posed to the light scamper off to some other hiding place; they love the dark- ness. Men are born in sin,—born with evil natures,—they love sin,-—they prac- tice sin,—-they are wilful and want their own way. The light of the Gospel pen- etrates the darkness of the human heart, exposes its depths of sin, shows its hideousness and hatefulness, and men
rise up in their wrath to smite the preacher or to smother the message. The condemnation so terrible, that will rest upon the world and rest so heavily upon men and women in these so-called Christian lands is, that light has come and has been rejected and where the light is brightest the condemnation must be greatest. •
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OUR MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN. J une 3. Mark 16:15. 1. We learned how children in Japan live, and play, and study. How much they are like those of America. But we find one great difference—most of them, even now, do not know the true God. They worship images, evil spirits, spirits of the dead, and are afraid all the time. They have "The tree God," "The fox God," "The kitchen God," etc., etc., more than they can count. It is said that they have 8,000,000 gods! There are thousands of shrines and temples to which the mothers take their babies before they can walk, and cause them to put money into the contribution box, and to fold their tiny hands as if in prayer. 2. The temples and grounds are made very attractive to the children, as are our parks. They have queer ways of praying. Sometimes they write their prayers on paper, chew it into a wa$ and throw it on a screen. If it sticks they think their prayer is answered. How different from just speaking to our Father in heaven! They worship their emperor as if he were a god. Some believe that after death they will come back to earth as a cat,. or snake, or other .animal. How different from be- ing like Jesus, and with Him. 3. What will become of them if they do not know about Jesus? "There is no other Name given among men whereby we mu st be saved" (Ac. 4:12). 5; The N. T. has been printed in Japanese for over 30 years, and O. T. over 20. "Dr. Hepburn was the first to get a t ' a man's heart (in Japan) by healing his body." Now thousands of hearts,, big and little, are helped in that w«yv We send them preachers, doctors, nurses,< teachers (they have many Chris- tian kindergartens for both girls and
boys) and all that we may win their souls for Christ. 6. The C. E. Soc. in Japan began with the juniors. Note: Combine chp's. VII-VIII of "JAPAN FOR JUNIORS." Emphasize the need of preaching Christ to Japan. Jno. 3:16; Rom. 10:13-15. THE HUNGRY CROWD J une 10. Jno. 6:5-15. 1. Bring the scene to mind in a word picture. Jesus, the twelve, the 5,000 men, besides women, and children, all tired and hungry, and far from home. The little lad with his lunch basket of five small cakes, and' two small dried 1 fishes. 2. See now how the little a little boy could do was used by Jesus. Philip said that $34.00 would not buy enough for them all to taste a little, but Jesus made those five barley cakes and two- fishes to supply over 5,000 with just ass much as they wanted. 3. See how careful Jesus was n ot to waste anything, for all that He had made so much. He bade them g a t h er up the fragments. 4. Make the application as close and. personal as possible by the help of John 6:32-37. 5. The 23d Psalm may be u s e f ul with this. THE GREATEST DISCIPLE J une 17. Mat. 18:1-4. In teaching this lesson I would teach, from Matthew 20: 25-28, rather t h an as above. It is hard for a child to u n - derstand that the greatest disciple is. like a little child, and have the child understand it. The child may think, itself all right. Jesus was talking to- "grown ups." - . > ' . . f The lesson is that service is blest no.
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