Category: The Children’s Six Minutes
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Easter Light
EASTER LIGHT This glad morning, when the world is so bright and beautiful, I want to talk to you about Easter Light. One of the most interesting men in our city is a man who goes about our streets with two long sticks. He is the lamplighter. Here he comes down the street! See how…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: April
APRIL I have in my hand a small branch from a big tree. This branch is from an apple tree. Here are seen the tiny buds, the promise of the blossom, and after that the fruit. Have you ever seen an apple orchard in blossom? People rave about the cherry blossoms of Japan, and the…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Two R’s and an A
TWO R’S AND AN A Do you know what week this is? We have all sorts of weeks, don’t we! There is Sunday School week, Go to Church week, Boy Scout week, Red Cross week, Social Welfare week, Hospital week, Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. week. Sometimes we wish we could have one week all to ourselves.…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: The Most Beautiful Thing in the World
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE WORLD The most beautiful thing in the world! Now what is it? If you will lift your eyes just a little you will see the flowers on the table, but lift them higher than the flowers, higher than this pulpit, higher than the pipes of the organ, above the…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Love and Loyalty
LOVE AND LOYALTY Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a man who had a wife and two sons. There was a famine in the land where he lived, so he said to his wife and sons, “We will journey down to another country where the crops have not failed. There shall we…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Come
COME There is not a girl or boy here this morning who does not feel within the desire to do good. The drawing power of good—in other words, the drawing power of God. He it is who says to you, “Come.” I want to illustrate this by a few things which I have here. The…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Kindness
KINDNESS One day last week I saw a huge pair of bobs, heavily loaded with coal, being pulled up the street by two big, fine-looking horses. There were two men on the load. Their faces were black, but it was the dirt of honest toil, it was coal dust. They stopped the horses in front…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Snow
SNOW “Goody, goody, it’s snowing!” This is what I heard early yesterday morning. I think there were many other homes in which this shout of joy ushered in the day. It being Saturday the day was mostly free for playing in the snow. What did you do? You made a snow man. You built a…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Growth
GROWTH This second Sunday morning of the New Year I desire to talk to you about growth. The most important holiday afterthought is the thought of growth. You are going to grow every day of this year. Whenever I see a boy on his way to school, or on the field or gymnasium floor, running,…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: HAPPY NEW YEAR
Happy New Year, Juniors! The morning of the first day of every year we enter into a contest. We see who will be the first to give that day’s greeting. Before I was awake this morning my boy ran into my room shouting, “Happy New Year! Happy New Year!” He won in the contest. Now,…