diff options
| author | Roger Frank <rfrank@pglaf.org> | 2025-10-15 04:50:27 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Roger Frank <rfrank@pglaf.org> | 2025-10-15 04:50:27 -0700 |
| commit | 18283fbaecd2028beb1a6a01854a23ccd7523d93 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e9e8e6e8f6f71aa5823304df6ff5bfb90831fbb /17163-h | |
Diffstat (limited to '17163-h')
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/17163-h.htm | 3091 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/cover-f.jpg | bin | 0 -> 81255 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/frontis.jpg | bin | 0 -> 100275 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/header.jpg | bin | 0 -> 30539 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-01.jpg | bin | 0 -> 102291 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-02.jpg | bin | 0 -> 103790 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-03.jpg | bin | 0 -> 120457 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-04.jpg | bin | 0 -> 107560 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-05.jpg | bin | 0 -> 106176 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-06.jpg | bin | 0 -> 111501 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-07.jpg | bin | 0 -> 110431 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-08.jpg | bin | 0 -> 112428 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-09.jpg | bin | 0 -> 115156 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-10.jpg | bin | 0 -> 111358 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-11.jpg | bin | 0 -> 105084 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-12.jpg | bin | 0 -> 111045 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-13.jpg | bin | 0 -> 124795 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-14.jpg | bin | 0 -> 129259 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-15.jpg | bin | 0 -> 107243 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-16.jpg | bin | 0 -> 113575 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-17.jpg | bin | 0 -> 113740 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-18.jpg | bin | 0 -> 116836 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-19.jpg | bin | 0 -> 116411 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-20.jpg | bin | 0 -> 119104 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-21.jpg | bin | 0 -> 102382 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-22.jpg | bin | 0 -> 112051 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-23.jpg | bin | 0 -> 107293 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-24.jpg | bin | 0 -> 128145 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-25.jpg | bin | 0 -> 112730 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-26.jpg | bin | 0 -> 113060 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-27.jpg | bin | 0 -> 118617 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-28.jpg | bin | 0 -> 86595 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-29.jpg | bin | 0 -> 121058 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-30.jpg | bin | 0 -> 109548 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-31.jpg | bin | 0 -> 112138 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-32.jpg | bin | 0 -> 116554 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-33.jpg | bin | 0 -> 107220 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-34.jpg | bin | 0 -> 109794 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-35.jpg | bin | 0 -> 111832 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-36.jpg | bin | 0 -> 120011 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-37.jpg | bin | 0 -> 120833 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-38.jpg | bin | 0 -> 110200 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-39.jpg | bin | 0 -> 97945 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-40.jpg | bin | 0 -> 108309 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-41.jpg | bin | 0 -> 105461 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-42.jpg | bin | 0 -> 113258 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-43.jpg | bin | 0 -> 110715 bytes | |||
| -rw-r--r-- | 17163-h/images/illus-44.jpg | bin | 0 -> 95590 bytes |
48 files changed, 3091 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/17163-h/17163-h.htm b/17163-h/17163-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..978efaa --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/17163-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,3091 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html> + <head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <title> + The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mother Stories From The New Testament. + </title> + <style type="text/css"> +/*<![CDATA[ XML blockout */ +<!-- + P { margin-top: .5em; + text-align: justify; + margin-bottom: .5em; + text-indent: 1em; + } + H1 { + text-align: center; font-family: garamond, serif; /* all headings centered */ + } + H5,H6 { + text-align: center; font-family: garamond, serif; /* all headings centered */ + } + H2 { + text-align: center; font-family: garamond, serif; /* centered and coloured */ + } + H3 { + text-align: center; font-family: garamond, serif; /* centered and coloured */ + } + H4 { + text-align: center; font-family: garamond, serif; /* all headings centered */ + } + HR { width: 33%; + margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; + } + BODY{margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; + } + a {text-decoration: none} /* no lines under links */ + div.centered {text-align: center;} /* work around for IE centering with CSS problem part 1 */ + div.centered table {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;} /* work around for IE centering with CSS problem part 2 */ + + .pagenum { /* comment the next line for visible page numbers */ + visibility: hidden; + position: absolute; right: 2%; font-size: 80%; text-align: right; } /* page numbers */ + + .cen {text-align: center; text-indent: 0em;} /* centering paragraphs */ + .sc {font-variant: small-caps;} /* small caps, normal size */ + .noin {text-indent: 0em;} /* no indenting */ + .linenum {position: absolute; top: auto; left: 4%;} /* poetry number */ + .note {margin-left: 2em; margin-right: 2em; margin-bottom: 1em;} /* footnote */ + .block {margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%;} /* block indent */ + .right {text-align: right; padding-right: 2em;} /* right aligning paragraphs */ + .totoc {position: absolute; right: 2%; font-size: 75%; text-align: right;} /* Table of contents anchor */ + .img {text-align: center; padding: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;} /* centering images */ + .sidenote {width: 20%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding-left: 1em; font-size: smaller; float: right; clear: right;} + .tdr {text-align: right;} /* aligning cell content to the right */ + .tdc {text-align: center;} /* aligning cell content to the center */ + .tdl {text-align: left;} /* aligning cell content to the left */ + .tdlsc {text-align: left; font-variant: small-caps;} /* aligning cell content and small caps */ + .tdrsc {text-align: right; font-variant: small-caps;} /* aligning cell content and small caps */ + .tdcsc {text-align: center; font-variant: small-caps;} /* aligning cell content and small caps */ + .tr {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; margin-top: 5%; margin-bottom: 5%; padding: 1em; background-color: #f6f2f2; color: black; border: dotted black 1px;} /* transcriber's notes */ + + + .poem {margin-left:20%; margin-right:20%; text-align: left;} + .poem br {display: none;} + .poem .stanza {margin: 1em 0em 1em 0em;} + .poem span {display: block; margin: 0; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} + .poem span.i2 {display: block; margin-left: 2em;} + .poem span.i4 {display: block; margin-left: 4em;} + // --> + /* XML end ]]>*/ + </style> + </head> +<body> + + +<pre> + +Project Gutenberg's Mother Stories from the New Testament, by Anonymous + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Mother Stories from the New Testament + A Book of the Best Stories from the New Testament that + Mothers can tell their Children + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: November 26, 2005 [EBook #17163] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOTHER STORIES: NEW TESTAMENT *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Garcia, Jeannie Howse +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/cover-f.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/cover-f.jpg" width="600" height="783" alt="Front Cover." /></a><br /> +</div> + +<br /> + +<div class="img"><a name="frontis" id="frontis"></a> +<a href="images/frontis.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/frontis.jpg" width="600" height="794" alt="Frontispiece: Little Ones Should Be Brought To Him." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">LITTLE ONES SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO HIM.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + +<a name="Page_i" id="Page_i"></a> + +<h1>MOTHER +STORIES</h1> +<br /> +<h2>FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT</h2> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<h4>A Book of the Best Stories from the<br /> +New Testament That Mothers<br /> +Can Tell Their Children</h4> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<h4>With Forty-five Illustrations</h4> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<h5>PHILADELPHIA<br /> +HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY</h5> + +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> + +<a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii"></a> +<h2>ALTEMUS'</h2> +<h1>MOTHER STORIES SERIES</h1> + +<hr style="width: 15%;" /> + +<h4>MOTHER STORIES<br /> +A Book of the Best Stories that Mothers can tell their Children</h4> + +<h4>MOTHER NURSERY RHYMES AND TALES<br /> +A Book of the Best Nursery Rhymes and Tales that Mothers can tell +their Children</h4> + +<h4>MOTHER FAIRY TALES<br /> +A Book of the Best Fairy Tales that Mothers can tell their Children</h4> + +<h4>MOTHER NATURE STORIES<br /> +A Book of the Best Nature Stories that Mothers can tell their Children</h4> + +<h4>MOTHER STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT<br /> +A Book of the Best Old Testament Stories that Mothers can tell their +Children</h4> + +<h4>MOTHER STORIES FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT<br /> +A Book of the Best New Testament Stories that Mothers can tell their +Children</h4> + +<h4>MOTHER BEDTIME STORIES<br /> +A Book of the Best Bedtime Stories that Mothers can tell their +Children</h4> + +<h4>MOTHER ANIMAL STORIES<br /> +A Book of the Best Animal Stories that Mothers can tell their Children</h4> + +<h4>MOTHER BIRD STORIES<br /> +A Book of the Best Bird Stories that Mothers can tell their Children</h4> + +<h4>MOTHER SANTA CLAUS STORIES<br /> +A Book of the Best Santa Claus Stories that Mothers can tell their +Children</h4> +<br /> +<h4 style="font-weight: normal;">Profusely illustrated and handsomely bound in cloth, with +ornamentation in colors</h4> + +<h4>$1.00 PER VOLUME</h4> + +<h5 class="sc">Copyright 1906 BY Howard E. Altemus<br /> +Printed in the United States of America</h5> + +<br /> +<a name="toc" id="toc"></a><hr /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</a></span><br /> +<h3>CONTENTS.</h3> +<br /> + +<div class="centered"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="80%" summary="Table of Contents"> + <tr> + <td width="80%"> </td> + <td class="tdrsc" width="20%"><span style="font-size: 90%;">Page</span></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Wise Men's Visit</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_WISE_MENS_VISIT">7</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Angel's Tidings</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_ANGELS_TIDINGS">10</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Jesus in the Temple</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#JESUS_IN_THE_TEMPLE">12</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Wonderful Draught of Fishes</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_WONDERFUL_DRAUGHT_OF_FISHES">14</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The House Built Upon the Sand</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_HOUSE_BUILT_UPON_THE_SAND">16</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Healing the Centurion's Servant</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#HEALING_THE_CENTURIONS_SERVANT">18</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Anointing the Feet of Jesus</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#ANOINTING_THE_FEET_OF_JESUS">20</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Rich Fool</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_RICH_FOOL">22</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Unfruitful Tree</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_UNFRUITFUL_TREE">24</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Sowing the Seed</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#SOWING_THE_SEED">26</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Enemy Sowing Tares</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_ENEMY_SOWING_TARES">28</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Parable of the Leaven</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_PARABLE_OF_THE_LEAVEN">30</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Seeking for Hidden Treasure</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#SEEKING_FOR_HIDDEN_TREASURE">32</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Pearl of Great Price</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_PEARL_OF_GREAT_PRICE">34</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Parable of the Net</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_PARABLE_OF_THE_NET">36</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Man Possessed by Devils</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_MAN_POSSESSED_BY_DEVILS">38</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Curing the Incurable</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#CURING_THE_INCURABLE">40</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Jairus' Daughter</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#JAIRUS_DAUGHTER">42</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Two Blind Men</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_TWO_BLIND_MEN">44</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Feeding Five Thousand</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#FEEDING_FIVE_THOUSAND">46</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Christ Walking on the Sea</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#CHRIST_WALKING_ON_THE_SEA">48</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Woman of Canaan</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_WOMAN_OF_CANAAN">50</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Peter and the Tribute Money</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#PETER_AND_THE_TRIBUTE-MONEY">52</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Good Samaritan</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_GOOD_SAMARITAN">54</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Importunity Rewarded</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#IMPORTUNITY_REWARDED">56</a><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</a></span></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Unmerciful Servant</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_UNMERCIFUL_SERVANT">58</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Good Shepherd</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_GOOD_SHEPHERD">60</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Lost Piece of Money</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_LOST_PIECE_OF_MONEY">62</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Prodigal Son</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_PRODIGAL_SON">64</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Peter's Wife's Mother Cured</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#PETERS_WIFES_MOTHER_CURED">66</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Unjust Steward</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_UNJUST_STEWARD">68</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Rich Man and the Beggar</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_RICH_MAN_AND_THE_BEGGAR">70</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">"Avenge Me of My Adversary"</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#AVENGE_ME_OF_MY_ADVERSARY">72</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Pharisee and the Tax-Gatherer</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_PHARISEE_AND_THE_TAX-GATHERER">74</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Laborers in the Vineyard</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_LABOURERS_IN_THE_VINEYARD">76</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Barren Fig Tree</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_BARREN_FIG-TREE">78</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Wicked Husbandman</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_WICKED_HUSBANDMEN">80</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Without the Wedding Garment</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_WEDDING_GARMENT">82</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Foolish Virgins</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_FOOLISH_VIRGINS">84</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Parable of the Talents</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_PARABLE_OF_THE_TALENTS">86</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Man with the Withered Hand</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#MAN_WITH_THE_WITHERED_HAND">88</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Jesus Ascends to Heaven</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#JESUS_ASCENDS_TO_HEAVEN">90</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">The Philippian Jailer</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#THE_PHILIPPIAN_JAILER">92</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Timothy and His Mother Eunice</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#TIMOTHY_AND_HIS_MOTHER_EUNICE">94</a></td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class="tdlsc">Christ Blessing the Children</td> + <td class="tdr"><a href="#CHRIST_BLESSING_THE_CHILDREN">96</a></td> + </tr> +</table> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_WISE_MENS_VISIT" id="THE_WISE_MENS_VISIT"></a><hr /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/header.