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once made. A good habit formed is as easy to follow as it 

 is for the water to follow the channel it has cut. Why not 

 form good habits, then, instead of bad ones? 



Hand Work 



The children are to watch for some cutting-work done 

 by the rain and then write the account of it on the leaflet. 



They are to fill the spaces in the sentences at the end 

 of the blank space. 



Assign for home reading the Bible passage about the 

 weather. Matt. 16: 1-3. 



OPENING TALK 



Can you shut your eyes and see again the picture of 

 our world as we tried to see it last Sunday? Tell me what 

 you can see. Is it like this? At first, the round world, 

 so covered by a thick blanket of fog that not a single ray 

 of the sun could ever shine through upon its surface. 

 Then, a globe covered with one vast surging ocean except 

 for an island which shows above the water, and, sur- 

 rounding the globe, thick clouds from which the rain fell 

 continuously. 



Now we want to know what it was that this falling 

 rain did for our world. 



