherman. Just so Satan comes to those whom he wishes to catch.
+He comes with money, and with pleasure, and with the thought of having
+a good time. He tempts people by presenting to their thought something
+which they desire. He leads them on step by step, and when they see
+others all about them who are being destroyed in the effort to obtain
+the same pleasure which they are seeking, Satan makes them think that in
+their own case the result will be very different.
+
+[Illustration: Fish Doing a Dangerous Thing.]
+
+You will notice that this mouse trap has four different places where
+mice can be caught, and is it not strange that when one mouse enters on
+this side, and is caught, and is lying there dead, that another live
+mouse should come along, and see the same trap and desire the same
+thing, and walk right in to the same danger, and the same sure death?
+You would think that when he saw the other mouse had been caught, and
+had lost his life, that he would turn away. But instead of that, he
+smells the cheese, walks right into the trap, and is caught, and in a
+few moments is as dead as his neighbor. So boys see others who have been
+ruined by smoking cigarettes, who have paved the way for their
+destruction by smoking cigars, by keeping bad company, by drinking beer,
+and by going on step by step. They see drunkards all about them who have
+squandered all their money and lost all their friends, and been forsaken
+by their own parents, their wives, and their children; who have become
+outcasts, and for whom no one longer has any respect. Men see these
+things daily, and yet they go on in the same way, beginning with beer
+and going, step by step, from social drinking, until they themselves
+become drunkards and outcasts, and go down to fill a drunkard's grave.
+The Bible says that no drunkard can inherit the kingdom of heaven.
+
+I trust that none of you who listen to me to-day will be so foolish as
+to permit Satan to deceive you. Look about you and see the results of
+worthless story-papers, of card-playing, of theatre going, of social
+drinking, of round dancing, lying, swearing, cheating, and all forms of
+wickedness, and then remember that these same influences, if wrought
+into your life, will also produce the same result. Do not be like the
+foolish mouse, which sees its dead companion in the trap, and then walks
+up unthinkingly and pokes his head into the same inevitable death and
+destruction; but remember that Satan waits to destroy you, just the same
+as he has destroyed others.
+
+In the book of Job (xviii: 10) it says, "The snare is laid for him in
+the ground and a trap for him in the way;" and in the 8th verse of the
+same book and chapter it says, "He is cast into a net by his own feet,
+and he walketh upon a snare." Satan has laid traps and snares all along
+your path through life, and you will need to be very, very cautious,
+lest you are ruined for time and destroyed for eternity. Remember the
+text for to-day, which says, "Among my people are found wicked men; they
+lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What are traps for? Are there
+          different kinds of traps? Is a trap a dangerous
+          thing? Does a dangerous trap always look
+          dangerous? Are there traps set for boys and girls,
+          and men and women? Who sets these traps? What are
+          some of the traps? How are fish caught? Who tries
+          to trap and destroy boys and girls, and men and
+          women? What does Satan sometimes use? When the
+          mouse sees others caught, what should he do? Does
+          he run away? Does he go and do the same thing?
+          Does he suffer the same result? If Satan's traps
+          destroy others, will they destroy us? Have you
+          ever seen any persons who were caught in Satan's
+          traps? Can anybody do wicked things without great
+          danger?
+
+
+
+
+BREAD.
+
+UNIVERSAL SOUL HUNGER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Bread, rolls or biscuit can be used
+          if thought necessary, and these can be used for
+          refreshments later.
+
+          If the children are tired of "driving to church"
+          in an imaginary carriage, let them drive in an
+          imaginary sleigh, with imaginary bells, amid
+          winter scenes.
+
+
+MY LITTLE FRIENDS: I am sure that every boy and girl in this room knows
+what it is to be hungry. It is a part of our childhood experience to
+feel hungry almost every day. While the body is growing there is almost
+a constant demand for nourishment and food.
+
+[Illustration: Loaf of Bread, Roll and Biscuit. ]
+
+We have here a small loaf of bread; it is called a Vienna roll, and here
+is a small biscuit. Now, this is bread, only it is baked in small
+loaves. As people all over the world have hunger, so bread in one form
+or another has become the universal food of the world. When in the
+Lord's Prayer we ask God to "give us this day our daily bread," we mean
+not simply bread made of flour, but we mean necessary food, food of all
+kinds; and so the word bread has come to be used to signify all kinds of
+wholesome food. God gives us our food day by day, just the same as each
+morning the manna rained down from heaven for the Children of Israel
+while they were journeying through the desert. God does not send it to
+us in just the same way, but each day He furnishes us a sufficient
+amount of food to sustain our bodies.
+
+Now, as there is universal physical hunger, and as God has made
+provision to supply the food necessary to satisfy the hunger of the
+body; so there is a universal hunger of the soul, and God has also made
+provision to satisfy this universal hunger of our higher spiritual
+nature. In the sixth chapter of the Gospel by St. John, you will find
+much said about the food for the higher, the spiritual nature. Jesus
+said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from
+Heaven; but My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the
+bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto
+the world."
+
+The body is sustained by the food which grows up out of the earth,
+because the body is earthy. But to sustain the higher and spiritual
+nature of man, which is from heaven, the food is sent down from heaven,
+and therefore Jesus says of Himself that He is "The bread of God which
+cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world," "I am the
+bread of life, he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that
+believeth on me shall never thirst." And in the forty-eighth verse of
+that same chapter He says, "I am the bread of life; your fathers did eat
+manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh
+down from heaven, that man may eat thereof and not die. I am the living
+bread which came down from heaven; if any man eat of this bread he shall
+live forever, and the bread that I will give him is my flesh, which I
+will give for the life of the world."
+
+[Illustration: Plants Reaching Out Toward the Light.]
+
+Now, when you desire to be good, when you desire to live like Christ,
+you desire to know more concerning Him; and when you desire to read
+God's Word, and to learn of that which is holy and good and right, then
+you have this spiritual hunger. That is the kind of hunger of which
+Jesus was speaking in this chapter. The presence of Jesus in the soul
+and the knowledge of Him that is given in the Bible is the best kind of
+food for our spiritual nature. This was the kind of spiritual food upon
+which Joseph fed when he lived in the midst of idolatrous Egypt. It was
+upon these spiritual truths that David and Daniel and Paul and Luther
+fed daily, and this nourished their spiritual natures. I trust you all
+have this hunger for the bread of life. Jesus said, "Blessed are they
+which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be
+filled."
+
+Did you ever see a plant growing at the window in a crock and observe
+how it bends or reaches out toward the light? If you turn the crock
+around so that the plant bends inward toward the room, after a day or
+two you go to the plant and it will have changed its direction, and
+instead of bending into the room, it will be bending out toward the
+window. Now this plant feeds on the light from the sun, and on that
+account it reaches out toward the sun. So if you hunger after that which
+is good, you will reach out after God, just as the plant reaches out
+after the sun.
+
+This kind of bread which I hold in my hand costs something. Flour costs
+several dollars a barrel, and bread from five to ten cents a loaf. In
+times of famine bread has sometimes been sold at many hundreds of
+dollars for one single loaf. But the bread of life is free; it costs
+nothing. Everybody can have spiritual food for the simple asking for it.
+Therefore it is that we go to God in prayer and ask Him for every good
+and helpful grace and blessing; that we ask Him for His presence in our
+hearts, and to make us good, and to help us to become like Christ.
+
+But there are some who have this hunger after that which is good, but
+they do not know about God and about the Lord Jesus Christ. They do not
+have any Bibles. Therefore it is my duty and your duty to send them the
+bread of everlasting life. It is for this purpose that we give our money
+for missions so that missionaries may be sent to them to tell them of
+God and His love, and of Jesus Christ the Saviour, and to take them the
+Bible.
+
+In order that we may be strengthened by bread, it is necessary that we
+should eat it, and that we should assimilate it or make it part of our
+own bodies, in order that we may become strong, otherwise we would die
+of hunger in the midst of great store-houses of food. So men and women
+die spiritually in the midst of churches, in the midst of Bibles, Bible
+influences, and Bible privileges; yes, die without Christ. In order that
+our spiritual natures may be fed with spiritual food, we have every
+Christian influence in our homes, we have the Sunday-school and the
+Catechetical class, and the Church with its preaching service, and
+prayer-meetings and other services. If you desire to be good, you must
+study your Bibles, go to Sunday-school and to church, and seek to know
+all you possibly can concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive Him
+into your hearts, and live a Christian life by His aid and the grace
+which God will grant you from day to day.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Do all boys and girls get hungry? What
+          food is most universally used in the world? Does
+          the body require food every day? Why? Do we have a
+          spiritual nature as well as a physical nature? Is
+          there a spiritual hunger as well as a physical
+          hunger? Will food which satisfies the physical
+          Hunger satisfy the spiritual hunger? Who does the
+          Bible say is the "bread of life"? Can we obtain
+          food for the body without buying it either with
+          money or effort? Must Jesus, the spiritual food,
+          be bought? Can salvation be purchased? If God did
+          not give it to us could we ever pay for it? Where
+          can we learn most about this spiritual hunger and
+          about the "bread" which came down from Heaven? How
+          shall we send the Bread of Life to the people in
+          heathen lands?
+
+
+
+
+THE STONE.
+
+THE NATURAL AND CHANGED HEART.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A small cobble stone and a
+          larger one, to represent the heart of a child and
+          the heart of an adult, and a pin with which to
+          prick the stone and prick the hand.
+
+
+[Illustration: Pricking a Stone. ]
+
+NOW, boys and girls, I have here a stone, which because of its peculiar
+shape reminds me of the human heart. But if I take a pin and prick this
+stone it has no feeling whatever. If I take this pin and prick the back
+of my hand, I feel it immediately. It is very unpleasant. Indeed, I do
+not like to endure it, but this stone has no feeling. If I were to love
+this stone, the stone would never be conscious of it. I might bestow
+great gifts upon this stone, I might purchase fruit for it, and
+everything that you and I might love for food; the finest clothing also,
+the most costly lands and houses, or we might even bestow upon it very
+great honor, and yet this stone would know nothing of it. It would
+always be insensible of all that I might do for it.
+
+[Illustration: Pricking the Hand.]
+
+Now the Bible represents the natural heart as being wicked. We are told
+in the Bible that our hearts have no feeling; that God loves us, and yet
+that we do not appreciate it; that God bestows upon us our daily food,
+and that He clothes us, and blesses us with every good, and has provided
+for us mansions in the skies, and that He desires to give us everlasting
+salvation. He loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus
+Christ, to die for us, and yet with the natural heart no one ever loves
+God, or appreciates anything that He has done for us. And so God
+desires, as He tells us in the Bible, to take away, out of our flesh
+this heart of stone, and give us a heart of flesh, so that we may
+appreciate and love Him in return for all that He has done for us.
+
+The heart is spoken of in the Bible as the seat of the affections, and
+therefore it is that God desires us to have a new heart, a changed
+heart, a heart that can love Him. The Bible says that each one is to
+keep his heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
+We are told also that "the heart is deceitful above all things and
+desperately wicked."
+
+[Illustration: Assaulting the City of Child-Soul.]
+
+Many years ago in England there was a man by the name of John Bunyan. I
+suppose you have all heard of his wonderful book entitled the "Pilgrim's
+Progress." I hope that many of you have read it. All of you should read
+it, if you have not yet done so. Get your mother or father to read it
+for you, if you cannot read it yourself.
+
+This man Bunyan also wrote a book entitled the "Holy War." In this book
+he represents the human soul or the human heart as a city, and calls it
+the "City of Mansoul." This city has various gates, and at all these
+gates the enemy is trying to gain admission into the city, so that he
+may capture it. It is, indeed, a very apt illustration of the human
+heart. Do you know that your heart is like a city, and that Satan is
+trying to capture and to get possession of it? Indeed, he may already
+have possession of it. And when God by His grace shall come and cast out
+Satan and all his evil companions, they will come back and try to get
+into the city again. They will come to the various gates of the city;
+for your heart has various avenues of approach, which may be called
+gates. There is eye-gate. Satan comes and he appeals to you and tries to
+get into your heart through the eye. Bad pictures that are posted upon
+the bulletin boards along our streets, and wicked things upon which you
+and I ought not to look--worthless papers, bad books--these Satan
+desires to have us look upon, and in that way get evil thoughts into our
+minds and wicked purposes into our hearts, so that he can once more get
+possession of our hearts.
+
+Then he comes to ear-gate, and tries to get into our hearts through our
+ears. There are wicked songs, and bad stories, and wicked words that men
+pour into our ears, even when we walk along the streets. And so Satan
+tries to get into our hearts through ear-gate, and he tries to get into
+our hearts through what I will call mouth-gate. He tempts our appetite,
+and would have us eat things which would injure us, or to drink that
+which would harm us. And so he tries to get a boy to smoke, or to drink,
+if at first only beer, or something else, until at last Satan makes a
+drunkard of him. So Satan would get into the heart through mouth-gate.
+And when he cannot get into the heart through mouth-gate, or any other
+way, he oftentimes approaches mouth-gate by way of nose-gate. By the
+smell of something that is pleasant he tempts the appetite, and thus
+would lead us astray.
+
+And then he would also approach our hearts through the sense of feeling.
+There are many wicked things that Satan tempts people to do in order to
+give them pleasure, and so he seeks to get into their hearts, and to get
+entire control of them, and in that way to get God out of their hearts.
+
+The best thing that you and I can do, is to accept of God's invitation,
+where He says, "My son, give me thine heart." I trust that you will give
+your heart earnestly and fully to the Lord Jesus Christ. He will take
+away this heart of stone out of your flesh, and give you a heart of
+flesh. He will keep your heart securely for you, if you will only give
+it fully to Him.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Does the stone have any feeling? Are
+          our natural hearts like a stone? Can a human heart
+          that is insensible like a stone be conscious of
+          God's love? Who offers to give us a heart that
+          will be conscious of God's love? Who wrote the
+          book picturing the human heart like a city? Who is
+          trying to capture this city? Through what gates
+          does Satan try to enter? How does he try to get
+          into Eye-Gate? How does he try to get into
+          Ear-Gate? How does he try to get into Mouth-Gate?
+          Can you tell any other methods that he tries? To
+          whom had we better surrender the city of our soul?
+          If we commit the city of our soul to God, will He
+          protect and defend it? Is there any other way of
+          safety?
+
+
+
+
+THE POLISHED STONE.
+
+PERFECTION THROUGH SUFFERING.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--A piece of polished stone, or a
+          polished jewel, or piece of polished metal will
+          answer for the object to be used.
+
+
+MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I trust you are all trying to be good, and
+perhaps while you have been trying to be a follower of Jesus you have
+desired many things and hoped that God would give them to you, because
+you were trying to do right, and yet, perhaps, you have been
+disappointed because God did not grant your wish. You have been seeking
+to be faithful, and yet, perhaps, sickness has come to you, or
+disappointment and sorrow. Perhaps sickness and death have come into
+your family. Your papa or your mamma has been taken away by death, and
+you have been left very sad and lonely, and you have come to wonder how
+it is, if God loves you, that He does not grant you just what you wish,
+and that He permits sickness and sorrow and bereavement to come to you
+and to your home.
+
+[Illustration: Stones Being Prepared for a Great Building
+
+Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall.]
+
+When you have looked about you, you have seen many good people who have
+been in much distress, oftentimes in poverty, afflicted with sickness,
+bereaved of their loved ones, and left in great sorrow and
+disappointment. When you have taken up your Bible you have found that
+the same was true many hundreds of years ago. David was greatly
+afflicted. Paul had his thorn in the flesh. The disciples were often
+cast into prison, and it is very likely that all of them were put to
+death, as their Master had been before them.
+
+Now I want to illustrate to you to-day why God permits sorrow and
+affliction to come to us. I have here two stones, both taken out of the
+same quarry. This one is polished and has a very beautiful surface. It
+is very beautiful, not only to look at, but it would be beautiful in any
+place you might choose to put it. This other is rough and jagged, and
+not at all pleasant, either to handle or to look upon. This rough stone
+can be made useful, but it would be no more useful than any other rough
+and unsightly stone. It would do very well to place in the foundation of
+a building, to be all covered up with mortar and have other stones laid
+on top of it; to be built in the foundation down below the ground, where
+no one would ever see it. But it would be of no special value in its
+present condition for anything other than that.
+
+I think this polished stone may very properly represent Christian
+people. For long, long years this stone had been lying peacefully and
+quietly in its rocky bed. But one day a man who purposed to build a very
+beautiful palace came along, and he found that the great rocks in a
+certain portion of the country contained stone that could be polished
+very beautifully. They could therefore be made very useful in
+constructing his palace or cathedral. So he sent a large number of men
+to the quarry and they began to drill great holes in the rock. Now, if
+these rocks had any feeling you can see at once that they would object
+to having such great holes drilled into their sides, because it would
+hurt a great deal. But after the men had the holes drilled they put
+powder in them and blasted off great pieces of these rocks. Then these
+great blocks were hauled away and placed in the hands of stone masons,
+who began with chisels and mallets to cut and carve. After that, with
+some fine sand or emery, or something of that kind, other men ground
+and polished the face of the stone until it became very beautiful.
+
+[Illustration: Stones Being Polished.]
+
+Now, if these stones had had feeling, you can see at once that they
+would have objected to being chiselled and cut, and carved, and ground,
+and polished. This process would have hurt so much that the stones would
+have cried out, and asked to be delivered from such a painful process.
+
+[Illustration: "The Beautiful Angel Was Carved Out."]
+
+It is related of Michael Angelo, that one day he was passing a quarry
+where large blocks of beautiful marble were being taken out. In one
+large block he saw a beautiful angel. He ordered the block to be taken
+to his studio, or the place where he studied and worked. And then he put
+his men at work to chisel off the rough corners, and thus to deliver the
+angel out of the rough pieces by which it was surrounded. After many
+days and weeks, and perhaps months of working, in which this large block
+of marble had to submit to a great deal of chiselling and carving, and
+cutting, and polishing; lo! and behold, the beautiful angel was all
+carved out and stood complete and perfect. It was polished and was made
+very beautiful, and when it was set up, it was the delight of every one
+who looked upon it. But all this, you easily see, was only made possible
+by that cutting and carving, which would have been very painful to the
+marble if it had been possessed of feeling.
+
+I think you will begin to see that these things which we call troubles
+and trials, after all, are well calculated by God to bring out that
+which is noblest and best in us.
+
+When you grow older you will come to say like Paul, that you know that
+"tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience
+hope, and hope maketh not ashamed." You will then come to understand
+that these things "work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal
+weight of glory," and like Paul, you will learn to be "patient in
+tribulation." One time when Paul and Barnabas were at Lystra and healed
+a cripple, the people were moved against Paul by some wicked Jews from
+Antioch and Iconium, and they pursued Paul and threw large stones at him
+and hit him with such great force that he fell down, and they supposed
+that he was dead. But Paul was not dead, and afterwards when he met some
+of the Christian people at that and other places, when they talked to
+him about it, and thought that it was very hard that God should have
+permitted these wicked people to stone him, Paul told these Christians
+that "through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of
+heaven."
+
+But I must not detain you longer. I want simply to say in closing that
+when St. John had been banished to the Isle of Patmos and was permitted
+to have a view of heaven, and looked into that glorious city, he saw a
+great company, and he inquired of the angel who these people were. The
+angel replied: "These are they which came out of great tribulation, and
+have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
+Therefore are they before the Throne of God and serve Him day and night
+in His temple; and He that sitteth upon the Throne shall dwell among
+them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall
+the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst
+of the Throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains
+of water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." (Rev. vii:
+14-17.)
+
+If in our sickness, or sorrow, or disappointment here upon the earth, we
+are sad or lonely, let us remember that in the happy home to which we go
+we shall be forever with the Lord, and that all tears shall be wiped
+away, and that we shall be happy forever and ever on high. It is only
+through these tribulations that you and I can be prepared to enter
+heaven. If God were to give us everything we want, like children who are
+indulged, we would soon be spoiled and would not be fit for the
+enjoyment of heaven or the companionship of the angels.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What is rough stone used for? Does the
+          stone have feeling? If it had feeling, would it
+          object to being cut and chiselled and polished?
+          Could it be used in a great building unless it was
+          first quarried and prepared? How can the rough
+          stone be made beautiful? Can it be polished so
+          that you can see your face in it? Who prepares
+          people to be builded into His kingdom? How does He
+          do this? Who composed the great multitude whom
+          John saw in the glorious city? What had happened
+          to them? What should we remember in times of
+          sickness and sorrow? Why are trials necessary to
+          fit us for heaven? Will we be in the presence of
+          God there and have angels as our companions?
+
+
+
+
+ROPES.
+
+HABITS AND HOW THEY BECOME STRONG.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--Objects to be used are a spool of
+          thread, a piece of string or twine and a piece of
+          rope.
+
+          After the sermon has been read, the thread and
+          strings could be used to tie the hands and feet,
+          and thus illustrate how impossible it is to break
+          them when they are wound again and again around
+          the hands and the feet, even though the thread be
+          very fine. So with habits, seemingly
+          insignificant.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I have to-day a piece of rope, and also some
+different kinds of string. If I take this rope and try to break it, I
+find that it is impossible. I do not believe that any five or six
+ordinary men could pull with sufficient strength to break this rope. I
+am sure that no twenty boys and girls could pull hard enough to break
+it.
+
+[Illustration: Rope.]
+
+Here is a very strong string. Perhaps a couple of boys, possibly four
+boys, might be able to break it. But here is a thinner string. Possibly
+I may be able to break this. Yes, I can, but with great difficulty. It
+takes all the strength I have to break it.
+
+Now, here is some that is still thinner. It is about as thick as heavy
+thread. I can break it very easily.
+
+But now, when I take this heavy rope and cut off a piece, if I unwind
+these different strands, I find that this rope is made by twisting
+smaller ropes together. If I untwist this smaller rope, which I have
+taken out of the larger rope, I find that it in like manner is also made
+of smaller ropes, or strings. If I take these smaller strings, and
+untwist them, I find that they are made of still smaller strings; if I
+take any of these smaller strings out of the rope, I can break them
+easily, but when I twist several of them together, I cannot break them.
+
+[Illustration: String.]
+
+I think that these smaller cords, out of which this rope is made, will
+very fittingly illustrate habits. It is a very dangerous thing to form
+bad habits. We should be very careful to form good ones, but bad ones
+are very dangerous. The boy who remains away from Sunday-school but
+once, thinks little of it. The boy who remains away from church, or
+stays at home from school, or disobeys his parents, or spends the
+evenings on the streets instead of in the house reading good books, or
+breaks the Sabbath, or does any one of many things, may think very
+little of it at the time; but do you know that when we go on repeating
+the same thing over and over again, the habit grows stronger and
+stronger until at last we are not able to break loose from that habit?
+There are men who think that they can stop smoking. They began with only
+an occasional cigarette or a cigar, until the habit grew upon them, and
+now possibly they think they are able to stop, but when they undertake
+to break off smoking, they find that it is a very difficult task, and
+very few smokers who undertake it succeed permanently. The old habit is
+likely to overcome them again and again.
+
+So it is with swearing, and with telling falsehoods, and with being
+dishonest, and with drinking liquor, and everything else that men and
+boys often do. These habits at last become very strong, until they are
+not able to break loose from them.
+
+Now, if you take one of these strong habits from which a man is not able
+to break loose, and untwist it, you will find that it was made strong by
+a repetition of small habits. Habits are made strong by doing the same
+thing over and over again. It is just the same as when I take this spool
+of thread and wrap it around the feet of a boy. I can wrap it around and
+around, and while it would be easy for him to break the thread if it was
+wrapped once or twice, or three or four times around his feet; yet after
+I have succeeded in placing it ten or twelve, or twenty-five or fifty
+times around his feet, he is not able to walk at all.
+
+[Illustration: Hands Bound.]
+
+I could tie his hands by wrapping this small thread around and around,
+just a few times. At first it could be broken, but after a little it
+becomes so strong that he is not able to break it at all. So it is with
+habits. When we do the same things again and again, the habit becomes
+stronger and stronger day by day, and year by year, until at last Satan
+has the poor victim bound hand and foot, and he is absolutely helpless.
+No one is able to come and snap the cords, and set this poor helpless
+prisoner free, until God in His grace comes and liberates him from the
+evil habits with which he has bound himself, or with which he has
+permitted Satan to bind him.
+
+It is very important that in the very beginning of life, we should all
+form the habit of doing those things which are right. The doing of the
+right may at first afford us but very little pleasure, yet we are to
+continue to do right, and after a while it will become pleasant for us
+to do right.
+
+[Illustration: Feet Bound.]
+
+At first it may not be very pleasant for a boy to go to school. He
+prefers not to exert himself; not to put forth any mental effort. But
+after he becomes accustomed to going to school, and to putting forth
+mental effort, it becomes more and more natural to him, and finally he
+comes to love study. After he has completed his studies in the primary
+school, he goes to the intermediate, and to the grammar school, and high
+school, and possibly to college, and continues to be a student all his
+life.
+
+So it is with going to church; those who begin when they are young and
+go regularly, Sunday after Sunday, become regular church attendants all
+their lives.
+
+Habits are formed very much like the channel of a river. Gradually, year
+after year, the river wears its course deeper and deeper, until finally
+through the soft soil and the hard rock, through the pleasant meadow
+and the beautiful woodlands, it has worn out for itself a very deep
+channel in which it continues to flow to the ocean.
+
+So the mind, by repeated action, marks out its course. Whether the
+mental effort or manual work be pleasant or difficult, we become so
+accustomed to it, that we go on day by day, and year by year doing the
+same thing.
+
+The Bible gives very wise instruction to parents when it says, "Train up
+a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart
+from it." (Prov. xxii: 6.) It has also been wisely said, "Sow an act and
+you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character
+and you reap a destiny."
+
+Be careful, boys and girls, what you do, for by doing anything you are
+forming a habit. If you do wrong things you will form bad habits, but if
+you do right things you will form good habits, which are always the
+best.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are small ropes or strings used to
+          make big ropes? Can you tie a boy's hands and feet
+          with thread so that he cannot make himself free?
+          How are strong habits made? Is it a good thing
+          that habits are formed in this way? Does this make
+          it easy to form good habits? Does it also make it
+          easy to break away at first from a bad habit?
+          Which is easier, to form a bad habit or to break
+          away from it? Who tries to bind us with bad
+          habits? Who alone can break the ropes of habit
+          with which Satan binds us? What does the Bible say
+          about training up a child in the way he should go?
+
+
+
+
+WATCH AND CASE.
+
+THE SOUL AND THE BODY.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A watch and case (preferably a double
+          case) from which the works can be easily removed
+          will answer the purpose. Jewelers often have such
+          old watches that they would be glad to sell for a
+          trifle, or even to give away. A small old clock
+          from which the works can be removed would also
+          answer the same purpose.
+
+          Keep up the play idea with the children. Older
+          persons may weary of repetition, but to children
+          their play is always new and interesting. After
+          "driving to church", being shown to seats, and
+          after some opening services, let one of the
+          children preach in his or her own language the
+          truth which most impressed them in last Sunday's
+          object sermon, or the truth which they remember
+          from the morning sermon in church, or from any
+          passage of Scripture which they may prefer. No
+          better school of oratory was ever formed, even
+          though the primary purpose is devotional and
+          religious.
+
+
+NOW, boys and girls, what is this that I hold in my hand? (Many voices,
+"A watch.") I expected that you would say it was a watch. Every boy
+knows a watch when he sees it, and every boy desires to have a watch of
+his own--one which he can carry in his pocket, and one which will tell
+him the time of day whenever he looks at it.
+
+But you cannot be sure, even from appearances, that this is absolutely a
+watch. It might be only a watch-case. In order to tell whether it is a
+watch, let us open it. After all, it is not a watch. It is only a
+watch-case. You would not wish to spend your money when you expect to
+get a watch, and on reaching home find that you have been deceived, and
+that you had nothing but a watch-case.
+
+[Illustration: Watch-case.]
+
+Now, boys and girls, what is this? (holding up the works of the watch).
+"A watch." This time you are right, this is a watch. It is a watch
+without a case around it. Now we will put the works into the case, and
+then we will have a complete watch. The works and the case together more
+properly constitute a watch.
+
+[Illustration: A Watch-case and Works.]
+
+You have, I suppose, been at a funeral, and have seen the body of the
+dead man or woman or child lying in the coffin. Unless somebody has told
+you differently, you may possibly have thought the person whom you had
+known was lying there in the coffin. But this was not the fact. Every
+man, woman and child consists of a soul and a body, and when a person
+dies the soul returns to God, who gave it. God made our body out of the
+dust of the ground, and when the spirit leaves the body, it is a dead
+body, and it begins to decay, and soon becomes offensive, and so we bury
+the body out of our sight, putting it again in the ground, and finally
+it moulders back again to dust.
+
+It is not so, however, with the soul. That is a spirit. When God had
+made Adam out of the dust of the ground, He breathed into his nostrils
+the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Now, this soul never
+dies. God has created it to live forever and ever, throughout all
+eternity. Those who are good and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ will be
+received at death to dwell forever with the Lord. And those who are
+wicked and do not repent of their sins, God will banish forever from His
+presence; for sin is hateful in the sight of God, who cannot look upon
+it with any degree of allowance.
+
+[Illustration: Case and Works Separated.]
+
+The moment you look upon a body, without being able to tell how, you can
+nevertheless quickly distinguish between one who is asleep and one who
+is really dead. Even animals can tell a dead body. When a dead horse
+lies along the road, it is very difficult to drive a live horse near to
+the dead one. The living horse knows at once that the other is dead,
+although we do not know how he knows it.
+
+Now, I want to show you that death does not affect the existence of the
+soul. I will now lift these works out of the watch case.
+
+I now hold the case in my left hand, and the works in my right hand. As
+these works constitute the real watch, so the soul constitutes the real
+person, and as these wheels and hands continue to move, and to keep time
+regularly even after they have been removed from the case; so the soul,
+when God removes it from the body, continues to exist and to be
+possessed of all that makes the reasoning, thinking, immortal and
+indestructible being of man. I might take this case, which I hold in my
+left hand, and bury it in the ground, but the works would not be
+affected by this fact, but would continue to run on just the same.
+Suppose I were to leave this case buried in the ground until it had all
+rusted away. Then suppose that, as a chemist I could gather up all these
+particles again and make them anew into a watch case, and then put the
+works back into the case which had been restored or made anew; that
+would represent the resurrection of the body, and the reuniting of the
+soul with the body, which will take place at the resurrection day.
+
+Some years ago there was a great chemist, whose name was Faraday. It
+happened one time in his laboratory that one of the students, by
+accident, knocked from the table a silver cup, which fell into a vessel
+of acid. The acid immediately destroyed or dissolved it, and the silver
+all disappeared, the same as sugar dissolves or melts in a tumbler of
+water. When Professor Faraday came in and was told what had happened, he
+took some chemicals and poured them into the acid in which the silver
+had disappeared. As soon as these two chemicals came together, the acid
+began to release the silver, and particle by particle the silver settled
+at the bottom of the vessel. The acid was then poured off and the silver
+was all carefully gathered up and sent to a silversmith, who melted the
+silver and made it anew into a silver cup of the same form, design and
+beauty. It was the same cup made anew. So, my young friends, our bodies
+may dissolve in the grave and entirely disappear, but God is able to
+raise them up again. He tells us in the Bible that these bodies which
+are buried in corruption shall be raised in incorruption, and that these
+mortal bodies shall put on immortality.
+
+I trust that I have illustrated to you how the soul and the body are
+separated when we die, and God's Word assures us that they shall be
+reunited again in the morning of the resurrection, for all these dead
+bodies "shall hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth." It
+matters not whether they were buried in the ground, or in the water,
+they shall arise from every sea and from every cemetery, and every grave
+in all the world, and shall live anew and forever, either in happiness
+with God in heaven, or in misery with Satan in eternal banishment from
+God's presence.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What are the principal parts of a
+          watch? Which part is like the body? Which part is
+          like the soul? Which is the real watch? Could the
+          works alone run and keep time without the case?
+          When does the soul become separated from the body?
+          Does death affect the existence and life of the
+          soul? If a watch case were buried and rusted away,
+          could it be made new again? Does the Bible say our
+          bodies are also to be raised again from the grave?
+          What is that raising up of the body called? Will
+          it make any difference whether a body was buried
+          in the sea or in the earth? ("The sea shall give
+          up its dead"). Whose voice shall call the body to
+          immortality? Will the immortal body ever die?
+
+
+
+
+PEARLS.
+
+ONE OF GREAT PRICE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A single pearl, or a string of pearls
+          will serve well for illustration.
+
+
+[Illustration: String of Pearls.]
+
+MY YOUNG FRIENDS: Here is a whole string of pearls. One time I found a
+large pearl in an oyster. I thought it might be valuable, and I took it
+to a jeweler, but he soon told me that it was not worth much, because it
+was not perfect. It was unusually large, but to be valuable it must be
+perfectly round and have no defects. When Jesus was upon the earth He
+told of a merchant who went in search of a very valuable pearl, and when
+he had found it, he sold all that he had and bought that pearl, in order
+that he might have the largest and most valuable jewel in all the world.
+
+[Illustration: Diving for Pearls.]
+
+Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, had a pearl that was worth three hundred and
+seventy-five thousand dollars, and one day she dissolved this costly
+pearl, and drank it in a glass of wine to the honor of Mark Antony, one
+of the Roman rulers. There are pearls to-day worth two and three
+hundred thousand dollars, and possibly more.
+
+The pearl in this parable is the symbol of salvation. Now, salvation has
+cost more, and is worth more than all the farms, and houses, and stores,
+and wealth of all this nation, and all the nations of all the globe, and
+all the created universe about us. It cost the life of the Son of God,
+and it is desirable, therefore, that you and I should obtain it, because
+of the many blessings it secures to us, both in this world and in the
+world to come.
+
+For two thousand years men from all the largest nations of the earth
+have gone to the island of Ceylon, seeking pearls. It is a barren and
+deserted island, but during the months of February, March and April,
+every night at ten o'clock, many boats sail out about ten miles, to the
+place where men, with large leaden weights at their feet, dive down
+through the water until they come to the banks where the large pearl
+oyster has his home. They quickly pick up several of these oysters and
+drop them into a basket of network, and in about sixty or seventy
+seconds are again drawn up by their companions into the boat.