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/header.jpg" width="500" height="266" alt="Illustration at the top of Page 1" /></a><br /> +</div> + + +<h2>NEW TESTAMENT STORIES</h2> + +<h3>THE WISE MEN'S VISIT.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>The birth of Jesus Christ was announced by two remarkable events: the +coming of wise men from the East, and the appearance of angels to some +shepherds at Bethlehem.</p> + +<p>The wise men were probably astronomers; and in watching the stars they +had seen one that had led them to leave their own country, and take a +long journey to Jerusalem. Most likely they rode on camels, and their +journey was a tedious one. But at last they reached Jerusalem, where +they inquired saying, "Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for +we have <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span>seen His star in the East and are come to worship Him." +Tidings of these inquiries were brought to King Herod, and when he +heard them he was much troubled. He was a wicked king; and feared that +if another king had been born, he would grow up and take the crown +away. Herod was also cruel and treacherous, and while pretending to +act rightly, often did many evil things. And now he intended to +destroy the infant King, who might one day take his sceptre away.</p> + +<p>So he first sent for the learned men of the Jews, the chief priests +and scribes, and demanded of them where Christ should be born; and +when they had replied that it was to be in Bethlehem, he secretly +called the wise men before him, and inquired of them what time the +star appeared. After getting the information he needed, he dismissed +the wise men, bidding them to go to Bethlehem "and search diligently +for the young child; and when ye have found Him," said Herod, "bring +me word again, that I may come and worship Him also."</p> + +<p>So the wise men left King Herod and Jerusalem, and journeyed onward +towards Bethlehem; and the star which they had seen in the East went +before them, till it came and stood over where the young child lay. +And when they saw the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy, for +they knew they had found Him whom they had come so far to seek.</p> + +<p>But the wise men did not bring Herod word where Jesus was; and he was +so angry that shortly afterwards he sent his soldiers, and slew all +the children under two years of age that were in Bethlehem and its +neighbourhood. He thought by so doing to kill Jesus among them, but +God prevented him from doing so.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-01.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-01.jpg" width="500" height="644" alt="THE WISE MEN BEFORE THE KING." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE WISE MEN BEFORE THE KING.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_ANGELS_TIDINGS" id="THE_ANGELS_TIDINGS"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE ANGEL'S TIDINGS.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>It was night. In the fields near Bethlehem a company of shepherds kept +watch over their flocks. Probably they were holy men, and often +thought of God in the stillness of the early morn. And now they may +have been thinking of the coming of the promised Messiah.</p> + +<p>While watching their flocks, the angel of the Lord came to these +shepherds, and a dazzling light shone round about them. They were much +afraid; but the angel said, "Fear not; for behold I bring you good +tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is +born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the +Lord." And suddenly there was with the angel a great multitude of the +heavenly host praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, +and on earth peace, good will toward men."</p> + +<p>When the angels had departed, the shepherds returned to Bethlehem; and +there, in a stable, they found the infant Jesus, lying in a manger, +watched over and cared for by His mother Mary and Joseph. And so great +was the surprise and joy of the shepherds that they went out and told +all they met of the wondrous things which they had seen.</p> + +<p>Shortly after the visit of the shepherds, the wise men from the East +reached Bethlehem, and in a house they found Joseph, and Mary, and +Jesus. Then they fell down and worshipped Jesus, opening the treasures +they had brought, and offering Him precious gifts, gold and +frankincense and myrrh. But God warned them not to go back to Herod, +to tell him where the new-born King of the Jews was, and they returned +to their own country another way.</p> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-02.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-02.jpg" width="500" height="630" alt="THE SHEPHERDS WORSHIPPING THE INFANT JESUS." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE SHEPHERDS WORSHIPPING THE INFANT JESUS.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="JESUS_IN_THE_TEMPLE" id="JESUS_IN_THE_TEMPLE"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span><br /> +<h3>JESUS IN THE TEMPLE.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>When Jesus was twelve years of age, His parents took Him with them to +Jerusalem to the feast of the Passover. Great numbers journeyed from +different parts to keep this feast; and travelled in companies or +caravans, the women and old men riding on asses or mules, and the rest +going on foot. Thus Joseph and Mary, with Jesus, left Nazareth, and +with many others journeyed to Jerusalem, where they kept the Passover.</p> + +<p>When the feast was ended, as they returned homewards, Joseph and Mary +discovered that Jesus was missing; but supposing Him to have been +somewhere among the company, they continued their first day's short +journey. When, however, evening came, and the caravan halted, and +Jesus was nowhere to be found, His parents sorrowfully returned to +Jerusalem seeking Him. At last, on the third day, they went to the +Temple, and found Jesus sitting in the midst of the aged and learned +Jewish doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions. "And all +that heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers."</p> + +<p>His parents were amazed when they saw Jesus in such company. But Mary, +while she rejoiced at finding Him, gently said, "Son, why hast Thou +thus dealt with us? Behold Thy father and I have sought Thee +sorrowing." Jesus replied, "How is it that ye sought Me? Wist ye not +that I must be about My Father's business?"</p> + +<p>Jesus was the Son of God, and doing God's work was being about His +Father's business. Years afterwards He said, "I came not to do Mine +own will, but the will of Him that sent Me."</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-03.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-03.jpg" width="500" height="689" alt=""SON, WHY HAST THOU THUS DEALT WITH US?"" /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">"SON, WHY HAST THOU THUS DEALT WITH US?"</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_WONDERFUL_DRAUGHT_OF_FISHES" id="THE_WONDERFUL_DRAUGHT_OF_FISHES"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE WONDERFUL DRAUGHT OF FISHES<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>One day, as the crowds pressed round Him to hear the Word of God, +Jesus came to the Lake of Gennesaret and saw two boats drawn up on the +shore. Now one of these belonged to a man named Simon Peter, who was +at the water's edge washing his nets. Jesus entered into this boat and +asked Simon to push it off from the land a little. Then He sat down +and taught the people from the boat. And when He had done speaking to +them He said to Simon, "Launch out into the deep, and let down your +nets for a draught of fishes." Simon, answering Him, said, "Master, we +have toiled all through the night and have taken nothing, but as you +wish it I will let down the net again." And they let down the net into +the sea, but it enclosed so great a multitude of fishes that they +could not draw them up; and the net brake. Then Simon beckoned to his +partners, James and John, who were in the other boat, that they should +come and help them. And they came and filled both boats with the +fishes, so that they began to sink.</p> + +<p>When Simon Peter saw it he fell down before Jesus, saying, "Depart +from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." For he and all that were with +him were astonished at the marvellous draught of fishes which they had +taken. And Jesus said unto Simon, "Fear not, Simon Peter; from +henceforth thou shalt be a fisher of men." Meaning that he was to go +about winning souls for God, instead of being a fisherman.</p> + +<p>And when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all they +had and followed Christ.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-04.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-04.jpg" width="500" height="652" alt="THE WONDERFUL DRAUGHT OF FISHES." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE WONDERFUL DRAUGHT OF FISHES.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_HOUSE_BUILT_UPON_THE_SAND" id="THE_HOUSE_BUILT_UPON_THE_SAND"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE HOUSE BUILT UPON THE SAND.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>What a foolish man the builder of the house shown in our picture must +have been! Of course, when the wind blew and the waves dashed against +his house, it would fall. Look how the sea has washed the foundation +away, and how the roof is falling in! And the people; see how they are +fleeing to save their lives! And all this calamity because he built +his house upon the sand. But the other house, shown in the distance: +how firmly that stands! What a bold front it offers to the waves, and +how safely it resists the fury of the storm. Its foundations are sure, +because they rest upon the solid rock.</p> + +<p>Jesus had been teaching the people. He had taught them many wonderful +truths, which you will find written in the fifth, sixth, and seventh +chapters of Matthew; and in closing He said, "Whosoever heareth these +sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man who +built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods +came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not, +for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these +sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish +man which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and +the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it +fell, and great was the fall of it." The lesson Jesus sought to +impress upon the people by this parable was, that it is not enough +simply to hear what He says. Many will do that; but it is only those +who remember Christ's commandments and keep them, whose work will +stand when the time of trial comes.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-05.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-05.jpg" width="500" height="664" alt="THE HOUSE BUILT UPON THE SAND." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE HOUSE BUILT UPON THE SAND.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="HEALING_THE_CENTURIONS_SERVANT" id="HEALING_THE_CENTURIONS_SERVANT"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span><br /> +<h3>HEALING THE CENTURION'S SERVANT.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Jesus entered into Capernaum, a city by the Sea of Galilee, and while +He was there a certain Centurion, or captain in the Roman army, had a +favourite servant who was sick of the palsy and in great pain. When +this Roman heard of Jesus, he sought the Jewish elders and implored +them to go to Christ and beseech Him to cure the sick servant. And the +elders came to Jesus and besought Him urgently to do this miracle, +saying, "He is a worthy man, this Roman captain, for he loveth the +Jews and hath built us a synagogue."</p> + +<p>So Jesus went with them, and when He had come near the house, the +Centurion himself came to meet Him, saying, "Lord, trouble not +Thyself, for I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter my house. Speak +the word only, and this sickness shall depart and my servant be made +whole. For I am a man under authority of the Emperor, having many +soldiers under me, and I say unto this man, 'Go,' and he goeth; to +another, 'Come,' and he cometh, and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he +doeth it. Wherefore, if I can so readily command my servants to do my +bidding, I know that if Thou biddest this sickness to go out from my +servant it will surely go."</p> + +<p>Jesus marvelled at the man's words, and said to His followers, +"Verily, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in +all Israel." And to the Centurion He said, "Go thy way; and as thou +hast believed, so be it done unto thee." And his servant was healed in +the selfsame hour, and when those that had been sent returned to the +house, they found the servant whole that had been sick.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-06.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-06.jpg" width="500" height="666" alt="CHRIST AND THE CENTURION." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">CHRIST AND THE CENTURION.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="ANOINTING_THE_FEET_OF_JESUS" id="ANOINTING_THE_FEET_OF_JESUS"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span><br /> +<h3>ANOINTING THE FEET OF JESUS.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>On one occasion, a proud Pharisee, whose name was Simon, invited Jesus +to eat with him. But the invitation was a cold one. There was no kiss +of welcome, no water to bathe His hot and dusty feet, no perfumed +ointment for His head: nothing but a bare admission to a vacant place +at the table was granted to Jesus. But there He reclined, His left +elbow resting on a cushion, and His feet projecting beyond the edge of +the couch.</p> + +<p>Now it happened that a poor, sinful woman was passing, who, +discovering that Jesus was in the house, timidly entered, and stood +behind Him. She had an alabaster box of ointment, and, as she looked +on Jesus, she wept. Her tears fell upon His feet; so, stooping down, +she tenderly wiped them away with her long hair; then she kissed the +Saviour's feet, and anointed them with the fragrant ointment. This was +done as a token of respect and love.</p> + +<p>But an evil eye had noted the kindly act; and the proud Pharisee +thought within himself, if Jesus were the prophet He professes to be, +He would certainly have known that the woman was a great sinner, and +would not have allowed her to touch Him. But Jesus came to save +sinners. He loves them, though He hates their sins. He rebuked the +haughty Simon; and showed him how he had neglected the commonest rites +of hospitality towards his guest, while this poor woman had treated +Jesus with the greatest reverence. Then Jesus said, "Her sins which +are many are forgiven, for she loved much"; and He bade her go in +peace.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-07.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-07.jpg" width="500" height="663" alt="ANOINTING THE FEET OF JESUS." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">ANOINTING THE FEET OF JESUS.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_RICH_FOOL" id="THE_RICH_FOOL"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE RICH FOOL.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>There was a certain rich man who owned much land. And his fields and +vineyards were so productive that when the time of harvest came, he +had not room enough to store his corn and fruits. So after much +thought he said, "This will I do. I will pull down my barns and build +greater ones, and there will I store all my fruits and my goods. Then +I can say to myself, 'I have great store of goods laid up, enough for +many years; now I can take mine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.'"</p> + +<p>But God said unto him, "Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be +required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast +hoarded?"</p> + +<p>Jesus says it shall be so with all those who set their minds upon +storing up riches in this world, rather than laying up treasures in +heaven by pleasing God and working in His service. Death will come +when they least expect it, and they will have to leave all their +earthly riches, and go where no treasure has been laid up for them.</p> + +<p>And He said unto His disciples, "Take no thought for your life, what +ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on; for the life +is more than meat, and the body more than raiment. For all these +things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knoweth +that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of +God; and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, for it is +the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell what ye have +and give alms; provide yourselves a treasure in the heavens that +faileth not, where no thief approacheth, or moth corrupteth."</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-08.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-08.jpg" width="500" height="665" alt="THE RICH FOOL." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE RICH FOOL.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_UNFRUITFUL_TREE" id="THE_UNFRUITFUL_TREE"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE UNFRUITFUL TREE.