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Abraham Giving Lot the First Choice. Gen. 13:5-15. Memory Verse.— “ As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” Luke 6:31. Approach.— Prepare for each child in the class a package of some dainty to eat, putting in one candy, another nuts, another fruit, etc. Put the least in the larg- BEGINNERS . est and nicest look- AND ing package. From PRIMARY the largest looking package grade down smaller in size using some pretty paper for the largest package and so on down and for the smallest package use just common brown wrapping paper, the poorer looking the package the better the contents.) Now I have a surprise for you this morning, and I am going to let you take your choice and take one of these packages which I have placed on the table, and you can each have one. Who got the best? The pretty green one with the pink ribbon. Well now you may open your package and eat what you find in it, and then I am going to ask you to tell me again who made the best choice. Are you sure, James, that yours was the best? It was the smallest in the whole lot and did not look very good from the outside, but on the inside were some lovely chocolate drops. How about that large green package tied with the pink ribbon? It only had a couple of pea nuts in it. Clara says you can not always tell by the way things look on the outside, and that is just what I wanted you to see, and in our lesson to-day we are going to hear about a man who made a choice. I noticed James waited until the rest had taken their package, and there was only one left and it was the very smallest one, but you see it was the best. Now James did just what our memory verse tells us to do. Prayer.^L e t us thank Jesus for his
gifts and help us to choose the right things. Lesson Story.-S(Let boys and girls tell you as much of the story of last week as they can, aiding them if nec essary. ) Now you remember A^braham was Lot’s uncle, and since our story last week, it has been a number of years and they both have a great many cows, camelskand sheep. (Show pictures and make plain to little folks, for in our day many of the boys and girls in the big cities have very vague ideas of these animals and their habits.) The part of the land where Lot and his uncle Abraham lived was very beauti ful, and there was plenty of nice green grass, and a river full of water run ning through it, so there was plenty of food and water for all these animals. After a time the men who took care of these animals began to quarrel. They said there' was not room enough for all the cattle, and each tried to get the best place in the river for giving drink to their animals and the best grass to feed them. When Abraham heard about these men quarreling he spoke to Lot about it. How do you think he spoke? Did he say, This is my land; God has given it to me, and you must move away somewhere else? No, he spoke kindly to Lot and said, Let there be no trouble between my men and your men, for we are God’s children and it is not right for God’s children to quar rel. Then Abraham told Lot that he might go to any part of the land he chose to live in, and Abraham said he would go to another part. Abraham was much older than his nephew Lot, and Lot should have given his uncle first choice of the land, but Lot acted in a very selfish way, just like a great many people act to-day, and he chose all the best land where the river was. Now in one part of the land Lot chose was a city, but it was a very wicked city, and Lot took his family and went to live in this wicked city, and next week we will
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