The Bible object book : $b A book of object lessons which are different, written in plain English and in common wordsWoolston, C. H. (Clarence Herbert)
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The Bible object book : $b A book of object lessons which are different, written in plain English and in common words
Woolston, C. H. (Clarence Herbert)
Children's sermons
God took good care of him so he should fall into the well, for that
was the first round in the ladder of his great success. Many a man
has doubted God and stayed down the well of misfortune and upbraided
God, denounced him, and so lived the rest of his days in darkness,
and dying went into eternal night. Put this card into the heart and
say "Unbelief is the sixth devil."
"Unholy Pleasure" is the seventh and last devil of this black-winged
group. Have these words written on a piece of gold paper.
This devil of "Unholy Pleasure" is in full dress and a gentleman of
the world. A "regular fellow," so the people of the world declare,
but he is a deceiver and destroyer. Seek pure pleasure. Play, but
play straight, or the lamps of sin over the pleasure garden of the
world will blind your eyes, so you cannot see the evil of sinful
pleasures.
This devil will be at the end of the road to make captive your soul
forever. Place this card in the heart and say: "Unholy Pleasure is
the seventh devil, and now there is a full house of devils. The heart
will soon come to the end of the way as it is now full of devils and
full of sin." As you say this produce a red heart the same size as
the white heart you have been using, and put it in front of the white
heart. You can now see sin covers her heart entirely, she is down but
not out, because where the "out" begins Jesus stands and waits. He
always gives special attention to hard cases, and Jesus found Mary
Magdalene just there, and saved her soul by casting out the seven
devils and making her clean again. He had forgiven all her
transgressions and remembers them against her no more forever.
As you say this, still holding the red heart in front of the white
heart, take out all the devils at once if you can, and as you do so
take away the red heart also, drop them all on the table together and
say, "Please note that when the devils all go out sin goes also
[having reference to the red heart], and the heart is now white and
clean, and it will so stay, for the devils have gone out to stay
out."
This is the story of how seven devils entered the heart of Mary
Magdalene, and the glad story of how they were cast out. God will do
the same for you, for he is no respecter of persons.
In delivering this address always keep the heart of Mary Magdalene in
full view of the audience. Hold it in your left hand if possible, and
load the cards with the right hand. Be sure and make the heart large
enough to contain the seven cards you put into it. Practise and
rehearse.
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SHOW YOUR COLORS
OBJECTS: An Eighteenth Amendment Flag; a Church
Flag; a Conquest Flag; an American Flag=
Text: Psalm 60:4: "That it may be displayed because of the truth."
This is an expression we often use when we want to be out and out for
any cause we wish to represent.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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