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T h e K i n g ’ s B u s i n e s s
September 1932
A Letter from Your Editor Dear Boys and Girls o f the Junior K ing ’ s B usiness Family: September is calling us back to our work again. I do hope you have all had a lovely vacation and are returning happily to your school work. How good our Heavenly Fa ther has been to care for all of us through out the vacation days! As you start to school, His loving care will still be over you. The Lord Jesus has said, “ I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” This promise is for boys and girls as well as for grown-up folk. Yes, the Lord Jesus will be with you as you go to school—ready to help you with your lesson or any task you are called upon to do. Call upon Him, boys and girls; He will hear and answer. What an opportunity there is for a boy or girl to live for the Lord Jesus at school —whether in the schoolroom or on the playground I By your actions and the words you say, you can let it be known that you belong to the Lord Jesus. I trust that every one o f you will “ let your light so shine” for the Lord Jesus throughout this entire school year. Sincerely your friend, Editor o f the Junior K ing ’ s B usiness . Yellowbird and the Windmill B y L ouise M. O glevee Yellowbird was a little Indian boy whose home was a' tiny house called a hogan. You would not have known that it was a house, because it looked like a big pile o f mud and sticks, with a hole for the door. Every day Yellowbird took care of his father’s sheep, and in summer he walked a long, long way with them to find grass for them to eat. Near Yellowbird’s home was a little spring o f water; and for miles and miles in that lonely, dry country, there was not a well nor a spring nor a tiny stream where people or birds or animals could get a drink, except that one little spring that bubbled out under a rock. Often when Yellowbird went to the top o f the hill with his sheep, he climbed a tall tree from which he could see far, far away. The thing he liked best to look at was the house o f some white people across the valley. It had windows and doors, and a chimney from which smoke came in the winter. Strangest o f all was the big wheel that spun round and round on its big, iron frame back o f the house. Yellowbird had never seen a windmill, but once, when the sun shone down on this one very brightly, he saw the water flowing into the large trough, and the cows and horses drink ing, so he knew that in some way the white man used the huge wheel to get water out o f the ground. The winter was very cold. One day, when Yellowbird went to the spring for water, there was no water there. No one knew what had happened, but far back in the hills, perhaps, a great rock had fallen into the little stream that fed the spring, and the water had stopped flowing. When there was snow they melted it to drink, but there came long, cold days and nights with no snow. Then Yellowbird told his father about the white man’s wheel; they would go and ask for some o f the water. Oh, how thirsty they were, and how long the way seemed until they reached the house which Yellowbird had seen from the treetop 1 They were almost afraid to ask for the water, and they could not ask in words because they did not know the lan guage o f the white people.- But the white
man understood when he saw their, faces, and he pointed to the water and nodded his head. After that, Yellowbird and his father came many times to the windmill well. One day when they came, they found at the house a missionary who could speak their language. Because he was the friend of the white people who had been kind to them, they believed the story o f Jesus which he told them—Jesus who could give them “liv ing water.” Jesus said, “Whosoever drink- eth o f this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh o f the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlast ing life” (John 5 :13, 14). Within the Temple of the Word There was a certain young man who grew up with a reverence for the Bible, but no real love for it. He admired it as he would some ancient temple, and compared it to a temple of truth, composed of thirty- nine blocks o f granite with a broad base at Genesis, and twenty-seven pillars o f ala baster, towering into a lofty dome at Rev elation. But this temple seemed to him cold and lifeless, as if there was no tenant with in—until one day, the day of his conver sion. Then he heard the voice of the King from