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Questions.

What is the Golden Text?  What is the Truth?

1.  On what day did two of Jesus’ friends walk to a village called Emmaus?

2.  As Jesus passed by, what did he notice?

3.  What did he do?

4.  What did they not believe?

5.  About what did they tell him?

6.  What had some women told them, who had visited Jesus’ tomb?

7.  What did Jesus tell the two men?

8.  When they came to their home what did they urge Jesus to do?

9.  While they were eating supper what did Jesus do?

10.  When they knew him what became of Jesus?

11.  What did they say one to another?

12.  What did they at once go back to Jerusalem to tell the other disciples?

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Lesson hymn.

Tune—­“Jesus loves me, this I know,” omitting chorus (E flat).

Close beside us every day
Christ is walking all the way;
And his voice is very near;
If we listen we may hear.

Title of Lesson for April 19.

The Cost of Discipleship.—­Luke 14:25-35.

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Golden Text for April 19.

Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.—­Matt. 16:25.

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Beginners Golden Text for April 19.

Be ye kind one to another.—­Eph. 4:32.

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Advice to Boys and Girls

The Extra Step Society.

The “Extra Step Society” was formed in the Martin household when the mother was forced to be on the lounge for some time with a sprained ankle.  It was Tom who cheerfully took an extra step on his way to school each day to call at his grandmother’s and report the progress of the invalid.  It was Bessie who left her play and stepped softly into the parlor every morning to lower the blind so that the sun’s rays might not beam too warmly on her mother’s face.  And it was wee Alice who took many an extra step during the day, sometimes to carry a glass of fresh water to her mother, and sometimes to bring a magazine or paper.

“We’re trying to pay you back a little, mamma,” Bessie said lovingly one night when all the children were gathered around their mother.  “We don’t mind a bit taking extra steps if only we can make you comfortable, so you must not think we get tired of doing things for you.”

“Bless my faithful, unselfish little nurses!” Mrs. Martin rejoined earnestly.  “Love lightens your labors.”—­Sel.

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Thoughts for Mothers

The Care of the Home.

The busy mother will find the care of the home too much for one pair of hands unless she enlists the children as helpers.  Let her begin to practice systematics at once.  Assign some corner or box of play-things to one child to be cared for.  A small boy might have the work of putting away yesterday’s newspapers regularly, as his part in keeping the house tidy.  The small daughter could pick up and dust in one special room, taking care that a second dusting by a more careful hand is not necessary.