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The-Burning Of 4 . Good Book. Jeremiah 36. .Memory Verse.—-“ Thy law do I love.” Psalm 119:113. Approach.— Place before class a dark, shallow bowl shaped like an ancient brazier. Make from paper a little model of a Bible “ roll,” with its rollers, and with columns BEGINNERS of imitation Hebrew AND PRIMARY script. As the story Mabel L. Merrill progresses you may |- I 1 produce a knife and cut up the roll, tossing the pieces into the bowl, and finally touching a match to them and burning them up. Then talk about the ways in which we treat our Bibles badly, by neglecting them, forgetting them, making jokes on Bible subjects, not obeying the Bible com mandments, etc. Write each of these on a slip of paper as you talk about it, and put it in the brazier. End by burning these up also. This is the right kind of fire.— Peloubet’s Select Notes. Lesson Story.—Earl, you are feeling so good this morning I just know a splendid way to use some of that pep so we can all have some of it. You tell us about a brave prophet whom God gave a hard task to perform. Splendid, I knew he would do it. You know boys generally like to do hard things, and I know you boys and girls are going to be brave and true when something comes to you that is really hard. Perhaps it will be some boy or girl at school making fun of you be cause you are a true soldier for Jesus, and are not ashamed to show your colors. In our story to-day Clod is using
His faithful prophet Jeremiah again. This time God commanded him to write down in a book all the punishments that were coming to the children of Israel. For the Lord said that when the peo ple heard of the punishment, perhaps they would repent, so that He might even yet forgive them. Then Jeremiah called a man by the name of Baruch, who was a scribe, or .writer; and Baruch wrote down the words as Jerer miah spoke them. When Jeremiah had finished he asked Baruch to take the book to the temple and read it where all the people could hear. When, the princes» who sat in the king’s palace, heard of the book, they asked Baruch to come and read it to them, and when they heard of all the punish ments that were coming upon them, they were afraid, and asked Baruch to tell them where he got the words in the book, and he told them how Jeremiah had spoken the words, and he had writ ten them down in ink in the book. Then the princes said to Baruch,- “We will tell the king. But go and hide, thou and Jeremiah, lest the king be angry, and seek to harm you.” When they told the king of the book he sent his servant to bring the' book and read it to him. The king was sitting by the fire burning on the hearth, for it was winter. As soon as the servant had read several pages, the king took his penknife, cut them out, and threw them into the fire; so he did till all the book was burned. (Finish this story, emphasizing the utter disregard of the king for God’s word, or the pleading of his princes, no fear of punishment.) The king became very angry with Jere-
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