Prince of demons. 171 L.J.
Pass by on the other side. 88 L.J.
Quit yourselves like men. 345, 505 H. T.
Rain on the just and the unjust. 110 L.J.
Rod of iron. 476 S.A.
Sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. 425 S.A.
Speak with the tongues of men and of angels. 425 S.A.
Salt of the earth. 106 L.J.
Stone which the builders rejected. 239 L.J., 141 S.A.
Sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. 31 S.A.
Sojourners in a strange land. 340 L.J.
Spirit descending as a dove. 69 L.J.
She hath done what she could. 230 L.J.
Sackcloth and ashes. 67 T.J.
A soft answer turneth away wrath. 502 G.B.
Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. 365 S.A.
Sharper than a two-edged sword. 504 T.J.
Seat of the scornful. 19 S.A.
Shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 255 S.A.
Seed that fell on stony ground. 133 L.J.
Smite the Egyptian. 341 L.J.
Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 264 L.J.
Son of perdition. 262 L.J.
The Sower. 133 L.J.
Take up thy bed and walk. 128, 167 L.J.
Tell it not in Gath. 426 H.T.
Tongues of fire. 325 L.J.
The twelve. 94 L.J.
Thirty pieces of silver. 248 L.J.
Tents of wickedness. 96 S.A.
The truth shall make you free. 194 L.J.
Turn the other cheek. 110 L.J.
Take up his cross. 504 H. T.
To thy tents, O Israel. 239 T.J.
They that go down to the sea in ships. 131 S.A.
Thine enemies thy footstool. 328 L.J.
To the ant, thou sluggard. 255 S.A.
The Lord will provide. 41 H.T.
Trees choosing a king. 333 H.T.
Unto the half of my kingdom. 154 L.J.
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The unjust steward. 204 L.J.
The upper room. 249 L.J.
Unprofitable servant. 246 L.J.
A very present help in trouble. 68 S.A.
Widow's mite. 243 L.J.
The wings of the wind. 26 S.A.
Wolf shall dwell with the lamb. 303 G.B.
Wiles of the devil. 506 H.T.
The way of all the earth. 451 H. T.
The wings of the morning. 164 S.A.
Without money and without price. 507 T.J.
Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, 502 T.J.
We shall reap, if we faint not. 506 L.J.
We piped unto you, and ye did not dance. 153 L.J.
Where moth and rust doth corrupt. 115 L.J.
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions. 379 S.A.
From reading these literary passages can you clearly explain the
incident or story each Bible phrase suggests?
Aaron's Serpent. 152 H.T.
"And hence one master passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest."
--_Pope, Essay on Man_.
Abraham's Bosom. 206 L.J.
"Sweet peace, conduct his soul
to the bosom of good old Abraham."
--_Shakespeare, Richard II 4:1_.
The Alabaster Box. 169 L.J.
"Thou wilt not let her wash thy dainty feet
With such salt thing as tears or with rude hair
Dry them."
--_Lowell, A Legend of Brittany_.
The Angel's Song. 37 L.J.
"Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace,
East, west, north and south let the long quarrel cease:
Sing the song of great joy that the angels began,
Sing of glory to God and of good will to man!"
--_Whittier, A Christmas Carmen_.
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The Apple of His Eye. 25 S.A.
"Bestows on her too parsimonious lord,
An infant for the apple of his eye."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
As a Little Child. 188 L.J.
"Once said a Man--and wise was He--
Never shalt thou the heavens see,
Save as a little child thou be."
--_Sidney Lanier, The Symphony._
As Ye Sow, so shall Ye Reap. 423 S.A.
"Look before you ere you leap;
For as you sow y' are like to reap."
--_Butler, Hudibras_.
Babel. 32 T.J.
"In vain a fresher mould we seek,
Can all the varied phrases tell
What Babel's wandering children speak,
How thrushes sing or lilacs smell?"
--_Holmes, To My Readers_.
Barabbas. 276 L.J.
"Thou hand'st sweet Socrates his hemlock sour;
Thou sav'st Barabbas in that hideous hour,
And stabb'st the good."
--_Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance_.
The Best till the Last. 78 L.J.
"Perhaps like him of Cana in Holy Writ
Our Arthur kept his best until the last."
--_Tennyson, The Holy Grail_.
Betrayed with a Kiss. 267 L.J.
"So Judas kiss'd his master,
And cried, 'all hail!' whenas he meant, all harm."
--_Shakespeare, III Henry VI 5:7_.
Bitter Waters 191 H.T.
"The Gospel has the only branch that
sweetens waters of a bitter popular discontent."
--_Anonymous_.
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Blood on the Lintel. 177 H. T.
"I do not suppose that your troops are to be
beaten in actual conflict with the foe, or that
they will be driven into the sea; but I am certain
that many homes in England in which there now
exists a fond hope that the distant one may
return, many such homes may be rendered desolate
when the next mail shall arrive. There is no one
to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side
posts of our doors, that the Angel of Death may
spare and pass on."
--_John Bright_.
Book of Life. 463 S.A.
"The Power . . . .
May hear well pleased the language of the soul,
And in His Book of Life the inmates poor enroll."
--_Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night_.
The Breastplate of Righteousness. 448 S.A.
"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!"
--_Shakespeare, II Henry VI 3:2_.
Bricks without Straw. 150 H.T.
"For long years," writes Teufelsdrockh, "had the
poor Hebrew, in this Egypt of an
Auscultatorship, painfully toiled, baking bricks
without stubble, before ever the question once
struck him with entire force: For What?"
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 5_.
The Broken Reed. 272 S.A.
"He (the genius) becomes obstinate in his
errors, no less than in his virtues, and the
arrows of his aims are blunted, as the reeds of
his trust are broken."
--_Ruskin, A Joy For Ever_.
The Burning Bush 142 H.T.
"In wonder-workings, or some bush aflame,
Men look for God, and fancy him concealed,
But in earth's common things he stands revealed,
While grass and flowers and stars spell out his name."
--_Minot J. Savage_.
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The Burning Fiery Furnace. 190 T.J.
"Be it floor or blood the path that's trod,
All the same it leads to God.
Be it furnace fire voluminous
One like God's Son will walk with us."
--_Christina G. Rossetti_.
By Their Fruits Ye shall Know Them. 109 G.B., 117 L.J.
"If the tree be known by the fruit
and fruit by the tree."
--_Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:4_.
Carry Off the City's Gates. 176 T.J.
"Samson, master: . . . he carried the
town gates on his back like a porter."
--_Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 1:2_.
Casting Lots for His Garments. 281 L.J.
"They are now casting lots,
Ay, with that gesture quaint and cry uncouth,
For the coat of One murdered an hour ago."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Cast Out of Eden. 21 T.J.
"What of Adam cast out of Eden?
(Alas the hour)
Lo! with care like a shadow shaken
He tills the hard earth whence he was taken."
--_Rossetti, Eden Bower_.
Cedars of Lebanon. 457 H.T.
"Feasted the woman wisest then,
in halls of Lebanonian cedar."
--_Tennyson, The Princess_.
The Chariot of Fire. 134 T.J.
"As he, whose wrongs
The bears avenged, at its departure saw
Elijah's chariot, when the steeds erect
Raised their steep flight for heaven; his eyes, meanwhile,
Straining pursued them, till the flame alone,
Upsoaring like a misty speck, he kenned."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
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The Chosen People. 51 S.A.
"I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an
humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty,
and of this, his almost chosen people, for
perpetuating the object of that great struggle."
--_Lincoln, Speech to the Senate of New Jersey_.
The Chosen Vessel. 372 L.J.
"He came who was the Holy Spirit's vessel;
Barefoot and lean."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
A Cloud by Day and a Pillar of Fire by Night. 179 H.T.
"He is only a cloud and a smoke
who was once a pillar of fire."
--_Tennyson, Despair_.
A Cloud Like a Man's Hand. 122 T.J.
"And from that song-cloud shaped as a man's hand
There comes the sound as of abundant rain."
--_Rossetti, The House of Life_.
Cloud of Witnesses. 506 H. T.
"It is thus . . . that the Wise Man stands ever
encompassed, and spiritually embraced, by a
cloud of witnesses and brothers."
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book III, Chapter 7_.
Coat of Many Colors. 91 H.T.
"Not without meaning was the love of Israel to
his chosen son expressed by the coat of many
colors."
--_Ruskin, The Stones of Venice_.
Confusion of Tongues. 325 L.J.
"There had been a confusion of tongues in the
narrow streets for many days."
--_Henry Van Dyke, The Other Wise Man_.
Consider the Lilies. 116 L.J.
"He who stills the raven's clam'rous nest
And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride,
Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best,
For them and for their little ones provide."
--_Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night_.
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The Cool of the Day. 19 T.J.
"At cool of day with God I walk
My garden's grateful shade;
I hear his voice among the trees,
And I am not afraid."
--_C. A. Mason_.
The Covenant of the Rainbow. 31 T.J.
"And bright as Noah saw it, yet
For you the arching rainbow glows."
--_Lowell, Ode_.
The Cross. 281 L.J.
