Beginners Golden Text for May 3.

_God is love._--1 John 4:8.




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The First Safety-pin.


This is the way it came about. There was a little boy, by the name of
Harrison, who lived across the ocean in England, and because his mother
was busy with other work he often had to take care of his baby brother.
Very often the baby cried, but instead of scolding him, or calling to
his mother, that he couldn't do anything with the baby, Harrison would
try and find out what it was that made him cry. And very often he found
that it was because a pin was pricking him.

Now Harrison was not only patient with the baby, but he thought there
might be some way the pins could be bent so there would be no danger of
their pricking. He tried and tried for a long time to bend the pins so
they would be safe, but every time he failed. One day his father, who
was a blacksmith, asked him what he was doing. Harrison told him that he