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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
October, 1933
Children I Met this Summer Dear Boys and Girls : Vacation days will be over when you read this, and school bells will be calling you back to work— but even so, I trust you are still cherish ing many happy memories of your vacation days.
K. Y. B. Club The following have read through the Gospel o f John, and they are now members of the Know Your Bible Qub: Asafo, Gold Coast, A frica: Emmanuel Osei. Eureka, Kan.: Valleria Coglan; Eleanor Moses; and Beulah Welch. N ew ton,'Kan.: Abbie Ann Claasen. Portsmouth, K y.: Cleda Mae, Cora, and Stella Fugate; Flossie May Hays; Olga Pedersen; Ethel Prater; Imagene Smith; Elizabeth Spooner; Alpha, Lois Marie, and Nell Tincher; Lizzie B. Van Atta; and Wavie Williams. Royal Oak, M ich. : Margaret Nesbitt. Seminole, Okla. : Gladys Eddy; Mrs. Thelma Fair; Violet Graves; and Amy, Luverna, and Thelma Smith. Umatilla, Ore.: Barbara and Lola Berry; and Loris Root. Vancouver, Wash.: Dorothy Burling; and Meryl Dames. Honorable Mention Cecile and Selma Clevenger, Lima, O., have completed reading the Gospel of Luke.
Florence C- Crowell, Buckingham, Pa., has memorized all the Scripture verses re quired in the Gospel of John. Bible Arithmetic from Luke Divide the number of years o f Anna’s widowhood by the number o f years she lived with her husband. Divide the result by the age o f the Lord Jesus when He first went up to Jerusalem to the Passover. Add the number o f days Mary and Jo seph sought for the Lord Jesus on the first Passover journey. Multiply by the age of the Lord Jesus when He was given His name. Divide the result by the number of dis ciples mentioned in Luke 7 :19. Add the number o f loaves the little boy gave to the Lord Jesus when He fed the 5,000. Subtract the number of fishes the little boy also gave. The result will be the number of the verse in the tenth chapter, which is called the Key_ Verse of the Gospel of Luke. Copy this verse in your notebooks and memorize it. A heathen man once asked a missionary what it was he put on the faces o f those who had given themselves to the Lord Jesus, to make them shine, because they looked so happy. “Nothing,” said the missionary. “It is the light inside shining out. You know, if you have a sunbeam in the heart, it is bound to light the face.” A candle must burn steadily, as well as shine. Shall I tell you a secret? I am writing this by candlelight, and the candles I have been using lately have a way of letting off sparks every now and then, as if they were in a temper, and of flaring up and blinking—a sort o f up-and-down light, not a' true, steady one. The reason for this, I read in my wise and witty book, is that the candles have become damp. Oh, dear boys and girls, do let us live in Sunshine Square, which is near Happy Lane; it is so much healthier there than in Dismal A l ley, or down Temper Lane, where it is so dark and damp. To keep my light steady, I have to keep trimming the wick of my can dle. I think trimming the wick is like read ing our Bibles. I do hope your Bible is your “everyday Book.” After the Lord has lighted you, you will find the Bible a thrilling B ook; and if you read it, our Lord has promised that no part of you shall be dark any more, but by the help of His Holy Spirit it will show you how to shine steadily. Candles have been called “jewels of light.” Be a bright, sparkling light for Him. But can I hear one of you say, “ I am a candle that has never been lighted” ? Well, just come now, and let a ray of light from the Saviour light you. The Lord Jesus is inviting you to come. There was a little girl who had heard over and over again how the Lord Jesus had come to die for her and save her, and yet she was not saved. One day she suddenly saw the reason why she was not saved—she had be lieved the Lord Jesus Christ had died for all; but she had never realized that He had died for her. He was her Saviour; that made all the difference. Do bring your self now to the Lord Jesus Christ, and take Him as your Saviour, and be lighted in side by Him, so that you may be a “jewel o f light” for Him.
