,illustration3 ,,christ the good        
,sheperd  ,,he ,,will ,,carry ,,the     
,,lambs ,,in ,,his ,,bosom4   ,,young   
,,folks' ,,bible ,,in ,,words ,,of      
,,easy ,,reading3  ,,the ,,sweet        
,,stories ,,of ,,god',s ,,word ,,in     
,,the ,,language ,,of ,,childhood  ,,and
  ,in the ,beautiful ,delineations of   
,christian ,art4  ,,the ,,whole         
,,designed ,,to  ,,impress ,,the ,,mind 
,,and ,,heart ,,of ,,the ,,youngest     
,,readers1 ,,and ,,kindle ,a ,,genuine  
,,love ,,for ,,the ,,book ,,of ,,books4 
,by  ,,josephine ,,pollard1 ,author of  
,history of the ,old ,testament1        
,history of the ,new ,testament1 etc41  
etc4       ,,with ,,an ,,introduction   
,,by     ,,rev4 ,w4 ,h4 ,,milburn1 ,d4  
,d41     ,,to ,,which ,,is ,,added      
,,the ,,child ,,and ,,the ,,bible1      
,by ,,prof4 ,,david ,,swing1      ,,and 
,,an ,,address ,,to ,,children3         
,,the ,,bible ,,the ,,book ,,for ,,the  
,,young1      ,by ,,rev4 ,,john ,h4     
,,barrows1 ,d4 ,d4        ,,nearly #bjj 

,,striking ,,original ,,engravings ,,and
 ,,world-,,famous     ,,master-,,pieces 
,,of ,,sacred ,,art1      ,,and ,,with  
,,magnificent ,,colored ,,plates4       
,,chicago ,,and ,,new ,,york3     ,r4   
,s4 ,peale  ,company4     #ahij4        
,copyright     ,by ,,joseph ,l4         
,,blamire4     #ahhh4      ,copyright   
,by ,r4 ,s4 ,,peale  ,,co4     #ahhi4   
,,preface4   ,the word ,bible is from   
the ,greek1 and means ,,the ,,book4 ,it 
is made up of several small books1 and  
when bound in two parts is known as the 
,old ,testament and the ,new ,testament4
 ,a ,testament is a will2 and the ,bible
 is ,god's will made for man's good1 and
 for his guide through life4 ,the ,old  
,testament tells of ,god's love and care
 for the ,jews1 and ,his thought of     
,christ can be traced through all its   
pages4 ,there is a good deal in the     
,bible that a child cannot understand1  
and the queer names make it very hard   
reading4  ,it has been the ,author's aim
 to tell the story simply1 and in ,bible

 language1 so that the little ones can  
read it themselves1 and learn to love   
and prize it as the best of all books4  
,j4 ,p4  ,illustration                  
,,introduction4  ,,by ,,rev4 ,,william  
,,henry ,,milburn1 ,d4 ,d4   ,,no man of
 his time filled a larger space in the  
public eye of this country than ,john   
,randolph of ,roanoke4 ,his             
eccentricities1 audacity and            
brilliancy1--his pride of birth and     
race1 fearlessness and                  
self-assertion1--his incisive and       
trenchant speeches set off with         
sparkling wit1 keen satire1 fierce      
invective1 clothed in perfect ,english1 
and uttered with the style of a master1 
his sharp criticisms of the faults and  
short-comings of his                    
fellow-,congressmen1 which gained for   
him the title1 schoolmaster of          
,congress1 together with his political  
consistency and fitfulness of temper1   
invested all his movements and sayings  
with a peculiar charm for the people4   

,in his earliest years he had been      
carefully taught by his beautiful       
mother1 the ,creed1 the ,lord's ,prayer1
 the ,ten ,commandments1 and many parts 
of ,god's ,word1 until he had them by   
heart1 and yet1 in his haughty youth and
 early manhood he strove to set at      
naught these teachings3 furnished       
himself with a whole body of infidelity1
 as he styled his collection of the     
writings of ,voltaire and other ,french 
authors1 as well as ,british1 who strove
 to abolish the ,bible1 and for many    
years it seemed at once his pride and   
delight to wield the weapons drawn from 
these arsenals against the truths which 
make men wise unto ,eternal ,life1 and  
to jeer with flout and scoff at all he  
had learned from his mother's lips4 ,but
 later on he confessed1 with            
heart-breaking sobs and bitter tears1   
that with all his arrogance and         
insolence1 his stern resolve to become  
and continue a ,deist1 he had never been
 able to put aside for a single day or  

night the lessons taught him by his     
mother1 and that the hallowed forms of  
sound words1 learned on her lap or at   
her knee1 had dwelt with him1 and were  
ever sounding in his ears1 to admonish1 
counsel and reprove4 ,there have been   
few more pathetic scenes than that in   
which ,randolph came to die2 a gaunt old
 man1 old before his time2 worn out by  
misery1 shrivelled and haggard1 sitting 
upright in his bed1 covered by a        
blanket1 even his head enveloped and his
 hat on top of it2 unutterable despair  
looking out at his eyes1 his pinched    
lips and squeaking voice uttering1 ,let 
me see it2 get a dictionary2 find me the
 word ,remorse4 ,a dictionary could not 
be found4 ,write it2 ,i must see it1 he 
almost shrieked with failing voice4 ,the
 word was written on his visiting card  
below his name2 he demanded that it     
should be written above as well4 ,the   
card was handed to him4 ,remorse1 ,john 
,randolph of ,roanoke1 ,remorse4 ,with  
horror in his face and that card in his 

hand1 his eyes staring at the word1 he  
breathed his last4 ,from that mournful  
death-bed seemed to come floating the   
solemn words1 ,take fast hold of        
instruction2 keep her2 let her not go1  
for she is thy life1 and ,he that       
sinneth against wisdom wrongeth his own 
soul4  ,long centuries ago1 a young man 
of aristocratic birth1 handsome person1 
polished manners1 brilliant and highly  
cultivated intellect1 was walking1 on a 
day in the reign of the ,emperor        
,julian1 by the bank of the river       
,orontes1 not far from the stately city 
of ,antioch1 the ,paris of that         
age1--and saw something floating in the 
stream4 ,the branch of a tree enabled   
him to drag it ashore2 it proved to be a
 copy of the sacred ,scriptures2        
,julian1 the mad master of the world1   
had issued an edict1 annexed to which   
were heavy penalties1 that all copies of
 that book should be destroyed4 ,the    
young man who drew the manuscript to    
shore had been taught the lessons of    

that volume from a child1 by his pious  
mother1 ,anthusa2 but he had thrown off 
the yoke of his mother's faith2 had     
become a devotee of heathen philosophy1 
poetry and rhetoric1 and at the same    
time steeped himself in the licentious  
pleasures and dissipations of the ,grove
 of ,daphne1 the ,hippodrome and        
,theatre1 and resolved that the man     
,christ ,jesus should not reign over    
him4 ,he opened the parchment1 some     
words on the page caught his eye2 they  
were familiar1 yet shone with a new     
light and were armed with irresistible  
power3 he read on2 his mother's prayers 
were answered2 he embraced the truth1   
bowed his neck to the yoke he had       
foresworn1 and the volume he rescued    
from the flood became a treasure-trove  
for the world1--through fifteen         
centuries alike in the east and         
west1--that man has been known as ,st4  
,john ,chrysostom1 the ,mouth of ,gold1 
one of the most saintly and eloquent    
preachers1 whose life1 genius1          

sufferings and death for conscience's   
sake adorned the history of mankind4    
,not far from the same time1 a young man
 bathed in tears lay writhing in agony  
under a fig tree in the garden of his   
house at ,milan4 ,his devout mother1    
,monica1 in their ,numidian home1 had   
taught him the way of life written in   
,god's ,word2 but as he grew to manhood 
he strove to shake off the influence and
 authority of her instruction2 became a 
libertine1 reached forth to grasp the   
crown of heathen eloquence and learning1
 and for more than ten years wrought    
steadily to undo the sacred work his    
mother had performed for him as a child4
 ,but the lesson she had taught him lay 
deeper than his surging passions1       
imperious intellect1 and haughty will1  
and because of their power over him he  
could find no rest night or day4 ,he    
journeyed to ,carthage1 ,rome1 ,milan1  
the chief cities of the western world1  
to study art and eloquence1 to drench   
his soul with the pleasures of sense and

 lay the ghost of his disquiet2 but in  
vain4 ,in his anguish under the fig tree
 he heard1 or seemed to hear1 again and 
again1 ,take it up and read1 ,take it up
 and read4 ,springing to his feet1 he   
ran to a friend near by who was reading 
the ,word4 ,seizing the volume1 his eyes
 rested on the words1 ,let us walk      
honestly as in the day2 not in rioting  
and drunkenness1 not in chambering and  
wantonness1 not in strife and envying4  
,but put ye on the ,lord ,jesus ,christ 
and make not provisions for the flesh1  
to fulfill the lusts thereof4 ,the      
birth-pangs of his conversion were      
ended2 he found peace in believing2 and 
that incident makes an era in the       
history of the world1 for that man was  
none other than ,saint ,augustine1 the  
influence of whose writings has swayed  
with more might than that of an imperial
 sceptre the destinies of western       
,christendom for ages4 ,therefore1      
whosoever heareth these sayings of mine 
and doeth them1 saith the ,lord1 ,i will

 liken him unto a wise man which built  
his house upon a rock2 and the rain     
descended1 and the floods came1 and the 
winds blew and beat upon that house2 and
 it fell not1 for it was founded upon a 
rock4 ,and every one that heareth these 
sayings of mine1 and doeth them not1    
shall be likened unto a foolish man     
which built his house upon the sand2 and
 the rains descended1 and the floods    
came1 and the winds blew and beat upon  
that house and it fell1 and great was   
the fall of it4 ,woe to ,randolph6 he   
heard and would not1 and his house fell1
 and great was the fall of it4 ,mankind 
with one voice calls ,augustine and     
,chrysostom blessed2 they heard1 obeyed1
 and their houses stand forever2 they   
were built upon the rock4 ,their ,rock  
is not as our ,rock1 our enemies        
themselves being judges was the boast of
 ,israel at an early day4 ,with how much
 fuller emphasis may ,christendom utter 
it to-day4 ,compare ,india with         
,britain1 ,china with the ,united       

,states1 and after all other forces are 
measured and allowed1 it will be found  
that the significant and self-renewing  
causes for the superiority of the       
western nations over the eastern are the
 presence1 authority and influence of   
the ,old and ,new ,testament4 ,and he   
shewed me a pure river of water of life 
clear as crystal proceeding out of the  
throne of ,god and of the ,lamb4 ,in the
 midst of the street of it1 and on      
either side of the river1 was there the 
tree of life1 which bare twelve manner  
of fruits and yielded her fruit every   
month2 and the leaves of the tree were  
for the healing of the nations4  ,in    
this beautiful book1 ,miss ,pollard1    
with admirable tact and skill1 has made 
a path by which the children may draw   
near to that river and drink of the     
water of life2 and the artists whose    
genius has been laid under such         
effective contribution by the liberality
 of the publisher1 will help the little 
ones to gather the leaves and pluck the 

fruit of that tree4  ,every home in the 
land blessed by the presence of boys and
 girls will be illumined and enriched by
 this volume2 every mother who strives  
to train her children in the nurture and
 admonition of the ,lord will be        
signally helped by its ministry4  ,the  
letter-press will quicken the           
understanding and attune the ear1 and   
the treasures of art contained in these 
pages will arouse the imagination and   
stimulate the memory of the young to lay
 hold upon and receive all that is      
contained in the one ,book-- ,oldest    
,choral melody as of the heart of       
mankind2 soft and great as the summer   
midnight1 as the world with the seas and
 stars4  ,no man's education can be     
complete1 no human life can have its    
full store of flowers and fruits1 which 
is not begun1 continued and ended in the
 ever deepening study and love of the   
articulate word of ,god4  ,i cannot     
better close this introduction than with
 this remarkable passage1 modified to   

suit my purpose4 ,who will say that the 
uncommon beauty and marvelous ,english  
of the household ,bible is not the      
stronghold and safeguard of the literary
 taste and culture of this country as   
well as its character4 ,it lives like a 
music that can never be forgotten1 like 
the sound of church bells which the     
reader hardly knows how he can forego4  
,its felicities often seem to be almost 
things rather than mere words4 ,it is   
part of the national mind1 and the      
anchor of national seriousness4 ,the    
memory of the dead passes into it4 ,the 
potent traditions of childhood are      
stereotyped into its phrases4 ,the power
 of all the man's griefs and trials are 
hidden beneath its words4 ,it is the    
representative of his best moments2 and 
all that there has been about him of    
soft and gentle and pure and penitent   
and good1 speaks to him forever out of  
his ,english ,bible4 ,it is his sacred  
thing1 which doubt has never dimmed and 
controversy never soiled4 ,it has been  

to him all along as the silent1 yet oh1 
how intelligible6 voice of his guardian 
angel1 and in the length and breadth of 
the land there is not a ,christian1 with
 one spark of religiousness about him1  
whose spiritual ,biography is not in his
 ,saxon ,bible4      ,,washington1      
,april1 #ahhi4     ,the ,child and the  
,bible4  ,,by ,,prof4 ,,david ,,swing4  
,,that reading and study are very       
imperfect which do not bring to all our 
young people a knowledge of the general 
contents of the ,bible4 ,the ,old and   
,new ,testaments contain the best moral 
and religious thought and belief of two 
important epochs in man's history--the  
,hebrew and ,christian periods4 ,it     
contains the history1 the wisdom1 the   
morality1 the piety and the hope of that
 part of the human race that made       
religion the chief aim of the nation and
 the individual4 ,the ,hebrew people was
 set apart for the special task of      
carrying forward the idea of ,god4 ,that
 race gradually separated the real      

,creator from the many false divinities 
of the barbarian tribes and slowly built
 up that conception of ,deity which is  
seen set forth in the ,book of ,job and 
in the twenty-third and nineteenth      
,psalms4 ,the ,book of ,job and the     
,psalms of ,david are the grand autumnal
 fruitage of that vineyard of worship in
 which ,enoch and ,abraham were toilers 
in the early springtime of our world4   
,no such advance toward the true ,god   
would have taken place had the ,mosaic  
race moved out of ,egypt only to found a
 ,state which might build elsewhere     
duplicates of the pyramids of the ,nile1
 or a ,state which1 like ,babylonia1    
might live only for luxury1 or which1   
like ,greece1 might live only for the   
fine arts1 or which1 like ,rome1 might  
find a reason of being in wars of       
conquest4 ,divinely led1 the ,hebrew    
people migrated from ,egypt that beyond 
the ,red ,sea and the ,jordan they might
 found a republic or empire for the     
study and founding of the true religion4

 ,israel stands as the wonder of the    
past1 the only nation in all history    
that elected ,god for its king and went 
up into a high mountain so as to deduce 
its laws from the thunder and storm and 
from the sunlight and peace of ,his     
presence4 ,with what success it achieved
 its task may be learned from reading   
the meditations in ,job and the ,psalms1
 and from the lofty rhapsodies of       
,isaiah and ,malachi4 ,when to the      
sacred records of that long day and     
night of toil and progress are added the
 coming of the divine ,christ and the   
moral phenomena of the first ,christian 
century1 a book is composed at which to 
scoff is a proof of a weak or a wicked  
mind1 and in which to read often and    
thoughtfully is evidence of a           
willingness to seek after the living    
,god and to find the best answers to the
 many problems of life and death4  ,much
 that is valuable in these two          
testaments is recorded in events or in  
parables1 and for all young minds and   

for nearly all older intellects1 the    
doctrines1 the alarms1 the benedictions1
 the promises1 the hopes are treasured  
up in incidents which might be thrown   
upon canvas or carved out of marble4    
,faith is seen in the picture of        
,abraham2 patriotism1 courage1 honor1   
piety in ,moses2 justice in the story of
 ,lot's wife2 eternal friendship in     
,ruth2 reckless ambition in ,absalom2   
resignation in ,job2 faithfulness in    
,daniel2 while in the ,new ,testament   
the pictures offered in the ,christ1 the
 ,marys1 the ,johns and ,st4 ,paul have 
been too many and too great for art to  
equal4  ,these incidents and persons of 
the ,bible form in the mind of the one  
who knows them a perfect treasure-house 
filled with the gems of true religion4  
,when that gifted writer who composed   
the hymn ,nearer my ,god to ,thee sat   
down to her task1 what an imperfection  
would have marked her poem had she not  
known of ,jacob's stony pillow and      
beautiful dream6      ,though like a    

wanderer1       ,the sun gone down1     
,darkness be over me1       ,my rest a  
stone4  ,and the two following stanzas  
would have been wanting2 nor is it      
probable that the writer1 although a    
woman most gifted1 could have found in  
all literature any compensation for her 
loss and our loss4 ,in the ,battle-,hymn
 of the ,republic1 the eloquent writer  
shows in her first line her memory of   
,simeon1 and through his eyes she looked
 and said3 ,mine eyes have seen the     
glory of the coming of the ,lord1 and in
 the last verse1 back comes one of the  
most beautiful incidents in the ,new    
,testament3 ,in the beauty of the       
lilies1 ,christ was born across the sea4
  ,thus have thousands of years1 in all1
 acted as the great time-space for      
attaching the ,hebrew and ,christian    
mind and heart to the persons and       
incidents found in the ,holy            
,scriptures4 ,not to know all these     
,heaven-sent emblems of virtue1 wisdom1 
piety and salvation is not only not to  

be a ,christian1 but it is to stand afar
 off from the honor of even a common    
education and the most needful culture4 
,for the youth of our country ,josephine
 ,pollard1 a wonderful friend of all    
those who are living their early years1 
and as good a writer as she is a friend1
 has detached from the ,bible this      
volume of historic incidents1 and while 
they make a continuous record of the old
 and the new dispensations1 they are    
separated from that which is too        
abstract to detain and impress the      
youngest readers4 ,to these interesting 
events she has made the engraver add his
 art1 and the picture of the pencil     
comes to help the picture more hidden in
 the words4 ,while ,christ is speaking  
of the lost sheep the picture reveals   
the lonely mountains and the lamb missed
 from the flock4 ,while the great       
,teacher is speaking of the foolish     
virgins1 the picture appears of the     
thoughtless ones attempting in vain to  
find oil for their lamps4 ,thus the     

pictures of history combine with the    
suggestive sketches of the artist and   
engraver1 to make1 indeed1 a ,bible for 
,young ,people4 ,the authoress came to  
her task with rare fitness1 and while   
the young folks are reading her volume  
they will find not only the religious   
truths they all need1 but they will also
 find the simplicity and power of their 
own ,english language4     ,,an         
,,address ,,to ,,children4  ,,by ,,john 
,h4 ,,barrows1 ,d4,d4  ,,the ,,bible    
,,the ,,book ,,for ,,the ,,young4       
,,god once said3 ,and thou shalt teach  
them diligently to thy children4 ,the   
whole ,bible1 ,old ,testament and ,new1 
was meant to be taught to the boys and  
girls all over the world4 ,when ,i was  
in ,egypt1 fifteen years ago1 ,i lay one
 beautiful moonlight night on the white 
sand of an island in the river ,nile4   
,it was an island away up near the      
equator1 and as ,i lay there ,i saw     
beautiful trees with their long1 leafy  
branches above me2 ,i saw green fields  

reaching out on either side2 ,i heard   
the old river ,nile rippling over the   
stones in its bed2 and ,i thought of the
 rich fields of cotton and wheat and    
sugar-cane and of the thousands of palm 
trees which ,i had seen along the river1
 and of all the people who had gotten   
their bread from the waters of the      
,nile1 which1 covering the sand of the  
desert1 make it fertile and fruitful1   
and ,i blessed ,god for the ,nile4      
,where does it come from8 ,you have     
learned that the ,nile springs from the 
snows of very high mountains away up in 
,abyssinia1 and from two immense lakes  
in the center of ,africa1 and it carries
 the waters from these mountains and    
lakes down through ,egypt1 and turns a  
desert into a garden4  ,but there is    
another river more wonderful than the   
river of old ,egypt4 ,it flows down from
 ,god out of heaven1 and flows over this
 world1 and brings with it all that is  
beautiful and healthful and good4 ,the  
waters of this river are carried off in 

little canals1 and are brought into the 
homes and churches and ,sunday-schools2 
and wherever they go tend to make lives 
good and happy4 ,little children love   
this ,river of ,god1 and dip their cups 
into it and drink1 and there is a voice 
speaking in their ears and saying3      
,whosoever will1 let him take of the    
water of life freely4 ,there are some   
people who have traveled round the world
 and seen many very interesting lands   
and strange and curious people--white   
men1 red men1 black men1 copper-colored 
men1 yellow men1 but they will tell you 
that they never saw men where the       
children were happy1 where the homes    
were happy1 and where people were trying
 to do each other good1 unless this     
,river of ,god went there first4 ,this  
beautiful river that is doing so much   
for all who live on its banks1--it is   
the ,bible1 the ,word of ,god1 which    
tells us about ,himself and about       
ourselves1 which speaks to us of a      
,savior and of the life after death4    

,some years ago a black prince in       
,africa sent a messenger to ,queen      
,victoria1 a man who was to ask her what
 was the reason that ,england was so    
rich and prosperous2 and she sent back  
to this ,african savage something that  
told the whole story4 ,what do you      
suppose it was8 ,not a rifle1 not a     
sword1 not a steam-engine1 not a plow1  
not a sewing-machine1 but a copy of the 
,bible4 ,let me tell you five things    
about this book1 and if you know how to 
spell the word ,bible you will find them
 easy to remember--,b-,i-,b-,l-,e4      
,first1 then1 the ,bible is a beautiful 
book4 ,i do not mean as to its shape and
 color4 ,it may be very lovely or it may
 be very plain1 as it looks to your eye4
 ,i have seen ,bibles that you could buy
 for a sixpence1 and ,i have a ,new     
,testament that ,i bought for a penny4  
,i have seen ,bibles which were copied  
with a pen and filled with pictures on  
which men labored for years1 and which  
you couldn't buy for a thousand dollars4

 ,when ,i say that the ,bible is a      
beautiful book1 ,i mean that it is full 
of beautiful thoughts and beautiful     
pictures and beautiful stories that     
speak to our minds4 ,god often talks    
with children through pictures4 ,you    
love things that speak to you through   
the eye1 like flowers and birds1 and    
your dear mother's face4 ,just think of 
some of the pictures ,god has given us  
in this ,book4  ,i see1 with my mind's  
eye1 a garden1 large1 fair1 with great  
trees and beautiful walks1 pure1 clear  
streams with lovely flowers1 with       
animals playing about1 with two trees   
that were set apart from the rest1 one  
called the ,tree of ,life and the other 
the ,tree of the ,knowledge of ,good and
 ,evil4 ,i see a man in this garden1 and
 animals passing before him and hear him
 giving them names4 ,now ,i see a city  
with twelve gates1 each gate a pearl4   
,the city has walls made of twelve kinds
 of jewels1 and the streets are of pure 
gold1 and there is no temple in the city

 and no sun1 but it is very glorious and
 wonderful4 ,i see a beautiful ,river   
and a glorious ,sea1 and a great        
multitude of shining ones with harps in 
their hands1 and ,i see a throne and    
,one that sits thereon1 more lovely and 
beautiful and mighty and glorious than  
any words can say4  ,the little         
three-year-old boy before he can read1  
loves to take his picture book and see  
things that are to him very wonderful1  
and when he gets a little older he loves
 to take a box of paints and a brush and
 color the pictures in some of his      
books4 ,the first book ,i ever colored  
was full of ,bible pictures4 ,there was 
the picture of a man on the top of a    
hill with his son laid on a heap of     
stones4 ,the father's face was sad1 and 
the old man was lifting a knife in his  
hand2 and there was a sheep caught in a 
bush near by2 and there was the figure  
of an angel in the sky4 ,then there was 
the picture of a young man lying on the 
ground1 with stones under his head for a

 pillow1 and a stairway or ladder       
reaching up to the heavens above1 with  
angels going up and down4 ,there was the
 picture of a boy whose father gave him 
a coat of many colors1 and how ,i liked 
to daub on the red and yellow and blue  
paint1 and ,i am afraid ,i took a pin   
and punched out the eyes in the pictures
 of the brothers of this boy--those     
brothers who1 as you remember1 cast him 
into a dry well and afterward sold him  
as a slave4 ,there was a picture of a   
little boy lying in a little boat which 
was among the tall grasses of a river4  
,there was the picture of a great tent  
in the desert1 with altars on which fire
 was burning1 and a great pillar of     
cloud resting down on it in the midst of
 the tent4 ,and then far over in the    
book was the picture of the best ,man   
who ever lived1 taking little children  
in ,his arms1 putting ,his hands on them
 and blessing them4  ,the ,bible is a   
beautiful book for a great many reasons 
that ,i can't speak of now4 ,its beauty 

is not like that of an apple blossom1   
which soon fades away4 ,it grows more   
and more lovely as you grow older4 ,i   
like to see a little child reading with 
happy face from this book which tells of
 ,god's love2 but it is lovelier still  
to see the old grandmother1 who loved   
the ,bible in childhood1 putting on her 
spectacles and reading these words of   
,david3 ,oh1 how ,i love thy law6 ,it is
 my meditation all the day4 ,how sweet  
are thy words to my taste1 yea1 sweeter 
than honey to my mouth6 ,two of the most
 beautiful things that we ever see are  
gold and honey--gold1 bright shining1   
and the honey which looks like liquid   
gold1 shut up in little boxes of pearl4 
,now ,i am going to end what ,i have to 
say about the ,bible as beautiful1 by   
telling you what ,david said of the     
words of the ,lord that are found in    
this book3 ,more to be desired are they 
than gold1 yea1 than much fine gold2    
sweeter also than honey and the honey   
comb4  ,but the ,bible is not only a    

beautiful book for children1 but it is  
an interesting book4 ,you like to read  
it and hear it1 partly because it tells 
so much about children1 boys and girls  
like you4 ,you read in this book about  
two brothers1 one of whom loved ,god1   
and the other did not love his brother1 
and slew him because his own deeds were 
evil and his brother's righteous4 ,you  
read about a little girl who was taken  
off in a certain war1 and became a      
servant for the wife of a great general4
 ,he was a leper1 and this little girl1 
believing in ,god and in ,god's prophet1
 ,elisha1 told her mistress that the    
prophet in ,israel could heal her master
 of his awful disease4 ,you read the    
story of a little boy whose mother gave 
him early to the ,lord1 and who went to 
live with an old man in a great tent1   
which was ,god's house1 and who heard   
the voice of the ,lord calling to him in
 the night4 ,did you never hear ,god's  
voice speaking to your heart1 and do you
 always answer as did this boy in the   

tabernacle at ,shiloh3 ,speak1 ,lord1   
for thy servant heareth8  ,and in this  
,book you have read of four boys in the 
court of the great king of ,babylon who 
would not defile themselves with the    
rich meats and the fiery wines1 and who 
formed a boys' temperance society in the
 court of the king1 and who rose to high
 honor and great fame4 ,above all1 you  
read of the perfect ,child who was      
obedient to his earthly father and      
mother1 and who did the will of his     
,heavenly ,father1 and who grew into the
 bravest1 noblest1 truest1 most manly   
man that ever lived1 and who died for us
 all--that ,man whose words are1 ,i     
think1 the first words of the ,bible    
that you learned by heart4 ,i have heard
 of a little girl who lived where the   
,bible is not permitted to be read by   
the children4 ,but she had a present of 
the good ,book from her ,sunday ,school 
teacher4 ,it was discovered that she had
 this book2 it was snatched from her and
 thrown into the fire4 ,she watched it  

burn1 while the tears rolled down her   
cheeks1 and turning sadly away1 said3   
,thank ,god1 there are fourteen chapters
 of the ,gospel of ,john which they     
can't burn up1 for ,i have committed    
them to memory4  ,the ,bible interests  
you because it is full of wonderful     
things4 ,it tells of a wonderful ,god   
who doeth marvelous things for ,his     
people4 ,it tells of the flood which    
swept away the wicked world2 of the     
plagues which fell on wicked ,egypt2 of 
the march of two millions of people     
through the ,red ,sea which ,god        
divided2 it tells you of the wonderful  
life of the children of ,israel in the  
desert1 with ,god's hand feeding them   
with the birds and the bread2 it leads  
you to the foot of a great mountain1 on 
which ,god came down in a chariot of    
fire1 while the thunders roared and the 
trumpet blown by some mighty angel      
sounded loud and long1 and the mountain 
shook and smoked like a great furnace1  
and all the people trembled while ,god  

gave the law which begins3 ,i am the    
,lord that brought thee out of ,egypt4  
,thou shalt have no other gods before   
me4  ,this ,bible has more wonderful    
things than you will find anywhere else4
 ,it tells of great battles1 of the sun 
and moon standing still1 of cities      
falling down at the blowing of trumpets2
 of fire descending from heaven2 it     
tells of shipwrecks and storms1 and     
cruel kings1 and men willing to die for 
the name of ,jesus4 ,it tells of ,god's 
wonderful love1 and how the ,son of ,god
 came from heaven to earth and died for 
us on the ,cross and rose from the      
grave4 ,and the best thing1 children1   
about all these ,bible wonders1 is this1
 that they are true4 ,a wonderful ,god  
doeth wonderful things4 ,this is a      
wonderful world we live in4 ,you        
children know it and feel it1 and some  
older people have got to become much    
wiser than they now are to be as wise as
 you are4 ,is not the ,bible an         
interesting ,book8 ,my children will    

listen longer to the story of the ,bible
 than anything else4 ,and as you grow   
older1 if you will only keep on studying
 the ,bible1 it will keep its interest  
till you die4  ,children who live in    
cities love to ride1 in summer1 in the  
parks and see the wonderful figures     
which the gardeners have made with their
 plants and flowers1 the stars and      
stripes1 an elephant1 the ball-player1 a
 giraffe1 a sun-dial1 a calendar1 an    
obelisk1 sphinxes1 and so forth4 ,now1  
this book is a great garden on which    
,god has made figures that will last as 
long as the world lasts4 ,there is      
,adam1 with his face dark and sorrowful 
because he had sinned2 there is ,abel1  
looking up to that heaven which he1     
first of all men1 entered2 there is     
,noah1 a preacher of righteousness1 who 
preached many years without converting a
 soul1 but kept on believing ,god2 there
 is ,abraham with a staff in his hand2  
there is ,moses holding the wondrous rod
 and the book of the law2 there is      

,david with his harp2 there is ,paul1   
going forth to preach ,christ2 there is 
,john1 looking into heaven4 ,the        
children who have the ,bible taught them
 will find great interest in these      
figures4 ,but the greatest interest in  
the ,bible is this1 that it is a        
sign-board pointing us to our ,father's 
house in ,heaven4  ,now1 ,i come to the 
third letter4 ,the ,b-,i-,b-,l-,e--is   
not only a ,beautiful book1 and an      
,interesting book1 but it is a ,blessed 
book4 ,that is1 it makes people happy   
and good1 good and happy4 ,a poor man   
comes from ,england to ,chicago with his
 wife and three children1 expecting to  
get work and to make him a lovely home4 
,but he fails to get work and he has to 
sell many things to get bread for his   
family4 ,at last he is in despair1 but a
 good man comes to his house1 learns of 
his need1 gives him bread and gets him  
work2 and that night the ,englishman    
says to his wife1 ,wasn't he a blessed  
man to help us at this time8 ,but in a  

few days the baby of the house is taken 
sick and soon dies1 and the good man    
comes again and advances money to pay   
for the funeral of the dear little      
child2 and they say1 ,blessed man6      
again4 ,but that night1 when all is     
over1 and the baby is laid to sleep in  
the cemetery1 the poor man takes down   
the ,bible and reads to his wife of     
,christ's love to children1 and of the  
beautiful world beyond1 where there is  
no more crying and death1 and the wife  
says1 ,oh1 isn't that a blessed ,book6  
,blessed ,book4 ,so the mother thinks   
whose boy has gone off to school or to  
sea4 ,how careful she was to put a copy 
of the ,bible in his hands and to get   
from him the promise to read it every   
day4 ,she knows perfectly well that no  
great harm can come to him1 if he reads 
and obeys what is written in the ,word  
of ,god4 ,i know a young lady who was   
very much distressed when in ,paris     
several years ago because her hand-bag1 
a little portmanteau1 had been lost4    

,and when1 after much hunting1 it was   
found1 she confessed that what          
distressed her most of all in the       
thought of losing her hand-bag was this1
 that it contained the little ,bible    
which had been given to her when a child
 and which she had made her daily       
companion ever since4 ,i hope that each 
of you owns a ,bible which1 the gift of 
a mother or of some dear friend1 is     
growing more and more blessed to you as 
you go forward into your lives4 ,there  
is much darkness in the future4 ,you    
will have sorrows as well as joys4 ,the 
clouds will gather4 ,the shadows will   
sometimes descend and you will wonder   
where you are to walk1 or what you are  
to do4 ,but remember what ,david has    
said of this blessed ,book3 ,thy word is
 a lamp to my feet and a guide to my    
path4  ,now1 we come to the fourth      
letter1 ,b-,i-,b-,l-,e4 ,beautiful1     
,interesting1 ,blessed1 ,l1             
,life-giving4 ,this is something better 
than anything we have yet said to you   

about the ,bible4 ,it gives life to     
those who are dead4 ,you have seen a    
patch of ground early in the spring on  
which nothing was growing4 ,but the rain
 falls1 and the warm sunshine pours     
down1 and the seeds in that soil burst  
into life and spring up and cover the   
earth with living plants and flowers4   
,and so ,god's ,word brings its dew and 
sunshine on our cold1 dead hearts1 and  
the flowers of love1 hope1 peace and joy
 spring up4 ,the ,bible is like bread1  
like the manna which came to the        
children of ,israel in the desert4 ,it  
feeds our souls4 ,it gives us life4 ,how
 does it give us life8 ,it teaches us   
about ,god and his great love in ,jesus1
 and when we come to get from ,him the  
forgiveness of our sins1 when we come to
 know ,god and love ,god and trust in   
,god1 we have life4 ,this is life       
eternal1 said ,jesus1 that they may know
 thee1 the only true ,god1 and ,jesus   
,christ whom thou hast sent4 ,some of   
you are giving money to send this ,book 

to the heathen people4 ,where this ,book
 goes it gives life like bread sent to  
people who are starving4  ,but why do we
 need the ,bible to know about ,god8 ,do
 not the stars and the sun and the earth
 tell us that there must be a ,god who  
made all these wonderful things and     
rules them8 ,yes1 they tell us that ,god
 is powerful1 that ,he is very great1   
but they do not tell us that he loves us
 poor sinners4 ,the ,egyptians believed 
in ,god2 yes1 in many gods4 ,they were1 
as we know1 a very wise and learned     
people4 ,and yet this people ,moses     
found bowing down and worshiping cats   
and crocodiles and beetles4 ,they did   
not know the one ,god who led ,his      
people1 and who said1 ,thou shalt have  
no other gods before me1 and who is not 
only holy1 but merciful1 forgiving our  
sins4 ,suppose that you were on an ocean
 steamer way out at sea1 and she was    
sinking into the waves4 ,to what or to  
whom would you pray8 ,you wouldn't pray 
to the waves4 ,they would not have mercy

 on you4 ,you wouldn't pray to the      
stars4 ,they wouldn't have mercy on you4
 ,you would pray to the ,god who is     
revealed in this ,book1 the ,god and    
,father of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 who
 has said that nothing can take us from 
,his love1 neither life nor death1 land 
nor ocean1 nothing can separate us from 
,his love4  ,children1 this ,book tells 
us one thing which all need to learn1   
and that is1 how we may gain life       
eternal1 how we may escape from death4  
,this ,book is the story of ,god's love4
 ,it is the story of ,jesus1 our        
,savior4 ,he that has ,christ in his    
heart has life4 ,i am the resurrection  
and the life1 said ,jesus2 ,i am the    
way1 the truth and the life4 ,if this   
,book does not lead you to ,christ1 you 
have failed to get from it what ,god    
gave it for4 ,david said of the ,bible3 
,the law of the ,lord is perfect1       
converting the soul4  ,we come now to   
the fifth letter1                       
,b-,i-,b-,l-,e--,everlasting4 ,the      

,bible is ,beautiful1 ,interesting1     
,blessed1 ,life-giving1 and             
,everlasting4 ,it is something that does
 not wear out4 ,the word of the ,lord   
endureth forever4 ,children's clothes   
wear out1 as you well know4 ,your       
play-things break2 your shoes don't     
last2 your books get torn2 these bodies 
die2 but the ,bible lasts4 ,it was good 
in ,david's time4 ,it was good when     
,christ was a child1 and ,he read it4   
,it was good in ,paul's time1 and he    
added to it4 ,it was good when ,martin  
,luther translated it into the ,german  
language1 and ,william ,tyndale         
translated it into ,english4 ,it lasts  
the way an oak tree lasts1 that grows   
bigger and bigger and sends out little  
shoots that grow into other oaks and    
make a mighty forest4 ,this ,bible is   
now speaking to men in nearly three     
hundred different languages4 ,it is     
going to be the one ,book of the world4 
,a hundred years ago a famous infidel in
 ,france1 named ,voltaire1 foolishly    

published his opinion that the religion 
of the ,bible would soon die out1 but   
to-day men are using ,voltaire's        
printing-press in ,geneva to publish    
this grand old ,book4 ,here is          
something1 children1 that is going to   
last4 ,you can stand on it safely4 ,god 
is in it4 ,when the little girl whose   
father was an infidel and whose mother  
was a ,christian was dying1 and she said
 to her father1 ,shall ,i hold to your  
principles1 father1 or shall ,i turn now
 to my mother's ,god8 the father said3  
,believe in your mother's ,god4  ,just  
before beginning a great battle on the  
sea1 you remember that ,admiral ,nelson 
hung out a flag with these words for all
 to see3 ,england expects every man to  
do his duty4 ,and so our great ,general1
 the ,captain of our salvation1 expects 
that every boy trained up in a          
,christian church will do his duty4 ,he 
expects that you will take this         
,beautiful1 ,interesting1 ,blessed1     
,life-giving and ,eternal book and make 

it your guide1 your compass1 your       
rudder1 your chart on the great ocean of
 life4 ,he expects that you will be true
 men and women1 honest1 pure1 obedient  
to ,god1 loving your country and all the
 world4 ,he expects that you will be    
faithful to duty1 that you will be clean
 in body and in lips and mouth and eyes 
and heart4 ,he expects to meet you and  
welcome you all in glory above4  ,a     
passenger on one of our ocean steamers  
found an old friend in the captain4     
,they talked about one of their old     
classmates in school4 ,said the         
passenger3 ,i could never understand why
 ,will did not succeed4 ,he left college
 well educated1 full of life and health1
 well-to-do4 ,he gave up the ministry   
which he had intended to enter1 having  
fallen in with some free-thinking       
fellows4 ,he studied law1 but gave that 
up and went to farming4 ,he became a    
skeptic4 ,he left his wife and farming  
and became a gold-seeker in ,california4
 ,he left this and went to ,idaho4 ,he  

had lost everything1 and supported      
himself by odd jobs4 ,i knew him there4 
,he was not a drunkard or a gambler1 but
 he had never succeeded4 ,he tried      
something new several times a year4 ,he 
was now almost mad in his opposition to 
the religion of the ,bible4 ,soon he    
died1 bitterly rebelling against ,god4  
,it is wonderful that such a man should 
ever have come to such an end4  ,the    
captain was silent for a while1 but at  
last said3 ,old sailors have a          
superstition that there are phantom     
ships 7that is1 ghosts of ships7 which  
cross the sea4 ,i saw a vessel once that
 showed me how this idea may have sprung
 up4 ,it was a full-rigged bark1 driving
 under full sail4 ,there was no one on  
board4 ,some disease may have broken    
out1 and all the sailors had left4 ,i   
could not capture her1 though ,i tried4 
,several months later ,i passed her     
again4 ,her topmast was gone2 her sails 
were in rags2 the wind drove her where  
it would4 ,a year later she came in     

sight one stormy winter night4 ,she was 
a shattered hulk and went down at last  
in the darkness and storm4 ,she was a   
good ship at first1 but1 added the      
captain1 she had lost her rudder4 ,boys 
and girls1 young men and women1 ,i pray 
you1 on this voyage of life1 not to lose
 the rudder by which1 in the storm1 you 
may hold the ship true to the harbor4   
,,contents4     ,,chapter ,i4           
,,page   ,,god ,,made ,,the ,,world1    
#cc    ,,chapter ,,ii4   ,,the ,,great  
,,flood2 ,,and ,a ,,great ,,tow-,,er1   
#dc    ,,chapter ,,iii4                 
,a-,,bra-,,ham3 ,,the ,,man ,,of        
,,faith1                          #eb   
,,chapter ,,iv4   ,,ja-,,cob ,,and      
,e-,,sau1                               
#fd    ,,chapter ,v4   ,,ja-,,cob ,,and 
,,ra-,,chel1                            
#ga    ,,chapter ,,vi4   ,,jo-,,seph    
,,and ,,his ,,breth-,,ren1              
#gf    ,,chapter ,,vii4   ,,through     
,,the ,,red ,,sea ,,and ,,the           
,,wil-,,der-,,ness1             #ia     

,,chapter ,,viii4   ,,how ,,josh-,u-,a  
,,and ,,jeph-,,thah ,,fought ,,for ,,the
 ,,lord1      #aab    ,,chapter ,,ix4   
,,sam-,,son1 ,,the ,,strong ,,man1      
#aah    ,,chapter ,x4   ,,ruth1         
#abh    ,,chapter ,,xi4   ,,job1        
#acb    ,,chapter ,,xii4                
,,sam-,u-,,el1 ,,the ,,child ,,of ,,god1
                          #aci          
,,chapter ,,xiii4   ,,sam-,u-,,el1 ,,the
 ,,man ,,of ,,god1                      
#adg    ,,chapter ,,xiv4   ,,da-,,vid   
,,and ,,saul1                           
#aeg    ,,chapter ,,xv4                 
,,sol-,o-,,mon1 ,,the ,,wise ,,man1     
#agg    ,,chapter ,,xvi4                
,e-,,li-,,jah1                          
#ahc    ,,chapter ,,xvii4               
,e-,,li-,,sha1                          
#aib    ,,chapter ,,xviii4   ,,jo-,,nah1
 ,,the ,,man ,,who ,,tried ,,to ,,hide  
,,from ,,god1          #bjj    ,,chapter
 ,,xix4   ,,dan-,i-,,el1                
#bjd    ,,chapter ,,xx4   ,,the ,,good  
,,queen ,,es-,,ther1                    

#bag     ,,new ,,testament4    ,,chapter
 ,i4   ,,the ,,birth ,,of ,,christ1     
#bce    ,,chapter ,,ii4   ,,the ,,star  
,,in ,,the ,,east1                      
#bdd    ,,chapter ,,iii4   ,,the        
,,boy-,,hood ,,of ,,je-,,sus1           
#bea    ,,chapter ,,iv4   ,,je-,,sus    
,,and ,,john ,,the ,,bap-,,tist1        
#bef    ,,chapter ,v4   ,,the ,,wo-,,man
 ,,at ,,the ,,well4--,,je-,,sus ,,by    
,,the ,,sea1          #bfg    ,,chapter 
,,vi4   ,,je-,,sus ,,heals ,,the ,,sick1
 ,,and ,,does ,,good ,,work ,,on ,,the  
,,day ,,of ,,rest1                      
#bgf    ,,chapter ,,vii4   ,,the        
,,ser-,,mon ,,on ,,the ,,mount1         
#bhf    ,,chapter ,,viii4   ,,good      
,,words ,,and ,,good ,,works1           
#bie    ,,chapter ,,ix4   ,,je-,,sus    
,,at ,,the ,,sea-,,shore1               
#cjc    ,,chapter ,x4   ,,je-,,sus      
,,brings ,,the ,,dead ,,to              
,,life4--,,feeds ,,five                 
,,thou-,,sand1                          
#caa    ,,chapter ,,xi4   ,,je-,,sus    

,,heals ,,the ,,sick4--,,his ,,form     
,,changed ,,on ,,the       ,,mount1     
#cbj    ,,chapter ,,xii4   ,,the ,,good 
,,sa-,,mar-,i-,,tan4--,,mar-,,tha ,,and 
,,ma-,,ry4--,,the       ,,man ,,born    
,,blind1                                
#cbg    ,,chapter ,,xiii4   ,,je-,,sus  
,,the ,,good                            
,,shep-,,herd4--,,laz-,a-,,rus ,,brought
 ,,to       ,,life4--,,the ,,feast ,,and
 ,,those ,,who ,,were ,,bid ,,to ,,it1  
#ccg    ,,chapter ,,xiv4   ,,the        
,,prod-,i-,,gal ,,son4--,,the           
,,phar-,i-,,see ,,and ,,the             
,,pub-,,li-,,can4--,,babes ,,brought    
,,to       ,,je-,,sus4--,,zac-,,che-,,us
 ,,climbs ,a ,,tree1               #cdf 
,,chapter ,,xv4   ,,the ,,feast ,,of    
,,the ,,pass-,o-,,ver4--,,the           
,,sup-,,per ,,at       ,,beth-,a-,,ny1  
#cec    ,,chapter ,,xvi4                
,,par-,a-,,bles ,,of ,,our ,,lord1      
#cfb    ,,chapter ,,xvii4   ,,the       
,,lord',s ,,sup-,,per4--,,je-,,sus ,,in 
,,geth-,,sem-,a-,,ne4--,,the            

,,ju-,,das ,,kiss4--,,pe-,,ter          
,,de-,,nies ,,je-,,sus1             #cge
    ,,chapter ,,xviii4   ,,christ       
,,be-,,fore ,,pi-,,late4--,,christ ,,on 
,,the ,,cross1        #chb    ,,chapter 
,,xix4   ,,je-,,sus ,,leaves ,,the      
,,grave4--,,ap-,,pears ,,to             
,,ma-,,ry4--,,ste-,,phen                
,,stoned4--,,paul',s ,,life1            
,,ship-,,wreck ,,and ,,death1           
#cie    ,,chapter ,,xx4   ,,what ,,john 
,,saw ,,while ,,on ,,the ,,isle ,,of    
,,pat-,,mos4--,,the       ,,great       
,,white ,,throne4--,,the ,,land ,,of    
,,light1          #dab     ,history of  
the ,old ,testament4     ,,chapter ,i4  
,,god ,,made ,,the ,,world4   ,,far back
 in the past1 more years than you could 
think or count1 ,god made the world4 ,it
 did not look at first as it does now1  
for there was no live thing on it1 no   
men1 beasts1 or birds1 not a bush1 tree 
or plant1 but all was dark and drear4   
,then ,god said1 ,let there be light6   
,and the light came4 ,and ,god saw the  

light1 and it pleased him1 and he gave  
it the name of ,day4 ,and when the day  
was gone1 and the dark came back to stay
 for a while1 he gave the dark spell the
 name of ,night4 ,and ,god did these    
things on the first day4  ,the next day 
,god made the clouds1 and the sky in    
which they were to move2 and he gave the
 sky a name2 he called it ,heav-en4     
,then he drove the wa-ters to one place 
where they were both deep and wide1 and 
he called the wa-ters ,seas1 and to the 
dry land he gave the name of ,earth4    
,and ,god made the grass to grow up out 
of the earth1 and the trees and shrubs  
that have fruit on them4 ,and the grass 
and the shrubs and the trees were to    
bear seeds1 so that when these seeds    
were put in-to the ground more grass and
 trees and shrubs would grow there4 ,god
 did these things on the third day4     
,and ,god put two great lights in the   
sky1 the ,sun to shine by day1 and the  
,moon to shine by night2 and he made the
 stars1 and put each one in its place4  

