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
The last lesson from this study of the snow is that God has made it a
symbol of purity. God is pure, and He wants us to be pure. Do you put
tobacco in your mouth? Then your mouth is not pure. Do you use bad
words? If so, your mouth is not pure. Do you use your eyes to read
worthless story papers and books, or to look at evil pictures? Then your
eyes and thoughts are not pure. Do you permit your ears to listen to
improper talk? Then your ears and mind are not pure. Do you harbor bad
thoughts in your heart? Then your heart is not pure. Do you defile your
body by improper eating and drinking? If you do, then your body is not
pure. If you and I desire to be pure, we must go to God and earnestly
ask Him as David did when he cried unto God and said, "Purge me with
hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me and I shall be whiter than snow."
Now let us sing this beautiful hymn:
"Wash me and I shall be whiter than the snow."
QUESTIONS.--About what did God ask Job, to set him
thinking? Where does the snow come from? Does
anyone know fully how the snow is formed? Is the
snow as wonderful as it is beautiful? What do the
flakes look like? Are they all formed alike? Are
any two exactly alike? How is the snow useful in
winter? Is snow as important in the winter as rain
in the summer? Is God ever in a hurry? Are you
always patient? What is worth doing well? Does God
always have a purpose in whatever He does? Does
God expect us to have a noble purpose? Of what is
snow the symbol? Does God expect us all to be
pure?
PLASTIC FACE.
CHARACTER IN THE COUNTENANCE.
SUGGESTION:--The object used is a small plastic
face such as are often sold in toy stores, and
even on the streets in large cities. The head of a
rubber doll would also answer the purpose.
A couple of pictures of faces placed in bottles
would illustrate the fact that as the faces are
seen through the bottles, so our thoughts are not
wholly hidden but shine through our faces.
MY DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: Here is a soft plastic face; by squeezing it on
the side I can make the face very long, and it looks very sober. If I
place the face between my thumb and fingers and press upon the chin and
forehead it makes the face short, and makes it have a very pleasant
appearance. I can make it look as though it were laughing, or make it
seem to be angry and cross.
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