Description of The Illustration: text from Psalms 119:105 ''Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path'' , floral pattern, scriptures included
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Description of The Illustration: The Ark of The Covenant, priests, dry ground, all of Israel on the move, river Jordan, text reference is from Joshua 3:17
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Description of the Illustration: by August Gaber, Jesus is depicted as sleeping peacefully in the home of Mary and Joseph, His mother spins wool and father reads from a scroll., There is a hearth and tools for trade., A lady enters the door with a oil lamp. There are palm trees seen through a window.
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Description of the Illustration: by August Gaber, Mary and Joseph take the infant Jesus to present Him in the Temple, celebrated at Candlemas, Hypapante (Ὑπαπαντή, "meeting" in Greek), found in the Gospel of Luke 2: 22-40
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Description of Coloring Page: Jesus sits among scholars, rabbi and priests teaching God's word. Mary and Joseph have retraced their steps to find their young son. text ''Why did you have to look for me? Didn't you know that I would be in my Father's house?'' Luke 2:49
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Description of The Coloring Page: text, "A Shoot shall come out of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots." Isaiah 11:1, framed scripture, Jesus family tree on Earth, depicted kings, prophets and saints, genealogy
GOD.
1. Question: What are the first words in the Bible?
2. Question: Who made you?
3. Question: Who is God?
4. Question: Where is God?
5. Question: What does God know?
6. Question: What can God do?
7. Question: Had God a beginning?
8. Question: Is God holy?
9. Question: Is God just?
10. Question: Is God merciful?
11. Question: Is God righteous?
12. Question: Is God wise?
13. Question: Is God faithful?
14. Question: Is God good?
15. Question: Does God love us?
16. Question: How ought we to feel towards God?
17. Question: By what name has Jesus taught us to call God?
18. Question: In how many persons has God revealed himself to us in the Bible?
19. Question: Tell how we can know God?
THE HOLY BIBLE.
1. Question: What Is the Holy Bible?
2. Question: Who wrote the Bible?
3. Question: How many books does the Bible contain?
4. Question: Tell how these two Testaments are related to each other.
5. Question: What does the Bible reveal to us?
6. Question: What is the Bible able to do for us?
"Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully" Psalm 24:3-4
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul:" Psalm 23 1-6
Your mother taught you many things that you did not understand at the time. The twenty-third Psalm was among them. You liked the swing of "The Lord's my Shepherd," and every verse of it made a picture in your mind, but you did not think about its meaning. You could not, however, help having some thoughts of your own about the first verse.
The twenty-third Psalm is one of the first memory lessons given to a boy or girl. The reason is because it is so simple and beautiful. And somehow one never forgets the words of it. There are old people who seem to have forgotten everything they ever learned, but if anyone starts this old psalm they will finish it just like a Sunday-school scholar.
Like many simple things the twenty-third Psalm is full of meaning. What is better, it comes straight from the heart of the writer, and he never says more than he feels. Great singers or poets have a way of writing songs that make plain, simple folk discover the same feelings within themselves.
The poet Burns did this. His gift of song came from Grod, and all the time it was just as if he remembered things that had happened to him, and wrote down his thoughts. Once, when ploughing a field, he frightened a little field mouse. Burns was very tenderhearted. When he went home at night that tiny creature, quivering with fright in his hand and looking at him with its keen black eyes, was always in his mind. So he sat down and wrote what is one of the finest of his short poems, and it is all about this little mouse.
Burns was a ploughman. When King David was a young lad he was a shepherd. A shepherd's life was for him a glorious life, for he was strong then, and he was lithe like those of you who are in training for the school sports. David could leap from rock to rock, with feet that were, as he himself said, "like hinds' feet."
You must not think of David as being like the shepherds you see in this country. As his father's shepherd in the fields of Judaea, he walked before his sheep, they followed him, and the dogs brought up the rear. Eastern sheep are very tame; they follow their keeper just as a house dog follows his master. The shepherd leads them where he pleases. That is generally to some place where they can find green grass and clear water. Then he is constantly having to protect them from danger. Often the path lies down the side of some ravine where a single slip of the feet would mean death. There are dangers, too, from robbers and wild beasts. You know the story of how David killed both a lion and a bear. To the brave young shepherd, that must have been, as we say, "great sport."
But David was thoughtful all the time. Long afterwards those happy days came back to his mind. They brought thoughts that he felt he must write down; they were about God, and that is how we have "The Lord's my Shepherd." From beginning to end the twenty-third Psalm is full of the pictures you know so well. "I cared for my sheep; God will care for me; He will
lead me to the green pastures beside the still waters. If I keep near Him He will help me to do the right thing." With God as the Great Shepherd, David felt safe, not only for this life but "forever."
The songs of Burns were mostly about human love. This great song of David's is a song about the love of God: and not only that, it is a song of faith. Faith, as you know, is just trust. You are old enough to be saying to yourselves, "I wonder what sort of life I shall have when I grow up." David had his answer -
Goodness and mercy all my life
Shall surely follow me:
And in God's house for evermore
My dwelling-place shall be.