,and these things he did on the fourth  
day4  ,and he made the great whales1 and
 all the fish that live in the sea1 and 
the birds that swim on it1 as well as   
those that fly through the air1 and make
 their nests in the deep woods4 ,and    
these things ,god did on the fifth day4 
,god made the beasts3 those that are    
wild and live in the deep1 dark woods1  
far from the homes of men2 and those    
that are tame and of use to men1 and    
live where men live--such as the horse1 
the cow1 the ox and the sheep4 ,and he  
made the things that creep on the       
ground1 and flies and bugs that course  
through the air4  ,illustration3        
,,ad-,,am ,,and ,,eve ,,driv-,,en ,,from
 ,,par-,a-,,dise4  ,and then ,god made  
,man1 and told him that he should rule  
the fish of the sea1 the birds of the   
air1 and all else that lived on the     
earth4 ,and he told man that the fruit  
which grew on the trees and shrubs      
should be his food1 while the beasts    
were to feed on the leaves1 and on the  

grass that was spread out on the earth4 
,these things were done on the sixth    
day4  ,the next day ,god did no work at 
all1 but made it a day of rest4  ,god   
made man out of the dust of the earth1  
and breathed in him till the man        
breathed and moved1 and showed signs of 
life4 ,then ,god made a gar-den for man 
to live in1 where all sorts of trees    
grew that were nice to look at1 and that
 bore fruit good to eat4 ,and this place
 was called ,e-den4 ,and through it     
flowed a large stream that kept the     
earth moist4  ,and ,god took ,ad-am1 the
 man he had made1 and put him in the    
gar-den1 and told him to take care of   
it4 ,he told him he might eat of the    
fruit that grew on all the trees but    
one4 ,god said he must not eat of that  
tree1 for if he did he would be sure to 
die4 ,and all the birds and beasts came 
to ,a-dam1 that he might give them their
 names4 ,and the names he gave them are 
those by which they are known to this   
day4  ,and ,god saw it was not good for 

man to be a-lone2 he should have some   
one to be with him and help him4 ,so he 
had a deep sleep fall on ,ad-am1 and    
while he slept ,god took out of his side
 a bone1 and out of this bone he made a 
wo-man4 ,then he brought this wo-man he 
had made to ,ad-am1 and she was his     
wife4  ,now there was in this gar-den of
 ,e-den a great big snake4 ,and this    
snake spoke to the wo-man--as ,sa-tan   
speaks to us--to tempt her to sin4  ,the
 snake said3 ,has ,god told you not to  
eat of all the trees in the gar-den8    
,and the wo-man said that they might eat
 of all but one2 if they ate of that or 
touched it they would be sure to die4   
,the snake told them they should not    
die1 and that ,god did not wish them to 
eat of it for fear they would grow wise1
 and know more than he thought was good 
for them4  ,the wo-man heard what the   
snake said1 and when she saw that the   
tree was nice to look at and the fruit  
seemed good to eat1 she gave no thought 
to what ,god had said1 but took some of 

the fruit and ate of it2 she gave some  
to the man1 ,ad-am1 and he did eat4  ,in
 a short time they heard a voice1 and   
knew that ,god spoke to them4 ,yet they 
did not come near him when they heard   
his voice1 but ran and tried to hide    
from him4  ,but ,god spoke once more1   
and said to the man1 ,where art thou8   
,and ,ad-am said1 ,i heard thy voice1   
and my fear was so great that ,i hid    
from thee4  ,and ,god said1 ,did'st thou
 eat of the tree ,i told thee not to eat
 of8  ,and the man said1 ,she whom thou 
dids't give me to be with me brought me 
some of the fruit1 and ,i did eat4  ,and
 ,god said to the man's wife1 ,what is  
this that thou hast done8  ,and she told
 ,god what the snake had said1 and how  
she came to eat of the fruit1 and ,god  
was wroth with them all4 ,he said the   
snake should crawl on the ground and eat
 dust all the days of its life2 and he  
told the wife she should know what it   
was to be sick and sad1 and should have 
much grief and care4  ,and ,god drove   

the man and his wife out of ,e-den1 and 
would let them live no more in that fair
 place4 ,and he sent an-gels to keep    
watch1 and a sword of fire that would   
turn in all ways1 so that the two whom  
,god for their sins drove out of ,e-den 
could not get back to the home they had 
lost4  ,and ,god told ,ad-am that as he 
had paid heed to what his wife said1 and
 did eat of the tree which the ,lord had
 told him not to eat of1 the ground     
should bear no more fruit for him by    
it-self1 as it had done up to this time1
 and ,ad-am would have to work hard all 
his life to raise food to eat1 and when 
he died he would go back to the dust out
 of which he was made4  ,but ,god told  
,ad-am and his wife that there was a way
 by which their souls might live on high
 when their flesh was laid in the       
ground4 ,he said he would send ,one from
 the sky who would give his life for    
theirs3 that is1 he would be put to     
death for their sins4 ,then if they     
would turn from their sins1 and give    

their hearts to the ,one who was to save
 them1 ,god would not turn his face from
 them1 but when they died they would    
have a home with him1 and have no       
thought of sin4  ,so ,ad-am went forth  
to till the land1 and he gave his wife  
the name of ,eve4 ,and they made coats  
out of the skins of beasts4             
,illustration3 ,,cain ,,and ,a-,,bel    
,,of-,,fer-,,ing ,,sac-,,ri-,,fi-,,ces  
,,to ,,god4  ,ad-am and his wife had two
 sons3 ,cain and ,a-bel4 ,when they grew
 up to be men1 ,cain1 who was the       
first-born1 took care of a farm2 ,a-bel 
kept a flock of sheep4  ,they both had  
bad hearts1 and at times would be led   
in-to sin1 just as ,ad-am and his wife  
had been4 ,but when ,a-bel did wrong he 
was grieved1 and sought to make peace   
with ,god4 ,one day he brought a lamb   
from his flock1 and killed it1 and burnt
 it on a heap of stones4 ,and the smoke 
went up on high4  ,this act of ,a-bel's 
pleased ,god1 for it was the sign that a
 ,lamb was to be sent to the world to   

save men from their sins4  ,but ,cain   
kept on in his sins1 and paid his vows  
to ,god not with a lamb1 but with fruit 
or grain out of the field4 ,this did not
 please ,god1 and the smoke went not up 
on high4 ,when ,cain saw this he was in 
a rage1 and showed by his looks that he 
was wroth with ,god4 ,yet ,god spoke to 
him in a kind voice1 and said1 ,why art 
thou wroth8 and why art thou so cast    
down8  ,if ,cain did right ,god told him
 he would be pleased with his gift2 but 
if he did not do right1 the fault was   
his own4  ,then ,cain was wroth with    
,a-bel1 for he saw that ,god was pleased
 with ,a-bel's gift and not with his4   
,and one day when both of them were out 
in the field he rose up and slew ,a-bel1
 and the blood ran out of ,a-bel's      
wounds and sank deep in the ground4  ,as
 soon as this deed was done1 ,god spoke 
to ,cain1 and said3 ,where is ,a-bel8   
,cain said1 ,i know not4 ,he is not in  
my care4 ,then ,god1 who had seen the   
crime1 and knew just how bad his heart  

was1 said to ,cain3 ,what hast thou     
done8 ,the voice of ,a-bel's blood cries
 to me from out the ground4  ,and ,god  
told ,cain that for his great sin he    
should move from place to place1 as one 
who was in fear of his life1 and had no 
home to stay in4 ,and if he should plant
 aught in the field to bear food1 it    
should not grow well4 ,weeds would come 
up and choke it1 or it would bear leaves
 and no fruit1 so that ,cain would not  
have much to eat4  ,illustration3 ,,the 
,,death ,,of ,a-,,bel4  ,and ,cain said 
if ,god drove him here and there on the 
face of the earth1 and would not take   
care of him1 all those who met him would
 want to kill him4  ,but ,god said the  
man who hurt ,cain would have a worse   
fate4 ,god set a mark on ,cain2 what    
kind of a mark it was we are not told1  
but those who saw it would know it was  
,cain1 and it would bring to their minds
 that ,god had said no man should kill  
him4  ,ad-am lived to be an old1 old    
man1 and had a large flock of chil-dren1

 who grew up and were wed1 and they went
 off and made homes1 and day by day were
 folks born in-to the world4 ,when      
,ad-am died he was laid in the ground   
and went back to dust1 as ,god had said 
he should when he went out of ,e-den4   
,one of the men who lived in those days 
was named ,e-noch4 ,it is said of him   
that he walked with ,god4 ,that means   
that he loved ,god1 and thought of him1 
and kept near him all the time1 and did 
his best to please him4  ,and ,e-noch   
did not die1 but ,god took him up to be 
with him while he still lived1 just as  
if he were to take up one of us4  ,and  
,e-noch had a son whose name was        
,me-thu-se-lah1 who died at a great old 
age4 ,in those times men lived more     
years than they do now1 but in all the  
years since the world was made no man   
has been known to live to be as old as  
,me-thu-se-lah4     ,,chapter ,,ii4     
,,the ,,great ,,flood2 ,,and ,a ,,great 
,,tower4   ,,in the course of time1 when
 there came to be more folks in the     

world1 they grew fond of sin4 ,they did 
not love ,god1 or try to please him4    
,and ,god was wroth with them1 and said 
he would send a flood that would drown  
the world1 and there should not be any  
dry land left for men1 beasts1 or birds 
to live on4  ,but though most of the    
folks at that time were as bad as they  
could be1 there was one good man in     
their midst1 and his name was ,no-ah4   
,illustration3 ,,the ,,ark4  ,and ,god  
loved ,no-ah and told him what he meant 
to do4 ,and ,god bade ,no-ah build an   
ark4 ,this was a boat4 ,it was to be    
made large1 with rooms in it1 and a     
great door on its side4 ,and it was to  
be quite high1 and to have a roof on    
top4  ,and ,god told ,no-ah when the ark
 was done he and his sons and their     
wives should go in it4  ,and he told    
,no-ah to take in with him two of each  
kind of bird and of beast1 and of bug1  
and of things that crept1 and to take   
care of them in the ark so long as the  
flood should be on the earth2 for all   

that were not in the ark would be sure  
to be drowned4  ,so ,no-ah set out at   
once to build the ark2 and it took him a
 great while to build it4 ,when not at  
work on the ark1 he would talk of ,god1 
and of his plan to send a flood to wash 
sin out of the world1 and would urge the
 folks to give up their sins1 and lead  
good lives4 ,but they paid no heed to   
his words1 and went from bad to worse   
all the time that ,no-ah was at work on 
the ark4  ,when it was done ,god told   
,no-ah to come in-to the ark1 for he saw
 he was a good man who had done his best
 to serve him1 and to bring the birds   
and beasts with him4 ,for in a few days 
he would send the rain on the earth1 and
 all that was left on it would be       
drowned4  ,illustration3 ,,the ,,ark    
,so ,no-ah did as ,god told him4 ,and   
when he and his wife1 and his three sons
 and their wives1 and the birds and the 
beasts1 both small and great1 had passed
 through the great door of the ark1 ,god
 shut them in4  ,at the end of a week   

the rain set in1 and did not stop for   
more than a month4 ,the rain seemed to  
pour out of the sky1 and all the        
springs1 the large and small streams1   
and the great seas1 rose up and swept   
through the length and breadth of the   
land4 ,they came to where the ark was1  
and went round and round it1 and rose so
 high that the ark was borne from its   
place and set a-float on the great wide 
sea4  ,then those who had paid no heed  
to ,no-ah1 but had kept on in their     
sins1 were in a sad plight4 ,the flood  
had come1 and they knew now that all    
that he had told them was true4 ,how    
glad they would have been to go with him
 in the ark4 ,but it was too late4 ,they
 ran in wild haste to the tops of the   
hills in hopes to find there a safe     
place4 ,but still the floods rose and   
rose till there was no place for them to
 go1 and all those not in the ark were  
drowned1 and there was not a bit of dry 
land in the whole wide world4  ,but ,god
 took care of ,no-ah1 and those who were

 with him1 and kept them safe till the  
floods went down4 ,at the end of five   
months the sea had gone down so much    
that the ark stood high and dry on a    
mount known as ,ar-a-rat4 ,it stood     
there for at least two months1 and at   
the end of that time the sea had gone   
down so that tops of high hills could be
 seen here and there4  ,and ,no-ah sent 
forth a ra-ven1 and the bird flew this  
way and that1 but came not back to the  
ark4  ,then ,no-ah sent forth a dove1   
that he might find out if the ground was
 yet dry4 ,and the dove flew here and   
there in search of green things1 but    
found not a tree in sight1 and naught   
but cold hard rock1 and so she flew back
 to the ark and ,no-ah put out his hand 
and took her in4  ,at the end of a week 
,no-ah sent out the dove once more1 and 
at the close of the day she came back   
with a leaf in her mouth4               
,illustration3 ,,the ,,re-,,turn ,,of   
,,the ,,dove4  ,as soon as ,no-ah saw   
the leaf he knew that the waves had gone

 down or the dove could not have found  
it4 ,and he knew that ,god had sent the 
dove back to him that he might know the 
ground would soon be dry4  ,in a few    
days he sent the dove out for the third 
time1 but she did not come back2 and    
,no-ah was sure then that the ground was
 dry1 and that ,god meant that for a    
sign that he should leave the ark in    
which he had been shut up so long4  ,and
 ,god spoke to ,no-ah and told him to   
come out of the ark1 and to bring out   
all that had been in there with him4    
,and ,no-ah did so1 and he built up a   
heap of stones as ,a-bel had done1 on   
which he laid beasts and birds1 and     
burnt them1 which was the way in which  
man gave thanks to ,god in those days4  
,and ,no-ah's heart was full of praise  
to ,god1 who had kept him1 and those who
 were near and dear to him1 safe from   
the flood1 while all the rest of the    
world was drowned4  ,and ,god told      
,no-ah and his sons that they should    
rule on the earth1 and might kill the   

beasts and use the flesh for food4 ,up  
to this time those who dwelt on the     
earth had lived on the fruits of trees  
and such things as grew out of the      
ground1 and did not know the taste of   
meat4  ,and ,god told ,no-ah that he    
would send no more floods to drown the  
world as this one had done4 ,and he gave
 ,no-ah a sign that he would keep his   
word1 so that when ,no-ah saw it he     
would have no fear of a flood4 ,and this
 sign was the rain-bow1 which ,god set  
up in the sky as a bow of hope to ,no-ah
 and to all the world4  ,no-ah lived for
 years and years af-ter the flood1 and  
died at a ripe old age4  ,the tribes of 
,no-ah grew so fast that the world was  
quite well filled once more4            
,illustration3 ,,no-,,ah',s             
,,sac-,,ri-,,fice4  ,and you would think
 they would have been glad to serve     
,god1 and to do right in his sight4 ,but
 their hearts were full of sin1 and they
 went on as those had done who were     
drowned in the flood4  ,illustration3   

,,he-,,brews1 ,,and ,,their ,,mode ,,of 
,,trav-,,el-,,ing4  ,at this time all   
those who dwelt on the earth spoke but  
one tongue2 that is1 they used the same 
kind of speech4  ,now these tribes did  
not stay in one spot all the time1 but  
would pack up their tents and move from 
place to place as they chose4  ,and as  
they went to the east they came to a    
plain in the land of ,shi-nar4 ,and they
 said1 ,let us make brick and build a   
high tow-er that shall reach up to the  
sky4 ,and let us make a name1 so that   
when we go from this place it will be   
known what great men were here1 and what
 great deeds they could do4             
,illustration3 ,,build-,,ing ,,the      
,,tow-,,er ,,of ,,ba-,,bel4  ,and they  
set to work to build it4 ,god1 who read 
their hearts1 knew that sin was at work 
there1 and that the tow-er they meant to
 build was not to serve him in1 or to   
add to his praise4 ,so he was not       
pleased with their work1 and chose a    
strange way to stop them4 ,he made them 

all at once speak in strange tongues4   
,this one could not tell what that one  
said1 and they made such a noise that it
 grew to be just a ba-bel of sound4 ,and
 that is why it was called the tow-er of
 ,ba-bel4     ,,chapter ,,iii4          
,,abraham3 ,,the ,,man ,,of ,,faith4    
,,there dwelt in the land of ,ur a man  
whose name was ,a-bra-ham4 ,and in that 
land the men did not serve the true     
,god1 but had set up false gods to whom 
they paid their vows4  ,and ,god told   
,a-bra-ham to leave his home and go to a
 land which he would show him4          
,a-bra-ham did not know where the land  
was1 but he had great faith1 and knew   
that ,god would take care of him and    
bring him to the land he had told him   
of4  ,so ,a-bra-ham took ,sa-rah1 his   
wife1 and his bro-ther's son1 whose name
 was ,lot1 and they set out for the land
 which ,god had said he would show him4 
,a-bra-ham was a rich man1 and so was   
,lot1 and they had a great wealth of    
flocks1 and of herds1 and of tents4 ,and

 they each had a large force of         
herds-men4 ,and these herds-men were at 
strife4  ,and ,a-bra-ham told ,lot it   
was best that they should part2 and he  
said to him1 ,choose where thou shalt   
go4 ,if thou wilt take the left hand ,i 
will go to the right1 and if thou wilt  
go to the right hand then ,i will go to 
the left4  ,so ,lot looked round and saw
 that the plain of ,jor-dan was rich in 
grass1 and would be a fine place for him
 and his herds to dwell in2 so he made  
his choice at once1 and went to live    
there4  ,two large towns were on this   
plain1 ,sod-om and ,go-mor-rah4 ,the men
 in ,sod-om were full of sin1 yet ,lot1 
though a good man1 went to live there   
that he might have a chance to add to   
his wealth4  ,as soon as ,lot had gone1 
the ,lord told ,a-bra-ham that he would 
give to him and his heirs all that land 
as far as he could see it4 ,and the     
tribe of ,a-bra-ham would be so great   
that no one could count them4  ,now     
,sa-rah ,a-bra-ham's wife1 had a        

hand-maid--that is1 a                   
maid-of-all-work--whose name was        
,ha-gar2 and she came from ,e-gypt4     
,ha-gar did ,sa-rah a great wrong1 and  
,sa-rah drove her from the house1 and   
she fled to the woods4  ,an an-gel of   
the ,lord found ,ha-gar there by a      
spring of wa-ter1 and said to her1 ,from
 whence didst thou come8 and where wilt 
thou go8 ,and she said she had fled from
 ,sa-rah1 whose maid she was4  ,and the 
an-gel said she must go back to ,sa-rah 
and do as she wished her to do4 ,and he 
told ,ha-gar she would have a son whose 
name would be ,ish-ma-el1 and that he   
would live out of doors and be at strife
 with all men4 ,so ,ha-gar went back to 
,sa-rah1 and in due time ,god gave her a
 son1 who was called ,ish-ma-el4  ,when 
,a-bra-ham was an old man1 ,god told him
 that he and ,sa-rah should have a son1 
who should be called ,i-saac4  ,one day 
at the hour of noon1 when ,a-bra-ham sat
 by the door of his tent1 he looked up  
and saw three men quite near him4 ,then 

he ran out to meet them1 and bowed his  
face to the ground4 ,and ,a-bra-ham bade
 them sit down and rest1 and let some   
wa-ter be brought that they might wash  
their feet4  ,no one in those days wore 
such shoes as are worn now4 ,some went  
bare-foot1 and some wore just a sole    
tied to the foot with strings1 which did
 not keep off the dust and dirt as our  
shoes do4  ,so when one came in from a  
long walk the first thing he did was to 
bathe his feet1 as that gave rest and   
ease1 and when guests came the bowl was 
brought for their use4  ,and ,a-bra-ham 
brought them food to eat1 and stood by  
to wait on them2 and when they had had  
their fill1 went with them to show them 
the way4  ,in those days the ,lord came 
down on the earth and spoke with men1   
and it is thought that one of these     
three was the ,lord1 and the two with   
him were an-gels4  ,illustration3 ,,the 
,,an-,,gels' ,,vis-,,it4  ,and the ,lord
 told ,a-bra-ham that he meant to burn  
,sod-om and ,go-mor-rah for the sins of 

those who dwelt there4 ,this made       
,a-bra-ham sad1 and he said there might 
be a few good men there1 and he begged  
the ,lord to spare the towns for their  
sakes4  ,the ,lord said he would do so  
if ten good men could be found there4   
,and the ,lord left ,a-bra-ham and he   
went back to his tent4 ,at the close of 
the day1 ,lot sat in the gate of ,sod-om
 and two an-gels came there4 ,and as    
soon as ,lot saw them he rose up to meet
 them and bowed down with his face to   
the ground4  ,then these an-gels told   
,lot to take out of ,sod-om all those   
who were dear to him1 and flee in great 
haste1 as the ,lord meant to set the    
place on fire4  ,they were told not to  
look back1 but while on their way ,lot's
 wife turned her head1 which was a sign 
that her heart was in ,sod-om1 and she  
died where she stood1 and turned to     
salt4  ,but ,lot and his two girls      
reached ,zo-ar at dawn of the next day4 
,then the ,lord rained fire on ,sod-om  
and ,go-mor-rah1 and they were burnt up 

in fierce flame1 with all that lived    
there1 and all that grew out of the     
ground4  ,in due time ,god gave         
,a-bra-ham the son he had said he should
 have4  ,and the child grew1 and as soon
 as it could eat1 ,a-bra-ham made a     
great feast4 ,and at this feast ,sa-rah 
saw that ,ha-gar's son1 ,ish-ma-el1 made
 fun of her boy1 and she begged         
,a-bra-ham to cast him out4 ,a-bra-ham  
did not wish to do this1 but ,god spoke 
to him and told him to do as ,sa-rah had
 said1 for ,i-saac was to be the true   
heir4 ,so the next day ,a-bra-ham gave  
food and drink to ,ha-gar and sent her  
and her child out of his house4  ,and   
,ha-gar took her boy and went to the    
waste lands of ,beer-she-ba4  ,and when 
there was nought for the child to drink1
 he grew weak1 and was like to die4 ,and
 ,ha-gar laid him 'neath a bush and went
 off and sat down and hid her face1 and 
wept1 for she loved her boy ve-ry much  
and did not want to see him die4        
,illustration3 ,,de-,,struc-,,tion ,,of 

,,the ,,cit-,,ies ,,of ,,the ,,plain4   
,and a voice spoke to ,ha-gar out of the
 sky1 and said1 ,what ails thee1        
,ha-gar8 ,fear not1 for ,god hath heard 
the voice of the lad where he is4 ,rise1
 lift up the lad and hold him in thine  
arms4  ,and the voice told her that her 
son should be the head of a great tribe4
 ,and as she raised her eyes she saw a  
well of wa-ter1 and she ran to it and   
gave her son a drink and he was soon    
strong and well once more4  ,and ,god   
was kind to ,ish-ma-el1 and he grew1 and
 made his home in the woods1 and came to
 have great skill with the bow4  ,now it
 was ,god's wish to try the faith of    
,a-bra-ham to him4  ,and he told him to 
take his son1 ,i-saac1 and go to the    
land of ,mo-ri-ah1 and lay him on the   
al-tar he was to build on one of the    
mounts there4 ,it was not a hard task to
 kill a lamb1 and to burn it so that the
 smoke of it should rise up to ,god1    
like praise from the hearts of men4 ,but
 how could ,a-bra-ham take his own dear 

son1 ,i-saac1 and lay him on the wood1  
and let him be burnt up like a lamb8    
,yet ,god told him to do it1 and        
,a-bra-ham knew that it was safe for him
 to do as ,god said4  ,so he rose the   
next day and took two of his young men  
with him1 and ,i-saac his son1 and cut  
the wood the right length1 and set out  
for the mount of which ,god had told    
him4  ,illustration3 ,,ha-,,gar ,,and   
,,ish-,,ma-,,el4  ,and as they drew near
 the place he took the wood from the ass
 and laid it on ,i-saac's back1 and took
 the fire in his hand and a knife1 and  
the two went up the mount4  ,now ,i-saac
 did not know what the ,lord had told   
,a-bra-ham to do1 nor why his fa-ther   
took him up to the mount4 ,and he said1 
,here is the fire and the wood1 but     
where is the lamb8  ,and ,a-bra-ham     
said1 ,my son1 ,god will give us the    
lamb we need4  ,and when they came to   
the place1 ,a-bra-ham piled up the      
stones and put the wood on them1 and    
bound ,i-saac and laid him on the wood4 

,then he drew forth the knife to kill   
his son4 ,and just then a voice from the
 sky cried out1 ,a-bra-ham6 ,a-bra-ham6 
,and ,a-bra-ham said1 ,here am ,i4  ,and
 the ,lord told him to do no harm to    
,i-saac1 for now he knew that ,a-bra-ham
 loved him1 since he would not spare his
 own dear son if it was ,god's wish that
 he should give him up4  ,and as        
,a-bra-ham turned his head he saw a ram 
that was caught in a bush1 and he took  
the ram and laid it on the wood1 and    
burnt it in-stead of his son4  ,at the  
end of a few years ,a-bra-ham went to   
live at ,heb-ron4 ,and ,sa-rah died     
there4  ,when ,i-saac grew up to be a   
man1 ,a-bra-ham did not wish him to take
 a wife from the land of ,ca-naan where 
they served strange gods4  ,so he sent  
one of his men to the land where he used
 to live to bring back a wife for       
,i-saac4  ,and as he drew near to a     
large town in that land he made his     
cam-els kneel down by a well4 ,and it   
was the time of day when the wo-men of  

the place went out to draw wa-ter from  
the well4  ,and the man whom ,a-bra-ham 
had sent1 asked ,god to help him1 and to
 let him know which one of them was to  
be ,i-saac's wife4 ,and he said he would
 ask one of them for a drink1 and if she
 was kind and gave him a drink1 and let 
his cam-els quench their thirst1 then he
 should know that she was the one ,god  
chose to be the wife of ,a-bra-ham's    
son4  ,illustration3 ,,re-,,bek-,,ah    
,,at ,,the ,,well4  ,and he raised his  
heart to ,god and said1 ,o ,lord ,god of
 ,a-bra-ham1 give me good speed this    
day4  ,and while he yet spoke a fair    
young maid named ,re-bek-ah went down to
 the well and came up with the jar she  
had filled4 ,and the man ran to meet    
her1 and said to her1 ,let me drink1 ,i 
pray thee4  ,and she said1 ,drink1 my   
,lord1 and held the jar in her hand so  
that he could drink with ease4  ,then   
she said1 ,i will give thy cam-els a    
drink2 and she went down to the well and
 drew for all the cam-els4 ,and the man 

stood still1 and was yet in doubt if    
this was the maid whom ,god chose to be 
,i-saac's wife4  ,and as soon as the    
cam-els had drunk their fill1 the man   
took a gold ear-ring1 and two bands of  
gold for the wrists1 and gave them to   
,re-bek-ah4 ,and he said1 ,whose child  
art thou8 tell me1 ,i pray thee4 ,and is
 there room in thy sire's house for us  
to lodge in8  ,the maid said that her   
sire's name was ,beth-u-el1 and that    
there was no lack of straw and food1 and
 there was room in the house where he   
and his men might lodge4  ,the man was  
glad when he heard this1 for he knew the
 ,lord had led him1 and had brought him 
to the house to which he was sent4 ,and 
he bowed his head and gave thanks4      
,illustration3 ,,re-,,bek-,,ah          
,,jour-,,ney-,,ing ,,to ,i-,,saac4  ,the
 next day ,re-bek-ah and her maids went 
with ,a-bra-ham's head man4 ,and they   
came to the land of ,ca-naan4  ,at the  
close of the day ,i-saac went to walk in
 the fields1 and as he raised his eyes  

he saw the cam-els on their way home1   
and he went out to meet them4           
,re-bek-ah said to the man with whom she
 rode1 ,what man is this that comes     
through the field to meet us8  ,and the 
man told her that it was ,a-bra-ham's   
son1 ,i-saac4  ,then the maid drew her  
veil round her so as to hide her face1  
and came down from the cam-el4 ,and     
,i-saac took her to his house and made  
her his wife4 ,and ,a-bra-ham gave1 all 
that he had to ,i-saac2 and when he died
 he was laid by the side of ,sa-rah1 his
 wife1 in the tomb he had bought at     
,mach-pe-lah4  ,illustration3 ,,the     
,,meet-,,ing ,,of ,i-,,saac ,,and       
,,re-,,bek-,,ah4  ,and to this day no   
one has had such faith or trust in ,god 
as did ,a-bra-ham4     ,,chapter ,,iv4  
,,jacob ,,and ,,esau4   ,i-,,saac and   
,re-bek-ah had two sons4 ,their names   
were ,ja-cob and ,e-sau4 ,e-sau was the 
first-born1 and in those days the       
first-born son had what was called the  
birth-right4 ,this made him chief of all

 the rest1 and heir to the most of his  
sire's wealth4  ,when the boys grew up  
to be men1 ,e-sau took to the fields and
 to out-door sports1 while ,ja-cob was a
 plain man and dwelt in tents4 ,and     
,i-saac was fond of ,e-sau1 who killed  
the deer1 and brought him the meat to   
eat4 ,but ,re-bek-ah was more fond of   
,ja-cob4  ,one day ,ja-cob had made some
 food called pot-tage1 and ,e-sau came  
in from the field and said1 ,feed me1 ,i
 pray thee1 with that pot-tage1 for ,i  
am faint4  ,and ,ja-cob said1 ,sell me  
thy birth-right4  ,and ,e-sau said1 ,i  
am at the point of death1 so what good  
will a birth-right do me8  ,so he sold  
his birth-right to ,ja-cob--which was a 
wrong thing for him to do--and took the 
bread and meat1 and ate and drank1 and  
then went on his way4  ,now there came a
 time when ,i-saac was an old man1 and  
his eyes were dim1 for he had not long  
to live4 ,and he called ,e-sau to his   
bed-side and told him to go out with his
 bow and shoot a deer and bring him some

 of the meat he was so fond of1 that he 
might eat it and bless ,e-sau ere he    
died4  ,and ,re-bek-ah heard what       
,i-saac had said to ,e-sau1 and she told
 it to ,ja-cob4 ,and she said to him1   
,go now to the flock1 and fetch me from 
thence two good kids1 and ,i will make  
such a dish as thy fa-ther loves4 ,and  
thou shalt bring it to him that he may  
eat1 and that he may bless thee ere his 
death4  ,so ,ja-cob did as he was told1 
and brought the kids to his mo-ther that
 she might cook them in a way that would
 please the good man of the house4      
,then ,re-bek-ah put some of ,e-sau's   
clothes on ,ja-cob1 and put the skins of
 goats on his hands1 for ,e-sau's hands 
had on them a thick coat of hair4 ,and  
then ,ja-cob took the meat and the bread
 and went in to his fa-ther4  ,and      
,i-saac said1 ,who art thou1 my son8    
,illustration3 ,i-,,saac ,,speak-,,ing  
,,to ,e-,,sau4  ,and ,ja-cob said1 ,i am
 ,e-sau1 thy first-born4 ,rise1 ,i pray 
thee1 and eat of the deer's meat ,i have

 brought1 that thy soul may bless me4   
,and ,i-saac said to ,ja-cob1 ,how is it
 that thou hast found it so soon1 my    
son8  ,and he said1 ,the ,lord thy ,god 
brought it to me4  ,and ,i-saac said to 
,ja-cob1 ,come near1 ,i pray thee1 that 
,i may feel thee1 my son1 and know if   
thou be my son ,e-sau or not4 ,and      
,ja-cob went near to his fa-ther and he 
felt him1 and said1 ,the voice is       
,ja-cob's voice1 but the hands are the  
hands of ,e-sau4  ,and he said1 ,art    
thou in truth my son ,e-sau8  ,and      
,ja-cob said1 ,i am4  ,and he said1     
,bring near the food1 and ,i will eat1  
that my soul may bless thee4  ,and      
,ja-cob brought it near to him1 and he  
did eat1 and he brought him wine and he 
drank4  ,and his fa-ther said to him1   
,come near now1 and kiss me1 my son4    
,and he came near1 and gave him the     
kiss4 ,then the old man asked ,god to   
bless this whom he thought was his      
first-born1 and make him great1 and give
 him all good things4  ,ja-cob was      

scarce yet gone out from his fa-ther    
when ,e-sau came in from the hunt4 ,and 
he brought in a nice dish of meat1 and  
said1 ,let my fa-ther rise and eat of   
the flesh of the deer1 that thy soul may
 bless me4  ,and ,i-saac said1 ,who art 
thou8  ,and he said1 ,i am thy son1 thy 
first-born1 ,e-sau4  ,and ,i-saac shook 
like a leaf1 and said1 ,who8 ,where is  
he that took deer's meat and brought it 
to me so that ,i did eat ere this1 and  
bless him8 ,yea1 and he shall be blest4 
,when ,e-sau heard these words he cried 
out with great grief1 and said to his   
fa-ther1 ,bless me too1 ,o my fa-ther6  
,but ,i-saac said that he could not take
 from ,ja-cob what was now his--though  
he had won it through fraud4  ,and      
,e-sau said in his heart1 ,my fa-ther   
will soon be dead1 and then ,i will kill
 ,ja-cob4  ,illustration3 ,,ja-,,cob',s 
,,dream4  ,and these words were told to 
,re-bek-ah1 and she sent for ,ja-cob and
 said to him that ,e-sau meant to kill  
him1 and he must leave home at once and 

go and stay with her bro-ther ,la-ban   
till ,e-sau's wrath had cooled4  ,and   
,ja-cob went out from ,beer-she-ba4     
,and as he went on his way he came to a 
place where he thought he would lie down
 and rest4 ,the sun was set1 the day had
 been a long one1 and he was quite worn 
out4 ,so he put some stones for his head
 to rest on1 and was soon sound a-sleep4
  ,and while he slept he had a strange  
dream4 ,he saw a flight of steps that   
stood on the ground1 the top of which   
was far1 far up in the sky4 ,and bright 
an-gels went up and down the steps4 ,and
 the ,lord stood at the top1 and said1  
,i am with thee1 and will take care of  
thee1 and will bring thee back to this  
land1 for ,i will not leave thee till ,i
 have done that which ,i have told thee 
of4  ,and ,ja-cob woke out of his sleep1
 and said1 ',tis true the ,lord is in   
this place1 and ,i knew it not4  ,and he
 was in great fear1 and said1 ,this is  
the house of ,god1 and this is the gate 
of heav-en6  ,then he rose up and took  

the stone on which his head had lain and
 set it up on end1 and he poured oil on 
top of it4 ,and he gave to that place   
the name of ,beth-el1 and made a vow to 
love and serve ,god all the rest of his 
life4  ,and though he had done wrong1   
,god for-gave him1 and he was known as a
 great and good man4     ,,chapter ,v4  
,,jacob ,,and ,,rachel4   ,,as ,ja-cob  
went on his way to the ,east he came to 
a well that was out in the field1 near  
which lay three great flocks of sheep4  
,and there was a great stone on top of  
the well4 ,and the men who took care of 
the flocks would roll the stone from the
 mouth of the well1 and give drink to   
the sheep4 ,then they would roll the    
stone back to the mouth of the well4    
,ja-cob said to the men1 ,whence do ye  
come8  ,and they told him4  ,and he     
said1 ,know ye ,la-ban1 the son of      
,na-hor8  ,illustration3 ,,ra-,,chel    
,,and ,,ja-,,cob ,,at ,,the ,,well4     
,and they said1 ,we know him4  ,and he  
said1 ,is he well8  ,and they said1 ,he 

is well4 ,and there is one of his girls 
now1 ,ra-chel1 and she comes this way   
with her sheep4  ,while ,ja-cob yet     
spake with the men1 ,ra-chel came up    
with the sheep that she took care of4   
,and when ,ja-cob saw her1 he came near1
 and drew the stone from the mouth of   
the well1 and gave drink to the whole of
 her flock4  ,and as soon as he told her
 that he was ,re-bek-ah's son1 she ran  
home with the news4  ,and when ,la-ban  
heard that his sis-ter's son was near1  
he ran out to meet him1 and threw his   
arms round his neck and kissed him1 and 
brought him to his house4  ,and ,ja-cob 
dwelt there for the space of a month4   
,and ,la-ban said to ,ja-cob1 ,thou art 
bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh1  
but it is not right for thee to serve me
 for nought4 ,tell me how much ,i shall 
pay thee8  ,now ,la-ban had two         
girls--,le-ah and ,ra-chel4 ,and ,ja-cob
 was in love with ,ra-chel2 and he said 
to ,la-ban1 ,i will serve thee se-ven   
years if thou wilt give me ,ra-chel for 

a wife4  ,and ,la-ban said it would     
please him to have ,ja-cob for a        
son-in-law1 and ,ja-cob served sev-en   
years for ,ra-chel1 and they seemed to  
him but a few days1 so great was his    
love for her4 ,and at the end of that   
time ,ja-cob said to ,la-ban1 ,give me  
my wife1 for ,i have served thee my full
 time4  ,and ,la-ban made a feast1 and  
brought in ,le-ah to be ,ja-cob's wife4 
,in those days the bride wore a veil1   
and the man she wed could not look on   
her face till the next day4  ,so ,ja-cob
 did not find out this trick till the   
next morn1 and then he came in great    
wrath to ,la-ban and said1 ,what is this
 thou hast done to us8 ,did ,i not serve
 with thee for ,ra-chel8 and why did'st 
thou cheat me8  ,and ,la-ban said1 ,in  
our land the first-born must wed the    
first4 ,serve me sev-en years more1 and 
thou shalt have ,ra-chel for a wife4    
,and ,ja-cob did so1 and though he dwelt
 with both--which was thought to be no  
sin in those days--he was far more fond 

of ,ra-chel than he was of ,le-ah4      
,le-ah bore ,ja-cob a host of sons1 but 
it was years ere ,ra-chel had a child4  
,and this made her sad4 ,but at last she
 had a son1 and she called his name     
,jo-seph4 ,and as soon as ,jo-seph was  
born ,ja-cob told ,la-ban to give him   
his wives and all the goods that he     
owned1 and let him go back to the land  
he came from4  ,but ,la-ban begged him  
to stay4 ,he had found1 he said1 that   
the ,lord had blest him for ,ja-cob's   
sake1 and he might have some of the land
 and the flocks if he would still serve 
him4  ,so ,ja-cob took care of ,la-ban's
 flocks1 and had sheep and goats of his 
own1 and things went well for a time4   
,but one day ,ja-cob heard ,la-ban's    
sons say some hard things of him1 and he
 saw that ,la-ban did not give him the  
kind looks that he used to4 ,and he felt
 that the time had come for them to     
part4 ,and the ,lord told ,ja-cob to go 
back to the land he came from1 and he   
would deal well with him4 ,and ,ja-cob  

took his wives1 and the flocks and the  
goods he owned1 and set out for the land
 of ,ca-naan4  ,ja-cob sent one of his  
men to ,e-sau to say that he was on his 
way home1 and was in hopes he would find
 grace in his sight4  ,and the man      
brought back word that ,e-sau was on his
 way to meet ,ja-cob with a large force 
of men4 ,and ,ja-cob thought of the     
wrongs he had done his broth-er1 and was
 in great fear of him4  ,he sought the  
help of ,god1 and ,god told him what to 
do4 ,and ,ja-cob sent great droves of   
sheep and goats1 and ewes and rams1 and 
ca-mels and colts1 and cows1 and choice 
ones from all his live stock1 as a gift 
to ,e-sau4  ,and at night1 when no one  
else was near1 a man whose face shone   
with a strange light1 came to ,ja-cob   
and wound his arms round him and tried  
to throw him4 ,and the two strove so    
hard that ,ja-cob's thigh was put out of
 joint4  ,and as it grew light the man  
said1 ,let me go1 for the day breaks4   
,ja-cob said1 ,i will not let thee go   

till thou hast blest me4  ,and the man  
said1 ,what is thy name8 ,and he said1  
,ja-cob4  ,and he said1 ,thy name shall 
be no more ,ja-cob but ,is-ra-el1 for as
 a prince thou hast pow-er with ,god and
 with men4  ,and when he had blest      
,ja-cob he went his way4 ,and ,ja-cob   
gave the place the name of ,pe-ni-el1   
for1 said he1 ,i have seen ,god face to 
face and my life has been spared4 ,for  
,ja-cob knew by this that ,e-sau would  
not kill him4  ,illustration3 ,,the     
,,meet-,,ing ,,of ,,ja-,,cob ,,and      
,e-,,sau4  ,when ,ja-cob was an old1 old
 man ,ra-chel bore him a son2 and they  
called his name ,ben-ja-min4 ,and       
,ra-chel died4 ,and it was hard for     
,ja-cob to have her die and leave him1  
for his love for her was great1 and she 
was a good wife to him4     ,,chapter   
,,vi4  ,,joseph ,,and ,,his ,,brethren4 
,,ja-,,cob had twelve sons1 and he was  
more fond of ,jo-seph than of all the   
rest2 for he was the child of his old   
age4 ,and he gave him a fine coat1 and  

made a great pet of him4 ,this did not  
please the rest of the sons1 and they   
showed their hate of ,jo-seph in all    
sorts of ways4  ,one night ,jo-seph had 
a strange dream1 and he told it to      
,le-vi1 ,sim-e-on1 and the rest1 and it 
made them hate him all the more4  ,he   
said1 ,as we bound sheaves in the field1
 lo1 my sheaf rose and stood up         
straight4 ,and your sheaves stood round1
 and bowed to my sheaf4  ,and those who 
heard him said1 ,shalt thou in-deed     
reign o'er us8 ,and his words and his   
deeds filled them with a fierce hate4   
,and it was not long ere he told them of
 a fresh dream he had had1 in which he  
saw the sun and moon and e-lev-en stars 
bow down to him4 ,and he told it to     
,ja-cob1 and his e-lev-en sons4  ,and   
,ja-cob took him to task1 and said to   
him1 ,what does this dream mean8 ,are   
all of us to bow down to the earth to   
thee8 ,and he made up his mind to watch 
these signs1 which might be sent of     
,god4  ,illustration3 ,,jo-,,seph',s    

,,dream4  ,now ,ja-cob had large flocks 
of sheep and goats at ,shech-em1 and all
 of his sons but ,jo-seph had gone there
 to feed them4 ,and ,ja-cob said to     
,jo-seph1 ,go and see if it be well with
 thy breth-ren1 and with the flocks1 and
 bring me back word4  ,and ,jo-seph went
 out from the vale of ,heb-ron to the   
land of ,shech-em4  ,when he came there 
he found that his broth-ers had gone on 
to ,do-than4 ,and ,jo-seph went to      
,do-than and found them4 ,and as soon as
 he came in sight they thought of a way 
in which they might get rid of him4     
,illustration3 ,,shech-,,em1 ,,the      
,,first ,,cap-,i-,,tal ,,of ,,the       
,,king-,,dom ,,of ,,is-,,rael4  ,come1  
let us kill him1 they said2 and throw   
him in-to a pit1 and say that a wild    
beast ate him up4 ,then we shall see    
what will be-come of his dreams4  ,but  
,reu-ben heard it1 and saved him out of 
their hands4 ,and he said1 ,let us not  
kill the lad4 ,shed no blood2 but cast  
him in-to this pit1 and lay no hand on  

him4 ,for he meant to take him out of   
the pit1 and bear him home to his       
fath-er4  ,but when ,jo-seph came near  
these men who should have been kind to  
him1 they took off his coat and threw   
him in-to the pit1 which was dry1 or he 
would have drowned4 ,these old dry wells
 were left as traps in which to catch   
the wild beasts that prowled round in   
the dead of night1 and well these bad   
men knew what would be ,jo-seph's fate4 
,as they sat down to eat1 they looked up
 and saw a lot of men and cam-els on    
their way to ,e-gypt1 with spices1 and  
balm and myrrh4  ,illustration3         
,,jo-,,seph ,,sold ,,by ,,his           
,,broth-,,ers4  ,and ,ju-dah--one of    
,ja-cob's sons--said1 ,let us not kill  
the lad1 for he is of our own flesh1 but
 let us sell him to these men4 ,and the 
rest thought it was a good scheme4 ,so  
they drew ,jo-seph up out of the pit and
 sold him for a small sum1 and those who
 bought the lad took him down with them 
to ,e-gypt4  ,and the bad men took      

,jo-seph's coat and dipped it in the    
blood of a kid they had slain4 ,and they
 brought it to ,ja-cob1 and said1 ,this 
have we found4 ,is it thy son's coat8   
,and ,ja-cob knew it at once1 and said1 
,it is my son's coat4 ,jo-seph has no   
doubt been the prey of some wild beast4 
,and his grief was great4  ,the men who 
bought ,jo-seph brought him down to     
,e-gypt and sold him to ,pot-i-phar for 
a slave4  ,and the ,lord was with       
,jo-seph1 who served ,pot-i-phar so     
well1 that the rich man put him in      
charge of his home and lands4 ,but      
,pot-i-phar's wife told false tales1 and
 ,jo-seph1 who had done no wrong1 was   
thrust in-to jail4 ,pha-ra-oh was then  
king of ,e-gypt4 ,and it came to pass   
that he fell out with his but-ler and   
chief cook1 and had them shut up in the 
same place where ,jo-seph was bound4    
,and the man on guard put them in charge
 of ,jo-seph1 who went in and out of the
 ward as he chose4 ,and one morn when he
 came in to them he saw they were sad1  

and asked them why it was4  ,and they   
said1 ,we have dreamed dreams1 and there
 is no one to tell us what they mean4   
,and ,jo-seph said1 ,tell me them1 ,i   
pray you4  ,and the chief but-ler told  
his dream to ,jo-seph first4 ,and he    
said1 ,in my dream ,i saw a vine1 that  
put forth three branch-es and brought   
forth ripe grapes4  ,and ,jo-seph said  
to him1 ,in three days shall ,pha-ra-oh 
lift up thine head1 and put thee back in
 thy place1 and thou shalt serve him as 
of old4 ,but think of me when it shall  
be well with thee2 speak of me to the   
king1 and bring me out of this house4   
,and the but-ler said that he would4    
,illustration3 ,,jo-,,seph',s ,,coat4   
,then the chief cook told his dream2 and
 he said1 ,in my dream ,i had three     
white bas-kets on my head4 ,and in the  
top one were all sorts of bake meats for
 the king4 ,and the birds did eat out of
 the bas-ket that ,i bore on my head4   
,and ,jo-seph said to him1 ,in three    
days shall ,pha-ra-oh lift up thy head  

and hang thee on a tree2 and the birds  
shall eat the flesh from thy bones4     
,the third day was the king's birth-day1
 and he made a great feast4 ,and he put 
the chief but-ler back in his place1 and
 hung the chief cook2 just as ,jo-seph  
had said he would do4 ,but the chief    
but-ler gave not a thought to ,jo-seph1 
nor spoke one good word for him to the  
king1 as he had said he would4  ,two    
years from this time the king had a     
dream1 from which he woke1 and then fell
 a-sleep and dreamt the self-same dream4
 ,this was such a strange thing that it 
made the king feel ill at ease4 ,and he 
sent for all the wise men in the land to
 tell him what these dreams meant4      
,then the chief but-ler spoke to the    
king1 and said that when he and the cook
 were in jail1 there was a young man    
there1 a ,jew1 whom the chief of the    
guard made much use of4 ,and we told him
 our dreams1 and he told us what they   
meant4 ,and it came out just as he said4
  ,then the king sent at once for       

,jo-seph1 and said to him3 ,in my dream 
,i stood on the bank of the ,nile4 ,and 
there came up out of the riv-er sev-en  
fat cows1 and they fed in a field near  
by4 ,then sev-en lean cows came up that 
were naught but skin and bone4 ,and the 
lean cows ate up the fat cows4 ,and yet 
no one would have known it1 for they    
were just as lean as when ,i first saw  
them4 ,then ,i woke1 but soon fell      
a-sleep once more4  ,then ,i dreamt1 and
 in my dream ,i saw sev-en ears of corn 
come up on one stalk1 full and good4    
,and lo1 sev-en ears that were thin and 
dried up with the east wind sprang up   
af-ter them4 ,and the poor ears ate up  
the good ones4  ,jo-seph said1 ,for     
sev-en years there will be no lack of   
food in the land1 and all will go well2 
and then there will come a time of great
 want1 and rich and poor will be in need
 of food1 and not a few will starve to  
death4 ,let the king choose a wise man  
to see that corn is laid up in the land 
when the good years bring the rich      

growth1 so that there will be no lack of
 food in the years when the crops are   
small4  ,illustration3                  
,,pha-,,ra-,,oh',s ,,dream4  ,and the   
king said to ,jo-seph1 ,since ,god hath 
showed thee all this there is none so   
wise as thou art4 ,so he put him in     
charge of all the land of ,e-gypt1 and  
he was to rank next to the king4 ,and   
the king took a ring from his own hand  
and put it on ,jo-seph's hand1 and when 
he rode out1 men bowed the knee1 and his
 word was law in all the land4 ,and     
,jo-seph took a wife1 and he who was    
brought to ,e-gypt a slave1 was now a   
rich man4  ,and there came years when   
the grain grew rank in the fields1 and  
the crops were large4 ,and ,jo-seph saw 
that a large part of it was laid up1 and
 that there was no waste of the good    
food4 ,for the end of those rich years  
came and then there was a time of dearth
 in all the lands1 when the earth would 
not yield1 and men and beasts were in   
want of food4  ,but there was no lack of

 corn in ,e-gypt4 ,and ,jo-seph sold the
 corn that he had stored in the barns1  
and crowds came in to buy it4  ,when    
,ja-cob heard that corn could be bought 
in ,e-gypt1 he told his sons to go down 
and buy some1 that they might not starve
 to death4  ,and ten of them went down  
to buy corn in ,e-gypt4 ,but ,ja-cob    
kept ,ben-ja-min at home1 for fear he   
would be lost to him as ,jo-seph was    
lost4  ,illustration3 ,,jo-,,seph ,,and 
,,his ,,broth-,,ers4  ,when ,ja-cob's   
ten sons came to the place where        
,jo-seph was1 they bowed down to the    
ground4 ,and ,jo-seph knew them at once1
 but they did not know him1 or give a   
thought to his dreams4  ,and ,jo-seph   
spoke in a rough voice1 and said1       
,whence come ye8  ,and they said1 ,from 
the land of ,ca-naan to buy food4  ,and 
he said1 ,ye are spies1 and have come to
 see how poor the land is4  ,and they   
said to him1 ,nay1 my lord1 but to buy  
food are we come4 ,we are all one man's 
sons2 and we are true men1 and not      

spies4  ,but ,jo-seph would have it that
 they were spies4  ,and they said1      
,there were twelve of us1 sons of one   
man4 ,young ,ben-ja-min is at home with 
his fa-ther1 and one is dead4  ,and     
,jo-seph said1 ,go prove that ye are not
 spies2 let one of the ten that are here
 go and fetch the young lad1            
,ben-ja-min4 ,and he put them in jail   
for three days4 ,and he said1 ,let one  
of you be bound1 and kept in the        
guard-house1 while the rest of you take 
back the corn that you need4 ,and they  
said that they would do this4  ,then he 
took ,sim-e-on from their midst1 and had
 him bound1 and put in the guard-house4 
,and he sent word to his men to fill    
their sacks with corn1 and to put back  
the price in each sack1 and to give them
 food to eat on the way4 ,and thus did  
,jo-seph do good to those who did ill to
 him4  ,when ,ja-cob's nine sons went   
home they told all that had been said   
and done to them1 and that the lord of  
the land bade them bring ,ben-ja-min    

down to ,e-gypt or he would think they  
were spies1 and their lives would not be
 safe4  ,ja-cob said1 ,my son shall not 
go down with you1 for his broth-er is   
dead1 and he is all ,i have left4 ,if   
harm should come to him on the way1 ,i  
should die of grief4  ,illustration3    
,,the ,,meet-,,ing ,,of ,,jo-,,seph     
,,and ,,ben-,,ja-,,min4  ,when the corn 
they had brought from ,e-gypt was all   
gone1 ,ja-cob told his sons to go down  
and buy more4 ,and ,ju-dah spoke up and 
said1 ,the man swore we should not see  
his face if ,ben-ja-min was not with us4
 ,if thou wilt send him with us we will 
go2 but if thou wilt not send him we    
will not go down4  ,then ,ja-cob said1  
,if it must be so1 take ,ben-ja-min with
 you1 and may ,god give you grace with  
this man that he may send my two boys   
back to me4  ,so the men took           
,ben-ja-min and went down to ,e-gypt1   
and stood face to face with ,jo-seph4   
,and they gave ,jo-seph the gifts they  
had brought1 and bowed down to the      

earth4 ,and he asked how they all were1 
and if their fath-er was well2 and when 
he saw ,ben-ja-min he said1 ,is this the
 young broth-er of whom you spoke8 ,and 
he said to the lad1 ,god be good to     
thee1 my son4  ,and ,jo-seph's heart was
 so full at sight of the boy1 and he    
longed so to throw his arms round him1  
that he had to make haste and leave the 
room that his tears might not be seen4  
,then he came back and had the feast set
 out1 and all did eat and drink1 and    
were glad at heart4 ,and when the time  
came for his guests to leave1 ,jo-seph  
told his head man to fill their sacks   
with corn1 to put their gold back in the
 mouth of the sacks1 and to put in the  
young lad's sack the cup from which     
,jo-seph drank at each meal4  ,this was 
done1 and when they had gone out of the 
town ,jo-seph bade his man go and say to
 them3 ,my lord's cup is lost1 and you  
must know who stole it4  ,and when the  
man came up with ,ja-cob's sons1 he said
 just what ,jo-seph told him to say4    