"The lies that serve great parties well,
While truths but give their Christ a cross."
--_Sidney Lanier, To Beethoven_.
Crown of Thorns. 279 L.J.
"How was I worthy so divine a loss,
Deepening my midnights, kindling all my morns?
Why waste such precious wood to make my cross,
Such far-sought roses for my crown of thorns?"
--_Lowell, Das Ewig Weibliche_.
The Curse of Cain. 22 T.J.
"The curse of Cain
Light on his head who pierced thy innocent breast,
And seared the angel soul that was its guest."
--_Shelley, Adonais_.
David's Harp 396 H.T., 152 G.B.
"Tune, to please a peasant's ear,
The harp a king had loved to hear."
--_Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel_.
Deep Calleth unto Deep. 61 S.A.
"Deep calling unto deep."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
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Defrauded of His Birthright. 60 H.T.
"An American child who is allowed to grow up
without a knowledge of the Bible is defrauded of
his birthright."
--_Youth's Companion_.
Den of Thieves. 237 L.J.
"What makes a church a den of thieves?
A dean and chapter, and white sleeves."
--_Butler, Hudibras_.
Devils in Swine. 139 L.J.
"Bass. If it please you to dine with us!
Shy. Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the
habitation which your prophet,
the Nazarite, conjured the devil into."
--_Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 1:3_.
Do Men Gather Grapes of Thorns, or Figs of Thistles? 109 G.B.
"Conceits himself as God that he can make
Figs out of thistles."
--_Tennyson, The Last Tournament_.
Dust Thou Art, and unto Dust shalt Thou Return. 21 T.J.
"Dust to dust! but the pure spirit shall flow
Back to the burning fountain whence it came."
--_Shelley, Adonais_.
Earthly House. 452 S.A.
"All the angels that inhabit this temple of the
body appear at the windows, and all the gnomes
and vices also."
--_Emerson, Essay on Love_.
Easier for a Camel to Go through the Eye of a Needle. 212 L.J.
"It is as hard to come as for a camel
To thread through the postern of a needle's eye."
--_Shakespeare, Richard II 5:5_.
Eat, Drink, and be Merry. 212 L.J.
"I built myself a lordly pleasure house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell;
I said, 'O soul, make merry and carouse,
Dear soul, for all is well.'"
--_Tennyson, The Palace of Art_.
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Eden. 19 T.J.
"He who is wearied of his village plain
May roam the Edens of the world in vain."
--_Holmes, Poetry_.
Egyptian Taskmaster. 137 H.T.
"Not a hard 'taskmaster,' ever on the watch to
see that we are always at our brickmaking, but a
Deliverer, who can bring us forth out of the
'land of bondage' and lead us through the
wilderness of difficulty onward to the Promised
Land."
--_T. Campbell Finlayson_.
The Everlasting Hills. 394 S.A.
"Changeless march the stars above,
Changeless morn succeeds to even;
And the everlasting hills
Changeless watch the changeless heaven."
--_Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy_.
Faith and Works. 428 S.A.
"Wi' sappy unction, has he burkes
The hopes O' men that trust in works."
--_Stevenson, A Lowden Sabbath Morn_.
The Fall of Jericho. 287 H.T.
"Toppling down the walls of his own Jericho."
--_Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia_.
Fallen among Thieves. 88 L.J.
"Certain only that he has been, and is, a
Pilgrim and Traveler from a far Country; more or
less footsore and travel-soiled; has parted with
road companions; fallen among thieves," etc.
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter II_.
Fed by Ravens. 114 T.J.
"One was the Tishbite
Whom the ravens fed."
--_Tennyson, The Palace of Art_.
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Feet of Clay. 188 T.J.
"And judge all nature from her feet of clay."
--_Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien_.
Fight the Good Fight. 503 H.T.
"Well hast thou fought
The better fight, who single hast maintain'd
Against revolted multitudes the cause
Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms."
--_Milton, Paradise Lost_.
The Finger of God. 158 H. T.
"She went first to the best adviser, God--
Whose finger unmistakably was felt
In all this retribution of the past."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
The Firmament Showeth His Handiwork. 30 S.A.
"The spacious firmament on high
With all the blue ethereal sky
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their Great Original proclaim."
--_Joseph Addison_.
Gethsemane. 264 L.J.
"I am in the garden of Gethsemane now and my cup
of bitterness is full and overflowing."
--_Abraham Lincoln,
Conversation with Judge Gillespie_.
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan. 178 L.J.
"Get thee behind me, Satan. Oft unfurled,
Thy perilous wings can beat and break like lath
Much mightiness of men to win thee praise."
--_Rossetti, The House of Life_.
Gideon's Fleece. 324 H.T.
"His storms came near, but never touched us;
contrary to Gideon's miracle, while all around
were drenched, our fleece was dry."
--_Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia_.
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God Save the King. 358 H.T.
"When, crowned with joy, the camps of England ring,
A thousand voices shout, 'God save the King.'"
--_Holmes, Poetry_.
The Golden Bowl. 246 S.A.
"Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll!--A saintly soul floats on the Stygian river."
--_Poe, Lenore_.
A Good Name Rather than Riches. 503 G.B.
"Who steals my purse, steals trash,
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed."
--_Shakespeare, Othello 3:3_.
Good Samaritan, Priest, and Levite. 88 L.J.
"Grim-hearted world, that look'st with Levite eyes
On those poor fallen by too much faith in man."
--_Lowell, A Legend of Brittany_.
The Golden Calf. 204 H. T.
"We too, who mock at Israel's golden calf
And scoff at Egypt's sacred scarabee,
Would have our amulets to clasp and kiss."
--_Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts_.
The Golden Rule. 115 L.J.
"The golden rule of Christ
will bring the golden age to man."
--_Frances Willard_.
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. 42 L.J.
"'Tis not the weight of jewel or plate
Or the fondle of silk and fur;
'Tis the spirit in which the gift is rich
As the gifts of the wise men were;
And we are not told whose gift was gold
Or whose the gift of myrrh."
--_Edmund Vance Cooke_.
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Golgotha. 281 L.J.
"Having seen thine evil doom
In Golgotha and Khartoum."
--_Stevenson, If This Were Faith_.
A Grain of Mustard Seed. 134 L.J., 201 G.B.
"World-renowned far-working Institution; like a
grain of right mustard-seed once cast into the
right soil, and now stretching out strong boughs
to the four winds, for the birds of the air to
lodge in."
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 10_.
Grapes of Canaan. 243 H.T.
"Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay
But the high faith that failed not by the way."
--_James R. Lowell_.
The Greatest of These is Love. 425 S.A.
"In faith and hope the world will disagree
But all mankind's concern is charity:
All must be false that thwart this one great end;
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend."
--_Pope, Essay on Man_.
Hands of Esau. 62 H.T.
"A heart as rough as Esau's hand."
--_Tennyson, Godiva_.
The Handwriting on the Wall 201, 211 T.J.
"Unhappy if we are but Half-men, in whom that
divine handwriting has never blazed forth,
all-subduing, in true sun-splendour."
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 9_.
The Healing of the Nations. 478 S.A.
"O books, ye monuments of mind, concrete wisdom of the wisest;
Sweet solaces of daily life, proofs and results of immortality;
Trees yielding all fruits, whose leaves are for the healing of the
nations."
--_Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy of Reading_.
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Heap Coals of Fire upon His Head. 507 T.J., 504 G.B.
"The furnace-coals alike of public scorn,
Private remorse, heaped glowing on his head."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Her Children Rise up and Call Her Blessed. 257 S.A.
"Her children shall rise up to bless her name,
And wish her harmless length of days,
The mighty mother of a mighty brood."
--_Lowell, An Ode for the Fourth of July_.
He Who Runs may Read. 392 S.A.
"Perchance more careful whoso runs may read,
Than erst when all, it seemed, could read who ran."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Herod of Jewry. 45 L.J.
"Let me have a child to whom
Herod of Jewry may do homage."
--_Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1:2_.
High as Haman. 73 T.J.
"Will hang as high as Haman."
--_Tennyson, The Foresters, Act IV, Scene 1_.
A Hoary Head is a Crown of Glory. 502 G.B.
"Honoured and even fair,
Shines in the eye of the mind
the crown of the silver hair."
--_Stevenson, In Memoriam E. H_.
A House Divided Against Itself. 171 L.J.
"'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'
I believe this Government cannot endure
permanently, half slave and half free. I do not
expect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expect
the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease
to be divided."
--_Lincoln, Speech before the Illinois
State Convention, June 16, 1858_.
House not Made with Hands. 506 L.J.
"His holy places may not be of stone,
Nor made with hands, yet fairer far than aught
By artist feigned or pious ardor reared,
Fit altars for who guards inviolate
God's chosen seat, the sacred form of man."
--_Lowell, The Cathedral_.
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The House on the Sand. 118 L.J.
"Sudden change is a house on sand;"
--_Tennyson, Becket, Act III, Scene 3_.
How are the Mighty Fallen. 426 H. T.
"How are the mighty fallen, Master Cranmer."
--_Tennyson, Queen Mary, Act IV, Scene 2_.
