LESSON 12 

 TOADS, BATS AND OWLS 



MEMORY VERSE 



And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after 

 their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after 

 their kind: and it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth 

 after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything 

 that creepeth u])on the ground after its kind: and God saw that it 

 was good. Gen. 1 : 24, 25 



The Purpose 



The purpose of this lesson and the one following is to 

 give the child more of an insight into the activities and 

 industries of the living creatures about him. Instead of 

 feeling repugnance when they look at toads or bats, 

 children may learn to be interested in them and know 

 their value. 



''The law of the Lord is perfect" applies to the life of 

 other creatures as well as to our own. When mankind 

 ruthlessly destroys animals, however small and insignifi- 

 cant they may seem to be, without due knowledge of 

 their activities, he may be thwarting that law and in 

 many cases is directly harming himself. 



Suggestions for the Teacher 



In all probability the children will have become familiar 

 with the life history of the toad from the hatching of the 

 eggs to the time when the tadpole emerges, tailless, from 

 the water. The later history of a toad's life they do not 



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