,and they were all in a rage1 and said3 
,why does my lord say such things of us8
 ,if the cup is found on one of us1 kill
 him2 and make the rest of us slaves4   
,and each one of them cast his sack on  
the ground1 and loosed it at the top4   
,and the cup was found in ,ben-ja-min's 
sack4 ,then they rent their clothes1 and
 in great grief went back to ,jo-seph's 
house and found him there4 ,and they    
fell down at his feet4  ,illustration3  
,,ja-,,cob ,,bless-,,es ,,jo-,,seph',s  
,,chil-,,dren4  ,and ,ju-dah said1 ,god 
has found out our sins4 ,let us be your 
slaves2 and take him as well in whose   
sack the cup was found4  ,jo-seph said1 
,no2 but the man in whose sack the cup  
was found shall stay and serve me1 and  
the rest shall go in peace4  ,then      
,ju-dah1 who had sworn that he would    
bring back the boy1 said to ,jo-seph3   
,if we go home1 and our fath-er sees the
 lad is not with us1 he will die of     
grief4 ,for his life is bound up in the 
lad's life4  ,jo-seph could not keep    

back his tears1 and when he had sent all
 the men of ,e-gypt out of the room1 he 
said to his broth-ers1 ,come near1 ,i   
pray you4  ,and they came near4 ,and he 
said1 ,i am ,jo-seph1 whom ye sold in-to
 ,e-gypt4 ,but grieve not that ye did   
this thing1 for ,god did send me here   
that ,i might save your lives4 ,go home 
and tell my fath-er that ,god hath made 
me lord of all ,e-gypt1 and bid him come
 down to me at once4 ,and say that he   
shall dwell near me1 in the land of     
,go-shen1 and ,i will take care of him4 
,then he fell on ,ben-ja-min's neck1 and
 they wept2 and he kissed his broth-ers 
and shed tears1 but they were tears of  
joy4  ,ja-cob took all that he had and  
went down to ,e-gypt4 ,and three-score  
and ten souls went with him4 ,and they  
dwelt in the land of ,go-shen1 and      
,ja-cob died there4  ,jo-seph's         
breth-ren thought that he would hate    
them now that their fath-er was dead4   
,and they fell down at his feet and wept
 and prayed that he would do them no    

harm4  ,jo-seph bade them fear not1 for 
he would take care of them and be kind  
to them4 ,they had meant to do him an   
ill turn when he was a lad1 but ,god had
 made it turn out for good1 and it was  
all right4 ,and ,jo-seph lived to a good
 old age1 and had two sons1 whose names 
were ,e-phra-im and ,ma-nas-seh4        
,,chapter ,,vii4  ,,through ,,the ,,red 
,,sea ,,and ,,the ,,wilderness4   ,,by  
and by there rose up a new ,king in     
,e-gypt who knew not ,jo-seph4 ,he was  
called ,pha-ra-oh1 as this was the name 
by which all the kings of ,e-gypt were  
known4 ,and he said there were more     
,he-brews1 or ,jews1 in the land than   
there ought to be1 and if war should    
break out1 and these ,jews should take  
sides with the foes of ,pha-ra-oh and   
his race1 they would be sure to win4 ,so
 he set them hard tasks1 and made them  
bear great loads1 and did all he could  
to vex them1 and still they grew in     
strength4 ,god had said they were to be 
as the stars in the sky1 and as the     

sands of the sea1 that no one could     
count4 ,and the king of ,e-gypt tried to
 stop this thing4  ,and he made it a law
 that if a boy child was born to the    
,he-brews it should be put to death at  
once2 but a girl child might live4 ,and 
this was the cause of great grief to the
 poor bond-slaves1 who were forced to do
 the will of the great king4  ,one day  
the prin-cess went down to bathe in the 
stream that ran near her house4 ,and her
 maids went with her4 ,and as she stood 
on the shore of the ,nile1 she caught   
sight of a small boat built like an ark1
 that was hid in the reeds1 and sent her
 maids to fetch it out4  ,when the      
prin-cess looked in the ark she saw the 
child4 ,and the babe wept4 ,and the     
prin-cess tried to soothe it1 but the   
child cried the more1 for her voice was 
a strange one4 ,and she said1 ,this is a
 ,he-brew child4  ,and one of her maids 
spoke up1 and said1 ,shall ,i get thee a
 ,he-brew nurse1 that she may nurse the 
child for thee8  ,and the prin-cess     

said1 ,yes2 go4  ,and the maid brought  
her own and the babe's moth-er1 to whom 
the prin-cess said1 ,take this child and
 nurse it for me1 and ,i will pay thee  
for it4  ,and the wo-man took the child 
and took care of it4  ,illustration3    
,,the ,,find-,,ing ,,of ,,mo-,,ses4     
,and the child grew1 and was brought    
down to ,pha-ra-oh's house1 and the     
prin-cess made him her son1 and gave him
 the name of ,mo-ses3 which means ,drawn
 out4  ,one day1 when ,mo-ses had grown 
to be a man1 he went out to look at     
those of his own race1 and to watch them
 at their tasks4 ,and while he stood    
there a man from ,e-gypt struck one of  
the ,jews2 and when ,mo-ses looked to   
the right and to the left and saw that  
no one was near1 he slew the one from   
,e-gypt and hid him in the sand4  ,and  
the next day1 when he went out1 he saw  
there was a fight be-tween two          
,he-brews4 ,and he said to the one who  
was in the wrong1 ,why did you strike   
that man8  ,and he said1 ,who made thee 

our judge8 ,dost thou want to kill me1  
as thou didst the one from ,e-gypt8     
,and ,mo-ses was scared1 for he thought 
no one knew of this deed4  ,as soon as  
it came to the ears of the king1 he     
sought to slay ,mo-ses4 ,but ,mo-ses    
fled from him1 and dwelt in the land of 
,mid-i-an1 and found a wife there1 and  
took care of the flocks of ,jeth-ro1 his
 wife's fath-er4  ,one day as he led his
 flock out in search of food he came to 
,mount ,ho-reb1 and there he saw a flame
 of fire stream out of a bush1 and the  
bush was not burnt in the least4  ,as he
 drew near the bush the ,lord spoke to  
him out of the flame1 and ,mo-ses hid   
his face1 for he dared not look on ,god4
  ,the ,lord said1 ,the cry of the      
chil-dren of ,is-ra-el has come up to   
me1 and ,i have seen how ill they have  
been used4 ,and ,i will send thee to    
,pha-ra-oh that thou mayst bring them   
forth out of the land of ,e-gypt4  ,but 
,mo-ses was loth to go4  ,illustration3 
,,mo-,,ses ,,brought ,,be-,,fore        

,,pha-,,ra-,,oh',s ,,daugh-,,ter4  ,and 
the ,lord said1 ,what is that in thine  
hand8 ,and ,mo-ses said1 ,a rod1 ,and   
the ,lord said1 ,cast it on the ground4 
,and he cast it on the ground1 and it   
was changed to a snake1 and ,mo-ses fled
 from it4 ,then the ,lord said to       
,mo-ses1 ,put forth thine hand1 and take
 it by the tail4 ,and ,mo-ses did so1   
and it was a rod in his hand4 ,and the  
,lord said1 ,put now thy hand in on thy 
breast4 ,and he put it in1 and when he  
drew it out it was white1 and like a    
dead hand4 ,and he put his hand in once 
more1 and drew it out1 and it was like  
the rest of his flesh4  ,then ,mo-ses   
said1 ,o1 my ,lord1 ,i am not fit to do 
this work1 for ,i am slow of speech1 and
 a man of few words4  ,and the ,lord    
said to him1 ,i will be with thee1 and  
teach thee what thou wilt say4  ,still  
,mo-ses was loth to go1 and the ,lord   
was wroth with him1 and said1 ,take     
,aa-ron with thee4 ,he can speak well4  
,and thou shalt tell him what to say and

 do1 and ,i will teach you1 and with    
this rod in thy hand thou shalt do great
 things1 as if thou wert ,god4  ,so     
,mo-ses took his wife and his sons and  
put them on an ass1 and went back to    
,e-gypt with the rod of ,god in his     
hand4  ,and ,mo-ses and ,aa-ron went in 
to the king and begged him to let the   
,he-brews go out of the land4 ,and he   
would not1 but laid more work on the    
men1 and bade them make bricks with-out 
straw1 and do all sorts of hard tasks4  
,and the ,lord sent plagues on the land1
 and the ponds dried up1 and all the    
large streams were turned to blood1 and 
the fish died1 and the stench of them   
made the air scarce fit to breathe4 ,and
 there was no wa-ter they could drink4  
,then there came a plague of frogs1 and 
they were so thick in the land that     
,pha-ra-oh said he would let the        
chil-dren of ,is-ra-el go if ,mo-ses    
would rid him of the frogs at the same  
time4  ,but the king did not keep his   
word1 for as soon as he found the frogs 

grew less1 he said the ,he-brews should 
not go4  ,then the ,lord smote the land 
with lice2 but still ,pha-ra-oh's heart 
was hard4  ,illustration3 ,,mos-,,es    
,,at ,,the ,,burn-,,ing ,,bush4  ,then  
the ,lord sent flies in such swarms that
 there was no place that was free from  
them1 and they made the food not fit to 
eat4  ,and the king told ,mo-ses he     
would let the bond-slaves go to serve   
their ,god1 but they were not to go far 
till the land was rid of flies4 ,then   
,mo-ses went forth and prayed to ,god1  
and the flies left the land4 ,but still 
the king's heart was hard1 and he would 
not let them go4  ,then the ,lord sent  
worse plagues3 the flocks and herds     
died2 there were boils on man and beast2
 the crops did not come up1 and rain1   
hail1 and balls of fire came down from  
the sky4 ,and still the heart of the    
king was as hard as stone4 ,then the    
,lord sent lo-custs1 that ate up all the
 hail had left1 and there was not a     
green leaf on the trees nor a blade of  

grass to be seen in the whole land4     
,and the king bade ,mo-ses to set him   
free from this plague4 ,and the ,lord   
sent a strong west wind1 that blew the  
flies in-to the ,red ,sea4 ,yet         
,pha-ra-oh would not let the ,he-brews  
go4  ,then the ,lord told ,mo-ses to    
stretch out his hand1 and there came up 
a thick cloud that made the land so dark
 that the folks staid in bed for three  
days4 ,and ,pha-ra-oh said to ,mo-ses1  
,get thee out of my sight4 ,for if ,i   
see thy face thou shalt die4  ,and      
,mo-ses said1 ,thou hast well said3 ,i  
will see thy face no more4  ,and the    
,lord sent one more plague on ,e-gypt3  
he smote the first-born of men and of   
beasts1 and a great cry was heard       
through the land4 ,and then ,pha-ra-oh  
had to let the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el   
go1 for he could not keep up this strife
 with ,god4 ,and ,mo-ses led the        
,he-brew chil-dren out of ,e-gypt1 and  
the ,lord sent a cloud by day and a fire
 by night to show them the way4  ,and   

when they were in camp by the ,red ,sea1
 they looked up and saw ,pha-ra-oh and  
his hosts1 and were in great fear lest  
he should kill them4 ,and they cried out
 to the ,lord1 and blamed ,mo-ses that  
he had brought them in-to such straits4 
,illustration3 ,,mir-,i-,,am1 ,,the     
,,sis-,,ter ,,of ,,mo-,,ses1 ,,and ,,the
 ,,wo-,,men ,,of ,,is-,,rael            
,,sing-,,ing ,,praises4  ,as they came  
to the ,red ,sea1 ,mo-ses raised his rod
 and the sea rose like a wall on each   
side1 and the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el    
went on dry land through the midst of   
the sea4  ,then ,pha-ra-oh and his hosts
 came close in the rear1 and passed down
 be-tween the great sea-wall that rose  
at the right hand and at the left4 ,and 
the waves that had stood still at a sign
 from ,god were let loose1 and the king 
and his horse-men were swept out of     
sight4  ,when the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el
 came out of the ,red ,sea they were    
three days with naught to drink4 ,and   
when they came to a stream1 called      

,ma-rah1 they found it bitter4 ,and they
 said to ,mo-ses1 ,what shall we drink8 
,and ,mo-ses cried out to the ,lord1 and
 the ,lord showed him a tree1 and when  
he had cast a branch of it in the stream
 it was made sweet at once4 ,and they   
came to ,e-lim1 where were ten wells and
 three-score palm-trees1 and there they 
made their camp4  ,it was not long ere  
there was a great cry for bread4  ,and  
,mo-ses plead with ,god1 and when the   
sun went down that day quails flew in-to
 the camp1 and they had all the meat    
they cared to eat4 ,at dawn of the next 
day1 as soon as the dew was off the     
ground1 there came a rain of what was at
 first thought to be hail-stones4       
,illustration3 ,,the ,,cross-,,ing ,,of 
,,the ,,red ,,sea4  ,but ,mo-ses said it
 was food that ,god had sent them to    
eat1 and they were to take all and no   
more than they would need for one day4  
,for they were to trust in ,god that he 
would feed them each day4 ,on the sixth 
day they were to take what would last   

them for two days1 for no food fell on  
the day of rest4  ,this new food was    
called man-na4  ,as they went on they   
came to ,reph-i-dim1 but found no wa-ter
 to drink4 ,and they found fault with   
,mo-ses4 ,and ,mo-ses cried out1 ,lord1 
what shall ,i do to these1 who have a   
mind to stone me8  ,at this time they   
were near ,mount ,ho-reb1 where ,god    
spoke to ,mo-ses out of a bush that was 
on fire1 yet not burnt4  ,illustration3 
,,mo-,,ses ,,and ,,the ,,ta-,,bles ,,of 
,,the ,,law4  ,and ,god told ,mo-ses to 
take his rod in his hand and go on till 
he came to a rock4 ,and this rock he was
 to strike with his rod1 and wa-ter     
would flow out of it4 ,and ,mo-ses did  
as the ,lord told him1 and when he      
struck the rock the wa-ter ran out4  ,in
 the third month from the time they left
 ,e-gypt1 the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el    
came near ,mount ,si-na-i1 and went     
in-to camp4 ,and ,mo-ses went up to the 
top of the ,mount1 and the ,lord spoke  
to him there4  ,on the third day a thick

 cloud of smoke rose from ,mount        
,si-na-i1 and a loud noise that made    
those that heard it quake with fear4    
,and ,mo-ses led his flock out of the   
camp1 and they came and stood at the    
foot of the mount4 ,and they said to    
,mo-ses1 ,speak thou with us1 and we    
will hear2 but let not ,god speak with  
us lest we die4 ,but ,mo-ses told them  
that ,god had not come to make them die1
 but to make them fear to do aught that 
did not please him4  ,and ,god gave to  
,mo-ses two blocks of stone on which    
were the ,ten ,laws that the chil-dren  
of ,is-ra-el were to keep4              
,illustration3 ,,well ,,and             
,,palm-,,trees ,,in ,,the ,,des-,,ert4  
,illustration3 ,,the ,,riv-,,er ,,nile  
,,in ,e-,,gypt4  ,now while ,mo-ses was 
in the mount1 face to face with ,god1   
those whom he had brought out of ,e-gypt
 were in camp at the foot4 ,and ,mo-ses 
staid so long that they made up their   
minds he would not come back4 ,so they  
said to ,aa-ron1 ,make us a ,god that we

 can bow down to4 ,and ,aa-ron bade them
 throw all the gold they had in-to the  
fire4 ,and they did so1 and it took the 
form of a calf4 ,and when ,god saw this 
he was not pleased1 but bade ,mo-ses    
make haste down the mount4  ,when       
,mo-ses came down from the mount with   
the two flat stones in his hands1 and   
drew near the camp1 and saw what had    
been done1 he was in a great rage4 ,he  
cast the blocks of stone out of his     
hands and broke them at the foot of the 
mount4  ,then he took the calf which    
they had made1 and burnt it in the fire 
till there was nought left of it but a  
fine dust4 ,and ,mo-ses begged ,god to  
blot out the sins of those whom he had  
led out of ,e-gypt4 ,and the ,lord told 
,mo-ses to hew out two blocks of stone  
like to the first1 and bring them up    
with him to the top of ,mount ,si-na-i4 
,this ,mo-ses did1 and the ,lord wrote  
on them the ,ten ,laws that all were to 
keep if they would reach the land they  
sought4  ,they were more than two-score 

years on the road1 and in that time they
 met with plagues1 and there was strife 
in their midst1 yet as they went there  
was the fire by night and the cloud by  
day to show that the ,lord was with     
them4  ,when they came to ,mount ,hor   
and were yet a long way from ,ca-naan1  
,aa-ron died1 and there was great grief 
at his loss4 ,they were sick at heart   
and foot-sore1 and spoke hard words of  
,god and ,mo-ses4 ,there is no bread    
here for us1 they said1 and no wa-ter1  
and we loathe this man-na4 ,and for this
 sin ,god sent snakes in-to their camp1 
and they bit the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el 
so that a few of them died4 ,then they  
plead with ,mo-ses to rid them of the   
snakes1 and make their peace with ,god4 
,and ,mo-ses prayed for them4 ,and ,god 
told him to make a snake like to those  
which bit his flock1 and set it up on a 
pole4 ,and all those who would look at  
this brass snake should be made well4   
,illustration3 ,,mos-,,es ,,on ,,mount  
,,sinai4  ,and ,mo-ses did so4 ,and this

 sign was meant to show forth ,christ1  
who was to heal men of their sins1 and  
to be raised up on a cross4             
,illustration3 ,,ba-,,laam ,,and ,,the  
,,ass4  ,and ,mo-ses led his flock till 
they came to the plains of ,mo-ab4 ,and 
,ba-lak1 the king of that land1 thought 
they had come to fight with him1 and he 
sent a man named ,ba-laam out to curse  
them and drive them back4 ,he told      
,ba-laam he would make him a rich man if
 he would do this thing1 and as ,ba-laam
 was fond of wealth he said he would do 
the king's will4 ,so he set forth on his
 ass1 and had not gone far when he met  
an an-gel with a drawn sword in his     
hand4 ,ba-laam did not see him1 but the 
ass did and turned out of the road4 ,but
 the an-gel went on and stood in a place
 where there was a wall on each side4   
,when the ass came to the place she went
 close to the wall and tried to get by4 
,but she hurt ,ba-laam's foot and he    
struck her and made her go on4 ,and the 
an-gel went on and stood in a place     

where there was no room to turn to the  
right hand or the left4  ,then the ass  
shook with fright and fell down on the  
ground4 ,and ,ba-laam struck her with   
the staff that he had in his hand4  ,and
 the ,lord made the ass speak like a    
man1 and say1 ,what have ,i done to thee
 that thou hast struck me these three   
times8  ,ba-laam said1 ,to make thee    
move on3 ,i would there were a sword in 
my hand1 for ,i would kill thee4  ,then 
the ass said1 ,am ,i not thine8 and have
 ,i been wont to do so to thee8 ,and    
,ba-laam said1 ,no4 ,then the ,lord made
 ,ba-laam see the an-gel that stood in  
the way with a drawn sword in his hand1 
and ,ba-laam bowed his face to the      
ground4  ,then the an-gel said1 ,why    
hast thou struck thine ass these three  
times8 ,lo1 ,i came out to stop thee1   
and to turn thee from the way of sin4   
,and the ass saw me1 and turned from the
 path1 and if she had not done so ,i    
would have slain thee4  ,then he said to
 ,ba-laam1 ,go with the men the king has

 sent1 but say on-ly what ,i shall tell 
thee4  ,so ,ba-laam went with the men1  
and when ,ba-lak heard that he was come 
he went out to meet him4 ,the next day  
,ba-lak took ,ba-laam to a high place1  
from whence he could look down on the   
camp of ,is-ra-el1 and curse them4  ,but
 the ,lord would not let him curse them1
 but made him speak good things of them4
 ,this was done on three high mounts1   
and at last the king was wroth1 and said
 to ,ba-laam1 ,i sent for thee to curse 
my foes1 and lo1 these three times hast 
thou blest them4  ,illustration3        
,,mo-,,ses ,,on ,,mount ,,ne-,,bo4  ,and
 ,ba-lak bade him make haste and go back
 to his own home4 ,and ,ba-laam went off
 as poor as he came1 for ,ba-lak gave   
him none of his gold4  ,the ,lord       
brought ,mo-ses and his flock to the    
banks of the ,jor-dan1 which they would 
have to cross to reach the land of      
,ca-naan4 ,and while they were there1   
,mo-ses went up to the top of ,mount    
,ne-bo to talk with ,god4 ,and ,god told

 him how large the land was that he     
would give to the chil-dren of          
,is-ra-el4 ,and he said that ,mo-ses    
should look on it1 but should not step  
foot in the land4 ,and ,mo-ses died on  
,mount ,ne-bo1 and though an old man1   
was well and strong till the ,lord took 
him4 ,and no one knows in what part of  
the earth his grave was made4           
,,chapter ,,viii4  ,,how ,,joshua ,,and 
,,jephthah ,,fought ,,for ,,the ,,lord4 
,,when ,mo-ses died1 ,josh-u-a took     
charge of the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el1   
and sought to do ,god's will1 as ,mo-ses
 had done4 ,and ,josh-u-a sent word     
through the camp that in three days they
 would cross the ,jor-dan4 ,and when    
they set foot in the stream the waves   
stood back as they did in the ,red ,sea1
 and they went through ,jor-dan on dry  
ground4 ,and as they came up out of the 
stream the waves closed up and there was
 no path-way through them4  ,the        
chil-dren of ,is-ra-el made their camp  
at a place called ,gil-gal2 and as there

 was no lack of food in this good land1 
the ,lord ceased to rain down man-na for
 them to eat4  ,the next day ,josh-u-a  
left the camp and came near to the walls
 of ,jer-i-cho4 ,there he met a man with
 a drawn sword in his hand4 ,and        
,josh-u-a said1 ,art thou for us or for 
our foes8  ,and the man said1 ,as prince
 of the ,lord's host am ,i now come4    
,and at these words ,josh-u-a fell on   
his face to the earth2 for he knew it   
was the ,lord that spoke to him4        
,illustration3 ,,pass-,,ing ,,through   
,,the ,,jor-,,dan4  ,the ,lord told     
,josh-u-a to have no fear of the king of
 ,jer-i-cho1 for the chil-dren of       
,is-ra-el should take the town4 ,all    
their men of war were to march round the
 town once each day for six days4 ,some 
of the priests were to bear the ark1    
which held the things they made use of  
when they went in to talk with ,god1 and
 some were to blow on rams' horns4  ,and
 the next day--when the six days were at
 an end--they were to march round the   

town sev-en times1 and the priests were 
to blow their horns4 ,and when the men  
of ,is-ra-el heard a long loud blast    
they were all to give a great shout and 
the wall would fall flat to the ground1 
and they could march in and take the    
town4  ,josh-u-a bade his men do all the
 ,lord had said2 and told them to make  
no noise with their voice as they went  
their rounds till he bade them shout4   
,and when the priests blew their horns  
for the last time1 ,josh-u-a cried1     
,shout6 for the ,lord is with us6 and   
there was a great shout and the wall    
fell1 and they took the town2 and the   
fame of ,josh-u-a spread through all the
 lands4  ,josh-u-a fought with more than
 a score of kings and won their lands   
from them2 but yet there was much land  
in ,ca-naan for which the chil-dren of  
,is-ra-el would have to fight4  ,but as 
the years went on1 ,josh-u-a grew so old
 that he could not lead his men to war  
as he used to do4 ,and he called his    
flock to him and told them how good the 

,lord had been to them4 ,and he bade    
them love the ,lord and serve him1 and  
put from them all strange gods4 ,he     
said1 ,choose ye this day whom ye will  
serve2 but as for me and my house we    
will serve the ,lord4  ,illustration3   
,,josh-,u-,a ,,and ,,the ,,stone ,,of   
,,wit-,,ness4  ,and the men said1 ,the  
,lord hath done great things for us1 and
 him will we serve1 for he is our ,god4 
,and ,josh-u-a took a great stone and   
set it up 'neath an oak tree that stood 
near where the ark was kept at ,shi-loh4
 ,and this stone1 he said1 was to be a  
sign of the vow they had made there to  
serve the ,lord4 ,and when the talk was 
at an end1 the men went to their own    
homes4  ,and ere long ,josh-u-a died4   
,and they laid him in the part of the   
land that ,god gave him as his own1 on  
the north side of the hill of ,ga-ash4  
,then the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el went to
 war with the tribes that were in the   
land of ,ca-naan1 as ,josh-u-a had told 
them to do4 ,but they did not drive them

 all out1 as they should have done1 but 
made friends with those that were left1 
and were led in-to sin1 and were made to
 serve as bond-slaves4 ,and when they   
were sick of their sins1 and sought the 
help of the ,lord1 he sent men to rule  
them1 and to lead them out to war and   
set them free from these friends who    
proved to be the worst kind of foes4    
,now there was a man in ,is-ra-el whose 
name was ,jeph-thah4 ,he was a brave    
man1 and had done great deeds1 but the  
chil-dren of ,is-ra-el were not kind to 
him1 so he fled from their land1 and    
went to live in the land of ,tob4 ,but  
when the ,jews had need of a man to lead
 them out to war1 they thought of       
,jeph-thah4 ,and they said1 ,come1 and  
be at the head of us when we go out to  
fight the ,am-mon-ites4  ,and ,jeph-thah
 said1 ,if ,i go with you1 and win the  
fight1 will you make me judge in        
,is-ra-el8  ,and they said they would4  
,now ere the fight took place1          
,jeph-thah made a vow that if the ,lord 

would let him win he would give to      
,god--that is1 would slay and burn as if
 it were a lamb--the first who came out 
of his doors to meet him when he went   
back to his home4  ,jeph-thah should not
 have made this rash vow1 and need not  
have kept it if he had asked ,god to    
for-give the sin4  ,he went out to fight
 the ,am-mon-ites1 and by the help of   
the ,lord the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el    
were set free from them4  ,illustration3
 ,,jeph-,,thah ,,and ,,his              
,,daugh-,,ter4  ,when the fight was at  
an end ,jeph-thah went back to his home1
 and the first to come out to meet him  
was his own child1 a fair young maid1   
whose face was bright with joy4 ,she was
 all the child that ,jeph-thah had1 and 
when he saw her he rent his clothes and 
told her of the vow he had made4  ,and  
she said1 ,my fath-er1 if thou hast made
 a vow to the ,lord1 do with me as thou 
hast said4 ,and he took his child and   
did to her as he had said he would1 and 
all the young girls in ,is-ra-el wept   

for her4  ,jeph-thah was a judge for six
 years1 and then he died4     ,,chapter 
,,ix4  ,,samson3 ,,the ,,strong ,,man4  
,,the ,jews kept on in their sins1 and  
took no pains to please the ,lord1 and  
so fell in-to the hands of the          
,phil-is-tines4  ,and there was at that 
time a man in ,is-ra-el whose name was  
,ma-no-ah4 ,both he and his wife served 
the ,lord2 and they had no child4 ,and  
,god sent one of his an-gels to the wife
 of ,ma-no-ah to tell her that she      
should have a son who was to be brought 
up to serve the ,lord1 and to do his    
work4  ,ere long ,ma-no-ah and his wife 
had a son1 to whom they gave the name of
 ,sam-son4  ,and the child grew1 and the
 ,lord blest him4 ,and when he was grown
 up he went to ,tin-muth1 where he met a
 ,phil-is-tine wo-man and fell in love  
with her4  ,then his pa-rents plead with
 him to find a wife in ,is-ra-el1 and   
not to take this one who was no friend  
to his race4 ,but ,sam-son would not    
give her up4  ,so they went with him to 

,tin-muth4 ,and on the way a li-on ran  
out and roared at him4 ,and ,sam-son put
 his arms round the beast and tore him  
with his hands as if he had been a young
 kid4 ,but he did not tell his fath-er  
and moth-er what he had done4  ,the time
 soon came when ,sam-son was to set the 
,jews free from the ,phil-is-tines4 ,and
 he went down to one of their towns and 
slew a few of their men1 and then went  
back to his own home1 while his wife    
stayed in ,tin-muth4  ,when it was time 
to bring the wheat in from the field1   
,sam-son went down to see his wife1 and 
took with him a young kid4 ,but when he 
came to the house her fath-er would not 
let him go in1 and told him that she was
 his wife no more1 but had gone to live 
with some one else4 ,then ,sam-son was  
in a great rage1 and he went and caught 
more than ten score fox-es1 and set bits
 of wood on fire1 and tied these        
fire-brands to their tails1 and let them
 loose in the fields and vine-yards of  
the ,phil-is-tines4  ,and they set fire 

to the grain1 and burnt it all up4  ,and
 the grape-vines and fruit trees were   
burnt1 and much harm was done4  ,when   
the ,phil-is-tines found out that it was
 ,sam-son who had done this they took   
his wife and her fath-er and burnt them 
to death4 ,and ,sam-son fought and slew 
a host of the ,phil-is-tines1 and then  
went on the top of a high rock called   
,e-tam to stay there4  ,then a crowd of 
men went up with a rush to the top of   
the rock1 and they said to ,sam-son1 ,we
 have come to bind thee1 that we may    
give thee in-to the hands of the        
,phil-is-tines4  ,sam-son made them     
swear that they would not put him to    
death1 and they bound him with strong   
cords and brought him down from the     
rock4  ,as they drew near the camp of   
the ,phil-is-tines a great shout went up
 from the men there4 ,and the ,lord gave
 ,sam-son such strength that he broke   
the cords from his arms as if they had  
been burnt threads4  ,and ,sam-son took 
up the jaw-bone of an ass1 and with it  

he fought the ,phil-is-tines and slew a 
host of them4  ,illustration3           
,,sam-,,son ,,slay-,,ing ,,the          
,,phil-,,is-,,tines4  ,then a great     
thirst came on him1 and there was no    
well near from which he could drink4    
,and he grew so weak that he cried out  
to the ,lord not to let him die of      
thirst or fall in-to the hands of his   
foes4  ,and the ,lord made a spring at  
that place and wa-ter ran out1 and when 
,sam-son had drunk1 his strength came   
back to him4  ,sam-son came to the town 
of ,ga-za1 and went in a house there4   
,now the ,phil-is-tines dwelt in ,ga-za1
 and when they heard that ,sam-son was  
there they shut the gates of the town1  
and kept watch near them all night4     
,they said when the day dawns we will   
kill him4  ,but in the dead of the night
 ,sam-son rose up and came to the gates 
of the town1 and when he found them shut
 he took them up--posts1 bar and        
all--and bore them a long way off to the
 top of a hill4  ,sam-son's hair had not

 been cut1 and it had grown thick and   
long4 ,and there was a wo-man named     
,de-li-lah whom ,sam-son used to go and 
see4 ,and when the ,phil-is-tines heard 
of it they came to her and told her if  
she would find out how they might bind  
,sam-son and bear him off1 they would   
give her a large sum of gold4  ,so when 
,sam-son came to ,de-li-lah's house she 
said to him1 ,tell me1 ,i pray thee what
 makes thee so strong1 and with what    
thou couldst be bound and not break     
loose8  ,sam-son said if they bound him 
with sev-en green withes--that is1 cords
 made out of soft twigs--he would be so 
weak that he could not break them4      
,when ,de-li-lah told this to the       
,phil-is-tines they brought her sev-en  
green withes1 and ,sam-son let her bind 
him with them4 ,now she had men hid in  
her house who were to take ,sam-son if  
he could not break the twigs4 ,and when 
she had bound him she cried out1 ,the   
,phil-is-tines seize thee1 ,sam-son6    
,and as soon as she had said these words

 he broke the green withes as if they   
were burnt threads4  ,then ,de-li-lah   
knew that ,sam-son made fun of her and  
told her lies1 and she said once more1  
,tell me1 ,i pray thee1 with what thou  
canst be bound and not break loose4     
,illustration3 ,,sam-,,son              
,,car-,,ry-,,ing ,,the ,,gates ,,of     
,,ga-,,za4  ,sam-son told her if he were
 bound with new ropes1 which had not    
been used1 that his strength would leave
 him1 and he would be too weak to break 
them4  ,so she took new ropes and bound 
him4 ,but ere the men who were hid in   
the room could spring out and take him1 
,sam-son broke the ropes from his arms  
as if they had been threads4  ,then     
,de-li-lah told ,sam-son that he did but
 mock her and tell her lies1 and she    
begged him to let her know how he might 
be bound4  ,and he said if she would    
weave his hair with the web in the loom 
his strength would go from him4 ,and she
 wove his long hair in with the web1 and
 made it fast with a large peg that was 

part of the loom4  ,then she cried out1 
and ,sam-son rose up and went off with  
the great peg1 and the whole of the web 
that was in the loom4  ,then she said he
 did not love her or he would not make  
sport of her in this way4 ,and she      
teased him each day1 and gave him no    
peace1 so that at last he had to tell   
her the truth4  ,he said his hair had   
not been cut since he was born1 and if  
it were shaved off he would lose all his
 strength4  ,it was wrong for ,sam-son  
to tell her this1 for she was bad at    
heart and not a true friend4 ,but he did
 not know then how great was his sin4   
,de-li-lah knew that this time ,sam-son 
had told her the truth2 so she sent for 
the ,phil-is-tines to come up to her    
house4  ,then while ,sam-son slept1 she 
had a man come in and shave all the hair
 from his head4 ,and when this was done 
she cried out1 ,the ,phil-is-tines seize
 thee1 ,sam-son4  ,illustration3        
,,sam-,,son ,,and ,,de-,,li-,,lah4  ,and
 he woke from his sleep1 and knew not   

his strength had gone from him4  ,then  
the ,phil-is-tines took him and put out 
his eyes1 brought him down to ,ga-za1   
and bound him with chains of brass4 ,and
 they made him fast to a mill-stone1 and
 he had to work hard to grind their     
corn4  ,while he was shut up in jail    
,sam-son had time to think of his sins1 
and he no doubt cried out to the ,lord  
to keep him4 ,for his hair grew out and 
his strength came back4 ,but the        
,phil-is-tines did not know this4  ,they
 had made their own god1 and its name   
was ,da-gon4 ,and they thought that     
,da-gon gave ,sam-son in-to their hands1
 and loud was their praise of him4 ,and 
all the ,phil-is-tines met in the large 
house that had been built for ,da-gon   
that they might bow down to their god   
and give him thanks4  ,the crowd was    
great1 and their hearts were full of    
joy4 ,and they said1 ,send for ,sam-son 
that he may make sport for us4 ,and poor
 blind ,sam-son was brought in1 and sat 
down in their midst4 ,and those in the  

house and those on the roof made sport  
of him in all sorts of ways4  ,and      
,sam-son put his arms round two of the  
great posts that held up the house4 ,and
 he bent down1 and the house fell1 and  
most of the ,phil-is-tines were killed4 
,sam-son died with them1 and by his     
death slew more of the foes of ,is-ra-el
 than he had slain in all his life4     
,illustration3 ,,sam-,,son ,,de-,,stroys
 ,,the ,,tem-,,ple4     ,,chapter ,x4   
,,ruth4   ,,while ,is-ra-el was ruled by
 a judge whose name has not come down to
 us1 a dearth came on the land of       
,ca-naan4 ,and one of the ,jews who     
dwelt in ,beth-le-hem1 took his wife and
 his two sons and went to stay for a    
while in the land of ,mo-ab4 ,his wife's
 name was ,na-o-mi4 ,the man died while 
they were in ,mo-ab1 and in a few years 
each of the sons took him a wife4 ,and  
their names were ,or-pah and ,ruth4 ,at 
the end of ten years the sons died1 and 
,na-o-mi and their wives dwelt in the   
land of ,mo-ab4  ,when ,na-o-mi heard   

there was no lack of food in ,is-ra-el1 
she made up her mind to go back to      
,beth-le-hem to live4  ,she told ,or-pah
 and ,ruth of her plan1 and said if they
 choose to stay in the land of ,mo-ab1  
where they were born1 they might do so4 
,and they kissed her and wept and said  
they would go with her4 ,but she bade   
them stay where they were1 and at last  
,or-pah1 with tears in her eyes1 kissed 
,na-o-mi good-bye and went back to her  
own home4 ,but ,ruth would not leave    
her4 ,she told ,na-o-mi not to urge her 
to go1 for nought but death should part 
them4  ,illustration3 ,,ruth ,,and      
,,na-,o-,,mi4  ,so they went to the town
 of ,beth-le-hem where ,na-o-mi used to 
live4  ,it was the days when the grain  
was ripe in the fields1 and the men had 
gone out to cut it down4  ,and ,na-o-mi 
had a kins-man in ,beth-le-hem1 whose   
name was ,bo-az1 and he was a rich and  
great man4 ,and ,ruth said to ,na-o-mi1 
,let me now go to the fields and glean  
the ears of corn4  ,to glean is to pick 

up4 ,and poor folks1 who had no fields  
of their own1 went to pick up that which
 was left on the ground for them4       
,illustration3 ,,ruth4  ,and ,na-o-mi   
told ,ruth to go4 ,and she went out and 
came to the field that was owned by the 
rich man1 ,bo-az4  ,when ,bo-az saw     
,ruth he asked the men who she was1 and 
where she came from4 ,and one of them   
said1 ,she came with ,na-o-mi from the  
land of ,mo-ab4 ,and she said to us1 ,i 
pray you let me glean where the field   
has been reaped4 ,and we told her she   
might1 and she has been there for some  
hours4 ,then ,bo-az went to ,ruth4  ,so 
she went out each day to his field1 and 
gleaned there till the grain was all cut
 and in the barns4  ,na-o-mi said to    
,ruth1 ,bo-az will win-now the bar-ley  
to-night4 ,to win-now is to fan1 or to  
drive off by means of a wind4 ,the grain
 was first threshed1 then thrown from   
the hands up in the air4 ,the wind would
 blow off the chaff and the good grain  
would fall to the ground4               

,illustration3 ,,bo-,,az ,,and ,,ruth4  
,na-o-mi told ,ruth to go in and speak  
to ,bo-az the things she told her4 ,so  
,ruth did as ,na-o-mi said1 and went    
down to the fields where ,bo-az and his 
men were4  ,when she came back to       
,na-o-mi she told her all that she had  
said and done4  ,the next day ,bo-az    
went down to the gate of ,beth-le-hem1  
and told all the chief men whom he met  
there that he meant to make ,ruth his   
wife4 ,and the men said they would make 
it known1 and prayed the ,lord would    
bless ,ruth and add to the fame and     
wealth of the rich and great ,bo-az4    
,so ,bo-az took ,ruth for his wife4 ,and
 they had a son ,o-bed4 ,and ,na-o-mi   
was its nurse4     ,,chapter ,,xi4      
,,job4   ,,there was a man in the land  
of ,uz whose name was ,job4 ,he was a   
good man and tried to do all that was   
right in the sight of the ,lord4 ,and   
,god gave him ten chil-dren3 sev-en boys
 and three girls4 ,he gave ,job great   
wealth1 too1 so that there was no man in

 all that part of the world as rich as  
he was4  ,when ,job's sons were grown up
 and had homes of their own1 they used  
to make feasts in turn1 and send for    
their three sis-ters to come and eat and
 drink with them4 ,and ,job kept them in
 mind of all they owed to ,god1 and     
urged them to lead good and true lives1 
and to do no wrong4  ,when ,job had     
lived at his ease and been a rich man   
for a long term of years1 a great change
 took place4 ,he lost all his wealth1   
and all his chil-dren2 for it was ,god's
 will to try him and see how he would   
bear these ills4  ,one day one of his   
men came to him in great haste1 and     
said1 ,while we were in the field with  
the ploughs1 a band of thieves came and 
drove off the ox-en and ass-es and slew 
thy men who were with them1 and ,i      
a-lone am left to tell thee4  ,while    
this man spoke1 there came up one who   
said1 ,a great fire has come down from  
the sky and burnt up thy sheep1 and all 
those who took care of them1 and ,i     

a-lone am left to tell thee4  ,while he 
yet spoke1 a third man came and said1   
,thy foes came and took all thy cam-els1
 and slew the men who had charge of     
them1 and ,i a-lone am left to tell     
thee4  ,then a fourth came1 and said1   
,thy chil-dren were at a feast in the   
house of thy first-born son1 when there 
came a great wind that broke down the   
house1 and it fell on the young men and 
they are all dead1 and ,i a-lone am left
 to tell thee4  ,when ,job heard these  
things he tore his clothes1 and bowed   
down to the earth1 as if at the feet of 
,god4 ,and he said1 ,i had nought when  
,i came in-to the world1 and ,i shall   
have nought when ,i die and go out of   
it4 ,god gave me all that ,i had1 and   
,god took it from me4 ,he knows what is 
best for me1 and ,i thank him for all   
that he has done4 ,so ,job did not sin1 
nor speak ill of ,god1 though his grief 
was so great and had come up-on him in  
such a strange1 swift way4  ,to try ,job
 still more1 ,god let him get sick and  

he was in great pain4 ,boils came on him
 and from head to foot he was a mass of 
sores4  ,then his wife came to ,job and 
said1 ,dost thou still trust ,god8 ,do  
so no more1 but curse him1 though he    
kill thee for it4  ,job said1 ,thou dost
 not speak wise words4 ,when we have so 
much good from ,god1 shall we not be    
con-tent to take our share of the ills  
he may send8 ,in all this ,job said not 
a word that was wrong4  ,now ,job had   
three friends1 who1 when they heard of  
his hard lot1 came to talk with him and 
cheer him4 ,but when they saw him1 the  
change was so great they did not know   
him4  ,then they rent their clothes and 
wept1 and sat down on the ground near   
him1 but did not speak for some time1   
for they could see that his grief was   
great4 ,these friends thought that ,job 
must have done some great sin1 else     
these ills would not have been sent     
up-on him4 ,when they spoke to him they 
said1 ,if thou hast done wrong1 do so no
 more1 and ,god will free thee from thy 

pains4  ,illustration3 ,,job1 ,,and     
,,his ,,friends4  ,now ,job knew that he
 had done no wrong1 and he said to them1
 ,you came to soothe me1 but what you   
say does not soothe me at all4 ,did ,i  
send for you1 or ask you to help me8 ,if
 you were in such grief as ,i am1 ,i    
might say hard things of you and call   
you bad men4 ,but ,i would not do so2   
but would speak kind words to you1 and  
try to help you bear your ills1 and to  
make your grief less4  ,then ,job spoke 
of his own griefs1 and said3 ,o1 that   
the ,lord would put me to death that ,i 
might suf-fer no more4 ,when ,i lie down
 at night ,i can-not sleep1 but toss on 
my bed in pain and wish the day would   
dawn4 ,or1 if ,i fall a-sleep for a     
while1 ,i have the worst kind of dreams1
 so that ,i would be glad to die and    
wake no more in this world4 ,o1 that ,i 
had some one to speak to ,god for me1   
for he does not hear when ,i pray4 ,yet 
,i know that he lives who will save my  
soul1 and that he will come on the      

earth1 and ,i shall rise up from my     
grave and see ,god for my-self4  ,but   
when ,job found that he could not die1  
nor be made well1 but must still bear   
his pains1 he grew cross1 and was not at
 all like the ,job of old4 ,he found    
fault1 and said that his griefs were too
 great1 and that ,god was not kind to   
put him in such pain4  ,his three       
friends did not try to calm him1 or to  
cheer him with the hope that his woes   
would soon be at an end1 nor did they   
bid him trust in ,god and seek help and 
strength from him4 ,but they told him   
that he must have done some great wrong1
 else ,god would not have sent all these
 ills up-on him4  ,this did not please  
,job1 and he spoke to them in great     
wrath1 and they spoke back in the same  
style4  ,when they had talked in this   
way for some time1 and had each of them 
said things they ought not to have said1
 they heard a voice speak to them out of
 a whirl-wind that swept by the place4  
,it was the voice of ,god4  ,and the    

voice spoke to ,job and told him of the 
great works that ,god had done2 that it 
was he who made the earth1 the sea1 and 
the sky4 ,he sends the rain on the field
 to make the grass grow and the flow-ers
 to spring up4 ,he sends the cold and   
the heat1 the frost and the snow1 and   
the ice that stops the flow of the      
streams4 ,he sends the clouds1 and the  
roar and the flash that come from them  
when the storms rage4 ,he made the horse
 that is so swift and strong1 and has no
 fear in time of war1 but will rush     
in-to the fight at the sound of the     
trump4  ,all this and more the voice    
spoke from the whirl-wind4 ,and when    
,god had told ,job of all these great   
works1 he asked him if he could do these
 things1 or if he thought he was so wise
 that he could teach ,god what it was   
best to do4  ,then ,job saw what a sin  
it was to find fault with ,god4 ,and he 
was full of shame1 and said3 ,my guilt  
is great2 ,i spoke of that of which ,i  
knew naught1 and ,i bow down in the dust

 be-fore thee4  ,god said to ,job's     
three friends1 ,i am wroth with you1 for
 you did not speak in the right way to  
,job4 ,now1 lest ,i pun-ish you1 take   
sev-en young bulls and sev-en rams and  
burn them on the al-tar1 and ask ,job to
 pray for you1 for him will ,i hear4 ,so
 they did as the ,lord told them1 and   
,job prayed for them1 and ,god for-gave 
them their sins4  ,in a short time ,job 
was well once more4 ,his pains all left 
him2 and then his friends and all his   
folks came to see him and they had a    
good feast4 ,and each man brought him a 
rich gift1 and the ,lord blest him more 
than he had done be-fore1 and gave him  
twice as much wealth4 ,he had great     
herds of sheep1 and cam-els1 and ox-en  
and ass-es1 and large fields for them to
 roam in1 and a host of men to care for 
them4 ,so that he was a great man once  
more4  ,and ,god gave him ten chil-dren3
 sev-en boys and three girls4 ,and when 
these girls grew up1 there were no maids
 in all the land so fair as they in face

 and form4 ,and ,job had great peace of 
mind1 and dwelt at his ease for long1   
long years2 and when he died he was an  
old1 old man4     ,,chapter ,,xii4      
,,samuel1 ,,the ,,child ,,of ,,god4     
,,there was a man of ,is-ra-el who went 
up each year from the town of ,ra-mah to
 a place called ,shi-loh to pay his vows
 to the ,lord of hosts4 ,and his wife1  
whose name was ,han-nah1 went with him4 
,the man's name was ,el-ka-nah4         
,illustration3 ,,sam-,u-,,el4  ,e-li was
 the high-priest at that time1 and as he
 sat in the ,lord's house he saw        
,han-nah on her knees with her eyes full
 of tears4  ,and he spoke to her in a   
kind voice1 and said3 ,may ,god grant   
thee what thou dost ask of him4 ,and    
,han-nah was glad at the high-priest's  
words1 for she had asked ,god to give   
her a son4  ,and the ,lord gave ,han-nah
 a son1 and she called his name         
,sam-u-el1 which means ,asked of the    
,lord4  ,sam-u-el was quite young when  
,han-nah took him up to the house of the

 ,lord at ,shi-loh4 ,and when they      
brought the child to ,e-li1 ,han-nah    
said1 ,i am the wo-man that stood by    
thee here and prayed to the ,lord4 ,for 
this child did ,i pray1 and the ,lord   
heard me and gave me what ,i asked for4 
,so ,i have brought him to the ,lord2 so
 long as he lives shall he be the child 
of ,god4 ,for this was the vow she made 
if ,god would give her a son4  ,and     
,sam-u-el was left to stay with ,e-li in
 the ,lord's house4  ,now ,e-li had two 
sons1 and they were priests in the      
,lord's house4 ,but they were not fit   
for the place1 for they were bad men1   
and broke ,god's laws4 ,and by their    
sins they kept men from the house of the
 ,lord4  ,but ,sam-u-el1 though a young 
child1 did what was right and pleased   
the ,lord4 ,and his moth-er made him a  
coat1 and brought it to him each year   
when she and her hus-band went up to    
,shi-loh4 ,and ,e-li spoke kind words to
 them1 and asked the ,lord to bless them
 for the sake of the child whom they    

gave to him4  ,now ,e-li was an old man1
 and when he heard of all the things his
 sons had done1 he did not drive them   
out of the ,lord's house as he should   
have done1 but let them go on in their  
sins4 ,he cared more to please his sons 
than he did to please the ,lord4        
,illustration3 ,,han-,,nah ,,pre-,,sents
 ,,sam-,u-,,el ,,to ,e-,,li4  ,one night
 when ,e-li and ,sam-u-el lay down to   
sleep1 the child heard a voice speak his
 name4 ,and he said1 ,here am ,i4 ,and  
he got up and ran to ,e-li1 for he      
thought it was his voice1 and he said1  
,here am ,i1 for thou did'st call me4   
,e-li said1 ,i did not call thee1 my    
son4 ,go back1 and lie down4 ,and the   
lad did so4  ,in a short time he heard  
the same voice say1                     
,sam-u-el--,sam-u-el4  ,and he rose at  
once and went to ,e-li1 and said to him1
 ,here am ,i1 for thou did'st call me4  
,but ,e-li said1 ,i did not call thee1  
and sent the lad back to his bed once   
more4  ,then ,sam-u-el heard the voice a

 third time1 and went to ,e-li and said1
 ,here am ,i1 for thou did'st call me4  
,and ,e-li knew it was the ,lord who    
spoke to ,sam-u-el4 ,and he said to the 
lad1 ,go1 lie down1 and if he call thee1
 say1 ,speak1 ,lord1 for ,i hear thee4  
,and ,sam-u-el went and lay down4 ,and  
the ,lord came for the fourth time1 and 
called1 ,sam-u-el--,sam-u-el6  ,and     
,sam-u-el said1 ,speak1 ,lord1 for ,i   
hear thee4  ,and the ,lord told         
,sam-u-el all that he meant to do to the
 house of ,e-li4 ,he had let his sons go
 on in their sins1 and they were to be  
put to death in a way that would make   
men fear ,god4  ,sam-u-el lay still till
 day-light4 ,then he rose1 but did not  
dare to tell ,e-li what ,god had told   
him4  ,but ,e-li called him and said1   
,what did the ,lord say to thee8 ,i pray
 thee hide it not from me4  ,so         
,sam-u-el told ,e-li all that the ,lord 
had said4 ,when ,e-li heard it1 he said1
 ,it is the ,lord1 let him do what he   
thinks is best4  ,and ,sam-u-el grew1   

and the ,lord was with him and blest    
him1 and it was known to all that he was
 one of ,god's saints1 who could        
fore-tell things that were to take      
place4 ,such wise men were some-times   
called seers4  ,the words which ,god    
spoke to ,sam-u-el came true2 for the   
chil-dren of ,is-ra-el went out to fight
 the ,phil-is-tines1 and a host of them 
were slain4  ,those who came back said1 
,let us take the ark out with us to save
 us from our foes4  ,illustration3      
,,cap-,,ture ,,of ,,the ,,ark4  ,now    
,god had not told them to take the ark1 
and it was a sin for them to touch it4  
,they should have put their trust in the
 ,lord1 and looked to him for help4     
,but they sent to ,shi-loh for the ark1 
and ,e-li's two sons came with it4 ,when
 it was brought to the camp the ,jews   
gave such a shout that the earth shook  
with the noise4  ,and when the          
,phil-is-tines heard it1 they said1     
,what does it mean8 ,and they were told 
that the ark of the ,lord had been      

brought to the camp of ,is-ra-el4  ,and 
they were in great fear2 for they said1 
,god is come to the camp6 ,woe un-to us1
 for this is the first time such a thing
 has been done6  ,and they said1 ,let us
 be strong and fight like men1 that we  
may not be slaves to these ,jews6  ,so  
they fought once more with the ,jews1   
and slew a host of them1 and the rest   
fled to their tents4 ,and the ark of the
 ,lord fell in-to the hands of the foe1 
and ,e-li's two sons were slain4  ,and  
the same day a man ran down to ,shi-loh1
 with his clothes rent1 and bits of     
earth on his head to show his grief4    
,e-li sat on a seat by the way-side1    
where he kept watch1 for he was in great
 fear lest harm should come to the ark  
of ,god4 ,and when the man came through 
the crowd and told that the ark was     
lost1 all cried out with great fear4    
,and when ,e-li heard the noise1 he     
said1 ,what is it8 ,what do those sounds
 mean8 ,for his eyes were dim with age1 
and he could not see4  ,and the man ran 

up to ,e-li and said1 ,i am he that came
 out of the fight1 and ,i fled from     
there to-day4  ,and ,e-li said1 ,what   
word hast thou1 my son8  ,illustration3 
,,the ,,re-,,turn ,,of ,,the ,,ark4     
,and he said that ,is-ra-el had been put
 to flight with great loss1 his two sons
 were dead1 and the ark of ,god in the  
hands of the ,phil-is-tines4  ,when the 
man spoke of the ark of ,god1 ,e-li fell
 off the seat by the side of the gate1  
and broke his neck1 and died there4 ,and
 he had been a high priest and a judge  
in ,is-ra-el for two-score years4  ,and 
the ark of ,god was with the            
,phil-is-tines for more than half the   
year1 and to each place where it was    
sent it brought great grief4  ,so at    
last they sent for their wise men1 and  
said to them1 ,what shall we do with the
 ark of the ,lord8 ,to what place shall 
we send it8  ,and the wise men told them
 to make a new cart1 and tie two cows to
 it1 but to bring the calves home with  
them4 ,then they should put the ark on  

the cart1 and let the cows draw it where
 they would4  ,if the cows should leave 
their calves and go down to the land of 
,is-ra-el1 it would be a sign that the  
,lord was their guide1 and that he had  
sent these ills on the ,phil-is-tines   
for their great sins4  ,but if the cows 
did not take the ark1 it would show that
 the ,lord did not want it back1 and    
that all these ills they had to bear had
 come by chance1 and were not sent from 
the ,lord4  ,so the ,phil-is-tines did  
as their wise men said4 ,they took the  
two cows and tied them to the cart1 and 
shut up their calves at home4 ,and they 
laid the ark on the cart1 and let the   
cows go where they chose4  ,and the cows
 took the straight road to the land of  
,is-ra-el till they came to a place     
called ,beth-she-mesh4  ,the ,jews who  
dwelt there were out in the wheat       
fields4 ,and the cows brought the cart  
to the fields of a man named ,josh-u-a1 
and stood there by a great stone4  ,then
 some of the men of ,le-vi came and took

 the ark and set it on the stone4 ,and  
they broke up the cart1 and burnt the   
cows as a gift of praise to the ,lord4  
,,chapter ,,xiii4  ,,samuel ,,the ,,man 
,,of ,,god4   ,,when ,e-li died1        
,sam-u-el was made a judge in ,is-ra-el4
 ,and he went from place to place to    
teach men the law4 ,and as the ark had  
not been brought back to ,shi-loh1      
,sam-u-el built an al-tar in his own    
house and served ,god there4  ,the      
chil-dren of ,is-ra-el set up strange   
gods1 and the ,phil-is-tines went to war
 with them4 ,and ,sam-u-el told them to 
give up their false gods and serve the  
,lord1 and he would save them from their
 foes4 ,and they did so4 ,and he said1  
,come up to ,miz-peh1 and ,i will pray  
to the ,lord for you4  ,and they came to
 ,miz-peh1 and gave their hearts to the 
,lord1 and were in grief for their sins4
  ,and when the ,phil-is-tines heard    
they were at ,miz-peh1 they went up to  
fight them4 ,and the chil-dren of       
,is-ra-el were in great fear1 and       

