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4.  When he found the sheep he would carry it home with joy.

5.  He would ask his friends to rejoice with him.

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6.  Jesus said that one sinner saved causes great joy in heaven.

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7.  If a woman had ten pieces of money and lost one, she would bring a light and sweep the house, and search until she found the lost piece.

8.  When she found it she would want every one to be glad too, and would call in her neighbors to rejoice with her.

9.  Jesus said the angels rejoice over one sinner saved from sin.

10.  Jesus loves to find and save sinners.

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Questions.

What is the Golden Text?

What is the Truth?

1.  Who liked to hear Jesus talk?

2.  Why did the Pharisees and scribes find fault?

3.  If a man lost a sheep what would he do?

4.  What would he do when he found it?

5.  What would he ask his friends to do?

6.  What did Jesus say would cause joy in heaven?

7.  If a woman lost a piece of money, what would she do?

8.  What would she do when she found it?

9.  Over what do the angels rejoice?

10.  What does Jesus love to do?

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Lesson hymn.

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

     When from him we wander far,
     Jesus seeks us where we are;
     If we will obey his voice,
     Angels will o’er us rejoice.

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Title of Lesson for May 3.

The Prodigal Son (Temperance Lesson).—­Luke 15:11-32.

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Golden Text for May 3.

I will arise and go to my father.—­Luke 15:18.

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Beginners Golden Text for May 3.

God is love.—­1 John 4:8.

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The First Safety-pin.

This is the way it came about.  There was a little boy, by the name of Harrison, who lived across the ocean in England, and because his mother was busy with other work he often had to take care of his baby brother.  Very often the baby cried, but instead of scolding him, or calling to his mother, that he couldn’t do anything with the baby, Harrison would try and find out what it was that made him cry.  And very often he found that it was because a pin was pricking him.

Now Harrison was not only patient with the baby, but he thought there might be some way the pins could be bent so there would be no danger of their pricking.  He tried and tried for a long time to bend the pins so they would be safe, but every time he failed.  One day his father, who was a blacksmith, asked him what he was doing.  Harrison told him that he was trying to bend a pin so it could not prick the baby.