+
+Men and women could not have pearls if it were not that these men are
+willing to risk their lives by diving way down under the water to obtain
+them. No one could secure salvation had not Jesus left His throne in
+heaven and come down to this wicked world to suffer and die, that He
+might make atonement for our sins upon the cross, so that you and I
+might not perish but have everlasting life--so that you and I might have
+salvation, both here and in heaven.
+
+When I went to the jeweler, he told me that the defects on the pearl
+which I had found could not be removed and the rough places polished.
+Diamonds have to be cut and polished. Many precious and costly jewels
+when found look only like rough stones in the field, but the pearl is
+perfect when found; nothing can be done to make it more perfect or more
+valuable. Just so is the salvation of Jesus perfect; no human wisdom can
+improve upon it. The best book that any man ever wrote has been equaled
+by what some other man has thought and written. The religion of the
+heathen can be greatly improved, but the Bible and the salvation which
+it reveals, man has never been able to equal, much less to improve upon.
+
+To-day, as thousands of years ago, pearls are worn as ornaments to the
+body, but the salvation which Jesus Christ came to bring is an ornament
+to the soul that possesses it.
+
+The pearl is valuable and desirable, because it cannot easily be stolen
+away from its owner. When Jesus was upon the earth they did not have
+banks, with large iron safes where people could deposit their money and
+jewels for safe keeping. There were many robbers then, and people buried
+their money and valuables. Often the places where these were concealed
+were discovered, and then all that they had was stolen. A pearl is
+small, and could therefore easily be hidden in a place of safety. If war
+occurred, or for any reason a man and his family had to flee from their
+home or their country, they could easily carry even the most valuable
+pearls. The owner could hide it in his mouth, or even swallow it if
+necessary. If a man had much gold, it was too heavy to carry, and it
+could readily be discovered and stolen. But a pearl was not so difficult
+to hide and keep.
+
+The Bible tells us that salvation is something that the world cannot
+give, and which the world cannot take away. Daniel had this pearl of
+great price, and even though the king cast him into the den of lions, he
+could not get it away from him. His three companions with those hard
+names, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, had this pearl of salvation, and
+even in the furnace of fire it was not destroyed or taken from them. If
+you have this pearl of salvation, you can keep it in spite of all the
+wicked people in the world; you can hide it away in your heart, and all
+the armies of the world cannot take it away from you. In sickness or in
+health it will be yours, and even death itself can not rob you of it. It
+will stay with you in this world, and it will be your joy and gladness
+in the world to come.
+
+As the merchantman went out seeking the most valuable pearl, so all the
+world is to-day seeking for something which will satisfy and render
+their owners happy. There are many good things in this world, but none
+of them can make any one contented and happy, like the salvation which
+Jesus gives when we repent of our sins and in faith accept Him as our
+Saviour. Before you get, or even desire any other pearl, I want each of
+you to accept of this "Pearl of great price," which is Jesus Christ.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Of what is a pearl the symbol in the
+          Bible? Are pearls valuable? Is salvation valuable?
+          Where are pearls principally found? How are they
+          obtained? Are pearls polished like the diamond?
+          Why do people wear pearls? Can we lose pearls by
+          having them stolen? Can we lose salvation? Who
+          would steal it away? Who can give us the "Pearl of
+          great price"?
+
+          It is well to have the children learn the answers
+          to many of the leading Bible questions. Try them
+          in the following:--Who was the first man? Who was
+          the first woman? Of what did God make Adam and
+          Eve? Who was the first murderer? Who was the
+          oldest man? Who built the ark? Who had the coat of
+          many colors? Who was the strongest man? Who slew
+          Goliath the giant? With what did David slay
+          Goliath? Who was the wisest man? Who was cast into
+          the den of lions? Who went to Heaven in the
+          chariot of fire without dying? Upon whom did
+          Elijah's mantle fall? A goodly number of similar
+          questions are found on pages 25 and 26.
+
+
+
+
+COAL AND WOOD.
+
+JESUS THE SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL LIGHT AND WARMTH.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used to-day can be a
+          piece of wood, a piece of coal, a candle and a
+          piece of electric light carbon, such as are daily
+          thrown away in towns where the arc lighting is
+          used.
+
+
+DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: When Jesus was upon the earth, He said of Himself,
+"I am the light of the world." Now, I desire to-day to illustrate to you
+something of the truth which Jesus had in mind when He uttered these
+words.
+
+[Illustration: The Sun and Moon.]
+
+We are told in the Bible, that when God created the world, on the fourth
+day He created the sun and the moon to give light upon the earth, the
+sun to rule over the day, and the moon to rule over the night.
+
+I suppose you all know that the earth is round, and that while the sun
+is shining on our side of the earth, and making it day here, on the
+other side of the earth it is night and is all dark. Now, I want to tell
+you that the sun is the source of all light upon the earth. The sun
+shines and dispels the darkness, and makes it light. And do you know
+that the moon does not shine by its own light, but it simply throws back
+again, as we say, reflects, the light of the sun, just the same as when
+a boy takes a small piece or looking-glass and throws the light across
+the street? There is no light in the looking-glass itself, but it simply
+takes the rays of light which fall upon it from the sun and bends them,
+or turns them, so that the boy can throw the rays of light across the
+street, or upon anything that he desires that is in range of him. So the
+light of the sun falls upon the moon, and is turned again or reflected
+back upon the earth. God has so placed the moon in the heavens that it
+reflects the light of the sun upon those portions of the earth which are
+in darkness. Or, in other words, as He says in the Bible, the moon has
+been "made to rule the night." So you see that even the moon does not
+shine by its own light.
+
+Jesus Christ is the Sun of Righteousness. All the good there is in the
+world, all the righteousness, all that is holy and pure, come from Jesus
+Christ. The Church is also a source of purity, of holiness, of religion,
+and of Christianity. But the church does not shine of itself. It does
+not have these influences within itself. All its light is derived from
+the Sun of Righteousness. All influences which tend for goodness and
+holiness and purity are derived from the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the
+source of all that is good, and only in so far as the Church reflects
+the life of Jesus, and the truth which is revealed in His Word, and in
+the teachings of Jesus, does it become the source of saving power in
+the world.
+
+[Illustration: Candle, Coal and Wood.]
+
+Now, here I have a piece of coal, and a piece of wood, and a candle, and
+a piece of carbon from an electric light. You might ask me whether the
+light that comes from the coal when it burns, or the wood when it burns,
+and the candle when it is lighted, and the electric light when it
+illuminates the street so brightly, whether they are not shining by
+their own light? No; they are not shining by their own light. All the
+light that there is in the wood, or in the coal, or in the candle, or in
+anything else that makes a light at all, derives its source and origin
+from the sun. The light that comes from the burning of this wood is
+simply the releasing of the light that has been accumulated from the
+rays of light shining from the sun upon the tree while it was growing,
+year after year, in the field or forest. And now, when it is burning, it
+simply releases or throws out that light which it received from the sun,
+and which was stored up in the wood of the tree while it was growing.
+
+This coal is simply a portion of a tree which grew many, many hundreds
+or thousands of years ago, and which, in some great convulsion of
+nature, was buried deep under the surface of the earth in what we now
+call coal mines. The coal has undergone some chemical changes, but,
+nevertheless, all the light there is in the coal is simply that buried
+sunshine, which was stored up centuries and centuries ago, in the form
+of vegetables and trees. Now, when it burns in the grate or in the
+furnace it simply releases that heat and warmth and light, which was
+stored up in these trees many, many centuries ago. It is simply buried
+sunshine which God has stored up for our use. The same is true of the
+light of the candle; if it were not for the light of the sun there would
+be no light giving power in any oil or tallow, or in this carbon, which
+is used in the electric light; they all derive their light from the sun
+itself.
+
+Just so it is with all the truth and righteousness there is in the
+world. When you see a man who is good and Christlike, it is not because
+that man has the power in himself to be good, but it is because he has
+received that power from the Lord Jesus Christ. The light of the Sun of
+Righteousness has shone into that man's heart, and the light that goes
+out through his daily conduct and character, is only the light of the
+Son of God shining out through that man.
+
+All objects which live in the sunlight drink in this light-giving power,
+and all people who live daily in the light of the Sun of Righteousness
+will partake of His nature and of His character, and then live that
+nature and character in their own daily lives. In this way they do as
+Jesus commanded, let their lights so shine, that others seeing their
+good work, glorify their Father which is in heaven.
+
+You should be careful to note that Jesus does not say that we ourselves
+are to shine so that others may glorify us. No, not at all. Many people
+try to shine or to attract the attention of others to themselves, but
+that is not what Jesus said or meant, but rather the reverse. Neither
+are we to attempt to shine, or to attempt to attract the glory or honor
+to ourselves. Let not yourself so shine, but let your _light_ so shine
+that others seeing your good works may glorify--not you, but your Father
+which is in heaven. We must let Jesus Christ shine in and through us.
+
+Whenever you see men or women, or girls or boys who are living beautiful
+Christian lives, it is not they that light up the moral darkness that is
+in the world, it is Jesus Christ who lives in them and shines through
+them, that makes them good and holy, and consequently a source of light
+and blessing to all about them.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What does Christ call Himself? What is
+          the source of the light of the natural world? Does
+          the sun shine by its own light? Does the moon
+          shine by its own light, or does it reflect the
+          light of the sun? What is the source of light
+          displayed when coal and wood and other substances
+          are burned? Does all natural light come from the
+          sun? Who is the source of our spiritual light and
+          knowledge? Are the Church and Christian people
+          lights in the world? Do they shine of their own
+          goodness like the sun, or are they like the moon
+          in that they reflect the divine light? Does any
+          person have the power in himself to be good? Where
+          does this power to be good come from? Does Christ
+          want us to shine as lights in the world? Are we to
+          let our lights shine to glorify ourselves, or to
+          glorify Christ?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+LANTERNS.
+
+THE BEST LIGHT FOR OUR PATH.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--A lantern of any kind may be used.
+          If one of the old-fashioned tin lanterns,
+          perforated with holes through which the light was
+          to shine, is available it would add greatly to the
+          curiosity and interest of the children, although
+          these are now very rare, as they were in use a
+          half century ago.
+
+          After "driving to church", and after preaching by
+          the children and the reading of the following
+          sermon on lanterns, a few Japanese lanterns--one
+          for each of the children--would enable the parents
+          to form a little torch-light procession (although
+          no lighted candles need be in the lanterns). After
+          marching through the different rooms, give the
+          children a talk upon the conditions existing in
+          heathen lands like China and Japan, and the
+          changes which are being wrought through the
+          introduction of Christianity and the work of the
+          missionaries.
+
+
+[Illustration: Old Lantern.]
+
+I DO not believe that there is a boy or girl here to-day who could tell
+me what this thing is, that I hold in my hand. It is a lantern, a very
+different lantern possibly, from those which any of you have ever seen.
+This is the kind of lantern that your grandfather and my grandfather
+used many years ago, in the days when they did not have lamps, and gas,
+and electric lights, and such things as we enjoy to-day. When I was a
+small boy in the country we used to have only candles. Later on in life,
+I remember when they first had fluid lamps, and then kerosene oil, and
+then gas, and then, as we have it now, electric lights.
+
+In the second congregation to which I ministered, there was an old
+gentleman who had one of these lanterns. He lived some distance from the
+church, and very dark nights you could always see him coming across the
+hill, carrying this strange lantern. After the candle was lighted and
+placed inside, the light shone out through these small holes, and if the
+wind blew very hard, the light was liable to be blown out.
+
+Now, here is a better lantern. David says of God's Word, "Thy word is a
+lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." On a dark night in the
+country, you could not go out of doors and move about without running up
+against a tree, or the fence, or falling into the ditch, or soon finding
+yourself involved in serious difficulties; and on this account people in
+the country carry a lantern at night. In the Eastern countries where
+Jesus lived, where they did not have gas and electric lamps to light the
+streets, when people went out at night they always carried a lantern.
+And so David said, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my
+path." (Ps. cxix: 105.)
+
+[Illustration: "Coming Across the Hill Carrying this Strange Lantern."]
+
+When people go out of doors into the darkness with a lantern they do not
+hold it way up high, but hold it down near their feet, so that they can
+see the path, and it enables them to walk with security and safety.
+Sometimes there are men who have gone to college, and have learned Latin
+and Greek, have studied the sciences and philosophy, and they think they
+have learned a very great deal. Perhaps afterwards they have studied
+medicine and become physicians, or have read law and become lawyers, and
+they think that they are able with all they know to find the true path
+of blessing through life. They think they have light enough of
+themselves. They do not seem to know that all about them there is a
+darkness of great mystery; that sin and death and destruction lurk all
+along their way through life, and that their pathway is full of
+snares, and pitfalls, and dangers, but they try to walk with the little
+light that there is in the human understanding.
+
+There is another class of men who go through college and who may,
+perchance, study much, and the more they study the more they come to
+realize how little they know, and how much there is beyond them that
+they do not understand at all. With the little light of human
+understanding they comprehend how very dense and dark are the mysteries
+all about them, and so in order that they may walk safely through life,
+and come at last to the city of eternal safety, they take God's Word "as
+a lamp to their feet." Just the same as a person in the country carries
+a lamp in order that he may find his path, so these good people take the
+Word of God and they make it the lamp unto their feet, and the light
+unto their path.
+
+Boys and girls often look at learned men and women and think that when
+they get to be as old and to know as much as these people, that then
+they will know everything. But that is a great mistake. The more we know
+and the more learned we are, the more we discover that there is still
+further beyond us that which we do not understand. No one has ever been
+able to tell how the bread and the meat and potatoes and other food
+which we eat is made to sustain our life, how it is converted into and
+made a part of ourselves. How on our heads these things become, or are
+changed into hair, on the ends of our fingers to nails, and how other
+parts become flesh, and bone and eyes and ears and teeth. Nobody can
+understand how the ground in the garden can be changed by some life
+principle into fruit and vegetables and flowers and hundreds of
+different things, and yet all this wonderful variety, all growing out of
+the very same soil, or ground as we call it.
+
+And so as you grow older and become more and more learned you will come
+more and more to appreciate how much there is that you can never
+understand. There is mystery all about us, and we all need the light of
+divine truth, the light of God's Word, the Bible as a light to guide us
+through the darkness and the mysteries that are all about us.
+
+If you have ever been in the country upon a dark night and have seen the
+railway engine come dashing along, with the great headlight that throws
+the rays of light far down along the track enabling the engineer to see
+very far ahead of him, you would understand what the Bible purposes to
+do for us, when God says that He will make it a lamp unto our feet, and
+a light unto our path.
+
+As you grow older, and sorrow and sickness and trials come to you, you
+will need God's Word to be a lamp unto your feet. And when at last the
+messenger of death shall come and summon you into God's presence, and
+you go through "the valley of the shadow of death," you will then need
+this lamp for your feet, and you will need the Lord Jesus Christ with
+you, that you may lean upon Him and that you may say as David did: "Yea
+though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
+evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." May
+God give you this light through the journey of this life, and bring you
+to that city of light and life on high.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Why did the people of the East carry
+          lanterns at night? What did David call the Bible?
+          Should the lantern be held above the head, or down
+          near the feet? Which is the best light to our
+          spiritual pathway, human wisdom or Divine
+          revelation? Which is the safer light for us to
+          follow, books which men write, or the book which
+          God has given us? Can we understand all that we
+          find in the book of nature? Can we understand all
+          that we find in the book of revelation? Do they
+          both have the same author? Is God infinitely
+          greater than man? Does this explain to you why we
+          cannot understand all that God has done or said?
+          Can we put a bushel basket into a quart
+          measure?--the smaller can not contain the larger.
+
+
+
+
+CANDLES.
+
+HOW TO REFLECT, OBSCURE, OR EXTINGUISH THE LIGHT.
+
+          SUGGESTIONS:--A candle, a silver dollar, a
+          large-necked bottle and a flask-shaped bottle are
+          the objects used. It will add to the interest of
+          the children if the parent will show the simple
+          experiments of placing the bottle over the candle
+          to illustrate how quickly the light is
+          extinguished as the oxygen is exhausted. The same
+          is the result when a light is hid under a bushel.
+          The flame may also be concealed by the dollar; and
+          in a darkened room a polished piece of metal or a
+          small looking-glass will show how the light can be
+          reflected by money properly used in Christ's
+          cause.
+
+
+MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: To-day I have brought some candles in order to
+illustrate the text, "Ye are the light of the world." In a previous
+sermon I have shown you how all the light in the world is derived from
+the sun, and how all the light in the spiritual world is derived from
+Jesus Christ. Now, to-day I want to show you that we can extinguish this
+light. While we cannot prevent the sun from shining, or put out the
+light there is in the sun, yet we can extinguish, or put out the light
+of a candle. We can blow out the light, we can turn off the gas, we can
+cut off the electrical current, and thus prevent the carbon from burning
+and giving light. Just the same as the firemen can extinguish a large
+fire that is making a great blaze in the midst of a dark night, so we
+can put out these several lights.
+
+Before this candle, which I hold in my hand, can be of any service to me
+in giving light, it must first itself be lighted. So it is with every
+person who is born into this world. He has no light in himself. Before
+ever he can exert any influence for good upon others, or let any
+Christian light shine, he must come to the Lord Jesus Christ and receive
+this light. He must be lighted from above. But now after the candle has
+been lighted, suppose that I take this silver dollar which I hold in my
+hand, and place it in front of the light, you will see immediately how
+it makes it impossible for the light to shine out in front of the
+dollar. Those who are sitting down there in front of me cannot see this
+light. The light is entirely concealed by the dollar. So some people
+allow the love of money to gather around their hearts, until at last
+their money is placed between them and the people whom God intends that
+they should benefit and bless in this world. Instead of being a help,
+their money is only a hindrance to their Christian life. They love their
+money so much that they permit the poor to go hungry, the destitute to
+be unblessed, and the Church to be without the money necessary to carry
+on its work. They allow the heathen to die in their ignorance. Selfishly
+grasping their money, they neglect to do that for which God has given
+them the means and the money.
+
+[Illustration: Light Obscured by Money.]
+
+I believe that money is a good thing. The Bible says that it is the
+_love_ of money, the undue love of it, that is the root of all evil.
+Money itself is a blessing and not a curse; therefore I want to show you
+how this dollar can be made to help in making this light shine even more
+brightly. You will see that if I have this side of the dollar ground off
+and polished, so that it is very smooth and bright like a little
+looking-glass, and then place it back of the candle, instead of acting
+as it did when I placed the dollar between you and the candle, it will
+then reflect the light and throw the rays of light out further than they
+could otherwise shine. It helps to accomplish for the candle the same
+important service which the great reflector does when placed behind the
+lamp in the headlight of the railway engine, throwing the light way down
+the track in advance of the coming of the train.
+
+In the same way, when a Christian has money, you see how he can readily
+use it in such a way as to enable him to accomplish a very great and
+grand work in the world. The man who has lots of money and has a
+consecrated heart, and who is willing to use his money to help him in
+his work for Christ, will be able to accomplish very much more than the
+man who has no money. He can use his money in such a way that it will
+enable him to cast a light in many a dark corner of the earth, to bring
+light in many a desolate home, and to cast the rays of his Christian
+influence even across the ocean into benighted heathen lands. In this
+way his money can be used as I could use this dollar if it were
+polished, and thus carry his influence to the ends of the earth and to
+the end of time, and become a great blessing to himself and to others
+for all eternity.
+
+[Illustration: Money as a Reflector.]
+
+Jesus said, "Men do not light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on
+a candle-stick that it may give light to all that are in the house."
+There are some people who do not like to let their light shine for
+Christ. They do not want others to know that they are Christians. They
+do not want others to know that they are trying to be good. And so they
+seek to conceal their light, to hide it, as Jesus says, "under a
+bushel." If you were to light a candle and put it under a bushel, or
+under a box, the box would prevent it from shining, and therefore you
+would not know that there was any light at all in the room.
+
+But I want to show you, by the aid of this large necked bottle, what is
+the effect of our trying to hide our light. I have chosen this bottle
+because you can see through it, and observe what is going on inside of
+this glass bushel or bottle. The neck being very large, you can readily
+see that the light is not absolutely smothered. Now, when I place this
+bottle over the light, you will see how very quickly it begins to grow
+dim, and then more dim until it dies out altogether. There, you see, it
+has gone out already! Just as quickly as it burns out from the air in
+the bottle the oxygen which it contains, the light dies, because it has
+nothing to feed upon. If I had not placed this bottle over it, it would
+have continued to burn.
+
+[Illustration: Light Under a Bushel.]
+
+Just so it is with those who try to hide their light under a bushel.
+After the light has been placed there, it gradually grows more faint,
+and more faint, and then goes out in darkness. You can never be a
+Christian if you are ashamed of Christ. You must be willing to let your
+light shine; you must be willing to confess Christ before men; you must
+be willing to have other boys and girls know that you are a Christian,
+and that you are trying to do right. Then with God's help you will
+succeed. But if you try to hide your light under a bushel, you will
+never succeed in being a Christian.
+
+Here is another bottle. I am sure that the shape of this bottle will
+suggest to you the kind of stuff which is oftentimes sold in this kind
+of a flask. Sometimes when young men have given their hearts to Christ,
+and young women too for that matter, they go out in company and are
+invited to take a drink of wine or a drink of beer, or something else,
+and without any purpose or thought of ever becoming a drunkard, often
+they soon form the habit of drinking. Soon they have formed a love for
+the taste of liquor, and before ever they know it, like hundreds of
+thousands of others who have preceded them, they have become fond of
+liquor, and are on a fair road to become drunkards. As soon as a young
+man starts out in this direction he takes the road that leads down to
+death and destruction, and the love of God which he had in his heart
+soon dies out. Let me place this bottle over the candle. You will now
+see how the candle begins to grow dim, and the light shines more and
+more dim, after a very few seconds, you will find that it goes out in
+darkness, the same as it did under the other bottle.
+
+[Illustration: A Dangerous Bottle.]
+
+Let me say to you, always carefully avoid the terrible and destructive
+influences of drink, of which this bottle is the symbol. If you want to
+keep the love of God in your heart you must never, never take the first
+step which leads toward the love of liquor, toward intemperance and a
+drunkard's grave.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Can an unlighted candle give light?
+          Can a candle light itself? Who must first give us
+          the light if we are to be a light to the world?
+          Can the light of the candle shine through a silver
+          dollar? If a silver dollar is polished like a
+          little looking-glass and placed behind the light,
+          what does it do? Does this suggest how we can use
+          our money to send the light to the heathen? Under
+          what kind of a measure does the Bible warn against
+          hiding our light? When people light a candle, do
+          they put it under a bushel or on a candlestick? If
+          it is put under a bushel what is the result? Is
+          that the result with people who are ashamed to be
+          known as Christians? Does intoxicating drink often
+          put out the light of Christian people? How can all
+          persons avoid the use of liquor? (By never taking
+          the first glass.)
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A BROKEN CHAIN.
+
+BREAKING THE WHOLE LAW.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A chain of any kind, even a watch
+          chain, will answer. Children could use paste-board
+          and cut out ten links to represent the Ten
+          Commandments. These links could be numbered and
+          the older children could be asked to repeat the
+          Ten Commandments in their order.
+
+
+MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I have here a chain; it is very strong indeed.
+It has ten links in it. You will remember how that, more than three
+thousand years ago, God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
+These Ten Commandments are often called the Decalogue, because there are
+ten of them; the Greek word _deka_ means ten.
+
+[Illustration: A Broken Chain.]
+
+Now the Bible tells us that "whosoever will keep the whole law, and yet
+offend in one point, he is guilty of all." (James ii:10.)
+
+[Illustration: "Suspended Over the Edge of a Great Rock."]
+
+When a boy, I often wondered how it was that when a person broke one of
+the Commandments he was guilty of breaking the whole law. I could not
+understand it. Now, I desire to illustrate this truth to you to-day.
+Suppose that I were suspended over the edge of a great rock by this
+chain. If the chain should break, I would be plunged headlong, hundreds
+of feet down a very great embankment, upon rocks at the bottom of the
+chasm, and lose my life. You will readily see that it would not be
+necessary to break every link in this chain before I would begin to
+fall. In order to break this chain, it is only necessary to break a
+single link. The moment one link breaks, the entire continuity of the
+chain is broken.
+
+I think you will see that it is just the same way with the law of God.
+If you break one of these Commandments, you have broken the law. If you
+fail to "remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," or if you disobey
+your parents, and thus break the Commandment which says, "honor thy
+father and thy mother," or any other of the Commandments--if you break a
+single one, you have broken the entire chain of the Ten Commandments.
+
+Now, there are a great many laws in this land of ours. There are laws
+against murder, and there are laws against stealing, and there are laws
+against getting drunk, and thousands of other laws. If a man simply
+steals and should be caught in the act and brought before the judge, he
+would be convicted of the crime and be sent to prison. It is not
+necessary that a man should be a murderer and a thief and a robber, and
+should be guilty of breaking all the laws of this land, before he is
+cast in prison. It is simply enough that he should have violated one
+law. By breaking only one law he becomes a criminal, and therefore he is
+cast into prison. The man who has committed but one murder has his
+entire liberty taken from him. The man who has been caught in the act of
+stealing but a single time is adjudged a thief, and all his liberty is
+taken from him.
+
+So I think you will see that, in order to become a criminal, it is not
+necessary that we should break all the laws of the land, but if we break
+a single law we become criminals. So it is with the law of God; if we
+break only one of the Ten Commandments we are criminals before God, we
+are guilty of all.
+
+Now the laws which men make in this and every other country are human
+laws. They are not absolutely perfect. They are changed and improved
+from time to time. But the Psalmist tells us, and we all know it to be
+true, that "The law of the Lord is perfect," and God requires us to keep
+His law. He says, "My son forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my
+commandments; for length of days and long life and peace, shall they add
+to thee." (Prov. iii:1.) If you and I are faithful in the keeping of
+God's law, then we can say like David, "I shall not be ashamed when I
+have respect unto all of thy commandments." (Psalm cxix:6.)
+
+Now, if I take this chain, and attempt to break it, I find that God has
+not given me sufficient strength. Samson could have snapped it in a
+moment, but I am not strong enough. God has given to some men much more
+strength than to others.
+
+If I were to pull very hard on this chain so as to break it, where do
+you suppose it would break first? Why the weakest link in the entire
+chain would be the first to break. No chain is stronger than its weakest
+link. So it is with you and with me, our greatest goodness is no greater
+than our greatest weakness. When men want to think how good they are,
+they think of the best things they have ever done. But the fact is that
+no man is better than the worst things he has ever done. A man who has
+committed murder is a murderer. He might have done hundreds of good
+things, but the law does not estimate him by the best things he has
+done. The law estimates that man by the worst thing he has done, and by
+that worst thing he is judged and condemned. And so it is with you and
+me before God. The worst things which we have ever done will be the
+things which will condemn us in the sight of the Judge of all the world.
+
+While I am not able to break this metal chain, yet God has made it
+possible for every person to break the chain of the moral law. God has
+given human freedom to all men; He has told us what we should do, but
+He has left us free to obey or to disobey.
+
+Now, when we examine into the requirements of the Ten Commandments, we
+find that everybody has violated some one or more of them at some time.
+There is not a man or woman or child any where who is not guilty of
+having broken God's law. And when I turn to the Scriptures, I find in
+Galatians the third chapter, 10th verse, that God says, "Cursed is every
+one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of
+the law to do them." I see then by God's Word that we are all sinners,
+that we are all guilty before God, because we have violated His law, and
+next Sunday I will tell you what is to be done in view of the fact that
+we are all guilty before God.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What are the different parts of a
+          chain called? How many links must be broken in
+          order to break the chain? What did God give to
+          Moses on Mount Sinai? How many commandments are
+          there? Who makes the laws for the nation, the
+          state and the city? Are laws perfect which are
+          made by men? Do human laws change? Is God's law
+          perfect? Do moral laws ever change? Was there ever
+          a time or a place where it was right to lie, or
+          steal or murder? Will there ever be such a time or
+          place? How many murders must a man commit before
+          he is a murderer? How often must he steal before
+          he is a thief? Are men put into prison for
+          breaking a single law? Is the entirety of God's
+          law violated if we break only one commandment?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+LOOKING-GLASS.
+
+SEEING OURSELVES IN GOD'S LAW.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a looking-glass of
+          any desired size.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: In my sermon last Sunday, I showed you that God
+had made the law perfect, but that none of us has perfectly kept the
+law, that we have all broken the law, and God has said, "Cursed is every
+one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of
+the law to do them." (Gal. iii:10.)
+
+If the law is perfect, and no one has ever kept it perfectly, but all
+have broken the law in some one way or another, and on that account all
+are guilty before God, you may ask, what is the purpose of the law? Why
+did God make the law? Now, I desire to explain that to you to-day.
+
+I have here a looking-glass. Now the Bible compares the law to a
+looking-glass. In the epistle or letter of James, in the first chapter,
+we are told, "If any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like
+unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth
+himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of
+man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
+continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the
+work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." (James i:23-25.)
+
+[Illustration: Seeing Ourselves in the Looking-Glass of God's Law]
+
+In other words, the Bible means to say that the law of God is like a
+looking-glass. When we read the law of God, we see just what God
+requires that we should both be and do. He enables us to see what He
+requires of us. It shows us also how imperfect we are. It shows us our
+sins. It reveals to us the importance of doing something in order to get
+rid of our sins.
+
+It is just like a man whose face is all dirty. When he goes to the
+looking-glass and looks into it he sees the dirt upon his face. If he
+did not look into the glass, other people might see that his face was
+dirty, but he would not see it himself. But when he looks into the
+glass, he sees for himself that his face is all black and dirty.
+
+Now, when the man finds that his face is all dirty, he does not take the
+looking-glass with which to wash his face. The looking-glass was not
+made to wash our faces with. It was only made to show us that our faces
+needed to be washed. And then, instead of using the looking-glass to
+wash our faces, we go and use soap and water.
+
+Now, the looking-glass did not make the man's face black, neither will
+it wash his face. It simply shows him that his face is dirty.
+
+So it is with the law of God. The law of God does not make us sinful. We
+are sinful, whether there be any law or not. The law is simply designed
+to show us that we are sinners, and that we are wicked, and that we need
+a Saviour. And when this law reveals to us our sin, and shows us our
+need of a Saviour, it purposes, as we are told in the Scriptures, to
+lead us to Christ (Galatians iii:24.) No man can cleanse or wash away
+his sins by the aid of the law. But the law plainly shows him his sins,
+and then leads him to Christ--to the fountain which has been opened for
+sin and uncleanness. It is all very beautifully expressed in that hymn
+which, I trust, you all know:
+
+          "There is a fountain filled with blood,
+             Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
+           And sinners plunged beneath that flood,
+             Lose all their guilty stains."
+
+Now, I want to tell you the effect of coming to this fountain and
+washing. When we come to Christ our sins and guilt are washed away, and
+we become more like Christ. And then we grow up into His likeness and
+into His image. (Eph. iv: 13.) We become more and more like the Lord
+Jesus Christ from day to day. This change which takes place in our
+hearts and in our lives is very wonderful. We cannot understand it, but
+we cease to be intentionally wicked. More and more we become holy. It is
+this wonderful change which is referred to in Second Corinthians, third
+chapter and the 18th verse, where it says, "But we all, with open face
+beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
+image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."
+
+I think now, you will understand why we have the law. It is not to make
+us wicked, for we are wicked already. But it is to show us our
+wickedness, it is to reveal to us the fact that we are sinners, and that
+we are lost and undone without a Saviour. And then it reveals the Lord
+Jesus Christ to us, and we come to Him, the same as men with blackened
+faces go to the fountain to wash. So we come with our sins and our guilt
+"to the fountain which has been opened for sin and uncleanness," and we
+wash all our sins and guilt away; and then we are changed into His image
+and into His likeness, from glory to glory, until at last, in the world
+on high, we awake in the likeness of Jesus.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--To what does the Bible compare the law
+          of God? For what purpose do people use a
+          looking-glass? What does a man whose face is dirty
+          see in the glass? What does it show that his face
+          needs? Does it suggest that he should wash his
+          face with the looking-glass? What does he use with
+          which to wash his face? What does God's law show
+          us? Does the law make us sinful? Can the law
+          remove the effects of sin? Who is the fountain for
+          the cleansing of our sin? Are we saved by the law,
+          or by the grace of God?
+
+
+
+
+RAIN.
+
+GOD'S WISDOM AND POWER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--A bottle partly filled with dust from
+          the roadway will help to illustrate the condition
+          which would quite universally prevail if the earth
+          were not refreshed with frequent rains.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: In view of the fact that the weather is so very
+warm, the earth so dried and parched and we have had no rain for a
+period of weeks, I thought it might be useful to-day to consider what
+would be the result if God should withhold the rain altogether, and then
+to tell you how, or in what manner God brings us the rain and refreshes
+the earth and makes it fruitful.
+
+In order that you might see something of the present condition of the
+earth, I have brought in this bottle some dust, taken from the centre of
+the road. As I turn the bottle around, you see how dry it is and how it
+floats in the air, leaving the inside of this bottle all powdered with
+dust. The dust in this bottle is only a sample of what all the earth
+would soon become, if God did not send rain at frequent intervals
+throughout the year. I suppose you could all tell me of a number of
+instances in the Old Testament where we have accounts of drouths that
+extended throughout a period of years, and of the hunger and famine and
+death which followed.
+
+When you are out of doors and look about you, you cannot but be
+impressed with how dry and dusty the trees and grass and everything
+about you is. If this dry weather were to continue long you could
+understand that soon everything would wither and die, and if it were to
+continue for a few years, men and beasts would not only die of thirst,
+but even the air itself would suck out from our bodies the moisture that
+is in our blood, and death would speedily follow. But if you were to
+remove all the moisture from the air, the earth would not only become
+barren, but it would become intensely cold. It is due to the moisture
+which is in the atmosphere that the warmth which comes to the earth from
+the sun is retained near the earth after the sun has gone down. If it
+were not so, even in a summer's night after the sun has gone down, the
+coldness which exists above the clouds would quickly come in contact
+with the earth, and the cold would become so intense that every person
+and every living thing would be in danger of being frozen to death in a
+single night.