,sam-u-el plead for them1 and when the  
fight came on the ,lord sent a fierce   
storm that put the ,phil-is-tines to    
flight1 and they fled from the field    
with great loss4  ,and ,sam-u-el set up 
a stone at ,miz-peh1 and gave it the    
name of ,eb-en-e-zer--,the ,stone of    
,help4  ,when ,sam-u-el was an old man  
he set his two sons to judge ,is-ra-el4 
,but his sons were not just men1 and did
 not rule as their fath-er had done4 ,if
 a man did wrong1 they would say it was 
right if he paid them for it4 ,and the  
wise men came to ,sam-u-el1 and said to 
him1 ,as thou art old1 and thy sons walk
 not in thy ways1 make us a king to     
judge us4  ,sam-u-el felt hurt when they
 asked him to choose a king1 and asked  
the ,lord to tell him what to do4  ,and 
the ,lord told ,sam-u-el to choose a    
king for them4  ,now there was a man    
whose name was ,kish1 and he had a son  
whose name was ,saul1 a tall young man  
of fine form and good looks4  ,and the  
ass-es of ,kish were lost4 ,and he said 

to ,saul1 his son1 ,take one of the men 
with you1 and go find the ass-es4  ,and 
they went a long way and could not find 
them4 ,and ,saul said to the man with   
him1 ,come1 let us go back1 lest my     
fath-er think we are lost4              
,illustration3 ,,the ,,stone ,,of       
,,help4  ,and the man said to ,saul1    
,there is a man of ,god here1 and what  
he says is sure to come to pass4 ,it may
 be that he can tell us what we ought to
 do ,saul said1 ,thy word is good2 come1
 let us go4 ,and they went to the town  
where ,sam-u-el1 the man of ,god1 was4  
,and they met him on their way4  ,and   
the ,lord made it known to ,sam-u-el    
that this was the man he should choose  
to reign in ,is-ra-el4  ,and ,saul drew 
near to ,sam-u-el1 and said1 ,tell me1  
,i pray thee1 where the seer's house is4
  ,and ,sam-u-el said1 ,i am the seer2  
and the ass-es that were lost are found4
 ,and he took ,saul and his man to his  
own house1 and made them spend the night
 there4  ,the next day ,sam-u-el took   

,saul to the roof of his house1 and had 
a talk with him4  ,then they went out on
 the street1 and as they drew near the  
gate of the town1 ,sam-u-el said to     
,saul1 ,bid thy man pass on1 but do thou
 stand still for a while1 that ,i may   
show thee the word of ,god4  ,then      
,sam-u-el took a horn of oil and poured 
it on ,saul's head4  ,this was done when
 a man was made a high-priest2 and the  
same thing was done when he was made a  
king4 ,and ,god was pleased with ,saul1 
and gave him a new heart2 but as yet    
none but these two knew that ,saul was  
to be ,king of the ,jews4  ,sam-u-el    
spoke to the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el and 
told them once more all that the ,lord  
had done for them1 how he had brought   
them out of the land of ,e-gypt1 and set
 them free from their foes1 and yet they
 would not serve the ,lord1 but cried   
out for a king4 ,so he bade them all go 
up to ,miz-peh that the ,lord might     
choose them a king4  ,illustration3     
,,saul ,,in ,,his ,,hid-,,ing ,,place4  

,and the ,lord chose ,saul4 ,but when   
the men went to seek for him1 they could
 not find him4 ,and the ,lord said1 ,he 
hath hid in the midst of the stuff4 ,and
 they ran and brought him out1 and he   
was so tall that all the rest had to    
look up to him4  ,and ,sam-u-el said1   
,this is he whom the ,lord hath sent to 
rule thee4 ,there is none like him1 as  
thou canst see4  ,and they all cried    
out1 ,god save the king6 ,then ,sam-u-el
 told them what they were to do1 and how
 the king was to rule1 and wrote it down
 in a book4  ,when ,saul had been king  
for two years1 he set out with his son1 
,jon-a-than1 to fight the               
,phil-is-tines4 ,and a great host went  
with them4 ,and the ,phil-is-tines had  
more men than they could count4 ,and    
when the ,jews saw the strength of their
 foes1 they were in great fear1 and ran 
and hid in caves and pits1 or fled to   
the high hills where the rocks would    
screen them4 ,so there were but few left
 to go out with ,saul1 and they shook   

with dread4  ,and ,saul came to         
,gil-gal1 where he was to meet          
,sam-u-el1 but he was not there4        
,sam-u-el had told him to wait for him1 
and he would tell him what he was to do4
  ,but at the end of a week ,saul had   
the flesh brought to him and laid on the
 stone1 and he set fire to it1 that the 
flame might rise to ,god and bring peace
 to the land4 ,and as soon as ,saul had 
done this thing1 ,sam-u-el came4 ,and   
,saul went out to meet him1 that he     
might bless him4  ,and ,sam-u-el said1  
,what hast thou done8  ,and ,saul told  
of the strait he was in1 and that the   
,phil-is-tines were near in great force1
 and said that when ,sam-u-el did not   
come he felt that he must send up a plea
 to ,god for aid in this hour4          
,sam-u-el told him that he had done     
wrong4 ,when the ,lord told him to wait1
 he should wait4 ,and now his reign     
would be a short one1 and ,god would    
choose a new king to take his place4    
,in those days men fought with bows and 

ar-rows4 ,and while the ,jews were held 
as slaves by the ,phil-is-tines they    
would not let them have swords or       
spears1 lest they should rise up and    
kill them4  ,and they sent all the      
smiths out of the land1 lest they should
 make these things for the chil-dren of 
,is-ra-el4  ,so when they went out to   
fight none of them had a sword or a     
spear but ,saul and his son4  ,in those 
days men wore coats of mail1 and bore a 
shield with them so as to ward off the  
darts4 ,these shields were made of a    
thick piece of wood1 on which the skin  
of an ox was stretched when dried4      
,jon-a-than1 ,saul's son1 wore a coat of
 mail1 and had a man to bear his spear  
and his shield when he did not care to  
use them4 ,and he said to his man1      
,come1 let us go to the camp of the     
,phil-is-tines4 ,for it may be that the 
,lord will help us4  ,and the man said  
he would go4  ,jon-a-than said this     
should be their sign3 ,they would go    
where the foe could see them1 and if    

they said1 ,wait there till ,i come to  
you1 they would know the ,lord did not  
mean to help them4 ,but if the          
,phil-is-tines said1 ,come up to us and 
we will show you some-thing1 they would 
go up1 for the ,lord would be with them4
  ,so ,jon-a-than and his man stood out 
where the foe could see them4 ,and the  
,phil-is-tines made sport of them1 and  
cried out1 ,come up to us1 and we will  
shew you some-thing4  ,and the two went 
up the rocks on their hands and feet1   
and fought with the ,phil-is-tines1 and 
slew a score of them4 ,and the ,lord    
shook the earth1 so that the            
,phil-is-tines were in great fear4  ,now
 ,saul and the men who were with him did
 not know what his son had done4 ,but   
his watch-man1 who was on the look-out1 
saw that there was a fight in the camp  
of the ,phil-is-tines1 and told ,saul of
 it4  ,and ,saul and his men went to    
join in the fight4 ,and all those who   
had hid in caves and holes1 or up on the
 mount1 when they heard that the        

,phil-is-tines had fled1 went with      
,saul1 and ,is-ra-el won the day4  ,but 
,saul did not de-sire to please the     
,lord in all things4 ,for when the ,lord
 sent him out to fight ,king ,a-gag1 he 
told ,saul to wipe him and all he had   
from the face of the earth4 ,but ,saul  
kept back some of the spoils1 the best  
of the sheep and lambs1 and did not put 
the king to death as he should have     
done4  ,and the ,lord told ,sam-u-el    
that ,saul was not a good king1 and his 
reign should be short4  ,and it made    
,sam-u-el sad to hear this1 and he      
prayed to ,god all night4 ,then he had a
 talk with ,saul1 who did not look at   
his sins in the right light4 ,and       
,sam-u-el told him that his reign as    
king would soon be at an end4           
,illustration3 ,,da-,,vid               
,a-,,noint-,,ed ,,by ,,sam-,u-,,el4     
,god told ,sam-u-el not to mourn for    
,saul1 but to go down to ,beth-le-hem1  
to the house of a man named ,jes-se1 one
 of whose sons was to be made king4 ,and

 the ,lord said he was not to look for  
one with a fine face or form4 ,for the  
,lord sees not as man sees1 and he looks
 on the heart4  ,so he went down to     
,beth-le-hem1 and did as the ,lord told 
him4 ,and ,jes-se had his sev-en sons   
pass one by one be-fore ,sam-u-el4 ,and 
,sam-u-el thought that the first-born   
must be the one whom ,god chose to be   
king4 ,but the ,lord told him he was not
 the one4 ,and they all went by1 and not
 one of them was the one on whom ,god   
had set his seal4  ,and ,sam-u-el said  
to ,jes-se1 ,are these all thy sons8    
,and ,jes-se said1 ,no there is yet one 
left2 but he is quite a lad1 and is now 
in the field where he cares for the     
sheep4  ,and ,sam-u-el told ,jes-se to  
send for him at once4 ,and ,jes-se sent 
for him1 and he was brought in1 and his 
cheeks were red1 and his eyes bright4   
,and the ,lord said to ,sam-u-el1       
,rise--for this is he4  ,and ,sam-u-el  
rose1 and took the horn of oil and      
poured it on the young man's head4 ,so  

the ,lord chose ,da-vid to be king when 
,saul should be put out of the way4     
,and ,da-vid felt a great change in his 
heart1 for the ,lord was there to make  
him strong and wise1 and fit for the    
high place he was to fill4  ,but there  
was no peace in ,saul's heart1 and his  
mind was ill at ease4  ,and his men said
 it might soothe him to have some one   
play on the harp4 ,for sweet sounds will
 some-times calm the mind4  ,so ,saul   
said1 ,find a man who can play well on  
the harp1 and bring him to me4  ,and one
 of them said that he knew such a man4  
,he was the son of ,jes-se1 who dwelt at
 ,beth-le-hem1 and his name was ,da-vid4
  ,and ,saul sent men to ,jes-se and    
told him to send ,da-vid1 his son1 who  
kept the sheep4  ,and ,da-vid came to   
,saul1 and stayed with him to wait on   
him4 ,and when ,saul was sad and ill at 
ease1 ,da-vid would take his harp and   
play for him1 and he would soon be well4
     ,,chapter ,,xiv4  ,,david ,,and    
,,saul4   ,,while ,saul was yet king1   

the ,phil-is-tines came forth once more 
to fight the chil-dren of ,is-ra-el4    
,and ,saul and his men went out to meet 
them4 ,there were two high hills on each
 side of a deep vale1 and from these two
 hills the foe-men fought4  ,the        
,phil-is-tines had on their side a man  
who was more than ten feet high4 ,he    
wore a coat of mail1 and was bound with 
brass from head to foot1 so that no     
sword or spear could wound him4  ,and he
 cried out to ,saul's men1 ,choose a man
 from your midst and let him come down  
to me4 ,if he can fight with me and kill
 me1 then we will be your slaves4 ,but  
if ,i kill him then you must serve us4  
,i dare you to send a man to fight with 
me4  ,when ,saul and his men heard these
 words they were in great fear1 for     
there was no one in their ranks who     
would dare fight with such a gi-ant4    
,and each morn and eve1 for more than a 
month1 this great man1 whose name was   
,go-li-ath1 drew near ,saul and his     
troops and dared them to send a man out 

to fight him4  ,now when the war broke  
out three of ,jes-se's sons went with   
,saul1 but ,da-vid went back to         
,beth-le-hem to feed sheep4  ,and       
,jes-se said to ,da-vid1 ,take this     
parched corn and these ten loaves of    
bread1 and run down to camp and bring me
 back word how thy broth-ers are4  ,and 
,da-vid rose up the next morn1 and found
 some one to take care of his sheep1 and
 went as his fath-er told him4  ,and he 
came to the camp just as the men were on
 their way to the fight1 and the air was
 filled with their shouts4  ,and he left
 the goods he had brought in the care of
 a man1 and ran in the midst of the     
troops1 and spoke to his three          
broth-ers4  ,and while he stood there1  
,go-li-ath came out from the ranks of   
the ,phil-is-tines1 and dared some one  
to fight with him4  ,and ,da-vid heard  
his words4 ,and the men of ,is-ra-el    
fled from his face4 ,and ,da-vid heard  
them speak of what would be done to the 
man who should kill him2 for the king   

would give him great wealth1 and set him
 in a high place4  ,and ,da-vid spoke to
 the men near him1 and made use of      
strong words4  ,and his broth-ers told  
him to go home and take care of his     
sheep1 for it was just a trick of his to
 come up to camp that he might see the  
fight4  ,illustration3 ,,da-,,vid       
,,be-,,fore ,,saul4  ,da-vid said1 ,i   
have done no wrong6 and the men to whom 
he spoke went and told ,saul what he had
 said4 ,and ,saul sent for him1 but did 
not know that he was the same one who   
used to play on the harp for him4  ,and 
,da-vid told ,saul he would go out and  
fight the great man from ,gath4 ,and    
,saul said1 ,thou art but a youth1 and  
he has been a man of war all his days4  
,then ,da-vid told ,saul how he had     
fought with and slain the wild beasts   
that came out of the woods to eat up the
 lambs of his flock4 ,and1 said he1 this
 man is no more than a wild beast1 and  
the ,lord will save me from him as he   
did from the paw of the li-on and the   

bear4  ,and ,saul said1 ,go1 and the    
,lord go with thee4 ,and ,saul put on   
him a coat of mail1 and clothed him in  
brass from head to foot1 and hung a     
sword at his side4 ,but ,da-vid took    
them all off1 and said1 ,i have not     
tried them1 and can-not use them4  ,and 
he took his staff in his hand1 and chose
 five smooth stones from the brook and  
put them in a bag that he wore4 ,and his
 sling was in his hand when he drew near
 to ,go-li-ath4  ,go-li-ath came near to
 ,da-vid1 and when he saw what a youth  
he was1 he drew up his head with great  
scorn4  ,da-vid ran to meet him1 and put
 his hand in his bag and drew forth a   
stone1 and slung it1 and struck         
,go-li-ath on the fore-head with such   
force that the stone sank in through the
 bone and he fell on his face to the    
earth4  ,illustration3 ,,da-,,vid ,,with
 ,,go-,,li-,,ath',s ,,head4  ,then      
,da-vid ran and stood on ,go-li-ath1 and
 drew his sword from its sheath1 and    
slew him and cut off his head4  ,and    

when the ,phil-is-tines saw that the man
 in whom they had put their trust was   
dead they fled4  ,and ,da-vid came back 
from the fight with the head of         
,go-li-ath in his hand1 and was brought 
to ,saul4  ,and ,saul would not let     
,da-vid go back to his own home1 but    
made him stay with him4 ,and ,jon-a-than
 fell in love with him1 and to show his 
love1 took off all the rich clothes he  
had on and put them on ,da-vid1 and gave
 him his sword1 his bow1 and his belt4  
,and ,da-vid did as ,saul told him1 and 
all who saw him were pleased with him1  
and ,saul put him at the head of his men
 of war4  ,but when ,king ,saul and his 
men went through the towns on their way 
back from the fight1 the folks came out 
and sang and danced to praise them for  
what they had done4  ,but they said more
 in praise of ,da-vid than of ,saul1 and
 when ,saul heard it he was wroth1 and  
from that day ceased to be ,da-vid's    
friend4  ,the next day ,da-vid stood    
near ,saul with his harp in his hand to 

play him some sweet tunes4 ,and ,saul   
held a spear in his hand1 and he cast it
 at ,da-vid so that it would go through 
him and pin him to the wall4 ,but       
,da-vid saw it and took a step one side1
 and it did him no harm4  ,twice was    
this done1 and when ,saul found that he 
could not hurt ,da-vid1 he was in great 
fear of him1 for he knew the ,lord was  
with him4 ,so he drove ,da-vid from his 
house1 and sent men to lay in wait to   
kill him4  ,illustration3               
,,jon-,a-,,than ,,and ,,da-,,vid4  ,but 
,da-vid fled from them and ran to the   
place where ,jon-a-than was1 and said to
 him1 ,what have ,i done that the king  
seeks my life8  ,now ,jon-a-than did not
 know that the king meant to kill       
,da-vid1 so he said to him1 ,thou shalt 
not die4 ,my fath-er would have told me 
if he meant to kill thee4 ,but ,da-vid  
said it was true4  ,the next day was to 
be a feast day1 and the king would look 
for ,dav-id to come and eat with him4   
,but ,da-vid was in such fear of ,saul  

that he did not care to go1 and begged  
,jon-a-than to let him hide him-self for
 three days4 ,if the king asks where ,i 
am1 said ,da-vid1 tell him that thou    
did'st give me leave to go home4        
,jon-a-than told ,da-vid that at the end
 of the three days he should come and   
hide in the field near a rock that was  
there4 ,and ,jon-a-than said he would   
shoot three ar-rows as if he took aim at
 a mark4 ,and he would send a lad out to
 pick them up4 ,and if he said to the   
lad1 ,go1 find them1 they are on this   
side of thee1 then ,da-vid might know   
that all was at peace and the king would
 do him no harm4 ,but if he should cry  
out that the darts were be-yond the lad1
 then ,da-vid would know that he must   
flee1 for the king meant to do him harm4
  ,so ,da-vid hid him-self in the field2
 and when the feast day came ,saul sat  
down to eat with his back to the wall4  
,and he saw that ,da-vid was not in his 
place1 but said not a word4 ,the next   
day when he found ,da-vid was not in his

 place1 ,saul said to his son1 ,why     
comes not ,da-vid to eat these two days8
  ,jon-a-than said that ,da-vid pled so 
hard for leave to go home to his own    
folks1 that he had told him to go1 and  
that was why he was not at the feast4   
,then ,saul was in a great rage1 and    
said to his son1 ,as long as ,da-vid    
lives thou canst not be a king4 ,send   
for him1 and bring him here that he may 
be put to death4  ,and ,jon-a-than said1
 ,why should he be slain8 ,what hath he 
done8  ,illustration3 ,,jon-,a-,,than   
,,shoot-,,ing ,,the ,,ar-,,rows4  ,saul 
threw his spear at ,jon-a-than4 ,and the
 young man knew by this that the king   
meant to kill ,da-vid4 ,so the next morn
 the king's son went out to the field1  
and took a lad with him4 ,and he said1  
,run now1 and pick up the ar-rows that  
,i shoot4  ,and as he ran1 ,jon-a-than  
sent a dart o'er his head2 and when the 
lad came to the place where it fell1 the
 king's son cried out1 ,it is be-yond   
thee4 ,make haste1 and stay not4        

,da-vid heard these words and knew that 
he must flee1 for if ,saul caught him he
 would kill him4  ,the lad brought the  
darts to ,jon-a-than1 and did not know  
why the king's son had shot them and    
called out to him as he did4 ,and       
,jon-a-than gave him his bow and        
ar-rows1 and sent him back to town with 
them4  ,as soon as the lad was gone1    
,da-vid came out from the place where he
 was hid1 and fell on his face to the   
ground1 and bowed three times4 ,then he 
rose and threw his arms round           
,jon-a-than's neck1 and the two friends 
wept as if their hearts would break4    
,then ,da-vid fled from ,saul1 and hid  
in the woods and caves4  ,saul went out 
with a large force of men to seek       
,da-vid on the rocks where the wild     
goats fed4 ,and ,saul came to a cave1   
and went in to lie down and rest4       
,da-vid and his men were in the cave1   
but ,saul could not see them4 ,and the  
men wished to kill ,saul2 but ,da-vid   
would not let them4 ,while he was there 

,da-vid stole up to ,saul and cut off a 
piece of his robe4 ,and ,saul did not   
know it4  ,illustration3 ,,da-,,vid     
,,and ,,saul4  ,when ,saul went out of  
the cave1 ,da-vid went out af-ter him   
and cried out1 ,my lord and my king6    
,and when ,saul looked back1 ,da-vid    
bowed down to him with his face to the  
earth4 ,and he told ,saul to pay no heed
 to those who said he meant to harm the 
king4 ,for if he had sought to kill     
,saul he might have done so that day    
while he was in the cave4 ,and ,da-vid  
showed ,saul the piece of his robe he   
had cut off4  ,and some bade me kill    
thee1 said ,da-vid1 but ,i would not1   
for thou art my lord and my king4 ,then 
,da-vid held up the piece of cloth he   
had cut from ,saul's robe1 and said1    
,since ,i was so near thee as to cut    
this off and did not kill thee1 thou    
may'st know that ,i have no wish to harm
 thee4 ,yet thou dost hunt for me to    
kill me4 ,let the ,lord judge 'twixt    
thee and me1 and save me from thy hand1 

and save thee as he will1 for ,i will   
not harm thee4  ,when ,saul heard       
,da-vid speak thus1 all hate went out of
 his heart1 and he wept as he said1     
,thou hast done good to me for the      
wrongs ,i did thee1 and may the ,lord   
bless thee for it4 ,now ,i know that    
thou wilt some day be the king of       
,is-ra-el4  ,and ,saul went home1 and   
,da-vid and his men went back to the    
cave4  ,but ,da-vid knew that he could  
not trust ,saul1 so he fled to the land 
of the ,phil-is-tines1 and he and his   
men dwelt there in the town of ,gath for
 the space of a year and four months4   
,illustration3 ,,da-,,vid ,,takes       
,,go-,,li-,,ath',s ,,sword4  ,while he  
was there1 the ,phil-is-tines went out  
to fight with ,saul once more1 and when 
he saw what a host of them there was1   
his heart shook with fear4 ,he asked the
 ,lord what he should do1 but the ,lord 
did not come to him in dreams1 or speak 
one word to him4  ,sam-u-el was dead1   
and the ,lord had said it was a sin to  

go to a witch1 or a seer1 to find out   
the things that would take place1 and   
,saul had sent all these folks out of   
the land4  ,but now he was in such a    
strait that he felt he must have help of
 some sort4 ,and one of his men told him
 there was at ,en-dor a witch who could 
work strange charms1 and fore-tell what 
was to take place4 ,so the king drest   
him-self so that he would not be known1 
and went at night with two of his men to
 see the witch of ,en-dor4 ,and he said 
to her1 ,bring me up him whom ,i shall  
name to thee4  ,and the witch said to   
him1 ,dost thou not know that ,saul has 
sent all those that work charms out of  
the land8 ,and why dost thou set a snare
 for my life1 so that ,i will be put to 
death8  ,and ,saul said1 ,as the ,lord  
lives there shall no harm come to thee  
for this thing4  ,then the witch said1  
,whom shall ,i bring up to thee8 ,and he
 said1 ,bring me ,sam-u-el4  ,so the    
witch made strange signs and spoke      
strange words1 and swept her wand round 

and round4 ,and when she saw the form of
 ,sam-u-el rise up1 she cried with a    
loud voice1 ,why did'st thou not tell me
 the truth8 for thou art ,saul6  ,and   
the king said1 ,have no fear4 ,what     
did'st thou see8  ,and the witch said1  
,i saw an old man with a cloak round    
him4  ,and ,saul knew it was ,sam-u-el1 
and bowed his face to the ground4 ,and  
,sam-u-el said1 ,why hast thou brought  
me up8 ,and ,saul told him that he was  
in a great strait1 that ,god had left   
him1 and did not come to him in dreams  
or by the hand of wise men1 and he      
thought that ,sam-u-el might tell him   
what to do4  ,sam-u-el said1 ,why then  
dost thou ask of me if the ,lord hath   
left thee8 ,he hath done to thee just as
 he said he would4 ,thy reign is at an  
end1 and ,da-vid shall rule in thy      
stead4 ,and he told ,saul that the next 
day he and his sons would be dead1 and  
,is-ra-el in the hands of the foes4     
,when ,saul heard these words he fell   
down in a swoon1 for he had had no food 

for a day and a night4  ,and the witch  
brought bread and bade him eat1 that he 
might have strength to go on his way4   
,and ,saul and his men ate of the food1 
and went their way that night4  ,now the
 lords of the ,phil-is-tines brought all
 their troops to a place called ,a-phek4
 ,and the king of ,gath went there1 and 
took ,da-vid and his men with him4 ,but 
the lords of the ,phil-is-tines would   
not have the ,jews in their midst lest  
they should turn on them and give them  
in-to the hands of king ,saul4  ,so     
,da-vid and his men had to leave the    
camp1 and the ,phil-is-tines went out to
 fight1 and the men of ,is-ra-el fled   
from them with great loss4 ,the king's  
three sons were slain1 and an ar-row    
struck ,saul and gave him a bad wound4  
,and ,saul said to the man who bore his 
shield1 ,draw thy sword and put me to   
death4 ,but the man did not dare to kill
 his king4 ,so ,saul took his own sword 
and fell on it1 and thus died by his own
 hand4 ,and when the man saw that ,saul 

was dead1 he fell on his sword and died 
with him4  ,and when it was known that  
,saul and his sons were dead1 the ,jews 
fled from that part of the land1 and the
 ,phil-is-tines went to live there4  ,in
 the course of a few years ,da-vid was  
made king of ,is-ra-el1 and then went to
 live at ,je-ru-sa-lem4 ,he went to war1
 and took spoils of rich kings1 and the 
,lord was with him1 for he sought to do 
that which was right and just4  ,da-vid 
had two sons3 ,sol-o-mon and ,ab-sa-lom4
  ,and in all the land there was no man 
with such a fine face and form as       
,ab-sa-lom1 and he won much praise for  
his good looks4 ,and he had a thick     
growth of long hair4 ,but ,ab-sa-lom had
 a bad heart1 and his sins made ,da-vid 
weep4 ,but he did not scold ,ab-sa-lom  
as he should have done1 for the king was
 fond of his son1 and so ,ab-sa-lom went
 on from bad to worse4  ,he told what he
 would do when he was king1 and made    
friends with those who thought it a fine
 thing to be on good terms with the     

king's son4  ,when he was two-score     
years of age1 ,ab-sa-lom said to the    
king1 ,let me1 ,i pray thee1 go up to   
,heb-ron to pay my vows4  ,and ,da-vid  
told him to go4 ,but it was not to serve
 the ,lord that ,ab-sa-lom went1 but to 
have him-self made king in-stead of     
,da-vid4 ,and he took ten score men with
 him1 who did not know why or where they
 went1 and sent spies all through the   
land to speak in his praise and urge    
that he be made king4  ,illustration3   
,,da-,,vid ,,for-,,giv-,,ing            
,,ab-,,sa-,,lom4  ,and when ,da-vid     
heard of it he said to his men1 ,rise1  
let us flee from this place1 lest       
,ab-sa-lom come and put us to death4    
,and they all fled from ,je-ru-sa-lem1  
and went to hide in some lone place4    
,and when ,ab-sa-lom came to            
,je-ru-sa-lem he went to one of         
,da-vid's friends and asked him what he 
should do to be made king4              
,a-hith-o-phel1 who had once been a     
friend of ,da-vid1 and had now gone with

 the king's son1 had said that he would 
go out with a large force and come up   
with ,da-vid when he was weak and faint1
 so that he would be in a great fright4 
,those who were with ,dav-id would flee1
 and he would soon put the king to      
death4 ,then1 of course1 ,ab-sa-lom     
would be king4  ,but ,ab-sa-lom would   
not do this till he had heard what      
,hu-sha-i said4 ,now ,hu-sha-i was a    
true friend of ,da-vid1 and he told     
,ab-sa-lom to take more men than        
,a-hith-o-phel had said1 for he thought 
that would give ,da-vid a chance to get 
out of the way4 ,and ,hu-sha-i sent two 
young men to tell ,da-vid not to stop on
 the plains that night1 but to cross the
 ,jor-dan1 lest he and all who were with
 him should be put to death4  ,but a boy
 saw the two sons of the high-priest who
 were on their way to ,da-vid1 and went 
and told ,ab-sa-lom4 ,and the priest's  
sons ran to a house near by1 and hid in 
the well4 ,and the wo-man who kept the  
house spread corn on top so that no one 

could see that a well was there4  ,and  
when ,ab-sa-lom's men came in and asked 
the wo-man where the priest's sons were1
 she said they had gone on past the     
brook ,ked-ron4 ,and when the two could 
not be found the men went back4  ,then  
the priest's sons came up out of the    
well1 and made haste to give to ,da-vid 
the word that ,hu-sha-i had sent4 ,and  
at dawn ,da-vid and all his men crossed 
,jor-dan4  ,as soon as ,ab-sa-lom had   
all the men he thought he would need1 he
 set out to fight with ,da-vid4 ,and    
,da-vid drew up his men in line1 and put
 ,jo-ab at their head4 ,and the king    
said1 ,i will go out with you4 ,but the 
men said he should not2 so ,da-vid staid
 by the gate and saw them go out to the 
fight1 and bade them be kind to         
,ab-sa-lom for his sake4  ,illustration3
 ,,the ,,death ,,of ,,ab-,,sa-,,lom4    
,the fight took place in a wood4        
,ab-sa-lom rode on a mule1 and as the   
mule passed 'neath a great oak1         
,ab-sa-lom's head caught in a branch1   

and he hung in mid air1 while the mule  
went off down the road4  ,and a man saw 
it and told ,jo-ab4 ,and ,jo-ab said1   
,why did'st thou not kill him8 ,and the 
man said he would not kill the king's   
son1 for he had heard ,da-vid ask them  
to be kind to him4  ,but ,jo-ab said1 ,i
 can-not waste time with thee4 ,and he  
took three darts in his hand and thrust 
them through ,ab-sa-lom1 so that he     
died4 ,and he was thrown in-to a pit    
that was in the wood1 and a great heap  
of stones was piled on him4 ,and all the
 men who had been with him went back to 
their tents4  ,illustration3 ,,da-,,vid 
,,hear-,,ing ,,of ,,ab-,,sa-,,lom',s    
,,death4  ,da-vid sat in the gate1 and  
when men came back with news of the     
fight1 he would ask of each one1 ,is    
,ab-sa-lom safe8 ,and at last one of    
them said1 ,may all the king's foes be  
as this young man is4 ,then ,da-vid knew
 that ,ab-sa-lom was dead1 and he went  
to his own room and wept4  ,and he cried
 out with a loud voice1 ,o1 my son1     

,ab-sa-lom2 my son1 my son ,ab-sa-lom6  
,i would that ,god had let me die in thy
 stead1 ,o1 ,ab-sa-lom1 my son1 my son6 
,da-vid was king for two-score years1   
and was an old man when he died and had 
hosts of friends4 ,and when he felt that
 his death was near1 he bade his men    
take ,sol-o-mon to a place called       
,gi-hon1 and pour oil on his head4 ,then
 they were to blow the horn and cry out4
 ,god save ,king ,so-lo-mon4  ,and this 
was done2 and when ,da-vid died1        
,sol-o-mon sat on his throne and ruled  
,is-ra-el4     ,,chapter ,,xv4          
,,solomon1 ,,the ,,wise ,,man4          
,,sol-,o-,,mon gave his heart to ,god   
when he was young1 and tried to lead a  
good life1 and to do no wrong4 ,and ,god
 spoke to him in a dream one night and  
said1 ,ask what ,i shall give thee4     
,and ,so-lo-mon said1 ,grant me1 ,i pray
 thee a wise mind that ,i may know right
 from wrong1 and judge well those who   
look up to me as their king4  ,this     
speech pleased the ,lord1 and he said1  

,since thou didst not ask me for great  
wealth1 or for long life1 or that thy   
foes might be put to death1 ,i will make
 thee wise1 and will give thee both     
great wealth and a long life if thou    
wilt serve me and keep my laws4  ,there 
came two wo-men to the king4 ,and one of
 them said1 ,my lord1 ,i and this wo-man
 live in one house1 and we each of us   
had a son4 ,and this wo-man's child died
 in the night1 and while ,i slept she   
came and took my child from me1 and laid
 her own child by my side4 ,and when ,i 
woke1 and went to feed my child1 it was 
dead4 ,and ,i knew it was not my son4   
,it is your son4  ,it is not2 the child 
that lives is mine4  ,the dead child is 
yours4  ,illustration3 ,,the            
,,judg-,,ment ,,of ,,sol-,o-,,mon4  ,in 
this way they spoke1 and the king heard 
them1 and said1 ,bring me a sword6  ,and
 a sword was brought to him4  ,and the  
king said1 ,cut the live child in two1  
and give half to one and half to the    
oth-er4  ,when the real moth-er of the  

child heard these words she cried out1  
,o my lord1 give her the child1 but do  
not kill it4  ,but the oth-er said1 ,cut
 it in half1 and let it not be hers or  
mine4  ,then the king told his men to   
give the child to the one who tried to  
save its life1 for he knew that she was 
the moth-er4 ,and it was to find this   
out that he sent the men for the sword1 
and not to take the child's life4       
,illustration3 ,,ships ,,of             
,,sol-,o-,,mon4  ,when ,sol-o-mon had   
been king for four years1 he laid out   
the plan that ,da-vid had made for the  
house of the ,lord4  ,he had a talk with
 ,hi-ram the king of ,tyre1 and told him
 that it was time to build the house4   
,and the ,king of ,tyre was glad1 and   
did all he could to aid him4 ,he sent   
,so-lo-mon great trees from the woods1  
and sent him men to help in the work2   
men who had skill with the ax1 and with 
fine tools of all sorts4  ,the house was
 built of stone1 and each stone was hewn
 from the rock1 cut so as to fit in the 

wall ere it was brought to the place    
where it was to stand1 so that no ax nor
 tools should be used in the house when 
it was put up4  ,the walls of the rooms 
were in-laid with gold1 and gems1 and   
the floor of the place where the ark was
 kept was of pure gold1 and in front of 
the shrine were loops and chains of fine
 gold4  ,the doors of the house were    
made of the wood of the fir tree1 and   
they were carved with great skill1 and  
touched up with gold4  ,it took         
,sol-o-mon sev-en years to build the    
house of the ,lord2 and when it was done
 he made a feast1 and the priests       
brought the ark of the ,lord from ,mount
 ,zi-on where ,da-vid kept it4  ,and all
 the tribes of ,is-ra-el came to        
,je-ru-sa-lem1 that they might be there 
when the ark was brought4  ,and when the
 ark was put in its place1 and the      
priests came out1 there was such a cloud
 in the house that all stood still4 ,for
 the ,lord was in the cloud4  ,then     
,sol-o-mon stood up1 and with raised    

hands asked him to come down and dwell  
in the house1 and to dwell in men's     
hearts1 that they might walk in the     
right way1 and love ,god all their days4
  ,illustration3 ,,queen ,,of           
,,she-,,ba4  ,now the fame of ,sol-o-mon
 came to the ears of a rich queen1 who  
dwelt at ,she-ba1 and she thought she   
would like to see if this man was as    
wise and rich as he was said to be4 ,she
 had a long way to come1 and a great    
train came with her1 and these brought  
loads of rich spice1 and gold and       
sil-ver and gems of worth4 ,and the     
queen had a talk with ,sol-o-mon and he 
told her all she ought to know4  ,and   
she said to the king1 ,what ,i had heard
 of thee in my own lands ,i did not     
think could be true4 ,so ,i came to see 
for my-self1 and ,i find the half was   
not told to me4 ,so she gave rich gifts 
to ,sol-o-mon1 and he gave rich gifts to
 her1 and the queen went back to her own
 land4  ,now it was thought no sin in   
those days for a man to have more than  

one wife4 ,and some of ,sol-o-mon's     
wives had been brought up to serve false
 gods4 ,and it was a sin for the king to
 wed with such4 ,and as he grew old     
these wives made him serve their ,gods1 
and turn from the true ,god whom he had 
been taught to love and fear4  ,and this
 did not please to ,lord1 and he said   
that ,sol-o-mon's son should not be king
 when ,sol-o-mon died4 ,for ,da-vid's   
sake he would let him be a prince of two
 tribes all the days of his life4 ,but  
ten tribes he would take from him4  ,and
 foes rose up to plague ,sol-o-mon1 and 
for his sins he had to give up the peace
 and rest that had long been his4 ,when 
he had been king for two-score years    
,sol-o-mon died1 and his fame has come  
down to this day1 for no man has been   
born in-to the world so wise and great  
as ,king ,sol-o-mon4     ,,chapter      
,,xvi4  ,,elijah4   ,a-,,hab was the    
last of the six kings who ruled the ten 
tribes4 ,and he made them serve ,ba-al1 
and built a house for this false god4   

,these acts did not please ,god1 so he  
sent ,e-li-jah1 a seer1 to tell ,a-hab  
that for years and years there should be
 no rain in the land4 ,and he told      
,e-li-jah to hide near a brook from     
which he should drink1 and the birds of 
the air would bring him food to eat4    
,e-li-jah did as the ,lord told him1 and
 he drank from the brook1 and the birds 
brought him his food from day to day4   
,but as there was no rain1 the brook    
dried up1 and there was lack of food in 
the land4  ,so the ,lord told ,e-li-jah 
to go to the town of ,za-re-phath1 where
 a wo-man dwelt who would give him food4
  ,and when ,e-li-jah came to the gate  
of the town1 a poor wo-man drew near him
 to pick up some sticks4 ,and he said to
 her1 ,bring me a drink1 ,i pray thee4  
,and as she went1 he said1 ,bring me1 ,i
 pray thee1 a bit of bread in thine     
hand4  ,illustration3 ,e-,,li-,,jah     
,,fed ,,by ,,ra-,,vens4  ,and she said1 
,as the ,lord lives1 ,i have no bread in
 the house1 and but a hand-ful of meal1 

and a few drops of oil4 ,and ,i came out
 to pick up a few sticks that ,i might  
light the fire1 and bake a small loaf   
for me and my son1 that we may eat it   
and die4  ,illustration3 ,e-,,li-,,jah  
,,and ,,the ,,wid-,,ow's ,,child4       
,e-li-jah said1 ,fear not2 go and do as 
thou hast said4 ,but first make me a    
small loaf1 and then make one for thee  
and thy son4 ,for thus saith the ,lord1 
,the meal shall not waste1 nor the cruse
 of oil fail till the day the ,lord     
sends rain on the earth4  ,so the wo-man
 went her way and did as ,e-li-jah told 
her1 and there was from that time no    
lack of food in her house4 ,but one day 
her son was ill1 and he grew worse and  
worse1 and then died4  ,when ,e-li-jah  
heard of it1 he said1 ,give me thy son4 
,and he took the child from her arms and
 bore him to his own room1 and laid him 
on his bed4  ,and ,e-li-jah cried to the
 ,lord1 and said1 ,o ,lord1 ,i pray thee
 let this child's soul come back to him4
  ,and the ,lord sent back the soul of  

the child1 and ,e-li-jah took the boy   
and brought him to his moth-er4  ,and   
she said to ,e-li-jah1 ,now by this ,i  
know that thou art a man of ,god1 and   
that the word of the ,lord in thy mouth 
is truth4  ,for three years there had   
been no rain in the land1 and at the end
 of that time the ,lord said to         
,e-li-jah1 ,go show thy-self to ,a-hab1 
and ,i will send rain on the land4  ,so 
,e-li-jah went1 and on the way he met   
with one of ,a-hab's head men1 who loved
 the ,lord4 ,he knew ,e-li-jah1 and bade
 him turn back1 for the king would be   
sure to put him to death4 ,but ,e-li-jah
 said that he would show him-self to    
,a-hab that day4 ,so the man told the   
king that ,e-li-jah was near1 and the   
king came out to meet him4  ,and he     
found fault with ,e-li-jah1 for he      
thought he was to blame for the lack of 
food1 and for the long drouth4          
,e-li-jah told the king to have all     
those he ruled meet in a mass at one    
place4 ,and when they came there1       

,e-li-jah cried out to them1 ,how long  
will ye turn your hearts from ,god8     
,and he told them to prove which was the
 true ,god1 ,ba-al or ,e-li-jah's ,god4 
,and he told them to bring two young    
bulls1 and to take the flesh of one and 
lay it on the wood in front of ,ba-al1  
and he would lay the flesh of the oth-er
 young bull on the ,lord's al-tar4 ,and 
he said1 ,call ye on your gods and ,i   
will call on mine1 and let the ,god that
 sends down fire be the ,god whom we all
 shall serve4  ,and they said it was a  
good plan4  ,so they cried out from     
sun-rise till noon1 ,o ,ba-al hear us6  
,but there was no voice or sign that    
their god heard them4  ,e-li-jah said1  
,cry with a loud voice for he is a god4 
,he may be a-sleep1 or lost in thought4 
,illustration3 ,,the ,,lit-,,tle        
,,cloud4  ,and they cried1 and made a   
great noise1 and at last fought with    
their knives till they drew blood4  ,and
 ,e-li-jah said1 ,come near me4  ,and   
they all came near to him4  ,and        

,e-li-jah took twelve stones1 and built 
an al-tar to the ,lord4 ,and he put the 
flesh and the wood on it1 and the wood  
was wet through and through4  ,then he  
cried out1 ,hear me1 ,o ,lord1 hear me1 
and let it be known that thou art the   
true ,god4  ,then fire came down from on
 high and burnt up the flesh1 and the   
wood and the stones1 and the dust2 and  
the ground that had been made so wet was
 as dry as it could be4  ,and when the  
crowd saw this they all bowed down to   
the ground1 and said1 ,the ,lord he is  
,god6 ,the ,lord he is ,god6  ,and they 
broke up the false gods1 and gave their 
hearts for a while to the ,lord4  ,then 
,e-li-jah told ,a-hab that he might eat 
and drink1 for the rain would soon set  
in4 ,and he went to the top of a high   
mount to pray for rain4 ,not a cloud was
 in the sky4 ,the sea was calm4 ,but    
,e-li-jah knew that he must watch1 and  
wait1 and pray1 and the sign would come4
  ,at last there rose up out of the     
sea--that is1 where the sea and sky seem

 to meet--a small cloud1 the size of a  
man's hand4 ,and soon the sky was black 
with clouds1 and the wind blew1 and     
there was a great storm of rain4  ,now  
,a-hab had a bad wife1 and when he told 
her what ,e-li-jah had done1 she made a 
vow to kill him4  ,and ,e-li-jah had to 
flee for his life4 ,he was so worn out  
that when he came to a lone place he sat
 down in the shade of a tree and wished 
that he might die4 ,while he slept1 an  
an-gel drew near1 at whose touch        
,e-li-jah woke4 ,and the an-gel said1   
,rise and eat4  ,illustration3          
,e-,,li-,,jah ,,and ,,king ,a-,,hab4    
,and ,e-li-jah found food and drink set 
out for him4 ,and he ate and drank1 and 
then lay down and slept4 ,and the an-gel
 came once more1 and bade ,e-li-jah eat1
 that he might have strength to go on   
his way4 ,and he sat up1 and ate the    
food the ,lord had sent1 and it gave him
 such strength that he went with-out    
food for more than a month4 ,and at the 
end of that time he came to ,mount      

,ho-reb4 ,and he went to a cave and lay 
down and slept there4  ,and the ,lord   
spoke to him1 and said1 ,why art thou   
here1 ,e-li-jah8 ,and ,e-li-jah said the
 chil-dren of ,is-ra-el had not kept    
their word1 but had gone back to their  
false gods1 and slain all those who     
sought to turn them from their sins4    
,and ,i have fled from them1 said       
,e-li-jah1 for they seek my life4       
,illustration3 ,e-,,li-,,jah ,,in ,,the 
,,wil-,,der-,,ness4  ,the ,lord said1   
,go forth1 and stand on the mount4 ,and 
there came a great wind that split the  
high hills1 and broke up the rocks4 ,but
 the ,lord was not in the wind4  ,then  
the earth shook1 so that there was no   
firm ground on which to walk2 and smoke 
came up out of the great cracks that    
were made4 ,but the ,lord was not in the
 earth-quake4  ,then there came a still1
 small voice4 ,when ,e-li-jah heard it  
he hid his face in his cloak1 and went  
out and stood at the door of the cave4  
,and the voice said1 ,why art thou here1

 ,e-li-jah8 ,and ,el-li-jah said that he
 fled from those who sought to kill him4
 ,and the ,lord told him to leave the   
cave1 and go back and pour oil on the   
head of ,e-li-sha1 who was to take his  
place4  ,and ,e-li-jah found ,e-li-sha  
at work with the plough in a large      
field4 ,and as he went by him he threw  
his cloak round ,e-li-sha4  ,and        
,e-li-sha knew that this meant he must  
leave all and go with ,e-li-jah4 ,and he
 went home to bid fare-well to his dear 
ones there1 and then came back to be    
near ,e-li-jah and to wait on him4      
,illustration3 ,e-,,li-,,jah ,,goes ,,to
 ,,heav-,,en4  ,now the time drew near  
when ,e-li-jah was to leave the earth4  
,and he and ,e-li-sha stood near the    
shore of the ,jor-dan4 ,and ,e-li-jah   
took his cloak and struck the waves1 and
 they made a wall on each side1 and the 
two men went through on dry land4 ,and  
as they stood on the oth-er side1       
,e-li-jah said to ,e-li-sha1 ,ask what  
,i shall do for thee1 ere ,i leave thee4

  ,and ,e-li-sha said1 ,let me1 ,i pray 
thee1 be twice as good and wise as thou4
  ,e-li-jah said1 ,thou dost ask a hard 
thing4 ,but if thou dost see me when the
 ,lord takes me from thee1 then it shall
 be so4 ,but if thou dost not see1 then 
it shall not be so4  ,so they went on1  
and while they yet spoke1 there came a  
great light in the sky1 and the clouds  
took on strange forms4 ,and ,e-li-jah   
was caught up as if by a whirl-wind1 and
 ,e-li-sha cried out as he saw him pass 
through the sky1 but he was soon out of 
sight1 and ,e-li-sha saw him no more4   
,,chapter ,,xvii4  ,,elisha4   ,,as     
,e-li-jah rose from the earth he let his
 cloak fall on ,e-li-sha4 ,and ,e-li-sha
 went down to the ,jor-dan1 and took the
 cloak and struck the waves1 and they   
stood up on each side1 so that he went  
a-cross dry shod4 ,and it was made known
 to all the seers and wise men that     
,e-li-sha had been called to fill       
,e-li-jah's place1 and he gave proof    
that the ,lord was with him4  ,as       

,e-li-sha went from ,jer-i-cho to       
,beth-el1 some young folks ran out and  
made fun of him1 and cried1 ,go up1 thou
 bald head6 ,go up1 thou bald head6     
,e-li-sha turned back1 and asked the    
,lord to take them in hand4 ,so the     
,lord sent two great bears out of the   
wood1 and they fell on the chil-dren and
 tore o-ver two-score of them4          
,illustration3 ,,the ,,chil-,,dren ,,of 
,,beth-,,el4  ,one day ,e-li-sha came to
 ,shu-nem1 where a rich wo-man dwelt4   
,and she bade him come in and eat4 ,and 
as oft as he went that way1 he made it a
 rule to stop and take the food and     
drink she set out for him4  ,and she had
 a room built for him on the side of her
 house1 and put a bed and a chair in it1
 that he might go in and out as he      
chose1 and have a place to rest in4     
,and one day when he was in this room1  
he sent for the wo-man to come to him4  
,and he said to her1 ,what can ,i do to 
pay thee for all thy kind care of us8   
,shall ,i speak to the king for thee8   

