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CHRISTMAS ALL. THE YEAR.
M.. Dec. 18 By fellowship with Christ. 1 C-or. 1:1-9.
T., Dec. 19. By good will. Gen. 45:1-15.
W., Dec 20. By useful lives. Acts 13:31' -37.
T., Dec. 21. By seek'ng God. Ps 25:1-10
F., Dec. 22. By constant prayer. Eph. 6:18-20.
S-, Dec. 23 By heartfelt worship. 1 Cor. 14:15-17.
8.. Dec. 24. Topic ? How to Have Christmas All
the Ymr. Lube 2:8-20. (Christmas meeting )
Hme may Christ continually b* born in us?
How ma g trw ikote perptiusl good tci//?
How ma jr we advance p<art on earlk?
By Fellowship with Christ. 1 Cor.
1:1-9. Fellowship is friendliness,
comradeship. There is nothing that
adds more to the joy of life than a
friend. The nearer and dearer the
friend the more of joy we have. Many
a day, many a week or month is made
shorter and happier by having even a
little while with a friend. How much
better to have a friend with us all the
time as every Christian has Jesus with
him. If we do not have joy from His
presence, it is our own fault. "We
treat no other friend so ill," and yet
sometimes we wonder why His pres
ence does not bring us joy.
By Good Will. Gen. 45:1-15. How
different would have been Joseph's ex
perience and that of his brethren, if
he had acted differently from what he
did. Instead of punishing them for
the way he had treated them, so that
he could "get even" with them, he
treated them kindly and liberally and
showed his love to them. They were
all happy together, and they could go
back with rejoicing to tell their father
about Joseph and to carry him his
son's invitation to come and live with
him. Good will is one of the char
acteristics of the Christmas spirit and
it need not and ought not to be lim
ited to any one season of the year.
By Se?*kiii? God. Ps. 25:1-10. When
we seek God, He has promised us
that we shall find Him, and when we
find Him, He will show us the way in
which we are to walk with Him. It
must have been a wonderful experi
ence that Enoch had as "he walked
with God." We cannot imagine any
one walking with God and not being
happy or being selfish in his happi
ness. He will want to share his hap
piness with others.
By Constant Prayer. Eph. 6:18-20.
Prayer is communion with God. We
like to sit down with a friend and
talk about things in which we are in
terested. If we have received kind
ness from him, we thank him for it.
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This is the way we should pray to
God. And this we should do every
day in the year, and at all times dur
ing the day.
lly Heartfelt "Worship. 1 Cor. 14:
15-17. Worship that is acceptable to
God and that gives us pleasure must
come from the heart. We may pray
with our lips, we may sing with our
voices, but there will be for us no
joy in worship, unless it originates
in and comes forth from the heart.
True worship will fill our hearts with
gladness and joy. Worship should not
be limited to the Sabbath or to the
house of God. But we should be con
tinually in the state of prayer and
worship, and then will we be in a
state of happiness.
How to Have Christmas All the
Year. Luke 2:8-20. The Christmas
story is old and yet it is always in
teresting. It is not because it tells
us of the visit of the angels or of the
birth of a babe in Bethlehem. It is
because it tells us of God's love to
us, which caused Him to send His
Son to be our Saviour. The spirit of
Christmas is that of love shown to
others. If each day we do something
to show our love to others, we will
find our lives are filled with happi
ness and joy and we will add joy to
the lives of others. It Is not neces
sary to do big things. It is the little
things of life that give most pleasure
and delight.A deed of kindness done, a
friendly word spoken, a'smile, a sym
pathetic grasp of the hand, these will
carry the spirit of Christmas all
through the year.
SU(J?R8TK1) PROGRAM.
For December 24, 1022.
Hymn ? "Joy to the World."
Lord's Prayer.
Read Luke 2:1-20.
Hymn ? "When Shepherds Watched
Their Flocks by Night."
Prayer by the Leader.
Daily Topics, assigned to seven
members.
Hymn ? "I Love the Christmas
Story."
What can we as a society do to
show the spirit of Christmas?
What can we as individuals do to
show the spirit of Christmas?
Is there any one in need to whom
we can carry Christmas cheer?
What can we do to carry the spirit
of Christmas through the year?
Sentence Prayers.
Doxology.
Mizpah.
HENTK.VCE PRAYKR8.
Father, we thank Thee for Christ
mas with all of its joys and pleas
ures.