I Go Whence I shall not Return. 192 S.A.
"The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns."
--_Shakespeare, Hamlet_.
In Him We Live, and Move, and Have Our Being. 407 L.J.
"Shall not the heart which has received so much,
trust the Power by which it lives?"
--_Emerson, New England Reformers_.
In the Image of God. 17 T.J.
"In native worth and honor clad,
With beauty, courage, strength adorned,
Erect with front serene he stands,
A man, the lord and king of nature all,--
The soul, the breath and image of his God."
--_Haydn's Creation_.
In the Twinkling of an Eye. 451 S.A.
"In a moment, in the twinkle of an eye."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Jacob's Ladder. 68 H.T.
"A Jacob's ladder falls."
--_Tennyson, Early Spring_.
Jonah's Gourd. 171 T.J.
"That day whereof we keep record,
When near thy city-gates the Lord
Sheltered His Jonah with a gourd."
--_Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh_.
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Joshua's Moon. 306 H.T.
"Joshua's moon in Ajalon."
--_Tennyson, Locksley Hall_.
Joseph of Arimathea. 286 L.J.
"Arimathean Joseph."
--_Tennyson, The Holy Grail_.
Jot or Tittle. 106 L.J.
. . . "Turn and see
If, by one jot or tittle, I vary now!"
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Joy Cometh in the Morning. 45 S.A.
"Wait for the morning:--it will come, indeed,
As surely as the night hath given need."
--_Riley_.
Judas. 253 L.J.
"There walks Judas, he who sold
Yesterday his Lord for gold,
Sold God's presence in his heart
For a proud step in the mart."
--_Lowell, The Ghost-Seer_.
King of Terrors. 199 S.A.
"Death gives us more than was in Eden lost,
This king of terrors is the prince of peace."
--_Young, Night Thoughts_.
A Lamp unto My Feet. 148 S.A.
"God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet."
--_Shakespeare, II Henry VI 2:3_.
A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. 144 H.T.
"A land of promise flowing with the milk
And honey of delicious memories."
--_Tennyson, The Lover's Tale_.
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The Last Trump. 451 S.A.
"So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky."
--_Dryden, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day_.
Let not Thy Left Hand Know What Thy Right Hand Doeth. 111 L.J.
"Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand
doeth! Neither shalt thou prate even to thy own
heart of 'those secrets known to all.'"
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus. Book III, Chapter 3_.
A Light Hid under a Bushel. 106 L.J.
"How far that little candle throws his beams.
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
--_Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 5:1_.
Lips Touched with Coal from off the Altar. 265 S.A.
"Nor shall thy lips be touched with living fire,
Who blow'st old altar-coals with sole desire
To weld anew the spirit's broken chains."
--_Lowell, Bibliolaters_.
A Little Child shall Lead Them. 303 G.B.
"She might have served a painter to portray
That heavenly child which in the latter days
Shall walk between the lion and the lamb."
--_Rossetti, A Last Confession_.
The Little Foxes That Spoil the Vineyards. 236 S.A.
"O fox whose home is 'mid the tender grape--"
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
A Little Lower than the Angels. 22 S.A.
"What a piece of work is man! how noble in
reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and
moving how express and admirable, in action
how like an angel."
--_Shakespeare, Hamlet 2:2_.
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Locusts and Wild Honey. 65 L.J.
"In our wild Seer, shaggy, unkempt, like a
Baptist living on locusts and wild honey, there
is an untutored energy, a silent, as it were,
unconscious strength, which, except in the
higher walks of literature, must be rare."
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Chapter 3_.
Lord, How Long. 470 S.A.
"O Lord, how long, how long be unavenged?"
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
The Lord is My Fortress. 106 S.A.
"God is our fortress."
--_Shakespeare, I Henry VI 2:-1_.
The Lord Watch between Me and Thee when
We are Absent One from Another. 75 H. T.
"Deal between thee and me."
--_Shakespeare, Macbeth 4:3_.
Lot's Wife. 36 H.T.
"Stiff as Lot's wife."
--_Tennyson, The Princess_.
Love, the Fulfilling of the Law. 416 S.A.
"Charity itself fulfills the law
And who can sever love from charity?"
--_Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3_.
Mammon of Unrighteousness. 205 L.J.
"Mammon is after him."
--_Abraham Lincoln_.
A Man after His Own Heart. 362 H. T.
"O Saul, it shall be
A Face like my face that receives thee; a Man like to me,
Thou shalt love and be loved by, forever: a Hand like this hand
Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand!"
--_Browning, Saul_.
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Manna in the Wilderness 162 L.J., 192 H.T.
"As manna on my wilderness."
--_Tennyson, Supposed Confessions_.
The Mantle of Elijah. 134 T.J.
"Tennyson rising in a heavenly chariot out of
the temple of song, forgot to cast his mantle
upon some waiting Elisha, but carried the divine
garment into the realm beyond the clouds."
--_Newell Dwight Hillis, Great Books as Life Teachers_.
The Mark of Cain. 23 T.J.
"He answered not but with a sudden hand
Made bare his branded and ensanguined brow,
Which was like Cain's or Christ's--oh! that it should be so!"
--_Shelley, Adonais_.
Mess of Pottage. 60 H.T.
"A hungry imposter practising for a mess of pottage."
--_Carlyle_.
The Money-Changers in the Temple. 237 L.J.
"Once more
He may put forth his hand 'gainst such, as drive
Their traffic in that sanctuary, whose walls
With miracles and martyrdoms were built."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
More Precious than Rubies. 252 S.A.
"The drawing . . . is . . . a thing which I
believe Gainsborough would have given one of
his own pictures for--old-fashioned as red-tipped
daisies are . . . and more precious than rubies."
--_Ruskin, Academy Notes_.
The Mote and Beam. 110 L.J.
"You found his mote; the king your mote did see.
But I a beam do find in each of three."
--_Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost 4:3_.
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My Brother's Keeper. 22 T.J.
"If not in word only, but in face of truth, he
undoes the deed of Cain and becomes truly his
brother's keeper."
--_Ruskin, The Schools of Art in Florence_.
My Cup Runneth Over. 35 S.A.
"Through this concession my full cup runs o'er."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
My Name is Legion. 139 L.J.
"Does Legion still lurk in him, though
repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil's
Brood?"
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 8_.
Noah's Ark. 24 T.J.
"Nobler is a limited command
Given by the love of all your native land,
Than a successive title, long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark."
--_Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel_.
The Nobleman's Son. 92 L.J.
"We do not need Christ's visible presence to
cope with the evils of our times any more than
the father needed it for the cure of his boy."
--_Wm. M. Taylor_.
Now through a Glass Darkly, then Face to Face. 425 S.A.
"I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar."
--_Tennyson, Crossing the Bar_.
O Generation of Vipers. 65 L.J.
"Is love a generation of vipers?"
--_Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 3:1_.
The Olive Leaf. 30 T.J.
"One final deluge to surprise the Ark
Cradled and sleeping on its mountain-top:
Their outbreak-signal--what but the dove's coo,
Back with the olive in her bill for news
Sorrow was over?"
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
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Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings 22 S.A., 237 L.J.
"He that of greatest works is finisher
Oft does them by the weakest minister:
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown."
--_Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well 2:1_.
The Pale Horse. 470 S.A.
"Behind her Death,
Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet
On his pale horse."
--_Milton, Paradise Lost_.
Parting of the Waters 184 H.T.
"All things are fitly cared for and the Lord
Will watch as kindly o'er the exodus
Of us his servants now, as in old time.
We have no cloud or fire, and haply we
May not pass dry-shod through the ocean stream;
But, saved or lost, all things are in his hand."
--_Lowell, A Glance Behind the Curtain_.
Peace, be Still. 136 L.J.
"There are prayers that will plead with the
storm when it raves, And whisper 'Be still!' to
the turbulent waves."
--_Holmes, Farewell_.
The Peacemakers. 105 L.J.
"I perceived
Near me as 'twere the waving of a wing,
That fanned my face, and whispered: 'Blessed they,
The peace-makers: they know not evil wrath."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
Pentecost. 325 L.J.
"Hereafter thou, fulfilling Pentecost
Must learn to speak the tongues of all the world."
--_Tennyson, Sir John Oldcastle_.
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Peter's Denial. 270 L.J.
"Treble denial of the tongue of flesh
Like Peter's when he fell."
--_Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 1_.
Peter's Sheet. 354 L.J.
"White as the great white sheet that Peter saw in his vision,
By the four corners let down and descending out of the heavens."
--_Longfellow, Elizabeth_.
Pharaoh's Kine 104 H.T.
"If to be fat be to be hated then
Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved."
--_Shakespeare, I Henry IV 2:3_.
Picking up the Fragments. 147 L.J.
"The immigrants that come to us ought to have
plenty of bread to eat and enough fragments left
over to be worth picking up, for while in the
bread is the living, in the fragments is the
life. To them America means economic fragments."
--_Edward A. Steiner_.
Pillar of Salt. 36 H. T.