,she said there was no need1 that she   
sought no pay1 and then left the room4  
,e-li-sha said to his man1 ,what is     
there that ,i can do for her8  ,and the 
man said1 ,she has no child4  ,and      
,e-li-sha said1 ,call her4 ,and she came
 back and stood at the door4 ,and when  
the man of ,god told her that she should
 have a son1 she thought he did not     
speak the truth4  ,and the word of the  
,lord came true1 for in less than a year
 she had a son4  ,and the child grew up1
 and went out one day to the field to   
see the men reap the corn4 ,and while he
 was there he felt sick1 and cried out  
to his fath-er1 ,my head6 my head6  ,and
 his fath-er said to a lad1 ,take the   
boy home to his moth-er4 ,and she took  
him1 and he sat in her lap till noon1   
and then died4 ,and she took the boy to 
,e-li-sha's room1 and laid him on the   
bed of the man of ,god1 and then went   
out and shut the door4  ,then she sent  
for one of the young men1 and had him   
bring an ass to the door1 and she got on

 the ass1 and bade the man drive as fast
 as he could till she told him to stop4 
,she went till she came near ,mount     
,car-mel4 ,and ,e-li-sha saw her1 and   
sent ,ge-ha-zi out to meet her1 and to  
ask her if it was well with her and with
 the child4 ,and she said to him1 ,it is
 well4  ,but when she came to ,e-li-sha 
she fell at his feet1 and ,ge-ha-zi drew
 near to push her from the man of ,god4 
,but ,e-li-sha said1 ,touch her not4    
,she is in great grief1 and the ,lord   
has hid it from me and not told me of   
it4  ,and the wo-man said1 ,did ,i ask  
thee for a son8 ,then he knew that the  
boy was dead4  ,then ,e-li-sha said to  
,ge-ha-zi1 ,take my staff1 and go thy   
way with all speed4 ,stop to speak to no
 one4 ,and lay my staff on the face of  
the child4  ,and the moth-er of the     
child said1 ,as the ,lord lives1 ,i will
 not leave thee4 ,and ,e-li-sha rose and
 went with her1 while ,ge-ha-zi ran on  
a-head4 ,and he laid the staff on the   
face of the child1 but the child did not

 speak nor hear4 ,and he ran out to meet
 ,e-li-sha and to tell him the lad did  
not wake4  ,and when ,e-li-sha came to  
the house he found the child dead1 and  
laid on his bed4 ,so he went in the room
 and shut the door1 and prayed to the   
,lord4  ,then he got on the bed1 and lay
 on the child till his flesh grew warm4 
,then he left the room for a-while to   
walk up and down1 and when he went back 
he lay on the child till its breath came
 back1 and it gave signs of life4  ,and 
he sent for the moth-er4 ,and when she  
came to the room he said1 ,take up thy  
son4 ,and she fell at the feet of       
,e-li-sha1 with thanks too deep for     
words1 and then took her son in her arms
 and went out4  ,there was a man in     
,sy-ri-a1 who took charge of all the    
troops that went to war with the king4  
,this man's name was ,na-a-man1 and he  
had done brave deeds1 for which he held 
high rank1 and was much thought of4 ,but
 this man fell ill1 and none but those  
of his own house would go near him4 ,and

 there was no cure for him4 ,but his    
wife had a maid to wait on her4 ,and    
this maid said that if ,na-a-man would  
go to ,e-li-sha she was sure that he    
would cure him4  ,and ,na-a-man came    
down to ,sa-ma-ri-a with a note from his
 own king to the king of ,is-ra-el4     
,when the king of ,is-ra-el read the    
note he was ve-ry wroth1 and said1 ,am  
,i ,god that ,i can bring the dead to   
life8 ,for he thought that it was but a 
trick to bring on a war4  ,illustration3
 ,e-,,li-,,sha ,,and ,,the ,,child4     
,when ,e-li-sha heard that the king rent
 his clothes1 he sent word to have      
,na-a-man come to him4  ,and ,na-a-man  
drove up in fine style1 and stood at the
 door of ,e-li-sha's house4 ,and        
,e-li-sha sent word to him to bathe at  
the ,jor-dan sev-en times1 and he would 
be made well4  ,this put ,na-a-man in a 
rage1 for he thought that ,e-li-sha     
would come out to him and call on the   
name of ,god1 and touch him so as to    
heal him4  ,and he said1 ,are there not 

streams in ,da-mas-cus in which ,i can  
bathe and be made well8 ,and he went off
 in a rage4  ,but some of his men drew  
near1 and said1 ,my lord1 if he had bid 
thee do some great thing wouldst thou   
not have done it8 ,why not then do as he
 says1 and wash and be clean8  ,and     
,na-a-man gave heed to their words and  
went down to the ,jor-dan4 ,and he took 
sev-en baths1 and then his flesh grew as
 soft and pink as the flesh of a child1 
and health and strength came back to    
him4 ,and ,na-a-man went back to        
,e-li-sha's house1 he and all his men1  
and he said1 ,now ,i know there is no   
,god in all the earth but the ,god of   
,is-ra-el4  ,now the time drew near when
 ,e-li-sha was to die4 ,and the king1   
,jo-ash1 came to see him as he lay sick 
in bed4  ,and ,e-li-sha said1 ,take the 
bow and the darts4 ,and the king took   
them4 ,and ,e-li-sha said1 ,put thy     
hands on the bow4 ,and the king did so1 
and ,e-li-sha put his hands on the      
king's hands4 ,then ,e-li-sha said1     

,throw wide the east win-dow4 ,and when 
this was done he said shoot4 ,and the   
king shot2 and ,e-li-sha told him that  
he should set ,is-ra-el free from its   
foes4  ,then he said to the king1 ,take 
the darts4 ,and he took them4 ,and      
,e-li-sha said1 ,strike them on the     
ground4 ,and the king struck them on the
 ground three times1 and no more4       
,illustration3 ,,the ,,ar-,,row ,,of    
,,de-,,liv-,,er-,,ance4  ,and the man of
 ,god was wroth with him1 and said1     
,thou shouldst have struck five or six  
times1 for then thou wouldst have laid  
the ,sy-ri-ans low1 now thou shalt smite
 them but three times4  ,and ,e-li-sha  
died1 and was laid in the ground4 ,and  
one day as some of the folks went out   
with a dead man to lay him in the grave 
that was dug for him1 they saw a band of
 thieves from the land of ,mo-ab and did
 not dare to go on4 ,so they put the    
dead man in the grave where ,e-li-sha   
lay4 ,and as soon as the corpse touched 
the bones of ,e-li-sha the man came to  

life and stood on his feet4             
,,chapter ,,xviii4  ,,jonah1 ,,the ,,man
 ,,who ,,tried ,,to ,,hide ,,from ,,god4
   ,,there was a seer in ,is-ra-el whose
 name was ,jo-nah4 ,and the ,lord told  
,jo-nah to go to ,nin-e-veh1 a large    
town where there was great need of good 
men4 ,but ,jo-nah did not care to go    
there1 so he ran down to ,jop-pa and    
found a ship there that would set sail  
for ,tar-shish in a few days4 ,so he    
paid his fare1 and went on board the    
ship to go to ,tar-shish1 where he      
seemed to think the ,lord would not find
 him4  ,but as soon as the ship was well
 on its way1 the ,lord sent forth a     
great wind1 and the waves rose high1 and
 the storm beat the ship1 and it was    
blown here and there as if it were a    
toy4 ,and those on board of her were in 
great fear1 and cried out to their gods1
 and threw all the goods that were in   
the ship in-to the sea1 so that she     
would not sink4  ,jo-nah was down in the
 hold1 where he lay and slept1 though   

the storm was so fierce4  ,and the one  
who had charge of the ship came to him  
and said1 ,what does this mean8 ,rise1  
and call on thy ,god to save us from    
ship-wreck4  ,and the rest of the men   
said1 ,come1 and let us cast lots that  
we may know who is to blame for this4   
,illustration3 ,,jo-,,nah ,,in ,,the    
,,storm4  ,so they cast lots1 and the   
lot fell on ,jo-nah4 ,and they said to  
him1 ,tell us1 we pray thee1 who has    
brought on us these ills4 ,what is thy  
trade8 where dost thou come from8 where 
dost thou live8 and of what tribe art   
thou8  ,and he said ,i am a ,jew1 and   
have fled from the ,lord who made the   
sea and sky4  ,and the men were in great
 fear and said1 ,why hast thou done this
 thing8 ,and what shall we do to thee   
that the sea may be still for us8 ,for  
the waves were rough1 and the winds blew
 a gale4  ,and ,jo-nah said to the men1 
,take me up and cast me in-to the sea2  
then shall the sea be calm for you1 for 
,i know it is for my sake that this     

great storm has come up-on you4  ,the   
men did not want to drown ,jo-nah1 so   
they tried their best to bring the ship 
to land1 but could not4  ,then they     
cried to the ,lord1 ,o ,lord1 we pray   
thee1 count it no sin to us that we take
 this man's life1 for thou1 ,o ,lord1   
hast sent this storm on us for some of  
his sins4  ,so they took up ,jo-nah1 and
 cast him in-to the sea1 and the sea    
grew still and calm4  ,and when the men 
saw this they were in great fear1 and   
brought gifts to the ,lord1 and made    
vows that they would serve him4  ,now   
the ,lord had sent a great fish to the  
side of the ship to take ,jo-nah in-to  
its mouth as soon as he was thrown in-to
 the sea4  ,and ,jo-nah was in-side the 
fish for three days and three nights4   
,and he prayed to the ,lord while he was
 in the fish2 and cried to ,god to help 
him1 and to blot out his sins4 ,and ,god
 heard him1 and bade the fish throw him 
up on the dry land4  ,then the ,lord    
spoke to ,jo-nah once more1 and said1   

,rise1 and go to ,nin-e-veh1 and preach 
to it as ,i bid thee4  ,and ,jo-nah rose
 and went4  ,and when ,god saw them turn
 from their sins and pray to him1 he did
 not do to ,nin-e-veh as he said he     
would4  ,but this did not please        
,jo-nah4 ,he thought that ,nin-e-veh    
should be brought low1 for those who    
dwelt there were not good friends to the
 ,jews4 ,then1 too1 ,jo-nah's pride was 
hurt1 for he knew that men would laugh  
at him1 and have no faith in what he    
said1 so he went out of the town and sat
 down by the road-side4  ,and ,god made 
a vine to grow up there in one night1   
that ,jo-nah might sit in its shade and 
find rest from his grief4 ,and ,jo-nah  
was glad when he saw the gourd4 ,the    
next morn ,god sent a worm to gnaw the  
root of the vine1 and it soon dried up4 
,when the sun rose ,god sent a hot wind1
 and the sun beat on ,jo-nah's head so  
that he grew sick and fell in a faint4  
,and he was wroth1 and had no wish to   
live4  ,and ,god said to ,jo-nah1 ,is it

 well for thee to be in such grief for  
the loss of a gourd8  ,and ,jo-nah said1
 ,yes4 ,there was good cause why he     
should feel as he did and long to die4  
,then the ,lord said to him1 ,thou      
wouldst have had me spare this vine     
which cost thee nought1 and which grew  
up in a night and died in a night4 ,and 
why should ,i not spare ,nin-e-veh--that
 great town--in which are hosts and     
hosts of young folks who do not know    
their right hand from their left8  ,so  
,god put ,jo-nah to shame1 and made him 
see what a sin it was to wish to crush  
,nin-e-veh just to please his own self  
and for fear men would laugh at him4    
,and ,jo-nah found out1 what we all need
 to learn1 that it is of no use to try  
to hide from ,god4     ,,chapter ,,xix4 
,,daniel4   ,,there was a king of       
,bab-y-lon whose name was               
,neb-u-chad-nez-zar4 ,and he sent one of
 his chief men to choose some of the    
young ,jews who had been well brought   
up1 that they might wait on him4  ,the  

chief chose four youths whose name were 
,dan-i-el1 ,sha-drach1 ,me-shach and    
,a-bed-ne-go4 ,and these were brought to
 ,bab-y-lon1 that they might be taught  
as the king wished4  ,and the ,lord was 
with these four young men1 and made them
 wise1 and strong in mind1 and fair of  
face4  ,illustration3 ,,king            
,,neb-,u-,,chad-,,nez-,,zar4  ,when they
 had been taught for three years they   
were brought to the king's house4 ,and  
the king kept them near him1 and made   
use of them1 for he found that they knew
 ten times more than all the wise men in
 the whole realm4  ,one night the king  
had a dream that woke him out of his    
sleep4 ,and he sent for all the wise    
men--those who could read stars1 and    
those who could work charms--to tell    
what the dream meant4  ,and they all    
came1 but none of them could tell the   
dream that had gone out of the king's   
own head4 ,and no king1 they said1 would
 ask such a thing of wise men4  ,the    
king was wroth at this and gave word    

that all the wise men should be put to  
death4 ,and they sought ,dan-i-el and   
his friends1 that they might kill them4 
,dan-i-el said1 ,why is there such      
haste8 ,and when he was told he went in 
to the king and said if he would give   
him time he would make his dream clear  
to him4  ,in the night ,god showed the  
king's dream to ,dan-i-el1 and all that 
it meant was made clear to him4 ,and    
,dan-i-el gave praise and thanks to ,god
 who had been so good to him4  ,then he 
went to the chief1 and told him not to  
slay the wise men1 but to bring him in  
to the king4  ,then ,dan-i-el told the  
king his dream1 and all that would come 
to pass1 and when the king heard it he  
fell on his face be-fore ,dan-i-el and  
said to him1 ,it is true that your ,god 
is a ,god of gods1 and a ,lord of kings1
 and that nought is hid from him1 since 
thou hast told me this dream4  ,and the 
king made ,dan-i-el a great man1 and    
gave him rich gifts1 and put him at the 
head of all the wise men in the land4   

,now king ,neb-u-chad-nez-zar made a    
great god out of gold1 and set it on one
 of the plains of ,bab-y-lon4           
,illustration3                          
,,neb-,u-,,chad-,,nez-,,zar',s ,,dream4 
,and one of the king's men cried out    
with a loud voice1 and said it was the  
king's law that all should bow down to  
the god of gold that he had set up4 ,and
 those who did not bow down were to be  
thrown in-to a great hot fire and burnt 
up4  ,and some men brought word to the  
king that the three ,jews would not     
serve his gods1 or bow down to this one 
of gold which he had set up4  ,these    
three men were brought to the king1 and 
he said to them1 ,is it true1 ,o        
,sha-drach1 ,me-shach1 and ,a-bed-ne-go 
that ye will not serve my gods or bow   
down to the one of gold which ,i have   
set up8 ,and he said he would give them 
one more chance1 and if they did not bow
 down when they heard the call1 they    
should be cast in the same hour in-to   
the flames4 ,the three ,jews said to the

 king1 ,be it known to thee now that we 
will not serve thy gods1 nor bow down to
 the new one thou hast set up4 ,and if  
we are cast in the fire1 the ,god whom  
we serve will save us from death and    
bring us out of thy hands1 ,o king4     
,then was the king in a great rage1 and 
he sent word that a fierce fire should  
be made4 ,and the three ,jews were bound
 and thrown in-to the flames with all   
their clothes on4 ,and the fire was so  
hot and they went so near that sparks   
flew out and killed the men who took up 
,sha-drach1 ,me-shach and ,a-bed-ne-go4 
,these three ,jews fell down in the     
midst of the flames1 but soon rose to   
their feet1 and the ,lord would not let 
the flames burn them4  ,when the king   
saw this he rose in great haste and said
 to his chiefs1 ,did we not cast three  
men bound in the midst of the fire8     
,and they said1 ,true1 ,o king4  ,and   
the king said1 ,lo1 ,i see four men     
loose1 and they walk through the flames 
and are not hurt1 and the form of the   

fourth is like to the son of ,god4      
,then the king came to the door of the  
cage of fire and said to ,sha-drach1    
,me-shach and ,a-bed-ne-go1 ,ye who     
serve the most high ,god1 come forth1   
and come here4  ,illustration3          
,,dwell-,,ing ,,with ,,the ,,beasts4    
,and the three young ,jews came forth   
out of the midst of the fire1 and not a 
hair of their head was singed1 nor were 
their clothes harmed1 nor was the smell 
of fire on them4  ,and the king praised 
the ,god who had shown that he would    
save from death those who put their     
trust in him4 ,and the king made it a   
law that those who spoke ill of the ,god
 of ,sha-drach1 ,me-shach1 and          
,a-bed-ne-go should be put to death1 and
 their homes torn down1 for there was no
 ,god who could save as he could4  ,for 
a while the king served ,god and gave   
him praise for all he had done for him4 
,but men who thought to please the king1
 spoke of his great wealth and praised  
all that he did1 so that he grew vain   

and proud1 and thought more of him-self 
than he did of ,god4  ,and the king had 
a dream that made him shake with fear1  
and he sent for ,dan-i-el4 ,and         
,dan-i-el feared to tell the king the   
truth4 ,but the king told him to speak  
out4 ,then ,dan-i-el told him what would
 take place4  ,and it all came on king  
,neb-u-chad-nez-zar4 ,in the same hour  
his mind left him and he was not fit to 
reign4 ,so he was thrust out of doors1  
and did eat grass with the beasts of the
 fields4 ,and he lay on the ground1 and 
was wet with the dews1 and his hair grew
 so long that his flesh could not be    
seen1 and his nails were like bird's    
claws4  ,and at the end of the sev-en   
years ,neb-u-chad-nez-zar raised his    
eyes to ,god1 and his mind came back to 
him1 and he spoke in praise of the most 
,high4  ,and ,neb-u-chad-nez-zar was    
made king once more1 and grew strong and
 great1 and gave the praise to ,god2 the
 ,king of kings1 who could raise up     
those who were down1 and bring down     

those who were full of pride4  ,when    
,neb-u-chad-nez-zar died1 a new king was
 on the throne of ,bab-y-lon whose name 
was ,bel-shaz-zar4 ,and ,bel-shaz-zar   
made a great feast1 and much wine was   
drunk4 ,and the king sent for the rich  
cups which his fath-er had brought from 
the ,lord's house in ,je-ru-sa-lem4 ,and
 he and all at the feast drank from     
these cups1 which was a great sin4  ,in 
the midst of the feast there came forth 
a man's hand1 that wrote on the wall of 
the king's house4  ,and the king saw the
 hand1 and was in great fear1 and sent  
at once for all his wise men4           
,illustration3 ,,the ,,writ-,,ing ,,on  
,,the ,,wall4  ,but none of them could  
read what was on the wall1 and the king 
knew not what to do4 ,then ,dan-i-el was
 sent for1 and the king said he should  
have great wealth and high rank if he   
could read the words on the wall4       
,dan-i-el said1 ,keep thy gifts1 ,o     
king1 and give thy fees to some one     
else4 ,yet will ,i read the words on the

 wall and tell you what they mean4 ,for 
the ,god who gives thee life and takes  
care of thee1 thou hast no word of      
praise4 ,and so ,god sent this hand to  
write on the wall4      ,,me-,,ne1      
,,me-,,ne1 ,,te-,,kel1 ,u-,,phar-,,sin1 
which means that thy reign as king is at
 an end4  ,when ,dan-i-el had told what 
the hand wrote on the wall1 and what the
 words meant1 ,bel-shaz-zar bade his men
 clothe him in red1 and put a gold chain
 on his neck1 and make it known that he 
was to be third in rank from the king4  
,illustration3 ,,dan-,i-,,el ,,in ,,the 
,,lions' ,,den4  ,that same night       
,bel-shaz-zar was slain1 and ,da-ri-us  
took his place on the throne4  ,now     
,da-ri-us was pleased with ,dan-i-el1   
and thought him such a wise and good man
 that he made him chief of a large force
 of men who held high rank4 ,and this   
made these men hate ,dan-i-el1 and they 
tried to find out some ill that he had  
done that they might tell it to the     
king4 ,but they could find no fault in  

him4 ,then they thought of a way in     
which they could harm him4  ,they came  
to the king and asked him to make a law 
that if one should ask help of ,god or  
man for one month1 he should be cast    
in-to a den of li-ons4  ,they might ask 
help of the king1 but of no one else4   
,and the king told them to write down   
this law1 and he put his name to it4    
,when ,dan-i-el heard of the law which  
the king had sent out he went to his    
home and knelt down three times a day   
with his face to ,je-ru-sa-lem1 and gave
 thanks to ,god first as he had done all
 his life4  ,and the men who were on the
 watch to catch him in some crime1 drew 
near his house and heard him pray to his
 ,god4 ,so they went and told the king1 
and the king was wroth to think he had  
made such a law4 ,and he tried his best 
to save ,dan-i-el4 ,but the men held him
 to his word1 and said it would not do  
for him to change a law that had been   
made4  ,then the king bade them bring   
,dan-i-el and cast him in the den of    

wild beasts4 ,and he said to ,dan-i-el1 
,thy ,god1 whom thou dost serve so well1
 will be sure to save thee4  ,and a     
stone was brought and laid on the mouth 
of the den4  ,illustration3 ,,rock      
,,grave ,,of ,,da-,,ri-,,us4  ,then the 
king went to his own house1 but would   
take no food1 nor did he sleep all that 
night4 ,and at dawn he rose and went in 
haste to the den of wild beasts4 ,and as
 he drew near he cried out with a sad   
voice1 ,o ,dan-i-el1 canst thy ,god save
 thee from the li-ons8  ,and ,dan-i-el  
said1 ,o king1 my ,god hath shut the    
li-ons' mouths so that they have not    
hurt me1 since ,i had done no wrong in  
his sight nor in thine1 ,o king4  ,then 
the king was glad1 and bade his men take
 ,dan-i-el out of the den4 ,and when he 
was brought out1 there was not a scratch
 found on him1 for his trust was in     
,god1 and ,god took care of him4  ,then 
the king had those men who found fault  
with ,dan-i-el1 thrown in-to the        
den--they and their wives1 and their    

chil-dren--and the wild beasts were     
quick to eat them up4  ,illustration3   
,,cy-,,rus1 ,,king ,,of ,,per-,,si-,a4  
,then ,da-ri-us made a law that all men 
should serve the ,god of ,dan-i-el1 who 
was the one true ,god4  ,when ,da-ri-us 
died1 ,cy-rus was made king4            
,,chapter ,,xx4  ,,the ,,good ,,queen   
,,esther4   ,,far back in the past1 wise
 men had fore-told that the ,jews would 
be kept out of ,je-ru-sa-lem for        
three-score and ten years1 and at the   
end of that time a king1 ,cy-rus1 would 
let them go back to the land they came  
from4 ,and he did so4  ,not all the     
,jews went back to their own land1 but  
some of them made their homes in        
,per-si-a and else-where4 ,and ,king    
,a-has-u-e-rus was on the throne4  ,in  
the third year of his reign he made a   
great feast4  ,and he sent for ,vash-ti1
 the queen1 to throw off her veil and   
let his guests see how fair she was4    
,but ,vash-ti would not do it4  ,then   
the king was in a rage1 and said to his 

wise men1 ,what shall we do to ,queen   
,vash-ti to make her know that the      
king's will is her law8  ,and the wise  
men said1 ,vash-ti hath done wrong to   
the king and to all the lords of the    
land4  ,for when this is told1 wives    
will not do as their liege lords wish4  
,they will say1 ,the king sent word for 
,vash-ti1 the queen1 to be brought to   
him1 but she came not4 ,let the king    
make a law and put ,vash-ti from him and
 choose a new queen1 that all wives1    
great and small1 may take heed and do as
 they are told4  ,the king and all the  
lords thought these were wise words4    
,and the king made it a law that a man  
should rule in his own house4  ,then    
some of the king's men1 whose place it  
was to wait on him1 came to him and said
 it would be a good plan for him to have
 all the fair maids in the land brought 
to his house1 that he might choose one  
of them to be queen1 in the place of    
,vash-ti4  ,and the king did as they    
said4  ,now there was a ,jew in the     

king's house1 whose name was            
,mor-de-ca-i4 ,he was a poor man1 and   
was there to wait on the king4  ,and    
there was a maid named ,es-ther1 who was
 one of his kins-folk4 ,and she was fair
 of face1 and full of grace4  ,and when 
the word went forth from the king1      
scores and scores of fair young maids   
came to the king's house1 and ,es-ther  
came with them4 ,and one of the king's  
men had them all in his charge4  ,this  
man was so pleased with ,es-ther that he
 was more kind to her than he was to the
 rest1 and sent maids to wait on her1   
and put her and her maids in the best   
part of the house where the wo-men were4
 ,but ,es-ther had not let it be known  
that her folks were ,jews1 for          
,mor-de-ca-i had told her not to tell   
it4  ,illustration3 ,,es-,,ther ,,and   
,,the ,,king4  ,as soon as the king saw 
,es-ther he fell in love with her1 and  
set the crown on her head1 and made her 
queen in the place of ,vash-ti4  ,then  
the king made a great feast1 and gave   

gifts to the poor for the new queen's   
sake4 ,and she had not yet made it known
 that her folks were ,jews4  ,now two of
 the king's men1 who stood on guard at  
the doors of his house1 were wroth with 
the king and sought to kill him4  ,and  
their plot was known to ,mor-de-ca-i1   
who was a watch-man at the king's gate4 
,and he told it to ,es-ther1 and she    
told it to the king1 and both of the men
 were hung4 ,and what ,mor-de-ca-i had  
done to save the king's life was put    
down in a book4  ,and in this same book 
was set down all that took place in the 
king's reign4  ,now there was in the    
king's house a man whose name was       
,ha-man4 ,and the king gave him a high  
place1 and bade those of low rank bow   
down to ,ha-man4  ,but the ,jew at the  
gate would not bow when ,ha-man went in 
and out4 ,and the rest of the men who   
stood by told ,ha-man of it4  ,now      
,ha-man was a vain man1 and when he saw 
that ,mor-de-ca-i did not bow to him as 
the rest did he was full of wrath4 ,it  

had been made known to him that         
,mor-de-ca-i was a ,jew4  ,and so he    
told the king if he would make a law    
that all the ,jews should be put to     
death1 he would give him a large sum of 
gold and sil-ver4  ,the king heard what 
,ha-man said1 and then took his ring    
from his hand and gave it to ,ha-man1   
and told him to do with the ,jews as he 
thought best4 ,the king gave him his    
ring that he might use it as a seal4    
,and ,ha-man set the scribes to work1   
and they wrote just what he told them1  
in the king's name4 ,and when the wax   
was put at the end with the king's seal 
on it1 it was the same as if the whole  
had been writ by the king's own hand4   
,men were sent out in haste to make the 
law known through-out the land1 that all
 the ,jews in ,per-si-a were to be      
slain4 ,and when this was done ,ha-man  
and the king sat down to drink wine4    
,when ,mor-de-ca-i heard of the law that
 ,ha-man had made1 he rent his clothes  
and put on sack-cloth1 and went out and 

cried with a loud cry4 ,and he came and 
stood in front of the king's gate1      
though he could not pass through1 for it
 was the law that none should pass who  
wore sack-cloth4 ,and all through the   
land the ,jews were in deep grief1 so   
full of tears that they could eat no    
food2 and not a few of them put on      
sack-cloth to show the depth of their   
woe4  ,queen ,es-ther had not heard of  
the law1 but her maids came and told her
 of the state ,mor-de-ca-i was in4 ,and 
her grief was great1 and she sent food  
and clothes to him1 and bade the men    
take the sack-cloth from him4 ,but      
,mor-de-ca-i would take nought from     
their hands1 nor change his clothes4    
,then the queen sent one of her head    
men1 ,ha-tach1 to ask ,mor-de-ca-i what 
was the cause of his grief1 and why he  
had put on sack-cloth4  ,and            
,mor-de-ca-i told ,ha-tach of the law   
that had been made1 and what a large sum
 ,ha-man had said he would give to the  
king if he would kill off all the ,jews 

in the land4  ,and he told ,ha-tach to  
tell the queen1 and to show her what the
 scribes wrote1 and bid her see the king
 and ask him to save the ,jews4  ,and   
,ha-tach took the word to the queen4    
,es-ther bade him tell her kins-man that
 it was well known that those who went  
in to the king when they had not been   
sent for1 would be put to death4 ,but if
 the king held out his gold wand it was 
a sign that he would spare their lives4 
,the king has not sent for me for a     
month1 said she4 ,how then can ,i go to 
him8  ,mor-de-ca-i sent back word to the
 queen to think not that the king would 
spare her life if the ,jews were put to 
death4 ,and it might be that ,god had   
put her in the place she held that she  
might keep the ,jews at this time4      
,then ,es-ther sent word to him that he 
and all the ,jews in the king's court   
should fast and pray for her1 and not   
eat or drink for three days and three   
nights4  ,i and my maids will do the    
same1 said the queen1 and ,i will go in 

to the king in spite of the law2 and if 
,i die1 ,i die in a good cause4  ,so on 
the third day af-ter the queen put on   
her rich robes1 and went in and stood   
ve-ry near to the throne on which the   
king sat4  ,illustration3 ,,es-,,ther   
,,at ,,shus-,,han4  ,and when the king  
saw her1 ,god put it in-to his heart to 
be kind1 and he held out to her the gold
 wand that was in his hand4 ,and the    
queen drew near1 and touched the tip of 
the wand4  ,then the king said1 ,what   
wilt thou1 ,queen ,es-ther8 and what    
wouldst thou ask of me8 ,were it half of
 my realm ,i would give it to thee4     
,the queen said1 ,if it please the king1
 ,i would like him and ,ha-man to come  
this day to a feast ,i have made for    
them4  ,and the king bade ,ha-man make  
haste1 and they both went to the feast4 
,and while they drank the wine the king 
told the queen to make known her wish4  
,but she put him off and said she would 
tell him the next day1 if he and ,ha-man
 would come to the feast that she would 

spread for them4  ,and ,ha-man's heart  
was full of pride1 since the queen chose
 him and no one else to feast with her  
and the king4 ,and when he went out he  
felt that all men ought to bow down to  
him4 ,but ,mor-de-ca-i would not4 ,and  
,ha-man told all his friends how kind   
the king and queen were to him1 and what
 high rank he held1 and said that his   
life would be full of joy if it were not
 for the ,jew at the king's gate4       
,ha-man's wife told him to fix a rope to
 a tall tree1 and speak to the king the 
next day and have him hang the ,jew4    
,and ,ha-man made a slip-noose at the   
end of a rope1 and had the rope made    
fast to a tall tree4  ,now that night   
the king could not sleep4 ,and he sent  
for the book in which was put down all  
that took place in the realm1 and had it
 read to him4 ,and when he who read came
 to the part which told what            
,mor-de-ca-i had done to save the king's
 life1 the king said1 ,how has          
,mor-de-ca-i been paid for this deed8   

,and the man said he had had nought1 and
 still kept watch at the king's gate4   
,then the king heard a step and sent one
 of his men to see who it was4  ,now    
,ha-man had come to the king's house to 
ask him to hang ,mor-de-ca-i4 ,and the  
man came back and said that ,ha-man     
stood in the court4 ,and the king said1 
,let him come in4  ,so ,ha-man came in4 
,and the king said to him1 ,what shall  
be done to the man who has won the      
praise of the king8  ,and ,ha-man       
thought1 ,that means me1 of course1 and 
no one else4  ,and he said to the king1 
,let the robes be brought that the king 
wears1 and the horse he rides1 and the  
crown which is set on his head4 ,and let
 the robes and the crown be put on the  
man whom the king has in mind1 and bring
 him on horse-back through the street of
 the town1 and have men cry out1 ,thus  
shall it be done to the man who has won 
the praise of the king4  ,and the king  
said to ,ha-man1 ,make haste and take   
the robes and the horse as thou hast    

said1 and do thus and no less to the    
,jew at the king's gate4  ,but ,ha-man  
went home1 and was full of shame4 ,and  
he told his wife and his friends of his 
hard fate4 ,and while they yet spake the
 king's men came for him to go to the   
queen's feast4 ,and while they ate and  
drank1 the king bade the queen make     
known her wish4 ,ask what thou wilt2    
were it half my realm1 ,i would give it 
to thee4  ,then the queen said1 ,if it  
please thee1 ,o king1 take my life and  
spare the lives of all the ,jews4 ,for  
we have been sold and the truth has not 
been told of us1 and we are to be put to
 death4 ,the king said1 ,who is he1 and 
where is he who has dared to do this    
thing8  ,and the queen told him it was  
,ha-man4 ,and ,ha-man was in great fear 
as he stood face to face with the king  
and queen4  ,the king rose in great     
wrath and went out of doors1 and when he
 came in he saw ,ha-man at the feet of  
the queen1 where he went to beg her to  
save his life4  ,and when the king was  

shown the rope and the tree on which    
,ha-man meant to hang ,mor-de-ca-i he   
said1 ,hang him on it4 ,and they hung   
,ha-man1 and the king's wrath left him4 
,and on the same day the king gave      
,ha-man's house to ,es-ther1 and        
,mor-de-ca-i was brought in to the king1
 who had been told that he was a        
kins-man of the queen4 ,and the king    
gave him the ring which ,ha-man had     
worn1 and the queen put him at the head 
of the house in which ,ha-man had dwelt4
  ,but ,es-ther was still sad at heart  
be-cause of the law that had been made1 
that all the ,jews in the land should be
 put to death4 ,and she went in once    
more to the king--though he had not sent
 for her--and fell down at his feet in  
tears4 ,then the king held out the wand 
of gold1 and the queen rose1 and stood  
be-fore the king and asked him to change
 the law and save the lives of the      
,jews4  ,the king could not change the  
law1 but he told ,es-ther and           
,mor-de-ca-i to make a law that would   

please them and sign it with the king's 
seal4 ,so they made a law that the ,jews
 should kill all those who came to do   
them harm4 ,and when ,mor-de-ca-i came  
out from his talk with the king he had  
on a robe of blue and white1 such as the
 king wore1 and a gold crown on his     
head4  ,and all the ,jews were glad2 and
 when the day came that ,ha-man had set 
for the ,jews to be slain1 the ,jews    
went out and fought for their lives and 
put their foes to rout4 ,and grief gave 
place to joy1 and a feast was held for  
two days4 ,this feast was called the    
,feast of ,pu-rim1 which the ,jews keep 
to this day4  ,the ,jews who had gone to
 ,je-ru-sa-lem to build up its walls    
were still at work there4 ,but there    
were foes to watch1 and the poor ,jews  
found fault with the rich ones1 and     
there was strife in their midst from    
year to year4 ,but when ,ne-he-mi-ah    
went to their aid the ,lord gave him    
strength to set things straight1 and in 
a year the new wall was built and the   

gate put up4 ,then there was a great    
feast1 and all the ,jews gave praise and
 thanks to ,god4  ,but they went back to
 their sins1 and did not serve ,god as  
they ought4 ,and kings fought for       
,je-ru-sa-lem and took it from their    
hands and made the ,jews their slaves4  
,and at last the ,ro-mans came and took 
,je-ru-sa-lem and broke down its walls1 
and made the ,jews serve them4 ,and     
,he-rod1 who had led the ,ro-mans to    
war1 was made their king4 ,he was a     
fierce1 bad man1 who would let no one   
rule but him-self4 ,he put his own wife 
and two of his sons to death1 and did   
all that he could to make folks hate and
 fear him4  ,he tried to make the ,jews 
think that he was one of their race1 but
 he was not4 ,he thought it would please
 them if he built up their ,house of    
,god1 so he set men to work to tear down
 the old and to put up the new1 and they
 made use of much gold and sil-ver and  
fine white stones4  ,there was no ark to
 put in it1 for that had been lost1 but 

a large stone was put in the place where
 the ark should have been4  ,and it took
 ,he-rod more than nine years to build  
this ,house of ,god on the top of ,mount
 ,mo-ri-ah4 ,and the way up to it was by
 a long flight of steps4  ,this ends the
 ,old ,tes-ta-ment1 which was made up of
 all the books that were kept by all the
 scribes from the time the world was    
made4  ,illustration     ,the ,new      
,testament  ,illustration3 ,,christ ,,in
 ,,the ,,tem-,,ple4  ,illustration3     
,,the ,,babe ,,of ,,beth-,,le-,,hem4    
,history of the ,new ,testament4        
,,chapter ,i4  ,,the ,,birth ,,of       
,,christ4   ,,the time was near for     
,je-sus to come on the earth4 ,god had  
told ,ad-am and ,eve of one who would   
save them from their sins4 ,mo-ses1 and 
all the seers and wise men1 spoke of him
 who was to give men new hearts1 and    
help them to lead new lives4  ,in the   
days of ,he-rod1 king of ,ju-dah1 there 
was a priest named ,zach-a-ri-as4 ,his  
wife's name was ,e-liz-a-beth4 ,they    

were both old1 and had led pure lives1  
and sought to keep ,god's laws4 ,but    
they had no child4  ,one day when the   
priest was in the house of ,god by one  
of the al-tars1 an an-gel came and stood
 near him4 ,and when the priest saw him 
he shook with fear4  ,but the an-gel    
said3 ,fear not1 ,zach-a-ri-as1 for ,god
 will give thee and thy wife a son1 and 
thou shalt call his name ,john4  ,he    
shall be great in the sight of the      
,lord1 and shall not drink wine nor     
strong drink1 and shall turn the hearts 
of men to the ,lord their ,god4  ,then  
,zach-a-ri-as said to the an-gel1 ,but  
how shall ,i know that these things will
 be8  ,and the an-gel said to him1 ,i am
 the an-gel ,ga-bri-el1 who stands near 
to ,god1 and he has sent me to tell thee
 this good news4 ,and for thy lack of   
faith thou shalt be dumb1 and speak not 
a word till the day that these things   
come to pass4  ,now those who were in   
the courts of ,god's house thought it   
strange that ,zach-a-ri-as should stay  

so long at the al-tar where he burnt the
 in-cense4  ,and when he came out he    
could not speak to them1 but made them  
know by signs that he had seen a strange
 sight4  ,six months from this time ,god
 sent the an-gel ,ga-bri-el to the town 
of ,naz-a-reth1 to a young wo-man there 
whose name was ,ma-ry4 ,she was one of  
the heirs of ,king ,da-vid4  ,when      
,ma-ry saw the an-gel she was in great  
fear1 for she knew not why he had come4 
,and the an-gel said3 ,fear not1 ,ma-ry1
 for ,god has blessed thee4 ,thou shalt 
have a son1 and shalt call his name     
,,je-,,sus4 ,he shall be great1 and     
shall be called the ,son of ,god4 ,and  
,god will make him a king1 and to his   
reign there shall be no end4  ,ma-ry    
said3 ,how can this be8  ,illustration3 
,,the ,,an-,,nun-,,cia-,,tion4  ,the    
an-gel told her that what might seem    
hard for her was not hard for ,god1 who 
could do all things4 ,he had told       
,e-liz-a-beth that she should have a    
son1 and he had now sent word to ,ma-ry 

that she should have a son2 and what he 
had said he would do4  ,then ,ma-ry     
said1 ,let the ,lord's will be done4    
,and the an-gel left her4  ,ma-ry made  
haste and went to the land of ,ju-dah1  
and to the house of ,e-liz-a-beth and   
,zach-a-ri-as1 where she spent three    
months4 ,then she came back to her own  
home4 ,jo-seph was the name of ,ma-ry's 
hus-band2 and he was a ,jew1 of ,king   
,da-vid's line4 ,they were both poor1   
and ,jo-seph had to work hard at his    
trade4 ,he was a car-pen-ter4  ,god gave
 ,zach-a-ri-as and ,e-liz-a-beth the son
 that he said they should have4 ,and    
when the child was eight days old1 the  
friends and kins-folk came to see it and
 to give it a name4 ,most of them said1 
,call him ,zach-a-ri-as4  ,but the      
child's mo-ther said1 ,not so4 ,he shall
 be called ,john4  ,and they said1      
,there is none of thy kin-dred that is  
called by this name4  ,and they made    
signs to the fa-ther that he should let 
them know by what name the child should 

be called4  ,and the fa-ther sat down   
and wrote3 ,his name is ,john4 ,and they
 all thought this strange1 as he had not
 told them of the an-gel who spoke to   
him in the house of ,god4  ,as soon as  
,zach-a-ri-as wrote these words his     
speech came back to him1 and he gave    
praise and thanks to ,god4 ,and all the 
folks in that part of the land heard of 
these things1 and they said1 ,what sort 
of a child shall this be8 ,and the boy  
grew tall and strong1 and the ,lord     
blest him1 and he went out and dwelt in 
the woods and waste lands till he was a 
man1 and it was time for him to preach  
to the ,jews and to tell them of        
,je-sus4  ,now the king of ,rome was    
called a ,ce-sar1 in the speech of that 
land1 and the ,jews had to do just as he
 said1 for they were his slaves4 ,and he
 made a law that the names of all the   
,jews should be put down in a book1 that
 it might be known what tribe they came 
from1 and what they were worth4 ,then1  
too1 it would not be a hard task to     

count them when the ,ce-sar wished to   
know how large a force of them was in   
this land he had fought for and won4    
,and each ,jew was to go to that part of
 the land where his fore-fa-thers dwelt1
 and have his name put down in the book 
at that place4  ,so1 as ,jo-seph and his
 wife were of the house of ,da-vid1 they
 both set out for the town of           
,beth-le-hem1 where ,da-vid used to feed
 his sheep4 ,the way was long1 and when 
they came to the town they found a great
 crowd of folks there4 ,there was no    
room for ,jo-seph and ,ma-ry at the inn1
 and they knew no one at whose house    
they could stay4  ,as they went from    
place to place in search of a room1 they
 came to a shed in which was a great    
trough or man-ger full of hay1 where the
 poor folks who came to town fed the    
beasts on which they rode4  ,so ,jo-seph
 and ,ma-ry made their home in this shed
 while they had to wait to have their   
names put down4 ,and while they were    
there ,god gave to ,ma-ry the son that  

he said she should have4  ,and as she   
had no fine soft clothes to wrap the    
babe in1 she took bands of cloth and put
 round him1 and laid him on the straw in
 the man-ger4  ,in those days rich men  
kept large flocks of sheep and goats1   
and had men watch them at night for fear
 that wild beasts would seize and kill  
them4 ,the men who fed and took care of 
the sheep were called shep-herds4  ,one 
night1 as some shep-herds were on the   
hills where they kept watch of their    
flocks1 the an-gel of the ,lord came    
down to them4 ,and a bright light shone 
round them so that they were in great   
fear4  ,illustration3 ,,the             
,,na-,,tiv-,i-,,ty4  ,and the an-gel    
said to them1 ,fear not1 for ,i bring   
you good news which shall give joy to   
all the land4 ,for ,christ1 the ,lord1  
is born for you this day1 in the town of
 ,beth-le-hem1 and he will save you from
 your sins4 ,and this is the way ye     
shall know him3 ,ye shall find the babe 
wrapped in bands of cloth and laid in a 

man-ger4  ,when the an-gel had said     
this1 there came1 like a flash of light1
 a great host of an-gels who gave praise
 to ,god1 and sang1 ,glo-ry be to ,god  
on high1 and on earth1 peace and        
good-will to men4  ,when the an-gels had
 left them the shep-herds said1 ,let us 
go at once to ,beth-le-hem and see these
 things of which the an-gel has told us4
  ,and they came with haste1 and found  
,ma-ry and ,jo-seph1 and the babe that  
lay in the man-ger where the ox and ass 
used to feed4 ,and when they had seen   
the child1 they went out and told what  
the an-gel had said to them4 ,and those 
who heard were filled with awe1 for it  
was the first time that such a thing had
 been done in the world4 ,and the       
strange news spread fast4  ,ma-ry told  
no one of the talk she had had with the 
an-gel1 but thought much of these       
things1 and took the best of care of the
 new-born babe4 ,it did not seem as if  
it could be her own child4  ,when the   
babe was eight days old1 its fa-ther and

 mo-ther gave it the name of ,,je-,,sus1
 as the an-gel had bid them4 ,and they  
gave him to the ,lord2 that is1 they    
vowed to the priest that they would     
bring up the child to serve ,god and to 
lead a good life4 ,for though he was the
 son of ,god he was sent on earth to    
teach men what they ought to do4  ,now  
there was a man in ,je-ru-sa-lem whose  
name was ,sim-e-on4 ,he was a good man1 
and did what was right1 and for years he
 had been on the watch for one of whom  
the seers had told1 and who was to save 
men from their sins4  ,and it was made  
known to ,sim-e-on in a dream that he   
should not die till he had seen this    
,king of kings and ,lord of lords4      
,illustration3 ,,sim-,e-,,on ,,in ,,the 
,,tem-,,ple4  ,sim-e-on was a priest in 
the house of ,god1 and when ,jo-seph and
 ,ma-ry brought in the child ,je-sus1 he
 took it up in his arms and blest ,god1 
and said3 ,now1 ,lord1 thy words have   
come true1 and ,i can die in peace1 for 
,i have seen him who is to be the light 

of the world1 and to save men from their
 sins6  ,jo-seph and ,ma-ry knew not    
what to make of this strange speech4    
,and the priest blest them1 and gave the
 child back to his mo-ther1 and told her
 of some of the great things he would do
 when he grew up to be a man4  ,and     
there was one ,an-na1 who kept all the  
fasts1 and served ,god night and day4   
,she was four-score and four years old1 
and could fore-tell what was to take    
place1 and her fame was great4 ,and she 
came in-to the house of ,god while      
,sim-e-on yet spoke1 and gave thanks to 
the ,lord1 and told of him who was to   
come to save the ,jews1 and to give them
 back their rights4  ,then ,ma-ry and   
,jo-seph went back to their own home in 
,naz-a-reth4 ,and the child grew1 and   
was strong1 and wise1 and ,god blest him
 from day to day4     ,,chapter ,,ii4   
,,the ,,star ,,in ,,the ,,east4   ,,in  
these days ,god spoke to men by strange 
signs1 and wise ones were all the time  
on the watch for them4 ,they had read in

 their old books of a star that was to  
shine with a bright light1 and each     
night they would raise their eyes to the
 sky1 in hopes that they might see this 
sign that would bring hope and joy to   
the whole race of ,jews4 ,but years and 
years had gone by1 and the ,jews had no 
land of their own1 and were as slaves to
 the ,ce-sar of ,rome4 ,and ,he-rod1    
their king1 was most harsh to them1 for 
he had skill in the use of a sword1 but 
not in the use of kind words1 or good   
deeds4  ,illustration3 ,,the            
,,guid-,,ing ,,star4  ,one night as a   
wise man lay on the roof of his house1  
with his gaze fixed on the great broad  
sky1 he gave a start and cry of joy1 for
 there shone a new star of such size    
that all the rest of the stars grew dim 
and small4 ,and it was as if the sun had
 burst through a dark cloud1 and brought
 the dawn some hours too soon1 for the  
whole ,east was full of light from the  
long rays of this new star4  ,and the   
star seemed to move1 and its rays to    

point all one way4 ,and the wise men who
 saw it knew that the light had come for
 which they had looked and prayed so    
long1 and they set out at once with the 
star to guide them1 and they took rich  
gifts with them4 ,each night it shone in
 the sky1 and led them on and on till   
they came to ,je-ru-sa-lem4 ,and they   
said to those they met there1 ,where is 
he that is born to be ,king of the      
,jews8 for we have seen his star in the 
east1 and have come to kneel down at his
 feet4  ,when ,he-rod heard of these    
things1 and that they spoke of ,je-sus  
as ,king1 he was in great fear lest he  
should lose his throne4 ,so he sent for 
his chief priests and scribes that they 
might tell him where ,christ should be  
born4 ,and they read from their old     
books that it had been fore-told that he
 should be born in ,beth-le-hem4  ,then 
,he-rod sent for the wise men1 and told 
them to go to ,beth-le-hem1 and search  
for the young child4 ,and when ye find  
him1 said he1 bring me back word that ,i

 too may fall down at his feet and give 
him praise4  ,but this he did not mean  
to do1 for his plan was to put the child
 to death just as soon as he could find 
out where it was4  ,illustration3 ,,the 
,,shep-,,herds ,,of ,,beth-,,le-,,hem4  
,when the king had ceased to speak1 the 
wise men from the east left             
,je-ru-sa-lem1 and went on their way to 
,beth-le-hem4 ,and the star led them on 
and on1 and was like the face of a      
friend4 ,and a small1 still voice seemed
 to say to them3--,come6--,come6--,come6
 ,and it drew them so that they would   
have gone to the ends of the earth4     
,when troops are on the march1 and      
through their ranks goes the cry of     
,halt6 then each foot must stand still1 
and not a man moves from his place4     
,and when the wise men came to          
,beth-le-hem1 lo1 the star that had led 
them stood still in the sky1 right o'er 
the place where the young child was4    
,and when they went in-to the house they
 saw the young child1 with ,ma-ry1 his  

mo-ther1 and they fell on their knees   
and bowed down to him as if he had been 
a king4 ,and they brought him gifts of  
great worth1 and gold and myrrh and rich
 gums and spice that can be found on-ly 
in those lands in the far ,east4  ,and  
,god spoke to them in a dream1 and told 
them not to go back to ,he-rod1 so they 
went home not by the same road they had 
come4  ,when ,he-rod found that the wise
 men had not done as he bade them1 he   
was in a great rage1 and sent men to    
,beth-le-hem1 and slew all the chil-dren
 there who were two years old or less1  
for then he was sure that ,je-sus would 
be slain4  ,illustration3 ,,the ,,wise  
,,men ,,bring-,,ing ,,pres-,,ents ,,to  
,,je-,,sus4  ,but ere ,he-rod's men     
came1 ,god spoke to ,jo-seph in a dream1
 and said1 ,rise1 and take thy wife and 
thy son1 and flee in-to ,e-gypt1 and    
stay there till ,i bring thee word2 for 
,he-rod will seek the young child to    
kill him4  ,so ,jo-seph did as the ,lord
 told him1 and took his wife and child  

out of ,beth-le-hem by night1 and went  
to dwell in the ,land of ,e-gypt4       
,illustration3 ,,the ,,flight ,,in-,,to 
,e-,,gypt4  ,but when ,he-rod was dead1 
,god spoke to ,jo-seph in a dream1 and  
told him to take his wife and son and go
 back to the land of ,is-ra-el1 for the 
man was dead who sought to kill the     
young child4 ,and ,jo-seph did as the   
an-gel told him1 and he and his wife and
 child came and dwelt in ,naz-a-reth4   
,,chapter ,,iii4  ,,the ,,boyhood ,,of  
,,jesus4   ,,it was in the first month  
of the year that ,god brought the ,jews 
out of ,e-gypt and led them through the 
,red ,sea4  ,and he made it a law that  
in the first month of each year they    
should all meet at one place1 and bring 
the young lambs and calves and the first
 fruits of the field and give thanks to 
,god in the way they had been taught4   
,and this they were to do all the days  
of their life4 ,and this feast1 which   
was to last not quite two months1 was   
known as the ,feast of the ,weeks4      

