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can’t tease me no more because I’m going to have a new one when God gets through with me down here. Please don’t think it’s a funny hand, and don’t be afraid of it.” He held up his large left hand. “And this fist is not going to sock you any more for teasing me. I guess I can take it all right, and you can’t hurt me, ’cause I’m in God’s hands.” Very solemnly he turned to Teacher. “ Now don’t you think we better pray?” A hush fell upon the group. There was a lump in Teacher’s throat. The delay made Harry feel that he should be the one to pray. He said, “ O God, it is awful good to be in Your hands. It’s sort o’ grand to think about Your dying on Calvary. And, O God, make us all to believe it, for Jesus’ sake. Amen.” How Alice and John Spent Their Vacation Alice and John and their mother, Mrs. Kaye, were spending their vacation at beautiful Hermosa Beach, in Southern Cali fornia. One morning Alice came running into the house, and between breathless gasps exclaimed, “Why, Mother, there’s a children’s meeting being held right down on the sand! May I go?” “Are there any boys there?” John asked. “ Of course there are, some bigger than you, too,” answered Alice. “Why, they have an organ and lots of umbrellas, and a teacher was playing the trumpet as I came by. Oh ! I d o hope we get to go !” Soon the three were on their way, and Mrs. Kaye met one of the workers, who explained that the meetings were being conducted by the Children’s Special Serv ice Mission. Mrs. Kaye had heard before that this organization held meetings on the beaches of England and in other parts of the world, and she gladly allowed Alice and John to come each morning and after noon. Day by day at nine-thirty each morning, Alice and John gathered with the other children about the organ and the C.S.S.M. banner for the Children’s Special Service Mission meetings. What a happy group o ‘ children ! There were about a hundred, and of all ages. The morning hours raced past as the children sang, recited memory verses, played Bible games, and awaited the special feature which was always a surprise. Some days the special feature would be a Bible story worked out on the Scripturegraph board. At other times it would be an object lesson to make a Bible truth so plain that the children would never forget it. In many different ways the boys and girls were reminded of the love of the Lord Jesus for them. Sometimes special guests of the group would bring this sur prise part of the program. Then there was the Bible study period, when the large group of boys and girls was divided into smaller groups accord ing to ages, and each group gathered about a teacher under a gay beach umbrella. Alice counted this the best part of the day’s meetings because it was during the class period that one day she accepted the Lord Jesus as her own Saviour. John had already made this important decision,
and Mrs. Kaye had been praying and hop ing that Alice would receive the Lord Jesus, too. On this particular day, the lesson was in John’s Gospel, chapter 3. The teacher spoke of Nicodemus as the man who had only one birthday, but needed to have two, for the Lord Jesus said to him: “Ye must be born again” (v. 7). The speaker continued by saying that each of us, like Nicodemus, must be born again—we each need to have two birthdays: one to mark the day of our birth into this world and another to mark the day when we accept the Lord Jesus as Saviour and become a member of God’s family. As the teacher explained just how one could be born again and have two birth days, Alice listened carefully, for she realized that she had never had this sec ond birthday. The leader prayerfully read and explained John 3 :16, showing why the Lord Jesus came to this world to die for us. As she listened, Alice realized that He must have loved her very, very much, and she felt more and more sorry as she thought of the many wrong things she had done that had grieved and disappointed the Lord Jesus. But the teacher .was reading, “.. .that whosoever believeth in him should not per ish, but have everlasting life.” Then the teacher said that those who wished to accept the Lord Jesus as Saviour might insert their own names in certain parts of the verse. She showed them how to do it, and she asked whether some boy or girl wanted to really choose to be in that verse. Alice was the first one td offer to read the verse aloud, and this is the way she read it: “For God so loved Alice, that he gave his only begotten Son, that Alice who “SEASIDE” c. s. s. yt. Chen» Gordon E. Hooker
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” “ Do you mean that you believe on the Lord Jesus i and take Him as your very own Saviour?” the teacher asked quietly. “Yes, I do,” Alice answered with a bright smile. Alice then wrote the date under this verse, because this date had become her second birthday. What a happy girl she was as she car ried the good news home to her mother f —M.S.H. Memory Work for September Question: Why did the Lord Jesus come into the world? Answer: “ For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me” (John 6:38). “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10 : 10 ). “ For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Lk. 19:10). “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal. 4:4,5). “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoso ever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). New K. Y. B. C. Members The follow ing have read through the Gospel ac cording to John and are now members o f the Know Your Bible Club: Douglas, A riz.: M arvel and Walton Walker. Greenville, S. C .: | Doris Crain; John Dunn; M ildred H arris; Sybil Hart; Glennie Lankford; Dolores Newton; Margaret Stephens, and Maebel Turner (Emma Mackey, leader). Lawrence, K ans.: Lorraine Cain, Helen Dean Collins, Dorothy Dicker; DaHene D olan; Nadine Laster; M ildred M ull; Faye Pickens; M ary Smith, and Ruth Wilson (Geneva W ogahn Hills, teacher). Los Angeles, C alif.: M ary Jane Beckwith; Bill Floyd; Gladys Hansen; Robert H ein; Paul Lind- lief; Donald Preboda; Robert Smith; Marian and Raymond Sweet, and Raymond Weiss (M arie Cou- lombe, teacher); Dorothy Latnbert. and Laura Moore (Frances Poundstone, superintendent). M ilner, B. C., Can.: Alice and Norma Mufford (Effie Postlethwaite, leader). Paterson, N . J.: Alice Barker; Dorothy and Helen Baisch; Edward Cochrane; Floyd and M ar garet Huyler; Eleanor K night; Lucille and M ar garet Littleton, and Lois Newhold (M rs. Robert Campbell, leader). Red Rock, O kla.: W anda Blew ; Rowena Boren; Betty Lou Carpenter; Danny Ferrier; Billie Lou Franklin; Nettie G oodw ill; Sylvia Heidlebaugh; M'elba Humphries; Viola Grace Lewis; N ola M c Connell; Ervin Pruitt, and Patricia Purvis (M rs. D. E. McConnell, superintendent). Watsonville, C alif.: Barbara Atkins; Donald Brow n; Esther Coons; Geneva Garrett; Phyllis H art; Doris M cK night; M arion Rockley, and Emmett Shugart (Helen Hall, superintendent). 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 re quest. When the Gospel has been read, and a statement 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. Sunday-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 quan tity, three cents; pins, without postage, 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 South Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif.
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sing of His love for me,
By the side of the beautiful sea.
Copyright, vas, byGordonK,Honker One of fhe choruses that Alice and John Kaye sang on the beach at the meetings of the Children's Special Service Mission about which the accompanying story tells.
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