MEMORY VERSE, I Corinthians 9:  22

    “I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save
    some.”

MEMORY HYMN [545]

    "Jesus calls us."

LETTERS

Who is the most popular man in your town?  The Postman.  Who is the man who is most eagerly looked for as he comes down the street?  The Postman.  Who receives, at every door where he stops, a most cordial welcome?  The Postman.  I wonder if the thrill of getting a letter will ever pass away.  When you come home from school the first thing you do is to look on the hall table to see if the Postman has brought you a letter.  It is the same when we grow up.  No matter how many letters we may receive we never get over the keen delight at having the Postman bring us letters.

Last Sunday afternoon you wrote your grandmother.  You said, “Only two months more of school and then I am coming to see you, and all the summer vacation I am going to play around your big house, and in the barn, and across the fields, and through the woods.”  On your way to school Monday morning, you posted that letter.  Monday afternoon you began looking for an answer.  Tuesday you were impatient that you had not received a reply.  Wednesday you were almost in tears, though, had you only stopped to think you would have known that it takes two days for a letter to get to your grandmother, she lives so far away.  Thursday the answer came.  “I am eager for vacation time to come so that you, my dear grandchild, may be here with me.”

I have here an unusual book.  It is a book of letters.  All the letters were written by a big man, a father, to little children, his children.  The man who wrote them was Theodore Roosevelt.  What fortunate children were his!  Not many fathers take time to write to their children as did our great president.  Oh, for more fathers like Roosevelt!  Oh, for appreciative children, who will not only gladly receive, but cheerfully write, letters of love!

MEMORY VERSE, I John 2:  12

    “I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from
    the beginning.  I write unto you, little children, because ye have
    known the Father.”

MEMORY HYMN [544]

    "I love to tell the story."

A UNIQUE PSALM

I want to tell you about a unique Psalm.  Which Psalm is it?  It is the 119th.

The 119th Psalm is unique because of its length.  It is the longest of the Psalms.  It has one hundred and seventy-six verses.

It is unique because of its arrangement.  It is divided into twenty-two equal parts.  Each part contains eight verses.

Again, the 119th Psalm is an acrostic, or an alphabetical Psalm.  It is built around the Hebrew alphabet.  Each of the twenty-two portions begins with one of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.