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
One night the little girl went to bed with a troubled mind, and in
her sleep had this strange dream. She thought her father came
down-stairs one morning and said that when he awoke he discovered
somewhere that during the night he had lost his heart. He could not
feel it beating in his breast, and therefore was sure some power had
taken it away from him, and he was without a heart. The little girl
thought, in her dream, that she heard all the family laugh at this
strange story of Daddy, and they said, "Father must have lost his
mind," if he thought he had lost his heart, but he only said, putting
his hand upon his breast, "My heart is not here, I have lost it
somewhere." The little girl was greatly troubled because she thought
it was a sure sign that her father would soon die, because he could
not live without a heart. Then in her dream a good angel came to her
and said: "Dear little girl, your father is right. He has indeed lost
his heart. He loves his gold, he loves it so much that he has given
himself to the bank and forgotten God. Now, little girl, you can help
your father find his heart again, for I am going to tell you where
his heart has gone." The angel said: "On yonder shelf you will see a
little iron bank; open it up, and you will find buried beneath the
coins of this bank your father's heart." She did as the good angel
directed, and there, sure enough, amidst the copper and silver coins,
she found her Daddy's heart. She was very glad indeed at this find,
and in her great joy she awoke from her dream. The next day she told
her father this dream which she had had the previous night. He
listened to it thoughtfully and said something about foolish little
girls who think out strange things in their sleep, and then he turned
toward his bank and spent another day, amidst his banking books. But
all day long his thoughts were upon his little girl and her foolish
dream, but the more he thought about it the less foolish it seemed to
him, and at last he said to himself: "Dear little dreamer, God was
talking to you in your sleep and was talking to me also. It is true I
have lost my heart. It is buried under the gold of my bank. I have
loved my gold more than God, and have given my bank my heart. The
Good Book says, 'Where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also.' My treasure is in my bank. There is my heart also." This
message from Dreamland caused him to give his heart to God, and he
became a Christian, and then he let God keep his heart for him, and
so Jesus found the father's heart and kept it for him forevermore.
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