"One looks close for the glance forward in the
eyes, which distinguishes such pillars from
the pillars, not of flesh, but of salt, whose
eyes are set backwards."
--_Ruskin, The Cestus of Aglaia_.
The Poor Ye Have Always with You. 230 L.J.
"Yet Thy poor endure,
And are with us yet."
--_Swinburne, Christmas Antiphones_.
Possess the Land 244, 278 H. T.
"There is a loud call for courageous idealists
and brave fighters to stand forth and summon
other men to go forward and possess the land of
a better social order. The giants of greed and
the walls of difficulty cannot be allowed to
shut us out nor to frighten us away."
--_Charles Reynolds Brown_.
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The Potter's Clay 301 S.A.
"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps
Of doubt and horror,--what to say
Or think,--this awful secret sway,
The potter's power over the clay!
Of the same lump (it has been said).
For honour and dishonour made,
Two sister vessels."
--_Rossetti, Jenny_.
The Precious Ointment 230, 169 L.J.
"One Mary bathes the blessed feet
With ointment from her eyes,
With spikenard one, and both are sweet,
For both are sacrifice."
--_Lowell, Godminster Chimes_.
Prince of Peace. 278 S.A.
"No trumpet-blast profaned
The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;
No bloody streamlet stained
Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn."
--_Bryant, Christmas in 1875_.
The Print of the Nails. 306 L.J.
"Thou also hast had the world's buffets and scorns,
And to thy life were not denied
The wounds in the hands and feet and side."
--_Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal_.
The Prodigal's Portion. 203 L.J.
"What prodigal portion have I spent that I
should stand to such penury?"
--_Shakespeare, As You Like It 1:1_.
Prodigal Son. 203 L.J.
"Ready to meet the wanderer ere he reach
The door he seeks, forgetful of his sin,
Longing to clasp him in a father's arms,
And seal his pardon with a pitying tear."
--_Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts_.
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The Promised Land 268 H.T.
"With foretaste of the Land of Promise."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Put not Your Trust in Princes. 170 S.A.
"O, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors."
--_Shakespeare, Henry VIII 3:2_.
Render unto Caesar the Things That are Caesar's. 240 L.J.
"A kindly rendering
Of 'Render unto Caesar.'"
--_Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 2_.
Repent Ye. 65 L.J.
"Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical
contrivances, . . . reversing the divine rule,
and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous
to repentance."
--_Lincoln_.
Return Good for Evil. 416 S.A.
"With a piece of Scripture
Tell them that God bids do good for evil."
--_Shakespeare, Richard III 1:3_.
The Scarlet Thread in the Window 282 H.T.
"No Rahab thread,
For blushing token of the spy's success."
--_Browning, The Red Cotton Night-cap Country_.
A Serpent in Eden. 19 T.J.
"We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out
of our Edens."
--_Goethe_.
Shake Off the Dust That is under Your Feet. 143 L.J.
"So from my feet the dust
Of the proud World I shook."
--_Lowell, The Search_.
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The Sheep and the Goats. 246 L.J.
"Some great cause, God's new Messiah,
offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand,
and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever
'twixt that darkness and that light."
--_Lowell, The Present Crisis_.
The Silver Cord. 246 S.A.
"And here's the silver cord which--what's our word?
Depends from the gold bowl, which loosed (not "lost")
Lets us from heaven to hell,--one chop we're loose!"
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
Slaughter of the Innocents. 45 L.J.
"Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused,
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen."
--_Shakespeare, Henry V 3:3_.
Smite the Rock 247 H.T.
"That God would move
And strike the hard, hard rock, and thence
Sweet in their utmost bitterness,
Would issue tears of penitence."
--_Tennyson, Supposed Confessions_.
The Snare of the Fowler. 106 S.A.
"Twice it may be, or thrice, the fowler's aim;
But in the sight of one whose plumes are full,
In vain the net is spread, the arrow winged."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
Son of Man. 246 L.J.
"That claimest with a cunning face
Those rights the true, true Son of man doth own
By Love's authority."
--_Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance_.
Sparks Which Fly Upward. 186 S.A.
"But the troubles which he is born to are as
sparks which fly upward, not as flames burning
to the nethermost Hell."
--_Ruskin, Notes_.
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Star of Bethlehem. 41 L.J.
"Some astronomers believe that they have found
the great star around which the whole universe
of stars revolves: whether that be true or not,
it is undoubtedly true that the Star of
Bethlehem is the center of this world's
spiritual astronomy."
--_Theodore L. Cuyler_.
The Stars Fought in Their Courses. 58 T.J.
"Promptings from heaven and hell, as if the stars
Fought in their courses for a fate to be."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
A Still Small Voice. 124 T.J.
"A still small voice spake unto me."
--_Tennyson, The Two Voices_.
The Stirring of the Waters. 167 L.J.
"To-day a golden pinion stirred
The world's Bethesda pool,
And I believed the song I heard
Nor put my heart to school;
And through the rainbows of the dream
I saw the gates of Eden gleam."
--_Alfred Noyes, The Hill Flower_.
The Stone Rolled Away. 297 L.J.
"Pitiless walls of gray,
Gathered around us, a growing tomb
From which it seemed not death or doom
Could roll the stone away."
--_Alfred Noyes, The Enchanted Island._
Tables of Stone 207,212 H.T.
"Heard the voice
Of him who met the Highest in the mount,
And brought them tables, graven with His hand."
--_Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts_.
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The Talent Hid in the Earth. 245 L.J.
"When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest He returning chide."
--_Milton, Sonnet to His Blindness_.
Temperate in All Things. 438 S.A.
"'Tis to thy rules, O Temperance, that we owe
All pleasures that from health and strength can flow;
Vigor of body, purity of mind,
Unclouded reason, sentiment refined."
--_Chandler_.
There the Wicked Cease from Troubling
and the Weary are at Rest. 184 S.A.
"To lie within the light of God,
as I lie upon your breast--
And the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are at rest."
--_Tennyson, The May Queen_.
Threescore Years and Ten. 104 S.A.
"Worn to a thread by threescore years and ten."
--_Browning The Ring and the Book_.
To Eat Husks. 203 L.J.
"You would think that I had a hundred and fifty
tattered prodigals lately come from swine
keeping, from eating draft and husks."
--_Shakespeare, I Henry IV 4:2_.
To Everything There is a Season. 243 S.A.
"There is a time for all things."
--_Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors 2:2_.
To Touch His Garments. 140 L.J.
"The world sits at the feet of Christ,
Unknowing, blind and unconsoled.
It yet shall touch his garment's fold
And feel the heavenly alchemist
Transform its very dust to gold."
--_Anonymous_.
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Treading the Winepress. 476 S.A.
"But ye that have seen how the ages have shrunk
from my rod, And how red is the winepress
wherein at my bidding they trod."
--_The Paradox_.
The Tree of Knowledge. 19 T.J.
"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose Mortal taste
Brought death into the World and all our woe
. . .
Sing Heavenly Muse."
--_Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I_.
Truth Endureth Forever. 139 S.A.
"It fortifies my soul to know
That, though I perish, Truth is so:
That, howsoe'er I stray and range,
Whate'er I do Thou dost not change.
I steadier step when I recall
That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall."
--_Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia_.
The Unknown God. 407 L.J.
"Greece, Egypt, Rome,--did any god
Before whose feet men knelt unshod
Deem that in this unblest abode
Another scarce more unknown god
Should house with him, from Nineveh?"
--_Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh_.
Unto Seventy Times Seven. 186 L.J.
"We poor ill-tempered mortals--must forgive,
Though seven times sinning threescore times and ten."
--_Holmes, Manhood_.
The Valley of the Shadow. 35 S.A.
"Drew to the valley
Named of the shadow."
--_Tennyson, Merlin and the Gleam_.
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Vine and Fig Tree 456 H.T., 369 S.A.
"You may see as thorough patriarchs as Abraham
was any day, and as carefully visited by angels,
sitting under their vine and fig tree."
--_Ruskin, Notes_.
Voice Crying in the Wilderness. 65 L.J.
"In this bleak wilderness I hear
A John the Baptist crying."
--_Lowell, An Interview with Miles Standish_.
Walking on the Waters. 148 L.J.
"So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high
Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves."
--_Milton, Lycidas, line 172_.
The Water of Life. 508 L.J.
"The natural thirst ne'er quenched but from the well
Whereof the woman of Samaria craved."
--_Dante, Divine Comedy_.
Weaver's Beam. 386 H.T.
"Then for her spear she might have a weaver's beam."
--_Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive_.
Weighed in the Balance. 206 T.J.
"Their errors have been weighed and found to
have been dust in the balance."
--_Shelley, A Defence of Poetry_.
We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told. 104 S.A.
"Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
One, still one, while the world grows old."
--_Alfred Noyes, Unity_.
What is Man That Thou art Mindful of Him? 22 S.A.
"A man is but a little thing among the objects
of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating
from his countenance, he may abolish all
considerations of magnitude, and in his manners
equal the majesty of the world."
--_Emerson, Essay on Manners_.
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When the Morning Stars Sang Together. 222 S.A.
"Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings."
--_Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice 5:1_.
