Let us speak his name again. Let us all repeat it together, and often, when we think of Bethlehem at Christmastime let us repeat the name of the brave hero, the swordsman of King David, and tell the story of the fight for water just outside the gates of Bethlehem, and then tell the story of the Child Jesus who came to bring us the Water of Life from heaven, for did he not say, "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life"? In delivering this lesson hold the sword in your hand and refer to it whenever you use the name of Benaiah the swordsman. =10 WHAT CAN TAKE AWAY MY SINS? OBJECTS: A Number of Lettered Cards= The teaching of this chapter is that faith alone in Christ can save. Prepare a large black card with the words "My Sins" painted upon it. Hold it up before the audience so all can see it, and remark: "My sins are dark and terrible. The Bible tells me they are like a thick cloud. (Isa. 44:22.) Note the first letter of sin is an S, which resembles a serpent in the act of striking its deadly blow. You cannot pronounce the letter S without hissing as a serpent. Sin is a deadly thing. It is poison for the heart and will. Sin is like a monster serpent coiled around our soul, and will at last crush out its life forever. I must get rid of my sins, They will not only ruin my own soul but will smite others also. Some years ago some scientific men made an investigation as to the cause of a contagious disease which had spread over a great city. "It was discovered that a young man had been stealing goldfish which he put into a little tank in the floor of his room and covered it with boards to hide its secret place until he could sell them to another man. "Soon after a great contagion sprang up in that vicinity, indeed in that very room, It began with him at first, and he was left crippled and blind and went limping along on crutches, a suffering permanent invalid. The contagion spread to others, and upon examination made by scientific men from Warsaw and Berlin they found out these fish had died in the tank, and were of such a nature as to spread at once a contagion which became of a most malignant type. A scourge overspread the land and carried away tens of thousands of innocent people. Sin acts just like that. Every act of evil deposited in a heart given over to disobedience to God breeds a miasma, the fumes of which go out on the silent air, poisoning the life of others as well as that of the sinner. "I _must_ get rid of my sins for the sake of the other man as well as my own soul." "How can this be done? What will take away my sins? Let me _show_ how my sins can be all taken away."