He was sure about it because he had known God as his Friend for a long time. His life had been a story of doing wrong, confessing his fault, and being forgiven. So it seemed to him when he looked back. What could he say that was better than "The Lord is my Shepherd." Hastings
Turn and see me, Son of Man!
Turn and lift thy Father's child;
Scarce I walk where once I ran :
Carry me - the wind is wild!
Thou art strong - thy strength wilt share;
My poor weight thou wilt not feel;
Weakness made thee strong to bear,
Suffering made thee strong to heal!
I were still a wandering sheep
But for thee, O Shepherd-man!
Following now, I faint, I weep.
Yet I follow as I can !
Shepherd, if I fall and lie
Moaning in the frosty wind,
Yet, I know, I shall not die -
Thou wilt miss me - and wilt find!
The Poetical Works of George Macdonald.
"We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: The LORD fulfill all thy petitions. Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; He will hear him from his holy heaven With the saving strength of his right hand." Psalms 20:5-9
On the day the Armistice was signed, I walked down the streets of one of our big cities and what do you think I saw? Well, just what you might have seen in any of the cities or towns of Scotland that day - crowds of boys and girls shouting and singing and waving flags. Most of the people I met were smiling, but the boys and girls were the happiest of all as they waved their banners of victory. It was the greatest day in their lives.
Now, boys and girls, what you did that day I want you to do always. I want you always to carry a Banner of Victory and the other name of that Banner is the Banner of Righteousness.
The psalm from which our text is taken might be called the National Anthem of Israel. It used to be sung before the Israelites went out to battle. The Israelites were God's chosen people. When they fought they felt that it was God's battles they were fighting. So when they went forth to battle it was in His name they set up their banners and then they felt sure of victory.
Now the Banner of Righteousness has God's name on it and that means two things. It means, first, that we are fighting for Him and, second, that He is fighting for us.
It means that we art fighting for Him. All those who fight for right within and without are fighting for God. But why should we fight for right? I want to give you three reasons.
The first is that anyone who is not on the side of right will be quite out of it. It is going to be the fashion, as it never was before, to champion right and justice. But that is a poor reason. I shall give you a better.
That is that we owe it to the men who laid down their lives for us. They died for us and for the cause of righteousness, but they left their work unfinished. I don't suppose there is a boy here who hasn't regretted that he wasn't old enough to go and fight. But, boys, there is something for you to do too. You can live for the cause they died for. You can take up the task they laid down. You can fill the blank - you and you alone. Will you do it? Will you stand for all that is brave and true and honorable and pure?
That brings me to the third reason, because the country, the world, is looking to the boys and girls to build it up again. And you can never have a good world without good people in it.
Boys and girls, have you realized how tremendous it is to be alive today, how stupendous it is just to be a boy or a girl? I would give a gold mine to be a boy or a girl just now. You are standing at the beginning of a new era, and what sort of era it is going to be depends largely upon you. What kind of world are you going to make, boys and girls? We are waiting to see.
But there is one thing we must not forget, for if we forget it our Banner of Victory may turn into a Banner of Defeat. If God's name is on our banner then it means that He is fighting for us. He is fighting for us when we are fighting for Him, and that means that we are under His protection and can suffer no harm.
Once during a time of martial law in Havana there was a street row and a man was shot. Everyone ran away except one Englishman who had nothing to do with the row. As he was on the spot he was arrested. Somebody was found to swear that he was guilty, and he was sentenced to be shot the following morning.
Now news of what had happened came to the ears of the British consul, and the next day he went to the place of execution and claimed the man as a British subject. The officer in command of the firing party showed his orders and said he could not release his prisoner. Then the consul asked permission to shake hands with the condemned man before he was shot. This the officer granted, and the consul walked up drew a Union Jack out of his pocket, and threw it round the Englishman. "Now," he said," shoot if you dare ! " The officer could not shoot through the flag without insulting the British nation, so he applied to the Governor for instructions, and the prisoner's innocence was soon proved.
There is a verse in the Song of Songs which contains these words, "His banner over me was love." If God's love is all round us and over us then no enemy can really harm us. We may bear the scars of many a tough fight, but we shall win through in the end.
Land of our birth, we pledge to thee
Our love and toil in the years to be ;
When we are grown and take our place,
As men and women with our race.
Father in heaven, who lovest all,
Oh help Thy children when they call;
That they may build, from age to age,
An undefiled heritage.
Teach us to bear the yoke in youth,
"With steadfastness and careful truth ;
That, in our time. Thy grace may give
The truth whereby the nations live.
Teach us to rule ourselves alway,
Controlled and cleanly night and day ;
That we may bring, if need arise,
No maimed or worthless sacrifice.
Teach us to look, in all our ends.
On Thee for judge, and not our friends;
That we, with Thee, may walk uncowed
By fear or favor of the crowd.
Teach us the strength that cannot seek.
By deed or thought, to hurt the weak;
That, under Thee, we may possess
Man's strength to comfort man's distress.
Teach us delight in simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And love to all men 'neath the sun!
Land of our birth, our faith, our pride.
For whose dear sake our fathers died;
O Motherland, we pledge to thee,
Head, heart, and hand through the years to be!
Kudyard Kipling, The Children's Song.