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481 Memory Verse.— “Children, obey your p aren ts in all things, for th is i s . well pleasing in th e Lord.” Col. 3:20. A pproach .— Before we have our Bible story toddy I am going to te ll you a tru e story of a little boy I know re a l well. This little boy is ju st a little older th a n you boys and girls. BEGINNERS This little boy is AND PRIMARY very helpful in the Mabel L. M errill home, and does all he can to make home happy. He is th e only child in th e home, and his mother is no t very strong. I t is a Christian home and th e little boy invites o ther boys in the neighborhood to go to Sunday School w ith him. When you meet him on the stree t or in th e home, he is very polite and gentle in his manner, and he al ways does ju st as fath er or mother wishes him to do, and do you know, boys and girls, it is always a happy home where th e children obey fath er . and mother. Lesson Story.—We have such an in teresting sto ry today, not about one boy, b u t about two boys and th e ir mother, aiid because these boys did as m other asked them to do and obeyed her, they made th e home happy a t a time when it seemed as if th e home was going to be very unhappy. There were a fath e r and mother and th e two boys, and it w as a very happy, Christian home. One day th e fath e r died and went home to heaven. A man had helped th e fath e r by loaning him some money, and as soon as the man heard th e fath er and husband of th e family was dead, he came to th e mother and told h er he would have to tak e h er two boys away from h er to pay th e debt her husband owed him. Of course th e poor mother .was very sad, for she loved her boys, and they loved her, and she knew she could never have her boys any more. The g reat preacher E lisha was living a t th is time, and th is mother w ent to him aDd told him all about her g rea t sorrow.
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S a little six-year-old was asked by her fa th e r to sh u t th e door. She said, “ I won’t do it.” He said, “ Poor papa will have to do it him self.” Mr. S tu art said he would like to borrow th a t child for fifteen m inutes, and then after reflection he said he felt as though he ought to borrow th e fath er instead. A little boy heard Mr. S tu art te ll th is story about th e six-year-old refusing to sh u t the door. On the way home his mother asked him w hat he th o u g h t the six-year-old needed, and he replied promptly, “He needed a daddy.” So-called Ilomes.— “ Did you notice th e bored expression on D unbar’s face, while th e prima donna was singing ‘Home Sweet Home’? The song didn’t seem to appeal to him. Why should it have appealed? He was born in a flat; afte r his paren ts died, he was tak en to an orphan asylum ; when he grew old enough to go to work, he left th e asy lum , and w ent to a boarding-house, where he lived un til he was m arried; and ever since his m arriage, he has lived in a hotel.” This is not home. Home is w here life begins, character is But he played a simple song, In th e softness of the tw ilight As th e shadows lingered long, And it echoed o’er th e city Pu re and ligh t as silver foam And it ta u g h t two h earts th a t wandered And it told them not to roam. He was ju st a stree t musician And his song was ‘Home Sweet Home’.” Henry W ard Beecher said, “Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our afte r life, melodies and harmonies of old remembered jcys.” moulded, and destinies are made. “He was ju s t a stree t musician,
H elping To Make Home Happy. Col. 3 :20 ; 2 K ings 4:1-7.
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