9. "But deliver us from evil." The black candle is produced which represents the dark deeds from which we pray that we may be delivered. Black deeds are dead black, because the wages of sin is death. Keep the black out of our life. Evil thoughts are seeds from which black fruits of sin are raised. Think white thoughts, that will make our lives right, and we will not do evil things.
10. "For thine is the kingdom." Produce another double candlestick, holding first a purple candle standing for the words, "Thine is the kingdom," and a white candle representing the great white throne, the seat of God's power, God has power to do all the things we ask of him in this prayer. We have asked the Father Allpowerful to help us. He can, and he will. History tells us of Hudson, the navigator, who was exploring in the arctic regions when his crew mutinied, and they put him and his son, and one or two sailors into a little boat, and left them to drift on the cold northern waters until death came and released them from all their hardships. The boat was found, months later, floating among the icebergs of the frozen Arctic Ocean. The father was in an upright position, as if steering the boat, with his little son between his knees, both frozen to death. You could see, by the tightened hand, how he had grasped the handle of the rudder, and by the terrible stare in his frozen eyes, what a determined man he was, but his face was full of despair and woe. He had not been able to save his son. Our Father has power to save all that come unto him, and power to keep them until the end.
11. "And the glory forever and ever." This sentence is represented by the orange candle. The orange color stands for the glory of God, as it is the dominant color in the glorious sunset from which shines forth the glory of God. The great painters of the Middle Ages represented the flame in the "burning bush" as being orange in color, which in their day was understood to stand for Jehovah. This last sentence is like a great doxology sung at the close of the prayer. It is like a grand organ chanting a loud "Amen." And now here we have the truth of the Lord's Prayer shining. No prayer is so full of divine radium as The Lord's Prayer. It is composed of sixty-six words, but this congress of words contains might and glory that have never before appeared in so many words. These sixty-six words are Holy Chapel Bells which call the world to prayer.
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HOW GOD COVERS MY SINS
OBJECTS: Two Large Prepared Cards
How to get rid of our sin! This has been the question of the ages. The answer can be given in a second. "They must be taken away." Jesus, the Sin-bearer, must take them away if they are to be taken away to stay.
When the Standard Oil Company was trying to refine petroleum there was a substance they could not dispose of. It was black and sticky. They could not burn it, it would not burn; it made a mighty stench. They could not run it into the river, because it would kill the fish. So they offered a big reward to any chemist who could solve the problem.
Chemists took it and worked day and night on the problem. One day, a chemist walked into the office of John D. Rockefeller and laid down a pure white substance which we now know as paraffin.