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came and +sought fruit thereon, but found none. Then he called to the gardener +who attended to his vineyard, and said to him, "Behold these three +years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none. Cut it +down. Why does it encumber the ground?"</p> + +<p>The gardener answered him and said, "Lord, let it alone this year +also, till I shall dig about it and manure it. And if it bear fruit +then, it is well; but if not, then, after that, thou shalt cut it +down."</p> + +<p>In this parable the vineyard means the world, and the fig-tree ungodly +people whose lives do not produce good works—do not produce fruit in +the service of God. The Lord of the vineyard, that is, God, would +destroy such people, but Christ intercedes in their behalf, that time +for repentance may be given. "He is not willing that any should +perish, but that all should come to repentance." Christ came and +sought to change men's hearts, and make their lives fruitful for God. +The warning has been given, and when the Lord of the vineyard comes +again to seek good fruit the unfruitful trees shall be destroyed.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Am I a barren tree, dear Lord?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A cumberer of the ground.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh! give me grace to fruitful be,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And in Thy work abound.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-09.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-09.jpg" width="500" height="655" alt="THE UNFRUITFUL TREE." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE UNFRUITFUL TREE.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="SOWING_THE_SEED" id="SOWING_THE_SEED"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span><br /> +<h3>SOWING THE SEED.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + + +<p>A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed some fell by the +wayside and was trodden down, and birds came and devoured it. And some +fell upon a rocky place, where there was not much soil, and as soon as +it sprang up it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And some +fell among thorns and weeds, and they sprang up with it and choked it. +But other fell on good ground, and sprang up bearing ears, some with +thirty, some sixty, some a hundred seeds.</p> + +<p>When Jesus had told this parable, His disciples asked Him to explain +it to them. He said that the seed is the Word of God. The wayside +signifies the people who hear the Word but do not understand it, and +Satan comes and takes all thought of it out of their hearts as quickly +as the birds devour the seeds. The rocky places without much earth +denote those who, when they hear the Word, receive it with great joy +and profession of faith; but it never takes deep root in their hearts, +and when they are tempted they fall away and the good seed in their +hearts is withered up. The thorns and weeds are the pleasures and +riches of this life, which root so deeply and strongly in men's hearts +that the good seed has no chance, and is soon killed off.</p> + +<p>But the good ground is the hearts of good people, who remember God's +Word and try, every day of their lives, to do as He wishes us to do, +and to live holy and useful lives. The seed falling upon their hearts +becomes strongly rooted and grows up vigorously, bearing good fruit.</p> + +<p>What shall be said of <i>your</i> heart, my young friend? Is it like the +wayside? the rocky place? the thorny ground? or like a good field that +has been well prepared for the seed?</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-10.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-10.jpg" width="500" height="669" alt="SOWING THE SEED." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">SOWING THE SEED.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_ENEMY_SOWING_TARES" id="THE_ENEMY_SOWING_TARES"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE ENEMY SOWING TARES.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>A certain man sowed good seed in his field, but in the night, whilst +men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went +his way. When the wheat-blade had sprung up and showed the ear, then +appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came to +him and said, "Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? Whence +then come these tares?"</p> + +<p>He said unto them, "An enemy hath done this." Then the servants asked, +"Shall we go, then, and gather them up?" But he said, "Nay, lest +whilst you gather up the tares, you root up the wheat with them. Let +both grow together until the harvest, and in that time I will say to +the reapers, 'Gather ye together first the tares and bind them into +bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.'"</p> + +<p>Jesus' disciples asked Him to explain this parable to them, and He +said: "The field represents the world, and He that sowed the good seed +is Christ Himself. The good seed is the Word He preached; the wheat +plants are the good people who believe in Christ and do as He teaches. +The enemy who sows the bad seed is Satan, and the tares that spring +from them are wicked people who follow the promptings of the evil one +in their hearts. The harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers +are the angels of God. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned +in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world with wicked +people. Christ shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out +of His Kingdom all things that offend and them that do evil, and shall +cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing +of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the +kingdom of their Father."</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"For the Lord our God shall come,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And shall take His harvest home;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From His field shall in that day<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All offences purge away;<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Give His angels charge at last<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In the fire the tares to cast,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But the fruitful grain to store<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In His garner evermore."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-11.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-11.jpg" width="500" height="651" alt="THE ENEMY SOWING TARES." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE ENEMY SOWING TARES.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_PARABLE_OF_THE_LEAVEN" id="THE_PARABLE_OF_THE_LEAVEN"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Christ said that the kingdom of heaven could be likened unto leaven +(or yeast), which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, +till the whole was leavened.</p> + +<p>Now, this leaven, or yeast, is composed of tiny little plants, each +one so small that it cannot possibly be seen by the sharpest eye +except through a very powerful microscope. So small are they that it +would require three thousand of them, placed close together, side by +side, to make up the length of one inch. Like all other plants they +require food, and they find this in the dough they are placed in. You +know that all things are made up of atoms of chemical substances so +wonderfully blended together that only the chemist can separate them, +and when he has separated them they appear very different. Well, in +flour there are certain things so blended, and the yeast-plant takes +one kind of substance as food, and in doing so sets free another +substance called carbonic acid gas. This gas bubbles up and makes the +heavy dough spongy and light. If it were not for these tiny bubbles of +gas your bread would be as heavy and close as suet pudding. This is +the reason why yeast is put into dough for making bread or cake. One +of the most remarkable things about this yeast is, that when it gets +into any substance that contains its food, it at once begins to give +off buds, which, in a few moments, become full-sized and break away. +So rapid is this increase, that if a single yeast-plant were to be put +into a great mass of dough it would very quickly leaven the whole +mass.</p> + +<p>And so it is with the love of God. When once it gets into our hearts +it will keep on growing until all our life is filled with it, and we +try in all things to please Him.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-12.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-12.jpg" width="500" height="654" alt="THE PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE PARABLE OF THE LEAVEN.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="SEEKING_FOR_HIDDEN_TREASURE" id="SEEKING_FOR_HIDDEN_TREASURE"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span><br /> +<h3>SEEKING FOR HIDDEN TREASURE.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>The people of Canaan, both in ancient and modern days, have made a +practice of hiding their treasures. This they have done to secure them +in times of danger. When invaders flocked into the land, the people +buried their gold and jewels, and fled. And often they died, or were +overtaken by their enemies and killed, so that they were unable to +return and regain their buried riches. Earthquakes also have taken +place, destroying towns and villages, and burying all the riches in +them beneath their ruins. Thus there is much hidden treasure in +Canaan, and numbers of the inhabitants spend their time seeking +diligently and anxiously for it.</p> + +<p>Our artist shows us a man who is thus seeking. He has heard that in +old times a great treasure was hidden in a particular field. So he +digs away patiently in various places until, at last, he finds out +that what he heard is quite true. He is sure the treasure is <i>there</i>; +and his desire is to become possessed of the field, so that he may +obtain the buried riches. He is willing to sell all that he has if by +so doing he may buy that field. So he hastens home, and gathers +together the whole of his property and sells it. Then he takes his +money to the man who has the land for sale, and buys the field of him. +Thus he becomes possessed of the treasure he has sought after. Jesus +says that the Kingdom of Heaven is like that treasure. It is so +precious, that when a man finds out its value, and knows how it can be +obtained, he will be willing to give up everything he has for it—all +his companions, pleasures, sins, riches—indeed everything he +possesses, in order to gain this great treasure.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-13.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-13.jpg" width="500" height="661" alt="THE TREASURE HID IN A FIELD." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE TREASURE HID IN A FIELD.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_PEARL_OF_GREAT_PRICE" id="THE_PEARL_OF_GREAT_PRICE"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Very similar to the parable of the Hidden Treasure is this one of the +merchant seeking goodly pearls.</p> + +<p>"The kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchantman seeking goodly +pearls, who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold +all that he had, and bought it."</p> + +<p>In the picture we see the merchant on the sea-shore, where he has +waited for the landing of these sailors from another country. He asks +them if they have any goodly pearls for sale, and one man opens his +box and takes out this "pearl of great price." It is just the kind of +pearl the merchant had been seeking, so he quickly produces his two +bags of gold and offers them to the man for his pearl. But the man +smiles. "What! part with so large and so beautiful a pearl for two +bags of gold?" He could not think of it. The pearl is again placed in +its box, and the merchant has to go away disappointed. But the longing +to have that pearl is too great. A thought occurs to him. He will go +home and sell all that is his, and the money he shall thus obtain, +added to his two bags of gold, will surely buy the precious jewel.</p> + +<p>And so it is with men when they seek that pearl of pearls, the +forgiveness of God. They will give up a great deal in order to obtain +it, but they find that God requires them to give up everything that is +sinful or worldly. And if their hearts are really set upon obtaining +it, they will do as this merchant did, and part with everything that +would hinder them from coming to God, or walking in the way that leads +to heaven.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-14.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-14.jpg" width="500" height="661" alt="THE MERCHANT SEEKING GOODLY PEARLS." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE MERCHANT SEEKING GOODLY PEARLS.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_PARABLE_OF_THE_NET" id="THE_PARABLE_OF_THE_NET"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE PARABLE OF THE NET.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>These fishermen have just returned to shore with their net full of +fish. Now this is not a casting-net, which is thrown out from the boat +and drawn in again, but a drag-net which is of great length, and which +is drawn constantly through the water until it is well filled with +fish. It is then hauled up to the shore, and the fishermen sit around +it, and take out the fish. Many of these, of course, are unfit for +food, or not liked. They cast those into the sea again, but the good +fish which they can sell for food are carefully placed in vessels +brought for the purpose.</p> + +<p>Christ said, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast +into the sea, and gathered every kind (of fish): which, when it was +full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into +vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the +world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among +the just, and cast them into the furnace of fire. There shall be +wailing and gnashing of teeth."</p> + +<p>At another time Jesus taught His disciples the same truth; when He +spake of His coming and of the gathering of all nations before Him, +the good entering into eternal life, but the wicked being cast away. +"When the Son of Man shall come in His glory," said Jesus, "and all +the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His +glory. And before Him shall be gathered all nations; and He shall +separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from +the goats. And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats +on the left."</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-15.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-15.jpg" width="500" height="652" alt="THE PARABLE OF THE NET." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE PARABLE OF THE NET.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_MAN_POSSESSED_BY_DEVILS" id="THE_MAN_POSSESSED_BY_DEVILS"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE MAN POSSESSED BY DEVILS.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>One day Jesus came with His disciples in a boat to the country of the +Gadarenes, near Galilee. They landed near the tombs, that is, caverns +cut into the rock, where the dead were buried. And there met them a +man, who, for a long time, had been possessed by many unclean spirits. +He lived in the tombs and wore no clothes. He had been so fierce and +wild that his friends had been obliged to chain him up, but he had +burst his fetters, and the devils had driven him out to the tombs.</p> + +<p>Jesus bade the unclean spirits to come out of the man. And when the +man caught sight of Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before Him, +saying, "What have I to do with Thee, Jesus, Thou Son of God most +high? I beseech Thee to torment me not."</p> + +<p>And Jesus asked him his name. And he said, "Legion," because many +devils were in him. They besought Jesus that He would not make them go +into the sea, but would let them enter into a herd of swine that were +feeding on the cliffs close by. He suffered them to do so, and the +devils went out of the man and entered into the pigs, and the whole +herd ran violently over the cliff into the water and were drowned. And +when the herdsmen saw what was done, they fled into the city and told +all the people. Then the people came out to Jesus, and they saw the +man that had been possessed, clothed and in his right mind, sitting at +the feet of Jesus. And they that had seen it told them by what means +the man had been healed, and they were afraid. The man out of whom the +devils had departed, besought Him that he might stay with Jesus, but +He sent him away, saying, "Return to thy house, and show what great +things God hath done unto thee." And he went his way and published +throughout the city what great things Jesus had done unto him.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-16.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-16.jpg" width="500" height="650" alt="THE MAN POSSESSED BY DEVILS." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE MAN POSSESSED BY DEVILS.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="CURING_THE_INCURABLE" id="CURING_THE_INCURABLE"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span><br /> +<h3>CURING THE INCURABLE.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Jesus went into Capernaum, followed by a great crowd of people, and +among them was a woman who for twelve years had suffered from a +disease which no doctor could cure, though she had consulted many, and +spent all her wealth upon them. She had said within herself, "If I +could but touch His garment I should be made well." So she pressed +through the crowd, and put out her arm and touched the hem of His +garment, and immediately she was made well.