Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-09

Topic for April 1O-"God's promises"-
Gen. xv:5-6.
Dear Juniors:
1 have been wondering how many of Gods
promises you could repeat without special
preparation. We are told that there are
more than thirty thousand of these beauti-
| full promises in the Bible. but I am afraid
that most of us are not as familiar with
them as we ought to be. and so we do not
! know what they might be worth to US in
our daily lives
1 have been thinking of a story which /
read not very long ago. 1t was the story OF
an old lady in the highlands of Scotland.
whose son had gone away to the city. prom
| ising to send her some money every week.
| But the weeks went by and the letters
which came without fail every Monday
| morning brought only little slips of paper
which seemed to the old lady to be Of no
value al all. d. "a
By and by her money was ali gone. and
she was about to be turned out Of her
home because she could no longer pay the
rent of her little house. In her distress. she
sent for the minister and. of course, he
asked at once about the money which she
expected directive from her absent son.
"Oh, sir" she cried. The has never sent
me single penny. though he promised to
send me money every week.
But do YOU not hear from him at all?''
asked the minister. who, knew the so
well that he could not believe he meant to
neglect his OLD mother.
"Oh, yes, sir she replied. 'but he sends
me only little slips of paper with some
writing that / cannot make OUT" ~gase
Well. the minister asked to see the slips
| of paper. and of courseih he discovered that
they were checks for the amount of money
| which the boy had promised to send his
mother. And all the while the poor old
| lady had been in great need because she
was not familiar with a check, and did
not know its value.
l have been thinking that we are very
much like this old lady, if we are not IA
miliar with Gods promises. for we can
| nave no idea of their value until we have
| learned to understand them. Let us learn
| from this little story how foolish it is to
| remain ignorant because we do not take the
| trouble to find out things we ought to know
And let us get to work at once to search
out Gods promises. and make them our
| own.
| 1t would be good plan to get bottle OF
| red ink and mark each promise with lit
| tie star. Then when We open our Bible we
| will be able to turn to them at once.
| In our lesson today we learn how God
| made wonderful promise to Abraham-and
| kept 1t. All through the lessons Of this
year We shall be studying about Gods prom
| ises. and how they were fulfilled to his peo-
pie OF old. Suppose that we make list OF
these prOmiseS-Write each one plainly in
little book. and keep the book where we
| can study 1t every day. For these promises
are ours every one Of them. and God will
keep them to us. just as truly as he did te
any of his people of old: If we believe them
as they did IT
| Now, Juniors, have a plan to propose to
you. It is that you hunt up all the prom
| 1ses which are found in the lessons we
/ have studied together this year; write the
references plainly and send them to me
Every Junior sending such a list will have
a place on the Junior roll of honor VIII
you dot it? Yours for the Juniors.
EDITH VIRGINIA BRADT.