The Wind Fulfills His Word. 173 S.A.
"The snow, the vapour and the stormy wind
fulfill his word."
--_Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture_.
Wisdom, Crying in the Streets. 249 S.A.
"Wisdom cries out in the streets and no man regards it."
--_Shakespeare, I Henry IV 1:2_.
Wisdom shall Die with You. 194 S.A.
"A man of superior sagacity may be pardoned for
thinking with the friends of Job, that Wisdom
will die with him."
--_Ruskin_.
Wrestling Jacob. 80 H.T.
"Like that strange angel which of old,
Until the breaking of the light
Wrestled with wandering Israel."
--_Tennyson, To--_.
Ye Cannot Serve God and Mammon. 205 L.J.
"We mean by war all that war ever meant,
Destruction's ministers, Death's freemen, Lust's
Exponents, daily like a blood-red dawn
In flames and crimson seas we shall advance
Against the ancient immaterial reign
Of Spirit, and our watchword shall be still,
Get thee behind me, God,--I follow Mammon."
--_John Davidson, Mammon and His Message_.
Yoke of Bondage. 507 H. T.
"Judah was a captive by the waters of Babylon
and the sons of Jacob were in bondage to our
kings . . . from the remnant that dwells in Judea
under the yoke of Rome neither star nor sceptre
shall arise."
--_Henry Van Dyke, The Other Wise Man_.
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Zeal That Consumes. 151 S.A.
"The zeal for truth and righteousness and
goodness anywhere, in politics, or in
literature, or in education, does not seize hold
of men with the vigor which may be described, in
the Bible phrase, as a zeal that eats one up."
--_Samuel Valentine Cole_.
Zion 470 H.T.
"Why should we fly? Nay, why not rather stay
And rear again our Zion's crumbled walls."
--_Lowell, A Glance behind the Curtain_.
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PART V
THE BIBLE AND THE TEACHER
_For the Bible School Teacher_
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"Talk about the questions of the time: There is but
one question:--How to bring the truths of God's Word
into vital contact with the minds and hearts of all
classes of the people."
--_William E. Gladstone_.
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THE BIBLE AND THE TEACHER
FOR THE BIBLE SCHOOL TEACHER
The two greatest needs of the Bible School teacher are thorough
preparation of the lesson, and enthusiasm in presenting it. These
needs are effectively and abundantly met in THE BIBLE STORY. This
volume is so arranged that the teacher in any department may find what
is best adapted to a particular age. The following definite
suggestions as to how THE BIBLE STORY may be used in the Bible School
will be found interesting and helpful for teachers in the
accomplishment of their great aims of imparting knowledge, developing
character, and leading the pupil on to service.
1. In the Primary Department:--
Supplementary Work
Many primary teachers use a few minutes of the Bible School hour for
supplementary work, in which they follow any desired line of teaching
regardless of the prescribed lesson. For this supplementary work the
following suggestions in this volume may be used:--
Memorizing Bible Verses, page 15.
Teaching God's Relation to the World, page 16.
Understanding Life in Bible Times, page 19.
Story Telling
"Of all the things that a teacher should know how to do," says a great
educator, "the most important, without any exception, is telling a
story." The most beautiful Bible stories, especially suited to little
children, are listed on pages 17, 18, and 19 of this volume, and
teachers will find those referring to "The Golden Book" (G.B.) very
attractively told for children. The stories are graded from the very
simple to the more difficult and so may be adapted to the different
classes.
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The Art of Questioning
Questioning is an art only when it stirs the imagination and leads to
thinking. The true teacher can always stimulate interest by his wise
questions. The questions at the end of Part I of this volume are
designed for use as a review of the lessons given from "The Golden
Book."
Memory Gems
"The Golden Book" is especially rich in children's poems, carrying
practical, helpful thoughts. Verses and couplets from these make
beautiful Memory Gems.
2. In the Junior, Intermediate, and Senior Departments:--
Indirect Precept
The central teaching of a lesson, whether it be generosity, charity,
forgiveness, or some other virtue, is brought home most effectively by
illustration and example. As an educative force, emulation far
surpasses exhortation.
From Foundation Stones, page 33 of this volume, may be selected the
stories of all those men and women of the Bible who wrought out in
their lives whatever quality of character may be central in the
lesson. Here also such words of Jesus, of the prophets, or of the
Psalms as emphasize and enforce the teaching, are grouped and may
readily be found.
Historical Connections
A great deal of Bible School teaching touches only the mountain peaks
of history without traversing the connecting valleys. Study of lesson
after lesson with no attention to their connections leaves but a
series of detached thoughts.
Often lessons, which have become an old story to boys and girls,
become interesting and fascinating when linked up with the history of
the world in Bible times, or when the Bible events themselves are
joined in connected narrative.
THE BIBLE STORY presents an unusual opportunity to a teacher for
establishing these connections.
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(A) The Table of Contents of "Hero Tales" suggests the chronology of
Hebrew history as far as the minor kings.
(B) The chart on page 236 T.J. links up the minor kings with the
prophets in point of time.
(C) The life of Jesus may be traced out chronologically from the
sequence of places given on pages 109 and 110 of this volume.
(D) The questions on The World in Bible Times beginning at page 38 of
this volume will increase interest in Hebrew history itself by showing
the relationship between the Jews and surrounding nations.
Geographical Setting
"Teaching, like pictures, must have background and foreground." The
central group of characters in the lesson must have prominence, but
their setting must be clearly defined, too, that the whole may be
appreciated. By many pupils the Bible is regarded as a Book entirely
apart from life. If asked to recall a well-known historical incident
connected with Egypt or Assyria or Rome, a pupil does not naturally
think of a Bible incident. A teacher may often open an entirely new
field of thought for pupils by bringing the Holy Land down out of the
skies and "placing it on the map."
In Part III of this volume are given a bird's-eye view of Palestine
for general reference; questions on the well-known places in Bible
lands and of especial interest because they refer to pictures which
may be used in class; and questions which locate the Bible characters
in the land. For the latter section it is well to use a blackboard or
sand map in class to make plain the setting of each lesson. All of
Part III furnishes helpful material for the teacher's study and
presents interesting sidelights to give what has seemed a commonplace
lesson new meaning and new interest.
The Question Method
To hold attention in class the question method is best. It is most
effective because in order to give the answers the pupil must think
for himself.
Questions are so important that a wise teacher will always prepare
them in advance. If put in order they will form an outline or plan to
be followed in presenting the lesson.
At the end of Part II of this volume are one thousand questions on the
Bible passages listed according to names and periods for easy {164}
reference. They are useful in many ways: As an outline for the
teacher, as suggested above; as review questions when two classes may
unite for a contest; and as an incentive to the pupils to study the
lesson. Give out a striking question on the coming lesson each week
instead of the general request to "study the lesson."
Use of Pictures
In teaching little children pictures have long been considered
invaluable, but their practical value in the more advanced departments
is not so generally conceded. The adult mind, however, has not
outgrown its love for the truths of life as expressed in pictorial
form and the teacher of adult classes who owns THE BIBLE STORY is
fortunate indeed in having right at hand impressive illustrations for
a great many Bible lessons.
There is a threefold advantage in using these pictures:--
To Save Time--Pictures suggest ideas more forcibly than words. For
example, much time would be wasted in trying to convey by words any
idea of such a ship as Paul used in traveling to Rome, but the picture
on page 464 L.J. is at once striking and accurate. The index of
illustrations in the back of the volume "Songs of the Ages" suggests
the wealth of illustrations in THE BIBLE STORY and indicates their
location.
To Give Correct Impressions--For understanding Oriental conditions no
agency is so helpful as pictures of Eastern customs and life. Many of
these customs are referred to in Part 1 on page 19 of this volume, and
much of the life of the Hebrews is brought out by the questions
beginning at page 100, which refer, for their answers, to pictures.
To Inspire Beautiful Ideals--THE BIBLE STORY reproduces many beautiful
pictures by artists who have thrown their religious conceptions into
their work and thus infused it with the highest devotional spirit.
Holding these pictures before a class will often create the atmosphere
most desired for teaching the story depicted. For example, a
conception of the spirit of the conversation between Jesus and the
woman at Jacob's well may be obtained from Hofmann's beautiful picture
(84 L.J.). Many others may be used to instill the greatest spiritual
ideas.
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Illuminating Points
A careful study of Part IV of this volume will enable a teacher of
adults to give from Bible characters and books many striking points
appropriate to the lesson.
"Living with the Bible," beginning at page 42 of this volume, will
suggest to the adult teacher many passages to use in developing the
different lessons.
"Jesus' Character-Building Stories," on page 32 of this volume, will
give Jesus' teaching on the various subjects taken up in the lessons.
Part III of this volume will furnish the teacher of adults with the
lesson setting, both by picture and by map.
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PART VI
PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY
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"The knowledge of words is a gate to scholarship."
--_Wilson_.
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KEY
Marked letters are pronounced as in the following words. Vowels found
in unaccented syllables are unmarked and are given the natural, or
long, sound.
[Illustration: Eleven pages of word pronunciation.]
