ocks? Must
there be as many kinds of keys as there are kinds
of locks? Is the human heart like a lock? Does God
desire to get into the human heart? With what key
does He unlock it? Are the lock and its key made
by the same man? Who made the human heart? Who
made the key to unlock it? Can the Bible be used
to lock the human heart against the entrance of
sin? What are skeleton keys? Do men try false keys
with which to open the human heart? What are some
of the things with which they try? Is the human
heart ever satisfied until unlocked by the Bible
and possessed by God?

[Illustration]

TRAPS.

UNSUSPECTING MICE AND MEN.

SUGGESTION:--An ordinary mouse trap will be
serviceable. The trap can be set and instead of a
mouse, a child can spring the trap with his
finger. The parent had better try his own finger
first, to see that the trap is not too strong. A
rat trap should never be tried in this way.

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: You may think that possibly there was a time when
wicked men did not desire to destroy others, as is so often the case in
this day. Hundreds of years ago, God said, "Among my people are found
wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap,
they catch men." (Jeremiah v: 26.)

[Illustration: Mouse Trap.]

I suppose you have all seen traps. There are a great many different
kinds. Some are very dangerous, and yet you cannot see the danger until
you are caught, or until you see some other person who has been caught
in the trap. Now here is a trap. I suppose that you have all seen such
traps as this, and possibly have them in your own homes, to catch the
little mice which destroy your food, and oftentimes do much injury.

Now, this trap does not look dangerous to the unsuspecting mouse. The
little wire, which is to be drawn up by a strong spring to choke the
mouse to death, is concealed, and he does not know that there is a wire
there at all. He simply smells the piece of cheese. This tempts his
appetite, and, as he is fond of cheese, he desires to obtain it, and so
he attempts to crawl in through this small hole to get the cheese; but
the moment he nibbles at the cheese, it disturbs the little catch which
holds the spring, and when it is too late to escape, the little mouse
finds that he has