As Christians, we should be care ful that our hands as well as all our acts should be helpful and not harm ful.
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Mar. 13, 1955 B l a c k E yes
OBJECTS: Two capital “ I’s” cut from stiff construction paper. ( T h e y should be 14 inches high, the stems 1 inch wide, and the top and bottom bars 4 inches wide and 1 inch high. Color the fronts of both with black crayon or poster paint. Color the back of one red, and the back of the other black. Crease the one with the red back 2(4 inches from the top, permitting the top to fold forward when desired. Make another crease 5 inches from the bottom. When the
Elmer L Wilder, Th.D.
Illustrated by Glc«ys Bowman
ed hand, such as this, suggests friend liness and peace. Hands can be either helpful or harmful. The true followers of Christ are urged to be helpful. We have a very good example of this in Acts 2. The Christians’ possessions were sold, and the money was given to the apostles in order that the poor might be cared for. A result of this spirit of helpfulness is found in Acts 2:47: “And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.” The Lord Jesus Christ had in mind Christian love when He said, “ By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” (John 13:35). Paul further mentions the im portance of Christian love in First Corinthians 13. We read, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity [love], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove moun tains, and have not charity [love], I am nothing.” At the close of this wonderful chapter, Paul says, “And nov7 abideth faith, hope, charity [love], these three; but the greatest of these is charity.”
Mar. 6 , 1955 H an d s H e l p or H a r m
OBJECTS: The two hands of the speak er, or pictures cut from magazines and mounted on cardboard. (The left hand should be clenched and up raised, and the right hand should be open and outstretched.) LESSON: The objects which I am to use this morning are in plain sight. What are they? “We give up, as we don’t see any thing unusual.”
top is folded down and the bottom up, the top and bottom bars will come together and make a red cross.) LESSON: Did you ever have a black eye? If not, perhaps, you have seen someone who did. I have two black “ I’s,” but not the kind you are think ing of. I am referring to the letter “ I.” Here they are—black—suggest ing sinfulness. In looking at these two black “ I’s” I am reminded of Christ’s parable in Luke 18:9,10. “Two men went up in to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.” We will let the two “ I’s” represent these two men. The Pharisee spent his time in prayer telling how good he was; that he was better than most people. In his eyes he was better than the publican who had come to pray also. It is too bad this Pharisee did not remember Proverbs 29:23 where it says, “ A man’s pride shall bring him low.” As the Pharisee left the place of prayer that day he was unchanged. He was not benefited by praying the prayer he prayed. He came a black sinner and left in the same condition. The prayer of the publican was dif ferent. Of him we read, “And the
They are my hands. You are won dering how hands can be used as objects with which to teach a lesson. Did you know that hands are sym bols of two great factors in the world? A clenched hand like this one suggests a fight. An open, outstretch-
The Sweetest Music The Hebrew children on the path of duty went through a fiery furnace, but they came out un harmed. Daniel on the path of duty stopped for a little rest in a den of lions. The lions had more appreciation of goodness than some savage men of Daniel's day. The lions made no effort to harm God's prophet. Paul and Silas could sing in prison. They did not have to have a piano or organ because they had heavenly music in their hearts. The sweetest music we hear is not the music from the organ, piano or violin responding to the master's touch, it is the joy bell which God rings in the soul of a surrendered man. — Bob Jones Comments.
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