The Calls for Help

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 11, 1915

The Calls for Help

Lesson for the Children — No. 3

The Calls for Help

MEMORY TEXT: “Then came she and worshiped him, saying, Lord, help me.” Matt. 15:25.

Begin the lesson with the story of the poor woman who came to Jesus with the urgent request that he heal her daughter. If a person fell into a river or was in a burning building where he could not get out, he would call, “Help! help!” How anxious we would all be to save one in such circumstances! Some have lost their own lives in trying to save others. Illustrate by some incident you have known or about which you have read.

But it is more important to save people so they may live with Jesus forever, than to simply lengthen their lives for a few years now. Every one needs help. The heathen are all the time seeking it from false gods who cannot deliver them when in trouble.

Some people in Macedonia were needing to know Jesus. Paul had been trying to go to different places, but could not. Tell what he finally saw in vision. Acts 16:6-13. The same call is coming to us now from almost every country on earth. The people want some one to come and teach them the truth. Schools must be started and maintained, so the children can be trained as missionaries. (Give some of the calls that are most urgent now.)

In this meeting pray for the children in heathen lands. Remember the little widows of India; the people who are starving in China; the poor people where there is war, and whose homes have been destroyed. Pray that good and able men and women may be willing to answer the calls for help, and that money may be given to help them to go, and to keep them in their fields.