Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE BIBLE OBJECT BOOK

_=The=_
=BIBLE OBJECT BOOK=

A Book of Object Lessons Which Are Different

WRITTEN IN PLAIN ENGLISH AND IN COMMON WORDS

_By_
Rev. CLARENCE HERBERT WOOLSTON, D. D.

_Author of_
"SEEING TRUTH," "PENNY OBJECT LESSONS, Nos. 1 and 2,"
"THE GOSPEL OBJECT BOOK," and "THE CURIOSITY BOOK."
Also Originator of the "SEEING TRUTH PACKETS," Containing the
Lessons and Objects Needed

PHILADELPHIA
THE JUDSON PRESS
BOSTON CHICAGO LOS ANGELES
KANSAS CITY SEATTLE TORONTO

Copyright, 1926, by
THE JUDSON PRESS
Published August, 1926

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

_This book is dedicated
to the many Boys and Girls
who have both heard and seen
these visual addresses
at Bethany Hall, Winona Lake, Indiana
and to Mrs. Carrie Besserer
who made these wonderful gatherings possible_

_For what shall it profit a church if it gain
the whole world and lose its own children_

=INTRODUCTION=

Dr. C. H. Woolston is the one man I know who is most eminently fitted to write a book for children or for the teachers of children. First, because he loves and understands children; for work among children is an affair of the heart. In the second place, through many years he has proved his theories by actual, practical experience and testing. We know that his plans really work.

He is being urged by many of his eminent friends in children's work to give all his time to this great service. He will have a large mission in teaching preachers and teachers how to win children and young people to Christ. For twenty years he has appeared in the great Bible conference at Winona Lake, Ind., and has always been received by adults with great appreciation while the children have hailed him with huge delight.

We must all admit that there is nothing of greater importance among all the problems of the church today. While he has not been able to give all his time to this work he has been most generous and patient in showing others how to use the mechanical and wonder object-lessons in the teaching of children.

In this work he gives the worker something entirely new and off from the beaten path of the regulars, something which would cost months of study and research and literally hundreds of dollars to acquire.

In addition to the wisdom of this and other works he has published and thus given to the world, he will always be glad to help in any of the problems of winning for Jesus the children that may present themselves. His study is an open post-office. Write to him.

And so, for these reasons and many others I am especially glad to commend this newest book of Doctor Woolston. I hope the readers of this book may be able to have him in their churches or in Bible conferences some time. To know him personally is a rare pleasure. He is, in my estimation, the greatest talker to children we have in this country at this present time. His new methods of reaching children and adults through their eyes has given him the highest place among gospel illustrators.

HOMER RODEHEAVER
SUNDAY PARTY, Winona Lake, Ind.

=PREFACE=

These short addresses are designed to help the busy pastor get a flying start in his effort to fill the minds of his church children with compelling imagery and their eyes with the sweet lessons by Seeing Gospel Truth.

I have made no attempt at phrase-making, nor have I sought to create a literary marvel.

I have used the greatest simplicity of language at my command, in some cases employing the unpolished words of the children themselves. This I have done because many of these chapters have been framed for their eyes and ears, and it has always been my ambition that the children should hear the truth in their own tongue.

Perhaps my words and sentences would not pass the Sanhedrin of the universities, but my ideas are on the run to catch the child before the ever-shortening days of youth have passed, and perhaps sometimes I have run by some of the standards of the school.

When Evangelist D. L. Moody was in London, England, the first time some of the critical divines made sport of the fact that Mr. Moody in pronouncing the word "Jerusalem" did so in two syllables. The secular press also took up the matter and made high glee over it. C. H. Spurgeon, then in all his glory at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, in one of his sermons used the following language, "I am glad there is one minister in London who is in such haste to give the gospel to the people that he does not stop to pronounce every syllable."

The King's business requires haste, and this business of gaining the King's children requires double haste. This will explain some of the sentences of this book that may cause you to stop and think why I said them. C. H. Spurgeon has given you my answer.

These talks aim to fill the eye as well as the ear. This is the reason that a line of simple objects is used.

These objects are golden hooks which hang up ideas in the hall of memory to stay "put" evermore.

Some of the chapters are designed for children and adults alike, for there are some adults who, like Peter Pan, refuse to grow up and still "like to see things."

Read over each chapter twice before you attempt to work it out.

Think yourself back to childhood's happy days and "be a child again just for tonight," and then when your ideas are romping about in your head with the zest of youth, tell your lesson and show them "the things."

And may it come to pass that you may turn the Wonderful Eyes and Hearts of the Wonderful Children toward the "Rose of Sharon" as the rose of the garden turns toward the light of the Sun.

This is the prayer of the author to whom God has given the distinguished honor of talking to a million and a half of little folks about Jesus, "who loves the little children of the world."