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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
“ I WILL GUIDE THEE WITH MINE EYE” B y F rederic F . H elmer *
How to Join the K. Y. B. Club To become a member of the Know Your Bible Club, read through the Gospel accord ing to John, using either your own Bible or a Gospel of John which will be sent upon request. When the Gospel has been read* and a state ment to this effect* signed by parent or Sun day-school teacher* has been sent to the Ed itor of the Junior King's Business* a K.Y.B.C. pin will be mailed. Sunday-school classes or clubs desiring to order ten or more Gospels or pins may wish to share the cost of these supplies* as the Lord directs: Gospels* post paid* five cents each; pins* without postage* two cents each. However* no one is to do without a Gospel or pin because of lack of money. Address: Junior King's Business* 558 So. Hope St.* Los Angeles* Calif. New K. Y. B. C. Members The following have read through the Gospel ac cording to John and are now members of the Know Your Bible Club: Benkelman, Nebr.: Dorothy Adkinson; Bonnie* Dora Mae* Marjorie, Ruby, and Viola Edwards; Marjorie Ellis; Wilda Graham; Elva Haines; Margie Hansen; Harold Jones; Leta Little; Kath erine Rose; and Laura Pearl Williams (Alta M. Andrews, teacher). Bloomfield, Mont.: Alice, Gladys, and Mildred Johnson; Edna Mae and Mary Stimpson. Bozeman, Mont.: Betty Barrett; and Lucille Suri. . , .• Croydon, la.: Mildred and Virginia Courts. Lincoln, Nebr.: Wilma Creighton; and Le- vonne Westcott. Puente, Calif.: David Gunn. Redding, Calif.: Winifred Graham; and Hans Manfield. Sayre, Pa.: Mary Blackman; Phyllis Bowman; Norman Brown; Pearl Deane; Clarence Durrand; Beatrice Ervin; Ray and Phyllis Haneskneckt; Stephen Hazen; Ruth Hotalen; Jack Moyer; Eliza beth Osborne; Dorothy Putnam; Norma Reynolds; Virginia Rounds; and Maxine Schoonover (Mrs. F. H. Randall* teacher). Sioux City, la.: Norman Peterson. Wellsburg, la.: Gretus Baker; Edwin Bakker; Henry Eechhoff; Alfred Geerdes; Henry Haupt; Evert Hiekens; Claus Janssen; Carl Nederhoff; and Benjamin and Claus Primus (Mae Bode* teacher). K. Y. B. C. News Notes A letter from Miss Emma Popp, leader o f a K.Y.B.Club in Fresno, Calif;, brought us wonderful news at Christmas time. In part, her letter said: “Yesterday I used the lesson on candles given in the December is sue of T h e K ing ’ s B u siness . At the close o f the lesson, while all heads were bowed, I asked how many had accepted the Lord Jesus as Saviour, and knew that the can dles o f their hearts were lighted—and all sixteen raised their hands. When I gave out the K. Y. B. C. pins to those who had earned them, I read your letter to them, then asked them separately whether they had accepted the Lord Jesus as their own personal Saviour. They answered, ‘Yes/ and gave proof of it by quoting John 1 :12, 3 :16, and 3 :36.” These dear children in Fresno made the heart of the Lord Jesus glad by publicly confessing Him as Saviour. Did any of you rejoice His heart in this way? An air mail New Year’s greeting came from the K. Y. B. Club in connection with the Sunshine Rescue Mission in Boston, Mass. This is a real wide-awake club, ac tive in the service of the Lord. The members support a missionary in China and each one sets aside daily a missionary offering. During the month of December this club saved $9.61. Surely the Lord’s heart was made glad, and some o f the needs of a missionary in far-off China were met. What service is your K. Y. B. Club ren dering to the Lord? Share your good re ports with the J unior K ing ’ s B usiness Family 1 , Objects That Talk and Teach Many Junior leaders have requested the name o f a book o f object lessons suitable for use in K.Y.B.Clubs. Objects That Talk and Teach, by Louis T. Talbot, is the very book to meet this need. See page 125 of this magazine. Order through the J unior K ing ’ s B u siness .
