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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

He will learn to love Jesus and will be inspired with a desire and purpose to be like him and make his life one of helpfulness and service. We recall the invitation which Jesus often extended, "Follow me." Does this express a thought to which a little child can respond? Led to love Jesus, the child who hears stories of those who became followers of Jesus will desire himself to become a friend and follower. In these years the child has his first glimmering of the principle which we who are older have come to realize : "When I would do good, evil is present with me." In childish ways there is beginning to come to him the universal experience of moral fail­ure unconsciously he is beginning to illustrate the strength of the tendency to evil and to exemplify human weakness. He needs to know of Jesus. as moral Helper, and to realize that if he tries in his own strength to do the right and asks for help, added power will come to him. Can you think of stories from the Bible that teach this lesson? Can the stories of the ministry of Jesus which

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