Close by telling them that when they forsake all sin and come to Jesus and are saved, they are an assembly of braves and have put their names to the new declaration of independence.
Labor Day. September (First Monday)
For the Scripture lesson for this day read the story of "the laborer being worthy of his hire," as you will find it recorded in Luke 10:1-11. Also the call for laborers for the vineyard, as written in Matthew 20:1-15.
Take a walk into the carpenter-shop of Nazareth and watch Jesus working at his trade at the carpenter's bench. Talk of Jesus as the model Carpenter. Use the carpenter tools as object-lessons: the saw a separator from wrong. A divider of good things, Jesus shared his life with the world as a saw divides the board.
The hammer can be used to show how to fix things in their places so they will stay fixed. Jesus nailed down his commandments as fixed laws by which the world was to be saved.
Show the rule, and talk about the Golden Rule that measures things correctly, and gives a wonderful standard by which we should govern our acts among men.
Display the plane, an instrument to smooth things out and to take off the rough places. Love is that plane, and Jesus always used it to smooth out the hard and ugly places that hate had made in life. So continue to talk about Jesus and his tools. Put up a cardboard sign on the outside of the church containing a message for the laboring man. Let it read, "'God bless the working man' is the prayer of the Children of this Church."
Columbus Day. October 12
Tell the story of Abraham, who, like Columbus, went forth on a wonderful adventure. You will find this recorded in Genesis 12:1-10.
Show the children pictures of ships which sail the deep sea.