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<h2><SPAN name="MARBLES_IN_THE_POCKET" id="MARBLES_IN_THE_POCKET" /><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_104" id="Page_104"></SPAN>[104]</span>MARBLES IN THE POCKET</h2> <p>Do you know what a Missionary Box is? Well, I will tell you. It is a box or barrel sent from a missionary society in a city or town to a missionary family or school on the frontier. The box contains clothing, bedding, and sometimes toys, dolls and picture books if there are children at the frontier end of the journey.</p> <p>In a certain city one Christmas season the children of the Sunday School brought gifts to fill a box. Some brought clothes they had outgrown. Some who had two coats decided they could give one. Others brought books. One little girl brought a beautiful doll. She had other dolls, and this one she dearly loved, but she said, "I want some other little girl to be happy, and I think I can get along without this doll, though I shall miss her dreadfully."</p> <p>One day the committee came together to sort the gifts and pack the box. One woman picked up a boy's coat. She felt something, hard in one of the pockets. Another woman said, "Better <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_105" id="Page_105"></SPAN>[105]</span>look all through those pockets; you can never tell what a boy will use his pockets for." So she went all through the pockets. In one of them she found a soiled handkerchief tied in a knot. With much pulling, for it was a hard knot, she loosed the little package, and there she found five marbles. With the marbles was a note scrawled in a boy's hand—</p> <div class="blockquot"><p>"DEAR BOY WHO GETS THIS COAT,</p> <p> I have eight marbles. First I put in four for you. Then I put in another one. I hope you will like the coat, and the marbles.</p> <p> From your friend,</p> <p> JOHN MASON."</p> </div> <p>Now what do you think of that? Isn't it glorious? To give more to the other fellow than you keep for yourself, especially when that other fellow is some one you have never seen, is Christlike.</p> <p>MEMORY VERSE, <i>Matthew</i> 7: 12</p> <div class="blockquot"><p>"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."</p> </div> <p>MEMORY HYMN [411]</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span><i>"O Master, let me walk with thee."</i><br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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