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
You never will be able to understand the hidden mystery of your own
spiritual life and spiritual being until you use the Word of God to help
you to solve the mystery. The Word of God is not only designed to unlock
the human heart, so that God and the Holy Spirit may gain admission, but
this key is also designed to lock the door against Satan and sin and
keep them out of our hearts. Unless we daily use our Bibles to lock our
hearts against evil thoughts, and wicked purposes, and sinful desires,
we will find that they will steal into our hearts; and like the evil
spirit that had been driven out and afterward returned and brought seven
other spirits more wicked than himself, so sin and Satan will again take
possession of our hearts and lock them against God and all that is good.
QUESTIONS.--Are there many kinds of locks? Must
there be as many kinds of keys as there are kinds
of locks? Is the human heart like a lock? Does God
desire to get into the human heart? With what key
does He unlock it? Are the lock and its key made
by the same man? Who made the human heart? Who
made the key to unlock it? Can the Bible be used
to lock the human heart against the entrance of
sin? What are skeleton keys? Do men try false keys
with which to open the human heart? What are some
of the things with which they try? Is the human
heart ever satisfied until unlocked by the Bible
and possessed by God?
[Illustration]
TRAPS.
UNSUSPECTING MICE AND MEN.
SUGGESTION:--An ordinary mouse trap will be
serviceable. The trap can be set and instead of a
mouse, a child can spring the trap with his
finger. The parent had better try his own finger
first, to see that the trap is not too strong. A
rat trap should never be tried in this way.
MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: You may think that possibly there was a time when
wicked men did not desire to destroy others, as is so often the case in
this day. Hundreds of years ago, God said, "Among my people are found
wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap,
they catch men." (Jeremiah v: 26.)
[Illustration: Mouse Trap.]
I suppose you have all seen traps. There are a great many different
kinds. Some are very dangerous, and yet you cannot see the danger until
you are caught, or until you see some other person who has been caught
in the trap. Now here is a trap. I suppose that you have all seen such
traps as this, and possibly have them in your own homes, to catch the
little mice which destroy your food, and oftentimes do much injury.
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