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[Start of "VOLUME ONE: THE GOLDEN BOOK"]
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THE BIBLE STORY
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[Illustration: Magi following the Star of Bethlehem.]
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THE BIBLE STORY
VOLUME ONE
THE GOLDEN BOOK
ARRANGED AND EDITED BY
REV. NEWTON MARSHALL HALL, D.D.
MINISTER OF THE NORTH CHURCH, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
AND
REV. IRVING FRANCIS WOOD, PH.D.
PROFESSOR OF
BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION
AT SMITH COLLEGE
Authors of
_"The Early Days of Israel"_
_"Advanced Bible Studies" Etc._
THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
CHICAGO, CLEVELAND
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COPYRIGHT, 1906,
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY THE KING-RICHARDSON COMPANY,
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
The editors of this series believe that no task can be more important
than that of winning the interest of children to their precious
heritage, the Bible. The stories of the old Greek and Roman mythologies,
the folk and fairy tales, have been given the child in beautiful form,
suitably graded and arranged, with significant illustrations. The
editors of this series attempt to do the same thing for the Bible: to
take the matchless prose and poetry of the Bible and put it in the form
which will make it most attractive to the child, to give the Bible an
equal chance in the child's library with the "King Arthur Stories" and
the tales of mythology.
Every parent desires to have the children of the home gain an
acquaintance with the best that is in the Bible. Heretofore no text has
been prepared which exactly met this need, giving appropriate passages
for children of various ages. These volumes are especially designed to
make "Sunday afternoon" reading attractive to children, putting the
fascinating stories of the Bible in the same dress and on the same
footing with the secular classics which have {10} always charmed. With
such an arrangement it is believed that the child will read the Bible as
freely as any book.
The plan of the Readers gives unity to each story and selection. Each
story or episode is given in a complete form, and not merely as an
extract. Passages which are clearly not relevant to the story or which
involve unnecessary difficulties to a young reader are omitted. Obsolete
words are modernized. Many versions, both ancient and modern, together
with the original texts, have been compared in determining the
translation. In every case the graphic, pictorial word which would
appeal to the imagination of the child and enlarge its vocabulary has
been sought. At the same time the effort has been made not to impair the
literary strength and beauty of the older versions. Nothing has been
omitted which is suitable to the mind of the child, and everything has
been arranged with the end in view of meeting the needs of the child.
This series does not aim to supplant the ordinary texts of the Bible nor
to take the place of the common versions any more than literature
readers take the place of literature. The editors have endeavored to
select such passages of the Bible as are particularly suited to the
child's mind, to present them in a novel and attractive form, and thus
to arouse the interest of children, stimulating them to more careful
study in later years.
This series is not, however, intended simply for children's reading. The
editors believe that for general {11} reading for the older members of
the family no version of the Bible will be found more satisfactory.
There is no Book which so lends itself to illustration as the Bible.
Palestine in relation to the New Testament has been called a "Fifth
Gospel." For the child especially the actual locality is the best
commentary on the text and the best means of arousing interest in the
text.
The Bible makes contact with the great civilizations in a way which is
not fully appreciated. The attempt has been made to illustrate very
fully the contact with Egypt in the Old Testament and with Greece and
Rome in the New Testament.
The editors believe that the three hundred and fifty illustrations which
have been provided form a collection which has never been surpassed in
fullness and accuracy. Many friends have freely offered their fine
collections. A large number of pictures taken by friends are unique in
their individual interest, and have never before been published. We are
especially indebted to the following: Prof. David G. Lyon, D.D., of the
Department of Semitic Languages of Harvard University, Prof. H. G.
Mitchell, D.D., of the Department of Theology of Boston University, Rev.
Warren J. Moulton, Ph.D., of Athol, Mass., for the use of valuable
private collections; the Departments of Greek and Latin at Smith
College, the Public Library at Springfield and the Forbes Public Library
at Northampton, Mass., for {12} constant courtesy and the use of rare
books, photographs, and engravings; Miss Clara L. Bodman, Miss Julia W.
Snow, Mr. S. E. Bridgman of Northampton, and Prof. Louis F. Giroux of
the International College, Springfield, for the loan of photographs;
Mrs. Fontaine Meriwether of Sedalia, Missouri, for selections from a
remarkably fine collection of views personally taken while on a trip to
the East; Rev. Frank L. Goodspeed, Ph.D., and Mrs. Goodspeed for unique
and valuable views taken by themselves; W. J. Aitchison, Esq., of
Hamilton, Canada, for fine views; the officers of the Palestine
Exploration Fund, and the Detroit Photograph Company, for permission to
use pictures in their possession; Prof. Arthur S. Cooley, Ph.D., of
Auburndale, the well known lecturer, for permission to use unique views
illustrating the journeys of Paul; Miss Mary Medlicott of Longmeadow for
the use of a rare book.
We are also especially indebted to Prof. Henry D. Sleeper, head of the
Music Department of Smith College, for the charming airs to which he has
set some of the poems for children in the first volume.
On the literary side the editors wish to acknowledge their indebtedness
to Miss Esther M. Carver of Northampton for suggestions from her
experience as a teacher, to Miss Caroline M. Yale and Miss Frances W.
Gawith of the Clarke School for the Deaf, to Prof. Charles F.
Richardson, and Prof. Fred P. Emery of Dartmouth College, {13} Prof.
Clyde W. Votaw of Chicago University, Mr. William Orr, Principal of the
High School, Springfield, Mass. We are much indebted to President George
T. Angell for suggestions for the chapter, "Little Brothers of the Air
and Fields," in the first volume, also to a very wide circle of friends
for their interest and for valuable suggestions, many of which have been
incorporated in the work. The help of various versions of the Bible is
also acknowledged, as well as the version of the prophets by George Adam
Smith. Thanks are rendered to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Messrs.
Charles Scribner's Sons, E. P. Dutton & Co., J. B. Lippincott, Biglow &
Main, Mr. Theodore E. Perkins, and Charles Ray Palmer, D.D., for
permission to use copyrighted material.
Without the co-operation of these and many other friends we feel that so
large a measure of excellence as we believe the volumes possess could
not have been attained.
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PREFACE
The editors have endeavored to make this volume a treasure house of all
the good things, new and old, which would serve to assist in the moral
training of little children. The volume includes a Primer, arranged on
the plan of the ordinary school primer, designed to give the elemental
religious truths in the simplest form. Any child who is learning to read
at school can learn also to read these sentences. The texts at the
bottom of the pages are to be read by the parent to the child, and may
with profit be committed to memory by the child. The short Bible stories
which follow may also be easily read by children. The hymns and poems
and most of the pictures are "classic." They should be known by every
child for their own worth, and as an antidote for the rubbish which
constitutes so large a proportion of the reading of children. Parents
will be pleased to find the fine old hymns of Watts and Jane Taylor,
some of them set to delightful music by Prof. Sleeper of Smith College.
These poems should not be allowed by neglect to pass out of the
possession of modern children.
It is hoped that this volume will go far toward solving the problem of
Sunday afternoon occupation for children, and will meet the constant
demand for such a collection of religious literature.