I met many dear boys and girls this summer, boys and girls who gath ered about our Chil dren’s , Special Service Mission on the beach to hear the story o f the Lord Jesus. There w a s Cynthia with the golden hair. She had a beautiful new bicycle, and de
lighted to ride up and down the sidewalk along the beach. But one day she left the nice new bicycle long enough to sit on the sand with us, to hear the choruses and the blessed Bible stories. Soon even the new bicycle was forgotten, and Cynthia was one of the group gathered about the organ and the C.S.S.M. banner. One day the lesson was about a verse in the last book in the Bible^—Revelation 3:20. You can find it and read it if you wish ft;“ Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.” The children had made doors which opened and shut. The teacher had told them that these doors were like chil dren’s hearts. Jesus stands at the heart’s door and knocks. If any say, “ Come- in, Lord Jesus,” He will come in and be their Saviour, wash all their sins away, and make them His own children. Cynthia loved this story, and the next day, she let Jesus come into her heart. What a happy little girl she was all the remaining days o f our meetings on the sand 1 There were boys, too, fine little boys who loved to hear about the Lord Jesus. One little boy I’m remembering especially. He always wore a red sweater, so I called him the “red-sweater boy.’’; Though he came faithfully to all the children’s meet ings, he didn’t seem very much interested. He seemed to be thinking of something far away. One day we learned that he often did thing’s that displeased his mother, and one of the teachers decided to speak to him. It was the day he had heard the story of the little lost sheep—the one the tender Shepherd sought and found while the ninety and, nine were safe in the fold. He, with the others, had drawn a picture o f the lost sheep and the Shepherd’s crook. “What have you there?” the teacher asked the Red-Sweater Boy. “The little lost sheep,” he replied. “Were you ever like that little lost sheep?” the teacher continued. The little boy’s head dropped, for he realized he was very much like the little lost sheep. He found out that “all we like sheep have gone astray,” but that “the Lord Jesus laid on him the iniquity of us all,” and right there on the seashore a little lost sheep was found by the tender Shepherd, the Lord Jesus. What a change in the Red-Sweater B oy ! Even his face, wore a smile, and at the last afternoon meeting, he boldly and sweetly confessed the Lord Jesus as his Saviour. Boys and girls, are you still like the lit tle lost sheep, or have you been found by the loving Shepherd? He is longing for you to become one of the lambs of His pas ture. Receive Him today as your Shep herd-Saviour, for He says: “M y . sheep hear my voice and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish” (John 10:27, 28). Lovingly, Y our J unior E ditor .
C A N D L E S B y E dith G oreham
As I was coming home in the train the other day, I was reading a book, and what do you think the title was? I am afraid you would never guess, so I must tell you. It was called Sermons in Cani \ dle ' sfif’fr
I thought, as I read it, that it would be nice to write you a letter on candles. I won’t call it a sermon! We do not use candles so much nowa days as we used to do before gas and elec tric light became so popular; but we still use them sometimes on the piano, and on our birthday cakes, don’t we ? And there are still parts of the country where gas and electric lights are not used. I was staying at a farm not long ago where we all used candles. Some are short, some are long, some have pretty colors; but all are made of the same thing and for the same pur pose—to give light. A candle is of no use until it is lighted, is it? And a candle can’t light itself. Some one else must do that for it. “A candle that affords no light, What profits it by day or night?” - A very wise man (in fact, he was the wisest man that ever lived) once said: “The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord” (Prov. 20:27). How wonderful I God made Adam, the first man, with his candle (spirit) all alight; but Adam let sin come in and put it out, so he became all dark inside, and as he was our great-great- great-great- (if I put any more “great’s,” the Editor will be annoyed with me, so you must imagine hundreds more) grandfa ther, we were all born dark inside, too. Now, how can we get our candles lighted again? Well, David jubilantly tells us, in Psalm 18:28: “Thou wilt light my candle; the Lord my God will enlighten my dark ness." I will give you what is called the Scottish paraphrase o f that verse: “The Lord will light my candle, so That it shall shine full bright; The Lord my God will also make My darkness into light;”
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