more dim, after a very few seconds, you will find that it goes out in
darkness, the same as it did under the other bottle.

[Illustration: A Dangerous Bottle.]

Let me say to you, always carefully avoid the terrible and destructive
influences of drink, of which this bottle is the symbol. If you want to
keep the love of God in your heart you must never, never take the first
step which leads toward the love of liquor, toward intemperance and a
drunkard's grave.

QUESTIONS.--Can an unlighted candle give light?
Can a candle light itself? Who must first give us
the light if we are to be a light to the world?
Can the light of the candle shine through a silver
dollar? If a silver dollar is polished like a
little looking-glass and placed behind the light,
what does it do? Does this suggest how we can use
our money to send the light to the heathen? Under
what kind of a measure does the Bible warn against
hiding our light? When people light a candle, do
they put it under a bushel or on a candlestick? If
it is put under a bushel what is the result? Is
that the result with people who are ashamed to be
known as Christians? Does intoxicating drink often
put out the light of Christian people? How can all
persons avoid the use of liquor? (By never taking
the first glass.)

[Illustration]

A BROKEN CHAIN.

BREAKING THE WHOLE LAW.

SUGGESTION:--A chain of any kind, even a watch
chain, will answer. Children could use paste-board
and cut out ten links to represent the Ten
Commandments. These links could be numbered and
the older children could be asked to repeat the
Ten Commandments in their order.

MY LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN: I have here a chain; it is very strong indeed.
It has ten links in it. You will remember how that, more than three
thousand years ago, God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
These Ten Commandments are often called the Decalogue, because there are
ten of them; the Greek word _deka_ means ten.

[Illustration: A Broken Chain.]

Now the Bible tells us that "whosoever will keep the whole law, and yet
offend in one point, he is guilty of all." (James ii:10.)

[Illustration: "Suspended Over the Edge of a Great Rock."]

When a boy, I often wondered how it was th