Palisadian., 1917-06-30
Children's S Service
AT Palisade Church

at the Palisade Church. The Sunday
School had special service for the
scholars, in which songs and special
reading were used, led by DIR. Berkey,
and for whom the acting pastor, Mr..
Spencer, gave short but highly en-
tertaining talk He told an inter-
esting story about boy named
Johnnie Brown, who had dream. He
thought he went to heaven, and while
there met a guard and saw what
looked like lot of glass jars on
shelves. In one of the jars he saw
something that looked like marbles,
so he asked the guard what they
were. "Those are the eyes of little
boys and girls which came to heaven
but they did not. They did not use
their eyes right"
And Johnnie said, "Oh!"
Then he noticed some buckets, and
asked the guard what those pink
things were in the buckets, and the
guard said they were the ears Of little
boys and girls that had come TO
heaven but they did not, and the
guard said they had listened to things
they should not have listened to, and
they boy said, "Oh!" "And those jars
up there?" he asked again. And the
guard replied, "Those are the
tongues of little boys and girls that
came here and they didn't. You see
the boys and girls said things some
times they were told not to say
"Oh!" said the boy.
The little tots Of the Palisade Sun.
day School saw the moral to the
story, and the minister told them how
they would be benefited if they only
remembered it, which while it might
not be true, at the same time it was
valuable to remember as a lesson.
The minister then delivered a short
sermon to the older folks, the text
being, Therefore God is not ashamed
to be called their God," from He
brews XII. When the gossip visits us
he said, and we are taking forbidden
paths, God is ashamed of us. What
we do makes our Heavenly Father
suffer and be ashamed of us. Wher
we have taken up Jesus Christ Goo
expectes us TO find good to do in His
name, and when we do not He is
ashamed of us. The speaker said ht
did not want to touch upon the
obvious things, but of some things
we appear to lose sight of in oul
daily walks. Taking things fol
granted may lead us into many for
hidden channels and wrong directions
Another thing we do not need to take
up is unhealthy criticism. Fault find
ing is another name for criticism. We
have no right to judge others. Oul
only measure of safety is in helping
others, not detracting from them
And the person who has not caught
this spirit, has not caught Gods
flavor of right doing. Again, do we
always believe that we belong to the
Brotherhood of Man? Do we believe
in recognizing the rights of the mar
who works for us, the laborer, tbs
shoemaker, the butcher? The true
Christian can be known only by his
conduct to his fellow man. We mus
not have moods? No. Then how an
l to know that am Christian? Al
one once upon a time put it, ask youl
servants. They know how you fee
and are thelpSelEes- bs,tter abieSjstg
judge of your Christian tendencies
than any other class of people. Fault
finding is lack of faith, like worry
1t was faith that led that great Eng
lishman, Terry, who founded the first
missionary society, because he had
faith in one day being able to con-
vert the world to the belief in the
brotherhood of man. It was called
"Terry's dream" but he persisted
and won. If faith is such golden
thing, is it any wonder that God is
ashamed of what we do?
All this is only an evidence of Gods
deathless devotion to us, a proof posi-
tive of His near kinship to us. His
love has prepared for us city-the
house of many mansions, fairer fan
than our beautific vision of it, and
only those lives that are fitted will
dwell there. Are you one to make a
pilgrimage towards it?