H ave you ever watched an artist mak ing a sketch or painting a picture? Did he keep his eyes shut? “ Oh, no,” you’ll say, “ he had his eyes wide open.” Perhaps sometime you have tried the game or stunt o f trying to draw a pig of some other creature with your eyes shut; You don’t end up where you ought to, and what your hand draws is far from a true likeness. The trouble is that no matter how skillful or steady the hand, it needs the eye to guide it. It’s a strange thing how the eye in one’s head can move or stop the pencil, pen, or brush held in the tips of the fingers so far away from the head. And yet the eye telegraphs down through the nerves o f the neck, the spine, the body, the arm, and the hand, telling the fingers to move, little or much, this way or that, in order to make a drawing—or even to write a w ord! You can hardly carry safely a bowl o f soup or a full cup of water without keeping your eye on it. The hands—yes, and the feet— need the eye to guide them. Now, the Bible tells us that we who be lieve in the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour are as hands and feet of His body, and He Himself is the head. So the verse in the Psalms, “ I will guide thee with mine eye,” pictures to us the Lord Jesus as directing everything we do—or at least as being able and willing to guide us in everything with His wonderful, farseeing, loving eye, if we will let Him. But we have to let Him guide us. That means we must first of all believe in Him as our Saviour, ours own Saviour; for we have to trust Him if we expect Him to guide us. Then, we must not say we trust Him, unless we are minding His signals. W e get these in His Word, as King David said, “ Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” He also said, *Editorial Secretary, China Inland Mission. Springtime is here again, bringing us the glad Easter day. Many dear boys and girls are looking forward to this day only as a time to wear a new hat or frock, and they are missing the meaning of what should be the happiest, gladdest day of the whole year. Easter is the day when we remember the resurrection of the Lord Jesus from the dead. The stone was rolled away from the dark, cold tomb on that “first day of the week” so long ago, and the Lord Jesus came forth a victor over death and the grave. In 1 Corinthians IS :20, we read, “ But now is Christ risen from the dead, and be come the firstfruits of them that slept.” Because He arose from the dead, all of those who die believing on Him as their own Saviour will some day be raised. Perhaps a loved one o f yours has been taken from your home by death, and you have wondered where that one is now and when you will see the dear one again. Easter brings a glad message of hope to you. You know, when a Christian dies, the spirit, or the real person, goes immediately into the presence o f the Lord—“Absent from the body, . . . present with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8 ). The body, or the house the person lived in, is placed in the grave—but not for long—Tor God’s Word tells o f a glad resurrection day. Forty days after the Lord Jesus arose
“ Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” There is in England, in a garden at Hampton Court, a famous maze in which it is very hard to find one’s way from the outside to the center. The maze has paths between high hedges, too high to look over, and the paths turn this way and that in a very confusing way. Some paths are “blind alleys” from which one has simply to turn back in his tracks; others bring one to where there are two paths to choose be tween. O f course, there is a right way which, after many turns, brings one to the beautiful resting place in the center of the maze, but one may easily be confused and lost in the maze, wandering back and forth without being able to get to its center or even able to retrace one’s steps and come out where one went in. There is, however, I understand, a bal cony of a building near by, or some high place in which a man stands who can look down on the maze and see the whole plan o f it like a map. His eye can trace out the right paths and the proper turns, and when visitors to the maze are wandering here and there in this puzzling labyrinth; they can look up to him for directions. His eye can guide where their eyes find only baffling problems in their hedged course. How like a maze life often is I But there is .One above who sees “the end from the beginning” and who “knoweth the way that I take,” and He says, “I will guide thee with mine eye.” from the grave, He ascended up into heaven. There He is today, ever living “to make intercession,” that is, to pray for you and me (Heb. 7 :25). Some day—perhaps very soon—the Lord will come again to call His own unto Him self to be with Him forever. You may read about this happy event in your Bibles in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. At the time of Christ’s second coming to earth,'all of those who have died, trusting the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, will be raised from their graves. Their bodies will be changed and made like unto the glorious, resurrec tion body of the Lord Jesus. Those who are living when the Lord Jesus comes will also be changed (1 Cor. 15:51, 52), and “together” meet the Lord in the air. This is the “blessed hope” for all who belong to the Lord Jesus. Easter gives the promise of this glad day of reunion and resurrection. So let us be joyful at the Easter season, giving thanks unto Him who died and arose from the grave and is alive for evermore. Easter Bible Drill 1. Read the account o f the resurrection o f the Lord Jesus as given in the four Gospels: Matt. 28:1-10; Mk. 16:1-18; Lk. 24:1-12 ; John 20:1-18. [Continued on page 122]
THE MEANING OF EASTER
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