+
+You will remember that the great Sahara Desert is a vast tract of
+thousands of square miles where no rain falls, and where the heat is
+intense. There is, however, much moisture in the air that floats over
+the plains, but the reason that no rain falls is because there are no
+mountains in that portion of the globe for thousands of miles.
+
+Now suppose that there were to be no rain at all, and people should
+undertake to water the earth by bringing the water from the rivers. On
+an average of about thirty-three inches of rain fall upon the surface of
+the entire earth each year, in some places more, in others less. The
+weight of this water in one single square mile would be nearly two and
+one-half millions of tons, and if this water which falls upon one single
+square mile had to be drawn in cars, it would require 100,000 carloads
+of water to keep this one single mile as wet as God usually keeps it
+throughout the year by the rain from heaven. I think you will see, from
+what I have said, that all the cars in the entire United States, and
+there are hundreds of thousands of them, would not be sufficient to haul
+water from the rivers for any considerable distance to keep more than
+ten miles square of earth watered. But you can also see that if all
+these cars were to be run on a piece of ground only ten miles square,
+that entire piece of ground would be almost completely covered with
+railroad tracks, and we would scarcely be able to raise anything on it
+in the way of grain or vegetables or food of any kind. But even if we
+could successfully water ten miles square of land, what would that be
+compared with the absolute necessity of watering the entire continent
+and all the continents of the globe in order to make life possible upon
+the earth. Now the question arises, how does God accomplish this great
+result?
+
+[Illustration: Train of Cars.]
+
+I suppose you have all noticed the teakettle when it is upon the stove
+and the steam is coming out of the spout, and around the lid. You have
+there had a practical demonstration of how God can cause the water,
+which is 800 times heavier than the atmosphere or the air, to rise and
+float, for you know that any substance heavier than air will always fall
+to the earth. In the instance of the teakettle you will see how heat
+causes the water to become steam and thus to rise in the air and float
+away, rising to the height of the clouds which float two, three and
+four and sometimes more miles high above the earth.
+
+Now, just in this same way God makes the heat from the rays of the sun
+to cause that from every river and lake and all the expanse of the
+ocean, as well as from the surface of the earth, there shall constantly
+arise a very fine vapor, which, although it is somewhat like steam, is
+still so much finer that you and I cannot see it with our unaided eyes.
+It is by means of this vapor that God raises the moisture from the
+oceans and all bodies of water and from the earth, to fall again in
+gentle showers.
+
+[Illustration: Steam Rising from Teakettle.]
+
+But when this vapor has been lifted up from the ocean, you will see
+readily that if it were to descend again in rain upon the very places
+from which it had been lifted it would accomplish no good. It is
+necessary that instead of falling back into the ocean and into the lakes
+and rivers, it must be carried over the land. So you see that we might
+aptly compare the vapor to a great pump, by means of which God lifts
+millions of gallons of water every hour from the sea into the
+atmosphere.
+
+Now just the same as men load grain and fruit and other things into the
+cars to ship them to some distant place, so God loads these vapors into
+the atmosphere or into the clouds. When the clouds are all loaded with
+vapor, or that which is to descend upon the earth in the form of rain,
+God sends the winds, and these winds blow the clouds from over the ocean
+far inward over the land until they come to the place where God wants
+to pour them out in showers and rain, and in snow and blessing.
+
+[Illustration: Clouds and Rain.]
+
+But now, you will see that there is another difficulty. When all this
+vast quantity of water is held in the clouds, a mile or two above the
+earth, if it were to be poured out, it would come with such force upon
+the earth that it would destroy every living thing. Now, as God used the
+warmth from the sun as His agent to lift the water into the clouds, so
+also, when He desires to unload the clouds, to pour the rain upon the
+earth, He causes the warm air which carries the water to be blown upon
+by the colder air which floats above it, and as the heat lifted the
+water, so the cold causes it to descend; and immediately it begins to
+form as clouds, one particle or atom of moisture touches another, and
+the two form the larger atom, and these again unite with others, until
+finally a drop is formed, and it begins to descend and comes down in
+gentle showers upon the earth as though it were sifted through a very
+fine sieve. These small drops fall upon the earth so gently as not even
+to bruise the leaf of the tenderest flower or the tenderest insect that
+walks upon the earth.
+
+Possibly some children may not fully understand, but the older ones will
+get some idea of the vast quantity of water which God pours upon the
+earth, when they are reminded that all the water that flows in the
+rivers has been let down from the clouds. God is daily pumping up from
+the ocean and other bodies of water rivers as vast as the combined
+waters of the Mississippi, Missouri, Susquehanna, the Hudson, and every
+creek and streamlet and river that flows, not only on this continent,
+but in all the world. And God is doing this constantly by His own
+infinite wisdom and infinite might. The machinery with which men pump
+the water from the river for the supply of a single city wears out; but
+these great engines with which God is constantly keeping the earth
+supplied with water for man and beast, for tree and flower, for garden
+and field, never wear out. Truly with the prophet we may exclaim: "He
+that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out on the face
+of the land: the Lord is His name." (Amos v: 8.)
+
+From what I have said I think you will all see how constantly we are
+dependent upon God for everything which we enjoy. If God were to
+withhold the rain or the sunshine, famine and want and death would soon
+follow. Yet in the most wonderful way God is constantly providing that
+with which we are daily to be fed and always to be clothed. God is not
+unmindful of us. He never forgets, but in His own good time and in His
+own most wondrous way He sends us the rain and every needed blessing.
+
+God never forgets us, but I fear that we often forget Him and forget
+when we drink the refreshing glass of clear, cool water, that it is God
+who gave it to us. When you sit down at the table, do you remember that
+it is God who gives you the food, and do you thank Him for the food
+which He gives you, or do you, like the unmannerly boy who receives a
+gift and never thanks the donor, sit down and eat and go away without
+ever thanking God the Giver? When He watches over and keeps you during
+the night, do you forget to kneel down and thank Him in the morning?
+When day after day He clothes you, do you thank him? When He feeds and
+clothes you, do you love and serve Him, or do you accept of these
+blessings and then run off and serve Satan, God's great enemy?
+
+These are serious questions, and I trust you will think seriously of
+them, and daily, when you receive God's blessings, that you will turn to
+Him in grateful thanksgiving and faithful service.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What would the entire earth become if
+          there should be no rain? If all moisture were
+          removed from the atmosphere, what would be the
+          result? What is the average rainfall? What is the
+          weight of rainfall in a single square mile? How
+          many cars would it require to carry water for one
+          square mile? How does God accomplish this? How is
+          the water raised up from the sea and the rivers?
+          Can you explain it by the teakettle? Where does
+          God store this vapor? How do the clouds carry the
+          moisture to the places which need it? How does the
+          moisture in the clouds fall? Does God do all
+          things wisely and well? Is God ever unmindful of
+          our needs? Do you ever forget to thank Him? Do you
+          always remember to serve Him?
+
+
+
+
+SNOW.
+
+THE LESSONS WHICH IT TEACHES.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: When God desired to set Job to thinking, among
+other questions He asked him: Canst thou enter into the treasures of the
+snow? (Job xxxviii: 22.) While coming to church to-day, when I saw you
+frolicking and glad in the midst of the snow, which was falling all
+about you, I wondered whether you had ever stopped to think much about
+the snow. So I thought to ask you the question which God asked of Job
+nearly thirty-five hundred years ago: "Hast thou entered into the
+treasures of the snow?"
+
+When you were all so glad on account of this first snowstorm of the
+winter, did you stop to think that the snow comes from God? Now like
+everything else which comes from God, the snow is wonderful. No
+philosopher has ever yet been able fully to explain how the snow is
+formed and to tell us all about it, and I do not suppose that all the
+mysteries concerning it will ever be fully and perfectly solved. It is
+wonderful, however, because it comes down so lightly and noiselessly. It
+drops upon the earth almost like feathers, covering the ground, hanging
+upon the limbs of the trees and shaping them into things of strange
+beauty, piling up on the post by the side of your gate, until perhaps it
+looks more like the white man from the flour mill than like that to
+which people tie horses. Yet it comes down so noiselessly that we
+scarcely notice it.
+
+When the snow falls upon the ground a foot deep it is said to be equal
+in weight to one inch of rain. Now one foot of snow, on one square mile
+of street, would weigh, it is estimated, about sixty-four thousand tons.
+If this snow, which covers only one square mile, were placed in wagons
+loaded with one ton each, and allowing sufficient space for these teams
+to move one behind another, these wagons would make a string or
+procession reaching from Philadelphia to New York, and from New York up
+the Hudson River almost to the city of Albany. I am sure you will be
+astonished at this, but when you consider that some snowstorms cover
+thousands of square miles, and are sometimes more than one foot deep,
+you will see how increasingly wonderful it is that all this great weight
+falls so gently upon the earth as to produce no disturbance, no shock,
+and generally goes away as quietly and peaceably as it came.
+
+Like everything else that God has made, the snow is very beautiful. Did
+you ever hear that poem which begins:
+
+          "Beautiful snow! beautiful snow!
+                Falling so lightly,
+                Daily and nightly,
+           Alike 'round the dwellings of the lofty and low;
+                Horses are prancing,
+                Cheerily dancing,
+           Stirred with the spirit that comes from the snow."
+
+We oftentimes think that God is seen in the fields and flowers in the
+spring and summer, but He is also seen in the beautiful snow of winter.
+If you will let some of the snow fall upon the sleeve of your coat and
+then examine it carefully, you will be surprised at its beauty. It is
+beautiful when examined without a microscope, but much more beautiful
+and wonderful when examined with a microscope. Each flake is fashioned
+into stellar shape. It is formed and fashioned by the same hand which
+made the stars of the heavens and gave them their sparkle and beauty.
+Each flake is a beautiful crystal. Each somewhat like the others, and
+yet no two exactly alike. There are hundreds of varieties, each
+beautiful and all glorious. These beautiful little snow stars are all
+formed with perfect geometrical accuracy. Some have three sides and
+angles, some six, others eight, and some have more. One resembles a
+sparkling cross, while others seem almost like the leaves of an open
+flower. Some are like single stars, others like double stars and
+clusters of stars; and although the ground in winter is covered with
+myriads of them, yet each one is formed with as much correctness and
+beauty as if God had made each one for special examination and as an
+exhibition of His infinite skill and divine perfection.
+
+[Illustration: Snow-flakes Magnified.]
+
+But like everything else that God has made, the snow is also useful. You
+may possibly have thought of it as affording excellent sport in sliding
+down hill, enabling you to enjoy a sleigh ride behind horses with
+jingling bells, affording opportunity for a snow-ball fight, or as
+furnishing the material for making snow men or snow houses. In all these
+ways the snow is a source of delight and pleasure to boys and girls, but
+after all, the snow has a special mission in the world during the severe
+cold of the winter.
+
+[Illustration: A Winter Sleigh Ride.]
+
+The severity of the cold is often greatly modified by the presence of
+snow. The snow forms a warm mantle to protect the grass and grain
+fields. It wraps its soft warm covering around the plants, and thus
+protects them from the frost. Many animals also take shelter in the
+banks of snow, and are thus kept from being frozen to death. The snow of
+winter is as important in securing our food and blessing as the rain of
+the summer. As intense heat and the absence of rain produce the great
+deserts of the earth, so intense cold and the absence of snow would
+produce barren tracts upon the earth.
+
+Now, what are the lessons we may learn from what I have said? I think
+the first lesson that we may learn is that God does everything
+perfectly. God is not in a hurry, as boys and girls often are when they
+do not take time to learn their lessons thoroughly or to do their work
+carefully. Perfection is one of God's attributes. We are impatient and
+imperfect. But God wants us to be perfect. We should constantly strive
+after perfection. We are to seek after perfection here upon earth, and
+although we cannot hope to attain it fully in this world, yet we shall
+attain unto it in the world of blessedness beyond. Remember that
+whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
+
+I think the second lesson that we may learn from what I have said, is
+that God does everything with some good purpose in view. God not only
+has a purpose in all that He does, but He has a purpose for good. Some
+boys and girls do things with a bad purpose. Now, God does not do
+anything with a bad purpose, and He would not have us do anything with a
+bad purpose. He has given us life and being upon the earth in order that
+we may accomplish something grand and good. What is the purpose of your
+life? What have you resolved to make the object which you shall seek to
+attain in this life? Have some noble purpose, some high aim in life.
+Whatever it shall be, let it always have in view the blessing and good
+of others and the glory of God.
+
+The last lesson from this study of the snow is that God has made it a
+symbol of purity. God is pure, and He wants us to be pure. Do you put
+tobacco in your mouth? Then your mouth is not pure. Do you use bad
+words? If so, your mouth is not pure. Do you use your eyes to read
+worthless story papers and books, or to look at evil pictures? Then your
+eyes and thoughts are not pure. Do you permit your ears to listen to
+improper talk? Then your ears and mind are not pure. Do you harbor bad
+thoughts in your heart? Then your heart is not pure. Do you defile your
+body by improper eating and drinking? If you do, then your body is not
+pure. If you and I desire to be pure, we must go to God and earnestly
+ask Him as David did when he cried unto God and said, "Purge me with
+hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me and I shall be whiter than snow."
+
+Now let us sing this beautiful hymn:
+
+          "Wash me and I shall be whiter than the snow."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--About what did God ask Job, to set him
+          thinking? Where does the snow come from? Does
+          anyone know fully how the snow is formed? Is the
+          snow as wonderful as it is beautiful? What do the
+          flakes look like? Are they all formed alike? Are
+          any two exactly alike? How is the snow useful in
+          winter? Is snow as important in the winter as rain
+          in the summer? Is God ever in a hurry? Are you
+          always patient? What is worth doing well? Does God
+          always have a purpose in whatever He does? Does
+          God expect us to have a noble purpose? Of what is
+          snow the symbol? Does God expect us all to be
+          pure?
+
+
+
+
+PLASTIC FACE.
+
+CHARACTER IN THE COUNTENANCE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a small plastic
+          face such as are often sold in toy stores, and
+          even on the streets in large cities. The head of a
+          rubber doll would also answer the purpose.
+
+          A couple of pictures of faces placed in bottles
+          would illustrate the fact that as the faces are
+          seen through the bottles, so our thoughts are not
+          wholly hidden but shine through our faces.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: Here is a soft plastic face; by squeezing it on
+the side I can make the face very long, and it looks very sober. If I
+place the face between my thumb and fingers and press upon the chin and
+forehead it makes the face short, and makes it have a very pleasant
+appearance. I can make it look as though it were laughing, or make it
+seem to be angry and cross.
+
+Just so is it with our faces. When we feel pleasant our faces are short
+and drawn up; when we feel sober, or cross, or angry, they are
+lengthened and the character of the expression is entirely changed. You
+would scarcely know the face were you to see it radiant with smiles and
+pleasantness, and afterwards see the same face when the person is cross
+or angered. When you look at a person you can tell whether they are in
+good humor, or whether they are displeased or angry.
+
+[Illustration: Frowns and Smiles.]
+
+Do you know, boys and girls, that our character and our disposition are
+seen in our faces? It is impossible for us to conceal our real selves,
+even though we might try. I will tell you how it is. If I were again and
+again to press this face only in this way, so as to make it look very
+long, after a time it would retain this expression. If I were to press
+it in this other way, so as to make it very short and give it a very
+pleasant expression, and were to hold it in that position for a very
+long time, it would assume that expression, and retain it constantly. It
+is just so with our faces. When a boy is angered again and again the
+deep lines of his face become more and more permanent, until after a
+time he comes to have a face which expresses anger. If a boy is kind and
+good and generous, these feelings express themselves in his face, and if
+repeated over and over again, day after day and year after year, it
+becomes a permanent expression upon his face and the boy is known by
+all who meet him as a good-natured, pleasant and agreeable boy.
+
+I suppose that most all the boys and girls here can tell a minister when
+they meet him on the street. And when you grow older I think you will
+not only be able to tell that it is a minister, but you may be able to
+tell, possibly to what denomination the man belongs--whether he is a
+Methodist, or a Presbyterian, or an Episcopalian or a Lutheran, or to
+what denomination he belongs. This cannot always be told, but in many
+instances this can be judged quite accurately. The study of the Bible
+and the contemplation of holy and good things inscribe themselves
+indelibly upon the face of those who give them thought and attention.
+
+Beneath a good and generous face you will find a good and generous
+heart. Beneath a bad face you will find a bad heart. If we are
+Christians we shall become more and more like Christ. We shall grow up
+into His likeness, and into His image, and into His stature. We are told
+that not only will we become more and more like Him, but that at last,
+in the great Resurrection, we shall behold Him as He is, and we shall be
+like Him.
+
+If I were to take some pictures and place them in a bottle they would
+shine out through the glass, and you could see them. So with the
+thoughts that are in your heart; they shine out through your face and
+give expressions to it. Even when the body is suffering pain the heart
+may be at rest. David, the Psalmist, said that God was "the health of
+his countenance." Even though his body was suffering pain his face might
+be pleasant, because God was with him, making him happy in his heart.
+There is an old adage that says, "handsome is, that handsome does."
+There are some young persons who may have a pretty face, and yet who may
+not be righteous and holy in their hearts; but as they grow older their
+character will shine out more and more, until at last their face shall
+be entirely changed, and all that is bad in their hearts will appear in
+their faces. If you want a good face you must have a good heart. Take
+Jesus into your heart, follow His teachings and imitate His example, and
+from year to year you will grow more and more like Him. Here is a very
+appropriate and beautiful poem, which was written by Miss Alice Carey.
+
+
+TAKE CARE.
+
+          "Little children, you must seek
+             Rather to be good than wise,
+           For the thoughts you do not speak
+             Shine out in your cheeks and eyes.
+
+          "If you think that you can be
+             Cross or cruel, and look fair,
+           Let me tell you how to see
+             You are quite mistaken there.
+
+          "Go and stand before the glass,
+             And some ugly thought contrive,
+           And my word will come to pass
+             Just as sure as you're alive!
+
+          "What you have and what you lack,
+             All the same as what you wear,
+           You will see reflected back;
+             So, my little folks, take care!
+
+          "And not only in the glass
+             Will your secrets come to view;
+           All beholders, as they pass,
+             Will perceive and know them, too.
+
+          "Out of sight, my boys and girls,
+             Every root of beauty starts;
+           So think less about your curls,
+             More about your minds and hearts.
+
+          "Cherish what is good, and drive
+             Evil thoughts and feelings far;
+           For, as sure as you're alive,
+             You will show for what you are."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--How will a plastic face look when you
+          squeeze it on the head and on the chin? When
+          persons are serious or angry, are their faces
+          lengthened? When people laugh what happens to
+          their faces? Suppose one were to be cross and ugly
+          constantly what would occur? If a person were to
+          laugh constantly, what would be the effect upon
+          their face? Can you tell a minister when you see
+          him? If you put pictures in a bottle do they shine
+          through? Do thoughts in the heart shine through
+          the face? Can you repeat that couplet which
+          begins: "Handsome is--"? If we think Christ's
+          thoughts constantly do we become more like Christ?
+          If we think bad thoughts do we become unlike Him?
+          What book is it which says: "As a man thinketh in
+          his heart, so is he"?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+SEEDS.
+
+THOUGHTS, WORDS, DEEDS--THEIR LIFE AND PERPETUITY.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Seeds, or grain and fruit of any kind
+          can be used for illustration.
+
+
+MY YOUNG FRIENDS: I have here to-day quite a variety of seeds. Some of
+them are very small, and some, as you see, are quite large. The seeds of
+each class have in them a principle of life, which makes them differ
+from sand, or small stones of similar size, because if I plant these
+seeds in the ground they will grow.
+
+[Illustration: Different Kinds of Seeds.]
+
+When you take different kinds of seeds, there is one thing that is very
+interesting about them. It is the different kinds of coverings in which
+they grow. For instance, if you take a chestnut, it grows in a burr with
+sharp thorny points; others are folded as though rolled up very tightly
+in leaves, as you will find in the hazel nut or filbert. Some seeds grow
+in rows, like beans and peas in a pod. Some grow in a very soft bed,
+like cotton seeds. Some grow imbedded in a downy substance which blows
+all around, carrying the seed with it, like the thistle, and the light
+fuzz of the dandelion. Sometimes the seed is buried in the inside of
+fruit, as in the case of apples, pears, peaches, plums, and various
+other kinds of fruit. Sometimes it is buried beneath the beautiful
+leaves of the flower. So you see there is great variety.
+
+Now, these seeds may represent words. There are a great many varieties
+of words. All words have the principle of life in them, because they
+express thought; and these thoughts when received into our minds develop
+into action. Therefore we say that words have a principle of life in
+them, and it is important that we should be careful not to permit bad
+words to have a place in our minds. Very often you will see boys and
+girls reading worthless papers which they think will do them no injury.
+But the fact is, that these boys are influenced in all their living by
+that which they read in these papers. It might be very light and
+trifling, but it tends to corrupt the mind, to give the boy false ideas
+of life, and it gives him such opinions as are not real, and therefore
+very injurious to any one. It is much better that a boy's valuable time
+should be spent in reading good books and good papers, and securing such
+information as will be of value and assistance to him all through life.
+For the life of every boy and of every girl is a very great struggle,
+and no boy or girl can afford to waste time in the beginning. If they
+are ever to amount to anything in this world, it is important that they
+should begin very early in life.
+
+I want to call your attention to another characteristic of these seeds.
+And that is when a single seed is planted, it grows up and produces a
+very great number of other seeds. If you plant a seed of wheat, it will
+produce 30, 60, or sometimes 100 other seeds. If you plant one sunflower
+seed it might produce as many as 4,000 seeds. If you plant one single
+thistle seed, it has been known to produce as high as 24,000 seeds in a
+single summer. If you were to plant only one grain of corn and let it
+grow until it is ripe, and then plant the seeds again which grew on
+these few ears of corn, and thus continue to re-plant again and again,
+we are told by those who have calculated it very carefully, that in only
+five short years the amount of corn that could be grown as the result of
+the planting of the one single seed would be sufficient to plant a hill
+of corn, with three grains in every square yard of all the dry land on
+all the earth. In ten years the product would be sufficient to plant not
+only this entire world, both land and sea, but all the planets, or
+worlds which circle around our sun, and some of them are even a thousand
+times larger than our own globe. So you see that there is wonderful
+multiplying power in the different kinds of grain which you plant.
+
+So it is with the thoughts and the words which we have in our minds.
+Good thoughts enter into good acts, and these acts influence others just
+as though the same thought was sown into their minds, and then it
+springs up into their lives and influences them. Just so when we have
+read a book, whether the book is good or bad, its influence goes on
+reproducing itself, over and over again in our lives, every time in a
+multiplied form. Suppose with your money you send some Bibles to the
+heathen, and as a result a single person is converted. Immediately that
+person would influence other heathen people whom he would meet, and so,
+one after the other, these heathen would be influenced as the result of
+what you have done. This good influence would go on repeating itself
+over and over again, as long as the world shall stand, and only in
+eternity would the wonderful results of what you have done be fully
+known. So it is with all that we say and all that we do; it goes on
+repeating and multiplying itself over and over again.
+
+[Illustration: Pyramids.]
+
+[Illustration: Egyptian Mummies.]
+
+Now, there is another interesting feature of these seeds to which I
+want to call your attention. And that is that the life in the seed may
+continue for a very long time, even hundreds of years. Over in Egypt,
+centuries ago, they built large pyramids, and when a king died, instead
+of burying his body in the ground, they embalmed it with spices and
+dried it, so that it would not decay. Then they wrapped it up in cloths,
+and with these cloths and bandages they sometimes wrapped wheat or some
+other kind of grain. Some of these mummies, for so they are called,
+which have been buried possibly twenty-five hundred years, have been
+found; and when the wheat has been taken out of the hands of these
+mummies and planted in the ground, under favorable conditions, it has
+grown just the same as the wheat which was harvested from the fields
+only last summer. The life which was in the seed had not been destroyed
+by the many hundreds of years which have passed since it was placed in
+the hand of the mummy.
+
+Some years ago there was a very interesting case of this kind in
+England. At Dorchester they were digging down some thirty feet below the
+surface, and at that depth they came upon the remains of the body of a
+man, with which there had been buried some coins. By the date upon the
+coins, they knew that this body had been buried at least seventeen
+hundred years. In the stomach was found quite a large quantity of
+raspberry seeds. The man had doubtless eaten a large number of
+raspberries, and then might have been accidentally killed very soon
+afterward, so that the seeds were not injured by the gastric juices of
+the stomach. These seeds were taken to the Horticultural Garden, and
+there they were planted. What do you think! After seventeen hundred
+years and more, these seeds grew, and in a short time there was an
+abundant fruitage of raspberries, just the same as though the seeds had
+been gathered from raspberries which grew only the year before. Although
+hidden and seemingly dead, yet these seeds retained their life for
+seventeen hundred years or more.
+
+In this same way there is a deathless power in the words which we speak,
+even though they are spoken hastily and without thought upon our part.
+Our words have in them the element of a life which is well-nigh endless.
+You may yourself remember some unkind words which were spoken to you
+months and months ago. The boy or girl who spoke them may have forgotten
+all about them, but you still remember them, and they cause you pain
+every time you think of them. Or it may be that some kind person has
+spoken tenderly and affectionately to you. The person himself may have
+been so accustomed to speaking kindly that he forgot entirely what he
+had said, but his kind words still live in your memory. There is a
+beautiful hymn written some years ago, which begins: "Kind words can
+never die."
+
+About fifty years ago there were some boys in a school yard playing
+marbles. Two other boys were playing tag. One of the boys who were
+playing tag chanced to run across the ring in which the boys were
+playing marbles. One of these boys was accustomed to speaking ugly words
+and doing very hasty and cruel things. He sprang to his feet and kicked
+the boy who had run across the ring, wounding him in the right knee. The
+injury was of such a nature that the bones of that leg below the knee
+never grew any more, and as a result, for over forty years that boy has
+had to walk on crutches. You see how permanent the result of this injury
+has been; and the results of unkind words may be just as injurious and
+no less permanent than the unreasonable and wicked thing which this boy
+did in his anger.
+
+You may sometimes be discouraged because the kind words which you speak
+and the kind deeds which you do seem to fail of a good result. But you
+can be assured that even though you grow to old age and your body were
+to be laid away in the grave, yet sometime, in the lives of those who
+come after you, the good you have done will surely bear its fruitage of
+blessing.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are there many different kinds of
+          seeds? Do apple trees ever grow from peach seeds?
+          Do good thoughts grow from bad words, or bad
+          thoughts from good words? Do seeds have a
+          principle of life in them? Do words and thoughts
+          have a principle of life? How many centuries have
+          seeds been known to retain their life? Have the
+          teachings of the Bible retained their life for
+          many hundreds of years? Into what do good thoughts
+          turn? (Acts). Into what do good acts turn?
+          (Character). Can any boy or girl afford to use
+          their time in reading worthless books or papers?
+          Do words and deeds have the element of unending
+          life in them? Is it a dangerous thing to get
+          angry? What did one of the boys who were playing
+          marbles do to the boy who ran across the ring? As
+          the result, how many years has the injured boy
+          walked with crutches? Will the good that we do be
+          as permanent as the evil that we might do?
+
+
+
+
+SOWING.
+
+THE SPRING TIME OF LIFE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a bag or sack, or
+          a pillow slip would answer the same purpose, hung
+          about the neck as a farmer uses it when sowing
+          seed. While this is not essential, it can be used
+          if desired.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: Spring is the most pleasant season of the year;
+the snow has melted, the cold weather has passed away, and now the warm,
+pleasant days have come. The trees are all in blossom, the fields look
+beautiful, and the air is full of sweetness. If you go into the country
+at this season of the year you will find the farmers plowing their
+fields, and some are sowing grain. The spring wheat has already been
+sown, the oat fields will soon begin to look green, and in the course of
+a few weeks the farmers will be planting their corn.
+
+It must have been at a corresponding period of the year in the East,
+when Jesus spoke those beautiful words which are found in the 13th
+chapter of St. Matthew, contained in the parable of the sower who went
+out to sow. A great multitude of people had gathered to hear the words
+which fell from the lips of Jesus. They could no longer gain admission
+into the house, and so Jesus went down by the sea, or the large lake,
+and getting into a boat he pushed out just a little way from the shore,
+so all the people standing along the shore could see and hear Him, and
+then He began to preach to them. Just back of them on the plain was a
+farmer who was more intent upon sowing his field than upon listening to
+the words of the Saviour. As Jesus saw him pacing to and fro across the
+field, scattering the grain in the furrows, Jesus very likely pointed to
+the man, calling the attention of the multitude to what he was doing,
+and said to the people, "Behold a sower went forth to sow," and then
+called the attention of the people to the character of the soil in the
+different places where the seed fell.
+
+In the country the farmers use a sack or bag. After having tied the
+opposite ends together, they hang this over their neck and shoulder, and
+with the right hand left free, they march up and down the field, sowing
+the grain. This sowing is not so common any more, because farmers now
+often plant their grain fields with a machine called a drill.
+
+With this sack suspended about the neck, in this way, the farmer reaches
+in and takes out a small handful of seed, and then swinging his hand,
+throws the seed over a considerable portion of the ground. Thus he walks
+from one end of the field to the other, sowing the seed, until he has
+the entire field sown and ready for the men who follow with the harrow
+to cover up the grain.
+
+Well, boys and girls, this is the spring-time of life with you. These
+are the pleasant days and years of your life. You have very little care.
+Yet it is, nevertheless, the spring-time. You are now making
+preparations which will tell what is to be the harvest in the later
+years of your lives. As the farmer goes out and plows the field, so by
+discipline and by counsel, and by instruction are your parents preparing
+your minds and hearts that in after years you may enjoy a harvest of
+great blessing.
+
+[Illustration: Behold a Sower went Forth to Sow]
+
+In the spring-time of life, when young persons are to do the sowing,
+they need much careful counsel and instruction. I suppose that there are
+many boys and girls who, if they were to go into the country, could not
+tell the difference between wheat and barley, or oats and rye. Some
+might not even be able to distinguish between oats and buckwheat. If
+the farmer were to send you out to sow, you would, most likely, sow the
+wrong kind of grain. In the same manner, it is important that you should
+be directed by your parents, because they can distinguish between right
+and wrong. They know what you should do, and what you should not do.
+Therefore it is important that they should direct you in the
+spring-time, lest you should sow the wrong kind of grain. And you know
+the Bible says: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
+
+[Illustration: Wheat and Tares.]
+
+It is not only difficult for those who have never seen something of life
+in the country, to distinguish between the different kinds of grain
+which the farmer sows, but even after the grain begins to grow, it is
+sometimes difficult, even for those who are familiar with country life,
+to distinguish between the true and the false. In that same thirteenth
+chapter of the gospel by St. Matthew, to which I referred in the
+beginning, Jesus tells of a farmer who sowed his field with wheat, and
+while he slept an enemy came and sowed tares. Of course he could not
+discover this until the grain began to grow. When it began to get ripe,
+then for the first could he distinguish between the stalks of the wheat
+and the stalks of the tares. By doing this wicked thing the enemy gave
+the farmer a great deal of trouble. Just so it is with you when you have
+tried to do right, Satan comes and puts evil thoughts and wicked
+purposes into your mind, and then if you permit these to grow up, you
+will find that they will give you a great deal of trouble. It is
+important that only the good seed should be sown in the field of your
+heart, and in the field of your mind, so that you may have a fruitage
+that shall be wholly good.
+
+Sometimes you see boys and girls who are doing things which you would
+like to do, but your mother and father tell you that you should not. You
+may not be pleased because you are restrained from doing what you would
+like to do. I well remember how my father, when I was a boy, oftentimes
+used to restrain me from doing what I saw other boys doing. I used to
+think, at that time, that he was not considerate, and possibly not kind
+to me. But now that I have grown older, and have seen the results which
+have come to those boys, some of whom have gone astray, and others who
+have turned out badly in life, I see how wise my father was. Although I
+did not feel at the time that he was doing that which was for my good;
+now I see it all very plainly.
+
+In closing, let me say to you, do as Isaiah suggested, "Sow by the side
+of all waters." That is, be very diligent, that day by day you may do
+some kind act, which will hereafter spring up into a fruitage of very
+great good. The Bible enjoins upon both young and old to be very
+diligent in this work, for it says, "In the morning sow thy seed, and in
+the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether shall
+prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good."
+(Eccl. xi: 6.)
+
+When you go to school during the week, and to Sunday-school and church
+service on Sunday, and when being instructed and taught at home,
+remember that all the instruction you are receiving is like the seed
+that falls upon the waiting soil in the early spring-time from the hand
+of an intelligent farmer. In the parable which Jesus spake, He tells how
+that some of the seed fell by the wayside, some among thorns and some
+upon stony ground, while others fell upon good ground. While the seed
+was the same kind in all instances, it was only that which fell upon the
+good ground which brought forth a fruitage of thirty, sixty and an
+hundred fold. If the fruitage of your life in the harvest of the
+after-years is to be abundant in good and blessing, it can only be
+because you receive the instruction of your parents, your teachers and
+your pastor into a good and honest heart. Others may sow faithfully, but
+after all the result must depend upon you.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Which is the most pleasant season of
+          the year? Why? What is the farmer's special work
+          in the spring-time? Why is the farmer careful to
+          sow good grain? What period of life is best
+          represented by spring? If the farmer failed to sow
+          in the spring, would he have a harvest in the
+          autumn? How does he know what kind of grain he
+          will reap at harvest time? Does wheat ever produce
+          oats? Or clover seed produce wheat? What happened
+          while the farmer slept? Who sowed the tares in his
+          field? Who sows the tares in our minds? What do we
+          call these tares? Should they be removed or
+          permitted to grow? Should we be thankful to our
+          parents for preventing tares from being sown? In
+          what kind of soil did the grain grow to a fruitage
+          of thirty, sixty and an hundred fold?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+REAPING.
