“Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord” (Eph. 5:19). “Create in me a clean heart, 0 God; and renew a right spirit within me” (Psa. 51:10). “ I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart” (Psa. 9:1). “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me” (John 14:1). “The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart” (Psa. 34:18). “My son, give me thine heart” (Prov. 23:26). Some of the children chose to draw an outline of a heart rather than write the word heart in the verses; others cut out small hearts and pasted them in the place where the word heart came in the verse. The Wordless Book Valentines were the most exciting. Hearts were cut out of black, red, white, and yellow (or gold) paper. Each one was folded in the middle. Half of the black heart was pasted to half of the red heart; half of the gold heart to half of the white heart, and half of the gold heart to the other half of the black heart. When finished, Miss Louise gave the class the verses for their books; they were suggested by the colored hearts. The black heart suggests sin. Ro mans 3:23 — “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” The red heart tells of the Lord Je sus dying for the sinner. First John 1:7 — “And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” The white heart reminds us of Psalm 51:7 — “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” The gold makes us think of the beautiful city the Lord is preparing for them who have received Him as Saviour. The stree'.s in the Heaven ly city are of pure gold. Revelation 21:21 — “And the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transpar ent glass.” John 14:2, 3—“ In my Fa ther’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. 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.” The girls were thrilled with these valentines, for they knew they could use them in telling others about Jesus. The valentines were finished, and Miss Louise led the group to the din ing room where ice cream and other good things were served. As the girls left for home, they were very happy. “This has been the best party of all,” they agreed. Miss Louise knew the secret — they had made love gifts for others.
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M iss L o u is e ’ s parties for her Sun day school class of girls were always filled with surprises, and the one in February was the best of all. The big surprise came when Miss Louise opened the door to a sunny room in her home and led the class in to find tables set up, each one pro vided with scissors, paste, colored pa per and crayons. The class soon found seats about the tables wondering, “What are we going to make?” Soon Miss Louise began to explain: “Valentine’s Day is only ten days away, so today we are going to make valentines — valentines that are ‘dif ferent’ to send to old people in the Home, and to crippled children in the hospital.” Soon the sunny room became a bee hive of activity. Would you like to know the kind of valentines this class made? First, pieces of heavy white paper were folded and heart patterns of var ious sizes were cut. Then these pat terns were used to cut hearts from the red construction paper. Some of the red hearts were pasted in the center of a pretty lacy paper doily. A white heart was pasted on the back to make
it look -finished. The red heart was decorated with flowers cut from old birthday cards. A loop of ribbon, held in place by a seal, and placed on the back, provided a way to hang it up on the wall. Others were made by placing the pattern on pieces of folded paper. In this way heart-shaped booklets were made. These were decorated too with designs cut from used birthday cards. When it came time to write the greetings either on the backs or on the insides of the heart-shaped fold ers, Miss Louise took her Bible in her hand. “Valentines bear messages of love,” she said. “This Book, God’s Book, is His valentine to us, telling us how much He loves us. Let us choose verses from it to write on our valentines, then they will indeed be ‘different’.” So the class wrote in their best writing, or printed in red or white ink, or with crayon, such verses as the following: “ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matt. 5:8). “He knoweth the secrets of the heart” (Psa. 44:21).
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