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Paul Scherer was born at Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, on June 22, 1892. He graduated from the College of Charleston in South Carolina in 1911, and from the Mount Airy Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, in 1916. He was ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church in 1916.
This children's sermon draws a lesson from at time when the Israelites thought God had left them alone in the wilderness to die of thirst. But God provided water from the rock for his people, and God will listen and help us when we, too, cry out to him.