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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bible Pictures and Stories in Large Print, by
-Isabella M. Aldon
-
-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most
-other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
-whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of
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-Title: Bible Pictures and Stories in Large Print
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-Author: Isabella M. Aldon
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-Release Date: November 26, 2019 [EBook #60793]
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-Language: English
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-*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIBLE PICTURES, STORIES--LARGE PRINT ***
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-Produced by Richard Hulse and the Online Distributed
-Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
-produced from images generously made available by The
-Internet Archive)
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-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
- BIBLE PICTURES
- AND
- STORIES
-
- IN LARGE PRINT
-
- [Illustration]
-
- BOSTON
- LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY
-
- COPYRIGHT, 1898,
- BY
- LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY.
-
-
-
-
-BIBLE PICTURES AND STORIES
-
-IN LARGE PRINT.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-ADAM AND EVE.
-
-
-God made the sun, the moon, the stars, the earth, the sea and all the
-beasts, birds, insects, plants and fishes. After that He made man, then
-woman. Adam was the first man, Eve the first woman. He planted a lovely
-garden and gave it to Adam and Eve to live in. There was every kind of
-luscious fruits in this garden and God was willing they should eat all
-but one; this He told them they must not even touch.
-
-For a while they minded God and were happy, but one day they both ate
-some of this fruit. Then God was very angry and sorry for what they had
-done. He drove them out of the lovely garden forever.
-
-
-
-
-CAIN AND ABEL.
-
-
-Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain, when he got old enough,
-became a farmer, Abel a shepherd. They both brought gifts to God. Cain’s
-gift was fruit; Abel’s gift was the very best of his lambs. For some
-reason God liked Abel’s gift, but did not like Cain’s. This made Cain
-hate Abel so much that he killed him.
-
-When God asked Cain what had become of his brother he said: “I know
-not: Am I my brother’s keeper?” But God, who sees everything, had seen
-what Cain had done and punished him by making him wander homeless and
-friendless over all the earth.
-
-[Illustration: CAIN AND ABEL.]
-
-
-
-
-THE FLOOD.
-
-
-A great many years after Cain killed Abel—over a thousand perhaps—the
-people had grown to be so very wicked that God made up his mind to
-destroy them by a great flood. But there was one good old man Noah, whom
-God loved. So He had him build a huge boat or ark and told him to put
-into it all his own family, and two of every kind of animal on the earth.
-As soon as Noah had done this, the rain began to fall. It kept on raining
-for forty days and forty nights until everything was covered by the
-water, even the highest mountains. Nothing was saved except what was in
-the ark.
-
-[Illustration: ENTERING THE ARK.]
-
-
-
-
-BABEL.
-
-
-After Noah’s death, his sons and their families kept traveling westward.
-By and by they came to a beautiful plain. They were very tired of
-traveling, so they rested a long time. The plain pleased them so much
-that they thought they would like to live there always, and they began to
-build a great city and a high tower “whose top should reach unto Heaven.”
-God came down to see the city and the tower. The sight made him angry and
-at once he caused the workmen to speak different languages, so they could
-not understand one another and had to stop building. The tower is called
-Babel because God “did there confound the language of all the earth.”
-
-[Illustration: THE TOWER OF BABEL.]
-
-
-
-
-LOT’S FLIGHT FROM SODOM.
-
-
-Lot lived in Sodom, a city so wicked that not ten good men could be found
-there. One evening two angels came to Lot, to tell him that God was going
-to destroy the wicked city and to warn him to flee in the morning with
-his wife and daughters. Lot and his family heeded the angel’s warning and
-fled to Zoar, a city near by. Then God rained down fire and brimstone
-upon Sodom, until it was burned to ashes. Lot and his two daughters were
-saved, but Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt, because she
-looked back at the burning city. This the angels had warned them not to
-do.
-
-[Illustration: LOT ENTERING ZOAR.]
-
-
-
-
-THE FINDING OF MOSES.
-
-
-In time there came to be so many Israelites in Egypt that Pharaoh began
-to be afraid of them. So he issued an order that all boy babies should be
-put to death. But one mother hid her baby boy three months. Then she made
-a little boat out of rushes, laid the baby in it, and put the boat in the
-water near the shore. A little while after she did this one of Pharaoh’s
-daughters came down to the river to bathe and saw the little boat. She
-had one of her maids wade out and get it. When she saw the little boy,
-she felt so sorry for him that she took him for her own son. She named
-him Moses, which means “drawn out of the water.”
-
-[Illustration: THE FINDING OF MOSES.]
-
-
-
-
-THE FLIGHT FROM EGYPT.
-
-
-Pharaoh made the Israelites work very hard and treated them cruelly in
-other ways. God was sorry for his people, so he came to Moses and told
-him to go to Pharaoh with his brother Aaron and order him to let the
-Israelites go away from Egypt to a land He had made ready for them. But
-Pharaoh did not care anything about what God told him to do and would not
-let the people go. So God sent dreadful plagues upon the Egyptians. Still
-Pharaoh was stubborn and held out against God until the tenth plague
-came, which killed the eldest child in every Egyptian house. Then he sent
-the Israelites out of the land.
-
-[Illustration: SPRINKLING THE BLOOD.]
-
-
-
-
-MOSES STRIKING THE ROCK.
-
-
-After the Israelites had been away from Egypt quite a long time, they
-came into a dry, stony country called the Wilderness, where there were
-no springs of water and no rivers. They got very thirsty, but could find
-nothing anywhere to drink. This made them angry with their leader, Moses,
-so angry that they were going to stone him to death. But Moses asked God
-to help him, saying: “What shall I do unto this people? they be almost
-ready to stone me.” God told him to take his rod and strike a certain
-rock on Mount Horeb. Moses did so. At once a clear stream of water burst
-out of the rock, enough for all the people.
-
-[Illustration: STRIKING THE ROCK.]
-
-
-
-
-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
-
-
-When the Israelites came near Mount Sinai, God said that in three days
-from that time he would come down upon the mountain. But none of the
-people except Moses and Aaron were to touch the mountain. If they did,
-they would die. They could come up into the mountain and be with Him. God
-did as he promised. There was a thick cloud all about Him, and fire and
-smoke, and thunder and lightnings, so the people could not see him. And
-the mountain shook and the voice of God was heard like the sound of a
-trumpet, giving to them the Ten Commandments. And the people were afraid
-and drew back from the mountain.
-
-[Illustration: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.]
-
-
-
-
-BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB.
-
-
-After God had given the Ten Commandments, Moses went up into the mountain
-and stayed with God forty days and forty nights. God told him that the
-Israelites must build Him a house to live in which should be called “The
-Tabernacle.” They must give gold, silver, brass, blue, purple, scarlet,
-fine linen, oils, spices, costly woods, jewels and other precious things,
-for this house. Bezaleel and Aholiab must build it, because He had
-made them wise. Moses told the people what God had said. They were so
-anxious to help that they brought more than God had asked for. And God’s
-beautiful house was soon made.
-
-[Illustration: BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB.]
-
-
-
-
-THE BRAZEN SERPENT.
-
-
-Once, almost forty years after they made God’s House, the Israelites were
-very hungry and thirsty. They said hateful things about Moses and about
-God too, which was very wicked. So God sent fiery serpents to bite the
-people. The bite was poisonous, and many died. Then they knew this was
-because they had done wrong. They came to Moses and asked him to pray God
-to take the serpents away. Moses prayed. God told Moses to make a brass
-serpent and set it on a pole where all the people could see it. When
-Moses had done this he told the people to look. Every one who was bitten
-was made well as soon as he saw the brass serpent.
-
-[Illustration: THE BRAZEN SERPENT.]
-
-
-
-
-THE PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN.
-
-
-After Moses died Joshua led the people of Israel. They had come very
-near to the land God had made ready for them, but there was still the
-great river Jordan to cross. They did not know how to get across, for
-the water was deep and they had no boats. But God had a way for them. He
-told Joshua to have the priests of his Tabernacle go into the water first
-and stand there. As soon as the feet of the priests touched the water it
-stopped flowing from above and piled up in a great heap. So the people
-went across the Jordan on dry land. After the priests left the river, the
-water flowed just as it had before.
-
-[Illustration: CROSSING THE JORDAN.]
-
-
-
-
-THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD’S HOST.
-
-
-When the Canaanites heard how the Israelites had crossed the Jordan, they
-were afraid and shut themselves up in their city, Jericho. The Israelites
-had to find some way to break into the city. One day when Joshua was
-walking near the wall of Jericho, he saw a man with a drawn sword in his
-hand. He at once asked the man whether he was a friend or an enemy. The
-man answered: “As captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.” Then
-Joshua knew it was an angel and fell down and worshiped him. The angel
-said: “Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou
-standest is holy.” Joshua did so.
-
-[Illustration: THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD’S HOST.]
-
-
-
-
-HOW JERICHO WAS CAPTURED.
-
-
-The Israelites took Jericho in a very curious way. Every day for six
-days the armed men marched around the city once. On the seventh day they
-marched around seven times, while the priests blew their trumpets. Just
-as they finished the last march, the trumpets gave a long blast and all
-the people together gave a mighty shout. Then that strong, high wall fell
-down flat, and they went in and took the city and burnt it and everything
-in it except the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron. The
-rest of the people of Canaan were greatly surprised when they heard how
-Jericho was captured.
-
-[Illustration: THE FALL OF JERICHO.]
-
-
-
-
-ACHAN’S SIN.
-
-
-Ai was a city not far from Jericho. Three thousand Israelites went to
-take it. But some were killed and the rest got frightened and ran away.
-Joshua felt so badly that he went and told God all about it. God said
-that the Israelites had been beaten because one of them had kept for his
-own some of the silver and gold taken from Jericho. God pointed out that
-Achan was the man who had stolen these things and that he had hidden
-them in his tent. When they looked in the tent they found them buried in
-the ground. Achan and all his family and all that he had were stoned and
-burned and a great heap of stones raised over them as a warning.
-
-[Illustration: ACHAN CONFESSING HIS SIN.]
-
-
-
-
-THE ALTAR ON MOUNT EBAL.
-
-
-After Achan had been burned, the Israelites captured Ai and hanged its
-king on a tree. Then Joshua built an altar to God on Mount Ebal of whole
-stones that had never been cut. On the altar he put burnt offerings. On
-the stones of the altar he wrote the laws that Moses had given to the
-people when he was alive. Then he got all the people together, men, women
-and little ones, and read to them God’s promises of the good things that
-would happen to them if they did right, and the bad things that would
-happen if they did wrong. The people listened carefully to the reading.
-Joshua did this because he had promised Moses that he would just before
-he died.
-
-[Illustration: THE ALTAR ON MOUNT EBAL.]
-
-
-
-
-THE CITIES OF REFUGE.
-
-
-In those old times, when one man killed another, the friends of the dead
-man had the right to kill the murderer. But sometimes it happened that
-one person killed another without meaning to do it. Of course it was not
-right that he should be killed for what he could not help. God saw that
-there ought to be some way of saving him. So he told Joshua to name six
-cities to which such a person could flee and where no one could touch
-him. These cities were called Cities of Refuge. Three of them were on the
-west side of Jordan and three on the east. Some say that all the guide
-posts along the way had “Refuge!” “Refuge!” written on them.
-
-[Illustration: FLEEING TO THE CITY OF REFUGE.]
-
-
-
-
-THE DEATH OF JOSHUA.
-
-
-A long time after the fall of Jericho, when Joshua was an old man, he
-made all the Israelites come into one place so that he could talk to
-them, before he left them, forever. He asked them to count over the good
-things God had done for them, and promised that He would do even more for
-them than He had already. He told them to be brave, to do as Moses had
-wanted them to do when he was alive, and never to have anything to do
-with people who worshiped idols. If they did, God would punish them. When
-Joshua had instructed the Israelites in all the good ways, having said
-all that was on his mind, he died. He was one hundred and ten years old.
-
-[Illustration: JOSHUA EXHORTING THE PEOPLE.]
-
-
-
-
-GIDEON AND THE FLEECE.
-
-
-After Joshua died, the Israelites forgot God and worshiped idols. So God
-punished them as Joshua said. The Midianites came into the land and the
-Israelites had to hide from them in dens and caves. Gideon, a mighty man,
-was threshing corn one day when an angel came to him and told him to go
-and save Israel. Gideon was willing to go, but asked God to show him some
-sign that he would beat the Midianites. So one night God made a fleece
-that Gideon put on the ground wet with dew while all the ground was dry,
-and the next night he kept the fleece dry while all the ground was wet.
-Then Gideon knew that God would be on his side.
-
-[Illustration: EXAMINING THE FLEECE.]
-
-
-
-
-THE DEFEAT OF THE MIDIANITES.
-
-
-Gideon got together a large army, but God told him that only a part must
-fight. So Gideon picked out the three hundred bravest men and divided
-them into three companies of one hundred each, and put a trumpet in each
-man’s hand and an empty pitcher and a lamp inside the pitcher. About the
-middle of the night they came to the camp of the Midianites and blew the
-trumpets and broke the pitchers and held up the lamps and cried “The
-sword of the Lord and of Gideon.” The Midianites were afraid and ran
-about and cried out and killed one another. The Israelites ran after them
-and drove them out of the country.
-
-[Illustration: “THE SWORD OF THE LORD, AND OF GIDEON.”]
-
-
-
-
-THE DEATH OF SAMSON.
-
-
-Samson was the strongest man that ever lived. At one time he tore a live
-lion apart with his hands, at another he killed one thousand men, and at
-another he carried away the gates of Gaza, a city of the Philistines.
-But the very last thing that he did was the most wonderful of all. The
-Philistines had cruelly put out his eyes. At a feast where there were
-over three thousand of them, Samson got a boy to show him the way, and
-then putting his hands upon two pillars that held up the roof, and
-praying God for help, he pressed upon them with all his might. The
-pillars broke, the roof fell. Samson himself and the Philistines were
-killed.
-
-[Illustration: SAMSON AND THE PHILISTINES.]
-
-
-
-
-RUTH AND NAOMI.
-
-
-Naomi’s home was at Bethlehem. But one year, because there was no food
-there, she went to Moab with her husband and her two sons. Both the sons
-took wives in Moab. The wives’ names were Orpah and Ruth. After a little
-time Naomi’s husband died, then both the sons. Naomi started to go back
-to Bethlehem, and Orpah and Ruth started with her. But Naomi did not
-think they ought to leave their homes and advised them to stay in Moab.
