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God because He can see everywhere, and even right down into our hearts. The man our story is about to-day found God was right in the place where he was, and he did not know it. (Repeat M. V.) Prayer. Dear Jesus help us to always remember that thou dost see us at all times. Lesson Story. You remember last Sunday I asked you to he sure and come and see what happened to Jacob. (Give children a chance to tell last Sunday’s
when it was time for mother to come home, they would run to meet her and were so ' happy, hut one day
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when mother came from town there was no little boy or girl to meet her, as she came near the house, she could not see them anywhere, and it was so very still. Mother called but there was no answer, and where do you suppose she found them? Sitting down in the darkest corner they /could find in the
Believers May Sit with Christ in Heavenly Places
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lesson.) Jacob thought he was pretty sharp to dress up in his brother’s clothes, and tell his poor old father who could not see very well that he was Esau, and for a little while he was happy to think his father had given him the blessing, but let us hear the rest of the story. After a while Esau comes in to his father with the food all ready to eat, and when he finds out what his brother Jacob has done, he becomes very angry and is going to hurt Jacob and try to kill him, for Esau did not love God and he let these angry thoughts stay in his heart. Then Jacob’s mother told Jacob he would have to leave home and go on a long journey across the country to the land where she had lived when she was a little girl. His mother kissed him good-bye and his father blest him. How lonely Jacob was as he started off all alone. He had to walk all the way,
bedroom hiding, and when mother came in they seemed to he afraid, and yet they loved her so dearly. What do you think made them afraid of mother and wanted to hide from her? Because they had been into mischief. Yes that is right. 1 wonder how you guessed it so well? This makes us think of a verse we had before about even a child is known by his doings. When mother did not see the children she knew some thing was wrong. Mother had a beau tiful vase on the table in the front room, and she had told the children they must never run or play in that room, but this day they both forgot what mother had said, and in their play they ran against the table, and the vase was knocked off on to the floor and broken, and then they were afraid to see mother. When we do wrong it makes us afraid, and we want to run away and hide, but we can never hide from
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