</p> + +<p>Then Jesus, turning round to His disciples, said, "Who touched Me?" +But they all denied that they had done so, and Peter and they that +were with him said, "Master, the multitude throng Thee and press Thee, +and yet Thou sayest, Who touched Me!" They were surprised that Jesus +should make such an enquiry, seeing that so many were crowding round +Him, and pressing against Him. But Jesus said, "Somebody hath touched +Me, for I perceive that healing virtue hath gone out of Me."</p> + +<p>When the woman saw that Jesus knew what she had done, and that she +could not be hidden in the crowd, she came trembling, and, falling +down before Him, she declared unto Him before all the people why she +had touched Him, and how she had been healed at once. And He said unto +her, "Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. Go +in peace, and be healed of thy illness."</p> + +<p>Jesus wishes us to trust in Him. We suffer from a terrible +disease—the disease of sin, which no doctor can cure; but Jesus will +heal us and take away our sin if we trust in Him.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-17.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-17.jpg" width="500" height="648" alt="CURED BY TOUCHING HIS GARMENT." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">CURED BY TOUCHING HIS GARMENT.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="JAIRUS_DAUGHTER" id="JAIRUS_DAUGHTER"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span><br /> +<h3>JAIRUS' DAUGHTER.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Jairus was one of the rulers of the Jewish church, or synagogue, and +he had a daughter who had been very ill and was now at the point of +death. She was an only daughter, and was twelve years of age. So +hearing that Jesus was near, he came to Him, and, falling down before +Him, implored Jesus to come and see her.</p> + +<p>And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did His disciples. Soon +there came running to them a messenger from the ruler's house, who +said to Jairus, "Thy daughter is already dead; do not trouble the +master." But when Jesus heard it He turned to Jairus and said, "Fear +not. Only believe, and she shall be restored to life."</p> + +<p>When they came to the ruler's house they saw the minstrels and many +people who were making much noise and lamentation for the dead girl, +as was the custom. Jesus said unto them, "Make way; weep not, for the +maiden is not dead, but sleepeth;" but they laughed Him to scorn, +knowing that she was dead. And He put them all out of the room, all +but Peter and James and John, and the mother and father of the maiden. +Then He took her by the hand, and called to her, saying, "Maid, arise." +And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway; and He commanded +her parents to give her food.</p> + +<p>Her parents were astonished when they saw their daughter raised to +life and able to eat, but Jesus charged them that they should tell no +man what He had done. But the fame of the miracle He had wrought went +abroad unto all that land.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-18.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-18.jpg" width="500" height="659" alt="JAIRUS' DAUGHTER." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">JAIRUS' DAUGHTER.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_TWO_BLIND_MEN" id="THE_TWO_BLIND_MEN"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE TWO BLIND MEN.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>When Jesus had left the house of the ruler Jairus, there followed Him +two blind men. They called out to Him, "Thou Son of David, have mercy +upon us."</p> + +<p>Then Jesus looked at them, and asked if they really believed that He +had power to cure them and give them back their sight. And they said +unto Him, "Yea, Lord." Then He touched their eyes, and said unto them, +"According to your faith, so be it unto you." And immediately they +opened their eyes and were able to see. Jesus charged them to let no +man know what He had done. But when they were departed they spread His +fame abroad over all that country.</p> + +<p>Another time Christ and His disciples were coming away from Jericho, +followed by a large crowd of people. And there was sitting by the +wayside a blind beggar, Bartimeus by name; and when he heard the noise +of the multitude, he asked what it meant. They answered him, "Jesus of +Nazareth passeth by." Then he cried out in a loud voice, saying, +"Jesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me." The people tried to keep +him from calling out, but he would not be quiet. He was determined +that Christ should see him. And Jesus stood still, and commanded them +to call him. So he arose and cast away his outer garment and came to +Jesus. When Jesus asked what he would have done to him, he answered, +"Lord, that I might receive my sight." And Jesus said unto him, "Go +thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole." And he received his sight at +once, and followed Jesus, praising Him.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-19.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-19.jpg" width="500" height="661" alt="THE TWO BLIND MEN." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE TWO BLIND MEN.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="FEEDING_FIVE_THOUSAND" id="FEEDING_FIVE_THOUSAND"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span><br /> +<h3>FEEDING FIVE THOUSAND.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>One day Jesus went on board a ship and sailed to another part of the +coast, where He and His disciples might have rest. For the people in +the cities crowded them so closely that they did not even have time to +eat. They landed, and went into a desert place; but the people had +seen them depart, and marked which way the ship sailed. Then they all +flocked out of the cities and came on foot to the place where Jesus +was. When Jesus saw what a great number of people had come, He had +compassion on them, and spoke to them, and healed their sick. But in +the evening the disciples came to Jesus and said, "This is a desert +place, and the day has gone; send the people away, that they may go +into the villages and buy food."</p> + +<p>Jesus was too kind to send them away hungry like that. He said, "They +need not depart; give ye them food to eat." But they said to Him, "We +have here but five loaves and two fishes, which we have just purchased +of a lad." He said, "Bring them to Me." Then He told the people to sit +down on the grass; and He took the five loaves and the two fishes, +and, looking up to heaven, blessed them and broke them into pieces. +The disciples carried the bread and fish to the people and they all +ate and had plenty, although there were about five thousand men, +besides women and children. And yet, when the disciples took up the +fragments that were left, these fragments filled twelve baskets. How +kind was Jesus! He not only taught the people and healed their sick, +but He fed them when out in the desert place and hungry.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-20.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-20.jpg" width="500" height="660" alt="FEEDING FIVE THOUSAND." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">FEEDING FIVE THOUSAND.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="CHRIST_WALKING_ON_THE_SEA" id="CHRIST_WALKING_ON_THE_SEA"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span><br /> +<h3>CHRIST WALKING ON THE SEA.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>When the people had seen the miracle that Christ did in feeding so +many with so few loaves, they felt sure that He was one of the old +prophets that had come again, and they would have taken Him by force +to make Him king. So He sent His disciples by boat towards Capernaum, +and He went, alone, up into a mountain to pray.</p> + +<p>When it was dark, the disciples found themselves alone upon the sea, +opposed to strong winds, which tossed the boat upon high waves. Then +Jesus went out to them, walking upon the waves; but when the disciples +saw Him they thought it was a spirit, and cried out with fear. But +Jesus said, "Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid." Peter answered +Him, saying, "Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee on the +water." And He said, "Come," and Peter stepped over the boat's side +and walked on the water towards Christ. But when he saw the angry +waves around him and heard the roaring of the winds, Peter was afraid +and began to sink. He cried out, "Lord, save me." And Jesus, +stretching out His hand, caught him, and said, "O thou of little +faith, why didst thou fear?"</p> + +<p>When Jesus and Peter had got into the boat, the wind dropped, the sea +became calm and the waves still, and immediately they were at the +place where they wanted to land. Then they worshipped him, saying, +"Truly Thou art the Son of God." And they came into the land of +Gennesaret, where the people knew Him and brought to Him all that were +sick, or blind, or lame, that they might touch His garment and be made +well.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-21.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-21.jpg" width="500" height="657" alt="CHRIST WALKING ON THE SEA." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">CHRIST WALKING ON THE SEA.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_WOMAN_OF_CANAAN" id="THE_WOMAN_OF_CANAAN"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE WOMAN OF CANAAN.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Jesus came unto the borders of Tyre and Sidon, where the people were +not Jews, but Gentiles. And there came to Him a woman of Canaan, who +cried out to Him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Thou son of +David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil." She besought Him +to cast out this evil spirit from her daughter. But He answered not a +word, and His disciples counselled Him to send her away. Then He told +her He was not sent unto the Gentiles, but unto the lost sheep of +Israel; meaning the Jews. This was said to try her faith. Then she +came and worshipped Him, saying, "Lord, help me." But He said, "It is +not meet to take the children's food and to cast it to dogs;" meaning +that His help was due rather to the Jews than to the Gentiles. And she +said, "Truth, Lord, yet the dogs sometimes eat of the crumbs which +fall from their masters' table;" meaning that, though she was a +Gentile, she believed in Him as the Son of God.</p> + +<p>Then Jesus answered, and said unto her, "O woman, great is thy faith; +be it unto thee even as thou desirest. Go thy way; the devil has gone +out of thy daughter." And when she was come to her house she found her +daughter made whole and laid upon the bed.</p> + +<p>Jesus, with His knowledge of our hearts, knew the faith this poor +woman had, and tried it so that it might shine the brighter. Then He +granted her the blessing she had asked Him for; and how she must have +rejoiced when she reached home and found her daughter quite well and +restored to her right mind.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-22.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-22.jpg" width="500" height="658" alt="THE WOMAN OF CANAAN." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE WOMAN OF CANAAN.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="PETER_AND_THE_TRIBUTE-MONEY" id="PETER_AND_THE_TRIBUTE-MONEY"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span><br /> +<h3>PETER AND THE TRIBUTE-MONEY.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>It was a part of the Jewish law that all strangers passing among the +Jews should pay to the priests of the Temple an offering to the Lord, +or tribute-money as it was called.</p> + +<p>Soon after our Lord's Transfiguration He came to Capernaum, together +with His disciples. When they had entered the city, there came to them +the priests who usually collected this tribute-money, and they said +unto Peter, "Doth not thy Master pay tribute?" And he answered, "Yes." +But when they had come to the house, Jesus said to Peter, "What +thinkest thou, Simon? Of whom do they take tribute; of their own +people or of strangers?" And Peter answered Him, "Of strangers."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto him, "Then their own people are free; but lest we +should offend them by not paying, go thou down to the sea, and cast in +thy hook and line, and take up the first fish that taketh the hook +into his mouth. And when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a +piece of money there. Take it and give it unto the priests as tribute +for Me and for thee." And Peter went down to the sea and cast in his +line, and took a big fish. And when he had opened its mouth he found +the piece of silver, and took it to the men in payment of the tribute.</p> + +<p>This tribute was collected to pay the expenses of the Temple worship. +Jesus sought to show that, as He himself was the Son of God, the King +for whose service the tribute was paid, He might justly be exempted +from paying it; yet to save giving offence He miraculously provided +the piece of money to pay tribute for Himself and Peter.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-23.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-23.jpg" width="500" height="651" alt="PETER AND THE TRIBUTE-MONEY." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">PETER AND THE TRIBUTE-MONEY.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_GOOD_SAMARITAN" id="THE_GOOD_SAMARITAN"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE GOOD SAMARITAN.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>As Jesus was talking to His disciples, a certain lawyer stood up and +asked, "Who is my neighbour?" And Jesus answered by telling them this +story:—</p> + +<p>A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among +thieves, who robbed him, stripped him of his clothes, and, wounding +him, left him on the road half dead. By chance there came a priest +that way, and, as a teacher of religion to men, he should have stopped +to help the poor man. Instead of this, he pretended not to see, and +passed by on the other side of the road. Then there came by a Levite, +who also, as an official of the church, should have given help. But he +merely came and looked on the injured man, and passed on the other +side as the priest had done.</p> + +<p>Afterwards there came by a Samaritan, and, when he caught sight of the +wounded Jew, he went over to him and was very sorry for him. Now the +Jews hated the Samaritans, and were their enemies, so that it would +not have been surprising if he, also, had done as the priest and the +Levite did. But, no! Though it was his enemy, he could not pass him by +and leave him on the road, perhaps to die. He examined his wounds and +bound them up; doing all that he could to soothe them. Then he lifted +him carefully on his own beast, and brought him to the nearest inn, +and took care of him through the night. The next day, when the +Samaritan departed, he paid the man who kept the inn, and said to him, +"Take care of this poor man until he is well, and whatever it may cost +for his lodging and food, that I will pay thee when I come again."</p> + +<p>"Which of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell +among thieves?" The lawyer answered, "He that showed mercy unto him." +Then said Jesus, "Go, and do thou likewise."</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-24.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-24.jpg" width="500" height="698" alt="THE GOOD SAMARITAN." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE GOOD SAMARITAN.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="IMPORTUNITY_REWARDED" id="IMPORTUNITY_REWARDED"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span><br /> +<h3>IMPORTUNITY REWARDED.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>One day Jesus was asked by His disciples to teach them to pray. So +Jesus taught them the prayer we all know so well, beginning with "Our +Father, which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name." But Jesus told +them it was not enough to pray: they must not get tired of praying, +even if they failed to receive quickly the things they asked for. They +must keep on asking, until God in His own time and manner should grant +them what He saw to be good. This great lesson Jesus taught them by +the following parable:—</p> + +<p>"Which of you shall have a friend," said Jesus, "and shall go unto him +at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves, for a +friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set +before him? And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not, +the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot +rise and give thee. I say unto you," said Jesus, "though he will not +rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his +importunity (continued asking) he will rise and give him as many as he +needeth."</p> + +<p>Then Jesus told His disciples, and He tells us too, "Ask, and it shall +be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened +unto you." For, said He, "every one that asketh receiveth; and he that +seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." If we +ask for those things that God sees to be good for us, we may certainly +expect to receive them. Let us ask God to keep us every day; and to +give us such things as He knows will be for our good.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-25.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-25.jpg" width="500" height="661" alt="IMPORTUNITY REWARDED." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">IMPORTUNITY REWARDED.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_UNMERCIFUL_SERVANT" id="THE_UNMERCIFUL_SERVANT"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>A certain King took account of his servants and began to reckon what +they owed him. And there was brought to him one that owed him nearly +<i>ten million dollars</i>. But as he had not the money to pay, the King +commanded that he should be sold, together with his wife and children +and everything that he had, that payment might be made. Then the +servant fell down before the King and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, +have patience with me, and I will pay thee all." Then the King had +compassion on his servant, and loosed him, and forgave him his debt.