-Orpah stayed. But Ruth said to Naomi: “Whither thou goest, I will go, and
-where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people and thy
-God, my God.” So Ruth and Naomi came to Bethlehem.
-
-[Illustration: RUTH AND NAOMI.]
-
-
-
-
-BOAZ AND RUTH.
-
-
-Ruth and Naomi were poor. So Ruth went out to pick up the grain which the
-reapers let fall at their work. The field into which she went belonged
-to a rich man named Boaz. He was pleased with Ruth, and let her eat and
-drink with the reapers. He told her never to go anywhere else, but always
-to come to his field, and he made the reapers let fall some grain on
-purpose for her. So when she came home to Naomi at night, she had a very
-large bundle. Ruth went to that field all through the harvest. Afterward
-she became the wife of Boaz.
-
-So you see Ruth did not lose anything by staying with Naomi.
-
-[Illustration: BOAZ SHOWING KINDNESS TO RUTH.]
-
-
-
-
-ELI AND SAMUEL.
-
-
-Once a year Samuel’s mother went to see him and always took with her a
-little coat. One night, when Samuel was asleep, he heard his name spoken.
-He thought Eli called him, and ran to see what he wanted. But Eli said
-he had not called him. So he went back to bed. Again he heard “Samuel,”
-and again he ran to Eli. But Eli had not called him. Still again he was
-called and ran to Eli. Then Eli knew that God had spoken and told him to
-say, “Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth,” next time he was called.
-Samuel did this, and God told him of something terrible that was going to
-happen to Eli and his sons.
-
-[Illustration: SAMUEL AND ELI.]
-
-
-
-
-DEATH OF ELI AND HIS SONS.
-
-
-A little while after God spoke to Samuel, the Israelites fought against
-the Philistines. They were beaten. Then they took the ark of God from the
-tabernacle and marched against the Philistines. At first the Philistines
-were afraid of the ark. But they fought bravely. The Israelites were
-again beaten. Eli’s two sons were killed and the ark of God was taken.
-Eli was then ninety-eight years old. He was blind. He was sitting on a
-bench by the roadside when he heard the sad news. He was so overcome by
-the intelligence he fell over backward and brake his neck. That was what
-God told Samuel would happen.
-
-[Illustration: ELI RECEIVING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF HIS SONS.]
-
-
-
-
-PLAYING ON THE HARP BEFORE SAUL.
-
-
-Saul was the king of Israel. David was a shepherd boy, the son of Jesse.
-He had a happy, ruddy face that made everybody like him. Besides he was
-very brave. Once he killed both a lion and a bear that came to eat up the
-lambs in his father’s flock. He knew how to throw stones with a sling and
-could play on the harp beautifully. One day King Saul was feeling very
-sad and wanted somebody to play to him. He thought music would make him
-feel better. His servants told him about David. So he sent for him. David
-came and played so nicely on the harp that Saul forgot all about his
-trouble.
-
-[Illustration: DAVID PLAYING ON THE HARP BEFORE SAUL.]
-
-
-
-
-DAVID AND GOLIATH.
-
-
-The Israelites and Philistines were at war. Goliath was a Philistine
-giant. He used to come out in front of the Israelites every day and
-dare any one to fight with him. He was so big and strong that all the
-Israelites were afraid to try. One day David came to the camp on an
-errand, and when he saw Goliath he made up his mind to fight him. So he
-chose five smooth stones out of a brook and put them in his shepherd’s
-bag. Then with sling in hand he went toward Goliath. Goliath laughed at
-him, but David did not mind that. He threw a stone with his sling. It hit
-Goliath on the forehead and he fell to the ground. Then David cut off his
-head.
-
-[Illustration: DAVID.]
-
-
-
-
-DAVID AND ARAUNAH.
-
-
-David was not a bad man, but he sometimes did wrong and then God had
-to punish him although He was very fond of him. When he had been king
-many years he had the Israelites counted. This displeased God and He
-sent a plague upon Israel. This plague killed many thousand people.
-David felt very sorry to have his people die for his sin and prayed God
-to stop the plague and punish him instead. God told David to go to the
-threshing-floor of Araunah and make an offering. David went. He bought
-the threshing-floor and some oxen and wood. Then he built an altar and
-made the offering. God stopped the plague.
-
-[Illustration: DAVID AND ARAUNAH.]
-
-
-
-
-ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS.
-
-
-Ahab was a very wicked king, more wicked than any that came before him.
-He took a wife who worshiped idols and built an altar to a heathen god
-and worshiped this god. So God sent Elijah to Ahab to say to him: “As
-the Lord of Israel liveth there shall not be dew nor rain these years.”
-Ahab was so angry at Elijah that he had to flee and hide himself by the
-brook Cherith near the river Jordan. The brook gave him all the water he
-needed, but there was no food there. But God would not let his prophet
-starve. He sent ravens to feed him. These ravens brought him bread and
-meat twice every day; in the morning and in the evening.
-
-[Illustration: ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS.]
-
-
-
-
-ELIJAH AND ELISHA.
-
-
-One day Elijah was traveling through the land, when he saw twelve men
-ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen. One of these men was Elisha. When
-Elijah saw Elisha, he knew that he was the man God wished him to take
-for a servant. So Elijah threw his coat on Elisha as he went by. Then
-Elisha ran after Elijah and said: “Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father
-and mother and then I will follow thee.” He killed a yoke of oxen and
-made a feast. Then he said good-by to his father and mother and went away
-with Elijah. Afterward God took Elijah up to Heaven in a chariot of fire.
-Elisha was with him at the time.
-
-[Illustration: PLOUGHING IN CANAAN.]
-
-
-
-
-THE SHUNAMMITE’S SON.
-
-
-A kind Shunammite woman who liked Elisha made for him a little chamber
-on the wall. She made it cosey with a bed and table and stool and
-candlestick. Elisha used to come to this little room when he got tired.
-Now this good woman had a little boy whom she dearly loved, for he was
-her only child. One morning the little fellow was running about in the
-field with the reapers. All at once he felt a pain and ran to his father,
-crying, “My head! my head!” When the father saw his little son was not
-feeling well, he had him taken home to his mother. She held him in her
-lap till noon. Then he died. Elisha brought him back to life.
-
-[Illustration: THE SHUNAMMITE’S SON RESTORED.]
-
-
-
-
-THE LITTLE CAPTIVE MAID.
-
-
-Naaman was a great Syrian general, who had beaten the Israelites in
-battle. He was very wretched because he was a leper. Now Naaman’s wife
-had a little Israelite girl to wait upon her, who had heard of the
-wonderful things Elisha had done. This little girl had told her mistress
-that Elisha could cure Naaman. So Naaman went with his chariot and horses
-to see Elisha. Elisha told him to wash seven times in the river Jordan.
-Naaman would not do this at first, it seemed such a little thing. But he
-finally changed his mind, and washed in the Jordan and was cured. You see
-how much good one little girl can do.
-
-[Illustration: THE LITTLE CAPTIVE MAID.]
-
-
-
-
-JONAH AT NINEVEH.
-
-
-God told Jonah to go to Nineveh and warn the people that their city
-would be destroyed because they were so wicked. But Jonah ran away to
-sea. There was a terrible storm on the sea, and the sailors threw Jonah
-overboard. They thought he was the cause of the storm. But he was not
-drowned, for God sent a great fish to swallow him. Jonah was inside the
-fish three days and three nights. Then God made the fish throw Jonah up
-on the dry land. After this God sent Jonah to Nineveh. But the people
-were so sorry for their sins that He took pity on them and did not
-destroy the city.
-
-[Illustration: JONAH AT NINEVEH.]
-
-
-
-
-HEZEKIAH AND SENNACHERIB.
-
-
-Hezekiah was the best king Judah ever had. The Bible says no king
-ever served God so well. When Hezekiah had been king fourteen years,
-Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, marched against Jerusalem. He sent a
-letter to Hezekiah, telling him to give up the city because his God could
-not help him. Hezekiah took this letter up into the temple. He spread it
-out before God and prayed Him to save Jerusalem. God heard his prayer.
-That night His angel went into the Assyrian camp and killed one hundred
-and eighty-five thousand of the Assyrians. Soon after this Sennacherib’s
-two sons killed him.
-
-[Illustration: HEZEKIAH LAYING THE LETTER BEFORE GOD.]
-
-
-
-
-THE BRAVE HEBREW BOYS.
-
-
-Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah were four Hebrew boys who were
-prisoners at Babylon. They thought it was wrong to eat the meat and drink
-the wine the king sent, and refused both when offered them. They asked
-for plain food and pure water instead. But the servant was afraid they
-would grow thin if he gave them nothing else. Then the king would be
-angry at him and he would lose his life. Daniel told him to give them
-plain food and water for ten days. He did so. At the end of the ten days
-they seemed so much better than those who ate the meat and drank the wine
-that the servant was glad to do as they wished.
-
-[Illustration: THE BRAVE HEBREW BOYS.]
-
-
-
-
-DANIEL AND THE LIONS.
-
-
-When Darius was king at Babylon he liked Daniel so well that he made
-him the chief officer in his kingdom. This made the other officers hate
-Daniel. They got Darius to make a law that every man who prayed to any
-one except Darius himself should be thrown into the den of lions. Daniel
-kept on praying to his God three times a day. When Darius heard that
-Daniel prayed he was very sorry he had made the law. But he could not
-change it, so Daniel was thrown into the lions’ den. That night Darius
-could not sleep, he felt so bad. Very early next morning he ran to the
-den. But Daniel was safe, for God had shut the lions’ mouths.
-
-[Illustration: DANIEL AND THE LIONS.]
-
-
-
-
-ESTHER BEFORE THE KING.
-
-
-Ahasuerus was king of Persia. Esther, a Jewess, was his queen. Haman was
-next to the king. He was a cruel man, and hated the Jews because one of
-them, a servant of the king, would not bow down to him. So he got the
-king to make a law that all the Jews in his kingdom should be killed.
-Esther felt very sorry for her people. She made up her mind to save them
-if she could. But first she spent three days in fasting and prayer. Then
-she went to the king and begged him to save the Jews. The king loved
-Esther so much that he did what she asked. So the Jews were saved from
-the cruel decree of the king Ahasuerus.
-
-[Illustration: ESTHER BEFORE THE KING.]
-
-
-
-
-DAVID AND JONATHAN.
-
-
-Saul loved David at first. Then he hated him and tried to kill him twice
-by throwing his spear at him. David escaped and hid himself. Now Saul
-had a son named Jonathan, who thought a great deal of David. It made him
-feel very bad to see his father trying to kill him. Jonathan thought that
-Saul might get over his anger in two or three days and take David back.
-But when he was sure that Saul really meant to kill David, he went to
-his hiding place and told him how he might get away. After they had wept
-and kissed each other and promised always to be friends, David fled and
-Jonathan went back to his father.
-
-[Illustration: DAVID AND JONATHAN.]
-
-
-
-
-THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.
-
-
-One night certain shepherds were out in the fields taking care of their
-sheep. Suddenly they saw a light brighter than the sun, and in the glory
-of the light, an angel. They felt afraid.
-
-But the angel spoke to them; he said: “Fear not. I have good news for
-you, and for all the people in the world. There was born to-day, in
-the city of Bethlehem, a little child who is to be a Saviour; his name
-is Christ the Lord. You will find him lying in a manger.” As he spoke,
-suddenly there appeared a great company of angels, and they sang: “Glory
-to God in the highest, and on earth, _peace_, good-will toward men.”
-
-When the angels were gone back to Heaven, the shepherds said to one
-another: “Let us go right away to Bethlehem, and find this wonderful baby
-that the Lord has sent us word about.”
-
-So they started in haste. When they reached Bethlehem, they found the
-stable, and the manger, and there was the baby with his mother. Then the
-shepherds told what the angels had said and sung. The people wondered
-at it; the mother remembered every word, and thought about what it all
-meant. Then the shepherds went back to their work praising God as they
-went, for all that he had told them, and for all that they had seen.
-
-[Illustration: THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.—Matt. ii. 1.]
-
-
-
-
-THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS.
-
-
-The child Jesus grew strong in body and mind. He was so unlike any other
-child that he was “filled with wisdom.” God’s favor was with him all the
-time. When he was twelve years old he went with his father and mother
-to Jerusalem to the great yearly feast called the Passover. Having been
-there eight days, they started for home. But Jesus stayed behind at
-Jerusalem. His father and mother didn’t know it; they supposed him to be
-with some of the friends. At night when they stopped to rest, they found
-he was not to be found. They went among the friends and acquaintances who
-were travelling with them, but they got no news of him; so they turned
-back toward Jerusalem, looking for him all the way. In this way three
-days passed; then they found their son sitting in the church among the
-learned men, listening and asking questions. And the people who listened
-were astonished at the questions which Jesus asked, and at the words
-which he spoke. When his parents saw him, they were very much astonished.
-His mother said to him: “My son, why did you treat us in this way? Your
-father and I have hunted for you in great sorrow.”
-
-Then he made this strange answer: “How is it that you sought me? Didn’t
-you know that I must be about _my_ Father’s business?”
-
-They didn’t understand what he meant; they forgot that their son was not
-simply a boy; he was God. But he came at once from the church, and went
-home with them, and obeyed his father and mother in everything. But his
-mother never forgot any of the strange words that he spoke.
-
-[Illustration: THE CHILD JESUS.—Luke ii. 40.]
-
-[Illustration: JESUS IN THE TEMPLE, TEACHING THE DOCTORS.—Luke ii. 46.]
-
-
-
-
-MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
-
-
-When Jesus had grown to be a young man, there came a minister through the
-country about Jordan, preaching to the people that they repent and be
-baptized. Some thought he was the Christ for whom they had been waiting.
-But he said to them: “I baptize you with water, but there is coming one,
-so much mightier than I, that I am not even worthy to untie his shoes
-[this was the work of the lowest servant]; He will baptize you with the
-Holy Ghost and with fire. He will make clean the hearts of his people.
-He will gather them in as wheat is gathered into the garner. But the
-wicked will be like chaff which is burned up, with a fire that cannot
-be put out.” Many other solemn things, also, this minister preached to
-the people. A man named Herod, ruler over part of the country, was angry
-with John because he had been reproved for many sins, among them marrying
-a woman whom he had no right to marry; and he put John in prison. But
-before that happened, one day, when John had been preaching and baptizing
-many people, Jesus came, and asked to be baptized also; and as he was
-praying, a wonderful thing happened. The Holy Ghost came down out of
-heaven in the form of a dove, and rested on Jesus, and a voice out of
-heaven said: “Thou art my beloved son; in thee I am well pleased.”
