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very different hoeing potatoes seemed to Bobby the next morning! The cloud had rolled from his heart, and life seemed good and full of joy. Even the world about him seemed different than it had seemed the day before. He remembered how Margie had used that word, “different.” He worked With a new strength and vigor. Half the good morning was over when his hoe struck a hidden stone, slipped, and cut a deep gash in his foot. Bobby could not keep back the groans. W ith clenched teeth he hobbled home, and the pain in his body brought back the hurt and questions of yesterday. He had become willing to stay at home and work, but now he would get behind with even the farm work. W hy had this new trouble come? “ ‘I thank Him for everything He sends, and just love it.’ ” He repeated to himself the words that Margie had said. “But surely she meant nothing like this,” he reasoned. Then he remembered the heavy shoe. Hers was lameness for a lifetime; his own hurts likely would last only a week or two. But he didn’t feel like saying “not mine” just then. Suddenly the words of the baseball coach at school flashed into his mind, “If you fellows intend to play the game, stick by the rules!” Just last night Bobby had enrolled in the greatest contest of all— that of taking sides with God in everything, against his own way. Would he “keep the rules"? [ T o be continued] JOSE LEARNS A LESSON ON PRAYER (A True Story) By M rs . W arren R. R anney J O S E was a very poor little Mexican boy who attended Sunday-school on Mon day! “W hat!” I hear you saying. “A Sunday-, school on Monday?” Yes, you see it was this way: every week day many boys and girls were left to be cared for in the King’s Daughters’ Day Nursery while their mothers were away at work. Since these children were not in the nursery on Sunday, the matron asked some of us who were Sunday-school teachers to come to hold "Sunday-school” on Monday afternoons. How these children did love their Sunday- school! Many of them had never been in a real Sunday-school, nor had they heard of Jesus, our wonderful Saviour, and of His love for little children. The songs and choruses were especially delightful to them. One night when a worker returned home late, she heard, one of them going up the dark street singing: But now I must tell you how Jose found out that God hears and answers prayer. One day when the class met and the teacher asked who wanted the class to pray about some special need, Jose lifted his hand. His tears were very near flowing as he asked us to pray that his stepfather would come home. Jose’s mother was ill, and there was no one to care for her but this little boy. Jose and his mother did not know where “JO Y , JOY , jpy instead of sorrow, Come to JE SU S, JO Y will follow.”
the stepfather was, for they had not heard from him for months. W e all bowed our heads and asked our heavenly Father to meet this great need and to send Jose’s stepfather home immediately. W e knew the Lord had heard and would answer because we were His children and had asked in the precious name of Jesus. And we knew that John tells us in chapter 14, verse 13, that Jesus said; “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." Isn’t that a precious promise? W ell, we had asked in the name of the Lord Jesus, and we kept reminding the Lord all week that we were expecting Him to answer. So we were not surprised the next week to see Jose’s smiling face and to hear him say, “My father came home several days ago.” Now wasn’t that just like our loving heavenly Father to find that poor Mexican man who had run away from his family and had gone to Mexico, and to bring him back to care for them? W e were all very happy, and Jose most of all, for it was his first answer to prayer. He had been a Christian only a little while. One day a little time after this, Jose said, “God doesn’t always give us what we pray for, does He?” And the teacher said, “No, sometimes we ask for things that are not good for us, and then the Lord says ‘No’ to us. And sometimes we have to wait for an answer, too.” “I asked God for a bicycle,” said Jose, “and He did not give it to me, and now I know why He didn’t, because I didn’t really need it, like I needed my father to come home, and if I had a bicycle I might get run over in the street.” So it was that Jose learned a very im portant lesson about prayer. For we all know that if we are really God’s children through faith in our Lord Jesus, and if we are obedient children and are not letting sin come into our lives, God will give us those things which we really need and which will glorify Him. Memory Work for September Question: What does God’s Word say about the new birth? Answ er: ” . . . Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be bom again, he can not see the kingdom of God” (John 3 :3 ). “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Y e must be born again” (John 3 :7 ). Question: How may one be born again? Answer: “But as many received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3 :2 6 ). Question: W hat means does God use in the miracle of the new birth? Answer: (a) T h e H oly Spirit —“Never theless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judg ment” (John 16:7, 8 ). (b) T h e W ord — “Being bom again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” (1 Pet.
