With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . cnB BALANCES. HOW GOD WEIGHS PEOPLE. Suggestion:—Objects: A pair of ordinary balances. A very good pair forillustration can easily be made from a piece of wood, a few strings and a coupleof little paper boxes. DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I suppose you have allstood on the scales and been weighed. I have here a pairof balances. This was doubtless one of the earliest kindof instruments with which people weighed differentthings, and it is the kind of scales which are still used when the. Balances. greatest accurac
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . cnB BALANCES. HOW GOD WEIGHS PEOPLE. Suggestion:—Objects: A pair of ordinary balances. A very good pair forillustration can easily be made from a piece of wood, a few strings and a coupleof little paper boxes. DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I suppose you have allstood on the scales and been weighed. I have here a pairof balances. This was doubtless one of the earliest kindof instruments with which people weighed differentthings, and it is the kind of scales which are still used when the. Balances. greatest accuracy is desired. These are called a balance, becausewhen I hold them by this string you will see that this end of the260 BALANCES. 261 arm and that end of the arm are equal in length and equal in weightand they exactly balance each other. Now when I place anythingin the pan on this end of the arm, and place a small weight in thepan on the opposite arm, and then lift the balance up, you will seehow I can readily tell how much the piece of metal, or piece ofwood, or whatever I have placed in the balances, weighs. In thedrug stores they use this kind of scales to weigh medicines, and theycan tell accurately the weight of a very small quantity. In the lab-oratory, or the place where medicines are made, they have thiskind of scales that will weigh the smallest particle of dust; even asmall piece of a hair laid on the scales can be weighed the fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel we read about aking whose name was Belshazzar, who lived in the great city o
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