</p> + +<p>But when that servant had gone out from the presence of the King, he +found a fellow-servant who owed him a little over <i>fifteen dollars</i>, +and he laid hands on him and seized him by the throat, saying, "Pay me +that which thou owest." And his fellow-servant fell down at his feet +and implored him, saying, "Have patience with me, and I will pay thee +all." And he would not have patience, but cast his fellow-servant into +prison till he should pay the debt.</p> + +<p>When his other fellow-servants saw what had been done they were very +sorry, and came to their King to tell him all about it. Then the King +called the unmerciful servant to him, and said, "O thou wicked +servant; I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me. +Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, +even as I had pity on thee?"</p> + +<p>And the King was wroth, and delivered him up to the tormentors, till +he should pay all that was due unto him.</p> + +<p>So likewise, says Christ, shall our Heavenly Father do also unto us if +from our hearts we forgive not every one that trespasses against us.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Forgive us our trespasses, <i>as we forgive them that trespass +against us</i>."</p></div> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-26.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-26.jpg" width="500" height="655" alt="THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_GOOD_SHEPHERD" id="THE_GOOD_SHEPHERD"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE GOOD SHEPHERD.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>In one of His beautiful parables, Jesus compares Himself to a +shepherd. "I am the good shepherd," says He, "the good shepherd giveth +his life for the sheep." And Jesus tells how the hired servant who +cares for nothing but his wages, runs away when the wolf comes; but +how the faithful shepherd, when robbers threaten his flock, or wild +beasts attack them, defends his sheep bravely, often laying down his +life for their sake. Jesus also speaks of how the shepherd knows his +sheep by name; and how, when he goes before them, they will follow +him, because they know his voice, but that they will not follow +strangers. And the Bible, speaking of Jesus Himself, says, "He shall +carry the lambs in His bosom," or His arms, like the kind shepherd is +doing in our picture.</p> + +<p>Now, why does Jesus call Himself the "good shepherd," and the Bible +speak of Him as carrying the little lambs? Is it not because He loves +us; because He knows each one of us; because He gave His life for us +when He died on the cross, and has gone to heaven showing us the way +thither; because He calls us to follow Him; and because He is so +willing to lead even the tiny ones, and shield them from harm, just +like the good shepherd carries the poor wee lamb? But Jesus asks one +thing of us in return for all His kindness and care, and that one +thing is our love. Are we giving Him our love now? Are we asking Him +to lead us, and keep us safe from harm? May we seek to follow Him and +to know His voice.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-27.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-27.jpg" width="500" height="664" alt="THE SHEPHERD AND THE LAMBS." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE SHEPHERD AND THE LAMBS.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_LOST_PIECE_OF_MONEY" id="THE_LOST_PIECE_OF_MONEY"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE LOST PIECE OF MONEY.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Jesus had been preaching to a crowd of publicans and sinners. The +publicans of those days were the collectors of taxes for the Romans, +and it was a constant complaint against them that they exacted more +from the people than they had any right to do. So they were looked +upon as wicked men, although they were not all bad. Now the Scribes +and Pharisees, who made a great show of religion, so far as outward +forms went, were greatly shocked at seeing Christ sitting with +publicans, and said, "This man receiveth sinners and eateth with +them."</p> + +<p>Then Jesus asked them, "What man of you, if he has a hundred sheep, +and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the +wilderness, and go after the lost one, until he has found it? And when +he has found it, he lays it upon his shoulders and takes it home, +rejoicing; and calls together his friends and neighbours, saying unto +them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.'</p> + +<p>"I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner +that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need +no repentance.</p> + +<p>"Again, what woman if she has ten pieces of money, and loses one, does +not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she +finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends +and neighbours, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece +of money which I had lost.'</p> + +<p>"Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of God's +angels over one sinner that repenteth."</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-28.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-28.jpg" width="500" height="659" alt="THE LOST PIECE OF MONEY." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE LOST PIECE OF MONEY.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_PRODIGAL_SON" id="THE_PRODIGAL_SON"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE PRODIGAL SON.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>A certain man had two sons, and the younger of them said to his +father, "Father, give me the portion of thy wealth that would fall to +me at thy death." He did so, and a few days after the younger son +gathered all his wealth together and journeyed into a far country. +There he met with evil companions, and wasted his money in riotous +living. When he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that +land, and he began to be in want of bread to eat. So he went and hired +himself to a man of that country, who sent him into the fields to feed +his pigs. And he was so hungry that he would have been glad to have +eaten the coarse food such as the swine eat; but no one gave it to +him.</p> + +<p>His sufferings brought him to his senses, and he thought how foolish +he had been, for he remembered that his father's servants had food +enough and to spare, whilst his father's son was perishing with +hunger. He said, "I will leave this land and go to my father and tell +him how I have sinned against heaven and him. I will tell him I am no +longer worthy to be called his son, and will implore him to make me +one of his hired servants." And he arose and went towards his father's +house, but when he was still a great way off, his father saw him, and +was sorry for him, and ran and embraced him. Then he told his father +how he had sinned and had lost his title to be called the old man's +son, but the father was so glad to have his son come back repentant, +that he told his servants to bring the best clothing and a ring to put +on his son. And he made a great feast, and they were merry, for he +said, "This <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span>is +my son that was as one dead to me and is now alive +again; he was lost and is found."</p> + +<p>But the elder son was very angry, and would not go in to the feast, +but said to his father, "Lo, these many years have I served thee, and +never offended or disobeyed thee, and thou hast never made a feast for +me and my friends; but now this thy other son has come back, that has +wasted thy wealth in riotous living, thou hast made a great feast for +him." And his father said, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all I have +is thine. It is right that we should make merry and be glad, for this +thy brother was as one dead to us and is alive again; he was lost and +is found."</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-29.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-29.jpg" width="500" height="667" alt="THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="PETERS_WIFES_MOTHER_CURED" id="PETERS_WIFES_MOTHER_CURED"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h3>PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER CURED.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + + +<p>After Jesus had left the Centurion He went to the house of his +disciple Peter, and there He saw Peter's wife's mother, laid on a bed, +sick with fever. And He took her by the hand and lifted her up. The +fever left her and she was cured. She rose up from her bed and +attended upon them.</p> + +<p>That evening, when the sun was setting, they brought to Jesus all +those that were ill, and many that were possessed with devils. And He +cast out the devils by His word, and healed all those that were sick.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"At even, ere the sun had set,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The sick, O Lord, around Thee lay;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh, in what divers pains they met,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh, with what joy they went away!"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-30.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-30.jpg" width="500" height="650" alt="PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">PETER'S WIFE'S MOTHER.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_UNJUST_STEWARD" id="THE_UNJUST_STEWARD"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE UNJUST STEWARD.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">See where the steward, worldly wise,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With wicked cunning in his eyes,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shows his lord's debtors how to cheat<br /></span> +<span class="i0">His master of his oil and wheat.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"A hundred measures dost thou owe<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of oil? My friend, 'tis scarcely so:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Here, take thy bill and quick indite<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fifty: that puts the matter right."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"A hundred measures is <i>thy</i> debt<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of corn? My friend, thou dost forget:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Here, take thy bill, and write fourscore;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Surely thou owest nothing more."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Thus wickedly he would provide<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Houses in which he might abide,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When for his former acts unjust<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He from his stewardship was thrust.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And when his master heard, he smiled,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Though of his goods he was beguiled:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor did he e'en forbear to praise<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The crafty foresight of his ways.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The children of this world, alas!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The children of the light surpass,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In planning methods to provide<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For ills from which they cannot hide.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And so our Master bids us take<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The money which He gives, and make<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Friends with our riches for the day<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When earthly treasures flee away.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">That when we leave our house below,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And into unknown regions go,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Through Jesus, we may find above<br /></span> +<span class="i0">An everlasting home of love.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Do I my little store expend<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For such a wise and prudent end;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or only think of my own gain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And not of others' want and pain?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Lord, by Thy Spirit, make me wise<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Above my selfishness to rise,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And something daily give away<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To find again in Thy great day!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4 sc">Richard Wilton, M.A.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-31.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-31.jpg" width="500" height="649" alt="THE UNJUST STEWARD." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE UNJUST STEWARD.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_RICH_MAN_AND_THE_BEGGAR" id="THE_RICH_MAN_AND_THE_BEGGAR"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE RICH MAN AND THE BEGGAR.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>There was a certain rich man who was clothed in rich silks and fine +linen, and feasted on costly food each day. There was also a poor +beggar, who was ragged and hungry, and covered with sores. His name +was Lazarus, and they laid him at the rich man's gate, for he desired +to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the well-supplied table. And +even the dogs had pity on him, for they came and licked his sores.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass that the beggar died, and the angels carried him +away to heaven, where he was no longer clothed in rags, but in +glorious array. Neither was he hungry, for he sat with Abraham and +leaned upon his bosom.</p> + +<p>The rich man also died, and was buried. He was not carried to heaven, +but went to a place of torment, where he lifted up his eyes, and in +the distance saw Abraham with Lazarus on his bosom. And he cried and +said, "Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may +dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am +tormented in these flames." But Abraham said, "Son, remember that thou +in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, whilst Lazarus had only +evil things; and now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. Beside +all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed."</p> + +<p>Then said the rich man, "I pray thee therefore, father, that thou +wouldest send him to my father's house; for I have five brethren. Let +him go to them and testify unto them, that they may repent, lest they +also come into this place of torment." Abraham said unto him, "They +have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them." And he said, "Nay, +father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will +repent." But Abraham said, "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, +neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-32.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-32.jpg" width="500" height="657" alt="THE RICH MAN AND THE BEGGAR." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE RICH MAN AND THE BEGGAR.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="AVENGE_ME_OF_MY_ADVERSARY" id="AVENGE_ME_OF_MY_ADVERSARY"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span><br /> +<h3>"AVENGE ME OF MY ADVERSARY."<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared +for man. And in the same city there was a widow that had an enemy, and +he had done her an injury. And she came to the judge and implored him, +saying, "Give me justice; avenge me of my adversary." But he would +not. Then the widow came to him every day and cried, "Give me +justice;" but still he would not for a long while. At last he became +wearied of her constant cry, and he said within himself, "Though I +fear not God nor care for man, yet, because this widow troubleth me +with her complaint, I will avenge her; lest by her continual coming +she weary me."</p> + +<p>And Jesus said, "Hear what the unjust judge saith. And if he, who was +an unjust judge and a wicked man, would grant the widow's petition, +because she asked so often, will not God, who is good and just, give +His children what is good and right for them? Shall not God avenge His +own elect, which cry day and night unto Him, though He bear long with +them?"</p> + +<p>In this parable Jesus impressed upon his disciples the truth that, +although great trials might come upon them, and their lives be in +peril, yet they were not to lose faith in God, or be disappointed +because their prayers were not answered at once. They were to keep on +praying; asking God for such things as were right, and trusting that +He would preserve them amidst all their enemies; and in His own way +make them to triumph over their foes. Whatever is best for His people, +God will give them. He cares for the sparrows, and, even more, for +those who love Him.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-33.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-33.jpg" width="500" height="661" alt="THE UNJUST JUDGE." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE UNJUST JUDGE.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_PHARISEE_AND_THE_TAX-GATHERER" id="THE_PHARISEE_AND_THE_TAX-GATHERER"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE PHARISEE AND THE TAX-GATHERER.