[Show the children your watch in the course of your talk.]
How do the trees and flowers and sky and sun tell about Jesus, who made them and us beautiful and strong? They do tell about him, you know. As the noble psalm says, “The heavens declare the glory of God,” and the earth declares it, too. They have no voice,—these lovely things that Christ has made, but they find a very real way to tell about Christ. They are just what Christ wants them to be. The sun simply shines. The flowers simply look beautiful. The trees simply spread out their arms. They just take what Christ gives them and are happy with it, and we look at them, and cannot help seeing how good Christ is.
Now we children can tell about our dear Savior in much the same way. We can simply take the good things he gives us, and be happy. We can just smile like the skies, and shine like the sun, and be beautiful like the flowers.
But we can do much more than this, because Christ has done much more for us than he has done for the trees and flowers.
How does a watch tell about its maker? When a man carries an Elgin watch for a while, and finds it keeping perfect time, and not a second out of the way, he begins to think very highly of the men who made the watch. The watch has really been praising them every minute of every day that it ran so accurately.
Now we can do this, too. We can tell about Christ who made us, by doing as finely as possible things for which we were made. If we do all our work well, and if we bear the name of our maker, Christ, then all our good work will speak for him just as the good work of a watch with “Elgin” on the face of it speaks for the Elgin Watch Company.
But we are far more fortunate than a watch, and we ought to be able to tell more about Christ than any watch can tell about the maker. Why, we are Christ’s children. When our fathers and our mothers do wonderful things for us, give us beautiful gifts, watch over us in sickness, help us in our studies, make sacrifices for us, we don’t count it hard to tell people how good and kind our fathers and mothers are. We just say, “I have the nicest father and mother in the whole world,” and then we go on to tell what they have done for us.
Now why can’t we do this for Christ, who gave us our fathers and mothers and everything else we have that is good? Let us begin the very first chance we have.