QUESTIONS
What is the Golden Text?
What is the Truth?
1. For what did Jesus tell his disciples to watch?
2. Like whom did he tell them to be?
3. Who would be pleased to find his servants watching?
4. What would he invite them to do?
5. What would they receive if found faithful?
6. What does Jesus warn us all to do?
7. Who knows when Jesus will return?
8. Who will be made ruler over his master's house?
9. Who will not be found watching?
10. How will he spend his time?
11. Who will come when he is not expected?
LESSON HYMN
Tune—“Jesus loves me, this I know,” omitting chorus (E flat).
When our work on earth is done,
Jesus calls us, every one;
Let us work, and watch, and pray,
For his coming, every day.
Title of Lesson for March 15
The Lawful Use of the Sabbath.—Luke 13:10-17; 14:1-6.
Golden Text for March 15
The sabbath was made for man.—Mark 2:27.
Beginners Golden Text for March 15
Even a child maketh himself known by his doings.—Prov. 20:11.
ADVICE TO BOYS AND GIRLS
The Difference it Made
“What a sweet voice that little child in the red cloak has!” said a visitor in Sunday-school to a teacher, as together they listened to the children raising their song of praise.
“Yes, isn't it sweet? And she always sings just so heartily,” was the reply.
A little later, the school closed and, the children on their way home, the visitor chanced to pass by the child in the red cloak, just in time to hear her say angrily to her nurse, who had called for her:
“I don't want to go this way—I want to go through the park. I won't! I won't go through that horrid old street!”
“But, Miss Mazie, your mamma said we were to go straight home and not stay in the park to-day.”
Upon this, the little lady marched away, with pouting lips and injured mien.
“Ah,” thought the lady, “what a difference it makes in the voice when one speaks angrily! No matter how sweet it may be, how harsh and unloving angry words make it!”
What a pity that Mazie did not keep her voice as musical and birdlike as it was when she was singing her morning song of praise! Think of this, little readers, and when you are tempted to be angry and speak in cross tones, instead of making your voice unpleasant to hear, endeavor to make it sweet and loving.
THOUGHTS FOR MOTHERS
The Earnest Mother
Mothers seldom realize the influence they exert in molding the lives of their children. It is the faithful teaching, as well as the consistent practicing of an earnest mother which results in forming characters of nobility and uprightness in the sons and daughters. The work cannot be begun too early. From their very birth, our children receive impressions. What the character of these impressions is depends upon surrounding influences. A true mother's influence should last long after she is at rest. Said Thomas H. Benton: “My mother asked me never to use tobacco; I have never touched it from that time to the present day. She asked me not to gamble, and I have never gambled, and I cannot tell who is losing in games that are being played. She admonished me, too, against hard drinking, and whatever capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I may have attained in life, I have attributed to having complied with her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence; and that I have adhered to it through all time, I owe to my mother.”
Mothers, do not think your little ones are too young to receive advice; it is true they may not act upon it for many years, but they will remember it and follow it sometime.