+
+THE HARVEST TIME OF LIFE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a small sheaf of
+          grain. For this might be substituted fruitage of
+          any kind--apples, peaches, pears, grapes, etc.,
+          and after reading the sermon, the parent could
+          apply in the manner suited to the objects used.
+
+
+MY DEAR LITTLE HARVESTERS: Last Sunday I talked to you of
+spring-time--the spring-time of the year, and the spring-time of life.
+To-day I have brought a small sheaf of grain to tell us of the
+harvest-time. The spring-time is very pleasant, the air is fragrant, the
+birds are singing, and all nature seems to be rejoicing in its freshness
+and beauty. The world looks just as new and beautiful as it did
+thousands and thousands of years ago. Each spring it puts on youth anew.
+
+[Illustration: Sheaf of Grain.]
+
+But when the summer-time comes, when it gets along to the harvest time,
+along in July and August, then the weather is very warm. The color of
+the fields has then greatly changed, the blossoms have disappeared from
+the trees, and we find that everywhere the fruit is beginning to appear.
+The harvest fields are ripe and are waiting for the husbandmen.
+
+There is just about that same difference in life. Youth is the
+spring-time. It is full of hope, and full of bright prospects. But, as
+we grow older, and the cares and responsibilities of life multiply, then
+we begin to bear the toil and labor which comes with the later years.
+Then we are like the farmer who enters into the harvest field where hard
+work has to be done under a very hot and scorching sun.
+
+A man, called a naturalist, who has devoted a large amount of time to
+the study of plants, tells us that there are about one hundred thousand
+different kinds of plants. Each kind of plant bears its own seed, and
+when that particular seed is sown, it always bears its own kind of
+fruit. Wheat never yields barley, nor do oats ever yield buckwheat. When
+you plant potatoes, you expect to gather potatoes and not turnips. An
+apple tree has never grown from an acorn, or a peach tree from a
+chestnut. Each seed, always and everywhere, bears its own kind. It is on
+this account that the Bible says, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
+for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap." (Gal. vi: 7.)
+
+There are some grown persons, as well as children, who think that they
+can do very wrong things while they are young, and afterwards suffer no
+bad results. People sometimes say, "Oh, well! let us sow our wild oats
+while we are young." Now the Bible tells us that if we sow wild oats, we
+must reap wild oats. Four or five handfuls of wild oats will produce a
+whole bag full of wild oats when gathered in the harvest of after life.
+Be assured, my dear friend, that "those who sow to the flesh shall of
+the flesh reap corruption," and "those who sow the wind shall reap the
+whirlwind." "Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap
+a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny."
+
+[Illustration: "The Harvest Fields Are Ripe and Are Waiting for the
+Husbandmen."]
+
+It may seem a long period between the spring and the harvest time of
+life; but be assured, my dear young friends, that the early years will
+speedily pass. Before you are aware of it, you will be men and women
+with all the responsibilities of life upon you, and then you will be
+sure to reap the reward of what you do now while you are boys and girls.
+Lord Bacon said that "Nature owes us many a debt until we are old," but
+nature is always sure to pay its debts. The ancients had an adage that
+said, "Justice travels with a sore foot," but it usually overtakes a
+man.
+
+A few Sundays ago I told you that as the result of planting a single
+grain of corn, a fruitage sufficient to plant the entire earth might be
+secured in only five years. It is told us by historians that, in olden
+times, the harvest in Egypt and Syria would return an hundred fold for
+one sowing, and in Babylonia oftentimes two hundred fold for one sowing.
+Now, if a single grain of wheat were planted in soil as fertile as that
+of Egypt, at the end of eight years of sowing and reaping, if we had a
+field large enough, the product would be sufficient to feed all the
+families of the earth for more than a year and a half. But if we were to
+undertake to plant one grain of wheat in this way, after a few years we
+would fill all the fields which would be suited for a wheat harvest.
+Down near the equator it would be too hot for the wheat to grow
+successfully. In the north it would be altogether too cold. On the
+mountain side the soil is not fertile, and oftentimes is very rocky. For
+these, and various other reasons, it would be impossible to cover any
+large portion of the earth with wheat, for not every portion would be
+suited to produce a harvest. Were it not for this fact, in the course of
+seven or eight years, the entire earth might be made to wave as one vast
+field of wheat.
+
+But there is one truth which God has planted in this world. That truth
+is God's love manifested in the gift of His Son Jesus Christ for the
+salvation of all mankind. This truth is suited to every age of the
+world, to every nation of the earth, to all classes and all conditions
+of people, and to every human heart. During the past centuries men have
+been planting and replanting this seed of divine truth, sowing and
+resowing the earth with it, gathering and reaping the harvest and sowing
+again. And the days are coming when all the earth shall wave as one vast
+harvest field, waiting for the reapers of God, who shall gather this
+blessed fruitage into the garner of the skies.
+
+It is your privilege and my privilege, both one and all, to have some
+part in this glorious work of sowing and resowing, and the Scriptures
+assure us that "he that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seeds,
+shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
+him." (Psalms cxxvi: 6.)
+
+
+AFTERWARD.
+
+ANONYMOUS.
+
+          Now, the sowing and the reaping,
+            Working hard and waiting long;
+          Afterward, the golden reaping,
+            Harvest home and grateful song.
+
+          Now, the pruning, sharp, unsparing,
+            Scattered blossom, bleeding shoot;
+          Afterward, the plenteous bearing
+            Of the Master's pleasant fruit.
+
+          Now, the plunge, the briny burden,
+            Blind, faint gropings in the sea;
+          Afterward, the pearly guerdon,
+            That shall make the diver free.
+
+          Now, the long and toilsome duty,
+            Stone by stone to carve and bring;
+          Afterward, the perfect beauty
+            Of the palace of the king.
+
+          Now, the tuning and the tension,
+            Wailing minors, discord strong;
+          Afterward, the grand ascension
+            Of the Alleluia song.
+
+          Now, the spirit conflict-riven,
+            Wounded heart, unequal strife;
+          Afterward, the triumph given
+            And the victor's crown of life.
+
+          Now, the training strange and lowly,
+            Unexplained and tedious now,
+          Afterward, the service holy,
+            And the Master's "Enter thou!"
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Last Sunday our lesson was about the
+          spring-time and sowing; what has it been about
+          to-day? What are the only results which a farmer
+          can reap at harvest? If he sowed wheat, what will
+          he gather? About how many different kinds of
+          plants are there in the world? Do peach trees grow
+          from chestnuts? The Bible says, "Whatsoever a man
+          soweth"--can you repeat the rest of that passage?
+          Can boys or young men, girls or young women, sow
+          "wild oats" and reap blessing later on? If we sow
+          "wild oats" what must we reap? If you sow an act,
+          what do you reap? If you sow a habit, what do you
+          reap? If you sow a character, what do you reap?
+          How did the old adage say that justice travels?
+          Could all portions of the globe be converted into
+          a wheat field? Why not? Is the truth concerning
+          God's love and salvation suited to all ages, all
+          nations, and all people?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WHEAT AND CHAFF.
+
+THE COMING SEPARATION.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--If the children can secure a few
+          handfuls of some kind of grain and chaff, the idea
+          of separation can be beautifully illustrated by
+          pouring the grain and chaff from one hand to the
+          other, and at the same time gently blowing the
+          chaff, separating it from the grain. By turning it
+          in this manner once or twice and blowing gently,
+          the chaff may be entirely separated from the
+          grain. If a larger quantity were used, it could be
+          poured from one basket or pan to another while
+          blowing the chaff from the grain with a palm leaf
+          or some other fan. This would illustrate how the
+          grain and chaff were separated at that period of
+          the world in which Christ lived.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to read you a very beautiful little psalm,
+or hymn, or poem, written by David. It was originally written in metre
+or verse, but poetry when translated becomes prose. This first Psalm of
+David reads as follows:--
+
+"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
+standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful;
+but his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he
+meditate day and night; and he shall be like a tree planted by the
+rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf
+also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
+
+"The ungodly are not so; but are like the chaff which the wind driveth
+away; therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners
+in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knoweth the way of
+the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish."
+
+We find in this Psalm how the righteous are set forth, and how the
+ungodly are compared to chaff. John the Baptist said of Jesus, "Whose
+fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor and gather
+His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with
+unquenchable fire."
+
+[Illustration: Threshing Grain with Flails.]
+
+Now, when you have been in the country, you have observed the wheat
+growing in the field. If you had been careful to examine it, you would
+have found that while the wheat is growing the grain is enclosed in a
+thin covering called chaff, just the same as Indian corn or sweet corn
+is enclosed by the husks which grow about it. So it is with us; while we
+are in this world, there are many things which are essential to our
+growth and well-being. They minister to our physical needs and supply
+our temporal wants. Although we cannot wholly dispense with these
+things while we are in this world, yet they are not the sole objects of
+our living. The wheat does not exist for the chaff, or the husk in which
+it is enclosed, but the husks or chaff exist for the wheat.
+
+After a time, when the harvest comes, the farmer enters the field and
+cuts down the wheat, and it is then taken to the barn or threshing
+floor. Years ago, when I was a boy, farmers used to spend a large
+portion of the winter in threshing grain. They would spread it out upon
+the floor of the barn and beat it with a heavy stick, which was tied so
+as to swing easily at the end of a long handle. This was called a flail.
+Machines for threshing grain were not then common, as they are to-day.
+When the farmer threshes his grain, he does not do it to destroy the
+wheat, but simply to separate it from the chaff.
+
+The Bible tells us that we must enter into the kingdom of God through
+much "tribulation." And do you know that the word "tribulation" comes
+from a Latin word, _tribulum_, which means a flail? So the teaching of
+this passage of Scripture is, that God places you and me under the
+flail, and smites again and again, in order that the noblest, best and
+most Christ-like in us may be separated by trials and tribulations from
+that which is worthless; and which needs to be cast off in order that
+just as the farmer gathers the wheat into his garner or granary here on
+earth, so God may gather us eventually into His garner above.
+
+Boys and girls oftentimes have tribulations in this world, just the same
+as older people do. Disappointments come to them, and because of
+ambitions which are not lawful or right, purposes which are not in
+harmony with God's word and with God's will; because of needed
+discipline, or for some good reason God is tribulating them by sorrows,
+disappointments and trials, and making them better by means of the
+experiences through which they are called upon to pass.
+
+[Illustration: Winnowing or Separating Wheat and Chaff.]
+
+If you have been with the farmer in his barn after he is through with
+the threshing, you have seen him take the fanning-mill, and perhaps you
+have turned the crank for him, while he has slowly shoveled the grain
+into the mill and the chaff was being blown away by the wind set in
+motion by the revolution of the large fanning wheel. In the olden times
+they did not have fanning-mills, but when the farmer desired to separate
+the chaff from the wheat, he did it with a fan. He poured the grain from
+one basket or box, or some other receptacle, into another while the wind
+was blowing, or else used a fan to create a draught of wind to blow the
+chaff, and thus separate it from the wheat. It is this ancient custom to
+which John the Baptist refers. He says, concerning Christ, "Whose fan is
+in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and gather His
+wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable
+fire." (Matthew iii: 12.)
+
+So God designs to separate from your character, and from mine, that
+which is worldly and temporal, and worthless so far as eternity is
+concerned. Take money as an illustration. Now money is essential, and it
+is well that we should be willing to work hard for it, and that we
+should be economical in its use, and seek to save our money so that we
+may use it for good purposes, and that it may be helpful to us in old
+age. Money serves a very excellent purpose while we are upon earth, but
+God does not mean that we should make it the chief aim of our life.
+Therefore, to divert our minds from money in one way or another,
+financial reverses and failures sometimes come, and thus God seeks to
+separate the man from the money. We all came into this world
+empty-handed, and we must go out of it empty-handed. Even though we were
+worth many millions of dollars we could take no money with us. You might
+place it in the coffin and bury it with a dead body, but it would not
+and could not go into eternity with the man's undying spirit.
+
+Now, after the farmer has separated the chaff from the wheat, he gathers
+the wheat into his garner, or into his granary; and so, after God has
+separated from our nature and character all that is of no use, which is
+simply earthy, He will gather our souls into heaven, His garner above.
+
+While we live upon the earth we should use the things of this world but
+not abuse them; remembering that finally we must go and leave everything
+behind us, and that we can take nothing with us into eternity except the
+characters which we formed here. Wealth and reputation, and all worldly
+things will have to be left behind us; but character, that which you and
+I really are, shall never pass away, but shall enter into an eternal
+state of being on high. All these earthly things are the mere chaff,
+while character is our real selves.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Who wrote the book of the Bible called
+          the Psalms? Can you tell what the first Psalm is
+          about? What is the covering called which is about
+          the grain while it is growing? How are the chaff
+          and grain separated from the straw or stalk? After
+          being threshed, how is the chaff separated from
+          the grain? Are there many necessary things in life
+          which, after all, do not constitute our character?
+          What are tribulations like? Does God separate the
+          essential from the non-essentials in our life? Is
+          character injured or helped by tribulations? Where
+          does the farmer put the grain after it has been
+          separated from the chaff? What is spoken of in the
+          Bible as God's garner?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE HEART.
+
+THE MOST WONDERFUL PUMP IN THE WORLD.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used are a tumbler of
+          water colored red, a small glass syringe such as
+          can be purchased at any drug store for five or ten
+          cents, also a six-ounce bottle of water colored
+          red. This red coloring can be easily done with red
+          ink. If that is not available, a drop or two of
+          black ink will answer.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: In the 139th Psalm, 14th verse, David says, "I
+will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Now I want
+to talk to you to-day about our wonderful bodies, in the creation of
+which God has so marvelously displayed His infinite wisdom.
+
+I suppose you have been either near or inside a factory. You have heard
+the noise of the shafts and the pulleys and machinery. You have seen the
+carding machines, and listened to the noise of the great spinning jacks
+which twisted the cotton and the wool into yarn or thread, and heard the
+deafening sound of a great many looms as the shuttles flew backward and
+forward, while the many threads were being woven into cloth. A factory
+is quite wonderful, but do you know that in your bodies are found the
+elements of almost all the kinds of machinery that are used in the
+world? God has so created us that we do not hear the noise of the
+machinery of our bodies, but if you will place your fingers gently in
+your ears you will hear a peculiar roaring sound. That sound which you
+hear is the noise of the machinery of your body, which is in constant
+motion.
+
+Now, the heart, which pumps the blood into all portions of the body,
+makes the greater portion of this noise. Do you know where your heart is
+located? I supposed that most of you would point to your left side,
+because you have so frequently heard it spoken of as being located
+there. You have seen public speakers and others, when referring to their
+heart, place their hands upon their left side. But if you will bend your
+head forward so as to press your chin against your breast, as far down
+as possible, the heart will be under and a few inches below your chin.
+It is in the center of the body, and the lower portion of it comes near
+to the ribs on the left side, and when it beats we can feel it throb by
+placing our hand upon our left side; but the heart is more nearly in the
+center of the body, and not wholly at the side. If you were to close
+your hand as the boys do when they say they make a fist, the size of
+your closed hand will be somewhat smaller than the heart.
+
+[Illustration: Water and Syringe.]
+
+In this tumbler I have some water which I have colored with red ink, so
+as to represent blood. Here is a small glass syringe, such as can be
+bought for a few cents in any drug store. Now, when I draw this little
+handle up, you will see how the syringe is filled with this red water,
+and when I press it down how the water is forced out of the syringe back
+into the glass. This very clearly illustrates the principle upon which
+all pumps and steam engines which pump water are made. Even the large
+fire engine, which throws water such a great distance, is made largely
+upon this principle.
+
+You may possibly have been in the engine room, where the huge pumps
+force the water into the reservoirs which supply the city with water for
+drinking and other purposes. From the pumps and the reservoirs there are
+great pipes which lead the water under the streets to many thousands of
+houses which compose the city. After the water has been used it is
+turned into the sewers, runs down into the river and back to the sea,
+where it is evaporated, rises again in the clouds, and by the wind is
+carried hundreds of miles over the country. Then it descends again in
+the form of snow and rain, soaks down through the earth and finds its
+way again into the springs and great veins of water under the earth,
+from which it is carried back once more to the city. Thus it is made
+pure again and again, to be used over and over by the people whom God
+has created and whom He supplies with water in this way.
+
+Now, in somewhat the same way, the heart, which is both an engine and a
+pump, forces the blood out through the pipes or tubes of our bodies
+called the arteries, distributing it to every portion of the body,
+furnishing the materials for building and renewing the muscles and the
+bones and every portion of our system. Then gathering up that which is
+worn out and no longer of service, the impure blood returns through the
+veins back to the right side of the heart, where it is pumped into the
+lungs and purified by being brought into contact with the air we
+breathe. The blood is then returned to the left side of the heart,
+pumped again into the arteries and distributed through all parts of the
+body, and so it goes on circulating. Thus the blood is pumped by the
+heart into the arteries and is distributed to all portions of the body,
+and returned again to the heart, from fourteen to twenty times each hour
+of our life.
+
+In this bottle, which holds six ounces, I have placed some of this
+colored water, which represents about the quantity which is pumped out
+of the heart of an adult each time the pulse beats. As I have already
+intimated to you, the heart is double, and at each throb about one-half
+the quantity in this bottle is pumped out by the right side, and the
+other half by the left side of the heart. Now, if the heart were to pump
+different blood with each pulsation, instead of pumping the same blood
+over and over again, in twenty-four hours the heart of a man of ordinary
+size would pump 150 barrels of blood.
+
+[Illustration: A Wagon Load of Barrels.]
+
+The Bible says that the days of our years are three-score years and ten,
+or, in other words, that the allotted period of an ordinary life is 70
+years. Now, in 70 years the heart would pump 164,389,786 gallons; or,
+to give it to you in barrels, it would make 4,566,382 barrels. If you
+were to place six barrels on a wagon, and this would make a good load
+for two horses, you would have 761,063 loads of these barrels. If you
+were to place these teams, with the wagons containing six barrels
+apiece, with 36 gallons each, at a distance of 25 feet apart, it would
+make a string of teams stretching away 1,778 miles, or as far as from
+New York City to Des Moines, in the state of Iowa, or from New York City
+down to the Gulf of Mexico.
+
+I think you will now be able to understand what a wonderful little steam
+engine and pump each of us has within our own breast. And it may
+surprise you when I tell you that Dr. Buck says that the heart at each
+throb beats with a power equal to 100,000 pounds.
+
+An ordinary engine or pump would soon wear out, but this little engine
+of the heart goes on beating day and night from the time we are born
+until we are 70 years of age, if we live to be that old, and even while
+we rest in sleep, the heart never stops for a moment. Is it any wonder
+that David said that "We are fearfully and wonderfully made"?
+
+I might tell you many other wonderful things about the heart, but this
+will have to suffice.
+
+If the natural heart in these bodies of ours is so wonderful, how much
+more wonderful still is that heart which is the seat of the moral life
+and character? As the natural heart is hidden away in these bodies of
+ours, so the spirit or the soul is spoken of in the Bible as the heart,
+because it is hidden away in the life which we have in these bodies of
+ours; and it is this moral character and spiritual life to which the
+Bible refers when it says, "Keep thine heart with all diligence, for out
+of it are the issues of life."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--How did David say we are made? Does
+          the machinery in a great factory make much noise?
+          Are our bodies like a factory in this respect?
+          How can we hear the noise inside of our body?
+          Where is the heart located? What does the heart
+          do? Can you tell how water is supplied for a great
+          city? Is the blood carried to all portions of our
+          body in a similar way? How much blood is pumped by
+          the heart in twenty-four hours? What does the
+          Bible say is the allotted years of a person's
+          life? How long a string of teams would it require
+          to carry all the blood which the heart ordinarily
+          pumps in seventy years? Does the heart keep on
+          pumping while we sleep? What is still more
+          wonderful than the physical heart? Can we see
+          either the physical heart or the spiritual heart?
+          Does the fact that you cannot see them prove that
+          you do not have them? Are both necessary to your
+          complete being and existence?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE EYE.
+
+THE MOST VALUABLE AND MOST WONDERFUL TELESCOPE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used are a field-glass or
+          opera-glass, spy-glass and sun-glass.
+
+
+MY DEAR LITTLE MILLIONAIRES: You know that when people are very wealthy,
+have hundreds of thousands of dollars, they are spoken of as
+millionaires. Oftentimes these rich people do not have any more actual
+money than poorer people, but they have property which is supposed to be
+worth a great deal of money. Now, I want to show you to-day that each
+one of you possesses that which is worth millions of dollars.
+
+[Illustration: Field-glass, Spy-glass and Sun-glass.]
+
+I want to talk to you about your eyes, and I hope that you will be able
+to understand that they are worth hundreds and thousands, yes millions
+of dollars to each of you. In order that I may better illustrate a few
+of the many wonderful things about the human eye, I have brought this
+field-glass, and here is a small spy-glass, and also a magnifying lens,
+or sun-glass, as boys sometimes call them. Inside of this spy-glass and
+these field-glasses are lenses or magnifying glasses, similar to this
+sun-glass. They are, however, more perfect, and are so adjusted or
+related to each other, that when I place this smaller lens of the
+spy-glass to my eye I also look through the larger lens which is at the
+further end of the instrument. When properly adjusted, it enables me to
+see objects which are at a great distance, and to so magnify them as to
+cause them to seem much nearer to me than they really are.
+
+Now, if you take this spy-glass and look at the stars, it will not make
+them appear any larger than they appear to the eye without the
+spy-glass. It will assist the eye when I look at the moon or the
+planets, but not at the stars which are so much further removed from the
+earth than the moon and the planets. Astronomers have desired something
+larger and more satisfactory, and so have made the great telescopes,
+which are simply large spy-glasses. The telescope and the spy-glass, and
+the field-glasses, are all imitations of the human eye; the same as many
+of our greatest inventions are only copies of that which God has already
+created, and which we have but feebly imitated. The eye is a more
+wonderful instrument than even the largest telescopes which have ever
+been made.
+
+If you desired to look through a telescope at one of the stars or a
+planet, or the moon, you would have considerable difficulty in directing
+it so as to be able to see the desired object. Even with this small
+spy-glass it is very difficult so to direct it as to find a particular
+star in the heavens at night. It is not easy, even to find a distant
+object upon the earth. But with these wonderful eyes, with which God has
+endowed us, you and I can look almost instantly from one star to any
+other star, and find instantly upon the earth any object which is
+distinctly pointed out to us. It takes a very experienced person
+successfully to operate a telescope, but the smallest child can direct
+and control and use his own eyes successfully.
+
+The large telescopes have to be turned and adjusted by machinery, and
+when it is desired to direct them from one star to another star on the
+opposite side of the heavens, they even have to turn around the entire
+roof or dome of the observatory. But you and I do not need any ponderous
+machinery to adjust our eyes, or to turn them about in order to look in
+a different direction. We can easily turn our heads by bending our
+necks, or, if necessary, we can turn our entire body around and look in
+an opposite direction. In looking from one object to another, our eyes
+change their direction so quickly that we are not conscious of any
+effort upon our own part.
+
+[Illustration: Small Telescope.]
+
+If you were to look through a large telescope, or even one of these
+smaller spy-glasses, you would immediately discover that when you desire
+to look at objects at different distances, or in different degrees of
+light and shade, you would have to constantly adjust the telescope or
+spy-glass to these different conditions. If you would look at objects
+which are near, and then turn the spy-glass to look at those which are
+distant, you would not be able to see distinctly until you had adjusted
+the lenses to suit the distance. With our eyes the same adjustment has
+to be made, and yet it is done so quickly and without any conscious
+effort upon our part, that it seems as if it were not done at all. When
+we look at an object which is only a few inches from our face, and then
+turn and look at a distant object, instantly our eyes are adjusted to
+the difference of distance and varying degrees of light and shade.
+
+But what makes this all still more wonderful is the fact that we have
+two telescopes, two eyes instead of one. Both of these little
+eye-telescopes instantly adjust themselves, and both adjust themselves
+to precisely the same necessity. If they adjusted themselves differently
+we would see two objects instead of one; the same as a drunken man who
+has lost the use of his muscles and faculties, whose eyes do not work in
+harmony, and therefore, instead of seeing only one object, he sees two
+objects and sees them in a confused way.
+
+Did you ever think how wonderful it is that when you close your right
+eye, and look at something with your left eye, that you can see the
+object distinctly? Now, if you close the left eye, and look at the
+object with the right eye, you again see the same object distinctly.
+When you open both eyes and look at the same object, instead of seeing
+the object twice, or seeing two objects, you see only one object. That
+is because the eyes work in such perfect harmony, and that is what the
+Scripture means when it says that you and I should "see eye to eye" in
+everything that is good.
+
+Now there is another thing to which I desire to call your attention, and
+that is the size of the eye. If you owned one of these very large
+telescopes which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, you would be
+regarded as a very wealthy person, but you could not carry that
+telescope with you from one place to another. It would be of no service
+to you in looking upon the beautiful scenes which surround you from day
+to day. If you wanted to use the telescope you would have to stay where
+the telescope was, instead of taking the telescope with you where you
+desired to go. But God has made these little eye-telescopes so perfect,
+and yet so compact and small, that wherever we go, on land or sea, we
+can take them with us, and they can be in constant use and give us the
+most perfect delight and satisfaction.
+
+I am sure there is not a single boy or girl who would trade off one of
+these perfect little telescopes--yes, I will call it a telescope and an
+observatory also--for God has beautifully encased our eyes, and shielded
+and housed them more beautifully and satisfactorily than the most
+perfect observatory which was ever built for any man-made telescope. We
+would not trade away one of our eyes for one of the finest telescopes in
+the world, and we would not be willing to give both of our eyes for all
+the telescopes which have ever been made.
+
+But one of these large telescopes and observatories would cost a great
+deal--even hundreds of thousands of dollars; yet God has _given_ you and
+me these telescopes, our wonderful eyes. But because God has given them
+to us they are none the less valuable on that account, and I think
+therefore that I was correct when I addressed you to-day as little
+millionaires.
+
+Now, God has given you, not simply one eye, but He has given you two
+eyes, two wonderful telescopes and observatories. He has given you two,
+so that if by any accident one should be destroyed, you would still have
+the other to depend upon. God has given you two eyes, and two hands, and
+two feet; but He has given you only one soul, and if by sin you lose
+that one soul, then you have lost everything, for the Scripture says,
+"What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
+
+In Palestine, the country in which Jesus lived when He was upon the
+earth, the sun shines with wonderful brightness and clearness; the land
+also is very light in color, and consequently the eyes are oppressed by
+the glare, just the same as those of you who have ever been at the
+seashore have experienced the glare while walking along the beach; or,
+to some extent, like the bright sunlight shining upon the snow in
+winter. This light color of the soil and brightness of the sun in
+Palestine are the cause of blindness to many of the inhabitants. When
+Jesus was upon the earth, one of His greatest acts of mercy to suffering
+humanity was to open and heal the eyes of those who were either born
+blind, or who had become blind afterward.
+
+Now, in this country of ours, and in all countries of the earth, there
+are hundreds and thousands and millions of people who are spiritually
+blind. Jesus Christ is to-day passing by, just the same as when the
+blind man sat by the roadside near Jericho, when Jesus was then passing
+by. As that blind man called upon Jesus and said, "Thou Son of David,
+have mercy upon me," so you and I should call upon God and upon His Son,
+Jesus Christ, that He would have mercy upon us and open our spiritual
+eyes. We should make the language of the Scriptures the petition of our
+hearts, "Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of
+Thy law." I pray that God may give each of you to see and to understand
+spiritual things.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Instead of money, in what does the
+          wealth of millionaires often consist? Is the human
+          eye worth more than money? Would you take a
+          million of dollars for your two eyes? Are your
+          eyes worth more than telescopes? Which is the more
+          perfect, a telescope or the human eye? Are
+          telescopes adjusted like the eye? Which can be
+          adjusted more quickly? Where are telescopes kept?
+          Are your eyes kept in a little observatory? Why
+          has God given us two eyes instead of one? How many
+          souls has He given us? If the soul is lost, what
+          is the result? What causes so much blindness in
+          the country in which Jesus lived? Did Jesus open
+          the eyes of the blind and restore the sight of
+          people in Palestine? Are many people spiritually
+          blind? Does Jesus wish to give them spiritual
+          sight or vision?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE EYE
+
+THE SMALLEST CAMERA, THE MOST VALUABLE PICTURES.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a small camera of
+          any kind.
+
+
+I AM going to address you again to-day as LITTLE MILLIONAIRES. Last week
+I showed you how your eyes were more valuable than the most costly
+telescopes, and to-day I want to show you how, in another way, you are
+little millionaires.
+
+Very wealthy people sometimes travel in different countries, and gather
+very rare and beautiful paintings and pictures, oftentimes paying a
+thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, and sometimes very much more for
+a single painting. Then they bring these paintings all together in their
+own homes and hang them on the walls, and as the result of the
+expenditure of many thousands, and sometimes of hundreds of thousands of
+dollars, they have a very beautiful and rare collection. But God has
+made you and me the possessors of a vast number of pictures, more
+beautiful, of greater variety, and infinitely more valuable, than all
+the paintings that were ever hung upon the walls of any art gallery in
+the world.
+
+[Illustration: Camera.]
+
+To illustrate my thought, I have to-day brought a camera. Sometimes such
+a camera as this is called a Kodak or Snap-shot. As the finest
+telescopes have been modeled after the human eye, so the camera is only
+a very imperfect imitation of the human eye. As the spy-glass and
+telescope have lenses, so does this camera have a lens, which you see
+here in the front. Just back of this lens is the dark chamber in the
+camera, and back of it is a ground glass, as you will see here. Now
+whatever is directly in front of the camera is shown on the ground
+glass, as you will observe, but in an inverted or up-side-down position.
+So the eye has its various parts, and as the rays of light pass through
+this lens and reflect the picture on this ground glass, so rays of light
+coming from any object pass first through the small opening of the eye,
+to the retina, where the picture is inverted just the same as upon the
+ground glass. When this picture is thrown upon the rear wall of the eye,
+which is called the retina, the seeing nerve, which is called the optic
+nerve and is connected with the eye, conveys the impression to the
+brain, and the result is what we call seeing.
+
+[Illustration: The Human Eye.]
+
+What I have told you is correct, and can easily be proven by a simple
+experiment with the eye of some animal. If you take the eye of a dead
+rabbit, and cleanse the back portion of it from the fat and muscles and
+then hold a candle in front of it, you can see the image of the candle
+formed upon the retina. If you take the eye of an ox and carefully pare
+off from the back portion, so as to leave it very thin, and place the
+eye in front of (or against) a small hole made in a box; then cover your
+head to shut out the light you will see through the box the picture of
+any object which is directly in front of this eye of the ox. In both
+instances they will be in the inverted form. This experiment would fully
+demonstrate to you that the camera is only an imitation, and a very poor
+one too, of the human eye.
+
+Now when pictures are taken by means of the camera, the negative can not
+be exposed to the light, but must be taken into a dark room, and be
+carefully developed by the use of necessary chemicals or liquids. Then
+specially prepared paper must be used for printing the photographs. This
+paper must also be kept in the dark until it has been thoroughly washed
+and cleansed. But, with the pictures which are taken upon the retina of
+the eye, no such delay and labor is necessary before you can look at
+them. The moment the eye is turned in any direction, instantly the
+picture is photographed upon the retina of the eye, and then stamped
+indelibly upon the memory and becomes a part of ourselves.
+
+There is no cost for chemicals, no delay in adjusting the instrument
+with which the picture is taken, no necessity for carrying around a
+large camera.
+
+The camera has many disadvantages which are not found in the human eye.
+The camera must be adjusted to objects near or far, and different
+cameras have to be used for pictures of different sizes and for
+different classes of pictures. These cameras are costly to purchase, a
+great deal of time is consumed in securing a few pictures, they are
+always attended with expense; and when pictures are to be removed from
+one place to another, the owner is subjected to much trouble and
+annoyance. Then, the camera also does not give us the colors of the
+different objects which are before it. That is the reason why, in the
+beginning, I spoke of these millionaires purchasing such costly
+paintings, because in the paintings different colors are represented.
+
+Now, in the hundreds of pictures which are constantly being taken by
+your eyes, there are no delays, no expenses, no inconvenience when the
+pictures have once been taken. Different shades and colors are all
+clearly represented. And even though you were to stand on a high
+mountain, where you could look off over one or two hundred square miles
+of beautiful landscape, all that beautiful scenery would be pictured on
+the retina of your eye; and the picture, complete and perfect, would not
+be larger than one-half inch square. What would real wealthy people be
+willing to give for a perfect picture only one-half inch square, in
+which the artist had clearly defined every field and tree, the rivers,
+houses, roads, railways and all the beautiful landscape contained in a
+vast area of many square miles?
+
+Our eyes are wonderful cameras, which God has given us so that we can be
+constantly taking these beautiful pictures as we pass through life, and
+look at them not only for the instant, but that we may treasure the
+pictures up in our memories and make them the rich treasures and joyous
+heritage of coming years.
+
+The older we grow, the more we appreciate these memory pictures of the
+past--memories of our childhood days, beautiful landscapes, foreign
+travel, lovely sunsets, the glorious sunrise, green fields and orchards
+of golden fruit. As you grow old, I suppose the richest treasures in
+your picture gallery of the past will be the memories of your childhood
+home, of mother and father, brother and sister. Possibly when you have
+grown old, you will remember how one day your heart was almost broken,
+when for the first time you were leaving home; how mother's eyes filled
+with tears when she kissed you good-bye, and, following you to the gate,
+how she stood and waved her handkerchief, while home faded from your
+view as you rounded the turn in the road and realized for the first time
+that you were launching out into real life for long years of struggle.