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CONTENTS
A BIBLE PRIMER 23
HYMNS FOR THE MORNING 69
When Morning Gilds the Skies. _From the German_ 71
A Song of Thanksgiving. _From the German_ 75
Heaven is Not Reached at a Single Bound. _J. G. Holland_ 77
Still, Still With Thee. _Harriet Beecher Stowe_ 78
SHORT BIBLE STORIES 79
God Sees Me. 81
What Does God Want Me To Do? 82
What God Gives. 85
Jesus and His Friends. 86
Jesus Had No Home. 89
The People Loved Jesus. 93
The Sea of Galilee. 94
The Boyhood of Jesus. 97
Jesus and Sick People. 98
Talking With Our Father. 101
God is Our Father. 105
What Jesus Said About Birds and Flowers. 106
What Jesus Said About Trees. 109
Jesus and the Little Girl. 110
The Baby Hid in a Basket. 117
An Old Book of Songs. 121
A Story Which Jesus Told. 126
Some Words Which Jesus Taught the People. 130
The Boy Who Came When He Was Called. 132
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_Stories of David_:
The Shepherd Boy Who Killed a Giant. 139
David and King Saul. 151
David and Jonathan. 156
David and His Three Brave Soldiers. 163
David and His Son Absalom. 167
The Story of a Good King. 170
Joseph and His Brethren. 177
The Boy Who Was Raised from the Dead. 193
The Kingdom of Heaven. 201
The Little Captive Maid. 205
How the People Traveled in the Lands of the Bible. 208
Houses in the Lands of the Bible. 214
Children in the Lands of the Bible. 217
Jerusalem. 218
The Jordan. 224
The Dead Sea. 226
Beth-lehem. 229
HYMNS FOR THE DAY. 231
Lord of All Being, Throned Afar. _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 233
On Our Way Rejoicing _John S. B. Monsell_ 234
Of Such is the Kingdom _Jemima Thompson Luke_ 237
Sun of My Soul. _John Keble_ 238
Day by Day. 239
What Can Little Hands Do? _Fabin_ 240
How Gentle God's Commands _Philip Doddridge_ 241
Above the Clear Blue Sky _John Chandler_ 242
BEDTIME STORIES 243
The Story of the First Christmas. 245
The Story of Palm Sunday. 251
How Jesus Gave His Life for the World. 257
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The Story of the First Easter Day. 265
The Story of the First Thanksgiving. 270
Who Was the Neighbor? 279
The Good Shepherd. 282
Little Brothers of the Air and Fields. 292
SHEPHERD HYMNS. 305
Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us _Dorothy A. Thrupp_ 309
Was There Ever Kindest Shepherd? _Frederick William Faber_ 310
Gracious Saviour, Holy Shepherd
_Jane E. Leeson and J. Whittemore_ 313
In Heavenly Love Abiding _Anna L. Waring_ 314
The King of Love My Shepherd Is. _Sir H. W. Baker_ 315
PRAYERS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. 317
OLD TIME VERSES FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. 325
Against Idleness and Mischief. _Isaac Watts_ 327
Against Pride in Clothes. _Isaac Watts_ 328
The Ant, or Emmet. _Isaac Watts_ 329
A Morning Song. _Isaac Watts_ 330
An Evening Song. _Isaac Watts_ 333
The Sluggard. _Isaac Watts_ 334
Praise for Mercies, Spiritual and Temporal. _Isaac Watts_ 337
The Rose. _Isaac Watts_ 338
Praise for Creation and Providence. _Isaac Watts_ 341
A General Song of Praise to God. _Isaac Watts_ 342
Innocent Play. _Isaac Watts_ 343
Against Quarreling and Fighting. _Isaac Watts_ 344
Love Between Brothers and Sisters. _Isaac Watts_ 345
A Summer Evening. _Isaac Watts_ 346
Summer. _Jane Taylor_ 349
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The Star (with music). _Jane Taylor_ 350-351
The Flower and the Lady, About Getting Up. _Jane Taylor_ 352
The Field Daisy. _Jane Taylor_ 353
The Little Child. _Jane Taylor_ 354
Going to Bed. _Jane Taylor_ 357
Time to Get Up. _Jane Taylor_ 358
The Snowdrop. _Jane Taylor_ 359
Getting Up (with music). _Jane Taylor_ 360-361
A Fine Thing. _Jane Taylor_ 362
A Pretty Thing. _Ann Taylor_ 365
The Sheep. _Jane Taylor_ 366
The Cow. _Jane Taylor_ 369
Going to Bed (with music). _Jane Taylor_ 370-371
Baby and Mamma. _Jane Taylor_ 372
The Tempest. _Jane Taylor_ 375
The Violet. _Jane Taylor_ 376
May Day Song. _John Keble_ 379
The Lamb. _William Blake_ 380
Some Murmur When Their Sky is Clear. _Archbishop Trench_ 383
Little Drops of Water. _Ebenezer C. Brewer_ 384
CHRISTMAS HYMNS 385
Christmas Lullaby _John Addington Symonds_ 389
The Star 390
A Christmas Carol. 393
The Guiding Star _William C. Dix_ 394
A Christmas Carol. _Dinah Maria Mulock_ 397
Hail the Night! All Hail the Morn. _Old German Choral_ 398
The Christmas Tree. 401
A Christmas Carol. _Charles Kingsley_ 402
Song of the Angels _Ancient Christmas Songs_ 405
Carol, Sweetly Carol. 406
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Cradle Hymn. _Martin Luther_ 409
Cradle Hymn. (with music) _Isaac Watts_ 410-411
Chorus. _Robert Herrick_ 412
Once in Royal David's City. _Mrs. C. F. Alexander_ 415
Calm on the Listening Ear of Night. _Edmund Hamilton Sears_ 419
HYMNS AND POEMS FOR THE TWILIGHT HOUR. 421
Ready for Bed. _Ida Fay_ 423
Baby's Boat. _George Cooper_ 424
Little Voices. 427
The Twilight Falls, the Night is Near. 429
Saviour, Breathe an Evening Blessing. _James Edmeston_ 430
Summer Rain. 433
The Glorious Heavens. _Addison_ 434
Twilight. _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 437
The Pebble and the Acorn. _Gould_ 438
A Psalm of Life. _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 440
While Thee I Seek, Protecting Power. _Helen Maria Williams_ 442
Oft in the Stilly Night. _Thomas Moore_ 445
The Bridge _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 446
Kindness. _Colesworthy_ 448
Perseverance. 451
The Light of Stars. _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 452
We Are Seven. _William Wordsworth_ 454
Children. _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 459
One by One. _Adelaide Ann Procter_ 461
To-day and To-morrow. 463
Still with Thee. _James Drummond Burns_ 464
Lead, Kindly Light. _John Henry Newman_ 467
Now the Day is Over. _S. Baring-Gould_ 468
A Farewell. _Charles Kingsley_ 471
Good Night and Good Morning. _Lord Houghton_ 472
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New Year's Eve. _Alfred Tennyson_ 473
All Things Beautiful. _John Keble_ 476
The Chambered Nautilus. _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 477
The Day is Done. _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ 481
A Child's Thought of God. _Elizabeth Barrett Browning_ 483
Lullaby Song. _From the German_ 484
The Pilgrims of the Night. _Frederick William Faber_ 487
MEMORY VERSES AND PROVERBS. 489
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A BIBLE PRIMER
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A BIBLE ALPHABET
A Ask and ye shall receive.
B Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
C Create in me a clean heart, O God.
D Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you.
E Even Christ pleased not himself.
F Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
G Give us this day our daily bread.
H Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
I I am the bread of life.
J Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.
K Keep thy tongue from evil.
L Little children, love one another.
M My son, give me thine heart.
N Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
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O Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness.
P Pray without ceasing.
Q Quit you like men, be strong.
R Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
S Suffer the little children to come unto me.
T Teach me thy way, O Lord.
U Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks.
V Verily, verily, I say unto you, he
that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
W What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
X Examine yourselves.
Y Ye are bought with a price.
Z Zealous of good works.
From an old alphabet belonging to Miss Clara L. Bodman, and
used by her kind permission.
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my father mother dear
My father.
My mother.
My dear father.
My dear mother.
"Honor thy father and thy mother."--_Exodus 20:12_.
"Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well
pleasing unto the Lord."--_Colossians 3:20_.
"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not
the law of thy mother."--_Proverbs 1:8_.
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I brother sister love
I love my father.
I love my mother.
I love my brother.
I love my sister.
"Have love one to another."--_John 13:35_.
"Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another."
--_I John 4:11_.
"Let us love one another: for love is of God."--_I John 4:7_.
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[Illustration]
THE DIVINE MOTHER AND THE CHILD
By Murillo (1618-1682)
Bartolome Esteban Murillo was born at Seville, Spain, January 1, 1618.
Very poor at first, he afterward gained wealth and fame by his
masterly work, which made him an artist of the first rank. "The
peasant-painter of Spain," as he has been called, was a man of deep
religious convictions. "He alone in the seventeenth century kept alive
the pure flame of religious fervor which burned within the devout
Italians of the early school." His Madonnas are all of an especially
sweet and gentle and motherly type.
[End illustration]
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God me is
My father loves me.
My mother loves me.
God loves me.
God is my Father.
God loves me.
I love God.
"God is love."--_I John 4:8_.
"We love him because he first loved us."--_I John 4:19_.
"Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon
us that we should be called the sons of God."--_I John 3:1_.
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a gives all have home
I have a home.
I have a father.
I have a mother.
God gives me my father.
God gives me my mother.
God gives me my home.
God gives me all I have.
"Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and
cometh down from the Father."--_James 1:17_.
"Give us this day our daily bread."--_Matt. 6:11_.
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[Illustration]
A QUIET AFTERNOON IN THE UPLAND PASTURES
"Go out in the springtime among the meadows that slope from the shores
of the Swiss lakes to the roots of their lower mountains There,
mingled with the taller gentians and the white narcissus, the grass
grows deep and free; and as you follow the winding mountain paths,
beneath arching boughs, all veiled and dim with blossom--paths that
forever droop and rise over the green banks and mounds sweeping down
in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here and there
with new mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness,--look
up toward the higher hills, where the waves of everlasting green roll
into their long inlets among the shadows of the pines: and we may
perhaps at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th
Psalm, 'He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.'"--_John Ruskin_
[End illustration]
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see the grass
makes grow green
See the grass.
I see the grass.
The grass grows.
The grass is green.
I see the green grass.
God makes the grass.
God makes the grass grow.
God makes the green grass grow.
"He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass,
As showers that water the earth."--_Psalms 72:6_.
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flower lily white
rose red you
I see a flower.
The flower is a lily.
The lily is white.
I see a rose.
The rose is red.
I have a lily and a rose.
I love the lily and the rose.
Have you a flower?
I have a white flower.
God loves the flowers and makes them grow.
"Consider the lilies, how they grow. They toil not neither do
they spin."--_Matthew 6:28_.
