THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S for him. Now what do you think the wicked queen did? She wrote letters and signed them with the king’s name, and sealed them with the king’s seal, and sent them to the elders of the city where Naboth lived. In the letters she commanded them to find some wicked men who would tell lies about Naboth, and say they had heard him speak evil of God and the king. The elders did as the queen commanded, for they found two men who lied about Naboth, and they took him out and stoned him to death. When the queen heard that Naboth was dead, she went to the king and told him to arise, and take the vineyard, for Naboth was dead. The king arose and went down to the vine yard to take it for his own. Once more God has something for His prophet Eli jah to da, for He tells him to go to meet the wicked king. Elijah met him right in the vineyard, and when the king sees him coming he is frightened, and said to Mm, ‘Hast thou found me?” Elijah answered, “ I have found thee because thou hast given thyself up to sin against the Lord.” Then Elijah told the king that the Lord would send evil upon him and his family, and that they all should be destroyed. The Lord had also told Elijah that the wicked queen would be eaten by dogs by the city wall. The vineyard did not do the king or queen any good, for they got it in a wrong way. Selfishness is an awful sin. and' we need to watch that it does not spoil our lives, for selfish people can never be happy people. Our memory verse tells us we must not covet any thing that is our neighbor’s. That means we must not want it and try to
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BLACKBOARD SKETCHES. By Ern Hansell. Elijah in Naboth’s Vineyard. I Kings 21:7-10, 16-20. 1. vs. 7-10. The letter written. Draw, explaining. 2. vs. 16-20. Elijah in the Vineyard. Explain how Ahab had in a subtle way planned to take the vineyard, (draw) but when he arrived at the vineyard he met God’s prophet, (draw) and heard God’s solemn judgment upon his act. CONCLUSION. Golden text. “ Be sure your sin will find you out.” SACRIFICIAL GIVING How much sacrifice is involved in the giving of the average citizen who goes to church in a three-thousand-dollar automobile,, for which he pays one hun dred dollars a month for up-keep, when he puts one dollar into the collection and then criticizes the appeal of his minister when he asks for money to keep the starving people in Europe from dying? How much sacrifice does the man know who gives ten dollars a year to his local Y. M. C. A. and fifty dol lars for his favorite baseball team? How much sacrifice does the man know who is planning a trip to Europe this summer at a cost of two thousand or more, when he gives twenty-five dol lars a year to support medical missions a,broad, and is looked upon as a gener ous man because he gave fifty dollars last year out of a large business to support an orphan overseas? How much sacrifice does the man know who makes a clear profit in a year’s time of twenty- five thousand dollars an-d gives one- hundredth of that to benevolence and
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