+
+Just as the hearts of the parents go out in great tenderness toward
+their son, who is leaving the Christian influences of his home to begin
+service in a distant city, surrounded by evil influences, and oftentimes
+by wicked people; so the heart of our Heavenly Father goes out in great
+tenderness towards you and me, while we are separated from the great
+eternal mansion of the skies. God's heart yearns over us in great
+tenderness, and while we live in the midst of the evil of this world we
+are constantly to remember that God has made us millionaires; not only
+in the possession of the eyes, and other faculties with which He has
+endowed us for use here upon the earth, but we are to remember that we
+are children of the King of Heaven, and that we are heirs of everlasting
+life and of everlasting glory. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with
+Jesus Christ, to an inheritance which is incorruptible, undefiled and
+that "fadeth not away." We are not simply millionaires, but we are heirs
+of everlasting glory.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What instrument for taking pictures is
+          like the human eye? Which can take pictures
+          quicker, the eye or the camera? What is lacking in
+          pictures taken by the camera? Do our eyes show the
+          colors of the objects? Of what is the camera an
+          imitation? Is it expensive to take many pictures
+          with the camera? Why do people pay large sums for
+          oil paintings? Was there ever a picture painted by
+          an artist or photographed with a camera so
+          beautiful as the small pictures taken by the eye?
+          For size, color, variety and convenience, which
+          are the finest pictures in the world? Which
+          pictures are most treasured in old age?
+
+
+
+
+FROGS.
+
+THE PLAGUES IN EGYPT.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: Some paper frogs, which can
+          be purchased at any Japanese store for about five
+          cents each. They are often found also in toy
+          stores.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I am sure you will all be able to tell me what
+this object is which I hold in my hand (voices: "Frogs, bullfrogs").
+Well, it looks exactly like a bullfrog, and was made to imitate a
+bullfrog. The bullfrogs I have here are made of paper, and were made in
+Japan. I bought them that I might show them to you and preach you an
+object sermon on the subject of the "Ten Plagues in Egypt."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+You all remember how Joseph was sold by his brethren into bondage in
+Egypt, how he was cast into prison and afterward taken out and made
+prime minister over all that land; how during the seven years of plenty
+he laid up corn for the seven years of famine which followed, and
+afterward his father and his brethren--in all the seventy persons who
+constituted Jacob's family--came down into Egypt to be fed. After two
+hundred and fifty years this family had increased until it numbered
+nearly two millions of people. Pharaoh had made slaves of them, and
+compelled them to work in the brickyards of Egypt. The task-masters were
+very cruel. They beat them with whips, and demanded excessive labor from
+them. These people were the chosen people of God, and their voice was
+lifted to God their Father for deliverance from all the wrongs which
+they suffered. God heard their prayer, and raised up Moses to deliver
+them out of Egyptian bondage.
+
+When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh to request him to let the Children
+of Israel go from Egypt to the land of Canaan, which God had promised to
+Abraham and to his seed after him, Pharaoh would not consent to let them
+go. He was a proud, wicked king, and God sent ten great plagues upon him
+and his country, to humble him and cause him to do as God desired that
+he should do.
+
+In the first plague the rivers were turned into blood. This plague
+lasted seven days, and at the end of that time Moses stretched forth his
+rod, and all the rivers and ponds and lakes of water brought forth great
+frogs throughout all the land. They came, not by hundreds, but by
+thousands and millions, until the frogs covered all that land. They were
+in the houses of all the people. The king's servants were busy sweeping
+and carrying them out of the palace, and yet they stole into the rooms,
+and at night when the king would go to lie down he would find these
+frogs in his bed-chamber and upon his bed. When his bakers went to make
+bread for the king, they would find them in the bread-troughs in which
+they kneaded or mixed the bread, and in the ovens where they baked the
+bread. The frogs were everywhere in the palace and in the huts of the
+common people; upon the streets and in the roads; wherever the people
+walked they stepped upon them, and the king's carriage could not be
+driven through the streets without crushing thousands of them. The
+plague was so great that Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and entreated
+them to call upon their God that He would remove the frogs; and when God
+heard the prayer of Moses and Aaron He caused the frogs to die. The
+people gathered them up in great heaps and these dead and putrefying
+frogs in the streets and the water of the river caused the air to be
+loaded with a great stench that filled the nostrils of all the people.
+
+After this plague of frogs came the plague of lice, when all the dust of
+the country was turned into lice, and after that the plague of the
+flies; and so on through to the last plague, which was the slaying of
+the first-born, of which I will tell you in another sermon.
+
+I wish you would at your earliest opportunity turn to the second book in
+the Old Testament, the Book of Exodus, and in the early chapters read
+about these various plagues of Egypt. When you read the account of the
+various plagues, you will see how after each affliction Pharaoh's heart
+seemed to relent. He would consent for a time that the Children of
+Israel might be liberated from their bondage, and depart from Egypt and
+start on their journey to the land of Canaan. When he was in affliction
+he would make good promises, but as soon as God had removed the plague,
+and the sorrow of his people seemed to be ended for a time he again
+hardened his heart against God, and refused to do what he had promised.
+Again and again the king refused to do that which he had agreed, and
+caused the unhappy Children of Israel to continue in their bondage.
+
+We may think that we are not wicked like Pharaoh was. We may not be
+wicked in the same degree, but we are wicked after the same nature and
+kind; and so God brings upon us various providences, some of which are
+not very pleasant. God is seeking to educate us by the trials and
+sorrows and disappointments and afflictions which He permits to come
+upon us, so that we will be more obedient, and more faithful, and more
+Christlike. But I suppose you have seen people who were just like
+Pharaoh. When they were sick they would promise to become Christians,
+and live good and right lives, and join the Church and be faithful
+followers of Christ all the rest of their lives. And yet when God would
+raise them up from their beds of sickness they would forget all their
+promises, and generally, as it always was in the case of Pharaoh, their
+hearts became harder and harder. Instead of being better after God had
+raised them up and made them strong and well, or removed some trial or
+affliction, they became worse than before.
+
+Have you not found something of this also in your own experience? When
+you have desired something which you have asked your father or mother to
+secure for you, you have promised that you would run all the errands
+they asked, or that you would go to school and study your lessons very
+faithfully, or that you would go to bed cheerfully at night without
+complaining, or you have made your parents some other promises; and yet,
+after you have received the object you asked for, you have failed to
+keep your promise.
+
+[Illustration: Moses Leading the Children of Israel Through the Red
+Sea.]
+
+Or, to go a step further, has it not been so with what you have promised
+God that you would do? You may have entered into covenant with Him, made
+certain promises, and then afterward forgot to fulfill those promises.
+Let us always remember when we make promises to God, or to our
+parents, that we are not to be like Pharaoh. After God has answered our
+prayers we should not forget to be obedient to Him and to keep our
+promises.
+
+Pharaoh was a great covenant-breaker, but when at last he gave the
+Children of Israel permission to leave Egypt, and then broke his promise
+and followed them with his army that he might destroy them, God opened
+up the waters of the Red Sea and the Children of Israel fled from before
+Pharaoh. When this wicked king and covenant-breaker saw them, he pursued
+after them with his horses, his chariots and his army; and when they
+were all in the midst of the sea, God took away His restraining power
+from the water which stood piled up on both sides of the way along which
+the Children of Israel had marched safely, and the water came down in
+great torrents and buried this wicked king and all his horses and his
+chariots and his men. So God destroyed this great covenant-breaking
+king, because after all of the judgments and wonderful miracles which He
+had wrought before Pharaoh, in order to teach him that Jehovah was God,
+Pharaoh's repentances were all mere shams.
+
+This was a great object sermon which God did before the eyes of all
+these thousands of the Children of Israel, and it should teach you and
+me that we are to be honest in all our covenants with God, and be
+obedient to the will of God in all that we do and say.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Upon what king of Egypt did God send
+          the plague of frogs? How many plagues were there?
+          What effect did each plague have upon Pharaoh? Was
+          he honest when he repented? What did he do each
+          time after the plague was removed? What was the
+          last plague? After the death of the first-born,
+          did he allow the Children of Israel to go? After
+          they started, what did he do? How did God enable
+          the Children of Israel to cross the Red Sea? When
+          Pharaoh followed into the sea after them, what
+          occurred? Should we always keep our covenants,
+          both with God and men? If we do not keep our
+          covenants, whom are we like? Will we also be
+          punished?
+
+
+
+
+BLOOD.
+
+THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The object used is a bottle of red
+          ink to represent blood.
+
+
+CHILDREN OF THE COVENANT-KEEPING KING: Last Sunday I talked to you about
+Pharaoh, as the great covenant-breaking king. I showed you some paper
+frogs, and told you how after all of God's long-suffering with Pharaoh,
+He eventually destroyed him and his army in the midst of the Red Sea.
+
+Now, to-day I have this bottle, which has this deep red colored fluid in
+it. This is red ink. But I have brought it not to talk to you about ink,
+but to talk about something else which is of the same color; namely, of
+blood.
+
+[Illustration: Preparing for the Passing Over of the Angel of Death
+
+Copyrighted Sylvanus Stall]
+
+You remember that there were ten plagues in Egypt; the first was the
+turning of the rivers into blood, then the bringing up of the frogs from
+all the rivers and lakes; and then the turning of the dust into lice;
+and then the plague of the flies; and then of the murrain which
+destroyed the cattle; and of the boils which came upon all the people;
+and of the lightning, and rain, and hail which destroyed man and beast.
+Then the locusts came which ate up everything that remained; afterward
+the three days of continuous darkness; and after these nine plagues God
+had yet in store one great plague which He purposed to bring upon
+Pharaoh and his people. After each of these plagues which I have named,
+Pharaoh promised that he would let the Children of Israel go, but
+instead he hardened his heart and refused to keep his promise. At last
+God was going to bring upon him and his people the greatest plague of
+all. (Ex. xii: 1-28.)
+
+God told Moses and Aaron to command the Children of Israel that on the
+tenth day of the month, each family should select either a lamb or a kid
+and shut it up until the fourteenth day, and in the evening of that day
+they should kill it. This was to be a male lamb, one year old, and
+without spot or blemish. The blood, as it flowed from the neck of the
+lamb, was to be caught in a dish, and with a bunch of hyssop the blood
+was to be sprinkled upon the door-posts or the door frame, both above
+and around the door, so that when the Angel of Death whom God purposed
+to send upon that eventful night, when he should pass throughout all the
+land of Egypt and see the blood upon the door posts and upon the lintel
+over the door he would pass by or "pass-over" these houses of the
+Israelites and would not smite their first-born with death; as would be
+the case in every other home of the Egyptians throughout all the land.
+
+After the Children of Israel had sprinkled the blood upon the
+door-posts, they were to roast the entire lamb, and they were to eat it
+with unleavened bread, which was bread baked without yeast, and eat it
+also with bitter herbs, while at the same time their long, loose
+garments were to be tucked up under their belts which went around their
+waists, or as the people in those days would have said, with their loins
+girded. They were to have their shoes on their feet, and a cane or staff
+in their hand, so as to be all ready to start out upon their journey at
+any moment.
+
+At midnight, after these Israelites had eaten this "Passover" meal, and
+had also destroyed, by burning, any portions of the lamb which might
+remain, the Angel of Death passed through all the land of Egypt and slew
+the first-born, the oldest in every house, where there was no blood
+sprinkled upon the door-posts.
+
+As soon as the angel had passed by, the people rushed out into the
+streets in terror and alarm, for in every home there was one or two or
+more persons lying dead. The Egyptians brought out their jewels and gold
+and valuables, and offered, not only to let the Israelites retain the
+jewels which they had already borrowed, but to give them more if they
+would only depart immediately, so that God should bring no further
+afflictions upon them. Pharaoh consented to their going, and immediately
+the Children of Israel started on their long journey to the Promised
+Land.
+
+This eventful night was called, and is to this day called, "the night of
+the Passover," and to this day the Jewish people still celebrate the
+Feast of the Passover. It occurs in the spring of the year, and
+corresponds very closely to our Church festival day, known as Good
+Friday, at which time we commemorate the crucifixion and death of Jesus
+Christ upon Calvary.
+
+You will see from what I have said, how the lamb which was chosen was a
+figure of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, slain from the foundation of
+the world to take away your sins, and my sins, and the sins of all who
+would believe on Him. As this passover lamb was a year old, without spot
+and without blemish, so Jesus Christ was perfect, without blemish, He
+never committed a sin of any kind; He was but thirty years old when He
+was crucified, and consequently was young in years.
+
+As the blood sprinkled upon the door-posts and the lintels of the doors
+was the sign by which the Angel of the Lord was to know the homes of the
+Israelites, and deliver their first-born from death, so the blood of the
+Lord Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin and delivers us from eternal
+death.
+
+You and I and all mankind must die, but after this death of the body
+there comes either everlasting life or spiritual death. Now, when the
+spirit leaves the body, or is separated from these bodies, we speak of
+the body as being dead. The death of a person is just the same as when
+wheat is sown into the ground and is said to die; the life that formerly
+was in the seed only springs up into the stalk and grows into a new life
+and into a multiplied fruitfulness.
+
+The life of each grain of wheat does not cease to exist, but is simply
+separated from the seed or grain which was sown in the ground, and lives
+in the new plant and new grain which springs up. So also when the life
+or the soul leaves the body, the body is dead, because it is separated
+from the soul. In like manner also, if the soul is separated from God,
+the Bible speaks of the individual as being spiritually dead, even while
+yet living in this world. Now, if because of sin any soul that is
+banished forever from God's presence, and is eternally separated from
+God in the next world, that eternal separation of the soul from God is
+spoken of in the Bible as eternal death.
+
+From this eternal death you and I can only be delivered by the blood of
+the Son of God. Jesus Christ is our Passover Lamb. Neither is He a dead,
+but a living Savior.
+
+          "He ever lives above,
+             For me to intercede;
+           His all-redeeming love,
+             His precious blood to plead;
+           His blood atoned for all our race,
+           And sprinkles now the throne of grace."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What was the tenth plague? How were
+          the homes of the Israelites to be marked, so that
+          the angel of death would pass over them? How old
+          was the lamb to be that was to be slain? What was
+          to be done with the body of the lamb? When they
+          ate it, how were they to be clothed? (So as to be
+          ready to start immediately upon their journey.)
+          What did the angel of death do where the door
+          posts were sprinkled with the blood? What was the
+          event called? (The Passover.) What people continue
+          to celebrate the Feast of the Passover today? Of
+          whom was the slain lamb the symbol? What is Christ
+          frequently called? From what does the blood of the
+          Lamb of God save us?
+
+
+
+
+PINE BRANCH.
+
+THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--The objects used are a green branch
+          of a tree and a glass of clear water.
+
+
+DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: Last Sunday I told you about the Feast of the
+Passover, how it came to be instituted, and what it signified. To-day I
+want to talk to you about the Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of the
+Passover occurred in the spring, nearly corresponding to our Easter; and
+at such times when the Israelites from every quarter of the land came up
+to Jerusalem, as was the custom at the three annual feasts, some
+provision had to be made for their entertainment.
+
+At the Feast of the Passover all the Jews living in Jerusalem had to
+throw open their homes, and entertain under the cover of their own
+roofs, all who came to them. They could not decline to receive the
+thousands of worshipers who came up to the Feast, but were required to
+afford them a place of shelter in their homes. Therefore it was that
+before the Feast of the Passover Jesus sent two of His disciples, and
+told them to go into the city, and they would find a man bearing a
+pitcher of water; they should follow him and ask him to direct them to a
+room in his house, where Jesus might eat the Passover with His
+disciples. (Matt. xxvi: 17; Mark xiv: 13.)
+
+[Illustration: Building Booths at Feast of Tabernacles.]
+
+At the Feast of Tabernacles, which occurred in the fall of the year,
+after the harvest and the fruit of the vines and the trees had all been
+gathered in, it was very different. At this Feast, when the Israelites
+came up to Jerusalem, not only those who came from a distance, but even
+those who lived regularly in the city, were required to tent or live in
+booths made by simply placing some poles in the ground, with other poles
+reaching across the top, so as to form a roof or covering. This roof was
+not shingled, but was formed by laying branches of trees upon the sticks
+which had been laid across from one pole to the other. (Neh. viii: 14,
+15.)
+
+You now see why to-day I have chosen this branch of a tree to show you
+in connection with this sermon. I have chosen this to impress upon your
+mind the character of the arbors used at the Feast of Tabernacles; the
+tops or roofs of which were formed or made of olive, and willow and
+pine, myrtle and palm branches. These booths or arbors were to remind
+the Children of Israel of the journey of their forefathers through the
+desert, when for forty long years they did not live within the walls or
+under the roof of any house, but dwelt only in booths.
+
+I am sure that you and I would like to have looked in upon Jerusalem at
+the time when one of these Harvest Home festivals was being celebrated.
+We would like to have seen the booths on the tops of the houses and
+along the side of the hills, outside of the walls of the city, and
+sloping down through the valleys and crowding far out into the country
+upon the Mount of Olives and beyond. We would like to have seen the
+bright faces of the happy throngs of people as they moved in procession
+through the streets, waving their palm branches; and to have listened to
+the music of the trumpeters of the Temple, as they sounded their
+trumpets twice every hour throughout the entire day. I am sure we would
+have been delighted to look down upon the festive crowd at night, when,
+instead of waving palm branches as they did during the day, they carried
+bright flaming torches, amid the clashing of cymbals and the blast of
+trumpets.
+
+[Illustration: "He Bore it Aloft as He Ascended the Stairs."]
+
+This Feast lasted for eight days. The first day and the last were
+especially sacred. And now I want to call your attention to this second
+object which I have; namely, this water, and I want to tell you how it
+was related to and used at this Feast of Tabernacles. On the morning of
+each day, while the smoke of the morning sacrifice was ascending in
+beautiful wreaths in the still air, a priest bearing a large golden
+bowl, and followed by a long procession of boys and girls waving palm
+branches, descended the side of the hill to the pool of Siloam, which
+was in a quiet recess at the foot of Mount Moriah, on the summit of
+which the Temple was built. When the priest had filled the golden bowl
+with water from this clear pool, he held it above his head and bore it
+aloft as he ascended the stairs. As the procession entered the Court of
+the Temple, the trumpets sounded, and all the throngs of people gathered
+within its walls took up the words of the prophet and sang, "With joy
+shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation" (Isaiah xii: 3), and
+as the priest came to the base of the altar he poured the water from the
+golden bowl into a silver basin amid shouts and gladness. Upon the
+eighth day, "the last day, that great day of the feast" (John vii: 37),
+the joy was greater than upon any of the other days. The priests in glad
+procession moved around the altar seven times, singing the Psalms.
+
+It was at the last Feast of Tabernacles which Jesus attended, that He
+stood in the midst of this glad assembly, and beheld their joy as they
+remembered how God had supplied their fathers with water in the
+wilderness; and how God had given them a land of streams, and rivers,
+and wells of water, and it was then when Jesus heard them crying
+"Hosanna, blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord," that Jesus
+stood up in the midst of the Temple and of the people and said, "If any
+man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." (John vii: 37.) To those of
+us who have always lived in the midst of a bountiful supply of fresh,
+clear, crystal water, these words are not as impressive as they were to
+the people to whom they were then spoken. For their land was surrounded
+by deserts, and they lived in the midst of nations whose people often
+famished and died, because there was not a sufficient supply of water to
+drink.
+
+While we live in a country where there is always an abundant supply of
+water to satisfy the thirst of the body, yet spiritually, like these
+people at the Feast of Tabernacles we have the same spiritual needs that
+they had, and if you and I thirst for the water of life, if we desire
+everlasting salvation, if we thirst for the knowledge of sacred things
+and desire to do that which is right, Jesus invites you and me to come
+to Him, and says to us: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
+waters." (Isa. lv: 1.) "If any man thirst let him come unto me and
+drink," (John vii: 37.) "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall
+give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall
+be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." (John iv:
+14.)
+
+          QUESTIONS.--At what season of the year was the
+          Feast of Tabernacles held? How long did it last?
+          In what did the people live or dwell during the
+          Feast? Of what were the booths built? Why did they
+          dwell in booths instead of in their houses at this
+          time? Of what was all this to remind them? Which
+          was the great day of the Feast? On this last day
+          of the Feast what did the high priest bring from
+          the well? By whom was the priest accompanied? Into
+          what did he pour the water from the golden bowl?
+          Of what was this water the symbol? Does every
+          human being thirst for or desire righteousness?
+          Did Jesus invite such to come to Him and drink?
+          Should we always go to Him to satisfy our
+          spiritual hunger and thirst?
+
+
+
+
+LEAVES.
+
+THE LESSONS WHICH THEY TEACH.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: Some autumn leaves or green
+          leaves of different varieties.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: To-day I picked up these few beautiful leaves,
+which during the summer were lifted aloft on the trees and cast their
+grateful shadows upon the weary traveler as he journeyed under the
+scorching rays of the sun. But with the coming of autumn these leaves
+have faded, and the first frost of winter has tinged them with crimson
+and glory. I am sure we cannot look upon them without thinking of the
+words of the Prophet Isaiah, in the sixty-fourth chapter and sixth
+verse, where he says: "We all do fade as a leaf."
+
+[Illustration: Autumn Leaves.]
+
+I desire, however, to use these leaves to teach you not only this
+lesson, but also several others which they suggest.
+
+If, during the summer, you go out into a forest and study the leaves,
+one of the first things which you will notice will be that the leaves
+which grow upon one kind of trees differ from the leaves which grow
+upon every other kind of trees. Indeed, if you pick up a leaf from the
+ground and examine it carefully you will find that the leaf is largely a
+picture of the tree upon which it grew. The shape of the leaf will
+correspond very largely with the shape of the tree from which it has
+fallen. If you study the leaf more carefully you will discover that the
+veins in the leaf will quite closely resemble the shape of the limbs of
+the tree. You would not be able to study the different leaves which you
+pick up without being impressed with the resemblance in many instances
+between the leaf and the tree upon which it grew.
+
+Now, I think that we may learn a very profitable lesson from the leaves
+in this respect. I think that you will find, when you are able to study
+with a little closeness of observation, that the scholars of different
+Sunday-schools are different from each other, at least in some respects.
+Those who come from the school where good order is maintained, where
+there are consecrated, devoted teachers who give themselves carefully to
+the preparation of the lesson, secure the attention of their scholars,
+impress the truth deeply upon the minds, and hearts and consciences--you
+will find that the scholars of this school become attentive and orderly,
+and well behaved, and all the scholars in the school partake of the
+influences which are exerted over them from Sunday to Sunday. The
+scholars who attend a school where the superintendent does not keep good
+order, where the teachers are irregular and disinterested, and where
+everything is permitted to go along as by mere chance, these scholars
+will partake of the influence of the school, and will individually
+become like the school. So you see how important it is that each and
+every scholar should be attentive and thoughtful, and give the very
+largest amount of help possible to the superintendent and teachers to
+render the school orderly, and to encourage the teachers who desire to
+devote themselves to the teaching of Bible truth and the impressing of
+the spiritual lessons, so that those who are under their influence may
+be brought to a saving acquaintance with Christ.
+
+What I have said with reference to the Sunday-school is also true with
+reference to the Church. There is an old saying, that "like priest, like
+people." When a pastor continues for a long period of years in the same
+pulpit, ministering to the same people, if he has their sympathy,
+co-operation and assistance the people will become very much like each
+other in their spiritual character, and all will become more and more
+like the pastor and his teachings. If he is godly, and consecrated, and
+upright, his people will become increasingly so. And you will find not
+only that each scholar becomes a miniature of the Sunday-school which he
+attends, but each Christian becomes a miniature of the congregation of
+which he is a member.
+
+But the leaves teach us another lesson. The great trees which you see in
+the forest are the result of the united efforts and labors of the
+leaves. Each leaf is gifted with individual power, and together they all
+drink in the influence of the sunlight and the showers, and unitedly
+they build up the great oaks and elms and poplars, and all the trees of
+the fields and forest. The coal, which is now dug from the mines, was
+once a great tropical growth of forest trees which were afterwards
+buried by some great convulsion in nature, and now when we dig up the
+coal and burn it in our stoves we are simply releasing the buried
+sunshine which was accumulated and stored up by the individual leaves of
+the great forests of centuries ago.
+
+As we look upon the leaves of the trees I think we must be impressed
+with the fact, that each one labors in his own appointed place. There is
+no conflict, there is no crowding of one, thinking to exalt himself
+above the others. There are no little parties of leaves joining
+together and trying to crowd themselves to the top of the tree, but each
+and all work faithfully and zealously in the place which God has
+appointed them.
+
+[Illustration: The Budding of the New Leaf.]
+
+They are not only faithful workers, but they are unselfish workers. No
+leaf can have the joy which belongs to another, or the glory of all the
+leaves. Each leaf has the reward of doing a little, and when its work is
+done it must drop to the ground and perish in the dust. The work which
+it has done and the tree which it has helped to build will be its
+monument and reward. If each leaf gives its life faithfully for the
+building up of the tree, no leaf can fall to the ground or be shaken
+from its place by the autumn wind and perish in despair.
+
+If you will go into the forest at the autumn period of the year, or go
+into the orchard and examine where the leaves are about to drop off, you
+will find that at the base of the stem of each leaf, already there
+appears the budding of the leaf which is to be unfolded next spring, and
+even though the leaf withers and falls to the ground, leaving the barren
+limb alone to battle with the winter storms, yet there is the promise
+and the evidence that when the gentle breath of spring shall come and
+break open the icy sepulchres of the winter, these little buds will feel
+the genial warmth and unfold their green beauty in a radiant springtime
+of beautiful foliage. So one generation of men may die and pass away, to
+have their work continued and completed by those who are to come after
+them.
+
+But these leaves also teach us of our mortality. For, as Isaiah says,
+"We all do fade as a leaf." We are all very apt to forget that we must
+die. And so each year, when the summer is over and the fruit is
+gathered, the leaves begin to wither, and the early frost tinges the
+forests of the closing year, like the sun oftentimes makes the clouds
+all crimson and glory at the close of the day. These things should teach
+us that as advancing years come, we also must fade and die. God spreads
+out before us this great panorama along the valleys and on the hillsides
+each autumn to teach us that as the leaves perish, so we must also fade
+and droop and die.
+
+But there is one great encouragement, and that is, that although the
+leaves fall, the tree stands. The leaf perishes, but the tree abides,
+and year after year, sometimes for centuries, it goes on increasing in
+stature and in strength, abiding as the giant of the forest. So also,
+when at last each of us must die, that which we have built shall abide,
+and what we have received from others and to which we have added our
+efforts and our labors, others shall receive from us, and they also
+shall carry on the work in which we have been engaged. So each
+generation receives and carries on the work of those who have gone
+before. As the poet has well said,
+
+          "Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found,
+           Now green in youth, now withered on the ground;
+           Another race the following age supplies;
+           They fall successive, and successive rise;
+           So generations in their course decay
+           So perish these when those have passed away."
+
+The tree stands a monument of strength and beauty at the grave of all
+the dead leaves which lie buried at its feet. So what each boy and girl,
+each man and woman, shall have accomplished of good or evil, will remain
+after they have perished and passed away, to tell of their lives, and
+God will note the result. He who says that not even a sparrow can fall
+to the ground without His notice, and who tells us that the very hairs
+of our heads are all numbered, He will note our deeds, and He will be
+our reward.
+
+If I were speaking now to older people I might call attention to the
+fact that the autumn leaves are more beautiful than the summer leaves.
+And so boys and girls, it seems to me, and it has always thus seemed to
+me, that there is something more beautiful in manhood and womanhood,
+during the later years of life, than during the earlier years. Always
+honor and respect the aged whose heads are gray, whose features are
+venerable and whose characters are Christ-like.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are the leaves alike on all trees? In
+          what ways are the leaves like the tree on which
+          they grew? Are Sunday-school scholars much like
+          the school that they attend? Are grown people
+          greatly influenced by the pastor who preaches to
+          them, and the people with whom they are
+          associated? Of what are great trees the result?
+          How do leaves accomplish this? When a leaf drops
+          from the tree, what has already started? What do
+          fading and dropping leaves represent? Does the
+          tree abide when the leaves fall? When we die do
+          the great influences which we have helped forward
+          remain to bless the world? Who still notes our
+          deeds when we pass away? Which are more beautiful,
+          summer or autumn leaves? What periods of life are
+          they like?
+
+
+
+
+THE TURTLE.
+
+MEN LIKE AND YET UNLIKE THE ANIMALS.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--While it is not at all necessary to
+          present any special objects, it will add to the
+          interest if the parent has a turtle shell or even
+          the shells of oysters, clams or abalone, which are
+          somewhat the same in principle, the outside cover
+          of the animal constituting both its home and
+          defence, although differing from the turtle in
+          other respects.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to show you to-day how in some respect we
+are like the animals, and how in other respects we are very unlike them.
+To illustrate what I desire to say I have brought this small turtle
+shell. From the way that some boys treat flies and bugs, and birds, cats
+and dogs and all kinds of animals you would suppose that many boys and
+some girls think that animals have no feeling. Boys who have never
+suffered any bodily pain themselves, oftentimes act as though they
+thought that animals could not suffer pain, but in this they are greatly
+mistaken. Animals can and do suffer pain, the same as people suffer
+pain, and in order to defend them against their enemies God has provided
+these creatures of His hand with some means of protecting themselves.
+The birds can fly away. Some animals, like foxes, have holes in the
+ground where they can hide. Others, like the squirrel, hide in the
+hollow trees. Bees can sting. Some cattle have horns for defence, and
+some others, which are not as capable of defending themselves against
+the stronger animals, God has marvellously provided with two stomachs.
+The cow goes out in the field and crops off the grass rapidly and can
+then go to a place of shelter and lie down, and there, protected from
+the attack of wild beasts, chew what she has gathered. This is known in
+the country as chewing the cud. The same is true with sheep; they also
+bite off the grass and swallow it quickly. It passes into a first
+stomach and then they can lie down in some quiet place and chew the cud;
+or in other words chew that which they have hastily bitten off in the
+fields.
+
+[Illustration: The Turtle.]
+
+Now the turtle cannot escape from his enemies because he cannot run very
+rapidly, and so God has covered him with a coat of mail and given him a
+helmet, a hard, bony covering for the head and this large bony covering
+for his body, which we can very properly call his house. When danger
+approaches, the turtle quickly draws his head and his feet into this
+large shell, and is quite safe from the attack of his enemies. Whatever
+animal might desire to eat the turtle is prevented on account of this
+hard outer shell. On this lower part you will notice how the turtle can
+draw the front portion up more closely, and thus the more securely shut
+himself within his house. So you see how God has provided all the
+animals with a means of protection and defense, first, to protect their
+lives, and secondly, to save them from pain and suffering.
+
+While God has thus successfully protected them against other animals,
+they are not protected against the superior intelligence and ingenuity
+of man. The birds can fly faster than the man can run, but man can shoot
+the bird with an arrow or with a rifle. So with all the other animals.
+Now God has made it right for us to kill animals for food, but it is
+very wrong for us to destroy animals for the simple pleasure of taking
+life, and it is also very wicked to inflict pain unnecessarily upon any
+of the animals.
+
+I want to tell you about a boy who was once strolling through the fields
+with his sister. They found a nest of rabbits. The sister was charmed
+with the beautiful nest itself and with its living occupants, but the
+boy teased them, mimicking their squeaks and their struggles. In vain
+his sister plead with him not to hurt these pretty little creatures, but
+the wicked boy flung them up into the air one by one and shouted when
+each fell dead upon the stones. Ten years after the sister sat weeping
+again by that boy's side. He was in chains, sentenced to be hanged for
+shooting a farmer who was hunting in a neighbor's field. They were
+waiting for the awful procession to knock at the cell door. "Sister," he
+said, "do you remember the nest of rabbits ten years ago; how you begged
+and prayed, and how I ridiculed? I verily believe that from that day God
+forsook me, and left me to follow my own inclinations. If I had yielded
+to your tears then, you and I would not be weeping these bitter tears
+now."
+
+You see how it is that boys who have no regard for the suffering, or the
+preservation of the life of animals are likely to inflict pain and even
+to take the lives of people.
+
+But I want to call your attention to another respect in which we are
+like the animals, or perhaps, more correctly, in which the animals are
+like us. The forms of most all animals have some resemblance to each
+other, and all are somewhat in form like man. If you take the bird, his
+wings correspond to our arms, his legs and feet are somewhat like ours,
+only his toes are longer, and the nails are slightly different in form.
+If you will take the horse you will see that his neck is longer than
+ours, that his front legs correspond to our arms, and if you take your
+fingers and press them together you will see how, if you were to study
+the anatomy of the horse's foot carefully, it resembles the bones in
+our hands, and the bony foot of the horse corresponds to the nails on
+the ends of our fingers, only that in the case of the horse the nails
+are all in one, forming the hoof, to which the blacksmith nails the
+shoe. The horse's hoof, however, is not solid as you might think, but
+only a shell, the same as the nails on the ends of our fingers.
+
+[Illustration: Birds.]
+
+Now if you were to take the turtle that lives in this shell or house you
+would find that he also has four legs, the front legs corresponding to
+our arms, and his hind legs corresponding to our legs and feet. On the
+end of each of his feet he has nails, the same as you and I have at the
+extremities of our hands and feet. But I am sure you would say that the
+turtle was very much unlike us, in that he has such a hard shell of a
+house which he carries about with him. But if you will feel of your
+hands you will discover that you have bones inside of your hands. So you
+have bones in your arms and all through your body. These bones of your
+body are covered with flesh, so our bones are _inside_ of us. But with
+this turtle almost all of his bones are made into one bone, and that is
+on the _outside_ of his body.
+
+Our muscles, with which we move our hands and feet and different
+portions of our body, are attached to the bones which are inside of us.
+His muscles are attached to the bone which is on the outside of him. So
+you see that we are like him, in that both of us have bones, only his
+are on the outside while ours are on the inside.
+
+His bone or shell is a covering and a defense. Our bones, on the inside
+of us, are so constructed as to enable us to defend ourselves also. God
+has given the turtle a house, but He has given us the knowledge and the
+skill, so that we can construct our own house. We are created with
+capacity to till the earth and to subdue the wild beasts of the forest,
+and with our superior intelligence to be king over all the other
+creatures which God has created.
+
+Now, there are several lessons which we may learn from what I have said.
+God has protected all animals against their foes. He has not fully
+protected the animals against us, but He expects us to use our
+intelligence and our better nature, to be thoughtful and careful not to
+inflict pain even upon the worm or insect which crawls upon the ground
+beneath our feet.
