A poor little girl in the slums of London one cold snowy night said to her little brother who was shivering with the cold by her side, "Come closer to me, dear little brother, come under my shawl, it will stretch and cover us both." She never knew anything of the idol of selfishness, no one ever does who stretches the shawl for two. Put this idol in the old rag-bag and put it out of sight. The third idol we will label "Hatred." We worship this idol when we say to another, "I hate you," and then add all sorts of evil words designed to hurt and kill, and so often we seem glad to believe all the evil said about our enemies, and so worship this idol with glad hearts. Often we get some foreign substance in our eye, and we cannot see except with a blurred vision. We do not see things as they really are. Thus "hate" often blurs our sight, and we cannot see straight. "Hate" is a foreign substance in the mind's eye and we cannot see people as they are. John Hus the Reformer was bound to the stake to be burned to death because of his faith in Jesus. A poor old peasant woman came up with a piece of wood to add to the fire which was to burn the martyr to death, and when it was flung on the pile, she seemed to be happy and contented. John Hus said to her, "Have I ever harmed you or yours that you are so bitter against me?" "Never," she replied, "but you are a heretic, and wood is scarce, and it looks like a hard winter, but I am glad to do my part to rid the world of such an accursed heretic." John Hus reached out his hand and drew the fagot close to his side and said, "With my heart I forgive you," for John was a Christian. She was a heathen putting her idol of "hate" to bed. She was so blind with hate that she did not know a saint when she saw one. Be like Jesus who loved all men. A brother of mine when he was converted said, "I feel like kissing everybody." He had put the idol of hate in the rag-bag and, like Jesus, loved everybody. Should you not go and do likewise? If this lesson is given to small children secure a doll's bed, and have the idols all put to bed before the children assemble. Place this bed on the table or any place where it can be seen by all. Take them out of bed one by one, and give the lesson, and then say, "Shall I put them back to bed or in the rag-bag?" After this tell them we are all to love God and not idols. Tell them the true God never goes to bed, and neither slumbers nor sleeps, but watches over us to see if there is not some good thing he can do for us the next day. His Son looks on and says, "Suffer the little ones to come unto me." Let's go. =44 HOW TO MAKE A CHRISTMAS FLAG OBJECTS: A Piece of Blue Bunting or Muslin and a Yellow Six-pointed Star=