Chats with children : $b or, Pearls for young people strung from the word of truthLe Feuvre, Amy
Religion
Chats with children : $b or, Pearls for young people strung from the word of truth
Le Feuvre, Amy
Christian life -- Juvenile literature
Pictures to Paint—2. WHAT BIBLE SCENE IS THIS?
Pictures to Paint—3. WHAT DOES THIS REPRESENT?
Pictures to Paint—4. WHO ARE THESE TWO PERSONS?
Pictures to Paint—5. WHAT BIBLE SCENE IS THIS?
Pictures to Paint—6. WHAT GREAT EVENT IS THIS?
Pictures to Paint—7. WHAT NEW TESTAMENT SCENE IS THIS?
[Illustration: CHAT I. "If your Body Is Hurt or Ill."]
[Illustration: Pictures to Paint—1. WHAT BIBLE SCENE IS THIS?]
CHATS WITH
CHILDREN
BY AMY LE FEUVRE
CHAT I
———
"Outside
and
Inside"
"Man looketh on the
outward appearance,
but the Lord looketh
on the heart."
(1 Samuel 16.7)
CHAT I
"Outside and Inside"
"Man looketh on the outward appearance,
but the Lord looketh on the heart."
(1 Samuel 16.7)
OUTSIDE and inside. How different they are! I remember a very ugly
looking house, which I used to love as a little girl. It faced the
street, with straight rows of windows, bare and square, and not a
creeper or flower to be seen. But inside, what a delicious comfortable
house it was! And a lovely old garden behind, hidden and surrounded
by high walls. All the flowers, all the beautiful china and pictures,
and pretty old-fashioned furniture were to be seen after you entered
it, and not before. I have seen many pretty looking houses since, some
quite charming with their gabled windows and creeper clad walls, yet
some of them inside, are damp and ugly and uncomfortable.
When you go to a bookseller's to choose yourself a book do you choose
it for its cover, or for the story inside? Some of the dryest dullest
books have the most handsome binding, and some of the most thrilling
stories are wrapped up in a very poor cover.
Which do you value most, the envelope, or the letter inside? Your
purse, or the money that is in it? Do you like best the shell of a nut,
or the kernel inside? Which is most important, the case of a clock or
watch, or the works inside? Do you like the outside of your chocolate
box best, or the chocolates inside?
Outside and inside! Nearly always the inside of a thing is the thing
that matters. The outside is a mere case or covering for the treasure
within.
So it is with us. We are so apt to judge people by the outside look of
them. It is one of the pathetic facts in life, that pretty children,
and beautiful girls, and handsome boys, get most love from the world
around them. And yet their souls inside may not be nearly so beautiful
as plain featured children. A crooked body may contain a lovely soul.
A lovely body may contain a crooked and distorted soul. Outside and
inside—how different they may be. Our verse says:
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