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
I took him to my church one day. The first lion who ever went to
Sunday school--and as it was an anniversary day with the school I
gave an object-talk with the little fellow in my arms. I told the
children that this lion, so docile and harmless, had a wild nature,
and in a short time when that nature was fully developed it would not
be safe for the boys and girls to come near him. The little paw which
I held in my hands would soon be so strong and wild that it could
bring down in death the strongest man alive. I then permitted a few
little girls to come to the platform and hold the little fellow for a
few moments, which they did with great glee and will tell their
children's children of the day when they held a real living baby lion
in their arms. I then told them that we all like lions have an evil
nature. While we are young we are like this little lion, gentle and
mild, but later on when our wild nature develops we do very wicked
things and become sinners. The little lion must always be a lion,
there is no power on earth that can change its nature. But although
we have an evil nature, Jesus has come to take away the evil within
us and make us his gentle, obedient, and loving children. I then told
the children how much the mother lion loved her little baby. Mother
love is so strong that she is most dangerous when she has little cubs
of her own; she so greatly fears the stranger will do them harm.
[Illustration: A Baby Lion, Six Weeks Old, Receiving the Name of the
Youngest Baby in the Audience]
Then I told a baby lion story. A circus was in progress at Woodbury,
N.J., one afternoon in May, 1919, when the keeper of a lioness named
Lucy and her two cubs entered her cage. He succeeded without
difficulty in driving the mother lion into a compartment at the other
end of the cage, thus separating her from her cubs. All would
doubtless have gone well had he not stopped to fondle the cubs. This
aroused the wild anger of the mother, and she sprang with all her
might against the separating door, burst it open, and seized the
keeper by the neck and killed him instantly. She was transferred into
a mad lion when she thought her cubs were in danger. This story shows
us how much the mother lion loves her little ones.
About this time the baby lion grew restless and wanted to go home, so
when we had named the little cub Norman after the youngest child
present that afternoon, we took him back to his mother.
=THE BABY LEOPARD LESSON=
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