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I don’t think this is just what the Lord Jesus meant when he told the story of the mustard seed, but, when you are grown up you may know just what He did mean, but this is one of the things that we can learn from it. (Put a little glue on a piece of paper and drop a few mustard seeds on it, Or they will be blown away by.the breath). Do you see these tiny little seeds ? Do you know what they are? This is the seed of The mustard plant that makes our hills golden and beautiful in the summer. It was the smallest seed the people knew about in the country where Jesus lived. If there were ju'st one of these tiny little seeds and jt should fall to the earth, it Would sink into the ground and begin to grow ; because in it there is that wonderful gift from God, life. First, we would see the green leaves, then the stalk would grow higher and higher until you little folks could' stand in the shade Of it, and the birds rest in the branches. After, àwhilè the little buds would open and it would be like a- beautiful yellow cloud over your head. All this growth would have come from that one tiny little brown seed. After awhile the stalk would brown and dry and the little seed pods would break open and thousands of other little seeds would fall to thè ground. The next year there would be, not, just one mustard plant, but many, and the whole hillside would be golden. I believe this will help us to know how one man, with the Word of God living in him, could help so many people in a strange country to know the Lord Jesus. , Prayer. Thank Him for that life which is in us. Help us to do nothing to keep it from growing so that when we grow up we, too, shall have .made many lives about us know the Lord Jesus. -•
of a grasshopper, - that help them to fly" through the air. Others have little sails, so that they float on the water. Others have little hooks that catch in the wool of sheep and other animals, and are sometimes car ried a long way from their old home. Did you ever see a little pansy ’seed when it was dry and brown? It looks as if it had broken and let the seeds fall out, but it had not, for when it got dry enough it just popped! and the seeds flew through the air a long way from the mother plant. Don’t you see that God has not only put the se cret of life in all growing things, but He has made them so that they can change from place to place and not all grow close together. Presentation .—You remember in our last lesson I talked about the Word of God living in folks, like the life in the tiny seed. Do you think that God wants us to stay in one place with that life in us? No, IHe has given us our feet, and boats, and trains, and ever so many different ways that we may be able to carry it from place to place. Aren’t you glad that this is so? For if the people who knew this story of life through Jesus christ had just stayed in one place, you and I would never have heard it. Do you know that there wits a time when the very first person took this story to Africa, and the first person took it to the cold country, and India and China? When a man went to a strange country he could not give the people the^ Bible until it was written in their language, but the Word of God was living in him and they watched him, and after awhile when he could talk to them so they could under stand, they listened and through him that same life was given to them. And after awhile, instead of just one Christian, there were many, because of him and his work.
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