,there were days they were to fast1 and 
days they were to feast1 and they were  
to call to mind that they were once     
slaves1 and that ,god had set them free1
 and with glad hearts praise and bless  
his great name4  ,the place where the   
,jews now met was at ,je-ru-sa-lem1 and 
,je-sus was twelve years old when he    
went up for the first time1 with        
,jo-seph and ,ma-ry1 to keep the ,feast 
of the ,weeks4  ,there was a great crowd
 there1 and friends to meet and talk    
with1 and it must have been a hard task 
to keep track of the young folks1 who   
found so much to see and to hear that   
was new and strange4  ,when the days of 
the feast were at an end1 ,jo-seph and  
,ma-ry set out for their home in        
,naz-a-reth4  ,they had gone out with a 
band of friends and folks from the same 
town1 and were to come back in the same 
way4 ,it was not safe for them to go by 
them-selves1 for there were waste lands 
to cross where bands of thieves lay in  
wait for a chance to rob and to kill    

those who came their way4               
,illustration3 ,,naz-,a-,,reth4  ,some  
rode on mules1 some on horse-back1 and  
some had to walk all the way4 ,je-sus   
was not with ,jo-seph and ,ma-ry1 but   
they thought he must be with some of the
 friends or kins-folk4 ,but when at the 
end of a day's ride he came not near    
them1 they sought for him in the groups 
of friends and kins-folk1 where there   
were lads of his own age4               
,illustration3 ,,je-,,sus ,,with ,,the  
,,doc-,,tors ,,in ,,the ,,tem-,,ple4    
,and when they found him not1 they went 
back to ,je-ru-sa-lem1 and sought for   
him with hearts full of grief1 for they 
knew not what harm might have come to   
him4  ,for three days they went from    
house to house1 and through the lanes   
and streets1 but could see no signs of  
the boy they had lost4  ,at the end of  
that time they went in-to the house of  
,god1 it may have been to pray that     
their child might be found1 and there a 
strange sight met their gaze4  ,je-sus  

sat in the midst of the wise men1 whose 
place it was to teach and to preach to  
those who came up to the feasts1 and the
 old men bent their heads to hear what  
the young lad had to say4 ,for it was   
the first time they had met with one so 
young in years who was so wise in       
speech1 and they felt in their hearts   
that he must have been taught of ,god4  
,when ,jo-seph and ,ma-ry saw ,je-sus   
they were struck dumb1 and could do     
naught but stare1 as if it was a scene  
in a dream4 ,then ,ma-ry said1 ,my son1 
why didst thou vex us thus8 we have     
sought for thee with sad hearts4        
,je-sus said1 ,why did ye look for me8  
,do ye not know that ,i must do the work
 that my fa-ther has set me to do8      
,jo-seph and ,ma-ry did not know what he
 meant by these words1 or that ,god had 
sent ,je-sus on earth to teach men how  
to read the word of ,god a-right1 and   
how to save their souls from death4     
,je-sus went back to ,naz-a-reth with   
,jo-seph and ,ma-ry1 and was a good son 

to them4 ,and he grew wise and tall1 and
 was blest of ,god1 and won the hearts  
of all who were near him1 for they saw  
in him much to love4  ,it was not known 
that he was the ,son of ,god1 and he    
made friends by his own sweet ways1 for 
he was a poor boy4  ,naught was heard or
 known of ,je-sus for some years1 and we
 are led to think that he was taught how
 to use the axe1 and saw1 and plane1 and
 to work at the same trade his fa-ther  
did4 ,this gave him a chance to see how 
folks lived1 and to use his eyes and    
ears as he went from house to house1 so 
that when he went forth to teach he     
could tell them of their sins1 and show 
them how vile they were4  ,and this part
 of the life of ,je-sus--of which not a 
word is told in the ,new                
,test-a-ment--is to teach us to stay in 
the place where ,god has put us1 and to 
do our work there in the best way we    
know how4  ,je-sus was at school then1  
just as boys and girls in these days go 
to school1 and strive to grow wise and  

to fit them-selves for the work they are
 to do in the world4 ,and though he was 
to be a king he did not put on airs1 or 
sit and fold his hands and bid those    
that were near wait on him and be at his
 beck and call4 ,no6 he was born and    
brought up with poor folks1 to teach us 
that ,je-sus is more at home with the   
poor than he is with the rich2 and to be
 ,christ-like we must seek to please    
,god1 to do his will1 to put down pride1
 and keep sin out of our hearts4        
,,chapter ,,iv4  ,,jesus ,,and ,,john   
,,the ,,baptist4   ,,you have been told 
that ,john went out in-to the woods and 
waste lands when quite a young man4 ,he 
fed on lo-custs and wild hon-ey1 and his
 clothes were made of the skin of the   
cam-el1 with the long rough hair on the 
out-side4  ,the time had now come for   
him to go out in the world to tell of   
,je-sus1 and to bid men give up their   
sins and walk in the right path4  ,and  
he went to a place near the ,jor-dan and
 crowds came there to hear him4 ,and he 

told them that he had been sent to warn 
them to flee from the wrath to come4 ,he
 said they must not think they would be 
saved be-cause they were sons or heirs  
of good men who had served ,god and died
 in the faith4 ,he told them that each  
one was to be like a tree1 and to stand 
in his place and bring forth fruit1 and 
serve ,god in the best way that he      
could4 ,and each tree1 said ,john1 which
 brings not forth good fruit is cut down
 and cast in-to the fire4 ,he told them 
they must be good and kind to each      
oth-er1 and must give food and clothes  
to those who were in need of such       
things4 ,they must not tell lies1 nor   
steal1 nor be vain and proud1 but they  
must show by the way they lived that    
they loved ,god and were glad to do his 
will4  ,illustration3 ,,john ,,the      
,,bap-,,tist4  ,and when those who heard
 him felt a great hate for sin1 and a   
strong wish to lead good lives1 and to  
be saved from the wrath of ,god1 they   
spoke to ,john and he led them down to  

the ,jor-dan and they were bap-tiz-ed in
 the stream4  ,now wa-ter will wash the 
stains from our clothes1 and cleanse our
 skin1 but it will not wash our sins    
away4 ,to do this we must have ,christ  
in our hearts4 ,some of those who heard 
,john talk thought that he might be the 
,christ who was to come1 and of whom the
 proph-ets had fore-told since the days 
of ,mos-es4 ,some were quite sure of it2
 but oth-ers shook their heads1 for they
 had made up their minds that he who was
 to come and rule o-ver them would be   
dressed like a king1 and not in such    
plain clothes as ,john wore4  ,john     
heard their words1 or guessed their     
thoughts1 and he said to these ,jews1 ,i
 in-deed bap-tize you with wa-ter1 but  
he who is to come af-fer me1 and who is 
great-er than ,i1 will bap-tize you with
 fire4  ,that meant that ,je-sus would  
be in their hearts like a fire1 to burn 
up all that was bad1 as they burnt the  
chaff that was blown loose from the     
wheat4  ,then ,je-sus came from his home

 in ,naz-a-reth to have ,john bap-tize  
him in ,jor-dan's stream4 ,but ,john    
would not4 ,he said there was more need 
that ,je-sus should bap-tize him4 ,he   
felt that there was need to have his own
 sins washed a-way1 but ,je-sus had no  
sins4 ,so why dost thou come to me8 said
 ,john4  ,je-sus had come on the earth  
as a man to do ,god's will1 and to teach
 man-kind how to walk in the right path 
and keep their hearts free from sin4    
,and he told ,john1 that all these      
things would be made plain to him some  
day1 and it was right that he should    
bap-tize him4  ,so ,john went with      
,je-sus in-to the wa-ter1 and he        
bap-tized ,je-sus in the wa-ter4 ,and   
,je-sus was pray-ing to his ,fa-ther in 
heav-en4  ,and as ,je-sus went up out of
 the wa-ter1 lo1 there came a great     
light in the sky1 that took the form of 
a dove1 and it came down and seemed to  
rest on him4 ,and ,god's voice spoke out
 of the sky1 and said3 ,this is my dear 
,son1 with whom ,i am well pleased4     

,then ,je-sus went out in-to the waste  
lands1 and was there with no one near   
him for more than a month4 ,in all that 
time he ate no food1 but spent the hours
 in talks with ,god4 ,at last he felt   
weak and faint1 and left the waste lands
 to go in search of some-thing to eat4  
,now there is a fiend in this world1 as 
we all know1 who has a black heart1 and 
can take on all sorts of shapes4 ,he    
came to ,eve in the form of a snake1 and
 to ,sam-son with a fair face4 ,he      
tempts those to do wrong who have set   
out to do right1 and we have to be on   
our guard all the time1 and to watch and
 pray that we may be kept safe from him4
  ,when this fiend saw ,je-sus on his   
way to give new hearts to men1 and to   
make them good and pure1 he thought he  
would try and put a stop to such work4  
,so he went out to tempt ,je-sus1 with  
the same smooth voice in which he spoke 
to ,eve4  ,and he came to him and said1 
,if thou be the ,son of ,god change     
those stones in-to bread1 so that thou  

canst eat now that thou hast need of    
food4  ,je-sus knew why ,sa-tan had     
come1 and he told him that men should   
take more pains to do ,god's will than  
to get bread to eat4 ,next ,sa-tan took 
,je-sus to ,je-ru-sa-lem1 and up to a   
high place where the house of ,god was  
built4 ,and he said to him1 ,if thou be 
the ,son of ,god1 throw thy-self down2  
for it is said1 he shall give his       
an-gels charge to keep thee in all thy  
ways4 ,they shall bear thee up in their 
hands lest thou dash a-gainst a stone4  
,illustration3 ,,the ,,tempt-,a-,,tion4 
,je-sus told him that it was not right  
to go where it was not safe1 just to try
 if ,god would keep us from harm4  ,then
 ,sa-tan took ,je-sus up on a high      
mount1 from whence could be seen all the
 large towns in the land1 and all their 
great wealth4 ,and he said to him1 ,all 
these will ,i give thee for thine own if
 thou wilt kneel down and wor-ship me4  
,je-sus said to him1 ,go from me1       
,sa-tan1 for it is set down in ,god's   

book1 ,thou shalt wor-ship the ,lord thy
 ,god1 and him a-lone shalt thou serve4 
,when ,sa-tan found that ,je-sus paid no
 heed to his words1 he left him1 and    
an-gels came to wait on the ,son of     
,god4  ,in a short time ,je-sus went    
back to the ,jor-dan where ,john was1   
and when ,john saw him1 he said1        
,be-hold the ,lamb of ,god6  ,he spoke  
of ,je-sus as the ,lamb of ,god1 for he 
was to be laid on the cross for the sins
 of men1 as the lamb was in those days  
laid on the al-tar4  ,then ,je-sus set  
out to preach and to turn men from their
 sins4 ,and he went to ,gal-i-lee4 ,and 
one day as he walked by the sea-shore he
 saw two men cast their net in-to the   
sea4 ,their names were ,an-drew and     
,pe-ter4 ,je-sus said to them1 ,come    
with me4 ,and they left their nets at   
once1 that they might be near him and   
learn of him4  ,the next day he saw two 
men whose names were ,james and ,john in
 a boat with their fa-ther4 ,their nets 
had broke1 and they were in haste to    

mend them so that they could take in a  
large haul of fish4 ,but ,je-sus spoke  
to ,james and ,john1 and they left the  
boat at once1 and went with him that he 
might teach them4  ,the next day ,je-sus
 spoke to ,phil-ip and ,na-than-i-el1   
and they left their homes and went with 
him4  ,illustration3 ,,the ,,mar-,,riage
 ,,in ,,ca-,,na4  ,when ,je-sus came to 
the town of ,ca-na he found quite a     
crowd there1 for a wed-ding was to take 
place1 and he and his mo-ther had been  
bid to the feast4 ,there was food to eat
 and wine to drink1 but ere the feast   
was at an end the wine was all gone4    
,and when ,ma-ry knew of it she said to 
,je-sus1 ,they have no wine4 ,and she   
bade those who were there to serve the  
guests to do just as ,je-sus told them4 
,now there were in the house six large  
stone jars such as the ,jews kept to    
hold wa-ter4 ,je-sus said to the men1   
,fill the jars with wa-ter4 ,and they   
filled them to the brim4 ,and he said to
 them1 ,take some out now and bear it to

 the chief guest of the feast4 ,and they
 did so2 and the wa-ter was changed     
in-to wine4  ,the chief guest did not   
know what ,je-sus had done2 but when he 
had drunk some of the wine he sent for  
the bride-groom and said to him1 ,as a  
rule1 those who give a feast set out the
 good wine first1 and when the guests   
have had all they care for they bring   
out that which is worse4 ,but thou hast 
kept the good wine till now4  ,this was 
the first great sign ,je-sus gave of the
 pow-er he had from on high4 ,and it was
 proof to those whose hearts were with  
him that he was the true ,son of ,god4  
,the time of the ,feast of ,weeks was at
 hand1 and ,je-sus went up to           
,je-ru-sa-lem to keep it4 ,and in one of
 the courts were men who had brought    
their wares to the house of ,god to sell
 them to the ,jews when they came up to 
the feast4 ,when ,je-sus came to the    
place where these men were1 the sight   
did not please him4 ,and ,je-sus made a 
scourge1 or whip of small cords1 and    

drove them all out1 with their flocks   
and their herds4 ,and he poured their   
gold and sil-ver on the ground1 and said
 to those who sold doves1 ,take them    
a-way2 make not the house of ,god a     
place to buy and sell in4               
,illustration3 ,,driv-,,ing ,,the       
,,sell-,,ers ,,from ,,the ,,tem-,,ple4  
,and while he was at the feast crowds   
were drawn to him1 and had faith in him 
when they saw what won-ders he could do4
 ,nic-o-de-mus1 one of the chief men of 
the ,jews1 came to ,je-sus in the night1
 and said to him1 ,we know that ,god has
 sent thee to teach us what is right1   
for no man could do these won-ders if   
,god were not with him4  ,je-sus told   
him that he must have a new heart or he 
could not be a child of ,god4  ,he-rod1 
who slew the babes of ,beth-le-hem1 was 
dead1 but his son ,he-rod ruled in that 
part of ,gal-i-lee1 and he was a bad    
man4 ,he took his broth-er's wife from  
him and made her his own wife4 ,her name
 was ,he-ro-di-as4 ,when ,john the      

,bap-tist told ,he-rod this was not     
right1 he would have put him to death if
 he had dared4 ,but he had heard him    
preach1 and knew that he was a good man4
 ,yet to please ,he-ro-di-as ,he-rod had
 seized ,john1 and bound him1 and shut  
him up in jail4  ,while ,john was in    
jail1 ,he-rod1 on his birth-day1 made a 
great feast for the lords and chief men 
of ,gal-i-lee4 ,and a young girl1 whose 
name was ,sa-lo-me1 came and danced in  
their midst4 ,he-rod was so much pleased
 with her that he said1 ,ask of me what 
thou wilt1 and thou shalt have it1      
though it were half of my realm4  ,and  
,sa-lo-me went to ,he-ro-di-as--who was 
her mo-ther--and said1 ,what shall ,i   
ask8  ,and ,he-ro-di-as said to her1    
,ask the king to cut off the head of    
,john the ,bap-tist1 and bring it to    
thee here in a large dish4  ,sa-lo-me   
came back in haste to the king1 and     
said1 ,give me1 in a large dish1 the    
head of ,john the ,bap-tist4  ,he-rod   
was grieved1 but as he had sworn to give

 her what she asked for1 and those who  
sat near had heard him1 he felt bound to
 keep his word4 ,so he sent one of his  
train-band1 who cut off ,john's head in 
the jail1 and brought it in a large dish
 to ,sa-lo-me1 and she gave it to her   
mo-ther4  ,when the friends of ,john    
heard of it they came up and took his   
dead form and laid it in a tomb1 and    
went and told ,je-sus4     ,,chapter ,v4
  ,,the ,,woman ,,at ,,the              
,,well--,,jesus ,,by ,,the ,,sea4       
,,one day ,je-sus and his friends came  
to the town of ,sy-char1 near which was 
a well to which all the folks came to   
draw wa-ter4 ,it was known as ,ja-cob's 
,well4 ,the sun was hot1 and ,je-sus1   
tired with his long walk1 sat down by   
this well to rest1 while his friends    
went to the town to buy food4  ,a wo-man
 came from the town to draw wa-ter4 ,she
 led a life of sin1 and had no love for 
,god in her heart4 ,and ,je-sus knew    
this1 for he sees all our hearts1 and   
knows all our thoughts1 and all that we 

have done4  ,and he spoke to the wo-man1
 and told her of the things she had done
 that did not please ,god4 ,and she     
thought he was a seer1 to whom ,god told
 things that were not known to most     
folks4 ,and she said to ,je-sus1 ,i know
 that ,christ is to come in-to the      
world1 and when he comes he will tell us
 all things4 ,je-sus said to her1 ,i    
that speak to thee am he4               
,illustration3 ,,the ,,wo-,,man ,,at    
,,the ,,well4  ,then the wo-man left her
 jar1 and made haste back to the town1  
and said to her friends there1 ,come and
 see a man who told me all the things   
that ever ,i did4 ,is not this the      
,christ8  ,and they went out and saw    
,je-sus1 and bade him come in-to the    
town4 ,and he went with them1 and was   
there for three days4 ,and they gave ear
 to the things he taught them4 ,and they
 said to the wo-man1 ,now we have faith 
in him1 not be-cause of the things thou 
didst tell us1 but be-cause we have     
heard him our-selves1 and know that he  

is the ,christ whom ,god has sent down  
to us4  ,from there he went once more to
 the town of ,ca-na4 ,and a rich man    
came from the town where he dwelt to ask
 ,je-sus to come and heal his son1 who  
was sick4 ,and the rich man said to him1
 ,come as quick as you can1 lest my     
child should die4  ,je-sus said to him1 
,go thy way1 thy son is made well4  ,the
 rich man knew that ,je-sus would not   
say what was not true1 and with a glad  
heart went back to his home4 ,and as he 
drew near the house his slaves ran out  
to meet him1 and said to him1 ,thy son  
is well4  ,the rich man bade them tell  
him what time the change took place1 and
 they told the hour that the fe-ver left
 the lad4 ,and it was the same hour that
 ,je-sus had said to the rich man1 ,thy 
son is well4 ,and he and all those in   
his house felt in their hearts that     
,je-sus was the son of ,god4  ,the ,jews
 did not yet know how to print1 and they
 had no books such as we have4 ,they    
wrote with pen and ink on rolls of      

parch-ment1 made from the skin of sheep 
and goats4  ,these rolls were kept in   
the house of ,god1 in a box or chest    
called an ark1 and were brought out and 
read to those who came to the church on 
the ,lord's day4 ,the chief rolls1 all  
the books of the ,old ,tes-ta-ment1 were
 kept at ,je-ru-sa-lem1 but as all the  
,jews could not get there more than once
 a year1 they had made rolls for their  
own use in each house of ,god4          
,illustration3 ,,cyl-,,in-,,der         
,,hold-,,ing ,,the ,,pent-,a-,,teuch4   
,je-sus came to ,naz-a-reth where he had
 been brought up1 and went in-to the    
church on the ,lord's day and stood up  
to read4 ,and he read from one of the   
old books where it was fore-told that   
one should come to bring good news to   
the poor1 to cheer the sad1 to give     
sight to the blind1 and to heal the     
sick4 ,then he closed the roll and sat  
down4 ,and the eyes of all in the church
 were on him4 ,he said to them that all 
these words had come true1 and that he  

was the ,son of ,god1 of whom the       
proph-et wrote4 ,and they said1 ,is not 
this ,jo-seph's son8 ,how then can he   
claim to be the ,son of ,god8 ,and they 
were wroth with him1 and led him out to 
a steep hill on which their town was    
built1 that they might cast him down and
 kill him4 ,but ,je-sus got a-way from  
them1 and they could do him no harm4    
,illustration3 ,,two ,,pa-,,ges of ,,the
 ,,sam-,,ar-,i-,,tan ,,pent-,a-,,teuch4 
,he went on to ,ca-per-na-um1 and great 
crowds came there to hear him1 and      
pushed so that there was scarce room for
 him to stand on the sea-shore4 ,and he 
saw two boats close at hand1 out of     
which the men had gone to mend their    
nets4 ,and he went in one of the boats1 
which was ,pe-ter's and told him to push
 it out from the land4 ,and he sat down1
 and taught the crowd out of the boat4  
,when he left off1 he said to ,pe-ter   
and ,an-drew1 ,sail out where the sea is
 deep1 and let down your nets to catch  
fish4  ,pe-ter said1 ,mas-ter1 we have  

been hard at work all the night1 and not
 a fish have we caught2 but1 since thou 
dost bid me1 ,i will let down the net4  
,when they had done this1 they caught   
such a large haul of fish that the net  
broke4 ,then they called to their       
friends in the boat by the shore1 and   
bade them come to their aid4 ,and they  
came1 and there was more fish than the  
two boats could hold4  ,when ,pe-ter saw
 this he fell down at the feet of       
,je-sus1 and said1 ,i fear thee1 for ,i 
am full of sin1 ,o ,lord4 ,and those    
with him were spell-bound at sight of   
the fish they had caught4  ,je-sus did  
this great won-der so that these men    
might see it and know that he was the   
,son of ,god2 for they were to aid him  
in his work1 and to go with him from    
place to place4  ,je-sus said to        
,pe-ter1 ,fear not2 from this time forth
 thou shalt catch men and not fish4 ,he 
meant by this that ,pe-ter was to       
preach1 and to save men from sin1 and   
from the nets that ,sa-tan spreads4 ,and

 he said to them all1 ,come with me4    
,and they left their boats and their    
nets1 and all that they had1 and were   
with ,je-sus till the end of his life on
 earth4  ,illustration3 ,,the           
,,won-,,der-,,ful ,,draught ,,of        
,,fish-,,es4  ,on the ,day of ,rest1    
,je-sus went in-to the church and taught
 the folks there4 ,and in their midst   
was a man who was not in his right mind1
 and it was as if he were torn by       
fiends1 and he cried out to ,je-sus1    
,let us a-lone4 ,what have we to do with
 thee1 thou ,je-sus of ,naz-a-reth8 ,art
 thou come to kill us8 ,i know thee1    
that thou art the ,son of ,god4 ,je-sus 
said to the fiends that were in the man1
 ,be still1 and come out of him4 ,then  
the fiends threw the man down1 and cried
 with a loud voice1 and came out of him4
 ,and all those in the church were      
struck with awe1 and they said a-mong   
them-selves1 ,what does this mean8 for  
he speaks to the fiends so that they are
 forced to do his will6  ,when they came

 out of the church ,je-sus went to the  
house where ,pe-ter and ,an-drew dwelt4 
,and ,james and ,john were there4 ,and  
,pe-ter's wife's mo-ther was sick of a  
fe-ver1 and they told ,je-sus of it and 
begged that he would heal her4  ,je-sus 
took her by the hand1 and bade the      
fe-ver come out of her4 ,and she was    
made well at once1 and rose from her    
bed1 and took charge of her house4  ,at 
the close of the day1 when the sun had  
set1 great crowds came to the house     
where ,je-sus was1 and brought those who
 were sick1 and those who were not in   
their right minds1 that he might cure   
them4 ,and he made the sick well1 and   
drove out the fiends1 and would not let 
them speak4  ,the next day ,je-sus rose 
ere it was light and went out to a lone 
place to pray to ,god4  ,illustration3  
,,pe-,,ter',s ,,wife',s ,,mo-,,ther4    
,for though he was the ,son of ,god1 he 
had come to the earth in the form of a  
man1 and had all the wants that man has4
 ,he had need of food and drink1 and    

felt pain and grief just as we do4 ,he  
had need of man's help in his work2 and 
had need of ,god's help all the time4   
,and he knelt to ,god1 just as he wants 
us to do1 and asked ,god to be near him 
and to give him more strength1 and to   
help him to do his will4  ,when ,je-sus 
had gone1 crowds came up to the house to
 seek him4 ,and ,pe-ter1 and the three  
that were with him1 went out to look for
 ,je-sus4 ,and when they found him they 
told him of the great crowd that sought 
him4  ,je-sus said1 ,let us go to the   
next towns1 that ,i may tell the good   
news there2 for ,i was not sent to stay 
in one place4  ,and he taught all       
through ,gal-i-lee1 and his fame spread1
 and great crowds went to hear him4     
,,chapter ,,vi4  ,,jesus ,,heals ,,the  
,,sick1 ,,and ,,does ,,good ,,works ,,on
 ,,the ,,day ,,of ,,rest4   ,a man came 
to ,je-sus and knelt down at his feet   
and said1 ,lord1 if thou wilt thou canst
 make me clean4 ,this man was a lep-er4 
,he had white sores on his skin1 and had

 to live by him-self or with those as   
bad off as him-self1 and there was no   
cure for him but death4 ,it was not safe
 to breathe the air near a lep-er1 and  
so he was sent at once out of the town1 
as soon as his case was known4  ,this   
lep-er must have heard of ,je-sus and   
the great works he had done1 and the    
hope that had died out must have sprung 
up in his heart once more4 ,if he could 
heal the sick1 and make the lame walk1  
why could he not cure him1 so that he   
would be fit to live with those he      
loved8 ,at least he could ask2 and oh6  
how great must have been his faith when 
he fell down at the feet of ,je-sus and 
cried out1 ,lord1 if thou wilt thou     
canst make me clean4  ,illustration3    
,,cur-,,ing ,,the ,,man ,,lame ,,with   
,,pal-,,sy4  ,je-sus put out his hand   
and touched the man1 and said1 ,i will3 
be thou clean4  ,and at once the sores  
left the man and his skin was white and 
smooth4 ,then ,je-sus sent him off1 and 
bade him tell no man who had made him   

well1 but to go to the priest and do as 
,mo-ses bid all those do who had been   
lep-ers and were cured4  ,but the man   
was so full of joy that he could not    
keep it to him-self1 and he went out and
 told what ,je-sus had done for him4    
,now there were some ,jews who were     
known as ,scribes and ,phar-i-sees4     
,they made out that no one else was     
quite as good as they were4 ,they knew  
all the laws of ,mo-ses by heart1 and   
they were strict to see that no ,jews   
broke those laws4 ,a ,scribe is one who 
writes4  ,these ,scribes and            
,phar-i-sees were thought to be wise and
 good men1 for they would fast and pray 
for a long while at a time1 and look as 
though they thought them-selves too pure
 for earth4  ,but their hearts were bad 
and full of sin1 and when ,je-sus told  
them they must give up their sins and   
lead the right kind of lives1 they were 
wroth with him1 and tried to make all   
the rest of the ,jews hate him as much  
as they did4  ,je-sus went down to      

,ca-per-na-um1 and when it was known    
that he was in the town great crowds    
came to the house where he was to hear  
him preach4  ,now there was a man who   
had been in bed for a long time1 and    
could not move hand or foot4 ,he had    
heard of the fame of ,je-sus1 and it was
 the wish of his heart to get near him  
that he might heal him with a touch4    
,but ,je-sus was a long way off1 and the
 poor sick man could not walk one step4 
,but he had kind friends1 and they      
thought of a plan by which he could be  
brought near to ,je-sus1 that he might  
at least hear him preach4  ,so they took
 him on his bed and bore him to the     
town2 but when they came to the house   
where ,je-sus was1 the crowd was so     
great that there was no chance to get   
near him4 ,what were they to do8  ,now  
the house was low and had a flat roof1  
with a wall round it1 so that those who 
dwelt there could walk or sleep on it   
and have no fear that they would fall   
off4 ,all the rooms down stairs led out 

in-to a court1 which had a roof that    
could be slid off when it did not rain1 
or there was need of fresh air4  ,so the
 friends of the lame man drew the bed up
 on the house-top with him in it1 and   
brought him to the space in the roof1   
through which they could see ,je-sus and
 the crowds round him4 ,and they let the
 man down on his bed in the midst of the
 crowd1 which had to make way for him4  
,when ,je-sus saw what great faith they 
had1 he spoke to the sick man1 and said1
 ,thy sins are for-giv-en thee4 ,some of
 the ,scribes and ,phar-i-sees who sat  
near said1 but not out loud1 ,who is    
this that dares speak in this way8 ,none
 but ,god can for-give sins4  ,je-sus   
knew their thoughts1 and he said to     
them1 ,why think ye these things8 ,which
 could be said with the most ease1 ,thy 
sins be for-giv-en thee1 or ,rise up and
 walk8  ,but to show you that ,i have   
pow-er to for-give sins1 ,i will make   
him well4  ,so he said to the sick man1 
,rise1 take up thy bed1 and go to thy   

house4  ,and the man rose and stood on  
his feet1 and took up the bed on which  
he had lain and went out and gave praise
 and thanks to ,god4  ,and those who saw
 him were in a maze and said1 ,we have  
seen strange things to-day4  ,now the   
,jews1 as you know1 were slaves of the  
,ce-sar of ,rome1 and to keep their     
peace with him they had to pay a tax4   
,and the men to whom they paid the tax  
were known as pub-li-cans4 ,some of them
 were harsh and stern1 and the ,jews    
could not but hate them4 ,but all were  
not so4 ,and as ,je-sus went by he saw  
one of these pub-li-cans with his gold  
and sil-ver close at hand4 ,his name was
 ,matth-ew4 ,je-sus spoke to him1 and   
said1 ,come with me4  ,and ,matth-ew    
left all1 and went with ,je-sus1 and    
from that time did all that he could to 
spread the good news1 and to serve the  
,lord ,christ4  ,af-ter this there was a
 feast of the ,jews1 and ,je-sus went up
 to ,je-ru-sa-lem4 ,now there was at    
,je-ru-sa-lem a pool1 which was known as

 the ,pool of ,be-thes-da4 ,and there   
were five courts1 or door-ways1 that led
 down to the pool4 ,and in these courts 
lay a great crowd of folks who were     
sick1 or blind1 or lame4  ,for this was 
the time of the year when an an-gel came
 to stir the pool4 ,and it was thought  
that the one who went in-to the pool the
 first1 when the an-gel had made it     
fresh and sweet1 would be cured of all  
the ails that he might have4            
,illustration3 ,,the ,,pool ,,of        
,,be-,,thes-,,da4  ,and a man was there 
who had been sick for most two-score    
years4 ,je-sus saw him1 and knew that he
 had been sick for a long time1 and it  
made him sad to think of it4 ,so he said
 to the man1 ,wilt thou be made well8   
,the man said1 ,i have no one to help me
 in-to the pool1 for when ,i try to get 
down to it1 some one steps in a-head of 
me and ,i am too late4  ,je-sus said to 
him1 ,rise1 take up thy bed and walk4   
,and at once the man was made well1 and 
took up his bed1 and walked4  ,now it   

was the ,day of ,rest4 ,and the ,jews1  
who were quick to find fault with those 
who broke the laws1 said to the man when
 he came their way1 ,it is not right for
 thee to move thy bed on this day4  ,he 
said to them1 he that made me well told 
me to take up my bed and walk4  ,they   
said to him1 ,who was it told thee that8
  ,and the man did not know1 and could  
not point ,je-sus out to them1 the crowd
 was so great4  ,but ere the feast was  
at an end ,je-sus met the man ,he had   
cured and said to him1 ,now thou art    
well1 sin no more lest a worse thing    
come to thee4  ,then the man went out   
and told the ,jews that it was ,je-sus  
who had cured him on the ,day of ,rest4 
,and for this the ,jews sought to kill  
,je-sus4 ,but he told them that the     
works he did were proof that ,god had   
sent him1 and that he was the one of    
whom the seers had told in the days that
 were past1 and of whom ,mo-ses wrote4  
,he said that the time was near at hand 
when the dead should hear the voice of  

the ,son of ,god1 and those who were in 
their graves should come forth4 ,then he
 would judge them4 ,those who had done  
good would be blest1 for ,god would give
 them a home with him in the sky2 but   
those who had done ill1 and died in     
their sins1 would not meet the smile of 
,god1 nor have a place near his throne4 
,je-sus said if the love of ,god was in 
their hearts they would trust him whom  
,god had sent1 and feel that he had come
 to do them good1 and to save their     
souls from death4  ,illustration3 ,,in  
,,the ,,corn-,,fields4  ,je-sus and his 
five friends1 ,an-drew1 ,pe-ter1 ,james1
 ,john1 and ,matth-ew1 went out on the  
next ,day of ,rest1 and their walk led  
them through a field of corn4 ,and as   
the men had need of food1 ,je-sus told  
them to pluck and eat the ears of corn4 
,and they did so4  ,in the ,east they   
gave the name of corn to all kinds of   
grain4  ,when the ,phar-i-sees saw it   
they found fault1 and ,je-sus told them 
that he was the best judge of what was  

right to do on that day2 for he was     
,lord of the ,day of ,rest4             
,illustration3 ,,the ,,with-,,er-,,ed   
,,hand4  ,in the course of a few weeks  
he went in-to a church and taught on the
 ,lord's day4 ,and a man was there whose
 hand was so drawn up that he could not 
stretch it out or do aught with it4 ,and
 the ,phar-i-sees kept a close watch on 
,je-sus to see if he would heal the man 
on that day1 so that they might find    
fault with them4  ,je-sus knew their    
thoughts1 and he said to the man with   
the lame hand1 ,rise up1 and stand where
 all can see you4 ,and the man rose1 and
 stood forth4  ,illustration3           
,,jer-,u-,,sa-,,lem4  ,je-sus said to   
them1 ,i will ask you one thing3 ,is it 
right to do good or to do ill on the    
,day of ,rest8 to take life or to save  
it8 ,and he stood and looked at all     
those that were in the place4 ,then he  
said to the man1 ,stretch out thy hand4 
,and he did so1 and it was well and     
strong4  ,this made the ,phar-i-sees    

hate ,je-sus1 so that they went out of  
the church and sought for some way to   
put him to death4 ,when he knew of it he
 left the place1 and came down to the   
sea of ,gal-i-lee4 ,and crowds came to  
him from the land of ,ju-dah and from   
large towns that were far off1 to see   
the great works that he did4 ,and the   
sick crept near so that they could touch
 him1 and he made them all well4        
,,chapter ,,vii4  ,,the ,,sermon ,,on   
,,the ,,mount4   ,,je-,,sus left the    
crowd1 and went to a lone place to pray 
to ,god4 ,and he spent the night there4 
,the next morn he chose twelve men1 that
 he might send them out to preach1 and  
to heal those that were sick1 and to    
cast out dev-ils4 ,their names were     
,pe-ter1 ,an-drew1 ,james and ,john1 the
 sons of ,zeb-e-dee1 ,phil-ip1          
,bar-thol-o-mew1 ,thom-as and ,matth-ew1
 ,james and ,leb-be-us1 ,si-mon and     
,ju-das ,is-ca-ri-ot4  ,illustration3   
,,the ,,ser-,,mon ,,on ,,the ,,mount4   
,and the crowd was so great that ,je-sus

 went up on a hill1 and the twelve went 
with him and he taught them there4 ,he  
told them that those who were in a high 
state of joy1 with not a care to vex    
them1 were called blest4 ,and he said1  
not in these words1 but in words that   
meant the same3  ,blest are the poor in 
spirit1 for ,god is with them4  ,by poor
 in spirit he meant those who did not   
think too much of them-selves1 who were 
not vain nor proud1 but rich in love to 
,god4 ,and he would be with them1 and   
bless them all their lives4  ,blest are 
those that mourn1 for their tears shall 
be dried4  ,to mourn is to weep1 and to 
grieve4 ,je-sus meant that those who    
wept for their sins should shed no more 
tears1 for ,christ had come to save     
them1 and the good news should make them
 glad4  ,blest are the meek1 for the    
whole earth shall be theirs4  ,je-sus   
meant by this that those who were fond  
of peace1 and did not love strife1 might
 dwell where they chose1 and would be   
blest in this world and the world to    

come4  ,blest are those who hun-ger and 
thirst for that which is good1 for they 
shall be filled4  ,this meant that those
 who sought to do right and to grow in  
grace had but to pray to ,god1 and he   
would give them all the strength they   
might need from day to day4  ,blest are 
those who are kind and good1 for the    
,lord will be kind to them in their hour
 of need4  ,blest are those who are pure
 in heart1 for they shall see ,god4     
,those who are pure in heart will be    
fond of good works1 and will lead good  
lives1 and ,god will not turn his face  
from them4  ,blest are the              
peace-ma-kers--those who try to keep the
 peace and to put an end to strife--for 
they shall be called the chil-dren of   
,god4  ,blest are those who are ill-used
 for my sake1 for the more the world    
hates them the more will ,god love them4
  ,je-sus told them that when men said  
hard things of them for his sake1 and   
called them vile1 and were harsh with   
them and full of spite1 they were not to

 grieve but to be glad4 ,for so did bad 
men treat the seers of old who told them
 of their faults and their sins and     
tried to lead them to ,christ4  ,salt is
 good1 and gives a taste to our food4   
,je-sus told them they were to salt the 
earth4 ,this meant that they were to    
tell the good news in such a way that   
men should want it and need it just as  
they did salt4  ,he told them1 too1 that
 they must let their light shine2 he    
meant that they should let it be seen   
and known that they loved ,god1 and     
tried to do his will4 ,they were not to 
hide it from men1 but to do such good   
works1 in ,christ's name1 that those who
 did not love or care for him might be  
drawn to ,je-sus--the light of the      
world4  ,je-sus said that if we do as we
 ought to do our-selves1 and teach men  
to keep all ,god's laws1 we shall be    
called great in the place where ,god    
dwells4 ,but if1 like the ,scribes and  
,phar-i-sees1 we teach what is right and
 do what is wrong1 we shall not see     

,god's face1 or live with him on high4  
,he said1 you have been taught not to   
kill2 and that he who puts one to death 
will be brought to the judge1 and made  
to suf-fer for the crime4 ,but ,i say to
 you that it is a sin to hate those who 
have done you no harm1 and ,god will    
pun-ish you for it4  ,then he said that 
when they went to church to wor-ship    
,god they must try and think if they had
 done wrong1 had been harsh1 or had said
 what was not true4 ,and they were to go
 at once and do right to those whom they
 hurt in this way1 for ,god did not care
 to have them bow down to him if their  
hearts were full of sins they were not  
sor-ry for4  ,we must be good and pure1 
,je-sus says1 in all that we say and do3
 we must do no harm to those who harm   
us1 but must be kind and good to them1  
and pray for them1 and love them4       
,bless those that curse you1 and do good
 to those that hate you4 ,this is a hard
 task1 and none but those who have the  
love of ,christ in their hearts can do  

it4 ,but if we pray for strength1 the   
strength is sure to come1 and love takes
 the place of hate4  ,some folks when   
they do good deeds like to make a great 
show and noise1 that they may be seen of
 men1 and have much praise from them4   
,je-sus told the ,twelve that they were 
to do right1 not to please men but to   
please ,god4 ,when they gave to the poor
 they were not to tell of it2 and when  
they prayed they were not to choose a   
place where they could be seen of       
men--just to show how good they         
were--but were to go to their room and  
shut the door1 that no one but ,god     
could hear them4 ,then ,god would give  
them what they asked for4  ,je-sus      
taught them how to pray1 and what words 
to use2 and these words each child ought
 to learn by heart and use at least     
twice a day3  ,our ,fa-ther which art in
 heav-en1 ,hal-low-ed be thy name4 ,thy 
,king-dom come4 ,thy will be done on    
earth as it is in heav-en4 ,give us this
 day our dai-ly bread4 ,and for-give us 

our debts1 as we for-give our debt-ors4 
,and lead us not in-to tempt-a-tion1 but
 del-iv-er us from e-vil3 ,for thine is 
the ,king-dom1 and the pow-er1 and the  
glo-ry1 for ever4 ,a-men4  ,when they   
should fast they were not to look sad as
 those did whose wish it was that men   
should see them fast1 but they were to  
hold up their heads and wear a look of  
cheer that no one but ,god should know  
it4 ,and ,god would bless them for it4  
,je-sus said we must not want to be rich
 or to lay up wealth in this world1 for 
when we die we can-not take it with us4 
,but we should give our hearts to       
thoughts of ,god1 and try to live so    
that we can share his home1 where we    
shall have more things to please us than
 all the gold in the world can buy4     
,je-sus said that no man could serve    
,god and serve ,sa-tan too4 ,we serve   
,god when we do right2 and we serve     
,sa-tan when we do wrong4  ,so we       
can-not do the will of both1 and must   
choose which one we will serve4  ,he    

told the ,twelve not to judge folks2 he 
meant that they must take care how they 
found fault1 and blamed them4 ,for they 
may not have done wrong1 or if they did 
they may have meant no harm4 ,we can-not
 see men's hearts1 or know how they felt
 at the time they did the deed4 ,but    
,god knows all1 and may not blame them  
as much as we do4 ,je-sus said that we  
should strive to do right our-selves1   
and then we should see with clear eyes  
who did wrong1 and have a right to tell 
them of their faults4  ,he said1 that   
what we want men to do to us we must do 
to them4 ,if we want them to be kind and
 good and to treat us well1 we must do  
the same by them4  ,he said1 ,strive to 
go in at the strait1 or nar-row gate2   
for wide is the gate and broad is the   
way that leads to death4 ,he meant that 
the good and the bad ways are like two  
gates in our path1 for us to choose     
which one we will go through4  ,the good
 way is small and hard to find1 and we  
have to search for it with great care4  

,but the path is one that leads to life 
and joy4  ,illustration3 ,,the          
,,un-,,fruit-,,ful ,,tree4  ,the bad way
 is like a broad gate that stands o-pen 
and in plain sight4 ,this wide gate     
leads down to hell1 and crowds and      
crowds go that way1 while but few are   
found in the good way that leads to     
bliss4  ,je-sus said that at the last   
day some would call him ,lord1 ,lord1   
and say they had served him and taught  
as he did4 ,but he would say that he did
 not know them1 for they had bad hearts1
 and had led lives of sin1 and were not 
fit to dwell with the good and pure in  
the home on high1 where all is love4    
,he said that men were like trees4 ,good
 trees brought forth good fruit2 but a  
bad tree could not bring forth good     
fruit4 ,and men were to be known by     
their works1 just as a tree was known by
 its fruits4  ,then he spoke of two men1
 each of whom built a house4 ,one chose 
to build on a rock4 ,and the rain fell1 
and the floods came1 and the winds blew 

and beat on that house1 but it stood    
firm and the storm did it no harm4  ,but
 one of the men built his house on the  
sand4 ,and the rain fell1 and the floods
 came1 and the winds blew and beat on   
that house1 and it fell with a great    
crash1 and was swept out of sight4      
,je-sus said that those who heard his   
words and did as he told them were like 
the wise man who built his house on a   
rock4 ,christ is our ,rock4 ,he stands  
firm4 ,no storms can move him4 ,if we   
cling to him he will save us4  ,je-sus  
said that those who heard his words and 
did not do as he taught them1 were like 
the man who built his house on the sand4
 ,when the storm came on the last day1  
when ,god would judge the world1 they   
would be swept out of sight4 ,and oh6   
what a sad1 sad day that will be for all
 those who have led bad lives1 and done 
not the least thing to please ,god1 who 
took care of them and gave them all they
 had4  ,we must strive to be good all   
the time1 and to love ,je-sus1 so that  

he will be near us1 and will take us    
home to live with him when we die4      
,,chapter ,,viii4  ,,good ,,words ,,and 
,,good ,,works4   ,,there was at        
,ca-per-na-um a chief who had charge of 
five score ,ro-man troops4 ,and one of  
his men1 who was dear to him1 was so    
sick that he was like to die4 ,when the 
chief heard that ,je-sus was there he   
sent some of his friends down to ask him
 to make the sick man well4 ,those who  
brought the word to ,je-sus were ,jews1 
and they spoke a good word for the      
chief1 who had been kind to them4  ,then
 ,je-sus went with them4 ,but as they   
drew near the chief's house he sent some
 more friends out to tell ,je-sus that  
he had not gone down to him him-self1   
for he was not good e-nough4 ,and now he
 sent word that he was not good e-nough 
for ,je-sus to come in-to his house4    
,but if ,je-sus would speak the word1 he
 was sure that the sick man would get   
well4  ,for ,i stand at the head of my  
troops1 said the chief1 and say to this 

one1 ,go1 and he goes2 and to that one1 
,come1 and he comes2 and to a third1 ,do
 this1 and he does it4  ,and he knew    
that if he could do this ,je-sus could  
do more1 and bid all the ills leave the 
sick man at the sound of his voice4     
,illustration3 ,,christ ,,and ,,the     
,,cen-,,tu-,,ri-,,on4  ,when ,je-sus    
heard these words he was a-mazed1 and   
said to those who were with him1 ,i have
 found no one who has such faith in me  
as this ,ro-man4 ,and ,i tell you that  
at the last day those who have had faith
 in me shall come from all lands1 and   
have a place near ,god's throne2 while  
the ,jews1 who will not put their trust 
in me1 will be shut out4  ,and when the 
friends of the chief went back they     
found the sick man made well4  ,the next
 day ,je-sus went to the town of ,nain4 
,and a great crowd went with him4 ,and  
as they came near the gate of the town  
they saw a dead man brought out to be   
borne to his grave4 ,he was all the son 
his mo-ther had1 and her friends stood  

near her and wept with her4  ,when      
,je-sus saw her grief his heart was sad1
 and he said1 ,weep not4  ,illustration3
 ,,the ,,wid-,,ow',s ,,son ,,brought    
,,to ,,life4  ,and he came up to the    
bier on which the dead lay1 and those   
who bore it stood still4 ,then ,je-sus  
said1 ,young man1 ,i say to thee a-rise4
  ,and he that was dead sat up and      
spoke4 ,and ,je-sus gave him to his     
mo-ther4 ,and a great fear came on all  
who saw it1 and they gave praise to     
,god1 and said that a great proph-et had
 been raised up in their midst4  ,in old
 times those who lived in the ,east did 
not wear shoes such as we do4 ,they wore
 light soles1 or san-dals1 which were   
bound on their feet with straps1 and    
thrown off as soon as they came in-to   
the house4 ,then wa-ter was brought for 
them to wash their feet4  ,much oil was 
used in those lands1 and is to this day4
 ,it was put on the hair to keep it     
moist1 and on the skin to make it soft  
and smooth4 ,this oil1 when some-what   

hard1 was called oint-ment1 and was kept
 in a box1 and had a nice smell4  ,now a
 ,phar-i-see1 whose name was ,si-mon1   
asked ,je-sus to his house4 ,and ,je-sus
 went there1 and they sat down to eat4  
,and a wo-man of the town1 who had led a
 life of sin1 when she heard that       
,je-sus was there1 came in with a box of
 oint-ment and bowed down at his feet4  
,she was full of shame1 for her sins had
 been great1 and she had come to ,je-sus
 to ask him to for-give her and help her
 to lead a new life4  ,she wept1 and    
washed the feet of ,je-sus with her     
tears1 and wiped them with the hairs of 
her head4 ,and she kissed his feet1 and 
rubbed them with the oint-ment she had  
brought1 and which had cost her a high  
price4  ,when the ,phar-i-see saw it he 
said to him-self1 ,if this man had come 
from ,god he would know what kind of a  
wo-man this is1 and would send her out  
of his sight4  ,je-sus1 who knew his    
every thought1 said to him1 ,si-mon1 ,i 
have some-thing to say to thee4         

,illustration3 ,,wash-,,ing ,,hands ,,in
 ,,the ,,east4  ,and he said1 ,my lord1 
say on4  ,then ,je-sus said1 ,two men   
were in debt to a rich man4 ,one owed   
him a great deal1 while the oth-er owed 
him but a small sum4 ,but they were both
 so poor that they could not pay him1   
and he told them to think no more of the
 debt1 for it would be the same as if   
they had paid all they owed4 ,tell me   
now which one of these would love him   
the most4  ,the ,phar-i-see said1 ,i    
should think that he to whom he for-gave
 the most4  ,je-sus said to him1 ,that  
is true4  ,and he turned to the wo-man  
and said to ,si-mon1 ,see'st thou this  
wo-man8 ,i came to thy house1 and thou  
didst bring me no wa-ter to wash my     
feet1 but she hath washed my feet with  
her tears and wiped them with the hairs 
of her head4 ,thou didst give me no     
kiss1 but this wo-man1 since the time ,i
 came in1 has not ceased to kiss my     
feet4 ,my head with oil thou didst not  
an-oint1 but she has poured her         

oint-ment on my feet4 ,so ,i say to thee
 that her sins1 though so great1 will be
 all wiped out1 for she has loved me    
much4  ,and he said to the wo-man1 ,thy 
faith has saved thee2 go back to thy    
home in peace4  ,from this place ,je-sus
 went on through all the large and small
 towns1 and told the good news that ,god
 had sent his ,son in-to the world to   
save men from their sins4 ,and the      
twelve were with him4  ,je-sus might    
have been rich1 for all the world was   
his2 but he chose to be poor1 and to    
bear all the ills of life for our sakes1
 that we might be drawn to him1 and be  
saved from our sins4 ,good wo-men1 whom 
he had cured1 gave him such things as he
 had need of1 and he did not lack for   
food or friends4  ,je-sus spoke at times
 in a strange way4 ,he would take scenes
 from real life and paint them1 as it   
were1 with words1 so that they were     
plain to all4 ,these talks were meant to
 teach great truths that would lodge in 
the mind1 and stand out like scenes of  

real life4 ,they were to take them home 
with them1 and keep them in their       
thoughts from day to day4  ,one of these
 talks was of a rich man who had large  
fields and vine-yards4 ,and when it was 
time for the crops to come in1 the rich 
man found that his barns would not hold 
them4  ,and he said1 ,what shall ,i do8 
for ,i have no room where ,i can put my 
fruits4 ,this will ,i do3 ,i will pull  
down my small barns and build large     
ones1 and there will ,i store all my    
goods4 ,and ,i will say to my-self1     
,thou hast much goods laid up that will 
last thee for years and years2 take     
thine ease1 eat1 drink1 and be of good  
cheer4  ,but ,god said to him1 ,thou    
fool1 this night thou shalt die4 ,then  
who shall have those things which thou  
hast laid up for years to come8  ,this  
was to teach us that it is of no use for
 men to lay up great wealth in this     
world1 for they will have to leave it   
all when they die4 ,and it is a sin for 
a rich man to spend all that he owns on 

him-self1 to live at his ease1 and to   
eat and drink1 as if there were no poor 
in the world1 and no ,god to serve4     
,je-sus told the twelve not to fret     
be-cause they were poor1 or to have the 
least fear that they might want for     
food1 or for clothes to wear4 ,think of 
the birds1 he said4 ,they do not sow    
seed in the fields1 nor reap grain and  
lay it up for use in time of need4 ,they
 have no store-house or barn1 yet they  
have all the food they want1 for ,god   
feeds them and takes care of them4 ,and 
if he does so much for the birds1 how   
much more will he do for you8  ,look at 
the flow-ers4 ,see how they grow4 ,they 
do not work1 or spin the thread to weave
 in-to cloth as men must do1 and yet ,i 
say to you that ,king ,sol-o-mon did not
 wear such rich robes as theirs4 ,if    
then ,god gives such fine clothes to    
that which grows in the field like      
grass1 and which in a day or two is     
burnt up1 how much more will he clothe  
you1 though ye are so loth to trust him4

 ,so do not fret lest you shall want for
 things to eat1 and to drink1 and to    
wear2 for ,god knows that ye have need  
of these things1 and if ye seek first to
 do his will1 he will give all these    
things to you4     ,,chapter ,,ix4      
,,jesus ,,at ,,the ,,sea-,,shore4       
,,while ,je-sus was down by the sea1 the
 crowd grew so great that he went in-to 
a boat and sat down to teach them as    
they stood on the shore4  ,illustration3
 ,,the ,,sow-,,er4  ,he said1 ,a man    
went out in the field to sow his seed4  
,and as he threw the seed from his hand1
 some of it fell on the hard path by the
 road-side1 and the birds flew down and 
ate it4 ,some fell on the rocks and     
stones where there was not much earth1  
and it soon grew up on top of the       
ground4 ,but the sun's warm rays made it
 droop1 and as it had no root1 in a few 
days it was all dried up4  ,some of the 
seed fell where thorns and weeds were1  
and these took up all the room1 so that 
there was no space for the seed to grow4

