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they were drinking, and living only for pleasure, God would punish them, and also punish the other wicked people about them. The people did not like the words Amos had spoken to them; they made fun of him, and paid no at tention to his message. Amos said he didn’t want to be a prophet. He told how he was taking care of his sheep, when God sent him on this errand. He warned the people again and told them if they did not listen to God’s words and obey Him, the time would come when they would not have a chance to hear His word. Amos said he did not want to be a prophet. He would rather have stayed out in the fields doing his work. But when God spoke, Amos never thought of his own wishes. He just went and did what God told him to do. When father or mother asks us to do something, sometimes we would much rather keep on playing, but the right think to do is to obey them at once as Amos obeyed God. God told the people they would have to be pun ished, but He also told them how they could keep from being punished. Now how do you suppose they could do it? It is our memory verse. Let us say it. “ Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live.” Let us remember these words and always do as they ask us to do.
Lesson Story.—Last week we heard about Jonah whom God sent on an er rand. James, did Jonah go at once to the place where God asked him to go? Tell us what he did and how it all came out. So Jonah found out that he could not run away from God, and that it was a great deal harder when we disobey God than when we do just what He asks us to do. Now in today’s story God sends a man by the name of Amos on an errand to his own people Israel, be cause they were not obeying God, but doing many wrong things that were very displeasing to God. One of the wrong things they were doing was drinking wine which hurt their bodies and minds. Now it was not a pleasant thing for Amos to do, to go to these people and tell them of their sin, and it was a great deal more pleasant to stay at home and care for his sheep; but Amos knew it was his duty to obey God, and so he left his sheep and went to tell Israel the message God had sent. Now, boys and girls, just see how wise Amos was in getting the people to listen to him. First, he told about the wickedness of the people around them, and my, how they listened to Amos, and if we could have been there I think we might have seen some of them nodding their heads that what he was saying was true. Then he begins to tell them about their own sins; how they had plenty and would not help the poor among them. Then he told them how they were forgetting God. Then Amos told them that be cause they were pnly thinking of the fine food they had to eat, and the wine
BLACKBOARD SKETCHES Ern Hansell
DRAW Israel mocking the message of the Prophet. Reference can be made to the present day mocking of God’s Word and warning.
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