-
-
-
-
-JESUS AT NAZARETH.
-
-
-We find Jesus to-day in Nazareth, where he lived in his boyhood. It is
-the Sabbath-day, and he has gone to church, and stands reading to the
-people from the Bible. He read in the book named Isaiah; read about
-himself. These are the words: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because
-He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me
-to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives,
-and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
-bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” When he had read
-these wonderful words he closed the book, and gave it to the minister,
-and sat down. All the people looked at him, wondering what he would
-say. Then he began to talk. He told them that the promises he had been
-reading to them were fulfilled. All listened and wondered at the tender
-and beautiful words that he spoke. They whispered to each other, saying,
-“Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” Then he said to them: “You will surely remind
-me of the proverb, ‘Physician, heal thyself.’ Do some of the wonderful
-things here that we have heard of you doing in Capernaum. But, remember,
-no prophet is highly thought of in his own country. Remember that during
-that time of famine in Israel, when it didn’t rain for three years and
-six months, there were many widows, but the prophet Elijah was sent only
-to one at Sarepta, a city of Sidon. And there were many lepers in Israel
-while the prophet Elisha lived there; but Naaman, the Syrian, was the
-only one that was cured.”
-
-This preaching made the people angry, and they started up in wrath and
-thrust him out of their city, and wanted to push him headlong down the
-hill on the top of which Nazareth was built. But just there he showed his
-power, in passing quietly through the crowd of angry people, holding them
-back by the power of his gaze, and went away.
-
-[Illustration: JESUS IN THE TEMPLE, READING THE BIBLE.—Luke iv. 16.]
-
-
-
-
-THE DRAUGHT OF FISHES.
-
-
-Jesus stood by the shore of Lake Gennesaret, and the people pressed
-about him, to hear him talk about God. He saw two ships near the water;
-they were empty, for the fishermen to whom they belonged were gone to
-wash their nets. One of the ships belonged to a man named Simon. Jesus
-stepped into it, and when Simon came asked him to push out a little from
-the shore; then he sat down in the ship and taught the people. When the
-sermon was over he said to Simon: “Push out now where it is deep, and
-let down your net.” Simon answered: “We have been at work all night,
-Master, and have caught no fish; but we will do as you say.” So they
-let down the net into the water, and at once it became so full of fish
-that it began to break. Then Simon and the other fisherman called to
-their partners, who were in the other ship, to come and help. They came
-and filled both the ships with fish; then the ships began to sink. Simon
-Peter, seeing that, fell on his knees and began to pray; he said: “Depart
-from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” He meant that he was not worthy
-to be near the Lord. He was astonished and frightened, and so were the
-others—James and John, and they were the sons of Zebedee. Jesus spoke
-kindly and tenderly to Simon; he said: “Fear not; after this you shall
-catch men.”
-
-[Illustration: MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES.—John xxi. 4.]
-
-
-
-
-THE CENTURION’S FAITH.
-
-
-Next we find Jesus at Capernaum. A certain Roman military officer lived
-there, who had a servant lying very sick. The officer loved his faithful
-servant. He saw that he was going to die. He had heard of Jesus, and he
-sent some of the elders to him, begging that he would come and cure the
-sick man. The messengers came to Jesus and urged him to go at once to the
-sick one; they told him how kind the officer had been to their people. He
-went with them. When they were near the house, other friends came out to
-meet the Saviour, and presently the officer came himself. He told Jesus
-that he did not feel himself worthy to have so great a man in his house;
-that he did not want to trouble him to go there, and at first he thought
-he ought not even to come to him, troubling him. He begged that Jesus
-would just then and there speak a word that should cure his servant. He
-said that he was a man in authority, having servants who obeyed orders.
-Jesus, he believed, had but to give orders, and his invisible servants
-would obey him. Jesus wondered at his faith.
-
-He turned, and said to the people who were following: “I haven’t found
-such great faith as this in all Israel.” Some of those who had been sent
-to Jesus, now reached the house where the sick man had lain, and behold
-he was well! This story is also told in Matthew viii. 5-13.
-
-[Illustration: THE CENTURION.—Matt. viii. 8.]
-
-
-
-
-THE WIDOW OF NAIN.
-
-
-Once Jesus went to the city of Nain. His disciples went with him. Many
-people followed him. As he reached the city gate he met a funeral
-procession. It was a long procession, for the young man who was dead had
-been his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. The people were very
-sorry for her. Jesus, when he saw her, felt very sorry for her, too.
-He spoke to her. He said, “Weep not.” Then he went towards the frame
-on which the dead body was laid, and touched it; and the men who were
-carrying it stood still, and Jesus spoke to the dead. He said, “Young
-man, I say unto thee, arise.” Immediately the dead man sat up and spoke
-to Jesus; and Jesus called his mother to him. This wonderful thing made
-the people afraid; they said, “A great prophet has come among us.” And
-they praised God for sending him. This story was told all over the
-country, and for many miles around. When the people came together they
-said, “Have you heard how that poor widow who lives in Nain had her son
-given back to her after he was dead?”
-
-[Illustration: JESUS RAISETH THE WIDOW’S SON.—Luke vii. 14-15.]
-
-
-
-
-THE FRIEND OF SINNERS.
-
-
-Jesus was invited to dine with a man named Simon. While at table, a poor
-woman came in and poured sweet-smelling ointment over the feet of Jesus,
-weeping so that she washed his feet with her tears. Simon did not like
-this, for the woman was very wicked. He thought if Jesus were a prophet
-he would know what sort of a woman this was, and would not allow her to
-touch him. Jesus saw these thoughts in his heart, and told him he had
-something to say to him. Then he told him this story: “There was once a
-man who was owed by two men; one owed him five hundred pence, and the
-other fifty. Both were poor, having nothing with which to pay their
-debt. The good man knowing this, forgave them both. Tell me, which of
-them will love him most?”
-
-“Why,” said Simon, “I suppose the one who owed the most.”
-
-“Yes,” said Jesus, “that is true. Simon, do you see this poor woman? You
-gave me no water to wash my feet, but she has washed them with her tears,
-and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but she continues to
-kiss my feet. You did not even anoint my head, but she has anointed my
-feet. Now I tell you this: her sins which are many, are forgiven, for
-she loves me very much. If people feel that they have but little to be
-forgiven, they have but little love.” Then he spoke to the woman; he
-said: “Your sins are forgiven.” Those who were sitting with him at table
-began to say among themselves, “Why, who is this man who can forgive
-sins?” Jesus spoke again to the woman; he said: “Thy faith hath saved
-thee; go in peace.”
-
-[Illustration: MARY MAGDALEN ANOINTING THE FEET OF JESUS.—Luke vii. 38.]
-
-
-
-
-RETURN OF THE SEVENTY.
-
-
-Seventy people were sent out in many directions to tell the people of the
-Lord Jesus. They had blessed meetings. They came back filled with joy.
-They told Jesus that they had found even devils who had to obey their
-words when they spoke in his name. Jesus told them that he had long known
-that Satan would be subject to him. Also he promised them that nothing
-should hurt them in their work, neither that serpent Satan, nor any of
-his helpers. But he reminded them, that though they had such great power
-given them, there was something better than that for them to rejoice
-over forever: that their names were written in heaven. Then Jesus, with
-great joy in his heart, thanked God that he had hidden many things from
-the worldly-wise and the selfishly prudent, and had made them known to
-the humble-hearted who were willing to be like little children and learn
-of him. He reminded his disciples that no man knew about the mysteries
-of God, but that all things were delivered to him, and that no one could
-understand the Father unless he made him plain to their hearts. And he
-said to those disciples aside, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things
-that you see; many prophets and kings desired to see them, but were not
-permitted.”
-
-[Illustration: AND WHEN YE COME INTO AN HOUSE, SALUTE IT.—Matt. x. 12.]
-
-
-
-
-THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
-
-
-A lawyer once asked Jesus who was his neighbor, and Jesus told him this
-story:—“Once a man went from Jerusalem to Jericho, and on the road he
-met a party of thieves. They stripped his clothes from him; they wounded
-him, and at last went away, leaving him lying half dead. A little while
-after a certain minister passed that way; he saw the man, but he crossed
-the street and went on. Then there came a Levite; he stopped and looked
-at the poor man, and then he too crossed the street and went on his way.
-Then there came a Samaritan; he stopped and looked at the poor man, and
-his heart was filled with pity. The man was nothing to him, not even
-one of his own nation; but he bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine
-on them to soothe the pain; then he lifted the man to his own horse and
-took him to a place where he could be cared for. In the morning before he
-went on his journey, he took from his pocket some money, and gave it to
-the host, and asked him to have the sick man taken care of. If he had to
-spend money, when he came that way again he would pay the bill.”
-
-“Now,” said Jesus, “which of these three people do you think treated the
-poor man like a neighbor?”
-
-“Why,” said the lawyer, “the one who took care of him.”
-
-“Then,” said Jesus, “see that you follow his example.”
-
-[Illustration: THE GOOD SAMARITAN.—Luke x. 33.]
-
-
-
-
-IMPORTUNITY IN PRAYER.
-
-
-At one time when Jesus was with his disciples they asked him to teach
-them to pray. Having talked with them about the Lord’s Prayer, he
-illustrated prayer by the following:
-
-Said he: “Suppose you had a friend to whom you should go one night at
-midnight, and ask him to lend you three loaves of bread, for a friend
-had arrived unexpectedly, and you had nothing for him. Suppose he should
-answer, ‘Don’t trouble me; I’ve shut my house for the night, and my
-children and I are in bed; I can’t get up and attend to you.’ Now I tell
-you, though he wouldn’t attend to you on account of friendship, yet if
-you persist in urging your need he will get up and give you what you
-want. Now I say to you: ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall
-find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. Every one that asks shall
-receive; he who seeks shall find; to him who knocks it shall be opened.
-Suppose your son asks for a piece of bread, would you give him a stone?
-Suppose he asks for a fish, would you give him a serpent? If he ask for
-an egg, would you give him a scorpion? Now, if you with evil hearts and
-ignorant minds, yet know enough to take care of your children and give
-them proper things, don’t you suppose that your Heavenly Father knows
-what you need, and will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
-
-[Illustration: SECRET PRAYER.—Matt. vi. 6.]
-
-
-
-
-WARNING AGAINST COVETOUSNESS.
-
-
-Jesus had been talking about the loving care of the Heavenly Father, and
-one of the listeners interrupted him with a request that he would talk
-to his brother and get him to divide equally between them the property
-that had been left. Jesus asked him who he thought made him a judge, or
-a divider over them; and then, by the story he told them, he showed the
-covetous thought that was in the man’s heart. He reminded them that the
-important thing in a man’s life was not to have a great deal of property.
-Said he: “There was a certain man who grew rich; his harvests were so
-great that he wondered what he should do with all his grain. At last he
-decided to pull down his barns and build larger ones, and then say to
-his soul, ‘Soul, you have plenty of food, enough to last you many years;
-take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.’ But just then God spoke to him;
-He said, ‘Foolish man, this night your soul shall be called to leave the
-body; then who will have all these things which you have provided?’—Now,”
-said Jesus, “the man who plans for himself, laying up treasures for
-himself, and has none of the riches that God could give him, is like this
-poor, foolish man in the story.” Then He turned to His disciples and
-told them that living meant more than simply keeping the body alive and
-clothed.
-
-[Illustration: CONSIDER THE LILIES HOW THEY GROW.—Luke xii. 27.]
-
-
-
-
-WARNING AGAINST FORMALISM.
-
-
-Jesus was traveling through the cities and villages on his way to
-Jerusalem, teaching as he went. One day a man asked him if many would be
-saved. He said all must strive to enter in at the straight gate, for many
-would try some other way and would not get in. He said, “It was like a
-feast spread for guests; and when once the master of the house had closed
-the door, no more could get in. Those who stood outside saying, ‘Lord,
-Lord, open the door for us,’ would only be answered with ‘I don’t know
-you.’ They might answer, ‘We have eaten and drank with you, and you have
-taught in our streets,’ for some of these people who would not follow
-Jesus had sat at table with him and heard his teachings. But he said
-the answer to any such would be, ‘I don’t know you; go away, you are
-wicked people.’—Then,” said Jesus, “there shall be weeping and gnashing
-of teeth;” Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob would be inside, but those who
-would not come to him by the right way would be thrust out. People from
-every quarter shall come together and sit down in God’s kingdom. The
-Gentiles, who were the last to hear the good news, shall be among the
-first in heaven, and some of the Jews (God’s dear people who would not
-love Him) will not get in.
-
-[Illustration: JESUS EATETH WITH PUBLICANS AND SINNERS.—Mark ii. 16.]
-
-
-
-
-THE GOSPEL FEAST.
-
-
-One Sabbath-day Jesus was taking dinner at the house of a Pharisee. He
-talked with the people at the table about humility of manner at the great
-feasts which were given in those days. Then one of the company said to
-him, “Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.” I do
-not think he meant heaven, but rather the kingdom that he hoped the
-Messiah would set up on the earth. Jesus answered him in the form of a
-story about a man who made a great supper, sending out many invitations.
-When everything was ready he sent for his guests to come, and every one
-of them sent an excuse. One said he had bought a piece of ground and
-must go and see it, and begged to be excused; another said he had bought
-five yoke of oxen, and was going to prove them; another said he had just
-been married and couldn’t come. When the servant came back and told his
-master he was angry. He told his servants to go out quickly through the
-streets and bring all the lame people, and the blind people, and the poor
-people of every sort. So the servant did as he was told; but he said to
-his master, “There is room yet.” So the master told him to go out in the
-highways and hedges, and coax people to come to the supper, and fill the
-house, for none of those who were first invited should be allowed to
-taste of the supper.
-
-[Illustration: JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD TO CÆSAREA.—Mark viii.
-27.]
-
-
-
-
-THE PRODIGAL SON.
-
-
-Jesus once, in teaching the people, told this story: “A man had two sons;
-the younger of them asked his father to give him the part of the property
-that would finally belong to him. So the father divided his wealth
-between them. A few days after that the younger son went a long journey,
-taking all his money with him; but he wasted it in wild and foolish
-living. When it was all gone there came a great famine to that country,
-and the foolish young man had nothing to live on. He went looking for
-work, and a man hired him to take care of swine. He was so hungry that
-he was willing to eat the husks that the swine had for food; and no one
-gave anything to him. Then he began to think of his home, and to remember
-how his father’s servants had plenty to eat, and here he was starving!
