How many children know what the boys and girls of far-off Norway sometimes think when they see the dainty, feathery snowflakes flying softly and silently through the air? I don't think there are many of you who do know, so I will tell you the story.

If we were there when they have the first snowstorm of the season we could hear them shouting gleefully to each other: “See! oh, see! Mother Hulda is shaking her feather bed.”

There is a story about this Mother Hulda and her feather bed that is told to the little ones there. She lives, it is said, far, far above this busy world, with the clouds for her home, the sun for a lamp and fire.

She is always very busy, and especially so at the beginning of the winter, for then she has to unpack her great feather bed, and after that is done she spends all of her time shaking it. Indeed she shakes it so much that she wears many holes in it, through which the feathers fly in all directions. The wind catches them up and carries them gently to the earth, where they cover the bare limbs of the trees, making them beautiful, and where they spread lightly on the ground and protect the roots of the flowers from the cold winter winds.

Mother Hulda does not tire of shaking her bed until the warmer spring winds begin to blow; then she packs it away until she sees Jack Frost traveling again over the world below, and finds traces of the mischievous fellow even in her lofty home.—Selected.

OUR LESSON.—March 8

PREPARED BY MARGUERITE COOK

Title.—Watchfulness (Temperance Lesson).—Luke 12:35-48.

Golden Text.—Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching.—Luke 12:37.

Golden Text for Beginners.—Even a child maketh himself known by his doings.—Prov. 20:11.

Truth.—Be always ready.

1. Jesus told his disciples that they must be always ready and watching for his coming.

2. He told them to be like faithful servants, who, with their lights burning, wait for the return of their absent master.

3. He said that the master who should come home and find his servants watching for him would be pleased.

4. He would invite them to sit down at his table, and he would serve them himself.

5. Those faithful servants would receive a blessing.

6. Jesus warns us all to watch and be faithful about our work, so that when he comes again we will be ready.

7. He says that no one knows the day nor the hour when he will return.

8. The master chooses the faithful servants to rule over his house.

9. The unfaithful servant will not be found watching when his master shall come.

10. He will spend his time in eating and drinking and abusing his fellow-servants.

11. The master will come when he is not expected, and will see these evil deeds and punish the servant for his unfaithfulness.

QUESTIONS

What is the Golden Text?

What is the Truth?

1. For what did Jesus tell his disciples to watch?

2. Like whom did he tell them to be?

3. Who would be pleased to find his servants watching?

4. What would he invite them to do?

5. What would they receive if found faithful?

6. What does Jesus warn us all to do?

7. Who knows when Jesus will return?

8. Who will be made ruler over his master's house?

9. Who will not be found watching?

10. How will he spend his time?

11. Who will come when he is not expected?

LESSON HYMN

Tune—“Jesus loves me, this I know,” omitting chorus (E flat).

When our work on earth is done, Jesus calls us, every one; Let us work, and watch, and pray, For his coming, every day.

Title of Lesson for March 15

The Lawful Use of the Sabbath.—Luke 13:10-17; 14:1-6.

Golden Text for March 15

The sabbath was made for man.—Mark 2:27.

Beginners Golden Text for March 15

Even a child maketh himself known by his doings.—Prov. 20:11.

ADVICE TO BOYS AND GIRLS

The Difference it Made

“What a sweet voice that little child in the red cloak has!” said a visitor in Sunday-school to a teacher, as together they listened to the children raising their song of praise.

“Yes, isn't it sweet? And she always sings just so heartily,” was the reply.

A little later, the school closed and, the children on their way home, the visitor chanced to pass by the child in the red cloak, just in time to hear her say angrily to her nurse, who had called for her:

“I don't want to go this way—I want to go through the park. I won't! I won't go through that horrid old street!”

“But, Miss Mazie, your mamma said we were to go straight home and not stay in the park to-day.”

Upon this, the little lady marched away, with pouting lips and injured mien.

“Ah,” thought the lady, “what a difference it makes in the voice when one speaks angrily! No matter how sweet it may be, how harsh and unloving angry words make it!”

What a pity that Mazie did not keep her voice as musical and birdlike as it was when she was singing her morning song of praise! Think of this, little readers, and when you are tempted to be angry and speak in cross tones, instead of making your voice unpleasant to hear, endeavor to make it sweet and loving.

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