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name we are not told, who gave all his lunch to the Lord Jesus, and He fed five thousand people with it. How glad that little boy must have been because he was there and gave all that he had! I think he was a very bright, sharp pin, don’t you? Lastly, if a pin is going to be useful, it must have a head. Who ever heard of using a pin without a head ? It would look very funny and would soon drop out of whatever it was pinning. It would be a very useless thing. Did you know, boys and girls, that the Lord Jesus died that He might be the Head of your life? (Eph. 4:15). He is the One who will make us useful. First of all, accept Him as Saviour, the One who died for you. What joy it is to know Him! Then He will make you a happy, useful boy or girl as you give your life to Him. Memory Work In last month’s J unior K ing ’ s B usiness , we completed the Scripture alphabet. How many of our Junior readers can now re peat the twenty-six verses ? I do hope many of you have hidden these precious verses away in your hearts. If you have, recite them to your Sunday-school teacher or parents, and then send a statement to this effect to the Junior Editor. This month we will begin a new series of verses—one for each letter of the Know Your Bible Club. Think of the many won derful verses you will have hidden away in your heart if you learn them all! “Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile” (Psa. 34:13). “Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake” (Psa. 115:1). “O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever” (Psa. 107:1). “Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet be lieving, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory” (1 Pet. 1:8J. Lord of AH Being Lord of all being! throned afar, Thy glory flames from sun and sta r: Center and soul of every sphere, Yet to each loving heart how near! Sun of our life, Thy quickening ray Sheds on our path the glow of day; Star of our hope, Thy softened light Cheers the long watches of the night. Lord of all life, below, above, Whose light is truth, whose warmth is love, Before Thy ever-blazing throne We ask no luster of our own. Grant Us Thy truth to make us free, And kindling hearts that burn for Thee, Till all Thy living altars claim One holy light, one heavenly flame! —O liver W endell H olmes .
LESSONS FROM A COMMON PIN B y E dith G oreham C larke
I was trying to see ju st now how many different kinds of pins I could think of, and I found I had only four on my list. I thought of the safety pin, the ordinary little common pin, the hatpin, and the little pins with the pretty colored heads. But there are several important things about them all. First of all, they must be straight, or they are useless. That made me think that, if a boy or girl (or man or woman, either) is not straight and true in his or her character, then that one is ut terly useless to other people and to God. You know, there was once a man named Jacob, about whom we' read in the Bible, who was anything but straight at first; his very name meant “deceiver.” I am sure you all know the story of how he deceived his poor blind father and then had to leave home. But Jacob met with God and de termined to overcome his great fault; and with God’s help he did. Then, because he had overcome, God gave him a new name, “Israel,” which meant, “a prince with God.” Wasn’t that a lovely name to have? Just think of crooked Jacob becoming so straight that he could be called “a prince with God” I And that was a far greater honor than being a prince among men. Perhaps there is a boy or girl reading this who finds it very difficult to be always quite straight and true in all his or her ways. Just tell the Lord Jesus all about it, and He will help you to overcome, just as He helped Jacob to change his crooked ways. And when you have overcome with His help, and when some day you go with Him to heaven, He will give you, too, a lovely name, which only you and He will know. God has made our bodies straight and upright, and He wants our characters to be straight and upright, too. Whenever we see a pin, let it be a reminder to us to be straight in everything. Perfect truthful ness is one of the grandest things in the world. Here is a story of a boy who had learned to be truthful. He had been put at the bottom of his class at school because he was the youngest in it. A question as to the spelling of a word was put to the boy at the head of the class, but he was unable to spell it correctly, and it went right down the class till it came to Harry, the boy about whom I am telling you. Harry answered correctly—at least the teacher and every one else thought so—and he marched up, very much delighted, to the top of the class. The teacher then said, “I will write the word on the blackboard so that none of you will forget it.” As he wrote, all watched. Suddenly Harry cried out, “Oh, I didn’t say that; I said ‘e,’ not ‘i.’” And without another word from any one, Harry went back to his place at the bottom of the line. He had too true a heart to take credit when he really did not deserve it. How much easier it would have been to have said nothing and to have stayed where he was! Another thing I thought about my pins was that a pin must not be rusty. A rusty
pin is really of less use than a crooked one, for it is dangerous. If you let a rusty pin run into your hand or any other part of you, you are quite likely to get blood poi soning. Yes, a rusty pin is bad enough, but to have a rusty conscience is far worse. What makes a pin rusty? A pin that is in constant use will not get rust on it; and
a conscience that is well used will not get rusty, either. God has given us a conscience to tell us to do the right, but if we won’t listen to it and won’t use it, it gets rusty and stops working. God has said: “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper” (Prov. 28:13). As a rusty pin will give you blood poisoning, so a rusty conscience will poison your whole life and make you hard and bitter and unlovable. Then, too, a pin is useless unless it has a good point. No one wants to use a blunt pin. It behaves as if it did not want to stick into whatever we want it to. .And very often, when we do manage to stick it into something, it goes through suddenly and gives us a prick. God wants His boys and girls to be like sharp pins, ready for use. He wants you to be of use to Him. Often we read in the Bible of how He used children. There was Samuel, who was only a very little boy when God first called him to be His messenger to Eli. And there was Josiah, who was only eight years old when he came to the throne. David and Daniel, too, were quite young when they were used by God, and there are the stories of many others, including a little boy whose
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