-Then he said, ‘I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him,
-Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am not worthy to
-be called your son; let me be one of your hired servants.’ So he went on
-his journey home. When he was yet a great way from the house, his father
-saw him and ran out to meet him, and put his arms around him and kissed
-him. Then the son said, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against
-you; I am not worthy to be called your son.’ But the father said, ‘bring
-the best clothes in the house for him to wear, and put a ring on his
-hand, and shoes on his feet, and have the fatted calf killed, and make a
-feast, and let us eat and drink and be merry; for my son was the same to
-me as dead, and now he is alive again; he was lost, but now he is found.’
-And they were merry.”
-
-[Illustration: RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON.—Luke xv. 20.]
-
-
-
-
-THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS.
-
-
-In order to explain to his disciples that there were two worlds for
-souls, Jesus once told them this story:—“There was a rich man who wore
-elegant clothing and lived richly every day. There was a poor, sick
-beggar, named Lazarus, lying at his gate. He wanted the crumbs which were
-left from the rich man’s table. His body was full of sores, and the dogs
-used to come and lick them. One day this poor man died, but God sent
-his angels and carried him to heaven. Then the rich man died, and was
-buried. His soul went to hell. One day, while he was in that place of
-pain and torment, he looked up, and away off he saw heaven, and Lazarus
-the beggar was there, with his head on Abraham’s bosom. He called to
-him: ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip
-of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this
-flame.’ But Abraham said: ‘Son, remember that while you were living you
-had plenty of good things, while Lazarus suffered at your gate. Now he is
-happy, and you are suffering. And, besides, there is a great gulf between
-you and us, so that if we wanted to come to you we could not; neither can
-you come here from that place.’ Then the rich man said, ‘I pray you send
-him to my father’s house to tell my five brothers about this dreadful
-place, so they need not come here.’ But Abraham said, ‘Why, they have the
-story of that place. Moses wrote about it, and the Prophets wrote about
-it; let them read it.’ But the rich man said, ‘O, Father Abraham, if one
-went back to them from the dead, they would repent.’ ‘No,’ said Abraham,
-‘if they will not believe God’s own word, as Moses and the Prophets wrote
-it in the Bible, neither would they believe if one went to them from the
-dead.’”
-
-[Illustration: LAZARUS AT THE RICH MAN’S DOOR.—Luke xvi. 19.]
-
-
-
-
-THE TEN LEPERS.
-
-
-One day Jesus, on his journey to Jerusalem, passed through a village in
-Samaria. He saw ten men who had the leprosy; they kept away from all
-other people, as the law obliged them to. But when they saw Jesus, they
-called out with loud voices, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” Jesus
-said to them, “Go show yourselves to the priest.” This was what people
-who were cured of leprosy were obliged to do before they could go among
-the people. The priest had to give them a certificate to say that they
-were cured. As these ten men turned to go to the priest, as Jesus had
-told them, suddenly they found that they were well. One of them, as soon
-as he found it out, turned back and followed after Jesus, and when he
-reached him he bowed down at his feet, thanking him and praising God. He
-was from a Samaritan village; not one of the Lord’s chosen people, but a
-Gentile. Jesus said to him, “Didn’t I cure ten men? Where are the nine?
-Not one of them came back to thank me, except this Samaritan.” Then he
-said to the kneeling man, “Arise, and go on your way; your faith hath
-made you whole.”
-
-[Illustration: JESUS CURING THE TEN LEPERS.—Luke xvii. 14.]
-
-
-
-
-WHOM THE LORD RECEIVES.
-
-
-When Jesus was on earth he met some people who thought that they were
-perfect, and they despised other people. One day he told them this story:
-“There were two men who went to the temple one day to pray. One of them
-was a Pharisee, the other a publican. The Pharisee said, ‘God, I thank
-thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or
-even as this man beside me. I fast twice in the week, and I give a tenth
-of all that I have.’ Then the publican prayed: he did not even go close
-to the holy place: he kept his eyes on the ground, and he struck his
-breast, which was a sign of deep humility, as he said, ‘God be merciful
-to me, a sinner’—I tell you,” said Jesus, “that man went back to his home
-justified, rather than the other, for every one who thinks too well of
-himself must be humbled; but those who are humble God will exalt.”
-
-The rest of the story is about some very little children being brought
-to Jesus. His disciples tried to have them sent away, for they did not
-understand Jesus; but he called the little ones to him and said: “Suffer
-little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the
-kingdom of heaven. Truly I say to you, that any one who will not receive
-the kingdom of heaven with the faith of a little child shall never enter
-there.”
-
-[Illustration: THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN.—Luke xviii. 10.]
-
-
-
-
-ZACCHEUS THE PUBLICAN.
-
-
-There was a man named Zaccheus, a rich man, a tax-gatherer, who wanted
-very much to see Jesus. One day, when Jesus was passing through the
-city of Jericho, Zaccheus, who was a small man and could not see over
-the heads of the crowd who were following Jesus, ran ahead of them and
-climbed into a sycamore tree. When Jesus reached the tree he looked up
-and said, “Zaccheus, make haste and come down; I want to go to your house
-to-day.” Then Zaccheus hurried down and joyfully took Jesus home with
-him. But the people murmured about it; they said, “He has gone to visit
-a wicked man.” Then Zaccheus talked with Jesus; he said to him, “Lord,
-I mean to give the half of all my goods to the poor; and if I have taken
-anything from any man wrongfully, I will give him back four times as
-much.” Then Jesus said to him, “This day is salvation come to your house.
-You are a Jew, a son of Abraham; you shall have the promised gift.”
-
-
-
-
-JUDAISM OVERTHROWN.
-
-
-Jesus, one day, talking with his disciples, said to them: “Take care that
-you are not deceived. There will be many coming in my name, saying, ‘I
-am Christ, and the end is near;’ but don’t follow after them. When you
-hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be frightened; these things must
-first come, but the end is not at once. Nation shall rise against nation,
-and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be great earthquakes, and
-famines, and pestilences, and fearful sights; and great signs shall there
-be from heaven: and before these come, people will persecute you, and put
-you in prisons, and you shall be brought before kings and rulers, for my
-name’s sake. And you will have a chance to testify for me; but you need
-not plan what you shall say, for I will give you words that your enemies
-can neither answer nor resist. You will be betrayed by parents, brothers,
-relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death; and you will
-be hated by men for my sake; but not a hair of your head shall perish. Be
-patient to the end, and your souls shall be saved. When you see Jerusalem
-surrounded with armies, then know that desolation is near. Then let them
-which are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let them which are in the
-midst of it depart out, and let not them which are in the countries enter
-thereinto.”
-
-[Illustration: JESUS FORETELLS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE.—Matt. xxiv.
-2.]
-
-
-
-
-THE LORD’S SUPPER.
-
-
-It was the evening before Jesus was to be crucified that these things
-happened which are in our lesson to-day. Jesus sent Peter and John to
-make ready the supper, that they might eat it together. He said to them:
-“When you get to the city of Jerusalem, a man will meet you, carrying a
-pitcher of water; follow him and stop at the same house. Tell the man of
-the house that the Master told you to ask him where the guest-chamber was
-in which he could eat the Passover with his disciples. He will show you
-a large upper room, furnished. In that room make all things ready.” It
-all happened just as he said, and they prepared the supper. When Jesus
-and the twelve disciples sat down he said to them, “I have longed to eat
-this Passover with you before I suffer, for I will not eat of it any more
-until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” Then he took up the cup
-and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves,
-for I say unto you, I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the
-kingdom of God shall come.” And he took bread and gave thanks, and gave
-the bread to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you; do
-this in remembrance of me.” After supper he took the cup and passed it to
-them, saying, “This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed
-for you.”
-
-[Illustration: THE LAST SUPPER.—Matt. xxvi. 26.]
-
-
-
-
-THE CROSS.
-
-
-At the place which is called Calvary, our Lord was crucified, and on
-the cross with him hung two thieves, one on each side. The soldiers
-divided his clothes among them, casting lots which should have them. He
-prayed for them all; he said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not
-what they do.” The people and the rulers stood about him, looking at
-him and mocking. They said, “He saved others, let him save himself if
-he is Christ, the chosen one of God.” And the soldiers also mocked him,
-offering him vinegar to drink, and saying to him, “If you are the king
-of the Jews, save yourself.” Then they wrote on a tablet in Greek, and
-in Latin, and in Hebrew, “This is the King of the Jews,” and hung it
-over the cross. One of the thieves joined in the mocking, saying, “If
-you are Christ, save yourself and us;” but the other thief reproved him,
-asking him if he did not fear God, since they were suffering the same
-punishment. “They,” he said, “deserved their punishment, but the other
-had done nothing wrong.” Then he spoke directly to Jesus: he said, “Lord,
-remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.” And instantly Jesus
-answered him in these words, “Verily I say unto you, To-day shalt thou
-dwell with me in Paradise.” These things happened about twelve o’clock.
-From that time until three o’clock the earth was dark; the sun hid away.
-When Jesus cried out with a loud voice, he said, “It is finished;” and
-then, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit;” and having said this,
-he died. Just then the veil which had always hidden the inner temple
-split in two from top to bottom.
-
-[Illustration: THE CRUCIFIXION.—John xix. 25.]
-
-
-
-
-THE WALK TO EMMAUS.
-
-
-The third day after Jesus was buried, two of his friends walked to a
-village named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem. As
-they walked along they talked together about the sad things that had
-lately happened. At that moment Jesus himself came along and joined them,
-but they did not know him. He asked them what it was they were talking
-about, and why they were so sad. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him
-if he was a stranger in Jerusalem that he had not heard the strange,
-sad news. He asked them, “What news?” And Cleopas answered: “Why, about
-Jesus of Nazareth; he was a mighty prophet; his words and his deeds
-were wonderful; but our rulers condemned him to death and crucified him.
-We hoped that he was the one who was to redeem the people of Israel;
-but this is the third day since these things were done. Some women who
-were at the grave this morning, told us a strange story; they say his
-body is not there, and that they saw angels who said that he was alive;
-and some of our friends went to the grave and found that it was as the
-women said, but they did not see him.” Then Jesus said to them: “O what
-foolish people. How slow you are to believe all that the prophets wrote
-about this! Did they not tell that Christ must suffer these things and
-then enter into his glory?” Then he began with the books that Moses
-wrote, and explained what he and the other writers had said about
-Christ. When they drew near to Emmaus the stranger acted as though he
-was going further, but they begged him to stop with them, as the day was
-nearly gone. So he stopped with them, and as they sat down to the table
-together, suddenly something opened their eyes to know that it was Jesus
-who sat with them. He took some bread and blessed it, and gave them some.
-Then he vanished out of their sight.
-
-[Illustration: JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS.—Luke xxiv. 30.]
-
-
-
-
-THE SAVIOUR’S LAST WORDS.
-
-
-The disciples and friends of Jesus were together talking of him and of
-the wonderful story that he had risen, when he appeared to them again and
-talked with them. He reminded them that the things which had happened
-were the very ones which he had foretold, and which were told in the
-Bible would happen. Then he explained the Bible to them and gave them
-wisdom to understand what he said. He showed them how it was written
-that Christ would come, and suffer and die, and rise again on the third
-day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sin should be preached to
-all people, beginning at Jerusalem. Then he told them they were the
-witnesses that all these things had taken place. Then he assured them
-that he would send to them that which the Father had promised they should
-have, and they were to wait in Jerusalem until God sent them a special
-power.
-
-The last story that we have of the life of Jesus on earth was when he led
-his disciples out to Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, blessed them,
-and was parted from them and carried up into Heaven. Then the disciples
-worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and now they
-could be found continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.
-
-[Illustration: JESUS APPEARS TO HIS DISCIPLES.—Luke xxiv. 30.]
-
-
-
-
-
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-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 475px;">
-<img src="images/frontispiece.jpg" width="475" height="600" alt="" />
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-<hr />
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-<p class="titlepage larger"><span class="larger">BIBLE PICTURES</span><br />
-<span class="smaller">AND</span><br />
-<span class="larger">STORIES</span></p>
-
-<p class="titlepage larger">IN LARGE PRINT</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter titlepage" style="width: 400px;">
-<img src="images/deco-titlepage.jpg" width="400" height="250" alt="A drawing of (presumably) Jesus, with halo" />
-</div>
-
-<p class="titlepage">BOSTON<br />
-LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY</p>
-
-<p class="titlepage smaller"><span class="smcap">Copyright, 1898,<br />
-by<br />
-Lothrop Publishing Company.</span></p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h1>BIBLE PICTURES AND STORIES<br />
-IN LARGE PRINT.</h1>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
-<img src="images/deco-intro.jpg" width="400" height="275" alt="A drawing of angels" />
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>ADAM AND EVE.</h2>
-
-<p>God made the sun, the moon, the
-stars, the earth, the sea and all the
-beasts, birds, insects, plants and fishes.
-After that He made man, then woman.
-Adam was the first man, Eve the first
-woman. He planted a lovely garden
-and gave it to Adam and Eve
-to live in. There was every kind of
-luscious fruits in this garden and
-God was willing they should eat all
-but one; this He told them they must
-not even touch.</p>
-
-<p>For a while they minded God and
-were happy, but one day they both
-ate some of this fruit. Then God
-was very angry and sorry for what
-they had done. He drove them out
-of the lovely garden forever.</p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>CAIN AND ABEL.</h2>
-
-<p>Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain
-and Abel. Cain, when he got old
-enough, became a farmer, Abel a
-shepherd. They both brought gifts
-to God. Cain’s gift was fruit; Abel’s
-gift was the very best of his lambs.
-For some reason God liked Abel’s
-gift, but did not like Cain’s. This
-made Cain hate Abel so much that
-he killed him.</p>
-
-<p>When God asked Cain what had become
-of his brother he said: “I know
-not: Am I my brother’s keeper?”
-But God, who sees everything, had
-seen what Cain had done and punished
-him by making him wander
-homeless and friendless over all the
-earth.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus1.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">CAIN AND ABEL.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE FLOOD.</h2>
-
-<p>A great many years after Cain
-killed Abel—over a thousand perhaps—the
-people had grown to be
-so very wicked that God made up his
-mind to destroy them by a great flood.
