With the Children on Sundays: Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-SoulStall, Sylvanus
Religion
With the Children on Sundays: Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul
Stall, Sylvanus
Children -- Religious life; Children's sermons; Moral education
QUESTIONS.--How did David say we are made? Does
the machinery in a great factory make much noise?
Are our bodies like a factory in this respect?
How can we hear the noise inside of our body?
Where is the heart located? What does the heart
do? Can you tell how water is supplied for a great
city? Is the blood carried to all portions of our
body in a similar way? How much blood is pumped by
the heart in twenty-four hours? What does the
Bible say is the allotted years of a person's
life? How long a string of teams would it require
to carry all the blood which the heart ordinarily
pumps in seventy years? Does the heart keep on
pumping while we sleep? What is still more
wonderful than the physical heart? Can we see
either the physical heart or the spiritual heart?
Does the fact that you cannot see them prove that
you do not have them? Are both necessary to your
complete being and existence?
[Illustration]
THE EYE.
THE MOST VALUABLE AND MOST WONDERFUL TELESCOPE.
SUGGESTION:--The objects used are a field-glass or
opera-glass, spy-glass and sun-glass.
MY DEAR LITTLE MILLIONAIRES: You know that when people are very wealthy,
have hundreds of thousands of dollars, they are spoken of as
millionaires. Oftentimes these rich people do not have any more actual
money than poorer people, but they have property which is supposed to be
worth a great deal of money. Now, I want to show you to-day that each
one of you possesses that which is worth millions of dollars.
[Illustration: Field-glass, Spy-glass and Sun-glass.]
I want to talk to you about your eyes, and I hope that you will be able
to understand that they are worth hundreds and thousands, yes millions
of dollars to each of you. In order that I may better illustrate a few
of the many wonderful things about the human eye, I have brought this
field-glass, and here is a small spy-glass, and also a magnifying lens,
or sun-glass, as boys sometimes call them. Inside of this spy-glass and
these field-glasses are lenses or magnifying glasses, similar to this
sun-glass. They are, however, more perfect, and are so adjusted or
related to each other, that when I place this smaller lens of the
spy-glass to my eye I also look through the larger lens which is at the
further end of the instrument. When properly adjusted, it enables me to
see objects which are at a great distance, and to so magnify them as to
cause them to seem much nearer to me than they really are.
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