. Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks . I find some little pink buds, and a little later they openinto pretty flowers, for this is the limb of an apple tree. [Add theflowers, completing Fig. 94.] And then, as time goes on, we witness another interesting change,because God intends that the tree shall do more than bear leaves andflowers. We find that the pretty pink fiowers which have filled the airwith their fragrance and gladdened our eyes with their beauty havegone away, and in their places have come little green apples. [Withgre
. Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks . I find some little pink buds, and a little later they openinto pretty flowers, for this is the limb of an apple tree. [Add theflowers, completing Fig. 94.] And then, as time goes on, we witness another interesting change,because God intends that the tree shall do more than bear leaves andflowers. We find that the pretty pink fiowers which have filled the airwith their fragrance and gladdened our eyes with their beauty havegone away, and in their places have come little green apples. [Withgreen chalk draw the green apples just large enough to cover the blos-soms.] Green apples are good things—to leave alone, so we will notpick them. We will watch and see them change into something else.[With red chalk draw the large ripe apples, covering up the greensurface. This completes Fig. 95. If the green doesnt disappearentirely, it doesnt matter. It is well, however, in drawing the greenapples, to use as little of the color as possible.] And now we have theripened fruit of the apple tree. 151. 162 This part of the story is for the little boys and girls. But wemust say a word also to the boys and girls of the junior and interme-diate classes. It is this: That the branch^of the apple tree, in bring-ing forth in its time the leaf-buds, the leaves, the blossoms, the greenapples and the ripened fruit, has done nothing excepting that whichGod planned that it should do. He asks of it no more and no is its duty. The lesson for us is this: He expects us to do ourfull duty, just as the branch of the apple tree has done. He asks thatwe bring forth the fruits of service, of sacrifice, of cheerfulness, ofkindness, of love and of humility. He has surrounded us with thethings which make it easy to do this. Let us find out the best way forus to do it and enjoy real living as we bring forth fruit for Him. And I would also add a word to the seniors and the adults of ourschool, as
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