-But there was one good old man Noah,
-whom God loved. So He had him
-build a huge boat or ark and told him
-to put into it all his own family, and
-two of every kind of animal on the
-earth. As soon as Noah had done
-this, the rain began to fall. It kept on
-raining for forty days and forty
-nights until everything was covered
-by the water, even the highest mountains.
-Nothing was saved except
-what was in the ark.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus2.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">ENTERING THE ARK.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>BABEL.</h2>
-
-<p>After Noah’s death, his sons and
-their families kept traveling westward.
-By and by they came to a
-beautiful plain. They were very tired
-of traveling, so they rested a long time.
-The plain pleased them so much that
-they thought they would like to live
-there always, and they began to build
-a great city and a high tower “whose
-top should reach unto Heaven.” God
-came down to see the city and the tower.
-The sight made him angry and at
-once he caused the workmen to speak
-different languages, so they could
-not understand one another and had
-to stop building. The tower is called
-Babel because God “did there confound
-the language of all the earth.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus3.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE TOWER OF BABEL.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>LOT’S FLIGHT FROM SODOM.</h2>
-
-<p>Lot lived in Sodom, a city so wicked
-that not ten good men could be found
-there. One evening two angels came
-to Lot, to tell him that God was going
-to destroy the wicked city and to warn
-him to flee in the morning with his
-wife and daughters. Lot and his
-family heeded the angel’s warning and
-fled to Zoar, a city near by. Then God
-rained down fire and brimstone upon
-Sodom, until it was burned to ashes.
-Lot and his two daughters were
-saved, but Lot’s wife was turned into
-a pillar of salt, because she looked
-back at the burning city. This the
-angels had warned them not to do.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus4.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">LOT ENTERING ZOAR.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE FINDING OF MOSES.</h2>
-
-<p>In time there came to be so many
-Israelites in Egypt that Pharaoh began
-to be afraid of them. So he issued
-an order that all boy babies should
-be put to death. But one mother
-hid her baby boy three months.
-Then she made a little boat out of
-rushes, laid the baby in it, and put
-the boat in the water near the shore.
-A little while after she did this one
-of Pharaoh’s daughters came down
-to the river to bathe and saw the little
-boat. She had one of her maids wade
-out and get it. When she saw the
-little boy, she felt so sorry for him
-that she took him for her own son.
-She named him Moses, which means
-“drawn out of the water.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus5.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE FINDING OF MOSES.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE FLIGHT FROM EGYPT.</h2>
-
-<p>Pharaoh made the Israelites work
-very hard and treated them cruelly
-in other ways. God was sorry for
-his people, so he came to Moses and
-told him to go to Pharaoh with his
-brother Aaron and order him to let
-the Israelites go away from Egypt
-to a land He had made ready for
-them. But Pharaoh did not care
-anything about what God told him
-to do and would not let the people
-go. So God sent dreadful plagues
-upon the Egyptians. Still Pharaoh
-was stubborn and held out against
-God until the tenth plague came,
-which killed the eldest child in
-every Egyptian house. Then he
-sent the Israelites out of the land.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus6.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">SPRINKLING THE BLOOD.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>MOSES STRIKING THE ROCK.</h2>
-
-<p>After the Israelites had been away
-from Egypt quite a long time, they
-came into a dry, stony country called
-the Wilderness, where there were no
-springs of water and no rivers. They
-got very thirsty, but could find nothing
-anywhere to drink. This made
-them angry with their leader, Moses,
-so angry that they were going to
-stone him to death. But Moses asked
-God to help him, saying: “What
-shall I do unto this people? they be
-almost ready to stone me.” God told
-him to take his rod and strike a certain
-rock on Mount Horeb. Moses
-did so. At once a clear stream of
-water burst out of the rock, enough
-for all the people.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus7.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">STRIKING THE ROCK.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.</h2>
-
-<p>When the Israelites came near
-Mount Sinai, God said that in three
-days from that time he would come
-down upon the mountain. But none
-of the people except Moses and
-Aaron were to touch the mountain.
-If they did, they would die. They
-could come up into the mountain and
-be with Him. God did as he promised.
-There was a thick cloud all
-about Him, and fire and smoke, and
-thunder and lightnings, so the people
-could not see him. And the mountain
-shook and the voice of God was
-heard like the sound of a trumpet,
-giving to them the Ten Commandments.
-And the people were afraid
-and drew back from the mountain.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus8.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB.</h2>
-
-<p>After God had given the Ten Commandments,
-Moses went up into the
-mountain and stayed with God forty
-days and forty nights. God told him
-that the Israelites must build Him a
-house to live in which should be
-called “The Tabernacle.” They
-must give gold, silver, brass, blue,
-purple, scarlet, fine linen, oils, spices,
-costly woods, jewels and other precious
-things, for this house. Bezaleel
-and Aholiab must build it, because
-He had made them wise. Moses
-told the people what God had said.
-They were so anxious to help that
-they brought more than God had
-asked for. And God’s beautiful
-house was soon made.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus9.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">BEZALEEL AND AHOLIAB.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE BRAZEN SERPENT.</h2>
-
-<p>Once, almost forty years after they
-made God’s House, the Israelites were
-very hungry and thirsty. They said
-hateful things about Moses and about
-God too, which was very wicked. So
-God sent fiery serpents to bite the
-people. The bite was poisonous, and
-many died. Then they knew this
-was because they had done wrong.
-They came to Moses and asked him
-to pray God to take the serpents
-away. Moses prayed. God told
-Moses to make a brass serpent and
-set it on a pole where all the people
-could see it. When Moses had done
-this he told the people to look. Every
-one who was bitten was made well as
-soon as he saw the brass serpent.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus10.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE BRAZEN SERPENT.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN.</h2>
-
-<p>After Moses died Joshua led the
-people of Israel. They had come
-very near to the land God had made
-ready for them, but there was still
-the great river Jordan to cross. They
-did not know how to get across, for
-the water was deep and they had no
-boats. But God had a way for them.
-He told Joshua to have the priests of
-his Tabernacle go into the water first
-and stand there. As soon as the feet
-of the priests touched the water it
-stopped flowing from above and piled
-up in a great heap. So the people
-went across the Jordan on dry land.
-After the priests left the river, the
-water flowed just as it had before.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus11.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">CROSSING THE JORDAN.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD’S HOST.</h2>
-
-<p>When the Canaanites heard how
-the Israelites had crossed the Jordan,
-they were afraid and shut themselves
-up in their city, Jericho. The Israelites
-had to find some way to break into
-the city. One day when Joshua was
-walking near the wall of Jericho, he
-saw a man with a drawn sword in his
-hand. He at once asked the man
-whether he was a friend or an enemy.
-The man answered: “As captain of the
-host of the Lord am I now come.” Then
-Joshua knew it was an angel and
-fell down and worshiped him. The
-angel said: “Loose thy shoe from off
-thy foot, for the place whereon thou
-standest is holy.” Joshua did so.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus12.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD’S HOST.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>HOW JERICHO WAS CAPTURED.</h2>
-
-<p>The Israelites took Jericho in a
-very curious way. Every day for six
-days the armed men marched around
-the city once. On the seventh day
-they marched around seven times,
-while the priests blew their trumpets.
-Just as they finished the last march,
-the trumpets gave a long blast and
-all the people together gave a mighty
-shout. Then that strong, high wall
-fell down flat, and they went in and
-took the city and burnt it and everything
-in it except the silver and gold
-and vessels of brass and iron. The
-rest of the people of Canaan were
-greatly surprised when they heard
-how Jericho was captured.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus13.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE FALL OF JERICHO.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>ACHAN’S SIN.</h2>
-
-<p>Ai was a city not far from Jericho.
-Three thousand Israelites went to take
-it. But some were killed and the rest
-got frightened and ran away. Joshua
-felt so badly that he went and told
-God all about it. God said that the
-Israelites had been beaten because one
-of them had kept for his own some of
-the silver and gold taken from Jericho.
-God pointed out that Achan was
-the man who had stolen these things
-and that he had hidden them in his
-tent. When they looked in the tent
-they found them buried in the ground.
-Achan and all his family and all that
-he had were stoned and burned and
-a great heap of stones raised over
-them as a warning.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus14.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">ACHAN CONFESSING HIS SIN.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE ALTAR ON MOUNT EBAL.</h2>
-
-<p>After Achan had been burned, the
-Israelites captured Ai and hanged its
-king on a tree. Then Joshua built
-an altar to God on Mount Ebal of whole
-stones that had never been cut. On
-the altar he put burnt offerings. On
-the stones of the altar he wrote the
-laws that Moses had given to the people
-when he was alive. Then he got
-all the people together, men, women
-and little ones, and read to them God’s
-promises of the good things that would
-happen to them if they did right, and
-the bad things that would happen if
-they did wrong. The people listened
-carefully to the reading. Joshua did
-this because he had promised Moses
-that he would just before he died.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus15.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE ALTAR ON MOUNT EBAL.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE CITIES OF REFUGE.</h2>
-
-<p>In those old times, when one man
-killed another, the friends of the dead
-man had the right to kill the murderer.
-But sometimes it happened
-that one person killed another without
-meaning to do it. Of course it was
-not right that he should be killed for
-what he could not help. God saw that
-there ought to be some way of saving
-him. So he told Joshua to name six
-cities to which such a person could flee
-and where no one could touch him.
-These cities were called Cities of Refuge.
-Three of them were on the west
-side of Jordan and three on the east.
-Some say that all the guide posts
-along the way had “Refuge!” “Refuge!”
-written on them.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus16.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">FLEEING TO THE CITY OF REFUGE.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE DEATH OF JOSHUA.</h2>
-
-<p>A long time after the fall of Jericho,
-when Joshua was an old man, he made
-all the Israelites come into one place
-so that he could talk to them, before
-he left them, forever. He asked them
-to count over the good things God had
-done for them, and promised that He
-would do even more for them than He
-had already. He told them to be
-brave, to do as Moses had wanted them
-to do when he was alive, and never
-to have anything to do with people
-who worshiped idols. If they did,
-God would punish them. When
-Joshua had instructed the Israelites
-in all the good ways, having said all
-that was on his mind, he died. He
-was one hundred and ten years old.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus17.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">JOSHUA EXHORTING THE PEOPLE.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>GIDEON AND THE FLEECE.</h2>
-
-<p>After Joshua died, the Israelites forgot
-God and worshiped idols. So God
-punished them as Joshua said. The
-Midianites came into the land and
-the Israelites had to hide from them
-in dens and caves. Gideon, a mighty
-man, was threshing corn one day when
-an angel came to him and told him to
-go and save Israel. Gideon was willing
-to go, but asked God to show him
-some sign that he would beat the Midianites.
-So one night God made a
-fleece that Gideon put on the ground
-wet with dew while all the ground was
-dry, and the next night he kept the
-fleece dry while all the ground was
-wet. Then Gideon knew that God
-would be on his side.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus18.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">EXAMINING THE FLEECE.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE DEFEAT OF THE MIDIANITES.</h2>
-
-<p>Gideon got together a large army,
-but God told him that only a part must
-fight. So Gideon picked out the three
-hundred bravest men and divided
-them into three companies of one hundred
-each, and put a trumpet in each
-man’s hand and an empty pitcher and
-a lamp inside the pitcher. About the
-middle of the night they came to the
-camp of the Midianites and blew
-the trumpets and broke the pitchers
-and held up the lamps and cried “The
-sword of the Lord and of Gideon.”
-The Midianites were afraid and ran
-about and cried out and killed one another.
-The Israelites ran after them
-and drove them out of the country.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus19.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">“THE SWORD OF THE LORD, AND OF GIDEON.”</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE DEATH OF SAMSON.</h2>
-
-<p>Samson was the strongest man that
-ever lived. At one time he tore a live
-lion apart with his hands, at another
-he killed one thousand men, and at
-another he carried away the gates of
-Gaza, a city of the Philistines. But
-the very last thing that he did was
-the most wonderful of all. The Philistines
-had cruelly put out his eyes.
-At a feast where there were over three
-thousand of them, Samson got a boy
-to show him the way, and then putting
-his hands upon two pillars that held
-up the roof, and praying God for
-help, he pressed upon them with all
-his might. The pillars broke, the
-roof fell. Samson himself and the
-Philistines were killed.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus20.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">SAMSON AND THE PHILISTINES.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>RUTH AND NAOMI.</h2>
-
-<p>Naomi’s home was at Bethlehem.
-But one year, because there was no
-food there, she went to Moab with her
-husband and her two sons. Both the
-sons took wives in Moab. The wives’
-names were Orpah and Ruth. After a
-little time Naomi’s husband died, then
-both the sons. Naomi started to go
-back to Bethlehem, and Orpah and
-Ruth started with her. But Naomi
-did not think they ought to leave
-their homes and advised them to stay
-in Moab. Orpah stayed. But Ruth
-said to Naomi: “Whither thou goest,
-I will go, and where thou lodgest I
-will lodge; thy people shall be my
-people and thy God, my God.” So
-Ruth and Naomi came to Bethlehem.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus21.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">RUTH AND NAOMI.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>BOAZ AND RUTH.</h2>
-
-<p>Ruth and Naomi were poor. So
-Ruth went out to pick up the grain
-which the reapers let fall at their
-work. The field into which she went
-belonged to a rich man named Boaz.
-He was pleased with Ruth, and let her
-eat and drink with the reapers. He
-told her never to go anywhere else,
-but always to come to his field, and
-he made the reapers let fall some
-grain on purpose for her. So when
-she came home to Naomi at night, she
-had a very large bundle. Ruth went
-to that field all through the harvest.
-Afterward she became the wife of
-Boaz.</p>
-
-<p>So you see Ruth did not lose
-anything by staying with Naomi.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus22.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">BOAZ SHOWING KINDNESS TO RUTH.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>ELI AND SAMUEL.</h2>
-
-<p>Once a year Samuel’s mother went
-to see him and always took with her
-a little coat. One night, when Samuel
-was asleep, he heard his name spoken.
-He thought Eli called him, and ran
-to see what he wanted. But Eli said
-he had not called him. So he went
-back to bed. Again he heard “Samuel,”
-and again he ran to Eli. But
-Eli had not called him. Still again
-he was called and ran to Eli. Then
-Eli knew that God had spoken and
-told him to say, “Speak, Lord, for
-thy servant heareth,” next time he
-was called. Samuel did this, and
-God told him of something terrible
-that was going to happen to Eli
-and his sons.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus23.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">SAMUEL AND ELI.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>DEATH OF ELI AND HIS SONS.</h2>
-
-<p>A little while after God spoke to
-Samuel, the Israelites fought against
-the Philistines. They were beaten.
