Young students may download and print this Valentine clip art to color, cut-out and paste onto handmade cards. Give a Valentine to a parent, sibling, friend or anyone really. Write your own messages and design a unique card for someone special this year.
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| Clip art for coloring of forget-me-nots and roses. |
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| Clip art for coloring of clusters of flowers. |
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| Clip art for coloring of birds delivering love letters. |
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| Clip art for coloring of hearts pierced with arrows. |
Description of Coloring Page: violin, angles, wings, music, Virgin Mary, baby Jesus, drawn from a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
William-Adolphe Bouguereau - born in November 1825 and died August 1905. He was a French academic painter. In his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body. During his life, he enjoyed significant popularity in France and the United States, was given numerous official honors, and received top prices for his work. As the quintessential salon painter of his generation, he was reviled by the Impressionist avant-garde. By the early twentieth century, Bouguereau and his art fell out of favor with the public, due in part to changing tastes. In the 1980s, a revival of interest in figure painting led to a rediscovery of Bouguereau and his work. Throughout the course of his life, Bouguereau executed 822 known finished paintings, although the whereabouts of many are still unknown.
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| The painting "Song of Angels" See it's original colors. |
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“Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near..." Isaiah 55:6
What would you think of a boy who kept an apple until it was rotten before he tried to eat it? What would you think of a girl who kept a rose until it wilted and faded before she tried to wear it? What would you think of a man who bought an automobile and never used it until it rusted? What would you think of boys and girls who waited until they were men and women before giving their hearts to the Lord Jesus? This is a story of a girl who did just that very thing. She thought she was not old enough, and she wished to have what she called a good time before she became a Christian. That was very foolish, as I will try to show you.
The girl's name was Margaret, and she lived in the great city of St. Louis, where she had many friends and many places to go. One day her mother, whom she loved dearly, became ill, very ill‚and they had to call a nurse. The nurse was a very beautiful young lady and a lovely Christian, and she soon became much interested in Miss Margaret and her winning ways, and wondered why she had never given herself to the Lord Jesus. So she made up her mind that someday before she left she would talk to her about it. After her mother was much better, a friend sent in a bouquet of beautiful white carnations, and the nurse, who had been waiting for the best chance to speak to her little friend, said to her: "I think we will not take these flowers to your mother just now. They are so fresh and sweet and beautiful. Let us keep them here for a few days, and then we can take them to her room."Margaret's eyes opened wide and she looked at the nurse to see what she really meant.
The nurse was getting the vase and the water for the flowers, and Margaret became very angry and indignant and told the nurse that she should do no such thing, but should take the beautiful flowers to her darling mother immediately. Without saying any more about the flowers and with the sweetest of smiles, the nurse put her arm around Margaret and said: " Yes, I think too that mother ought to have the flowers when they are sweetest and freshest, and we will take them to her soon; but don't you think also that God ought to have your life when it is at its best? And yet you are keeping your beautiful young life from Him and waiting until you are older, and then you think you will be willing to give Him some of the days that are not your very best."
Do you think that was a good sermon? I know it was, but it didn't sound one little bit like a sermon, and I am not surprised in the least that Margaret immediately saw what the nurse meant and that very day gave her heart to Jesus. We are never too young to love Him, and boys and girls should learn to love Jesus just as sweetly and just as surely and just as early as they learn to love their own fathers and mothers in their own homes. Hugh Kerr
Bible Coloring Pages About Love:
"But Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold for you. But I’ll give
you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and
walk!” Acts 3:6
Long, long ago there lived in Jerusalem a certain lame man. He was over forty years old, but he had never been able to walk at all. When other babies were learning to toddle he had lain still and quiet, not because he did not want to walk, but because his little feet and ankles were quite powerless. Later he had watched the boys at their merry games and longed to join them ; but his poor, useless legs would not bear him, and he was obliged just to look on and long. Then he had grown to be a man, and he had seen other men, strong and straight, go out to fight the world and earn their bread, and still he lay helpless; and as he was poor and could not work, his friends carried him daily and laid him at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple so that he might ask alms of those who were going in to pray.
I do not know why he chose the Beautiful Gate. Perhaps because it was one of the main entrances. Many people passed that way, and he would be likely to receive a good deal of money. Perhaps it was because he liked to have something beautiful to look at, for the name seems to tell us that this gate was more beautiful than any of the others. At any rate, there he lay day after day, year after year, until he came to be a middle-aged man.
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| Healing more precious than gold. |
If any little word of mine
May make a life the brighter,
If any little song of mine
May make a heart the lighter,
God help me speak that little word.
And take my bit of singing,
And drop it in some lonely vale,
To set the echoes ringing !
If any little love of mine
May make a life the sweeter.
If any little care of mine
May make a friend's the fleeter,
If any lift of mine may ease
The burden of another,
God give me love, and care, and strength
To help my toiling brother.
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| The wild gourd with a whole fruit, and one in section. |
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| The Carob tree branch with separate flower, pod and two seeds. |
Description of Botanical Coloring Pages: The revisers have inserted in the margin of Luke 15: 16, "the pods of the carob tree" for "husks" in the text. The husks were the pods of Ceratonia siliqua, small tree which grows in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. The pods are from six to twelve inches long, about an inch broad, and of a shining purplish-brown color, containing several seeds, separated from each other by a fleshy pulp. From the large quantity of sweet mucilage they contain, they form a good and agreeable food for animals, and are largely exported as a feeding stuff for stock. The pods are sometimes called locust beans and St. John's bread, from the notion that they were used as food by John the Baptist; but this is an error.
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| Caper plant in bloom. |
Description of Botanical Coloring Page: (R. V. Eccl. 12:5) In the remarkable description of old age (Eccl. 12:5) the revisers have put into the text "the caper-berry shall fail." and placed "desire" in the margin. The flower-bud, preserved in vinegar, is largely used as a stimulating condiment in food. The caper is an abundant shrub in parts of the Middle East, found on walls and rocks. It has ovate, smooth leaves, with two little spines at their base, showy flowers, and oval fruit.
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"Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger." Psalm 8:2
"And they said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you never read, "Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise;?" Matthew 21:16
This is a missionary story. I have often read it, and I know it is true. It happened in a little village, in an out-of-the-way corner of India, where a missionary had gone to baptize sixty or seventy men and women and to form them into a Christian church.
When the service began the missionary noticed a boy about twelve years of age, sitting away back in the corner of the building, looking very much interested and listening with all his might. After he had baptized and received into the church all the grown-up men and women who had professed their faith in the Lord Jesus as their Savior, he was surprised to see this boy come forward and stand in front of the pulpit. The missionary said to him, "What, my lad, do you want to unite with the church and sit down to the Lord's Supper?" The boy said, "Yes, sir." The missionary looked at him lovingly, and said, "But you are very young, and I know nothing about you, and no one has taught you about the Christian faith, and after a while you may grow careless and indifferent. Perhaps it will be better for you to wait. I will be here again in less than a year, and if during that time you will study hard and prepare yourself, then, if you wish to unite with the church, I will receive you gladly." The boy said nothing, but turned away to his seat with a very sad heart, and the missionary saw that he was very, very much disappointed. Before the little fellow reached his seat, the missionary saw all the people standing up and they all began to talk at once. After a little while they allowed one man to speak for the rest, and he said: "Why, sir, this boy has taught us all we know about Jesus." And what he said proved to be the truth. That boy had learned the story of the Gospel at a mission school in a distant village, and had returned to his heathen home to tell the story of Jesus to his own people and to his friends. He read to them out of the New Testament until they too gave their hearts to God and were led to Jesus. So you see this little lad was really the minister of the village.
Of course, I do not think that boys should preach like grown-up men, but I am sure if they love Jesus and live as He would like to have them live, kind and obedient and true, that they will be able to do more for Him than they could do, even if they were able to preach great, long, eloquent sermons. You know the Bible says, "A little child shall lead them." I want you to remember this verse for the text. I have known fathers and mothers with whom ministers and Sunday school teachers and elders and deacons seemed to have no influence, who were led to Jesus by their own little boy or girl. We sing sometimes, " Jesus wants me for a sunbeam," and I think a sunbeam is the most beautiful and most useful thing in all the world. Hugh Kerr