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>The tax-gatherers in those days were called Publicans. They were +reputed to be very unjust, exacting from people more than the law +required them to pay, and other wickedness was charged against them. +Of course, there were good men among them; St. Matthew was a +tax-gatherer before Jesus called him to follow Him. The Pharisees +studied the Scriptures and explained them to the people, but they did +not follow the teachings of Scripture. They were proud, and pretended +they were more religious than other men, but it was <i>only</i> pretense. +Jesus compared them to whited sepulchres, and said they were +hypocrites, who led the people astray.</p> + +<p>A Pharisee and a Publican went up into the Temple to pray. The +Pharisee stood in a part of the Temple where all could see him, and +prayed thus: "O God, I thank Thee that I am not like other men, who +are unjust, and who take more than belongs to them. I thank Thee that +I am not like this Publican. I fast twice a week; I give to the +priests and Levites a tenth part of all I possess." But the Publican, +who knew that he was wicked, and felt sorry for it, stood afar off in +a quiet part of the Temple where none would see him. He bowed his head +and beat upon his breast, saying, "God be merciful to me a sinner."</p> + +<p>Jesus said that this Publican went to his home more forgiven than the +Pharisee, for every one that is proud and thinks much of himself shall +be put down, and he that humbleth himself and is sorry for his sins, +shall be exalted. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the +earth," says Jesus.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-34.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-34.jpg" width="500" height="659" alt="THE PHARISEE AND THE TAX-GATHERER." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE PHARISEE AND THE TAX-GATHERER.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_LABOURERS_IN_THE_VINEYARD" id="THE_LABOURERS_IN_THE_VINEYARD"></a><a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Go, work within my vineyard's bound,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">At eve your 'penny'<a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> shall be found:"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">So spake the vineyard's lord, and they<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Began to toil at break of day.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">For hours the sun had shown his face,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When idlers in the market-place<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Once and again were sent within<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The vineyard's wall their wage to win.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Nay, when but one short hour remains<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Before the sun its goal attains,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">More loiterers hear the Lord's command<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And set to work with willing hand.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The steward came at close of day<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Their wage to reckon and to pay;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And they whose toil could scarcely tire,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Received a penny for their hire.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But they who the day's burden bore<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And noonday heat, expected more:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And murmur'd that the generous lord<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To all one penny should accord.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">But he replied, "I wrong not you;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I give you the full wages due;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And why should you my bounty blame,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In paying these beyond their claim?"<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Lord, to Thy vineyard Thou dost call<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The least, the youngest of us all:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To each Thou dost assign a task,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From each some service Thou dost ask.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">How kind such feeble hands to use;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Such pleasant work I needs must choose:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I ask no wages, Lord, from thee,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For Thou hast given Thyself for me.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">When I remember all Thy grace,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I cannot loiter in my place:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And when I think of all my sin,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What wages can I hope to win?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Thanks, Lord, if yet my years are few,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And I retain the early dew:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh, keep me through the noonday heat,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And cheer me with Thy presence sweet.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">For if I have Thy presence, Lord,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Tis an exceeding great reward;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And if at last I see Thy face,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Tis not of merit, but of grace.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And, oh, what will that "penny" be<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Which Thou wilt then bestow on me?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A glorious image it will bear,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thy own dear Self, Lord, will be there!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4 sc">Richard Wilton, M.A.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<br /> +<a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><br /> + +<h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> +<br /> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> The penny, or <i>denarius</i>, was a silver coin, stamped with +the image of the Roman Emperor, and worth about 16 cents of our money. +It was a full ordinary day's wage at that time.</p></div> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-35.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-35.jpg" width="500" height="649" alt="THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_BARREN_FIG-TREE" id="THE_BARREN_FIG-TREE"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE BARREN FIG-TREE.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>In the morning, when Jesus had left Bethany and was coming towards +Jerusalem, He was hungry. Seeing a fig-tree afar off, covered with +leaves, He came to it, hoping to find some fruit on it. But the tree +was a young one, and had not yet commenced to bear fruit. And He found +thereon nothing but leaves. Then He said unto it, "Let no fruit grow +on thee henceforward for ever." And the fig-tree withered away and was +dead from the roots. When the disciples saw it, they marvelled, +saying, "How soon the fig-tree is withered away!"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered, and said unto them, "Verily I say unto you, if ye have +faith and doubt not, ye shall not only do as I have done to this +fig-tree, but, also, if ye shall say unto this mountain, 'Be thou +removed and be cast into the sea,' it shall be done. And all things, +whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believe that ye will receive them, +and ye shall have them. And when ye are praying, forgive any that have +injured you, that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you +your trespasses against Him. But if ye do not forgive, neither will +your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."</p> + +<p>How strange it seems that Jesus, who was gentle and kind, should +pronounce a curse on this fig-tree, and cause it to wither away. Why +did He do so? Because He wished to impress upon His disciples the +terrible danger of unfruitfulness. If we are the disciples of Jesus, +we must bear good fruit; we must be loving, kind, and gentle, and try, +like Him, to be always doing good.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-36.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-36.jpg" width="500" height="656" alt="THE BARREN FIG-TREE." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE BARREN FIG-TREE.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_WICKED_HUSBANDMEN" id="THE_WICKED_HUSBANDMEN"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>One day when the priests and elders of the Temple were asking +questions of Jesus, He told them this parable.</p> + +<p>There was a certain man who had a vineyard which was hedged or walled +round, and had a tower. But he was going away into a country far off, +so he let the vineyard to a number of husbandmen, or labourers, who +were to give him part of the fruit of the vines. When the time had +come that the fruit was ripe, he sent his servants to the husbandmen +that he might receive his share. But the wicked husbandmen took his +servants, and slew one, and beat another, and stoned the third. Then +he sent other servants, more than before, but the husbandmen served +them as they had done the others. Last of all he sent his own son, +saying, "They will reverence my son." But when those wicked men saw +him coming, they said among themselves, "This is the heir to all the +vineyard; come, let us kill him and seize on his inheritance." So they +caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.</p> + +<p>Then Jesus said to the priests and elders, "When the Lord of the +vineyard cometh, what will he do unto these husbandmen?" And they +answered, "He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let +out his vineyard to others, who shall render him the fruits in their +season."</p> + +<p>In this parable the owner of the vineyard means God; the vineyard +Canaan, and the husbandmen are the Jews, who had promised to obey Him, +but had not done so. He had sent His prophets among them, to warn +them, but these had been killed. At last He sent His only Son, but +they would not own Him as such, and soon they would kill Him. When the +priests heard this they knew it referred to them, and they were very +angry and would have taken Him and killed Him, but they were afraid of +the people, who took Jesus to be a prophet.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-37.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-37.jpg" width="500" height="666" alt="THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_WEDDING_GARMENT" id="THE_WEDDING_GARMENT"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE WEDDING GARMENT.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>There was a certain King who gave a great feast upon the occasion of +his son's wedding. And he sent out his servants to bring in those that +had been invited, but they would not come. Then he sent forth other +servants, saying, "Tell them which were bidden, 'Behold, I have +prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things +are ready. Come unto the feast.'" But they made light of the message +and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his warehouse; others +took the servants and slew them.</p> + +<p>When the King heard what had been done, he was very angry, and sent +out his army to destroy the murderers, and burn up their city. Then +said he to the servants, "The wedding is ready, but they which were +bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and all ye +shall find, bid them come to the marriage." So they gathered together +as many as they could find. And upon each one, as he entered the +house, was put a beautiful marriage garment, which the King had +prepared. But when the people were all seated, and the King had +entered the house, he saw there a man that had not on a wedding +garment, and he said unto him, "Friend, how camest thou in hither +without a wedding garment?" And the man was speechless, for the +garment had been offered to him at first, but he had refused it. Then +said the King to the servants, "Bind him hand and foot, and take him +away and cast him into outer darkness."</p> + +<p>In this parable, the King means God, who gave the feast for His Son, +Jesus Christ. Those who were first asked were the Jews, who refused to +believe in Christ. Those who were afterwards brought in, signify the +people who have since listened to His Word, and believed in Him. The +one without the wedding garment is any one that pretends to accept the +invitation to be one of God's people, but in his heart does not +believe in Christ.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-38.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-38.jpg" width="500" height="660" alt="WITHOUT THE WEDDING GARMENT." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">WITHOUT THE WEDDING GARMENT.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_FOOLISH_VIRGINS" id="THE_FOOLISH_VIRGINS"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE FOOLISH VIRGINS.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>In certain parts of the East it is the custom for a man when he is +married to bring home his bride at night, and for his relatives and +friends to go out with lamps and torches and music to meet him.</p> + +<p>Ten young women had been invited to meet the bridegroom with their +lamps burning and to sit down with him at the wedding-feast. Five of +them were wise and five were foolish. The wise ones took a supply of +oil in case their lamps should burn out before the bridegroom arrived; +the foolish five took no oil but what was in their lamps. But before +the bridegroom came they all fell asleep.</p> + +<p>At midnight there was a cry, "Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out +to meet him." But five lamps had almost burnt out, and the foolish +virgins said unto the wise, "Give us of your oil, for our lamps are +gone out." But the wise ones answered, "Not so; lest there be not +enough for us and for you. Go ye, rather, to them that sell, and buy +for yourselves." And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and +they that were ready went in with him to the marriage-feast, and the +door was shut.</p> + +<p>Afterwards, came also the other virgins, saying, "Lord, Lord, open the +door to us." But he answered and said, "Verily I say unto you, I know +you not," and would not open the door to them.</p> + +<p>In this parable the bridegroom means Jesus returning to earth, on the +Day of Judgment. The ten virgins are the people of this world, some of +whom have their hearts full of the love of God and keep their lamps +burning with a steady and bright light; that is, they fulfil God's +commandments and obey the teachings of Christ. The others have not +this love in their hearts, and are not prepared for Christ's coming. +Their lamps give out a feeble light and soon will go out.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-39.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-39.jpg" width="500" height="663" alt="THE FOOLISH VIRGINS." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE FOOLISH VIRGINS.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_PARABLE_OF_THE_TALENTS" id="THE_PARABLE_OF_THE_TALENTS"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>One day Jesus told His disciples this parable or story.</p> + +<p>A certain nobleman was called away to a far country to be appointed +king of it, and to return after a time. And he called his servants +unto him, and charged them with the care of his goods and treasure, +giving to each man according to his ability to use the same. To one +servant he gave five talents, to another two, and to another only one. +And straightway he left them, and departed upon his journey. Then the +man that had five talents went and traded with them, and did so well +that in time the profits amounted to five talents more, making ten +altogether. And he that had received two talents, also traded with +his, and added two other talents to them by way of profit. But he that +had had but one talent went away and covered it up in a cloth and hid +it away.</p> + +<p>After a long time the nobleman came back and called his servants to +him, and asked them for the treasure he had entrusted to their +keeping. And he that had received five talents, brought ten, and said, +"Lord, behold, I have gained five other talents beside them." And his +lord said, "Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been +faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. +Enter thou into the joy of thy lord." And to him that had two talents, +and brought back four, the lord said the same words. Then came he that +had received but one talent and had hid it; and he said, "Lord, I knew +thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and I +was afraid, and went and hid thy talent, and lo, here thou hast that +which is thine." His lord said unto him, "Thou wicked and slothful +servant. Thou knewest that I reaped where I had not sown; thou +oughtest therefore to have put my money in the bank, that I might have +received mine <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span>own with interest for its use. Take therefore the +talent from him, and give it unto him that hath ten; and take the +unprofitable servant and cast him into the outer darkness."</p> + +<p>Now the talent here mentioned was an eastern sum of money (nearly one +thousand dollars), but it really means the powers and opportunities +for doing good that God has given to all of us. One day we shall all +be called upon to give an account of the talents entrusted to our +keeping, and woe be to those who have abused their stewardship by +hiding their talent away. But those who have done good, according to +the power and opportunity given to them, shall be received into +everlasting joy by Christ the Lord.