+
+While our bodies are somewhat like the bodies of birds and beasts, in
+our moral nature we are not like the animals, but like God. We were made
+in the moral likeness and image of God. We have intelligence and God has
+made us to know right from wrong. The animals have no conscience. Cattle
+do not recognize any wrong when they break out of their owner's pasture
+and break into a neighbor's cornfield. We do not say that cattle have
+sinned, because they know nothing of ownership. They do not know what is
+right and what is wrong, and, therefore, are not accountable beings. In
+our intellectual, moral and spiritual nature we are superior to
+everything else that God has created. We have a moral nature. We know
+what is right and what is wrong, and, therefore, we are accountable
+beings. God has made us free to follow our own purpose and, therefore,
+we are to be held accountable. God has created us not for a few days of
+life upon the earth, but He has made us immortal, and if we have faith
+in the Lord Jesus Christ, and accept Him as our Saviour and love and
+serve Him upon the earth, our condition in the next world will be one of
+great blessing and happiness.
+
+God has given the turtle a house. He has given us intelligence and all
+the materials and left us to construct the house in which we are to live
+upon this earth. But in heaven He has built our house for us. Jesus
+said: "In My Father's house are many mansions." The German translation
+has it, "In My Father's house are many homes." "I go to prepare a place
+for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
+receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
+
+Death may be a misfortune to a poor turtle, but not to a Christian man
+or woman, or a Christian boy or girl. Death is only the blessed Saviour
+coming to take us unto Himself.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Do animals feel pain? Has God provided
+          for their protection? Does the turtle have bones?
+          Are your bones on the outside or the inside of
+          your body? Where are the turtle's bones
+          principally? How does the turtle protect himself?
+          Tell the story of the bad boy and the little
+          rabbits. Are the forms of animals similar to the
+          form of our bodies? To what part of our body do
+          the wings of the bird and the front legs of a
+          horse or cow correspond? Do animals have a moral
+          nature and a conscience? Are they accountable to
+          God for their conduct? Are we?
+
+
+
+
+GRASSHOPPER AND ANT.
+
+NEGLIGENCE AND INDUSTRY.
+
+
+[Illustration: The Royal Exchange, London.]
+
+THE largest city of the world is across the ocean, in England. In the
+busiest part of London is a very large building, called the Royal
+Exchange. On the top of the pinnacle, or tower, of this large stone
+building is a large grasshopper, and the English people have this legend
+in reference to it: It is related that some three hundred and
+seventy-five years ago, a woman, whose purposes we cannot know, might
+have been seen hurrying along a country lane, some distance outside of
+the city. Hastening along she came to a gate leading into a field, and
+looking in every direction to be sure that no one was near, she took off
+her shawl and wrapped it carefully around a little baby which she had
+concealed under her arm, and laid it gently by the side of a hedge. And
+then turning back to the lane, she soon disappeared in the distance. An
+hour or two later a little girl and a rollicking, frolicking boy,
+possibly returning from school, were crossing the field. It was in the
+later days of summer, when butterflies and grasshoppers abounded. As
+this light-hearted boy was whistling along his way, a large grasshopper
+bounded across his path, and, true to the instincts of childhood, the
+boy started in pursuit of the grasshopper. The chase was only begun when
+the grasshopper crossed the fence and landed in a grain field, which in
+England is called a corn field. Stooping to catch his prize, the boy
+discovered near by what proved to be a bright little baby, fast asleep
+in its mother's shawl. Joyful with the prize which they had found, the
+boy took it up in his arms, and hastened to his mother, who, although a
+farmer's wife, with many cares and several children, resolved to adopt
+the little stranger as her own.
+
+[Illustration: Grasshopper.]
+
+Years passed on, and the infant boy grew to be a man of industry and
+economy, and finally became one of the richest and most influential men
+in the city of London. Queen Elizabeth, who was then upon the throne,
+often consulted him, and in after years, as an expression of gratitude
+to the great city in which he had accumulated his wealth, and for the
+royal favor which had been shown him, he built the Bourse, or what is
+called the Royal Exchange, and in recognition of the kind Providence
+which had used the grasshopper to lead the steps of the boy to where the
+baby was lying in the fields, Sir Thomas Gresham, for that was his name,
+placed this large grasshopper in stone, upon the topmost pinnacle of
+this Royal Exchange. While I cannot vouch for the historical accuracy of
+this legend, yet it beautifully illustrates the truth that God often
+uses an humble insect for the accomplishment of His great providences.
+
+Now, I want to tell you something about the grasshopper, and also about
+the ant.
+
+The grasshopper is very much like that class of boys who want to have a
+good time, play and frolic from day to day, but never go to school or
+work, but live for the play and pleasure to be enjoyed each day as it
+passes. The grasshopper jumps from place to place across the field,
+eating his food wherever he can find it, and then spends his days and
+weeks in idleness. He never stops to think that the summer will soon
+pass away, the fields will then be barren, the cold autumn will come,
+when the fields will be left desolate and covered with snow. So finally
+when the autumn comes, he has no food laid up for the winter, but dies
+of poverty and hunger. This little poem which I read in the schoolbooks,
+when I was a boy, will tell the whole story:
+
+
+SONG OF THE GRASSHOPPER.
+
+          I saw a brown old grasshopper,
+            And he sat upon a stone,
+          While ever and anon he chirped
+            In a sad and mournful tone:
+          And many an anxious, troubled look
+            He cast around the naked plain;
+          Where now was but a stubble field,
+            Once waved the golden grain.
+          What ails thee, old brown grasshopper?
+            His voice was low and faint,
+          As in the language of his race
+            He made this dire complaint:
+          "O! in the long bright summer time
+            I treasured up no store,
+          Now the last full sheaf is garnered,
+            And the harvest days are o'er."
+
+          What didst thou, brown old grasshopper,
+            When the summer days were long?
+          "I danced on the fragrant clover tops,
+            With many a merry song;
+          O! we were a blithesome company,
+            And a joyous life we led;
+          But with the flowers and summer hours,
+            My gay companions fled:
+          Old age and poverty are come,
+            The autumn wind is chill,
+          It whistles through my tattered coat,
+            And my voice is cracked and shrill.
+          In a damp and gloomy cavern
+            Beneath this cold, gray stone,
+          I must lay me down and perish--
+            I must perish all alone.
+          Alas! that in life's golden time
+            I treasured up no store,
+          For now the sheaves are gathered in,
+            And the harvest days are o'er."
+
+          He ceased his melancholy wail,
+            And a tear was in his eye,
+          As he slowly slid from the cold gray stone,
+            And laid him down to die.
+          And then I thought, t'were well if all
+            In pleasure's idle throng,
+          Had seen that old brown grasshopper
+            And heard his dying song:
+          For life's bright, glowing summer
+            Is hasting to its close,
+          And winter's night is coming--
+            The night of long repose.
+          O! garner then in reaping time,
+            A rich, unfailing store,
+          Ere the summer hours are past and gone,
+            And the harvest days are o'er!
+
+The little ant is not so foolish. For thousands of years the ant has
+always been wise and industrious. In the Book of Proverbs, written over
+twenty-five hundred years ago, Solomon tells us in the thirtieth chapter
+and twenty-fifth verse: "The ants are a people not strong, yet they
+prepare their meat in the summer." And in the sixth chapter, sixth,
+seventh and eighth verses he says, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
+consider her ways, and be wise; which having no guide, overseer, or
+ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the
+harvest." You have probably noticed the industry, activity and
+perseverance of these little ants. They attempt great things. Sometimes
+you will see one of these little insects carrying a burden which is
+several times larger than its own body. If they come to a stone, or a
+log, or some obstacle, over which they must carry their burden, if they
+do not succeed the first time, they will try again; and even though they
+should fall, or fail as much as a hundred times, they will persevere
+until they have accomplished their undertaking. If you watch them, you
+will see how rapidly they move. They are not lazy, they do not loiter
+along the way, but are always in a hurry. They work with energy and
+gather food during the summer, which they lay up for their supply during
+the winter. Whatever the little ant can gather, it carries home and lays
+up in store, not for itself alone, but all work together, each laboring
+for the good and well-being of all the others.
+
+[Illustration: Ants.]
+
+This grasshopper very fittingly represents the feeling and thought which
+come into the mind of every boy when he is at first required to work, to
+go to school and study, when he is being taught to be industrious and
+useful. When the days are pleasant, boys do not like to go to school.
+When a pleasant Sunday morning comes in the springtime, they often wish
+to stay at home, to go out to the park, or to roam about the fields, and
+if most of the boys and girls had their own way about it, in the
+beginning, they would live pretty much like the grasshopper. They would
+get what pleasure they could out of the days as they pass, grow up in
+ignorance and idleness, and in manhood and womanhood find themselves in
+poverty and want. I think that pretty much all boys and girls are
+naturally lazy, and that feeling can only be cured by being required to
+work, being compelled to go to school and study, and being kept
+persistently at it from week to week and year to year, until at last
+they learn to love to work. If the parents of the grasshopper had not
+themselves been lazy and grown up in idleness, they would have taught
+the young grasshopper that in the spring and summer he was to look
+forward to the wants and needs of the winter. The older ants always
+teach the young ants to work, and in that they are very wise.
+
+Perhaps you have seen boys and girls who have learned to work, who are
+always very active, who seem always to be busy, but after all accomplish
+nothing of any moment in life. If we want to live to some purpose in
+this world, we must remember that we should have a purpose worthy of
+ourselves, and of the great Father in Heaven who has created us. After a
+few months and years the grasshoppers and the ants and all the insects
+die, but you and I shall live on forever and ever. These bodies will be
+laid away in the grave, but our immortal spirits shall still continue to
+live. The stars in heaven which have been shining for thousands and
+thousands of years shall eventually grow pale. The sun itself shall
+cease to shine, and all the heavens and the universe about us shall be
+rolled together as a scroll. But these immortal spirits of yours and
+mine shall live on with God throughout all eternity. It is important,
+therefore, that our industry and our thought and our labor should not be
+for those things which perish with the using; that we should not simply
+lay up treasures which we must after a time go away and leave behind us
+in this world, but that we should lay up treasures in heaven, where moth
+and rust do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
+steal; that where our treasure is, there our hearts may be also; and
+that we may possess and enjoy our treasure throughout all eternity.
+
+I hope that every time you see a grasshopper or an ant, you will
+remember the lesson which I have sought to teach you to-day.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What is on the top of the Royal
+          Exchange in London? Who built the Exchange? Why
+          did he put the grasshopper there? Tell all you can
+          about the little boy and girl going through the
+          field. What kind of boys and girls is like the
+          grasshopper? What does the grasshopper do in
+          summer? What happens to him when winter comes? Is
+          the ant like the grasshopper, or is he
+          industrious? What does the Bible say about the
+          ant? How does he spend the summer? Does he have
+          food for winter use? Does each ant work for itself
+          alone? Who teach the young ants to work? Do boys
+          and girls all have to be taught to work? Do all
+          people who are busy accomplish something worthy of
+          their effort? What should we live for?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+BALANCES.
+
+HOW GOD WEIGHS PEOPLE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A pair of ordinary balances.
+          A very good pair for illustration can easily be
+          made from a piece of wood, a few strings and a
+          couple of little paper boxes.
+
+[Illustration: Balances.]
+
+
+DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I suppose you have all stood on the scales and been
+weighed. I have here a pair of balances. This was doubtless one of the
+earliest kind of instruments with which people weighed different things,
+and it is the kind of scales which are still used when the greatest
+accuracy is desired. These are called a balance, because when I hold
+them by this string you will see that this end of the arm and that end
+of the arm are equal in length and equal in weight and they exactly
+balance each other. Now when I place anything in the pan on this end of
+the arm, and place a small weight in the pan on the opposite arm, and
+then lift the balance up, you will see how I can readily tell how much
+the piece of metal, or piece of wood, or whatever I have placed in the
+balances, weighs. In the drug stores they use this kind of scales to
+weigh medicines, and they can tell accurately the weight of a very small
+quantity. In the laboratory, or the place where medicines are made, they
+have this kind of scales that will weigh the smallest particle of dust;
+even a small piece of a hair laid on the scales can be weighed
+accurately.
+
+In the fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel we read about a king whose
+name was Belshazzar, who lived in the great city of Babylon, surrounded
+by a great wall three hundred feet high and eighty feet broad, and with
+a hundred gates of brass, twenty-five gates on each side of the city,
+and a street running from each of the gates upon the one side, straight
+across the city to each of the corresponding gates upon the opposite
+side, a distance of some twelve or fifteen miles; and then other streets
+crossing these first twenty-five streets, running between the gates
+which were upon the other two sides of the city. God had blessed this
+king of Babylon and given him great wealth and great power; but he
+became proud and defied God. One night he made a great feast and invited
+a thousand of his lords and the generals of his army, and sent for the
+golden vessels of the Temple, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought down from
+Jerusalem, and Belshazzar drank wine out of these sacred vessels of the
+Temple. And, like men and women when they drink liquor, they lost their
+reason, and they praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and brass, and
+iron, and wood, and of stone, and thus dishonored God; and there
+appeared in the banqueting hall the fingers of a man's hand and wrote on
+the wall so that all might see and read it, and these were the words
+which were written before that wicked king: "Thou art weighed in the
+balances, and art found wanting." (Daniel v: 27.)
+
+Now you see that God weighs men and women, not for the purpose of
+telling how many pounds their bodies weigh, but He weighs their
+character, He weighs their conduct, He weighs their purposes, and He
+weighs their principles, and so He weighed Belshazzar, and He said of
+him and to him, "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
+wanting." God weighed Belshazzar as though he were placed in this side
+of the balance, and on the other side of the balance were placed all his
+opportunities, privileges and his blessings, and all that God had done
+for him. When God thus weighed him against all these things Belshazzar
+was found so light that he did not weigh as much as the privileges and
+blessings which God had given him, and therefore, God said that he was
+weighed in the balances and was found wanting.
+
+In just this same way God weighs you and me, in order that we may see
+whether or not we weigh enough. Suppose we turn to the twentieth chapter
+of Exodus and there find what God requires of us. You will find that God
+says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto
+thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven
+above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under
+the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for
+I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the
+fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them
+that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and
+keep my commandments."
+
+[Illustration: "Thou Art Weighed in the Balances, and Art Found
+Wanting."]
+
+Now suppose I place this requirement in one side of the balance, and
+then ask you to place your obedience to this requirement in the other
+side of the balance. I am sure there are a great many grown men and
+women who could not be weighed against this requirement. If a man loves
+money, so that he sacrifices his obedience to God, or sacrifices his
+character, or gives too large an amount of time to money-making, and
+money-getting; if his love of money is very great, you see how he makes
+money a sort of a god--that is, that he exalts his love of money above
+his love of God. In the same way a person can worship pleasure, and
+ease, and fame in such a way as to exalt these above God. Now any one
+who has done this, cannot be weighed against this requirement of God's
+law without being found wanting.
+
+If we take the next Commandment, it reads, "Thou shall not take the name
+of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless
+that taketh his name in vain." Now anybody who has ever sworn cannot be
+weighed against this Commandment. A man who curses and swears is a very
+wicked man. I hope that none of you, boys or girls, will ever profane
+God's name and disgrace yourself by swearing.
+
+I want to caution you, also, against the use of by-words. Sometimes boys
+swear without knowing it; they say "By Jiminy." Now, the word "Gemini"
+means "Twins," and refers to two heathen gods whose names were "Castor"
+and "Pollux," and when boys use the expression, "By Jiminy," they are
+swearing by those two heathen gods. Jesus said, "Swear not at all."
+(Matt. v: 34.) Then not only those who literally swear, but all those
+who use God's name without reverence and who make light of sacred things
+break this Commandment. So you see that many are not able to be weighed
+against this Commandment.
+
+Then take the next: "Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy." There
+are many people who remember the Sabbath Day simply to make it the
+occasion of visiting, letter writing, and to enjoy a trip into the
+country, or in the park. They remember the Sabbath Day, but they do not
+remember it to keep it holy. So you see that you would not be able to be
+weighed against that requirement.
+
+Now take the next: "Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may
+be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." If God were
+to come into this community and weigh the boys and girls against this
+Commandment, how many do you think would be found to whom God would turn
+and say, as He did to Belshazzar: "Thou art weighed and art found
+wanting"? Any boy or girl who speaks of his father as "The old man," and
+of his mother as "The old woman"; any boy or girl who is disobedient;
+any girl who yesterday when mother asked her to dust the furniture, or
+any boy who when mother asked him yesterday to run upon an errand, grew
+petulant, and scowled and scolded, perhaps went out of the room and
+slammed the door behind them, all such boys and girls would be found
+wanting. You see how, with one after another of these Commandments, if
+God were to weigh us we would be found wanting.
+
+If we take the other Commandments, "Thou shall not kill," anybody who
+has hated his brother in his heart; "Thou shall not commit adultery,"
+any one who has harbored lust in his heart; "Thou shall not steal";
+"Thou shall not bear false witness"; "Thou shall not covet"; think of
+each of these and see how many times in your life you have broken them,
+if not in letter, yet in spirit.
+
+Now, if you cannot be weighed against these different requirements and
+you have come short of them in the past, how can you expect to stand in
+the great Day of Judgment, when God shall take into account every idle
+word that we have ever uttered, every wicked thought; when we shall be
+weighed in the just balances of an infinite God? When God shall place
+these requirements upon one side of the balance, and you and I shall
+step in upon the other side of the balance, there is only one possible
+way in which we could then be heavy enough, and that is if we could have
+our Elder Brother, Jesus Christ, to step into the balance with us, as He
+is willing to do, and God should accept the obedience and holiness of
+His own Beloved Son, Jesus Christ in our stead. Unless you and I have
+Jesus Christ with us when we step into that balance, it will be said,
+"Thou art found wanting." Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your friend,
+and are you trying to serve Him? If you have not now made Him your
+friend, how can you hope to have His friendship then? May God help you
+to have Jesus as your friend in life, as well as in death; in this life
+as well as in the life to come, now while being tempted and tried in
+this world, as well as when being weighed in the next.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What was the handwriting on the wall
+          at Belshazzar's feast? Does God weigh our bodies?
+          What does He weigh? Against what was Belshazzar
+          weighed? What are we weighed against? Are we
+          weighed against each commandment separately? Can a
+          person who has sworn be weighed against the third
+          commandment? Is the use of by-words swearing? Are
+          we honoring our parents by speaking
+          disrespectfully of them? Can we break a
+          commandment in thought as well as in deed? Tell
+          how. Will all these requirements over-balance us?
+          What must we do to make a proper balance? Is
+          Christ willing to step into the scales with us?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WHITE AND CHARRED STICKS.
+
+GOOD AND BAD COMPANY.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A few pine sticks, some
+          charred; ink and water.
+
+
+ALL boys and girls like to have companions, some one to play with, and
+therefore it is very wise that I should talk to you to-day about good
+and bad company.
+
+First of all let me read some passages from the Bible. "Blessed is the
+man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the
+way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." (Psalms i: 1.)
+"Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding."
+(Proverbs ix: 6.) But here is a passage of Scripture which is exactly
+suited to my purpose to-day: "He that walketh with wise men shall be
+wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed." (Proverbs xiii: 20.)
+
+When you go into a large library to select books you will always find
+that they are classified. Some of the shelves have books of history,
+others have books of poetry, and so on throughout the entire library. In
+this way God has classified different people in this text. One class is
+called wise, and the others are called foolish. A companion of wise men
+shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. In the same
+way there are good boys and bad boys, good girls and bad girls; and when
+you choose your companions it is important that you should choose them
+among the good, and not among the bad.
+
+I think you will better understand the teaching of the text, when I show
+you this one stick that has been burned black, or charred, as we say.
+Now here are several clean sticks which have not been burned, which are
+white and not tarnished. Let this black stick represent the boys who
+smoke, or chew, or swear, or lie, or deceive their parents; boys or
+girls who do not go to Sunday-school, who do not obey their parents, and
+who do not love God. These clean sticks will represent good boys and
+girls. Now suppose the good boys and girls choose the bad boys and girls
+as their companions and playmates; what do you think would be the
+result? I will mix these sticks together. I am sure that nobody would
+expect that the white sticks would transfer their purity and cleanness
+to this black stick. When I mix them, or rub them together, the black
+sticks get no whiter, but all the white sticks get blacker.
+
+[Illustration: White and Charred Sticks.]
+
+That is the way it always is with the boys who keep bad company. Instead
+of exerting a good influence, so as to reform and purify, and make good
+boys of the bad boys, the bad boys make bad boys of the good boys. At
+first the good boys are horrified at what they hear and see the bad boys
+say and do. After a while it ceases to be unpleasant to them. A little
+later they may possibly laugh at the bad boys, but after a while they
+will come to like the bad boys, and finally they will do as the bad
+boys do and become like them in conduct and in character.
+
+Perhaps you have seen boys who like to take cork and burn it in the
+candle or fire, and then blacken their faces with it, so as to make them
+look like colored people. Now, it is not the best thing for a white boy
+to try to look like a colored boy, but if he does rub this black on his
+face, he can wash it off with soap and water. But when a good boy goes
+with bad boys and his character becomes tarnished and blackened, he
+cannot cleanse and purify it so easily. He not only gets a bad character
+but a bad reputation as well, both of which are very difficult to
+cleanse or to get rid of.
+
+[Illustration: Glass of Water and Bottle of Ink.]
+
+Now, here I have a glass of water and a bottle of ink. If I take and
+pour a half a teaspoonful of this water into the ink, it makes no
+particular difference in its color. But if I take only two or three
+drops of ink and mix them with the water, it discolors the entire glass
+of water at once. One or two good boys in the midst of many bad ones are
+likely to be influenced in a bad direction. This is especially true if
+the good boys have sought the bad boys as companions. Even one or two
+bad boys, placed in the midst of several good boys, may exert a very bad
+influence over them. I suppose you have all seen this illustrated in the
+school room. You may have had a set of good boys, or a set of good girls
+in your class, but some day a bad boy came to the school, or a bad girl
+joined the class and they were frivolous, laughed and talked and were
+disorderly, disobeyed the teacher, played truant and did all kinds of
+naughtiness when in school, and it had its bad effect upon the entire
+class, and sometimes even upon the entire school.
+
+The text teaches us that we should avoid such foolish boys and foolish
+girls; boys and girls who do not obey God or revere the Bible, who do
+not listen to their consciences, nor do that which is right. Such should
+be avoided at all times, and in choosing our companions, we should
+always prefer those who will have an influence for good upon us
+socially, intellectually and morally.
+
+The influence of bad companions will tend to destroy all our best
+interests physically, by leading to every kind of vice and evil; destroy
+us financially, by causing us to be inattentive to our work, causing us
+to prefer idleness and pleasure to labor and usefulness; destroy us
+morally, by making light of the teachings of the Bible, the importance
+of the Sunday-school and of the Church, the authority of father and
+mother and the wisdom of what they teach and require of us.
+
+But in addition to all this, we should remember that those who are our
+companions upon earth, will be our companions in the world to come. If
+we go with the wicked and the profane here, we shall dwell with them
+forever in the world to come. If we desire to go to heaven and to be
+forever with those who are good and righteous, pure and holy; if we
+desire to be happy for ever and ever in the world to come, we must
+choose as our companions here, those who are living not for this present
+fleeting life, but who are living for the glory of God and who are
+trusting sincerely in Jesus Christ for everlasting salvation.
+
+May God help us all to be wise and to walk with the wise, and not to be
+foolish and choose fools as our companions, both for time and eternity.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Into what two classes has God divided
+          people? What does the Bible tell us will happen to
+          a companion of fools?--of wise men? Whom do the
+          charred sticks represent? Who are like the white
+          sticks? If the sticks are rubbed together, what is
+          the result? What happens to good boys who keep bad
+          company? Do the good boys become bad immediately?
+          What do bad companions do to one's character? Can
+          a boy wash "burnt cork" from his face? Can he wash
+          the stains from his character? What else besides a
+          bad character is given? Will a few drops of water
+          change the color of a bottle of ink? Will a few
+          drops of ink change the color of a glass of water?
+          Who are like the ink-drops? Who are like the
+          water-drops? Why? Whom shall we choose for
+          companions? Who will be our companions in
+          eternity?
+
+[Illustration: The Camp of the Israelites.]
+
+
+
+
+DOGS.
+
+THE DOGS OF ST. BERNARD.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--If a real live dog is too diverting,
+          an earthen or bisque dog, or the accompanying
+          picture of the dogs of St. Bernard, may be
+          sufficient.
+
+
+MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I want to talk to you to-day about dogs. The dog
+is what is called a domestic animal, and wherever you find civilized men
+and women, you will find dogs of some kind. Dogs are not only loved
+because they are companionable, but because they are also, oftentimes,
+very serviceable.
+
+In Switzerland there are some very high mountains, and some years ago,
+when there were no tunnels yet dug under the mountains, as there are
+to-day, travelers during the winter, when going from Germany to Italy,
+or returning from Italy to Germany, had to cross over the tops of these
+mountains. The snow was always deep and the journey was always
+dangerous, particularly in the winter.
+
+[Illustration: The Dogs of St. Bernard
+
+Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall]
+
+There are several places where the mountains can be crossed, and these
+places are called "passes," such as the Simplon, St. Bernard and St.
+Gothard passes. Some years ago, in company with a friend, I crossed the
+St. Gothard pass on the 20th of June. That year the season was very
+late, and after we got well up the mountain, we found the snow from five
+to ten feet deep on the level, and when we arrived on the top of the
+mountain, the snow was even with the roof of a two-story building which
+stood there, and the people living in it had tunneled under the snow,
+around the outside of the building. If this was the way it was on the
+20th of June, you can easily imagine what an awfully cold and stormy
+place it must be to live during the entire winter. It took our horses a
+long time to take us up the mountain, but when we went down on the
+Italian side they went quite rapidly, and in one hour and forty minutes
+from the time we left the Hotel de la Prosa, where the snow was so very
+deep, we were down in the village of Airolo, where little girls were
+selling ripe cherries. It seemed as though we had jumped right out of
+the heart of winter, into the pleasant and fruitful days of summer.
+
+On the top of each of these mountain passes, there is built what is
+called a hospice, which means hospitality, the same word from which we
+get our word hospital. These buildings are erected for the entertainment
+of poor travelers, who are compelled to cross the mountains in the
+winter. There are a number of monks, who live in each of these places of
+entertainment. On each of these mountain passes the monks have some
+large dogs, which are known as the dogs of St. Bernard. In the winter
+when it is snowing, and travelers are likely to be exhausted by their
+efforts to ascend the mountain, and are liable to be lost in the
+snow-storms which prevail almost every day, these dogs are sent out by
+the monks with a supply of food and wine suspended from their necks, and
+they go all over the mountain, barking and making a great noise. When
+they discover a poor traveler who is perishing in the snow, they allow
+him to take the food and the wine in order that he may be stimulated and
+revived, and then these faithful and intelligent dogs lead the way to
+the place of safety and security.
+
+Oftentimes they find men who have become nearly frozen, who have fallen
+down in the snow in an unconscious state and are ready to die. If left
+for a time these men would soon freeze to death beneath the snow that
+falls very rapidly upon them. These dogs are very intelligent, and
+immediately they will begin to scrape the snow off the traveler, lick
+his hands, and if he does not give any indications of life they will
+then lie down upon his body, that the warmth from their own body may
+quicken him again into consciousness, that he may drink the wine and eat
+the food and be stimulated enough to do something toward getting himself
+on to the place of safety. If the man is not too heavy, the dog might
+even be able to carry him.
+
+[Illustration: Dogs Rescuing Traveler.]
+
+At the hospice on the St. Bernard pass they once had a faithful dog
+which had been successful in thus rescuing sixty-eight persons from
+freezing to death upon the mountains. The dog was very sagacious, and
+seemed to know exactly what to do when he found a poor traveler dying in
+the snow. One day he found a man who had evidently been lying for some
+time in the snow, which had already quite buried him. The man was
+entirely unconscious, and when the dog found him he began immediately to
+scrape away the snow and then lay down upon this dying man, that the
+warmth of his own body might quicken him again into consciousness. When
+the man began to revive, and discovered that there was something warm
+lying upon him, he thought it was a wolf or some wild animal which
+possibly designed to take his life. He reached into his belt and drew a
+dagger, which he thrust into the body of the faithful dog that had come
+to rescue him from freezing to death. The poor dog was fatally wounded.
+He started back home, but in a short time after reaching it bled to
+death. The monks had this dog's skin stuffed and placed in the hospice,
+and now he seems constantly to teach an object lesson to all travelers
+who cross the Alps and stop at the hospice.
+
+The story of this faithful dog and his sad death reminds us of that
+loving Saviour, who came from heaven to this world, to seek and to save
+those who were lost. And although He came to redeem and rescue us from
+death, yet wicked men in this world crucified Him by nailing Him to a
+cross upon Calvary, and this is what every person is doing to-day who
+rejects the Lord Jesus Christ. He comes to you and to me, desiring to
+save us from our sins and from everlasting death; to save not only our
+bodies, but our souls for all eternity. If we reject Him we are told in
+the Bible that "we crucify Him afresh, and put Him to an open shame." I
+am sure no thoughtful boy or girl would be guilty of wilfully stabbing
+any kind dog that would come to their rescue if they were perishing in
+the snow, and I trust that none of you will ever reject Jesus and thrust
+Him away from you, and thus crucify Him for yourself and put Him to an
+open shame before the world.
+
+This faithful dog should also teach you and me another lesson. If a dog
+can make himself so useful as to save the lives of sixty-eight people,
+you and I should ask ourselves the question whether we are doing as
+much for the blessing and the salvation of men as this faithful dog did
+on the mountains of Switzerland? But you can do a great deal more than
+this dog. He could only save the lives of people, but God can use you to
+save their souls as well, by the influence of a noble Christian life, by
+what you say and do, by your contributions to missions, and in various
+other ways you may help to save the souls of many who must otherwise
+perish.
+
+But this faithful dog teaches us a lesson of constant, daily duty. It
+was no easy thing for this dog to go out in the fierce cold through the
+deep snow and run about all day to hunt for lost travelers, but it was
+by keeping constantly at it and working faithfully day after day that he
+accomplished this grand result. He did not save sixty-eight people all
+at one time, but saved one at a time, and sometimes worked for days and
+weeks without finding a single traveler whom he could help. In the same
+way, if you desire to be useful in this world, you must use every little
+opportunity which comes to you daily. You must be willing to work hard
+and keep at it, and even though you cannot succeed in doing any great
+thing at any one time, remember that you must keep doing little things
+all the while. I trust that God may inspire each of you to desire to
+accomplish grand results in your lives by the constant doing of both
+little and great things for God and man.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Are dogs serviceable? What kinds are
+          the most useful? Where do they live? For what and
+          by whom are they used? What do the dogs do to
+          revive a traveler? Tell the story of the dog of
+          the St. Bernard Pass. Of what does this story
+          remind us? Does Christ try to rescue us? What are
+          we doing when we reject Him? What lesson does this
+          dog teach us? Can we do as much as this dog did?
+          Why? What can we do which the dog could not do?
+          What other lesson does this dog teach us? Did the
+          dog save all the sixty-eight people at one time?
+          Are we able to accomplish God's work all at one
+          time? How must we do it?
+
+
+
+
+THE CAMERA.
+
+GOD'S PICTURE BOOK.
+
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A small camera and a small
+          looking glass.
+
+
+[Illustration: A Camera.]
+
+WHILE talking to you to-day about pictures, it will not seem strange
+that I should have a camera as the object with which to illustrate the
+sermon. But my purpose may not be so plain to you when you hear my text,
+which is taken from the book of Revelation, twentieth chapter, twelfth
+verse: "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the
+books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of
+life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in
+the books, according to their works."
+
+[Illustration: "Throwing a Black Cloth Over His Head He Moved About the
+Camera."]
+
+These words refer to the great Judgment Day. I suppose that you know
+that we must all die, but possibly you did not know, or have
+forgotten, that after a time God will raise up all the dead and will
+separate the good people from the bad people, the righteous from the
+wicked. The time when God will do this is called the great Judgment Day.
+It is then that the words which I have read as my text tell us that "the
+books shall be opened," and then all that we have ever done or said in
+this life shall be found written in these books.
+
+Now, if God is keeping a record of all our deeds and words, and even our
+inmost thoughts, which He also knows; and not only keeping a record of
+your words and thoughts and mine, but also of those of every man, woman
+and child--a record of all the fourteen hundred millions now living upon
+our earth--you might think that millions of angels would be kept very
+busy writing all these things down in these books. I do not know just
+_how_ God is doing this, but I do know two ways in which He could easily
+accomplish what to us may seem a difficult or impossible task.
+
+I will now try to show you how God might keep the record of everything
+we do; and next Sunday I will try to tell you how, with equal ease, God
+might secure and keep the record of all we say, of each and every word
+we speak.
+
+I suppose you have all gone to a photograph gallery and had your
+pictures taken. When you stood before an instrument, something like
+this, only perhaps much larger, the artist went behind the big
+instrument, which was pointed right toward you, and throwing a black
+cloth over his head, he moved about the camera, told you just how to
+hold your head, and finally when everything was arranged and he was
+ready, he pressed a small rubber ball which opened the little slide,
+just as you would open your eye to look at any object, and in an instant
+your picture was taken.
+
+That large camera, with which the artist took your picture, was in
+principle just like the smaller and more simple one which I have shown
+you, and both are made to imitate, or in a rude way to be like the human
+eye.
+
+Now, if I point this camera toward you, make it dark back of the camera,
+either by placing a black cloth over my head or in any other way, your
+picture will at once appear upon this glass which is at the back of the
+camera. Now the reason why I can see your photograph on this ground
+glass is because the rays of light which are reflected or come from your
+face, into this opening in the camera, have your likeness upon them, and
+when the light falls against this glass I can see your picture which is
+photographed upon the rays of light, just the same as your picture is
+photographed on paper. So every object about us is photographed on the
+rays of light and the picture becomes visible when we turn our eye,
+which is a small but perfect camera, so that the rays of light can go
+straight into our eye and the picture fall upon the back of the eye,
+which is called the retina, and with which this glass in the camera
+corresponds.
