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“The Lord Jesus came into my heart and into Peter’s two years ago,” Marcia said softly, squeezing her friend’s hind tightly: “And now He lives in your heirt, too.” Z “ I’m glad,” Joan said simply. “The tree is ready,” Peter exclaimed (abruptly. -“ Help me drag it out,” he shouted. The two girls scrambled to their feet and eagerly j o i n e d him, pushing and shoving until the tree was pulled through the door. Peter began to saw the tree-trunk into nice smooth logs r e a d y to put into the wood-basket bjr the fireplace. Mrs. Grant appeared with chocolate and cookies. “The house is clean and ready for the New Year,” she said. “And our hearts are clean and ifeady, ■too,” Joan replied soberly. “This will be a real New Year, won’t it?” Memory Work V “Verily, verily, I say unto you, " Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you” (John 16:23b). I “In every thing give thanks: for this ■ is the Will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 Thess. 5:18). “ Consider the lilies how they grow: ■ they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” (Lk. 12:27). T “Thanks be unto God for his un- *. speakable gift” (2 Cor. 9:15). “Offer unto God thanksgiving; and v pay thy vows unto the Most High” (Psa. 50:14). n “Return to thine own house, and show how great things God hath done unto thee” (Lk. 8:39). V “Ye call me Master and Lord: and ■ ye say'well; for so I am” (John 13:13). Answers to Missing Names in the December Issue 3. Jesus. 4. King. 5. Mary. 6. Caesar Augustus. 7. Joseph. 8. ' Shepherds. 9. Wise men. 10. House. How to Join the K. Y. B. Club To become a member of the Know Your Bible Club, rend through the' Gospel ac cording* to John, using either your own Bible or a Gospel of John which will be sent upon request. When the Gospel has been read and a statement to this effect, signed by parent or Sunday-school teach er, has been sent to the Elditor of the Junior King's Business, a K. Y. B. C. pin will be mailed. Sunday-school classes or Clubs desiring to order ten or mWe Gos pels or pins may wish to share the *cost of these supplies, as the Lord directs; Gospels, postpaid, five cents e a c h— In quantity, three cents: pins, w-ithnut post age, two cents each. However, no one is to do without a Gospel or pin because of lack of money. Address: Junior King's Business, S5S S. Hops St., Los Angeles, M U , 1. Emmanuel. 2. Bethlehem.
New Year’s resolutions very long. But it 'is fun to make them.” Peter looked startled and then a lit tle disgusted. Girls were funny. “Well, I think it’s dumb to make resolutions if you don’t intend to keep them. Why go to all the trouble, anyway?” Joan looked disappointed, and Mar cia hastened to comfort her. “I think it is a lovely idea,” she said. “And who knows, it might help you to keep, them.” But Peter did not look convinced. Mrs. Grant had been watching the children from where she was sitting, busy at her knitting' for the soldiers. Now she spoke quietly. “People make New Year’s resolutions because they want to start the New Year with a clean heart,” she explained. “T h e y m^an to keep them. But Peter is right If they are going to break the resolu tions right away, it isn’t a very good way to have a clean heart, is it? I know of a much better way, the only way, in fact.” Joan stopped wrapping up tinsel and looked interested. “You do?”, she asked. Suddenly, before her mother could reply, ft glad smile spread over MaT- cia’s face. “Oh, I know, now,” Marcia said. “The Lord Jesus Christ is the only One who can make our hearts clean, isn’t He, Mother?” Joan looked at Marcia,, surprise in her brown eyes. “How can the JLord Jesus make your heart clean for New Year’s day?” she asked. “Why, the Bible says so,” Peter put in, not to be outdone by his sister. He hurried to the table and picked up the Bible. “It says so in lots of places,” he went on, surprised that every one didn’t know that. “Read this.” Joan.took the Bible and read quietly, “ ‘Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.’ " “There is another verse about it, too, one that we learned at Sunday-school last Sunday,” Peter went op. “ ‘Create in me a c l e a n heart, O God,’ ” he quoted. “And there are ever-so many more verses like that.”
“But what do you have, to do?” Joan asked. “Just ‘believe on tire Lord J e s u s Christ, and thou shalt be saved,’ ” Mar cia said, eager to show her friend the way. “That’s in the Bible, too,” Peter has tened to explain. “That isn’t just Mar cia’s idea.” Joan’s face was knit ifito a puzzled look. “I’d like to see it in the Bible,” she said, “Acts 16:31,” Mother whispered to Peter, and he quickly ,turned to the- right portion. Joan took the Bible,'and read care fully: “ ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus. Christ, and thou shalt be saved.’ I’d like to believe,” she said, closing the Bible and turning to Mrs. Grant “I’d like the Lord Jesus tp give' me a clean heart to starts the New Year with. But how do I do it?” Mrs. Grant smiled gently at Joan, and beginning ijbite simply she told her of her need to be saved, of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ whose birth they had remembered at Christ mastime, of His death on the cross that all men, women, and children might be saved, and of His work in the heart when one received Him. “Do you believe that?” she asked 'Softly. “Oh, yes,” Joan exclaimed, starry- eyed. “Then we’ll tell the Lord J e s u s about it.” • Then Joan prayed, for the very first time in her life, except for memorized bedtime prayers. She knew that she meant this prayer as she had never meant any other prayer before. “Dear Lord Jesus, .1 believe oh Thee. I thank Thee for coming into my heart,and making it clean. In Jesus’ name I. pray, Amen.” : Just as Joan finished, Mrs. Grant spoke. “Help us, Lord,” she prayed, “to look to Thee to keep our hearts clean all through the coming New Year. In Thy name, Amen.” , Joan raised her head and smiled at Mrs. Grant, Marcia, and Peter in turn. There was a new light bn her face.
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