 ,the air and the sun could not get at  
it1 and soon it was choked to death4    
,but some of the seed fell in good      
ground1 that the plough had made soft4  
,the rain fell on it1 the sun shone on  
it1 and it sprang up and bore a large   
crop of grain4  ,when the crowd had left
 ,je-sus1 the twelve came near to ask   
him what he had meant to teach by this  
talk of seeds that were sown here and   
there4  ,je-sus told them the seed was  
the good news that he came to preach4   
,those who preach1 or teach1 sow good or
 bad seed1 which takes root in the mind 
or heart4  ,some who heard his words    
would not care for them1 but would go on
 in their sins and feel no change of    
heart4 ,new thoughts and fresh scenes   
would come and eat up the seed-thoughts 
that ,je-sus had sown1 as quick as the  
birds ate up the seed sown by the       
road-side4  ,some who heard him thought 
of his words for a-while1 and tried for 
a short time to do right4 ,but it did   
not last long4 ,this was the seed that  

fell in the midst of stones1 and sprang 
up at first1 but in a few days was all  
dried up4  ,some would hear ,je-sus     
preach1 and were glad of the words that 
he spoke2 but the cares of this world1  
their wealth1 and the gay things of     
life1 were so much in their thoughts    
that they could not do the things he had
 taught them4  ,this was the seed that  
fell in the midst of thorns1 and the    
thorns grew up and choked it4  ,but     
there were some who heard ,je-sus       
preach1 and who tried each day to do as 
he taught them4 ,this was the seed that 
fell in good ground1 which took root and
 grew and brought forth ten times as    
much as had been sown4  ,illustration3  
,,the ,,en-,e-,,my ,,sow-,,ing ,,tares4 
,one of the talks of ,je-sus was of a   
man who sowed good seed in his field4   
,and while he slept a foe came and sowed
 tares1 or weeds1 in the midst of the   
wheat1 and then went on his way4 ,and   
when it was time for the wheat to grow  
up1 the weeds grew up with it4  ,and    

when the work-men on the farm saw this1 
they went at once to the man of the     
house1 and said to him1 ,didst thou not 
sow good seed in thy field8 ,where then 
have these tares come from8  ,he said to
 them1 ,a foe has done this4  ,the      
work-men said1 ,shall we go out1 then1  
and pull them up by the roots8  ,and he 
said1 ,no1 lest while you pull up the   
tares you pull up the wheat with them4  
,let both grow till it is time to reap  
the grain2 and then ,i will say to the  
reap-ers1 ,pull up the tares first and  
bind them in stacks to burn4 ,but put   
the wheat in my barn4  ,je-sus told the 
twelve what he meant by this talk of the
 tares of the field4  ,the field is the 
world4 ,he who owns the field and sows  
the seed1 is ,je-sus him-self4 ,the     
wheat that grows up means those who hear
 his words1 and do as he has taught     
them4  ,the tares are bad men1 who have 
no love for ,je-sus4  ,the foe that sows
 them is ,sa-tan4  ,the time to reap the
 grain is on the last great day4 ,the   

reap-ers are the an-gels4  ,je-sus will 
let the good and the bad live in the    
world till the last great day4 ,then he 
will send his an-gels to take the good  
to their home on high1 but the bad will 
be cast out in-to the fire that is to   
burn up the world4  ,then ,je-sus spoke 
of a man who went out to buy pearls4 ,he
 went from place to place1 and those who
 had pearls to sell brought them out for
 him to look at1 but he was hard to     
suit1 and bought but few4 ,at last he   
found one that was worth more than all  
the rest that he had seen4 ,but its     
price was so great that he could not buy
 it4 ,what did he do8 ,why1 he went and 
sold all that he had1 and came back and 
bought this pearl of great price4  ,so  
will it be with those who wish to be rid
 of their sins1 and to be as pure as a  
pearl with-in4 ,je-sus in us is the     
pearl of great price4 ,gold can-not buy 
it4 ,but when we learn its cost we      
should make haste to get rid of all that
 keeps ,christ out of our hearts1 and   

make room for this one pearl1 which is  
worth more than all else in the world4  
,illustration3 ,,seek-,,ing ,,great     
,,pearls4  ,then ,je-sus spoke of those 
who took their net1 and went out in a   
boat to catch fish4 ,they cast the net  
out of the boat and threw it in-to the  
sea1 and when it was full drew it back  
to shore4 ,then they sat down to sort   
the fish2 the good ones were put in     
their boats1 and the bad ones were      
thrown a-way4  ,so it would be at the   
last day4 ,the an-gels would come forth 
and sort the good from the bad4 ,and the
 good would be borne to their home on   
high1 but the bad would be thrown in-to 
a fire that would make them cry out with
 pain4  ,je-sus said1 ,have ,i made     
these things plain to thee8 ,and they   
said1 ,yes1 ,lord4  ,illustration3      
,,par-,a-,,ble ,,of ,,the ,,nets4  ,one 
of the ,scribes came to ,je-sus1 and    
said1 ,i will not leave thee2 but where 
thou dost go ,i will go4 ,je-sus said to
 him1 ,the fox-es have holes1 and the   

birds of the air have nests1 but ,i have
 not where to lay my head4 ,he meant by 
this that he was poor1 and had no place 
where he could go and lie down when he  
had need of rest4  ,night drew near1 and
 the crowd was so great that ,je-sus and
 the twelve went in a boat to cross the 
,sea of ,gal-i-lee4 ,and there came up a
 great storm1 and the winds blew fierce1
 and the waves rose high and came with a
 great dash in-to the boat4  ,and       
,je-sus slept1 for he was quite worn    
out4 ,the twelve were full of fear2 and 
at last they woke ,je-sus1 and said1    
,lord1 save us1 or we shall sink4  ,then
 he rose and spoke to the winds and the 
waves1 and said to them1 ,peace1 be     
still4 ,and the wind ceased to blow1 and
 soon all was still and calm4           
,illustration3 ,,still-,,ing ,,the      
,,tem-,,pest4  ,and ,je-sus said to the 
twelve1 ,why are ye in such fear8 ,how  
is it that ye have no faith8  ,as       
,je-sus left the boat a mad-man came out
 of the tombs to meet him4 ,he was so   

fierce that no man could bind him1 or   
tame him4 ,he broke loose from all the  
ropes and chains1 and no house could    
hold him4 ,so night and day he would    
roam on the hills and in the caves or   
tombs1 where graves had been dug1 and   
cry out and cut him-self with bits of   
stones4  ,and while ,je-sus was still   
far off1 the mad-man saw him and ran and
 fell down at his feet4 ,and he cried   
out1 ,what have ,i to do with thee1     
,je-sus1 thou ,son of ,god8 ,harm me    
not1 ,i pray thee4  ,now there was      
there1 close by the hills1 a great herd 
of swine4 ,and the fiends that were in  
the man begged ,je-sus to send them     
in-to the swine4 ,and ,je-sus said1 ,go4
 ,and when they came out of the man they
 went in the swine1 and the herd ran    
down a steep place and were drowned in  
the sea4  ,and they that fed the swine  
went and told what had been done1 and   
great crowds came to the place where    
,je-sus was4  ,and when they saw that   
the mad-man sat with his clothes on and 

in his right mind1 they were in great   
fear4 ,and they prayed ,je-sus to leave 
the place at once4  ,when ,je-sus was   
come in-to the boat1 he that had been   
out of his mind begged that he might go 
with him4 ,but ,je-sus would not let    
him1 and said to him1 ,go home to thy   
friends1 and tell them what great things
 the ,lord hath done for thee4  ,and the
 man went and told how he had been made 
well1 and those who heard him felt that 
,je-sus must have been sent from ,god1  
for no mere man could do such strange   
things4     ,,chapter ,x4  ,,jesus      
,,brings ,,the ,,dead ,,to              
,,life4--,,feeds ,,five ,,thousand4     
,,je-,,sus went back to ,ca-per-na-um4  
,and as he stood by the sea-shore1 one  
of the chief men of the church came to  
him1 whose name was ,ja-i-rus4  ,he was 
in deep grief1 for he had but one child1
 a girl twelve years of age1 and she lay
 sick at his home and there was no help 
for her4 ,and he said to ,je-sus1 ,my   
child lies at the point of death4 ,i    

pray thee come and lay thy hands on her 
that she may live4  ,and ,je-sus went   
with him1 and so did the twelve1 and all
 the crowd that had come up to hear     
,je-sus preach4 ,and in the throng was a
 wo-man who had been sick for twelve    
years4 ,she had spent all she had to try
 to be made well2 but all the drugs she 
took did her no good1 and no one could  
seem to help her case4 ,so she went on  
from bad to worse4  ,when she heard of  
,je-sus she came up with the crowd at   
his back1 and put out her hand and      
touched the hem of his robe4 ,for1 she  
said1 if ,i may touch but his clothes ,i
 shall be made well4 ,and as soon as she
 had done this she felt that she was    
cured4  ,all this was known to ,je-sus1 
and yet he faced the crowd and said1    
,who touched me8  ,pe-ter said that some
 one in the throng had been pushed up   
close to him and thought it strange that
 ,je-sus did not know it4  ,je-sus said1
 ,someone touched me1 and he looked     
round to see who had done it4  ,when the

 wo-man saw that ,je-sus knew all1 and  
that she could not hide from him1 she   
shook with fear1 and fell down at his   
feet1 and told him why she had touched  
him1 and how that touch had made her    
well4  ,je-sus said to her1 ,be of good 
cheer4 ,thy faith in me hath made thee  
well4  ,while he yet spoke to her1 there
 came one from the house of ,ja-i-rus1  
who said to him1 ,thy child is dead4    
,when ,je-sus heard it he said1 ,fear   
not4 ,trust in me and she shall be made 
well4 ,and when he came to the house1 he
 found a great crowd there1 who wept and
 mourned the loss of the young child4   
,je-sus said to them1 ,why do you weep8 
,she sleeps2 she is not dead4  ,he meant
 that she would soon rise from the dead1
 as one who wakes out of his sleep4     
,but they saw that she was dead1 and as 
they had no faith in his words they     
laughed him to scorn4  ,then he put them
 all out of the room save three of the  
twelve--,pe-ter1 ,james1 and ,john--and 
the fa-ther and mo-ther of the young    

girl4 ,then he took the child by the    
hand and said1 ,i say to thee a-rise4   
,and she rose from her bed1 and had     
strength to walk1 and ,je-sus bade them 
bring her some food that she might eat4 
,illustration3 ,,cur-,,ed ,,by          
,,touch-,,ing ,,his ,,gar-,,ment4  ,and 
her fa-ther and mo-ther knew not what to
 think of these strange things4 ,je-sus 
bade them tell no one of what he had    
done1 and there was no need for them to 
speak4 ,for there was their child1 well 
and strong1 once more the light and joy 
of their house1 and their hearts must   
have been full of thanks and praise to  
,god6  ,illustration3 ,,the             
,,dau-,,ghter ,,of ,,ja-,i-,,rus4  ,when
 ,je-sus went from the house of         
,ja-i-rus two blind men came near him   
and cried out1 ,thou ,son of ,da-vid    
have mer-cy on us4 ,they said this      
be-cause they knew that he was of ,king 
,da-vid's race4  ,je-sus said to them1  
,do you think that ,i can make you well8
 ,they said to him1 ,yes1 ,lord4  ,then 

he touched their eyes1 and at once their
 sight came back to them4 ,and he said  
to them1 ,tell no man what ,i have done 
to you4 ,but when they left him they    
went from place to place and told all   
whom they met how ,je-sus had brought   
back their sight4  ,and they brought to 
him a dumb man who could not speak      
be-cause of the fiend that was in him4  
,and as soon as ,je-sus cast out the    
fiend the man spoke4 ,and all those who 
saw it were in a maze1 and said1 ,such  
things as these have not been done      
be-fore in the land of ,is-ra-el4       
,illustration3 ,,the ,,two ,,blind      
,,men4  ,but the ,phar-i-sees felt such 
hate for ,je-sus that they said that he 
could cast out fiends be-cause he had   
the help of ,sa-tan1 the prince of all  
fiends4  ,je-sus said to the twelve1    
,come1 let us go to some lone place and 
rest a while4 ,for the crowds were so   
great that they had no time to eat4 ,and
 they went in a boat quiet-ly to cross  
the ,sea of ,gal-i-lee1 where they might

 rest and take the food they were so    
much in need of4 ,but as soon as the    
folks heard of it they set out on foot  
and went round by the shore till they   
came to the place where ,je-sus was4    
,and when ,je-sus went out and saw them1
 his heart was moved1 and he taught     
them1 and made the sick ones well4      
,when night came on1 the twelve said to 
,je-sus1 ,send these off that they may  
go to the towns and buy food for        
them-selves1 for they have nought to    
eat4  ,je-sus said1 ,they need not go4  
,give you them some-thing to eat4  ,they
 said1 ,shall we go out and buy bread   
and give it to them8  ,je-sus said1 ,how
 much have you8 ,go and see4  ,when they
 knew they said1 ,we have five loaves   
and two small fish-es4  ,je-sus bade the
 twelve have the crowd seat them-selves 
in rows on the green grass4 ,then he    
took the five loaves and the two        
fish-es1 and gave thanks to ,god for    
them4 ,and he broke the loaves1 and the 
fish-es1 and the twelve gave them piece 

by piece to the crowd1 till all had had 
their fill4  ,when the feast was at an  
end there was e-nough bread and fish    
left to fill twelve bas-kets4  ,then    
,je-sus bade the twelve dis-ci-ples get 
in-to the boat and go back to           
,ca-per-na-um4  ,and when the crowd had 
left him he went up on a high hill to   
pray4 ,and when night came on he was    
there with none but ,god near him4  ,the
 twelve were in the boat1 out in the    
midst of the sea4  ,their oars were of  
no use1 for the wind blew hard the wrong
 way1 and drove them back from their    
course1 and made the waves toss the boat
 here and there4  ,je-sus could see it  
all from his high place on the hill1 and
 in the night he went down to the shore 
and walked out on the sea4  ,when the   
twelve saw him they were in a great     
fright1 for they thought it was a ghost1
 and they cried out in their fear4      
,je-sus said1 ,be of good cheer4 ,it is 
,i4  ,illustration3 ,,feed-,,ing ,,the  
,,mul-,,ti-,,tude4  ,pe-ter spoke from  

the boat1 and said1 ,lord1 if it be     
thou1 bid me come to thee on the sea4   
,je-sus said to him1 ,come1 and ,pe-ter 
came out of the boat and walked on the  
waves to go to ,je-sus4 ,but when he    
heard the noise of the wind1 and saw the
 waves dash all round him1 he was in    
great fear2 and as he felt him-self sink
 he cried out1 ,lord1 save me4          
,illustration3 ,,pe-,,ter ,,walk-,,ing  
,,on ,,the ,,wa-,,ter4   ,je-sus put    
forth his hand and caught him1 and said 
to him1 ,o thou of lit-tle faith1 why   
didst thou doubt me8  ,when ,je-sus and 
,pe-ter came in-to the boat the wind was
 still1 and the twelve were soon on the 
shore they had set out to reach4 ,then  
they fell at his feet1 and said1 ,it is 
true that thou art the ,son of ,god4    
,illustration3 ,,christ ,,walk-,,ing    
,,on ,,the ,,sea4  ,as soon as it was   
known where ,je-sus was1 crowds came    
from all the towns that were near1 and  
brought their sick in their beds that he
 might make them well4 ,and when he went

 through the large and small towns they 
laid the sick in the streets1 and begged
 that they might touch but the hem of   
his robe4 ,and at a touch they were all 
made well4     ,,chapter ,,xi4  ,,jesus 
,,heals ,,the ,,sick4--,,his ,,form     
,,changed ,,on ,,the ,,mount4           
,,je-,,sus went to ,ca-per-na-um and    
taught the ,jews there4 ,but all that he
 said made them hate him the more1 and  
their chief priests did all they could  
to prove that he was not the ,christ who
 was to save them4 ,they thought that he
 who was to be the ,king of the ,jews   
would come in rich robes1 and with all  
the signs of high rank4 ,so they would  
have naught to do with a poor man like  
,je-sus4  ,it made ,je-sus sad to have  
the ,jews turn from him1 and he left    
them1 and went out to the towns of ,tyre
 and ,si-don1 which were on the         
sea-coast4 ,and no ,jews dwelt there4   
,yet a wo-man1 as soon as she heard he  
was there1 came out and cried to him1 ,o
 ,lord1 thou ,son of ,da-vid1 come and  

heal my child1 for she has gone mad4    
,illustration3 ,,the ,,as-,,cen-,,sion4 
,je-sus said he was sent to none but the
 ,jews4 ,this he did to try her faith1  
for she was not a ,jew4  ,but she fell  
at his feet1 and cried out1 ,lord help  
me6  ,illustration3 ,,si-,,don4  ,je-sus
 said to her1 ,great is thy faith2 thy  
child is made well4  ,and when she went 
back to her house she found her child   
had been made well at the same hour that
 she spoke to ,je-sus4  ,then ,je-sus   
and the twelve went down near the ,sea  
of ,gal-i-lee once more4 ,and they      
brought to ,je-sus a man that was deaf1 
and who could not speak plain1 that he  
might lay his hands on him and heal him4
  ,je-sus took him out of the crowd1 and
 touched his ears and tongue1 and at    
once the man was made well1 so that he  
could both hear and speak4  ,and crowds 
came to him1 and brought those that were
 lame1 blind1 and dumb1 and laid them   
down at the feet of ,je-sus1 that he    
might heal them4 ,and ,je-sus healed    

them all1 so that the crowds were in a  
maze when they saw the dumb speak1 the  
lame walk1 and the blind see2 and they  
gave praise and thanks to ,god for what 
he had done4  ,at the end of six days   
,je-sus took ,pe-ter1 ,james1 and ,john1
 and went up on a high mount to pray4   
,and while he was there a great change  
took place in him4 ,his face shone as   
the sun1 and his clothes were as white  
as snow1 and the light shone through    
them4  ,and ,mo-ses and ,e-li-jah came  
to him1 and spoke with him4  ,pe-ter    
said1 ,lord1 it is good for us to be    
here4 ,let us make three tents1 one for 
thee1 and one for ,mo-ses1 and one for  
,e-li-jah4  ,while he yet spoke there   
came a bright cloud1 out of which a     
voice spoke and said1 ,this is my dear  
,son1 in whom ,i am well pleased4 ,hear 
ye him4  ,when ,pe-ter1 ,james1 and     
,john heard it1 they bowed down to the  
ground1 and were in great fear4  ,je-sus
 came and touched them1 and said1 ,rise4
 ,fear not4 ,and when they raised their 

eyes they saw no one but ,je-sus4  ,as  
they came down from the mount1 ,je-sus  
bade them tell no one what they had seen
 till he rose from the dead4            
,illustration3 ,,pe-,,ter ,,and ,,the   
,,trib-,,ute ,,mon-,,ey4  ,the next day1
 when they had come down from the mount1
 there was a great crowd to see ,je-sus4
 ,and one man knelt at his feet and     
said1 ,lord1 help my son1 for he has    
fits1 and the fiends in him vex him so  
that he falls in the fire and in the    
wa-ter4 ,i took him to those whom thou  
hast taught to heal1 to see if they     
could cure him2 and they could not4     
,je-sus said1 ,bring him to me4 ,and    
they brought him2 and he fell on the    
ground and foamed at the mouth4  ,je-sus
 said to the fiend that was in the young
 man1 ,come out of him and vex him no   
more4  ,and the fiend cried with a loud 
voice1 and shook the young man1 and came
 out of him1 but left him weak1 like one
 dead4 ,and those who stood near thought
 he was dead4 ,but ,je-sus took him by  

the hand and raised him1 and he stood on
 his feet and was well from that hour4  
,then ,je-sus and the twelve went to    
,ca-per-na-um4 ,and when they were in   
the house ,je-sus said1 ,why were ye at 
such strife in your talk on the way8    
,and for shame they held their peace1   
for their talk had been as to which     
should have the high-est place in the   
realm where ,je-sus was to reign as     
,king of the ,jews4  ,when they had sat 
down ,je-sus said to the twelve1 ,he who
 seeks to be first shall be last of all4
  ,and he took a child and set it in the
 midst of them1 and told them that they 
must put pride out of their hearts and  
be as meek as a child4 ,for he who      
thought not of him-self1 but did ,god's 
will as a child does the will of its    
fa-ther1 the same should be great in the
 realm which ,je-sus was to set up4     
,je-sus taught there for some time1 and 
then set out for ,je-ru-sa-lem4 ,and the
 twelve went with him4  ,when they were 
come to ,ca-per-na-um1 those that took  

in the trib-ute mon-ey came to ,pe-ter  
and said1 ,doth not your mas-ter pay    
trib-ute4  ,this was the tax the ,jews  
had to pay to ,ce-sar as the price of   
peace4  ,pe-ter said1 ,yes4 ,and when he
 came in-to the house ,je-sus met him   
and said4  ,of whom do the kings of the 
earth take cus-tom or trib-ute8 of their
 own chil-dren or of stran-gers8        
,pe-ter said1 ,of stran-gers4  ,je-sus  
said1 ,then are the chil-dren free4 ,but
 lest we should give cause for blame1 go
 thou to the sea1 and cast a hook1 and  
take up the fish that first comes up4   
,in its mouth thou shalt find a piece of
 mon-ey4 ,take that and give it to them 
for me and thee4     ,,chapter ,,xii4   
,,the ,,good ,,samaritan4--,,martha     
,,and ,,mary4--,,the ,,man ,,born       
,,blind4   ,,je-,,sus went to the great 
church in ,je-ru-sa-lem1 and the ,jews  
came there in crowds to hear him preach1
 and to find fault with him4  ,and a man
 of law stood up and said1 ,what must ,i
 do to be saved8 ,je-sus said to him1   

,what does the law say8 ,how dost thou  
read it8 ,the man of law said1 ,thou    
shalt love the ,lord thy ,god with all  
thy heart1 and with all thy soul1 and   
with all thy strength1 and thy neigh-bor
 as thy-self4  ,je-sus said to him1     
,that is right4 ,do this1 and thou shalt
 be saved4  ,the man of law said1 ,who  
is my neigh-bor8 ,then ,je-sus spoke in 
this way1 and said1 ,a man went down    
from ,je-ru-sa-lem to ,je-ri-cho4 ,and  
the thieves fell on him1 tore off his   
clothes and beat him1 then went on their
 way and left him half dead on the      
ground4  ,by chance there came a priest 
that way1 and when he saw the poor man  
he went by him on the oth-er side of the
 road4  ,then one of the tribe of ,le-vi
 came to the place1 and took a look at  
the poor man1 and went by on the oth-er 
side of the road4  ,by and by a         
,sa-mar-i-tan--that is1 a man from      
,sa-ma-ri-a--came that way1 and as soon 
as he saw the poor man on the ground his
 heart was moved1 and he made haste to  

help him4  ,now the ,jews did not like  
the ,sa-mar-i-tans1 and would have      
nought to do with them4 ,and those to   
whom ,je-sus spoke would not have       
thought it strange if this man from     
,sa-ma-ri-a had left the ,jew to die by 
the road-side4  ,but this he could not  
do1 for he had a kind heart4 ,he went to
 the poor man and bound up his wounds1  
and set him on his own beast1 and       
brought him to an inn1 and took care of 
him4  ,and the next day when he left he 
took out two pence and gave them to the 
host1 and said to him1 ,take care of    
him2 and if thou hast need to spend more
 than that1 when ,i come back ,i will   
pay thee4  ,which now of these three    
dost thou think was neigh-bor to him who
 fell a-mong thieves8  ,illustration3   
,,the ,,good ,,sam-,,ar-,i-,,tan4  ,and 
the man of law said1 ,he that was kind  
to him4  ,then said ,je-sus1 ,go1 and do
 thou like-wise2 that is1 to those who  
need help go and do as the ,sa-mar-i-tan
 did4  ,je-sus came to ,beth-a-ny--a    

small place near ,je-ru-sa-lem--and a   
wo-man1 whose name was ,mar-tha1 asked  
him to come to her house4 ,she had a    
sis-ter1 whose name was ,ma-ry1 and     
while ,mar-tha went to get things and to
 cook1 and sweep1 and dust1 ,ma-ry sat  
down at the feet of ,je-sus to hear him 
talk4  ,this did not please ,mar-tha1   
who felt that she had too much work to  
do2 so she came to ,je-sus and said1    
,lord1 dost thou not care that my       
sis-ter hath left me to do the work     
a-lone8 ,bid her there-fore come and    
help me4  ,je-sus said to her1 ,mar-tha1
 ,mar-tha1 thou art full of care and    
vexed a-bout more things than there is  
need of4 ,there is need of but one      
thing1 and ,ma-ry hath made choice of   
that which is good1 and no one shall    
take it from her4  ,he meant that ,ma-ry
 chose to care for her soul1 and to be  
taught how to live in this world1 so    
that she might fit her-self for the next
 one4 ,and the one thing we all need is 
a new heart1 full of love to ,je-sus and

 glad to do his work4  ,one of the      
twelve said to ,je-sus1 ,teach us how to
 pray1 as ,john taught those who were   
with him4 ,je-sus taught them to pray   
thus3  ,our ,fa-ther1 who art in        
heav-en1 ,hal-low-ed be thy name1 ,thy  
king-dom come1 ,thy will be done on     
earth as it is in heav-en1 ,give us this
 day our dai-ly bread1 and for-give us  
our debts as we for-give our debt-ors4  
,lead us not in-to temp-ta-tion but     
de-liv-er us from e-vil1 for thine is   
the king-dom1 the pow-er1 and the       
glo-ry1 both now and for-ev-er4 ,a-men4 
,illustration3 ,,ma-,,ry ,,and          
,,mar-,,tha4  ,then he said1 ,which of  
you shall have a friend and shall go to 
him at mid-night and say to him1        
,friend1 lend me three loaves3 for a    
friend of mine has come a long way to   
see me1 and ,i have no food for him4    
,and he who is in-side shall say1 ,the  
door is now shut1 and my chil-dren are  
with me in bed2 ,i can-not rise and give
 thee4  ,i say to you1 though he will   

not rise and give him be-cause he is his
 friend1 yet if he keeps on and begs    
hard he will rise and give him as much  
as he needs4 ,and ,i say to you1 ,ask   
,god for what you need and he will give 
it to you4 ,seek and ye shall find4     
,knock1 and the door that is shut will  
o-pen for you4  ,for1 he said1 if a     
child of yours should ask for bread1    
would you give him a stone8 or should he
 ask for a fish1 would you give him a   
snake8 ,if ye then1 who are full of sin1
 know how to give good gifts to your    
chil-dren1 how much more sure is it that
 ,god will give good things to those who
 ask him4  ,je-sus chose three-score and
 ten more men and sent them out1 two and
 two1 in-to all the towns where he meant
 to come1 that they might heal the sick 
and preach the good news4 ,and they did 
as he told them1 and came back full of  
joy at the great things they had done   
through the strength that he gave them4 
,je-sus told them that they should feel 
more joy that their names were set down 

in the ,book of ,life--,god's           
book--where he keeps the names of all   
those who love him1 and do his will on  
earth4  ,illustration3 ,,the            
,,send-,,ing ,,out ,,of ,,the           
,,sev-,,en-,,ty4  ,the ,feast of ,tents 
was near at hand1 and ,je-sus said to   
the twelve1 ,go ye up to this feast1 but
 ,i will not go now1 for my time has not
 yet come4 ,so he staid in ,gal-i-lee   
for a-while4 ,then he went up to        
,je-ru-sa-lem1 but did not make him-self
 known lest the ,jews should kill him4  
,the ,jews sought for him at the feast1 
and said1 ,where is he8 ,and there was  
much talk of him4 ,some said1 ,he is a  
good man2 and some said1 ,no1 he is a   
fraud4 ,but no one dared to speak well  
of him out loud for fear of the ,jews4  
,in the midst of the feast ,je-sus went 
up in-to the church and taught there4   
,and he said1 ,ye both know me1 and ye  
know from whence ,i came4 ,i am not come
 to please my-self1 but to do the will  
of him that sent me1 whom ye know not4  

,but ,i know him1 for ,i have come from 
him1 and he hath sent me4  ,then they   
made a rush for him1 but no man laid    
hands on him1 for his hour had not yet  
come4 ,god had set the time for him to  
die1 and no one could harm him till that
 day and hour4  ,as he came from the    
church he saw a man who had been blind  
from his birth4 ,je-sus spat on the     
ground and made clay of the moist earth1
 and spread the clay on the eyes of the 
blind man4  ,then he told him to go and 
wash in a pool that was near4 ,and he   
went1 and did as he was told1 and his   
sight came back to him4  ,and his       
friends1 and those who had seen him when
 he was blind1 said1 ,is not this he    
that sat and begged8  ,some said1 ,this 
is he2 and some said1 ,he is like him2  
but the man said1 ,i am he4  ,then they 
said to him1 ,how were thine eyes cured8
  ,and he said1 ,a man1 by the name of  
,je-sus1 made clay and spread it on my  
eyes1 and said to me1 ,go to the pool of
 ,si-lo-am and wash2 and ,i went and did

 so1 and my sight came back to me4      
,then they said to him1 ,where is he8   
,he said1 ,i know not4  ,illustration3  
,,once ,i ,,was ,,blind1 ,,but ,,now ,i 
,,see4  ,it was on the day of rest that 
,je-sus made the clay1 and the          
,phar-i-sees1 when they heard of it1    
said1 ,this man is not of ,god1 for he  
does not keep the day of rest4 ,and they
 went to the fa-ther and the mo-ther of 
the man who had been blind1 and said to 
them1 ,is this your son1 who ye say was 
born blind8 ,how then doth he now see8  
,his pa-rents said1 ,we know that this  
is our son1 and that he was born blind2 
but by what means he now sees1 or who   
hath cured his eyes1 we know not4 ,he is
 of age1 ask him2 he shall speak for    
him-self4  ,they spoke thus for fear of 
the ,jews2 for the ,jews had made it    
known that all those who said that      
,je-sus was the ,christ should be put   
out of the church4 ,so they said1 ,he is
 of age2 ask him4  ,then the            
,phar-i-sees went to the man that was   

blind1 and said to him1 ,give ,god the  
praise1 for we know that this man is a  
man of sin4  ,he said to them1 ,what he 
is ,i know not2 but this ,i do know1    
that once ,i was blind1 but now ,i see4 
,then they said to him1 ,what did he do 
to thee8 ,how did he cure thine eyes8   
,the man said1 ,i have told you be-fore1
 and ye did not hear4 ,why would ye hear
 me say it once more8 ,would ye be of   
his band8  ,then they spoke harsh words 
to him1 and said1 ,thou dost take sides 
with him1 but we stand by ,mo-ses4 ,we  
know that ,god spoke to ,mo-ses2 but as 
for this fel-low1 we know not who sent  
him4  ,the man said1 ,it is strange that
 ye know not who sent him1 when he has  
brought sight to my blind eyes4 ,since  
the world was made we have not heard of 
a man who could give sight to one that  
was born blind4 ,if this man were not of
 ,god he could not have done this thing4
  ,the ,phar-i-sees were full of wrath1 
and said to the man1 ,thou hast dwelt in
 sin from thy birth1 and wilt thou try  

to teach us8 ,and they drove him out of 
the church4  ,je-sus heard of it1 and   
when he found the man he said to him1   
,have you faith in the son of ,god8  ,he
 said1 ,who is he1 ,lord1 that ,i may   
put my trust in him8  ,je-sus said1 ,it 
is he that talks with thee4  ,the man   
said1 ,lord1 ,i know that it must be so2
 and he fell at the feet of ,je-sus1 and
 gave praise to him4     ,,chapter      
,,xiii4  ,,jesus1 ,,the ,,good          
,,shepherd4--,,lazarus ,,brought ,,to   
,,life4--,,the ,,feast1 ,,and ,,those   
,,who ,,were ,,bid ,,to ,,it4           
,,je-,,sus said to those whom he taught1
 ,i am the good shep-herd4 ,the good    
shep-herd will give his life for the    
sheep4 ,but he that is hired1 and who   
does not own the sheep1 when he sees the
 wolf will leave the sheep and run to   
save his own life4 ,then the wolf lays  
hold of the sheep1 and puts the flock to
 flight4 ,he who is hired flees from the
 sheep1 be-cause he does not care for   
them4  ,i am the good shep-herd and know

 my sheep1 and my sheep know me4 ,and ,i
 will lay down my life for the sheep4   
,some sheep ,i have which are not of    
this fold2 they too must ,i bring in1   
and they shall hear my voice1 and there 
shall be one fold1 and one shep-herd4   
,the ,jews found fault with his words1  
and some said1 ,he talks like a mad-man4
  ,as ,je-sus went out on the porch at  
one side of the great church that       
,he-rod built1 the ,jews came round him 
and said1 ,how long wilt thou keep us in
 doubt8 ,if thou be the ,christ1 tell us
 so in plain words4  ,je-sus said1 ,i   
told you1 and ye had no faith in me4    
,the works that ,i do1 in ,god's name1  
are proof that ,i am sent from him4 ,but
 ye do not trust me be-cause ye are not 
my sheep4 ,my sheep hear my voice1 and  
,i know them1 and they go the way ,i    
lead4 ,they shall not be lost1 and no   
one shall take them from me4 ,for ,god  
gave them to me1 and no one can take    
them out of his hand4 ,i and my ,fa-ther
 are one4  ,then the ,jews took up      

stones to stone him1 be-cause he said   
that he was ,god4  ,but he fled from    
them1 and went out of ,je-ru-sa-lem to a
 place near the ,jor-dan1 where crowds  
came to hear him1 and to be taught of   
him4 ,and not a few gave their hearts to
 ,je-sus1 and sought to lead new lives2 
to do right and to be good4             
,illustration3 ,,the ,,lost ,,sheep4    
,ma-ry and ,mar-tha1 who lived at       
,beth-a-ny1 had a bro-ther whose name   
was ,laz-a-rus1 and he was sick4 ,so his
 sis-ters sent word to ,je-sus1 but     
though he was fond of these friends at  
,beth-a-ny he made no haste to go to    
them1 but staid two days in the place   
where he was4  ,then he said to the     
twelve1 ,let us go back to ,beth-a-ny1  
for my friend ,laz-a-rus sleeps1 and ,i 
must go and wake him4  ,he meant that   
,laz-a-rus was dead1 and that he must go
 and bring him back to life4  ,but the  
twelve thought that he meant that       
,laz-a-rus slept1 as we do when we take 
our rest4  ,now ,beth-a-ny was near     

,je-ru-sa-lem1 and a crowd of ,jews had 
gone there to weep with ,ma-ry and      
,mar-tha4 ,as soon as ,mar-tha heard    
that ,je-sus was near she ran out to    
meet him2 but ,ma-ry sat still in the   
house4 ,and ,mar-tha said to ,je-sus1   
,if thou hadst been here my bro-ther    
would not have died4 ,but ,i know that  
e-ven now what thou wilt ask of ,god he 
will give it thee4  ,je-sus said to her1
 ,thy bro-ther shall rise a-gain4       
,mar-tha said1 ,i know that he shall    
rise at the last day4  ,then ,mar-tha   
went back to the house and said to      
,ma-ry1 ,the mas-ter has come and asks  
for thee4  ,ma-ry rose at once and went 
out to meet him2 and those who saw her  
leave the house1 said1 ,she goes to the 
grave to weep there4  ,as soon as ,ma-ry
 came to the place where ,je-sus was1   
she fell at his feet and said1 ,lord1 if
 thou hadst been here my bro-ther had   
not died4  ,when ,je-sus saw her tears1 
and the tears of those who wept with    
her1 he was full of grief1 and said1    

,where have ye laid him8  ,they said1   
,lord1 come and see4  ,je-sus wept4 ,and
 when the ,jews saw it they said1 ,see  
how he loved him4 ,and some of them     
said1 ,could not this man1 who gave the 
blind their sight1 have saved ,laz-a-rus
 from death8  ,je-sus came to the grave4
 ,it was a cave1 and a stone lay at the 
mouth of it4  ,je-sus said1 ,take a-way 
the stone4 ,mar-tha said to him1 ,by    
this time he must be in a bad state1 for
 he has been dead four days4  ,je-sus   
said to her1 ,did ,i not tell thee that 
if thou hadst faith thou should see what
 great things ,god could do8  ,then they
 took the stone from the place where the
 dead was laid4 ,and ,je-sus cried out  
with a loud voice1 ,laz-a-rus1 come     
forth4  ,illustration3 ,,laz-,a-,,rus   
,,raised ,,from ,,the ,,dead4  ,and he  
that was dead came forth1 bound hand and
 foot in his grave clothes1 and with his
 head tied up in a cloth4 ,je-sus said1 
,loose him and let him go4  ,and some of
 the ,jews who came to be with ,ma-ry   

and ,mar-tha1 and saw this great thing  
which ,je-sus did1 had faith in him that
 he was the son of ,god4 ,but some of   
them went to the ,phar-i-sees and told  
what he had done4  ,and the ,phar-i-sees
 and chief priests met to talk of       
,je-sus and his deeds4 ,they said it    
would not do to let him go on in this   
way1 for he would raise up a host of    
friends who would make him their king4  
,that would not please the ,ce-sar of   
,rome1 who would come and take          
,je-ru-sa-lem from them1 and drive the  
,jews out of the land4  ,so from that   
time they sought out some way in which  
they could put ,je-sus to death4  ,as   
,je-sus went out of the church where he 
had taught on the ,lord's day1 he saw a 
wo-man all bent up in a heap4 ,she had  
been so for near a score of years1 and  
could not lift her-self up4  ,je-sus    
said to her1 ,wo-man1 thou art made     
well4 ,and he laid his hands on her1 and
 she rose at once1 and stood up         
straight1 and gave thanks to ,god4  ,and

 the chief man of the church was wroth  
with ,je-sus1 be-cause he had done this 
deed on the day of rest4 ,he said to    
those in the church1 ,there are six days
 in which men ought to work2 if you want
 to be cured come then1 and not on the  
day of rest4  ,je-sus spoke1 and said1  
,doth not each one of you loose his ox  
or his ass from the stall and lead him  
off to drink8 ,and if it is right to do 
for the ox and the ass what they need1  
is it not right that this wom-an should 
be made well on the day of rest8        
,illustration3 ,,the ,,great            
,,sup-,,per4  ,and when he said this his
 foes hung their heads with shame1 and  
all his friends were glad for the great 
deeds that were done by him4  ,one      
,lord's day he went to the house of one 
of the chief ,phar-i-sees1 and while    
there he spoke of a man who made a great
 feast4  ,and when it was all spread    
out1 he sent his ser-vant out to bid    
those come in whom he had asked to the  
feast4  ,and they all cried out that    

they could not come4 ,the first one     
said1 ,i have bought a piece of ground1 
and must go and see it2 so pray do not  
look for me4  ,the next one said1 ,i    
have bought five yoke of ox-en1 and must
 go and try them2 so pray do not look   
for me4  ,the next one said1 ,i have    
just ta-ken a wife1 and so can-not come4
  ,so the ser-vant came back to the     
house and told his mas-ter these things4
 ,then the rich man was in a rage1 and  
he said to his ser-vant1 ,make haste and
 go out through the streets and lanes of
 the town1 and bring in the poor1 the   
lame1 and the halt and the blind4  ,and 
the ser-vant did as he was told4 ,then  
he came and said1 ,lord1 ,i have done as
 thou didst bid me1 and yet there is    
room for more4  ,the lord of the house  
then said1 ,go out through the          
high-ways1 and down by the hedge-rows1  
and make the folks come in1 that my     
house may be full2 for none of those who
 were first called shall taste of my    
feast4  ,the man who spreads the feast  

is ,god4 ,the feast is the good         
news--that ,christ will save us from our
 sins4 ,the ser-vant means those who    
preach1 and urge men to come to ,christ4
 ,those who were first bid to the feast 
and would not come mean the ,jews4 ,and 
to bid the poor1 the lame1 and the blind
 come in-to the feast1 means that the   
poor and the sick are to be saved as    
well as the rich and the great4  ,great 
crowds drew near to ,je-sus1 and he told
 them that though they might come and   
hear him preach1 if they did not care   
for him in their hearts they were not   
true friends1 and could not be of his   
band4 ,they must care more for him than 
for all else in the whole world2 and    
must bear his cross--that is1 they must 
do what is right1 as ,je-sus did4       
,,chapter ,,xiv4  ,,the ,,prodigal      
,,son4--,,the ,,pharisee ,,and ,,the    
,,publican4--,,babes ,,brought ,,to     
,,jesus4--,,zaccheus ,,climbs ,a ,,tree4
   ,,je-,,sus said1 ,there was a rich   
man who had two sons4 ,one of them was  

wild1 and fond of feasts and of gay     
times1 and did not care for his home1 or
 the life that he led there4 ,so he went
 to his fa-ther and said1 ,give me1 ,i  
pray thee1 my share of the wealth thou  
hast laid up for thine heirs1 that ,i   
may spend it as ,i choose4 ,and he took 
his share1 and went far from home1 and  
led a gay life4  ,and when he had spent 
all he had1 there came a dearth in that 
land1 and he was in great want4  ,that  
he might not starve1 he went out in     
search of work1 and a man hired him1 and
 sent him in the fields to feed swine4  
,and so great was his need of some-thing
 to eat that he would have been glad to 
have had some of the coarse food with   
which the swine were fed1 but none of   
the men gave it to him4  ,then he said  
to him-self1 ,the men my fa-ther hires  
have more food than they can eat1 while 
,i starve for want of what they can well
 spare4 ,i will rise and go to my       
fa-ther1 and will say to him1 ,fa-ther1 
,i have done wrong in thy sight1 and in 

the sight of ,god1 and have no more     
right to be called thy son4 ,let me come
 back to thy house1 and be as a         
ser-vant4  ,so he rose and went to his  
fa-ther4 ,and while he was yet a long   
way off his fa-ther saw him1 and ran and
 fell on his neck and kissed him4  ,and 
the son said to him1 ,fa-ther ,i have   
done wrong in thy sight1 and in the     
sight of ,god1 and have no more right to
 be called thy son4  ,but the fa-ther   
said to his hired men1 ,bring forth the 
best robe and put it on him1 and put a  
ring on his hand1 and shoes on his feet4
 ,and bring in the fat-ted calf1 and    
kill it1 and let us eat and be glad4    
,for this my son was dead1 and now      
lives2 he was lost and is found4 ,and   
tears and sighs gave place to smiles and
 songs of joy4  ,illustration3 ,,the    
,,prod-,i-,,gal',s ,,re-,,turn4  ,now   
the son who had staid at home and kept  
his share of wealth that his fa-ther    
gave him1 was at work in the field4 ,and
 as he came near the house he heard the 

gay sounds1 and called one of the hired 
men to him and asked what it all meant4 
,the man said1 ,thy broth-er is here1   
and thy fa-ther has made a feast1 so    
great is his joy to have him back safe  
and sound4 ,and the young man was in a  
rage1 and would not go in the house2 so 
his fa-ther came out and coaxed him4    
,and he said to his fa-ther1 ,for years 
and years have ,i been true to thee and 
broke none of thy laws4 ,but thou didst 
not kill a kid for me that ,i might make
 a feast for my friends4 ,but as soon as
 this thy son was come1 who spent thy   
wealth in ways of sin1 thou didst kill  
the fat-ted calf for him4  ,and the     
fa-ther said1 ,my son1 ,i have loved    
thee all thy life1 and all that ,i own  
is the same as if it was thine2 yet it  
was right that we should be glad and    
sing songs of joy1 for this thy broth-er
 was dead and now lives2 he was lost and
 is found4  ,in this way ,je-sus taught 
those who found fault with him1 that    
,god was glad to have men turn from     

their sins and come back to him4 ,he    
loved them in spite of their sins1 and  
when they made up their minds to leave  
them1 and to do what was right1 ,god met
 them more than half way1 and gave peace
 and joy to their hearts4  ,a prod-i-gal
 is one who wastes all that he has4     
,then ,je-sus spoke to those who were   
proud1 and felt as if no one else was   
quite as good as they were4 ,and he     
said1 ,two men went up in-to the church 
to pray4 ,one of them--a                
,phar-i-see--chose a place where all    
could see him2 and he stood up and said1
 ,god ,i thank thee that ,i am not like 
oth-er men4 ,i fast twice a week1 and ,i
 give to the aid of the church a tenth  
part of all ,i own4  ,illustration3     
,,the ,,phar-,i-,,see4  ,but the oth-er 
man stood far off1 and bowed his head1  
and beat on his breast as he said1 ,god 
help me1 and for-give my sins4 ,and ,god
 for-gave this man more than he did the 
oth-er1 for those that are proud shall  
be brought low1 and those who are meek  

shall be set in a high place4  ,then    
babes were brought to ,je-sus that he   
might lay his hands on them and bless   
them4 ,and when the twelve saw it1 they 
tried to keep them back1 and would have 
sent them a-way4  ,this did not please  
,je-sus1 and he said to them1 ,let the  
chil-dren come to me1 and do not hold   
them back1 for of such is the king-dom  
of ,god4  ,he meant that no one could   
have a home with ,god who was not as    
good1 and sweet1 and pure as a young    
child1 who hates sin1 and loves ,god    
with his whole heart4 ,then ,je-sus took
 the babes up in his arms1 and laid his 
hands on them1 and blest them4  ,and as 
he and the twelve went on their way1    
,je-sus told them that they were to go  
to ,je-ru-sa-lem that those things might
 be done to him of which the seers and  
proph-ets spoke4 ,he said that the ,jews
 would beat him and put him to death1   
but that he should rise from the dead on
 the third day4  ,none of the twelve    
knew what he meant by these things1 but 

thought he would set up his throne on   
earth1 and reign as kings do in this    
world1 and that each one of them would  
have a place of high rank near his      
throne4  ,illustration3 ,,suf-,,fer     
,,lit-,,tle ,,chil-,,dren ,,to ,,come   
,,un-,,to ,,me4  ,when it was known that
 they were to pass through ,jer-i-cho a 
great crowd came out to meet them4 ,and 
there was a rich man there who had a    
great wish to see ,je-sus4 ,and his name
 was ,zac-che-us4 ,he was so small that 
he was quite hid by the crowd1 and he   
was in great fear that ,je-sus would    
pass and he not see him4 ,so he ran on  
a-head of the crowd2 and got up in-to a 
tree1 from whence he could look down at 
this great man of whom he had heard4    
,and when ,je-sus came to the place he  
raised his eyes and saw him1 and said to
 him1 ,zac-che-us1 make haste and come  
down1 for to-day ,i must stay at thy    
house4  ,and ,zac-che-us came down and  
went with ,je-sus1 and was glad to have 
him as a guest4 ,and there was quite a  

stir in the crowd1 and the ,jews found  
fault with ,je-sus1 and said that he had
 gone to be a guest with a man that was 
full of sin4  ,but ,zac-che-us told     
,je-sus that if he had done wrong he    
would do so no more1 but would try to be
 just to all men and to lead a good and 
pure life4  ,and when ,je-sus saw that  
he meant what he said1 he told          
,zac-che-us that ,god would blot out the
 sins of the past1 and help him to lead 
a new life4 ,for he said that he had    
come to the world to seek those who had 
gone wrong1 and were like lost sheep1   
and to save them and bring them to his  
home in the sky1 where there was no such
 thing as sin or death4     ,,chapter   
,,xv4  ,,the ,,feast ,,of ,,the         
,,passover4--,,the ,,supper ,,at        
,,bethany4   ,,now the great feast of   
the ,pass-o-ver was near1 and a great   
crowd of ,jews went up to ,je-ru-sa-lem 
to keep it4 ,it had been kept since the 
days of ,mo-ses1 when ,god smote the    
first-born of ,e-gypt1 and passed o-ver 

the homes of the ,jews4  ,and those who 
were on the watch for ,je-sus to do him 
harm1 said1 as they stood in the church1
 ,what think ye8 will he not come to the
 feast8 ,for the chief priests and      
,phar-i-sees had sent out word that     
those who knew where ,je-sus was should 
make it known1 that they might take him4
  ,now six days be-fore the great feast1
 ,je-sus came to ,beth-a-ny1 where      
,laz-a-rus was whom he had raised from  
the dead4 ,some of the ,jews knew that  
he was there1 and they came not so much 
to see ,je-sus as to see ,laz-a-rus4    
,and the chief priests sought for a way 
to put ,laz-a-rus to death1 as some of  
the ,jews1 when they saw him had faith  
in ,je-sus1 and gave their hearts to    
him4  ,je-sus left ,beth-a-ny to go to  
,je-ru-sa-lem1 and on the way the       
mo-ther of ,zeb-e-dee's chil-dren came  
to ,je-sus and begged that he would do  
one thing for her4  ,je-sus said to her1
 ,what wilt thou8 ,she said to him1     
,grant that these my two sons may sit1  

the one on thy right hand1 and the      
oth-er on thy left1 in thy king-dom4    
,je-sus said1 ,ye know not what ye ask4 
,can ye drink of the cup that ,i drink  
of1 and bear all that ,i shall have to  
bear8 ,they said1 ,we can4 ,je-sus said1
 ,ye shall drink of the cup1 and bear   
the cross1 but to sit on my right hand  
and on my left is not mine to give2 but 
,god gives it to those who are fit for  
it4  ,when the ten heard this they were 
wroth with ,james and ,john4 ,but       
,je-sus told them that those who sought 
to rule would be made to serve1 and that
 he him-self came not to be served by   
men but to lay down his life for them4  
,illustration3 ,,christ ,,and ,,the     
,,moth-,,er ,,of ,,zeb-,e-,,dee's       
,,chil-,,dren4  ,and when they came to  
the ,mount of ,ol-ives1 ,je-sus sent two
 of the twelve1 and said to them1 ,go to
 the small town which is near you1 and  
you shall find there a colt tied1 on    
which no man has rode4 ,loose him1 and  
bring him to me1 and if you should be   

asked1 ,why do ye this8 ,say that the   
,lord hath need of him1 and he will be  
sent at once4  ,the men did as ,je-sus  
told them1 and brought the young ass and
 put their robes on his back1 and       
,je-sus sat on him4  ,and as he went out
 on the road the crowds on their way to 
the feast spread their robes be-fore    
him1 and strewed the way with green     
boughs from the palm trees4 ,and they   
waved palms in their hands1 and made the
 air ring with shouts of1 ,ho-san-na to 
the son of ,da-vid6 ,blest is he that   
comes in the name of the ,lord6         
,ho-san-na in the high-est6             
,illustration3 ,,chil-,,dren ,,in ,,the 
,,tem-,,ple ,,cry-,,ing1 ,,ho-,,san-,,na
 ,,to ,,the ,,son ,,of ,,da-,,vid4      
,illustration3 ,,the ,,en-,,try         
,,in-,,to ,,jer-,u-,,sa-,,lem4  ,this   
was the way in which they used to meet  
and greet their kings1 and they thought 
to please ,je-sus so that he would pay  
them back when he set up his throne on  
earth4 ,for the most of them did not    

love him in their hearts4  ,as ,je-sus  
came near to ,je-ru-sa-lem he looked at 
it1 and wept when he thought of the     
grief that the ,jews were to know4  ,and
 he taught each day in the church at    
,je-ru-sa-lem1 but at night he went to  
,beth-a-ny to sleep4  ,one morn as he   
was on his way back to ,je-ru-sa-lem he 
saw a fig-tree by the road-side1 and    
went to it to pluck some of the fruit4  
,but he found on it naught but leaves4  
,then he said to it1 ,let no more figs  
grow on this tree4  ,the next day when  
the twelve went by they saw that the    
fig-tree was dried up from its roots4   
,and they thought of the words that     
,je-sus spoke1 and said1 ,how soon has  
the fig-tree dried up6  ,je-sus told    
them that they might do as much and more
 than he had done to the fig-tree1 if   
they had faith in ,god1 and sought      
strength from him4  ,illustration3      
,,christ ,,weep-,,ing ,o-,,ver          
,,jer-,u-,,sa-,,lem4  ,then he spoke to 
them in this way3 ,there was a rich man 

who laid out a vine-yard1 and dug a     
ditch round it to keep wild beasts and  
thieves a-way1 and made a wine press1   
and let the place out to men who were to
 give him part of the fruit4 ,then he   
went off to a far land4  ,when the time 
had come for the fruit to be ripe he    
sent one of his ser-vants to the men who
 had charge of the vine-yard1 that he   
might bring back his share of the       
grapes4  ,but the men took the ser-vant 
and beat him1 and sent him off with no  
fruit in his hands4  ,then the one who  
owned the place sent once more1 and the 
bad men threw stones at this ser-vant1  
and hurt him so in the head that he was 
like to die4 ,the next one they killed1 
and so things went on4  ,now the rich   
man1 who owned the place1 had but one   
son1 who was most dear to him4 ,and he  
said1 ,if ,i send my son to them they   
will be kind to him1 and treat him well4
  ,but as soon as the bad men saw him   
they said1 ,this is the heir2 let us    
kill him1 and all that is his shall be  

ours4 ,and they took him and put him to 
death1 and cast him out of the          
vine-yard4  ,the vine-yard is the world4
 ,the one who owns it is ,god4 ,the bad 
men are the ,jews2 he had taught them   
his laws1 and they had vowed to keep    
them4 ,when they did not do it1 ,god    
sent priests and wise men to try and    
make them do what was right4 ,these were
 stoned1 and not a few were slain4  ,at 
last he sent his own dear son1 ,je-sus4 
,now they meant to kill him1 as the bad 
men had killed the heir of the          
vine-yard4  ,when the ,jews heard this  
talk they knew that ,je-sus spoke of    
them1 and they were wroth with him1 and 
in haste to kill him4  ,one day1 on his 
way out of the tem-ple1 ,je-sus sat down
 near the box in which mon-ey was put   
for the use of the church4 ,and he saw  
that the rich put in large sums4 ,and   
there came a poor wid-ow who threw in   
two mites1 which make a far-thing1 or   
the fourth of a pen-ny4  ,je-sus said to
 the twelve1 ,this poor wid-ow has cast 

in more than all the rest4 ,for they had
 so much they did not miss what they    
gave2 while she1 who was poor and in    
want1 did cast in all that she had4     
,illustration3 ,,the ,,wid-,,ow',s      
,,mite4     ,,chapter ,,xvi4            
,,parables4   ,a par-a-ble is a sto-ry  
of some-thing in real life that will fix
 in our minds and hearts the truth it is
 meant to teach4  ,je-sus said the      
king-dom of heav-en was like the mas-ter
 of a house who went out at morn to hire
 men to work in his vine-yard4  ,the    
price was fixed at a pen-ny a day1 and  
those who would work for that were sent 
out to the vine-yard4  ,at nine o'clock 
in the day he went out and saw men in   
the mar-ket place who were out of work1 
and he said to them1 ,go ye to the      
vine-yard1 and ,i will pay you what is  
right4 ,and they went their way4  ,he   
went out at noon1 and at three o'clock1 
and found more men whom he sent to work 
in his vine-yard4 ,later in the day1    
when it was near six o'clock1 he went   

out and saw more men1 to whom he said1  
,why stand ye here all the day i-dle8   
,they said to him1 ,be-cause no man has 
hired us4  ,he said1 ,go ye in-to the   
vine-yard1 and what is right ,i will    
give thee4  ,so when night came1 the    
lord of the vine-yard had the work-men  
called in1 and each one was paid a      
pen-ny4  ,when the first came they      
thought they should have more1 and when 
they were paid but a pen-ny they found  
fault1 and said1 ,these last have       
wrought but one hour1 and thou hast paid
 them the same as us who have born the  
toil and heat of the day4               
,illustration3 ,,la-,,bor-,,ers ,,in    
,,the ,,vine-,,yard4  ,the mas-ter said1
 ,friend1 ,i do thee no wrong4 ,didst   
thou not say thou wouldst work for me   
for a pen-ny a day8 ,take what is thine1
 and go thy way2 for ,i have a right to 
do as ,i will with mine own4 ,and the   
last shall be first and the first last4 
,je-sus told them a par-a-ble of ten    
maids who went out to meet the          

bride-groom4 ,for in those days the man 
who was wed brought his bride home at   
night1 and some of his friends used to  
go out to meet him4  ,these ten maids   
had lit their lamps1 and gone out to    
meet the bride-groom4 ,but he did not   
come as soon as they thought he would1  
and as the hours went on they all fell  
a-sleep4  ,now five of these maids were 
wise1 and five were not4 ,the wise ones 
had brought oil with them1 so that if   
their lamps should go out they could    
fill them4 ,those who were not wise had 
no oil but that which was in their      
lamps4  ,at mid-night those who were on 
the watch cried out1 ,lo1 the           
bride-groom comes6 ,go ye out to meet   
him4  ,and the five wise maids rose at  
once1 and went to work to trim their    
lamps4  ,the five who were not wise1    
stood by and said1 ,give us of your oil1
 for our lamps have gone out4  ,but the 
wise ones said1 ,not so2 for we have no 
more than we need4 ,go ye and buy of    
those who have oil to sell4  ,and while 

they went out to buy1 the bride-groom   
came1 and those who were in trim went in
 with him1 and the door was shut4  ,then
 the five maids who had been out to buy 
oil came to the door1 and cried out1    
,lord1 ,lord1 let us in4 ,but he said1  
,i do not know you2 and would not let   
them in4  ,the bride-groom means        
,je-sus1 who is to come at the last day4
 ,the ten maids are those who claim to  
love him1 and who set out to meet him on
 that day4 ,the oil is the love in our  
hearts1 which burns and keeps our faith 
bright4 ,we are to watch and wait for   
him1 for we know not the day nor the    
hour when he will come4  ,illustration3 
,,the ,,fool-,,ish ,,vir-,,gins4        
,je-sus came to the town of ,beth-a-ny1 
and they made a sup-per for him there4  
,in those days they did not sit at their
 meals on chairs as we do1 but lay down 
on a couch1 or lounge1 as high as the   
ta-ble1 so that they could rest on the  
left arm1 and have the right hand and   
arm free to use4  ,mar-tha1 ,ma-ry1 and 

