T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S unto our God.” Boys and girls, some times we are made fun of today be cause we love Jesus and try to get others to know and love Him too. Al ways remember that Jesus is just as ready to help us today if we will ask Him. There is nothing too hard for Jesus to do for us. Prayer. The story of Nehemiah rebuilding the wall is one that deserves considerable attention. Ys. 16 and 17 show that they worked and WATCHED. Many Christians are ready to work but little realize their need of “watching lest they enter into temptation” . Draw the wall and the little man working. Tell the story of the lesson. DRAW, WATCH and PRAY. Make the application by explaining that our work is in building the church, the Body of Christ and that we should work, taking every precaution lest Satan the enemy, through his subtle ways, render us use less and destroy our works. DRAWING INFERENCES Mark Hopkins, the great educator, never said a truer thing than this, “ Men who are most reliable in observing facts, are often least so in drawing infer ences.” The inferences of Darwin seem to many of the great scientists of the day and to other capable judges, un warranted, unreliable, untrue. EVER-PRESENT COPPER The eagle on a silver quarter said to the Indian on a copper cent, “ You cop per-faced, feather-bedecked creature, do you call yourself a coin?” “ Well, whatever I am,” said the Indian, “ I attend more missionary meet ings than you do.” BLACKBOARD SKETCHES By Era Hansell September 3, 1922
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men to try to stop the work of build ing, but Nehemiah and his men would not be stopped. They worked away with one hand, while with the other they held a weapon. These wicked men made all sorts of fun of the men who were rebuilding the broken walls, and said they would fall down easily. They forgot that God was helping them. Now listen and see how Nehemiah an swered these wicked men. He just prayed to God and asked Him to still be with them and help them in their work, and to let the wicked things the men were saying and doing turn back upon them. Boys and girls, do you know why Nehemiah and the other men working with him had such courage to keep right on working while these wick ed men stood and made fun of them? Here are some of the things they had to help them in their work. Swords to protect them from their enemies; trowels for putting the cement between the stones; add prayers to a God who had power to help them in the*hardest place. Nehemiah really acted out our memory verse. “We made our prayer
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