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October, 1937
Junior King's Business By M ARTHA S. HOOKER
THE TRANSFORMED LIFE By F rank A. M iller
(In using this talk as a blackboard lesson, ask a boy and a girl each to place a hand on the blackboard, and as you draw around their hands, ask the other children to re peat Luke 24:39: “ Behold my^ hands and my feet.” Describe the scene in that room when the Lord Jesus suddenly stood before the group.) O NCE a wicked sailor saw a picture of Christ, and it broke his heart. Christ changed — transformed — his whole life. Only Christ can do this. Two young men who had been going out with guns and holding up people on the street saw this chalk talk, and through it they were led to Christ. They are now preach ing the gospel. So it is that the act of look ing to Christ, by faith, changes holdup hands to holy hands. The worst fighting bully of Sycamore, 111., came to Jesus as Saviour, and the Lord Jesus changed a lion into a lamb, making fighting hands become kind hands. In Calgary, Can., a hundred boys lifted their hands when asked whether they had ever played marbles for “keeps.” Charley had beaten little Jimmy out of all of his marbles. He came forward with many others and received the Lord Jesus as Saviour and yielded his heart to Him. Then he rushed home, collected all of those mar bles, and returned them to Jimmy. That touched Jimmy’s heart. He came the next day to hear the chalk talks, and he, too, received Christ as his Saviour. Charley’s gambling hands had become giving hands. In Jackson, Mich., several, boys had stolen some buns. Later, one of them became con victed of the sinfulness of his heart, and he cried, “ God be merciful to me a sinner.” The Lord reminded him of those buns. Ah, the boy had forgotten about the^buns, but he told the Lord that if He would forgive him, he would go to pay for those buns. God did forgive him, and he walked ten miles in order to pay for those stolen buns. That lad became a minister of the gospel. His stealing hands became honest hands. A fourteen-year-old boy in Wellsville, N. Y., said that his chum and he had smoked cigarettes from the time they were “ little tots” and that his chum had died from nicotine poison. The doctor found that the internal organs were as “yellow as saffron,” and said that if he (the fourteen- year-old boy) were to quit smoking too sud denly, it might kill him. The next day Christ saved that boy and freed him from the cigarette habit, and the boy’s cigarette hands became clean hands. Now let us talk about the feet. The Prodigal Son repented and confessed his sin to his father. His straying feet became home feet. Oh, that every “ wandering boy”
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booklet by Frank A. Miller, Superintendent of the Children’s Evangelistic Union. More than fifteen thousand copies have been pub lished. The booklet may be secured for twenty-five cents from the author at 125 S. Ave. 60, Los Angeles, Calif .— E ditor .] A Bible Drill 1. Bible Salute: “ I pledge allegiance to the Bible, the holy, inspired Word of God, which is prof itable for reproof, correction, and instruc tion in righteousness.” 2. Song, “Holy Bible, Book Divine” : Holy Bible, Book divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine; Mine to tell me whence I came, Mine to teach me what I am. Mine to tell of joys to come, Light and life beyond the tomb; Holy’ Bible, Book divine, Precious treasure, thou art mine. —William B. Bradbury. 3. Placing Bible Over Heart, Repeat: “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee” (Psa. 119:11). 4. Song, Chorus of “ Thy Word Have I Hid in M y Heart": Thy Word have I hid in my heart, That I might not sin against Thee; That I might not sin, That I might not sin, Thy Word have I hid in my heart. —E. O. Sellers. 5. Pointing Bible Toward Feet, Repeat:
might turn toward Christ and home I If people would turn to the Lord Jesus, Sun day baseball feet would become Sunday- school feet, and if the thoughtless would really think of Christ, dancing feet would become church feet. An old soldier said, “ I was marching toward hell. God said, ‘Halt!’ and I halted. God said, ‘Right about face,’ and I have been marching to ward heaven ever since.” A fourteen-year-old boy said, “When you came here to give these chalk talks, I was marching toward hell, but I am marching toward heaven now, and I thank you for telling us about the Lord Jesus.” (Around the hands on the blackboard, draw a cross, with the crown of thorns— in red—which the Lord Jesus bore for us, drawn on the top of the cross, making red marks on the hands and feet speaking of what Jesus suffered. Around the cross draw a door. After explaining the parts of the drawing, continue with the lesson.) The Lord Jesus says: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.” Will you open the door of your heart and let Him come into your life? He will transform your heart and life. Your heart of sin will be come a heart of love toward Christ and toward everybody. While heads are bowed and every one is praying, open your heart’s door to the Lord Jesus and say, “My Lord and my G od!” {This blackboard talk and the accom panying drawing are based upon one of the fourteen sections found in Evangelistic Chalk Talks, a practical and widely used
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