ter, second, etc., until every child who can read has read the whole book.

We feel that every Junior society should have a cabinet where they may keep the work of the Juniors and when we have gala days for father, mother and friends to come, will have something to interest them and help them to realize what we are doing for their boys and girls.

A suggestion-"Mook" may be costumed in a pair of blue overalls, sister's blue middy blouse, also carry a Chinese fan when he recites. "Cross Patch" should have a piece of bed quilt around her shoulders while she recites the first verse, just as she had when she came into the school of "Abiding Joy." Lay it aside for the second verse thus showing the transformation, or the change made by the school.

JANUARY 11, 1920.

Our League and the Coming Year.
By Erle C. Greiner.

Scripture Lesson-Ephesians 5:14-17.
Memory Verses-Romans 13:11-12.

Lesson Taught-We are to awake from our dullness and take on new life and, during the coming year, make our League a live and working one.

Lesson Developed-What has our League done during the year just passed? And what are we looking forward to doing in the year to come? The year we are just entering? We must answer the first question thoughtfully and then set about making the coming year one of fruitfulness.

Perhaps we have been negligent in our attendance. Let us resolve from this day not to miss one meeting unless we are ill or have some other real reason. Perhaps we have taken very little interest in the lessons and instead of helping, have been a hindrance by inattention. Let us resolve to be attentive and endeavor to assist our leader in developing the lesson. We must truly awaken from our dullness and take on new life. We must have such vigor within ourselves that we may carry others along with

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We want to awaken and be so wide awake that we can awaken many sleepers and soon every one will be awake and our League will have a prosperous year, and all because some one was wide awake.

Our leader alone cannot make the year a year of usefulness to us. We must help. Each one must do his or her part. Whatever the work assigned to us is we must take hold of it with a will and see it completed.

Suppose the wheels in the family clock would all decide to run to suit themselves. What time would the old clock tell? So we must work together, so the work will run true and we may have results.

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Hints-Plan something definite the children can do during the coming year to help others. Perhaps some fancy baskets might be structed during the winter months and in the spring take them to the woods to fill with flowers and carry them to the hospitals or the shut-ins of the congregation. Arrange for a little entertainment for orphans or aged if there is a home in your vicinity. Make picture books, dress dolls, construct toys to send to the children of a home. Perhaps money could be earned for definite missionary work. Adopt as your motto: "As much for others as for ourselves." Children are happy when they can plan happiness for others. Do not neglect the spiritual side of your League but develop the practical side also.

JANUARY 18, 1920.
God Made All Things.
By Erle C. Greiner.

Scripture Lesson- Neh. 9:6; Amos 4:13.

Memory Verses-Psalms 19:1; 90:2; 124:8; Hebrews 3:4.

Lesson Taught-God is from everlasting to everlasting and He created the world and made every thing in it.

Lesson Developed-In the beginning there was no world as we have it today. God was. and then He created our world and all the worlds around us, the sun and moon, and put all things in our world; land, water, sky, mountains, lakes, valleys, rivers and hills. He made the grass, the flowers, the birds, the fish, the animals. While God made all things from the beginning He still watches over all and sees that we have seed time and harvest. trees and plants to produce food for our nourishment. cattle to increase to furnish us meat.

Our subject reads "God made all things." Let us restate the subject as follows, "The things which God has made," and see what the Bible, the book which God caused to be made for us, has to say on our subject. In the first chapter of Genesis what is told us concerning creation? Put on the blackboard the six days and their special events. What does the Psalmist say? Psa. 8:3; 74:16; 89:11-12. From whom does our help come? Psa. 121:2: 124:8. What has the prophet Jeremiah to say about God the Creator? Jer. 27:5; 32:17. How did the apostles bear witness of God's power as creator? Acts 14:15. What does John the Evangelist say we are to give God glory for? Rev. 4:11; 14:7. What did God say when He had finished the creation of the World? Gen. 1:26. Who made us? Psa. 100:3. Who made the nations of the earth? Psa. 86:9. Who made the senses? Prov. 20:12. Who made and preserves our souls. I Peter 4:19.

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We will readily see from a careful study of these references that God has made and still preserves to each one of us every single thing in this world which we have and enjoy. is love and God is good and He has made only good things for us. There is badness and sorrow in the world but it is not God's work. It is the work of the devil and man has brought it upon himself. Sometimes God allows suffering to come upon those who trust in Him, but He never makes their burden greater than they are able to bear and frequently makes the evil of others work out a blessing instead.

Hints-Show how Job suffered, overcame temptation and finally triumphed through faith. Relate the story of Joseph and show how the evil intentions were turned into the salvation of a nation. The story of the crucifixion of Jesus by the wicked Jews and how this made possible the redemption of the world. Put the first article of the Creed on the board. Teach it and Luther's explanation. (For your own benefit study Stump's Catechism first article of the creed.)

JANUARY 25, 1920.

A Strong Body.
By Erle C. Greiner.
Scripture Lesson-I Cor. 6:19-20.

Memory Passages-I Cor. 3:16; Psa. 118:14. Lesson Taught Our bodies as well as our souls belong to God, and we must keep the body strong and clean to make of it a worthy home for the soul.

Lesson Developed-I wonder how many of the boys and girls are attracted by feats of strength and I wonder how many realize the kind of body required to make it possible for a person to do these wonderful things. It requires strong and well developed muscles and a steady eye and arm, and these go with a strong body. God does not give every one of us a strong body to start with, and some never possess one; but most boys and girls may, by

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careful and regular exercise, develop a strong body. You all recall pictures, no doubt, of the late ex-President Roosevelt, what a big, strong body he possessed, and yet we are told, as a child he was exceedingly frail, but by systematic training he built up a strong body.

