Sermons and Biblical Studies

[The speaker should use in his talk a lighted lantern.] Two boys were once walking in the great Forest of Life. One was George Wise, and the other was George Foolish. They went in at different times, and each was given to carry a wonderful lantern, and was told that its light would be all … Continue reading “THE WONDERFUL LANTERN—AN OBJECT TALK ON THE BIBLE”

Once there was a very beautiful city. Its streets were wide and finely paved. Its lawns were green and smooth and covered with beautiful flowers. Its houses were large and richly furnished, and all the people in it were well dressed and happy. There were magnificent churches and splendid schoolhouses. There were libraries and museums … Continue reading “THE GREAT BLACK SWAMP—A STORY TO TEACH THE NEED OF
HOME MISSIONS AND CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP”

[Make sets of wings out of tissue paper and take them, one by one, from a box as you talk.] Once a soldier was about to start out on a long and very difficult journey for a great king, and the king, who was also a very wise man, gave him to help him on … Continue reading “A BOX OF WINGS—AN OBJECT TALK ON BIBLE-STUDY”

Here, boys and girls, are four seeds. They are very different, you see, in size and shape. They cannot talk, and yet to me they seem to speak, and each one of them seems to make a promise. This little black one promises me that it will become a beautiful morning-glory, hung thick with brilliant … Continue reading “PROMISE SEEDS—A NEW YEAR’S OBJECT LESSON”

Once two young men were wandering in a great forest. Their names were Jack Silly and John Wise. How they were placed in the forest I have not time to tell but there they were, and the forest stretched for miles and miles. Indeed, it was such a great forest that it would take a … Continue reading “THE CIRCULAR PATH—A SERMON-STORY FOR NEW YEAR’S”

One day, just before Christmas, there came to a certain town a Christmas angel. Did you ever hear of the Christmas angels? There are many thousands of them, though usually, of course, you cannot see them. This Christmas angel carried with him an immense pair of scales. They were so large that they could weigh … Continue reading “THE GIFT SCALE—A SERMON-STORY FOR CHRISTMAS”

The four boys were Ned, Rob, Tom, and Ben, and they were all sick with scarlet-fever. I want to tell you in what different ways they acted toward the doctor. Ned, in the first place, would have no doctor at all. His mother urged it, and his father urged it, but he would not hear … Continue reading “THE SICK BOYS—ILLUSTRATIONS OF REJECTING CHRIST AND
RECEIVING HIM”

The speaker may construct an agreeable and instructive exercise for the children if he reviews for them some of Christ’s parables in the following way: Let him hold in his hand a Bible, and open it and talk to the children as if the pages were covered with pictures, the pictures illustrating Christ’s parables. Imagining … Continue reading “THE PICTURE BOOK—A BIBLE DRILL”

I have brought two plants, children, for you to see. One of them is a splendid great plant, all bright and green, with fresh leaves and lovely flowers. It is going to bear many seeds, too. The other, you see, is stunted and withered. Its leaves are shriveled up. It has no blossoms, and it … Continue reading ““WHAT A LOVELY DAY!”—A LESSON ON GRATITUDE”

I have seen, children, two houses just alike. They were of the same size and shape. They were painted in the same colors, and the lawns in front were precisely similar, and yet these two houses, when one looked at them, seemed to be altogether different. One of them always had the shutters closed, or, … Continue reading “WHO LIVES IN YOUR HOUSE?—CHARACTER VERSUS LOOKS: A
SERMON-STORY”