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day, that the 'boys and girls may learn to know Jesus and give their hearts to Him while they are boys and girls so they will not make the mistake Saul did o, thinking the Christians were wrong. Our memory verse is what we want to be true in our lives. Let us learn it now. “Teach me Thy way, O Lord.” There is only one way that is right, and that is to love Jesus and do the things He has ask ed us to do in His word, the Bible. Just learning the Bible with our minds, and not having Jesus in our hearts as our Saviour will not help us, as we see it did not help Saul, even though he stud ied it so well. Now next Sunday we are to have such a good story about Saul again, so be sure and come for you just would not miss hearing this wonderful story. Closing Prayer.— Dear Lord Jesus, we thank thee for our Sunday School and our day school, and help us to love thee with our whole heart, so we will al ways do right. stoning of Stephen. DRAW this picture, explaining the story. 2. Saul the Pharisee. DRAW Saul as the chief of sinners participating in the stoning of Stephen and mocking him. Explain that if men mocked the cruci fied Jesus they will mock His followers. 3. Golden text. Use this as the con clusion, explaining that Jesus bore the sins of the world and saved the “chief of sinners”. He can save to the uttermost. BLACKBOARD SKETCHES By Ern Hansel! July 10th. 1. T h e
parents sent him np to the city of Jeru salem to the best Jewish school they could find, which was taught by a very wise man, whose name was Gamaliel. I wonder how you boys and girls would have liked to go to school and study the same way Saul did when he was a boy, for they did not have books to study out of as we do. The book they were taught from was the Bible, and it was not in a book as we have our Bibles today, but written on parchment paper and rolled up on two sticks. (You could easily make a little roll to show the children.) Then the children would sit on the floor and listen to the teacher as he read from the Bible, and then the teacher would explain what he had read to them. My! how well the children would have to listen to the teacher so they could re member what he read to them. There was no time to talk or play in school, was these? There were so many laws and things the little Jewish children had to learn so they would know them per fectly and could do them without mak ing a mistake. Saul was one of the best scholars in the school. The part of the Bible they studied was what we call the Old Testament, which was the part writ ten before Jesus came to earth to live. Saul.was taught the Bible but he was not taught to know Jesus and to take Jesus as his Saviour, and because of this he thought those who loved Jesus were wrong and he persecuted the Christians whenever he came where they were. That is why we have our Sunday Schools to
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