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
While we live in a country where there is always an abundant supply of
water to satisfy the thirst of the body, yet spiritually, like these
people at the Feast of Tabernacles we have the same spiritual needs that
they had, and if you and I thirst for the water of life, if we desire
everlasting salvation, if we thirst for the knowledge of sacred things
and desire to do that which is right, Jesus invites you and me to come
to Him, and says to us: "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters." (Isa. lv: 1.) "If any man thirst let him come unto me and
drink," (John vii: 37.) "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall
be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." (John iv:
14.)
QUESTIONS.--At what season of the year was the
Feast of Tabernacles held? How long did it last?
In what did the people live or dwell during the
Feast? Of what were the booths built? Why did they
dwell in booths instead of in their houses at this
time? Of what was all this to remind them? Which
was the great day of the Feast? On this last day
of the Feast what did the high priest bring from
the well? By whom was the priest accompanied? Into
what did he pour the water from the golden bowl?
Of what was this water the symbol? Does every
human being thirst for or desire righteousness?
Did Jesus invite such to come to Him and drink?
Should we always go to Him to satisfy our
spiritual hunger and thirst?
LEAVES.
THE LESSONS WHICH THEY TEACH.
SUGGESTION:--Objects: Some autumn leaves or green
leaves of different varieties.
MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: To-day I picked up these few beautiful leaves,
which during the summer were lifted aloft on the trees and cast their
grateful shadows upon the weary traveler as he journeyed under the
scorching rays of the sun. But with the coming of autumn these leaves
have faded, and the first frost of winter has tinged them with crimson
and glory. I am sure we cannot look upon them without thinking of the
words of the Prophet Isaiah, in the sixty-fourth chapter and sixth
verse, where he says: "We all do fade as a leaf."
[Illustration: Autumn Leaves.]
I desire, however, to use these leaves to teach you not only this
lesson, but also several others which they suggest.
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