dments of God. Indeed, if you will
read the Psalm, you will find that every verse says something about the
precepts, or the statutes, or the commandments, or the word of God.

The 119th Psalm contains some of the verses with which we are most
familiar. "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking
heed thereto according to thy word." "Open thou mine eyes, that I may
behold wondrous things out of thy law." "Thy word is a lamp unto my
feet, and a light unto my path."

The Psalm reaches its highest point, and finds its fullest expression in
the 94th verse, three words, "I am thine."

Young people, I want you to read this 119th Psalm, and when you come to
the 94th verse I want you to stop and say over very earnestly, very
prayerfully, "I am thine." And may you be His for all time is my prayer.

MEMORY VERSE, _Psalm_ 119: 94

"I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts."

MEMORY HYMN [342]

_"Lord, I am thine, entirely thine."_

THE FATHER'S CARE

I have here a nut. It is a pecan. It grows in our southern states. It is
a well formed nut with a hard shell. This nut I have is cracked. I open
it and I notice just inside a thin, brown coating that covers the meat.
I touch this coating to my lips. It is bitter and causes me to pucker my
lips. This is the Creator's blessed provision for the protection of the
nut in its growing stage. The bitter coating keeps insects and pests
away.

On my way to church this morning I looked up and saw a long piece of
yarn flying across the street at a rapid rate. I wondered what could
cause that. Then at the front end of the yarn I saw a bird. The bird
flew to the gable of a big house. There, in a protected corner, she was
making her nest. The yarn was to be woven into her new spring house. So
God gives instinct to birds and all his creatures as a mark of his
loving care.

The most delicate, sensitive portion of your body is the eye. When I
consider how tender and open to harm the eye is I wonder that so many
of us go through life with our eyes unhurt. But God has provided a
sleepless protection for our eyes. There is a guard, always on duty.
Whenever danger comes near, that guard, our eyelid, closes and
effectively wards off impending trouble.

We started with the lowest form of life, an inanimate nut. Now we come
to the highest, the soul of man. For in each one of you there is
something eternal, something akin to God himself. The name we give that