479 among those led to Christ in a seaside mission. A day or two after the little girl said: “ Oh, mamma, don’t we feel happy? I wonder why it is?” Mother soon explained. It was the joy of the Lord. A boy who had been shut in a room by himself as a punishment for bad con duct was overheard to pray, “ O God, now is Your chance to make me a good boy.” The penitent David prayed, "Create in me a clean heart.” Psa. 51:10. Don’t put off confessing wrong. The Gordon Boys’ Home received a five pound note with this letter: “ About twenty years ago I robbed one of your collecting boxes at Bacchus Hotel, Sut- ton-on-Sea. It was only a boyish prank, and the few shillings it contained were soon spent. I have for years been looking for opportunity to repay my debt. Every time I see your boys’ uni form my conscience stabs me.” Don’t wait twenty years as this boy did. Samuel was Obedient. A little boy entered a shop, in the window of which was shown the fami liar card: “ Boy wanted.” ' Thinking he was too weak for the work, the gentle man said, “ Well, my lad, what can you do?” The boy replied, “ I can do what I’m told, sir.” This so pleased the shop keeper that he said, “ You’ll do. my boy.” Golden text illustration—Delighting in God’s ways. A little boy went home to his mother and said, “ Mother, sister and I went out into the garden, and we were calling about, and there was some boy mocking us.” “ How do you mean, Johnny?” said his mother. “Why,” said the child, “ I was calling out ‘Ho!’ and this boy said ‘H o!’ So I said, ‘Who are you?’ and he answered, ‘Who are you?’ I said, ‘What is your name?’ He said, ‘What is your name?’ And I said to him, ‘Why don’t you show yourself?’ He said, ‘Show yourself.’ I said, ‘If
THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S (6) If you want your girls and boys to be the best, do your best to give them a good start with the Bible. (7) An opening for all: We need an open ear to hear God; an open heart to believe God; an open Book to know God; an open mouth to speak for God. (8) In one short hour God transformed a little lad into a princely prophet. Subject illustration—A Boy’s Life. An old gentleman remarked: “ When I was a little boy somebody gave me a cucumber in a bottle. The neck of the bottle was small and the cucumber so large that it was not possible for it to pass through the neck of the bot tle. “ I was greatly puzzled to know how it got there, but one day later, out in the garden, I came LESSON upon a bottle ILLUSTRATION slipped over a little W. H. Pike green fellow upon the vines, and then I understood it all. The cucumber had grown in the bottle,” and then he added: “ I often see men with habits that I wonder strong sensible men could form; but like the cucumber they started growing inside these habits when they were young. A boy or girl cannot be too careful about bottle habits.” Samuel started right. “ I know a little boy whose heart was touched by an address on the w;ords: “ Behold, I stand at the door and knock.” A worker, noticing that he was anxious, said to him, “ Robert, what would you say to any one who knocked at the door of your house, if you wished him to come in?” He answered,' “ I’d say, ‘Come in !’,” She said to him, “ Then say to the Lord Jesus, ‘Come in !’ ” Which he did. A mother and her little girl were
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