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November, 1945
LESSONS FOR NOVE
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By Elmer L. Wilder
Illustrated by Gladys Bowman
Flour is very useful, but it does not take the place of salt. Paul, will you name the last one? “Salt.” Yes, this is Salt White. Christ wants Christians to be the salt of the earth, causing people to be thirsty for the Water of Life. Third Week A H appy H eart ;
as to the length of time, as different qualities of steel hold magnetism longer.) See, Dick no longer grabs everything within h i s reach. By coming to Christ, he is cured of covet ing. Christ can cure this sin today, as well as all others, if sinners will only come to Him and accept Him as personal Saviour. Second Week W hite , B ut N ot R ight G ■£ • O JA - 9 -*JS
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Objects: A steel drill .% inch in diameter, several small nails and tacks, two six-volt dry-cell batteries, a piece of adhesive tape, about sixty feet of Number 20 cotton-covered ar mature wire, and a paper tube 3 inches long by % of an inch in di ameter. (Wind the wire around the cardboard tube, closely together, back and forth in layers from one end to the other, until all the wire is used. Connect the ends of the wire to the batteries. A doorbell transformer can be used instead of batteries. Wrap the coil with adhesive tape, and print the word “CHRIST” on it. Place the drill inside the coil while the current is on, for about half a minute, which will cause the drill to become magnetized. Make sure that the shank of the drill is up.) Lesson: This drill is so much like a person that I have named it Dick Drill. Notice how Dick grabs these nails and tacks. He reminds me of a man, who was guilty of covetousness, when Christ was on earth. When one covets long enough, there is a danger of his trying to get that which does not belong to him. In the twelfth chapter of Luke we are told about a man who came to Christ and asked that He speak to his brother about giving him a part of their inheritance. Listen as I give you Christ’s answer: “Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth” (Luke 12:15). It was then that the Lord Jesus Christ told the parable of the rich fool who thought more of material things than of his soul. Here is a coil marked “CHRIST.” We will bring Dick to it and see if he can be cured of the sin of covetous ness. (Place the drill in the coil, shank down, which is the opposite direction to which it was first placed in the coil, and leave for approxi mately the same length of time as before. It would be well to experiment
Objects: Six jars, graduated in size, filled respectively with sugar, soda, starch, baking powder, flour, and salt. Lesson: I have six brothers in my bag this morning. Before introducing them, I want to remind you of the words of Christ, “Ye are the salt of the earth” (Matt. 5:13).. Salt is used to keep things from spoiling. The world would be much worse than it is, were it not for the fact that there are Christians in it. Then, too, salt makes people thirsty for water. Many unsaved people become thirsty for Christ because of the godly life of some Christian whom they know. Here are the six boys. They are different in size, but they all have a family resemblance. Bill, what does this taste like? “Sugar.” You are right. This is Sugar White. He is sweet, but he cannot do the thing Christ meant when He said, “Ye are the salt of the earth.” John, see whether or not you can tell us the name of the next brother. From the face you are making, I think this must be Soda White. Soda is good to use in cooking, but that is not what Christ meant when He spoke of “the salt of the earth.” Mary, we will let you try to name the next one. It is difficult to tell by the taste, so I will help you. It is Starch White. Starch makes clothes stiff, but it cannot be used for salt. Esther, you will find that the next “brother” bites your tongue. It is Baking Powder White. Lois, we will let you taste the next one. Yes, his name is Flour White.
Object: A paper heart. (Make the heart by using a piece of paper 7 x 11 inches or larger if visibility requires. Fold paper in the middle, making the size 7 x 5 % inches. Fold each free end to within % inch of the middle, leaving the p a p e r approximately 7 x 2-7/8 inches in size. With the fold and the two single edges to your right, begin to cut out the heart, cutting from a point on the right-hand fold 1% inches from the top. When cutting down the left side, where the heart extends the farthest, leave the folded left-hand edges uncut for % inch, to act as hinges later. Continue the cutting, making a point at the base of the fold at the lower tip of the heart. Open and you will have a whole heart, between two halves. Color the opened halves red on the inside. On one, print Isaiah 9:6, and on the other, Luke 1:31. Fold the flaps over the heart, and in the gap b e t w e e n them, print the word “SAVED,” c o m p l e t e the following words, “L O ST, ACCURSED, EVIL, VILE, and DEAD.” Begin the lesson with the flaps folded back of. the heart.) Lesson: This is a rather sad-look- ing heart, isn’t it? This is a picture of the human heart, unchanged by Christ. Christ came to earth, because of the condition in the human heart, such as we find described in this paper heart. God was greatly con cerned about providing a remedy for this condition, and He gave this prophecy! “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
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