FREESAMPLES
September, 1942
THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
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some sin. Always remember this, and help to make God’s big family a happy one.
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Answer: "Twelve dollars." "So,” resumed Jones, “hogs twelve dollars apiece and folks forty cents a head. Say, brother, don’t you wish you were a hog? You and your whole family wouldn’t bring enough in this town to buy a suckling pig. This is a little lower down than I have ever found them. For the pitiful sum of forty cents apiece, you turn over your boys to be debauched, the hearts of mothers to be crushed, and the town ruined—all for forty cents. That is cheap; but I expect that is all you are worth, eh?” After more sarcastic ref erence to the forty cents, he closed with this parting thrust: “If you fel lows that signed that petition to bring saloons to this town don’t feel like a hog, you don’t feel natural, that’s all.” —Cyclopedia of Religious Anecdotes, by Lawson. Like Children of God E cclesiastes 10:17 ; R omans 14:19-21 MEMORY VERSE: “All thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children” (Isa. 54:13). APPROACH: How is it in y o u r home? Are you an only child, or is there a family of children? Do you sometimes quarrel with one another? Does Mother have to make rules for LESSON STORY: I know some one who has a very large family, indeed. This One is God. His family includes people from many different countries, and of many races. Do you think there are rules in the family of God? Indeed, there are. Some of your rules at home are rules about eating and drinking. God says something about eating, too, and especially about drinking. What are the best drinks for children? Milk and water are the best for grown-ups, too, if they only knew it. Perhaps you can help to teach them. What is wrong about drinking liquor? It is bad for our bodies, isn’t it? It is bad for our morals, too. A drunken man is an ugly sight, and a drunken wom an is worse. Some people' think it is all right to drink a little if they don’t get drunk. But God doesn’t think so. God knows some people are weaker than others and that our taking a drink now and then might cause them to become drunkards. It displeases God when we cause others to stumble into your b e h a v i o r ? Which do you think h e e d s the most rules—a large fam ily or an o n l y child? Which do you think has the m o s t fun? Large families are lots of fun, when we mind all the rules.
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Object Lesson T ales of T ravelers
OBJECTS: Two traveling bags, a Bible, an empty whiskey bottle, an imitation' playing card, an imitation cigarette, a l e t t e r addressed to a mother, two purses, and some money. LESSON: Did you ever find any thing? Did you know that you often can tell the character of the loser by the thing you find? We will imag ine that I found these two traveling bags, and see whether we can tell what kind of persons might have lost them. This whiskey bottle is empty, indi cating that its owner has drunk the contents. Poor fellow! Now that we know this about him, let’s see whether We can guess what else we might find in his traveling bag. “Cigarettes.” I w o u l d not be surprised if we should find' a package of cigarettes. Yes, here it is in the side pocket. What else do you think we might find? “I’d guess gambling cards.” You are right, James. Here is a gambling card. Near the bottom I find a shabby purse, and it is empty. The other things we have found have made the purse empty. Do you think we will find a Bible in this bag? “No.” “No!” “NO!” You are right; no one would expect to find a Bible in such a bag. We will look in the other bag. It is neat-looking, and contains a Bible, which looks as if it had been used a great deal. On the flyleaf I read, “My son, this Book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this Book. Your Mother.” It looks as if the owner of this bag had taken his mother’s a d v i c e and had read the Bible. Here is a letter addressed to the owner’s mother. I wonder whether he is telling her how glad he is that she taught him to read and obey the Bible. Here is a well-made purse, and there is money in it. I think the owner of this bag not only had money in his purse, but joy in his heart as well. In looking at these two bags, I am re minded of the words of Romans 14:21: “It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.”
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