Prepare now a card only half as large as "My Sins" card, painting on it the word "Feeling." Try now to cover the black "Sin" card with this card and it will not half do its work, Waiting for "feeling" is useless delay. It would never save you if it should come. All the feeling that is needed is to "feel your need of him."
Feeling will not save me;
Though I may so happy be
As to think God's pardoned me,
Feelings change continually;
Feeling will not save me.
At last prepare a red card about an inch larger all around than the sin card on which you have painted the words "Faith in Christ." Now put this over the black "Sin" card, and you will perceive that it covers completely all your sins. It hides "My Sins" forever more. They are all taken away to stay, and as you say this remove the black "Sin" card and let it fall behind the desk, or cast it back of you, for this is what God does with our sins when he forgives them for Christ's sake. He casts them behind his back. Now lift up the red card, and the black has been taken away—and—taken away to stay. That is what faith in Christ will do. They are rolled away as a thick cloud forever.
Faith in Christ will save me!
Let me trust thy gracious Son,
Trust the work that he has done,
To his arms, Lord, let me run,
Faith in Christ will save me.
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WORDS OF ANGER
OBJECTS: A Large White Pasteboard Card with a Heart
in the Center; a Number of Black Pins; a Large Apple
I once heard a story about a little boy whose bad temper troubled him, because when in anger he would speak words that would cut and stick in, So in order that he might know how bad were the bad words he uttered he made a large white heart, and in its center he put a cross. He hung this card in his own room and called it "The Heart of Jesus." Whenever he said an angry word, he would stick in the heart a black pin, just to remind him of the fact that every cross word he said hurt Jesus. This soon brought him to his senses, and the heart with the black pins hurt him so greatly that it was a check to his bad speaking. This teaches us the fact that our sins hurt Jesus. When he was among men he wept over the sinner. Perhaps he does now.
Secure a pasteboard heart about one foot in diameter and pin it up on some background where the audience can see it, then tell the above story, and begin to put the black pins (or other pins) in the heart as you name the bad words the children say. Black pins are preferred as they will show more plainly by reason of the white background. After there are a number of pins in the heart call the attention to the fact that some of those piercing words were spoken about very small, simple things.