Children's Six Minutes, The

<h2><SPAN name="THE_FATHERS_CARE" id="THE_FATHERS_CARE" /><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_62" id="Page_62"></SPAN>[62]</span>THE FATHER'S CARE</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The most delicate, sensitive portion of your body is the eye. When I consider how tender <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_63" id="Page_63"></SPAN>[63]</span>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.</p> <p>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 eternal spirit is the soul. For the protection of our soul God gives us faith, a sense of right and wrong, conscience, the still small voice. He surrounds us with Christian homes, the Church, helpful fellowship, the means of grace. All these things are a protection for the soul.</p> <p>MEMORY VERSE, <i>Matthew</i> 6: 28, 29</p> <div class="blockquot"><p>&quot;Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.&quot;</p> </div> <p>MEMORY HYMN [517]</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span><i>&quot;While thee I seek, protecting power.&quot;</i><br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />