MEMORY VERSE, John 6:  51

    “I am the living bread which came down from heaven.”

MEMORY HYMN [325]

    "Break thou the bread of life."

GOD’S MEASURE

Here I have some measures.  This is a rule, we call it a folding foot rule.  Here is a square.  And here is a tape measure.  There are other measures, quarts and pecks and bushels.  Then there are liquid measures, quarts and gallons and barrels.  There are also measures of weight, ounces, pounds and tons.  Now these different measures are the same all over the United States.  A pound of butter in New York is the same as a pound of butter in California.  There are other countries that do not have measures like ours.  France, for example, has the metric system.  Should you go into a dry goods store in Paris you would not ask for a yard of cloth, but for a meter.

God’s measures are the same.  God has a measure for girls and boys, and that measure is the same in Ohio, Mexico, England or Spain.  If it is wrong to steal in Germany, it is wrong to steal in Brazil.  If it was wrong to commit murder in the first century, it is wrong to take life in this century.  The Ten Commandments are some of God’s measures for us.

John, come up here, I want to measure you.  Stand there, that’s right.  I have the mark, now let us see how tall you are.  Four feet, three and one-half inches.  That is fine.  You are a big boy, aren’t you?  I wish too that I could measure you according to God’s measure.  But I cannot do that.  You must do that yourself.  How tall are you as you look at yourself in the light of the Saviour’s life?  According to his measure I pray that you may be tall and strong.

MEMORY VERSE, Ephesians 4:  13

“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.”

MEMORY HYMN [128]

    "We may not climb the heavenly steeps."

SLEEP

I hope you had a good sleep last night.  I hope you sleep well every night.  God’s best gift to his children is sleep.  You think there are some better gifts, do you?  Name them.  Ah, I thought you were mistaken.  The more you think about it the more you will agree with me that sleep, the Father’s loving provision for tired people, is a most blessed gift.

Now God gives sleep not only to girls and boys but to all of his creatures.  Do you know how some of those creatures sleep?  I will tell you.  Elephants and horses commonly sleep standing up.  How would you like to hear your mother say to you, “Robert, it’s time to go to bed, stand in the corner there and sleep.”  Most birds sleep with the head turned toward the tail and the beak poked in under the feathers.  Storks, gulls and all other long-legged birds sleep standing on one