A strong and clean body invariable owns a clean and clear mind, capable of knowing and applying knowledge. We all want this kind of a body and should strive for it. Even if our body is frail we should endeavor to build it stronger, do everything in our power toward this end rather than be negligent of it and allow ourselves to become more weakly and frail.

Since God has given us our bodies, and souls as well, we must use them the best we can and make of them all he desires us to be. A strong body requires that we refrain from many things called pleasant, but may lead us into sin. If we desire to train for a race or some particular test of strength, how carefully we watch over ourselves lest we do something to handicap our chance of winning. How much more carefully should we watch to keep our bodies clean and strong, since they are a gift of God and we must sometime present ourselves before Him!

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Hints-Relate the story of Samson, drawing a lesson for the children from his strength, his falling into sin, and the losing of his life "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." Teach personal purity will assist in building a strong body.

METHODS AND HINTS (Continued from page 29.) arrange a social for the Junior League. Here are some games:

Trimming the Christmas Tree. Put up a white sheet of cardboard on which is pasted a Christmas tree cut from green paper. Give the children stars, balls, stockings, bells, and other ornaments cut from bright colored paper, blindfold them and let them try to pin on these ornaments. A star on the very top bough counts most. Play this like the old-time Donkey Party.

Filling the Stocking. Give each child a tiny red stocking made of red cheesecloth or of red netting, with a little Santa Claus sticker pasted on, filled with popcorn. Have a large stocking hung up in a convenient place, the top being kept open with wire run round the top. Have the children stand about six feet away, and try to throw their popcorn in the large stocking, grain by grain, which is not as easy as it seems, for the popcorn, being light, very easily misses the mark.

Around the World With Santa Claus. The children sit in a circle, the leader starts by saying, "Santa Claus went to Africa, and brought back-diamonds, ostriches and gold." The next one goes on, "Santa Claus went to Bermuda, and brought back fruit, vegetables and flowers." The third continues, "Santa Claus went to China and brought back silk, tea and rice." Each player goes on in like manner, the object of the game being to follow the letters of the alphabet and to name a

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country visited and three of its products. Have refreshments, and use the pretty Christmasy napkins. Red gelatin is a suggestion for refreshments, which some of the mothers might be glad to prepare for you.

From these many ideas you can surely find something, that will make Christmas a happy and helpful time for your Juniors. LUTHER LEAGUE TOPICS

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looking heart of faith. By such a heart, they are to be detected in the myriad little acts of Providence which the world calls "luck," but which the true Christian knows to be the work of a wiser and more kindly hand than that of fate. Nine of the ten lepers that Jesus healed regarded their cure as a bit of "good fortune," but one recognized it to be the work of a Divine Hand and returned to give glory to God. To Peter, the glory of God was revealed only after he had shown forth his willingness, in obedience to Christ's command, to attempt that which was seemingly impossible. And so today, it is to those who, for the sake of the Kingdom, are willing to attempt things seemingly impossible that Christ shows forth the power of His might. If men attempt only things which they of their own natural strength can accomplish, how can they call upon God for supernatural help? But if they, in humble faith and in obedience to His commands, attempt things that lie beyond their natural strength, they will find Him as ready now as He was in the time of Peter to insure their success and fill their nets to the breaking point. If they attempt to catch men, they may not see them come into the Kingdom by the thousands, but they will see individual souls that were twisted and distorted with sin straightened out into noble Christian characters. They will see men that were selfish sacrifice their lives for the Master and those whom He loves. They will see men that hated their fellows become the champions of Christian love. What privilege could be greater than the privilege the Christian has of catching men? To Paul, it was greater than his own soul's salvation: "I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren."

Scripture references: Matt. 4:18-22; Mark 1:16-20; Acts 9:6, 9; Rom. 9:3.

HE MUST BE A CHRISTIAN WHO SERVES

"Thank God!" said an over-enthusiast, "I've been on the mountain-top now one year." "It is about time you came down into the valley," was the reply he got. And rightly so. Peter found the mountaintop a good place to be. But he learned

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from Christ it was not a good place to live. Mountain experiences are not to be an end in themselves, but are for use in the valley amid suffering and duty. "If I be lifted up," said Christ, "I will draw all men." Of course, direct reference was made to His death. But the Christian who can say, with Paul, "I am crucified with Christ, yet I live, and the life I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me," lifts up the Christ, and this life-lifted Christ cannot but draw men. The Christian is himself the Church's best advertisement.

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to the status of a child. Let us be as innocent as they, as full of faith as they, as loving as they and as guileless. We all of us look forward to a time when, this earthly struggle o'er, we may join the choir invisible, but we shall have no part nor lot in the blessing of the next world unless we have the Christmas spirit in our hearts, not only today but always. The mission of Jesus would never have been accomplished if He had descended a fullgrown man. It is because He was a child that He has conquered the world. It is because He was born of a woman that we have fellowship with Him. So let us give up our hardness of heart, our petty selfishness, our larger and grosser sins and rise to the height of a child.

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ought to be taking some measures to put down the Christians. But he was found going to the High Priest and desiring of him letters of authority so that he himself might go down to Damascus and bring up the Christians bound unto Jerusalem.

The same characteristics that Jesus found in Paul, He desires to find in Christian workers today-knowledge, both of the past history of His people and of present conditions in the world; definite convictions, as to what is truth and what is not; energy, that fails not at any undertaking so long as it be in the name of the Lord; and above all humility of spirit and earnestness of religious purpose. Jesus needs such men today through whom to reveal Himself anew unto mankind. The world has just passed through a period in which men have been going their own ways and devising their own gods. But God seems bending a little closer to earth today. Will He find young men and young women as earnest as Saul