Sermons and Biblical Studies

There was once a very complicated engine, that did a very wonderful work. No engine in the world was like it, and no other engine could turn out such marvellous products. One day, all of a sudden, this engine stopped. The engineer, though he was very familiar with the engine and had worked with it … Continue reading “THE ENGINE THAT STOPPED—A LESSON ON SICKNESS AND
DEATH”

Draw on the board before the meeting five pairs of eyes, using for one pair blue, for another green, and for the others red, yellow, and white chalk. Explain to the children that the soul sees as well as the body. Indeed, it is the soul that does the seeing even when we say that … Continue reading “EYES OF ALL COLORS—A BLACKBOARD TALK ON CHARACTER”

[For objects, the speaker may show two jars of preserves or jelly, one moldy and the other not.] Suppose a man wanted to seal up some valuable liquid so that it would remain just as pure as it was when he first prepared it; how would he go to work? In the first place, he … Continue reading “CROWD OUT THE BAD—A LESSON ON GOOD AND EVIL THOUGHTS”

Suppose one boy wanted to get another to go to the same school that he was attending, how would he go about it? He would begin, of course, to praise the school in every way. He would tell what a beautiful building it had, what comfortable rooms, what beautiful pictures on the walls. He would … Continue reading “COME TO MY SCHOOL—A TALK ON GETTING OTHERS TO BE CHRISTIANS”

[It will make this talk more vivid if the speaker has some actual specimens of various ores to show as he talks.] Once, far away in a part of the world you never heard of, there lived a great king who was the possessor of a wonderful mine. This mine held all the riches that … Continue reading “A WONDERFUL MINE—A SERMON-STORY ON THE RIGHT USE OF
MONEY”

Once in a town there were two builders, each busily engaged upon a large house. One morning there came to one of these builders a very strange man. To look at him, you would think he was young, and yet there was something about him that testified of many years and of great experience. He … Continue reading “TWO HOUSES—A TALK ABOUT CHRIST’S HELPING IN OUR WORK”

“I’m tired. I’ve done enough. I guess I’ll stop work right here, and rest awhile.” That was what the river said, as it hurried on to join the sea. And so the river merely poured into the ocean the water it already contained, and gathered up no more from the upland fields and the lowland … Continue reading “ALWAYS AT IT—A LESSON ON CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY”

A rich man went away, and left two beautiful houses for two men to live in. He charged them no rent, and left the mansions completely furnished with every necessity and luxury. One man kept his house beautifully. “It is not mine,” he kept saying to himself; “it is only loaned me to live in, … Continue reading “THE TWO TENANTS—A TALK ABOUT TAKING CARE OF THE BODY”

There was once, children, a great locomotive rushing swiftly along in a storm, with an immense train of cars behind it, crowded with people. All of a sudden the engineer saw through the sheets of rain driven by the wind a red light gleaming out. He knew that meant danger. Quick as a flash he … Continue reading “THEY OBEYED—ILLUSTRATIONS OF OBEDIENCE”

The speaker should come provided with symbols illustrating as many of the difficulties of Christ’s earthly life as possible. A stone, for the stones they wished to throw at him. Another stone, for the temptation in the wilderness. A piece of hard bread, for his poor fare. A sandal, for the weary roads he travelled. … Continue reading “THORNS AND CROWNS—AN OBJECT TALK ON HARDSHIPS AND
REWARDS”