King's Business - 1941-01

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Junior King's Business By MARTHA S. HOOKER Member o f Faculty, Bible Institute of Lot Angelee

lived a perfect life and was crucified for our sins. Then He was buried and arose again. He measured up for all. Every one who is sorry for his sins, confessing them and asking forgiveness for Jesus’ sake, will be accepted by God. God will remove his sins and re­ member them against him no more. Then that forgiven person is ready to begin to live so as to glorify God. Glorify means to honor, to lift up God so th a t others may see and want Him to possess their hearts. Take your seats and then open the Bibles you will find on the chairs to 1 Corinthians 10:81. See whether I write the verse correctly on the blackboard.” “You made a mistake—an awful mis­ take!” exclaimed Tim Edwards. “The Bible verse is, ‘Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God,’ and you changed the last part so it is ‘do all to please yourself.’ I t is do all—ALL—ALL to honor God and make others want Him to come to live in their hearts.” “But do not many act as if the rule were written the way I have it on the blackboard?” “Yes—even some of us do,” confessed Celia, “but it is wrong.” “The first thing God’s rule mentions is ‘eating,’ so that must be of great im­ portance,” Miss Lucy added. “How can one eftt to the glory of God?” “Say grace before meals. Thank God for all we have to eat,” replied Virginia Newton. Some of the other answers that came quickly were these: “One should not eat too much.” “A person should not eat things that will make him lazy and sick.” “A fellow shouldn’t always take the biggest and best piece of meat and cake and pie.” . “We should be unselfish and polite.” “Yes, I see you understand the mean­ ing of eating to the glory of God,” Miss Lucy replied. “But how about drink­ ing?” “No one could drink liquor in a way to ,please God or recommend Him to others. A person couldn’t drink any­ thing else that injures the body either. I guess that if every one measured up to God’s rule, there would be no saloons, but a lot more milk wagons,” declared Ted Manning. “The last part of the yerse says ‘what­ soever ye do,’ so let us make a list of the things that are done,” continued Miss Lucy. “Wash dishes—and I hate it,” called one of the girls. “Sweep, shine shoes, sell papers, run

GOD’S MEASURING RULE By A lverta N. D undas

M ISS LUCY, the smiling little lady who told stories Saturday afternoons at the S h i p 1e r Neighborhood H o u s e , had urged every boy and girl to be present a t the last meeting of the month. As the children gathered about the door, she was certain not one had forgotten to come. Sven Billy Summers, known as the meanest boy in the community, had slipped around the building and had taken his place near the end of the line. Miss Lucy was especially glad to see twelve-year-old, black-eyed Billy. She liked him and felt sorry for him, for his parents were dead. He lived with his crippled grandmother who worked hard sorting old rags in a dirty little shed near the river. As the expectant group entered the large living room, they all looked in just one direction. “Wonder what’s under that sheet?” exclaimed Ted Manning. ‘Whatever it is, it’s ’bout as big as a baby elephant,” commented another child. "Guess Miss Lucy is going to do sleight-of-hand tricks—maybe pull a rabbit out of a hat,” volunteered mis­ chievous Celia Martin.

“WOMEN DO TRICKS!” sneered Bil­ ly. “Don’t you know it takes real fellers to be sleight-of-hand performers?” Miss Lucy smiled as she listened to the remarks. Finally she began: “Today we are not going to have our usual order of program. I want you to look closely a t the objects on the table. Although they are so different in ap­ pearance, all were produced for the same thing.” As the sheet was slowly lifted, the children announced the names of the things they saw: “Scales—big and little ones—a three-gallon jar, a clock, ther­ mometer, medicine dropper, yardstick, tape measure, speedometer, book of game rules, examination papers, a Bible.” “Everything on that table can mea­ sure something,” confidently declared Billy Summers. "He’s ' right!” shouted Ted Manning and Tim Edwards. “Yes,” agreed Miss Lucy. “Billy is right. Every object on the table was made for the purpose of measuring cer­ tain things. Each is useful and neces­ sary, but to know how God measures folks is far more important.” “Does God measure kids like me?” questioned Billy as he thought of how he had talked back to his tired, lame grandmother, and of how he had taken her money, had stolen fruit from Mr. Cameron’s store, cheated in the games, lied to his school teacher when he played hooky, fought smaller boys, teased the girls, and made ugly faces a t the policemen. “God does measure boys and girls as well as grown folks,” continued Miss Lucy. “In Romans 3:23 we read, ‘All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.’ That means that every one has been measured by God’s law and has come short. But we must remem­ ber that ‘God so loved the world, that “he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’ “Every person has come short, but the Lord Jesus came into the world and

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