of the globe be converted into
a wheat field? Why not? Is the truth concerning
God's love and salvation suited to all ages, all
nations, and all people?

[Illustration]

WHEAT AND CHAFF.

THE COMING SEPARATION.

SUGGESTION:--If the children can secure a few
handfuls of some kind of grain and chaff, the idea
of separation can be beautifully illustrated by
pouring the grain and chaff from one hand to the
other, and at the same time gently blowing the
chaff, separating it from the grain. By turning it
in this manner once or twice and blowing gently,
the chaff may be entirely separated from the
grain. If a larger quantity were used, it could be
poured from one basket or pan to another while
blowing the chaff from the grain with a palm leaf
or some other fan. This would illustrate how the
grain and chaff were separated at that period of
the world in which Christ lived.

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to read you a very beautiful little psalm,
or hymn, or poem, written by David. It was originally written in metre
or verse, but poetry when translated becomes prose. This first Psalm of
David reads as follows:--

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful;
but his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he
meditate day and night; and he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf
also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

"The ungodly are not so; but are like the chaff which the wind driveth
away; therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners
in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knoweth the way of
the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish."

We find in this Psalm how the righteous are set forth, and how the
ungodly are compared to chaff. John the Baptist said of Jesus, "Whose
fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor and gather
His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire."

[Illustration: Threshing Grain with Flails.]

Now, when you have been in the country, you have observed the wheat
growing in the field. If you had been careful to examine it,