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them.) Now these wicked people lis tened to Jonah, and from the king down, they said they were sorry for their sins. God could look right into the hearts of these people, just as He looks into your heart, and mine, and He sawi they meant what they said, and God forgave them for all the wrong they had done, and their, city was not destroyed. If we have not love in our hearts we can not forgive people who treat us unkindly, and that is why God is always so glad to forgive us, because He loves us so much. ■ God is love. That is our memory verse, and it is only three words, so we can always re member it. It ip such a wonderful verse SAFELY SHELTERED In a quiet hamlet an aged man was dying, and someone asking if he would like her to read to him some Gospel mes sages out of the Bible, he replied in his own broad Scotch dialect: “ Na, na, las sie, I thatched the hoose in calm weather, and it ’s no’ needn’t noo when the storm comes on.” Happy man! Death was at the door; his faculties were failing; the earthly tabernacle was being taker! down; the storm had come, but he was safely sheltered (Psa. 46:1). •Sie.a » a s SECRET FAULTS. Secret faults are those which we, and we only, know ourselves to be guilty of. Sins of thought, sins committed
too. Now perhaps there is some boy or girl whom we know who has not treated us kindly, and maybe, like Jonah, we are not willing to tell them about Jesus so they can be forgiven, and become His children.
BLACKBOARD SKETCHES By Era Hansell
1. Jonah preaches as God bids him. Vs. 1-4. DRAW explaining these verses. 2. The proclamation. Vs. 5-9. Ex plain the verses. DRAW the king and the proclamation, also the repentance.
In secret, heart sins, desiring evil, medi tating mischief, planning schemes to be carried out, and the motives that lie at the bottom of acts. Secret though they be to us, secret to all others, they are not hidden from God. He under stands our thoughts all together. Our hearts are deceitful. Every one is liable to sin and we will do many things alone, which we would not that any friend should know. Whose motives are all in accordance with the will of God? The prayer, “ Cleanse Thou me from secret faults,” cannot be amiss. Secret sins are among our chief ene mies. They are in every case the root of open sin, and if we know them not now, how soon may we know them to our sorrow! How apt the prayer, and what a fortification it may prove to us!
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