within, saying, “ Study to show thy self approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly divid ing the word o f truth” (2 Tim. 2:15). He resolved to make a tour of the tem ple with the Holy Spirit as his Guide. He entered at the Portico o f Genesis and passed through the Art Gallery o f the Old Testament historical books, where he saw the portraits of Abraham, Moses, David, and all those other great men. Then he went into the Music Room o f the Psalms, where the Spirit swept all the chords o f human nature, from the low wailing note of Psalm 51 to the high exultant note o f Psalm 24. Next he went into the Business Office o f the Proverbs, where sharp, quick, business-like orders were being dispatched. On he went into the Chapel of Ecclesiastes, where the sound o f the preacher’s voice was heard. He passed into the Conserva tory o f the Song of Solomon, which was fragrant with the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley, and all the sweet per fumes of Lebanon. Into the Observatory o f the Prophets he went next, where he saw telescopes of different sizes (the Ma jor and the Minor Prophets) all pointing to different stars (events in the future), and yet they were all brought to bear upon one Star that was soon to appear, namely, the Bright and Morning Star. Then he went into the Audience Chamber o f the King Himself where he heard and saw the King from four different standpoints (the four Gospels). On he went into the Ex ecutive Chamber o f the Book o f Acts where the Holy Spirit was doing His o f
fice work. Then he went into the Cor respondence Room where he saw Paul and Peter, James and John and Jude, all sit ting at different desks writing letters (the Epistles). A t length, he came to the Throne Room itself, which was all re splendent with the glories of Revelation. After this hasty tour, he used to linger in and out o f each room until he had made himself thoroughly acquainted with the contents, always seeing some new beauty, and comprehending more and more o f the character o f the Builder, God. — S e le cte d . K. Y. B. C. Notes W e are glad to welcome to the Know Your Bible Club this month the follow ing: Goldye and H ow a r d G u s ta fs o n , Poplar, W is.; Dora Jean Ellis, Phoenix, A riz.; Bert Glassinger, Jack Reynolds, Wesley Lord, R o b e r t G a rris o n , and Billy Westbrook, Sayre, P a.; Franklin Baxter, Norma G. Campbell, and Rose May Mason, Athens, Pa. The new mem bers from Pennsylvania-were interested in the K. Y. B. Club through one o f our readers, Mrs. F. H. Randall, o f Sayre, Pa. If you desire to become a member o f the Know Your Bible Club, you must first write for a Gospel of John. After this has been read through and a statement sent to this effect, signed by parent or Sunday- school teacher, a K.Y.B.C. pin will be sent, and you will thus become an active mem ber o f the K.Y.B. Club. Address: Junior Dept, o f T he K ing ’ s B usiness , 536 South Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif. School Days Vacation days are past, school days are here again! With the coming o f Septem ber, boys and girls return to the school room. Did you know that many persons and things pertaining to your school days are found in the Bible? Make a list of these, as found in the fol lowing verses: Job 19:23; Jer. 36:18; 1 Cor. 12:29; 1 Chron. 25:8 ; Gal. 3 :24; Isa. 19:7 ; 2 Ki. 22:14; Prov. 4 :7 ; Deut. 17:19; Prov. 10: 14; Num. 7 :5 ; Ex. 32:16; 1 Sam. 20:18; Dan. 1:4; Prov. 16:10; Psa. 100:2; Psa. 77:6; 1 Thess. 4:11; Matt. 3:9. Living Letters In 2 Corinthians 3 :2 we find this verse: “Ye are our epistles , . . known and read of all men.” Do you know what an epis tle is? Yes, it is just another word for a letter. W e all like to receive letters through the mail, don’t we? Some letters make us glad, and some let ters make us sad. O f course you would rather receive a letter bearing good news, wouldn’t you? God’s W ord says that we are “ letters” —letters that people read who meet us day by day. What kind of a letter are you ? Do you bear good news, so that those who meet you are made glad and happy? You know, there are some boys and girls who do not read God’s love letter, the Bible, and so all that they know about the Lord Jesus is just what they see in our lives. How careful we should be in all that we do and say, that we might indeed be “ living letters” that please our Heavenly Father! Memory Verses John 8 :36 John 10:28 John 10:27 John 11:25
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