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THE K I N G ' S BUS I NE S S self went with her back to her house. Picture Elisha’s dependence upon God, and the restoration of child alive to his mother. Emphasize the mother’s gratitude for what God had done for her. Teach memory verse.) This lit tle boy had a father and mother who taught him to love God, but there are so many today who do not know Jesus and are lost, they are dead in sin. Are we doing all we can to bring them to life, spiritually? Let us see how many we can bring with us to Sunday School next Sunday. 1. The Child’s Death. Vs. 18-22. Explain how the boy fell and was taken to his mother. DRAW mother and boy. Explain his death. Draw bed. 2. The Child Brought to Life. Vs. 27, 30, 32-35. DRAW the boy lying on the bed. Explain in these verses how the boy was brought to life. Draw Elisha and the mother. After these verses are explained DRAW the boy sitting up. ALL IN THE BOOK “We search the world for truth. We cull The good, the true, the beautiful From graven stone and written scroll. And all old-flower-fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the book our mothers read.” —Whittier. BLACKBOARD SKETCHES By Em Hansell
the home became a very happy home. Prayer. Lesson Story.— Boys and girls, you can imagine what splendid times this boy had out on the farm, watching all the interesting things there are to see on a farm; perhaps he had a dog that romped and played with him, and fol lowed him about. One day this boy went down into the fields with his father, where the men were cutting the grain. The boy was very happy on this beautiful day as he ran about playing, and it made his father happy as he watched him. Now something has hap pened, for the little boy is no longer playing, but has gone to his father moaning, with his little hands on his head. They quickly carry him to the house to his mother, and she takes him in her lap and holds him, and does everything that a loving mother could do, but at noon as she looked into his face she saw that her dear little boy’s life had slipped away. Some of us know how the mother felt, for we too have had a little brother or sister whose life slipped away, and they went to be with Jesus. She carried the boy and laid him on the bed in the room they had built for Elisha. Then she closed the door and left him there, for there was nothing more she could do for him. She asked her husband to send a ser vant up quickly with a burro, so she could go quickly to Elisha. This mother had faith that God would save her child through the prophet. (Tell of journey and meeting Elisha, and how she would not be put off with his ser vant, but would stay until Elisha him
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