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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
Junior K ING ’S BUSINESS B y M a r t h a S. H o o k e r
BILLY’S COURAGE B y A lice M. A rdagh
remind you all the-time,” Billy said, “and you’ll soon remember for yourself.” There was no “ Bully of the Beach” that summer, for Dick, who had gone by that name, had become a follower o f the tender Saviour, Jesus Christ. Dick and Billy were never far apart that summer. Dick taught Billy to swim and to fish, and every other thing that makes a summer by the , sea such a joyous thing. And when they were on their way home from any o f these ad ventures, the smaller hand was always in the larger, “ ’Cause he’s my chum!” Billy would say proudly. But Dick said once, “I’m the fellow you saved from drowning in sin, Billy. Next to the Saviour, I love you more than any one.” Many o f the members of the Know Your Bible Club have been reading and studying the very first book in God’s li brary—Genesis. I am sure that those who have been following this study have learn ed many wonderful things. O f course you will want to put in your notebook some of the things you have learned. Let us make a chart o f the days o f creation. Choose a long piece o f paper or several pages of your notebook on which to make this chart. Draw seven circles, using a compass, a cup, a large spool, or something round to help you make all o f the circles the same size. Then above each circle write “ First Day,” ’‘Second Day,” making circles for seven days in all. Begin reading in your Bibles from Genesis 1 :3 to 2 :4, and as you read what God created on each day, record these things in the correct circle, either by printing the names or by drawing pictures with colored crayons. Colored construction paper may also be used. For instance, a half circle o f yellow paper and a half circle of black paper placed within the circle marked “First Day” would be a good representation of the day when “God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night” (Gen. m m , , , ■ Two shades of blue paper could be used to picture the dividing of the waters which occurred on the second day. Land, trees, and herbs could be cut from green paper and added for the third day. For the fourth day, represent day and night with the yellow and black paper as in the first day; then add to the part called “day” a small circle cut from orange paper to represent the sun. A moon and stars cut from yellow paper should be added to the black part of the circle which represents night. The fifth day should be made as the sec ond day, adding birds to the upper part, and fish and sea creatures to the part de noting the sea. The sixth day should be made as the third day, adding pictures of animals and a representation o f Adam and Eve. -r f ; v-'.-.A Bible Study
O ne fine summer morning Billy took his shovel and bucket and started on his way to the shining sands which stretched hundreds o f feet wide and miles long, just the
he was called, hurt that plucky little chap ? O f course Joe knew that the threat of the “killing” was only an exaggeration to make the child afraid to disobey, but he feared that Dick in anger might give him a pain ful thrashing. But here his thoughts were quite changed. He could not believe it was Dick who was putting his hand under the little chap’s chin and speaking in that voice! Joe listened in amazement. “ Say, Kid,” Dick was saying in a cur iously' muffled tone, “Where did you get your pluck?” “I haven’t any!” answered Billy. “ I’m afraid of ’most everything.” “Then why didn’t you say what I told you to instead o f being killed ?” Billy grew white again, but he answered, “ I couldn’t. I never do,what any one I love tells me not to, and I love God. He’s my heavenly Father, and He gave Daddy and Mother and me everything we have! Why, He gave the dear Lord Jesus, and Jesus was His only Son ! And He let Him suffer instead of us. I don’t see how any one could do anything God or the Lord Jesus said not to d o !” There was silence for a few seconds, and then Dick said, in an utterly changed voice, “ Kid, I guess you’re all right!” “And aren’t you going to kill me ?” ques tioned Billy. Sudden, wonderful hope was bringing Billy to very near tears. “Kill you,?;, O f course not! Say, do you want any help with that thing you’re build ing? But if I help you, you’ve got to tell me something about what you’ve been talk ing of. That’s a bargain, remember!” There wasn’t much building done that day. After Billy’s astonished question, “Don’t you know about it?” and Dick’s decided answer, “ I should say I don’t,” Billy told Dick about Jesus Christ and why he loved Him so touch. Then Billy said, “And now that you know about Him, you wouldn’t do anything He told you not to, would you?”
other side o f the board walk that ran in front of the beach cottage. Mother could glance out through the cottage window and see “ Billy-boy” playing. It did not take Billy a minute to reach the sands, and soon he was building a beautiful castle. As he finished the foundation, he noticed that two older boys were lying on the sand near him. Billy could hear what they were saying, but it did not interest him at first. Then suddenly he heard some thing that made him stop scooping sand and listen more closely. They went right on talking, and repeated those awful words which Billy had heard the first time! He was surprised and angry. He dropped his shovel, and before he realized it, he was standing stiffly before the two boys, who were almost twice his size and looked very big to him. “You mustn’t say that!” he cried. The bigger of the boys looked up. “ I say, Youngster, who are you to tell us what we must not say ?” he asked. “ I’m Billy Wilson,” he answered. . “ Oh, is that so ?” was the mocking retort. “ No doubt that means a lot to you, but it doesn’t mean anything to us, but maybe you’ll tell us why we mustn’t i;say these things ?” Billy flung out his hands as if in terror, as he exclaimed, “It’s so terrible to listen to Dick Carson was angry now! “Terrible to listen to, is it?” he cried. “Then you shall listen to yourself saying it ! You repeat the same thing I said, or I’ll kill you !” An older person would have known that Dick was exaggerating, but Billy fully believed that the boy meant just what he said. Billy’s face turned very white. “Will you do it quickly?” he asked pleadingly. “ ’Cause I’m a coward of pain. Mother says I am. But if you do it quick ly, p’haps I won’t feel it, but I mustn’t say what you said because God says we are not to swear at all, and never to take His holy name in vain. But you’ll do it quickly, won’t you?” Dick Carson’s friend, Joe, put a re straining hand Upon his arm. “ Say, look here!” he exclaimed. But Dick didn’t even know he was being touched. He was white, too, now. His friend, thinking it was with rage, was frightened. “ Say, Dick,” Joe cried again, “ let him I I But now Dick flung off the detaining hand. “ Stop it!” he ordered, huskily. “ I don’t need you to teach m e! You get!” But Joe would not leave. He stood his ground, now thoroughly alarmed. How could Dick, “Bully of the Beach” though
Dick was quiet for a while, but at last he said, “ I don’t know, Youngster. You’ve got this thing by heart, but it’s new to me. I’d surely be slipping up before I could stop myself. But it seems as though a fellow ought to make a try at it when God has done so much, and He’s listening in all the time.” And then Billy took the fort entirely, for he leaned against Dick’s shoulder and put a small arm around his neck. “I’ll
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