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raplied, “No, but there is a gentleman pres ent.” Faith comes by hearing, so.also-has many a girl’s ruin. Some idle tongue starts a story, it is passed on until the girl’s repu tation is blackened. She at length loses heart and doesn’t care. If you are tempted to reveal a tale someone has told you make it pass three gates. “Is it true?” “Is it needful?” “Is it kind?” Christ likened the things which we allow to make characters, to the seed the farmer sows (v. 26). Our thoughts are germs laden with life. Once planted they grow silently but steadily independent of us while we sleep, work and play. The physical body grows similarly. Not growth, nor harvest, but the seed, is the only thing that the farmer can control. Sow corn, reap corn. Sow weeds, reap weeds. Remember the harvest is always manifoldly greater than the planting. Sin is to be dreaded most at first when it is insidious. When full grown and developed it gives warning. Sow a thought
seed?” “I don’t know.” “Is it'good or bad?” “I only know* I’m sowing.” ■You would call him a lunatic. Dare girls be less careful? Have you ever seen the side walk forced upward by the'strong roots of the poplar' tree? The roots at first were without strength and but tiny shoots. How did Christ illustrate growth? (v. 28). Two cousins grew up in the same town side by side, attending the same school and Sunday. School. One chose fast friends, dressed gaudily _and lewdly, read cheap trashy fiction,, reveled in sensuous, sensa tional and vulgar theatricals and enjoyed degrading and debauching amusement. Words can scarcely depict the depth to which this girl has sunk. As this goes into print she is behind prison bars. The other found,delight only in the pure and uplifting, in good books, staunch Christian friends and wholesome amusement. This cousin is being mightily used of God as a missionary among the Indians. Not only do small beginnings have tre mendous results in our own lives, but in the lives of others as well. A word spoken or kindness shown may change whole lives. A young man left a Bible text with his friend. That verse twelve years later brought the friend to Christ. “Little is much when God is in it.” Are you a “shining” Christian ?
reap aji act, . reap a habit, reap a character, reap a life, reap a destiny.
Sow an act Sow a habit Sow a character Sow a life
Suppose you ask the farmer “what are you sowing?” “Seed.” “What kind of
BEGINNERS AND PRIMARY
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T^lEMORY VERSE: Select tho'se as, “Be ye kind,” “Children obey your parents,” “Let us love one another,” etc. Presentation .—(Write a new verse on paper, cut in the shape of some seed with a carrier, as the maple, and place in dffer- ent places through your Bible, to distribute at the end of the lesson, to be planted for growth in the child). If only the seeds grew that people picked and planted care fully, much of the earth would have noth ing growing on it, but there are flowers
and plants growing almost everywhere that people could not have planted at all. How did they get there? Did you ever blow a dandelion seed to “see what time it was?” Did you know "that you were helping to scatter seeds ? The tiny little dandelion seed without help would fall to the ground, right beside the mother plant, but because God has put a little fairy umbrella over it, the wind sometimes carries it miles. Then there are trees, like the maple, whose 'seeds have little wihgs on them like the wings
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