1:23). (c) F aith on the part o f the hearer — “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17). New K. Y . B. C. Members The following have read through the Gospel ac cording to John and are now members of the Know Your Bible Club: Albuquerque, N. M .: Frances Gleason and James Jacker (Mary Fifield, teacher). Alpaugh, Calif.: Viola Akers; Betty Jo and Freda Atkinson; Helen Green; Vernon Habekutt; Virginia Kelch, and Calvin, Ruby, and Ruth Lynn - (Mrs. H. C. Borchardt, superintendent). Arlington, N .J .: Betty Kennedy; Gloria Mac- Fayden; Catherine Murphy, and Peggy Simpson (Beatrice Hilton and Mary J. McAllister, lead ers). Barstow, Calif.: Bobbie and Theda Fissell; Laurel Jensen; Neva and Zenda Jones; Jean Pad- gett, and Doloris Stiles (John Grover, leader). Bluffton, Ohio: Ferol Althaus; Ralph Balmer; Julie Qarmatter; Rachel Hotter; Ruth Jones; Phylis Marquart; Aletha Metz, and Clara Belle Sommers (Rhoda Amstutz, teacher). Eureka,' Calif.: Eugene and Raymond Glavich; Ned Jennings, and Donald Swanson. Freewater, O re.: Melba Lee Meiers. Gorham, Colo.: Margaret, Maybell, and Melva Abernathy (Elsie Mae McNaughton, teacher). Granite Falls, M inn.: Elaine Formo; Florence and Irene Hanson; James Hegna; Delilah Lan- ning; Stanley Mynsaas; Ardyce Samdahl, and Myrline Vinge (H. R. Hill, pastor). Gray, K y .: Jewel and Muriel Chance; Mae Fannon; Mary Nettie Foley; Lena and Ruby Grant; Genetta and Vernon Helton; Retha and Virginia Hicks; Bertha, Laura, and Lois Kidwell; Edna and Thelma Lawless; Arlene Medlin; Ema- line Partin; Ada, Irene, and Ruby Rees; Doris, Georgia, Joan, and Millie Smith, and Helen Tay lor (Adeline C. Zick and Anna F. Holdzkom, lead ers). Hillsboro, K ans.: Elfrieda Berg; Olga Cloassen; Ethel Dalke; Edna Duerksen; Eileen Ebel; Laura Franz; Louise Friesen; Malinda Goertzen; June Heinze; Dorothy Hiebert; Clara Hogen; Esther Kasper; Irma Koop; Ethel L. Leewen; Clara Nickel; Aldine Pankratz; Marjorie Voght; Lu cille, Lydia, and Maryland Voth, and Alice Wiens (Rasella Pankratz, teacher!. Hughson, Calif.: Mary Clinton; Jimmie Powell, and Charlene and Nowelle Williams (Mrs. Alice A. Powell, leader). Ibi, Nigeria, A frica: M. O. Onwudinjo. Lionilli, K y .: Lavema Collier; Arbina and Charlotte Greer; Ada Mae Hull; Nevlin and Rebal Sowards; Georgia Steffie; Lois Tackitt, and Cleon and Intha Wright (Rose Lee Talley, leader). . • L os.Angeles, Calif.: Pat O'Conner (James A. Winton, leader). Nanaimo. B.C., Can.: Peggy Addison; Edith and Jean Bell; Ellen Blackburn; Irene Morgan; Nora Smith, and Margaret Zanini (Anita Troop, leader). Orland, Calif.: Robert Leslie Wall. Oxford, P a.: Fred Earhart; Charles and Ellen Foultz; Doris, Helen, and Mary Nickle; Mary and Sarah Reyburn, and Sarah Swift (Mrs. Rob ert Ward, teacher). Paterson, N. J .: Annabelle Brock; Marion Ruyn; Franklin Indoe; Ethel and Herman Jeffer son; Dorothy Ramia, and Richard Sanford (Olive Heron, teacher). Portland, M e.: Elizabeth Boyle; Dorothy Brown; Dorine Butler; Jean Cline; Katherine Conole; Avrill Kimball; Alicia Morrill; Lois Tay lor; Loretta Thompson, and Frances Winter (Mrs. R. P. Cline, teacher). Poulsbo, Wash.: Ethel Maki (Mrs. B. Schloskey, superintendent). San Antonio, T ex.: George Joseph and Robert Loveland Boubel (C. Bryan, leader). Winfield, Iowa: DeLoris Hess; Robert Hill; Janet Johnson; Beverly and Robert Lindell; Bar bara and Ralph McCray; Charlotte Marshall; Eugene Rodruck; Harold and Joanne Russell, and Leon Shahan (Hershell Ray Sigler, pastor). Winslow, A rk .: Ophelia Ridenoure (Mrs. M. R. Parker, leader). How to Join the K. Y . B. Club. To becdbie a member of the Know Your Bible Club, read through the Gospel according to John, using either your own Bible or a Gospel of John which will be sent upon request. When the Gospel has been read, and a statement to this effect, signed by parent or Sunday-school teacher, has been sent to the Editor of the Junior King's Business, a K. Y . B. C. pin will be mailed. Sunday-school classes or clubs desiring to order ten or more Gos pels or pins may wish to share the cost of these supplies, as the Lord directs: Gospels, postpaid, five cents each— in quantity, three cents; pins, without postage, two cents each. However, no one is to do without a Gospel or pin because of lack of money. Address: Junior King's Business, 558 South Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif.
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