Dear Boys and Girls:
Isn't it pleasant to be getting ready some little gift for those
you love and who love you? It isn't hard work is it? And the more you love them
the more you want to give them and the happier it makes you to share with them.
So you see loving is giving. Several of my boys and girls have been telling me
of little gifts they are making for mother, sister and friends (you must not
forget father boys and girls) and want these gifts put on the tree. Now
some of the children who were not here last Christmas may wonder what all this
"to do" is about. What are we getting ready for, you and
me? Christmas. Yes? What little baby was born nearly two
thousand years ago? Whose birthday are we keeping to-day? Yes! Jesus
Birthday. Jesus Christ our blessed Lord. Now we have been so busy
getting let us talk about some about things given us. Put your hand on
your heart and you will feel it throub, throub! who gave it that power.
God your Heavenly father gave it, the God of love gave us life.
Long long before our time he looked on His beautiful earth, on
His disobedient, selfish, yet sorrowful and dying children and because He loved
all humanity, He gave something dear to Him. What was it He gave us"
John III, 16. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten
Son." Gave him for our pattern, teacher, guide, Lord and Redeemer,
and what did God's fearless Son give. He gave His precious life. The
rest of the verse, John III. 16. tells us "that whosoever believeth on Him
should not perish but have everlastin life." This world has been redeemed
by love through Jesus Christ our Lord and each of us, dear boys and girls, can
enter into that everlasting life if we will be brave and stand up for the truth
as He would have us. Come on little pilgrims let us be brave and give Him
our lives. It takes brave little boys and girls to be "Soldiers of the
Cross." It takes brave little boys and girls to tell the truth, to be
honest, to do their duty, to be faithful and it take brave boys and girls to
make brave men and women and that is what the world needs,
oh! so much, that is what God wants of us, that his Kingdom may come into each
heart, is the prayer of your loving teacher and friend.
MARY E. BROWN
