Five Minute Object Sermons to Children, Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate Into the City of Child-Soul
by
Sylvanus Stall
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...fields and orchards of golden fruit. As you grow old, I suppose the richest treasures in your picture gallery of the past will be the memories of your childhood home, of mother and father, brother and sister. Possibly when you have grown old, you will remember how one day your heart was almost broken, when for the first time you were leaving home; how mother's eyes filled with tears when she kissed you goodbye, and, following you to the gate, stood and waved her handkerchief, while home faded from view as you rounded the turn in the road and realized for the first time that you were launching out into real life for long years of struggle. Just as the hearts of the parents go out in great tenderness toward their son, who is leaving the Christian influences of his own home to begin service in a distant city, surrounded by evil influences, and oftentimes by wicked individuals, so the heart of our Heavenly Father goes out in great tenderness towards you and me, while we are separated from the great eternal mansion of the skies. God's heart yearns over us in great tenderness, and while we live in the midst of the evil of this world we are constantly to remember that God has made us millionaires, not only in the possession of the eyes, and other faculties with which He has endowed us for use here upon the earth, but we are to remember that we are children of the King of Heaven, and that we are heirs of everlasting life and of everlasting glory. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ, to an inheritance which is incorruptible, undefiled and that "fadeth not away." We are not simply millionaires, but we are heirs of everlasting glory. COAL AND WOOD. JESUS THE SOURCE OF SPIRITUAL LIGHT AND WARMTH. Dear Boys And Girls: When Jesus was upon the ...
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