+
+An ordinary looking-glass will demonstrate or show the same thing. This
+covering on the back of the glass corresponds to the black cloth with
+which the photographer shuts out the rays of light which come from the
+back of the camera. In the same way the ground at the bottom of the pond
+cuts off the rays from beneath, and on this account you can see the
+hills, or stars, or clouds reflected in the water; so also in the
+looking-glass, as you turn it in different directions you can see the
+photographs of persons or objects which are pictured upon the rays of
+light.
+
+You may have thought that you saw the person or objects themselves, but
+this is not the case. With your eyes you can see nothing in the dark;
+even the cat and the owl must have some light, although they do not need
+as much as we, before they can see. The rays of light carry the pictures
+of the objects, and where there are no rays of light we can see
+nothing.
+
+Now, while your photograph is being taken from the few rays of light
+which pass into a camera, you see that we might place hundreds of
+cameras one above another, and if they were all pointed at you they
+might each take a photograph of you at the same instant--the same as one
+thousand different persons in an audience with their two thousand eyes
+all look toward the speaker and see him at one and the same instant.
+
+Now, if I have succeeded in making my thought plain, you will readily
+understand that as we have great books with pictures upon every page, so
+God might use these rays of light as the pages of the great book upon
+which each act of our life instantly records itself, it matters not how
+rapidly it is done or how many persons and objects there may be in
+motion or action at the same instant. The fact that the different rays
+of light carry the pictures of the objects from which they are
+reflected, is illustrated in the wonderful cameras with which "moving
+pictures" are taken.
+
+To older persons I might add that if you recall the scientific fact that
+these rays of light, bearing the images or photographs of persons and
+objects from which they are reflected, dash out into space at the rate
+of 192,000 miles in one second, and that they continue to move on
+indefinitely, you see how the rays of light which were reflected and are
+now carrying the image of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, of Noah
+coming out of the ark, of the battle of Bunker Hill, and those carrying
+the pictures of all other objects and actions since the Creation until
+now, are still sweeping on through space, and if you and I could be
+present where these rays of light are now sweeping onward, we could see
+these things as actually and really as if they were even now taking
+place in our presence upon the earth. And you will also understand how,
+as God is everywhere present, He is also present in space where these
+rays of light are at this moment, and so every scene in the entire
+history of the world is perpetually visible to Him. And so, even with
+our feeble understanding, you see how the past may always be present to
+the Infinite and everywhere-present God.
+
+Now, my dear young friends, remember as we see the acts of each other,
+so God sees all that we do, even when no one else is present to see us.
+Do not think that God sees and then forgets. All we do is being
+constantly photographed, not in a camera like this, but upon the rays of
+light as upon the pages of a great book, and in the great Judgment Day,
+God will judge us out of the things recorded against us in these books.
+Our acts record themselves, and in that great day we shall no more be
+able to deny the correctness of the record than we would be able to deny
+the personality or identity of our own photograph.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What is meant by the great Judgment
+          Day? What will God do on that day? Of what does
+          God keep a record? Do we know exactly how He does
+          it? What two ways are there in which He might do
+          it? What brings the person's image upon the ground
+          glass of the camera? What have we that is like the
+          camera? Which part of the eye is like the ground
+          glass of the camera? Why can we not see in the
+          dark? Could God use the rays of light instead of
+          the pages of a book? Is the image of Adam and Eve
+          in the Garden of Eden still existing? Where? Are
+          the images of all other events also passing
+          through space? Can God see them all at once? Does
+          God see all of our acts?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE PHONOGRAPH.
+
+BOOKS THAT TALK.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Object: A small tin box, with a cover
+          and bottom removed. Over one end draw and tie a
+          piece of parchment, or even of strong manilla
+          paper, in the center of the miniature drum-head
+          thus formed fasten a thin string, and you will
+          then have a rude but real telephone and a good
+          representation also of the phonograph.
+
+
+LAST Sunday I talked to you about the great Judgment Day and tried to
+illustrate to your minds what is said in Revelation, twentieth chapter,
+twelfth verse, where it says, "The dead were judged out of those things
+which were written in the books, according to their works." I tried then
+to make plain how God pictures or photographs all our acts upon the rays
+of light, and how we see the objects about us when the rays of light
+fall upon the retina of the eye. I tried to show you how every ray of
+light carries a photograph or picture, and that these rays of light are
+sweeping out into space at the rate of 192,000 miles per second, and
+that if you and I could be present where these rays, carrying the
+picture of the battle of Bunker Hill are now hurrying through space, you
+could see the battle, as if it were taking place at present. If you had
+a camera with you, you could actually take a photograph of it, the same
+as you could have done had you been on the hills outside of Boston on
+the day when this great battle was being fought.
+
+But that is only one book; God has other books also. But you know you
+can not photograph what a person says. So I want to try and show you how
+our words and all we say also go into a great book and write themselves
+down, so as to become permanent for all time.
+
+Now, I have here a baking-powder box, from which I have removed the
+ends, and in place of the tin have covered it with a stout piece of
+paper which I have tried to draw very smoothly. With two such boxes,
+connected by a string, we could make a telephone so that we could talk
+together a short distance. Or with only one box we could construct a
+very rude but yet very suggestive phonograph.
+
+Let me tell you how it is that you can hear over the telephone, whether
+made of a simple box and string like this, or with a wire and electric
+battery, for in one respect they are both alike.
+
+If you will place your finger gently on your throat, against what is
+sometimes called "Adam's Apple," but what is really the delicate little
+instrument with which we speak, and then utter some words in a strong,
+clear voice, you will doubtless feel a vibration or trembling in your
+throat, just the same as I now feel in my throat while I am talking. My
+effort to speak causes these little chords in my throat to vibrate, just
+the same as when you pass your fingers over the chords of a harp or
+violin, or when you strike the keys of a piano you make the wires
+tremble and thus produce sound, so these chords in my throat tremble and
+cause the air to tremble, producing what we call sound-waves. Just the
+same as when you take a stone and drop it into the lake, you see the
+little waves or ripples, as we call them, go out in small circles, wider
+and wider, further and further, until they strike the distant shore. So
+the air is made to vibrate by my effort to speak, and these little
+sound-waves in the air strike against the drum of your ear, back of
+which there are nerves, ever ready to convey to the brain the sensation
+which we call sound,
+
+[Illustration: "The Little Waves or Ripples."]
+
+                "Like clear circles widening round
+          Upon a clear blue river,
+          Orb after orb, the wondrous sound
+          Is echoed on forever."
+
+Now, this small baking-powder box represents the ear, and the paper at
+this end represents the drum of the ear, and this string represents the
+nerves. This string may be prolonged for a considerable distance, and if
+you were to connect the end of the string with another box of the same
+sort you would then have a telephone with which you would be able to
+hear quite plainly the words which are spoken by some other person at
+the opposite end of the string. When I speak into this box it makes the
+paper tremble, and that makes the string tremble, and if there were
+another box at the far end of the line it would cause the paper on the
+end of that box to tremble just the same, and that would cause the air
+to tremble where that box is, and if you were to hold your ear to that
+box you would be able to hear the words.
+
+If I take this box, and instead of a string I should place the point of
+a needle back of it, and a cylinder to revolve, so that the needle would
+scratch the vibrations upon the cylinder, I would then have a
+phonograph. I would then be able to record the words, and with another
+smooth needle to go into the scratches which had been made by the sharp
+needle, I would be able to reproduce the sound; or, in other words, to
+make the cylinder talk back again to me the words which I had spoken
+into the tin box and recorded upon the cylinder.
+
+[Illustration: Phonograph Cylinder.]
+
+Just as light carries the photograph or picture, so the air carries the
+sound of our words and other vibrations of the atmosphere which we call
+sound. Thus you see the light is one book and the air is another, and
+God doubtless has many other forms of making and keeping the record of
+our actions and words--yes, even of our thoughts, and in the great
+Judgment Day these words which we utter will say themselves over again
+in our ears. If you uttered any bad or wicked words yesterday or to-day,
+or shall do so tomorrow, remember you will have to give an account of
+them in the great Day of Judgment.
+
+But there is another thing connected with our uttering of bad words, as
+well as the fact that we must give an account of them. Bad words are
+connected with bad thoughts, and so every bad word which we utter
+indicates the character of our thoughts and has a bad influence upon our
+minds and hearts.
+
+Not only do these words record themselves upon the atmosphere, but they
+also record themselves in a lasting--yes, in an eternal influence upon
+the hearts and the minds and the lives of those who hear them. Just the
+same as the words which are spoken into a phonograph are recorded and
+can be repeated over and over many times, so the bad words and the
+wicked thoughts which are expressed into the ears of others make an
+indelible record upon their thoughts and hearts, and are oftentimes
+repeated to others, thus multiplying the record, and at last all these
+records will appear against us in the great Day of Judgment. How careful
+you and I should be to speak only good words and to think only good
+thoughts.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Has God other record books beside the
+          one of deeds? What does one of the other books
+          record? What is a telephone? What is a phonograph?
+          What happens to the air when our words strike it?
+          What are these air-vibrations called? What does
+          the air do with sound? What two things may be used
+          as God's recording books? Must all bad words be
+          accounted for? What do bad words indicate? Upon
+          what instrument can words also be recorded? Are
+          all words like those which are recorded by a
+          phonograph? Why? (Permanent). Will God hold these
+          records against us on the Judgment Day?
+
+
+
+
+MAGNET AND NEEDLE.
+
+GOD'S GUIDING HAND.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects used: A magnet, a piece of
+          paper and an ordinary sewing needle. In the
+          illustration lay the needle flat against the paper
+          directly under the magnet. The ordinary magnet,
+          purchased for a few cents in a toy store, will
+          answer the purpose.
+
+
+MY DEAR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: The Bible everywhere teaches us that God
+is the Supreme Ruler of the universe. Not only has He created the vast
+system of worlds about us, but He directs each in its orbit. He rules
+over the destinies of nations, and although wicked men plot and plan,
+yet over and above them all God is ruling, and He makes even the wrath
+of men to praise Him.
+
+When you are older and can make a careful study of the Book of Daniel,
+which is in the Old Testament, and then read the history of the world in
+the light of the teachings of that Book, you will see how God used the
+five great empires of the earth to prepare the world for the coming of
+the Messiah, and how since the time of Christ He has used the other
+nations to prepare the world for the full acceptance of the truth and
+the final triumph of righteousness.
+
+But God not only governs in the affairs of nations, He also governs and
+directs in the life of each individual. He not only gives us being and
+preserves our lives and health, but He has redeemed us from sin and
+death by the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ; and if we are willing, He
+will guide us in all the affairs of life. Nothing is too minute nor too
+insignificant to receive His thought and attention, and not even the
+sorrow of a child over a broken toy escapes His notice or fails to touch
+His loving heart.
+
+But many people are not able to understand, and seem also unwilling to
+accept anything that they cannot see, or comprehend with one of their
+five senses. I have therefore brought this magnet, this piece of paper,
+and this needle, such as women use when they sew, in order to show you
+how God can guide us by His unseen hand.
+
+[Illustration: Magnet and Needle.]
+
+When I lift this needle with my fingers and then let go of it you will
+notice how it drops immediately to the floor. Now, when I lift this
+magnet in the same way, and then let go of it, it will also drop in the
+same manner. But now I am going to hold this magnet up, and bring the
+needle close to the magnet. Now when I let loose of the needle with my
+fingers you see how it is held by the magnet. The gravity, or, as we
+would say, the weight of the needle, which would cause it to fall to the
+floor, is overcome by some greater or stronger power which is in the
+magnet. Now, you cannot perceive that power with any of your senses; you
+can neither hear it, smell it, taste it nor feel it. You can see the
+effect of that power, but the power itself you cannot see. In like
+manner, also, there are powers and influences all about us which we
+cannot perceive with any of our senses, but which are constantly
+exercising their influence upon us and upon things about us.
+
+But now, by the use of this paper, I desire to show you something
+additional. I am going to place the magnet above the paper, and the
+needle below the paper, and show you that even through the paper this
+influence or power which holds the needle exerts itself. You will see
+now that when I lay the needle lengthwise against the paper, with the
+magnet upon the opposite side, that the needle is held up against this
+paper and does not fall, as it would if the magnet were removed. You
+will notice also that, as I move this magnet from place to place, the
+needle on the lower side of the paper follows the magnet. In this simple
+little experiment you are able to see the magnet, but suppose for a
+moment that this paper were increased in size until it was as large as
+the ceiling of this entire room. You will understand that then the
+magnet and any person moving the magnet might be entirely out of sight,
+and as the magnet would be moved from place to place on the upper side
+of the paper, entirely out of view, the needle on the lower side, which
+could be easily seen, would move from place to place, following the
+magnet.
+
+[Illustration: Paper no Hindrance.]
+
+This little experiment illustrates to us _not how_ God guides us, but it
+will show us that there are powers unknown and unseen by us which can
+hold and guide even insensible metal. How much more easily, then, can
+God sustain and guide our thoughts, our purposes, our steps and our
+lives.
+
+We are free moral agents. God has left us free to resist His power and
+His grace, and to live in defiance of all that He has commanded us, and
+of all that He desires us to do. But if we are willing to be led by His
+Spirit, and to walk in His way, God is willing to guide us, if we will
+come to Him and ask Him for the Holy Spirit to lead us in the way in
+which He would have us to walk.
+
+There are many who do resist God's will and purpose, and live in open
+defiance of all His teachings, and of all that God would have them to
+do. I take it for granted, however, that there are no such people here,
+but that you all desire to live in such a way as to secure your greatest
+happiness and your greatest good upon this earth, and your eternal
+happiness and blessedness in the world to come.
+
+In closing this little sermon, I therefore desire to impress upon your
+minds the fact that you and I are without experience in many of the most
+trying and most important events which come to us in life. We are
+constantly liable to be mistaken. We cannot see ahead of us, and do not
+always know what is for our own good. God knows all things, the future
+as well as the past. He cannot be mistaken and must therefore know
+beyond the possibility of error what will be for our good. God not only
+knows what will be for our good but He desires our good, therefore we
+should let Him guide us.
+
+Now, the question might arise in your minds, how does God guide us? He
+guides us by the teachings of His Word. He has told us in the Bible how
+we ought to live, what is for our present and eternal good. If we desire
+financial prosperity, or physical blessings, or mental quickness, or
+spiritual peace, we will find in the teachings of God's Word how to
+obtain them.
+
+God also guides us by the exercise of our consciences, and therefore it
+is always important that you and I should do what conscience tells us to
+be right. First of all we should study God's Word, in order that we may
+have an enlightened conscience, and then we should always follow
+conscience.
+
+God also guides us by the Holy Spirit, and it is our duty to come to
+Him daily and ask Him for the presence and power of the Holy Ghost to
+guide us through each day, and to bring us at last to Heaven above.
+
+Now, I trust you will all be able to enter heartily into the prayer
+which we are going to sing, for when we sing thoughtfully we will find
+that many hymns contain petitions as well as praise, and this is one of
+the kind which partakes largely of the nature of petition. Let us all
+sing the hymn,
+
+          "Guide me, O, Thou great Jehovah."
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Who is the Supreme Ruler of the
+          Universe? Who governs the life of every person?
+          Does any little thing escape His notice? Are some
+          people unwilling to believe what they cannot see?
+          Can we see, hear, smell, or feel the power in the
+          magnet? Why do we believe it is there? Are there
+          influences around us like the power in the magnet?
+          Can they all be seen? Will the paper between the
+          magnet and the needle destroy the attracting power
+          of the magnet? Who are like the needle? Like whom
+          is the magnet? Does He guide us? Can we see Him?
+          Are we free to do as we choose? When will God lead
+          us? Do some people defy God? Do we always know
+          what is best for us, or what to do when in
+          trouble? Who does know? By what three means does
+          God guide us?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FISH IN AQUARIUM.
+
+THE ALL-SEEING EYE OF GOD.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Object: A small aquarium with a few
+          small fishes.
+
+
+MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I have here an aquarium with a few very pretty
+goldfishes in it. As they swim from side to side they look very
+beautiful. When they see me coming nearer to the aquarium, or moving my
+hand upon this side or the other, they dart very quickly to the opposite
+side of the aquarium. They try to get out of sight, but it makes no
+difference whether they are upon this side or upon the other side of the
+aquarium, I can see them just as well. I can look right through the
+aquarium; I can see through the glass, and I can see through the water.
+And wherever the fishes are in this aquarium, I can see them. It is
+impossible for them to hide away, or to get out of my sight.
+
+[Illustration: Fishes in Aquarium.]
+
+Now, the Bible tells us that "the eyes of the Lord are in every place,
+beholding the evil and the good." (Prov. xv: 3.) We are very clearly
+taught in the Bible, that it makes no difference where we are, God can
+see us just as well in one place as in another. He can see us in the
+night just as well as in the daytime, for "the darkness and the light
+are alike unto Him." David said, "He that keepeth Israel shall neither
+slumber nor sleep." (Psalm cxxi: 4.) So it makes no difference whether
+you are in the house or out of doors, whether it is day or whether it is
+night, God can see right through the house, just as you and I can look
+through this aquarium and through the water, so God can see right
+through the thick walls of a house, or even through a great mountain. If
+you were in the valley beyond the mountain, God could see right through
+the mountain; that would make no difference. He can even see way through
+the earth, from this side through to China. It makes no difference to
+God, for He can see just as well through material substances, through
+which you and I cannot look, as we can see through the air; indeed much
+better, for distance limits the possibility of our seeing distinctly and
+clearly, while God's power to see is not limited or circumscribed.
+
+[Illustration: "There is One Direction That You Have not Looked."]
+
+Once there was a very excellent, good woman, who had a very nice and
+conscientious little boy, but the mother was poor and had to go out from
+day to day to earn her living. Each night when she returned home the
+little boy was very lonely, and would watch very patiently for his
+mother, and when he saw her coming, he would always run to the door to
+meet her, and throw his arms about her neck. But one evening when she
+returned, she noticed that little Willie was not at the door to meet
+her. She could not understand why, when she came into the house he
+seemed to be afraid of her. He tried to avoid her. After a time the
+mother called Willie to her and threw her arms around his neck and
+kissed him very tenderly. This was too much for the little boy's heart.
+He looked up into his mother's face, and said, "Mamma, can God see
+through a crack in the door?" His mother said, "Yes, God can see
+everywhere." He said, "Mamma, can God see in the cupboard if it is dark
+in the cupboard?" "Yes, Willie, God can see in the dark as well as in
+the light." Willie looked up into his mother's face and said, "Then I
+might as well tell you. To-day I was very hungry, and although you told
+me that I should not take the cake which you had put in the closet, yet
+I went to the closet, and when I had closed the door, and it was all
+dark, I felt around till I got a piece of the cake, and I ate it. I did
+not know that God could see in the dark. I am very sorry that I have
+been so wicked and so naughty." And so little Willie threw his arms
+around his mamma's neck and laid his head upon her shoulder and wept
+very bitterly.
+
+[Illustration: Eye in the Pulpit.]
+
+Once a man went to steal corn out of his neighbor's field. He took his
+little boy with him to hold the bag open, while he should pull the corn
+and put it in the bag. After they had reached the cornfield the father
+looked this way and that way, and looked about him in every direction,
+and when he had given the little boy the bag to hold open, the little
+boy looked at his father and said, "Father, there is one direction that
+you have not looked yet." The father was quite frightened and supposed
+that his son had seen some one coming in some direction. But the son
+said, "You have not looked up. There is some one in that direction I am
+sure who sees us." The father was so much impressed that he turned away
+from his sinful purpose, and returned home, never again to steal from
+anyone.
+
+Many years ago, among some of the denominations when they built a
+church, they used to build the pulpit very high. It was built almost as
+high as the gallery. And when the people sat in the pews and desired to
+see the minister, they had to bend their heads back, and look up very
+high toward the pulpit. At Reading, Pennsylvania, there is still one of
+these old pulpits which was formerly in use. On the under side of the
+shelf upon which the Bible rested in that pulpit, there was painted a
+large eye. And when the people would look up from the pews to see the
+minister, or towards the Bible, underneath this lid upon which the Bible
+rested they would always see this large eye. This eye would seem to look
+right down upon each one individually, and thus they would constantly be
+reminded of the text, "Thou God seest me," and the text which I repeated
+at the opening of this sermon, "The eyes of the Lord are in every place,
+beholding the evil and the good." And so Sunday after Sunday, and year
+after year, from childhood to manhood, this object sermon was constantly
+being preached to them.
+
+Whenever Satan tempts you to do wrong, remember that you cannot escape
+from the eyes of One who sees you constantly, and although no human
+being might know of your wickedness, yet God sees you, and God knows it
+all, for "His eyes behold, His eyelids try the children of men." (Psalm
+xi: 4.)
+
+          QUESTIONS.--Can the fish in the aquarium hide from
+          our sight? How are we like the fish in the
+          aquarium? What does the Bible say about the eyes
+          of the Lord? Can darkness hide us from God's
+          sight? Can He see through the earth? Tell about
+          the little boy who ate the cake in the dark. Tell
+          about the little boy whose father wanted to steal
+          corn. Why was a large eye painted on the pulpit in
+          the church? When we are tempted by Satan, what
+          should we remember?
+
+
+
+
+THE CLOCK.
+
+MEASURING TIME.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Object: An ordinary clock or watch.
+
+
+I HAVE here a clock, with which I desire to illustrate and emphasize the
+truth taught us in the twelfth verse of the ninetieth Psalm, where it
+says, "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
+wisdom."
+
+Whatever is valuable we measure. Some things are measured by the yard,
+some things by the quart or gallon, other things by the pound or by the
+ton. Land is measured by the acre. One of the most valuable things that
+God gives to us is time. Queen Elizabeth, when she was dying, was
+willing to give her entire kingdom if she could only have one hour more
+in which to prepare for death.
+
+As time is very valuable we measure it in seconds, minutes, hours, days,
+weeks, months, years, centuries. In the earliest time men had no means
+of measuring time, except as they saw it measured with the great clock
+which God has set in the heavens; for He tells us in the first chapter
+of Genesis that He made "the sun to rule the day, and the moon to rule
+the night." The most accurate clocks in the world are those which most
+nearly keep time with the sun. All the effort to regulate clocks and
+watches is simply to adjust their movements so as to have them keep time
+with the movement of the sun. God has given us a conscience which is
+designed to regulate our lives until they shall be in harmony with the
+life of Christ, who is the Sun of Righteousness. Hundreds of years
+before Christ came, people may have had some very rude way of dividing
+the time during the day and night, but their principal division of time
+was simply day and night, summer and winter. These changes of day and
+night, summer and winter, helped to mark the progress of time, and they
+still do. If it were all daytime, or all night, and we had no clocks, we
+would have no means of measuring time. When Baron de Trench was
+liberated from his dungeon in Magdeburg, where the King of Prussia had
+confined him in darkness for a period of ten years, where he had no
+means of measuring how the time passed and had even very few
+thoughts--when he was liberated, and was told that he had been in prison
+for ten years, his astonishment was almost beyond expression, for it had
+not seemed to him to be so long. It had passed away like a painful
+dream.
+
+In the early period of the world's history, human life was much longer
+than at present. Men lived to be several hundred years old. I suppose
+you can all tell how old Methuselah was. He was the oldest man who ever
+lived. When human life became shorter, time consequently became more
+valuable and men were more anxious to measure it.
+
+I want to show you how to measure time, and what makes it valuable; for
+David asked to be taught properly to number his days; and the purpose
+was so that he might apply his heart unto wisdom.
+
+Now, this watch and this clock are instruments with which we measure
+time. Once there was a king who desired not to forget that, like other
+men, he must die, and he had a man whose duty it was to come before him
+each hour and repeat the words: "Remember thou art mortal!" That is,
+every hour he had this man remind him that sometime he would have to
+die. Each time the man came in before the king, he was reminded that he
+had one hour less to live; so, each and every time that you hear the
+clock strike, you should be reminded of the fact that another hour has
+passed, and that you have one less to live. In this sense every clock
+has a tongue, and when it strikes it tells us that we will now have one
+hour less to live upon the earth.
+
+[Illustration: Hour-glass.]
+
+The earliest device for measuring time was doubtless the sun-dial.
+Perhaps you have never seen one. It is simply a round plate or disc of
+metal, with a small piece of metal standing upright in such a position
+that when the sun shines, the shadow will be thrown upon the round
+cylinder or disc, around which are figures like those on the face of a
+watch or clock. Such methods of measuring time we know were used at
+least seven hundred and thirteen years before Christ, for in the book of
+Isaiah, thirty-eighth chapter and eighth verse, we find a very direct
+allusion to it. King Alfred of England used to use candles that were of
+uniform length; each candle would burn three hours, and by burning four
+candles, one after another, he could measure the hours of the day. In
+order to prevent the air from blowing against the candle and thus making
+it burn more rapidly or interfering with its accuracy in measuring time,
+he placed a horn or shield around it, and in the old cathedrals this was
+the way they measured time. Later on they had hour glasses, such as you
+sometimes see placed on the piano when girls are practicing their music
+lesson. Sometimes you see small ones in the kitchen, which are used for
+timing the eggs while they are boiling, and it is to these forms of
+glasses that various poetical allusions are made when death is spoken of
+as the "sands of life" running out.
+
+[Illustration: "What Use Do You Make of Your Time?"]
+
+Later came the clocks. They were first made about 2,000 years ago, but
+were very rude and awkward. The first watches were made about 475 years
+ago, but they were very large, and you would almost need to have a man
+to carry your watch for you, it was so heavy. Smaller watches were first
+made about 200 years ago, and now they have some that are so very small
+that you could carry six or seven of them in your vest pocket without
+inconvenience. How else could we tell about the time of the departure of
+trains and steamboats, the hours to go to work in the factory or to go
+to school, when to go to church? And the enjoyment of many other things
+depends upon knowing accurately what moment we should be on hand. You
+should learn never to be late, but always to be prompt. Suppose that,
+with an audience of six hundred people, the preacher should be five
+minutes late. Each person would then have lost five minutes. This, for
+the entire six hundred present, would have been equal to more than
+forty-eight hours for a single person--more than two days and two
+nights.
+
+But now what is it that makes time valuable? It is the use that we can
+make of it. David wanted to know about it, so that he could apply his
+heart unto wisdom. The man who does nothing with his time, in the eyes
+of others, is worth nothing; but the busy man always finds that his time
+is very valuable. It is strange, also, that when you go to idle people
+and ask them to do anything they always say they haven't time, so that
+the expression has come to be used that "if you want anything done go to
+a busy man." The more busy the man is the more likely he is to find
+time, in some way, to undertake any new form of useful endeavor and
+work.
+
+Now, I want to ask you, What use do you make of your time? Are you
+faithful in the use of every moment at home, diligent in doing the work
+assigned you, looking about you, and doing your own thinking, finding,
+for yourself, what is to be done, instead of standing around and
+waiting to be told? Are you diligent in school, always studying your
+lessons, learning all that you possibly can, remembering that everything
+that you can learn will at some time be of service to you? If you are
+employed in a store, or engaged in any other kind of business, are you
+faithful, using each moment and each hour, remembering that you are not
+to be faithful simply when your employer is looking at you, but you are
+to be faithful at all times? As the Bible says, "Not with eye service,
+as men pleasers" (Colos. iii: 22), but doing everything as unto the
+Lord. Are you faithful in the matter of attending church, and then when
+you are in the church, giving your mind to the consideration of the
+truth which is being presented, rather than allowing your mind to be
+engaged with the amusements and plays of last week, or the plans and
+purposes of next week? Are you faithful in the Sunday-school? Do you
+listen attentively to the lessons which are taught by your Sunday-school
+teacher? Each minute of the thirty devoted to the study of the lesson is
+very important, and all of the other moments in the Sunday-school are
+very important.
+
+I was wondering the other day why the clock should have the long hand
+point to the minutes, and the short hand to the hours; but after all, it
+seems very wise that the greater emphasis, and greater importance should
+be attached to the longer hand. It points to the minutes, as though it
+were constantly saying to you and to me, look out for these minutes,
+look out for these small parts of the hour, and the whole hour will take
+care of itself. The big hand points to the minutes because, after all,
+they are the important things. It is like the old saying, "if we take
+care of the pennies, the dollars will take care of themselves." If we
+will take care of the minutes, the hours will take care of themselves.
+
+If you have never thought on these things, and have been an idler, I
+want to ask you to "Redeem the time." (Eph. v: 16.) That is, do not let
+your time go to waste. If you are not a Christian, even though you are
+very busy and very industrious concerning temporal things, you are
+really wasting your time. We are placed here upon the earth in order
+that we may love and serve God. That is our main business here. If we
+are going to serve Christ, we should study to know His life and His
+teachings, and yet some people know very little about the Bible. Did you
+ever stop to think that a man who is thirty-five years old has had five
+solid years of Sundays? And the man who is seventy years old, has had
+ten solid years of Sundays? With ten years given to worship and the
+study of God's Word, a man at seventy ought to know a great deal
+concerning the teachings of the Bible. May God teach us so to number our
+days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--How do we measure cloth? Are sugar and
+          coal measured by the yard? How do we measure land?
+          How do we measure time? How many divisions of time
+          can you name besides seconds? What was the first
+          instrument with which time was measured? With what
+          did King Alfred measure the hours? What was later
+          used for measuring time, after the sun-dial? About
+          how long ago were clocks first invented? About how
+          long ago were watches first made? Why did David
+          want to be taught to number his days? Can the idle
+          man or the busy man more easily find time for
+          necessary duties? Will you always make diligent
+          use of your time? Why does the larger hand of the
+          clock point to the minutes? If we take care of the
+          minutes, what will the hours do?
+
+
+
+
+PLANS.
+
+LIVING WITH A PURPOSE.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Object: Architect's drawings for the
+          building of a house.
+
+
+[Illustration: Plans for Building a House.]
+
+MY DEAR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I have here what the architect calls
+"plans," or drawings for a house. Unless the carpenter and builder had a
+copy of the plans he is to follow he would not be able to build
+successfully. He would not know what kind of material he would need. He
+would not know where to place the doors, or how large to make the
+windows, and whether to put the dining room on this side of the house or
+on the other side of the house; whether the parlor was to be on the
+first floor or on the second floor. So when a man is going to build, the
+first thing to be done is to decide what kind of a house he wants, and
+then to get an architect who is able to draw the plans perfectly, so as
+to show the size of every door and window and room, and the exact
+position and place of everything that is to enter into the building of
+the house. These plans cost a great deal of thought and oftentimes much
+delay in beginning, but in the end they save both time and expense, and
+secure the most desirable results.
+
+Every boy and girl should have a plan, for we are all builders. We build
+day after day and week after week, and year after year. First of all,
+you should have some great purpose in life, and then all your other
+plans and purposes should be made to further and help the great main
+object which you have in life.
+
+Once there were two boys who were very intimate when they were young.
+They played together, and came to love each other very much. One was a
+boy who always had a plan. He had a plan for studying his lessons; he
+had a plan which showed what time he had resolved to get up in the
+morning; how many hours he would devote to study; what portions of the
+day he would give to play, and how much to work. So each and every day
+he had his plans. At the beginning of the year he had his plans for each
+month of the year.
+
+The other boy never had any plans. Everything went along just as it
+happened. The boy who always had the plans had no money; his father was
+poor. But the boy who had no plans had plenty of money, for his father
+was rich. These two boys both became merchants, had stores in the same
+square in a large city. The one who had the plans always knew what he
+purposed to do, before the season began. He knew just when to purchase
+his goods for the spring trade; he knew when to sell them; everything
+was done methodically and with a plan. As the result of his thoughtful
+plans he soon began to accumulate wealth, obtained a place of confidence
+in the minds of business men, and eventually became one of the most
+honored and influential men in the city. With the other boy it was not
+so. He bought his goods whenever he chanced to see something that he
+fancied; often bought too much of one thing; had no method in business,
+and consequently in the course of a few years lost what money he had and
+died a poor man.
+
+Let me hope that you will always have a plan for everything you do. God
+is the God of order, and we should also be orderly in all that we do.
+
+[Illustration: Plans for Building a Life.]
+
+These plans of the architect, when followed by the builders, will tell
+the stonemason, the bricklayer, the millman and the carpenter, the
+plasterer and the painter, just what each is to do, and all will be able
+to work in harmony, so as to secure a nice, comfortable and desirable
+home when the work is completed.
+
+Now, we are all laying foundations in this world, and the perfect
+character cannot be obtained until in eternity. So when you come to plan
+for life, do not think that your stay in this world is to be all there
+is of your life. Let your plans take in eternity. If they leave out
+eternity they leave out the greatest portion of your existence. If you
+leave out the idea of eternity you will be like the man who simply lays
+the foundation and then never builds a house on it, and there, year
+after year, the foundation stands as the monument of his folly.
+
+But you may desire to know where you can get the plans for a good and
+noble life--a plan that will include eternity. I will tell you: in the
+Bible. This is the best book in which to find the plans for a perfect
+and complete life. Just the same as the man who is going to build a
+house desires to go and examine other houses, so if you desire to be
+great and good, you should desire to read the biographies, the story of
+the lives of great men. I do not mean the fancied stories of lives which
+were never lived, which are so often told in some kinds of books, but I
+mean the lives of real men. When you see the difficulties which have
+been overcome by others; when you see how great and good other people
+have been, it will help you to be great and good. But after you have
+studied the lives of all the greatest and best men who have ever lived,
+and then compare them with the life of Jesus Christ, you will eventually
+come to see very clearly and distinctly, that after all there has never
+been but one perfect life lived on this earth, and that was the life of
+Jesus Christ. So you will readily see that if you desire to use a model
+which is perfect, you will have to take the life of Christ. You will
+find it fully portrayed in the Bible, especially in the first four books
+of the New Testament--Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. This will give you
+the model of a perfect life and enable you to live so as to make your
+life glorious while upon the earth, and prepare you for an eternity of
+happiness and joy beyond this world. Have a plan and live to it, and let
+your plan include eternity. And may God give you grace to live up to a
+high ideal, to be noble Christian men and noble Christian women.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What are needed before a house is
+          built? Are all boys and girls builders? Builders
+          of what? Do they need plans? Should we all have a
+          main object in life? What must we use all other
+          plans and purposes for? Which boy in the story
+          turned out the better? What does the story
+          illustrate? Should we have a plan for each thing
+          we do? Does God love order? What foundation are we
+          laying in this life? Should our plans concern only
+          this life? What kind of a builder are we like, if
+          we make no plans for the life to come? Where can
+          we get our plans? What perfect model can we
+          follow?
