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
This faithful dog should also teach you and me another lesson. If a dog
can make himself so useful as to save the lives of sixty-eight people,
you and I should ask ourselves the question whether we are doing as
much for the blessing and the salvation of men as this faithful dog did
on the mountains of Switzerland? But you can do a great deal more than
this dog. He could only save the lives of people, but God can use you to
save their souls as well, by the influence of a noble Christian life, by
what you say and do, by your contributions to missions, and in various
other ways you may help to save the souls of many who must otherwise
perish.
But this faithful dog teaches us a lesson of constant, daily duty. It
was no easy thing for this dog to go out in the fierce cold through the
deep snow and run about all day to hunt for lost travelers, but it was
by keeping constantly at it and working faithfully day after day that he
accomplished this grand result. He did not save sixty-eight people all
at one time, but saved one at a time, and sometimes worked for days and
weeks without finding a single traveler whom he could help. In the same
way, if you desire to be useful in this world, you must use every little
opportunity which comes to you daily. You must be willing to work hard
and keep at it, and even though you cannot succeed in doing any great
thing at any one time, remember that you must keep doing little things
all the while. I trust that God may inspire each of you to desire to
accomplish grand results in your lives by the constant doing of both
little and great things for God and man.
QUESTIONS.--Are dogs serviceable? What kinds are
the most useful? Where do they live? For what and
by whom are they used? What do the dogs do to
revive a traveler? Tell the story of the dog of
the St. Bernard Pass. Of what does this story
remind us? Does Christ try to rescue us? What are
we doing when we reject Him? What lesson does this
dog teach us? Can we do as much as this dog did?
Why? What can we do which the dog could not do?
What other lesson does this dog teach us? Did the
dog save all the sixty-eight people at one time?
Are we able to accomplish God's work all at one
time? How must we do it?
THE CAMERA.
GOD'S PICTURE BOOK.
SUGGESTION:--Objects: A small camera and a small
looking glass.
[Illustration: A Camera.]
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