-Then they took the ark of God from
-the tabernacle and marched against
-the Philistines. At first the Philistines
-were afraid of the ark. But they
-fought bravely. The Israelites were
-again beaten. Eli’s two sons were
-killed and the ark of God was taken.
-Eli was then ninety-eight years old.
-He was blind. He was sitting on a
-bench by the roadside when he heard
-the sad news. He was so overcome
-by the intelligence he fell over backward
-and brake his neck. That was
-what God told Samuel would happen.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus24.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">ELI RECEIVING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF HIS SONS.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>PLAYING ON THE HARP BEFORE SAUL.</h2>
-
-<p>Saul was the king of Israel. David
-was a shepherd boy, the son of Jesse.
-He had a happy, ruddy face that made
-everybody like him. Besides he was
-very brave. Once he killed both a
-lion and a bear that came to eat up the
-lambs in his father’s flock. He knew
-how to throw stones with a sling and
-could play on the harp beautifully.
-One day King Saul was feeling very
-sad and wanted somebody to play to
-him. He thought music would make
-him feel better. His servants told him
-about David. So he sent for him.
-David came and played so nicely on
-the harp that Saul forgot all about
-his trouble.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus25.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">DAVID PLAYING ON THE HARP BEFORE SAUL.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>DAVID AND GOLIATH.</h2>
-
-<p>The Israelites and Philistines were
-at war. Goliath was a Philistine
-giant. He used to come out in front
-of the Israelites every day and dare
-any one to fight with him. He was
-so big and strong that all the Israelites
-were afraid to try. One day David
-came to the camp on an errand, and
-when he saw Goliath he made up his
-mind to fight him. So he chose five
-smooth stones out of a brook and put
-them in his shepherd’s bag. Then
-with sling in hand he went toward
-Goliath. Goliath laughed at him, but
-David did not mind that. He threw
-a stone with his sling. It hit Goliath
-on the forehead and he fell to the
-ground. Then David cut off his head.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus26.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">DAVID.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>DAVID AND ARAUNAH.</h2>
-
-<p>David was not a bad man, but he
-sometimes did wrong and then God
-had to punish him although He was
-very fond of him. When he had been
-king many years he had the Israelites
-counted. This displeased God and He
-sent a plague upon Israel. This plague
-killed many thousand people. David
-felt very sorry to have his people die
-for his sin and prayed God to stop
-the plague and punish him instead.
-God told David to go to the threshing-floor
-of Araunah and make an offering.
-David went. He bought the
-threshing-floor and some oxen and
-wood. Then he built an altar and
-made the offering. God stopped the
-plague.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus27.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">DAVID AND ARAUNAH.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS.</h2>
-
-<p>Ahab was a very wicked king, more
-wicked than any that came before him.
-He took a wife who worshiped idols
-and built an altar to a heathen god
-and worshiped this god. So God
-sent Elijah to Ahab to say to him:
-“As the Lord of Israel liveth there
-shall not be dew nor rain these years.”
-Ahab was so angry at Elijah that he
-had to flee and hide himself by the
-brook Cherith near the river Jordan.
-The brook gave him all the water he
-needed, but there was no food there.
-But God would not let his prophet
-starve. He sent ravens to feed him.
-These ravens brought him bread and
-meat twice every day; in the morning
-and in the evening.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus28.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>ELIJAH AND ELISHA.</h2>
-
-<p>One day Elijah was traveling
-through the land, when he saw twelve
-men ploughing with twelve yoke of
-oxen. One of these men was Elisha.
-When Elijah saw Elisha, he knew
-that he was the man God wished him
-to take for a servant. So Elijah
-threw his coat on Elisha as he went
-by. Then Elisha ran after Elijah
-and said: “Let me, I pray thee, kiss
-my father and mother and then I
-will follow thee.” He killed a yoke
-of oxen and made a feast. Then he
-said good-by to his father and mother
-and went away with Elijah. Afterward
-God took Elijah up to Heaven
-in a chariot of fire. Elisha was with
-him at the time.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus29.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">PLOUGHING IN CANAAN.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE SHUNAMMITE’S SON.</h2>
-
-<p>A kind Shunammite woman who
-liked Elisha made for him a little
-chamber on the wall. She made it
-cosey with a bed and table and stool
-and candlestick. Elisha used to come
-to this little room when he got tired.
-Now this good woman had a little boy
-whom she dearly loved, for he was her
-only child. One morning the little
-fellow was running about in the field
-with the reapers. All at once he felt
-a pain and ran to his father, crying,
-“My head! my head!” When the
-father saw his little son was not feeling
-well, he had him taken home to
-his mother. She held him in her lap
-till noon. Then he died. Elisha
-brought him back to life.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus30.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE SHUNAMMITE’S SON RESTORED.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE LITTLE CAPTIVE MAID.</h2>
-
-<p>Naaman was a great Syrian general,
-who had beaten the Israelites in battle.
-He was very wretched because
-he was a leper. Now Naaman’s wife
-had a little Israelite girl to wait upon
-her, who had heard of the wonderful
-things Elisha had done. This little
-girl had told her mistress that Elisha
-could cure Naaman. So Naaman
-went with his chariot and horses to
-see Elisha. Elisha told him to wash
-seven times in the river Jordan.
-Naaman would not do this at first, it
-seemed such a little thing. But
-he finally changed his mind, and
-washed in the Jordan and was cured.
-You see how much good one little
-girl can do.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus31.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE LITTLE CAPTIVE MAID.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>JONAH AT NINEVEH.</h2>
-
-<p>God told Jonah to go to Nineveh
-and warn the people that their city
-would be destroyed because they were
-so wicked. But Jonah ran away to
-sea. There was a terrible storm on
-the sea, and the sailors threw Jonah
-overboard. They thought he was
-the cause of the storm. But he was
-not drowned, for God sent a great fish
-to swallow him. Jonah was inside
-the fish three days and three nights.
-Then God made the fish throw Jonah
-up on the dry land. After this
-God sent Jonah to Nineveh. But
-the people were so sorry for their
-sins that He took pity on them and
-did not destroy the city.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus32.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">JONAH AT NINEVEH.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>HEZEKIAH AND SENNACHERIB.</h2>
-
-<p>Hezekiah was the best king Judah
-ever had. The Bible says no king
-ever served God so well. When Hezekiah
-had been king fourteen years,
-Sennacherib, the king of Assyria,
-marched against Jerusalem. He sent
-a letter to Hezekiah, telling him to
-give up the city because his God could
-not help him. Hezekiah took this
-letter up into the temple. He spread
-it out before God and prayed Him
-to save Jerusalem. God heard his
-prayer. That night His angel went
-into the Assyrian camp and killed one
-hundred and eighty-five thousand
-of the Assyrians. Soon after this
-Sennacherib’s two sons killed him.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus33.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">HEZEKIAH LAYING THE LETTER BEFORE GOD.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE BRAVE HEBREW BOYS.</h2>
-
-<p>Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and
-Azariah were four Hebrew boys who
-were prisoners at Babylon. They
-thought it was wrong to eat the meat
-and drink the wine the king sent,
-and refused both when offered them.
-They asked for plain food and pure
-water instead. But the servant was
-afraid they would grow thin if he
-gave them nothing else. Then the
-king would be angry at him and he
-would lose his life. Daniel told him
-to give them plain food and water
-for ten days. He did so. At the end
-of the ten days they seemed so much
-better than those who ate the meat
-and drank the wine that the servant
-was glad to do as they wished.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus34.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">THE BRAVE HEBREW BOYS.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>DANIEL AND THE LIONS.</h2>
-
-<p>When Darius was king at Babylon
-he liked Daniel so well that he made
-him the chief officer in his kingdom.
-This made the other officers hate Daniel.
-They got Darius to make a law
-that every man who prayed to any
-one except Darius himself should be
-thrown into the den of lions. Daniel
-kept on praying to his God three times
-a day. When Darius heard that Daniel
-prayed he was very sorry he had
-made the law. But he could not
-change it, so Daniel was thrown into
-the lions’ den. That night Darius
-could not sleep, he felt so bad. Very
-early next morning he ran to the
-den. But Daniel was safe, for God
-had shut the lions’ mouths.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus35.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">DANIEL AND THE LIONS.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>ESTHER BEFORE THE KING.</h2>
-
-<p>Ahasuerus was king of Persia.
-Esther, a Jewess, was his queen.
-Haman was next to the king. He
-was a cruel man, and hated the Jews
-because one of them, a servant of the
-king, would not bow down to him.
-So he got the king to make a law that
-all the Jews in his kingdom should
-be killed. Esther felt very sorry for
-her people. She made up her mind to
-save them if she could. But first she
-spent three days in fasting and prayer.
-Then she went to the king and begged
-him to save the Jews. The
-king loved Esther so much that he
-did what she asked. So the Jews
-were saved from the cruel decree of
-the king Ahasuerus.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus36.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">ESTHER BEFORE THE KING.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>DAVID AND JONATHAN.</h2>
-
-<p>Saul loved David at first. Then he
-hated him and tried to kill him twice
-by throwing his spear at him. David
-escaped and hid himself. Now Saul
-had a son named Jonathan, who
-thought a great deal of David. It
-made him feel very bad to see his
-father trying to kill him. Jonathan
-thought that Saul might get over his
-anger in two or three days and take
-David back. But when he was sure
-that Saul really meant to kill David,
-he went to his hiding place and
-told him how he might get away.
-After they had wept and kissed each
-other and promised always to be
-friends, David fled and Jonathan
-went back to his father.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus37.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">DAVID AND JONATHAN.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.</h2>
-
-<p>One night certain shepherds
-were out in the fields taking care
-of their sheep. Suddenly they
-saw a light brighter than the sun,
-and in the glory of the light, an
-angel. They felt afraid.</p>
-
-<p>But the angel spoke to them;
-he said: “Fear not. I have good
-news for you, and for all the people
-in the world. There was born
-to-day, in the city of Bethlehem,
-a little child who is to be a
-Saviour; his name is Christ the
-Lord. You will find him lying in
-a manger.” As he spoke, suddenly
-there appeared a great company of
-angels, and they sang: “Glory to
-God in the highest, and on earth,
-<em>peace</em>, good-will toward men.”</p>
-
-<p>When the angels were gone back
-to Heaven, the shepherds said to
-one another: “Let us go right
-away to Bethlehem, and find this
-wonderful baby that the Lord has
-sent us word about.”</p>
-
-<p>So they started in haste. When
-they reached Bethlehem, they found
-the stable, and the manger, and
-there was the baby with his mother.
-Then the shepherds told what the
-angels had said and sung. The people
-wondered at it; the mother remembered
-every word, and thought
-about what it all meant. Then the
-shepherds went back to their work
-praising God as they went, for all
-that he had told them, and for all
-that they had seen.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus38.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.</span>—Matt. ii. 1.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS.</h2>
-
-<p>The child Jesus grew strong in
-body and mind. He was so unlike
-any other child that he was “filled
-with wisdom.” God’s favor was
-with him all the time. When he
-was twelve years old he went with
-his father and mother to Jerusalem
-to the great yearly feast called the
-Passover. Having been there eight
-days, they started for home. But
-Jesus stayed behind at Jerusalem.
-His father and mother didn’t know
-it; they supposed him to be with
-some of the friends. At night when
-they stopped to rest, they found he
-was not to be found. They went
-among the friends and acquaintances
-who were travelling with them, but
-they got no news of him; so they
-turned back toward Jerusalem, looking
-for him all the way. In this
-way three days passed; then they
-found their son sitting in the church
-among the learned men, listening
-and asking questions. And the
-people who listened were astonished
-at the questions which Jesus asked,
-and at the words which he spoke.
-When his parents saw him, they
-were very much astonished. His
-mother said to him: “My son, why
-did you treat us in this way? Your
-father and I have hunted for you in
-great sorrow.”</p>
-
-<p>Then he made this strange answer:
-“How is it that you sought
-me? Didn’t you know that I must
-be about <em>my</em> Father’s business?”</p>
-
-<p>They didn’t understand what he
-meant; they forgot that their son
-was not simply a boy; he was God.
-But he came at once from the church,
-and went home with them, and
-obeyed his father and mother in
-everything. But his mother never
-forgot any of the strange words that
-he spoke.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus39.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">THE CHILD JESUS.</span>—Luke ii. 40.</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus40.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">JESUS IN THE TEMPLE, TEACHING THE DOCTORS.</span>—Luke ii. 46.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.</h2>
-
-<p>When Jesus had grown to be a
-young man, there came a minister
-through the country about Jordan,
-preaching to the people that they repent
-and be baptized. Some thought
-he was the Christ for whom they had
-been waiting. But he said to them:
-“I baptize you with water, but
-there is coming one, so much mightier
-than I, that I am not even worthy
-to untie his shoes [this was the work
-of the lowest servant]; He will baptize
-you with the Holy Ghost and
-with fire. He will make clean the
-hearts of his people. He will gather
-them in as wheat is gathered into the
-garner. But the wicked will be like
-chaff which is burned up, with a fire
-that cannot be put out.” Many other
-solemn things, also, this minister
-preached to the people. A man named
-Herod, ruler over part of the country,
-was angry with John because he had
-been reproved for many sins, among
-them marrying a woman whom he
-had no right to marry; and he put
-John in prison. But before that
-happened, one day, when John had
-been preaching and baptizing many
-people, Jesus came, and asked to be
-baptized also; and as he was praying,
-a wonderful thing happened. The
-Holy Ghost came down out of heaven
-in the form of a dove, and rested on
-Jesus, and a voice out of heaven said:
-“Thou art my beloved son; in thee I
-am well pleased.”</p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>JESUS AT NAZARETH.</h2>
-
-<p>We find Jesus to-day in Nazareth,
-where he lived in his boyhood. It is
-the Sabbath-day, and he has gone to
-church, and stands reading to the people
-from the Bible. He read in the
-book named Isaiah; read about himself.
-These are the words: “The
-Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because
-He hath anointed me to preach the
-gospel to the poor; He hath sent me
-to heal the broken-hearted, to preach
-deliverance to the captives, and recovering
-of sight to the blind, to set
-at liberty them that are bruised, to
-preach the acceptable year of the
-Lord.” When he had read these
-wonderful words he closed the book,
-and gave it to the minister, and sat
-down. All the people looked at him,
-wondering what he would say. Then
-he began to talk. He told them that
-the promises he had been reading to
-them were fulfilled. All listened
-and wondered at the tender and
-beautiful words that he spoke. They
-whispered to each other, saying,
-“Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” Then he
-said to them: “You will surely remind
-me of the proverb, ‘Physician,
-heal thyself.’ Do some of the wonderful
-things here that we have
-heard of you doing in Capernaum.