,laz-a-rus were there1 and while ,je-sus
 sat at meat ,ma-ry came with a flask of
 rich oil1 that was worth a great price4
 ,and she broke the flask and poured the
 oil on the head of ,je-sus4  ,and there
 were some there who found fault with   
this great waste1 and ,ju-das--one of   
the twelve--said that the oil might have
 been sold for a large sum that would   
have done the poor much good4  ,je-sus  
said1 ,blame her not4 ,she has done a   
good work on me4 ,for the poor you have 
with you all the time1 and you may do   
them good when you choose4 ,but you will
 not have me al-ways4  ,then ,ju-das    
went to the chief priests and said1     
,what will you give me if ,i bring you  
to the place where ,je-sus is1 so that  
you may take him8 ,they said they would 
pay him well4 ,and from that time he was
 on the watch to catch ,je-sus a-lone4  
,je-sus said1 ,there was a rich man1 who
 wore fine clothes1 and had great feasts
 spread for him each day4 ,and a beg-gar
 named ,laz-a-rus lay at his gate1 full 

of sores2 but the rich man gave him not 
so much as a crumb4 ,and the dogs came  
and licked his sores4  ,the beg-gar     
died1 and was borne by the an-gels to   
,a-bra-ham's bo-som4 ,the rich man died 
and was laid in the ground4 ,and while  
in the pains of hell he raised his eyes 
and saw ,a-bra-ham with ,laz-a-rus on   
his bo-som1 and he cried and said1      
,fa-ther ,a-bra-ham1 have mer-cy on me1 
and send ,laz-a-rus that he may dip the 
tip of his fin-ger in wa-ter and cool my
 tongue1 for this flame tor-ments me4   
,illustration3 ,,the ,,rich ,,man ,,and 
,,the ,,beg-,,gar4  ,but ,a-bra-ham     
said1 ,son1 thou in thy life-time had   
thy good things1 while ,laz-a-rus was   
poor and had a hard lot4 ,now he has    
ease from all his pains and thou art in 
tor-ments4 ,and be-tween us and you     
there is a great gulf2 none can go from 
here to you1 nor come from you to us4   
,then the rich man said1 ,i pray thee   
then send him to my fa-ther's house1 for
 ,i have five breth-ren1 that he may    

speak to them1 so that they come not to 
this place of tor-ment4  ,a-bra-ham     
said1 ,they have ,mo-ses and the        
proph-ets1 let them hear them4  ,and the
 rich man said1 ,nay1 fa-ther           
,a-bra-ham2 but if one went to them from
 the dead they will turn from their     
sins4  ,and he said to him1 ,if they    
hear not ,mo-ses and the proph-ets they 
will not turn from their sins though one
 rose from the dead4  ,a stew-ard is one
 who takes charge of a house or lands1  
pays bills1 hires work-men1 and is the  
mas-ter's right-hand man4  ,je-sus said1
 ,there was a rich man who had a        
stew-ard4 ,and word was brought to him  
that this stew-ard made a bad use of his
 mas-ter's wealth4 ,so the rich man said
 to him1 ,what is this that ,i hear of  
thee8 ,let me know how thou hast done   
thy work1 if thou wouldst keep thy      
place4  ,the stew-ard said to him-self1 
,what shall ,i do if my lord takes my   
place from me8 ,i can-not dig1 and am   
too proud to beg4 ,i have made up my    

mind to do some-thing that will put me  
on good terms with the rich1 so that    
they will not close their doors to me   
should ,i lose my place here as         
stew-ard4  ,so he sent for all those who
 were in debt to his lord4 ,and he said 
to the first1 ,how much dost thou owe8  
,and he said1 ,a hun-dred mea-sures of  
oil4 ,the stew-ard said1 ,take thy bill1
 and sit down and write fif-ty4  ,then  
said he to the next one1 ,how much dost 
thou owe8 ,the man said1 ,a hun-dred    
mea-sures of wheat4 ,the stew-ard said  
to him1 ,take thy bill1 and write       
four-score4  ,illustration3 ,,the       
,,un-,,just ,,stew-,,ard4  ,and the lord
 praised the un-just stew-ard1 for he   
thought he had done a wise thing4       
,je-sus said we were to use our wealth  
so as to make friends who will take us  
in their homes should we be-come poor4  
,he that is faith-ful in small things is
 faith-ful al-so in large ones4 ,and he 
that is un-just in the least1 is un-just
 in much more4  ,no man can serve two   

mas-ters4  ,as ,je-sus drew near to     
,je-ru-sa-lem those who were with him   
thought that the king-dom he spoke of   
was close at hand4  ,he said to them1 ,a
 rich man had to go to a far land1 so he
 called his ten ser-vants that he might 
leave his goods in their charge4 ,to the
 first one he gave five tal-ents4 ,a    
tal-ent is a large sum in sil-ver4 ,to  
the next he gave two tal-ents2 and to   
the third one4 ,and he said to them1    
,make a good use of these gifts till ,i 
come back2 and then went on his way4    
,then he that had five tal-ents went out
 and bought and sold and made five      
tal-ents more4 ,and the one that had two
 did the same4 ,but he that had one dug 
a hole in the earth and hid his lord's  
mon-ey4  ,when the rich man came back he
 sent for his ser-vants that they might 
tell him what they had done while he was
 gone4 ,so he that had had five tal-ents
 came and said1 ,lord1 thou didst give  
me five tal-ents1 and see--,i have      
gained five more4  ,his lord said to    

him1 ,well done1 good and faith-ful     
ser-vant1 thou hast been faith-ful o-ver
 a few things1 ,i will make thee ru-ler 
o-ver ma-ny things2 en-ter thou in-to   
the joy of thy lord4  ,then he that had 
two tal-ents came and said1 ,lord1 thou 
didst give me two tal-ents and ,i have  
gained two more4  ,his lord said to him1
 ,well done1 good and faith-ful         
ser-vant1 thou hast been faith-ful o-ver
 a few things1 ,i will make thee ru-ler 
o-ver ma-ny things2 en-ter thou in-to   
the joy of thy lord4  ,illustration3    
,,the ,,tal-,,ents4  ,then he who had   
but the one tal-ent came and said1      
,lord1 ,i knew that thou wert a hard    
man1 and didst reap where thou hast not 
sown1 and gleaned where thou hast not   
strewn2 and1 for fear ,i should lose it1
 ,i hid thy tal-ent in the earth1 and   
here it is4  ,his lord said1 ,thou      
wick-ed and la-zy ser-vant1 if thou     
didst know me to be such a harsh man    
thou shouldst have lent my mo-ney to    
those who would pay for its use1 so that

 when ,i came back ,i should have my own
 and more with it4 ,take there-fore the 
one tal-ent from him and give it to him 
that hath ten tal-ents4 ,for to him that
 hath much shall more be giv-en2 but    
from him that hath not1 shall be ta-ken 
a-way all that he hath4 ,and cast ye the
 use-less ser-vant in-to out-er         
dark-ness1 where shall be weep-ing and  
gnash-ing of teeth4  ,christ meant to   
teach by this that we were to make use  
of the gifts or tal-ents that ,god gave 
us1 and add to them as much as we could4
 ,then when we die ,god will say to us1 
,well done1 and bid us share in the joy 
that our lord has in store for us4  ,if 
we have but one gift we must use that   
and serve ,god with it1 or at the last  
day he will take that from us1 and we   
shall have no part in the joy of our    
lord4  ,je-sus said1 ,the good news is  
like a king who made a wed-ding feast   
for his son4 ,and he sent his ser-vants 
to call in those who were bid to the    
feast4 ,but they would not come4 ,then  

he sent out more ser-vants to urge them 
to come to the wed-ding4 ,but they made 
light of it1 and went their ways1 to    
their farms or shops2 and some fell on  
the king's ser-vants and slew them4     
,when the king heard of this he was     
wroth1 and he said to his ser-vants1 ,go
 ye out to the high-ways and bring in to
 the wed-ding those ye find there4  ,and
 the ser-vants did so1 and brought in   
both bad and good1 so there was no lack 
of guests at the wed-ding4              
,illustration3 ,,wed-,,ding             
,,gar-,,ment4  ,when the king came in to
 see the guests1 he saw there a man who 
had not on a wed-ding gar-ment4 ,and he 
said to him1 ,friend1 why art thou here 
with-out a wed-ding gar-ment4 ,and the  
man spoke not4  ,then said the king to  
the ser-vants1 ,bind him hand and foot  
and take him off1 and cast him in-to    
out-er dark-ness4 ,for ma-ny are called 
but few are cho-sen4  ,god is the king  
who made the feast for ,je-sus ,christ1 
his son1 to which all are bid4 ,the     

wed-ding gar-ment we need is a true     
heart1 full of love to ,je-sus4 ,the    
good news is for all1 yet those who     
think more of this world than they do of
 heav-en1 ,christ does not choose for   
his own1 and they are lost4  ,je-sus    
said the good news is like un-to leav-en
 or yeast1 which a wo-man took and hid  
in some meal till the whole of it was   
light4  ,illustration3 ,,leav-,,en4     
,,chapter ,,xvii4  ,,the ,,lord',s      
,,supper4--,,jesus ,,in                 
,,gethsemane4--,,the ,,judas            
,,kiss4--,,peter ,,denies ,,jesus4      
,,now the day was come when the ,jews   
were to keep the feast of the           
pass-o-ver4 ,to do this each man took a 
lamb to the church1 and killed it on the
 al-tar4 ,the priest would burn the fat1
 but the rest of the lamb the man took  
home1 and it was cooked1 and he and his 
folks ate of it in the night4  ,the     
twelve came to ,je-sus to ask him at    
what place they should set out their    
feast4 ,for they had no house or home of

 their own4  ,je-sus sent forth two of  
them and said1 ,go ye to ,je-ru-sa-lem1 
and there shall meet you a man with a   
jug of wa-ter4 ,go to the house where he
 goes1 and say to the man who lives     
there1 ,the mas-ter bids thee show us   
the room where he shall come to eat the 
feast with his friends4  ,and he will   
show you a large room1 up-stairs2 there 
spread the feast4  ,the men did as      
,je-sus told them1 and the man showed   
them the room1 and there they spread the
 feast4  ,and at night ,je-sus came with
 his twelve friends4 ,and as they did   
eat1 ,je-sus said1 ,there is one here   
who will give me up to the ,jews4       
,these words made them all feel sad4    
,now there was one of the twelve of whom
 ,je-sus was most fond4 ,his name was   
,john4 ,and as he lay with his head on  
,je-sus' breast he said to him1 ,lord1  
who is it8  ,je-sus said1 ,it is he to  
whom ,i shall give the piece of bread ,i
 dip in the dish4  ,and when he had     
dipped the bread he gave it to ,ju-das4 

,and he said to him1 ,what is in thy    
heart to do1 do at once4  ,now none of  
the rest knew why ,je-sus spoke thus4   
,but as ,ju-das had charge of the bag in
 which the mon-ey was kept1 some of them
 thought that he bade him buy things    
they were in need of1 or give some-thing
 to the poor4 ,then ,ju-das went out of 
the house where ,je-sus and his friends 
were2 and it was night4  ,and when he   
had gone1 ,je-sus said to them1 ,i shall
 be with you but a short time4 ,but ere 
,i go a new law ,i give to you--the law 
of love4 ,as ,i have loved you so shall 
ye love each oth-er4 ,by this shall all 
men know that ye love me4  ,pe-ter said1
 ,lord1 where dost thou go8  ,je-sus    
said1 ,where ,i go thou canst not come  
now1 but thou shalt be with me          
by-and-by4  ,pe-ter said1 ,lord1 why    
can-not ,i go with thee now8 ,i will lay
 down my life for thy sake6  ,je-sus    
said1 ,i tell thee1 ,pe-ter1 the cock   
shall not crow thrice till thou hast    
sworn thrice that thou dost not know me4

  ,and as they did eat ,je-sus took the 
bread and gave thanks and broke it1 and 
gave to them1 and said1 ,take and eat4  
,then he took some wine in a cup1 and   
when he had thanked ,god1 he gave it to 
them and they all drank of it4          
,illustration3 ,,pray-,,ing ,,in ,,the  
,,gar-,,den4  ,and he told them that    
when he was dead they must meet from    
time to time1 and eat the bread and     
drink the wine in the same way that he  
had shown them2 and as of-ten as they   
did it they were to think of him1 and   
the death that he died to save men from 
their sins4  ,je-sus spoke with them for
 some time4 ,then a hymn was sung and   
they all went from the house1 and came  
to the ,mount of ,ol-ives4 ,and they    
went to a gar-den there1 known as       
,geth-sem-a-ne4 ,and ,je-sus took with  
him ,pe-ter1 ,james1 and ,john1 and said
 to them1 ,sit ye here and watch with me
 while ,i go and pray4 ,and he went from
 them a short way1 and knelt down and   
prayed4 ,and when he thought how soon he

 was to be put to death for our sins1 he
 was in such grief and pain that the    
sweat seemed like great drops of blood  
as it fell to the ground4 ,and ,god sent
 an an-gel to calm him and give him     
strength4  ,and when he rose from his   
knees and went back to where his friends
 were1 he found that they slept4 ,and he
 said to ,pe-ter1 ,what1 couldst thou   
not watch with me one hour8  ,and he    
went off to pray once more4 ,and when he
 came back his friends still slept6 ,and
 he left them and came back a third     
time4 ,then he said1 ,rise up and let us
 go1 for the worst of my foes is close  
at hand4  ,illustration3 ,,ju-,,das     
,,be-,,tray-,,ing ,,christ4  ,now       
,ju-das had been on the watch1 and knew 
when ,je-sus went to the gar-den4 ,and  
as it was dark he thought it would be   
the best time to give him up to the     
,jews4 ,so he went to the chief priests 
and told them1 and they sent a band of  
men out with him to take ,je-sus4       
,je-sus1 who knew all things1 knew that 

,ju-das was near1 yet he did not flee4  
,ju-das had told the band that he would 
give them a sign by which they might    
know which was ,je-sus4 ,he said1 ,the  
one ,i shall kiss1 is he2 take him1 and 
hold him fast4 ,then he came to ,je-sus 
and gave him a kiss4  ,and the men laid 
their hands on ,je-sus and took him4    
,his friends who were near him said to  
him1 ,lord1 shall we fight them with the
 sword8  ,pe-ter who had a sword struck 
one of the band and cut off his ear4    
,je-sus said to him1 ,put thy sword back
 in its sheath4 ,could ,i not pray to   
,god to send me a host of an-gels to    
fight for me and save me from death8    
,but how then could the words of wise   
men come true8 ,then ,je-sus touched the
 man's ear and made it well4 ,and he    
said to those who took him1 ,have ye    
come out with swords and staves as if ,i
 were a thief1 to take me8 ,i sat from  
day to day and taught you in the church1
 and you did not harm me4  ,then        
,pe-ter1 ,james and ,john1 and the rest1

 were in great fear1 and fled from him4 
,the men that took ,je-sus led him off  
to the house of the high priest1 where  
the scribes and those who had charge of 
the church had all met4  ,pe-ter kept up
 with the crowd and went in a side door 
of the house to sit by the fire4 ,and   
one of the maids of the high priest came
 to him1 and said1 ,thou wast with      
,je-sus4 ,but he said1 ,i know not what 
you mean4  ,then he went out on the     
porch and the cock crew4 ,while there a 
maid said to those who stood near1 ,this
 one was with ,je-sus4  ,and ,pe-ter    
said once more that he did not know him4
 ,and the cock crew once more4  ,now it 
chanced that one of the high priest's   
men was a kins-man of the one whose ear 
,pe-ter had cut off4 ,and he said to    
him1 ,did ,i not see thee in the gar-den
 with him8  ,pe-ter swore that he was   
not there1 and did not know the man4    
,and ,je-sus gave him a look as he went 
by1 that was like a stab in ,pe-ter's   
heart4 ,for then the cock crew for the  

third time1 and it came to ,pe-ter's    
mind what ,je-sus had said1--,ere the   
cock crow thrice1 thou shalt de-ny me   
thrice4 ,and he went out and wept as if 
his heart would break1 so great was his 
grief and shame4     ,,chapter ,,xviii4 
,,christ ,,before ,,pilate4--,,on ,,the 
,,cross4   ,,the chief court of the     
,jews met in a room near the church1 and
 was made up of three-score and ten men4
 ,the high priest and chief priests were
 there1 and the scribes1 and head men of
 the church1 and it was for them to say 
what should be done to those who broke  
the laws of ,mo-ses2 some of whom had to
 pay fines1 or to be shut up in jail4   
,but if a man was to be put to death    
they had to ask the chief whom the      
,ce-sar of ,rome had set to rule in that
 part of the land if he would let the   
deed be done4  ,it was night when the   
,jews took ,je-sus1 and as soon as it   
was day they brought him in-to court to 
have him tried4 ,the high priest said to
 him1 ,art thou the ,christ8 tell us4   

,je-sus said1 ,if ,i tell you1 ye will  
not think ,i speak the truth4  ,then    
they all said1 ,art thou the son of     
,god8  ,and he said1 ,i am4  ,then the  
high priest rent his clothes1 and said1 
,by his own words we can judge him4     
,what do you say shall be done to him8  
,and they all cried out1 ,let him be put
 to death6  ,then they spit in his face1
 and struck ,je-sus with the palms of   
their hands4 ,and they bound him and led
 him blind-fold to ,pi-late's house1 and
 told ,pi-late some of the things he had
 said and done4  ,pi-late said to       
,je-sus1 ,art thou a king8 ,je-sus said1
 ,i am4 ,but my realm is not of this    
world1 else would my men have fought to 
set me free4  ,illustration3 ,,be-,,hold
 ,,the ,,man4  ,pi-late said1 ,i find no
 fault with this man4 ,and the ,jews    
were more fierce1 and cried that his    
words had made a great stir in all the  
land from ,gal-i-lee to that place4     
,pi-late said1 if he came from          
,gal-i-lee they must take him to        

,he-rod1 who ruled that part of the     
land4 ,and ,he-rod was in ,je-ru-sa-lem 
at that time4  ,when ,he-rod saw ,je-sus
 he was glad1 for he had heard much of  
him1 and was in hopes to see some great 
things done by him4 ,but when ,he-rod   
spoke to ,je-sus1 ,je-sus said not one  
word4 ,and the chief priests and scribes
 stood by1 and cried out that he claimed
 to be king of the ,jews1 and the son of
 ,god1 and had taught men that they need
 not keep the laws of ,mo-ses or of     
,rome4 ,these were crimes for which he  
ought to be put to death4  ,so ,he-rod  
and his men of war made sport of        
,je-sus1 and put on him a robe such as  
kings wear2 for he had said he was a    
king4 ,and then ,he-rod sent him back to
 ,pi-late4  ,pi-late said1 ,i find no   
fault in this man2 nor does ,he-rod1 for
 ,i sent you to him2 he had done naught 
for which he should be put to death4    
,now it was the rule when this great    
feast was held1 that one of those who   
were shut up in jail should be set free4

 ,and at this time there was a ,jew     
there1 whose name was ,ba-rab-bas2 and  
he had killed some one4  ,pi-late said1 
,which one shall ,i set                 
free--,ba-rab-bas1 or ,je-sus1 who is   
called ,christ8  ,illustration3         
,,pi-,,late ,,wash-,,ing ,,his ,,hands4 
,while ,pi-late spoke1 his wife sent    
word to him to do no harm to that just  
man1 for she had had a strange dream    
a-bout him4 ,but the chief priests urged
 the mob to ask that ,ba-rab-bas be set 
free4  ,pi-late said1 ,what then shall  
,i do with ,je-sus1 who is called       
,christ8  ,they cried out1 ,hang him6   
,hang him6  ,when ,pi-late saw that he  
could not get them to ask for ,je-sus1  
he took some wa-ter and washed his hands
 in full view of the mob1 and said1 ,i  
am not to blame for the death of this   
just man2 see ye to it4  ,then the ,jews
 said1 ,let his blood be on us and on   
our chil-dren4  ,but ,pi-late was to    
blame for ,je-sus' death2 for he gave   
him up to the ,jews that he might please

 them1 and keep the place that he had4  
,now it was the law of the land that a  
man should be scourged ere he was hung4 
,so ,je-sus was stripped to the waist1  
and his hands were bound to a low post  
in front of him so as to make him stoop1
 and while he stood in this way he was  
struck with rods1 or a whip of cords1   
till the blood burst through the skin4  
,then ,pi-late's men of war led him to a
 room1 and took off his own robe1 and   
put on him one of a red and blue tint4  
,then they made a crown of thorns and   
put it on his head2 and they put a reed 
in his right hand4 ,then they bowed down
 to him1 as if he were a king1 and      
mocked at him and said1 ,hail1 ,king of 
the ,jews6 ,and they spat on him1 and   
took the reed and struck him on the     
head1 and smote him with their hands4   
,illustration3 ,,be-,,hold ,,the ,,man4 
,when ,ju-das saw that ,je-sus was to be
 put to death1 he was in great grief to 
think he had brought such a fate on one 
who had done no wrong4 ,and he took back

 to the chief priests the sum they had  
paid him1 and he said to them1 ,i have  
done a great sin to give up to you one  
who had done no wrong4 ,they said to    
him1 ,what is that to us8 ,see thou to  
that4 ,then ,ju-das threw down the      
sil-ver1 and went out and hung him-self4
  ,then the men of war took off the gay 
robe from ,je-sus1 and put his own      
clothes on him and led him out to put   
him to death4  ,they met a man named    
,si-mon1 and made him bear the cross4   
,and a great crowd of men and wo-men    
went with them who wept and mourned for 
,je-sus4 ,je-sus told them not to weep  
for him1 but for them-selves and their  
chil-dren1 be-cause of the woes that    
were to come on the ,jews4  ,they       
brought him to a place called           
,cal-va-ry1 not far from the gates of   
,je-ru-sa-lem4 ,and they nailed his feet
 and hands to the cross1 which was then 
set up in the ground4 ,and all the while
 ,je-sus prayed1 ,fa-ther for-give them1
 for they know not what they do4 ,he    

meant that they did not know how great  
was their sin2 nor that they had in     
truth put to death the son of ,god4     
,with him they hung two thieves1 one on 
his right hand1 and one on his left4    
,illustration3 ,,christ ,,car-,,ry-,,ing
 ,,his ,,cross4  ,then they sat down to 
watch ,je-sus1 who hung for hours on the
 cross in great pain1 ere his death came
 to him4 ,and they took his robes and   
gave each one a share2 but for his coat 
they cast lots4 ,and at the top of the  
cross ,pi-late had put up these words3  
,,je-,,sus ,,of ,,naz-,a-,,reth1 ,,king 
,,of ,,the ,,jews4  ,and the ,jews as   
they went by shook their heads at him1  
and said1 ,if thou be the son of ,god   
come down from the cross1 and the chief 
priests and the scribes mocked him and  
said1 ,his trust was in ,god2 let ,god  
save him now if he will have him4       
,illustration3 ,,christ ,,on            
,,cal-,,va-,,ry4  ,one of the thieves   
spoke to ,je-sus and said1 ,if thou art 
the ,christ save thy-self and us4  ,but 

the oth-er said1 ,dost thou not fear    
,god when thou art so soon to die8 ,it  
is right that we should die for our     
sins1 but this man has done no wrong4   
,and he said to ,je-sus1 ,think of me   
when thou art on thy throne4 ,je-sus    
said to him1 ,this day shalt thou be    
with me where ,god is4  ,illustration3  
,,the ,,cru-,,ci-,,fix-,,ion4  ,now     
there stood near the cross of ,je-sus   
his mo-ther1 and ,john--the one of the  
twelve most dear to him4 ,and he bade   
,john take care of his mo-ther1 and told
 her to look on ,john as her son4 ,and  
,john took her to his own home to take  
care of her and give her all that she   
had need of4  ,from the sixth to the    
ninth hour--that is1 from twelve to     
three o'clock--the sky was dark in all  
the land4 ,and ,je-sus thought that ,god
 had turned his face from him4 ,and he  
cried out with a loud voice ,o ,god6 ,o 
,god6 why hast thou left me8  ,one of   
the men near thought he was in pain1 and
 he took a sponge and dipped it in the  

gall1 and put it up on a reed to his    
mouth1 so that ,je-sus might drink4     
,je-sus wet his lips with the drink that
 was to ease his pain1 then spoke once  
more1 bowed his head and died4  ,then   
the veil which hung in the church1 in   
front of the ark1 was torn in two2 the  
earth shook2 the rocks were split2 the  
graves gave up their dead1 and those    
who1 while they lived1 had served the   
,lord1 rose and came out of their graves
 and went in-to ,je-ru-sa-lem and were  
seen there4  ,when those who had kept   
watch of ,je-sus as he hung on the      
cross1 saw these things that were done1 
they were in great fear1 and said1      
,there is no doubt that this man was the
 son of ,god4  ,illustration3           
,,lay-,,ing ,,in ,,the ,,tomb4  ,as     
night came on the ,jews went to ,pi-late
 and begged him to kill ,je-sus and the 
two thieves so that they could be put in
 their graves4 ,for it would not do for 
them to hang on the cross on the day of 
rest4 ,the men on guard broke the legs  

of the thieves to kill them1 and thrust 
a spear in-to ,je-sus' side to make sure
 that he was dead4  ,illustration3      
,,death ,,of ,,sap-,,phi-,,ra4  ,now    
there was near ,cal-va-ry a gar-den1 in 
which was a tomb in which no one had    
been laid4 ,it was cut in a rock1 and   
was owned by a rich man--,jo-seph of    
,ar-i-ma-the-a4 ,he came to ,pi-late and
 begged that he might lay ,je-sus in    
this grave1 and ,pi-late told him to do 
so4 ,and ,jo-seph took ,je-sus down from
 the cross1 and wrapped him in the fine 
lin-en he had brought1 and laid him in  
the tomb1 and put a great stone at the  
door1 and left him there4  ,the chief   
priests went to ,pi-late and said1 ,it  
has come to our minds that ,je-sus said 
that he would rise on the third day1 so 
we pray thee to have men watch the tomb 
lest some of his friends come and steal 
him1 and then go and say that he rose   
from the dead4  ,pi-late said1 ,ye have 
your own watch-men4 ,go and make it as  
sure as you can4  ,so they went and put 

a seal of wax on the great tomb1 and set
 men to watch by the tomb4  ,but that   
night ,god sent down an an-gel1 and he  
came and rolled back the stone from the 
door1 and sat on it4 ,his face shone    
like fire1 and his robes were white as  
snow4 ,and the watch-men shook for fear 
of him1 and had no more strength than   
dead men4     ,,chapter ,,xix4  ,,jesus 
,,leaves ,,the ,,grave4--,,appears ,,to 
,,mary4--,,stephen ,,stoned4--,,paul',s 
,,life1 ,,and ,,death4   ,,on the first 
day of the week1 as soon as it was      
light1 three wo-men1 friends of ,je-sus1
 came to the tomb with the gums and     
spice they used to lay out their dead4  
,and they said as they went1 ,who shall 
roll the stone a-way from the door of   
the tomb8  ,and lo1 when they came near 
they found that the great stone had been
 rolled a-way4 ,and when they went in   
the tomb1 they saw an an-gel clothed in 
a long white robe1 and they shook with  
fear4  ,he said to them1 ,have no fear4 
,ye seek ,je-sus1 who was put to death  

on the cross4 ,he is not here1 though   
this is the place where they laid him4  
,go tell his friends that he has ris-en 
from the dead1 and bid them go to       
,gal-i-lee where they shall see him4    
,two of the wo-men from the tomb1 with  
fear and yet with joy1 ran to tell the  
good news4  ,but ,ma-ry ,mag-da-le-ne   
stood out-side the tomb and wept4 ,and  
as she stooped down and looked in the   
tomb1 she saw two an-gels in white1 the 
one at the head1 the oth-er at the foot 
of the place where ,je-sus had lain4    
,and they said to her1 ,why dost thou   
weep8 ,she said1 ,be-cause they have    
ta-ken my ,lord a-way1 and ,i know not  
where they have laid him4 ,and when she 
had thus said1 she drew back and saw    
that ,je-sus stood near1 yet knew not   
that it was he4  ,je-sus said to her1   
,ma-ry6 ,she turned and said to him1    
,mas-ter6  ,je-sus said1 ,touch me not1 
for ,i have not yet gone up to my       
,fa-ther2 but go tell the breth-ren what
 thou hast seen and heard4  ,and ,ma-ry 

told them that she had seen the ,lord1  
and all that he had said to her4  ,and  
,je-sus was seen two or three times on  
the earth af-ter his death1 and he came 
and spoke to those who were to teach and
 preach as he had taught them4 ,but     
,thom-as was not with the rest when the 
,lord came4 ,and when they told him that
 they had seen the ,lord1 he said1 ,i   
doubt it4 ,but if ,i shall see in his   
hands the marks of the nails1 and thrust
 my hand in the wound the spear made in 
his side1 then shall ,i know that it is 
he4  ,illustration3 ,,he ,,is           
,,ris-,,en4  ,in eight days these       
friends met in a room to talk and pray4 
,thom-as was with them and the door was 
shut4 ,then came ,je-sus and stood in   
their midst and said1 ,peace be un-to   
you4 ,then said he to ,thom-as1 ,reach  
here and touch my hands1 and put thy    
hand in my side1 and doubt no more that 
,i have ris-en from the dead4  ,when    
,thom-as heard his voice and knew that  
it was ,je-sus1 he said1 ,my ,lord and  

my ,god4 ,je-sus said to him1 ,thom-as1 
be-cause thou hast seen me1 thou hast   
faith in me2 blest are they that have   
not seen me1 and yet put their trust in 
me4  ,at the end of five weeks he met   
with these friends at ,je-ru-sa-lem4    
,and when he had had a talk with them he
 led them out as far as ,beth-a-ny4 ,and
 he raised his hands and blest them1 and
 as he stood thus he went up in a cloud 
out of their sight4  ,when the day of   
,pen-te-cost1 or har-vest feast1 had    
come1 ,pe-ter1 and the rest of those    
whom ,je-sus had taught1 were all in one
 place4  ,and all at once there came the
 great rush of a strong wind that filled
 the room where they were4 ,and tongues 
of fire came down on each one of them1  
and their hearts were filled with a     
strange pow-er1 and they spoke all known
 tongues4  ,and there were men there    
from all parts of the ,east1 and when   
they heard these men of ,gal-i-lee speak
 in their own tongues of the works of   
,god1 they were in a maze4 ,and some    

said1 ,these men are full of new wine4  
,illustration3 ,,christ                 
,,ap-,,pear-,,ing ,,to ,,ma-,,ry4  ,but 
,pe-ter stood up and said the men were  
not drunk1 but that this strange gift of
 speech was one of the signs that ,god  
had told the ,jews that he would send on
 the earth4 ,and ,pe-ter preached so    
well to the crowd that not a few left   
the ranks of sin and gave their hearts  
to ,christ1 and to good works4  ,from   
that time those who had been in the     
school in which ,je-sus taught while on 
earth went out to teach and preach the  
good news4 ,they gave alms to the poor1 
healed the sick1 and did all the good   
that they could4  ,one of them1 named   
,ste-phen1 stood up to preach and to    
tell the ,jews what ,god had done for   
them1 and to try to make them give up   
their sins4 ,he spoke in plain words1   
and said1 ,the ,jews of old put to death
 those who were sent to tell them that  
,je-sus was to come2 and now you have   
slain the ,just ,one him-self4  ,when   

the ,jews heard this they were full of  
rage1 and gnashed their teeth at him    
like wild beasts4 ,but he raised his    
eyes to the sky1 and saw a great light  
there4 ,and he said1 ,i see ,je-sus on  
the right hand of ,god4  ,then they     
cried out with a loud voice1 and stopped
 their ears so that they could not hear 
his words2 and they brought him out of  
the town1 and stoned him4               
,illustration3 ,,the ,,as-,,cen-,,sion  
,,to ,,heav-,,en4  ,and ,ste-phen knelt 
down1 and asked ,god to for-give them   
for this sin4 ,and then he died4  ,the  
men who threw the stones at ,ste-phen   
took off their cloaks1 that they might  
have the free use of their arms1 and    
laid them at the feet of a young man    
named ,saul4  ,illustration3 ,,hou-,,ses
 ,,on ,,the ,,walls ,,of                
,,da-,,mas-,,cus4  ,now ,saul had done  
much harm to the good cause1 and was in 
a great rage with those who were friends
 of ,je-sus and taught his truths4 ,so  
he went to the high priest at           

,je-ru-sa-lem and asked to be sent to   
,da-mas-cus1 that if he found friends of
 ,je-sus there he might bind them with  
cords and bring them back to            
,je-ru-sa-lem4 ,and the high priest gave
 him notes to those who had charge of   
the church-es in ,da-mas-cus1 and he set
 out for that place4 ,but when he came  
near the town there shone round him a   
great light1 and he was in such fear    
that he fell to the ground4 ,and a voice
 said to him1 ,saul1 ,saul1 why dost    
thou hate me and hunt me down8          
,illustration3 ,,the ,,com-,,ing ,,of   
,,the ,,ho-,,ly ,,ghost4  ,saul said1   
,who art thou1 ,lord8 ,the voice said1  
,i am ,je-sus1 whom thou dost use so    
ill4  ,then ,saul shook with fear and   
said1 ,lord1 what wilt thou have me to  
do8 ,the ,lord said1 ,rise1 and go in-to
 the town1 and it shall be shown thee   
what thou must do4 ,and the men who were
 with him stood dazed and dumb1 for they
 heard the voice1 but could see no man4 
,when ,saul rose from the earth he could

 not see1 for the light had made him    
blind2 and those who were with him led  
him by the hand in-to ,da-mas-cus4 ,and 
for three days he had no sight2 and he  
could not eat nor drink4  ,but ,god sent
 ,an-a-ni-as1 a good man1 to touch his  
eyes1 and his sight and his strength    
came back4 ,and his heart was changed1  
and there was no man who could preach as
 ,paul did1 by which name he was now    
known4  ,for a while he went with       
,bar-na-bas4 ,then he took ,si-las with 
him1 and they made both friends and     
foes4 ,the ,jews at ,phil-ip-pi found   
fault with them1 beat them and put them 
in jail1 and bade the jail-er keep them 
safe4 ,so he made their feet fast in the
 stocks--which were great blocks of wood
 with holes in them4  ,at mid-night     
,paul and ,si-las prayed1 and those in  
the jail heard them4 ,then all at once  
there came a great earth-quake which    
shook the jail1 and the doors flew      
o-pen1 and the chains fell from those   
who were bound4 ,the jail-er woke from  

his sleep1 and when he saw that not a   
door was shut1 he feared he would be put
 to death if those in the jail had fled4
 ,so he drew his sword to kill him-self4
 ,but ,paul cried to him with a loud    
voice1 ,do thy-self no harm1 for we are 
all here4  ,illustration3 ,,the         
,,con-,,ver-,,sion ,,of ,,st4 ,,paul4   
,then the jail-er brought a light1 and  
came to the cell where ,paul and ,si-las
 were1 and he knelt there1 and cried    
out1 ,sirs1 what must ,i do to be saved8
 ,and they said1 ,have faith in the     
,lord ,je-sus ,christ1 and thou shalt be
 saved4  ,that same hour of the night   
the jail-er took ,paul and ,si-las and  
washed their wounds1 and brought them   
food1 and his heart was full of joy1 for
 he and all in his house were made      
,chris-tians1 and ,god would for-give   
their past sins4  ,the next morn the    
chief men at ,phil-ip-pi sent word to   
the jail-er to let those men go1 for the
 ,jews found they had no right to beat  
,paul4 ,and they feared the law1 and    

begged him to leave the town4  ,paul    
went to ,a-thens1 the chief town of     
,greece1 which was full of false gods1  
to whom al-tars had been built4 ,but    
there was one al-tar on which were the  
words1 ,,to ,,the ,,un-,,known ,,god4   
,those who built it felt that there was 
one ,god of whom they had not been      
taught1 and this al-tar was for him4    
,paul taught in ,a-thens1 both in-doors 
and out-doors4 ,and when the wise men   
heard that he told of ,je-sus1 and that 
we were all to rise from the dead1 they 
brought him to ,mars' ,hill1 where the  
chief court was held4 ,and they said to 
him1 ,tell us now what the good news is4
 ,for thou dost speak strange words1 and
 we would like to know what they mean4  
,paul told them there was but one true  
,god1 and they must serve him and give  
up their sins1 and put their trust in   
,je-sus1 and they would all be saved at 
the last day4  ,then ,paul went to      
,co-rinth1 where he spent some time4 ,at
 the end of some years he came back to  

,je-ru-sa-lem4 ,and the ,lord's friends 
met him1 and were glad to see his face  
once more4 ,and he told them where he   
had been1 and how ,god had helped him4  
,illustration3 ,,st4 ,,paul ,,leav-,,ing
 ,,tyre4  ,and ,paul went up to the     
church4 ,and while he was there some    
,jews from ,a-si-a saw him and took hold
 of him1 and cried out1 ,men of         
,is-ra-el1 help us4 ,this is the man who
 has taught that we were not to do as   
,mo-ses told us1 nor to come here to pay
 our vows4 ,and he has brought with him 
,gen-tiles whom it is a crime to let    
come in-to our church4  ,soon all the   
town was in an up-roar1 and ,paul was   
brought in-to the church1 and the gates 
that led to the courts were all shut4   
,as they were a-bout to kill him1 some  
one went and told the chief who had     
charge of a band of ,ro-man troops1 and 
dwelt near the great church to guard it4
 ,and he and some of his men ran down in
 the midst of the crowd1 who1 as soon as
 they saw them1 ceased to beat ,paul4   

,the chief took ,paul from them1 and had
 him bound with chains1 and asked who he
 was and what he had done4 ,some cried  
this1 and some that1 and no one could   
tell just what they said4  ,and the     
chief led him off to his own house1 to  
save ,paul's life1 and the mob brought  
up the rear1 and cried out1 ,a-way with 
him6 ,kill him6 ,the next day the chief 
let ,paul go1 and sent him to ,fe-lix1  
who ruled in ,ju-de-a4 ,and here he was 
shut up in jail1 and was there for two  
years or more4 ,he told them who he was1
 and why he had gone to ,je-ru-sa-lem1  
and said he had done no wrong that he   
knew of2 though some might say it was   
wrong for him to preach that the dead   
should rise from their graves at the    
last day4  ,illustration3 ,,st4 ,,paul  
,,preach-,,ing ,,at ,a-,,thens4  ,fe-lix
 sent the ,jews off1 and bade the       
jail-er let ,paul walk in and out as he 
chose1 and see all the friends who might
 call4 ,he was there for two years1 and 
at the end of that time ,fes-tus took   

,fe-lix's place4  ,at last he was sent  
to ,rome to be tried be-fore the        
,ce-sar4 ,while on the sea a fierce wind
 sprang up1 and beat the ship so that   
the men could not steer4 ,and they were 
in great fear lest they should drown4   
,but ,paul told them not to fear1 for   
though the ship might be a wreck there  
would be no loss of life4 ,at the end of
 two weeks the ship struck the isle of  
,mal-ta1 and the men swam to the shore  
on bits of boards4  ,illustration3 ,,st4
 ,,paul',s ,,ship-,,wreck4              
,illustration3 ,,meet-,,ing ,,place ,,in
 ,a-,,thens4  ,paul staid here for three
 months1 and then went to ,rome1 where  
he dwelt for two years or more1 and     
taught men to trust in the ,lord and to 
do right4  ,we are not told when or how 
he died4     ,,chapter ,,xx4  ,,what    
,,john ,,saw ,,while ,,on ,,the ,,isle  
,,of ,,patmos4--,,the ,,great ,,white   
,,throne4--,,the ,,land ,,of ,,light4   
,,john wrote the last book in the ,new  
,tes-ta-ment4 ,it is called             

,rev-e-la-tion2 and that means that it  
tells what no one else but ,john knew4  
,john was sent to the lone isle of      
,pat-mos by one of the bad ,em-pe-rors  
of ,rome1 who would not let him preach  
or teach the truths that ,christ taught4
  ,while he was at ,pat-mos ,je-sus came
 to him in a dream1 and showed him all  
the things that he wrote of in this     
book4  ,john says3 ,i heard a great     
voice like a trum-pet1 and as ,i turned 
to see who it was that spoke to me1 ,i  
saw ,je-sus clothed in a robe that fell 
to his feet1 and was held at the waist  
by a belt of gold4 ,and when ,i saw him 
,i fell at his feet like one dead4 ,and 
he laid his right hand on me1 and said1 
,fear not2 ,i am he who died on the     
cross1 but who now lives to die no more4
  ,illustration3 ,,pat-,,mos4  ,je-sus  
told ,john to write down all that he    
saw1 and to send it to the church-es for
 which it was meant4  ,then ,john saw a 
door o-pen in the sky1 and a voice said 
to him1 ,come up here1 and ,i will show 

thee what will take place in the time to
 come4 ,and he heard the an-gels sing   
songs of praise to ,je-sus1 whom they   
called the ,lamb that was slain4 ,and   
,john was shown strange things that were
 to teach him what the friends of       
,christ would have to put up with till  
the end of the world4 ,and he was shown1
 too1 how the ,lord would save them from
 their foes1 so that at last no one     
could hurt or harm them4  ,then ,john   
saw a great white throne in heav-en1 and
 ,je-sus sat on it4 ,and the dead rose  
from their graves1 and came and stood   
near the throne to be judged4 ,all the  
things that they had done while on the  
earth were put down in the books out of 
which they were judged4 ,and if their   
names were not in the ,book of ,life    
they were cast in-to the lake of fire4  
,when this great day was past1 ,john saw
 new skies and a new earth1 for the old 
earth and skies had been burnt up1 ,and 
he saw the ,new ,je-ru-sa-lem come down 
from the skies1 and heard a voice say   

that ,god would come and live with men4 
,round the ,new ,je-ru-sa-lem1 which was
 built of gold1 was a high wall with    
twelve gates1 three on each side4 ,at   
each gate was an an-gel to guard it4 ,in
 the walls were all kinds of rich and   
rare gems1 and its twelve gates were    
made of pearls4  ,there was no need of  
the sun or the moon1 for ,god was there 
and ,je-sus1 and they made it light4    
,and those whom ,je-sus had saved--,jews
 and ,gen-tiles1 rich and poor--were to 
come and live in it4 ,and the gates     
should not be shut1 for there will be no
 night there4 ,and none but those whose 
names are in the ,book of ,life shall go
 in-to it4  ,illustration3 ,,st4        
,,john',s ,,vis-,,ion4  ,and ,john saw a
 pure riv-er called the wa-ter of life4 
,on each side of it grew the tree of    
life that bore twelve kinds of fruit1   
which were ripe each month4 ,and those  
who dwell in that land of light1 and eat
 the fruits of the tree of life1 and    
drink of the wa-ter of life1 shall see  

the ,lord's face and be with him and    
serve him4  ,he will wipe all tears from
 their eyes1 and there shall be no more 
death1 nor grief1 nor pain4  ,je-sus    
said to ,john1 ,blest are they who keep 
,god's laws and do his will1 that they  
may pass through the gates to his bright
 home on high4  ,,the ,,end4            
,routledge's ,historical ,course4   ,,in
 ,,words ,,of ,,one ,,syllable4 ,each   
book containing about #bbe pages4 ,with 
numerous illustrations1 portraits and   
maps4 ,boards1 lithographed double      
covers4 ,price per volume1 #a4jj4       
,,history ,,of ,,the ,,united ,,states1 
,,by ,,mrs4 ,,helen ,w4 ,,pierson4      
,,history ,,of ,,england1               
,,by ,,mrs4 ,,helen ,w4 ,,pierson4      
,,history ,,of ,,france1                
,,by ,,mrs4 ,,helen ,w4 ,,pierson4      
,,history ,,of ,,germany1               
,,by ,,mrs4 ,,helen ,w4 ,,pierson4      
,,history ,,of ,,ireland1               
,,by ,,miss ,,agnes ,,sadlier4          
,,history ,,of ,,russia1                

,,by ,,miss ,,helen ,,ainslie ,,smith4  
,,history ,,of ,,japan1                 
,,by ,,miss ,,helen ,,ainslie ,,smith4  
,,history ,,of ,,the ,,battles ,,of     
,,america1   ,,by ,,miss ,,josephine    
,,pollard4    ,,lives ,,of ,,the        
,,presidents ,,of ,,the ,,united        
,,states1                          ,,by 
,,mrs4 ,,helen ,w4 ,,pierson4           
,simple1 bright1 intelligent1           
interesting1 instructive       histories
 are here brought to the younger        
readers1 and       abundance of         
illustration serves to increase the     
pleasure of reading and the chances of  
remembering4--,new ,york ,school        
,journal4        ,the words used are    
simple1 and considerable                
information is given about the countries
 in a pleasant       way4 ,excellent    
maps line the covers1 and the histories 
are brightly and accurately             
illustrated4--,springfield ,republican4 
,we know of no other books which treat  
the same       subjects in such a way as

 to interest a juvenile                 
audience4--,philadelphia ,telegraph4    
,the broad pages1 printed in very large1
 open type1       the beautiful and     
appropriate illustrations1 make         
these books the best1 on historical     
subjects1 in the       language4--,new  
,england ,journal of ,education4        
,they are profusely and well            
illustrated1 with       brilliantly     
illuminated covers1 and are strongly    
bound1 as books which are certain to be 
as largely       read as these should   
be4-,new ,york ,mail and ,express4      
,,george ,,routledge  ,,sons1     #i    
,,lafayette ,,place1 ,,new ,,york4      
99       99       99       99       99  
,transcriber's ,notes3  ,as the reader  
will have noted1 words that are more    
than one syllable are hyphenated4       
,frequently the printer made an mistake 
and forgot to hyphenate all or part of a
 word4 ,this has been corrected where   
found4  ,obvious punctuation errors have
 been repaired4 ,some times high priest 

was hyphenated and sometimes it was two 
words4 ,this was retained4  ,page #gh1  
,ja-cob changed to ,jo-seph 7,and       
,jo-seph went to ,do-than7  ,page #ajj1 
se changed to sent 7food that ,god had  
sent7  ,page #aji1 the the changed to   
the 7do the king's will7  ,page #afd1   
plead changed to pled 7,da-vid pled so  
hard7  ,page #agh1 wo-men changed to    
wo-man 7,i and this wo-man live in7     
,page #cdb1 ,ce-ser changed to ,ce-sar  
7please the ,ce-sar of ,rome7