June 1931
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K. Y. B. C. Notes We welcome this month a new club member from Quebec, who was won by an old member there, and a group from Pasadena, Calif.—four boys and girls, with big sister, mother, and an auntie, who meet every Thursday with your Edi tor. None listens more happily, as we talk about the Lord Jesus, or sings more heartily than does fairy Janet, just five years old. All proudly wear the club pin, and when asked, “What is it?” are glad to say, “It means that we belong to the Know Your Bible Club.” — o — Pray for Jewish and Arab children. Parents I Have Known 1. Those who plan to go to the country “just as soon as Sunday-school is out,” and so Mary and Jim, who would like to stay to church, cannot. 2. Those who will not let their chil dren join the church “until they are old enough to know whether they really want to or not” or “until they are old enough to understand what it means—when those who have instructed them know that they are really “born again,” having intelligent ly and eagerly accepted the Lord Jesus as Saviour, and that they desire to come into the church. 3. Those who criticise the minister, the Sunday-school teacher, and the superin tendent in the presence of the children. 4. Those who bring the children to Sunday-school when it is half over, be cause they themselves do not wish to “waste so much time waiting for church to begin.” 5. Those who do not have family wor ship in the morning “because everybody is so tired”—for any reason or no reason at all. 6. Those who have to hunt for the Bible and dust it when the children ask help in work given them in Sunday- school or children’s church. 7. Those who, for the Lord’s sake and their own and the children’s, “remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” 8. Those who, with the teacher and minister, gladly prepare the children for entrance into the church, knowing that the future of the church depends upon the rising generation, and realizing that the church is the spiritual home of the Spi rit-born, whether child or adult. 9. Those who begin and end each day with prayer and praise—the expression of a devoted heart to a loving heavenly Father. 10. Those who pray for the minister and Christian workers, who voice their appreciation, and who allow blame to die for want of breath. 11. Those who themselves attend Sun day-school, and who feel it as great a disgrace and detriment to be late there as they and their children feel if the lat ter are tardy at day school. All these have their names on church rolls! To which class do you belong?
White Inside Albert was nine years old, and he went to school. He was kind and thoughtful, studious "and obedient, and stood well in his classes. Yet he was not happy. In deed, he felt sometimes as if he could not go to school any longer. The reason was that his schoolmates were cruel to him. I don’t think you would ever guess why, so I will tell you. He had a very black skin, but you have already heard that his heart was not like that. One day in Sunday-school he, with oth er children, was taught the song, “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” He went to his teacher after the class and said, “Please, I want that washing that makes you whiter than snow. But I wouldn’t mind if could get just some whiter, so the boys at school wouldn’t all the time be hollerin’, ‘Nigger, nigger,’ at me.” The teacher explained that the wash ing of which the hymn spoke was the washing of sin from the heart by the blood of Jesus Christ. Albert was at first disappointed, but soon he saw that he needed this, too; and so he accepted the Lord Jesus as his Saviour. The next time the thoughtless boys called him names, he said, “I don’t care any more if you call me ‘nigger,’ cos my heart is white. Done washed white by Jesus, for He done told me so. And
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Bear Juniors, 1 Again I want to thank you for your let ters, for the increasing number of an swers to the puzzles and the question naire, and best of all, for word from those who are learning the Memory Four. We have God’s own word for it that when we get “into our hearts for keeps” what His Book says, we have something that is “more precious than much fine gold. But I am very greedy. I want to hear from more of you. I have been reading this week about the wonderful observatory that is on the top of Mt. Wilson, near Los Angeles, where your Junior page is printed. It is the most wonderful observatory in the world, in some ways. On the top of this mountain there are several white domes, under each of which is a telescope. One covers the largest reflector telescope in the world, and another, the third largest. Ask your grown-ups to show you how hig a 100-inch telescope is. It is by such marvelous instruments as these that as tronomers have discovered that there are about thirty billion suns, or stars, for an English astronomer says that stars are really suns. A still stronger telescope would no doubt make it possible to see even more than that. But think of it—all these heavenly bod ies are moving, and yet there are no col lisions—moving, each in its own path, though there are some runaways, as you may have seen, for what we call “shoot ing stars” are that, in a way. We read that God is “upholding all things,” and that by Him all things are “held togeth er.” He also knows just how many there are. His Book says: “He telleth the number of the stars” and “calleth them by their names” ! Surely then, He knows your name and mine. And what seems more wonderful to us is that, just as no two flowers or blades of grass or per sons are alike, so, He tells us, “one star differeth from another in glory.” But the wonder of wonders is that this God is our Father, if we believe in and love and give ourselves to His Son. What a Father that is to have ! We are told that “not a sparrow falleth but your heavenly Father knoweth.” The same One, who made and who keeps in their place thirty billion and more stars, knows and cares about a little sparrow. Yes, and His Word then goes on to say how much more He careth for you. ils not that the most wonderful thing of all? Yours in the Father’s love, The Editor. — o — There’s beauty in the sunshine, there’s beauty in the shower, There’s beauty in the fields of grain and in the fragrant flower, There’s beauty in the starlit sky, and beauty in the sea; But beautiful beyond all these is Jesus Christ to me. Beauty everywhere, in earth and sky and sea, But beautiful beyond all these is Jesus Christ to me. —From “Glad Songs.”
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The Memory Four 1st week —Psa. 14:1. 2nd week —Prov. 4:23. 3rd week —Psa. 119:11. 4th week —Matt. 5 :8. — o —
Answers to May Questionnaire 1. 2 Ki. 6 :24-33 and chapter 7. 2. Rev. 22:10. 3. 1 Chron. 4:9-17. 4. 2 Sam. 22.'
Answer to May Puzzle “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning” (Psa. 30:5).
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