-But, remember, no prophet is highly
-thought of in his own country. Remember
-that during that time of
-famine in Israel, when it didn’t rain
-for three years and six months, there
-were many widows, but the prophet
-Elijah was sent only to one at Sarepta,
-a city of Sidon. And there
-were many lepers in Israel while the
-prophet Elisha lived there; but Naaman,
-the Syrian, was the only one
-that was cured.”</p>
-
-<p>This preaching made the people
-angry, and they started up in wrath
-and thrust him out of their city, and
-wanted to push him headlong down
-the hill on the top of which Nazareth
-was built. But just there he
-showed his power, in passing quietly
-through the crowd of angry people,
-holding them back by the power of
-his gaze, and went away.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus41.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">JESUS IN THE TEMPLE, READING THE BIBLE.</span>—Luke iv. 16.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE DRAUGHT OF FISHES.</h2>
-
-<p>Jesus stood by the shore of Lake
-Gennesaret, and the people pressed
-about him, to hear him talk about
-God. He saw two ships near the
-water; they were empty, for the fishermen
-to whom they belonged were
-gone to wash their nets. One of the
-ships belonged to a man named Simon.
-Jesus stepped into it, and
-when Simon came asked him to push
-out a little from the shore; then he
-sat down in the ship and taught the
-people. When the sermon was over
-he said to Simon: “Push out now
-where it is deep, and let down your
-net.” Simon answered: “We have
-been at work all night, Master, and
-have caught no fish; but we will do
-as you say.” So they let down the
-net into the water, and at once it became
-so full of fish that it began to
-break. Then Simon and the other
-fisherman called to their partners,
-who were in the other ship, to come
-and help. They came and filled both
-the ships with fish; then the ships
-began to sink. Simon Peter, seeing
-that, fell on his knees and began to
-pray; he said: “Depart from me,
-for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” He
-meant that he was not worthy to be
-near the Lord. He was astonished
-and frightened, and so were the
-others—James and John, and they
-were the sons of Zebedee. Jesus
-spoke kindly and tenderly to Simon;
-he said: “Fear not; after this you
-shall catch men.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus42.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES.</span>—John xxi. 4.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE CENTURION’S FAITH.</h2>
-
-<p>Next we find Jesus at Capernaum.
-A certain Roman military officer
-lived there, who had a servant lying
-very sick. The officer loved his
-faithful servant. He saw that he
-was going to die. He had heard of
-Jesus, and he sent some of the elders
-to him, begging that he would
-come and cure the sick man. The
-messengers came to Jesus and urged
-him to go at once to the sick one;
-they told him how kind the officer
-had been to their people. He went
-with them. When they were near
-the house, other friends came out to
-meet the Saviour, and presently the
-officer came himself. He told Jesus
-that he did not feel himself worthy
-to have so great a man in his house;
-that he did not want to trouble him
-to go there, and at first he thought
-he ought not even to come to him,
-troubling him. He begged that
-Jesus would just then and there
-speak a word that should cure his
-servant. He said that he was a man
-in authority, having servants who
-obeyed orders. Jesus, he believed,
-had but to give orders, and his invisible
-servants would obey him. Jesus
-wondered at his faith.</p>
-
-<p>He turned, and said to the people
-who were following: “I haven’t
-found such great faith as this in all
-Israel.” Some of those who had been
-sent to Jesus, now reached the house
-where the sick man had lain, and
-behold he was well! This story is
-also told in Matthew viii. 5-13.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus43.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">THE CENTURION.</span>—Matt. viii. 8.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE WIDOW OF NAIN.</h2>
-
-<p>Once Jesus went to the city of
-Nain. His disciples went with him.
-Many people followed him. As he
-reached the city gate he met a
-funeral procession. It was a long
-procession, for the young man who
-was dead had been his mother’s only
-son, and she was a widow. The
-people were very sorry for her.
-Jesus, when he saw her, felt very
-sorry for her, too. He spoke to her.
-He said, “Weep not.” Then he
-went towards the frame on which
-the dead body was laid, and touched
-it; and the men who were carrying
-it stood still, and Jesus spoke to the
-dead. He said, “Young man, I say
-unto thee, arise.” Immediately the
-dead man sat up and spoke to Jesus;
-and Jesus called his mother to him.
-This wonderful thing made the people
-afraid; they said, “A great
-prophet has come among us.” And
-they praised God for sending him.
-This story was told all over the country,
-and for many miles around.
-When the people came together they
-said, “Have you heard how that
-poor widow who lives in Nain had
-her son given back to her after he
-was dead?”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus44.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">JESUS RAISETH THE WIDOW’S SON.</span>—Luke vii. 14-15.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE FRIEND OF SINNERS.</h2>
-
-<p>Jesus was invited to dine with a
-man named Simon. While at table,
-a poor woman came in and poured
-sweet-smelling ointment over the
-feet of Jesus, weeping so that she
-washed his feet with her tears.
-Simon did not like this, for the
-woman was very wicked. He
-thought if Jesus were a prophet
-he would know what sort of a
-woman this was, and would not
-allow her to touch him. Jesus saw
-these thoughts in his heart, and told
-him he had something to say to him.
-Then he told him this story: “There
-was once a man who was owed by
-two men; one owed him five hundred
-pence, and the other fifty.
-Both were poor, having nothing with
-which to pay their debt. The good
-man knowing this, forgave them
-both. Tell me, which of them will
-love him most?”</p>
-
-<p>“Why,” said Simon, “I suppose
-the one who owed the most.”</p>
-
-<p>“Yes,” said Jesus, “that is true.
-Simon, do you see this poor woman?
-You gave me no water to wash my
-feet, but she has washed them with
-her tears, and wiped them with her
-hair. You gave me no kiss, but she
-continues to kiss my feet. You did
-not even anoint my head, but she
-has anointed my feet. Now I tell
-you this: her sins which are many,
-are forgiven, for she loves me very
-much. If people feel that they have
-but little to be forgiven, they have
-but little love.” Then he spoke to
-the woman; he said: “Your sins
-are forgiven.” Those who were sitting
-with him at table began to say
-among themselves, “Why, who is
-this man who can forgive sins?”
-Jesus spoke again to the woman; he
-said: “Thy faith hath saved thee;
-go in peace.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus45.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">MARY MAGDALEN ANOINTING THE FEET OF JESUS.</span>—Luke vii. 38.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>RETURN OF THE SEVENTY.</h2>
-
-<p>Seventy people were sent out in
-many directions to tell the people of
-the Lord Jesus. They had blessed
-meetings. They came back filled
-with joy. They told Jesus that they
-had found even devils who had to
-obey their words when they spoke in
-his name. Jesus told them that he
-had long known that Satan would
-be subject to him. Also he promised
-them that nothing should hurt them
-in their work, neither that serpent
-Satan, nor any of his helpers. But
-he reminded them, that though they
-had such great power given them,
-there was something better than that
-for them to rejoice over forever: that
-their names were written in heaven.
-Then Jesus, with great joy in his
-heart, thanked God that he had hidden
-many things from the worldly-wise
-and the selfishly prudent, and
-had made them known to the humble-hearted
-who were willing to be
-like little children and learn of him.
-He reminded his disciples that no
-man knew about the mysteries of
-God, but that all things were delivered
-to him, and that no one could
-understand the Father unless he
-made him plain to their hearts.
-And he said to those disciples aside,
-“Blessed are the eyes which see the
-things that you see; many prophets
-and kings desired to see them, but
-were not permitted.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus46.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">AND WHEN YE COME INTO AN HOUSE, SALUTE IT.</span>—Matt. x. 12.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE GOOD SAMARITAN.</h2>
-
-<p>A lawyer once asked Jesus who
-was his neighbor, and Jesus told him
-this story:—“Once a man went from
-Jerusalem to Jericho, and on the
-road he met a party of thieves.
-They stripped his clothes from him;
-they wounded him, and at last went
-away, leaving him lying half dead.
-A little while after a certain minister
-passed that way; he saw the man,
-but he crossed the street and went
-on. Then there came a Levite; he
-stopped and looked at the poor man,
-and then he too crossed the street
-and went on his way. Then there
-came a Samaritan; he stopped and
-looked at the poor man, and his
-heart was filled with pity. The man
-was nothing to him, not even one of
-his own nation; but he bound up his
-wounds, pouring oil and wine on
-them to soothe the pain; then he
-lifted the man to his own horse and
-took him to a place where he could
-be cared for. In the morning before
-he went on his journey, he took from
-his pocket some money, and gave it
-to the host, and asked him to have the
-sick man taken care of. If he had
-to spend money, when he came that
-way again he would pay the bill.”</p>
-
-<p>“Now,” said Jesus, “which of these
-three people do you think treated the
-poor man like a neighbor?”</p>
-
-<p>“Why,” said the lawyer, “the one
-who took care of him.”</p>
-
-<p>“Then,” said Jesus, “see that you
-follow his example.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus47.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">THE GOOD SAMARITAN.</span>—Luke x. 33.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>IMPORTUNITY IN PRAYER.</h2>
-
-<p>At one time when Jesus was with
-his disciples they asked him to teach
-them to pray. Having talked with
-them about the Lord’s Prayer, he illustrated
-prayer by the following:</p>
-
-<p>Said he: “Suppose you had a
-friend to whom you should go one
-night at midnight, and ask him to
-lend you three loaves of bread, for a
-friend had arrived unexpectedly, and
-you had nothing for him. Suppose
-he should answer, ‘Don’t trouble me;
-I’ve shut my house for the night, and
-my children and I are in bed; I can’t
-get up and attend to you.’ Now I
-tell you, though he wouldn’t attend
-to you on account of friendship, yet
-if you persist in urging your need he
-will get up and give you what you
-want. Now I say to you: ask and
-it shall be given you; seek and ye
-shall find; knock and it shall be
-opened unto you. Every one that
-asks shall receive; he who seeks
-shall find; to him who knocks it
-shall be opened. Suppose your son
-asks for a piece of bread, would you
-give him a stone? Suppose he asks
-for a fish, would you give him a serpent?
-If he ask for an egg, would
-you give him a scorpion? Now, if
-you with evil hearts and ignorant
-minds, yet know enough to take
-care of your children and give them
-proper things, don’t you suppose that
-your Heavenly Father knows what
-you need, and will give the Holy
-Spirit to those who ask him?”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus48.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">SECRET PRAYER.</span>—Matt. vi. 6.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>WARNING AGAINST COVETOUSNESS.</h2>
-
-<p>Jesus had been talking about the
-loving care of the Heavenly Father,
-and one of the listeners interrupted
-him with a request that he would
-talk to his brother and get him to
-divide equally between them the
-property that had been left. Jesus
-asked him who he thought made him
-a judge, or a divider over them; and
-then, by the story he told them, he
-showed the covetous thought that
-was in the man’s heart. He reminded
-them that the important thing in a
-man’s life was not to have a great
-deal of property. Said he: “There
-was a certain man who grew rich;
-his harvests were so great that he
-wondered what he should do with
-all his grain. At last he decided to
-pull down his barns and build larger
-ones, and then say to his soul, ‘Soul,
-you have plenty of food, enough to
-last you many years; take your ease,
-eat, drink and be merry.’ But just
-then God spoke to him; He said,
-‘Foolish man, this night your soul
-shall be called to leave the body;
-then who will have all these things
-which you have provided?’—Now,”
-said Jesus, “the man who plans for
-himself, laying up treasures for himself,
-and has none of the riches that
-God could give him, is like this poor,
-foolish man in the story.” Then He
-turned to His disciples and told them
-that living meant more than simply
-keeping the body alive and clothed.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus49.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">CONSIDER THE LILIES HOW THEY GROW.</span>—Luke xii. 27.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>WARNING AGAINST FORMALISM.</h2>
-
-<p>Jesus was traveling through the
-cities and villages on his way to
-Jerusalem, teaching as he went. One
-day a man asked him if many would
-be saved. He said all must strive
-to enter in at the straight gate, for
-many would try some other way and
-would not get in. He said, “It was
-like a feast spread for guests; and
-when once the master of the house
-had closed the door, no more could
-get in. Those who stood outside
-saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open the door
-for us,’ would only be answered with
-‘I don’t know you.’ They might
-answer, ‘We have eaten and drank
-with you, and you have taught in
-our streets,’ for some of these people
-who would not follow Jesus had sat
-at table with him and heard his
-teachings. But he said the answer
-to any such would be, ‘I don’t know
-you; go away, you are wicked people.’—Then,”
-said Jesus, “there shall
-be weeping and gnashing of teeth;”
-Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob
-would be inside, but those who
-would not come to him by the right
-way would be thrust out. People
-from every quarter shall come together
-and sit down in God’s kingdom.
-The Gentiles, who were the
-last to hear the good news, shall be
-among the first in heaven, and some
-of the Jews (God’s dear people who
-would not love Him) will not get in.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus50.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">JESUS EATETH WITH PUBLICANS AND SINNERS.</span>—Mark ii. 16.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE GOSPEL FEAST.</h2>
-
-<p>One Sabbath-day Jesus was taking
-dinner at the house of a Pharisee.
-He talked with the people at the
-table about humility of manner at the
-great feasts which were given in
-those days. Then one of the company
-said to him, “Blessed is he that
-shall eat bread in the kingdom of
-God.” I do not think he meant
-heaven, but rather the kingdom that
-he hoped the Messiah would set up
-on the earth. Jesus answered him
-in the form of a story about a man
-who made a great supper, sending
-out many invitations. When everything
-was ready he sent for his
-guests to come, and every one of
-them sent an excuse. One said he
-had bought a piece of ground and
-must go and see it, and begged to
-be excused; another said he had
-bought five yoke of oxen, and was
-going to prove them; another said he
-had just been married and couldn’t
-come. When the servant came back
-and told his master he was angry.
-He told his servants to go out quickly
-through the streets and bring all the
-lame people, and the blind people,
-and the poor people of every sort.
