THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NE S S such as poverty, disgrace, crime^abuse of family, ill health, loss of soul, etc. As this is the World’s Temperance Sunday, the teacher can make the ap plication according to the class and its greatest need. Also emphasize great and increasing evil of cigarette.) If our hearts are full of wrong, the acts of our lives will be wrong also, and Jesus is the only one that can take the wrong things or sin out of our hearts. Jesus died that we might live, and be saved from our sins. We want our lives to bear good fruit, so we will ask Jesus to cut down all the bad trees in our hearts and fill them with His love, and then when the heart is pure and right, the fruit will be good. Our story says that by their fruits ye shall know them. So people are going to know us by the things we do. Closing Prayer. — Our Heavenly Father we ask thee to take away our sin, so that the fruit or acts of our lives will be good- IT WOULDN’T GO DOWN The little girl came running in to -her mother with a woeful countenance -and a hopeless story. “ My dolly is sick,” she said, “ and I don’t know what to do about it. I gave her water and she can’t swallow that; sister gave her a pill and she can’t swallow that.” “ Well,” said her mother, Who leaned a little that way herself, "don't you think you had better try Christian Science for her?” “We have tried it,” said she, “ and she can’t swallow that.” m m CHESTNUTS Many Christians are like chestnuts— very pleasant nuts, but enclosed in very prickly burs; which need various deal ings of nature, and her grip of frost, 'before the kernel is disclosed.— Beecher.
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board. (Let the children suggest the names of all the different trees they know). How do you know the differ ent kinds of trees? By the fruits they bear. Now this morning each one of us is going to be a tree, and there are good trees and bad trees, and we can not tell whether it is a good tree or a bad tree, by the way it looks, but we can tell by the fruit it bears. Now, . how can people know what kind of trees we are this morning? If I let my eyes tell me I would say you were all good trees, for you look so nice and clean and smiling, but suppose I could have peeped into your home this morn ing or some other time this last week, without you knowing I was there, and I had seen the things you had done, and heard the words you had spoken, would I have found that you were all good trees? I wonder if there were any trees that were cross and grumbled when mother wanted us to help her, or if any of us just half did some work we had to do, or made mother call us a number of times, or disobeyed mother in any way. Now I can hot tell •■‘what kind of trees you are, but Jesus 'sees our hearts and He knows whether they are pure or not. Our story says that when trees were bad and did not bear good fruit, they were not good for anything but to be burned, so all the bad trees were cut down and burned. Are there any fruit trees that bear small, sour fruit that does not taste good? Yes, there are bad trees, and what kind of trees do we want to grow in our garden? Good trees, of course. If a tree does no good, or bears poor fruit, it should be cut down. If whiskey and beer and cigarettes were trees we would all like to help cut them down. Now I am going to draw a large tree on the board and we will call it the Liquor Tree, and of course we know it is a very bad tree. Let us name some of the fruits of liquor tree. (Let children with your aid name some of results,
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