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-40.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-40.jpg" width="500" height="658" alt="THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="MAN_WITH_THE_WITHERED_HAND" id="MAN_WITH_THE_WITHERED_HAND"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<h3>MAN WITH THE WITHERED HAND.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>One Sabbath-day Jesus went into the synagogue, and there He saw a man +that had a withered hand. By some means the muscles had lost their +power, and he could neither use his hand nor stretch it out. And the +Pharisees watched Jesus, to see if He would heal this man on the +Sabbath, that they might bring a charge against Him of breaking the +law. They asked Him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath-day?" and He +replied by asking who among them, if he had a sheep which had fallen +into a pit on the Sabbath-day, would not lay hold on it, and lift it +out. "How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is +lawful to do good on the Sabbath-day."</p> + +<p>Then said He to the man, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched +it forth, and it was made whole and healthy like the other.</p> + +<p>Then the Pharisees went out and held a council against Him, to +consider how they might destroy Him; but when Jesus knew it, He +withdrew Himself from that part, and great multitudes followed Him, +and He healed them all.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-41.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-41.jpg" width="500" height="665" alt="THE WITHERED HAND." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE WITHERED HAND.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="JESUS_ASCENDS_TO_HEAVEN" id="JESUS_ASCENDS_TO_HEAVEN"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span><br /> +<h3>JESUS ASCENDS TO HEAVEN.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Jesus had been cruelly put to death. His hands, which had been placed +on the heads of little children when He blessed them, had been nailed +to a cross of wood; and cruel nails had been driven through his feet. +And hanging on the cross, Jesus had died. But on the third day He had +risen from the tomb, and for forty days He had remained upon the +earth, meeting frequently with His disciples. At the end of that time +Jesus led the eleven apostles from Jerusalem towards Bethany; and when +near that village, and away from the multitude, He spoke to them, +promising that they should be made bold by the Holy Spirit, and +receive power to witness for Him both to the Jews and Gentiles. Then, +the Bible tells us, "He lifted up His hands and blessed them. And it +came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and +carried up into heaven." And as He went up, a cloud received Him out +of their sight.</p> + +<p>The apostles fell down and worshipped Jesus, looking steadfastly after +Him as He went up; and as they did so, two angels in white garments +stood by them, and said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up +into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, +shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven." Then +the apostles returned to Jerusalem.</p> + +<p>Yes, Jesus has ascended to heaven, and now He sits at the right hand +of God; but He tells us that He will come again, and take those that +love Him to dwell with Him in His glorious home for ever and ever. "I +go to prepare a place for you," Jesus says.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-42.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-42.jpg" width="500" height="660" alt="JESUS ASCENDING TO HEAVEN." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">JESUS ASCENDING TO HEAVEN.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="THE_PHILIPPIAN_JAILER" id="THE_PHILIPPIAN_JAILER"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span><br /> +<h3>THE PHILIPPIAN JAILER.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Paul and Silas were in prison. They had done no wrong, but wicked men +had taken them before the magistrates; and the magistrates had caused +them to be severely beaten, and afterwards had sent them to prison, +where they were securely fastened in an inner dungeon, and their feet +made fast in the stocks. This was a most painful position for Paul and +Silas. But they were not unhappy. They prayed to God, and sang praises +to Him; and they sang so heartily that the other prisoners heard them. +It was midnight, and all was dark in the prison. But suddenly there +was an earthquake; so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, +all the doors were opened, and every one's bonds were loosed. All the +prisoners might have run away had they been minded to do so.</p> + +<p>The keeper of the prison had been sleeping, but the earthquake awoke +him. When he saw the doors open, he supposed that all the prisoners +had fled; and knowing how severely he would be punished on that +account, he drew his sword to kill himself. Paul knew this, and called +out loudly, "Do thyself no harm, for we are all here." Then the +keeper, who but a little while before had cruelly treated Paul and +Silas, came trembling, and fell down before them, and said, "Sirs, +what must I do to be saved?" He was afraid because of his sins; and +wanted to know how he might be saved from the fearful consequences of +sin. Paul's answer was, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou +shalt be saved." Then Paul and Silas spoke to him about Jesus. He +believed, and was baptized; and the next morning the two disciples +were set at liberty.</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-43.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-43.jpg" width="500" height="661" alt="THE PHILIPPIAN JAILOR BEFORE PAUL AND SILAS." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">THE PHILIPPIAN JAILOR BEFORE PAUL AND SILAS.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="TIMOTHY_AND_HIS_MOTHER_EUNICE" id="TIMOTHY_AND_HIS_MOTHER_EUNICE"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span><br /> +<h3>TIMOTHY AND HIS MOTHER EUNICE.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<br /> + +<p>Timothy was a youthful and earnest disciple of Jesus Christ, whom Paul +loved dearly. Paul had found him during one of his missionary +journeys, and, discovering how highly he was esteemed as a Christian, +had selected him as his assistant. Afterward Timothy became Paul's +companion in travel, and the first bishop of Ephesus. While Timothy +was at Ephesus, Paul wrote two letters to him. They are contained in +the Bible, and are called the Epistles to Timothy. In them Paul says +many kind and wise things, giving Timothy directions how to act in his +high Christian office. But Paul also speaks of Timothy's early days, +and of his mother and grandmother. These were both good women, who +loved God, and diligently studied the Holy Scriptures. The mother's +name was Eunice. She was a Jewess. The grandmother's name was Lois. +Both loved the little boy Timothy, or Timotheus as he was called, and +they sought to instil into his young mind and heart the love of God +and the knowledge of His holy Word. In our picture we see Eunice +teaching her son. She has not a bound Bible, but a manuscript, wound +round small rollers. From this she reads to Timothy; while Lois, the +aged grandmother, sits by.</p> + +<p>Paul warned Timothy not to forget the teaching of his good mother and +grandmother; and especially to value his knowledge of the Scriptures. +Because, said Paul, "they are able to make thee wise unto salvation." +Many young folks have good mothers and grandmothers, who love to teach +them about Jesus. Are they receiving this teaching as Timothy did, and +being made wise unto salvation?</p> + +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span><br /> + +<div class="img"> +<a href="images/illus-44.jpg"> +<img border="0" src="images/illus-44.jpg" width="500" height="664" alt="LOIS, EUNICE AND TIMOTHY." /></a><br /> +<p class="cen" style="margin-top: .2em;">LOIS, EUNICE AND TIMOTHY.</p> +</div> + +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<a name="CHRIST_BLESSING_THE_CHILDREN" id="CHRIST_BLESSING_THE_CHILDREN"></a><hr /> +<br /> +<br /> + +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span><br /> +<h3>CHRIST BLESSING THE CHILDREN.<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h3> +<h5>(<i>See</i> <a href="#frontis">Frontispiece</a>).</h5> +<br /> + +<p>Jesus had left Galilee, and was journeying toward Jerusalem, where He +was to be put to death. He was in the country beyond Jordan, called +Peræa, and had been speaking some very wise words to the Pharisees, +and also to His disciples, when some women came to Him, bringing +infants and young children that He might put His hands upon them and +pray for them. The disciples thinking probably that Jesus, who had so +many important things to attend to, would not wish to be troubled by +women bringing their children, rebuked them for so doing. But Jesus +loved children. So, when He saw the disciples about to send them away, +He was displeased; and, calling the disciples to Him, He said, "Suffer +little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is +the kingdom of God." Then, we are told, Jesus "took them up in His +arms, put His hands upon them, and blessed them." How kind was Jesus! +and how willing that the little ones should be brought to Him! And He +is the same now. May all our young readers learn to love Him, and find +for themselves how willing He is to love and bless them.</p> + + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Mother Stories from the New Testament, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOTHER STORIES: NEW TESTAMENT *** + +***** This file should be named 17163-h.htm or 17163-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/7/1/6/17163/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Garcia, Jeannie Howse +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project +Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you +charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you +do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the +rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose +such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and +research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do +practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is +subject to the trademark license, especially commercial +redistribution. + + + +*** START: FULL LICENSE *** + +THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE +PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK + +To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free +distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work +(or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project +Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project +Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at +https://gutenberg.org/license). + + +Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm +electronic works + +1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm +electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to +and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property +(trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all +the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy +all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. +If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the +terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or +entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. + +1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be +used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who +agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few +things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works +even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See +paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement +and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic +works. See paragraph 1.E below. + +1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" +or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the +collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an +individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are +located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from +copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative +works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg +are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project +Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by +freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of +this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with +the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by +keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project +Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. + +1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern +what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in +a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check +the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement +before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or +creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project +Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning +the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United +States. + +1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: + +1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate +access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently +whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the +phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project +Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, +copied or distributed: + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + +1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived +from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is +posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied +and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees +or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work +with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the +work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 +through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the +Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or +1.E.9. + +1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted +with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution +must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional +terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked +to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the +permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. + +1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm +License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this +work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. + +1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this +electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without +prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with +active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project +Gutenberg-tm License. + +1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, +compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any +word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or +distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than +"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version +posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.org), +you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a +copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon +request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other +form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm +License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. + +1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, +performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works +unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. + +1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing +access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided +that + +- You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from + the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method + you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is + owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he + has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the + Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments + must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you + prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax + returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and + sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the + address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to + the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." + +- You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies + you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he + does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm + License. You must require such a user to return or + destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium + and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of + Project Gutenberg-tm works. + +- You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any + money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the + electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days + of receipt of the work. + +- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free + distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. + +1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm +electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set +forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from +both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael +Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the +Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. + +1.F. + +1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable +effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread +public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm +collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic +works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain +"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or +corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual +property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a +computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by +your equipment. + +1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right +of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project +Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project +Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all +liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal +fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT +LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE +PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE +TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE +LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR +INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH +DAMAGE. + +1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a +defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can +receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a +written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you +received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with +your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with +the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a +refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity +providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to +receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy +is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further +opportunities to fix the problem. + +1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth +in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER +WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO +WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. + +1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied +warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. +If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the +law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be +interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by +the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any +provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. + +1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the +trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone +providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance +with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, +promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, +harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, +that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do +or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm +work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any +Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. + + +Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm + +Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of +electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers +including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists +because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from +people in all walks of life. + +Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the +assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's +goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will +remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project +Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure +and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. +To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation +and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 +and the Foundation web page at https://www.pglaf.org. + + +Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive +Foundation + +The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit +501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the +state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal +Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification +number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at +https://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg +Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent +permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. + +The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. +Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered +throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at +809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email +business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact +information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official +page at https://pglaf.org + +For additional contact information: + Dr. Gregory B. Newby + Chief Executive and Director + gbnewby@pglaf.org + + +Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg +Literary Archive Foundation + +Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide +spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of +increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be +freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest +array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations +($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt +status with the IRS. + +The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating +charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United +States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a +considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up +with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations +where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To +SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any +particular state visit https://pglaf.org + +While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we +have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition +against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who +approach us with offers to donate. + +International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make +any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from +outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. + +Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation +methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other +ways including including checks, online payments and credit card +donations. To donate, please visit: https://pglaf.org/donate + + +Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic +works. + +Professor Michael S. Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm +concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared +with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project +Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. + + +Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. +unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily +keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. + + +Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: + + https://www.gutenberg.org + +This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, +including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary +Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to +subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. + + +</pre> + +</body> +</html> diff --git a/17163-h/images/cover-f.jpg b/17163-h/images/cover-f.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..66b99f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/cover-f.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/frontis.jpg b/17163-h/images/frontis.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..701dae1 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/frontis.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/header.jpg b/17163-h/images/header.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9f5d91 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/header.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-01.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-01.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..842b731 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-01.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-02.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-02.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..04e5f86 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-02.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-03.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-03.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4e90a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-03.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-04.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-04.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d16d41 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-04.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-05.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-05.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..484fc08 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-05.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-06.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-06.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..79365e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-06.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-07.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-07.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5407fd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-07.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-08.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-08.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0237403 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-08.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-09.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-09.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e2da04 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-09.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-10.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-10.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3f2674 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-10.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-11.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-11.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a84873 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-11.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-12.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-12.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e74560 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-12.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-13.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-13.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..89a0fa4 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-13.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-14.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-14.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2bd691 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-14.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-15.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-15.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8d6feb --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-15.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-16.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-16.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5add9f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-16.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-17.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-17.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..39ce532 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-17.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-18.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-18.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8f4628 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-18.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-19.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-19.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd62804 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-19.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-20.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-20.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..187bb83 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-20.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-21.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-21.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b98769 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-21.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-22.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-22.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4502d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-22.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-23.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-23.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dc8dce --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-23.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-24.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-24.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..91b853e --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-24.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-25.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-25.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6880e32 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-25.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-26.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-26.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c084b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-26.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-27.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-27.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..33e497b --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-27.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-28.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-28.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..58afabf --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-28.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-29.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-29.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..be9ae15 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-29.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-30.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-30.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..649665d --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-30.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-31.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-31.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3bbe797 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-31.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-32.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-32.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d830178 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-32.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-33.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-33.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..587eaf7 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-33.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-34.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-34.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7571f49 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-34.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-35.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-35.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..752567a --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-35.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-36.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-36.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ff49ea --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-36.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-37.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-37.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d9a87f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-37.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-38.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-38.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0489e67 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-38.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-39.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-39.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..09e4327 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-39.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-40.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-40.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4d11e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-40.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-41.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-41.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6ad0bb --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-41.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-42.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-42.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d188ca4 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-42.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-43.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-43.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..471d427 --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-43.jpg diff --git a/17163-h/images/illus-44.jpg b/17163-h/images/illus-44.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..74aed3b --- /dev/null +++ b/17163-h/images/illus-44.jpg |
