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meaning of t h e s e same commandments in different words: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with a ll, thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength." Now we have come to the other six command
You are right, Bill. Here is a gambling card. In another pocket I find a shabby purse, and it is empty, for the other things we have found have made the purse empty. Shall we find a Bible in this coat? "N o.” “No!” “NO !!!” You are right—no one would expect to find a Bible in this coat. But there is a Bible in this neat-looking coat. It looks as if it had been used a great deal. On the flyleaf I read, “My son, this Book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this Book. Your Mother.” It looks as if the owner of this coat had taken his mother’s advice and had read the Bible. Here is a letter addressed to his mother. I wonder whether he is telling her how glad he is that he has read his Bible. He has a nice-look ing purse, and here is money in it. I think the owner of this coat not only had money in his purse, but joy in his heart as well. In looking at these two coats, I am re minded of the words of Romans 14:21: “It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.” Bible Studies for Young People Bible lessons suited to young people’s Bible club meetings are available for teach ers who need material for their own groups or for newly organized Euodia clubs. Sixty- five Euodia clubs, composed of approxi mately one thousand girls in junior and sen ior high schools, closed a fruitful school year of activity in June. This Bible club work offers an opportunity to Christian workers who catch the vision of the need in other communities. A four-year lesson series, adapted to this age group and covering the entire Bible, has been prepared by Elizabeth Merritt, Direc tor of the Euodia clubs. The first year’s study covers the Pentateuch; the second, Joshua through Malachi; the third, the Four Gospels, and the fourth, Acts through the Revelation. The memory portion for each year is selected from the books being stud ied. Realizing that few girls attend every meeting, and that some visit only one, Miss Merritt has designed each lesson to set forth Christ as the living Word of God and the only W ay to God. This year the Euodia clubs will study the third year of this course, twenty-nine lessons from the Four Gospels, grouped as follows: 1. Preparation for New T e s t a m e n t Study. W hy four Gospels? Genealogies. 2. Survey of Each Gospel. 3. John the Baptist. 4. Seven Mountain Peaks in the Life of Christ (One lesson for each: Birth, Bap tism, etc.). 5. A Geography Lesson. 6. The Works of Christ (Miracles of Matthew 8 and 9, and "Signs” in John’s Gospel). 7. The Teachings of Christ (New Birth, Prayer, Parables, and the Holy Spirit). 8. Prophecy (Lk. 21; Matt. 24). 9. "If W e Had Only John’s Gospel.” 10. A Lesson in Chapter Summary. Printed copies of these third-year les sons may be obtained for 25 cents at the Biola Book Room or by addressing Euodia Club, Box 726, Bible Institute of Los An geles, 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif.
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ments. They tell us how we should love our neighbor. The Lord Jesus tells us, too, what these commandments mean. He says: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Lesson S tory: In another place in the Bible (Lk. 10:29-37), Jesus tells us who our neighbor is. He makes us understand by telling the story of the man who was going down to Jericho and who fell among thieves who stripped him and left him for dead. The Pharisee and the Levite passed by the man without stopping to help. The Samaritan stopped and bound up the man’s wounds and put him on his own beast and took him to an inn and cared for him. He was a “neighbor” to the man, Jesus says. He was treating him as he would treat him self. W e take very good care of ourselves, don’t we? Jesus says we should take just as good care of our neighbor as we take of ourselves. I wonder whether you share with your friends everything that you have? I wonder whether you are willing to give up something that you like to do—are will ing to give it up—because your doing it would harm your neighbor. The Bible says: “It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth." But how can we have strength to be a neighbor? Yes, we can ask God to help us. “Ask, and ye shall re ceive,” Jesus tells us.
dom, was an empty thing. Man shall not live by bread alone. 3. The sixth chapter of Romans, from which a part of the lesson has been selected, sets forth the divine technique [or the liv ing o f a holy life after w e have becom e Christians. This technique is summarized in four words. The first is "know” (3, 6, 9 ). W e must know the great facts of our identification and union with Christ. The second word is "reckon" (11). What God declares to be true we must reckon to be true about ourselves. The third word is "yield” (13). And the fourth word is "obey” (16, 17). These are the signposts on the highway of holiness. They are clear and easy to understand, as are all God’s instructions to men. "Papa, will you please give me half-a- crown for my new hat?" asked a schoolgirl of her father one morning. "No, May: I can’t spare the money.” The refusal came from the parent in a curt, indifferent tone. The disappointed girl went to school. The father started for his place of business. On his way he met a friend, and invited him into a tavern for a drink. And the man who could not spare his daughter half-a- crown for a hat laid that sum on the coun ter, which just paid for the drinks. Just then the saloon-keeper's daughter entered, and said, "Papa, I want half-a- crown for my new hat.” “All right,” said the dealer, and, taking up the coin from the counter, handed it to the girl, who departed smiling. May’s father was dazed, walked out alone, and said to himself, “T o think I should have brought my money here for the rum-seller’s daughter to buy a hat with, after refusing it to my own daughter! I ’ll never drink another drop.”— C yclopedia o f R eligious Anecdotes. My Neighbor and I R omans 14:21; M ark 12:28-34 M em ory V erse: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matt. 19:10). A pproach: W e have been studying the first four of the Ten Commandments which God gave to His people, Israel. These com mandments tell us about God and how we should worship Him. In the New Testa ment, our Lord Jesus Christ tells us the Golden Text Illustration R omans 6:15
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O bjects: Two coats, a Bible, an empty whiskey bottle, an imitation playing card, an imitation cigarette, a letter addressed to a mother, two purses, and some money. Lesson: Did you boys and girls ever find anything? Did you know that you often can tell the character of the loser by the thing you find? W e will imagine that I found these two coats, and see whether we can tell what kind of persons might have lost each. This whiskey bottle is empty, indicating that its owner has drunk the contents. Poor fellow! Now that we know this about him, let’s see whether we can guess what we might find in some of the other pockets. “A cigarette." I would not be surprised if we should find one in this left pocket Yes, here it is. What else do you think we might find? “I’d guess gambling cards.”
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