The promised land : $b Bible stories retoldShaw, Catharine
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The promised land : $b Bible stories retold
Shaw, Catharine
Bible stories, English -- New Testament -- Juvenile literature; Bible stories, English -- Old Testament -- Juvenile literature
No one was in sight, and she knew she was utterly helpless, and that
the man's strength would soon wrench the watch away.
Then she bethought herself of the Name of Jesus! And she called to Him
aloud, "Lord, help me!"
In an instant the man relaxed his hold, dropped the watch and chain,
and made off as fast as he could, and she saw him no more! Surely to
her the Name of the Lord had been a strong tower, she had run into it
and was safe!
And this is only one instance of very many that I have known, when the
Holy Name of our God, or of our dear Saviour, is all-powerful to help
us in our greatest need.
If we hallow the Name of our God in our lives now, there will be a time
when we shall see His Face, and His Name shall be in our foreheads, as
a token that we are His for ever.
And now we come to another thought, about another Commandment—
_IV. "Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou
labour and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the
Lord thy God . . . For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth . . .
and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day,
and hallowed it."_
You will see it begins with the one word—
"REMEMBER!"
What are we to remember? A father goes out in the morning, and as he
turns away, he says, "Remember, children, what I have told you to do!"
So our Heavenly Father says to each one of us, about the Sundays that
come every week: "Remember! This is My Day—it is the Sunday of the Lord
thy God!"
Then let us rejoice that such a day is given us. A rest from our
lessons; a rest from our work; a time when we can read a nice book in
which we find something to help us about pleasing God.
Sunday is given us to do good in. Think how our Lord, when He was on
earth, went about healing and comforting on the Sabbath Day! And He
told the people "it was lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day."
If we look out for opportunities, we can think of things to do that
will help others. We can paint texts to send to invalids or to
cottages; we can put sacred pictures, if we have any, into scrap-books
for the Children's Hospital, or we can paste some white paper on a used
picture post-card, and write neatly a verse or two of a hymn, and send
the cards, when done, to cheer the wounded soldiers! Such a hymn as
"Fight the good fight," or "Jesu, Lover of my soul," or "I heard the
voice of Jesus say."
An elder sister, perhaps, can show the little ones a Bible
picture-book, and tell them some simple stories about Little Samuel or
Joseph. Or she can read aloud a Sunday story-book to the others, while
they paint or chalk some outlined texts.
In a large family I know, this was a very favourite occupation.
Then singing hymns! Oh, how children love hymns!
As you begin to "remember" to make God's Day a holy, happy one, you
will find that there are things to do in it, for His sake, that will
make you happy, too.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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