+
+
+
+
+THE CHRISTMAS TREE.
+
+THE LESSONS WHICH IT TEACHES.
+
+
+BOYS and girls often think that big people have set apart Christmas as a
+day for gathering around the Christmas tree, as a time for Santa Claus,
+for the giving of presents and for having a good time generally. This is
+not the case. I will tell you why we celebrate Christmas, and
+particularly the significance and meaning of the Christmas tree.
+Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who
+came into this world to redeem us from sin and everlasting death; and
+the Christmas tree, laden with its many gifts and suggestive of so much
+joy and blessing, is a symbol of the Saviour. In order that you may best
+understand the full meaning of the Christmas tree, I must call your
+attention to the season of the year when Christmas came. You will
+remember that last summer, when the sun rose at half-past four in the
+morning and did not set until half-past seven in the evening, the days
+were very long, and you could see to go about in the evening until about
+eight o'clock and after. At Christmas time the sun goes down at
+half-past four in the afternoon, and does not rise until half-past seven
+in the morning. So you see that the days are about six hours shorter in
+December than they are in the latter part of the month of June.
+Christmas occurs at that season when the days are shorter and the nights
+are longer than at any other period of the year. In the Bible darkness
+represents sin and unbelief and wickedness; and the daytime or light
+represents truth and righteousness and godly living. So you will see
+that the long nights at the Christmas period of the year, and the short
+days, fitly represent the condition of the world at the time when Jesus,
+the Son of God, was born in Bethlehem. At no other time in the world's
+history was there so much of moral darkness and sin and wickedness and
+corruption in the world. Cruelty and crime and wickedness abounded
+everywhere. If I were to stop and tell you of the condition of society,
+of the wrong and the iniquity, which abounded everywhere, you would be
+greatly horrified. It was at such a time as this in the world's history,
+when Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to this world, that sin might be
+banished and righteousness might abound. So you see that Christmas
+occurs at that period of the year when the night and the darkness are
+the longest of any of the entire year, and it very fittingly represents
+the condition which existed in the world when Jesus was born in
+Bethlehem, as the Saviour of the world. He came to banish the moral
+darkness which covered the whole earth.
+
+Not only the time of the year, but also the character of the Christmas
+tree suggests something. With the long nights comes also the cold
+winter. The earth is wrapped in snow. The trees, which a few months ago
+were green and beautiful and in the fall all laden with fruit, are now
+all naked and bare, and if you were to go out into the orchard or forest
+you could not tell the difference between a dead tree, and all the
+others which seem to be dead. Among all the trees you would only find
+such as the pine, the hemlock, the fir and other varieties, such as are
+known as evergreen trees, that would be green and give evidence of life.
+So you will see again how the Christmas tree fittingly represents
+Christ, because these evergreens, in the field and in the forest, seem
+to be the only things that have greenness and life, while all else
+around them seems to be dead and laid in a shroud of white snow.
+
+[Illustration: The Christmas Tree
+
+Copyrighted 1911 by Sylvanus Stall]
+
+The custom of setting up a tree at Christmas time and loading it with
+fruit and gifts seems to have originated in Germany, and the thought
+of these people in introducing this custom centuries ago, was that they
+might teach their children this very lesson to which I have referred.
+
+Now, I desire to call your attention also to the fruit which is so often
+hung on the Christmas tree. The Bible tells us that a tree is known by
+its fruit. If you go into the orchard you could tell the apple tree from
+the pear tree, and you could tell the plum tree from the peach tree. If
+you did not know them by their leaves, you would at least know them by
+their fruit. But when you come to look at this tree you find oranges
+upon it. Now, this is not an orange tree. You find dolls upon it, but it
+is not a doll tree. Here are a pair of skates, but it is not a skate
+tree. Here are some candies, but it is not a candy tree. Neither can it
+be known by the name of any one of these various things which hang upon
+the tree. But it is a Christmas tree. And all these various kinds of
+things are properly hung upon the Christmas tree to represent the
+fulfillment of that promise that, with His Son Jesus Christ, God would
+also give us all things richly to enjoy.
+
+The gifts hung on Christmas trees are usually presents from one person
+to another--often not only from parents to children, but from teachers
+to scholars, and from friend to friend. Now, until Christ was born,
+there were no Christmas presents. There was no Christmas day celebrated.
+But the reason we give presents on Christmas day is to remind each other
+of God's Great Gift to man, the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, to be our
+Redeemer and Saviour. With Jesus Christ, God also gave us grace and
+truth, reconciliation, and pardon and peace and salvation. Man had
+sinned against God; was living in open rebellion against God. Whatever
+was good, man hated. He loved to do wickedly. He preferred to serve
+Satan, rather than to serve God. And Jesus came in order to reconcile
+men to God--to get them to turn away from sin, wickedness and Satan,
+and to accept of God's love and pardon and everlasting salvation, and to
+do that which was right and good and holy.
+
+If you could travel through the countries where they do not know of
+Christ and do not worship Him, and then travel through Christian
+countries, where Jesus is loved and honored, you would soon see what a
+great difference there is between the two. We have railroads,
+steamboats, and telegraphs, and telephones, and phonographs, and every
+kind of cloth, and silk, and furs with which to clothe ourselves for
+greatest comfort, and when we sit down at our tables there is no good
+thing that is produced in any nation under the sun, that is not
+available even to those of limited means.
+
+In the heathen countries it is not so. They are still riding in carts
+drawn by oxen. Without clothing and without comforts, the people in
+Africa are still groping through the bushes and jungles. And if you go
+to India and China and Japan you will find that only in so far as they
+have been brought under the influence of the religion of Jesus Christ,
+do they have even now the material blessings which come with the Gospel.
+
+But there are other blessings which come to us with the preaching of the
+Gospel. In heathen countries they have no asylums to care for the
+orphans, no hospitals for the sick and the distressed and the dying; no
+institutions of charity and of mercy; but few schools, and these only
+for the rich and the upper classes. So you see that these things are
+among the gifts which God has given us with His Son Jesus Christ, whose
+birth we celebrate on Christmas day.
+
+Then there are also the spiritual blessings and gifts. God's grace,
+communion with God, and the joy and satisfaction we have in our hearts
+in knowing that we are the children of God; that Jesus Christ has
+redeemed us from sin and death; that we are the heirs of everlasting
+life, and of everlasting glory. And the Bible promises us that in the
+world to come we shall enjoy everlasting blessedness, and happiness and
+joy--that we shall dwell forever with Jesus Christ; that we shall be
+made kings and queens unto our God. The Bible tells us, that it has not
+entered into the heart of man to think or to conceive of the things
+which God has in store for those who love Him. If we were to laden this
+tree with all the richest treasures of the world they could not
+adequately suggest the great blessings which God has in store for you
+and for me.
+
+How fitting, then, that we should be glad and joyous on Christmas
+day!--that you and I should receive not simply these material gifts, but
+that we should also accept of Jesus Christ in our hearts and receive His
+spiritual blessings; and so be adopted into the family of God, and be
+permitted to dwell for ever in His presence on high. May God always
+bless you in your Christmas joy, and may you be glad not only because
+you receive the gifts of your parents and friends, but also because God
+gives to us all, His Only Begotten and Well Beloved Son, Jesus Christ,
+to be our Redeemer and Friend.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What event does Christmas Day
+          commemorate? About what time of the year are the
+          days shortest and the nights longest? What does
+          the darkness of the long nights represent? Was the
+          world in moral darkness when Christ came? Is He
+          the world's Redeemer? What trees are green in the
+          winter? Whom does the evergreen tree represent?
+          Why? Where did the custom of having Christmas
+          trees probably originate? What do the things on
+          the Christmas tree represent? Did people give
+          Christmas presents before Christ came? What do our
+          gifts to one another represent? With His Son, has
+          God given us other things which we are to enjoy?
+          Where do people enjoy the greatest material
+          comforts and blessings, in Christian or heathen
+          lands? In what lands are the largest spiritual
+          blessings enjoyed?
+
+
+
+
+EASTER SUNDAY.
+
+THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: An egg and a little chick in
+          a cage, or a toy chick, such as are often
+          available at Easter time may be used.
+
+
+MY LITTLE FRIENDS: Can you tell me what we commemorate on Easter Sunday?
+Yes, we commemorate the resurrection of Christ from the dead.
+
+You remember how some weeks ago I showed you a watch-case.[A] You
+thought it was a watch, but when I opened it it had no works in it,
+consequently it was only a watch-case. When I placed the works in the
+case, then it made a complete watch.
+
+So you have also seen the body of a dead person and you have possibly
+thought that that was the individual, the person whom you had known; but
+that which you saw was only the body. The soul, the immortal part, had
+taken its departure and gone back to God who first placed it in the
+body. Now, just the same as the works of a watch can keep good time
+without being in the case, so the soul can exist apart from the body. If
+you were to take the watch-case and bury it in the ground, that fact
+would not affect either the existence or the accuracy of the works of
+the watch in measuring time. So when God takes the soul out of the body
+we say that it is a dead body, and it becomes necessary for us to bury
+it out of our sight.
+
+[Illustration: The Women at the Sepulchre.]
+
+On Good Friday we commemorate the death of Christ upon the cross on
+Calvary. You remember how, after the crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea
+and Nicodemus came and took the body of Christ down from the cross and
+laid it in a new tomb which Joseph had hewn out of rock in his garden.
+When this had been done, Pilate remembered how Jesus had said that if He
+were put to death, after three days He would rise again. Now, Pilate did
+not believe that Jesus would rise again, but was afraid that His
+disciples or some friends might come by night and steal away His body
+and circulate the report that Jesus had risen from the dead; so he
+placed Roman soldiers around the sepulchre to prevent His disciples from
+coming near the tomb, or sepulchre where Joseph had laid away the body
+of Christ. Pilate purposed to prevent the possibility of Christ's
+resurrection, but in the fact that he placed the soldiers there he
+secured for all after ages the most positive proof that Jesus did
+actually rise from the dead. These soldiers were Roman soldiers, and if
+they had slept while they were upon guard duty, the penalty would have
+been death. But when the angel came down from heaven and rolled away the
+stone, then we are told that these Roman soldiers became as dead men.
+
+It is on Easter Sunday that we commemorate this rising of Christ from
+the grave or sepulchre. Now, can you tell me why it is that on Easter we
+have these Easter eggs, such as I hold in my hand? I will tell you why
+it is. It is because while the outside of this egg is like the outside
+of a vault or grave, yet inside there is a germ of life. If you take a
+dozen perfect eggs and place them under a mother hen, and have her set
+on them for three weeks, at the end of that time out of these eggs which
+seem to have nothing of life in them, there will come forth little
+chickens, just such as I hold in my hand, only this one is not alive.
+But it is a very accurate representation of a little chicken a day or
+two old.
+
+Now, just in this same way if you were to drive through a cemetery and
+look at a vault, which is the nearest that we have in this country in
+likeness to the sepulchre in which the body of Christ was laid, you
+would not suppose for a moment that there would be living people in that
+vault. While the bodies that are in the vault are dead bodies, yet they
+have the promise of life, God will some day raise them up, unite again
+the soul and the body and give them that everlasting life and
+resurrection glory which Jesus has promised. And as Jesus rose from the
+dead on Easter Sunday morning, so we have the promise that in the final
+resurrection the bodies of all who have ever lived upon the earth shall
+hear the voice of the Son of God and shall come forth; those who have
+lived Christian lives to the resurrection of life, and those who have
+done evil to the resurrection of death and eternal punishment.
+
+[Illustration: Little Chickens Just Out of the Shells.]
+
+The egg then is the symbol of life, for out of this seemingly lifeless
+object there comes forth the living chick; so out of the graves and
+sepulchres there will eventually come forth the bodies of all who have
+ever died, and these bodies shall become resurrection bodies. These
+mortals shall put on immortality, and these corruptible bodies shall put
+on incorruption; and then the souls and the bodies of all shall be
+reunited, never again to be separated throughout all eternity.
+
+Perhaps during the past few months or years you may have laid away in
+the grave the body of some dear little brother or sister, or perhaps of
+a kind father or mother, or some other friend; if so, the spring season
+of the year will suggest to you the resurrection. The grass and the
+flowers which appeared to be dead last fall, and which during the winter
+have been wrapped in a white shroud of snow, now feel the warm breath of
+spring, and life and beauty are coming forth out of the sepulchre of the
+winter.
+
+Soon all the trees will put forth their leaves and then beauteous
+blossoms and sweet fragrance will tell of the spring time as the
+resurrection period of the year.
+
+So at Easter time we properly turn to the cemeteries where rest the
+bodies of our loved ones and know that the long winter of death and
+decay shall eventually give place to the promised resurrection of life
+and beauty. On that Easter morn the bodies of our loved ones shall be
+raised up, the soul and the body shall be reunited, and we shall see
+them and know them as they are.
+
+Now, just how God shall gather again all the scattered parts of these
+bodies that were buried in the sea, or have decayed back to earth in the
+ground, we do not know. But our ignorance does not change the fact. I do
+not understand how at first God created man out of dust of the earth,
+nor do I know how the bread and meat and food which I eat each day
+nourish my life and become part of my own body. I do not know how, out
+of the same handful of earth, either an apple or a flower might grow. I
+know that it is so, but the how I do not know; nor does my ignorance
+prevent or hinder God from accomplishing it. If each day I eat food
+which by some strange power which God has placed within me is changed
+into bones in my body, to hair on my head, to nails on the ends of my
+fingers, to teeth, and eyes and ears and thus becomes a part of myself,
+why should I question, or desire to know how God is able to quicken in
+the grave the power to make the body to live again. If in the beginning
+God only spoke and worlds came into being, I know that when He shall
+command these bodies to rise from death and the grave they also will
+hear His voice and obey.
+
+I am sure that no boy nor girl here would want that, on the morning of
+the resurrection his or her body should refuse to obey God's voice when
+He shall command the dead to come forth from their graves in life and
+beauty. You will want to obey Him then, but should you not also desire
+to obey Him now? When God tells you in the Bible what He wants you to
+do, are you obedient? Do you do as He commands? If you are disobedient
+now, then in the morning of the resurrection you might even desire,
+rather to remain in your grave, so that you should not have to look into
+the face of Him whom you have disobeyed and offended. If you want to
+awake on that final Easter morning in the likeness of Jesus and be
+forever with Him in glory, remember that you must obey God now as Jesus
+did when He was upon the earth. If we would be like Jesus in glory, we
+must strive to be like Him in all that we do, and I trust that you may
+think of this daily. At all times when you are uncertain what it is your
+duty to do, ask yourself this question: "If He were in my place, what
+would Jesus do?" And then act and do as nearly as possible as you think
+Jesus would do under the same circumstances.
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What does Easter commemorate? Is a
+          dead body actually the person you knew? What has
+          become of the soul? What do we commemorate on Good
+          Friday? Of what are Easter eggs the symbol? What
+          does the shell represent? What does the inside
+          represent? Will the bodies of all who have died be
+          raised some day? Who tells us this? What will God
+          do with the risen bodies? What will become of the
+          good? What of the wicked? Do we know how God will
+          gather the scattered parts of the body? Does it
+          make any difference whether we know how or not? Is
+          anyone likely to refuse God's summons on the
+          Judgment Day? Do we always obey Him now? When in
+          doubt what question should we ask ourselves?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[A] NOTE--Sermon on Watch and Case, see page 125.
+
+
+
+
+CROWNS.
+
+THE CHILDREN OF THE KING.
+
+          SUGGESTION:--Objects: A crown of leaves or paper,
+          or of both.
+
+
+BOYS AND GIRLS: I have to-day two or three crowns, and I want to talk to
+you about those who are children of the King.
+
+[Illustration: A Crown of Leaves.]
+
+[Illustration: A Jewelled Crown.]
+
+First of all, I have here a crown which is made of leaves. This was the
+first kind of crown ever used. Three thousand years ago or more, those
+who excelled in strength, or running, or wrestling, or in any of the
+games which were common then, received a crown like this, which was
+placed upon their heads. This was regarded as a very great honor.
+Afterward, the kings of the earth began to use crowns. Their crowns were
+made of gold and set with costly jewels. These they wore on state
+occasions to indicate their high rank and position. Here is a crown made
+of gilt paper and set with a few silver-paper stars, meant to represent
+the crowns which kings and queens wear. While this crown is only made of
+paper, the crowns of kings and queens are made of gold, set with many
+costly stones. Besides the larger jewels in the crown of King George V.
+of England, there are also sixteen sapphires, eleven emeralds, nearly
+three hundred pearls, and some twenty-eight hundred very costly
+diamonds, and it is estimated to be worth many millions of dollars.
+
+[Illustration: The Crowns on a Table.]
+
+Now suppose that we had gathered into this room the children, the boys
+and girls, of all the kings and queens of earth. Suppose also that they
+could all understand English, and that none of them knew that they were
+the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and that it was my
+delightful privilege to tell them how great and rich and powerful their
+parents are; and then I were also permitted to tell them, for the first
+time, what beautiful crowns their parents own. Suppose also that after
+exciting their curiosity about these things, I should have the crowns of
+all the kings of earth placed on a long table at my side, covered with a
+beautiful cloth, and after telling them about the crowns, I should
+uncover this table with all these crowns of gold, studded with jewels.
+Don't you suppose that the eyes of all those boys and girls would
+sparkle with curiosity and delight?
+
+But now, suppose that it were my privilege to do more than to show them
+the crowns. Suppose that I were permitted also to tell them that they
+were heirs to these crowns, and that after their fathers and mothers,
+the present kings and queens, had died, they were to become kings and
+queens, and were to receive these crowns as their own. Suppose that,
+more than this, it were my privilege to pick up the crown of Denmark,
+and then calling some little boy to me I were to hand it to him, and
+tell him that he was to keep it, and that some day it would be placed
+upon his head, and he would be King of Denmark. And then I should take
+the crown of Sweden, and calling another girl, I should give her that
+crown, and tell her that she should keep it, until some day it would be
+placed upon her head, and she should be Queen of Sweden. Suppose that in
+the same way I should take the crowns of Germany and Russia, and
+Austria, and Italy, and Spain, and the great crown of England, and all
+the crowns of all the nations of the earth; and calling the boys and
+girls by name, should have them come forward and receive these crowns,
+to be kept until they should be placed upon their heads, when they
+should be Kings and Queens, ruling in great pomp, and splendor, and
+honor, and power. Do you not think that it would be a very happy hour to
+these boys and girls, when all these great thoughts should be disclosed
+to them for the first time, and they should look upon such costly
+crowns, and receive them into their own hands, as their very own?
+
+Now, boys and girls, while you have been listening to me, you have
+possibly not thought that what I have told you is really being fulfilled
+in your own hearing to-day, for the Bible tells us, "I will be a Father
+unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord
+Almighty." (2 Cor. vi: 18.) Then, in another place, it also says,
+"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we
+shall be." (1 John iii: 2.) So you see that it is my privilege to-day to
+talk, not to the children of earthly kings, whose glory is only temporal
+and whose honor is always uncertain, but I am permitted to talk to the
+children of the King of kings. (1 Tim. vi: 15; Rev. xix: 16.) The
+Scriptures not only tell us that God "is the only Potentate (the only
+powerful one), the King of kings," but it also tells us that He "hath
+made us unto our God kings and priests." (Rev. v: 10.) The same great
+book also tells us, not only, that we shall be kings and priests unto
+our God, but that we "shall reign forever and ever." (Rev. xxii: 5.)
+When a king dies he ceases to be king upon earth, but when God shall
+make us kings and queens and crown us in Heaven, we shall never die
+again, or cease to be kings and queens. The Bible tells us very clearly
+that our Father in Heaven is King over all earthly kings; greater than
+any of them; greater than all the kings of earth put together; a million
+times greater; yes, millions and millions of times greater; so much
+greater that the two do not compare in reality, but earthly kings simply
+suggest to our minds something of our great Heavenly King. God, this
+great King, created us and we were His children. But our first parents
+sinned and rebelled against Him, and refused to recognize Him as Father
+and to obey what He wanted them to do. But God loved them and us as a
+tender Father, and sent His only-begotten and well-beloved Son, Jesus
+Christ, to reconcile us; to tell us that God the Father loved us; that
+He was willing to forgive us, and that He would still accept us and make
+us kings and priests unto Himself, would crown us with glory, would give
+us dominion and make us kings and priests forever in Heaven. So you see
+that there can be no mistake about our being sons and daughters of the
+Lord Almighty. We are not only His children, but He has promised us
+crowns of glory and thrones of dominion and power.
+
+If you and I were in England to-day and could walk into the Tower of
+London, where they keep the crown and the jewels of the royal family,
+and we could learn the value of these costly jewels, and crowns and
+scepters, it matters not how rich we might be, I am sure we would have
+to despair of ever being able to purchase these costly crown jewels.
+They are estimated at many millions of dollars. Now, if an earthly
+crown, which can only be retained for a few years, is so valuable, how
+much more valuable are the everlasting crowns, such as God gives, and
+which are to be ours for all eternity? And if we are not able to buy
+such an earthly crown, how much less are we able to purchase or buy a
+heavenly crown? The heavenly crowns are so valuable that we could never
+hope to buy them, therefore God gives them to us because He loves us.
+
+More than two hundred years ago a man by the name of Colonel Blood
+attempted to steal the crowns and the crown jewels of England. He was
+not altogether successful, but was arrested before he escaped with them.
+But do you know that there are many who would steal your crown, and my
+crown of everlasting glory, if they possibly could? Therefore, God tells
+us in the Bible, "Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy
+crown." (Rev. iii: 11.) So you see it is very important that we should
+be constantly on our guard. The King of England has soldiers to watch
+day and night, lest any one should steal his crown. And so also you and
+I need to be constantly on our guard, lest wicked people and sinful
+influences should rob us of our heavenly crown.
+
+Not only are crowns sometimes stolen, but sometimes they are also lost.
+About fifty years ago some people were digging in France, and they found
+eight costly crowns, all lying close together, having been lost or
+hidden away in the earth. Four of them were very costly and very
+beautiful, while the others were smaller crowns. The first four were for
+the king and the queen, and the prince, and one other of the older
+children, and the other four crowns were for the younger children of the
+king's household. Yet you see that the father and mother and all the
+children lost their crowns. I trust that no parents here, or children
+either, would prize their heavenly crowns so lightly as ever to lose
+them.
+
+There are thousands of people who would be willing to put forth any
+effort, or to pay any costs, if they could only obtain an earthly crown,
+and yet the Bible tells us that these people do it "to obtain a
+corruptible crown; but we, an incorruptible." (1 Cor. ix: 25.) Now, by
+a corruptible crown is meant one that, like this crown made of leaves,
+will fade and fall to pieces, and decay, and thus pass entirely away.
+Even a crown of gold, studded with costly jewels, would thus also
+eventually perish. The crown which God gives to us is an imperishable
+crown, which never fades, and never passes away. And therefore the
+Scriptures say, "And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall
+receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." (1 Peter v: 4.)
+
+Since the Bible teaches us these truths so plainly, "What manner of
+persons ought we to be, in all holy conversation and godliness?" (2
+Peter iii: 11.) What more appropriate words could I say to you in
+closing, than that which God says to us in the blessed Book in which He
+has revealed all these things, "Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look
+for such things, be diligent, that ye may be found of him in peace
+without spot, and blameless." (2 Peter iii: 14.)
+
+          QUESTIONS.--What kind of crown was first worn?
+          Because crowns of leaves were so perishable, of
+          what were crowns later made? What can you tell
+          about the crown of the king of England? If the
+          crowns of all the kings of earth could be brought
+          together, would people desire to see them? If the
+          children of earthly kings were present and we told
+          them for the first time that they were the
+          children of kings and gave them the crowns which
+          they were eventually to own, would they be likely
+          to be pleased? Are you the child of a King who is
+          the King above all kings? Has He promised you a
+          crown? Will your crown be perishable? How long
+          will it last? Can you quote any of the passages of
+          Scripture which tell of our being the children of
+          the King of kings? Could the crown of an earthly
+          king be bought? Is there money enough in the world
+          to buy a crown of everlasting life? How then is
+          this crown to be obtained? Who once stole a crown
+          and the crown jewels of England? Was he successful
+          in getting away with them? Who tries to steal our
+          crown of everlasting glory? Is he ever successful?
+          Can you tell about the eight crowns which were
+          found hidden away in the earth in France? In what
+          book are we told that our crown is to be
+          imperishable and unfading, and to be ours forever?
+          What exhortation is contained in the last sentence
+          of the last sermon in this book?
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+A WORD TO PARENTS
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+THE imploring letters which come to me constantly from all parts of the
+globe, written by young men and women who are almost hopelessly
+struggling to be freed from evils into which they have fallen through
+ignorance, prompt me to urge upon parents the great importance of
+safe-guarding their children from evils unspeakable by information which
+should always reach the child through the parent.
+
+Many parents appreciate their duty to their children in this matter; the
+only thing that restrains them is that they do not know what to say and
+how to say it. They are in just the situation that I found myself with
+my own boy and girl before I had made a special study of this subject.
+
+It was to assist parents in this trying situation that I wrote "What a
+Young Boy Ought to Know," and that Dr. Mary Wood-Allen wrote "What a
+Young Girl Ought to Know." These two books, together with "What a Young
+Man Ought to Know" and "What a Young Woman Ought to Know," have proven a
+benediction to thousands of parents, and have saved multitudes of boys
+and girls; of young men and young women from evils that come from blind
+blundering among dangers that are attended with consequences that often
+project themselves throughout the entire life, and frequently involve
+even future generations.
+
+These books were written to make men and women--not money. The United
+States Government has had the books to men placed in the libraries of
+all the battleships, and those addressed to boys and girls and young men
+and young women placed in all the schools maintained by the Government
+for the education of the North American Indians.
+
+Requests have been made for permission to translate these books into
+some forty different languages, and most of these requests have come
+from Christian missionaries and church missionary societies, who have
+desired the teachings which these books contain for use by their
+missionaries.
+
+These books, in English, sell at One Dollar per copy, and a simple post
+card request addressed to the writer of the little book you now hold in
+your hands, will bring you descriptive printed matter by early post.
+
+                                 SYLVANUS STALL,
+                                     206 North Fifteenth Street,
+                                          Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A.
+
+
+
+
+WITH THE CHILDREN ON SUNDAYS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate Into the City of Child Soul
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_By_ SYLVANUS STALL, D. D.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_ENTHUSIASTICALLY COMMENDED BY THE PRESS_
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FOR THE FAMILY CIRCLE AND TEACHERS.
+
+"Delightful and instructive reading for the family circle on Sunday
+afternoons."--_The Ram's Horn._
+
+"The language and style are simple and effective. In approaching the
+mind and heart through the eye, as well as the ear, Dr. Stall uses the
+method which the best instructor should use to convey knowledge to the
+mind of the child. The book is suggestive of effective work, and is
+worthy of the careful attention of all who talk to children in the
+Sunday School, Church and home."--_Augsburg Teacher._
+
+"These sermons cannot help being suggestive to every one who would
+interest children. The sermons are fascinating, and their publication
+marks an era in the instruction and edification of children. They will
+serve a noble purpose in calling back to the simplicity of preaching so
+wonderfully illustrated in the words of Christ."--_Wesleyan Methodist._
+
+
+SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CHILDREN.
+
+"Dr. Stall has undoubtedly the happy faculty of presenting to children
+sober truths in a manner to them most interesting."--_Times_, Boston,
+Mass.
+
+"In this little volume there are good examples of excellent preaching to
+the young, and the book merits a wide circulation."--_Central
+Presbyterian._
+
+"These little delightful sermons are models of point and brevity, and
+reach the little hearts through the eye and the ear."--_Christian
+Observer._
+
+"A more practical series of discourses for children we never before have
+seen. The illustrations are simple and forceful, and the lessons worthy
+of consideration."--_Central Methodist._
+
+"It is an excellent work, and the plan is admirably suited to reach and
+impress youthful minds with correct principles. The language is plain
+and easily understood and yet the central thought is well defined and
+easily grasped."--_The Christian Instructor._
+
+"The topics are timely and fresh, the objects simple and telling, and
+the sermons themselves just what sermons to children ought to be, brief
+and well illustrated, fascinating and practical. Boys and girls will
+devour every one of them with relish, whilst we children of a larger
+growth will be children again."--_Lutheran Observer._
+
+"The chapters contained in the volume are such as are sure to win the
+attention and interest of the children. We are confident that Dr. Stall
+has found the right key to the situation, and we commend his work most
+heartily."--_Messiah's Herald._
+
+"The gift of talking sense to children in a way interesting to them is a
+rare one. These fifty-two short sermons show that Dr. Stall has this
+rare gift in an eminent degree. This is shown, not only in his way of
+putting things, but also in his subjects and illustrative
+objects."--_Lutheran Quarterly._
+
+"In this volume the author seeks to attract the young through the
+presentation of the old truths of the Gospel in the form which arrest
+the eye, secures the attention, impresses the mind, and wins the heart
+for Christ and the right. The entrance into the city of Child-soul is
+sought by assaulting both the Eye-gate and Ear-gate. At the same time
+the illustrations used are impressive, the truths taught are simple, and
+the impressions made are likely to be lasting."--_Jersey City Times_.
+
+"It is not every one who is able to present to children sober truths in
+a manner interesting to them, for it requires a special talent to either
+speak to or write for children, but Dr. Stall has undoubtedly the happy
+faculty of doing this. The author's object is to implant in the child's
+mind seeds of truth and love, nobleness and justice, and all the virtues
+that go to make a manly boy and womanly girl, as well as a God-loving
+child."--_Boston Times._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FROM THE CHILDREN OF NEW ENGLAND.
+
+
+          SYLVANUS STALL, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.
+
+            REVEREND SIR:
+
+
+          I wish to thank you in behalf of my school
+          children for having your short sermons to children
+          published. I read them to my school children as
+          part of our devotional exercises, and I often hear
+          remarks like this: "I wish the author would come
+          to Moose Meadow. I wish I could hear him. I wish I
+          could see him and thank him for writing those
+          sermons. Can't we write to him and thank him?"
+          etc., and so I have been led to write you,
+          thanking you in their behalf.
+
+          Moose Meadow is a small country place in Eastern
+          Connecticut, and I wish you to know that the
+          country children enjoy your sermons equally as
+          well as city children, and I am very glad that a
+          copy of your book was put into my hands. I feel
+          very grateful to God for putting it into the heart
+          of some one to write such interesting sermons and
+          beautiful object lessons.
+
+                            Respectfully,
+                                         MRS. A. B. DAWE.
+                            Moose Meadow, Town of Willington,
+                                                    Connecticut.
+
+
+A SUGGESTIVE BOOK FOR PREACHERS.
+
+"Pastors in search of something suggestive for talking in a helpful
+manner to children will find this book both helpful and
+suggestive."--_Reformed Church Messenger._
+
+"A careful reading of this book will enable any minister of anything
+like ordinary brightness to adapt much of his preaching to the
+comprehension of the young."--_Gospel Messenger._
+
+"We do not know that we can give a stronger commendation of this little
+volume than to say that on a brief examination of it we got the
+suggestion for a series of half a dozen evening sermons to young people.
+The book is most suggestive, and spiritually as well as mentally
+refreshing."--_Christian Statesman._
+
+"An examination of the little sermons in this book shows the reader that
+Dr. Stall skillfully manages each topic, and leaves helpful lessons of
+moral and religious truths. The book will suggest to pastors methods of
+work that will bring the children into a closer relation to the services
+of the Sabbath."--_Christian Secretary._
+
+"Excellent, admirable, irresistible approaches through the Eye-gate and
+Ear-gate in the City of Child-soul. The author is a genius. There is not
+a dull line between the covers of this book."--_Christian Endeavor
+World._
+
+
+OTHER ENTHUSIASTIC WORDS.
+
+"These sermons are delightful and helpful in their explanation. We have
+seen nothing that compares with it."--_Herald of Gospel Liberty._
+
+"These sermons are animated in style, bright, interesting and
+practical."--_The Advance._
+
+"Dr. Stall's sermons are excellent examples of abstract lessons from the
+common objects of everyday life, practical and effective."--_Books and
+Authors._
+
+"Dr. Stall is an expert in this line of work attempted, and we may add
+achieved in this little book. He addresses little object sermons as
+bright, pithy and taking as they can be with a good point to them
+always."--_New York Independent._
+
+"These short sermons will be found wonderfully suggestive. The author
+goes back to Bible methods, and selects common things with which all are
+familiar from which to draw his lessons."--_Inter Ocean_, Chicago.
+
+"The old truths of the Gospel in this new form arrest the eye, secure
+the attention, impress the mind, and win the heart for Christ."--_Herald
+and Presbytery._
+
+"The illustrations used are impressive, and truths taught are important,
+and the impressions made are likely to be lasting."--_New York
+Observer._
+
+"The author, after the manner of the parables told by our Lord, presents
+important truths of the Gospel to the easy comprehension of both old and
+young."--_Christian Work._
+
+"These little sermons are free from sensational, mawkish, maudlin
+stories. At the same time, they are interesting for old and young, and
+the short talks to children are admirable."--_Western Recorder._
+
+"With the objects of every day life presented to the eye, the author,
+after the manner of the parables, presents important truths of the
+Gospel to the easy comprehension of both the old and young."--_Methodist
+Recorder._
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's note:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.
+
+Inconsistent hyphenation was retained.
+
+Page 118, "experence" changed to "experience" (and patience experience)
+
+Page 260, repeated word "the" removed from text (he spend the summer)
+
+Page 301, "Persia" changed to "Prussia" (the King of Prussia had)
+
+
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