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Hometown Preacher
by Nicole Crosier Parker
Pastor Edward Phillips leaned down to pluck a handful of daisies along the side of the road. “Sister Schlade loves flowers,” he told the spotted hound that loped beside him. “These ought to make a bright spot in her kitchen.”
Soon he turned up a narrow path leading to a weathered cabin on the hillside.
“Well, look who’s here!” A tanned, pleasant-faced woman straightened from weeding a row of cabbage plants. “What brings you here today, pastor?” She smoothed her hair with dirt-stained hands. “At last I can introduce you to my Peter!”
“That’s the main reason I am here.” The pastor looked past the woman to the young man striding toward the house. “And is this Peter?”
“I guess that’s me.” The young man smiled self-consciously and slipped his arm around his mother’s shoulders.
Memory Text for September 7–13
The things in our lives that can keep our prayers from being answered are not worth keeping!
Memory Text:
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts” (James 4:3).
Project: Memory
“One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all” (Ephesians 4:5, 6).
Of All the Week the Best: Listen!
Here’s a wonderful activity for a Sabbath afternoon hike. When you have gone far enough to be away from the noises of machines and cars, give each person in the group a pencil and a stiff piece of paper with a small ‘X’ drawn in the center. The paper will be used to make a “sound map,” and the ‘X’ represents where they will be sitting. After each person has found a place where he can be alone and quiet, he should note each sound he hears. A mark should indicate the location, direction, and description of each sound.
Those Juniors, Part 15: Tempting to Teach, #2
by Eric B. Hare
Last week: We can learn good things from bad people. Learning the art of tempting children to good is an effectual way of bringing them into submission to Christ. By the thoughts, one can induce themselves to do something so strongly that the urge cannot be resisted. When applied for good, this is an invaluable skill.
Now, let me give you my one-hundred-dollar proof for this statement.
As I explained in the introduction to this book, into our home sixteen years ago was born a little girl who, at the age of ten months, became deaf after an attack of meningitis. Following the advice of the specialist who was caring for her, we finally procured a preschool correspondence course from the Wright Oral School in New York for $100 and began to teach our little girl to speak and lip-read. Follow carefully as I describe the steps that enabled us to teach our two-year-old deaf girl to speak her first word—”yellow.”
Memory Text for August 31–September 6
When we want something from God that we know is His will for us to have, we should keep praying until we receive it. This can teach us precious lessons of faith, trust, and patience.
Memory Text:
“Men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luke 18:1).
Project: Memory
“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling” (Ephesians 4:4).
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