775 so many things needed, everybody could have a part in bringing something to Moses t o ,help build this first church, and this always shows how much we love God, for we said this morning we loved to give to those whom we loved, and now we will see how much these people loved God. When Moses had finished talking to the people they went back to their homes, and began to look around to see what they could give, and my what busy days for these people, for they began to gather together their gold and silver, brass, boards, stones, cloth and fine linens and brought them to Moses, and I know the boys and girls were just as busy as they could be, tak ing their little gifts, or helping father and mother carry their gifts to Moses. Our story tells us that all the gifts the people brought were gifts from hearts that loved God, and they were very happy as they carried all these things to Moses, and what do you think hap pened? Moses had to ask them not to bring any more for they had enough, and the people were still bringing in more. How happy the people were and God was happy for this showed how the people loved Him. Now this is’ such a lovely story, for everybody wants to be happy, and now we have found out this morning the only way to be really, truly happy is to give ourselves to Jesus, and then we will love Him, and that will make' us want to give all we can to help God’s work down here on earth. Closing Prayer.—Dear Lord JesuS we thank thee for letting us help by, our gifts. TR IALS Far too well my Saviour loved me, To allow my life to be One long, calm, unbroken summer, One unruffled, stormless sea; He would have me fondly nestling Closer to his loving breast; He would have that world seem brighter Where alone is perfect rest. —Selected
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Christian Giving. Ex. 35 :20 -2 9 Memory Verse.—-“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20:35. Approach.—How many of you boys and girls pver gave a present to mother on her birthday, or at Christmas time? Were you very happy when you were thinking about t h e BEGINNERS present you were go- AND ing to give her? Yes, PRIMARY and you could hardly wait, and you were just so happy you almost told mother about it before it was time. Why do we give our mothers presents? Because we love them. ' Yes, it makes us very happy to give to those we love, and that is just What Jesus tells us in our story for today, and now I am going to repeat the words Jesus said about giv ing, and then you can say it after me. (Memory Verse.) Let us bow our heads and thank God for giving us Jesus. Lesson Story.—A long, long time ago before there was any church in the world for people to go to, God spoke to a man by the name of Moses, who was a minister, and told him to build a church, and God showed Moses just the kind of a church He wanted the people to build. One day Moses called all the people together and told them some thing very wonderful. He told them God had called him up on the mountain and talked with him, and now he was going to tell them what God had told him. You know at the time our story happened, there were no Bibles, so God talked to the ministers, so they could tell the people what to do. Moses told the people how God wanted the church built, and that He wanted the people to bring all the things that would be needed to build this church, and now the people would have a chance to show their love to God for what He had done for them. Moses told them they would need a lot of gold and silver, brass, wood, precious stones, blue and purple and red cloth, nice white linen and some oil for the lamp. You see there were
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