Article January 3, 1948 Issue

"GOD IS REALLY LIFE"

[Of Special Interest to Children]

HELEN KREBS SMITH

Leslie made a birdhouse at his kindergarten, and he was eager to hang it in the garden. The sides did not fit together very well, but Leslie's father hung it just outside the kitchen window among some climbing roses. He was a little doubtful about any birds using it, but he said, "If they don't, we'll take it down and fix it, and then put it in another place."

Leslie was happy because he thought it was a good place for birds. And, best of all, he and his family could watch them through the window.

Months passed, and no birds appeared at the birdhouse. Leslie did not feel quite so happy about his undertaking, and one day his mother said to him, "Perhaps you and I have said too much about its not being a very good birdhouse; but you made it with love, didn't you?"

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