How to Join the K. Y. B. Club To become a member of the Know Your Bible Club, read through the Gospel according to John, using either your own Bible, or a Gospel of John which will be sent upon request. When the Gospel has been read and a staement to this effect, signed by parent or Sunday school teacher, has been sent to the Editor of the Junior King’s Business, a K. Y. B. C. pin will be mailed. Sun day school classes or clubs desiring to order ten or more Gospels or pins may wish to share the cost of these supplies, as the Lord directs: Gospels, postpaid five cents each—in quantity, three cents; pins, without charge, two cents each. However, no one is to do without a Gospel or pin because of lack of money. Address: Junior King’s Business, 558 S. Sope St., Los Angeles 13, Calif. “ Now, Esperanza,” I said, “here are two sides—which will you choose?” With tears in her eyes, she cried: “ I just have to choose Jesus, even if my mother does put me out of the house!” So we knelt together on the earthen floor of the kitchen and Esperanza gave her heart to the Lord regardless of what would happen. She began to live a real Christian life, witnessing, reading and memorizing the Bible, and showing the fruit of the Spir it in her ways. In answer to our pray ers her mother did not drive her away, nor did her father beat her. Will you pray for Esperanza and oth er little girls and boys who have to go through persecution to follow the Lord? And for their parents who live in ig norance and superstition? And for the missionaries who are trying to bring them to Jesus?
JU N IO R KINO'S BUSINESS
Martha S. Hooker
E óperun zu â CHOICE
By Jane and Neil Nellis
Missionaries of
B OYS and girls, we would like you to come down to Mexico with us because we want you to know some of the Indian boys and girls. First, we take a long bus ride; then we go up a steep mountain foot trail, by mule back. Ahead of us are the donkeys carrying boxes of food, and our furniture made out of boxes, our pots and pans, dishes and clothes—everything we own. Up, up, up, we go around that last steep curve. Now we are on top of a mountain range, looking down over a beautiful valley. This is not the end of our journey. We must go down to the bottom of this mountain again, over rocks and slippery descents, and then climb another range of mountains. At last we see Atepec, the little vil lage where the Zapotecan Indians have lived for generations. Watch that little girl coming up the road. She wears no shoes, her patched dress is very dirty. But she is smiling sweetly and politely says “padiuyri ”—which means “hello.” If we should follow her into her home, we would find only one room—kitchen, living room, bedroom—in fact, every thing! At night her bed is a straw mat on the floor. A little girl like this has come to help us in our kitchen. Her name is Esperanza and she is thirteen years old. The floor of our house, like those of the natives, is made of dirt which must he swept often. Esperanza makes the char coal fire early in the morning. Then she walks five blocks for our water, which she carries home in a big clay pitcher. She is slowly learning to cook our strange American dishes like mashed po tatoes, and to bake cakes and cookies. But, more important, Esperanza is learning about the Lord Jesus for the first time. Can you imagine living thir teen years and never hearing that Jesus died on the cross to give you everlasting life? Esperanza loves to sing songs about Him and enjoys with all of her heart the family devotions each morning before the duties begin. Let me tell you what happened to Es peranza one day. I was explaining how the Lord Jesus wants us to open the door of our hearts and let Him come in to live in us. Esperanza was touched, but she decided she must first ask her mother before accepting Jesus as her Saviour. Her mother, who worshiped idols, was very angry. She told Esper anza that if she accepted Christ, she Page Sixteen
Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. would be put out of her house, and that her father would beat her. Esperanza was very sad and did not know what to do. Already in her heart she loved Jesus, but where could she go to live if her mother put her out of her house? The only place would be our house, and we were hated “ for eigners!” So she started slipping away from the Lord in order to have a house to live in. One day she told me sadly that she couldn’t work for me any longer. My heart sank. She was trying to get entirely away from Christian influence and the Lord. So I said, “ Es peranza, before you go, I want to show you something.” I took a large piece of paper, and in the center I printed her name in large letters. Then I made two columns, thus:
E
HEAVEN
HELL
1. With the Lord forever
1. Separation from God for ever
S P E R A N Z A
2. Peace
2. Fear
3. Joy
3 Sorrow
4. Name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life Approval of parents
4. Idols, Images
Disapproval of parents plus a
whipping
* I 'HE whole creation is the work of our wonderful Lord. One of the most delicate and intricate works of His hands is the spider’s web which is often mentioned in the Bible. One reference is: “ The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in « king s palaces” (Prov. 30:28).
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