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to carry on the truth and let its Ught shine in the world. 

 The story makes the point clear, and by its illustrations 

 puts an ideal of life before the pupils. 



The memory verse is used as a summary of the re- 

 ligious thought and ami of this course of lessons. Very 

 exalted it is, both in thought and expression, but it will 

 do the pupils good to reach up toward it now, and to 

 store it in the memory, that later its full meaning may 

 come to them. 



OPENING TALK 



We have talked together about the seeing eyes and the 

 seeing mind. Tell me some of the things our eyes were 

 to see in the sky, among growing things, among animals, 

 among the rocks. Did we study anything that we can- 

 not see? Electricity, yes; and that force to which Sir 

 Isaac Newton gave a name — gravitation — and other 

 forces in our universe. How did we learn to know these 

 forces if we could not see them? It was through their 

 effects, through the things we can see and touch. 



Now we think when we come together here of the One 

 whom none of us can ever see with these eyes of ours as 

 we see each other. But there is a way in which we may 

 see the invisible God. Our Bible verse tells us: "For 

 the invisible things of Him since the creation of the world 

 are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that 

 are made, even His everlasting power and divinity." 

 (Rom. 1:20.) 



The poem on our leaflet tells us the same thing — one 

 of the loveliest of poems for a child to learn. Shall we 

 read it now? Then we will have the story that tells us 

 what we may do about the truth which has been dis- 

 covered concerning our wonderful world and the dear 

 God whose thought has created it all through the ages. 



