THE KING' S BUSINESS Subject Illustration. The Poet Longfellow said, “ Ah, to build, to build! that is thè noblest art of all the arts.” It is not only worth while to build a house, it is better to build a home. It is LESSON not only good to ILLUSTRATIONS build a beautiful W. H. Pike capitol for our state or a magnificent White House for our Nation’s executives, but it is much better to build a nation. None of these, however, can be built with success unless there is the build ing of individual character. “ Every, thought we have ever had, Its own little place has filled; Every deed we have done, good or bad, Is a stone in the temple we build. We are building every day A temple the world may not see; Building— building every day; Building for Eternity.” Building a Church. Many beautiful church buildings have been erected, but the real church is poorly builded. Many church members are not living stones (1 Pet. 2:4-5), because they have not been born again. Many are not polished stones because they have not met the trials and cir cumstances in the will of God with an overcoming faith. “ For other founda tion can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest.” I Cor. 3:11-15. Building a Life. “ Don't write there,” said a little newsboy to a dandified youth, whom in the waiting room of a railroad -sta tion, he saw about to scratch something with his diamond ring on a mirror that was hanging on the wall. “ Don’t write there:” “ Why not?” "Because you can’t rub it out.” Be careful, dear
863 reader, what you write on the tablets of your memory. “ You can’t rub it out.” It is all built into the warp and woof of your character. Many little things amount to a great deal in one’s life. “ A carpet from the San Francisco Mint was burned some time ago, and yielded 505 pounds worth of gold dust, which had fallen in im perceptible particles during five years’ ' use. These particles of gold seemed little indeed as they floated away, but they made a grand total. So it will be in life if we improve every moment of time, every scrap of knowledge, every degree of influence, every opportunity of being good, getting good, doing good. The carpet on which men walked in the Mint was sown with. gold, but they knew it not. All our common things, tasks, duties are full of the dust of Gold. That on which men trample would yield crowns for their head, if they Only knew it and walked wisely.” Golden Text Illustration. The form of a little boy lay in the coffin, surrounded by mourning friends/ A mason came into the room and asked to look at the lovely face. “ You won der that I care so much,” he said, as the tears rolled down his cheeks, “ but your boy was a messenger of God to' me. One time I was coming down by a long ladder from a very high roof,: and found your boy close beside me when I reached the ground. He looked up in my face in childish wonder and asked frankly, ‘Weren’t you afraid of falling when you were up so high?’ and before I had time to answer, he said, ‘O, I know why you were not afraid! You said your prayers this morning before you began work.’ I had not prayed, but I have never for gotten to pray from that day to this, and, by God’s blessing I never will,” Do you go into the house of prayer every morning? ¡¡¡ah
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