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
When the World War was on we pinned a small flag on our coats because
we were glad we were Americans and wanted to be out and out for our
country; we "displayed our colors."
Let us all try to show our colors as good Americans. Produce a flag
from an inside pocket and say: "As an American citizen I will now
show my colors; our text says, 'That it may be displayed because of
the truth.'"
When I was traveling in Europe I always had a little flag in my hotel
room. I did not keep it in the bottom of my trunk, nor did I keep it
shut up in the closet, but I placed it in a conspicuous place where
everybody who came into the room could see it.
I can show my colors also by obeying my country's laws and always
speaking well of its President and those in authority. I am not
ashamed of them, so I show my colors as an American citizen, I now
will place this flag over the pulpit where you can all see it, and
place my hand on it and vow I will always show my colors as an
American; and lifting up the other hand I say, "So help me God."
From another pocket produce a white piece of bunting with the figures
"18" marked on it, and say: "I am a temperance advocate. I believe
in the Eighteenth Amendment, and I will support it with all my heart.
It is a glorious part of the Constitution of the United States. I
will not call it a failure, and thereby cause the wicked to jeer at
it. I will not speak slightingly of it, and thereby cause the weak to
disrespect it. I believe it came from God and it has come to stay. I
am for it with all my soul."
A visitor once came as a stranger to a Southern town on the eve of "a
license" or "no-license campaign," and was asked by one of the liquor
men which side he was on, He replied: "You just step up to God and
ask him which side he is on; step up to the wives and children of the
drunkards, and ask them which side they are on; I am on the same
side."
He was out and out a defender of the glorious Eighteenth Amendment.
Now place this flag over the pulpit next to the Stars and Stripes. At
this time produce from another pocket the church flag, which is the
white flag with a red cross in its center, and as you display it,
say: "I am out and out for the Church of God. I love its walls and
its glorious old songs. I live in it and live for it, because I want
to do good by my example. I need the church. There is mighty power in
'the assembly.'"
This I say with my lips, and this I say also by my example. Jesus was
a church-goer, and I want to be like him. It was his custom to go to
the assembly. It was a good custom. The Church is "the
meeting-place," not the place where we meet each other only, but
where we meet God. It is good to be there. Jesus went there to meet
his heavenly Father, for "God is in his holy temple." Heaven bless
the meeting-house.
God feels hurt if we do not come to see him, because we are the
children of his heart. Let us go to church.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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