Our Father dear, we thank Thee
for sending Jesus as a little babe to
Bethlehem that He might be our Sav
iour.
Father, help us to sing and to
practice the song of the angels, "Peace
on earth, good will to men."
O Saviour, we rejoice that we can
call Thee our Saviour and that Thou
art always ready to give us all the
happiness and joy that we need.
Jesus, our Saviour, we pray that
Thou wilt teach us how to show to
others the same spirit of love that
Thou didst show to us.
O Holy Spirit, teach us how we can
show the spirit of Christmas all
through the year, and help us as a
society and as Individuals to do some*
thing every day to maka others hap
pier and better.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
A LESSON IN TRUST AND PRE
PAREDNESS.
Luke 12. Dec 24, 1922.
Jesus was always considerate of
sinners, who confessed their sins, but
He had no compassion for those who
claimed to be free from sin. The
Pharisees boasted much of their right
eousness. Jesus warns His disciples
against the leaven of the Pharisees.
Leaven permeates and affects the
character of the whole lump. So
hypocrisy affected the Pharisees.
No one gains by hypocrisy. Man
is very apt to discover it. God always
does. Sometimes hypocrisy is prac
tical because a man fears for his fel
lowman to know the truth about him.
Jesus tells him he need not be afraid
of- man, but he should be afraid of
God, who can cast the hypocrite into
hell.
Jesus gives us a lesson in trust.
Man sometimes thinks that God is not
concerned about him. Jesus tells him
that God takes care of the little spar
rows, and reminds the doubting one
that he is of more value than a spar
row. God 1b bo much concerned about
him that He has even counted the
hairs on his head. *
To be entitled to this care we must
put our trust in Jesus, and we must
be willing to confess our faith in Him.
If we will let others see that we are
trusting in Him, He will confess us
before the Father and will claim us
as His own.
In case of persecution which shall
result in being brought into court for
trial, because of faith in Him, His dis
ciples need not be afraid. He will be
with them and His Holy Spirit will
help them in their defense.
One of the great sins of all the
ages is covetousness. It is specially
forbidden in the Tenth Command
ment. A covetous man, or at least
one who was more concerned about
money than he was about the good
will of his brother, came to Jesus ask
ing Him to judge between him and
his brother and make the brother
give him more of their father's prop
erty than he was probably entitled to.
Jesus declined to act in such a capac
ity, as this was entirely out of His
province. But He took advantage of
the occasion to teach a very important
lesson.
The lessons that Jesus taught is
that money or wealth Is not the most
Important consideration. It should be
noticed that Jesus did not condemn
the man because he was rich. There
Is no sin In being rich, if the riches
are properly acquired and properly
used. A rich man may be a true, loyal
and liberal Christian, or he may be a
selfish sinner. A poor man may be
a true, loyal and liberal Christian, or
he may be a selfish sinner.
This man, or whom Jesus speaks,
was rich, but there is no evidence of
his gaining his riches Improperly. It
looks like God specially smiled upon
him, as He made his lands bring forth
abundantly for him. When the man
had secured great harvests it was en
tirely proper for him to make what
ever provision was necessary to take
care of what God had given him.
Thus far the man is rather to be
commended than condemned. His sin
consisted in the plans which he made
for the use of his blessings. If he
had raised, gathered and garnered his
crops to be used for God's glory, all
would have been well. The trouble
was he was not thinking about God
or any one else. He thought only of
himself and his own comfort and en
joyment.
This course may be pursued by
either a rich man or a poor man. One
may be just as selfish in the use of
what he has as the other.
Andrew Carnegie is reported to
have said that it would be a sin for a
man to die rich. He did not claim to
use his money for God's glory, yet he
came nearer living up to the standard
he set than many another man has
done who professes to be a Christian.
When he died he was what most peo
ple would call rich, but he was poor
compared with what he would have
been, if he had kept all of his money.
It is said that when he died he had
$23,000,000, but that he had given
away to benevolent causes $350,000,
000.
One thing that we ought to remem
ber is that ail that we can carry out
of this world is what we give to God
for His use in this world. Every dol
lar we invest in the salvation of souls
will be ours throughout eternity.
Whatever we hoard up selfishly we
shall be obliged to leave behind, when
God calls us away from this world.
Many a man saves all his life, thai
he may have a fortune to leave his
children, when they would generally
be far better off, if he left them only
enough to get them started in life.
Let us try to use faithfully and un
selfishly for God whatever we may
have, whether it be little or much.
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