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[Illustration]
RESTING BENEATH THE TREES
By Corot (1796-1875)
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot was a famous painter of landscapes. He
was born at Paris, and while his work was not at first appreciated
he is now recognized as one of the greatest of the French school.
"The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned
To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,
And spread the roof above them--ere he framed
The lofty vault, to gather and roll back
The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,
Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down,
And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks
And supplication. . . ."
--_William Cullen Bryant_
[End illustration]
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bird sparrow nest flies in
sorry when it hurt
Do you see the bird?
It is a sparrow.
The sparrow flies.
The sparrow makes a nest.
It makes a nest in the green grass.
See the nest in the grass!
See the sparrow fly!
God loves the sparrow.
God is sorry when the sparrow is hurt.
Do not hurt the sparrow.
"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings?
And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God."
--_Luke 12:6_.
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day done bed will go
hear say prayer to heaven
The day is done.
The sparrow will go to bed.
It will go to bed in its nest.
The lily and the rose will go to bed.
I will go to bed.
I go to bed in my dear home.
My mother will hear me say my prayer.
I say my prayer to my Father in heaven.
My Father in heaven loves to hear me say my prayer.
"I laid me down and slept;
I awaked, for the Lord sustained me."--_Psalms 3:5_.
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the Father of lights."--_James 1:17_.
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[Illustration]
THE "MATER AMABILIS IN GLORIA"
By Bodenhausen
"The extremely popular 'Mater Amabilis in Gloria,' where a girlish
young mother, her long hair streaming about her, stands in upper
air, poised above the great ball of the earth, holding her sweet
babe to her heart. Pictures like these constantly reiterate the
story of a mother's love--an old, old story, which begins again with
every new birth."--_Hurll_
[End illustration]
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star sky above trees
shines night twinkle them
It is night.
I see a star.
The star shines at night.
The star twinkles.
The star twinkles in the sky.
Do you see the star?
It shines above the trees.
I love to see the birds, and the flowers, and the stars.
God made them all.
God loves them all.
God loves you.
"He telleth the number of the stars;
He calleth them all by their names."
_Psalms 147:4_.
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morning sun rises hills
glad here are awaken
The night is done.
The day is here.
I awaken when it is day.
The birds awaken when it is day.
The flowers awaken when it is day.
I see the sun in the sky.
The sun rises above the hills.
The sun rises above the trees.
The birds and the flowers are glad to see the sun.
Are you glad the night is done?
"Day unto day uttereth speech,
And night unto night showeth knowledge."--_Psalms 19:2_.
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[Illustration]
THE INFANT SAMUEL
By Reynolds (1723-1792)
Sir Joshua Reynolds is thought by many to have been the greatest of
English painters. He was a Devonshire lad, and was intended by his
father for the medical profession. He early showed such aptitude for
painting that he was permitted to have his way, and after studying
in Italy, returned to England, where an exhibition of his work
aroused great enthusiasm, and his popularity continued through his
life.
[End illustration]
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this saying kneeling thanking
his beside goodness child
See this little child.
He is going to bed.
He is saying his prayer.
He is kneeling beside his bed.
He is thanking his Father in heaven for his goodness.
Do you say your prayer?
I say my prayer night and morning.
"Ask, and it shall be given you."--_Matthew 7:7_.
"For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are
open unto their prayers."--_I Peter 3:12_.
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sheep cows cover rain falls
eat for waters garden earth
Clouds cover the sky.
The rain falls.
The rain waters the earth.
The flowers in the garden are glad.
The red rose is glad.
The white lily is glad.
The green grass is glad.
The rain makes the grass grow.
The sheep and the cows eat the grass.
God gives the rain.
God makes the grass grow for the sheep and the cows.
"Praise ye the Lord;
Who covereth the heavens with clouds,
Who prepareth rain for the earth,
Who maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains."
_Psalms 147:8_.
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[Illustration]
PLOWING IN PALESTINE
Copyright by Underwood & Underwood
and used by special permission
Very little advance has been made in methods of agriculture in
Palestine since the early days of which the Bible tells. The plow is
often still the crooked stick, sometimes strengthened by iron, but
still very primitive. It is no wonder that crops are so poor and
life is so hard under these conditions
[End illustration]
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spring-time snow ice gone
robin blue-bird seeds help
The Spring-time has come.
The birds have come.
The blue-birds are flying in the air.
I see a robin in my garden.
I will go to my garden.
I will plant seeds in my garden.
The seeds will grow to be flowers.
I love to see them grow.
Have you a garden?
Do you see the birds in your garden?
What seeds do you plant in your garden?
God makes the flowers grow.
He gives the rain and the sun.
The rain and the sun help to make the flowers grow.
"Thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing
thereof."--_Psalms 65:10_
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summer warm cool woods who
brightly bees sing pick hum
Summer is here.
The birds sing in the trees.
I hear the robins sing.
The flowers have come.
I will go to my garden and pick the roses and the lilies.
The sun shines brightly.
I love the warm sun.
The bees hum in the garden.
The woods are cool.
I love the cool woods.
Who gives us the warm summer days?
God gives us the summer days.
"Thou hast made summer and winter."--_Psalms 74:17_.
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[Illustration: ]
THE AUTUMN WOODS
"The autumn-time has come;
On woods that dream of bloom,
And over purpling vines,
The low sun fainter shines.
The aster-flower is failing,
The hazel's gold is paling;
Yet overhead more near
The eternal stars appear!"
--_John Greenleaf Whittier_
[End illustration]
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autumn frosty yellow large
peaches moon with nuts
gather crack fire before
This is autumn.
The summer has gone.
The nights are frosty.
The days are cool.
The trees are red and yellow.
The leaves are falling from the trees.
Soon the snow will come.
The moon is large in the sky.
It looks like a great yellow ball.
The stars shine brightly.
I love to see the moon and the stars.
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I love the large red apples.
Have you apples in your garden?
I love the peaches and the pears.
I go with my father to the woods, and gather nuts.
I will crack the nuts on the frosty nights,
and eat them before the fire.
God made the apples, and nuts, and peaches, and pears.
I will thank God for his goodness.
"Thou crownest the year with thy goodness."--_Psalms 65:11_.
"The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord."--_Psalms 33:5_.
"The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."--_Psalms 24:1_.
"The pastures are clothed with flocks: the valleys also are
covered over with grain."--_Psalms 65:18_.
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[Illustration]
WINTER
"Leafless are the trees; their purple branches
Spread themselves abroad, like reefs of coral,
Rising silent
In the Red Sea of the winter sunset."
--_Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_
"A chill no coat, however stout,
Of homespun stuff could quite shut out,
A hard, dull bitterness of cold,
That checked, mid-vein, the circling race
Of life blood in the sharpened face,
The coming of the snowstorm told."
--_John Greenleaf Whittier_
[End illustration]
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winter play sleep
cold frozen covers
under lake fort
It is winter.
Summer and autumn have gone.
The air is cold.
The robins and the bluebirds have gone.
The snow falls from the sky.
The snow covers the hills and the woods and the fields.
The flowers sleep under the snow in my garden.
They will wake when it is spring.
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The lake is frozen.
I see the white snow in my garden.
I love to play in the snow.
I will make a fort of the white snow in my garden.
I love the cold winter days.
God gives us the winter days as well as the summer days.
"He giveth snow like wool;
He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes."--_Psalms 147:16_.
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[Illustration]
THE SEA
"Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play,
Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow--
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now."
--_Lord Byron_
[End illustration]
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Harold beach man
sea-shore dug owns
went sand sailing
ships
Harold went to the sea-shore.
He went with his father and his mother.
It was summer when he went.
The days were long and bright.
He played all day on the beach.
He dug in the sand.
He made hills in the sand.
When he went to bed at night, he heard the sea.
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He said his prayer beside his mother,
and the sea sang him to sleep with its song.
He saw the sea when the sun rose in the morning.
The sun rose above the sea, when the
night was gone, and the stars went to sleep.
In the bright morning, he saw the ships sailing on the sea.
No man owns the sea.
God made it, and it is his.
"The sea is his, and he made it."--_Psalms 95:5_.
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[Illustration]
THE MOUNTAINS
"You should have seen that long hill-range
With gaps of brightness riven,
How through each pass and hollow streamed
The purpling lights of heaven,--
"Rivers of gold-mist flowing down
From far celestial fountains,--
The great sun flaming through the rifts
Beyond the wall of mountains."
--_John Greenleaf Whittier_
[End illustration]
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Margaret high brooks
flow down climb
look beautiful think
often near
The mountains are high.
They are often covered with trees.
Brooks flow down the mountains.
Margaret went to the mountains in summer.
She could not climb the mountains.
She played in the woods and fields near the mountains.
She picked the red and white and yellow flowers in the fields.
She saw the birds and the bees and the beautiful trees.
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She loved the brook.
She loved to see the mountains.
They were beautiful when the sun set.
When she said her prayer at night,
she looked at the beautiful hills and mountains.
It made her think of God to see the mountains which he made.
"I will lift mine eyes unto the hills,
From whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord,
Which made heaven and earth."--_Psalms 121:1,2_.
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HYMNS FOR THE MORNING