-So the servant did as he was told;
-but he said to his master, “There is
-room yet.” So the master told him to
-go out in the highways and hedges,
-and coax people to come to the supper,
-and fill the house, for none of
-those who were first invited should
-be allowed to taste of the supper.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus51.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD TO CÆSAREA.</span>—Mark viii. 27.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE PRODIGAL SON.</h2>
-
-<p>Jesus once, in teaching the people,
-told this story: “A man had two
-sons; the younger of them asked his
-father to give him the part of the
-property that would finally belong
-to him. So the father divided his
-wealth between them. A few days
-after that the younger son went a
-long journey, taking all his money
-with him; but he wasted it in wild
-and foolish living. When it was all
-gone there came a great famine to
-that country, and the foolish young
-man had nothing to live on. He
-went looking for work, and a man
-hired him to take care of swine. He
-was so hungry that he was willing to
-eat the husks that the swine had for
-food; and no one gave anything to
-him. Then he began to think of his
-home, and to remember how his
-father’s servants had plenty to eat,
-and here he was starving! Then he
-said, ‘I will arise and go to my
-father, and I will say to him, Father,
-I have sinned against heaven and
-before you. I am not worthy to be
-called your son; let me be one of
-your hired servants.’ So he went on
-his journey home. When he was
-yet a great way from the house, his
-father saw him and ran out to meet
-him, and put his arms around him
-and kissed him. Then the son said,
-‘Father, I have sinned against heaven
-and against you; I am not worthy to
-be called your son.’ But the father
-said, ‘bring the best clothes in the
-house for him to wear, and put a ring
-on his hand, and shoes on his feet,
-and have the fatted calf killed, and
-make a feast, and let us eat and drink
-and be merry; for my son was the
-same to me as dead, and now he is
-alive again; he was lost, but now he
-is found.’ And they were merry.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus52.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON.</span>—Luke xv. 20.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS.</h2>
-
-<p>In order to explain to his disciples
-that there were two worlds for souls,
-Jesus once told them this story:—“There
-was a rich man who wore
-elegant clothing and lived richly
-every day. There was a poor, sick
-beggar, named Lazarus, lying at his
-gate. He wanted the crumbs which
-were left from the rich man’s table.
-His body was full of sores, and the
-dogs used to come and lick them.
-One day this poor man died, but God
-sent his angels and carried him to
-heaven. Then the rich man died,
-and was buried. His soul went to
-hell. One day, while he was in that
-place of pain and torment, he looked
-up, and away off he saw heaven, and
-Lazarus the beggar was there, with
-his head on Abraham’s bosom. He
-called to him: ‘Father Abraham,
-have mercy on me, and send Lazarus
-to dip the tip of his finger in water
-and cool my tongue, for I am tormented
-in this flame.’ But Abraham
-said: ‘Son, remember that while
-you were living you had plenty of
-good things, while Lazarus suffered
-at your gate. Now he is happy, and
-you are suffering. And, besides,
-there is a great gulf between you
-and us, so that if we wanted to come
-to you we could not; neither can
-you come here from that place.’
-Then the rich man said, ‘I pray you
-send him to my father’s house to tell
-my five brothers about this dreadful
-place, so they need not come here.’
-But Abraham said, ‘Why, they have
-the story of that place. Moses wrote
-about it, and the Prophets wrote
-about it; let them read it.’ But the
-rich man said, ‘O, Father Abraham,
-if one went back to them from the
-dead, they would repent.’ ‘No,’ said
-Abraham, ‘if they will not believe
-God’s own word, as Moses and the
-Prophets wrote it in the Bible,
-neither would they believe if one
-went to them from the dead.’”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus53.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">LAZARUS AT THE RICH MAN’S DOOR.</span>—Luke xvi. 19.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE TEN LEPERS.</h2>
-
-<p>One day Jesus, on his journey to
-Jerusalem, passed through a village
-in Samaria. He saw ten men who
-had the leprosy; they kept away
-from all other people, as the law
-obliged them to. But when they
-saw Jesus, they called out with loud
-voices, “Jesus, Master, have mercy
-on us!” Jesus said to them, “Go
-show yourselves to the priest.” This
-was what people who were cured of
-leprosy were obliged to do before
-they could go among the people.
-The priest had to give them a certificate
-to say that they were cured. As
-these ten men turned to go to the
-priest, as Jesus had told them, suddenly
-they found that they were
-well. One of them, as soon as he
-found it out, turned back and followed
-after Jesus, and when he
-reached him he bowed down at his
-feet, thanking him and praising God.
-He was from a Samaritan village;
-not one of the Lord’s chosen people,
-but a Gentile. Jesus said to him,
-“Didn’t I cure ten men? Where
-are the nine? Not one of them
-came back to thank me, except this
-Samaritan.” Then he said to the
-kneeling man, “Arise, and go on
-your way; your faith hath made
-you whole.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus54.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">JESUS CURING THE TEN LEPERS.</span>—Luke xvii. 14.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>WHOM THE LORD RECEIVES.</h2>
-
-<p>When Jesus was on earth he met
-some people who thought that they
-were perfect, and they despised other
-people. One day he told them this
-story: “There were two men who
-went to the temple one day to pray.
-One of them was a Pharisee, the
-other a publican. The Pharisee said,
-‘God, I thank thee that I am not
-like other men, extortioners, unjust,
-adulterers, or even as this man beside
-me. I fast twice in the week,
-and I give a tenth of all that I have.’
-Then the publican prayed: he did
-not even go close to the holy place:
-he kept his eyes on the ground, and
-he struck his breast, which was a
-sign of deep humility, as he said, ‘God
-be merciful to me, a sinner’—I tell
-you,” said Jesus, “that man went
-back to his home justified, rather than
-the other, for every one who thinks
-too well of himself must be humbled;
-but those who are humble God will
-exalt.”</p>
-
-<p>The rest of the story is about some
-very little children being brought
-to Jesus. His disciples tried to have
-them sent away, for they did not
-understand Jesus; but he called the
-little ones to him and said: “Suffer
-little children to come unto me, and
-forbid them not, for of such is the
-kingdom of heaven. Truly I say to
-you, that any one who will not receive
-the kingdom of heaven with
-the faith of a little child shall never
-enter there.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus55.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">THE PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN.</span>—Luke xviii. 10.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>ZACCHEUS THE PUBLICAN.</h2>
-
-<p>There was a man named Zaccheus,
-a rich man, a tax-gatherer, who
-wanted very much to see Jesus. One
-day, when Jesus was passing through
-the city of Jericho, Zaccheus, who
-was a small man and could not see
-over the heads of the crowd who
-were following Jesus, ran ahead of
-them and climbed into a sycamore
-tree. When Jesus reached the tree
-he looked up and said, “Zaccheus,
-make haste and come down; I want
-to go to your house to-day.” Then
-Zaccheus hurried down and joyfully
-took Jesus home with him. But the
-people murmured about it; they said,
-“He has gone to visit a wicked man.”
-Then Zaccheus talked with Jesus;
-he said to him, “Lord, I mean to
-give the half of all my goods to the
-poor; and if I have taken anything
-from any man wrongfully, I will
-give him back four times as much.”
-Then Jesus said to him, “This day
-is salvation come to your house.
-You are a Jew, a son of Abraham;
-you shall have the promised gift.”</p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>JUDAISM OVERTHROWN.</h2>
-
-<p>Jesus, one day, talking with his
-disciples, said to them: “Take care
-that you are not deceived. There
-will be many coming in my name,
-saying, ‘I am Christ, and the end is
-near;’ but don’t follow after them.
-When you hear of wars and disturbances,
-don’t be frightened; these
-things must first come, but the end
-is not at once. Nation shall rise
-against nation, and kingdom against
-kingdom, and there shall be great
-earthquakes, and famines, and pestilences,
-and fearful sights; and great
-signs shall there be from heaven:
-and before these come, people will
-persecute you, and put you in prisons,
-and you shall be brought before
-kings and rulers, for my name’s
-sake. And you will have a chance
-to testify for me; but you need not
-plan what you shall say, for I will
-give you words that your enemies
-can neither answer nor resist. You
-will be betrayed by parents, brothers,
-relatives and friends, and some of
-you will be put to death; and you
-will be hated by men for my sake;
-but not a hair of your head shall
-perish. Be patient to the end, and
-your souls shall be saved. When
-you see Jerusalem surrounded with
-armies, then know that desolation is
-near. Then let them which are in
-Judea flee to the mountains, and let
-them which are in the midst of it
-depart out, and let not them which
-are in the countries enter thereinto.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus56.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">JESUS FORETELLS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE.</span>—Matt. xxiv. 2.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE LORD’S SUPPER.</h2>
-
-<p>It was the evening before Jesus
-was to be crucified that these things
-happened which are in our lesson
-to-day. Jesus sent Peter and John
-to make ready the supper, that they
-might eat it together. He said to
-them: “When you get to the city of
-Jerusalem, a man will meet you,
-carrying a pitcher of water; follow
-him and stop at the same house.
-Tell the man of the house that the
-Master told you to ask him where
-the guest-chamber was in which he
-could eat the Passover with his disciples.
-He will show you a large
-upper room, furnished. In that
-room make all things ready.” It all
-happened just as he said, and they
-prepared the supper. When Jesus
-and the twelve disciples sat down
-he said to them, “I have longed
-to eat this Passover with you before
-I suffer, for I will not eat of it any
-more until it be fulfilled in the kingdom
-of God.” Then he took up the
-cup and gave thanks, and said, “Take
-this and divide it among yourselves,
-for I say unto you, I shall not drink
-of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom
-of God shall come.” And he
-took bread and gave thanks, and
-gave the bread to them, saying,
-“This is my body which is given for
-you; do this in remembrance of me.”
-After supper he took the cup and
-passed it to them, saying, “This cup
-is the new testament in my blood,
-which is shed for you.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
-<img src="images/illus57.jpg" width="600" height="450" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">THE LAST SUPPER.</span>—Matt. xxvi. 26.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE CROSS.</h2>
-
-<p>At the place which is called Calvary,
-our Lord was crucified, and on
-the cross with him hung two thieves,
-one on each side. The soldiers divided
-his clothes among them, casting
-lots which should have them. He
-prayed for them all; he said, “Father,
-forgive them, for they know not
-what they do.” The people and the
-rulers stood about him, looking at
-him and mocking. They said, “He
-saved others, let him save himself if
-he is Christ, the chosen one of God.”
-And the soldiers also mocked him,
-offering him vinegar to drink, and
-saying to him, “If you are the king
-of the Jews, save yourself.” Then
-they wrote on a tablet in Greek, and
-in Latin, and in Hebrew, “This is
-the King of the Jews,” and hung it
-over the cross. One of the thieves
-joined in the mocking, saying, “If
-you are Christ, save yourself and
-us;” but the other thief reproved
-him, asking him if he did not fear
-God, since they were suffering the
-same punishment. “They,” he said,
-“deserved their punishment, but the
-other had done nothing wrong.”
-Then he spoke directly to Jesus: he
-said, “Lord, remember me when
-thou comest into thy kingdom.”
-And instantly Jesus answered him
-in these words, “Verily I say unto
-you, To-day shalt thou dwell with
-me in Paradise.” These things happened
-about twelve o’clock. From
-that time until three o’clock the
-earth was dark; the sun hid away.
-When Jesus cried out with a loud
-voice, he said, “It is finished;” and
-then, “Father, into thy hands I
-commit my spirit;” and having said
-this, he died. Just then the veil
-which had always hidden the inner
-temple split in two from top to
-bottom.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus58.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">THE CRUCIFIXION.</span>—John xix. 25.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE WALK TO EMMAUS.</h2>
-
-<p>The third day after Jesus was
-buried, two of his friends walked to
-a village named Emmaus, which was
-about seven miles from Jerusalem.
-As they walked along they talked together
-about the sad things that had
-lately happened. At that moment
-Jesus himself came along and joined
-them, but they did not know him.
-He asked them what it was they
-were talking about, and why they
-were so sad. One of them, named
-Cleopas, asked him if he was a
-stranger in Jerusalem that he had
-not heard the strange, sad news.
-He asked them, “What news?”
-And Cleopas answered: “Why,
-about Jesus of Nazareth; he was a
-mighty prophet; his words and his
-deeds were wonderful; but our rulers
-condemned him to death and crucified
-him. We hoped that he was
-the one who was to redeem the people
-of Israel; but this is the third
-day since these things were done.
-Some women who were at the grave
-this morning, told us a strange story;
-they say his body is not there, and
-that they saw angels who said that
-he was alive; and some of our friends
-went to the grave and found that it
-was as the women said, but they did
-not see him.” Then Jesus said to
-them: “O what foolish people. How
-slow you are to believe all that the
-prophets wrote about this! Did they
-not tell that Christ must suffer these
-things and then enter into his glory?”
-Then he began with the books that
-Moses wrote, and explained what he
-and the other writers had said about
-Christ. When they drew near to
-Emmaus the stranger acted as though
-he was going further, but they begged
-him to stop with them, as the day was
-nearly gone. So he stopped with
-them, and as they sat down to the
-table together, suddenly something
-opened their eyes to know that it was
-Jesus who sat with them. He took
-some bread and blessed it, and gave
-them some. Then he vanished out
-of their sight.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus59.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES AT EMMAUS.</span>—Luke xxiv. 30.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
-<h2>THE SAVIOUR’S LAST WORDS.</h2>
-
-<p>The disciples and friends of Jesus
-were together talking of him and of
-the wonderful story that he had risen,
-when he appeared to them again and
-talked with them. He reminded
-them that the things which had happened
-were the very ones which he
-had foretold, and which were told in
-the Bible would happen. Then he
-explained the Bible to them and
-gave them wisdom to understand
-what he said. He showed them how
-it was written that Christ would
-come, and suffer and die, and rise
-again on the third day, and that repentance
-and forgiveness of sin
-should be preached to all people, beginning
-at Jerusalem. Then he told
-them they were the witnesses that
-all these things had taken place.
-Then he assured them that he would
-send to them that which the Father
-had promised they should have, and
-they were to wait in Jerusalem until
-God sent them a special power.</p>
-
-<p>The last story that we have of the
-life of Jesus on earth was when he
-led his disciples out to Bethany, and,
-lifting up his hands, blessed them,
-and was parted from them and carried
-up into Heaven. Then the disciples
-worshiped him and returned
-to Jerusalem with great joy; and
-now they could be found continually
-in the temple, praising and blessing
-God.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/illus60.jpg" width="450" height="600" alt="" />
-<p class="caption"><span class="smaller">JESUS APPEARS TO HIS DISCIPLES.</span>—Luke xxiv. 30.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr />
-
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-<img src="images/cover-back.jpg" width="500" height="600" alt="Back cover image" />
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