922 was stirred , th e wound would open,— it could not he perpetually staunched. In all P au l’s preaching he never could close th e five bleeding wounds of Cal vary. There is a “ fountain OPEN for sin and uncleanness.” “The dying th ief rejoiced to see T h at fountain in his day And th e re may I though vile as he W ash all my sins away.” T en t Making And Teaching. Acts 18: 1 - 11 . Memory Verse.— “Whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do it all in th e name of th e Lord Jesu s.” Col. 3:17. Approach.— Clyde, you can tell th e boys and girls how you liked living in a te n t, for when you were up in th e mountains last summer on your vaca tion w ith fath e r and BEGINNERS mother, you .lived in AND PRIMARY a ten t. Now we Mabel L. M errill learn from what Clyde has told us th a t th e te n t made them all very com fortable for th e tim e they were in th e m ountains, and I th in k we would all enjoy it ju s t as much as Clyde and his folks did, b u t I wonder if it would be as com fortable a place to live all th e year th rough? No, it would not. The ten ts th a t we have these days are made of heavy canvas cloth, bu t th e ten ts we are going to hear about in our story were woven out of goat’s hair. P rayer. Lesson Story.— How many of you re member th e sto ry we had about P aul when he was a little boy, and w hat all th e little Jewish boys had to learn be sides th e ir lessons? W hat tra d e did P au l learn? Yes, he learned how to make tents. It was. a very wise thing for th e paren ts to teach th e ir boys a trad e so th a t when they grew up they could earn th e ir own living. Tent mak ing was a lowly' trade, and th e people who made them did no t get very good pay for "their work, and th e p laiting th e strong scented goat’s h air was n o t a very pleasan t work, bu t P au l did his
T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S work well, even though it was no t easy or pleasant. W hat a wonderful lesson we can learn from P aul here, for often we have work to do th a t is not easy or pleasant, bu t if it is our work we should do our best and do th e work in th e best m anner possible. The place where Paul io in our sto ry to-day is a large oity called Corinth, and while a beautiful city, most of th e people were wicked because th ey did not know Jesus as their Saviour. This was a very im portant place where th e people from other places came, so P au l was very anxious to have the people know Jesus, for he knew th en the o ther people who came th e re would hear about Him also. When P au l arrived in th e city he m et a man and his wife named Aquila and P riscilla, and they were also tent-m akers, so Paul stayed a t th e ir home, working all the week making tents, and on Sunday he w ent to the Jewish synagogue and told th e people th a t Jesus was th e Christ-, th e tru e God. Some of the Jews would no t believe Paul, and spoke wickedly of Jesus. Then P aul said to them , “ I have done my duty in telling you of Jesus, so if you will not be saved the fau lt is your own; from th is tim e I will go and preach to th e Gentiles.” All the people who were no t Jews, were called Gentiles. We are Gentiles. Of course th is made P aul feel very sad, b u t God spoke to P au l in a vision a t night, and told him no t to be afraid because of these wicked people, b u t to preach to the people ju st th e same and tell them th e tru th , for many of them were going to believe and be saved. The man who lived rig h t next to the Synagogue in vited P au l to come to his house and preach to th e people. The man who was th e chief ru ler of the Synagogue believ ed on Jesus and all the people in his house, and a g reat many others believed and were baptized. While P aul was busy during the week making tents, to earn money to live on, yet he was faith fu l to th e Lord Jesus, and went to church on
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