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THE KING’ S BUSINESS
Friends congratulate the young - man Uncle Sam chooses to ambassadorship o f position o f authority at home. How supe rior, we should regard the honor when the Creator and Monarch o f the. universe invites us into partnership with Him, shares His plans and asks us to represent Him and carry on His work. Probably several hundred men were fishing on the sea o f Galilee, for fishing was and still is a very prominent industry there. Why did Christ call only four since i He needed many? Christ could look within and see their hearts. He doubtless saw that His, words would have been useless. These men were not idly lounging along the beach. They were busy. They were not' the aristocratic nor socially elite o f' the 1 vicinity, but honest,, honorable, high- minded working men. God does not call many wise, not many powerful, not many high-born. “ But God has chosen the fool ish things o f the world—so that no flesh should boast before God” (1 Cor. 1 :26-29). God did not choose ( these men because they were model Christian workers. Doubt less they had many faults. Christ chose them because o f the possibilities He saw in them. They were not already made, He M emory V ers ? :). “Follow me.;”—Mark 2 :14. Approach .—Do you like to help mother? What can you do ? How did you learn ? Yes, we watch mother, then we help her and some day she will let us try alone. Some time mother is going to be so busy that some one will have to>. show little brother or sister how to be a helper. I wonder who she will ask to do it? Yes, the one who has tried hardest to obey her and does the work best, will get the first chance. Who gave you mother? Isn’t God good to send her to help us grow up to be helpful men and women? He has sent us some one else whom we need even more than mother or father. There are '/some who have no mother but everyone has this great Helper—the Lord Jesus. No one can
was to make them. Children go to school because they want an education, not because they have one. So people come to Christ not' because they are perfect, but because they want to be. Let us be chari table ,with one another’s faults, remember ing that Christ has all Christians 'in the process o f making. Christ will do the fashioning if we but “ Come ye after me.” What questions they might have asked: What about our nets, our support? Should we leave fathers? They had things to give up. One always, has to give up good things to get the best. I f you become a musician you will have to give up hours o f recrea tion for practice. Since it was Christ who called, they immediately left all and trusted all to him. (H ow often did your girls find that “ immediately” . and “straightway” occur?) God needs young people for whole-time service today. Would you respond if He called you? “In simple , trust'like theirs, who heard Beside the Syrian sea, Let us like them without a word - The gracious calling o f the Lord Rise up and follow Thee.”— Whittier. grow up to be a good man or woman with-i out Him. He has asked each one who loves and obeys Him, to be His helper, and says to each one of us, “ Follow me.” Presentation .—In the country where the Lord Jesus lived when He was here on earth, there is a large lake, you can see the blue mountains on the other\side and on a clear day you could have seen the white, flat-roofed houses o f the little.towns on its shore. The water in the Sea o f Galilee is good to drink, like the water from a spring. There are several kinds o f fish in it which are sweet and good for food. In one o f the towns lived two brothers, Peter and Andrew, fishermen, who had a boat. In another town across the lake lived two other brothers, also fishermen. These
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